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West Graduate Wraps Up College Career / Sports Arrest / Main 5 $1 Mid-Week Edition Thursday, Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com Aug. 11, 2016 The Power of the Purse Strain of Popularity Sold Out United Way Event Adds to More Mount Rainier, Ashford See Record Traffic as Than $150,000 Raised in Past Years / Main 3 Summer Tourism Boom Continues / Life 1 Pete Caster / [email protected] Thurston County Boy, 17, Jailed A stolen gray Chevy Impala that was used by Chehalis Police After Theft of Police Chief’s Car Chief Glenn Schafer sits on CHARGES: Chehalis Chief’s Vehicle police car belonging to Chehalis Police Chief the side of the Glenn Schaffer and leading police on a lengthy Taken During Attempted Arrest northbound chase shoulder of Troopers with the Washington State Patrol By Natalie Johnson Interstate 5 on attempted to stop a vehicle driven by the suspect, Wednesday after [email protected] who was traveling northbound on Interstate 5, being ditched according to the Chehalis Police Department. A 17-year-old boy from Thurston County is by the suspect. facing felony charges after allegedly stealing a please see JAILED, page Main 14 Ouster of Centralia Homeless Camp Highlights Growing Issue ‘WHERE DO WE GO?’: Law Enforcement Officers Say There Are Few Easy Answers to Complicated Situation By Natalie Johnson [email protected] The camp is hard to find un- less you know what you’re look- ing for. Starting from a secluded parking lot near Plummer Lake, a narrow dirt path, punctuated by thick tree roots, rocks and stray branches from overgrown blackberry bushes, winds on for a few hundred feet before you see evidence people have been living in these woods. “We get told we have to leave and for the first time in my life, I don’t have a plan B,” said Jen- nette Lian Monday afternoon as she packed up her few belong- ings. Lian said she has a place to store her possessions, but no plan for where she will call home or even sleep next. “The cops just keep telling us they don’t have an answer for our question, and our ques- tion is, ‘Where do we go?’” said Top Left: Stephen Kay, of Chehalis, has become an advocate for the mem- Mykel Teeter, another resident bers of the camp. He started visiting a few months ago to deliver food, wa- of the camp. ter and essentials to its residents. City of Centralia munici- pal code enforcement staff this Above: Dan Schroeder, center, smokes a cigarette as he packs up his be- week gave the residents of the longings from a camp site near Plummer Lake in Centralia on Monday camp an ultimatum to leave by afternoon. City of Centralia municipal code enforcement staf this week the end of the day Monday or be gave the residents of the camp an ultimatum to leave by the end of the removed. day Monday or be removed. Community Development Director Emil Pierson told The Right: Jennette Lian helps Dan Schroeder as they leave a make-shift Chronicle the city made the de- camp site near Plummer Lake on Monday afternoon in Centralia. cision to clear out the camp after please see HOMELESS, page Main 16 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Lawsuit Filed Hogging the Landscape Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Coach Hunters Huey, Carl Gaylan, 52, Follow Us on Twitter Centralia @chronline Seeks Prepare to Gross, William Lee, 53, Position For Possible Toledo, Oregon Find Us on Facebook Back After Hunts to Thin Patterson, James Ar- www.facebook.com/ mistead, 61, Chehalis thecentraliachronicle Being Fired Feral Pig Ryan, Ronald Patrick for Praying Population “Pat,” 44, Richland / Main 7 / Sports 7 LOCAL PEOPLE, LOCAL DECISIONS! CHEHALIS 714 W. Main Street HOW CAN 360.740.0770 WE HELP Also TOLEDO, You? WINLOCK, TUMWATER CH562126cd.cg & OLYMPIA Keith Macy Matt DeBord HOME | CONSTRUCTION | BUSINESS NMLS# 539574 Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Thursday, Aug. 11, 2016 PAGE TWO News Searching for a Suspect of the Weird Sunday with a 396-pound hali- Police: Train Car but in southeast Alaska. The fish Derails in Iowa, Hits was nearly 8 feet long. They used a winch to bring Bar Called Derailed the fish up onto their vessel, the CHARLES CITY, Iowa (AP) — Day Spring, and Mattson says Police say a freight train car that it “just kept coming and coming, derailed in northern Iowa rolled and then we knew it was big.” into and damaged a trackside A large crowd came down to tavern called DeRailed. the dock to see the fish when they Police Chief Hugh Ander- delivered the halibut for process- son says the accident occurred ing at Petersburg Fisheries Inc. around 4 a.m. Tuesday as crews Even Levy Boiter, with the Inter- moved rail cars and changed national Pacific Halibut Com- connections