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Mexican, American Wildlife Experts Work Together Maurin Murders Near Tenino to Save Gray Wolves 1985 Cold Case Trial Wolf Work Reaches Fifth Week

By Stephanie Schendel [email protected] As the long-awaited double-murder trial of Ed and Minnie Maurin ends its fourth week, the prosecution, through nearly 100 hours of testimony, have presented the 12 jurors and five alternates with evidence that suggests the Riffe brothers were dangerous drug dealers desper- ate for money. Prosecutors allege that Rick Riffe, and his now-deceased brother, John Riffe, Rick Riffe abducted the elderly accused Ethel couple from murderer their home on Dec. 19, 1985 and forced them to withdraw $8,500 from a Che- halis bank. One of the brothers then made the couple drive to a rural logging road in Adna where he then alleg- Ed Maurin edly executed them murdered in by shooting the pair 1985 in their backs with a sawed-off shotgun at close range inside Pete Caster / [email protected] their vehicle. Shane White, Cork, Ireland, center, and Brent Wolf, right, a volunteer with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, proceed with exams on a Mexican gray wolf dur- The brothers ing Wolf Haven International's 10th annual Wildlife Handling and Chemical Immobilization course at the facility in Tenino on Thursday morning. The annual then used the money course is one of two in the entire country, allowing students to get hands-on experience with treating wolves. from the robbery and murder to purchase a COMPASSIONATE CARE: At a course that remains one large amount of co- of only two in the nation to of- caine and buy Christ- Minnie Maurin Course at Tenino murdered in fer hands-on experience with mas presents for their 1985 Sanctuary Draws wolves Thursday, one Wolf Ha- families, according ven biologist brought together to witness testimony. International Interest as scientists from the United States It is an investigation that has One of Only Two in the and Mexico. spanned nearly three decades — so The two countries have long long that one of the suspects and sev- U.S. to Offer Hands-On been working on a Species Sur- eral of the witnesses have already died. Experience with Wolves vival Plan for the once nearly Since the start of the trial, two of extinct Mexican grays in the the three Maurins’ surviving children, By Amy Nile United States and Mexico. Dennis Hadaller and Hazel Oberg, as [email protected] At the 10th annual course, well as a group of family, friends and supporters have filled the first few TENINO — A Tenino wolf which attracted students from rows behind the prosecutor’s table. sanctuary is helping to bridge around the world, Pamela Ma- Noel, a Mexican gray wolf, gets anesthetized prior to being examined Hadaller told the jury on the sec- the gap between two different ciel, a Wolf Haven biologist and tested by students at Wolf Haven International’s 10th annual Wild- ond day of trial that he laid his hand cultures with a common goal — from Mexico, provided Spanish translation for three scientists life Handling and Chemical Immobilization course at the facility in Teni- on his mother’s casket during her to ensure survival of Mexican no on Thursday morning. gray wolves. please see WOLF, page Main 14 please see TRIAL, page Main 6 Residents Ask for Lower Speed Limit After Crash CHANGE: Four-Vehicle U.S. Highway 12 where a four-vehicle crash occurred Tuesday. Crash on Tuesday Sparked A petition asking Washington courtesy photo Support for Petition State Department of Transporta- A multiple car tion officials to fix the roadway im- accident on By Kyle Spurr mediately is currently circulating Highway 12 and Pecan Street near [email protected] online. The movement gained mo- Grand Mound is Rochester residents and others mentum this week — it had 540 seen on Tuesday from throughout the region are ask- signatures by Friday — after a afternoon. ing the state to lower the speed limit violent four-vehicle collision at the from 55 mph to 45 mph and add signage to a troublesome portion of please see SPEED, page Main 14

The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Weather Saturday’s Child Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 TONIGHT: Low 42 Gordon Myer, Joseph Allen, 24, Follow Us on Twitter TOMORROW: High 51 Oakville @chronline Showers likely Aadland’s Carlisle, Jolene Danielle see details on page Main 2 Final Column (Mahoney), 33, Ben Find Us on Facebook Wheeler, Texas www.facebook.com/ Weather picture by Sicily King, After Recent thecentraliachronicle Evergreen Academy of Arts and Sciences Death / Main 8 Main 2 The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013 COMMUNITY CALENDAR / WEATHER Community Editor’s Best Bet Burnett, Vander Stoep to Give Report on Flooding Solutions Calendar David Burnett, chairman of the Chehalis Tribe, and J. Vander Today Stoep, a Chehalis attorney, will WHAT’S HAPPENING? be giving a status report Monday on efforts to find solutions to re- W.F. West Musicians to If you have an event you would like included in the duce catastrophic flood damage Perform at ‘An Evening Community Calendar, please and fishery enhancement in the for the Arts’ email your information to Chehalis basin. [email protected]. The report will be given 6:30- David Burnett J. Vander Stoep The Chehalis Music Boost- Include a daytime telephone 7:30 p.m. at Centralia College’s Chairman of the Chehalis ers Club will be presenting “An number where you can be Corbet Theatre. Chehalis Tribe Attorney Evening for the Arts” at 6:30 p.m. reached. Burnett and Vander Stoep Vander Stoep, the work group tonight at the W.F. West High There is no charge for these are members of the Governor’s includes Thurston County School Commons. listings. Chehalis Basin Work Group. Commissioner and Flood Au- Performing will be W.F. West For questions about The work group met in 2012 at Music Department, featuring calendar items, call Doug thority Vice Chairwoman Karen the request of Gov. Chris Gre- Valenzuela, Cosmopolis Mayor the Westsingers, Jazz Band and Blosser at The Chronicle, (360) goire and developed a $28 mil- and Flood Authority Chair- W.F. West Orchestra. 807-8238. lion funding package that was woman Vickie Raines, Grays In addition, there will be des- passed by the 2013 Legislature. serts, a silent auction and raffle. Underway now, as a result of Harbor farmer and president of Dress for the evening event brary today from 2 to 3:30 p.m. the Washington Dairy Federa- to teach people how to play the this funding, is in-depth plan- will be semi-formal attire. Tickets ning for flood damage reduction tion Jay Gordon, and Inslee rep- in advance are $20, and $25 at the ukulele in one session. resentative Sandi Triggs. The workshop for teens, options as well as fishery en- door. hancement. United Way of Lewis County, To purchase tickets in advance adults, absolute beginners and the Lewis Economic Develop- the “uke-curious” is free of Gov. Jay Inslee asked the or obtain more information, call Work Group to continue work- ment Council are co-hosting the Michelle at (360) 269-1736. charge and no registration is required. About 30 loaner ukes ing to supervise the expenditure event. will be available for the class on of the funding package and to The event is open to the pub- Ashford Festival first first come, first served basis. make recommendations to the lic and is free of charge. Chair- Those who have their own uku- governor in the fall of 2014 as to man Burnett and Vander Stoep to Feature Wines, leles are invited to bring them the next steps. will give the briefing and take Microbrews along. In addition to Burnett and questions from the audience. A wide variety of wines and Power and Einhorn are pro- microbrews will be showcased fessional folksingers, songwrit- ers and teachers of the ukulele Siren & Assassin, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Organizations during the fourth annual Mount The Shire, Chehalis, table reservations Rainier Fall Wine Festival. who have been featured artists required Disabled American Veterans, 1 p.m., The event will be 2-8 p.m. to- on Garrison Keillor’s “A Prai- Seth Martin and Friends, screening of American Legion building, 111 W. Main rie Home Companion.” They “The Ghosts of Jeju,” 7 p.m., Matrix Cof- St., Centralia, (360) 245-3357 or (360) day at the Lions Grand Tasting 262-9360 Room in Ashford. are also nationally touring feehouse, Chehalis, $6-$12 sliding scale, (360) 740-0492 Friends of the Library, 11 a.m., Winlock Unlike many of the large concert musicians whose aim is to share the basics of mak- Harmonious Funk, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., venues that feature mass-pro- Scatter Creek Grill, Lucky Eagle Casino, duced, large-scale wineries, this ing beautiful music from the Sunday, Nov. 3 beginning in a way that builds (360) 273-2000, ext. 301 festival features hard-to-find Gospel Singspiration, 5 p.m., Path- Bingo, doors open 5 p.m., bingo confidence and community. way Church of God, 1416 S. Scheuber artisanal wines and microbrews starts 6:30 p.m., Forest Grange, 3397 “Music self-played is happiness Road, Centralia, offering taken, (360) from small Washington state Jackson Highway, Chehalis self-made,” is the Ukalaliens’ 291-3211 or (360) 736-3698 producers. Dancing, Jack & the Roadrunners, Gauge testing, 10 a.m., Sunbirds, Tickets can be purchased motto. For more on the duo’s 1:30-4:30 p.m., Swede Hall, Rochester, Chehalis, sponsored by WSU Lewis online at www.road-to-paradise. music, visit http://qualityfolk. (360) 807-1761, (360) 520-6518 com. County 4-H Master Food Preservers and com. Discounted tickets are Food Safety Volunteers, (360) 740-1212, Community meal, 1-3 p.m., Rotary available for advance purchase The Centralia Timberland http://lewis.wsu.edu Riverside Park, Centralia, free, sponsored by Jesus Name Pentecostal Library is located at 110 S. Sil- Carnaval Du Tease, presented by the through Oct. 31 for $20. Admis- Church, Chehalis, (360) 623-9438 sion includes a souvenir wine ver Street. For more informa- Historic Fox Theatre Restorations and glass, 10 tasting tickets and live tion, call the library at (360) 736- Twin City Tease Burlesque, Fox Theatre, entertainment. 0183 or visit www.TRL.org. Centralia, doors open at 7 p.m., show at Monday, Nov.4 The workshop is sponsored 8 p.m., costume contest, masquerade Additional tasting tickets can ball, raffle, drinks, $15 general admis- Burger Night, 5-7:30 p.m., Centralia Ea- be purchased for $1 each. After by the Friends of the Centralia sion, VIP tables available, www.face- gles, quarter-pound hamburgers, $1.50, Timberland Library. book.com/TwinCityTease Oct. 31, tickets are $25 and can other menu items, (360) 736-1146 be purchased either online or Evergreen Playhouse Star Search, onsite. Veteran Resource Fair, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., 7:30-10 p.m., 226 W. Center St., Centralia, Public Agencies Veterans Memorial Museum, 100 SW top 10 finalists, tickets $10 at door and Lewis County Commission, 10 a.m., Veterans Way, Chehalis, (360) 742-4759 $7 presold at EvergreenStarSearch@ BOCC board room, second floor, Lewis Dancing, Country Four, 7-10 p.m., brownpapertickets.com. Pair to Give Ukulele County Courthouse, agenda available South Union Grange, 10030 Tilley Gardening workshop, Dahlias — Dig- at http://goo.gl/agwWM, (360) 740-1120 Road S., Olympia, (360) 352-2135 ging, Dividing and Storing for Winter, 10 Lesson at Library Grays Harbor Fire District 1, budget Games Day, traditional and mod- a.m., Fort Borst Park Demo Garden, Cen- workshop, 7 p.m., Station 1, Oakville, “The Ukalaliens,” Kate Power ern board games, card games, 1 p.m., tralia, sponsored by Lewis County Mas- )360) 273-6541 and Steve Einhorn, will be at Matrix Coffeehouse, Chehalis, (360) ter Gardeners, (360) 740-1212, http:// the Centralia Timberland Li- 740-0492 lewis-mg-mrc.org please see CALENDAR, page Main 11

The Weather Almanac

5-Day Forecast for the Lewis County Area River Stages National Map Gauge Flood 24 hr. Forecast map for Nov. 2, 2013 Today Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Height Stage Change 110s Chehalis at Mellen St. 100s 49.40 65.0 +0.03 90s L Skookumchuck at Pearl St. L 80s 73.57 85.0 0.00 H L 70s Cowlitz at Packwood 60s 1.67 10.5 -0.07 H 50s Cowlitz at Randle 40s Showers Likely Few Showers Scat'd Rain Rain Likely Rain Likely 4.62 18.0 0.00 30s H 53º 42º 51º 36º 49º 41º 48º 41º 53º 40º Cowlitz at Mayield Dam 20s 8.51 ---- +0.07 10s

0s This map shows high temperatures, type of precipitation expected and Almanac Regional Weather Sun and Moon location of frontal systems at noon. L H Data reported from Centralia Sunrise today ...... 7:57 a.m. Cold Front Stationary Front Warm Front Low Pressure High Pressure Temperature Bellingham Brewster Sunset tonight ...... 5:53 p.m. Yesterday’s High ...... 59 Moonrise ...... 6:57 a.m. National Cities Yesterday’s Low ...... 46 51/41 51/36 Moonset...... 5:31 p.m. Normal High ...... 57 Port Angeles Today Sun. Normal Low...... 41 52/42 City Hi/Lo Wx Hi/Lo Wx Record High ...... 70 in 1949 Seattle Anchorage 38/31 mc 39/30 sh Record Low...... 15 in 1935 51/43 Boise 62/34 sh 46/30 sh Precipitation Olympia Ellensburg New First Full Last Boston 63/44 s 48/29 sh Yesterday ...... 0.00" 54/41 51/35 11/3 11/10 11/17 11/25 Dallas 70/45 s 69/52 s Month to date ...... 0.00" Tacoma Honolulu 86/74 pc 86/73 pc Normal month to date ...0.20" Centralia 51/43 Pollen Forecast Las Vegas 76/56 s 74/50 s Year to date...... 26.35" 53/42 Yakima Nashville 62/38 mc 58/41 s Normal year to date ....33.04" Chehalis Allergen Today Sunday Phoenix 86/58 s 82/54 s 54/34 Longview 53/42 Trees None None St. Louis 55/37 s 57/44 s Salt Lake City 66/42 s 45/30 rs WeArea Want Conditions Your Photos 50/42 Grass None None Vancouver Shown is today's Weeds None None San Francisco 67/49 s 66/48 s Yesterday weather. Temperatures Mold None None Washington, DC 65/44 s 54/36 s Portland 50/42 The Dallesare today's highs and SendCity in your weather-related Hi/Lo Prcp. photographs to The Chronicle for our Voices 53/43 55/39 tonight's lows. World Cities page. Send them to voices@chronline. com. Include name, date and descrip- Today Sun. Today Sun. tion of the photograph. Regional Cities City Hi/Lo Wx Hi/Lo Wx City Hi/Lo Wx Hi/Lo Wx Today Sun. Today Sun. Baghdad 77/56 t 78/53 pc New Delhi 86/61 s 84/60 s City Hi/Lo Wx Hi/Lo Wx City Hi/Lo Wx Hi/Lo Wx Beijing 64/45 s 65/33 s Paris 58/48 sh 53/49 pc Weather (Wx): cl/cloudy; pc/partly Bremerton 51/43 sh 50/39 sh Spokane 52/35 ra 43/28 sh London 56/44 pc 53/43 mc Rio de Janeiro 83/65 mc 85/66 pc cloudy; r/rain; rs/rain & snow; s/sunny; Ocean Shores 53/46 sh 52/44 sh Tri Cities 57/40 sh 53/30 pc Mexico City 67/48 t 74/52 sh Rome 70/61 pc 71/60 sh sh/showers; sn/snow; t/thunderstorms Olympia 54/41 sh 52/37 sh Wenatchee 56/39 ra 53/32 pc Moscow 46/40 cl 49/46 sh Sydney 85/63 pc 86/55 pc

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CH508607sl.cg ENERGY SYSTEMS Your Heating, Cooling & Refrigeration Specialists Since 1982 360-748-1817 www.advancedenergyinc.com • Main 3 LOCAL The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013 New Valley View Health Center in Toledo Waiting on Federal Approval

HELD UP: Clinic to be ployees. The organization has While Valley View waits, to be within the scope of ser- the current Toledo Clinic on Finished by December, vice. The feds are saying they 401 Cowlitz Street will remain But Will Wait for have to approve the move.” open. Valley View is waiting on The new clinic will open Federal Go-Ahead similar approval for three down the street at 117 Ramsey Pete Caster / [email protected] By Kyle Spurr other improvement projects Way. A dump truck working with Sterling Breen Construction drops a load of dirt on top in Olympia, at a new space Clark said Valley View origi- [email protected] of the Airport Road levee in Chehalis in August. inside Cascade Mental Health nally planned on remodeling The new 3,392-square-foot Care and for a walk-in clinic the current clinic, which has an Valley View Health Center in Centralia. uneven foundation, damaged clinic in Toledo is expected Clark said the federal gov- floors, a leaky roof and needs Widening of Airport Levee to be complete by Decem- ernment is overwhelmed by electrical work. ber. However, it will not open receiving about 20 requests Clark found the new proper- its doors for service until the a week. Clark is hesitant to ty last fall and decided it would Delayed Until Next Summer federal government approves blame the recent federal gov- better serve the community. a scope of service change, or ernment shutdown as reason The new clinic will serve PROTECTION: Heavy tually raising the levee and help change of address, Executive for the delay. about 2,333 people with 7,000 Rain and Rebidding protect the airport, Interstate 5 Director Steven Clark said. “The shutdown didn’t help appointments per year. The and the complex of retail stores “Everything is being held up it at all,” Clark said. “It’s not clinic’s primary focus is on low- Material Delayed that generate about $550,000 of at the federal side,” Clark said. the cause, but it didn’t help.” income and uninsured patients. Widening Project revenue per day. Most of the funding for the The wider levee will protect $800,000 clinic came from a By Kyle Spurr against 50-year flood events sim- $644,126 federal grant, award- All Subscribe ilar to the 2009 flood, the fourth ed to Valley View in May 2012. [email protected] CatchTheNews!News!News! Today! highest flood of record in Lewis Valley View covered the re- ★807-8203 The two-part, $1.2 million County. maining costs. Airport Levee Project underway The top of the levee will be The federal grant, com- near the Chehalis-Centralia Air- widened from about 15 feet to 30 bined with Valley View being ROCHESTER port is falling behind schedule feet. The levee is about 1.8 miles a federally qualified health LUMBER this year due to record rainfall in long. center, means it needs the fed- September and a late start rebid- An unusually wet August fol- eral government's approval for ding for fill material, according lowed by record-setting rainfall the new Toledo clinic, Clark Insulation.Vapor Barrier.. Screws Bolts 3’ Painted 40 year Armor Tech to Lewis County Public Works. in September slowed construc- said. . 17 colors $205/lf The first part of the widening tion this year, Elsea said. The “We receive our malpractice Sliding Door Hardware 24’ Trusses project was scheduled to be com- Blueprints .and of course all the lumber! 3’ Painted 25 year Sunguard 25 total rainfall in September was insurance through a process 8 colors pleted last Monday, with crews $ 95/lf 11.74 inches, doubling the previ- called federal deeming,” Clark CH508849sl.sw 1 adding about 50,000 cubic yards ous record of 5.61 inches in 1978. said. “We get our insurance SELLING POLE BARN KITS SINCE 1988 Check out our website: rochesterlumber.net 19523 Sargent Rd SW of dirt to widen the levee. through the federal govern- Rochester WA Airport Manager Allyn Roe Open Mon-Fri 7am-5:30pm Sat 7am-5pm Closed Sundays However, Sterling Breen, of said the heavy rain completely ment as if we are federal em- 360.273.5213 Centralia, the contractor for the stopped construction at times project, will likely have to return this fall. next summer to add a remaining “Originally, the hope was to 20,000 cubic yards of dirt. The get it fully completed this year, extra work will be added to the but with the wet weather that re- second portion of the project, ally delays things,” Roe said. “So which is focused on widening it will just get closed up and fin- the levee between Interstate 5 ished next year.” and Airport Road. The widening project, which Lewis County Public Works started on July 22, was intended Director Tim Elsea said the

