Twin State Titles Twin Cities 14-Year-Olds, 15-Year-Olds Earn Championship Glory With Wednesday Tournament Wins / Sports $1 Best Place To WorkBest Elected Official Best Bartender Best Lawnmower Or Tractor Store Midweek Edition Best Asian Best Bakery Best Local Best Best Locally Artist Dinner Restaurant Made Cheese Best Local Best Carpet Thursday, Best Community Festival Winery Best Artisan Made Item And Flooring Best Bank Staff Best Best Gift Shop K-12 July 26, 2012 Best Teacher Manicure Best Fries Best Car The Best of Best Reaching 110,000 Readers in Print and Online — www.chronline.com Dealership Furniture Best Cocktail Lewis County Best Doctor Best Oil Change Best Business Best Auto Repair Shop 2012 Lunch Best Best Service at Best Mexican Restaurant Hair Best a Tire Store Best Happy Hour Best Florist / Insert Salon Tanning Best Cheap Date Best Locally Best Centralia Owned You Voted for the Best; Here are the Results Salon Best Antique Store College Instructor Best Restaurant Best Clothing Store Community Best Spa Best Home Best Pet Store Volunteer Improvement Best Urgent Care Medical Facility ‘SheStore Best Place To Drink A Pint Takes on the World’ East Lewis County Woman Tackles Volunteering, Community Involvement and Cancer With Tenacity / Main 14 POWER PURCHASE: Puget Sound Energy Makes Deal With TransAlta / Main 3 Pete Caster / [email protected] Toni Nelson waves to a friend as they enter the East Lewis County Relay for Life. on July 13 in Morton. Nelson has been a tireless advocate for the event and its overal goal of inding a cure for cancer, which she has battled for many years. Fastpitch Tourney at Fort Borst / Sports 1 MUNICIPAL SILENCE: Tenino Council Avoids Topic of More Than Just New Tires Member’s Debt to Local Business Puts Old Rubber Back on the Road / Main 6 City / Main 4 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Weather Little Things With Wings Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Dunaway, James F., 80, TONIGHT: Low 56 Follow Us on Twitter A Closer Morton @chronline TOMORROW: High 74 Cherry, Gene, 83, Mes- Mostly Sunny Look at quite, Nev. see details on page Main 2 Butterflies Find Us on Facebook Quesnel, Judith E., 65, www.facebook.com/ Packwood Weather picture by Ramsey and thecentraliachronicle Hadaller, Matthew, 80, Challis, fourth grade, Boistfort Moths Ethel School / Outdoors: Sports 2 Cheney, Robert Eugene, 82, Centralia Main 2 The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Thursday, July 26, 2012 COMMUNITY CALENDAR / WEATHER Community Calendar Editor’s Best Bet loss of a loved one, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Today Morton Community Methodist Church, Fourth and Main, Morton, 330-2640 Pacific Mobile Overeaters Anonymous, 5:30- 6:30 p.m., Immanuel Lutheran Structures Plans Church,1209 N. Scheuber Road, Cen- tralia, 736-9268 Golf Tournament Senior Centers Pacific Mobile Structures Twin Cities Senior Center, 748-0061 is hosting its third annual golf Pool tournament, 1 p.m. tournament today at Riverside Dance day, 10-11:45 a.m. Golf Club in Chehalis. Lunch, noon, $3 suggested donation This year, proceeds from Morton Senior Center, 496-3230 The Chronicle, file photo the tournament will go toward Pinochle, 11 a.m. the Pacific Athletic Center Kids Sara Ferguson, 4, left, makes a dash for a piece of candy thrown during the parade Nutrition lunch, noon, $3 suggested at Oregon Trail Days in Tenino last year. This year’s parade is set for 11 a.m. Saturday. Scholarship Program. donation The event will include a four- Olequa (Winlock) Senior Center, person scramble, box lunch and an 785-4325 Oregon Trail Days Arrive in Tenino awards reception following the golf Low impact exercise, 9-11 a.m., tournament. Entry fee is $75 for in- Cook’s choice lunch and bingo, 11 The annual Oregon Trail Square Mile Music Festival will dividuals or $300 for a team of four. a.m.-2 p.m. Days celebration will take place last from 6 p.m. to midnight on The PAC Kids Scholarship Packwood Senior Center, 494-6331 throughout Tenino beginning Friday and Saturday at the Teni- Fund has been established to Women’s pool, 10 a.m. Friday and extending into Sun- no City Park Little League Field. provide financial assistance to Sit and Be Fit, 11 a.m. day. The celebration will ramp up families that otherwise would Nutrition Lunch, noon A car show will kick off the Saturday with vendors, live per- not be able to participate in Entertainment and presentations, festivities at 5 p.m. Friday at formances and other attractions sports developmental programs. 