COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL June 15, 2016
Cottage Grove Retrospective
CLIP N' CARRY
GARAGE SALES
A look back at Sentinel stories from 30 and 60 years ago
June 11, 1986
Class of '86 profi les: Taking it to court
“I’m looking forward to it,” senior Lynn
Cravens says of Saturday’s graduation at the
high school. “But I’m going to miss this place
a lot next fall.”
Cravens will leave Cottage Grove High
School having lettered three times in track and
twice in basketball, and with the experience of
being the queen of her senior class prom.
What she feels she’ll really leave, she says,
are a group of friends and teachers she came
to rely on daily to help her learn and enjoy
life.
“We were close,” Cravens says, referring
to her senior classmates. “New things would
always come up. It was never a problem com-
ing to school because this is where my friends
are.”
Next fall, Cravens expects to be enrolled in
the court reporting program and Lane Com-
June 6
Trespassing, N. 8th St.
A complainant that is a resident of
the area reported that she observed a
female enter the garage of a residence
that is supposed to be vacant. Offi -
cers contacted all parties in the vacant
house where four trespassers were
arrested. Two were released from the
scene and one was taken into custody
due to a warrant out for her.
Illegal Dumping, N. 8th St.
During the previous trespassing
complaint, offi cers were fl agged
down by employees who reported that
The City fi led a Notice of
Measure Election with the Lane
County Clerk on Tuesday, June
7. The measure, if passed, will
ESTATE SALE
308 Art Lot Lane, Creswell
Fri-Sat 9am-7pm
No Early Birds.
Cars, trucks, vans, wood trailer, car
dolly, lumber rack, tables, chairs, col-
lectibles, some fi shing, $100 Fenway,
yard and hand tools, planes, eagles,
bells, crystal, china, and unusual items,
rare – a little bit of everything. Rain or
shine.
GARAGE SALE
Sat. only – June 18
8am-4pm
Juniper Park, 1661 N. Pacifi c Hwy,
Space 21, Cottage Grove.
Cottage Grove Police Department 24-Hour Anonymous Tip Line: 767-0504
the transients have been camping and
illegally dumping their trash behind
the business over the past week.
Public Nudity, Carl’s Jr.
Secondhand information from
South Lane School District trans-
portation noted that a driver saw a
female nude from the waste down
walking around the parking lot with
a male subject walking a husky. Offi -
cers contacted nearby motel staff who
saw the man and said the woman was
clothed (skimpily).
CITY BEAT
Marijuana tax:
Measure No. 20-
245
SALE BY VFW AUXILIARY
3160 Hillside Drive
Thurs-Sat 9am-4pm
No early sales.
Household goods, clothes, furniture,
misc. Proceeds will help veterans.
munity College. The two-year curriculum will
prepare her for a career in legal shorthand and
stenography, which, in her situation, is a case
of a following in her mother’s footsteps.
Craven’s mother works as a court reporter
for a Eugene law fi rm, taking courtroom notes
and depositions for the fi rm’s lawyers. Lynn,
who has worked as a typist and self pro-
claimed “go-fer” for a local law fi rm, saw the
day-to-day excitement of the position about
four years ago, and has planned for her career
since.
Yet she still fi nds it hard to let go of the
past three years of work and friendship she
received at the high school.
“At fi rst, I wanted this past year to go by
fast,” Craven says. “Now I don’t want it to
end.
POLICE BLOTTER
June 7
Animal Info, S. 3rd St.
A caller advised that her dog just
threw up and there were four pills in
the vomit. The pills were not scored
and had no marks. The complainant
believes someone has tried to poison
the dog.
Domestic Disturbance, S. River
Rd.
A caller advised that his kids were
playing down by the river behind the
middle school and heard was sounded
like a “domestic violence situation,”
which sounded to be coming from by
Tree branch
From the
City's Friday pickup
Last week, the City utilities
Update
crew completed a very success-
put a three percent tax on sales
of marijuana items by recre-
ational marijuana retailers in
the City. The measure number is
20-245 and will be on the Nov.
8 ballot.
ful tree branch pick-up. A total
of 31 dump truck loads (310
yards) of limbs and branches
were collected from City streets
and transported to the City
Shop property. The collection
occurred on May 23, 25 and
31. The City said the limb and
branch pickup went much quick-
er this year because the crew did
not perform on-site chipping of
the woody debris. All limbs
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the trestle. A second caller advised
police that a group of kids came to her
house crying and screaming that their
dad and sister went to investigate the
sounds of a domestic situation and
then they heard a gun shot and the fa-
ther has not yet come back.
June 8
Child Abuse/Neglect, Row River
Rd.
A complainant advised police that
she saw a female punch her child who
looked approximately one year old
while the child was in a car seat in a
silver Dodge Caravan.
GARAGE SALE
2114 Wilson Ave.
Sat. only 8am-4pm
Compound mitre saw, television
stand, clothes, toys, books, goodies.
MULTI FAMILY YARD SALE
78911 Thornton Lane
Sat. only 8am-5pm
A little of everything!
