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Mount Rainier Memorial

A Crash and a Police Chase

New National Park Memorial Honors Those Who

Died Trying to Save Lives of Others / Main 13

Man Jailed After Driving Into House and Running

From Pursuing Deputies in Centralia / Main 4

Health

Director,

Shelter

Manager

Facing

Charges

Over Hank

the Dog

DEEMED DANGEROUS:

Penalties Pending

for Employees Who

Adopted Out ¡®Hank¡¯

After He Was Set to Be

Euthanized

Chehalis Moose Lodge Seeks to Pay

Off Twin Cities Student Lunch Debt

COMING SEPT. 9: Benefit

Seeks to Raise Nearly

$5,000 to Close

Accounts in Twin Cities

By Justyna Tomtas

jtomtas@

The governor of the Chehalis Moose Lodge was surprised

to find out the amount of lunch

debt that has been accrued by

students in the Centralia and

Chehalis school districts.

The issue first came to his

attention after he watched a

news report on the topic. He

decided to find out what the

impacts are locally, leading his

organization to spring into action to help the students who

are affected.

¡°I found out, yes, it does happen here, too,¡± Dave Montonye,

the governor of the local lodge,

said. ¡°We decided it¡¯s just not

right to have the child be treated like that, and we thought

we¡¯d do something about it.¡±

Now, the Chehalis Moose

Lodge is committed to help.

The organization will hold a

benefit to raise money to pay

please see DEBT, page Main 16

Centralia Foundation Uses Business

Partnerships to Collect School Supplies

By Justyna Tomtas

jtomtas@

Two county employees are

facing criminal penalties in

Lewis County District Court

after they ¡°conspired to circumvent¡± county code, changed a

dog¡¯s name and adopted it out

to new owners without informing them that the dog had previously been declared dangerous.

please see CHARGES, page Main 16

Thermal

Imaging Helps

Firefighters

Cool Last of

Hotspots in

Grand Mound

Graham Perednia / gperednia@

By The Chronicle

Exactly a week after wind fueled the 500-acre Scatter Creek

Fire in Grand Mound, firefighters are using thermal imaging

technology to find and eliminate the last hotspots.

¡°If it all goes well tonight,

most crews and the Statewide

Incident (Management) Team

will withdraw and hand back

command to local DNR and

please see FIRE, page Main 16

Standing behind $1,000 worth of clothes for school children on Wednesday are, from the left, co-owner of Dick¡¯s Brewery Julie Pendleton, President of the Centralia

Community Foundation Dan Rich, Centralia City Councilor Peter Abbarno and Centralia Foundation Secretary Jonathan Meyer. Centralia law firm Althauser Rayan

Abbarno partnered with the foundation and Dick¡¯s Brewery to raise funds to purchase the clothes.

BACK TO SCHOOL: $1,000 Worth

of Clothes Will Be Donated

to Centralia School District

as Part of Ongoing Drive

By Graham Perednia

gperednia@

Getting in the Heads of Students

As the beginning of the school year fast

approaches, many families in the area cannot afford to purchase new shoes, clothes

and school supplies.

To help these families and their students,

the Centralia Community Foundation has

partnered with the law firm Althauser Rayan Abbarno and Dick¡¯s Brewing Company

to purchase $1,000 worth of new clothes as

¡®National Test Case¡¯

part of a supply drive.

The trio will present the clothes and

supplies to the Centralia School District on

Friday.

¡°The Centralia Foundation believes the

future is bright and it comes from the kids,¡±

Foundation Secretary Jonathan Meyer said.

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News

of the

PAGE TWO

Weird

Are You Ready for Some Football?

its buildings and grounds. Today,

fewer than a dozen remain.

Sing Sing is where Julius and

Ethel Rosenberg were executed

in 1953 after their espionage

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) convictions. Tiger broke into

¡ª Authorities have solved the the maximum-security facility

mystery of how an alligator end- about a decade ago.

ed up in a swimming pool at a

The Wall Street Journal says

motel on the New Jersey shore.

