Dorn Visits W.F. Summer Ball West STEM / Main 3 Legion Baseball Season in Full Swing / Sports $1 Mid-Week Edition Thursday, June 11, 2015 Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com Chehalis Council Considers Panhandling Restrictions By Kaylee Osowski [email protected] After Centralia enacted an ordinance restricting panhan- dling about a year ago, Chehalis started to see an influx of pan- handlers. Now, Chehalis City Council members are considering re- Low Flows, High Fish Counts stricting where people can beg for money in their city. “It’s not that I don’t have feel- ings for these folks, I do, but Cowlitz Falls Dam Attempts Balance With Energy, Fish Restoration some of them do get very ag- gressive in the parking lot over at Walmart,” Chehalis Mayor NEAR-RECORD NUMBERS: Dennis Dawes said at a Monday Lewis County PUD’s city council meeting. Cowlitz Facility please see COUNCIL, page Main 13 Generates a Third of Power Used by Customers Spotted Owl By Justyna Tomtas Numbers Down [email protected] COWLITZ RIVER — at Faster Rate There’s a fine balance to the PORTLAND (AP) — Sci- work being done at the Cowlitz entists report that after two Falls Dam. decades of attempts to save the The facility, owned by the species, northern spotted owl Lewis County Public Utili- numbers in the Northwest are ties District, generates enough still on the decline — and at a electricity for 30 percent of the faster rate. county’s PUD customers while The threatened bird nests also striving to help salmon re- in old trees and is at the heart covery efforts through a number of a decades- of partnerships. long struggle The project, situated about Justyna Tomtas / [email protected] over the fate 13 miles downstream from Ran- Joe First, project manager of the Cowlitz Falls Dam, talks about the facility's generating capabilities on Tuesday. Owned by of the region's dle and a few miles from Riffe the Lewis County Public Utilities District, the dam provides power for approximately 30 percent of the county. old-growth Lake, is the uppermost of four forests. Scien- dams on the Cowlitz River. life, said. “We want to get all the tists at a confer- The 140-foot high concrete benefits we can from the river.” ence Tuesday gravity dam functions as a “run- in Vancouver, of-the-river” operation, gener- Journey on the Cowlitz Mount Rainier Power Production Washington, ating electricity solely with the Cowlitz Falls Dam reported that owl numbers are water that comes through the The Cowlitz Falls Dam is a now dropping at an annual rate facility. 70-megawatt hydroelectric fa- of 3.8 percent, said U.S. Forest As the water moves through cility that spans approximately Service spokesman Glen Sachet. the energy-generating units, so 700 feet across the picturesque Riffe Lake Five years ago, the rate was 2.8 do fish, spurring a plethora of Cowlitz River. percent. efforts to help ensure low mor- Two units, each equipped Dameon Pesanti and Pete Caster reached the The scientists also said popu- tality rates. with a generator and turbine, west end of Rife Lake Wednesday as they raft lation declines are more wide- “There is a balance, and we help produce up to 35 mega- from the headwaters of the Cowlitz to the Co- spread in the bird's range from want to be able to have power watts each when at maximum Longview lumbia River. See more on pages Main 7-10. and fish,” John Serl, a fish bi- capacity as water flows reach please see OWL, page Main 13 ologist with the Washington Department of Fish and Wild- please see FLOWS, page Main 11 Pete Caster / [email protected] USGS Measurements Help USGS Western Washing- ton Field Oice Chief Ken Frasl, left, and hydrological Inform on Cowlitz River Flows technician Dan Restivo set District’s Cowlitz Falls Dam, three workers up the acoustic Doppler ON THE RIVER: Information Used for current proiler, which they from the U.S. Geological Survey slowly comb use to gauge the water a Broad Array of Applications from one side of Riffe Lake to the other, blan- low of rivers around the By Dameon Pesanti keting the water with sound. state. On Tuesday morning, The sound waves aren’t audible, but like [email protected] a trio of USGS members sonar, they give the researchers a picture of measured the low of the COWLITZ RIVER — About a quarter of Cowlitz River below the a mile below the Lewis County Public Utility please see INFORM, page Main 11 Cowlitz Falls Dam. The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Down Come the Trees Stronger With Age Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Crews Flight Haines, Robert L., Follow Us on Twitter Remove Museum 70, Winlock @chronline ‘Dangerous’ Volunteer Find Us on Facebook Trees at Not Slowing www.facebook.com/ Borst Park Down at 100 thecentraliachronicle in Centralia Years of Age / Main 4 / Life 1 A CENTURY OF HELPING OTHERS. CHEHALIS 714 W. MAIN ST. EXIT 