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COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL • AUGUST 15, 2018 • Film festival coming to Cottage Grove this weekend By Caitlyn May cmay@cgsentinel.com Utah has Park City. Aft er this weekend, Oregon can say it has Cottage Grove. Park City, of course be- ing the home of the famous Sundance Film Festival that draws thousands to the small town of 8,000. It served as a source of ambition for Len Blackstone when he decided Cottage Grove needed a little something. Enter, the Bohemian Film Festival. It’s three days of mov- ie screenings selected from more than 100 entries from 18 countries — including entries from award-winning fi lm- makers. “Th ree years ago, I asked, ‘What can I do to help Cottage Grove?’” Blackstone said. He’s been a resident of the city for 33 years and has acted, most recently, as a real estate bro- ker, responsible for the sale and subsequent revival of the Stewart Building on Main Street earlier this year. “So, I met with Mike Dilley at the Axe and Fiddle,” he said. “It was supposed to be a 30-min- ute meeting. It ended up being three hours.” An idea had been hatched at that meeting. Why couldn’t Cottage Grove host a fi lm fes- tival? “We’re not trying to be Park City, Utah but I do see potential,” Blackstone said of the little town that adds to its population 10 times over each winter for a few days. Th e Bohemian Film Festival will already have a head-start on attendance by combining its eff orts with the local cham- ber of commerce’s 40th anni- versary celebration of “Animal House,” a fi lm made popular in the 1970s that has maintained a following given the local ties to Oregon — it was fi lmed at the University of Oregon with some select-few scenes fi lmed in Cottage Grove as well. Th e Healing Matrix, com- munity center and the Opal Center will become hubs of cinema beginning on Aug. 17. A nearly non-stop schedule has fi lms showing at all three locations with a break on Sat- urday for a showing of “Ani- mal House.” “We have fi lmmakers from 18 diff erent countries,” Black- stone said. “Bobbi Jo Hart, do you know who that is? She is a graduate of Cottage Grove High School in the 1980s. Her fi lm will be shown.” Th e fi lm, “I Am Not a Rockstar,” follows a Juil- liard-trained pianist through the United States, Canada and Europe as she comes of age. It’s been the recipient of two Canadian Screen Awards since its release in 2013. Hart’s fi lm made the cut from more than 100 entries. A volunteer group of ap- proximately 20 people screened all of the fi lms that were submitted before nar- rowing the fi eld down to 62. “All of the judges were reg- ular people,” Blackstone said. “No movie critics, that was important.” Movie-goers can choose from feature-length fi lms to fi lms that fi t into the timespan of a coff ee break. At the end of the three-day festival, there will be a winner in each category and an over- all winner who will take home a $3,000 prize. “It’s not the best time of the year to hold a fi lm festival,” Blackstone said. “But we’ll see what happens, we’ll see how it goes.” Tickets (ranging from $8 to $49) can be purchased at bo- hemianfestival.com. A sched- ule of movies as well as trailers for the fi lms are also available on the site. ‘Animal House’ anniversary celebration draws original bands By Caitlyn May cmay@cgsentinel.com On Aug. 18, everyone will be trying to grab onto the past for a few hours. Th e Cottage Grove Area Chamber of Commerce will be hosting an eff ort to reach back in time and reclaim the title the city once held: rights to the world’s largest toga party. And while more than 3,000 residents attempt to crowd into Bohemia Park wearing sheets in varying degrees of toga cosplay, special guests will be setting the 1970’s mood. Th e Kingsmen will strap on their guitars and play the song that has been carrying them to the charts and from gig-to-gig for 30 years, “Louie, Louie.” “Well, they used our song in the movie,” said Mike Mitchell, a guitarist for the band, when asked what he remembers of the band’s role in the fi lm. LOW COST Local & Metro Weekday Trips Professional Caring Staff Your Regional Public Transportation Service No elgibility requirements. 541-942-0456 southlanetransit.com At the time, the band was living in California when a phone call came in from a friend. “Katherine (Wilson) is a friend of the band and we used to play the university before we shot the movie there and she was involved in the casting for the movie,” Mitchell said. Wilson, an Oregon native, made a name for herself in Oregon cinema, becoming a liaison for the governor’s offi ce for “One Flew Over the Cuck- oo’s Nest.” She went on work on other fi lms shot in Oregon including “Stand by Me” and “Animal House.” Th e relationship between the band and Wilson has con- tinued through the years, cul- minating in the band’s appear- ance at the last celebration in Cottage Grove that marked the fi lm’s presence there. Th is year, the band will join Th e Cry and Otis Day for the attempt to win back the world record and celebrate the fi lm’s 40th anniversary. Th e day will start with a parade down Main St., mir- roring the parade in the fi lm which is Cottage Grove’s main claim to fame. It will continue with a screening including a showing of “Animal House” at 1 p.m. in