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Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com $1 Weekend Edition Legacy Continued Saturday, Ailing Adna Man’s Salmon Operation Lives On / Main 14 April 11, 2015 New Production Rochester Wrestler Evergreen Playhouse Presents Slate of ‘A Senior Grappler Wins Four Matches at a Streetcar Named Desire’ Performances / Life National Competition in Virginia Beach / Sports Slowed Ports, Global Forces Put Squeeze on Local Recyclers Centralia Hires New Police Chief CHOICE: City Manager Picks California Captain to Replace Retiring Bob Berg By Kaylee Osowski [email protected] Centralia City Manager Rob Hill has selected a new chief for the city’s police department. Capt. Carl Nielsen, of Ripon, California, said he got the call Friday morning and accepted the job with- out hesitation. He will begin working with the department on May 18. Pete Caster / [email protected] please see CHIEF, page Main 13 Rick Blankenship attempts to dislodge an aluminum can from the ceiling of a hydraulic crushing machine at Hand-N-Hand Recycling in Centralia on Thursday. ECONOMY: Cheap Orcutt’s Bertha Commodities Mean Tough Market for Amendment Recycling Businesses Shot Down By Dameon Pesanti [email protected] By The Chronicle Rep. Ed Orcutt, R-Kalama, tried You might feel like you’re do- to amend the state transportation ing your part to protect the envi- budget to remove ronment when you recycle your $17 million ear- waste instead of sending it to the marked for King landfill. County Transit to In fact, a $500 billion global help cope with the industry has been built around delays in the High- recycling, but economic forces way 99 tunnel proj- are making it difficult for the ect in Seattle. country’s recyclers to turn a The amendment profit, and Lewis County busi- was defeated on a nesses aren’t immune. Ed Orcutt Jason Blankenship, of Hand- R-Kalama vote 49-48. "This $17 million is N-Hand recycling in Centralia, on top of the $37 million taxpayers sells the scrap metal, cardboard have already sent to King County to and other recyclables people Jason Blankenship gets ready to throw used machinery parts into a bin at Hand-N-Hand Recycling in Centralia on please see ORCUTT, page Main 16 Thursday afternoon. please see RECYCLING, page Main 13 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Blazer Baseball Train Fatalities Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Hussey, Raelynne Mykell-Kathryn, 3 Follow Us on Twitter Centralia There Have weeks, Centralia @chronline Falls to Been Seven Gatliff, Kenneth Calvin, 92, Rochester Tacoma at Deaths on Tucker, Sharon Lee, 74, Tenino Find Us on Facebook Woods, Charles R., 96, Chehalis www.facebook.com/ Wheeler Local Tracks Elder, Pamela J., 68, Centralia thecentraliachronicle Field in 10 years Leach, Betty Ruth, 93, Rochester / Sports 1 / Main 7 Bates, Genevieve Grace, 87, Chehalis PASSENGER CAR GREAT BUY! 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(AP) land. — An alligator reportedly spot- No one will be representing ted in a western Pennsylvania the United States, Great Britain river may never be found — or or China, but you may catch even confirmed — but police a glimpse of the president of continued to search for it Friday, Molossia, decked out in a be- the local police chief said. ribboned, full-dress uniform Nobody has seen the rep- that would be the envy of any tile since two people reportedly Third World dictator. There Brandon Hansen / [email protected] spotted it in the Monongahela he’ll be hobnobbing with kings, The Centralia College baseball team is having a rough season in the win-loss column, but there were still some dazzling River in Belle Vernon on Tues- queens, dukes and barons from feats of athleticism during the team’s loss to Tacoma on Friday (see the story on the front of the Sports section). This day, Southwest Regional Police places like Slabovia, Westarctica, photograph shows irst-baseman Colton Hinricksen stretching to make a play. See more photographs from the game, Chief John Hartman said. Vikesland and Broslavia. and others, at www.chronline.com and www.lewiscountysports.com. “We’ve continued to investi- The occasion is MicroCon gate it,” Hartman said. 2015, what organizers say is the The initial report made by first North American gathering two people near a boat launch of micronations, those itty bitty Notable Quote indicated the alligator was about countries that pretty much no- 7 