Winlock Woman Bearcats Prevail is the Keeper of W.F. West Victorious Over Black Hills / Sports 5 the Chickens / Life $1 Early Week Edition Tuesday, Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com Sept. 22, 2015 Cowlitz Celebration ARTrails Continues Hundreds Attend the 16th Annual Tribal There’s Still One More Weekend to See More Pow Wow at Toledo High School / Main 4 Than 50 Local Artists in Action / Main 3 Commissioners Prosecutor: Vader Couple Broke Fund Announces Plea Deals, Lied in Statements Reelection State to Seek Increased Sentences for Pair Accused of Killing Boy, 3 Bid; Schulte Will Wait DECISIONS: Commissioners Reflect on County Successes By Dameon Pesanti [email protected] The terms of Lewis Coun- ty Commissioners Edna Fund and Bill Schulte are set to ex- pire at the end of next year, and both say their accom- plishments in office and the county’s recent progress are enough to seek re-election. Fund formally announced her candidacy over the week- end. In a speech to friends and family, she said flood mitiga- tion and jobs will be the top priorities of her next term. please see WAIT, page Main 11 Bargaining Pete Caster / [email protected] Defense attorneys Todd Pascoe, left, who is representing Danny Wing, and John Crowley, who is representing Brenda Wing, converse away from their clients prior to on Centralia the start of separate arraignment hearings in Lewis County Superior Court in December 2014 at the Lewis County Law and Justice Center in Chehalis. The Wings are scheduled to be sentenced Friday. Teachers’ THROWN FOR A LOOP: Contracts Prosecutor Says Couple Had Previously ‘‘I told Danny Continues Been Consistent in something that Jasper NO AGREEMENT: Teachers Accounts of Abuse did that he didn’t do Finish 11 Days With By Natalie Johnson and he beat him for it.’’ No New Contract [email protected] By Justyna Tomtas Brenda Wing, New interviews, a failed in taped phone call from jail [email protected] polygraph test and a phone Centralia School District conversation from jail show a officials and the Centralia couple awaiting sentencing for Friday in Judge Nelson Hunt’s Education Association met manslaughter in the death of for a 12th bargaining meet- 3-year-old Jasper Henderling- court. “We’re going to be asking for ing on Monday night to dis- Warner lied about vital facts in cuss teachers’ contracts, but the case, according to the Lewis significantly higher (sentences),” Meyer said. left the district office with no County Prosecutor’s Office. deal. Prosecutor Jonathan Meyer According to court docu- ments, Danny Wing failed a Centralia teachers were told The Chronicle Monday that authorized by CEA to start his office believes Danny and polygraph test administered by the Washington State Patrol on preparations for a strike on Brenda Wing violated the terms Monday. A strike vote will be of their guilty plea agreements, Sept. 9 and gave information during a pre-test interview that taken on Friday if no deal is in which they were offered sen- conflicted with earlier state- reached. Eighty-nine percent tences of 12 to 16 years in pris- ments. of the district’s teachers were on, by lying or omitting facts Brenda Wing’s polygraph Jasper Henderling-Warner is seen in this undated photograph provided by the in support of the vote. in statements. Their sentenc- Lewis County Sherif’s Oice. He died in late 2014. The couple accused of killing ing hearings are scheduled for please see LIED, page Main 11 him as a result of severe abuse are scheduled to be sentenced Friday. please see CONTRACT, page Main 11 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Looking to Be Recognized Seeking Assistance Investigation Lewis County Area Since 1889 New Housing Eyman Follow Us on Twitter Chinook Resource Under @chronline Leader Center Asks Scrutiny Find Us on Facebook Continues Community for www.facebook.com/ Appeal for for New Taking thecentraliachronicle Status Donations Paycheck / Main 13 / Main 6 / Main 7 More Than Just SAVE UP TO DOUBLE YOUR MAIL-IN REBATE UP TO a Tire Store! OR GOING ON NOW! $ $ • Oil & Lube • Belts & Hoses • Shocks & Struts • Batteries by Mail-In Rebate60 when you purchase a set when you make120 the purchase on the Goodyear • Air Conditioning • Custom Wheels of four select Goodyear or Dunlop tires. Credit Card.2 See the store for more details.3 • Radiator • General Repair 2. 