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Staying Alive Waiting for the Tenino Hopes to Lengthen Season White Stuff / of Improvement / Sports 1 Outdoors: Sports 2 $1 Airport Ownership Mid-Week Edition Chehalis Council to Thursday, Dissolve Airport Board Nov. 14, 2013 / Main 3 Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com Director Jim Rothlin to Final Arguments Leave Port of Chehalis in Cold Case Trial NEW JOB Rothlin to Become Suspect’s Attorney Calls No Witnesses; Jury to Take Over Next Port of Bremerton CEO on Jan. 1 By Amy Nile [email protected] The Port of Chehalis Executive Director is leaving the Mint City. Jim Rothlin has received an of- fer to become the next chief execu- tive officer at the Port of Bremer- ton. Though the new position still depends on con- tract negotiations, Rothlin said, he expects to start in Bremerton Jan. 1. “It is sad. For me, it was a tough Jim Rothlin decision,” the Che- Port of Chehalis halis native said. “Professionally it made a lot of sense as far as growth.” Because he grew up in Chehalis, please see PORT, page Main 11 Pete Caster / [email protected] Lewis County Deputy Prosecutor Will Halstead presents the prosecution’s closing arguments in Rick Rife's double-homicide trial in Lewis County Superior Court Hunter on Wednesday morning at the Lewis County Law and Justice Center in Chehalis. Dies Near ‘THAT’S FIRST-DEGREE MURDER’ Prosecutors Tie Together Five Weeks of Testimony From 90 West Lewis Witnesses in 1985 Double-Murder Trial By Stephanie Schendel County [email protected] Eighty-three-year-old Minnie Maurin was killed moments before her 81-year-old husband on Dec. 19, 1985, Deputy Pros- After Crash ecutor Will Halstead told the jury during closing arguments in the cold-case murder trial against Rick Riffe Wednesday. By Kyle Spurr She was shot from behind in the left shoulder, and the shotgun pellets then traveled through the right side of her face, [email protected] killing her immediately. An elderly woman died Tuesday Following the slaying of Minnie Maurin, the prosecutor morning near Doty after driving Rick Rife’s attorney, John Crowley, reacts to closing arguments by the prosecu- TRIAL, tion Wednesday in Lewis County Superior Court. her truck over a cliff and down a please see page Main 11 several hundred-foot ravine while on a hunting trip, according to the Pacific County Sheriff’s Office. An elderly man in the passen- Relief for Local Residents After Typhoon gers seat was airlifted to Harbor- view Medical Center in Seattle. WAITING Centralia, ippines last week continued to Friday’s devastating storm, Four days after the storm “It appears they were out hunt- Rochester Women rise, local residents anxiously Clymer said, her loved ones re- hit, Clymer said, word came ing and made some kind of a turn awaited word from family main without food, medicine from her sister who is living in on a landing on a logging road and Struggle to Get members abroad. and clothing. The typhoon has Taiwan. She has yet to hear the for some reason went off the road,” Information on Families Annabel Clymer, a Philip- displaced some 600,000 people, voices of her family members Deputy Pat Matlock said. “The fe- pino woman who works at many of them homeless, hun- for herself. Though she has male was pronounced dead at the By Amy Nile Centralia Safeway, said she gry and thirsty. been trying for days to reach finally heard Tuesday evening “I’ve been crying. I didn’t scene.” [email protected] them, the phone lines remain The elderly couple have not yet that her friends and family had know what’s going on,” Cly- dead. As the death toll from the survived Typhoon Haiyan. mer said. “It’s just heartbreak- please see CRASH, page Main 11 storm that decimated the Phil- Sill, in the aftermath of ing.” please see RELIEF, page Main 11 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Weather Sex Offender Arrest Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 TONIGHT Low 40 Winlock Oswald, Joan B., Centralia Follow Us on Twitter TOMORROW High 50 Senn, Harry Gene, 87, Lacey @chronline Few Showers Man Steffen, Alfred W., 84, Lacey see details on page Main 2 Accused Benny, Alfred W., 91, Centralia Find Us on Facebook Abson, Derek, 84, Centralia www.facebook.com/ Weather picture by in Rape of Hughes, Walter, 69, Centralia thecentraliachronicle McKenna Church, Onalaska Robinson, Wesley E., 90, Chehalis Elementary, Fifth Grade Neighbor / Main 3 CH506849cz.drb Main 2 The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013 COMMUNITY CALENDAR / WEATHER Community Editor’s Best Bet ‘Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House’ at Fox Theatre Historic Fox Theatre Res- Calendar torations invites the public to a special screening of “Mr Bland- Thursday, Nov. 14 ings Builds His Dream House” WHAT’S HAPPENING? Open mic, 6:30 p.m., Matrix Coffee- starring Cary Grant and Myrna house, Chehalis, (360) 740-0492 If you have an event you Loy. “Up,” 7 p.m., Corbet Theatre, Centralia would like included in the The movie will be shown at College, adults $10, students and seniors Community Calendar, please 7 p.m. tonight. The showing is $8, for mature audiences, call 736-9391, email your information to part of “Realtors Night Out,” an ext. 525, for reservations [email protected]. event that Windermere Real Es- Basket making, with Carolyn Snedi- Include a daytime telephone gar, 10 a.m., White Pass Country Museum, tate is hosting at the Fox Theatre number where you can be in Centralia. 