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$1 Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com Mid-Week Edition Mossyrock Girl Thursday, Is Little Miss Aug. 18, 2016 Friendly / Main 3 Rising Temperatures Increase Fire Fears HOT: Records Possible as forecast through the weekend Local authorities are con- Chief Mike Kytta, of the River- Lewis County had responded mean a higher risk of wildfires cerned, too. side Fire Authority. “Certainly to two grass fires by early after- Heat Wave Arrives in Western Washington, ac- “We’ve been concerned for the conditions are very ripe noon. cording to the National Oceanic some time, but now I think that for rapid fire development and The Department of Natural By The Chronicle and Atmospheric Administra- our level of awareness of it is go- spread.” High temperatures and wind tion. ing to go up even higher,” said Kytta said firefighters in please see FIRE, page Main 11 Racers Endure Pain, Hallucinations Commission Clerk Files and a Long Journey in Bigfoot 200 Complaint Against Bill Schulte ‘FEAR’: Karri Muir Says She Felt Threatened; County Commissioner Calls Claims ‘Character Assassination’ By Justyna Tomtas [email protected] A complaint filed by the clerk of the Board of County Com- missioners against Commis- sioner Bill Schulte is currently being investigated after it was submitted to the county’s Risk Management Department. Karri Muir, the clerk of the board, stated in the claim that Schulte had verbally at- tacked her on multiple occasions and showed preferential treatment to employ- ees who are Bill Schulte Pete Caster / [email protected] younger than commissioner From left, pacer Vito Labello, of San Diego; George Blancas, 40, of San Diego; and Bill Thompson, 50, of Pittsburgh, jog along Cline Road in the inal stretch of the her. Bigfoot 200 on Tuesday afternoon in Randle. Schulte, finishing his term after deciding not to seek re- ADVENTURE: Endurance election, told The Chronicle Wednesday there is no legiti- Racers Scramble From A runner mate basis for Muir’s complaints. Mount St. Helens to stops He said there is nothing that to plug indicates a hostile working envi- White Pass High School a nose ronment exists. He is confident bleed By Jordan Nailon the allegations will be deter- while mined unfounded. [email protected] jogging The claim, acquired by The The Bigfoot 200 ultrama- down a Chronicle through a public infor- rathon pushes elite runners so hill on For- mation request, lists several inci- close to their physical and men- est Service dents during which Muir said tal limits that Sara Davidson lit- Road 42 she felt threatened by Schulte. erally saw the wolves knocking during the She wrote that she was publicly at the door. Bigfoot humiliated and treated unfairly. Participating in her first 200 on “I feel safer now, knowing 200-mile race, Davidson, 33, of Tuesday that if I can just endure his abu- Washington, D.C., said there afternoon sive behavior for these last six was a moment when she was near months of his term, I will be more than halfway through but Randle. free from it and be able to sim- feeling closer to nowhere, that ply do my job,” Muir wrote in please see RACERS, page Main 11 please see FILES, page Main 11 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Southwest Washington Fair ‘Shootout at Sadie’s Saloon’ Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Life Theatre Mulligan, Venita D., 85, Follow Us on Twitter Mossyrock @chronline Lessons of Arts Kindell, Walter C., 69, Doty Come Discipline Greenleaf, Helen Elizabeth, Find Us on Facebook Through Brings 99, Centralia www.facebook.com/ Raising Its First Riggs, Janice, 78, Tenino thecentraliachronicle Livestock Production / Main 6 / Life 1 LOCAL PEOPLE, LOCAL DECISIONS! CHEHALIS 714 W. Main Street HOW CAN 360.740.0770 WE HELP Also TOLEDO, You? WINLOCK, TUMWATER & OLYMPIA Keith Macy Matt DeBord HOME | CONSTRUCTION | BUSINESS NMLS# 539574 CH562125ca.do Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Thursday, Aug. 18, 2016 PAGE TWO News ‘An Awesome Big Sister’ of the Weird Gahn said Wednesday the of- ficer, after the arrest, gratefully returned the 22-inch bike he had borrowed. Sausage Strife in Germany: Pedestrian Godofredo Vasquez Hits BMW With Bologna / The Corvallis Gazette-Times via AP BERLIN (AP) — A BMW A landowner uses farm equipment driver brought out the wurst in to mow down crops in the path of a a pedestrian in Germany, who ield ire burning west of Monroe, Ore., dented the luxury vehicle with Thursday, Aug. 4. a 30 centimeter (foot-long) bolo- gna, saying the car was going too Winds Whip Up fast and endangering his son. Firenados Out Of Police in the eastern city of Neubrandenburg said