Chiefs: Lewis County Has Most Fire-Related Deaths in Washington

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SAFETY MEASURES:

Chiefs Say Deaths Are Preventable With Alarms, Planning

By Natalie Johnson

[email protected]

Why do so many Lewis County residents die in fires?

It’s a question weighing heavily on the minds of fire-fighters in the weeks after the county sustained its 10th house

fire-related death in the past two years.

“I’m amazed that there hasn’t been an outcry,” said Assistant Chief Rick Mack, of the River-side Fire Authority.

Mack said the county has the highest death rate due to fire in the state.

“It is tragic — we’re the sixth highest in the nation,” Chehalis Fire Chief Ken Cardinale said.

According to the state Fire Marshal’s Office 2015 Fire

FIRE DEATHS IN LEWIS COUNTY: FEBRUARY 2015 TO FEBRUARY 2017

Feb. 26, 2015 — 800 block of Northwest First Street in Winlock. Mother Samantha Koehler, 31, and children Bethany Cuvreau, 4, and Tabitha Cuvreau, 2, died.

March 4, 2016 — 900 block of Ham Hill Road in Centralia. Siblings Sam, 7, Maddy, 10 and Ben Tower, 12, died.

Dec. 20, 2016 — Michael J. Pierson, 56, died in a fire at his home in the 129000 block of U.S Highway 12.

Feb. 9, 2017 — 100 block of Frost Creek Road in Glenoma. Dennis L. Watson, 51, Lynn L. Lauer, 72, and Alice M. Lauer, 83, died.

Chiefs: Lewis County Has Most Fire-Related Deaths in Washington‘I'm Amazed There Hasn’t Been an Outcry,’ Says Riverside Fire Official

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In this Feb. 9, 2017, ile photo, investigators search for clues to how a Glenoma house caught ire, killing three people.

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40 Days of Prayer on AbortionMossyrock Woman Organizes Plans for Peaceful Prayer at Centralia Planned Parenthood / Main 4

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INTEREST: County Moves From an A1 Rating to AA3, Classifying the County as a Very Low Risk Investment

By Aaron Kunkler

[email protected]

Lewis County’s credit rating was recently upgraded by Moody’s Investors Ser-vice, meaning the county may now borrow funds at a lower interest rate.

Moody’s is one of three of the largest credit rat-ing agencies in the country, along with Standard and Poor’s and Fitch Group. The county’s general obligation

limited tax bond rating was recently raised from A1 to AA3, moving it from upper-medium grade with low risk to high qual-ity and very

low risk. The upgrade will likely

save taxpayer dollars. A press release from the county com-missioners thanked Lewis County Treasurer Arny Da-vis and Auditor Larry Grove for their work leading to the improved rating.

Grove said the score is like a personal credit score,

Lewis County Gets Credit Rating Upgrade

Larry Grove

auditor

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT:

Earthquake Scenario Could Flush Risks Downstream; Mayor Worries About Potential Loss of Tourism

By Jordan Nailon

[email protected]

When Lewis County Emergency Management Director Steve Mans-

field read about Tacoma Power’s plan to keep Riffe Lake low in the sum-mertime, he said he learned a lot of new information.

He learned about the historical levels of the lake and potential im-pacts to recreation opportunities. He learned about seismic studies and the function of spillway piers on the dam. He learned that government concerns over the structural integrity of Mossyrock Dam in the event of a

magnitude 7.5 earthquake are so seri-ous that the lake will be kept about 30 feet below its normal summertime for the foreseeable future.

Still, there was at least one aspect that Mansfield didn’t see in the front page story from The Chronicle.

“What I didn’t see in there, in any kind of meaningful form, was ‘OK we have this dam, this potential threat, what have we done to mitigate the

Local Leaders Seek Answers on Plan to Keep Riffe Lake Low

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5-Day Forecast for the Lewis County Area

Regional Weather

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cloudy; r/rain; rs/rain & snow; s/sunny;

sh/showers; sn/snow; t/thunderstorms

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Record High . . . . . . 68 in 1949

Record Low . . . . . . . 19 in 1962

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Ocean Shores 44/37 sh 45/36 sh

Olympia 46/34 s 41/31 sh

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Anchorage 30/18 s 34/19 s

Boise 36/22 s 40/28 sn

Boston 64/38 sh 46/32 s

Dallas 55/41 s 68/57 sh

Honolulu 79/65 pc 81/67 pc

Las Vegas 59/46 s 60/47 pc

Nashville 46/27 pc 55/42 s

Phoenix 67/47 s 65/44 pc

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Salt Lake City 38/24 mc 40/31 s

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Baghdad 73/48 s 75/48 s

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Rio de Janeiro 95/79 t 90/77 t

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Sydney 75/68 ra 73/68 sh

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Spokane 36/25 pc 37/23 sn

Tri Cities 43/29 s 43/28 rs

Wenatchee 37/26 s 37/24 rs

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Chehalis at Mellen St.

54.93 65.0 -0.11

Skookumchuck at Pearl St.

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Cowlitz at Packwood

2.47 10.5 -0.03

Cowlitz at Randle

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WeirdNews of the Zoo: Live Video of Giraffe Giving Birth Was Labeled Explicit

HARPURSVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — The owner of a New York zoo planning to live-stream a giraffe giving birth says the video feed was briefly removed from You-Tube because animal rights ac-tivists labeled it sexually explicit.

Animal Adventure Park started streaming video Wednesday of 15-year-old April in her enclosed pen at the zoo in Harpursville, 130 miles north-west of New York City. But own-er Jordan Patch said YouTube removed the feed early Thursday after someone reported it was explicit and contained nudity.

In a video posted on the zoo’s Facebook page, Patch blamed “a handful of extremists and ani-mal rights activists” for inter-rupting the stream from the

“giraffe cam.” The live stream re-sumed on YouTube later Thurs-day morning.

April is expected to give birth to her fourth calf in the coming days.

Minneapolis Women Line Up For ‘She Persisted’ Tattoos

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — So many women showed up at a Minneapolis tattoo parlor for a permanent reminder of female solidarity that it had to turn away some latecomers.

Local women Chelsea Brink, Nora McInerny and Kate O’Reilly organized a fundraiser in which people could get a tat-too of the words “Nevertheless, she persisted,” for $75, Min-nesota Public Radio reported. Proceeds will go toward Women Winning, a group dedicated to boosting representation of pro-abortion rights women at all lev-els of political office.

More than 100 women came in for appointments at Brass Knuckle Tattoo Studio during the event Tuesday afternoon.

Their tattoos reference a phrase that Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell said about Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who was formally silenced on the Senate floor earlier this month for read-ing a letter by Coretta Scott King. The words became a rallying cry for Warren’s supporters and

women’s rights proponents.O’Reilly said they were

words she wanted to remember. She emailed Brink, a graphic de-signer, to ask if she could turn them into a tattoo design.

“It’s the first tattoo I’ve ever considered,” O’Reilly said. “I like the idea of flipping it around and using it in a way he didn’t intend for us to.”

O’Reilly wasn’t the only woman with the idea. McIn-erny, a Minneapolis writer, also emailed Brink and asked for a similar design.

The three women created an event on Facebook, turning it into a fundraiser for Women Winning.

Hundreds showed up to get tattoos, and within an hour, they were turning people away.

Mary Beth Settergren, 54, got her first tattoo at the event “so I can look at it,” she said. “Because I think that it’s really an encour-aging message for women to persist, no matter what. I think it speaks to the challenges I’ve faced in my life.”

Ohio Policeman Answers Girl’s Request for Math Homework Help

MARION, Ohio (AP) — The mother of a 10-year-old Ohio girl who messaged police on Facebook for help with math homework says the responding officer’s engaging approach is what counts, though his math was a little off.

Molly Draper’s daughter, Lena, recently messaged Marion police about equations involving addition of numbers in paren-thesis as well as multiplication.

Lt. B.J. Gruber replied. He walked the fifth-grader through correctly solving one problem but slipped up on another, sug-gesting addition and multiplica-tion steps in the wrong order.

Even so, his effort drew wide praise when Draper shared the exchange on Facebook. She told WCMH-TV it demonstrates her daughter’s trust in police offi-cers and good community rela-tionship-building on their part.

Gruber took the math mis-step in stride, joking that he should’ve mentioned his favorite subject was history.

Governor’s Phone Interrupts Press Conference

Ted. S. Warren / The Associated Press

A ringing phone call interrupted Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s news conference — and the phone was his own.

Inslee on Thursday was taking reporters’ questions after he signed an executive order that seeks to ensure state re-

sources are not used to enforce federal immigration policies. As he was speaking, a musical ring tone interrupted him.

Inslee reached into his jacket pocket, answered the phone, then joked: “It’s Vladimir Putin, I’ll get back to you Vladimir.”

The governor then put the phone back into his pocket.

“In Lewis County alone, direct travel spending generated $4.7 million in local taxes in 2015. Tourism employs more than 2,300, and overall

travel spending is nearly $200 million each year.”

Mary Kay Nelson and Maree Lerchen

in support of state tourism legislation (see page Main 8 for the full commentary)

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Today in History

Today’s Highlight in History:

On Feb. 25, 1913, the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Consti-tution, giving Congress the pow-er to levy and collect income taxes, was declared in effect by Secretary of State Philander Chase Knox.

On This Date:

In 1836, inventor Samuel Colt patented his revolver.

In 1905, the Upton Sinclair novel “The Jungle” was first published in serial form by the Appeal to Reason newspaper.

In 1922, French serial killer Henri Landru, convicted of murdering 10 women and the son of one of them, was execut-ed in Versailles.

In 1940, a National Hockey League game was televised for the first time by New York City station W2XBS as the New York Rangers defeated the Montreal

Canadiens, 6-2, at Madison Square Garden.

In 1956, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev harshly criticized the late Josef Stalin in a speech before a Communist Party con-gress in Moscow.

In 1957, the Supreme Court, in Butler v. Michigan, overturned a Michigan statute making it a mis-demeanor to sell books contain-ing obscene language that would tend to corrupt “the morals of youth.” Chicago gangster George

“Bugs” Moran, a rival of Al Ca-pone, died in prison at age 63.

In 1964, Eastern Airlines Flight 304, a DC-8, crashed shortly after taking off from New Orleans International Air-port, killing all 58 on board. Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) became world heavyweight boxing champion as he defeated Sonny Liston in Miami Beach.

In 1977, the ice hockey com-edy “Slap Shot” starring Paul Newman was released by Uni-versal Pictures.

In 1986, President Ferdinand Marcos fled the Philippines after 20 years of rule in the wake of a tainted election; Corazon Aqui-no assumed the presidency.

In 1991, during the Persian Gulf War, 28 Americans were killed when an Iraqi Scud mis-sile hit a U.S. barracks in Dhah-ran, Saudi Arabia.

In 1994, an American-born Jewish settler opened fire with an automatic rifle inside the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank, killing 29 Muslims.

In 1997, a jury in Media, Penn-sylvania, convicted chemical fortune heir John E. du Pont of third-degree murder, deciding he was mentally ill when he shot and killed world-class wrestler David Schultz.

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IN-HOUSE: Restaurant, Which Has Been Open for Seven Years, Grinds All Its Own Patties On-Site

By Aaron Kunkler

[email protected]

Employees were busy flipping patties and assembling hefty burgers for a packed house at Grand Mound’s Burger Claim on Wednesday afternoon.

Specializing in gourmet burgers, the restaurant has op-erated next to the Great Wolf Lodge under the ownership of Don and Rena Morris for the past seven years.

They show no signs of slow-ing down.

“It’s definitely been a good in-vestment for us. Keeps me busy. We like the regulars that come in from the community,” Don Mor-ris said.

The couple opened the res-taurant after being inspired by a nationwide surge of fast-casual burger joints, he said. But in or-der to keep a competitive edge, he knew they would need to do something different.

Don Morris said he has owned several businesses in the past, but he and Rena decided to stick it out with Burger Claim.

Before they started up, they took a survey of various other fast-casual restaurants to get an idea of where to steer their busi-ness.

The couple decided to make some unique decisions and keep key functions in-store.

One of these is grinding their own beef daily, which Don Morris said excludes fillers and trimmed meat. Their popu-lar quarter-pound burger also clocks in at the full 4 ounces or more after being cooked, mean-

ing customers actually get a full quarter-pound of meat.

They also cut their own fries in-store and run through rough-ly 120,000 pounds of Washing-ton potatoes annually.

All their hamburger buns are from Wheat Montana Farms and Bakery, which grows and processes wheat and bakes all its own buns.

The restaurant itself is on Chehalis Tribe property. The couple rents the building from the tribe.

Don Morris said they chose the location because they wanted to set up shop in South Thurston County. Their proximity to the Great Wolf Lodge and Interstate 5 also helps, but he said most of their customers are locals.

“We like being part of the community,” he said.

On top of their namesake of-fering, Burger Claim also sells salads, seafood, beer and wine.

Another unique feature the restaurant offers is the option to call in an order and pick it up ready to go in drive-through.

They also offer military dis-counts. The business employs about 20 people.

Don Morris said they like taking part in community fun-draisers and other charitable en-deavors that benefit locals.

The couple are looking to ex-pand in the future, but wouldn’t say where yet.

“We’re just kind of looking and talking to people,” Don Morris said.

ABOUT THE BUSINESS: BURGER

CLAIMWhere: 20320 Old

Highway 99 in Grand Mound

Hours: 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Fri-day and Saturday

Phone: 360-273-9347Website: www.burger-

claim.com

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Burger Claim Serves Fast-Casual Burgers With a Twist in Grand Mound

Aaron Kunkler / [email protected]

Kalli Dawes, a supervisor, crafts burgers at Grand Mound's Burger Claim. The restaurant has been making gourmet burgers

from patties made in-store for the past seven years.

Burger Claim has been operating out of Grand Mound near the Great Wolf Lodge.

The owners said they opened after being inspired by a wave of fast-casual burger

joints opening around the country.

News in Brief

By The Chronicle

The chief executive officer of Lucky Eagle Casino and Hotel has left the company and an in-terim CEO has been appointed.

According to a press release, the Chehalis Tribe has started an active search for a permanent replacement of John Setterstrom, who joined the Chehalis Tribe’s Lucky Eagle Casino in 1995.

A reason for his departure

was not provided. On Thursday, Lisa Miles was

appointed the interim chief ex-ecutive officer of Lucky Eagle Casino.

“John has made significant and lasting contributions to our success,” David Burnett, busi-ness committee secretary for the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, said in the release. “He has been with Lucky Eagle Casino since our opening

in 1995 and was dedicated to serving the Chehalis Tribe and developing the Lucky Eagle Ca-sino from our infancy. We are grateful to him.”

Setterstrom oversaw several expansion projects over the years, most notably the construction of a 171-room hotel, two new gam-ing floors, a newly opened park-ing facility and numerous restau-rants.

Miles has a 28-year career in

finance and Native American gaming. She worked for Ernst & Young’s Chicago office for sev-eral years before beginning her gaming career with Bally En-tertainment Corp., according to the release. She has served as the top financial executive for Lucky Eagle, Tulalip Casino and a Six Flags park in northern Califor-nia.

“We are pleased that Lisa Miles will lead our executive

team moving forward,” Don Se-cena, Chehalis tribal chairman, said. “Her in-depth knowledge of the Lucky Eagle operation and our 800 team members gives us a great confidence that she will make the most of the opportu-nity.”

Lucky Eagle Casino and Ho-tel is owned and operated by the Chehalis Tribe. It is located at 12888 188th Ave. SW in Roches-ter.

Tribe: CEO of Lucky Eagle Casino Leaves Company; Interim CEO Selected

Scaled-Back Elk Hoof Rot Bill Passes Senate CommitteeBy The Chronicle

A bill dealing with hoof rot in elk was approved by the Wash-ington state Senate Ways and Means Committee this week.

The bill, sponsored by Sen. Kirk Pearson, R-Monroe, lim-its attempts to move dis-eased elk from areas of the state, particu-larly southwest Washington, where hoof rot is widespread, to other areas of the state.

Senate Bill 5474 would also shift authority to the Washing-ton State University College of Veterinary Medicine for identi-fying causes and finding solu-

tions to eradicate the disease, a press release said.

The revised version of the bill discards language found in the original that would have allowed state Department of Fish and Wildlife officers to kill elk with severe limps, and may have ex-tended that authority to hunters. The approved version of the bill only deals with the aforemen-tioned limits on transportation and a mandate for finding a cure or solution to hoof rot in elk.

The bill is ready to be brought to the Senate floor for a vote to pass it to the House of Representatives.

Hoof rot is the common name for a contagious disease that has affected elk in Washing-ton state in recent years. The cen-ter of the disease in the elk popu-lation is Southwest Washington, but it is spreading.

The disease causes the flesh of the hoof, especially between the toes of the affected animal, to rot away and causes severe pain and damage.

Aberdeen Jail Guard Accused of Tipping Off Drug Traffickers

TACOMA (AP) — A guard at the Aberdeen city jail has been arrested on allegations that he tipped off drug traffickers about police activities.

Charles Andrew Stocker was due to make an initial appear-ance in U.S. District Court in Ta-coma following his arrest Thurs-day. Prosecutors have charged him with three criminal counts, including aiding and abetting drug trafficking.

An attorney who has been representing the 49-year-old did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

Prosecutors say Stocker warned a drug dealer about someone who was working as a police informant, alerted two other dealers that police were lis-tening in on calls at the jail, and agreed to hold money for one of

the investigation’s targets.The U.S. Attorney’s Office

in Seattle reported that Stocker

has been on leave since federal agents searched his home in the summer of 2016.

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40 DAYS FOR LIFE:

Mossyrock Woman Says Her Mother Went Against Advice to Abort Two Babies, Forming Her Pro-Life Stance

By Aaron Kunkler

[email protected]

A Mossyrock native is coor-dinating a 40-day prayer vigil outside the Centralia Planned Parenthood branch set to begin on March 1.

Caroline Bowes is 20 years old, and her personal story be-gan with a decision by her par-ents not to have an abortion.

Bowes is a quadruplet. She said when her mother was preg-nant with she and her siblings, the doctors encouraged her mother to terminate two preg-nancies due to concerns they had about her safety.

Bowes’ mother chose to carry all four children to term based largely on their faith, Bowes said.

“My parents knew that God would provide for them, so they chose life,” she said.

Consequently, Bowes said she has become somewhat of a pro-life advocate and is organizing a

local 40 Days for Life event. The event entails people

standing outside the Centralia Planned Parenthood and peace-fully praying, Bowes said.

Bowes said the event is dis-tinctly non-political. She dis-

couraged people who wish to participate from bringing their own signs. There will be 40 Days for Life signs instead that attend-ees can use, she said.

“It’s not political in any way. It’s wholly religious and for the

purposes of prayer,” she said. She said five evangelical

churches, three Catholic church-es and a handful of other reli-gious organizations have worked with her to develop a prayer schedule.

The purpose of the vigil, Bowes said, is to provide prayer and offer what she said are al-ternatives to abortion, including adoption or raising the child.

The vigil begins daily at 9 a.m. and runs until 6 p.m.

Bowes said there are some 350 similar vigils planned around the country.

According to the organiza-tion’s website, the vigil is coupled with prayer and fasting and com-munity outreach to end legal abortion in America.

A call to a Planned Parent-hood spokesperson was not re-turned as of The Chronicle’s deadline.

Those interested can contact Bowes at [email protected] or by calling Bowes at 360-388-0741.

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Prayer Vigil on Abortions Beginning March 1 in Centralia

Courtesy Photo

40 Days for Life organizer Caroline Bowes, left, poses for a photo with her siblings Valerie, Victoria and Kyle (left to right). The

siblings are quadruplets. Caroline Bowes is a pro-life advocate due to her parents’ decision to bear she and her siblings to

term.

‘‘It’s not political in any way. It’s wholly religious and for the purposes of prayer.’’

Caroline Bowes

organizer

CENTENNIAL: People Asked to Send Photos, Memories to Be Presented at June 24 Celebration at Veterans Memorial Museum

By The Chronicle

One-hundred years ago, in 1917, concerned residents of Lewis County decided to join the American Red Cross as the na-tion readied to join “the war to end all wars.”

The community wanted to ensure it was ready to help the country in conflict, as well as during peacetime, according to a press release from Red Cross.

This March, as Red Cross Month is commemorated, the South Puget Sound Chapter will launch a year-long centen-nial celebration. The celebration will recognize the organization’s many volunteers and their ac-complishments, while also look-

ing toward a future that will make the communities stronger and more resilient.

“March is Red Cross Month, the perfect time to kick off our centennial, honor volunteers, blood donors and financial contributors who bring hope to people facing life’s emergencies,” Bonnie Bush, executive direc-tor of the American Red Cross serving South Puget Sound, said.

“During Red Cross Month, we thank them for 100 years of tre-mendous support.”

For more than 70 years, March has been designated as Red Cross Month by the nation’s presidents to recognize how the organization helps individuals

across the country and around the world.

A special event to celebrate the centennial is being planned for June 24 at the Veterans Me-morial Museum in Chehalis. The event “will not only celebrate the rich history of the Red Cross in Lewis County, but will include youth preparedness presenta-tions and a blood drive,” accord-

ing to the release.The Red Cross is inviting

people to share their memories of the organization, as well as photos.

“If you have assisted someone or been assisted by the Red Cross during times of disaster or while serving in the military, if you’ve given or received blood, taught or taken a swimming or first aid class, helped install smoke alarms through our Home Fire Prevention campaign or donated to the Red Cross, you belong to the Red Cross family, and we want to hear from you,” accord-ing to the release.

Memories and photos should be emailed to [email protected]. They will be shared

at the centennial event and post-ed to the organization’s North-west Region blog.

More information about how to support the organization is available online at www.red-cross.org. The Red Cross relies on donations of time, money and blood to do its work. An average of 91 cents of every dollar the Red Cross spends is invested in humanitarian services and pro-grams, according to the release.

In the fiscal year 2016, the South Puget Sound chapter re-sponded to 266 local emergen-cies, opened 2,991 cases to assist military families and trained 12,335 people in lifesaving skills like CPR, first aid and water safety.

American Red Cross Celebrates 100 Years of Service in Lewis County

News in Brief

Adna Grange to Accept Donations for Animal ShelterBy The Chronicle

The Adna Grange will be open noon-5 p.m. Saturday, March 4, to accept donations for a community service project that will benefit the Lewis County Animal Shelter.

The shelter is seeking not only items for the animals, but also staff supplies to keep the fa-cility running.

Among the items being ac-cepted are dog, cat and rodent food; dog/cat toys; small blankets/mats for the animal cages; towels; cleaning supplies; laundry deter-gent; garbage bags; office supplies; and paper products (including paper towels and toilet paper).

The Grange is located at 123 Dieckman Road, Adna.

Also, there will be a potluck

dinner at 6 p.m. followed by a Pomona Grange meeting at 7 p.m.

Washington State Medical School Receives Accreditation

PULLMAN (AP) — The new Washington State University College of Medicine reached an-other milestone this week when it was accredited by the North-west Commission on Colleges and Universities.

The commission’s approval for WSU to include a doctor of medicine degree is effective in August, when the first class of medical students is scheduled to arrive in Spokane.

The college is in the process of interviewing medical student candidates from Washington state. Offers of acceptance to the charter class will begin in March.

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PRACTICE: From Agriculture to Public Speaking, FFA Provides Students Valuable Industry Experience

By Aaron Kunkler

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Chapters around the country have been celebrating national FFA week, including the W.F. West High School branch.

Zach Schilter is the chapter’s president, and at only 17, he’s already planning on gaining enough skills to one day take over his family farm in Adna.

“What this will start is just going through this agricultural education now, then being able to get scholarships to different ag schools that I want to go to,” he said.

Schilter said he’s been in oth-er organizations like 4-H nearly his whole life, but said the FFA program also offers teenagers experience and skills beyond just agriculture.

One of the biggest skills he said students develop is learning

how to work productively with other people and in groups.

“We can get more done if we are working together, that’s one of the things that FFA is really trying to promote,” he said.

It also helps prepare students for careers in rapidly changing markets by preparing them to use emerging technology, like robotic milking systems for dairy cows.

Sales and marketing skills are also an emphasis of the program, Schilter said.

In order to participate, stu-dents must be enrolled in a class related to the program, including botany, welding or biology.

Kayla Bailey is one of two FFA advisers at W.F. West High

School and said she was involved in the program when she was in high school and sees a lot of value in it for a wide range of stu-dents.

“One of the important things to remember is that it’s not just agriculturally based anymore,” she said. “Even if kids don’t live on a farm or they don’t have any experience with agriculture di-rectly, there’s a lot of opportunity for them to learn.”

Skills like leadership devel-opment, interview skills, public speaking, agriculture skills, live-stock judging, and food and tech science are just some of the areas of focus in the program, she said.

Students also have the oppor-tunity to get hands-on experi-

ence in a program that lets the students work and earn credit hours and money through part-nerships with local employers or by raising their own animals.

“Oftentimes they won’t have the opportunity to develop those skills in a regular classroom set-ting,” Bailey said.

Community service also fea-tures heavily in the FFA, Bai-ley said, and recent examples include heading to retirement homes with Christmas cards, crafts and carols.

Upcoming events the chapter will be participating in include the district level FFA competi-tions in March, followed by a state level competition in Pull-man for the winners.

Centralia, Winlock, Toledo, Rochester, Onalaska and Wil-lapa Valley also have their own FFA chapters.

Nationally, there are nearly 630,000 students involved in more than 7,750 chapters.

Schilter encourages inter-ested students to get in touch with their school advisers to get involved.

“There’s something for every-one,” Bailey said.

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Members of the Chehalis FFA chapter pose during FFA week at the radio station of KMNT with on-air personality Ryan Trotter. The Chehalis chapter is one of many that

operate around Lewis County.

FFA Chapters Provide Wide Range of Skills to Local Students

‘‘One of the important things to remember is that it’s not just agriculturally

based anymore.’’

Kayla Bailey

FFA adviser

The Associated Students of Centralia College present

Centralia College does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, national origin, disability, sex, genetic

information, or age in admission, treatment, or participation in its programs, services and activities, or in employment. All

inquiries regarding compliance with access, equal opportunity and/or grievance procedures should be directed to the Vice

President of Human Resources and Legal Afairs, Centralia College, 600 Centralia College Blvd, Centralia, WA 98531, or call

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This extraordinary two-actor play explores the absurdity of prejudice and racism and the power of diversity. The program combines fast-paced sketches, improvisations, multi-media, puppets, a game show, and a post-show discussion.

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By Justyna Tomtas

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A monthly celebration of downtown Chehalis focused on the city’s dining, shopping and entertainment scene kicked off on Friday with a plethora of ac-tivities.

The new events titled “Fourth Fridays” will, as its name sug-gests, take place on the fourth Friday of every month.

Annalee Tobey, executive di-rector of the Chehalis Commu-nity Renaissance Team, was ex-cited to kick off the event, which she hopes will raise awareness about the experiences and mer-chants available in the city.

“It’s a great start and having the opportunity to have the mov-ie downtown and the live music in the evening will certainly com-pliment the daytime activities,” she said. “We want to encourage people on their own time sched-ules to get downtown and kind of experience how great our local businesses are. We don’t want to be the best kept secret.”

The first event of its kind for Chehalis offered a showing of

“The Princess Bride” at The Che-

halis Theater, live music by Kai-tee Carney at Studio K Portraits, game tournaments at Diversified Games, classes at the Ewe and I and beer tasting at M&K Town Store.

Several shops throughout the downtown corridor, including re:Design, Twin Cities Trading Post, Brunswig’s Shoes and Book ‘n’ Brush, also offered special deals throughout the day.

The event will highlight the services provided in Chehalis, from restaurants to entertainment.

“We want people to know that you don’t have to go to Olympia to find great products we have here,” Tobey said, providing the example that North Face prod-ucts are available at Bartel’s Clothing and Shoes. “We want

to raise awareness and get folks downtown.”

Tobey was hired as CCRT’s first executive director. With a

new downtown office on Boist-fort Street, she said the organiza-tion will be much more visible.

“Now with me in place as the director, I have so much more time that I’m able to devote to Renaissance and to these proj-ects,” she said. “We are really hoping to take it to the next level this year and accomplish more than we ever have.”

A similar event titled “Third Thursdays” is held in Centra-lia every month. Tobey said she thinks the two events will com-plement and promote one another.

Chehalis Communuty Renaissance Team Kicks Off ‘Fourth Fridays’ Events to Bring More Activity to Downtown Businesses

‘‘We are really hoping to take it to the next level this year and accomplish more

than we ever have.’’

Annalee Tobey

CCRT executive director

RICHLAND (AP) — A leak-ing radioactive waste storage tank on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation has been pumped of its contents. The Department of Energy says Tank AY-102 was pumped "to the limits" of current technologies. The wastes are left over from the production of plu-tonium for nuclear weapons.

Tank AY-102 was taken out of service in 2012 after it was dis-

covered that nuclear waste from the inner tank had leaked into the space between the inner and outer walls of the double-shelled tank. The waste was contained in that space and the Energy De-partment says there is no sign that any leaked into the environment.

Waste retrieval began last March and 725,000 gallons of radioactive and chemical wastes have been removed.

Hanford Pumps Out Leaking Nuclear Waste Tank

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NO FISHY BUSINESS: NW Aqua Soils Looks to Develop Composting, Fertilizer Processing Operation in Curtis

By Aaron Kunkler

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A meeting of the Port of Che-halis commissioners on Thurs-day saw a presentation by a Grays Harbor composter seeking to move to a location in Curtis. The commissioners also established priorities for 2017 at the meeting.

Northwest Fish By-Products Inc. co-owner Erika Katt pre-sented NW Aqua Soils’ plans to relocate from its current prop-erty in Satsop after it was discov-ered previous tenants contami-nated the site.

The company founded in 2015 produces fish-based prod-ucts ranging from pet food to compost and fertilizer.

Katt said she was searching for a location when the busi-ness came across the Curtis site, which sits along state Route 6.

“It’s really a great location for us,” she said.

The business model includes buying large amounts of fish from producers in the area. Katt said the business might eventu-ally begin packaging its products for retail and shipping by rail across the country. The property they are looking at in Curtis is

adjacent to railroad tracks. Port Chief

Executive Of-ficer Randy Mueller said he has visited the current site in Satsop. He said there were no issues he could see, or impor-tantly, smell.

NW Aqua Soil’s is currently in discussions

for acquiring the land from the port. The business might begin an environmental review before an agreement is finalized.

Katt said the business will also need additional permits to create hydrolysate, a low-hazard, fish-based liquid fertilizer. They hope to have the Curtis opera-tion up and running within two years.

The company currently em-ploys between five and 10 em-ployees, and future expansions

could create up to 15 new posi-tions.

Mueller said the port may sell the property to the company at a future date. He said the presen-tation was focused on learning more about what the company does and what they would do at the Curtis location.

PORT COMMISSIONERS also ap-proved a two-year lease for of-fice space with OSC Vocational Systems, replacing a previous month-to-month lease.

Also discussed was a March 14 meeting with Army Corps of Engineers, the Environmen-tal Protection Agency, the De-partment of Ecology and the Quinault Indian Tribe, which will focus on the renewal of the port’s regional general permit.

The port will not be at the meeting but will be briefed the following day, Mueller said.

The port’s permit expired last September. It allows the filling of wetlands for a five-year span.

Renewal paperwork for the permit was submitted well before it was set to expire, but turnover within the Corps of Engineers

led to a delay, Mueller told The Chronicle in previous coverage.

Wetland mitigation is impor-tant to the port. It was used to create 40 acres of credit to offset development impacts in wet-lands elsewhere.

A list of projects for the com-ing year was also established. The 10 items selected will be included in Mueller’s 2017 performance review. The project list included looking at either remodeling or finding a larger meeting room as well as floating the idea of conducting a survey to see what capacity the port district has for broadband internet.

At an earlier port meeting, Nelson Holmberg, vice presi-dent of innovation at the Port of Ridgefield, shared information about port-owned broadband. The Port of Ridgefield has been working on broadband for over two years, he said.

Mueller previously told The Chronicle that if the project moves forward, the port would pay for the installation of the broadband, and companies would pay a fee to use the net-work.

PORT OF CHEHALIS 2017 PROJECT LIST:Port of Chehalis commissioners finalized the port’s 2017

project list at the Thursday meeting. The 10 items will be in-cluded in Mueller’s annual performance review.

Projects include: • Complete renewal of the port’s regional general permit• Rebrand port with new logo• Develop new port website• Coordinate with Lewis County Flood Control District No. 1

on combined stormwater/flooding study work and capital proj-ects in the industrial park

• Conduct an all-day annual planning workshop for commis-sion and staff

• Remove renter and demolish rental home at 2686 Jackson Highway

• Involve port in upcoming city of Chehalis growth manage-ment update; coordinate port goals and comprehensive plan with city staff, planning commission and city council

• Research options and decide on best option for a larger port commission meeting space

• Take all steps to acquire, if possible, properties identified by port commission as desirable acquisitions

• Survey and assess broadband fiber networks and capacity across port district, in an effort to determine if opportunities exist for the port to improve conditions

Business Looks to Relocate to Curtis in a Move That Could Create Jobs

‘‘It’s really a great location for us.’’

Erika Katt

NW Aqua Soils co-owner

Randy Mueller

port CEO

Crash on Harrison in Centralia


A Centralia Police oicer stands alongside the wreckage of a two-car collision in the eastbound lane of the 600 block of

Harrison Avenue in Centralia on Friday afternoon. The collision snarled traic in both direction for over an hour.