feet long. body but the people who rule It’s possible the animal them believe really exist. hitched a ride on a barge from a “It’s almost like a diplomatic “At our home, the alders are starting to unfurl their warmer spot down South, or was version of a model railroad for an exotic pet that was released nerds,” says Steven F. Scharff, leaves along our backyard brook. The apples in the by its owner or escaped into the who has been studying the mi- front lawn aren’t quite ready to commit, but they’re river, Hartman said. cronation movement for decades. Police have consulted with the Most of these faux countries beginning to let loose with tentative leaves that grow U.S. Coast Guard and Pittsburgh print their own stamps and mint Zoo officials and determined that their own money. Some even bolder with each new day in the sun.” the alligator — if that’s what it produce sashes, swords, pen- was — could survive even though dants and other royal doodads Brian Mittge the river remains relatively cold, that Scharff says rival anything Hartman said. coming out of England’s royal columnist discusses arrival of spring on page Main 9 Police received several calls House of Windsor. Much of about the alligator on Thursday, it will be on display Saturday, but they weren’t new sightings, along with the flags of some two the chief said. Rather, people dozen countries. Staf Pick who also thought they had seen Pulling the gathering to- Director’s Cut an alligator in the river — some gether is President Kevin Baugh several weeks ago — called po- of the Republic of Molossia, who The Chronicle is a local news- Mary Kay Letourneau, now at a memorial service held at Ta- lice to report it after Pittsburgh- rules over 1.3 acres of real estate paper. That means a local bake 53, and her husband Vili Fual- coma Police headquarters. area media outlets began report- he purchased east of Reno, Ne- sale might sometimes be printed aau, now 31, discussed their lives ing Tuesday’s sighting. vada, in 1998. instead of a story of broader re- together with Barbara Walters Brace Yourself, Mountains “There have been no addi- Of the country’s 27 citizens, gional interest. in an interview airing on ABC tional sightings or reports since only five — Baugh, his wife and In today’s edition, that News’ “20/20” Friday night. Le- SEATTLE (AP) — The Na- the first two people spotted it,” kids — live in Molossia. Still, the means we missed out on a few tourneau is a former suburban tional Weather Service in Se- Hartman said. place issues its own passports, has interesting and/or entertaining Seattle teacher who gained noto- attle says a strong cold front is The Coast Guard used crews its own railroad, phone system, Associated Press news nuggets. riety in the 1990s when she was expected to bring a considerable to search the river’s banks on bank, post office and general store. So, to save you convicted of raping the then- snowfall to the Cascade Moun- Wednesday and found nothing. If you call ahead, the president from having to 12-year-old Fualaau. They later tains this weekend. Although experts have told himself will take you on a tour. read my rant- married and have two teenage Meteorologist Doug McDon- police the alligator couldn’t live “When you come to visit, you ings twice in daughters. nell on Friday said the storm in the area year-round, the cold- see as much as possible a func- the same edi- could bring 1 to 2 feet of snow blooded animal would be able to tioning nation,” says Baugh, who tion (see page Rest in Peace, Barney throughout the Cascades Moun- survive for an extended period from his teens thought it would 8), here are a tains with the heaviest snowfall as long as the river wasn’t frozen be really cool to create his own few interesting TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — likely in the Stevens Pass area. over. That would keep it from country. Don’t get him wrong, items that land- Several dozen officers and oth- He says drivers should expect breathing properly in the water, though, he knows who really ed on the pro- By Eric Schwartz ers turned out Thursday to snow on all the highway passes Hartman said. runs things. verbial cutting editor honor Barney, the Tacoma po- starting Friday night with snow- “Can I lower the drinking room floor: lice narcotics dog who died last fall gradually easing by Sunday. Itty, Bitty (Fake) age?” he asks rhetorically. “Well month after ingesting metham- He says the snow level is expect- no, I can’t.