The mother of the 2-year-old girl who was tortured to death last May at the hands of the Centralia woman’s boyfriend is expected to plead guilty to felony criminal mistreatment next week.
The 31-year-old mother of two, Becky He-upel, accepted a plea agreement and will likely plead guilty to second-degree criminal mis-treatment next Friday, said Lewis Coun-ty Deputy Prosecutor Shane O’Rourke.
A sentencing hearing will take place at a later date.
Second-degree criminal mis-treatment alleges that a parent
recklessly created an imminent and substantial risk of death or great bodily harm for his or her child, according to the statute. It is a class C felony, and while it carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison, the stan-
dard range for someone with no criminal history, such as Heu-pel, is between six months and a year.
O’Rourke said the prosecu-tion will recommend she serve a year and a day, which is the higher end of the standard range. If she gets sentenced to the prosecution’s recommenda-
tion, she will go to prison, not the county jail.
As a result of the plea agree-ment, she must enter a direct plea — not a so-called Alford plea, like her ex-boyfriend, James M. Reeder, used when pleading guilty to rape, murder
Vader Man Drowns After Canoe Capsizes in Stillwater Creek DROWNING: Man and His Wife Were Not Wearing Life Jackets
A 57-year-old Vader man died after his canoe capsized in Stillwater Creek Thursday night, according to Lewis County Sheriff ’s Office.
John Handel was canoeing with his 38-year-old wife when their two-person plastic canoe capsized near the 1400 block of state Route 506, according to a press release from the sheriff ’s office.
The woman called 911 at about 8:30 p.m. to report that she was able to swim to shore, but her husband had disap-peared under the water after trying to hold onto the canoe, according to the release. The couple started the canoe trip near their residence on the 100 block of Brim Creek Road and had planned to canoe to Brim Creek Bridge. They did not have life jackets.
It is unknown whether al-cohol was involved, said Chief Deputy Stacy Brown, spokes-woman for the sheriff ’s office.
Stillwater Creek is not a creek known for canoeing be-
When 24-year-old Don Gon-zales attacked a state trooper last July on the shoulder of Interstate 5, he had been off his medica-tion for nearly a year.
Gonzales, a paranoid schizo-phrenic, had recently lost his job
at Safeway and had been kicked out of his aunt’s house. He could no longer cook for himself, and needed assistance turning the shower on and off.
“Without my medicine, it’s difficult to be around people,” Gonzales said.
In the days leading up to the attack, which led to a four-
month stint in the Lewis County Jail, Gonzales was convinced someone had put a $1 million bounty on his head, and that people were hunting him.
On July 3, 2012, Gonzales was contacted by Trooper Rob-ert Moore on the side of Inter-state 5. In Gonzales’ mind, he said, the trooper was not a po-
lice officer — he was someone wanting to kill him.
Gonzales threw a semi-truck lug nut at Moore’s face, hitting him right below the eye and breaking his nose and glasses. The trooper tackled him and the two men fought until two other
Mother of Slain Toddler to Plead Guilty‘‘She has to take the responsibility.’’
Don Gonzales sits near the Chehalis River in Lintott-Alexander Park on Friday, April 5, in Chehalis. Last July, Gonzales was arrested for allegedly throwing a semi-truck lug
nut at a state trooper’s face. The 24-year-old, who was recently acquitted of three counts of assault and attempt to disarm an oicer, says that when he wasn’t taking his
medication for schizophrenia he would walk to the Chehalis park and ind a quiet place where he could listen to music and be alone.
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Intertribal Agency to Host Art Auction, Dinner
The South Puget Intertribal Planning Agency will be hosting its 13th annual Native American Art Auction and Dinner at the Lucky Eagle Casino Event Cen-ter, Rochester, tonight.
There will be 32 or more quality pieces in the live auc-tion (ranging from art to stays at resorts) as well as a number of high-quality pieces on silent tables. A buffet of freshly caught seafood will be offered. The doors open at 5:30.
This year donations include originals from such renowned native artists as Roger Fer-nandes (Lower Elwha S’Klallam), Chholing Taha (Cree), Matthew Bell (Squaxin Island) and a unique wooden plaque by Odin Lonning (Tlingit).
Limited edition prints came from Malynn Foster and Jenni-fer Johns (both Squaxin Island). Squaxin Island Elder Paula Hen-ry wove a traditional cedar hat. There’s an opportunity to bid on a limited edition print by the late Randy Capoeman (Quinault, 1956-2008).
The mission of SPIPA is to deliver social, human and health services and provide training and technical services, resource development and planning to Chehalis, Nisqually, Shoalwater Bay, Skokomish and Squaxin Is-land tribal communities.
To visit the organization’s auction website, go to brownpa-pertickets.com.
White Pass Ski Area to Hold Wine Festival
The High Class at White Pass Wine Festival will be held at the White Pass Ski Area today.
In addition to wine tasting and fabulous food, there will be a silent auction featuring every-thing from handmade quilts to guided fishing to wines.
The Wine Festival is a fund-raiser for the White Pass Volun-
teer Ski Patrol. Tickets are avail-able from volunteer patrollers or the ski shop.
Games Day, traditional and modern board games, card games, 1 p.m., Matrix Coffeehouse, Chehalis, (360) 740-0492
Open house, Mossyrock Grange, 1-3 p.m., 152 Isbell Road, Mossyrock, giving away clothing and other items, (360) 983-3874
“Wait Until Dark,” 8 p.m., Evergreen Playhouse, Centralia, $15, tickets avail-able at Book ‘n’ Brush, Chehalis; Santa Lucia Coffee and Sterling Bank, Centra-lia; and brownpapertickets.com
Open house, Borst Home and One-Room Schoolhouse, 1:30-3:30 p.m., Fort Borst Park, Centralia
Pop Offs, rock, 9 p.m.-1 a.m., Scatter Creek Grill, Lucky Eagle Casino, (360) 273-2000, ext. 301
Hugelkultur raised bed construc-tion, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Salkum Timberland Library demo garden, preregistration required, sponsored by Lewis County Master Gardeners, 740-1212
Twin Cities Rotary Poker Night, Texas Hold’em, $5,000 for first place (based on 100 players), $125 buy-in, no rebuys, tick-ets at Holiday Inn Express or call (360) 864-2946.
Crab and oyster dinner, 5-8 p.m., Chehalis Masonic Temple, 123 Main St., Chehalis, $20, 748-7671
Libraries
Gardening With Hugelkultur, for adults, 10 a.m., Salkum
Reromanticizing Your Relationship, talk by couples therapists Betsy and Bruce Bergquist, 1:30 p.m., Centralia
Organizations
Prairie Steppers Square and Round Dance Club, 7:30-10:30 p.m., $5, potluck at break, Oakview Grange, Centralia, (360) 736-5172 or (360) 273-6008
Friends of the Winlock Timberland Li-brary, 11 a.m., Winlock Timberland Library
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Museum Event to Feature Battle of Chancellorsville
The Veterans Memorial Mu-seum will be commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Civil War with an event at 10 a.m. today.
The first event for this year will focus on the Battle of Chan-cellorsville.
Historians representing the artillery, infantry, Navy, Ma-rines and civilians will be on hand to give demonstrations and lend their expertise in their historical understandings of the events and life around the time of the American Civil War. Speaking presentations will begin at 11 a.m.. At noon, a sandwich lunch will be avail-able.
The Battle of Chancellors-
ville was one of the major battles of the Civil War. It was fought between April 30 and May 6, 1863, in Spotsylvania County, Va. The battle was remarkable in that Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Con-federate Army of Northern Vir-ginia was pitted against a force twice its size and led by Gen. Jo-seph Hooker.
Lee was able to exact his victory through daring engage-ments while Hooker’s Army of the Potomac languished in his inability to make bold deci-sions in the heat of battle. How-ever, Lee’s bold and daring Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson was mortally wounded by one of his own men in the confusion of the battle.
Support Groups
Alzheimer’s support group, 10:30 a.m-noon, Cooks Hills Community Church, 2400 Cooks Hill Road, Centralia, (360) 628-4980
Senior Centers
Twin Cities Senior Center, (360) 748-0061
Game room, 10-a.m.-1 p.m.
Toledo Senior Center, (360) 864-2112
Pancake breakfast, $5
Sunday, April 14Bingo, doors open 5 p.m., bingo
starts 6:30 p.m., Forest Grange, 3397 Jackson Highway, Chehalis
“Wait Until Dark,” 2 p.m., Evergreen Playhouse, Centralia, $10, tickets avail-able at Book ‘n’ Brush, Chehalis; Santa Lucia Coffee and Sterling Bank, Centra-lia; and brownpapertickets.com.
Monday, April 15Bingo, Chehalis Moose Lodge, doors
open at 4:30 p.m., game starts at 6:30 p.m.; food available, (360) 736-9030
Burger Night, 5-7:30 p.m., Centralia Eagles, quarter-pound hamburgers, $1.50, other menu items, (360) 736-1146
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
Centralia Steam Team, 6-8 p.m, Cen-tralia City Light, 1100 N. Tower Ave.
Organizations
Centralia Lions Club, 6:30 p.m., Den-
ny’s Restaurant, Centralia, (360) 736-8766
White Pass Historical Society, 6 p.m., old Packwood Elementary School, Packwood
Senior CentersTwin Cities Senior Center, (360)
748-0061
Art class, 10 a.m.
Bingo, 10 a.m.
Pinochle tournament, 1 p.m.
Lunch, noon, $3 suggested donation
Martial arts/Kokondo, 6-8 p.m.
Morton Senior Center, (360) 496-3230
Tai Chi exercise, 8:30-9 a.m.
Open recreation, pool 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Pinochle, 10 a.m.
Live music by Highway 12 East band, 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
CCS nutrition lunch, noon, $3 dona-tion $3
Olequa (Winlock) Senior Center, (360) 785-4325
Low impact aerobics, 9-10 a.m.
Dominoes, 10-11 a.m.
Paper party, 11-a.m.-noon
Cook’s choice lunch, noon-1 p.m.
Zumba class, 6-7 p.m.
Packwood Senior Center, (360) 494-6331
Coffee katch, 9 a.m.
Pinochle, 10 a.m.
Pinochle and board games, 1 p.m.
Toledo Senior Center, (360) 864-2112
Pinochle, noon, $1
Exercise class, 8:30-9:30 a.m.
Open pool, 9:30 a.m
Water coloring, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Cook’s choice lunch, 11:30 a.m.
Wood carving class, 1-3 p.m.
Quilting class, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
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Lewis County’s two greatest challenges — devastating flood-ing and a stagnant economy — have been pitted against each other as county planners decide how to implement national flood insurance programs locally.
Adopting a revised flood plain ordinance, with stricter standards, as well as taking other measures to reduce and prevent flood damage, could help Lewis County receive an improved score with the Com-munity Rating System, a FEMA-managed program.
The crux of the issue is the freeboard standard, a safety reg-ulation expressed in feet above a flood level that is required on new construction.
The current standard is a 1-foot freeboard above 1996 flood levels.
Under consideration — and currently before the planning commission for consideration
— is an increase to a 3-foot free-board
County Commissioners Lee Grose and Bill Schulte at a meet-ing earlier this week said they are adamantly opposed to the change.
Three feet will unnecessar-ily drive up the cost of new con-struction, they said.
“It’s an additional $20,000 to save $10 a month,” Grose said about increased building ex-pense. “Three feet is just wrong. That’s not treating our citizens right. It’s a stupid thing to do. It’s not going to wash with me.”
“That freeboard seems exces-sive,” Schulte added.
Furthermore, they said, it’s unlikely to make citizens any safer.
Though many houses elevat-ed to the current standard were damaged in the 2007 flood, that
event was a once in a lifetime and unprecedented, according to Grose.
“Don’t beat me up with ‘07 or ‘09, you cannot use ‘07. It was an anomaly, we all know it was an anomaly — even though FEMA won’t recognize it as an anomaly,” he said. “It will be a thousand years before we have another ‘07 flood.”
Commissioner Edna Fund, Community Development Di-rector Lee Napier and County Building Official Fred Chapman, however, said they see merits to implementing a higher standard.
“I feel this is the right track for us to go. Sitting on the Flood Au-thority, this falls in line with what we’re trying to do,” Fund said at the meeting earlier this week.
Especially, she added, be-cause in the past the county has been accused of not doing enough to prevent and prepare for flooding.
For Napier, safety is a prima-ry concern.
“If it saves just one life, I think that makes it worth it,” she said in an interview on Friday.
The revised floodplain or-dinance will be reviewed and amended by the planning com-mission but ultimately will be decided by the County Com-mission.
The change takes on in-creased importance and com-plexity in light of FEMA’s long-awaited issuance of revised floodplain maps. Lewis County officials have not yet seen the map, but expect an expanded floodplain — and, accordingly, pricey flood insurance for a greater number of citizens.
“Even if the structure is lo-cated outside of the floodplain,
you can still be required to have insurance. That has become very more prevalent with people refinancing,” Napier said Friday.
“Local lending institutions might know your house isn’t in the floodplain even though the map says so, but that decision goes off to somebody else.”
Federal lending institutes determine whether or not to re-quire flood insurance, and if the map shows land in the flood-plain, the owner will have to get flood insurance, she added.
The county commissioners said they are apprehensive about the map changes.
“They want to maximize pre-miums and minimize claims,” Schulte said.
“Anyone that’s hired by FEMA I don’t trust,” Grose added. “I don’t care what rating they put on it. They’re a bunch of crooks.”
In addition to the revised floodplain ordinance, a CRS official will review criteria in-cluding the county’s emergency management plan, drainage and stormwater management sys-tems and reduction of repetitive loss while evaluating the coun-ty’s eligibility for CRS renewal and a possible score upgrade.
FEMA and the Community Rating System’s ImportanceBy The Chronicle
A better score with the Com-munity Rating System suppos-edly denotes a better, safer com-munity, one where — despite the threat of natural disasters
— citizens enjoy affordable insur-ance rates.
Every five years, FEMA evalu-ates and issues a new community rating for Lewis County.
During its last evaluation, FEMA gave Lewis County a 7 on its 10-point scale, in which 1 is the best possible rating.
County Officials Divided on Proposed Floodplain Regulation
‘‘Don’t beat me up with ‘07 or ‘09, you cannot use ‘07. It was an anomaly, we all know it was an anomaly —
even though FEMA won’t recognize it as an anomaly. It will be a thousand
years before we have another ‘07.” Lee Grose
Lewis County commissioner
A better score, a 5, for example, could provide citizens a reduc-tion in their premiums; up to $100 less per year.
But those regulatory stan-dards could significantly increase the cost of new construction.
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Bret Goss and his wife, Tina, both of Chehalis, got in line out-side CBS Bob Barker Studio in Los Angeles at 5:45 a.m. April 1 wait-ing for a chance to compete on the game show “The Price Is Right.”
“Before you go in, producers interview you and they pick who they think can keep that excite-ment up on stage,” Tina said.
“Bret was the second to last per-son called. We were freaking out.”
Bret, 44, a former Marine and current truck salesman, will appear on “The Price Is Right” Thursday, May 9, at 10 a.m. on CBS.
Bret had to sign multiple non-disclosure forms, so he can’t reveal the outcome of the show and how much he might have won.
“But I can say it’s going to be good TV,” Bret said.
The Chehalis couple said they have for a long time watched
“The Price Is Right” with their daughters and wanted to try their own luck with the show.
For their anniversary in 2007, Bret and Tina first attempted to get in the studio audience of about 300 people. Just before they got in line, both of them felt too sick to go on.
“We made the fatal mistake of getting pizza on the Sunset Strip,” Bret said. “It was miser-able.”
This time around, Tina said, they enjoyed every minute of the experience, even waiting in line for more than seven hours.
“Everybody was in a good mood,” Tina said. “It sounds re-ally corny, but it’s the ultimate melting pot. Every race, creed and color, everybody has a com-mon goal.”
One of the highlights for the couple was meeting host and comedian Drew Carey, known for his role on the sitcom “The Drew Carey Show,” and hosting the improv show “Whose Line is it Anyway?”
Carey commented on Bret’s T-shirt he made special for the show, Tina said. The shirt had a picture of the character Mimi from “The Drew Carey Show,” dressed like a character from the movie “Full Metal Jacket.”
“Drew looked at him and said, ‘I really like that shirt,’” Tina said.
Bret’s appearance on “The Price Is Right” is not the first for his family. His mother, Darlene Goss, won a dining room set on the game show 20 years ago, that the family still uses to this day.
“She actually got on stage and played the game Penny Ante, which they don’t even play any-more,” Bret said.
When Bret plays on “The Price Is Right,” it will be the second time in less than a year that he will have been on television. Bret was also on an episode of “Pawn Stars” on the History Channel last November. He sold a bowling ball replica of the one used in the
movie “Kingpin” for $50. Bret bought the bowling ball
five years ago in Centralia for $35. He then contacted “Pawn Stars” on the Internet and was invited down to Las Vegas last year.
“I’m taking my 15 minutes of fame,” Bret said.
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Chehalis Man to Appear on ‘The Price Is Right’
Courtesy photo
Bret and Tina Goss, of Chehalis, stand in front of a green screen of “The Price Is Right” wheel after Bret played on the game
show on April 1. Bret will appear on “The Price is Right” May 9 at 10 a.m. on CBS.
Courtesy photo
Bret Goss, of Chehalis, made this T-shirt special for his appearance on “The Price Is
Right.” The shirt shows the character MiMi from “The Drew Carey Show” dressed
like a character from the movie “Full Metal Jacket.” Both Goss and “The Price is
Right” host Drew Carey served in the Marines.
‘‘Drew looked at him and said, ‘I really like
that shirt.’’’
Tina Goss
recalling “The Price Is Right” host Drew Carey’s reaction to Bret Goss’ T-shirt
News in Brief
Family Fun Fest Returns to Centralia CollegeBy The Chronicle
“Brain games” are coming to Centralia College as part of Family Fun Fest on Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The event will take place in the Health & Wellness Center, located on the corner of Walnut and Iron streets on the college campus, to challenge youngsters and their parents to use their heads.
Family Fun Fest is a celebra-tion for toddler and preschool children and parents sponsored by the college’s Child and Fam-ily Studies Department.
The activities will include games, music, art, crafts and an obstacle course. Centralia police and Riverside Fire Authority ve-hicles and personnel will be on hand.
For more information, call (360) 736-9391, ext. 465.
Centralia College Student Receives Phi Theta Kappa RecognitionBy The Chronicle
A second-year Centralia Col-lege student has received the Phi Theta Kappa International Dis-tinguished Member of the Year Award.
Edward Riley was one of 30 to receive the honor for exem-plifying the hallmarks of PTK through service to the organi-zation, the college and the com-munity.
In addition to recently pub-lishing his first children’s book, Riley has been involved in the Fox Theatre restoration project, a community food drive, and is representing the college on the All-Washington Academic Team.
Riley is also removing inva-sive weeds from the Kiser Natu-ral Outdoor Learning Lab and
works in the Office of College Relations.
Chehalis Food Bank to Host Crockpot Cooking Class at Local ChurchBy The Chronicle
The Greater Chehalis Food Bank will host a crockpot cook-ing class Tuesday, May 2, at 6:30 p.m. at St. John’s Lutheran Church at 2190 Jackson High-way, Chehalis.
Attendees do not have to own a crockpot in order to at-tend.
Those who attend will be able to taste the meals prepared and also receive spices, recipes and other handouts.
To register, stop in the Great-er Chehalis Food Bank located at Yard Birds Mall & Event Cen-ter or call Sue Austin at (360) 748-6708.
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Centralia Public Works re-leased a study more than two years in the making this week that identifies ways to reduce the flooding of China Creek, in-cluding two options to store rain runoff.
“The reason for the study was to try to reduce the flooding of China Creek for our local busi-nesses,” Centralia Stormwater Operations Manager Kim Ash-more said. “We wanted to find out how much flow is coming down, how much can the creek hold and how we can minimize the runoff?”
The study found that his-torically two and a half inches of rainfall generates surface runoff that floods China Creek. Flooding of the urban waterway, which cuts through Centralia to the Chehalis River, occurs about every three and a half years.
The last flooding of China Creek occurred in 2009, ac-cording to the city and Eubanks Glass, located by the creek at 505 W. Main St.
“Eubanks is our best indica-tor of downtown flooding be-cause they are affected directly,” Public Works Director Kahle Jennings said.
Jennings said data in the study is anecdotal and his de-partment is planning to put in gauges to collect exact levels of China Creek.
“We are going to consider putting in some flow monitor-ing locations, particularly by the college to get some data,” Jen-nings said. “And maybe show there would be some more ben-efit if we did storage at Agnew Mill Ponds.”
The study said the major-ity of water runoff, more than
50 percent, is generated in the downtown area downstream of the Agnew Mill Ponds and McAtee storage locations.
Ashmore said the storage lo-cations could be built up with berms to hold more water run-off and reduce flooding in the downtown section of the creek.
However, the city would first
have to get permission or pur-chase the land.
“The city doesn’t own either parcel of land so we can’t do much on it without purchasing,” Ashmore said.
The historic problem areas along China Creek for flood-ing are by Halliday Road, Gold Street by the railroad crossing, downtown by Eubanks Glass and the connection to the Che-halis River.
The flood study cost less than $90,000, pulled from stormwater utility rates, to con-tract with HDR Consulting, Jen-nings said. The study may cost more if the city decides to ask for additional work.
With guidance from the study, the Public Works Depart-ment will continue to evaluate the two storage options, place gauges in the creek, remove fill from the creek to enhance the capacity and investigate other ways to reduce runoff, such as creating more rain gardens, Jen-nings said.
“We need to have a discussion on what the benefit is to the com-munity, what the desires of the community are, set some poli-cies and then we can move for-ward to try to implement some of those things,” Jennings said.
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Centralia Identifies Options to Reduce China Creek Flooding
Twelve school districts across Washington — including four in Lewis County — have received $11.2 million in grant funding to make energy efficiency up-grades as part of the 2012 Jobs Now Act.
The state Office of Superin-tendent of Public Instruction initially announced the grant re-cipients in mid-March but then found issues with the scoring process and had to review the competitive proposals. Through the review process, the Sno-qualmie Valley and Kennewick school districts lost funding that instead will go to the St. John-Endicott and North Franklin districts in Eastern Washington.
The funding will allow school districts — including Morton, Onalaska, Pe Ell and Winlock — to replace or up-grade outdated air, water, heat-ing and lighting systems, while lowering energy usage and waste as well as providing sub-stantial financial savings.
MORTON SCHOOL DISTRICT Busi-ness Manager Peggy Laudermilk said OSPI informed the district it would receive the $980,153 grant on March 11. But a week later, OSPI representatives said the state was re-evaluating the scoring of all of the 54 competi-tive grant applications.
“We were upset,” Laudermilk said. “I figured we were going to get less money.”
But, earlier this week, OSPI announced Morton would still receive nearly $1 million to buy
two new boilers, install a new control system for the HVAC system and put in fluorescent lighting in the Junior/Senior High School building.
“This is a real godsend to the Morton School District,” Laud-ermilk said.
ONALASKA SUPERINTENDENT Scott Fenter said he experienced a similar situation with the dis-trict’s nearly $1 million grant.
Nathan Olson, a spokesman for OSPI, said the state found some issues with the way they scored the grant applications so they had to hire new scorers to make sure the process was as fair and transparent as possible. One of the errors OSPI found was in the way cost-savings compared to the life cycle of energy equip-ment was evaluated. Another problem was the semantics of a particular question on the appli-cation, Olson said.
Fenter said he was relieved to hear Onalaska would still be able to use the $963,079 to up-grade the lighting in the middle school gymnasium and in the elementary and middle school cafeteria. The district will also replace both the elementary and middle school boilers and sys-tem information. At the high school, some of the heat pumps will be replaced with larger and more effective ones, Fenter said.
PE ELL SUPERINTENDENT Kyle MacDonald said he was con-cerned with the rescoring pro-cess because the district had al-ready announced it had received funding. Fortunately, he said, the district will still receive $994,987 to replace the existing boilers and 16 fan coil units in the majority of classrooms with heat pump units. The district will also upgrade the school’s lighting.
THE WINLOCK SCHOOL District will receive $519,071 to replace lighting, improve the heating and cooling systems and up-grading the field irrigation sys-tem, according to Superinten-dent Shannon Criss.
Criss said the savings to the district will be significant which is good for the entire community.
The four Lewis County school districts together pulled in more than $3.4 million in state funding to minimize envi-ronmental impacts while saving money.
The Napavine School District received one of OSPI’s energy efficiency grants last year. Su-perintendent Rick Jones said the district is already enjoying cost-savings and improved facilities.
Four Lewis County School Districts to Receive More Than $3.4 Million for Energy Efficiency
WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO RECEIVE GRANTS FOR ENERGY UPGRADES
Morton School District $980,153Onalaska School District $963,079Pe Ell School District $994,987Winlock School District $519,071Port Townsend School District $1 millionSt. John School District $1 millionWaterville School District $1 millionFranklin Pierce School District $1 millionYelm School District $994,453Burlington Edison School District $968,559Chimacum School District $889,000White Salmon Valley School District $843,057
News in BriefBy The Chronicle
Chehalis High School Reunion Planned
Classes from the 1940s and 1950s at Chehalis High School will be gathering Saturday, April 27, at the Forest Grange Hall.
The reunion will begin at 10 a.m., and a potluck meal will be served at noon. A donation of $2.50 will be collected.
The Forest Grange is located 6 miles south of Chehalis on the Jackson Highway.
Call Duane Skinner, (360) 880-6489, for more information.
Auditions Planned for Evergreen Playhouse Production
Auditions for “The Under-pants,” by Steve Martin, are be-ing held at the Evergreen Play-house, Centralia, at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Wednes-day.
Director of the play will be Sean O’Neil.
For the auditions, a mono-logue is encouraged but not re-quired.
This play is an adaption of a 1910 Carl Sternheim comedy.
“The Underpants” has a cast of five men and two women and a crew of non-specific genders.
The Evergreen Playhouse is located at 226 W. Center St.
Tenino Elementary to Hold Science Fair
Tenino Elementary School is holding a science fair from 5 to 6 p.m. April 19 in the multipur-pose room.
The fifth-grade students will share what they have learned by using scientific method. Awards will be presented for top achiev-ing projects.
By The Chronicle
Following the decision by the Chehalis City Council to delay a vote on an agreement that would allow Centralia-based River-side Fire Authority Chief Jim Walkowski to begin leading the Chehalis Fire Department, the RFA Governance Board also de-layed its vote on the matter.
Chehalis Fire Chief Kelvin Johnson is set to retire on April 22, and rather than hire a new leader, Chehalis City Manager Merlin MacReynold proposed that the city take the first step in what officials call a functional consolidation of Riverside and the Chehalis Fire Department.
A functional consolidation is not a permanent merger, but rather a trial run that would allow both agencies to mimic what would happen if the city’s department were to dissolve into the existing fire authority. A planning committee, made up of representatives from the Chehalis City Council as well as the RFA Governance Board, has been working for the past two years to look into what a merger would mean for both agencies.
In the agreement, Walkows-ki would split his time between the two agencies and the city of Chehalis would pay half of his salary, which would save the city
between $45,000 and $50,000 per year.
The city council was going to vote on the matter during Mon-day’s council meeting, but the vote was stalled after Chehalis City Attorney Bill Hillier said changes needed to be made in the agreement about the length of the contract and how Cheha-lis could back out if the arrange-ment didn’t work.
MacReynold is updating the contract and is expected to in-troduce it during the next meet-ing on Monday, April 22. If ap-proved, the RFA governance board will then vote on the con-tract at its next meeting, which is the following Wednesday.
