COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL | WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 2019 | 5A
Pet Tips
‘n’ Tales
Jim Gilroy named Grand Marshal for BMD
By Mary Ellen
“Angel Scribe”
Meet Lenny ‘Banana’
Lenny Banana is nuts about his human family. Meet
his sister’s Juliette and Fanny, mom Sophie and the
other guy in the house, Marc. (Photo by Mary Ellen)
COURTESY PHOTO
From left: Board President Cathy Simmons, Festival Coordinator Cindy Weeldreyer, Board
Members Dave Johnson, Wanda Mosegard, Jimmy Schaper, and Banner Bank Branch Man-
ager Jim Gilroy (second from right), who will be this year’s Grand Marshal.
Costumed members of the
Bohemia Mining Days Board
and its Festival Coordinator
recently dropped in and sur-
prised Banner Bank’s Cottage
Grove Branch Manager Jim
Gilroy with the announcement
he has been selected as the 2019
Grand Marshal of the festival’s
Grand Miners Parade on Satur-
day, July 20.
BMD Board President Cathy
Simmons said the board put a
call for nominations on local
social media sites requesting
recommendations for individ-
uals to serve as the 60th Grand
Marshal and Gilroy was nomi-
nated.
“It was an easy choice for us,”
Simmons said. “Jim was a great
mayor and he is a longtime
community volunteer and wor-
thy of this honor.”
24th annual Jaw Harp Festival begins tomorrow
The 24th annual North
American Jaw Harp Festi-
val will take place Thurs-
day, June 27 through Sun-
day, June 30, in Cottage
Grove. There will be live
performances, workshops,
raffl es, a band scramble
and more.
The festival will be held
at the Opal Center for Arts
and Education, 513 E.
Main St., with a special
meet-and-greet at the Axe
& Fiddle, 657 E. Main St.,
on Thursday night, June
27.
Camping is available
at Schwarz Campground,
34909 Shoreview Dr.
For more information,
contact Porky Miller at
porky.najh@gmail.com
June 20, 66 community
members and 10 offi-
cials from Lane County
were in attendance for
the Territorial Highway
Reconstruction meet-
ing at Lorane Grange. A
wealth of information
was shared. The project
should begin next sum-
mer on Stoney Point and
will be done in four stag-
es culminating in 2024.
The new highway will
have 11-foot-wide lanes
and 6-foot-wide shoul-
ders, plus other chang-
es. Subsequent meetings
will be held, hopefully
at the Grange, to share
plans. A big thank you to
everyone who came.
• July is around the
corner and that means
the 16th Annual Crow
Car Show on is just
around the corner on
July 13. Already, numer-
ous cars are pre-regis-
tered. Volunteers are still
needed. Call Marissa at
541-517-6608 to register
your car or to volunteer.
Aside from all the fabu-
lous vehicles, there will
be a host of other ac-
tivities, including a free
pancake breakfast and a
Kid Zone. It’s a great day
of activities for the whole
family and the biggest
Booster Club fundraiser
for our CAL School Dis-
trict.
• Lorane Community
Association is once again
promoting the Commu-
nity-wide Garage/Yard
Sale for Aug. 3. It will be
free to put your places on
the map. To rent a table,
call Contact Jeri Porter at
the Grange at 542-952-
2448. Plan ahead and
start your summer clean-
ing.
• If you have plans for
the week of July 4th, be
safe, careful and enjoy.
We live in a wonderful
country — be proud.
LORANE NEWS
Contributed by
Lil Thompson
for The Sentinel
• School is officially out
for summer. I was asked
to mention that everyone
please slow down when
going through Lorane.
It is posted 35 mph, but
many people are driving
much faster than that;
kids and others may be
crossing the road or on
bicycles, so please ob-
serve the speed limit.
•
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S
ophie and her husband, Marc, admit, “Our two-
year-old Golden Retriever, Lenny, completes our
family. We even refer to our daughters, Juliette and
Fanny, as ‘Lenny’s sisters.’”
The family is bilingual and so is Lenny. He responds
to their commands in both French and English; but his
best responses are reserved for their friend Bob, aka the
dog park’s treat man. Lenny will do anything for Bob’s
treats. Another reason he has a thing for Bob is because
he always has pockets full of tennis balls and this dog
loves fetching balls; after all, he is a Golden Retriever.
Everyone in the family loves Lenny, and he loves them
unconditionally from Monday to Friday. Then, when his
“older sister” Juliette arrives home on weekends from
university, he treats her like the top dog. He follows her
everywhere and snuggles with her wherever she sits.
When she is away and the family mentions Juliette’s
name, he runs to the front door hoping she’s arriving.
His devotion and love for his family melts hearts.
Lenny was named after the rock and roll legend, Len-
ny Kravitz. But apparently their neighbors think that
his middle name is “banana.” He adores bananas and
does anything for a piece of one. When he refuses to
come in from their backyard, they call, “Lennyyyy. Ba-
nanaaaaaa!” Their prompting works every time and he
trots right in the door.
“At the beach when Lenny was four months old, he
was chasing his doggie friends as they ran into the wa-
ter,” said Sophie. “Splash! It was his first swimming les-
son. Bob and I could not believe it as we watched the
puppy swim back to shore all excited with a ‘WTH just
happened?’ look on his face. Lenny was soaking wet, he’d
survived a surprise first swim, and Bob and I were hys-
terical with laughter.”
As much as Lenny loves swimming, he oddly does not
like rain. He was born in the summer, so when the au-
tumn rains arrived, “He was like ‘What?! Go away!’” said
Sophie. “He hates the rain so much, that we bought him
a raincoat and he launched a trend amongst his doggy
friends. He was so cute and such a great model that total
strangers stopped us and asked about his amazing coat.”
Then when it snowed, their “flakey dog” barked at it
until he realized it was edible. Then everything changed.
He now loves it, thinking it is “snow good.”
Sophie works at home while her office assistant, Len-
ny, sleeps in the office (snoring and dreaming). When
he is awake, he interrupts her phone calls with constant
dog-chatter. You would think he thought the calls were
for him. For this reason, when she has an important
meeting planned, she relocates him to another room.
Apparently, he is very helpful around their home. He
licks the dishes clean, empties the office trash when
bored and helps “take out the compost.”
“He’s very good at shredding papers from my trash,”
laughs Sophie. “Who needs a shredding machine! His
help is wonderful as I work with confidential docu-
ments.”
Apparently, it is not just people that Lenny loves. He
has a crush on a neighbor’s cat. He waits for her and then
sweetly trots over so they can exchange a welcome-nose
kiss.
Lenny also has a mischievous nature. “When a dog
friend is walking our way, Lenny pretends he is submis-
sive and lays down,” said Marc. “Then, when the dog and
parent get close, our Teddy-bear-faced dog jumps up like
a monster, startling them. We have to warn them so that
they don’t have a heart attack!”
TIPS:
“Have a puppy?” asks Sophie. “Keep an eye on them,
close all doors and use baby gates. Golden Retrievers
love to eat just about anything. We keep all doors closed
because he’d go in and snack on whatever he finds.
Once, he was without supervision for two minutes, and
he managed to sneak into a bedroom and chewed off a
piece of some sweat pants. He had to go to the vet. Watch
your puppies; they are cute but they don’t always have
the best ideas.”
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