Early Week Edition Tuesday, April 16, $1 2013 Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com Tigers Hammer Cattleman’s Hawks / Sports 3 Challenge Sports Editor Tackles Eating Contest / Life Relatively New Sport Comes to Mounted Shooting Edison’s Lewis County Kirby to Retire TOP PRINCIPAL: Longtime Educator Considering Run for School Board By Amy Nile [email protected] The principal at Lewis Coun- ty’s only top rated elementary school is resigning. Neal Kirby, the top educa- tor at Edison Elementary School in Cen- tralia for the past 14 years, will retire in June. Kirby pre- viously served Neal Kirby as principal at to retire from Centralia Mid- Edison School dle School for 8 years. Under Kirby’s leadership, Edison Elementary received an “A Exemplary” ranking ear- lier this year on the Washington Pete Caster / [email protected] Policy Center’s public school Professional mounted shooter Kaley Twyford puts on a riding and shooting demonstration for the South Sound Mounted Shooters in Adna on Saturday afternoon. achievement index, which as- signs letter grades for more than 2,000 educational institutions STRAIGHT SHOOTERS: across the state. The conservative think tank South Sound Chapter bases the grades on the State Holds Clinic for Sport Board of Education’s Achieve- ment Index, which is a snapshot That Combines of a school’s performance based Shooting, Riding on statewide assessments, stu- dent achievement, graduation By Lisa Broadt rates and yearly improvement [email protected] compared to other schools with In a sulfury, smoky arena, similar demographics. the Wild West charged into Of the 45 Lewis County area modern day. academic institutions included It came in the form of com- in the policy center’s index, Edi- petitive mounted shooting, a rel- son was the only elementary atively new but rapidly growing equine sport. please see KIRBY, page Main 14 Locally, mounted shooting is even newer, but is catching at the same swift clip. The South Sound Mounted Man Struck by Shooters first came together in January and currently have about 15 members. Robin Vehicle on U.S. Hartsell, the president and Pete Caster / [email protected] Highway 12 founder of the South Sound A trainee at the South Sound Mounted Shooters clinic shoots a balloon on a stick with his revolver loaded with blanks on Mounted Shooters, is confident Saturday in Adna. the group can grow to 30 by the By The Chronicle end of the year. A 24-year-old Yakima man “People are intrigued by this was struck by a vehicle on U.S. sport,” he said. “It’s different.” Highway 12 east of Packwood Over the weekend, the SSMS Saturday after stopping to help got a boost toward its member- another motorist. ship goal with its second mount- Jesse A. Stillwaugh was tak- ed shooting clinic. The group en to a Yakima hospital with had planned to allow 10 partici- unspecified injuries after he was pants, SSMS Sponsorship Coor- hit at about 4:20 p.m. dinator Ricki Martin, said. But, He was standing along the due to unanticipated interest, highway on a portion of road the group created more spots that was on a curve and had and allowed 26 participants to no shoulder, according to the attend the clinics, held on Satur- Washington State Patrol. day and Sunday, at the Triple H Stillwaugh was struck by a Arena outside Chehalis. westbound 2011 Subaru Out- Mounted shooting is a back driven by 45-year-old Ta- sport where little has changed coma resident Peter T. Huffman, since the days of tumbleweed who was unable to stop due to and false fronts; basic cowboy a hill and poor road conditions, skills — horsemanship, accurate Norman Wear takes a break from South Sound Mounted Shooters President Robin Hartsell puts on a riding and according to the State Patrol. shooting — are required. Troopers determined the Specifically, riders must the training clinic the South Sound shooting demonstration for the club prior to a clinic he and a number of other Mounted Shooters held on Saturday experienced mounted shooters taught in Adna on Saturday afternoon. cause of the crash to be poor in Adna. road conditions. Huffman was please see SHOOTING, page Main 14 not cited. The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Weather On the Web Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 TONIGHT: Low 36 CATTLEMAN’S CHALLENGE: Kinney, Florence Follow Us on Twitter TOMORROW: High 59 See the full video on our E., 86, Po- @chronline Mostly Sunny website / catello, Idaho see details on page Main 2 www.chronline.com Find Us on Facebook www.facebook.com/ Weather picture by thecentraliachronicle Baltazar Cleveland-Barrera, Onalaska Elementary, Fourth Grade Main 2 The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Tuesday, April 16, 2013 COMMUNITY CALENDAR / WEATHER Community Editor’s Best Bet Lyceum Talk to Focus on Arizona Ban on Ethnic Studies Calendar Eileen Yoshina, director of also be taken as Humanities diversity and equity at South 286, 1 credit. Classes are held Today Puget Sound Community Col- either in WAH 103 or, if more WHAT’S HAPPENING? lege, will be discussing Arizona’s space is needed, in Corbet Genealogical If you have an event you ban on ethnic studies during a Theatre. would like included in the Lyceum Series presentation at For additional information, Presentation to Community Calendar, please 1 p.m. Wednesday at Centralia call Jody Peterson, (360) 736- Focus on Overcoming email your information to College. 