Best of Lewis County $1 Our Community Selects Its Favorite Local People and Businesses / Inside Chronline.com 2013 Best of Lewis County Midweek Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com Edition Thursday, July 25, 2013 Former Museum ‘Enlightened Contact’ Director Group Seeks Contact With Extraterrestrials at Mount Adams Owes $95,895 PROSECUTOR: Under Agreement, Debbie S. Knapp Would Be 116 Before Repaying Stolen Money to Historical Museum By Stephanie Schendel [email protected] The former director of the Lewis County Historical Mu- seum will pay $95,895 in res- titution to the museum, ac- cording to the prosecutor’s of- fice. Debbie S. Knapp has already paid Debbie S. Knapp the museum convicted of theft $20,000, and Amy Nile / [email protected] if she pays the Sophie Sykes, Rainier, Wash., a teacher at Phoenix Rising School in Yelm, meditates Sunday morning inside the vortex, which purportedly is the center of the most minimum restitution payment powerful energy on a UFO ranch near Trout Lake. Sykes traveled with a group organized by the Triad Theater in Yelm. ordered by the judge — $100 a month — she will finish pay- OUTER SPACE TRIP: space adventure, I didn’t know ing the remaining $75,895 in 63 what to expect — or if I believe please see OWES, page Main 16 Reporter Experiences in extraterrestrial contact at all. UFO Ranch With If we did spot a spacecraft, could I report it and still main- Intergalactic Travelers tain a shred of journalistic cred- Woman, TROUT LAKE — Seeing a ibility? And if we encountered spaceship can be part of a spiri- nothing, would I have a story tual journey toward enlighten- to tell? 94, Dies in ment, according to reports from a group of area travelers, who UPON LEARNING THE real-life took a trip to a UFO ranch near story of the woman responsible Chehalis the base of Mount Adams last for the trip, who now refers to weekend. herself as Lady Jayne, I knew James things would be interesting, River Fall Gilliland UFO or not. claims to have Lady Jayne is better known POLICE: Family Found enlightened as Calamity Jayne, a title she Blind Curtis Woman contact with earned by playing her guitar at extraterrestrial her knees while alternating be- at Bottom of Steep intelligence tween tears and laughter, after Embankment and beings eating magic mushrooms dur- ing a 1974 performance in Del from higher By Amy Nile By Stephanie Schendel dimensions at Mar, Calif. The local newspaper anile@ dubbed the incident a “calamity” [email protected] his ranch near chronline.com Trout Lake, featuring “Jane Doe,” after her A 94-year-old Curtis woman which purportedly is an inter- band left her on stage amid the accidentally fell off a steep river nationally known UFO and drug-induced freak out. embankment and drowned paranormal hot spot. The punk rocker wearing in the Chehalis River Tuesday Gilliland, a self-proclaimed her signature cowboy hat went morning, according to the Lew- contactee, hosted nearly 30 trav- on to reign as the queen of the Calamity Jayne, the owner of the Triad Theater in Yelm, passes out sand- is County Coroner’s Office. elers organized by Yelm’s Triad Las Vegas music scene, open- wiches to a group of travelers. last weekend The group went to a ranch near Theater at his ECETI ranch. ing Sin City’s original rock the base of Mount Adams where James Gilliland claims to have enlightened please see FALL, page Main 16 After signing up for the outer please see CONTACT, page Main 16 contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Weather Repairing a Local Icon Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 TONIGHT: Low 53 Husmann Sr., TOMORROW: High 78 Yard Bird Renovation Thomas A., Follow Us on Twitter Partly Cloudy 63, Adna @chronline see details on page Nearly Complete Zwiefelhofer, Main 2 Walter Z., / Main 4 Find Us on Facebook Weather picture 91, Winlock Moerke, Mar- www.facebook.com/ by Summer White, thecentraliachronicle Boistfort Elementary, ian F., 88, Third Grade Chehalis Stemkoski, Nancy Ann, 86, Pe Ell CH500460cz.cg Main 2 The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Thursday, July 25, 2013 COMMUNITY CALENDAR / WEATHER Community Calendar Editor’s Best Bet Today WHAT’S HAPPENING? Southwest Washington Rainy Daze Festival of Quilts, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., If you have an event you Centralia Middle School, $5, www. would like included in the rainydazequiltguild.org or ckament@ Community Calendar, please msn.com email your information to Open mic, 6:30 p.m., Matrix Coffee- [email protected]. house, Chehalis, (360) 740-0492 Include a daytime telephone Clarissa Gifford, noon-1 p.m., Jer- number where you can