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From left: Resident Pat Patterson, Mayor Jeff Gowing, Commissioner Heather Buch, owner Doug Sproul, Executive Director Tara
Blount and Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Travis Palmer celebrate Magnolia Gardens Senior Living community’s ground-
breaking on Oct. 2.
City celebrates groundbreaking at Magnolia Gardens
By Damien Sherwood
dsherwood@cgsentinel.com
A groundbreaking ceremony
was held Oct. 2 for the construc-
tion of 37 new apartments at Mag-
nolia Gardens Senior Living com-
munity.
“As we have an aging commu-
Aquatic Center
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here.”
Magnolia Gardens offers assist-
ed living, memory care and active
independent living, though the fa-
cility is often at capacity and main-
tains a long wait list.
The construction is intended to
enhance the function and accessi-
bility between the assisted living
and memory care communities as
well as provide new assisted and
memory care options. The rough-
ly $6.5 million project was made
possible by a loan from Oregon
State Credit Union and will see 20
See MAGNOLIA 6A
Historic
Preservation
Refi nement Plan
gets update
Local recycling program unique to county
By Damien Sherwood
• RECORDS
nity, the need for having more
housing to keep our people in
town when they can’t stay in their
residences that they had been in
for so long — we know there is
a great need for that,” said May-
or Jeff Gowing at the ceremony,
“and so I want to continue to see it
happening and keep our residents
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A new recycling pro-
gram in Cottage Grove
aims to massively expand
plastic recycling options
for the community and its
surrounding areas.
The Recycling Take-
Back program, run by lo-
cal nonprofit EcoGenera-
tion, accepts a wide variety
of plastics every Thursday
at the South Valley Farm-
ers Market, addressing a
notable need for plastic
recycling in the area.
“A piece of plastic is not
going to degrade in your
lifetime or mine,” said
EcoGeneration’s founder,
29-year-old David Gar-
diepy.
The group focuses on
protecting biodiversity in
the Pacific Northwest by
decreasing organic and in-
organic waste, increasing
awareness of waste impact
and educating the public
See RECYCLE 9A
By Damien Sherwood
dsherwood@cgsentinel.
com
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EcoGeneration founder David Gardiepy (right) fil-
ters through plastic recycling for a resident.
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New bonds will finance various city projects
By Damien Sherwood
dsherwood@cgsentinel.
com
541- 942-3325 ph • 541-942-3328 fax
P.O. Box 35, Cottage Grove, OR 97424
Several city projects are
set to begin after the com-
pletion of bond financing
last month.
On Sept. 25, Cottage
Grove municipal bonds
were offered to the public.
The total bond par amount
was sold at $6,765,000
with a yield (annualized
interest cost for the city) at
1.8601 percent.
The 2019-20 city bud-
get had already called
for several projects to be
financed.
Specifically,
a water treatment plant
upgrade of $1 million,
wastewater effluent infra-
structure projects at $3.2
million and wastewater
infrastructure improve-
ments of $1.4 million.
City councilors voted
unanimously Sept. 23 to
award a bid to contractor
Pacific Excavation for the
expansion of the Row Riv-
er Water Treatment Plant.
The plant’s expansion
will increase capacity by
two million gallons per
day. Currently, two exist-
ing systems of membrane
racks provide a total of
four million gallons of
water per day to the com-
munity.
“The city uses about
three to three-and-a-half
million gallons of water
per day,” said City Engi-
neer Ron Bradsby at the
council meeting. “If one
goes down, we will not
have enough racks to filter
the water, so it’s providing
redundancy in the exist-
ing system and will help
with growth.”
See BONDS 7A
Cottage Grove has up-
dated its Historic Preser-
vation Refi nement Plan,
replacing its 2014 itera-
tion as the city’s guiding
document for commu-
nity engagement, grant
writing and partnership
projects regarding histor-
ic preservation over the
next fi ve years.
The city council vot-
ed Sept. 9 to amend the
city’s
Comprehensive
Plan in order to incorpo-
rate the updated Historic
Preservation Refi nement
Plan. The 108-page doc-
ument focuses on long-
range management of
Cottage Grove’s cultural
heritage by seeking to
maintain the city’s his-
toric character.
“It’s an overall guide
for keeping preservation
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