'Business of the Year:' Chamber of Commerce Honors Olympic Club
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
Devoted to the Interests of Lewis and South Thurston Counties — www.chronline.com $1 Trump Takes Weekend Charge: A Edition Keepsake Saturday, Cover Jan. 21, 2017 / Main 16 Up to 10 Years in Prison Feeding Man’s Best Friend Former Lewis County Employee Pleads Guilty Local Business Founded Through Effort to Find Safe to Stealing Thousands of Dollars / Main 3 Treats for a Service Dog With Allergies / Main 4 Dispatchers and Chiefs Worry for Public Safety Amid Staff Shortages at the County 911 Center CLAIMS: Dispatchers Say Staffing In the early morning hours, as many emergency — for every call from citizens. by management. Our emails go unan- are waking up for the day and starting When one goes on break, swered or the response is that they need Dangerously Low; Fears Follow commutes to school or work, the Lewis the other is on their own. INSIDE: to cut their overtime budget,” dispatch- News of Leaking Roof, No- County 911 Communications Center Both dispatchers and • L&I Visits 911 ers wrote in a letter to The Chronicle this may only have two dispatchers on duty. emergency responders Center week. “We hope that management reeval- Confidence Vote in Manager Those two people must work together say that level of staffing see page 14 uates their priorities before it causes great to monitor three radios for every law en- is a tragedy waiting to bodily harm or death to those we serve.” By Natalie Johnson forcement and fire agency in the county happen. [email protected] and two phone lines — 911 and non- “Our concerns have been ignored please see 911, page Main 14 ‘Business of the Year:’ Chamber of WDFW Commerce Honors Olympic Club Admits CHAMBER BANQUET: Losing McMenamins Location Credited for Revitalizing Downtown Centralia 514,500 By Justyna Tomtas [email protected] Fish in A Centralia business dedi- cated to preserving the area’s history and supporting the Cowlitz community has been named the 2017 Business of the Year by the Centralia-Chehalis Chamber of MISSING FISH: Losses Will Commerce. Begin to Be Felt During The Olympic Club received the recognition at the Cham- 2018 Summer Run ber’s annual banquet on Friday By Jordan Nailon night at Red Barn Studio in Adna. [email protected] “The vision of the Olympic After months of rampant Club is exactly what the down- rumors and speculation com- town of Centralia needed at the ing off of the Cowlitz River, time,” Todd the Washington Department Chaput, the of Fish and Wildlife has finally chairman of confirmed what many area an- the Chamber’s glers had feared. executive com- Of the roughly 625,900 mittee, said. steelhead and 90,600 cutthroat “The Olympic smolt reared by the Cowlitz Club has a long Trout Hatchery for release in and storied his- 2016, roughly 514,000, or about Todd Chaput tory with Cen- 70 percent Chamber tralia, but the of the stock, chairman revitalization went miss- that happened ing prior to at the Olympic Club as a McMe- release. namins… it made it one of the Those cornerstones of the downtown.” losses are Chaput said the business likely to draws in thousands of people have a negative impact on the from the Pacific Northwest and summer steelhead runs of INSIDE: beyond, an in- 2018-2019 as well as cutthroat flux that brings returns as early as this summer. • DeBolt Wins in fresh faces To make matters worse, the Award and additional WDFW says it doesn’t know see page 13 money that is where exactly the fish went. then spent at Theories to explain the huge other local businesses. losses include bird predation, The diversified business in- disease, escape from rearing cludes two bars, a movie theater pens and wildly inaccurate and and a hotel in downtown Cen- faulty counting equipment. tralia. On Jan. 9, the WDFW qui- Matt Osborne, property etly released a fact sheet detail- manager of The Olympic Club, ing the historic loss of steel- said he was honored to be recog- head and cutthroat trout. On nized for the award. Thursday afternoon, WDFW “It was very surprising, but it policy coordinator for the Co- was a very nice thing to find out,” Pete Caster / [email protected] lumbia River, Cindy Le Fleur, Matt Osborne, the Olympic Club property manager, stands outside the building on Thursday afternoon in downtown please see BUSINESS, page Main 13 Centralia. please see FISH, page Main 14 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Counting the Homeless Focus on Flooding Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Thurston, Chehalis Anderson, Bertram “Bert,” 88, Follow Us on Twitter Centralia @chronline Lewis River Flood McLaughlin, Monte Scott, 60, Counties Authority Onalaska Find Us on Facebook Gear Up Members Ritter, Chris A., 