$1 Weekend Edition Saturday, June 25, 2016 Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com A Former Blazer’s Journey Eddie Smith Goes From Notre Dame to Lower Columbia / Sports LeCo Grows Business MWP Coach Steps Down Chehalis-Based Operation Thriving Across After Five Years and Three Finals Appearances, State Lines as Offerings Expand / Main 13 Gridiron Chief Aaron Poquette Resigns / Sports Billetproof Takes Hobby of Centralia College to Hot-Rodding Back to Its Roots Provide Education to Inmates CEDAR CREEK: College Is One of Three in Washington Chosen for Pilot Program By Justyna Tomtas [email protected] Centralia College has been selected to participate in the new Second Chance Pell Pilot Program that will expand access to financial aid for incarcerated individuals. It is one of three colleges in the state and 67 nationwide se- lected by the U.S. Department of Education for the program, which will allow eligible incar- cerated adults to receive Pell grants and pursue postsecond- ary education, according to a press release. The goal is help the individuals get jobs and sup- port their families when they are released. Pete Caster / [email protected] please see INMATES, page Main 14 Roland Stacy steps out of his 1952 Oldsmobile "rat rod" on Thursday afternoon in Centralia. Stacy, an auto mechanic by trade, will show his car at the Billetproof car show today at the Southwest Washington Fairgrounds. CLASSICS: Rat Rods Gov. Inslee Gathering at Fairgrounds, Then Cruising Downtown Calls for By Jordan Nailon Moratorium [email protected] They say beauty is in the eye on Oil Trains of the beholder, which means they have probably been to a Billet- By Lauren Dake proof car show. The Columbian The annual gathering of clas- Gov. Jay Inslee called for a sic hot rod, and especially rat moratorium on oil trains travel- rod, enthusiasts converged on ing through Washington on Fri- the Southwest Washington Fair- day afternoon. grounds Saturday with all of their Inslee’s call for curtailing heavy metal frames, crinkled Bakken oil traveling through panels and rust-addled floor pans the state comes after an oil on full display. train derailed in the Columbia Not all of the vehicles have River Gorge earlier this month. been besieged by the ravages of Oregon’s Gov. Kate Brown has time, but they all show their age also called for a moratorium. in one way or another. Inslee told federal authorities on Roland Stacy's wife, Janet, plans on refurbishing the interior and door panels and is currently shopping around local please see ROOTS, page Main 14 thrift stores to ind materials for the project. please see OIL, page Main 11 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Andrew Pullin Timberland Regional Library Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Centralia Network Skeem, Galen Lester, 77, Follow Us on Twitter Chehalis @chronline Product Offers Way to Lee, Richard Monroe, 89, Has Access Self- Centralia Find Us on Facebook Successful Published Wigley, Rosalie, 91, www.facebook.com/ Centralia thecentraliachronicle Debut in Books by Wheeler, Jack, 90, Double-A Local Authors Centralia / Sports / Life 1 CH554571jc.do OVER THIRTY STORES DON'T MISS THE OPEN 4TH OF JULY 9AM TO 6PM including BIG SAVINGS at Coach Outlet Easy Spirit Outlet 4TH OF Nike Clearance Store Eddie Bauer Outlet Bath & Body Works Hanes Brands Outlet JULY Kitchen Collection Wilsons Leather JUNE 30-JULY 4 SALE Under Armour Pendleton Outlet VF Outlet & many more! 360-736-3900 • WWW.CENTRALIAOUTLETS.COM • I-5 EXIT 82 • BOTH SIDES • CENTRALIA Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, June 25, 2016 PAGE TWO News A Presidential Reach in Washington of the Weird are you?” LePage, who’s saving up for a Toyota RAV4, works three days a week, and is asking for more shifts. “Because of who I am and who I’m married to, I want to work extra hard just so I can show them I can do the job,” she said. She doesn’t tell customers, or co-workers, who she is unless they ask. But when a reporter revealed her identity Thursday, the news just confirmed a customer’s in- klings. “I knew, that’s why I kept star- ing!” exclaimed Nina Stoddard, Elaine Thompson / The Associated Press Wife of Nation’s Lowest- of Bridgton, a Republican. President Barack Obama reaches out to greet people on his arrival Friday at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in She later wondered: “I mean, SeaTac. Read a brief news item about his visit on page Main 16. Paid Governor Takes is she really here just making money?” Waitressing Job Her friend Laurie Green, of BOOTHBAY