Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com $1 Weekend Edition Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017 ‘Drowning in Despair’ A Look at Grays Harbor County and Hopes for Trump / Main 13 Quarry Pool Dive ‘People Over Profits’ Divers Reach Bottom of Swimming Last Leg Trade-ins Find New Life at Ike’s Hole and Make Discovery / Main 3 Auto Repair in Grand Mound / Life 1 Bail Set at $1M for Suspect Accused of Driving While High, Hitting Pedestrian COURT DOCUMENTS: Man jumping a curb on South Gold Street Toynbee imposed $1 million bail at Wednesday was allegedly under the in- Brown’s first court appearance, follow- Told Officers He Used fluence of drugs at the time, according ing a request from the Lewis County Meth, Heroin to court documents. Prosecutor’s Office’s, noting that The driver, Christian D. Brown, 30, Brown is accused of driving while high By Natalie Johnson of Centralia, made his first appear- while out on $100,000 bail on pending Natalie Johnson / [email protected] [email protected] ance in Lewis County Superior Court Lewis County drug charges, including Thursday on charges of vehicular as- an allegation that he dealt heroin. Christian D. Brown makes his first appearance Thursday A driver accused of hitting and sault and possession of heroin. afternoon in Lewis County Superior Court on suspicion of seriously injuring a pedestrian after Superior Court Judge Andrew please see DRIVER, page Main 16 vehicular assault. Southwest Washington Fair County Diaper Derby: Ready, Set, Crawl Reaches Dozens of Babies Compete for Victory in Annual Fair Tradition $50,000 Settlement With Former Commission Clerk COMMISSIONERS’ OFFICE: Karri Muir Alleged Former Commissioner Bill Schulte Was Hostile Toward Her By Justyna Tomtas [email protected] Lewis County has entered into a $50,000 settlement with a former clerk of the Board of Lewis County Com- missioners’ who last year alleged she was the victim of a hostile work envi- ronment within the commissioner's of- fice. It’s the second settlement of its kind after former admin- istrative coordina- tor Sheila Unger was Natalie Johnson / [email protected] awarded a $65,000 Jaxson Mollerstuen, 10 months, crawls to victory in his heat in the KELA/KMNT Diaper Derby Thursday at the South Stage at the Southwest Washington Fair. settlement in 2010, Karri Muir He also took first place overall. following a similar former county complaint of hostility employee CUTE COMPETITORS: Top Winner More than two dozen babies turned peated his win in the final. from former Com- out Wednesday for a race they have, quite While Jaxson won’t remember his missioner Bill Schulte. Takes Home Furniture, literally, been practicing for their entire moment of glory, his parents will. Last year, Karri Muir, the former Gift Cards lives — the annual KELA/KMNT Diaper “I’m so excited I want to cry,” mom clerk of the board, filed a complaint Derby at the Southwest Washington Fair. Shannon West said after Jaxson won his against Schulte stating he had verbally By Natalie Johnson Jaxson Mollerstuen, 10 months, came heat. attacked her and showed preferential [email protected] in first place in the very first heat and re- please see DERBY, page Main 16 please see CLARK, page Main 16 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Change of Plans Lawmakers Give Update Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Twin Capital Johnson, Patricia, 74, Chehalis Follow Us on Twitter Hadaller, Herman Joseph, 84, @chronline Transit Budget Harmony Now Set to Could Hearn, Ralph Eugene, 91, Chehalis Find Us on Facebook Demolish Come Berg Sr., Malcolm E., 95, Chehalis www.facebook.com/ Adams, Donald H., 73, Mossyrock thecentraliachronicle Two Late This Wilson, Ida M., 82, Mossyrock Buildings Year Studer, James O. “Jim,” 83, Winlock / Main 7 / Main 6 Ross, Kevin Autry, 52, Onalaska CH568770lw.do When the NOW OPEN Outlets have Located between Vitamin World a sale, and DXL Mens Outlet it’s REALLY Building 6 • 2100 Haviland Street a sale! 360-736-3900 • CENTRALIAOUTLETS.COM • I-5 EXIT 82 • BOTH SIDES • CENTRALIA Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, Aug. 19, 2017 PAGE TWO News Hanging Around at the Southwest Washington Fair of the Weird Deptford Township, had paid Golden Retriever Digs the toll to cross the Middle Up Heroin in Oregon Thorofare Bridge with three family members in his vehicle Backyard on Aug. 1. The bridge links Cape MCMINNVILLE, Ore. (AP) May with the Wildwoods near — An Oregon family’s golden the Jersey shore. retriever has been honored by a As he was crossing the steel sheriff for digging up $85,000 grate, it began to rise 3 to 6 feet worth of black tar heroin in a because a vessel was trying to family’s backyard. cross, police said. KATU-TV reported Friday “My wife