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Sept. 13, Serving our communities since 1889 — SALE ENDS SEPTEMBER 19TH www.chronline.com 2016 Sewing Up Business Happy 100th, No. 15 After Two Decades of Operation, Owner Chehalis-Centralia Steam Train Locomotive Plans to Close Sewsie’s Diva Palace / Life 1 Still in Fine Shape at Century Mark / Main 4 Speed Limit Slashed Around Centralia High School COMMISSIONERS: Student A 20 mph speed limit on established on Borst Avenue be- Road and Cowlitz Road. handful of accidents reported roads surrounding Centra- tween Eshom Road and Cowlitz “These areas are often trav- in past years on the roads, con- Safety Has Long Been lia High School was approved Road; on Eshom Road between eled by pedestrians, students cerns over a lack of sidewalks a Concern by the Lewis County Board of Borst Avenue and Mt. Vista traveling to school,” said Eric near Centralia High School have Commissioners at Monday’s Road, and between Borst Ave- Martin, director of Public been voiced by the community. By Aaron Kunkler meeting. nue and Mayberry Road; and on Works. [email protected] The reduced speed limit was Mt. Vista Road between Eshom While there were only a please see LIMIT, page Main 16 Federal Jailed Winlock Armed Robbery Grant Paves Way Suspect Claims Clerk Was Involved for Fir Street Fix in Winlock 20 YEARS OF COMPLAINTS: Council Meeting Attendees Cheer After News of $750,000 Grant By Jordan Nailon [email protected] People passing by the Win- lock City Council meeting Monday would be forgiven if they were under the impres- sion that those inside were watching Monday Night Foot- ball rather than discussing the ins and outs of official city business. That’s because an uproari- ous cheer that is normally reserved for prep Cardinal and pro Seahawk touchdown celebrations erupted from the assembled crowd of citizens when Mayor Lonnie Dowell announced the city was recently awarded a grant to fix the town’s notoriously pockmarked Southeast Fir Lonnie Dowell Street. mayor Mayor Dowell said Pete Caster / [email protected] the city found out early last Tamrick A. Torres makes an appearance in Lewis County Superior Court on Monday afternoon at the Lewis County Law and Justice Center in Chehalis. week Winlock was approved for a $750,000 Community Development Block Grant ALLEGATIONS: Tamrick day evening on suspicion of sec- from the federal government. ond-degree robbery. He is being Those funds have been allot- A. Torres, 45, Says held on $25,000 bail. ted to fix the 113 water con- Clerk Worked With “This, as the prosecutor in- nections that run beneath dicated, is a violent offense,” Fir Street as well as another Him on Robbery After Lawler said. “There’s allegations 15,000 linear feet of water line Complaining About Pay there was a firearm involved in pipe repair throughout the this.” rest of the city. By Natalie Johnson While Torres was charged The repairs to Fir Street [email protected] with allegedly robbing a store have been 20 years in the mak- clerk of the money, he told in- ing after a city project to re- A suspect in a Winlock vestigators he and the clerk were place those connections in the armed robbery was charged in on the theft together, accord- mid-1990s ran out of money. Monday in Lewis County Supe- ing to court documents, saying Subterranean ground work to rior Court with second-degree the clerk was unhappy with the prep for the project included robbery and second-degree bur- amount of money she made at “torpedoing” the old water line glary for allegedly stealing more the store. in order to make room for a than $1,500 from a store at gun- The clerk reportedly denied new one. When the project point last week. her involvement, according to ran out of money, though, the The suspect, Tamrick A. Tor- court documents. The suspect in the armed robbery is seen wearing a mask in this image provided res, 45, of Winlock, was booked please see WINLOCK, page Main 16 by the Lewis County Sherif’s Oice. into the Lewis County Jail Fri- please see ROBBERY, page Main 16 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Campaign Coverage Progress on Problem Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Secretary of Chehalis Murray, Evelyn A., 98, Follow Us on Twitter Centralia @chronline State Race Council Gets Pickett, Carol Fern, 75, Tightens Update on Aberdeen Find Us on