HARBOR, Casco, said she loved it. Maine (AP) — The waitress “I really hate a lot of our poli- Notable Quote bounded with a cup of chowder ticians nowadays that have the and a plate of fish and broccoli. wealth, the money,” said Green, It was Ann LePage’s first an unaffiliated voter. “They double shift at McSeagull’s, a have no clue what the average “If these were not smart, tough guys, this bustling restaurant touting dou- person out in the world is doing.” ble-wrapped bacon scallops and Stoddard agreed and sug- would have ended a lot differently.” views of Boothbay Harbor. gested LePage herself should run The wife of Maine Republi- for office: “It’s the best of Maine, Peter Ellis can Gov. Paul LePage had kept the best of who we are. Two feet a low profile for the first few on the ground.” climbing ranger at Mount Rainier national Park weeks of her summer job. But then her husband told a crowd at a recent town hall that his wife Cat Fight: Texas City (see page Main 4 for the full story) took a job to “supplement” his $70,000 salary, the lowest of any Council Votes to Oust U.S. governor. Library Feline The LePages live with their dog, a Jack Russell terrier mix WHITE SETTLEMENT, Today in History named Veto, in the Augusta Texas (AP) — A North Texas city governor’s mansion and bought council has started a cat fight by Today’s Highlight in History: Howard Taft signed the White- gency aimed at cracking down a $215,000 Boothbay home two voting to oust the furry mascot Slave Traffic Act, more popu- on political opponents. (The On June 25, 1906, architect years ago. The governor recently of the city’s public library mas- larly known as the Mann Act, Stanford White was shot to state of emergency was lifted in tried but failed to increase his cot. which made it illegal to trans- death atop New York’s (second) March 1977.) successor’s salary to $150,000, The governing council of the port women across state lines for Madison Square Garden, which In 1981, the U.S. Supreme above the nearly $135,000 aver- Fort Worth suburb of White “immoral” purposes. he had designed, by millionaire Court ruled that male-only draft age for all 50 state governors in Settlement voted 2-1 to give the In 1938, the Fair Labor Stan- library 30 days to find a new Harry K. Thaw, who was ap- registration was constitutional. 2015. dards Act of 1938 was enacted. In 1995, Warren Burger, the home for Browser the cat. parently enraged over what he In 1950, Ann LePage said being a viewed as White’s defilement of war broke out in Ko- 15th chief justice of the United waitress is “something I’ve al- The ex-shelter cat has been a rea as forces from the commu- library fixture for six years. But his wife, Evelyn Nesbit, when States, died in Washington at ways, always wanted to do.” Nesbit was a teenager. (Thaw nist North invaded the South. age 87. Her daughter Lauren made council member Elzie Clements In 1959, spree killer Charles was acquitted of murder by rea- In 1996, a truck bomb killed $28 an hour last summer at Mc- moved at a June 14 council meet- Starkweather, 20, was put to son of insanity.) 19 Americans and injured hun- Seagull’s. LePage said she spent ing for the tabby’s removal. death in Nebraska’s electric years taking care of her mother, Mayor Ron White, who has chair. Eamon de Valera was dreds at a U.S. military housing who long suffered from sclero- no vote on the council, told On This Date: inaugurated as president of Ire- complex in Saudi Arabia. The derma and died in October. the Fort Worth Star-Telegram In 1788, Virginia ratified the land. science-fiction thriller “Inde- Now it’s time to follow the vote was a tit-for-tat after a U.S. Constitution. In 1962, the U.S. Supreme pendence Day,” about an alien through on her interest, LePage city employee wasn’t allowed to In 1876, Lt. Col. Colonel Court ruled that recitation of a attack on Earth, had its world said, adding: “I know she’d be bring a puppy to work at City George A. Custer and his 7th state-sponsored prayer in New premiere in Los Angeles. proud of me.” Hall. Cavalry were wiped out by Sioux York State public schools was In 2009, death claimed Mi- Wearing a black McSeagull’s Ex-council member Alan and Cheyenne Indians in the unconstitutional. chael Jackson, the “King of Pop,” T-shirt and sneakers with pink Price said Browser’s supporters Battle of the Little Bighorn in In 1975, the government of in Los Angeles at age 50 and shoelaces, LePage greeted cus- will petition for a reprieve in No- Montana. Indian Prime Minister Indira actress Farrah Fawcett in Santa tomers with an easy: “Hey, how vember’s elections.