Lewis County

Lewis County

Tenino’s Own Sandstone Distillery Coming to Community Soon / Main 3 New Book $1 Focuses on Lost Midweek Edition Town of Riffe / Thursday, Dec. 26, 2013 Main 6 Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com All-Area Girls Soccer Upbeat Through Tragedy Greater Lewis County’s Top Soccer Local Family Rallies Support After Girl’s Players Honored for Efforts / Sports 1 Death, Man’s Tumor Diagnosis / Life 1 Groundbreaking for Aquatic Center PROJECT: Gail and Shaw Aquatic Center in Cheha- inal swimming pool. lis will be held at 2 p.m. Monday, The new aquatic center will courtesy image Carolyn Shaw Aquatic according to the Chehalis Foun- also have new fencing, concrete This illustra- Center Will Open in dation and the city of Chehalis. walkways and benches. The cur- tion shows The public is encouraged to rent pool building will be demol- what a new Chehalis Next Summer attend. ished and rebuilt 1,000-square- Chehalis pool would By Kyle Spurr The renovated pool, de- feet larger. signed by Pfaff Architects, Che- “It makes me smile big time,” look like. [email protected] halis, will include new slides, Chehalis Foundation President The groundbreaking for the water toys and a beach-entry Tim Sayler said. “There has been $2.4 million Gail and Carolyn style pool connected to the orig- please see AQUATIC, page Main 14 Shop’n Oakville’s Longtime Fire Chief Stepping Down After Kart Starts ‘Food Fight’ 27 Years of Service FOOD DRIVE: Business Pits Centralia and Chehalis in Effort to Load Up Local Food Banks By The Chronicle The annual Drive ‘N’ Drop food drive was less successful than ex- pected this year. Due to freezing temperatures and a still new format for the effort, Centralia brought in about 3,000 pounds of food, down from about 14,000 last year. Chehalis collected about 4,300, less than the 10,200 brought in last year. But a local business isn’t giving up. Shop’n Kart announced on please see FOOD, page Main 14 State Pot Business Applications Surpass 3,000 SEATTLE (AP) — More than 3,700 marijuana business applica- tions have now been filed in Wash- ington state, including 867 pro- posed retail outlets spanning from Pete Caster / [email protected] Point Roberts to Pullman. Oakville Fire Chief Buck Graham poses for a portrait at the Oakville Fire Department on Dec. 19. Washington's Liquor Control Board released updated figures By Lisa Broadt engine, and he likes being in be hard to let go,” Graham said Graham is not quitting. Tuesday, saying it had received charge. on Dec. 19. “I’ve done it for so 3,746 applications to grow, process [email protected] Rather, he will resume a But at the end of this year, long, so many things have be- non-leadership role on the or sell cannabis under Washing- After 27 years, being chief Graham will cede his seat as come second nature. You do it, volunteer force. He has 47 ton's recreational pot law passed is second nature to Buck Gra- chief of Grays Harbor Fire Dis- you take care of it, you make years with the department and by voters last year. The application ham. trict 1, Oakville, to Kevin Witt, it happen, and now when an would like to go to at least 50. window closed last week, but board Over the years, he has be- a man with more than 25 years issue comes up, I’ll be sitting spokesman Mikhail Carpenter said come as comfortable tweak- of experience. in the background, watching Graham is a firefighter like please see POT, page Main 14 ing a budget as driving a fire “I’d be a liar to say it won’t somebody else do it.” please see SERVICE, page Main 14 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Weather Trip of a Lifetime Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 TONIGHT: Low 31 Hiking Across America a Morris, Avalon Shirley, 82, Follow Us on Twitter TOMORROW: High 45 Growing Occurrence / Main 11 Chehalis @chronline Scattered rain Baker, Marcella Elizabeth, see details on page Main 2 97, Chehalis Find Us on Facebook www.facebook.com/ Weather picture by Wylie thecentraliachronicle Weigant, fifth grade, Onalaska Main 2 The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Thursday, Dec. 26, 2013 COMMUNITY CALENDAR / WEATHER Community Editor’s Best Bet Magician Coming to Chehalis, Winlock Libraries audience will perform tricks Calendar such as the “torn and restored Today, Dec. 26 napkin.” Other magical amaze- WHAT’S HAPPENING? ments will include Santa, a rein- Open mic, 6:30 p.m., Matrix Coffee- deer that does card tricks and If you have an event you house, Chehalis, (360) 740-0492 many other wonders. Clarissa Gifford, noon-1 p.m., Jer- would like included in the emy’s Cafe, 576 W. Main St., Chehalis, Community Calendar, please Earlier this year Evans