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(AP) Fox, who also farms, said the — A substitute had to be sent in timing of last week’s vote was for Colorado State University’s unfortunate because it’s a busy mascot sheep on Saturday after time of year for fieldwork. the 24th mascot died shortly be- Fox said farmers have a hard fore the team’s big day. time sacrificing a day of nice Colorado State University weather at this time of year, and President Tony Frank says Cam many people in the area have to the Ram died Saturday, the same drive 50 miles or more to get to day as the Rocky Mountain work each day. Showdown with the CU Buffa- “It’s hard to get the general loes. The Fort Collins Colorado- public to remember when to an reported Cam’s successor, No. vote for president,” Fox said. 25, took the field for the football Pete Caster / [email protected] game. Father, Son Use Net to Director of the Bethel School of Arts Erica Dyeson is seen in the relection of a mirror in the hallway of Bethel Church The Rambouillet sheep was on Friday afternoon in Centralia. The church recently launched the school in its downtown Centralia building. Read the 6 years old. CSU officials don’t Capture Exotic Bird in full story online at www.chronline.com. know how he died. Cam was a regular at campus New Hampshire events. At Hughes Stadium, he BOW, N.H. (AP) — An emu would run from one side of the that had been loose and wan- Notable Quote end zone to the other in celebra- dering around New Hampshire tion of a Rams’ touchdown. for more than a week has been He lived with a Fort Collins caught. family on a farm that also has Maria Colby, a bird special- “You think that you know everything, and you don’t. You horses, chickens and other ani- ist who operates Wings of the mals. Dawn Wildlife Sanctuary in haven’t gone to the meetings for four years, and you’re not an Henniker, says a father and son engineer. And while I respect you as an individual, I’m pleading captured the large, flightless No Votes Cast in Small- bird in Bow Sunday afternoon. with you to please let me do my job and please let me represent Town Iowa School The Concord Monitor re- ports Colby searched for the bird the citizens who elected me to this position.” Board Race throughout the week with police MCINTIRE, Iowa (AP) — and neighbors. Vickie Raines An Iowa farmer who was run- The father and son used Col- ning unopposed for his local by’s handheld net to capture the Grays Harbor County commissioner and Flood Authority chairwoman school board failed to earn any bird. Several people helped pick it (see page Main 5 for the full story) votes — not even his own — but up and carry it to Colby’s car. The he’ll probably still get the job. son attempted to catch the bird Randy Richardson, 42, didn’t earlier that day, but the 5-foot tall, find time to vote for himself be- male emu bit him and ran. Today in History tween his full-time maintenance job at a bean processing plant in Today is Tuesday, September 21, was hanged as a spy by the Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson, be- Riceville and his chores on his Police: Masked Man 22, the 265th day of 2015. There British in New York. gan a three-year run on Broadway. farm near McIntire, The Des in Elvis Wig Robbed are 100 days left in the year. The In 1792, the first French Re- In 1949, the Soviet Union ex- Moines Register reported. Jewish Day of Atonement, Yom public was proclaimed. ploded its first atomic bomb. Richardson was recruited to Winery Tasting Room Kippur, begins at sunset. In 1862, President Abraham In 1950, Omar N. Bradley run by school staff, and though GROVER BEACH, Calif. Lincoln issued the preliminary was promoted to the rank of he said he’s “run paper thin the (AP) — Grover Beach police are Today’s Highlight in History: Emancipation Proclamation, de- five-star general, joining an elite way it is,” he agreed because he claring all slaves in rebel states group that included Dwight D. searching for a man accused On September 22, 1975, Sara has two kids in the district. should be free as of January 1, Eisenhower, Douglas MacAr- of robbing the Monarch Gro- Jane Moore attempted to shoot Neighbor Jessie Miller said 1863.