Congress Reaches Agreement to End Government Shutdown / Main 10 Outdoors: $1 Hunting and Midweek Edition Fishing Report / Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013 Sports 2 Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com Shaky Testimony Centralia Station Witness in Trial for 1985 Murders Development Moves Forward in Admits Memory Loss Issues / Main 3 Permitting Process / Main 5 Reward Offered in Burned Dog Case By The Chronicle Tuesday after previously offer- was discovered shortly after 1 fire, they contacted law enforce- Pasado's Safe Haven requests An animal protection orga- ing $2,500. a.m. Aug. 31. ment. that anyone with information nization is now offering a $4,600 Police have said they have Firefighters discovered the Investigators are confident regarding the death come for- reward for information lead- no leads into who is respon- dog — which was a large, brown that the dog was not hit by a train. ward and call Pasado's Cru- ing to the arrest, prosecution sible for cutting the dog’s head lab mix — wrapped in cloth- According to Pasado’s Safe elty Investigations Line at (206) and conviction of the person or off, putting its body on train ing placed in a plastic bag after Haven, the 1½-year-old dog 300-7218, or email kimk@pasa- people responsible for killing, tracks, lighting it on fire and someone called to report a small named Crom was owned by dosafehaven.org. All tips will re- decapitating and burning a dog then burying its head under a fire on the train tracks at the end Tim Filer and Michelle Nelson. main anonymous. in Centralia. few rocks near downtown Cen- of Walnut Street in Centralia. They reported him missing Aug. For further information on Pasado’s Safe Haven an- tralia. After fire crews discovered it 30, the day before the body was Pasado's Safe Haven, visit www. nounced the increased reward The headless body of the dog was a dog’s body that was lit on found along the railroad tracks. pasadosafehaven.org. Oath Keepers Conservative Group Lays Down Roots in Lewis County courtesy photo This illustration shows the entrance of the soon-to-be built Trans- Alta Commons College Shows Plans for $40 Million Commons INPUT: College Accepting Feedback on Floor Plan for 70,000-Square-Foot Facility By Amy Nile [email protected] The state’s longest continually operating community college is rolling out plans for a new building. The TransAlta Commons, a new 70,000-square-foot building on the corner of Washington Avenue and Pear Street on the Centralia College campus, will cost about $40 million, according to Vice President of Finance and Administration Steve Ward. Centralia College held a meeting Wednesday to take input from more than 50 attendees on the building’s floor plan before moving forward with the design pro- Pete Caster / [email protected] cess. Nicolae Nicoara, a U.S. citizen originally from Romania, poses for a portrait near his house in Centralia on Wednesday afternoon. Nicoara “We’re very, very close on this project,” Ward said, attended his irst Lewis County Oath Keepers meeting on Tuesday. noting the design process is expected to be underway in the next four months. PROTECTION: Two Dozen The college first forwarded a proposal for the new, multipurpose building to the governor in 2007. Last Members Dedicate year, former Gov. Chris Gregoire's outgoing capital bud- Themselves to Upholding get included $37 million in state money for work on the TransAlta Commons for the college to receive over four the Constitution years. Additionally, the college has raised $3 million By Lisa Broadt [email protected] please see COLLEGE, page Main 14 Since leaving Eastern Europe, Nicolae Nicoara hasn’t waited in line for food or suffered meager “We’re very, very close on government rations, and he’d like to keep it that way. this project.” A United States citizen origi- nally from Romania, Nicoara Steve Ward Lisa Broadt / [email protected] attended his first Lewis County college vice president of finance and Jonathan Anson, 28, Lacey, (left) and Alex Roggenkamp, 22, Olympia, chat at the Lewis County administration please see OATH, page Main 14 Oath Keepers' meeting held Tuesday at the Kit Carson restaurant in Chehalis. 