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By Natalie Johnson
For Adna residents Kim and Wayne Chase, the Route 91 Har-vest festival in Las Vegas was supposed to be the last hurrah of summer.
“We actually splurged and did a VIP package,” Kim Chase said. “Ironically, the VIP seating probably saved our lives.”
However, a few songs into country star Jason Aldean’s set, the couple was taking cover under their VIP seats as a lone shooter, identified as Stephen Paddock, used multiple weap-ons to fire hundreds of rounds of ammunition into the outdoor concert’s crowd from his room at the Mandalay Bay Resort, killing at least 59 people and in-juring more than 500.
“The bullets actually rained over us,” she said. “We didn’t run because we actually had a place where we could hunker under these metal chairs.”
They couldn’t see much of the chaos as concertgoers in the general admission section ran for their lives, but they heard it, Chase said.
“The noise was horrific,” she said.
Just before the shooting started, the couple took a selfie with the Mandalay Bay Resort in the background.
“The first sounds we heard, the first gunfire, sounded like fireworks,” She said. “It was a pop, pop, pop sound. We all looked up because you could hear it was coming from the
Courtesy Photo
Kim and Wayne Chase, of Adna, pose
for a selfie on Sunday night in Las Ve-
gas at the Route 91 Harvest festival.
Adna Resident Describes Harrowing Experience During Las Vegas Shooting
please see VEGAS, page Main 16
CHRISTIAN D. BROWN:
Driver Who Hit Pedestrian Outside Fairgrounds Pleads Guilty; Deal Also Covers Federal Conspiracy Investigation
By Natalie Johnson
A Centralia man accused of driving while high and striking a pedestrian on a sidewalk out-side the Southwest Washington Fair pleaded guilty Wednesday to vehicular assault and three drug charges.
Christian D. Brown, 30, of Centralia, was sentenced to 84 months, or 7 years, in prison for the vehicular assault charge, which is the top end of the standard sentencing range de-termined by the crime and his criminal history.
He was also sentenced to 24 months on a charge accusing him of possessing heroin dur-ing that incident. In a separate case dating back to April, he was sentenced to 24 months each for two charges of possession of a controlled substance from an unrelated incident. The sen-tences will all run concurrently.
Centralia Driver Who Struck Pedestrian While High Gets 7 Years
Jared Wenzelburger / [email protected]
Christian D. Brown waves back to his friends as he exits the court room after
pleading guilty to multiple charges Wednesday afternoon at the Lewis Coun-
ty Law and Justice Center in Chehalis. please see DRIVER, page Main 16
SAM AND BRITTANY GILL:
After Meeting in Bible College, Couple Has Gone to Work Spreading Their Faith and Helping Others in South Asia
By Natalie Johnson
For Sam and Brittany Gill, time spent in the United States visiting family and friends with their young daughters in tow and crisscrossing the country for speaking engagements is precious, but it also provides a stark contrast to their lives as Christian missionaries in Paki-stan.
“I feel honored to see a dif-
ferent part of the world that maybe not everyone gets to see,” Brittany told The Chronicle.
The poverty and hardship they see in Pakistan teaches them not to take for granted the everyday wealth of life in the United States.
“We’re so thankful,” Sam said. “We have so much … There’s so much in America.”
“When I come back to America, it’s hard to see my same country again,” Brittany added. “I don’t think I can see it in the same way.”
Brittany Gill, whose maiden name is Hoff, graduated from Napavine High School in 2004. She was also named Miss Lew-is County that year and later
Education and EmpowermentFormer Miss Lewis County, Husband Spread Faith as Missionaries to Pakistan
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Brittany and Sam Gill, with daughters Savannah, left, and Amelia, are currently in Washington visiting friends and family in between speaking engagements. The
family lives in Pakistan, where they are Christian missionaries.
please see FAITH, page Main 16
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Olympia 71/39 s 64/47 pc
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Anchorage 52/45 ra 49/41 sh
Boise 65/43 pc 67/44 s
Boston 78/63 pc 70/62 sh
Dallas 87/68 mc 88/69 pc
Honolulu 87/74 sh 86/72 sh
Las Vegas 85/61 s 86/63 s
Nashville 83/60 s 84/66 s
Phoenix 98/70 s 98/67 s
St. Louis 81/66 sh 84/66 t
Salt Lake City 62/43 s 62/46 s
San Francisco 74/56 s 78/58 s
Washington, DC 85/64 mc 84/65 mc
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Paris 65/45 ra 65/42 ra
Rio de Janeiro 80/62 s 86/62 s
Rome 76/50 s 76/50 ra
Sydney 75/61 ra 75/59 ra
Allergen Today Friday
Trees None None
Grass None None
Weeds None None
Mold None None
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Chehalis at Mellen St.
48.48 65.0 -0.04
Skookumchuck at Pearl St.
73.04 85.0 +0.00
Cowlitz at Packwood
1.51 10.5 -0.02
Cowlitz at Randle
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Bellingham65/45
Brewster73/43
Centralia73/40
Chehalis74/40
Ellensburg68/38
Longview72/45
Olympia71/39
Port Angeles62/43
Portland74/48
Seattle68/46
Tacoma69/46
The Dalles72/43
Vancouver73/45
Yakima72/40
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Thursday, Oct 5
The Zonta Club of Centra-lia Chehalis will hold its an-nual used book sale at the Lewis County Mall (inside, at the the-ater end) beginning today, 9 a.m.- 7 p.m. and continuing through Saturday, October 7 at the Lewis County Mall. Proceeds will sup-port Zonta’s scholarships and community charities as well as international projects. There will also be a small selection of DVDs and CDs. Prices start at $2 for hardbacks and $1 for pa-perbacks and decrease each day. Saturday afternoon there will a
“$2 a bag sale.” For information, contact Corene Jones-Litteer at 360-520-0711 or [email protected].
Pinochle, 6 p.m., Chehalis Eagles, 1993 S. Market Blvd., Chehalis, 360-748-7241
Public Agencies
Twin Transit board, 8:15 a.m., Twin Transit office, 212 E. Locust St., Centralia, 360-330-2072
AAUW meeting, 6:45 p.m., The Gath-ering Place, Stillwaters Estates, 2800 Cooks Hill Rd., Centralia, (Use the Co-lonial Drive entrance) 369-807-8391, Rick Mack, Riverside Fire Authority, will speak about use and maintenance of fire alarms, extinguishers and how to make homes and property safe from fire danger.
Libraries
Book Babies and Playgroup, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Centralia Timberland Library, for babies birth-24 months. Books, bounces, music and play for babies and their participating caregivers. Includes unstructured play.
Family Storytime, 10:30-11:15 a.m., Mountain View Timberland Library (Randle), for all ages. Music, movement, books and a craft for the whole family. All ages welcome. Children must be ac-companied by a participating adult.
PageTurners Book Discussion, noon-1:30 p.m., Vernetta Smith Chehalis Tim-berland Library, for adults. Discussion of “The Distance Between Us: A Mem-oir” by Reyna Grande. New participants welcome. Copies are available at the In-formation Desk one month before the discussion.
Dungeons and Dragons for Teens, 4-6 p.m., Vernetta Smith Chehalis Tim-berland Library. For teens. Come play Dungeons and Dragons in the library. A band of heroes will take a journey through fantastical lands and defeat mighty foes. Beginners are welcome. Snacks provided.
Junior PageTurners, 3:30-4:30 p.m., Winlock Timberland Library, for chil-
dren grades 1-3. Meet for a book chat, snacks, and a craft or activity. Pick up the featured book, “The Good Dog” by Todd Kessler. Snacks provided.
Organizations
Chehalis-Centralia Cribbage Club, 6:30 p.m., Chehalis Moose Lodge, 1400 Grand Ave., Centralia, 360-485-2852
S.T.O.P. and Swim, 7 p.m., Fort Borst Park, Kitchen 1, Centralia, 360-269-3827 or 360-736-4163
Centralia Chehalis Vintage Auto Club, 7:30 p.m., Ribeye Restaurant, Napavine I-5 exit, 360-748-7390
Lewis County Voiture 83 of the 40 & 8, 6 p.m. dinner, 7 p.m. meeting, Chehalis Eagles, 1993 S. Market Blvd., Chehalis, 360-266-7055
Support Groups
NAMI Lewis County Connections, recovery support group for adults with mental illness, 2-3:30 p.m., Mary Room, Centralia United Methodist Church, 506 S. Washington Ave., 253-468-7435
Mind, Body, Spirit: Self-Care Group, 10 a.m., Mossyrock Outreach Center, provided by Diane Hurley, 360-496-3591
GriefShare, a recovery group for those who have lost a loved one, 7-8:30 p.m., Mountain View Baptist Church, 1201 Belmont Ave., Centralia, $10, 360-827-2172
Friday, Oct. 6Zonta Club of Centralia Chehalis
annual book sale, 9 a.m.-7 p.m., Lewis County Mall,Chehalis, 360-500-0711
Libraries
Family Storytime, 10-10:45 a.m., Sal-kum Timberland Library. For all ages. Bring your little ones for stories, rhymes, songs and movement games. This pro-gram is designed primarily for children age 6 and younger. Children must be accompanied by a participating adult.
Preschool Storytime, 10-11 a.m.,
Vernetta Smith Chehalis Timberland Library. For children 3-6 years. Stories, songs, and activities for preschoolers and their participating caregivers.
Family Storytime, 10:30-11:15 a.m.,Winlock Timberland Library. For children 2-6 years. Music, movement, and books for the whole family. All ages welcome. Children must be accompa-nied by a participating adult.
PageTurners Book Discussion, 12:30-1:30 p.m., Winlock Timberland Library. For adults. Join a discussion of this month’s title, “The Distance Between Us” by Reyna Grande. This program is part of Timberland Reads Together: Reyna Grande, Timberland Regional Library’s one author, one community reading initiative for 2017. “TRT: Reyna Grande, One Author, One Community”
Organizations
Lewis County Writers Guild, 5 p.m., Station Coffee Bar & Bistro, Centralia, http://lewiscountywriters.wordpress.com/
Support Groups
H.O.P.E., all addictions, 7:30-9 p.m., Heritage Baptist Church of Tenino, 1315 Sussex Ave. E., Tenino, 360-480-0592, [email protected]
Celebrate Recovery, dinner 6 p.m., large group 7 p.m., small groups 8 p.m., Grace Foursquare Church, 3030 Borst Ave., Centralia, 360-736-0778, www.gracefoursquarechurch.com
Diabetic Support Group, 10:30-11:30 a.m., The Gathering Place, Stillwaters Estates, 2800 Cooks Hill Road, Centralia, 360-748-3177 or 360-736-9679
Friday Night Live, Narcotics Anony-mous, 7-9 p.m., Dayspring Baptist Church Fellowship Hall, 2088 Jackson Highway, Chehalis, 360-508-6495
Saturday, Oct. 7
Girls Night Out In Downtown Centralia To Benefit The Human Response Network
Downtown Centralia will again be colorful with mylar balloons as downtown mer-chants launch the fall edition of Girls Night Out with the Human Response Network as the event’s beneficiary. Event
runs 2-8 p.m., and starts out at the north or south ticket tables, Hubbub (328 N. Tower) and the Coffee Station Bistro (120 S. Tower). $5 ticket come in the form of a passport, listing the 30+ participating merchants, many offering snacks, in-store unadvertised sales, special ser-vices, and discounts to Girls Night Out participants. Par-ticipating merchants will also stamp passports, which, when full, can be dropped in the bin to win one of the large gift bas-kets made up of items from all of the participating stores. The full spectrum of merchants starts at Columbia Countertops (316 S. Tower) and extends 11 blocks north to Junk-in-the-Trunk (830 N. Tower).
The first 200 attendees will receive a goodie-bag stuffed with items contributed by the participating merchants. To-ward the end of the day, pass-ports will be collected and drawn to determine who wins the gift baskets.
The Human Response Net-work (HRN) provides shelter and advocacy services to wom-en and children who are victims of domestic violence. A portion of the revenues from ticket sales will be donated to HRN’s shel-ter. Representatives will also be present at the Girls Night Out ticket tables in case any attend-ee would like to buy tickets to HRN’s second annual Masquer-ade Ball on Saturday, Oct. 14.
For more information, con-tact Kassy Mikulski at Attic Door Vintages, 307 N. Tower, or Sandy at The Shady Lady, 216 North Tower and 360-736-4333.
Peril of the Plains and Other Foolery
Roxy Players will be at the Onalaska Apple Harvest Festival, 7 p.m. in the Onalaska Middle School gym. Enjoy laughing along with old-fashioned melodrama and vaudeville-style music and comedy. $10.
Club Mom Children’s Clothing
Bank and Exchange, 1-3 p.m., Centra-lia Christian Church, 1215 W. Main St., 360-736-7655
Dance, Country Four and More, 7 p.m., South Union Grange, 10030 Tilley Road, near exit 99 off I-5, 360-352-2135
Pancake breakfast, 7:30-10 a.m., Twin Cities Senior Center, $5, 206-948-2979
Coach Train Excursions to Milburn, 1 and 3 p.m., Chehalis-Centralia Railroad & Museum, 1101 SW Sylvenus St., Che-halis, steamtrainride.com, 360-748-9593
Riverview Train Excursion to Ruth, 5 p.m., Chehalis-Centralia Railroad & Mu-seum, 1101 SW Sylvenus St., Chehalis, steamtrainride.com, 360-748-9593
Steam Train Ride and Museum Visit, 11 a.m., 2:15 p.m., Mt. Rainier Railroad, Elbe, 888-STEAM-11
Open garden, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., 4162 Jackson Highway, Chehalis
Dinner and bingo, dinner, 4 p.m., bingo first game, 6 p.m., hosted by Napavine Trinity Rebekahs, 111. W. Washington, Napavine. Includes potato bar.
Roundup Stamp and Coin Show, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Yardbirds Mall, 2100 N. National Ave. Chehalis, 360-273-0296
Lamplighter Cemetery History Tour Fundraiser for Tenino Boy Scout Troup 14, 4-8 p.m., Forest Grove Cemetery, Tenino, Adults $7, Kids $5, Seniors $5, Family of 2 adults, up to 4 kids, $25, 360-972-9947
Zonta Club of Centralia Chehalis annual book sale, 9 a.m.-7 p.m., Lewis County Mall,Chehalis, 360-500-0711
LibrariesSensory Friendly Storytime, 10:30-
11:30 a.m., Centralia Timberland Library. For children 3 years-grade 6. Stories, songs and movement games that are especially welcoming to children on the autism spectrum or with other special needs. Enjoy a safe, non-judgmental environment, a schedule board for fol-lowing along and a sensory-sensitive environment.
WonderWorks: Puppet Making, 2-3:30 p.m.,Centralia Timberland Library For children grades 1-6. Create sev-eral kinds of puppets in this artist-led, hands-on, totally free workshop.
Sasquatch 101, 2-3 p.m., Mountain View Timberland Library (Randle).For all ages. Glenoma Fire Hall 8022 US Hwy 12 Glenoma, WA 98336. Join local field investigator Scott Tay-lor as he discusses Sasquatch (Big-foot) sightings, report investigation, evidence, and observed behavior. Learn the history of the Bigfoot Field
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Zonta Club Used Book SaleBy The Chronicle
Summer’s over, but it’s never too early to restock your bookshelf.
The Zonta Club of Cen-tralia Chehalis will hold its annual used book sale at the Lewis County Mall (inside, at the theater end) starting today at 9 a.m. and running until 7 p.m., and continu-
ing through Saturday at the Lewis County Mall.
Proceeds from the sale will support Zonta’s scholar-ships and community chari-ties as well as international projects. There will also be a small selection of DVDs and CDs.
Prices start at $2 for hardbacks and $1 for paper-
backs and decrease each day.
By Saturday afternoon there
will a “$2 a bag sale,” where
each full bag of books goes
for a flat $2 rate.
For information, contact
Corene Jones-Litteer at 360-
520-0711 or cjoneslitteer@
hotmail.com.
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U.S. FOREST SERVICE: Roads Open but Still in Rough Shape From Winter Damage
By Jordan Nailon
RANDLE — It’s a 36 mile drive along winding, lopsided, overgrown U.S. Forest Service Roads from the turnoff at High-way 131 in Randle to the parking lot at the Windy Ridge View-point. As the forest trees fly by like oversized pickets occasional gaps in the sylvan fence reveal magnificent views of the sym-metrical peaks of Mount Adams and Mount Hood. Their perfect pinnacle peaks already draped in snow, they seem to float like ice-bergs on a sea of evergreens.
As Forest Service Road 25 leads into FS 99, Mount St. Hel-ens begins to make brief appear-ances from roadside vantage points. Unlike its well postured neighbors, Mount St. Helens seems to slump in its chair, its edges all crumbling toward the gaping maw middle and only a precious ring of snow to cover its otherwise barren rockscape. As the road climbs ever higher evi-dence of the mountain’s destruc-tive force from its 1980 eruptions becomes evident at every turn. Aside from the missing lid on the mountain there are entire distant ridgelines that remain virtu-ally denuded from the blast. The skeletons of dead trees litter the ground, each one pointed away from the blast zone like birthday cake candles blown out with gale force winds.
As the road makes its final ap-proach to the Windy Ridge look-out Spirit Lake comes into view just over the shoulder to the west. It’s impressive shoreline, raised some 200 feet by the pyroclastic flows of the eruption, remains lit-tered with downed trees. Unlike their brittle companions left to splinter in the sun and rot in the rain the logs on Spirit Lake float atop their watery grave as a me-morial floatilla of sorts. A small island of logs near the west shore is said to have formed directly above the spot Harry Truman held his ground until he was bur-ied alive by the cataclysmic flow of the disintegrating mountain.
Rounding the final corner to the Windy Ridge parking lot, Mount St. Helens finally comes into perfect focus as the road seems to deliver you midway up the mountainside with a direct view into the cavernous crater and its swelling lava dome. A 368-step wooden walkway seems to make a stairway to heaven but instead offers sightseers a direct route to a peekaboo vantage point of the rough and tumble side of the volcano. A 10-minute hike up the stairs leaves hikers wind-ed but the views at the top still manage to take their breath away, one after the other. To the west a nearly eye-level vantage of Mount St. Helens reveals the guts of her gargantuan blowout while small puffs of steam percolate through cracks in the rock in order to vent out of the cater like a chim-ney from the netherworld. To the east Mount Adams sits stoic as a silent witness, just as it did on that transformative day 37 years ago, and to the north Spirit Lake spar-kles in the golden autumn sun while a bleach bone forest of yes-teryear quietly bobs on its surface.
On Tuesday, a trail that leads beyond the main viewpoint area and wraps around the southeast shore of Spirit Lake was closed due to washouts along the way. Anoth-er sign pleaded with visitors to stay on the designated trail in order to support glacially paced re-vegeta-tive efforts that have been under-way since that fateful day in 1980.
As I reached the crest of Windy Ridge a fully equipped hiker, complete with shock ab-sorbent poles and steel frame
backpack, was wrapping up his lunch and could soon be seen walking off into the distance all by his lonesome. Another man who arrived at the top of the lookout stairs a short time later noted that the hiker was in the midst of a loop hike from Ape Canyon, to the Plains of Abra-ham, to Smith Creek, and down to the Lava Canyon. That man, Bob Daugherty, said that he traveled the same loop one week prior with the aid of a mountain bike. Daugherty, from Portland, said the roughly 20 mile trek took about seven hours to com-plete thanks in part to a minor mix up in directions and a short stint of alternative navigation, otherwise known as being lost. On Tuesday Daugherty brought along his wife, Chris Ann, so that she could take in the awe in-spiring views for herself.
“I remember when the moun-tain blew. Being in Portland you could feel it and then the ash started falling, but this is the first time I’ve made it to the cra-ter,” said Chris Ann Daugherty as she soaked in the ash spack-led surroundings.
Once they reached the top the Daughertys were in no rush and with their mountain bikes and travel camper stowed away in the parking lot, they said they were prepared to remain enveloped in the majesty of the high country for at least another day despite temperatures that dropped near freezing Tuesday night.
John Voigt, of Gig Harbor, was another traveler who found his way to the top of Windy Ridge on Tuesday afternoon. He said he has visited the Windy Ridge viewpoint numerous times over the years after sum-miting the old mountain on July 21, 1969, the same day as the first Apollo moon landing.
“We came down and we won-
dered if they made it,” remem-bered Voigt as he stared into the gaping crater of the new Mount St. Helens.
With a pair of binoculars in hand Voigt spotted a herd of 22 elk lounging about on the hot rocks of an alluvial outwash in between the base of the moun-tain and the edge of Spirit Lake. With the naked eye the white-butt ungulates looked just like the stumps that pockmark the scenery in every direction.
While the scenery left Voigt with nothing to be desired he was plenty disappointed in the rough condition of Forest Ser-vice roads 25 and 99.
“This road was considered one of the best rides in the state for cars and motorcycles,” said Voigt as he shook his head. “I wouldn’t do it again without a truck.”
Indeed, before leaving the spec-tacular vantage Voigt vowed to take FS 25 south out toward Cougar and Woodland in hopes of finding a smoother route, even though it doubled his drivetime home.
The U.S. Forest Service knows all about the road issues and the agency put in plenty of work this summer just to offer any access to Windy Ridge at all. Typically FS 99 opens sometime in early to mid-July when the winter snow accumulations melt. This year that snow didn’t melt until late July and when it did recede the vanishing snow revealed massive washouts and other damages from winter storms. Once those repairs were completed, access to Windy Ridge was finally opened up on Aug. 28.
The Forest Services says that Windy Ridge is a popular destination within the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, even though it not accessed as fre-quently as the Johnston Ridge Observatory to the west. That discrepancy is partially due to accessibility issues and partially
attributable to the bare bones nature of the Windy Ridge route, said a U.S. Forest Service repre-sentative. While the Spirit Lake Memorial Highway route is load-ed with indoor learning centers, interpretive rangers and fancy accommodations the Windy Ridge side is far more desolate. There are plenty of restrooms and information signage, but lit-tle else other than the awe inspir-ing remnants of an eviscerated mountainside to hold one’s at-tention. And that’s just fine since many visitors say that Windy Ridge provides better views of volcano country and allows for a better sense of the destruction left in the wake of the eruption.
A representative at the Cowlitz Valley Ranger Sta-tion noted that access to Windy Ridge this fall and winter will be dictated by the arrival of snow-fall. The Forest Service says the road is usually closed by late November or early December. Here in the first week of Octo-ber there were no signs of snow along the road and the snowline on the mountain appeared to be at least a thousand feet higher than the parking lot at Windy Ridge. However, with the recent arrival of fall, those conditions can change at any time.
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Lewis County WSU Extension to Offer Free Gardening WorkshopsBy The Chronicle
The Lewis County WSU Ex-tension will host a day of free workshops on Saturday, Oct. 7, in Washington Hall at Centralia College.
The first round of work-
shops will be from 9 to 10:30 a.m. In Room 103, Centralia Public Works Director Kahle Jennings will talk about biosol-ids. In Room 105, Lewis County Noxious Weed Coordinator Bill Wamsley will talk about inte-grated pest management.
The next round of classes will be from 10:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. In Room 103, Lewis County Master Gardener Mary Ann Al-
benesius will talk about effective garden irrigation. In Room 105, Lewis County Master Gardener Barbara Eastman will teach about plant propagation.
The final round of classes will be from 12:45-2:15 p.m. In Room 103, Lewis County Master Gar-dener Don Enstrom will talk about rain gardens. In Room 105, owner of Pan’s Garden Jo Ann Mahaffey will talk about growing succulents.
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John Voigt, of Gig Harbor, makes his way up the final steps to the view point perch atop Windy Ridge on the northeast side of Mount Saint Helens on Tuesday afternoon.
Voigt summited the mountain on July 21, 1969. The same day astronauts first set foot on the moon.
News in Brief
A trio of visitors to the Windy Ridge view point look out over the recovering deso-
lation zone at the foot of Mount Saint Helens on Tuesday afternoon. A herd of 22
elk were visible loafing in the gravel outwash just to the left of the edge of Spirit
Lake.
The floating log mat of Spirit Lake, left behind after the May 18, 1980 eruption of
Mount Saint Helens, can be clearly seen from the Windy Ridge viewpoint.
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MAYOR: Bridge Has Been Closed Since 2014 Due to Safety Concerns
By Natalie Johnson
But for a few footings left in the Olequa Creek bed and a temporary span supporting utilities, Winlock’s more than 50-year-old Fir Street Bridge has now been completely removed to make room for its replace-ment.
The new bridge is scheduled to be complete by July 31, 2018, but Mayor Lonnie Dowell said he’s hopeful for an early finish to have the bridge open for Egg Days.
By then, the bridge will have been closed for more than four years.
“It’s been a huge impact,” Dowell said. “You’ve got the ma-jor bridge in the city, the most traveled bridge from the east side to the west side of the city. That bridge took 90, 95 percent of the traffic.”
In February 2014, the city hired a contractor to perform a scheduled inspection on the Fir Street bridge and received star-tling news.
“They suggested due to their findings on the inspection that the bridge be shut down to all traffic including foot traffic,” Dowell said.
Inspectors reported that be-tween damage to the pilings, wear and tear and bank erosion, the bridge was in danger of col-lapsing under its own weight.
Previous Chronicle reporting stated the bridge was damaged during the 2007 flooding that af-fected much of Lewis County.
At the time, The Chronicle reported the bridge rated 26 out of a possible score of 100 on an inspection, with a score of 100 indicating perfect condition and 40 or below meaning the bridge is structurally deficient.
“When we got that word we set up with state and county to get jersey barriers and we pur-chased fencing to block it off … and we did that the next day,” Dowell said.
Since then, traffic has been diverted down Arden Street, causing problems on the street designed for residential traffic. Dowell said the city plans to re-pave Arden Street in the future.
“It’s impacted that commu-nity as well as the road,” he said.
The Fir Street Bridge replace-ment project is expected to cost $3.5 million, most of which is paid for by a federal bridge grant program. The remaining 13.5 percent match is being covered by state Transportation Improve-
ment Board funds, Dowell said. While the city took action to
secure funding soon after the bridge was closed, Dowell said confusion in the city’s books about property lines and city right-of-ways on property sur-rounding the bridge complicated the process and delayed the proj-ect by as much as a year.
“We’re a 120-some-year-old city so … I think that section of property was purchased in some land grant … in the early 1900s,” he said.
The original bridge’s footings were cut level with the creekbed out of concern that removing them would damage the creek,
Dowell said. Debris from the project has been left on site to act as habitat for animals living in the stream, he said.
In addition to the Fir Street Bridge, Winlock’s Walnut Street Bridge has also recently under-gone work. Both projects be-
gan this July. The Walnut Street Bridge received $850,000 in re-pairs and is close to being fin-ished, Dowell said.
Winlock’s Aged Fir Street Bridge Removed to Make Way for Replacement
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Two construction workers wade through Olequa Creek at the Fir Street Bridge construction site Tuesday afternoon in Winlock.
Two construction workers wade through the water, one holding a large construc-
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site Tuesday afternoon in Winlock.
News in Brief
Tenino FFA Chapter Named Finalist for National AwardBy The Chronicle
The Tenino chapter of the FFA is a finalist for the 2017 Na-tional Premier Chapter: Growing Leaders award.
Out of the 7,859 chapters na-tionwide, 167 were awarded with a three-star rating. Out of those, 10 chapters were selected as fi-nalists for the award. The award program recognizes outstand-ing FFA chapters that implement the mission and strategies of the organization, among which are helping the community and growing leaders.
“Chapters eligible to compete for the National Premier Chap-ter: Growing Leaders award are those that demonstrate compe-tency in doing innovative things or taking traditional concepts and applying a creative twist in the Growing Leaders division of the chapter’s Program of Activi-ties,” the press release said.
The Tenino chapter was nominated because of its work to build tiny homes for veter-ans, according to a press release. Three members of the chapter and their adviser will travel to Indianapolis where they will compete against other chapters for the award.
These FFA members will be doing several different fundrais-ing activities to help with the cost of travel. If you would like to contribute to their endeavors, contact FFA adviser Geraldine Maxfield at [email protected].
Herrera Beutler to Hold Lewis County Event for Veterans to Tell Their StoriesBy The Chronicle
Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler has announced she will be hosting an additional event in Lew-is County for veterans to tell their military stories so they can be pre-served in the Library of Congress.
An earlier announcement in-cluded only one event in Clark County.
“There has been a lot of interest from Southwest Washington vet-erans to share their military stories
— it’s a reminder of all of the brave men and women willing to sacri-fice for our country who live right here,” she said in a press release.
“It’s my privilege to add a second event in the northern portion of this district where we’ll record and preserve as many Lewis County-area veterans’ wartime experiences as possible for future generations.”
Veterans wishing to tell their stories should RSVP with Louise Fendrich in the Vancouver office at 360-695-6292 or [email protected].
Herrera Beutler and her staff have partnered with Veterans His-tory Project to preserve the stories of individual service members during wartime. She and her staff will be conducting 30-minute in-terviews with each veteran.
The times and locations are yet to be determined.
The Veterans History Project collection can be viewed at loc.gov/vets. More information about the project can be found there as well.
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A Rochester woman has been charged with allegedly stealing tens of thousands of dollars from her employer — a Centralia rent-al property owner — by pocket-ing deposits and cash payments.
Stacey C. Brown, 47, made her first appearance Wednesday in Lewis County Superior Court on one count of first-degree theft. She is accused of stealing $61,780 in rental income over the span of a year and a half.
She appeared out of custody and was granted $5,000 unse-cured bail.
According to court docu-ments, the suspected embezzle-ment was first reported Sept. 29, 2015. At that time, the alleged victim, the owner of Weaver In-vestments, reported that he sus-pected Brown, whose last name was then Anderson, was renting his apartment units off the books and keeping cash rent payments and deposits.
The thefts reportedly took place between January 2014 and 2015.
Weaver Investments at the time owned 39 properties in Centralia overseen by a property management company.
However, Brown, an em-ployee of the property owner, reportedly showed the units to prospective renters, organized the signing of rental agreements and collected deposits and rent money, which she delivered to
the property manager, according to court documents.
Weaver Investments later be-came aware of discrepancies in his books and came to believe Brown was renting apartments off the books and keeping the profits.
According to court docu-ments, detectives with the Cen-tralia Police Department were unable to interview Brown about the allegations.
Brown’s next court hearing is scheduled for Oct. 12.
Rochester Woman Accused of Embezzling $60,000 in Rent Scheme
Centralia College Foundation Honors 1938 Graduate, Longtime Doctor With DisplayBy The Chronicle
The Centralia College Foun-dation is honoring a 1938 gradu-ate of the college with a display of his paintings, sketches and wood carvings in the Ehret Lobby of the Walton Science Center.
Dr. Ross Galvin, 98, passed away July 13 in Olympia. He was a longtime supporter of the col-lege and the nursing program. He was also a doctor in Centralia for 35 years.
Galvin attended Centralia Ju-nior College between the Great Depression and World War II. He grew up in Centralia and de-cided to attend the junior college
because it was convenient, close and affordable, according to a press release.
Once he graduated, he com-pleted his pre-med studies at the University of Washington. Gal-vin then transferred to the Uni-versity of Louisville in Kentucky to finish his medical degree, because during those times the University of Washington did not have its own medical school.
During his medical stud-ies, World War II began. To stay in school, Galvin was made a private first class, according to the release. He returned to the Pacific Northwest with plans to complete his internship at Swed-
ish Hospital in Seattle, but that was interrupted when he went into the army as a first lieutenant. He served as a medical officer in Indianapolis, where he helped injured soldiers returning from the war.
After he was discharged, Gal-vin and his wife moved to Oak Harbor, where he opened his first practice, according to the release. When his partner retired, he came to Centralia in 1946 on a temporary basis, but ended up staying for more than 35 years.
The free exhibit is open to the community from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays through the end of the year.
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Dr. Ross Galvin.
‘DO NOT DUMP YOUR PETS:’ City of Lacey Works to Eradicate Invasive Species
By Rolf Boone
The Olympian
This is no innocent frog.The frog, known as the Afri-
can clawed frog (yes, it has claws) is predatory, invasive, reproduc-es quickly and tested positive for a virus. And a whole bunch of them had settled into a stormwa-ter pond system near Saint Mar-tin's University in Lacey.
The city of Lacey, which up-dated Lacey City Council last week on efforts to eradicate the critter, worked with the state De-partment of Fish and Wildlife to come up with a plan to trap, test, contain and eliminate thousands of the amphibians from three ponds at the College Regional Stormwater Facility, which col-lects stormwater from Saint Martin's and Lacey's Woodland District, City Manager Scott Spence said Tuesday.
The ponds are located off Ab-bey Way Southeast on the uni-versity campus, but the city oper-ates the facility.
More than 6,000 frogs — 6,106, to be exact — were eu-thanized over the summer by increasing the salinity of a large, upper pond, said Doug Christen-son, water resources engineer for the city of Lacey. Next summer, city and wildlife officials will fo-cus on the smaller east and west ponds.
The frogs were first discov-ered in late summer 2015 by someone from the state Depart-ment of Ecology, who recognized the frogs as not being native to the area, Christenson said. In fact, it was thought to be the first time an African clawed frog has been found in the state, he said.
Because it was a new discov-ery, it took time to come up with a plan to address the creature, he said.
One step was erecting fenc-ing around the three ponds, both
to keep the frogs contained and to keep other animals out of the ponds. The frogs also were tested, and tested positive for ranavirus, which "causes systemic infec-tions in a wide variety of wild and cultured fresh and saltwater fishes."
Pond water levels rise during the rainy season, so the fencing helped to isolate the frogs, he said. Then, while the water was low over the summer, the salinity was increased to kill the frogs.
Although salt was added to the pond, it will be diluted dur-
ing the rainy season. Christen-son said they don't want to cause environmental harm while try-ing to address an environmental problem.
How did the African clawed frog wind up in the ponds?
City officials could only speculate, thinking that perhaps somebody had released their pet there.
Christenson shared this re-minder Tuesday.
"Do not dump your pets into the wild," he said.
Thousands of African Clawed Frogs Killed in Thurston County
Courtesy City of Lacey
Some of the work to address an invasive species in Lacey known as the African clawed frog included new fencing.
News in Brief
Thurston County Canvassing Board Holds Meetings Over Registration ChallengeBy The Chronicle
The Thurston County Audi-tor’s Office is holding two ad-ditional special meetings of the Canvassing Board to discuss a voter registration challenge.
Michael Snodgrass, a Thur-ston County resident, is chal-lenging the voter registration of Dorothy Elizabeth Parshley, an-other Thurston County resident, stating that she no longer resides at the address she is register to vote at, according to the county’s report.
The board consists of Coun-ty Commission Chairman Bud Blake, Auditor Mary Hall and County Prosecuting Attorney Jon Tunheim.
The first additional meeting was held at 10 a.m. on Wednes-day in Building 1, Room 280, of the Thurston County Court-house.
The second meeting will be held at 9 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 9, in Building 1, Room 280, of the Thurston County Courthouse.
Those wishing to attend the special meetings requiring spe-cial accommodation should contact Tillie Naputi-Pullar, 360-786-5408.
City of Centralia Introduces Online Payment Option With Fee of $4.95By The Chronicle
The city of Centralia has changed credit and debit card processing companies, allowing all departments to accept the form of payment and for pay-ments to be made online.
An additional fee of $4.95 will be applied to all credit and debit card payments for utilities and a rate of 3.5 percent will be added to the total charge for all other payments, city Finance Di-rector Bret Brodersen said. Cash and checks are still accepted as forms of payment without addi-tional charges.
Card payments can be made through the city’s website at cityofcentralia.com/index.asp or by calling 844-680-7205.
Brodersen said the city decid-ed on the new company because it allows all the departments to accept cards.
Thurston County Approves Five-Year Flood PlanBy The Chronicle
Thurston County Commis-sioners approved the county’s
five-year flood hazard mitiga-tion plan on Tuesday.
The plan recommends 20 projects to reduce flood damage or to mitigate it. They are recom-mendations that must be individ-ually approved by the commis-sioners before they are initiated, according to the staff report.
The plan also allows the county to maintain its class 2 rat-ing from the National Flood In-surance Program’s community rating system. With this rating,
the 705 policyholders living on a floodplain in Thurston County receive a 40 percent discount on their policies, which equals about $140,000 in annual savings, ac-cording to the staff report.
“All residents of Thurston County living in the vicinity of flood zones will benefit from a plan that recommends mitigation actions against future damage to life and property,” the report said.
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Centralia College will honor the Onalaska School District’s commitment to higher educa-tion on Oct. 12 by celebrating Onalaska Day.
On June 8, the Centralia College Board of Trustees rec-ognized the 2017 graduates of Onalaska High School with an unanimous motion that sched-
uled the day of recognition to take place during the fall quarter.
All 43 members of the high school’s graduating class of 2017 were accepted to two- or four-year colleges, according to a press release from the college. Thirty-eight of those students committed to attending college this fall.
“It’s quite an accomplishment
for a school district to have such a high percentage of students ap-plying for college immediately after graduation,” Centralia Col-lege President Bob Mohrbacher said in the release. “Research proves the value of higher educa-tion. Students who go on to com-plete career and technical train-ing programs or earn a college degree benefit from greater fi-
nancial stability and job security. All of these directly impact fami-lies and communities. I applaud the efforts the Onalaska School District has taken to ensure its students succeed long after they’ve graduated high school.”
Staff and faculty members at Centralia College will be asked to wear the Loggers’ colors of purple or gold, as well as buttons
that state, “It’s a great day to be a Logger at Centralia College.”
College trustees and admin-istrators will hand out free coffee and donuts in the morning. The clock tower is also set to glow purple in honor of the recent graduates.
The trustees will acknowl-edge the event at their board meeting that same day.
By The Chronicle
Congresswoman Jaime Her-rera Beutler formally urged Washington state Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell to support her prohibition on Or-egon’s tolling plans in the final U.S. Senate transportation fund-ing bill for fiscal year 2018.
Last month, Herrera Beutler, R-Battle Ground, advanced a one-year federal hold on any attempt by Oregon to impose tolls on the In-terstate 5 and Interstate 205 bridge at the Washington state line, call-ing it an unfair deal for those who live in the Evergreen State.
The legislative provision passed the U.S. House, but is still awaiting approval by the U.S. Senate.
In a letter, Herrera Beutler asked for assistance in ensuring
her legislative amendment is in-cluded in the final transporta-tion funding bill.
“I appreciate Senator Murray's efforts to obtain representation for Washingtonians on Oregon's tolling advisory committee,” the letter stated. “It is helpful for Washingtonians to have a voice
at the table. But as you know, seating three Washingtonians on an advisory committee of 15-20 Oregonians is far from a com-plete solution.”