Tiger turns his nose up at tuna

They say the 3-foot-long al- from the mess hall but will gladly

ligator found Aug. 15 at the chow down on tuna that inmates

Bayview Inn & Suites in Atlan- buy for him at the commissary.

tic City was part of a rap video

Tiger obeys the officers and

filmed there by two men. The once scared a groundhog away

alligator was found when police from lettuce in the prison garden.

conducted a raid at the site.

Items found during the raid

led to the arrest Tuesday of the

two men on armed robbery

charges. Authorities say they

robbed homes in two nearby

towns in the days before the alWESTERLY, R.I. (AP) ¡ª

ligator was found.

Workers

will try to remove a mysAnimal control workers

safely lifted the alligator from terious circular object with steel

the pool, and it¡¯s now at a zoo in legs that has puzzled onlookers

Cape May County. Officials plan since it was found lodged underto move it to a reserve in Florida. water off a Rhode Island beach.

WJAR-TV reports the head of

the East Beach Association says

a crew will begin excavating the

metal object from the ocean floor

in Westerly on Thursday with the

hope of removing it intact.

The object was located about

10 feet offshore at low tide. It has

DEVILS TOWER, Wyo. (AP) puzzled beachgoers since it was

¡ª Just like in the science-fiction discovered earlier this month. It

movie ¡°Close Encounters of the has eight stainless steel legs and

Third Kind,¡± UFO enthusiasts is capped with concrete.

are being drawn to a strange geological formation in Wyoming.

Devils Tower played a key

role in the well-known UFO

film that came out 40 years ago

this year. The first Devils Tower

UFO Rendezvous will be held at

PHILADELPHIA (AP) ¡ª

the site from Sept. 14-16.

The

wheels are in motion for

The formation is actually the

Philadelphia¡¯s

next gathering of

solidified core of an ancient volnaked bicyclists.

cano.

Organizers of the Philly NaExperts on UFOs will speak

ked

Bike Ride said Tuesday the

at the convention.

ninth

annual event will take

Organizer Brian Olson tells

KOTA-TV that there¡¯s a fun side, place throughout the city¡¯s

too, with plans for a parade, live streets Sept. 9.

Around 3,000 riders are exmusic and barbecue cook-off.

pected to pass by sites including

Independence Hall and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where

Sylvester Stallone ran up the

steps while training as Rocky.

Ride organizers say participants

can go as bare as they dare.

OSSINING, N.Y. (AP) ¡ª An

orange tabby named Tiger is en- Last year some riders wore nothjoying his role as one of the last ing at all or sported body paint

cats living at New York¡¯s Sing while others wore underwear.

Los Angeles artist Matt DeSing Correctional Facility.

The prison north of New ifer is among those who¡¯ll be in

York City once had hundreds of Philadelphia to paint the naked

resident felines freely roaming cyclists before they pedal away.

Wayward Alligator

Found in Motel Pool

Was Part of Rap Video

Crew to Attempt

Removal of Mysterious

Object From Beach

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Carson Lewis, center, confirms a play during Morton-White Pass¡¯ preseason practice on Aug. 23 in Morton. The annual

Chronicle prep football preview is inserted in today¡¯s edition. Find more news and photos of local athletes

online at .

Notable Quote

¡°Sometimes it seems like the whole country has become the

two sides at that roadblock at Ruby Ridge, seduced by paranoia,

by the reduction of complex ideas into protest signs and

bumper stickers or, now, into 140 characters.¡±

UFO Enthusiasts

Heading to Wyoming

for Upcoming

Rendezvous

Jess Walter

author discussing 25th anniversary of Ruby Ridge standoff

(see page Main 9 for the full story)

Save the Date: Next

Philly Naked Bike Ride

Just Days Away

Today in History

On August 31, 1997, Prince

Charles brought Princess Diana

home for the last time, escorting

the body of his former wife to a

Britain that was shocked, griefstricken and angered by her

death in a Paris traffic accident

earlier that day.