News in Brief

Centralia College Nursing Students Perform Well on Licensed Practical Nurses ExamBy The Chronicle

Testing results of nursing stu-dents at Centralia College were high enough in 2016 to put the college in fourth place in the state for licensed practical nurses exam performance.

Nursing students at the col-lege who took the national cer-tification exam to be licensed practical nurses are among the best in the state, according to PracticalNurses.org, an online ranking of the best LPN pro-grams in the nation.

Centralia College does not have an LPN program, but many of the students in the college’s registered nursing program take the LPN exam, according to a press release from the college.

“Our exceptional passing rate, which has been 100 percent the past few years, of our students on the LPN exam is certainly rep-resentative of the excellence of our program and faculty,” Ellen Hinderlie, nursing program di-rector, said in the release. “We do a fantastic job in preparing our students to be excellent nurses, starting with those choosing to take the LPN exam. It translates well to our registered nursing program and our students’ high rates of success.”

For more information on Centralia College’s registered nursing program, visit www.cen-tralia.edu/academics/nursing.

Thurston County to Extend Permit Assistance Center Hours Beginning March 1By The Chronicle

Residents seeking to obtain permits in Thurston County will be able to access the Permit As-sistance Center more easily start-ing March 1 as the hours have been extended.

The center will now be open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, excluding holi-days, a press release from the county said.

Staff at the center provide general information and tech-nical assistance on applying for land use and building permits. Environmental Health and Public Works staff will also be available to provide technical as-sistance on septic systems, wells, driveways and grading, the re-lease said.

“We think it is important enough to move forward with an additional position this year and extend the hours to respond to a real need of our constituents,”

Commissioner Bud Blake said in the press release.

Feedback related to the new center can be directed to [email protected].

Dutch Bros. Raises More Than $1,000 for Lewis County Food Bank CoalitionBy The Chronicle

On Valentine’s Day, Dutch Bros. locations in Centralia, Che-halis, Lacey and Olympia cel-ebrated “Dutch Luv Day” by do-nating $1 from every drink sold to local food organizations.

The locations in the Twin Cities raised $1,080 for the Lewis County Food Bank, while the Lacey and Olympia locations raised $1,691 for the Thurston County Food Bank.

The money will directly sup-port the nonprofit organizations as they continue to provide food assistance and services to people in need, according to a press re-lease.

“We are so thankful for the support of our community,” Jeff Bass, owner of Dutch Bros. in Centralia and Chehalis, said.

“Together we’re able to support so many wonderful causes right here in Lewis County. We’re very excited to be able to donate to the Lewis County Food Bank Coali-tion for the third year in a row this year.”

On Feb. 14, all Dutch Bros. locations in the seven states the company operates donated $1 from every drink sold to local food organizations. The orga-nizations provide support to community members in various ways, with a core mission to end hunger, according to a press re-lease.

Two years ago, Dutch Bros. decided to donate a portion of sales from drinks sold rather than donating canned food.

“On average, $1 enables lo-cal organizations to purchase a plethora of healthy and nutri-tious food to local community members,” according to the re-lease.

“This monetary donation not only saves them time from sorting through food that may be expired, or not up-to proper food standards, but also provides more meals for the community.”

This year Dutch Bros. donat-ed a total of $251,671, allowing local organizations to purchase over 1.7 million pounds of food.

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PAYING IN: Plan Would Mitigate Environmental Impacts From Future Development in an Attempt to Preserve Habitat for Endangered and Threatened Species

By Aaron Kunkler

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OLYMPIA — Meetings be-tween county and federal agen-cies continue in Thurston Coun-ty as commissioners try to chart a course for dealing with many rural residents’ concerns about building restrictions related to the endangered Mazama pocket gopher.

At a meeting on Thursday between the county and the De-partment of Fish and Wildlife, county staff said they were look-ing at drafting a 30-year conser-vation and mitigation plan that would cover regulations sur-rounding not only the pocket gopher, but other endangered species and ones which could be added.

It would also cost the county roughly $5.1 million annually for the duration of the 30 years.

Known as a habitat conser-vation plan, it would act as in-surance for the county when it issues building permits for five different environmentally valu-able habitats found in the county.

These include open, vegeta-tive and soil prairies, as well as oak and wetland zones. The plan would protect the county from environmental penalties if en-dangered species were harmed in the construction processes.

The five habitats are further divided into low- and high-qual-

ity zones, which could allow dif-ferent building regulations.

The county could also begin looking at purchasing land for conservation in the county. Ac-cording to staff estimates, the av-erage price for an acre of conser-vation property would run the county $22,180 to buy it, with wide variables between the more populous and expensive land near Olympia and more rural ar-eas of the county.

Additionally, much less costly expenses would be incurred for

restoration and maintenance of the land.

County staff gave the exam-ple of how a landowner looking to build on a 5-acre plot could include environmental mitiga-tion plans. The county and land-owner could seek to mitigate the impact of the construction of a house, outbuildings and a drive-way by clustering the develop-ment near a property line and other houses.

Another option would be to create a smaller overall build-ing footprint or build on lower grade environment while keep-ing the higher quality land un-touched.

While the county is develop-ing regulations for protecting the pocket gopher’s habitat, plans from the Department of Fish and Wildlife have not been final-ized, and Commissioner Gary Edwards questioned whether it is fair for the county to proceed without established policy from the department.

“Are we buying into some-thing early, or that if we wait a while, we maybe don’t have to buy into?” he said.

Representatives from Fish and Wildlife said they felt there are adequate legal examples of courts upholding the idea that

counties should proceed with implementing their own pro-cesses in line with the guidelines proposed by their department even as they developed their own policy.

Commissioners Edwards and John Hutchings both cam-paigned as independents in the November election and made finding a solution to the pocket gopher issues, which has signifi-cantly slowed construction on many private plots of land in ru-ral Thurston County, a priority.

Lisa Rimmer was sitting in the crowd for the meeting. She said many people in the audi-ence were there because of con-cerns over possible rollbacks of environmental regulations.

Rimmer said she was con-cerned about the possibility of negative environmental conse-quences of actions taken by the commissioners.

Hutchings had previously told The Chronicle that he hoped to balance environmental pro-tections with landowner rights, but weighted toward the land-owners.

Multiple landowners have complained about restrictions on building structures on prop-erty they own due to the pocket gopher regulations.

Thurston County Commissioners Discuss 30-Year Plan to Address Pocket Gopher and Other Species

In this April 13, 2011, Chronicle ile photo, Lisa Hiam holds a Mazama pocket go-

pher after trapping it in the Mima Mounds of West Rocky Nature Preserve near

Maytown.

RESULTS: Toledo School District Bond the Only Measure to Fail as Centralia Bond Officially Passes

By The Chronicle

The Feb. 14 special election has been certified with no chang-es in outcome to the preliminary results that were announced.

That means Centralia will have two new schools, while Chehalis will be able to fund road improvements throughout the city.

In Lewis County, 10,630 bal-

lots were counted, resulting in a 42.36 percent voter turnout.

All of the measures on the ballot passed with the ex-ception of the Toledo School District’s bond, which did not obtain the 60 percent su-permajority it needed to pass.

The $14.2 million bond received 822 votes, or 55.92 percent, in favor of the measure. In all, there were 1,470 ballots cast on the measure.

The Centralia School Dis-

trict’s $74 million bond measure received 62.12 percent approval from voters in Lewis County. The multi-county results, which include approximately 100 voters in Thurston County, brought the final percentage to 61.88 percent of voters in favor of the bond. A total of 5,239 ballots were count-ed, with a combined total of the two county’s results at 3,242 votes in favor of the bond.

The bond will fund the con-struction of two new kindergar-ten through sixth grades schools to replace Jefferson-Lincoln and Fords Prairie Elementary schools as well as a full remodel of Centralia High School.

A measure to increase the sales tax within Chehalis city limits by two-tenths of a percent was approved with 54.9 percent of voters in favor. A total of 1,164 ballots were cast on the sales tax increase, which will fund the city’s transportation benefit dis-trict. The money will be used on street improvements throughout the city.

The Boistfort School District successfully passed a $1.825 mil-lion bond with 78.71 percent of voters in favor of the measure, which will update the school’s kitchen and cafeteria, replace the roof and add insulation to the building to increase efficiency.

All three replacement main-tenance and operations levies in the special election were also ap-proved by voters.

The White Pass School Dis-trict’s four-year replacement maintenance and operations levy for $1.88 million passed with 56.13 percent of the votes in favor. The Mossyrock School District’s two-year replacement and operations levy for $946,000 was approved with 59.13 percent of the vote. The Evaline School District’s two-year replacement maintenance operations levy of $190,000 was approved with 69.66 percent in favor of the mea-sure.

No Change in Outcomes as Feb. 14 Lewis County Special Election Certified

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News in Brief

State Senate Again Unanimously Approves Bill to Make Fourth DUI a FelonyBy The Chronicle

The Washington state Senate voted unanimously on Thurs-day to make a fourth intoxicated driving charge a felony, mark-ing the sixth time the Senate has unanimously approved a similar measure since 2015.

For the previous five times, a press release from Republicans said, the House of Representa-tives has declined to bring the measure to the floor for a vote.

“This bill makes it easier to put these drivers behind bars for lon-ger terms. We need to think about the families of victims who come before us every year and ask that we do something to reduce this tragic and unnecessary crime,” Sen. Mike Padden, R-Spokane Valley, said in the release.

Padden also said that Gov. Jay Inslee has indicated he would sign the bill if it is approved.

Current state law requires four previous misdemeanor con-victions for intoxicated driving before the fifth offense is finally a felony. Both Oregon and Idaho allow felony charges to be pre-sented on the third offense, the press release said.

The measure is being pro-posed in Senate Bill 5037 and would allow the fourth offense in the state to be charged as a class C felony, meaning a person with no other convictions other than three prior intoxicated driving charges would be subject to 13 to 17 months in prison.

Fox Theatre in Centralia to Screen ‘Say Anything’By The Chronicle

The Centralia Fox Theatre will be showing the next movie in the 2017 Fox Theatre Film Series, the 1989 cult-classic “Say Anything,” at 2 and 7 p.m. Satur-day, March 4.

“Say Anything” is directed by Cameron Crow and stars John Cusack as Lloyd Dobler, a high school senior who wants noth-ing more than to go out with beautiful and intelligent Diane Court (Ione Skye.) Lloyd at-tempts to win her heart over the objections of her over-protective father before Diane leaves for a scholarship in England. The film is rated PG.

To set the mood, moviego-ers are encouraged to bring their boom-boxes to celebrate one of the most iconic love scenes of the ’80s. Admission for the movie is $10 per person ($8 for members) and $25 per family (three to four persons.)

Season passes are also avail-able for the 2017 Film Series. Passes are $80 ($60 for members) and are good for all 11 movies in the series.

Presale tickets are available locally at Book ’n’ Brush in Che-halis, Holley’s Place in Centralia, and online at http://www.brown-papertickets.com/event/2816565.

For more information, con-tact the Fox Theatre at (360) 623-1103.All proceeds from the event benefit the restoration of the Fox Theatre.

New Partnerships With Library Network Provides Chromebooks, Wifi to Tenino StudentsBy The Chronicle

A new partnership between the school district and the Tim-berland library in Tenino will provide opportunities for stu-dents to have access to Chrome-books outside of school hours.

The library will soon be able to check out five laptop comput-ers owned by the Tenino School District to students.

The service will begin March 1 and end in June 20, 2018, when the benefits will be evaluated to determine how the partnership is serving students.

In order to check out a Chromebook at the library, stu-dents will need to provide Teni-

no School District identification and a valid library card.

The students will be able to connect to the library’s wifi to work on school assignments. Staff members at the library will manage checkouts and returns to ensure no school district lap-tops leave the building. The maintenance and technical sup-port for the partnerships will be provided through Tenino School District computer technicians.

The idea became a reality after staff at the library met with repre-sentatives from the Tenino School District to provide informa-tion about the library’s available academic resources. Prior to the meeting, a middle school teacher spoke to library staff about the district’s Chromebooks that are provided to middle and high school students. The teacher said some students have challenges when it comes to accessing their homework away from school.

According to a press release from Timberland, library staff presented the check-out idea to school district administrators, who “loved the idea.”

Both organizations signed an agreement authorizing the school district to loan five laptop computers to the Tenino Tim-berland Library.

The Tenino Timberland Li-brary is located at 172 Central Ave. W. For more information, contact the library at 360-264-2369 or visit www.TRL.org.

Lewis County ABATE Chapter to Hold Annual Scholarship Dinner, AuctionBy The Chronicle

The Lewis County chapter of ABATE of Washington will be holding its annual Scholarship Fundraiser Dinner & Auction Saturday, April 8, at the Fords Prairie Grange in Centralia.

Doors will open at 4 p.m., fol-lowed by the dinner at 5 p.m. and auction at 6:30 p.m.

A barbecue dinner will be

provided by Big T, Centralia, and will include chicken, potato salad, mixed vegetables, roll and dessert. Cost is $15.

Beer or other refreshments will be available before dinner.

All proceeds will go to send se-niors from Lewis County schools to a two-year college or technical school of his or her choice.

Following the auction, there will be live music by Johnny Ray & Troubleshotz.

Those who would like to do-

nate items for the auction are asked to call Ray, 360-581-5250.

The Lewis County chapter of ABATE of is an organization that helps fight for motorcycle laws and motorcycle safety. It also supports community projects such as food drives, toy drives and delivering Christmas gifts to the women’s shelter.

The Fords Prairie Grange is located at 2640 W. Reynolds Ave.

For more information, call Terry Butler, 360-269-0041.

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On the national level, Presi-dent Donald Trump’s adminis-tration is clashing with the press.

There are those on the conservative side who see the president’s harsh rebukes, decla-rations of “fake news” and over-all tenuous relationship with several media outlets as come-uppance for biased reporting by some. There are others who say the president is punishing the press for doing its job in a man-ner that threatens freedom of speech.

Our readers are of course entitled to either opinion, and as a member of the local media that doesn’t directly report on national affairs, we don’t feel the

need to offer ours. As discourse reaches a fiery

and feverish pitch on the na-tional level, we think it’s worth noting we’re not seeing similar clashes here in Lewis County and the state at large.

The Lewis County com-missioners, for instance, have continued to be available to our reporters despite criticism on the opinion pages for develop-ments such as the defunding of the county senior centers or problems at the 911 communica-tions center.

They’ve at times voiced their disagreement while criticizing

reports and editorials. There’s no problem with that. They have the right to defend their poli-cies and decisions, and we have the right to issue a rebuttal. We support opposing viewpoints by providing constant public access to our opinion pages, whether it’s a full commentary or a letter to the editor.

The fervor over Trump aside, we see healthy, if occasionally tenuous, relationships in most corners of local and state gov-ernment.

In Olympia on Thursday, state officeholders and lawmak-ers from both parties met with members of the newspaper industry in an annual meeting.

One by one, they stood before publishers, editors and report-ers, discussed their agendas and answered questions from the press.

They were all willing to delve into contentious issues. None took questions personally. Sev-eral noted their appreciation of the press for their ability to spread factual information that allows elected leaders to com-municate broadly and efficiently with their constituents.

Many of the media outlets present have been critical of spe-cific state lawmakers and elected leaders at times, but that seems to have had little effect on state government’s view of the media.

They still see us as important to the functions of a healthy de-mocracy.

As divisive discourse contin-ues to develop at the national level, it seems appropriate to note the media and the govern-ment are not fighting every-where.

While we may sometimes disagree on major issues, we believe the existing relation-ships on the state and local level are indicators that civility and mutual respect between govern-ment and the press still exists, and that’s worth repeating when the national scene is as chaotic and divided as it seems to be today.

Columnists, Our Views, Letters to the Editor

At State and Local Level, Government and Media Aren’t EnemiesOur Views

OpinionMain 8 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017

By Mary Kay Nelson and Maree Lerchen

For The Chronicle

Washington would no longer be the only state in the nation without a statewide tourism marketing program under legisla-tion introduced in both the state House and Senate. The legisla-tion would create an industry-led Tourism Marketing Authority and provide performance-based in-dustry funding mechanisms with-out additional taxes. Both House Bill 1123 and Senate Bill 5251 (the same legislation but entered in both the Senate and House) have bipartisan support from legisla-tors representing urban and rural districts throughout the state.

Lewis County would directly benefit from a renewed statewide tourism marketing program. One of the primary goals of the legisla-tion is to reach national and inter-national travelers and get them to areas of the state outside Seattle and other urban centers.

A statewide tourism organiza-tion would work directly with our local communities and agencies to open doors and direct marketing leads to our region. Together with our neighboring counties and the entire Southwest Washington re-gion, our area will attract tourists for leisure and adventure activities throughout the year and help the economy of our communities.

A lot of what Washington of-fers is in our natural beauty, na-tional parks and scenic wonders. Lewis County offers some of the best tourism activities in the state

— from White Pass ski areas, to Mayfield and Riffe lakes, to shop-ping and great restaurants in our historic downtowns.

The White Pass Scenic Byway links Mount Rainier National Park to the Mount St. Helens National Monument and Mount Adams Wilderness. Camping near the lakes district and hiking in the backcountry during the sum-mer along with snow sports in the winter, make Lewis County a year-round destination.

In Lewis County alone, direct travel spending generated $4.7 million in local taxes in 2015. Tourism employs more than 2,300 and overall travel spending is nearly $200 million each year.

Tourism is one of our best “ex-ports” that can only be purchased and enjoyed right here at home. Tourism jobs cannot be “out-sourced” and the revenue visitors bring to our communities stays there and to generate local and state tax revenue.

The tourism industry in Washington has had a competi-tive disadvantage for the last five years. Our neighboring states have figured this out and are investing more and more money into their

destinations, and the reason why is because they are seeing a return on that investment. And that return on investment isn’t 10-15 years down the road; it’s just right around the corner.

The funding source for the proposed program is a combina-tion of general fund monies and non-state private sources. While we know that new expenditures from the general fund are dif-ficult in light of McCleary, we believe this is an investment that offers the state a 3:1 return in tax revenues and will in fact not be a drain on the general fund.

Other sources, specifically local lodging taxes, are not avail-able to use for funding a state-wide program. They are either being used to pay off bonds for tourism facilities, generally in larger jurisdictions, or are fund-ing local tourism marketing programs in some of our smaller but tourism dependent areas. These programs are a vital part of a statewide marketing program. To take funds from them would penalize those jurisdictions that need it most.

This legislation has strong support from the tourism indus-try and provides a solution that will provide for more economic development and jobs as well as state and local tax revenue from increasing tourism to Washington.

A tourism working group of legislators met with industry lead-ers over the 2016 interim to create the new legislation which contains the following key provisions:

Independent oversight of the industry-run program by a board of tourism industry representa-tives and legislators.

A marketing plan and cam-paign that focuses on bringing more tourists to Washington and out to rural and tourism-depen-dent counties, emphasizing out-door recreation opportunities and designed to attract international tourists, crafted by a non-profit entity representing the geographic and cultural diversity of the state.

A funding mechanism for a Tourism Marketing Account that does not raise taxes and offers the potential for a $15 million marketing program over the next two years for a tourism marketing program.

It is clear we need to return to promoting Washington to the rest of the country and the world. With bipartisan legislation now moving through Olympia we have a chance to see great returns because tour-ism truly works for Lewis County and all of Washington.

•••Mary Kay Nelson is the White

Pass Scenic Byway marketing director. Maree Lerchen is with Mountain Valley Real Estate and director of the Lewis County chapter of Washington Realtors.

Statewide Tourism Marketing Program Would Help County

COMMENTARY: Bringing in Tourists

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Normally this time of year, while our Legisla-ture is in session, I might find some of the items some legislators spend time on foolish. But so far this year, I haven’t. I don’t know if it is because there has been so much hysteria over the election of Donald Trump and it went under my radar or I just wasn’t that interested.

Then I read where Sen. Ann Rivers wants to recognize Bigfoot and the contributions it has made to “… Washington’s cultural and ecosys-tem …” by designating it the

“official cryptid” of our state.How can you let something

that profound, so important pass by without comment?

You can’t.Only time will tell if our

legislators can exit Olympia on time and under budget — I’m betting on neither — but with so little time it’s really impor-tant to spend what time they have on important matters like Bigfoot.

•••Eastern Washington has tried for years to

split itself from our flaming liberal friends to the north. A couple of heavily-populated coun-ties determine most everything political for us and have for years, so a few Eastern Washington legislators have proposed splitting the state to escape the liberal nonsense.

Now I’d really like nothing more, and would only demand that Eastern Washington take us with them. Unfortunately that requires a debate that it’s actually possible to split, and also that someone could draw a line along the Cascades with a chunk drawn out for us.

Including us is probably the hard part. Growth Management doesn’t like lines that are not straight.

•••Students at The Evergreen State College have

helped draft legislation highlighting the impor-tance of something called the “pine mushroom,” and making it an important part of our culture

and official state fungi.I don’t know about you but not having offi-

cial state fungi hasn’t really been that important to me, especially in light of the effort we’ll need to get an official state “cryptid” or split the state in the time the Legislature has.

There is only so much time to do the people’s important work in Olympia.

•••On a more serious note, apparently our

friends in the biker world have had their feelings hurt and need some additional civil rights — the right to wear leather. House Bill 1553 would recognize “wearing motorcycle-related or motor-cycle club related paraphernalia” as a civil right. It would put biker clothing and tattoos right up there with race, creed, color, national origin and sex as a civil right.

I had no idea how big a problem this is!Sadly, that bill hasn’t had a hearing yet and I

just can’t understand why not. We need to know more about this important topic, and there is no better way to find out than with one more use-less hearing in Olympia.

On the other hand, if we really do need a state fungi, and want to recognize all the contri-butions of Bigfoot, we do have to draw the line somewhere.

I guess wearing leather is as good a place as any.

•••Finally this week, there is a Senate and

House bill that would allow parents, students and school personnel to apply over-the-counter sunscreen to students at public schools, and they would be “encouraged to educate students about sun safety guidelines.”

The news story had to go on and assure us that this is a real problem in our schools because sunscreen is considered a “medication” by the state superintendent’s office.

I had no idea! We need legislation, passed immediately if not sooner, before another sunny day is upon us. Although as I now look at what

Legislature This Year Has Been Rational; Then Came Bigfoot Issue

By John McCroskey

COMMENTARY: Musings From the Middle Fork

CHARLIE FUNK: 500,000 Smelt Missing at Cowlitz Hatchery

please see MCCROSKEY, page Main 16

The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017 • Main 9OPINION / FROM THE FRONT PAGE

threat beyond drawing down the water?’” Mansfield said.

Mansfield says he has con-cerns about public safety if a high water event forces the level of the lake to rise, and even flood the spillway, such as it did dur-ing the heavy rains and floods of 1996. He is also concerned about a structural failure at the dam caused by an earthquake, or other reasons, and he is con-cerned about the organization of emergency responders and the coordination of far-reaching rescue efforts.

“What do we have to deal with all that?” asked Mansfield.

It’s not that the county is completely unprepared for the possibility of an earthquake and a subsequent failure of one or more dams in the area.

It’s just that Tacoma Power’s new plan has inspired Mans-field to take a closer look at the Mossyrock Dam scenario in particular.

“We have done some work and we continue to work, and at my level I have a very good re-lationship with the dam people,” explained Mansfield, who is hoping to work closely with his counterpart, Jason Welli, emer-gency coordinator planner for Tacoma Power.

Mansfield noted that a plan is already in place for imple-menting a relief effort along the Cowlitz River Valley in the event of a dam-related flood, thanks in part to the requirement of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

“Every five years, per FERC regulations, we are required to conduct a tabletop exercise of individual action plans for dam failure,” explained Mansfield.

He encourages members of the public to craft their own re-sponse plan, including signing up for Lewis County cell phone alerts, and keeping two weeks of supplies on hand in case of a wide-scale emergency such as an earthquake and ensuing dam failure.

“Individual preparedness is going to make the difference in anything that we are going to deal with there,” he said.

However, Manfield noted that a dam failure was not in-cluded in last year’s Cascadia Rising emergency preparedness event, which included coordi-nated responses from local and state emergency personnel as well as the National Guard.

“At the time, we’d been ad-vised that the dams could with-stand a 9.0 earthquake,” ex-plained Mansfield. ”We had so much that we knew that was

going to happen if we had 9.0 earthquake that we didn’t in-clude the dams.”

Mansfield says that the lo-gistical complexities presented by the combining factors of a dam failure and a regional earthquake are overwhelming when taken as a whole. Because of the enormity of the scenario, Mansfield says he prefers to ad-dress individual components of emergency response so that the training participants can come away having learned something useful rather than leaving feel-ing defeated.

“I could draw up up a scenario that would completely swallow up the whole county, but that wasn’t my objective,” explained Mansfield. “Some of the dam failure exercises, of course they involved earthquakes, because that’s where we would have our biggest issue with our dams. But did we do anything where we wiped out the whole area and a had a dam failure too? No, we didn’t do that.”

Mansfield made sure to point out that just because a full scale earthquake and dam failure scenario has not been worked through in its entirety does not mean that he does not take the risk seriously.

“It is a huge risk. Any kind of

earthquake that is magnitude 7 or above is a huge risk to any nearby community,” said Man-sfield. “Quite frankly, what they found in Cascadia Rising is that every single Lewis County com-munity would be overwhelmed.”

Mansfield noted that he was asked by a county commissioner to attend a March 3 town meet-ing in Mossyrock. He plans on being present in order to “an-swer questions on emergency response and emergency pre-paredness from the townies per-spective.”

“It’s my job to worry about this stuff. It’s also my job not to scare people,” said Mans-field, who noted that scientific research continues to point to-ward the increased inevitability, and severity, of a massive earth-quake in our region. “We know that this pressure is building up, it’s factual. This is real, and we don’t know when the next one is going to hit.”

Of course, communities up-river of Mossyrock Dam have their own set of concerns. Moss-yrock Mayor Thomas Meade is one individual who has con-cerns about both the safety and economic implications of Ta-coma Power’s recent announce-ment.

“My initial reaction was,

‘Wait a minute, they’ve been tell-ing us for 50 years that there’s no safety issue whatsoever.’ In fact a few years ago they took the sirens out,” said Meade. “What changed? And why didn’t any-body you know, give a heads up or something?”

Meade noted that he recently attended a multi-agency emer-gency preparedness meeting on the east end and that there was no mention of any new danger to the dam that would be caused by an earthquake in the magni-tude 7 range.

“Why the sudden change in safety protocol? Did the regu-lations change from the feds or was this an engineering recalcu-lation? Or is the cement founda-tion aging faster than planned? There must be something going on,” said Meade.

Meade added that his con-cerns also extend to the Mossyr-ock business community, which relies heavily on summer tour-ism dollars from outdoor recre-ators who have found familiar conditions at Riffe Lake since its formation in 1968. He says that the low lake level of last summer, which was blamed on drought conditions and rapid evaporation of snowpack, served as an early indication of what the future may hold for the area economy in the face of an extended lake drawdown that comes with no estimated end date. Meade says time is of the essence if Tacoma Power feels any inclination to help offset the economic impact that their action at Mossyrock Dam and Riffe Lake will have on east end communities.

For starters, Meade would like to see the boat launches at Riffe Lake extended immediate-

ly, and he would also appreciate it if Tacoma Power would “take out the obstructions that were supposed to be taken out in the 1960s.”

Those waterway obstruc-tions include sandbars, rocks and stumps jutting out from the exposed bankside and shallows of Riffe Lake. Meade said that a comprehensive effort to free up the lake, even at its reduced lev-el, is imperative “for the whole coastline, because boaters go ev-erywhere in the summer.”

Down at Riffe Lake Camp-ground, John Lamb has been trying to make those same points since last summer. Lamb, whose wife Ashley owns the campground, said they received at least a half dozen complaints last summer and fall from boat-ers who damaged their boats by dragging props or banging hulls against stumps and rocks. He noted that last summer, an island even emerged from the center of the lake, and he’s afraid that their trusty customer base won’t take long to move their recreating business down the road to Mayfield Lake, or other parts of the state.

“It’s not going to be good,” said Lamb. “To me, they’re go-ing to go somewhere else that doesn’t have these problems.”

Lamb has been active in or-ganizing the upcoming Mossy-rock town meeting and he says that the feedback he’s been get-ting from locals has been pre-dominantly disapproving of the plan and fearful of its effects.

“I went to every business owner in town who owns a busi-ness along the strip there, and I’d say about 95 percent of them were pretty furious about this. The other 5 percent either didn’t know or were pretty skeptical about what was going to hap-pen,” said Lamb. “This is basi-cally a tourist town, and if you take it away, the town goes way.”

The town meeting will be held at 6 p.m. on March 3 in the Mossyrock Community Center across from City Hall.

DamContinued from the front page


The front of the Mossyrock Dam is seen in this June 11, 2015, ile photo.

Thank You to Voters for Passing Centralia Bond

Simply said, thank you Cen-tralia.

As a graduate of Centralia High School in 1981, a volunteer for the community and a public servant for the city of Centralia for more than 32 years, I am so proud of the support our citizens showed with the passing of the school bond.

We will be getting two brand new K-6 schools and a com-pletely remodeled high school. Say goodbye to those portables at those three schools.

This could not have been pos-sible without your support. Our kids, our community needed this. It makes me so happy, proud and excited to be from Centralia.

We are Centralia Strong!

Kim Ashmore

Centralia School Board

Rejecting Extremism Not the Most Comfortable Course

From the mighty Columbia in the Pacific Northwest to the tip of Maine down to the keys of Florida and across the heartland to the shores of California a great nation called America stands as a shining beacon for the world to behold.

For over 200 years we have provided an example of coop-eration, prosperity and hope not only for our people but for the rest of the world — a nation that promises the chance to pursue

dreams with passion fueled by the strength of their collective and individual wills.

It is a shining example of in-dividual and collective liberty protected and nourished by the bravery and nobility of our citi-zenry. Throughout our history, we have faced many challenges and yet still have managed to come together when in crisis re-gardless of color, creed, or poli-tics.

Rejecting extremism from all who would seek to inflame our passion is not the most comfort-able course, especially in times of hardship and uncertainty. Yet this is where we once again find ourselves, at the crossroads of history.

Shall we accept without critical examination that which would weaken the fabric of our nation or do we as our ancestors have done, thoughtfully ques-tion our hearts with regard to a course of action based upon re-spectful discourse and critical examination?

When I hear and read the dis-illusionment of the day, it once again begs the questions that have been asked of us since our nation was borne of revolution and disaffection. Will we submit to our base fears and embrace that which would divide us or shall we come together as a free people and recover our majesty and nobility?

The world is watching, hop-ing and holding its collective breath while we struggle might-ily over these questions. I have a faith burning deep inside my heart and soul that we will once again rise through cooperation

and respectful discourse to the challenges of the day.

Together and united we will resolve our differences for our-selves and future generations waiting to follow. We are bound by the love we have for this great nation and by extension all of her people.

Together we shall endeavor to persevere through challenge and fear to once again be the shin-ing light for the world to hold in esteem. Give thought to these words when you would feel weak and accepting of division and ex-tremity for they will guide and comfort you.

Mitchel TownsendWinlock

Tacoma Power’s Decision on Mossyrock Dam Laughable

In regard to Tacoma Power’s

Chicken Little decision of pro-longed low water levels at Riffe Lake and classifying this as the “new normal,” when I first learned of this I concluded this must be April Fools Day and was looking for the humorous punch line.

Then I realized they are seri-ous. When I compare this with recent news articles such as the carbon tax, global warming, relocating grizzly bears to the North Cascades, wolf control operations, losing over a half a million fish at the Cowlitz fish hatchery or the Hirst decision, this one comes as no surprise.

It appears that the minds of some have been successfully ma-nipulated from baby boomers to millennials and now the term New Normal seems to be the buzz phrase to dumb us down.

Perhaps it’s time to reflect on the Henny Penny fairy tale. I don’t believe the sky if falling but I do understand that the threat of a major earthquake in Washing-ton is eminent.

Does this justify a knee-jerk reaction such as reducing power output and depriving us from recreating, swimming, camp-ing, and fishing on Riffe Lake? I think not.

According to a recent article in The Chronicle, Pat McCarty, generation manager for Tacoma Power, insists that there is no imminent danger and that the summer water level reduction is being done as a precaution for public safety.

This makes me wonder what this is really about.

Does Carty have some inside track to information that the rest

of us are not privy to? It is per-plexing to me that when the en-vironmentalists tell us that fish have priority over dams, McCar-ty tells us that as for the negative impact on fishing conditions at Riffe Lake for species like small-mouth bass, “There’s not a lot we can do about that.”

There is a foul odor in the air that overwhelms the smell of dead fish rotting on the shore of Riffe lake, perhaps soon to be re-named dead fish pond or stump lake; you choose you own name.

I understand that issues with Mayfield Dam have been found as well. The bridge deck does not meet safety standards for a simi-lar worst case scenario seismic event.

It’s interesting that when I attended the Cascadia Rising meeting last June we were as-sured that Mayfield and Mossyr-ock dams were able to withstand a 9.0 quake.

Now we are told that in the event of a 7.5 quake that the upstream piers that jut out like fingers from the dam and direct water through the spillway could become damaged, or even break off, during a high intensity seis-mic event.

The last thing Lewis County needs is one more kick in the teeth from these kind of Henny Penny decisions.

