$1 Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com Mid-Week Edition Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016 Finishing Strong W.F. West Grad in Playoffs / Sports 1 2000 Murder Conviction Still Missing on the PCT State Supreme Court Upholds Guilty Verdict Search Crews Fan Out to Find Hiker Who for Man in East Lewis County Killing / Main 4 Went Missing Near White Pass / Main 3 Centralia Misses Out After Surgery, Rochester Woman on Record Delays Effects of Parkinson’s Disease Rainfall Seen in Seattle, Olympia By The Chronicle While Puget Sound cities such as Seattle and Olympia saw record rainfall in October, Centralia missed out on the super soggy weather and held steady at a fraction of an inch above average. The National Weather Ser- vice doesn’t have a long-term precipitation collection site in Lewis County, but the West- ern Regional Climate Center’s website contains records of precipitation in Centralia from this past October back to 1893. please see RAIN, page Main 13 Lewis County Commission to Approve New Court Clerk INTERVIEWS PLANNED: Kathy Brack Retired in September By Aaron Kunkler Pete Caster / [email protected] [email protected] Diane Hutchins poses for a portrait in Centralia on Monday afternoon. Three candidates for Lewis County clerk have been sub- mitted to the Board of Lew- DEEP-BRAIN STIMULATION: sense of balance, she knew something was did indeed have Parkinson’s disease, a neu- wrong, but it would take several years until is County Commissioners, Procedure at Oregon Health and rological ailment known for causing trem- where one will be selected to she figured out exactly what it was. ors to resting muscles, impaired balance fill the position after it was va- Science School of Medicine Helps Hutchins, now 65, was later diagnosed and slowness of movement. cated when former clerk Kathy Curb Impacts of Disease with Parkinson’s disease after a number “The problem with Parkinson’s is until Brack retired in September. of doctor visits. The diagnosis, while dire, at least fairly recently, there is no diagnostic The clerk is in charge of By Justyna Tomtas came as a relief, she said. test other than an autopsy, and we weren’t “They said it could be a brain aneurysm, going to do that,” she said. “It’s very frus- keeping records for the coun- [email protected] ty Superior Court, and it is a tumor, some deadly inflammatory dis- trating going through all these tests. I was an elected, partisan position. Diane Hutchins began noticing strange ease of the brain that women my age get or ready to give up on doctors.” symptoms a year after moving to Rochester. MS (multiple sclerosis),” she said. please see CLERK, page Main 13 From a lack of smell to an unsteady After more tests, it was determined she please see DISEASE, page Main 13 Valley View Health Center Plans Temporary Clinic in Winlock After Fire DAMAGE: Temporary Space to Nearly a week after a fire destroyed View Executive Director Steven Clark the building after the fire, Clark said. Winlock’s Valley View Health Center, said Wednesday. “He stepped up and obviously saw the Open Monday at Winlock staff plan to open up a temporary clinic The temporary clinic is tentatively need,” Clark said. Family Dentistry in rented space at a dental clinic across scheduled to open Monday at Winlock The fire was first reported just after 2 the street. Family Dentistry at 617 Cemetery Road. a.m. Saturday at the health center at 615 By Natalie Johnson “It’s a blow to Valley View and the The building’s owner, Dr. Richard Shep- [email protected] community, but we will rebuild,” Valley herd, offered to rent Valley View space at please see FIRE, page Main 13 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater A Focus on Succulents Onalaska Forum Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Toledo Local Wanamaker, L. Lucille, 82, Follow Us on Twitter Federal Way @chronline Woman Candidates Reiswig, Axel Jacob, 16, Grows Meet in Final Chehalis Find Us on Facebook Love for Days Leading Grace, Glen, 95, Chehalis www.facebook.com/ Mohrman, Mable, 87, thecentraliachronicle Fleshy to Nov. 8 Chehalis Plants Election Fortman, Katherine, 79, / Life 1 / Main 7 Centralia LOCAL PEOPLE, LOCAL DECISIONS! CHEHALIS 714 W. Main Street HOW CAN 360.740.0770 WE HELP Also TOLEDO, You? WINLOCK, TUMWATER CH565963ca.do & OLYMPIA Keith Macy Matt DeBord HOME | CONSTRUCTION | BUSINESS NMLS# 539574 Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016 PAGE TWO News Thrill of Victory and Sting of Defeat of the Weird In Dubai, a Showdown and some of his companions went to the desert searching on Shawarma is for Bigfoot. No students or fac- ulty went on the expedition, but Reportedly Coming KRQE found UNM paid for the DUBAI, United Arab