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Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com $1 Mid-Week Edition Three Titles and Out Thursday, Adna High Fastpitch Coach Stepping Down / Sports 1 July 28, 2016 Chehalis Fest Is Back Mental Health Facility Annual Mint City Celebration to Feature Cascade Mental Health Details Plans for Several New Additions This Weekend / Life 1 22 Beds in New Centralia Building / Main 3 Former Green Hill School Counselor Pleads Guilty SEX WITH INMATE: Staffer A former Green Hill School Her sentencing is scheduled In a screenshot from counselor charged in January for 1 p.m. Sept. 21 in Lewis a video provided at Chehalis Juvenile for having sexual relations with County Superior Court. She by the Washington a teenage inmate held at the appeared at her change-of-plea Department of Social Rehabilitation Facility Chehalis facility pleaded guilty hearing out of custody, and will and Health Services, Faces a Sentencing Wednesday. remain out of custody pending former Green Hill Erin Lee Stiebritz, also her sentencing hearing. employee Erin Stiebritz Hearing Sept. 21 known as Erin Snodgrass, 37, of The standard sentencing is escorted from the Centralia, pleaded guilty on one range for the crime, given that facility by a Washing- By Natalie Johnson count of first-degree custodial ton State Patrol trooper in January. [email protected] sexual misconduct. please see GUILTY, page Main 14 Officials Debate Next Moves Input Sought After Chamber Way Demolition on Borst Avenue Pedestrian Safety Project CENTRALIA: Discussions Will Lead to Potential Short-Term Solutions Prior to the Beginning of the School Year By Justyna Tomtas [email protected] After a May meeting that garnered a large amount of interest in safety issues along Borst Avenue in Centra- lia, city officials say they are dedicated to seeing the project move forward. The road connects Cen- tralia High School with Cen- tralia Middle School and the Harrison Avenue area, and there have long been con- cerns for the safety of students Matt Baide / [email protected] walking along the roadway Vehicles drive under what was previously the Chamber Way overpass on Wednesday afternoon. Crews demolished the southbound span after an oversized load struck without sidewalks. the overpass last week. Kahle Jennings, public works director for the city, PLANS: T emporary By Natalie Johnson of the nearly 60-year-old Cham- came out really clean. Our con- told Centralia city councilors [email protected] ber of Commerce Way overpass tractor did a really good job.” at their Tuesday night meet- Bridge Structure Could at Exit 79 of Interstate 5 went Treece said WSDOT offi- ing that he plans to hold a Be Installed; State One day it was there, and the perfectly according to plan cials and crews appreciated how focus group in early August next it was gone. Tuesday night, according to the drivers seemed to avoid the area to decide on short-term solu- Lawmakers Look to The Washington State De- agency. during the work, cutting down tions prior to the start of the school year. Hasten Planned Bridge partment of Transportation’s “It was completed sooner on backups. Cars were diverted emergency overnight project to than expected,” said WSDOT “We are trying to pull Replacement remove the damaged south span spokesman Bart Treece. “It please see OVERPASS, page Main 14 please see BORST, page Main 14 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Dispute Over Property Line Rotary Riverside Park Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Salkum Centralia Reed, Wilfred A., 85, Centralia Follow Us on Twitter Lewdig, Harlan Leroy, 82, Onalaska @chronline Man Set to Make Brunoff, Mary Faye, 81, Chehalis Accused Improvements Davis, Esther Marie, 58, Centralia Find Us on Facebook of Pulling to Existing Heagy, Steven Morris, 68, www.facebook.com/ Centralia thecentraliachronicle Gun on Skate Park Gallagher, Rosemary Lorraine, 82, Worker This Year Chehalis / Main 5 / Main 7 Hoffman, Werner, 76, Chehalis LOCAL PEOPLE, LOCAL DECISIONS! CHEHALIS 714 W. Main Street HOW CAN 360.740.0770 WE HELP You? Also TOLEDO, WINLOCK, TUMWATER CH560569ca.do & OLYMPIA Keith Macy Matt DeBord HOME | CONSTRUCTION | BUSINESS NMLS# 539574 Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Thursday, July 28, 2016 PAGE TWO News Photoshop Fun With Chamber Way of the Weird Think Trump And Circus Acrobats Tie The Clinton Fall Flat? Vote Knot On Tightrope For Cat In The Hat During Show SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) HOUSTON (AP) — Two cir- — Voters who think presidential cus acrobats tied the knot on a candidates Donald Trump and tightrope during a performance Hillary Clinton fall flat can now in Houston. choose the Cat in the Hat. Mustafa Danguir and Anna The Cat announced his can- didacy Tuesday in Springfield, Lebedeva got