$1 Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com Mid-Week Edition Adna in the Thursday, May 19, 2016 Title Game Pirates Advance / Sports 2007 Gang Shooting Sunbird at 40 Years Man Convicted for Centralia Drive-By Chehalis Shopping Center Mainstay Wins Appeal for New Sentence / Main 4 Thrives by Diversifying Offerings / Main 3 Dispatchers Vote ‘No Confidence’ in 911 Manager EMERGENCY: Workers Deliver Most people seems to agree that Lewis David Anderson, less than a week after pride, he has proven himself unwilling to County E911 Communications has a tox- Anderson and the Lewis County Board or incapable of learning the specific re- Letter to Commissioners, Cite ic culture. The cause, however, is up for of Commissioners dismissed concerns quirements needed of him in this depart- Complaints and Concerns debate. about the center’s management as little ment, or even the fundamentals of the Lewis County E911 Communications more than nonsense and political ma- department he supervises,” states a letter By Natalie Johnson dispatchers this week took a majority neuvering. [email protected] vote of no confidence in interim manager “Whether by apathy, ignorance or please see MANAGER, page Main 16 36th Anniversary Cowlitz Tribe Explosions, Earthquakes Teach Documents Return of About Lava Under Mount St. Helens Goats to Mount St. Helens WILDLIFE: Impressive Population Turnaround Is All Natural By Jordan Nailon [email protected] When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, it sent pyroclas- tic debris flows hurtling across the landscape in excess of 300 mph. Everything inside the blast zone was sheared and singed, and the North Fork Toutle River was buried 600 feet deep in plac- es. Those forces wiped out un- told numbers of wildlife, includ- ing an estimated 5,000 blacktail deer, 1,500 elk and all 15 moun- tain goats believed to inhabit the mountain at that time. please see GOATS, page Main 16 Police Note Errors in Pete Caster / [email protected] Investigation of Contrails follow a plane as it passes by Mt. St. Helens on Wednesday afternoon in the Giford Pinchot National Forest. Wednesday marked the 36th anniversary of the volcano erupting, killing 57 people. Cat’s Death By Natalie Johnson IMUSH: cated people, scientists are working on a Creager, a professor of Earth and space sci- Technology Is [email protected] Harnessed to Paint a Clearer project they hope will allow for a better ences at the University of Washington, held understanding of the epic processes taking court at the Johnston Ridge Observatory in There may still be justice for Picture as 36th Anniversary of place beneath Mount St. Helens. order to explain the intricacies of the sub- “Jay” the cat. Eruption is Marked Specifically, scientists are hoping to terranean magma imaging project. The Centralia Police Depart- learn how the mountain recharges its mol- According to Creager, the goal of iMUSH ment announced Wednesday that By Jordan Nailon ten potbelly of magma. is to “construct a model of magma under it plans to forward a case regard- The name of that project is iMUSH, [email protected] Mount St. Helens as low as possible, hope- ing a cat that was tortured and which stands for Imaging Magma Under St. fully all the way to the subduction zone.” killed on April 28 in Centralia to With the help of highly sensitive equip- Helens. On Wednesday, the 36th anniver- ment, a few explosives and a bunch of dedi- sary of the deadly mountain eruption, Ken please see LAVA, page Main 14 please see CAT, page Main 16 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Get Your Plants Volcanic Memories Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Massive Notebook Witt, Roberta Carlene Hol- Follow Us on Twitter man, 86, Rochester @chronline Master of Fallen Hinkey, Heather Anne, 43, Gardener Journalist Oakville Find Us on Facebook Sale Set Found After Gage, Howard F., 93, Centralia www.facebook.com/ Dykstra, Christa Lea (Brown), thecentraliachronicle for This Eruptions of 49, Winlock Torres, Jaredsi, 8, Rochester Weekend St. Helens Hail Jr., Carmen Alfred, 63, / Life 1 / Main 13 Glenoma LOCAL PEOPLE, LOCAL DECISIONS! CHEHALIS 714 W. Main Street HOW CAN 360.740.0770 WE HELP You? Also TOLEDO, WINLOCK, TUMWATER CH557409ca.sw & OLYMPIA Keith Macy Matt DeBord HOME | CONSTRUCTION | BUSINESS NMLS# 539574 Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Thursday, May 19, 2016 PAGE TWO News Outtake: Close Play at First Base of the Weird Facebook page Tuesday. Eiffel Tower to be Police say a passer-by Turned Into a Euro 2016 snapped the photo after notic- ing Bonin dressed in a suit and Rental Apartment perched on the tailgate of his PARIS (AP) — Four lucky cruiser, digging into a fast-food competition winners are set to meal with the panhandler. be the first people