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Pe Ell-Willapa Flightless Fun Takes First District Adna Emu Farm Invites Visitors / Life 1 Title 8-7 / Sports 1 $1 Early Week Edition Tuesday, Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com May 19, 2015 Ghost Hunters Volcanic Memories Team of Paranormal Researchers Descend Survivors Gather to Tell Stories at Mount St. on Lewis County Historical Museum / Main 3 Helens on 35th Anniversary of Blast / Main 14 State: Greenwood Cemetery Considered Abandoned NO OFFICIAL DECLARATION: vort’s family members, includ- have a big family and lot of them grounds, the cemetery is only Licensing, considers Greenwood ing both of his parents and his are buried out there. This is a getting worse. He was planning abandoned. Plot Owners Will Have son, are buried at Greenwood horrible mess. I don’t know who on purchasing a plot for himself, According to DOL spokes- Access, Officials Say Memorial Park, one of the oldest to contact or to talk to about the but he is not allowed to because woman Christine Anthony, be- cemeteries in Centralia. condition of the cemetery.” of the issues surrounding the fa- cause the cemetery is private By Dameon Pesanti For many years, he volun- Although he’s disabled, cilities. property, the DOL doesn’t have [email protected] teered to help maintain the Vandervort does what he can to Now, the Washington State the authority to declare it an grounds. maintain his family plots, but Funeral and Cemetery Board, a Many of Richard Vander- “I love that place,” he said. “I without a person to care for the subsidiary of the Department of please see CEMETERY, page Main 9 Big Splash at Hell’s Run in Onalaska First Female Fire Chief in Lewis County Takes Over at Boistfort IN CHARGE: Gwen Turner Began Volunteering Following the Flooding of 2007 By Natalie Johnson [email protected] On May 11, Gwen Turner be- came the first female fire chief in Lewis County. “I didn’t think about it,” she said. “That wasn’t the goal. It was doing what I could for my fire district and my community.” Turner said she enjoys serv- ing the com- munity while Jesse Smith/ For The Chronicle volunteering A runner splashes into a large pool of muddy water during the Hell’s Run endurance race in Onalaska on Saturday. See more photos at www.chronline.com. her time as chief of Lewis County Fire District 13 in the Boistfort Valley. “It’s the com- Gwen Turner munity. It’s re- District 13 ally a family,” fire chief she said. “The people I work with here are the people who are my friends. The people we help are our friends and family.” please see CHIEF, page Main 9 State Supreme One of the obstacles at Hell's Run included two logs placed across a pond, test- A 100-foot slip and slide was a favorite for young and old participants. Water ing runners’ balance. and dish soap had runners sliding out of control into a mud pit at the bottom. Court Boosts Cost of Traffic Tickets Steam Train Season Delayed by Engine Rebuild SEATTLE (AP) — The Washington Supreme Court is STALLED: Chehalis- was Mother’s Day, now Father’s holidays. regularly scheduled rides have boosting the base cost of traffic Day isn’t looking so good either. Currently, the museum’s Centralia Railroad & been canceled. tickets in the state by $12 to help Although the Chehalis- Locomotive No. 15 is being The railroad sent plans to re- pay for a badly needed new com- Museum Plans Must Centralia Railroad & Museum’s rebuilt to stay compliant with build their 99-year-old Baldwin puter system for district courts Be First Approved 2015 steam train season was set Federal Railway Administra- steam locomotive to the FRA — a decision that four justices to begin next week, it is current- tion requirements. The engine for approval, but they're still blasted as unfair to low-income by Federal Railroad ly on indefinite hiatus. is torn apart and crews have waiting for a response. residents who can least afford Administration Typically, the steam train been working on it for several “(He) has a bunch of things the fines. takes passengers on short ex- weeks, but certain repairs to ahead of him before he can Effective July 1, most traf- By Dameon Pesanti cursions through the country- the train’s boiler can’t be done get to our request,” said Mike fic infractions, as well as some side on the weekends between until the plans are approved by [email protected] Beehler, vice president of the boating, camping and public late May and mid-September a mechanical engineer. As a re- First it was Easter, then it and offers special rides for the sult, many of the the railroad’s please see TRAIN, page Main 9 please see TICKETS, page Main 9 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Prep Softball Emergency Training Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Adna