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I hope to pass that joy of WHAT’S HAPPENING? night to share discovery on to new audiences.” Open mic, 6:30 p.m., Matrix Coffee- poems and talk Flenniken’s first book, “Fa- house, Chehalis, (360) 740-0492 If you have an event you about poetry in mous,” won the Prairie Schooner Clarissa Gifford, noon-1 p.m., Jeremy’s would like included in the Washington. Book Prize in Poetry and was a Cafe, 576 W. Main St., Chehalis, (360) Community Calendar, please Flenniken, finalist for a Washington State 748-4417 email your information to who describes Book Award. Her second collec- Organizations [email protected]. Washington as Include a daytime telephone tion, “Plume,” about the Hanford American Legion Post 508, potluck a hotbed of first- nuclear site, was recently chosen number where you can be rank poets, will Kathleen Flenniken and meeting, 6 p.m., Onalaska First reached. Washington State for the Pacific Northwest Poetry Church of God There is no charge for these also be available Poet Laureate Series. Onalaska American Legion Post 508, 6 listings. to discuss tips p.m. potluck, 7 p.m. meeting, Onalaska A lifelong Washington resident, For questions about and techniques for writing and Flenniken was raised in Richland First Church of God, (360) 978-5368 publishing poems. The event is calendar items, call Doug and currently lives in Seattle. She Chehalis-Centralia Cribbage Club, geared to both adults and students 6:30 p.m., Chehalis Moose Lodge, 1400 Blosser at The Chronicle, (360) holds engineering degrees from Grand Ave., Centralia, (360) 485-2852 807-8238. in middle and high school. Re- freshments will be provided by the Washington State University and Southwest Washington Writers Work- the University of Washington, and shop, 7 p.m., Unity Center for Positive Liv- Friends of the Salkum Timberland ing, 800 S. Pearl St., Centralia, more infor- DeLong grew up on the Library a masters in fine arts from Pacific mation available on Facebook Olympic Peninsula, and recently Flenniken’s goal is to visit all Lutheran University. completed her degree at The Ev- 39 Washington counties, espe- Flenniken’s website is http:// Friday, Oct. 18 ergreen State College, where she cially remote areas that may have kathleenflenniken.com. Flen- studied music and cultural stud- limited access to the arts and that niken also maintains a poetry ies in Olympia and abroad. She are hardest hit as arts funding blog called The Far Field, which Siren & Assassin to spent the majority of the last two lags. She said: “By visiting Salkum features Washington poets and Perform at Three and a half years living and per- and other communities, I hope to poetry:www.kathleenflenniken. forming in New Zealand, where build interest in reading and writ- com/blog. Chehalis Venues her father has lived for the last 15 ing poetry. I didn’t start myself The Salkum Timberland Li- years. until my 30s, partly because I just brary is located at 2480 U.S. High- The New Zealand duo Siren Dan Walker, a native from & Assassin will be performing at hadn’t been exposed to the dif- way 12, Salkum. For more infor- Gisborne, New Zealand, of Maori ferent styles and voices and pos- mation, contact the library at (360) three Chehalis venues in the up- descent, is a self-taught prodigy sibilities in contemporary poetry. 985-2148 or visit www.TRL.org. coming weeks. on the electric guitar, infused They will be at The Devilfish with musings of Metallica as a Public House from 9 p.m. until young impressionable guitarist. close on Friday. Then, on Friday, The Siren and Assassin have land,” the movie “Superman,” as He started playing in numerous been performing together exten- well as the Indiana Jones, “Star Oct. 25, they will be at Sabra’s bands all over New Zealand’s Place at 10 p.m. and The Shire sively ever since meeting in New Wars” and Harry Potter movies. music circuit, and switched to Zealand in 2011. He also has composed music for Saturday, Nov. 2, from 6:30 to acoustic guitar after seeing the 8:30 p.m. Table reservations are “Sunday Night Football,” the past legendary Tommy Emmanuel in four Olympic Games and “NBC required for The Shire. concert in 2002. Saturday, Oct. 19 Shannon DeLong has had a Nightly News.” Walker wrote and recorded The concert begins at 7 p.m. passion for music all her life. A his first solo guitar album in Wind Symphony to Play relative newcomer, she has been Admission is $12 for adults.