$1 Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com Mid-Week Edition Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017 Boys and Girls Club Building Construction Underway on New Facility in Chehalis / Main 6 Fire Burns Centralia Home Sentenced for Sex Crimes Family of Eight Displaced After Blaze That Chehalis Man Accused of Possessing Child Porn Reportedly Started in Laundry Room / Main 3 Gets 15 Years for Recorded Assaults / Main 7 Centralia Elementary School Gives Herrera Beutler Students an Early Start in Robotics Supports Border Wall, Wants to Keep Social Security PHONE-IN: Congresswoman Holds Unannounced Telephone Town Hall Meeting By Aaron Kunkler
[email protected] U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler held a phone-in town hall confer- ence with con- stituents Tuesday, addressing their questions on top- ics that included the environment, the border wall and health care. The phone-in town hall confer- Jaime Herrera Beutler Pete Caster / ence occurred congresswoman
[email protected] Tuesday evening A sixth-grader at Oakview Elementary celebrates after accomplishing one of the programming tasks with her robot during the school's morning robotics class following protests on Wednesday in Centralia. outside her office in Vancouver earlier in the day, according to The SINCE NOVEMBER: Students it’s the opposite. Columbian. The protesters were Cox is one of more than 20 Oakview Elemen- rallying to pressure Herrera Beutler Responsible for Building, early risers enthusiastic about tary students to hold town hall meetings similar Programming Their building robots and furthering use one of the to other congressional Republicans several laptops their science, technology, engi- please see SUPPORTS, page Main 11 Own Robots neering and math (STEM) skills in the classroom By Justyna Tomtas through a new opportunity at to program Oakview Elementary School, a robot they
[email protected] where students not only build made during the For some students, arriving robots from kits, but also pro- school's morning Mossyrock to at school early might not be a gram them to do various tasks.