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EARLY INTERVENTION:
Rural School Districts to Hold Screenings to Discern Special Needs, Disabilities and Provide Information on Child Development
The Lewis County Special Education Cooperative is offer-ing free screenings in 12 rural school districts in the area to identify developmental delays in children from birth to 5 years old.
The Child Find Screenings — commonly known as kindergar-ten, preschool or spring screen-ings — check vision, hearing, language, learning and motor skills in addition to social and emotional behaviors.
“Addressing any problems early is better,” said Child Find Coordinator Kristi Tracy. “You can correct it.”
While most districts do not require screening for admission into kindergarten, Lewis Coun-ty Special Education Director Rebecca Turnbull said she en-courages parents to bring their children for the 30- to 45-min-ute evaluations.
“Early identification is crucial because it allows us to intervene,” Turnbull said.
Some children who receive early intervention services move out of special education pro-grams by age six or seven, Turn-bull said.
Following the process, psy-chologists provide parents with information on their child’s school readiness and development. If the screening identifies potential concerns, a more in-depth evaluation is conducted.
“So screening is just a first step,” Turnbull said.
While each of the screen-ings typically identify just a few children with potential special needs or disabilities, Turnbull said, the majority
are right on target.“That can be reassuring for
parents,” she said.Parents who cannot make
the screening for their local school may make an appoint-ment at another district. The districts also provide free screenings and appropriate spe-cial education services to any eligible individual who quali-fies with a disability between the ages of three and 21, and who has not graduated from high school.
When Debra Naillon, of Winlock, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1991, she began losing her balance, going blind and started losing hope.
Unable to cope with the con-stant pain, Naillon took a rec-ommendation from her younger sister Elaine and tried Reiki, a Japanese massage technique be-lieved to transfer energy to re-duce stress and promote healing.
Through Reiki, Naillon, 54, claims she improved and has not been on any medication since December for her chronic disease.
“I realized real quick that it was more than I thought it would be,” Naillon said.
Naillon — a Reiki master for the past three years who runs her own business, Ethereal Touch, inside the Chehalis Thor-beckes — will release her first book “Heart Magick... Where Healing Begins” at Crystal Voy-age in Tacoma from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. today.
The book signing event is free to the public.
“The book is about how Reiki has changed myself and others,” Naillon said. “I’ve come to a bet-ter place, a place from my heart.”
Naillon trained with Dave Scarbrough, a Columbus, Ohio-based Reiki master, for three full
days to become a master herself, she said. She can teach Reiki and pass the knowledge on to others.
Reiki began nearly 100 years ago by Japanese Buddhist Mi-kao Usui. It came to the United States during World War II, Naillon said, but Americans didn’t start accepting it until af-
ter the war.“It became a secret society,”
Naillon said. Naillon, a Lewis County na-
tive who graduated from Adna High School in 1977, treats about 10 people per week through Reiki. She also teaches a class at 4:30 p.m. on Mondays.
“I am so focused with what is going on, when you are here, you are my whole world,” Nail-lon said. “The worst thing that can happen is you go to sleep.”
Naillon, who also said she works as a crystal healer, said her treatments are backed by science, though some have described the practice as pseudoscience.
“We are all made of atoms. Everything is made of atoms,” Naillon said. “I can pull that en-ergy and it helps balance out the client.”
However, Reiki and crystal healing also have a spiritual-ity base, Naillon said, that some people may be skeptical about.
“I tell people if you come in just relax and keep an open mind,” Naillon said, “they can’t deny what they see and what they feel, but everyone in the world is entitled to their own beliefs.”
Winlock Woman Releases Book on Healing Through Reiki Massage
Investigators have found nothing wrong with the brakes of a school bus that crashed at the bottom of a 75-foot embank-ment near Interstate 5 earlier this week while carrying 32 high school soccer players, according to the Washington State Patrol.
A trooper did an extensive in-spection of the bus that focused on the brake system, said Troop-er Will Finn, spokesman for the Washington State Patrol. The
trooper found no mechanical failures or defects with the bus.
The cause of the collision was ruled to be inattention, and the driver, Ronnie H. Withrow, 53, of Winlock, will receive an infraction for failure to stop at a stop sign, Finn said.
The driver was distracted leading up to the crash, he said.
Withrow had told troopers the brakes malfunctioned prior to the crash. No one was seri-ously injured.
Winlock Schools Superin-tendent Shannon Criss did not respond to immediate requests for comment Friday morning about whether the driver will be disciplined.
Withrow was transporting 32 players from the Winlock-Toledo high school soccer team, two managers and two coaches back from a game in Vancouver,
Wash., late Tuesday.As the bus exited Interstate
5 and was on the off-ramp at Exit 63, Withrow told troopers the brakes failed. He shouted for everyone to hold on and the bus continued down the off-ramp, went through a stop sign, crossed state Route 505 and went down a ravine, crashing into a swamp at the bottom.
The driver managed to keep the bus upright as it went down the embankment, which pre-vented any serious injuries to the passengers, Finn said. Passen-gers sustained minor scratches and bruises.
The bus is owned and op-erated by the Winlock School District. Two buses were sent to retrieve the riders, one bus went to Toledo, the other to Winlock. Some students were taken from the scene by parents.
Inattention Identified as Cause of School Bus Crash
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We’re but six weeks away from the unofficial opening of summer — Memorial Day weekend.
Days filled with camping, barbecuing, gardening and cooling off in our lakes and streams are just around the corner.
Every year, it seems to trans-late into drownings in one of our many lakes and rivers, and that danger season is already upon us.
On Thursday night, a Vader man drowned while riding his canoe down Stillwater Creek.
He was riding in a two-person canoe with his wife. They were not wearing life jackets. The creek is 25 feet wide in stretches, runs swift and is full of snags. The water temperature was 42 degrees.
The man was found sub-merged underwater, pinned against a log.
A bit of common sense could have prevented this death.
This weekend also marks the annual Pe Ell River Run, which has been a regular local
happening for the past 35 years on the second Saturday in April, no matter the weather or river conditions.
The unorganized, informal event started out with a bunch of friends gathering in Pe Ell for what has been described as a day of enjoying more than a few cold ones and a long float. The river run ends with a trip down Rainbow Falls at the state park. Typically, this early in the year the water is cold and running fast.
Last year was the first time someone drowned during the
river run, despite hundreds of participants each year. A 24-year-old Olympia man was separated from his friends and never showed up downriver. His body was found five days later.
Today’s river run gives us pause. The water is running hard and it is numbing.
We urge everyone involved to use caution. Put off drinking a beer until after the river run and while in front of a roaring fire. Wear a life jacket. Buy or borrow a wet suit. Keep an eye out for others. If the water is too cold and running too high,
maybe this isn’t the year to make the run.
One area of increased safety this year is the presence of the Lewis County Sheriff ’s Office Swift Water Rescue Team. They have decided to hold a training session today on the Chehalis River (the team of about five trains about four times a year). This will allow for a quicker re-sponse time if something does go awry.
Again, it comes down to common sense. Please play it safe in our waters this spring and summer.
Columnists, Our Views, Letters to the Editor
River Run Reminds Us to Use Common SenseOur Views
OpinionMain 8 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, April 13, 2013
The trip to “the other Washington” has always been an exciting time for Centralia High School juniors. But never did it have so much zing as this year.
The spring fling was started many years ago with Coach Ron Brown as the leader. Since then, it has most often been chaperoned by Hal Grons-eth, teacher and son of Mort Gronseth, one-time Centralia High School athletic director.
The added kick in 2013 came from having two CHS alumni far from home make them feel welcome and important. One of their own, Angela Meade, was starring in opera at the Kennedy Center.
And Charlie Albright, a piano prodigy now studying in The Juilliard School and per-forming out of New York City, came down to see his sister, Lillian, one of the juniors.
If the Centralia kids wanted to forgive former “enemies,” Linda Dowling, a W.F. West graduate, was nearby in the White House, arranging the flowers. She’ll be Centralia College’s Distinguished Alum-nus Award recipient this com-mencement.
An early recipient of that award also lives, retired, in the nation’s capital — Patti Mor-ton, of Napavine.
All the ingredients are there for a Lewis County reunion on the Mall.
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On the bulletin board in our television-watching room is a sketch of a growling, sharp-fanged bulldog. At its top is the name “Zags,” and at the bot-tom “Gonzaga.”
It is there in such a promi-nent position because although I am an on-again, off-again Lutheran during most of the year, when the basketballs start bouncing, I am a devout Catholic.
My cheers or cries of de-
spair must have been wafting across the street, because when my neighbors, the third-grade Molina twins, Elijah and Abram, saw the Gonzaga logo at an Edison School fair, they quickly bought it for me.
So here I am, waiting for next year and hoping that the team’s splendid center, Kelly Olynick, doesn’t give in to pro offers.
Go, Zags!•••
But now it’s time for talking baseball, and whenever I feel that urge, I go get a haircut. My barber for many years, Roger Gonzales, at the Lewis & Clark Hotel, is the chief mentor for most winning softball pitchers in our area, and he is my main source on how the Mariners are doing.
When Roger isn’t available, I go to his female counterpart, Julie Conzatti, at Cut Loose on Main and Washington in Cen-tralia, with its easy entrance for us users of walkers.
She’s an authority on base-ball, having married into a baseball family. Her husband, John (“Jake”), came through the Centralia system in the 1960s. He was a pitcher on a team that also starred future Milwaukee Brewer Bobby Coluccio. Jake, himself, was a member of the Brewers’ farm system.
Other Conzattis who played Centralia youth baseball in-cluded Earl, Paul and Clark.
It was Julie who straight-ened me out on the Lyle Overbay mystery. I had tuned in to a Yankee game on televi-sion, and there was our Lyle in pinstripes! How had I missed reading or hearing about it?
Yes, she said, you had it right: That was him guarding the base that once was pa-trolled by Lou Gehrig.
Also in Yankee uniform is Ichiro. I will miss his unique stretching exercises in the Mariners’ on deck circle.
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Gordon Aadland, Centralia, was a longtime Centralia College faculty member and publicist.
By Gordon Aadland
Lewis County Reunion Was on the East Coast
COMMENTARY: Saturday’s Child
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Two problems facing jails for a long time have been the cost of inmate medical treat-ment and the cost to hold fed-eral prisoners. This past week, there were two stories in The Chronicle illustrating the costs associated with these two is-sues.
In King County, a study done by the University of Washington concluded the King County Jail spends about $2 mil-lion to hold suspected il-legal aliens in the jail. That’s a lot of money and one more example why state and local governments should be wary of financial promises made by the federal government. It doesn’t always keep them.
It appears likely the re-sponse to this problem in King County is a call to stop holding detainees for the feds, which is equally troubling, but not surprising. I’m not certain letting people go free is a solu-tion, but since using the term illegal alien is now politically incorrect, I suspect that’s what they’ll do.
There is a large federal pris-on located near Sea-Tac Air-port, primarily to hold federal detainees, which left me won-dering, why aren’t they holding those detainees there?
The other jail item in the newspaper was focused on the medical costs of a suspected
rapist housed in our local jail. One-hundred-thousand dol-lars is a lot of money, but that is about what we have spent on him while he receives treat-ment for cancer, according to the story by reporter Stephanie Schendel.
Of course, he needs to be held on a serious charge such as this, and it appears from the list of charges that he is a risk to reoffend. But taking that kind of money out of a budget the size of our county’s will likely have an effect on some-thing else.
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And in the category of I told you so, the state apparently hired a professional consultant to tell them how much money they will receive from all the marijuana the state plans to sell. As they salivated over all the new spending on things we can’t afford, the news wasn’t good.
According to the consultant, “It’s entirely possible that by the time we finish regulating and taxing this product, it’s going to be uncompetitive ...”
What? Didn’t he read all the promises we were told to get this passed?
And then this: “Competi-tion from a loosely regulated medical marijuana market, il-legal sales and the high cost of legal pot are likely to affect the demand for the state-approved marijuana.”
Why is this a surprise? Mar-ijuana grows here like a weed! (No pun intended) I’m not sure what this consultant cost, but I
would have done it for free.The Chronicle printed a
story about Gov. Jay Inslee’s desire to stop the spread of bars that allow patrons to consume marijuana on site. His spokes-man, David Postman, told The Seattle Times, “We will imple-ment the will of the voters and create a well-regulated industry. Washingtonians did not vote for a wide-open policy.”
First, I’m not sure that’s true. But fundamentally, when has the government ever cre-ated anything like a “well-regu-lated industry?” In fact, all the issues from medical marijuana regulation, to this foolishness, are anything but well regulated and become more confusing by the day.
So now, we have legalized marijuana — sort of — and the promise to fund all kinds of things with all the money that will never materialize. Plus, we still are occupying the time of law enforcement, and maybe more of it, because it is so con-fusing trying to figure out what is legal. No one knows for sure because it is so confusing.
And we’re likely going to need more regulators to enforce the state monopoly created to replace the alcohol monopoly we voted away.
The only way this law makes any sense is if you’re smoking dope when you read it.
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John McCroskey was Lewis County sheriff from 1995 to 2005. He lives outside Chehalis, and can be contacted at [email protected].
Jails Face Dilemmas; Pot Law Makes Sense Only if You’re Smoking Dope
By John McCroskey
COMMENTARY: Musings From the Middle Fork
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First Amendment Center Quote of the Day
The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, April 13, 2013 • Main 9OPINION
“How come you haven’t sounded off on that bill amend-ment in Olympia that could allow employers to ask for a worker’s Facebook or other so-cial media pass-word during company inves-tigations?” asks a reader. “Aren’t we entitled to a little personal privacy?”
Well, as I read it from The Associ-ated Press, the amendment was offered at the request of business to a bill that safeguards social network passwords of workers and job applicants. The question can’t be asked during job interviews and apparently business felt it might be needed if investiga-tion of hacking or whatever is
suspected.My computer isn’t hooked
up to anything. I had it made so I could write my columns and get them off on a printer. I em-ploy a fax or mail to send them. Back when I was in my office at the newspaper I worked for, however, the editor told me that he had a list of the passwords of all the employees in the editori-al department and occasionally ran through their messages and such just to see what was doing.
Why he told me I don’t know because I was aware of his hav-ing the list from the beginning when we got the computers and bore in mind everything in my file was available to him. I always felt that once we had computers nothing was ever secret anymore so I would never have written any of my staffers complaining about the boss. I didn’t warn anybody to be care-
ful. They knew as well as I that he had their password because it was a condition of employment.
ANOTHER READER inquired about the bill that didn’t make the cutoff and thus is dead that wanted to allow 16- and 17-year- olds to preregister to vote at the same time they get their driver’s license. When they reach the legal voting age of 18, they then would automatically be regis-tered to take part in elections. It’s dead this time around but it’ll be back.
I’m not hot for it. I’m even cool to the notion that they should be allowed to drive at 16. The major cause of high school dropouts is the need for young drivers to go to work for money to finance their cars. The Big Three in a teen’s life are driver’s
license, ability to buy a drink in a bar and their first you-know-what which often happens in a car.
I READ WHERE Oklahoma’s state Senate is up to no good, passing a bill allowing horses to be slaughtered to produce meat for human consumption. It’s intended to deal with wild and abandoned horses.
Horse slaughtering was barred in the U.S. from 2007 to 2011 because funding was cut for the Department of Agricul-ture to inspect slaughterhouses. The funding was returned in keeping with a growing popula-tion of abandoned horses living in the wild. Oklahoma’s gover-nor said she would sign the bill.
Too bad. I don’t know how they can make steaks and chops
out of My Friend Flicka or Black Beauty or any horse. I ate horse meat once although I didn’t know it until I was finished and saw the fine print line on the bottom of the restaurant menu that said what I had was horse meat.
I was eating lunch with a friend on a break from working in the Navy Yard and when I pointed the fine print out to her she turned absolutely green. I mean really green. I was afraid she was going to throw up but she didn’t. At least not while she was with me. I don’t remember what it tasted like but from then on I perused menus more care-fully to avoid a repeat perfor-mance. I hope Oklahoma has a crummy spring and summer.
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Adele Ferguson can be reached at P.O. Box 69, Hansville, Wash., 98340.
By Adele Ferguson
Adele Opines On Social Media, Voting and Horse MeatCOMMENTARY: Invasion of Privacy?
Letters to the Editor
This Week in State Cartoons
U.S., Britain Have Long History of CooperationTo the editor:
As most of the world mourns the loss of a remarkable leader, Margaret Thatcher, we are re-minded of the close partnership the “Iron Lady” had with Presi-dent Reagan, and of the “special relationship” between America and Britain that has guided and inspired international events for generations.
This relationship had its gen-esis in our own state of Wash-ington. In 1846, President James K. Polk and British Prime Min-ister Sir Robert Peel overcame decades of strife and suspicion between the two nations to peacefully establish the Cana-dian border at the 49th parallel.
The British ceded their claim to the mouth of the Columbia River, and American ambitions for the northern limit of Lewis County were greatly diminished. But trust between the two pow-ers had been established and the foundation of the special relationship had been firmly se-cured.
During World War II, the combined military operations of the two nations, now closely allied, were often unprecedent-ed and spectacular. In 1942, in “Operation Torch,” invasion armadas sailed simultaneously from British and American ports to cross the great oceans and land directly on the beaches of Morocco and Algeria. So vast was this conception that even Joseph Stalin felt compelled to comment: “May God prosper this undertaking.”
This Anglo-American force under Dwight Eisenhower and George Patton united with the British 8th Army under Ber-nard Montgomery to force the surrender of a quarter of a mil-lion Axis troops in Tunisia, a catastrophe for Hitler and Mus-solini. The stage was now set for the successful invasions of Sicily and Italy in 1943 and of Normandy on June 6, 1944. The greatest war in history ended with the unconditional surren-der of Germany and the death of Hitler by his own hand.
In the postwar era, America and Britain played the criti-cal role in the establishment of the United Nations and of the NATO alliance, which has now maintained the peace in Europe for 64 years and counting.
In 1962, British Prime Min-ister Harold Macmillan was a stalwart supporter of President Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis, and in 1963 the two leaders negotiated the at-mospheric test-ban treaty with a chastened Nikita Khrushchev. Weapons of mass destruction still threatened devastation, but at least they no longer poisoned the cities and the streams.
With a similar display of strength with flexibility, Rea-gan and Thatcher pressured the Soviet Union hard in the 1980s. The Soviet economy was decrep-it and decaying, and certainly would have collapsed eventually. But the western leaders hastened this demise and ensured that it was peaceful.
Not that America and Brit-ain have never had significant disagreements. In 1956, Presi-dent Eisenhower forced a fast halt to the Anglo-French-Is-raeli invasion of Egypt, which soon resulted in the resigna-tion of British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden. And in 1983, Thatcher vehemently opposed the American intervention in Grenada, a Commonwealth realm. Also, both nations stum-bled badly in Iraq.
But in most respects and on the whole, the special relation-ship between America and Brit-ain has been a tremendous force for good in the world. No other nation or combination of na-tions would have done as well.
Joseph TiplerCentralia
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Death Notices• GARY LEE MAY, 56, Centralia, died Friday,
April 12, at Providence St. Peter Hospital, Olympia. A graveside service will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Mountain View Cemetery, Centralia. Arrangements are under the direction of Newell-Hoer-ling’s Mortuary, Centralia.
• JAMES MARVIN DeKOKER, 71, Cheha-lis, died Sunday, April 7, at Providence Centralia Hospital. A celebration of life will be at 11 a.m., today at R.E. Bennett School, 233 S. Market Blvd, Chehalis. Ar-
rangements are under the direction of Sticklin Funeral Chapel, Centralia.
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SirensChEhALIS POLICE DEPARTMENT
Burglary• A burglary of a building on
the 100 block of South Market Boulevard was reported at 7:48 a.m. Wednesday. A weed eater and gas were reportedly stolen.
Suspicious Steaks• Someone called police at
3:43 p.m. Wednesday to report someone was at the Southwest Washington Fairgrounds selling steaks from the back of a white truck. An officer responded but was unable to locate the suspi-cious steak salesman.
Sexual Misconduct• Police took a report of a
possible case of sexual miscon-duct involving two employees of a business on the 500 block of Southeast Washington Avenue at 8:44 a.m. Thursday. The case is still under investigation.
Meth Possession• Lili N. Holster, 32, Che-
halis, was arrested and booked into jail for alleged possession of methamphetamine and for an outstanding warrant on the 100
block of Southwest Interstate Avenue at the Chehalis Inn at 5:51 p.m. Thursday.
Paranoid Disorderly Subject• Joshua J. Berlin, 38, Utah,
was arrested and booked into jail for alleged disorderly con-duct after he called police from Walmart at 5 p.m. Thursday. Berlin was acting paranoid, and claimed his female compan-ion, who police could not lo-cate, drugged him, according to Chehalis police. Police called an ambulance, but Berlin refused to go with the medics. He was eventually arrested for his safety and for others. About five hours later, police received a report of a “bummy” looking wom-
an breaking into a car in the Walmart parking lot and tak-ing things from it. The car was later determined to be Berlin’s, and it was impounded because it wasn’t secure. Police were un-able to locate the woman.
CENTRALIA POLICE DEPARTMENT
Burglary• A burglary to a business on
the 1400 block of Grand Avenue
was reported at 9:17 a.m. Thurs-day.
Child Assault• Police are seeking a suspect
believed to have been involved in an assault of a child on the 1700 block of Sunset Way at 10:38 a.m. Thursday. The case is still under investigation.
Stolen Medication• Someone called police at
7:23 a.m. Thursday to report the caregivers for the caller’s elderly mother had stolen her medica-tion on the 1400 block of Lum Road. The case is still under in-vestigation.
Stolen ATV• A Honda ATV was report-
ed stolen at 7:30 p.m. Thursday sometime during the night from the 400 block of North Ash Street. There are no suspects at this time.
Drunk Trespasser• Nicholas F. Henderson,
58, Centralia, was arrested and booked into jail for criminal trespassing after he allegedly refused to leave a friend’s house and was behaving in an intoxi-
cated and belligerent manner. After police arrived to the house on the 300 block of West Mag-nolia Street at 8:33 p.m. Thurs-day, Henderson still allegedly refused to leave.
Assault?• Police are investigating an
assault that supposedly occurred at a Centralia gas station on the 1100 block of Harrison Avenue. A man told Olympia police he was approached by two un-known people who beat him to the ground where they kicked and “knocked him around.” Even though the victim had a cellphone with him at the time of the incident, he drove to the Olympia area and called to re-port the assault from his girl-friend’s house at about 1 a.m. Friday.
WAShINGTON STATE PATROL
Collision• A 40-year-old Onalaska
man was not injured after a one-vehicle accident on state Route 506 near mile marker four, two miles from Vader, shortly after 5 p.m. Thursday, according to
WSP. Clifford R. Nowels was driving a 2009 International dump truck towing a trailer eastbound and failed to negoti-ate a curve. The trailer broke loose, rolled and came to a rest in the ditch of the eastbound lanes. The cause of the accident is speed, and he will receive an infraction for failure to negoti-ate a curve.
LEWIS COuNTY ShERIff’S OffICE
Theft
• A 58-year-old Rochester man reported that someone had stolen several items includ-ing a GPS, a depth finder, crab pots and fishing poles, from his boat that was stored on the 1200 block of Eshom Road. The theft occurred sometime in the past two weeks, and was reported at 1:36 p.m. Thursday. The total loss is estimated to be $5,000.
•••By The Chronicle Staff
Please call news reporter Stepha-nie Schendel with news tips. She can be reached at 807-8208 or [email protected].
Sirens, Court Records,Lotteries, Commodities
Tuesday, April 16
Genealogical Presentation to focus on Overcoming ‘Brick Walls’
Eileen Dodge will presenting a program on “Breaking Down Your Brick Walls” at the Lewis County Genealogical Society’s meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Lewis County PUD auditorium.
Those “brick walls” might include disowned children, big-amy, name changes, duplicate names, naming customs, wrong gender, informal adoptions, race changes, illegitimacy and un-known fathers.
Dodge is membership chair
for the Olympia Genealogical Society and does voluntary ge-nealogy research. She co-edits the journal, co-administrators the DNA Project, and docu-ments and maintains a world-wide genealogy database of more than 100,000 names for the Dodge Family Association.
Visitors are welcome. For in-formation, call Teresa at (360) 269-7772 or check out the web-site at www.walcgs.org.
The Lewis County PUD is located at 345 NW Pacific Ave., Chehalis.
Fundraiser, Lewis County Relay for Life, 11 a.m.- 8 p.m., Burger Claim, Grand Mound, proceeds to help buy goals for the Adna High School girls soccer team, (360) 767-0631
Comedy mind reader Eric Dittelman, 7 p.m., Corbet Theatre, Centralia College, no admission with canned food dona-tion, 736-9391, ext. 275
Survivors of sexual assault/abuse, 5:30-7 p.m., 125 NW Chehalis Ave., Che-halis, sponsored by Human Response Network, (360) 748-6601
Support for mothers, 9:15-11:15 a.m., Bethel Church, for mothers with chil-
dren pregnancy through 6 years old, sponsored by Chehalis MOPS (Moth-ers of Preschoolers), (360) 520-3841 or (360) 864-2168, email [email protected] or visit www.facebook.com/chehalismops
Senior Centers
Twin Cities Senior Center, (360) 748-0061
Fellowship meeting, 10-11 a.m.
Karaoke, Jerry and Jeannie, 10-10:45 a.m.
Lunch, noon, $3 suggested donation
Pool tournament, 1 p.m.
NAMI-Connection meeting, 5:30- 7 p.m.
Morton Senior Center, (360) 496-3230
Open recreation, pool, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Pinochle, 10 a.m.
“Taco Tuesday” enrichment lunch,
noon, $3 donation
Olequa (Winlock) Senior Center, (360) 785-4325
Koffee klatch with maple bars, 8-10 a.m.,
Garden club, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.
Karate, 6-7 p.m.
Packwood Senior Center, (360) 494-6331
Sit & Be Fit, 11 a.m.
Bingo, 12:30 p.m.
Zumba, 6 p.m.
Toledo Senior Center, (360) 864-2112
Oil painting class, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Pinochle, noon, $1
Potluck, noon
Zumba, 6-7 p.m.
Oil painting class, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Sweet Treats, 9 a.m.
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Two registered sex offenders have indicated they will be living as transients in Thurston County by registering with the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office.
Level two sex offender Robert J. Heagy, now 37, pleaded guilty to communica-tion with a mi-nor for immoral purposes and served 358 days in jail in 1995. The guilty plea stemmed from Heagy, at age 19, having consen-sual sex with a 13-year-old girl in Kittitas County.
At age 21, Heagy was found guilty in Snohomish County Superior Court to third-degree rape of a child after having con-sensual sex with a 14-year-old girl.
Heagy is described as a white man, about 5-foot-6 and 202 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes.
Level one sex offender Tommy E. Her-rell, 25, pleaded guilty to inde-cent liberties with forcible compulsion and fourth-degree assault with sexual motivation in relation to an incident involving a 6-year-old girl whom Herrell knew. Herrell was 16 at the time of the assault and was sentenced to 15 to 36 weeks confinement.
Herrell is white and approxi-mately 6-feet tall, weighing 160 pounds.
A general public notification is required when a sex offender registers as a transient.
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Kathleen Price RollefsonJuly 20, 1917 - April 8, 2013
Kathleen Price Rollefson was born July 20, 1917 in Sifton, Wash. She passed away peacefully at her home, surrounded by her dog, cat and family in Chehalis, on April 8, 2013.
