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Jury Trial Scheduled for Former Centralia Downtown Association President / Main 4 $1 Midweek Edition Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012 Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com Have Pete Caster / [email protected] Rhogan Milton, 3, gets pushed by his father, You Ever Erik Milton, on the swingset at Recreation Park in Chehalis on Wednesday afternoon. Seen the Rain? Epic Dry Spell Sweeps Over Southwest Washington / Main 11 The Vance Family Continues to Push In Today’s Forward Following Dual Tragedies Edition Plea Deal Made in Sacred Wool ONALASKA Locally Made Holy Lamb Organics Creates Handmade Bedding / MURDER Main 6 By Stephanie Schendel Taking [email protected] The 25-year-old man ac- cused of stabbing his father to the to death last March in their Onalaska home has reached a Stage plea agreement with prosecu- tors and will change his plea ‘45 Seconds to from not guilty by reason of insanity to guilty, according Broadway’ Opens to the Lewis County Prosecu- tor’s Office. New Theater Season / Life please see MURDER, page Main 9 Slugging it Out Adna Republican McKenna, Democrat Inslee Debate Falls to the Issues Ahead of Election / MWP Main 3 Volleyball Roundup / Sports The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Weather New Twist on Scrap Metal Theft Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 TONIGHT: Low 38 Women With Baby LeGarde Sr., Ronald E., Follow Us on Twitter TOMORROW: High 69 79, Ethel @chronline Sunny Shepherd, Aaron, 76, see details on page Stroller Full of Scrap Metal Centralia Find Us on Facebook Main 2 Brimm, Frank, 87, www.facebook.com/ Olympia Arrested Near Winlock thecentraliachronicle Weather picture by / Main 5 Zoe Due, Onalaska Elementary, 2nd Grade CH479847cz.cg Main 2 The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012 COMMUNITY CALENDAR / WEATHER Community Editor’s Best Bet Zonta Used Book Sale Coming to Lewis County Mall The annual Zonta used Hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. book sale will offer thousands each day. Calendar of hardcover and paperback Proceeds will support Zon- Today service consolidation efforts in books, along with a small selec- ta’s scholarship programs and Lewis County and across Wash- tion of music and movies, in the community charities, as well as ington state. Lewis County Mall from today international projects. Each year Artist, Traveler to Speak through Saturday. Zonta, an international service at Oakview Grange Open mic, featuring Zoe Boekbiner, This year’s sale will include a organization for women and 6:30-10:30 p.m., Matrix Coffeehouse, large selection of science fiction, professional people who support Centralia artist and world 434 N.W. Prindle St., Chehalis, $2 dona- tion, 740-0492 catalogs of antiques, and paper- women, awards a full-tuition traveler Hank Claycamp will back fiction. Prices start at $1 for scholarship to a student at Cen- speak about his travels in Mon- Public Agencies paperbacks and $2 for hardback tralia College. The group also golia at Oakview Grange’s Boost- Centralia College Board of Trustees, books. Prices decrease each day, financially supports the Human er Night tonight. His 7 p.m. lec- 3 p.m., Hanson Boardrooms, Centralia concluding with a closeout sale Response Network and other ture will be preceded by a 6 p.m. College, starting at 2 p.m. on Saturday. charities. potluck. The Oakview Grange is Libraries located at 2715 N. Pearl St. “Fahrenheit 451 book discussion, for adults and teens, noon-1 p.m., Vernet- Buddy Rose to Speak ta Smith Chehalis Timberland Library, Friday, Oct. 5 Support Groups About the History 748-3301 H.O.P.E., all addictions, 7:30-9 p.m., Organizations Evergreen Playhouse Heritage Baptist Church of Tenino, 1315 Of Riffe Sussex Ave. E., Tenino, (360) 480-0592, Oakview Grange, 7 p.m.., 2715 N. Season Launches With [email protected] Buddy Rose will be kicking Pearl St., Centralia, 736-5639 Life Recovery Group, 6:30-8:30 p.m., off Centralia College East’s fall Lewis County Robotics Society, 6 Dayspring Baptist Church, 2088 Jackson p.m., Kemp Hall, room 128, Centralia Contemporary Neil Highway, Chehalis, 748-3401 quarter Lyceum Lecture Series College, (360) 304-712 with a presentation on “The His- Simon Play Senior Centers tory of Riffe” today. Support Groups “45 Seconds From Broadway” Twin Cities Senior Center, 748-0061 The lecture, open to the pub- “Up From Grief,” for those grieving kicks off the 2012-2013 season Music, 10:30-11:45 a.m., lic, will be noon to 12:50 p.m. at the loss of a loved one, 1--2:30 p.m., As- at Centralia’s Evergreen Play- Lunch, noon, $3 suggested donation sured Home Hospice, second floor, 1821 the Roxy Theater in