On This Date:

In 1867, French poet Charles

Baudelaire, 46, died in Paris.

In 1886, an earthquake with

an estimated magnitude of 7.3

devastated Charleston, South

Carolina, killing at least 60 people, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

In 1916, the musical revue

¡°The Big Show,¡± featuring the song

¡°Poor Butterfly¡± by Raymond

Hubbell and John Golden, opened

at New York¡¯s Hippodrome.

In 1939, the first issue of Marvel Comics, featuring the Human

Torch, was published by Timely

Tiger the Tabby is

One of Sing Sing

Prison¡¯s Last Felines

Publications in New York.

In 1941, the radio program

¡°The Great Gildersleeve,¡± a spinoff from ¡°Fibber McGee and

Molly¡± starring Harold Peary,

debuted on NBC.

In 1954, Hurricane Carol hit

the northeastern Atlantic states;

Connecticut, Rhode Island and

part of Massachusetts bore the

brunt of the storm, which resulted in some 70 deaths.

In 1965, the U.S. House of

Representatives joined the Senate in voting to establish the U.S.

Department of Housing and Urban Development.

In 1972, at the Munich Summer

Olympics,

American

swimmer Mark Spitz won his

fourth and fifth gold medals

in the 100-meter butterfly and

800-meter freestyle relay; Soviet

gymnast Olga Korbut won gold

medals in floor exercise and the

balance beam.

In 1986, 82 people were killed

when an Aeromexico jetliner

and a small private plane collided over Cerritos, California.

The Soviet passenger ship Admiral Nakhimov collided with a

merchant vessel in the Black Sea,

causing both to sink; up to 448

people reportedly died.

In 1987, the Michael Jackson

album ¡°Bad¡± was released by

Epic Records.

In 1992, white separatist

Randy Weaver surrendered to

authorities in Naples, Idaho,

ending an 11-day siege by federal agents that had claimed the

lives of Weaver¡¯s wife, son and

a deputy U.S. marshal. (Weaver

was acquitted of murder and

all other charges in connection

with the confrontation; he was

convicted of failing to appear

for trial on firearms charges and

was sentenced to 18 months.)

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Centralia School Training Focuses on Engaging Low Income Students

ERIC JENSEN: Author,

Speaker Provides Insight

on What Students

in Poverty Face

By Justyna Tomtas

jtomtas@

Children who grow up in

poverty typically have different

learning, social and behavioral

challenges. With approximately 80 percent of the Centralia

School District population categorized as low income, the

district brought in a world renowned speaker for a multiple

day training event that aimed to

get everyone who interacts with

children the skills they need to

deal with the unique issues they

may come across.

Eric Jensen, a former teacher

and educational leader, spoke to

a crowd of over 500 district employees at the TransAlta Commons on the Centralia College

campus on Tuesday.

Jensen, who has a master¡¯s degree in organizational development and a doctorate in human

development, has synthesized

brain research for over two decades and developed practical

applications for educators.

¡°This is the first time since

I¡¯ve been here that we¡¯ve had all

of our staff who come into contact with children in one place

to hear this message and get this

information,¡± said Ed Petersen,

communications and public relations coordinator for the district.

Jensen gave a three and a

half hour training and overview

for the district¡¯s employees on

Tuesday, and later held a meeting with teachers and paraeducators as they continued their own

training.

According to Kristy Vetter,

executive director of teaching

and learning for the district, his

work focuses on answering two

questions: Is it possible to turn

struggling students around in

just a few days or weeks? And, if

it is possible, what insights and

strategies can help accomplish

that within schools?

As the author of ¡°Teaching

With Poverty in Mind,¡± Jensen

began by explaining that poverty

is not a culture, but a chronic

condition that results from multiple adverse risk factors.

He explained two adaptations

to chronic or traumatic stress,

which can result in a student that

is either on edge, and likely classified as a behavioral issue, or a

student that does not engage and

is labeled with a motivation issue.