married 30 feet Massachusetts, outside the off the ground Tuesday during childhood home of Dr. Seuss. a Ringling Bros. and Barnum & He also announced his run- Bailey show at NRG Stadium. ning mates —Thing 1 and Thing The groom, wearing a white 2. tuxedo coat, arrived on a camel The Republican newspaper and climbed a side ladder to reported the Cat said through reach the tightrope. Jesse Smith / For The Chronicle a spokeswoman that he would The veiled bride rode a horse. Mischievous citizens of the internet took to the photo-editing program Photoshop to add their own humorous spin be willing to release his tax re- She shed her high heels and ad- to the removal of a section of the Chamber Way overpass. This Photoshop image was created by Chronicle freelancer turns. justed her flowing gown to also Jesse Smith. The Cat’s platform includes climb a ladder to the wire. working with Red Fish and Blue The ringmaster presided as Fish to address ocean conserva- the pair met in the middle of the Notable Quote tion, working with the Lorax on wire, then exchanged vows and the environment and working rings. with Sam I Am to address hun- ger. The smiling newlyweds de- The event served as the offi- scended and waved to the cheer- “I usually worry more about unprovoked cial launch for the new Random ing crowd as they walked away confrontations like this than I do when people are House book “One Vote, Two arm-in-arm. Votes, I Vote, You Vote.” angry at each other.” Michigan Biker Nabbed Officials At Historic After Facebook Post Judge Nelson Hunt, on man who allegedly pulled a gun during property line dispute Tourist Spot Warn Of About Eluding Cops ‘Fake Monk Mafia’ LAKE ORION, Mich. (AP) (see page Main 5 for the full story) BOSTON (AP) — Visitors — A suburban Detroit motorcy- to one of Boston’s top tourist clist was apparently fast enough destinations are being asked not to leave police in the dust during to give money to what officials a chase, but not swift enough to Today in History have dubbed “the fake monk stop from bragging about it on mafia.” Facebook. Today’s Highlight in History: Army” of World War I veterans In 1984, the Los Angeles Sum- Faneuil Hall Marketplace who had gathered in Washing- mer Olympics opened. Lake Orion police say On July 28, 1976, an earth- General Manager Joe O’Malley ton to demand payments they In 1995, a jury in Union, quake devastated northern Chi- told The Boston Globe that of- 33-year-old Michael Brown, of weren’t scheduled to receive un- South Carolina, rejected the na, killing at least 242,000 people, ficials have received complaints Rochester Hills, turned himself til 1945. according to an official estimate. death penalty for Susan Smith, about individuals “dressed in in on Tuesday, three weeks after In 1945, a U.S. Army bomber sentencing her to life in prison monk garb” who are suspected the incident. He’s charged with On this date: crashed into the 79th floor of for drowning her two young of being insincere in their fund- fleeing police and reckless driv- In 1540, King Henry VIII’s New York’s Empire State Build- sons (Smith will be eligible for raising efforts. ing. chief minister, Thomas Crom- ing, killing 14 people. The U.S. parole in 2024). Visitors to the historic shop- Police say an officer pulled well, was executed, the same day Senate ratified the United Na- Ten years ago: Actor-director ping district have reported being up to Brown outside a restaurant Henry married his fifth wife, tions Charter by a vote of 89-2. Mel Gibson went into an anti- approached by people dressed in after seeing loud motorcycle Catherine Howard. In 1959, in preparation for Semitic tirade as he was being orange garments offering brace- maneuvers in the street. Brown In 1655, French dramatist and statehood, Hawaiians voted to arrested on the Pacific Coast lets and asking them to sign a sped off and the officer eventu- novelist Cyrano de Bergerac, send the first Chinese-Ameri- Highway in Malibu, California, notebook before demanding a ally stopped pursuing him. the inspiration for a play by Ed- can, Republican Hiram L. Fong, on suspicion of driving while donation. Police say Brown boasted on mond Rostand, died in Paris at to the U.S. Senate and the first drunk; Gibson later apologized Faneuil Hall Marketplace Japanese-American, Democrat and was sentenced to probation Facebook that he was going “140 age 36. management has posted signs In 1794, Maximilien Robe- Daniel K. Inouye, to the U.S. and alcohol treatment. A gun- in a 35 mph” zone. He added: that read: “Do not give money spierre, a leading figure of the House of Representatives. man who witnesses said identi- to the fake monk mafia!” and “#nojailthisweekend.” Someone French Revolution, was sent to In 1965, President Lyndon B. fied himself as a Muslim Ameri- “These are not real monks” along shared the post with police.