to start earlier to avoid the au- CH507469cf.sw county already expected the entire widening project to be com- tumn construction, but bids for plete by the summer of 2014, so the project came in higher than the overall timeline is still intact. expected due to a specific fill ma- Lewis County, the lead on the terial. project, received an extension The Corps of Engineers re- to use the $1.2 million in state quired a fill material that does funding by Dec. 31, 2014. not occur naturally in the area, “There is a chance we will be Elsea said, so all the bids came able to complete (the first phase) back higher to account for the this year,” Elsea said. “It will take specific type of dirt. a small miracle. We are pushing “We worked with the Corps just to go ahead and get the im- to get something that worked provements on the ground, but for them and was naturally oc- www.LesSchwab.com ® we are not in any danger of los- curring around here,” Elsea said. ing the funding.” “We put it back out to bid and it Although construction is not was about $500,000 less than the likely going to be complete by original bid.” Free Peace of Mind Free Lifetime Tire this year, Elsea said, the work Despite the delay in construc- Tire Protection & Mileage Care already done will offer more pro- tion, seeing a flood mitigation tection from flooding compared project underway is a positive Whatever the road throws at you, from potholes to To help you get more miles out of your to previous winters. step forward, Roe said. The work nails - any road hazard, we guarantee you’re protected tires and more miles per gallon of gas “I definitely think it will be thus far will leave the levee at the improved,” Elsea said. “The base same height or above this winter. “It’s still providing protec- will be wider, the conduit for wa- PASSENGER TIRES Don’t be left in the cold... LIGHT TRUCK/SUV TIRES ter going through will be wider. tion and is more protective than Have a FREE Battery Test We won’t be in any worse shape.” we had before,” Roe said. “It’s a ECONOMY RADIALS ECONOMY RADIALS GREAT BUY! performed today! TERRAMAX H/T The final result of the widen- night and day difference as far as STARTING AT STARTING AT ing work will set a base for even- what we had.” FREE 99 AVERAGE BATTERY LIFE PER REGION 99 FREE ROAD HAZARD • FLAT REPAIR 4-6 4-5 3-4 2-3 ROAD HAZARD • FLAT REPAIR MOUNTING • ROTATIONS MOUNTING • ROTATIONS AIR CHECKS 39 YEARS YEARS YEARS YEARS AIR CHECKS P155/80R-13 89 P235/75R-15 News In Brief YOUR SIZE IN STOCK, CALL FOR SIZE & PRICE YOUR SIZE IN STOCK, CALL FOR SIZE & PRICE EXCELLENT HANDLING signal directing traffic through EXCELLENT VALUE By The Chronicle TREAD DESIGN MAY VARY TREAD DESIGN MAY VARY the 200-foot section. Overnight Closures Over-sized commercial ve- hicles are not allowed through STUDDABLE TRACTION STUDDABLE TRACTION Planned on U.S. the single lane closure and will have to use Interstate 90 and In- Highway 12 Near FREE 60 XTREME XHD FREE terstate 5, WSDOT said. ROAD HAZARD • FLAT REPAIR MONTH POWER REDUCED EVAPORATION, ROAD HAZARD • FLAT REPAIR MOUNTING • ROTATIONS GASSING & CORROSION MOUNTING • ROTATIONS White Pass WSDOT hopes to reopen U.S. AIR CHECKS AIR CHECKS Highway 12 near White Pass to YOUR SIZE IN STOCK, CALL FOR SIZE & PRICE YOUR SIZE IN STOCK, CALL FOR SIZE & PRICE U.S. Highway 12 near the two lanes by Thanksgiving. STARTING AT 60 84 72 STARTING AT White Pass summit will close PINNED MONTH WARRANTY MONTH WARRANTY MONTH WARRANTY PINNED 420-675 590-900 550-750 from the state Route 410 junction 99 FOR STUDS Cold Cranking Amps Cold Cranking Amps Cold Cranking Amps 99 FOR STUDS west of Naches to the state Route Centralia College To 64 TREAD DESIGN MAY VARY 99 TREAD DESIGN MAY VARY 155R-12 How Old is Your Battery? 215/70SR-16 123 junction east of Packwood Present Lyceum on nightly from 7 p.m. to midnight, OBSERVE WINTER TRACTION Monday through Wednesday. Bullying and Aggression CHAINS HEADED TO THE MOUNTAINS? The nighttime closures will Centralia College is holding allow crews to restore a drainage ™ a Lyceum presentation that will QUICK FIT DIAMOND structure and continue to repair PASSENGER CHAIN focus on the nature of “micro- FREE RETURN PROGRAM: They take the work and ROAD HAZARD • FLAT REPAIR If you don’t use your passenger car chains, the hillside below U.S. Highway MOUNTING • ROTATIONS frustration out of using aggressions,” or bullying. AIR CHECKS return them for a full refund after the last 12, just east of White Pass, that PASSENGER tire chains. They go on and The one-hour presentation by YOUR SIZE IN STOCK, CALL FOR SIZE & PRICE legal date for studded tires (Does not apply to the Quick Trak traction device) off quickly and fit right to washed out on Tuesday, Oct. 1, ac- Norma Alicia Pino, director of provide excellent traction cording to the Washington State the First Peoples Advising Ser- STARTING AT PREMIUM during tough winter driving Department of Transportation STUDDED TIRE conditions. vices from Evergreen State Col- 99 SEE HOW TO LIGHT TRUCK & SUV U.S. Highway 12 will be lege, will explore how these often ALTERNATIVE INSTALL YOUR NEW TIRE opened to local traffic, WSDOT 124 185/60R-15 TREAD DESIGN MAY VARY unrecognized micro-aggressions CHAINS AT AN SNAP LOCK said, but drivers will not be able are a part of daily life and what Recommended on all 4 wheel positions, this tire offers a ECONOMICAL CABLE CHAIN rubber compound designed for excellent traction with- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju_YB_-6_Zw CHOICE! to cross the washed out area people can do about them. out tire studs. near milepost 154, 3 miles east of The free public event will White Pass. take place at 1 p.m. Wednesday Drivers are encouraged to at Washington Hall, located at Mark Witham Nathan Wright WWW.LESSCHWAB.COM leave earlier, later or use alternate the corner Washington Avenue Manager Manager routes. and Walnut Street on the college Centralia Chehalis Following the nighttime clo- campus. 1211 Harrison 36 N. Market sures next week, U.S. Highway For more information, visit 736-6603 748-0295 12 will continue to be reduced to centralia.edu/news/lyceum- a single-lane with an automated schedule.html. PRICES GOOD THROUGH JANUARY 31, 2014 CH509022sl.cg Main 4 The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013 LOCAL News In Brief By The Chronicle Centralia College’s Public Relations Staff Earns Awards Staff from the Centralia Col- lege Office of College Relations have reaped five awards for work in marketing and public relations. A gold medal came for photography and the college received a silver medal for feature writing. The college also took home bronze medals for its catalog, website and a stage play poster in addition to receiving high marks for a student recruit- ing publication. The awards were given in late October during the National Council for Marketing and Don Frey Public Relations public information District 7, which officer includes two and some four-year colleges in Wash- ington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska, Montana and the Canadian prov- inces of Alberta, British Columbia, Pete Caster / [email protected] Saskatchewan and Yukon Territory. Bob Guenther rears back to throw a chunk of biosolid that fell of of a truck while he was walking along state Route 508 near his home in Chehalis on Monday, Oct. 14. College President James Wal- ton credited the work of Don Frey, the public information officer, for leading the relations staff in pro- ducing high-quality work. Business, Neighbors Clash Over “What Centralia College pro- duces is every bit as good as, and in many cases better than, the work produced by larger colleges and schools with larger marketing staffs and bigger budgets,” Walton CONTAMINATION said in a news release. Chehalis Police FIRE MOUNTAIN FARMS: Department Hosting Disagreement Over Food Drive Nov. 9 Biosolids Has Raged The Chehalis Police Officer for a Decade Association will host a food drive at Safeway in Chehalis on Satur- day, Nov. 9, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. By Lisa Broadt Along with the food drive for [email protected] the local food banks, the police will also be accepting donations For Fire Mountain Farms for the Shop with a Cop program, owner Bob Thode, a field of which provides Christmas gifts for treated sludge is a gift to the en- needy children. vironment and cash in his pock- The Chehalis K-9 officer and et. his partner Reign will be at the For neighbor Bob Guenther, food drive in the afternoon as well. that same field is a toxic disaster. For questions on the food The war between Thode, a drive, contact the Chehalis Police businessman with a master’s de- Department at (360) 748-8605. gree in environmental studies, and Guenther, a labor lobbyist, has raged for more than a decade. In the middle: the Department of Ecology and Lewis County Code Enforcement. Since 2002, Fire Mountain Farms has accepted biosolids Ernestine Blum points to portraits of her grandkids in her house in Chehalis on Monday, Oct. 14. Blum explained that because from wastewater treatment plants of the terrible smell resonating from a nearby farm coupled with an infected well, which forces her to boil her water, her and applied them to its land. grandkids no longer want to come visit. It makes its profit by dispos- Twin Mattress Sets ing of other companies’ unwant- solids fields, which are about 100 ed, treated sludge, using the land yards from her property. Starting at $99 for general farming and building “The smell, the stink is so bad, you can’t even Despite the complaints about agricultural lagoons. breathe. You can’t have any outdoor activities. Newaukum Prairie, the water there Full Mattress Sets Fire Mountain — described by shows little contamination, accord- Thode as a family-owned, natural Your grandkids come around and they want to ing to the 2013 quality report. Starting at $129 resources-based company — has know, ‘Why does it stink so bad here?’” With one exception, the water 18 full-time employees. measured at all sites were well Queen Mattress Sets The most recent battle con- Ernestine Blum within the allowable range, with cerns nitrates, chemicals that in Chehalis one upgradient monitoring well Starting at $159 large doses can contaminate wa- coming in at .013, and one down- ter. Thode’s Cinebar site, one of of disinfection byproducts, which Thode believes livestock are stream surface water site coming six in Lewis County, recently has have been linked to increased the source of contamination at his in at .08. Guenther and Blum shown unsafe levels of nitrates. cancer and reproductive health Cinebar site, and that in general, said they question the veracity of Twice yearly monitoring sug- risks in humans, according to septic systems are as much the cul- the reports. gests the nitrate levels are con- Oregon’s Department of Envi- prit as is fertilizer. tinuing to rise. ronmental Quality. “No one issue can be blamed BOTH SAY they’re not interested Thode says it’s under control. Of seven surface water sites for all the contamination that gets in fighting — but something must He’s working on a plan that will tested at Thode’s Cinebar site, into the groundwater,” Thode said. be done. take care of it. five showed nitrate levels trend- “We need to look at the system as “It’s not personal,” Guenther Guenther, on the other hand, ing upward, according to a May a whole.” said. “I just want it taken care of.” said he’s already found contami- 2013 water quality report “I think it is important to note “We have gone to a great deal nation in a well near Thode’s Two of the sites reached histor- that the nitrate issues at Burnt of work to minimize the conflict- Napavine site, which he says is a ic highs: 15.9 milligrams per liter at Ridge would not have come to ing land uses that exist and get result of Thode’s unscrupulous one, 14.9 milligrams per liter at the light if we were not monitoring the along with most of our neighbors,” business practices. other. surface and groundwater as part of Thode said. “There are no easy an- 1601 S. Gold Street · Centralia “I maintain this is not biosol- Both were downstream from our biosolids operation,” he added. swers here, and all involved will ids for beneficial use,” Guenther Fire Mountain’s land. need to continue to work together 360-736-3832 said. “It’s a biosolids dump pure- Groundwater measured in THOSE WHO LIVE NEAR Fire to make it work.” CH508844sl.db ly for profit.” domestic wells showed two stable Mountain Farm’s Napavine site sites and one that continues to struggle to describe the powerful WASHINGTON SUPPORTS return- trend upward. stench they’ve suffered through ing the treated sludge — primar- It most recently was measured on and off for the last decade. Debbie’s ily organic, semi-solid product at 10.7 milligrams per liter. “The smell, the stink is so resulting from the wastewater bad, you can’t even breathe” Er- treatment process — to the land, FOR EVERY BIOSOLIDS operation, nestine Blum, who lives nearby, as long as certain conditions are Ecology sets the pace at which the said. “You can’t have any outdoor Boutique met. sludge can be safely applied. activities. Your grandkids come When applied properly, biosol- If done too quickly, nitrates, around and they want to know, ids offer fertility and water reten- which are highly mobile, will pass ‘Why does it stink so bad here?’” New Fall MerchaNdise! tion, according to the Department through the root zone and into the It was enough, Guenther of Ecology. water system. added, to make a former countythis is a sample of the background color I would like. But when applied improperly, Jamie Olivarez, Ecology’s bio- commissioner “upchuck in the Stop in, warm up and fill biosolids threaten ground and sur- solids expert, is now working with ditch.” The font for "Debbies" and "Boutique" is the Curlz style. face water purity. Thode on a site plan that will set a According to Guenther, prob- your fall wardrobe! In recent weeks, Ecology has new rate of application. lems over the years have includ- visited Fire Mountain Farms fre- Oliverez cautioned against vil- ed not disking the sludge into the Newest additioN quently. lainizing the application compa- field quickly enough, applying One of a kind “A Hug For Your Head” hats, scarves A number of Fire Mountain nies. Nitrate issues are not unique too much sludge, not aerating his & gloves! Assorted styles & colors. Farms testing sites show nitrates to biosolids appliers, he said. lagoon and not properly lining that exceed the Environmental “Less than 0.5 percent of ag- his lagoon. COME ON IN AND HAVE SOME FUN! Protection Agency’s standard of ricultural land in Washington is Blum now believes she has safe water: approximately 10 mil- biosolids land,” he said. “Nitrates a new and serious concern: E Open 7 Days a Week: Mon.-Thur. 11-6 • Fri.-Sun. 11-4 ligrams per liter. are also a concern around animal coli and elevated nitrates in her 120A S. Tower Ave, Centralia • 360-269-6033 High nitrate levels in surface and commercial operations that well water. She’s not sure of the debbiesfashionboutique.com water may result in elevated levels use synthetic nitrates.” source, but suspects Thode’s bio- CH508556sl.db • Main 5 LOCAL The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013