the armory followed by the fi lm “Animal House of Blues” at 3 p.m. Just prior to the last fi lm, the gates to Bohemia Park will open and the mad count will begin. Guinness requires cer- tifi able head counts to be con- sidered for the world record and so each toga-donning individual has to be counted when the gates open at 2 p.m. An hour later, the beer mile will take place with individ- uals running one lap around the track, stopping to drink a beer at each quarter mile. Th e Blues Sisters will play at 4:30, followed by John Swan and the Revelators at 5:30 and at 6:30, the world record attempt will be made. Mitchell and his band will close the event out along with Otis Day and Th e Cry begin- ning at 7:15 p.m. “It’s just a lot of fun. We be- came a band that would come down and play for this and it’s a big party for the whole town,” Mitchell, a band mem- ber for 55 years, said. “I’ll keep doing it as long as I can lift my guitar and jump up and down, I guess.” Your Family Deserves The BEST Technology... Value... TV!... Upgrade to the Hopper® 3 Smart HD DVR • Watch and record 16 shows at once • Get built-in Netflix and YouTube • Watch TV on your mobile devices Hopper upgrade fee $5/mo. Add High Speed Internet 14 . 95 $ 6 /mo. -day 190 Channels weather forecast THURSDAY FRIDAY 88° | 54° 86° | 54° Partly Coudy Sunny SATURDAY SUNDAY 89° | 55° 93° | 58° Sunny Sunny MONDAY TUESDAY 96° | 59° 96° | 59° Sunny Sunny 60% of smalled businesses close their doors within 6 months following a cyber-attack. Call today (541) 942-0555. PayneWest.com/Cottage-Grove CALL TODAY Save 20%! 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A non-English speaking woman was clutching her leashed dog to her chest as a coyote held fast to her dog’s hind quarters. I grabbed the coyote by the scruff of the neck, wound up my fi st and round-house punched his jaw. I heard a popping noise and he released his grip on the poor dog. I shoved the woman back, grabbed the stunned coyote by its scruff and rear end, and tossed it into the bushes. All the while yelling like a banshee with my arms wildly swinging. “I had once heard what to do, but never in a hundred years thought that I would have to employ the technique. I took the distraught woman to my car and we used my ‘pet fi rst-aid kit’ on her dog. I could not understand a word of what she said, but the look on her face and gestures said it all.” Denise is a bone-a-fi de dog-hero, but what she did in the heat of the moment is not recommended. Besides coyotes, pet parents also fear birds of prey. Th ese birds are capable of picking up and fl ying away with squirrels, rabbits, chickens and small pets. One friend watched an owl fl y off with his small cat. Armed with this information, when Miss Wings, my 5-pound cat, was outside, I kept a watchful eye Denise’s dogs, Maggie and Gizmo, are proud of their hero who single “hand”edly saved a dog from a coyote’s grip. out for hawks. When San Diego residents Paul and Pamela Mott’s beloved dog, Buff y, was stolen from beside them by a coyote, they were determined to purr-vent the nightmare from happening to oth- ers. So, they invented an answered to our prayers to protect pets from preying animals. Paul designed a cat/dog armored vest that withstands a life-threatening attack. Th e DuPont Kevlar fabric is teeth stab resistant. Th e measured for a purr-fect fi t vests are comfortable, light weight, water resistant, easy snap-on and have two rows of 1-inch spikes running down them like sharp skunk strips. Spikes also circle the neck collar, and running down the middle of the vest are 8-inch stiff broom-like plastic bristles for poking predator’s eyes. “Our police department tested the vest with an attack K9 and it passed with fl ying colors. To date, thousands of dogs and a cats wearing our vests pur-oved that it is 100 percent eff ective against coyotes, aggressive dogs and birds of prey attacks with no reported injuries,” said Pamela. “Th e vests are endorsed by veterinarians world-wide. If we can help save one life, we have made a diff erence.” Jamie in California writes, “One night, I considered not put- ting Lola’s vest on thinking we would be quick. Th ank goodness I put her in it because minutes later, two coyotes quietly ap- proached us and one was less than a foot from Lola! “My stomping and yelling scared them away, but I can still picture that bewildered coyote’s eyes as he contemplated attack- ing the weird creature covered in spikes and plastic whiskers. I am one hundred percent sure that if Lola was not wearing her vest, she would have been gone.” TIPS: Protect small dogs in dog parks with a coyote vest. Trans- form them into a cute-colorful armored animal. TV footage: www.coyotevest.com/pages/videos When a coyote attacked an Oregon City dog, its owner saved it with CPR and mouth to snout breaths: www.oregonlive.com/ oregon-city/index.ssf/2011/07/portland_woman_rescues_ tiny_dog_caught_by_coyote_near_oregon_city.html Department of Fish and Wildlife on coyote cautions: www. dfw.state.or.us/wildlife/living_with/coyotes.asp Share your fun, amazing or crazing pet tips and tales at angelscribe@msn.com or Follow Pet Tips ‘n’ Tales on Facebook at www.facebook.com/PetTipsandTales. Adopt loving pets online at www.PetFinder.com. For spay or neutering, call the Humane Society at 541-942-2789.