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West Graduate Has Excelled Despite an County’s Last Remaining Pearl Harbor Increase in Level of Competition / Sports Survivor Set to Be Grand Marshal / Life 1 Chehalis Makes City Manager Pick By The Chronicle tract agreement, which will be up for con- “She came out on top after quite a bit of The Chehalis City Council approved sideration at the council’s July 11 meeting. questioning from everyone,” he said. a tentative offer of employment to Tracie Mayor Dennis Dawes said after several Anderson is the current city manager days of interviews and input received from for Riverbank, California. “Jill” Anderson on Monday night for the Pete Caster / [email protected] city manager position. two community panels, Anderson was the Doneia Santiago walks away from the de- City staff will work to develop a con- finalist in the process. please see MANAGER, page Main 16 fense table after making an appearance in Lewis County Superior Court on Monday. Mossyrock Off to the Chicken Races City Clerk Hundreds Gather in Independence Valley for Annual Festival of Fowls Arrested on Suspicion of Theft of Public Funds $7,700: Doneia Santiago Was Arrested Sunday by Morton Police By Natalie Johnson [email protected] Mossyrock’s city clerk was ar- rested over the weekend on charges of first-degree theft and misappro- priation of public accounts, alleg- ing that she had stolen more than $7,700 from the city of Mossyrock. At 2 p.m. on Sunday, officers from the Morton Police Depart- ment arrested Doneia A. Santiago, 53, of Salkum. Santiago is the city’s clerk and treasurer, as well as its Parks De- partment manager, according to the city’s website. Santiago made her first appear- ance in Lewis County Superior Court in custody Monday after- noon, and was officially charged with one count of first-degree theft. She is retaining Centralia attorney Paul Dunn / For The Chronicle Don Blair. McCleary resident Capre Fox, 2, center, gets ready to throw a sock at a chicken Sunday during the Independence Valley chicken races. Her mom, Heather Fox, right, The Lewis County Prosecutor’s ofers a little help. Office asked for $10,000 bail, citing concern that she would flee the ju- SOUTH THURSTON COUNTY: risdiction. While court documents state Feathers and Socks Fly at that Santiago has recently been Chicken Races as Young working to obtain a passport, Blair said that amounted to an “unsub- Children Compete stantiated statement,” and said his client has had her passport for 10 By Jordan Nailon years and has no plans to leave the [email protected] area. Down through the ages, a “She is a lifelong Lewis County staggering amount of time has resident (and) has no plans of trav- been devoted to trying to crack eling anywhere,” he said. the case of why the darned chick- Superior Court Judge Richard en crossed the road. One theory Brosey imposed $10,000 unsecured that has gone untested, despite its bail and set Santiago’s next court inherent hilarity, is the prospect appearance for Thursday, July 7. of sock-heaving children acting “Sounds like we have a bit of a as the impetus of the infamous credibility problem with the affida- flighty fowl. vit of probable cause,” Brosey said. After attending the annual Morton Police Chief Roger chicken races at the Independence Morningstar told The Chronicle Valley Community Grange Hall his office began investigating the "Chicken wrangler" Craig Ruege, from Rochester, places a chicken under a plastic basket before a heat in the Indepen- please see CHICKEN, page Main 16 dence Valley chicken races Sunday. please see ARRESTED, page Main 16 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Morton Crash Successful Appeal Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Spanaway Man Gets Rish, Patricia Marie, 67, Follow Us on Twitter Toledo @chronline Woman New Trial Lucca Jr., George, 75, Facing After Court Centralia Find Us on Facebook Vehicular Overturns Woods, Duane E., 85, www.facebook.com/ Mossyrock thecentraliachronicle Assault Rape Chancey, Louis, 82, Charges Conviction Chehalis / Main 5 / Main 4 Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Tuesday, June 28, 2016 PAGE TWO News Outtake: Preparing for the Races of the Weird Kansas Highway Patrol Dad Who Placed Ad For trooper Brant Birney said there A Wife For His Son Gets were no witnesses when James Zordel hit the cow on a paved 12 Prospects rural road about six miles south COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho of Interstate 70 near Russell. (AP) — The father of a Salt Lake Zordel was driving in the City businessman who placed roadway when the accident hap- an