Health Reform Profile STATEWIDE HEALTH CARE INFORMATION Some Lewis County Residents to Get Free Health Care RESOURCES Washington Health MEDICAID EXPANSION: State Benefit Exchange to Recruit Nearly 3,000 Website: wahealthplanfinder.org Phone: 1-855-WA-FINDER Newly Eligible Adults in (1-855-923-4633) Call center hours: 7:30 a.m. to 8 Lewis County to Enroll in p.m. Monday through Friday No Cost Health Insurance Washington State Insurance Commissioner in 2014 Website: www.insurance.wa.gov By Amy Nile Phone: 1-800-562-6900 [email protected] Twin Cities In-Person Though problems have per- Assistance Locations sisted with a website built to help • Valley View Health Center Address: 2690 Kresky Ave., those navigating the changes Chehalis brought on by the Affordable Phone: (360) 330-7851 Care Act, some have found suc- Help Hours: Monday through cess in the troubled reform. Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. from A 45-year-old Centralia Oct. 5 through March 31 woman will have free health in- • Providence Centralia Hospital surance next year through the Address: 914 S. Scheuber Road, state’s Medicaid expansion. Centralia Romne Griffith said she has Phone: (866) 747-2455 gone uninsured since she lost Help Hours: Monday through her job in patient care at a drug Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and alcohol rehabilitation center last April. Though she has since • Planned Parenthood of the Pete Caster / [email protected] Great Northwest found work as a dietary aide at Romne Griith stands in the kitchen of her Centralia home on Friday, Oct. 25. Griith, a 45-year-old mother of ive, makes Address: 1020 W. Main St., a residential facility for seniors, minimum wage as a dietary aide at a residential facility for seniors. She only gets 30 hours a week and cannot aford to pay Centralia Griffith said, she cannot afford more than $100 for the company’s healthcare policy that she will be eligible for next month. Starting Jan. 1, 2014, she’ll be Phone: (800) 230-7526 to pay more than $100 a month eligible for free health care through the state. Help Hours: Monday from 10 for her company's health care a.m. to 4 p.m., Wednesday from plan when she becomes eligible of the federal poverty rate, or fort at Valley View. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Friday from 9 for coverage next month. a.m. to 2 p.m. through Dec. 30 about $45,960 for a one-person “I’m hoping people will be “It’s too expensive at mini- (help available during hours to be STATEWIDE household, will qualify for subsi- mum wage,” Griffith said, not- able to understand there is a determined through March 31) COMPLETED HEALTH dized coverage if their employer ing she has a hard time paying need,” Griffith said. “Any insur- does not offer health insurance rent with two children and a CARE ENROLLMENT ance is better than no insurance. • Lewis-Mason-Thurston Area disabled adult daughter at home. NUMBERS and they buy a plan through People sometimes don’t find out Agency on Aging “We struggle every month. If I the state’s new online insur- they’re sick until it’s too late.” Address: 1651 S. Market Blvd, Qualified Health Plans — 6,390 ance marketplace, known as the ••• Chehalis had to start putting out money Phone: (360) 748-2288 for medical issues, we’d end up Medicaid Newly Eligible Washington Health Benefit Ex- Amy Nile: (360) 807-8235 Coverage Beginning in 2014 Help Hours: Monday through Fri- homeless.” change. twitter.com/AmyNileReports — 26,336 In the first three weeks of www.facebook.com/ day from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Griffith recently turned to Medicaid Coverage Beginning March 31 Valley View Health Center’s in- enrollment, 356 newly eligible AmyNileTheChronicle Immediately — 16,269 adults in Lewis County signed person assistance staff for help Total — 48,995 determining her insurance cov- up for Medicaid coverage that Source: Washington Health Ben- begins Jan. 1, according to the erage options under health care efit Exchange reform. Starting Jan. 1, Griffith state Exchange and the Health will receive a free health care in- Care Authority. surance plan through the state’s unable to afford the medical bills The agencies aim to recruit Medicaid expansion. and waited until it became an nearly 3,000 clients in Lewis IT’S BIGGER “It was an amazing relief,” emergency to seek treatment. County who now qualify for Griffith said. “By the time we got him to go Medicaid under the new income THAN BANKING. Griffith said she has medi- in, it was too late,” she said. “He rules by the end of 2014, ac- cal conditions that require a died within two months.” cording to HCA’s Jim Stevenson. HELPING OUR NEIGHBORS THRIVE. primary care physician, regular Most of those individuals previ- prescription medication and an LEWIS COUNTY currently has ously had no insurance, though annual visit with a neurologist — about 13,000 uninsured resi- some obtained coverage through all things she has had to go with- dents, according to the state an employer, Stevenson said. out. Office of the Insurance Com- Despite the glitch-filled roll- “I can’t go to the doctor,” she missioner. Of the county’s un- out, staff at Valley View Health said. “I can go to the emergency insured, about 4,000 will now Centers in Lewis County have room, but they can’t take care of qualify for Medicaid and another assisted 260 people in complet- it long-term.” 5,000 will be eligible for federal ing applications for health insur- Griffith said that knowing subsidies, according to OIC. ance through the Exchange since she will have health care next Those with annual incomes enrollment began Oct. 1. year lifts a huge burden, espe- of up to 138 percent of the federal Like Griffith, the majority of cially after watching her 62-year- poverty rate, or less than $15,864 the applicants have qualified for old father suffer with liver cancer for an individual, will qualify for the state’s free insurance plan last year. Griffith said the doc- Medicaid. under Medicaid expansion, ac- {COMMUNITY} tors did not catch her uninsured Individuals and families with cording to Linda Tomasheck, father’s cancer because he was incomes of up to 400 percent who is leading the enrollment ef- Our community is at its best when we all work together. News in Brief That means lending a helping hand and investing time, energy Centralia Nurse giver on July 13, 2005, according and money in the place we call to state Department of Health home. We’re here, sleeves Reinstated Following records. rolled up, ready to work for you Suspension The next morning, it was because when the community determined that Hileman com- November 1 - November 7 succeeds, we all succeed. By The Chronicle pletely neglected to care for the Despicable Me 2 At Anchor Bank it’s bigger The state Nursing Assistant residents during her shift, re- $3 • PG sulting in many patients need- than banking. 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Main 6 The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013 LOCAL Former Inmate Says Riffe Confessed to Maurin Murders CONFESSION CLAIM: Erwin Bartlett Says Rick Riffe FORMER COCAINE Admitted to Murders DEALER TELLS JURY OF in Lewis County Jail LARGE PURCHASE IN By Stephanie Schendel DECEMBER 1985 [email protected] By Stephanie Schendel A convicted felon whose cell [email protected] was adjacent to that of Rick Riffe A former Yakima man who while he was housed in the Lewis spent eight years in a federal County Jail’s medical unit told prison for working as a co- the jury the defendant confessed caine “wholesaler” during the to him in early 2013. 1980s testified that he sold While only a few minutes Robin Riffe, who was suspect of Erwin Bartlett’s testimony Rick Riffe’s wife at the time of focused on what Riffe alleg- the Maurin slayings, 2 ounces edly told him when they were of cocaine shortly before housed next to one another, the Christmas of 1985. Hoquiam man remained on the Ralph Vickers told the jury that he met Robin and a man stand for hours Thursday after- he did not know at White noon as Riffe’s defense attorney Pass and gave them 2 ounces attempted to tarnish his cred- of cocaine in exchanged for ibility. $2,200 in $100 bills. Bartlett, dressed in a suit and While Vickers did not tie, told the jury that he previ- Pete Caster / [email protected] know Robin’s last name, he ously spent more than 13 years Former Lewis County Jail inmate Erwin Bartlett, left, looks at Rick Rife during his testimony in Rife's double-homicide trial in identified Robin Riffe in a in prison during the 1980s and Lewis County Superior Court on Thursday afternoon at the Lewis County Law and Justice Center in Chehalis. photo shown to him by the 1990s for two counts of attempt- prosecutor. ed murder after he found his plained about his attorney, who Prosecutors allege that then-wife with two other men. Riffe had told him was a promi- Rick Riffe and his now- He then attacked the men nent and expensive Seattle attor- deceased brother, John Riffe, with an ax, he said. While serv- ney, not interviewing witnesses. used some of the money they ing time in prison, Bartlett said, He also said Riffe told him stole from Ed and Minnie he managed to escape, and was he committed the crime with an Maurin to buy a large quan- tity of cocaine. The brothers on the run for about six months accomplice who was “no longer before he was arrested again. are accused of killing the with us,” which Bartlett said he elderly couple by shooting Years after his release from took to mean that the accom- them in their backs inside prison, he moved from New plice was dead. His brother, John their 1969 Chrysler Newport. Mexico to Washington. In 2012, Riffe, died last year, Vickers said he was ner- he was arrested for misdemeanor After hearing Riffe’s alleged vous about selling the drugs assault and was sentenced to a confession, Bartlett said he did to the man with Robin Riffe few months in the Lewis County not tell anyone until he tried to because he did not know him. Jail. gain leniency with authorities “I felt safe with Robin, and Bartlett, who suffers from a after he was caught committing I didn’t know if the guy she variety of severe medical issues, another crime. was with was a cop or what,” said he, like Riffe, was housed During his jail sentence, he said. Rick Rife's defense attorney, John Crowley, left, walks away from the witness in the medical unit of the jail for Bartlett was allowed to leave the jail In 1991, Vickers testified, stand where Erwin Bartlett, right, is testifying during Rife's double-homicide trial several days. periodically for medical reasons. Lewis County investiga- During that time, Bartlett in Lewis County Superior Court on Thursday afternoon at the Lewis County Law tors came to the federal One day, he attempted to and Justice Center in Chehalis. said, the two men spoke to each smuggle medication for his liver penitentiary in Oregon and other through the vents, which inflammation into the jail by asked him about the 1985 they call the “cellphone.” sticking the pill bottle in his but- that he never read a newspaper ing jail sentence, made mention transaction. Vickers, now a used car “He said he had committed a tocks, he said. He was caught by or heard about Riffe’s case prior of a plea agreement. to speaking with him. The plea agreement, accord- salesman, testified that he crime and he had killed two old the jail staff, and immediately was a drug “wholesaler” and people,” Bartlett said, later add- requested to speak to a detective Bartlett later pleaded guilty ing to court documents shown to drug-related charges for to the jury by Crowley, said the didn’t sell to users, only to ing, “He told me it was a bad, bad about knowing possible infor- small-time dealers. mistake.” mation about some other pend- smuggling the pills into the jail, prosecution would recommend While they spoke about ing cases. but has yet to be sentenced. a lower sentence in exchange for Riffe’s crime on multiple occa- He then told the interviewing Thought Bartlett told the jury Bartlett’s “truthful” testimony in sions, he said Riffe confessed one sheriff’s deputy, Jeremy Almond, he was not “promised anything” the Riffe trial. time, then later denied it. about three different cases he by the prosecution, John Crow- Bartlett told the jury he did SirenS “The first time he told me he had information on, including ley, Riffe’s defense attorney, ques- not know about the agreement, did it, the second time he said he one about Rick Riffe. tioned Bartlett for nearly an hour though Crowley gave Bartlett a ‘allegedly’ did it,” Bartlett said. Bartlett also made a point to about why the court documents copy of the document bearing He also said that Riffe com- mention during his testimony for his guilty plea, and his pend- Bartlett’s signature. chronline.com Riffe: Pace of Testimony Continues to Slow News in Brief Continued from front page The state Transportation De- TRIAL RESUMES TUESDAY Gov. Jay Inslee Tapped partment would like to see stud- funeral and swore that he would The Rick Riffe double-murder trial will resume Tuesday at for Obama Climate ded tires banned year-around find her killer until the day he 1:30 p.m. in Lewis County Superior Court. Superior Court Judge because of the ruts they cause on died. When the case stalled in Richard Brosey postponed testimony for Monday and Tuesday Task Force highways. the 2000s, Hadaller hired two morning so Crowley could appear in court in other parts of the OLYMPIA (AP) — Washing- The department says drivers private investigators that helped state for his other clients. ton Gov. Jay Inslee is among the at higher elevations should use move the case against the Riffe political leaders who will be part traction tires and carry chains. brothers forward. ings, told the jury on Monday that eyes. There was a deep concern.” of President Barack Obama's task When chains are required on on the morning of Dec. 19, 1985, After making eye contact, force on climate issues. passes, studded tires alone will THROUGHOUT THE past four he and his mother saw the Mau- Forth said he pulled up behind The White House said Friday not meet the requirement unless weeks, prosecutors have painted rin vehicle pull out of the couple’s the car, and began to mentally that Obama was establishing the your vehicle is an all-wheel drive the Riffe brothers as heavy drug driveway on U.S. Highway 12. prepare himself to make the traf- panel to advise the administra- vehicle. users and small-time drug deal- When his mother attempted to fic stop. But for reasons still un- tion on how the federal govern- ers. In the small community of pass the car by driving into the known to him, he did not pull the ment can support local com- Mossyrock, both had dangerous opposite lane of traffic, Shriver car over. What he did not know munities impacted by climate Free Elbow Pain reputations, and neither had a looked over at the car and saw at the time, and would later learn, change. Inslee is one of eight gov- Seminar Scheduled full-time job. both the Riffe brothers, who he was that the man who was driv- ernors named to the panel. The Prosecutors have presented knew from living in Mossyrock, ing the Maurins’ 1969 Chrysler task force also includes local and Nov. 7 at Saint the jury with photographs of in the vehicle with the Maurins. Newport was possibly armed tribal leaders. Martin’s University Rick and John Riffe from the After the murders, the Riffe with a sawed-off shotgun, which The task force builds on ef- mid-80s countless times that brothers approached him in he might have used moments forts Obama announced in June By The Chronicle show two young, rugged-looking downtown Mossyrock and told earlier to shoot the elderly couple. to combat global warming, in- Providence St. Peter Hospital men with intense brown eyes. him if he ever told anyone what Because of Forth’s guilt of cluding the first-ever limits on is hosting a free elbow pain semi- The old photographs of the he saw, they would kill him, his not pulling the car over that day, climate pollution from new and nar on Thursday from 7 p.m. to defendant show the jury a stark mother and his family. which would have likely brought existing power plants. Inslee fo- 8:30 p.m. at the Worthington contrast of the gray-haired, over- For more than two decades, closure to the case decades ago, cused on climate issues during Conference Center at Saint Mar- weight, clean-shaven man who Shriver said, he remained silent, pet- Forth said it was part of the reason his time in Congress and is now tin’s University. sits across the courtroom from rified that the Riffe brothers would why he got out of law enforcement. continuing that work as gover- Dr. Kurt Anderson a fellow- them everyday. follow through with their threat. nor. ship-trained orthopaedic sur- In the 1980s, Rick was slen- “It was 28 years of looking AS THE TRIAL approaches an end, geon with several years of expe- der and had long, shaggy brown over my shoulder,” Shriver told the pace of the testimony con- rience treating elbow pain, will hair and dark eyes. His brother the jury Monday. tinues to slow as it is punctured Studded Tires Now discuss common causes of elbow had the same intensity in his frequently by objections regard- Legal on Washington pain, elbow anatomy and treat- eyes, which was a physical aspect THE OTHER KEY eyewitness was ing procedural issues by both the ments, including the latest ar- that several eyewitnesses talked William Forth, who testified defense and prosecution. Roadways throscopic procedures. about during their testimony. during the second week of the Many of the objections result OLYMPIA (AP) — Starting The event is free and open to John Riffe also had pock marks trial that he was working as a in the jury being sent out of the Friday, studded tires are now le- the public. Snacks and refresh- in his cheeks and a shaggy beard. deputy on the day the Maurins courtroom temporarily by the gal on Washington roadways. ments will be provided. As promised in their opening disappeared. judge so the attorneys could ar- They'll have to come off cars Space is limited. statements, prosecutors have not Forth, who was on patrol in gue outside their presence. Dur- at the end of March, when the To register, visit www. presented any physical evidence, the Adna area, testified he al- ing the past two days, the jury threat of snow-and-ice covered provregister.org or call (360) such as DNA or fingerprints, most pulled over what he later has been sent out of the court- highways has passed. 493-7247. that link either brother to the believed to be the Maurin vehicle room more than a dozen times. slayings. In place of physical evi- driven by one of the Riffe broth- While it is unclear how much dence, the prosecution has relied ers on state Route 6, approxi- longer the prosecution will con- Sharon Care heavily on 28-year-old eyewit- mately four miles from where tinue its case, Riffe’s attorney, “great care at a ness testimony. their bodies were discovered John Crowley told the judge Center great place” days later. At the time he saw the Friday that the defense’s case SO FAR, the jury has heard vehicle, the couple had not yet will last approximately two days. STUDIO APARTMENTS NOW AVAILABLE from 83 witnesses. The most been reported missing. 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Haberstroh, Kostick Vie for Port of Chehalis Commissioner Seat BALLOT BATTLE: Incumbent you in the eye and shake your About Ken Kostick About Arnold Haberstroh hand,” he said. Kostick Faces Haberstroh, Age: 42 Age: 49 Building relationships with business leaders, Haberstroh a Business Owner Education: W.F. West High Education: Bryan High said, remains critical to attract- Focused on Job Creation School School, Bryan, Texas ing new companies. Once a Current Occupation: Pur- Current Occupation: business expresses interest, he By Amy Nile chasing Manager for Quanex Owner of Haberstroh Proper- said, the next step is making it Building Product in the Port of ties easy for the company to meet [email protected] Chehalis Ken Kostick Community Activities: Arnold Haberstroh regulations and start local op- Incumbent Port of Chehalis Community Activities: incumbent Port Economic Development challenger erations. Commissioner Ken Kostick is Chairman Centralia-Chehalis of Chehalis Council Board, Advisory Board Haberstroh said the relation- running for a second, six-year Chamber of Commerce Board, commissioner for Group Water Systems for Lewis County, ships he has built will assist him term against opponent Arnold Visiting Nurses Foundation, Chehalis School represents Chehalis on Chehalis River Basin in developing land for public Haberstroh. District program and athletics volunteer sup- Flood Authority, Rotarian of the year for Twin benefit. The winner of Tuesday’s porter Cities Rotary, past member for the Chehalis “I’ve got a passion for it,” he election will take a seat on the said. “It’s not a Republican and Family: wife and one daughter Planning Commission commission that guides the Democrat thing. It’s about jobs.” port, located just south of Che- Number of Years in Chehalis: native but Family: wife, three daughters, one grand- Haberstroh said he has halis. briefly lived in California and Oregon son earned endorsements from both Number of Years in Chehalis: 25 sides of the political spectrum, KOSTICK, a Chehalis native, including Sen. John Braun, R- has more than 20 years of pro- Centralia, and Thurston-Lewis- fessional leadership experience Mason Labor Council President with national businesses, in- seen as a prime location for na- “We’re in a prime location for gling.” Bob Guenther, a Democrat. cluding two Fortune 500 com- tional distribution centers. that,” he said. Haberstroh, who sits on sev- “That’s what it takes to get panies. things done,” he said. “The only The 42-year-old currently If re-elected, Kostick said, he Kostick said his goals in- eral boards aimed at increasing will focus on the continued ex- clude providing stability for the development in Lewis County, reason I’m involved in this is to works as a purchasing manager make our community stronger. pansion of the port and attract- port and planning for the future. said his focus as commissioner for Quanex Building Product in I want to be a hands-on coming companies that bring good “We have to think outside the will be bringing family-wage the Port of Chehalis. missioner.” Kostick said he is not serving paying jobs to the area. box,” he said. jobs to the area. Haberstroh de- ••• fines a family-wage job as pay- as port commissioner for per- “I’m a good steward of the Amy Nile: (360) 807-8235 sonal gain or to bolster political taxpayer’s money,” the husband ARNOLD HABERSTROH has lived ing at least $45,000 annually. twitter.com/AmyNileReports associations. and father said. in Chehalis and operated his Only one person in a household www.facebook.com/ “I’m not affiliated with the During his term as commis- Napavine-based land devel- should have to work, the hus- AmyNileTheChronicle good ol’ boys network,” Kostick sioner, Kostick said, he has aid- opment business, Haberstroh band and father of three said. said. “I believe in keeping a neu- ed in several new additions to Properties, for 25 years. His ex- “We want jobs where people tral and fiscally responsible per- the port, such as Sound Wood perience acquiring and develop- can make a wage and compa- spective on things.” Products Inc., which brought 15 ing land in Chehalis, Napavine nies that give back to our com- Current challenges facing manufacturing jobs to Chehalis. and Winlock, Haberstroh said, munity,” Haberstroh said. “It Selling your the port, Kostick said, include Beyond Lewis County’s tradi- qualifies him for port commis- doesn’t seem like we’re closing competition from other ports tional wood products, Kostick sioner. the deal and getting the jobs.” home? and the slow rebound of the said, he supports bringing in “I don’t need a job, but we’ve Haberstroh said bringing global economy. Additionally, fabrication and machining busi- got a lot of people in our town in new jobs requires more than Give your home a Kostick said, the Pacific North- nesses, such as companies that that do,” the 49-year-old said. “I simply sitting in port meetings. competitive edge in west has historically not been make parts for Boeing. see these folks every day strug- “I’m a guy that wants to look today’s market by calling re:Design. Staged homes sell faster and for top dollar. Will State's Legal Pot Taxes Go to Health Care? Call the re:Design Home Staging team today! GREEN: Money May rolling in, every three months alizes, he said. ward health care. the state will pay $175,000 to the The federal money that Seattle City Attorney Pete End Up Going Toward Department of Social and Health helped Washington launch its Holmes, another sponsor of Law Enforcement or Services to support Washing- health exchange is eventually I-502, said he'd like to see the ton's "healthy youth" survey and going to run out, and Rivers money go toward health care as 425 N. Market Blvd. Other Uses Unless a cost-benefit analysis of the le- suggested that after local law voters intended. But having to Chehalis, WA 98532 Lawmakers Act gal-marijuana law. Some $5,000 enforcement and costs associ- 360-740-5400 goes to the University of Wash- ated with educating the public figure out how to spend money www.redesigndivas.com By Gene Johnson ington to publish online infor- about drug abuse are paid for, is better than the alternative, he M–F 10–6 Sat. & Sun 10–5 The Associated Press mation about marijuana, and up the pot money could go to- said: "It's a good problem to have." to $1.25 million goes to the Li- CH508608sl.cg SEATTLE — One selling quor Control Board for the costs point of Washington's new legal of administering I-502. marijuana law was that a huge Of the money that's left, chunk of pot-related tax revenue half was dedicated to the Basic would be devoted to health cov- Health Plan. That could be a lot, erage for low-income residents. based on projections that legal But it's not clear the money marijuana could bring in tens or Great news! will go to health care after all. hundreds of millions of dollars a Under the federal Affordable Patient consults year. are available Care Act, also known as "Obam- The legal marijuana law in Olympia. acare," a would-be recipient of did not carve out a share of tax the pot taxes — Washington's revenue for cities and counties, Basic Health Plan — is being which are facing some of the eliminated. The plan, which pro- costs of its implementation, and Barbara experienced vided low-cost health insurance significant relief from some would like to see the Leg- tremors following to the working poor, is being islature remedy that. Candice single-session absorbed by Medicaid and will Bock, a lobbyist for the Associa- treatment with end Dec. 31, according the state tion of Washington Cities, said Gamma Knife. Health Care Authority. that for the legal marijuana law As a result, lawmakers will to work, the state is going to need to take action if they want need to crack down on the black ® to rededicate the money that market, and that increases po- Gamma Knife for tremors Initiative 502, the legal pot law lice costs. passed by voters last year, intend- "There is a real need to ad- brings back simple pleasures ed for the Basic Health Plan. At dress those local impacts," Bock least some of the money, which said. could amount to tens of millions Barbara's shakiness had made her retreat from her active social life. "It's hard to State Rep. Christopher go out to lunch when you can't pick up a spoon," she says. of dollars a year, might wind up Hurst, the Enumclaw Democrat going toward local law enforce- who leads the House commit- Relieved when she received a diagnosis of essential tremor, Barbara thought, ment costs or other uses. tee that oversees cannabis, and "I can live with that." But the shaking worsened until she couldn't sign her own "It would be my hope that in Republican Sen. Ann Rivers of name. Barbara chose to have non-invasive treatment at South Sound Gamma the spirit of the initiative the La Center both said they'd like Knife in Tacoma. Just five weeks later, she showed remarkable improvement. A Legislature would dedicate that to see some of the legal pot rev- member of the Crow Indian Nation and former master gardener, she's enjoying money into health care," said re- enue redirected to cities to help maintaining her Native American heritage and social connections and working tired state Rep. Mary Lou Dick- cover local costs, such as for erson, a sponsor of I-502. "In police and zoning. in her garden. Barbara says, "It's great to be able to sign my name again!" particular, mental health is a Lawmakers might also want Gamma Knife "radiosurgery" is a single-session treatment offering significant huge issue and hasn't been prop- to reshuffle some of the other relief of tremor symptoms. Gamma Knife also treats other disorders of the brain, erly funded." spending priorities laid out in from tumors to trigeminal neuralgia. The state has yet to see any I-502, Hurst said. tax revenue from the sale of legal "There's a lot of different If you have tremors, see a neurologist. If you would like a referral to a physician pot to adults over 21. The Liquor ideas out there about where the with expertise in tremors and Gamma Knife treatment, please contact us toll-free Control Board is due to begin money should go," Hurst said. at 1-866-254-3353. Learn more at www.SouthSoundGammaKnife.com. accepting applications Nov. 18 It requires a two-thirds vote from people seeking licenses to for lawmakers to amend an grow, process and sell pot for rec- initiative in the first two years reational reasons, with pot stores after passage. Because the up- expected to open around the coming legislative session is a 1802 S. Yakima, Suite 103, Tacoma, WA 98405 middle of next year. short one, and because of the

