Lewis County Gospel Mission Sees Spike in Meals Served
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$1 Twin Cities Mid-Week Edition Dominant Thursday, at Districts July 2, 2015 Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online www.chronline.com / Sports 1 Family of ‘Good Samaritan’ Killed on I-5 Seeks Answers DEATH: Full Report on June The investigation into an accident son resident Miguel Melendez, who June 25 on Interstate 5 south of Che- died after being hit by a SUV while try- 25 Crash May Take Weeks; halis that killed a pedestrian is ongoing, ing to push a disabled car to the side of Family Accepting Donations but no criminal charges are pending, the road. Washington State Patrol Trooper Mi- The full report could be done in Courtesy Photo By Natalie Johnson chael Johnson told The Chronicle. Miguel Melendez is seen in this photo with his wife, [email protected] The crash killed 39-year-old Ever- please see ANSWERS, page Main 14 Courtney County Lewis County Gospel Mission Urges Sees Spike in Meals Served Residents to Forgo Personal Fireworks HIGH ALERT: Local Fire Chiefs Ramp up Staffing, Prepare for Potential Fireworks Fires By Kaylee Osowski [email protected] Some Lewis County residents have asked local government offi- cials to ban fireworks this year due to the hot and dry weather turning the county and rest of the state into a tinderbox of sorts. While Lewis County commis- sioners have the authority to ban fireworks, the process would take too long to be effective this Fourth of July. please see FIREWORKS, page Main 14 Senate Scuffle Pete Caster / [email protected] Richard "Dickie" Eby, left, sits at a table looking at a map of Nebraska prior to the start of lunch at the Lewis County Gospel Mission on Wednesday afternoon in Leaves $2 Billion Chehalis. NEEDS: Demand, Traffic need in downtown Chehalis, it respectively. In March, the the group has already served Hole in Budget number of meals jumped to two-thirds of the total number Up; More Donations averaged a few hundred meals By Melissa Santos a month. 2,561 and continued at well of meals it did in 2014, Ternan The News Tribune Needed at Gospel In June, the group served over 2,000 meals in April with said. more than 3,000 meals. 2,333 and in May with 2,300. What’s behind this sudden Gov. Jay Inslee signed a new Mission in Chehalis “When we got done (June “This month (June) alone is increase? $38.2 billion budget into law Tues- By Natalie Johnson 30) we had served 3,065,” said an all-time record,” said vol- “There’s a lot of different day evening, but by early Wednes- Fay Ternan, director of Lewis unteer Sue Taylor as she dished factors,” Ternan said. day morning, it already had a $2 bil- [email protected] County Gospel Mission. up mashed potatoes and meat- One reason, she said, is that lion hole in it. Five years ago, when Lewis In January and February, balls at lunch on Wednesday. more people are learning about The two-year spending plan County Gospel Mission be- Lewis County Gospel Mission At more than 14,000 meals gan serving meals to people in served 1,919 and 1,901 meals, served in the first half of 2015, please see MISSION, page Main 14 please see HOLE, page Main 11 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater College Construction Closing Down Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Work Begins One of Two Beondik, Donald Leon, Follow Us on Twitter 90, Centralia @chronline on New Rochester Rollins, Verna Pink TransAlta Food Banks (Morehouse), 86, Find Us on Facebook Student Announces Morton www.facebook.com/ Commons Decision to thecentraliachronicle / Main 4 Close Down / Main 6 A CENTURY OF HELPING OTHERS. CHEHALIS 714 W. MAIN ST. EXIT 77 360.740.0770 100 YEARS OF COMMUNITY BANKING HOME | CONSTRUCTION | BUSINESS CH543126cz.cg Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Thursday, July 2, 2015 PAGE TWO News Daily Outtake: A ‘Balloonicorn’ at the Legislature of the Weird Dolphin Leaps As a compromise, organiz- ers said both teenagers would be Onto Boat, Injuring crowned winners. The Morning Sentinel re- California Woman ported that Lybrook believes SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — organizer Leah Frost influenced A dolphin leaped onto a boat in the results. She said Grenier and Southern California, crashing Frost’s sister are friends. into a woman and breaking both “This is somebody else’s mis- her ankles. take,” Lybrook said. “I won fair Chrissie Frickman was boat- and square, and if it truly was ing with her husband and two a mistake, then I’m sorry, but children June 21 when a pod of that’s something the person who dolphins swam alongside them. made the mistake has to pay for, One of the animals jumped