Tenino Police $1 Investigating Early Week Rash of Edition Burglaries Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016 / Main 5 Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com Business Owner at 17 Destination Division I Centralia High School Graduate Kennedy W.F. West Product Keylen Steen Heading Woods Opens The Beehive Salon / Main 4 for University of Tennessee-Martin / Sports Passing of the Torch at Southwest Washington Fair OLD, NEW AND SKUNKS: The preamble to a regional ers of domestic animals give fair is a whirlwind of convoluted chase to fugitive critters loose Fair to Begin Tuesday sights, disassociated sounds and from the barn where the stench and Conclude Sunday particularly conflicting smells. from steaming dung piles per- Stuffed animal prizes sit in meates the sizzling summer air. Evening a silent heap near a half-assem- The first arriving food ven- bled game of chance. Tamers of dors pop up their tents and pro- Pete Caster / [email protected] By Jordan Nailon wild animals assemble jangling A young girl sprays down her cow on Monday afternoon at the Southwest Wash- [email protected] cages that seem too small. Rear- please see FAIR, page Main 9 ington Fairgrounds. Morton Loggers Jubilee a Well-Rounded Success Natalie Johnson / [email protected] David L. Reser was charged Monday in Thousands Attend East Lewis County Festival Lewis County Superior Court after alleg- edly stealing a police Humvee Saturday. Bail Set at $50,000 for Centralia Man Charged With Theft of Police Humvee SATURDAY: David Reser Accused of Taking Vehicle From Mellen Street Facility By Natalie Johnson [email protected] The Saturday evening theft of a military-style humvee from the Centralia Police Department re- Matt Baide / [email protected] sulted Monday in multiple charges Above: Mike Johnson cuts of the end of his log with a chain saw during the obstacle pole event at the Morton Loggers Jubilee on Saturday. for a Centralia man. Top Right: Alvie Marcellus watches his toss during the ax throw event at the Morton Loggers Jubilee on Saturday. David L. Reser, 28, was charged Monday in Lewis County Supe- By Jordan Nailon rior Court on suspicion of second- [email protected] degree burglary, theft of a motor vehicle, hit and run with property If it weren’t for loggers, Mor- damage, driving under the influ- ton’s flagship celebration would ence and driving with a suspended just be a jubilee with question- license. able cause for jubilation. When Reser was emotional at his first the vaunted axmen show up in appearance Monday afternoon in town, though, locals of all stripes Lewis County Superior Court as know it’s time to get down like a county Deputy Prosecutor Paul choker setter on a hillside. Masiello asked for $100,000 bail, In its 74th incarnation, the citing the nature of the alleged jubilee is still a logging-centric crimes. event that happens to be located Superior Court Judge James in the center of a loggers’ mill- Lawler imposed half that amount. town, in the heart of a rolling “The facts of this case are very timberland. Like an old stand- concerning to me,” he said. ing cedar stump, the Loggers Reser’s next court appearance is Jubilee has not lost its roots, but scheduled for Thursday. like an old-growth maple, it has According to court documents, certainly branched out over the sometime around 6 p.m. Saturday years. evening, Reser entered a fenced The good times in Morton area at the Centralia Police Depart- now include a bed race, a fun run, ment’s facility in the 1400 block of a lawnmower race, a street dance, Mellen Street. a parade, a flea market, live While the gate to the fenced Cassidy Scheer (right) tries to maintain his balance while being splashed by Brian Bartow (left) during the birling please see JUBILEE, page Main 16 event at the Morton Loggers Jubilee on Sunday. please see HUMVEE, page Main 16 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Threat With Gun Winlock Improvements Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Mossyrock State Grant Turula, Edgar Allen “Poe,” Follow Us on Twitter 59, Winlock @chronline Woman Funds New Hagan, Bobbie Jo, 93, Jailed After Walking Path Centralia Find Us on Facebook Dispute at Winlock Hoven, Shirley E., 70, www.facebook.com/ With Miller Winlock thecentraliachronicle Husband Elementary / Main 4 / Main 7 Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016 PAGE TWO News Perched Performance in Morton of the Weird Former Professional BMX Rider Robinson Sets Power-Aided Jump Record PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A former professional BMX rider from Rhode Island has set Jan-Philipp Strobel / dpa