Tournament Breakdown Your Guide to Tourney Time / Sports 1 ‘Big Break’ Ends / Main 4 $1 Midweek Edition Thursday, Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com March 6, 2014 Airline Will Fly The Resurgence Chehalis Girl to Title Game After of Yard Birds Father’s Funeral TRIP: W.F. West Junior Julie Spencer Hopes to Attend Funeral, State Championship on Saturday Pete Caster /
[email protected] The west side of Yard Birds is seen on Monday in Chehalis. By Kyle Spurr
[email protected] BIRD IS BACK: How Two of the most important a New Focus and a events in W.F. West High School junior Julie Spencer’s life could be Renewed Effort Brought happening on Saturday on oppo- a Lewis County site sides of the state. The funeral for her father, James Landmark Back to Spencer, who died Relevance Feb. 13 after bat- tling with cancer, By Lisa Broadt will be held at 11
[email protected] a.m. Saturday at St. Francis Xavier Just about any day of the Mission in Toledo. week you can find Yard Birds Six hours later, vendor Jerry Roper plunked in her top-ranked the middle of an aisle, fishing James Spencer varsity basketball pole in hand, waiting for a cus- funeral is team could be tomer to come by. Saturday playing in the 2A When one does approach, state champion- he waits for a nibble. ship in Yakima at 5 p.m. “They say ‘catch anything?’ I say ‘yeah I got a sucker,” Rop- please see AIRLINE, page Main 10 er said laughing.