$1 Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com W.F. West Early Week Edition Thursday, Girls Claim Sept. 8, 2016 Rotary Cup / Sports 1 Mossyrock City Clerk What’s in a Name? Former City Worker Pleads Guilty to Charges Centralia College’s Phoenix Center Name Linked to $30,000 Theft of Funds / Main 4 Changed to Honor Odegaards / Main 5 Risen From the Mud Natalie Johnson / [email protected] Dale Paine makes an appearance Randle Man’s Vehicle Restored After Cowlitz River Flooding in Lewis County Superior Court on Wednesday. 69 Calls in a Day? Man Charged After Alleged Threats on Prosecutor, County Staff By Natalie Johnson [email protected] A man accused of harassing and threatening Lewis County Prosecutor Jonathan Meyer and other courthouse staff over a pe- riod of three years was arrested Tuesday afternoon when he showed up at the Lewis County Law and Justice Center, accord- ing to the Lewis County Sher- iff’s Office. please see PAINE, page Main 16 Pete Caster / [email protected] Dustin Hellwig, 21, hugs Aaron Chain, right, after Kresky Auto Repair revealed Hellwig’s fully restored 1996 Pontiac Firebird on Tuesday afternoon in Centralia. Last December, Hellwig’s red sports car was destroyed by water damage in the Cowlitz River lood. Longtime HELP: Local Businesses Community Team Up to Restore Veteran’s Firebird Member By Jordan Nailon [email protected] Carolyn Dustin Hellwig had barely returned home from his tour Shaw Dies with the U.S. Marine Corps when the unruly Cowlitz River DIED AUG. 29: Shaw rushed its banks and flooded the valleys of East Lewis County Remembered as a Strong, last December. Parked at his parents’ home Behind-the-Scenes Force in Randle was his 1996 Pon- By Justyna Tomtas tiac Firebird, which he had pur- chased from his folks while de- [email protected] ployed. Although Hellwig had A longtime community gone to the effort of parking the member died on Aug. 29, but Pontiac on the highest ground her name will live on as locals the property could afford, the mourn the loss of Carolyn Shaw. raging river wound up rising so please see SHAW, page Main 16 In this Dec. 15, 2015, ile photo, Dustin Hellwig looks over at a pile of his family's belongings that were ruined by looding. please see MUD, page Main 16 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Campaign Complaint Gardening for Everyone Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Edna Fund Bees, Schmit, Donald I., 73, Roseburg, Follow Us on Twitter Oregon @chronline Cleared of Gardens Dukes, Roger Duane, 65, Wrongdoing and Centralia Find Us on Facebook Education Snyder, Louis L., 81, Centralia www.facebook.com/ by Pacific Knight, David Stanton, 66, County Go Hand in Rochester thecentraliachronicle Prosecutor Hand Powell, Dorothy Josephine (McMahan), 91, Salkum / Main 9 / Life 1 Chase, Michelle, 61, Tacoma LOCAL PEOPLE, LOCAL DECISIONS! CHEHALIS 714 W. Main Street HOW CAN 360.740.0770 WE HELP Also TOLEDO, You? WINLOCK, TUMWATER CH563312ca.os & OLYMPIA Keith Macy Matt DeBord HOME | CONSTRUCTION | BUSINESS NMLS# 539574 Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016 PAGE TWO News Rotary Cup Winners of the Weird popular? Neighbors, Town It’s just one of those internet Officials Cry Foul Over things. ‘WTF’ Sign on Lawn WOODBURY, Conn. (AP) — Probation for Ohio A Connecticut homeowner who Man Accused of Egging planted on his lawn three large wooden letters that spell “WTF” Home 100-Plus Times is rankling neighbors and town EUCLID, Ohio (AP) — A officials who say the message is man accused of pelting his for- offensive. mer neighbor’s Ohio home with WFSB-TV reported the eggs more than 100 times over phrase “Woodbury wastes tax- the course of a year has been payer funds” is written on the sentenced to 18 months of pro- letters along Main Street in bation and fined $1,000. historic Woodbury, a town of 10,000 residents. “WTF” also A six-month jail sentence can stand for an obscene excla- was suspended Tuesday for mation of disbelief. 31-year-old Jason Kozan. He Pete Caster / [email protected] This isn’t the first time was sentenced less than a week The W.F. West soccer team poses for a photo after defeating Centralia in the Rotary Cup girls soccer game at Tiger homeowner Thomas Arras has after pleading guilty to a mis- Stadium in Centralia on Tuesday. See more in today’s Sports section and online at www.chronline.com and www. fought with the town and the demeanor charge of inducing lewiscountysports.com. Woodbury Historical Commis- panic. Vandalism and menacing sion over his handcrafted protest charges were dropped. messages. A previous sign tar- A message was left Tuesday Notable Quote geting First Selectman William for defense attorney