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WEDNESDAY EDITION | JULY 10, 2019 | $1.00 CGSENTINEL.COM 3 Est. 1889 S entinel C ottage G rove VOL. 131, NO. 27 S ERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF C OTTAGE G ROVE , D ORENA , D RAIN , E LKTON , L ORANE AND Y ONCALLA Your Local News Delivered Your Way: In Print. Online. On the Go! PERSONAL | BUSINESS BENEFIT PLANNING | SURETY Skill center could offer ‘Rock Solid’ opportunities By Damien Sherwood dsherwood@cgsentinel.com (541) 942-0555 PayneWest.com /Cottage-Grove WEATHER Al Gaines wants to get young people off the streets and into the work force. “I’ve had this vision for a while,” he said. Using Cottage Grove as a base, Gaines hopes to establish the Solid Rock Skill Center, a facility which will equip troubled youth in Lane Mostly cloudy with a high of 78 and a low tonight of 60. Full forecast on A5 County with trade skills and set them on a path for success. Cottage Grove isn’t ground zero for the project, however. Gaines made his first attempt when he was living in Springfield, hoping to make an impact on the ongoing problem of homelessness in the area. “There are 1,500 kids just in Eu- gene that are homeless,” he said. “And they’re just surviving day to day.” A count of the homeless in Lane County this January tallied a rise of 32 percent from the previous year, according to Lane County Human Services. Providing young people with skills, Gaines felt, could redirect their trajectory off the streets. “If these kids wanted to get off the street and learn a trade, they could get on with their lives,” he said. The project began when Gaines was contacted by the city managers of Eugene and Springfield to work on solutions to the homeless issue. As a journeyman welder/fabrica- tor, design engineer and having experience in process control sys- tems, Gaines was hopeful his own skills could be passed on to See SKILLS 7A ‘Freedom on the Fourth’ COMMUNITY Public Piano provides ‘keys’ to city A3 SPORTS — B ECEC offers more than just butterflies B1 • RECORDS Obituaries Police Logs Births A2 • LORANE NEWS A5 • CLASSIFIEDS Listings and public notices B6-B7 FOLLOW US FOR THE LATEST NEWS : /CGS ENTINEL @CGS ENTINEL CGS ENTINEL . COM PHOTOS BY DAMIEN SHERWOOD/COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL R esidents of Cottage Gove, Yoncalla and London took time to celebrate the nation’s Independence Day last Thursday on July Fourth with parades, fire- works and special events. (see more photos on page 8A and 9A) Row River clean-up yields hundreds of pounds of trash By Sophia Edelblute sedelblute@cgsentinel.com 541- 942-3325 ph • 541-942-3328 fax P.O. Box 35, Cottage Grove, OR 97424 Volunteers hauled more than 500 pounds of garbage from the Row and Coast Fork Willamette Rivers during this year’s Water Ouzel Clean-Up Float, which was held by the Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council. The float, which took place June 29, includ- ed eight volunteers who brought their own boats and supplies to help out during the more than seven-hour clean-up project. In past years, there has been a larger turnout of volunteers. But the original date of the clean- up had to be pushed back about a month due to storm damage along part of the river. While the number of volunteers declined, the amount of garbage in the river increased. According to Amanda See ROW 7A CG Airport to receive funding for security improvements By Damien Sherwood dsherwood@cgsentinel.com Security enhancements are coming to the Cottage Grove State Airport as $120,000 in Airport Improvement Grants have been announced through Rep. Peter DeFazio’s office. “It’s imperative that we con- tinue to invest in Oregon’s rural airports in order to keep local economies moving,” DeFazio announced in a press release July 2. “I will continue to push for funds like these to keep air travel in our communities safe and efficient.” The funds will go toward the installation of fencing on the airport’s western perimeter, a length of land with no discern- able division between proper- ties stretching from Taylor’s See FUNDS 6A CASCADE GARDEN EQUIPMENT, LLC –Since 1959– Sales & Service Open Mon – Fri 8 – 5 • Sat 8 – 3 Pickup & Delivery Available 1035 Conger St. #3 Eugene, OR 97402 Assisted Living & Memory Care 541.344.6992 1425 Daugherty Ave, CG 541-942-0054 cascadegardenequip.com Join us for a tour Call Us About Your Riding Mower