She called the new tolling plan “fundamentally unfair” and stated that the bridges are
“overwhelmingly used by South-
west Washington commuters.”Herrera Beutler said she re-
cently conducted a survey in Southwest Washington and re-ceived 8,500 responses, with nearly 90 percent of participants opposed to the tolling plans.
The letter also stated the plan undermines the regional effort
to find a solution for congestion on the bridge.
“The House of Representa-tives successfully passed a fiscal year 2018 Transportation, Hous-ing and Urban Development funding bill that included my amendment to prohibit the use of funds for establishing tolls on Interstate Route 5 or Interstate Route 205 for the next fiscal year,” Herrera Beutler said in the letter.
“This prohibition would give Or-egon time to develop its tolling plan in a deliberative and trans-parent manner. Further, main-taining this prohibition is the only solid assurance we can pro-vide Washingtonians that no un-fair plan can be pushed through without their input being taken into account.”
“It is helpful for Washingtonians to have a voice at the table. But as you know, seating three Washingtonians on an advisory committee of 15-20 Oregonians is far from a
complete solution.”
Jaime Herrera Beutler
Congresswoman
Centralia College to Celebrate ‘Onalaska Day’ in Honor of Class of 2017
Herrera Beutler Urges Washington Senators to Uphold Amendment Opposing Oregon Tolling Plan
All Five Vader City Council Positions on BallotBy The Chronicle
All five Vader City Council seats will be on residents’ No-vember ballot — all but one with candidates running unopposed.
Judy Costello and Kevin Flynn are both running for the council’s position 1 seat. The po-
sition is currently held by Andy Wilson.
Costello was elected to the city council in 2015, but resigned her position a year later to take care of grandchildren while their par-
ents were on active duty in the Air Force.
“Grandma duty called and I did not feel I could serve my community from 3,000 miles away,” she said. “I decided to run again so I could actually get back on the council and do what I in-tended to do.”
Costello has lived in Vader for 10 years. If elected, she would like to focus on promoting busi-nesses in Vader, addressing is-sues with the city’s code enforce-ment procedures and bringing public transportation to the city.
Flynn did not return a re-quest for comment.
Incumbents Jason Dailey, Joe
Schey, Mike Parsons and Leona Sander-Hunter are running un-opposed for reelection to council positions 2, 3, 4 and 5. Parsons and Sander-Hunter are filling the remaining two years of unex-pired terms.
Chehalis Police: Thieves Using Modified Keys to Steal HondasBy The Chronicle
In response to a recent uptick in reports of stolen vehicles, the Chehalis Police Department has issued a warning to owners of 1990s-model Hondas in particu-lar — a commonly stolen vehicle.
Car thieves have used modi-fied keys, allowing them to un-lock and start models of older Honda Civics, according to the department.
“Try to choose a safe place to park your car and it may be worthwhile to consider using or installing an anti-theft device,” according to a Facebook post from the Chehalis Police Depart-ment.
Lewis County Auditor: General Election Registration Deadlines ApproachingBy The Chronicle
Several registration deadlines are set for Monday, Oct. 9, for
the general election in November.According to the Lewis
County Auditor’s office, the last day to register through the mail or online is Monday. It’s also the last day to transfer or update current existing registration.
If the registration is mailed, it must be postmarked on or before Oct. 9 for the changes to be made prior to the election. Updates and registration applications submitted after the deadline will take effect for the next election, according to the Auditor’s Office.
If someone is registered in a different county within the state and misses the Monday deadline, then that individual will need to contact the county’s election department where they are cur-rently registered to receive a bal-lot at the new address.
Those who are not currently registered in Washington have until Oct. 30 to register in-person at the Auditor’s Office. It must be done in person between Monday and Oct. 30 in the county’s elec-tion department of the county the person currently resides in.
To register, update an address or obtain registration forms in-dividuals may go to the Auditor’s Office, 351 NW North St., Cheh-alis, between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Registration can also be com-pleted at all drivers’ licensing locations when updating or ob-taining a drivers’ license.
Mail-in registration forms are available at all post office lo-cations, libraries and school dis-tricts. There’s also an option to
register online at myvote.wa.gov.
Port of Chehalis Commissioners Authorize Purchase of Downtown Building with ContingencyBy The Chronicle
Port of Chehalis Commis-sioners have authorized the purchase of a property at 478 N. Market Blvd. in Chehalis, as long as a grant that has been recom-mended comes through.
The downtown building would be purchased for $115,000 and would house a coworking space where people could rent desk space by the day, week, or month.
The port has partnered with the Chehalis Community Re-naissance Team to provide the shared working environment.
Randy Mueller, CEO of the port, said the purchase is contin-gent on .09, or distressed coun-ties funding, that still needs to be approved by the Board of Lewis County Commissioners.
The distressed counties advi-sory committee recommended a grant of $125,000 for the proj-ect, but the ultimate decision lies with the county commissioners who would have to pass a resolu-tion.
The additional $10,000 would be spent to remodel the building to fit the needs of the coworking space.
“The building needs very little work and also, CCRT as a project partner, is willing to contribute funds to the remodel, if neces-sary,” Mueller said.
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By The Chronicle
Early Sunday morning, the sleepy burg of Mossyrock woke to an old home crawling down the road.
The Mossyrock Assembly of God built a new church building, just across from the schools, and the home estimated to have been originally built in the late 1890s was slated for demolition to make room for 35 parking spaces.
Enter entrepreneurs and area building contractors Kelly Mor-rison and Scott Christianson. They agreed to pay for the cost of moving in exchange for the home. Assembly of God lead pastor Bryan Tienhaara said bypassing the demolition costs saved the church about $20,000.
As the home rolled down State Street, Mossyrock Mayor Tom Meade said, “Well, you
don’t see this everyday.”The home will be restored
and put up for sale.
Mossyrock Home Saved by Entrepreneurs; Will Be Restored and Put Up for Sale
A home built in the late 1880s is jacked up and placed on steel beams and wheels
as workers prepare to move it from next to the Mossyrock Assembly of God across
from the school to a lot about a block east of downtown.
Michael Wagar / [email protected]
The home turns onto State Street in front of the closed down G Theater.
By Jim Camden
The Spokesman-Review
OLYMPIA — In the wake of the nation's worst mass shooting in recent history, Washington should ban devices that turn semi-auto-matic weapons into fully automatic ones, Gov. Jay Inslee said Tuesday.
"We must make sure people intent on causing mass destruc-tion and loss of life won't be aided by lax laws that give them unfettered access to military-style weaponry," Inslee said in a press release in which he accused national leaders of not trying to
prevent violence like the massa-cre in Las Vegas.
"I'm done waiting for the 'right time' to talk about it," Inslee said. "The 'can't talk about it now' crowd is killing us."
Stephen Paddock, the gun-man accused of killing 59 people and injuring 527 by spraying hundreds of rounds into a con-cert crowd Monday night in Las Vegas, had 12 rifles with a de-vice called a bump-stock, which allowed him to fire them more rapidly. An Associated Press re-port described bump-stocks as a device that covers the trigger
opening, making a change that allows the gun to fire rapidly as the recoil "bumps" the trigger.
While they allow for rapid fir-ing, they can lessen accuracy, ex-perts told the AP. But they are le-gal under federal firearms rules, and can be purchased without the rigorous background check and other restrictions on an au-tomatic weapon.
"This session, the Legislature needs to ban bump-stocks and other devices that turn legal semi-automatic firearms into lethal fully automatic machine guns," Inslee said.
Numerous gun control mea-sures have been proposed in the Legislature in recent years, but their success has been limited. Last year, Inslee and Attorney General Bob Ferguson asked the Legisla-ture to require anyone who owns, buys or sells certain semi-automat-ic rifles commonly known as "as-sault weapons" to obtain a yearly li-cense, be at least 21 and wait three days for a background check simi-lar to one for a handgun.
A bill to do that received a hearing in the House Judiciary Committee, but didn't get a vote out of committee. A similar bill
in the Senate didn't get a hearing.Another bill supported by
gun control advocates would have required stricter storage rules for firearms kept in a home. It passed the House Judiciary Committee but never came up for a vote in the full House. The Senate version of that bill also did not get a committee hearing.
The Legislature did pass bills that would make it easier to pros-ecute someone who tries to buy a firearm who can't legally own one, and to notify a victim of do-mestic violence if their abuser il-legally tries to buy a gun.
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A Closer Look at Requests From Human Resources, Emergency Services and District Court and Other County Departments
By Justyna Tomtas
Editor’s Note: This is the fourth in a series of stories taking a close look at the Lewis County budgeting process as commission-ers face harsh realities in seeking to balance the 2018 budget.
Lewis County commission-ers completed meetings with departments and offices on Tuesday following three all-day meetings in September.
Here’s a close, department-level look at the revenues and expenditures as the commission-ers seek to approve a structur-ally balanced budget for the first time in years.
Human ResourcesFor 2018, the human resourc-
es department is expecting to see revenue of $117,036 and expendi-tures of $265,303. There are two full-time equivalent positions.
The department is not ask-ing for any increases for next year. The revenue is made up by charging other departments for the services provided.
The majority of expenditures, like many other departments, are for salary, benefits and inter-fund fees.
Archie Smith, human re-sources administrator for the county, said the department’s three priorities are personnel, training and labor/labor rela-tions, which includes collective bargaining agreements.
“Our economics have not been great over the last eight or nine years,” Smith said. “Nego-tiations have been very difficult in this county.”
The county recently approved five of its 13 collective bargain-ing agreements.
One of the issues with ne-gotiations, is that employees in Lewis County actually make less on a year-by-year basis because of other rising costs employees face like insurance.
“They’re not going to keep pace and we know that to be true for most of our employees,” Smith said.
The department is responsible for the employee handbook, as well as providing personnel train-ing that provides leadership, super-vision, time management and or-ganizational development courses.
The biggest challenge moving forward is keeping employment engagement up, Smith said.
Other municipalities and private industries are expanding, while the economic situation at the county is shrinking.
“How do you keep people who want to work in Lewis County,” Smith asked. “That’s the single biggest challenge for us.”
The department is also facing tough decisions with benefits, as insurance costs rise and the coun-ty attempts to get into the Public Employees Benefits Board Pro-gram to reduce costs to employees.
“That’s probably my biggest task minus some of the collective bargaining,” Smith said. “Most days, I’m dealing with insurance and getting us switched over is the goal because if we don’t, it's not going to be nice for the em-ployees.”
Weed DepartmentFor 2018, the weed depart-
ment which focuses on the con-trol of noxious plants, has pre-
liminary revenue of $71,756 and expenditures that amount to $219,922. There is one full-time equivalent employee, along with casual summer help.
The majority of revenue is made up of grants, while expen-ditures focus on salaries, benefits, the causal help and interfund costs.
Noxious weeds are non-native plants that have aggressive growth patterns, lack of natural enemies and are difficult to control.
Statewide the plants have a $1.3 billion economic impact.
Bill Wamsley, noxious weed coordinator, said the program focuses on gaining landowner compliance to control noxious weeds on their property, as set out by law.
The department has agree-ments with the Lewis County Public Utility District, the Unit-ed States Forest Service, and the Gifford Pinchot National Forest for weed control work.
Controlling noxious weeds is an unfunded mandate. The state says the county is required to do the work, but provides no direct funding for the effort.
Although it is an unfunded mandate, Wamsley said the leg-islature provides counties with the authority to do an assess-ment and fund the weed control program through that. Roughly half of the counties in Washing-ton have some type of funding coming from a special assess-ment, Wamsley said.
The move would include the levying of an assessment against the land for weed control to gen-erate an estimated $126,000 for the weed control program.
According to Butler, if the assessment was approved, then the weed department could be moved out of the general fund and become a special revenue fund.
The recommendation to the commissioners for the assess-ment was approved by the weed control board.
For non-forest land through-out the county the proposed rate would be $2 per parcel and 10 cents an acre. Forest land would cost 20 cents a parcel and one cent an acre, while non-assessed land would not cost anything.
The assessment could cover the total cost of the program even-tually, according to Butler, who added that in the beginning the general fund would still be used to pay for parts of the program because the money would not be collected until April of 2018, if the assessment was approved.
Wamsley was asked to pro-vide more information on the potential assessment to the com-missioners. In a budget meeting this week, Butler recommended the hearing to take place in mid-November so there is time to ad-just the budget if it is approved.
“It could be beneficial to offset some of the cost to the general fund,” Butler said.
Emergency ServicesThe emergency services de-
partment, overseen by director Steve Mansfield, has three sepa-rate funds under the overall um-brella. Those include emergency management, communications and radio services.
Emergency management has an estimat-ed $247,396 in revenue for 2018, with $258,914 in expenditures, resulting in the use of reserves in the amount of $11,518.
There are 1.4 full time equivalent positions.
The revenue includes rates charged to eight cities in the county for emergency services, as well as $159,000 from the gen-eral fund.
Fees for the cities are based on population.
There is also an emergency management planning grant that adds to the revenue.
Emergency management, ac-cording to Mansfield, covers mitigation, planning and prepa-ration, response and recovery.
Response is the smallest cat-egory and is less than 3 percent of what the department does.
The department has in recent years received more local and presidential declarations which help recoup costs of recovery.
From 1970 to 1999, there were 14 local declarations and 16 presi-dential declarations of an emer-gency. From 2000 and on, there have been 16 local declarations and 15 presidential declarations.
To receive a declaration, the county has to assess the amount of damage that took place. Af-ter reaching a certain threshold, the governor can declare a state of disaster for a particular area. Then on the state level, once a certain threshold is met, the president can declare a disaster designation.
“We have to get a presiden-tial declaration to get the dollars back here,” Mansfield said.
Although Mansfield did not request an increase for 2018, But-ler said there is a need to hire another person for emergency management.
“I talked about this last budget season and I’m going to advocate for it again,” she said, adding that it should be a priority for next year to avoid burn out of Mans-field and Jill Kangas.
Both are toward the end of their careers, Mansfield said, adding some succession plan-ning will need to take place.
The communications divi-sion, which oversees 911 commu-nications, has a 2018 preliminary budget of $2,498,803 in revenue and $2,583,745 in expenditures, accounting for $84,942 from re-serves. There are 23.20 full time equivalent positions.
The communications cen-ter is paid for through fees by outside agencies using the 911 center. The county has for years been subsidizing the program to make it affordable, instead of in-creasing rates, according to staff.
A new interlocal agreement be-tween the county and those utiliz-ing the service is currently in draft form. Mansfield said he is still working to try to get a true cost of the service that is being provided.
Although it wouldn’t happen in time for the 2018 budget, Man-sfield is proposing a one-tenth of one percent tax that would help fund the infrastructure.
“The infrastructure we have in place works because we ban-daid it and make it work,” Mans-field said. “But a lot of the stuff is old and needs to be replaced.”
The radio services division has a 2018 preliminary budget with $329,586 in revenue and $329,563 in expenditures. There are 2.1 full
time equivalent positions.Rates are charged to depart-
ments within county govern-ments.
District CourtLewis County District Court
has a 2018 preliminary budget with revenue sources amounting to $1,549,400 and expenditures in the amount of $1,898,900. There are 15 full-time equivalent positions.
An increase was not request-ed.
According to Butler, traffic infractions have been declining, which in turn has resulted in less money that is generated.
In 2011, there were 11,227 traffic infractions, while in 2017, the year end projected total is at 9,689.
District Court Judge R.W. Buzzard said the court has no control over those numbers.
“We have no control over how many infractions are filed or how many infractions are issued,” he said. “We do our best to collect on the ones that are issued.”
The Legislature hasn’t helped that matter, according to Buzzard, who said an approved change al-lows nonmoving violations to go unpaid without having an effect on one’s driver’s license.
“You see a pattern from 2012 to now that most nonmoving viola-tions are going unpaid,” he said.
This year, a 21 percent de-crease is expected in the amount of civil suits filed compared to 2016. Small claims are expected to be up 34 percent, anti-harass-ment up 33 percent, and name changes up 34 percent.
Another budgetary issue from Buzzard’s perspective is indigence. The Legislature is working on leg-islation that says once a person is found indignant at the beginning of court proceedings, they will remain with that status, meaning many fines cannot be imposed.
Many of the discretionary costs for interpreters, indigent defense, warrant service and wit-ness fees can no longer be col-lected on, Buzzard said.
Buzzard said district court has come in under budget every year since he’s been on the bench, almost 13 years now.
In the current year, district court had a budget of over $1.83 million. The estimated year end shows $1,728,486 in expendi-tures, leaving $105,866 of the budget unused.
Out of the revenue district court does bring in, a good chunk ends up going to the county and the state. Once oper-ating costs are subtracted, there isn’t much revenue, Buzzard said.
In 2011, the court made over $3.3 million in gross revenue. Of that amount, approximately $1.7 million went to the county, while the state received $1.6 million. Once another $1.6 million of operation costs were subtracted from the money the county re-ceived, the court only generated $91,893 in revenue.
Since 2015, the court has not been making revenue and in-stead has seen a negative number, but that has been offset by the unused portion of the budget.
Juvenile Detention ServicesThe 2018 preliminary budget
for juvenile court and facilities has revenue in the amount of $604,399 and expenditures in the amount of $3,185,900. There are 30.18 full-time equivalent positions.
The vast majority of revenue comes from a state block grant for probation. The second big-gest source is through BECCA and truancy grant funding.
There is an increase request of $33,500. Of that amount, $4,000 is requested for an in-crease in equipment rental and revolving funds to offset the cost of a replacement of a transport van. There’s also $7,500 being re-quested to reclassify a position in 2018 so that there is a first level supervisor to help oversee opera-tions.
“I’m asking to convert one probation officer into a supervi-sory or manager position,” Shad Hail, juvenile administrator, said. listing off his responsibilities. “… We can’t do everything we are doing and actually supervise it the way it should be done. We’ve made it work, but I have to go home at some point, too.”
There’s also a $22,000 in-crease for medical costs associ-ated with a pre-approved North-west Pediatrics partnership, which would help reduce liability and provide better medical care, according to Hail.
The medical services would provide better access to care for those in the detention center.
The juvenile facility operates 24 hours, seven days a week.
Hail said juvenile court is very different from any other court. Some of the cases are criminal and civil matters, while others have to do with truancy, and dependency cases.
In 2016, staff was involved in 2,715 hearings.
Along with that, the program provides transportation to re-habilitation facilities, facilitates family therapy and provides sex offender treatment.
The facility is like the jail but for those under the age of 18, Hail said. It’s operated at a minimum staffing level most of the time.
Of the kids in the detention center, over 90 percent are cur-rently using drugs, 57.3 are tak-ing mental health medication, while 13.5 percent are prescribed mental health medication but are not taking them. Over 36 percent reported major traumatic life ex-periences and 13.2 have reported experiencing ongoing flashbacks.
The job is tough on staff, ac-cording to Hail, and so there is a high turnover. His employees often times can also make more money outside of Lewis County.
“Across the board, it’s been pretty astronomical,” he said, of the turnover. “There’s a few peo-ple that have been there 20 years, but these are high burnout jobs. They carry a heavy load when they’re doing some of the cases, seeing what you see and reading those files.”
The county’s capital facilities plan includes relocating the juve-nile center because of security is-sues. The building, according to Hail, is the second oldest facility in the state.
Commissioners expressed the services provided through juvenile court are important for the community.
“It’s money well spent,” Com-missioner Stamper said.
Auditor’s OfficeThe preliminary budget
for the auditor’s office shows $604,260 in revenue and $1,252,017 in expenditures. There are 14 full-time equivalent positions.
Due to scheduling conflicts, the auditor’s office was the only department or office in the county that did not present its budget to the commissioners.
The office is not requesting any increases.
The majority of the revenues are generated from the vehicle license registration fee.
Commissioners Wrap Up Discussions as They Seek Balanced Budget
Gary Stamper
commissionerBobby Jackson
commissionerEdna Fund
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Washington Man Convicted of Voyeurism Arrested Six Days Later for Same OffenseBy The Bellingham Herald
A 37-year-old man was arrest-ed Tuesday for allegedly taking pictures and videos up a teen-ager's skirt in public — the same offense he was sentenced for last week.
Gaspar Ortiz-Ortiz was booked into Whatcom County Jail on suspicion of voyeurism.
Between 9 and 11 p.m. Mon-day, a man, who was later iden-tified as Ortiz-Ortiz, attempted to take a photo underneath a 17-year-old female's dress while in Walmart in the 4400 block
of Meridian Street, according to Bellingham Police Lt. Michael Johnston.
Ortiz-Ortiz was sentenced Sept. 27 in a separate case for one count of voyeurism. He immedi-ately appealed his conviction and posted $15,000 bond, according to Brandon Waldron, Whatcom County deputy prosecuting at-torney — the court stayed his sentence (14 days in jail and 31 days on work release) pending the appeal.
In August 2016, Ortiz-Ortiz was at WinCo Foods at 300 E. Bellis Fair Parkway when he took photos and videos up a 17-year-old girl's skirt. A witness confronted Ortiz-Ortiz, but he quickly began deleting photos and videos off his phone, accord-ing to Whatcom County Supe-
rior Court records. He was de-tained by store staff until police arrived.
Authorities later found 585 photos and videos that depicted women's behinds in several dif-ferent stores, parking lots, fast food restaurants, a car wash and the Bellis Fair Mall, including the pictures of the teenager at WinCo, on Ortiz-Ortiz's phone, according to court records. There were also videos taken up women's skirts or dresses while they were walking, shopping or sitting down, court records indi-cated.
Ortiz-Ortiz was expected to make his first court appearance on the new voyeurism charge Wednesday afternoon.
News in Brief
By The Columbian Editorial Board
The definition of civics, ac-cording to Merriam-Webster, is fairly straightforward: “A social science dealing with the rights and duties of citizens.”
Yet while a strong knowledge of civics is a necessary building block for making America great, we are continually disappointed by citizens’ lack of knowledge about their country. Consider some results from the annual Annenberg Constitution Day Civics Survey, which was re-leased last month:
• More than half of Ameri-cans (53 percent) incorrectly believe that undocumented im-migrants do not have any rights under the U.S. Constitution.
• Only 26 percent of Ameri-cans can name all three branches of government.
• And more than one-third of respondents cannot name any of the rights guaranteed under the First Amendment. (For the record, the First Amendment reads, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridg-ing the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the peo-ple peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.)
Add in the fact that — ac-cording to The New York Times
— nearly half of Americans did not know that Puerto Ricans are American citizens, and it is clear that this nation is suffering from a dangerous knowledge deficit. As Kathleen Hall Jamieson, di-
rector of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, said, “Protect-ing the rights guaranteed by the Constitution presupposes that we know what they are.”
In Washington, efforts are underway to boost that knowl-edge. Legislative bills were intro-duced in both chambers last year
— Senate Bill 5668 and House Bill 1896 — to boost civics education throughout the state, including training for teachers. The bills have yet to make it out of com-mittee, but deserve consideration during the 2018 session.
Meanwhile, other programs are being used to help citizens understand our system of gov-ernment. The state’s public-af-fairs network promotes a “Teach with TVW” project, providing hands-on education; the Coun-
cil of Public Legal Education has launched a Civic Learning Ini-tiative to provide access to civ-ics instruction; and the office of Secretary of State Kim Wyman promotes a “Legacy Washington” program to boost knowledge of the state’s history. Plus, we should mention that newspapers provide daily insight into how our government works.
Like most states, Washington has focused recent educational efforts upon STEM courses (sci-ence, technology, engineering and math). These are, indeed, essential in preparing students to be productive workers in the economy of the future, but a lack of civics education is quickly undermining the pillars of the United States.
There is an ideology known as American exceptionalism that
suggests this nation is unique, that our system and the manner in which it was founded makes attainable the apex of human achievement. It is a noble senti-ment, yet one that requires a deep understanding of that system in order for such exceptionalism to continue. Instead, we are falling into a cavern of misunderstand-ing and disinterest.
Fewer and fewer people can be bothered to vote in each elec-tion cycle, and fewer and fewer people can hold a rational politi-cal discussion beyond the talk-ing points they read on the in-ternet. These observations point out the need for improved civics education.
Because while the definition of civics might be simple, under-standing it can be complex.
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OpinionMain 8 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017
Fast the Right Choice for Centralia School Board
Lori Fast is the right person to join forces with Centralia School District’s Board of Directors.
Later this month ballots will arrive in the mailboxes of resi-dents of Centralia and we will have the chance to elect Lori to the school board. It is my hope that the recent surge of support for CSD will continue with the election of Lori in the only con-tested race on the board of direc-tors this year.
Lori has a fantastic history of support and involvement with Centralia School District. I worked alongside of her during the recent bond campaign that garnered enough support to suc-cessfully pass a bond to support our schools. She is regularly and consistently a part of what is go-ing on in our community and at our schools. This is the kind of community-invested, actively-engaged person that will lend the right kind of support for our kids and our community.
Lori has outlined her three priorities for her term on the school board: 1) Focus on Stu-dent Learning. 2) Change the Current Culture. 3) Support Social-Emotional Learning. Stu-dents always need to be focus. There are times when decisions are made that neglect his first and foremost priority. Lori, who is a mom of two students cur-rently in the district and attend-ing our school (not to mention a recent graduate), will provide that perspective quickly and nat-urally. Her first instinct response will be, “What is best for the stu-dents in the classroom?” She also has had a front-row seat to see some of the most deeply-needed changes in our district. As a par-ent of engaged students, Lori has
a unique, relevant, timely, and current view on the changes that need to be address. I do not think that CSD is without its chal-lenges and weaknesses. Lori is upfront about this and is ready to dive in where it is needed.
Lori is a leader who rallies support and is collaborates eas-ily and naturally. She will work actively and passionately with the current board and for our students and community to do everything she can to do what is RIGHT for our students. She leads authentically and wisely in her career and will bring an add-ed level of support, teamwork, and positivity to our school board. I’m happy to throw my vote of support to Lori Fast and would encourage you to do the same.
I said it before. Let me say it again: Lori Fast is the right per-son to join forces with Centralia School District’s Board of Direc-tors.
#LoriFast4CSD
Trent FribergCentralia
County Should Try to Right Its Wrong With Hank the Dog
I just finished reading your editorial, “Commissioner’s Right To Pursue Fix for Dangerous An-imal Code.” All I say about this article is what a bunch of trying to get the heat off of Lewis Coun-ty and prosecuting attorney Jon-athan Meyer’s witch hunt against Hank! Looks like to justify their dirty deed against Hank you’re trying to make it sound like they are worried about us taxpayers being on the hook IF Hank ever should nip a child or hurt an-other animal. I for one am not
buying that at all! I have adopted several animals from said shelter so if one of these pets that I have adopted bites someone who is responsible? The answer is me! Because once I adopt said animal it becomes my property and my responsibility, not Lewis County taxpayers! Also the former own-er stated she was given the option of keeping Tank (Hank) if she would get a insurance policy on him. She stated she couldn’t af-ford it so she relinquished Hank! So the new owners of Hank has gotten insurance on Hank and had a six foot fence built! But this isn’t good enough now! Why? The owner of the goats has stated with video tape it was not Hank, but his mother, but that’s not good enough for L.C. or Mr. Meyer — again, I ask why? Lewis County and Meyer made a big mistake and should try and right the wrong that everyone knows they made! They for one are try-ing the pit bull breed, and not the dog! I also wonder after all the time and money they have spent to save Hank do they think if he is returned to them they are going to let him run amok to bite (as you so delicately put it) a child or go hunting for farm animals? I think not!! Hundreds of us Taxpayers have donated to the fund to save Hank includ-ing myself! Just to let you know Lewis County we the Taxpaying are watching this case and won’t rest until Hank is returned home to a 9 year old boy waiting for his best friend. And please don’t tell me and everyone else that the POWERS THAT BE can’t make this happen and put an end to this witch hunt against a boy and a family and their dog! All I have left to say is Lewis County do the right thing!
Tamara BlackwellRochester
First, let me thank a read-er, Stevan Connors, who solved the problem of the
absence of my all time favorite: U-No candy bars. He said he was always able to find them at a store located at the intersec-tion of state Highways 6 and 603. (For old-timers, that’s where the old rustic Playquato Dance Hall used to stand before it burned down.)
The next morning, my son and I visited a barn sale and a garage sale in that general area and dis-covered that Mr. Connors was, indeed, right. That store has the largest collec-tion of candy bars that I’ve ever seen gathered together in one place! I bought four of those long-sought jewels, one of which we split later that morning over coffee at Santa Lucia. My warn-ing to diabetics is “approach at your own risk.”
There was an interest-ing letter to the editor in last Thursday’s Chronicle, written by Clyde Gartner about the construction of a church build-ing on city property known as Pioneer Village next to the old Borst family home. I’ll quote one bit from his letter, “When Jean Bluhm proposed building the church, she promised that the construction wouldn’t start until all the costs to build the church had been collected.”
In the next edition of The Chronicle — on Thursday — there was a letter from Ms. Bluhm saying that while the foundation and sub-floor had been completed, construction would be halted until Spring. She then added “we are still in need of more donations …”
Sounds like a contradiction to me.
I won’t get into the question of building a church on city property; I only question the placing of new structures sur-rounding authentic historic sites, such as the Borst home itself, and labeling it all “historic.”
I’ll also not get into the controversy over professional
football players “taking a knee” during the playing or the, sometimes, bad singing of our national anthem. I’m too much reminded of the high school football coach who is still fight-ing for his right to hold a mass prayer meeting of his players be-fore a game. He bases his claim on the right of free speech.
It’s too bad that, as we as-sume he’s a professed Christian, the coach seems unaware of how strongly Jesus opposed praying in public by individuals and, particularly, groups of people. He said so in the sixth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew, just before He gave the world His perfect prayer. I get the impres-sion He would have put the coach into the same class as the money-changers in the temple.
I relate these hubbubs to what this country went through during the Cold War years of the 1950s, including the Sena-tor Joseph McCarthy Hysteria, when the words, “under God” were inserted into our nation’s Pledge of Allegiance. You may not be old enough to remember this, but the reason for introduc-ing religion into the Pledge of Allegiance was that, if you said the words “under God,” it would be proof that you were not a Communist. I’m not making this up. But wait, there’s more.
The irony of that insertion is that the writer of the current version of the declaration back in 1892 (there had been an ear-lier pledge in 1887 written by a Rear Admiral, George Baltch) was Francis Bellamy, a Social-ist! True, he did call himself a Christian Socialist, while his cousin, Edward Bellamy, was the most famous Utopian So-cialist of the era.
And so I’ve rambled on. I’d intended to write about the joy I found in watching one squir-rel managing to steal every seed from every large sunflower in my garden last month, but I guess that’ll have to wait for an-other day.
•••Bill Moeller is a former enter-
tainer, mayor, bookstore owner, city council member, paratrooper and pilot living in Centralia. He can be reached at [email protected].
By Bill Moeller
Sweets, a Building, Football, Religion and Our Pledge of Allegiance
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By Abby Spegman
The Olympian
Three days after a shooting at a Las Vegas country festival killed 59 and injured more than 500, people in the crowd with ties to Thurston County are speaking out about what hap-pened.
KING-5 reports an Olympia police officer and her family es-caped unharmed, thanks in part to the officer’s training.
“I look back on it and try to think of a time where I was truly scared, and I don’t recall at any point where I was scared,” said Kelsey Clark, who was at the concert with her husband, Toby.
At least one person killed had ties to the area. Denise Burditus lived here while her husband was stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
Tony Burditus told CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Tuesday he thought at first the gunshots were pyrotechnics.
“We stood there for a second and she asked me if it was gun-fire. I told her no,” he said.
Denise Burditus worked at Heritage Bank and was president of the Association of the United States Army subchapter in Lac-ey. The couple had since moved to West Virginia, according to KING-5.
Tenino’s Adam Craig per-formed at the concert hours be-fore the shooting began. He told the Tennessean newspaper it was
“the scariest night of my life.”Gov. Jay Inslee on Tues-
day called for new gun regula-
tions in Washington state in
response to the shooting. He
said state lawmakers should ban
“bump stocks,” which can be
used to modify a semi-automatic rifle so it can mimic a fully auto-matic weapon.
Police found two bump stocks in the hotel room where the gunman fired hundreds of
rounds at concertgoers.But the Clarks told Time
magazine they thought the shooting could not have been prevented, and they don’t want to see new gun laws now.
“He bought his firearms le-gally but he modified them il-legally,” Toby Clark said of the shooter. “I believe in tight gun laws, but I also believe in the Sec-ond Amendment.”
By The Chronicle
A Tenino man is facing charges after an investigation by the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board revealed an unlicensed bar in the man’s resi-dence.
Liquor Board investigators and the Thurston County Sher-iff ’s Office served a search war-
rant Wednesday morning on the property on 184th Avenue Southeast south of Tenino.
This is the second time the Liquor Board has taken action against this property, Commu-nications Director Brian Smith said Wednesday.
“We’d received complaints someone was selling alcohol without a license,” he said. “We
follow up with every single com-plaint.”
Undercover officers visited the bar last week and were able to purchase alcohol, Smith said.
He added that the circum-stances of the unlicensed bar — in a home in a residential area — are not terribly common.
“I don’t see it very often, no,” he said. “Not like this. The way
the officers described it is it oper-ated very much like a bar.”
The bar sold commercially-available alcohol, he said. It was empty when officers showed up to serve the search warrant at 10 a.m. Wednesday morning, but was reportedly full during the sting operation.
The occupant was arrested and released and charges of mis-
demeanor sales of liquor without a license have been forwarded to the Thurston County Prosecu-tor’s Office.
Without a license, the state is unable to verify if a bar is il-legally serving alcohol to minors or after hours, Smith said. The state also loses out on fees and taxes when a bar operates with-out a license.
By Dan Hammock
The Daily World
A group of about a dozen cur-rent or former Grays Harborites was among the 20,000 people watching Jason Aldean perform at the Route 91 Harvest Festival near Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas Sunday when 64-year-old Ste-phen Paddock opened fire from his 32nd floor hotel room, kill-ing more than 50 and wounding more than 500 before taking his
own life.Fortunately, this group was
able to escape safely and unin-jured.
"My best friend, her husband and niece were there, as well as other friends," said Jennifer Durney, operations manager at Durney Insurance in Hoquiam.
"Everyone from Grays Harbor (among Durney's acquaintances) who was down there is fine."
Franzine Potts, executive di-rector of the Aberdeen YMCA,
was there, along with her hus-band Eric who is executive direc-tor of the Grays Harbor Com-munity Foundation, and another relative. Another friend of Dur-ney's had left the concert a little early to return to her room at the Mandalay Bay.
"She was 16 floors below the shooter and could see the gun-fire and his broken windows," said Durney. "Just awful."
Potts took to her Facebook page Monday morning to assure
concerned friends and family that she and her husband were OK. She had been unable to re-spond earlier because as she and her party escaped the gunfire she had left her phone behind.
"Thankfully, others around me were kind enough to allow me to call Eric when we were sep-arated," wrote Potts. "This was an experience I never thought I would live to witness but what we experienced is nothing com-pared to the loss of many. Please
pray for all of those suffering."It has been a tradition for the
past three years for Durney, who is also running for an Aberdeen School Board seat, and several local friends to travel to Las Ve-gas for the annual music festival. This year, Durney was unable to make the trip, but her friends did.
"Everyone is OK and some are flying back (Monday)," said Dur-ney. "I was supposed to be there, but wasn't. It was a very scary thing for them to go through."
State Liquor Board Cracks Down on Illegal Tenino Bar
Olympia Police Officer Among Those Who Escaped Harm At Vegas Music Festival
Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times
Matthew Edwards lights candles at a makeshift memorial for the victims of Sunday’s mass shooting at the intersection of Sahara Ave. and Las Vegas Blvd. in Las Vegas
on Tuesday.
Group From Grays Harbor County Escapes Las Vegas Shooting Safe, Uninjured
By Bob Young
The Seattle Times
Of the eight states with legal weed, only Washington forbids recreational home-growing.
That may change. State law-makers directed the Liquor and Cannabis Board (LCB) to come up with a recommendation on home-growing by Dec. 1. The agency begins taking feedback on its proposals at a public hear-ing Wednesday in Olympia.
Early reviews are mixed, at best. Some ardent weed advo-cates already oppose the LCB's options as too restrictive. You don't need a state permit and tracking system to grow tomato plants, or for home brewing, they say. But the LCB would require those for a maximum of four homegrown cannabis plants.
"I fear this proposal doesn't work for anyone and the end re-sult is we'll have home-grows on paper and everyone will stay un-derground in practice," said John Kingsbury, a longtime advocate of home-growing.
Other weed enthusiasts dis-agree, saying, seize the chance, even if the LCB home-growing proposals aren't ideal.
"It's about moving the ball for-ward," said Kevin Oliver, executive director of Washington NORML, the state's largest marijuana con-sumer group. "It's fourth-and-one and you're either going for it, or waiting and coming back with hope for a Hail Mary."
Lawmakers gave the LCB one specific order about analyzing options: It should look at how home-growing would comport with the federal Department of
Justice (DOJ) edict known as the Cole Memo. That memo has let legalization experiments pro-ceed in eight states, despite fed-eral prohibition, as long as the states adhere to priorities such as keeping weed from children, cartels and other states.
Fears of a federal clampdown have grown as the Obama ad-ministration, the most weed-tolerant in U.S. history, gave way to President Donald Trump and U.S. Attorney General Jeff Ses-sions, who has said "good people don't smoke marijuana."
Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes was a sponsor of Initia-tive 502, Washington's pioneering 2012 weed law. And Holmes sup-ports recreational home-growing in the long run. But not now, with Sessions enforcing the Cole Memo.
At this stage "we need to proceed with caution given the Cole Memo and the current fed-eral Justice Department, so, on balance, now is not the time to move forward with recreational home grows," said Deputy City Attorney John Schochet, explain-ing Holmes' view.
The LCB's home-growing menu offers just three options — and one is the status quo, or no home-growing.
Another would let adults grow up to four plants if they register with the LCB, which would then enforce strict rules, such as requiring all plants to be entered into the state's trace-ability system and making sure homegrown weed isn't being sold. The other option would al-low cities and counties to impose even stricter rules than the LCB's.
Thurston County Sheriff
John Snaza opposes home-grow-ing, saying he's concerned about rip-offs, illegal sales to minors and the challenges of enforcing home-grow laws.
The Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs sent a letter to the LCB citing those and the potential loss of marijua-na-tax revenues, as reasons for banning home-growing.
One thing Snaza, vice presi-dent of the association, isn't wor-ried about is the feds.
"The DOJ has stayed out. I don't see the federal government being involved at all. I don't see them interdicting because of how many states have taken this on," Snaza said.