Wednes- Matt Baide / [email protected] Oregon Field Fire day the sausage strife broke “She’s going to have an awesome big sister,” said outgoing Little Miss Friendly Rachel Gray, left, to her replacement CORNELIUS, Ore. (AP) — A out over the weekend when the Campbell Senter. She was referring to Miss Lewis County Bailey Peters, right. Peters herself was named Little Miss small fire on an Oregon farmer’s 49-year-old man and his 8-year- Friendly 10 years ago. See more on page Main 3 and at www.chronline.com. field whipped up several firena- old son were crossing the street. dos — tornados comprised of As a 47-year-old BMW driv- flames and smoke. er tried to scoot quickly into a Notable Quote The smoky twisters cropped nearby parking spot, the pedes- up in the field after a piece of trian yelled “stop” but after the farming equipment on Friday car didn’t slow, he threw the sau- sparked the fire, which ultimate- sage he was carrying at it. ly burned about 7 acres. The bologna triumphed over “I depend on repeat business. Keeping my Cornelius Fire Department Bavarian engineering, leaving a spokesman Matt Johnston said small dent in the BMW’s back customers alive is kind of important.” erratic winds contributed to the right door. flaming phenomenon. He said Police say the pedestrian is Brandon Best the fire sucks in oxygen to fuel suspected of causing property owner of Best Family Farm itself and the heat rises, causing damage. the spinning column of flames The bologna was not seized (see page Main 9 for the full story) and smoke. as evidence. Johnston filmed one in an adjacent field that swirled for about two minutes and shot up New York Farm Creates about 200 feet. While Oregon has had a tame 8-Acre ‘Super Mario Today in History wildfire season so far, Johnston Bros.’ Corn Maze said three days of expected triple NEWARK VALLEY, N.Y. Today’s Highlight in History: the United States out of World years after it was originally pub- digit heat has crews worried. War I. lished in Paris. (AP) — The images of Mario, On Aug. 18, 1846, during In 1920, the 19th Amendment In 1963, James Meredith be- Luigi and friends have been the Mexican-American War, to the Constitution, guarantee- came the first black student to German Cop Hops on carved into the fields of an up- U.S. forces led by Gen. Stephen ing all American women’s right graduate from the University of Kid’s Bike to Pursue, state New York farm as part of a W. Kearny occupied Santa Fe in to vote, was ratified as Tennes- Mississippi. corn maze based on Nintendo’s present-day New Mexico. see became the 36th state to ap- In 1969, the Woodstock Mu- Nab Suspect “Super Mario Bros.” game series. On This Date: prove it. sic and Art Fair in Bethel, New ABC News reports it’s the In 1938, BERLIN (AP) — Four wheels In 1587, Virginia Dare became President Franklin D. York, wound to a close after latest installment of an annual Roosevelt and Canadian Prime three nights with a mid-morn- bad, two wheels good. the first child of English parents themed maze at the Stoughton Minister William Lyon Mack- ing set by Jimi Hendrix. That’s what German police to be born in present-day Amer- must have thought when their Farm in Newark Valley. Owner enzie King dedicated the Thou- In 1976, two U.S. Army of- ica, on what is now Roanoke car got stuck on a narrow path Tom Stoughton says the farm’s sand Islands Bridge connecting ficers were killed in Korea’s de- Island in North Carolina. (How- while pursuing a moped-riding mazes typically attract about the United States and Canada. militarized zone as a group of suspect. Rather than give up, 10,000 visitors annually. ever, the Roanoke colony ended In 1954, during the Eisen- North Korean soldiers wielding one of the officers jumped on An aerial photo of the 8-acre up mysteriously disappearing.) hower administration, Assistant axes and metal pikes attacked a child’s bike and successfully maze clearly shows Mario, Luigi In 1838, the first marine ex- Secretary of Labor James Ernest U.S. and South Korean soldiers. chased down and arrested the and fellow Mario Bros. charac- pedition sponsored by the U.S. Wilkins became the first black In 1983, Hurricane Alicia 27-year-old suspect. ters Princess Peach, Toad and government set sail from Hamp- official to attend a meeting of slammed into the Texas coast, Police say the suspect, who Yoshi carved into the cornfield. ton Roads, Virginia; the crews the president’s Cabinet as he sat leaving 21 dead and causing had evaded a traffic stop Tues- Stoughton says he created the traveled the southern Pacific in for Labor Secretary James P. more than a billion dollars’ day in the southern German maze based on a design by a Ocean, gathering scientific in- Mitchell.