Chehalis Airport $1 Manager Gets Weekend Edition High-Level State Saturday, July 29, 2017 Post / Main 6 Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com Building Community Turf Installed in Tenino County Groups Come Together for Event Workers Laying Down Brand New Black Turf at for Homeless at Centralia Park / Main 14 Beaver Stadium as Season Approaches / Sports Timeline for Chehalis School Unknown With No Budget CONCERNS: Timeline Continues One of two new schools in Chehalis said the lack of the budget has delayed it was funded by local money approved has been delayed and likely won’t be con- the bidding process since the school is by taxpayers when a $36 million bond to Grow for One of Two New structed on time or budget after the proj- funded in part by $25 million in state measure passed in February 2015. Schools Approved by Voters as ect hit a roadblock when the Washington funding through the School Construc- The second school, which will house Costs Expected to Increase state Legislature failed to pass a capital tion Assistance Program. third- through fifth-graders, or Phase construction budget as the third special The construction of the kindergarten 2 of the project, is now postponed. The school district recently received bids from By Justyna Tomtas session came to a close earlier this month. through second-grade school, which is [email protected] Chehalis Superintendent Ed Rothlin already underway, is not impacted since please see BUDGET, page Main 16 Elderly Woman Year-Long Celebration of ‘Our Dies After George Washington’ Closing In Being Struck Events Honoring Centralia’s Founder Start on Aug. 12 by Vehicle in Centralia By The Chronicle A woman hit by a car at a Cen- tralia intersection Wednesday night died Thursday in Seattle, according to the King County Medical Examiner’s Office. The woman was identified Thursday by the office as Patricia Toothill, 77. The cause of death was blunt force trauma and her manner of death was listed as ac- cidental. The crash was reported at 8:27 p.m. Wednesday in the 400 block of West Main Street, according to the Centralia Police Department. please see WOMAN, page Main 16 Man Injured In this January file photo, vehicles drive by on Pearl Street as a crew from Spectrum Painting puts the finishing touches on the restored George Washington in Crash mural hanging on the side of the KeyBank building in downtown Centralia. With Steam A CITY BY GEORGE: Bicentennial Celebration Includes Plans for a Train Dies New Statue in Washington Park By The Chronicle by 2017, Among Other Projects A Curtis man who was seri- By Jordan Nailon ously injured earlier this month [email protected] after colliding with the Chehalis- Centralia Steam Train has died, After months of planning, fundraising according to the Washington and exuberant social media outreach, the State Patrol. time to celebrate the 200th birthday of Jerry W. Mullins, 82, died Fri- Centralia’s founding father is nearly here. day, according to a report from What has been planned as a year-long the State Patrol. celebration of George Washington will of- According to the report, the ficially begin on Aug. 12 with a culminat- incident was first reported at 6:44 ing event scheduled for Aug. 11, 2018. p.m. July 15 on state Route 6 at Brian Mittge, chairman of the George Twin Oaks Road. An image of George Washington from The Chron- Washington Bicentennial Committee, has icle’s files. Specifics of the crash are been working hard to get the word out under dispute, as the Washing- about the celebration in hopes that the something that people may actually have ton State Patrol claims the truck Local artist Jim Stafford recently finished a min- once in a lifetime opportunity will not go started to listen,” said Mittge, who is also a failed to yield and was struck iature wax rendering of the proposed George by underappreciated. columnist for The Chronicle. by the train at the crossing. The Washington statue. The proposed statue fea- “I feel like it’s all that I’ve been talking Mittge is an unabashed fan of George State Patrol also reiterated to The tures Washington and his wife, Mary Jane, and about for the last six months. But I’ve heard please see TRAIN, page Main 16 their dog. that once you are sick of talking about please see GEORGE, page Main 16 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater A Tool for Investigators Preserving History Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 $100,000 Ayala Montgomery, Jerry M. Follow Us on Twitter Gadget Brothers 74, Winlock @chronline Helps Map Serve Up Rare Find Us on Facebook Crime and Unique www.facebook.com/ Scenes for Antiques and thecentraliachronicle Police Furniture / Main 5 / Main 3 2 Days Only! HAPPENING TH FRIDAY AUGUST 4 We’re no ordinary