The key takeaway is finding a

way to re-engage those students

and make learning applicable to

their life.

¡°The truth of the matter is our

bodies set a point for stress just

like it would for other things,¡±

Jensen said.

Jensen himself was a kid who

¡°didn¡¯t give a rip.¡± He grew up in

an unhealthy environment. The

change in his life was due to two

teachers in middle school who

told him he had the talent to

write. He went on to author 30

books.

The information presented

is important for all the staff, according to Vetter.

¡°Hopefully this will help them

see the children in a little bit of a

different light and they¡¯ll know

how to respond to make a difference,¡± she said. ¡°¡­ To understand the impact of chronic stress

and how that might play out in a

child¡¯s behavior so we don¡¯t judge

the behavior is important.¡±

Since the brain is malleable

and constantly changes in re-

Justyna Tomtas / jtomtas@

Eric Jensen stands on the stage at the TransAlta Commons building on the campus of Centralia College while employees

of the Centralia School District run through one of his exercises. Jensen, who has authored 30 books, discussed teaching

principles and practices in high poverty situations.

sponse to surrounding environments, it¡¯s important to provide

the right input, Vetter said.

¡°It¡¯s a really rare opportunity

to be able to get somebody of

this caliber to come in,¡± she said.

¡°He synthesizes all this brain research. That¡¯s what he does, so

it¡¯s taking all this brain research

and kind of putting it into a real

practical kind of way and I love

that.¡±

The presentation moves the

district forward in achieving its

goals, Petersen said.

¡°It¡¯s not necessarily the beginning, but it¡¯s part of a culture

change to get away from those

excuses and start getting down

to the bare bones of teaching ev- Eric Jensen discusses how the brain adapts to chronic stress during a seminar with

ery kid so we can improve,¡± he Centralia School District staff on Tuesday at the TransAlta Commons on the Centralia College campus.

said.

News in Brief

Lewis County PUD

Plans Outage for

Boistfort Area

By The Chronicle

A planned power outage is

scheduled for Tuesday for Boistfort Road addresses.

The outage, conducted by

Lewis County PUD 1, is scheduled to occur from 8 a.m. to 2

p.m. Sept. 5.

The outage is scheduled so

the district can move overhead

power lines to allow the Lewis

County Public Works Department to make repairs.

Sex Offender Registers

as Transient in

Thurston County

By The Chronicle

A Level 2 sex offender recently registered as a transient

in Thurston County, according

to the Thurston County Sheriff¡¯s

Office.

Shawn D. Hamilton, 23, is

required to register as a sex

offender

due

to a March 6,

2017, conviction

in

Thurston

County Superior Court for

second-degree

Shawn D. Hamilton

possession of

sex offender

depictions

of

minors engaged

in sexually explicit conduct.

He was sentenced to 15

months in prison and 36 months

on community custody.

According to the Sheriff¡¯s Office, Hamilton was convicted at

age 22 of possessing images of

young girls engaging in sexually

explicit conduct.

Hamilton is described as a

white male standing 6 feet tall

and weighing 200 pounds. He

has brown hair and blue eyes.

For more information about

sex offenders registered in

Thurston County, go to

co.thurston.wa.us/sheriff/ or call

360-754-2894.

Coldwell Banker Kline

Announces New Agent

By The Chronicle

Coldwell Banker Kline Real

Estate hired Dale Perozzo as a

new agent in June.

A resident of Lewis County

for 36 years,

Perozzo is well

aware of the

area and community needs,

a press release

said.

Prior to being hired at

Dale Perozzo

new real estate Coldwell Banker Kline, Peroagent

zzo was an IT

manager for REI for 10 years. He

enjoys investing in real estate and

owns and manages several rental

properties. With his experience

at REI, he comes to the real estate world with a lot of computer

and financial knowledge.

Perozzo and his wife Nina

have two grown children, Mi-

chael and Jordache.

