'I Could Actually Hear the Teeth Chewing Into the Bone'
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$1 Mid-Week Edition Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016 Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com Adna’s Two-Way Threat Apperson Pulls Double Duty in XC, Football / Sports 1 Language of Business Economic Development Passion for Computers Inspires Tech Creation of Jobs, Flood Mitigation Highlight Business at PC Savvy in Chehalis / Life 1 Tuesday Candidate Debate in Chehalis / Main 3 ‘I Could Actually Hear the Teeth Chewing Into the Bone’ Chehalis Man Survives Grizzly Bear Attack in Montana In this Aug. 1 ile photo, cars and trucks stream by as workers from WSDOT's emergency contractor, Guy F. Atkinson Construction, guide a 50- foot temporary steel bridge into place over the damaged Chamber Way overpass in Chehalis. Chamber Way Overpass to Be Rebuilt Next Year By The Chronicle The temporary Chamber Way bridge over Interstate 5 in Chehalis will be replaced with a permanent solution next year. On Tuesday, the Washing- ton State Department of Trans- portation announced its plans for a new overpass with con- struction to begin in 2017. The overpass was severely damaged by an oversized load in July and Pete Caster / [email protected] a tempo- Neil Rico, 29, of Chehalis, who was attacked by a grizzly bear just over a week ago while hunting in Montana, poses for a portrait in Centralia on Tuesday afternoon. rary bridge was later installed. ‘IT WILL NEVER STOP ME’: WSDOT After Attack, Neil evaluated the long-term Rico Says He Will possibilities for the overpass Continue Hunting and will move forward with a project to build a four-lane By Justyna Tomtas structure that also includes bi- [email protected] cycle and pedestrian access. The overpass will be wider What started out as a normal and taller. Montana archery hunting trip To be consistent with cur- quickly took a turn for the worse rent design standards, the over- as one Chehalis resident was re- pass will be at least 16 feet, 6 cently mauled by a grizzly bear. inches above the freeway, stated The attack took place Sept. the press release. 25 near Livingston, Montana, “This community-focused while lifelong hunter Neil Rico, solution would not be possible 29, searched for a prize bull elk without the support from legis- to bring home. lative leadership and our federal “I could actually hear the transportation partners,” Roger While sitting in a hospital bed, Neil Rico, 29, of Chehalis, shows fresh cuts and puncture wounds after surviving a grizzly please see BEAR, page Main 16 bear attack while hunting outside of Livingston, Montana. please see BRIDGE, page Main 16 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Chehalis Theater Time to Work Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Country Workers Johnson, Glen A., 70, Follow Us on Twitter Tenino @chronline Artist Continue Schmidt, Charlotte Joan, Highlights Construction 83, Tacoma Find Us on Facebook www.facebook.com/ Soft of New thecentraliachronicle Opening in Clocktower at Chehalis College / Main 5 / Main 4 CH564690ca.do LOCAL PEOPLE, LOCAL DECISIONS! CHEHALIS 714 W. Main Street HOW CAN 360.740.0770 WE HELP Also TOLEDO, You? WINLOCK, TUMWATER & OLYMPIA Keith Macy Matt DeBord HOME | CONSTRUCTION | BUSINESS NMLS# 539574 Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016 PAGE TWO News Blood-Stained Reminder of the Weird Young Bull Moose Visits ta-Strangio family erupted in a bloody vendetta in Germany in Downtown Bismarck 2007, when a gangland massacre and State Capitol at an Italian restaurant left six people dead. BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A The carnage drew interna- young bull moose has been tak- tional attention to the reach ing in the sights of North Da- of Calabria’s ‘ndrangheta mob, kota’s capital city, visiting a mall, which is today considered more several backyards and even wandering in the grounds of the powerful than the Sicilian Ma- state Capitol. fia and has become one of the Bismarck Animal Control world’s biggest cocaine traffick- officials estimate the animal, ers. which was first spotted in Bis- The Reggio Calabria police marck on Tuesday, is around a chief, Raffaele Grassi, said Pelle year old. The moose has drawn was the last of the “strategic pro- crowds wherever he goes, but tagonists” of the long-running police are warning onlookers San Luca feud. Pete Caster / [email protected] to keep their distance because “With his capture and the tri- Neil Rico, 29, of Chehalis, shows the shredded clothes that were left over from when a grizzly bear attacked him while the wild animal is likely to be als underway, each piece of the he was hunting near Livingston, Montana, just over a week ago. See the story and additional