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City workers close off the entrance to the historic Swinging Bridge, which a local group is working to re-open to the public.
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raised by the Friends of the Cottage
Grove Swinging Bridge.
“We got permits to close the road
hen Skye Hefner was a
so we can have dancing in the street,”
baby, her grandmother
Hefner said. Music will be provided
would strap her to the in-
by the Rockin’ Reveleers and DJ Diva
fant seat on the back of her bicycle and
Kat, food trucks will be parked outside
cross the Swinging Bridge in
and a 50/50 raffl e will be
Cottage Grove. When they
held. Th e event begins at
This Saturday, the South Lane
would make it to the oth-
10 a.m. and is scheduled
Women’s Network will hold a free
er side, the toddler would
to run until 6 p.m. on Sat-
tell her grandmother what a
event at the Cottage Grove Armory urday.
good job she had done.
Dana Merryday of the
in the hopes of adding to money
“She was scared of it (the
Friends of the Swinging
bridge) but she'd hold her
already raised by the Friends of the Bridge will also be pres-
breath and take me,” Hefner
ent with the group’s rope
Cottage Grove Swinging Bridge.
said. “I don’t remember, be-
bridge for kids to try.
cause I was so little but she
Th e latest estimates to
said I would tell her she did
repair the bridge were
good.”
also to give new businesses a step up close to $1 million with the city of Cot-
Years later, when Hefner returned to and existing businesses a supportive tage Grove announcing it was in the
Cottage Grove and found the Swinging hand.
process of applying for several grants
Bridge closed, she had one reaction.
“We’re here to show that businesses to fund the project. Th e bridge has
“I was like, ‘Noooo,’ because it has so in Cottage Grove exist,” Hefner said. been closed since the fall of 2016.
many memories for me,” she said.
Th e South Lane Women’s Network
“Because everyone knows that you can
Th is Saturday, Hefner hopes to con- go to Eugene or Springfi eld and fi nd will be donating the proceeds from the
tribute to the ongoing eff ort to save the everything. Since I started the group, event to the Swing-ing Bridge and Hef-
bridge aft er it was deemed unsafe by there’s so many businesses I didn’t even ner said the group welcomes any wom-
the city’s engineer.
know were in Cottage Grove and it’s an in South Lane to join. Meetings are
Th e South Lane Women’s Network is been amazing. We don’t have to go to held twice a month and membership is
still new and was formed aft er Hefner Eugene or Springfi eld.”
free.
asked her friend Kristine Sweezy if she
“We get started in a business and
Earlier this year, some members of
would be interested.
the group attended a benefi t hosted by when someone is fi rst starting in busi-
“We put it on Facebook and now we Friends of the Cottage Grove Swing- ness, that’s when they’re looking for
have 140 members,” she said.
ing Bridge and decided it was an eff ort networking and if they fi nd it, they
Before forming the group, Hefner they wanted to get behind.
fi nd out it costs money,” Hefner said.
was a member of another networking
Th is Saturday, the South Lane Wom- “When you just sunk all your money to
group that was based in Portland but en’s Network will hold a free event start a new business, it’s hard to hand
had meetings in Eugene. “For those at the Cottage Grove Armory in the out $30, $40 a month or $7, $20, $100
who are moms, if you live in Cottage hopes of adding to money already a year, it’s a lot.”
By Caitlyn May
cmay@cgsentinel.com
W
Grove and work in Eugene and you
have to come home and take care of
the kids and then drive back to Eugene
for the meeting, it’s a lot so we wanted
something local,” she said.
Th e purpose of the group is to pro-
mote businesses in Cottage Grove but
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