$1 High Mid-Week Edition School Thursday, Football Sept. 3, 2015 / Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com Guide Inside Pete Caster / pcaster@ chronline.com Geologists Plan to Study Doty Fault Tim Walsh, the chief geologist of the Hazard Sec- tion of the Depart- Line Between Centralia and Chehalis ment of Natural RESEARCH: I f Fault is Active, slideshow presentation with an au- this more intensively, and if it turns Resources, gives dience primarily made up of Lewis out that this is active, it’s a fault that a presentation Proposed Chehalis River County fire chiefs, a geologist said a would be capable of an earthquake on the hazards of a possible fault line between Centralia and Che- between 6½ and 7 (magnitude),” said Dam Could Be Affected earthquake in the halis that has been researched very Timothy J. Walsh, chief geologist with Paciic Northwest By Kaylee Osowski the Washington State Department of little crosses Interstate 5. on Wednesday Natural Resources. [email protected] It is actually unknown whether or afternoon at Fire not the Doty Fault is active. District 5. In a dimmed room in front of a “Plans are underway to study please see FAULT, page Main 16 Lewis County and Chehalis at Odds Over Urban Growth Workers from Cowlitz Clean Sweep, out of Longview, pick up absorbent pads that were used to soak up veg- Correspondence Reveals Testy Exchange, Elimination of Agreement etable oil that washed into Olequa Creek in August. State Crews Continue to Monitor Winlock Spill WDFW: Cleanup Efforts to Wind Down After up to 100,000 Fish Killed in Olequa Creek By Natalie Johnson [email protected] Two weeks after a fire de- stroyed a Winlock warehouse full of food products, crews are still monitoring the effects of the resulting vegetable oil spill in Olequa Creek. “We were down on Monday and things were looking pretty clean. There was just a little bit of sheen that was showing,” said Andy Carlson, oil spill team manager for the Wash- ington Department of Fish and Pete Caster / [email protected] Wildlife on Tuesday. “I think In this aerial photo taken on Aug. 25, the Port of Chehalis and much of the Chehalis urban growth area can be seen from the northeast. the response itself is winding down even as of (Wednesday). We didn’t really see anything TALKS: Mutual lis and Lewis County officials pler for people looking to build tions,” Lewis County Com- different in the last few visits.” when it comes to handling the in the UGA while keeping in munity Development Director Carlson said spill crews Frustrations Made Clear city’s urban growth area. character of the city’s existing Lee Napier wrote in a Feb. 20 hope rain forecast for this week in Letters; Plans in Place In 2006, the county and the neighborhoods. memo to county staff about the will help flush out any remain- to Rework Agreement city created an interlocal agree- “... Commissioner (Bill) interlocal agreement to manage ing oil and encourage fish spe- ment on the premise that Cheh- Schulte was asked to discuss the Chehalis urban growth area. cies to move back into the area. By Dameon Pesanti alis will annex some surround- with (Chehalis City Manager) She also wrote that Chehalis ing county land as it grows. It Merlin MacReynold our con- “When the water comes up [email protected] has illustrated “disregard” to … they’re going to recolonize,” delegates certain responsibili- cerns, which might be charac- the agreed-upon terms of han- Carlson said. If reading their correspon- ties in the urban growth area to terized as both a breakdown in dling the UGA. She questioned dence is any indication, all is not both entities. 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Main Street 360.740.0770 HOME | CONSTRUCTION | BUSINESS Also TOLEDO, WINLOCK, TUMWATER & OLYMPIA Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015 PAGE TWO News Daily Outtake: Still in Use of the Weird arrested Monday night on Inter- state 295 in Topsham. Ramsay says police saw Yates pull into a breakdown lane, then pull out suddenly, almost hitting a tractor-trailer. Police say a slow pursuit en- sued until Yates hit a guardrail and crashed into a ditch. Police Lost Australian Sheep say Yates then grabbed a canister of keyboard cleaner and began Yields 30 Sweaters huffing it. Worth of Fleece Yates faces charges includ- CANBERRA, Australia