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Business Makes Man’s Centralia Man Jailed After Chase to Thurston / Life 1 Best Friend County / Main 16 $1 Weekend Edition Saturday, Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com July 30, 2016 The Sandstone Cafe Adna Grad on Gridiron Tenino Business Powered by Popular Menu Cooper Zurfluh Enters Senior Year With and Dynamic Mother-Daughter Duo / Main 3 University of Puget Sound Squad / Sports Damage to Chamber Way Overpass Estimated at $6M WSDOT: Temporary Drivers irked by the loss of announced Thursday that a gineering for WSDOT’s South- “Early next week, we’ll have a the Chamber Way overpass this temporary steel bridge could be west Region, said at a meeting better idea of where we’re at,” he Bridge to Be Installed week may not have to wait long in place over the removed south with the Chehalis City Council said. Within Weeks to cross the busy intersection span of the overpass, in as little Thursday that he hoped crews Governor Jay Inslee declared again. as two weeks. could begin construction on the a state of emergency regarding By Natalie Johnson Washington State Depart- Bart Gernhart, assistant bridge as early as Friday after- [email protected] ment of Transportation staff regional administrator for en- noon. please see CHAMBER, page Main 11 Man Who Sun and Surf Run Motors Into Kidnapped, Molested Girl Twin Cities for the First Time in 1989 Faces Indefinite Prison Term CIVIL COMMITMENT: State Attorney General Seeking to Keep Dannell Harris Imprisoned as Sentence Ends By Natalie Johnson [email protected] A man facing indefinite imprisonment as a sexually violent predator made his first appearance in Lewis County Superior Court on the matter Thursday. Dannell Harris, 50, stipu- lated that the Attorney Gener- al’s Office had probable cause to hold him pending trial at his please see PRISON, page Main 11 County Approves Matt Baide / [email protected] Samoan Bruce, left, and Alex Acosta perform a motorcycle trick during the Sun and Surf Run at the Southwest Washington Fairgrounds on Friday. Settlement With 911 BURNING RUBBER: Long- torcycle gala to Chehalis this year after a feud with the city of Holly- Running Motorcycle Ocean Shores regarding restric- wood B Workers performs a Extravaganza Settling in tions and fees. By Justyna Tomtas Carol Wiggers, event coordi- motor- at SWW Fairgrounds nator for the Sun and Surf Run, cycle trick [email protected] By Jordan Nailon summed up the dispute. during The Board of County Com- the Surf [email protected] “They had a bunch of restric- missioners approved settle- tions and price hikes so we left,” and Sun ment agreement this week after The Sun and Surf Run has she said. Run at the an accusation of unfair labor a long history in Grays Har- One of the main conten- Southwest practices with E911 Commu- bor County, but it is a brand tions with officials was in re- Washing- nications employees. new spectacle at the Southwest gard to the Hollywood B stunt ton Fair- The agreement requires Washington Fairgrounds. grounds Organizers moved the mo- please see RUN, page Main 11 on Friday. please see 911, page Main 11 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Port of Chehalis Chamber Way Humor Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Land Sale Internet Folwell, Ronald LeRoy, 78, Follow Us on Twitter Chehalis @chronline to Pacific Heroes Use Outten, Warren Burnet, Mobile Photoshop 56, Glenoma Find Us on Facebook Structures to Provide Barton, Carol Ruth, 66, www.facebook.com/ Centralia thecentraliachronicle Gets Some Baird, Bruce, 68, Winlock Approval Bess, Robert McKinley, Levity 93, Chehalis / Main 6 / Main 15 2 Days Only! HAPPENING TH TH We’re no ordinary dealer! 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It’s na- Rescue Swimming Deer tive to Sumatra’s equatorial rain forests, and emits an odor like in Distress rotting flesh while it’s briefly in JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An bloom. Alaska whale-watching cruise It’s one of the largest flowers turned into a rescue mission for on earth and can reach 6 feet in an unusual aquatic species — a height. It emits the stench to at- distressed, swimming deer. Pete Caster / [email protected] tract pollinators. The 18-passenger tour ves- Max, a 2-year-old German shepherd, plays — sort of — with his children Tuesday at Red Oaks Shepherds in Chehalis.. The bloom at its peak only sel from Gastineau Guiding Co. The story and more photographs can be found in today’s Life section and online