said, ‘I think the that the owners of the 18-month- bridge is opening,’” Terence old dog named Kenyon thought Naphys told KYW-TV in Phila- he had dug up a time capsule in delphia. their backyard, so they decided “He accelerated, and of course to film themselves opening it. then we landed with a big im- As they did, they realized Ke- pact on the concrete on the side,” said Jackie Naphys. nyon had found drugs. Matt Baide / [email protected] Yamhill County Sheriff Tim Police said the landing caused minor damage to his ve- Riders hang upside down on a ride at the Southwest Washington Fair in Chehalis on Thursday. See more photos on Svenson identified the substance page Main 14 and online at www.chronline.com. The fair runs through Sunday. as more than 15 ounces of black hicle. No one was hurt. tar heroin. Authorities said the operator Svenson presented Kenyon of the bridge was to blame for with a ribbon and named him an the scare. honorary narcotics dog for life. “An employee for the Cape Notable Quote May County Bridge Commis- sion stated that a large vessel was Men Say They’ve Set approaching the bridge and they had no contact with that vessel Record for Traversing due to their radio being down,” “After the reestablishment of the Ku Klux Klan in 1915, members began Boston’s Subway police said in their report. to gain in numbers through the 1920s. On July 26, 1924, the Southwest The bridge tender told police REVERE, Mass. (AP) — he activated the bridge’s lights and Washington Fairgrounds was host to a KKK rally of an estimated 20,000 Two Boston-area residents say gates in anticipation that all ve- to 30,000 attendees from around the region.” they’ve set the world record for hicles would be clear. However, he travelling to every stop on the wasn’t sure because of sun glare. city’s subway system in about 7½ Terence Naphys said he Brittany Voie hours. would never cross the bridge Chronicle columnist on history of white supremacist movement in Lewis County The Boston Globe reported again. Dominic DiLuzio and Alex Cox (see page Main 9 for the full commentary) accomplished the feat on Friday in 7 hours, 29 minutes and 46 sec- Big Catch! Drunken onds. The men hope to get official Woman Allegedly Bites recognition from Guinness World Today in History Records and are submitting pho- Fisherman’s Line tos, videos and other evidence. ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) — Today’s Highlight in History: In 1918, “Yip! Yip! Yaphank,” Ford won the Republican presi- DiLuzio says he came up a musical revue by Irving Berlin dential nomination at the par- It wasn’t exactly the catch a Flor- On August 19, 1942, dur- with the plan and enlisted Cox, featuring Army recruits from ida man was hoping for while ing World War II, about 6,000 ty’s convention in Kansas City. a Massachusetts Department of Camp Upton in Yaphank, New fishing in the Atlantic Ocean. Canadian and British soldiers In 1980, 301 people aboard a Transportation employee. York, opened on Broadway. Instead, deputies say a drunken launched a disastrous raid Saudi Arabian L-1011 died as the They started their journey In 1934, 22-year-old woman cursed at against the Germans at Dieppe, a plebiscite in Germa- jetliner made a fiery emergency around 5:30 a.m. at Cambridge’s him before swimming up to his ny approved the vesting of sole return to the Riyadh airport. Alewife Station, which is the end France, suffering more than 50 fishing line, biting it and swim- executive power in Adolf Hitler. In 1987, a gun collector ran of the Red Line. They ended at percent casualties. ming away with the rigging. In 1936, the first of a series of through Hungerford, England, about 1 p.m. at Revere’s Wonder- On This Date: St. Johns County Sheriff’s of- show trials orchestrated by So- 60 miles west of London, killing land stop, at the end of the Blue ficials told local news outlets the In A.D. 14, Caesar Augustus, viet leader Josef Stalin began in Line. They were greeted there by 16 people, including his mother, fisherman told deputies the inci- Rome’s first emperor, died at age Moscow as 16 defendants faced before turning his gun on himself. friends, media and transit officials. charges of conspiring against dent happened Tuesday evening 76 after a reign lasting four de- In 1991, Soviet hard-liners the government (all were con- as he was fishing with a rented cades; he was succeeded by his stunned the world by announc- pole near St. Augustine. stepson Tiberius. victed and executed). Driver Forced to Gun ing that President Mikhail S. Deputies asked Alexandria In 1812, the USS Constitution In 1955, torrential rains Engine and Jump Rising Turner to come to the pier of- defeated the British frigate HMS caused by Hurricane Diane re- Gorbachev had been removed fice, but she became belligerent.