COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL | THURSDAY, JANUARY 2, 2020 | 7A
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Mayor Jeff Gowing to
a crowd of community
members and project vol-
unteers who turned out for
the April 25 event.
After more than three
years of planning and vol-
unteering, the first of 13
tiny homes has begun to
take shape as a new phase
has begun in the collabo-
rative affordable housing
project run by the Cottage
Village Coalition (CVC)
and SquareOne Villages.
SquareOne Village’s ex-
ecutive director Dan Bry-
ant emphasized the need
for projects like this.
“There are a million
Americans who lose their
housing every year, evicted
simply because they cannot
afford their rent,” he said.
“And so this is a way to ad-
dress this problem.”
Providing low-income
housing while maintain-
ing quality is a challenge
to any affordable housing
project, but those involved
in building Cottage Village
are confident they have
struck that balance.
“This is going to be high
quality. It’s going to be at-
tractive. It’s going to be
something the whole com-
munity can be proud of,”
said Bryant.
The need for affordable
housing is no secret in cit-
ies like Cottage Grove. In
the Cottage Grove Hous-
ing Needs Analysis relas-
ed in August last year, the
20-year plan indicated the
need for an average of 69
new units to be built per
year in order to meet pro-
jected demand.
Units like those planned
for Cottage Village not
only fall under the housing
analysis’s stated low-in-
come need, but also pro-
vide security for those who
are economically vulnera-
ble to a single expense-lad-
en event that may render
them without housing.
“It started really because
people were saying, ‘We’ve
got homeless people in
our community; we know
these people. What are we
going to do about that?’”
said Bruce Kelsh, chair of
CVC. “And then it evolved
into learning more about
the state of homelessness in
Lane County.”
DAMIEN SHERWOOD/COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL
Past Bohemia Mining Days queens were part of the
festival’s 60th anniversary celebration during the
Grand Miners Parade down Main Street.
Community bids
farewell to Latham
(Originally printed
June 5, 2019)
Community members
gathered Friday to bid a
final farewell to Latham
Elementary School, a sta-
ple institution of Cottage
Grove’s history and point of
reference for many of the
community’s memories.
Following a South Lane
School District board de-
cision earlier this year to
close the school, Latham
will be finishing out its
last year of operation this
month, ending 166 years
of presence in the commu-
nity.
Friday’s event was at-
tended by current and for-
mer students, staff and res-
idents who wandered the
school in an open house
before packing the school
gymnasium for a series of
presentations and speeches
to commemorate the clos-
ing.
The sheer age of the
school has ensured an en-
during imprint on a com-
DAMIEN SHERWOOD/COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL
The evening ended with Tom Davis, son of influen-
tial past Latham principal Cal Davis, ringing the
school’s iconic bell.
munity in which one’s
great-grandparents
may
well have been students at
Latham.
The school even predates
the founding of Cottage
Grove itself, which became
incorporated in 1887.
For
the
hour-long
open house, the halls and
rooms of the school were
filled with people running
their fingers along child-
hood memories, flipping
through class pictures and
greeting old friends.
Brothers Dennis and
Leslie Chapman, former
Latham students, returned
Worship
Directory
COTTAGE GROVE:
6th & Gibbs Church of Christ
195 N. 6th St. • 541-942-3822
10:00am
Christian Education:
Pre-K through 5th
www.6thandgibbs.com
Calvary Baptist Church
77873 S 6th St • 541-942-4290
Pastor: Riley Hendricks
Sunday School: 9:45am
Worship: 11:00am
The Journey: Sunday 5:00pm
Praying Thru Life: Wednesday 6:00pm
Church of Christ
420 Monroe St • 541-942-8565
Sunday Service: 10:30am
Cottage Grove Bible Church
1200 East Quincy Avenue
541-942-4771
Pastor:Bob Singer
Worship 11am
Sunday School:9:45am
AWANA age 3-8th Grade,
Wednesdays Sept-May, 6:30pm
www.cgbible.org
Cottage Grove Faith Center
33761 Row River Rd.
541-942-4851
Lead Pastor: Kevin Pruett
www.cg4.tv
Full Childrenʼs Ministry available
Services: 9:00am & 10:45am
Delight Valley
Church of Christ
33087 Saginaw Rd. East
541-942-7711 • Pastor: Bob Friend
Two Services:
9am - Classic in the Chapel
10:30am - Contemporary in the
Auditorium
First Baptist Church
301 S. 6th st • 541-942-8242
Pastor: David Chhangte
Sunday School 9:30am
Worship Service 10:30am
Youth Wednesday 6:30pm
cgfi rstbaptist.com
First Presbyterian Church
3rd and Adams St
541-942-4479
Rev.: Karen Hill
Worship: 10:00am
Sunday School: 10:00am
fpcgrove.com
Hope Fellowship
United Pentecostal Church
100 S. Gateway Blvd.
541-942-2061
Pastor: Dave Bragg
Worship: 11:00am Sunday
Bible Study: 7:00pm Wednesday
www.hopefellowshipupc.com
“FINDING HOPE IN YOUR LIFE”
St. Philip Benizi, Creswell
552 Holbrook Lane
Sunday 8:30 AM
St. Andrews Episcopal Church
1301 W. Main • 541-767-9050
Rev. Lawrence Crumb
“Church with the fl ags.”
