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Ready to Spike Tigers, Cats Ready for EvCo Volleyball / Sports $1 Early Week Edition Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015 Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com ‘Cascadian Pride’ Home Saved in Ony First-Ever Rainingman Festival Strikes an Blaze Destroys Garage; Firefighters Extinguish Intimate Tone at Mima Mounds / Main 4 Flames Before They Burn House / Main 5 Two Killed in Highway 12 Crash By The Chronicle No further information on either The crash was caused by inatten- A 39-year-old woman and a victim has been released by the Wash- tion; drugs or alcohol are not believed 13-year-old boy were killed Monday ington State Patrol, pending next-of- to be a factor, according to the State morning in a three-car collision on kin information, including informa- Patrol. U.S. Highway 12 about 29 miles east of tion about which car the two victims Morton near Packwood. were riding in. please see CRASH, page Main 14 Dameon Pesanti / d [email protected] The Lions Den Campground at Mineral Lake is slated to be closed after the property on which it sits was sold to Sierra Paciic Industries. ‘Mexican Rodeo’ Rides Last Call for Through Twin Cities Lions Club Campground at Mineral Lake EVICTION: Popular Campground to Be Closed After Sierra Pacific Purchase By Dameon Pesanti [email protected] As it has been for every recent Labor Day, the Lions Club campground at Mineral Lake was filled with RVers out to enjoy some fishing and time away from home Monday. But a somber cloud hung over the south shore because this could very well be the last holiday weekend the campground is open. The Lions Den campground, as it’s called, has been operated by the Mineral Lions Club since the early 1970s. They rent it out to RVers at $105 per month and then give the proceeds to a number of charitable causes around Min- eral. From the beginning, the club has rented the property from Murray Pacific lumber com- pany, but the property has now been sold to Sierra Pacific Industries, and it doesn’t appear the company is going to renew the agreement. please see CAMPGROUND, page Main 14 Justyna Tomtas / [email protected] A bull rider gets bucked of a bull at the Gran Jaripeo at the Southwest Washington Fairgrounds on Saturday. Man Stabbed in Fight GRAN JARIPEO: Bull Involving Broken Riding, Coleadero Among Popular Events at Bottles in Centralia Southwest Washington NO COOPERATION: Those Involved in Fairgrounds Brawl Unwilling to Give Details By The Chronicle By The Chronicle The Southwest Washington The Centralia Police Department is investi- Fairgrounds transformed on gating a fight that involved broken beer bottles Saturday into a day of celebra- Friday night. tion as the Gran Jaripeo, or the At least one person was stabbed in the stom- Mexican rodeo, came into town ach, and several others were injured. for its annual visit. At 11:34 p.m. on Friday, officers responded Some of the toughest rodeo to the 700 block of G Street after receiving a re- competitors took to the dusty port of people fighting in the area. arena adorned in intricate som- Officers found two men in the area with breros and three-piece suits. cuts to their faces and legs. The men told offi- On Saturday, competitors cers they were walking in the area when a group from as far as California came of people in two vehicles — a white Chevrolet to try their luck in the skill- Camaro and a black Ford truck — drove by and based competitions, putting threw beer bottles at them, according to the their bravery to the test. The Centralia Police Department. event was filled with energy as The men told officers they started yelling bull riders took to the bulls with back, and the two cars drove around the block a lack of padding and helmets, and stopped. Spectators watch as riders compete at the Gran Jaripeo at the Southwest Washington Fairgrounds on please see RODEO, page Main 14 Saturday. please see FIGHT, page Main 14 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Mount St. Helens Celebrating Unions Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Volunteers Labor Day Montgomery, Lewis Douglas, Follow Us on Twitter 63, Centralia @chronline Team Up Picnic Carr, Loren Michael, 69, to Tackle Attracts Napavine Find Us on Facebook Litter at Crowds in Rollins, Robert, 77, Centralia www.facebook.com/ Popular Chehalis thecentraliachronicle Camp / Main 7 / Main 3 Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015 PAGE TWO News Daily Outtake: Cause for Celebration of the Weird Deer Devour Nearly Cops: Trucker Choking 1,000 Plants at Hemp on Soft Drink Crashes Operation on Southern Into 23 