Morton. house. The Neil Simon play tells Pinochle tournament, 1 p.m., Cooks Hill Road, 330-2640 Rose will be sharing photo- the story of a group of regulars Friday night dance, 7-10 p.m. Overeaters Anonymous, 5:30-6:30 graphs and stories from the early p.m., Immanuel Lutheran Church,1209 at a diner in New York. Told Morton Senior Center, 496-3230 settlers, schools and businesses N. Scheuber Road, Centralia, 736-9268 through snippets of conversa- Tai Chi exercise, 8:30-9 a.m. as well as a history of the dams. Multiple sclerosis, 6-8 p.m., Provi- tions throughout the diner, the Open recreation, pool, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. He has written numerous histor- dence Centralia Hospital chapel confer- story is very much a commen- Pinochle, 10 a.m. ical articles for the East County ence room, 736-5394, Facebook page: tary on the state of theater less as Crafters 10 a.m.-2:20 p.m. Journal on this topic and will Lewis County Multiple Sclerosis Support “Hamburgers & Fixins” community Group a storytelling medium and more eventually be compiling these as a glitzy, entertainment ma- lunch, noon, $5 into a book. Senior Centers Olequa (Toledo) Senior Center, chine for making money. 785-4325 Rose grew up in the middle Twin Cities Senior Center, 748-0061 “45 Seconds From Broadway” of what is now Riffe Lake. His Nutrition lunch, noon-1 p.m. Music, 11 a.m. performances will be at 8 p.m. Packwood Senior Center, 494-6331 grandparents and parents set- Lunch, noon, $3 suggested donation Friday, Saturday, Oct. 12-13 and tled in the area in the early 1900s. Coffee klatch, 9 a.m. Pinochle tournament, 1 p.m. Oct. 19-20. On Thursday, Oct. 11, Sewing and crafts, 10 a.m. A schedule of fall quarter Morton Senior Center, 496-3230 the play will be at 7:30 p.m. Cur- Pinochle and Scrabble, 12:30 p.m. speakers is available by stopping Open recreation, pool, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. tain time for the Sunday shows Toledo Senior Center, 864-2112 by Centralia College East or call- Pinochle, 10 a.m. on Oct. 7, 14 and 21 are 2 p.m. Nutrition lunch, noon, suggested ing 496-5022. Those who would “Soup Kitchen” enrichment lunch, Tickets to 8 p.m. Shows are donation $3 for 60 and over, under 60, like to attend all the lectures and noon, $3 donation $15 per person; 2 p.m. matinees $6.74 support the series may enroll in Olequa (Winlock) Senior Center, are $10 per person; and the Oct. Exercise class, 8:30-9:30 a.m., 785-4325 the non-credit lecture series for 11 show is a pay-what-you-will. Open pool, 9:30 a.m. Cook’s choice lunch, noon, 12:30 p.m. a $25 fee. Tickets can be purchased at ev- Acrylics classes, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Bingo, 12:30-2 p.m. Packwood Senior Center, 494-6331 ergreenplayhouse.brownpaper- Walkowski to Speak at Women’s pool, 10 a.m. tickets.com. Saturday, Oct. 6 The theater is located at 226 AAUW Meeting Sit & Be Fit, 11 a.m. Entertainment, presentation or mov- W. Center St. Apple Harvest Festival Riverside Fire Authority ie, 12:30 p.m. See today’s Life:A&E section Chief Jim Walkowki will be giv- Quilting project class, 3:30 p.m. for more information. Returns to Onalaska ing an update on the Riverside Toledo Senior Center, 864-2112 The fourth annual Apple Fire Authority and its services Computer class, 9-11 a.m. Tootsie Roll fundraiser, Knights of Co- lumbus, for people with disabilities, 4-6 Harvest Festival is coming to at the American Association of Watercolor class, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. p.m., Shop’n Kart, Chehalis Onalaska Saturday. University Women meeting at Zumba, 6-7 p.m. Creator of the event is the 6:45 p.m. tonight at “The Gath- Open pool, 9 a.m. Libraries Onalaska Alliance, a nonprofit ering Place,” located at Stillwa- Cook’s choice lunch, 11:30 a.m. “Fahrenheit 451” book discussion, for organization that was formed ters Estates, Centralia. Wood carving class, 1-3 p.m. adults and teens, 12:30-1:30 p.m., Win- Walkowski will focus on fire Quilt class, 1-3 p.m. lock Timberland Library, 785-3461 please see CALENDAR, page Main 13 The Weather Almanac 5-Day Forecast for the Lewis County Area River Stages National Map Forecast map for Oct. 4, 2012 Today Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Gauge Flood 24 hr. Height Stage Change 110s Chehalis at Mellen St. 100s 48.06 65.0 0.00 90s L Skookumchuck at Pearl St. 80s L 73.22 85.0 -0.12 70s Cowlitz at Packwood 60s 0.99 10.5 -0.13 50s H Cowlitz at Randle L Sunny 40s Sunny Sunny Sunny Mostly Sunny 3.92 18.0 0.00 30s 67º 38º 69º 35º 70º 36º 71º 39º 71º 42º Cowlitz at Mayfield Dam 20s 4.38 ---- 0.00 10s 0s This map shows high temperatures, type of precipitation expected and Centralia Regional Weather Sun and Moon location of frontal systems at noon.