on not me — the winner.” the vessel, knocking Frickman Frost said she had nothing over and landing on her legs. to do with the scoring and sent “The dolphin jumped and we Lybrook copies of the judges’ thought it was doing a flip and sheets to show the mistake. She I guess it miscalculated,” said said she hoped the dual queens Ted S. Warren / The Associated Press her husband, Dirk Frickman. would allow both girls to be rec- State Rep. Ross Hunter, left, D-Medina, who chairs the House Appropriations Committee, holds a T-shirt Tuesday with “It came right onto my wife and ognized. the image of the Senate Ways and Means Committee mascot, the “Balloonicorn” character from the Team Fortress 2 flopped in the boat and knocked “I’m just trying to do what’s video game, on it as he stands with committee staf members and an inlatable igure of the mascot in the wings of down and grazed my daughter.” fair to both girls because they the Senate chamber during a late-night Legislative session at the Capitol in Olympia. Lawmakers were hoping to get “The dolphin was flopping all both worked equally hard for it,” a two-year state operating budget signed by Gov. Jay Inslee before midnight in order to avoid a partial government over,” he said. “It cut its nose and shutdown that would have started Wednesday. its tail. Blood started splattering she said. everywhere.” Grenier declined to be inter- Frickman pulled his wife viewed by the newspaper. free and called authorities The pageant precedes the Notable Quote as he headed toward an Or- Winslow Family 4th of July Cel- ange County harbor. While he ebration, which is one of the big- steered, he splashed water on gest Independence Day events the 350-pound dolphin to keep in the state. The four-day event it alive. started Wednesday. “There’s a number of different kinds — they’re made often to look so “I could hear my phone buzz- good you won’t know they’re not part of the real ATMs.” ing and beeping on the floor - it Woman’s Parking was covered in blood,” he told the Orange County Register. Citation Tossed Because Mike Sand At the harbor, Frickman re- moved all the seats from the boat of Missing Comma in Timberland Bank president discussing recent “skimming” of ATMs and got help pulling the dolphin Village Law (see page Main 7 for the full story) onto the dock with a rope. “We got her up on the dock MIDDLETOWN, Ohio (AP) and pushed right back in the wa- — An appeals court has agreed ter,” he said. “She was fine and with an Ohio woman who said took off pretty quick.” her parking citation should be His wife is still recovering tossed because the village law Editor’s Pick from her injuries. was missing a comma. Andrea Cammelleri says Shenanigans at the Late Night Legislature? she shouldn’t have been issued Two Share Pageant a citation in 2014 based on the I quickly found myself bur- shenanigans. Drunken shenani- transportation. We have enough Title After Miscount, wording of the law enacted by ied in e-mailed press releases gans, to be specific. money in the signed operating the village of West Jefferson. and responses to the state bud- Susan Hutchison, chairwom- budget to keep the government But One Is Upset The law lists several types get this week. an of the state Republican Party, open until September. After that It seems ev- said Senate Democrats had com- we’re not sure what will happen WINSLOW, Maine (AP) — of vehicles that can’t be parked ery lawmaker, mitted DWIs — Dealing While ... I can tell you that last night’s One winner of a teenage Miss longer than 24 hours, including 4th of July pageant is upset. The a “motor vehicle camper,” with special inter- Intoxicated. She shared a quote behavior by the Senate Demo- other agreed to share the title the comma missing between est group, cau- from state Sen. Matt Manweller, crats was the most disgraceful I but isn’t talking. And the pag- “vehicle” and “camper.” cus and ana- R-Ellensburg. have seen in 20 years of politics.” eant organizer is defending her- Cammelleri says her pickup lyst wanted to “I have some very unfortu- A bold accusation, one that self from accusations she rigged truck did not fit that definition. weigh in on the nate news regarding this year’s would explain in part how there the results. The village says the law’s late night ses- Eric Schwartz session,” he wrote. “Due to a is apparently a $2 billion hole Molly Lybrook, 17, of Fair- meaning was clear in context, sion that led to editor combination of immaturity, in the budget. Of course, if that field, said she won the Winslow but Judge Robert Hendrick- a tardy budget too much alcohol, and a lack was the case, someone should Miss 4th of July Pageant on Sat- son of the 12th Ohio District compromise.