Idaho newspaper ad seeking pened and it is not clear if he was women interested in marrying speeding or if the cow suddenly his 48-year-old son has received appeared from the side of the road. about a dozen inquiries. Arthur Brooks had planned to meet potential candidates at a 2 Charged With Racking Coeur d’Alene resort, but son Bar- Up $30,000 in Unpaid on Brooks told the Spokesman- Review on Sunday that its manag- Tolls Combined ers asked his father not to conduct FORT LEE, N.J. (AP) — Au- interviews there after getting bar- thorities say they’ve nabbed two raged with media requests. New Jersey residents who have Paul Dunn / For The Chronicle The younger Brooks previ- racked up about $30,000 in un- Rochester resident Diane Gange, right, pins a contestent number on “Man-Man’ Casebolt, 3, before the start of the ously called the $900 ad in the paid tolls combined. Independence Valley chicken races Sunday. At left is Tyler Stilson. The story and additional photographs are on Coeur d’Alene Press “embar- The Port Authority of New today’s front page and online at www.chronline.com. rassing” but said he’d let his York and New Jersey says offi- 78-year-old father go forward. cers pulled over Englewood resi- He says about 12 women dent John Reynolds on Wednes- from around the U.S. expressed day morning after seeing him Notable Quote interest in the ad. Arthur Brooks pass through the E-ZPass lane of will interview them in the com- the George Washington Bridge ing weeks. while pretending his cellphone Baron Brooks says his father was a transponder. wants a grandchild to carry on Authorities say the car had “For this decade — especially since the recession — we’ve the family name. about 300 toll violations, total- seen a tremendous slowdown of immigrants from ing about $19,000. The next morning, officers Mexico and South American countries.” German Court Restarts stopped North Plainfield resi- Trial After Judge dent Lucy Sanchez on the bridge Yi Zhao after police say she passed Repeatedly Nods Off through without paying a toll. Washington demographer BERLIN (AP) — A German Police say Sanchez didn’t have (see page Main 6 for the full story) court had to restart the trial of two a driver’s license and had nearly men suspected of robbing a grocery 150 toll violations, totaling about store because a judge kept nodding $9,000. Both are charged with off during the proceedings. theft of service and evading tolls. The Muenster state court Today in History told the dpa news agency on Tuesday that the presiding judge Horseback Rider Brings Today’s Highlight in History: ending the First World War. In Thomas E. Dewey for president Independence, Missouri, future and Ohio Gov. John W. Bricker decided it was better to start On June 28, 1778, the Revo- Traffic to Near Halt on president Harry S. Truman mar- things over than provide imme- lutionary War Battle of Mon- for vice president. ried Elizabeth Virginia Wallace. diate grounds for an appeal. Bridge to NYC mouth took place in New Jersey; In 1950, North Korean forces In 1939, Pan American Air- German trials are typically from this battle arose the legend captured Seoul, the capital of NEW YORK (AP) — Traffic ways began regular trans-Atlan- heard by a panel of five judges — of “Molly Pitcher,” a woman South Korea. came to a near halt on a bridge tic air service with a flight that three professionals and two lay connecting New York City and who was said to have carried In 1964, civil rights activist judges. In this case, it was one of water to colonial soldiers, then departed New York for Mar- Malcolm X declared, “We want New Jersey as a man on horse- seilles, France. the lay judges who couldn’t stay back wearing a cowboy hat led taken over firing her husband’s equality by any means necessary” In 1940, President Franklin awake on Monday. another horse across the span. cannon when he became injured. during the Founding Rally of the D. Roosevelt signed the Alien Fortunately, it was the first A spokesman for Port Au- Organization of Afro-American On this date: Registration Act, also known as day of the trial and it was able to thority of New York and New Unity in New York. the Smith Act, which required start again from scratch after an Jersey police tells the Staten Is- In 1836, the fourth president In 1975, screenwriter, pro- adult foreigners residing in the alternate judge took his place. land Advance that a police car of the United States, James Madi- ducer and actor Rod Serling, 50, son, died in Montpelier, Virginia. U.S. to be registered and fin- escorted the man over the Out- creator of “The Twilight Zone,” In 1838, Britain’s Queen Vic- gerprinted.