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Bethel Church Brings Water Cheap Gas Jam to Orphans Abroad / Life 1 85-Cent Fuel Snarls Traffic in Centralia / Main 3 $1 Weekend Edition Saturday, Aug. 29, 2015 Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com Ryderwood History Bringing the Fight Senior Living Community Looks Ahead as It Napavine-Area Firefighters Travel Across Prepares to Celebrate Centennial / Main 6 Washington to Assist at Blazes / Main 4 Watching and Waiting Residents React to Approaching Alder Lake Fire By Dameon Pesanti emergency vehicles zoom up the except for a half dozen places [email protected] normally quiet road. where gray columns of smoke “At times, you never know reach into the sky. The scent MINERAL — On Friday what’s going on,” he said. “We’ve of burning wood lingers in the afternoon, Tim Milbrath is sit- had little fires before, but noth- air. Pleasant Valley Road resi- ting in a lawnchair outside of his ing this intense.” dents say their cars are covered Pete Caster / [email protected] house on Pleasant Valley Road From the valley floor, the with ash every morning. Several People look out the window of a Jeep as it drives past U.S. Forest Service employ- and watching the smoke billow mountainside is surprisingly ees helping people with information concerning the Alder Lake Fire near Elbe on up from the Alder Lake Fire as close and looks like it’s steaming, please see FIRE, page Main 11 Friday afternoon. GET YOUR GARLIC Festival Favorite Hits Southwest Washington Fairgrounds Ageless Voices Converge on Morton for Sacred Harp Singing Event PUBLIC INVITED TO TWO DAYS OF TUNES: Earliest American Songs Come Alive Today and Sunday in East Lewis County; No Musical Experience Necessary By Brian Mittge For The Chronicle The eyes and enthusiastic voices of Amer- ica are centered on Morton this weekend as an international annual sing-along event happens today and Sunday at the Tiller Art Center in Morton. Local members of the public are invited — no musical experience necessary — and the event is free. At least 120 singers have signed up to at- Pete Caster / [email protected] tend, coming to East Lewis Gunnar S., 4, of Chehalis, waves at Garlicious, the mascot for Garlic Fest, played by Isabella Figueroa, 13, of Adna, while she walked around the South- INSIDE: County from New York, west Washington Fairgrounds on Friday afternoon. Garlic Fest runs through the weekend. Virginia, Texas, Minnesota, • If You Go Colorado, California, Brit- ish Columbia and beyond. • What Is Shape GARLIC FEST: Kate Fortin, a 2012 65 Strains of Note Singing? White Pass High School Garlic Available During see page 11 graduate, helped plan the Three-Day Event event. The day harkens back By Justyna Tomtas two centuries to a form of group singing [email protected] called shape note. Instead of the typical musi- cal notation with circles on a staff, each note Chehalis Garlic Fest is cur- is a different shape. It’s a system designed to rently underway, offering a be easy for musical novices to pick up. plethora of artisan and craft Shape note singing was born in the South, vendors, along with 65 varieties and this is the first time that its practitioners of garlic. will come to the Pacific Northwest for one In its 19th year, the festival of their biggest annual events. In the 35-year this year showcases different history of the annual Young People’s Con- vendors and is aimed at being vention, this is only the fourth time it’s been a family-friendly event, while held outside its Southern homeland and it’s giving back to local organiza- the first time it’s been held in the West. tions in Lewis County. The national Sacred Harp group (a shape “It’s a fun event. Everyone singing group named after its primary mu- has an amazing time and en- sic book, “The Sacred Harp”) had already joys it,” Judy DeVaul, coordina- decided to recognize the enthusiastic shape tor of the festival, said. Live music is scheduled singing community in the Washington- Owners of Newaukum Valley Farms, Josh Hyatt and his wife, Melissa, prepare their booth for the big weekend please see SACRED, page Main 11 please see GARLIC, page Main 11 rush at Garlic Fest on Friday night at the Southwest Washington Fairgrounds in Chehalis. The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Unemployment Gridiron Games Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 County More Photos Jones, Frederick Joseph, Follow Us on Twitter Sees Slight of Football 80, Centralia @chronline Uptick in Fun as Start Find Us on Facebook Residents of New www.facebook.com/ Without Season thecentraliachronicle