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YAC holds town hall to
discuss mental health
By Damien Sherwood
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The Youth Advisory Committee (YAC)
held its second town hall Monday night to
discuss youth mental health issues with a
panel of nine local professionals.
“We want the youth in the room to be
aware of the resources that Cottage Grove
has to offer and identify some of the miss-
ing pieces that the Youth Advisory Coun-
cil can use as our targeted goals for the rest
of the year,” said YAC Chair MJ Raade, a
junior at Cottage Grove High School.
YAC, a youth group conducted in part-
nership with the city which serves as a lo-
cal communication link between the city
council and young people in the commu-
nity, attracted an audience of about a doz-
en youths and other interested parties to
City Hall.
Professionals in select fields took near-
ly two hours to answer questions from
youths on a variety of mental health topics
such as barriers to receiving help, social
stigmas and local resources.
The panel of nine included: Cottage
Grove Peer Court Coordinator Kathy
Kelty; Chief Administrative Officer at
PeaceHealth Cottage Grove Community
Medical Center Tim Herrmann; Suicide
Prevention Coordinator for Lane County
Public Health Roger Brubaker; communi-
ty health worker for PeaceHealth and
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DAMIEN SHERWOOD/COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL
Local professionals filled the panel and answered
youth’s questions at the YAC town hall on mental
health Monday night at City Hall.
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“Rise of the Queens,” an original musical written by Hal Holbrook, premiered Feb. 28,
putting the acting, dancing and vocal talents of local performers on display. The story
is the third in Holbrook’s fantastical series of tales in a medieval animal kingdom. The
musical will continue playing through March 6-7 at 7 p.m. and March 8 at 2 p.m.
The Grove backdrop for new mini-series
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From Buster Keaton’s “The
General” to the 1973 movie
“Emperor of the North” to the
hit classic “Animal House,”
Cottage Grove prides itself as
having a special footnote in
the annals of film history. This
year, the city will add another
title to its resume with the up-
coming mini-series “The Fair-
field Boys.”
“It’s something to get ex-
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already such a rich history of
film here,” said director Peter
Wickliffe.
Set in the backwoods of the
1850s old west, the mini-series
begins with two outlaw broth-
ers hunted by a bounty hunt-
er. Following a shootout, two
runaways stumble upon one of
the survivors of the skirmish.
In nursing the stranger back to
health, the lives of the brothers
and runaways intertwine.
Filmed entirely against
the Oregon landscape, the
mini-series will tell the tale in
five episodes total.
“It’s spurred from the ideas
of films like ‘Lonesome Dove’
and ‘Comanche Moon,’” said
Wickliffe, adding that the vi-
sual style is inspired by “The
Revenant.”
As writer, producer, direc-
tor and actor, Wickliffe has
made the project his singular
focus and is optimistic his pas-
sion for the craft will magne-
tize others to the project.
“Once you get it going, you
just have to maintain the
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Superintendent search
narrows to two candidates
By Damien Sherwood
dsherwood@cgsentinel.com
The South Lane School District (SLSD)
board of directors has announced its two
fi nalists, Andy Dey and Yvonne Curtis,
for consideration in the search for the dis-
trict’s next superintendent.
The extensive multi-state search in-
cluded a fi eld of 20 original applicants
which were reviewed by the South Lane
school board and a screening committee
of 15 citizens that included teachers,
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