Entrepreneur Playoff Preview Marking Global Entrepreneurship Week Trio of C2BL Teams Seek Tickets to With Local Success Stories / Main 3 Tacoma as Quarterfinalists / Sports New Candidate $1 Mid-Week Edition for Lewis County Thursday Commission / Main 6 Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com Nov. 19, 2015 White Pass Ski Area Close Call on the Cowlitz Records Waterway Nears Major Flooding Levels at Randle Before Receding Winds of 110 MPH STORM: National Weather Service Says High Winds Hit Much of Southwest Washington By Dameon Pesanti [email protected] Storms that brought heavy rains to Southwest Washington didn’t bring much snow to the mountains surrounding White Pass, but they did bring ex- tremely powerful wind. White Pass Ski Area spokes- woman Kathleen Goyette said the mountain recorded gusts of up to 110 mph Tuesday night. The gauge eventually quit working at 6 a.m. Wednesday, giving a final reading of between 75 and 80 mph before it stopped. please see WINDS, page Main 13 Twin Transit Pete Caster / [email protected] Board Per Fjugstad stands in his driveway near where water from the looded Cowlitz River rose to early Wednesday morning on McKay Street in Randle. Considers WEATHER: Randle Sees Moderate Flooding, No $485,000 Forced Evacuations Property By Dameon Pesanti [email protected] Purchase for RANDLE — The Cowlitz River inundated valleys and New Regional closed major roads in the Big Bottom of East Lewis Coun- ty late Tuesday, but by the Bus Center time area residents woke up Wednesday morning, the wa- EXPANSION: Money ter had already started reced- Would Purchase Two ing. The pasture east of Peters Adjacent Properties in Road along U.S. Highway 12 Downtown Centralia was completely flooded, and a small herd of cows bunched to By Justyna Tomtas a dry strip of land close to the [email protected] road early Wednesday morn- Twin Transit is planning on ing. expanding its properties and Just past Randle, U.S. establishing more of a down- COWLITZ, town presence in Centralia please see page Main 13 A backyard swing set is seen under loodwaters from the Cowlitz River on Wednesday morning in downtown Randle. with the purchase of two loca- tions on North Pearl Street. Two action items on the Twin Transit Board of Direc- Outages, Road Closures But No Major Damage From Storm tors monthly meeting included By The Chronicle the purchase of two pieces of a powerful rainstorm spiked the highway and climbed to “This thing burned itself out property that Twin Transit in- While the Chehalis River flood concerns across the Pa- 21.88 feet at Randle overnight. before it did any damage,” said tends to develop into a regional at Grand Mound remained at cific Northwest. At 22 feet, the flood would have Steve Mansfield, emergency bus transfer station and transit flood stage Thursday morning, U.S. Highway 12 was closed been classified by the National management director for Lewis office building. all other gauges were showing Tuesday night and the White Weather Service as major. County. receding water levels on Lewis Pass School District canceled The highway reopened please see TRANSIT, page Main 11 County area waterways after classes as the Cowlitz crept over Wednesday afternoon. please see STORM, page Main 14 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Down Not Out Gala for a Cause Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Gospel Providence Johnson, Berneta Mae, 86, Follow Us on Twitter Ethel @chronline Mission Winter Zion, Alice Hannah, 94, Serves Gala Seeks Chehalis Find Us on Facebook Meals Funding for Sareault, Thomas, 78, Randle www.facebook.com/ McNelly, Delleen Rae, 77, thecentraliachronicle Despite New Medical Winlock Flooding Equipment Duvall, Thelma L., 80, / Main 4 / Life 1 Centralia A CENTURY OF HELPING OTHERS. It’s Easy START How can we ONLINE! CHEHALIS CH549366cz.sw help you? 714 W. Main Street 360.740.0770 HOME | CONSTRUCTION | BUSINESS Also TOLEDO, WINLOCK, TUMWATER & OLYMPIA Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015 PAGE TWO News “August 19th was definitely the scariest of the day of my life. Those guys were truly Weird brothers to me.” Man Arrested In Soap/ Massachusetts Woman Daniel Lyon Cocaine Mix-Up Sues Wins $1M on Scratch fireifghter burned in deadly blaze in Pennsylvania Ticket for 2nd Time (see page Main 16 for the full story) ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A BOSTON (AP) — Few people New York man who spent 29 days are lucky enough to win $1 mil- in jail after Pennsylvania state po- lion in the lottery. But one Mas- lice mistook homemade soap for sachusetts woman has now done Today in History cocaine has filed a lawsuit. it twice. The (Allentown) Morning Call Constance Carpenito, of Today’s Highlight in History made the second manned land- temporarily