at www.chronline.com. lasts about 24 to 36 hours — and lassoed the struggling deer on it could be years before the flow- Wednesday, pulled it on board er blooms again. and gave it a ride to an island, Juneau radio station reported. Notable Quote ‘Pokemon Go’ Player Naturalist Audrey Benson said visitors and crew were Finds $2,000 at watching whales when the boat received a radio transmission Pokestop in New Jersey that deer were swimming in “The company’s cage-free egg commitment will reduce HACKETTSTOWN, N.J. the saltwater on the west side of (AP) — A “Pokemon Go” player Shelter Island. the suffering of millions of hens each year and hopefully has found $2,000 in cash at a “We heard that there were two inspire other egg distributors to do the same.” Pokestop in New Jersey. deer that were swimming across Hackettstown police say the in the water,” Benson said. “So player notified a nearby business after we watched the whales for Nathan Runkle Wednesday that he had found a bit our passengers were curious Mercy for Animals member the money at a Pokestop, where and wanted to see the deer, and players can get free in-game so we motored over to them and (see page Main 5 for the full story) items, like an egg that can hatch it turns out there was only one.” into a full monster. The player The deer appeared to be in said he would turn the money distress. It was struggling to over to police. keep its head above water. Today in History Around the same time, the Crew on a larger tour boat sergeant in the 165th U.S. In- Pluribus Unum” (Out of many, person who lost the money re- tried to rescue the animal but Today’s Highlight in History: fantry Regiment, was killed one). ported it missing near the busi- gave up. On July 30, 1916, German during the Second Battle of the In 1965, President Lyndon B. ness. An officer went there, and Benson, other crew members saboteurs blew up a munitions Marne in World War I. (Kilmer Johnson signed a measure creat- an employee told the officer the and passengers moved in, and with plant on Black Tom, an island is remembered for his poem ing Medicare, which began oper- money had been found. a rope, pulled the deer on board. near Jersey City, New Jersey. “Trees.”) ating the following year. After checking surveillance “The deer was immediately Although casualties were lim- In 1932, the Summer Olympic In 1975, former Teamsters video, the officer located the bewildered and disoriented and ited (about a dozen people were player, who turned over the cash. it was shaking a lot, it was shiv- killed), the explosion was so Games opened in Los Angeles. union president Jimmy Hoffa In 1942, ering a lot,” she said. “Its teeth huge, it was felt throughout New President Franklin D. disappeared in suburban Detroit; Mounted Police Officer were chattering. It tried to stand York City and damaged the Stat- Roosevelt signed a bill creating a although presumed dead, his re- up but collapsed because it was ue of Liberty. women’s auxiliary agency in the mains have never been found. Navy known as “Women Ac- In 1980, Israel’s Knesset Rides Through Drive- so weak.” On this date: The crew motored to Shelter cepted for Volunteer Emergency passed a law reaffirming all of Thru on Horseback Island and released the deer. In 1619, the first representa- Service” — WAVES for short. Jerusalem as the capital of the SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. “It was the craziest thing I’ve tive assembly in America con- In 1945, the Portland class Jewish state. (AP) — A mounted police officer ever seen on any of my tours,” vened in Jamestown in the Vir- heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis, In 1996, actress Claudette Col- in upstate New York has been Benson said. “I mean, you never ginia Colony. having just delivered compo- bert died in Barbados at age 92. spotted going through a Dunkin’ know what’s going to happen In 1729, Baltimore, Maryland, nents of the atomic bomb to Ti- Ten years ago: Israel agreed to Donuts drive-thru on horseback. but for a deer rescue — I’ve never was founded. nian in the Mariana Islands, was a 48-hour suspension of aerial Boston’s WCVB-TV posted even been that close to a deer, In 1864, during the Civil War, torpedoed by a Japanese subma- activity over southern Lebanon a picture of the officer and his I’ve never touched one — and Union forces tried to take Pe- rine; only 317 out of nearly 1,200 after its bombing of a Lebanese partner in line at the Saratoga to have an opportunity to assist tersburg, Virginia, by exploding men survived.