XII Step Club Comedy Meets Cancer Faces Uncertain Life 1 Comedian to Headline Free Providence Event / Future / Main 7 $1 Mid-Week Edition Thursday, Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com Sept. 17, 2015 Runway Rebuild Assault on Children FAA Grants to Be Combined to Pay for Centralia Woman Arrested After Allegedly Abusing Packwood Airport Upgrades / Main 3 Children and Blaming It on Daughter / Main 7 Winlock Industrial Park Property Up for Auction UNFORESEEN SALE: A 320-acre swath of land erty up for sale, it is the “largest ing sites for sale, lease or build- County Commissioners signed long viewed as the future home remaining undeveloped contig- ing to suit. a contract extension for right of Winlock Mayor of a potential industrial park uous land available in the Pacific Winlock Mayor Lonnie way to build a road to serve the near Winlock is going up for Northwest.” Dowell told The Chronicle he industrial park. The extension Unaware of Company’s auction in October. The Winlock City council was unaware Benaroya was put- granted the county three years Plans to Sell Property According to The Benaroya approved Benaroya’s site plan ting the site out to auction when to have the road built. Company, a Bellevue-based real for the property in March 2014, reached Wednesday. By The Chronicle estate business putting the prop- which at the time included offer- In March 2015, the Board of please see AUCTION, page Main 16 Centralia Teachers Picket Fireighters examine damage on the as Contract Talks Drag On deck of a Rochester home Tuesday. Rochester Home Saved From Fire by LeMay Driver CHIEF: Fire Could Have Taken Out Entire Home if not for Quick Action By Dameon Pesanti [email protected] It was a normal garbage pickup day for Erik Gulbranson until he rolled up to what hap- pened to be his coworker’s house in Rochester on Tuesday after- noon. “I looked behind the fence and there was a fire. Then I thought that it didn't look very controlled. Then I saw smoke behind the house,” he said. He went behind the house and saw the smoke was rising from a fire burning through the grass and onto the back deck of Faye McMurray’s house. Gulbranson called 911 and then called the LeMay offices Pete Caster / [email protected] to tell McMurray what was hap- Centralia High School P.E. teacher Sarah Habel, center-right, joins fellow teachers from across Centralia School District in holding up signs as they rallied in front of the pening. school district oice on Tuesday afternoon in Centralia. She and her husband have only lived there for a few weeks. STRIKE VOTE APPROVED: 89 Percent Teachers filled the Centralia School Dis- is not reached the day before. Eighty-nine She was at work at LeMay Enter- trict board meeting on Wednesday night to percent of the teachers present voted in fa- prises offices in Centralia when of Teachers Voted in Favor of a share their displeasure with the board after vor of the strike vote. the fire broke out. Strike Vote on Sept. 25 if Deal is attempts to come to an agreement on teach- Centralia teachers have been working “Eric called on his route and Not Reached ing contracts continued to be unsuccessful. without a new contract for seven days. They said he was putting out the fire The Centralia Education Association called on the school board to make deci- at my house … I didn't believe sions that would benefit the teachers. By Justyna Tomtas voted Wednesday at an earlier meeting to him because it’s hard to believe [email protected] call for a strike vote on Sept. 25 if a deal please see TEACHERS, page Main 16 please see FIRE, page Main 16 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Morton UP! 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(AP) — A tive behavior” rather than ruling Nebraska man believes he and that Nisbet forfeited his right to his 2-year-old son were poisoned counsel. She even suggested that by a methamphetamine-tainted Justice Thomas Warren’s efforts coffee maker at an Omaha hotel. to indulge Nisbet’s concerns Travis and Amber Richard were part of the problem. and their children spent Labor Day weekend in Omaha. He says he used the coffee Flying Brisket Whacks maker and coffee package in Woman Amid Beef at their room on Sept. 6 and began to feel weird within 20 minutes Barbecue Festival of drinking the coffee. DANVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Po- He says his son also took a lice say a woman was hit with a Brandon Hansen / [email protected] sip and got sick on the drive back hot flying brisket when a contes- Two players get tangled up during a soccer game between Toledo and Centralia Saturday at Tiger Stadium in Centralia. home to Pleasanton. Both sought tant’s temper flared during a beef The story and many more photos are available at www.chronline.com and www.lewiscountysports.com. medical treatment and are await- over a shared cooker at a central ing confirmation from tests. Kentucky barbecue festival. Omaha police are investi- Danville police say they were gating the incident, but say they called to the Kentucky State BBQ doubt the coffee maker was Festival after a dispute was re- Notable Quote used to make meth. It’s unclear ported between contestants who whether a trace of the drug was were sharing a cooker Sunday. left by someone using the coffee Mary Berry of Bardstown maker to hide meth. told officers she was hit in the shoulder, neck and head by the “The two alleged victims of the assault here are quite young … I think slab of hot meat, which was es- on the circumstances bail is set at $100,000.” Man Who Couldn’t Mesh timated to be between 200 and With Five Lawyers Faces 250 degrees when it was thrown. Police said 42-year-old Mike Richard Brosey Skeptical Judges Owings told officers he threw the Lewis County Superior Court judge AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — brisket because he lost his temper The lawyer for a man who was but “didn’t mean for anyone to (see page Main 7 for the full story) stripped of his right to a court- get hurt.” appointed attorney because he couldn’t get along with five pre- vious lawyers faced skeptical jus- Suspect Returns to tices on Wednesday who were Burglary Scene for Lost Today in History concerned the defendant was simply gaming the legal system. Keys, Cellphone Today is Thursday, Septem- In 1937, the likeness of Presi- TV. Several supreme court justices TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) — ber 17, the 260th day of 2015. dent Abraham Lincoln’s head In 1971, citing health reasons, suggested that defendant Joshua A man is charged with burglary There are 105 days left in the was dedicated at Mount Rush- Supreme Court Justice Hugo Nisbet had been trying to delay after police say he returned to a year. more. Black, 85, retired. (Black, who his robbery trial, giving the judge Twin Falls, Idaho, home for his In 1939, the Soviet Union in- was succeeded by Lewis F. Pow- in his case little other recourse, forgotten car keys and cellphone. Today’s Highlight in History: vaded Poland during World War ell Jr., died eight days after mak- especially after Nisbet threatened The Times-News reported a II, more than two weeks after ing his announcement.) his fourth and fifth lawyers. woman called police when she On September 17, 1787, the Nazi Germany had launched its In 1978, after meeting at “This is a person essentially found her home ransacked on Constitution of the United States assault. Camp David, Israeli Prime playing games with the system Saturday, with a stranger’s cell- was completed and signed by a In 1944, during World War Minister Menachem Begin to avoid trial,” Justice Donald phone on the bed and a strange majority of delegates attending II, Allied paratroopers launched (men-AH’-kem BAY’-gihn) and Alexander said. car parked behind the property. the Constitutional Convention Operation Market Garden, land- Egyptian President Anwar Sadat But Justice Andrew Mead Police were at the scene when in Philadelphia. ing behind German lines in the signed a framework for a peace also expressed his concern with 22-year-old Caleb Shay Funke Netherlands. (After initial suc- treaty. the idea of a precedent that de- was dropped off near the vehicle. On This Date: cess, the Allies were beaten back In 1984, Progressive Con- fendants with the “volatile per- Officers say Funke told them he by the Germans.) servative leader Brian Mulroney sonalities, temper issues and a loaned the car to a friend and In 1862, more than 3,600 In 1955, Tennessee Ernie (muhl-ROO’-nee) took office as tendency to shoot their mouths the keys got locked inside.