Family of Packwood Boy Who Committed Suicide Sues School / Main 5 $1 Early Week Edition Tuesday, July 3, 2012 Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com State Route Tenino Tops Chehalis 508 Bridge Trappers Beat Sobe-Toyota 3-2 / Sports 1 Reopens Today / Main 7 The Dream of Two Lifetimes Daughter of Fallen WSDOT Worker Gets Kelsey Williams smiles after being surprised by her friends, family and state officials with the inaugural Washington State Department of Trans- Scholarship at Emotional Winlock Event portation Memorial Foundation Scholarship on Monday in Winlock. GOAL: Twelve Years After Sam Williams Was Killed on the Job, His Former WSDOT Coworkers Help His Daughter Become a Full-Time Firefighter By Rick Bannan For The Chronicle WINLOCK — The Wash- ington State Department of Transportation Memorial Foundation awarded its first ever scholarship Monday to the daughter of a Department maintenance technician killed by a motorist in 2000. Kelsey Williams, 21, daugh- ter of Sam Williams, received the award of $3,000 in a sur- prise ceremony at the Winlock Fire Department surrounded by her siblings, mother, family friends and coworkers of her deceased father. She was completely un- aware of the ceremony when she returned from driving an ambulance as part of her training as a firefighter and emergency medical technician. When she arrived, she noticed the commotion in the station's Pete Caster /
[email protected] Fire District 15 Chief Russ Larson walks Kelsey Williams into the meeting room of the Winlock ire station, which, to her surprise, was illed with friends and family wait- please see DREAM, page Main 16 ing to congratulate her on earning the Department of Transportation Memorial Foundation Scholarship on Monday in Winlock.