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Take responsibility for the smooth running of our
small, dynamic newspaper office where your profes-
sionalism, initiative and office skills will be welcomed.
Your full-time role will include providing a full range of
office management duties including:
• day-to-day running of the office
• provision of administrative support to the Director
• accounts management (reconciling billing for display
& classified ads and circulation)
• production of reports (daily, weekly & monthly)
• other adhoc duties as requested.
This position will suit you if you have good interper-
sonal and presentation skills, and office management
experience. You need to be self-directed and have orga-
nizational and problem-solving skills.
Applicants must have:
• knowledge of basic accounting and computer skills
• experience with Microsoft Office Suite of products
including advanced Microsoft Word and Excel skills
• experience using database management systems
• have or be able to obtain a Notary Public
• excellent interpersonal, oral and written communica-
tion skills
• a positive disposition.
Applications outlining qualifications and demonstrating
how your experience and skills match the job require-
ments are due by May 28, 2021.
Please submit your resume and cover letter in person:
Gary Manly, General Manager
Council awarded Nguyen
with a $2,000 grant last year
to complete the project.
Nguyen was among only
five artists in Eugene and the
surrounding area to receive
the award through the Artist
Grant program.
Her project began sim-
ply as “A Portrait of Cottage
Grove.” She aimed to piece
together a mosaic of the com-
munity through portraits of
local people.
The concept was inspired
by Nguyen’s steady increase
in affection for Cottage Grove
over her 15 years in the area.
“I really like Cottage
Grove,” she said. “I’m actual-
ly surprised how much I like
Cottage Grove.”
Things didn’t begin this
way, however. Growing up in
a small New Jersey town of
10,000 people, Nguyen was at
first apprehensive of fully en-
gaging the community after
moving here.
“I kind of assumed people
would do a lot of gossiping
because I saw that before and
I was just very cautious,” she
said.
Then she noticed a tenden-
cy for people to smile as they
walked down the street or
passed her by, which she ini-
tially found to be somewhat
off-putting.
“But after a couple weeks,
I was like, ‘I think they’re
just nice,’” she laughed. “I
had also lived in big cities, so
maybe I just had a different
viewpoint.”
Since then, her relation-
ship with Cottage Grove has
blossomed.
Eight years ago, Nguy-
en established what would
become the local landmark
game store Delight down-
town and also develop an
Worship
Directory
COTTAGE GROVE:
6th & Gibbs Church of Christ
195 N. 6th St. • 541-942-3822
10:00am
Christian Education: Pre-K through 5th
Tim Baker, Senior Minister
www.6thandgibbs.com
First Presbyterian Church
3rd and Adams St
541-942-4479
Rev.: Karen Hill
Worship: 10:00am
Sunday School: 10:00am
fpcgrove.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
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”
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
St. Andrews Episcopal Church
1301 W. Main • 541-767-9050
Rev. Lawrence Crumb
“Scripture, Tradition, Reason”
Worship: Sunday 10:30am
All Welcome
Seventh-day Adventist Church
820 South 10th Street
541-942-5213
Pastor: James D. Boram
Bible Study: Saturday, 9:15 am
Worship Service: Saturday, 10:40
Mid-week Service: Wednesday, 1:00
Our Worship Directory is a weekly feature.
If your congregation would like to be a part of this directory,
contact us today!
S entinel
place right now, I think hav-
ing a different perspective on:
What does it mean for us to
live together? What does it
mean for us to be a society as
human beings? I hope maybe
that will bring some light.”
The project has been a pe-
riod of personal development
for the artist as well.
Nguyen said the work has
granted her a much deeper
look at the people she lives
alongside and made her
aware of her own preconcep-
tions about others.
“Not just superficial nice-
ties but a real embrace by ac-
quaintances, neighbors and
strangers,” she said.
The final project will in-
clude portraits from the cur-
rent project as well as others
Nguyen had previously cre-
ated.
With just a few more
paintings to finish, the book
is due to be reach the public
this fall.
Nguyen’s Kickstarter page
can be found under the title
“Garden of People, A Portrait
of Cottage Grove,” where
pre-orders will be made
available.
‘You are not alone’
By Rev. Karen Hill
Pete is survived by his
loving family: his moth-
er Jo; his sister Patti,
her husband Gary, and
their daughter Catelynn;
his brother Mike; his
brother Louie, his wife
Tina and their daughters
Neeka and Makiya.
Pete loved action
movies and westerns,
but his favorite was “The
Ten Commandments.”
He loved country and
Gospel music. He made
the church potluck
rounds – his family said,
“He never met a potluck
he didn’t like. Pineapple
upside down cake was
his favorite dessert.”
Christmas and Hal-
loween were his favorite
holidays; he loved to dis-
tribute candy and to see
the children’s costumes.
Family vacations, fish-
ing, camping and swim-
ming also brought him
great joy. As did his job
at the Bookmine. Pete
was dedicated to the
Bookmine, to Gail and
his work there.
