Softball: Napavine, Adna Get Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com League Sweeps / Sports $1 Early Week Edition Napavine No-Hitters Tuesday, Tigers Blank Onalaska in Back-to-Back Outings / Sports April 21, 2015 Marijuana First Youth Have Talent Couple Opens Lewis County’s First Legal Pot Local Clubs Present Annual Showcase at Business on State Street in Chehalis / Main 3 Packed Fox Theatre in Centralia / Main 4 Service Providers The Hunt for Hoof Rot Support A Volunteer’s Effort to Survey Elk in Southwest Washington Interstate Revisions LONGTERM:Hospital, Fire District, Bus Drivers Think Changes Are Positive By Justyna Tomtas [email protected] Area residents have recently been rerouted on Interstate 5 after traveling the same route for decades, causing some confusion, but emergency re- sponders, hos- INSIDE: pital staff and • Project traffic local bus driv- flow map ers have said the changes will be see page positive in the Main 13 long run. Travelers who used I-5 to get from the Harrison Avenue exit to Mellen Street were re- cently redirected to distributor lanes with the goal of decreas- ing congestion and merging on the freeway, a move that in Dameon Pesanti / [email protected] large part has been supported From the cab of his Dodge truck, Jim Boylan Jr. scans land owned by Weyerhaeuser in the Minot Peak area near Raymond for elk as part of a survey being conducted by area service providers. by the Department of Fish and Wildlife. please see REVISIONS, page Main 13 By Dameon Pesanti [email protected] ‘‘I wanted to be part of Skier Dies Sportsmen throughout the Pacific Northwest have built a the solution before we After Crashing lifestyle around elk hunting that brings them closer to nature and lose our elk.’’ Into Tree at bonds them to the ungulate as something to be both admired Jim Boylan Jr. White Pass and consumed. surveyor Many in Southwest Wash- By The Chronicle and The Olympian ington fear that lifestyle is under threat by a disease known as An Olympia woman died an area stretching from Pacific hoof rot. skiing at White Pass Ski Area County to Mount St. Helens. Well before sunrise on Sun- Saturday after striking a tree. He was assigned to survey day morning, Jim Boylan Jr. left Lewis County Coroner the Weyerhaeuser-owned Ab- his home in Spanaway to make Warren McLeod said an au- erdeen Tree Farm, in the Minot the more than two-hour drive topsy for the victim, Cathy L. Peak area. to Raymond. Boylan is one of Carlson, 60, showed she died of Hoof rot causes hooves to dozens of volunteers who signed blunt force trauma to the head deform and eventually fall off up with the Washington De- and chest. The death was ruled completely, leaving the affect- Using a WDFW issued map as a guide and his smartphone to track milage, Jim partment of Fish and Wildlife to an accident. ed animal limping. Scientists Boylan Jr. plots a 50-mile route through the Weyerhaeuser-owned Aberdeen survey elk populations through- please see SKIER, page Main 13 Tree Farm to search for elk, both healthy and sufering from a bacteria induced out Southwest Washington in please see HOOF, page Main 11 hoof rot. The Chronicle, Serving The Greater A Friend of Borst Battling With Beatles Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Asher, Jerry Wayne, Follow Us on Twitter Master Thurston 65, Chehalis Gardener to County @chronline Be Honored Wages Find Us on Facebook at Ceremony War on www.facebook.com/ in Centralia Scotch thecentraliachronicle Park / Life Broom / Main 6 Celebrating Over SUMMER FORECAST: HOTTER THAN USUAL! 50 Years ARE YOU PREPARED? 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Sea California Woman Eats lions of this size are “really small, Three Steak Dinners in really look cute, but they’re dan- gerous,” he said. “These are wild 20 Minutes in Texas animals.” AMARILLO, Texas (AP) — A They’re also not fit to be kept competitive eater has conquered as pets. three 72-ounce steak dinners in “The animal needs fluids, about 20 minutes during a food needs special treatments,” he challenge held at a restaurant in said. “You can’t just feed it dog Amarillo, Texas. food. It’s not going to work.” Dozens of people gathered The federal National Ocean- outside The Big Texan Steak ic and Atmospheric Administra- Ranch on Sunday afternoon to tion is investigating the abduc- watch Molly Schuyler eat the tion because baby sea lions are a steaks, plus