6A | WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 2019 | COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL
Awards from A1
could lead to an award,”
said The Sentinel Gener-
al Manager Gary Manly.
“So, it’s nice to get feed-
back from somebody who
has no experience with
our paper.”
All in all, The Sentinel
collected a pair each of
second- and third-place
finishes as well as one
first-place prize.
If a bit apprehensive to
check the results, sports
and education reporter
Zach Silva said he was
thrilled upon learning the
outcome of the award cer-
emony.
“Well, [previous Senti-
nel editor] Caitlyn May
and I had been talking.
We knew this was com-
ing, we knew they were
gonna announce yester-
day. I had a feeling we’d
win at least one, that was
my hope. Like, ‘Wouldn’t
that be cool if we won one
award?’ I scrambled to my
computer … and I saw
from A1
Road
a suitable compromise
could be found.
“We’re trying to think
of things where we could
still utilize the grant mon-
ey, but maybe have a more
thoughtful process of how
we spend that money and
if the community has sup-
port for it,” said County
Commissioner Heather
Buch.
At issue for many resi-
Zach Silva
“Our whole goal was to show these kids are just like
any other kids in our community and they’ve just
had some troubles or struggles along the way.”
— Zach Silva, Cottage Grove Sentinel
five results and thought,
‘That can’t be, there must
be a mistake.’ I saw Cait-
lyn and we won two, and
I won two as well and …
it was just exciting,” said
Silva.
For their lone first-
place finish, in the Best
Educational
Coverage
category, Silva and May
were recognized for their
article “Bad Kids Part IV,”
one in a collection of arti-
cles covering the struggles
and triumphs of students
and staff at Al Kennedy
High School during the
2017-18 school year.
“We put so much time
and effort into that en-
tire series … Caitlyn and
I spent the entire year at
Kennedy. We would go
there basically a couple
times a month and talk to
students,” said Silva.
“Our whole goal of be-
ing there was to show
these kids are just like any
other kids that are in our
community and they’ve
just had some troubles or
dents is the proposed cut-
ting of 61 trees along the
stretch, which in some
cases provide privacy or
even protection from out-
of-control vehicles.
“I don’t need a car at 55
miles an hour that loses
control … come crashing
through my yard and hit-
ting one of my kids,” said
resident Jim Poetzl at the
Feb. 12 meeting.
A second phase of the
proposed project would
also widen the road with
two 11-foot travel lanes
and four-foot shoulders
on both sides, a modifica-
tion that many fear could
lead to more frequent
speeding and crashes due
to a false perception of
safety by drivers.
The July 29 public meet-
ing is set to find solutions
to these concerns.
“We hope that we get a
good crowd of interested
folks so we can come up
with a comprehensive,
community-based solu-
tion,” said Buch.
Discussions with the
grantors of the fund have
hinted at the possibility of
using the money in ways
outside the original ear-
marks.
“Perhaps there’s some
leeway there,” Buch said.
“We’ll see what the com-
munity has as ideas and
see what we could possi-
bly fit in this grant appli-
cation.”
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struggles along the way.”
The two Sentinel jour-
nalists also took home
the third-place award in
the same category. Their
story, “Guns and our
Schools,” took a look at
gun violence and safe-
ty preparedness at local
schools in the wake of the
Marjory Stoneman Doug-
las shooting in Parkland,
Flo., in February 2018.
Coming in second in
the Best Local Column
category, Silva was re-
warded for his work in
“Farewell to Hayward
Field,” a personal retro-
spective from a Eugene
native celebrating the
history of Hayward Field
while pondering the fu-
turistic new facility’s place
in the community.
To complete his haul,
Silva received another
third-place award in Best
Sports Story for “The
Long Road from Cot-
tage Grove to Corvallis,”
chronicling the life and
career of long-time Ore-
gon State Beavers broad-
caster and former Cot-
tage Grove resident Mike
Parker.
As a paper, The Sentinel
news staff was awarded
one final second-place
finish in the category
of Best Special Section
or Issue for their Cot-
tage Grove Community
Guidebook, an annual
look at the community
covering city government,
school and local organiza-
tion information.
“Our readers tell us
what a great job we’re do-
ing and maybe when we
don’t do a good job, but …
we’re back on the course
that we should be on as
a community newspaper,
so that’s the important
thing,” said Manly. “To
be getting from our read-
ers telling us ‘I like how it
looks, I like the stories I’m
reading,’ that translates
into lots of good things.
We’re going in the right
direction because our
readers are telling us so.”
Options have includ-
ed reducing the amount
of trees on the cut list
or planting trees farther
from the shoulder.
Buch, county represen-
tatives from the planning
department and residents
will be in attendance at
the meeting. The format
will give residents the op-
portunity to brainstorm
in small groups with
county officials to find
solutions.
“I really want people to
try to think outside the
box [about] what we can
do to improve their road
that provides safety, but
also aesthetics at the same
time,” said Buch.
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