Jobs Approaches / Main 5 / Sports Main 2 The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, Aug. 29, 2015 PAGE TWO News Daily Outtake: Red Sun Rising of the Weird Parliament’s neo-Gothic Benedictine Monk clock tower is one of London’s Relaxing Atop most recognizable landmarks, and its bell is one of London’s Wind Turbine characteristic sounds. The fa- Spotted by Drone mous bongs echoed through the city without fail through World PORTSMOUTH, R.I. (AP) — War II bombing raids, though A Benedictine monk who works they have been silenced a few at a private Rhode Island school times for repairs, and by acci- has discovered that finding soli- dent or the weather. tude is no easy feat, even 175 feet Although the clock tower is in the air. popularly known as Big Ben, the Brother Joseph Byron was name actually refers to the 13½- recently relaxing atop the Ports- ton Great Bell inside. The tower mouth Abbey School’s wind tur- was renamed the Elizabeth Tow- bine — as he often does — when er in 2012 to mark Queen Eliza- a drone zoomed in. beth II’s 60 years on the throne. Video taken by the drone, owned by a Californian on va- cation, shows Byron sprawled Teacher Who Was Late across the turbine’s flat surface, Ted S. Warren / The Associated Press with views of Narragansett Bay 111 Times Says He Was An airplane used to ight wildires lies past the sun, which appears orange due to heavy smoke in the air, while battling in the background. The footage Eating Breakfast a blaze that lared up in the late afternoon near Omak Thursday. Fireighters were holding their own Thursday against the largest wildire on record in Washington state, even as rising temperatures and increased winds stoked the lames. was posted online this week. TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — An Byron said Friday that alum- elementary school teacher who ni he hadn’t heard from in years was allowed to keep his job de- are contacting him after see- spite being late for work 111 ing the video. He says he found times in two years said Friday Notable Quote the drone interesting at first but that breakfast is to blame for his was annoyed after it zoomed by tardiness. a second time. Byron says he “I have a bad habit of eating climbs the turbine, which was breakfast in the morning, and I “I saw this opportunity to put Morton and Randle and East Lewis County installed in 2006, because he en- lost track of time,” 15-year vet- joys the view. eran teacher Arnold Anderson on the map. I was like, it’s perfect, there’s a really great location in the told The Associated Press. Tiller Art Center. I bet it would be great for a singing.” Clock Shock: British In a decision filed Aug. 19, an arbitrator in New Jersey rejected Admit Big Ben’s Bongs an attempt by the Roosevelt El- Kate Fortin ementary School in New Bruns- 2012 White Pass High School graduate and an organizer of Not Quite on Time wick to fire Anderson from his LONDON (AP) — Don’t set $90,000-a-year job, saying he this weekend’s shape note singing event in Morton your watch by Big Ben. was entitled to progressive dis- (see the front page for the full story) Officials say the famous clock cipline. But the arbitrator also at Britain’s Parliament — used by criticized Anderson’s claim that Londoners for decades to check the quality of his teaching out- the time — has recently been weighed his tardiness. Editor’s Pick slow by as much as six seconds. Anderson was late 46 times The 156-year-old clock in the most recent school year Artful Sarcasm chimes every 15 minutes and through March 20 and 65 times emits deep bongs to mark the in the previous school year, the Readers tend to have one of and entertaining to see someone me while I was on vacation. hour. Its inaccuracy was noticed arbitrator said. Anderson said two responses to the sarcastic dis- engage him at his own game. She shoots out of the gate by staff at BBC radio, which he was one to two minutes late to patches of resident sports editor I highly suggest a visit to with a right jab. broadcasts the bongs live at 6 p.m. school “at the most” but was pre- and columnist Aaron VanTuyl. today’s Opinion page on Main “Aaron, Aaron, Aaron! I feel Ian Westworth, one of Par- pared and was never late for class. They hate it 8, where Discover! Children’s your pain. I mean, covering for liament’s three clocksmiths, told “I have to cut out eating or they love it. Museum board member Mari- the editor just has to be crazy the BBC the clock had become breakfast at home,” he said Fri- There’s not lynn Chintella serves up a piping stressful.

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