Pe Ell Forest Fire Nearly Contained as Wet Weather Arrives / Main 7 Weekly Grid Picks / Sports $1 Mid-Week Edition Thursday, Sept. 18, 2014 Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com Former Seahawk to Talk House of Handiwork Mack Strong Will Attend Men’s Night Rochester Man Makes Kaleidoscopes, Out Event in Centralia / Main 4 Shares Love of Crafts with Wife / Life 1 Centralia Police Bust Large Illegal Pot Operation ARRESTED: Three People police to a Kelso home. according to a press release from Three people now face the Centralia Police Depart- Face Charges as criminal charges: George Szer- ment. Marijuana Investigation Leads ency, 62; Teresa Torres, 60; and The investigation found and cash to Kelso 43-year-old Dennis McCracken. that the Kelso-based marijuana seized by All three are from Kelso. manufacturing operation was Centralia By Stephanie Schendel The investigation, which supplying illegal marijuana to police is spanned two months, conclud- seen in this
[email protected] Pierce, Thurston, Lewis and ed on Monday when Centralia Cowlitz counties, according to photograph Local police seized two ve- officers, with Kelso police and the release. The trio were alleg- provided by the police hicles, about $51,000 in cash and the Cowlitz County Drug Task edly using the cover of supply- department. about $84,000 worth of mari- Force, served a search warrant ing pot to medical marijuana juana products after a massive on a house on the 800 block of drug investigation led Centralia South Seventh Avenue in Kelso, please see POT, page Main 12 Tenino Baby, 1, Toledo Congregation Dies After Being Celebrates 125 Years Struck by Presbyterian Church Predates Incorporation of City Vehicle DRIVEWAY: Police Say Driver Is Not At Fault for ‘Tragic Accident’ By Stephanie Schendel
[email protected] A 1-year-old Tenino girl died Tuesday morning after she was hit by a car in her family’s drive- way, according to the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office.