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$1 Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com Weekend Edition Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017 Students Build Experience Centralia Program Prepares Youths for College, Careers / Main 3 Cold Snap Continues A Growing Flu Epidemic Fountains, Ponds Frozen Solid as Frigid Lewis County Cases Growing at a Rate Not Seen in Temperatues Remain in Region / Main 13 Years; Neighboring Counties Report Deaths / Main 6 Group Replaces Clothing for Homeless After Centralia City Staff Removes Them ACTING OUT: Citizen Group Defies Volunteers defied city officials on Friday morning because they were in violation of a night as they replaced clothing items meant city ordinance. City Law After Scarves, Hats and to help some of the most vulnerable citizens Four volunteers helped Open Arms, the Gloves Are Taken From Park Due of the community. group behind the effort, reattach the items to Violation of City Ordinance The hats, scarves and other clothing had by tying scarves around light poles and sta- been tacked on to trees in George Wash- pling bags filled with hats, mittens and other Chandra Shilley of Open Arms ties supplies along with inspirational messages By Justyna Tomtas ington Park Thursday, but employees with scarves to a light pole in George Wash- ington Park in Centralia on Friday night. [email protected] the city of Centralia removed them Friday please see HOMELESS, page Main 14 Girl, 15, Killed Crossing Interstate Employee as Subsequent Crashes Halt Freeway Living in Arizona at Center of Napavine Upheaval GRAPPLING WITH FUTURE: Community Development Director Living in Arizona Is at the Center of Unrest By Jordan Nailon [email protected] The city of Napavine is con- ducting an experiment to find out what exactly happens when an unstoppable force collides with an immovable object. The experiment reached its action point last month when the city council came to an impasse over the city operating budget for 2017. The resulting series of explosive outbursts was nearly catastrophic for the city, which narrowly avoided a first of the Pete Caster / [email protected] year shutdown and mass layoffs An emergency medical helicopter lands on the southbound lanes of Interstate 5 after a collision in the northbound lanes of Interstate 5 just south of the Mellen by means of a last-ditch special Street exit on Friday night. The multi-vehicle crash was one of a series of wrecks in a matter of minutes between mile post 81 and 82 shortly after a 15-year-old girl meeting on Dec. 27. was struck and killed attempting to cross the freeway. please see NAPAVINE, page Main 16 By The Chronicle in the backed-up traffic in the on the freeway to airlift a pa- A 15-year-old girl was struck southbound lanes. Firefight- tient in one of the crashes. and killed while attempting to ers from RFA and the Cheha- Traffic was delayed or com- Man Struck, cross Interstate 5 on foot Friday lis Fire Department extricated pletely halted in both direc- night. a male driver who was pinned tions of the Interstate. Killed by Vehicle It was one of at least three ac- in his vehicle. He was airlifted The death of the 15-year- cidents that occurred on Inter- in serious but stable condition old girl was the second fatality in Chehalis state 5 through the Twin Cities with suspected internal inju- for a pedestrian in the Twin Friday night. Two subsequent ries. Two other victims in dif- Cities Friday. A man was killed By The Chronicle crashes resulted in serious inju- ferent vehicles were treated and in a crosswalk early Friday A male pedestrian died af- ries, according to Washington transported from the scene, ac- morning on Market Boulevard ter being struck by a vehicle on State Trooper Will Finn. A Chehalis Fire Department ireighter cording to RFA. The incident in Chehalis. South Market Boulevard in Che- Finn said the 15-year-old uses lares to help direct a LifeFlight is under investigation by the Lewis County Coroner halis Friday morning, according girl was struck by an SUV and medical helicopter onto Interstate 5. Washington State Patrol Warren McLeod identified the to the Chehalis Police Depart- killed crossing the southbound The third accident between man Friday morning as Clif- ment. lanes of I-5 at milepost 81 near a semi-truck and a car oc- ford C. Seng, 82, of Chehalis. Lewis County Coroner War- Mellen Street. She was cross- til it is announced by authori- curred on northbound I-5 near Information was limited as ren McLeod identified the man ing the interstate to meet with ties after family members are milepost 81, resulting in seri- The Chronicle went to press Friday morning as Clifford C. friends, Finn said. notified. ous injuries. According to Finn, Friday night. Look for