$1 Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com Weekend Edition DeGoede Bulb Farm Saturday, in Bloom / Main 13 April 9, 2016 Animal Cruelty Charges More Than a Garden Onalaska Woman Pleads Not Guilty After Salvation Army Program in Centralia County Seizes Animals From Property / Main 5 Provides Food, Positive Work / Main 4 No Break From Learning for Some Centralia Students Natalie Johnson / [email protected] Grace E. Barker makes her irst appearance Friday in Lewis County Superior Court on suspicion of irst-degree assault with a knife. She was held in restraints during the hearing. Victim in Mossyrock Stabbing Suffers ‘Jugular Hematoma,’ Damaged Lung RESTRAINTS: Bail Set at $500,000 for 26-Year-Old Woman Accused in Attack By Natalie Johnson [email protected] The victim of a stabbing in Moss- yrock Wednesday is in critical condi- tion after suffering a punctured lung and a “jugular hematoma,” accord- ing to court documents. Grace Ella Barker, 26, of Mossy- Pete Caster / [email protected] rock, was charged Friday in Lewis Dorinda Iverson, left, a Paciic Lutheran University student inishing up her inal year in the teaching program, works with kindergartners from Ford’s Prairie County Superior Court with first- Elementary during the Spring Break Outreach Program on Monday afternoon at Catholic Housing Services of Western Washington commons area in Centralia. degree assault. Lewis County Deputy The free program focuses on continuing education for kindergarten through sixth grade students during the week-long break. Prosecutor Kevin Nelson said Friday that his office may file more serious K-6: Free Program Keeps Focus break academic outreach program this Prairie, said the presence of more EL stu- charges in the future. week. dents is typical mostly due to the demo- “At last check, the victim was in on Reading, Math Fluency The free program focused on continu- graphics of the apartment building where critical condition,” he said. During Spring Break ing education for kindergarten through the program is held. While being transported to the sixth grade students during the week-long Held at the Catholic Housing Services Lewis County Jail, Barker allegedly By Justyna Tomtas break, with an emphasis on English lan- of Western Washington apartments, for- admitted to the stabbing, telling [email protected] guage learners. merly known as the Archdiocesan Hous- Morton Police Chief Roger Morning- On Monday, there were 24 kids in at- ing Authority, the complex on Ives Road star, “I tried to kill him. Sometimes In an effort to keep challenging stu- tendance, the majority of which were Eng- in Centralia is maintained and owned by dents even during spring break, staff at lish language learners. Diana Eslick, an please see STABBING, page Main 11 Fords Prairie Elementary held a spring English language paraeducator at Fords please see CENTRALIA, page Main 11 DNR Mapping Areas of Lewis County Using Laser Technology 3D IMAGES: LiDAR Data LiDAR — Light Detection And Ranging — which uses a laser, Provides Information on scanner and GPS. The maps can Landslide Areas, Helps then be used for land use and disaster preparedness planning for Disaster Planning purposes. By Kaylee Osowski “We just want to provide them with the best tools,” said [email protected] Joe Smillie, public information Pilots have recently been fly- officer with Washington State ing over areas of Lewis County Department of Natural Re- shooting eye-safe lasers at the sources. ground, collecting measure- Maps from DNR’s Division ments to map landslides. of Geology and Earth Resources The information is gathered Reddish areas of this map of Lewis County show proposed DNR LiDAR mapping, blue areas show existing DNR mapping using a 3D mapping tool called please see LASER, page Main 11 and yellow areas show areas otherwise mapped. 