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$1.00 PERSONAL | COMMERCIAL BENEFITS | SURETY S entinel C ottage G rove (541) 942-0555 PayneWest.com/Cottage-Grove SPORTS A winning weekend for Cottage Grove track team. B1 SOUTH LANE AND DOUGLAS COUNTY'S MOST AWARD-WINNING NEWS SOURCE SINCE 1889 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 2018 FACEBOOK.COM/CGSENTINEL • TWITTER.COM/CGSENTINEL WED 62º/38º For a complete six- day forecast please see page A5. CGSENTINEL.COM Guns and our Schools Part III By Caitlyn May and Zach Silva cmay@cgsentinel.com•zsilva@cgsentinel.com O n March 24, they took to the streets. Offi cials estimated 5,000 people in Eugene. They joined the thousands of others in Salem and Portland. D.C. and New York. They marched with signs that read “Protect kids, not guns,” “If you need a machine gun to hunt, you suck at it,” and “Enough is enough.” They marched with their kids, they marched across the country. On March 24, they marched for their lives. On March 25, two journalists and a radio station owner followed a mayor and two of his friends into the woods carrying more than a dozen guns. “If you’re going to be a journalist and give your opinion, it should be informed. You should be educated.” Cottage Grove Mayor Jeff Gowing had never been to the place he was going other than to scope it out to ensure it would make a good shooting range. Lumber giant Weyerhaeuser owns most of the empty land in the area and has banned open shooting. Gowing says it’s because of the trash left behind by target practice—washing machines, televi- sions, old furniture. The only option now is Bureau of Land Man- agement land—or the empty spaces that butt against it— a patch of which sits approximately 700 feet above Cottage Grove where Gowing eased his vehicle onto a dirt road, snow still on the ground. * There is no shooting range inside Cottage Grove’s city limits. The school district does not currently have a sponsored program that utilizes fi rearms such as JROTC or hunter safety classes though the latter existed at some point in the community’s history Please see GUNS PG. A9 What to be: CGHS holds career day By Caitlyn May cmay@cgsentinel.com Nate Farrell talks to all the staff at Cottage Grove High School. So when the senior approached principal Mike Ingman last week, it wasn’t out of the ordinary but Ingman thought it extraordinary. “I was just telling him that I think it’s (the fair) really cool because freshman can focus, not tunnel vision, but focus more on what they want because I think it’s a heavy thing on seniors’ minds right now and they have four years to think about it, four more years to ask questions,” Farrell said. “He’s one of our superstar students,” Ingman nodded to the senior as the two stood just outside of the hubbub circling in the school’s gymnasium as students made their way from booth-to-booth at the fi rst career fair Cottage Grove High School has held in six years. “You know,” Ingman said, “I’m going to cliche you really quick but the cliche is that I get to live out my dreams every day and a lot of our kids may not even know what their dreams may be so we wanted to give them the opportunity to see where they’re going.” On Wednesday, March 21 they were going to the gym where dozens of booths provided information on post-graduation opportunities from the University of Oregon to Yogi Tea to Chambers Construction. Students fi led in and were set free to explore and ask questions after spending the morning hearing from four different SPORTS Winning kick Drying out ATA students from Cottage Grove compete against 600. PAGE A10 Area baseball teams squeeze in a game be- tween rain, snow. PAGE B1 INDEX COMMUNITY presenters. “Some of the students have said they would have preferred being able to pick which presentation they attended but that’s something we will look into for next time,” said Nick Finley, who signed on as Cottage Grove High School’s career and college specialist this year. He also serves as the boys’ basketball coach. “I think from my understanding, things are changing a little from, when I was in school everyone was pushing us to go to college,” Finley said. “Not that it’s changing but I think the trades are becoming more and more popular because college isn’t for every kid and so having opportunities to go out and look at careers that don’t need a degree is valuable. The fair opens the door to the kids to see what’s out there.” Cottage Grove High School has seen a push towards its Career Technical Education (CTE) program, funded in part by Measure 98, which allows students to learn outside of the classroom through internships and opportunities with community businesses. The program also provides students with career-relevant curriculum, aided this year by new equipment funded by the Woodard Foundation. In December of this year, the foundation donated $45,000 to the school’s CTE program in the form of a top-off grant that paid for a new motor for the jet milling machine for the drafting classes as well as a laser engraver and new electrical outlet installations. A new front load COFFEE WITH THE EDITOR Have a news tips? Want to talk about community events? Have a question? Stop by Backstage Bakery. The LAST THURSDAY of every month from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. PHOTO BY CAITLYN MAY/COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL Students from 9th and 12th grade classes mill around the Cottage Grove High School's gym during the school's fi rst career fair in six years held on Wednesday, March 21. washer and dryer for the culinary classes was also funded as well as a microwave and pots and pans. The woodworking department welcomed two saw stops at an estimated value of $3,899 each and a 10” sliding miter saw. The program is crafted to create opportunities for students who may not pursue higher education or students like Farrell who prefer a different path. “In freshman year I thought, ‘oh man how am I going to go through a college opportunity if I can’t do hands-on learning’ because that’s what I’m good at,” he said. The senior ultimately found himself weighing the options of a Lane Community College Technology Program and a Chambers Construction apprenticeship. “It was a lot to think about,” he said. There was a lot to think about in the gym on Wednesday as well with companies like Walmart, Peace Health, Les Schwab, State Farm, Cottage Calendar ...................................... B11 Channel Guide ............................... B5 Classifieds ...................................... B7 Obituaries ...................................... A2 Opinion ......................................... A4 Sports ............................................ B1 Grove Police, Coast Fork Nursery, Kimwood and several others handing out information. Jasmine Ward was one of the students manning a booth on Wednesday, excited to tell her peers about her experience in the teacher cadet program--part of the education track at CGHS that gives students classroom experience and college credit towards a degree in education. It was just part of what Ingman called, planting seeds. “What we’re doing here is, some seeds grow the next year and when they went into the pyramid they found these seeds that had three different pods. One would grow the next year, one would grow two years later and one would grow as soon as it got the moisture that it needed so it could grow at anytime and so that is what we’re doing. There are seeds being planted, some may germinate and grow right now and some may be a few years from now and that’s ok too.” cgnews@cgsentinel.com (541) 942-3325 ph • (541) 942-3328 fax P.O. Box 35, Cottage Grove, OR 97424 Corner of Sixth and Whiteaker, Cottage Grove _______________ VOLUME 130 • NUMBER 35 Rain Country Realty Inc. RESIDENTIAL • COMMERCIAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Licensed in the State of Oregon RainCountryRealty.com • raincountryrealty@gmail.com 1320 Hwy 99 • 541-942-7246