addi- Seng, 82, of Chehalis. Friends of the family identi- Riverside Fire Authority the semi driver was placed un- tional information as it be- An autopsy is scheduled for fied the girl as a Toledo resident. units responded to another col- der arrest. Washington State comes available at www.chron- Saturday morning. The Chronicle is withholding lision involving a semi-truck troopers said he was impaired. line.com and in Tuesday’s print identification of the victim un- and four other vehicles located A helicopter briefly landed edition. please see CHEHALIS, page Main 16 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Support for Steelhead Burglary and Assault Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 State Third Henderson, Betty J., 85, Follow Us on Twitter Centralia @chronline Selling Suspect Elder, Buddy Lyle, 81, Chehalis New Charged Davidson, Robert Lee “Bob,” 87, Find Us on Facebook License in Alleged Winlock www.facebook.com/ Kiss, Frank L., 67, Chehalis thecentraliachronicle Plates Centralia Ledbetter, Kristi D., 38, Toledo Focused on Frazier, Lorna L., 58, Vader Crime Schultz, Thomas E., 69, Fish / Main 6 / Main 7 Chehalis Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017 PAGE TWO News Taking Advantage of Freezing Temperatures of the Weird the vehicle. The York Daily Record re- ported police approached the woman near a boat launch Mon- day to arrest her for fleeing from them earlier. She was wanted for running a stop sign. They say she hit the gas and barreled into the Susquehanna River. They say officers tried to communicate with her, but she just ignored them and drank her beer. A fire department boat brought the woman back to shore. Dan Gleiter / PennLive.com The butter sculpture is unveiled at Pete Caster / [email protected] the 101st Pennsylvania Farm Show in After skating for about an hour on Friday evening on a frozen pond along Airport Road in Centralia, Kjell Melvie, 61, Harrisburg, Pa., Thursday, Jan. 5. The originally from Thief River Falls, Minn, but now of Centralia, takes of the ice skates that he bought for junior hockey in sculpture, made from more than 1,000 1979. See more photos on page Main 13. pounds of butter pays tribute to the history of environmental stewardship by dairy farmers. Notable Quote Toby Bonner / The Powell Tribune In this photo taken Dec. 30, 2016, Tra- Half-Ton Butter jen Collins, left, is joined by Joel Perez Sculpture Unveiled at as they ride their horses through the McDonald’s drive-thru with a pet goat “You are vandalizing city property, especially trees that haven’t been Pennsylvania Farm Show in tow in Powell, Wyo. paid for. You are putting staples into them and nails, and once you HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — break that cambium layer, you are basically risking that the tree could Signaling the 2017 Pennsylvania McDonald’s Drive-Thru Farm Show is about to open, the get infections and everything like that.” event’s annual butter sculpture Had Some Horses, has been revealed. ‘E-I-E-I ... Whoa!’ The sculpture unveiled Emil Pierson Thursday is called “A Culture POWELL, Wyo. (AP) — Two Centralia community development director Wyoming boys, a little bored over of Stewardship.” It pays tribute (see the front page for the full story) to dairy farmers, who the artists their holiday break, saddled up for say are stewards of the land, air, a trip to McDonald’s and a goat water and community. followed along: “E-I-E-I ... whoa!” About a half-ton of butter was Joel Perez, 15, and Trajen used to create the piece, which Collins, 13, rode their horses Today in History shows a landscape of farms and into town last week, not an un- common sight itself in the small Today’s Highlight in History: In 1904, the Marconi Interna- of Phnom Penh, overthrowing undulating hillsides giving way tional Marine Communication the Khmer Rouge government. city of Powell. But usually goats On Jan. 7, 1942, Japanese to forest-covered peaks. Co. of London announced that In 1989, Emperor Hirohito don’t tag along and there are no forces began besieging Ameri- Husband and wife suburban the telegraphed letters “CQD” of Japan died in Tokyo at age fast-food stops. can and Filipino troops in Bata- Philadelphia sculptor team Jim would serve as a maritime dis- 87; he was succeeded by his son, The teens said they didn’t an during World War II. (The Victor and Marie Pelton say they Crown Prince Akihito. plan to take the animal, but ap- fall of Bataan three months later tress call (it was later replaced think the piece uniquely depicts In 1999, parently it was up for an adven- was followed by the notorious with “SOS”). for the second time in the characteristics of Pennsylva- In 1927, ture, too. Death March.) commercial trans- history, an impeached Ameri- nia.