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However, the fire captain said others should consider a place “where you’re not in dan- ger of falling off a cliff.” Bob Isenberg Via AP High-Altitude Balloon In this photo provided by Bob Isenberg, Takes Stuffed Dog Sam Michael Banks is rescued after being stranded on a ledge some 80 feet of to Stratosphere the ground on Morro Rock, a landmark LONDON (AP) — Sam the in Morro Bay, Calif., Thursday. He had Dog has gone where no stuffed scaled the rock to make an Internet animal has gone before — into proposal to his girlfriend — who said the stratosphere and the English yes — but then got stuck on a ledge unknown. and couldn’t get down. Morro Bay Fire Teachers and pupils at an el- Department Capt. Todd Gailey was / The Associated Press ementary school in Morecambe Rachel La Corte lowered by cable to pluck Banks and in northwest England strapped Tulips bloom in front of the state Capitol Friday in Olympia. take him to safety the white fluffy school mascot to a high-altitude helium balloon Rocky Romance: Man and launched him from a hotel Who Scaled Cliff to roof Tuesday. They recorded his rapid ascent some 15 miles (24 Notable Quote Propose Gets Rescued kilometers) into the atmosphere, MORRO BAY, Calif. (AP) — much higher than planned, and As marriage proposals go, Mi- captured the trip with an on- chael Banks’ was a cliff-hanger. board video camera. Banks, 27, scaled 600-foot After the balloon burst, Sam “So many of today’s youth don’t know the value of hard Morro Rock just off California’s disappeared. The school hoped work, and when they can put themselves into something that has Central Coast early Thursday to to retrieve him, but he was miss- propose to his girlfriend, who ing from the site where the bal- so much meaning, they believe in themselves.” was watching via cellphone video. loon’s camera and GPS system The good news: Banks’ girl- landed some 30 miles (50 kilo- Danielle Craig, friend said yes, Morro Bay fire meters) to the east. Capt. Todd Gailey said. They have launched a social discussing Salvation Army garden The bad news: Banks got media-driven hunt for Sam in (see page Main 4 for the full story) stuck on the ledge and had to be hopes that someone in northern plucked by helicopter for a tricky, England will find him. post-proposal flight to safety. Banks “took a different trail down, much steeper” and be- Cops: Man Sets Up Fake Today in History came stranded, Gailey said. “He couldn’t go any direction, on a DUI Checkpoint, Gets Today’s Highlight in History: derson performed a concert at dent Lyndon B. Johnson in at- the Lincoln Memorial in Wash- tendance. (The Astros won, 2-1, sheer ledge, with his feet dan- On April 9, 1865, Confeder- Charged With DUI ington, D.C., after being denied in 12 innings.) gling 80 feet off the ground.” ate Gen. Robert E. Lee surren- SOMERSET, Pa. (AP) — A the use of Constitution Hall by In 1983, the space shuttle Rescuers called in a helicopter, dered his army to Union Lt. Gen. Pennsylvania man set up a fake the Daughters of the American Challenger ended its first mis- and Gailey descended by cable Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox drunken-driving checkpoint Revolution. sion with a safe landing at Ed- to hoist Banks from the narrow Court House in Virginia. only to be charged with drunken In 1940, during World War II, wards Air Force Base in Califor- ledge, with the rotors spinning On this date: near the cliff and churning air driving himself when real troop- Germany invaded Denmark and nia. from the blades battering both ers arrived to investigate. In 1413, the coronation of Norway. In 1991, the Georgian Parlia- men. The (Somerset) Daily Ameri- England’s King Henry V took In 1942, American and Phil- ment declared the republic’s in- Banks was calm for most of can said 20-year-old Logan place in Westminster Abbey. ippine defenders on Bataan ca- dependence. the ordeal, but “a little unnerved” Shaulis will be sentenced June In 1682, French explorer Rob- pitulated to Japanese forces; the In 1996, in a dramatic shift of at that part, Gailey said. He was 27. He pleaded guilty Thursday ert de La Salle claimed the Mis- surrender was followed by the purse-string power, President not hurt. to drunken driving, possessing sissippi River Basin for France. notorious Bataan Death March. Bill Clinton signed a line-item Morro Rock is a landmark instruments of crime, and im- In 1913, the first game was In 1959, NASA presented its veto bill into law. (However, just offshore from the commu- personating a public servant. played at Ebbets Field, the new- first seven astronauts: Scott Car- the U.S. Supreme Court struck nity of Morro Bay. Climbing Police say Shaulis used a ly built home of the Brooklyn penter, Gordon Cooper, John down the veto in 1998.) is banned, but some go anyway, flashing blue light bar, parked Dodgers, who lost to the Phila- Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schir- Ten years ago: The White and there have been several fatal diagonally across state Route 601 delphia Phillies, 1-0.