Bank Robber Headed Back to Court After Life Blazers Battle Sentence Reversed / Main 5 College Wins at NWAC Tourney / Sports $1 Weekend Edition Saturday, March 12, 2016 Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com No Refunds at Church Sweet Inspirations Mineral Group Offering Hallucinogens Says Chehalis Business Moves Enterprise Across Payments Are Seen as Donations / Main 3 the Street; Will Celebrate 10 Years / Life 1 Bill Creates Chehalis Basin Office PROVIDING OVERSIGHT: The Legislature has approved a bill DeBolt told The Chronicle that to create an office focused on reducing while the bill creating the Office of the Governor and Flood flood risks and restoring aquatic spe- Chehalis Basin may not seem like a big Authority to Choose Board cies in the Chehalis River Basin. deal, it is to him. Rep. Richard DeBolt, R-Cheha- The office will be under the state Members, Two Tribes lis, proposed the bill, and the House Department of Ecology, which Cheha- to Be Represented agreed to Senate amendments on lis River Basin Flood Authority mem- Tuesday. ber Ron Averill thinks is a good thing. Pete Caster / [email protected] By Kaylee Osowski It was delivered to the governor on Students run through leaves on a sidewalk near the [email protected] Thursday. please see OFFICE, page Main 13 Walton Science Building at Centralia College last year. Centralia College Toledo Students Hope a Realistic Optimistic About Scene Creates Safer Driving Habits Fall Enrollment Numbers, Efforts By The Chronicle After experiencing a decrease in enroll- ment, officials at Centralia College reported numbers are rising for the spring and fall se- mesters. Robert Cox, vice president of Student Ser- vices, told the college’s board of trustees that the recruitment and marketing campaign for new students is producing positive results. “It’s been very doom and gloom it seems like since I started here in terms of enroll- ment,” he said. “It’s been dropping fast and we’ve been doing so much to try to turn that around and we continue to do a lot.” Spring and fall application trackers show the numbers of future students are increasing. For the spring term, the college has more applications than it did this time last year, but Cox said the real indicator is the fall applica- tion tracker. please see COLLEGE, page Main 13 Centralia College Has 37 Candidates for Pete Caster / [email protected] Toledo High School students watch a mock car crash at the school on Friday afternoon in Toledo. President Position By The Chronicle The presidential search at Centralia Col- RECEPTIVE: Student lege has attracted a lot of attention. Group Teaches Peers The college had 37 candidates for the posi- Lewis County Sher- tion as of Thursday. About Safe Driving With if's Oice deputies Interim President James Mock Crash put handcufs on a Walton told the Centralia Toledo High School College Board of Trustees By Kaylee Osowski student who was at its Thursday meeting that [email protected] acting out the part members on the Search and of the drunken Toledo High School students Review Committee will soon driver during a be submitting their top 10 watched from the football field mock fatal car crash grandstands Friday as emergen- candidates. and subsequent On March 22, the com- James Walton cy responders hauled their peers funeral and trial at interim president with blood-caked faces out of mittee will talk about finaliz- the school on Friday ing the process and will hope- mangled cars and into the back afternoon in Toledo. of an ambulance. fully have 10 to 12 viable candidates, Walton While the crash, funeral and said. trial held at Toledo High School “It’s exciting how many candidates we have,” please see SCENE, page Main 13 please see CANDIDATES, page Main 13 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater More Burglary Charges Early Retirement Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Bucoda K9 Found Robb, Elizabeth Marie, 90, Follow Us on Twitter Man Facing as Stray to Packwood @chronline Additional Leave the Find Us on Facebook Accusations Job After 15 www.facebook.com/ in Lewis Arrests in 15 thecentraliachronicle County Months / Main 6 / Main 7 LUCKY SPRING Over 30 outlet stores including: COACH FACTORY • GAP FACTORY POLO RALPH LAUREN FACTORY STORE CH554482jc.jd YOU! SAVINGS FRANCESCA’S • MORE! 360-736-3900 • WWW.CENTRALIAOUTLETS.COM • I-5 EXIT 82 • BOTH SIDES • CENTRALIA Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, March 12, 2016 PAGE TWO News Outtake: The Face of the Therapy of the Weird stealing a taxi, but not before she Woman, 93, Gets told the driver where she was Diploma Once