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County lays out plans for Territorial Highway
Communtity members voice hopes, concerns for project
By Damien Sherwood
Lane County Engineering Design
Program Manager Kerry Werner
addresses the audience at the
June 20 informational meeting.
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(541) 942-0555
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WEATHER
Community members gathered
at the Lorane Grange on Thurs-
day, June 20, for an informational
meeting and a chance to give feed-
back to Lane County regarding its
plans to improve Territorial High-
way.
“We made this choice quite a
while ago that we wanted to be re-
ally close to this project as we man-
age and build it so that we can be
close to you folks,” said lead engi-
neer on the project Kerry Werner
as he started the meeting.
Becky Taylor, Lane County’s se-
nior transportation planner,
See HWY 7A
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with a high of 67 and
a low tonight of 50
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COMMUNITY
Community ‘Kickin’
It with the Cops’
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Lions looking for
head football coach
B1
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Past BMD Queens (from left) Carolyn Rippy (1966-67) and the festival’s inaugural queen Amelia Blowers (1965).
Former BMD queens recall royal reign over The Grove
By Cindy Wheeldryer
Special to The Sentinel
A
s the Bohemia Mining
Days festival celebrates its
60th “Diamond Jubilee”
Anniversary this year, organizers
have rummaged through mem-
orabilia stashed away in files and
scrapbooks looking for nuggets
from the past to honor the signifi-
cant milestone in BMD history.
Established in 1959 as part of
the statewide celebration of Or-
egon statehood, the celebration
was held downtown on Main
Street with the carnival set up in
the parking lot on Fifth and Main
streets. The first decade of the fes-
tival was filled with new activities
and events that began to define
Cottage Grove’s largest celebration
of the year.
Introduction of the Miner’s
Breakfast on the Mountain in
1964, the excursion train up to
Culp Creek (that included staged
robberies) and the Lemati Gang’s
Old West Shows are some of those
first events. Another one was the
Queen’s Court, introduced for the
first time in 1965.
That inaugural year, eight Cot-
tage Grove High School girls vied
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SLSD addresses changes
in preparation for fall
By Zach Silva
zsilva@cgsentinel.com
541- 942-3325 ph • 541-942-3328 fax
P.O. Box 35, Cottage Grove, OR 97424
After a flurry of administra-
tion movement across the dis-
trict, positions are now being
filled at the South Lane School
District.
The departures of Cottage
Grove High School principal
Mike Ingman, assistant prin-
cipal/athletic director Gary
Roberts and SLSD assistant
superintendent Kyle Tucker
paired with principal changes
at three schools in the district
have given a feeling of change
around the district - a feeling
that SLSD director of Human
Resources Brian McCasline
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Summer Reading programs kick off
at Cottage Grove, Drain libraries
By Damien Sherwood
dsherwood@cgsentinel.com
While parents are busy finding
ways to get their youngsters out of the
house this summer, local libraries are
trying to reel them in. On June 19,
libraries in both Cottage Grove and
Drain launched kick-off parties for
their all-ages summer reading pro-
grams.
“Our goal this summer is to have
fun and to have people who don’t
already have reading habits create a
reading habit,” said Becky Arnoux,
a youth services staff member who
helps coordinate the summer reading
program at Cottage Grove Public Li-
brary.
The theme at both libraries features
See READING 10A
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