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Bohemia Mining Days begins its countdown to July 19-21
The 59th annual Bohemia
Mining Days festival is just
three weeks away, July 19-21.
Here are a few suggestions that
will maximize the fun and en-
joyment of Cottage Grove’s big-
gest event of the year.
• Advanced All-Day Carni-
val Ride Bracelets: Save money
on Carnival Rides. Discount
All-Day Carnival Ride Bracelet
Coupons are now at Cottage
Grove Bi-Mart and Scarpelli’s
Short Stop.
Cost: $22 in advance and $30
on site.
Save even more with 2-for-
1 “Buddy Day” on Thursday
(7/19). Limited number of cou-
pons available, while supplies,
last before July 19.
• Saturday's Covered Bridge
Tours: In partnership with
South Lane Wheels and the
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$65 per year
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Serving South Lane County.
The Humane Society of Cottage Grove
and Tucker's Cupboard will be having a
sidewalk sale on Saturday, July 7, from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. at the “This and That” store
PeaceHealth is partner-
ing with Lane County Public
Health on a new pneumonia
vaccine initiative that aims to
improve local patients’ health,
and the community’s health,
while reducing medical costs.
On June 20, PeaceHealth Sa-
cred Heart Medical Centers at
RiverBend and University Dis-
trict began offering pneumonia
vaccinations to certain high-
risk patients before they were
discharged from the hospital.
This vaccination initiative is
funded by a Lane County Pub-
lic Health grant and a Peace-
POOL
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meets. The pool tank itself will
also include steps in order to
be accessible for community
members ranging from swim-
ming lessons for children and
recreation for senior citizens.
The plumbing and electrical
system will also be upgraded.
There are also plans in place
for the locker rooms and exte-
rior of the building to be up-
dated but the degree to which
they are improved is not yet set
in stone due to a gap in the cost
of the project and the money
allocated for it by the school
district.
BUDGET
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several incidents of the aging
infrastructure’s failure this year.
In October of this year, a water
pipe burst sending 1.23 million
gallons of water flooding into
the neighborhood of S. 14th St.
The broken pipe and its repair
caused holes and cracks in the
pavement as well.
Without the $6,025,000 in
loan proceeds for the wastewa-
ter and storm water projects,
the 2018-2019 budget is less
than the budget adopted for
2017-2018.
In his introductory budget
message, Meyers describes the
budget as “exciting” and notes
that, just like last year’s budget,
there are significant changes.
“That is the one thing that is
constant—change,” he wrote.
“I think because of the chang-
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mia City and then tear it down
and put it all away.
During its three days of exis-
tence there are a wide variety of
jobs that need to be done. Min-
imum 2-hour shift.
Invite a favorite friend or rel-
ative and sign up as a team by
calling Volunteer Coordinator
Sylvia Kitterman at 541-515-
0633. A detail description of
position is on the festival web-
site.
• Vendors: It’s not too late to
sign up.
Applications available on
website and outside the festi-
val office in the Cottage Grove
Hotel.
More information is avail-
able at www.bohemiamining-
days.org or call 541-942-5064.
Humane Society, Tucker’s Cupboard team up for animals
SAVE MONEY. SAVE LIVES.
Call 541-942-4493 for info.
FOR EMERGENCY DIAL 911
ativity with family, friends and
co-workers. Register prior to
July 13 to avoid a late fee.
Entry Fees: Commercial
(business/political) $35, Non-
profit $15, and Individuals $15.
The application form is avail-
able on the website or outside
the Festival Office in the Cot-
tage Grove Hotel.
• Volunteers: It takes lots of
hands on deck to create Bohe-
corner, located at 33 N. Eighth St. in Cot-
tage Grove
Table spaces are also available to rent
(seller supplies the table). For more infor-
mation, call Bev at 541-525-6478
The event is a fund raiser for both orga-
nizations, with all proceeds going to help
animals in the area.
PeaceHealth, LCPH work together to reduce pneumonia's toll
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Cottage Grove Tour Guides,
BMD offers two 2-hour tours
of local covered bridges. Seat-
ing is limited to 18 participants
at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.
Pre-registration required and
must be paid in advance by Fri-
day, July 6 at 5 p.m.
• Grand Miners Parade:
Great exposure for your busi-
ness, organization or cause and
a fun way to express your cre-
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Health Community Health
donation, which pays for the
vaccine and to station a county
employee at RiverBend.
“Working togehter, Peace-
Health and Lane County Pub-
lic Health aim to reduce the toll
pneumonia takes in this com-
munity by vaccinating high-
risk patients before they leave
the hospital,” said Susan Blane,
community health director for
the PeaceHealth Oregon net-
work.
“Bacterial pneumonia is a
significant cause of preventable
illness and death nationwide
and in Lane County,” said Lane
County Senior Health Officer,
Dr. Patrick Luedtke. “We are
fortunate to have an effective
vaccine to address this serious
condition; but up until now it
has been underutilized, mak-
ing this program a much need-
ed resource for our communi-
ty.”
