Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com $1 Toledo Early Week Edition Still Tuesday, April 12, 2016 Perfect Indians Undefeated in C2BL / Sports 1 Superior Court Judge Willapa Hills Creamery Richard Brosey Discusses Career in Justice Business Near Pe Ell Thriving as Producer of System as He Plans for Retirement / Main 6 Artisan Cheese and Other Products / Main 3 Napavine Outdoor Adventurers Have Police Chief a Splash at Pe Ell River Run Pulling Emergency Double Duty for Fire District 5 WORKING HARD: Board of Fire Commissioners Has No Timetable for a Permanent Solution By Jordan Nailon [email protected] Lewis County Fire District 5 covers almost 66 square miles of rural countryside that is home to as many as 12,000 residents. The dis- trict has four stations, four engine companies, one water tender, three EMS transport ambulances, three rescue/brush trucks, two inci- dent command re- sponse units and Pete Caster / [email protected] one support ve- A kayaker heads down Rainbow Falls to cap of the Pe Ell River Run on Saturday along the Chehalis River near Doty. hicle all their own. One thing they have to share, Chris Salyers FLOATERS: Participants though, is their Napavine chief. police chief Traverse Chehalis Since the be- River From Pe Ell ginning of 2016, Napavine Police Chief Chris Salyers has been pull- to Rainbow Falls ing double duty as fire chief for State Park in Annual the sprawling Lewis County fire Informal Journey district, also known as Newau- kum Valley Fire & Rescue. Salyers By Justyna Tomtas is a “non-operational” chief, which [email protected] means his duties are largely limited to administrative paperwork, but Despite overcast conditions he does respond to some fire and and weather hovering just above emergency calls. 50 degrees, dozens of partici- “I just do what they ask me to pants took to the Chehalis River do,” said Salyers of his double chief in Pe Ell for the annual river run duties. on Saturday. The unusual arrangement is Always on the second week- the product of a memorandum of end of April, the informal event understanding between the city of brings outdoor adventurers to- Napavine and the Lewis County gether for a day of floating down Board of Fire Commissioners for the river in rafts, canoes and District 5. Prior to that arrange- kayaks. ment the previously retired Gregg Launch time was around Peterson had been filling the role noon, just south of the West of fire chief of District 5. However, Fourth Avenue bridge spanning Eric Campbell, left, Payten Wiltse, 11, and Cecelia Wiltse, right, hang on to the side of their boat as they head down Rain- Peterson resigned the position in bow Falls during the Pe Ell River Run on Saturday afternoon along the Chehalis River near Doty. The trio safely made it please see RUN, page Main 16 through the falls. please see DUTY, page Main 16 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Hub for Hobbyists ‘Burn Baby Burn’ Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Stamp Chehalis Area Farda, Margaret Ruth, 68, Follow Us on Twitter Centralia @chronline and Coin Fire Districts Matthews, Jeanette, 101, Enthusiasts Hold Practice Onalaska Find Us on Facebook Gather at Burns to Nutter, David, 54, Centralia www.facebook.com/ Fuller, Carol Lee, 77, Chehalis thecentraliachronicle Yard Birds Help Train Teare, Arthur, 93, Centralia in Chehalis Metcalfe, Donald, 79, Firefighters Centralia / Main 5 / Main 4 Coleman, Ronald, 74, Pe Ell You are invited to our H.O.W. (Horse Owners Workshop) Ask the experts about anything equine. Dr. Chris Afeldt from Cascade West Veterinary Hospital, will be speaking on the recommended equine vaccinations for horses in the Northwest. Scott Wegner from Purina Mills Feed will talk about the nutritional needs of horses hursday, depending on their age and work levels. April 14th, 6 p.m. We hope to see you at the It’s “Simple and Easy” at THE FARM STORE Chehalis Farm Store. 561 W. Main Street • Chehalis • 748-3368 • 1-800-562-0949 • www.chehalisfarmstore.com CH555650bw.ke Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Tuesday, April 12, 2016 PAGE TWO News Outtake: Making the Play in Toledo of the Weird Bates took Milly into cus- 3 Rescued Island tody and brought her to the Castaways Spelled animal shelter — but not before snapping photos of her sniffing ‘Help’ With Palm Fronds around the Starbucks and post- HONOLULU (AP) — The ing them on the police depart- men rescued in this tale of three ment’s Facebook page. castaways were not named Tom She didn’t travel far; her Hanks, or Gilligan, or Robinson owner Alan Ergenbright said Crusoe. Though they might as the 11-year-old pet goat lives just well have been. two doors