Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com $1 Weekend Edition Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017 Farmed Salmon Frenzy Escaped Fish Heading to ‘Every River in Puget Sound’ / Main 13 Winlock Arson Sentence Countdown to Kickoff Judge Sentences One of Two Men Accused of W.F. West Hosts Jamboree One Week Setting Fires to Time Served in Plea / Main 5 Before Start of Football Season / Sports 1 Mayor of Without Quick Thinking, Grand Morton, Confederate Mound Blaze Would’ve Been Worse Flag at Firefighters, Residents Recount Harrowing Attack on 494-Acre Fire Center of Loggers’ Jubilee Controversy PARADE FLOAT: Award-Winning Entry by Brown Shack Tavern Draws Criticism By Jordan Nailon [email protected] The mayor of Morton has found himself on the defensive after a parade float featuring a Confederate flag, an American Flag and a Donald Trump sign was awarded first place overall in the Loggers Jubilee parade on Aug. 12. Mayor Dan Mortensen, the former police chief who now pulls double duty as the coordi- nator of the annual Jubilee pa- rade, acted as judge in the float contest. His decision has drawn criticism from some residents and outsiders. Jared Wenzelburger / For The Chronicle Rubble rests where a structure once stood on Thursday following the Scatter Creek Fire in Grand Mound. please see FLAG, page Main 11 BRUSH FIRE: West “It was like a wall of fire,” Mike Morales, a West Thurston Thurston Fire Chief Regional Fire Authority fire- Brush Fire Noted Weather Patterns, fighter, told The Chronicle. On Thursday, as crews con- Contained on Made the Decision to tinued to patrol fire lines and Call for Resources Early put out hotspots, Morales and others recounted the harrow- Prather Road By Natalie Johnson ing first few hours of the fire By The Chronicle [email protected] in which two fire engines and Just days after the massive crews were briefly overrun with Firefighters knew they were flames. Rapidly changing winds Scatter Creek Fire, crews with in for a long day when they saw the West Thurston Regional set the fire charging across prai- the flames from a Grand Mound rie grass, and about 100 resi- Fire Authority and the Depart- brush fire hit tall, tinder-dry ment of Natural Resources were dences were evacuated. grass Tuesday afternoon and While the fire’s initial chaos back on the job responding to Firefighters survey a burned field on Thursday following the Scatter Creek Fire shoot 30 feet in the air right in another brush fire Friday night. in Grand Mound. front of them. please see BLAZE, page Main 16 The fire was reported in the 8500 block of Prather Road around 6 p.m. By 7:10 p.m., the fire author- Scatter Creek Wildfire Charred 345 Acres of Wildlife Area ity said on its Facebook page the By The Chronicle prompting the Washington first reported Tuesday after- lanes of traffic on Interstate 5 blaze had been contained, but Department of Fish and Wild- noon in a residential area be- where it ignited another patch that firefighters would remain at A wildfire that burned a total of 494 acres in the Grand life to close public access to the fore turning northwest toward of land southeast of the initial the scene overnight to maintain south side of the popular site the Scatter Creek Wildlife Area burn. control. Mound area earlier this week scorched 345 acres of the until further notice. and eventually shifting direc- please see FIRE, page Main 11 Scatter Creek Wildlife Area, The wind-blown fire was tions again and jumping six please see WILDLIFE, page Main 16 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Fighting River Erosion Family Forestry Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Project Set WSU Johnson, Daniel Austin, 21, Follow Us on Twitter Winlock @chronline to Protect Extension, Dickey, Keith Richard, 76, Boistfort DNR Join Happy Valley, Oregon Find Us on Facebook Road From Forces to Evans Jr., Charles E., 49, www.facebook.com/ Onalaska thecentraliachronicle Chehalis Nurture Sickles, Oran A., 94, River Winlock Foresters Byers, Normabelle, 77, / Main 14 / Main 3 Randle BACK TO SCHOOL SAVINGS! 