Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com $1 All-Area Early Week Edition Boys Tuesday, Basketball March 15, 2016 Kirkley, Poquette Highlight 2016 Team / Sports Centralia House Fire ‘Their Light Shone Through,’ Says Mother Sue Tower Plans Memorial for Children Lost in Fire MEMORIES: Mother “He was full of life and spirit Centralia. and so funny, so sweet,” Tower The celebration is open for Describes Life With Her said of her youngest son, Sam. anyone who would like to at- Children Before a Fire “Those hugs were what I lived tend, Tower said. for.” The program will likely con- Took Their Lives March 4 All three children died tain a slideshow, but Tower said By Natalie Johnson March 4 when flames tore she hasn’t planned all of the de- through the family’s home on tails of the evening yet. [email protected] Ham Hill Road in Centralia. “It’s just a tribute to my chil- Sue Tower smiled Monday A celebration of life for the dren’s life,” she said. “I really as she remembered her children Tower children is scheduled for hope no one comes in black.” Sue Tower / Courtesy Photo Sam, 7, Madeline, 10, and Ben, 6 p.m. March 23 at Northwest Ben, left, Maddy and Sam Tower loved their rabbits, their mother Sue Tower said 12. Sports Hub at 701 Allen Ave. in please see LIGHT, page Main 16 Monday. A celebration of life is scheduled for March 23. Centralia Woman Crowned Miss Lewis County Pete Caster / [email protected] Above: Bailey Peters, second from right, reacts after being announced the winner of the 2016 Miss Lewis County Scholar- ship Pageant on Saturday evening at R.E. Bennett Auditorium in Chehalis. Left: Bailey Peters performs a tap-dance routine during the 2016 Miss Lewis County Scholarship Pageant. BAILEY PETERS: 20-Year-Old to Serve as Miss Lewis County 2016, becoming the 54th win- ner of the pageant. Official Hostess of the County “It’s so exciting, I don’t think it’s real yet,” Peters By Justyna Tomtas told The Chronicle shortly after she was crowned on Saturday night. [email protected] Peters was named Little Miss Friendly in 2006 After years of watching other girls and women and now gets to follow in her mother’s footsteps participate in the Miss Lewis County Scholarship as Miss Lewis County. Her mother, Shawn Pe- Program, one young woman from Centralia fi- ters, was awarded the crown in 1985. Shawn was a nally had one of her dreams come true as she was grooming coach for the contestants for many years. crowned the official hostess of the county. Bailey Peters was thrilled to win the title of please see COUNTY, page Main 16 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater SWW Fair Serious Crashes Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Repairs, One Killed Pitts, Edward A., 70, Follow Us on Twitter Improvements in Pair of Chehalis @chronline Underway at Weekend Find Us on Facebook Fairgrounds; Accidents www.facebook.com/ Events Center Near thecentraliachronicle Eyed First Onalaska / Main 3 / Main 5 Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Tuesday, March 15, 2016 PAGE TWO News Outtake: Faces of Fitness of the Weird house through a window, but had to call 911 when he got stuck. Altoona police say that’s when they discovered Jones was want- ed by the Blair County Sheriff’s Office for failing to pay about $750 in court costs and fines. As a result, Jones was taken to jail, where he remained Monday. Online court records don’t Lefteris Pitarakis / AP Photo list an attorney for Jones. A Thursday, June 19, 2014, photo from iles of the Shard as seen from the river Officials Close Ohio Thames in London. Witnesses say a base jumper has safely parachuted High School After from the European Union’s tallest building, the Shard in London, and Finding Bed Bugs evaded police by jumping on the sub- ALLIANCE, Ohio (AP) — A way. northeastern Ohio high school is closed after officials say they found four bed bugs in the building. London Base Jumper Jeffery Talbert, superinten- Pete Caster / [email protected] dent of Alliance City Schools, Katy Murray, left, and Mallory Long pose for a portrait at the Thorbecke’s CrossFit gym in Centralia on Saturday morning. Leaps Safely Off EU’s said the decision to close the See their story in today’s Life section. Tallest Building school Thursday was a precau- tionary measure to put people at LONDON (AP) — Witness- ease. Notable Quote es say a base jumper has safely The Review reported a Can- parachuted from the European ton pest control company has Union’s tallest building, the treated the school twice in the Shard in London, and evaded past week. police by jumping on the subway. Talbert says the situation is “People always call us farmers or a homestead. Passers-by captured the not considered an infestation and We’re more like wannabes here.” stunt on social media Saturday. says there’s no sign of the bugs in Video