Adding More Options?Legal weed is abundant. The
state has licensed more than 1,300 legal pot-growing and processing companies and more than 500 retail stores. Average price has dropped to $7.29 per gram statewide, taxes included, according to the LCB. But some people still want to grow their own pot, Kingsbury said.
Like home brewers, some are hobbyists who want the ex-perience of tending to different strains, of producing their own hybrids, of savoring the look, smell and taste of their crop.
"If you consider yourself a can-nabis connoisseur, it naturally fol-lows that you'd be curious about all the details of how to create for yourself what you enjoy," said Lara Kaminsky, executive director of The Cannabis Alliance, which calls itself the largest industry/ad-vocacy group in Washington.
Kingsbury said he worries
about the hygiene of legal pot, some of which comes from large-scale farms and has been tested by labs with track records of fail-ing unusually few samples for containing foreign matter.
He also thinks the overall quality of commercial pot is sus-pect. "We call it Taco Bell weed," Kingsbury said.
The Cannabis Alliance doesn't feel threatened by home-growers, according to an Oct. 2 letter it submitted to the LCB. The al-liance views home-growing as a civil-liberties issue and has a
"strong desire to see adults granted the ability to grow in small quan-tities at home," its letter said.
But the LCB proposals are so strict, the alliance favors a ban over the other options.
Washington NORML looked to Alison Holcomb, chief author of Washington's legal pot law, for guidance.
Holcomb said I-502 didn't allow recreational home-grows because polling in 2010 showed Washingtonians were uncom-fortable with it.
"We decided it was important to draft I-502 carefully and con-servatively," Holcomb said in a written reply, because of "politi-cal risks inherent in asking vot-ers to pass a state law in tension with federal law, and one that had never been adopted by any other jurisdiction in the world."
But with seven other states now allowing homegrown pot, Holcomb said the political risk for Washington "is minimal to nonexistent." Potential benefits include a check on industry con-trol of quality and price, she said.
Washington NORML sup-
ports a 15-plant limit for home-growing, with no licensing re-quired. But Oliver said those are more negotiating points than realistic goals.
To support the status quo isn't very politic, said Oliver, who co-owns a legal farm with his wife.
"It's like people who voted no on I-502; it's the same argument," he said. "They want to grow canna-bis unencumbered like tomatoes."
Conservative With Plant CountsThe LCB's options were
shaped by the Cole Memo, said agency spokesman Brian Smith.
"Anything less than secure is not compliant," Smith said.
Officials in other states also advised Washington to be con-servative with plant counts, he said. Smith noted that to grow six plants, Washington medical patients need authorization from a health-care practitioner.
Some see the LCB's fears of the feds as conflicting with what Washingtonians expect from le-galization.
The state has rebelled against federal policy on several fronts, said Dominic Corva, founder of the Center for the Study of Cannabis and Social Policy. The question, according to Corva, is how can home-growing get the same kind of consideration as climate change, immigration and LGBTQ politics?
But even if the LCB were to recommend something closer to Oliver's call for 15 unlicensed plants, it's not clear how many people would ever try growing, whether indoors, where energy use is significant, or outside, which means battling mold.
Washington State to Consider the Sticky Politics of Homegrown Pot by Dec. 1
RecordsMain 10 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017
SirensCENTRALIA POLICE DEPARTMENT
Purse Stolen, Suspect Flees
• At 4:17 p.m. on Tuesday, police received a report of a theft of a purse in the 300 block of Lowe Street. A suspect described as a white man in his 20s report-edly stole a purse off a woman’s shoulder and fled into a wooded area. A Thurston County Sher-iff ’s Office K9 unit responded to help track the suspect but was unsuccessful. The case is under investigation.
Bank Fraud Under Investigation
• At 5:35 p.m. on Tuesday, police received a report of bank fraud from the 900 block of H Street. A victim reported their bank called to report a man at-tempting to fraudulently cash a check on their account.
Honda Stolen
• At 7:35 a.m. on Wednesday, a 1995 Honda vehicle was re-
ported stolen in the 200 block of North Railroad Avenue.
Mail Taken
• At 3:32 p.m. on Wednesday, mail was reported stolen in the 200 block of West Oakview Avenue.
Stolen Vehicle Recovered
• At 7:29 a.m. on Tuesday, a vehicle that had earlier been re-ported stolen to Chehalis Tribal Police was recovered abandoned in a parking lot in the 2500 block of Seward Avenue.
Computer, Change Stolen in Burglary
• At 7:37 a.m. on Wednes-day, a burglary was reported in the 1900 block of Honeysuckle Lane. A computer and change were reported stolen.
Vehicle Prowl
• At 7:57 a.m. on Wednesday,
a vehicle prowl was reported in the 900 block of B Street. A CD player was stolen from the ve-hicle.
Counterfeit $10 Spotted
• At 11:37 p.m. on Wednes-day, police received a report of a suspect trying to use a counter-feit $10 bill in the 100 block of Belmont Avenue.
CHEHALIS POLICE DEPARTMENTRoommate Steals Money
• At 3:19 p.m. on Tuesday, police received a report of a theft from the 500 block of Southwest Pacific Avenue. A person report-ed their roommate stole money.
Theft Suspect Cited
• At 6:28 p.m. on Tuesday, po-lice responded to the 1600 block of Northwest Louisiana Avenue after receiving a report of a shop-lifter. Matthew J. Rasmussen, 57, of Aberdeen, was cited on suspi-
cion of third-degree theft.
Harassment Between Neighbors Reported
• At 7:36 p.m. on Tuesday, police received a report of ha-rassment between neighbors in the 1500 block of North Nation-al Avenue.
LEWIS COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICEGenerator Reported Stolen
• A Honda E100 generator was recently reported stolen be-tween 10:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. from a property in the 200 block of Stub Road in Onalaska.
Chehalis Woman Arrested After Crash
• At 12:51 p.m. on Tuesday, police responded to the 500 block of Tauscher Road in Che-halis after receiving a report of a one-vehicle rollover crash. A 2016 Kia Soul was found in
a field off the road and was to-taled. Driver Ruby M. Sprayber-ry, 26, of Chehalis was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence.
LEWIS COUNTY JAIL STATISTICS• As of Thursday morning,
the Lewis County Jail had a total population of 186 inmates with 159 in general population and 27 in the Work Ethic and Resti-tution Center. Of general popu-lation inmates, 130 were male and 29 female and of WERC inmates, 23 were male and four female. One inmates is on work release and a total of 48 were booked through contracts with agencies outside Lewis County.
•••By The Chronicle Staff
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Death Notices• DONALD A. ARNOLD, 86, Salkum, died
Saturday, Sept. 30, at Providence St. Pe-ter Hospital, Olympia. A Masonic grave-side service will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Ethel Cemetery. A reception will immediately follow at the Ethel Grange Hall. Arrangements are under the care of Cattermole Funeral Home, Winlock.
• MALCOLM E. BERG SR., 95, Chehalis, died Tuesday, Aug. 8, at Providence Centralia Hospital. A celebration of life and pot-luck reception will be held at 1 p.m. Sat-urday at the Newaukum Grange, Cheha-lis. Arrangements are under the care of Cattermole Funeral Home, Winlock.
• WILLIEJACK T. SPARKS, 31, Kelso, died Sunday, Sept. 24, at home. A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. at Catter-mole Funeral Home with a social to fol-low. Arrangements are under the care of Cattermole Funeral Home, Winlock.
• CARA L. LOBAUGH, 52, Auburn, formerly of Lewis County, died Wednesday, Sept. 20, at Swedish Medical Center, Seattle. A private family interment was held at Claquato Cemetery. A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Centralia Church of the Nazarene. Ar-rangements are under the care of Cat-termole Funeral Home, Winlock.
• THOMAS EDWARD FITZGERALD, 85, Centra-lia, died Sept. 29 at Roo-Lan Health Care
Center, Lacey. A graveside service with full military honors will be held 11 a.m., Oct. 9, at Tahoma National Cemetery, Kent. Arrangements under the care of Funeral Alternatives of Washington.
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Corrections• In the Tuesday, Oct. 3 edi-
tion of The Chronicle in an article titled “Commissioners to Discuss New Tax as Budget Meetings Conclude” the new tax was a property assessment that would fund the noxious weed department.
• The Possibilities Pregnancy Clinic in Morton is open on the first and third Tuesday of every month. Also the Sweet Serenade fundraiser has two showings at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Saturday.
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Donald L. NeuertHe will be missed by all the lives he touched...
Donald L. Neuert, 51, of Beaver Dam passed away unexpectedly Saturday, Sept. 9, 2017, at his home.
Don is the son of Donald D. and Sharon (Fort) Neuert, born Feb. 9, 1966, in Chehalis, Wash. He married his beloved wife, Kelly Erickson, April 25, 1987, in Bellevue, Neb. Don graduated from Centralia High School in 1984.
He is survived by his wife, Kelly of Beaver Dam; daughter, Hannah of Beaver Dam; mother, Sharon Neuert of Centralia, Wash.; siblings, Deanne Neuert-Putman of Centralia, Wash., Deborah Neuert-Kilgore (James Kilgore) of Chehalis, Wash., and Darrell (Alma) Neuert of Centralia, Wash.; nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. He was preceded in death by his father.
Don served his country in the United States. Air Force during Operation Desert Shield and was a member of Beaver Dam VFW Post #1163. He was
a graduate of University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, and he completed a Master of Arts in Security Studies at the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security, where he received the Zimbardo Award; which recognizes the student in each cohort whose analyses and insights exemplify the best in academic scholarship. Don was employed by the State of Wisconsin for 19 years, most recently as the Strategic National Stockpile Coordinator for the Department of Health Services in Madison. He served as the Ward 10 alderperson for 11 years, was previously the chairperson of the Administrative Committee and was recently elected Council President.
Don was devoted to his community and his family, and had an enthusiasm for life that was contagious. He enjoyed the outdoors, especially hiking and kayaking with his family and fly fishing, which he learned
from his dad. Don loved sports, especially watching his daughter play field hockey and following his niece and nephews' sporting events. He was an avid Seattle Seahawks fan. Don loved spending time with his family, cooking his traditional weekend breakfasts and supporting his daughter's singing, dancing and musical performances. He will be remembered as unfailingly kind, generous and good-humored by all those whose lives he touched.
The celebration of life will be held at Oakview Grange Sunday, Oct. 15, 2017, at 2 p.m., with reception to follow. Pastor Scott Brummer officiating service.
To view the obituary, please go to
chronline.com/obituaries.
Cathy Rae (Witters) Wisner
Cathy Rae Wisner, born July 30, 1952, passed away peacefully with Oscar, her husband of 25 years, by her side.
She graduated from Centralia High School in 1970. She lived and loved, living at the beaches in Washington, before moving to Bucoda to care for her mother, Evelyn Mae Witters, who preceded her in death; along with her father, Carl Raymond Witters; and son,
Timothy Wisner.Cathy was a giving person
and treasured time spent with her beloved children and grandchildren. Cathy will be greatly missed by all who were closest to her.
She is survived by five children, Ginger (James) Bennett of Centralia, Brian (Katie) Rowling of Centralia, Jeff (Jennifer) Rowling of Ocean Shores, Wash., Travis (Crystal) Howe of Aberdeen, Wash., and Wendy Wisner of Bonney Lake, Wash.; sisters, Vicki (Brett) Loebe of Riverside, Wash., and Bobbi (Mitchell) Smith of Oakville, Wash.; brother, Don (DeDe) Witters of Chehalis, Wash.; 20 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
A potluck celebration of life picnic will be held at the Volunteer Park in Bucoda, Wash., Sunday, Oct. 8, 2017, at 2 p.m.
To view the obituary, please go to chronline.com/obituaries.
State Permanently Revokes Nurse’s Credential After Child Porn ConvictionBy Jake Dorsey
Tri-City Herald
A West Richland man who pled guilty to receiving child porn has officially lost his nurs-ing license — forever.
The Washington Depart-ment of Health permanently re-voked Darrin L. Ruddell's regis-tered nurse credential, citing his
March plea to one federal charge of receiving child porn. His li-cense had been suspended since May 2016.
Ruddell was an emergency nurse at Kadlec Regional Medi-cal Center. Investigators found he had 1,480 images of child porn on various electronic de-vices he owned.
The health department also claimed Ruddell admitted to stealing drugs from the emer-gency room.
A judge in June sentenced Ruddell to federal prison for 11 years.
The Nursing Commission in charge of license manage-ment said that based on the facts, Ruddell "cannot be rehabilitated or regain the ability to practice with reasonable skill and safety, and permanent revocation is necessary to protect the public."
The action was reported to interstate and national databas-es.
During his sentencing, Rud-dell said that he hoped to use the time behind bars to get treat-ment and "develop a new trade, since I have lost the career I have had."
News in Brief
The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017 • Main 11LOCAL / NORTHWEST
In Loving Memory of
KENNETH L. PALMER
Kenneth L. Palmer passed away peacefully at Providence Centralia Hospital Sept. 29, 2017, surrounded by family. He was born in Centralia Aug. 23, 1933, to Cecil and Elsie Palmer. Ken, the eldest of three children. He grew up in Galvin, attending the Galvin School and graduating from Centralia High School in 1952. He then, joined the United States Army and graduated from Army Field Forces Leadership Training. He spent two years serving our country in Austria.
Ken married Charlotte Alene Wright of Centralia May 4, 1957. He became a journeyman ironworker in 1960, moving the family to Federal Way in 1962, then to Alaska in 1977. During their time in Alaska, Ken worked as an ironworker and a commercial door technician for 25 years. He started building steam, diesel and electric trains and was a member of the Alaska Live Steamers Club. Following his retirement in 1995, Ken and Alene built a new home
across a field from the railroad tracks in Wasilla, near the Alaska Live Steamers Club. He would keep track of the train schedules and much to his delight, all the engineers would blow their whistles when they went by.
When the Palmers moved back to Centralia in 2002, Ken and Alene bought a home in Salzer Valley, where Ken built tracks around their property. Many children of all ages rode on his trains, both in Alaska and Centralia. Many of these riders were occasionally derailed, which only added to the fun. Ken was honored in an Ironworker Pinning Ceremony in August of 2015, in Anchorage, Alaska, receiving his 55 year pin.
Ken was preceded in death by his parents, Cecil and Elsie Palmer; sister, Marie Palmer; and granddaughter, Charlotte Kay Reas.
He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Charlotte Alene (Wright) Palmer; Aunt, Marguerite "Auntie Muggs" Osborn; brother, Glenn Palmer (Lois Gibson); sister, Faye Palmer Spencer (Earl); children, Michael (Karen), Tom (Carol McClain), Charlotte Reas (Tom) and Jill Johnson (Doug); 11 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and many cousins, nieces and nephews.
A celebration of life with military honors will be held at Centralia Church of the Nazarene, 1119 W. First Street, Centralia, at 2 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 8, 2017.
To view the obituary, please go to chronline.com/obituaries.
Donald A. Arnold passed away Sept. 30, 2017, at St. Peter Hospital, Olympia. He was born to Stella and G. L. Arnold Feb. 14, 1931.
Donald graduated from Onalaksa High School and lived in Lewis County most of his life, marrying Viola Jacobsen. In later years, he married Annie (Liz) Andrews.
Donald worked for Weyerhaeuser falling timber in his younger years. Then, in 1964 he purchased his first log truck, and was active in the Washington Log Truck Association, until retiring. Liz and Donald enjoyed going south to Arizona to “the slab.” He was always one to like a good coffee shop, and friendly conversations. He will be missed deeply.
Donald is survived by his wife, Liz of Salkum; son, Kenny of Centralia; stepdaughter, Terri (Doug) Wright of Silver Creek; and numerous nieces and nephews, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Stella and Lawrence; brother, Loren; and son, Wayne.
Graveside service will be held Friday, Oct. 6, 2017, at 2 p.m., at Ethel Cemetery on Gore Road., with a celebration of life immediately following at Ethel Grange.
To view this obituary, please go to chronline.com/obituaries.
1931-2017
DONALD A.
ARNOLD
Francis “Roberta” Still, 89, of Chehalis, Wash., passed away Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017, at Logan Manor IV Adult Family Home in Chehalis. She was born June 23, 1928, in Noble County, Ohio, daughter of the late Ora Ray and Ocie Lucille Allton Bond.
Roberta was an active member of the Belle Valley United Methodist Church, until moving to Washington State in 1972. She enjoyed spending time with family, flower gardening, and was very passionate about golfing.
In addition to her parents,
Roberta was preceded in death by her husband, Arlin Bernard Still, whom she married May 15, 1947, and who passed away May 8, 2010.
Those left to cherish her memory are three daughters, Diana Lashley of Lexington, Ky., Nancy (Kim) Stanbery of Mercer Island, Wash., and Connie (Craig) Kline of Centralia, Wash.; grandchildren, Chad Lashley, Tracy (Dion) Lopes, Ryan (Natalie) Stanbery, Jamie (Dustin) Bates, Jessica Kline (Fernando Arevalo), Ashley Kline (Ian Madorin-McGregor), Jody (Mark) Kline-McHugh, Noah (Alissa) Kline and Taylor Kline; great-grandchildren, Connor, Aiden, Evan, and Cameron Lopes, Jude and Genesis Bates and Max Kim; brother, Earl (Marcella) Bond; nephew, Dana (Marilyn) Bond; and three nieces Cynthia (Charles) Ralston, Brenda Buttrey and Amanda (Neil) Tilton. Roberta is also survived by many friends.
The family will receive friends for a memorial service Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017, at 11 a.m., in the Chandler Funeral
Home, 609 West Street, Caldwell, OH 43724, with Pastor Jeff Belt officiating. Inurnment will follow in Hoskinsville Cemetery near Belle Valley, Ohio. Following the graveside service, a time of food and fellowship will be provided by the family at the Ragan’s Chapel. Memorial contributions may be directed in Roberta’s name to the Belle Valley Fire Department, Belle Valley United Methodist Church, or the Ragan’s Chapel United Methodist Church.
Roberta (Bond) StillJune 23, 1928 ~ Sept. 14, 2017
“As you walk down the fairway of life,
you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.”
- Ben Hogan
Cheers to you, Mom,
for a round well played!
Love you. Miss you.
Patterson-Gimlin film.
Family Storytime, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Vernetta Smith Chehalis Timberland Library. For all ages. Music, movement, and books for the whole family. All ages welcome. Children must be accompa-nied by a participating adult.
Sunday, Oct. 8Bingo, doors open 5 p.m., bingo
starts 6:30 p.m., Forest Grange, 3397 Jackson Highway, Chehalis
Community meal, 1-3 p.m., Rotary Riverside Park, Centralia, free, sponsored by Jesus Name Pentecostal Church, Che-halis, 360-623-9438
Coach Train Excursions to Milburn, 1 and 3 p.m., Chehalis-Centralia Railroad & Museum, 1101 SW Sylvenus St., Chehalis, steamtrainride.com, 360-748-9593
Steam Train Ride and Museum Visit, 11 a.m., 2:15 p.m., Mt. Rainier Railroad, Elbe, 888-STEAM-11
Support Groups
GriefShare, a video seminar focus-ing on helping people who have lost a loved one, 12:30-2 p.m., Shoestring Val-ley Community Church, 104 Frase Road, Onalaska, 360-870-2782, http://svc-church.com/griefshare/
Monday, Oct 9
Autumn Lunch and Program
An autumn lunch and pro-gram will be held at the Church
of the Nazarene meeting room, 119 W. First St., Centralia noon-1:30 p.m. The event will include Raking in the Harvest featuring Vicki Muething, Market Manag-er for Community Farmers Mar-ket and Turning Over a New Leaf, featuring inspirational speaker Cathy Mogus on “Living With Integrity In an Unethical World. Cost is $10. For reservations, call 360-269-2449 or 360-748-8718 or email [email protected].
Game Night, Fords Prairie Grange, 2640 Reynolds Ave., Centralia, potluck dinner 6 p.m., 360-918-1356
Pinochle, 6 p.m., Chehalis Eagles, 1993 S. Market Blvd., Chehalis, 360-748-7241
Public Agencies
Lewis County Commission, 10 a.m., BOCC board room, second floor, Lewis County Courthouse, agenda available at http://goo.gl/agwWM, 360-740-1120
Chehalis City Council, 5 p.m, City Hall council chamber, 350 N. Market Blvd., Chehalis, agendas available at http://ci.chehalis.wa.us/meetings, 360-345-1042
Centralia Historic Preservation Com-mission, 5:30 p.m., City Hall, 118 W. Ma-ple St., Centralia, 360-330-7695
Lewis County Board of Health, 1:30 p.m., BOCC Board Room, second floor, Lewis County Courthouse, agenda available at http://goo.gl/zKXB3, 360-740-1148
Centralia Parks Board, 5 p.m., Fort Borst Park Kitchen 2, 360-330-7662
Mossyrock Fire Department, fire commissioners, noon, main station, 137 E. Main St., Mossyrock, 360-983-3456
Grays Harbor Fire District 1, 7 p.m., Oakville Fire Hall, 360-273-6541
Lewis County Cemetery District
4, 6 p.m., Randle Fire Station annex, 360-494-4031
Napavine Planning Commission, 6 p.m., 407 Birch Ave. SW, Napavine, 360-262-3547, ext. 213
Organizations
Chehalis American Legion Post 22, general meeting, 4 p.m., 555 N. Market Blvd., Chehalis, 360-740-7889
Lewis County Community Network, 3-5 p.m, second floor conference room, Lewis County Public Health & Social Ser-vices Building, 360 NW North St., Cheha-lis, 206-719-3226
Centralia Bridge Club, noon, Unity Church, 800 S. Pearl St., Centralia, 360-748-1753, [email protected]
Centralia-Chehalis Emblem Club, 7 p.m., Elks Lodge, 1732 S. Gold St., Centra-lia, 360-736-5439
Support Groups
Griefshare, a recovery group for those who have lost a loved one, 7-8:30 p.m., Mountain View Baptist Church, 1201 Bel-mont Ave., Centralia, $10, 360-827-2172.
Grandparents as Parents, 6-8 p.m., 420 Centralia College Blvd., Centralia, 360-736-9391, ext. 298 or 1-877-813-2828
Lewis County Breast Cancer Support Group, 5:30 p.m., Providence Regional Cancer Clinic, 2015 Cooks Hill Road, 360-304-8472
Lewis County Breast Cancer Support Group, 5-7 p.m., Providence Regional Cancer System — Centralia, 2015 Cooks Hill Road, 360-304-8472
Support for mothers,6:30-8 p.m.., Bethel Church, for mothers with children pregnancy through 6 years old, spon-sored by Chehalis MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers), 360-520-3841 or 360-864-2168, email [email protected] or visit www.facebook.com/chehalismops
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MORATORIUM: State Officials Say Cooke Aquaculture Exploiting a Loophole to Send Smolts to Different Pens
By Jim Camden
The Spokesman-Review
OLYMPIA — An interna-tional company that “farms” At-lantic salmon in the Puget Sound will put 1 million of the young fish into pens near Tacoma de-spite a request from state officials to keep them out.
The state has a moratorium on new fish pens after the failure of the Cooke Aquaculture Pacif-ic pen in the San Juan Islands in August, but the company would be sending the young salmon, known as smolts, to different pens with existing permits.
State officials say the com-pany is exploiting a “loophole” in the law, even as an investigation into the collapse is underway.
“This is disappointing and frustrating, coming on the heels of the August collapse of Cooke’s net pen near Cypress Island that held 305,000 fish,” Gov. Jay In-slee said in a news release Tues-day. “My office has asked Cooke to do the right thing — for our tribes, our citizens, for our en-vironment and for the indus-try’s long-term prospects — and
withdraw their request.”An attorney for Cooke said
the company has no choice, that unless the smolts are moved from their freshwater hatchery to salt water, they’ll die. The fish have been inspected to en-sure they aren’t carrying disease, Amalia Walton wrote in a letter to Inslee Chief of Staff David Postman, which is all that’s re-quired for what she called a rou-tine transfer permit.
“However, Cooke realizes that these are not normal cir-cumstances and has been work-ing closely with the Department of Fish and Wildlife to assure the department that there is not only no risk of disease but that the pens at Clam Bay are secure from any risk of potential es-cape,” Walton wrote.
They are not the pens that
collapsed in another part of the Sound, she added. To a sugges-tion that the smolts be moved to net pens in British Columbia, Walton said the company doesn’t have any there.
In mid August, a Cypress Island pen collapsed and more than half the 305,000 Atlantic salmon escaped into the Sound, where state officials and en-vironmentalists worried they would harm the native Pacific salmon returning to spawn. The 147,000 that didn’t escape the pen were turned into fertilizer, and some 60,000 of the escapees were pulled from the Sound as state and tribal fishing agencies encouraged people to catch as many as possible.
“The broad public outcry sur-rounding this net pen failure is understandable,” Public Lands
Commissioner Hillary Franz said in the joint press release is-sued with Inslee. “So is the lack of confidence in how Cooke re-sponded to the emergency, the recovery of fish and the manage-ment of future operations the company may pursue here in our waters.”
Cori Simmons, a spokes-woman for the Department of Natural Resources, said the re-maining Atlantic salmon that escaped from the Cypress Island pen are thought to either have died or been eaten by predators by now. The salmon weighed about 10 pounds when they es-caped, but those caught two weeks later were down to about 7 pounds and by now they likely have starved.
That’s because farm-raised salmon apparently don’t know how to eat in the wild. In her let-ter to Inslee’s staff, Walton said the stomachs of 500 escaped fish were caught, and all were empty.
“Farmed salmon learn that ‘food’ is in the form of pellets that drop from above at regular intervals, and as a result, when
released into the wild prove in-competent at feeding themselves,” she wrote.
The state is investigating the cause of the Cypress Island net pen collapse, which Cooke initially attributed to tides con-nected with the solar eclipse. Critics noted, however, the pen collapsed two days before the eclipse and the tides weren’t particularly high at that point. Cooke is also seeking a permit to expand its fish farming opera-tion in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, between Washington and Van-couver Island.
Jaime Smith, communica-tions director for Inslee, said when that investigation is com-pleted later this year a “larger conversation” about the future of net pens, involving tribes, envi-ronmental groups, state agencies and businesses will be expected. Some changes to state law could be proposed in the 2018 Legisla-ture.
“The focus for now is on get-ting the investigation complete,” Smith said.
A Million Atlantic Salmon Smolts Headed to Puget Sound Pens Over State’s Objections
“The broad public outcry surrounding this net pen failure is understandable. So is the lack of confidence in how Cooke responded to the emergency, the recovery of fish and the management of future operations the company may pursue here in our waters.”
Hillary Franz
Public Lands Commissioner
Nation/WorldNation in Brief
Kazuo Ishiguro Wins the Nobel Prize in LiteratureBy Tribune News Services
Kazuo Ishiguro is the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, the awarding Swedish Academy said Thursday. Born in Japan and raised in Britain, Ishiguro is best known for the novels “The Re-mains of the Day” and “Never Let Me Go.”
Published in 1989, “The Re-mains of the Day” won the Man Booker Prize and was adapted into the 1993 film starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. It’s the story of a butler, Stevens, at an English country estate, and begins in the comedic vein of P.G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves stories and ends somewhere quite different.
“In British and Japanese society, the ability to control emotions is considered dignified and elegant,” Ishiguro told The Times in 1990. In Stevens, there is “the tendency to mistake having any emotions at all with weakness.”
“Ultimately,” he continued, “the book is about the tragedy of a man who takes that thing too far, who somehow denies himself the right to love and be human. This is something the middle-class and upper-middle-class English do a lot.”
Burr, Warner Should Investigate ‘Fake News Networks,’ Trump Says
WASHINGTON (TNS) — As the Senate Intelligence Commit-tee continues to probe possible collusion between Moscow and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, the president wants the panel to investigate one of his self-described enemies: the news media.
A day after the panel’s chair-man and vice chairman, GOP Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina and Mark Warner of Virginia, an-nounced the entire committee has reached a “general consen-sus” that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election. They also formally gave the Intelligence Committee’s endorsement of an intelligence community report is-sued last fall that issued a warning about the Kremlin’s meddling.
But during a midday press con-ference, Burr and Warner declined to discuss even their initial find-ings — while sending a message to the president and his aides that they remain on the lookout for evi-dence of assistance the campaign organization might have given to Russia to assist its disinformation program
“The committee continues to look into all evidence to see if there was any hint of collusion,” Burr told reporters.
4 Charged In Slaying of 1-Year-Old, Who Was Shot in Her Crib
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — Af-ter more than a year and a half, au-thorities have charged four men in connection with the 2016 killing of a 1-year-old girl who was shot in her crib in Compton, officials said Wednesday.
The four suspects in the Feb. 9 killing of Autumn Johnson on North Holly Avenue have all been taken into custody or were already incarcerated, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Depart-ment.
Davion Douglas, 27, Denzel Hall, 25, and Ronzay Richards, 24, have each been charged with murder and attempted murder, ac-cording to a news release from the Sheriff’s Department.
Ray Patterson, 24, who was originally arrested on suspicion of murder last year but then released, has been charged with being an accessory to murder, officials said.
The shooting occurred shortly before 7 p.m. as the child’s mother, Blanche Wandick, was preparing her daughter a bottle. Autumn was standing in her crib when she was shot in the head.
“My innocent baby got shot for nothing. … That’s all. That’s all I can say. That’s it. I miss my baby, I love my baby, but she is gone,” the 21-year-old told the Los Angeles Times shortly after the shooting.
World in Brief
As Venezuelans Starve, Their Government Offers Hurricane Aid to Hard-Hit AreasBy Tribune News Services
When Hurricane Harvey hit, Venezuela offered $5 million in aid to Texas through its Citgo petro-leum company. Then came hur-ricanes Irma, Jose and Maria, and with every threat, Venezuela’s mil-itary cargo planes and helicopters were there, helping with relief and recovery from Cuba to Dominica.
The South American country may be engulfed in political and economic turmoil with acute food shortages, soaring prices and fresh U.S. sanctions, but that isn’t stop-ping its besieged government from coming to the rescue of Caribbean islands ravaged by a string of cata-strophic storms. The assistance is raising questions about whether it’s more about scoring political points and winning allies than hu-manitarianism.
“It’s all politics,” said Russ Dal-len, a managing partner at in-vestment bank Caracas Capital Markets who also advises U.S. law-makers on Venezuela.
“Harvey hits and they come with a bid to give $5 million. Ven-ezuelans are starving and they are going to give $5 million away to help Texans in million-dollar mansions who got flooded? It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense except as a marketing scheme.”
The island nations, though, welcome the help, which they said has been critical to their residents.
“Venezuela has been play-ing a very important role,” said St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves.
“They took food and water very early to different places, moving (hundreds) of people from Bar-buda to Antigua, ferrying food and water to Dominica, from St. Lucia, from St. Vincent.”
The Speech That Went Wrong: May Derailed by Protest and Cough
MANCHESTER, England (TNS) — Theresa May’s disastrous year continued to get worse, as the speech intended to get her gov-ernment back on track descended into chaos.
As the prime minister gave the closing address to her Con-servative Party’s annual confer-ence in Manchester, northwest England, on Wednesday, she was interrupted by a prankster hand-ing her a P45 — the form British people get when they leave their job. While the man was bundled out by security, May struggled to get back on track, fighting repeat-ed coughing fits. She had said the previous day that she was shaking off a bad throat.
In a final insult, the set behind her began to fall apart, two of the letters spelling out the party’s slogan dropping off the wall as she spoke.
Time and again, May stopped to sip water, then to accept a cough drop from Chancellor of the Ex-chequer Philip Hammond — “the chancellor giving something away for free,” the prime minister joked.
King Felipe Lays Down the Law to Catalonia as Rajoy Seeks AlliesBy Tribune News Services
MADRID — King Felipe VI told the Catalan separatist trying to break up his country that their
“unacceptable disloyalty” has no place in any democratic state, as he vowed to keep Spain together.
In a televised address to the nation, Felipe said the regional government has sown division among its own people with its re-peated and deliberate violations of Spanish law, and put the eco-nomic well-being and social har-mony of the whole country at risk.
“They have shown an unac-ceptable disloyalty toward the power of the state,” Felipe said.
“Today Catalan society is frac-tured, set against itself.”
Prime Minister Mariano Ra-joy is fighting to maintain con-trol after 2.3 million Catalans de-fied both the central government and the Constitutional Court to cast ballots in a makeshift refer-endum on independence.
By Jenny Staletovich
Miami Herald
MIAMI — Tropical Storm Nate formed early Thursday, dumping heavy rain across the Central American coast on a northward track headed for the U.S.
At 8 a.m., the storm was lo-cated about 10 miles south of Nicaragua’s north coast with sustained winds of 40 mph. It’s expected to make landfall Thurs-day as it continues moving to the northwest and picked up speed through Friday night as it ap-proaches the Yucatan Peninsula.
The latest models shift the storm to the west, taking it away from the Florida Panhandle and toward Louisiana when it ap-proaches the U.S. Sunday. How-ever, forecast tracks so far in advance can be many miles off, with the average at four days at about 170 miles.
Crossing land twice is also
complicating the storm’s future outcome, forecasters said. Nate is not likely to gain any more in-tensity Thursday, but will likely strengthen as it crosses warm ocean waters in the Gulf of Mex-ico and faces light wind shear. However, predicting the storm’s intensity over the coming days remains complicated, forecasters said.
Tropical storm warnings are in effect for parts of Nicaragua and Honduras, with a hurricane watch in effect for parts of Mexi-co. The wet storm is expected to dump heavy rain, with 15 to 20 inches in Costa Rica and Pana-ma, and up to 30 inches possible in places. Honduras and Belize could get between five and 10 inches.
The storm is being steered by a high pressure ridge over the southeastern Bahamas and into the central Caribbean. Over the weekend, another ridge is ex-pected to build over the south-
east U.S. coast, and move the storm more to the northwest at a faster speed. Models that dif-fered Wednesday now agree the storm will likely move more to the west.
How intense the storm be-comes remains the complicat-ing factor. Moving over Nica-ragua could shake up its core. As it swings back over warm ocean water, it will likely regain strength, forecasters said. But how much depends on its inner strength. The latest models have trended downward.
The storm comes more than a month before the end of a re-cord-breaking season that had been forecast to be above average. During the historical peak of the season in September, a new record was set for the highest amount of hurricane energy in a single month. The most number of hurricane days also occurred, according to Colorado State me-teorologist Phil Klotzbach.
Police Say They Are Trying to Determine Whether Las Vegas Gunman Acted AloneBy The Los Angeles Times
LAS VEGAS — The girl-friend of the gunman who killed 58 people at a country music festival in Las Vegas broke her silence Wednesday and denied advance knowledge of the attack, saying that she knew Stephen Paddock as a “kind, caring, qui-et” man and that she was devas-tated by the violence.
As President Donald Trump and the first lady visited victims and first responders in Las Vegas, federal investigators interviewed Marilou Danley in Los Angeles, hoping Paddock’s live-in girl-friend might be able to help solve the mystery of why Paddock, 64, opened fire on the festival crowd Sunday night and then killed himself.
But Danley, who was out of the country at the time of the attack, said Wednesday that she was just as clueless.
“He never said anything to me, or took any action I was aware of, that I ever understood to be a warning that something hor-rible like this was going to hap-pen,” Danley said, according to a statement read by her attorney, Matthew Lombard. She added: “I loved him and hoped for a quiet future together with him.”
The special agent in charge of the FBI in Las Vegas, Aaron Rouse, said the bureau has de-ployed more than 100 agents and other investigators across the country to help Las Vegas au-thorities answer questions about Paddock’s motive and whether he had help.
“We have multiple leads all across the United States and all across the world,” Rouse said. But he added: “We must focus on facts. We cannot give in to con-jecture. And we cannot respond to every little Twitter feed that may indicate a theory. … You ex-pect us to be right, and we want to be right.”
In the last year, Paddock, a retired real estate investor and former IRS agent, had used his apparently extensive financial resources to fund his plans for the attack while also bankrolling his longtime passion for gam-bling.
Since October 2016, Paddock bought 33 guns, mostly rifles, according to a law enforcement source, a haul that could have cost him tens of thousands of dollars, a spending spree that has led investigators to wonder whether something changed in Paddock’s life, and whether he was really acting alone.
“He had to have some help at some point,” Clark County Sher-iff Joe Lombardo told reporters Wednesday. “Maybe he’s a super-guy. … Maybe he’s super-yahoo, was working out all this on his own, but it would be hard for me to believe that.”
Investigators also confirmed that Paddock had rented an Airbnb room in a condo build-ing in Las Vegas in September
overlooking an even larger music event, the Life is Beautiful fes-tival, featuring Gorillaz, Lorde, Chance the Rapper and other artists.
“Was he doing pre-surveil-lance? We don’t know yet,” Lom-bardo said.
On the night before Sun-day’s attack — which left nearly 500 people injured in addition to those killed — Paddock re-portedly went on an eight-hour gambling binge in a special vid-eo poker room at the Mandalay Bay’s casino, according to ABC News.
Investigators found thou-sands of rounds of ammunition in Paddock’s Mandalay Bay ho-tel room, plus more in his car, in addition to Tannerite, an explo-sive substance. Some of his guns had jammed during the shoot-ing, Lombardo said.
Paddock had gambled with more than $100,000 in recent months at Nevada casinos, a law enforcement official said.
The shooting shocked Pad-dock’s brother Eric. But not the spending.
“We’re wealthy people. $100,000 isn’t that much mon-ey,” Eric Paddock, said in a tele-vised interview from Florida on Wednesday. “He gambled that much through a machine in hours.”
“Steve is a — was a — highly intelligent, highly successful person. He could have done any-thing he wanted to do,” Eric Pad-dock continued. “And he did. He made himself wealthy. He made us wealthy. He was a very suc-cessful person. He gambled for 20-plus years, successfully. It’s like a job to him. He did it math-ematically.”
It was also revealed Wednes-day that Danley had been out of the country during the time of the attack because Paddock had bought her a “cheap” ticket to her home country of the Philippines in mid-September, according to her statement.
While she was there, he wired her money to buy a house for her family there, she said.
“Like all Filipinos abroad, I
was excited to go home and see family and friends,” Danley said in a statement read by her lawyer, which came after federal agents had greeted her at Los Angeles International Airport and taken her to FBI offices for questioning.
“I was grateful (for the money to buy a house), but honestly I was worried that first the unex-pected trip home, and then the money was a way of breaking up with me,” she said in her state-ment. “It never occurred to me in any way whatsoever that he was planning violence against any-one.”
In a visit with victims and first responders in Las Vegas, Trump praised those who rushed into action during the massacre, and he told family members of the victims, “You are not alone. We will never leave your side.”
