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River Road 541-942-4664 develop their own growth with assistance,” said Buck- wald. Though plenty of work will remain to be done when Camp Alma opens its doors, Buckwald esti- mates they are set to have core facilities up and run- ning in about two months’ time for the initial entry of five veterans. “We’re really close,” Buckwald said. “We need a dormitory, we need a kitchen and we need a laundry room. And we’re pretty close to each one of those.” The first five residents of the camp will be carefully picked. “We want to be able to build the community off them,” said Buckwald. The nonprofit is looking particularly for homeless veterans in Lane County who will commit to a tiny housing program which will see the construction 10 tiny homes over 12 months. As the operation ma- tures, plans are to increase the resident occupancy to 50. The 105-acre plot of land features a complex consisting of dormitories, a kitchen and dining area, a lounge, a library and laun- dry facilities amid a serene, pastoral setting. The camp will offer skills in gardening, food preparation, food pres- ervation, construction, maintenance, basic finan- cial management and job interviewing. In setting veterans up for post-camp reintegration, Veterans Legacy plans to help with preparation for employment, job training, forming business plans and planning higher education. DAMIEN SHERWOOD/COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL A chicken coop constructed from an old flatbed houses 14 chickens at Camp Alma, providing a degree of self-sufficiency the nonprofit is aiming to make thematic to the therapeutic camp. began operating in 1990 them, Buckwald found that “This place gives you under the auspices of the they would often put in 10 time to think. And even Lane County Sheriff ’s Of- or 12 hours a day. when we had 100 inmates fice and, besides a two- “Not because I made out here … we didn’t have year shutdown from 1995 them, but because they a lot of graffiti or vandal- to 1997, the camp provid- took that ownership,” he ism because these guys ed a rural work setting for said. built everything out here,” county inmates until 2008. At its peak occupancy, he said. “They painted the Buckwald, originally the Forest Work Camp was buildings. They poured the from Mapleton, returned to a 100-inmate operation concrete. They grew the Lane County in 1988 from filled with inmates whose flowers and the vegetables. a stint with the Air Force crimes were relatively mi- So there’s a lot of owner- and was hard-pressed to nor. ship.” find a meaningful direc- “It was a lot of the small- That ownership extend- tion in his life. After work- er stuff,” said Buckwald. ed to individuals’ lives as ing his way through some “It was driving without a well. basic labor jobs, Buckwald license, DUIIs, probation “It was an unbelievable found employment with violations, thefts, forgeries opportunity because guys the sheriff ’s office, working — that type of stuff.” were coming out here in corrections. Conceptually, in ap- and they were learning In 1991, Buckwald came proaching the issues of life skills,” said Buckwald. to Camp Alma, which was the men remanded at the “They were learning work known as the Sheriff ’s Of- camp, Buckwald believed ethics.” fice Forest Work Camp at strongly in giving second A downturn in the econ- the time. He soon learned chances and providing omy changed all that. The that inmates coming pathways to error-correct, recession of 2008 caused through the camp had tal- positioning people so that deep cuts in the budget for ents and skills. they might right them- the sheriff ’s office. While “Going through the files selves. parts of the main jail were out here, I found out all my “I truly believe that some being closed and deputies guys had been convicted of people don’t get arrested, were laid off, the camp growing marijuana,” Buck- they get rescued,” he said. simply couldn’t justify op- wald said. “So I made them “But not everybody who erations and closed that my gardeners.” comes to jail needs to stay same year. From work camp to In assigning inmates to in jail, either.” Shortly after, it was given veteran housing work he thought would fit The camp was known to back to the county. The work camp first provide community bene- It would be nine years fits as well. For the White- before the camp saw care, aker Free Community maintenance or interest in Thanksgiving Day Dinner, bringing it back to life. an annual neighborhood Enter Veterans Legacy. feed in Eugene for those “We had a vision of what Accounting • Payroll in need, inmates provided this place could be,” Buck- desserts. wald said. “If we did so Personal & Business Income Tax “These guys probably many positive things with 1623 S. 6th Street, Cottage Grove made about 3,000 cook- the inmate population, I ies and they loved doing really think it’ll be tenfold Lic# B15742 it because they loved giv- with a veteran population.” ing back,” Buckwald said. In spring of 2017, the “There was nothing else nonprofit made a rental like it. 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