in history to Swansea resident Jake Morse use the Eiffel Tower as a vacation told The Herald News he took home next month. the photo May 11 and shared it Rental company HomeAway on Facebook. is taking over part of the first The 35-year-old Bonin later floor of the iconic 300-meter told his colleagues he saw the (yard) landmark for the duration woman asking for help, so he of the UEFA Euro 2016 soccer drove to a nearby restaurant, or- tournament in Paris, and trans- dered two meals and returned to forming it into Hausmannian- have lunch with her. style living quarters. The competition opens Thursday for the chance to stay Meteorologist Running Matt Baide / [email protected] in the famous monument, which on Trail Rescues Baby Adna’s Josey Sandrini tries to tag out Pe Ell-Willapa Valley’s Abby Hodel at irst base during a District 4 2B semiinal provides panoramic views onto game at Fort Borst Park in Centralia on Wednesday. Hodel was safe on the play. See the story and additional photo- the Arc de Triomphe, the Sacre Screech Owl graphs in today’s Sports section and online at www.lewiscountysports.com. Coeur and the Seine river. PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Brian Sharples, HomeAway Philadelphia television meteo- CEO, called the move “unprec- rologist had broke off from a trail edented” and said it was “guar- run to rescue an injured baby Notable Quote anteed to provide the most epic screech owl and took it to a wild- vacation memories of a lifetime.” life center, where it’s doing well. Longtime WPVI-TV person- In Finland, a Burger ality Cecily Tynan said on her “I missed it ‘cause I got high.” Facebook page she found the King With a Sauna injured owl on the ground Mon- HELSINKI (AP) — Finland’s day, clacking its beak at her. Janet Gleason, Parliament has one. Nokia has The Schuylkill Center for En- explaining why she skipped sentencing hearing one. And now a Burger King res- vironmental Education said the taurant in downtown Helsinki month-old owl fell out of its nest has its own sauna. and probably wouldn’t have sur- (see page Main 5 for the full story) Hanne-Mari Ahonen, brand vived for long on the ground. manager for Burger King in Fin- Center officials say the owl land, on Wednesday said the was “very dehydrated and had idea was to combine local tradi- very little energy” but is doing tions with serving burgers. better with intravenous fluids She says the restaurant had and even has another baby owl Today in History “lots of good feedback” since they there for company. opened last year, with groups of 15 Today’s Highlight in History: particularly Japanese. much notoriety, Mary Jo But- accounting for some 60 or more In 1924, the Marx Brothers tafuoco, of Massapequa, New people attending every week. Watch Where You Sit: On May 19, 1962, actress made their Broadway debut in York, was shot and seriously Customers do not eat in the Baby Opossum Rescued Marilyn Monroe sang “Happy the revue “I’ll Say She Is.” wounded by her husband Joey’s steam bath — that comes after Birthday to You” to President In 1935, T.E. Lawrence, also teenage lover, Amy Fisher. Vice the big sweat. SAN DIEGO (AP) — The John F. Kennedy during a Dem- known as “Lawrence of Arabia,” President Dan Quayle sparked “No, no, the sauna is for San Diego County Department ocratic fundraiser at New York’s died in Dorset, England, six controversy by criticizing the sweating it out, and our ham- of Animal Services says a baby Madison Square Garden. days after being injured in a mo- CBS sitcom “Murphy Brown” for burgers taste all the better for it opossum is doing well after be- On this date: torcycle crash. having its unmarried title char- afterward,” she said. ing rescued from a toilet. In 1943, in his second wartime acter, played by Candice Bergen, In A.D. 715, Pope Gregory II as- The sauna costs 250-300 eu- The soaking wet little crea- address to the U.S. Congress, decide to have a child. sumed the papacy. ros ($282-$350) for a group, de- ture is seen in photos posted on British Prime Minister Winston In 1994, former first lady Jac- In 1536, pending on weekday or weekend. the department’s Facebook page. Anne Boleyn, the Churchill pledged his country’s queline Kennedy Onassis died The agency says a Pacific second wife of England’s King full support in the fight against in New York at age 64. Beach woman found the crit- Henry VIII, was beheaded after Japan. Ten years ago: A key U.N. pan- Trooper Has Lunch With ter in her toilet on May 1 and being convicted of adultery. In 1958, British actor Ronald el joined European and United Panhandler who Held Animal Control Officer Carlos In 1780, a mysterious dark- Colman died in Santa Barbara, Nations leaders in urging the Wallis responded and took it to ness enveloped much of New California, at age 67.