Lifting Health Crews Attack Mount Rochester Woman Powers Past Obesity / Life Adams Wildfire / Main 4 $1 Mid-Week Edition Thursday, Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com July 9, 2015 Music on the Hill The Green Charge Musicians to Provide Tunes for Seminary Downtown Centralia Business Installing Hill Natural Area Hikers Saturday / Main 3 New Electric Car Charging Station / Main 6 Chehalis Man Pleads Guilty to Attempted Murder MAY SHOOTING: Chan a plea agreement Wednesday Lewis County Superior Court in mony of witnesses. decided to have a fight to settle afternoon nearly two months relation to the May 13 shooting. “Basically what they all would the dispute at another location. Oscar to Be Sentenced after he was accused of shoot- His sentencing is scheduled for testify to is this dispute started Oscar and the other man July 15 ing a man in the face and hand 9:15 a.m. July 15. at the Walmart in Chehalis,” he referred to each other as cous- in a residential neighborhood in Deputy Prosecutor Will said. ins, but are not actually cousins, By Natalie Johnson Chehalis. Halstead on Wednesday gave a The parties involved then Halstead said. Chan H. Oscar, 36, pleaded summary of the events leading moved to a Motel 6, where Os- [email protected] “They were both en route guilty to one count of second- up to and following the shoot- car and the shooting victim, an- A Chehalis man accepted degree attempted murder in ing, based on the expected testi- other 36-year-old Chehalis man, please see GUILTY, page Main 13 Anglers Could Journey on the Cowlitz See Emergency Decades Later, Anglers Regulations in Disdain Remains Still Angry Over Dams Chehalis Basin DROUGHT: Intakes Installed at Some Basin Hatcheries to Cool Temps for Fish Health By Kaylee Osowski [email protected] Below normal flow levels and warm water in Chehalis Basin rivers and throughout the state is making this summer a challenge for fish. Officials with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife have restricted fishing on parts of some rivers in the state to protect fish in those systems, according to a Wednesday press release. please see REGULATIONS, page Main 13 State Timber Revenue Fix to Yield $1M for County Schools By Dameon Pesanti [email protected] Budget negotiations in Olym- pia have been unprecedentedly long this legislative ses- Pete Caster / [email protected] sion, and although Anglers test the waters of the Cowlitz River at Barrier Dam in Salkum earlier this year. Legislature they’re not yet com- 2015 pleted, local officials By Jordan Nailon Cowlitz was strong as the state are hailing at least For The Chronicle Legislature, the Washington Department of Game and vari- one victory written Editor’s Note: into the budget for The follow- “The reality is that the river is no longer ous sport and commercial fish- rural schools. ing is Part One of a two-part a river. It’s a series of lakes.” ing groups spoke out against Spearheaded by series that will conclude in the project. The Legislature Sen. John Braun, Saturday’s edition. Look to the even designated the Cowlitz as R-Centralia, the weekend edition for the 40- Bob Iyall a salmon spawning sanctuary state will no longer page Journey on the Cowlitz Cowlitz Tribe chairman in an effort to protect it, but deduct basic educa- special edition. Tacoma Power eventually won the right to block the river to tion dollars from Despite stiff local opposi- In 1948, Tacoma Utilities anglers on the river has never generate electricity for Tacoma school districts that receive federal tion, the U.S. Supreme Court been the same. timber money. The move affects made the highly contentious residents. decision to build a dam on the sided with the utility three From inception, public please see TIMBER, page Main 13 Cowlitz River. times. Life for animals and opposition to damming the please see DISDAIN, page Main 14 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Deaths Little League Baseball Logan District Fire Lewis County Area Since 1889 Currier, Darlene Ordelia, Cause of Follow Us on Twitter 86, Chehalis Centralia @chronline Bivins, Gary Wayne, 66, Beats Oxford Street Centralia Aberdeen House Blaze Find Us on Facebook Undetermined www.facebook.com/ for Trip to Following thecentraliachronicle Title Game Investigation / Sports 1 / Main 4 A CENTURY OF HELPING OTHERS. CHEHALIS 714 W. MAIN ST. EXIT 77 360.740.0770 100 YEARS OF COMMUNITY BANKING HOME | CONSTRUCTION | BUSINESS CH543126cz.cg Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Thursday, July 9, 2015 PAGE TWO News Daily Outtake (Throwback Edition): Jared in Centralia of the Weird ing the error and saying it would Vet Finds 62 Hair be fixed. He noticed the minus Bands, Eight Pairs of signs June 4 on a family