Familiar Foes at State Mossyrock Dam Meeting
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Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com $1 Weekend Edition Saturday, March 4, 2017 Familiar Foes at State Napavine Gets the Best of Toledo / Sports 1 Hunter’s Case Dropped $1.2M in Storm Damage Salkum Man Wants Elk’s Antlers Back After Lewis County Officials Tally the Cost of a String Judge Dismisses Charges Against Him / Main 7 of Winter Storms on Infrastructure / Main 6 Former Sheriff Plans to ‘Reset’ Struggling 911 Center CHANGES: Commissioners Lewis County’s 911 Commu- “There’s been an awful lot of nications Center, the Board of upheaval in the last year, year Put 911 Communications Lewis County Commissioners and a half,” he said. “We want- Center in Control of announced Thursday a reor- ed to bring it back to the center “I think we should do more for their ganization of the department’s again.” pay. I think we should do more for Emergency Management management in a last-minute The commissioners planned Department press conference that followed to announce their intention to their work environment ...” The Chronicle’s inquiry into the place the 911 dispatch center By Natalie Johnson changes. under the wing of Lewis County The board’s No. 1 goal in the Steve Mansfield [email protected] Emergency Management Di- emergency management director discussing endeavor is to stabilize the 911 rector Steve Mansfield at their what should be done for 911 dispatchers After more than a year of center, Commissioner Bobby turmoil and turnover at the Jackson said. please see CENTER, page Main 16 Lewis County PUD and Mossyrock Dam Meeting Packed Centralia With Citizens and Local Leaders City Light Tacoma Power Rep Says Dam Failure Unlikely, Mitigation Necessary Both Likely to Increase Rates in April COMING SOON : Infrastructure Improvements, Maintenance and Increasing Power Rates Have Prompted the Two Agencies to Increase Rates By Aaron Kunkler [email protected] Electrical rates for residents across Lewis County are likely to rise this spring as both the Lewis County Public Utility District and Centralia City Light eye increases. According to an assessment available on the PUD's website, the district is recom- mending raising rates on April 1 by 8.3 percent, averaged across multi- ple usage categories, to meet a more than $3.3 million an- Jordan Nailon / [email protected] nual deficit. Attendees of a public meeting in Mossyrock listen to Tacoma Power Generation Manager Pat McCarty Friday night. The largest us- age catego- EARTHQUAKE FEARS: ry is resi- Commissioner Bobby dential, which currently collects around $33.2 million a year but Jackson Expresses Concerns requires around $35.8 million an- Over Threat to Tourism nually to operate, according to the PUD. By Jordan Nailon The next largest category is [email protected] commercial power, which requires about $12.7 million annually and MOSSYROCK — Nearly 100 peo- generates around $231,238 more ple turned up in Mossyrock on Friday than it costs annually. night for a public meeting in regard Rates could continue to in- to a proposal from Tacoma Power to crease in subsequent years through draw down the level of Riffe Lake by 30 2020 in the projection. feet each summer for the foreseeable Brad Ford, PUD spokesman, future. broke down the rate increases, That audience included all three which vary depending on customer members of the Board of Lewis County class. Commissioners, Mossyrock mayor Daily charges will be increased Thomas Meade, a contingent of law please see RATES, page Main 16 The Mossyrock Dam and surrounding water levels are seen in this photograph taken Wednesday. please see RIFFE, page Main 11 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Home and Garden Show Cash Northwest Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Chamber of Business Jorgensen, Arlene J., 84, Follow Us on Twitter Onalaska @chronline Commerce Going Johnson, Gordon A., 72, Seeking Strong Ryderwood Find Us on Facebook Vendors After Brockman, Alma Jean, 84, www.facebook.com/ Toledo thecentraliachronicle for 52nd Expanding Longmire, James F., 83, Chehalis Annual Bandurski, Robert, 57, Richland to Centralia Gribner, Betty C., 70, The Dalles, Event / Life 1 / Main 4 Oregon Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, March 4, 2017 PAGE TWO News Flying Tiger at State of the Weird City Employee Woman Hopes to Busted for Makeshift Marry in Dress Made Bedroom at Work of Taco Bell Wrappers CRANSTON, R.I. (AP) — IRVINE, Calif. (AP) — The An employee of a Rhode Island wedding of one woman’s dreams city wasn’t sleeping on the job — will take place in a Taco Bell it appears he was sleeping at his while she’s wearing a