Matrix Coffeehouse Celebrates 20 Years in Chehalis / Main 11 $1 Early Week Edition Tuesday, Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com Aug. 18, 2015 Baseball NW Wraps Up Centralia Downtown at Fort Borst Park Association Holds / Sports 1 Street Fair / Main 11 Ecology: No Issues With No Water WATER RIGHTS: Farmers Not irrigation. dealing with dry streams — are figuring So far, no one is aware of anyone ex- out how to deal with the issues them- Reporting Water Issues Due periencing major issues due to the order, selves. to Curtailment to Ecology, and it’s difficult to tell if flows are in- “Farmers are pretty creative,” Amrine Conservation District creasing due to less irrigation. said. Bob Amrine, Lewis County Conser- Mike Gallagher, Ecology Southwest By Kaylee Osowski vation District manager, said his office Regional Office’s water resources sec- Natalie Johnson / [email protected] has received three or four calls from James J. Ayres-Brewer makes an appearance in [email protected] tion manager, said the department field- livestock farmers about having issues ed calls from 16 of the 93 curtailed water Lewis County Superior Court on Monday after- More than two weeks ago the Wash- with streams drying up, but the curtail- rights holders seeking additional infor- noon at the Lewis County Law and Justice Center ington Department of Ecology ordered ment doesn’t affect stock watering. mation about the curtailments. in Chehalis. 93 water rights holders to stop using He thinks many farmers — those Chehalis River Basin surface water for who have curtailed rights and those please see WATER, page Main 14 Man Caught Red-Handed After Burglary Fair Warning QUICK BUST: Ayres-Brewer Arrested Just an Hour After Southwest Washington Fair Alleged Crime in Centralia By Natalie Johnson Starts Its 2015 Run Today [email protected] A Centralia man was charged with residential burglary Monday after being caught with stolen items almost immedi- ately after a burglary was reported. James Joseph Ayres-Brewer, 24, of Centralia, was arrested at 10:18 p.m. Sun- day, about an hour after a burglary was reported in the 500 block of West Pine Street in Centralia. Ayres-Brewer made his first appear- ance in Lewis County Superior Court Monday and was granted $10,000 bail. He was convicted in 2014 of eluding a police officer and theft of a motor vehicle. “My inclination … was to set bail higher,” said Judge Richard Brosey. “This was a daylight burglary to a residence.” The residents of the home saw a man run from the house, according to court documents. While Centralia Police Sgt. Kurt Reichert responded to the home, Detective Corey Butcher was driving in the area in an unmarked patrol vehicle, according to court documents. Butcher saw a man, later identified as Ayres-Brewer, walking with a backpack. When he saw the vehicle, Ayres-Brewer began to jog away. Butcher followed and stopped the suspect, according to court documents. Reichert transported the alleged victim to identify whether Ayres-Brewer was the man he saw leaving the home. please see RED-HANDED, page Main 14 Woman Arrested for Having Heroin in Jail By The Chronicle A Chehalis woman arrested on sus- picion of possession of a controlled sub- stance last week was charged Monday with possession of heroin while in the Lewis County Jail. Darcie Nicole Negrete was granted $10,000 bail on the new charge Monday. On Friday, jail officers received a re- port of an inmate using drugs. A Lewis County Sheriff’s Deputy responded, ac- cording to court documents. During a search of Negrete’s cell, offi- Pete Caster / [email protected] cers found a dark brown substance, later Carnival workers set up rides on Monday evening at the Southwest Washington Fairgrounds identified as heroin, and a pill concealed in Chehalis. The 2015 edition of the fair opened at 10 a.m. this morning, and will run through in a “feminine product,” according to Sunday. See Community Calendar on page Life 2 for highlights of this week’s fair events. court documents. Negrete allegedly told officers the drugs were not hers. The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Central Washington Fires Performing on a Big Stage Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Tourists W.F. West Hennessey, Brian P., 66, Follow Us on Twitter Chehalis @chronline Flee Grad Carter, Michael Henry, 59, Chelan Sings on Morton Find Us on Facebook as Fires ‘America’s Finkel, Barbara Catharine, www.facebook.com/ Threaten Got Talent’ 90, Napavine thecentraliachronicle / Main 4 / Life 1 Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015 PAGE TWO News Setting Up for the