Learning at the Legislature Accepts Interim 19Th District’S JD Rossetti Transitions from Aide to Lawmaker President Role at Centralia College
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Lawmakers Propose Logging Experience Free Community W.F. West Gets Time With Simulator / Life 1 College for All / Main 7 $1 Mid-Week Edition Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016 Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com Repeated Burglaries Tigers Strike Back Criminals Hit Kaija’s in Chehalis Three Times Centralia Girls Earn Evergreen 2A Conference in Apparent Effort for Pot Equipment / Main 4 Win by Coming Back From Deficit / Sports 1 Walton Learning at the Legislature Accepts Interim 19th District’s JD Rossetti Transitions From Aide to Lawmaker President Role at Centralia College By Justyna Tomtas [email protected] James Walton was selected unanimously by the board of trustees of Centralia College Thursday to become the interim president of Centralia College, effective immediately. Chairwoman Joanne Schwartz said the board voted to retain Walton’s services as interim president at a special meeting. The board interviewed Walton for the position during an executive session. please see WALTON, page Main 15 Pete Caster / [email protected] After inishing up with a lobbyist and the House Democratic Caucus meeting, State Rep. JD Rossetti, D-Longview, walks across the second loor of the Capitol build- ing in Olympia on Wednesday afternoon. Rossetti is enjoying the irst weeks of this year's legislative session after he was appointed to ill the19th Legislative District Poll: Support position left open when Dean Takko was appointed to the state Senate. for Raising the SPONSORING BILLS: Smoking Age in Legislator Has Come Washington a Long Ways Since High School ‘Remember OLYMPIA (AP) — Legis- lation that would raise Wash- Spaghetti, Vote for ington's smoking age to 21 has Rossetti’ Campaign Slogan more support than keeping the legal age to buy tobacco at 18, By Kaylee Osowski according to a new poll released [email protected] Wednesday. INSIDE: The survey State Rep. JD Rossetti’s of 500 voters Wednesday work day at the Capi- • Attorney by independent tol started before 8 a.m. with a General’s pollster Stuart cup of coffee in a Washington Priorities Elway says 65 State University mug. The former Starbucks barista see page percent of vot- Main 3 ers back hiking and a WSU-Vancouver graduate the smoking age took a look at his multicolored, to 21, while 35 packed schedule for the day and percent oppose remainder of the week. a potential raise. The survey of “We’re going constantly,” he 500 registered voters was taken said. Dec. 28-30 and had a sampling Rossetti represents the 19th error margin of plus or minus Legislative District, which in- 4.5 percentage points. cludes a chunk of Lewis County The new Elway poll was State Rep. JD Rossetti, D-Longview, left, and Sen. Dean Takko, D-Longview, wait on the balcony outside the oice of west of Highway 603 and south of State Rep. Brian Blake, D-Aberdeen, prior to the start of a meeting with the 19th District legislator on Wednesday after- please see SMOKING, page Main 15 noon at the Capitol Building in Olympia. please see LEGISLATURE, page Main 14 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Seeking City’s Support Prisoner Release Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Centralia Subpoenas Lincoln, Pauline, 96, Follow Us on Twitter Centralia @chronline Downtown Issued in Brown, Therese, 75, Centralia Association Erroneous Bond, Brian Dale, 61, Find Us on Facebook Looks to Release of Chehalis www.facebook.com/ Finstad, Larry Dale, 73, Silver thecentraliachronicle Hire Paid Thousands of Creek Director Prisoners Espedal, Alvina L., 91, / Main 5 / Main 9 Centralia LOCAL PEOPLE,LOCAL DECISIONS! CHEHALIS 714 W. Main Street HOW CAN 360.740.0770 WE HELP Also TOLEDO, You? WINLOCK, TUMWATER CH553414cz.sw & OLYMPIA Keith Macy Matt DeBord NMLS# 539574 HOME | CONSTRUCTION | BUSINESS Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Thursday, Jan. 21, 2016 PAGE TWO News Daily Outtake: Reaching for Control of the Weird Francisco Seco / AP Photo Brandon Hansen / [email protected] People throw turnips at the Jarramplas as he makes his way through the streets Adna’s Garrett Trotter and Onalaska’s Jacob Modica battle for the tipof during Central 2B boys basketball action be- beating his drum during the Jarramplas festival in Piornal, Spain, Wednesday. tween Onalaska and Adna on Wednesday in Adna . The story and additional photos can be seen in today’s Sports section and online at www.lewiscountysports.com. Armand Glick with the Utah Spanish Town Insurance Department’s fraud Celebrates Bizarre, division says those charges came in cases where investigators Notable Quote Turnip-Throwing Festival could show the car was damaged PIORNAL, Spain (AP) — before the crash. Hundreds of