$1 Early Week Edition Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016 Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com Something to Cheer About Toledo Cheerleader Selected for Prestigious Camp / Life 1 Playing a Starring Role Girls Wrestling Program W.F. West Product Katie Hankins Steps Into Bearcats Girls Team Going Strong in First the Spotlight at Lower Columbia / Sports 1 Year of Program With 20 Wrestlers / Sports 1 Medical, It’s Playtime at Mount Rainier Mental Health Expenses Drive Jail Cost Increase EFFECTS: Centralia Has Chosen to Contract With Yakima; Mason County Signs Deal With Lewis County By Natalie Johnson [email protected] Some of the same price in- creases busting the budgets of average citizens are also hitting the Lewis County Jail budget hard. As of this month, the jail in- creased its per night cost to con- Pete Caster / [email protected] tracted law enforcement agen- Andrew Wagner, of Auburn, sleds down one of three runs at the snowplay area at Paradise in Mount Rainier National Park on Monday afternoon. cies, such as the Centralia and Chehalis police departments, by 15 percent — from $52.50 to just By The Chronicle over $60 per day. Visitors at Mount Rainier National Park took advantage please see JAIL, page Main 14 of a little sunshine Monday to hit the slopes at the Paradise Snowplay area. This is the first year since Public Hearing 2014 that the area has been open, with a lack of enough snow pre- on Chehalis venting an opening last year. The Paradise Snowplay area Annexation is open from mid-December to late March, depending on sea- Brings in sonal conditions. It is located north of the up- Positive per parking lot at Paradise. The Snowplay Area is the one estab- Feedback lished place in the park where sledding is permitted. By Justyna Tomtas Only “soft” sliding devices [email protected] such as flexible sleds, inner tubes, and saucers are allowed. During a public hearing on No hard toboggans or runner a proposed annexation of prop- sleds are allowed. erty, the Chehalis City Council Plastic sleds are for sale at only received positive feedback. the Longmire General Store, The hearing concerned an open daily, and at the Jackson industrial annexation of about Visitor Center at Paradise, open 116 acres with an assessed value during the weekends and holi- of $23 million inside the Che- days. Snowshoers walk along the path at the snowplay area at Paradise in Mount Rainier National Park on Monday afternoon. halis Industrial Park. The area Outside of the park, sleds being considered for annexation and inner tube rentals are avail- is surrounded by Bishop Road, able at Whittaker’s Mountain- to carry tire chains inside the Interstate Avenue, Interstate 5, eering in Ashford. national park during the winter SEE MORE PHOTOGRAPHS Sturdevant Road, and a portion There is a National Park Ser- season, Nov. 1 to May 1. Additional photographs from the Paradise Snowplay are on of Ribelin Road. vice entrance fee for visitors to More information can be page Main 14. The entire gallery is online at www.chronline. drive up to Longmire and Para- found online at www.visitrain- com and www.seesouthwestwa.com. please see HEARING, page Main 14 dise. All vehicles are required ier.com. The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Twisted Wreckage Feral Rabbits Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 No Injuries Rochester Foster, William “Bill,” 86, Follow Us on Twitter Centralia @chronline Reported Woman Lowe, Michael D., 63, Centralia After Captures Mays, Dorotha E., 84, Morton Find Us on Facebook Vehicle Animals Warburton, Robert “Bob,” 58, www.facebook.com/ Longview thecentraliachronicle Crashes in and Finds Strand, Leonard D., 74, Onalaska Centralia Driver, Joy E., 81, Pe Ell Homes Joyce, Twila (Belcher), 88, Port / Main 4 / Main 3 Orchard Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016 PAGE TWO News Daily Outtake: Running for Wrestling of the Weird Katz says there’s no evidence of Stolen Cheese Worth a homicide and that it appears the $70,000 Recovered In skull may have been purchased from a legal source and was being Milwaukee used for a religious ceremony. He MILWAUKEE (AP) — Police says it’s unclear whether animal have recovered about $70,000 worth remains were found. of cheese stolen from a suburban Milwaukee trucking company. Germantown police say on Runaway Cow Roped their Facebook page that the by New York City Police cheese was found in Milwaukee Friday evening. The Milwaukee Gets New Home Journal Sentinel reported that NEW YORK (AP) — A cow that no one has been arrested. was captured by police after flee- A 54-foot long trailer contain- ing from a New York City slaugh- ing the cheese was