Investigation Questions State Patrol Findings in Fatal Onalaska Collision
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$1 Weekend Edition Strong Saturday, June 18, 2016 Finish Former W.F. West Standout Has Big Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com Year for Huskies / Sports 1 Harold’s Burger Bar Chehalis Officer Honored Secret Ingredients, Grandmotherly Love Rick Silva’s Name Added to Lewis County Law at Heart of Centralia Burger Joint / Main 3 Enforcement Memorial After Death / Main 7 Chehalis Investigation Questions State Patrol Tentatively Findings in Fatal Onalaska Collision Set to Announce New City Manager at Next Meeting DECISION: One Finalist Previously Faced Questions Over Use of Funds By The Chronicle The city of Chehalis has not yet determined who its new city manager will be after complet- ing interviews with committees and council members. There are four finalists for the position. According to current City Manager Merlin MacReynold, the council will continue to evaluate the candi- dates with the hope of making an announcement at the June 27 council meeting. “I can say they are focusing on a couple of them, but no de- cision had been made yet,” Mac- Pete Caster / [email protected] Reynold said, although more Cari Mullinax, the mother of A.J. Mullinax, the teen driver who died last summer in a car crash on state Route 508, stands near a roadside memorial for the teenagers specific information could not on Friday afternoon near Onalaska. be released. CAUSE IN QUESTION: tragic night left by friends and please see MANAGER, page Main 13 family members of those killed. Private Investigation “It surprises me every Places Blame on time when I go by and see it’s changed,” said Cari Mullinax, Toledo School Intoxicated Driver whose 17-year-old son A.J. was Rather Than Teen driving one of the vehicles in District to Host the July 13 crash. By Natalie Johnson Mullinax said seeing the me- Meetings on [email protected] morial change with time makes her feel both happy and sad. Possible Bond Nearly one year after a crash “You don’t want your child to on a winding stretch of state be forgotten,” she said. By The Chronicle Route 508 just west of Onalas- Still, Mullinax avoids driv- The Facilities Advisory Com- ka left three teenagers dead, ing by the crash site. mittee of the Toledo School Dis- mourners continue to leave “I hate it,” she said. “I often trict has completed a thorough reminders of the lives lost at a will drive miles out of my way to facilities evaluation with the roadside memorial at the crash go around.” help of a consulting firm, and is site. The State Patrol’s extensive ready to share the information Painted rocks, a cowboy with a large audience through a hat, balloons, all mementos of a please see FINDINGS, page Main 13 series of public presentations. The committee, comprised of community members, staff and students, has met regularly since January to evaluate and prioritize facilities projects and to make recommendations to the school board for improve- ments, according to a press re- lease from the district. In preparation for a possible bond measure in February 2017, the first presentation has been scheduled for 6 p.m. on June 21 at the Toledo School District Office, located at 130 N. Fifth Street. A note written on an American lag to Dakota Dunivin, 18, stands alongside A.J. Mullinax is seen in this photograph provided by his family. Mullinax was be- a memorial near state Route 508 where he, along with two other Onalaska hind the wheel of one of the vehicles involved in a fatal crash last summer. He was teenagers, was killed in a car accident last summer. one of three teenagers to die in the collision. please see BOND, page Main 13 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Stepping Back in Time Headed to Prison Lewis County Area Since 1889 Borst Man Gets Follow Us on Twitter Home 15 Years @chronline Organizers for Home Find Us on Facebook Plan for Invasion www.facebook.com/ Summer Robbery in thecentraliachronicle Events Chehalis / Life 1 / Main 5 Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, June 18, 2016 PAGE TWO News Outtake: Eyes on the Future of the Weird Exclusive Private School 1,200-Foot Amusement Sues Affordable School Ride Proposed for NY’s Over Name Penn Station BOSTON (AP) — In Mas- NEW YORK (AP) — Catch- sachusetts, an exclusive private ing a train at New York’s crowd- school has filed a $2 million ed Penn Station is no thrill. But a lawsuit, asking a judge to force development team has proposed a more affordable school that a novel plan to overhaul the sta- serves a large number of minor- tion: Build a 1,200-foot thrill ity and low-income students to ride on top of it and pay for reno- change its name. vations by charging $35 a ticket. The Commonwealth School The plan submitted to state in