Coldwell Banker Kline is located at 815 W. Main St. in Centralia.

versity and is the author of ¡°Bugle,¡± which won the Washington

State Book Award in 2015. He

has also written ¡°Dare Say¡± and

¡°The Tangled Line,¡± along with

a collection of interviews with

contemporary poets, ¡°Range

of the Possible.¡± His visit to the

college is presented by the college, Book ¡®n¡¯ Brush, Humanities

By The Chronicle

Washington and the WashingWashington¡¯s Poet Laureate ton State Arts Commission.

Tod Marshall will be the featured

artist at a free poetry reading at 7

p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 9, in the

TransAlta Commons at Centralia College.

Marshall has been the Poet

PULLMAN (AP) ¡ª Police

Laureate since 2016. He¡¯s a poet

and professor at Gonzaga Uni- at Washington State University

State¡¯s Poet

Laureate to Speak at

Centralia College

WSU Student Arrested

in Connection With

Bomb Threats at Dorm

History Comes

Alive

In this recently reprinted book

by Mary Helen Laughlin, she

shares her research, photos,

and stories gathered on the

Valley and its pioneers.

Great for gifts or readers

who love Southwest

Washington history.

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have arrested a student in connection with a series of bomb

threats recently made against

Stimson Hall.

Campus police arrested

18-year-old Jose Andres Tecuatl

on three counts of threatening to

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Suspect Jailed After Hitting House With Car in Centralia, Leading Deputies on Chase

By The Chronicle

A man wanted on an outstanding warrant was arrested

Monday after allegedly fleeing

from deputies and striking a

house with his car, according to

court documents.

Gabriel Escamilla, 24, of

Centralia, was charged Tuesday

in Lewis County Superior Court

with possession of heroin with

intent to deliver, possession of

methamphetamine and attempting to elude a pursuing police officer.

Chief Criminal Deputy Prosecutor Brad Meagher asked for

$25,000 bail, citing Escamilla¡¯s

criminal history, which includes

warrants on previous cases, and

the facts of the current case.

¡°He¡¯s alleged to have eluded

officers, hit a house then got out

of his car and ran ¡­ so I think

there¡¯s a bit of a flight risk here,¡±

he said.

Superior Court Judge Andrew Toynbee agreed on the bail

amount proposed and set Escamilla¡¯s next court hearing for

Sept. 7.

According to court documents, members of Lewis County¡¯s Joint Narcotics Enforcement

Team learned that Escamilla had

a state Department of Corrections warrant for his arrest on

Monday. DOC officers located

Escamilla in a car in Centralia

and attempted to conduct a traffic stop.

Escamilla allegedly sped

away from police, running a stop

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Gabriel Escamilla makes his first appearance Tuesday in Lewis County Superior Court.

sign and, unable to navigate a

tight turn, hit a house off Woodland Avenue.

He then reportedly got out

of the car and ran from officers

¡°hopping over fences,¡± according to court documents. He was

arrested after being found in

the backyard of a residence on

Atherton Street at about 6:30 p.m.

Monday, according to Lewis

County Jail records.

After being arrested, Escamilla was found to be in possession of methamphetamine, ac-

cording to court documents.

Escamilla reportedly gave officers permission to search his

vehicle. They reported finding

heroin, a scale and plastic bags.

News in Brief

State Hatchery Contract

Lost After Report of

Sexual Culture

OLYMPIA (AP) ¡ª The state

Department of Fish and Wildlife has lost a multimillion-dollar contract to operate two fish

hatcheries following a report of a

sexual culture among top-ranking employees at one of them.

The News Tribune reported

officials with the Douglas County Public Utility District, which

owns the hatcheries, decided

Monday to end its one-year contract with the state to operate the

Wells and Methow hatcheries in

north central Washington.

Utility district spokeswoman

Meaghan Vibbert says the contract renewed in June was set to

pay $1.36 million to the state for

the Wells Hatchery and another

$715,000 for the Methow Hatchery.

