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COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2019 | 5A Pet Tips ‘n’ Tales Sharing with the community By Mary Ellen “Angel Scribe” A ‘Maverick’ life The cat whyspurr-ers: Kevin with Dallas, Bonnie with Maverick, and Teagan rescue Persians. B COURTESY PHOTO Director of Community Sharing Mike Fleck (right) receives a donation from Sharon VanGorder of Trinity Women in Mission, a group with the Trinity Lutheran Church. F or many years now, Trinity Women in Mission, through Trinity Lutheran Church, has sponsored several fundraisers. It has tried to keep the recipients of these projects as local as possi- ble. This year, by unanimous vote, it decided to use the proceeds from its spring garage sale for Commu- nity Sharing and designated these proceeds to the nonprofit’s pro- gram of energy assistance to the amount of $4,013.31. Trinity Women in Mission is proud to be of service and help to the community, first through the garage sale where people in need can purchase items they need at a reasonable price, and then to share the proceeds with other groups, such as Community Sharing, which reach out in many ways to help those in need. Modern, vintage aircraft, autos coming to The Grove The Cottage Grove Jim Wright Memorial Field for the 6th Annual Cottage Grove Wings & Wheels on Saturday, June 29, from 11 a.m to 4 p.m. Aircraft and autos, mod- ern and vintage, will be on display for one day only at this family-friendly event. Food vendors will be on site and so will many of the aircraft and auto owners, who will be happy to tell visitors all about their ve- hicles. Proceeds from this event will be applied to the resto- ration of the vintage aircraft at the Oregon Aviation His- tory Center, which will also be open during the event. Restorations in progress at the Oregon Aviation His- torical Society include the 1931 Great Lakes 2T-1A owned by barnstormer Tex Rankin and the “Wimpy,” a Les Long-Swede Ralston aircraft with an extensive Oregon history. These planes will all be available to view during the event. Oregon played a vital role in early aviation history, and the goal of the Oregon Aviation Historical Society is to collect, restore and preserve aviation ar- tifacts for interpretive and educational display in order to ensure the preservation of Oregon’s rich aviation heritage for future genera- tions. While this is a fami- ly-friendly event, visitors are asked to leave pets at home; the blacktop gets ex- tremely hot and can dam- age the feet of pets. Boosters have provided to our students and schools this school year. • The 16th annual Crow Car Show is scheduled for July 13. Pre-registration has begun and volunteers are needed. For more infor- mation or to volunteer, call Marissa at 542-517-6608. Donations will also gladly be accepted. This is the ma- jor fundraiser for the CAL Schools. • Tonight, June 12, the Applegate Elementary School will perform its spring concert in the gym at 7 p.m. • Eighth-grade recog- nition is June 18 at 7 p.m. Then, on June 19, there will be a delicious lunch of pulled pork sandwich- es and pasta from 11:05 to 11:45 a.m. At 11:50 a.m., all school pictures will be tak- en on the playground and in front of the school with Field Day starting at 12:15 p.m. All of this will take place at Applegate Elemen- tary School. • Lorane Grange is still collecting new socks and T-shirts through August for our men and women veter- ans. Contact any Granger, call or come by any event to join us in this endeavor. • Mark your calendars for Aug. 3 for the Lorane Com- munity-Wide Garage and Yard Sale. Contact Louise at LoraneSale@yahoo.com to be put on the map for free, and contact Jeri Porter at the Grange to rent a table. • And Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there! LORANE NEWS Contributed by Lil Thompson for The Sentinel • CHS seniors have left their mark on Crow and graduated. Everyone else has until June 20 before school is out. • Booster Club meets tomorrow, June 13, at Ap- plegate Elementary. A Big thanks for all that the 6-day weather forecast THURSDAY FRIDAY Transmissions Plus & 89° | 55° 80° | 51° Sunny Sunny AUTOMOTIVE SPECIALTIES PRACTICING THE ART OF TRANSMISSION REPAIR SERVICE SINCE 1991 SATURDAY SUNDAY 82° | 52° 82° | 55° Sunny Partly Cloudy MONDAY TUESDAY 84° | 55° 86° | 58° Sunny You have a benefits budget. We have a way to make it work. Call today (541) 