Lady Loggers Survive Battle With Mossyrock in Morton Law Central 2B Faceoff / Sports 1 New Chief in It for the Long Haul / Main 4 $1 Mid-Week Edition Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016 Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com Judge Eyes Retirement Little Shop of Horrors Lewis County Superior Court Judge Nelson W.F. West Drama Students Prepare to Hunt Looks Back as Last Year Begins / Main 3 Launch Latest Comedy Prodcution / Life 1 Green Hill Employee Charged for Alleged Sex With Inmate Centralia Youth Goes Into Record Book After Killing Goat With Bow A FIRST: Colby Steele Is the First Washington Youth to Accomplish Feat Pete Caster / [email protected] Erin Stiebritz makes an appearance in Lewis County Superior Court on Tuesday afternoon at the Lewis County Law and Justice Center in Chehalis. By Jordan Nailon For The Chronicle Hunkered down on a craggy By Natalie Johnson Stiebritz is also known as bluff, fogged in, half asleep and shiv- [email protected] Erin Snodgrass. ering from the cold is not how most Stiebritz was a juvenile teenagers prefer to spend their pre- A Green Hill School em- rehabilitation resident coun- cious predawn hours. ployee was arrested this week selor at Green Hill, but was Likewise, most teenagers are not after an investigation by the placed on an alternate as- record-holding hunters. In the case Washington State Patrol re- signment at the facility in of Colby Steele, of vealed allegations that she November 2014 after the INSIDE: Centralia though, he had sexual relations with an allegations of inappropri- does and he is, re- 18-year-old resident at the fa- ate behavior with residents • Additional spectively. cility over the course of sev- surfaced, according to court Outdoors On Oct. 10, eral months in 2014. documents. She has worked Coverage when Colby was just Erin Lee Stiebritz, 36, of at the facility since June 2013. see the 14, he became the Centralia, was charged Tues- Lewis County Deputy Sports section first youth in Wash- day with first-degree cus- Prosecutor Kevin Nelson ington state history todial sexual misconduct at asked for $25,000 bail for to bag a mountain goat with a bow her first appearance in Lewis Erin Stiebritz is walked out of Green Hill after her recent arrest in this image pro- and arrow. County Superior Court. please see ARREST, page Main 16 vided by DSHS. In fact only four other Washing- ton youths had ever drawn a highly- prized mountain goat tag before, and they all downed their animals with rifles. County Commissioners Fire Director of Central Services Colby never considered abandon- ing his bow though. He noted that he NO EXPLANATION: Strozyk Lewis County commissioners have Strozyk was notified that he was being has been, “shooting since I was born,” placed their director of Central Services placed on administrative leave at 8:15 a.m. and he attained his hunter's safety Terminated Without Cause; Had on paid administrative leave with the in- Wednesday. requirements when he was just Been in Charge of Fair, 911, IT tention of firing him in 30 days. “He’s done a lot for the county,” Fund 7-years- old. In the eight years since Commissioner Edna Fund said Mi- said. “We appreciate what he’s done.” Services and Facilities chael Strozyk will be terminated without please see GOAT, page Main 16 By The Chronicle cause. please see DIRECTOR, page Main 16 Deaths The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Charter Schools State of the State Lewis County Area Since 1889 Snodgrass, Harry, 66, Schindler, Ralph B. “Red,” Lawmakers Inslee Onalaska 90, Chehalis Follow Us on Twitter Outlines Fisher, Dennis, 56, Peckham, Calvin, 87, @chronline Discuss Winlock Winlock Options as Priorities Yates, James, 54, Toledo Walter, Elden, 87, Find Us on Facebook During Bieker, Richard, 88, Centralia www.facebook.com/ Session Gets Chehalis Schumann, Clyde Martin, thecentraliachronicle Underway Address to Clevenger, Evelynne 96, Olympia / Main 7 Legislature “Lucille,” 83, Centralia Roberts, Steve D., 68, / Main 6 Toledo A CENTURY OF HELPING OTHERS. It’s Easy START How can we ONLINE! CH552478cz.ke CHEHALIS help you? 714 W. Main Street 360.740.0770 HOME | CONSTRUCTION | BUSINESS Also TOLEDO, WINLOCK, TUMWATER & OLYMPIA Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016 PAGE TWO News Daily Outtake: Eating It Up of the Weird First-Graders to which she says Lindon probably thought was DNA evidence. Minnesota Vikings It’s unclear whether he has Kicker Who Missed an attorney. Game-Winning Field Cops: Pennsylvania Man Goal : Buck Up, It’s Ok Used Basement Hole to MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Af- ter many Minnesota Vikings Burglarize Home fans ripped kicker Blair Walsh