dealer! TH 736-0166 • 1-800-962-6826 CH561462hw.cg SALE & SATURDAY AUGUST 5 300 S. Tower, Centralia Watch The Chronicle for more details www.powersportsnorthwest.com Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, July 29, 2017 PAGE TWO News Haircuts for Homeless of the Weird rescued two boa constrictors on Authorities: Man Robs Wednesday and that she owned Bank, Then Gets Naked nine ball pythons. and Throws Money FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. Woman Escapes as Car (AP) — Authorities in Florida Falls Into Hole in Florida say they arrested a man who robbed a bank, stripped naked Driveway and ran down the street throw- SPRING HILL, Fla. (AP) ing stolen money — a spectacle — Mary, Boone of Spring Hill, that he somehow thought would Florida, did not have a good jump-start his career as a come- night’s sleep. dian. Awakened by a loud bang Instead, the FBI says 25-year- around 3:30 a.m. Thursday, she old Alexander Sperber is charged looked outside and saw the with bank robbery. driveway buckling under her car. A federal complaint says the She says she hurried out to man told authorities he parked move it, but just as she got in, the Pete Caster / [email protected] his car at the bank, made a gun driveway collapsed and the car Karlee Stritmatter, a student at Centralia Beauty College, shaves the sideburns of a man as the college’s students give motion with his hand and de- fell nose-first into a 6-foot-deep out free haircuts on Thursday afternoon at the biannual Homeless Connect event at Riverside Park in Centralia. See the manded money from the teller, hole. full story on page Main 14. Additional photos can be found at www.chronline.com. who gave him about $4,700 in a She told news outlets that bag. Officials say a red dye pack she managed to get out, scrap- exploded, staining his clothes ing her leg in the process, but and a cast on his left wrist. now the hole stretches about Notable Quote The Sun Sentinel reports 30 feet under her home, which Sperber was taken to a hospital had to be evacuated. Hernando and found to be coherent and County officials said in an email uninjured. It’s unclear if he has that water from a broken main “I was really encouraged by myself. I didn’t an attorney. washed away sandy soil. panic. I was calm. I was glad I had the Firefighters Rescue South Korean Leader knowledge to figure out what to do.” Ohio Woman Entangled Adopts Dog Saved From by Boa Constrictor Possible Slaughter Sajean Geer who survived week lost in national park SHEFFIELD LAKE, Ohio SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — (AP) — An Ohio woman called South Korea’s president has kept (see page Main 11 for the full story) 911 in a panic Thursday after- a campaign promise by adopting noon with ample reason: A 5 a shelter dog rescued from possi- ½-foot long boa constrictor she ble slaughter in a country where had rescued a day earlier had eating dogs is still popular. wrapped itself around her neck, The 4-year-old mixed breed Today in History was biting her face and wouldn’t named Tory joins two other Today’s Highlight in History: telephone service in the United Ford became the first U.S. presi- let go. presidential pets — a dog called States became operational with dent to visit the site of the Nazi On July 29, 1967, an acciden- “Please hurry,” the frightened Maru and a cat called Jjing-jjing. the first test conversation be- concentration camp Auschwitz tal rocket launch on the deck of woman told a dispatcher. “He’s President Moon Jae-in’s office tween New York and San Fran- in Poland. the supercarrier USS Forrestal biting my nose.” says the adoption would raise cisco. Massachusetts’ Cape Cod In 1981, Britain’s Prince The dispatcher sent firefight- in the Gulf of Tonkin resulted in awareness over the problem of Canal, offering a shortcut across Charles married Lady Diana ers and police to the woman’s a fire and explosions that killed abandonment. the base of the peninsula, was Spencer in a glittering ceremony home in Sheffield Lake, a com- 134 servicemen. (Among the The rescue group bought the officially opened to shipping at St. Paul’s Cathedral in Lon- munity about 25 miles west of survivors was future Arizona dog two years ago from a man traffic. don. (However, the couple di- Cleveland in Lorain County, but Sen. John McCain, a U.S. Navy who was known for luring lost In 1921, Adolf Hitler became vorced in 1996.) seemed stumped. lieutenant commander who nar- dogs before abusing and eating the leader (“fuehrer”) of the Na- In 1994, abortion oppo- “I’ve never heard of this be- them, said Lim Young-ki, an rowly escaped with his life.) tional Socialist German Work- nent Paul Hill shot and killed fore,” the dispatcher is heard official from the group, Coexis- ers Party.