Denied headed. KMGH-TV reported that Because She Was the cab driver called police ear- Married ly Friday to say that a woman got in his cab and asked to go AKRON, Ohio (AP) — A to a 7-Eleven store. Police say 93-year-old Ohio woman has re- she then threatened him with a ceived the high school diploma knife, kicked him out of the taxi she was denied in 1942 because and took off in the vehicle. of rules that expelled married The woman ditched the cab students. but walked to the convenience Dorothy Liggett was a few store she had initially mentioned. weeks from graduation from Police say she was arrested there Akron’s North High School and taken into custody. when officials discovered she was married. Akron Public Schools Super- Jail Bans Photos After intendent David James hand-de- Pete Caster / [email protected] livered the diploma to Liggett in Drug-Soaked Pictures A Sharon Care Center employee greets Chicky, a 24-year-old therapeutic miniature horse, on Thursday afternoon a surprise ceremony Wednesday Discovered in Centralia. Chicky’s owner, Victoria Smith, of Toledo, toured the former national champion halter miniature horse around the facility meeting patients and putting smiles on faces. See another photo on page Main 4. in suburban Fairlawn, The Ak- SALEM, Va. (AP) — A Vir- ron Beacon Journal reported. ginia jail is no longer allowing Liggett’s daughter Janice Lar- inmates to receive personal pho- kin had written to James about tographs after officials found in- Notable Quote her mother. mates were chewing on pictures James said he read the letter that had been soaked in a drug. and researched what happened. Western Virginia Regional “I felt terrible for the way Mrs. Jail Superintendent Bobby Rus- “Now it’s even more amazing for me to think about where he may have Liggett was treated all of those sell told The Roanoke Times years ago and wanted to do what that the pictures were saturated come from. Who knows how long he was on his own.” we could to make it up to her,” in a liquid form of the narcotic- James said. “To have invested addiction treatment drug subox- 13 years in school, to have been one. Those receiving the photos Chris Packard a good student and still not re- could chew on them to absorb Thurston County Sheriff’s Office deputy on retiring K9 ceive a diploma because of that, the contents. was simply wrong.” Russell says it can be diffi- Liggett and her late husband, cult for investigators to detect (see page Main 6 for the full story) John Huston, had run away to suboxone, especially on photos. Kentucky to get married af- On white paper, it leaves a slight ter he was called into the U.S. yellow stain. The jail had already Army Air Corps during World banned all nonwhite paper and War II. Huston graduated from any papers containing drawings Today in History North High School two years or paintings because of the trend. earlier. The two had planned to Today is Saturday, March 12, the derivation of the word, ‘boy- He is executed in 1994. have Liggett join her husband the 72nd day of 2016. There are cott.’ In 1988, South African gov- after she graduated. During one Police: Trucker Used 294 days left in the year. In 1933, U.S. President ernment bans church-led op- school day, Liggett forgot her Fishing Line to Flip Franklin Roosevelt delivers the position group headed by Arch- gym attire and the teacher told Today’s Highlights in History: first of his radio “fireside chats,” bishop Desmond Tutu as “threat her to go to study hall. Liggett Plate in Toll Scam telling Americans what was be- to public safety.” In 641 A.D., Chinese Prin- said she replied, “No, I’m mar- FORT LEE, N.J. (AP) — Po- ing done to deal with the na- In 1993, Janet Reno is sworn cess Wen Cheng goes to Tibet ried. I’m going home.” lice say a truck driver used fish- tion’s economic crisis. in as the United States’ first fe- The school then acted on its to marry the Tibetan ruler. The ing line to flip his license plate in In 1939, Pope Pius XII is for- male attorney general. policy to ban married students. marriage is the basis for China’s a bid to avoid paying tolls into mally crowned in ceremonies at In 1994, The Church of Eng- Superintendent James said claim to sovereignty over the re- New York City. the Vatican. land ordains its first women they felt Ligget’s birthday was gion. In 1940, Finland and the A police officer says he saw priests. the perfect occasion to make In 1664, New Jersey becomes Soviet Union conclude an ar- 41-year-old Javier Marte of Yon- In 1999, The Czech Repub- amends. kers, New York, drive through a a British colony as King Charles mistice during World War II.