visit to the museum. Underwear Inside Dog Massachusetts Institute of MARS, Pa. (AP) — This Technology Professor Emeritus hungry Labrador has some un- Arthur Mattuck tells the Boston usual taste buds. Globe that the two formulas are A Pennsylvania veterinarian equal. He says Joseph presented retrieved 62 hair bands, eight the fraction upside-down. pairs of underwear and a ban- dage from the dog’s stomach during exploratory surgery. Authorities Discover The head technician at Good Man Living With Two Shepherd’s Veterinary Hospital in Mars tells WTAE-TV that the Deer Inside Home black Lab named Tiki wasn’t re- HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) sponding to medicine for vomit- — Officials say a West Virginia ing, diarrhea and a loss of appe- man had been keeping two deer tite, and X-rays showed a mass in in captivity at his home for at its stomach. least a year. Last week’s surgery lasted Multiple media outlets report two hours, and the vet and his that Officer Joshua Addesa with technician were shocked at the the state Division of Natural Re- items that were pulled out. sources says authorities discov- The dog’s owner, Sara Weiss, ered the two white-tailed bucks says Tiki once swallowed a plas- when they visited the Cabell tic foam dart, but that passed County man’s home on July 4 through the dog’s system natu- after receiving a tip from a con- rally. cerned citizen. Addesa declined to identify the man because of an ongoing Alabama Burglary investigation. Suspect Chased by Bull Addesa says the two deer had The Chronicle / file photo Through Pasture a healthy supply of hay available Jared Fogle, made famous as a spokesman for Subway, speaks to Centralia High School students about the dangers of to them inside the home. Addesa texting while driving while visiting the school in December 2011. Fogle was the focus of international media attention ARAB, Ala. (AP) — Sheriff’s says officers set the deer free but after his home was raided this week. See the story on page Main 12. officials in northern Alabama because the animals were do- say a burglary suspect was taken mesticated, they may be consid- into custody after being chased ered for relocation. by a bull through a cow pasture. In West Virginia, illegal pos- Notable Quote Marshall County Sheriff session of wildlife is a misde- Scott Walls told 26-year-old meanor offense. Brad Lynn Hemby was being sought in connection with a Broadway Theatergoer “With no crown, however, how can you safely burglary Wednesday morning determine whether or not you have conquered Cheese in Arab. Tries to Recharge Phone Walls says Hemby tried flee- Days? By taking the Cheese Days Challenge, of course!” ing deputies by running through in Onstage Plug a cow pasture and a bull roam- NEW YORK (AP) — There’s ing the land joined the chase. loud talking, snoring and, of Aaron VanTuyl Walls says Hemby eventually course, phones ringing. But the- columnist and sports editor fell onto a barbed wire fence and ater etiquette might have taken a (see page Main 8 for the full commentary) surrendered. turn for the bizarre on Broadway Walls says stolen property last week with a dead cellphone. was recovered from Hemby’s A patron at the Tony Award- truck and the man is charged nominated play “Hand to God” with burglary, theft and at- on July 2 climbed onstage just Editor’s Pick tempting to elude. It’s unclear if before the show began to try he has an attorney. to recharge his phone in what Hard Work for ‘Liquid Gold’ looked like an outlet. Ushers at Error in Golden Ratio at the Booth Theatre quickly con- Chronicle reporter Dameon and stories from the two-week Such an incredible resource.” verged, and the young man was Pesanti dubbed the whitewater rafting trip down the 105-mile The trek for Pesanti included Exhibit? Museum Now pulled off the stage. runs of the Ohanapecosh River Cowlitz River. walking through chest-high wa- Says It’s Right A public announcement was “liquid gold” in a front page story As it turns out, the final story ter while holding his expensive made warning patrons to avoid in Tuesday’s edition. — at least for Pesanti — ended up camera over his head and bal- BOSTON (AP) — A Boston any similar acts, and ushers Like all being among the most difficult. ancing on an underwater log. science museum that praised a were stationed near the offender things of value, It took short of two hours to I’m not sure it’s what he teenager for catching a mistake in case anything else untoward that gold took reach the remote tributary of the signed up for when he began as in the golden ratio at a decades- occurred. He apparently got the some work to Cowlitz where whitewater kay- a city government reporter last old exhibit now says it wasn’t an message.