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COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL | may 27, 2021 | 9A EDITOR from A8 Summer Reading Program for All Ages This summer, the Cottage Grove Public Library is chal- lenging all ages to read 200,000 minutes together starting June 18th, 2021 and ending August 20th, 2021. Cottage Grove Public Library invites and encourages readers of all ages from Cottage Grove and surrounding areas to join in on the challenge. Why 200,000 minutes? If everyone in the We empower and inspire literacy in our communities and around the world. Cottage Grove area reads 20 minutes for just one day, that would be over 200,000 minutes! The library encourages all readers to try and read at least 20 minutes a day, every day. For the first time, the community will be logging their time reading using the mobile app, “Beanstack Tracker’’ or through the library’s personalized website: cottagegrove. beanstack.org. Beanstack will allow community members to join the summer reading challenge, join future reading challenges throughout the year, and compete with friends on reading leaderboards. There are account options for individuals, family, classes, and groups to make logging reading easy! Paper tracking is available if needed. Readers will log the time they read to earn badges, and badges give readers tickets to enter the grand prize draw- ings. Every week, readers who log time reading will be en- tered to win a $10 Cottage Grove Area Chamber of Com- merce gift card (good for use at many local businesses); two readers will be selected to win each week. The grand prize drawing options include $50 and $25 gift cards for The Bookmine and Kalapuya Books, as well as a $50 gift card from Cottage Grove. Proud Sponsor of the Summer Reading Program READING can take you to new heights. 541.485.1151 www.laneelectric.com 2775 Row River Rd, Cottage Grove 541-942-4415 • bradschevy.com COTTAGE GROVE PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS paper. “I’ve adopted two ti- tles — I want to be a good sense-making apparatus for our community and a good problem-solving tool,” he said. “Th e sense-making is really important and is a bit philosophical. To me, it has to do with our epistemol- ogy, has to do with how we come to knowledge and why we believe what we believe. Th at all starts with being able to make sense of things, which is to say putting them into a context that is mean- ingful, where things connect in a logical fashion. And then hopefully, that informs the development good prob- lem-solving skills, where you can apply what you’ve learned to the next problem or puzzle.” A big part of that is in ser- vice to the community, and his new community of Cot- tage Grove. It’s an important role for Th e Sentinel. “A community newspa- per is like a diary of a small town,” Sherwood said. “We’re describing both the good and the bad, and be- ing able to see it printed in its rawness, ideally free of political slant, bias, cyni- cism or snark. A community newspaper is a very unique opportunity to have intimate conversations in public.” As Hickson nears his last day, he knows the Cottage Grove Sentinel made the right decision in selecting Sherwood as its next editor. “Damien is dedicated and intuitive. He’s a deep think- er, but he’s also very obser- vant. Th ose are all really key qualities in a reporter. In the editorial part, being able to work with people with clear communication, setting specifi c standards that people understand and being able to communicate those standards and really caring about the communi- ty. I mean, you have to care about the community you’re writing about and you’re covering, and he really does. And those are all key factors in my decision to off er him that position,” he said. It is a rite of passage Sher- wood feels ready for. “All the diff erent versions of me that have existed through the years, the one that I like the most is the one that I’m becoming now, which is the person who’s committed to making sense of things and being a good problem solver,” he said. It is something Sherwood will bring into the coming years as editor of the Cottage Grove Sentinel. For more information, visit www.cgsentinel.com. The Cottage Grove Lions Club is proud to sponsor the 2021 Summer Reading page june 18th - august 20th 2021 sign up today at cottagegrove.beanstack.org or download "Beanstack Tracker" app MPH BOE ZPVS CF UJNF FOUFSFE ESBXJOHT SFBEJOH JO UP XFFLMZ GPS MPDBM FBSO BOE HJGU CBEHFT HSBOE Aut o CONVENIENCE OF AUTO PAY! 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