A Decade of Honoring America's War Veterans
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Public $1 Fireworks Weekend Edition Saturday, Displays July 4, 2015 / Life 2 Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com Child’s Death Twin Cities Soccer Judge Bars Talks Between Vader Husband Centralia, W.F. West High Schools Welcoming and Wife Accused in Boy’s Death / Main 6 New Soccer Coaches Next Season / Sports 1 A Decade of Honoring America’s War Veterans Pete Caster / [email protected] Memorial Museum Celebrates 10 Years at Chehalis Location Summer Chapman and her partner Gabe Koth take care of their garden at their home in Salkum on Wednesday. They hope to begin growing marijuana on the property. Tax Incentive Doesn’t Sway Lewis County’s Opposition to Marijuana NOT BUDGING: Commissioner Calls Payments to Cities and Counties for Pot Sales a Ludicrous Bribe By Kaylee Osowski [email protected] The incentive of tax revenue hasn’t swayed the minds of Lewis County commissioners when it comes to their stance against allowing marijuana businesses in the county. Pete Caster / [email protected] Lewis County Commissioner Edna Fund People look at exhibits at the Veterans Memorial Museum in Chehalis on Friday afternoon. told The Chronicle on Thursday that the changes to the marijuana tax are “ludicrous” and a “bribe.” HONORING VETERANS: 20,500 square feet. Gov. Jay Inslee signed End of This Year “It was just a giant step the recreational marijuana “It was like it was a whole forward and everyone was reform bill Tuesday that en- Will Mark 20 Years so elated that this type of courages more cities and new world opened up for us.” facility could be built, espe- counties to allow marijuana In All for Veterans cially in a small town area,” businesses in their jurisdic- Memorial Museum he said. “It was like it was a tions by only letting pot- Lee Grimes whole new world opened up friendly local governments to By Justyna Tomtas founder for us.” share in the tax revenue from Edna Fund [email protected] According to current the industry. county Communities across the that no veteran is forgotten. The goal was to cre- Executive Director Chip Fund said it’s going to commissioner nation will be celebrating The Veterans Memo- ate a little museum in the Duncan, the museum held cost the county money to America’s 239th Indepen- rial Museum in Chehalis, corner of a small town its grand opening celebra- deal with people driving under the influence dence Day today, honoring located off of Exit 77 on where veterans could come tion at its current location of marijuana coming from neighboring towns the country’s history. As Interstate 5, had a humble together and enjoy each on July 2, 2005. Donations and counties where producing, processing and selling pot is legal. But the county won’t get any barbecues and fireworks beginning. Lee Grimes, the other’s company. Little did and a couple of small grants tax from the marijuana operations to help with mark July 4, one local orga- founder of the museum and Grimes know the museum helped raise the $1.5 million enforcement costs, unless commissioners OK nization will be celebrating former executive director, would later move from its needed to construct the new the industry in unincorporated Lewis County. its 10th anniversary in its chartered the museum in 2,000-square-foot building building. current location, ensuring 1995. in Centralia to a facility of please see MUSEUM, page Main 11 please see MARIJUANA, page Main 11 Flooding, Economy, Mental Health Get Funding in State Budgets MONEY: Legislators cused in a small town. the Chehalis Basin Flood Au- Authority is working to final- on the Airport Levee. Fund ex- Advocates of various projects thority was counting on, but ize its list of biennium projects pects negotiations about the Provide Money for Many throughout the county spoke the group is throughout the basin. project involving the Depart- Local Projects to The Chronicle on Thursday pleased with Legislature “We’ve been really proactive ment of Transportation to con- about why they worked to se- the $50 million 2015 in putting (local projects) for- tinue. By Kaylee Osowski cure state funding. in the capital ward and have some in design [email protected] budget. level … it’s good to get them Industrial Access Flood Projects to Reduce The money moving toward shovel ready,” Funding for projects Damage, Restore Habitat and is split, with Fund said. While flood money didn’t throughout Lewis County in $26.8 million Some of those projects in- make the transportation budget, the state’s capital and transpor- Provide Protection allocated to clude more livestock pads in the lawmakers scheduled $50.5 mil- tation budgets has many local While $79 million for flood- long term proj- basin that will allow farmers to