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Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com $1 Rochester Weekend Edition Saturday, Clinches May 7, 2016 League Title Warriors Prevail / Sports Salvation Army Leader Eye on Chehalis Business After Working in Centralia Since 2009, Doctor Came to His Profession Late, But He Major Off to New Assignment / Main 4 Has No Plans for Retirement Soon / Life 1 Congresswoman: ‘You Can Be Wrong, but You Can’t Stay Wrong’ Herrera Beutler Chides Feds for Failing to Act on Flawed Data Finding Pe Ell, Vader, Toledo and Morton ‘Too Affluent’ for Grants Natrone D. Bostick, 19, left, and Samath Hem, 23, enter Lewis County Superior Court `on Friday afternoon at the Lewis County Law and Justice Center in Chehalis. Men Charged in Chehalis Home-Invasion Robbery COURT DOCUMENTS: Attack Came After Man Scheduled a Meeting With a Prostitute Online By Natalie Johnson [email protected] A planned meet-up with an escort went terribly wrong for a Chehalis man last month when he was tied up, beaten and robbed at gunpoint by the woman’s two male companions, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. please see ROBBERY, page Main 14 Mineral ‘Church’ Seeks Exemption Pete Caster / [email protected] Jon Cravens, left, a Toledo public works assistant, gives a tour of the town's wastewater treatment plant to local politicians, including U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera From DEA, Beutler, fourth from the right, on Friday morning. County Approval By Jordan Nailon On Friday morning, U.S. [email protected] Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler of TALKS: Meeting With County Washington’s 3rd District made TOLEDO — It’s likely that a trip to Toledo to once again Held for Group Offering few who have ever been to the see firsthand the people and Hallucinogenic Experiences towns of Toledo, Vader or Pe Ell place impacted by what she and would ever make the mistake of others consider an obvious mis- By Jordan Nailon labeling them as “too affluent” labeling. [email protected] for, well, anything. During her visit, Herrera Those who are familiar with Beutler toured Toledo’s new The Ayahuasca Healings Church has the cities might chuckle at the wastewater treatment plant, emerged from a self-imposed break from notion. which was constructed in large operations with a renewed zeal for their But when that very designa- part thanks to federal funds that mission of bringing spiritual enlighten- tion precludes the towns from the town no longer qualifies for. ment to the world through the use of the receiving federal grant money Last year, the federal govern- natural hallucinogens. U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Wash., answers questions concern- meant to help spur economic ment began consulting new data In March, the church, located be- ing U.S. Census numbers, which the U.S. Housing and Urban Develop- growth and healthy communi- collected via census in order to tween Mineral and Elbe near the ment Department is using for establishing qualiied low-income cities, ties, the miscalculation becomes on Friday morning in Toledo. no laughing matter. please see CHURCH, page Main 14 please see GRANTS, page Main 14 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater ‘Justin Bieber Look-Alike’ Celebrating Dedication Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Police Say Bowmans Burton, Lincoln G., 83, Pe Ell Follow Us on Twitter Fraley, Margaret J., 79, @chronline Man Sent Honored Toledo Photos With Plaque Cheney, Thelma, 89, Centralia Find Us on Facebook of Young for Service Madden, Bennie, 76, Chehalis www.facebook.com/ Smith, Barbara, 88, Chehalis thecentraliachronicle Boy as He Through Zopolos, Sarah, 94, Texted Teen Kennewick Rotaries Baron, Joseph, 95, Sequim / Main 7 / Main 3 CH554561jc.do • Christopher & Banks • Chico’s • Dressbarn • Lane Bryant Outlet • Francesca’s Spring • Pendleton Outlet • Gap Factory Dressbarn intoSavings 360-736-3900 • WWW.CENTRALIAOUTLETS.COM • I-5 EXIT 82 • BOTH SIDES • CENTRALIA Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, May 7, 2016 PAGE TWO News Standalone: Monkey Business After Crash of the Weird Police: Boy, 12, Stole School Bus, Was Stopped by Passer-By BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Police in Maine say a 12-year-old boy stole a school bus and went on a brief joy ride before being stopped by a man who followed Officer Rescues Deer the vehicle and took control of it. Bangor police say John St. That Had Its Head Germain and his girlfriend saw Caught in Light Globe the bus being driven by someone CENTEREACH, N.Y. (AP) who appeared to be too young to — It was a deer caught in the ... have a license. They began following the bus light globe. Burien