Toledo Throwbacks Indians Alumni Take to the Court / Sports $1 Early Week Edition Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016 Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com Drone’s View of Snow Centralia Bead Opus Take a Look at Sunday’s Heavy Snowfall Hub City Pair Foster Creativity at Recently From High Above Chehalis / Main 3 Opened Downtown Storefront / Main 4 Lewis County Flood Damage Tops $3 Million By Kaylee Osowski Lewis County Department of Emer- were damaged by the flooding, but didn’t $270,000 of damage to qualify for federal [email protected] gency Management Director Steve Man- have an estimate available for private public assistance funds. sfield told The Chronicle public damage property damages. “We’ve definitely met our threshold. Initial damage reports for December totaled more than $3 million. He previously told The Chronicle that Now we’re just hoping that the rest of flooding in Lewis County were sent to The department is working on 59 dif- five homes were a total loss. the state Monday. ferent cases for individual properties that The county needs to have at least please see DAMAGE, page Main 16 Centralia Resident Mary McCrank’s Property Charged in New Year’s Becomes Creekside Chehalis Day Chase From Lewis County to Oregon By The Chronicle A Centralia man was charged Monday with eluding a police vehicle in Lewis County before leading officers from multiple jurisdictions on a chase as far as Portland. Henry Herrera-Montealegre, 29, of the 1600 block of Wind- sor Avenue in Centralia, was charged with attempting to elude a pursuing police vehicle. Superior Court Judge James Lawler granted Herrera-Mon- tealegre $20,000 bail, as was requested by the Lewis County Prosecutor’s Office. His next court appearance is scheduled for Thursday. please see CHASE, page Main 16 Pete Caster / [email protected] Shelly and John McKerricher pose for a portrait inside the ballroom of Creekside Chehalis on Monday afternoon. The couple purchased and renovated the former Mary McCrank's restaurant of of Jackson Highway late last year. Several Crashes Sparked by Snow Showers By Natalie Johnson [email protected] Showers deposited several inches of snow followed by freezing rain in Lewis County Sunday, snarling traffic in the Twin Cities and beyond. The Centralia and Chehalis police departments received re- ports of about a dozen accidents in a span of only a few hours af- ter snow began falling Sunday. The parlor room, left, and the entry way, right, are seen at Creekside Chehalis, which was formerly Mary McCrank's restaurant. The Centralia Police Depart- ment responded to eight acci- JACKSON HIGHWAY: McKerrichers After more than 80 years of existence, rock Inn, but eventually settled on the dents as snow began to collect Mary McCrank’s has a new identity. name Mary McCrank’s. McCrank died in Sunday. Have High Hopes for Facility, It’s one that owners John and Shelly 1984 and her ashes were spread beneath the At 12:17 p.m. on Sunday, a Which Is Now Taking McKerricher hope will harken back to the property’s magnolia tree. Gerhard and Jeri two-vehicle accident at the in- facility’s history and heritage. Schopp purchased the restaurant in 1998. tersection of Centralia College Reservations at Historic The former Mary McCrank’s restaurant They changed the name to Schopp’s Steak- Boulevard and South Iron Street Property South of Chehalis off Jackson Highway south of Chehalis has house in 2012, but then closed it about a knocked over a light pole. been shuttered since May 2013. Mary Mc- year later. Officers responded to By Carrina Stanton Crank purchased the failing Dutch Mill please see CRASHES, page Main 16 For The Chronicle Tavern in 1935 and renamed it the Sham- please see CREEKSIDE, page Main 16 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Trains Vs. Pedestrians Your View of the Snow Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 State Readers Rogers, Almanza “Red,” Follow Us on Twitter 87, Randle @chronline Record for Submit Their Thrall, Rita, 87, Puyallup Fatalities Photographs Goldschmidt, Donald, 84, Find Us on Facebook Broken of Weekend Toledo www.facebook.com/ Biltoft, Elizabeth A., 74, thecentraliachronicle After Two Snowfall Tenino Decades / Main 15 McMahan, Norman, 97, Randle / Main 5 Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016 PAGE TWO News Daily Outtake: Camouflaged in Snow of the Weird reported that a federal judge has Idaho Man Finds given the U.S. Department of Art in Back Hair Labor and the Malvern-based NAMPA, Idaho (AP) — One company, American Future man’s back hair is another man’s Systems Inc., until Thursday to canvas. submit proposals on managing