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Salkum Man Officially Charged With Rape, Garlic Fest Finale? Organizer Plans Final Summer Event / Main 4 Kidnapping / Main 11 $1 Mid-Week Edition Thursday Feb. 4, 2016 Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com Stained Glass Windows Newaukum Flooding Artist Uses Talent Sometimes Implemented Dozens Meet in Onalaska to Discuss Ways to at Churches at Chehalis Pot Business / Main 3 Limit Loss of Property Along River / Main 6 Lawmakers Consider Bills for TransAlta Tax Break CONVERTING FROM COAL: TransAlta could see some tax the form of remittance for mate- Alta, the state’s only coal-fired er than shut down completely. breaks to convert its coal-fired rials, machinery, equipment and plant, to reduce emissions. The House bill is primarily Rep. Brian Blake’s power plant to cleaner options if labor for construction or reno- TransAlt, a Canada-based com- sponsored by Rep. Brian Blake, Bill Moves Through lawmakers approve state House vation to convert the coal-fired pany, agreed to power down its D-Aberdeen. State Reps. Ed Or- or Senate bills that aim to keep power plant into a natural gas- two coal-fired units in 2020 and cutt, R-Kalama, and Dick Muri, Committee jobs at the Centralia-based facil- fired or biomass energy plant. 2025. R-Steilacoom, have also signed ity. The proposed tax break The bills intend to provide on to the bill. By Kaylee Osowski The bills seek to exempt the comes after the state made an an opportunity for TransAlta to [email protected] plant from sales and use taxes in agreement in 2011 with Trans- convert to a cleaner option rath- please see BILLS, page Main 11 Lewis County Enforcement Lessons on Lifesaving in Adna Team Middle School Students Learn to Use, Teach CPR Techniques Participates in Seizure of Meth, Guns AUTHORITIES: Pierce County Suspects Believed to Be Suppliers for Lewis County Dealers By Natalie Johnson [email protected] Lewis County’s Joint Narcotics Enforcement Team recently partici- pated in an investigation that led of- ficers to seize drugs, guns and stolen property related to a methamphet- amine distribution ring in Lewis, Thurston and Pierce counties. The investigation resulted in the seizure of 5 pounds of methamphet- amine, 26 guns and stolen property. JNET worked with the federal Drug Enforcement Administration Tacoma Field Division, the Pierce County Auto Theft Task force, the Washington State Patrol and Pierce County Sheriff’s Office SWAT team. “What happened was, we popped Pete Caster / [email protected] a known dealer here in Lewis County Adna Middle School students perform CPR techniques speciically for young children on Wednesday morning in Adna. and through our investigation got them to cooperate with us and they By Natalie Johnson turned us on to their dealer, which Lewis County Fire District 6 and Car- “This is new this year,” said Capt. Julie ended up being these people in Taco- [email protected] dinal Glass TG Chehalis have partnered Johnston, of Fire District 6, who led the with the American Heart Association class. “We’re hoping to continue every ma,” said Sgt. Brian Warren, of JNET Seventh-grade students at Adna Mid- and the Centralia Police Department. to teach cardiopulmonary resuscitation, year with the seventh graders.” dle School learned a life-saving skill this or CPR, to seventh-grade students at the please see SEIZURE, page Main 11 week — and they were told to pass it on. school this week. please see LESSONS, page Main 16 As Work Continues on Centralia Station, Eminent Domain Comes Into Play MOVING FORWARD: Port As the Port of Centralia continues its on two parcels that will be acquired through office at 3508 Galvin Road. work on the Centralia Station project, a the use of eminent domain if necessary. It The property is located on Alder Scheduled to Take Final Action 43-acre multi-use development on the includes the Alderhouse, which serves as a Street and is needed for road improve- on Acquisition of Property south end of Long Road just off the Mel- temporary home for disabled adults and sits ments in the area of the project, accord- len Street interchange, it’s about to use in the path of the development. ing to the port. By Justyna Tomtas eminent domain to acquire property. The port is scheduled to take action [email protected] Recently, the port held a public hearing Feb. 17 at 3 p.m. at the Port of Centralia please see EMINENT, page Main 16 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Arsenic & Old Lace Avenging a Loss Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Morton’s Mossyrock Davidson, Linda, 78, Follow Us on Twitter Centralia @chronline Roxy Boys Team McGurley, Dorothy, 91, Theater Defeats Centralia Find Us on Facebook Ready