be emy’s Cafe, 576 W. Main St., Chehalis, (360) 748-4417 reached. For questions about Blood drive, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Cen- tralia City Hall, 1-800-red-cross or calendar items, call Doug The Chronicle, file photo Blosser at The Chronicle, (360) www.redcross.org (sponsor code: Visitors to the Chariots Car Club’s car show in 2011 weave their way around ve- 807-8238. cityofcentralia) hicles of all colors, makes, and years as they wander through downtown Chehalis. Blood drive, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Old Credit Union Buildling, Chehalis, (360) 740-2737 or www.redcross.org (sponsor Friday, July 26 Planes, Trains and Automobiles Festival Coming code: Lewis Employees) The Planes, Trains and Auto- presented on July 27 and 28. In Diesel Thursday, Mt. Rainier Scenic mobiles festival will be held Sat- addition, a train conductor in full Railroad, 12:45 and 3:30 p.m., Elbe-Min- Riverside to Host eral, (360) 492-5588, reservations (888) urday in Chehalis. uniform will visit the museum STEAM11 Pacific Mobile The festival features a packed and provide a photo opportunity. Oil and coal train forum, 7-8:30 p.m., schedule of events for all ages. A paper airplane building and historic Martin House, 729 N. Washing- Structures Tournament The Chariots Car Club will hold flying contest will also be held. ton Ave., Centralia, free The fourth annual Pacific Mo- its sixth annual car show from The Lewis County Historical Public Agencies bile Structures Golf Tournament 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in downtown Museum, 599 NW Front St., Che- will be held Friday at Riverside Chehalis. Entry fee is $20 and halis, will host an all-you-can-eat Lewis-Mason-Thurston Area Agency on Aging, Council of Governments, 2 Golf Club in Chehalis. This year’s includes free lunch at select res- breakfast from 8 to 11 a.m. of p.m., 4419 Harrison Ave. NW, Olympia, proceeds will benefit the Pacific taurants. Dash plaques will be blueberry pancakes, eggs, sau- (360) 664-3162, ext. 112 Athletic Center located in Chehalis. given to the first 125 cars, and sage, coffee and juice prepared by Libraries The tournament is a four- raffle prizes and goody bags will the Lewis County commission- person team scramble with reg- be given away. ers. Cost is $6. Dig Into Art, for all ages, all day, Young people ages 8 to 17 can Military vehicles will be at Tenino istration beginning at 9 a.m. A fly free between 10 a.m. and 4 the Veterans Memorial Museum, Brownsmead Flats’ Folk Tunes & New shotgun start will be at 10 a.m. Songs, for all ages, 11 a.m., Chehalis, 1 A reception, awards and hors p.m. as the Experimental Aircraft 100 SW Veterans Way, Chehalis. p.m., Winlock d’oeuvres will be at 3 p.m. At 4 Association Chapter 609 hosts a A ride in a 1951 M37 is available Stuffed Animal Sleepover, for chil- p.m. is a raffle and auction. Young Eagles Flight Rally at the for a $5 donation. dren, 2 p.m., Oakville The cost is $85 per player, Chehalis-Centralia Airport. A RallyCross will be held Sat- Marissa Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles, for which includes green fees, cart Concert on the Green, a ben- urday and Sunday at the Port of teens, 2 p.m, Centralia and boxed lunch. efit for Pope’s Kids Place, will Chehalis, 321 Maurin Road. It Worm Composting workshop, for be held 5-11 p.m. at the River- will include individual automo- teens and adults, 6 p.m, Salkum To register, visit www.paci- ficmobile.com. side Golf Club. Taste wine from biles racing against the clock Organizations Riverside Golf Club is locat- 5 to 8 p.m. from local wineries, around a course delineated by Bucoda Rebekah Lodge 144, 7 p.m., ed at 1451 NW Airport Road. including Heymann Whinery, cones. For more information, Bucoda Oddfellows Community Cen- Scatter Creek Winery, Birchfield visit oregonrally.com. ter, 202 S. Main, Bucoda, potluck, (360) Winery and Bateaux Cellars. En- ARTrails artists will have 273-9724 New Life Assembly to tertainment will be provided by their art on display in Chehalis Chehalis-Centralia Cribbage Club, Joe Blaser Jazz Quartet, Modern businesses from July 27 to Aug. 3. 6:30 p.m., Chehalis Moose Lodge, Hold Free 1400 Grand Ave., Centralia, (360) Day Hero, Ben Potter Band and People ages 21 and over can 485-2852 Concert, Festival Black Market Revue. Cost is $30 dance the night away at a street Lewis County Democrats, 5:30 p.m. Toledo New Life Assembly for concert, food and wine tast- dance at Market Street Pub, 523 light no-host dinner, 6:30 p.m. meet- is hosting Toledo Summerfest, ing, or $10 for concert only. N. Market Blvd., Chehalis. ing, Carpenters Hall, 417 N Pearl St.