Drug Court Graduates Celebrate Progress, Beginning of Sober Life
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Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com $1 Masked Early Week Edition Protesters Tuesday, March Feb. 14, 2017 Against County Fee / Main 3 Stolen From the Ashes Morton’s Country Star After Centralia Fire, Priceless Keepsakes and Brandy Clark Rides Music Success From Lewis Jewelry Were Taken Away by Thieves / Main 4 County to the Grammy Awards Stage / Main 7 Chehalis ‘You’ve Got a Whole Lot of Life Ahead of You’ Councilors Chide One Drug Court Graduates Celebrate of Their Progress, Beginning of Sober Life Own for Public Tax Stance CONCERNS: Three Councilors, Mayor Say Chad Taylor’s Letter Did Not Tell Full Story on Transportation Tax By Justyna Tomtas [email protected] Just one day before the deadline for Chehalis voters to cast their ballots on a measure that could potentially increase the city’s sales tax to fund road improvements, several councilors voiced their concerns about a letter published in The Chroni- cle that they claimed did not tell all of Chad Taylor the facts. councilor The letter Pete Caster / [email protected] at the center Lewis County Drug Court graduate Christina Lozano is hugged by family members after she oicially graduated from the program during a ceremony on Monday of the discus- afternoon at the Veterans Memorial Museum in Chehalis. sion was submitted by City Councilor Chad Taylor, who By Natalie Johnson asked voters to oppose the Lozano was one of three [email protected] Lewis County Drug Court par- please see COUNCIL, page Main 11 ticipants who celebrated their Drug Court isn’t easy, but graduation from the program the rewards are manifold for its Monday at the Veterans Me- most recent graduates. morial Museum, each accom- Cowlitz Smelt “Family is everything for me, panied by dozens of supporters, and I think that is one of the mentors and family with whom things that a lot of us lose when they have rebuilt relationships Dipping on we’re in our active addiction,” once strained after years of drug said graduate Christina Lozano. abuse. Hold After As she spoke, her young “I’m really honored to be daughter and even younger graduating these three,” said Fleet Nets granddaughter raced around Superior Court Judge Andrew her. Lewis County Drug Court Toynbee, participating in his Just One Fish helped Lozano regain custody first Drug Court graduation as of her young children and have the judge assigned to the pro- Tommy Hamilton, right, gets a hug from Judy Cate after Hamilton graduated healthy relationships with her gram. “It’s really a celebration.” WDFW: 150-Pound from the Lewis County Drug Court program on Monday afternoon during a older children and extended Average Commercial ceremony in Chehalis. family, she said. please see COURT, page Main 16 Haul Required to Trigger Sport Opportunity Councilor Asks Chamber Director to Leave Public Meeting By Jordan Nailon LODGING TAX: Max Vogt Centralia’s Lodging Tax Ad- riod as the recommendations [email protected] visory Committee conducted await council approval. Says Move Aimed interviews on Friday morning Although Vogt said it was The news could hardly with organizations hoping to a friendly meeting, some in have been worse for eager at ‘Courtesy’ for get an extra $50,000 the coun- attendance described it as smelt dippers anxiously await- Committee; Fellow cil recently allocated in addi- “hostile” after Alicia Bull, the ing word on a sport fishery. executive director of the Cen- The Washington Depart- tional LTAC funds. Councilor Concerned by tralia-Chehalis Chamber of ment of Fish and Wildlife is City Councilor Max Vogt, using commercial netting Direction of Committee chairman of LTAC, said he Commerce, was asked to leave results as a measuring stick would not comment on the the public meeting while others Max Vogt Alicia Bull By Justyna Tomtas committee’s recommendations city Chamber please see SMELT, page Main 11 [email protected] until after a 45-day waiting pe- please see MEETING, page Main 11 councilor director The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Battle of the Cowlitz Grappling for Wins Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Toledo Boys Local Sibbert, Wallace, 83, Follow Us on Twitter Topple Wrestlers Chehalis @chronline Winlock, Punch Find Us on Facebook Advance to Tickets to www.facebook.com/ Semis in the Tacoma thecentraliachronicle Rivalry Dome / Sports 3 / Sports 1 Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017 PAGE TWO News Here Comes the Sun of the Weird zone, helping other motorists. Filipinos in Germany are He said the highway was Most Generous Long- closed to lightweight, high-pro- file vehicles because of the wind, Distance Lovers and the driver was cited. MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Filipinos