Business Week Parking Lot Birth 400 W.F. West, Centralia Students Get Chehalis Woman Has Baby Girl in Vehicle Crash Course in Business / Main 4 Outside Providence Centralia / Main 3 Former Morton Hospital CFO $1 Weekend Edition Files Complaint Saturday, in Federal Court Dec. 19, 2015 / Main 6 Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com Analysis Amid a Toledo Lights Tour, Window Drop in Display Illuminate Possibilities Riders and Services, Twin Transit Investing in Itself MOVING FORWARD: General Manager Says He and the Board Have Been Responsible With Decision-Making By Justyna Tomtas [email protected] Following service reduc- tions and a consistent drop in ridership in recent years, Twin Transit is moving for- ward with a $1 million plan to purchase and renovate two properties in downtown Cen- tralia while debating the ad- dition of an electric bus to its fleet. Pete Caster / [email protected] The decisions came to Mike Morgan, co-owner of Art Gallery 505 in Toledo, looks at the winter scenery display in his gallery's window on Wednesday evening. Morgan, along with Chel fruition after a long period of White, a Portland-based ilm director and artist, and his wife, Di Morgan, designed and built the display titled “A Child’s Dream of Christmas.” planning, Twin Transit Gen- eral Manager Rob LaFontaine VISION TOLEDO: Group ing the South Lewis County told The Chronicle this week. town out of some of its darkest Adds Oomph to please see TRANSIT, page Main 11 days. Holidays While Helping This is the second year in a row Vision:TOLEDO has spon- Community sored a holiday lights contest Vader Man By Carrina Stanton for the greater Toledo area. Par- ticipants need only turn their to Appeal For The Chronicle names in and then decorate Christmas light displays their homes. They will be vying popping up around the town of not only for the title of best holi- His 34-Year Toledo aren't just a festive way to day lights, but also for gift cer- celebrate the season. tificates to local businesses. Sentence To Mike and Di Morgan, in Toddler’s they're also another light lead- please see TOLEDO, page Main 13 Death By Natalie Johnson [email protected] A Vader man sentenced this fall to more than three decades in prison in the 2014 death of 3-year-old Jasper Henderling-Warner will try to appeal his sentence, according to Lewis County Prosecutor Jonathan Meyer. Danny Wing, 27, filed a notice of appeal with the Washington State Court of Appeals Division II on Oct. 14. A moose and snowman stand among snow-covered trees in “A Child’s Dream of Christmas” window display at Toledo's 505 Art Gallery on Wednesday afternoon. please see DEATH, page Main 13 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Spending the Inheritance The Governor’s Vision Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Family Inslee Unveils Rasmussen, Jeri Lynne, 75, Follow Us on Twitter Tumwater @chronline Opens Supplemental Barnhart, Donna A., 86, New Glass, Budget as Longview Find Us on Facebook Leather Legislative Kringelbach, Mary J., 76, Vader www.facebook.com/ Duesterbeck, Earl R, Glenoma thecentraliachronicle Business in Session Stidhim, Gary E., 77, Winlock Chehalis Approaches Christiansen, 90, Toledo / Life 1 / Main 5 LAST MINUTE SHOPPING! • KAY JEWELERS OUTLET • WILSONS LEATHER • COACH FACTORY CH548904cz.cg • BATH & BODY WORKS OUTLET • FRANCESCA’S • GOLD TOE 360-736-3900 • WWW.CENTRALIAOUTLETS.COM • I-5 EXIT 82 • BOTH SIDES • CENTRALIA Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, Dec. 19, 2015 PAGE TWO News Daily Outtake: Wrestling Preview of the Weird THC to register on a drug test,” California Server Finds the email says, it still falls under $32,000 at Eatery, the ban on hemp seed products. Harrington said the prod- Returns to Owner ucts were thrown out to “take FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Po- the route of utmost caution.” lice in California say a waiter returned $32,000 in cash after some diners accidentally left it Minnesota Mom Sinks behind. Half-Court Shot, Wins The Fresno Bee reported that a mother and son forgot the Half Off Tuition cash, which was in a navy blue BLOOMINGTON, Minn. bag, at an Applebee’s restaurant (AP) — A Minnesota mom Wednesday night. The money says she said a little prayer be- was from a family restaurant fore hoisting a basketball half- and rental income and they were court and sinking her shot to on their way to the bank when win thousands of dollars off her they stopped for dinner. daughter’s private school tuition. Brandon Hansen / [email protected] When the waiter found the Angela Ramey and her Wrestlers tangle at a recent practice at W.F. West. See today’s Sports section for a full