Boston says Commonwealth officials envisions a transparent Academy in Springfield decep- tower called the Halo with 11 tively uses the word “common- gondolas offering free-fall rides wealth,” causing the Boston of varying speeds. school “great harm.” “You’re experiencing New The academy has offered York City in an unforgettable to include “Springfield” in its way,” said Alexandros Wash- name but refuses to drop “com- burn, president of Brooklyn Pete Caster / [email protected] monwealth.” It accuses the Capital Partners, the partner- Attendees of the Centralia College commencement ceremony are seen in a relection on the sunglasses of a graduate Boston school of engaging in a ship behind the plan. “It’s some- Friday afternoon at Centralia College. See more photographs on page Main 16 and online at www.chronline.com. “knowingly false and malicious thing you will not be able to do campaign.” anywhere else in the world.” Annual tuition and fees at John Gerber, chairman of Notable Quote the Commonwealth School in Brooklyn Capital Partners, said Boston’s Back Bay are $40,000. the ride is feasible from an en- At Springfield’s Commonwealth gineering standpoint, but he Academy, about 90 miles away, acknowledged that government annual average tuition is less agencies and New Yorkers might “I believe Rick would tell you, ‘I want to be than $1,200. not embrace the idea. remembered as a loving husband, father, grandfather The Commonwealth School Other ideas floated for reno- was founded in 1957; Common- vating the station have included and friend.’ He always talked about family.” wealth Academy was founded in more traditional concepts, like 2011. building office towers. Rob Snaza “It’s a public process and there ‘I Think I Can Take Him:’ are a lot of stakeholders,” Gerber Lewis County sheriff said. “Anything that’s new is go- (see page Main 7 for the full story) Mayor Challenges ing to be complicated.” Washburn and Gerber sub- College Wrestler mitted their plan after Demo- Today in History SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) cratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo put — Sacramento, California, May- out a request in January for pro- Today’s Highlight in History: casting a vote in the 1872 presi- and the proclamation of a re- or Kevin Johnson usually wres- posals to renovate the rail hub he dential election. (The judge public. On June 18, 1983, astronaut tles with local issues when he’s in called “a blight on the greatest fined Anthony $100, but she In 1964, President Lyndon Sally K. Ride became America’s the City Council chambers. This city in the world.” never paid the penalty.) B. Johnson and Japanese Prime first woman in space as she week, though, he just wrestled. Plans to redo Penn Sta- In 1908, William Howard Taft Minister Hayato Ikeda spoke to and four colleagues blasted off Johnson and the City Coun- tion, which handles more than was nominated for president by each other by telephone as they cil on Tuesday were honoring 650,000 passengers daily on aboard the space shuttle Chal- lenger on a six-day mission. the Republican National Con- inaugurated the first trans-Pa- Sacramento City College for Amtrak and commuter rail lines, vention in Chicago. cific cable completed by AT&T winning the state wrestling have been stalled for years. On this date: In 1940, during World War II, between Japan and Hawaii. championship. Washburn and Gerber both In 1778, American forces en- British Prime Minister Winston In 1979, President Jimmy Johnson, a former pro bas- previously served as president of tered Philadelphia as the British Churchill urged his country- Carter and Soviet President Leo- ketball player who also used to the Penn Station Redevelopment withdrew during the Revolu- men to conduct themselves in nid I. Brezhnev signed the SALT wrestle, decided to try his moves Corp., a public-private body that tionary War. a manner that would prompt II strategic arms limitation trea- on one of the community college oversaw an earlier upgrade. In 1812, the War of 1812 began future generations to say, “This ty in Vienna. champions. The mayor jokingly “We have been there. We as the United States Congress was their finest hour.” Charles In 1986, 25 people were killed told one of the champion wres- know that a new approach is approved, and President James de Gaulle delivered a speech when a twin-engine plane and tlers that he could “take him.” The needed,” said Washburn, an ar- Madison signed, a declaration of on the BBC in which he rallied helicopter carrying sightseers two got into the standard opening chitect who also has held the job war against Britain. his countrymen after the fall of collided over the Grand Canyon. pose on the floor of the Coun- of chief urban designer for New In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte France to Nazi Germany.