COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL • JULY 25, 2018 • A11
PHOTOS BY GREG LEE AND ZACH SILVA
BMD
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for family fun and capturing
with their cameras a lifetime
of happy memories.”
Those memories were cut
one-day short of year’s past
after the BMD board decid-
ed earlier this year to cut
Sunday from the schedule.
“BMD is all about tradi-
tion,” said board president
Cathy Simmons. “Yet as we
go forward, circumstances
force us to make changes
like this one with an eye on
our bottom line.”
Simmons previously not-
ed that it cost approximately
$50,000 to host BMD each
year. Last month, the board
approved its 2018 budget of
$55,450.
“Sunday has always been
a more quiet day with low-
er attendance,” Simmons
continued. “In our annual
vendor survey, because of
lower sales, many of them
have asked us to drop Sun-
day so they can tear down
early and move on to their
next event.
“Up until now we haven’t
because we rely on Sunday’s
carnival revenue to pay our
operational expenses.”
According to BMD orga-
nizers, attendance was down
from previous years from
vendor to attendees and the
board cited the Lane County
Fair as the biggest draw away
from Bohemia City.
Earlier this year, Weel-
dreyer received numerous
calls from long time vendors
saying how much they en-
joyed participating. She said
they apologized for not com-
ing this year because their
profits would be greater by
vending at the county fair.
The vendor county dropped
from an average of 80 to 65
for the festival’s 59th year.
“Early estimates indicate
a loss of more than $3,000
in vendor revenue, which is
one third of the festival’s in-
come. Another vendor dis-
appointment was a no show
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by the much publicized
climbing wall vendor from
Portland,” Weeldreyer said.
While some vendors were
a no show, the tradition-
al live shows returned this
year, with a play written and
directed by Jennifer Man-
deville-Schulz and the same
three parades graced Cot-
tage Grove streets with a to-
tal 327 people taking part.
And no BMD would be
complete without the feud.
Returning for its 7th year,
the feud pits residents who
live on the west side of the
Coast Fork of the Willamette
River against the residents
who live on the east side.
Created in 2012 by city
councilor (and then BMD
President) Jake Boone to
resurrect the actual feud
from the late 1800s that sad-
ly became so bitter it literally
split the town into two dif-
ferent towns for a short time.
The feud consists of several
games over the course of the
three days from cherry spit-
ting to candle running.
This year's champions and
winner of bragging rights
for an entire year was the
Lemati side of town with a
score of 173 to Slabtown’s
136.
Simmons called this year’s
event a success, noting, “The
board is deeply grateful for
the incredible dedication of
our hard-working logistics
crew,” Simmons said. “We
are very thankful for the
above and beyond effort the
week of long days these men
invested to set up and tear
down Bohemia City.”
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T hank you
The Bohemia Foundation and the City of Cottage Grove
wish to thank the following organizations and individuals
for their generous support and sponsorship of the Eugene
Symphony’s July 23, 2018 performance at Bohemia Park:
Pinocchio’s
Pizza
Branch
Engineering, Inc.
Hoyer
Accounting
Wildish Land
Company
Cottage Grove
Sentinel
Williams &
Mathis
Accounting
Services
Starfire Lumber
Company
Commonwealth
Financial
Network
Steven K.
Stewart
Revocable Trust
Territorial Seed
Co.
Doug Lund and
Friends
Payne West
Insurance
Jim and
Barbara Gant
Banner Bank
Myles and
Joanne Butner
Janice Albritton
Pacific Yurts
Smith-Lund-
Mills Funeral
Chapel
Steve Kilston
Local
Government Law
Group
Chuck Missar
State Farm
Insurance
Janet Thompson
Mary Jo
O’Fallon
The Woodard
Foundation