I am reminded of a quote from Yoda in Star Wars: “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”

Bob BozarthChehalis

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we are going to deal with there.”

Steve Mansfield

emergency management director

Death Notices• BETSY JAQUELINE IRENE HOLCOMB, 80,

Chehalis, died Wednesday, Feb. 22, at home. A celebration of life will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 4, at Open Bible Church, 902 Alder St., Chehalis. Arrange-ments are under the care of Funeral Al-ternatives of Washington, Centralia

• RUBY L. SCHUTTIE, 86, Onalaska, died Friday, Feb. 17, at Sharon Care Center, Centralia. A memorial service with a luncheon reception to follow will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 11, at the Com-munity Presbyterian Church, Onalaska. Arrangements are under the care of Cat-termole Funeral Home, Winlock.

• MARY LOU CONANT, 88, Ryderwood, died Monday, Feb. 20, at Commu-nity Home Health and Hospice Center, Longview. At her request, no services will be held. Arrangements are under the care of Cattermole Funeral Home, Winlock.

• PAUL HENDRY, 53, Morton, died Thurs-day, Feb. 23, at Morton General Hospital. No services are planned at this time. Ar-rangements are under the care of Cat-termole Funeral Home, Winlock.

• DENNIS L. DOROTHY, 87, Chehalis, died Thursday, Feb. 23, at Oak Wood Haven Adult Family Home, Centralia. Service details are pending. Arrangements are under the care of Cattermole Funeral Home, Winlock.

• SHIRLEY JEAN NELSON, 90, Centralia, died Wednesday, Jan. 11, at Providence Centralia Hospital. No services are

planned. Arrangements are under the care of Funeral Alternatives of Washing-ton, Centralia.

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CHEHALIS POLICE DEPARTMENTHarassment Reported

• At 12:16 p.m. on Wednes-day, police received a report of harassment on Southwest Che-halis Avenue.

• At 3:25 p.m. on Wednesday, police received a report of ha-rassment over the internet in the 1000 block of North National Avenue.

Hit and Run

• At 8:47 a.m. on Thursday, a hit and run was reported in the 300 block of Northwest North Street.

Police Receive Report of Youth With Marijuana

• At 9:05 a.m. on Thurs-day, police received a report of a youth in possession of mari-juana in the 300 block of South-west 11th Street. No arrests were made.

Watch Stolen

• At 4:04 p.m. on Thursday, a watch was reported stolen from a locker in the 300 block of Southwest 16th Street.

Assault Reported

• At 10:06 p.m. Thursday, police responded to a report of a fourth-degree assault in the 300 block of Southwest Third Street. A 41-year-old Chehalis man was mailed a citation, according to the police department.

Phone Stolen

• At 11:20 p.m. on Thursday, a phone was reported stolen from the 1600 block of Northwest Lou-isiana Avenue. A person reported he left his phone in the bathroom and someone took it.

CENTRALIA POLICE DEPARTMENTWindshield Broken

• At 2:50 p.m. on Thurs-

day, police received a report of malicious mischief in the 1300 block of Harrison Avenue. An unknown suspect broke a wind-shield on a parked vehicle.

Fuel Siphoned

• At 3:59 p.m. on Thursday, police received a report of a theft of fuel from a vehicle in the 1600 block of Harrison Avenue.

Assailant Strikes Victim with Club

• At 5:53 p.m. on Thursday, police received a report of an as-sault in the 600 block of South Washington Avenue. A suspect reportedly struck the victim in the head with a wooden club. An investigation is ongoing.

LEWIS COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICEGuns, Tools Stolen in Burglary

• At 7:33 p.m. on Wednes-day, deputies received a report of

a burglary to a residence in the 100 block of Kirkland Road in Chehalis. The victim, a 34-year-old Chehalis man, reported a Stihl weed cutter, a shotgun, rifle, AR-15 rifle and pellet gun were taken. The victim reported he left the residence for work and returned home to find the home’s door open and items tak-en. A garage was also entered.

DUI Suspect Arrested

• At 12:36 a.m. on Thursday, deputies arrested Raymond Al-len Vaughn Jr., 36, of Centralia, on suspicion of driving under the influence and third-degree driving with a suspended license in the 1400 block of Lewis Street.

Vehicle Stolen from Centralia High School Parking Lot

• Deputies received a report Thursday of a 1994 Honda Ac-cord four-door stolen from the 800 block of Eshom Road in

Centralia. A woman reported that she let her brother borrow the car, which was parked at Centralia High School. Some-time during the day, the vehicle was stolen.

Tools Stolen in Burglary

• On Thursday, deputies took a report of a burglary that occurred on Jan. 17 in the 100 block of Joppish Road in Centra-lia. Tools including saws, a com-pressor, an angle grinder and a guitar were taken. The victim reported he discovered the items were missing and found video on a game camera of the inci-dent. The case is under investi-gation and a person of interest has been identified.

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Marriage LicensesThe following couples recently

applied for a marriage license at the Lewis County Courthouse:

• Zachary Daniel Martinez, 22, and

Samantha J. Nicole Schrader, 26, both of

Centralia

• David William Calhoun, 48, and Molly Zenobia Buchanan, 41, both of Centralia

• Emily Ann Gall, 33, and Robert Wil-liam Handley, 34, both of Glenoma

• Kyle William Brubach, 30, and Gilma Estefania Rodriguez, 30, both of

Chehalis

• Victor Lee Wiedemann Jr., 40, and Monica Rose Heagy, 38, both of Puyallup

• Jose Angel Martinez Rojas, 28, and Rayanne Jesstina Rodriguez, 24, both of Chehalis

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Frederick “Rick” Schroeder, 78, passed away peacefully Feb. 16, 2017.

Rick was born in Rochester, N.Y. He

graduated from Rensselaer Polytechic Institute and retired as a Commander

from the United States Navy.

Rick was an enthusiastic member of the

Two Town Tuners.

He is survived by wife, Ronnie; daughter, Deeda; granddaughter. Nina; sister, Susan Goodman;

and brother, Steve Schroeder. He will be greatly missed for his kindness,

sense of humor and loyalty to friends and family.

To view this obituary, please go to chronline.com/obituaries.

FREDERICK SCHROEDER

R I C K

CELEBRATION OF LIFE:

Lewis and Clark Hotel,

117 W. Magnolia St., Centralia.

Sunday, March 5, 2017, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Ruby Louise SchuttieJuly 6, 1930 - Feb. 17, 2017

Ruby Louise Schuttie passed away Feb. 17, 2017, at the age of 86. She was born in Fall City, Wash.,

July 6, 1930, to Howard and Marie Baker. The Baker family included brothers, Howard and Mike

and sisters, Kathryn and Gwyneth. In 1940, they moved to Riffe, Wash., where Ruby attended Mossyrock schools and graduated as valedictorian in 1949.

Ruby married Ronald Schuttie in March of 1952. They irst settled in Salkum, Wash., and welcomed

Ronn Joseph and Sharon Marie into their family. In 1958, Ron’s work took the family of four to Seaview, Wash.,

on the Long Beach Peninsula for ive years. These were special years for Ruby and the family.

In 1963, the family moved back to Lewis County, settling in Onalaska where they have resided in their present home for 54 years.

Ruby has been an active member of the Onalaska Presbyterian Church, always providing a dish or dessert for church events. For many years, she organized the

4th of July irework stands that funded the local softball and baseball teams. Ruby worked at the Onalaska superintendent’s ofice in payroll and accounts payable

from 1976 to 1983. She bowled on a women’s team at Peninsula Bowl and for many years on Mary McCrank’s team at Chehalis Bowl. Ruby was a true Mariner’s fan standing by her team during good years and bad.

Ruby’s surviving husband is Ron Schuttie of Onalaska, Wash., and her children are Ronn (Cindy) Schuttie of Onalaska, Wash., and Sharon (Jeff) Mason of Puyallup, Wash. Grandchildren include Kyle Schuttie of

Wenatchee, Wash., and Haylee (Shawn) Downs stationed at Camp Humphreys, South Korea, Jennifer (Gary) Senior of Arvada, Colo., and Andrea (Matthew) Greenlaw of Oregon City, Ore.

Great-grandmother of ive.

A celebration of life will be held at the Onalaska Presbyterian Church on Saturday, March 11, 2017, at 11 a.m., with a lunch reception following.In Ruby’s memory, please make donations to the Juvenile Diabetes

Research Foundation, JDRF 1215 4th Avenue Suite 1100,

Seattle, WA 98161 or www.jdrf.org.

Ruby was a beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister-in-law, aunt,

cousin and lifelong friend. She will be in our hearts, always!

To view the obituary, please go to chronline.com/obituaries.

After a courageous struggle, Johnnie "John" Henry Marth Jr.,

73, died Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017, surrounded by family. He slipped

away after a brief stay at Longview’s Community Home Health and

Hospice.

John grew up in Chehalis, Wash. John grew up in Centralia driving

tractor on the family farm, building forts in the haymow and raising

and showing his prize-winning calves at the Southwest Washington

Fair. Following graduation from Centralia High School in 1962, he

married Judy Salzer. Together, they had one son.

In 1965, John moved to Chicago, Ill., to study industrial engineering.

After inishing school, he went to work for Central Scientiic Company, where he met and fell in love with Paula Mulryan. They eloped,

marrying on Sept. 2, 1967. John and Paula would have celebrated

their 50th wedding anniversary this year. Tiring of corporate life, they

started a successful retail fruit and produce business in Plainield, Ill., but John’s heart was in the Northwest.

In 1978, with one young son and another on the way, they sold the

business and headed west. Arriving in Centralia, John launched A-1

Sandman Construction, eventually building roads for the Department

of Natural Resources and Fort Lewis. In the 80s, John turned to long-

haul trucking, giving it up reluctantly in 2008, because of his health. Retirement brought winters in Yuma, Ariz., with many fellow

Centralia snowbirds, Mariners’ spring training and lots of Seahawks football. John loved watching his beloved sports teams, cooking, ishing the Cowlitz and spinning a salty story.

John is survived by his wife, Paula; sons, Russell Dean (Cindy)

United States Army retired, of North Carolina, Johnny Henry

(Stephanie) of Rainier, Ore., and Thomas Patrick (Christy, divorced); four grandchildren, Timothy, Makenzie, Tommy Lee and Jeremy; two great-granddaughters, Hailey and Emily; and sisters, Kathy (Ken)

Harrison and Sandra "Sandy" (Craig) Hill.

In lieu of lowers, the family requests donations be made to Immanuel Lutheran Church or Longview Hospice.

To view the obituary, please go to chronline.com/obituaries.

John will be genuinely mised, please join us to celebrate his life .

Johnnie Henry Marth Jr.

J O H NMEMORIAL SERVICE:

Immanuel Lutheran Church,

CentraliaSaturday,

March 4,2017 at 11 a.m.

The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017 • Main 11NORTHWEST

By The Associated Press

SPOKANE — Environmen-tal and fishing groups sued the federal government on Thurs-day as they seek cooler water for salmon in the Columbia River system.

The lawsuit was filed in fed-eral court in Seattle against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Scott Pruitt, Presi-dent Donald Trump's choice to lead the agency.

"We need a plan to deal with climate change and rising water temperatures in the Columbia, or we may be telling our kids stories about salmon instead of teaching them to fish," said Brett VandenHeuvel, executive direc-tor of Columbia Riverkeeper.

The lawsuit was filed by Co-lumbia Riverkeeper, Snake River Waterkeeper, Idaho Rivers Unit-ed, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations, and the Institute for Fisheries Re-

sources.It seeks to compel the EPA to

create temperature limits for the river system that would keep riv-ers cool enough to support salm-on and steelhead runs in the face

of global warming, the groups said.

Giant dams on the Colum-bia and Snake rivers create large, slow-moving reservoirs that cause water temperatures to

rise in summer months. Warm temperatures pose significant threats to salmon and steelhead.

The groups contend that in 2015, warm water killed roughly 250,000 adult sockeye salmon migrating up the rivers toward spawning grounds.

"Water temperatures in the Columbia mean life or death to salmon," said Glen Spain, a di-rector of the Pacific Coast Fed-eration of Fishermen's Associa-tions. "Our members' livelihoods depend on healthy salmon runs."

"It's simply unacceptable to let hot water kill otherwise-healthy adult salmon before they can spawn," Spain said.

The impact of Columbia Riv-er basin dams on fish runs in the Pacific Northwest has been an is-sue for decades.

A federal judge ruled last May that the U.S. government hasn't done enough to improve North-west salmon runs and ordered an environmental impact statement

that's due out in 2021, urging of-ficials to consider removing four big dams on the Snake River.

The review process is being conducted under the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, an umbrella law that cov-ers the Endangered Species Act. Thirteen species of salmon and steelhead on the Columbia and Snake rivers have been listed as federally protected over the past 25 years.

The Snake River dams are Ice Harbor, Lower Monumental, Little Goose and Lower Gran-ite, and are located between the Tri-Cities and Pullman. They're the four lowest dams on the 1,000-mile-long Snake River, it-self a tributary to the Columbia River. They were built in the 1960s and 1970s.

Advocates for the dams say they provide many benefits, in-cluding electricity, irrigation wa-ter and barge traffic, and should not be removed.

Environmental and Fishing Groups Sue to Save Columbia River Salmon

In this June 27, 2012, Associated Press ile photo, a Chinook salmon, second from

the bottom, swims in the Columbia River with sockeye salmon at the Bonneville

Dam ish-counting window near North Bonneville.

Northwest News in Brief

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee to Meet With Trump Monday

OLYMPIA (AP) — Washing-ton Gov. Jay Inslee is heading to Washington, D.C., for a gather-ing of the National Governors Association that will include a meeting with President Donald Trump.

Inslee has been a vocal op-ponent of Trump and supported the lawsuit filed by Washington Attorney General Bob Fergu-son that has led to a temporary halt of the president’s travel ban aimed at immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim nations.

Inslee left for D.C. Thurs-day and will be back in the state Tuesday night. His office says he’ll be meeting with governors and federal officials “on top-ics ranging from education to health care to national security.”

Inslee and the other gover-nors will have a meeting Monday at the White House with Trump and other officials from the ad-ministration.

Hundreds Protest Outside Reichert's Office, Demand Town Hall

ISSAQUAH (AP) — Hun-dreds of people demonstrat-ed outside one of Rep. Dave Reichert's district offices and demanded that the Republican congressman hold a town hall meeting.

The Seattle Times reported that protesters on Thursday car-ried signs outside Reichert's of-fice in Issaquah and urged him to save the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare.

Dianne Niemann, of Is-saquah, said that while it may be uncomfortable, Reichert owes it to his district to face questions in person.

Several GOP office holders have faced rowdy crowds at town halls during this week's congres-sional recess.

Reichert, who represents the state's 8th Congressional District, did hold a meeting with people via Facebook on Thursday.

He said large, public town halls often become "screaming matches" and aren't very produc-tive.

Man Wanted for Kidnapping, Shooting Captured in Kent

FEDERAL WAY (AP) — Po-lice say they’ve arrested man wanted in connection with a shooting and kidnapping south

of Seattle in Federal Way.The News Tribune reported

that police received an anony-mous tip and arrested 23-year-old Ivan Alfonso Sosa Aquinaga Wednesday night near a horse barn in Kent.

Federal Way police say Sosa Aquinaga had a handgun with him that police believe he used to shoot a 50-year-old man on Sunday. Police say the man is the father of Sosa’s girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend.

The man is expected to sur-vive.

Police say the girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend was the intended tar-get.

Police also believe Sosa Aqui-naga kidnapped his girlfriend and forced her to give him her ex-boyfriend’s address and then drove her across the Cascades and released her in Yakima County.

Two Men Charged With Raping Girls in Seattle Homeless Camps

SEATTLE (AP) — Two men have been charged with raping teenage girls at Seattle’s homeless encampments.

The Seattle Times reported 27-year-old James J.A. Walk-er was arrested Saturday and charged Thursday with rape of a child he allegedly lured to his tent with the promise of drugs.

He is in jail on $200,000 bail.Last week, prosecutors

charged 47-year-old Nghia Nguyen, a homeless man known by the name “Asian Mike,” with raping a 16-year-old girl from New Jersey.

Charging documents say when detectives found her in Nguyen’s tent near a highway overpass, she told them about the now-14-year-old from Idaho who had allegedly been raped by Walker.

Detectives say they found the 14-year-old walking along Air-port Way South on Jan. 26 and that she said she had been raped and sexually exploited by several men at three homeless encamp-ments.

Washington Man Killed by Tractor in Barn

WALLA WALLA, (AP) — Officials say a farmer in South-east Washington has died after he was run over by a tractor in his barn.

The Walla Walla Union-Bulletin reported Thursday that 74-year-old Charles Emery Jr., of Dayton, had been loading hay onto the tractor when the acci-dent happened.

Columbia County Deputy Coroner Dale Slack said the trac-tor slipped into gear and rolled over Emery on Saturday, killing him immediately.

A news release from his wife’s employer, Columbia County Health System, said Emery moved to Dayton in 2012 after retiring from a position as a first mate for Washington State Fer-ries.

He spent much of his time working on the farm.

Port Angeles Paper Mill Has Cut Back on Production

PORT ANGELES (AP) — A Port Angeles paper mill has downsized but is still operating a $90 million biomass facility that provides the mill with electricity and generates power for sale.

The Peninsula Daily News reported that Nippon Paper In-dustries USA Vice President Steve Johnson said Wednesday the mill cut operations on Jan. 21 for “market-related conditions.” He says the cogeneration plant is still supplying electricity to cus-tomers.

The president of a local paper workers union, Andy Grossell, says most of the mill’s 105 hourly workers have been laid off.

About 20 to 30 employees are maintaining the plant and run-ning Nippon’s cogeneration fa-cility.

Johnson has not released fur-ther details about the reduced operations.

Nippon has been for sale since July.

Some Say Police Deadly Force Bill Not Out of Sight Yet

OLYMPIA (AP) — A bill that would have lowered the bar for prosecuting police who use deadly force didn’t make it out of a key committee Friday, but a proponent in the House says the issue is still alive this legislative session.

Senate Bill 5073, sponsored by Democratic Sen. David Frockt, of Seattle, would have changed the existing statute that makes it almost impossible for prosecutors to criminally charge law-enforcement officers who wrongfully use deadly force.

While it passed out of a policy committee last week, it did not come up for a required vote be-fore a fiscal committee chaired by Republican Sen. John Braun, who was not immediately avail-able for comment.

Frockt wrote in a statement

issued Friday afternoon. “I am disappointed that the bill did not advance, and I know that there are people across this state who are even more disappointed but also equally committed to con-tinuing to work on addressing this issue. This is far too impor-tant to walk away from.”

House Democratic Rep. Rog-er Goodman’s bill implements recommendations from a joint task force he co-chaired last year on the use of deadly force in community policing. “This issue is very much alive and I believe we are going to find a consensus this session,” Goodman said.

Current law states that an of-ficer can’t be charged if he or she acted in good faith and without malice, or “evil intent,” when us-ing deadly force. Under the mea-sure, the word “malice” would have been removed and a clearer definition of what “good faith” means would have been added. The bill also would have included a dedicated state account to fund officer training, community out-reach and a system to collect data on deadly use-of-force incidents.

“We are getting closer, it doesn’t seem like it, but we had a summer’s worth of task force meetings and a lot of mutual un-derstand was built during those meetings,” Goodman said.

He said although there is a dif-ference of opinion on changing the language in the existing law and the funding levels for the recom-mendations, he said he believes some sort of legislation related to this issue will pass this session.

Yakama Tribal Casino Opens 200-Room Hotel

TOPPENISH (AP) — The Yakama Nation is opening a 200-room hotel at its Legends Casino near the town of Toppenish.

The Yakima Herald-Republic says the hotel opens to the public on Saturday.

It’s a central part of a $90 mil-lion expansion for Legends Casino, which seeks to stay competitive with other tribal-owned casinos throughout the Pacific Northwest. The expansion is expected to gen-erate 200 new jobs for the casino, which opened in 1998. Currently, it employs 745 workers.

John Cooper, CEO of Yakima Valley Tourism, said the hotel adds an upscale option to the lodging mix in the central Ya-kima Valley.

Lawyers for Detained Seattle ‘Dreamer’ Again Seek Release

SEATTLE (AP) — Lawyers for a Seattle-area man arrested

by immigration agents despite his participation in a federal pro-gram to protect those brought to the U.S. illegally as children are again asking a court to release him immediately.

A federal magistrate last week declined to free 23-year-old Daniel Ramirez Medina, saying he should seek a detention hear-ing in immigration court, but his lawyers said in an emergency motion made public Thursday that the federal court has the au-thority to release him on bail.

Ramirez was detained Feb. 10. The agents say he admitted to having gang ties, but his attor-neys call that utterly fabricated, saying he has no criminal record and twice passed background checks for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

Magistrate Judge James Donohue ordered the Justice De-partment to respond to the mo-tion by Monday.

Oregon Cites Harmful Effects of Travel Ban, Goes to Court

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — They are employees of tech firms. They are doctors, practicing medicine in underserved areas of Oregon. They are students in the state’s universities.

They are also immigrants, and Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum emphasized ways in which Oregon is reli-ant on them as she sought to join Washington state’s law-suit against President Donald Trump’s immigration ban.

Trump’s executive order tar-geting people from seven predom-inantly Muslim countries was put on hold after Washington Attor-ney General Bob Ferguson sought a temporary restraining order on Jan. 30, saying the ban was uncon-stitutional. The White House says it will rewrite the order.

On Wednesday evening, Rosenblum filed a motion with a federal court asking to join Ferguson’s lawsuit, saying the court might craft a limited rem-edy which would not address the harm caused to Oregon.

In declarations to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, Oregon officials gave details on that harm.

State Treasurer Tobias Read said much of Oregon’s $92 bil-lion investment portfolio, more than 19 million shares, are held in technology companies that have expressed alarm at the like-ly impacts of Trump’s executive order on their businesses.

Read said Trump’s order would harm that portfolio, the state’s credit ratings and its eco-nomic health.

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Witnesses: Bar Gunman Shouted ‘Get Out of My Country’

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — In the middle of a crowded bar, Adam Purinton yelled at two Indian men to “get out of my country,” wit-nesses said, then opened fire in an attack that killed one of the men and wounded the other, as well as a third man who tried to help.

Hours later, the 51-year-old former air traffic controller re-portedly told a bartender in another town that he needed a place to hide because he had just killed two Middle Eastern men.

In India, the father of one of the wounded men called Wednesday’s attack in the Kan-sas City suburbs a hate crime, but authorities on Friday declined to discuss a motive as they in-vestigated. The shooting swiftly stoked fears about the treatment of immigrants, who feel targeted by President Donald Trump’s promises to ban certain travelers, build a wall along the Mexico border and put “America first.”

Transgender Boy Wins First 2 Matches of Girls Tournament

CYPRESS, Texas (AP) — Mack Beggs won two matches at the Texas state championships Friday. But the larger conflict — over whether a 17-year-old boy should be wrestling girls — re-mained unsettled.

Beggs’ family has said he would rather be wrestling boys. Some girls and their advocates agree, arguing that the testos-terone treatments Beggs has been taking while in transition from female to male have made him too strong to wrestle fairly against women. But under the state’s governing policy for ath-letics, students must wrestle against the gender listed on their birth certificates.

Beggs beat Taylor Latham in the 110-pound class Friday. The score was 18-7.

It was a match Latham’s mother didn’t want to happen. Her daughter, she said, was wres-tling someone whose body was chemically toned for strength.

Florida Supreme Court Overturns Abortion Ban at Clinic

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Planned Parenthood affiliate has won a battle over whether doctors can perform abortions and sono-grams at a Florida health center.

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday overturned two lower-court decisions that for the time being would have stopped abor-tions and sonograms from be-ing performed at the Kissimmee Health Center outside Orlando.

The high court said the trial judge misstated facts, and sent the case back to the lower courts for further litigation. In the meantime, the procedures at the clinic operated by Planned Par-enthood of Greater Orlando can take place.

Judge Won’t Throw Out Bergdahl Case Over Trump CommentsBy The Associated Press

President Donald Trump’s campaign-trail criticism of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, while “problematic,” hasn’t prevented the soldier from getting a fair tri-al on charges that he endangered comrades by walking off his post in Afghanistan in 2009, a mili-tary judge ruled Friday.

Bergdahl’s lawyers had ar-gued that Trump violated their client’s due-process rights by repeatedly calling him a “trai-tor” and that the judge should dismiss charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. Bergdahl is scheduled for trial in April, and could face life in pris-on on the latter charge.

The Judge, Army Col. Jeffery Nance, wrote in his ruling that Trump’s comments were “dis-turbing and disappointing” but didn’t constitute unlawful com-mand influence.

World in Brief

Attacks Near Syria Town Captured From IS Kill 60

BEIRUT (AP) — At least two attacks Friday near a Syrian town just captured by Turkish forces and Syrian opposition fighters from the Islamic State group killed more than 60, mostly civilians and including two Turkish soldiers, as the group retreats from one of its last remaining strongholds in northern Syria, Turkey’s news agency and Syrian activists said.

In a hallmark IS attack, a sui-cide car bomb went off outside a security office operated by the Syrian opposition in a village eight kilometers (five miles) north of al-Bab, killing 60 people. Most of those killed in Sousian were civil-ians who had gathered seeking permits and escorts to return to al-Bab, a day after it was liberated from the extremist group, a Syr-ian military commander in the city told The Associated Press. At least six fighters were among those killed in the attack, according to Turkey’s Prime Minister, who spoke in Ankara.

Ukrainian Lawmaker Visits Rebel East, Urges Prisoner Release

MOSCOW (AP) — A Ukrai-nian lawmaker visited the rebel-held east on Friday to meet with Ukrainian prisoners there, a trip that irked many in Ukraine.

Nadiya Savchenko, a pilot who spent two years in a Russian pris-on before her release last year, vis-ited a prison in the rebel-held city of Makiivka. Savchenko said on Facebook that her goal is to help free Ukrainian prisoners.

Following the visit, she told re-porters that her goal is to arrange an “all for all” exchange of prison-ers held by both sides.

Savchenko, who won a hero’s status while in the Russian prison, has become a polarizing figure re-cently due to her criticism of the Ukrainian government and her calls for a dialogue with the Rus-sia-backed rebels to end the fight-ing in eastern Ukraine. The vio-lence has killed more than 9,800 people since April 2014.

Trump Tower Opens in Vancouver But the Welcome Isn’t Warm

VANCOUVER, British Co-lumbia (AP) — The furies un-leashed by Donald Trump’s rise to the U.S. presidency are shaking Vancouver, where a gleaming new Trump International Hotel and Tower is about to open.

The mayor wants its name changed. A city councilman calls it “over the top, glitz and glamor” that clashes with Canadian values. And the property developer who built it sounds traumatized by the whole affair.

The 69-story building designed by one of Canada’s most renowned architects has drawn praise for its sleek, twisting design. Prices for the condominiums have set records.

But Trump’s politics, especially his criticism of immigrants, has caused such outrage that the may-or won’t attend the grand opening next week. Even the Malaysian de-veloper has had second thoughts about the partnership.

Egyptians Bear Down Under Worst Inflation in a Decade

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptians are bearing down under their worst inflation in a decade, cut-ting spending as much as possible as prices surge on basic food items, transport, housing, and even some essential medicines.

Inflation reached almost 30 percent in January, up five percent over the previous month, driven by the floatation of the Egyptian pound and slashing of fuel subsi-dies enacted by President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi in November.

The move was part of a reform package to secure an IMF bailout loan of $12 billion desperately need-ed to shore up investor confidence and overhaul the economy. Im-mediately after the floatation, the pound lost over half its value, mak-ing a wide range of Egypt’s many imported goods double in price.

By Eileen Ng

The Associated Press

KUALA LUMPUR, Malay-sia — Sometime in the hours after poisoning the half brother of North Korea’s leader, one of his two attackers began to vomit, Malaysian police said Friday. It was apparently an early indica-tion of the immensely powerful toxin that was used in the kill-ing: the chemical warfare agent VX.

The oily poison was almost certainly produced in a sophis-ticated state weapons laboratory, experts say, and is banned under international treaties. North Ko-rea, a prime suspect in the case, never signed that treaty, and has spent decades developing a com-plex chemical weapons program that has long worried the inter-national community.

“This is not something you make in a kitchen lab. You’d kill yourself if you did,” said Bruce Bennet, a defense expert with the RAND Corporation who has studied North Korea.

The public poisoning of Kim Jong Nam, which took place amid crowds of travelers in the budget terminal at Kuala Lumpur’s airport, has boosted speculation that North Korea dispatched killers to assassinate its leader’s older brother, who, though not an obvious political threat, may have been seen as a potential rival in the country’s dynastic dictatorship.

While Malaysia hasn’t di-rectly accused the North Korean government of being behind the attack, officials said earlier this week that four North Korean men provided the women with poison. The four fled Malaysia shortly after the killing, police say.

South Korean intelligence of-ficials have accused North Korea of being behind the attack, say-ing Kim Jong Nam had been on a government hit list for years. North Korea denies any role in the murder and says Malaysia’s investigation is biased and full of holes. But since taking power in late 2011, North Korean ruler

Kim Jong Un has executed or purged a number of high-level government officials, including his uncle.

VX is an extremely powerful poison, with an amount no larger than a few grains of salt enough to kill. An odorless chemical, it can be inhaled, swallowed or ab-sorbed through the skin.

Then, in anywhere from a few seconds to a few hours, it can cause a range of symptoms, from blurred vision to a headache. Enough exposure leads to con-vulsions, paralysis, respiratory failure and death.

It has the consistency of mo-tor oil and can take days or even weeks to evaporate. It could have contaminated anywhere Kim was afterward, including medi-cal facilities and the ambulance he was transported in, experts say.

“It’s a very toxic nerve agent. Very, very toxic,” said Dr. Bruce Goldberger, a leading toxicolo-gist who heads the forensic medi-cine division at the University of Florida.

DHS Disputes Threat From Banned NationsDRAFT DOCUMENT:

Citizenship Is ‘Unlikely Indicator’ of Terrorism Threats to U.S.

By Vivian Salama and Alicia A. Caldwell


WASHINGTON — Ana-lysts at the Homeland Security Department’s intelligence arm found insufficient evidence that citizens of seven Muslim-major-ity countries included in Presi-dent Donald Trump’s travel ban pose a terror threat to the United States.

A draft document obtained by The Associated Press con-cludes that citizenship is an

“unlikely indicator” of terrorism threats to the United States and that few people from the coun-tries Trump listed in his travel ban have carried out attacks or been involved in terrorism-re-lated activities in the U.S. since Syria’s civil war started in 2011.

Trump cited terrorism con-cerns as the primary reason he signed the sweeping temporary travel ban in late January, which also halted the U.S. refugee pro-gram.

A federal judge in Washing-ton state blocked the government from carrying out the order earlier this month. Trump said Friday a new edict would be an-nounced soon. The administra-tion has been working on a new

version that could withstand le-gal challenges.

Homeland Security spokes-woman Gillian Christensen on Friday did not dispute the re-port’s authenticity, but said it was not a final comprehensive review of the government’s intel-ligence.

“While DHS was asked to draft a comprehensive report on this issue, the document you’re referencing was commentary from a single intelligence source versus an official, robust docu-ment with thorough interagen-cy sourcing,” Christensen said.

“The ... report does not include data from other intelligence community sources. It is incom-plete.”

The Homeland Security re-port is based on unclassified information from Justice De-partment press releases on ter-rorism-related convictions and attackers killed in the act, State Department visa statistics, the 2016 Worldwide Threat Assess-ment from the U.S. intelligence community and the State De-partment Country Reports on Terrorism 2015.

The three-page report chal-lenges Trump’s core claims. It said that of 82 people the govern-ment determined were inspired by a foreign terrorist group to carry out or try to carry out an attack in the United States, just over half were U.S. citizens born in the United States.

The others were from 26 countries, led by Pakistan, So-malia, Bangladesh, Cuba, Ethio-pia, Iraq and Uzbekistan. Of these, only Somalia and Iraq were among the seven nations included in the ban.

Of the other five nations, one person each from Iran, Sudan and Yemen was also involved in those terrorism cases, but none from Syria. It did not say if any were Libyan.

The report also found that terrorist organizations in Iran, Libya, Somalia and Sudan are re-gionally focused, while groups in Iraq, Syria and Yemen do pose a threat to the U.S.

The seven countries were in-cluded in a law President Barack Obama signed in 2015 that up-dated visa requirements for foreigners who had traveled to those countries.

Christensen said the coun-tries were also selected in part because they lacked the ability to properly vet their citizens and don’t cooperate with U.S. efforts to screen people hoping to come to the U.S.

The report was prepared as part of an internal review Trump requested after his executive or-der was blocked by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

It was drafted by staff of the Homeland Security Depart-ment’s Intelligence and Analysis branch at the direction of its act-ing leader, David Glawe.

Malaysia: VX Nerve Agent Killed Brother of North Korean Leader

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A dancer performs during the Carmelitas street party in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday. Merrymakers take to the streets in

hundreds of open-air “bloco” parties during Rio’s over-the-top Carnival, the highlight of the year for many.

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Inslee Signs Executive Order on Trump’s Immigration Policies By Joseph O’Sullivan

Seattle Times Olympia bureau

OLYMPIA — In his latest salvo against the Trump admin-istration’s policies, Gov. Jay Inslee on Thursday signed an executive order aimed at restricting state workers and agencies from help-ing enforce fed-eral immigration laws.