“We know that your sorrow feels endless,” he said. “We stand beside you to help carry your pain.”
Praising the work of police and other first responders, the president said: “Words cannot describe the bravery the whole world witnessed on Sunday night. Americans defied death and hatred with love and with courage. When the worst of hu-manity strikes, and strike it did, the best of humanity responds. Americans dashed into a hail of bullets to rescue total strangers.”
The remarks came at a news conference where Trump and first lady Melania Trump were flanked by local law enforcement officials and dignitaries, includ-ing Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval.
“We’re hurt. We’re hurt badly. But we’re not broken,” Sando-val said at the televised news conference. “The future’s going to come one day at a time. We must be glad. We must be good. We must be brave. And we must have faith.”
In an earlier public appear-ance at a hospital that had treat-ed more than 100 victims from Sunday’s attack, Trump charac-terized the gunman as a “very sick man; he was a very dement-ed person.”
Tropical Storm Nate Forms Near Nicaragua and is Bound for the US Coast
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Destiny Albers weeps at a makeshift memorial on Las Vegas Blvd and Reno Ave
for the victims of the recent mass shooting on Oct. 3 in Las Vegas. Albers attended
the Route 91 Harvest Festival concert during the attack on Sunday night and one
of her friends was struck down by gunfire.
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KALALOCH BEACH: Gray Whales Suspected in Case of Disappearing Clams on Olympic Peninsula
By Jordan Nailon
On Tuesday the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife approved the season’s first set of coastal razor clam digs. The con-firmation of this week’s digging dates came one week after the much anticipated opening was put in jeopardy by rapidly rising domoic acid levels along sections of Washington’s coastline.
The opening round of digs will take place on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 6-7, at Long Beach, Twin Harbors, Copalis and Mo-crocks after the most recent batch of marine toxin tests re-vealed those clams to be safe for human consumption. All beach-es are currently open for evening tides and no digging will be al-lowed before noon.
WDFW coastal shellfish manager Dan Ayres says he ex-pects a hearty turnout for the opening digs. He said he bases that prediction on historical dig-ger effort along with the sheer number of inquiries he was forced to field after approval for the digs was temporarily delayed on Sept. 27. He added that a de-cent forecast of mild tempera-tures and light rain should help to buffer the typically stout turn-out.
“A lot of times that first dig is a pretty good turnout anyway. There’s just a lot of clam hungry people out there,” said Ayres.
Ayres noted that folks who like to test their luck at Long Beach are particularly pent up with desire for the succulent bi-valve due to the fact that Long Beach was closed for the major-ity of the fall/winter of 2016, and winter/spring of 2017, due to lingering domoic acid toxicity. Although the beach was given nearly a year long reprieve from the hungry pounding of shovels ocean conditions conspired to depress the undisturbed clam population.
While domoic acid kept the clams off limits to diggers, a bout of low salinity coastal water ef-fectively starved the clams of their typical food sources. Ayres
called it a “perfect storm” of un-favorable conditions that wiped out big gains in population that had been made in recent years.
A population stock assess-ment at Long Beach in the sum-mer of 2016 revealed the largest number of adult razor clams (larger than three inches) in the last 25 years. One year later that same style assessment showed a reduction of the adult clam pop-ulation by more than 60 percent, which dropped the Long Beach clam density to within squirting distance of its lowest levels in a quarter century.
“A lot of the ones that lived are the bigger ones which is good in the short term but they are not very dense,” said Ayres. “It’s not going to be the big bonanza that you would intuitively think would happen because of the clo-sure.”
Ayres believes that those low salinity levels can be attributed to the the sustained high flow of the Columbia River last win-ter and spring. He noted that it’s common for the outflow current of the Columbia River to turn north during the cold months, which typically results in fewer and smaller clams on the south end of the Long Beach Peninsula. Last year, though, was different due to the large volume of fresh water coming out of the state’s largest watershed and the effects were farther reaching.
“From January to June this last winter we saw really low levels of salinity, mostly at Long Beach...I think it’s pretty attributable to the high volume of water com-ing out of the Columbia River because of the rain and snowfall,” said Ayres. “Not only do razor clams not like fresh water but the plankton source that they de-pend on for food really don’t like fresh water.”
Despite the dramatic loss in razor clam population at Long Beach, Ayres says there is no need to panic, noting that the clams will rebound in time.
“They will recover,” said Ayres. “It is not a disaster.”
The upcoming dig is ap-proved on the following beaches, dates and evening low tides:
• Oct. 6, Friday, 7:49 p.m.; -0.4 feet; Long Beach, Twin Harbors, Copalis, Mocrocks
• Oct. 7, Saturday, 8:33 p.m.; -0.7 feet; Long Beach, Twin Har-bors, Copalis, Mocrocks
Ayres recommend that dig-gers hit the beach one or two hours prior to low tide for the best diggin results. The next proposed batch of digging dates are tentatively scheduled for Nov. 2-5.
Questions at Kalaloch
Last winter the WDFW and the Olympic National Park opened up Kalaloch Beach to razor clam digging for the first time since 2012. Diminishing clam populations led to the more than four year long closure but a population survey in the sum-mer of 2016 showed a recovery so remarkable that Ayres was forced to rub his eyes and triple check his findings. He even went so far as to call colleagues in his field so that they could assure him he had not gone crazy.
“It was so dense you could not have squeezed another clam in the ground,” said Ayres. “It was incredible. I’ve never seen any-thing like it in my career.”
Most of those clams were located at the north end of the beach and the WDFW antici-pated significant, if natural, die-offs as the clams matured due to competition for food and re-sources. A population review in the summer of 2016 confirmed that anticipated decline in the initial numbers but the remain-ing clams still represented one of the largest adult clam population ever recorded at Kalaloch. Those findings paved the way for a set of digging dates in January of 2017 that wound up producing more fanfare than shellfish.
“In January when we opened, whatever had taken the clams we’d counted in the summer had taken the rest,” said Ayres. “That was a huge disappointment. That huge surge of juvenile clams didn’t pan out to anything. They were basically all gone.”
With the once abundant clams once again missing in ac-tion, the WDFW called off the rest of the proposed digs at Ka-laloch. This summer though things took another unforeseen turn on the Olympic Peninsula when the annual population sur-vey showed an even larger crop of recruits in the shifting sands at Kalaloch. This time the clams were more evenly distributed around the desolate stretch of beach, which Ayres says should
help to increase their chances of survival.
“A good year coastwide would be 40 million (clams), and we had 80 million just in that little section,” said Ayres, with tem-pered enthusiasm. “There’s just a lot of head scratching about what’s going on here.”
In July, things took another turn for the weird.
“We started getting calls at the end of July from folks saying there’s something weird going on. There are gray whales working at high tide right on the beach in water you'd never expect to see a gray whale,” explained Ayres.
He readily admits that there is little to work off of except speculation at this point, but, he asked, “What could they possibly be eating except these clams?”
A juvenile gray whale even made the news this summer when it became beached near Kalaloch. A multiple day res-cue effort ultimately freed the animal but the happening has fueled a suspicion that the hun-gry whales could be to blame for the cresting and receding clam populations along the Olympic Peninsula coastline. Ayres says he has even investigated the scene himself and came away with a grainy cellphone photo of whales squirming on their sides in the shallow surf with one fin stretched out in the air in the ap-parent act of feeding. One report told of about four dozen whales apparently feeding along one coastal section at one time. Just what exactly the whales are eat-ing remains a mystery though since scientists have so far been unable to obtain a sample of
whale feces that would put the matter to rest.
“If it is gray whales that’s not a bad thing, they certainly have to eat too,” said Ayres.
Ayres noted that there are currently no proposed clam digs at Kalaloch Beach for 2017, and, although he was reluctant to pull the possibility for a dig off the ta-ble for the following year he says the extended forecast is more promising.
“I think it would be a little bit premature and shortsighted to open it up too soon,” said Ayres, noting that many of the clams are still quite small.
All clam diggers 15 years of age or older are required to pur-chase a fishing license before harvesting razor clams on any beach. State law allows individu-als to keep the first 15 clams they dig. No high grading is allowed and each digger must keep their clams in their own personal con-tainer.
In a press release, Ayres noted that a research team from the University of Maryland will be out on Washington beaches dur-ing the 2017-18 razor clam sea-son in order to conduct a survey. That team is seeking volunteers to participate in their study about razor clam consumption and harvesting practices. Additional information can be obtained by contacting Lynn Grattan at 877-668-4559 or [email protected].
A full schedule of proposed razor clam digging dates in Washington can be found online at wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/shellfish/razorclams/current.html.
TANDEM PROCESS: Army Corps of Engineers Still Has to Make a Decision on if the Permit will be Renewed
By Justyna Tomtas
After taking a tour of the Pleasant Valley Mitigation Site last week, the state Department of Ecology has decided it will au-thorize 25.7 acres of additional wetland impacts for the Port of Chehalis as the process of renew-ing the port’s regional general permit continues.
The permit, which is used to offset wetland fill on port-owned property, lapsed in September of last year. Twenty-five acres of credit were authorized under the original permit, six of which have already been used. Officials from Ecology said they wouldn’t have a problem authorizing wet-land fill for the 19 acres left at the site, but later increased that amount after touring the mitiga-tion site. The port’s application requested 40 acres.
“We have authorized 25.7 acres of additional wetland im-pacts based on the analysis of the functional equivalence found at the Pleasant Valley Mitigation Site,” Perry Lund, from Ecology, said in an email to the port on Tuesday.
Randy Mueller, CEO of the port, said that amount would now account for the full capacity of the site.
In order to receive a new permit, there are two separate processes that need to take place. The state Department of Ecology must certify the amount of acres through its 401 certification pro-cess that deals with water qual-
ity. Then, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is the one that’s responsible for making the final decision on whether the permit is approved, along with the final acre amount.
The Corps could still decide to authorize a permit with a higher acre amount, but in order for that to be implemented, the port needs Ecology’s approval as well.
“In practice, if the Corps de-cided to grant us the 40 acres, we wouldn’t have approval from the state Department of Ecology,” Mueller said. “We’d have to get that.”
After a tour of the mitigation site off of Twin Oaks Road near Adna, Lund said that although he realized the value of the miti-gation site, he was still against authorizing the 40 credits the port requested.
“I haven’t changed my mind,”
he said.Earlier this year, the request
to add more acreage set off red flags with regulatory agencies that said if that was approved, it would be the largest authoriza-tion of wetland fill in the state.
The Environmental Protec-tion Agency, Ecology, and the Quinault Indian Nation submit-ted comments opposing the re-quest.
Port commissioners have stated the quality of wetlands they have created at the mitiga-tion site far exceed those that would be filled with future devel-opment.
Wetlands like those on the Bishop Road Industrial Site 2
— which was part of last week’s tour — are categorized as low quality class 4 wetlands, or farm fields.
Ecology had one year to re-spond to a request for certifica-
tion, and beat the deadline by a few days, while the Corps does not have a set timeline to make a decision.
After opposition was voiced earlier this year, the port sub-mitted various documents that included an updated alternatives analysis and a cumulative im-pacts assessment to try to ease those concerns.
Staff from the EPA attended the tour, and submitted further comments afterwards.
Michael Szerlog, with the EPA, visited the site six years ago. He clarified that the ultimate decision lies in the hands of the Corps and Ecology.
“We look at individual region-al general permits when there’s one very unique or different,” he said.
On Sept. 29, Szerlog submit-ted additional comments to the Corps following the tour, which said more in-depth information could help with permitting re-quests in the future.
With Ecology’s recommenda-tion in hand, the Corps will now consider what acreage they are comfortable with.
After the tour, Muffy Walker, with the Corps, said the agency felt comfortable granting 25 acres.
“When talking about cumula-tive impacts, we are feeling com-fortable with 25 acres, but once you start getting over that then the cumulative impacts become more and more of a concern,” she said.
Pleasant Valley Mitigation Site Tour
The tour of the site on Sept. 26 was organized by staff from Senator Maria Cantwell’s Office who later mediated the discus-sion between the agencies. Of-
ficials from Ecology, the Corps and the EPA attended.
It started at Bishop Road In-dustrial Site 2, where staff from Ecological Land Services hired by the port, explained the make-up of the wetlands that would be mitigated for when construction occured on the site.
In the spring, the ground is saturated, but it later dries out.
“You don’t even realize you are standing in wetlands,” Port Commissioner Ken Kostick said.
“We’re not taking a swamp and filling it in. It’s dry nine months out of the year.”
During the 2007 flood, port property saw minimal impacts, Mueller said, adding the water that did appear was gone within 24 hours.
“We’re on the higher and drier side (of the Interstate),” he said.
Commissioners said there are no projects currently slated for the site. Instead, they said the port wants to be prepared and have an efficient process that would allow development, some-thing they said the RGP helps ac-complish. Without the RGP, each site would have to go through an individual permitting process before it was developed which has a two-year timeline.
The Pleasant Valley Mitiga-tion Site near Adna was also toured. The port has a 99-year lease for the site, which used to be a flat field. Native species were planted and the ground was re-shaped to allow 12,000 acre feet of water storage with no import or export of material like dirt.
Francis Naglich, with Eco-logical Land Services, said there is a herd of elk that frequents the area, as well as beavers and muskrats. It also includes fish habitat.
Season’s First Razor Clam Digs Only a Few Tides Away
Ecology Certifies Port for 25.7 Acres of Wetland Impact as Regional General Permit Moves Forward
Justyna Tomtas / [email protected]
Francis Naglich, right, with Ecological Land Services, discusses features of the
Pleasant Valley Mitigation Site to various regulatory agencies while Port of Che-
halis CEO Randy Mueller listens. Staff from the Environmental Protection Agency,
the state Department of Ecology and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers toured the
site as they discussed the renewal of the port’s regional general permit which has
been used to fill wetlands on port property.
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SEPARATE FUND: Money Generated by Tax Addresses Programs Associated with Chemical Dependency, Mental Health
By Justyna Tomtas
During the last official bud-get meeting with commissioners and various departments, those that utilize the mental health tax came together to discuss in-crease requests as the Board of Lewis County Commissioners gets ready to switch to the deci-sion making phase as they decide what increases will be approved in the 2018 budget year.
The mental health fund is generated by a one-tenth of 1 percent sales tax approved by voters in June 2011.
The money can be used for chemical dependency and men-tal health treatment, as well as court programs and services that include treatment, case manage-ment and housing services.
The 2018 preliminary bud-get shows the fund has revenue in the amount of $1,460,493 — $240,193 of which is accounted
for in a separate fund for the Public Health and Social Ser-vices’ Nurse Family Partnership program.
Expenditures for 2018 are expected at $1,328,928, which includes the aforementioned $240,193 in the Nurse Family Partnership fund.
The mental health fund does not impact the general fund.
The Lewis County Sheriff ’s Office has asked for a $150,000
increase to help offset inmate medical services provided through NaphCare. Lewis Coun-ty currently has an interlocal agreement with Pierce County for the services.
The Sheriff ’s Office has nego-tiated a contract which will pro-vide 24-hour coverage, as well as on site medical billing, dental, X-ray and lab services.
If the increase is not approved, there would be a “significant lia-bility associated with corrections officers working outside their scope of expertise,” according to the increase request. That would include conducting assessments on incoming prisoners.
Other implications could lead to inmate health being jeop-ardized because of inadequate medical staffing. If the increase is not approved, the inmates may not be seen by the treating phy-sician to start or continue their mental health medications, ac-cording to the increase request.
The additional funding would allow for enhanced com-munity safety by reducing the amount of off site medical trans-ports, and would reduce liability by providing the 24 hour on-site medical services.
Those associated with Naph-Care are not allowed to prescribe
psychotropic medications, ac-cording to Chris Sweet, the chief of the Lewis County Jail, so a psychiatrist will also be needed.
“That is a proposal that we are going to have to figure out for 2018,” he said.
There is also a request to fund a case management posi-tion for the mental health al-ternative, which is a post-sen-tencing diversion program for offenders with mental health is-sues. The new case management position would be a county employee, but because changes still need to be made to the cur-rent contract through Cascade Mental Health which currently provides a similar service, final figures are not available to see what kind of additional cost that may bring.
“The contract with Cascade will decrease (monetarily) and we’d fill it with a county employ-ee,” county budget analyst Becky Butler said. “The hope is it’s not really an increase.”
Butler asked those at the meeting to provide her with the proposal on paper with the correct adjustments so it could be properly budgeted for, if ap-proved.
Susie Parker, administrator for superior court, has been tak-
ing on the extra work of manag-ing the program, but as it contin-ues to grow, that has gotten more difficult.
“We’ve grown considerably and I can’t do that with my job as well,” she said.
Superior Court Judge James Lawler said the case manage-ment position would be helpful to streamline services.
“Now when we’re having may-be three or four different groups providing services, it would be nice to have someone who can coordinate with an individual that really needs services that this other provider can give,” he said. “They’d also be able to deal with clients who are in district court and perhaps in municipal courts as well.”
Butler said commissioners try to keep the reserves in the fund at $1 million each year.
Programs under the fund include adult drug court and family court, the mental health alternative, mental health con-tracts through Public Health and Social Services, and the Nurse Family Partnership program, which allows registered nurses to make home visits to low-income first-time mothers.
PRELIMINARY BUDGET PRESENTATION
After wrapping up the re-mainder of their meetings with departments and offices, the Board of Lewis County Com-missioners will now switch to a decision making phase as they decide which increases should be approved. Once that takes place, there will be a presenta-tion of the preliminary budget at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 20, in the Washington State University training room in the basement of the courthouse, at 351 NW North St. There will be a question and answer ses-sion. The citizen advisory com-mittee will also be present at the meeting.
Commissioners Hear Increase Requests for Programs Funded Through Mental Health Tax
By Rachel Alexander
The Spokesman-Review
It was Christmas, 2015, and Fred Raab had just come home from a long day at the lab.
Raab, the head of the gravi-tational wave observatory at Hanford, had spent the holiday tinkering with fussy equipment. The system finally appeared to be working correctly when he left around 4 p.m.
The lab, called LIGO, was first conceived nearly 40 years ago to measure infinitesimally small ripples through space and time predicted by Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. If scientists could measure those waves, it would advance knowl-edge of black holes, the structure of the universe and how the laws of physics function in the most extreme parts of space.
Raab ate Christmas dinner with his family. Then, he got an
alert: the LIGO lab had detected a gravitational wave. It was the lab’s second in less than four months.
“It was a wonderful capstone to an otherwise crummy day,” he said.
On Tuesday, the Royal Swed-ish Academy of Sciences named three American physicists as winners of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work discov-ering those waves. Barry Barish and Kip Thorne of Caltech and Rainer Weiss of MIT will split the prize for their work setting up the two operating LIGO labs in the U.S. — the one at Hanford, and another in Louisiana.
LIGO stands for Laser Inter-ferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. It’s a large, circular underground vacuum that uses lasers and mirrors to measure tiny disturbances gravity caused by black holes more than a bil-lion light years away.
How tiny? Raab said the waves are measured in billionths of the size of a single atom. No-ticing such a small disturbance takes big equipment.
LIGO is home to the second-largest vacuum chamber in the world, after the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. It holds enough air to inflate 2.5 million footballs.
“We knew the size of the effect would increase with the size of the detector,” Raab said.
Work on LIGO began in 1979, when the National Science Foun-dation selected Caltech and MIT to pursue research and develop-ment. Hanford was selected as a site in 1992, opened in 1999 and began listening for gravitational waves in 2002.
In 2010, LIGO ended its first operation and underwent a ret-rofit to make the detection much more sensitive. That work was completed in 2014, and a new
round of listening began in 2015.Before long, LIGO detected
two waves. The first, on Septem-ber 14, 2015, was from the tail end of the merger of two black holes, something astrophysicists had predicted, but never ob-served.
“Having seen them several times, we now know that objects like this merge somewhere in the universe every hour,” Raab said. “We’re only seeing a small fraction of those because our machines are still only serving a very small piece of the universe.”
The ones detected at Hanford and in Louisiana happened quite far away, which means they’re more than a billion years old by the time the gravitational wave reaches Earth.
A second LIGO run from November 2016 to August 2017 picked up a third black hole merger, which was also detected at LIGO Louisiana and a facility
near Pisa, Italy.Raab compares reading the
waves to an electrocardiogram that you might get if you were hooked up in a hospital’s inten-sive care unit. Just as a doctor can see the electrical signals your heart sends out and determine how well it’s functioning, physi-cists can look at the pattern of a gravitational wave and learn where it came from and what caused it.
“They tell a very exquisitely detailed story of what it is that created the waves,” Raab said.
LIGO is now working to fur-ther hone its ability to detect tiny waves. Scientists working at the Hanford site have noticed a limi-tation at lower frequencies in the detector they’re hoping to cor-rect. Fixes will be made over the fall and winter, and a third run to observe waves will kick off in 2018.
By Cameron Probert
The Tri-City Herald
Kim Wyman is a perfect vot-er.
She cast a ballot in almost ev-ery election she could since she turned 18 and registered.
More than 35 years later, Washington’s secretary of state was trying to convince a room full of sleepy community college students that they should do the same.
Wyman is taking two days to tour through Eastern Washing-ton and visit with students. She stopped to talk to about 70 stu-dents in Gary Bullert’s American Government class.
And with less than a week to register for the November election, Wyman and Franklin County Auditor Matt Beaton
brought a stack of registration forms, buttons and pens.
The students sitting in the class are among the age group that’s least likely to regis-ter. About 60 percent of 17- to 24-year-olds were registered in 2016.
That group also is the least likely to vote.
In the last presidential elec-tion, about a third of the group’s registered voters turned out, and that number shrinks during lo-cal and county election years.
These are not new trends, Wyman said. The youngest vot-ers are usually the least repre-sented when it comes to the polls.
“The irony is they’re at the point where they have the most freedom and the most respon-sibility they ever had, they’re le-
gally adults, and they’re the ones that participate the least,” she said.
Much of the time, it’s an issue or a candidate that draws people to the polls.
“You saw a little bit of a spike in 2008 and 2012; I think that was because of Barack Obama, and he connected really well with young voters,” she said.
“People on this side of elections for the last 25 years, have spent a lot of time trying to get the turn-out number up and lower barri-ers.”
Now anyone looking to vote can go online, submit a form by mail or walk into their county elections office. Information about all of the options are avail-able at the Secretary of State web-site or by contacting a county au-
ditor’s office.“We do a direct mail piece to
every high school senior as they turn 18,” Wyman said.
While the efforts are well-meaning, they don’t seem to af-fect the patterns — more people vote during presidential elec-tions, with a slight uptick during midterm elections.
Washington’s participation tracks ahead of other states, how-ever, with the amount of college-aged students participating.
Part of Wyman’s and Bea-ton’s efforts Tuesday morning was to emphasize to students the importance of becoming aware of local issues. From schools to roads to ambulance response times, local government oversees them.
For Bullert — who has spent
the past 25 years teaching gov-ernment classes to Running Start and traditional college students
— he wants to educate people about the system.
“Part of my job, is not only to get them to vote ... it’s to get them to become informed voters,” he said.
Wyman left the class with a simple message.
If they don’t vote, they are ceding their say to their parents, grandparents and the others who do vote.
“Don’t worry, because I vote every time,” she told the class.
“So as long as you believe every-thing that I believe and think everything that I think, I’ve got your back.
“But if you don’t, then you’ve just given your power to me.”
Researchers Using Hanford Gravitational Waves Lab Win Nobel Prize in Physics
Secretary of State Tells Young Voters to Vote, Lest They ‘Cede Power’ to Parents
By Jeff Graham
Kitsap Sun
PORT ORCHARD — There was a notable absence during the national anthem Friday night as South Kitsap’s football team hosted Olympia at Kitsap Bank Stadium.
Not a single player from ei-ther team was on the field during the song.
According to South Kitsap football coach Cory Vartanian, there was a simple explanation that had nothing to do with protesting the national anthem, which has become a controver-sial means of expressing discon-tent over racial injustice.
Over the past year, athletes at professional and amateur sport-ing events across the county have protested during the playing of the anthem by kneeling and rais-ing fists. Some entire teams, such
as the Seattle Seahawks last week in their game against the Ten-nessee Titans, remained in the locker room during the anthem.
That wasn’t the case in Port Orchard on Friday night.
“There is no protest,” Varta-nian said. “Publicly, I apologize.”
It turns out South Kitsap’s coaching staff ran long with a pre-game speech to players. By the time players and coaches left the locker room and prepared to run out onto the field, the an-them had already started.
“We ran a little longer than expected with warmups and we talked to the kids two, three minutes extra.”
Vartanian said Olympia play-ers were waiting for South Kit-sap’s team to enter the field. That is the reason the Bears weren’t on the sideline for the anthem.
“We came out late, then they came out late,” Vartanian said.
South Kitsap’s coach contin-ued by stating that he’s from a military family and that he sup-ports his players and coaches standing and facing the flag dur-ing the anthem.
“If it wasn’t for football, I would have joined the military,” he said.
What if one of Vartanian’s players wanted to protest during the anthem by kneeling, raising
a fist or remaining in the locker room during the song?
“If one of our kids do decide to do something like that, we’ll respect what they believe in,” he said.
South Kitsap High School Football Team Skips National Anthem by Mistake
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USERNAME: Cinebarbarian
It’s not an alter to the NRA honest citizens pay homage to. It’s called the Constitution of the United States of Amer-ica. I’ll proudly be a member of any organization that guar-antees the Bill of Rights remains part of the foundation of this Country. With great freedoms come great responsibility. That’s the price we all pay for not living in a nanny state.
USERNAME: ExecDir
Given that the vast majority of the voting public sup-port background checks and limiting automatic weapons/assault rifles and cop-killer bullets, it seems that putting the matter up to the voting public would be the best way to arrive at public policy. From there it can go to the Supreme Court. The NRA can buy Congressmen, but they can only buy so many votes, and the voters can get rid of Congress-men and women kneeling at the NRA altar.
Nellie Sackrider: Its stupid people in elect-ed positions like that cant see the real reason. We need to get back to love honor n respect in this world too much hate. The Lord is trying to wake us all up.
Teresza Crowl: Background checks and stricter controls - and ban assault weapons!
Sullivan Myst: It’s a hate problem!! Not a gun issue! But common sense isn’t so com-mon!
Tyler Lyons: How many cars kill people? How many people are affected by death in cars in this country? No talk about them.
Debbie Horrace: Guns don’t kill people. PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE.
Judy Guenther: For those that say it’s just
people that kill people — your right it is peo-ple that kill But they use guns! If banning au-tomatic guns helps save anyone it’s worth it, I realize that mental health factors in so let’s do something for health care also! Let’s not sit on our hands and say “there’s nothing we can do.”
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Main 16 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017FROM THE FRONT PAGE
Mandalay.”While the first shots were
evenly spaced, Chase said the next round sounded more like automatic weapons. Paddock is suspected of using semiautomat-ic rifles modified to fire quickly like an automatic weapon.
“There’s no protection, there’s nothing you can do to protect yourself from automatic gun-fire,” she said.
But then the stage lights went dark and the crowd started run-ning for cover. At that point, no one knew whether there was one shooter or many, or where the shots were coming from. Wayne
Chase looked up after one bar-rage of bullets and saw bodies and seriously injured people, Kim Chase said.
“It was chaos,” she said. “It’s running in my head so much I can’t wait for it to stop. I was praying, I felt like I was probably going to get hit.”
Eventually the shooting stopped and the couple made their way back to their hotel, where they were put under lock-down. By the next morning they were able to head to the airport and fly back home.
While the shooting was chaotic, Chase said the first re-sponders and security person-nel were “unbelievably calm and cool,” and immediately led flee-ing concert-goers to safety.
VegasContinued from Main 1
He will also have a total of 18 months of state Department of Corrections Community Cus-tody after his release.
Brown was suspected of con-spiracy in a federal investigation involving multiple counties and could have faced further charges. As part of the plea deal, Brown will no longer face those charges, attorneys said.
Ashley Jackson spoke dur-ing Brown’s sentencing hearing Wednesday about how her fa-ther, Michael Summer, the vic-tim in the vehicular assault case, continues to struggle with his recovery.
Summer has hearing loss and ringing in his ears and has a traumatic brain injury. Be-fore the accident, he stayed busy helping the elderly, Jackson said, but hasn’t been able to do that since the crash.
“He now sits on the porch and questions what he does with his life,” Jackson said.
Jackson, a volunteer fire-fighter, said she heard the report of the crash over her scanner, but didn’t think anything of it. Hours later, she got a call telling her Summer was the victim. She said they had recently rekindled their relationship after 20 years.
“The only thing I could think is, ‘Oh my God, I’m losing my father again,’” she said.
Jackson said her father asked her to speak for him in court, saying he feared he would get too emotional. She cried while telling the court about seeing her father after the crash.
Brown has been in custody at the Lewis County Jail since be-ing arrested following the crash, reported at 12:24 p.m. Aug. 16 in the 1900 block of South Gold Street adjacent to the Southwest
Washington Fairgrounds, where the fair was taking place at the time.
Deputy Prosecutor Will Hal-stead told the court that Brown was on his way to the Lewis County Law and Justice Center for a hearing on the April drug-possession charges stemming from an investigation into drug dealing.
Witnesses at the scene re-
ported seeing the vehicle Brown was driving traveling down Gold Street at approximately 35 miles per hour when it jumped the curb, drove on the sidewalk and hit Summer. Witnesses saw Brown’s vehicle stop and the vic-tim fall off the hood, according to court documents.
The vehicle’s windshield was shattered and caved in after the incident.
Summer was seriously in-jured and airlifted to Harbor-view Medical Center in Seattle.
“He is extremely lucky to be alive today,” Halstead said.
Police took Brown into cus-tody and he was interviewed by a drug recognition expert from the Washington State Patrol. Later, officers obtained a war-rant and took a sample of his blood.
The blood sample was sent to the state crime lab but the pros-ecutor’s office hasn’t yet seen the results, Halstead said. However, the drug recognition expert was prepared to testify as an expert witness that Brown was likely under the influence of a “central nervous system stimulant,” Hal-stead said.
Brown’s attorney, Jacob Clark, said had his client had his way, he would have pleaded guilty immediately.
“From the start, he was very remorseful,” Clark said.
Clark asked for a shorter sen-tence of 73 months, citing his client’s cooperation. Brown took an opportunity to apologize to the victim and his family.
However, Superior Court Judge Joely O’Rourke said she thought the prosecutor’s rec-ommendation of the top of the sentencing range was more ap-propriate.
“This is one of the most egre-gious vehicular assaults I’ve seen since I’ve been in Lewis County,” O’Rourke said.
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Ashley Jackson appeared in front of the court on behalf of her father, who was a victim of vehicular assault caused by Chris-
tian D. Brown, Wednesday afternoon in the Lewis County Law and Justice Center in Chehalis.
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graduated from Centralia College.“It’s nice to be back and see
my hometown,” she said. Brittany, 30, her husband
Sam Gill, 43, his father and their two daughters Amelia, 3, and Savannah, 1, were in Washing-ton earlier this week as part of their most recent trip back to the states for speaking engage-ments and to visit family and friends.
They speak on a variety of topics, from advice on being evangelical missionaries in a foreign country and their phi-losophy about the work, to in-formational speeches on culture and more.
“Our purpose is not to bash any religion,” Sam said.
“Through our lifestyle we want to show them who we are.”
WHILE THEY see much suffer-ing and poverty while working as missionaries in South Asia, the family also finds joy in the close-knit, welcoming and family-oriented culture they’ve found in Pakistan.
“I want my daughters to learn
those things,” Sam said. Brittany met Sam at Boise
Bible College. At the time, she was considering career paths as a singer and musician or as a worship leader.
“I also had a passion for the people overseas,” she said, re-calling a mission trip to India.
Sam already had experience as a missionary, and the couple began doing the work together after marrying in 2010.
“It was God’s unique calling for my life,” she said.
When they met, Sam and Brittany found they already had an interesting connection — the same man who converted Sam’s family in Pakistan to Christiani-ty also led Brittany’s grandfather to the faith.
Today, the couple’s non-de-nominational Christian mission focuses on improving the lives of the minority Christian popu-lation in Sam’s native Pakistan using education both for chil-dren and adults.
It’s a topic close to Sam’s heart. It was a missionary who convinced his father to send Sam to school.
“He was very serious about our education,” he said. “People still don’t have any idea what
education can do for them.”The Gills have to be very
careful about what they say and do as Christians in the 97 per-cent Muslim majority Pakistan, they said, and chose not to give the name of their mission and some details of their lives in or-der to protect themselves and ensure Brittany’s future ability to enter Pakistan.
While their work is danger-ous, the couple said they know through their faith that it’s worth the risk.
“When you have to follow Christ, it costs you something,” Sam said.
The mission has many roles, he said, ranging from “church planting,” or starting new church congregations, to run-ning a Christian school, advo-cating for women’s rights and providing Bible college classes and vocational education.
They run a sewing center to
give women practical job skills. There are few opportunities for women to work other than me-nial labor, they said.
“Once they get skilled they don’t have to work in a rich per-son’s house as a servant,” Sam said.
The vocational education gives the women a sense of self-worth and allows them to be in-dependent, they said.
While the mission’s school is a Christian school, non-Chris-tian children are welcome.
“Our purpose is not to con-vert you. When they have edu-cation, they will have an open mind,” Sam said.
Pakistan’s minority Chris-tian population mostly lives in extreme poverty, the Gills said.
“The only way to overcome poverty is education,” Brittany said.
Their school building is in a run-down area where basic sani-
tation is a problem, they said. The mission is raising money to construct a new building to house the school and its other functions.
They’ve also been able to help families through medical emergencies and after disasters.
Sam said missionaries in Pakistan need to understand the culture of the region and adjust their approach to promoting Christianity in a way that is re-spectful of that culture. They work hard to lead by example, he said.
“We need to think outside of the box,” he said. “We have to sacrifice our culture, we have to sacrifice our egos. Any obstacle we have to have removed.”
For more information or to schedule a speaking engage-ment, contact Sam and Brittany Gill at [email protected].
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Family Members Providing Emotional Boost for Lummi Shooting VictimBy The Bellingham Herald
As more family arrive in Las Vegas to support her, Melinda Brockie continues to improve.
Brockie, a Lummi Nation tribal member, was among the more than 500 people injured by a gunman during a Las Vegas country music festival on Sunday night. Brockie was shot in the right cheek, shattering her jaw, said Lona Johnson.
Johnson was also at the concert and is a member of the Nooksack Tribe. The shooting killed at least 59 people and is
considered the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
"Having her family here has helped," Johnson said. "Just last night (Monday night) when people were here she was more responsive."
Johnson said more than 30 family members had flown in on Monday and more were driving to see Brockie, 31, who remains in a Las Vegas hospital.
Financial support has also been coming in, both from the general public and other Pacific Northwest tribes. According to Johnson, examples include the Samish Tribe which has donated $1,000, while the chairman from the Yakama Nation donated air-plane miles to purchase flights for family. Allegiant Air has also coordinated free flights and through a partner secured hotel
rooms.As of Tuesday afternoon a
GoFundMe campaign for Brock-ie has raised more than $15,000, with the average donation under $50.
Brockie and her husband, Travis, are country music fans and the Route 91 Harvest Mu-sic Festival is one of the most popular, with more than 22,000 people attending at the time of the shooting. In a Facebook post on Monday, Travis Brockie said a first responder saved Melinda's life — the first responder was a concert-goer who took action while other paramedics worked on nearby victims.
Even with the family support, Johnson said they are expecting a long road to recovery that will include speech therapy.
Problematic Portable Toilet To Be Removed From Downtown OlympiaBy The Olympian
The Olympia City Council decided Tuesday to remove a portable toilet from the Com-mons at Fertile Ground after receiving a letter of complaint from the nonprofit’s president.
The toilet was installed at the site, at the intersection of Adams Street and Ninth Avenue, early this year after the council ap-proved a plan to increase the num-ber of 24-hour toilets downtown.
But Chris van Daalen, presi-dent of the Friends of the Com-mons at Fertile Ground, wrote
in a letter that the toilet was a “failed experiment.”
“Unfortunately, the port-a-potty has attracted undesired behaviors and elements to our property that have frankly been disruptive and damaging to the positive, beautiful, community-oriented space we maintain here,” van Daalen wrote.
Since the toilet was installed, Fertile Grounds has experienced an increase in smoking, loitering and drug use, he wrote. Large amounts of trash were left be-hind by visitors. Abuse of the toilet itself often left it unusable. People near the toilet were some-times physically and verbally vi-olent — including uttering racial slurs, he said.
The council briefly discussed the decision during its Tuesday night meeting.
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THE SPOKEN WORD“You stick around long enough and
that stuff happens, I guess.”
BOB WOLLAN,
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assistant John Moorhead’s Rochester team
BLACK HILLS TOPS TIGERS
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Prep Football
By Aaron VanTuyl
It’s homecoming for the Bearcats and a homecoming, sort of, for their head coach.
Bob Wollan was Rochester’s head coach from 1996 to 2002, before a three-year stint in Pull-man during which his Grey-hounds won a 2A state title.
And on his staff in Pull-man? First-year Rochester coach John Moorhead, who was going through college at Washing-ton State University at the time. They’ll be on opposing sidelines Friday night, when the Warriors (2-3) visit Chehalis (4-1) in an Ev-ergreen 2A Conference matchup.
“He came on board and helped us out, and lo and behold,” Wollan said of Moorhead. “You stick around long enough and that stuff happens, I guess.”
The Warriors are 2-3, with wins over 1A squads Charles Wright and Tenino, which is al-ready two wins above their total from a year ago. Moorhead is the ninth head coach in Rochester since Wollan headed east.
“Obviously they’ve gone through a lot of transition, and I think (Moorhead) is doing a re-ally good job,” Wollan said. “Just talking to him, he’s committed to riding this thing out and turn-ing it around. You’ve got to start somewhere.”
Bryce Lollar, a 6-foot-1, 170-pound junior, quarterbacks the offense.
“I really like their quarter-back. He’s athletic, he can throw the ball, run the ball, and then they’re running the option now,” Wollan said. “When we first started there, we started out run-ning the option and just kind of evolving it, and thought that was the place to start when we were just getting that thing going, and I think he’s doing a great job.”
W.F. West, meanwhile, is coming off a 38-7 win over Ab-erdeen in its EvCo opener that improved its record to 4-1 and moved the Cats up to No. 8 in the state poll. That record, though — which includes a tight loss to un-defeated 3A Lake Washington — doesn’t mean things are all gravy in the Mint City.