Kathleen loved wildlowers, children and animals. She always looked on the bright side of life, seeing the best in everyone she met. Kathleen graduated from the University of Washington with a BS, RN, where she met Jack Rollefson, the love of her life. They married on August 23, 1941. Kathleen worked a few nights a week as an RN at St. Helens Hospital, while Jack worked as an Electrical Engineer at the Lewis County PUD in Chehalis. In 1959, the family moved to Seattle where Kathleen worked part time at Burien
General Hospital in Labor & Delivery. In 1982, after Jack’s retirement from Boeing, they moved back to their 70 acre tree farm in Chehalis.
Kathleen was in good spirits and had a happy disposition right up to the last week of her life, when she was inally diagnosed with esophageal cancer. She was very loved by all who knew her and she will be greatly missed. She was our sunshine.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Jack Rollefson, one sister and two brothers. She is survived by her three daughters and their spouses, Sally (and David) Cowles, Ridgeield, Wash., Pamela (and Earl) Godt, Macomb, Ill., and Kristin (and Hans) Woldseth, Renton, Wash. Her grandchildren are Christopher (and Tami) Cowles, Brendan (and Heather) Cowles, Anne (and Nick) Judge, Allison Hoag, Casey Hoag, and six great-grandchildren.
The family requests that any donations be made to the American Cancer Society.
A memorial celebration of life will be held on Saturday, April 27, 2013 at 2 p.m., at Westminster Presbyterian Church, Chehalis.
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The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, April 13, 2013 • Main 11FROM THE FRONT
John Carl
HazenJohn Carl Hazen, 43, of
Onalaska, Wash., passed away on April 8, 2013. He was born to Jim and Linda Hazen on May 3, 1969. John grew up in Onalaska and loved spending time outdoors ishing, camping, and playing at the river. He also loved tinkering on things out in his dad's shop. John married Cindie in 1990 and became step-father to three daughters and father to two sons. He worked in the timber industry and as a heavy machinery operator and mechanic. When John wasn't outside, he loved to cook big breakfasts for the family and fry fresh seafood. John is survived by his parents, Jim and Linda Hazen, his brother Rocky,
his sister Shawnie, his wife Cindie, his children Tawna, E'lan, Aja, Dylan, and Dakota, eight grandchildren, and three nephews. A Memorial Service will be held at the Napavine Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses at 2:00 p.m.
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and assault charges for the death of Heupel’s daughter, Koralynn Fister. An Alford plea allowed him to avoid admitting any guilt, but acknowledged if the case were to go to trial, the evi-dence against him was substan-tial enough to lead to a convic-tion.
“She has to take the responsi-bility,” O’Rourke said.
Heupel was not home at the time of the toddler’s death on May 24, 2012, and had left her daughter in the care of Reeder, who was her live-in boyfriend at the time. Reeder had moved in with Heupel and her two daugh-ters about 10 weeks prior to the girl’s death, which was also the same point the couple had start-ed dating.
Fister’s body was covered with bruises, cuts and other in-juries, including two palm-sized chunks of skin missing from her buttocks, indicating to authori-ties that the abuse had been pro-longed. Her cause of death was due to blunt force head trauma and drowning.
Heupel admitted to police she noticed the unusual inju-ries on the girl’s body prior to her death, including wounds to the child’s fingers and toes and an abnormal bruise near the 2-year-old’s vagina, according to the police report. She said Reed-er would always make excuses for the injuries when asked about what happened.
While Heupel noticed the injuries, there is no evidence to indicate she was involved in the
abuse or saw Reeder physically abusing the girl, O’Rourke said.
“There is a difference be-tween moral culpability and le-gal culpability,” O’Rourke said.
“While some might say she has a high degree of moral culpability, despite seeing some of the inju-ries, she wasn’t involved in giv-ing her (daughter) injuries.”
Heupel’s Olympia-based at-torney, Paul Strophy, did not return calls for comment Friday afternoon.
Reeder was one of three dif-ferent men — all boyfriends of Heupel — to move in and out of her house the year her daughter died. Heupel admitted she had issues setting boundaries in re-lationships with men, according to court documents and the po-lice report.
Heupel also told police sev-eral of her friends had warned her about Reeder’s violent past, according to the police report.
“We can’t charge her with intentionally killing her child,” O’Rourke said. “This crime punishes non-action.”
Heupel, who suffers from chronic pain, panic attacks and obsessive compulsive disorder, is partially deaf and wears a hear-ing aid, according to the report. She was a special-needs student throughout her childhood and functions at an eighth-grade level. Police later confirmed the validity of these conditions through her medical reports.
Heupel also admitted to po-lice it was often difficult and overwhelming to manage both children, and that when Reeder
moved in he cooked, cleaned and offered to help toilet train Koralynn. One month into their relationship, he convinced her to divide the parenting respon-sibilities with him.
As part of her bail condi-tions, Heupel is also not allowed around children, except her sur-viving daughter, who is under Child Protective Services cus-tody.
It will be up to Child Protec-tive Services to decide whether she ever regains custody of her other daughter, O’Rourke said.
The biological father of the girl, David Fister, was also liv-ing in Centralia at the time of the murder. He told police he had not seen his daughter for five weeks prior to her death, ac-cording to the report.
cause the area is heavily wooded and there are many log jams in the creek, according to the re-lease. The creek is about 25 feet across and swift in a lot of places. It runs near state Route 506 in Vader.
Rescue personnel from the sheriff ’s office, Lewis County Fire Districts 20 and 2, in addi-tion to Cowlitz County Fire Dis-trict 6, all responded, according to the release. Crews eventually located the body of the man sub-merged face down against a log
100 yards upstream from where the canoe was located.
The rescue was conducted in the dark, and the water tempera-ture was 42 degrees, according to the release.
Last year, three people drowned in the Lewis County area. Daniel Kuhn, 24, an Iraq War veteran, was separated from a group of friends during the Pe Ell River Run last April. His body was found five days later. He was not wearing a life jacket.
The 41-year-old Michael Lloyd Barrett, of Bothell,
drowned in the Ohanapecosh River in August just outside Mount Rainier National Park af-ter he lost his balance in the river and got pinned down between logs and rocks in August.
Also, an 8-year-old develop-mentally-delayed Chehalis boy, Nicholas Matchett, fell into the Chehalis River and drowned in early May last year.
Also, a 16-year-old Roches-ter boy, Chris Puentes Garay, drowned while swimming with his brother near Independence Road, south of Rochester in May. He was not wearing a life jacket.
people pulled over and came to Moore’s aid.
GONZALES WAS ACQUITTED of the assault charges in January after mental health experts found he was insane at the time.
As a result, Gonzales must fol-low certain conditions. He has take his medication and may not con-sume drugs or alcohol. He also has a court hearing once a month to make sure he is complying.
Since his arrest eight months ago, Gonzales, of Centralia, has been on his medication and is calm, quiet and smiles a lot.
“I am thankful for the officer,” Gonzales said. “My life has re-ally gotten better since then.”
Gonzales, who was diag-nosed as a paranoid schizo-phrenic in his late teens, said he stopped taking his pills because he could not pay for them.
As long as he is unemployed, he receives Medicaid — a joint federal and state program that helps low-income people pay for medical care. But when he gets a job, working minimum wage for 40 hours a week, he said he loses Medicaid and has to shell out about $1,000 of his $1,500 month-ly wages for his medication.
ON A NATIONWIDE and local level, mental illness is a com-plex and resource-draining is-sue with no obvious solution. Poverty, a lack of stable housing, and drug use perpetuates the problem.
While mental health profes-sionals attest that most people who are violent are not mentally ill, and that the large majority of those who suffer from mental illness are not violent — it is a message that becomes distorted by incidents like the mass shoot-ing at Sandy Hook.
Locally, there have also been individuals with mental health issues who behaved vio-lently, such as Gonzales. An-other example is Joshua Vance, a 25-year-old Onalaska man who stabbed his sleeping father 11 times in the back in March 2012 after he stopped taking his anti-psychotic medication.
In the months preceding to the murder, Vance had been get-ting straight A’s in school.
He, too, had been on Medic-aid, which paid for his pills.
About a month before the murder, however, Vance re-ceived a phone call from a phar-macy informing him that while his prescription was ready, there
was an issue with his insurance and it would cost $1,000. Vance could not afford the medication, so he never went to get it. His family said his mental state de-teriorated rapidly after that.
FOR THOSE WITH SEVERE men-tal health problems who do not receive help or who experience disruptions in their medications, like Vance and Gonzales did, the consequences can be severe.
“It’s a national problem,” said Lewis County Prosecutor Jona-than Meyer. “We need to do more to address mental health.”
Because the adequate sup-port does not exist elsewhere, many get caught up in the crim-inal justice system.
Prosecuting those with se-vere mental illness can be com-plicated, Meyer said. Not ev-eryone who needs medication wants to take it.
“It’s a fine line. They need treatment, but we need to pro-tect society,” Meyer said.
Once in jail, they are often-times there three to four times longer than the average inmate because they are more likely to act out, said Lewis County Sher-iff Steve Mansfield.
“It‘s not a good place for them to be,” he said.
One example is Steve Fuller-ton, 51, of Silver Creek, who was arrested in September 2011 after he allegedly threatened to kill a police officer and started a high-speed chase.
Fullerton, who suffers from a chronic mood disorder de-scribed by experts as “severe and complex” in court documents, is still in custody without bail. He has been carted between the jail and Western State Hospital, a state-funded psychiatric hospital, multiple times since his arrest to establish competency for trial. Every time he returns to the jail, his mental health deteriorates.
Fullerton, who has a long criminal history, has been ad-mitted to Western State Hospital
25 times since 1989.“Incarceration probably does
nothing good for him, but at the same time, we need to protect society as a whole,” Meyer said.
Many people, like Fullerton, are stable when on medication while in jail, but once they are released, they stop taking it.
“The cycle starts as soon as they walk out that door,” Man-sfield said.
GONZALES, WHO STILL HAS scars on his arms from the almost deadly fight on the side of the
freeway eight months prior, said he is lucky those men stopped to intervene. If they hadn’t, the trooper could have shot Gonza-les in self defense.
“(Gonzalez is) unique because I truly believe he wants to be on his meds,” Meyer said.
Gonzales said he under-stands it is his responsibility to continue taking his medication, including figuring out a way to pay for it.
If he doesn’t, he knows he could end up hurting someone, be put in jail or die.
Mother: David Fister Had Not Seen Koralynn for Five Weeks Prior to DeathContinued from Main 1
Justice: Jonathan Meyer Says ‘We Need to Do More to Address Mental Health’Continued from Main 1
Don Gonzales stands along the Main Street Interstate 5 overpass near where he allegedly assaulted a Washington State trooper while of his medication. Gonzales was
recently acquitted of three counts of assault and attempt to disarm an oicer.
Don Gonzales poses for a portrait in Chehalis on Friday, April 5.
‘‘The cycle starts as soon as they walk out
that door.’’
Steve Mansfield
Lewis County sheriff
Drowns: Water Temperature Was 42 DegreesContinued from Main 1
Nation/WorldNation in Brief
North Korea Could Launch Nuclear Missile; Obama Vows to Protect Americans
WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. intelligence report con-cludes that North Korea has advanced its nuclear knowhow to the point that it could arm a ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead, a jarring revelation in the midst of bellicose threats from the unpredictable commu-nist regime.
President Barack Obama urged calm, calling on Pyong-yang to end its saber-rattling while sternly warning that he would “take all necessary steps” to protect American citizens.
The new American intelli-gence analysis, disclosed Thurs-day at a hearing on Capitol Hill, says the Pentagon’s intelligence wing has “moderate confidence” that North Korea has nuclear weapons capable of delivery by ballistic missiles but that the weapon was unreliable.
Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Co-lo., read aloud what he said was an unclassified paragraph from a secret Defense Intelligence Agency report that was supplied to some members of Congress. The reading seemed to take Gen. Martin Dempsey, chair-man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, by surprise, who said he hadn’t seen the report and declined to answer questions about it.
Gun Bill Clears First Senate Hurdle; Debate on Background Checks Starts Tuesday
WASHINGTON (AP) — The first hurdle cleared with decep-tive ease, the Senate turns to the heart of the battle over curbing gun violence next week when it considers a proposal to expand required federal background checks to gun shows and online firearms sales.
In a bipartisan 68-31 vote Thursday, senators rejected an effort by conservatives to block debate on Democrats’ gun control legislation, a measure backed by President Barack Obama. Senators then formally opened debate on the bill, law-makers’ response to the mass shooting in December at an el-ementary school in Newtown, Conn., and the most ambitious effort to limit gun violence in nearly two decades.
Thursday’s one-sided vote belied what looks to be a dif-ficult path in Congress for gun restrictions. Most Republican senators and many moderate Democrats oppose or are wary of curbs they think go too far, and the view from the GOP-run House is even cooler, where leaders say they want to first see what the Senate does.
Immigration Bill Could Exclude Hundreds of Thousands From Citizenship
WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan immigration bill soon to be introduced in the Senate could exclude hundreds of thousands of immigrants here illegally from ever becom-ing U.S. citizens, according to a Senate aide with knowledge of the proposals.
The bill would bar anyone who arrived in the U.S. after Dec. 31, 2011, from applying for legal status and ultimately citi-zenship, according to the aide, who spoke on condition because the proposals have not been made public.
It also would require ap-plicants to document that they were in the country before Dec. 31, 2011, have a clean criminal record and show enough em-ployment or financial stability that they’re likely to stay off wel-fare.
Those requirements could exclude hundreds of thousands of the 11 million immigrants in the U.S. illegally from the path to citizenship envisioned by the bill, the aide said.
World in Brief
Syrian Troops Battle Rebels in Hills Near Border With Lebanon
AL-QASR, LEBANON (AP) — Syrian soldiers backed by war-planes battled rebels for control of strategic hilltop villages near the Lebanese border on Friday, as government troops step up counterattacks against opposi-tion forces threatening regime supply lines on the country’s frontiers.
Bomb blasts and shots fired into the air to mourn a fallen Syrian government soldier could be heard on the Lebanese side of the border as fighting raged around Qusair, a contest-ed central Syrian town near a key highway between Damascus and the coast.
The battles there came as government forces launched a second offensive against rebels in the province of Daraa on the Jordanian border, where the op-position has been making steady advances in recent weeks.
While President Bashar Assad’s forces are stretched thin and much of the country has been allowed to slip into the hands of the rebels, the govern-ment is still fighting hard to keep control of airports, sea-ports, and roads linking them to the capital Damascus that are seen as essential to its survival.
Also on Friday, activists said rebels clashed with troops in the northeastern border city of Qamishli, two kilometers (miles) away from the border with Turkey. Fighting is rare in the predominantly Kurdish and Christian city, where rebels usu-ally maintain a truce with the government.
Despite Objections From Hopi Tribe, Native American Masks Sold Off at Auction in France
PARIS (AP) — In a chaotic auction repeatedly interrupted by protests, dozens of Native American tribal masks were sold Friday after a French court ig-nored the objections of the Hopi tribe and the U.S. government.
The total tally was 931,000 euros ($1.2 million), with the most expensive, the “Mother Crow,” selling for 160,000 euros ($209,000) — more than three times the pre-sale estimate.
Of the 70 masks up for sale, one was bought by an associa-tion to give back to the Hopis, the Drouot auction house said.
Advocates for the Hopi tribe had argued in court the masks have special status and are not art — they represent their dead ancestors’ spirits. The Hopis, a Native American tribe whose territory is surrounded by Ari-zona, nurture the masks as if they are the living dead.
But the auctioneer insisted any move to block the sale could have broad repercussions for the art market in general and poten-tially force French museums to empty their collections of indig-enous works.
Bling Patrol: Dubai’s $550,000 Squad Car
DUBAI, United Arab Emir-ates (AP) — In a city of bound-less bling, Dubai police also are in hot pursuit after adding a nearly $550,000 Lamborghini to its fleet.
The sports car, painted in green-and-white colors of the Dubai force, will not likely be roaring after law breakers. In-stead, it will be mostly dis-patched to tourist areas to show
— in the words of deputy police director, Gen. Khamis Mat-ter al-Muzaina — “how classy Dubai is.”
Local media reports Thurs-day say the Italian-made Lam-borghini Aventador is the crown jewel of a wider upgrade in Dubai police wheels. The force also is adding some American muscle car Camaros.
Dubai seeks to show it has rebounded from its debt crisis with brash plans that include the world’s largest Ferris wheel and a satellite city named after the city-state’s ruler.
By Gene Johnson
The Associated Press
SEATTLE — A bill intro-duced in Congress on Friday would fix the conflict between the federal government’s mari-juana prohibition and state laws that allow medical or recre-ational use.
California Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher said his bill, which has three Republican and three Democratic sponsors, would ensure that state laws on pot are respected by the feds.
The measure would amend the Controlled Substances Act to make clear that individuals and businesses, including marijuana dispensaries, who comply with state marijuana laws are immune from federal prosecution.
“This bipartisan bill repre-sents a common-sense approach that establishes federal govern-ment respect for all states’ mari-juana laws,” Rohrabacher said in a news release. “It does so by keeping the federal government
out of the business of criminaliz-ing marijuana activities in states that don’t want it to be criminal.”
Eighteen states and the Dis-trict of Columbia have medical marijuana laws, and two states, Washington and Colorado, last fall became the first to pass laws legalizing, taxing and regulating marijuana.
The U.S. Justice Department has not said how it intends to respond to the Washington and Colorado votes. It could sue to block legal pot sales from ever happening, on the grounds they conflict with federal law.
President Barack Obama has said going after marijuana users in states where it’s legal is not a priority. But the administration has raided some medical mari-juana dispensaries it sees as little more than fronts for commer-cial marijuana sales.
Several other measures have also been introduced to change U.S. marijuana laws, including moves to legalize the indus-trial production of hemp and establish a hefty federal pot tax in states where it’s legal. Any changes this year are considered a longshot.
Oil Falls Two Percent, Gas Prices to Keep Dropping By Jonathan Fahey
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Signs that the global economy isn’t strong enough to quickly burn through the world’s ample supplies of oil and gasoline sank crude oil pric-es for a second straight day.
Weak U.S. economic reports Friday followed on the heels of reduced forecasts for oil de-mand. Oil dropped 2 percent.
The falling prices will help extend a long, slow slide in retail gasoline prices, forecasters say. The average price of a gallon of gasoline in the U.S. fell a penny overnight to $3.56 per gallon. That’s 23 cents lower than the high for the year, set on Feb. 27. And gas is now 36 cents cheaper than a year ago at this time.
Drivers in some states, such as Wyoming, Montana, Mis-souri and South Carolina, may even see a few stations selling gas for under $3.00 per gallon this weekend, says Tom Kloza, Chief Oil Analyst at Gasbuddy.com.
“We’re looking at (futures and wholesale) prices that will propel this drop into the spring,” Kloza said.
Gasoline prices appear to be on a similar curve to last year, but on an earlier timetable. The springtime highs instead came in late winter, and a seasonal low could come in June this year in-stead of July. “It’s the same roll-er-coaster ride, but the top of the ride came sooner,” Kloza said.
U.S. oil futures fell $2.22, or
2.4 percent, to $91.29 in New York. Brent crude, which is used to price oil used by many U.S. refiners to make gasoline, fell $1.34 to $103.04, the lowest level since mid-July.
Supplies of both oil and gas-oline are plentiful, and demand appears to be weak.
“It’s the usual culprits,” says Judith Dwarkin, chief economist at ITG Investment Research.
“Supply growth is outpacing de-mand growth.”
In each of the last two years the global oil market faced fall-ing supplies because of produc-tion disruptions in the North Sea, East Africa and Iran, which was facing tighter sanctions. This year, production has pro-ceeded mostly as expected. U.S. output is booming, but Saudi Arabia and other OPEC nations have cut back somewhat in re-sponse.
In the U.S., refining capacity is at an all-time high and refin-ers have gotten a head start on making gasoline for the summer driving season. With supplies above normal for this time of year, refineries might pull back on oil purchases in the com-ing months. That will slow the
drawing down of oil supplies, and keep prices lower.
At the same time, the global economy still shows signs of weakness, suggesting that oil consumption will grow less than expected. When economic growth slows, drivers, shippers and travelers use less gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.
The U.S. Commerce Depart-ment said Friday that sales at U.S. retailers fell 0.4 percent last month, indicating that higher taxes and weak hiring likely made some consumers more cautious about spending. The Commerce Department also reported that companies re-stocked their shelves at a much slower pace in February than in the month before, a sign that companies expect consumers and businesses to pull back on spending.
OPEC, the U.S. Energy De-partment and the International Energy Agency, which repre-sents a group of oil-consuming nations, all lowered their out-look for global oil demand this week. The IEA on Thursday dropped its forecast for demand this year by 45,000 barrels to 90.6 million barrels a day.
‘‘We’re looking at (futures and wholesale) prices that will propel this drop into the spring.’’
Tom Kloza
Chief Oil Analyst at Gasbuddy.com
New Bill Would Ease State-Federal Pot Conflict
Apprehending a Suspected Bank Robber in Oklahoma
Steve Gooch / The Associated Press
Oklahoma City Police and the FBI take a suspect into custody from his home in Oklahoma City on Friday in connection
with a robbery of a MidFirst Bank.
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‘‘This bipartisan bill represents a common-sense approach that establishes federal government
respect for all states’ marijuana laws.’’
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher
R-California
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Local legislators Sen. John Braun, R-Centralia, and Sen. Brian Hatfield, D-Raymond, earlier this week interceded on the behalf of the Chehalis River Basin.
Made aware that the Senate's proposed capital budget includ-ed about $24 million for flood mitigation projects — rather than the requested $28 million
— Braun and Hatfield took steps to restore full funding.
And on Wednesday, the Sen-ate unanimously approved the senators' budget amendment, which now allocates $28 million to basin flood relief.
Full funding was included in the budgets proposed by the House of Representatives, Gov. Jay Inslee, and former-Gov. Chris Gregoire.
Vickie Raines, the Flood Au-
thority chairwoman and a mem-ber of the Chehalis Work Group, said the discrepancy stemmed from miscommunication.
When the Flood Authority had preliminary studies done, about eight months ago, a range of costs were provided. The Che-halis Work Group used the high end of the range in its proposed portfolio of projects.
"What the Senate staff did was take the low range, probably in an effort to reduce the budget," Raines said. "Senators Braun and Hatfield made the request to have that increased."
Basin leaders were heartened by the senators' swift reaction, according to Raines.
"They are in the basin, and it's important to them as well," she said. "They understand where we are coming from, and they are doing their part to make sure the needed work gets done."
Though the Senate's support, particularly its unanimous vote to restore funding, is "a really good sign," the Chehalis Work Group must remain diligent:
"They haven't banged the gavel yet," Raines said.
In November, the Work
Group requested that funding for a multi-pronged flood miti-gation plan, including $9.2 mil-lion for the study and design of a dam and other long-term projects to improve Interstate 5; $10.7 million for local flood protection projects; $4.4 million for projects that reduce flooding while benefitting fish; $1.75 mil-lion for reducing damage to resi-dences and other structures in the floodplain; $1.2 million for operation of the basin program and for project management; and $950,000 for state agency technical assistance and project permitting.
Members of the Work Group include: Vickie Raines, the Flood Authority chairwoman; Karen Valenzuela, the vice chair of the Flood Authority; J. Vander Stoep, an alternate to the Flood Authority; David Burnett, the chair of the Chehalis Tribe; Jay Gordon, the head of the Washington Dairy Farmers As-sociation; and Keith Phillips, an adviser to the governor.
Braun, Hatfield Restore Full Funding for Flood Mitigation in Senate Budget
“They understand where we are coming from, and they are doing their part to make sure the
needed work gets done.”
Vickie Raines
Flood Authority chair
OLYMPIA (AP) — Wash-ington lawmakers are increasing compensation for people who are chosen to cast the state's of-ficial Electoral College votes.
The state Senate gave final approval Friday to a plan that would give presidential electors a larger per diem and compen-sation for mileage. Current law was enacted in the 1800s, pro-viding only a $5 daily per diem and compensation of 10 cents per mile.
The new law would align elector compensation with al-lowances given to state officials, providing a maximum stipend of $61 a day for meals, $88 for lodg-ing and 56.5 cents per mile.
Presidential electors of the winning political party gather in Olympia in December follow-ing presidential elections. The process is generally viewed as a formality, but the votes of elec-tors from each state are what of-ficially determine which candi-date becomes president.
The measure passed by a 38-10 margin.
State Lawmakers Boost Compensation for Electors
Inslee Surprises Higher-Ed With Council Shake-UpOLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee
has decided to replace half of the Washington Student Achieve-ment Council, surprising state lawmakers and raising ques-tions about the direction of a newly formed board charged with writing a road map for higher education.
“It’s a substantial disappoint-ment to have worked so hard, to have made some very positive contributions and to be moving toward some very constructive recommendations, and then to have that stopped in mideffort,” said former U.S. Rep. Brian Baird, the ousted chairman. “It’s frustrating.”
Baird, who served with In-slee in Congress for 12 years, and the three other members being replaced were appointed by former Gov. Chris Gregoire last summer and were moving
through the confirmation pro-cess. They found out about In-slee’s decision just hours before they were scheduled to get a vote in the Senate Higher Education Committee.
“Of course the governor has a right to choose whoever he wants,” said state Sen. David Frockt, a Seattle Democrat who sits on that committee. “But yes, I was surprised.”
Inslee spokesman David Postman downplayed the move, saying the governor’s decision was “not a judgment on the people who have served or their ideas about higher education.”
“He wants to bring in his team and bring in new people with new ideas,” Postman said.
Postman said the governor is vetting candidates and expects to name appointees before the regular legislative session ends
April 28. The state Senate is re-quired to approve the nominees.
Until then, the nine-member council — now down to five — is being led by its student mem-ber, Lindsey Jahn, a senior at Washington State University.
Two members said they ex-pect to continue working on the road map, although they may miss their December deadline.
But some higher-education advocates expressed concern about the shake-up given the fledging nature of the council.
The group was formed in August as a replacement to the Washington Higher Education Coordinating Board, which some saw as unfocused.
The council got fewer as-signments and initially focused on developing the road map, a 10-year plan for improving high education.
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The Lewis County Histori-cal Museum Board has selected Chehalis native Andy Skinner to act as the museum's interim di-rector following former director Johanna Jones’ resignation last Friday.
Skinner, 24, will hold the po-sition for six months, with the possibility of staying on longer.
He will take over for Jones on April 26.
Board President Pete Lah-mann said that last year Skinner was one of five finalists consid-ered for the position that ulti-
mately was offered to Jones."He scored very well then,"
Lahmann said.This time
around, he was chosen, in part, to draw a younger crowd to the museum.
Skinner, who graduated from Wash-ington State University with a degree in his-tory in 2011, has long been involved with the historical society and museum. In 2007, he spent his summer interning there, and in the fol-lowing years, continued to assist in cataloging, scanning and ar-chiving. In 2012, he was elected to the museum board.
The Chehalis resident wants
to attract a new generation with diversified media — Facebook, Twitter, a revamped website — but also by modifying the mu-seum's presentation of history.
"In school, history is about facts and memorization," Skin-ner said. "But history is about stories."
"Stories are at the heart of what makes this a community, they bring us together," he said.
"I'd like to get more people in-volved with the stories behind everything, not just the arti-facts."
Though Skinner is optimis-tic, he acknowledges he will face challenges in his new role.
"I am a little concerned about finances," he said, "but after the recent tragedies, I think people want to see the museum come back even stronger."
Lahmann, the board presi-
dent, also expressed concerns. The museum's greatest needs, according to Lahmann, are funding and volunteers.