photos on today’s stressed and volatile. mosaic has been put in place,” front page and online at www.chronline.com. City Animal Warden Ed the ANSA news agency quoted Woodcock says it’s the time of Grassi as saying at a press con- year when moose mothers kick ference announcing the arrest. out their young. He says the Notable Quote The San Luca feud cooled be- animal likely wandered into the city from the nearby unincorpo- tween 2000 and 2006, but erupt- rated communities of Baldwin ed again when Maria Strangio, or McKenzie. the wife of one of the presumed “All attorneys have a duty to comply with the rules of evidence and Adult male moose can weigh heads of the Strangio clan, was up to 1,500 lbs. killed on Dec. 25, 2006. The the courts. That duty is especially important for the approximately retaliatory massacre in Duis- 570 lawyers of the Attorney General’s Office ... The court found that burg, Germany marked the first Police in Italy Find known time the ‘ndrangheta ex- we fell short of that duty in this case.” Fugitive Mob Boss ported a vendetta. Hiding in Home Bunker Bob Ferguson ROME (AP) — One of Italy’s Google Scraps 100,000- state attorney general most-wanted fugitive mob boss- Euro Bill Run Up by (see page Main 6 for the full story) es was arrested after five years on the lam Wednesday when po- Spanish Kid lice found him hiding in a home MADRID (AP) — Google bunker built between the bath- has written off a 100,000-euro room and his son’s bedroom. Today’s Highlight in History: silent and sound-synchronized launched a surprise attack on ($112,000) bill run up by a sequences. Israel during the Yom Kippur Antonio Pelle, 54, crawled On Oct. 6, 1976, President 12-year-old Spanish boy who In 1939, in a speech to the out of his hiding place on his Gerald R. Ford, in his second holiday. (Israel, initially caught mistakenly believed he was earn- Reichstag, German Chancellor stomach to the top of an armoire presidential debate with Demo- off-guard, suffered heavy losses Adolf Hitler spoke of his plans that had shielded the bunker at ing money through an advertis- crat Jimmy Carter, asserted that before rebounding and push- to reorder the ethnic layout of his home in southern Reggio ing account he opened with the there was “no Soviet domination ing back the Arab forces before Europe — a plan which would Calabria. Video of his surrender internet giant to promote videos of eastern Europe.” (Ford later a cease-fire finally took hold in entail settling the “Jewish prob- showed at least two dozen police of his municipal band. conceded such was not the case.) the nearly three-week conflict.) lem.” surrounding the wardrobe wait- News reports said the boy On this date: In 1979, Pope John Paul II, on ing for him to emerge. from the eastern city of Tor- In 1949, U.S.-born Iva Toguri a week-long U.S. tour, became Pelle, known as “Mamma,” revieja ran up the Google Ad- In 1683, thirteen families D’Aquino, convicted of trea- the first pontiff to visit the White son for being Japanese wartime was serving a 20-year prison Words bill over two months. His from Krefeld, Germany, arrived House, where he was received by broadcaster “Tokyo Rose,” was sentence for mafia association, mother, Inma Quesada, told the in Philadelphia to begin Ger- President Jimmy Carter. sentenced in San Francisco to arms and drug trafficking when El Pais newspaper that her son, mantown, one of America’s old- In 1981, Egyptian President est settlements. 10 years in prison (she ended up he slipped out of a hospital in Jose Javier, said he wanted to be- Anwar Sadat was shot to death the town of Locri in September In 1884, the Naval War Col- serving more than six). come a “rich youtuber” but did by extremists while reviewing a 2011. He had been taken to the lege was established in Newport, In 1958, the nuclear subma- not realize what he was doing. hospital to be treated for anorex- Rhode Island. rine USS Seawolf surfaced after military parade. ia, Italian news reports said. The story came to light when In 1891, Charles Stewart Par- spending 60 days submerged. In 1989, actress Bette Davis Pelle, who was on the Interior the bank notified his parents nell, the “Uncrowned King of In 1960, the historical drama died in Neuilly-sur-Seine (nu- Ministry’s list of most danger- that Google was looking to Ireland,” died in Brighton, Sus- “Spartacus,” starring Kirk Doug- yee-sur-sehn), France, at age 81. ous mob fugitives, is considered charge the amount to the boy’s sex, England. las and directed by Stanley Ku- Ten years ago: The U.N. Secu- the boss of the Pelle-Romeo clan account. In 1927, the era of talking pic- brick, had its world premiere in rity Council adopted a statement of San Luca, in Italy’s southern Google confirmed Wednes- tures arrived with the opening New York.