preview of wrestling season, which money he told his boss, who daughter, Grace raised the most just recently got underway. See more online at www.lewiscountysports.com and www.chronline.com. called police. money in a school fundraiser at The money was ultimately Bethany Academy in Blooming- returned to the family. The ton, Minnesota, earning three server was not identified. He chances to make the half-court told police he did not want any shot and knock $4,000 off tu- Notable Quote publicity. Carrie Hellyer, an area ition next year. director for Applebee’s, said the Grace gave her mom the waiter said he just wanted to do basketball and on the final try the right thing. Angela launched it under hand. It bounced, swished through “Comingfrom a time period where we haven’t seen a lot the net and the crowd went ofexpansion or growth, I was really excited when I saw Lip Balm Containing Pot wild. The mother and daughter Ingredient Thrown Out screamed with joy. these transactions were ready to come about.” at Air Base The Rameys were in New York Thursday for an appear- Alicia Bull ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) ance on ABC’s “Good Morning — Officials say they had to dis- America” to celebrate the win- Chamber of Commerce executive director on card hundreds of tubes of lip ning basket. Port of Chehalis land sales balm that were distributed at (see page Main 6 for the full story) Joint Base Elmendorf-Richards after they were found to contain Nebraska Deputy Jumps trace amounts of THC, an active Into Moving Truck; ingredient in marijuana. Today in History The base’s Sexual Assault Driver Passed Out Prevention and Response Of- NORFOLK, Neb. (AP) — Today’s Highlight in History: ting overseas with its Empire ereignty on July 1, 1997. Service to Australia. In 1986, Lawrence E. Walsh fice had been distributing the A Nebraska sheriff’s deputy On Dec. 19, 1972, Apollo 17 lip balm as it typically does with In 1946, war broke out in In- was appointed independent jumped into the cab of a run- splashed down in the Pacific, other promotional items, like away semitrailer after the driver dochina as troops under Ho Chi counsel to investigate the Iran- winding up the Apollo program water bottles and calendars, The apparently passed out at the Minh launched widespread at- Contra affair. of manned lunar landings. Alaska Dispatch News reported. wheel, stopping the vehicle from tacks against the French. In 1998, President Bill Clin- JBER spokesman 1st Lt. Michael possibly crashing off a busy via- In 1950, Gen. Dwight D. ton was impeached by the Re- Harrington said the lip balm duct bridge. On This Date: Eisenhower was named com- publican-controlled House for mander of the military forces of was purchased mistakenly. Deputies responding to a 911 In 1777, Gen. George Wash- perjury and obstruction of jus- the North Atlantic Treaty Orga- “Not everybody thinks to call about a reckless semi on U.S. ington led his army of about tice (he was later acquitted by check the ingredients list on Highway 81 caught up with the nization. the Senate). 11,000 men to Valley Forge, Pa., In 1961, former U.S. Ambas- ChapStick,” said Harrington. truck in Madison County, but it Ten years ago: Secretary of to camp for the winter. sador Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., 73, The lip balm contained wouldn’t stop. State Colin Powell declared Iraq In 1813, British forces cap- suffered a debilitating stroke hemp seed oil, which is banned The truck slowed as it neared tured Fort Niagara during the in “material breach” of a U.N. under U.S. Army and Air Force while in Palm Beach, Fla. Norfolk, 110 miles northwest of War of 1812. disarmament resolution. After regulations. Omaha, allowing Deputy Todd In 1971, “A Clockwork Or- In 1843, “A Christmas Carol,” a prosecutor cited new DNA The base’s public affairs team ange,” Stanley Kubrick’s contro- Volk to leap into action. He evidence, a judge in New York had emailed JBER employees jumped from a cruiser onto the by Charles Dickens, was first versial movie adaptation of the threw out the convictions of Wednesday, asking them to toss highway, then into the truck’s published in England. Anthony Burgess novel, had its out the 400 tubes of lip balm. cab, where he was able to stop In 1910, the artificial fiber world premiere in the U.S. five young men from Harlem in “It’s a real thing; kind of em- the big rig on the bridge. rayon was first commercially In 1984, a fire at the Wilberg a 1989 attack on a Central Park barrassing, I guess,” Harrington Volk says the driver appeared produced by the American Vis- Mine near Orangeville, Utah, jogger who’d been raped and left said. to be sick and officials said it cose Co.