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Tigers Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com Host, Win $1 Centerville Early Week Edition Tuesday, Tourney / Sports Sept. 29, 2015 Reason to Remember Bearcats Get Payback Korean War Veterans, Prisoners of War and W.F. West Boys Get Evergreen 2A Conference Others Honored at Museum Event / Main 3 Victory Over Black Hills in Chehalis / Sports 1 Tenino’s Wolf Haven Becomes First Globally Accredited Wolf Sanctuary RECOGNITION: Not Forcing tional in Tenino became a nationally ac- Sanctuaries) sets an even higher bar of credited sanctuary. what you must do to really be a sanctu- a Human Relationship on It is one of only two wolf-focused ary,” Kim Young, director of communica- Animals Part of Facility’s sanctuaries on the list. tions, said. In August, Wolf Haven achieved an- She said representatives of the federa- Continuing Success other, larger milestone. tion came out to Wolf Haven and have By Kaylee Osowski It received its global accreditation cer- helped it get accredited. Melissa Lange / Courtesy Photo tification, making it the first worldwide A bidder holds up a wolf-themed card during [email protected] Wolf Haven shared the news with accredited sanctuary for wolves. the live auction portion of Wolf Haven Interna- Two years ago, Wolf Haven Interna- “The Global Federation (of Animal please see SANCTUARY, page Main 14 tional's Wolves and Wine fundraiser on Saturday. Chehalis Ecology Gets Underway Aquatic on Chehalis Basin Work Center Attracts 33,550 Visitors FIRST FULL SEASON: New Facility Still Operating With Deficit, According to Report to City Council By Dameon Pesanti [email protected] It was a busy first full sum- mer at the Gale and Carolyn Shaw Aquatic Center in Cheha- lis. Lilly Wall, recreation man- ager for the city of Chehalis, reported to the Chehalis City Council that the pool had just under 33,550 people go swim- ming this season. She said it was “a huge increase” in visitors com- pared to years past, noting that a few years ago about 13,500 people would visit the pool in the summer. Pete Caster / [email protected] In August 2014, the pool Vivian Ericsson, left, an employee with Anchor QEA, an environmental and engineering consulting irm from Olympia, helps Deanna Zieske, of Chehalis, as she looks completed a three-week test at a lood map depicting the airport levee project in Chehalis during a scoping meeting for the Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for the Chehalis River opening to learn how it would Basin on Monday evening at the Veterans Memorial Museum in Chehalis. operate. The state-of-the-art fa- cility, which also includes water slides, was built thanks to more SCOPING: As Regulatory than $2 million in fundrais- Jim Kramer, a con- ing, led largely by the Chehalis Requirements Get Moving, sultant working with Foundation. Agencies Propose Three Options: Chehalis River Basin Looking back, she said the Flood Authority and 2014 opening was the right deci- Do Nothing, Build Dam or Levees the Work Group, gives sion. a brief presentation By Kaylee Osowski “The sheer numbers of people about the goals of was very eye-opening,” she said. [email protected] the scoping meeting Despite the warm reception for the Programmatic Some have been residents of the Chehalis it received from the community, Environmental Impact users were truly fair weather River Basin for decades, which means they Statement for the have been through multiple floods, includ- fans. Chehalis River Basin “We were full to capacity ing some of the worst ones. on Monday evening at The five largest on record have all oc- almost every day the sun was the Veterans Memorial shining, but when it wasn’t, our curred in the years since 1986. Museum in Chehalis. please see ECOLOGY, page Main 14 please see AQUATIC, page Main 14 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Going Medieval Preparing Possibilities Lewis County Area Since 1889 First Centralia Follow Us on Twitter Time Pregnancy @chronline Festival Center Ready Find Us on Facebook Brings for Annual www.facebook.com/ Days of Old Fundraiser thecentraliachronicle to Chehalis / Life 1 / Main 4 Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2015 PAGE TWO News Daily Outtake: More Than a Supermoon at Mount Rainier of the Weird The motorist can be heard on the surveillance video at the Center Line station asking: “Is that a spider in there?” The vid- eo then shows flames erupting along the car’s side, the pump and the pavement. The man darts to safety and later uses a fire extinguisher to put out the flames. A spider is not seen. The clerk says he apologized the next day. Cops: Owner Puts Dog Into Idle Truck, Dog Monkey Has Fun