BATH, Pa. (AP) — State for missing a 27-yard field goal police have charged an eastern that could have given the team a win in Sunday’s playoff game, Pennsylvania man with burglar- some first-graders used it as a izing a neighbor’s home by cut- lesson in empathy. ting a hole that linked his base- Walsh’s miss in a 10-9 loss ment to the neighbor’s. to Seattle drew intense vitriol Twenty-two-year-old Paul Bus- on social media, with some fans kirk has been in the Northampton inviting him to leave the state — County jail since Sunday on bur- and worse. glary, theft and other charges. Judie Offerdahl, a teacher at Police say he sawed through Northpoint Elementary in sub- his wall and created a hole to get Pete Caster / [email protected] urban Blaine, saw a teachable into a woman’s home sometime A W.F. West drama student is “consumed” by a large house plant during rehearsal for a scene from “The Little Shop of moment for her first-graders, so on Dec. 4. Police say Buskirk Horrors” on Monday afternoon at R.E. Bennett Elementary auditorium in Chehalis. The story can be seen in today’s the students grabbed their mag- then stole $200 worth of quar- Life section. ic markers and started drawing ters the woman had stored in and writing. several envelopes. “Dear Blair Walsh,” one The woman called police Notable Quote wrote. “I know it can be hard to when she came home and found get through things that are sad, but you have to try and try again. sheet rock materials in her base- Everyone makes mistakes some- ment — along with a shirt cov- times.” ering a large hole in the wall. “We will stay here until I can retire. I didn’t do this to pad my resume. Vikings spokesman Jeff An- Police say Buskirk’s mother told I didn’t do this to get somewhere else.” derson told the Star Tribune the them he slept in the basement of team will make sure Walsh gets her home. the letters. Online court records don’t list Roger Morningstar an attorney for Buskirk, who fac- new Morton police chief Police: Florida es a preliminary hearing Jan. 19. (see page Main 4 for the full story) Burglary The Shining: UK Suspect Returned Commuters Told Trains Today in History To Get Iced Tea Bottle Delayed By Sunlight Today’s Highlight in History: operation by employing an end- Plath committed suicide. PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. less chain to pull each chassis In 1969, 27 people aboard the LONDON (AP) — It’s the On Jan. 14, 1966, Fifth Avenue (AP) — Authorities in Florida along at its Highland Park plant. aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, dark days of one of the raini- and Madison Avenue in Manhat- say a suspected burglar was ar- In 1943, President Frank- off Hawaii, were killed when a est British winters on record. So tan were converted from two-way rested after returning to a crash lin D. Roosevelt, British Prime rocket warhead exploded, set- some London commuters were to one-way streets to improve scene to retrieve a bottle of iced Minister Winston Churchill ting off a fire and additional ex- tea, fearing it would be used as surprised to hear their trains had traffic flow. (To this day, vehicles and French General Charles de plosions. evidence. been delayed because of the sun. head south on Fifth, while travel- Gaulle opened a wartime con- In 1975, the House Internal Local news outlets report Rail operator Southeastern ing north on Madison.) 23-year-old Bryan Lindon is ference in Casablanca. Security Committee (formerly tweeted Tuesday that “we had On This Date: In 1952, NBC’s “Today” show the House Un-American Activi- charged with burglary of an unoc- severe congestion through Lew- In 1784, the United States rati- premiered, with Dave Garroway ties Committee) was disbanded. cupied residence and grand theft. isham due to dispatching issues Authorities say Lindon and fied the Treaty of Paris ending as the host, or “communicator.” In 1989, President Ronald as a result of strong sunlight.” the Revolutionary War; Britain In 1954, Marilyn Monroe Reagan delivered his 331st and another person are suspected The company said low winter of breaking into a Cooper City followed suit in April 1784. and Joe DiMaggio were mar- final weekly White House radio sun was hitting monitors at an In 1814, the Treaty of Kiel ried at San Francisco City Hall. address, telling listeners, “Be- home Tuesday morning, then angle that meant the drivers trying to break into another resi- ended hostilities between Den- (The marriage lasted about nine lieve me, Saturdays will never dence in Pembroke Pines. could not see them. mark and Sweden, with Den- months.) seem the same. I’ll miss you.” Police arrested a 17-year-old Almost 1 million people mark agreeing to cede Norway In 1963, George C.