Senior Showcase / Help for a Heart Sports 1 Rochester Girl Faces Second Heart Surgery / Main 3 $1 Mid-Week Edition Thursday, June 5, 2014 Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com Hunters Museum Gets $149,000 Gift Feeling GENEROUS: Chehalis 2011, has been resurrected large- donation to $149,000 and has ly due to a bequest from the es- served to nearly singlehandedly Resident Wills $149,000 tate of a longtime Chehalis resi- give new life to the museum’s Betrayed to Endowment Fund dent who died last year. endowment. Andy Skinner, the museum’s Skinner said he was at the By Christopher Brewer executive director, told The museum one night with long- by Timber [email protected] Chronicle Tuesday morning the time museum volunteer Mar- estate of June Clare, who died garet Shields when they both The Lewis County His- May 27, 2013, donated $125,000 opened a letter notifying them Company torical Museum’s endowment to the museum’s endowment of the donation to come. fund, which was largely drained fund in March. A recent second “Once we later received the through embezzlement by the donation that brought in anoth- Move GIFT, June Clare former executive director in er $24,000 has brought the total please see page Main 10 PAY UP: Limited and Costly Permits Likely to Block Access for Many on Weyerhaeuser Land By Dameon Pesanti A Tribute to a Teacher [email protected] It’s hard for Jason Phelps Robert C. Godsey Classroom Dedicated at Centralia College not to see the Weyerhaeuser land surrounding Pe Ell as his own. Three generations of Phelps men before him worked in those forests, har- vesting timber for a paycheck then collecting it for firewood to heat their homes. Jason’s fa- ther taught him to hunt there just as three previous genera- tions of Phelps fathers taught their sons. Now, as the owner of Phelps Game Calls, Jason has made a career around his pas- sion. But for the second con- secutive year, Phelps is break- ing tradition and not hunting Weyco land. He’s doing it in protest of the costly permits the com- pany now requires hunters to obtain before they hunt any of its tree farms. please see HUNTERS, page Main 10 Railroads Seek to Limit Disclosure on Oil Trains SEATTLE (AP) — Two Christopher Brewer / [email protected] railroad companies want to Robert Godsey shows his delight at the newly-unveiled Robert C. Godsey Classroom sign at the Walton Science Center as professor Pat Pringle, left, and college trustee prevent the public from get- Stu Halsan, right, take the wraps of the sign Tuesday. ting ahold of details about oil shipments through Washing- By Christopher Brewer and friends from Godsey’s 32 ence Center was renamed the when we worked with students ton state, a disclosure the fed- [email protected] years of service to Centralia Col- Robert C. Godsey Classroom who struggled with math, we eral government ordered be lege packed the classroom that in honor of Godsey’s three de- should put them in Bob’s class,” given to state emergency man- It was almost as if he was would be named for him that cades in Centralia College’s Beverley Gestrine, WorkFirst agers in the wake of several oil ready to teach again. day and listened to the former math department. The God- and worker retraining director train accidents. Robert Godsey stood up chair of the math department seys remain active in the college at the college, said. “Students But restricting that in- in front of a full classroom at offer thanks to the people he and the community to this day, would say that Bob was a great formation violates the state's Centralia College Tuesday and served with during his educa- and their commitment to both teacher. Many would say, ‘I used public records law, so the state prepared to speak, but this time tional career. were echoed in the sentiments to hate math, but now I enjoy it.’” has not signed documents there were no textbooks, no Godsey and his wife, Sandy, of those who spoke of their best Godsey is well-remembered from the rail companies seek- equations scrawled on the board were the center of attention dur- memories of Robert Godsey, among fellow staff and former ing confidentiality, said Mark — and few students present. ing a brief ceremony in which known to many simply as Bob. Instead, fellow instructors Room 215 at the Walton Sci- “We were always told that please see TRIBUTE, page Main 10 please see TRAINS, page Main 10 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Weather Grand Opening Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 TONIGHT: Low 46 Carlson, Mary L., Follow Us on Twitter TOMORROW: High 72 Starbucks 82, Centralia @chronline Partly Cloudy to Open in see