942-0555. PayneWest.com/Cottage-Grove Sunny Manual & Automatic Transmission Repair Tune ups 30-60-90K Services Brakes, belts, hoses and cooling system services Muffl ers & Custom Exhaust All makes and models. MAINTAINING YOUR VEHICLE AFFORDABLY onnie was born into cat rescuing. Her grand- mother rescued cats, and so do her Texan un- cle, Nevadan aunts and her mother in Cottage Grove who foster, bottle-feed and re-home kittens. For nearly four generations, Bonnie’s family has transported adopted cats to new homes; for the last 15 years she’s facilitated the re-homing of 400 pure- bred cats. “I was mesmerized by my grandmother’s gentle Persians,” said Bonnie. “When I was 20, I adopted my first. Its shelter explained the dire situation that his breed faces due to bad breeding, hoarders and grooming neglect. Cats are not Ming vases to put on a shelf. They are living mammals with needs. People become enamored with their beauty but don’t under- stand the grooming workload.” Having had Persians for 50 years, I understand the grooming drawback. People think that cats are beau- tiful house jewelry but ‘forget’ to groom them. In two months of daily combing, our two cats, Whyspurr and Myster E., have shed a 2 foot-by-2 foot-by-2 foot pile of fur! Bonnie and her husband Kevin adopted Maverick, 15 pounds, and Dallas, six pounds. When Maverick accompanies his family to Dutch Bros, the employ- ees give him a dollop of whipping cream because he is so cute sitting on their vehicle’s console. He is also a friendly escape artist who wiggles under the fence and saunters into unsuspecting neighbors’ homes. Dallas lost his left leg as a toddler-kitten. Cats need a front leg to balance on while grooming with the other paw, so bathing is difficult. Maverick, a loving caregiver to Dallas, solved the problem. He holds his smaller brother down with one leg or lies on him for a thorough licking session. “Luckily, Maverick is an OCD groomer, so Dallas always looks his best,” laughs Bonnie. “He knows Maverick’s got him covered.” The couple’s two children — Kaine, two years old and Teagan, five years old — are the fourth genera- tion to love cats. “Our boy is all boy,” said Bonnie. “He is built like a linebacker and carries a truck toy in one hand, and in the other he’s holding a small white stuffy-kitty, O.G., that he takes everywhere. When he is sleeping, I watch in awe as his tiny hand gropes for O.G..” Teagan is a cat whisperer. When she was three- years-old, they were trying to catch a feral cat. She sat down and patiently talked to it for an hour until it approached her; no one else had been able to get close to it. Most trick-or-treaters are interested in the candy — but not Teagan. She focuses on petting every cat she sees and she’s announced that she “needs a bigger bed because Maverick takes up too much room on my bed.” “When I met Kevin, he was not a cat person,” Bon- nie said of her husband. “Now, he sleeps with and baby talks to them” Purr-obably because their sweet kitties are so lov- ing, devoted and appreciate being rescued. Bonnie’s Fluffy Cat Tips: After a curious Maverick locked himself in a clos- et, he was gifted with a collar and bell to track his whereabouts. Bonnie uses a fine-toothed comb for her cats’ thick undercoat and a Slicker brush for the silky fur. “If your cat is throwing up, look at their food,” said Bonnie. “Cats in the wild eat a raw diet and so do our kitties. We bought special food/water bowls to fit the cats smooshed faces. Persians are calmer than most domestic cats. They don’t tend to shred couches or curtains. Our cats play with a laser light, catnip mice, and Da Bird toys. Never de-claw a cat. It is like cut- ting off your finger to the first knuckle. Snail pellets are toxic to animals. In hot weather we put a blanket over a soft ice gel pack for them to lie on to stay cool.” It’s a cat crisis! Bonnie’s rescue group has a Per- sians, Maine Coons, Burmese, Jungle Bobs, Savan- nahs, Bengals, Ragdolls and Chausies totaling 125 from breeders/hoarders. For more information, visit https://purebredsplus.org. WE LIVE IN THE SAME TOWN WE WORK IN “WE MAKE SHIFT HAPPEN!” www.automotivespecialties.biz DUSTIN TULLAR & RUSS OWENS 541-942-8022 • COTTAGE GROVE Share your fur-avorite pet memory or adventure at angelscribe@msn.com. Visit Pet Tips ‘n’ Tales on Face- book at/www.facebook.com/PetTipsandTales Humane Society for Neuter/Spay Assistance Program. 541-942-2789