“We just feel like we’re no-where near where we need to be at this point, in a lot of different phases in our game,” Wollan said. “There’s a lot of coaching going on, a lot of decision mak-ing going on, and a lot of compe-tition within our team right now to get on the field and be the guy. We’ve still got more questions than answers.”
Starting linebacker/receiver Dakota Hawkins will miss a sec-ond straight week with an injury, and running back Gabe O’Neil is out for the remainder of the season. Quarterback Nole Wol-lan, though, is recovered from an injury that limited him in the Aberdeen win, and sophomores Jaiyden Camoza (running back) and Leandre Gaines (tight end) have been bright spots through-out the season.
“They’re varsity players, and they’ve got unique talents for young guys,” Wollan said. “Every day is a learning opportunity for
Week 6 Preview: Bearcats Host Rochester in Homecoming Matchup
please see PREVIEW, page S3
Tuesday’s 2A Girls Soccer
MATT BAIDE / [email protected]
W.F. West’s Madi Mencke (right) shoots a penalty kick as Rochester goalkeeper Madison Bates reacts during an Evergreen 2A Conference girls soccer match on Tues-
day in Rochester. Mencke scored on the play.
HAT TRICK: Freshman Scores Three in Bearcats’ 4-1 EvCo Win Over Warriors
By Matt Baide
ROCHESTER — Madi Mencke scored two goals in the first half and added another in the second, recording a hat trick to lead the Bearcats past the Warriors 4-1 in an Evergreen 2A Conference girls soccer match here on Tuesday.
“I really liked the way the girls played tonight. We’re still im-proving, which is exciting to see,” W.F. West coach Allen Ander-son said. “I love our movement going forward. We’re doing a much better job of attacking as a team going forward and finding those combinations.
“We had some great overlaps out of our midfielders tonight and created some great oppor-tunities from the flanks which
is what we talked about what we wanted to do tonight,” he added.
Mencke got the Bearcats on the board in the 13th minute, then scored again in the 26th minute. Alida Ellingson fired a shot that was blocked, but the rebound came to Mencke on the back post for an open goal. Min-utes before halftime, W.F. West scored again, as a foul in the box by Rochester created a penalty kick that Kiara Steen buried for a 3-0 lead at halftime.
“I thought we played a lot bet-ter in the second half. We gave up a couple easy ones in the first half and you just can’t do that with a competitive team like that,” Rochester coach John Hayes said. “I just talked to the girls about having heart and playing for your school and not quitting and you’ve got to go after it for 40 minutes and they did that.”
The Warriors didn’t allow the shutout, scoring in the 64th minute on a goal from Kiah Horger.
W.F. West’s Kiara Steen (right) heads the ball in a win at Rochester on Tuesday
night.
Mencke Kicks W.F. West Past Rochester
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2A Boys Tennis
MATT BAIDE / [email protected]
W.F. West’s Javier Falero
hits a shot against Centra-
lia’s Zach Kaiser during an
Evergreen 2A Conference
boys tennis match in
Chehalis on Wednesday.
By The Chronicle
Centralia ended the regular season on Wednesday against their twin city rival, but the Bearcats made sure that season ended on a losing note as W.F. West won 4-2 in an Evergreen 2A Conference boys tennis match in Chehalis.
The match of the day was the No. 1 singles match of W.F. West’s Javier Falero and Cen-tralia’s Zach Kaiser. The match was a marathon of almost three hours, with Falero winning the first set 6-4, and taking the second set 7-6, with an 11-9 tie-breaker.
W.F. West’s Luke Walters needed three sets to defeat Jo-
sef Kilhoffer, winning 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (7-3). Cade Cameron helped the Bearcats sweep the singles matches, winning 7-5, 6-4.
Centralia’s top doubles pair-ing of Ben Corwin and Ryan Mack completed an undefeated season, defeating Luke Schwarz and Andrew Pak, 6-0, 6-2.
“It was a great match today, always a competitive opponent in Chehalis. Overall pleased with the boys in our last match of the season,” Centralia coach Keith Hopkins said. “
Tiger’s Parker Johnson and Brandon Wilkerson took down Cole Nishiyama and Caleb
Bearcats Edge Tigers
please see TENNIS, page S4
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THURSDAY, Oct. 5Pro baseballTBA FS1 or MLB — AL Division Series, Game 1 FS1 or MLB — AL Division Series, Game 1NFL Football5:25 p.m. CBS — New England at Tampa BayNCAA Football4:30 p.m. ESPNU — Alcorn at Alabama St.5 p.m. ESPN — Louisville at N.C. StateGolf5 a.m. GOLF — European PGA Tour, Dunhill Links Championship2:30 p.m. GOLF — PGA Tour, Safeway OpenNHL Hockey4:30 p.m. NBCSN — Minnesota at Detroit7 p.m. NBCSN — Philadelphia at Los AngelesFIFA World Cup Soccer8:45 a.m. FS2 — 2018 qualifying, Azerbajian vs. Czech Republic 11:30 a.m. FS2 — 2018 qualifying, England vs. Slovenia NCAA Soccer4 p.m. PAC-12 — Washington St. at Oregon, Women7 p.m. PAC-12 — San Diego St. at WashingtonNBA basketball preseason4:30 p.m. NBA — Miami at Brooklyn7 p.m. NBA — Toronto at Portland
FRIDAY, Oct. 6Pro baseball11 a.m. FS1 — AL Division Series, Red Sox at Astros, Game 22 p.m. MLB — AL Division Series, Yankees/Twins at Indians, Game 24:30 p.m. TBS — NL Division Series, Cubs at Nationals, Game 17:30 p.m. TBS — NL Division Series, Diamondbacks/Rock-ies at Dodgers, Game 1NCAA Football4 p.m. ESPN — Memphis at UConn4:30 p.m. ESPNU — Morgan St. at SC State7:15 p.m. ESPN — Boise St. at BYUGolf5 a.m. GOLF — European PGA Tour, Dunhill Links
Championship2:30 p.m. GOLF — PGA Tour, Safeway OpenNBA basketball preseason4 p.m. NBA — Boston at PhiladelphiaFIFA World Cup Soccer6:20 a.m. FS1 — 2018 qual., Mexico vs. Trinidad and To-bago11:30 a.m. FS2 — 2018 qual., Italy vs. Macedonia4 p.m. ESPN2 — 2018 qual., United States vs. PanamaNCAA Volleyball6 p.m. PAC-12 — Colorado at Washington St.8 p.m. PAC-12 — Utah at WashingtonAuto Racing10:30 a.m. NBCSN — NASCAR Monster Series, Bank of America 500 prac.Noon NBCSN — NASCAR Xfinity Series, Drive for the Cure 300 prac.3 p.m. NBCSN — NASCAR Xfinity Series, Drive for the Cure 300 qual.4 p.m. NBCSN — NASCAR Monster Series, Bank of America 500, qualifying11 p.m. NBCSN — Formula One, Japanese Grand Prix, qualifying
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SCOREBOARDPrepsLocal Prep Schedules
THURSDAY, Oct. 5
Girls Soccer
Black Hills at W.F. West, 7 p.m.
Rochester at Tumwater, 7 p.m.
Centralia at Aberdeen, 7 p.m.
Volleyball
Toutle Lake at Toledo, 7 p.m.
Mossyrock at Onalaska, 7 p.m.
Winlock at Wahkiakum, 7 p.m.
Napavine at Morton-White Pass, at Randle, 7
p.m.
Pe Ell at Adna, 7 p.m.
Tumwater at Rochester, 7 p.m.
Aberdeen at Centralia, 7 p.m.
W.F. West at Black Hills, 7 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 6
Football
Centralia at Tumwater, 7 p.m.
Rochester at W.F. West, 7 p.m.
Forks at Tenino, 7 p.m.
Morton-White Pass at Neah Bay, 4 p.m.
Adna at Rainier, 7 p.m.
Onalaska at Chief Leschi, 7 p.m.
Life Christian at Napavine, 7 p.m.
Mossyrock at Toledo, 7 p.m.
Toutle Lake at Winlock, 7 p.m.
Pe Ell-Willapa Valley at South Bend, 7 p.m.
College Volleyball
Centralia at Green River, 7 p.m.
SATURDAY, Oct. 7
Cross Country
Centralia at Bill Kehoe South Sound Invite (at
St. Martin’s), 11 a.m.
Adna at Nike Hole in the Wall Invitational (at
Lakewood), 9 a.m.
College Soccer
Centralia at Grays Harbor, TBA
Local Results
Tuesday’s Results
Boys Tennis
At Eatonville
W.F. WEST 6, EATONVILLE 0
Singles
1. Javier Falero (W) def. Luka Erkomaish-
dilli, 6-2, 6-2
2. Luke Walters (W) def. Gjori Nykreim, 6-3,
6-4
3. Gabe Cuestas (W) def. Ladd Wikander,
6-0, 6-2
Doubles
1. Luke Schwarz/Andrew Pak (W) def.
Braiden Hendrickson/Quade Richards, 4-6,
6-2, 6-3
2. Cole Nishiyama/Caleb Walters (W) def.
Troy Wood/Trent Wohlgemuth, 6-0, 6-3
3. Aaron Zylstra/Dakota Lopez (W) def.
Cobey Uhls/Toya Yagi, 6-2, 4-6, 6-0
Wednesday’s Results
At Chehalis
W.F. WEST 4, CENTRALIA 2
Singles
1. Javier Falero (WFW) def. Zach Kaiser, 6-4,
7-6 (11-9)
2. Luke Walters (WFW) def. Josef Kilhoffer,
6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (7-3)
3. Cade Cameron (WFW) def. Johan Lopez,
7-5, 6-4
Doubles
1. Ben Corwin/Ryan Mack (CENT) def. Luke
Schwarz/Andrew Pak, 6-0, 6-2
2. Parker Johnson/Brandon Wilkerson
(CENT) def. Cole Nishiyama/Caleb Walters,
7-5, 0-6, 6-0
3. Justin Schweisow/Gabe Cuestas (WFW)
def. Sawyer Kassel/McKiernan Jones, 6-2, 6-3
Golf
Boys Golf
At Newaukum Valley Golf Course
W.F. WEST 198, CENTRALIA 248
W.F. West (198) — Andrew Kim 35, Jaron
Howell 41, Bryce Dobyns 39, Wyatt Magnu-
son 48, Brady Hinds 44, Jordan Waring 39
Centralia (248) — Rudy Voetberg 41, Brett
Wasson 43, Nolan Rice 49, Jackson Buzzard
57, Luke Lennox 58
At Riverside Golf Course
TUMWATER 219, ROCHESTER 260
Rochester (260) — Marcus Ashton 51,
Logan Fry 54, Braden Norquist 53, Ethan
Worden 49, Colton Winters 53, Marcus Cor-
rento 60
Tumwater (219) — Chase Fisk 41, Parker
Mercer 40, Zach Gruginski 41, Ty Herron 53,
Wes Swick 47, Tyler Thompson 50
Monday’s Results
At Tumwater Valley Golf Course
W.F. WEST 216, TUMWATER 220
W.F. West (216) — Andrew Kim 51, Jaron
Howell 44, Bryce Dobyns 45, Wyatt Magnu-
son 44, Brady Hinds 39, Jordan Waring 44
Tumwater (220) — Chase Fisk 37, Parker
Mercer 44, Zach Gruginski 42, Ty Herron 48,
Wes Swick 49, Tyler Thompson 49
Washington Prep Football Poll
By The Associated Press
Class 4A
Team Rec. Pts.
1. Camas (7) 5-0 88
2. Woodinville (2) 5-0 80
3. Graham-Kapowsin 5-0 70
4. Richland 5-0 67
5. Gonzaga Prep 4-1 53
6. Monroe 5-0 47
7. Chiawana 4-1 32
8. Puyallup 5-0 18
9. Union 4-1 13
10. Auburn Riverside 5-0 8
(tie) Bothell 3-2 8
Others receiving 6 or more points: none.
Class 3A
1. Eastside Catholic (8) 5-0 89
2. O’Dea (1) 5-0 81
3. Kamiakin 5-0 72
4. Ferndale 5-0 59
5. Bellevue 4-1 46
†(tie) Lincoln 4-1 46
7. Timberline 5-0 35
8. Mt. Spokane 4-1 33
9. Oak Harbor 5-0 22
10. Edmonds-Woodway 4-1 7
Others receiving 6 or more points: none.
Class 2A
1. Archbishop Murphy (9) 4-1 99
2. West Valley (Spokane) 5-0 84
3. Hockinson 5-0 78
4. Tumwater (1) 3-2 59
5. Fife 5-0 56
6. Liberty (Issaquah) 4-1 53
7. North Kitsap 5-0 46
8. W. F. West 4-1 33
9. Selah 4-0 16
10. Lakewood 4-1 10
Others receiving 6 or more points: none.
Class 1A
1. Royal (10) 5-0 100
2. Connell 4-0 88
3. Meridian 5-0 73
4. Montesano 5-0 72
5. Colville 4-1 54
6. Nooksack Valley 4-1 44
7. Mount Baker 4-1 38
8. Cascade Christian 4-1 27
9. Zillah 4-1 20
10. Okanogan 4-0 19
Others receiving 6 or more points: LaCenter
11.
Class 2B
1. Kalama (9) 5-0 90
2. Liberty (Spangle) 5-0 77
3. Napavine 4-1 75
4. Rainier 5-0 51
5. Adna 4-1 48
6. Colfax 4-1 44
7. Toledo 3-2 40
8. Northwest Christian (Colbert) 4-1 23
9. Concrete 5-0 22
10. Pe Ell/Willapa Valley 3-2 16
Others receiving 6 or more points: none.
Class 1B
1. Odessa (5) 4-0 77
2. Sunnyside Christian (3) 5-0 75
3. Almira/Coulee-Hartline 4-1 63
4. Lummi 4-1 32
5. Cusick 4-1 21
Others receiving 6 or more points: Naselle
19. Republic 19. Quilcene 8.
Washington State Volleyball Rankings
Compiled by the Washington State Volleyball
Coaches Association
CLASS 4A
1. Auburn Riverside
2. West Valley of Yakima
3. Skyline
4. Kentwood
5. Puyallup
6. Camas
7. Curtis
8. Gonzaga Prep
9. Kennedy Catholic
10. Union
CLASS 3A
1. Mt. Spokane
2. Lakeside of Seattle
3. Mercer Island
4. Ferndale
5. Kamiakin
6. Capital
7. Squalicum
8. Oak Harbor
9. Stanwood
10. Prairie
CLASS 2A
1. Burlington-Edison
2. Tumwater
3. Lynden
4. Ellensburg
5. Woodland
6. Ridgefield
7. White River
8. Fife
9. Black Hills
10. North Kitsap
CLASS 1A
1. Lakeside of Nine Mile Falls
2. Lynden Christian
3. Cascade of Leavenworth
4. King’s
5. Freeman
6. Castle Rock
7. South Whidbey
8. Granger
9. Naches Valley
10. Cascade Christian
CLASS 2B
1. Napavine
2. Mossyrock
3. Kalama
4. Life Christian
5. Northwest Christian
6. LaConner
7. Colfax
8. Toutle Lake
9. Brewster
10. Wahkiakum
CLASS 1B
1. Oakesdale
2. Pomeroy
3. Colton
4. Almira-Coulee/Hartline
5. Sunnyside Christian
6. Riverside Christian
7. Christian Faith
8. Lacrosse-Washtucna-Kahlotus
9. Selkirk
10. Pateros
College FootballFBS College Football Rankings
By The Associated Press
Week 5 / Oct. 1
Team Rec. Pts.
1 Alabama (44) 1,506 5-0
2 Clemson (17) 1,475 5-0
3 Oklahoma 1,392 4-0
4 Penn State 1,325 5-0
5 Georgia 1,237 5-0
6 Washington 1,218 5-0
7 Michigan 1,115 4-0
8 TCU 1,079 4-0
9 Wisconsin 1,028 4-0
10 Ohio State 1,016 4-1
11 Washington State 980 5-0
12 Auburn 802 4-1
13 Miami (FL) 782 3-0
14 USC 713 4-1
15 Oklahoma State 664 4-1
16 Virginia Tech 549 4-1
17 Louisville 507 4-1
18 South Florida 440 5-0
19 San Diego State 373 5-0
20 Utah 358 4-0
T21 Notre Dame 349 4-1
T21 Florida 349 3-1
23 West Virginia 221 3-1
24 North Carolina State 149 4-1
25 UCF 120 3-0
Others receiving votes: Oregon 19,
Florida St. 15, Texas Tech 10, Georgia Tech 10,
Stanford 8, Navy 7, Kansas St. 3, Texas A&M 2,
Memphis 2, Troy 1, Maryland 1
NFLNFL Standings
American Conference
AFC East W L T PCT
Buffalo Bills 3 1 0 .750
New York Jets 2 2 0 .500
N.E Patriots 2 2 0 .500
Miami Dolphins 1 2 0 .333
AFC North
Pittsburgh Steelers 3 1 0 .750
Baltimore Ravens 2 2 0 .500
Cincinnati Bengals 1 3 0 .250
Cleveland Browns 0 4 0 .000
AFC South
Jacksonville Jaguars 2 2 0 .500
Houston Texans 2 2 0 .500
Tennessee Titans 2 2 0 .500
Indianapolis Colts 1 3 0 .250
AFC West
Kansas City Chiefs 4 0 0 1.000
Denver Broncos 3 1 0 .750
Oakland Raiders 2 2 0 .500
L.A. Chargers 0 4 0 .000
National Football Conference
NFC East
Philadelphia Eagles 3 1 0 .750
Dallas Cowboys 2 2 0 .500
Wash. Redskins 2 2 0 .500
New York Giants 0 4 0 .000
NFC North
Detroit Lions 3 1 0 .750
Green Bay Packers 3 1 0 .750
Minnesota Vikings 2 2 0 .500
Chicago Bears 1 3 0 .250
NFC South
Carolina Panthers 3 1 0 .750
Atlanta Falcons 3 1 0 .750
T.B. Buccaneers 2 1 0 .667
New Orleans Saints 2 2 0 .500
NFC West
Los Angeles Rams 3 1 0 .750
Seattle Seahawks 2 2 0 .500
Arizona Cardinals 2 2 0 .500
San Francisco 49ers 0 4 0 .000
Week 5
Thursday’s Game
New England at Tampa Bay, 5:25 p.m.
The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017 • Sports 3SPORTS
THE CHRONICLE’S GRID PICKS OF THE WEEK
This Week’s Games
Our “Experts”
Aaron VanTuyl
Sports Editor
51-12 season
Matt Baide
Sports Reporter
49-14 season
Eric Schwartz
Editor
43-20 season
As the Grid Picks calendar flips to October, Sports Editor and Kid Rock enthusiast Aaron VanTuyl is in the lead with four weeks left in the regular season. But Lord of the Rings character Jordan Nailon and Michael Cera lookalike Matt Baide are two games back with lots of games left. Not so sadly, Eric “How come Eastern isn’t on the grid picks board every week” Schwartz has fallen a bit off the pace, but has a chance to still make a Tom Brady “28-3” comeback. The guest guesser, not used to being this competitive this late in the season, is tied with Baide and Nailon. This week’s guest guesser is none other than the coach of many trades and current Rochester boys and girls golf coach and teacher Kyle Sprague, who is determined to try and keep the guest up there with the “experts”.
Tumwater 29,
Centralia 7
Tumwater 35,
Centralia 13
Tumwater 45,
Centralia 20
Tumwater 38,
Centralia 16
Tumwater 45,
Centralia 21
W.F. West 41,
Rochester 8
W.F. West 47,
Rochester 14
W.F. West 38,
Rochester 14
W.F. West 24,
Rochester 10
Rochester 8,
W.F. West 7
Forks 21,
Tenino 15
Forks 31,
Tenino 10
Forks 18,
Tenino 17
Forks 40,
Tenino 20
Forks 35,
Tenino 12
MWP 28,
Neah Bay 18
MWP 35,
Neah Bay 34
Neah Bay 27,
MWP 26
Neah Bay 58,
MWP 56
MWP 42,
Neah Bay 14
Adna 35,
Rainier 21
Adna 38,
Rainier 21
Adna 21,
Rainier 20
Adna 20,
Rainier 18
Adna 28,
Rainier 24
Onalaska 50,
Chief Leschi 6
Onalaska 58,
Chief Leschi 7
Onalaska 40,
Chief Leschi 3
Onalaska 28,
Chief Leschi 4
Onalaska 56,
Chief Leschi 6
Napavine 40,
Life Christian 0
Napavine 35,
Life Christian6
Napavine 40,
Life Christian 0
Napavine 55,
Life Christian 0
Napavine 52,
Life Christian 0
Toledo 41,
Mossyrock 6
Toledo 42,
Mossyrock 7
Toledo 32,
Mossyrock 7
Toledo 34,
Mossyrock 8
Toledo 17,
Mossyrock 0
Toutle Lake 16,
Winlock 3
Winlock 28,
Toutle Lake 21
Toutle Lake 14,
Winlock 13
Toutle Lake 10,
Winlock 9
Toutle Lake 20,
Winlock 12
South Bend 35,
PWV 33
PWV 35,
South Bend 28
PWV 26,
South Bend 15
PWV 13,
South Bend 12
South Bend 42,
PWV 13
WSU 33,
Oregon 21
WSU 38,
Oregon 24
WSU 32,
Oregon 31
WSU 24,
Oregon 12
WSU 38,
Oregon 28
UW 45,
Cal 22
UW 41,
Cal 38
UW 48,
Cal 45
UW 40,
Cal 21
UW 45,
Cal 10
EWU 41,
UC Davis 20
EWU 49,
UC Davis 28
EWU 56,
UC Davis 40
EWU 42,
UC Davis 38
EWU 24,
UC Davis 13
LA Rams 16,
Seattle 10
Seattle 28,
LA Rams 27
LA Rams 32,
Seattle 28
Seattle 35,
LA Rams 34
Seattle 24,
LA Rams 20
Kyle Sprague
Guest
49-14 season
Jordan Nailon
Sports Reporter
49-14 season
GUEST GUESSER
Centralia (1-4) at Tumwater (3-2)
Rochester (2-3) at W.F. West (4-1)
Forks (4-1) at Tenino (1-3)
Morton-WP (2-3) at Neah Bay (2-3)
Adna (4-1) at Rainier (5-0)
Onalaska (3-2) at Chief Leschi (0-5)
Life Christian (1-4) at Napavine (4-1)
Mossyrock (0-5) at Toledo (3-2)
Toutle Lake (1-4) at Winlock (1-4)
Pe Ell-WV (3-2) at South Bend (5-0)
WSU (5-0) at Oregon (4-1)
Cal (3-2) at UW (5-0)
Eastern Washington (3-2) at UC Davis (3-2)
Seattle (2-2) at LA Rams (3-1)
them, and a learning opportuni-ty for us as coaches to figure out ways to get them the ball, and how to incorporate them into the whole system.”
The offensive line, Wol-lan added, played well as a unit against the Bobcats.
“I think pretty much every-body in the stadium knew we were going to run the ball at a certain point,” he said, “and even though Aberdeen knew and was loaded up defensively for us, I thought we executed and got on people and did a nice job of pushing. As far as in the run game, we took some steps, for sure.”
W.F. West and Rochester kick off at 7 p.m. Friday night at Bearcat Stadium in Chehalis.
Centralia at Tumwater
The Thunderbirds aren’t sporting the gaudy record they’ve become accustomed to at this point in the season, but that’s certainly not to say they aren’t still a state power.
Tumwater hosts Centralia on Friday night in an Evergreen 2A Conference game, boasting the No. 4 ranking in the state poll with a 3-2 record — though those two losses were to Bellev-ue (ranked No. 6 in the 3A poll) and Union (ranked No. 10 in the 4A poll).
“They’re typical Tumwater,” said Centralia coach Jeremy Thibault. “They’re big, strong, fast and well-coached. They’ve played probably the toughest nonleague schedule in the state.”
The Thunderbirds are av-eraging just under 40 points a game in their first year under head coach Bill Beattie, who was hired to take over for Sid Otton, the winningest prep coach in state history, in January.
Elias Polito, a 6-foot-1, 170-pound senior, directs the Thunderbird offense, though Dylan Paine has been its most productive weapon. The sopho-more has run for over 700 yards this season, with 178 yards on 25 carries and three touchdowns last week in a blowout of Steila-coom.
The Tigers, meanwhile, have been working this week to maxi-mize their strengths — namely, getting the ball in the hands of running back Jose Pineda. The senior has run for 543 yards and four touchdowns, with 100 receiving yards and two more scores through five games.
“I think he might have had like 15 (carries) in a row Friday, and he just wanted more and came up a half-inch short (in an overtime loss to Black Hills),” Thibault said. “But we’re going to try to get him in different ar-eas. … Hopefully we can isolate him and let him run a little bit.”
The Tigers are working through a variety of injury situ-ations, but the key, Thibault said,
is in the mental approach.“They’re physically capable.
It’s a mental thing,” he said. “We told them not to hold their heads down and assume Tumwater’s going to beat us.”
Centralia (1-4) and Tumwa-ter (3-2) kick off at 7 p.m. Friday at Tumwater District Stadium.
Around the Area
Tenino looks for its first win on its black turf Friday night with upstart Forks (4-1) visiting for a 1A Evergreen League con-test. … Morton-White Pass (2-3) heads north to face Neah Bay (2-3), an eight-man squad fielding 11 for Friday’s nonleague game.
… No. 5 Adna heads to No. 4 Rainier in the premier SWW 2B League Mountain Division game of the week. The Moun-taineers (5-0) are coming off wins over MWP and Onalaska, while the Pirates (4-1) are com-ing off a loss to Napavine. … Onalaska (3-2) heads to Puyal-lup to face winless Chief Leschi in a Mountain Division game, while No. 3 Napavine (4-1) hosts Life Christian (1-4) in another Mountain Division matchup. … No. 7 Toledo (3-2) hosts Mossy-rock (0-5) in a SWW 2B League River Division game, while in other River Division action Tou-tle Lake heads to Winlock for a battle between 1-4 teams. … No. 10 Pe Ell-Willapa Valley (3-2) heads out Willapa Harbor to play undefeated South Bend in a SWW 2B League Coastal Divi-sion showdown.
PreviewContinued from Sports 1
Wednesday’s College Volleyball
Durand Helps Centralia Cruise Past TacomaBy The Chronicle
TACOMA — The Blazers snapped a five-game losing streak here on Wednesday, defeating Tacoma 3-0 in an NWAC West Region volley-ball match.
Centralia easily won the first set 25-7. The Blazers were tested in the second set, but prevailed 28-26, and closed out the match with a 25-11 third set win.
Autumn Durand led Cen-tralia with 12 kills and 11 digs,
and Peyton Timmons had a team-high 23 assists. Nicole Duryea led the Blazers with 13 digs.
Centralia (12-8, 1-4 re-gion) travels to Auburn to face Green River on Friday in a West Region matchup.
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Walters, 7-5, 0-6, 6-0. W.F. West’s Justin Schweisow
and Gabe Cuestas won against Sawyer Kassel and McKiernan Jones, 6-2, 6-3.
Centralia and W.F. West will conclude a rained out match from earlier in the season on Fri-day in Centralia.
Sports 4 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017SPORTS
By The Chronicle
Makenzie Moore picked up 10 kills, and W.F. West put away Rochester in three sets, 25-18, 25-21, 25-15, on Tuesday night in Evergreen 2A Conference volley-ball action in Chehalis.
Moore, a junior outside hitter, added five aces. Ashlee Vadala pitched in with eight kills, Haley Simmons chipped in 21 assists, and Ashlyn Whalen notched 10 digs for the winners.
“I think it was good that the girls were able to come out with
the win,” Bearcat coach Emily Mora said. “I don’t think it as the best play of the season, but it’s good.”
The match should motivate the players for Thursday’s EvCo matchup with Black Hills, Mora added.
“They’re going in with a stron-ger mentality,” she said, “and to-night was good to build that de-sire to go out and compete at our highest level.”
Emily Morris led Roches-ter with three kills, and Britney
Rogers added two. Paige Win-ter picked up three stuff-blocks, and Lexie Jones led the Warriors with 10 digs.
“I felt like we played aggressive against them,” Rochester coach Wendy Hawes said. “I was proud of the girls. It wasn’t a game that we walked away from being let down.”
W.F. West (4-3, 2-1 league) faces Black Hills on the road Thursday, while Rochester (3-6, 0-3 league) hosts Tumwater on Thursday.
Black Hills Too Much for Centralia
TUMWATER — The Wolves made short work of Centralia here Tuesday, sweeping the Ti-gers 25-11, 25-11, 25-13 in an Evergreen 2A Conference volley-ball match.
Chelsea Petrino led the Ti-gers with seven kills, and tallied 10 digs while serving 7 of 7 with a pair of aces.
Rachel Wilkerson had three
kills and nine digs, and Mcken-na Smith added three kills.
“Black Hills is a really good team. I thought we were going to compete a little better with them than we did tonight,” Centralia coach Neil Sharp said, “and I know the girls are disappointed, but we have some work to do.
“The good news is I know this team will come ready to fight back, and we’re just going to keep getting better,” he added.
Centralia (12-4, 1-2 league) hosts Aberdeen on Thursday.
Tuesday’s 2A Volleyball
Bearcats Sweep Rochester in Evergreen 2A Conference Match
By The Chronicle
MOSSYROCK — Mossy-rock rebounded from a loss a day earlier, defeating Pe Ell 3-0 in a Central 2B League volleyball match here on Tuesday.
The Vikings won each set 25-8, 25-9 and 25-7.
Faith Mulligan led the Vi-kings in kills and Mossyrock coach Alex Nelson said Paige Moorcroft and Heather Ed-gar both had great nights hit-ting. The Vikings served 97 percent as a team, with eight players recording 100 percent serving. All 12 players on Mossyrock contributed to the win, Nelson said.
“It was fun to see some of the younger kids coming in and get a chance. We play at home, it’s nice, it’s good to go right back into another game because it was a disappoint-ing loss,” Nelson said.
Pe Ell’s Anna Nacht and Presley Peterson each served 100 percent in the match.
“I think they got in our head a little early,” Pe Ell coach Karie Cleveland said.
“We had a hard time putting stuff together from then on. We had lots of little errors. We just looked a bit off today.”
Mossyrock (5-1, 3-0 league) travels to Onalaska on Thursday for a league match while Pe Ell (0-6, 0-4 league) travels to face Adna on Thurs-day in a C2BL contest.
Napavine Sweeps Toutle Lake
NAPAVINE — The Tigers remained undefeated here on Tuesday, defeating Tou-tle Lake 3-0 in a Central 2B League volleyball match.
The first two sets were close, with Napavine win-ning 25-21 and 25-22. But the Tigers found a rhythm in the third set and closed the match with a 25-11 third set.
Ada Williams served 100 percent with three aces, nine assists and three kills, and Mollie Olson also served 100 percent with seven aces, nine kills, three block kills and 12 digs for the Tigers.
Napavine’s Melissa Lee re-corded 11 kills and Madelynn Thompson served 100 percent with and played great defense, Napavine coach Monica Dai-ley said.
“We had a really hard time getting started and the first two games really showed that. We were not firing on all cylinders tonight. Tonight was definitely slow moving,” Dailey said. “That third game, they had picked up the pace and were playing smart and it was a good way to end the night.”
Napavine (8-0, 4-0 league) faces Morton-White Pass on Thursday in a Central 2B League match in Randle.
Kalama Tops AdnaKALAMA — The defend-
ing state champions were too much for the Pirates, as Ka-lama won 3-0 in a Central 2B League volleyball match here on Tuesday.
Kalama won each set 25-19, 25-11 and 25-18.
Adna coach Wendie Dot-son noted the great defense and serving of Anna Jones and Darian Humphrey, and commended the blocking of Adison Stewart and Tori Lange.
“They’re rebuilding but they’re a solid team. Their coach is very good at what she does,” Dotson said. “She gets those kids inspired. They are all over the place. They defi-nitely work for every point they get and they deserved ev-ery point they earned. Just an excellent program.”
Adna (2-6, 2-3 league) is at home on Thursday against Pe Ell in a C2BL match.
Morton-White Pass Beats Rainier in Three
RAINIER — The Timber-wolves increased their margin of victory in each set, beating Rainier 25-19, 25-17, 25-13 here Tuesday night in Central 2B League volleyball action.
Carly King had eight as-sists, 11 kills and 10 aces, and Hannah Smathers added eight assists.
Delanie Hannah chipped in with four kills for the win-ners.
“The girls did a really good job of pushing each set, do-ing a little better and hold-ing them to a few less points,” MWP coach Tammy Kelly said.
Morton-White Pass (3-4, 2-2 league) hosts Napavine in Randle on Thursday.
Tuesday’s 2B Volleyball
Mossyrock Bounces Back, Beats Pe Ell
TennisContinued from Sports 1
MATT BAIDE / [email protected]
Centralia’s Zach Kaiser hits a shot
to W.F.West’s Javier Falero during
an Evergreen 2A Conference
boys tennis match in Chehalis on
Wednesday.
Wednesday’s 2A Cross Country
By The Chronicle
ROCHESTER — Rochester had an individual win each race, but Centralia won the boys and girls team titles in an Evergreen 2A Conference dual cross coun-try meet here on Wednesday.
Rochester’s Michala Lowry (22:08) won the girls race and was followed by Centralia’s Makayla Erickson (22:32) in sec-ond place and Brynna Rooklidge (23:24) finished in third.
The Tiger’s Tawnee Craig (23:56) finished in fourth and Kendra Sutton (23:58) placed fifth.
On the boys side, Kelin Pasko (16:13) placed first for the War-riors. Centralia’s Vance Voetberg (17:17) took second place and teammate Daniel Morales (17:33) earned third place.
William Brown (18:11) placed fourth and Simon Stehr (18:18) finished fifth for the Tigers, and Rochester’s Jared Winters (18:36) ended in sixth.
Rochester is back in action on Wednesday at Aberdeen in an EvCo dual meet. Centralia races again on Saturday, traveling to St. Martin’s University for the Bill Kehoe South Sound Invite.
W.F. West Girls Earn Win Over Black Hills
TUMWATER — The W.F. West girls earned a win against Black Hills in an Evergreen 2A Conference dual cross country meet here on Wednesday.
Black Hills’ Shea Bolton (21:10) took the individual title
for the girls. The highest Bearcat finisher was Mya Davis (23:13) in third place. Teammates Sa-vannah Johnson (24:01) ended in fourth, Rachel Russell (24:07) took fifth place. W.F. West’s Xy-lia Warner (24:17.55) and Olivia Braun (24:17.85) came down to the wire for sixth and seventh place.
In the boys race, Black Hills’ Pearse Popchock (17:04) won the race. W.F. West’s highest finisher was Francisco Lima (17:39) in third, and Sonny Holub (17:51) was close behind Lima in fourth place. Myles Johnston (18:32) was the other Bearcat in the top 10, finishing in ninth.
W.F. West is back on the course next Wednesday, travel-ing north to face twin city rival Centralia in an EvCo dual meet.
Wednesday’s 2A Boys Golf
W.F. West Defeats CentraliaBy The Chronicle
W.F. West’s Andrew Kim shot a 35 to earn medalist honors and lead the Bearcats to a 198-248 win over Centralia in an Ev-ergreen 2A Conference boys golf match at Newaukum Valley Golf Course in Chehalis on Wednes-day.
Bearcat’s Bryce Dobyns and Jordan Waring each shot a 39 to tie for second place. Centralia’s best finisher was Rudy Voetberg with a 41.
W.F. West’s Jaron Howell shot a 41, Brady Hinds carded a 44 and Wyatt Magnuson rounded out the Bearcats with a 48.
Centralia’s Brett Wasson tal-lied a 43, Nolan Rice added a 49 and Jackson Buzzard fired a 57. Luke Lennox was the final score for the Tigers with a 58.
W.F. West will wrap up the regular season on Monday, fac-ing Aberdeen in a conference match at Grays Harbor Country
Club. Centralia ends the regular season on Monday at Riverside, hosting Rochester in an EvCo match.
Rochester Falls to Tumwater
Rochester’s Ethan Worden carded a 49, but it wasn’t enough as Tumwater earned a 219-260 win over the Warriors in an Ev-ergreen 2A Conference boys golf match at Riverside Golf Course on Wednesday.
Tumwater’s Parker Mercer earned medalist honors with a 40. Chase Fisk and Zach Grugin-ski tied for second with a 41.
The Warriors’ Marcus Ash-ton fired a 51, Braden Norquist and Colton Winters shot a 53 and Logan Fry added a 54. Mar-cus Corrento rounded out Roch-ester with a 60.
Rochester travels to Grays
Harbor Country Club on Friday to face Aberdeen in an EvCo match.
Monday’s Results
W.F. West Edges Tumwater
TUMWATER — Tumwa-ter lost their first Evergreen 2A Conference match in four years on Monday, as W.F. West won 216-220 in a boys golf match at Tumwater Valley Golf Course.
Tumwater’s Chase Fisk earned medalist with a 37. W.F. West’s Brady Hinds shot a sea-son best 39 to take second place, and Zach Gruginski placed third with a 42 for the Thunderbirds.
The Bearcat’s Jaron How-ell, Wyatt Magnuson and Jor-dan Waring all shot a 44. Bryce Dobyns fired a 45 and Andrew Kim carded a 51.
Wednesday’s 2B Girls Soccer
Tigers Maul LoggersBy The Chronicle
NAPAVINE — Chloe Stewart scored two goals for Napavine to lead the Tigers to a 4-1 win over Onalaska in a Central 2B League girls soccer match here on Wednesday.
Stewart scored in the third minute for an early Tiger lead. Sydney Burdick added a goal in the 14th minute and Lucy Sevilla scored in the 22nd minute for a 3-0 lead at halftime.
Onalaska got on the board in the 57th minute on a goal from Kiani Oshiro. Stewart scored her second of the night to seal the win for Napavine.
“I think they played great. We talked before, Ony beat us the first game, they knew they had to go out and fight and they did just that,” Napavine coach Emiily Boettcher said. “We’ve been practicing with passing and making runs. They are just connecting in all those things and is resulting in all those goals.”
Napavine (3-7, 3-5 league) travels to Adna on Monday for a C2BL game, while Onalaska (2-7, 1-7 league) hosts Winlock on Monday in a league match.
Adna Takes Down Kalama in Shootout
KALAMA — Adna and Kalama played to a scoreless regulation and overtime, but the Pirates prevailed in a shootout to earn a 1-0 win over Kalama in a Central 2B League girls soccer match here on Wednesday.
Adna’s Payton Asel-ton, Olivia Rodriguez and Brynn Arrington all made shots in the shootout. Pirate goalkeeper Makaela Meis-ter made two saves in the shootout.