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Columnists, Our Views, Richard Lafromboise, Publisher, 1966-1968 Christine Fossett, President J.R. Lafromboise, President, 1968-2011 and Publisher Opinion Letters to the Editor Jenifer Lafromboise Falcon, Chairman As Leaves Fall on Esplanade, We’ll Remember Aadland As I watch the red, yellow mark ever since. internationally famed pianist, and golden leaves of autumn fall Charles Littel’s passion COMMENTARY: Fond Memories were among Gordon’s favorites. gently on the Gordon Aadland brought Centralia College into He wanted them both to come Esplanade this October morning, existence, but it was the dedica- time. It was a show of support Centralia College. The Distin- back to their roots and perform I sense the presence of Gordon tion, leadership and belief in the that led to keeping the college in guished Alumnus Program that together for the community – Aadland. His vision and mission by Margaret Centralia. Gordon helped initiate recogniz- perhaps in his honor, someday presence re- Corbet, Katherine Kemp and Many of us were affected es one individual each year who they will. minds me of the faculty that kept the doors by Gordon Aadland, and none has gone on to excel in his or her the thousands open during the lean years of more so than a young waitress profession. Many individuals EVERY FALL the golden leaves of students, the Great Depression and World at Shari’s Restaurant. Gordon such as Patti Morton, America’s will fall on the Gordon Aadland faculty and War II. Faculty and staff took would go into the restaurant first female special agent and se- Esplanade and we will remem- staff who have IOUs instead of salary, and were to have coffee with his friend curity officer; Dr. Jerris Hedges, ber his stories of those that have graced the halls granted payments of $5 to $20 Denny Waller, who served many who standardized emergency come before. And every spring of our buildings when needed, to keep food on years as the publisher of The room practices across the na- new leaves will grow on the trees Chronicle, and would always ask, tion; and Laura Dowling, who and walked By James Walton the table; yet the college doors lining the Esplanade and we will this very path never closed. And during the “Janet, have you got your degree left a successful career in public think of all those whose stories to and from war, when the student body was yet?” Janet Reaume now has her policy to become a great floral have yet to be told. classes. Gordon was our sage, reduced to seven women gradu- associate degree from Centralia designer and floral arranger for Please take a moment to sit our storyteller, our elder who ates, still, the doors never closed. College and her bachelor’s from the White House, are examples on a bench on the Gordon Aad- kept stories alive. One of Gordon’s many The Evergreen State College. of Centralia College students land Esplanade and watch the We do have a beautiful cam- dreams was to see a statue of Gordon was delighted when I who have made a difference in students hurrying to and from pus but as Gordon often said, it these two courageous women hired her as the executive assis- our world. class. Remember Gordon’s story is not the bricks and mortar that who dedicated their lives to tant to the president. Thank you, Yet Gordon always reminded and don’t be surprised if you get make us who we are; our people Centralia College erected on the Gordon! us of many others who have a little chill when that special stu- are our real heart and soul. campus. Gordon, the statue is made contributions, men like dent walks by and Gordon says, being realized and will always ANOTHER EMPLOYEE of the Lowell Wood, leader of the most that will be one to remember. CHARLES LITTEL founded Cen- remind us of their stories. Thank college also benefited from successful capital campaign in A scholarship endowment tralia College in 1925. Under you for that vision. Gordon’s wisdom and counsel. college history, and the Smith has been established in Gordon the auspices of the dean of the Other individuals, such as Don Frey took over the Public brothers – Orin (a distinguished Aadland’s name to help aspiring School of Education of the Uni- Clarence Robbins, chairman Information Office that Gordon alum), Michael and Kevin, who students now and in the future. versity of Washington, Charles of a school district committee, started during his tenure at the probably all got away with more Orin Smith has provided the Littel, Margaret Corbet Arthur stepped up during the 1960s, college. When the two conspired than they should have during initial gift but please consider Ehret and five others demon- when the state Legislature was together, they always got what their time at Centralia College giving to the endowment so that strated the quality needed to actively planning to move the they wanted. And I am sure nei- but have gone on to achieve we can make it a full tuition be the first college faculty. The college to Olympia, to lead the ther former president Hank Kirk great things and who are noted scholarship to honor our friend quality of the faculty and cur- effort to pass a levy that would nor myself ever knew which to for “giving back” to their college and colleague Gordon Aadland. riculum were evaluated every build the college’s first student thank or which to blame. They and their community. Thank you. year during a day of “inspection” center and library. The levy were a great team. Angela Meade a distin- ••• by the dean. Quality faculty and passed with the highest approval Gordon’s real legacy is in guished alum and a rising opera James Walton is the president of instruction have been our hall- rating of any levy up to that his stories about the students of star, and Charlie Albright, an Centralia College.w COMMENTARY: Saturday’s Child What Will Become of Stately Residence? Editor’s note: Gordon Aadland died Oct. 27 after nearly 12 years of writing columns for The Chronicle. The following column was found by his family on his computer after his death. Lorraine Williams told me that when she was a girl she would walk by that grand, solid house at the corner of Pearl and First streets in Centralia, with its big front porch and its carriage house behind, and she would dream that someday it would be hers. That dream became a reality, and for many years it was hers. But now that porch stands bare, and a sign indicates it wants to get back to being a vital part of the community. Like those homes of a bygone era on Pennysl- By Gordon Aadland vania Avenue in Chehalis, it needs to add its dignity to the present Twin Cities. A bed and breakfast place would be a good bet. ••• This will be an exciting winter for both Centralia and its college. There will be the plans for a business COMMENTARY: down Long Road, if the river will promise to stay away from our door. Musings From the Middle Fork On campus there will be planning for the TransAlta Student Center, maybe to be the main jewel of the college’s tiara. Does It Have to Be a Perfect Trial? And a whole year has been set aside to determine the kind of president we want to replace Jim Walton, considered by many to be the best Centralia College leader of all time, along with the affable Hank Kirk. Where will A Fair Trial Should Be Sufficient we find someone who will dance with the staff on the Over time, I have come to won- fice had to defend Slert’s conviction at the first trial, but the court of Aadland Esplanade to greet new students, who will put der if the Constitution requires a to the state Supreme Court, because appeals overturned it because the on his sweats to play a basketball game with ex-Trailblaz- fair trial, or a perfect one? It’s not a lower court overturned the con- judge in error (at least the appeals ers, and will show up at nearly every school activity? hard to find many examples of cas- viction — again. court thought so) rejected Slert’s Maybe in the spirit of cooperation, we will find dé- es, overturned for seemingly minor An interesting post on Face- jury instruction to allow the jurors tente in the Kiser Gardens between those who want to technical issues, rather than guilt. book read “Has anyone considered to consider self-defense. keep it natural and those who favor the aesthetics. ••• The poster child for this has “cruel and unusual punishment”? He was retried in Lewis County to be the case of Kenneth Slert. He If our courts are so cavalier with Superior Court, and convicted with The cards keep coming through the mail daily to has been convicted three times by a man’s life in three trials and the a firearms enhancement. But this me after the encouragement of a Chronicle editorial by one too was reversed by the appeals Publisher Christine Fossett. a jury of killing John Benson, and convictions are reversed each time, each has been over- justice should demand the man be court, after Lewis County Superior They include a daily reminder from John Martin, Court Judge Nelson Hunt made former editor of the Chronicle, whose latest includes turned on appeal set free. He has served more time on a technicality. than he would have if he had just a comment that acknowledged these adages: he knew officers and attorneys “To be is to do.”— Socrates But whether he accepted a plea. Obviously he be- shot and killed lieved his life was threatened.” involved in the case. The court “To do is to be.” — Sarte concluded he should have recused “Doo be doo be doo.” — Sinatra. Benson isn’t in Maybe not so “obviously.” Three ••• dispute. juries have heard all the evidence, himself. Not that the judge did anything With football season fading, I, the sports prognosti- For me the and each convicted him of murder. question is: Did he Few of the facts are in dispute; Slert wrong, or wasn’t fair. Just acknowl- cator, am waiting to see how my Gonzaga cagers will do. By John McCroskey receive a fair, but shot Benson. It’s been the tactics edged he knew some of the parties Will Kelly Olynick make it in pro basketball with his in the case? Not sure how you avoid quick first step toward the basket? Will John Stockton perhaps not perfect of the defense, or some other per- trial? I submit he’s had several and ceived wrong imposed on Slert, that in small communities? be in the stands again to encourage his son David? Will Besides, it was the jury who de- been convicted by his peers each which made his trial somehow Coach Mark Few continue to recruit those good Cana- termined Slert’s guilt, not the judge. dian youngsters? time. flawed. But should it? Go Zags! Yet, recently the prosecutor’s of- Slert was convicted of murder please see MCCROSKEY, page Main 9

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Resolution,” a poem Gordon yourself time Gordon’s column at the time wrote about taking leaps of Should the gods grant me another go-round, to reflect.” ran on page 2. He told me he faith. Even the polar opposite I shall dance extempore was honored to have his face of poetry, the light singsong Reflection in wheat fields, was perhaps on the opposite side of such a rhyme known as doggerel, has the greatest grand snapshot of small-town its value. One of my favorite Hurdle tall fences, of this man’s life. I wondered if he was being lines from Gordon came from a And cross streams many won- sarcastic. No. I soon learned year-in-review column that in- leaping derful talents. that his wit was keen, but not cluded this cheeky homage to a sharpened into the push pin local political gadfly: “Of letters from Although he By Brian Mittge never claimed of irony that deflates so many to the editor, a paragon writer stone to be wise, and quality things these days. He / lambasting both parties, it’s to dismissed the idea that old celebrated the small and good Charles Haunreiter.” stone. age somehow bestowed auto- moments, and in so doing, pol- 3. Share your vision. “And matic wisdom, he had the gift ished them like diamonds. your old men shall dream Baryshnikov! of showing us old truths in new He asked me to lunch. It was dreams,” Gordon liked to say, ways. a tradition we continued for a quoting the Old Testament. And not My friend, who was 92 when decade. He cared about me, and His many visions for our com- ANCHORINGONEFOOTSECURELY he died on Sunday shortly after I him. His loss is a deep one. munity will unfold for decades a fall at his longtime Centralia to come. He co-created the Before reaching out home, inspired me and so many AND SO, I AM going to disre- Centralia College Distinguished tiv others to appreciate, again and gard this wise man’s advice and Alumnus program. He pushed Tenta- tiv offer a few immediate lessons for recognition of our local again, a simple fact: We are liv- tiv -tively ing the good life, and the sooner I’ll take away from Gordon’s life notables, from modern dancer we get down to enjoying it to- and my friendship with him. Merce Cunningham to every With the other. gether, the better. 1. Take time to remember. future Big Leaguer who played Gordon’s recollections of child- baseball on Centralia’s Little FITTINGLY, today marks pre- hood always carried home a League field. cisely 10 years since I wrote memorable point, or at least 4. Connect. Life is better to- someone else, they will like celebrated. the story that earned me my delivered a smile. Long reflec- gether. Gordon’s repeated calls themselves much better.” In his absence, it’s up to all first phone call from Gordon tion uncovers valuable insights. for letters to Benji Sandrini, the of us to renew and share his vi- Aadland. “Do you take this It’s why he preferred delayed young Adna man with a brain HIS LIFE and columns re- sion. troll?” was the headline of this eulogies, perhaps. A powerful tumor, were a small example minded us of a fact we should As you sleep, Gordon, piece about a costume-themed example came when he more or of how reaching out and con- always remember – that living we’ll continue to dream your wedding/haunted house at Fort less singlehandedly uncovered necting is a key to the good here is not just OK, it’s an end- dreams. Borst Park. It ran on the front the tragic story of “the girls,” life. In an email to me back in less source of opportunity and *** page along with several other young workers who died in a 2009, Gordon put it this way: pride. Brian Mittge was a journalist bits of small-town news, includ- flash fire at an explosives fac- “As I have grown older, I believe Gordon took what others at The Chronicle for a dozen years. ing photos of trick-or-treaters tory on Coal Creek Road. His sincerely that helping someone might call a modest life — a He lives outside Chehalis with his and a story about Morton devotion to shared memory led rewards the helper. I’m going quiet job in a small town — and wife and three children. He blogs at school administrators who to a lasting memorial for the to be writing about that simple used it as a magnifying glass to ourhillsandvalleys.wordpress.com volunteered to be duct taped to 100th anniversary of that hith- thought soon. If I can get my focus on all that is possible and and can be reached at brianmittge@ the wall or splatted in the face erto forgotten day. readers to do something for beautiful when community is hotmail.com. Letters to the Editor contents of a food item was ge- ing smoke and mirrors to the 13 Life section) inspired me to cord profits while driving record U.S. Still Under Attack; netically altered. That’s it, noth- public. We have talked about share a few observations. What a numbers of their invalids into Vote Yes on I-522 ing more. There are five out-of- educational reform, achievement wonderful way to express the suc- bankruptcy and suicide. To the editor: state organizations that spent at high levels, evaluation reform, cess of capitalism when we con- To maintain that critical When our country was at- $44 million to defeat the same accountability and on and on. sider the homeless. This country bottom line, a campaign of pro- tacked at Pearl Harbor at the out- issue in California. The same or- We have done very little. is rich in opportunity; America paganda saturation has been set of World War II, it was called ganizations have spent in excess We have an opportunity to may have 3.5 million homeless, launched. The result cannot be a sneak attack. In reality, there of $21 million in Washington. actually accomplish work that but it also has 8.5 million homes better expressed than in this were many warnings: submarine Bob Ferguson, the attorney will benefit our community and just waiting to be filled. quote from a caller on our local reports of an unknown vessel off general of our state, filed a law- our children for the rest of their These latent homes remain talk show: “I don’t want afford- the coast; reports of a Japanese suit against the Grocery Manu- lives. I hope Centralia residents vacant and falling apart through able health care.” armada by operatives at various facturers Association (one of the will join me in supporting and a slight capitalist technicality: We even have people com- islands in the Pacific; radar re- five large organizations that do voting for Averill for Centralia Their official purpose is to pro- plaining that it will be a financial ports of unidentified airplanes not want citizens to know if a School Board. vide dollars, not domiciles. “shakedown” if food manufactur- approaching Hawaii, etc. product was genetically altered). The odd thing about this situ- ers are forced to tell us exactly The lawsuit stated the group Dan Townsend ation is that the media continues what they’re feeding us. There was no immediate ac- Centralia tion by the United States, just an violated state campaign finance to celebrate when the price of After all, they’re spending attitude of complacency (“this laws. housing rises even farther out of an estimated $1.6 billion yearly could not really be happening”); I suggest if you care about Max Vogt Supported reach, and only becomes alarmed in glamorizing their product; all of the warnings were ignored. your health and that of your when the price tag drops. it would be an unfair burden to Make no mistake, our coun- children, you read page 26 of the for Centralia Council Why don’t we have this same expect them to create anything try has been under attack for state’s voters pamphlet. This in- To the editor: attitude with other staples such other than a society of bamboo- a number of years and the ef- cludes the complete text of I-522, It’s easy to overlook City as food and fuel? “Good news, zled consumers. forts to change our republic to and I can almost guarantee if Council elections and either not Joe, the price of gasoline just went And finally, if you have no a socialist/communist country you read it you will vote to ap- vote or vote for someone you up another 50 cents!” “Wow! dollars to speak for your con- have escalated with the Obama prove the labeling of foods that know nothing about. But these That’s great, now if only the su- cerns in the courts of law, or in administration backed by such have been genetically engineered. are the people who make the de- permarket would force me into the halls of Congress, you may demagogues as George Soros cisions that affect the quality of an exclusive menu of macaroni soon come to realize that capital- and Michael Bloomberg. Com- Bernard Rodgers life in Centralia. and cheese, I’d really be happy!” ism has succeeded beyond any- Toledo mon Core (in our schools), On Tuesday, we have a chance This inattention to the fate one’s wildest dreams. Agenda 21 (the United Nations), to influence our city council by of the average American reflects It is odd that while the once attack on the First and Second Averill Will Expedite voting for the candidate who the concerns of those who have almighty dollar is rapidly dwin- amendments, the elimination represents our interests. For the manipulated themselves into a dling into dust, the idealism that of offshore oil drilling, the over- Education Reform Centralia City Council, District position of making huge profits props it up has come to enslave reach of the EPA, the falsehood To the editor: 3, I recommend Max Vogt, who off of those who must work their even the masters. We are trained of erratic climate change, clos- This election the voters of will bring a balance between fis- fingers to the bone in order to to look out for the concerns of the ing of coal-fired electric plants, Centralia have a real option to cal discipline and the quality of provide a roof over their heads. wealthy; we are only one lottery the refusal to allow the oil pipe- impact the lives of our children. life issues that make Centralia a Those who make their living ticket away from joining their line from Canada, the Benghazi Ron Averill’s experience as an special place. from pushing paper investments ranks. But many more of us are tragedy, the fiasco of guns from educational leader dwarfs his As a successful business own- around are lauded as the indus- just a paycheck away from join- the U.S. to Mexico drug lords, competitor. This would be an er and a strong advocate for the trious golden boys of our society, ing the ranks of the homeless. open borders, immigration, the outstanding time for citizens to Fox Theatre and a supporter of but those who cannot afford to National Education Association, stand up and vote for what we the Centralia swimming pool, he donate to the speculators “favor- Dennis Shain the government’s intrusion into say we want, accountability and understands what makes Cen- ite charity” are viewed as worth- Centralia fracking for oil, the mainstream educational results. tralia a great place to live. less and lazy. Vote for Vogt! media’s lack of open and honest Coupling Neil Kirby and Ron Citizens who cannot afford Have an reporting, the Obama admin- Averill on the Centralia School to participate in our “trickle up” istration’s cooperation with the Board will result in nothing but Tom Wessels Centralia economy must pay for their sins, iPad? Muslim Brotherhood, etc. good results for the taxpayers and not just in housing. The “our The statists wish to add an- and our children. wealth depends on your health” chronline.com other nail in the republic’s coffin I started my school career in Many Homeless; Many industry continues to enjoy re- with the rejection of genetically Centralia and have worked for More Empty Homes modified organisms identifica- school districts across the coun- VA SOUTH SOUND tion. A yes vote on Initiative 522 try for nearly 30 years. My entire To the editor: allows citizens to know if the time we have provided outstand- “Seeking Shelter” (in the Oct OUT PATIENT CLINIC SerViNg eligible VeTerANS McCroskey: Getting a Perfect Trial May Be Costly Offering Primary Care, Continued from page Main 8 profile murder case in progress that the scholar and real gentle- mental HealtH, WOmen’s HealtH, and I wonder if there is a convic- man Gordon Aadland will be The question on this third tion, will we see endless appeals missed. lab and radiOlOgy serviCes appeal was a meeting held be- in it as well? His wit and wisdom in his tween the judge and attorneys, Some years ago I wrote that column, as well as with students Onsite PrOviders which led to four prospective we seem to have a very hard will be missed. family Practice Physician: jurors being excused. time convicting someone and We (including me) could The issue: Slert wasn’t pres- Bozena Kocztorz, MD • Allison Puckett, MD making the conviction stick. learn a lot from his manners and ent for this meeting. Would it classy behavior, which is seem- Family Practice Nurse Practitioners: have changed anything? I doubt Facts just don’t seem as important as the process anymore. ingly much rarer these days. Robin Hoeniges, NP • Alahna Gross, NP it. I’m a lost cause, but I hope There was, however, a judge, Everyone is entitled to a fair 151 NE Hampe Way, Suite B2-6 trial, but not a perfect one. others can benefit from his ex- CHEHALIS, WASHINGTON 98532 and attorneys for both sides in ample. this meeting, But is perfect going to be the ••• Fair trial or perfect trial? new standard for a conviction? HOurs Of OPeratiOn:

John McCroskey was Lewis CH509569sl.sw If the new standard is perfect, We better get our checkbooks County sheriff from 1995 to 2005. He monday – friday 8:00am – 4:30pm out, because perfect doesn’t exist. we’ll see no end to things like lives outside Chehalis, and can be FOR APPOINTMENTS CALL: 360-748-3049 this. ••• contacted at musingsonthemiddle- Now we have another high I add my voice to the chorus [email protected]. Main 10 The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013 Records Sirens, Court Records, Lotteries, Commodities

Sirens - CHEHALIS FIRE DEPARTMENT ket Boulevard at 4:37 p.m. Thurs Stolen Vehicle portedly fled the scene and was secured shop on the 100 block of day following an accident at caught several blocks away and Pinkerton Road in Ethel. Both Chimney Fire - • Emmanuel Martinez, Kmart. The woman was report 21, Chehalis, was arrested and arrested and booked. ATVs are valued at $8,000. The • A chimney fire was reportedly driving with a 4-year-old in booked for alleged possession investigation is ongoing. ed at a residence on the 100 block the vehicle. Police are waiting on LEWIS COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE of Southwest Cascade Avenue at of a stolen vehicle, hit and run, a toxicology report before filing ATV Theft By The Chronicle Staff 5:40 a.m. Thursday. No damage any charges against the woman. driving while license suspended or injuries were reported. and driving under the influence • Between Monday and Please call news reporter Stepha- after being in an accident on the Thursday, someone stole a 2006 nie Schendel with news tips. She can Minor in Possession Kresky Avenue viaduct at 10:03 Honda 400 EX ATV and a 2006 be reached at 807-8208 or sschen- - CHEHALIS POLICE DEPARTMENT • Amber L. Dodd, 20, Che- p.m. Thursday. Martinez re Yamaha Z45 ATV from an un- [email protected]. Shoplifting halis, was cited for alleged mi- • A male suspect pushed a nor in possession/consumption kenneth clements hart shopping cart full of soda, soap of alcohol at 9:27 p.m. Thursday aug. 21, 1933 - oct. 10, 2013 and health care supplies out of on the 300 block of Northwest time at Fort Knox, Ky, Fort in the community through Safeway without paying at 8:28 Georgia Avenue. Ord, Calif. and inally at his work as a Rainier Fire a.m. Wednesday. When the Fort Lewis where he was a District Commissioner and man was confronted, he fled the CENTRALIA POLICE DEPARTMENT heavy weapons specialist. a director on the Rainier scene. The case is under investi- Stolen Bicycle He continued to rodeo with School Board for 20 years. gation. his new Army buddies, Ken loved his family both • A pink Mongoose bicycle including lifelong friend, at home and in Kentucky, Bob Delp. where they visited every Vehicle Prowl was reported stolen at 8:59 a.m. Thursday on the 1100 block of In 1956 Ken married other summer. • Someone broke into a 1998 Virginia Pearl Mitchell of Ken will be remembered West Plum Street. The bicycle Rainier, and together they for his keen sense of humor, Honda Civic parked on the 400 was taken sometime overnight - had three children. They conservative nature and block of North Market Boule Wednesday. spent their married life southern colloquialisms, as vard at 9:38 a.m. Wednesday raising their children in the well as his irm hand and and damaged the faceplate to Malicious Mischief Rainier area, where he was warm heart. Ken was direct the stereo, valued at $100. No employed by Weyerhaeuser and never hesitated to share items were reported stolen. • A vehicle on the 500 block for 43 years. In addition, he his opinion. Yet he was a of North Rock Street was dam- Kenneth Clements worked his farm as well as neighbor you could always aged sometime during the past Hart, 80, passed away a few side jobs, including rely on to lend a hand. Unlawful Possession week. Someone punctured all shoeing horses, rototilling Preceded in death by his - Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013, • Joshua E. Leach, 31, Moss four tires and keyed the paint. surrounded by family and gardens and serving as the parents, Clyde and Eunice; yrock, was cited for unlawful The incident was reported at friends in the home that Rainier Town Marshall. In his six siblings; Kelly, possession of a firearm after re- 12:20 p.m. Thursday. 1960, their home burned Malcolm, Helena, Irene, he built in Rainier, Wash. and the family moved to Calvin, and Clyta Mae, and portedly having a loaded rifle in Ken was born Aug. 21, the nearby Vail Logging Virginia. He is survived by his vehicle during a traffic stop Obstructing Public Servant 1933 in Henshaw, Ky., Camp. They moved back sons; Tim (Trish) and Chris at 8:10 p.m. Wednesday on the the youngest of seven • Kenneth R Myers, 51, Cen - to their farm and new (Char) both of Bellingham; 900 block of Northwest State Av- children born to Clyde and house in 1968, which Ken, his daughter, Sue (Jim) of enue. tralia, was arrested and booked Eunice Hart. Ken spent his family and friends built. Buckley; and sister-in-law, at 8:17 p.m. Thursday on the boyhood in Spring Grove, Ky., working on the family Over the years they opened Frances Hart, of Louisiana; Driving Under the Influence 1300 block of Belmont Avenue their home to 23 foster kids loving grandchildren, for obstructing a public servant farm, where he developed and three foreign exchange Alesha (Joey), Jennifer • A 31-year-old Centralia after reportedly placing numer - a strong work ethic, love students. Their house was (Jake), Jordan, Shelby, - and respect for family, woman was allegedly driving un ous false or non-emergency calls farming and horses, traits always full of friends and Emily, Madison and der the influence on North Mar- to 911. family and you never left Connor; and ive great- and interests which carried hungry. grandchildren. Centralia Municipal Court into his adult life. During his early years A celebration of Upon graduation at Weyerhaeuser, Ken Ken’s life will be held on Centralia Municipal Court sion and/or consumption, sentenced from Morganield and his High family spent Saturday, Nov. 16, 2013 criminal cases, including sen- to 364 days in jail with 357 suspended, School Ken headed west time in California, where at Rainier High School, fined $600 with $300 suspended on to Colorado, operating tences, fines, fees and findings of each count, concurrent, $800 in fees. he attended Cal-Poly beginning at 11:00 a.m., combines on wheat ields.University to learn the with a luncheon to follow. not guilty or dismissals. • Scott K. Amidon, 34, Edmonds, pro- He then went to Wyoming tection order violation, domestic vio- and pursued his boyhood farrier trade. Returning to In lieu of lowers, the Held Oct. 1 lence, sentenced to 364 days in jail with passion of ranching from the Vail Logging Camp family suggests memorials • Tera T. Emery, 19, third-degree driv- 364 suspended, fined $800 with $400 horse back for the next three and Weyerhaeuser, Ken in Ken’s name be given ing while license suspended, sentenced suspended, $150 in fees. years while rodeoing and began shoeing horses in his to Assured Hospice of to 90 days in jail with 89 suspended, • David L. Davenport III, 24, Centralia, working on the Bergman free time, and continued to Olympia, 2102 Carriage fined $800 with $400 suspended, $303 third-degree malicious mischief, do- Horse & Cattle Ranch, a participate in local rodeos Street SW, Suite D, in fees. mestic violence, sentenced to 364 days ranch that supplied parade and horse gaming events. Olympia, WA 98502 or • Kari L. Edwards, 42, Rochester, third- in jail with 364 suspended, fined $600 and rodeo stock for the He was an active member the Yelm Masonic Lodge degree driving while license suspended, with $300 suspended. of the Thurston County #244 F&AM, P.O Box 192, sentenced to 90 days in jail with 90 sus- Cheyenne Frontier Days. • Tanna Middleton, 29, Centralia, Following this time, Ken Sheriff’s Posse, Rainier Yelm, WA 98597. pended, fined $800 with $400 suspend- third-degree driving while license sus- Sportman’s Club, and the ed, $103 in fees. pended, sentenced to 90 days in jail enlisted in the United Yelm Masonic Lodge. He • Jonathon R. Nickols, 20, Centralia, (1) with 90 suspended, fined $300, $253 in States Army during the volunteered many years To view this obituary, please go to third-degree theft, (2) minor in posses- fees. Korean conlict and spent chronline.com/obituaries. Death Notices • JOSEPH ALLEN MYER, 24, Oakville, died • EUGENE V. STORMS, 79, Hoquiam, for- Friday, Oct. 25, in Rochester. A candle- merly of Winlock, died Monday, Oct. light service will be at 7 p.m. Sunday at 28, in Seattle. A military funeral service the Shaker Church, Oakville. A funeral will be at noon Saturday at the Word of service will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Life Christian Center, 277 Brown Road, Sticklin Funeral Chapel, Centralia, fol- Chehalis. Arrangements are under the lowed by burial at the Chehalis Tribal direction of Cattermole Funeral Home, Cemetery, Oakville. Arrangements are Winlock. under the direction of Sticklin. • JOLENE DANIELLE (MAHONEY) CARLISLE, 33, Have a Ben Wheeler, Texas, died Sunday, Oct. 27, In Loving Memory of at Trinity St. Francis Hospital, Tyler, Texas. mobile phone? Service details are pending. chronline.com/mobile GORDON REY AADLAND In Remembrance terry johnson Sept. 22, 1921 - Oct. 27, 2013

immensely and all our and college newspapers, for memorialize the girls who prayers and love are with SoDak Sports and the church died in the powder plant ire, him. Rest in peace Dad you newsletter and his articles promoted Centralia artists deserve it after all the hard appeared in the Miami Merce Cunningham, Charlie work you did here on earth. Herald and the Tacoma News Albright and Angela Meade, Terry is survived by his Gordon Rey Aadland, age Tribune. His achievements and was grand marshal with children, Lisa Carlisle and are as follows. At CC: Sports his family for the 4th of son-in-law, Jeff of Centralia, 92, passed away peacefully on Oct. 27, 2013. He was Hall of Fame, bringing July parade. His column Jennifer Johnson of Everett, the NewsCapade to CC, Saturday’s Child appeared Jeremiah Johnson and born Sept. 22, 1921 in Sisseton, S.D., the sixth and instrumental in establishing weekly in The Chronicle daughter-in-law, Becky of the Distinguished Alumnus for almost 12 years, up to Rochester, Justin Johnson youngest child born to Olaf and Frances. He played on award, was a graduation the time of his death. He and daughter-in-law, Jessica, speaker, originator of the considered his greatest Jake Johnson of Everett; the varsity high school teams in baseball, basketball and promenade across campus achievement as making grandchildren, Stephanie during its graduation many people smile or laugh Watrous of Centralia, tennis. In 1940, Gordon moved ceremonies, had the with what he wrote or said. Jennifer Burley of Centralia, Aadland Esplanade named Survived by wife, Carolyn; Sheldon Watrous and wife, to Los Angeles to join his Terrance Neil Johnson family. He served in the U.S. for him, received the irstdaughter; Carrie, adopted passed away at his home in Shannon of Centralia, Nicole Distinguished Lifetime son, Dennis Waller and wife, Sneed of Centralia, Yvonne Army in World War II from Centralia on Oct. 24, 2013. 1942-1945 in Cold Bay, Service Award, and was Glynn; mentoree, Brian Terry was born in Ord, Sneed of Centralia, Michael behind the creation of a Mittge; friends, Wickstroms, Watrous of Centralia, Alaska and on the Island of Neb. and traveled around a Attu, in the Quartermaster statue honoring Katherine Rosas and many others; bit throughout his journey Samantha Case of Everett, Kemp and Margaret Corbet ex-students in Washington Jeff Carlisle Jr. of Centralia, Corps, achieving a rank through life but he ultimately of buck sergeant. After which will be dedicated in and South Dakota; CC settled in Adna, Wash. to Jaydee Johnson of Chehalis, 2014. At the USD: Alumni colleagues; the Immanuel Alyssa Johnson of Chehalis, returning from overseas, he raise his family. served in the Los Angeles Achievement Award, Lutheran Congregation; Terry was a strong family Daisey Carlisle of Centralia, member of the Neuharth sisters-in-law, Lois VanSlyke Bryce Paulson of Rochester, Military Police. Using the man and held irm to his GI Bill, he earned both Program for Excellence and Dorothy Aadland; nieces family unity. Terry had a Dailin Schlect of Rochester in Journalism Advisory and nephews; and scores of and Julia Capen of Centralia; Bachelors and Masters great faith and belief in Degree from the University Board, generated the idea little old ladies in sensible all of his children and his great-grandchildren, Brittany for the Native American shoes who read his column. Hewitt of Centralia, Jonathan of South Dakota (USD) in grandchildren throughout his 1949. He taught high school in Journalism Program, The public is invited to a life. Terry loved the sound Hewitt of Centralia, Jimmi and gave advice and celebration of life on Nov. Wynn of Centralia, Karson in Madison, S.D. where he of laughter and would pull met and married Carolyn encouragement to USD 16, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. at pranks, tell jokes and just Cheney of Centralia and students. In Centralia: Immanuel Lutheran Church. Gwen Burley of Centralia. Lavonne McGarvie. They be silly to get a chuckle out moved to Centralia where founding member of the Memorials can be sent to of someone. Terry taught his A celebration of life will Evergreen Theatre, instigated Immanuel Lutheran Church be held at 4:00 p.m., on he taught high school from children and grandchildren a 1957 to 1961. He taught at the sign at Ed Wheeler or to Centralia College for a great many life lessons and Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013 at baseball ield noting localscholarship in his name. Borst Park Kitchen #1. Centralia College (CC) from skills that are being used in 1961 to 1985, where he also baseball stars, helped get the lives of his family every served as public information the marker to commemorate To view this obituary, please To view the obituary, please day. oficer. Gordon wrote President Clinton’s visit, go to chronline.com/obituaries. Our dear father and go to chronline.com/obituaries. columns for his high school spearheaded the effort to grandfather will be missed • Main 11 RECORDS The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013

FOOD ESTABLISHMENT INSPECTION SCORES: From the Lewis County Public Health Department Food Establishments With Violations: Red Blue Total There were no test strips available to test sanitizer and clean dishes were Food Establishments drying on dirty towels. Please provide a dish drainer or dry directly on sani- With Perfect Scores: American Legion Post 17, Centralia 5 0 5 tized drain board. (5 blue) Adna Elementary School, Adna Thin-Tipped digital thermometer is required. Please provide before the Frozen hot dogs were thawing on the counter, which is not allowed. These next food service day. (5 red) Adna High School, Adna were moved to refrigerator to thaw. (3 blue) Dairy Dan, Chehalis Inspection: Oct. 15 Inspection: Oct. 25 Happy Teriyaki, Centralia Kelly’s Kountry Kafe, Ethel Handi Store, Winlock 30 0 30 Arby’s, Centralia 5 0 5 King’s Restaurant, Chehalis Several employees still do not have food worker cards. Please correct by Hot deli items were too cool in the row of food next to the operator’s door. Lewis County Head Start, Salkum These foods were reheated to 165 F. Keep all hot foods in the deli case above Oct. 31 and send copies of all cards to the Health Department. (5 red) Morton Country Market, Morton 135 F. at all times. Cover any food bins with covers as necessary. (25 red) Inspection: Oct. 17 Morton Elementary, Morton Need to have a thin-tipped thermometer to measure thin and small por- Quesadilla Factory, Centralia tion foods. (5 red) Dairy Bar, Chehalis 10 0 10 Season’s Motel, Morton Inspection: Oct. 22 Chopped lettuce, diced onions and sliced tomatoes are kept cold until B & D Market, Centralia being used. The containers used to hold daily supply are not iced or refriger- Cascade Elementary, Chehalis Plaza Jalisco, Napavine 30 5 35 ated, and were measured to be above 41 F. Please keep under refrigeration or Centralia Alternative Program, develop and implement a “time only as a control” procedure. Today’s supply Several food worker cards were expired. Please correct within one week. (5 Chehalis will be tossed by 3 p.m. (10 red) red) Coffee Depot, Chehalis Inspection: Oct. 15 Several potentially hazardous foods were found cooling improperly. Edison Elementary, Centralia Tamales were wrapped in foil while hot two days ago and were still in the Grinders, Winlock danger zone. These were discarded. Please cool tamales in single layers in the Ideal Food, Centralia Mary’s Corner Market, Chehalis 5 0 5 walk-in without foil or other covering. Do not wrap in foil until 41 F. or below. Lewis County Head Start, Chehalis Walk-in temperature needs to be turned down slightly. Use test water Other PHFs were stacked while cooling, which is not allowed and has been Lewis County Head Start, Randle bottle to check overnight. (5 red) discussed several times previously. Cool PHFs in 2-inch pans, uncoverd or un- Randle One Stop, Randle stacked, until measured at 41 F. or below. These were moved to cool properly. Inspection: Oct.17 White Pass Elementary, Randle (25 red) White Pass Junior/Senior High Avenue Espresso, Centralia 0 5 5 An indirect drain is required on three-compartment sink in the bar. Please School, Randle correct within two months. (5 blue) An indirect drain is required on the three-compartment sink. Please pro- Winlock Elementary, Winlock vide within two months. Left handout and violation policy. (5 blue) Inspection: Oct. 21 Inspection: Oct. 24 Editor’s Note: Quik Internet Comp-Prime Espresso, Centralia 10 5 15 These figures are derived from Big Bottom Bar & Grill, Randle 10 0 10 Milk and cream were found at 46.4 and 47.0 F. and must be kept at 41 F. inspections conducted by the Lewis or below. Front of small refrigerator seems to be holding a few degrees too County Public Health Department’s Two employees’ health cards had expired. Please obtain these as soon as warm, but back is OK. Please either repair or replace this unit, if needed. Oth- Food Safety Program. possible. (5 red) erwise, keep all products near back of unit and monitor closely. (10 red) Red violations are those most The food thermometer for temping hamburgers and small or thin foods Indirect drain is required on the three-compartment sink. Please provide likely to cause foodborne illness and needs to be a digital version. One was sold to the operator during the inspec- within two months, Left handout. (5 blue) must be corrected at the time of in- tion. (5 red) Inspection: Oct. 5 spection. Blue violations relate to Inspection: Oct. 14 overall cleanliness and operational conditions and must be corrected by Restaurant La Mexicana, Centralia 0 5 5 Boccata Deli, Centralia 5 5 10 established deadlines or by the next Dishes have not been washed, rinsed, sanitized and air-dried. Please pro- routine inspection. There is no thin-tipped, tip sensitive digital thermometer available to mea- vide stoppers for the sink and ensure this is always done. (5 blue) Any establishment receiving 40 sure temperatures of foods. Please correct before opening tomorrow. (5 red) red points or any red point item re- Back prep cooler was not working but was being used to store potentially Taqueria La Mariposa, Chehalis 10 10 20 peated within an 18 month period is hazardous foods. This is not allowed because there is not enough room for Several potentially hazardous foods were found cold holding between considered a high risk and must be ice to completely surround food. This cooler may not be used until it can 49.8 and 65.1 F and must be kept at 41 F. or below. Tomato was discarded reinspected. An establishment that reliably hold temperatures at 41 F. or below. This was discussed in previous and all other foods were transferred to 2-inch layers and placed in the Pepsi receives 75 red points or 100 total inspections. (5 blue) cooler. (10 red) points (red and blue) on a routine in- Inspection: Oct. 15 spection or 40 red points on a repeat Middle cooler does not hold safe temperatures reliably. Please check this inspection will have their food estab- cooler frequently and only restock if 41 F. or below. Then, check PHFs every Fast Trax Mobile Catering, Chehalis 10 0 10 hour. Recommend replacing this unit. (5 blue) lishment permit suspended. Potentially hazardous foods were found between 52.4 and 72.1 F. These There was no sanitizer in cloth bucket. Please keep 50-100 ppm. Left viola- will be discarded. (10 red) tion policy and discussed. (5 blue) Inspection: Oct. 21 Inspection: Oct. 22

