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South Gold Street in Centralia. with a single red light on its roof The woman reported she was man dressed as a police officer, At 7:53 p.m. on Sunday, The woman reported that stopped her vehicle and asked driving a police-model vehicle police received a report of an a white male in a police-type her to take a sobriety test. please see POLICE, page Main 14 New Fees Coming Washington Ballet Theater for County Services Brings the Dance to Pe Ell By The Chronicle Fees at the Lewis County TIS THE SEASON: ‘The department Public Health Nutcracker’ Comes to and Social Services were increased at Monday’s county West Lewis County commissioners meeting. to Acclaim From The departments of Participants, Attendees Community Development and Public Works were also By Lisa Brunette reviewed but there were For The Chronicle no increases. The changes included an increase of $25 to PE ELL — The usual $30 for services to be levied Saturday afternoon activity against permanent food service in this town of 632 is hardly facilities for licenses and $10 to surprising: sports. But on $20 for many temporary food Dec. 10, the Washington Ballet establishment applications. Theater nearly sold out of its 260 tickets for the first-ever please see FEES, page Main 14 production of the classic ballet, “The Nutcracker.” Yep, that’s almost half the town, showing up to watch kids No Raises for in special footgear, and not the kind with cleats. Commission in The audience arrived mainly in work boots and denim and 2017; Request flannel, with a few dressier touches here and there. One for General woman turned out in full camouflage gear, as if she’d just Fund Salary come in from the hunt. Girls spun around in tutus, even if Increase From they weren’t in the show. The kids only sat still in their metal Prosecutor folding chairs during the first act. After giving their own Denied interpretation of ballet during intermission, the second act By The Chronicle stage dancers had to compete Lewis County with them. commissioners said after They were in a gym, after all. Monday’s meeting that the It’s the kind of place where the county prosecutor requested scoreboard reads, “In memory a raise in 2017 but was not of our greatest fan Joe Smaciarz.” allocated additional funding And not a single person in for it. the audience seemed to mind. Since the prosecutor, “This is a very new experience Jonathan Meyer, is an elected for a lot of people,” said town official, Commissioners Edna resident Denise Brooks. “It’s Fund and Gary Stamper said something culturally different they provide his office with for the community here in Pe funds, but the prosecutor is Pete Caster / [email protected] Ell.” in charge of allocating them, Brooks was there with including providing raises. Above: Playing the role of the Snow Queen, Gillian Holgate, left, her daughter, Angela Holmes, Stamper and Fund whose daughter Addyson said they did not approve and Snow King Jaysten Barada leap through the air as they perform performed in the second act additional funds in the 2017 as a gingerbread cookie. They budget request to facilitate a scene from “The Nutcracker” on Saturday afternoon in Pe Ell. The represented three generations a raise, but Meyer could use who grew up in Pe Ell, and existing funding or rollover show, which was performed twice on Saturday, was put on by the Brooks said the family could money from 2016 for a higher trace its roots back seven salary. Ballet Theatre of Washington. Right: A ballerina adjusts her generations. Stamper said the The only place any of them requested increase from the shoe backstage prior to the start of “The Nutcracker” at Pe Ell High had ever seen ballet performed please see BUDGET, page Main 14 School on Saturday. please see BALLET, page Main 14 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater All Area Soccer Team Active Volcano Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Devanie Mount Hangartner, Hans Joe, 84, Follow Us on Twitter Rochester @chronline Kleemeyer St. Helens Aadland, Carolyn, 87, Gets MVP Shakes 120 Centralia Find Us on Facebook Nod After Times Within Aker, Daniel M., 24, www.facebook.com/ Record a Single Centralia thecentraliachronicle Season Week / Sports 1 / Main 7 Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016 PAGE TWO News Making Music at the Tractor Parade of the Weird peared agitated