"The county, the cities of Che-halis and Centralia, private do-nors, they've all stood up to help out. They want it to work out, we want it to work out," he said.
Extending a permanent posi-tion to Skinner will depend, in large part, on finances, he added.
Jones, the current director, submitted a letter of resigna-tion last Friday, according to museum board member Daryl Lund. The director cited a lack of support from the board as her reason for quitting, he said.
When Jones began work-ing for the Historical Museum just over a year ago, she inher-ited a reputation for poor money management — one created by her predecessor, Debbie Knapp,
who last month pleaded guilty to embezzling $400,000 from the museum.
“It's been challenging,” Jones told The Chronicle earlier this year. “Day by day as issues come up we just deal with them. We took one bite at a time and have made it manageable.”
The board has no hard feel-ing about Jones' departure; rath-er, they are grateful for her work over the last year, according to Lahmann.
"She’s done a good job com-ing into a very shaky situation. It's a little bit of a daunting task," he said. "It's a pretty good sized building, the collection is exten-sive, she was dealing with the public, dealing with political as-pects of the job, finances."
"For one person we're ask-ing a lot. I think finally she was tired," he said.
Chehalis Native Chosen as Historical Museum Interim Director
Andy Skinner
interim museum director
VISION: Parks Commission Looks to Fix Willapa Hills Trail, Connect it With Larger Network
Once the flood-damaged Adna and Dryad trestle bridges are replaced this year on the Willapa Hills Trail, the Wash-ington State Parks and Recre-ation Commission said its focus will turn to two more gaps on the trail.
Michael Hankinson, the southwest region planner for the state Parks and Recreation
Commission, said the commis-sion had identified two gaps, one at a bridge near Adna and the other at the state Route 6 crossing just before Adna.
Hankinson updated com-munity members in Hanson Hall at Centralia College Thurs-day afternoon on the status of rebuilding the old trestle bridges and the future plans for the gaps.
The state parks commission has not yet raised funds to fix the gaps, Hankinson said. In-stead, the commission is weigh-ing options with county officials and Lewis County Community Trails members.
Hankinson said the rail ties on the bridge are failing and need to be replaced with either
concrete or new wood. “The condition of the rail ties
are a problem,” Hankinson said. “We need to determine what so-lution is the most bang for our buck.”
For the crossing at state Route 6, the parks commission is researching either building a tunnel under the state highway or a bridge over it to protect pe-destrians on the Willapa Trail.
Hankinson said a bridge is the likely solution since a tunnel would not work in flood events.
While the parks commission investigates the two gaps, bids are due Tuesday for construc-tion on repairs to the Spooner Road and Dryad trestle bridges.
Rebuilding the bridges will
cost $1.65 million and $1.7 mil-lion, respectively, and will re-connect major sections of the trail that have been separated since the 2007 flood.
The funds for the project were provided by FEMA.
Both bridges will look simi-lar and be built above 100-year flood levels. The bridges will also be 300-feet-long, which is 100 feet longer than before.
Construction on the nine-
month project will begin in late May or early June.
Hankinson said the ultimate goal is to connect the 57-mile Willapa Hills Trail with other trails in the region as a part of the Rails to Trails network.
“The Willapa Hills Trail is part of a larger vision that con-nects trails from Idaho to the Pacific Ocean,” Hankinson said.
“The vision could come true if we get the funding.”
POSTPONED: Attorneys Say Crime Lab is Still Processing Evidence Needed for Trial
The murder trial for Weston G. Miller, the Centralia man accused of fatally shooting his friend last year, has been pushed back as the prosecution and de-fense wait for the crime labora-tory to process evidence.
The 30-year-old Centralia man is charged with first-degree murder. His trial was set to be-gin next week.
When he appeared in court for a brief appearance Thursday morning, he was handcuffed to a wheelchair that was pushed
into the courtroom by a correc-tions officer and had a cast on his left foot.
His court-appointed de-fense attorney, Joseph Enbody, said he thinks Miller landed wrong getting off a bunk bed in the Lewis County Jail, fracturing his foot.
Authorities say Miller shot his friend, 43-year-old David Wayne Carson, on March 13, 2012, inside Miller’s home at 910 B St. in Centralia. Following the slaying, police located several guns in Miller’s house. Miller was banned from owning or handling firearms after a 2009 conviction of fourth-degree do-
mestic-violence assault.Miller pleaded guilty to four
counts of unlawful possession of a firearm earlier this month, which should shorten the length of the trial. The prosecution did not enter a sentencing recom-mendation for the four charges, pending the outcome of the murder trial.
Miller entered a plea of not guilty by reason of self defense to first-degree murder earlier this year. He originally pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, but altered the plea once experts from Western State Hospital filed a mental health evaluation for the prosecution.
Prosecutors said the 30-year-old has been offered a plea bargain in relation to the murder charge, but Miller has not accepted it. The maximum penalty for first-de-gree murder is life in prison.
State Parks Commission Discusses Future of Willapa Hills Trail
Murder Trial for Centralia Man Delayed
Weston Miller
accused of murder
OLYMPIA (AP) — Wash-ington state lawmakers have ap-proved a bill to expand caps on tow truck fees.
The Senate voted unani-mously on Friday to create rules for the private impound of vehi-cles that were parked on private
property. Under the bill, tow truck companies could charge up to about $270 to tow a vehicle and impound it for half a day and another $60 for storage per day thereafter.
Supporters of the bill say changes are necessary to pre-
vent tow truck companies from gouging people with bills over $1,000.
Currently, the Washington State Patrol sets limits on how much tow truck drivers can charge for their services when working with the State Patrol.
State Lawmakers Approve Caps on Tow Truck Fees
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By The Chronicle
The Onalaska man who was struck by a falling tree during a logging accident on his property died as a result of a head injury Wednesday night.
John C. Hazen, 43, died due to blunt head trauma, and his manner of death was ruled accidental by the Clark County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Hazen sustained a head injury when he was struck by a falling tree in an apparent logging accident Monday on Allen Road off of Middle Fork Road outside of Onalaska.
Fire District 1 Chief Mark Conner said he was airlifted to Southwest Washington
Medical Center in Vancouver, Wash., following the accident. He was taken off life support later in the week.
When medics arrived at about 9:30 a.m. Monday, Ha-zen was unconscious and had a laceration that was about 5 to 6 inches in diameter on his head, Conner said. He was not wearing a helmet.
Hazen owned the proper-ty and was out with a logging crew who were cutting down trees, Conner said. Members of the crew said Hazen ran in the path of the falling tree and was struck in the head.
He was not pinned as the impact threw him clear of the tree, Conner said. The tree was about 8 inches in diam-eter.
Onalaska Man Dies As a Result of Logging Injury
EXPENSIVE INMATE:
Leo Bunker III Still Undergoing Chemotherapy and Needs Weeks of Recovery Before Trial Can Start
The trial for the accused rap-ist with throat cancer who has accumulated well over $100,000 in medical bills has been delayed again as he is still recovering from surgery and undergoing chemotherapy.
The trial for Leo B. Bunker III was set to begin next week, but he is not well enough to ap-pear in court, said deputy pros-ecutor Joely O’Rourke. Bunker is currently in his last week of chemotherapy, but his doctor estimates he needs an additional three to four weeks to recover. He currently is unable to talk.
The 52-year-old man, for-merly of Winlock, is charged with two counts of second-degree rape, felony harassment
and violation of a court order, according to court documents.
Bunker will appear in court next Thursday, and his attorney is expected to request a trial date for mid-May, O’Rourke said.
While in custody, Bunker was diagnosed with an aggres-sive form of throat cancer. The treatment required surgery, weeks of post-operative care in a sterile environment and months of chemotherapy. Since the jail does not have that kind of space, the jail administration contract-ed with the state Department of Corrections to have Bunker housed at one of its facilities.
Bunker underwent surgery in January, and while jail offi-cials have not compiled the total cost of Bunker’s treatment, Jail Administrator Kevin Hanson said he estimates the figure to be
“well over $100,000.” Following Bunker’s surgery, every day his treatment costs the jail an addi-tional $227.
O’Rourke said previously that they could not temporar-ily let him out of custody for surgery and treatment because Bunker was dying, had nothing
to lose, and they were afraid he would track down the victim and kill her.
A woman who used to live with Bunker contacted law en-forcement on Nov. 4, 2011, and reported that he had raped her on multiple occasions and had threatened to kill her, according to court documents.
He allegedly told her he would hang her “high from the rafters in the old barn,” accord-ing to court documents. She eventually got a domestic-vio-lence protection order, which he allegedly violated. He was brought into custody in April 2012.
While prosecutors attempt-ed to settle the case with a plea deal, Bunker has refused to ac-cept any reasonable agreement, O’Rourke said.
Trial for Accused Rapist Racking Up Medical Expenses Delayed Again
By The Chronicle
Breast Cancer Benefit Scheduled for Cinebar Woman
A spaghetti feed and raffle will be held 4 p.m. Saturday, May 4, at the Veterans Memorial Museum in Chehalis to benefit Donna Corbett-Hill, a Cinebar woman who was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer two months ago.
Corbett-Hill’s three daugh-ters — Lindsey, Lacey and Lisa
— will all shave their heads at the event as a way to honor their mother, who will lose her hair from upcoming che-motherapy treatments.
Corbett-Hill, the assis-tant manager at Visiting Nurses Thrift Store in Chehalis, did not have medical insurance when she was diag-nosed. The spaghetti feed and raffle event will help her raise money for medical bills and oth-er expenses.
After her diagnosis, doctors performed a mastectomy on Corbett-Hill’s right breast and found more cancer spots on her lungs and liver.
She will have to have two months of chemotherapy fol-lowed by two months of radia-tion treatment and then be on hormone therapy for the next 10 years.
Each bag of chemotherapy medicine costs $10,000, her daughter Lindsey Pilz said. That doesn’t take into account the costs of surgeries, radiation and hormone therapy pills.
For more information on the event or to donate, contact Pilz at (360)-269-2452 or call Lisa Corbett at (360) 880-5839.
Braun Disappointed with House Democrats’ Budget
Sen. John Braun, R-Centra-lia, earlier this week expressed disappointment with the House Democrat bud-get proposal, noting how sim-ilar it is to Gov. Jay Inslee’s plan
— to the point of raising tuition at Washington’s four-year colleg-es by the same 6 to 10 percent in the next two years.
“This proposal, like the gov-ernor’s, is not in the best interest of our state,” Braun said. “Voters recently rejected a tax on bottled water, and here it is again in the House budget proposal.”
Braun highlighted the Sen-ate’s Ten-Three-Fifty plan as rep-resenting a stark contrast to the approach taken by the House.
The Senate provides the most money to higher education out of all three budgets introduced, and is the only budget that ac-tually lowers tuition without raising taxes, he said in a press release.
The Senate plan to cut tuition by 3 percent also allows the State Need Grant to expand service to 4,300 additional students, and fully funds the Guaranteed Edu-cation Tuition Program, accord-ing to Braun.
“At the end of the day this is about priorities,” he said. “The House Democrats’ priorities don’t match up well with their budget. They say higher educa-tion is very important but in-crease tuition by five percent. They say jobs are very much needed right now but propose tax increases exceeding a billion dollars. I just don’t see how this helps our state get back to work, or how it makes college more affordable to the working-class families living in Washington.”
The Democrats have yet to pass their budget proposal through the House of Representa-tives, at which time negotiations between the House and Senate leaders will begin in earnest.
Interstate 5 Lane Closures Scheduled in Centralia
Both directions of Interstate 5 through the Mellen Street to Blakeslee Junction widening project in Centralia will have single-lane closures from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. nightly Monday through Friday morning, ac-cording to the Washington State Department of Transportation.
I-5 from Blakeslee Junction to Grand Mound will also have daytime shoulder closures with-in project limits from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
The scheduled closures are flexible and can change throughout the week, according to WSDOT, so drivers should check for updated information on WSDOT’s website or by dial-ing 511.
Chiropractic Clinic to Hold Grand Opening in Napavine
The Family Health Clinic of Chiropractic is holding a grand opening in Napavine on Tues-day. Michael Foster, a chiroprac-tor, has opened his practice at 101 E. Washington St.
For more information, call (360) 262-9477.
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TransAlta is facing off with the Sierra Club again, this time over coal dust coming from trains carrying loads of the fos-sil fuel to the Centralia plant and throughout the state, potentially polluting Washington waters.
The Sierra Club and four other environmental groups last week filed a 60-day notice of intent to sue Burlington North-ern Santa Fe Railway and seven other coal companies, includ-ing TransAlta, in federal court for allegedly violating the Clean Water Act.
“I think they’re exaggerating,” TransAlta’s External Relations Director Richard DeBolt said of the environmental groups’ concerns, noting the company is still determining how to re-spond.
DeBolt said he was surprised the Sierra Club named Trans-Alta in the notice because there is already an agreement to shut down the Centralia plant’s coal-powered turbines in 2020 and 2025.
IF SUCCESSFUL, this latest chal-lenge would for the first time
require companies exporting coal to obtain water pollution permits or seek other solutions for mitigating the discharge of pollutants.
“It’s up to the coal shippers to figure out how to stop violating the law,” said Krista Collard, a spokeswoman for the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign in the Pacific Northwest.
“The Clean Water Act is some-thing to take seriously.”
Collard said four uncov-ered trains carrying coal travel through the state each day and two typically go to TransAlta’s Centralia facility.
BNSF ESTIMATES that an aver-age of 500 pounds of coal is lost from each rail car on every trip. A typical train carries about 120
rail cars — losing an estimated 30 tons of coal per trip, accord-ing to the railway’s testimony before the Surface Transporta-tion Board.
The environmental groups have documented several Wash-ington waterways near railroad tracks throughout the state that have tested positive for coal and its byproducts — including one near Longview.
But, DeBolt said, coal dust is not a legitimate environmental concern because sealant is ap-plied on top of loaded rail cars to prevent it from coming off in transit.
Still, Collard said, the seal-ants are only about 85 percent effective and are often applied unevenly. Further, she said, coal leaks out of holes in the bottom and sides of the rail cars, partic-ularly during rain events com-mon to the Northwest.
A PAGE from BNSF’s website detailing the railway’s research
on coal dust since 2005, which has since been taken down, con-firms that sealants are only 85 percent effective.
“From these studies, BNSF has determined that coal dust poses a serious threat to the sta-bility of the track structure and thus to the operational integrity of our lines,” the webpage states.
“BNSF does not believe that any commodity should be permit-ted to escape from its shipping container and foul the railroad’s roadbed or surrounding areas.”
THE COMPANY’S study deter-mined that coal dust buildup can prevent water from drain-ing from track beds, which can push steel rails out of place and cause derailments.
“Coal train derailments pose a threat to human health and safety and constitute Clean Water Act violations when they spill coal into waterways,” the environmental group’s legal no-tice states.
But, DeBolt, who in addition to his role at TransAlta serves as the state’s House Republican minority leader, said the coal dust issue is not a real concern and denied its existence near railroad tracks, during a tele-phone town hall meeting with constituents and other legisla-tors on April 3.
“As we look at the environ-mental rules and regulations in Washington, they’re not just stifling the coal industry and they’re not just stifling our
growth but they really are an as-sault on rural Washington,” he said.
DEBOLT SAID Washingtonians need to embrace coal and other natural resource industries to bring jobs to the state. Trans-Alta’s Centralia operation em-ployed about 270 workers as of January.
“Right now we have some of the best jobs in Washington out at the Centralia steam plant,” DeBolt said. “Yet, we have peo-ple in Seattle and other areas telling us what businesses can and can’t exist in our communi-ties.”
THE ENVIRONMENTAL groups are now calling on TransAlta and other coal transporters to figure out how to mitigate pol-lutants and other health risks coming from coal trains or face a legal battle in federal court.
“There’s a good chance there could be national implications,” Collard said. “It’s certainly a big deal.”
Seattle Group Raises Purchase Price for Kings SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle group attempting to buy the Sacramento Kings says it has reached agreement to raise the purchase price by $25 million. Chris Hansen, teaming with Steve Ballmer to lead the group, Hansen an-nounced the decision to raise the valua-tion late Friday night. In a statement on his website, Sonicsarena.com, Hansen says the group has voluntarily raised the
purchase price as a “sign of our commit-ment to bring basketball back to our city.” Hansen’s group entered into a binding agreement with the Maloof family in Jan-uary to purchase the controlling interest of the franchise based on a $525 million value. The purchase agreement has been countered by Sacramento’s attempts to put together a potential ownership group that would keep the Kings in California.
SEATTLE — Marv Harsh-man, who spent 40 years coach-ing college basketball in the state of Washington and was en-shrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1985, died Friday at 95. The University of Washing-ton, where Harshman conclud-ed his coaching career in 1985, confirmed Harshman’s death.
Current Huskies coach Lorenzo Romar — who played for Harsh-man at Washington — said he spoke with Harshman’s son, Dave, Friday morning after his former coach passed away. “We obviously lost a legend. I learned so much from Coach. He is one of the main reasons I’m here at the University of Washington,” Romar said in a statement. “I went to Wash-
ington expecting to play with a legendary coach; I didn’t know I would get the bonus of playing for a legendary person. He will be missed by all of us.” Harshman was a basketball fixture in the state for nearly half a century. He started his coaching career at his alma ma-ter, Pacific Lutheran, where he led the then-NAIA school to a spot in the national champion-
ship game in 1959. From the NAIA level he moved across the state to Pull-man, where he coached at Washington State for 13 seasons. He went 155-181 coaching on the Palouse, and then moved to Seattle for his final coaching job at Washington. Harshman spent 14 seasons on Montlake before retiring in 1985 and had his most success
there. He won 20 or more games with the Huskies four times and went to the NCAA tournament three times. He coached Romar from 1978-80, and called Cen-tralia product Detlef Schrempf the best player he ever coached. Harshman went 246-146 at Washington, the second-most victories all time at the school behind Hec Edmundson. He
Marv Harshman, the leg-endary former University of Washington, Washington State University and Pacific Lutheran University basketball coach who passed away on Friday morning, was as much a fixture in Cen-tralia as he was in the statewide hoops scene. Harshman was a regular at the Centralia Hoop Camp, run by Tiger basketball coach Ron Brown every summer at Cen-tralia High School. The camp, which will celebrate its 40th year this June, was originally the Husky Hoop Camp — and built around Harshman’s instruction. Harshman, then at the Uni-versity of Washington, called up Brown and explained that he was putting together a series of one-day clinics to promote basketball throughout the state. Brown — who, while playing for Univer-sity of Puget Sound, had faced Harshman’s Pacific Lutheran University squad — jumped at the opportunity, and put togeth-er a group of kids large enough to impress Harshman and his staff. After the one-day camp, Brown called Harshman back, and asked if the UW coaching staff would consider returning to the Hub City for a full week of instruction. That full week turned into the inaugural Husky Hoop Camp, back in 1974. “Marv loved Centralia,” Brown said. “He just felt like he got along so well with us, and it was just a healthy relationship.” Harshman retired in 1985. The name was changed to the Centralia Hoop Camp, but it was still Harshman’s show. “We put together other coaches to help him run the camp,” Brown said. “It really was his camp during those years, as far as setting up and what we were going to do.” Harshman was 68 when he was forced into retirement by UW, after his Huskies went 22-10. He still had the desire to coach, though, and the Centra-lia camp was, to some extent, his outlet. “He wanted to coach,” Brown said. “Once he ended up leaving the U, this was kind of his coach-ing. He felt like he was wanted, and that made him feel good.” Centralia College athletic director Bob Peters — who at-tended his first Husky Hoop Camp in 1976 and has helped with the camp since his college days — went with Brown to visit Harshman in a nursing home just outside of Gig Harbor about two weeks ago. “You could tell, when he talk-ed about Centralia, and the hoop camp, his eyes lit up,” Peters said.
“He’s always had a special place for Centralia.” Peters played for Brown and won a state title with the Tigers,
Pe Ell’s Alissa Brooks-Johnson wins the 110-meter hurdles for the Trojans during Central 2B League track and ield action Thursday at Napavine.
Brooks-Johnson Wins Four in NapavineBy The Chronicle
NAPAVINE — Alissa Brooks-Johnson, once again, won all four of her events in a seven-team Central 2B League track meet here Thursday. The Pe Ell senior, switch-
ing her schedule up in the lim-ited meet, edged Adna's Regyn Gaffney, 25.89 seconds to 25.92 seconds, in the 200 meters for her closest win of the event. Brooks-Johnson and Gaffney's times on Thursday are now the two fastest times in that race in
Washington's 2B ranks this sea-son. Brooks-Johnson also won the 100 hurdles (15.39), the high jump (4 feet, 8 inches) and the discus (99-10). Teammate Sami-Jo Robinson won the tri-ple jump (31-4), the long jump
(15-5) and the javelin (111-7), helping the Trojans to a second-place finish behind Napavine. Gaffney also won the 100 (12.72), and ran a leg of the win-ning 4x400 relay with Jessie
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1A Boys Soccer
By The Chronicle
ROCHESTER — The War-riors put in five second-half goals and disposed of SWW 1A League Evergreen Division op-ponent Forks, 7-0, here on Friday night. Fernando Aguilar was again the big gun for Rochester, notching four goals in his team's sixth league victory. "Our guys connected with some good passes and the other team was playing flat so they put some balls through," Rochester coach Brian Ziese said. Jonathan Castillo assisted Aguilar for a goal in the 11th minute, and Aguilar scored two minutes later on a penalty kick
played at Western Washington University and coached at Cen-tralia College. What stood out about Harshman, he said, was his humility. “His ego was in check all the time,” Peters said. “He never came in and said, ‘I won 600 games.’ He just let his work and his business take care of itself.” When Centralia College dedicated the entryway to its gymnasium to longtime Blazer basketball coach George Ga-blehouse last May, Harshman made an appearance, Peters pointed out. “That was a pretty neat deal,” he added. “He had a tie to Cen-tralia in his own little way.” Gary Viggers, Winlock High School’s athletic direc-tor and the former women’s basketball coach at Centralia College, attended the camp in high school and, like Peters, has helped out ever since. “He always had time to sit around and talk with me and the other young coaches that were eager to learn,” Viggers said. “He was just a neat friend, with lots of years of experience and knowledge of the game.” Harshman, into his 90s, would still attend the camp each summer, though a younger collection of coaches — Peters, Viggers, Western Washington University coach Brad Jackson, former Saint Martin’s Univer-sity coach Keith Cooper and Harshman’s son, Dave, among others — have taken over most
of the day-to-day instruction.
The main attraction was unable
to attend the past two summers.
After camp wrapped up,
the coaches would tradition-
ally meet for dinner at Brown’s
home, and Harshman would
hold court.
“He’d give you facts, and
talk about 1950, and the players
on his team, and he’d tell you
about his manager, and have
his name, and nobody wants to
interrupt him,” Brown said. “It
was just fun to listen to. And he
loved to get going. He was just a
tremendous mind.”
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retired with more than 600 vic-tories at the college level. Additionally, he served on the U.S. Olympic Committee from 1975-1981 and was the head coach of the U.S. team that won the gold medal at the Pan-Am Games in 1975.
Even as his health declined, Harshman remained a fixture at Washington games, attending a few per season until a couple of years ago. “I’ve gone to many banquets and award shows where he was being honored and he just was revered by so many people; ev-
eryone from Bobby Knight to
Coach K (Mike Krzyzewski)
and on and on and on,” Romar
said. “I could always say I played
for Marv Harshman and right
away those great ones know who
he is — not just in the state of
Washington.”
File Photo / The Associated Press
In this Nov. 14, 2009, ile photo, former Washington head coach Marv Harshman acknowledges the crowd during a halftime ceremony in his honor at an NCAA college
basketball game between Washington and Belmont at Hec Edmundson Pavilion in Seattle. Harshman, who spent 40 years coaching in the state of Washington, died
Friday the University of Washington said. He was 95.
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VonBargen, Melyssa Nocis and Kaitlin Davis. Josie Dekoker paced the host Tigers with a win in the 300 hur-dles (52.29). Teammate Emily Potter won the pole vault at 6-6. Morton-White Pass' Ken-zie Anderson won the 400, and Mossyrock's Alicia Herrera won the 800 and the 1600. The Vi-king girls won the 4x100 and 4x200 relays, as well. The Timberwolf boys won the team title, getting wins from Jeff Fenbert in the 100 meters (11.67 seconds) and the 200 (24.12). Ben Powell and Ty-ler Barnett won the 110 and 300 hurdles, respectively, for MWP, and the T-Wolves won both the 4x100 and 4x400 relays. The host Tigers got a win from Kody Robertson in the shot put (40 feet, 10.5 inches) and Bailey Robertson in the jav-elin (138-4), while Tristan Erven won the high jump and Michael Giessler won the pole vault at an even 10 feet. Pe Ell freshman Josh Schulz won both the long jump (18-7.75) and the triple jump (40-1), and Mossyrock's Brandon But-ler won the 400 and Riley Spahn won the discus for the Vikings (127-6). Onalaska's Stephen Bottoms won the 1600 in 4:33.43 — giv-ing him a cushion of nearly 30 seconds, though coming 9 seconds short of his state-best mark in the event — and team-mate Josh Hunt won the 3200 in 11:21.83. Napavine, Morton-White Pass, Mossyrock, Adna and Pe Ell will all run in the two-day Chehalis Activators Classic, starting next Friday afternoon at W.F. West High School.
Warrior Girls Win at Home
ROCHESTER — The War-rior girls came out on top of a four-team SWW 1A League track meet here Thursday after-noon, led by a pair of wins from Kendra Sandford in the hurdles. Sandford won the 100-meter hurdles in 17.99 seconds, and took the 300 hurdles in 50.02 — despite, according to Warrior coach Troy Holman, being sick the night before. Anna Vazquez won the 100 for the Warrior girls, while Lupe Vazquez won the 200. Kenna Fosnacht won the 3200 with a
season-best time of 12:48, and ran a leg of the winning 4x400 relay with Kaylin Fosnacht, Ye-shi Bochsler, and Allison Strick-ler. Tenino finished second on the girls side. Jaclyn Huber won the long jump with a leap of 14-6.5 for the Beavers, and Bailey Fisher won the 1600 (6:19). Winlock's girls finished fourth, despite wins from Aliah Waterman (shot put) and Sarah Howsden (javelin). The Warrior boys finished second to defending State 1A champion Hoquiam, 86.5 to 85. Cody Triana won both hurdle
races, winning the 110 race in 16.34 and the 300 in 43.57 — both of which were personal-bests. Ryan Baxter notched wins in the 1600 and 800, while Angel Vazquez won the 400. Freshman Peter Holman won the 3200 for his first high school victory. Tenino's Garret Eckardt won the discus at 100 feet, 7 inches, and Winlock's Chance Fisher won the high jump at 5-6. Rochester and Tenino will both run at the Chehalis Activa-tors Classic at W.F. West High School on Friday and Saturday.
The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, April 13, 2013 • Sports 3SPORTS
By The Chronicle
W.F. West picked up its third Evergreen 2A Conference boys soccer win of the season in thrilling fashion on Thurs-day, topping Tumwater 2-1 in an overtime shootout in Chehalis. Aldo Sebastian scored for the Bearcats in the 12th min-ute, Connor Sigmon evened the ledgers with a shot in the 39th
— and the game would remain tied throughout the second half and two 5-minute overtime pe-riods. “It was a hard-fought battle,” W.F. West coach Tino Sanchez said. “They outshot us, but our shots were on.” Bearcat keeper Skyler Lucas stopped the first of Tumwater’s
penalty shots in the shootout, and the T-Birds would wind up hitting just two of their five at-tempts. Justin Deel, Sergio Perez and Aquileo Leal all converted PKs for W.F. West, and Tyler St. Catherine knocked in the deci-sive final shot. “We did well,” Sanchez said of the shootout. “We practice PKs a lot, and I thought our goalie (Lucas) did a great job.” W.F. West (3-4, all league games) will play at River Ridge on Tuesday.
