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$1 Mid-Week Edition Thursday, Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com Feb. 11, 2016 Last-Minute Heroics Bearcats Down Aberdeen With Free Throws / Sports 1 Cascade Trader Inc. Testing the Faith Chehalis Enterprise Provides Logging Twin Cities Church Leader Discusses Split Equipment to Buyers Near and Far / Main 10 Over Treatment of Same-Sex Issues / Main 3 SWW Fair Antique Chehalis Commission Chimney Eyed Questions Elected as Bird Habitat Officials After Firing of Manager ECONOMICS: Interim Fair Manager Suggests More Self-Produced Events to Improve Finances By Kaylee Osowski [email protected] Members of the Southwest Washington Fair Commission say they have been wanting to make improvements to the fa- cilities for the past few years. Last month, the Board of County Commissioners fired Southwest Washington Fair Manager Gale Sobolesky be- cause the elected officials said they wanted to make changes, structurally and fiscally. At a Wednesday meeting with county commissioners Gary Stamper and Edna Fund, Fair Commission members said their ideas for improvements previously didn’t seem to make it to the elected officials, or they Pete Caster / [email protected] were told there was no money Top: In a still image from a video, Vaux’s swifts congregate inside a chimney in Washington. Chimneys have become preferred sleeping spaces for mass numbers available. of the birds as they migrate. Above: An unused smoke stack sits at Heritage Restoration on the 1500 block of National Avenue in Chehalis on Tuesday afternoon. please see FAIR, page Main 14 FOWL: Audubon Members Seek to A familiar towering chimney in Cheha- survival,” said Larry Schwitters, who has lis once used to ventilate a brick kiln may been instrumental in studying and tracking Attract Vaux’s Swift, a Bird that soon become a kind of bird hotel twice a the Northwest’s population of Vaux’s swift Most School Congregates by Thousands year for migrating Vaux’s swift — a small, in recent years. “We’ve also discovered that sparrow-like bird native to the Northwest. there’s only a dozen or so chimneys that Measures By Natalie Johnson “It has become, so it seems, that chim- [email protected] neys are kind of essential to this species’ please see CHIMNEY, page Main 14 Passing in Special Election Sheriff’s Office Assists Prosecutor in Inquiry on Witness Who Lied By The Chronicle Voters in Lewis, Thurston FALLOUT: Sheriff Says He’s The Lewis County Sheriff’s Office con- qualifications as an expert witness and ad- and Grays Harbor counties con- firmed this week that it is assisting Prosecu- viser to the Prosecutor’s Office. sidered school and fire district ‘Heartbroken’ After News That tor Jonathan Meyer in investigating wheth- “We’re still in the fact-finding part of this replacement levies for this year’s Toni Nelson’s Testimony Has er a long-time expert witness and victim and still looking into the matter,” Sheriff February special election. advocate lied about her qualifications on Rob Snaza told The Chronicle Tuesday. “It’s Turnout in Lewis County Come Under Question and off the witness stand. touchy. We’ve known Toni for a long time. was 37.82 percent, Thurston Meyer told The Chronicle this week that It’s just unfortunate.” County was 33.55 percent and By Natalie Johnson prominent East Lewis County community ELECTION, [email protected] member Toni Nelson misrepresented her please see WITNESS, page Main 14 please see page Main 14 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Reasons to Dance Randle Arrest Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Band Bail Set at McGovern, Charles, 88, Chehalis Follow Us on Twitter McKenna, Katharina Marie, 27, @chronline Remains a $150,000 Chehalis Mainstay for Man Karsunky, Rena Catherine, 67, Find Us on Facebook at Twin Accused of Rochester www.facebook.com/ Clevenger, Dean Charles, 54, thecentraliachronicle Cities Senior Rape, Other Mossyrock Center Charges Tennison, Rita Faye, 47, Chehalis / Life 1 / Main 5 LOCAL PEOPLE,LOCAL DECISIONS! CHEHALIS 714 W. Main Street HOW CAN 360.740.0770 WE HELP Also TOLEDO, You? WINLOCK, TUMWATER & OLYMPIA Keith Macy Matt DeBord NMLS# 539574 HOME | CONSTRUCTION | BUSINESS CH553613cz.jd Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016 PAGE TWO News Daily Outtake: Taking a Stroll of the Weird ed Monday and charged with as- Boston Program Allows sault with a deadly weapon with- Smokers to Vote With out intent to kill after Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Their Butts officials say he threw a 3.5-foot BOSTON (AP) — The city of alligator through a Palm Beach Boston is trying to rid the streets County Wendy’s drive-thru of unsightly cigarette butts by window in October. He’s also placing special receptacles in charged with illegally