Adna (8-1, 8-0 league) hosts Napavine on Monday in a C2BL match
Squibb’s Effort Not Enough for Winlock
TACOMA — Win-lock goalkeeper Cheleena Squibb recorded 48 saves against Life Christian, but the Eagles earned a 3-0 win in a Central 2B League girls soccer game here on Wednesday.
Life Christian scored in the 30th minute for a 1-0 lead at halftime. The Eagles added goals in the 41st and 56th minute to secure the win.
“We actually played bet-ter defense, we limited them to harder shots,” Winlock coach Brian Ziese said. “Go-ing from the Toledo game to this one, we played 10 times better. When the refs come up to a player, I think that’s a big statement. Wow, she got to some stuff that most kids couldn’t get to, she had a great game. It was just a magical night for her.”
Winlock (3-6, 2-6 league) is on the road on Monday against Onalaska in a C2BL game.
Lowry, Pasko Earn Wins as Centralia Runs Past Rochester
The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017 • Sports 5SPORTS
By Stefanie Loh
The Seattle Times
Perhaps on NFL draft day next spring, when the analysts are talking about Luke Falk and how he built his resume, they’ll refer to the Cougars’ win over USC as Falk’s coming out party.
It seems silly to think of it that way, especially after the resume Falk has built in three years as WSU’s starting quarterback. Yet, in large part because of WSU’s relatively low national profile, Falk hasn’t really gotten the at-tention that Sam Darnold has at USC, or even that Josh Rosen has garnered at UCLA.
This week, however, after Falk led the Cougars to the big upset over USC last Friday, the spotlight shining on him is in-tensifying.
With WSU (5-0 overall, 2-0 Pac-12) ranked 11th ahead of Sat-urday’s game against Oregon (4-1), Falk has been thrust into the thick of the national Heisman Trophy conversation for the first time.
ESPN added Falk to its Heis-man Watch page this week, and the Cougars’ senior quarter-back got 14 points from ESPN’s experts, putting him in fourth place behind Penn State RB Sa-quon Barkley (57 points), Okla-homa QB Baker Mayfield (48 points) and Stanford RB Bryce Love (33 points). Falk is tied with Lousiville QB Lamar Jackson.
Falk’s exploits against the Trojans even caught the atten-tion of Seahawks coach Pete Car-roll.
In a radio interview with 710 ESPN Monday morning, Car-roll said he’d watched WSU’s big upset over USC, Carroll’s former
team.“That was a good football
game. You’ve gotta give it to those guys. They’re playing good ball,” Carroll said. “Their quar-terback is so good. We’ve been watching them for years and just watching him pull himself off the carper so many times after getting pounded, and just hang-ing in there.”
The Seahawks’ coach seemed particularly impressed by Falk’s toughness.
“The free safety hit was unbe-lievable. It was right in the chops and he completed the ball down,” Carroll said, referring to a third quarter play where USC safety
Marvell Tell tackled Falk just as he released the ball and connect-ed with Renard Bell for a 25-yard gain on third-and-14.
“He’s a fantastic football play-er and they’ve done a great job.”
Falk said on a conference call Tuesday that he’s never met Car-roll, but has followed his work for a long time.
“I’ve grown up watching his USC teams, and then just watch-ing him at Seattle and seeing how great a coach he is,” Falk said. “I haven’t had the opportunity to talk to him, but I really admire him and appreciate him and re-spect him.”
Already this season, Falk has
broken WSU’s records for career touchdown passes (105), pass-ing yardage (12,611) and total offense (12,308). He’s also holds Pac-12 career records for pass completions (1,211) and total plays (1,949) and is the NCAA’s active leader in passing yards and touchdowns.
As more WSU and Pac-12 conference records fall every week, the buzz around Falk con-tinues to build.
On Tuesday, the Davey O’Brien Foundation announced that Falk has been named the Davey O’Brien quarterback of the week for his 34-of-51, 340-yard, two-touchdown perfor-
mance against USC.If WSU can get a win in Eu-
gene against the Ducks this week, Falk would tie Jason Gesser as the winningest quarterback in WSU history with 24 victories.
With 105 career touchdowns, the Cougars’ quarterback needs just one touchdown pass to break a tie with former Oregon quar-terback Marcus Mariota for sec-ond place on the Pac-12’s career passing touchdown list.
He’s also needs 489 yards to pass former Oregon State quar-terback Sean Mannion for No. 2 in the Pac-12 in career total of-fense.
The Ducks know they have their work cut out for them against Falk and the Cougars’ of-fense.
“He has a great understand-ing of the offense, and he’s a guy who can make all the calls and get everybody in the right posi-tion. He knows the offense in-side out,” Oregon coach Willie Taggart said. “From an athletic standpoint, he can make all the throws, he has a very quick re-lease and is very accurate with his throws.
“When you can throw the ball quick and you’re accurate and in space like they are, he’s danger-ous. Especially when you have talent out at receiver like they do.”
Oregon has already faced one future NFL quarterback in Wyo-ming’s Josh Allen. The Ducks won that encounter, beating the Cowboys 49-13.
Now, they’ll set their sights on trying to shut down Falk.
“He’s a special talent. He’s a kid who’ll be playing on Sun-day,” Taggart said. “It’s gonna be a great challenge for our guys. We’re excited about it.”
From Pete Carroll to ESPN, Everyone’s Talking About WSU QB Luke FalkCollege Football
Wild Card or Bust? M’s Unlikely to Challenge Astros for AL West Title in Near Future
Let’s start with the misery index, because every assess-ment of where the Mariners
are, and where they’re going, needs to have this context:
Twenty-eight losing seasons out of 41 in their existence. No back-to-back winning years since 2002-03. Just four total playoff appear-ances, none getting them to the World Series. And the big, cringe-worthy one: No postseason action since 2001, 16 years and counting, the longest drought in the majors.
General manager Jerry Di-poto and manager Scott Servais held their post-mortem news conference Tuesday, reflecting on another underachieving sea-son for the Mariners. They dis-cussed the injuries that wrecked them, the fundamental mistakes that impaired them and the youthful infusion that excites them.
But let’s cut to the chase: Fans don’t want to hear much about that kind of stuff anymore (see above). They really want the answer to just one question, es-pecially on the day that another postseason began without Mari-ners participation: How close are they to getting back to October baseball?
Fair or not, the Mariners’ late collapse — a 12-21 record down the stretch — forfeited whatever feel-good vibe they had cultivat-ed by fighting gamely through a ridiculous rash of injuries.
And the answer to that ques-tion is problematic, at best. Cer-tainly, a leap into a 2018 playoff spot is not unfathomable. The Twins went from 103 losses last year to earn the second wild-card berth that the Mariners sought for so long. The two National League wild-card teams, Arizo-na and Colorado, lost 93 and 87 games, respectively, in 2016.
Yet it’s hard to look at the Mariners as constituted and see much more than a .500 team, which in most seasons doesn’t get you nearly as close to the playoffs as it did this year. Of course, Dipoto will tinker with the roster, but the vibe that came out of Tuesday’s news conference was that dramatic changes aren’t in the works.
Dipoto said, “You won’t see
frantic movement,” and talked about adding “another two piec-es.” And Servais said, “We’re not going to turn over a roster a ton; add a piece here or there.”
With the right two pieces, the upgrade certainly could be sub-stantial. There’s little question they will make a hard run at Jap-anese two-way sensation Shohei Ohtani, though Dipoto was mum on all Ohtani questions out of fear of tampering. Dipoto indicated the Mariners also will seek an outfielder, and they must find a first baseman, with Danny Valencia and Yonder Alonso be-coming free agents.
But the sense I got is that the Mariners are counting on two factors, independent of a ros-ter infusion, as the biggest hope for improvement: A marked de-crease in injuries (“Where our season spun out of control was largely in the training room,’’ Dipoto said), and elimination of the fundamental mistakes that plagued them all year. They plan to use this offseason to examine what went wrong in both areas and what they can do to turn it around.
That obviously would help. You could even make the case that the Mariners would have made the playoffs this year if they hadn’t lost four of their five prospective starters for extended stretches. Dipoto said their talent
stacks up with anyone’s, if they can just get it on the field.
But the reality is that their two would-be stalwarts, James Paxton and Felix Hernandez, are still going to be haunted by inju-ry concern, which has the poten-tial to once again cast a pall upon their best-laid plans.
I did like what Dipoto said about creating more depth to be able to withstand the inevitable attrition of the staff. And also the acknowledgment that they no longer can view Hernandez as the workhorse of the rotation that he was for 10-plus years.
“I don’t know how we’re go-ing to get him through 33 starts without managing it a little dif-ferent than we managed it this year,’’ he said. “Whether that be starting less frequently, whether that be monitoring pitch counts in a different way than we have before, whether it’s part of his offseason training preparation and in-season routines … we’ll do those things, whatever we have to do to make sure that he’s in the best position he can be.”
Maybe Felix and Paxton will stay healthy for the bulk of the season and the depth Dipoto was forced to develop on the fly
— the likes of Mike Leake, Eras-mo Ramirez, Marco Gonzales and Andrew Moore — will pay dividends behind them. Maybe they can coax one more big year
from the aging core of Robinson Cano and Nelson Cruz. Maybe Kyle Seager will have a bounce-back season and Mike Zunino and Mitch Haniger will continue their rise into true stardom. And maybe Dipoto will dip into his bag of tricks once more and add a couple impact players.
But Dipoto was frank in his acknowledgment that they re-main far behind the Houston Astros, who won the AL West with 101 victories and finished a staggering 23 games ahead of the Mariners. The Astros are ev-erything the Mariners aspire to be — star-studded, well-rounded, athletic and youthfully oriented, with a strong farm system churn-ing constant reinforcements. The reality is they will own the divi-sion for the foreseeable future. Things can change unexpectedly in sports, but it’s hard to imagine
the Mariners fighting for any-thing but the wild card in 2018.
“We have a long way to go to bridge the gap between where we are today and where the Houston Astros are,’’ Dipoto said, adding: “I regret that we’re not in the post-season right now, but I feel pretty good about what we’ve been able to do in putting together a deep-er, more expansive roster. Now it’s a matter of adding another two pieces on the end of it as we roll down the hill.
“I do believe that we’re mak-ing progress. I don’t believe that we’re nipping at the heels of the Astros. That’s going to take some time. And frankly, a little bit of luck.”
Luck, the Mariners can use. Time is something that is in shorter supply.
By Larry Stone
Seattle Times
TYLER TJOMSLAND / The Spokesman-Review
Washington State Cougars quarterback Luke Falk (4) throws against USC during the first half of an NCAA college football
game on Friday at Martin Stadium in Pullman.
GREG GILBERT / The Seattle Times
On Tuesday, Seattle Mariners manager Scott Servais, left and Mariners general
manager Jerry Dipoto address the media at a press conference at Safeco Field.
MLB
MLB Postseason Glance
WILD CARDTuesday, Oct. 3: New York 8, Minnesota 4
Wednesday, Oct. 4: Arizona 11, Colorado 8
DIVISION SERIES
(BEST-OF-5; X-IF NECESSARY)
AMERICAN LEAGUE
BOSTON VS. HOUSTONThursday, Oct. 5: Boston (Sale 17-8) at Houston (Verlander 15-8),
4:08 p.m. (MLB)
Friday, Oct. 6: Boston (Pomeranz 17-6) at Houston (Keuchel 14-5),
2:05 p.m. (FS1)
Sunday, Oct. 8: Houston (Peacock 13-2) at Boston (Porcello 11-17),
2:38 p.m. (FS1)
x-Monday, Oct. 9: Houston at Boston, TBA (FS1)
x-Wednesday, Oct. 11: Boston at Houston, TBA (FS1)
NEW YORK VS. CLEVELANDThursday, Oct. 5: New York at Cleveland (Bauer 17-9), 7:38 p.m. (MLB)
Friday, Oct. 6: New York at Cleveland (Kluber 18-4), 5:08 p.m. (MLB)
Sunday, Oct. 8: Cleveland (Carrasco (18-6) at New York, 7:38 p.m.
(FS1)
x-Monday, Oct. 9: Cleveland (Tomlin 10-9) at New York, TBA (FS1)
x-Wednesday, Oct. 11: New York at Cleveland (Kluber), TBA (FS1)
NATIONAL LEAGUE
CHICAGO VS. WASHINGTONFriday, Oct. 6: Chicago Hendricks (7-5) at Washington, 7:31 p.m.
(TBS)
Saturday, Oct. 7: Chicago Lester (13-8) at Washington, 5:38 p.m.
(TBS)
Monday, Oct. 9: Washington at Chicago (Quintana 11-11), TBA (TBS)
x-Tuesday, Oct. 10: Washington at Chicago, TBA (TBS)
x-Thursday, Oct. 12: Chicago at Washington, TBA (TBS)
ARIZONA VS. LOS ANGELESFriday, Oct. 6: Arizona at Los Angeles (Kershaw (18-4), 10:31 p.m.
(TBS)
Saturday, Oct. 7: Arizona at Los Angeles (Hill 12-8), 9:08 p.m. (TBS)
Monday, Oct. 9: Los Angeles at Arizona, TBA (TBS)
x-Tuesday, Oct. 10: Los Angeles at Arizona, TBA (TBS)
x-Thursday, Oct. 12: Arizona at Los Angeles, TBA (TBS)
Sports 6 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017
It was a perfect autumn day, just like any other. The dis-sipating scent of summer still
wafted lazily on the soft edge of a breeze while the reality of a changing season settled in hard all around.
Across the valley brittle yel-low leaves flex hard in the wind and tear from the spindly fingers of a deep root trees. Serenad-ing songbirds sing full-throated through the rain storms from unseen refuges in the nooks of brushy bushes.
As the rain breaks, chitter-ing chipmunks skitter gleefully in the sunshine and scramble up gnarled bark footholds to their club-house on high. Wet-headed waterfowl wade in the shallows and wander farmers’ fields in search of way-ward grains and hideaway bugs. A tattered windsock points due east and a rusty weather vane runs wild on top of an old clap-board barn.
Up in the high country a pre-sumptuous ray of sun attempts to penetrate the craggy crater of Saint Helen’s Mount while a short skirt of snow sends mixed signals to Old Man Winter.
At night a fat blanket of fog is tucked in at the corners. Putting summer sunshine to bed with a kiss on the cheek the fog buf-fers against the sharp bite of first frost while dignified cedars dan-gle dapper moss beards dabbed in sparkling droplets of dew.
In the cradling black of night a full moon rises and casts pred-ators in a different light. Like the biblical tribes of the desert I know that not all who wander are lost and so I take to the ver-dant woods in search of answers long obfuscated by the straight angles and forced sterility of the city. Like the Warlocks of old, though, I go listening for the se-cret and searching for the sound. But I could only hear the preach-er, and the baying of his hounds.
FISHIN’
The Chehalis River is start-ing to cool off and the fishing is heating up as a result. The boat launch along Highway 12 at Sat-sop was overflowing last week-end and weekday efforts have been considerable as well. Ru-mor has it those silvers that have piqued the interest of so many Grays Harbor anglers are quickly making their way upriver toward the Twin Cities.
Over at the fish story swap-ping desk at Sunbirds in Cheha-lis, lure purveyor Jerry Barr.
“Silvers are starting to head up the Chehalis,” said Barr, noting that he’s heard of hookups as far upriver as Elma. “So it should be just a matter of time before they are up at Porter and then up the rest of the way. I’ve heard they are doing real well out there.”
Barr added that while the coho are currently on the move the bass bite has yet to fade on the state’s second largest water-shed. “They’re still hammering those smallmouth bass out of there and it doesn’t seem to mat-ter where you go. From Adna Trestle to Fort Borst Park they are all doing good,” said Barr.
Barr noted that the WIllapa River and Harbor have both been fishing well for fall kings in recent weeks, and, “It shouldn’t be long before the silvers are in there too.”
On the Cowlitz River the big news is the premature shutter-ing of the fall king season that was handed down in a last min-ute news dump on Friday after-noon and then put into effect on Monday. That closure prohibits anglers from keeping Chinook/king salmon on Cowlitz, Green and North Fork Toutle rivers for the foreseeable future. The WDFW has left open the pos-sibility for reopening the fishery, but reading between the lines, that seems like a load of fishy lip
service.“I’ve heard a lot of grumblings
about it,” said Barr. “They were doing pretty good on the Green (River) so I guess they’re not too happy about that. But the silvers are in so they’ll have to get over it.”
As Barr noted, the silvers are indeed showing up as far upriver as the Barrier Dam.
“We are finally getting some silvers in so that’s mainly what everyone is targeting right now,” confirmed Karen Glaser from the Barrier Dam Campground general store. “They are even get-ting to keep a few that don’t have too many fins.”
Glaser said most of the up-stream coho action has been happening along the banks of the river while the boat contin-gent has been focusing on the mouth of the Cowlitz at its con-fluence with the Columbia River. Glaser noted that an uptick in water flow recently seems to have helped bring in more fish with bigger appetites.
“The water is up to about 3,500 (cubic feet per second), which isn’t a lot, but it’s better than 2,500,” said Glaser. “I think that will help to keep them com-ing up.”
River flow at Mayfield Dam on Monday was reported at ap-proximately 3,930 cubic feet per second with visibility of 14 feet and a water temperature of 53.6 degrees.
Sampling efforts by the WDFW last week tallied 12 bank anglers below the I-5 Bridge with no catch. Sixteen boats with 56 rods on the lower river kept four adult Chinook, four adult coho and 11 jacks. Above the I-5 Bridge the WDFW counted 42 bank rods with a haul of three adult Chinook, one jack, and three adult coho. No upriver boat anglers were surveyed. Last week at the Cowlitz River salmon separator employees recovered 2,187 adult coho, 334 jacks, 610 fall Chinook adults, 22 jacks, 12 summer steelhead, 19 spring Chinook adults, and 40 cut-throat trout.
WDFW biologist Joe Hymer suggests anglers with a prefer-ence for fall kings who have been displaced from the Cowlitz River try casting their lot on the Ka-lama and Lewis rivers.
“In past years, anglers have done well in October fishing for chinook salmon upstream from the Lewis River to Bonneville Dam,” said Hymer, a salmon bi-ologist, in a press release. Begin-ning Oct. 1, chinook retention was reopened on the mainstem Columbia River from the Lewis River/Warrior Rock line down-stream to Buoy 10.
“Salmon start to turn dark this month in some rivers, but anglers can find bright chinook salmon on the Lewis River all month long,” added Hymer.
The WDFW estimates that between Sept. 25-30 anglers on the lower Columbia River made 7,190 fishing trips with a resul-tant catch of 2,544 adult Chinook and 534 adult coho. Fish officials estimate that last Saturday alone boat anglers in the Washougal area averaged 1.08 Chinook and 0.35 coho caught per boat, while anglers fishing from Vancou-ver to Cathlamet averaged 0.49 Chinook and 0.41 coho caught per boat. Out at Buoy 10 anglers averaged 0.92 coho and 0.25 Chi-nook caught per boat.
On more placid waters there are plenty of small fish to be caught in area lakes. Even the lakes that are really a river. Lake Scanewa, the reservoir formed
on the Cowlitz River by Cowlitz Falls Dam, was stocked over the summer with rainbow trout that should be about 12 inches long by now. The daily limit is 10 hatch-ery trout. Barr says Lake May-field, another Cowlitz River res-ervoir, has been ripe with hungry 18 inch rainbows for months.
“Mayfield is still producing some pretty good sized rainbows and I’m hearing from guys that Riffe Lake is producing some pretty good size silvers,” said Barr, noting that the Riffe an-glers have been targeting the Mossyrock end of the reservoir. A press release from the WDFW noted that Riffe is also a good spot to target smallmouth bass this time of year and Mayfield and Merwin lakes are both ripe with tiger muskies.
Wildfires in September caused the cancellation of planned fishing events at Coun-cil and Takhlakh lakes. Those cancellations have left 1,000 stocked rainbows in each lake for fall anglers to hook.
Looking back at Lewis Coun-ty both South Lewis County Park Pond and Carlisle Lake are great options for panfish and large-mouth bass.
HUNTIN’
Many of the state’s most pop-ular hunting seasons are under-way already or set to begin this month. October 14 will mark the beginning of modern firearm season for deer hunters as well as the beginning of waterfowl seasons and early muzzleloader season for elk begins on OCt. 7.
“Winter conditions in recent years, wildfires, fall green-up and weather during the hunt-ing season are just some of the factors that can influence deer numbers and distribution,” said Jerry Nelson, WDFW deer and elk section manager. “That is why we are encouraging hunters to review the Hunting Prospects on WDFW’s website to find loca-tion-specific forecasts.”
Despite those losses officials insist that prospects are prom-ising across the state, particu-larly for waterfowl. Last season nearly 550,000 waterfowl were harvested in Washington and most populations are expected to be on the rise this year after a banner breeding season. Duck, goose, coot and snipe seasons all begin on Oct. 14. Exceptions to that rule include a ban on dusky Canada goose hunting in Man-agement Area 2.
“Washington can anticipate a strong fall flight,” said WDFW waterfowl manager Kyle Spra-gens, in a press release. “With exceptional habitat conditions in Washington this past spring, and strong numbers of birds spotted during surveys in Alaska and Canada, things are looking fan-tastic.”
Some deer hunters got a jump start on the season when muz-zleloaders were allowed in the woods in search of blacktails on Sept. 30. That season will con-tinue through Oct. 8.
Elk hunters with musket will take their turn on the prowl for a week beginning on Saturday, Oct.7. Beginning last year a slate of local GMUs were opened up for the general-season muzzle-loader elk hunts, including 505 (Mossyrock), 506 (Willapa Hills), 510 (Stormking), 516 (Packwood), 520 (Winston), 550 (Cowee-man) and part of 524 (Margaret). Modern rifles will take to the woods from Oct. 14-31. Some of the most popular, and successful units, are right here in southwest Washington, including GMUs
530 (Ryderwood), 501 (Lincoln), 520 (Winston), and 550 (Cowee-man). Due to hoof disease fears hunters who harvest an elk are required to sever the lower leg sections and leave them behind at the kill site. Any hunters who observe a lame or limping elk are encouraged to report the the sighting to the WDFW.
The fall bear season will con-tinue through Nov. 15 and cou-gar hunts will be allowed at least through Dec. 31.
A shotgun start on the gen-eral seasons for ducks, coots, and snipe will take place from Oct. 14-18 and then resume again from Oct. 21 through Jan. 28. Goose hunting will also get going on Oct. 14 with season depending on the area. Early season hunters typically have success along major watersheds like the Columbia and Chehalis rivers. The Canada goose popu-lation is estimated to be up 17 percent from last year and mal-lard numbers are up 74 percent. Goose hunters in Cowlitz, Grays Harbor, Pacific, Wahkiakum and Clark counties are required to pass an identification course for Dusky Canada geese, which is off limits to hunting in Goose Management Area 2.
Forest grouse and crow remain open statewide and mourning doves will stay in the crosshairs through Oct. 30. The general pheasant hunt in western Washington began on Sept. 30 and will continue through Nov. 30. Pheasant hunting is allowed from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. each day and hunters are held to a daily two bird limit and a possession limit of 15 birds. The California quail, standard quail and North-ern bobwhite seasons in Western Washington will all continue through Nov. 30.
Fall turkey season will con-tinue through the end of October in GMUs 101-142. In GMUs 145-154 and 162-186 the fall turkey season will end on Oct. 13.
Bobcat, fox, raccoon, cot-tontail rabbit, snowshoe hare all open until the Ides of March and, of course, coyotes are open game all year round.
This month marks 60 years since the implementation of Washington’s mandatory hunter education program for persons age 17 and younger. The law was passed in February 1957 and was adopted by the Game Commis-sion at a meeting on Oct. 7 of that same year. The requirement took effect in 1958.
“Hunter education started with people who wanted to re-duce hunting-related firearm incidents and support the tradi-tion of safe hunting,” said David Whipple, WDFW hunter educa-tion division manager, in a press release. “Since then, it’s become a major part of our mission as a state agency.”
According to Whipple the number of major injuries and deaths per year in Washington have decreased since the mid-1960’s from approximately 40 per year to just seven per year on av-erage over the last decade.
“Hunting is now one of the safest outdoor pastimes, and that has a lot to do with hunter edu-cation,” Whipple stated in the release.
Up to 13,000 students per year have taken the course in recent years. More than 750 courses are taught by roughly 1,000 instruc-tors each year, with participation spiking in the fall.
Washington State law also requires hunters born after 1972 to complete a hunter educa-tion course prior to purchas-ing a hunting license. Hunters can purchase licenses online at https://fishhunt.dfw.wa.gov, by phone at 360-902-2464, or at a WDFW license dealer location.
SHELLFISHIN’
The opening round of fall ra-zor clam digs will take place on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 6-7, at Long Beach, Twin Harbors, Co-palis and Mocrocks. That de-cision was announced by the WDFW on Tuesday after the
most recent batch of marine tox-in tests revealed those clams to be safe for human consumption.
All beaches are currently open for evening tides and no digging will be allowed before noon.
WDFW coastal shellfish manager Dan Ayres expects a good crowd for the digs. “A lot of times that first dig is a pretty good turnout anyway. There’s just a lot of clam hungry people out there,” said Ayres.
Ayres added that although Long Beach was closed for most of the 2016-17 season diggers should temper their expectations before heading out. That’s be-cause a bout of low salinity is be-lieved to have starved off many of the razor clam recruitment class. A population stock assessment at Long Beach in the summer of 2016 revealed the largest number of adult razor clams (larger than three inches) in the last 25 years. One year later that same style assessment showed a reduction of the adult clam population by more than 60 percent.
“A lot of the ones that lived are the bigger ones which is good in the short term but they are not very dense,” said Ayres. “It’s not going to be the big bonanza that you would intuitively think would happen because of the clo-sure.”
Despite the dramatic loss in razor clam population at Long Beach, Ayres says there is no need to panic, noting that the clams will rebound in time.
“They will recover,’ said Ayres. “It is not a disaster.”
The upcoming dig is ap-proved on the following beaches, dates and evening low tides:
• Oct. 6, Friday, 7:49 p.m.; -0.4 feet; Long Beach, Twin Harbors, Copalis, Mocrocks
• Oct. 7, Saturday, 8:33 p.m.; -0.7 feet; Long Beach, Twin Har-bors, Copalis, Mocrocks
Ayres recommend that dig-gers hit the beach one or two hours prior to low tide for the best diggin results. The next proposed batch of digging dates are tentatively scheduled for Nov. 2-5.
In Puget Sound a number of areas are set to open for crabbing on Oct. 7.
Waters reopening to sport crabbing at 8 a.m. Saturday in-clude marine areas 4 (Neah Bay, east of the Bonilla-Tatoosh line), 5 (Sekiu), 6 (eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca), 7 (San Juan Islands), 8-1 (Deception Pass, Hope Island, and Skagit Bay), 8-2 (Port Susan and Port Gardiner), and 9 (Ad-miralty Inlet), except for waters south of a line from Olele Point to Foulweather Bluff. All areas will be open seven days a week through the end of the year.
However, marine areas 10 (Seattle Bremerton), 11 (Vashon Island), 12 (Hood Canal), and 13 (South Puget Sound) will not re-open to sport crabbing.
WOLF TRACKIN’
A wolf captured in the Mar-blemount area of Skagit County in June has been confirmed by DNA testing to be a gray wolf, making it the first wolf to be found alive in Western Washing-ton since the animals were hunt-ed to near extinction early in the 20th century.
A GPS collar placed on the wolf shows that it has remained in east Skagit County since it was released but efforts to photo-graph the wolf with trail cameras have been unsuccessful. Officials are unclear if the wolf is living alone or in a pack but there have been no reports of interactions with domestic animals.
DNA testing was unable to reveal any distinct similarities with known packs in Washing-ton, Canada or Idaho. It is un-known where it migrated from.
Outdoors Hunting, Fishing Hiking, Birding
Hunting & Fishing Report
Short Skirts and Flirtations With Old Man Winter
By Jordan Nailonjnailon@
chronline.com
‘‘Salmon start to turn dark this month in some rivers, but anglers can find bright
chinook salmon on the Lewis River all month long.’’
Joe Hymer
WDFW salmon biologist
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Five Great Fall Hikes in the North CascadesLAST CHANCE: Until They’re Snowed in or the Highway Closes, Now is a Great Time to Hike Some of the Most Beautiful Trails in Washington
By John Nelson
The Seattle Times
The gold rush is on in the North Cascades. And let’s not forget red and orange, too.
Fall colors will peak in the next few weeks on mountain trails, and the clock is ticking before snow closes State Route 20, the North Cascades Highway. It’s arguably the best time of year to access some of the most beau-tiful trails in the state.
“Fall is my favorite time of the year to hike,” said Rosemary Seifried, Wilderness Informa-tion Center supervisor at North Cascades National Park. “You get the colors, the weather gets cooler and the bugs die off.”
Along the spine of the North Cascades toward Central Wash-ington, you’ll find a bonus too — large stands of alpine larch trees, which have needles like ever-greens that turn a stunning gold in the fall.
“They only grow at higher el-evations on the East Side,” Sei-fried said. Early season snow adds to the beauty of the turning larch trees, she added.
“If you can hit the larches with a little bit of snowfall — that’s the Holy Grail,” Seifried said.
State Route 20 “usually closes by Thanksgiving,” said Andrea Petrich of the Washington State Department of Transportation. The closure shuts down access to the trailheads between mileposts 134 just east of Diablo Lake, and 171, 14 miles west of Mazama.
Now’s your last chance to hit the following, scenic trails before they close.
Easy Pass
7.4 miles round-trip. Eleva-tion gain: 2,900 feet.
“Easy Pass is my favorite hike off Highway 20,” Seifried said. And it’s easy to see why — this not-so-easy day hike tops out at 6,500 feet and offers gorgeous views of the Fisher Basin. While other trails off the North Cas-cades Highway can be popular, you might find yourself alone on this high-mountain route.
TRAILHEAD: Milepost 151.5.THE HIKE: Starting at 3,700
feet, the trail crosses sometimes-rushing Granite Creek and climbs through a lovely forest, past a few small creeks, eventu-ally popping out into the open at 2.3 miles. After that, it’s time to really work, ascending rocky slopes steeply to the pass, where killer views of 8,000-foot Fisher and Kitling peaks await. Want more? Keep going into Fisher Ba-sin beyond.
Maple Pass Loop
7.2 mile loop. Elevation gain: 2,150 feet
Who doesn’t love a loop hike? This is one of the best in the Cas-cades, climbing moderately most of the way to a long romp along a ridge with top-of-the-world views of some of the North Cas-cades’ most iconic peaks.
TRAILHEAD: Milepost 157.6, the Rainy Lake Trailhead.
THE HIKE: Stepping out of the
car at 4,800 feet, your first order of business is to decide whether to hike clockwise or counter-clockwise. For those wanting a lake with their loop, head coun-terclockwise and climb toward Lake Ann, a destination in itself for many hikers. At 1.3 miles, you’ll reach a signed intersection for Lake Ann; head another half-mile to reach a dreamy moun-tain watering hole.
If the lake is enough, return to your car for a 3.6-mile round-trip. For those skipping the lake, keep going on a gradual ascent toward the ridgeline. At 3.3 miles, reach Heather Pass for views of Black and Corteau peaks. For the next mile or so, the views get even better as the trail tops out at 6,850-foot Maple Pass, a suit-able stopping point for lunch that looms high above Rainy Lake with Frisco Mountain hold-ing court to the south. The hike down is just as scenic, eventually dropping into the trees back to the car.
Rainy Lake
1.8 miles round-trip. Eleva-
tion gain: 50 feet.Some easy trails fail to deliver.
That’s not true on this wheel-chair-accessible hike that ven-tures into a lovely basin.
TRAILHEAD: Shared with the Maple Pass and Lake Ann trails at milepost 157.6.
THE HIKE: Starting at 4,800 feet, head left and follow the paved path as it winds through forest past interpretive signs to Rainy Lake. Grab your picnic basket and sit down at one of many benches, wowed by the fall colors, cliffs and waterfalls surrounding the lake.
Cutthroat Pass
10 miles round-trip from the Pacific Crest Trail. 11 miles from Cutthroat Lake Trailhead. Eleva-tion gain: 2,000-2,300 feet.
Either way you go, Cutthroat Pass is stunning. Large stands of larch trees fill the basins on each side of the pass, and if you can arrange a car shuttle, go trailhead-to-trailhead for an unforgettable 10.5-mile one-way trek through the North Cascades high country.
TRAILHEADS: The Pacific Crest Trail north trailhead is across the road from Rainy Lake park-ing lot at Milepost 157.6. The Cutthroat Lake Trailhead is at Milepost 167.
THE HIKE: If you choose the PCT option, starting at 4,800 feet, climb steadily through a pleasant forest, taking care not to be run over by late-season th-ru-hikers rushing to finish at the Canadian border. You’ll cross several scenic streams, including Porcupine Creek, the largest of them. Slowly, the trees thin, giv-ing way to views of a broad upper basin filled with larch stands on a trail that winds up to the pass at 6,800 feet.
For the Cutthroat Lake Trailhead, begin at 4,500 feet and climb gently to the lake at 1.7 miles. This might be enough for some hikers, and the views here are mighty nice with an alpine lake surrounded by cliffs and fall color. If you push on for the pass, you’ll need to climb nearly 2,000 vertical feet up a steep mountainside on a series of manageable switchbacks tak-ing you into a ridge-top world of
color and expansive views.
Blue Lake
4.4 miles round-trip. Eleva-tion gain: 1,058 feet.
It’s relatively short, it climbs fairly gently, but don’t let this trail fool you. It’s plenty tough. The payoff is a picture-perfect mountain lake that is indeed a deep azure color, a gorgeous con-trast to the golden hues of fall at the base of the impressive 7,720-foot Liberty Bell massif.
GETTING THERE: Drive to Mile-post 161.5, just west of Washing-ton Pass.
THE HIKE: Start at 5,200 feet on a fairly flat walk in the woods that parallels State Route 20. Soon you’ll be climbing, leav-ing the road sounds behind. Pop in and out of forest, eventually reaching the cirque-lined lake at elevation 6,254 feet. Take a load off and marvel at the mountain beauty, or explore the rough trails around the lake. For those with the skill and stamina, a climbers’ trail nearby leads up Liberty Bell.
If You Go
ROAD UPDATES: State Route 20 usually closes in November, but it takes “a season-ending event” (aka, a major snowstorm) for the Washington Department of Transportation to shut the gates for good. Some years, the road has remained open into Decem-ber, and in 1989, it didn’t close until January.
For the latest road informa-tion, see wsdot.wa.gov/Traffic/Passes/NorthCascades.
TRAIL UPDATES: Always check weather forecasts and trail conditions before you go. Methow Valley Ranger District in Winthrop (509-996-4003) ad-ministers the trails along State Route 20. Also check with North Cascades National Park, 360-854-7200 or nps.gov/noca.
PERMITS: You need a North-west Forest Pass to park at trailheads along State Route 20, $5 per day or $30 per year. The National Parks Annual Pass ($80) also works as a parking pass.
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Views of many of the most beautiful North Cascades peaks are visible along the ridgeline near Maple Pass.
JOHN NELSON / The Seattle Times
The hillside turns golden behind the azure waters of Blue Lake off State Route 20.
The Bearcats put the icing on the victory in the 76th minute, when Mencke buried a penalty kick for the hat trick.
“This was definitely Madi’s best game of the season. She’s coming along. She’s one of our hardest workers in training ev-ery single day and she just keeps getting better,” Anderson said.
“She comes in as a freshman with not a ton of experience, so there’s so much room to grow and learn.”
W.F. West (3-6, 2-2 league) hosts Black Hills on Thursday in an EvCo battle, while Rochester (0-9-1, 0-4 league) travels to face Tumwater on Thursday in an-other EvCo game.
Black Hills Pulls Away from Tigers in Second Half
Centralia kept things close for the first 60 minutes, but league-leading Black Hills scored four times in the last 20 minutes to pick up a 6-1 win over the Ti-gers on Tuesday in Evergreen 2A Conference girls soccer action in the Hub City.
Megan Lowe and Bella Brown each scored twice for Black Hills, though the Wolves held just a 2-1 lead at halftime thanks to a goal from Centralia’s Alayna Miller.
“I was pretty proud of how the team played for the first 60 minutes or so,” Centralia coach Henry Gallanger said, calling the senior-heavy Wolves the best team in the league. “They’re a very good program, and then when we gave up that fourth goal we kind of lost our composure a little bit.”
Brown’s goals came in the 62nd and 66th minutes, turning a 2-1 game into a three-goal lead for the Wolves.
“For our team, we were play-ing very well, with a lot of heart, a lot of effort, and working hard,” Gallanger said. “Then after you give up that third goal, and may-be the mentality starts to change a little bit.”
Sydney Lowe and Rachel Re-uell each added goals for Black
Hills (7-1, 4-0 league). Goalie Courtney Leifer-Carl-
son had 17 saves on 23 shots on goal for Centralia, and Gallanger said the team played well despite
a lack of depth due to injuries.“I thought my midfield did a
really good job,” he added. “Mia Martin, Savannah Hankins, Ca-rissa Kaut and Anastasia Ulrigg
all did a really good job of clog-ging it up and causing problems for them.”
Centralia (6-3-1, 2-2 league) plays at Aberdeen on Thursday.
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SoccerContinued from Sports 1
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Centralia’s Anastasia Ulrigg (12) moves in on Black Hills’ Megan River (24) during an Evergreen 2A Conference girls soccer
match on Tuesday night at Tiger Stadium.
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Rochester’s Sufina Ahmath (20) shoots against W.F. West on Tuesday during an Evergreen 2A Conference girls soccer game
in Rochester.
Tenino Falls to ElmaBy The Chronicle
TENINO — Brieanna Dell notched a hat trick for the Bea-vers, but it wasn’t enough as Elma earned a 4-3 win in a 1A Evergreen League girls soccer game here Tuesday.
Dell scored her first in the 25th minute, but Elma scored two early goals and had a 3-1 lead at halftime. Dell scored her second in the 44th minute and completed the hat trick in the 55th minute with a header off a corner kick from Lara Kershaw. The Eagles were able to score again in the second half and hold on for the win.
“They have definitely played better,” Tenino coach Adam Barr said. “I feel like they spent half the game watching the ball and not applying the pressure we needed to.”
Tenino (6-2, 1-2 league) has a week to regroup before traveling to Hoquiam for a league match on Tuesday.
Tuesday’s
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Adna’s Austen Apperson Wins at RainierBy The Chronicle
RAINIER — Austen Apper-son picked up another win here Tuesday, finishing first in a five-team Central 2B League cross country meet.
