Rivalry Sweep Rochester Girls, Boys Beat Tenino / Sports $1 Mid Week Edition Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016 Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com Another Delay? Moving In Wing’s Sentencing in Toddler’s Death Could Harrison Avenue Building to House New Be Postponed Once Again / Main 6 Insurance Office and More / Main 7 Crashes into Architects Present Plans for New Chehalis Schools SCHEMATICS COMPLETE: One- structed in the Mint City during Overpasses a Chehalis School District board Quarter of Overall Design of directors meeting Wednesday Becoming More Process Now Finished night. McGranahan Architects pre- for New Mint City Grade sented schematic designs show- Common in Schools casing the two new schools that will be constructed in the city. Lewis County in By Justyna Tomtas The project is funded by a $36 [email protected] million bond measure passed by voters in April. Past Five Years Justyna Tomtas / [email protected] Members of the community Kris Stamon, project manager, Aaron Winston, with McGranahan Architects, discusses the de- were able to get a glimpse of the LOW BLOWS: WSDOT Still signs for Chehalis’ two new elementary schools on Wednesday. new school campus being con- please see SCHOOL, page Main 7 Developing Plan for Koontz Road Bridge Fix ‘They’re not intending to give me one ounce of property back’ By Natalie Johnson [email protected] On Dec. 8, a semi truck carrying an oversized load on southbound Inter- state 5 crashed into the Koontz Road Khvoroff Continues Battle overpass, causing extensive damage to the bridge and injuring two people. It was the first of two crashes into Interstate 5 overpasses in Lewis Coun- ty that month. A week later, another oversized semi became wedged under the Toledo-Vader Road overpass a few miles farther south. Between 2011 and 2015, there were 19 reported crashes into I-5 over- passes in the county — nearly three times as many as in the previous five years, according to available data from the Washington State Department of Transportation. “In our own data inside the (WS- DOT) bridge office, we’ve noticed relatively high numbers this year as opposed to last year … and overall please see BRIDGES, page Main 14 Pete Caster / [email protected] Victor Khvorof walks along an eroded bank of the Cowlitz River on Tuesday afternoon on his property in Randle. Khvorof claims that a faulty Washington Department of Transportation river retention project was the cause of a multitude of debris being deposited onto his land in late 2015. TRIAL TO BE SET: Randle piled up on his land in the late-2015 floods — debris he says came his Rancher Vic Khvoroff way due to the state’s project to pro- Wants Permanent Cattle tect U.S. Highway 12 near Randle. Khvoroff, a long-time rancher, Easement, Flood Debris hasn’t been in favor of the proj- Cleaned Up ect design from the beginning, in 2013, but when the court granted By Kaylee Osowski the Washington State Department [email protected] of Transportation possession and Pete Caster / [email protected] use of his property in a construc- Workers from the Washington Department of Vic Khvoroff doesn’t want any tion project to protect Highway 12 Transportation inspect the Koontz Road over- money. from the ever-changing Cowlitz in pass on Interstate 5 after it was struck by an He wants permanent cattle and exchange for $31,600, he didn’t have oversized truck on Dec. 8 near Napavine. Data equipment access to his property on a choice. from the WSDOT shows that overpass crashes Debris sits on Victor Khvorof’s property near the Cowlitz both sides of the Cowlitz River, and have increased over the past ive years. River on Tuesday on in Randle. for the state to clean up debris that please see RANCHER, page Main 16 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Moving Riders a Poem at a Time Sentenced to Nearly Four Years Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Vancouver 45-Year-Old Fasano, Vic, 79, Chehalis Follow Us on Twitter Oertli, Wilma Carolle @chronline Transit Centralian Tucker, 91, Olympia System Pleads Guilty Find Us on Facebook Provides on Two www.facebook.com/ Poetry for Counts of thecentraliachronicle Riders Child Abuse / Life 1 / Main 5 A CENTURY OF HELPING OTHERS. It’s Easy START How can we ONLINE! CH552478cz.ke CHEHALIS help you? 714 W. Main Street 360.740.0770 HOME | CONSTRUCTION | BUSINESS Also TOLEDO, WINLOCK, TUMWATER & OLYMPIA Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016 PAGE TWO News Looking for Space of the Weird growth. Judge Rules Monkey Firefighters in Orange used Cannot Own Selfie a ladder to free the trapped dog, Brandon Hansen which was taken to a veterinar- / [email protected] Photos Copyright ian for a