Rotarians: Rotarians Karol Simons, David Russell, Diana Hayes, Larry Bottemiller, Dana Merryday, Karen Munsell, Chandra Van Husen, Christina Lund, Don Williams, Nadine Kelley, Tyson Woodard and Gary Manly. Philippine Delegation: Philippine delegation members Ramon Cua ”Toto” Locsin, Victor Federico ”Pip” Acepcion, Ivy Lasanas, Maricar Octaviano, Paul Yap, Joel Jaranilla, Maria[Read More…]
Cottage Grove
The kids have got it right – and have a right
It is not always that young people make the best decisions. Youth can be about indulgence, risk-taking, and just plain dumb moves that come from naïveté. But in the case of 16-year-old Greta Thunberg, a Swedish teenager and “climate crisis” activist, failure of adults to do the leading has caused[Read More…]
Grovers can get free food at numerous locations
If you live in Cottage Grove, here are the places you can go to get free food. To find a food pantry that serves you or for more information, call 541-343-2822. Seventh Day Adventist Church, 820 S. 10th St. Free produce, third Mondays, 1 p.m. Hot Meals Cottage Grove Community[Read More…]
Oregon’s 1940s hipsters:
COTTAGE GROVE — What started as a small Civilian Public Service (CPS) camp in 1945’s Waldport, Oregon, emerged into what became the Beat Movement of the early 1960s. These conscientious objectors from World War II became some of the key members to produce art and poetry that helped revolutionize the[Read More…]
Aqua Lions ride again
Connie Huston is at work on the Aqua Lions mural at the Warren H. Daugherty Aquatic Center in Cottage Grove. DANA MERRYDAY/THE CHRONICLE COTTAGE GROVE – As the Cottage Grove community waits breathlessly for the Oct. 1 reopening of the newly refurbished Warren H. Daugherty Aquatic Center, located at 1440[Read More…]
Coast Fork Willamette Watershed aims to eradicate knotweed
Reilly Newman, Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council projects coordinator, speaks on the Knotweed Eradication Project during the Science Pub at Axe & Fiddle in Cottage Grove on Aug. 27. ALIYA HALL/THE CHRONICLE COTTAGE GROVE – Representatives of the Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council (CFWWC) visited Cottage Grove last week and[Read More…]
Jane Rapier: Going beyond to keep CG litter-free
COTTAGE GROVE – If you have ever spent time driving around Cottage Grove you will no doubt have noticed two things. One: the streets and byways are remarkably litter-free; the other: a very industrious individual with a cart and those long-handled trash picker-upper tongs. Following her own schedule and routes,[Read More…]
UNPLUGGED
Ordinary Elephant’s Pete Damore and Crystal Hariu-Damore. PHOTO PROVIDED/Kim Still COTTAGE GROVE – An intimate crowd at the Cottage Events Venue was treated to an evening anything but ordinary last Thursday. Looking like they just walked out of a Dorothea Lange photograph, a husband/wife duo stood out in the simple,[Read More…]
Do it yourselfers to ‘fly-in’ to Jim Wright Field
COTTAGE GROVE – The first recorded airplane landing in Cottage Grove occurred on June 14, 1919, in a field off South 6th Street. The party included four planes, Oregon Governor Olcott et al., and one pilot who excited the several thousand spectators by performing some daring stunts and maneuvers. One[Read More…]
Speedway playing host To ISCS championship
Cottage Grove – Cottage Grove Speedway returns for a three-night event beginning Friday, Aug. 30, Saturday the 31 and Sunday Sept. 1. It will be the championship weekend for the Interstate Sprint Car Series. Kage Karts kick the weekend off for their final race 2019 before the Late Models and[Read More…]