details on page Main 2 Find Us on Facebook Napavine www.facebook.com/ Weather picture by Gage thecentraliachronicle Hagedorn, Onalaska on Friday / Main 5 CH522284cz.cg Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Thursday, June 5, 2014 COMMUNITY CALENDAR / WEATHER Community Calendar Today WHAT’S HAPPENING? Open mic, 6:30 p.m., Matrix Coffeehouse, Che- halis, (360) 740-0492 If you have an event you would like CC Grow, farmers market, noon-3 p.m., Centra- included in the Community Calendar, lia College, across from Health & Wellness Center, please email your information to (360) 736-9391, ext. 650 [email protected]. Include a daytime telephone number where you can be reached. Public Agencies There is no charge for these listings. Reducing Underage Drinking Coalition, 2 p.m., For questions about calendar items, Lewis County Public Health building, second-floor call Doug Blosser at The Chronicle, conference building, (360) 740-1424 (360) 807-8238. Lewis County Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs Advisory Board, 4 p.m., Lewis County Pub- lic Health building, second-floor conference room, Editor’s Best Bet (360) 740-1418 Centralia College Board of Trustees, 3 p.m., Han- Museum to Honor D-Day Veterans son Boardrooms, Hanson Administration Building, Saturday, June 7 Centralia College, (360) 736-9391, ext. 231, or email Veterans who participated D- tive bottle of wine. He brought back [email protected] Day are invited to an event on the the bottle of wine and gave it to Lee PUD to Host Kids’ Fishing 70th anniversary of that momentous Grimes, the founder and former di- Organizations Derby at Lake Scanewa day Friday at the Veterans Memorial rector of the museum, with the wish Museum. that it should be opened for the sur- Oakview Grange, 7 p.m., 2715 N. Pearl St., Cen- The Lewis County Public Utility Dis- tralia, (360) 736-5639 trict is hosting the 21st annual Kids’ Fish- On June 6, 1944, waves of Ameri- viving veterans of D-Day. Lewis County Robotics Society, 6 p.m., room ing Derby Saturday at Lake Scanewa. cans stormed the beaches of Nor- The museum plans to honor 128, Kemp Hall, Centralia College, (360) 304-9660 The derby will begin at 9 a.m., with mandy to smash the grip of the Na- Parshall’s wish and invite any liv- Chehalis-Centralia Cribbage Club, 6:30 p.m., registration beginning at 8:30 a.m. There zis from western Europe.Thousands ing veterans who were there on June Chehalis Moose Lodge, 1400 Grand Ave., Centralia, will be no catch and release and no adult gave their lives on that fateful day. 6, 1944, whether they landed on the (360) 485-2852 fishing during the derby. Thousands more fought valiantly for beaches, served on one of the ships, Centralia-Chehalis Vintage Auto Club, 7:30 p.m., Ramblin’ Jack’s Rib Eye, 1336 Rush Road, Chehalis, The derby pond was partially excavat- nearly a year to push the Germans flew over the battlefield, or para- (360) 767-0719 ed in September 2013, so the trout distri- back all the way to Berlin. chuted behind the enemy lines on Lewis County Tea Party, 6:30 p.m., Lewis & Clark bution will most likely be different than Years ago, Cliff Parshall, a U.S. D-Day. Hotel, 117 W. Magnolia St., Centralia, speakers in- in the past. Navy veteran who piloted a landing The museum event will be at 2 clude a Salvation Army/food bank representative; There are various competitions craft on D-Day, attended a reunion p.m. For more details, call museum Michael Delavar, 3rd Congressional District candi- date; and Brian Green, candidate for Lewis County throughout the day for everyone to par- at Normandy, France. While he was director Chip Duncan at (360) 740- sheriff ticipate in. Kids can have their faces there he purchased a commemora- 8875. painted, learn how to clean fish, and participate in a number of mini-games Support Groups around the area. “Up From Grief,” for those grieving the loss of a In the past, local rangers and com- provided by MTPockets Ranch. Also it is Facebook (Tenino Farmers Market) and loved one, 1-2:30 p.m., Assured Home Hospice, munity officials have donated their time 2120 N. Park St., Centralia, (360) 330-2640 “Meet Your Farmers” day. on Twitter (T90Market). to help educate families on a number of Overeaters Anonymous, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Im- The grand opening will be June 28. community-related issues such as the manuel Lutheran Church, 1209 N. Scheuber Road, Festivities will include sponsor recogni- Swede Day queen coronation, 6 p.m., Swede Centralia, (360) 736-9268 dangers of invasive weeds in local waters Hall, Rochester, contestants Elizabeth Warren, Em- and woods. tion and carrot cake.