G’Beto’s Bakery, Centralia 30 5 35 Texas BBQ Grill, Chehalis 25 0 25 Neither food worker had a valid food worker card. Please correct within Meats were being cooked on the barbecue outside without supervision. one week. (5 red) This presents a safety hazard as well as a contamination potential and is not allowed. Please either provide an adequate barrier (approval required) to Rolls with ham and cheese and cheesecake were being stored at room keep the public away from grill or ensure that a food worker remains at the temperature and must be kept at 41 F. or below at all times. These were dis- grill at all times (25 red) carded. (25 red) Full Color Is Inspection: Oct. 14 There was no bleach in cloth towels sanitizing solution. This was corrected. (5 blue) Fabulous! Wendy’s, Centralia 10 5 15 NOW EASIER THAN EVER! Inspection: Oct. 14 All potentially hazardous foods on the sandwich prep line were found GET YOUR CUSTOMER’S between 44.4 and 58.0 F. and must be kept at 41 F. or below unless monitored ATTENTION WITH FULL COLOR Gregg’s AM/PM, Centralia 25 13 38 under a written Time as a Control plan. These should be moved to the walk-in SIGNS AND GRAPHICS! Hamburgers were found marked with discard times greater than four to cool to 41. F. (10 red) hours. This was corrected. (25 red) An indirect drain is required on the three-compartment sink. Please correct 736-6322 There was no sanitizer in cloth buckets. Please use about 1 teaspoon to 1 within two months. Left handout. Repeat violation. (5 blue) 1616 S. Gold St. Centralia, WA 98531 gallon of water (50-100 ppm). (5 blue) Inspection: Oct. 22 In The Fairway Center Calendar: Movie Showing on Big Game, Ketchum to Speak About I.P. Callison Continued from Main 2 Bethel Church, for mothers with chil- Colorado’s Flat Tops Wilderness “Up” is not based on the story tion, 10-11:30 a.m., Lewis County Public dren pregnancy through 6 years old, and follows a variety of hunters in the cartoon movie of the same Health building, second-floor confer- sponsored by Chehalis MOPS (Moth- and guides as they escape into name. Both deal with men pur- ence room, (360) 740-1430 Tuesday, Nov. 5 ers of Preschoolers), (360) 520-3841 or Reducing Underage Drinking Coali- (360) 864-2168, email chehalismops@ the rugged mountains on horse- suing their dreams via flights of Providence Medical Group, Centralia tion, 2 p.m., Lewis County Public Health gmail.com or visit www.facebook.com/ back and foot in hopes of calling imagination, but that’s where the building, second-floor conference build- Rotary local cancer survivor Arnie Guen- chehalismops ther are sponsoring a “Men’s Night Out” a mature bull. similarity ends. ing, (360) 740-1424 6-8 p.m. Tuesday at the Fox Theatre in NAMI Lewis County Connections The film was captured in “Up,” the play, is best told to Libraries downtown Centralia. Support Group, 5:30-7 p.m., Twin Cities conjunction with Winterhawk mature audiences. Senior Center, (360) 880-8070 or sher- Featured speakers will be Lyle Over- Admission is $10 for adults, Book Babies, for babies 12-24 months, [email protected] Outfitter, one of the most well bay, former Centralia High School respected traditional outfitters and $8 for students and seniors. 11 a.m., Centralia baseball player and New York Yankees For reservations, call 736-9391, Family Story Time, for children age in the United States. 3-third grade, 11:45 a.m., Randle first baseman; Dan Morgenstern, a reg- ext. 525. istered nurse practitioner at Rochester Wednesday, Nov. 6 Cost is $6 advance tickets and PageTurners book discussion, for Family Clinic; Dr. James Lechner, Provi- $8 day of the screening. Tickets Performances of “Up” will adults, “Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives dence Regional Cancer System; and Dr. can be purchased at www.Trem- continue Fridays, Saturdays and in North Korea,” by Barbara Demick, James Raymond, RadiantCare. Lyceum Topic blingGiant.com/screenings. Sundays through Nov. 16 noon, Chehalis There will be a Q&A session with a Will be Impact of Book Babies, for children birth-24 variety of local medical experts in from Bingo, doors open 5 p.m., bingo months, 1 p.m., Chehalis the fields of primary care, oncology, or- Racist Comments, starts 6:30 p.m., Forest Grange, 3397 Ketchum to Speak Knitting and crocheting meetup, for thopedics, physical therapy, podiatry Jackson Highway, Chehalis adults, 1 p.m., Tenino and urology. Stereotyping Taco Night, 6-8 p.m., Centralia Eagles, About I.P. Callison The Knitting Circle, for adults, 4 p.m, The event is free, and food and bever- hard-shell tacos, two for $1, other menu Tony Ketchum will be speak- Salkum ages will be provided. Norma Alicia Pino, director of the First Peoples Advising items, (360) 736-1146 ing about the history and produc- Free health risk assessments are Games Night, 6:30-11 p.m., Matrix Organizations available. Services, The Evergreen State tion of I.P. Callison & Co. at the Coffeehouse, 434 NW Prindle St., Cheha- Thursday meeting of the Ameri- Oakview Grange, 7 p.m., 2715 N. Pearl Women are welcome to attend the College, will be giving a presen- lis, (360) 740-0492 St., Centralia, (360) 736-5639 event. tation on the impact of hurtful can Association of University Lewis County Robotics Society, 6 To register, go to www.provregister. racist comments and stereotypes Women, Lewis County Branch. p.m., room 128, Kemp Hall, Centralia Col- org or call (360)( 330-8656. at the Wednesday Lyceum Series Thursday, Nov. 7 The meeting will be at 6:45 lege, (360) 304-9660 presentation at Centralia College. p.m. at The Gathering Place, Still- Chehalis-Centralia Cribbage Club, Bingo, Chehalis Moose Lodge, doors Lyceum is free and may also ‘Up’ Opens at waters Estates, 2899 Cooks Hill 6:30 p.m., Chehalis Moose Lodge, 1400 open at 4:30 p.m., game starts at 6:30 be taken at Humanities 286, one Road. Grand Ave., Centralia, (360) 485-2852 p.m.; food available, (360) 736-9030 Lewis County Tea Party, 6:30 p.m.. credit. The classes are held in Centralia College Ketchum has worked at Cal- lison for nearly 40 years and holds Lewis & Clark Hotel, 117 W. Magnolia St., Libraries WAH 103 or, if more space is “Up,” written by playwright Centralia, board elections the position of special ingredient Preschool Story Time, for children 3-6 needed, Corbet Theatre. Bridget Carpenter, will open at 7 formulator and inventory control years, 11 a.m., Centralia For more information, call p.m., Thursday at Centralia Col- manager. He is also the mayor Jody Peterson, (360) 736-9391, lege’s Corbet Theatre Friday, Nov. 8 Organizations of Chehalis. Enter Stillwaters ext. 209, or email her at jpeter- The play is a production of NAMI Lewis County educational pro- through the Colonial Residence Oregon Trail music and dancing, gram, 6-7:30 p.m., Vernetta Smith Che- [email protected]. Centralia College Theatre. open mic with Side Kicks Band, 7 p.m., gate off Scammon Creek Road. Cowlitz Prairie Grange, (360) 864-2023 halis Timberland Library, (360) 880-8070 In “Up,” Carpenter walks a Guests are welcome. or [email protected] Pinochle tournament, 1 p.m., Twin Movie on Big Game veritable tightrope between fic- For more information, call Senior Song Birds, 9:30 a.m., Twin Cit- tion and reality. The character Cities Senior Center ies Senior Center, Chehalis Jan Snider at (360) 807-8391 or Potato and taco salad bar, open to Hunting to Be Shown Walter Griffin, played by Cen- Kristi Nelson at (360) 748-4203. Southwest Washington Mycological tralia College alum Matt Os- everyone, $6, 4:30-7 p.m., Olequa Senior Society, 6 p.m., WSU Lewis County Ex- at McMenamins Center, Winlock, (360) 785-4325 tension conference room, Lewis County borne, is fictional. He’s based, Open mic, 6:30 p.m., Matrix Coffee- Bob Garcia and Melodies Recycled Courthouse, (360) 740-1212 “The Trembling Giant,” which however, upon Larry Walters, a house, Chehalis, (360) 740-0492 Band, 7-9:30 p.m., Twin Cities Senior Centralia Bridge Club, 6:30 p.m., Unity captures the beauty of big game Vietnam veteran and California Tribute to Patsy Cline, by Elizabeth Center, $5, (360) 262-3041 Church, 800 S. Pearl St., Centralia, (360) hunting in the Rocky Mountains truck driver who on July 2, 1982, Stierle, 6:30 p.m., Oakville Middle School, Carly Calbero, 8 p.m., Matrix Coffee- 748-1753, [email protected] and the unique connection be- rigged a lawn chair to multiple 103 School St., Oakville house, Chehalis, $6, (360) 740-0492 Support Groups tween man, animal and nature, helium balloons and set sail, ris- Girls Night Out, fundraiser for Relay “Up,” 8 p.m., Corbet Theatre, Centralia will be shown Wednesday and ing quickly to 16,000 feet and for Life, 4-7 p.m., Sabra’s, 337 NW Cheha- College, adults $10, students and seniors Survivors of sexual assault/abuse, lis Ave., Chehalis, admission $5 $8, for mature audiences, call 736-9391, 5:30-7 p.m., 125 NW Chehalis Ave., Che- Thursday, Nov. 6 and 7, at Mc- into the flight path of commer- ext. 525, for reservations halis, sponsored by Human Response Menamins Olympic Club, Cen- cial airliners before he deflated Fun Addicts, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., Scatter Network, (360) 748-6601 tralia. enough balloons, with his pellet Public Agencies Creek Grill, Lucky Eagle Casino, (360) Support for mothers, 9:15-11:15 a.m., The movie was filmed in gun, to safely descend. Lewis County Mental Health Coali- 273-2000, ext. 301 The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013 • Main 12 Nation/World Nation in Brief World in Brief Obama Says Al-Qaida Gunman Kills TSA Agent Officials Say U.S. Drone Now More Active Strike Kills Leader of In Iraq, Discusses Pakistani Taliban Ways U.S. Can Help at LAX, Injures Two Others PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A U.S. drone strike Friday Stop Threat By Justin Pritchard and Tami Abdollah AS GUNSHOTS RANG OUT, pan- killed Hakimullah Mehsud, the WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press icked fliers dropped to the FLIeRS DeLAYeD AFTeR leader of the Pakistani Taliban, President Barack Obama pledged ground. Those who had made it in a major blow to the group that Friday to help combat an increas- LOS ANGELES — A man car- past security fled onto the tar- LOS ANGeLeS AIRPORT came after the government said ingly active al-Qaida in Iraq but rying a bag with a hand-written mac or sought cover inside res- SHOOTING it had started peace talks with stopped short of announcing note that said he “wanted to kill taurants and lounges. the insurgents, according to in- By Scott Mayerowitz telligence officials and militant new commitments of assistance TSA” opened fire with a semi-au- “We just hit the deck. Every- tomatic rifle at a security check- The Associated Press commanders. sought by Iraqi Prime Minister body in the line hit the floor and point at Los Angeles International shots just continued,” said Xavier Mehsud, who was on U.S. Nouri al-Maliki. Airport on Friday, killing a TSA Thousands of fliers across most-wanted terrorist lists with Al-Maliki came to the Oval Savant, who was waiting in the se- the U.S. were delayed Friday af- officer and wounding at least three curity line where the shooting oc- a $5 million bounty, is believed Office requesting additional aid, others, authorities said. ter a morning shooting at Los to have been behind a deadly sui- including weapons and help with curred. He described it as a “Bam! Angeles International Airport The gunman, wounded in a Bam! Bam!” burst of gunfire. closed parts of the airport. The cide attack at a CIA base in Af- intelligence, to fight insurgent shootout with police, was taken ghanistan, a failed car bombing violence that has spiked in Iraq Savant said the shots sub- prolonged shutdown at the into custody, authorities said. The sided and people bolted through nation’s third largest airport in New York’s Times Square and since American troops left in Transportation Safety Adminis- other brazen assaults in Pakistan 2011. the metal detectors and ran into was particularly troublesome tration officer was the first killed the terminal, eventually making for those hoping to head to that killed thousands of civilians “Unfortunately al-Qaida has in the line of duty in the 12-year the East Coast or across the and security forces. still been active and has grown their way out to the tarmac. history of the agency, which was “My whole thing was to get Pacific Ocean. The ruthless, 34-year-old more active recently,” Obama founded in the aftermath of the Flights bound for Los An- commander who was closely al- said at the end of a nearly two- away from him,” said Savant, an Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. advertising creative director who geles that had not yet taken lied with al-Qaida was widely hour meeting. “So we had a The attack sent terrified trav- off were held at their gates for was heading to New York with reported to have been killed in lot of discussion about how we elers running for cover and dis- hours by the Federal Aviation his family for a weekend trip. 2010 — only to resurface later. can work together to push back rupted flights from coast to coast, Administration. There were But a senior U.S. intelligence authorities said. more than 100 cancellations. official said Friday the U.S. re- against that terrorist organiza- AS POLICe SeARCHeD FOR other Some flights already in the ceived positive confirmation that tion that operates not only in shooters, they escorted travelers A LAW eNFORCeMeNT official air were allowed to land at Mehsud had been killed. Two Iraq, but also poses a threat to out of the airport. Aviation of- said the suspect, Paul Ciancia, 23, LAX while others diverted to Pakistani intelligence officials the entire region and to the Unit- ficials stopped flights destined from Pennsville, N.J., was wear- nearby airports. also confirmed his death, as did ed States.” LAX from taking off from other ing fatigues and carrying a bag Gina Marie Lindsey, execu- two Taliban commanders who airports, causing delays across tive director of Los Angeles containing the hand-written note. saw his mangled body after the Kerry: Some NSA The official was briefed at LAX the country. Some flights also had World Airports, which operates strike. A third commander said the Los Angeles airport, said on the investigation and request- to be diverted to other airports. the Taliban would likely choose Surveillance Work It was not the first shooting at at a midday press conference ed anonymity because was he was that planes were landing at the Mehsud’s successor on Saturday. not authorized to speak publicly. LAX. On July 4, 2002, a limousine Reached ‘Too Far’ driver opened fire at the airport’s airport at “less than half the A second law enforcement normal arrival rate.” and Will Be Stopped official confirmed the identity, El Al ticket counter, killing an air- Top Cop Is U.S. Go-To line employee and a person who Flight tracking site FlightA- WASHINGTON (AP) — Sec- also speaking on condition of ware.com said that as of 1:30 Man in Honduras for retary of State John Kerry’s re- anonymity because he was not was dropping off a friend at the terminal. Police killed the man. p.m. Pacific time, there were mark that some National Securi- authorized to discuss the investi- 126 flight cancellations, about War on Drugs, Denies The TSA officer shot at LAX ty Agency surveillance “reached gation publicly. 11 percent of the flights to or Death Squad Charge Pennsville Chief Allen Cum- airport was the first ever killed in from Los Angeles. Another too far” was the first time a high- the line of duty, union and TSA ranking Obama administration mings said Paul Ciancia’s father 232 flights were delayed. To TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras officials said. At least three other (AP) — In a capital accustomed official acknowledged that U.S. called him early Friday after- put that in perspective, there TSA officers were also injured, to daily bloodshed, the man in snooping abroad might be seen noon saying another of his chil- were roughly 200 other flight said J. David Cox Sr., national charge of law enforcement is as as overzealous. dren had received a text message cancellations Friday nation- president of the American Feder- wide, mostly in New York and feared as the criminals. Few dare After launching into a vigor- from the suspect “in reference to him taking his own life.” Cum- ation of Government Employees. Philadelphia because of rain speak his name above a whisper. ous defense of surveillance as The officer who was killed and heavy winds. Five-star Gen. Juan Carlos an effective counterterror tool, mings said the elder Ciancia asked him for help in locating was a behavioral detection offi- The shooting occurred Bonilla was accused a decade Kerry acknowledged to a vid- cer, Cox said. Those officers are around 9:30 a.m. local time. ago of running death squads eo-conference on open govern- Paul, according to Cummings. The chief said he called Los An- stationed throughout the airport Some passengers who landed and today oversees a department ment in London that “in some after the incident spent at least geles police, which sent a patrol car looking for suspicious behavior, suspected of beating, killing and two hours sitting on planes cases, I acknowledge to you, as to Ciancia’s apartment. There, two he said. “disappearing” its detainees. He has the president, that some of parked in a remote corner of is the top cop in the country that roommates said they had seen him the airport. these actions have reached too Thursday and that he was fine. BeN ROSeN WAS SITTING at the serves as a way station for most far, and we are going to make Starbucks eating oatmeal when Even though the airport South American cocaine bound Cummings said he told Cian- never fully closed, travelers sure that does not happen in cia’s father that because of the he heard gunfire erupt and for the United States and beyond. the future.” trying to fly out were unable son’s age, he couldn’t take a miss- people start running in all di- to reach it because of massive Bonilla is also the U.S. govern- “There is no question that ing persons report. He said Cian- rections and others crouching road closures. ment’s go-to man in Honduras for the president and I and others cia’s father owns an auto body on the ground. Rosen got on the Lindsey said it will take the war on drug trafficking. in government have actually shop. He says they are a “good ground and another passenger “quite a deal of time” to get Though the State Department learned of some things that had family” and that his department said: “Don’t worry, we’re safe.” operations back to normal at officially keeps the 49-year-old been happening, in many ways, had no dealings with the young- Then, more gunshots erupted. the airport. She said it will be a chief at arm’s length over his du- on an automatic pilot because er Paul Ciancia. He grabbed his phone and tried “carefully orchestrated logisti- bious past, Bonilla embraces the the technology is there,” Kerry to lie as flat on the ground as he cal ballet.” U.S. government as his “best ally said, responding to a question LOS ANGeLeS AIRPORT Police could. Even after police cleared and support.” If the U.S. wants to about transparency in govern- Chief Patrick Gannon said that Police showed up with their some terminals, passengers fight drug trafficking in Hondu- ments. around 9:20 a.m., the gunman guns drawn, shouting, “This is couldn’t return until airport ras, it has to work with Bonilla. Kerry was responding to pulled what he described as an not a drill! Hands up!” employees were able to “I am the director general, and questions from European al- “assault rifle” from a bag and be- Everyone put their hands up return to their posts. Passen- I don’t delegate that responsibil- gan firing inside Terminal 3. He and then were led out of the air- gers were advised to wait at ity to anyone,” Bonilla said dur- lies about reports in the past nearby hotels until they hear two weeks that the National then went to the security screen- port terminal to the internation- ing his first interview with a real terminal, Rosen said. As they more information about flight porter since 2011. Security Agency had collected ing area, where he fired more resumptions. data on tens of millions of Eu- shots and went into the secure were led out they saw broken Los Angles is a major gate- glass from a window that looked rope-based phone calls and had area of the terminal, Gannon said. way for flights to Asia, Australia Sprawling Shantytown monitored the cell phones of 35 Officers exchanged fire with like it’d been shot out. Rosen left and New Zealand. Domesti- world leaders, including that the gunman and apprehended his bag behind. cally, the largest cities served for Syrian Refugees of German Chancellor Angela him; police believe he was the Six people were taken to the are: San Francisco, Las Vegas, to Be Transformed Merkel. only shooter, Gannon said. hospital, the Los Angeles Fire New York, San Jose, Calif., San “As you can imagine, a large Department said. It’s unclear Diego and Phoenix. Into a City amount of chaos took place in whether the gunshot victims ZAATARI CAMP, Jordan this entire incident,” he said. were among the group. Next Step in Stop- (AP) — The manager of the Frisk Depends on region’s largest camp for Syr- ian refugees arranges toy figures, New NYC Mayor trucks and houses on a map in NEW YORK (AP) — New Reinstatement of Abortion Law Leaves Few Options his office trailer to illustrate his York City mayoral candidate Bill By Chris Tomlinson and Christopher Sherman just a few days after a lower federal tors to perform all abortions in ambitious vision. In a year, he de Blasio faces political and legal The Associated Press court put the law on hold. surgical facilities. wants to turn the chaotic shanty- dilemmas now that a judge’s rul- If women did not know about But it’s the provision about town of 100,000 into a temporary ing against the police stop-and- HARLINGEN, Texas — In the ruling before they arrived at admitting privileges that has city with local councils, paved frisk tactic has been blocked. a Texas abortion clinic, about a Reproductive Services of Harlin- idled Dr. Lester Minto’s hands streets, parks, an electricity grid The judge’s summertime re- dozen women waited Friday to gen, clinic administrator Angie here in Harlingen, near the Tex- and sewage pipes. buke of the stop-and-frisk policy see the doctor, already aware that Tristan told them. Abortions are as-Mexico border. Zaatari, a desert camp near was a ringing affirmation of one they would not be able to end a two-day process in Texas. On Jordan’s border with Syria, is their pregnancies there. far from that ideal. Life is tough of the Democrat’s major cam- Fridays, women arrive here for AFTeR THe LAW WAS ADOPTeD, the A day after a federal appeals here. The strong often take from paign themes. their initial consultation with clinic began preparing to close, The judge said police dis- court allowed most of the state’s the weak, women fear going to the doctor. On Saturdays, they shredding old patient records and communal bathrooms after dark, criminate against minorities in new abortion restrictions to take ef- fect during a legal challenge, about return for the procedure. drawing down their inventory, sewage runs between pre-fab stopping and questioning people a third of Texas’ clinics were barred Despite Tristan’s explana- ordering only enough supplies to trailers and boys hustle for pen- when they have reasonable sus- from performing the procedure. tion that they would not be able keep going for a month at a time. nies carting goods in wheelbar- picion a crime is about to occur Thursday’s ruling made Tex- to have abortions on Saturday, Minto, who has been per- rows instead of going to school. or has occurred. She ordered as the fourth and largest state some women decided to stay on forming abortions for 30 years, But with Syria’s civil war in changes. to enforce a provision requiring the slim hope that something predicted the women he sees its third year, the more than 2 But an appeals court said doctors who perform abortions would change. would take dangerous measures million Syrians who fled their Thursday the judge’s ruling to have admitting privileges in A panel of judges at the 5th in their desperation. He made country need long-term solu- would be on hold pending the a nearby hospital. In places such Circuit Court of Appeals in clear he would not perform abortions, said Kilian Kleinschmidt, outcome of an appeal by the city. as the Rio Grande Valley and ru- New Orleans ruled that Texas tions Saturday if they remain pro- who runs Zaatari for the U.N. If de Blasio wins, he must de- ral West Texas, the mandate put can enforce the law while a law- hibited, but he did not rule out refugee agency. cide whether to drop the appeal hundreds of miles between many suit challenging the restrictions taking other steps in the future. “We are setting up ... a tempo- or settle another way. women and abortion providers. moves forward. “I’m going to continue helping rary city, as long as people have Republican nominee Joe Lho- girls somehow,” he said. to be here,” said Kleinschmidt, ta says a de Blasio victory would ANTI-ABORTION GROUPS wel- THe LAW THAT THe Legislature Without access to his services, a 51-year-old German. The vet- handcuff law enforcement and comed the court’s surprise decision, passed in July also bans abor- “they’ll do drastic things,” Minto eran of conflict zones is getting return the city to its crime-filled which they insisted would protect tions at 20 weeks and, beginning predicted. “Some, they may even help from urban planners in the past. women’s health. The ruling came in September 2014, requires doc- commit suicide.” Netherlands. • Main 13 NORTHWEST The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013