Pete was a gentle gi-
ant. His big size some-
times scared people, but
only until they saw his
good heart – his kind-
ness.
Everything changed
for Pete at age 19 when
he was diagnosed with
schizophrenia. May is
Mental Illness Aware-
ness Month and the
theme this is year “You
are not alone.”
This theme is so fitting
for Pete’s story.
Pete was not alone in
his illness. His diagno-
sis was hard and painful
for everyone. It took a
long time for him to get
some stability – for the
medications to advance
enough to help him.
His mother was his
advocate, finding good
doctors for him, search-
ing for medications to
help him, keeping him
safe and comfortable at
home.
Pete’s family included
him and cared for him
and so did the com-
munity. Neighbors and
friends knew Pete and
looked out for him. Pete
had a place in this com-
munity, and unlike so
many other people with
serious mental illnesses,
Pete was not alone.
The love that Pete re-
ceived at home and in
the community made
all the difference in
his life. Remember the
words from the Apostle
Paul from I Corinthians:
“[Love] bears all things,
believes all things, hopes
all things, endures all
things … And now faith,
hope and love, abide
these three; and the
greatest of these is love.”
Love – real love – the
nitty gritty kind of love
made a difference in
Pete’s life. What a gift
and privilege to know
and be known by Pete –
to love and be loved by
Pete.
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C ottage G rove
stood out right off the bat
was the roughly 90 percent of
Cottage Grove listed as white
in the U.S. Census.
“So I was thought, ‘Okay,
this is not going to be really
culturally diverse,” Nguyen
said. “But after talking to one
of my first interviews, I real-
ized that … each family has
its own culture.”
She was surprised, also, to
find that many of her subjects
were first or second genera-
tion immigrants, often of Eu-
ropean descent.
From her interviews, she
incorporated a collage of
anonymous quotes into the
project.
“So in the end, the ‘Por-
trait of Cottage Grove’ is now
‘Garden of People’ because it’s
really an exploration about
society through this town,”
she said.
Nguyen is hoping that, as
experiential art, her proj-
ect can allow people to walk
away feeling more connected
to their community.
“People are having a lot
of difficulty and people are
divided,” she said. “They’re
polarized and they’re iso-
lated. At this time and this
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Trinity Lutheran Church
6th & Quincy • 541-942-2373
Pastor: James L. Markus
Sunday School & Adult Education
Living Faith Assembly
9:15am
467 S. 10th St. • 541-942-2612
Worship Services Sundays: 9a & 11a Sunday Worship 10:30 am
Comm. Kitchen Free Meal Tue & Thur
Youth Worship Sundays: 11a (all
5:00pm TLC Groups
ages welcome)
Mondays: 5:30p (6th-12th grades) tlccg.com
United Methodist Church
Non-Denominational
334 Washington 541-942-3033
Church of Christ
Worship 10am
1041 Pennoyer Ave
umcgrove.org
541-942-8928
Preacher: Tony Martin
“VICTORY” Country Church
Cottage Grove Faith Center
Sunday Bible Study:10:00am
33761 Row River Rd.
Sunday Worship:10:50am & 5:30pm 913 S. 6th Street • 541-942-5913
Pastor: Barbara Dockery
541-942-4851
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Worship Service: 10:00am
Lead Pastor: Kevin Pruett
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Our Lady of Perpetual Help and Message: “WE BELIEVE IN
MIRACLES”
Full Childrenʼs Ministry available
St. Philip Benizi
Services: 9:00am & 10:45am
Catholic Churches
CRESWELL:
1025. N. 19th St.
Creswell Presbyterian Church
Delight Valley
541-942-3420
75 S 4th S • 541-895-3419
Church of Christ
Father John J. Boyle
Rev. Seth Wheeler
33087 Saginaw Rd. East
Holy Mass:
Adult Sunday School 9:15am
541-942-7711 • Pastor: Bob Friend Saturday Vigil – 5:30 pm
Sunday Worship Service 10:30 am
Two Services:
Sunday – 10:30 am
9am - Classic in the Chapel
For weekday and Holy Day of website www.creswellpres.org
10:30am - Contemporary in the
Obligation schedule see website
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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
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afterschool program for
youngsters.
Her nexus point in the
heart of downtown opened
the door for interactions with
a variety of people.
With the town’s own char-
acter acting as inspiration,
Nguyen hoped to reproduce
the experience through her
project.
Using census data as a
guide, Nguyen incorporated
gender, age, household in-
come and employment fig-
ures to roughly represent the
town’s demographic ratios in
her subject choices.
As Nguyen met her sub-
jects in an environment of
their choosing – a park, a
workplace or even a cemetery
– she questioned them about
their family culture and expe-
riences growing up.
“I wanted to interview
people so I could get to know
them better so that I could
paint them better,” she said.
“And they shared a lot of
things about themselves that
were really intimate. I felt
kind of honored that they
would share these things with
me.”
One data point which
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