The four highest-ranking employees at Wells were fired by the

state earlier this month after an

investigation into sexual-harassment claims found a workplace

atmosphere riddled with sexual

conversations and hazing.

Fish and Wildlife spokesman Bruce Botka said the agency

wants to talk to utility district of-

ficials about their decision.

Cowlitz County Deputies

Travel to Las Vegas to

Arrest Couple

LONGVIEW (AP) ¡ª Cowlitz

County authorities have arrested

a Las Vegas couple accused of

scamming people nationwide

out of $430,000.

The couple is accused of telling victims a virus would kill

off all the data in their computer

unless they paid them to repair it.

The Daily News reported

Wednesday that a Cowlitz Coun-

ty woman was hit badly by the

scam, having lost $35,000. The

Cowlitz County Sheriff¡¯s Office had been investigating her

losses for a year before Detective

Lorenzo Gladson and Sgt. Brad

Thurman obtained an extraditable warrant and traveled to Las

Vegas to arrest the couple.

Thirty-nine-year-old Nerraj

Kohli and his wife, 36-year-old

Shweta Kohli, were taken into

custody at their home and are

awaiting extradition.

Chief Criminal Deputy Charlie Rosenzweig says the couple

admitted they are in the United

States illegally.

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Prosecutors: More Charges Possible for Oregon

Residents Arrested in Centralia Alcohol Theft

INVESTIGATION: More

Than $1,000 in Alcohol

Was Stolen; Shoplifted

Clothes From 10 Stores

Found After Search of

Vehicle

¡°What started out as a liquor theft from a local

Safeway might turn out to be a lot more.¡¯¡¯

Joel DeFazio

prosecutor

By Natalie Johnson

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Continued investigation into

allegations of organized retail

theft in Centralia over the weekend revealed an initial estimate of

a theft of about $869 in alcohol to

likely be far below the mark, according the Lewis County Prosecutor¡¯s Office.

¡°This is likely to get much bigger,¡± said Deputy Prosecutor Joel

DeFazio Tuesday.

Suspects have now been tied

to well over $1,000 in alcohol

thefts from two Centralia stores

in addition to clothes allegedly

stolen from numerous retail

stores, DeFazio told the court.

The five suspects, all from

Portland, are Isiah R. Campbell,

20, Johvanee A. Hall, 21, Latia D.

McDaniel, 25, Zariah Y. Torrega-

no, 20, and Jovahntea R. Hall, 21.

They were arrested Sunday after

police responded to a report of

the theft of hundreds of dollars in liquor and food from the

Centralia Safeway in the 1100

block of Harrison Avenue. They

were arrested by the Washington

State Patrol after leaving the area,

and were reportedly caught on

surveillance footage.

They made their first appearance in Lewis County Superior

Court Monday where they were

not formally charged but ordered held on probable cause for

another day while investigators

executed a search warrant.

They were back in court Tuesday, all charged with seconddegree organized retail theft, a

class C felony.

DeFazio gave the court an

update on the case Tuesday.

¡°The vehicle was searched,¡± he

said. ¡°The investigation is still

ongoing.¡±

Before ruling on a bail

amount for the five suspects,

Superior Court Judge Andrew

Toynbee asked DeFazio to elaborate on the additional evidence

discovered since the five defendants were arrested.

DeFazio reported that a

search warrant of the suspects¡¯

vehicle revealed $1,000 pre-tax

in stolen liquor from Centralia¡¯s

Safeway and another $180 pretax in alcohol stolen from Rite

Aid. The vehicle also contained

clothing suspected to be stolen

from 10 retail stores, many of

them in the same general area of

the Centralia Factory Outlets.

The officer in charge of the

investigation is working to track

all of the merchandise back to

the stores, he said.

¡°What started out as a liquor

theft from a local Safeway might

turn out to be a lot more,¡± DeFazio said, noting that charges

could be upgraded to retail theft

with special circumstances, depending on the outcome of the

investigation.

