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$1 Mid-Week Edition Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016 Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com 2016 Prep Football Preview Special Insert in Today’s Edition Back(Pack) to School Calypso Windows Windermere, Other Local Businesses Spearhead Centralia-Based Business Does More Effort to Help Homeless Students / Main 6 Than Just Wipe the Glass / Main 3 Learning From the Trees Port Blakely Program Celebrates 25 Years By Jordan Nailon about the natural environment. Other [email protected] timber companies have run similar pro- grams in their own right but few, if any, Tucked away on the fringes of an ac- have mustered the same continued com- tive cow field and the edge of a timber mitment to the program as Port Blakely. forest in southwest Olympia is a class- In the past quarter century, the Port room. There are no walls, no Pledge of Blakely environmental education pro- Allegiance and no detention hall, but gram has conducted 2,750 guided tours, there is plenty to learn. with 65,721 students and 14,066 adults On Tuesday, Port Blakely gathered its tagging along. Additionally, Port Blakely primetime players together in that syl- runs similar programs in Oregon and van nook in order to celebrate the 25th New Zealand. anniversary of its unique environmental Anna Scheibmeir was once one education program. Pete Caster / [email protected] of those fourth-graders on the mile- The program began with the notion long wooded trail off of Delphi Road. U.S. Congressman Denny Heck, D-Olympia, speaks at a Port Blakely luncheon celebrating the timber of getting all of Washington’s fourth- company’s 25-year commitment to teaching environmental education on Wednesday afternoon south graders into the woods in order to learn please see BLAKELY, page Main 14 of Olympia. Pete Caster / [email protected] In this Oct. 20, 2014, ile photo, Lewis County Jail Chief Kevin Hanson walks Pete Caster / [email protected] through a medical observation pod at Dashaud D. Cummings, 17, waits to make an the jail in Chehalis. Monday was Han- appearance in Lewis County Superior Court son’s last day with Lewis County. on Wednesday afternoon at the Lewis County Law and Justice Center in Chehalis. Lewis County Jail Chief Moves On After 25 Years BOUND FOR SHELTON: Kevin Hanson to Become Chief of Mason County Teen Cop Car Thief Charged as Adult Jail Until Retirement Cummings Held on $35,000 Bail After ‘Fiasco’ With Police Chief’s Stolen Car By Natalie Johnson By Natalie Johnson elude troopers with the Wash- [email protected] [email protected] ington State Patrol, stealing After 25 years at the Lewis Schaffer’s car at Riverside Golf County Jail, the decision to leave A teenager arrested after ‘‘I told him to move.’’ Club, hitting a trooper with was an emotional one for Chief what Superior Court Judge the car, abandoning the car on Kevin Hanson. Richard Brosey dubbed a “fi- Dashaud Cummings Interstate 5 in Centralia after “There’s 56 employees there asco” involving the theft of in response to hitting a state trooper with a stolen police car, it got a flat tire, then running that I’ve been a part of their lives Chehalis Police Chief Glenn according to court document from police on foot. Witnesses and they’ve been a part of my Schaffer’s patrol car is now fac- reported the boy was wearing life,” he said. “That was the big- ing charges in Lewis County basketball shorts and no shirt gest hurdle for me to overcome.” Superior Court. during the incident. On Tuesday, Lewis Coun- Judge Richard Brosey to impose After much soul-searching Dashaud Dante Cum- A second teen, identified as ty Juvenile Court declined to $100,000 Wednesday, given the and conversations with family, mings, 17, of Lacey, was charged a 15-year-old girl, was also ar- charge Cummings as a juvenile, nature of the charges against trusted colleagues and his po- Wednesday in Superior Court rested when the boy ditched with second-degree assault, and he was moved to Superior Cummings. Brosey imposed tential new employers, Hanson their vehicle at the parking theft of a motor vehicle, at- Court. $35,000 bail. made the decision to take on a lot at Riverside Golf Club, just tempting to elude a police vehi- Deputy Prosecutor Joel Di- Cummings was arrested please see HANSON, page Main 14 cle and hit and run with injury. Fazio asked Superior Court Aug. 10 after allegedly trying to please see FIASCO, page Main 14 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater From Walk-On to Captain Calling It a Career Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Napavine’s County Clerk Everley, Dianne Elizabeth Follow Us on Twitter (Flem), 71, Banning, @chronline Tucker Kathy Brack California Stanley to Retire