Worship: Sunday 10:30am
All Welcome
Seventh-day Adventist Church
820 South 10th Street
541-942-5213
Pastor: Kevin Miller
Bible Study: Saturday, 9:15 am
Worship Service: Saturday, 10:40
Mid-week Service: Wednesday, 1:00
to the school for the event.
“When I started here
there were just four class-
rooms,” said Dennis, who
attended Latham from
1944 to 1952. “You went
two years in the same room
with the same teacher —
no kindergarten, no Head
Start — just boom, straight
in.”
While memories of by-
gone eras abounded, it
was often the unchanging
charm of the school that
struck many attendees Fri-
day night.
“I hate to see it go,” Den-
nis said.
Following the open
house, the gymnasium
filled with attendees to lis-
ten to reflections and cele-
brations of the legacy of a
school with a century and
a half of influence on the
lives of families in the area.
Tom Davis, son of influ-
ential past Latham princi-
pal Cal Davis, reflected on
the deep connection his
family had with the school.
“My parents, Cal and
Doris Davis, loved the
Latham and London com-
munities,” he said. “They
treasured the people and
treasured the schools.”
After students sang a fi-
nal song, Davis rang the
iconic Latham school bell
one last time.
‘Diamond Jubilee’
shines bright for BMD
(Originally printed
July 24, 2019)
Cottage Grove celebrat-
ed 60 years of Bohemia
Mining Days with its “Di-
amond Jubilee” last week
as fortuitous sunny skies
made for high turnout in
both particpants and festi-
val-goers.
“I think it went extreme-
ly well,” said festival coor-
dinator Cindy Weeldreyer,
crediting much of the suc-
cess to the all-volunteer
team. “This is the 26th
Bohemia Mining Days
celebration I have helped
produce. As festival coor-
dinator, 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 performances,
a carnival, competitions,
daily parades and historical
presentations.
Festival-goers were also
invited to participate in
Cottage Grove’s historical
feud between Slabtown and
Lemati, two historic rival
settlements which quar-
reled over ownership issues
such as the new railroad,
the post office and water
rights.
By all accounts, partici-
pation and turnout exceed-
ed previous years.
Compared to around 50
vendors last year, registra-
tion this year reached 87
and sales were gainful.
“The vendors are so hap-
py,” said Weeldreyer. “Most
of them made money hand
over fist.”
By Sunday evening, festi-
val volunteers had finished
cleaning up the parks, a feat
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Living Faith Assembly
467 S. 10th St. • 541-942-2612
Trinity Lutheran Church
Worship Services Sundays: 9a & 11a 6th & Quincy • 541-942-2373
Youth Worship Sundays: 11a (all
Pastor: James L. Markus
ages welcome)
Sunday School & Adult Education
Mondays: 5:30p (6th-12th grades) 9:15am
Sunday Worship 10:30 am
Non-Denominational
Comm. Kitchen Free Meal Tue & Thur
Church of Christ
5:00pm TLC Groups
1041 Pennoyer Ave
tlccg.com
541-942-8928
Preacher: Tony Martin
United Methodist Church
Sunday Bible Study:10:00am
334 Washington 541-942-3033
Sunday Worship:10:50am & 5:30pm New Pastor Craig Pesti- Strobel
www.pennoyeravecoc.com
Worship 10:30am
umcgrove.org
Old Time Gospel Fellowship
103 S. 5th St. • 541-942-4999
“VICTORY” Country Church
Pastor: Jim Edwards
913 S. 6th Street • 541-942-5913
Sunday Service: 10:00am
Pastor: Barbara Dockery
Join in Traditional Christian Worship Worship Service: 10:00am
Message: “WE BELIEVE IN
Our Lady of Perpetual Help MIRACLES”
and St. Philip Benizi
Catholic Churches
1025. N. 19th St.
541-942-3420
Father John J. Boyle
Holy Mass:
Saturday Vigil – 5:30 PM
Sunday – 10:30 PM
For weekday and Holy Day of
Obligation schedule see website
OLPHCG.net
Confession: 4 PM to 5 PM
Saturdays or by appointment
CRESWELL:
Creswell Presbyterian Church
75 S 4th S • 541-895-3419
Rev. Seth Wheeler
Adult Sunday School 9:15am
Sunday Worship Service 10:30 am
website www.creswellpres.org
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