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Cottage Grove music students take home top honors
PHOTO SUBMITTED BY CONNIE PIFER
Cottage Grove High School’s Music Department celebrates success after taking top honors at the Pleasant Hill Jazz Festival. Awards won included 1st Place Jazz Choir, 2nd Place Jazz Band, and Alex Istador, Cora Branstetter and Josef
Pifer taking top soloist awards.
A 'magical' night for Sigh of Relief
Housing
analysis in the
works
Public comment expected to
open in August
By Caitlyn May
cmay@cgsentinel.com
One-by-one the housing units on Hwy. 99 are going up,
making the Riverwalk development, built by Hayden Homes,
more and more of a reality. While the neighborhood is currently
renting, fi nding affordable housing in Cottage Grove continues
to be diffi cult and draw the attention of city offi cials. Cottage
Grove City Councilor Mike Fleck teamed up with planning and
community development manager Faye Stewart last year to
troubleshoot issues facing buildings and examine the issue of
housing around the city. In June, their task might get a a little
bit easier.
"State law requires cities maintain an inventory to meet a 20-
year land supply with an Urban Growth Boundary and we’re
required to inventory that supply to verify that we do have that
inventory," said Cottage Grove City Planner Amanda Ferguson.
To inventory the supply of land, the city conducts a study
every 10 years. The last housing and land feasibility study was
started in 2003 and completed in 2005 and concluded the city
had a surplus of land that qualifi ed as residential high density
but needed an increase in industrial land.
The current study, being performed by Echo Northwest, will
serve as an update to the 2005 study and help form any changes
or alterations to the city's building codes and the comprehensive
plan.
"What are our current housing policies? Are they helping us
get where we want to be? What type of housing do we want but
aren't seeing and why?" Ferguson asked in explaining the rela-
tionship between the study and housing around the city.
Once the study is complete, city offi cials can further examine
housing needs and how the current land supports those housing
PHOTO BY ZACH SILVA
Eugene-based magician Hart Keene works the crowd at Family Relief Nursery's annual Sigh of Relief event aimed at raising awareness of the group's
mission and accomplishments as well as raising funds for future projects. This year's theme was "Let's make magic happen."
By Zach Silva
zsilva@cgsentinel.com
It was a magical night for
Family Relief Nursery.
The organization that works
to provide early childhood
supports in the form of home
visits, classes for parents and
classroom spaces for infants
to preschoolers across the Cot-
tage Grove, Creswell and North
Douglas area presented their an-
nual “Sigh of Relief” fundrais-
er event last Friday night at the
Cottage Grove Armory.
With over 100 guests in at-
tendance for this fundraiser that
was free to attend, the theme of
the night was magic.
Headlining the evening was
Eugene-based magician Hart
Keene. Keene, who appeared
on “America’s Got Talent” and
will be in an upcoming show
with Penn & Teller captivated
a perplexed audience all eve-
Please see HOUSING PG. A7
Please see MAGIC PG. A7
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Earth Day
Baseball splits day
The community cleans up
Main St. PAGE A10
The Lions split a double-
header. Where do they
rank now? PAGE B1
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ning. He fi gured out what the
numbers and words individuals
were thinking of and made an
audience member’s 20-dollar
bill disappear, had it reappear in
a lime on stage while also hav-
ing already showed he knew the
serial number on the bill. While
Keene wowed the audience,
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