by firefighters but then calmed down and simply watched them work. He took a video of the rescue that involved three firefighters on the ice with axes and three more on the shore with ropes and life jackets. Dan Clark / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via AP LeBlanc said they smashed This Dec. 3, photo shows the world’s a path to the shore, but the ani- oldest known seabird, tending to an mal seemed reluctant to mount egg she laid, with her mate, at Mid- the riverbank. way Atoll, a wildlife refuge about 1,200 So they returned to scare miles northwest of Honolulu. Biologists the moose, which responded by spotted the Laysan albatross called mounting the bank before run- Wisdom at Midway Atoll National Wild- ning off. life Refuge earlier this month after she The rescue took an hour returned to the island to nest. and a half. He said it is unclear whether the moose was other- The World’s Oldest wise able to recover. Pete Caster / [email protected] Known Seabird Is The Centralia High School marching band performs during the 2016 Centralia Lighted Tractor Parade on Saturday, Dec. Expecting _ Again Sheriff: Man Uses 10 in downtown Centralia. See more photos in today’s Life section. HONOLULU (AP) — The Front-End Loader to world’s oldest known seabird is Drop Son’s Mobile Home expecting — again. Biologists spotted the Laysan PARSONSFIELD, Maine Notable Quote albatross called Wisdom at Mid- (AP) — Authorities say a Maine way Atoll National Wildlife Ref- man used a front-end loader to uge earlier this month after she repeatedly pick up and drop returned to the island to nest. his son’s mobile home during a “An investigation by Wilson Investigative Services concluded She was incubating an egg at family dispute and only stopped the same nest she uses each year when he learned his 7-year-old that the facts they discovered did not ‘support a finding of with her mate. She’s believed to grandson was inside. sexual harassment, gender based hostile work environment, be 66 years old. She’s also the The York County sheriff’s world’s oldest known breeding department says 50-year-old discrimination and/or retaliation.” bird in the wild. John Bubar was involved in a The U.S. Fish and Wildlife dispute with his 27-year-old son, Service’s project leader for the Michael, on Sunday over rent Investigation into Centralia police officer’s actions refuge, Bob Peyton, said in a payments and debris in the yard. see page Main 5 for the full story statement Friday that Wisdom The son and his family live in has been returning to Midway a mobile home on John Bubar’s for over six decades. property in Parsonsfield. An ornithologist first put an Today in History identification band on her in 1956. She’s had a few dozen chicks. In Boston, Squirrels are Today’s Highlight in History: to visit Europe while in office. President Gerald R. Ford. Midway is about 1,200 miles In 1928, George Gershwin’s In 1994, an American Eagle northwest of Honolulu. It’s part Gnawing Around the On Dec. 13, 1981, authorities “An American in Paris” had its commuter plane crashed short of the Papahanaumokuakea Ma- in Poland imposed martial law premiere at Carnegie Hall in of Raleigh-Durham Interna- rine National Monument. Christmas Trees in a crackdown on the Solidarity New York. tional Airport in North Caro- BOSTON (AP) — Vora- labor movement. (Martial law In 1937, the Chinese city of lina, killing 15 of the 20 people Canadian Firefighters cious squirrels are going nuts for formally ended in 1983.) Nanjing fell to Japanese forces; on board. Christmas lights in Boston. On this date: what followed was a massacre of In 1996, the U.N. Security The Boston Globe reports Rescue Moose In 1642, Dutch navigator Abel war prisoners, soldiers and citi- Council chose Kofi Annan the furry rodents have chewed zens. (China maintains as many (KOH’-fee AN’-nan) of Ghana Tasman sighted present-day Trapped In Ice through electrical wires for the as 300,000 people were killed; to become the world body’s sev- New Zealand. TORONTO (AP) — Canadian colorful, festive lights strung in Japan says the toll was far less.) enth secretary-general. In 1769, firefighters got out the axes to res- trees on Boston Common. Dartmouth College In 1944, during World War II, In 2003, Saddam Hussein was cue a freezing almost 500-pound City parks officials say in New Hampshire received its the light cruiser USS Nashville captured by U.S.