The order is part of an effort by Inslee and other Demo-crats to hinder President Don-ald Trump’s ag-gressive moves against immi-grants who entered the country illegally.

It remains to be seen if the order — which seeks to prevent the use of state resources to aid widespread deportations or the creation of a national Muslim registry — will have any con-crete effects.

The order will not change current practices of the Wash-ington State Patrol or the De-partment of Social and Health Services, officials at those agen-cies said.

But in a news conference, the governor said the order sends a message about Washington state’s values.

“This executive order makes clear that Washington will not be a willing participant in promot-ing or carrying out mean-spirited policies that break up families and compromise our national se-curity and, importantly, our com-munity safety,” Inslee said.

The order, however, will not interfere with federal law, and “if there is a federal criminal arrest warrant, we will honor it,” he said.

He said the goal of the execu-tive order is to make sure state workers remain focused on their jobs, not on enforcing immigra-tion statutes. Fears of deporta-tion could lead undocumented immigrants to bypass state ser-vices or cooperate with law en-forcement investigating crimes, Inslee said.

Inslee has emerged in recent weeks as a leading voice against the Trump administration, rail-ing against the administration’s actions over the Affordable Care Act, federal protections for trans-gender students and immigra-tion policy.

In response to a Washington lawsuit supported by Inslee, a

federal judge in Seattle earlier this month blocked enforcement of Trump’s travel ban on citizens from seven predominantly Mus-lim nations.

And in December, Inslee di-rected his staff to figure out what types of state data the federal government could use to learn someone’s nationality or citizen-ship status.

That directive examined agencies such as the Department of Social and Health Services and the Department of Licensing to see what information they col-lect on state residents.

Nick Brown, Inslee’s general counsel, said Thursday’s execu-tive order helps clarify for state workers what they can and can’t do regarding immigrants and refugees.

“What we’ve seen over the last month or so is a lot of con-fusion, about what is the proper role of state actors and state law enforcement,” Brown said. “It doesn’t dramatically change ex-isting state law or existing state policies, but it does bring some really needed clarity around those issues.”

The order directs state agen-cies to refrain from inquiring about a person’s immigration

status for the sole purpose of de-termining whether someone has complied with immigration laws, such as those related to work per-mits or alien registration.

The order maintains the State Patrol’s existing policy of not stop-ping, detaining or interrogating people solely to determine their immigration status, said Kyle Moore, State Patrol spokesman.

Likewise, state agencies under the order are not allowed to aid or enforce any federal program to register people on their basis of religion. That part takes aim at the prospect at a national Muslim registry, which some Trump sup-porters have suggested.

The order also bars state agen-cies from discriminating against people based on national origin. And it says agencies cannot refuse services to people because of their immigration status, except as re-quired by state or federal law.

The order is part of a broader, nationwide push by Democrats aimed at limiting the Trump administration’s agenda on refu-gees and immigrants who lack legal status to be in the country.

Democratic officials in states such as California, New York, Massachusetts and Oregon have pushed to shield state data from

the federal government.Earlier this month, Oregon

Gov. Kate Brown announced an executive order to stop that state’s agencies from helping the federal government deport immigrants without proper documentation or create a Muslim registry.

In Olympia, Democratic lawmakers have filed bills in the House and Senate to keep Washington state from sharing information about a person’s re-ligious affiliation for the purpose of setting up a database based on religion.

HB 2097, sponsored by Rep. Derek Stanford, D-Bothell, would limit the disclosure of certain information related to religious affiliation. The House Judiciary Committee last week voted to approve that bill.

Republican state legislative leaders, however, have been cool to the idea on proposals aimed at protecting against deportations.

“I think we’re going to focus on jobs, education and budget issues,” GOP Senate Majority Leader Mark Schoesler of Ritz-ville said recently. “I think we’ll leave some of those other things to somebody else.”

Jay Inslee

governor

By The Associated Press

With White House press sec-retary Sean Spicer suggesting Thursday that the Trump ad-ministration would crack down on states that have legal recre-ational marijuana, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson vowed to defend Washington state’s legal pot law.

“I will resist any efforts by the Trump administration to un-dermine the will of the voters in Washington state,” Ferguson said in an interview.

Spicer said during a press brief-ing Thursday that the issue rests with the Justice Department. But he said, “I do believe that you’ll see greater enforcement of it.”

He added it’s “something that

the Department of Justice I think will be further looking into.” No details were provided.

Ferguson and Gov. Jay Inslee sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Ses-sions, dated Feb. 15, that laid out arguments for Washington’s state-regulated pot industry.

They said il-legal dealing is being displaced

by a tightly regulated industry that is projected to pay $272 mil-lion in taxes this fiscal year. That frees up law-enforcement offi-cers to protect communities fac-

ing more pressing threats. They also noted that legal pot entre-preneurs must undergo crimi-nal and financial background checks.

“Given the limited resources available for marijuana law en-forcement, a return to ‘full’ pro-hibition’ is highly unlikely to end the illicit production, trafficking and consumption of marijuana,” wrote Ferguson and Inslee, who asked for a meeting with Sessions.

This is not a fight President Donald Trump and his admin-istration should pick, Inslee said earlier this month. “They would be on the wrong side of history,” the governor said.

Ferguson said his lawyers are already “quite prepared” to ar-

gue against a federal crackdown but will begin reviewing strat-egies now that Spicer has sent the administration’s first signals about recreational marijuana.

“When he talks about ‘greater enforcement,’ I take that seri-ously,” said Ferguson, whose legal team twice prevailed over Trump’s lawyers in federal court decisions on the president’s trav-el ban.

With 56 percent of the voters approving, Washington legal-ized adult possession of small amounts of marijuana and state-regulated farming and sales of pot in November 2012.

Tension has existed ever since about the federal government’s ongoing prohibition of all forms

of marijuana.The Obama administration

let Washington and Colorado, the first two states to legalize recreational marijuana, proceed with their experiments as long they adhered to the so-called Cole Memo of August 2013.

Authored by U.S. Deputy At-torney General James Cole, the memo told Washington and Colo-rado they could carry out the vot-ers’ will as long as they followed eight Department of Justice pri-orities, such as preventing sales to minors and preventing legal pot revenue from going to criminals.

As a candidate, Trump said he supported medical marijuana. He said recreational marijuana

“should be a state issue.”

Washington Attorney General Vows to Defend State’s Legal Pot Law

Bob Ferguson

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The Cozy Vale Creamery has issued a recall of raw milk after state Department of Agriculture inspectors discovered E. coli contamination in a sample.

Cozy Vale Creamery, some-times listed as Cozy Valley Creamery, is located in Tenino. Products were sold throughout Western Washington in quart, half-gallon and one-gallon plas-tic jugs.

Affected milk has best-by dates ranging from Feb. 27 to March 4. Customers are urged not to drink the milk, and can return the product to the place of purchase for a full refund, ac-cording to a Department of Agri-culture news release.

Consumers with questions may contact the company at 360-481-4010 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Retail raw milk is legal to sell and buy in Washington state, but the potential health risks are seri-ous, according to the news release.

Consumers should read the warning label on the retail raw milk container carefully and ask their retailer to verify the milk was produced and processed by a Department of Agriculture li-censed operation.

Symptoms of E. coli infections include severe diarrhea, stomach cramps and bloody stool. They generally occur three to four days after exposure, but can take as long as nine days to appear.

Any consumers of the prod-uct who experience the symp-toms listed above should contact a health care provider. At this time there are no known illness-es associated with the recalled product, according to the news release.

By Melissa Santos

The News Tribune

Technology companies say it won’t be long before people can use scans of their fingerprints

— or even their faces — to start their cars, access their bank ac-counts or buy lunch at a school cafeteria.

But before that future becomes reality, lawmakers in Washington state want to set some ground rules for how companies and gov-ernment agencies can use people’s biometric data, a broad term that encompasses everything from a person’s voice pattern to the unique way they walk.

After several years of negotia-tion with retailers and the state’s tech industry, several lawmak-ers said they think 2017 could finally be the year the Legisla-ture approves new limits on how companies and governments can collect and sell people’s biomet-ric identifiers.

Two proposals in Olympia this year aim to prevent people’s unique characteristics — such as retinal scans, handprints, fin-gerprints, voice imprints and facial geometry — from being cataloged and used without their knowledge.

The legislation comes after companies have unveiled new ways of accessing a phone with a fingerprint, identifying people in social media photos via facial recognition software and un-locking doors with a scan of a person’s iris or retina.

Should lawmakers approve new restrictions on the commer-cial use of biometric data, Wash-ington state would be the third state to do so, following Texas and Illinois.

“If I steal your password, you can do another password,” said state Rep. Jeff Morris, D-Mount Vernon, one of the lawmakers tackling the issue.

“If I steal your biometrics, you’re not going to go get a face-lift. You’re not going to go break your legs so you walk differently. You’re not going to change your DNA out.”

“Because it’s irreplaceable, you always want to maintain some sort of joint ownership of it, so the consumer always controls where that goes,” he said.

Concerns About Commercial and Government Use

A bill Morris is sponsoring would set new rules for compa-nies before they can enter people’s specific biometric information into a database for commercial purposes. To do that, companies would either have to notify a per-son, obtain his or her consent, or provide a way to limit future commercial use of the data.

House Bill 1493 would also limit how companies can share and sell people’s biometric infor-mation after it is collected.

State Rep. Mark Harmsworth, a cosponsor of the measure, said he thinks it is important to get ahead of the issue before more companies start using finger-prints, hand scans and facial rec-ognition to confirm someone’s identity or authenticate a pur-chase.

“You can issue a new credit card — you can’t issue a new thumbprint,” said Harmsworth, R-Mill Creek.

Another bill in the Legisla-ture would restrict the collec-tion of biometric data by public

agencies. House Bill 1717 would require government officials to notify people and obtain their consent before collecting their biometric information, while also prohibiting agencies from selling that data.

State Rep. Norma Smith, the prime sponsor of the measure, said she wants to make sure peo-ple know when their biometric data is being collected and why.

“I believe you should own the image of your face — not some-one else,” said Smith, R-Clinton.

“That is very personal, private, intimate and unique to you and you alone, and we need to respect that both in the public and pri-vate sectors.”

Smith’s bill would also re-quire agencies to limit the amount of biometric data they collect, while ensuring they store it securely.

“The good news that we’ve heard back from agencies is that in general, their current guide-lines align with this,” Smith said.

Right now, few government agencies appear to be collecting biometric data, outside of law en-forcement agencies that use fin-gerprinting, Smith said.

Once exception is the state Department of Licensing. The agency creates a biometric pro-file of the face of each person who gets a driver’s license photo, to prevent people from applying for multiple driver’s licenses, said department spokesman Brad Benfield.

Benfield said the agency al-ready has strict rules about pro-tecting the biometric templates it creates of people’s faces, but would have to adopt new proce-dures for notifying drivers about the practice if Smith’s bill passes.

Police and law enforcement agencies would be exempted from some parts of Smith’s bill, such as the requirement to get people’s consent before collect-ing biometric data such as finger-prints. Law enforcement agen-cies still would have to prevent people’s biometric information from being publicly disclosed.

Capt. Monica Alexander, leg-islative liaison for the Washing-ton State Patrol, said she doesn’t think the agency would have to change any of its procedures to comply with the bill.

While the State Patrol col-lects electronic scans of people’s handprints and fingerprints when they are placed under ar-rest, that data is already pro-tected on a state server equipped with firewalls, she said.

She said state troopers aren’t

yet using the more advanced technology mentioned in Morris’ and Smith’s bills, such as facial recognition software or retinal scanners.

“That sounds pretty great and I’ve seen it on television, but we’re not quite there yet,” Alex-ander said.

Industry Groups Wary, But Open

Both of the proposals dealing with biometric data have cleared the House Technology and Eco-nomic Development Committee, which Morris chairs. They now await a vote by the full House.

Previous attempts to regulate the commercial use of biometric data stalled in the state Senate the past two years. But state Sen. Mike Padden, R-Spokane Valley and the chairman of the Senate Law and Justice Committee, said he thinks the legislation could pass this year due to the work House members have done to address some of the concerns of technology companies and re-tailers.

While the Association of Washington Business, the Wash-ington Retail Association and the Washington Technology In-dustry Association all testified against the legislation when it came before Morris’ committee earlier this year, the head of the technology industry group said he thinks the bill has “evolved substantially” since then, leav-ing only a few technical issues remaining.

“We are still confident we can resolve those elements and see a new law this session,” said Michael Schutzler, CEO of the Washington Technology Indus-try Association.

In an interview, Schutzler said he is pleased the bill was amended to allow companies to work with biometric data that is anonymized, or not connected to the profile of any individual person. He said engineers can use that anonymous information to improve their algorithms — such as to make a more accurate and secure thumbprint reader — without compromising people’s personal information.

Schutzler said he thinks a deal on biometrics rules is more likely this year, in part because more lawmakers are seeing the technology in action and can grasp how it works.

Unlike four years ago, “It doesn’t require a detailed tech-nical expert to know what it means,” Schutzler said.

“It’s becoming more common-place, so it’s easier to understand and debate, frankly.”

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Fingerprints are scanned electronically at the Washington State Patrol's Criminal

Records Division in Olympia. Those ingerprint records, requested by government

and private entities across the state are used to do criminal back ground checks.

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Kelly Hunt, a ingerprint technician at the Washington State Patrol's Criminal Records Division in Olympia compares inger

prints to a state database while performing a background Friday Feb. 17, 2017. Proposed bills in the legislature will regu-

late the sale, use and collection of biometric data -- both by state agencies and private companies. This includes personally

unique information such as ingerprints, handprints, facial recognition patterns and even images of the way you walk that

later enable you to be picked out of a crowd. Lawmakers want to minimize the collection of this data and also ensure that it

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She had town meetings when she felt that everyone would agree with her, but now that there is substantial opo-sition she stays in her office where callers can be screened. If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. I dislike the idea that it was an unannounced conference call. I was called but was right in the middle of something and could not participate. Even the newspaper wasn’t notified.

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The question has been asked. Should the school district be required to do a line-item accounting of where each penny of the M&O levy goes? Absolutely! The TSD is by far the largest employer in Toledo and spends millions of our tax dollars every year. Can anyone else run such a business without showing what they have spent millions of our tax dollars on? It could be a very simple process for them to do if they ever want to get the confidence back from the 648 patrons who voted down their bond for a second time. One would think that the TSB could sooner or later figure out that people are getting tired of funding an endless hole with our property taxes for those that are among, if not the highest, paid people in Toledo. They have already started to consolidate their sport programs with other small school districts, and its way overdue for the TSD to stop trying to outspend and outshine all other local small school districts with these insane bonds and levies with that stupid signage saying “Toledo Pride”.... vote “yes.” We, the people who can’t afford to keep funding their endless wish lists, also have pride and home expenses too. They need to build a new high school and combine the school districts into one district in a place with the infrastructure that can support it. The teachers and their unions will surely go ballistic over such a proposal because many high-paying positions and jobs will likely be eliminated. We can still have “Toledo Pride” without having to spend millions of our hard-earned tax dollars on their wishes and wants. Until the TSD figures that one out, those 648 voter numbers will likely keep growing higher and higher. The next time that TSD creates another bond committee, it would behoove that committee to be given this option, and serious consideration if they expect to get us taxpayers to fund their future self-serving plans. We are not even sure how many of the Toledo School Dis-trict staff and their teachers are even taxpaying residents of the Toledo district that promotes these bonds and levies. It would behoove the district to post that information to its patrons and resolve that question once and for all.

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• HOLLY VANATTA, Centralia, a boy, Evan Christopher White, Feb. 16, 7 pounds, 1 ounce, Providence Centralia Hospi-tal. Grandparents are Christy Johnson, Centralia; Eric Feil, Olympia; and John and Brittany White, Centralia.

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• SKYE AND ELIJAH MAXWELL, Centralia, a girl, Nelli Jean Max-well, Feb. 22, 7 pounds, 13 ounc-es, Providence Centralia Hospi-tal. Grandparents are John and Karen Maxwell, Centralia, and Alan and Ilene Calhoun, Yelm. Great-grandparents are Adrian Calhoun, Billings, Montana; Flo-ra Calhoun, deceased; Charles and Ruby Burgeson, both de-ceased; Don Robbins, Olympia; Carol Robbins, deceased; and John and Gerri Maxwell, Tilla-mook, Oregon.

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Fatality Report, the most recent report available, 54 fire-related deaths were reported across the state in 2015, adding up to a 7.6 fire deaths per million residents in the state.

The statewide fire deaths were up 13 percent from the previous year, according to the report.

The national fire death rate is closer to 10 for every million residents, Mack said.

With three deaths that same year with about 75,000 residents, Lewis County’s fire-death rate was more than five times the state’s average and four times the nation’s average.

With four house fire-related deaths in 2016, not counting one person who died after a vehicle fire, and three so far in 2017, Lewis County continues to trend high for fire deaths state-wide and nationally.

“All of this problem still has, in my opinion, a solution that is relatively simple,” Mack said.

That solution, he said, is up-to-date, properly installed smoke alarms with working bat-teries. In many of Lewis Coun-ty’s fire deaths, he noted, inves-tigators believe fire alarms were not present or not working.

“I do believe it is the single greatest invention the fire ser-vice has produced since the mo-torized fire apparatus,” he said.

But despite the simplicity of the solution, and the widely available technology of smoke alarms, people continue to die, leaving firefighters to wonder what more they can do to pro-tect the residents of their dis-tricts.

“I want to have an answer for this,” Mack said.

ON FEB. 26, 2015, three people— mother Samantha Koehler, 31, and children Bethany Cuvreau, 4, and Tabitha Cuvreau, 2 — died in fire at their home in the 800 block of Northwest First Street in Winlock. A man and two boys survived.

On March 4, 2016, siblings Sam, 7, Maddy, 10, and Ben Tower, 12, died in a fire at their house in the 900 block of Ham

Hill Road in Centralia. Their mother, Sue Tower, survived.

On Dec. 20, 2016, Michael J. Pierson, 56, died in a fire at his home in the 129000 block of U.S Highway 12.

On Feb. 9, 2017, three people, Denis L. Watson, 51; Lynn L. Lauer, 72; and Alice M. Lauer, 83, died in their home after a fire in the 100 block of Frost Creek Road in Glenoma.

In all of these cases, the vic-tims died from smoke inhala-tion, according to Lewis County Coroner Warren McLeod.

Many of the fires burned too hot for crews to find a definitive cause, as potential evidence was lost. McLeod said that makes it difficult to speculate why there are so many deaths per capita in the county.

“It actually causes us some concern,” he said of the high death rate.

According to information provided by the state Fire Mar-shal’s Office, 15 people have died in fires in Lewis County since 2007.

“It’s troubling that we’re so high,” said Chief Doug Fosburg, of Lewis County Fire District 3 in Mossyrock

Several factors could con-tribute to Lewis County’s high fire death rate, Mack and other chiefs said. It could be a socio-economic issue — a reflection of the poverty and education levels in the area. It could be because of Lewis County’s high ratio of rental properties or its rural na-ture.

It could also be a widely held belief among residents here and elsewhere that “it couldn’t hap-pen to me,” Mack said.

“I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard it,” Mack said.

That complacency about planning for a fire could be one reason why so many residences have outdated or non-working smoke alarms, or no smoke alarms at all, he said.

Making the problem more complicated, fires now grow quicker and more ferociously than they did 50 or 60 years ago, chiefs said.

“The fires in the 1960s are completely different than the fires today,” Cardinale said.

In the past, homes were filled with heavy wood and stone and

natural products such as wool and cotton, Cardinale said. To-day, homes are filled with plas-tics and petrochemical byprod-ucts, which burn hotter and faster and release toxic fumes.

Mack noted that the same products that cause fires to burn hotter can also create danger-ous fumes when burning. Up-holstered furniture can release poisonous hydrogen cyanide, he said.

“I don’t think people are aware that the fire conditions have changed, and that’s the frustrating part for us,” Cardi-nale said.

Fifty years ago, residents had 10 or 15 minutes to get out of a house, Mack said. Today, he said it’s more like two or three min-utes.

“We don’t have the time we had before,” he said.

In addition to the high num-ber of fire deaths, a number of residents have already been dis-placed in 2017 due to house fires.

On Feb. 8, the day before the fatal fire in Glenoma, a Centra-lia family had a close call. All five members of a family living in the home in the 400 block of South Oak Street were injured. Three were airlifted with burns to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

Seven members of the same extended family in an adjacent home, which was also damaged, were displaced.

On Wednesday, eight mem-bers of a family were displaced when their home in the 500 block of South King Street, less than three blocks away from the Oak Street house, caught fire. None were injured. Mack said fire alarms were sounding when crews pulled up.

AS LEWIS COUNTY continues to have a high fire-death rate, fire-fighters are struggling to find a way to turn the trend around.

“It’s frustrating first of all for us, extremely frustrating,” Car-dinale said. “It can be solved, but it’s going to take funds to do it.”

Cardinale said districts and fire departments need more funding to increase their paid staff levels. He said too few vol-unteers and full-time staff are able to respond to house fires.

“Many of the chiefs in the

county are working on a couple of ideas in regard to trying to bolster our response levels so we can get more people to the scene faster, that’s one approach that we’re going to be talking (about) at our next chiefs meeting,” he said.

Mack said fire districts have historically hoped increased spending for fire response and staff would present the answer to the problem.

“I think history shows it hasn’t,” he said.

Mack said he believes fund-ing for fire prevention and edu-cation is the key.

Currently, the RFA and simi-lar fire departments spend about 4 cents on the dollar for fire pre-vention, he said.

“We need to put our money where our mouths are,” he said.

Two years ago, the RFA, Lewis County Fire District 5 and the American Red Cross participated in a grant program to distribute free smoke alarms and do fire safety inspections.

Mack said he has only a few smoke alarms from that stash left.

In the future, he said he’d like to create a partnership lo-cally that could raise money and collect smoke alarms for a simi-lar effort.

In the meantime, residents should regularly maintain their

smoke alarms, he said. “What I recommend folks to

do is take it off the ceiling and look at the back at the date of manufacture,” Mack said.

Smoke alarms should be re-placed every 10 years and batter-ies should be replaced every year.

Each year, firefighters spread the word to local children to cre-ate good fire safety habits.

“Every year I go to every sec-ond-grade classroom in my ju-risdiction,” Mack said.

Fosburg said he too spends time in area schools doing fire prevention training each Octo-ber.

“I think we do a pretty good job of education in the schools,” he said.

Part of that effort is teaching families to have a home escape plan.

“First and foremost, it starts with a conversation about it,” Mack said.

Families should discuss vari-ous routes out of their house or apartment in the event of an emergency, then they should practice repeatedly.

Other safety measures can help in the case of a fire, and hopefully prevent yet another fire death.

“Sleeping with bedroom doors closed is critically impor-tant,” Mack said. “If you close that door, you buy yourself time.”

Main 16 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017FROM THE FRONT PAGE

I’ve written, it did cross my mind

the problem might be solved if

only the superintendent of edu-cation had a pencil with an eraser.

What if, and I’m just spit-balling here, but what if said su-perintendent simply erased the word “sunscreen” from the list of prohibited medications?

That’s just crazy talk, I sup-pose.

•••John McCroskey was Lewis

County sheriff from 1995 to 2005. He can be contacted at [email protected].

McCroskeyContinued from page Main 8

only for the county, and that up-grades are relatively rare.

“It’s similar to that, but it’s a lot more involved, but the driv-ing force is the same. It deter-mines what your risk is,” he said.

That risk also determines the interest rate lenders will charge if the county decides to market and sell bonds. While Grove said the county isn’t looking to issue bonds at the moment, the improved credit ranking will

likely be useful in the future. Grove credited Suzette Smith,

his chief accountant, for much of the work in his office leading to the improved rating.

“We’re dotting our ‘I’s’ and crossing our ‘T’s,’” he said.

Lots of consistent leg work and good fiscal management from the Lewis County com-missioners also played into the upgrade, Grove said.

Much of that legwork can also be attributed to Grove, said Arny Davis, the county’s trea-surer.

Davis said Grove’s recom-mendations to the current and

previous county commissioners allowed the county to stay in a conservative fiscal posture.

This is something investors look for, Davis said, many of which are other jurisdictions.

“So we in turn invest in those type of investments and it makes us more attractive to other investors,” he said.

According to a press release issued by Moody’s, some 136 local governments in Mon-tana, Oregon and Washington received bond rating upgrades. Combined, the rating action will affect roughly $8.7 billion in outstanding debt.

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Thurston County Moves Ahead With Construction of Monitoring WellsBy The Chronicle

A project to drill eight groundwater monitoring wells in the Scatter Creek area of South Thurston County has been ap-proved by Thurston County commissioners.

Drilling is set to begin on March 1 at a cost of $126,000, a press release from the county said. The wells were recommend by a citizens advisory group in 2014 as part of a larger project to make sure water in the Scatter Creek aquifer is safe and avail-able.

The aquifer provides drink-ing water to more than 18,000 residents from Rochester and Grand Mound to Tenino.

The advisory committee in 2014 provided a report to the county that water quality tests met drinking water standards but because of surrounding grav-

el-laden soil, it was not able to ef-fectively filter for contamination.

The aquifer is also relatively shallow, so the county decided to install wells in the area to test for water quality and gather data about possible sources of con-tamination, the release said.

When the wells are installed, the county can monitor water quality and identify sources of any contaminants.

The wells will also help the county predict future water availability, which has been lim-ited in the valley since the 1950s, the release said.

Seattle City Light Employee Investigated After Restroom Camera Found

SEATTLE (AP) — Police are investigating after a concealed camera was found in a men’s restroom at a Seattle electricity company office.

Seattle Police said Friday a worker at Seattle City Light dis-covered the camera Feb. 17 in a

restroom in a restricted part of the facility.

Police say the employee re-moved the camera and told a supervisor who reported it to a manager. But police believe the manager installed the camera.

When the manager failed to take action, the worker and su-pervisor told others and police were called.

Detectives don’t believe that members of the general public were the subjects of the suspect’s voyeurism and no other cameras have been found.

Police say the manager has been placed on leave from work, but no arrests have been made yet.

Coroner Identifies Woman Killed in Two-Vehicle Crash on Yelm HighwayBy The Olympian

Carolyna Saint-Germain, 70, of Olympia, was the woman who died at the scene of a two-car

crash Wednesday on Yelm High-way at Canterwood Drive South-east, near the Amtrak station.

Thurston County Coroner Gary Warnock said Thursday that the woman died from “blunt force injuries to her torso.”

Officials with Lacey Fire District 3 and the Thurston County Sheriff ’s Office were dis-patched to the crash about 7:20 a.m. Wednesday. The woman received CPR from bystanders, then fire officials, before she died at the scene.

The driver of the other vehi-cle was not injured.

Yelm Highway was closed for about five hours Wednesday

Thurston County Explosion Likely Caused by Gas LeakBy The Olympian

An elderly woman was able to escape from a house fire and explosion early Friday morning south of Tumwater, according to East Olympia Fire District 6.

Firefighters responded to the home on the 1200 block of 93rd Avenue Southwest, south of the Olympia Regional Airport, at about 1:45 a.m. Firefighters found a fire in the back of the house, and most of the windows were blown out.

The fire and explosion likely started with a propane gas leak in the laundry room.

Twelve firefighters were able to get the fire under control in less than 30 minutes. The fire was mainly contained to the laundry room, but the explosion caused damage to other areas of the house.

The explosion awakened the woman who lived there and she escaped without injury.

East Olympia Fire District 6 responded to the fire with as-sistance from the Tumwater Fire Department and the West Thur-ston Fire authority.

Chief Warren Peterson re-minded people to have their gas appliances and connections in-spected to make sure that they are functioning and installed correctly.

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Prep Basketball

A Review of the WIAA’s RPI System, As It Pertains to Local TeamsBy Aaron VanTuyl

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I can’t count the number of times, over the past two weeks, I’ve had to explain how it works.

There was an evening in the office where I tried to lay it out for my fellow sports report-ers. There’s been conversations at games. There’s been Twitter back-and-forths. To the casual fan, it can be confusing.

And that’s just the playoff scenarios that came with the WIAA’s new ratings percentage index system.

The state’s overseeing prep athletic association announced in September that it was chang-ing the state basketball playoff format to bump the tournaments up to 12 teams and institute an RPI system to determine region-al matchups.

This was mainly in response to the former regional and state matchup process, which some-times led to “marquee” games in the loser-out regional round between highly-ranked teams. The old process was essentially a draw, with regional-bound teams given either a 1- or 2-seed qualifier; the flaw came when two outstanding teams played in the same small district, meaning one had to lose the district title game and take a 2-seed in the draw process. (Think W.F. West and Mark Morris girls during the span they played for both the District 4 and state title three years in a row.)

The fix provided a math-ematical equation that offered real evidence (administered by Maxpreps.com), updated weekly, as to what we could expect when regionals rolled around.

And now we’ve got it. Did it solve the problem? … Maybe.

What Works

• MORE TEAMS GO TO STATE. There’s arguments for and against this; four teams are tak-ing a day or two off school, book-ing hotel rooms and traveling for what will amount to one day in the state tournament.

“I like the fact that four more teams get to experience the state tournament, at least for a day,” W.F. West girls coach Tom Kelly said. “Some of these kids haven’t been there. It’s kind of exciting to be there, (so) that’s one plus.”

• THERE’S LESS CONTROVERSIAL FIRST-ROUND MATCHUPS. The top eight teams, based on RPI, play each other in regionals and auto-matically go to state. Given that RPI is based entirely on regular-season record, the new system

But Did It Work?

please see RPI, page S3

Sports 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017SPORTS


SCOREBOARDPrepsLocal Prep Schedules

Regional Schedules

2B Boys

1: Toledo vs. Kittitas, at CWU, Saturday, 2 p.m.

2: Adna vs. Life Christian, at St. Martin’s,

Saturday, 12:30 p.m.

3: Seattle Lutheran vs. Napavine, at W.F. West,

Saturday, 2 p.m.

4: NW Christian 61, Brewster 57

5: Orcas Island vs. Chief Leschi, at Rogers HS,

Saturday, noon

6: Tonasket vs. DeSales, at Richland HS,

Saturday, 2 p.m.

7: Kalama vs. St. George’s, at University HS,

Saturday, 6 p.m.

8: White Swan vs. Liberty, at University HS,

Saturday, 2 p.m.

First Round

At Spokane, March 1

Winner 7 vs. Loser 3, 9 a.m.

Winner 6 vs. Loser 2, 10:30 a.m.

Winner 8 vs. Brewster, 12:15 p.m.

Winner 5 vs. Loser 1, 2 p.m.

2A Boys

1: Olympic vs. Lynden, at Mt. Vernon HS,

Saturday, 4 p.m.

2: Wapato vs. Anacortes, at Mt. Vernon HS,

Saturday, 10 a.m.

3: North Kitsap vs. Pullman, at Cheney HS,

Saturday, noon

4: Mark Morris vs. Selah, at CWU, Saturday, 4

p.m.

5: Lindbergh vs. Kingston, at Mt. Tahoma HS,

Saturday, 4 p.m.

6: Prosser vs. Centralia, at W.F. West, Saturday,

6 p.m.

7: Mountlake Terrace vs. Clover Park, at Mt.

Tahoma HS, Saturday, 2 p.m.

8: Foss vs. Woodland, at Battle Ground HS,

Saturday, 4 p.m.

First Round

At Yakima, March 1

Winner 7 vs. Loser 3, 9 a.m.

Winner 6 vs. Loser 2, 10:30 a.m.

Winner 8 vs. Loser 4, 12:15 p.m.


2B Girls

1: Colfax vs. Dayton, at Richland HS, Saturday,

4 p.m.

2: Davenport vs. Wahkiakum, at Mark Morris,

Saturday, 4 p.m.

3: Kalama 53, St. George’s 49

4: Ilwaco vs. Raymond, at W.F. West, Saturday,

noon

5: Friday Harbor vs. Mabton, at Davis HS,

Saturday, 2 p.m.

6: Napavine vs. Adna, at W.F. West, Saturday,

4 p.m.

7: Walla Walla Valley Academy vs. La Conner,

at Mt. Vernon HS, Saturday, 8 p.m.

8: White Swan 53, Brewster 41

First Round

At Spokane, March 1

Winner 7 vs. St. George’s, 3:45 p.m.

Winner 6 vs. Loser 2, 5:30 p.m.

White Swan vs. Loser 4, 7:15 p.m.


2A Girls

1: Archbishop Murphy vs. Black Hills, at St.

Martin’s, Saturday, 2:30 p.m.

2: W.F. West 69, Wapato 50

3: Washougal vs. White River, at Rogers HS,

Saturday, 2 p.m.

4: Burlington-Edison vs. Lynden, at Mt.

Vernon HS, Saturday, 6 p.m.

5: Prosser 56, Franklin Pierce 49

6: Port Angeles vs. East Valley (Spokane), at

University HS, Saturday, 4 p.m.

7: East Valley (Yakima) 52, North Kitsap 41

8: Olympic 45, Renton 36

First Round

At Yakima, March 1

East Valley (Yakima) vs. Loser 3, 3:45 p.m.

Winner 6 vs. Wapato, 5:30 p.m.

Olympic vs. Loser 4, 7:15 p.m.

Prosser vs. Loser 1, 9 p.m.