Tigers Dominate Black Hills
TUMWATER — The first half was slow, but Centralia ex-ploded for five goals after the
break for a 6-1 Evergreen 2A Conference victory over Black Hills here on Thursday. Prince Gundersen was a king with four goals and an assist in the victory. “Prince was in good form to-night,” Tigers’ coach Sue Parke said. “Probably the best form I’ve seen for some time.” Gundersen notched the go-ahead goal in the 38th minute of the first half. “I really wasn’t thrilled with the first half score,” Parke said. “In the second half, they came out with a lot more cohe-sion and put a lot of pressure on Black Hills and it resulted in more goals.” After the break, Michael Ender scored on a cross from
Gundersen in the 44th minute. Edgar Bravo also scored for the Tigers, sandwiched in between 3 second-half goals by Gunderson. “They didn’t fall into the other team’s game plan tonight,” Parke said. Centralia (9-3, 6-2 league) plays at Capital next Thursday.
United Boys Win Fifth Straight
WOODLAND — Toledo-Winlock United’s Marco Bau-tista came up huge in overtime, and the combo squad edged Woodland 2-1 here Thursday night in SWW 1A League Trico Division boys soccer action. The victory was the fifth in a row for United, which improved
to 5-2 in league play with the win. Woodland opened the scor-ing with a goal a minute be-fore the intermission. Toledo-Winlock responded in the 60th minute, when Jacob Andrews knocked in a goal on an assist from Fernando Munoz. The game proceeded through the first 5-minute sudden-death overtime period without a score, and Bautista drilled the long game winner in the final minute of the sec-ond overtime off an assist from Blake Wood. United (5-4 overall) will get a big test when it hosts league-leading White Salmon today.
Thursday’s Prep Boys Soccer
Bearcat Booters Win Shootout With Tumwater
By The Chronicle
The Tiger girls tennis squad completed its first turn through the Evergreen 2A Conference with a perfect record, topping Tumwater 4-2 on Thursday af-ternoon in Centralia. Five of the matches went to three sets, and three of those fea-tured a tiebreaker game. "If you look at the scores, you can see this was a very competi-tive match," Tiger coach Deb Ke-ahey said. "Most of the matches lasted a couple of hours." Amanda Perdue and Anda Christian won the key No. 2 dou-bles match for Centralia, win-ning a two-and-a-half-hour 7-6 (7-3), 3-6, 6-3 match to secure the fourth win and team victory for the Tigers. "I was really pleased with their composure during the tie-breaker in the first set, and their solid play during the last set," Ke-ahey said. Anna Scheibmeir, at No. 1 singles, won the only two-set match of the day, taking down Rachel Howard 6-3, 6-4. Lillian Albright won at No. 2 singles and Sydney Creel won a tight 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (11-9) two-hour match at third singles. "I told the girls before the game that this was going to be a battle and they needed to be war-riors today," Keahey said. "They were all Tiger warriors today and I am extremely proud of how they all played today and repre-sented Centralia." Centralia (6-0) will host Capital on Monday. The Tiger JV team won 9-3.
Thursday’s 2A Girls Tennis
Tigers Netters Still Perfect After Win Over T-Birds
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Morton-White Pass’ Reuben Powell helps his team win the 4x100-meter relay for the Timberwolves during Central 2B League
track and ield action Thursday at Napavine.
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By The Chronicle
TENINO — The Bea-vers picked up a pair of painless wins, 12-2 and 13-0, over the Mountaineers here Thursday in SWW 1A League Evergreen Division baseball action. Mac Shaw went 3 for 3 and drove in 5 runs in the six-inning opener, while Devante Harris and Dakota Bellrose each had two hits. Harris added four stolen bases, and Zack Chamber-lain was walked once and hit with three pitches. Freshman Thomas Pier had his first varsity hit in the game, knocking a 2-run single in the third inning. The nightcap was even less suspenseful, as the Bea-vers scored 13 runs in the first three innings. Zack Chamberlain tossed four innings, and Terran Gil-breath got his first varsity start — at catcher — and drove in a run when he was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded. Harris went 2 for 2 and stole three bases, Shaw was 2 for 3 with a pair of RBIs and Zeb Chamberlain hit a pair of doubles. Kaleb Strawn, a fresh-man, had his first varsity hit — an RBI single — in the nightcap. Tenino (9-3, 8-3 league) will play a single game at Forks on Tuesday.
Warriors Split With Elma
ELMA — While the Warriors would have liked to get the sweep, their dou-bleheader split with Elma gave them a tie-breaker over the Eagles if the two end the season even in the standings. After winning the first game 3-2, Elma pitcher Layne Sutton held Roch-ester in check for a 7-4 set-back. Dustin Wilson took to the mound for the Warriors in Game 1, making the most of his five strikeouts in the 3-2 victory and hold-ing the Eagles to four hits. After a scoreless three in-nings, Rochester scored all 3 of its runs in the fourth. Lucas Eastman finished the game with two hits and a double, while Dylan Fos-nacht added two hits. Cur-tis Haley and Wyatt Singer both had singles. Elma scored 2 runs in the sixth, but Wilson ended the inning with a strike-out. In the bottom of the seventh, Elma got a bas-erunner on and advanced him to third on an infield out and an error. Wilson, however, held off the tying run by striking out two and winning the game. “Dustin threw another great ballgame,” Rochester coach Jerry Striegel said. In the second game, Sut-ton held Rochester to six hits and the Warriors com-mitted four errors in a 7-4 loss. “We just didn’t put enough offense on the board,” Striegel said. “We had a couple of opportuni-ties where we could score more runs and we let it slip through our fingers.” Eastman again had two hits with a double, while Fosnacht added a double and Dakota Deal had an RBI single. Andy Sommer added a hit for the Warriors. “Sutton had his curve-ball working and his stuff going,” Striegel said. “We gave up way too many er-rors and that ended up cost-ing us runs. That’s a deadly combination with missed opportunities offensively.” Rochester (6-5 league) will host a nonleague game with Castle Rock on Friday and return to league play at Hoquiam on Tuesday.
Thursday’s 1A Baseball
Rainier Pounded in Tenino
By The Chronicle
MOSSYROCK — The Tim-berwolves kept things close in both games, but Mossyrock stayed just a step ahead in a 3-2, 10-9 sweep here Thursday in Central 2B League baseball action. The Vikings got a 12-strike-out, one-hit complete-game performance from defending league MVP John Pomeroy in the opener. "He had a little mechanical tweak to kind of get him on top of the baseball a little more," Mossyrock coach Cole Kanyer said, "and he embraced it." Ryley Stanley hit a 2-run single in the third inning to put the Vikings ahead 3-1, and MWP didn't add a run until the top of the seventh. Both Timberwolf runs were lead-off walks that came around to score. "Realistically, they played good baseball all day," Kanyer said of the visiting Timber-wolves. "They moved guys over, and we were fortunate enough to come away with leaving guys stranded in pretty crucial situations." Cody Shriver had two hits for the winners, and Kraig Lindh had MWP's lone hit. Each team committed five errors in the nightcap, but Mossyrock scored 7 runs in the fifth inning to go ahead by what would turn into the final 10-9 margin. Shriver hit a 2-run double to tie the game up in the piv-
otal fifth inning, and Kyler Ha-zen went 2 for 3 and drove in 2 runs. Pomeroy added a fifth-inning double. Lucas Allen took over on the pitching mound in the fourth inning and secured a win for Mossyrock. "He just pounded the strike zone," Kanyer said. "And our defense did a good job towards the end of the game of making plays behind him." Mossyrock's Shaun Ste-phens had two hits in the nightcap but, according to his coach, hit the ball hard all day long — though three of his at-bats resulted in line drives to his cousin, Morton-White Pass' Braiden Elledge. Dustin Matchett had two hits and drove in 3 runs for MWP in Game 2. Morton-White Pass (3-5) will host Toutle Lake on Thurs-day. Mossyrock (9-2, 7-1 league) is at Onalaska on Thursday.
Adna Splits With Toutle Lake
ADNA — The Pirates showed some of the afteref-fects of a two-week vacation in Game 1, but bounced back with the help of an inside-the-park home run to knock off Toutle Lake in Game 2 and salvage a split in a Central 2B League baseball doubleheader here Thursday. Adna scored 6 runs in the second inning, but wouldn't score again until the bottom of the final frame in a 9-8 loss in the opener.
"Their pitcher walked a few guys and we got some breaks, and we had a chance to take control of the game," Adna coach Bryan Zurfluh said. "But the first game, we just weren't ready to play and weren't sharp. It was a winnable game, we just didn't take advantage of it." Brenden Webster had two hits for Adna, and Toutle Lake's Ryan Olver went 3 for 4 with a home run and a double. The nightcap was tied at 3 in the bottom of the sixth in-ning, but Cooper Zurfluh's line drive over the Duck cen-ter fielder's head turned into a 2-run inside-the-park home run. Dallas Fussell started the 5-run, six-hit sixth-inning rally with a pinch-hit infield single. Zurfluh also pitched all sev-en innings to get the win, strik-ing out seven with three walks. Zurfluh and Lane Wasson each had two hits and Austin Mc-Closkey went 3 for 3 for Adna. "We competed a lot better," Zurfluh, the coach, said. "For a game that could have went ei-ther way, it was kind of nice to get the win." Adna (6-4, 4-4 league) will play a doubleheader at Pe Ell on Thursday.
Trojans Split With Wahkiakum
PE ELL — Pe Ell found its rhythm in the nightcap to pick up a Central 2B League base-ball split against Wahkiakum here on Thursday, losing the opener 6-2 and winning the late game 9-1.
Devin Toepelt and Andy Pickens hit solo home runs in the fourth inning, but Wahkia-kum plated 3 runs in the top of the seventh to put the game on ice. Red Arrington and Dustin Lusk each had two hits for Pe Ell, and Gunnar Blix went 2 for 3 with a home run to lead the Mules. Austin Arrington struck out 12 for Pe Ell in a complete-game effort. The nightcap followed a different courts, with Wah-kiakum’s lone run coming on another Gunnar Blix homer in the third inning. Pe Ell re-sponded with 4 runs in the bot-tom of that inning, and added another 4 in the fifth. “After they hit the home run, I thought we were going to end up like we did in the first ball game,” Pe Ell coach Hal Arrington said. “My younger kids stepped up, with three hits in a row, and we got 4 runs right off the bat.” Nick Bailey and Dalton Toepelt were each 2 for 3 with a double, and Lusk was 2 for 3 with a triple. Derrick Justice pitched all seven innings for the Trojans and held Wah-kiakum to just three hits, with four strikeouts. “Our defense was solid,” Arrington added. “They were hitting ground balls and fly balls, and we made the plays. I was really happy with how (Justice) threw.” Pe Ell (6-6, 2-6 league) will host Adna in a C2BL twinbill on Thursday.
Vikings Win Two 1-Run Games Against MWPThursday’s 2B Baseball
The first six innings may have been a bit nerve-racking for the Tiger faithful, but the sev-enth was a thing of beauty. Patrick Neely knocked a two-out, walk-off single through the left side of the infield, and Centralia rallied with four hits in its final turn at the plate to come back and beat Evergreen 2A Conference foe Capital 5-4 Thursday afternoon at Ed Wheeler Field. The Tigers had managed just two singles over the previ-ous four innings, and trailed 4-3 heading into the bottom of the seventh. The swing-early-and-swing-often philosophy, however, didn't change. "If we go down, we're going to go down swinging the bat," Centralia coach Rex Ashmore said. "That's what we did. We kept the same approach, and that's swinging the bat." Michael Stuart led off the seventh with a bloop single to
shallow center field, followed by a single up the middle from Joe Blaser. Ty Housden laid down a bunt to move the runners over, and Chuck McKeever lined a single to right field to bring in Stuart and tie the game. "It was a great bunt on his part," Ashmore said. "And then Chuck and Patrick came up big for us." Neely, who went 2 for 4 in the game, slashed a 3-1 pitch through the left side to score Levi Studeman, who was cour-tesy running for Blaser, and end the game. The Tigers plated their first 3 runs in the second inning, on an RBI single from John Sharkey, a wild pitch that allowed Neely to
cross home, a single by Stuart and a misplayed ground ball hit by Blaser that put a run across. The Cougars, though, clawed their way back, scoring a run in the third on a foul sacrifice fly
— that was nearly voided by a strong throw to home by Neely
— and adding the tying and go-ahead runs in the fifth, both of which were unearned. "You know, it was very frus-trating for six innings," Ash-more said, referencing the Tigers' three miscues in the field — two of which turned into runs. "But if that's what it takes to get wins, I guess that's what it takes." Kameron Miner went all sev-en innings for Capital, striking out 10 with two walks and burn-
ing 111 pitches. Derek Putman went the first six for Centralia, allowing five hits and striking out eight with three walks. Jus-tin Reyna pitched the seventh, striking out the first two batters he faced, hitting the next two and getting a ground-out to end the runners-on threat. "Our pitchers did a good job at the end, as they have all year," Ashmore said. "We didn't help them out defensively at all in the fifth inning, and it was still a 3-2 game. We didn't help (Putman) out, and his pitch count got up a little bit." It was the sixth Centralia game this season to end in walk-off fashion. The Tigers have won three of those. Stuart, Blaser, Neely and McKeever each went 2 for 4 for the Tigers, while Zach Wood and Joel Lantau were both 1 for 3. Miner and Thomas Kerr each had two hits for Capital. Centralia (6-5, 5-5 league) will play host to Tumwater in a makeup game on Monday.
“If we go down, we’re going to go down swinging the bat.’’
Rex Ashmore,
Centralia baseball coach
Thursday’s 2A Baseball
Neely Delivers Walk-Off in Win Over Capital
for a 2-0 halftime lead.
"I wish in the first half we
would have connected more and
built up our attack against them," Ziese said. "We were holding the ball a little bit too much against them and we weren't looking for our midfielders." After the break, however, the Rochester offense really got kicking with Aguilar notching
two goals and Jonathan Rivas, Martin Monroy also scoring in a seven minute-span. "It allowed me to let every-body into the game so that's a big plus," Ziese said. "I thought Eric Arevalo and Brandon Pan-dell, our center mids, did a much
better job in the second half and they're the ones that created a lot of stuff." Goalkeepers Jacob Lambert and Michael Houser shared the shutout for Rochester. The War-riors (6-3 overall, 6-2 league) will host Montesano on Tuesday.
Rochester’s Brandon Pandell gets in front of the ball a win over Forks Friday in Rochester.
The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, April 13, 2013 • Sports 5SPORTS
By Todd Milles
The News Tribune
It was as if Forrest “Frosty” Westering rode into town on a rainbow. The charismatic football coach, who could seemingly move mountains with his words, not only turned the Pacific Lu-theran University program into a national small-college pow-erhouse, but also built it in his own way based on love and self-lessness — died from congestive heart failure early this afternoon at a Puyallup hospice center. Westering was 85. Westering was the Lutes coach from 1972-2003. He led the school to four national championships (1980, 1987, 1993, 1999), and is the 10th-win-ningest coach in college football history with 305 victories. John Gagliardi, who retired last season from St. John’s of Minnesota as the all-time win-ningest college football coach with 489 wins, knew Westering from his early days in coaching. “Every place he went, he left a remarkable imprint,” Gagliardi said. “Frosty was a person that you were lucky to have known him, and you never would forget him. He was a great coach and a
better guy. I never met anybody so optimistic. “And those guys played great ball, and he showed a way you do not have to be a harsh disci-plinarian.” Westering’s coaching record was 305-96-7 in 40 seasons, with a 261-70-5 mark in 32 seasons with the Lutes. “He is an original,” former PLU quarterback Craig Kupp said. Born in Missouri Valley, Iowa, on Dec. 5, 1927, he mar-ried his grade-school sweetheart shortly after high school, joined the U.S. Marines and became a drill instructor. He eventu-ally went on to play football at Northwestern University of Iowa and Nebraska-Omaha. He returned to his home state to coach at Elkader and Fairfield High Schools, turning those struggling programs into winners. His first college coaching job was at the now-defunct Parsons College in Fairfield, Iowa, from 1962-64. Westering finished his doc-torate in education from 1964-66 at Northern Colorado in Greeley, then coached at now-defunct Lea College in Albert Lea, Minn., from 1966-72.
It was in 1972 when he sought a new challenge in a completely different part of the country. He applied for the job at PLU to replace Roy E. Carlson. “The athletic department recommended to me three can-didates. The other two had bet-ter football records than Frosty,” said Dr. Eugene Wiegman, who was the president of PLU from 1969-74. “So why did I hire Frosty? He was the only one of the fi-nal candidates who had a great sense of humor.” Although the team had come off three consecutive winning seasons before Westering’s ar-rival, PLU had long stretches of futility, posting a losing record in 11 out of 12 seasons from 1957-68. Westering showed little re-gard for wins and losses — or even the outcome on the score-board. He was more intent on building the football program on Christian faith-based, team-first ideals. “A change of culture takes some time,” said Steve Ridgeway, a defensive back and the Lutes’ first two-time team captain un-der Westering. “For those of us who were transfers — I trans-ferred in from Colorado and
walked away from a scholarship — it was refreshing, because we had seen the other aspect of life.” The byproduct was winning football games — and lots of them. PLU transformed into the Northwest’s premier small-college program. The Lutes won NAIA Division II national championships in 1980, 1987 and 1993. His 256 wins in the NAIA ranks are the most by a coach. After leading the Lutes to one more national crown — this time, the NCAA Division III ti-tle in 1999 over Rowan Universi-ty of Glassboro, N.J. — Wester-ing stepped down as coach following the 2003 season. PLU had 32 consecutive win-ning seasons under Westering. He coached 26 All-American players. Two years after his retire-ment, Westering was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Ind. A couple of months ago, Wiegman spoke with Wester-ing — just prior to the longtime coach receiving the AFCA’s Amos Alonzo Stagg Award for advancement of the best inter-ests of football. “He still wanted to do two
things,” Wiegman said. “One, he wanted to see his son win the NCAA championship. That is how much he still thought about football. And two, while he did not mention specifically what it was, he had a deep, religious commitment to it.” Right up to the end, it was easy to spot Westering at any home football game: He was the man sitting in the top row at Sparks Stadium, wearing a knit-ted yellow-and black beanie over his head, always striking up a conversation with an old friend of PLU football — or within the community he forever impacted. “A championship, in the world, gives you authenticity that you did it,” Westering said prior to his family’s receiving the Tacoma Athletic Commis-sion’s “First Family of Sports” award in 2009. “The championships just validate that you can coach. But that really doesn’t say anything until you ask, ‘What was the trip like?’ The trip was the greatest thing in life whether we won or not.” Westering is survived by his wife, Donna, and five children, Holly, Sue, Brad, Scott and Sta-cey.
By The Chronicle
LACEY — The Tigers mixed up the lineup but still got the result they were after here on Thurs-day in an 11-1 Evergreen 2A Conference softball win over River Ridge. It was the fourth game in as many days for Cen-tralia, which improved to 5-2 (4-2 league) with the win. "I think they did fine," Tiger coach Candy Hal-lom said. "We got every-body in that normally doesn't get to start today, and kind of mixed it up a lot. Everything went well, and we put people in po-sitions that they're not al-ways used to." Parker Pocklington and Megan Shelley each went 4 for 4, and Macken-zie Wasson had a pair of hits. Centralia led 7-1 after two innings. Erika Brower pitched all six innings and struck out seven while giving up three hits. The Tigers play at the University of Washington Fastpitch Festival against Tahoma today.
Bearcats Shut Out Capital
W.F. West made quick work of Capital Thursday with an 8-0 Evergreen 2A Conference victory in Chehalis. A large part of the credit for the final score due to Mattie Boucher, who struck out nine and had a no-hitter going with two outs in the seventh in-ning before the Cougars could get a ball in the out-field. "She was throwing gas," W.F. West coach Mike Keen said. "She was throwing the ball hard and keeping it low and then she started to mix up speeds to keep them guessing." The Bearcats scored 2 runs in the first inning and 3 in the second to take a commanding lead, before adding a run in the third, fourth and fifth. Caitlin Reynolds was 3 for 4 at the plate while Maris-sa Reynolds, Kenna Tor-now and Tessa Wollan had two hits apiece. W.F. West (7-1 overall, 6-1 league) will host EvCo foe River Ridge Friday and then play at the University of Washington Fastpitch Festival today.
By The Chronicle
NAPAVINE — The Ti-gers notched 26 hits and swept Onalaska in Central 2B soft-ball action here Thursday. Napavine's Alexa Peters held the Loggers to two hits in a 10-0 victory, while Mackenzie Olson pitched and hit a 2-run homer in the second game, a 13-3 win. Napavine led the first game just 2-0 through the first five in-nings before rallying for 8 runs in the sixth. The Tigers finished with 14 hits, while Peters struck out eight. "I thought her dad, Kyle Pe-ters, did a great job calling pitch-es," Napavine coach Kurt Olson said. "Onalaska did a good job keeping us off balance those first few innings and they had quality defense. They're very well coached." Gabby Wright and Autumn Durand had Onalaska's hits in the game. Meanwhile the Tigers got two hits from Demi Sahlinger, Olson, Karley Bornstein, Sage Atkins, Ratana Griffith and Taylor White. In the second game, Onalas-ka took an early 1-0 lead on Ol-son's home run and never relin-quished it. The Loggers did have a better showing at the plate, finishing with seven hits. "I thought that Onalaska came out with a different ap-proach," Olson said. "They were swinging the bats more aggres-sively." Karlee Hutchison had two hits and Durand hit a double for Onalaska. The Tigers plated 5 runs in the fourth and 2 in the fifth to force the 10-run rule. Peters was 2 for 4 with three RBIs and 3 runs scored. Olson finished the game 2 for 4, and Bornstein and Brittany Mitchell each added two hits. Olson struck out seven to get the win on the mound, while the Tiger batters didn't whiff at all during the doubleheader. Napavine now travels to Ol-son's old stomping grounds — Spokane — to play Shadle Park and Northwest Christian in nonleague games on Saturday.
MWP Powers Past Mossyrock Twice
MOSSYROCK — The Tim-berwolves' momentum from a nonleague sweep of La Salle on Tuesday carried over into Cen-tral 2B League softball action here Thursday, where Morton-White Pass put away Mossyrock 19-3 and 16-0. Morton-White Pass closed out Game 1 with 11 runs in the top of the fourth inning. Ashley Kelley went 2 for 2 with a 3-run homer in the third inning, and Kylie Allen and Sharon Hazen were each 3 for 3. The Timberwolves had 13 hits and benefitted from 13
walks, while Autumn Moorcroft had two hits for Mossyrock. The second game featured 10 MWP hits, and 11 first-inning runs. Kelly was walked three times, while Allen and Darian Atkinson each had two hits and Kayla Reynolds went 3 for 3. Madison McCoy got the win in Game 2, holding Mossyrock to one hit and striking out four. Morton-White Pass (7-5, 3-5 league) will host league-leading Toutle Lake on Thursday in Randle. Mossyrock (2-6 league) is at Pe Ell the same day.
Undefeated Ducks Sweep Adna
ADNA — Both teams came in undefeated in the Central 2B, but Toutle Lake was able to touch up Adna for 26 hits in a doubleheader sweep of the Pi-rates here on Thursday that dou-bled as a rematch of last year's District 4 championship game. "They're a tough team and they're good 1 through 9 in the lineup," Adna coach Mike Ra-schke said. "They switch their pitchers up so you can't get on one of them." In the first game, a 12-5 loss, Toutle Lake scored 6 runs in the third inning to take a 9-2 lead but the Pirates rallied for 3 runs in the bottom of the frame. That's how the score would stay
until the sixth, when the Ducks plated 3 runs. Kendra Stajduhar had two hits and Cheyenne Gilbertson knocked out a double. Emma Brattain also added two hits for Adna. In the second game, a 6-2 victory by the Ducks, Toutle Lake had 14 hits and again ral-lied in the later stages of the game. Things were tied 1-1 after three innings before the Ducks score a run in the fourth and 3 runs in the fifth. Gilbertson had a solo home run for the Pirates in the sixth inning and finished with two hits. Stajduhar had two more hits, while Alexa Bond had Shanay Dotson each had a hit. "I was happy with our perfor-mance in our second game," Ra-schke said, praising the defense from Shanay Dotson and Rachel Diaz De Leon "They don't strike out much, and they put the ball in play. Our middle infield was great. We buckled down when we needed to." Raschke was also happy with the pitching of Savannah Mass-ingham and Tabitha Dowell in the doubleheader. "It would have been nice to get two wins or split but hope-fully we'll learn from this and see them again in districts or
state," he said. Adna (9-3 overall, 6-2 league) will play at the University of Washington Fastpitch Festival against 2A Burlington-Edison on Saturday.
Pe Ell Pounds Wahkiakum Twice
PE ELL — The Trojans need-ed just six innings to secure a 15-0, 18-3 sweep of Wahkiakum here Thursday in Central 2B League softball action. Pe Ell scored a combined 13 runs in the second and third in-nings to end the opener early, led by a 2 for 4 hitting performance from Mattie Miller — which in-cluded an inside-the-park home run. Tabatha Skeen also had two hits, with a triple. Miller struck out five over three innings to get the win. "They did put the ball in play, and it was nice for the girls to play a little defense," Trojan coach Brittany Kaech said. Skeen and Miller each had two hits in the nightcap, which featured a 10-run second inning by Pe Ell. Miller, again, got the win. "It was a good outing," Kaech said. "They stayed focused and disciplined at the plate, which is what I wanted them to do." Pe Ell (5-3 league) will host Adna on Thursday.
College Football
Iconic PLU Football Coach Frosty Westering Passes Away
Napavine’s Mackenzie Olson thows a pitch during Central 2B fastpitch action against Onalaska Thursday on the Tigers’ home
ield.
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PREPLocal SchedulesSATURDAY, April 13College Fastpitch Centralia at Grays Harbor, 2 p.m.Baseball Wishkah at Pe Ell (2), 3 p.m.Fastpitch W.F. West vs. Juanita (at UW Festi-val), 4 p.m. Adna vs. Burlington-Edison (at UW Festival), 10 a.m.Boys Soccer White Salmon at Toledo-Winlock, 2 p.m.Track & Field W.F. West at Pasco, TBD Pe Ell at Lil Norway Invite (Poulsbo) Toledo at Stevenson, noon
SUNDAY, April 14College Baseball Tacoma at Centralia, 1 p.m.
MONDAY, April 15Baseball Tumwater at Centralia, 4:30 p.m.Girls Tennis Capital at Centralia, 3:30 p.m.
