Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com Beekeepers Battle Parasites, $1 Pesticide and Weekend Edition Public Fear Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016 / Life 1 Fresh Fair Perspective Loggers and Porcupines New Southwest Washington Fairgrounds A Look at the Long and Storied History of Manager Taking Charge After Fair / Main 4 Competitions in the Pacific Northwest / Main 7 Napavine Lewis County Service Dogs Fire District ‘Enrich and Enable’ Owners Might Sell Assets if Levy Fails STRAPPED: Fire District 5 Asking Voters for Money to Support EMS for the First Time By Natalie Johnson [email protected] Of the about 1,000 calls Lewis County Fire District 5 in Napavine responded to last year, between 75 and 80 percent were for medical emergencies. Despite that, the fire district has never collected levy fund- ing dedicated to emergency Election medical ser- vices. This No- 2016 vember, the district is asking vot- ers to approve its first EMS levy to raise an estimated $300,000 per year to continue paying for full-time paramedics and to continue to Pete Caster / [email protected] maintain its ambulances. Phyllis Taylor, left, Frank Henderson, center, and service dog trainer Sara Gingerich cross Tower Avenue with their service dogs on Thursday afternoon in Centralia. please see LEVY, page Main 14 WORKERS: Canines Sooth Post-Traumatic Stress, Spike in Help Owners Get Up Projected Cost After Falls By Natalie Johnson of Flood Project [email protected] Has Bucoda Service dogs are always working, even when resting Looking for at their masters’ feet during a lunch outing, trainer Sara Gin- New Options gerich said Thursday while two of her clients’ dogs did just that. By Aaron Kunkler “This is work, absolutely,” [email protected] said Gingerich, a Centralia resi- A Bucoda Main Street re- dent. “… I want to make it clear, grade project to create a bridge this isn’t easy what they’re doing.” allowing Bucoda residents in The two dogs — Kensi, a the southern reaches of the town golden retriever, and Ladybug, to evacuate during a flood saw a a German shepherd mix — suc- massive projected cost increase cessfully ignored a barrage of from $3.1 million to around $8 sights, smells and distractions million, prompted city leaders to remain ever focused on their to explore alternative options. number one occupation, their At a Chehalis River Ba- masters. Kensi, a 3-year-old golden retriever, lies down next to the chair that owner Frank Henderson is sitting in at a cofee shop sin Flood Authority meeting please see DOGS, page Main 14 in downtown Centralia. please see BUCODA, page Main 14 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Comfort Food Carbon Reduction Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Centralia State Slemp, Scott William, 43, Follow Us on Twitter Rochester @chronline Diner Announces Thomas, Stever James, 66, Offers New Rules Centralia Find Us on Facebook Food and Targeting Ching, Dennis Kwan Loy, 60, www.facebook.com/ Centralia thecentraliachronicle a Place to Large Smith, James Allen, 51, Socialize Centralia Polluters Niemi, Leslie Suzanne, 70, / Main 16 / Main 13 Rochester Find big savings at: SAVINGS • VF OUTLET • CHICO’S BIG • FRANCESCA’S • CHRISTOPHER • PENDLETON & BANKS FASHIONS CH554671kh.os ON • DRESSBARN • AND MANY MORE Outit from VF Outlet FALL VF OUTLET TENT SALE • SEPT. 15-18 360-736-3900 • WWW.CENTRALIAOUTLETS.COM • I-5 EXIT 82 • BOTH SIDES • CENTRALIA Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, Sept. 17, 2016 PAGE TWO News State Welcomes Ferry to Fleet of the Weird first reported the thefts. Scott Fisher had a zero sto- len. He says he doesn’t know if “someone is trying to send a message or someone just has an obsession with zeroes and ones.” Home on the Playground? Burros Roam Onto Phoenix- Area School NYC Museum Invites PEORIA, Ariz. (AP) — A suburban Phoenix elementary Viewers to Use 18-Karat school has received some wild Gold Toilet visitors. Staff members spot- ted four burros walking onto NEW YORK (AP) — A New the playground of Vistancia El- York City museum is offering ementary in the city of Peoria on Grant Hindsley / seattlepi.com visitors a chance to sit on a gold- Thursday morning. The Chimacum High School band performs before the christening ceremony of the state’s new Olympic Class vessel, en throne, but only in private. Peoria Unified School Dis- the Chimacum, at Vigor Industrial on Harbor Island Thursday. The state put the naming of the new vessel up for a vote As part of his “America” ex- trict spokeswoman Erin Dunsey online. Cowlitz was among the names considered. hibit at the Solomon R. Gug- says employees saw the burros genheim Museum, Italian artist enter the grounds through a Maurizio Cattelan replaced the parking lot. The animals then toilet