Record Farm Production Mount Vernon Boy Picks Giant Leaf in 2012 in Washington OLYMPIA (AP) — Wash- They employ 160,000 owners, ington farmers and ranchers set farm workers and associated jobs, a production record last year, including 40,000 in processing. growing crops and raising live- "We also set record employ- stock worth $9.89 billion — a 6 ment and sales figures in the percent increase from 2011, ac- food processing industry," Hover cording to a report this week said in a statement on the Oc- from the National Agricultural tober report from the Statistics Statistics Service. Service, a U.S. Department of Apple production climbed Agriculture agency. 16 percent to $2.25 billion. It's the first commodity in the state The value of food processing to pass the $2 billion mark, said was up about 3 percent, to $15.46 Washington State Department of billion, said state Agriculture Agriculture Director Bud Hover. Department spokesman Mike Apples are the top commod- Louisell. ity in the state, representing 23 Washington leads the nation percent of the total agriculture in potatoes grown for processed value. foods, such as french fries, Lou- Washington is the nation's isell said. The Evergreen State top apple producer, growing also is the leading U.S. producer about 60 percent of the U.S. crop. of apple juice and the second- Washington also leads the nation largest producer of premium in sweet cherries, pears, red rasp- wines. It has more than 750 win- berries and hops. eries. Harvested apple orchards The Statistics Service report were worth $15,400 per acre in ranking 40 commodities also 2012, the report said. showed significant gains for cat- After apples' $2.25 billion, the other crops in the top five were tle and calves, grapes, pears, dry wheat, worth $1.18 billion; milk, edible beans, barley, canola, and worth $1.16 billion; potatoes, onions. While apples shined, the to- AP Photo / The Skagit Valley Herald, Frank Varga worth $700 million; and hay, In this Oct. 28 photo, Tommy Lindsey holds a maple leaf that he found that is almost as big as he is in Mount Vernon. worth $679 million. tals for milk, potatoes and hay all declined. Production of blue- Tommy Lindsey of Mount Vernon was walking with his family Sunday when he picked up the leaf that is more than two There are 39,500 farms and feet from stem to tip and more than 21 inches wide. ranches in Washington, accord- berries fell 30 percent from their ing to the 2007 USDA census. 2011 record. Former House Speaker Foley Remembered at Gonzaga SPOKANE NATIVE: Foley "He easily figured out how to relatives, "I'm pretty sure they make Washington, D.C., work," thought I was already dead." Remembered at Event Cantwell said. "America needs Heather Foley, Foley's wife Attended by 800 People more Tom Foleys." and longtime chief of staff, was Foley was first elected in 1964 the final speaker. She recalled By Nicholas K. Geranios as the representative from East- that when they were married in The Associated Press ern Washington's 5th Congres- 1968, she had intended to prac- sional District. He served five tice law, but she started helping SPOKANE — Former U.S. years as speaker of the House beat his congressional office and House Speaker Tom Foley was fore losing to Republican George never left. remembered Friday as a states- She called Foley "a man of man, a husband, and a friend to Nethercutt in the 1994 election. people great and small. Nethercutt attended the memo- principle who was not afraid to About 800 people attend- rial service. compromise. He felt there was ed a memorial service for the Foley later served as ambassa- honor in compromising." Spokane native at St. Aloysius dor to Japan under President Bill "Thank you so much for com- Church on the campus of his Clinton. ing to salute the life of a great, alma mater, Gonzaga University. A memorial in Washington, great man," she said. The Democrat died Oct. 18 D.C., on Tuesday was attended As House speaker from 1989 at his home in Washington, D.C., by President Barack Obama, to 1995, Foley was second in the of complications from a stroke. who remembered Foley for put- line of succession to the presi- He was 84. ting problem-solving ahead of dency, and the first speaker from "He represented the best the politics. west of Texas. He was the first state of Washington had to offer," Other dignitaries at Friday's speaker since the Civil War to be said Gov. Jay Inslee. "It is a great memorial included former gov- voted out of office. honor to represent 6 1/2 million ernors and congressmen from As a young man, Foley stud- Washingtonians in honoring the state. ied at the feet of Washington this titan of our democracy." U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris state's two legendary senators, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D- Rodgers, R-Wash., who cur- Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson and Wash., remembered many of the rently represents the 5th District, Warren G. Magnuson. Jackson benefits Foley brought back to praised Foley for putting country was his mentor and urged his his Eastern Washington district ahead of party. former aide to run for the House while serving in Congress for 30 "Mr. Speaker, as long as I serve in 1964. years. the people of Eastern Wash- Foley worked with leadership "He was a brilliant and cou- ington, I promise to make you to get plum committee assign- rageous leader who belonged in proud," said McMorris Rodgers, ments. He became Agriculture AP Photo / Jeff T. Green, file the halls of power," Murray said. who is a member of the House Committee chairman by age In this June 1989 ile photo, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives "But he also belonged here in Spo- GOP leadership. 44. He eventually left that post, Tom Foley poses in his 5th Congressional District oice in Spokane. Foley was a kane." Family members and friends which he later called his favorite Washington state lawmaker who became the irst speaker since the Civil War who U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D- reminisced about Foley's parents leadership position, to become failed to win re-election in his home district. He was U.S. ambassador to Japan for Wash., remembered Foley as a and his upbringing in Spokane. Democratic whip, the caucus's four years during the Clinton administration. But he spent the most time in the great orator who also had a wry Spokane County Superior third-ranking post. The down- House, serving 30 years including more than ive as speaker. Irish wit. She noted how Foley, Court Judge Michael Price, a fall of Jim Wright of Texas lifted as chairman of the Agriculture relative of Foley, recalled when him to the speaker's chair. Committee, helped rework the the federal building in Spokane Foley grew up in Spokane, Preparatory School and Gon- state attorney general and coun- food stamp program in the Farm was named for Foley a decade where his father, Ralph, was a zaga University in Spokane. He sel for the Senate Committee Bill so it would receive support ago, and what a rare honor it longtime judge and his mother, graduated from the University on Interior and Insular Affairs, from both urban and rural leg- was to do that for a living person. Helen, was a teacher. of Washington Law School and which Jackson chaired, before islators. Price remembered Foley telling Foley attended Gonzaga worked as a prosecutor, assistant running for Congress. Merits of State’s Prepaid Tuition Program in Question MONEY: New GET Season vestment to essentially break ington State University would with that of GET program direc- of Bellevue, notes that over the even. That wasn't the case before have to reach $17,200 for inves- tor Betty Lochner, who said par- past 40 years, college tuition has Opens; Good Deal the recession that began in De- tors to break even. The current ents whose children are six years increased at twice the rate of the for Some, Not All cember 2007, when it only took tuition and mandatory fees is away from college can still put consumer price index. three years to pay off. about $12,000. their money in the GET program Since the gap between the By Donna Gordon Blankinship That means it's a much better If your child is a preschooler, and come out ahead. cost of GET units and the cur- The Associated Press deal for parents of younger chil- it's hard to beat the return on in- "The best time to invest is age rent redemption price is about dren, and less so for parents of vestment from putting their col- 6 or under," she emphasized. SEATTLE — As Washing- 46 percent, the financial plan- children who are 13 or older, said lege money into a GET account, Parents of high school stu- ner, who has some of her own ton's prepaid tuition program Rachele Cawaring Bouchand, Bouchand said. Her analysis is dents should find another way to opens its doors to new investors kids' college money in the GET director of financial planning at based on expectations that tu- save, Lochner added. program, estimates the break- Friday, parents may wonder if it's Clark Nuber P.S. in Bellevue. ition increases will average 8 per- Other financial advisers draw a good way to save for college. even point is six to seven years if That's because young chil- cent a year over the next decade the line earlier. Some don't rec- inflation is expected to average 6 The answer depends on the dren will see many more years or so. ommend GET investment past age of your children, your fam- percent a year. of tuition increases before they Parents of a baby would need kindergarten because they be- Others note that if public uni- ily's financial situation and some enroll in college. to invest about $7,500 a year for lieve other investments, such as versity tuition in Washington unknown factors such as how Of course, investment re- the next 18 years and earn a 5.9 other 529 college savings plans doesn't return to its old pattern much tuition will go up in the turns are not the only or even the percent annual rate of return on that are invested in the stock future, inflation and the stock primary reason for putting mon- that investment to beat the re- market, are likely to have bigger of 7 percent yearly increases, the market. For years, Washington's ey into the GET program. sults of buying 400 GET units at payoffs. GET program could be a losing Guaranteed Education Tuition Investors are guaranteed the current price, which would Troy Sapp, financial planner proposition for any kids who are program was a pretty good deal that no matter what happens to add up to $68,800, Bouchand with Commence Financial Plan- out of diapers. for most families saving for col- the stock market or state tuition, said. ning in Tacoma, said he wouldn't Lochner acknowledged the lege. But four years ago, when they will be able to pay for an ac- If your kids are already in el- recommend GET investments program is no longer a great way in-state tuition and the price ademic year of tuition and man- ementary school, parents may be for anyone but families with pre- to make a profit on college sav- of each tuition credit under the datory fees at the state's most able to beat the GET return with schoolers. ings, but that was never its in- GET program began skyrocket- expensive college or university some luck and a 3 percent a year "The GET program certainly tended use. ing, many questioned whether with 100 GET units. Tuition and return on their investments. The isn't as attractive as it once was," "We're trying to get more fam- the program still made financial fees at less expensive schools cost "break even" point for the GET Sapp said in an email. "But that ilies, especially middle-income sense. fewer units and housing is extra. program, in Bouchand's opinion, said, I still think it's quite attrac- families, to think about planning Experts say if you invest now, At today's price of $172 per is age 13. Investments at that age tive for very young children." ahead," and help their children it would take at least six years tuition unit, tuition at the Uni- are no longer a good investment. Aimee Huff, senior vice minimize their need for student and possibly longer for your in- versity of Washington or Wash- Bouchand's analysis jibes president at ICON Consulting loans, she said. Main 14 The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013 FROM FRONT PAGE

Pete Caster / [email protected] A student feels the ears of an anesthetized Mexican gray wolf during Wolf Haven International's 10th annual Wildlife Handling and Chemical Immobilization course at the facility in Tenino on Thursday morning. Wolf