won a (360) 748-4417 email your information to Seattle’s Funniest Magician con- [email protected]. Librarians at the Chehalis test at a family entertainment and Winlock Timberland librar- workshop and received Parent- Public Agencies Include a daytime telephone number where you can be ies have some end-of-year fun up Map magazine’s 2013 Golden Lewis-Mason-Thurston Area Agency reached. their sleeves for children. Teddy Award for Best Live En- on Aging, Council of Governments, 2 There is no charge for these Magician Jeff Evans will tertainment. p.m., 2404 Heritage Court SW, Olympia, listings. present his Holiday Magic Show (360) 664-3162, ext. 112, (888) 545-0910, The Chehalis Timberland ext. 112, or email Rebecca.Holmes@ For questions about at both libraries on Friday. Ev- Library is located at 400 N. Mar- dshs.wa.gov calendar items, call Doug ans will entertain at the Cheha- ket Blvd. Telephone is (360) 748- Blosser at The Chronicle, (360) Organizations lis library at 11 a.m., and at the 3301. The Winlock Timberland 807-8238. Winlock library at 2 p.m. Library is at 322 NE First St. Bucoda Rebekah Lodge 144, 7 p.m., Children and their families Bucoda Oddfellows Community Cen- Telephone is (360) 785-3461. Call ter, 202 S. Main, Bucoda, potluck, (360) will see rope tricks and money for more information or visit 273-9724 Saturday, Dec. 28 magic. Volunteers from the www.TRL.org. Chehalis-Centralia Cribbage Club, 6:30 p.m., Chehalis Moose Lodge, 1400 Games Day, traditional and modern Grand Ave., Centralia, (360) 485-2852 board games, card games, 1 p.m., Matrix Coffeehouse, Chehalis, (360) 740-0492 Lewis County Writers, critique ses- District, 11 a.m., commissioner’s meet- the midnight breakfast buffet. sion, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Matrix Coffeehouse, Sean Weaver, 7 p.m., Matrix Cof- feehouse, Chehalis, $8-12 sliding scale, ing room, second floor, Lewis County are $23. Chehalis, http://lewiscountywriters. Courthouse, (360) 740-1451 wordpress.com/ (360) 740-0492 All seating is first come, first Dakota Poorman Band, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., Organizations served. The upstairs event center Support Groups Scatter Creek Grill, Lucky Eagle Casino, (360) 273-2000, ext. 301 Centralia Bridge Club, noon, Unity will open at 6 p.m. The Backfire “Up From Grief,” for those grieving Church, 800 S. Pearl St., Centralia, (360) Band will take the stage at 8 p.m.. the loss of a loved one, 11 a.m.-12:30 748-1753, [email protected] Downstairs seating is available p.m., Morton Community Methodist Church, Fourth and Main, Morton, (360) Sunday, Dec. 29 all day. 330-2640 Tuesday, Dec. 31 Overeaters Anonymous, 5:30-6:30 Bingo, doors open 5 p.m., Bingo, Chehalis Moose Lodge, doors p.m., Immanuel Lutheran Church,1209 bingo starts 6:30 p.m., Forest open at 4:30 p.m., game starts at 6:30 N. Scheuber Road, Centralia, (360) Grange, 3397 Jackson Highway, Backfire Band, DJ p.m., food available, (360) 736-9030 736-9268 Chehalis Health and Hope Medical Outreach, Community meal, 1-3 p.m., Rotary Slimrock to Be free medical clinic, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Riverside Park, Centralia, free, spon- Northwest Pediatrics, 1911 Cooks Hill sored by Jesus Name Pentecostal at O’Blarney’s Road, Centralia, for those whose income Friday, Dec. 27 Church, Chehalis, (360) 623-9438 is less than 200 percent of the poverty Dancing, Jack & the Roadrunners, New Year’s Eve level, (360) 623-1485 Oregon Trail music and dancing, 1:30-4:30 p.m., Swede Hall, Rochester, Chris Guenther and the Honky Tonk open mic with Side Kicks Band, 7 p.m., The Backfire Band will be (360) 807-1761, (360) 520-6518 Drifters, doors open at 7:30 p.m., music Cowlitz Prairie Grange, (360) 864-2023 ringing in the new year with a at 8:30 p.m., Swede Hall, Rochester, $30 Music, 10:30-11:45 a.m., Twin Cities performance on New Year’s Eve per couple, $18 for individuals, (360) Senior Center, (360) 748-0061 Organizations at O’Blarney’s Irish Pub in Cen- 280-7531 Bob Garcia and Melodies Recycled Men’s Fraternity, 6-7:30 p.m., Day- tralia. Band, 7-9:30 p.m., Twin Cities Senior spring Baptist Church, 2088 Jackson O’Blarney’s is throwing a Center, $5, (360) 262-3041 Highway, Chehalis, (360) 748-3401 or party that will also include DJ Organizations Dakota Poorman Band, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., email [email protected] Slimrock. Senior Song Birds, 9:30 a.m., Twin Cit- Scatter Creek Grill, Lucky Eagle Casino, ies Senior Center, Chehalis (360) 273-2000, ext. 301 There will be live music and dancing upstairs and the DJ Pool tournament, 1 p.m., Twin Cities Monday, Dec.

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