Facebook as General Homeless at Chapman, Lois E., 89, www.facebook.com/ Winlock thecentraliachronicle Election Exit 77 Park Lyons, Nellie Ellen, 89, Approaches and Ride Chehalis / Main 9 / Main 3 Thorson, Iva, 96, Centralia Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016 PAGE TWO News Reflecting on Two Decades of Business of the Weird bacon festival. It will be the best Slow Train Crosses bacon and the best little town in Marathon Course, America, and we need you.” When asked about the likeli- Hurts Finish Times hood of the real Bacon attending, ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — the chamber’s executive director, A slow-moving train in Pennsyl- Kate O’Connor, told WCAX- vania might have brought some TV: “Pretty much zero, but we runners’ dreams of the Boston thought it’s worth a try and it’s Marathon to a halt. sort of kooky enough that per- Lehigh Valley Health Net- haps there’s a chance.” work’s Via Marathon was in full swing Sunday when a slow train crossed the race course near Al- A Literal Shotgun lentown, stopping runners in Wedding: Couple their tracks. Runner Charlie Young told Weds at Shooting Club Lehigh Valley Live the race was DEWITT, N.Y. (AP) — A New his last chance to qualify for the York couple has taken the idea of 2017 Boston Marathon. a shotgun wedding literally: They Pete Caster / [email protected] The 22-year-old Young said married at a shooting club five Susie Ingram is seen in the relection of a mirror at her bridal and formal wear shop, Sewsie’s Diva Palace, on Friday he and over 100 others were held years to the day after they first met afternoon in Chehalis. See more on the cover of today’s Life Section and online at www.chronline.com. up for about 10 minutes as the at a trap-shooting competition. train crossed. He said he missed The Post-Standard of Syra- his qualifying time by 8 minutes. cuse reported 36-year-old Lynn Video and photos show some Mapstone donned her wedding runners scrambling between the dress after outshooting 47-year- Notable Quote slow-moving cars. old Peter Derrigo at Sunday’s Registration for the Boston shoot-off at the DeWitt Fish and Marathon started Monday, open- Game Club. ing first to those who beat their The two met at the club dur- “He said, ‘I don’t think any older. I don’t feel like I’m qualifying time by 20 minutes. ing a local trap-shooting league’s annual championship shoot-off an old person or an old man. My mind is fine, but tournament. then you look at the body and you know you’re older.” Kevin Bacon Loves It was Mapstone’s idea to have Baconfest Invite, a shotgun wedding at the same Sorry He Can’t Attend place and on the same day that Gloria Sabin they met. The couple exchanged daughter of Jim Hale BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (AP) — vows on a trap house, a low struc- The town has struck out in its ture that houses the machine that (see page Main 6 for the full story) attempt to bring home the bacon launches the targets. — Kevin Bacon, that is. During the pre-wedding com- Brattleboro wanted the actor petition, Mapstone hit 44 of 50 to visit for its third annual Bacon- targets. The groom-to-be hit 33. Today in History fest, a celebration of all things re- lated to the fatty cured pork strips. Today’s Highlight in History: Baltimore but were driven back by James Meredith, a black student, New England Bride American defenders in a battle that declaring in a televised address, But he tweeted his regrets on On Sept. 13, 1971, a four-day lasted until the following morning. Monday, saying in a video that Hitchhikes to Wedding inmates’ rebellion at the Attica “We will not drink from the cup In 1911, the song “Oh, You he won’t be able to make it to Correctional Facility in western of genocide.” After Limo Fails Her Beautiful Doll,” a romantic rag Baconfest because he’s filming New York ended as police and In 1989, Fay Vincent was by Nat D. Ayer and Seymour in Vancouver. He said he appre- BROOKLINE, N.H. (AP) — guards stormed the prison; the or- elected commissioner of Major Brown, was first published by Je- ciated the “hilarious effort” that After waiting 11 years to marry deal and final assault claimed the League Baseball, succeeding the went into trying to get him there. her groom, a flat tire wasn’t going lives of 32 inmates and 11 hostages. rome H. Remick & Co. late A. Bartlett Giamatti.