possess- high traffic areas that will al- ing an alligator and petty theft. low smokers to vote on a simple Jail records show he was released question. on $6,000 bail Tuesday. He was The butt receptacles, with ordered to have no contact with two disposal holes each, will be animals. placed in seven areas of the city. Wildlife officer Nicholas Each is decorated with a Guerin said in his report that question that has two possible James drove his pickup truck answers. For example, one butt to the window at about 1:20 receptacle asks smokers: “Which a.m. Oct. 11. After an employee superpower would you want?” handed James his drink, he Pete Caster / [email protected] Smokers can deposit their butts threw the alligator through the A woman strolls along the walking path around the Chehalis-Centralia Airport on a sunny Tuesday evening in Chehalis. in an opening for “Flight” or for window and drove off. No one See more photos from the spring-like weather on page Main 7. “Invisibility.” was hurt. Guerin captured the The receptacles, which are alligator and released it into the costing the city about $3,000, are wild. Guerin said James was part of the Neat Streets program. tracked down through video surveillance and a purchase at a Notable Quote neighboring convenience store. Thousands of Guerin wrote that James ad- Thumbtacks Found in mitted throwing the alligator in a December interview. He said “There have been no sex offenders that have been posing as California Dog Park James told him he had found the HERCULES (AP) — Police alligator on the side of the road transgender people to get into bathrooms.” say they have stepped up patrols and put it in his truck. and are considering putting James’ mother, Linda James, Pramila Jayapal cameras to try to catch who- told WPTV that her son’s ac- ever is spreading thousands of tions were a “stupid prank.” state senator thumbtacks across a Northern “He does stuff like this be- California dog park. cause he thinks it’s funny,” she (see page Main 11 for the full story) KNTV reported Wednes- said. She said he meant no harm day dog owners have picked up and had “no problem turning between 3,000 and 5,000 tacks himself in.” No one answered from the Ohlone Dog Park and the door at homes listed to the a nearby creek in Hercules over James family. Phones listed to Today in History the past three weeks and handed the family were disconnected. them over to police. James P. Ross, a retired scien- Today’s Highlight in History: In 1929, the Lateran Treaty tobiography of reclusive billion- was signed, with Italy recogniz- aire Howard Hughes. Dog owners say they clear tist at the University of Florida’s On Feb. 11, 1812, Massachu- ing the independence and sover- In 1986, Soviet dissident Na- one area of tacks only to come Department of Wildlife Ecology setts Gov. Elbridge Gerry signed eignty of Vatican City. tan Sharansky was released back the next day and find more and Conservation, said a 3.5- a redistricting law favoring his In 1937, a six-week-old sit- by the Soviet Union after nine tacks strewn in the same place. foot alligator would likely weigh Democratic-Republican Party years of captivity as part of an Anthony Hayes brings his about 20 to 30 pounds, and its — giving rise to the term “gerry- down strike against General East-West prisoner exchange. dog to the park and says people hard body could deliver quite a mandering.” Motors ended, with the com- have even found thumb tacks in jolt if it struck someone. pany agreeing to recognize the In 1990, South African black United Automobile Workers activist Nelson Mandela was the water bowls. He said the gator’s bite would On this date: Hercules Police have posted be comparable to a dog’s and Union. freed after 27 years in captivity. notices alerting people to be cau- would be unlikely to cause seri- In 660 B.C., tradition holds In 1945, President Franklin D. In 2012, pop singer Whitney tious and asking anyone who ous injury or snap off a finger, that Japan was founded as Jim- Roosevelt, British Prime Minis- Houston, 48, was found dead may have information to call although it could tear tendons. mu ascended the throne as the ter Winston Churchill and So- in a hotel room in Beverly Hills, them. Perhaps the biggest concern country’s first emperor. viet leader Josef Stalin signed the California. would be infection if a bite went In 1858, a French girl, Berna- Yalta Agreement, in which Sta- In 2013, Pope Benedict XVI untreated, he said. dette Soubirous (soo-bee-ROO’), lin agreed to declare war against announced his resignation dur- Fries With That? Man “The alligator would be un- reported the first of 18 visions of Imperial Japan following Nazi ing a routine morning meet- Accused of Tossing Gator likely to ‘attack’ people and a lady dressed in white in a grot- Germany’s capitulation.