9391 or email her at jpeterson@ [email protected]. Lyceum is free and may centraliaa.edu. ‘Brick Walls’ Include a daytime telephone Eileen Dodge will be present- number where you can be ing a program on “Breaking Down reached. For questions about Write your life, 1 p.m. Your Brick Walls” at the Lewis calendar items, call Doug Public Agencies County Genealogical Society’s Martial arts/Kokondo, 6-8 p.m. Blosser at The Chronicle, (360) Regional Fire Authority Planning Morton Senior Center, (360) 496-3230 meeting at 7 p.m. tonight at the 807-8238. Committee, 6:30 p.m., Riverside Fire Au- Lewis County PUD auditorium. thority, Harrison Avenue station, Centra- Tai Chi exercise, 8:30-9 a.m. Those “brick walls” might lia, (360) 345-3225 Open recreation, pool, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. include disowned children, big- Organizations Centralia Civil Service Commission, Pinochle, 10 a.m. amy, name changes, duplicate Senior Song Birds, 9:30 a.m., Moun- 5:15-6 p.m., City Hall, 118 W. Maple St., Live music by Highway 12 East band, names, naming customs, wrong tain View Baptist Church, (360) 273-3231 Centralia, (360) 330-7671 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. gender, informal adoptions, race Timberland Regional Library Board CCS Nutrition lunch, noon, $3 Support Groups of Trustees, 7 p.m, Olympia Timberland donation changes, illegitimacy and un- Library, 313 Eighth Ave. SE, Olympia. “Writing from Within” writer’s group, known fathers. Survivors of sexual assault/abuse, 5:30-7 p.m., 125 NW Chehalis Ave., Che- Chehalis-Centralia Airport Govern- 12:30 p.m. Dodge is membership chair for halis, sponsored by Human Response ing Board, 5:30 p.m., Airport Board Packwood Senior Center, (360) the Olympia Genealogical Soci- Network, (360) 748-6601 Room, Airport Administration Building, 494-6331 ety and does voluntary genealogy Support for mothers, 9:15-11:15 a.m., 900 NW Airport Road, Chehalis, (360) Sweet treats, 9:30 a.m. research. She co-edits the journal, Bethel Church, for mothers with chil- 748-1230 Bunco, 10:30 a.m. co-administrators the DNA Proj- dren pregnancy through 6 years old, Libraries Pool or cribbage, 1 p.m. ect, and documents and maintains sponsored by Chehalis MOPS (Moth- Horticulture project, 2 p.m. ers of Preschoolers), (360) 520-3841 or Watercolor and acrylic painting, for a worldwide genealogy database of adults, 10:30 a.m., Oakville Olequa (Winlock) Senior Center, (360) (360) 864-2168, email chehalismops@ 785-4325 more than 100,000 names for the gmail.com or visit www.facebook.com/ PageTurners book discussion, for Dodge Family Association. chehalismops adults, 11 a.m. “Life of Pi,” by Yann Mar- Low impact exercise, 9-10 a.m. tel, Tenino Nutrition lunch, noon-1 p.m. Visitors are welcome. For in- Senior Centers formation, call Teresa at (360) Toddler story time, for children age 2, Zumba class, 6-7 p.m. 269-7772 or check out the web- Twin Cities Senior Center, (360) 11 a.m., Centralia Packwood Senior Center, (360) 494-6331 site at www.walcgs.org. 748-0061 Early release Wednesdays, for chil- Lunch, noon, $3 suggested donation dren grades 1 through high school, Free whooping cough shots, 10:30 The Lewis County PUD is 12;30 p.m., Winlock a.m.-noon, Packwood Senior Center located at 345 NW Pacific Ave., Pool tournament, 1 p.m. NAMI-Connection meeting, 5:30-7 LEGO Club, for children, 3 p.m., Toledo Senior Center, (360) 864-2112 Chehalis. p.m. Tenino Nutrition lunch, noon, suggested Morton Senior Center, (360) 496-3230 donation $3 for 60 and over, under 60, Fundraiser, Lewis County Relay for Organizations $6.74 Open recreation, pool, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Life, 11 a.m.- 8 p.m., Burger Claim, Grand Take Off Pounds Sensibly, 10:15 a.m., Exercise class, 8:30-9:30 a.m. “Taco Tuesday” enrichment lunch, Mound, proceeds to help buy goals for Assembly of God church, 702 SE First St., Open pool, 9:30 a.m. the Adna High School girls soccer team, noon, $3 donation Winlock (360) 767-0631 Olequa (Winlock) Senior Center, (360) Seniors on the Go, potluck and meet- 785-4325 Comedy mind reader Eric Dittelman, ing, noon, Onalaska First Church of God Thursday, April 18 7 p.m., Corbet Theatre, Centralia College, Garden club, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.