Dacus Carries W.F. West Past Rochester $1 / Sports Mid-Week Edition Thursday, March 28, 2019 Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com T Is for Taco Comedy in Chehalis It’s Always a Good Time For a Taco — Read Washington-Born Comic to Perform at More in The Weekender /Inside Today Chehalis Theater Saturday /Main 2 Prosecutor Says Deputy- Senate Budget: ‘What’s in Here For Us?’ FUNDING: Senate Proposal the state House draft of the but in line with what was re- page document. Involved 2019-2021 capital budget is no- quested by Gov. Jay Inslee. Additionally, the Senate Slashes Southwest where to be found in its Senate Many requests for funding budget does not include the Shooting Washington Priorities counterpart released Wednes- by or for local governments new appropriations of $18 mil- Included in House Draft day afternoon. such as $515,000 to repair and lion for a recreation facility at The document crafted by renovate Tenino City Hall, the Green Hill School, $1 mil- Was Justified By Will Rubin and Alex Brown the Senate Ways and Means $283,000 for improvements to lion for Fox Theatre renova- Committee grants the Office of Recreation Park in Chehalis The Chronicle tions and $637,000 for a Pack- the Chehalis Basin $50 million and $91,000 for Greenwood wood floodplain study. All are WEAPON: Report Reveals Funding for many of the lo- for the biennium, $33 million Memorial Park in Centralia are Deceased Suspect Pointed cal projects contained within less than the House proposal, not contained within the 270- please see DRAFT page Main 10 Pellet Gun at Deputies By Cody Neuenschwander [email protected] Lewis County Prosecutor Jonathan Meyer announced Tuesday that no criminal charg- es will be filed against two Lewis County deputies who shot and killed a man in the early morn- ing hours of March 3. A report released by the prosecuting attorney’s office, and obtained by The Chronicle Wednesday, indicated the de- ceased — Robert D. Richardson, 40, of Graham, brandished what deputies thought was a semi- automatic handgun. It wasn’t until after it was recovered that investigators learned it was a pellet gun. Meyer, in his report, wrote that the deputies were reason- able to believe that the gun Rich- ardson wielded was an actual firearm. After Richardson had been hit with an unspecified number of rounds, deputies called for aid and asked him to put his hands outside the win- dow. Instead, the deputies said, he again took up the gun and was shot multiple times. “Here, the deputies describe a dynamic scene where each Jared Wenzelburger / [email protected] felt their lives were threatened Dr. Ravneet Jaura checks 16-month-old Harlee Burgess’ ears during a follow up appointment Wednesday afternoon at Chehalis Family Medicine. Jaura was one of because Mr. Richardson was the doctors who helped deliver Harlee when she was born. armed with, what appeared to be, a firearm. In addition, the Study: Lewis County Below State Average In Many Health-Related Categories deputies interrupted their use of force, summoned aid and at- RANKING: Lewis County near the bottom in Washing- or mental health. The county A reported lack of health tempted to end the encounter. ton State when it comes to the fares worse in the Health Fac- providers and other socioeco- Only after Mr. Richardson re- Ranked 30th in ‘Health overall health of its citizens and tors metric, where it comes in nomic factors also contributed fused the direct order and, again, the factors that contribute to a 32nd and slots lower than that to Lewis County’s low marks. threatened with the weapon, Outcomes,’ 32nd in healthy lifestyle. in subcategories such as report- “They’ve been doing this were the deputies left with no ‘Health Factors’ The 2019 County Health ed rates of adult smoking and choice but to, again, discharge ranking for seven or eight years By Will Rubin Rankings report ranks Lewis obesity. now,” said Danette York, di- County 30th out of 39 Wash- University of Wisconsin re- please see JUSTIFIED page Main 10 [email protected] rector of Lewis County Public ington counties in the Health searchers used a variety of data Health and Social Services. “It’s A comprehensive study Outcomes category, which in- sources, including the National one of several data sources we Follow Us on Twitter completed by the University of cludes data points such as aver- Center for Health Statistics and track. 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Over the past few years, he has performed in colleges and comedy clubs, and has also ap- peared on more popular plat- forms including “Last Comic Standing,” Comedy Central and “Conan.” He has also performed at comedy festivals including Bumbershoot, Bridgetown and the Aspen Comedy Festival. Sleighter had always been a fan of stand-up comedy, writ- ing in a journal to mimic John Kennedy Toole’s “A Confed- eracy of Dunces.” His first time trying stand-up wasn’t until he performed at an open-mic night at the Underground Coffee- house on the campus of Western Washington University, when no one else was performing stand-up, he said. Though his first open-mic wasn’t as success- ful as he had hoped, Sleighter eventually found a place he could perform; Giggles Comedy Club in Seattle, which turned into a strip club named Jiggles Courtesy Photo and then back into a comedy Andrew Sleighter, originally from Seattle, has a conversational style of comedy. club, Sleighter said. Sleighter found himself visiting Giggles sound like I’m talking at you. Ev- Sleighter said they received posi- every weekend during his senior ery set up is an actual thing that tive feedback about the podcast COMEDY NIGHT WITH ANDREW SLEIGHTER year of college. happened.” and would do another if he In the past, Sleighter has found the right topic. Chehalis Theater Sleighter has been doing 558 N Market Blvd. stand-up comedy full time for also produced a podcast with Owner of the Chehalis The- Saturday, March 30 seven years, his first paying gig his friend and former room- ater Jacki Winters said they still Doors open at 7 p.m., Show starts at 8 p.m. being at a Fairhaven martini bar mate Brandt Tobler called “Let’s have tickets available, including Tickets available at: www.brownpapertickets.com/ in Bellingham. He describes his Get Brandt Married.” During VIP tickets for a table in front of event/4189149?fbclid=IwAR1eiVRxe6ixMgUrZTXLdyzciPSBmgU5wYA6 comedic style as conversational, the podcast, Sleighter and To- the stage or seats at the bar. Peo- GVYqE7yGrKoZ47jMvdue1D8 always telling truthful stories bler discuss relationships, dating ple can also pre-order their food about things he has experienced. strategies and stories about To- for the show by messaging the “I try to be conversational,” bler trying to find a wife. Though Chehalis Theater on Facebook or For more information, or to the Chehalis Theater’s Facebook Sleighter said. “I don’t want to the podcast is no longer running, calling the theater. buy tickets for the show, visit page. The Weather Almanac We Want Your Photos Send in your weather-related photo- graphs to The Chronicle for our Voices page. Send them to voices@chronline. com. Include name, date and descrip- tion of the photograph. 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