12990 U.S. Highway 12, Packwood, (360) reached. 494-4422 or (360) 494-4031 There is no charge for these Tickets are available at the Public Agencies listings. door. Tickets for Fox members are $7. Single tickets for others Centralia Planning Commission, 6 p.m., For questions about council chambers, City Hall, 118 W. Maple calendar items, call Doug are $8, and family passes (up to St., Centralia, (360) 330-7671 Blosser at The Chronicle, (360) four people) are $20. The Fox has Centralia College Board of Trustees, 3 807-8238. popcorn while Holley’s Place and p.m., Hanson Boardrooms, Hanson Ad- The Fox Annex provide movie ministration Building, Centralia College, snacks and drinks. (360) 736-9391, ext. 231 or email jreau- ing resources and catalyze small [email protected] Beer, wine and champagne community with a clear vision for will be available for purchase as Libraries economic growth. well. Book Babies, for babies 12-24 months, McCray coauthored “Small 11 a.m., Centralia Town Rules: How Big Brands and Book Babies, for babies birth-24 Small Businesses Can Prosper in months, 1 p.m., Chehalis a Connected Economy.” She also Junior PageTurners Book Group for writes the “Small Biz Survival” Kids, for children grades 1-3, 3:30 p.m., blog. “Up,” 8 p.m., Corbet Theatre, Centralia rial military and administrative Tenino From 10:45 a.m. until noon, College, adults $10, students and seniors leadership. Through the presenta- The Knitting Circle, for adults, 4 p.m., there will be a roundtable discus- $8, for mature audiences, call 736-9391, Salkum ext. 525, for reservations tion, participants will realize the sion involving local experts and Rising Tide seminar, noon, New Sci- changing significance of words agencies about the current status ence Center, room 121, Sheel Bansal, like “Democrat” and “Republican” of the ecosystem. postdoctoral forest ecologist, U.S. Forest and learn about various opinions Friday, Nov. 15 Following a catered lunch, Service, (360) 736-9391, ext. 305, or email on race and slavery in the terri- [email protected] there will be an interactive activ- tory. The reading will be followed ity 1-2:30 p.m. in which partici- Clay Chambers and the Last Ride, 9 WSU Extension Presents p.m.-1 a.m., Scatter Creek Grill, Lucky Ea- by a conversation about the ideas pants will map their communi- gle Casino, (360) 273-2000, ext. 301 and themes raised. ‘Pathways to Prosperity’ ties, identify projects or resources McConaghy is a public histo- Conference that will improve them and share rian specializing in Pacific North- ideas for community develop- Saturday, Nov. 16 west history. At Seattle’s Museum Washington State Univer- ment and revitalization. of History & Industry, she has sity Extension is presenting the A wrapup 2:30-3 p.m. will look Historian to Speak About curated a series of successful “Washington Rural Pathways to at, “Where do we go from here?” projects, including the museum’s Prosperity Conference,” a pro- Conference registration is $25. State’s Link to Civil War core exhibits, Metropolis 150 and gram on planning for rural eco- To register, go to WAruralpros- Washington state’s involvement Essential Seattle, as well as Blue nomic development, Friday at the perity.wsu.edu. in the Civil War will be discussed vs. Gray: Civil War in the Pacific WSU Conference Room at the by historian Lorraine McConaghy Northwest.” Lewis County Courthouse. Bob Garcia and Melodies Recycled at the Vernetta Smith Chehalis The event starts with a webi- Band, 7-9:30 p.m., Twin Cities Senior Cen- McConaghy teaches at the ter, $5, (360) 262-3041 Timberland Library on Saturday, University of Washington. Her nar presentation 9-10:30 a.m. by Nov. 16 from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Becky McCray. She will be giving work has been honored by the Sanction, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., Scatter Creek After a brief lecture to set con- Washington Museum Association, examples, techniques and dis- Grill, Lucky Eagle Casino, (360) 273-2000, text, the audience will read the cussion on how to utilize exist- ext.