ing driving under the influence (AP) — A lost, overgrown sheep of drugs. He was being held found in Australian scrubland Wednesday on $1,000 bail and was shorn for perhaps the first couldn’t be reached for com- time on Thursday, yielding 40 ment on the charges. kilograms (89 pounds) of wool Pete Caster / [email protected] — the equivalent of 30 sweaters Fox News Anchor This photo shows IP Callison stills in production in 1960. Sandstone Distillery will be repurposing one of the vessels to — and shedding almost half his produce alcoholic beverages. See the story on page Main 5. body weight. Sues Hasbro Over Toy Tammy Ven Dange, chief ex- Hamster With Her Name ecutive of the Canberra RSPCA, which rescued the merino ram PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — dubbed Chris, said she hoped to An anchor for Fox News is suing Notable Quote register the 40.45 kilogram (89 Hasbro for more than $5 million pound, 3 ounce) fleece with the over a toy hamster that shares Guinness World Records. An of- her name — and possibly even ficial of the London-based orga- her resemblance. nization did not immediately re- Harris Faulkner sued Hasbro “Based upon our discussion, as city manager and spond to a request for comment. this week over its plastic Harris chief executive officer for the city, I am volunteering The most wool sheared from Faulkner hamster, sold as part a sheep in a single shearing is of the Pawtucket, Rhode Island- city resources to assist you with improving your 28.9 kilograms (63 pounds, 11 based company’s popular Lit- ounces) taken from a wild New tlest Pet Shop line. She says the administrative breakdown and collapse of regulation Zealand merino dubbed Big Ben toy wrongfully appropriates her coordination. Please do not hesitate to contact me in January last year, the Guin- name and persona, harms her ness World Records website said. professional credibility as a jour- should you wish to accept our assistance.” “He’s looking really good, nalist and is an insult. he looks like a new man,” Ven “Hasbro’s portrayal of Dange said, as the now 44-ki- Faulkner as a rodent is demean- Merlin MacReynold logram (97-pound) sheep re- ing and insulting,” says the law- in letter to Lewis County commissioners covered at the Canberra animal suit, which was filed Monday in (see the front page for the full story) refuge. “For one thing, he’s only U.S. District Court in New Jer- half the weight he used to be.” sey. Champion shearer Ian El- Faulkner has been at Fox kins said the sheep appeared to News for a decade. She hosts the be in good condition after being daytime show “Outnumbered” separated from his huge fleece and anchors a Sunday evening Editor’s Pick under anesthetic. newscast. “I don’t reckon he’s been Her lawsuit says that in ad- Reconsidering J.A. Jance shorn before and I reckon he’d dition to sharing her name, the be 5 or 6 years old,” Elkins said. toy bears a physical resemblance Bestselling author J.A. Jance because, as embarrassing fate to join our hardworking news- to Faulkner’s traditional profes- could likely take her pick of would have it, she was denied room. The pay might be slightly sional appearance, including its thousands of writing jobs across a job at The Chronicle in the lower and the hours could po- Police: Man Huffed complexion, eye shape and eye dozens of pro- 1970s. tentially be longer. Keyboard Spray After makeup design. fessions. “During the interview the But you can return to a quiet The Harris Faulkner toy was She’ll be guy who was interviewing life in Pe Ell and transform from Crash as Cop Watched introduced in 2014, according visiting Cen- asked ‘Can you type?’” Jance fiction to fact. TOPSHAM, Maine (AP) — to the lawsuit, and was sold in a tralia again this told Chronicle reporter Justyna One question though: Can Police say a Maine man crashed package as the pet hamster of a month (see the Tomtas. “And I said ‘No, can you type? his SUV into a guardrail on an terrier named Benson Detwyler. story on page you?’ That didn’t go over well. Note: To celebrate her 51st interstate and then inhaled com- Other toys in the popular line Main 14), but I did not get the job, but after novel, Jance will be at the Fox puter keyboard cleaner in front include animals named Pan- she’s familiar writing more than six million Theatre Sunday, Sept.