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WEDNESDAY EDITION | MAY 29, 2019 | $1.00 CGSENTINEL.COM 3 Est. 1889 S entinel C ottage G rove VOL. 131, NO. 22 S ERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF C OTTAGE G ROVE , D ORENA , D RAIN , E LKTON L ORANE AND Y ONCALLA Your Local News Delivered Your Way: In Print. Online. On the Go! PERSONAL | COMMERCIAL BENEFITS | SURETY Local entrepreneurs complete Business Challenge journey Covered Bridge Brewing Group won the 2019 Cottage Grove Business Challenge’s top prize of $6,000 last Wednesday night. By Damien Sherwood dsherwood@cgsentinel.com (541) 942-0555 PayneWest.com/Cottage-Grove WEATHER Mostly sunny with a high of 75 and a low tonight of 50. Full forecast on A5 Entrepreneurs, fledgling start-up businesses and local residents gathered at the King Estate Bottling Facility May 22 for the second Cottage Grove Business Challenge awards, an event held to generate more interest and growth in area busi- nesses. Attendees mixed and mingled as the 15 partici- pating contenders in the challenge stood ready to deliver their business pitches to vote-toting guests, who would determine the final five contestants of the night. “This is business being born,” said Chamber of Commerce executive director Travis Palmer. By the night’s end, judges had selected three businesses to receive awards totaling $10,000 in cash prizes. Covered Bridge Brewing Group, made up of co-founders David Barclay, Nate Sampson, Chris- sy Chapman and Liza Barclay (who was not See CHALLENGE 7A DAMIEN SHERWOOD/COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL Honoring The Fallen COMMUNITY ‘Safe Haven’ off ers second chance By Damien Sherwood dsherwood@cgsentinel.com Local author signs copies of latest book. A3 SPORTS — B PHOTOS BY DAMIEN SHERWOOD/COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL Attendees salute as Sadirah Sheffield sings the national anthem at the Armory on Memorial Day (above). The ceremony included a message from Mayor Jeff Gowing, the reading of local names of the fallen and a speech from United States Army veteran William Fitzgerald. “I would ask that when you leave here and go about the rest of your day, keep the fallen in your minds and the families and their friends in your hearts, for it is their immense collective sacrifices that have helped keep our country safe and free,” Fitzgerald said. A rememberance procession ended with a 21-gun salute at the Veterans Memorial plaque at Centennial Bridge (left). NDHS baseball and softball teams advance to state semifinals B1 • RECORDS Obituaries Election Results Arrests A2 • LORANE NEWS A5 • CLASSIFIEDS Listings and public notices B6-B7 FOLLOW US FOR THE LATEST NEWS : /CGS ENTINEL @CGS ENTINEL CGS ENTINEL . COM Farmers Market: Planting seeds for prosperity By Damien Sherwood 541- 942-3325 ph • 541-942-3328 fax P.O. Box 35, Cottage Grove, OR 97424 resell it.” Guidelines for vendors in- clude a preference for hand- Now in its fourth year on made crafts, priority given to Seventh Street, the South no-spray food and a prohibi- Valley Farmers Market is tion on GMO products. settling into its role as a By extending an invita- seasonal downtown fix- tion to merchants and grow- ture. From 4 to 7 p.m. ev- ers throughout the valley, the ery Thursday, the market group is hoping to be a hub caters to shoppers’ appe- and “business incubator” for tites for hand-crafted, lo- the area. cally-sourced goods, all of “It’s not just Cottage Grove. which are vetted by market We are the South Valley Farm- manager Andrea Mull to ers Market for a reason,” said ensure they fall within the DAMIEN SHERWOOD/COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL Mull. “We want to show the di- market’s vision. Patrons at the South Valley Farmers Market versity of the products and the “It’s in our actual mis- enjoy live music while looking through wares creativity of the people in our sion that we’re only offering community.” and fresh produce. things within a hundred Various versions of the mar- miles,” said Mull. “It has to different businesses, it has to be re- ket have sprung up over the all be sourced from your own prop- assembled to be sold. You can’t buy See MARKET 8A erty or, if sourced outside through something in another location and dsherwood@cgsentinel.com On Saturday, local so- ber-living support organi- zation Safe Haven opened the doors of their fi rst building in the city, the Booher House, for public viewing at 850 E Quincy Ave. A project nearly four years in the making, the building will be able to house up to fi ve wom- en and a house manager, providing a transitional step for women who have overcome drug or alcohol addiction through recov- ery programs but still need help restarting their lives. “If they have an oppor- tunity to stay in the house like what we’re going to have, they’ll learn how to get a job, how to go to work, how to get a bank account, how to do their own shopping, their own cooking, how to take care of themselves and how to stay sober,” said Safe Ha- ven board president Do- lores Anderson. Anderson said that such housing greatly increases recovery success rates. “Once they leave us, their chances of relapsing are about 10 percent,” she said. “That’s in any transi- tional housing. But there is no such thing in Cottage Grove.” The lack of sober living opportunities in Cottage Grove was the impetus be- hind Safe Haven’s found- ing in 2015. A local caretaker ral- lied concerned citizens to address the need and the group soon began to accumulate enough mon- ey through donations and fundraising to search for housing. Finding an available renter, however, was a struggle in a low-vacan- cy market and not many landowners were keen on the prospect of renting to recovering drug addicts. 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