Playoff Previews: Beloved Mule • Pirates Hope for Another Upset / Sports Couple Celebrate Old • Seasoned T-Wolves Animal’s Longevity / Main 3 on Schedule / Sports $1 Goals Reached Thanksgiving Edition Kirks Retire From Thursday, African Sister College / Nov. 28, 2013 Main 5 Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com 2013 Wish Lift Twenty-One Applicants A Time to Give Line Up Centralia Woman an Example of Need as Area Locally for Agency on Aging Publishes Wish List for Holidays Pot Licenses By The Chronicle and the AP From Dank’s Wonder Empo- rium to Woody’s Weed Warehouse, hundreds of businesses are lining up for legal marijuana licenses in Washington. The state Liquor Control Board on Tuesday released a list of 929 ap- plications to produce, process and sell marijuana received since Nov. 18, when the window for applying opened. The deadline is Dec. 19. The most — 444 applications — were for pot growing. Locally, applicants included: Aarons Original, 177 Rarey Rd., Winlock; Nivia Enterprises, 142 Blake Rd., Toledo; Warehouse 420, 21847 Lee Rd., Centralia; Evergreen Nirvana, 501 Boone Rd., Ethel; Forbidden Farms, 201 Boistfort Winlock Rd., Chehalis; Forbidden Farms, 201 Boistfort Winlock Rd., Chehalis; Forbidden Farms Llc, please see POT, page Main 14 Lawsuit Accuses Pete Caster / [email protected] DSHS of Anne Norskog sits in the living room with her husband, George, at their home in Centralia on Wednesday, Nov. 20. Norskog, a life-long artist, is living with ad- vanced multiple sclerosis, which limits her ability to paint portraits like the one hanging on the wall. Now, she does all of her art on the computer. Failing to By Kyle Spurr INSIDE [email protected] Stop Neglect See the complete 2013 Before the effects of multiple Wish List on page Main 9. sclerosis left her wheelchair- DAMAGES: Case Stems From bound, Anne Norskog would stand at her easel and paint por- Anne Norskog said. Arrest and Prosecution of traits in her free time. Since being diagnosed with Theresa Hutton Portraits of her four sons, advanced MS in October 2003, her husband George Norskog Anne Norskog turned her artis- By Mike Baker and herself hang on walls in her tic focus to computer art using The Associated Press Centralia home. Norskog said the programs Paintbrush and SEATTLE — A lawsuit filed she considers the old paintings Photoshop. Tuesday says two former Lewis to be the most prized posses- “I was not going to let MS County girls suffered abuse and sions in her house. take that away from me,” she neglect from their mother and More than a decade has said. that state officials failed to stop the passed since Norskog could Norskog, 64, can now sit at problem. comfortably paint portraits at her computer and draw artwork Family members, neighbors her easel. of flowers, birds, lighthouses and school officials repeatedly “The more limited I have and one of her self-described Anne Norskog's self-portrait hangs on the wall of the living room at her alerted the state Department of become with mobility, I can home in Centralia. Norskog explained that she created the self-portrait no longer stand up at an easel,” please see GIVE, page Main 7 by just holding up a mirror and painting what she saw. please see NEGLECT, page Main 14 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Weather Sweet Treats Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 TONIGHT: Low 34 Wood, Dorothy Follow Us on Twitter TOMORROW: High 52 Nathene, 89, @chronline Mostly cloudy Centralia see details on page Main 2 Find Us on Facebook www.facebook.com/ Weather picture by Ramsey thecentraliachronicle Challis, fourth grade, Boistfort School A Holiday Tradition, Passed on From Mom /Life 1 CH506849cz.drb Main 2 The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Thursday, Nov. 28, 2013 COMMUNITY CALENDAR / WEATHER Editor’s Best Bet Community Free Thanksgiving Dinner A free dinner will be held at 1 p.m. at the St. Francis Mission in Toledo, 139 Spencer Road. RSVPs are requested, and can be submitted by calling (360) 785-4563, (360) 864-6566 or (360) 864-4126. Calendar Cooks Hill Community Church is also offering a free meal beginning at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 27 and going through 2:30 p.m. The church WHAT’S HAPPENING? is located at 2400 Cooks Hill Road in Cen- Bingo, doors open 5 p.m., bingo If you have an event you starts 6:30 p.m., Forest Grange, 3397 tralia. The church can be reached by calling Jackson Highway, Chehalis would like included in the 736-6133, ext. 2 Games Night, 6:30-11 p.m., Matrix Community Calendar, please Coffeehouse, 434 NW Prindle St., Cheha- email your information to lis, (360) 740-0492 [email protected]. Festival of Trees, 10 a.m.-8 p.m, (Fam- Include a daytime telephone ily Night 4-8 p.m.), Great Wolf Lodge, number where you can be Grand Mound, $6 for adults and teens, reached. free for children 12 and under There is no charge for these Public Agencies listings. 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LEGO Club, for children, 3 p.m., Thrift Stores will be having a The Centralia store is located Tenino Black Friday “Pick of the Crop” at 515A Harrison Ave. and the Thursday, Nov. 28 boutique at its Centralia store, Organizations Chehalis store at 1757 N. Nation- starting at 6 a.m. Friday. Chehalis Valley Evening Garden Club, al Ave., Suite 3. 7 p.m., call for meeting location, (360) Libraries Growing Places has secured 748-6189 All Timberland libraries closed for the upstairs of its Centralia store Take Off Pounds Sensibly, 10:15 a.m., Thanksgiving holiday for the sale of used or slightly please see CALENDAR, page Main 11 Want to see your bazaar listing here? Call customer service at 360-807-8203 or email [email protected] with your bazaar information today! (With ad placement we will include your bazaar one day here with no extra cost! Bazaar classiieds run 1-3 days and are $25 for subscribers and $30 for non-subscribers). 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The two became accom- ing upstaged by a four-legged plices and friends, sometimes farm animal. escaping their enclosure and Herb, who turns 90 on Dec. wandering around the Frogner 31, and Bummy, who turned Road neighborhood where the 85 on Nov. 12, have decided to Yantis family has lived for four include their 50-year-old mule decades. in the festivities. Jack, who was younger Ted, as the beloved animal than Ted, died about eight is named, won’t be attending years ago. the birthday celebration at the “This mule went crazy,” Newaukum Grange, but Bum- Bummy said, pointing to Ted. my plans to have a carrot cake “He ran and ran the field. He in his honor. A large poster would just stand where Jack comprised of pictures of the died.” mule will also be on display. “We’ve just enjoyed him so TED, WHO IS named after a much,” Bummy said Wednes- horse Bummy had as a child, day while providing Ted his is still active. He likes to me- morning feast of chopped up ander around the large, fenced carrots, bananas and apples. Yantis property, occasionally Pete Caster / [email protected] The diced meal is more stopping at a neighbor’s house Herb Yantis feeds his 50-year-old mule, Ted, a cough drop — wrapper and all — in the backyard pen at their home in Adna on practical than doting.