2B | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 2019 | COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL
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Trailblazers fan, the Lukes
of Oregon basketball
(Jackson and Ridnour)
hold a special place in my
heart and Marcus Mariota
is practically a holy figure
in my eyes. I even tend to
root for Beaver baseball
after a jealous UO pro-
gram swooped in to claim
some thunder in the face
of so much success up in
Corvallis.
Basketball and baseball
are my particular sports
passions. I’ve loved foot-
ball since I was young, but
my interest in the NFL
wanes with each addition-
al penalty, game stoppage,
in-game sponsorship and
TV timeout. However, it
is with that in mind that
I can’t wait to begin cov-
ering high school football;
a level where the game
is still about the game,
about stories, about peo-
ple, about community
without all the extra riff
raff that comes along with
cable television.
I come from a fami-
ly - family on both sides
- that made up for their
lack of physical gifts and
elite athletic ability by
watching sports and, well,
playing them too ... at
least until everyone else
got too big, fast or strong.
My mother and father, in
their retirement, are cur-
rently checking off boxes
on their ongoing national
MLB stadium tour. My
grandmother, in all her
blindness, listened to At-
lanta Braves games every
day on the radio, every
day until she passed away
well into her 90s. This love
of sport was all passed on
to me.
Before receiving this
opportunity in the world
of journalism, I spent
five years in education,
teaching, creating curric-
ula, guiding students and
even a year learning about
library science and man-
agement. Now, as I dive
back into the world of ed-
ucation from a completely
new angle, I see further
opportunity to use the
skills I’ve tried to hone
over the years.
For much of the last ten
years of my life, I’ve been
transient, never staying in
the same city or housing
situation for too long. I
even had a four year hiatus
from American life when
I taught English in China.
But this was never really
by design. Perhaps in the
tumult of our 21st centu-
ry world, it’s been a part
of my own self-searching,
looking desperately for
the place that adult-me
can call home.
For the past three years
in particular, I’ve slowly
been on a kind of nar-
rowing trajectory. I’ve
found myself working
my way down the ladder
in terms of population,
from a chinese mega-city
of 12 million, to Portland,
to Eugene, and now on to
Cottage Grove.
This downsizing and
change has allowed me
to experience different
lifestyles, from the cos-
mopolitan to the rural. It
has allowed me to engage
and connect with people
of all walks of life, from
Chinese farmers to Port-
land-area entrepreneurs.
Most importantly, it has
led me to realize that
this, right here in Cottage
Grove, right now, is the
place I want to be.
It is these varied life
experiences that I bring
to the table when I think
about stories. Every ex-
perience informs the next
and the same will be true
of all the new things and
people I will come to see
and meet as I embark on
covering sports and edu-
cation in the greater Cot-
tage Grove area. After a
few weeks, I already feel
welcome. I already feel
comfortable, but I have a
sneaking suspicion these
feelings will only grow
and deepen throughout
my time at the Sentinel.
And that is a testament to
the strength of the com-
munity here, a communi-
ty I’m proud to now be a
part of.
Public use restrictions for campfires now in effect
Due to increased fire
danger, public use re-
strictions went into ef-
fect across the Umpqua
National Forest this past
Saturday, Aug. 3. Dry con-
ditions have elevated the
risk of wildfire through-
out the area. These pub-
lic use restrictions do not
apply to those lands with-
in designated wilderness
boundaries.
Under public use re-
strictions, campfires may
be built in Forest Service
constructed fire rings in
designated recreation sites
only. Portable cooking
stoves using pressurized
liquid gas or propane are
permitted in all other ar-
eas. Use of generators with
an approved spark-arrest-
er screen is allowed in
designated campgrounds.
Portable heaters using
propane are also permit-
ted. People are urged to
ensure all campfires are
fully extinguished when
departing.
Smoking is allowed only
in vehicles, designated
recreation sites, in areas
clear of vegetation mea-
suring at least three feet
in diameter, or aboard wa-
tercraft on waterways.
“Human-caused fires
are 100 percent prevent-
able and public use restric-
tions are put into place to
prevent those fires,” said
Riva Duncan, Interagen-
cy Fire staff officer. “Be-
cause we are moving into
our peak fire season, the
weather is getting hot-
ter and drier, and the fire
danger indices continue to
climb we have had to add
these restrictions.”
Violation of rules on
campfires and closed ac-
cess for the Umpqua Na-
tional Forest are punish-
Fly-in from B1
Children check out some of the Stearman biplanes at Jim Wright Field.
PHOTO BY NICK SNYDER/CG SENTINEL
and having a history background just
intrigued me more with the role that
Oregon aviators had here that affected
the whole world. The more you learn,
the more you gain insight and respect
for what the pioneers in aviation here
have done.”
In talking with Talen, Kindred and
others, one learns that Oregon was the
first state in the union to have a de-
partment of aviation, even before the
Federal Aviation Administration was
founded. Oregon was also the original
home of the home-built aircraft com-
munity. Where the FAA eventually
saw the future of flight in commerce,
many local Oregon pilots during the
1930s and 1940s saw aviation as part
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emblematic of those ideals. But the
real stories were all those that could
be found beyond the physical aircraft
themselves; in the lengthy history of
each of the planes and in the limitless
aviation knowledge held by the pilots.
“When you come to the Stearman
Fly-In, what I think most people take
away from that is getting to be right out
there on the field with the pilots and
their airplanes and visiting with these
people ... So much of it is cross-gen-
erational and a lot of it is also paying
homage to the people that came before
us,” said Talen.
“We want to let people know in the
area that OAHS is open to the public
and they can come in and talk air-
planes. They don’t have to be a million-
aire, this is not a millionaire’s sport. It’s
a great way to connect in that sense
and just learn a little bit about aviation
and flying.”
The next event at OAHS is the Great
American Home Built Fly-In on Satur-
day, August 31, and will feature home-
made aircraft from around the state of
Oregon and surrounding areas.
and parcel of their right to freedom
and the indelible spirit of self-suffi-
ciency that litters the annals of U.S.
history.
“Here in Oregon, we started actually
with a different idea of what aviation
was all about. Yes, it had commercial
value but it also had value in terms of
education and learning how to build
things and how to engineer things and
aeronautics was more than just com-
merce. It was science, art and every-
thing else,” Talen
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