Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com $1 Early Week Edition Strawn Deals Big Win Tuesday, Sports May 12, 2015 Tenino Earns Opening Round Win Over La Center / Dams and Quakes The Pearl Cafe Cowlitz River Water Retention Structures Downtown Chehalis Eatery Takes Local Built to Survive Most Earthquakes / Main 3 Produce and Puts It on Your Plate / Life 1 Centralia Principal Demoted Over Medicaid Inquiry ACTION TAKEN: Centralia Centralia Middle School session, the Centralia School fraudulent Medicaid reimburse- pened,” Warren said. Principal Greg Domingos was Board voted to approve a con- ments at the Centralia School Warren and investigator School Board Votes to demoted Monday evening for sent agenda including Domin- District, Interim Superintendent Alan Keys both released the re- Reassign Greg Domingos his role in the district’s use of gos’ resignation as Centralia Steve Warren said. sults of internal investigations the Medicaid Match Program Middle School principal, and his “Mr. Domingos has fully ac- in late April after the district to Teaching Position later determined to be fraudu- reassignment to a teaching posi- cepted responsibility for his role settled with the state Attorney lent by the state Attorney Gen- tion. in the Medicaid Match issue, but General’s Office at a cost of By Natalie Johnson eral’s Office. This is the final step to his employer also bears signifi- [email protected] After a 40-minute executive closing out investigations into cant responsibility for what hap- please see MEDICAID, page Main 16 Green Hill ‘Hey, Get Up — You’re Escapee Arrested Going to Kathmandu’ in Kelso Onalaska Native Flies Aid Mission After Earthquake in Nepal POLICE: Dominic Adams Found at Three Rivers By Dameon Pesanti Mall More Than a [email protected] Week After Escape In late April, Air Force Capt. Matt Hall, a 29-year-old former By Natalie Johnson Onalaska resident, was sound [email protected] asleep in his room one Qatari A 19-year-old inmate who morning when his commander escaped Green Hill School in busted into his room with the Chehalis last week was arrested news of his next mission. Sunday evening in Kelso, ac- “He was like ‘Hey, get up, cording to the Chehalis Police you’re going to Kathmandu.’ Department. That really gets your attention. Dominic A. Adams was We knew about the earthquake booked into the Cowlitz County in Nepal, we speculated about Jail at 7:03 p.m. Sunday on sus- aid missions … it appeared out picion of resisting arrest, posses- of nowhere for us to take stuff sion of a dan- there,” Hall said. gerous weapon Hall is serving in his fourth and obstruct- 75-day deployment as an Air ing a law en- Force captain and instructor pi- forcement of- lot of Boeing C-17s, a 55-foot-tall, ficer, and on four-engine behemoth capable of warrants for es- hauling 160,000 pounds of cargo cape and three for global transport operations. counts of con- On a typical deployment, Hall, tempt of court. Dominic Adams pilot Capt. Leo Padilla, First Lt. His bail is listed escaped Sunday Jade Crain, and loadmasters Staff as $17,500. Sgt. Erik Hernandez and Senior Courtesy Photo Kelso, in Cowlitz County, is Airman Matthew Duck fly sol- about 40 miles south of Cheha- diers and loads of equipment Matt Hall, a 29-year-old Onalaska native, is seen in the cockpit of a Boeing C-17 while on active duty in the Middle East. He was recently sent to assist with aid missions in Nepal, which is reeling from major earthquakes. lis. around the Middle East, mainly Adams initially gave a fake to Iraq and Afghanistan but, name, said Detective Sgt. Gary lately also for support missions to pal. Hall and the crew would Wilson, of the Chehalis Po- Jordan and Yemen. turn around and fly back to Qa- lice Department. While being “Stuff that doesn’t fit in a 747 tar. The whole thing would take booked into the Cowlitz County or traditional cargo plane,” Hall 18 hours. Things are never so Jail, officers realized Adams’ said. simple. true identity after finding the About five days after the The L.A. crew got wrapped Lewis County warrant issued magnitude 7.8 earthquake lev- up in red tape and couldn’t leave after Adams escaped Green Hill. eled much of Nepal, search with the Fairfax group. With the Adams ran from Green and rescue teams