on Sends It Into Lake the Loose in Orlando Pete Caster / [email protected] ELLSWORTH, Maine (AP) People wait for the supermoon and lunar eclipse to rise above the east ridge of Paradise Valley on Sunday evening Suburb — Police say a dog alone in a at Mount Rainier National Park. Chronicle Visuals Editor Pete Caster captured dozens of photographs during a trip to pickup had to be rescued after it the park Sunday. See more on page Main 8. The complete series of photos can be seen online at www.chronline.com. SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — A caused the truck to go into a lake monkey that escaped its owner’s in Maine. home in an Orlando, Florida, Ellsworth Police say a man suburb chewed on its neighbors’ was walking the dog near Notable Quote mail, pulled molding off a police Branch Lake on Saturday after- car and rocked back and forth noon in Ellsworth. He put the on a street sign. dog into the truck after an en- Zeek was eventually caught counter with another dog. “We’re here to give a lifetime home for the wolves, and we when his owner returned home While the man spoke to the a short time later. other dog’s owner, the Yorkshire want it to be as comfortable for them as possible, and Sanford police officers re- terrier managed to bump the sponded to the neighborhood Chevrolet Silverado into gear, wolves by nature don’t seek human attention.” Monday morning after a neigh- causing it to roll about 75 feet bor called to report that a mon- into the lake, and bounce off a Kim Young key was eating mail out of a rock before sinking in roughly mailbox. 10 feet of water. Wolf Haven Zeek jumped on the offi- Police say a family friend im- (see the front page for the full story) cers’ squad car and pulled some mediately swam into the lake molding off the roof. The mon- and saved the trapped dog. A key also drank from a water towing company was called in to bottle the officers offered as a remove the truck. No humans or Today in History distraction. dogs were injured. Sanford police officers took Today's Highlight in History: tional Cathedral. denberg Air Force Base in Cali- video of Zeek and posted it on Police: Man Throws In 1910, the National Urban fornia. The musical "My Fair the agency’s Facebook page. On September 29, 1965, Pres- League, which had its begin- Lady" closed on Broadway after “Zeek had a little fun with our Fit at McDonald’s Over ident Lyndon Johnson signed nings as The Committee on Ur- 2,717 performances. patrol car,” the officers posted in the National Foundation on the ban Conditions Among Negroes, In 1975, baseball manager one video. Botched Order Arts and the Humanities Act of was established in New York. Casey Stengel died in Glendale, CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — A 1965, creating the National En- In 1938, British, French, Ger- California, at age 85. Motorist Sets Lighter McDonald’s customer in New dowment for the Humanities man and Italian leaders con- In 1978, Pope John Paul I Mexico was not loving it when and the National Endowment cluded the Munich Agreement, was found dead in his Vatican to Spider at Gas Station, employees mistakenly put pick- for the Arts; during the signing which was aimed at appeasing apartment just over a month af- les on his order. ceremony, the president said the Adolf Hitler by allowing Nazi ter becoming head of the Roman Burns Pump Police in Carlsbad say of- measure would create an Ameri- annexation of Czechoslovakia's Catholic Church. CENTER LINE, Mich. (AP) ficers had to squash a public can Film Institute. Sudetenland. In 1982, Extra-Strength Ty- — A man with an apparent case disturbance at the fast-food res- In 1943, General Dwight D. lenol capsules laced with deadly of arachnophobia caused a fire taurant after the customer began On This Date: Eisenhower and Italian Marshal cyanide claimed the first of at a suburban Detroit gas pump harassing employees over the Pietro Badoglio signed an ar- seven victims in the Chicago by putting a lighter to what he mistake. In 1789, the U.S. War De- mistice aboard the British ship area. (To date, the case remains says was a spider near his fuel Workers told police the man partment established a regular HMS Nelson off Malta. unsolved.) door. raised his voice and started army with a strength of several In 1955, a one-act version of In 1990, the Washington Na- WJBK-TV reported Saturday throwing things off the restau- hundred men. the Arthur Miller play "A View tional Cathedral, begun in 1907, that he escaped injury and his rant’s counter. In 1829, London's reorga- From the Bridge" opened in New was formally completed with vehicle suffered little damage, Police say officers issued the nized police force, which be- York.