for Napavine James, Gertrude, 96, www.facebook.com/ Centralia thecentraliachronicle Murder After Earlier Brusco, Francis C. “Primo,” Mystery Blowout 93, Kelso / Life 1 / Sports 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 NMLS# 539574 HOME | CONSTRUCTION | BUSINESS CH553613cz.jd Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016 PAGE TWO News Daily Outtake: Fives From Fans of the Weird Man Accused of Trying to Sell Drugs in Traffic Court PITTSBURGH (AP) — Au- thorities say a Pennsylvania man tried to sell drugs in a Pittsburgh Tom Bell / AP Photo traffic court. Alyssa “Spry Icicle” Bergeron holds up Officials say 35-year-old a roller skate during a hearing by the Christopher Durkin spoke to a The Committee on Labor, Commerce, man in court after he appeared Research and Economic Development Monday to face charges of driv- Tuesday, at the State House in Augusta, ing under suspension. A deputy Maine. She was one of the proponents told Durkin to leave. to testify in favor of a bill that legalizes The other man told deputies the bumps and hits that accompany Durkin attempted to sell him the sport. Suboxone pills. Deputies searched Durkin Brandon Hansen / [email protected] and he was charged with posses- Fans welcome players during Central 2B boys basketball action between Napavine and Mossyrock Wednesday in sion of a controlled substance and Mossyrock. See more in today’s Sports section and online at www.lewiscountysports.com. Roller Derby Advocates possession with intent to deliver. Press for the Right to He is awaiting arraignment and it’s not known if he has a lawyer. Hit in Maine Notable Quote AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Young women named Hard Eagles vs. Drones: Dutch Dash, Kill Any and Betty B. Police Eye Birds to Prey Tough are putting the squeeze “We are talking about the future and I would like to state that I would on Maine lawmakers to make on Drones it easier for them to expand the THE HAGUE, Netherlands like to see it (Newaukum River) remained undammed. We moved here sport of roller derby. (AP) — It may sound like a flight because we love nature and when you dam a river you lose a lot of that.” Roller derby advocates told a of fancy, but Dutch police are legislative panel Tuesday that an considering using birds of prey old statute that prohibits skaters to swoop down and pluck rogue Gair Crutcher from hitting each other is pre- drones out of the sky. Onalaska area resident venting them from building a Police are working with a new rink. Two women testified Hague-based company that wearing skates and their roller trains eagles and other birds (see page Main 6 for the full story) derby uniforms. to catch drones to investigate The sport is growing in whether the birds can be used Maine, with nine leagues, some above large events or near air- of which have several teams. ports, where the small flying Today in History “Roller derby is happen- machines are banned. ing,” said Alyssa “Spry Icicle” Dennis Janus of the national Cross. In 1987, pianist Liberace died Bergeron, 36, of Auburn. “I want Today’s Highlight in History: police said Tuesday that train- In 1932, New York Gov. at his Palm Springs, California, to make sure it keeps happening.” On Feb. 4, 1945, President ers exploit the birds’ natural in- Franklin D. Roosevelt opened home at age 67. Bergeron said Maine skaters Franklin D. Roosevelt, Brit- stincts to tackle the high-tech the Winter Olympic Games at In 1997, a civil jury in Santa have been forced to break the ish Prime Minister Winston problem of drones flying in re- Lake Placid. Monica, California, found O.J. law for the last 10 years and now Churchill and Soviet leader Josef stricted areas. In 1941, the United Service want to play their sport legally. Stalin began a wartime confer- Simpson liable for the deaths Janus says the birds are Organizations (USO) came into Members of the Legislature’s ence at Yalta. of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown trained “to think drones are existence. Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Labor, Commerce, Research and On this date: Economic Development Com- their prey” and get a reward if In 1962, a rare conjunction Goldman. mittee appeared eager to help they catch one. In 1783, Britain’s King George of the sun, the moon, Mercury, In 2004, the Massachusetts the skaters scrap the law, which Video released by police III proclaimed a formal cessa- Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and high court declared that gay dates to 1991. Nobody at the showed a small white drone with tion of hostilities in the Ameri- Saturn occurred. couples were entitled to nothing hearing could explain the reason four propellers rising into the can Revolutionary War.