HUGE 2 FAMILY YARD SALE
Sat-Sun 9am-3pm
Goddard Lane – follow signs
Antiques, household items, horse
tack, sporting goods. Lots of other
items. Cash only.
and branches were stock-piled
at the City Shop property, and
all of this woody material is
scheduled to be chipped some-
time during late June. Several
private parties also transported
limbs and branches to the Public
Works yard for disposal. Public
Works allocated funds in the
FY 15-16 budget to rent a large
commercial tub grinder to chip
all of the woody debris that has
accumulated at the shop. Funds
have also been allocated, for
this same purpose, in the FY
16-17 budget. The wood chips
are used around plants in the
City parks and to cover unpaved
walking paths. Chips are also
made available to the Coast
Fork Willamette Watershed
Council for various riparian area
improvement projects. There
were 64.5 labor and equipment
hours committed to this effort at
a total cost of $4,166. The last
time the tub grinder was used,
the cost to the City was an ad-
ditional $3,539.
of his real estate back.
And shortly afterward, au-
thorities fi nally fi gured out who
the strange couple were. They
were Marshall Applewhite and
Bonnie Nettles, the founders
and leaders of a vaguely New
Age movement called “Human
Individual Metamorphosis,” or
HIM.
For all the mysterious over-
tones of Lovecraftian Cosmi-
cism that the Waldport meet-
ing had developed in the public
imagination, the reality of HIM
was turning out to be less sinis-
ter. Applewhite and Nettles were
leading a group that essentially
followed Gnostic Christian doc-
trine, fi ltered through a belief in
UFOs and heavily infl uenced by
Star Trek. They believed Heav-
en was an actual planet (like
Yuggoth in Lovecraft’s classic
“The Whisperer in Darkness);
that Jesus was a resident there,
and that when he had come to
Earth 2,000 years ago he had
found Earth’s population not
yet ready to “level up”; and that
Library bids fare-
well and good luck
to Angela Arena
The Cottage Grove Public
Library hosted a farewell re-
ception for departing Librarian
Angela Arena this week. Staff,
co-workers, patrons, kid camp-
ers, and friends all shared pizza
and cake and bid Angela good
luck in her new position as Teen
Librarian with the Tillamook
County Library System. The
Cottage Grove Librarian posi-
tion is now open for applications
and will close on Friday, June
24. Applications are already
arriving from across the county
for this library position.
O FFBEAT
Continued from page 4A
Two had prophesied that they
were “marked for death” and
would soon be “returning to the
Next Level” — that they would
die after delivering their mes-
sage, as had John the Baptist
and Jesus Christ before them.
People started wondering if this
all might be leading up to some
sort of brainwashing-fueled rit-
ual mass suicide. (Keep in mind
that this was several years be-
fore the notorious Jonestown in-
cident, so the “creepy cult com-
mitting mass suicide” narrative
was a considerably bigger leap
for people to make in 1976 than
it is for us today.)
But then, a few weeks later,
the fi rst of the vanished “apos-
tles” reappeared and began the
long and arduous task of putting
his life back together. More ap-
peared soon after, including Ru-
bin, who managed to get some
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weather forecast
THURSDAY June 16
FRIDAY June 17
46° | 65°
47° | 70°
Poss. Showers
Partly Cloudy
SATURDAY June 18
SUNDAY June 19
49° | 76°
49° | 78°
Sunny
Sunny
MONDAY June 20
TUESDAY June 21
52° | 78°
53° | 81°
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the UFOs were the conveyance
that would take them when they
did. Evolving to the “next level
above human” would leave them
capable of leaving their bodies
(which they sometimes actually
called “vehicles”) and traveling
through interstellar space in the
company of the “next-level” be-
ings in the UFOs.
Of the 20 Oregonians who had
left, 18 dropped out of the HIM
movement and reprised their
interrupted lives. The other two
disappeared entirely — most
likely having established them-
selves elsewhere, unable to face
the humiliation of coming back.
And residents of Waldport got
back to their normal lives.
In 1985, Nettles died. Apple-
white carried on without her,
claiming she had left her Earth-
ly “vehicle” to move to Planet
Heaven in a UFO. He later re-
named his cult Heaven’s Gate.
The end came in 1996, when
the comet Hale-Bopp fl ew by
the Earth. Convinced that a UFO
lurked just behind the comet,
waiting to take the Heaven’s
Gate members away to Planet
Heaven, Applewhite and 38 of
his 39 followers rented a man-
sion near San Diego, dressed in
matching Nike running shoes
and black shirts with “Heaven’s
Gate Away Team” arm patches,
and “liberated” themselves from
their Earthly “vehicles” via an
overdose of barbiturates mixed
with vodka.
(Sources: Portland Orego-
nian, 5-9 Oct 1975; Wright,
Mic. “The Strange Online Af-
terlife of a 20th Century Suicide
Cult,” thenextweb.com; “Heav-
en’s Gate Timeline,” watchman.
org; Zeller, Benjamin. Heaven’s
Gate: America’s UFO Religion.
New York: NYU Press, 2014)
Finn J.D. John teaches at
Oregon State University and
writes about odd tidbits of Or-
egon history. For details, see
http://fi nnjohn.com. To contact
him or suggest a topic: fi nn2@
offbeatoregon.com or 541-357-
2222.