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Cottage Village celebrates tiny homes completion
By Damien Sherwood
dsherwood@cgsentinel.com
(541) 942-0555
WEATHER
AM clouds and PM
sun with a high of
87 and a low tonight
of 55.
Full forecast on A5
A
n energetic community turned out to cele-
brate the completion of the last four houses of
Cottage Village’s 13-home project on Tuesday.
The open house event allowed attendees to wander
through tiny homes as the crowd was treated to barbe-
que and speeches of gratitude.
“It’s just been incredible work as we seek to help house-
holds and families secure, permanent, safe, affordable,
wonderful, decent, lovely housing,” said SquareOne Ex-
ecutive Director Dan Bryant, praising the work done by
staff and volunteers. “Because every person deserves a
home.”
SquareOne’s stated goal is to create self-managed
communities of cost-effective tiny homes for people
with low incomes in need of housing.
DAMIEN SHERWOOD/CG SENTINEL
see HOME on A9
Staff, residents and stakeholders turned out for the open house event at Cottage
Village, celebrating the completion of the tiny homes with a ribbon cutting.
ARTS & CULTURE
Cooling off the community
City adopts
2021-22 budget
By Damien Sherwood
dsherwood
@cgsentinel.com
The Cottage Grove City
Council unanimously ap-
proved the city’s 2021-22
budget on June 28, just in
time for its June 30 dead-
line.
Only Councilor Jon Stin-
nett was absent from the
meeting.
Monday’s resolution to
adopt the budget contained
changes that had been pro-
posed by staff and request-
ed by the public since the
proposed budget was ap-
proved with changes by the
Budget Committee in May.
The changes increased the
budget from the approved
amount by $335,470, bring-
ing the total to $40,320,743
for the 2021-22 fiscal year.
The adopted budget re-
stores nearly all city po-
sitions which were laid
off during the COVID-19
lockdown last year and
adds some positions, such
as an assistant superinten-
Music and dance
beat the heat
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SPORTS
DAMIEN SHERWOOD/CG SENTINEL
Boys’ and girls’ BB
season wraps up
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Official releases
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• LORANE NEWS
Though still under construc-
tion, the Cottage Grove
Community Center opened
over the weekend as a cooling
center, providing the public
with respite from the heat. A
total of 32 people took advan-
tage of the air conditioning
and refreshments over two
days which saw temperatures
soar above 100 degrees. The
majority of drop-ins were peo-
ple without shelter, said
Community Coordinator Teresa
Cowan, but those without air
conditioning in their homes
made use of the center as well.
dent at the Middlefield Golf
Course.
Changes to the general
fund included an increase
of franchise fees in the
amount of $45,500 while
grant revenues increased by
$162,210.
The general fund in-
creased a total of $207,710
overall since its approval by
the Budget Committee.
In the Development
Department,
personnel
changes were proposed in
the amount of $12,505 with
the elimination of the assis-
tant city planner position
and the addition of a city
planner position.
Also within the Devel-
opment Department, a line
item was added which will
see the city partner with
Oregon RAIN in at least a
two-year entrepreneurial
development program in
the amount of $21,000 for
initial-year funding.
Oregon RAIN is a non-
profit which partners with
see BUDGET on A10
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Oregon ‘100 percent open for business’
Governor signs order to lift all remaining COVID-19 restrictions
issued under emergency statutes
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By Chantelle Meyer
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P.O. Box 35, Cottage Grove, OR 97424
On Friday, Oregon Gov. Kate
Brown signed an executive order
that lifts Oregon’s risk level frame-
work and all remaining COVID-19
health and safety restrictions that
have been issued under Oregon’s
emergency statutes. The order went
into effect yesterday, June 30.
“We will lift the safety protocols
we have relied on and reopen our
economy,” Brown said. “That means
no more statewide mask mandates
in most settings, no required capac-
ity limits, and no required physical
distancing. It means, effectively,
Oregon is 100 percent open for
business.”
The governor signed the recov-
ery-focused executive order as the
state neared its a 70 percent first
dose adult vaccination rate. More
than 2.3 million Oregonians have
been vaccinated, and Brown said
she was proud of the effort.
“It is because of this success that
we can move Oregon forward, and
into the next chapter of this pan-
demic. We are ready,” Brown said.
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