Anthony Butterly Jr. read: “Butterly utterly Bondra. He previously has said utterly disappointing.” Kozan maintains that he wasn’t Butterly isn’t affiliated with responsible for egging the home a political party. He says he’s of Albert Clemens Sr. in the “I used financial information from the city of Mossyrock to transfer outraged by the “WTF” sign but Cleveland suburb of Euclid. funds into my mortgage account.” there’s not much the town can Clemens has said the egg at- do about it without changing its tacks damaged his home and rules. kept his family on edge. Doneia A. Santiago A phone number listed for Authorities haven’t said what former Mossyrock city clerk Arras rang unanswered Wednes- motivated the attacks, which day. largely stopped after Kozan (see page Main 4 for the full story) moved. Red Truck, Red Truck! Town’s Mundane NYC Bay to Get Oysters Webcam Grips YouTube on Beds Made From Today in History JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Recycled Toilets If you’re driving a red truck NEW YORK (AP) — New Today’s Highlight in History: an estimated 8,000 people. reer record for hits, singling for through downtown Jackson, In 1921, Margaret Gorman, hit number 4,191 during a game York City is placing 50,000 oys- On Sept. 8, 1966, the science- Wyoming, you could be internet 16, of Washington, D.C., was against the Cubs in Chicago. ters in Jamaica Bay — on beds fiction series “Star Trek” pre- famous. crowned the first “Miss Ameri- In 1986, “The Oprah Winfrey made with the porcelain from miered on NBC; the situation Live webcam video of a 5,000 recycled toilets. ca” in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Show” began the first of 25 sea- comedy “That Girl,” starring In 1935, Sen. Huey P. Long, busy intersection near the Jack- Mayor Bill de Blasio and the sons in national syndication. Marlo Thomas, debuted on D-La., was shot and mortally son Town Square has gripped Department of Environmental In 1994, USAir Flight 427, a the online masses. On Tuesday, ABC. wounded inside the Louisiana Protection said Tuesday that the Boeing 737, crashed into a ravine more than 2,000 people were On this date: State Capitol; he died two days as it was approaching Pittsburgh project is the largest single in- later. (The assailant was identi- watching the stream on You- In 1565, a Spanish expedition International Airport, killing all Tube that usually has only about stallation of breeding oysters in fied as Dr. Carl Weiss, who was New York City. established the first permanent 132 people on board. 20 watchers. gunned down by Long’s body- Ten years ago: A Senate report Red trucks are particularly The northeastern director of European settlement in North guards.) faulted intelligence gathering in popular among the many online the National Fish and Wildlife America at present-day St. Au- In 1941, the 900-day Siege of the lead-up to the 2003 U.S. in- commenters, although posters Foundation says the project will gustine, Florida. Leningrad by German forces be- also like to point out pedestrians buffer New York from storms In 1761, Britain’s King George gan during World War II. vasion of Iraq, and said Saddam and other mundane happenings while cleaning the water and III married Princess Charlotte In 1951, a peace treaty with Ja- Hussein regarded al-Qaida as a in a sort of online I Spy. creating wildlife habitat. of Mecklenburg-Strelitz a few pan was signed by 49 nations in threat rather than a possible ally, Bob Strobel, of See Jackson The 31-square-mile Jamaica hours after meeting her for the San Francisco. contradicting assertions Presi- Hole, says his webcam is meant Bay is part of a 142-square-mile first time. In 1974, President Gerald R. dent George W. Bush had used to promote local business. It’s watershed that includes parts of In 1892, an early version of Ford granted a “full, free, and to build support for the war. A been up since 2014, but only Brooklyn, Queens and Nassau “The Pledge of Allegiance,” writ- absolute pardon” to former Pres- suicide car bomber struck a con- caught the eye of the online County. ten by Francis Bellamy, appeared ident Richard Nixon covering voy of U.S. military vehicles in community a few days ago. The project is being done in in “The Youth’s Companion.” his entire term in office. Kabul, Afghanistan, killing 16 The bustling scene can be partnership with the Harbor In 1900, Galveston, Texas, was In 1985, Pete Rose of the Cin- people, including two American mesmerizing, but why is it so School’s Billion Oyster Project. struck by a hurricane that killed cinnati Reds tied Ty Cobb’s ca- soldiers. The Weather Almanac 5-Day Forecast for the Lewis County Area River Stages National Map Gauge Flood 24 hr.