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Education Watch: Did Your Child’s School Flunk? / Main 7 $1 Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com Go Big or Go Home Tacoma Hosts Mat Championships This Weekend / Sports Weekend Edition Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013 109 Big Winners Years Centralia Family Wins on Old ‘Family Feud’ / Main 16 Imo Dodge, Oldest Woman in Lewis On to State County, Dies in Pe Ell/ Morton-White Pass Punches Their Ticket / Main 3 Sports One Year Later Dr. Matz Building Owner, Linda Hamilton, Reflects on Anniversary of Devastating Downtown Centralia Fire See Main 5 Brian Mittge / [email protected] Linda Hamilton has collected, counted and neatly stacked 6,000 bricks that once were part of her building that burned on Valentine’s Day 2012. She plans to use the century-old bricks for the entrance to the new building she plans for the lot at the corner of Main Street and Tower Avenue in the heart of downtown Centralia. The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Weather Deceptively Simple Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 TONIGHT: Low 34 Dodge, Imo May, Follow Us on Twitter TOMORROW: High 47 Walter 109, Pe Ell @chronline Showers Likely Wader Justice, James see details on page Main 2 Learns the “Jimmy” Martin, Find Us on Facebook 62, Elma www.facebook.com/ Weather picture by Easy Art of thecentraliachronicle Kyra Eckloff, Mossyrock Pruning Elementary, 1st Grade / Opinion: Main 9 MAKE FANTASTIC HAIR A FAMILY TRADITION. Fantastic Sams - Chehalis • 1549 NW Louisiana Avenue, 360-740-4775 Fantastic Sams - Lacey • 4660 Whitman LN #D, 360-493-1751 M-Thur 10 to 8, Fri 9 to 8 Sat 9 to 6, Sun 10 to 6 M-Thur 10 to 7, Fri 9 to 7, Sat 9 to 6, Sun 11 to 5 Adult Cut Cut & Color Kids Haircut $ $ $ 11.95 10.00 Off 8.95 CH491057w.cg Professional Haircut Professional Haircut and (1) Haircut Professional Haircut Expires 2/28/2013. No appointment necessary. Not valid with any other ofer. Expires 2/28/2013. Longer hair extra. 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Center St., Centralia, $10, tickets available at Santa Plomondon Independent Film Fes- Lucia and Sterling Bank in Centralia, tival, Morgan Arts Centre, Plomondon Book ‘n’ Brush in Chehalis or online at ev- Road, Toledo, awards ceremony 7 p.m., ergreendream.brownpapertickets.com www.morganartscentre.com, (360) 864-4ART Dancing, Country Four, 1:30-4:30 p.m., Swede Hall, Rochester, (360) “Night of the Foolish Moon,” 6 p.m., 352-2135 Tiller Art Center, Morton, $25 for dinner and play, $10 for play only Miss Lewis County scholarship fund- raiser, 8-10 a.m., Applebee’s restaurant, Pop Offs, rock music, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., Chehalis, $10 Scatter Creek Grill, Lucky Eagle Casino, (360) 273-2000, ext. 301 Chip Flatlow comedy hypnosis, 8 Monday, Feb. 18 p.m., Lucky Eagle Casino, for 21 years Jeff Christensen / The Associated Press and older, $10, or $15 without Players Bingo, Chehalis Moose Lodge, doors Club Card, tickets available at Ticket- Actress Joy Bryant, known for her role in the NBC series “Parenthood,” poses for a open at 4:30 p.m., game starts at 6:30 2010 portrait in New York. Bryant and her husband, stuntman David Pope, will be master.com or Lucky Eagle box office, p.m.; food available, (360) 736-9030 (800) 720-1788 featured guests at tonight’s gala ball to beneit Pope’s Kids Place, the medical facil- Burger Night, 5-7:30 p.m., Centralia Open house, Centralia Eagles Aerie Eagles, quarter-pound hamburgers, ity created by David Pope’s father, Dr. Isaac Pope. and Auxiliary, 2308 N. Pearl St., Centra- $1.50, other menu items, (360) 736-1146 lia, 6 p.m., $6 cover, $14 prime rib dinner, music by Chris Guenther at 8 p.m.(360) Free community dinner, 5:30-7 p.m., Pope’s Kids Place to Present 736 -1146 Centralia United Methodist Church, 506 S. Washington Ave., Centralia, 736-7311 Cajun Zydeco and swamp music, The Evening for the Children New Iberians, 8-11 p.m., Devilfish Public Libraries The Pope’s Kids Place third tress Joy Bryant, who appears on House, Chehalis, (360) 996-4682 All Timberland libraries closed Mon- annual Evening for the Children the NBC television series “Par- “The Play’s the Thing,” 7 p.m., Wick- day for Presidents’ Day. will be held 6-11 p.m. tonight in enthood.” strom Studio Theatre, Washington Hall, the Great Wolf Lodge’s Chehalis Pope’s Kids Place is a non- Centralia College, tickets $10 for adults