The Adna junior won the 5K varsity boys race in 17 min-utes, 22 seconds, beating Kalama freshman Addison Smee by 5 seconds.
Teammate Lucas Wellander was 12th in 19:24, and Adam Mower finished 16th for the Pi-rates in 19:40.
Adna’s Lauryn Apperson fin-ished third in the girls race in 21:47, which was won by Toutle Lake’s Meleah Kandoll in 20:49.
The Pirates are scheduled to run at the Nike Hole in the Wall Invitational on Saturday in Lake-wood.
Note: Adna’s Jacob Stajduhar won the 1.7-mile middle school boys race in 10:50.
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THE MASK MAN: Carving Out a Niche From ‘Friday the 13th’ to Five Finger Death Punch
By Jordan Nailon
For many 20-year-olds, liv-ing in the garage of their par-ents’ house wouldn’t exactly qualify as living the dream. For Chehalis resident Samuel Dean, it looks more like a nightmare, but that’s exactly what he in-tended, and his parents don’t seem to mind at all.
Spending time at home is nothing new for Dean, who was homeschooled by his parents. Now though, he spends his time curating intricately detailed masks scary enough to make a warlock gasp.
Dean says he became inter-ested in the detailed work that goes into making movies seem real after watching the killer shark thriller, “Jaws,” with his father when he was little. One could say all those teeth and all that blood made a real impres-sion on young Sam.
“He is self taught and has been sculpting his entire life,” confirmed David Dean, Samu-el’s scary movie buff father.
“Being homeschooled defi-nitely did provide me the time to learn. I’m still learning,” said the younger Dean. “I focus a lot on horror icons, stuff that I would personally like to have.”
His workspace doubles as his bedroom and the walls are lined with impressive recre-ations of menacing faces rang-ing from “Friday the 13th” to
“Alien” to “Predator.” Dean goes to extreme lengths in order to make the masks authentic to the originals. He says he spends a lot of time on internet mes-sage boards dedicated to Hol-lywood costume and makeup secrets where people share in-sight on the creation of various configurations. Dean says he can often even track down the actual people who worked be-hind the scenes and on the set of specific films.
While he has nearly a com-plete set of Jason Voorhees masks from the “Friday the 13th” scary movie series, he only displays a few Michael My-ers masks from the “Halloween” classics. It’s not that he doesn't like the character, it’s just that he’s taking his time to make sure to get the masks just right.
“The Michael Myers people can be pretty particular and brutal in their critique, espe-cially online,” said Dean, who noted that the original mask for the first Halloween movie was simply a Star Trek Captain Kirk mask from a department store with a layer of white paint.
“Regular spray paint doesn’t stick to latex very well so it start-
ed to peel all over the place dur-ing filming. It wound up giving it a very unique and memorable look,” explained Dean.
While Dean got his start in mask-making with inspira-tions drawn almost exclusively from the scary movie genre, he has since expanded his work to include some of the more hard-core music scenes.
“Metal and horror go togeth-er in the same vein,” said Dean, who made a set of masks for the band Five Finger Death Punch last summer. He then took the masks with him to a show in Se-attle where the band, with their avant garde zombie-apocalypse inspired onstage look, was per-forming. He wound up getting in for free after a security guard delivered them backstage.
Dean says his parents are entirely supportive of his un-dertakings and don’t seem to mind their garage overflow-ing with creepy characters who seem poised to come alive if you turn your back too long.
“My dad is basically the one who got me into this. We like the same type of movies,” said Dean.
“Now, music is different. He’s The Beatles and I’m Slipknot.”
Dean’s mask crafting be-gan as a hobby but has since morphed into a small-business known as Samhain Studios. Through the business Dean stays busy making custom masks for bands, short-films and regular old people who just like to get a little freaky.
“I ship a lot to the U.K. and Germany,” said Dean, who pri-marily promotes Samhain Stu-dios through his company Face-book page. A few weeks after that fortuitous Five Finger Death Punch concert, the band posted photos of the masks on Face-book along with a thank you
to Dean. He says that shoutout from the band created an instant uptick in sales and social media interaction for his business.
To make the masks, Dean uses an oil-based clay to create the molds and then pours in latex in layers to create the ac-tual face. After that, he trims the mask up and strengthens it with a hard set plaster. He then airbrushes the gory details on and uses leather straps, metal grommets and buckles to bring it all together. He says it usually takes him about two weeks just to sculpt the head into shape for final preparation and decora-tion, but you’d never guess that from the price.
Dean says he typically sells a full mask for about $140 while a half mask runs about $65. That’s a far cry from the multiple hun-
dreds of dollars that many mask-makers ask for far less intricate creations.
“The average person doesn’t generally pay more than $50 for a Halloween mask, so I try to keep it reasonable. I cater to the people who don’t have that kind of money,” said Dean. “I’m try-ing the make the masks that I would have wanted as a kid, but they were too expensive.”
Looking forward, Dean says he would ultimately like to break into the film industry to work on costumes, makeup and special effects. For now though, he’s focused on turning Sam-hain Studios into a viable busi-ness. He doesn’t have another job and he isn’t going to school, so he is grateful to his parents for providing him the opportu-nity to follow his passion.
“They have really helped me to be able to pursue it,” said Dean. “I’m basically head first into this realm of monsters.”
In addition to running his business, Dean also volunteers at the Dead Ending Haunted House at the Fairway Center in Centralia. A stickler for the de-tails, he has spent many hours helping to decorate, including providing a custom-made set of 3-foot-tall “Alien”-inspired eggs. The Dead Ending Haunted House will be open every Friday and Saturday in October from 6:30 p.m. until about 11 p.m., as well as Oct. 30-31.
Samuel Dean can be reached at Samhain Studios by phone at 360-880-1521 or by email at [email protected]. He can also be found online on Ins-tagram and Facebook.
Lewis County Artist Living the Dream Crafting Nightmarish Characters
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Samuel Dean, owner of Samhain Studios, holds up a replica he made of Corey Taylor’s Slipknot mask Thursday afternoon in Chehalis.
Samuel Dean, owner of Samhain Studios, puts on a replica he made of Corey Taylor’s Slipknot mask, Thursday afternoon in
Chehalis.
Samuel Dean’s collection of replica masks he’s created, sits along the wall of his studio Thursday afternoon in Chehalis.
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Final Questions: Tom Petty’s Death Comes Just Days After an Introspective Interview
By Randy Lewis
Los Angeles Times
This is not the Tom Petty sto-ry that I had intended to write.
Though I was more than thrilled to catch up with Petty, whom I had interviewed before, I had no clue that this would turn out to be the last, for me and for him — that he would die just a few days later after suffering a massive heart attack at age 66.
This is not the way things were supposed to happen.
When I sat down with Petty in the outer room of the cozy but fully equipped recording studio at his home above Malibu beach, the idea was for him to reflect on the wildly successful 40th anniversary tour he and the Heartbreakers had wrapped less than 48 hours earlier at the end of three sold-out nights at the Hollywood Bowl.
It was a triumphant stand particularly rewarding to Petty, a Florida transplant who consid-ered himself and his band mates California adoptees. He said as much from the stage each night, noting how the Heartbreakers, although composed entirely of musicians born or raised in and around Gainesville, Fla., had been born at the Village Studios in West Los Angeles.
“This year has been a won-derful year for us,” he said now, sipping a cup of coffee he’d just poured at 4:30 in the afternoon and sinking into the plush sofa. Above his head hung a framed il-lustration of his departed friend and boyhood idol George Har-rison, created by artist Shepard Fairey and presented to Petty by Harrison’s son, musician Dhani Harrison. “This has been that big slap on the back we never got,” he said, referring to the popular, critical and financial affirmation that wasn’t always apparent throughout the group’s hard-working history.
But he did not see it as the end. There was supposed to have been so much more to come. Should have, would have, could have come.
Petty was excited about pro-ducing a second album for the upstart L.A. rock band he’s been championing the last couple of years, the Shelters.
“They’ve been on the road for a year, and we got together recently,” he said. “They played me some of their new stuff, and I was just blown away.”
He was looking forward to continuing his involvement with the Tom Petty radio chan-nel for the SiriusXM satellite ra-dio service, including the show he organizes and hosts person-ally, “Tom Petty’s Buried Trea-sure,” in which he picks songs that he loves.
“I love doing my ‘Buried Treasure’ show,” he said, ever the rock star in his military-style jacket, loose fitting pants and aviator shades, even while espousing fan-boy sentiments.
“It keeps me listening like I used to do. I always listen. I could
come home and I would spend the rest of the night just lying on the floor or the sofa listening to albums. It was like a movie to me. I still do really, and doing the radio show ensures that I’ll be sitting there listening.”
After six rewarding but also physical demanding months on (mostly) and off (hardly) the road, Petty was supposed to get a moment to take a deep breath, relax and enjoy the return to do-mestic life with Dana, his wife of 16 years, and the rest of their family, including his two adult daughters, Adria and Annakim Violette, from his first marriage; Dana’s son, Dylan, from her pre-vious marriage; and their 4-year-old granddaughter, Everly Petty.
Even though the notion of kicking back in a hammock sounds antithetical to everything he’s ever believed in, or practiced, he said, “I just have to learn to rest a little bit, like everyone’s telling me. I need to stop work-ing for a period of time.
Still, he confessed, “It’s hard for me … If I don’t have a project going, I don’t feel like I’m connect-ed to anything. I don’t even think it’s that healthy for me. I like to get out of bed and have a purpose.”
Petty always had a purpose, and a man like that, a man with a purpose, should have had more time — weeks, months, years — to practice what he called fishing and others call songwriting.
“It’s kind of a lonely work,” he said, “because you just have to keep your pole in the water. I always l had a little routine of going into whatever room I was using at the time to write in, and just staying in there till I felt like I got a bite.
“I compare it to fishing: There’s either a fish in the boat or there’s not,” he said with a laugh. “Sometimes you come home and you didn’t catch any-thing and sometimes you caught a huge fish. But that was the work part of it to me. … I just remember being excited when
I had a song done, and I knew I had a song in my pocket, I al-ways felt really excited about it.”
I was one of many blind-sided by the news of his death on Monday. As we sat, just a few days earlier, he was vibrant, full of enthusiasm, still the epitome of the coolest rock star you’d want to sit down for a chat with. He laughed easily and often, oc-casionally dropping his voice into a softer mode when outlin-ing just how precious his band, his music and his family were to him. The only gripe he had was about the hip he cracked shortly before the tour started, which he was now finally addressing.
This is not the Tom Petty story I intended to write because I in-tended to write a “next stage” story.
Everyone assumed — fully expected — there would be more time for this fisherman to add yet more brethren to the bevy of be-loved songs that have integrated themselves into American popu-lar culture. Classic-rock staples including “Breakdown,” “Ameri-can Girl,” “Refugee,” “Even the Losers,” “Learning to Fly,” “Lis-ten to Her Heart,” “Here Comes My Girl,” “Walls,” “Mary Jane’s Last Dance.”
“To go into a studio and hear a band play (one of his new songs) for the first time is al-ways exciting,” Petty said. “And usually when they play it, it be-came something I hadn’t even pictured. Yes, I love the studio. I love the studio as much as I love playing live, easily. I’m pretty much in one every day, and I’m still at that.”
Interviewed collectively backstage at the Hollywood Bowl as they prepared to saunter out into the dark, onto that stage, for the finale of their tour, the Heartbreakers — lead guitar-ist Mike Campbell, keyboardist Benmont Tench, multi-instru-mentalist Scott Thurston, bassist Ron Blair and drummer Steve Ferrone — were unanimous in their expressions of surprise that anyone might think they were
ready to put the Heartbreakers into mothballs.
When I visited Tench two days later on my way to see the head Heartbreaker, a broad smile came to his face as he quipped, “Tell Tom we should get the band back together!”
Petty laughed heartily when the sentiment was relayed. “He would too,” Petty said. “He’d leave tonight, probably. You know, I love it. It’s amazing that we’re still doing it, and doing it well.”
No, this wasn’t supposed to be the end of the road for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, even though the group’s name-sake talked about what might cause that to happen — one day, perhaps, far down the line.
“If one of us went down,” he said, “or if one of us died — God forbid — or got sick … ,” letting his voice trail off at the thought of it.
“We’re all older now,” he said softly. “Then we’d stop. I think that would be the end of it, if someone couldn’t do it.”
Until then, he said, there would be no talk of any pro-scribed retirement day — for this singer, songwriter and gui-tarist, or his band of brothers.
“On the back side of your 60s, most people aren’t working,” he said with an air of pride. “This keeps us young. I think it keeps me young.”
He was still wearing the thick beard he had grown during the tour and he smiled through it.
“When I see people I knew from earlier in life and I run into them now, they’re very dif-ferent than me,” he added. “And they look different. I think this has kept us all thinking young and feeling young.”
Not that he had any near-fu-ture plans for a tour as extensive as the 53-show 40th anniversary run.
“It is grueling to do a very, very long one,” he said. “This was quite a long one. It’s some-times physically hard. But then the lights go down, you hear the crowd and you’re all better. You
feel like, ‘OK, let’s do it.’”Besides, Petty already
seemed to have weathered his allotted bout of infirmity dur-ing August when he came down with laryngitis and had to post-pone a few shows.
Did the incident spook him?“Yeah, because I don’t think
I’ve missed a show in many, many years,” he said. “It freaked me out so bad, because it came out of nowhere. … My doctor said ‘I don’t think you’ve been sick — I’m looking in my re-cords — in over 17 years, since I’ve seen you sick with anything. And I’m always like, ‘I don’t get sick.’ But (stuff) happens.
“My doctor said, ‘Despite great evidence to the contrary, it seems you’re human,’” he said with a laugh. “But I take care of myself on the road. If you’re a singer, you’ve got to be respon-sible, it’s a physical thing, you have to be in shape. It’s athletic. I have to make sure that I get enough sleep, that I eat right, that I don’t abuse my voice. Don’t talk too much. Don’t go to the bar and talk for three hours if you have a show the next day. I’ve learned that it’s just instinct, it’s built into me from all the years of touring.”
After six months on the road, Petty was supposed to get time to forget about those rules, just a little.
“The only happy thing about being off the road is I don’t have to worry about keeping myself ready to go the next day,” he said.
If this were the story I had intended to write, if everything had gone the way it was sup-posed to, Petty and the Heart-breakers would still be looking down the road at more chances to engage in the unique form of worship known only to those who’ve spent decades together in recording studios, cramped vans, dingy bars and anony-mous hotel rooms.
“The thing about the Heart-breakers is, it’s still holy to me,” he said with no air of loftiness or pretense. “There’s a holiness there. If that were to go away, I don’t think I would be interest-ed in it, and I don’t think they would. We’re a real rock ‘n’ roll band — always have been. And to us, in the era we came up in, it was a religion in a way. It was more than commerce, it wasn’t about that. It was about some-thing much greater.
“It was about moving people and changing the world, and I really believed in rock ‘n’ roll
— I still do,” he said. “I believed in it in its purest sense, its pur-est form. … It’s unique to have a band that knows each other that long and that well.
“I’m just trying to get the best I can get out of it,” said Tom Petty, head Heartbreaker and fisher of music, “as long as it remains holy.”
That, in reality-induced ret-rospect, is the part of my story on Tom Petty and the Heart-breakers that is, and remains, exactly as it was supposed to be.
Jerry Holt / Minneapolis Star Tribune
Rock legend Tom Petty jams for a sold out crowd, June 26, 2006, at Xcel Center in St. Paul, Minn.
Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times
Legedary classic rocker Tom Petty performs with the Heartbreakers at the Hollywood Bowl on Thursday night, Sept. 21, 2017.
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A: “My friend did a party when I was at drama school and they did tube sta-tions, like a subway station, and I think I was Holland Park (in London). So I went dressed up as a wealthy lady with my friend’s dog. We don’t do Halloween very well here as you can tell (laughs). … I’ve been Morticia be-fore, but who hasn’t?”
Q: What is your favorite Halloween movie or TV special?
A: “I’m such a scaredy cat. I don’t really watch anything scary. Oh, ‘The Ad-dams Family.’ “
Martin Wallstrom of ‘Mr. Robot’ on USA NetworkQ: What is your most memorable Halloween costume?
A: “I think we were in New York two years ago and I dressed up as a dog. I don’t know if it’s memorable.”
Q: What is your favorite Halloween movie or TV special?
A: “Yeah, the Freddy Krueger movies, the one with Jamie Lee Curtis (‘Hal-loween’). I have to admit that scary and horror films is my absolute worst. I cannot watch them. I watched ‘It’ in 1995. I’m still so scared from that movie that I can’t watch the new one. … This horror thing is not my thing.”
Josh Gates of ‘Expedition Unknown’ on Travel ChannelQ: What is your most memorable Halloween costume?
A: “One year, I dressed up as the Invis-ible Man and I really tried to match the old Claude Rains outfit from the Universal film. And I felt so proud of myself, I felt like I had really nailed it. I got wrapped in all these ban-dages and glasses, and I thought I had really nailed it. And of course, it turned out to be the hottest, least comfortable thing I had ever worn. … So I was the sweaty Invisible Man.”
Q: What is your favorite Halloween movie or TV special?
A: “For me, the scariest horror film was ‘The Omen’ because I saw it when I was too young and it completely messed me up. People al-ways say ‘The Exorcist.’ I’ve never really been scared by ‘The Exor-cist.’ I always thought it was kind of goofy with all the projectile vomiting and everything. But man, ‘The Omen’ messed me up. I thought that was just terrifying. … And I would say the original ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre.’ “
Jay Pharoah of ‘White Famous’ on ShowtimeQ: What is your most memorable Halloween costume?
A: “I think last year, when I put on the Bruce Lee outfit, that was my favorite one. I didn’t think it was going to get the attention it got. I didn’t even know I could jump that high! I was like, ‘I want to take Tae Kwon Do now! This is amazing!’”
Q: What is your favorite Halloween movie or TV special?
A: “I was into ‘American Horror Story’ in its ear-lier seasons, and my favorite scary movie — it’s not even scary, it’s funny to me — is ‘House on Haunted Hill.’ I don’t know why, but to me, that movie is hilarious.”
Maria Bello of ‘NCIS’ on CBSQ: What is your most memorable Halloween costume?
A: “When we were kids, we went as the same thing every year ... hoboes. We would have sticks with bandannas tied around them, and we’d put dirt on our faces like guys during the Depression traveling on trains. That was our go-to, with old clothes and dirty faces.”
Q: What is your favorite Halloween movie or TV special?
A: “I have to say that I really loved ‘Get Out.’ My son and I watched it together, and we were so freaked out. I went out the next evening, and I was supposed to be home at 11; I got back at 11:30, and he was like, ‘Mom! Where were you? I was terrified that those ‘Get Out’ people took you!’”
Keith Carradine of ‘Madam Secretary’ on CBSQ: What is your most memorable Halloween costume?
A: I put a paper bag over my head and a beret on top of that and recit-ed one-liners in French. I was the
Unknown French Comic. (This was in the early ‘70s.)
Q: What is your favorite Hallow-een movie or TV special?
A: The classic original “Dracula” with Bela Lugosi. Herzog’s “Nos-feratu the Vampyre” remake with Klaus Kinski is the modern equal.
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Wilmer Valderrama of ‘NCIS’ on CBS
Q: What is your most memorable Halloween costume?
A: “A Latino James Bond.”
Q: What is your favorite Halloween movie or TV special?
A: “Gremlins.”
What is your most
memorable Halloween
costume?
A (Jonathan): “You know
what’s interesting, is when we
were younger in our teenage
years and what not, we would al-
ways dress as the same thing but
in different variations. So when
we were cavemen, Drew was
actually a cavewoman and I was
a stilt caveman so I was about
10 feet tall. And then we had a
bunch of different funny things
like that. We’ve done zombies,
we’ve done Peter Griffin. I was Bane from ‘Dark Knight.’ We
did Thing 1 and Thing 2. Drew
was also Honey Drew Drew, it
was his take on Honey Boo Boo.
We actually have pictures of all
of the costumes we’ve done in
recent years. Some of them have
full prosthetics and everything. “
What is your favorite
Halloween movie or TV
special?
A (Jonathan): “I want to see
the new ‘It’ remake. I’d heard,
actually, good things about it.
But movies, classics like Jamie
Lee Curtis in ‘Halloween’ and
what not. ‘Beetlejuice.’ Some of
the cartoon ones that came out,
Peanuts (‘It’s the Great Pump-
kin, Charlie Brown’), the one we
watched when we were kids.”
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They’ve thrown elaborate parties with great attention to detail, dressed up as everything from clowns and giants to TV and movie characters and built haunted houses with sophisticated special effects. And they’ve had many a laugh when their guests have jumped with fright.
When it comes to parties, the Scotts admit to being Halloween snobs and they believe the success of such an endeavor starts with the host.
“We believe that if it’s a Halloween party, it is mandatory that you are in costume,” Jonathan says.And you don’t have to go to great expense to pull a party off, they say, but a good imagination helps.For example, the menu can be all about finger foods.
“We’ll do finger foods but it’ll actually be like severed fingers,” Drew explains. “Sausages that look like fingers. You take wie-ners, basically, and then you can cook them but then you cut little bits off so it looks like a nail bed and it looks like fingers. “
The drink selection needn’t be especially spooky but the effects you create for them can be.“If you have a martini where you have an olive in the glass,” Jonathan says, “you basically can skin a grape or you do something
so it looks like an eye. Like you have little touches that it just gives it that extra spooky flair.”For the décor, oranges and blacks, fake cobwebs and insects, and fog can all create the proper atmosphere. And for scares,
pitch-dark rooms, uneven terrain, confined spaces and cold temperatures are capable of putting guests on edge.
“It’s just understanding the psychology behind scaring people and putting them out of their comfort zone,” Drew says.
“It helps the hackles go up on the back of the neck,” Jonathan adds.
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Yakama Indian War begins on Oct. 5, 1855
On the afternoon of Oct. 5, 1855, gunfire erupts between Yakama Chief Kamiakin’s 300 warriors and Maj. Gran-ville O. Haller’s 84-man troop of soldiers. The two groups have been at a standoff across the ford at Toppenish Creek. Haller and his men are forced into retreat, but tensions con-tinue to rise between Indians and settlers from Southern Oregon up to the Puget Sound region.
Kamiakin and his people had lived in peace with the Catholic Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate who estab-lished the Saint Joseph Mission in 1852 at his invitation.
On June 9, 1855, the Yaka-ma, Umatilla, Cayuse, and Walla Walla tribes were forced to cede in excess of six mil-lion acres to the United States government, partly as punish-ment for the killing by a group of young Cayuse of Methodist missionaries Marcus and Nar-cissa Whitman and others on Nov. 29, 1847, an event known as the Whitman Massacre. Called the Treaty of Yakama, it was signed at Walla Walla
on traditional Indian meet-ing grounds. The tribes were paid $200,000 over a number of years in exchange for their land. Kamiakin first refused to sign the treaty, but later did so under duress.
At the time the Treaty was signed, Washington Territorial Governor Isaac Stevens (1818-1862) assured the Indians that white miners and settlers would not be allowed to tres-pass on tribal lands during the time before the treaty could be ratified by the United States Senate.
Gold strikes in the Colville area and in the Fraser River area in British Columbia, however, encouraged increas-ingly large groups of miners to invade tribal lands as they crossed the region en route to the gold fields. Miners were heavily laden with supplies on mules, and were sometimes known to steal the Indian’s horses and to greatly mistreat the Indian women.
Some of the Yakama war-riors had retaliated by killing miners in isolated incidents. In late September 1855, Andrew J. Bolon, the Indian sub-agent at The Dalles was shot and killed while investigating these in-cidents. It was for this reason that Maj. Haller and his troops set out from The Dalles for the Yakima Valley. The fight on October 5 started the conflict that would come to be known as the Yakama (or Yakima) In-dian War.
Casualties in this first battle were low on both sides. Kamiakin had two dead, four wounded, one captured. Haller had five dead, 17 wounded.
Despite the fact that reinforce-ments were on their way, Haller and his men were so greatly outnumbered that they slipped away under cover of night and retreated toward The Dalles.
On Nov. 9, 1855, Major Ga-briel J. Rains and troops some 700-strong marched on Ka-miakin and his 300 warriors on the bank of the Yakima River at Union Gap. Outnum-bered more than two to one, the attack seemed to confirm the Yakama people’s fear that the whites had come to exter-minate them. The warriors battled as their families fled toward safety through the bit-terly cold night.
In the morning the Yakama were nearly surrounded. Ka-miakin ordered retreat, and the warriors’ ponies easily out-distanced the soldiers’ hors-es. Snow covered the ponies’ tracks. In the two days of fight-ing there had been only one death: a non-combatant killed by mistake by a government scout.
The soldiers vented their rage at the Saint Joseph Mis-sion, from which the Catholic Fathers had joined the fleeing families. The soldiers found gunpowder buried in the gar-den and assumed that this meant the missionaries were aiding the Indians in their fight against the Army. Histo-rians believe that actually the priests had buried the gun-powder in order to prevent Chief Kamiakin from using it to make war.
The soldiers also found a letter that Kamiakin had dic-tated to Father Pandosy, one of the priests. The letter was ad-dressed to the soldiers and pro-tested the Indians’ treatment. He suggested that the tribes could grant portions of their land to the whites in exchange for not being forced onto reser-vations.
The soldiers burned the Mission to the ground. Maj. Rains counted this as a form of victory.
By 1858, the Yakama had lost 90 percent of their tradi-tional lands and were confined to a reservation. Their abil-ity to gather their traditional
foods all but destroyed, many took refuge in traditional be-liefs, hoping that in time these practices would drive out the whites and restore their lands.
Buffalo Soldiers are Stationed at Fort Lawton Beginning on Oct. 5, 1909
900 men of the U.S. Army’s 25th Infantry Regiment are transferred to Fort Lawton from the Philippines. (Seattle’s Fort Lawton is on Magnolia Bluff overlooking Puget Sound in what will become Discovery Park.) The 25th is one of four regiments of African Ameri-can soldiers in the Army, called Buffalo Soldiers by Plains Indi-ans in the 1870s and 1880s. Two battalions will move on to Fort George Wright near Spokane.
The soldiers at Fort Lawton and their families, who arrived the following year, constituted approximately one-third of the African American population of Seattle (about 2400 persons in 1910) during the years it was stationed here. Filipinos who enlisted in the U.S. Army were in the regiment as well.
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Less well known than the
9th and 10th Cavalry Regi-ments, the 25th Infantry Regi-ment was distinguished by its baseball team, which won sev-eral U.S. Army championships and was rated the best non-professional team in the coun-try. In the Army, which was segregated, African Americans could compete against whites only in athletics. The U.S. Army remained segregated until 1948.
Accomplished Musicians
The 25th regiment also had an outstanding band. Princi-pal Musician Leslie V. King (1878-1963) graduated at the top of his class from the Wash-ington Conservatory of Music in Seattle in 1910 and he be-came one of the few African American officers in the Army. (King served in the U.S. Army from 1898 to 1935.)
In 1913, the 25th Infantry Regiment was transferred to Hawaii.
Mexican Nationals Arrive in Yakima Valley Under the Bracero Program Beginning on Oct. 5, 1942
Beginning on Oct. 5, 1942, and continuing through Octo-ber 15, more than 500 Mexican nationals arrive in the Yakima Valley under the Emergency Farm Labor Supply program to alleviate the farm-labor short-age during the war (World War II). The Emergency Farm La-bor Supply program, nationally known as the Bracero program, lasted in the Pacific Northwest from 1942 until 1947.
By 1945, Washington alone had more than 5,000 Braceros (Mexican nationals) working in agriculture. After 1947, the Bracero workforce was supple-mented by Mexican American migrants from the Mountain States (Colorado and Arizona) and the Southwest (mainly Texas), influencing permanent Latino settlement in Washing-ton state.
Courtesy Washington State Historical Society
Kamiakin, chief of Yakama Tribe, 1855.
Courtesy Washington State Historical Society
Granville Haller (1819-1897).
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A soldier at Fort Lawton, ca. 1910.
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BusinessCentralia-Chehalis Chamber of Commerce Monthly Newsletter
October 2017
Chamber Cares About CommunityI thought it would be
good to share some in-teresting and generally unknown facts about the Centralia-Chehalis Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber is a 501c6. It is a non-profit, but is set up as a special kind of non-profit, hence the
6 that follows the 501c stated above. It’s not
something wonderful that we came up with here in our local area but actually has a pretty amazing history as to why we are titled the way we are. I’ve done some history homework on that and thought it was valuable in understanding the core of our organization.
We have to go way back in time and basically study some history to get the full grasp of what 501c6 means, all the way back to the Tariff Act of 1913. It was
then that The U.S. Chamber of Com-merce requested for this special category of non-profit status specifically for com-mercially-oriented organizations. They decided to enact this status specifically for organizations like our local Chamber. They set forth some rules for acceptance of the status. A few of those are that the organization must be an association of persons having some common business interest and its purpose is to promote this common business interest. The organiza-tion is to direct their efforts at promoting the common economic interests of com-mercial enterprises in a community. The organization must also be member based.
Another attribute that the 501c6 is as-sociated with is the right to have a PAC (Political Action Committee). That is what the Chamber has done with “One Lewis County” and the Initiative that is focused on bringing a vote to the people regarding the topic of the “Home Rule
Charter.” Our hopes are to get people talking on the community level about the need for mandating a “County Execu-tive” position to lead Lewis County. We want the decision making process to be brought back to the public because we feel concerned with the current health of our community.
A few things that needs to be stated clearly are that the “One Lewis County” PAC will not be using any public money, nor any Chamber dues for this work. The group is working hard for you and appre-ciates the support thus far. Financial con-tributions can be made to the “One Lewis County” PAC and are welcome as things ramp up. You are also invited to attend the Monday, October 9th Chamber Fo-rum where Todd Chaput and Kelly Smith Johnston will present to the Chamber on
“One Lewis County.” Hopefully the in-formation they present will answer some questions of interest and inspire some of
you to get involved.This brings us back to the history we
discussed above. As a Chamber, we are set forth to direct efforts at promoting economic stability and growth. We are called to promote, protect and inform via our organization’s tagline. We are here to support all business big and small. I am hoping that Chamber members big and small will also support one another whether you believe we need a county manager or not. I hope this initiative will offer the opportunity for our com-munity to discuss options that move us in a positive direction together. We are a community, and by its very own defini-tion we know it means “a feeling of fel-lowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.” I believe we all want a strong and healthy community, so let’s keep talking about that and figure out how to make it hap-pen!
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2017 CHAMBER SPONSORS
NAME: Bruce Hansen
BUSINESS: Financial Advisor with Edward Jones
HOBBIES: Sports (football, basketball, racquetball), Camping, Outdoor activities, movies, and spending time with my family
SPOUSE: Kellie Hansen
WHERE WERE YOU BORN: Centralia, WA
HOW DID YOU COME TO SETTLE IN LEWIS COUNTY? I grew up here and had an opportunity to move back to the community doing something that I could make and plan to make a career out of.
TELL US ABOUT YOUR FAMILY: Kellie and I have been married for a little over 3 years now. We met at college back in 2012 and we were married in 2014 in Atlanta, GA. We spent the first year of marriage in Idaho were I finished up a business management degree. From there we moved to Utah to pursue an opportunity to run a kitchen at a restaurant chain that was started in Utah. 10 months later we found ourselves moving to Washington for this opportunity with Edward Jones while Kellie was about 2 months pregnant with our first child Colby. Colby is now 6 months old and is a BIG buddle of joy. Kellie and I both love being parents and love having Colby in our lives. As a family we love picnics, hiking, camping, shooting, and cuddling up on the couch while watching a movie.
WHAT HAS YOUR CAREER BEEN LIKE? My career has been very rewarding. It has been great to be able to help people with their financial goals. Being able to tell someone that their dedication and sacrifice has paid off and that they have met their goal is a rewarding statement to be able to share with clients.
WHAT WOULD WE BE SURPRISED TO LEARN ABOUT YOU? I love musicals. I find them to be very enjoyable. My favorite of all time is 7 Brides for 7 Brothers.
WHY ARE YOU A CHAMBER AMBASSADOR? After I graduated High School I left town for 6 years and when I came home I found that a lot had changed with the town that I had grown up in. This is a way for me to give back to the community that has given me so much as
well as get my name out in the community once again.
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Title Guaranty Company
Title Guaranty Company is proud to announce our Sep-tember High School Hero, Ka-leb McCalden from Pe Ell High School! Kaleb is active in his school and plays football, bas-ketball, and track. He enjoys helping local senior citizens with household projects and volunteers his time refereeing youth sports. Kaleb is plan-ning on majoring in forestry next year. Congratulations and thank you Kaleb for being a HS Hero!
Shear Magic Salon
Two best friends Summer O’Neil and Alyssa Gerritsen run Shear Magic Salon. Deb-bie Snider, Summers amaz-ing mom, had lead them to this opportunity to build their dream salon by opening this business on November 9th, 2016. We love going above and beyond our client’s expecta-tions and getting creative! Our Salon offers haircuts, colors, foils, brazilian blowout, exten-sions, styles, makeup, waxing, and MORE! This month for HALLOWEEN we are offering FIVE dollar peek-a-boo fash-ion colors. Our hours are Wed-Sat 10-5 Sun 10-3. Please give us a call at 360-623-8031 to make an appointment or walk in. We would love to have you!
Veterans Day Parade
Join us in Chehalis for our Veterans Day Parade and 20th Anniversary of the Veterans Memorial Museum. Parade will begin on Market Blvd in Chehalis at 1:00 pm. We would like to invite veterans, busi-nesses and organizations to join us in celebrating our Vet-erans and the Freedoms they have secured for us. In addi-tion this special day is the 20th year of operation for the Veter-ans Memorial Museum. Start-ing at 4:00 pm at the Museum’s Jensen Events Center we will be hosting an afternoon of celebration featuring Bonanza BBQ, Music and Special Guest Speakers. Cost of dinner tick-ets are $15 and are available at the Museum. To register for the parade call April 360-785-6406 or JoAnn 360-872-5512 or stop by the Museum at 100 SW Veterans Way in Chehalis.
Capture Interest in Your Business
Branding your business in a variety of ways can help cre-ate interest and keep you at the ‘top of mind’ to current and future customers. Keep your design clear and concise for easy viewing and recogni-tion. With so many products to choose from, we can help with your custom design and help you meet your marketing needs. Vehicle Graphics, Signs, Banners, Promotional Prod-ucts and more. We are just a
call away, Sign Pros, (360-736-6322) and conveniently located at 321 N. Pearl St. in Centralia.
Sparkles n Spurs Boutique
Sparkles n Spurs has every-thing you need for the fall sea-son so you can fall in love with your wardrobe again. You’ll find a variety of styles from boho lace looks to rhinestone cowgirl outfits to grungy skull leggings. Right now we are running an in store promo! For every $50 you spend you’ll get an entry into a drawing for a $50 gift card! The winner will be announced on our Facebook page on October 20th! Be sure to stop in Halloween weekend for some fun SPOOKY SAV-INGS! Our mystery sale will be announced on our Facebook page soon!
Country Bridal
Your happily ever after starts right here at Country Bridal! You’ll find the same designer gowns for a fraction of the price. We take pride in provid-ing the best customer service and prices around. Come here for all your bridal, bridesmaids, mother of the bride/groom ,and flower girl needs! Wed-ding gowns start as low as $199 and do not exceed $1100! We offer a layaway plan to insure you can get the dress of your dreams. Bridesmaid dresses are available up to a size 30 and are available in 60+ color options, wow! Come see us at 1208 LUM RD Centralia ,WA 98531 or schedule your ap-pointment by calling 360-736-5522
Reliable Enterprises Employment Opportunities
(Centralia, WA) — Do you want to work in a dynamic and expanding organization to give people an opportunity for an enhanced quality of life? Do you have experience in work-ing with adults with develop-mental disabilities, pre-school age children, or inventory tracking? If so, Reliable Enter-prises is hiring for several posi-tions throughout the organiza-tion. Lewis County Head Start Pre-school is hiring parent-teacher educators, bus drivers, and teacher’s assistants for the 2017-2018 school year. Join an innovative and exciting pre-school with full enrollment that is in need of additional staff for the expanding classes. Head Start works with fami-lies and children to cultivate children’s school readiness skills along with their social and emotional development. Our desire is for every child to be successful. The Concrete Goods program is hiring an energetic and self-motivated individual to coordinate deliv-eries of goods and items to CPS offices throughout the Puget Sound. If you like to drive, can
repeatedly lift 50 lbs, and have inventory experience, this is the position for you. Employ-ment Services is currently hir-ing for an individual access job coach to train and inspire adults with disabilities as they gain valuable employment ex-perience in our community. Finding purpose and building strengths is paramount to the success of Reliable Enterprises and the Employment Services Division and we need your help! The energetic SPARC program is currently growing and now created a new assis-tant coordinator position to assist with the various special-ized activities and recreation opportunities. The position will work to plan events, ac-tivities, and outreach oppor-tunities for adults with devel-opmental disabilities as they build social skills throughout our community. Please visit our website at www.reliableen-terprises.org /careers/ to apply online or pick up an applica-tion at 203 W Reynolds Ave, Centralia WA 98531. Come join us as we expand and fos-ter the growth of disabled and disadvantaged populations throughout Lewis County, while building the next leaders of our community!
QUIZNOS
QUIZNOS in Centralia has a new limited time offer. We will have GYRO. On flatbread or sub or salad YOU choose! And don’t forget about our DE-LIVERY. We DELIVER 10-8 everyday of the week. quiznos.com for delivery.
Precision Printing
WE HAVE MOVED into our new location in the Fairway Center just across the park-ing lot at 1700 S. Gold. With the newer and bigger store, we have expanded our abilities and services. We invite you to stop in and see our new look. We will be having a ribbon cutting with the Chamber of Commerce on October 25th at 12:15 so stop by and see what’s new and enjoy a cup of coffee and cookie on us.
Join the Opportunity Tour in Downtown Chehalis
Mark your calendars - Wednesday, October 18 at 4pm for the Downtown Op-portunity Tour! Join the Che-halis Community Renais-sance Team (CCRT) as we tour vacant buildings and spaces available for sale and lease in downtown. Dreaming of a business downtown or perhaps you’re interested in real estate? Simply curious about what is available? This is a wonderful opportunity to check out what Downtown Chehalis has to of-fer in an informal, casual open house setting. Tour begins at 60 NW Boistfort Street in front
of the CCRT Office. For more information regarding the tour email [email protected] or call the CCRT of-fice at (360) 345-1738.