Local ResultsThursday’s GamesBaseballAt CentraliaTIGERS 5, COUGARS 4Capital 100 120 0 — 4 5 1Centralia 030 000 2 — 5 10 3 Batteries: Capital — Kameron Miner and Cameron Monda; Centralia
— Zach Counts and Brian Reynolds; Mossyrock — John Pomeroy and Lucas Allen
Game 2VIKINGS 10, TIMBERWOLVES 9Morton-WP 030 510 0 — 9 5 5Mossyrock 002 170 x — 10 7 5 Batteries: Morton-White Pass — Rylon Kolb, Zach Hanson (5) and Brian Reynolds; Mossyrock — Cody Shriver, Lucas Allen (4) and Allen, Logan Goot-geld (4)
At AdnaGame 1DUCKS 9, PIRATES 8Toutle Lk. 301 131 0 — 9 12 2Adna 060 000 2 — 8 6 1 Batteries: Toutle Lake — Morton, Olver (7) and Brown; Adna — Lane Wasson, Brenden Webster (6) and Jack Herring
Game 2PIRATES 8, DUCKS 3Toutle Lk. 000 300 0 — 3 8 2Adna 101 015 x — 8 12 0 Batteries: Toutle Lake — Olver, Risner (6) and Wherry; Adna — Cooper Zurfluh and Jack Herring
At Pe EllGame 1MULES 6, TROJANS 2Wahkiakum 111 000 3 — 6 7 1Pe Ell 000 200 0 — 2 6 1 Batteries: Wahkiakum — Lars Blix and Dault; Pe Ell — Austin Ar-rington and Andy Pickens
Game 2TROJANS 9, MULES 1Wahkiakum 001 000 0 — 1 3 0Pe Ell 004 041 x — 9 10 0 Batteries: Wahkiakum — Gun-nar Blix, Moore (6) and Grove; Pe Ell — Derrick Justice and Andy Pickens
SoftballAt LaceyTIGERS 11, HAWKS 1 (6 inn.)Centralia 160 202 — 11 14 3River Ridge 100 000 — 1 3 4 Batteries: Centralia — Erika Brower and Melissa Zion; River Ridge — Mercado and Scott
At LaceyTIGERS 11, HAWKS 1 (6 inn.)Centralia 160 202 — 11 14 3River Ridge 100 000 — 1 3 4 Batteries: Centralia — Erika Brower and Melissa Zion; River Ridge — Mercado and Scott
At ChehalisBEARCATS 8, COUGARS 0Capital 000 000 0 — 0 1 2W.F. West 231 101 x — 8 9 0 Batteries: W.F. West — Mattie Boucher and Caitlin Reynolds; Capital
— Wilson and Wofford
At MossyrockGame 1T-WOLVES 19, VIKINGS 3 (4 inn.)Morton-WP 224 (11) — 19 13 1Mossyrock 003 0 — 3 7 0 Batteries: Morton-White Pass — Taylor Brooks and Darian Atkinson; Mossyrock — Smith, Hensch (2), Smith (4) and A. Moorcroft
Game 2T-WOLVES 16, VIKINGS 0 (3 inn.)Morton-WP (11)05 — 16 10 0Mossyrock 000 — 0 1 3 Batteries: Morton-White Pass — McCoy and Atkinson; Mossyrock —Hensch and Moorcroft
At Napavine
Game 1 TIGERS 10, LOGGERS 0 Napavine 001 018 — 10 14 0Onalaska 000 000 — 0 2 0 Batteries: Napavine — Alex Peters and Karlee Bornstein; Onalaska - Gab-by Wright and Nicole Duryea
Game 2TIGERS 13, LOGGERS 3Onalaska 101 01 — 3 7 0Napavine 231 52 — 13 12 4 Batteries: Napavine — Mackenzie Olson and Bornstein; Onalaska — Mas-ciola and Duryea
At AdnaGame 1DUCKS 12, PIRATES 5 Toutle Lake 306 003 0 — 12 12 4Adna 203 000 0 — 5 8 3 Batteries: Adna — Samantha Rolfe, Savannah Massingham and Emma Brattain; Toutle Lake — Deffen-baugh, Kent (5) and Iverson
Game 2DUCKS 6, PIRATES 2Adna 001 001 0 — 2 6 0Toutle Lake 010 130 1 — 6 14 2 Batteries: Adna — Tabitha Dowell, Massingham (5) and Brattain; Toutle Lake — Deffenbaugh, Kent (5) and Iver-son
At Pe EllGame 1TROJANS 15, MULES 0 (3 inn.)Wahkiakum 000 — 0 2 4Pe Ell 267 — 15 10 1 Batteries: Wahkiakum — Gott and Boyce; Pe Ell — Miller and Hoke
Game 2TROJANS 18, MULES 3 (3 inn.)Wahkiakum 210 — 3 3 4Pe Ell 2(10)6 — 18 7 2 Batteries: Wahkiakum — Wegda-hl, Gott (1) and Boyce; Pe Ell — Miller and Hoke
Thursday’s ResultsChicago 118, New York 111 (OT)Oklahoma City 116, Golden State 97
Friday’s ResultsToronto 97, Chicago 88 Philadelphia 97, Washington 86 Brooklyn 117, Indiana 109Atlanta 109, Milwaukee 104Miami 109, Boston 101Detroit 113, Charlotte 93New York 101, Cleveland 91LA Clippers 96, New Orleans 93Memphis 82, Houston 78 Dallas 108, Denver 105 (OT) San Antonio 108, Sacramento 101 Utah 107, Minnesota 100 Oklahoma City 106, Portland 90 LA Lakers 118, Golden State 116
Saturday’s GamesMilwaukee at Charlotte, 4 p.m.Boston at Orlando, 4 p.m.LA Clippers at Memphis, 5 p.m.Phoenix at Minnesota, 5 p.m.
Sunday’s GamesChicago at Miami, 10 a.m.Brooklyn at Toronto, 12:30 p.m.Indiana at New York, 12:30 p.m.Cleveland at Philadelphia, 12:30 p.m.Portland at Denver, 2 p.m.Dallas at New Orleans, 3 p.m.Sacramento at Houston, 4 p.m.San Antonio at LA Lakers, 6:30 p.m.
Monday’s GamesNew York at Charlotte, 4 p.m.Chicago at Orlando, 4 p.m.Miami at Cleveland, 4 p.m.Washington at Brooklyn, 4:30 p.m.Philadelphia at Detroit, 4:30 p.m.Denver at Milwaukee, 5 p.m. Memphis at Dallas, 5 p.m.Sacramento at Oklahoma City, 5 p.m.Utah at Minnesota, 5 p.m.Houston at Phoenix, 7 p.m.San Antonio at Golden State, 7:30 p.m.
NHLNHL StandingsEASTERN CONFERENCEATLANTIC GP W L OTL PTSy-Pittsburgh 41 31 10 0 62 N.Y. Islanders 41 21 16 4 46 N.Y. Rangers 40 20 16 4 44 New Jersey 41 15 16 10 40
Philadelphia 40 17 20 3 37 NORTHEAST GP W L OTL PTSx-Montreal 40 26 9 5 57 Boston 40 26 10 4 56 Toronto 40 22 13 5 49 Ottawa 41 21 14 6 48 Buffalo 41 16 19 6 38 SOUTHEAST GP W L OTL PTSWashington 41 22 17 2 46Winnipeg 42 21 19 2 44 Tampa Bay 40 17 21 2 36 Carolina 40 16 22 2 34 Florida 40 13 21 6 32 WESTERN CONFERENCECENTRAL GP W L OTL PTSy-Chicago 40 31 5 4 66 St. Louis 40 23 15 2 48 Detroit 41 19 15 7 45 Columbus 41 18 16 7 43 Nashville 42 15 19 8 38 NORTHWEST GP W L OTL PTSVancouver 40 23 11 6 52 Minnesota 40 22 16 2 46 Edmonton 40 16 17 7 39 Calgary 40 15 21 4 34 Colorado 41 13 22 6 32 PACIFIC GP W L OTL PTSx-Anaheim 41 27 9 5 59 Los Angeles 41 23 14 4 50 San Jose 40 21 12 7 49 Dallas 40 20 17 3 43 Phoenix 41 18 16 7 43
NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.x-clinched playoff spoty-clinched division
Thursday’s ResultsNY Islanders 2, Boston 1Ottawa 3, Philadelphia 1Washington 3, Carolina 1Montreal 5, Buffalo 1 Pittsburgh 6, Tampa Bay 3 San Jose 3, Detroit 2 (SO) Winnipeg 7, Florida 2 St. Louis 2, Minnesota 0 Los Angeles 3, Colorado 2 (SO)
Friday’s ResultsOttawa 2, New Jersey 0Columbus 4, St. Louis 1 Dallas 5, Nashville 2 Chicago 3, Detroit 2 (SO) Calgary 3, Phoenix 2 (OT)
Saturday’s GamesPhiladelphia at Buffalo, 12 p.m.Vancouver at Colorado, 12 p.m.Montreal at Toronto, 4 p.m.NY Rangers at NY Islanders, 4 p.m.Tampa Bay at Washington, 4 p.m.Boston at Carolina, 4 p.m.Pittsburgh at Florida, 4:30 p.m.Columbus at Minnesota, 5 p.m.San Jose at Dallas, 5 p.m.Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m.Anaheim at Los Angeles, 8 p.m.
Sunday’s GamesChicago at St. Louis, 9:30 a.m.Tampa Bay at Buffalo, 2 p.m.Detroit at Nashville, 4:30 p.m.
Monday’s GamesOttawa at Boston, 4 p.m.New Jersey at Toronto, 4 p.m.Philadelphia at Montreal, 4:30 p.m.Dallas at Chicago, 5 p.m.Vancouver at Nashville, 5 p.m.Columbus at Colorado, 6 p.m.Minnesota at Calgary, 6 p.m.San Jose at Phoenix, 7 p.m.
Friday’s Resultsat Chicago Cubs 4, San Francisco 3at Cleveland 1, Chicago White Sox 0at NY Yankees 5, Baltimore 2Atlanta 6, at Washington 4at Pittsburgh 6, Cincinnati 5Tampa Bay at Boston Postponed Philadelphia 3, at Miami 1 Toronto 8, at Kansas City 4 NY Mets 16, at Minnesota 5 at St. Louis 2, Milwaukee 0 at Arizona 3, LA Dodgers 0at Seattle 3, Texas 1
Saturday’s GamesTampa Bay at Boston, 10 a.m.San Francisco at Chicago Cubs, 10 a.m.Atlanta at Washington, 10 a.m.Chicago White Sox at Cleveland, 1 p.m.Baltimore at NY Yankees, 1 p.m.Detroit at Oakland, 1 p.m.NY Mets at Minnesota, 1 p.m.Milwaukee at St. Louis, 1 p.m.Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 4 p.m.Toronto at Kansas City, 4 p.m.Philadelphia at Miami, 4 p.m.LA Dodgers at Arizona, 5 p.m.Colorado at San Diego, 5:40 p.m.Houston at LA Angels, 6 p.m.Texas at Seattle, 6 p.m.
Sunday’s GamesChi. White Sox at Cleveland, 10 a.m.Philadelphia at Miami, 10 a.m.Tampa Bay at Boston, 10:30 a.m.Atlanta at Washington, 10:30 a.m.Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 10:30 a.m.Toronto at Kansas City, 11 a.m.NY Mets at Minnesota, 11 a.m.Milwaukee at St. Louis, 11 a.m.San Francisco at Chi. Cubs, 11:20 a.m.Houston at LA Angels, 12:35 p.m.Detroit at Oakland, 1 p.m.Texas at Seattle, 1 p.m.Colorado at San Diego, 1 p.m.LA Dodgers at Arizona, 1 p.m.Baltimore at NY Yankees, 5 p.m.
Monday’s GamesTampa Bay at Boston, 8 a.m.Philadelphia at Cincinnati, 4 p.m.St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 4 p.m.Chicago White Sox at Toronto, 4 p.m.Washington at Miami, 4 p.m.LA Angels at Minnesota, 5 p.m.NY Mets at Colorado, 5:40 p.m.Houston at Oakland, 7 p.m.San Diego at LA Dodgers, 7 p.m.
Sports on the Air SATURDAY, April 13AUTO RACING4 p.m. FOX — NASCAR Sprint Cup, NRA 500, at Fort Worth, TexasCOLLEGE BASEBALLNoon ESPN2 — South Carolina at FloridaCOLLEGE SOFTBALL2 p.m. ESPN — LSU at Texas A&M7 p.m. ESPN2 — Washington at Arizona St.GOLFNoon CBS — Masters Tournament, third round, at Augusta, Ga.HORSE RACING1:30 p.m. NBC — NTRA, Blue Grass Stakes, at Lexing-ton, Ky.3 p.m. NBCSN — NTRA, Arkansas Derby, at Hot Springs, Ark.MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL9:30 a.m. FOX — Regional coverage, Tampa Bay at Bos-ton, San Francisco at Chicago Cubs, or Atlanta at Washington4 p.m. MLB — Regional coverage, Cincinnati at Pitts-burgh or Toronto at Kansas City6:10 p.m. ROOT — Texas at SeattleMEN’S COLLEGE HOCKEY4 p.m. ESPN — NCAA Division I, playoffs, champi-onship, Yale/UMass-Lowell winner vs. St. Cloud St./Quinnipiac winner, at PittsburghNHL HOCKEYNoon NBCSN — Philadelphia at BuffaloPREP BASKETBALL5 p.m. ESPN2 — All-Star game, Jordan Brand Classic, at Brooklyn, N.Y.SOCCER2:55 p.m. ESPN2 — Mexican Primera Division, Cruz Azul vs. Tijuana, at Mexico City4:30 p.m. NBCSN — MLS, Los Angeles at Dallas
SUNDAY, April 14AUTO RACING11 a.m. SPEED — NASCAR Truck Series, North Car-olina Education Lottery 200, at Rockingham, N.C.GOLF11 a.m. CBS — Masters Tournament, final round, at Augusta, Ga.MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL10:30 a.m. TBS — Tampa Bay at Boston1:10 p.m. ROOT — Texas at Seattle5 p.m. ESPN — Baltimore at N.Y. YankeesNBA BASKETBALL10 a.m. ABC — Chicago at MiamiNHL HOCKEY9:30 a.m. NBC — Chicago at St. Louis4:30 p.m. NBCSN — Detroit at NashvilleSOCCER9:55 a.m. ESPN2 — Mexican Primera Division, Chiapas at Puebla7:30 p.m. NBCSN — MLS, San Jose at Portland
MONDAY, April 15MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL4 p.m. ESPN — Philadelphia at CincinnatiNHL HOCKEY5 p.m. NBCSN — Dallas at Chicago
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Seattle Puts Harang in Rotation SEATTLE (AP) — All manager Eric Wedge needed to see was a brief bullpen session from Aaron Harang to slide him right into the Seattle Mariners’ rotation and move Blake Beavan to the bullpen. Only 11 games into the season, the Mariners made a significant change Friday, a day after Harang was ac-quired in a trade with Colorado. He will make his first start for Seattle on Tuesday night against Detroit. Harang threw a 40-pitch bullpen session for Mari-ners coaches on Friday afternoon, before Wedge an-nounced a decision. The move was not a surprise; Ha-rang has pitched out of the bullpen only six times in his career and Beavan struggled badly in both of his starts this season.
Sports Briefs
Kruger, Wagner Lead Adna at HighlandsBy The Chronicle
COSMOPOLIS — Adna’s John Kruger and Nolan Wagner both shot in the 40s during 2B boys golf ac-tion here Thursday at Highlands Golf Course. Kruger shot a 44, while Parker finished at 45. Both golfers turned in their best rounds of the season. Jake Ferrier shot a 59 for Adna, while Wahkia-kum’s Austin Good was the match medalist with a 43. North Beach and Northwest Christian were also in at-tendance. Adna is scheduled to host Three Rivers Christian and Wahkiakum on Thursday, April 25.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. — The 14-year-old from China isn't go-ing anywhere in a hurry. And this Masters is still a long way from taking shape. Despite being the first player at Augusta National to get hit with a one-shot penalty for slow play, teen sensation Guan Tianlang still made history Friday as the youngest player to make the cut in a PGA Tour-sanctioned event. And it came down to the last shot of a wild and windy day. Jason Day could have sent the kid home early with a bird-ie from just off the front of the green on the 18th hole. But the Australian was wide left and tapped in for par, giving him a 4-under 68 and a one-shot lead over fellow Aussie Marc Leish-man and the ageless Fred Cou-ples. The par meant that Guan, who had one shot added to his score on the 17th hole for his second bad time of the round — made the cut under the 10-shot rule. "If I can make it, I would be really happy for it," Guan said some five hours earlier. "But if I didn't make it, it's still a great week." He's now part of a weekend at Augusta that should be as dy-namic as ever. Day was at 6-under 138, and 18 players were within four shots of the lead, including Tiger Woods. Woods moved into a share of the lead with a two-putt birdie on the eighth hole, and his game looked to be as sharp as ever — perhaps too sharp. Right when it looked like he might take the outright lead, Woods hit a lob
wedge that was so perfect it hit the flag on the par-5 15th and caromed backward off the green and into the water. Instead of having a short birdie putt, he had to scramble to save bogey. Woods posed over anoth-er shot on the 18th and was stunned to see it hop onto the upper shelf, leading to his sec-ond three-putt bogey of the week. He had to settle for a 71, though he was still only three shots out of the lead. "My score doesn't quite in-dicate how well I played today," Woods said. Day, a runner-up at the Mas-ters two years ago, can be one of the most exciting players in golf when his game is on, and he was firing at flags from everywhere Friday. Even from the pine straw under the trees on the danger-ous 11th, the Aussie took dead aim at the pin and set up a rare birdie to join the leaders. His only blunder was hit-ting into the water short of the 12th, though he still managed to escape with bogey, and then he fired a 4-wood low enough to stay below the trees and avoid the wind on the 13th, setting up a two-putt birdie. He was cognizant of the guys behind him — Woods included
— though just as much pressure comes from trying to be the first Australian in a green jacket. "The moment I start wor-rying about other players is the moment I start losing focus on what I need to do, and when I do that, I'll start making bogeys," Day said. "It's obviously great to have the lead. I'm very exciting for the challenge over the next two days. It really is exciting to have the opportunity to win the Masters. I'm very, very happy where I am right now." The 53-year-old Couples, who shared the 36-hole lead last year at the Masters, birdied the 18th hole for a 71 and will play in the final group. "I did tee off Thursday with
the idea of playing well, and now it's Friday afternoon late. I'm surprised, but I'm not going to freak out over it," Couples said. Former Masters champion Angel Cabrera birdied five of his last six holes for a 69 and was in the group two shots behind, along with former U.S. Open champion Jim Furyk (71) and Brandt Snedeker (70). Woods was at 3-under 141 with six oth-ers, including Adam Scott (72), Lee Westwood (71) and Justin Rose (71). And still in the mix was Rory McIlroy, who turned his fortunes around with a 5-wood from about 275 yards that set up a short eagle putt. He added three more birdies on the back nine and had a 70, leaving him only four shots out of the lead going into the weekend. "Anything under par today was going to be a good score," McIlroy said. The hole locations were severe in spots, with one pin tucked on top of a mound to-ward the front of the fifth green. The par 5s played into an oppo-site wind on the back nine, and they were not easy to reach. Fu-ryk got home in two on the 15th
hole Thursday with a hybrid. He used that same club to lay up on Friday. Such tough conditions made the performance of Guan that much more impressive. He had a respectable 75, which included the one-shot penalty. And for the longest time, it looked as though it might be costly. Guan, playing with Matteo Manassero and Ben Crenshaw, was informed his group was out of position as it left the 10th green. They were on the clock on the 12th hole, meaning play-ers would be timed to make sure they hit their shots within the 40-second limit. The teen got his first bad time with his sec-ond shot on the 13th hole, and it was clear he was in trouble after his shot into the 17th when John Paramor, chief referee in Europe, walked out to speak to him. "You give him the news, the best you can," Paramor said. Fred Ridley, the head of competition at the Masters, did not say how long Guan took to hit his second shot on the 17th, only that it was a "considerable margin" over his time. Guan still managed to make par on
the 17th, and if he was shaken by the news so late in the round, it didn't show. He made one last par and was at 4-over 148. His game is well beyond his years, and so was his attitude over the first slow-play penalty in a major since Gregory Bourdy in the 2010 PGA Championship. "I respect the decision they make," said Guan, who spent nearly 90 minutes talking with officials after the round. "They should do it because it's fair to everybody." The penalty looked ominous because Dustin Johnson was running off birdies every way imaginable, the only player to reach 7-under par in nasty con-ditions. His round imploded, however, when he played the fi-nal five holes in 6-over par. That included a double bogey on the 15th when he hit his third shot into the water. He had a 76 and plunged down the leaderboard, though he was still only five shots behind. Furyk also hit into the wa-ter on the 15th with a wedge he chunked so badly that it didn't make it halfway across the pond. Scott made his third straight bo-gey at No. 5, but that was the last mistake he made. He answered with three birdies the rest of the way. Day's 68 was the lowest score of the round, with conditions so tricky that only five players broke 70.
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Rickie Fowler, right, lines up his putt as Jason Day, of Australia, walks of the 13th green during the second round of the Masters golf
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Day in the SunJason Day Leads Masters After Round 2
14-Year-Old Tianlang Makes Cut; Couples, Leishman Tied for Second at Augusta
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Tiger Woods chips to the 12th green during the second round of the Masters golf
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Pa-dres slugger Carlos Quentin felt that getting hit by pitches by Zack Greinke during the 2008 and 2009 seasons was justifi-cation enough for rushing the mound and slamming into the pitcher — hard enough to break his left collarbone.
Greinke's Los Angeles Dodgers teammates were so an-gered that Matt Kemp, among four players ejected after a brawl Thursday night, confronted Quentin as they left Petco Park. Big Padres lefty Clayton Richard, police and security broke it up.
Several minutes earlier, Quentin told reporters that his history with Greinke "has been well-documented. That situa-tion could have been avoided. You'd have to ask Zack about that."
The Dodgers were furious Quentin — hit by pitches 116 times in his big league career — didn't just trot to first base. The Dodgers thought the situation, a 3-2 pitch with L.A. ahead 2-1, hardly called for a purposeful plunking. And they said Quen-tin crowds the plate, denying pitchers the opportunity to pitch inside without hitting him.
Quentin felt otherwise. "It's a man's game on the
field," he said." Thoughts aren't present when things like this
happen." Greinke, the Dodgers' $147
million man, had his left arm in a sling and a dazed look on his face as he told his side of the story.
Juan Uribe's pinch-home run in the eighth put the Dodg-ers ahead, two innings after Greinke hit Quentin on the left shoulder with a pitch.
The slugger started walking toward the mound, and Greinke appeared to say something. The 6-foot-2, 240-pound Quentin then charged the 2009 AL Cy Young Award winner, who is 6-2 and 195 pounds. They dropped their shoulders and collided, and Quentin tackled the pitcher to the grass.
Quentin and Greinke end-ed up at the bottom of a huge scrum as players from both sides ran onto the field and jumped in.
Dodgers manager Don Mat-tingly was livid.
"That's just stupid is what it is," Mattingly said. "He should not play a game until Greinke can pitch. If he plays before Gre-inke pitches, something's wrong. He caused the whole thing. Nothing happens if he goes to first base."
Greinke twice hit Quentin with pitches when they were in the American League.
Greinke Breaks
Collarbone in
Brawl With Padres
SEATTLE (AP) — Kyle Seager had a two-run double, Hisashi Iwakuma made it stand with 6 2-3 strong innings, and the Seattle Mariners beat the Texas Rang-ers 3-1 on Fri-day night to end a three-game losing streak.
Iwakuma (2-0) got the better of his countryman and Texas starter Yu Darvish in the seventh all-time pitching matchup between the pair, both in Japan and the majors. Dar-vish (2-1) holds a 4-3 advantage when the pair match up on the mound.
Iwakuma held the Rangers bats silent until the fourth in-
ning when Ian Kinsler led off with a homer. That proved to be the extent of the Rangers’ of-fense as Iwakuma and three re-lievers combined to shut down Texas.
Tom Wilhelmsen pitched the ninth for his fourth save.
Of Seattle’s starting staff, Iwakuma has been one of the most consistent pitchers early in the season. He was perfect through three innings until Kinsler led off the fourth with a towering homer that barely cleared the glove of Raul Ibanez leaping at the wall in left.
It was the most obvious ex-ample to date of the new dimen-sions at Safeco Field being a fac-tor.
A year ago, Kinsler’s homer would have either been caught on the warning track or car-
omed off the wall, which has been moved in slightly and low-ered to 8 feet.
Instead of getting rattled, Iwakuma kept rolling. He re-tired the next five straight and eight of the final 11. Iwakuma left with two outs in the seventh after throwing 90 pitches, giv-ing up just three hits and strik-ing out six.
Texas had a chance to get to Iwakuma in the sixth when Kin-sler led off with a single and was called safe stealing second base by umpire Gary Darling when replays clearly showed he was out.
With Mariners fans express-ing their displeasure after the missed call was shown on the gi-ant new video board, Iwakuma escaped the jam getting Lance Berkman and Adrian Beltre to
pop out to the infield to end the inning.
Charlie Furbush took over with two outs in the seventh and allowed a single and a walk, but Stephen Pryor struck out pinch-hitter Craig Gentry to end the inning.
Darvish didn’t throw well in Seattle during his first season and didn’t start Year 2 much better. Darvish plunked Jason Bay for the first time with one out in the first, then gave up consecutive singles to Kendrys Morales and Ibanez, the second one scoring Bay.
Justin Smoak flew out to deep center field for the second out, but Seager continued to show signs of breaking free from an early slump. Seager lined a shot down the first base line and off the tip of Mitch Moreland’s
glove for a two-run double.But that was it for Seattle’s
offense. Darvish didn’t allow a hit after Seager’s double and re-tired his final 12 batters before leaving after the sixth.
Notes: Iwakuma walked Mo-reland with two outs in the fifth inning, the first walk he’s issued this season. His streak of 18 in-nings without a walk was the second-longest in franchise his-tory. ... In three career starts in Seattle, Darvish has a 7.71 ERA. ... Seattle OF Michael Morse had reduced swelling in his frac-tured right little finger on Friday and the team is staying with the same timeline that he could be back from the injury in less than a week.
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STOPPING THE SLIDE Ted S. Warren / The Associated Press
From left, Seattle Mariners’ Justin
Smoak, Kyle Seager, Tom Wilhelmsen,
Brendan Ryan, and Kelly Shoppach
celebrate their 3-1 win over the Texas
Rangers in a baseball game Friday in
Seattle.
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Mariners Down Rangers Behind Strong Performance by Iwakuma
Life:Home&GardenThe Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, April 13, 2013
PUBLISHED: Linda Horne’s Original Cederwood Copy of ‘If I Had a Farm’ is Presented this Month at the Market Street Bakery in Chehalis
Ashford resident Linda Horne worked in maintenance at Mount Rainer National Park for more than a decade before being laid off two years ago due to a round of budget cuts.
The sudden unemployment al-lowed Horne to begin pursuing a ca-reer in publishing.
Her newfound inspiration turned into her own startup publish-ing company, Sun and Moon Pub-lishing, and the release of her first children’s book “If I Had a Farm.”
“I created a book and I showed my dream,” Horne said. “I will have a farm again sometime.”
Horne drew the original copy of “If I Had a Farm” on cedar by carving each design and using acrylic paint.
By Ellen Creager
Detroit Free Press
"Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect won-ders "
~ Henry David Thoreau
DETROIT _ Purple and orange. Mottled and speckled. Blue kernels dangling from silver chains.
Show Debra Groat a seed, and she'll show you a wonder.
"Without those seeds," she says, "I would just be one of the hundreds of thousands of people who make jewelry."
The heirloom seeds that Groat grows and crafts into art represent more than a hobby to her. They represent 10,000 years of women's toil and farmers' sweat. They represent outrage at the loss of precious heirloom crops in an industri-alized world.
She is not amused when people ask silly questions that disrespect the bean and its sister vegetable, corn.
"I've been at craft shows where peo-ple ask questions like, 'If I'm outside, will squirrels chase me?' and 'If I get it wet, will my necklace sprout?'" says
Groat, 58."One time this lady said to me, 'If it's
really hot outside, will the corn on my necklace pop?' And I thought to myself, lady, if it's that hot outside, the necklace will be the last thing you'll worry about."
