THE CHRONICLE & CHRONLINE.COM $1 GOLF COURSE DENTIST VETERINARIAN COCKTAIL OPTOMETRIST THE CHRONICLE & CHRONLINE.COM 2016 THE BESTOF LEWIS COUNTY DESSERT Early Week Edition TRACTOR STORE MUSICIAN / BAND DOCTOR An Advertising Supplement of Tuesday, CUSTOMER SERVICE Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com Aug. 9, 2016 THE BEST OF LEWIS COUNTY / Inside Headstone Gets Home Five Living Logo Finalists After 74 Years, Lewis County Sheriff’s Office Lewis County Girls Tour Area Ahead of Annual Helps Solve Mystery, Provides Closure / Life 1 Little Miss Friendly Event at SWW Fair / Main 7 Chamber Way Struck by Oversize Load ... Again REPEAT: Minor Damage Three days after the comple- This time, the damage wasn’t know the height of their load,” a.m. Monday morning, causing tion of an emergency temporary serious, said Bart Treece, of the Treece said. Days After Temporary cosmetic damage, according to bridge made Chamber Way pass- Washington State Department The Washington State Pa- the WSDOT. able after being damaged by an of Transportation Southwest Re- trol reported the span of Cham- Replacement Installed Two weeks ago, on July 22, oversized load, the bridge was gion Communications Office. ber of Commerce Way over the By Natalie Johnson hit again, this time on the north- “Hopefully this is a good re- northbound lanes was scraped [email protected] bound side. minder for folks traveling … to by an oversize load just after 9 please see CHAMBER, page Main 11 Far-Flung Blueberry Enthusiasts Converge on Mossyrock Festival Justyna Tomtas / [email protected] Merlin MacReynold, left, speaks during Monday’s Chehalis City Council meeting. Chehalis Prepares to Part Ways With City Manager After 10 Years SEPARATION AGREEMENT APPROVED: Merlin MacReynold Saw the Good and the Bad in His 10 Years at the Helm By Justyna Tomtas [email protected] In the almost 10 and a half years Merlin MacReynold has worked as the Chehalis city manager, he has experienced the good and the bad. While helping to lead the city Jordan Nailon / [email protected] through two major floods and the Eager contestants dive in for the irst bite during the opening moments of the Mossyrock Blueberry Festival's pie-eating contest on Saturday. Great Recession, he also played a part in the construction of the Vernetta Smith Chehalis Timber- CROWDS: 10th Annual land Library and the Gail and Car- Blueberry Festival Makes olyn Shaw Aquatics Center. While talking to the city manag- for a Busy Weekend er, who will soon leave his position, By Jordan Nailon it’s evident the good outweighs the bad, and in some situations the city [email protected] steered through the tough times to A rolling stone may not gath- better themselves in the long run. er moss but a rocking and roll- “We as a city during the Great ing blueberry festival is certain Recession were able to very care- to gather moss-backed revelers fully and studiously improve our in a certain sleepy East Lewis financial situation and to the point County town. that we went from a bond rating of Over the weekend, the city A to getting an A plus,” MacReyn- of Mossyrock hosted the 10th old said, adding the city had to lay annual Blueberry Festival, and off between 18 and 20 percent of its people flocked from far and employees. wide in order to mark the occa- Even with the cuts, and the dif- sion. And while fickle weather ficulty of working with a smaller made things interesting at times, staff, the city was able to meet the the skies were unable, literally or community’s needs. figuratively, to rain on the blue- “I take great pride that we were berry parade. able to make the city work and con- The well-rounded festivities tinue to provide good service in the included a puppy dog show, a midst of that significant financial classic car show, long-haul bike downturn,” MacReynold said. rides, guided tours of the re- MacReynold will soon depart gion’s most famous mossy rock, from the city as Jill Anderson takes A gang of pirates attacks a iretruck with a squirt gun during the Mossyrock Blueberry Festival parade on Saturday an organized jaunt over the morning. please see MANAGER, page Main 11 please see FESTIVAL, page Main 12 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Brooklyn Tavern Photos of High-Flying Fun Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Rural Monster Ward, Mary Elizabeth, Follow Us on Twitter 89, Chehalis @chronline Watering Trucks Put on Pace, Theresa “Toni” Hole a Show at the (Davis) Senn, 80, Find Us on Facebook Has New Southwest Boistfort www.facebook.com/ Owner, Big Washington thecentraliachronicle Plans Fairgrounds / Main 5 / Back