Police Department / The Associated Press and called police. Authorities say a police of- In this photo provided by the Burien Police Department, police oicers detain a man with his monkey after he crashed ficer has come to the aid of a They say that when the bus stopped at an intersection, St. into someone’s yard in Burien Wednesday. The monkey refused to be held by oicers, however. They had to call the wild deer whose head was stuck man’s mother to pick up the animal. inside a light globe in a wooded Germain got out of his car and area of suburban New York. onto the bus, taking control of it. The state Department of En- The 12-year-old was taken vironmental Conservation says into custody. Notable Quote one of its officers spotted the deer The Bangor Police Depart- Tuesday in the woods in Cente- ment gave St. Germain an award reach, 45 miles east of New York on Wednesday. Sgt. Tim Cotton City. Environmental conserva- says he probably saved much “Recently, I read the Justice Department will no longer refer tion officials believe the deer property damage and even in- had been lying there since Mon- jury or death to the boy. to people released from prison as ‘felons’ or ‘convicts.’ Not day night. Officer Jeff Hull ap- because they aren’t or didn’t serve time, but because if they proached the deer and tried to re- Tourists Use Alaska move the globe. But it slipped out describe them in softer, gentler and kinder tones, they may of his hands and the deer ran off. Homeless Shelter to Hull approached a second forget they are in fact ‘felons’ or ‘convicts.’” time and tossed his coat over the Grab Coffee, Snack light globe. As the deer pulled KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) John McCroskey back, the globe came free. — Cruise ship passengers have been hanging out at an Alaska columnist homeless shelter to get free cof- (see page Main 6 for the full commentary) Man Who Threw fee and a bite to eat, but few have Alligator Now Throwing bothered making a donation, said one of the nonprofit’s board Self on Mercy of Court members. Today in History WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. Tourists in Ketchikan often (AP) — The Florida man who stop by looking for a restroom, Today’s Highlight in History: announced a military and po- telecast in color for the first time litical alliance known as the by CBS. threw an alligator through and some decide to stay longer, On May 7, 1945, Germany a drive-thru window is now First City Homeless Services Rome-Berlin Axis. In 1975, President Gerald R. signed an unconditional sur- In 1941, Glenn Miller and Ford formally declared an end throwing himself on the mercy chairwoman Evelyn Erbele told render at Allied headquarters in of the court. the Ketchikan Gateway Borough His Orchestra recorded “Chat- to the “Vietnam era.” In Ho Chi Rheims (rams), France, ending tanooga Choo Choo” for RCA Minh City — formerly Saigon The Palm Beach Post re- Assembly on Monday. its role in World War II. ported that 24-year-old Joshua “If we have a snack, they’ll Victor. — the Viet Cong celebrated its James agreed in court Friday to take the snack and they’ll sit In 1942, U.S. Army Gen. takeover. plead guilty to unspecified mis- there and watch TV,” Erbele said. On This Date: Jonathan Wainwright went on In 1984, a $180 million demeanor charges on May 31 “It’s called ‘audacity,’ isn’t it?” In 1789, America’s first inau- a Manila radio station to an- out-of-court settlement was an- and let Judge Barry Cohen de- The shelter relies on dona- gural ball was held in New York nounce the Allied surrender of nounced in the Agent Orange cide his sentence. tions and funding from the city in honor of President George the Philippines to Japanese forc- class-action suit brought by James was arrested in Febru- and its borough, and it’s request- Washington, who’d taken the es during World War II. Vietnam veterans who charged ary on charges that he threw the ing more money from officials. oath of office a week earlier. In 1946, Sony Corp. had its they’d suffered injury from ex- 3½-foot gator into a Wendy’s last Ketchikan is called the First In 1824, Beethoven’s Sym- beginnings as the Tokyo Tele- posure to the defoliant. October. He was charged with City because it’s the first stop in phony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, communications Engineering In 1992, the latest addition several felonies, including as- southeast Alaska for ships trav- had its premiere in Vienna. Corp. was founded in the Japa- to America’s space shuttle fleet, sault with a deadly weapon. eling the Inside Passage. In 1915, a German U-boat nese capital by Akio Morita and Endeavour, went on its first James told WPTV that he is Last year, 38 cruise ships torpedoed and sank the Brit- Masaru Ibuka.