in Germany may be far from home, but their loved Man Convicted of ones are near to their hearts on Stealing $500K in Valentine’s Day. Money transfer company Cigarettes WorldRemit analyzed remit- NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) tances from Filipinos abroad — A New Jersey man has been and found those in Germany convicted in federal court of were the most generous, sending breaking into a Connecticut home on average $32.50 more warehouse and stealing more than usual around Valentine’s Day last year. than 8,000 cartons of cigarettes worth about $500,000. Following closely were Fili- Pete Caster pinos in Norway who sent on Andrew Oreckinto, of Ma- / [email protected] average $24 more, and in New tawan, New Jersey, was convict- The sunset is reflected in water left over from last week’s rain and snow in this photograph taken outside Chehalis Zealand, who remitted on aver- ed on Monday of theft from an Monday afternoon. age $12.50 more during the week interstate shipment. He faces up around Valentine’s Day, com- to a decade in prison. pared to the amount they sent in Prosecutors say surveillance the previous week. cameras recorded the 52-year- Notable Quote Comparative government old Oreckinto breaking into New data isn’t available. Central bank Britain Candy in Wethersfield, statistics show Filipinos in the Connecticut, in March 2011. A U.S. send the most money home glue-like substance was used to overall, followed by those in disable door locks. Wires to an “I have not heard one suggestion come and that’s Saudi Arabia and United Arab outside surveillance camera and what I want to hear. We are leaders, elected to Emirates. a phone line were also cut. According to World Bank, Oreckinto is currently serv- represent the people. If I have a better idea in sales migrants’ remittances to the ing a five-year prison term in tax, damn it, it’s up to me to say it.” Philippines in 2015 reached New Jersey for stealing $100,000 $28.48 billion, the third highest worth of copper cable and sell- next to India and China. ing it for scrap. Dennis Dawes Millions of Filipinos live and work abroad, sending home Chehalis mayor on fellow councilor’s opposition to tax measure money that make up about 10 Suspect Returns Stolen (see the front page for the full story) percent of the Philippines’ gross Mortuary Van After domestic product. Finding Body Today in History Semi Blows Over, RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) — A man was arrested after police Today’s Highlight in History: lished. (It was divided into sepa- kidnapped in Kabul by Muslim Crushes Patrol Car on say he stole a van from a South- rate departments of Commerce extremists and killed in a shoot- On Feb. 14, 1967, Aretha ern California mortuary with and Labor in 1913.) out between his abductors and Wyoming Highway Franklin recorded her cover of a dead body inside, returned it In 1912, Arizona became police. ELK MOUNTAIN, Wyo. Otis Redding’s “Respect” at At- and then stole a different van the 48th state of the Union as In 1989, Iran’s Ayatollah Kho- (AP) — Dramatic video of a lantic Records in New York. The from the same business. President William Howard Taft meini called on Muslims to kill tractor-trailer toppling onto a Turtles’ single “Happy Togeth- Riverside Police Officer Ryan signed a proclamation. Salman Rushdie, author of “The Wyoming Highway Patrol car er” was released on the White Railsback says a mortuary em- In 1929, shows just how windy it can get Whale label. the “St. Valentine’s Satanic Verses,” a novel con- ployee was nearly run over as he Day Massacre” took place in a demned as blasphemous. on the high plains. On This Date: The truck was driving on tried to stop the man as he drove Chicago garage as seven rivals of In 1990, 92 people were killed Interstate 80 in southern Wyo- away the second time Sunday. In 1778, the American ship Al Capone’s gang were gunned when an Indian Airlines passen- ming on Tuesday when it blew Railsback said an officer in- Ranger carried the recently ad- down. ger jet crashed while landing at a over onto the parked patrol car. vestigating the theft of the first opted Stars and Stripes to a for- In 1941, the Carson McCull- southern Indian airport. No one was inside the patrol car, van chased the second van for eign port for the first time as it ers novel “Reflections in a Gold- In 2013, Double-amputee and and Patrol Lt. David Wagener more than two miles. The sus- arrived in France. en Eye,” previously serialized, Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistori- said the truck’s driver and a pas- pect was arrested and could face In 1849, President James K. was published in book form by us shot and killed his girlfriend, senger were not hurt. charges including vehicle theft. Polk became the first U.S.