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COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL | Betty Kaiser: The Chatterbox A Smarter Way to Power Your Home. Cottage Grove getting its due REQUEST A FREE QUOTE! ACT NOW TO RECEIVE A $300 SPECIAL OFFER!* (844) 989-2328 *Off er value when purchased at retail. Solar panels sold separately. as the Covered Bridge Capital, it offers a trail studded with seven cov- ered bridges that connect the village across rolling hillside and a series of waterfalls and rivers. The Betty Kaiser delightful setting is home to plenty of great hiking ey, Grovers! We’re and bicycling spots, as Famous! Did you well as several cozy B&B know that our “quaint, charming village” of Cot- retreats.” Sounds good, doesn’t tage Grove has been dis- it? covered and is receiving Now aren’t you glad rave reviews in magazines and travel articles across you live here? So, I’m wondering: Did you the country? move here for any of the I didn’t. Not until above reasons? someone showed me an Or were you just born article in Oprah Winfrey’s here, know it’s a great “O Magazine.” In it, she place to live and stayed rates our Cottage Grove here? as #2 on her Top 10 Our C.G. adventure ‘charming’ towns to visit began in 1987. Chuck ASAP in the country. and I had no intention of Hmm. What do you moving anywhere from think? Did Oprah visit the Grove or send some- Ventura, Calif., when one to check us out? Just we first crossed over the Oregon border. wondering. We had sold our busi- Then I saw another ness and were touring travel entry from a 2019 Oregon in our Tioga RV House Beautiful maga- with a motorcycle on zine under the heading a rack in the back. We of “60 Charming Amer- both thought of our visit ican Towns You Haven’t Heard of But Should Visit as a tourist stopover on the road of life. 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Single supplement and seasonal surcharges may apply. Add-on airfare available. Offers apply to new bookings only, made by 6/30/21. Other terms & conditions may apply. Ask your Travel Consultant for details. Swap & Shop Free Appraisals I’ll Come to You! Buy – Sell – Trade 10:05 – 11am Monday – Friday BUY & SELL Gold, Silver, Scrap, Men’s Jewelry, Costume Jewelry, Pieces & Parts. Even Junk! The Jewelry Girl, LLC L ISA R USSELL (541)556-9598 25+ Years Experience 2001 Franklin #3 Eugene, Oregon 3 Items - $500 limit were camping at Crater Lake with no agenda. After a couple of weeks on the road, we needed a good meal, a shoe store for new motorcycle boots and a place to spend the night. Our AAA map said C.G. had it all. The next day, we drove into town, passed the historic Dr. Pierce Barn, then the Village Shopping Center. It housed a Hub clothing store, Tiffany’s Pharmacy and a grocery store. Sadly, all of those places are now history. We continued on to the Main Street shopping area. Downtown was bus- tling with business. There were antique stores, hardware stores, banks, gift shops, Ruth and El- sie’s Dress Shop, a jewelry store, The Bookmine, Schweitzer’s Men’s Wear, Homestead Furniture, two shoe stores owned by the Hoover family and more! At that time, Safeway was also downtown, where the Community Center is now. Across the street was a Cornet store (the local five & dime). There were no McDon- ald’s, Taco Bell, etc., but there were other places to eat, including the won- derful (but now long- gone) Copper Rooster coffee shop at the Village Green. So, we ate at a tiny café near the post office: “Tilly’s Top Hat Pies.” Oh, my! Talk about great home cooking! My husband said that tears ran down my face after just one bite of Mar- garet Tilly’s apple pie a la mode. Yum! After lunch, we went to Self-Selec- to-Shoes. There, manager Mike Thiess found us just the boots that we needed and then asked where we were spending the night. He suggested that we head out to C.G. Lake and Pine Meadows Campground. We did and that is where we fell in love with the house that we now call home. It was only later that we would discover the many other places this area is known for, including the area’s lumber and mining history. We went to Bohe- mia Mining Days, drove through the covered bridges, rode the Blue Goose Row River train, camped and enjoyed the lakes. The Grove and its peo- ple had stolen our hearts. We decided to move. As we said goodbye to our lifelong California neighbors, family and friends, I remember describing the town of Cottage Grove with words like “beautiful, quaint and charming but just a temporary stopover on the road of life.” What I didn’t know was that this place would capture our hearts. We, our moving van, cats and dogs, 2 cars and a 1941 pickup, arrived here in in a pouring rain on March 3, 1989. Our temporary stay became permanent. 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