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By Caitlyn May
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A look at campaign
contributions for
local candidates
Four local boys trained
together before serving
overseas in 1965
By Caitlyn May
Roger Rue, Hayward Clark, Walt
Bouche and Robert Kephart weren’t
that close. Th e only things they had in
common in 1965 were that all four were
Cottage Grove residents and they were
all old enough to be draft ed.
“I would see them on the street and
wave ‘hi’ and ‘bye’ but the four of us
were not, we knew each other but not
to where we were running the streets
together,” Rue said.
More than 50 years later, the men
are not that much closer but the list of
things they have in common is a bit lon-
ger.
Th ree of them stayed and worked at
Weyerhaeuser. Two of them still pass
Th e last ballots made
their way to drop boxes
yesterday and election re-
sults started fl ooding in
last night. Due to Th e Sen-
tinel’s production sched-
ule, stories concerning the
outcome of local elections
have been posted online
at cgsentinel.com, on our
social media pages and will
be included in the Nov. 14
edition print edition of Th e
Sentinel.
Several races directly
aff ected Cottage Grove in-
cluding the head-to-head
between Cedric Hayden
and Christy Inskip for
the Oregon 7th district
house seat, the battle be-
tween Gary Williams and
Heather Buch for the East
Lane Commissioner seat
and three races on the city
council for at-large seats
and the Ward 3 represen-
tative.
Also on the ballot, Floyd
Prozanski defended his
Oregon State Senate seat
against Scott Rohter and
Frank Lengele Jr. and sev-
eral ballot measures rang-
ing from abortion funding
to aff ordable housing.
Th e Sentinel has com-
piled an at-a-glance look at
how the candidates raised
funds in their race toward
Election Day.
All totals are up-to-date
as of Nov. 4 and can be
viewed online at sos.state.
or.us.
COURTESY PHOTO
Platoon A-3-3 stands for a photo in 1965. The platoon was comprised of 44
men, all from Oregon. Four men were Cottage Grove residents and three,
returned to town after the war.
each other on the street. Th ree of them
served in Vietnam. And all four of them
trained for the war as part of a platoon
made up of men entirely from Oregon.
Rue moved to Cottage Grove in 1963
at the age of 18 — an age that lends itself
to running in the same crowds in small
towns. It meant that he knew Keph-
art and Bouche but didn’t count them
among his friends.
Clark, however, he could. And while
friendship hadn’t bound the four men
together as young men, they found
themselves in a group that would be
bound together by a governor’s recog-
nition. Between 1964 and 1975, more
than three million men were deployed
to Southeast Asia. In 1965, 44 of those
men were sent to California from Ore-
gon to train together.
Th e men were part of the A-3-3 train-
ing unit, one that would earn the recog-
nition of the state.
“Th e unique thing about that was that
it was 44 men, all 44 men were from Or-
egon,” Rue said. It was a distinction that
would earn the group an Oregon State
fl ag from then Governor Mark Hatfi eld.
For eight weeks, Rue says, the group
trained together before being sent to
train for an additional eight weeks at
various locations.
“Aft er 16 weeks, three of us went to
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School board
talks pool,
Latham
Incredibly fun Halloween
By Zach Silva
zsilva@cgsentinel.com
Oregon House
District 7
PHOTO BY GREG LEE/FOR THE COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL
The annual trick-or-treat on Main Street hit Cottage Grove on Oct. 31 sending superheroes, princesses,
unicorns, dinosaurs and an avacado to the 40 businesses that set up booths and distributed candy. More than
1,000 children fl ooded Main Street for the chance to collect candy and play on the infl atable slide and bounce
house erected for the event. For more photos, see A6.
As the Warren H.
Daughtery Aquatic Cen-
ter undergoes a renova-
tion with funds from the
2016 bond, the South Lane
School District is currently
fundraising to make sure
the upgrade includes a
warming pool.
At Monday night’s South
Lane School District school
board meeting, Commu-
nications
Coordinator
Garrett Bridgens detailed
the eff ort from the district
to raise $520,000 so that
the warming pool is add-
ed now instead of being
pushed down the road. As
of now, the district has over
$400,000 from donations
and commitments, includ-
ing a commitment from the
city of Cottage Grove, to
fund the pool that is used
especially for therapy.
“Th at pool could have a
tremendous impact and I
think, more importantly
for right now, (the com-
munity) see that they don’t
want to wait on it,” said
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City partners with UO on Row River Nature Walk project
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COMMUNITY
By Caitlyn May
cmay@cgsentinel.com
On Oct. 27, students from the
University of Oregon’s School of
Planning, Public Policy and Man-
agement met at the Row River Na-
ture Park to see how they could help.
Th e event, billed as a design
charrette, was part of a partnership
between the UO’s class and the city
of Cottage Grove to generate ideas
concerning the 56-acre park and
the boat ramp and potential BMX
track located in the park.
Earlier this year, Cottage Grove
resident Brandon Britz had a BMX
track on his mind. He grew up near
a track in Eugene and when his old-
est son recently took an interest in
LORANE NEWS
Family receives award
Weekly update
The Hull family is
recognized for its tree
farming.
Crow High School Band,
movie nght and more.
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INDEX
Dentist and rancher Ce-
dric Hayden, fi rst elected
in 2015, was defending his
seat against Cottage Grove
resident and Lane Coun-
ty health analyst, Christy
Inskip. Both Inskip and
Hayden focused on health
care and the economy
during the campaign as
well as education.
• Hayden:
Cash contributions:
$66,535
Loans: $10,000
In-Kind Contributions:
$9,354
Total contributions:
$85,889
Total expenditures:
$54,549.90
Hayden had 19 out-of-
state contributors includ-
ing
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day forecast please
see page A5.
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tage Grove, works full-time and has
taken on the BMX project with a
few other “solid” dads. But accord-
ing to city manager Meyers at the
time, there was no city funding to
replace the track.
Th e partnership with the univer-
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the sport again, he approached the
city.
“It had been on my radar for a
couple of years, ever since they fl at-
tened it,” he said. “I heard that the
city might be ok with building it
again, so I called the city, met with
Richard Meyers and they’re totally
down with it.”
Britz, a fi ve-year resident of Cot-
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