WEDNESDAY EDITION | JULY 24, 2019 | $1.00 CGSENTINEL.COM 3 S entinel C ottage G rove Est. 1889 VOL. 131, NO. 29 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 ‘Diamond Jubilee’ shines bright for BMD By Damien Sherwood dsherwood@cgsentinel.com (541) 942-0555 C PayneWest.com /Cottage-Grove WEATHER Sunny with a high of 84 and a low tonight of 56. Full forecast on A5 COMMUNITY PHOTOS BY DAMIEN SHERWOOD, ZACH SILVA, SOPHIA EDELBLUTE, NICK SNYDER/COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL ottage Grove celebrated 60 years of Bohemia Mining Days with its “Diamond Jubilee” last week as fortuitous sunny skies made for high turnout in both particpants and festival-goers. “I think it went extremely well,” said festival coordinator Cindy Weeldreyer, crediting much of the success to the all-volunteer team. “This is the 26th Bohemia Mining Days celebration I have helped produce. As festival co- ordinator, I had the largest volunteer production team I’ve ever worked with.” The three-day event featured a wide variety of family-friendly attractions, often drawing on the city’s heritage, and included 13 Main Stage perfor- mances, a carnival, competitions, daily parades and historical presentations. In keeping with the theme “Dia- monds in the Rough,” the Bohemia Past Bohemia Mining Days queens were part of the festival’s 60th anniversary celebration during the Grand Miners Parade held on Saturday down Main Street in Cottage Grove. Art Walk brings local arts, culture this Friday A3 Canine contest makes comeback Sights, sounds of Civil War See BMD 10A Past parade back in ‘Bloom’ SPORTS — B Pool prepares for upcoming opening B1 • RECORDS Obituaries Death Notices LCSO news A2 • LORANE NEWS A5 Visitors to the festival got a chance to see a Civil War camp reenactment. The BMD’s Ugly Dog Contest returned after a 30-year hiatus. By Sophia Edelblute By Zach Silva Cottage Grove Sentinel Intern zsilva@cgsentinel.com Listings and public notices B6-B7 See CIVIL 7A By Damien Sherwood FOLLOW US FOR THE /CGS ENTINEL @CGS ENTINEL N ineteen ladies sashayed down Main Street Cottage Grove in old-fashioned underwear on Thursday, July 18, as a fun way to celebrate the women of the town — both past and present. The Bloomers Parade was the first parade of Bohemia Mining Days 2019. In the past, the parade represented the suffragettes and the women’s voting movement. And while that is still prominent, this year’s parade cel- ebrated something else as well. “We wanted to honor the pioneer See CANINE 8A See BLOOM 9A Sears Road project prepares for community input dsherwood@cgsentinel.com LATEST NEWS : L I • CLASSIFIEDS By Sophia Edelblute Cottage Grove Sentinel Intern inda Sexton wanted to be perfectly clear on one thing: there is no such thing as an ugly dog. “I love all dogs,” said Sexton, the organiz- er of the Bohemia Mining Days Ugly Dog Contest. “They are all sweet. But somebody had to win.” After a 30-plus-year hiatus from BMD, the once popular Ugly Dog Contest was back in action at Coiner Park on Saturday afternoon. With nine doggos participating in four categories — ugly dog, owner/dog t wasn’t uncommon to hear the sound of cannon fire echo across Trailhead Park in Cottage Grove over the weekend. As part of the 60th Annual Bohemia Min- ing Days, a Civil War reenactment group set up camp to give people a glimpse of the past. Members of the 1st Oregon Volun- teer Cavalry and 2nd U.S. Artillery were dressed in period-accurate clothing and uniforms and set up four tents in Trail- head Park which included: beds, tables, Bloomers Parade grand marshals wave to the crowd while strolling Main Street. Following months of resched- uling, a Sears Road Safety Project public meeting is set to take place July 29 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Cot- tage Grove Community Center. The meeting will address a pro- posed tree-cutting and road-wid- ening project on a stretch of Sears Road from Molitor Ranch Road southward to Row River Road. The project was initiated by a $150,000 Oregon Department of Transportation grant to improve safety and remove fixed objects along a Lane County road; Sears Road was chosen based on crash history and a cost-benefit analysis. However, at a Lane County Board of Commissioners meeting on Feb. 12, residents of the rural road testified in opposition to the plan, convincing commissioners to vote to delay the project until See ROAD 6A CGS ENTINEL . COM nsnyder@cgsentinel.com The Cottage Grove Sentinel was the recipient of five awards, in- cluding one first-place finish, at last week’s Oregon Newspaper D I N LICENSED N I SURE Test Water Quality And Water Flow Rate D ON E D Install, Service, and Replace Pumps and Water Filtration Systems Publishers Association’s (ONPA) Better Newspaper Contest. The re- sults were revealed Thursday eve- ning at the organization’s annual summer convention at the Mt. Hood Oregon Resort in Clacka- mas County. 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