people are running Monjazeb was also charged through the streets of a tiny town with pattern of unlawful activ- “Never have we been broken into this many times in a in southwestern Spain, chasing a ity, two counts of forgery and fancy-dressed, beast-like figure seven counts of reckless endan- month. You almost want to stay here at night because and pelting it with turnips. germent. The event is part of the bi- Glick says his department that’s the only way you can stop them.” zarre ‘Jarramplas’ festival which opened a six-month investiga- is held in Piornal each Jan 19-20. tion after an insurance company Matt Kaija Following the yearly tra- recognized similar claims with on recent burglaries to Chehalis business dition, a town volunteer on the same vehicle. Wednesday donned a costume of multicolored ribbons and a (see page Main 4 for the full story) protective devilish mask with Baby Fur Seal Found horns. He then charged through in Bushes at California the streets, beating a drum and will continue for as long as he Business Park Today in History can stand the punishment. HAYWARD, Calif. (AP) — jailed overnight for refusing to Carter pardoned almost all Viet- Local farmers supplied some Today’s Highlight in History: An emaciated baby northern pay a fine). nam War draft evaders. 18 tons of turnips for the festi- On Jan. 21, 1976, British Air- fur seal is recovering after it was In 1915, the first Kiwanis Club, In 1982, convict-turned-author val. Its origins are uncertain but ways and Air France inaugurat- found in some bushes at a San dedicated to community service, Jack Henry Abbott was found the local tourism office says the ed scheduled passenger service Francisco Bay Area business was founded in Detroit. guilty in New York of first-degree ‘Jarramplas’ figure represents a park, his second escape attempt on the supersonic Concorde jet. In 1924, Russian revolutionary manslaughter in the stabbing cattle thief. Others say it has reli- in just a few months. Vladimir Lenin died at age 53. death of waiter Richard Adan in gious roots. Hayward police said on the On This Date: In 1937, Count Basie and his department’s Facebook page 1981. (Abbott was later sentenced In 1793, during the French band recorded “One O’Clock to 15 years to life in prison; he that the dehydrated and mal- Jump” for Decca Records (on Utah Man Faces Revolution, King Louis XVI, committed suicide in 2002.) nourished seal was found after this date in 1942, they re-record- Insurance Fraud Charges someone called about the pup condemned for treason, was ex- In 1994, a jury in Manassas, ed the song for Okeh Records). Virginia, found Lorena Bobbitt around 6 a.m. Wednesday. ecuted on the guillotine. In 1954, the first atomic sub- not guilty by reason of tem- After 23 Car Crashes Police say the seal — some- In 1861, Jefferson Davis marine, the USS Nautilus, was SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — how — got out of the water, of Mississippi and four other launched at Groton, Connecti- porary insanity of maliciously Utah officials say a man accused crossed busy Interstate 880 and Southerners whose states had se- cut (however, the Nautilus did wounding her husband John, of getting himself into almost found its way to the bushes. ceded from the Union resigned not make its first nuclear-pow- whom she’d accused of sexually two dozen car crashes to col- Police at first thought the from the U.S. Senate. ered run until nearly a year later). assaulting her. lect insurance money has been caller was mistaken and the fur- In 1908, New York City’s In 1968, the Battle of Khe Ten years ago: Rescuers in West charged with fraud. ry fellow was really just a “pos- Board of Aldermen passed an Sanh began during the Vietnam Virginia found the bodies of two Navid Monjazeb was ar- sum or a weird cat.” ordinance prohibiting women War. An American B-52 bomber miners who’d disappeared af- rested Wednesday morning and This was the second time the from smoking in public estab- carrying four hydrogen bombs ter a conveyor belt caught fire charged with 12 counts of insur- baby seal, who has a tag on him, lishments (the measure was crashed in Greenland, killing deep inside a coal mine. A Red ance fraud. Authorities say he had escaped. Pipester, as he is vetoed by Mayor George B. Mc- one crew member and scattering Cross-chartered helicopter used collected over $55,000 from in- known, had previously been in Clellan Jr., but not before one radioactive material. for earthquake relief in Pakistan surance carriers over five years. the center’s care. woman, Katie Mulcahey, was In 1977, President Jimmy went missing. The Weather Almanac 5-Day Forecast for the Lewis County Area River Stages National Map Gauge Flood 24 hr. Forecast map for Jan. 21, 2016 Today Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Height Stage Change Chehalis at Mellen St. 110s 54.05 65.0 +0.21 100s Skookumchuck at Pearl St.