At least that’s how Mike payment. Wolfe, 35, of Nampa, Idaho, has The company had argued decided to approach manscap- that it wasn’t required to pay em- ing. ployees for short breaks. Wolfe told KTVB-TV that The bill includes back pay after years of feeling ashamed of and damages to 6,000 employees his body hair, he asked a friend at offices in Pennsylvania, New in 2008 to trim an American Jersey and Ohio between 2009 flag on his back rather than un- and 2013. dergoing hair removal processes The Department of Labor like shaving or waxing. Since filed a lawsuit in 2012 claiming then, the two meet up several the company violated the federal times throughout the year to de- Fair Labor Standards Act be- A white dog enjoys Sunday’s snowfall in this photograph submitted by Rose Waterield. See more reader-submitted sign a new creation onto Wolfe’s cause employees weren’t earning photographs from the snow on page Main 15. back. minimum wage when the com- “Pssh, it’s manhandling back pany required them to clock out hair,” said Wolfe. “It’s disgusting. for breaks. But it’s funny. You can’t deny it’s Notable Quote funny.” Tyler Harding, a former Swimmers Splash Into graphic artist who has been 2016 in NYC Polar Plunge friends with Wolfe for more NEW YORK (AP) — New than a decade, says it takes about “We want people to be able to use art as therapy or Year’s Day was a time to chill out an hour to complete the artistic for a throng of adventuresome trim. as a means of creativity, and it’s a nice way to take swimmers who started 2016 And the creations can now with a dip in the Atlantic Ocean a break from what’s going on outside in the world.” be seen on a calendar — called a Calend-hair — available for off New York City. $20. Some proceeds will benefit An estimated 2,000 people Travis Pollanz a charity at Wolfe’s church. participated in the annual Co- Bead Opus Designs are uniquely named, ney Island Polar Bear plunge such as Grim Reap-hair for Oc- on a seasonally chilly Friday. tober and M-hair-achi Band for National Oceanographic and (see page Main 4 for the full story) May. Atmospheric Administration “Everybody always makes fun measurements show air tem- of the guy with back hair,” Wolfe peratures in the area were in the said. “Well now it’s my turn to low 40s, while the ocean was a shine, right?” bit warmer. Today in History Wolfe’s wife takes some Some people wore wetsuits, credit for him flaunting his fur. but others sported only bikinis. Today’s Highlight in History: for a 9-hour day. (Employees with Patriarch Athenagoras I of When they went on their first Sixty-two-year-old Peter still worked six days a week; the Constantinople in Jerusalem. date, Wolfe told her he was hairy. DeAngelo was garbed as the On Jan. 5, 1066, Edward the 5-day work week was instituted In 1970, Joseph A. Yablon- He felt nervous at the time, but Jolly Green Giant for his 10th Confessor, King of England in 1926.) ski, an unsuccessful candidate she took it in stride. Polar Bear swim. He tells the since 1042, died after a reign of In 1925, Democrat Nellie Tay- for the presidency of the United “Looking back now this might Daily News of New York that nearly 24 years. loe Ross of Wyoming took office Mine Workers of America, was be because of me,” Jamie Wolfe it’s “something you can never as America’s first female governor, found murdered with his wife said. “Maybe I shouldn’t have explain,” but it gets adrenaline One This Date: succeeding her late husband, Wil- and daughter at their Clarksville, given him so much confidence flowing. liam, following a special election. Pennsylvania, home. (UMWA in his back hair.” In 1781, a British naval ex- In 1933, the 30th president President Tony Boyle and sev- Two-Year Twins: Babies pedition led by Benedict Arnold of the United States, Calvin en others were convicted of, or burned Richmond, Virginia. Coolidge, died in Northampton, pleaded guilty to, the killings.) Firm To Pay Up After Born Dec. 31 And Jan. 1 In 1895, French Capt. Alfred Massachusetts, at age 60. Con- “All My Children” premiered on Making Workers Clock Dreyfus, convicted of treason, struction began on the Golden ABC-TV. In San Diego was publicly stripped of his rank. Gate Bridge. (Work was complet- In 1983, President Ronald Out for Bathroom SAN DIEGO (AP) — Twins (He was ultimately vindicated.) ed four years later.) Reagan announced he was nomi- PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A in San Diego are getting some In 1905, the National Asso- In 1949, in his State of the nating Elizabeth Dole to succeed Pennsylvania company that attention because, though born ciation of Audubon Societies for Union address, President Harry S.