$1 Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com Early Week Edition Scenes Tuesday, From the Aug. 29, 2017 Threshing Bee / Main 3 New Museum Director Borst Pioneer Church New Leader Jason Mattson Hopes to Grow Work Continues on Replica House of Worship Lewis County Historical Museum / Life 1 in the Fort Borst Park Complex / Main 7 Port of Chehalis Officially Awarded a $2.8M Grant MORE MONEY AWARDED: As Project The Port of Chehalis has been award- $2,577,800 to $2,798,648, the largest al- “It’s a big shot in the arm for our con- ed a $2.8 million grant from the U.S. Eco- lotment of grant money the port has ever struction activities,” Randy Mueller, CEO Cost Jumps, EDA Increases nomic Development Administration to received. of the port, said of the grant allocation. Funding for Maurin Road help develop a rail-served industrial park. The money will be used for a $3.5 mil- “We are a small agency with a small bud- Last year, the port learned it would lion project at its Maurin Road Industrial get and anytime we can leverage a few Industrial Site likely be receiving the grant, but after the Site 1, which includes the construction of hundred thousand dollars of port money, construction costs increased, the port two building pads that would be able to or 20 percent match to 80 percent federal By Justyna Tomtas asked the EDA for more money. support a 136,000-square-foot-building [email protected] The grant total increased from and a 120,000-square-foot building. please see AWARDED, page Main 14 One Driver Residents Debate Confederate Flag Dead, Another at Morton City Council Meeting Arrested in Series of I-5 Crashes BACKUP: Interstate 5 Was Shut Down for Hours as Emergency Responders Cleared Scenes By Natalie Johnson [email protected] A series of crashes Sunday on Interstate 5 in South Thurston County left one driver dead and another arrested and freeway traf- fic was snarled for much of the day. Troopers from the Washington State Patrol first responded at 3:50 a.m. at milepost 93 of northbound I-5, about 7 miles south of Tumwa- ter in Thurston County. Jordan Nailon / [email protected] According to a report from Mayor Dan Mortensen addresses an overflow crowd during the Morton City Council meeting on Monday while Roxy Cupp (with straw hat), owner of the Brown the State Patrol, two semi trucks Shack Tavern in Salkum, sits in the front row awaiting her turn to speak in defense of her controversial parade float. were driving northbound on the freeway at milepost 93 when the first truck, identified as a red 2013 OPINIONS: Conversation Remains Volvo driven by Sandeep Singh, 34, Civil as Attendees Both Support, of Kent, struck the second semi, a Susan Blubaugh blue 2015 Freightliner driven by Denounce the Use of Flag in (standing at Erin E. Kelly, 59, of Medford, Or- Parade Float center) reads a egon. The collision occurred when prepared speech the vehicles approached traffic that By Jordan Nailon during Monday's was slowed due to a separate colli- [email protected] Morton City Council meet- sion in which a travel trailer went MORTON — A standing room only over an embankment at milepost ing. Her speech crowd packed the Bob Lyle Community denounced a 95, Trooper Brooke Bova told The Center in Morton on Monday night as Chronicle. Confederate flag citizens flooded the Morton City Council adorned float The first semi then struck a meeting in order to vent their frustrations third vehicle, identified as a white from the Loggers or support revolving around a controver- Jubilee that was 2011 Hyundai Accent, according to sial float from the Loggers Jubilee parade the State Patrol. 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Pearl St. Centralia, WA Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017 PAGE TWO News Quarter Milers Put on a Show of the Weird car from Marco’s auto dealer- Wayward Bull Corralled ship, not for psychic treatment. On Interstate Highway Police found that claim un- substantiated. In New Jersey The victim, who is not named, HAMILTON TOWNSHIP, told police Wando offered him N.J. (AP) — State police have treatments to “cleanse his soul.” helped capture a wayward bull Authorities say the first visit cost that was found walking along a $5,000. Wando eventually rec- major interstate highway in New ommended a 14-step program Jersey. that costs $10,500 per step. The young black bull was Authorities say Wando told spotted around 8:15 a.m. Sunday the man to transfer $147,700 from on Interstate 195, near an exit in his account to her son’s dealership. the Trenton suburb of Hamilton Township. Troopers helped slow down Naked Man On traffic. State police said on Face- Nature Trail Says He’s book that “cowboys with lassos” / For The Chronicle helped corral the bull and even- Sunbathing; Gets Jared Wenzelburger tually got it into a trailer. No one Crowds gather in the streets of downtown Centralia Saturday afternoon during the Hub City Car Show, which is put was injured and the animal was Summons on by the Lewis County Quarter Milers Club and the Centralia-Chehalis Chamber of Commerce. See a couple more returned to its owner. WATERVILLE, Maine (AP) photos on page Main 13 and more at www.chronline.com. It wasn’t immediately clear — A naked man who startled a how the bull escaped or how it mother and her children on a ended up along the highway. nature trail in Maine has been issued a summons by police. Notable Quote Officers say 67-year-old Police: Psychic Ricky Thompson told them he Scammed Elderly Man was sunbathing when the fam- ily spotted him in Waterville on To Remove ‘Evil Spirits’ Thursday. “I feel like a monster. A friend of mine was killed GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, The woman described to po- by a drunk driver when I was younger and I N.J. (AP) — New Jersey authori- lice a “naked elderly man” with ties say a psychic and her son a walker. So police went to the never thought I’d find myself in this position.” cheated an elderly man out of scene assuming there was a more than $147,000 for treat- medical issue. Joshua C. Shorb ment they said would rid him of Deputy Chief Bill Bonney evil spirits. tells the Morning Sentinel that admits to being under influence of heroin before crash Galloway police say Sally Thompson was still naked when “Kim” Wando and her son, Frank officers caught up with him. Marco, face theft and conspiracy Bonney says police had received (see page Main 9 for the full story) charges. Authorities say the pair similar complaints in the past but told police the money was for a were unable to substantiate them. Today in History Today’s Highlight in History: troops of the 28th Infantry Divi- down in the Atlantic after 8 days Ten years ago: Fellow Republi- promised Mitt Romney would sion marched down the Champs in space. cans called on Idaho Sen. Larry “not duck the tough issues” if he On August 29, 1967, the Elysees in Paris as the French In 1972, swimmer Mark Spitz Craig to resign and party leaders were to win the White House series finale of “The Fugitive,” capital continued to celebrate its of the United States won the pushed him from senior com- and that their party would move starring David Janssen as a liberation from the Nazis. third of his seven gold medals at mittee posts as fallout continued forcefully to solve the nation’s doctor on the run after being In 1952, the composition 4’33” the Munich Olympics, finishing over his arrest at a Minneapolis economic woes. Hurricane Isaac wrongly convicted of murder- (“Four Minutes, Thirty-three first in the 200-meter freestyle. ing his wife, aired on ABC-TV, airport restroom and guilty plea sidestepped New Orleans, send- In 1987, drawing an estimated 78 mil- Seconds”) by avant-garde com- Academy Award- to disorderly conduct. Prayers, ing the worst of its howling wind lion viewers. poser John Cage premiered in winning actor Lee Marvin died protests and a lingering disgust and heavy rain into a cluster of ru- Woodstock, New York, as David in Tucson, Arizona, at age 63. with the government’s response ral fishing villages. The NFL an- On This Date: Tudor sat down at a piano, and, In 1996, the Democratic Na- to Hurricane Katrina marked nounced it would open the regular In 1533, the last Incan King of for four minutes and 33 seconds, tional Convention in Chicago the disaster’s second anniversary season with replacement officials. 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