Tigers to Play for 2B Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com Title / Sports 1 $1 Early Week Edition Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015 Suspect Lewis County’s Moratorium on Charged in Pot Pushes Out Potential Grower November SIX MORE MONTHS: County Lewis County staff has been granted to renew the moratorium on marijuana op- Centralia more time — another six months — to erations since December 2013. Staff, Planning Commission to complete marijuana regulations. And some people can’t wait any longer. Continue Work on Regulations The Board of County Commission- Summer Chapman said she and her School ers approved renewing its moratorium on partner, Gabe Koth, will be selling their By Kaylee Osowski marijuana at its Monday meeting. [email protected] The board has voted every six months please see POT, page Main 11 Threat By The Chronicle A 16-year-old Centralia High School student was arrested ear- Centralia Shelter Seeks Volunteers lier this month in relation to a threatening note found at Centra- lia High School on Nov. 9. Hub City Mission Looking for Volunteers at Cold-Weather Facility The girl was arrested Nov. 13 and charged in Lewis County Ju- venile Court on Nov. 16 with one count of harassment, threat to kill. She pleaded not guilty Nov. 17 and is currently awaiting trial. The girl is accused of writing “Ima shoot up the school 11/10” on a desk. Near the quote was what appeared to be a signature, read- ing “Sir Killsalot,” said Lewis County Prosecutor Jonathan Meyer. Centralia High School staff conducted a locker check Nov. 9 to look for weapons on the cam- pus. Nothing was found. On Nov. 10, the school canceled its zero period and all students arriving with backpacks went through a search checkpoint. The threat came about a month after another threat caused a lockdown and day-long evacuation process at the school on Oct. 2. Draft Study: Tacoma Rail Line Purchase Pete Caster / [email protected] Teddy Holmes, 27, of Winlock, a volunteer at the Hub City Mission, carefully steps over belongings of the people staying at the Centralia cold-weather shelter during ‘Not Looking his shift on Monday night. Promising’ By Dameon Pesanti WATER WOES: Lewis [email protected] County Commissioner When the temperature drops to just a few degrees above freez- Says Floodplain an Issue ing, the Lewis County Cold in County, Chehalis Weather Shelter serves as a life- line to those who otherwise Plans for Railway might freeze to death, but this By The Chronicle year the shelter is scrambling to A preliminary draft of a fea- find enough volunteers to keep sibility study for a potential pur- the doors open. chase of 20 miles of the Tacoma Traditionally, the shelter Rail line shows that the numbers opened its doors when the tem- don’t “quite pencil out,” Lew- perature dropped down to 36 is County Commissioner Bill degrees, but to ease the suffer- Schulte told The Chronicle. ing of the homeless, organizers The study, which began in bumped the maximum temper- June, has yet to be finalized and ature up to 38 degrees. presented, but Schulte said one of “Two degrees makes quite a the issues is with the floodplain. bit of difference when it’s real The county and Chehalis are stormy and the wind is blowing,” jointly considering the $3 million said shelter Co-Director Robert purchase. Grimes. “It’s not looking promising,” Grimes said even though Schulte said. the wintry weather has just ar- The agencies did ask the Port- rived, the diving temperatures John Savage, a guest at the Hub City Mission Cold Weather Shelter, sweeps away cigarette butts along the sidewalk land-based firm conducting the please see SHELTER, page Main 11 outside the shelter on Tower Avenue in downtown Centralia on Monday night. please see RAIL, page Main 11 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Return of the Fisher Breakfast With Santa Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 State Volunteers Anderson, Mary Elizabeth, Follow Us on Twitter Wildlife Team Up to 101, Chehalis @chronline Officials Serve Food Find Us on Facebook to Release at Annual www.facebook.com/ Animals in Event thecentraliachronicle Cascades / Main 3 / Main 16 Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015 PAGE TWO News Jumping for Joy of the Weird are looking at their procedures to find how the corgi ended up on the wrong plane. Stolen Bust of Lincoln Found at Gettysburg Cemetery GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A bust of Abraham Lincoln that was stolen from outside a muse- um near where he delivered the Santa Obliges Dad Gettysburg Address has been found. of Sleeping Boy With Hall of Presidents and First Snoozing Photo Ladies Museum manager Rose EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) — Little says the bust was found When Donnie Walters took son in a nearby cemetery’s bushes Ted S. Warren / The Associated Press Zeke to have his picture taken by some out-of-state visitors on Seattle Seahawks’ Thomas Rawls (34) jumps after scoring a touchdown as Pittsburgh Steelers’ Mike Mitchell lies in with Santa Claus, the 6-month- Friday. the end zone in the second half of an NFL football game Sunday in Seattle. See coverage on page 8 in today’s Sports old boy couldn’t stay awake She tells the Gettysburg section. while they waited in line. Times the visitors called the So Santa obliged Walters and museum to report the discovery posed asleep with the snoozing and delivered the bust to her. Notable Quote child resting on his belly. Rose says it appears to be Walters posted the photos of in good shape, with just a bit of the sleeping pair on Facebook. mud caked on it. The photos taken Nov. 25 at She says the museum will Evansville’s Eastland Mall and clean it and “put President Lin- “I think the Peruvians are wasting their money trying to sue them.” posted the following day have coln back up on the pedestal where he belongs.” been liked 371,000 times and Jerome Mullins shared more than 195,000. The bust was stolen some- Walters tells USA Today that time between Nov. 22 and “everyone has been very kind.” Nov. 23, and just days after owed money by defunct Tenino company being sued by Peruvian business He says most comments referred the city celebrated the 152nd (see page Main 16 for the full story) to how much the pictures have anniversary of Lincoln’s Get- brightened people’s day. tysburg Address on Nov. 19. Corgi Ends up in Suspected Burglar Honolulu Instead of Dies After Getting Today in History Stuck in Chimney Today’s Highlight in History: history. We of this Congress and In 1969, the U.S. government Mississippi this administration will be re- held its first draft lottery since On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, HONOLULU (AP) — An FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Au- membered in spite of ourselves.” World War II. a black seamstress, was arrested American Airlines passenger’s thorities say a suspected burglar In 1921, the Navy flew the In 1973, David Ben-Gurion, after refusing to give up her seat pet took something of an un- has died after getting stuck in a first non-rigid dirigible to use Israel’s first prime minister, died to a white man on a Montgom- planned Hawaiian vacation chimney in Central California. helium; the C-7 traveled from in Tel Aviv at age 87. ery, Alabama, city bus; the inci- when the corgi was placed on Fresno County Sheriff’s Lt. Hampton Roads, Virginia, to In 1989, Soviet President the wrong flight and ended up Brandon Pursell said a home- dent sparked a year-long boycott of the buses by blacks. Washington, D.C. Mikhail S. Gorbachev met with in Honolulu. owner in the rural town of Hu- In 1934, Soviet communist Pope John Paul II at the Vatican. Hawaii News Now reported ron heard someone yell after On this date: official Sergei M. Kirov, an asso- In 1990, British and French that Bethany the Pembroke lighting a fire in his fireplace In 1824, the presidential elec- ciate of Josef Stalin, was assassi- workers digging the Channel Welsh corgi was headed with her Saturday afternoon and alerted tion was turned over to the U.S. nated in Leningrad, resulting in Tunnel between their countries owner from Seattle to their new authorities. House of Representatives when a massive purge. finally met after knocking out a home in Jackson, Mississippi, on Pursell said the homeowner a deadlock developed between In 1941, Japan’s Emperor passage in a service tunnel. Saturday when she was placed tried to put out the fire as his John Quincy Adams, Andrew Hirohito approved waging war Ten years ago: A roadside on the wrong connecting flight house began to fill with smoke. Jackson, William H. Crawford against the United States, Britain bomb killed 10 U.S. Marines in Dallas. Firefighters who rushed to the and Henry Clay. (Adams ended and the Netherlands after his gov- near Fallujah, Iraq. South Afri- When owner Paul Chen house used jackhammers to up the winner.) ernment rejected U.S. demands ca’s highest court ruled in favor found he had made it to his final break open the brick chimney, In 1860, the Charles Dickens contained in the Hull Note. of gay marriage. A jury in Sara- destination without his pup he but when they got to the man he novel “Great Expectations” was first In 1942, nationwide gasoline sota, Florida, recommended the reported the dog missing and of- died. published in weekly serial form. rationing went into effect in the death sentence for Joseph Smith, fered a $1,000 reward.