three baked po- protected species. Police began a tatoes, three shrimp cocktails, cruelty to animal investigation. three salads and three rolls. Schuyler finished her first steak dinner in 4 minutes and 18 New England Aquarium seconds, which beats the restau- Offering Penguins People take advantage of the sunshine and a fee free weekend at Paradise at Mount Rainier Sunday. Park entry fees rant’s record of 4 minutes and 58 were waived Saturday and Sunday to kick of National Park Week. Reporter Kaylee Osowski was among those who seconds, which she set last May. ‘Honeymoon Suites’ took advantage of the free access to the national park, snapping this photograph on Sunday afternoon She told the Amarillo Globe- BOSTON (AP) — The New News that she had to turn down England Aquarium wants its a fourth steak, because she was endangered African penguins to sick of the taste and not because get a little steamy. Notable Quote she was full. Aquarium experts are play- Schuyler, who’s from Sacra- ing matchmaker behind the mento, California, ate 363 wings scenes to encourage eight pairs in 30 minutes at a Philadelphia of African penguins to breed competition in January 2014. more chicks. Biologists say that “Most of our weeds were brought here by will help a population that’s ex- pected to be extinct in the wild someone with the best of intentions, but when Police: Seal or Sea Lion by 2025 to continue to thrive in they get here they don’t have the natural Pup Abducted From Los captivity. The Boston facility is giving enemies that they have in their native land. “ Angeles Beach its penguins “honeymoon suites” LOS ANGELES (AP) — — cozy plastic igloo-style homes Rick Johnson Whoever snatched a seal or sea and other private nooks off the lion pup from a Los Angeles main exhibit designed to get Thurston County Noxious Weed Coordinator beach early Sunday should not them in the mood. (see page Main 6) be fooled by the animal’s cute- Over the past 15 years, the ness — they could suffer a vi- aquarium has sent 28 birds to cious bite, an animal rescue ex- seven different zoos and aquari- pert said. ums around North America. Staf Pick A witness to the abduction World Penguin Day is April 25. said four people wrapped the Reconsidering the Lamprey pup in a blanket and left in a car Firefighters Rescue around 3:20 a.m. from Dock- Last week, I used this space could encounter. I’m 82 years After reader Lowell’s letter, weiler State Beach, just west of Duck Stuck in Fireplace to provide a tongue-in-cheek old. Hunted and fished most I found this on The Associated the city’s international airport, SLIDELL, La. (AP) — Fire- endorsement for of my life, and never heard of a Press: said Los Angeles Police Officer fighters in Louisiana have res- the Pacific lam- lamprey before, until I saw them “Researchers say high levels Rosario Herrera. The witness cued a duck lodged in a fireplace. prey, an eel-like listed in the 2014-2015 game de- of pesticides, flame retardants, said the two men and two wom- WVUE-TV reported fire- fish that has be- partment rule book, on page 17 and mercury in Pacific lampreys en in their early to mid-20s were fighters in St. Tammany Parish come the focus at the bottom under other fish. may be contributing to their harassing and taunting the ani- responded to an unusual call of an education- “It says it’s illegal to take, fish overall decline in the Columbia mal prior to the abduction. Sunday from a home in Slidell al outreach pro- for or posesses any species of River Basin ... Pacific lampreys The initial police report said outside New Orleans. When gram by federal lamprey or use for bait. I thought are integral to ecosystem health. the animal was a small seal. But firefighters arrived, they discov- wildlife officials. something was up. Then the They provide food to tribal com- a companion pup that escaped ered a large duck trapped in the I quipped By Eric Schwartz April 9 newspaper article about munities and offer an alternate and was later found on the beach fireplace with its head poking that the lam- editor new program for lampreys. Are food source to sea lions, terns, is a sea lion, according to Peter out of the bottom of the chim- prey was finally they going on the endnagered and other predators that would Wallerstein, the president of the ney. getting the rec- list and spread to other waters?” otherwise by munching on group Marine Animal Rescue.