Local Results

Friday’s Results

Girls Basketball

At Tumwater

BEARCATS 69, WOLVES 50

Wapato 10 15 12 13 —50

W.F. West 15 16 20 18 —69

Wapato (50) — Sutterlict 14, Aleck 4,

Gonzalez 4, Garza 13, Hart 15

FG: 19 of 68 —.279 FT: 6 of 11 —.545 Reb.

29 (Aleck 7)

W.F. West (69) — Vadala 1, Johnson 13,

Lofgren 10, Bennett 6, Brumield 18, Steen

12, Fast 3, Strasser 6

FG: 23 of 57 —.404 FT: 17 of 25 —.680 Reb.

49

Other Statewide Scores

Friday’s Results

BOYS BASKETBALL

Class 4A Regional

Gonzaga Prep 58, Glacier Peak 44

Kennedy 55, Kentridge 49

Richland 84, Moses Lake 58

Class 3A Regional

Bellevue 66, Squalicum 63

Seattle Prep 64, Spanaway Lake 45

Class 2B Regional

Northwest Christian (Colbert) 61, Brewster

57

Class 1A Regional

Cascade Christian 50, Seattle Christian 46

La Salle 58, Granger 45

Class 1B Regional

Lummi 63, Yakama Tribal 55

Odessa-Harrington 70, Cedar Park Christian

(Mountlake Terrace) 65

Taholah 76, Naselle 47

Wellpinit 62, Colton 55

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Class 4A Regional

Auburn Riverside 51, Kamiak 41

Eastlake 83, Curtis 50

Class 3A Regional

Blanchet 48, Mercer Island 47

Seattle Prep 55, Prairie 53

Snohomish 41, Lincoln 39, OT

Class 2A Regional

East Valley (Yakima) 52, North Kitsap 41

Olympic 45, Renton 36

Prosser 56, Franklin Pierce 49

W. F. West 69, Wapato 50

Class 2B Regional

Kalama 53, St. George’s 49

White Swan 53, Brewster 41

Class 1A Regional

Granger 62, Bellevue Christian 41

Class 1B Regional

Colton 54, Selkirk 26

Republic 52, Almira/Coulee-Hartline 46

Tacoma Baptist 49, Cedar Park Christian

(Mountlake Terrace) 28

NBAEASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB

Boston 37 21 .638 —

Toronto 34 24 .586 3

New York 23 35 .397 14

Philadelphia 22 35 .386 14½

Brooklyn 9 48 .158 27½

Southeast Division

Washington 34 22 .607 —

Atlanta 32 25 .561 2½

Miami 26 32 .448 9

Charlotte 24 33 .421 10½

Orlando 21 38 .356 14½

Central Division

Cleveland 40 16 .714 —

Indiana 30 28 .517 11

Chicago 29 29 .500 12

Detroit 28 30 .483 13

Milwaukee 25 31 .446 15

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Southwest Division

San Antonio 44 13 .772 —

Houston 41 18 .695 4

Memphis 34 25 .576 11

New Orleans 23 35 .397 21½

Dallas 22 35 .386 22

Northwest Division

Utah 36 22 .621 —

Oklahoma City 33 25 .569 3

Denver 26 32 .448 10

Portland 24 33 .421 11½

Minnesota 23 35 .397 13

Paciic Division

Golden State 48 9 .842 —

L.A. Clippers 35 23 .603 13½

Sacramento 25 33 .431 23½

L.A. Lakers 19 40 .322 30

Phoenix 18 40 .310 30½

Friday’s Games

Indiana 102, Memphis 92

Philadelphia 120, Washington 112

Chicago 128, Phoenix 121, OT

Miami 108, Atlanta 90

Minnesota 97, Dallas 84

Oklahoma City 110, L.A. Lakers 93

Toronto 107, Boston 97

Utah 109, Milwaukee 95

Denver 129, Brooklyn 109

San Antonio 105, L.A. Clippers 97

Saturday’s Games

Charlotte at Sacramento, 2 p.m.

Atlanta at Orlando, 4 p.m.

Philadelphia at New York, 4:30 p.m.

Indiana at Miami, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Cleveland, 5:30 p.m.

New Orleans at Dallas, 5:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Houston, 6 p.m.

Brooklyn at Golden State, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday’s Games

Phoenix at Milwaukee, 12:30 p.m.

San Antonio at L.A. Lakers, 12:30 p.m.

Memphis at Denver, 2 p.m.

Utah at Washington, 2 p.m.

Boston at Detroit, 3 p.m.

Portland at Toronto, 3 p.m.

New Orleans at Oklahoma City, 4 p.m.

Charlotte at L.A. Clippers, 6:30 p.m.

Monday’s Games

No games scheduled.

NHLEASTERN CONFERENCE

Atlantic Division

W L OT Pts

Montreal 32 21 8 72

Ottawa 32 21 6 70

Toronto 28 20 12 68

Boston 31 24 6 68

Florida 28 22 10 66

Tampa Bay 27 25 8 62

Bufalo 26 24 10 62

Detroit 24 26 10 58

Metropolitan Division

Washington 41 12 7 89

Pittsburgh 37 14 8 82

N.Y. Rangers 39 19 2 80

Columbus 37 16 5 79

N.Y. Islanders 29 21 10 68

Philadelphia 28 25 7 63

New Jersey 25 25 10 60

Carolina 25 24 8 58

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Central Division

Minnesota 39 14 6 84

Chicago 38 18 5 81

St. Louis 31 24 5 67

Nashville 29 22 9 67

Winnipeg 28 29 6 62

Dallas 24 27 10 58

Colorado 16 40 3 35

Paciic Division

San Jose 35 18 7 77

Edmonton 33 21 8 74

Anaheim 32 20 10 74

Calgary 32 26 4 68

Los Angeles 29 27 4 62

Vancouver 26 28 6 58

Arizona 21 32 7 49

NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for

overtime loss.

Thursday’s Games

N.Y. Islanders 3, Montreal 0

Calgary 3, Tampa Bay 2

N.Y. Rangers 2, Toronto 1, SO

Nashville 4, Colorado 2

Chicago 6, Arizona 3

Boston 4, Los Angeles 1

Friday’s Games

Washington 2, Edmonton 1

Calgary 4, Florida 2

Carolina 3, Ottawa 0

Dallas 5, Arizona 2

Saturday’s Games

Anaheim at Los Angeles, 1 p.m.

Washington at Nashville, 2 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Columbus, 2 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at New Jersey, 2 p.m.

Montreal at Toronto, 4 p.m.

Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

Bufalo at Colorado, 7 p.m.

San Jose at Vancouver, 7 p.m.

Sunday’s Games

Boston at Dallas, 9:30 a.m.

Calgary at Carolina, Noon

Columbus at N.Y. Rangers, 2 p.m.

Edmonton at Nashville, 2 p.m.

St. Louis at Chicago, 4:30 p.m.

Ottawa at Florida, 4:30 p.m.

Bufalo at Arizona, 5:30 p.m.

College BasketballThe top 25 teams in The Associated Press’

college basketball poll, with irst-place votes

in parentheses, records through Feb. 19:

Record Pts Prv

1. Gonzaga (59) 28-0 1618 1

2. Villanova (5) 26-2 1556 2

3. Kansas (1) 24-3 1503 3

4. Arizona 25-3 1356 5

5. UCLA 24-3 1316 6

6. Oregon 24-4 1297 7

7. Louisville 22-5 1267 8

8. North Carolina 23-5 1138 10

9. Baylor 22-5 1108 4

10. Duke 22-5 1014 12

11. Kentucky 22-5 943 13

12. West Virginia 21-6 908 9

13. Florida 22-5 822 15

14. Purdue 22-5 807 16

15. Cincinnati 24-3 733 18

16. Wisconsin 22-5 713 11

17. SMU 24-4 554 19

18. Virginia 18-8 427 14

19. Florida State 21-6 419 17

20. Saint Mary’s 24-3 375 22

21. Notre Dame 21-7 322 25

22. Butler 21-6 295 24

23. Creighton 22-5 178 20

24. Maryland 22-5 159 23

25. Wichita State 25-4 153 —

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7 p.m. ESPN2 — BYU at Gonzaga ESPNU — CIAA tournament, championship, at Charlotte, N.C. (same-day tape)DRAG RACING9 p.m. FS1 — NHRA, Arizona Nationals, qualifying, at Phoenix (same-day tape)GOLF2:30 a.m. GOLF — European PGA Tour, Joburg Open, third round, at Johannesburg10 a.m. GOLF — PGA Tour, Honda Classic, third round, at Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.Noon NBC — PGA Tour, Honda Classic, third round, at Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.9:30 p.m. GOLF — LPGA Tour, Honda LPGA Thailand, inal round, at Chonburi, ThailandMOTOR SPORTS4 p.m. FS1 — AMA, Monster Energy Supercross, at AtlantaNBA BASKETBALL2 p.m. NBA — Charlotte at Sacramento5:30 p.m. ABC — Chicago at ClevelandNHL HOCKEY5 p.m. NBC — Philadelphia at PittsburghRUGBY9:30 a.m. NBCSN — English Premiership, Saracens vs. Sale Sharks (same-day tape)RUNNING4 p.m. NBCSN — Tokyo Marathon, at TokyoWOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL10 a.m. BTN — Indiana at Illinois

SUNDAY, Feb. 26AUTO RACING11 a.m. FOX — NASCAR, Monster Energy Cup Series, Daytona 500, at Daytona Beach, Fla.BOWLING10 a.m. ESPN — PBA Tour, USBC Masters, at Las VegasNoon ESPN — PBA World Bowling Tour Finals, at Las VegasCOLLEGE BASKETBALL10 a.m. CBSSN — Middle Tennessee at UAB11 a.m. CBS — Syracuse at LouisvilleNoon CBSSN — Cincinnati at UCF12:30 p.m. FS1 — Butler at Xavier1 p.m. CBS — Wisconsin at Michigan St. ESPNU — East Carolina at Tulsa

2 p.m. CBSSN — Houston at Memphis3:30 p.m. ESPNU — Georgia Tech at Notre Dame4:30 p.m. BTN — Illinois at Nebraska5:30 p.m. ESPNU — Washington at Washington St.DRAG RACING3 p.m. FS1 — NHRA, Arizona Nationals, inals, at Phoe-nix (same-day tape)GOLF2:30 a.m. GOLF — European PGA Tour, Joburg Open, inal round, at Johannesburg10 a.m. GOLF — PGA Tour, Honda Classic, inal round, at Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.Noon NBC — PGA Tour, Honda Classic, inal round, at Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.NBA BASKETBALL12:30 p.m. NBA — Phoenix at Milwaukee4 p.m. NBA — New Orleans at Oklahoma City6:30 p.m. NBA — Charlotte at L.A. ClippersNHL HOCKEY9:30 a.m. NBC — Boston at Dallas4:30 p.m. NBCSN — St. Louis at ChicagoRUGBY9 a.m. NBCSN — English Premiership, Bristol vs. Bath (same-day tape)TRACK & FIELD2:30 p.m. NBCSN — USATF, USA Indoor Championships, at Albuquerque, N.M.WINTER SPORTS12:30 p.m. NBCSN — IBSF World Cup, Men’s Skeleton and Four-Man Bobsleigh, at Konigssee, Germany (same-day tape)WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL9 a.m. BTN — Minnesota at Maryland ESPNU — Georgia at Florida10 a.m. ESPN2 — Florida St. at Notre Dame FS1 — Georgetown at DePaul SEC — Vanderbilt at LSU11 a.m. BTN — Michigan at Penn St. ESPNU — Game TBANoon ESPN2 — Ohio St. at Rutgers SEC — Auburn at Arkansas1 p.m. BTN — Northwestern at Purdue2 p.m. ESPN2 — Game TBA SEC — Texas A&M at Mississippi

SPORTS ON THE AIR

The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017 • Sports 3SPORTS

protects good regular season teams that lose a game or two in districts. (Not all of them, how-ever; Clarkston, the top-ranked 2A boys team, lost out to Prosser in a district crossover; that Prosser team plays Centralia on Saturday.)

• TEAMS IN TOUGH LEAGUES GET REWARDED. W.F. West and Black Hills were the top two 2A girls teams in the state, based on RPI. They also played each oth-er twice in the regular season, which didn’t hurt the Bearcats; instead, the league’s overall strength was a boon to both teams.

What Doesn’t Work

• DISTRICTS. The 2A District 4 tournament retained its rel-evance, because the consola-tion battle for third place had a regional spot on the line. The 2B tournament — historically a big draw — wasn’t so lucky. Six teams from District 4 (which is huge, compared to the rest of the state) get regional spots; the district tournament determines which teams those are, but has no bearing on their seeding. That’s all RPI now.

A district title, then, is the only bonus a team can gain from districts, and it only shows up in the trophy case. This is good for a team like the Napavine boys, who were undefeated in the regular season but lost two in a row in districts; Napavine’s No. 3 RPI ranking guaranteed a Spokane trip so long as the Ti-gers weren’t eliminated.

This is bad for a team like district runner-up Toledo, which was ranked No. 9 in RPI but moved up to the top 8 when Ilwaco was eliminated.

“Normally, second in districts, we would host somebody from another region, but we’re in the top 8 and have to go somewhere,” Toledo coach Grady Fallon said.

“But the other advantage is you’re in the state tournament. There’s lots of pros and cons. It seems like more cons, and I tried not to worry about it too much.”

It also left plenty of coaches shrugging after consolation games. After a team made the semifinals, the rest was a moot point; Napavine and Adna’s girls consolation semifinal was proof of that. The Pirates won by 30 after the teams played two fairly close games in the regu-lar season, and coaches Jeremy Landram and Chris Bannish may as well have been in reverse game of chicken to see who’d pull their starters first.

“Once you qualified, there’s really no reason to fight for third place,” Fallon, also Toledo’s ath-letic director, said. “There was talk at our AD meetings about not even playing those games. Why?”

• IT’S NOT GREAT OUTSIDE THE TOP 8: Kelly, who’s been coaching for well over 20 years and is often critical of the WIAA’s decisions, doesn’t mind the RPI system.

“As far as it goes, I like it, just because it worked out for us, I guess,” Kelly said. “I think it’s just a work in progress. I think it’s going to get better, and I think it is a little better than it was.”

Landram and Bannish, throughout the year, haven’t been as impressed. Landram’s Tigers went 12-8 in the regu-lar season and finished 21st on the RPI board, behind Toutle Lake and Life Christian — both of which were eliminated in districts. They also finished a whopping 17 spots behind No. 4 Raymond, despite hammering the Gulls 47-25 in the winner-

to-regionals district quarterfi-nals.

Adna’s 18-2 regular-season record — with losses to No. 2 Wahkiakum and No. 3 Kalama

— earned just the No. 11 spot in the final RPI board. That’s be-hind Colfax and Mabton, both of which went 15-5 in the regu-lar season.

As things played out, Adna and Napavine play in a loser-out regional game. The winner goes to Spokane, where another los-er-out game — against the loser of the Davenport-Wahkiakum regional — awaits.

Meanwhile, Raymond’s guaranteed a spot in Spokane, thanks to its No. 4 RPI spot. That’s the same Raymond team Napavine beat — twice — in districts.

• DISTRICTS DON’T COUNT: The RPI ratings are finalized after the regular season. Part of the

“districts don’t matter” argument (and it’s a strong one) centers on the fact that RPI scores don’t include the results of playoff games, never mind the neuter-ing it does to the tournament’s seeding implications. A team could go 4-0, win a district title, and still be seeded lower than an undefeated team that lost in the opening round and won just enough games to still qualify for state.

“When it comes down to it, you have to beat good teams. You’re not going to get a free ride because your RPI’s high,” Fallon said. “I would hope that they’ll make a change, and tweak it if they’re going to keep it. Even go into the first round (of districts).”

The argument against fac-toring playoff results into RPI scores was the number of games included. Some teams only play two district games, while a 2B team in District 4 could get six games in with a first-round loss and then a little luck.

That logic, though, falters with a look at the final RPI board; teams had regular-sea-son schedules with anywhere from 16 to 20 games. As the entire equation is based on per-centages, it seems like a fixable flaw.

Potential Upgrades

It really hasn’t been that bad. It’s made the regional selection process more transparent, and the 12-team state format offers a built-in safety net for teams that get upset in districts and, for that matter, regionals. (I don’t necessarily agree with this; if you can’t win your district tour-nament, no matter who else is in your district, you’re not the best team in the state and don’t need the seeding advantages awarded to such.) It’s also done away with the shock factor that often came upon the release of the regional brackets; this year, everyone had a good idea days or weeks in ad-vance who they’d be playing be-fore the brackets were finalized.

Most of the “where teams are ranked” arguments settled out over time and, in some cas-es, seem to have come up due more to front- or back-loaded schedules than a flaw in the math. Wahkiakum was a good example; the Mules’ girls team went 20-0 in the regular season but, shortly after the first RPI rankings were released, weren’t even in the top 10. A few games against Kalama sorted that out, and Wahkiakum finished No. 2

— a spot ahead of Kalama, which beat the Mules in the district championship.

The most pressing fix — and pressing is a relative term here

— is the district tournaments. They need to be factored into the RPI or abandoned altogether, if they don’t have any bearing on the next playoff step.

As there’s a historical element

at play and the 2B district cham-pionship games in Chehalis of-fer a better one-day hoops atmo-sphere than any of the games in Spokane, I hope they can find a way to make them matter again.

I’ve got two potential fixes:1. DISTRICT CHAMPION PASS.

Keep the RPI system but final-ize it after the second round of the playoffs. Most teams play at least two district games, and a two-game variance in a team’s pool of games wouldn’t make a huge difference. Then, throw a twist in the final RPI board: The district champions move to the top of the rankings and are arranged based on their RPI score. There won’t be any huge changes, but it provides an extra incentive in the district tourna-ment and a tangible bonus for a team that gets hot at the right time.

2. PUT DISTRICTS OUT TO PASTURE. Not my first choice, but an easy solution. After the regular sea-son, take the number of regional spots a district gets and fill it with pigtail games. District 4 gets six 2B regional spots, so take the top 12 teams from Dis-trict 4 based on RPI and let them play a winner-to-regionals game.

(I actually just mocked this up for the 2B girls … Adna and Napavine, this year, would have played in the 5/8 game. Maybe it’s fate?)

Conclusion

The RPI system isn’t per-fect. No matter what system is in place, though, there’s going to be early state matchups ev-eryone hates and flaws in the system. The combination of RPI and the new 12-team format is a hot mess for the average fan to grasp, but it’s also solved the problem it set out to — there’s no possibility of a top-3 team losing to another top-3 team in a loser-out game this weekend.

RPIContinued from Sports 1

By Jayda Evans

The Seattle Times

The Washington Interscho-lastic Activities Association achieved transparency when it unveiled state basketball tour-nament seeding based on a Rat-ing Percentage Index formula

— it just didn't eliminate the head-scratching.

The West Seattle girls basket-ball team capped an impressive lead-up to this week's regionals by winning the SeaKing District title. But the Wildcats, who were ranked No. 14 in RPI standings at the end of the regular season, didn't benefit from the champi-onship win because the WIAA's system doesn't factor in postsea-son play.

So, West Seattle remains in the loser-out side of the 16-team bracket vying for the Class 3A girls state title. The Wildcats are seeded 11th and face No. 14 seed Edmonds-Woodway in a region-al Saturday at Bellevue College.

"After going through this year, one of the top priorities of the committee will be to determine a way to factor in the district tour-nament," said WIAA assistant executive director Cindy Adsit, who oversees basketball among other duties. "We just don't know yet what that will be. We've had several different options of how that might be done. ... They'll sort through that and then make a decision about what changes will be put in place for next year."

The calculation of the RPI,

which was updated daily on the WIAA website, could also be tweaked. Bothell's girls bas-ketball team went undefeated and topped Class 4A in RPI standings, but was eliminated in district play. Meanwhile the Lindbergh boys were 45th in RPI standings and qualified for the Class 2A state tournament through their district tourna-ment.

Boys teams Hoquiam (35th) in Class 1A and Inglemoor (34th) in Class 4A are other re-gional qualifiers. Friday Harbor girls were 33rd and sit as the No. 16 seed in the Class 2B tourney.

Seeding based on the RPI replaced a draw, which would sometimes cause marquee matchups occurring in early

rounds at state.Under the new tournament

format, winners of the teams seeded Nos. 1-8 receive a bye to the state quarterfinals. Losers of those games will play the win-ners of teams seeded 9-16.

"I love the idea of protect-ing your No. 1 seeds, rewarding them for having a great season," said Bishop Blanchet girls coach Brett Hecko, whose team lost to Mercer Island in the district semifinals. It was the Braves' first loss of the season, but they retain the No. 1 seed in the Class 3A state tournament.

"But there has to be some hy-brid model to make the district championship matter at the next level," Hecko continued. "Make sure the district champ is in the

nonelimination bracket of re-gionals."

The 12 teams that advance from the regionals play in a mod-ified double-elimination portion of the state tournament, which is also seeded by RPI. The top-seeded Nathan Hale boys played their closest game of the season against Rainier Beach, winning 88-84 last week for the SeaKing district title.

The teams will play again Sat-urday as a regional matchup.

"I'm dumbfounded by this whole thing," said Rainier Beach coach Mike Bethea, whose team is the defending state champs.

"It's a disadvantage for us. ... You can't stick a toe into this thing. You've got to include the postsea-son or it doesn't make any sense."

Biggest Hole in WIAA’s New RPI System? Postseason GamesPrep Basketball

W.F. West kept its compo-sure to pull away in the third quarter and hand Wapato a 69-50 loss in the regional playoffs, securing itself a bye on the loser-out first day of action next week at the State 2A Girls Basketball Tournament.

And, given the setup of the bracket, the Bearcats (20-4) won’t need to take the court un-til 9 p.m. on Thursday night.

“We’re so excited,” Steen add-ed. “It’s prime time.”

Prime time on Friday night was the third quarter, when W.F. West switched to its Louisville half-court defense to slow up Wapato guards Tarryn Hart and Janealle Sutterlict.

W.F. West led 31-25 at half-time, but started to pull away with a 7-0 run — kicked off by a banked 3 from Maddie Fast — midway through the third.

“That was big time, right there,” Kelly said of the third period. “I thought we just re-grouped and got it back together, because things were going good.”

Courtney Bennett and Shas-ta Lofgren hit back-to-back 3s late in the third, and Ericka Brumfield scored 8 of her game-high 18 points — which came along with 15 rebounds — in the fourth to help W.F. West close out the win. Four of Brum-field’s points came in an 8-0 run in the final 2 minutes that only added to what had been a

13-point cushion.“Brumfield played great,”

Kelly pointed out. “She had a

hell of a game.”Rebounding was a priority

against the smaller, but quick,

Wolves. The Bearcats held a 49-29 advantage on the glass, with Lexie Strasser adding 12 boards.

Julia Johnson added 13 points, Steen finished with 12 and Lofgren — who closed the first quarter by tossing in a run-ning 30-foot 3 — added 10.

Hart led Wapato with 15 points, and Sutterlict added 14. The Wolves, though, shot just 19 of 68 from the field (28 percent), and coaxed the Bearcats into 19 turnovers.

“It wasn’t the prettiest of games, but it was a big win,” Kel-ly said.

The Bearcats managed to balance it out down the stretch by going 17 of 25 at the foul line.

Due to the WIAA’s new re-gional format, the game didn’t carry the same weight as similar contests have over the past few years. Wapato (19-3), too, will still advance to Yakima, but will play either East Valley (Spokane) or Port Angeles in a loser-out game on Wednesday.

“We always put emphasis into every single game,” said Lof-gren. “This one felt a little bigger, because it was to see if we were in single elimination or double elimination, but every game we come in with the amount of pressure on ourselves.”

Not that they’re about to take it easy at this point.

“It’s go time now. It’s not re-laxed,” she said. “Next week is go time, for sure.”

W.F. West will play at 9 p.m. on Thursday night in Yakima, against the winner of a first-round game between Prosser and the loser of Saturday’s Black Hills/Archbishop Murphy re-gional game.

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W.F. West’s Julia Johnson, right, pressures Wapato’s Janealle Sutterlict during the Bearcats’ 69-50 regional win over the Wolves

Friday night in Tumwater.


By Jose M. Romero


PEORIA, Ariz. — Trades don’t surprise Drew Smyly any-more.

At age 27, the Seattle Mari-ners left-hander has been dealt twice. The first swap sent him from the team that drafted and developed Smyly, the Detroit Tigers, to the Tampa Bay Rays in midseason 2014. That trade landed star pitcher David Price in Detroit.

“I was surprised by that one,” Smyly said.

The most recent trade involv-ing him came in January, when the Rays shipped Smyly to Seat-tle for three prospects in one of many moves by Mariners gener-al manager Jerry Dipoto. Smyly immediately joined the Mariners’ projected starting rotation, and is having fun getting to know his new teammates at spring train-ing by way of manager Scott Ser-vais’ clubhouse icebreakers.

Servais thinks Smyly is a sol-id fit as a still young yet experi-enced pitcher.

“One, being where he’s at in his career age-wise and service time, he’s kind of at the point where, put him in the right envi-ronment ... very good defensive outfield, he’s a fly ball guy, may-be he does step up and take the next step,” Servais said. “Getting out of the American League East certainly should help him, but there’s no guarantees. Our divi-sion’s pretty tough.”

Servais suggested that an-

other Arkansas native, ex-big leaguer Cliff Lee, might have helped sell Seattle on Smyly. Lee is a former Mariner and the two share an agent.

Smyly went 7-12 in a career-high 30 starts last season in Tam-pa, but won five games from July 30 to the end of the season after starting out 2-11. From May 21

to July 18, he lost seven straight starts.

“Pitching’s tough, you know,” Smyly said. “To manipulate the ball, to make it do differ-

ent things, to put it in the strike zone with hitters that know what they’re doing. ... I just had a rough stretch but I show up at the field every day, play catch and work on my craft and you know, that’s going to turn around one day.”

The 32 home runs Smyly sur-rendered in 2016 figure to be re-duced in Seattle’s pitcher-friend-ly Safeco Field.

“It can only help,” he said. “But it’s still going to be up to me to execute pitches and pitch well.”

Smyly is set to join the U.S. World Baseball Classic team shortly. Before that, he’ll make his first spring training start in the middle of next week.

“It’s an honor to be able to put your country on your chest and play with some of the guys on that team,” he said. “I’m looking forward to it big time.”

NOTES: Servais plans to roll out what figures to be Seattle’s opening day lineup in the spring training opener Saturday against San Diego. It’s OF Jarrod Dyson, SS Jean Segura, 2B Robinson Cano, DH Nelson Cruz, 3B Kyle Seager, OF Mitch Haniger, 1B Dan Vogelbach, C Mike Zunino and OF Leonys Martin. ... Ser-vais said Cano and Cruz will play a little more than is typical for early spring games, as the two will depart for the World Baseball Classic in early March. ... LHP Ariel Miranda will start Saturday, then RHP Chris Hes-ton Sunday, RHP Yovani Gal-lardo on Monday and ace Felix Hernandez on Tuesday.

MLB

Drew Smyly Brings Youth and Experience to Mariners Rotation

CHARLIE RIEDEL / The Associated Press

Seattle Mariners pitcher Drew Smyly runs sprints during spring training baseball practice, Wednesday in Peoria, Ariz.

By Ryan Divish

The Seattle Times

PEORIA, Ariz. — In the brief 25-plus pitches of his first live batting practice session on Wednesday, you could see all the reasons why James Pazos could force his way into the Mariners' bullpen as the second left-hand-ed reliever.

"(Pazos) would be a nice fit for us if it clicks there," manager Scott Servais said.

But in those same 25 pitches, you could also see the issues — meandering fastball command and slider control — that have kept him in the minor leagues despite a left arm that produces velocity and stuff, which scream big leaguer.

"A guy that throws that hard, well why isn't he in the big leagues?" Servais said. "For him, it's been the command, getting the ball in the strike zone and landing his secondary pitch. He's aware of that."

Which portion of pitches from that 'pen that Pazos repli-cates on a consistent basis will be the determinant on where he starts or possibly finishes the season. If it's the Pazos that dot-ted the strike zone early, then he could be on the opening day ros-ter. But if not, he'll be in Tacoma

trying to find that consistency. In his first time facing hitters this spring, he came away pleased.

"It felt really good," he said. "I wasn't trying to do too much. Coaches pointed a few things that I could work on that maybe would help be a little more con-sistent. I'm excited to work on those things and see what hap-pens."

The changes aren't highly technical.

"Just staying balanced and fin-ishing and trying to stay online in general," he said.

There is little doubt about his talent, starting with a fast-ball that averages 94.8 mph per Brooks Baseball. The Mariners believe Pazos can touch 97-98 mph with that fastball on certain days.

"You see the power," Servais said.

But harnessing that power and locating it where it's sup-posed to be has been admittedly

an issue for his professional ca-reer. It all starts with the fastball.

"The first thing has to be com-manding that fastball," he said.

"Once I get a handle on that, I'm going to have to use the slider as much as I can keep them off the fastball. But that fastball com-mand is going to have to come first."

The lack of command mani-fests itself obviously in walks

— a career 10.5 walk percentage — but it's also in a lack of qual-ity strikes or at-bats where Pazos falls behind into hitter's counts. In a compressed role of a reliev-er with lesser margins of error, those mistakes can be costly.

An opposing scout rated Pa-zos' command "as below average with a chance to improve."

When the command is there, he can be almost unhittable. But it hasn't been completely sustain-able for extended periods.

"Sometimes it can be really good," he said. "Once I fine tune

my mechanics and get those things in order, it will be perma-nently good."

In search of left-handed relief depth, the Mariners acquired Pa-zos in the offseason in exchange for minor league starting pitcher Zack Littell.

Pazos, once considered an untouchable prospect by the Yankees, could never throw enough strikes to manager Joe Girardi's liking. In 18 big league appearances combined from 2015 and 2016, Pazos posted a 5.40 ERA, giving up 10 hits and walking four batters in 8⅓ in-nings pitched. Those numbers were counter to the success he had in the minor leagues. In 23 relief appearances with Class AAA Scranton-Wilkes Barre in 2016, Pazos posted a 2.63 ERA with 41 strikeouts and 19 walks in 27⅓ innings pitched. Lefties hit just .152 with a .467 on-base plus slugging percentage in 52 plate appearances.

The trade was blessing for Pazos. He was born and raised in Gilbert, Arizona and attend-ed the University of San Diego, where he was a standout and se-lected in the 13th round of the 2012 draft by the Yankees. Pazos lives across the valley in Chan-dler with a few friends.

"It's been a dream come true

getting back on the west coast," he said. "The Yankees were great, but I'd much rather be on the west coast and be at home. My friends and family can come see me. It's been great so far."

More important, the trade offered a chance to compete for a spot in the Mariners' bull-pen along with Zac Curtis, Nick Hagadone, Paul Fry and others. Pazos wasn't certain he'd have that chance had he remained with New York.

"It's huge," he said. "There wasn't much going on with New York. But here, they've told me a spot is open. There's opportunity. They're going to give us all an op-portunity to make that happen."

Servais pulled Pazos aside after Wednesday's live batting practice session to talk with him about what he needs to do in this camp and going forward.

"It's his ability to make ad-justments," Servais said. "I was talking to him a little bit about it yesterday. It's the separator for minor league players and big league players. You've just got to make adjustments a little bit quicker instead of throwing three or four or five balls out of the strike zone in the same spot. Big leaguers don't do that. They miss once, they might miss twice, but an adjustment is made."

With Improved Command, Lefty James Pazos Could Be a ‘Nice Fit’ for M’s Bullpen

‘‘A guy that throws that hard, well why isn’t he in the big leagues?’’

Scott Servais

Mariners manager

By Craig Davis

Sun Sentinel

JUPITER, Fla. — The day after a spring training mishap sent the Marlins’ Ichiro Suzu-ki to the trainer’s room for the first time in his major league career, the future Hall of Fam-er was walking gingerly and skipped the team workout.

Ichiro said he was most bothered by the knock he took to the quadriceps above his right knee in a collision Tues-day with non-roster invitee Brandon Barnes during a drill in the outfield.

The Japanese star also complained of discomfort in his lower back following the incident, but Wednesday morning he said, “Right now right above the knee hurts the most, but we’ll see where we’re at.”

Ichiro was favoring his leg as he left the clubhouse on the way to work out on his personal exercise machines in a trailer behind the Marlins’ main building.

“I think the next day is probably going to be the worst.

A little pain,” Ichiro said via his interpreter, Allen Turner, adding, “I won’t do anything on the field (Wednesday). Just stay in and maybe do some light machine work and some treatments.”

The incident occurred during a drill to promote out-field communication, with Ichiro in center field and Barnes in right. On balls hit into the gaps, corner outfield-ers are supposed to give way when the center fielder calls for the ball.

On one ball hit to right-center, Ichiro and Barnes ap-parently didn’t hear each oth-er and they collided.

“We both yelled for the ball at the same exact time,” Barnes said afterward.

Although Ichiro left the field for treatment, the inci-dent was a source of some lev-ity in the clubhouse.

Teammates cleared out Barnes’ locker and posted a sign that read, “You’re cut! Good luck in Korea.” Ichiro signed the note and made light of their encounter.

But the day after showed

that even a seemingly minor ailment can be troublesome.

Ichiro said he will “just kind of take it day by day and see how I feel.”

Marlins manager Don Mattingly noted the rarity of Ichiro missing a workout, saying, “He deserves it after how many years — 17 years or something — a day off.”