SWW Fair of the Weird ‘Call 911’: Man Says Siri Police: Drunk NY Man Made Call That Saved Has 10-Year-Old Drive His Life Him Home WATERHILL, Tenn. (AP) — STILLWATER, N.Y. (AP) — A Middle Tennessee teen is alive, Police say an upstate New York thanks to Siri. man had his 10-year-old drive Eighteen-year-old Sam Ray his pickup truck while he was says the voice recognition ser- sitting in the passenger seat vice on his iPhone — famously drunk. named Siri — called emergency The Times Union of Albany dispatchers after his truck fell reported police in the Saratoga on him while he tried to make County town of Stillwater were repairs. contacted by a motorist on Sat- Ray told media outlets that a urday who saw the child driving jack collapsed, pinning him un- the truck on Route 9P. der nearly 5,000 pounds of metal Police say officers pulled in a location where he couldn’t over the truck and found that be easily seen or heard. He says the 10-year-old was behind the Pete Caster / [email protected] he was trying to get free when he wheel while his father, 46-year- Exhibitors try to round up a would-be escaped sheep on Monday in preparation for the irst day of the 2015 Southwest heard Siri activate. old John Barling, of Saratoga Washington Fair in Chehalis. The fair opened today at 10 a.m. and will run through Sunday. “I said ‘Call 911,’ and that was Springs, was intoxicated in the all it said,” he said. passenger seat. Rutherford County dispatch- Police say the child was er Christina Lee says she first picked up by a relative and Bar- Notable Quote thought it was a mistaken pock- ling was charged with endanger- et-dial, but then she heard his ing the welfare of a child and screams for help and sent crews, permitting unlicensed operation who rescued him. of a motor vehicle. “The Centralia cops could have gone in with guns blazing.” She said she knew his gen- Saratoga County Child Pro- eral location from the cellphone tective Services was contacted by signal, but Ray helped them pin- police. Richard Brosey point his exact whereabouts. It couldn’t be determined Lewis County Superior Court judge “The map got to his street. ... if Barling has an attorney who It got pretty close,” Lee said. “But could comment on the charges. (see page Main 4 for the full story) he was yelling his address, and that was the best thing he could have done.” ‘Literary Litterbug’ When volunteer firefighters Admits Tossing 600 arrived, they raised the truck back up with a jack and pulled Books From Vehicle Ray out. He was under the truck LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) for about 40 minutes. — A man dubbed the “literary EDITOR’S PICK “I could feel myself slipping,” litterbug” for tossing more than he said. “I was starting to accept 600 books along a busy Colo- Covering, and Enjoying, the Southwest Washington Fair that I wouldn’t get out.” rado highway must complete Ray and Lee met Friday for 30 hours of community service he buildup to the South- and work for those staffing the per Derby, an adorable test of the first time after the July 2 in- and pay $1,725 in restitution and west Washington Fair lasts fair. wills for both the competitors cident. court costs. Tfor months. As always, our coverage and the parents urging them Rick Miller, who is chief The Longmont Times-Call The six-day extravaganza won’t end there. We’ll be at the across the stage. of trauma and surgical care at reported 62-year-old Glenn in the heart of fairgrounds in some capacity We’ll be on hand for one of Vanderbilt University Medical Pladsen pleaded guilty Thursday the Twin Cities every day this week, looking for Lewis County’s signature events Center, said Ray suffered broken to three counts of littering. He brings in folks those fun, off-beat stories that — the Demolition Derby, two ribs, a bruised kidney, cuts and a was pulled over in April after from all over can only be written during that separate sessions of loud, hard- concussion, and he had burns on throwing books from his vehicle Lewis County hot six-day event. hitting steel-on-steel American one arm. Miller said Ray is lucky in Boulder County. and beyond, We’ll staff the Little Miss tradition. his wounds weren’t worse. Colorado Department of and covering Friendly competition tonight, We’ll go out of our way to “Sometimes these crush inju- Transportation crews began the event, for providing a feature on the de find extra man-on-the-street ries can be devastating and can noticing the books showing up The Chronicle’s Aaron VanTuyl facto smiling face of this year’s fair fare, be it a review of the kill you,” Miller said. “I’ve never along U.S.