First Estup, Kathryn F., 70, Chehalis Follow Us on Twitter Sanders, Barbara, 83, Clatskanie, @chronline Pirates Reponders Oregon Pound Conduct Groshong, Gene Earl, 85, Centralia Find Us on Facebook MWP in Helicopter Snider, Robert K., 86, Winlock www.facebook.com/ Clevenger, Donald Kenneth, 64, thecentraliachronicle District Training in Winlock Opener Centralia / Sports 1 / Main 11 Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash.,Tuesday, May 19, 2015 PAGE 2 News Daily Outtake: Courthouse Canine of the Weird cades, instilling legal precepts Squatters Evicted: along with some pithy tenets of 40,000 Bees Removed his own, such as “Never drop your briefcase and run.” From NYC Home He marked a milestone — his NEW YORK (AP) — It 100th birthday — with a gather- wasn’t a monster making a ruck- ing of colleagues and friends us under the floor of a New York Monday at the law school where City bedroom. But it was still a he’s been a student, librarian bit scary. and professor since 1944. Crea, An expert called to find the whose birthday was last month, source of a loud, buzzing noise taught until September and still found about 40,000 bees in a advises faculty members, sits on Queens home. the admissions committee and Retired NYPD Detective An- attends faculty meetings. thony Planakis, known as Tony His secret to a long career? Bees, was the man for the mis- “Stay well,” he said by phone. sion. “And make sure they don’t want It took him more than two to kick you out.” hours to extract the unwanted Crea’s career interest dawned Natalie Johnson / [email protected] residents on Monday night. when he found a pile of aban- Oak plays with a toy at the Lewis County Prosecutor’s Oice last week. The Labrador is a common sight at the Lewis The Daily News says honey doned law books on a roadside in the 1930s while delivering County Courthouse, where he helps comfort children, witnesses and employees. The story, published in Saturday’s dripped off the massive honey- edition, remains available to subscribers at www.chronline.com and www.lewiscountywatch.com. comb as it was pulled piecemeal bread in his Brooklyn neighbor- from beneath siding and ply- hood. Reading one of the books, wood. about railroad reorganizations, The colony is getting a new he was struck by the fees lawyers Notable Quote residence upstate. earned for Depression-era work, he told the law school’s maga- zine for a 1998 profile. Disney World Tells After going to Brooklyn Col- “It’s like going to Reno and hitting three sevens. Riders to Stop Using lege and serving in the Army during World War II, he went We hit the jackpot that day by making it out alive. Selfie Sticks to Brooklyn Law School and worked in its library after his ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — It was the experience of a lifetime.” 1947 graduation. He started Disney World is looking to crack teaching the next year. down on guests who use selfie Crea taught some 22 differ- Mark Dahl sticks on rides at the park. ent classes over the years but witnessed 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption The Orlando Sentinel report- came to focus on banking and (see page Main 14 for the full story) ed a spokesman said Monday corporations law, the latter his guests can bring selfie sticks on favorite: “That’s where you learn the rides but must securely store what’s going on in society,” he them. says. Disney policy forbids visitors One of his standout courses Editor’s Pick from using the sticks, which can was on commercial paper, or the be used to extend cameras out law surrounding payment obli- Cemetery Problem up to 3 feet. One ride, Thunder gations such as promissory notes Mountain, has had a number of The continuing crisis at bureaucracy. It’s hard enough to It should go without saying, and checks. Another highlight, Greenwood Memorial Park in bury a loved one. Doing so with but I’ll say it anyway — the cov- incidents in which the ride had he told the school magazine, was to be stopped because of selfie- Centralia has sweeping conse- the added weight of operating erage doesn’t reflect the newspa- teaching tax law in the 1950s quences for many. within an abandoned cemetery is per’s belief in the paranormal. stick use. to a class full of accountants We’ve heard unfair and reprehensible. When we provide time and On Friday, Disney World and treasury agents. Professor from a number Read the story on the front ink to such matters, we’re at- workers posted a “No Selfie and students learned from each Sticks” sign at the Magic King- other as they debated whether of you who have page, and consider shooting us tempting to tell the stories of dom’s Thunder Mountain Rail- expenses were tax-deductible: been forced to a quick note if you have been those who do hold such beliefs.