Ichiro, entering his 17th season in the majors, has been on the disabled list only once since coming to the United States, for a bleeding ulcer in 2009. His previous visits to the trainer’s room were in Ja-pan where the massage spe-cialists work.

Mattingly was uncertain how much time Ichiro would miss.

“Off the field today; we’ll see how he feels,” Mattingly said. “He probably feels the quad more today, just because of the knee there. But proba-bly the back is something we’ll make sure that we get away from that as time goes. But we feel pretty good about it.”

Ichiro Sore, Skips Workout After Collision at CampBy Mark Gonzales

Chicago Tribune

MESA, Ariz. — Manager Joe Maddon wisely shot down the thought of new leadoff batter Kyle Schwarber getting the op-portunity to run at every oppor-tunity.

“I would prefer he subscribes to the Brian Downing method of leading off,” Maddon quipped Thursday in referring to the for-mer leadoff hitter for the White Sox and Angels who was called the “Incredible Hulk” because of his stout, muscular frame.

Maddon’s desire to lengthen the Cubs lineup involves the bat-ters hitting behind Schwarber

— Kris Bryant, Anthony Rizzo and Ben Zobrist — as well as the ninth spot that could revert back to a position player.

Maddon hopes to maximize a lineup that led the National League in walks (656) and hit by pitches (96). The switch-hitting Zobrist, who could bat leadoff when Schwarber needs a day off to rest his surgically-repaired left knee or when the Cubs are facing a tough left-handed starter, sta-bilized the lineup with 61 RBIs in the fourth and fifth spots last season in addition to his .386 on-base percentage.

With the left-handed Schwarber possessing the abil-ity to reach base frequently and hit for power, Maddon has asked the Cubs’ analytics department to provide data to determine whether it would be beneficial for a position player — such as Albert Almora or Jon Jay — to bat ninth and serve sort of as a second leadoff hitter to set up run-producing opportunities for Schwarber, Bryant and Rizzo.

Maddon batted Addison Russell in the ninth spot in 2015 partly to protect the rookie. Since then, Russell has blossomed into a formidable run-producer who moved from the seventh spot to fifth midway through the 2016 season.

Maddon’s biggest issue is ac-tually a nice problem — decid-ing who bats seventh. He has the option of keeping Russell in the five hole or possibly inserting Ja-son Heyward and his revamped swing there, with either player dropping to sixth. He also could elevate Willson Contreras, who batted .282 with 12 home runs in 252 at-bats in 2016.

Regardless, Maddon seems willing to examine all options as long as possible.

Cubs Manager Joe Maddon Pondering His Many Non-Conformist Lineup Options


The 2017 Mariners leave an undeniable first impression, one that surpasses any-

thing I’ve seen from this team in years — maybe ever. They pos-sess an abundance of talent in a particular area that happens to be gaining prominence through-out baseball.

No, not power, or speed, or hard-throwing hurlers, though they hope to shine in all those categories.

“I do know that we are going to lead the league in hair this year,” manager Scott Servais said with a laugh.

Yes, these Mariners are The Titans of Tress. The Monsters of Mane. The Le-viathans of Locks.

OK, I’ll stop. But for a hand-ful of Mariners, their hair never does. Sprinkled throughout the clubhouse are several Chris Hemsworth clones, most of them new to the organization, who are rocking free-flowing ’dos that might have been more fitting on college campuses in the 1960s than the sometimes-staid environs of a baseball team.

But the times, they are a changing. It might have been Johnny Damon who started the slow but steady infiltration of long hair back into the game (at least until he went to the ultimate conformist team, the Yankees, and they made him get a haircut). Or maybe it was Tim Lincecum at his most Freak-ish. Certainly, the Mariners had an outlier in the button-down 1990s when Randy Johnson used his wild locks as part of a calcu-lated mask of intimidation.

But it is undeniable that after a long (and to my mind, regret-table) stretch where full, often mangy beards were the follicle trend of the moment, long hair is on the rise. Or more accurate-ly, on the fall, as in falling down over the shoulders.

Think Noah Syndergaard, better known as Thor, or his Mets’ teammate, Jacob deGrom. Think Jayson Werth or Andrew McCutchen or Jeff Samardzija or Zack Greinke or Jered Weaver or any other abundantly mopped major-leaguer.

The Mariners had been mostly immune from this phe-nomenon — until players started showing up for this year’s camp. There was utility man Taylor Motter, acquired from Tampa Bay, with hair tickling his num-bers. There was left-handed reliever Dillon Overton, added from Oakland, looking like a modern-day Jesus. There was Zac Curtis, a pickup from the Diamondbacks, proudly display-ing his flow. There was Dylan Unsworth, a young pitcher from South Africa whose admira-tion for Lincecum and Weaver prompted him to grow out his hair in homage. There was catcher Sebastien Valle, with a curly black mane he can’t con-tain under his hat. There was returning outfielder Ben Gamel,

who like Valle came out of the Yankee organization and was de-lighted to no longer have restric-tions on hair length.

“I think it is a trending thing in baseball,” Overton said. “I think the more people that have it, the more people are going to try to get it.”

Curtis, acquired along with Jean Segura and Mitch Haniger in the trade that sent Taijuan Walker and Ketel Marte to the Diamondbacks, noticed right away he had kindred coiffured spirits on the Mariners. Servais, in fact, dropped a reference to the House of David, a hirsute traveling ballclub in the early 20th century.

“It’s nice when you see more guys with longer hair, and you’re not the single guy,” Curtis said.

“Especially with the Diamond-backs, there weren’t too many guys, so I was always the guy with long hair. So seeing other guys makes the clubhouse a little more inviting.”

The Mariners have since lost, at least partially, one of their longhair crew when Unsworth got a haircut on Monday. It’s still a bit on the long side, but before his first live bullpen session in his first major-league camp, Unsworth decided he wanted to present a more dignified look.

“Once I stepped on the mound, it starts, so I wanted to get fresh and look good,” he said.

“Then I’ll start growing it out.”For a pitcher, there might be

a tactical advantage to having hair that whips back and forth, Willow Smith style, during delivery. One anonymous ball-player told the Bergen Record last year that he was distracted by deGrom’s cascading hair.

“You can’t not look at it,” he said. “It’s everywhere. It bothers

me when I’m trying to pick up the ball out of his hand. All I see is hair.”

I asked Overton if there was a strategic element to his own hairdo.

“No, I actually don’t think about that,” he said. “I just think it looks good under a hat.”

Touche. That’s probably the same motivation Oscar Gamble had when he unveiled his world-class afro in the 1970s, a song as old as time. Overton said he used to wear his hair short until a couple of years ago, when he promised his Class AA team-mates he’d grow it out until the next spring training. And kept his word.

“My wife actually really liked it, and she wouldn’t let me cut it,” he said. “That’s the reason it’s as long as it is now.”

Curtis’s affinity for long hair goes back much farther. His father tells the story of the time he was walking young Zac, age 2 or 3, through the grocery store. A woman stopped him and said, “Sir, your daughter is so beauti-ful.”

Said Curtis: “He dropped ev-erything and took me straight to the barber shop and got my head shaved. But I’ve always had long hair. One year, I didn’t have long hair – I cut it for baseball, my ju-nior year in college. It was by far the worst year of baseball I had. I kind of leverage that now.”

Gamel watched with empa-thy the other day when newly acquired outfield prospect Clint Frazier showed up in Yankees camp with a striking mop of curly red hair, but was required to cut it before the first workout. Gamel has been there, done that.

“I did that for seven years, so I’m completely aware of that situation,” said Gamel, acquired

by Seattle in a trade with the Yankees last August. “This is the first year I’ve ever really been able to (grow his hair out), so I figured, why not? I get to let my hair down a little bit. No pun, I guess.”

Unlike the Yankees and some other teams, the Mariners under this regime put a pre-mium on individuality, which to my Berkeley-immersed sensibil-ity is a good thing. It might even put them head and shoulders above the competition (pun, I guess).

“They’re open to anything,” Curtis said. “Just be yourself. Whether you have long hair, short hair, no hair, it really doesn’t matter. It’s cool.”

That doesn’t mean Servais

is necessarily a fan of the Fabio look, mind you. But he’s a fan of self-expression and creating a nurturing environment.

“I think you guys have heard me say it enough: Be who you are,” Servais said. “That doesn’t mean there won’t be some rib-bing and stuff to tighten it up a little bit. But it’s society. Things have changed. I’m not about wearing the uniform the same way. If you’re going to preach, ‘Be who you are and let your per-sonality come out,’ you have to let it go.”

So enjoy this capillary bo-nanza while you can. Who knows? By next spring, the shaggy look might be out and buzz cuts back in.

Hair today, gone tomorrow.

By Larry Stone

The Seattle

Times

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Mariners Are Giving New Meaning to ‘Hairy Situation’ in Spring Training

KEN LAMBERT / The Seattle Times

Taylor Motter during Mariners spring training Monday in Peoria, Ariz.

FULL HOUSE: Spiller, Who Had Brief Stint With Seattle, Joins Four RBs on Kansas City’s Roster

By Terez A. Paylor

The Kansas City Star

In recent years, the Chiefs have had some success taking low-risk fliers on versatile run-ning backs.

On Friday, the decided to take a chance on another, as the club announced the signing of former first-round draft pick C.J. Spiller.

Spiller, 29, joins Spencer Ware, Charcandrick West, Ja-maal Charles and Darrin Reaves as running backs currently un-der contract for 2017. All except Charles, a third-round pick in 2008, were signed as inexpensive free agents.

The cap-starved Chiefs could still create $6.87 million in cap room by releasing Charles, who

logged only 14 touches in a sec-ond-consecutive injury-short-ened season. But they do not necessarily have to make a cor-responding roster move to sign Spiller, as there are no roster lim-its at this time of the year.

Spiller, a speedy do-it-all dy-namo at Clemson, once ran a blistering 4.37-second 40-yard dash leading up to the 2010 NFL draft, where he was selected ninth overall by the Buffalo Bills.

In five years with the Bills, he rushed 668 times for 3,321 yards

— an average of 5 yards per carry — and 12 touchdowns.

His best season as a pro came in 2012, when he rushed for a career-high 1,244 yards, caught 43 passes for 459 yards and made the Pro Bowl for the only time in his career.

After an injury-shortened 2014 season, he signed a four-year, $18 million contract with the New Orleans Saints. He had a knee injury in training camp and appeared in 13 games, start-ing two, rushing 36 times for 112

yards and catching 34 passes for 239 yards and two touchdowns.

Spiller made the Saints out of training camp last season, but did not appear in the season opener after a trio of younger, cheaper backs — Tim Hightower, Travaris Cadet and Daniel Lasco

— took the backup spots behind starter Mark Ingram.

This led to Spiller’s release shortly after the season opener against the Raiders, after which Saints coach Sean Payton report-edly called Spiller a “phenomenal guy” and “good teammate.”

Spiller was scooped up a few weeks later by Seattle, where he carried the ball three times for 9 yards and caught five passes for 43 yards in two games before his release in late October.

A week later, he latched on with the New York Jets and rushed three times for 9 yards and caught a pass for 7 yards in four games before his release in early December.

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There was a time when Kasey Kahne was the future of NASCAR — a prodigy on

the fast track literally and figu-ratively.

The Enumclaw native’s six Monster En-ergy Cup wins in 2006 were more than any other driver, including that year’s cham-pion, Jimmie Johnson.

If you were to turn back the clock to that season, you’d see a 25-year-old Kahne on the verge of stardom in the country’s most popular motorsports series. But that’s only if you turn back the clock — because when it comes to career in the present day … the clock is ticking.

Like Dan Marino reaching his lone Super Bowl in his sec-ond NFL season, Kahne’s acme appears to have come early. Now 36, he has yet to have another year with more than two victo-ries, and is winless since August of 2014.

For a driver of his profile and ability, that’s a Sahara-esque drought. The good news? He has a chance to snap that skid in the

most glorious way this weekend.“We had a racetrack at home

when I was a kid, and I was al-ways imagining it was the last lap at Daytona,” Kahne said. “It’s been a dream of mine all my life.”

Sunday will mark Kahne’s 14th Daytona 500 (where he’ll start 28th), which is widely con-sidered the Super Bowl of NAS-CAR. And though Kasey has had three top-10 finishes in the race, he has never crossed the line first on the final lap.

Perhaps it’s overambitious to want to end an 83-race winless streak with the most prestigious checkered flag in the sport. It’s kind of like snapping out of a hitting slump with a walkoff grand slam.

But in addition to Kahne feeling confident that his Hen-drick Motorsports racing team has made significant strides this offseason, there is another reason to think Kasey will hit the track running this year: He

has to.Kahne’s contract with Hen-

drick runs out in 2018, which hasn’t gone unnoticed by the media. Questioned about that toward the end of last season, Kahne told foxsports.com “If I haven’t performed by 2018, I need to leave. It’s pretty simple. If I haven’t performed by then, it’s time to go do something dif-ferent.”

I followed up on Wednesday by asking what “something dif-ferent” might look like.

“I don’t know,” Kahne said. “At this point, all I really want to do is race.”

Not that he doesn’t have oth-er interests. Kahne’s high-inten-sity fitness routine has shredded his body along with stereotypes about NASCAR drivers’ physical condition.

“The better shape I’m in, the more I put my body through, the more it helps me on the track,” he said.

He’s also a huge Seahawks fan who has been attending games since they played at the Kingdome.

Who’s your favorite player on the team?

“Probably Jermaine Kearse. He’s a really nice, really cool guy,” Kahne said. “And as far as wide receivers go, his hands are unbelievable.” (Full disclosure, 12s: Kahne’s favorite player in

the NFL is Tom Brady.)But most of Kahne’s off-

the-track time is spent with his 1-year-old son, Tanner.

Kasey became a first-time father two Octobers ago and has been loving every minute of it. His Instagram feed is flooded with pictures of his son, some-times in dad’s lap, other times behind the wheel of a toy car.

Kahne said that he doesn’t care what his son does when he grows up, as long as he’s happy.

“But,” added Kasey,” if he’s around racing this much, I don’t see how he’s not going to race.”

From the Pettys to the Earn-hardts to the Waltrips to the Wallaces, NASCAR has been replete with fathers and sons who each saw success. Perhaps the Kahnes will join that list at some point.

Right now, Kahne isn’t thinking that far ahead. The past couple years haven’t gone anywhere close to how he hoped they would on the track, and the next couple years will have to be much more fruitful if he wants to keep that ride.

Sunday, Kahne will have the chance to spark that career comeback in his sport’s biggest race. It’s his chance to show that, despite his early success, he hasn’t peaked quite yet.

Racing

Can NASCAR Driver Kasey Kahne Get His Career Out of the Pits?

By Matt Calkins

The Seattle

Times

JEFF SINER / TNS

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Kasey Kahne, right, talks with crew members fol-

lowing practice at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., on Saturday, May

21, 2016.

By David Scott

The Charlotte Observer

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Attending college while trying to establish your racing career isn’t necessarily a good match.

That, at least, is what Char-lotte’s William Byron discovered last fall.

Byron, in the midst of a re-cord-setting rookie season on the NASCAR Truck series, was also beginning his freshman year at Liberty University in Lynch-burg, Va. His routine included attending classes early in the week, sometimes traveling to the Kyle Busch Motorsports shop in Mooresville, N.C., before head-ing off to that weekend’s race.

It became a grind for an often sleep-deprived Byron.

“It’s hard to get to sleep in a dorm,” Byron said. “There was a lot of stress from that.”

Byron finished the season with a rookie-record seven vic-tories, but came up short in his pursuit of the Truck champion-ship.

But that lifestyle forced Byron

into a decision: He’s not going to let disruptions on campus inter-fere this season as he makes the move up NASCAR’s ladder and into the Xfinity Series. His first race as a rookie in that series is in Saturday’s Powershares QQQ 300 at Daytona International Speedway.

Byron, 19, packed up and moved back to his family’s home in southeast Charlotte, just around the corner from his alma mater of Charlotte Country Day but far away from the distrac-tions of campus life. He’s not giving up on his education: He is taking online classes at Liberty in his business communications major.

“It’s good, it’s not too bad,” By-ron said of returning home. “It’s different. There are different re-sponsibilities. But it’s much dif-ferent than a dorm.”

Byron is able to be more fo-cused this season, during which his quick rise through the sport will again be showcased. Byron only began racing when he was 14, developing his skills on iRac-ing (an online driving simulator)

before getting on the track in 2014 for JR Motorsports in a late-model car.

Two years ago, he won NAS-CAR’s K&N Pro Series East championship, then moved to the Truck Series in 2016, where he dominated for much of the season before engine problems knocked him out of the playoffs at Phoenix International Speed-way.

Now, Byron finds himself in a Chevy for JR Motorsports (in partnership with Hendrick Mo-torsports).

“It’s never been easy,” Byron said. “I’ve been fortunate to have my results line up with effort. That’s not the case all the time. You don’t always see the fruits of your labor.”

Those results were enough for Byron to attract the atten-tion of Hendrick Motorsports owner Rick Hendrick. And By-ron already has experience with JR Motorsports, which is partly owned by Cup star Dale Earn-hardt Jr.

“We’re glad to have him back,” Earnhardt said. “We really didn’t

see what kind of potential he had until he started running some of (Busch’s) stuff.”

Byron has always had a strong sense of the business and marketing side of racing. He and his father, Bill, convinced Liberty to be a primary sponsor before he had a NASCAR ride, and that relationship continues.

“The one thing about William is his marketability and person-ality,” Earnhardt said. “The guy is so impressive. He’s very hum-ble, easy to talk to, good disposi-tion. Those are good and impor-tant things that will allow him to be able to network and partner with great relationships that Rick has with folks within our indus-try or within our company. Like our current sponsors — they’re going to love William. That’s a huge thing these days.

“He’s able to get it done on the track and off the track. He’s kind of a total package, much like (young Hendrick driver) Chase (Elliott). Good, well-mannered kid.”

Said Byron: “I grew up watching these guys sell their

sponsors and being able to be a great spokesperson off track, too. I didn’t grow up when it was just about racing the car. Obviously you want to win, that cures all issues on and off the track. But you’ve got to work well with sponsors. That’s something I’ve picked up.”

Hendrick plucked Byron from Busch’s team (and, sig-nificantly, from rival Joe Gibbs Racing). He sees Byron as one of several bright young drivers with the potential for stardom at the sport’s highest level.

“I love to watch the young guys,” Hendrick said. “I don’t know whether it makes me feel young again ... I don’t know what it is. I think about Jeff Gordon when I watch Chase. I’ve never seen the level of talent that we have today. I think these guys adapt so much faster. I think it’s because of video games, simula-tors, all that. I mean, it doesn’t take them long to get into it.

“I look for William to battle for Rookie of the Year. He’s the whole package. I’m so excited about him.”

William Byron Moves Home, Graduates to Next Level in NASCAR Education

By Mike Richman

The Oregonian

ORLANDO — As the Or-lando Magic were building a double-digit lead in the third quarter, an exasperated Terry Stotts marched two steps shy of half court to signal for a timeout.

The Portland Trail Blazers were on the verge of letting a winnable road game slip away, Stotts knew his team needed a moment to regroup. That’s when an unfamiliar voice spoke up in the huddle.

Shabazz Napier made sure to let his team know their energy and focus had to pick up on the defensive end if they didn’t want to suffer another embarrassing loss.

“He came into one of the hud-dles and he said, “If we want to win ... are we going to play hard?,” Blazer captain Damian Lillard said. “He kind of challenged our team and this is before he even checked in in the second half.”

When Napier did check in, he backed up his own words.

Magic point guard Elfrid Pay-ton had barreled his way to the rim on three straight possession prior to the Blazers’ timeout. Af-ter the stoppage, Stotts inserted Napier into the lineup alongside Lillard and CJ McCollum, giving Napier the defensive assignment on Orlando’s lead guard.

From the moment he spoke up in the huddle, Napier nev-er went back to the bench. He played the final 7:44 of the third quarter and then the entire fourth quarter to help the Blaz-ers earn a come-from-behind

victory.“I just liked Shabazz’s quick-

ness on the ball,” Stotts said. “I just didn’t feel comfortable tak-ing him out.”

Napier finished with 10 points, seven rebounds and six

assists in just over 26 minutes off the bench. He held the Magic point guards (Payton and D.J. Augustin) to six points on 2-for-7 shooting when he was on the court in the second half.

And as good as he was in the

flow of the game, his biggest con-tribution likely came before he even checked in after halftime.

“I told the team that offensive-ly we have great players so we’re going to be able to score,” Napier said. “It’s just defensively that we

have to be consistent. No mat-ter what’s going on, effort has to never be something that coach talks about.”

Speaking up is in Napier’s na-ture, but it’s not an easy thing to do.

Shabazz Napier Speaks Up, Shows Out in Trail Blazers Win Over Magic

WILLIE J. ALLEN JR. / The Associated Press

Portland Trail Blazers guard C.J. McCollum (3) dunks in front of Orlando Magic guard Evan Fournier, center, and forward Jeff Green, right, during the second half of an

NBA basketball game in Orlando, Fla., on Thursday.

NBA


College Basketball

By Jim Hoehn


SEATTLE — Kelsey Plum eventually continued her march toward the all-time career scor-ing mark, but the path was made much easier by Chantel Osahor.

Plum, the nation's leading scorer, finished with 25 points after a quiet start and Osahor had 24 points and 20 rebounds to pace No. 11 Washington past Colorado 79-46 in a Pac-12 game on Thursday night.

Plum, who entered averaging 30.9 points, pushed her career total to 3,340, second in NCAA Division I history behind Jackie Stiles, who scored 3,393 points at Southwest Missouri State from 1998-2001.

Osahor, who entered as the nation's leading rebounder, scored the first 10 points of the game and had a double-double by halftime with 19 points and 10 rebounds, including five of-fensive.

"I don't know what their game plan was, but it obviously didn't focus on her," Plum said. "That's a big mistake. She made them pay early and that was huge for us, going forward."

Washington (26-4, 14-3) led 20-18 after one quarter, but ex-tended the margin to 38-27 at the half. The Huskies pushed the lead to 59-39 after three quar-ters and then scored the first 10 points of the final period.

Led by Osahor, the Huskies had a 49-37 rebound advantage and 15 second-chance points. Washington also scored 19 points off Colorado's 14 turn-overs.

Haley Smith had 16 points for Colorado (15-13, 5-12), which lost to Washington 79-75 at home on Feb. 5.

After making 6 of 13 shots in the first quarter, the Buffaloes were just 11 of 53 the rest of the way, finishing at 25.8 percent.

They were held to single digits in the second and fourth quarters.

"I thought there was a small spurt in the first quarter that we played really well and executed the game plan as far being ag-gressive defensively, aggressive offensively," said Colorado coach JR Payne. "When we got more hesitant and allowed Osahor to just continue to get rebound af-ter offensive rebound , easy put backs - we turned the ball over more than we typically do, which led to easy baskets for them, I though it just snowballed on us."

Osahor's game-opening run, including a pair of 3-pointers, put Washington up 10-0. Colo-rado closed the first quarter with an 8-3 run to pull within 20-18. Osahor had 15 points in the first period.

Plum, who missed her only shot attempt in the first quarter, scored six points to pace a 9-0 run to open the second quarter as Washington opened a 29-18 lead with 6:54 left in the half.

"She knows that our goal is to make the defense wrong," said Washington coach Mike Neigh-bors. "We can't control how they want to play her. If they want to double her and end up sending a second and third one in her space, then she knows to make the right decision and that's to get Chantel going."

BIG PICTURE

COLORADO: After a 10-0 start under first-year coach JR Payne, the Buffaloes struggled in the rugged Pac-12. But, they were

4-4 in the eight games prior to Thursday. Colorado was 2-16 in the conference last season, 7-23 overall.

WASHINGTON: The Huskies have clinched a top-four seed and a first-round bye in the Pac-12 Tournament, to be played at KeyArena in Seattle, March 2-5.

STAT OF THE NIGHT

Osahor broke Washington's single-season rebounding record, which she set last season with 417 rebounds. She now has 436 this season, which leads the NCAA. It also was her 25th double-dou-ble this season.

UP NEXT

Colorado finishes the regular season at Washington State on

Saturday afternoon. The Buf-faloes defeated the Cougars at home 70-58 earlier this month.

Washington closes the regu-lar season at home on Saturday afternoon against Utah. The Huskies won at Utah 82-53 on Feb. 3.

ELAINE THOMPSON / The Associated Press

Washington’s Kelsey Plum (10) and Colorado’s Alexis Robinson (2) eye a loose ball during the irst half of an NCAA college

basketball game Thursday in Seattle.

Plum, Osahor, Lead No. 11 UW Past Colorado 79-46Crozon’s 19 Points Lead Utah Women Past WSU 74-57

PULLMAN (AP) — Paige Crozon put up 19 points and Utah grabbed control early and never let up in posting a 74-57 vic-tory at Washington State Thursday night.

The Utes salvaged a season split. Washington State won in Salt Lake City, 61-55.

Crozon capped a 9-0 Utah run to start the game with a layup with 7:06 left in the first quarter. The Utes held a 17-10 lead after one and led 33-21 by half-time.

Malia Nawahine knocked down three 3-pointers and contributed 15 points while Emily Pot-ter earned her ninth dou-ble-double of the season, grabbing 12 rebounds and scoring 11 points.

Alexys Swedlund hit 7 of 14 from the field and made three 3-pointers to lead Washington State with 19 points off the bench. Ivana Kmetovska added another 11 points off the bench.

Utah completes its regular season Saturday at Washington. Washington State plays host to Colo-rado in its regular-season finale.

CHENEY, Wash. (AP) — Bogdan Bliznyuk scored 25 points, Jacob Wiley added 20 points and 13 rebounds and Eastern Washington beat We-ber State 82-72 on Thursday night.

Eastern Washington (19-9, 11-4 Big Sky) has won three straight and is tied with Weber State (16-10, 11-4) for second

place in the conference standings, a game back of North Dakota.

Bliznyuk was 10 of 20 from the field and Wiley was 9-of-17 shooting. Sir Washington had 16 points and Ty Gibson chipped in 13 for the Eagles, who shot 29 of 58 (50 percent) from the field and made 18 of 22 (82 percent) free throws.

Zach Braxton had 19 points and eight rebounds to lead We-ber State.

The Wildcats made the first shot of the game for their only lead. Eastern Washington had a 14-point lead with six minutes left, and Weber State pulled to 72-67 with two minutes remain-ing but didn’t get closer.

TUCSON, Ariz. (TNS) — The most frustrating part of playing at Arizona, where the Wildcats have won 70 of their last 71 games after USC’s 90-77 loss on Thursday, is not when a visiting team is playing poorly.

That is to be expected. Wait until a team has a chance to play well here. Then futility can be understood.

USC learned this late in the first half. The Trojans were shooting the lights out. They were making smart cuts and scoring easy baskets. They packed the paint to fluster Ari-zona’s imposing frontcourt.

At one point, the Trojans led by nine points, and some in a rabid student section began to pull Arizona bucket hats — the night’s giveaway — over their eyes.

Then, with little more than two minutes left, the lead began to disappear. Fourth-ranked Ar-izona made four three-pointers right before the half. USC (21-7, 8-7 in the Pac-12 Conference) had mostly outplayed the Wild-cats. They still trailed by five at the break.

Playing first-place Arizona (26-3, 15-1) anywhere is a chal-lenge. Playing Arizona at the McKale Memorial Center, where 14,644 ornery partisans gath-ered to scream for two hours on Thursday, is like trying to wres-tle a boa constrictor. Every mis-take is hammered.

That was how USC shot 53 percent from the field, earned more free throws and battled Arizona to a near draw on the

boards — and still lost by 13 points.

Arizona squirreled away points every time USC gave an opening. USC turned the ball over 14 times. Arizona had just eight. USC scored nine points off turnovers. Arizona scored 23.

“The difference in the game was the extra possessions,” USC coach Andy Enfield said.

Arizona used those extra pos-sessions to rain three-pointers. The Wildcats made 11 of 20, led by Allonzo Trier who made four and scored 25 points overall. When USC pressed out, Arizona then could feed inside.

“We were trying to take the three away,” Enfield said. “Then we tried to double the post. Then they kick it out and make anoth-er three.”

With three minutes left in the game, the Trojans were near-ing strange statistical territory. At the time, USC was shooting 58 percent, on pace for its best shooting performance of the sea-son. Yet Arizona led by double-digits.

USC pulled within seven points with less than two min-utes left, but Arizona’s Lauri Makkanen burst past Jonah Mathews for a layup to extin-guish any late rally. Markkanen finished with 11 points and sev-en rebounds.

Fo USC, Chimezie Metu scored 15 points with 12 re-bounds, and forward Bennie Boatwight led the team with 23 points.

Lewis County Lakers Second in Clatskanie

ERIC HAINES / Courtesy Photo

The Lewis County Lakers, a ifth-grade boys basketball team, inished second at a tournament at Clatskanie High

School last weekend. The Lakers went 5-1, falling to the Highlander Hoop Club in the championship game after beat-

ing Astoria (twice), Clatskanie, Knappa and Columbia River. The team includes players Brady Larson, Alijah Saucedo,

Aidan Haines, Parker Eiswald, Reid Caviness, Blake Page, Izaiah Marquez, JJ Fleming and Dylan Gilliand, and is coached

by Eric Haines and Courtney Eiswald.

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College Basketball

By Nicholas K. Geranios


SPOKANE — When No. 1 Gonzaga tries to complete an un-defeated regular season on Sat-urday, perhaps no player will be more valuable than center Prze-mek Karnowski.

The 7-foot-1, 300-pound se-nior is a nearly unstoppable force from close range. He is averag-ing 12.8 points per game, sec-ond on the team, and leads the West Coast Conference with a 68 percent shooting percentage in league play. He adds 5.8 re-bounds and a couple of assists per game.

Yet a year ago, Karnowski’s career was in jeopardy because of bulging discs in his back.

“When you consider that this time last year we didn’t know if he would play basketball ever again,” coach Mark Few said.

“We didn’t know if he was going to walk normal or function nor-mal, because his back was so bad.”

“It’s a great story of redemp-tion,” Few said. “A great story of just hanging with it and it couldn’t have happened to a bet-ter guy.”

No player has won more games in a Gonzaga uniform than the fifth-year senior from Poland. He is 129-13 heading into Saturday’s season finale against BYU.

Karnowski is threatening for-mer Duke player Shane Battier’s Division I record of 133 career wins. That will require Gonzaga to win games in the West Coast Conference and NCAA tourna-ments.

Shouldn’t be a problem.The Zags have won the WCC

title and advanced to the NCAA Tournament all five of his sea-sons.

“This program is about win-ning,” said Karnowski, whose first name is pronounced “Pshi-mik” and who goes by “Shem.” ‘’That’s really important.”

Gonzaga (29-0, 17-0 West Coast) is seeking to become the first team since Kentucky in 2014-15 to go undefeated in the regular season.

The Zags got here by having one of the nation’s top offenses, averaging 85 points per game, and they can score from any-

where on the floor.Karnowski is lethal in front

of the basket, scoring on a vari-ety of post shots, hook shots and short jumpers.

He is there when the Bulldogs absolutely need a basket. Kar-nowski scored 15 points in the first half against No. 20 Saint Mary’s on Feb. 11 and 13 points in the first half against San Fran-cisco on Feb. 16 to spark the Zags to victory in a couple of key games where the team had trou-ble getting started.

“Best center in the country,

it’s as simple as that,” leading scorer Nigel Williams-Goss said.

“When you play him one-on-one, I don’t think anyone in the coun-try can guard him.”

Front court mate Johnathan Williams said Karnowski is an intelligent player.

“He’s a great passer,” Williams said. “He makes the right reads. He’s easy to play with.”

Gonzaga assistant coach Tommy Lloyd discovered Kar-nowski when he was scouting guard Kevin Pangos in Europe. The center narrowed his choices

to California and Gonzaga, and reunited with Pangos as a mem-ber of the Zags.

As a freshman in 2012-13, he played behind lottery pick Kelly Olynyk, getting into 34 games. That was the first and only other season in which the Bulldogs reached No. 1 in the AP Top 25 .

He started as a sophomore and junior. Big things were ex-pected his fourth year but he fell hard in practice and five games into last season he had to quit be-cause of bulging discs.

It wasn’t certain he would be able to return from surgery.

“I couldn’t bend. I couldn’t lift,” said Karnowski, who lost nearly 50 pounds after surgery.

But his recovery was smooth-er than expected. “I play with no pain,” Karnowski said.

He flirted with turning pro, but decided to return for a final season when the NCAA granted

him a medical redshirt.He is thriving this year as

part of an efficient front court in which he shares time with Johna-than Williams, Zach Collins and Killian Tillie.

“He’s playing the best basket-ball of his career right now,” Few said.

Certainly there are detractors who don’t buy Gonzaga’s gaudy record, who note the team plays in the relatively weak WCC.

“Yeah, people are going to talk,” Karnowski said. “We are winning right now and they still talk bad. I don’t really listen to that.”

Karnowski acknowledged this season has exceeded his ex-pectations.

“I didn’t think we would be undefeated, to be honest,” he said. “I’m happy I didn’t walk last year.”

Przemek Karnowski a Steadying Presence for Top-Ranked Gonzaga

YOUNG KWAK / The Associated Press

In this Feb. 16 ile photo, Gonzaga center Przemek Karnowski (24) shoots against San Francisco forward Matt McCarthy (10) and forward Nate Renfro (15) during the

second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Spokane, Wash. No player has won more games in a Gonzaga uniform than center Przemek Karnowski. The ifth-

year senior from Poland is 129-13 for the top-rated Zags.