New Cars Oregon Farm HERMITAGE, Pa. (AP) — MURPHY, Ore. (AP) — Police say the driver of a milk Deer got the munchies at an in- tanker truck was choking on dustrial hemp crop in southern a soft drink when he drove off Oregon last month. a Pennsylvania highway and The deer got by barbed-wire crashed into 23 new cars on a fencing a couple weeks ago and dealership lot. went through the hemp plants Police in Hermitage say like high-powered mowers, the the driver choked on Dr Pep- Grants Pass Daily Courier re- per on Sunday and drove the ported. truck nearly 600 feet through a “Generally, I don’t think they grassy area before smashing into like cannabis. They liked ours, a building at Montrose Buick- though,” said Cliff Thomason, GMC-Cadillac. a real estate agent who is the The (Sharon) Herald re- Brandon Hansen / [email protected] steward of the first industrial ported the truck rumbled down A pair of Centralia High School Tigers celebrate during the team’s eventual loss to Rochester Friday night. The story hemp crop in Oregon, which an embankment before hitting and many more photos are available at www.chronline.com and www.lewiscountysports.com. was planted near Murphy by the cars, including one that Thomason and his partners with was pushed into the dealership Orhempco. showroom. The company planted rough- State police found no me- ly 1,000 plants in the section the chanical problems with the Notable Quote deer got into, and Thomason truck and no indication the said there are only about 40 left. driver tried to brake. The driver Industrial hemp has a low of the truck owned by Neimeyer level of THC, the psychoac- Milk Transfer was cited for care- tive property of marijuana. less driving. “Whatever we can do to men and Kit Doyle, another partner in The Cedar Lake, Indiana- women while incarcerated to make Orhemco, said it’s high in pro- based company didn’t immedi- tein and that’s likely why the ately return a call Tuesday. them more human, less violent, deer went on a binge. Orhempco has several crops less anxious, it seems that benefits of industrial hemp — each Police: Top of planted at a different time and society as a whole.” is in a different stage of maturity. Kamehameha’s Spear Doyle said the group expects to Taken From Hawaii Nalini Nadkarni have other plants go to harvest that will produce hemp seed for Statue professor speaking on nature videos for sale. HILO, Hawaii (AP) — Part prisoners held in solitary confinement The land is owned by Jose- of King Kamehameha’s spear is phine County Commissioner missing. (see page Main 6 for the full story) Cherryl Walker and her hus- Police on Hawaii’s Big Island band, Martin Hill. Fellow coun- are asking the public for help ty Commissioner Simon Hare locating the top section of the also is a partner. spear that’s part of the statue of Editor’s Pick Only some of the crop is pro- the Hawaiian warrior in Hilo. tected by the very tall fencing Police say the spear was last needed to thwart deer. Doyle Not Our Tigers seen Saturday and was reported said a reason some crops were left vulnerable was because of missing Sunday. In the wake of another start A potentially unscrupulous As legitimate sounding a the uncertainty surrounding the The bronze spear with a to another great prep football web site has emerged to sell its name as www.CentraliaTigers. program. golden tip is about 6 feet long. season, the Cen- products to followers of Centra- com is, it’s probably a good idea A bill in the Oregon Legisla- Kamehameha the First is tralia School lia High School athletics. to ignore it altogether. ture would have put Orhempco known for uniting the Hawai- District has “We have no information on The district is looking to out of business had it passed the ian islands in 1810. The statue in some words the creator of this website, as speak to anyone who has used it, Senate. Wailoa State Park is one of sev- of advice for they refuse to return our mes- though. “We wanted to hurry and eral bearing his likeness across fans looking sages,” a message from the dis- From the district: If you get in the ground and we didn’t the state. to drape them- trict states. “The website is NOT have been contacted by Centra- want to spend a lot of money,” On Kamehameha Day, cel- selves in the or- affiliated with the Centralia liaTigers.com or by anyone with Doyle said. ebrated June 11, his statues are ange and black School District and we do not an email address ending in that “Next year, if we decide to ceremoniously draped with lei. garb of the Ti- Eric Schwartz vouch for the safety of any infor- domain, we would like to hear grow in the same place, we will According to the Hawaii gers.