in the museum’s fourth- went to the playground and left Notable Quote floor restroom with a fully func- through a side gate. Dunsey says tional replica cast in 18-karat the burros were there only brief- gold. ly and before any students had Viewers are invited to use arrived. Nobody was hurt. “Love is not for sissies, love is not all music and moonlight and romance. the solid gold toilet just as they Peoria police spokesman would any other facility. Brandon Sheffert says authori- Love, real love, takes patience and courage and commitment.” It’s the first piece Cattelan ties received a call about burros has exhibited since his 2011 ret- running on a golf course and Donna Karvia rospective at the Guggenheim. It believes they were the same opened on Friday. animals. Officials with the U.S. responding to columnist Brian Mittge The museum says on its Bureau of Land Management, website that the exhibit “offers which oversees wild burro adop- a wink to the excesses of the tions, say it’s unusual to see the (see page Main 9 for the full commentary) art market but also evokes the animals in a residential area. American dream of opportunity Anyone who encounters burros for all.” shouldn’t approach or feed them. Today in History Binary Bandit? Tour Guides: College Today’s Highlight in History: Washington D.C. Hugo Black, 85, retired. (Black, Someone Stealing Ones, Is Skipping Dorm Over In 1937, the likeness of Presi- who was succeeded by Lewis F. On Sept. 17, 1978, after meet- dent Abraham Lincoln’s head Powell Jr., died eight days after Zeros From Homes Pot Complaints ing at Camp David, Israeli Prime was dedicated at Mount Rush- making his announcement.) PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Minister Menachem Begin and more. In 1984, Progressive Con- SWARTHMORE, Pa. (AP) — Egyptian President Anwar Sadat Philadelphia police are “address- Student tour guides at a college In 1939, the Soviet Union in- servative leader Brian Mulroney ing” an unusual crime spree: signed a framework for a peace vaded Poland during World War took office as Canada’s 18th outside Philadelphia say they treaty. Someone is stealing the ones and have been told not to bring pro- II, more than two weeks after prime minister. zeroes from addresses mounted spective students or their par- Nazi Germany had launched its In 1986, the Senate con- on people’s homes. ents into a dormitory because it On This Date: assault. firmed the nomination of Wil- WTXF-TV said it’s happen- frequently smelled of marijuana. In 1787, the Constitution In 1944, during World War liam H. Rehnquist to become ing in the city’s East Kensington The Philadelphia Inquirer of the United States was com- II, Allied paratroopers launched the 16th chief justice of the Unit- section. reports that Swarthmore Col- pleted and signed by a majority Operation Market Garden, land- ed States. Meghan Haley says she no- lege tour guides say adminis- of delegates attending the Con- ing behind German lines in the In 1996, Former Vice Presi- ticed the zero missing from her trators told them that parents stitutional Convention in Phila- Netherlands. (After initial suc- dent Spiro T. Agnew died in Ber- home on Wednesday and saw complained of getting a “contact delphia. cess, the Allies were beaten back lin, Maryland, at age 77. a woman stealing it when she high” when passing through In 1862, more than 3,600 by the Germans.) Ten years ago: Pope Bene- checked her surveillance video . Willets dorm. men were killed in the Civil War In 1955, Tennessee Ernie dict XVI said he was “deeply Another woman, Krista Ric- The tour guides told the Battle of Antietam in Maryland. Ford recorded “Sixteen Tons” by sorry” his recent remarks on Is- ca, was awakened by the sound school newspaper , The Daily In 1908, Lt. Thomas E. Sel- Merle Travis for Capitol Records lam and violence had offended of a power drill about 4 a.m. and Gazette, they were instructed fridge of the U.S. Army Signal in Hollywood. some Muslims, but the unusual saw a man stealing a number during a summer training ses- Corps became the first person In 1966, “Mission: Impos- expression of papal regret drew from her neighbor’s home across sion to stop visiting the dorm, but to die in the crash of a powered sible” premiered on CBS. a mixed reaction from Islamic the street. say they did not receive any com- aircraft, the Wright Flyer, at In 1971, citing health rea- leaders, some of whom said it The news website Billy Penn plaints from parents themselves. Fort Myer, Virginia, just outside sons, Supreme Court Justice wasn’t enough. The Weather Almanac 5-Day Forecast for the Lewis County Area River Stages National Map Gauge Flood 24 hr. Forecast map for Sept. 17, 2016 Today Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Height Stage Change Chehalis at Mellen St.