checkup. Rochester’s SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A The two dogs had run off Brandon Rogers macaque monkey that took now- hours earlier when their owner (30) looks for famous selfie photographs can- suffered a medical emergency at space to shoot not be declared the copyright her home and was taken to the against defense owner of the photos, a federal hospital. Police tried to catch from Tenino’s judge said Wednesday. the dogs, but they kept running Yngwie Dowies U.S. District Judge William away. (20) and Kaleb Orrick said in a tentative ruling Orange police said on their Strawn. Rochester in federal court in San Francisco Facebook page: “Apparently, any defeated its rivals that “while Congress and the dog in the right circumstances in Tuesday night’s president can extend the protec- can turn into Lassie.” Evergreen 2A/1A tion of law to animals as well as League boys bas- humans, there is no indication ketball contest to that they did so in the Copyright Teen Bank Robber earn its irst win of Act.” Trapped Between the season. The The lawsuit filed last year by story, and many People for the Ethical Treatment Electronic Doors other photos, of Animals sought a court order is available to DETROIT (AP) — A teen ac- subscribers at allowing PETA to represent the cused of robbing a Detroit bank monkey and let it administer all www.chronline. didn’t have a good getaway plan. com. proceeds from the photos for the Police say a teller at a Chase benefit of the monkey, which it bank activated electronic locks identified as 6-year-old Naruto, Monday, trapping the 15-year- and other crested macaques liv- old boy between a set of doors ing in a reserve on the Indone- on his way out. He was arrested sian island of Sulawesi. when officers arrived. The photos were taken dur- Officer Dan Donakowski ing a 2011 trip to Sulawesi with an unattended camera owned by told the Detroit Free Press that British nature photographer Da- the teen had threatened to use a vid Slater, who asked the court bomb if the teller didn’t give him to dismiss the case. Slater says money. Police don’t believe he the British copyright obtained had a weapon. for the photos by his compa- ny, Wildlife Personalities Ltd., Elected Pa. Official should be honored worldwide. PETA sued Slater and his San Refuses Township Seat Francisco-based self-publishing at Swearing-In company Blurb, which pub- Today in History lished a book called “Wildlife STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) Today’s Highlight in History: IN 1927, commercial trans- raised the cost of a first-class Personalities” that includes the — A Democrat who won a seat atlantic telephone service was stamp from 4 to 5 cents. On Jan. 7, 1789, America “monkey selfie” photos. on a Pennsylvania township’s inaugurated between New York IN 1979, Vietnamese forces held its first presidential elec- The photos have been widely board of supervisors declined to and London. captured the Cambodian capital serve at her swearing in. tion as voters chose electors who, distributed elsewhere by outlets, IN 1942, the Japanese siege of Phnom Penh, overthrowing Colleen Unroe says she a month later, selected George including Wikipedia, which of Bataan began during World the Khmer Rouge government. doesn’t have time for the job in Washington to be the nation’s contend that no one owns the War II. (The fall of Bataan three IN 1989, Emperor Hirohito Ferguson Township, and she first chief executive. copyright to the images because months later was followed by the of Japan died in Tokyo at age they were taken by an animal, now concedes she wasn’t eligible notorious Death March.) 87; he was succeeded by his son, not a person. for office because she hadn’t On This Date: IN 1949, George C. Marshall Crown Prince Akihito. lived in the township for a year resigned as U.S. Secretary of when she defeated the Republi- IN 1610, astronomer Galileo IN 1999, for the second time State; President Harry S. Tru- in history, an impeached Ameri- Barking Dog Leads can incumbent in November. Galilei began observing three man chose Dean Acheson to can president went on trial be- The township and the ousted of Jupiter’s moons (he spotted succeed him. Police to Trapped fore the Senate. President Bill incumbent, Drew Clemson, had a fourth moon almost a week IN 1955, singer Marian An- Canine Companion sued to keep Unroe from taking later). derson made her debut with Clinton faced charges of perjury ORANGE, Mass. (AP) — It office. The township dropped its IN 1800, the 13th president of the Metropolitan Opera in New and obstruction of justice; he was a scene straight out of an lawsuit after she refused to be the United States, Millard Fill- York, in Verdi’s “Un Ballo in was acquitted.