‘‘He’s easy to play with.’’

Johnathan Williams

Gonzaga forward, on Przemek Karnowski

CRUISING: Zags Need to Beat BYU Saturday Night at Home to Finish Regular Season 30-0

By Bernie Wilson


SAN DIEGO — These blow-outs never get old for No. 1 Gon-zaga.

The Bulldogs had their big-gest yet on Thursday night, overwhelming San Diego 96-38 to improve to 29-0 and clinch the West Coast Conference title. Josh Perkins and Jordan Mathews scored 15 points apiece, and Johnathan Williams had 14 points and a career-high 19 re-bounds.

The 58-point victory margin was the biggest of the season for Gonzaga, which also has won games by 47, 46 and 39 points. It was just two points short of the school record.

“It’s tough to be flat with a full house and we were playing for an outright league championship tonight so I thought the guys were really focused and came out with the right approach,” coach Mark Few said.

“It’s been like this all year. We have just not shown up flat or not paid the proper attention to our opponent. It’s the best we have ever been since I have been coaching here, as far as night in and night out doing what we have to do.”

Few is in his 18th season.“You just want to get the win,

and however much that is, you’re going to take it,” Perkins said.

It was merely the latest laugh-er for Gonzaga, the only un-beaten team in Division I. It has won all 17 conference games by double digits.

Nigel Williams-Goss scored 14 points and Zach Collins had 12 for Gonzaga.

Olin Carter III scored 15 for USD (12-17, 5-12), which has lost six straight and 39 of its last 42

games to Gonzaga.Gonzaga so dominated that

it jumped to an 11-0 lead while USD missed its first 10 shots, five of them 3-pointers. Juwan Gray finally ended the drought with a 3-pointer some 6 1/2 minutes in.

All those missed USD shots led to easy rebounds for the Bull-dogs, who finished with 51 to USD’s 20.

Helpless against Gonzaga’s strong inside game, the Toreros were mostly relegated to tossing up 3s, and air-balling a handful.

It was so bad for USD that Cameron Neubauer air-balled

a layup. Apparently thinking it was going to get blocked, he short-armed it and missed badly.

“Our coaches do such a great job preparing us and getting us ready for whatever the team can throw at us, and when we fol-low the scouting report that we did tonight, I think we’re a really good defensive team,” Perkins said.

The Toreros continue to have growing pains in coach Lamont Smith’s second season.

“We learned tonight that when things don’t go our way, when shots don’t fall, we still got to stay

with our game plan,” Smith said. “When you don’t make the first 10, it affects your defense. Then that just snowballed.”

BIG PICTURE

GONZAGA: The Zags have won 21 straight games by double dig-its.

SAN DIEGO: While the margin was worse, at least the Toreros scored more points than they did in losing 71-27 to then-No. 18 Saint Mary’s, the lowest total in school history.

STILL PERFECT

The Zags can finish the regu-lar season at 30-0 if they win at home Saturday night at home against BYU.

“We just know that we’re un-defeated and obviously want to keep it going as long as we can,” Perkins said.

“What we are doing is we are having heck of a lot of fun,” Few said. “We are savoring every day. We have come out every night and posted and done what we have had to do. And we have taken the time to enjoy it. I think that is important. With everyone

talking about Final Four this and Final Four that, there is a season to be had and a season to be enjoyed. It’s a long journey and I think that’s what made this group special.”

ANOTHER TITLE

The Zags have owned or shared the WCC regular-season title 18 times in the last 20 sea-sons, and 20 times overall.

“It means a lot to us,” Few said. “We take those conference cham-pionships very seriously. The fact that we had all these new faces and Saint Mary’s had everybody back and Saint Mary’s is a heck of a team. It’s a heck of an accom-plishment for our team.”

Said Perkins: “It means ev-erything. Obviously our first goal was to win the league cham-pionship. It’s a testament to our hard work up until this point.”

UP NEXT

Gonzaga finishes the regular season at home against BYU on Saturday night.

San Diego finishes against Portland at home Saturday night.

No. 1 Gonzaga Stays Perfect in 96-38 Rout of San Diego

GREGORY BULL / The Associated Press

Gonzaga forward Zach Collins dunks against San Diego during the irst half of an

NCAA college basketball game Thursday in San Diego.

GREGORY BULL / The Associated Press

Gonzaga forward Johnathan Williams can’t reach a loose ball before it went out of

bounds during the irst half of the team’s NCAA college basketball game against

San Diego on Thursday in San Diego.

The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017

Tower Avenue Salon Tends to Hair, Nails and Skin

By Natalie Johnson

[email protected]

This spring, Tips-N-Toes Hair Design will celebrate its 10th year cutting hair, painting nails and applying makeup in downtown Centralia.

“It’s honestly snuck up on me,” owner Lindsey Sikel said about the anniversary.

In the past decade, the salon and its stylists have built up a reputation for friendly, profes-sional service and a welcoming atmosphere, Sikel said.

More than that, manicur-ist Heidi Elwanger said, they’re good at what they do.

“They know every time they come in here, it’s going to turn out how they want it,” she said.

When Sikel opened the sa-lon, in 2007 she had two em-ployees, “I was 22 years old when I opened,” she said. “It was the scariest thing I’ve ever done.”

While Sikel initially planned to become a trauma nurse, she learned after training to be a certified nursing assistant that the career path might not be for her. A friend encouraged her to go to beauty school because of her talent for styling hair.

She immediately became self-employed after graduation, and started Tips-N-Toes about four years later.

Despite her initial fear, Sikel said she was encouraged by her family to start the business. Her grandmother came in once a week to support her efforts, she said.

Four years ago, the business outgrew its location on West Pine Street in Centralia and moved to his current spacious storefront at the corner of Tower Avenue and Locust Street. The salon has now grown to nine employees, which Sikel said works well.

“I never dreamed it would be like this,” she said. “I don’t plan on going anywhere.”

Tips-N-Toes offers a wide-

variety of services, including airbrush makeup by Sikel; hair-cuts, colors and extensions; a nail salon; and an in-house es-thetician who performs facials, waxing and eyelash extensions.

“I’m really happy with who we have working in here,” she said.

Giving back to the commu-nity is a high priority for Sikel and her salon. She lends her

skills primarily with Relay for Life, to collect hair donations for wigs and Miss Lewis County, by helping with makeup.

Last year, she started a fun-draiser partnering with Relay for Life, called Cuts for a Cause. Staff at the salon cut ponytails to donate hair to Pantene’s Beauti-ful Length’s program, which collects hair to make wigs for women fighting cancer.

She plans to continue the fundraiser this year.

“If I’m not here, that’s pretty much what I’m doing,” she said, about volunteering in Lewis County.


Heidi Elwanger, right, paints the nails of Becky McCullough, of

Napavine, while at Tips -N- Toes Salon in downtown Centralia on

Wednesday afternoon. McCullough said she comes in every two

weeks for Elwanger to do her nails.

ABOUT THE BUSINESS: TIPS-N-TOES HAIR

DESIGN • Open since 2007• The telephone number is

360-736-3153• The business is located at

120 S. Tower Ave., Centralia• Business hours are 9 a.m.

to 5 p.m.

HIGHLIGHT A LOCAL BUSINESS

The Chronicle features a local business in every edition. To nominate a business for coverage, contact Editor Eric Schwartz at [email protected] or 360-807-8224.

Heidi Elwanger, right, paints the nails of Becky McCullough, of Napavine, while at Tips -N-Toes Salon in

downtown Centralia on Wednesday afternoon.

Lindsey Sikel, owner of Tips-N-Toes Salon, colors a woman’s hair on Wednesday afternoon at the down-

town Centralia salon.

Tips -N-Toes Salon is located at 120 S. Tower Ave. in downtown Centralia.

Life Editor: Eric Schwartz

Phone number: 807-8224

e-mail: [email protected]

Tip-N-Toes Celebrates 10 Years

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Saturday, Feb. 25

‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’ Coming to Fox Theatre

The first movie in the 2017 Fox Theatre Film Series, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” will be screened at 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 25, at Centralia’s Fox Theatre.

In the first of author J.K. Rowling’s novels to be adapted for the big screen, a young Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) is res-cued from outrageous neglect by his aunt and uncle to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

While there, Harry learns that he is famous for an incident that happened at his birth. We then travel along as Harry learns about the wizard world, gains strength as a wizard himself, and begins to learn that Hogwarts can be far more dangerous for him than he ever could have imagined. The film is rated PG.

As a special treat, Fred Beeks will be on hand to play the Fox Theatre Organ before each showing and moviegoers are en-couraged to dress in their favor-ite Harry Potter character’s style to help transform the Fox into a magical world of wizardry.

Admission for the movie is $10 per person ($8 for members) and $25 per family (three to four persons.)

Season Passes are also avail-able for the 2017 Film Series. Passes are $80 ($60 for mem-bers) and are good for all 11 movies in the series

Presale tickets are available at Book ‘n’ Brush in Chehalis, Holley’s Place in Centralia, and online at http://www.brownpap-ertickets.com/event/2723983

For more information, con-tact the Fox Theatre at (360) 623-1103.All proceeds from the event benefit the restoration of the Historic Fox Theatre.

Club Mom Children’s Clothing Bank and Exchange, 1-3 p.m., Chehalis First Christian Church, 111 NW Prindle St., 360-269-0587 or 360-748-3702

Family Fun Night, 4-7 p.m., New Beginnings Community Church, 181 Fuller Road, Salkum, free dinner, movies, crafts and games, 253-431-5532

Steam Train Ride and Museum Visit, Mt. Rainier Railroad and Logging Mu-seum, Elbe-Mineral, 10 a.m., 12:45 p.m., 3:30 p.m., 1-888-STEAM-11

“Moon Over Buffalo, 8 p.m., Ever-green Playhouse, 226 W. Center St., Centralia, adults $10, students $8, www.evergreenplayhouse.com

Backfire, 9:30 p.m.-1 a.m., Craft-house, Lucky Eagle Casino, Rochester, 1-800-720-1788

“The Odd Couple (Female Version),” 7 p.m. Wickstrom Studio Theatre, Wash-ington Hall, Centralia College, adults $10, students/seniors $8, tickets available at Washington Hall Box Office, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Monday-Friday, 360-623-8871

Minecraft Party, 1-3 p.m., V.R. Lee Community Building, Chehalis, k-fifth-graders, $20, parents no charge, pro-ceeds donated to TLOL, 360-748-0271

Potato Bake, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Adna Grange, 123 Dieckman Road, Adna, $7, baked potato, toppings (chili, butter, sour cream, cheese sauce, chives, bacon bits, tomatoes, broccoli, shred-ded cheese, ranch dressing), salad, des-sert and beverage.

“A Dog’s Purpose, 3 p.m. and 7 p.m., Roxy Theatre, Morton, rated PG, mati-nee $6, evening showing adults $9, stu-dents and seniors $8, mortonroxy.org/movies/

Sunday, Feb. 26

Ronnie Cox to Perform at Corbet Theatre

Lewis County Concerts will be presenting Ronny Cox at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Centralia Col-lege’s Corbet Theatre.

Ronny Cox is a superbly tal-ented singer-songwriter, musi-cian and actor who have been consistently active in the music world and Hollywood for over 40 years.

According to the artist’s website, Cox’s music is eclectic: a woven tapestry of songs and stories with an over-all arc that eventually comes together and tells something about “the hu-man condition.”

Cox is one of Hollywood’s most versatile character ac-tors. His first time in front of a camera featured him playing

the guitar in the Dueling Banjos scene in “Deliverance,” creating one of the most iconic moments in the history of moviemaking.

He has also appeared in films like “Beverly Hills Cop,”

“Total Recall,” “Taps,” “Bound For Glory,” and “The Onion Field.” all told over 125 movies and television appearances.

Despite his success in mov-ies and TV, what he says he loves most is singing and playing the guitar. According to him, noth-ing cuts through to the heart like music. The acting experi-ence simply enhances his musi-cal and songwriting skills.

In 2012, Ronny became an author with the release of his book “Dueling Banjos: The De-liverance of Drew.” The book coincided with the 40th anni-versary of the release of the film, and is a collection of stories about the making of the movie and a look behind the scenes of his springboard into Hollywood.

Tickets are available by call-ing 360-623-8100 and leaving a message.Tickets may also be pur-chased on a space-available basis just before the concert for $35.

“Moon Over Buffalo, 2 p.m., Ever-green Playhouse, 226 W. Center St., Centralia, adults $10, students $8, www.evergreenplayhouse.com

Bingo, doors open 5 p.m., bingo starts 6:30 p.m., Forest Grange, 3397 Jackson Highway, Chehalis

Community meal, 1-3 p.m., Rotary Riverside Park, Centralia, free, spon-sored by Jesus Name Pentecostal Church, Chehalis, 360-623-9438

Singspiration, 6 p.m., Calvary As-sembly of God, 302 E. Main St., Centralia, country Gospel, southern Gospel, vocal instrumental, free, 360-508-4700

Organizations

Young Adult Biblio Babble Book Club, 1:30-3 p.m., Book ‘n’ Brush, 518 N. Market Blvd., Chehalis, 360-748-6221 or [email protected]

Support Groups

GriefShare, a video seminar focus-ing on helping people who have lost a loved one, 12:30-2 p.m., Shoestring Valley Community Church, 104 Frase Road, Onalaska, 360-870-2782, http://svcchurch.com/griefshare/

Monday, Feb, 27Pinochle, 6 p.m., Chehalis Ea-

gles, 1993 S. Market Blvd., Chehalis, 360-748-7241

“A Dog’s Purpose, 7 p.m., Roxy The-atre, Morton, rated PG, adults $9, stu-dents and seniors $8, mortonroxy.org/movies/

Public Agencies

Lewis County Commission, 10 a.m., BOCC board room, second floor, Lewis County Courthouse, agenda available at http://goo.gl/agwWM, 360-740-1120

Chehalis City Council, 5 p.m, City Hall council chamber, 350 N. Market Blvd., Chehalis, agendas available at http://ci.chehalis.wa.us/meetings, 360-345-1042

Lewis County Developmental Dis-abilities Advisory Board, 4 p.m., 156 NW Chehalis Ave., Chehalis, 360-740-1284

Lewis County Solid Waste Disposal District, 11 a.m., Lewis County Commis-sioners Meeting Room, Lewis County Courthouse, 360-740-1451

Organizations

Centralia Bridge Club, noon, Unity Church, 800 S. Pearl St., Centralia, 360-748-1753, [email protected]

Support Groups

Grandparents as Parents, 6-8 p.m., 420 Centralia College Blvd., Centralia, 360-736-9391, ext. 298 or 1-877-813-2828

Tuesday, Feb. 28Bingo, Chehalis Moose Lodge, doors

open at 4:30 p.m., game starts at 6:30 p.m.; food available, 360-736-9030

Health and Hope Medical Outreach, free medical clinic, 5:30-8 p.m., North-west Pediatrics, 1911 Cooks Hill Road, Centralia, for those whose income is less than 200 percent of the poverty level, 360-623-1485

Gear Up, 5:30 p.m., White Pass Coun-try Historical Museum, 12990 U.S. High-way 12, Packwood, 360-494-4422

Public Agencies

Centralia City Council, 7 p.m., City Hall, 118 W. Maple St., Centralia, 360-330-7670

Lewis County Planning Commission, 6 p.m., Lewis County Courthouse, 360-740-1284, http://goo.gl/1a1Zb

Lewis County PUD Commission, 10 a.m., PUD auditorium, 345 NW Pa-cific Ave., Chehalis, 360-748-9261 or 1-800-562-5612

Libraries

Preschool Storytime and Play-group, for children 3-6 years, 10:30 a.m., Centralia

Community Coloring, Conversation and Games, for adults, 2 p.m., Salkum

Organizations

Forest Grange, 3397 Jackson High-way, 7 p.m.

Centralia Bridge Club, 6:30 p.m., Uni-ty Church, 800 S. Pearl St., Centralia, 360-748-1753, [email protected]

Two Town Tuners, 7 p.m., Lewis and Clark Hotel, 117 W. Magnolia St., Centra-lia, tuners.groupanizer.com

Mount St. Helens Patchwork Quilters, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Lewis County Historical Museum, 599 NW Front St., Chehalis, 360-880-5134

Support Groups

NAMI Lewis County Family Support Group, 6-7:30 p.m., Vernetta Smith Che-halis Timberland Library, 360-736-5319 or [email protected]

NAMI Lewis County Connections, recovery support group for adults with mental illness, 5:30-7 p.m., Twin Cities Senior Center, 2545 N. National Ave., Chehalis, 360-785-9668

Survivors of sexual assault/abuse, for people who speak Spanish, 5:30-7 p.m., 125 NW Chehalis Ave., Chehalis, spon-sored by Human Response Network, 360-748-6601

Second Chance/Lewis County Brain Injury Support Group, 5 p.m., call 360-864-4341 or 360-983-3166 for meeting location

GriefShare, a recovery group for those who have lost a loved one, 7-8:30 p.m., Mountain View Baptist Church, 1201 Belmont Ave., Centralia, $10, 360-827-2172

Al Anon, Fellowship in Unity, 6-7 p.m., Unity Center, 800 S. Pearl St., Centralia, 360-237-4082, 360-269-2531

Grateful Girlfriends, support group for women experiencing cancer, 7-8:30 p.m., Centralia Nazarene Church, 1119 W. First St., 360-748-9508 or [email protected]

GriefShare, a recovery group for those who have lost a loved one, 10 a.m.-noon, Faith Baptist Church, 436 Coal Creek Road, Chehalis, $20 for work-book, (360) 264-4482, (360) 785-3635, or www.griefshare.org

Wednesday, March 1

PLU Professor to Discuss White Privilege

Teresa Ciabattari, a professor at Pacific Lutheran University, will explore the topic of white privilege in a Lyceum presen-tation Wednesday at Centralia College.

Ciabattari will lead an in-teractive conversation that ex-plores what white privilege is, discusses a variety of examples of privilege for individuals and institutions, and provides tools for learning how to address it. Participants will gain knowl-edge and resources to foster in-clusion and racial justice in their own communities.

The Lyceum will be at 1 p.m. in Washington Hall 103.

Bingo, doors open 5 p.m., bingo starts 6:30 p.m., Forest Grange, 3397 Jackson Highway, Chehalis

Taco Night, 6-8 p.m., Centralia Eagles, hard-shell tacos, two for $1, other menu items, 360-736-1146

Open mic, 6-10 p.m., Jeremy’s Farm to Table, 476 W. Main St., Chehalis,

360-748-4417

Mental Health Matters, 6-7:30 p.m., St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 10000 U.S. Highway 12, Rochester, 360-273-9884

Burger Nite, Chehalis Eagles, 5-7 p.m., 1993 S. Market Blvd., $2, Chehalis, 360-748-7241

Public Agencies

Centralia Civil Service Commission, 5:15-6 p.m., City Hall, 118 W. Maple St., Centralia, 360-330-7671

Lewis County Citizens Commission on Salaries for Elected Officials, 5:45 p.m., County Meeting Room, 156 NW Chehalis Ave., Chehalis, 360-740-2747

Lewis County Veterans Advisory Board, 10 a.m., Lewis County Public Health & Social Services, 360 NW North St., Chehalis, 360-736-3327

Libraries

Book Babies, for children birth-age 2, 10 a.m., Chehalis

Family Storytime, for children, 10:15 a.m., Tenino

Acrylic & Watercolor at the Library, for adults, 10:30 a.m., Oakville

Toddler Time and Playgroup, for chil-dren age 2, 10:30 a.m., Centralia

An Afternoon With Poet Laureate Tod Marshall, for teens and adults, 3 p.m., Salkum

LEGO Club, for children, 3 p.m., Tenino

Teen Night, for teens, 5 p.m., Randle

Organizations

Take Off Pounds Sensibly, 10:15 a.m., Assembly of God church, 702 SE First St., Winlock

Seniors on the Go, potluck and meet-ing, noon, Onalaska First Church of God Fellowship Hall.

Tenino/Bucoda Community Coali-tion, 6-7:30 p.m., Tenino Elementary School, 360-493-2230, ext. 13

Seniors’ Bible study, 2 p.m., Calvary Assembly of God, Centralia, 360-736-6769 or 360-324-9050

Napavine-Newaukum Lions Club, noon, Taste of Alaska Family Restaurant, Napavine, 360-748-4240

Experimental Aircraft Association, 7 p.m., Hangar D, Chehalis-Centralia Air-port, 360-748-1230

Support Groups

Domestic violence support group, 5:30-7 p.m., 125 NW Chehalis Ave., Che-halis, sponsored by Human Response Network, 360-748-6601

Emotions Anonymous, 12 Step Club, 8 p.m., Yard Birds, 360-304-9334

Positive Lifestyles, prevention and management of chronic conditions and lifestyle diseases, 10 a.m., Morton General Hospital conference room, 360-496-3591

Grief support group, 1-3 p.m., 2120 Northpark Drive, Centralia, Assured Hospice, 360-807-7776

Thursday, March 2Pinochle, 6 p.m., Chehalis Ea-

gles, 1993 S. Market Blvd., Chehalis, 360-748-7241

Art Conversations, workshop with Dorothy Thomis, watercolor back-ground and realism, White Pass Country Museum, 12990 U.S. Highway 12, Pack-wood, 360-4945-4422

Public Agencies

Twin Transit board, 8:15 a.m., Twin Transit office, 212 E. Locust St., Centralia, 360-330-2072

Libraries

Book Babies and Playgroup, for children birth-24 months, 10:30 a.m., Centralia

Family Storytime, for all ages, 10:30 a.m., Randle

PageTurners Book Discussion, for adults, “Mayflower, A Story of Courage, Community and War,” by Nathaniel Phil-brick, 4 p.m., Chehalis

The Knitting Circle, for teens and adults, 4 p.m., Salkum

Organizations

American Legion Post 508, potluck and meeting, 6 p.m., Silver Creek-Ethel Grange, corner of Brim Road and U.S. Highway 12, 360-485-2852, 360-978-5368

Onalaska American Legion Post 508, 6 p.m. potluck, 7 p.m. meeting, Onalas-ka First Church of God, 360-978-5368

Chehalis-Centralia Cribbage Club, 6:30 p.m., Chehalis Moose Lodge, 1400 Grand Ave., Centralia, 360-485-2852

S.T.O.P. and Swim, 7 p.m., Fort Borst Park, Kitchen 1, Centralia, 360-269-3827 or 360-736-4163

Support Groups

“Up From Grief,” for those grieving the loss of a loved one, 1-2:30 p.m., As-sured Home Hospice, 2120 N. Park St., Centralia, 360-330-2640

Overeaters Anonymous, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Immanuel Lutheran Church, 1209 N. Scheuber Road, Centralia, 360-269-1649

NAMI Lewis County Connections, recovery support group for adults with mental illness, 2-3:30 p.m., Mary Room, Centralia United Methodist Church, 506 S. Washington Ave., 253-468-7435

Friday, March 3

Twin Cities Rotary to Hold Mystery Dinner

The annual Twin Cities Ro-tary Mystery Dinner will be Fri-day at the Washington Hotel in Chehalis.

A social hour will begin at 6 p.m. and the dinner/program at 7 p.m.

“Murder at the Winery” is the theme this year. The meal will be catered by Once Upon A Thyme of Chehalis.

Cost is $50 per ticket. They can be purchased at Book ‘n’ Brush or online at 2017murder-mystery.brownpapertickets.com.

As in the past, there will be a costume contest.

Proceeds will benefit Cen-tralia College Foundation schol-arships, local literacy projects and Business Week.

For more information, email [email protected].

Harvey Nelson and Swing Stuff Band, country/western, 7-9:30 p.m., Twin Cit-ies Senior Center, $6, 360-350-2423

Broken Trail, 9:30 p.m.-1 a.m., Craft-house, Lucky Eagle Casino, Rochester, 1-800-720-1788

Libraries

Family Storytime, for all ages, 10 a.m., Salkum

Preschool Storytime, for children 3-6 years, 10 a.m., Chehalis

Family Storytime, for children, 10:30 a.m., Winlock

PageTurners Book Discussion, for adults, “Station Eleven,” by Emily St. John Mandel, 12:30 p.m., Winlock

Dr. Seuss’ Birthday Bash, for children, 3 p.m., Tenino

Organizations

Lewis County Writers Guild, 5 p.m., Station Coffee Bar & Bistro, Centralia, http://lewiscountywriters.wordpress.com/

Support Groups

H.O.P.E., all addictions, 7:30-9 p.m., Heritage Baptist Church of Tenino, 1315 Sussex Ave. E., Tenino, 360-480-0592, [email protected]

Celebrate Recovery, dinner 6 p.m., large group 7 p.m., small groups 8 p.m., Grace Foursquare Church, 3030 Borst Ave., Centralia, 360-736-0778, www.gracefoursquarechurch.com

Diabetic Support Group, 10:30-11:30 a.m., The Gathering Place, Stillwaters Estates, 2800 Cooks Hill Road, Centralia, 360-748-3177 or 360-736-9679

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Editor’s Best BetPoet Laureate to Speak at Toledo Library

The Toledo Community Library, in conjunction with Humanities Washington, will be presenting the state’s Poet Laureate Tod Marshall at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

Marshall’s free presentation will be at the library, located at 241 Cowlitz St. in Toledo.

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Cat Fight: Barb Horton’s Passion Is to Save Cats and Put Them to Work

Alan Berner / The Seattle Times

Barb Horton works to ind homes for homeless, abandoned cats. Her garage is a safe-haven en route to a better place, spayed or neutered.

By Lynn Thompson

The Seattle Times

SEATTLE — Barb Horton’s passion for the past 15 years has been finding homes and jobs for abandoned cats. She’s introduc-ing me to one, a handsome, gray-and-white tom that was dumped several weeks earlier and is ad-justing to a new home in a neigh-borhood with a rat problem.

We are standing on the street, talking about the cat named

“Tor” by his new owners, when Horton glimpses a flash out the corner of her eye. I see nothing. The house two doors down has a

“For Sale” sign out front, and as we follow her sighting, around the side of the empty house, she nudges her toe into a cat door that has been blocked by a stiff piece of plastic.

She quickly deciphers the clues. A cat left behind when the owners moved out. A cat fending for itself without food or water.

“It happens all the time,” she says, her voice suggesting a low opinion of animals of the two-legged variety.

A family that would desert its cat might also not have had it fixed, meaning the cat could quickly add to the national cat-overpopulation problem — an estimated 80 mil-lion cats, more than half of them feral or free-roaming.

With the help of Tor’s new owner, Rebecca Shults, Horton devises a plan.

Shults will set out food in the former neighbors’ yard and see whether she can coax the aban-doned cat out of hiding. She’ll also alert other neighbors and ask them to keep their cats indoors.

Horton will dispatch one of the volunteer trappers who

works with her organization, Puget Sound Working Cats, to catch the cat, and have it spayed or neutered and vaccinated. Be-cause it apparently had been liv-ing with a family, she’ll try to place it in a new home.

A DECADE AGO, an abandoned or stray cat picked up by Animal Control would almost certainly have been euthanized. That was even more true for the wild or fe-ral cats who roam neighborhoods and vacant lots, get into cat fights and have as many as three litters of kittens a year. These cats aren’t cuddly or adoptable. They’re wary of humans and aggressive when threatened, and often stick to the shadows.

Horton tries to place suit-able feral cats in barns, shops or warehouses — anywhere with a rodent problem that will keep the cats active and, most impor-tant, alive. Horton says the phi-losophy behind her work is that all cats have value, not only the ones that curl up and purr in our laps. She argues that they should not be dumped, like garbage, or killed en masse, but allowed to live out their lives as cats.

Horton is part of a national network of people who champi-on the humane treatment of cats, work with shelters to reduce the numbers of animals killed, and encourage the return of spayed and neutered cats to the out-doors if they can’t be adopted or placed in a job. The strategy is known as Trap, Neuter and Re-lease, or TNR.

But not everyone thinks sav-ing feral cats is a humane idea.

The American Bird Conser-vancy opposes the release of fe-ral cats back into the wild, say-

ing they are ruthless predators that kill up to 4 billion birds a year in the United States alone, as well as reptiles, amphibians and small mammals.

These critics say the efforts to sterilize feral cats can’t keep up with the cats’ ability to reproduce, with the result that cats “con-tinue to kill wildlife and spread disease,” says Grant Sizemore, director of invasive species for the ABC. He says feral cats can be carriers of rabies; toxoplasmo-sis (which can cause miscarriages and birth defects); and plague, which is spread through fleas.

The animal-rights organi-zation PETA also opposes the TNR programs, saying that the cats released back into the wild face being injured or killed by dogs or coyotes, run over by cars, infected with disease or maimed by frigid weather.

PETA argues that it is more humane to kill these wild cats, that euthanasia provides a painless and dignified death and protects other wildlife from their predation.

“We agree that animals’ lives are valuable. Instead of dying painlessly in a shelter, these cats are dying under houses, bushes and the side of the road. We’re not saving cats by dumping them on the streets,” says Teresa Chagrin, animal care and con-trol specialist for PETA.

Dr. Gene Mueller, the man-ager of Regional Animal Services of King County, says the reality is that there are free-roaming cats everywhere. They can be caught, spayed or neutered and released, or not caught and left to repro-duce and multiply. He says kit-tens have less than a 50 percent survival rate in the wild because of their vulnerability to disease.

“We’re trying to do harm reduction,” says Mueller, a vet-erinarian who was hired in 2012 to reorganize the shelter op-erations. He has partnered with volunteer groups like Working Cats to help reduce the shelter’s kill rate. “The work of these volunteer animal advocates is as important as the work we do at the shelter,” he says. “They’re preventing cruelty and unwant-ed reproduction. They’re mak-ing a difference for birds.”

Statistics from across the state also suggest the TNR strat-egy is working. Euthanasia rates at shelters fell from about 60,000 in 2004 to about 12,000 in 2015, while animals being spayed or neutered rose from about 60,000 to almost 90,000, according to the Washington Federation of Animal Care and Control Agen-cies, which represents about 70 shelters and rescue organiza-tions, including most of the large, publicly funded shelters.

“It’s not just us saying spay and neuter your pets. It really makes a huge impact on the euthanasia rate,” says Cora Wells, program administrator for the state federa-tion. “Fewer animals are entering the shelters because there are few-er out in the community.”

A WEEK AFTER spotting the abandoned cat in Burien, I meet up with Kate and Kaare (pro-nounced Cory) Bysheim, volun-teers with Puget Sound Working Cats, as they set the trap at the empty home.

Kate estimates she and her husband have trapped several hundred cats in five years and handed them over to Horton or other volunteers to have them spayed or neutered and evalu-

ated for temperament and ap-propriate placement.

The couple have rescued cats from trailer parks, green belts in cities and seedy motels. Some-times, landlords call because of cats multiplying on their prop-erty or cats dumped by tenants. Sometimes it’s neighbors who hear the cats fighting at night.

Kate says her motivation is simple. “I love every warm, fuzzy, breathing thing on the planet. I don’t love people nearly so much.”

One occupational hazard when she started was trying to take in every rescued cat.

“I was up to 13. My husband said, ‘I will help you do this (res-cue work), but you can’t bring any more home.’”

In Burien the next morning, Kate confronts an angry cat in the trap, but it belongs to a neigh-bor and streaks for home the mo-ment it’s released. The Bysheims consult with Horton and decide to wait until there’s been an-other sighting of a cat that defi-nitely doesn’t have a home before they’ll set the trap again.

ONCE TRAPPED, the cats are transported to a clinic to be ster-ilized so they don’t add to the cat-overpopulation problem. In a Lynnwood strip mall, the Feral Cat Spay/Neuter Project fixes up to 50 cats a day, four days a week.

The director, Jason Thomp-son, started working with cats about 15 years ago, at a shelter in Oregon that killed as many in a day as his clinic now sterilizes.

Inside the clinic, cat carriers stacked three and four high line all the available counters. Along one wall, sleepy cats recover from surgery. Along another, cats

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Religion, Church NewsFaith‘Catholic Muslim’ Fresno Latina Shares Concerns and Reminder: ‘Islam Is for Everybody’By Carmen George

The Fresno Bee

FRESNO, Calif. — Thalia Arenas, of Fresno, sometimes is asked, “How are you Muslim if you’re Mexican? I don’t under-stand.”

It’s a perplexing question to the 28-year-old Fresno woman, but one she answers willingly.

“Islam is for everybody,” she says. “Matter of fact, only 20 percent of Muslims in the world are Arab. Most of them are ac-tually from other countries.”

Arenas is in an unusual position in the wake of recent executive orders by President Donald Trump calling for trav-el bans from seven predomi-nantly Muslim countries, more deportations, and a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico

— a country that many of her family members immigrated from.

“As a woman, as a Muslim, as a Latina — in all of these ways I feel like anything he (President Trump) does is going to affect me.”

She is concerned that Trump eventually may extend his ban to include green card holders from Mexico, which would include some of her im-mediate family members.

Arenas shared these con-cerns during a MEChA club meeting at Fresno State earlier this month, where she also told the group that the “Muslim Hispanic community is grow-ing.” She personally knows around 15 Muslim Hispanics and says mosques in cities such as Los Angeles now hold servic-es in Spanish. She wants people to know that followers of Islam are a larger and more diverse group than they are often per-ceived.