stolen early terhouse has been taken in by an Brandon Hansen / [email protected] Friday from D and G Transpor- animal sanctuary and renamed for The W.F. West girls wrestling team practices on Friday in Chehalis. The story is available on the front of today’s tation in Germantown, which is rock legend Freddie Mercury. Sports section. See more photographs online at www.chronline.com and www.lewiscountysports.com. northwest of Milwaukee. Online video showed the A semitrailer used to steal brown and white cow trotting the trailer was recovered. Police said the empty trailer, which was past shops and restaurants on Notable Quote found around 10 a.m. Friday in Thursday afternoon. the Milwaukee area. The founder of the Skylands Animal Sanctuary in Want- age (WAHNT’-ihj), New Jersey, Figure Skating Mike Stura, picked up the cow “Honestly, I don’t even care to list any honors Friday morning in New York or awards I have received, because frankly Program Uses Picture and says he’s named the creature Of Wrong Twin City after the late lead singer of the I don’t think they are that important to the ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The band Queen. public in the first place.” event program for the U.S. Figure The cow was scheduled to be Skating Championships in Minne- killed on Friday. Instead, Fred- sota gained a bit of attention on social die rode through rush-hour traf- State Rep. Graham Hunt media for all the wrong reasons after fic in a trailer, then visited a vet, removed bio information after newspaper story St. Paul’s mayor noticed it features a before arriving at a farm. photo of the other Twin City. showed false claims on military record The program, which includes a Texas ‘Weather Nerd’ welcome letter from St. Paul Mayor (see page Main 7 for the full story) Chris Coleman, features a photo of Comes to NYC to See the Stone Arch Bridge — a landmark in neighboring Minneapolis. Storm Firsthand The mayor, who is used to the NEW YORK (AP) — Tex- Today in History perception that St. Paul is the lesser ans Steve and Kathleen Yarbor- of the Twin Cities, took it in stride. ough weren’t quite like the other Today’s Highlight in History: In 1939, during the Spanish the first European settlers. The He tweeted a photo of the mix-up on travelers stuck in New York this Civil War, rebel forces led by On Jan. 26, 1915, President Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Friday, writing, “Our plans to take weekend: They came to the city Gen. Francisco Franco captured Woodrow Wilson signed the “Phantom of the Opera” opened over @cityminneapolis have been because of the big snowstorm. Barcelona. at Broadway’s Majestic Theater. compromised.” Rocky Mountain National Park “I’m a weather nerd,” the In 1942, the first American In 1998, President Bill Clinton husband said in an upbeat tone Act, which created America’s 10th national park. Expeditionary Force to go to forcefully denied having an af- Monday as the couple waited Europe during World War II Skull Found at fair with a former White House for a return flight to Houston. “I On this date: arrived in Belfast, Northern Ire- intern, telling reporters, “I did LA-Area Spiritual Shop came out to see the storm.” In 1784, in a letter to his land. not have sexual relations with COMPTON, Calif. (AP) — Steve Yarborough, a Texas daughter Sarah, Benjamin In 1950, India officially pro- Authorities have found one hu- born and bred aviation data spe- Franklin expressed unhappiness claimed itself a republic as Ra- that woman, Miss Lewinsky.” man skull and eight containers cialist, said that in Houston, the over the choice of the bald eagle jendra Prasad took the oath of In 2005, A U.S. Marine heli- with potentially more at a Los closest he gets to snow is on the as the symbol of America, and office as president. copter crashed in western Iraq, Angeles-area shop that sells spir- aviation maps he pores over. stated his own preference: the In 1962, the United States killing 30 Marines and a Navy itual items. When he saw the weekend turkey. launched Ranger 3 to land scien- medic aboard. A man parked Los Angeles County sheriff’s storm building up, he said he In 1788, the first European tific instruments on the moon — his SUV on railroad tracks in Capt. Steve Katz says deputies and his wife booked a flight to settlers in Australia, led by Capt. but the probe ended up missing Glendale, California, setting off responded to the Compton busi- see it firsthand. They got onto Arthur Phillip, landed in pres- its target by more than 22,000 a crash of two commuter trains the last United Airlines flight to miles. ness Friday after a woman com- ent-day Sydney. that killed 11 people. (The SUV’s plained of animal cruelty.