Sept. Comisky, Lavona, 84, Find Us on Facebook Impresses 15 After 44 Chehalis www.facebook.com/ Dieringer, Gordon, 85, thecentraliachronicle at Eastern Years in Public Canby, Oregon Oregon Service Jones, Brian Marshall, 47, Battle Ground / Sports 1 / Main 5 Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016 PAGE TWO News Packing Backpacks for Kids in Need of the Weird said. After the fight, the partici- pants and the town’s streets were drenched in a sea of red pulp. Or- ganizers hose the streets down within minutes of the event end- ing at noon, while participants could use public showers. The paid-entry event was inspired by a 1945 food fight between local children in the tomato-producing region. Alberto Saiz / AP Photo The streets of an eastern Spanish town, Anti-Wrinkle Device Bunol, 50 kilometers outside Valen- cia, Spain, are awash with red pulp as Forces Plane Evacuation thousands of people pelt each other in New Mexico with tomatoes in the annual “Tomatina” battle that has become a major tourist ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. attraction. At the annual iesta in Bunol (AP) — Authorities say a vibrat- Pete Caster / [email protected] on Wednesday, trucks dumped 160 ing device that claims to fights On Tuesday morning, a team of over a dozen volunteers illed backpacks for needy children in the Centralia School tons of tomatoes for some 20,000 par- wrinkles as it rolls over a per- District at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Chehalis. The backpacks, which were donated by Costco, were illed with an as- ticipants, many from abroad, to throw son’s face has forced a Southwest sortment of school supplies. The story, and many other photos, is available to subscribers at www.chronline.com. during the hour-long festivities. Airlines flight to evacuate in New Mexico. Albuquerque Aviation Police Notable Quote Annual Tomato Battle tell news station KOB-TV that passengers were ordered off the Leaves Spanish Town plane Monday after the anti-ag- Awash In Red Pulp ing skin roller was discovered in “If that isn’t exciting, I don’t know what is.” BUNOL, Spain (AP) — the back of a seat. Thousands of people pelted Authorities say the flight each other with tons of ripe to- crew moved the item to the Bonnie Canaday matoes Wednesday, creating a galley, and police searched the Centralia Mayor, on a project to improve pedestrian safety on Harrison Avenue red, mushy mess in the annual plane. “Tomatina” street battle in east- No other suspicious items (see page Main 5 for the full story) ern Spain. were found, and no arrests were At the fiesta in Bunol, 160 made. tons of tomatoes were offloaded from six trucks into the crowd packing the town’s streets for Buzz-Ted: Bee Swarm the hour-long battle that attracts Ousts Pennsylvania many foreigners among the Today in History around 20,000 participants. Police Department Today’s Highlight in History: astated by an earthquake that 747 was shot down by a Soviet jet People cheered and jumped CARBONDALE, Pa. (AP) — claimed some 140,000 lives. fighter after the airliner entered On Sept. 1, 1939, World War in the party atmosphere, with The cops have been buzz-ted. In 1941, the first municipally Soviet airspace. II began as Nazi Germany in- some people wearing fancy A swarm of bees has forced owned parking building in the In 1995, a ribbon-cutting cere- vaded Poland. dress but most in T-shirts. As officers at a Pennsylvania police United States opened in Welch, mony was held for the Rock and the trucks pulled into the nar- department out of their station. West Virginia. Roll Hall of Fame and Museum row streets, the revelers chanted, The (Scranton) Times-Tri- On this date: In 1945, Americans received in Cleveland. (The hall opened “Tomato! Tomato!” bune reported Carbondale po- word of Japan’s formal surrender to the public the next day.) To avoid injuries, revelers are In 1715, following a reign of lice had to abandon the station 72 years, King Louis XIV of that ended World War II. (Be- Ten years ago: Mexican Presi- instructed to squelch the toma- cause of the time difference, it Tuesday when the bees arrived. France died four days before his dent Vicente Fox was forced toes before throwing them. Even was Sept. 2 in Tokyo Bay, where Most of the buzzing insects 77th birthday. to forego delivering his final so, many donned swimming the ceremony took place.) settled into cracks and crevices In 1807, state-of-the-nation address in goggles to protect their eyes. former Vice President In 1951, the United States, in the third-floor brick exterior person after leftist lawmakers People on balconies overlooking Aaron Burr was found not guilty Australia and New Zealand of City Hall, but others managed the festivities also were pelted, of treason.