She has overheard offensive conversations about Muslims by people who don’t realize she is a follower of Islam be-cause she doesn’t wear a hijab, a headscarf worn by some Mus-lim women as a tenet of their faith to dress modestly. She says she doesn’t wear a hijab for functional reasons — she works at an animal shelter, and doesn’t want to get the garment

dirty — but also because she is afraid.

“I think people might say something — might look at me differently,” she said.

These concerns were high-lighted in an October story in The Bee about a Hijab Chal-lenge at Fresno State sponsored by the Muslim Student Associa-tion. Arenas is a spokeswoman for the club. The Hijab Chal-lenge — which encouraged stu-dents to wear a headscarf for a day to help them better under-stand how it feels to be a Mus-lim in America today — came under attack by a Clovis vet-eran who denounced the event in a follow-up story, stating it

violated the First Amendment.“There’s a lot of Christian

groups that come and they use the Free Speech Area (at Fresno State),” Arenas counters, “and they literally shout at you and promote Christian values. So, I just felt that it was hypocritical or one-sided for them not to see or be open-minded about what

the purpose of the event was.”Arenas also considers her-

self a “Catholic Muslim.” She was raised Catholic and started researching different religions as a young woman.

“Once I got into college I re-alized I was my own indepen-dent person — my mom wasn’t going to take me to church any-

more. ... If I wanted to have a relationship with God, I had to look for it, and I did.”

While searching for her spirituality, she joined three clubs that represented Catholic, Christian and Muslim students. She found similarities between the religions and liked what she learned. She decided to become Catholic and Muslim. She goes to Catholic Church one week-end and a mosque the next.

Her belief system reminds one Fresno State assistant pro-fessor of how peace activist and political leader Mahatma Gan-dhi once said he identified as a follower of many religions.

Mark Crosse / Fresno Bee

At left, Thalia Arenas, humane educator, gives volunteers an orientation at the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

‘‘As a woman, as a Muslim, as a Latina — in all of these ways I feel like anything he (President

Trump) does is going to affect me.’’

Thalia Arenas

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APOSTOLIC

The 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 GOD Bethel Church

“Following Christ, Loving People, Restoring Hope”

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132 Kirkland R. (I-5, Exit 72) Sundays at 9am & 11am

Wednesdays at 7pm Downtown Centralia 413 N. Tower Ave. Sundays at 10am

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Calvary Assembly of God “A loving place to worship” 302 E. Main St., on the corner of Gold & Main Streets, Centralia, WA 98531. Church Phone: (360)736-6249. Pastors Jim & Shirley Blankenship. Services: New Sunday Service Schedule: Sunday School: 9:00am-10:00am. Fellowship with the Family: 10:00am-10:30am. Worship Service: 10:30am. Sunday Evening Service: 6:00pm.

Jackson 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: Patrick Miess, Youth Pastor: Jared Hunt. Lead Pastor Bill Morris. Web: jacksonprairiechurch.com

Napavine Assembly of God Pastor Will Karch - 414 SE 2nd, Napavine. 262-0285. Sunday Services, Sunday School: 9:30am, Morning Worship: 10:30 am. Eve-ning Service: 6pm. Wednesday: Bible Study: 7pm. Royal Rangers & Missionettes

Oakville Assembly of God 273-8116. A Church for the Whole Family! Sunday Worship Service: 10:00 am, Sunday Evening Bible Study: 6:00 PM, Wednesday, Transformers Kids K-6th grade, Youth 7th - 12th grade, 7:00 pm. Adult Bible Study 7:00 pm. www.oakvilleassembly.org

Onalaska Assembly of God 137 Leonard Rd., Onalaska , 978-4978. Sunday School 9:45 am, Sunday worship services 10:45 am, Tuesday Royal Rangers (boys) & Mpact Girls 6:30pm, Wednesday Adult Bible Study 6:30 pm. Food ministry on 2nd & 4th Wednesday 12-3pm. Pastor Les & Marita Thelander. www.onalaskaaog.com. Email:[email protected].

Vader Assembly of God 302 6th St., Vader. Pastor: Tracy Durham. Services: Sundays 10:30 am & 6 pm., Wednesdays 7 pm. (360) 295-3756

Winlock Assembly of God 706 SE First St. Winlock, WA, (360) 785-3011, Sunday School 9:30am, Sunday Services 10:30am and 6pm, Wednesday mid-week service 6:00pm, Pastor John Vantrease.

BAPTIST

Dayspring Baptist Church, SBC 2088 Jackson Hwy., Chehalis. Life Groups for all ages begins at 9:30 am. Worship begins at 10:45 am. Pastor Chris Kruger, 748-3401

Dryad Community Baptist Church 112 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. 509-230-6393

Grace Baptist Church Join us for Sunday School 9:45 am, Morning Worship 11:00 am. Sunday evenings 6:00 pm - Adult Bible Study & Bible Adventures for kids with stories, games and fun for ages preschool - 5th grade. Wednesday Evening Prayer Meeting & Bible Study 7 pm. Pastor Anthony Hayden. 19136 Loganberry S.W., Rochester. For more information visit us at www.gracein-rochester.org or call 360-273-9240.

INDEPENDENT BAPTIST

Centralia Bible Baptist Church 1511 S. Gold Street (360) 669-0113 www.centraliabbc.org Pastor, Tim Shellenberger

Sunday Worship: 9:15 am & 11:00am Sunday Evening: 5:30pm Wednesday in the Word: 7:00pm

Faith Baptist Church - 740-0263 436 Coal Creek, Chehalis, www.fbc-wa.org

Sunday School (all ages) 9:30 am Children’s Church/Morning Worship 10:30am

Sunday 6 pm, Thursday Bible Study and Master’s Club for kids— 7pm

Napavine Baptist Church Family Integrated Services 104 2nd Ave SE, (360) 262-3861

Sunday 10am, 11am, Wednesday 7pm

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CALVARY CHAPEL

Calvary Chapel Services at Harrison Square Presbyterian Church 1223 Harrison Ave., Centralia, WA. Sunday School: 11 am. Sunday Service 9 am. Wednesday Bible Study and Prayer: 7 pm. An in-depth, verse by verse study of God’s word. 360-827-3291

ROMAN CATHOLIC

St. Joseph Church 682 S.W. Cascade, Chehalis. Masses, Sat.- 5:00pm. Sun.- 10:30am Mass in Spanish: Sun.- 1:00pm Reconciliation: Sat. 3:30-4:30 pm 45 minutes before daily Masses Father Jacob Maurer 748-4953

St. Mary’s Church 225 N. Washington, Centralia. Masses: Sun.- 8:30 am Father Jacob Mauerer 748-4953

St. Francis Xavier Mission 139 Spencer Rd., Toledo Saturday - 5:00 PM (360) 864-4126

Sacred Heart Church 277 7th St. Morton Sun. - 10:45 AM (360) 496-5456

St. Yves Mission Harmony Rd., Harmony, WA (360) 496-5456

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

First Church of Christ Scientist, 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 GOD Onalaska First Church of God Corner of Hwy. 508 & 3rd Ave.

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Where Your Experience With Christ MakesYou 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

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CHURCH OF CHRIST

Centralia, Sunday Bible Study: 9:30 am, 10:30 Worship Sunday: 2 pm. Wed. Bible Study: 6 pm, Thurs. Ladies’ Class: 11 am Info. 736-9798. Corner of Plum & Buckner. Toledo, 300 St. Helens St., Toledo, Wel-comes 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 Church A 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 ofered. 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 & 10:30 am. (Sign language available at 10:30), Youth and

Children’s Sunday School Classes and Nursery 10:30 am. Call the church for more information at 736-6133 or check out our website at www.cookshillcc.org.

CONSERVATIVE BAPTIST

Christian Fellowship of Winlock 630 Cemetery Rd., Winlock Church oice phone: (360) 785-4280 Sunday Worship Service: 10:30am-12:00pm Sunday School for all ages: 9:00-10:15am Quality Nursery Care provided Awana: Thursday evenings from 6:00-8:00pm, Youth Group for kids 6th-12th grade Sundays 6:00pm-8:00pm ,Pastor: Terry Sundberg, Andrew Johnson, Associate Youth Pastor

Mountain View Baptist Church 1201 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 CHURCH

Adna Evangelical Church, 748-3569 Sunday: Bible Classes 10:00 am,

Worship 11:00 am, Midweek Small Groups, call for times. 115 Dieckman Rd., Chehalis.

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EVANGELICAL FREE

Central Bible Evangelical Free Church 2333 Sandra Ave. Centralia, WA 98531. 360- 736-2061. Pastor: Randy Sortino. Sunday School 9:15 a.m. Morning Worship 10:30 a.m. Nursery provided. Evening Worship, Sunday, 6:00 p.m., Venture Club-Wednes-day, 6:00 pm, Saturday 7 am, Mens Fellow-ship breakfast. Call for more information.

EPISCOPAL

St. Timothy Episcopal Church Sunday Schedule: • 8:00am & 10:00 am Holy Eucharist • 9:00am Bible Study • 9-11:30 am child care Wednesday, noon Eucharist & healing prayers Contact Church Oice @ 748-8232 Address: 1826 S.W. Snively Avenue, Chehalis. Web: StTimonthyChehalis.org

FOURSQUARE

Chehalis Foursquare Church 990 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

INDEPENDENT

Centralia Bible Chapel 209 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.

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, morn-ing 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 Church Centralia, (Independent), 1215 W. Main. 736-7655. www.centraliachristian.org. Sunday Morning: Worship 10:00 am - 11:15 am with Nursery and Sunday School for Pre-school - 5th grade. Lead Pastor Brad Brenner.

First Christian Church Senior Minister, Jim Keefe. Nursery and Sunday school 9:30 am. Sunday morning worship 10:30 am. Special needs adult ministry on 1st Monday 7 pm. Small group fellowships. 111 NW Prindle, 748-3702 www.chehalischristian.org

LUTHERAN

Immanuel Lutheran Church ELCA 1209 N. Scheuber Rd, Centralia. Pastor, Linda Nou, 360-736-9270, Sunday Worship Svcs: 9am Contemporary, 11am Traditional, Fifth Sunday in month blended Svc 10am. In Lent, Svc @ Wed 7pm. Sun School 1015am; Youth Grp Sun 630pm. [email protected] or www.ilccentralia.org

Peace Lutheran Church & Preschool Chehalis–LCMS, Bishop Rd. & Jackson Hwy. Worship Svc. 9:00 am, 10:30 Cofee Hour, Sun. School 11:00 am. Re v. Daniel Freeman 748-4108.

St. John’s Lutheran Church-ELCA 2190 Jackson Highway, Chehalis. Winter Services: Sunday Worship 8:30 & 11:00 am. Sunday School & Adult Classes 9:45 am. Cofee/ fellowship follows the service. Pastor Matthew March. Oice hours Monday - Thursday, 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Phone: (360) 748-4741. Website: www.stjohnschehalis.net.

St. Marks Lutheran Church-LCMC 10000 Highway 12, Rochester. Adult Class 9:00 a.m. Sunday service 10:00 a.m. Fellow-ship follows service. Pastors: Greg Wight-man and Lauren Macan-Wightman. Church phone: 273-9571. Web: www.lutheransonline.com/stmarksrochesterwa

St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church -ELCA 379 State Rt. 505, Winlock, WA 98596. Youth and Adult Sunday School at 9:30 am. El-ementary Age Sunday School durin gportion of worship time. Worship Service at 10:30 am, cofee and fellowship follow Sunday Worship. Pastor: Rev. Angela Renecker. For more info call the church oice 360-785-3507. www.stpaullutheranwinlock.org

METHODIST

Centralia United Methodist Church 506 S. Washington. Rev. Tom Peterson. Worship: 11:00 am. All Welcome! 736-7311. www.centraliaumc.com

Chehalis United Methodist Church 16 S. Market Blvd., Chehalis. Pastor: Rev. Karla Fredericksen. Sunday School at 9:30 a.m. Worship Ser-vices at 11 a.m. All are welcome, childcare is available during the Worship Service. Church oice 360-748-7334Winlock United Methodist Church 107 SW Benton Ave., Winlock, WA. Pastor Susan Griggs leads worship at 10:00 a.m. Children attend Sunday School following the Children’s Message, with childcare available during the church service. Fellowship follows at 10 a.m. All are welcome. 360-785-4241

MESSIANIC Chesed v’ Shalom Ministries

Meets Saturday mornings at Immanuel Lutheran

1209 N Scheuber in Centralia Shabbat Service 11:00 am

Rabbi James Pace Phone: 360-736-1601

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CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE

Loving Deeply, Serving Boldly Sunday School Hour at 9:00 a.m. Worship Service at 10:30 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 wor-ship, learn and grow, a place to share life’s blessings, and a place to ind encourage-ment when weathering a storm. Everyone is welcome!! Pastor Dave Bach 1119 W. First Street in Centralia, 736-9981.

NON-DENOMINATIONAL

Life Center Sunday Gathering at 10:30 am. 201 N. Rock Street | Centralia

360-736-5898 Real Life. Real People. Real God.

www.yourlifecenter.com

NEW BEGINNINGS CHURCH 603 NW St. Helens Ave.

PO Box 1164 Chehalis, WA. 98532 (360) 748-7831 www.go2newbc.com

Pastor Ken Rieper Sunday school begins at 9:30 am Worship & Celebration 10:30 am Wednesday SUMMIT 6:30-8 pm

PENTECOSTAL CHURCHES

Jesus 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 Bur-gess, Pastor Shannon Burgess. (360) 748-4977 website: www.jnpc.org.

Pathway Church of God 1416 Scheuber Rd., Centralia. 736-3698. Everyone Welcome! Sun. Morning worship 11:00 am., Wednesday 7:00 pm, Pastors Rick and Debbie Payton.

PRESBYTERIAN

Harrison Square Presbyterian Church 1227 Harrison Ave., Centralia. Pastor Rev.

Ralph Carr. Sundays: Education Classes for adults 9:30 am. One Worship Service at

11:00 am. K-5th Grade attend beginning of worship then released to go to their class.

Nursery available. Phone: (360) 736-9996

E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.harrisonsquarepc.com

A Joyful Noise Development Center at Harrison Square, now enrolling. Open 6am-6pm Mon-Fri.

Phone:(360) 669-5052 E-mail: [email protected]

Westminster Presbyterian Church 349 N. Market Blvd., Chehalis. Pastor Ed Wegele. Sunday Services 10:00am with Children’s Church and

nursery care. For details, visit www.chehaliswpc.org or call 748-0091

SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST

Seventh-day Adventist, Centralia 1607 Military Rd., 736-4262. Sabbath School 9:30 am, Church Service 10:45 am. Wed. Prayer Meeting 6:00 pm. Pastor Ira Bartolome

Seventh Day Adventist, Chehalis 120 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. www.unitycentralia.com

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St. Joseph Plans Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper

St. Joseph Church, Cheha-lis, will have a Shrove Tuesday pancake supper with sausage and juice at 5 p.m. Tuesday. At 6:15 p.m. the church will be burning the palm branches to make ashes, with prayers and acclamations.

Collell to Serve as Immanuel’s Guest Clergy

The Rev. Jerry Collell will be guest pastor Sunday at Im-manuel Lutheran Church, Centralia.

Collell plans a sermon ti-tled “God’s Secret Exposed?”

He earned his bachelor of arts and master of arts degrees from the University of Oregon, Eugene. He obtained his mas-ter of divinity degree from Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Berkeley, and his doctor of ministry from San

Francisco Theological Semi-nary.

Collell has been an or-dained parish pastor for 29 years and has taught both mountain climbing and rock climbing, which will tie into his children’s message titled

“Mountain Tops!”

40-Day Pro-Life Prayer Vigil Planned

Area churches are invited to join the 40 Days for Life peace-ful prayer vigil beginning March 1 and ending April 9.

Area churches are being asked to send church members to pray for an hour a week or more from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. dai-ly in front of Planned Parent-hood, 1020 W. Main St., Cen-tralia.

It would be helpful if area churches chose a specific day of the week within the 40 days to pray. 40 Days for Life is the largest internationally coordi-nated pro-life mobilization in history, helping local commu-nities end of abortion.

For more information, con-tact Caroline Bowes, 360-983-8426.

Church Women United to Hold Human Rights Celebration

Church Women United is inviting area women to attend the annual Human Rights Celebration at 1 p.m. Friday, March 3, at St. Timothy’s Epis-copal Church in Chehalis.

Two guest speakers will be present: Rev. Golden Neal, of Rochester, speaking about con-tinuing the legacy, and Dave Eatwell, of Human Response Network, who will speak about violence and human rights.

St. Timothy’s is located at 1826 SW Snively Ave.

For more information, con-tact Janet Graham at 360-273-1964.

Church Women United is a national ecumenical Christian women’s movement represent-ing Protestant, Roman Catho-lic, Orthodox and other Chris-tian women.

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“He was looking at the shared teachings of all religions rather than dogmatic differenc-es,” says Veena Howard, direc-tor of Fresno State’s peace and conflict studies, who teaches Asian traditions and compara-tive religion.

Howard applauds Arenas’ decision to explore different faiths as a great step in inter-faith understanding. She sees many similarities between Christianity and Islam — in-cluding the belief in one God, and shared prophets and beliefs

— but points out the doctrine particularly differs in how Mus-lims pray directly to God, and Christians pray to God through their belief in his son, Jesus Christ.

In Howard’s experience, Arenas’ identification as both Catholic and Muslim is some-thing “rather new” and more rare. She has heard of more people mixing faiths such as Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism and Sikhism.

Arenas’ mother didn’t take the news well that her daugh-ter identifies as both Catholic and Muslim, but her husband

— also Catholic and Mexican — has been supportive.

The number of couples who are able to work through reli-gious differences appears to be on the rise in the United States. The Pew Research Center in 2015 shared survey data showing that

39 percent of Americans married since 2010 have a spouse with a different faith or who identifies as religiously unaffiliated, com-pared with 19 percent of those married before 1960.

Arenas doesn’t feel like she has to pick between Catholi-cism and Islam.

“I don’t want to compromise my marriage or my relationship with my parents when I already believe in it (Catholicism) and grew up in it, so why would I have to leave it? I feel like it’s easier to accept both,” she says.

Arenas says she doesn’t fol-low either religion “by the book,” citing her decision not to wear a headscarf and her support of friends in same-sex relation-ships as two examples.

“These are all ideas that come through the society that I currently live in but that would be something that wouldn’t be accepted by Catholicism or Is-lam,” she says.

During her presentation at Fresno State, Arenas also ad-dressed a number of miscon-ceptions about Islam, including some people’s view that Islam is a violent religion. She says most Muslims don’t agree with terrorism any more than most Christians agree with the views of the Ku Klux Klan. Another misconception: That “Allah” — which means God in Arabic — is a different God than the one Christians worship.

“We don’t pray to any new God. It’s the same God as the Jewish God or the Christian God ... it’s the same being.”

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Washington State Commission on Civil Disorder Criticizes Police Behavior in Washington Cities on Feb. 25, 1969

The Washington State Commission on the Cause and Prevention of Civil Disorder, chaired by Secretary of State (and former Seattle council-man) Lud Kramer, cites “the failure to provide bias-free po-lice services in the ghetto” as one of the preconditions that exists for unrest in Washing-ton cities. The report mentions housing discrimination and disparities in the treatment of blacks by the criminal justice system as other causes.

The commission consisted of 19 members, including judg-es, lawyers, and educators, who conducted 420 interviews. The report provided 89 proposals and recommendations, includ-ing constitutional amendments and tax reform as solutions to this problem. One item men-tioned as an aggravating factor in police-community relations was the Seattle Police Depart-ment’s use of “warning shots,”

a tactic abandoned by almost all other big city police depart-ments and discouraged by the International Association of Chiefs of Police.

Seattle Police Officer Fred D. Carr Dies From Friendly Fire in a Shootout on Feb. 25, 1973

Officer Fred D. Carr (1947-1973) dies from shots fired by fellow officers in a shootout with a man who is angry over losses at gambling. Officer Carr is the first African American officer of the Seattle Police Department to die in the line of duty.

Officer Carr and other offi-cers had responded to a call of a man armed with a .410 gauge shotgun who was angry at los-ing money in a card game. Carr led other officers down a hall-way in search of the man when the man burst out of a closet and fired a shot. The officers returned fire and both Carr and the suspect were fatally wounded. Carr was hit by shots fired by the other officers.

Husky Stadium Collapses on Feb. 25, 1987

At 10:07 a.m., a section of the Husky Stadium on the Uni-versity of Washington campus, which is under construction,

collapses. It is a 215-foot ad-dition to the bleachers, which becomes, in about 12 seconds, a 250-ton pile of twisted steel.

A Buckle in a Tube

In May 1986, Lydig Con-struction Co., a 22-year-old firm from Spokane, was award-ed the contract to construct the $12.9 million, 13,700-seat ad-dition to Husky Stadium. The steel contractor was Canron Construction Co. from Toronto.

By Feb. 25, the first two of nine sections of the addition under construction were near-ing completion. At 8:30 a.m. there was a crew of about 40 men working on the structure. At about 9 a.m., an ironworker spotted a buckle in a 28-inch di-ameter tube that supported the overhanging roof. Supervisor Wally Sharp ordered most of the workers to evacuate the site.

And then it happened.

“Oh My God! The Stadium’s Going!”

Mike Lude, Washington athletic director, a central figure in proposing the addition to the stadium and in raising funds for it, was concluding a staff meet-ing in his office overlooking the stadium. From an adjacent office, his secretary, Helen Gu-lickson, screamed, “Oh my God! The stadium’s going!”

Everyone at the meet-ing jumped up and ran to the windows. They witnessed the 140-high bleachers fall to the

ground and become a gigantic mass of twisted metal.

Mike Lude stated he was “a little bit in awe; as he saw the structure start to crumble. It’s kind of like having a new off-spring and having something happen to it .... It was unbeliev-able. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing, but I was seeing it and hearing it.”

Recording the Downfall

Another meeting attendee, Chuck Niemi, UW sports in-formation director, said that initially, “Everybody went blank.” The first words that broke the silence were a few one-word expletives. After re-covering their senses, Lude and the others rushed to the site to find out if there were any inju-ries or worse.

Meanwhile, that morning photographer John Stamets (1949-2014) had been riding his bicycle past the stadium, and had stopped to take a few pictures. As he was doing so, the stadium began shak-ing violently and then began its descent. In 12 seconds, by advancing the film by hand, Stamets captured nine pic-tures of the descent. Thus we have an amazing photographic record of the historic downfall of the Husky Stadium. (Five years after capturing the cam-pus collapse, Stamets joined the faculty there, serving for 22 years as a photographer and lecturer in the UW architec-ture department.)

‘We Ran Like Hell’

The last worker off the struc-ture was painting contractor Ron Toquinto. He was halfway up the structure when his fore-man said “Hey, come on down. There’s something about this; we want you all out of here.”

Toquinto said, “Just as I was walking out from underneath it, it started vibrating then violently shaking. It starting unscrewing itself and folded right to the ground.” Again, he stated, “It just started wobbling and fell down like it was the Narrows Bridge or something. When I heard it start to go, we ran like hell.”

All the workers got away in time. The only possible fatal-ity was a cat, the ironworkers’ mascot. But a few hours later, even the cat was found in the rubble, alive and apparently unharmed.

All Fall Down

While the stadium was un-der construction, nine guylines (wire cables) were used to sup-port the structure. Six of the guylines were removed too ear-ly, which caused the 250 tons of steel to start swaying and then to collapse. Preliminary damage estimates ranged from $500,000 to $1 million.

The collapse was a setback. Nevertheless, the stadium addi-tion was completed in time for the football team’s first home game of the season on Sept. 5, 1987, Huskies against Stanford. The Huskies won, 31-21.

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Original Chehalis Library Opened in 1910

Chehalis Timberland Library / for Our Hometowns

This photo shows the original Cheha-

lis Library in 1910, the year of its grand

opening. Because of pressure from H.C.

Cofman, a former librarian at the Uni-

versity of Washington, Andrew Carnegie

donated $10,000 to build the Chehalis

Library. The plans for the brick building

were drawn up by Y.D. Hensill, an archi-

tect from Oregon. On May 11, 1910, the

library celebrated its grand opening. In

1934 the brick addition to the back of the

building was built. On April 13, 1949, an

earthquake damaged the ivy-covered li-

brary so badly that it was closed for a year

and three days. After the earthquake, the

city remodeled the building. In 1970 the

Chehalis Free Public Library became the

Chehalis Timberland Library. This is the

only known photo that shows the band

shell, which seems to have disappeared

after 1913.

The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017 • Life 7LIFE

Celebrity Cipher

Today’s clue: N equals D

“ X K E V A Z I R K X P H Z N ’ R I K O Z L W P T T E V H

F R W Y K W Y P T E B P R W Z S K C C W Y E V H R F D

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awaiting surgery get an injection to anesthetize them. Volunteers and staff gently shave the sedated cats’ stomachs, carry the cats to their surgeries and monitor their vital signs.

Staff veterinarians perform the operations.

“The boys act like their lives are destroyed,” says Thompson, noting that the neutering takes

“about five seconds.” The girls, who have the more-invasive sur-gery, including little cat-sized an-esthesia masks, “are fine,” he says.

Thompson says a stand-alone clinic that can perform a high volume of operations is the only way to make an impact on the huge population of reproducing feral cats. Last spring, the clinic, which opened in 1997, sterilized its 100,000th cat.

What distinguishes the Puget Sound region from other parts of the state and the country, Thompson says, is the high level of cooperation among shelters, rescue groups and clinics.

“Collaboration isn’t the norm,” he says. “Infighting — over re-sources, over volunteers, over the mission — is more common.”

Dr. Merriss Waters, the med-ical director for the clinic, says the goal among all the activists is to ensure there are not more cats in the world than there are fami-lies to take them home.

“Everyone in shelter medicine and animal welfare wants to put themselves out of a job,” she says.

AT A 75-ACRE CATTLE RANCH in Enumclaw, the 14 barn cats are nowhere to be seen. A feeder that holds a 20-pound bag of high-protein cat food sits in the hayloft, along with water bowls, but ranch-er Dave Gleason says the furry ex-terminators mostly stay out of sight.

Gleason bought the pictur-esque ranch in 2015. His hay was infested with mice and rats, and the barn cats he inherited were skinny and sick.

He said to himself, “Somebody must be thinking about this,” and did a quick Google search. He found Working Cats and Horton.

Horton drove out to the

ranch and, over several days, trapped 12 resident cats. Their coats were matted, the hair fall-ing out, and they were infected with round worms and giardia, a parasitic disease that causes di-arrhea in cats.

One of the sick cats died, but Horton nursed the others back to health and determined that six were suited to hunting rodents and living in a barn. She placed eight other rescued feral cats that she thought were also good fits

— short hair, strong bodies and good health — at Gleason’s ranch.

Gleason has nothing but praise for the cats. “They’re per-fect employees,” he says. “They don’t complain. They don’t take vacations. And since they got here, we’ve never seen a rat or mouse.”

He compared his cats to the pest exterminators his wife hired to rid her business, a furniture and home-décor store, of ro-dents. The company charged her $700 to set up a trap and $70 a month to monitor it.

Gleason made a $200 dona-tion to an animal-rescue group.

Standing in the barn, with the heads of calves nudging through wooden slats, Horton and Gleason talk about the pre-vious fall and the sick cats she rescued. Those that recovered, but weren’t suited to the ranch, she placed through the pet-adop-tion website petfinder.com.

Horton pulls out her cell-phone and beams proudly as she shows Gleason a picture of the home where two of the formerly matted, wormy cats ended up: a Redmond McMansion complete with a circular drive.

CatsContinued from page Life 3

Alan Berner / The Seattle Times

A green-eyed beauty in Barb Horton’s

holding area in her house. It’s essential

to spay and neuter cats so they don’t

add to the estimated 80 million nation-

al population, Horton said.

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“ A S Z J Y K Y Z R D K G E ‘ LY K F C Y E P K D Z K D Y R U G E ’

U C R J D Z G A U Z K D H U D M U E Y Z G A D P S . . .

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By Norman Winter

Tribune News Service

There has been a storm brewing in North Carolina and it is one that will prove to beautify our landscapes across the country. The Mountain Horticultural Crops Research Station in Mills Riv-er N.C. already horticultural heroes of sorts with their incredible white flowered Sweet Tea Moun-tain Gordlinia are now bringing the landscape the Double Take Storm flowering quinces with the most shocking blooms you ever imagined. The three selections are Scarlet Storm, Pink Storm, and Orange Storm. They are all double flowered and look similar to camellia. Botanically speaking, they are all selections of Chaenomeles speciosa which is native to China. It is the breeding at North Carolina State however that is bringing us these shrubs that will reach ap-proximately 6-feet tall and 4-feet wide at maturity, boasting dazzling double flowers with huge petal counts. The old fashioned flowering quince always seems to be bare of flowers on the tips or tops of the plant but these blooms that reach up to 2 2-inches in diameter stretch outward to the tip of the stem. That means the blossoms are almost as large as a tennis ball. Here at the Coastal Geor-gia Botanical Garden, they have been sensational. They are cold hardy from zones 5-9 and deer resis-tant. Plant your selection in a site in full to part sun. These great flowering quinces deserve to be plant-ed in a well-prepared shrub bed. Incorporate 3- to

4- inches organic matter along with about two pounds of a 5-10-5 fertilizer per 100 square feet of planting area. Till your soil deeply and dig your hole about three times as wide as the rootball but no deeper. Place the flowering quince in the hole and backfill to two-thirds. Tamp the soil and wa-ter to settle. Add the remaining backfill and repeat the process to get all of the air pockets out and provide a great start for acclimatization of your new shrub. These plants bloom on old wood so remember not to over do it when pruning when they are in their deciduous or dormant state of winter. If any pruning is needed make these cuts after the spring bloom. Of course, these make breathtaking cut flowers, so select as needed. These blooms sequence nicely with spring blooming bulbs like Dutch iris, daffodils, and the iridescent blue of the Peruvian lily, Scilla pe-ruviana which is cold hardy to around zero. Try clustering three in front of evergreen hollies. Our Chinese snowball viburnums and Scarlet Storm are blooming, however, they are in different parts of the garden. To me, the flowering quince has always been that harbinger of spring. It’s the one plant that shouts with its colorful blooms, “You Have Sur-vived Winter!” Even though I loved those old blooms they pale in comparison to a plant like Scarlet Storm. Spring is early in the South so gar-deners here may want to start shopping. Elsewhere in the country, you can procrastinate a little, or better yet go ahead and let your favorite nursery-man know you are coming soon to pick up three.

Answer to Puzzle on Page Life 7

ADVICE: Dear Abby

DEAR ABBY: Recently, while making a purchase at a local store and handing the cashier my money, she asked,

“How many months along are you?” I was confused for a mo-ment, until I realized she had assumed I was pregnant. (I’m not.) When I told her I wasn’t, she just shrugged and said, “Oh.”

Abby, my feelings were hurt. I will most likely never see that cashier again — and I do not know her — but I would like to know how to respond to this in the future. I don’t believe people should as-sume a woman is pregnant un-less they know for sure that she is. What she said made me in-stantly want to lash out. How-ever, I knew that responding with more rudeness would do no good. So, what should I say if this ever happens again? — NOT PREGNANT IN ALABAMA

DEAR NOT PREGNANT: You handled the situation ap-propriately. The cashier was pre-sumptuous. If it happens again, either handle it the way you did with that clerk or say, “Why do you ask?” and let the person squirm. The choice is yours.

DEAR ABBY: I’m an eighth-grader with a good life. I go to a good school, have good friends and a happy family. But at school, there is this boy who follows me around. I tell him to stop, but he keeps doing it. When I tell my friends about it, they laugh and think it’s funny. I don’t feel like it’s a joke. It’s creepy.

I have tried to tell adults, but they don’t do anything. Re-cently I dyed the tips of my hair blue, and at lunch he walked up, grabbed my hair and felt it. I feel like it was an invasion of my personal space. Because he won’t stop following me

around and being creepy, my grades have dropped. I’m dis-tracted in class and nervous. What do you think I should do? — INVADING MY SPACE

DEAR INVADING: If that boy were younger, I would suggest that he has a crush on you. But by the age of 13 or 14, he should have learned what

“no” and “stop” means. I don’t blame you for being concerned because the young man is act-ing like a stalker. Nobody has a right to touch you — or your hair — without your permis-sion. You have a right to feel safe.

Do your parents know about this? If you told a teacher about what has been going on and were ignored, tell a coun-selor or the principal of your

“good” school about it.

DEAR ABBY: My 30-year-old son insists that I should help pay for the orthodontia he feels he should have had as a child. He is a grown man now with three children of his own, and I am not sure if I, his dad, should financially help him with this. What do you think? — BRACING FOR AN ANSWER

DEAR BRACING: I am go-ing to assume that when your son was a minor, you could not afford to get him the orth-odontia he needed, which is sad. That said, if you wish to help him now and doing so would not put undue financial pressure on you, go ahead and help him out.

However, if you are being guilted into paying because your financially independent son thinks he is “entitled” to it, then forking over the money would be a mistake.

•••Dear Abby is written by Abi-

gail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.Dear-Abby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Don’t Assume a Pregnancy Unless You Know For Sure

By Abigail Van Buren

Tribune News Service

Flowering quinces have been grown in the United States since the 1700s, but today’s lowers like in this Scarlet Storm are

much larger.

Colorful Storm Brewing in the Spring Garden

The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017 • 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

WIZARD OF ID by Parker & Hart

Life 10 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017COMICS

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

WIZARD OF ID by Parker & Hart

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