from Fair- Fairfax crew on board, Hall’s Hill staff on May 3 during a fax County, Virginia, and Los plane left in the night to arrive maintenance detail. The facil- Angeles County, California, in Nepal at first light on April 28, ity reported the escape at 9 p.m. mobilized. Both teams had but they got held up by engine School Superintendent Mary- participated in numerous inter- trouble. The flight to Nepal only beth Queral said last week that national rescue missions from took about four hours, but they Adams likely escaped through 2008 floods in Bolivia, the 2010 hit problems as soon as they hit a hole in the facility’s perimeter earthquake in Haiti and the 2011 the border. fence made by a second person. earthquake tsunami in Japan. “Nepal radar control said we After the escape, staff mem- In theory, they’d get to Ne- don't have any clearance for you bers said they saw a person in a pal quickly and in just a couple to come in and land,” Hall said. red car in the area of the hole in of flights — after they’d leave He tried repeating the clear- the fence. the U.S. and land in Qatar then ance number the Air Force gave Green Hill School, managed catch a flight from Hall into Search and rescue personnel are seen in the cargo area of a Boeng C-17 used in missions to Nepal, which has been rocked by earthquakes in recent weeks. 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(AP) — Gives France Vacation to Authorities say a man living in a suburban Philadelphia assisted- 6,400 Workers living facility has lost his hous- NICE, France (AP) — The ing subsidy after officials found billionaire chief executive of the a prostitute underneath his bed. Chinese conglomerate Tiens Uri Monson told The Intel- has given 6,400 of his best sales- ligencer in Doylestown the man, people a vacation that started in believed to be in his 70s, paid Paris and ended with a parade prostitutes using profits earned on France’s Cote d’Azur. from peddling alcohol to fellow CEO Li Jinyuan said he was residents. celebrating the company’s 20th Monson says the man was a anniversary by rewarding his “more mobile gentleman” who staff and aimed for the world re- Natalie Johnson / [email protected] went on booze runs for his cord in spelling out a phrase in Bloodhound Copper and owner Dave Richards track a subject Thursday evening at Richards’ Onalaska property. Rich- neighbors. human bodies. ards, vice president of Northwest Bloodhounds Search and Rescue, will participate in an upcoming four-day training The incident was reported As their vacation wound event in Centralia and Chehalis. The story remains online for subscribers at www.chronline.com. Thursday after county commis- down, the employees on Friday sioners authorized contract ex- massed on the coastal promenade tensions with private facilities in Nice and, dressed in identical housing former residents of the sky blue hats and T-shirts, spelled Notable Quote closed county-owned assisted out the words “Tiens’ dream is living facility. The county paid Nice in the Cote d’Azur.” Jinyuan more than $1 million to subsi- was greeted by France’s foreign dize assisted living care for 21 affairs minister, Laurent Fabius, seniors last year. mid-week in Paris. “I never slaughter, so they get a great life. They French media estimated the get to eat for a living, which they love.” trip’s cost at 13-20 million euros Consumer Culture Gone ($14.5-$22.3 million). Wild: Boar Visits Hong Tammy Dunakin Kong Mall Video Shows Mother Founder of Rent-a-Ruminant, used to clear brush by WSDOT HONG KONG (AP) — Talk Bear Rushing at Tourists about a consumer culture gone (see page Main 7 for the full story) wild. in Yellowstone A Hong Kong shopping mall BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — received a visit from a ham-fist- Dramatic video captured by a ed customer on Sunday when a Montana wildlife official shows Editor’s Pick wild boar wandered in and got a mother black bear with cubs trapped inside a children’s cloth- running toward a knot of cam- A Strong Word ing store. era-clicking tourists as the ani- Video showed the boar, mals try to cross a bridge in Yel- Fraud is a strong word often defition of fraud, “a deliberate ren’s report as encouragement for which had apparently climbed lowstone National Park.