12:30 p.m. Scotty B’s Diner. The new Four throughout the town. Toledo Senior Center, 864-2112 The PAC is located at 2091 Jack- Computers level 2, 9-11:30 a.m. son Highway, Chehalis. Low-impact exercise class, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Open mic, 7 p.m., Matrix Coffee- house, 434 N.W. Prindle St., Chehalis Watercolor class, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Adam Craig Seaunier moved to Cancer Society Relay for Life, 330-1869 Fundraiser, benefit for Jim Valley, Zumba, 6-7 p.m., Toledo Senior who is being treated for autoimmune Center Nashville and found success in Organizations disease called Wegener’s vasculitis,“The Open pool, 9:30 a.m., Toledo Senior the music industry. Skookumchuck I.O.O.F. Lodge 129, Jerk,” 7 p.m., Fox Theatre, Centralia, $10 Center 7:30 p.m., Bucoda Oddfellows Com- per person, doors open at 6:15 p.m., Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad, regular munity Center, 202 S. Main St., Bucoda, (360) 269-8300 excursion steam train rides, 12:45 p.m. 273-3604 Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad, Diesel Friday, July 27 and 3:30 p.m., steam train ride with bar- Thursday, 12:45 and 3:30 p.m., trains becue at lake, 3:30 p.m., trains depart Support Groups depart from Elbe depot and gift shop, from Elbe depot and gift shop, 1-888. H.O.P.E., all addictions, 7:30-9 p.m., 1-888.STEAM.11 or www.mrsr.org New Music Festival to STEAM.11 or www.mrsr.org Heritage Baptist Church of Tenino, 1315 Oregon Trail music and dancing, Sussex Ave. E., Tenino, (360) 480-0592, Public Agencies Feature Tenino Native open mic with Side Kicks Band, 7 p.m., [email protected] Lewis-Mason-Thurston Area Agency The first Four Square Mile Cowlitz Prairie Grange, 864-2023 on Aging, Council of Governments, 2 Music Festival will take place Music, 10:30-11:45 a.m., Twin Cities Senior Centers p.m., 4419 Harrison Ave. N.W., Olympia, Senior Center, 748-0061 Friday and Saturday in conjunc- Twin Cities Senior Center, 748-0061 (360) 664-3162, ext. 112 tion with Tenino’s Oregon Trail Historic Lewis County Farmer’s Mar- ket, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., corner of Pearl and Pinochle tournament, 1 p.m. Libraries Days celebration. Maple streets, Centralia, 736-8977, lew- Lunch, noon, $3 suggested donation “Library Movie Matinee,” for all ages, The event in the Tenino City iscountyfarmersmarket.org Dancing, Jack & the Roadrunners, 2-4 p.m., Centralia Timberland Library, Park will be 6 p.m. to midnight Celebration of original Chehalis 7-10 p.m., 807-1761, 520-6518 free movie, 736-0183 both days. Headliner for both “Krazy Days,” 8 p.m., Sammy Steele Band, Packwood Senior Center, 494-6331 “Teen Game Night,” for teens, 5:30- nights will be the Adam Craig DevilFish Public House, 289 N.W. Cheha- Walking, 8:30 a.m. 7:30 p.m, Winlock Timberland Library, Band (formerly TelluRide) from lis, Ave., Chehalis, 996-4682 Coffee klatch, 9 a.m. DDR, Rock Band, Just Dance and board Nashville, Tenn. Both nights Modern Day Hero and Maddie, 8 Yoga, 9 a.m. games, refreshments, part of Summer p.m., Matrix Coffeehouse, Chehalis, $6 Exercises, 9:30 a.m. Reading, 785-3461 will feature local beers and Dancing, Jack & the Roadrunners, Sewing and crafts, 10 a.m. wines for purchase and local 7-10 p.m., Twin Cities Senior Center, 807- Organizations food vendors Simply Organic 1761 or 520-6518 Lunch, $4 donation requested, noon Bucoda Rebekah Lodge 144, 7 p.m., Cafe and Big T BBQ. Proceeds Art Walk, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., downtown Pinochle and Yahtzee, 12:30 p.m. Bucoda Oddfellows Community Center, from the Four Square Mile Mu- Chehalis, work of local artists and crafts- Toledo Senior Center, 864-2112 202 S. Main, Bucoda, potluck, 273-9724 sic Festival will go to the Teni- men on display in businesses, part of Nutrition lunch, noon, suggested Lewis County Democrats, 6:30 p.m., no School District and Tenino Planes, Trains & Automobiles donation $3 for 60 and over, under 60, Great Wall Chinese Restaurant, Silver Car wash fundraiser, Washington $5.95 Creek, arrive early if you wish to eat Quarry Pool. Orthopedic Center Relay for Life team, Acrylics classes, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. The Adam Craig Founda- 3-6 p.m., Washington Orthopedic Cen- Support Groups tion is producing the show. It ter, 1900 Cooks Hill Road, Centralia, by “Up From Grief,” for those grieving the was created after Tenino native donation, all proceeds go to American please see CALENDAR, page Main 11 The Weather Almanac 5-Day Forecast for the Lewis County Area River Stages National Map Forecast map for July 26, 2012 Gauge Flood 24 hr. Today Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Height Stage Change 110s Chehalis at Mellen St. 100s 48.82 65.0 +0.01 90s Skookumchuck at Pearl St. 80s L L 73.45 85.0 0.00 70s Cowlitz at Packwood 60s H 2.40 10.5 -0.15 50s L Cowlitz at Randle 40s Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny Mostly Sunny Sunny 6.25 18.0 +0.17 30s 78º 56º 74º 54º 75º 53º 75º 52º 77º 54º Cowlitz at Mayfield Dam 20s 5.88 ---- +0.07 10s 0s This map shows high temperatures, type of precipitation expected and Centralia Regional Weather Sun and Moon location of frontal systems at noon.