lion to be allocated in the future government leaders and organi- related projects in the Chehalis ects such as the move animals to higher ground for a new interchange on Inter- zations looking forward to the Basin didn’t make the final cut proposed dam during a flood event. state 5 in Lewis County north of progress the money will bring to in the transportation budget, in West Lewis If the $79 million had come Centralia. the county, whether it stretches Lewis County Commissioner County. The remainder will go through, some of that would throughout the area or is fo- Edna Fund said it wasn’t money toward local projects. The Flood have gone to continuing work please see BUDGETS, page Main 11 Pot Cash in Diaper A Place for Prayer The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Twin Cities Chehalis Szabo, Donald Alexander, Follow Us on Twitter 76, Chehalis @chronline Men Arrested Church Mohoric, Janice Kay, 61, After Drug Building Chehalis Find Us on Facebook Deal Goes Garden for Music, Betty L., 85, www.facebook.com/ Centralia thecentraliachronicle Wrong in Thoughts and Barnes, Margaret, 94, Centralia Reflections Centralia / Main 4 / Life 1 Main 2 The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, July 4, 2015 PAGE TWO News Daily Outtake: Framed by Golden Shovels of the Weird away, and the pilot’s OK. 140 Pairs of Underwear So it went Thursday at an Stolen From Store Hit Independence Day festival in Utah, where officials said a by Four Bra Heists pig-shaped hot-air balloon de- WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) scended quickly to the ground — First they took the bras. Now after hitting a Wyoming cow- they’ve come back for the panties. boy-themed entry. Police say 140 pairs of un- Paul Warner, a festival execu- derwear have been stolen from tive, said the licensed pilot of the a northeast Pennsylvania store fallen balloon suffered minor that’s been struck by four bra burns to his face. He was treated heists since February. at the scene and released. Police say the manager of the The balloons were rising at Victoria’s Secret store reported a field near downtown Provo the Thursday afternoon theft when the top of the pig entry but couldn’t provide a descrip- crashed into the basket of the tion of the suspect or surveil- cowboy balloon. The collision lance video. ripped a hole in the nylon fabric The underpants are valued of the pig balloon, and a piece of at $2,180. Thieves have already plastic caught fire as it descend- stolen more than 150 bras from ed. the store at the Wyoming Valley The fire was not extensive, Mall in Wilkes-Barre Township, Pete Caster / [email protected] said Christopher Liechty, a Golden tipped ceremonial shovels are lined up as Centralia College President Robert Frost speaks to a large group of striking twice in February and spokesman for Bank of Ameri- once in March and April. people at a ceremonial ground breaking for Centralia College’s new TransAlta Student Commons building on Tuesday can Fork, which sponsored the morning in Centralia.. The story and more photos are available to subscribers at www.chronline.com. Surveillance video of the balloon known as Seymour, its April theft showed two women piggy bank mascot. stuffing bras into a bag. Police The pilot, Erwin Oertli, was say the store never turned over the only person in the balloon and video of three previous thefts. suffered minor burns from melted Notable Quote The stolen bras are valued at plastic that dripped onto his face, more than $7,700. the bank said in a statement. “What saved my bacon, was that the head of the pig held a lot “Quite frankly unless I saw it in numbers, I would be Cat Rescued From of hot air and helped the balloon Engine of Pickup Truck to descend at a safer rate,” Oertli unwilling to agree with you or change my position.” After 28-Mile Ride said in the statement. Witness Kevin Auernig, 37, Bill Schulte HACKETTSTOWN, N.J. of Provo said he saw the accident (AP) — A cat has been rescued at America’s Freedom Festival county commissioner discussing legal marijuana operations from the engine of a pickup Balloon Fest and watched the and opinions truck after a 28-mile ride from pig balloon come down fast and Pennsylvania to New Jersey. land in a fenced construction (see the front page for the full story) Unbeknownst to the driver, zone. He joked that parts of the the orange and white feline had balloon got stuck on a tree and crawled into the engine com- looked like strips of bacon. partment. It was taken on a ride People jumped the fence to Mail Bag Thursday from East Strouds- try to help the pilot, who was burg, Pennsylvania, to the Mars bleeding and appeared shaken The Chronicle received an And here’s a note on popu- 2010 and the annexation calcu- Chocolate North America plant up, Auernig said.