$1 Running Early Week Edition Tuesday, for Peace June 21, 2016 Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com Runners Make Their Way Through Lewis County / Main 16 Back From the Brink Taking the Next Step Toledo Business Owners Add to Offerings, Former W.F. West Infielder to Continue His Reach New Profitability After Theft / Main 3 Career With NCAA Division I School / Sports 1 Baby A Pending Change of Scenery Unharmed Family Mural in Chehalis Might Be Near the End of the Line After Woman Pushing Stroller Struck by Vehicle By The Chronicle A woman was injured but a baby in a stroller was un- harmed when they were struck from behind by a vehicle south of Chehalis Sunday. At 6:35 p.m. on Sunday, deputies responded to a report of a collision between car and a pedestrian near the intersec- tion of Avery Road East and Coulson Road south of Che- halis. please see STRUCK, page Main 11 Gail and Pete Caster / Carolyn Shaw [email protected] Betty and Don Thayer pose for a portrait in front of a mural Don and his daughters created across the alley in their backyard over 25 years ago at their home in Chehalis. Aquatics By Jordan Nailon Center Opens [email protected] In 1989, Chehalis resident for Season Betty Thayer received a Christ- mas present from her family that EXPECTATIONS: New she still looks at every morning, Open Swim Session if not several times a day. “The men disappeared and I Added to Accommodate was told not to look out the cur- More Swimmers at tains,” remembered Betty. Thirty minutes later, Betty Chehalis Facility was given the go ahead to peak By Justyna Tomtas out the back window. What she [email protected] saw was a 16-foot-wide, 8-foot-tall mural bursting with depictions The Gail and Carolyn Shaw of vibrant tulips and a snow- Aquatics Center in Chehalis slathered Mount Rainier. opened for the season on Fri- “I am very fond of tulips, so day, and although numbers they painted me a tulip field,” were down the first weekend said Betty, still grateful after all due to cooler temperatures, these years. Recreation Manager Lilly Wall Don Thayer, Betty’s hus- expects another busy season. band, came up with the idea for “We’re really excited about the mural a few months before the season,” she said, adding that long ago Christmas, and he the aquatics center has added Betty Thayer pulls the blinds open in her kitchen to reveal a large mural that her husband, Don, left, and their kids created please see MURAL, page Main 11 25 years ago at their home in Chehalis. please see OPEN, page Main 11 Boccata, O'Blarney's Chefs Win Big at United Way’s Chefs Night Out FUNDRAISER: Totals for annual Chef’s Night Out event Choice Award at Saturday’s the event focused on breaking Saturday during the organiza- event. the cycle of intergenerational Amount Raised Have tion’s largest fundraiser, which In all, nine chefs from seven poverty. The money raised will Not Yet Been Calculated this year raised money to help restaurants competed for the be diverted to fund programs end poverty in the area. title of top chef. directly reducing poverty in the By Justyna Tomtas Darin Harris, from Boccata The event, which has raised community. [email protected] in Centralia, won the Judge’s more than $400,000 over the “Chef’s Night Out is United Choice Award. Shane Wright, last eight years, benefits a dif- Way of Lewis County’s largest Two chefs were honored at from O’Blarney’s Irish Pub ferent cause every year. This United Way of Lewis County’s Darin Harris Shane Wright in Centralia, won the People’s year’s “fund-a-need” portion of please see CHEFS, page Main 11 Boccata O’Blarney’s The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Colorful Remembrance Scenes From Festival Season Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Stained Photos of McNeal, Patricia Ann, 77, Follow Us on Twitter Chehalis @chronline Glass Fun as Swede Horsley, Pamela Jean, 62, Windows Day, Egg Days Longview Find Us on Facebook Honor Kickstart a Bradford, Troy Eugene, 50, www.facebook.com/ Onalaska thecentraliachronicle Former Summer of Nelson, Edmund Roger, Churchgoer 73, Silver Creek Revelry DeHaven, Dale G., 57, / Life 1 / Main 13 & 14 Centralia Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Tuesday, June 21, 2016 PAGE TWO News Outtake: Chasing Chickens in Winlock of the Weird rectangles in pedestrian plazas X-Ray Machine Foils in Times Square to confine the Attempt to Sneak costumed Elmos and Spider- Men who pose for photos and Iguana Into Courthouse solicit tips from tourists. BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — The color-coded Designated The Boulder County Justice Activity Zones are meant to rein