Jewelry usually does not have a sub-text of agricultural urgency. So if people fail to properly appreciate the seeds, perhaps it is because so few people un-derstand what Groat actually does.
It is technically difficult to attach seeds to jewelry prongs, much less or-ganically grow heirloom beans and corn, harvest it by hand, then spend at least 7 months drying, freezing and pre-paring seeds before they can be used.
It has been 11 years of trial and error to perfect her secret process of drilling a seed, but leaving it perfectly undam-aged.
She is also ruthless about the seeds she uses in her art. Misfits that are mis-shapen or imperfect go straight into her soup pot.
And she has figured out that she can't buy other people's seeds. Commer-cial heirloom seed companies tend to harvest by machine, which leaves chips
shford Woman Shares Her Passion for
Farming in New Children’s BookA
Each panel from the book is hanging on the wall at the Market Street Bakery in Chehalis this month.
“It’s a unique medium,” Horne said. “I wanted to bring in a 3D effect. Other children’s books use laser art.”
Horne, who worked on a 400-acre farm in Detroit Lakes, Minn. before moving to Washington in 1988, said she wrote the book to share to importance of farming with the younger generations.
Horne has a 35-year-old son, a 31-year-old daugh-ter and a 5-year-old granddaughter.
“I love children and they are our future,” Horne said. “We have to get rid of those processed foods. We need to bring farms back.”
The children’s book follows a character’s dreams of owning a farm from caring for cows to planting a garden. The story is based on Horne’s personal dream.
The story rhymes all the way through with lines such as, “the trees will show me the different season from winter to fall ... And always this farm will give of its all.”
Horne hopes to have the book published by copy-ing the carvings to paper through createspace.com and have it available for purchase by April 15.
The book, which took Horne two years to complete, will be sold for $10.99 at ifihadafarm.com and printed by demand.
“It’s a bouncy rhythm and free flowing,” Horne said. “I hope people appreciate a story book laid out like this rather than on a piece of paper with laser art.”
Linda Horne holds up a glass of milk in front of the original artwork, which she painted on cedar, that makes up her irst children’s book,
“If I Had a Farm” on Monday, April 1, in Chehalis. The artwork is on display at the Market Street Cafe.
Linda Horne poses for a portrait in front of the original artwork,
which she painted on cedar, for her irst children’s book, “If I Had
a Farm” on Monday, April 1, at the Market Street Cafe in Chehalis.
Jewelry Maker Turns Love of Heirloom Seeds Into Wearable Art
Ryan Garza / Detroit Free Press
Debra Groat, of Rhodes, Mich., uses hand-sown and harvested organic heirloom seeds and
beans to create artisan jewelry she sells through her business, Saverine Creek Heirlooms. please see SEEDS, page Life 2
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and cracks. So she needs to grow her own.
In her second-floor work-shop in her rural home in Rhodes, Mich., northwest of Pinconning, Groat works amid glass jars brimming with bean and corn seeds. They have ex-otic and folksy names _ Indian Woman, Red Calypso, Tigers Eye, Black Good Mother, May-flower, Jacob's Cattle, Hopi Blue and Oaxacan (wa-Hawk-an) Green Dent.
Plain-spoken and plainly dressed, Groat pours everything she's got into the beauty of her jewelry
"It is exceptional," says Mi-chelle Holmes, manager of the Dow Gardens gift shop in Mid-land, Mich., which has carried Groat's work for three years. Holmes has seen a lot of other jewelry but nothing that sur-prises shoppers so much.
"They say, 'Are those seeds?'" she says. "It's a great conversa-tion piece."
Debra Groat is the sister, daughter, granddaughter and great-granddaughter of Michi-gan farmers. Her family has worked the land and raised dairy cattle in Standish since the 1880s.
Her passion for seeds may seem strange to city dwell-ers, but in every small, modest, overlooked bean seed she sees a trail of glory.
"People who immigrated to America brought their seeds with them, and if they didn't save those seeds and plant them, they didn't eat," she says. She holds some shiny black seeds in the palm of her hand.
"I look at these seeds, and I can feel I might start crying. The thought that the Cherokees carried them on the Trail of Tears, that they carried the ex-act same bean I have here, it just gives me the shivers."
At least 93 percent of veg-etable seed varieties planted in the U.S. have gone extinct since the early 1900s, according to the Rural Advancement Founda-tion International, which advo-cates for environmentally sound farming practices. Those seeds were replaced by a handful of commercial hybrids and geneti-cally modified seeds.
So pardon Groat if she feels protective of her humble heir-loom seeds.
Her company, Saverine Creek Heirlooms, is named af-ter a river that runs through the family farm. Her earrings, bracelets and necklaces are for sale online for $24 to $136, and at a few gift shops, and once she came pretty close to being featured in Paula Deen Maga-zine. But 11 years in, "I've never turned a profit," she says.
On the other hand, it's better than working at the auto parts store.
Groat grew up on the family farm, now called Hagley Farms and run by her brother, Tim Hagley, and their parents. After high school, she briefly attended Central Michigan University, quit, got married, had two chil-dren and went to work. First,
she toiled in an auto parts store. Her specialty was mixing auto-motive paint. That was followed by 13 years as a stock clerk for the Arenac County Road Com-mission.
During the summers, her older brother, Doug Hagley, a master gardener who lives in the Upper Peninsula, would come to the family farm. There, he would grow half an acre of the most exotic heirloom crops he could find, sometimes so exotic the family didn't even eat them. Eleven years ago, Groat noticed how beautiful some of the seeds were.
"I was working full time, and who pays attention to beans or thinks about them?" she says.
"But, oh, my gosh, these were beautiful. I wondered if I could make jewelry out of them." She began experimenting, avoiding seeds that were plain white. In-stead, "I looked for the beauty of the seed and whether it had a documented history."
Gradually, Doug grew more and more heirlooms for her. When she and her husband, Greg Groat, built a house in Rhodes seven years ago, she started an heirloom garden there. She quit her job with the county, and her life intertwined even more with the beans.
This February, Groat's gar-den is fallow, its rough ground surrounded by lonely wire fenc-ing. The land is windswept with snow.
In winter, she still shells dried beans while watching TV. She is home-schooling an 18-year-old grandson at her house. She exhibits her work when and where she can, avoid-ing craft shows and their dumb questions, preferring master gardening shows and their wiser patrons.
Five years ago on a cold March day, Groat fell while alone, carrying wood in front of her house. She broke her leg and shoulder. She lay outside for
more than four hours until her husband found her.
She recovered, but still has two brackets and nine bolts in her left leg. She doesn't have as much stamina as she used to. She is not supposed to sit for hours, because that makes her stiff, but she can't walk too quickly, either. It humbles her.
But perhaps she should not be so humble. Her work, though not famous, contains a strength and character that speaks to her passion for the objects used in it. Beans are plain. But beans feed the world.
"For her, it's a cause. It's a lifestyle, using these heirloom seeds that are almost forgotten. And she's very fine technically," says friend Nelson Yoder. "It is very rare, very unusual, what she does. I don't know how she promotes it, but the right person would be overjoyed by such a gift."
But she certainly won't share her techniques or supplies with other jewelry makers.
"When people call and ask if they can buy my seeds, I say no," she says. "I grow just enough to make my jewelry, have some for eating and to replant. If people want seeds for jewelry, they should grow their own for 10 years first.
"People want to copy me, and it gets under my skin."
One thing Groat has in her workshop is a basket of old seed jewelry that people have given her over the years. One strange necklace has some kind of un-known white round seeds, plus a long, white razor-edged bone the length of a finger.
Yet another necklace is crafted of tiny squash seeds, hundreds of them, dyed orange and a deeper orange to create a pattern. It's strung on plain string. The end has a safety pin on it. She touches the necklace reverently.
"This is old. You can tell it is authentic Native American,"
she says. "I should have it re-stored."
There is one piece of good news about this old seed neck-lace. It did not sprout, nor did squirrels chase it.
You might even be tempted to call it a wonder.
WHAT IS AN HEIRLOOM SEED?
Heirloom seeds are what fed the pioneers. What Chero-kee women carried on the forced Trail of Tears march west. What farmers all over the world planted until the mid-20th Century.
Seeds from true heirlooms are self-reproducing, coming up exactly the same each gen-eration. But almost all modern seeds at the store are hybrids,
which grow true only for one season (if you harvest the seeds and replant, they either won't sprout or will revert to look like one parent.)
Debra Groat and her broth-er Doug Hagley are alarmed by the disappearance of heirloom vegetable and grain seeds _ and even more so by the advent of genetically modified crops that can cross-pollinate and con-taminate older varieties.
"The diversity of crops, which we will need as different diseases and pests arise, is being destroyed," Hagley says.
See a stark illustration of the decline in vegetable seed types over the past 80 years at http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/07/food-ark/food-va-riety-graphic.
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Debra Groat, of Rhodes, Mich., uses hand-sown and harvested organic heirloom seeds and beans to create artisan jewelry she sells through her business, Saverine
Creek Heirlooms.
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Columns, Celebrations, Community ConversationsVoices
Voice of the People
“I don’t believe marriage should be redefined. If
states want to provide for a civil union or contract
between two people in a relationship, then go for it. ... But it is nonsense
to try to redefine marriage as anything
but a covenant between men and women.”
Zachary Pilz
Centralia, photographer
“Marriage is a social and legal contract licensed and recognized by the state. ... Marriages are
a civil right. To deny civil rights to our own
citizens is, quite frankly, the most un-American
thing we can do.”
Steve Bell
Chehalis, biologist
“Marriage between a man and women is age old
and should stay that way. Gay, lesbian, whatever ... all are alternative
lifestyles, so an alternative to marriage that has
the same rules/benefits would be appropriate.”
Joshua Greene
Centralia, property manager
“Times are changing and the younger generation
is more accepting. It’s homophobes and most of the older generation that aren’t accepting. Marriage is about love, not gender.”
Scott Dison
Chehalis, employee of Walmart
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments last week regarding the Defense of Marriage Act, a federal law that in part defines marriage
as the union of a man and a woman. Do you think marriage (at a federal level) should be
redefined to include same-sex couples?
United Way’s New Board of Directors
To submit your photograph, e-mail [email protected] or send mail to Voices, The Chronicle, 321 N. Pearl St., Centralia, WA 98531.
Photograph submitted by Debbie Campbell, United Way of Lewis County executive director
The United Way of Lewis County board of directors elected oicers and new board members at its annual retreat on March
27 at Gerard’s Steakhouse, formerly Mary McCrank’s, south of Chehalis. Front row, from left, are Chris Heck, secretary; Richard
DeBolt, oicer at large; Amy Howlett, board member; Todd Chaput, vice president; Mary Lou Bissett, new board member;
Haylee Bruce, new board member; Juanita Pina, board member; the Rev. Alta Smith, oicer at large; Teresa Loo, campaign
chair; Gerda Barlow, board member; Dave Davies, board member; and Sue Muller, board member. Back row, from left, Derek
Burger, past president; Dan Zandell, board president; Sandy Yanish, president-elect; Linda Lee, staf; Sandy Crews, board
member; Dick Piesch, board member; Steve Bodnar, leadership chair; Jef Young, oicer at large; Linda Raschke, staf; Debbie
Campbell, executive director; and Angela French, staf. Not pictured are Peter Abbarno, Casey Cochrane, Dianne Dorey, Judy
Guenther and Dan Kay, all board members; Donna Olson, oicer at large; Court Stanley, associate campaign chair; and Doris
Wood, community investment chair.
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• CHRYSTAL AND CURTIS SHARBUTT, Chehalis, a boy, Reice Curtis Lee Sharbutt, March 31, 8 pounds, 8 ounces, Providence Centralia Hos-pital. Grandparents are Reuben and Teresa Perrine, Hoodsport; Donna Thompson, Onalaska; and Robert and Cheryl Inman, Mor-ton. Great-grandparents are Curtis and Fern Thompson, Onalaska, and Gloria Merrill, Winlock.
• AMY PALERMO AND JON RANGEL, Rochester, a girl, Liliana Amelia Rangel, April 1, 3 pounds, 14 ounces, Providence Centralia Hospital.
• RACHEL HARDIN AND NATHAN JACK, Chehalis, a girl, Mataiya Heath-er-Dianne Jack, April 2, 9 pounds, 1 ounce, Providence Centralia Hospital. Grandparents are Marty Hardin, Chehalis; William Har-din, Fayetteville, N.C.; James Jack, Longview; and Francine Raymor, Yelm. Great-grandparents are Addie Hardin, Fayetteville, N.C.; Myr-tle Roberts and Warren Roberts, Chehalis; Crystal and Richard Hill-iard, Ocean Shores; and Ray and Diane Raymor, Onalaska.
• NICOLE AND THOMAS SCHWALL, Centralia, a girl, Addison Shirley Kay Schwall, April 2, 6 pounds, 12 ounces, Providence Centralia Hospital. Grandparents are Bill Schwall, Onalaska; Caroline Myers, Columbus, Ohio; and Todd and Tammy McDaniel, Winlock. Great-grandparents are Jim and Shirley Lucas, Onalaska.
• KENDRA AND GARY WAHL, Centralia, a girl, Hadley Katherine Wahl, April 3, 5 pounds, 12 ounces, Providence Centralia Hospital. Grand-parents are Bob and Kathy Harris, Chehalis; Gary and Patti Riley, Yelm; and Dave and Kathy Finch, Tacoma. Great-grandparents are Libby Harris, Yuka, Ariz.; Joan Wahl, Tacoma; Barbra Finch, Puyal-lup; Ann Higham, Puyallup; and Cathy and Jose Lamas, Gig Harbor.
• REGINA KINCAID AND ROBERT SANDERS, Chehalis, a girl, Austyahna Celleah Rose Sanders, April 3, 8 pounds, 4 ounces, Providence Cen-tralia Hospital. Grandparents are James Sanders and Nanette Sand-ers, Castle Rock; Roxann and Jeffery Austin, Toutle; and Cali Rowe, Chehalis. Great-grandparents are Hazel and Jim Levy, Castle Rock, and Gloria Caskey, Toutle.
• KATHY AND BEN HUGHES, Centralia, a girl, Ella Marie Hughes, April 4, 7 pounds, 11 ounces, Providence Centralia Hospital. Grandpar-ents are Kris and Jim Brown, Yelm; Ernie and Jen Davison, Centra-lia; and Bart Hughes, Apache Junction, Ariz. Great-grandparents are Mary Jane Geiser, Johnstown, Pa., and JoAnn and Virgil Teigland, Klamath Falls, Ore.
• CAROLINA AND MARIO RAMIREZ, Centralia, a girl, Aleynah Milan Ramirez, April 4, 8 pounds, 3 ounces, Providence Centralia Hospital. Grandparents are Mario and Lydia Ramirez, Winlock.
• ALANEA PLUMLEE AND PAUL FAIRBANKS, McCleary, a boy, Curtis Lane Fairbanks, April 8, 6 pounds, 12 ounces, Providence Centralia Hos-pital. Grandparents are Tammy Plumlee, Washougal; Karen Pena, Olympia; Kenneth Plumlee, Portland; and Wayne Fairbanks, Battle Mountain, Nev.
• RACHEL MEYERS AND JUSTIN HALE, Centralia, a boy, Kaleb Anthony Hale, April 8, 6 pounds, 5 ounces, Providence Centralia Hospital.
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Spiritual By Corinna Nicolaou
Los Angeles Times
I’m a “None.” That’s what pollsters call Ameri-cans who respond on national surveys to the ques-tion “What is your religious affiliation?” with a single word: “None.”
According to the Pew Research Center, the ranks of the Nones have ballooned in recent years, making the fastest-growing religious affiliation no affiliation.
Between 1972 and 1989, about 7 percent of Americans identified as having no formal religious affiliation. However, between 1990 and 2012, that figure jumped to 19.6 percent. Among people under age 30, just over 30 percent say they have no reli-gious affiliation. At the same time, the percentage of the U.S. population that identifies as Christian has experienced a steady decline, and other faiths have experienced modest growth at best.
The number of religious services I attended growing up could fit on one hand, with enough fin-gers left over for a peace sign. I hardly know a Cath-olic from a Protestant, let alone the belief systems of other world religions.
Granted, not all Nones are as ignorant about religion as I am. Some grew up attending church but distanced themselves from their faiths as adults. Others may still attend religious services occasion-ally but do not identify as members of any one re-ligion. Then there are those, like me, whose lack of religion was handed down to them. Both of my parents grew up with a religious affiliation but were Nones by the time I entered the picture.
I married a fellow None, and you could call us a “mixed-faith” None couple: My broken affiliation is with Christianity, while my husband’s is with Juda-ism.
Some might assume that Nones do not believe in God, but fewer than 15 percent consider them-selves atheists. For the most part, it seems, Nones are curious about spirituality — even deeply inter-ested in it. We may have rejected organized religion, but we embrace spiritual feelings. We may believe in a higher being, though we might call it “the uni-verse” or “the divine intelligence that created all this.” Most of us have reverence for a power greater than ourselves and crave a deeper understanding of its significance.
Robert Putnam and David Campbell, who dis-cuss religious trends and attitudes in their book
“American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us,” characterize the sudden rise of the Nones as the most significant trend in our country’s religious landscape in the last 50 years. They found that, for the most part, Nones mirror the population at large in terms of education, social standing, gender and race.
So what is causing this seemingly sudden reli-gious disassociation among a large subset of the American population? The only explanation that seems to make sense, the authors suggest, is politi-cal. The one characteristic many Nones share is that they lean left politically.
Putnam and Campbell say the rise in Nones appears to be tied to the perception, particularly among young people, that religion and conserva-tive politics go hand in hand. This sounds about right to me. I can’t wrap my head around a God who is more concerned with our private parts than with the content of our hearts.
But are we the ones who are missing out? For centuries, religion has been a tool to make people happier, kinder, more inclined to see the big picture.
It’s been credited with keeping believers grounded, reducing anxiety and the compulsions that often lead to self-destructive behavior. In times of great difficulty, it may be the only thing that keeps a per-son afloat until things get better. Religion is touted as a doorway to the eternal, helping us understand our role in the cosmos.
A couple of years ago, I found myself thinking about religion and wondering “What are they doing in there? What do they believe?” as I passed houses of worship.
So I took the “Worship Directory” from my local paper — an entire page listing the places of worship in my community — and started making a plan.
There were denominations I recognized but knew little about, and many more that I’d never heard of, such as the Inter-Denominational Charismatic and Nazarene. There were more than 50 options.
I decided to visit all of them. If these places of-fer tools to help their congregations navigate life and make the human experience more meaningful, then what do I have to lose? Regardless of whether I eventually “choose” a religion or remain a None, I do hope to gain a special kind of wisdom.
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Corinna Nicolaou is a writer living in Washington state. Follow her journey into religion at OneNoneGets-Some.com. She wrote this for the Los Angeles Times.
FaithReligion, Church News
Life 4 � The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, April 13, 2013
Instead of another pet, we have a dog house! Students from Centralia
High School built some really nice dog houses, and this is the last one we have. Solid wood, and heavy, bring a truck, and helper to load!
It is $75 and part of the proceeds go to us!
Eva is a classic calico cat brought in as a stray. She is about 3 years old, and a bit plump! She seems to be a good hunter and would keep the mice away!
#9604
“Eva” “Calvin”Blue is a very sweet senior kitty that
loves everyone. He likes hanging out in the cat tower, or on your lap being petted. He is waiting for you! #9604
Lewis County Animal Shelter560 Centralia-Alpha Road
P.O. Box 367Chehalis, WA 98532 Please put an I.D. tag on your pets and remember to get them spayed or neutered!
FOR LOW COST SPAYING OR NEUTERING CALL 748-6236
Check us out on petfinder.com under Chehalis or Lewis County
The Shelter is always in need of donations. Still need wood pelletts for our cat litter pans, and also plain, non-scoopable litter, for our moms and babies in foster homes. If you want to purchase it at
Del’s, they will give us a call to come pick it up! Of course we love to thank people in person, if you want to come by for a visit!
Send monetary donations to:
360-740-1290Open 10-4 Monday - Saturday
Calvin is a big kitty, that also came to us as a stray. He is a friendly
guy that would make a wonderful pet. #9588
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ADULT CAT SALE!! We have sponsor money from a kitty lover, so many of the cats are only $30 to adopt!
Lewis County Animal Shelter Pets of the Week
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The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, April 13, 2013 • Life 5FAITH
Chancel Choir to Sing at Westminster
The Chancel Choir will be performing at Westminster Presbyterian Church at the 9 a.m. service Sunday. Also, an in-fant baptism will be performed. Orders for fuchsia baskets and flower bowls will be taken.
Flowers will be available for pick up on Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 12. Proceeds from flower sales will go to help about 50 orphans at Chivumu village in Malawi, Africa. Call (360) 748-0091 for more information.
The church congregation and friends will be going roller skating on Sunday at 1 p.m. at the Centralia Rollerdrome, 216 W. Maple St., Centralia. Cost is $6 for skating and an extra $2 for the bounce house.
Rochester Methodists Plan Fun Night
On Wednesday, the Roches-ter United Methodist Church is having a community fun night,
“UNO & New2U.” UNO is a fast-paced and exciting card game for all ages. New2U is an opportu-nity to trade or give away new or gently used items no longer wanted or needed, and to choose someone else’s items.
The event starts at 7 p.m. and lasts until 8:30 p.m.
For more information, call Shirley Tripp, (360) 273-7014.
Rummage-Bake Sale Comin to Mountain View
Mountain View Baptist on Saturday, April 27, is having a rummage sale and bake sale to raise money for the youth to go to summer camp.
The event at the church will be 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Church News
By The Kansas City Star
TOMORROW MAY BE DIFFERENT
Duke Tufty, Unity Temple on the Plaza, Kansas City, Mo.:
If you can’t forgive someone who has hurt you deeply, then you can’t forgive them.
That’s fine. Don’t even try to forgive them if you know you are going to fail. Don’t desire to forgive them if you feel it’s not possible. If you believe you can’t forgive them, then that is the fact of the matter, so accept that fact along with the hurt, pain and suffering that go along with it.
However, if you are open to thinking differently about it, then I put forth this food for thought. When you say you can’t forgive someone, what you are really saying is you can’t forgive that person “today.”
Shift your thinking to accommodate that notion. Today you can’t forgive the person. Tomorrow is another day, and things might change.
In addition, to forgive in the truest sense means to give for. If you were to forgive this person
you would literally be giving up your hurt, pain, anger and suffering FOR peace of mind, a greater sense of well-being and freedom from anguish.
This is your choice. It has nothing to do with the person who hurt you or what he or she did. Do you want to make that trade? If you do, you can. If you don’t, it’s like hitting your thumb with a hammer and hoping the other person will feel the pain.
FORGIVE THE DEBT AND DEBTOR
The Rev. Justin Hoye, St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, Kansas City: Everyone needs forgiveness, including you and me. This is not bad news. This is Good News, because in the person of Jesus Christ, God demonstrates a love that forgives and enables us to forgive.
For Christians, the Easter season celebrates not simply the resurrection from the dead of Jesus Christ, but also the truth that the resurrected Christ, still bearing the wounds
of his scandalous crucifixion, breathes “Peace.” That is, in the light of such terribly unjust treatment — betrayed, denied, scourged, mocked, stripped and killed — God communicates unfathomable mercy.
So must it be with us, and Jesus cautions against those who would refrain from showing such mercy.
In the Gospel of Matthew (18:35), Jesus lays out the consequences for anyone who does not forgive “his brother from his heart.” In the parable, a servant was unable to pay back a debt to his king. The king, in an act of mercy, forgave the servant his debt. However, the newly debt-free servant refused to forgive his fellow servant who owed him a much smaller amount. Such hardness of heart does not bode well in the presence of the just judge.
Forgiveness is always possible. By reflecting on the gift of God’s mercy offered us in Jesus Christ, we allow God’s grace to initiate that forgiveness from the heart that sets another
— and ourselves — free.
Voices of Faith
What Can I Do if I Can’t Forgive Someone Who has Hurt Me Deeply?
APOSTOLICThe Apostolic Faith Church 196 NW Cascade Ave., Chehalis, Rev. Jack Chasteen, Pastor. Sun. School 9:30, Service 11:00, Evening Service 6 pm, Midweek Service Wed. 7:30 pm. 748-4811.
ASSEMBLY OF GODBethel Church
“Following Christ, Loving People, Restoring Hope”
I-5 Exit 72 - NapavinePhone 748-0119.
On the web: www.bethel-church.comKyle Rasmussen, Lead Pastor
10:45 am.Classes for children are offered at all services.
Wednesday night programs for all ages at 7:00 pm.
Calvary Assembly of God 302 E. Main, Centralia. Sun. School: 9:30 am. Morning Service 10:45 am. Evening Service 6 pm. Midweek-Survey of The Bible: Wednesday 7 pm. Communion and missions emphasis first Sunday of each month. Dr. Earl R. Nordby Pastor 736-7799 (Corner of Gold and Main Streets)Destiny Christian Center 413 N. Tower Ave. in Historic Downtown Centralia. SUNDAY: Sunday Service 10:30am, WEDNESDAY: Adult Bible Study 7:00 pm., The Movement Youth Service 7pm. Information and Pastoral Staff available at 736-6443. Webpage: www.lifeatdestiny.comJackson Prairie Assembly of God “Building community with people like you” 262-9533, 4224 Jackson Hwy., (Mary’s Corner) Chehalis. Sunday School for all ages: 9:30am. Sunday Morning Worship: 10:30am. Sunday Prayer: 5pm. Sunday Evening Focus: 6:30 pm w/contemporary worship. Wednesday Evening Family Night: 7pm. Adult Bible Study, Youth & Children. Worship Intern: Kara Morris, Youth Pastor: Jared Hunt. Lead Pastor Bill Morris. Web: jacksonprairielife.comNapavine Assembly of GodPastor Will Karch - 414 SE 2nd, Napavine. 262-0285. Sunday Services, Sunday School: 9:30am, Morning Worship: 10:30 am. Evening Service: 6pm. Wednesday: Bible Study: 7pm. Royal Rangers & MissionettesOakville Assembly of God 273-8116 Your Family Church! Sunday Celebration Service 10 am, Sunday evening service 6 pm. Wednesday, Kingdom Quest 4yrs - 5th grade, Youth 6th - 12th grade, Adult Bible Study, 7pm.Onalaska Assembly of God 137 Leonard Rd., Onalaska , 978-4978. Sunday School 9:45 am, Sunday worship services 10:45 am, Monday Boy's Club Meeting (ages 7-17) 6:30 pm, Tuesday 10 am Ladies Bible Study and Prayer, Wednesday family night: College & Career 6:30 pm, (adult Bible study, boys’ & girls’ programs) 7pm.Vader Assembly of God302 6th St., Vader. Pastor: Tracy Durham. Ser-vices: Sundays 10:30 am & 6 pm., Wednesdays 7 pm. (360) 295-3756
BAPTISTDayspring Baptist Church, SBC2088 Jackson Hwy., Chehalis. Care Groups for all ages begins at 9:30 am. Celebration Worship begins at 10:45 am. Come visit our newly revived group of Christians.. Pastor Chris Kruger 748-3401Dryad Community Baptist Church112 Olive Street, Dryad, Wa.,Bible Study for all ages: 10:00 am. Morning Worship: 11:00 am. Adult Discipleship 6:00 pm. 360-245-3383. Pastor Reverend Timothy "Buck" Garner, 509-230-6393, Associate Pastor: Paul Justice, 736-6981First Baptist Church748-8628. 1866 S. Market Blvd., Chehalis. Sunday Morning Worship Services 9:15 and 11:00 am. Sunday School for all ages 9:15 am. Children's Church 11:00 am. Awana Club -Sunday 4:30 pm. Youth Group for 6-12 grade students: Wednesday evenings at 6:45 pm.Grace Baptist Church Sunday School 9:45 am, Morning Worship 11:00 am. We meet in homes 3 Sunday evenings per month. For locations and times, call the church. We meet on the 5th Sunday at the church at 6:00 pm. Wednesday at 7 pm, Nursing Home Ministries. 19136 Loganberry S.W., Rochester. 273-9240.