77 360.740.0770 100 YEARS OF COMMUNITY BANKING HOME | CONSTRUCTION | BUSINESS CH539932cz.sw Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Thursday, June 11, 2015 PAGE TWO News Daily Outtake: Governor Takes Fire Test of the Weird smoke over their tree line. Darnell said he recently raced the vehicle, which can reach 376 miles per hour, on a dirt course so it needed to be washed on Monday, the Spring- field News-Leader reported. To wash the 36,000-horsepower truck, Darnell has to use its jet engines, which causes a lot of noise and white smoke. “We do it from time to time and it will usually generate a couple of 911 calls, but today for some reason it brought out a whole army of emergency vehi- cles,” Darnell said. He also said he doesn’t blame the neighbors Man Dismissed From for being concerned. Ted Warren / The Associated Press A Greene County sheriff’s Jury Duty for Wearing Washington Gov. Jay Inslee gets out of a training wildire shelter as he takes part in the Department of Natural Resourc- deputy told the newspaper that es’ shelter test Wednesday in Olympia. See a brief news item on the test on page Main 4. As a member of the Associated Prisoner Costume no citations were issued and Press, The Chronicle has access to dozens of regional and national photos that often don’t it in the print edition each that the 911 callers had acted in day. This photograph would normally be an example of that. ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. (AP) — good faith because they believed A Vermont man has escaped jury someone might be in danger. duty — by getting dismissed for Darnell said he takes Shock- Notable Quote wearing a prisoner costume. wave to truck shows across the James Lowe of Barnet says country, where it does things he was released from jury duty like setting stacks of cars on fire on Tuesday when he showed up or racing fighter planes. to court wearing a black-and- “The quality of our children’s education should not white-striped jumpsuit with a depend on their ZIP codes. This bill gives us a way matching beanie. Colorado Sees First The Caledonian Record re- Camp Resort for to resolve this complex issue.” ported that Lowe showed up on time and joined other prospec- Marijuana Users Sen. Bruce Dammeier, R-Puyallup tive jurors before the start of DURANGO, Colo. (AP) — the selection process. Deputies Colorado is full of all-inclusive discussing new Senate education funding proposal directed him to an empty court- ranch resorts where guests hike, (see page Main 5 for the full story) room to meet with the judge, fish, play horseshoes and roast who told him to leave. marshmallows. This one has a Lowe says the judge told him new offering — smoking pot. he could’ve been found in con- The 170-acre CannaCamp tempt of court. That could’ve opening July 1 in Durango in Editor’s Pick meant a fine or jail time. southwest Colorado calls it- Lowe says the juror instruc- self the nation’s first cannabis- Harnessing Nature tions don’t restrict clothing, but friendly ranch resort. that he’s happy to be released be- Guests won’t be given mari- Today, our Journey on the pose of generating electricity. the bills of county residents? cause of his work schedule and juana, because that violates state Cowlitz series lands at the first Regardless of your opinion Would regional utilities uti- family obligations. law. Instead, the resort allows of four dams located along the on dams — and we’ve met plen- lize more power generated from guests to bring their own pot river’s 105-mile course from ty of people with very strong coal and other fossil fuels? As Report of Plane Crash and use it while at the resort. Mount Rainier to the Columbia feelings on the issue — it’s inter- much as some on the greener In addition to horseshoes River (see the esting to consider an alternate side of the aisle resent dams, I Actually Monster and hiking, guests are offered front page). reality in which they do not exist don’t think they would find that yoga sessions and workshops on In the com- in the basin. alternative palletable. Truck’s Bath Time marijuana cultivation. ing days, we’ll What would the river look Hypothetical situations are SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — “We’re bringing an element also bring news like? What would the absence interesting to consider, and Ambulances, law enforcement of luxury to that adventurous, and stories from of two large lakes mean for the hopefully our series will spur officers and several emergency exploratory vibe of childhood the hydroelec- tourism economy of East Lewis discussion and debate even as responders rushed to a property summer camp —in a beautiful tric water reten- County? What would it mean the reality on the river remains in southwest Missouri upon re- setting where visitors can enjoy tion facilities on for occasional bouts with flood- unchanged.