Organizations and $8 for students and senior citizens, Ballroom. profit organization that provides (360) 736-9391, ext. 525 Centralia Lions Club, 6:30 p.m., The evening will include a respite care for children with spe- “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” 8 p.m., Denny’s Restaurant, Centralia, (360) dinner, silent and live auction, cial health care needs, dental care Evergreen Playhouse, 226 W. Center St., 736-8766 and musical performances. for children on DSHS, preschool Centralia, $15, tickets available at Santa White Pass Historical Society, 6 p.m., Admission is $75 per per- services and pediatric medical Lucia and Sterling Bank in Centralia, old Packwood Elementary School, Pack- Book ‘n’ Brush in Chehalis or online at wood, genealogy research, by Elizabeth son, with a discount for tables of care. No child is turned away for evergreendream.brownpapertickets. Squires eight. inability to pay. The annual gala com Senior Centers Special guests will be stunt- raises funds to continue and to Improv Night, 3-6 p.m., Beyond An- man David Pope, son of Pope’s expand these services. tiquity, a Center for Well Being, 211C N. All Lewis County senior centers Kids Place founder Dr. Isaac The website for Pope’s Kids Tower Ave. $10, (360) 345-1006 closed for Presidents’ Day. Pope, and David Pope’s wife, ac- Place is www.popeskidsplace.org Games Day, traditional and modern board games, card games, 1 p.m., Matrix Coffeehouse, Chehalis, (360) 740-0492 Tuesday, Feb. 19 Military intelligence, 2 p.m., Veter- ans Memorial Museum, Chehalis, learn Fundraiser, Pirate Power, Relay for about military intelligence, commemo- Life team from Adna, 11 a.m.-8 p.m., rating the 50th anniversary of military Burger Claim restaurant, Grand Mound, 5:30-7 p.m., 125 N.W. Chehalis Ave., Che- Pinochle, 10 a.m. intelligence, 740-8875 proceeds will go to American Cancer halis, sponsored by Human Response Society “Taco Tuesday” enrichment lunch, Libraries Network, (360) 748-6601 noon, $3 donation Public Agencies Support for mothers, 9:15-11:15 a.m., Olequa (Winlock) Senior Center, (360) Game Day, for children, 1-3 p.m., Bethel Church, for mothers with chil- 785-4325 Vernetta Smith Chehalis Timberland Napavine Planning Commission, 6 dren pregnancy through 6 years old, Library, board games, refreshments pro- p.m., 407 Birch Ave. S.W., Napavine, sponsored by Chehalis MOPS (Moth- Koffee klatch with maple bars, 8-10 vided, (360) 748-3301 (360) 262-3547, ext. 213 ers of Preschoolers), (360) 520-3841 or a.m., Lewis County Interlocal Organization (360) 864-2168, email chehalismops@ Garden club, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Organizations of Fire Districts 2, 15 and 7, 7 p.m., Fire gmail.com or visit www.facebook.com/ Karate, 6-7 p.m. District 20 (Vader) main station, (360) chehalismops 20th Legislative District Democrats, Packwood Senior Center, (360) 10 a.m., Country House Restaurant, 864-2366 Senior Centers 494-6331 Toledo Organizations Twin Cities Senior Center, (360) Sit & Be Fit, 11 a.m. Senior Song Birds, 9:30 a.m., Moun- 748-0061 Bingo, 12:30 p.m. tain View Baptist Church, (360) 273-3231 Sunday, Feb. 17 Fellowship meeting, 10-11 a.m. Zumba, 6 p.m. Lewis County Genealogical Society, Karaoke, Jerry and Jeannie, 10-10:45 Toledo Senior Center, (360) 864-2112 Bingo, doors open 5 p.m., bingo 7 p.m. LDS Family History Center, 2915 a.m. Jackson Highway, Chehalis, enter at rear Oil painting class, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. starts 6:30 p.m., Forest Grange, 3397 Lunch, noon, $3 suggested donation Jackson Highway, Chehalis of church, update on changes at librar- Pinochle, noon, $1 Pool tournament, 1 p.m. “The Play’s the Thing,” 2 p.m., Wick- ies, (360) 269-7772 or visit www.walcgs. Potluck, noon org NAMI-Connection meeting, 5:30- 7 strom Studio Theatre, Washington Hall, Zumba, 6-7 p.m. Centralia College, tickets $10 for adults p.m. and $8 for students and senior citizens, Support Groups Morton Senior Center, (360) 496-3230 Oil painting class, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. (360) 736-9391, ext. 525 Survivors of sexual assault/abuse, Open recreation, pool, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Sweet Treats, 9 a.m. The Weather Almanac 5-Day Forecast for the Lewis County Area River Stages National Map Forecast map for Feb. 16, 2013 Today Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Gauge Flood 24 hr. Height Stage Change 110s Chehalis at Mellen St.