via AP a record for the longest power- The pilot of an ultralight aircraft in Ger- assisted bicycle backflip. many has spent a night stuck up a tree The Providence Journal re- awaiting rescue. ported Kevin “K-Rob” Robinson set the record Saturday at Kenne- dy Plaza in downtown Providence. Ultralight Pilot in Robinson, towed by another ride on an all-terrain vehicle, Germany Spends Night jumped 84 feet from one ramp to another. Matt Baide / [email protected] in Tree After Crash He needed to jump 64 feet to Brian Bartow performs a clown show on a log 80 feet in the air at the Morton Loggers Jubilee on Sunday. See the full BERLIN (AP) — The pilot of set the record. story and additional photos on the front page and on page Main 16. See more photos at www.chronline.com. an ultralight aircraft in Germany A record judge from the spent more than 12 hours stuck Guinness Book of World Re- up a tree after rescuers were un- cords confirmed that Robinson able to reach him overnight. was successful and presented Notable Quote Police in the southwestern him with a plaque. state of Baden-Wuerttemberg said the unidentified man crash- landed in the tree late Monday At the Russian “Probably the hardest part is not being about 30 kilometers (19 miles) Mosquito Festival, east of Stuttgart. 18. It’s like I have a month until I can start Attempts to bring the man the More Bites a bank account, a month until I can do down from his lofty perch 30 the Better meters (98 feet) above ground certain things I can’t do when I’m 17.” had to be abandoned at nightfall BEREZNIKI, Russia (AP) because of the risk that the plane — While fears of the Zika virus and its pilot might be dislodged have kept some people away Kennedy Woods and fall to the ground, police said. from the Olympics in Rio de business owner Janeiro, for residents of one Rus- sian town the more mosquito (see page Main 4 for the full story) Rescuers Free Squirrel bites the better. At this weekend’s Russian With Head Stuck In Cup Mosquito Festival in the town ENFIELD, Conn. (AP) — of Berezniki, 9-year-old Irina Today in History Emergency responders in Con- Ilyukhina won the “tastiest girl” Today’s Highlight in History: the Democratic National Con- Hungary. necticut have come to the rescue category with 43 bites to show for vention in Chicago. Ten years ago: A former Amer- On Aug. 16, 1777, American of a squirrel that was caught in a going berry-picking in the forest In 1962, The Beatles fired ican school teacher, John Mark forces won the Battle of Ben- nutty situation. with her mother. their original drummer, Pete Karr, was arrested in Thailand nington in what was considered Members of Enfield Emer- She was awarded a ceramic Best, replacing him with Ringo as a suspect in the 1996 slaying a turning point of the Revolu- gency Medical Services respond- cup in recognition of the welts all Starr. tionary War. of child beauty queen JonBenet ed Friday after the rodent got its over her legs. In 1976, the ABBA single Ramsey in Boulder, Colorado. head stuck in what appeared to Unusually hot and dry On This Date: “Dancing Queen” was released (Karr’s confession that he had be a plastic or paper cup. weather in the Ural Mountains In 1812, Detroit fell to British in Sweden. killed JonBenet was later dis- Video posted on the Enfield town, however, has greatly de- and Indian forces in the War of In 1977, Elvis Presley died at credited.) New York City of- EMS Facebook page shows the pleted the number of mosqui- 1812. his Graceland estate in Mem- ficials released new tapes of critter wildly jumping and flip- toes this year. Festival organiz- In 1858, a telegraphed mes- phis, Tennessee, at age 42. hundreds of heart-wrenching ping into the air in an effort to ers had to cancel the traditional sage from Britain’s Queen Vic- In 1978, James Earl Ray, con- phone calls from the World dislodge the cup. mosquito hunt, where partici- toria to President James Bu- victed assassin of Dr. Martin Trade Center on 9/11, along Responders’ first attempt to pants try to collect as many of chanan was transmitted over Luther King Jr., told a Capitol with other emergency tran- remove the cup was unsuccess- the insects as possible in jars. the recently laid trans-Atlantic Hill hearing he did not commit scripts. Alfredo Stroessner, the ful. The wily rodent hopped The heat also had Yana cable. the crime, saying he’d been set anti-communist general who’d out of one officer’s hands and Solyarskaya sweltering in her In 1937, the American Federa- up by a mysterious man called ruled Paraguay for decades, through the legs of another. mosquito costume as she led tion of Radio Artists was chartered.