open divided Kash- reported Alexander Bernstein ing on the moon. mir’s heavily militarized border Stoneham, recently won a $1 mil- On Nov. 19, 1915, labor ac- says he had to pay thousands of In 1975, the film “One Flew following a major earthquake. lion prize on a scratch ticket in the tivist Joe Hill was executed by dollars in court costs and missed Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” star- Tropical Storm Gamma deluged $10,000,000 Diamond Millionaire firing squad in Utah for the Thanksgiving with his toddler ring Jack Nicholson, was re- the coast of Central America. instant game. murders of Salt Lake City grocer before the charges were dropped. leased by United Artists. Five years ago: President A spokesman for the Massa- John Morrison and his son, Ar- He’s seeking damages exceeding In 1985, President Ron- Barack Obama, attending a chusetts Lottery says Carpenito ling. $150,000. State troopers and the ald Reagan and Soviet leader NATO summit in Lisbon, Por- field test manufacturer are named also won $1 million on a scratch ticket back in 1996. Mikhail S. Gorbachev met for tugal, won an agreement to build in the suit filed last week. On This Date the first time as they began their a missile shield over Europe, a Both tickets were purchased at Bernstein was a passenger in a summit in Geneva. Actor Stepin victory that risked further ag- the same Stop & Shop supermar- In 1794, the United States Mercedes-Benz police pulled over and Britain signed Jay’s Treaty, Fetchit, whose on-screen per- gravating Russia. Twenty-nine for speeding near Allentown in ket on Main Street in her home- sona of a shuffling, no-account miners were killed by a meth- town. If that isn’t enough, she also which resolved some issues left November 2013. over from the Revolutionary character generated much con- ane explosion in a southern New once bought a $20,000 winning Troopers smelled marijuana, War. troversy, died in Woodland Zealand coal mine. searched the car and found pack- ticket at the store. In 1831, the 20th president Hills, California, at age 83. One year ago: Defying Con- ages the driver said was home- of the United States, James Gar- In 1990, the pop duo Milli gress, President Barack Obama made soap, but tested as cocaine. Tamale Takedown: field, was born in Orange Town- Vanilli were stripped of their ordered sweeping changes in Lab tests later showed it was soap. ship, Ohio. Grammy Award because other U.S. immigration policy possi- Traveler Carried 450 In 1863, President Abraham singers had lent their voices to bly affecting as many as 5 mil- Police Say Hoagie Lincoln dedicated a national the “Girl You Know It’s True” al- lion living illegally in the U.S. Illegal Pork Tamales cemetery at the site of the Civil bum. Authorities in Honduras discov- Hurler Hauled In on LOS ANGELES (AP) — War battlefield of Gettysburg in In 1995, the animated film ered the buried bodies of Maria The contraband was carefully Pennsylvania. “Toy Story,” a Buena Vista Pic- Jose Alvarado, Miss Honduras Assault Charge wrapped in corn husks and con- In 1919, the Senate rejected tures release, had its world pre- 2014, and her sister, Sofia, six FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Po- cealed in the luggage of a traveler the Treaty of Versailles by a vote miere in Hollywood. The video days after they had disappeared. lice have given a New Jersey man when authorities moved in for a of 55 in favor, 39 against, short of the new Beatles single “Free as (Sofia Alvarado’s boyfriend, Plu- special recognition for sandwich tamale takedown at Los Angeles of the two-thirds majority need- a Bird” aired on ABC-TV. tarco Antonio Ruiz, is accused throwing: They locked him up. International Airport. ed for ratification. Ten years ago: Two dozen of the slayings.) Film and theater The Fairfax City Police De- The search by U.S. Customs In 1924, movie producer Iraqi men, women and children director Mike Nichols, 83, died in Haditha were killed by U.S. partment in Virginia says in a and Border Protection agents Thomas H. Ince died after cel- in New York. Marines after a Marine was news release that 32-year-old turned up 450 pork tamales indi- ebrating his 42nd birthday Jonathan M. Magnes of Morris- aboard the yacht of newspaper killed by a roadside bomb. (Eight Today’s Birthdays: Actor vidually packaged in plastic bags. town was drunk when he threw publisher William Randolph Marines were initially charged Alan Young is 96. Talk show “Although tamales are a popu- a sandwich at a 50-year-old man Hearst. (The exact circumstanc- in the case; one was acquitted host Larry King is 82. Former at a Fairfax pizza restaurant and lar holiday tradition, foreign meat es of Ince’s death remain a mys- and six others had their cases General Electric chief executive then drove away.