dress made job. of burrito wrappers. WPRI-TV reported that a The winner of Taco Bell’s Cranston Highway Department “Love and Tacos” contest gets an worker who had just sold his all-expense paid trip to Las Ve- house set up a makeshift bed- gas to get married in a chapel at room on the second floor of the the chain’s flagship restaurant. department’s building. The wedding venue opens to the A photo making its way public later this year. around social media shows a Diane Nguyen entered the room with a bed, a nightstand, contest with an Instagram pic- coffee maker, even slippers and ture of herself wearing a burrito- what appear to be pajamas. wrapper dress while holding a City Administration Direc- tray with her fiancee in front of tor Robert Coupe confirms that a Taco Bell counter. She writes Pete Caster / [email protected] an employee has been disci- that Taco Bell has been there The ball lies out of bounds after Napavine’s Austin Filley attempted to catch and shoot a long pass with seconds re- plined. He said the bedroom was for the couple throughout the maining in the third quarter of a State 2B Boys Basketball Tournament consolation game against Toledo on Friday in use for a short period of time years and the couple’s love “is as morning in Spokane. and the setup has ended. cheesy as a quesadilla.” The worker’s name has not been made public. Notable Quote Tax records indicate that the Widow: Mural of employee closed on a home he Rodney Dangerfield Is was selling on Feb. 24. ‘Less-Than-Flattering’ “The only thing I really wanted was to make sure people actually NEW YORK (AP) — Rodney Man Arrested After Dangerfield made a career out of received some type of notice before someone tried to close them down.” getting “no respect.” His widow Attack on Homeless contends he’s not getting much Jerry Lord in death, either. business owner happy with county permit changes after protest Person ‘Decoy’ NY1 television reported that LAS VEGAS (AP) — Au- Joan Dangerfield doesn’t think a (see page Main 9 for the full story) thorities in Las Vegas say a man mural in his old New York City is in custody after he attacked a neighborhood does him justice. mannequin that police had po- Artist Francesca Robicci sitioned to resemble a homeless painted the mural last year in Today in History person. Queens, working from a photo The Las Vegas Review-Jour- provided by Dangerfield. Today’s Highlight in History: In 1837, the Illinois town of that shook southern and eastern nal reported Friday that a judge Dangerfield also donated Chicago was incorporated as a Europe. On March 4, 1917, Re- set bail at $50,000 for 30-year- $1,000 toward the project, which city with a population of 4,170. In 1987, President Ronald Rea- publican Jeannette Rankin of old Shane Schindler. He faces was commissioned by a com- In 1925, President Calvin gan addressed the nation on the Montana took her seat as the one count of carrying a con- munity group. A letter from Coolidge’s inauguration was Iran-Contra affair, acknowledg- first woman elected to the U.S. cealed weapon. her lawyer calls the image “less- broadcast live on 21 radio sta- ing that his overtures to Iran House of Representatives, the Schindler’s arrest report than-flattering” and says Rod- tions coast-to-coast. had “deteriorated” into an arms- same day President Woodrow states police set up the manne- ney Dangerfield “deserves noth- In 1937, at the 9th Academy for-hostages deal. Wilson took his oath of office for quin resembling a sleeping man ing but the highest respect.” The Awards, “The Great Ziegfeld” was In 1998, the U.S. Supreme a second term (it being a Sunday, after detectives had no leads on artist says she worked for free named outstanding production Court ruled that sexual harass- a private ceremony was held in- the slayings of two homeless and is heartbroken but is willing of 1936 and its leading lady, Lu- ment at work can be illegal even side the U.S. Capitol; a second, men earlier this year in down- ise Rainer (RY’-nuhr), won best when the offender and victim to return to New York City from public swearing-in took place town Las Vegas. actress; Paul Muni won best actor are of the same gender. Italy to do some cosmetic work. the next day). The report states Schindler Residents were divided on for “The Story of Louis Pasteur.” Ten years ago: NAACP Presi- approached the “decoy” on Feb. the comedic controversy. On this date: In 1940, Kings Canyon Na- dent Bruce S. Gordon an- 22, looked around for traffic and “I think you could have soft- In 1789, the Constitution of the tional Park in California was nounced he was quitting the struck it with a hammer he had ened it,” Gillian Archer said. United States went into effect as established.