Victory Baptist ChurchLandmark-Sovereign Grace 617 N.W. West. Street, Chehalis, Sunday Morning Worship 10:40 am, Pastor Mark Fenison, 295-0824.
INDEPENDENT BAPTIST
Centralia Bible Baptist802 S. Gold St., Centralia, WA 98531.
(360) 669-0113www.centraliabbc.org
Pastor: Tim ShellenbergerSunday Worship: 11:00amSunday Evening: 5:30pm
Wednesday in the Word: 7:00pm Nursery care provided for all services
Faith Baptist Church - 740-0263436 Coal Creek, Chehalis, www.fbc-wa.org
Sunday School (all ages) 9:30 amChildren’s Church/Morning Worship 10:30am
CALVARY CHAPELCalvary Chapel2502 Seward Ave., Centralia. Sunday School: 11 am. Sunday Service 9 am & 11 am. Wednesday Bible Study and Prayer: 7 pm. An in-depth, verse by verse study of God’s word. 360-827-3291.
CATHOLIC St. Joseph Church 682 S.W. Cascade, Chehalis. Masses, Sat.- 5:00pm. Sat., Sun.- 10:30am. Mass in Spanish: Sun.- 1:00pmReconciliation: Sat. 3:30-4:30. or by appt. Father Tim Ilgen. 748-4953.St. Mary’s Catholic Church 225 N. Washington, Centralia. Masses: Saturday 5:00 pm, Sunday 8:30 am. Sacrament of Reconciliation: Saturday 3:30-4:30 pm. or by appt. Father Tim Ilgen. 736-4356.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCEFirst Church of ChristScientist, 89 NE Park St., Chehalis, Sunday School & Service 10:30 am, Wed. Service 7:00 pm. Nursery provided. Reading room hrs., Tues. & Thurs. 11am - 1pm (Except holidays).
CHURCH OF GODOnalaska First Church of God Corner of Hwy. 508 & 3rd Ave.
(360) 978-4161www.onalaskachurchofgod.com
Where Your Experience With Christ Makes You a Member.
Sunday School: 9:45 am; Morning Worship: 8:15 am and 11:00 am,, Wednesday: Soup and
sandwiches at 6:00 pm, Bible Study at 6:30 pmGod accepts you the way you are
and so do we
CHURCH OF CHRISTCentralia, Sunday Bible Study: 9:30 am, 10:30 Worship Sunday: 2 pm. Wed. Bible Study: 7 pm, Thurs. Ladies’ Class: 10 am Info. 736-9798. Corner of Plum & Buckner.Toledo, 300 St. Helens St., Toledo, Welcomes You! 10 am Sun. Bible Study, 11 am Worship. 6 pm Sun. Worship, 6 pm Wed. Bible Study, 11 am Tues. Adult Bible Class. (bag lunch at 12 noon) Evangelist John Gadberry, 274-8570
COMMUNITY CHURCH
Centralia Community ChurchA community with people just like you!Sunday Services at 9:00 am (acoustic) & 10:30 am. Nursery care provided for both services Classes for all ages also offered.Great programs throughout the week!Pastor Mark Fast, 3320 Borst Ave.(across from Centralia High School) (360) 736-7606 / www.cccog.com.
Cooks Hill Community Church 2400 Cooks Hill Road, Centralia, Pastor Mitch Dietz. Sunday mornings: Worship Services at 9am & 10:30am (Sign Language Translation available at 10:30am) , servicio en Español 10:30am,
Classes (adults, youth & children) and Nursery at 10:30am. Wednesday Evenings: Youth Group at 6:00pm (grades 6-12). Call the church for more information at 736-6133 or check out our website at www.cookshillcc.org.
CONSERVATIVE BAPTISTChristian Fellowship of WinlockWorship Service: 10:45 am-12:15 pm. Sunday School for all ages 9-10:15 am. Nursery care available. Adult Sunday School class. Children’s Church, nursery care, available. Pastor Terry Sundberg, Youth Pastor David Martin. 785-4280. 630 Cemetery Rd., Winlock.Trinity Christian Fellowship
123 Brockway Rd., Chehalis, just 1/2 mile north of WA. 6 via Chilvers Rd., 748-1886. Adult
Bible Class at 9:45 am. Worship Service at 11:00 am. Come as you are; everyone is welcome.Mountain View Baptist Church1201 Belmont, Centralia. (1 block west of I-5 interchange on Harrison, right on Belmont) 736-1139. Sunday School (all ages) 9:45 am. Sunday Services: 8:30 & 11 am. and 6 pm. AWANA (Sept-May).
EVANGELICAL CHURCHAdna Evangelical Church, 748-3569Loving God, Each Other, & the World,
Sunday: Bible Classes 10:00 am,Worship 11:00 am,
Midweek Small Groups call for times.115 Dieckman Rd., ChehalisSteve Bergland, Pastor
EVANGELICAL FREECentral Bible Evangelical Free Church2333 Sandra Ave. Centralia, WA 98531. 360-736-2061. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Morning Worship 10:30 a.m. Nursery provided. Evening Worship, Sunday, 6:00 p.m., AWANA-Wednesday, 6:00 pm, White Cross (ladies) meet on 2nd Thursday, 10 am. Home Bible Fellowships meet during the week. Please call for times and locations.
EPISCOPALSt. Timothy Episcopal ChurchSundays: Holy Eucharist at 10:00 am; also, 8:00am Holy Eucharist on the first Sunday of each month. Child care available at 10:00 am Wednesdays: noon Holy Eucharist and Prayers for Healing. For more information, contact the church office 748-8232. St. Timothy Parish is located at 1826 S.W. Snively Avenue (corner of 18th and Snively), Chehalis.
FOURSQUAREChehalis Foursquare Church990 NW State Ave., Chehalis. Pastor Armin Kast. Sunday Service: 10 am., with kids Sunday School, nursery provided. Wed. Night Prayer: 6:30-7:30 pm. Women’s and Men’s Bible Study. Everyone is welcome, come as you are. (360) 748-4746
INDEPENDENTCentralia Bible Chapel209 N. Pearl St., Christ-centered, Bible-based ministry. Family Bible Hour & Sunday School, 11:00 am. Midweek prayer meeting, 6:45 pm. Wednesday, followed by Bible study at 7:30 pm. For more information, LeRoy Junker, 807-4633; John Martin, 736-4001.
Home~ChurchProphetic/Apostolic Ministry
Newaukum Public Golf Course AreaFriday 7:00 PM - Ph: 748-1838
77 Newaukum Golf Dr.Leaders: Mike and Betty Kitchen
Faith Temple Word of Life 519 W. Cherry In Centralia. If you need a miracle, come. Pastor Larry Radach, 748-7916. Sunday School 10:15 am, morning worship, 11:00 am, Sunday evening 6:00 pm. Wednesday Bible study 7:00 pm. Old-fashioned preaching & prayer for the sick. Everyone welcome. 330-2667 or 748-7916.
First Christian ChurchCentralia, (Independent), 1215 W. Main. 736-7655. www.centraliachristian.org. Sunday Morning: 1st Worship: 9-10:15am (nursery & preschool), 2nd Worship: 10:30-11:45am (Sunday School for all ages).
First Christian ChurchChehalis, Morning worship 10:45 am. Sunday school 9:30 am, Special needs Adults Ministry Mon. 7 pm, Youth meetings, call for times. Small group fellowships. Tom Bradshaw, Minister, 111 N.W. Prindle, 748-3702.Valley of Blessing Ministries243 Hwy. 12 Chehalis, 266-8164. Pastor Michael Fontenot. Services: Sunday 10 am. Thurs. Prayer 6:30 pm, Worship 7:30 pm. We offer home groups, men & ladies bible studies. Call for details.
LUTHERANImmanuel Lutheran Church- ELCA1209 N. Scheuber Rd., Centralia. To be like Jesus ... meeting needs. Senior Pastor, Rev. Paul R. Hermansen; and Youth Director, Scott Hess. Sunday schedule: Praise Worship Service 9am, Sunday School and Adult Education 10:15am - 11am, Traditional Liturgical Worship 11 am, Fellowship & Coffee 10am and 12pm, Hub City Youth Group 6:30pm - 8pm. Contact information: (360) 736-9270,[email protected],and www.ilccentralia.org.Peace Lutheran Church & PreschoolChehalis–LCMS, Bishop Rd. & Jackson Hwy. Sun. School 9:30 am. Worship Svc. 8:00 am & 10:45 am. Rev. Daniel Freeman 748-4108.St. John’s Lutheran Church-ELCA2190 Jackson Highway, Chehalis. Sunday Worship 8:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m., Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Coffee/ fellowship follows the service. The Rev. Rando Faro, Pastor. Office hours Monday - Thursday, 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Phone: (360) 748-4741.Website: www.stjohnschehalis.net.St. Marks Lutheran Church-LCMC10,000 Highway 12, Rochester. Saturday, Informal Worship: 7:00 pm; Sunday, Contemporary Worship: 8:30 am; Traditional Worship: 11:00 am. Fellowship follows each service. Education hour: 9:45 am. Pastors: Greg Wightman and Lauren Macan-Wightman. Church phone: 273-9571. Web: www.lutheransonline.com/stmarksrochesterwaSt. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church -ELCA 379 State Rt. 505, Winlock, WA 98596.Sunday School 9:30 am., Worship Service 10:30 am, coffee and fellowship follow Sunday Worship. Pastor: Rev. Angela Renecker. For more info call the church office 360-785-3507www.stpaullutheranwinlock.org
METHODISTCentralia United Methodist Church506 S. Washington. Rev. Tom Peterson. Worship: 11:00 am. Classes for all ages: 9:30 am. All Welcome! 736-7311.www.centraliaumc.comChehalis United Methodist Church 16 S. Market Blvd., Chehalis. Pastor: Tara Roberts. Fall schedule: Worship Service begins at 10:50 am with KELA broadcast at 11:30 am. Sunday School for all ages begins at 9:30 am. All are welcome, childcare is available during the Worship Service. Church office 360-748-7334Winlock United Methodist Church107 SW Benton Ave., Winlock, WA. Rev. Vonda McFadden. Worship Service 9:00 am., Fellowship: 10:00 am Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors
CHURCH OF THE NAZARENELoving Deeply, Serving BoldlySunday Family Worship takes place at 9:15 a.m. followed by Learning Groups at 11:00 a.m. Exciting ministries throughout the week for all age groups with nursery care provided. Our church is a place to make new friends, a place to worship, learn and grow, a place to share life's blessings, and a place to find encouragement when weathering a storm. Everyone is welcome!! Pastor Dave Bach1119 W. First Street in Centralia, 736-9981.
360-736-5898 or 360-978-4216Dynamic worship. Friendly people.
Casual dress.Something for every age.
Quarterly Family Life Weeks (education tracks) for the whole family.
NEW BEGINNINGS CHURCH603 NW St. Helens Ave.
PO Box 1164 Chehalis, WA. 98532(360) 748-7831 www.go2newbc.com
Pastor Ken RieperSunday school begins at 9:30 amWorship & Celebration 10:30 amWednesday SUMMIT 6:30-8 pm
PENTECOSTAL CHURCHESJesus Name Pentecostal Church of Chehalis, 1582 Bishop Rd., Chehalis. Sunday Services: Prayer 9:45 am & 6:15 pm, Services: 10 am & 6:30pm. Wed. Services: Prayer 7:15 pm Service 7:30 pm. Anchor Youth Nite: Fri. 7:30 pm. Elder Bishop Burgess, Pastor Shannon Burgess. (360) 748-4977 website: www.jnpc.org
PRESBYTERIAN
Harrison Square Presbyterian Church1227 Harrison Ave., Centralia. Pastor: Rev. Jim Dunson. Sundays: Education for all ages at 10:00 am. Traditional service at 9:00 am and Contemporary Service at 11:00amPhone: (360) 736-9996. E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.harrisonsquarepc.comWestminster Presbyterian Church
349 N. Market Blvd., Chehalis. Rev. Dr. Joyce Emery, Transitional Pastor. Sunday Services: Traditional
Worship: Sunday Worship Service at 9:00 am, Modern Service 10:30 am, with children’s church and nursery at both services. Adult Sunday School follows the 10:30 am service. Family Ministry Weds. 6:13 pm. For details, visit www.chehaliswpc.org or call 748-0091
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTSeventh-day Adventist, Centralia1607 Military Rd., 736-4262. Sabbath School 9:30 am, Church Service 11:00 am. Wed. Prayer Meeting 7:00 pm. Pastor Ira BartolomeSeventh Day Adventist, Chehalis120 Chilvers Rd, (2 miles west on Hwy. 6 at Exit 77). 748-4330. Pastor David Glenn. Service on Saturdays, Sabbath School 9:30 am, Worship Service 11:00 am.
UNITY
Center for Positive Living. A spiritual community open to seekers and
believers on all paths to God. Sunday Service 10:00 am. 800 S. Pearl, Centralia. 330-5259.
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Life 6 � The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, April 13, 2013HISTORY
THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: Lewis County-Area History
Early Trading Leads to Early Battles
THE LONG VIEW:
History of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe
A party of Iroquois hunters and trappers from Fort George, at the mouth of the Columbia, journeyed up the Cowlitz River in 1818. One of their party was killed because, according to records, one of the Iroquois group named Oskonton was an aggressor with a young Cowlitz girl. He had been assigned to a beaver brigade on the Cowlitz River. He became diverted in pursuit of a Cowlitz girl who had been left unattended by the men in her village who were away on a deer hunt. He wouldn’t take no for an answer, but she so strongly resisted his advances that Oskonton wound up dead. They abandoned their hunt and made the best way that they could in a retreat back to Fort George (Astoria). They reported to James Keith, the Northwest Company’s chief factor, that they were attacked by the Cowlitz without provocation. Before Keith was made aware of the real truth, the Iroquois returned on a punitive mission with 30 to 40 men, mostly Iroquois, under Ogden. The Iroquois got to the Cowlitz before Ogden and opened fire upon them killing 13 Cowlitz men, women, and children.
Keith sponsored a three-day festival for the Cowlitz at Fort George, and arranged for
one of his officers to marry the daughter of Chief How-How. All seemed well, until after the wedding, when the Cowlitz delegation departed for their own territory. However, just outside of the fort they were attacked by a band of the local Chinook, who opposed other tribes dealing directly with the trading establishment. The sentries inside the fort, not understanding what was happening, fired upon all the Indians and the Cowlitz were caught in between the two fields of fire. When the smoke settled, the Cowlitz gathered their wounded and returned to their villages. To Lower Cowlitz Chief How-How this incident was the final insult. He was so enraged that he successfully prohibited them from hunting or trapping the Cowlitz for many years. As late as 1825, George Simpson stated that no reconciliation or peace had been effected.
The Cowlitz had a battle with Chinook Chief Casino at the lower entrance of the Willamette River in 1813. Casino was the Multnomah Chinookian chief. They fired at each other for some time, but at a great distance. No blood was spilled, and the Cowlitz returned home. The Cowlitz claimed that they had 100 warriors, but the Multnomah Chinooks claimed that the Cowlitz had 300 warriors and 40 canoes. It was also reported that the Cowlitz attempted to win over Casino’s allies with gifts of goods and slaves.
In 1825, a Chinook Indian
chief of great influence applied to Dr. John Scouler for medical aid. He died later. It was recalled that six months previously, while in good health, he had eaten at the house of a Cowlitz chief who was famed for his skill in medicine. The Chinook concluded that their chief had been charmed to death by the Cowlitz Chief. A Chinook party was sent and succeeded in killing the Cowlitz chief. The Cowlitz prepared for war against the Chinook. Such occurrences as this were often the cause of war among the tribes of the Columbia. It was very seldom that a chief of any consequence died without some bloodshed taking place.
The tribes along the banks of the Columbia River, as well as those on the various coastal rivers, were extremely jealous of encroachments on their territories and generally lived in a state of hostility towards each other.
Alexander Ross once commented on the fact that when it came to war, “every man belonging to the tribe is bound to follow his chief.”
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Roy I. Rochon Wilson was an elected leader of the Cowlitz Tribe for three decades and is the author of more than 30 books, including several histories of the Cowlitz Tribe. He is a retired ordained Methodist minister and current spiritual leader of the tribe. Wilson lives near Winlock.
By Roy I. Rochon
Wilson
CHINOOK JARGON PHRASE FOR THE WEEK
“Alah! Maika yukwa.” Meaning, “Oh! You’re here.”
Pin the Tail on the ‘Location’ in 1890
A party with games and good food was enjoyed by some Centralia children.
“Master George Ingraham en-tertained a number of his young friends Tuesday afternoon at his home on D street,” The Centra-lia Chronicle wrote. “Pin the tail in its proper geographical loca-tion on a hand-painted donkey, with other merry games, kept the young folks in happy spirits and all greatly enjoyed the party. The refreshments were elegant.”
Clean Up, or Epidemic Will Happen in 1891
A Centralia Weekly News re-porter reported a warning by a local physician.
“If something was not done to clean this city up in good shape soon an epidemic will surely prevail here,” the newspaper re-ported. “This is also the opinion of nearly every physician in the city. The News only speaks of this matter to show the necessity for prompt action. The lives of our people must be preserved.”
Separate School Needed in 1910The editor of the Chehalis
Bee-Nugget believed the boys and girls at the state train-ing school (Green Hill School) should have their own separate school.
“We believe that the best in-terests of the children demand a separate school for boys and for girls,” the newspaper article began. “Another farm, specially adapted to the raising of fruit and agricultural products of all kinds, and dairying as well, should be secured within a few miles of the present institution, and buildings erected thereon for the boys, and that the pres-ent site be used for a girls’ school exclusively. A large gymnasium and playroom is favored for the boys.”
New Pumper Conflict in 1936The Chehalis mayor said the
city had no intention to buy a
new pumper even though Wil-liam A. Sullivan, the state in-surance commissioner, was de-manding it.
“We bought a new pumper ten years ago at a cost of $13,500,” Mayor John West said. “I can see no need for another pumper in a town the size of Chehalis. We offered to abide by the many other requests of the commis-sion, but they refused to grant us any additional points unless we buy a new pumper.”
“Chehalis recently was low-ered to fire class six from class five, resulting in a raise of insur-ance rates of four cents on each hundred dollars in insurance,” The Centralia Daily Chronicle wrote.
Local fire commissioners were Louis A. Vimont and Nor-man Brunswig, and E.C. Kue-hner was the fire chief.
Arrowheads Found by Pioneer Tree in 1961
On his Jackson Prairie farm, former Lewis County Commis-sioner Clarence Roberts report-ed arrowheads were found in and near a pioneer oak tree.
“This oak tree was on the farm when his grandfather
George R. Roberts took up the place by homestead in 1878,” The Daily Chronicle wrote.
“Clarence said his grandfather used to tell stories of the oak tree and how his roosters used to live in the tree.
“Clarence’s grandfather came to Lewis County in 1832. He was manager of a Hudson Bay Company post on Cowlitz Prairie where the mission now stands.”
The retired commis-sioner said arrowheads had been found in the tree and the ground around it. His grandfa-ther said an early Indian trail was close to the tree.
Sinkhole Continues to Sink,
Taking Trees in 2001
The sinkhole on Dodge Road near Morton continued to sink, taking trees with it.
“The trees are staying up-right,” said Lewis County road maintenance manager Ed Oli-phant. “Some have fallen over, but most of them are sinking in an upright fashion, which is atypical.”
Showing Off Their Rack in the 1800s
Submitted by Darlene Merrill for Our Hometowns
Clayburn “C.M.” Taylor and Pete Hoke show of their guns, rack and dog
in this photo taken in the late 1800s in Doty. Taylor was born in 1865 in
Holcomb County, W. Va. This photo is from volume 2 of “Our Hometowns:
A historical photo album of Greater Lewis County,” and can be purchased
at The Chronicle, Book ‘n’ Brush and the Lewis County Historical Museum.
www.1877drteeth.com
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Ten thousand saw I at a glance,Tossing their heads in sprightly dance…And then my heart with pleasure fills,And dances with the daffodils.
~ ”Daffodils” by William Wordsworth
It’s been a rainy winter with early spring winds blowing away any remnants of fall leaves.
Through it all, daffodils by
the thousands emerge to remind you spring is here.
Daffodils are easy, enjoy-able and enchanting, looking like oversized cousins to the smaller buttercups that later fill meadows and open fields. Voles, squirrels and deer dislike daf-fodils, which are super-good reasons to incorporate the fall-planted bulbs in your yard.
When bloom time is done, daffodil foliage yellows and browns, a look that is not at-tractive but is necessary. This four- to six-week process helps the plant manufacture food for next year’s flowers. Much of
that food is transported to the bulb below ground. Removing, braiding, rubber banding or ty-ing the foliage interrupts that important process because it limits the amount of green that is getting sunlight. An easy dis-guise is to interplant hostas, cor-al bells, lilies and other perenni-als that leaf out in early spring.
When daffodils don’t bloom, there can be any number of rea-sons, according to the American Daffodil Society. Some common reasons include: bulbs need to be fed slow-release 5-10-10 (too much nitrogen benefits foli-age, not flower), bulbs compete
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Life 8 � The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, April 13, 2013ENTERTAINMENT
ADVICE: Dear Abby
DEAR ABBY: I’m a 14-year-old girl. I don’t understand why adults tell me to be an indepen-dent thinker, to embrace myself, and then put me down for not conforming. Why is it outra-geous to come to your own conclusions, speculate, chal-lenge accepted ideas or find your own faith? It would be easier to quietly nod an empty head and smile to please our parents and the adults who influence kids, so they can enjoy superficial satisfaction for how “well” they have raised us. Should I deny myself as an individual and be pulled along, or is it better to stay quiet and just be who everyone expects
you to be? — INDEPENDENT THINKER IN FLORIDA DEAR INDEPENDENT
THINKER: Independent think-ers are the people who have contributed the most to society. Our most important scientific discoveries were conceived by individuals who chose not to ac-cept conventional thinking. The same is true for religion — Jesus was an independent thinker. I’m not sure what kind of conversation you feel the adults in your life are trying to discour-age. But people who are deeply committed to their religious faith can feel offended or threat-ened if their beliefs are chal-lenged. Even though you are an independent thinker, you should be respectful of the beliefs of others. DEAR ABBY: Around the time
of my sister’s wedding, she and her fiance, “Greg,” tried to get me and their best man, “Bruce,” together. They brought him along when they would visit and encouraged us to date. Not long after the wedding we did start dating. Bruce is a great guy and I en-joy being with him. My problem is, he’s my brother-in-law’s neph-ew even though they are close in age. (Bruce’s mom is Greg’s half sister.) Am I dating a family mem-ber? Are we committing incest? Should we end this relationship? I don’t know what is “right.”
— WEIRDED OUT IN WIS-CONSIN DEAR WEIRDED OUT: Bruce is not a blood relative; he is related to you by marriage. That is not the same as incest. If you care about each other, the
right thing to do is continue the relationship and see where it leads. “Great guys” can make great husbands.
DEAR ABBY: My husband fathered a child in high school that was placed for adoption. His mother has become very close with the adoptive family and visits often. My husband does not. However, my mother-in-law constantly asks him to go on va-cation with her to visit the child. I also found out that she sends the child gifts and signs my hus-band’s name on the cards. Abby, I feel this is hugely disrespectful not only to me, but also to my husband. He has cho-sen not to get involved with this child because he doesn’t think it’s fair to the adoptive family. He also doesn’t wish to become attached. We have already told
her she is overstepping her boundaries, but it continues to happen. What can we do?
— FRUSTRATED IN THE SOUTH DEAR FRUSTRATED: Your mother-in-law may have the best of intentions, but forging your husband’s name is dishon-est. Sooner or later the child will find out the truth, and the result may be painful. However, there is nothing you can do to control your husband’s mother’s behav-ior, so accept it and don’t take it personally.
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Teen Resists Conforming to Adults’ Expectations
By Abigail Van Buren
Celebrity Cipher
Today’s clue: L equals F
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R D X X Z O ’ R Z L J O Z Z D T F I D H Z . B J S U D X A S V A J
G D B C X TJ H Z A D K Z V , A J J ? ” — R C W W Y Z Z T M
SOLUTION TO PUZZLE ON PAGE LIFE 7: “It never had occurred to me to write a book ... it’s an autobiography, and it’s unauthorized, and I’m suing myself.”
Under the best of best grow-ing conditions, daffodils will multiply and outlast any of us, so expect the best and enjoy your daffodils indoors where you can experience their inner-most beauty.
Here are some creative ways to display daffodils in your home, courtesy www.iBulb.org, a Dutch bulb information center.
DISPLAYING DAFFODILS
Bench warmer. A simple row of canning jars creates a uni-form arrangement. A wooden bench set in your foyer, kitchen window or adjacent to a sofa is the perfect complement to the rural feel of this tableau.
Lemon lollipop. Bunch some daffodils and wrap them with strips of natural burlap or brightly-colored twine to cre-ate a topiary-like shape that will stand in a wide windowsill
where you can enjoy them while you use the kitchen sink or do the laundry.
Pitcher perfect. Daffodils look casually comfortable, and shabby chic, when displayed in pottery, glass and tin pitchers, crocks and measuring cups for centerpieces and place settings.
Tray chic. Place single or threesome daffodils in glass bud vases topping a silver tray. Add a few fine twigs the offset the for-mality of the arrangement.
Wood-n-nice. Glue bark to
empty tin cans or purchase bark containers at a retail store. Fill the containers with daffodils, and place them on a tray of moss for an instant woodsy retreat.
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Kathy Van Mullekom is garden-ing and home columnist for the Dai-ly Press, Newport News, Va.; e-mail her at [email protected]; fol-low her at roomandyard.com/diggin, Facebook.com/kathyvanmullekom, Pinterest.com/digginin and Twitter.com/diggindirt.
Answer to Puzzle on Page Life 7
Answer to Puzzle on Page Life 7
Puzzle Two Start on Puzzle Page One on page Life 7. Answers to the puzzles here will be published in Tuesday’s paper.
DaffodilsContinued from Life 7
Vintage containers always suit the look of dafodils.
Courtesy iBulb.org
Dafodils look at home in Mason jars lined up on a vintage bench.
The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, April 13, 2013 • Life 9COMICS
GET FUZZY by Darby Conley
PEARLS BEFORE SWINE by Stephan Pastis
RHYMES WITH ORANGE by Hilary B. Price
DILBERT by Scott Adams
NON SEQUITUR by Wiley
HERMAN by Jim Unger
DENNIS THE by Hank
MENACE Ketcham
SHOE by Gary Brookins & Susie MacNelly
PICKLES by Brian Crane
CLASSIC PEANUTS by Charles Schulz
BLONDIE by Dean Young & John Marshall
FRANK & ERNEST by Bob Thaves
BEETLE BAILEY by Mort, Greg & Brian Walker
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE by Lynn Johnston
HI & LOIS by Greg & Brian Walker
B.C. by Mastroianni & Hart
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