footage and photographs other district buildings. Classes showed the man with green are set to resume Friday. Hannah Parypa chute deployed floating from the Bed bugs are parasites that Dirty Man Soap co-owner Shard onto a street near the Lon- prefer warm areas including bed- don Bridge station. rooms and feed on blood. Their They say the unidentified man bites can cause itching and welts. (see page Main 6 for the full story) folded his chute, handed it to an accomplice, and ran into the sta- tion minutes before police arrived. Sheriff: Man Dies In It’s the first documented base jump since the 2012 comple- Rollover Crash While Today in History tion of the Shard, a spire-shaped Chasing Wife skyscraper that stands 95 stories Today’s Highlight in History: modern Egypt. closed-circuit test to determine KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — In 1935, the Busby Berkeley the feasibility of showing its ses- and 1,016 feet (310 meters) high. On March 15, 1916, a U.S. A 55-year-old Kalispell man was movie musical “Gold Diggers sions on television. Base jumpers did film themselves expeditionary force led by Brig. killed in a car wreck southwest of 1935” was released by Warner In 1985, the first Internet do- leaping from the structure when Gen. John J. Pershing entered of Whitefish while chasing his Bros. main name, symbolics.com, it was still under construction. Mexico on an ultimately futile wife in another vehicle. In 1941, Richard C. Hottelet, was registered by the Symbolics The finished building has no ex- mission to capture Pancho Villa, Flathead County Sheriff a correspondent for the United Computer Corp. of Massachu- ternal rooftop viewing platform. whose raiders had attacked Co- Chuck Curry says Bruce Eugene Press, was arrested in Berlin setts. lumbus, New Mexico, killing Boles had been arguing with by the German secret police on In 1996, the Liggett Group 18 U.S. citizens. Trumpet player his wife Wednesday afternoon suspicion of espionage. (Hottelet agreed to repay more than $10 Cops: Man Locked and bandleader Harry James when she drove off. Curry says was released four months later million in Medicaid bills for was born in Albany, Georgia. Out of House Locked Boles got in another vehicle and in a prisoner exchange.) treatment of smokers, settling began to chase her. ON THIS DATE: In 1956, the Lerner and Loewe lawsuits with five states. Up for Unpaid Fines Curry says at one point dur- In 44 B.C., Roman dictator Ju- musical play “My Fair Lady,” In 2001, federal authorities ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) — Po- ing the “mobile domestic vio- lius Caesar was assassinated by based on Bernard Shaw’s “Pyg- confirmed that remains found lice say a central Pennsylvania lence event” the two vehicles a group of nobles that included malion,” opened on Broadway. on a Texas ranch were those of man who locked himself out of made contact with each other. Brutus and Cassius. In 1966, at the 8th Annual missing atheist leader Madalyn his house wound up locked up Boles’ vehicle eventually went off In 1767, the seventh president Grammy Awards, “A Taste of Murray O’Hair and two of her in jail once emergency respond- the road and rolled about 2:30 of the United States, Andrew Honey,” performed by Herb relatives, who had disappeared ers realized he had unpaid court p.m. He was thrown from the Jackson, was born in Waxhaw, Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, was 5½ years earlier. (David Waters, fines. vehicle and died at the scene. South Carolina. named Record of the Year, while the key suspect in the slayings, The Altoona Mirror re- Curry says he did not believe In 1820, Maine became the Frank Sinatra’s “September of My was sentenced to 20 years in ported 35-year-old Jeffrey Jones Boles’ wife contributed to the 23rd state. Years” won Album of the Year. prison after pleading guilty in climbed onto the roof Sunday crash, which is still under inves- In 1922, Sultan Fuad I pro- In 1977, the U.S. House of federal court to extortion con- night while trying to get into his tigation. claimed himself the first king of Representatives began a 90-day spiracy.) The Weather Almanac 5-Day Forecast for the Lewis County Area River Stages National Map Gauge Flood 24 hr. Forecast map for March 15, 2016 Today Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Height Stage Change 110s Chehalis at Mellen St. L 100s 56.27 65.0 +0.24 90s Skookumchuck at Pearl St. L 80s 77.90 85.0 +0.06 L 70s Cowlitz at Packwood 60s L 2.48 10.5 -0.06 50s Cowlitz at Randle 40s Showers Likely Few Showers Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny Partly Cloudy 8.05 18.0 -0.09 30s 51º 39º 53º 35º 55º 39º 58º 41º 57º 41º Cowlitz at Mayield Dam 20s H 10.27 ---- 0.00 10s 0s This map shows high temperatures, type of precipitation expected and location of frontal systems at noon.