Center allows service animals in the pushy panhandlers who into the building, but secu- have flooded the area, in some rity guards drew the line when cases harassing passers-by to pay someone tried to sneak his pet for photos with them. iguana through the X-ray ma- Under a law signed by Demo- chine. cratic Mayor Bill de Blasio in Sheriff’s spokeswoman Car- April, street performers and cos- rie Haverfield told The Daily tumed characters can be issued Camera that security staff summonses or even face arrest caught the reptile as it passed if they are caught operating out- through the machine Friday. side the eight designated rect- angles. Each area is painted teal The pet’s owner was turned Pete Caster / [email protected] away and waited outside for his and measures 8 feet by 50 feet. Some lawyers and perform- Teams in the Orzel Memorial Tournament run toward a group of chickens during the Rowdy Rooster Roundup on Sat- friends to come out of the court- urday afternoon at Winlock High School. The competition consisted of ive teams of three baseball players who had to house. ers say the new rules infringe on performers’ First Amendment chase down a speciic chicken with their team’s tag on it ,then race back to the inish line at the left ield foul pole. RBI The sheriff’s department (Rural Baseball Incorporated) inished in irst place. It was the second year in a row RBI won the competition. See more rights. tweeted an X-ray image of the in today’s Sports section and online at www.lewiscountysports.com. iguana, or at least its skeletal “It’s the wrong approach. It outline, inside a bag. invites litigation through a civil case or possibly could be used as a defense in a criminal case,” Notable Quote Repentant Fare Evader lawyer Norman Siegel said. “The Delivers Apology Letter, legislation has created a no-free- expression zone in the quintes- $300 in Cash sential public space, the Cross- “Given the circumstances of this case, you are very lucky. BOSTON (AP) — One Mas- roads of the World.” I hope when you get out, things are different for you.” sachusetts commuter believes But attorney Linda Steinman, it’s never too late to say you’re representing the Times Square sorry — or pay your train fare. Alliance business group, said the Judge James Lawler The Boston Globe reported- new rules are consistent with during sentencing for woman accused in stabbing Matthew Andrewes hand-de- case law permitting restrictions livered an apology letter, along on the time, place and manner with $300 in cash, to the Mas- of speech. (see page Main 5 for the full story) sachusetts Bay Transportation “It’s not a ban on anything,” Authority on June 9. That’s the Steinman said. amount Andrewes believes he Yamil Morales, who dresses owes the MBTA for evading as the Mad Hatter from “Alice fares. and Wonderland,” said the new Today in History The 31-year-old Andrewes rules “are against the Constitu- says he avoided paying the train tion and against the understand- Today’s Highlight in History: the first round of their rematch his role in the Watergate cover- at Yankee Stadium.) up. (He was released 19 months fare whenever he could as a teen- ing we have with this area.” On June 22, 1941, during In 1940, during World War II, later.) ager and in his 20s. He added, “There could be World War II, Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler gained a stunning In 1987, actor-dancer Fred He wrote: “I am so sorry. a lot of arrests, which is bad be- launched Operation Barbarossa, victory as France was forced to Astaire died in Los Angeles at Please accept this money as cause these people have families a massive invasion of the Soviet sign an armistice eight days af- age 88. compensation.” that they are supporting.” Union. Some of the conflict has been ter German forces overran Paris. In 1993, former first lady Pat Andrewes is Christian and On this date: says the guilt was weighing on over the expectation of tipping In 1944, President Franklin Nixon died in Park Ridge, New him and he was praying about after the performers take pic- In 1611, English explorer Hen- D. Roosevelt signed the Service- Jersey, at age 81. what to do. tures with tourists. ry Hudson, his son and several men’s Readjustment Act of 1944, Ten years ago: During a visit to MBTA spokesman Joe Pesa- Times Square Alliance presi- other people were set adrift in more popularly known as the Hungary to commemorate the turo says this isn’t the first time a dent Tim Tompkins said that in present-day Hudson Bay by mu- “GI Bill of Rights.” 1956 revolt against communism, fare evader has apologized, but it the past a lot of tourists didn’t re- tineers aboard the Discovery.