down. In a scene straight from Hol- “When we heard, we thought lywood, or a New Yorker cartoon, she was a little crazy,” Ergenbright a U.S. Navy plane spotted the told the Santa Rosa Press Demo- word “help” spelled out in palm crat “She’s a really happy and sweet fronds on a beach on a deserted goat. She’s also pretty curious.” island in the remote Pacific. The three men, missing for three days after a wave overtook Knoxville Man Charged the skiff they were traveling in, With Attempted Matt Baide / [email protected] were found waving their orange Toledo’s Dakota Robbins makes a play on Monday. The story and additional photographs are in today’s Sports life jackets on the tiny Micronesian Robbery of Officer section and online at www.lewiscountysports.com. island of Fanadik, several hundred KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — miles north of Papua New Guinea, Call it a case of very rotten luck. officials said Saturday. A man in Tennessee has been The men’s families reported arrested after authorities say he Notable Quote them missing Tuesday after they tried to rob a Knoxville police failed to show up at the Micro- officer who was sitting in an un- nesian island of Weno, where marked police car. they were traveling from their Citing a police report, the home island, Pulap. “I liked doing trials. I did a lot of trials when I was an attorney. When Knoxville News-Sentinel said “Fortunately for them, they the officer was sitting in the you’re trying the case to the jury, what you’re doing is selling yourself were all wearing life jackets and were able to swim to the de- driver’s seat of his car in a park- to the jury, selling your client to the jury.” serted island,” U.S. Coast Guard ing lot Saturday when 22-year- spokeswoman Melissa McKen- old Brandon A. Williams zie said. opened the passenger door and Richard Brosey A local boat picked the men demanded money. Police say the officer identi- retiring Lewis County Superior Court judge up and took them to a hospital. (see page Main 6 for the full story) McKenzie said she didn’t have fied himself and drew his weap- information on the men’s condi- on, prompting Williams to flee tion Saturday, but officials told before being caught. the Washington Post they were not injured. Longest Human Today in History In the last two weeks, 15 peo- ple have been rescued in the Pa- Mattress Dominoes Today’s Highlight in History: published in book form after being In 1981, the space shuttle Co- cific with the help of 10 AMVER Chain Topples serialized in Scribner’s Magazine. lumbia blasted off from Cape vessels and six aircrews, the U.S. On April 12, 1961, Soviet cos- In 1945, President Franklin Canaveral on its first test flight. Coast Guard said. NATIONAL HARBOUR, monaut Yuri Gagarin became D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral Former world heavyweight box- Md. (AP) — Aaron’s Inc., an ap- the first man to fly in space, hemorrhage in Warm Springs, ing champion Joe Louis, 66, died pliance and electronics-leasing orbiting the earth once before Georgia, at age 63; he was suc- in Las Vegas, Nevada. Goat Breaks Free, company, has broken the Guin- making a safe landing. ceeded by Vice President Harry In 1985, Sen. Jake Garn, R- Goes on Starbucks ness World Record for the longest On this date: S. Truman. Utah, became the first sitting human mattress domino chain. In 1955, In 1606, England’s King James the Salk vaccine member of Congress to fly in Run in California Guinness World Records re- against polio was declared safe space as the shuttle Discovery I decreed the design of the origi- leased a video of the feat Thurs- and effective. lifted off. ROHNERT PARK, Calif. nal Union Flag, which com- (AP) — Police say a goat appar- day, showing 1,200 people hold- In 1963, civil rights leader In 1990, in its first meeting, bined the flags of England and ently needed a caffeine fix when ing mattresses behind them and Martin Luther King, Jr. was ar- East Germany’s first demo- it wandered into a Starbucks in falling backward into each other, Scotland. rested and jailed in Birmingham, cratically elected parliament Northern California. one at a time, inside a Prince In 1776, North Carolina’s Alabama, charged with contempt acknowledged responsibility for Rohnert Park police Sgt. Rick George’s County, Maryland, Fourth Provincial Congress au- of court and parading without a the Nazi Holocaust, and asked Bates says dispatchers received warehouse on March 22. thorized the colony’s delegates permit. (During his time behind the forgiveness of Jews and oth- several calls Sunday morning The attempt was aided by a to the Continental Congress bars, King wrote his “Letter from ers who had suffered.