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(AP) “Whenever it gets hard, know — A Pennsylvania couple says God got you.” Jesus showed up in their daugh- Siegel says she deposited the ter’s sonogram picture, easing check and plans to use the mon- their concerns after two other ey toward nursing school and a children were born with birth new car. defects. Alicia Zeek and Zach Smith told WPMT-TV they’re not espe- German Politician’s cially religious. But they’re con- Hipster Bashing vinced the image to the left of their daughter’s head is a beard- Greeted With Mockery ed Christ. BERLIN (AP) — A German Smith calls the image of Je- politician is being mocked for Elaine Thompson / For The Chronicle sus “distinct” and says, “There’s going after hipsters. House Speaker Paul Ryan, left, walks with Elizabeth Lund, vice president and general manager of Boeing’s 777 program, another face looking at my Jens Spahn, a 37-year-old as Ryan tours the plant Thursday in Everett. Ryan toured the factory before speaking with and taking questions from daughter.” deputy finance minister and some workers there, mostly on tax reform. Zeek’s first two children had member of Chancellor Angela problems at birth. A daughter Merkel’s conservative party, on was born with two thumbs on Thursday accused “elitist hip- one hand. Her son was born sters” of trying to isolate them- Notable Quote with a cleft palate after a dif- selves from other Germans by ficult delivery in which she and only speaking English with each the baby almost died. other. Spahn’s condemnation in Die “These fish are headed to every river in Puget Sound. We have been Zeit of bearded young men alleg- Couple Gives New Jersey edly hanging out in Berlin’s chic saying all along it was not a question of if, but when, this would Waitress $1,200 Tip on downtown cafes and refusing to mingle with “normal Germans” happen. The wild salmon stocks are already endangered. It is time to $20 Food Bill was greeted with derision on shut these operations down. Period. WOODBRIDGE, N.J. (AP) — Twitter and other social media. Some talk and laughs paid off for The Green Party tweeted a waitress in New Jersey. a 1983 photo of their lawmak- Brian Cladoosby Brianna Siegel served a cou- ers, one of them sporting a long, Swinomish Indian Tribal Community chairman calling for shutdown of farmed-fish ple on Tuesday evening at Bar fuzzy beard, sitting in parlia- industry in Puget Sound after inadvertent release of thousands of Atlantic salmon Louie in Woodbridge. After they ment next to former Chancellor paid their $20 bill, they handed Helmut Kohl. The caption — in (see page Main 13 for the full story) her an envelope and told her to English — read, “Jens, we looked open it when she got home. like hipsters long before you Siegel told News 12 New Jer- knew you’d hate them.” Today in History Today’s Highlight in History and the Brooklyn Dodgers at National Convention opened in pleaded guilty to manslaughter $95 million Hawaii Superferry Ebbets Field. (The Reds won the Chicago; the four-day event that and served 15 years in prison. made its maiden run from Oahu On August 26, 1920, the 19th first game, 5-2, the Dodgers the resulted in the nomination of In 1996, Democrats opened to Maui, the first passenger fer- Amendment to the U.S. Consti- second, 6-1.) Hubert H. Humphrey for presi- their 42nd national convention ry service between the islands. tution, guaranteeing American In 1944, French Gen. dent was marked by a bloody in Chicago. (However, the ferry went out of women’s right to vote, was cer- Charles de Gaulle braved the police crackdown on antiwar In 2015, Alison Parker, a business two years later.) War- tified in effect by Secretary of threat of German snipers as protesters in the streets. reporter for WDBJ-TV in Roa- ner Robins, Georgia, won the State Bainbridge Colby. he led a victory march in Paris, In 1972, the summer Olym- noke, Virginia, and her camera- Little League World Series title which had just been liberated by pics games opened in Munich, man, Adam Ward, were shot to with a 3-2 victory over Tokyo. On This Date: the Allies from Nazi occupation. West Germany. death during a live broadcast by Five years ago: In the face In 1789, France’s National In 1957, the Soviet Union In 1978, Cardinal Albino a disgruntled former station em- of approaching Tropical Storm Assembly adopted its Declara- announced it had successfully Luciani of Venice was elected ployee who fatally shot himself Isaac, Republicans pushed tion of the Rights of Man and of tested an intercontinental bal- pope following the death of Paul while being purused by police.