Centralia Lions Club
Meetings for October are on the 2nd & 16th that start at 6:30 p.m. sharp. Speaker for October 3nd meeting will be Emil Pierson from the Cen-tralia Parks & Rec department talking about the Fort Borst Blockhouse. On October 21 & 22 our club will pack orchard fresh Fuji apples delivered straight from the orchards at Wenatchee. These apples sell for $30 for a 40# box or $15 for a 20# half box. Orders can be taken until the 12th, Call your order to Margaret @ 360-736-8766 or Bill @ 360-520-6802.
The HIVE
Customer appreciation day Sunday October 15th from 1-4pm
Come visit us at the HIVE Get a new fall makeover, foun-dation matching, contouring, smokey eyes. Raffle drawing, outlying give a ways. Stop by for some hot apple cider and some pumpkin bread . See you there. Suite 110 Market Place Square, 34 Boistfort Ave Downtown Chehalis.
Cozy Up at HUBBUB!
We love October here at HUBBUB, because that means it’s time to cuddle up with cozy socks and super-soft wraps, colorful boots and a toasty warm hat. We have brand new collections in all of the above—fall patterns in Sockwell com-pression socks, crazy comfy boots from JAFA and Cloud, one-of-a-kind Sweaterheads hats, and versatile Parkhurst wraps—great inside and out. Girls Night Out is another
reason to love October! Make plans with your girlfriends to head for downtown Centralia from 2pm to 8pm, Saturday, Oct 7. Shops will be brimming with fall specials and the side-walks full of happy shoppers. Start your fun and pick up a passport ($5) and goody bag at either HUBBUB or The Station Coffee Bar. Not to worry if you can’t walk the whole way or the weather’s bad—there will be a limo to drive you! Mark your calendar now for HUBBUB’s 12 Anniversary Celebration—Friday/Saturday, Nov. 10/11. Details next month! HUBBUB • 328 N. Tower Avenue (YES! We’re still in our temporary lo-cation) • Downtown Centralia • (360) 736-1517 • Shop online at hubbubshop.com!
Kay Jewelers Outlet
Do you have broken jewelry or jewelry you don’t wear? Well mark your calendar for our Fall Repair Event on Friday Octo-ber 20th 11am to 3pm. Come and meet our Master Jeweler to receive special pricing on repairs and custom work on all jewelry items. Register to be entered into our drawing for a free gemstone. Call for an ap-pointment at (360) 736-3742. Walk ins are always welcome . Come join the fun at Kay Jew-elers Outlet.
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A beautiful sunny day for the Claire’s ribbon cutting, drop by and check out their new fall accessories!
Spry Digital Marketing put on an AMAZING class at the new Boys & Girls Club of Chehalis!
We are so blessed to have such wonderful members!
A full house at the Member Appreciation BBQ!
The Chamber Chicks hanging out at the annual Member Appreciation BBQ!
Congratulations to DXL Men’s Outlet on their one year anniversary! Drop by their store to check out all their new merchandise.
A great turnout at the Pope’s Kids Place ribbon cutting celebrating the completion of their of their new Children’s Transitional Care and Respite Center.
Peter Abbarno speaks to the members at the September Business After Hours. Thank you to the law office of Althauser Rayan and Abbarno LLP for hosting the event.
Thank you to all the members who were able to make it to our Membership Appreciation BBQ!
NURSINGSUPERVISOR
Full-time Nursing Supervi-sor for a busy pediatricclinic. Excellent workingenvironment. Competitivewage & benefits. Pleasesend resume to NorthwestPediatric Center, 1911Cooks Hill Road, Centralia,WA 98531 or email [email protected].
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Sunday, Oct. 8 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.918 SE 1st Street, Winlock
Very well built & maintained 1953 SF family home is move-in ready.
Large rooms thru-out w/ 3+ bedrooms & 1 3/4 baths & walk-in closet
off master bedroom. 2 lots for the price of 1, tree lined, fully fenced
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wood stove provides cozy warmth in the winter. Great insulation to
stay cool on those hot days. New gutters w/ a shop, raised garden,
smokehouse, tool/garden shed & hot tub. Privacy on front & back
yard decks w/lots of parking. MLS# 1188576
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OMBUDSmanAccess to this RFA and application available at:
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Papers need to be delivered Tuesday and Thursdayby 5:30 p.m. and Saturday morning by 7:30 a.m.Currently, this route has 176 Chronicle customers,560 once a week paper called the "Free Shopper"that needs to be delivered by Thursday at 5:30 p.m.,and yields approximately $850 per month whichincludes a fuel allowance (before your routeexpenses.) The routes cover approximately 120 milesdaily and take about 4 hours to deliver. The individualwe will consider contracting with must have anexcellent driving history and enjoy working withpeople. Also, they must have dependable and backup transportation.
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Route #1182/1184Route area consists of Bucoda Hwy, Zenkner Valley,Tenino and Highway 99. Currently there are 218Chronicle customers, 2 stores and our Shopper (oncea week customers). Delivery days are Tuesday andThursday before 5:30 p.m. and Saturday before 7:30a.m. The individual we contract with must be 18years old, have a valid WA Driver's license, proof ofinsurance, good driving record and have adependable vehicle. The route pays approximately$950 per month, which includes a mileage allotmentand 2 store drops. It is about 110 miles and takeabout 5 hours.
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Found: 9/20/17, Chehalisarea, BB Gun, Light.Please call Lewis CountySheriff's Office to describea n d c l a i m , c a s e #17C11611. 360-740-1470
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Beautiful spayed Chihua-hua, free to approvedhome, will check out, nochildren. 360-999-2826
CANOPY for Toyota orother small truck, $50.360-291-2514
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Join a dynamic electricutility & become part of aprogressive team. Candi-date will read a variety ofdistrict meters, monitor me-ters to ensure proper func-tion, install & resolve cus-tomer complaints regardinghigh bills. For a completelist of job requirements,visit www.lcpud.org & clickon Employment Opportuni-ties under Your PUD.Equal opportunity employ-er.
WILLAPAHARBOR HOSPITAL
Respiratory Care Practitioner
Full-time CRTT or RRTwith experience in an acutecare setting. Generalizedrespiratory hospital care,EKG's, Holter Monitors,treadmills including nuclearmedicine & PFT's. For anapplication please go towww.willapaharborhospital.com, oremail Dustie Franks [email protected]. EOE
1940s dressing vanity with48" round mirror, $35. 360-736-3631
Yearling Angus Heifer,$600. 360-748-4074
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Beauty Shop EquipmentAries 880 Salon DryerChair, $50. Styling chair,raises up, nice, $50. 2drawer, 2 shelf work sta-tion, $45. Manicure table, 1drawer, $35. Children's liftfor styling chair, $5.360-736-5063
FOUND: Possibly stolensports memorabilia & amusic collection along witha comic book collection.Please call Centralia PoliceDepartment at 360-330-7680 & ask for proper-ty & evidence to describeand claim.
DRIVERSScot Industries is hiring afull time OTR driver. ClassA CDL, clean driving re-cord & enhanced license orpassport. Home on week-ends. We offer competitivepay, profit sharing, insur-ance, paid holidays & paidvacation. Please apply inperson with complete driv-ers abstract Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm at 3020Foron Rd., Centralia, WA98531. NO PHONE CALLSPLEASE.
8 pc Executive Desk Set$800. Centrafuse, $100.Complete Gas Fireplace,$300. Brockway Rd., Che-halis, WA. 360-701-5283
DRIVERSNational Frozen FoodsCorporation seeks truckdrivers. Class A with dou-bles endorsement & 6months experience. Payswell, by the load. ContactDarcy at 360- 748-0015.
2 BEEF STEERFOR SALE!
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24" snow blower, like new,only used once, $500.5000 to 6000 watt genera-tor, never been used,$400. Brand new neverused cut off saw with extrablades, $125. 360-496-8653
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This position requiresthe highest level ofcustomer service & in-terpersonal skills, effec-tive communication, theability to multi task in afast paced environ-ment, be able to self-motivate at all times, &work in a team or onown. Applicant must beexperienced in:� Excel� QuickBooks� Valid driver's license� Ability to pass abackground check
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Nestled just outside thequaint community ofPony, Montana, thisproperty has it all!Beautiful 3BD/3BA2,382 sq.ft. Lindal ce-dar home has floor toceiling living room win-dows framing the to-bacco root range &picturesque hollowtopMountain. Enjoy yourbreakfast or grow yourindoor garden in thesunroom off the diningroom. The TWO 1,200sq.ft. each shops &attached two-car ga-rage are plenty tohouse all your toys orequipment. With 40+acres of land, wildlifeabounds & providesample opportunity forhorses & livestock. Ac-cess to hunting, out-door recreation, &some of Montana's fin-est fishing is unbeata-ble! PRICE JUST RE-DUCED!
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ESTATE AUCTION!
Saturday, October 7,Preview - 9amAuction - 11am
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the day of the auction!Everything goes to thebare walls! Guns, powertools, hand tools, fishinggear, generator, Club Ca-det riding lawn mower,lumber, household items,furniture & appliances!
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RUMMAGE SALE!Fri, 9-5 & Sat, 9-3,
October 6 & 7.
ImmanuelLutheran Church1209 Scheuber Rd. N,Centralia, WA 98531.
GARAGE SALE!Thurs, Fri & Sat,October 5, 4-7,
October 6, 9-5 & 7, ?-?711 Kearns Rd,
Centralia, WA 98531.Many useful items!
Grant's Towing &Automotive/Grant's
Centralia/Grant's SouthAbandoned Vehicle
Auction Every Friday11:30 am at 915 KoontzRd, Chehalis. Viewingevery Friday beginning
@ 8:30am. Call360-330-2442 for
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SMOKER CRAFTALUMINIUM BOAT
5hp, oars, 2 gas tanks,life jackets, anchor,$600 or best offer.PLASMA CUTTER
Like new, $75.1935 CHEVY
4 DOORSuicide Doors
3300 miles, V8, custompaint & interior, many
extras, appraised for $35K,selling for $19,600
or best offer.For further details,call 360-219-3234
Yellow Finnish Potatoes
50lb large, $25. 50lb medi-um, $20. Also available25lb & 10lb. Lubbe Farms,211 Brady Loop Rd. E,Montesano. 360-249-3466or 360-581-9954.
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NOTICE OFTRUSTEE'S SALE
TS No.: 2016-00056-WAAPN No.: 55901100102
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVENthat the undersigned Trustee,Western Progressive - Wash-ington, Inc., will on 10/13/2017,at the hour of 10:00 AM, atThurston County CourthouseOutside Main Entrance Build-ing 3, 2000 Lakeridge Dr SW,Olympia WA 98502, State ofWashington, sell at publicauction to the highest and bestbidder, payable at the time ofsale, the following describedreal property, situated in theCounty(ies) of Thurston, Stateof Washington to-wit: LEGALDESCRIPTION: LOT 2 OFSHORT SUBDIVISION NO.SS - 962868TC, AS RECOR-DED JANUARY 14, 1998UNDER AUDITOR`S FILE NO.3129810, RECORDS OFTHURSTON COUNTY AUDI-TOR; SITUATE IN THECOUNTY OF THURSON,STATE OF WASHINGTON.Commonly known as: 7224James Road SOUTHWEST,Rochester, WA 98579The undersigned Trustee dis-claims any liability for anyincorrectness of the abovestreet or other common desig-nation. Which is subject to thatcertain Deed of Trust dated1 0 / 1 9 / 2 0 0 6 , r e c o r d e d10/31/2006, under Auditor'sFile No.3877491, Book -Page-,records of Thurston County,Washington, from John RBlacklaw AND SHERRY LBlacklaw, HUSBAND ANDWIFE as Grantor, to LANDA-MERICA TRANSNATION asTrustee, to secure an obliga-tion in favor of HOMECOM-INGS FINANCIAL, LLC (F/K/AHOMECOMINGS FINANCIALNETWORK, INC.), AS LEND-ER, MORTGAGE ELECTRON-IC REGISTRATION SYS-TEMS, INC., AS BENEFICIA-RY as Beneficiary, the benefi-cial interest in which wasassigned to Deutsche BankTrust Company Americas, asTrustee for Residential Accred-it Loans, Inc., MortgageAsset-Backed Pass-ThroughCertificates Series 2006-QS16under an assignment recordedon April 8, 2010, under Audi-tor's File No. as Instrument No.4145015, Bk. in Book -, Pg. atPage - , records of ThurstonCounty, Washington. II. Noaction commenced by theBeneficiary of the Deed ofTrust is now pending to seeksatisfaction of the obligation inany Court by reason of theBorrower's or Grantor's default
MULTI-FAMILYYARD SALE!
October 7 & 8, 10-4.138 Jubb Rd.,
Chehalis, WA 98532.Furniture, toys, tools,home decor, pictures,clothes, kitchen itemsitems & much more!
No Early Birds!
FIREWOODGood quality clean
firewood, $160 cord.360-749-2923
2001 Buick Century:$1000. 360-978-4642
Wagner paint machine,needs worked on, somenew parts. 360-736-3631
TOLEDO
YARD SALE!Thurs, 10-6, Fri, 10-6,Sat, 2-6, & Sun, 2-6.October 5, 6, 7 & 8.127 Shoreline Dr,
Toledo, WA 98591.Hunting & fishing gear,tools, remote controlplanes & cars, crab rings,2000 Prowler 5th wheel,ducks, household items &clothing.
2010 Ford Ranger XL: newbrakes, very clean, 106Kmiles, $8000. Bank loanvalue, $9500. 360-508-3449
WANTED: Wood stove.360-262-9332
BIG MOVING SALE!October 6 & 7, 8-4 &
Ocotber 8, 9-3.130 Arbor Crest Dr.,Chehalis, WA 98532.
Tools, shop & garden,books, furniture, electron-ics, miscellaneous, camp-ing gear, cameras & more!
VAN WANTED83 year old single womanwho's daughter lives withher and that takes care ofher is seeking a van, canmake low monthly pay-ments! 360-273-7057
Upland bird hunting coat &pants with leather facing,game pouch in back, size46, $50. 360-291-2514
WANTED: 8' used canopyfor a 2005 Dodge 3/4 ton.360-736-8500INDOOR
MOVING SALE!Saturday,
October 7, 8-3.125 Segura Ridge Rd,Mossyrock, WA 98564.
Off Tanglewood Rd.Everything priced to sell!Furniture, electronics,housewares, toys, shopitems & miscellaneous.
Trout Unlimited pontoonboat, nice, one-man, withoars, $100 firm. 360-748-3827
RYOBI chainsaw, goodcondition, used very little,$75. 360-262-3534
RYOBI 18V drill with lithi-um battery & charger, likenew, $40. 360-262-3534
Minn Kota electric motor,out board, 5 speed for-ward, 3 speed reverse,nice, $ 80. 360-748-3827
1975 Prowler 23' TravelTrailer: dual axle, 2 pro-pane tanks, sleeps 4, fullkitchen & bath, $3500/of-fer. 12' aluminum boat:trailer & motor, $1400.22' Bayliner boat & trail-er, 1975 less than 200hours on boat "Skagit".Call 360-266-8718, Loca-tion is 216 US Highway12 Chehalis Wa
OLYMPIAESTATE SALE!
Fri & Sat,October 6 & 7, 9-5.6101 18th Ave SE,Lacey, WA 98509.
House & garage Full! New& used CDs & DVDs,multiple sets of exerciseequipment & videos neverused, home office furni-ture, multiple computers &printers, BOSE speakers,sewing machine & newserger, 2 new pressurecookers, multiple sets ofstainless steel Oneita sil-verware, Belgique pots &pans, new & used dishsets, table full of newadvantage Tupperware,lawn mower, chipper,washer & dryer, freezer,microwave, Wen products,lazer hair removal, hun-dreds of new felt coveredhangers, Pyrex bowls,room full of hardbackbooks, oak dinning setwith 6 chairs, 4 piece oakqueen bedroom set, Kirby& Rainbow vacuum clean-ers & lots of other miscel-laneous.
YARD SALE!Sat & Sun,
October 7 & 8, 10-4.1010 Crosby Ave,
Centralia, WA 98531.Off-road bicycle, house-wares & some clothing!
on the obligation secured bythe Deed of Trust. III. Thedefault(s) for which this fore-closure is made is/are asfollows: Failure to pay whendue the following amountswhich are now in arrears:$15,589.75; (together with anysubsequent payments, latecharges, advances, costs andfees thereafter due) IV. Thesum owing on the obligationsecured by the Deed of Trustis: Principal Balance of$147,654.97, together with in-terest as provided in the noteor other instrument securedfrom 07/01/2016, and suchother costs and fees as aredue under the Note or otherinstrument secured, and as areprovided by statute. V. Theabove-described real propertywill be sold to satisfy theexpense of sale and theobligation secured by the Deedof Trust as provided by statute.The sale will be made withoutwarranty, express or implied,regarding title, possession orencumbrances on 10/13/2017.The default(s) referred to inparagraph III, must be curedby 10/02/2017 (11 days beforethe sale date), to cause adiscontinuance of the sale. Thesale will be discontinued andterminated if at any time on orbefore 10/02/2017 (11 daysbefore the sale date), thedefault(s) as set forth inparagraph III is/are cured andthe Trustee's fees and costsare paid. The sale may beterminated any time after10/02/2017 (11 days beforethe sale date), and before thesale by the Borrower, Grantor,any Guarantor or the holder ofany recorded junior lien orencumbrance paying the entireprincipal and interest securedby the Deed of Trust, pluscosts, fees, and advances, ifany, made pursuant to theterms of the obligation and/orDeed of Trust and curing allother defaults. VI. A writtennotice of default was transmit-ted by the Beneficiary orTrustee to the Borrower andGrantor at the following ad-dresses: See Exhibit "A" at-tached by both first class andcertified mail on 04/13/2017proof of which is in thepossession of the Trustee; andon 04/13/2017 the writtennotice of default was posted ina conspicuous place on thereal property described in theparagraph I above, and theTrustee has possession ofproof of such posting.VII. The Trustee whose nameand address are set forthbelow will provide in writing toanyone requesting it, a state-ment of all costs and fees dueat any time prior to the sale.VIII. The effect of the sale willbe to deprive the Grantor andall those who hold by, throughor under the Grantor of all theirinterest in the above-describedproperty. If the sale is set asidefor any reason, the purchaserat the sale shall be entitledonly to a return of the bidamount paid. The purchasershall have no further recourseagainst the Trustor, the Trust-ee, the Beneficiary or theBeneficiary's attorney. IX. Any-one having any objections tothe sale on any groundswhatsoever will be afforded anopportunity to be heard as tothose objections if they bring alawsuit to restrain the salepursuant to RCW 61.24.130.Failure to bring such a lawsuitmay result in a waiver of anyproper grounds for invalidatingthe Trustee's sale. X. NOTICETO OCCUPANTS OR TEN-ANTS The purchaser at thetrustee's sale is entitled topossession of the property onthe 20th day following the sale,as against the grantor underthe deed of trust (the owner)and anyone having an interestjunior to the deed of trust,including occupants who arenot tenants. After the 20th dayfollowing the sale the purchas-er has the right to evictoccupants who are not tenantsby summary proceedings un-der Chapter 59.12 RCW.For tenant-occupied property,the purchaser shall provide atenant with written notice inaccordance with RCW61.24.060; XI. NOTICE TOGUARANTORS (a) If you area guarantor of the obligationssecured by the deed of trust,you may be liable for adeficiency judgment to theextent the sale price obtainedat the trustee's sale is lessthan the debt secured by thedeed of trust. (b) You have thesame rights to reinstate thedebt, cure the default or repaythe debt as is given to thegrantor in order to avoid thetrustee's sale. (c) You will have
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100721 Clustering
NOTICE OF PUBLICHEARING
LEWIS COUNTYPLANNING COMMISSION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIV-EN that the LEWISCOUNTY, WASHINGTON,PLANNING COMMISSIONwill hold a public hearingon October 24, 2017,starting at or after 6:00p.m. to receive publictes t imony regard ingchanges to the LewisCounty standards relatedto clustered subdivisions,duplexes and accessorydwelling units. These revi-sions would amend thestandards that allow clus-tered subdivisions on ur-ban, rural and agriculturalresource lands; permit du-plexes as an allowed useon rural lands; and expandthe allowance of accessorydwelling units. Relatedchanges are also pro-posed.
The public hearing will beat the Lewis County Court-house, Commissioners'Hearing Room, 351 NWNorth Street, Chehalis,WA. At the hearing, individ-uals will be invited to speakand/or provide written
100550 Cancelation 10/10/17
NOTICE OFCANCELATION
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVENthat Public Utility District No. 1of Lewis County Board ofCommissioners have canceledthe regularly scheduled meet-ing and workshop at theDistrict's Chehalis Auditoriumon Tuesday, October 10, 2017.
Published: The ChronicleSeptember 28, 2017 & October5, 2017
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AUTOS WANTED
BUSINESS SERVICES
CABLE/SATELLITE
FINANCIAL SERVICES
HEALTH/BEAUTY
HEALTH/FITNESS/MEDICAL
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TAX SERVICES
100382 NTC: Sprague
SUPERIOR COURT OFWASHINGTON FOR
LEWIS COUNTYEstate of
LORRAINE J. SPRAGUE,
100699 Permittee/Operator
PUBLIC NOTICETransAlta Centralia Mining LLC (TCM) is the Permittee/Oper-ator of the Centralia Coal Mine located at 1015 Big HanafordRoad, Centralia, Washington 98531. TCM's principal place ofbusiness is the Centralia Coal Mine. The Mine receives mailat 913 Big Hanaford Road, Centralia, Washington 98531.TCM has applications for Phase I and II bond release withthe Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement(OSM) Denver, Colorado. Bond release applications pertainto TCM's coal mining operation under OSM Permit No.WA-0001E, issued on November 21, 2010, under regulationspromulgated by the Surface Mining Control and ReclamationAct of 1977, at 30 CFR Section 774.13 and Section 800.40.
Pursuant to 30 CFR Section 773.6(a)(1) (NewspaperAdvertisement and Proof of Publication), Section 773.6(a)(2)(Public Notice of Filing of Permit Applications) and Section800.40 (Requirements to release performance bonds) of therules and regulations of the Federal Program for WashingtonState, notice is hereby given of the filing of a bond releaseapplication for the Centralia Coal Mine located approximatelysix (6) miles northeast of Centralia, Washington.
TCM is proposing bond release applications on reclaimedland in the Central Packwood Pit. The attached map showsroads and other landmarks associated with the location ofthe permit area, the location of the bond release areas andportions of the boundary of the permit. Phase I bond releaseof approximately 488.1 acres is being sought for Parcels A-Fand Phase II bond release on 194.2 acres for Parcels A-D.
Elements of the bond release applications include Phase I(488.1 acres) and Phase II (194.2 acres) release of thepermanent program land within the following abbreviatedlegal descriptions:
CENTRAL FIELD TRACTS(Abbreviated Legal Descriptions)
A portion of Section 34, a portion of the East Half of Section33, a portion of the Southeast Quarter of Section 28 and aportion of the South Half of Section 27, all in Township 15North, Range 1 West, Willamette Meridian, Lewis County,Washington. Should any vested stakeholder require a moredetailed description contact TransAlta Centralia Mining LLCat the telephone number listed below.
The area proposed was reclaimed between 2008 and 2016to the designs of the approved reclamation plan includingfinal slope grading, topsoil placement, installation of drainagecontrol structures and seeding with grass cover. The finalstage of reclamation consisting of tree planting wascompleted between March 2013 and April 2017.
TCM currently maintains a Surety Bond in the amount of$139,295,000. As part of this bond release application, TCMis requesting a Phase I bond reduction in the amount of$5,873,793.92 and a Phase II bond reduction of$2,740,686.25.
A copy of the bond release application is available for publicinspection at the following locations:1. TransAlta Centralia Mining LLC1015 Big Hanaford RoadCentralia, WA 98531
Call for Appointment (360) 330-81832. Office of Surface Mining - Olympia Area OfficeEvergreen Plaza Building711 Capital Way, Suite 703Olympia, WA 98501
3. United States Department of the InteriorOffice of Surface Mining - Western Region1999 Broadway, Suite 3320Denver, CO 80202-3050
Written comments, objections, or requests for an informalconference regarding this application must be filed withinthirty (30) days after the last date of publication of thisnewspaper notice. All written comments, objections, orrequests for an informal conference should be addressed to:David Costain, Environmental Protection SpecialistOffice of Surface Mining- Western Region1999 Broadway, Suite 3320Denver, CO 80201-6667
This public notice will be published at least once per week forfour (4) consecutive weeks by the following:4. The Chronicle321 North Pearl St.Centralia, WA 98531
Published: The Chronicle October 5, 12, 19 & 26, 2017
100562 NTC: William ChrisRoberts
IN THE SUPERIORCOURT FOR LEWIS
COUNTY,WASHINGTONESTATE OF
William Chris Roberts,Deceased.
NO: 17-4-00284-21PROBATE NOTICE
TO CREDITORSRCW 11.40.030)
WILLIAM S. ROBERTS hasbeen appointed as personalrepresentative of this estate.Any person having a claimagainst the decedent mustbefore the time the claim wouldbe barred by any otherwiseapplicable statute of limita-tions, present the claim in themanner as provided in RCW11.40.070 by serving on ormailing to the personal repre-sentative or the personal rep-resentative's attorney at theaddress stated below, a copyof the claim and filing theoriginal of the claim with thecourt. The claim must bepresented within the later of:(1) thirty days after the person-al representative served or
100383 Dependency: LucyMorgan
IN THE SUPERIORCOURT OF THE STATE
OF WASHINGTONFOR THE COUNTY
OF LEWISJUVENILE COURT
DIVISION
IN RE THEDEPENDENCY OF:
LUCY MORGANDOB: 06/27/17
No. 17-7-00272-21NOTICE AND SUMMONS
FOR PUBLICATION(Dependency)
TO: UNKNOWN BIOLOG-ICAL FATHER
A Dependency Petitionwas filed on June 30,2017; A Fact Finding hear-ing will be held on thismatter on November 16,2017 at 1:30 pm at LewisCounty Superior Court,345 W. Main St., Cheha-lis, Washington 98532.YOU SHOULD BE PRES-ENT AT THIS HEARING.The hearing will deter-mine if your child isdependent as defined inRCW 13.34.050(5). Thisbegins a judicial processwhich could result inpermanent loss of yourparental rights. If you donot appear at the hear-ing, the court may entera dependency order inyour absence.To request a copy of theNotice, Summons, and De-pendency Petition, callDSHS at 360-807-7081 or1-800-562-6926. To viewinformation about yourrights, including right to a
100564 WALK IN THE PARKVRH RMZ
NOTICE OFPUBLIC TIMBER SALE
Department of Natural Resour-ces will auction timber to thehighest bidder. Contract termsand bidding information isavailable by calling PacificC a s c a d e R e g i o n a t360-577-2025 or by visiting theRegion Office at Castle Rockor Product Sales & LeasingDivision, Olympia. Bidding in-formation may also be ob-tained at the County Auditor'soffice. Bidding begins at 10:00a.m. at the Pacific CascadeRegion Office, Castle Rock,WA, on November 16, 2017.WALK IN THE PARK VRHRMZ, App. No. 095616, ap-proximately 13 miles by roadMossyrock on part(s) of Sec-tions 30, 31 and 32 all inTownship 12 North, Range 2East, W.M., comprising ap-proximately 2,447 Mbf of Tim-ber. This sale is ExportRestricted.OFFICIAL NOTICE OFDATE AND PLACEFOR COMMENCINGAN APPEAL:Notice is given under SEPA,RCW 43.21C.075, WAC197-11-680 of Department ofNatural Resource's action de-scribed in (4) below.1. Any person whose propertyrights or interests will be
100689 SEPA #: 2017 0348
SEPA #: 2017 0348Date: October 2, 2017
NOTICE OF APPLICATIONAND MITIGATED
DETERMINATION OFNONSIGNIFICANCE
Description of proposal: Con-struct three mini storage build-ings, totaling 12,600 sq. ft. andassociated infrastructure.
Proponent: Charles Nelson
Location of proposal: 818 NGold Street
Date of Application: July 27,2017 Date of Notice of Com-pleteness: September 28,2017
Lead agency: Centralia Com-munity Development
Project Permits: SEPA, SitePlan Review, Fill & Grade, CivilPlan, Building.
Environmental Documents onfile: SEPA Checklist, WetlandsReport.
The City of Centralia Commun-ity Development Dept. hasdetermined this project doesnot have a probable significantadverse impact on the environ-ment with mitigating condi-tions. An Environmental ImpactStatement (EIS) is not requiredunder RCW 43.21C.030(2)(c).This decision was made afterreview of a completed environ-mental checklist and otherinformation on file with theCity. The proposal may includemitigation measures under ap-plicable codes and the projectreview process may incorpo-rate or require mitigationmeasures regardless of wheth-er an EIS is prepared.
Notes and conditions:1. If excavation is proposed acultural resources study maybe required. Inadvertent dis-covery language will be acondition of future permits.Recommendations and restric-tions of the wetland report,dated August 30, 2017, mustbe adhered to or a mitigationplan approved prior to com-mencing work.
2. This MDNS is issued underWAC 197-11-350; the City ofCentralia will not act on this
100466 NTC: Barbara E. Willis
IN THE SUPERIOR COURTOF THE STATE OF
WASHINGTONFOR LEWIS COUNTYIN THE MATTER OF
THE ESTATE OFBARBARA E. WILLIS,
Deceased.No. 17 4 00283 21
PROBATE NOTICETO CREDITORS[RCW 11.40.030]
The Personal Representativenamed below has been ap-pointed and has qualified asPersonal Representative ofthis Estate. Any person havinga claim against the decedentmust, before the time the claimwould be barred by anyotherwise applicable statute oflimitations, present the claim inthe manner as provided inRCW 11.40.070 by serving onor mailing to the PersonalRepresentative or the PersonalRepresentative's attorney atthe address stated below acopy of the claim and filing theoriginal of the claim with thecourt in which the probateproceedings were com-menced. The claim must bepresented within the later of:(1) Thirty days after thePersonal Representativeserved or mailed the notice tothe creditor as provided underRCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or (2)four months after the date offirst publication of the notice. Ifthe claim is not presentedwithin this time frame, theclaim is forever barred, exceptas otherwise provided in RCW11.40.051 and 11.40.060. Thisbar is effective as to claimsagainst both the Decedent'sprobate and nonprobate as-sets.DATE OF FIRST PUBLICA-TION: September 28, 2017./s/ Kirk E. Willis,Personal RepresentativeATTORNEYS FOR ESTATE:William T. HillierWSBA #8059Hillier, Scheibmeir & Kelly,P.S.299 N. W. Center StreetP. O. Box 939Chehalis, WA 98532Phone: (360) 748-3386
Published: The ChronicleSeptember 28, 2017 & October5 & 12, 2017
Found, 9/23/17, Winlockarea, Padlock & Keys.Please call Lewis CountySheriff's Office to describea n d c l a i m , c a s e #17C11779. 360-740-1470
Deceased.No. 17-4-0025221
PROBATE NOTICETO CREDITORS
The Personal Representativenamed below has been ap-pointed as Personal Represen-tative of this estate. Anyperson having a claim againstthe Decedent must, before thetime the claim would be barredby any otherwise applicablestatute of limitations, presentthe claim in the manner asprovided in RCW 11.40.070 byserving on or mailing to thePersonal Representative or thePersonal Representative's at-torney at the address statedbelow a copy of the claim andfiling the original of the claimwith the court. The claim mustbe presented within the laterof: (1) Thirty days after thePersonal Representativeserved or mailed the notice tothe creditor as provided underRCW 11.40.020(3); or (2) fourmonths after the date of firstpublication of the notice. If theclaim is not presented withinthis time frame, the claim isforever barred, except asotherwise provided in RCW1 1 . 4 0 . 0 5 1 a n d R C W11.40.060. This bar is effectiveas to claims against both theprobate assets and nonprobateassets of the Decedent.
Date of First Publication:9/21/17WILFORD H. SPRAGUEPersonal RepresentativeAttorneys for PersonalRepresentative:
Michael A. Claxton,WSBA #25095WALSTEADMERTSCHING PSCivic Center Building,Third Floor1700 Hudson StreetPO Box 1549Longview,Washington 98632-7934Telephone: (360) 423-5220
Published: The ChronicleSeptember 21 & 28, 2017 &October 5, 2017
mailed the notice to thecreditor as provided underRCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or (2)four months after the date offirst publication of the notice. Ifthe claim is not presentedwithin this time frame, theclaim is forever barred, exceptas otherwise provided in RCW11.40.051 and 11.40.060. Thisbar is effective as to claimsagainst both the decedent'sprobate and nonprobate as-sets.DATE OF FIRST PUBLICA-TION: September 28, 2017.Roberta Church,WSBA #26842Attorney for the Estate331 NW Park Street,Chehalis, WA 98532Phone 360-740-1648/Fax 360-345-1209
Published: The ChronicleSeptember 28, 2017 & October5 & 12, 2017
statements regarding theproposed changes. All indi-viduals wishing to speakon the issue are encour-aged to attend. Writtencomments may be submit-ted in advance of thehearing to the contactbelow.
F r e d E v a n d e r a t360.740.1389 or fred.evander
@lewiscoutywa.gov.
Details about the proposalare available online at www
.lewiscountywa.gov/communitydev
elopment. Hard copies areavailable at the LewisCounty Community Devel-opment Department at2025 NE Kresky Ave.,Chehalis WA; at the Tim-berland Regional librarieslocated in Chehalis, Cen-tralia, Salkum, Randle,Packwood, and Winlock;and at the Lewis CountySenior Centers in Morton,Packwood, Toledo, TwinCities (Chehalis), and Win-lock.
The meeting site is barrierfree; people needing spe-cial assistance or accom-modations should contactthe Community Develop-ment Department 72 hoursin advance of the meeting.
Published: The ChronicleOctober 5, 2017
proposal for 15-days from thedate of publication.
Comments are due by:October 20, 2017.
Responsible official:Hillary HokePosition/title Planner,City of Centralia -Community DevelopmentPhone: (360) 330-7684Email:[email protected]: PO Box 609,Centralia WA 98531
The complete application maybe viewed at the CommunityDevelopment Dept. located at118 W Maple, Centralia, WA98531, during regular businesshours, M-F. Any person(s) maycomment on the proposal, inwriting, via mail or email at theaddresses above. You mayappeal this determination toCity of Centralia - CommunityDevelopment. All appeals mustbe filed in writing, with theappropriate fee, by 5:00 pm onOctober 27, 2017. You should
be prepared to make specificfactual objections. If you haveany questions regarding theSEPA or appeal processesplease contact the Responsi-ble Official.
Published: The ChronicleOctober 5, 2017
affected and feels himselfaggrieved by the Departmentaction may appeal to LewisCounty Superior Court within30 days of October 3, 2017,pursuant to RCW 79.02.030.2. Any action to set aside,enjoin, review, or otherwisechallenge such action on thegrounds of noncompliance withthe provisions of RCW 43.21C(State Environmental PolicyAct) shall be commenced on orbefore November 2, 2017.3. Pursuant to WAC197-11-680(4)(d), no appealmay be filed under RCW43.21C more than 30 daysafter the date in (1) above,unless an appeal was filedunder RCW 79.02.030 as in (1)above.4. Description of DepartmentAction: Approval for sale of theproposed timber sale(s),shown above.5. Type of environmental re-view under SEPA: A determi-nation of non-significance ormitigated determination ofnon-significance was issuedfor each timber sale.6. Documents may be exam-ined during regular businesshours at the Region Office ofthe Department of NaturalResources and at OlympiaHeadquarters, Product Sales &Leasing Division, 1111 Wash-ington St. SE, Olympia, WA98504-7016, 360-902-1600.7. This notice filed by: SteveOgden, Assistant Region Man-ager, Pacific Cascade RegionOffice, P.O. Box 280, CastleRock, WA 98611-0280360-577-2025.
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no right to redeem the propertyafter the trustee's sale. (d)Subject to such longer periodsas are provided in the Wash-ington deed of trust act,chapter 61.24 RCW, any ac-tion brought to enforce aguaranty must be commencedwithin one year after thetrustee's sale, or the lasttrustee's sale under any otherdeed of trust granted to securethe same debt. THIS NOTICEIS THE FINAL STEP BEFORETHE FORECLOSURE SALEOF YOUR HOME. You haveonly 20 DAYS from therecording date on this notice topursue mediation. DO NOTDELAY. CONTACT A HOUS-ING COUNSELOR OR ANATTORNEY LICENSED INWASHINGTON NOW to as-sess your situation and referyou to mediation if you areeligible and it may help yousave your home. See below forsafe sources of help. SEEK-ING ASSISTANCE Housingcounselors and legal assis-tance may be available at littleor no cost to you. If you wouldlike assistance in determiningyour rights and opportunities tokeep your house, you maycontact the following: Thestatewide foreclosure hotlinefor assistance and referral tohousing counselors recom-mended by the Housing Fi-nance Commission: Tele-phone: (877) 894 -4663. Web-site: http://www.homeownership.wa.govThe United States Departmentof Housing and Urban Devel-opment: Telephone: (800)569-4287.Website: http://www.hud.govThe statewide civil legal aidhotline for assistance andreferrals to other housingcounselors and attorneys: Tel-ephone:(800) 606-4819. Web-site: http://nwjustice.org/get-legal-help DATE: Trustee: West-ern Progressive - Washington,Inc. Trustee address: 360015th Avenue West, Suite 200,Office C Seattle, Washington98119 Trustee telephone num-ber: 1-206- 876-9986___________________STATE OF Georgia )
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On _______________ beforeme, ____________ Personallyappeared ________________who proved to me on the basisof satisfactory evidence to bethe person(s) whose name(s)is/are subscribed to the withininstrument and acknowledgedto me that he/she/they execu-ted the same in his/her/theirauthorized capacity(ies), andthat by his/her/their signa-ture(s) on the instrument theperson(s), or the entity uponbehalf of which the person(s)acted, executed the instru-ment.WITNESS my hand and officialseal.___________ Notary Name(Seal)Exhibit "A" Name andAddresses: John R BlacklawAND SHERRY L Blacklaw,HUSBAND AND WIFE 7224James Road SOUTHWEST,Rochester, WA 98579 WEST-ERN PROGRESSIVE -WASHINGTON, INC., MAY BEACTING AS A DEBT COL-LECTOR ATTEMPTING TOCOLLECT A DEBT. ANYINFORMATION OBTAINEDMAY BE USED FOR THATPURPOSE.
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lawyer, go to www.atg.wa.gov/DPY.aspx.DATED this 18th day ofSeptember, 2017.SCOTT TINNEY,County ClerkTrisha Auman, SuperiorCourt Deputy Clerk
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