Page Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016 PAGE TWO News Tipsy Raccoon at Blueberry Festival of the Weird Prosthetic Leg Found Italian Sailor Uses in Beaver Dam, Mouth-to-Mouth Returned to Owner to Revive Kitten WABENO, Wis. (AP) — A MILAN (AP) — The Italian Wisconsin man has his pros- coast guard has rescued and re- thetic leg back after the lost limb vived a kitten that was drowning was discovered sticking out of a by using massage and mouth-to- beaver dam by two canoers. mouth, after children on shore Elliot Fuller and Jason drew attention to its plight. Franklin spotted the leg while A sailor jumped in the sea to paddling between a pair of lakes rescue the cat, which was float- near Wabeno in Forest County ing apparently lifeless in the on Thursday, the Wisconsin water, as the coast guard ship en- Journal Sentinel reported. Fuller tered the Sicilian port of Marsala said they were convinced it was after a patrol mission. part of a corpse until they got A video released Friday close enough to pull it out. showed crew members adminis- “I was sure we had found tering mouth-to-mouth resusci- Jordan Nailon / [email protected] a dead body that someone dumped into the creek,” the tation and massaging the kitten A loat featuring a honky tonk band and a beer-drinking stufed raccoon provided lots of laughs at the Mossyrock Germantown man said. “We to remove water from its lungs. Blueberry Festival parade on Saturday. The loat was sponsored by the Brown Shack Tavern in Salkum. See more pho- thought it was real at first until They encouraged it: “Breathe, tographs from the event on today’s front page and at www.chronline.com. we got a closer look.” breathe. Wake up” and after a A quick search on Craigslist few minutes the kitten emitted a yielded an ad from Mark Warner, few weak “meows.” Notable Quote who lost the prosthetic limb when his own canoe tipped over during Chinese Tourist Loses a July fishing trip on Range Line Lake in Wabeno. The 49-year-old Wallet, Ends Up in from Green Bay said he rescued “I own land next door and these campers are using my property as their his fishing gear and cooler, but German Refugee Home the prosthetic limb got away. BERLIN (AP) — A Chinese garbage can and as their bathroom. They have dumped hundreds of “I wasn’t overly worried about tourist who lost his wallet in pounds of garbage, including discarded clothing behind our bushes.” it because I use my older model Germany signed the wrong pa- for fishing and hunting,” War- perwork and ended up being ner said. “It wasn’t my everyday placed in a refugee home. John Panesko leg, to put it that way.” Christoph Schluetermann, Chehalis resident speaking to city council Fuller and Franklin found an official with the German Red (see page Main 5 for the full story) the limb three miles from where Cross, which runs the home, told Warner lost it. They returned it news agency dpa on Monday that to Warner on Friday, netting a the man “set machinery in mo- $50 reward for its safe return. tion that he couldn’t get out of.” Today in History “Just did what I thought was The unidentified man’s trou- right,” Franklin said. “I hope bles started in early July when he In 1936, Jesse Owens won his Hinckley Jr., who’d been acquit- that if I lost my leg that someone Today’s Highlight in History: lost his wallet after arriving in fourth gold medal at the Berlin ted of shooting President Ronald would return it to me, too.” On August 9, 1945, three days the southwestern German city of Olympics as the United States took Reagan and three others by rea- after the atomic bombing of Hi- Stuttgart. first place in the 400-meter relay. son of insanity, committed to a roshima, Japan, a U.S. B-29 Su- Officials have figured out In 1944, 258 African-Ameri- mental hospital. Bees Escape in Walmart perfortress code-named Bocks- that, instead of going to police In 1995, Jerry Garcia, lead car dropped a nuclear device can sailors based at Port Chicago, Parking Lot, Sting to file a stolen goods report, he singer of the Grateful Dead, died (“Fat Man”) over Nagasaki, kill- California, refused to load a mu- Several People somehow ended up at an author- nitions ship following a cargo in Forest Knolls, California, of ity that presented him with an ing an estimated 74,000 people. OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) vessel explosion that killed 320 a heart attack eight days after asylum application. On This Date: — Three people were taken to men, many of them black. (Fifty turning 53. a hospital after an estimated From there, he was sent to In 1842, the United States of the sailors were convicted of In 2010, former Alaska Sen.