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PUBLISHED IN THE APPLE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD AND THE BUCKLE OF THE POWER BELT OF THE GREAT NORTHWEST T HURSDAY July 23, 2015 wenatcheeworld.com Motopony at Mela: Indie band comes to town > C1 Bug bites: Insects on the menu > C5 75 CENTS 110th year, No. 274 Morning briefing Lots of sun Low: 65 High: 86 Weather, Page B5 Noisy neighbors Peter Goldmark, the state public lands commissioner, said the racket from the annual Capital Lakefair celebration over the weekend was so bad it had to potential to cause hearing loss to anyone walking in the area, The Tacoma News-Tribune reported. Last year, he complained about noisy leaf blowers on the Capitol Campus. Rivals no more Port Angeles, which lost Outside magazine’s Best Town Ever contest to Chattanooga, Tennessee, last spring, is now reaching out in sympathy to its former rival, the Peninsula Daily News reported. A giant banner of sympathy over the shooting deaths of several service people last week is being signed this week by residents before being sent to Tennessee. Gun showdown A Yakima man will fight a citation he received for carrying an assault rifle outside the federal courthouse in Spokane, the Spokesman-Review reported. Described as a gun activist, Anthony P. Bosworth is shown on a video openly carrying the rifle before being handcuffed by guards, who seized his weapons. He now will fight the misdemeanor. Take this and run In honor of the Steve Miller Band’s Aug. 5 performance in Wenatchee, you should know Miller formed his first band, The Marksmen, when he was only 12. The word pompatus appears in no legitimate dictionary but there was a 1996 movie called “The Pompatus of Love” starring Jon Cryer. 6 81324 10001 WENATCHEE — After finding four cherished possessions in the wreckage of their home destroyed on June 28 by the Sleepy Hollow Fire, the Peyton family is now on a quest to find something precious left by previous owners. Jeremy and Anna Peyton, and their daughter Elise, have never met Doug and Kris Shadle. They didn’t know until recently that the Shadles were the first to own the house at 1917 Broadway Place — the house they had just moved into, two days before the wildfire took it away. But when a neighbor pointed out a July 17 letter to the editor in The Wenatchee World, the Peytons decided to try to find two things that the Shadles had buried under the red paver stones near the basketball court some 23 years ago. As they excavate the site to rebuild, they’ll be looking for a 1992 copy of The Wenatchee World memorializing another devastating wildfire, and a letter that the Shadle’s daughter, Selena, wrote to the families who lost homes in that Castle Rock Fire. “Selena always felt others’ pain more deeply than her own and she was heartbroken for those families in 1992,” the Shadles wrote in last week’s letter. While she helped her parents build the wall with paver stones that September, she buried the newspaper and her letter as a memorial. The Shadles moved away in 1997, and now live in Florida. Selena died of a brain aneurysm in 2006. Jeremy Peyton said he called the Shadles and was waiting to hear back from them to find out if they can remember more specifically where those papers were buried, and what they were contained in. He said he would love to be able to retrieve them for the Shadles, “especially since they lost their daughter.” BY K.C. MEHAFFEY World staff writer Sleepy Hollow victims look for former owners’ time capsule Buried memories To help the Peytons, visit: youcaring.com/jeremy-and-anna- peyti-382071 World photos/Don Seabrook Jeremy Peyton searches through a layer of sand behind his destroyed home at 1917 Broadway Place Wednesday, searching for a bag containing a newspaper article and personal letter concerning the 1992 Castle Rock Fire. Working with heavy machinery driven by Carlos Sanchez of Bremmer Construction, he was not able to find the missing bag that had been buried there by previous owners. They searched the 750 square foot patio for about an hour. The Peyton family is looking for a plastic bag containing this edition of The Wenatchee World featuring the Sept. 26, 1992, Castle Rock Fire. T he flag of Cuba was unfurled in our nation’s capital as diplomatic relations finally were signed. It took a long time. Cuba’s leaders used our opposition to Fidel Castro to solidify their own position. I have been reading a new book about Fidel by his former bodyguard, Juan Reinaldo Sanchez. Its title is “The Double Life of Fidel Castro,” where Sanchez tells of Castro’s many properties, many children, many perks of a commander. Rufus and I visited that country some 15 years ago with a media group. Cuba is an interesting case. It waved the bloody flag for a long time, but can hardly be called a threat to us nowadays. Cuba: On my mind and on my bookshelf Talking it over Wilfred R. Woods Chairman emeritus, The World Please see MEMORIES, Page A5 NCW — The U.S. Army’s proposal to train combat helicopter pilots in the North Cascades includes one site on Icicle Ridge that’s partly in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness, groups opposed to the plan say. Another site is within two miles of the Pacific Crest Trail. “Every one of them is within a mile or two of a hiking trail or campground, or a remote, primitive area” that’s popular for recreation, said Gus Bekker, Wenatchee resident who represents El Sendero NCW, a backcountry ski and snowshoe club, and board member of the Alpine Lakes Protection Society. Bekker said both groups are part of the Washington Outdoor Alliance — which represents 34,000 members and numerous organizations in Washington State — which is planning to respond to the Army’s proposal with one voice. Earlier this month, the Army announced it is gathering comments until next Thursday to see what kinds of issues arise with a plan to develop seven sites on the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest to train combat pilots from Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Tacoma. The sites would allow pilots to conduct high-elevation landing and take-off maneuvers. The pilots currently travel to Colorado for high-elevation training. Officials with the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest said they are not involved in this scoping process, and will only become engaged if and when the Army asks for a special use permit. “Right now, we’ve been made aware of the scoping letter, and we’re waiting on an application,” said Sara White, the forest’s environmental program manager. She said the forest supervisor will make a final decision on the Army’s request, once the environmental process is complete. Bekker said many recreation groups — from backcountry horsemen and snowmobilers to BY K.C. MEHAFFEY World staff writer Some rec groups balk at Army copter training sites Please see COPTER, Page A5 WENATCHEE — Eight years after the city adopted a plan to guide downtown development, the city center is thriving. Now the city is exploring its options for where it goes next. The central business district plan was adopted in 2007 with a vision of a downtown that will the region’s “premier, high-amenity urban center with a creative, historic and artistic edge” that offers a range of commercial, recreational and entertainment activities. So far, the plan has helped create a pedestrian-friendly, vibrant atmosphere in an area stretching between Second Street to Kittitas Street and between Columbia Street and Chelan Avenue. It helped bring about the downtown street improvement projects last year and more street improvements BY MICHELLE MCNIEL World staff writer Downtown getting ready for next steps Please see PLANS, Page A5