Emir- expedition. Dyer said he and his ates (AP) — A showdown over companions did not spot Big- shawarma has come to Dubai. foot, but they did see habitat. A state-owned newspaper re- “I’d have to say it was pretty ported on Wednesday that near- much a blown waste of money ly half of all shawarma stands in because we did not find evi- Dubai either will be shut down dence because of the snow. It was or have stopped selling the pop- ular Mideast street food. just impossible to get around The National newspaper of out there. So in that case, yeah, Abu Dhabi quotes Sultan al-Ta- would we spend money on that hir, head of food inspection in again? Absolutely not,” Dyer Dubai, as saying the city-state’s said. over 570 shawarma stands had Dyer said he uses discretion- / [email protected] six months to update their op- ary funds for field work that he Matt Baide erations to comply with new hy- believes has some kind of merit, Kalama celebrates after winning against Mossyrock in the District 4 2B Volleyball Tournament semiinal match at Adna giene regulations. such as field work of some kind on Wednesday. See more prep volleyball coverage in today’s Sports section and online at www.lewiscountys- Al-Tahir says 113 stopped of research. “People use mon- ports.com. making the meat wraps, while ies from the taxpayers to do re- another 141 took no action and search. For Bigfoot or whatever,” will be shut down. The others Dyer said. Notable Quote followed the rules or are in the UNM President Robert process of complying. Frank said he didn’t know about Shawarma is typically the university’s Bigfoot spending cooked outdoors, with spiced until reporters called about it. chicken, lamb and beef shaved “Dr. Dyer needs to be much “I’m 98 percent sure this is the end of it. (There are) off a vertical spit. Al-Tahir said more thoughtful about how never any guarantees in our business.” Dubai’s high heat can cause bac- he undertakes these activities,” teria to spread. Frank said. “The type of expedi- tion that just took place was not Brad Meagher University Executive appropriate and will not occur Lewis County chief criminal deputy prosecutor Director Under Fire for in that manner again.” Kenneth Slert (see page Main 4 for the full story) Bigfoot Hunt Shortest Haul: Airline conviction GALLUP, N.M. (AP) — The upheld head of the University of New Offers 8-Minute Mexico’s Gallup campus is un- International Flight der fire for spending money on Bigfoot-related pursuits. BERLIN (AP) — An Aus- Today in History UNM Gallup’s Executive Di- trian airline has begun what it rector Dr. Christopher Dyer or- claims is the world’s shortest Today’s Highlight in History: In 1936, President Franklin “Carrie,” adapted from the Ste- D. Roosevelt won a landslide phen King novel and starring ganized a two-day, on-campus regular international connec- On Nov. 3, 1986, the Iran- election victory over Republi- Sissy Spacek, was released by Bigfoot conference in February tion — an eight-minute hop Contra affair came to light as can challenger Alfred M. “Alf” United Artists. followed by a Bigfoot expedition, across Lake Constance. Ash-Shiraa, a pro-Syrian Leba- Landon. In 1979, five Communist Work- costing taxpayers more than The flight offered by People’s nese magazine, first broke the In 1957, the Soviet Union ers Party members were killed in a $7,000, KRQE-TV reported. Viennaline connects St. Gallen- story of U.S. arms sales to Iran. “It was the largest and most Altenrhein in Switzerland with launched Sputnik 2, the second clash with heavily armed Ku Klux On this date: Klansmen and neo-Nazis during well-attended event in the his- Friedrichshafen in southern manmade satellite, into orbit; on board was a dog named Laika, an anti-Klan protest in Greens- tory of this campus,” Dyer said. Germany. It’s part of a route that In 1839, the first Opium War UNM paid for advertising, between China and Britain who was sacrificed in the ex- boro, North Carolina. continues onward to the west- periment. In 1991, Israeli and Palestinian meals for guest speakers, airfare ern German city of Cologne, but broke out. In 1903, In 1960, the Meredith Willson representatives held their first- and per diem. Self-professed passengers can book only the Panama proclaimed Bigfoot expert Dr. Jeff Meldrum its independence from Colom- musical “The Unsinkable Molly ever face-to-face talks in Ma- short part for 40 euros ($44.10). was paid a $1,000 honorarium bia. Brown” opened on Broadway drid, Spain; in another milestone, plus expenses. The other guest German news agency dpa In 1900, the first major U.S. with Tammy Grimes in the title Syria opened its first one-on-one speaker, Rob Kryder, was paid a reported that environmentalists automobile show opened at New role.