County Purchasing Star Tavern PAVING PARADISE: Not Be Slinging Cold Cans to Resi- Rector Michael Strozyk Said
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Rodeo Life No Walk in the Park / Main 3 $1 Early Week Edition Tuesday, Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com Aug. 25, 2015 Chehalis Passes Ban Christian Women’s Group on Panhandling Celebrates 50 Years / Main 5 / Life County Purchasing Star Tavern PAVING PARADISE: not be slinging cold cans to resi- rector Michael Strozyk said. dents if the purchase of the Star The initial plans call for an Downtown Chehalis Tavern is finalized. about-80,000-square-foot build- Watering Hole to Instead, the plan is to even- ing, but that size could change. tually flatten the building for The rough cost estimate of the Eventually be Replaced parking. The property is iden- new building is about $30 mil- With Parking Lot tified in the county’s Capital lion, Strozyk said, adding that Facilities Plan to improve the the figure was calculated a few By Kaylee Osowski county’s campus. The plan years ago. The health building [email protected] includes constructing a new will be demolished when the building just north of the Lew- new building is complete and Pete Caster / [email protected] Lewis County Commission- is County Health Building to a courtyard will be built in its A cyclist is seen in the relection of ers are moving forward with house several offices to relocate place. the front window of the Star Tavern plans to buy a bar. some off-campus services, Lew- in Chehalis on Monday afternoon. No, county employees will is County Central Services Di- please see STAR, page Main 13 Morton Hospital Releases Terms Brothers & of Former CEO’s Settlement AGREEMENT: Whitmer to Receive $175,000 Bullfighters for Pain and Suffering, Economic Damage Tenino Siblings Risk It By Dameon Pesanti [email protected] All With Bulls & Barrels Documents obtained by The Chronicle on Monday show the former CEO of Morton Gen- eral Hospital will receive a fraction of the money he de- manded after being fired ear- lier this year. The nine- page settlement agreement Seth Whitmer between Mor- ton General Hospital and Seth Whitmer was obtained by The Chronicle via a public records request. It was signed by the hospital district Board of Com- missioners July 31, and outlines the terms agreed to by the two please see WHITMER, page Main 11 County to Begin Eminent Domain Proceedings in Winlock FOUR TO GO: County Has Yet to Reach an Agreement With Four Pete Caster / [email protected] Landowners Along Braiden Johnson, of Tenino, center, and his brother Colt head in to help a bucked rider on Saturday evening at the Bulls and Barrels Challenge at the Southwest Washington Fair in Chehalis. Highway 603 Project By Kaylee Osowski TOUGH WORK: Colt and But three men, clad in hot Braiden Johnson, of Tenino — the rider out of harm’s way and [email protected] pink, stood eye-to-eye with don’t mind letting the bull rid- distract the raging bull. Braiden Johnson Among every single thousand-plus- ers hog the spotlight. “We protect the bull riders,” Four landowners just outside Three Bullfighters pound bull at Saturday night’s “It doesn’t bother us,” Colt Messerle, 25, said. “(We do) of Winlock haven’t yet folded to the county’s request for land to With Bulls and Barrels Twin Cities Bulls and Barrels Johnson, 31, said. whatever it takes to make sure Challenge. As each bull and rider rock- they go home before we do.” adjust a curve on Highway 603. At its Monday meeting, the Challenge “I love the experience. I love eted out of the chute, Messerle Messerle said their main Board of County Commission- and the Johnson brothers stayed strategy is to “get their atten- By Natalie Johnson the family,” said bullfighter ers approved a resolution direct- Braiden Johnson. “It’s a good close, ready to react when the tion and run.” [email protected] More than once, bull fight- ing the prosecuting attorney to feeling that you’re protecting riders fell. Whether the riders begin condemnation proceed- people.” stayed on the bull for the full ers had to climb the 6-foot high Bull riders brave up to eight fences to avoid a particularly ings to acquire the right of way The three bullfighters — eight seconds or were bucked seconds on the back of one angry bull. for the project. kicking-mad animal, risking Cody Messerle, of Prineville, off early, one of the bullfighters life and limb for glory. Oregon, and brothers Colt and was always there to quickly pull please see BULLS, page Main 13 please see DOMAIN, page Main 13 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Finding Her Voice Another