in Charles City. He mission, went to get a gander. says it appears that the track sep- Boiter says, “This is definitely arated and the grain car tipped not the average fish.” about 45 degrees into the back of The record catch came in the bar. 1996 when Jack Tragis brought Anderson says a patrol offi- in a 459-pound halibut in Dutch Pete Caster / [email protected] cer called him to say a train car Harbor, Alaska. Centralia Police oicer Angie Humphries uses binoculars to check down the railroad tracks in Centralia for a suspect had derailed into Derailed, add- who stole a Chehalis Police Department patrol car on Wednesday morning in Centralia. Read more about the incident ing that “it’s not every day you on today’s front page. Look for a followup story in Saturday’s edition of The Chronicle. get to say that.” Dolphin Snatches iPad No one was injured. The Off Woman Taking bar owner estimates damage at $10,000. Photo at Seaworld Notable Quote Charles City is about 140 ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A miles northeast of Des Moines. woman trying to take a picture of a dolphin at SeaWorld in Flor- ida with an iPad apparently got a Suspected Meth Lab bit too close because it snatched “For us, it’s a tough position. Even though we want to Found Under Parking the device right out of her hands. respect the rights of the homeless to be homeless, some of these folks Video shot by another park- Lot of NY Walmart goer shows the dolphin reaching are not just down on their luck, it’s a lifestyle.” AMHERST, N.Y. (AP) — Au- over the side of the viewing tank at SeaWorld Orlando, where thorities say they’ve discovered Stacy Denham what they believe is a metham- visitors can touch the dolphins. phetamine lab under the park- After the dolphin grabs the iPad Centralia Police Department ing lot of a Walmart store in and tosses it into the water, the (see page today’s front page for the full story) western New York. woman retrieves the device and Police in the town of Am- then quickly walks away. herst say officers on routine pa- A voice can be heard over a trol found chemicals and other loudspeaker saying, “As you can items used to make meth in an see, the dolphins can reach your Today in History underground culvert that runs loose items.” below the parking lot in subur- Today’s Highlight in History: In 1954, a formal peace took In 1991, Shiite (SHEE’-eyet) ban Buffalo. Officers say the cul- hold in Indochina, ending more Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon Doctor to Return On Aug. 11, 1956, abstract vert is tall enough for a person to than seven years of fighting be- released two Western captives: painter Jackson Pollock, 44, died stand up in. tween the French and Commu- Edward Tracy, an American Library Book Overdue in an automobile accident on Police and fire crews on nist Viet Minh. Long Island, New York. held nearly five years, and Je- Monday removed several jars of From the 1970s In 1962, Andrian Nikolayev rome Leyraud, a Frenchman suspected meth from a manhole CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) On this date: became the Soviet Union’s third who’d been abducted by a rival that’s accessible from the culvert. — A Florida doctor is returning In 1860, the nation’s first suc- cosmonaut in space as he was group three days earlier. Authorities say they plan to a long-overdue book that he cessful silver mill began opera- launched on a 94-hour flight. In 1997, President Bill Clinton look at the Wamart store’s sur- checked out from a West Virgin- tion near Virginia City, Nevada. In 1965, rioting and loot- made the first use of the historic veillance video to see if it shows ia library and donating $500. In 1909, the steamship SS ing that claimed 34 lives broke line-item veto, rejecting three people using the culvert. WCHS-TV reported that as Arapahoe became the first ship out in the predominantly black items in spending and tax bills. a child in the mid-1970s, Dr. Mi- in North America to issue an Watts section of Los Angeles. (However, the U.S. Supreme Alaska Fishermen chael Kelly checked out “So You S.O.S. distress signal, off North In 1975, the United States ve- Court later struck down the veto Want To Be a Doctor” from the Carolina’s Cape Hatteras. toed the proposed admission of as unconstitutional.) Snag Nearly Kanawha County Library. In 1934, the first federal pris- North and South Vietnam to the In 2014, Academy Award- Kelly, a graduate of Charles- oners arrived at Alcatraz Island United Nations, following the winning actor and comedian 400-Pound Halibut ton High School, is now a suc- (a former military prison) in San Security Council’s refusal to con- Robin Williams, 63, died in Ti- PETERSBURG, Alaska (AP) cessful plastic surgeon in Miami Francisco Bay.