$1 Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com Mid-Week Edition Snow Blankets Thursday, County / Main 16 Jan. 12, 2017 Lighting Up the City Tribe Buoys Dock Plans Fort Borst Christmas Display Raises More Chehalis Tribe Makes Donation Toward New Than $20,000, Six Tons of Food / Main 4 Wheelchair Ramp at Fort Borst Pond / Main 7 Citizen Group, City Make Amends on Resources for Homeless Justyna Tomtas OPEN ARMS: Councilors gized to the Centralia City tion to that to come to some sort / [email protected] Council on behalf of the group of agreement or resolution,” he Chris Shilley, of Express Support for for the organization’s act of civil said regarding the ordinance Open Arms, Homeless Population disobedience after they decided that prohibited their actions. addresses the Cen- to attach items to trees at George He said he’d like to come tralia City Council After Removal of Items Washington Park following city up with an agreement on a on Tuesday night From Park staff’s removal of the clothing timeframe when the organiza- about the group’s based on a city ordinance. tion would be allowed to hang eforts to help the By Justyna Tomtas After apologizing to the up items, which include hats, homeless popula- [email protected] council, Shilley asked the city to scarves and mittens, at Wash- tion in the city. work with the group in their fu- ington Park to help the local On Tuesday night, Chris ture efforts. Shilley, of Open Arms, apolo- “I’m here to ask for an exemp- please see GROUP, page Main 13 Lewis Gather Church Feeds, County ‘Tremendously Clothes and Supports Centralia’s Growing Might Homeless Population Replace Misunderstood’ Manager Living in Arizona TRAVEL: Current Risk Manager Moved Last Year, Stayed With County at Request of Commissioners By Aaron Kunkler [email protected] Lewis County may begin searching for a replacement risk manager following Pau- lette Young’s move to Arizo- na in September. Young was praised at a meeting on Wednes- day by the county commis- sioners and Human Paulette Young Resources Pete Caster / [email protected] risk manager Direc- Lenny Hofman, who has been a volunteer with Gather Church for the past two years, lends his cell phone to a customer at The Atrium on Friday afternoon. tor Archie Smith for her 15 years of ser- By Natalie Johnson myriad ministries to the poor are called to serve because the how it’s supposed to be,” he said. vice and responsiveness to [email protected] and homeless of Centralia, Pas- church practices what it preach- “They walk the walk and talk the risk-related issues that have tor Cole Meckle shrugs and says es by helping people with open talk.” emerged over the past year. When asked how Gather it “boggles his mind.” arms. The church, which operates Church’s relatively small con- Lenny Hoffman, a volunteer “This seemed like a church please see COUNTY, page Main 13 gregation is able to maintain its for two years, said he and others that was on the right track with please see GATHER, page Main 13 Solutions for Dry Skin Subscriber Note Deaths The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Lewis County Area Since 1889 For the safety of our carriers, Cook, Marian Louise (Norquist Guenther) Local some newspaper deliveries will Cook, 89, Napavine Follow Us on Twitter Experts be delayed today, as they were McCash, Charles Filmore, 90, Silver Creek @chronline Seng, Clifford C., 82, Chehalis Suggest in cases some on Tuesday, due to Bridges, Cecil L., 88, Chehalis the winter weather. Newspapers Find Us on Facebook Fixes for Ward, Judith, 77, Vader www.facebook.com/ Winter- will be delivered as soon as the Stigall, Dianne M., 77, Napavine thecentraliachronicle conditions allow. We thank you for Hinton, Catherine, 84, Centralia Beaten Skin your patience and your continued Schlecht, Jean C., 81, Winlock / Life 1 Southbloom, Carl R., 81, Centralia support of The Chronicle. Spitzner, Robert L., 90, Chehalis LOCAL PEOPLE, LOCAL DECISIONS! CHEHALIS 714 W. Main Street HOW CAN 360.740.0770 WE HELP Also TOLEDO, You? WINLOCK, TUMWATER CH568389cd.cg & OLYMPIA Keith Macy Matt DeBord HOME | CONSTRUCTION | BUSINESS NMLS# 539574 Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017 PAGE TWO News Sign of the Season of the Weird The other girl got firefight- ers to the site, and they used a sledgehammer to break through a brick wall and free her com- panion. Stromberg told The (Joliet) Herald-News that she spent 45 minutes in the cell. East Cocalico Township Police Department via AP In this photo provided by the East Co- Team Can’t Reach Dog calico Township Police Department, Sgt. Darrick Keppley poses Wednes- on Snowy Cliff; It Sniffs day, in Denver, Pa. On Saturday, Jan. 7, Keppley drove a surgeon, an assistant Out Solution