Pneumonia is a leading cause
of hospitalization and death of
adults in the United States. In
a typical year, nearly 1 million
U.S. adults get pneumococcal
pneumonia, 400,000 are hospi-
talized and 5 to 7 percent of the
adults who contract it die.
Under the new pneumonia
initiative, vaccinations will be
offered to all hospital patients
age 65 and older and patients
19 to 64 who are at high risk for
pneumonia, such as cigarette
smokers, people with diabetes
and people with chronic heart,
liver or lung disease.
A Lane County employee,
stationed at RiverBend, will
check the daily census to iden-
tify candidates for the vaccine
for Streptococcus pneumoniae.
With money from the 2016
bond that went to building
a new Harrison Elementary
School in addition to updat-
ing security and technology
around the district, $5.1 mil-
lion was set aside for the pool.
The price tag for various up-
grades greatly varied and with
some project to cost over $7
million. The most up to date
price has the pool upgrade at
just over $5.5 million dollars.
“As we were going through
this design phase it was clear
that this project was going to
cost a little bit more than what
the school district had allocat-
ed and so we started working
right away with some fantastic
folks in the community to try
and close that gap with some
fundraising,” said Bridgens.
Just over $20,000 has been
raised by the community,
$50,000 from the city and
pledges from various organiza-
tions that total over $150,000.
Regardless of the funds that
come in, the aquatic center will
still be updated.
“This project is moving for-
ward regardless of where we’re
at,” said Bridgens.
The school district decided
the priorities of what should be
renovated first with guidance
from a pool committee that
was formed that included com-
munity members, swimmers
and advisors from Eugene-area
pools.
While the pool is under con-
struction, the CGHS swim and
water polo teams will be pro-
vided with transportation for
practice at other pools.
“Those are really import-
ant programs and we don’t
want to see them go away and
we are committed to making
sure those programs continue
through construction,” said
Bridgens.
On July 14, former Cottage
Grove swim coach Bud Tay-
lor will be hosting a “pool re-
tirement party” to invite back
former swimmers to enjoy the
space one last time.
ing economy and some of the
groundwork that the previous
budget committees and city
council have done, we are see-
ing the opportunity to actively
address mandates and even
take some proactive steps.”
Last year, the city combined
the planning and communi-
ty development departments
after the heads of both de-
partments announced their
retirement. Former East Lane
County Commissioner Faye
Stewart was tapped to head
the newly formed public works
and development department,
and according to the city, the
change netted a savings in per-
sonnel costs.
“…it has been a success and
we have seen a number of im-
provements as a result,” Mey-
ers wrote. “It also continues to
evolve as we adapt the chang-
es we wanted to make in the
Building Inspection Program
with the mandated changes
from the state Building Codes
Division.” Ac-cording to Mey-
ers, the city was already tran-
sitioning the inspection pro-
gram from a third-party to
an in-house operation when
the state’s mandates were an-
nounced. As a result, Cottage
Grove will not be one of the
other 34 communities racing
the July 1 deadline that re-
quires changes to their inspec-
tion programs or risks being
decertified.
The 2018-2019 budget shows
a $65,000 cash carryover from
the city’s building inspection
fund that currently serves Cot-
tage Grove, Creswell and Ve-
neta.
The most notable change
that was proposed in the 2018-
2019 budget was the financial
separation of the library and
community center which share
the same building at 700 E.
Gibbs Ave. The change creates
a Library services Department
responsible for operating the
library and all activities associ-
ated with the library program.
The community center and
community coordina-tor will
share a division within com-
munity services within the city
manager’s department.
According to Meyers, the
community coordinator would
become a supervisor with two
part-time employees and be
responsible for managing the
coordination efforts between
local non-profits and other
organizations that provide ser-
vices to individuals in the com-
munity.
“We’re in the middle of a
crisis in this nation,” Meyers
wrote, citing the increasing sta-
tistics surrounding the home-
less population around the
country. “Citizens with mental
illness or other issues are wan-
dering the streets underserved,
if served at all. Drug addiction
abounds. Low income citizens
are struggling to improve their
skills or access jobs and zom-
bie homes continue to plague
communities,” he wrote, noting
that state and federal agencies
were not adequately addressing
the issues, causing a burden on
local communities. “In Cottage
Grove fashion, we try to help,”
Meyers wrote, detailing the
“wealth” of local resources and
the need to have those resourc-
es and services coordinate with
each other.
The 2018-2019 budget also
includes the annual $50,000
contribution to the Warren
Daughtery Aquatic Center de-
spite the fact that the pool will
be closed for construction for
the majority of the year. The
budget calls the contribution
an “investment in the capital”
being spent through a South
Lane School District bond that
will fund the pool’s remodel.
The city’s permanent rate of
$7.2087 of $1,000 in assessed
value remained and is expect-
ed to generate $4,450,000 in
collectable tax revenue.
The complete budget can be
viewed on the city’s website at
cottagegrove.org by following
the “Your Government” link.