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WEDNESDAY EDITION | MAY 1, 2019 | $1.00 CGSENTINEL.COM 3 Est. 1889 S entinel C ottage G rove VOL. 131, NO. 18 S ERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF C OTTAGE G ROVE , D ORENA , D RAIN , E LKTON AND Y ONCALLA Your Local News Delivered Your Way: In Print. Online. On the Go! Airport Welcome Center propels tourism PERSONAL | COMMERCIAL BENEFITS | SURETY By Damien Sherwood dsherwood@cgsentinel.com (541) 942-0555 PayneWest.com/Cottage-Grove N WEATHER DAMIEN SHERWOOD/COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL Sunshine with a high of 70 and a low tonight of 38. Full forecast on A5 The $100,000 welcome center project was years in the making and has turned the city into a popular pit stop for fly-by visitors. adine and Shawn Kelley have found a way to pull tourists out of thin air. In its short life of a little more than a year and a half, the Cottage Grove Airport Welcome Center has been generating exactly the kind of attention the Kelleys were hoping it would, pulling in a manifold increase in visitors. “During a week in the summer, before this building came up, we would have two or three [visitors],” Shawn said. “Now we’re getting more like a dozen to almost 20.” See CENTER 9A COMMUNITY Community waves goodbye to local icon A3 SPORTS — B DAMIEN SHERWOOD/COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL Community members raised the first wall of the tiny house project into position last Wednesday. Lions pick up a pair of ‘must-win’ games B1 Walls raised on first tiny house By Damien Sherwood dsherwood@cgsentinel.com • RECORDS Obituaries A2 • LORANE NEWS A5 • CLASSIFIEDS Listings and public notices B7-B9 FOLLOW US FOR THE LATEST NEWS : Members of Presbyterian Women helped hoist the first wall in Cottage Village last week, marking a new milestone in the tiny house project at 1430 E. Madison Ave. “This isn’t the answer to our hous- ing crisis, but it’s definitely a start,” said Mayor Jeff Gowing to a crowd of community members and project volunteers who turned out for the April 25 event. general and we’re of course no iso- lated incident here,” she said. “I want to commend SquareOne Villag- es for identifying a gap in housing and actually moving as fast as they can to find solutions in small rural locations as well as all over Lane County. What they do is unique and your help in this effort is really com- mendable.” SquareOne Village’s executive di- rector Dan Bryant emphasized the need for projects like this. See TINY 10A Students create public service announcements to inform and offer support to others By Zach Silva zsilva@cgsentinel.com Brandi Baker-Rudicel did not want to have this conversation with her students; she did not want to talk about suicide. “I hated this. If I don’t like subjects, I avoid them. I’m an avoider... I avoided it like the plague,” Baker-Rudicel said last week during a particularly noisy health class at Al Kennedy High School. “And then I realized that I needed this.” She realized she no longer had the luxury of avoiding this sub- ject when, 10 years ago, a Ken- nedy student committed suicide. “It affected Kennedy so grave- ly that it was like, ‘Oh my gosh, we have to do things different.’ So we got the whole staff trained up, I started training students,” she explained to her class. For Baker-Rudicel’s part, she was going to make sure students were able to learn about the subject while also being able to share this knowledge. This re- sulted in creating a unit in which students create public service announcements on this topic to share with their class, peers and, ultimately, community. The lesson is taught about every three years to ensure that each student experiences it in their time at Kennedy. In the fi rst year, with a grant from the county, a group of students cre- ated a shirt which had the phrase “Mental Health Life Guard” that students wore regularly each Tuesday. Down the line another class created a Facebook group that was a place for individuals to share positive messages. It remained active far past the end of the school year while others have created bumper stickers that show up around town. On this particular Thursday, students were sharing what they had done for their project. While there were interruptions and loud outbursts of noise around the See KENNEDY 7A Public Health Fair connects community services /CGS ENTINEL By Damien Sherwood dsherwood@cgsentinel.com @CGS ENTINEL CGS ENTINEL . COM After more than three years of planning and volunteering, the first of 13 tiny homes has begun to take shape as a new phase has begun in the collaborative affordable housing project run by the Cottage Village Coalition (CVC) and SquareOne Villages. With momentum gathering in the project, Lane County Commissioner Heather Buch stopped by to speak at last Wednesday’s event. “We all know that housing is a huge issue along the West Coast in Kennedy program inspires honest discussion about teen suicide 541- 942-3325 ph • 541-942-3328 fax P.O. Box 35, Cottage Grove, OR 97424 More than 30 organizations packed the Cottage Grove Armory on Satur- day for this year’s Public Health Fair. Booths were set up by organizations providing services ranging from mental health counseling to nutri- tional programs. Because many of the groups in attendance Saturday operate out of Eugene offices, their services to the Cottage Grove area may be relatively unknown; Family Relief Nursery in- take specialist Crystal Morrison saw the event as a great opportunity for exposure and education. “It’s really just letting families know that we’re here for them and what we offer,” she said. “It’s also a great time to network and have oth- er agencies get together that we don’t usually get to see.” The fair was started four years ago by members of Family Relief Nurs- ery and an intern in the Family and Human Services program out of the University of Oregon. “It’s actually run by interns every Great Selection year,” said Morrison, “Usually, this is their senior project.” As part of the project, interns con- tact agencies they think would be ap- propriate to be in attendance. Donations also come in from all over the community for a raffle event held at the end of the day. 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