Loss Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Local Author Last-Place Rollins, Robert Lee, 77, Follow Us on Twitter Centralia @chronline With Multiple Athletics Auman, Neal R., 81, Personalities Oust Chehalis Find Us on Facebook Releases Mariners, www.facebook.com/ Book 11-5 thecentraliachronicle / Main 6 / Sports 1 Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015 PAGE TWO News Closing Out the Fair With a Big Bite of the Weird WJAC-TV reported that Dog’s Warning Tipped Blacklick Valley High School Family to Nevada Fire moved Saturday’s scrimmage to SPANISH SPRINGS, Nev. a practice field by the school af- (AP) — A Spanish Springs fam- ter the game field in Nanty Glo ily has been forced out of their was deemed off-limits. home after a house fire, but au- The field is owned by the bor- thorities say no one was hurt ough 65 miles east of Pittsburgh thanks in part to a family pet. and its recreation authority, but Officials for the Truckee the school district will pay to Meadows Fire Protection Dis- have the goose waste removed. trict say one of the family’s dogs Blacklick Valley Superinten- alerted them to the fire that dent John Mastillo hopes work- started on the deck of the home ers will have the field cleaned in a neighborhood off the Pyra- up in time for the team’s home mid Highway about 11:30 p.m. opener in a couple of weeks. Sunday. Mastillo says about 65 geese KRNV-TV reported two have taken over the field and adults, a child and four dogs may have been drawn by people feeding the birds. safely evacuated before firefight- Natalie Johnson / [email protected] ers arrived and the flames spread Children participate in a chocolate pie-eating contest Saturday afternoon at the Southwest Washington Fair. into the house and the attic. Police: Woman Found Officials say the fire dam- aged about 40 percent of the Intruder Taking a home north of Sparks near Rook Shower, Doing Laundry Court and Nightingale Way. Notable Quote The Red Cross is helping ERIE, Pa. (AP) — Pennsyl- them find a temporary residence. vania State Police say a woman The cause of the fire remains un- found an intruder taking a der investigation. shower and doing his laundry at “You’re a lady or man loading your car with groceries at night and to her home when she woke up. Troopers say the resident have somebody come up to you — it’s gotta be intimidating.” New Mexicans Say They summoned police to her home in Greene Township, near Erie, Bob Spahr Dished Out World’s on Saturday morning. Longest Tamale Twenty-four-year-old Erie Chehalis city councilman, on Chehalis’ new panhandling ban BELEN, N.M. (AP) — A resident Casey James Shaffer (see page Main 5 for the full story) group of people in New Mexico was arrested on charges of crim- say they cooked the world’s lon- inal trespass, disorderly conduct, gest tamale Saturday morning. public intoxication and loitering Luis Hernandez, of the ABQ and prowling at night. West Chamber of Commerce, says that a team of more than 30 Couple Rushes Marriage EDITOR’S PICK chefs at Viva II, a three-day cele- bration of the state’s heritage, as- Vows to Beat the Stork So Long, and Thanks for all The News sembled a 116-foot, 7-inch long HOUSTON (AP) — It could tamale at the Valencia County have been the plot of a movie: I spent the last week out of stuff fluff pieces. Piece of (fun- keeps catching on fire!” fairgrounds in Belen. A Houston couple improvises a The Treehouse, so to speak. nel) cake.” I was half-kidding; it wasn’t Organizers say the ingre- hospital wedding in less than an The Treehouse is what The Alas, it wasn’t meant to be. awful, just more hectic than nor- dients, which were provided hour after the bride goes into la- Chronicle’s sports department The stars aligned to throw news mal and not my particular vari- by Bueno Foods, included 120 bor early. has been called both breaking (seemingly every ety of tea. If something happens, pounds of masa and 50 pounds Stephanie Tallent was eight the last few corner of the county caught fire, you’re expected to know about it of green chile. months pregnant and having an years, due most- in addition to what now seems According to Guinness ultrasound Friday when she went ly to our casual to be most of the right-hand side immediately — not to mention World Records, the longest ta- into labor at Texas Children’s Pa- attitude toward of the state) and heartbreak- keeping track of a whole staff of male assembled was in Cancun, vilion for Women in Houston. shoes and pro- ing (the victim of last week’s reporters and a surly photogra- Mexico, in 2011 and measured a Fortunately she and fiance pensity for train death turning out to be pher.