and a donated liver about 60 miles to SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A a transplant operation already under- search and rescue team hiked up way in Philadelphia, after their vehicle a steep, snowy Utah mountain skidded of an icy Lancaster County to try to rescue a dog that was roadway en route from York, Pa. stuck on a narrow ledge above a Pete Caster / [email protected] 50-foot cliff. A sign directing drivers south onto Interstate 5 at exit 76 in Chehalis was half covered in snow on Wednesday. See more The Utah County Sheriff’s photographs on pages Main 15 and Main 16 or at www.chronline.com. Cop Gets Surgeon, Office posted a video Monday Liver to Emergency showing highlights of the Friday operation, but it ended without Transplant After Crash the animal getting off the moun- DENVER, Pa. (AP) — A po- tain near Provo. Notable Quote lice officer responding to a crash A rescuer rappelled down to wound up driving a surgeon, an try to lure the dog named Mary assistant and a donated liver to with food. It didn’t work be- a Philadelphia hospital for an cause Mary became skittish ev- “Seemingly a bit harsh for going a fowl of the city code, emergency transplant. ery time he got close. The team a new violation provision has been added … making East Cocalico Township po- called off the rescue at nightfall lice Sgt. Darrick Keppley said and left her with food and hand a violation of this section an infraction of increasing he came upon a disabled vehicle warmers. Saturday afternoon that had The saga had a happy end- monetary penalties for repeated offenses.” skidded off the icy road. ing the next day when her own- The team was transporting ers called to say Mary somehow Centralia Council Agenda Report a liver from York to Thomas made it down the mountain Jefferson University Hospital, alone. She had cuts to her paws changes made to law preventing roosters in city limits where a patient already was in but was OK. (see page Main 4 for the full story) the operating room. Keppley says he offered to Go! Fight! Hamsters! help. The doctor and assis- Today in History tant piled into his vehicle, he Amherst College Closes switched on his lights and si- Today’s Highlight in History: In 1915, the U.S. House of In 1966, President Lyndon B. rens and navigated the snowy 60 in on New Mascot Representatives rejected, 204- Johnson said in his State of the On Jan. 12, 1910, at a White miles east to Philadelphia. AMHERST, Mass. (AP) — 174, a proposed constitutional Union address that the U.S. mili- House dinner hosted by Presi- Students and alumni at Amherst amendment to give women na- tary should stay in Vietnam un- dent William Howard Taft, Bar- College could soon be rooting tionwide the right to vote. The til Communist aggression there oness Rosen, wife of the Russian Illinois Teen Rescued for the Hamsters. silent film drama “A Fool There was stopped. The TV series “Bat- ambassador, caused a stir by Was,” which propelled Theda man,” starring Adam West and After Locking Self in Hamsters was among the requesting and smoking a ciga- Bara to stardom with her por- Burt Ward as the Dynamic Duo, most popular nicknames sub- rette — it was, apparently, the Shuttered Prison trayal of a predatory vamp, pre- premiered on ABC, airing twice mitted to a committee put to- first time a woman had smoked miered in New York. a week on consecutive nights. JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — A teen- gether to come up with a new openly during a public function In 1932, Hattie W. Caraway In 1971, the groundbreaking age girl who slipped into an athletic mascot for the Mas- in the executive mansion. (Some became the first woman elected situation comedy “All in the Fam- abandoned Illinois prison for an sachusetts school. Trustees of the other women present who to the U.S. Senate after initially ily” premiered on CBS television. urban adventure ended up serv- dropped Lord Jeffs last year in had brought their own cigarettes being appointed to serve out the In 1976, mystery writer Dame ing a short sentence when she ac- part because 18th century Brit- began lighting up in turn.) cidentally locked herself inside a ish Gen. Jeffery Amherst sug- remainder of the term of her late Agatha Christie died in Walling- cell. gested giving smallpox-infected On this date: husband, Thaddeus. ford, England, at age 85. Illinois State Police say two blankets to Native Americans. In 1773, the first public muse- In 1945, during World War In 1986, the shuttle Columbia teenage girls entered the Joliet The committee has win- um in America was organized in II, Soviet forces began a ma- blasted off with a crew that includ- Correctional Center through a nowed a list of nearly 600 unique Charleston, South Carolina.