Continued from front page working on the Species Survival Plan south of the border. Maciel first came to Wolf Haven’s Wildlife Handling and Chemical Immobilization class as an intern student after having worked with six Mexican gray wolves from the Tenino sanctuary in Mexico. “It was an experience that changed my life completely,” Ma- ciel said. The training in compassionate care, she said, changed her view on how people can handle animals in a more humane way. After twice returning to Wolf Haven to work as a volunteer, Maciel now provides bilingual services as a staff liaison between the two countries working to repopulate the still dangerously low number of Mexican grays. “It’s a bi-national effort,” Ma- ciel said. “They wanted to have a bridge to learn from each other.” In addition to the Mexican veterinarians and biologists, this year's course participants came from Ireland, British Columbia, Joseina Rosales, a veterinarian from Mexico, loads up a syringe as her fellow classmates exam a Mexican gray wolf at Wolf Haven International's 10th annual Wildlife Alberta, the Washington Depart- Handling and Chemical Immobilization course at the facility in Tenino on Thursday morning. The annual course is one of two in the entire country, allowing students to ment of Fish and Wildlife, the get hands-on experience with treating wolves. Yakama Nation, the Kalispell Tribe of Indians and several ad- slowly and gently,” said Jerry anesthetized wolves, which must ditional U.S. states. Brown, a Yelm veterinarian who receive regular health exams and Instructor Mark Johnson, vaccines as part of their care un- director of Global Wildlife Re- has worked with Wolf Haven for more than three decades. der Species Survival Plan regula- sources Inc. and a former veteri- tions. narian at Yellowstone National Students, Brown said, have the opportunity to learn the dif- Under the plan, at least two Park, now travels the world pre- pairs of Mexican gray wolves at senting courses on compassion- ferent stages of anesthesia and to take samples quickly while the the sanctuary this year received ate animal handling. recommendation for breeding in During this week’s training, animals remain sedated to prevent injuries to themselves or the February. The recommendation students learned humane meth- could include an additional two ods for animal handling, chemi- animals. “It’s not a rodeo. It’s all in the pairs from Wolf Haven, depend- cal immobilization, monitoring ing on lab results. vital signs, administering vacci- comfort zone,” Brown said. “It’s always freaky when you’re in the “It doesn’t mean they’re going nations, drawing blood and ra- to have pups,” cautioned Wolf dio collar techniques. field and those things happen.” Amber Wimsatt, a student Haven Communications Direc- Students donned latex gloves tor Kim Young. and stethoscopes to examine from Oregon State University, said the course offered her a first Still, she said, pups could ar- four of the sanctuary's resident rive this spring at the sanctuary, chance to handle wolves. Mexican gray wolves and a gray which released the first Mexi- Kali Butler, a student from The Evergreen State College, left, Michael Apple, of the “It’s just a really neat experi- wolf rescued from Lacey three can wolves into the wild after a Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, center-left, Kate Fremlin, center- ence,” she said. “You don’t get the weeks ago, under the guidance of three-decade absence. right, and Dr. Mark Johnson, from Global Wildlife Resources and an instructor at Johnson along with experienced opportunity to do this kind of ••• Wolf Haven's 10th annual Wildlife Handling and Chemical Immobilization course, veterinarians and animal care hands-on experience very often.” Amy Nile: (360) 807-8235 carry an anesthetized Mexican gray wolf over to be examined during Wolf Haven staff. Students whispered so they twitter.com/AmyNileReports International's Handling and Chemical Immobilization course on Thursday morn- “The main thing to take away would not disturb the animals as www.facebook.com/ ing in Tenino. is how to handle the animals they performed checkups on the AmyNileTheChronicle Speed: Petition to Change Limit Has Been Sent to Governor Jay Inslee’s Office Continued from front page motivated him to take action. sis, Bingham Baker said. county Olympic region. lowering the speed limit, but the “I retired from driving trucks “When we get a request from Denmark Street is ranked concern is creating more prob- intersection of U.S. Highway 12 last year. I know what it is like,” the public or an individual, we even lower, Bingham Baker said. lems, such as more drivers pass- and Pecan Street on Tuesday that White said. “Even if we can get respond the same way,” Bingham “That creates a challenge for ing in the oncoming traffic lane. left a teenager and a 51-year-old it reduced to 45 miles per hour, Baker said. “We look at their us,” Bingham Baker said. “We “We will gather all of that in- Rochester man severely injured. that would prevent so many concerns and we do a field re- don’t have the money to fix num- formation,” Bingham Baker said. The petition, available at close calls.” view to see if there is something bers one through 36 and yet we “It will take us a couple months to change.org, specifically calls have a very active and interested go through that process.” for improvements to the Pecan White sent the petition on we can do.” Street intersection and the Den- Friday to state Department of In the past five years, the Pe- community asking us to make White, who has lived in Roch- mark Street Southwest intersec- Transportation officials, Thur- can Street intersection has had 15 changes to number 37.” ester for six years, initially set a tion. ston County legislators and Gov. reported accidents, according to WSDOT will consider low- goal of 500 signatures for the pe- Derek White, a retired semi- Jay Inslee’s office. WSDOT. In the same timeframe, cost changes, including a speed tition, which was surpassed on truck driver who is currently Claudia Bingham Baker, a the Denmark Street intersection limit reduction, Bingham Baker Friday. running for Rochester School spokeswoman for WSDOT, said had seven reported accident. said. “If I could get 500 people be- Board, created the petition on the department became aware Based on the amount and The portion of U.S. Highway hind me to say ‘we need to be ad- Wednesday. White said the re- of the petition earlier this week. severity of the accidents, Bing- 12 in the petition has a 55 mph dressed,’ I thought that is a strong cent accident and the fact that he WSDOT officials plan to do a ham Baker said, Pecan Street is speed limit. number,” White said on Thurs- has a daughter at Rochester High speed study on the highway next ranked 37th on WSDOT’s pri- Bingham Baker said WSDOT day. “Then once word gets out, School learning how to drive week followed by a safety analy- ority list for roads in the seven- will consider the feasibility of the numbers will keep growing.” The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013 • Main 15

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Voice of the People Anniversaries Halloween Helper Tom and Sherrie Marty What’s the most creative or memorable Halloween costume you’ve seen in recent memory?

Sherrie and Tom Marty, 1963 Sherrie and Tom Marty, 2013 Tom and Sherrie Marty, Che- lis Middle School. “I saw one online halis, celebrated their 50th wed- They enjoy following the ac- ding anniversary this summer tivities of their grandchildren, last week of a in a large house on the beach at R.V. camping, fishing, work- Lincoln City, Ore. ing around their home, casi- paralympian who The couple were married Aug. nos, watching Seattle Seahawks is an amputee. 3, 1963, at St. Francis Mission, games, eating out and travel- Toledo. ing extensively with family and Every year Josh Tom graduated from Toledo friends, spending several months High School in 1960, and Sher- a year in Arizona. Sundquist comes rie from Toledo in 1963. She re- Their children and spouses up with something ceived a ring from Tom on her are Starla (Blake) Treznoski and graduation day. Tristan Marty, all of Chehalis. fantastic. This year Both are retired, Tom from The Martys have three he is a pink flamingo. the Lewis County Public Utility grandchildren, Shane, Shayla It is awesome.” District and Sherrie from Cheha- and Colton. Joice Snow William and Mary Ann Hassler Chehalis, retired

“The Statue of Liberty.” Mary Ann and William Hassler, 1953 Mary Ann and William Hassler, 2012 Liz Greenwood Chehalis, revenue agent William and Mary Ann torate was Jackson Prairie As- (Guenther) Hassler, Napavine, sembly of God, retiring in July will be celebrating their 60th 2000. Mary Ann supported her wedding anniversary Sunday, husband in many roles in church Nov. 10. work, and was a homemaker. An open house, being given Until recently, they spent the by their children, will be 2-4 p.m. winters in Arizona. Photograph submitted by Kyle Spurr, The Chronicle at the Napavine Assembly of Their children and spouses Grady Wilson, 5, dressed up as a Scottish bagpiper for Halloween. He helped pass God church, located at 411 Sec- are Diane (Dave) Lipinski, Cen- out candy to trick-or-treaters who stopped by The Chronicle Thursday afternoon. ond St. SE, Napavine. tralia; Darryl (Joyce) Hassler, Grady is the son of Tyson and Chantel Wilson, Chehalis. The Hasslers were married Chehalis; and Donna (Brian) on Dec. 5, 1953, in Chehalis. Kohler, Napavine. They have To submit your photograph, e-mail [email protected] or send mail William is a retired Assembly seven grandchildren and two to Voices, The Chronicle, 321 N. Pearl St., Centralia, WA 98531. of God pastor whose last pas- great-granddaughters. “A couple dressed as steampunk-themed Births Going on Vacation? • TAyLor PArK ANd JoSe TiNoCo, Centralia, a boy, Ivan Romeo Tinoco, Don’t Just Stop Your Papers, Mario and Peach.” Oct. 17, 8 pounds, 13 ounces, Providence Centralia Hospital. Grand- Donate Them To NIE! parents are Maria Acevedo Pago Tinoco, Kathy Underwood and Cathy Perkins Dave Underwood. Great-grandparent is June Anderson. Centralia, youth minister • at St. Mary Church SHAWNA MCLeod ANd dyLAN PirTLe, Chehalis, a boy, Adin William For More Pirtle, Oct. 20, 7 pounds, 12 ounces, Providence Centralia Hospital. Information Grandparents are Jack and Cindy Brooks, Adna, and Don and Julie Or To Donate Call Customer McLeod, Chehalis. Great-grandparents are Ina McLeod, Chehalis; Service

Sandra McPherson, Centralia; and Marta Pier, Pe Ell. Newspapers 360-807-8203 In Education In • MeAGAN reed ANd HeATH CouNTS, Winlock, a girl, Brooklyn Michelle Counts, Oct. 21, 8 pounds, Providence Centralia Hospital. Grand- parents are Tina Reed, Winlock; Scott Reed, Toledo; Travis Counts, Toledo; and Michelle Pope, Olympia. Great-grandparents are Molly Monday Night Football and Buford Counts, Selah; Debbie and Harley Reed, Chehalis; and Dorothy and Gary Murphy, Chehalis. Great-great-grandparents are Bar Specials Nora Collins, Chehalis, and Donna Zwiefelhofer, Winlock. Happy Hour 3-6pm • KiMBerLy ANd MArSHALL WiLLS, Longview, a girl, Katarina Lynne “I saw some ‘Duck Marie Wills, Oct. 21, 7 pounds, 8 ounces, Providence Centralia Hos- “EVERYONE WANTS A PIECE OF OUR PIE” pital. Grandparents are Shannon Lamson, Chehalis, and Tina Dunlap, Dynasty’ costumes. Kelso. Great-grandparents are Gloria and Frank Perkins, Chehalis. CH506431ca.db 360.736.0101 • JACKie GArrArd-BuHL ANd CJ BuHL, Centralia, a boy, Elias Lawrence I thought that 1232 Alder St. Buhl, Oct. 23, 6 pounds, 12 ounces, Providence Centralia Hospital. was pretty cool.” Grandparents are Vivian Buhl, Aberdeen; Calvin Buhl, Carlin, Nev.; Centralia, WA 98531 and Debbie Rose-Marrow, Princeton, Ind. Great-grandparent is Khodi Wright Miriam Butterfield, Oakville. Onalaska, Centralia College student • JeNNifer deLANey ANd JoHN PeTriCH, Centralia, a girl, Emily Jolynn Petrich, Oct. 24, 8 pounds, 5 ounces, Providence Centralia Hospital. Grandparents are Lori McCord and Lyle Delaney, Centralia; Stephen Petrich, Palmyra, Pa.; and Victoria Brown, Pensacola, Fla. Great- grandparents are Constance Petrich, Lebanon, Pa.; Marie Flannigan, Centralia; and Violette Brown, Centralia. • CHriSTiNA HerTz ANd CurTiS LuSK, Chehalis, a boy, Dayton Gene Lusk, Oct. 26, 6 pounds, 13 ounces, Providence Centralia Hospi- Get your tal. Grandparents are Sandra and Larry Lusk, and Maria and Butch Hertz, all of Chehalis. • JiLLiAN ANd HoWArd MArTiN, Centralia, a boy, Oct. 26, 8 pounds, 15 ounces, Providence Centralia Hospital. Grandparents are Jane Name and Jerry Stray, Centralia, and Pamela and David Martin, Rochester. Great-grandparent is Nelda Stuewe, Centralia. in the • KeLSie GreeNMAN ANd dAKoTA PLAAS, Rochester, a girl, Kira Anne NOVEMBER 29-DECEMBER 22 Friday: 7:30  | Saturday: 4:30 & 7:30  | Sunday: 4:30  Plaas, Oct. 27, 6 pounds, 10 ounces, Providence Centralia Hospi- tal. Grandparents are Valerie Greenman, Mossyrock; Heidi Galster, CHEHALIS-CENTRALIA RAILROAD & MUSEUM News Fares: Adults $30 | Children $20 (2-15 years) Rochester; Eve and Mike Greenman, Oakridge, Ore.; and Steve Kopa, Rochester. Great-grandparents are Noni Adolphson, Centralia, Reservations Required and Lynn Greenman, Ohio. Children under 2 years free, but must sit on parents lap. Duration: 1 ½ hours E-mail: [email protected] 360.748.9593 | STEAMTRAINRIDE.COM CH09421cz.cg All Subscribe Friend us on Facebook CatchTheNews!News!News! Today! ★807-8203 Main 16 The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013 LOCAL

Former Chehalis Aaron Lewis in Concert at Lucky Eagle Man Facing More Child Rape Charges

By The Chronicle them prior to his incarceration A former Chehalis man al- in 2010. ready in prison for sexually The two apparent victims, abusing a 7-year-old girl is now who are also related to Tauscher, accused of having molested two said they were afraid to say other young family members. anything when Chehalis police Brian David Tauscher, 38, were investigating the previous appeared in Lewis County Su- allegations. perior Court Friday after being The new allegations involve transported to Chehalis from a Tauscher touching each of the correctional facility. children in a sexual manner, He’s been charged with first- sometimes when he believed degree rape of a child and first- they were asleep, according to degree child molestation. He court documents. pleaded not guilty. The 7-year-old girl told a Tauscher was convicted of Chehalis police detective that first-degree attempted child she “felt really bad and just Jesse Smith / For The Chronicle molestation, fined $2,250 and wanted to slap” Tauscher when Country music singer Aaron Lewis performs a song from his new album, The Road, at a sold out show at the Lucky sentenced to nearly 10 years in she saw him touching the Eagle Casino Friday night in Rochester. Lewis is well known as the front man of the alternative rock band, Staind, but prison in 2010. Chehalis police 9-year-old boy. recently has emerged as a country music star with multiple nominations from the Academy of Country Music. learned earlier that year that he She also disclosed multiple had been sexually assaulting the assaults she experienced at the 7-year-old girl over the course of hands of Tauscher, according to several years. court documents. New charges are similar in A Chehalis detective inter- Southbound Interstate 5 Traffic to substance. viewed Tauscher on July 24, According to court docu- 2013, at the Monroe State Peni- ments, a 7-year-old girl and tentiary. Tauscher denied any Shift to New Bridge Tuesday Night a 9-year-old boy disclosed to contact with the two children, their counselor in March that and stated that he would be By The Chronicle over, but there won’t be quite I-5 traffic and demolish the ex- Tauscher had sexually touched willing to take a polygraph test. Southbound Interstate 5 traf- as much wiggle room as before,” isting bridges. fic in Centralia will be shifted to said WSDOT Project Engineer Shifting traffic on Tuesday the new bridge above Blakeslee Colin Newell in a statement. “So, night is weather dependent. News in Brief Junction from 7 p.m. Tuesday while traffic is shifted, we’re go- WSDOT contractor Cascade until 6 a.m. Wednesday, according to slow things down a bit to Bridge LLC built the new south- ing to the Washington State De- help keep drivers safe.” bound I-5 bridge over Reynolds Ballots Must be Mailed by 2 p.m. Tuesday partment of Transportation. Shifting traffic onto the new Avenue during the first phase of During the shift, the speed bridge is a pivotal moment in the the I-5 widening project, which By The Chronicle limit for both directions of I-5 will construction of the I-5 Mellen was completed earlier this year. Ballots for the upcoming general election must be postmarked also be reduced from 60 miles per Street to Blakeslee Junction proj- Scarsella Brothers is build- on or before 2 p.m. Tuesday, according to the U.S. Post Office. hour to 50 miles per hour. ect, according to WSDOT. ing the final phase of the project, For those not mailing their ballots, drop boxes are available at “Southbound I-5 will still be By early next year, WSDOT which is scheduled for comple- the Lewis County Historic Courthouse and the Twin Cities Senior two lanes once we shift them crews will also shift northbound tion in late 2015. Center. Replacement ballots and accessibility voting units will be available on election day at the Lewis County Auditor’s Office from 7 All Subscribe a.m. to 8 p.m. For more information, visit www.lewiscountywa.gov/auditor/ CatchCatchTheNews!News!News! Today! elections. ★807-8203 CH509420bw.db The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013 • Sports 1

Sports editor: Aaron VanTuyl Adna Outlasts Onalaska Phone number: 807-8229 / Sports 2 Sports e-mail: [email protected] for Fourth 2A Football

Pete Caster / [email protected] W.F. West’s Bryan Moon, left, celebrates with Tanner Gueller after Gueller made a tackle in the Centralia backield during an Evergreen 2A Conference football game at Bearcat Stadium in Chehalis on Friday night.

2A EvCo Football Second-Half Swamp Stars Friday, at Chehalis BATTLE IN CHEHALIS: Tigers Throw First Punches, W.F. WEST CENTRALIA Bearcats Recover for Rivalry Win By Aaron VanTuyl [email protected] 47 33 Given the teams’ respective seasons, the 106th installment of the Battle of the Swamp should have been a somewhat one-sided affair. QUICK With nothing but bragging rights on the line, however, Cen- tralia put together its best per- formance of the season and gave No. 6-ranked W.F. West all it could handle in a 47-33 Bearcat win Friday night in Chehalis. “This game always does some things,” Bearcat coach Pete Caster / [email protected] HITS Bob Wollan said. “I hate the cli- W.F. West’s Bowe McKay reaches out to bring down Centralia running back Jacob Monohon during an Evergreen 2A Confer- ché rivalry game, but there’s al- ence football game at Bearcat Stadium in Chehalis on Friday night. ways a way that the game hangs Friday’s Prep in there and stays close.” W.F. West got its typical big gers, meanwhile, got solid per- year. players than us. The bottom Football Results game from quarterback Tan- formances from Gavin Kerner “Make no mistake about it, line, is Bob (Wollan) has quality ner Gueller, who hit 13 of 20 (42 rushing yards, 132 receiv- the better team won. They’re depth at every position. When W.F. West 47, passes for 221 yards and five ing yards) and Jacob Monohon going to make a huge run in we’re playing our 2s and 3s touchdowns, while running for (121 rushing yards, 34 receiving the playoffs,” Tiger coach Matt Centralia 33 94 yards and a score. The Ti- yards) in their final game of the Whitmire said. “They had more please see SWAMP, page S3 Tenino 37, Rochester 27 COMMENTARY: Editor’s Notes Castle Rock 24, Two Nights of Adventures in Onalaska & Chehalis Toledo 13 t’s not often I get the chance THURSDAY parking-lot quality sofa. The posted up on and around the Thursday’s Prep to go to prep football games tailgate crew, I was informed, couch during the game, Logger Ion back-to-back nights at 4 Hours in Onalaska has been at every home game flag and all. Football Results different loca- I arrived in Onalaska nice (as well as traveling to Napavine tions — es- and early, having gotten word and Winlock), setting up the Rivalry Renewed Adna 40, pecially not that a group of students threw a barbecue and flying a bright- regular-season Adna coach K.C. Johnson Onalaska 38 tailgate party in the parking lot yellow Onalaska flag. Former games. To Logger tight end/defensive end removed his hat after Thursday’s before each home game. commemorate Nick Eitenmiller (whose career game to show, for the first time Napavine 56, two nights on I parked, locked the car and was cut short when he suffered in years, hair. He hasn’t shaved the road, then, followed the sound of country his sixth concussion; five, he his typically-clean dome since Winlock 0 here’s a few music that can only come from told me, is the limit) explained his team’s loss to Wahkiakum in a parked pickup to the pregame notes from my By Aaron VanTuyl that once the game starts, the Week 3. The Pirates have since MWP 52, festivities, where I was greeted adventure in avantuyl@ crew carts the couch onto “the won six straight games, one Mossyrock 14 Onalaska on chronline.com warmly and provided with a taco,” a rubberized crescent- casualty of which is the idea of Thursday night hot dog by grillmaster Lydia shaped high-jump surface just Johnson dressing as Batman vil- and the 106th-annual Battle Johnson. About 35 kids milled beyond the end zone nearest lain Bane for Halloween. Toutle Lake 21, of the Swamp football game in around two Onalaska-sized the parking lot. Sure enough, Pe Ell 6 Chehalis. trucks, situated alongside a by kickoff the tailgate crew had please see NOTEBOOK, page S3

Got It The Final Word Onalaska’s Trevor Lawrence Couples Leads Charles Schwab Cup Championship hauls in a one- TV’s Best Bet handed 45-yard SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Fred Cou- strokes back. touchdown pass ples took the second-round lead Friday in Bart Bryant was third at 8 under af- College Football Thursday night the Charles Schwab Cup Championship, ter a 66. Bernhard Langer was another Okla. State at Texas Tech on the Loggers’ shooting his second straight 6-under 65 stroke back after a 68. 4 p.m. home ield. Adna in the Champions Tour’s season-ending Charles Schwab Cup points leader FOX won the game event. Kenny Perry had a 71 to remain 3 under. 40-38. Winless this season, Couples had a Fred Funk aced the par-3 eighth hole —See Story S2 bogey-free round at TPC Harding Park. with a 4-iron, but bogeyed four of his next First-round leader Peter Senior bo- seven holes and finished with his second Brandon Hansen / [email protected] geyed the 18th for a 69 and fall two straight 70.