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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.
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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
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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.
About three and half
years after Safe Haven’s
founding, the caretaker’s
client, Dan Booher, who
See SAFE 9A
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