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.
Competing in Group E, for
weekly newspapers with a circu-
lation over 3,001, The Sentinel and
other newspapers from across the
state submitted articles from the
2018 calendar year to be judged by
volunteer staff from the Kentucky
Press Association.
“It’s nice when people from
somewhere else in the U.S. are
looking at our product and then
they’re giving us a rating that
See AWARDS 6A
EVERYONE DESERVES A GREAT SMILE!
D
By Nick Snyder
B
541- 942-3325 ph • 541-942-3328 fax
P.O. Box 35, Cottage Grove, OR 97424
Sentinel staff receives multiple journalism awards from ONPA
SURE
Bonded Licensed Insured
CCB# 225978
Brandon Ervin (Owner)
Tel: 541.649.8100 • For service after hours, Call (503)991-9159
For service after hours, Call (503)991-9159
Email: ervinfamilypumpervice@gmail.com
EUGENE
CRESWELL
622 E. 22nd Ave Suite C
195 Melton Rd.
541.686.1732
541.686.1732
or visit us at www.thornton-ortho.com
GIVE US A CALL TO SCHEDULE YOUR COMPLIMENTARY CONSULTATION TODAY!