63, Centralia www.facebook.com/ Malone, Rollie E., 56, Chehalis thecentraliachronicle for Annual Meet in Mahoney, Mary J., 85, Events Mossyrock Bucoda Mullins, Helen J., 87, Kent / Life 1 / Main 5 Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017 PAGE TWO News Adna’s Little Cheerleaders of the Weird Florida Man’s Message Montana Beekeeper in Bottle Turns Up 34 Stung by Beehive Years Later Thieves in California PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — It GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) took about 34 years, but a sailor — A Montana beekeeper says finally got a response to a mes- thieves got away with 488 bee- sage he stuffed into a plastic bot- hives he had taken to California tle and tossed into the Atlantic to pollinate almond trees. Ocean. Lloyd Cunniff told the Great Then 19-year-old Ron Herbst Falls Tribune it appeared the was a petty officer in the Navy thieves used semitrailers to steal aboard the USS Coral Sea. His about 190,000 bees between message included the ship’s co- Monday night and Tuesday ordinates, his name, the date morning in Yuba City, Califor- and his address. Less than a year nia. He said he was storing the later, a couple found the bottle bees on a fellow beekeeper’s Pete Caster / [email protected] while vacationing in the Florida property before moving them to During halftime of Wahkiakum’s 63-55 win over Adna in a Central 2B League girls basketball game at Adna on Thursday, Keys. Fresno, where he had a contract young members of the Adna Cheer program perform for a boisterous crowd. See a story on the game and addi- But Gordon and Cindy to pollinate almond trees. tional photos in today’s Sports section or www.lewiscountysports.com. Brevik didn’t try to contact Cunniff says the theft will Herbst. Instead, they hung on to cost him hundreds of thousands the bottle. of dollars in income. The hives Notable Quote Late last year, they noticed were insured. the bottle while moving and Cunniff said he reported the contacted Herbst in Pensacola theft to the Sutter County sher- through Facebook. He was iff’s department and learned stunned and told The Pensac- other beekeepers have reported “Right now, though, just drive by a school. You like that? You like the ola News Journal (http://on.pnj. thefts, as well. He says beekeep- way that looks? That’s what our kids look at every day. That’s what they com/2jGQ8N4 ) that he now ers also are searching for the plans to donate the bottle to missing hives. think is normal, established and the status quo.” Pensacola’s Naval Aviation Mu- seum. UK Court Rejects Aaron VanTuyl Bid for Bridge to Be columnist and sports editor Rotting Radishes (see page Main 9 for the full commentary) Stinking Up Recognized as Sport LONDON (AP) — London Pennsylvania Town Bridge may cross The Thames, JERSEY SHORE, Pa. (AP) — but it won’t fly as a sport. Today in History A television station has found British players who wanted the reason one central Pennsyl- the card game recognized as a Today’s Highlight in History: lan Jr., but not before one woman, one crew member and scattering vania town stinks: a field of de- sporting activity lost their latest Katie Mulcahey, was jailed over- radioactive material. On Jan. 21, 1942, pinball ma- caying radishes. legal bid on Thursday. night for refusing to pay a fine). In 1977, on his first full day in chines were banned in New York WNEP-TV began investigat- The Court of Appeal in Lon- In 1915, the first Kiwanis Club, office, President Jimmy Carter City by Mayor Fiorello La Guar- ing after residents of the town don upheld an October 2015 dedicated to community service, pardoned almost all Vietnam dia after a court ruled they were of Jersey Shore complained the ruling backing Sport England’s was founded in Detroit. War draft evaders. gambling devices that relied on odor was turning the place into refusal to put bridge in the same In 1924, Russian revolutionary In 1982, convict-turned-author chance rather than skill (the ban Funkytown. category as badminton, billiards was lifted in 1976). Vladimir Lenin died at age 53. Jack Henry Abbott was found Some people thought their and ballroom dancing. In 1937, Count Basie and his guilty in New York of first-degree propane tanks were leaking. The English Bridge Union, On this date: band recorded “One O’Clock manslaughter in the stabbing Others say the smell was worse which has some 55,000 mem- In 1793, during the French Jump” for Decca Records (on death of waiter Richard Adan in than dead deer or rotting pump- bers, had sought the designation. Revolution, King Louis XVI, this date in 1942, they re-record- 1981. (Abbott was later sentenced kins. The station even visited the The union argued that not condemned for treason, was ex- ed the song for Okeh Records).