With that in mind, he asked

for Toynbee to maintain the

$10,000 bail for each defendant

set the previous day by Superior

Court Judge James Lawler.

Defense attorney Rachael Tiller, representing the defendants

for their initial hearing, asked

for unsecured bail, asking Toynbee not to consider speculation

on further charges. She noted

that all of the defendants were

related and that family members

planned to help them return to

court if released.

Toynbee granted Tiller¡¯s request and allowed some of the

defendants to return to their

home city of Portland, while others plan to live with family in Tacoma while the case is ongoing.

Rochester Woman Charged for Alleged $16,000 Theft From Employer

GOLD KEY MOTORS:

Discrepancies in Books

Lead to Allegations

Against Office Manager

By The Chronicle

A Rochester woman was arrested and charged this week

after her Centralia employer reported more than $16,000 stolen

from the business since the beginning of the year.

Leeanne I. Dorman, 41, was

charged Tuesday in Lewis County Superior Court on suspicion of

first-degree theft.

Dorman appeared in custody

for her first hearing Tuesday. She

was granted $10,000 unsecured

bail by Superior Court Judge Andrew Toynbee and released.

According to court documents, Centralia police received a

report of a theft on May 15 from

Gold Key Motors in Centralia.

The owner reported that his

son, the manager of the business,

discovered discrepancies in the

books. The man reported the only

person outside his family who had

By The Chronicle

The Centralia Timberland

Regional Library will host a presentation covering the life of city

founder George Washington at

2 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 16. The

event is free and open to the public.

Washington was the son of a

black slave and a woman of English descent. Adopted into the

white family of Anna and James

Cochran, Washington found

his way to the Pacific Northwest

where the Cochrans purchased a

640-acre homestead and deeded

it to their son. Washington and

his wife, Mary Jane, founded the

town of Centerville. Later, the

name was changed to Centralia

because a Centerville had already been founded.

In 1905, Washington died a

wealthy and well respected man.

The Centralia Timberland

Library is located at 110 S. Silver Street. It is open from 10 a.m.

to 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday,

10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday

through Friday and 10 a.m. to

5 p.m. on Saturday. For more

information about the event or

about the library, visit or

call the Centralia Library at 360736-0183.

State Housing

Market Sets Records

in Second Quarter

SPOKANE (AP) ¡ª The

housing market in Washington

state set records in the second

quarter of 2017.

That¡¯s according to the

Washington Center for Real Estate Research at the University

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Leeanne Dorman makes her first appearance Tuesday in Lewis County Superior Court on a first-degree theft charge.

access to the business¡¯s finances

was Dorman, the office manager.

As of May 17, $6,000 was

identified as missing from deposits over the past few months.

At the time, the business

owner told police Dorman had

admitted to taking the money

because of financial hardships,

but had offered to pay it back, according to court documents.

However, on May 19, police

received a report that more than

$16,000 was now suspected to

have been stolen between January and April 2017.

Dorman¡¯s next court hearing

is scheduled for Sept. 7.

News in Brief

Centralia Library to

Host Presentation

on Centralia Founder

George Washington

The Chronicle is published Tuesday and Thursday evenings and

Saturday mornings by Lafromboise Communications, Inc.

of Washington.

The statewide median sales

price rose to $337,700 in the second quarter, 6.6 percent higher

than the same period last year.

This represents an all-time high

for statewide house prices and

the highest median price ever recorded in the state.

The study says a low supply of

existing homes for sale is likely a

leading factor in price growth.

Median prices were highest in King County at $650,800,

with a year-on-year increase over

2016 of 14.9 percent. The lowest

median prices were found in Lincoln County at $89,000.

House prices in many other

counties rose significantly.

Washington State

Dairy Workers Settle

Lawsuit for $600,000

OUTLOOK (AP) ¡ª A Yakima County Superior Court judge

has given preliminary approval

for a $600,000 settlement for a

group of dairy workers.

The Yakima Herald-Republic

reported Monday that the lawsuit against the DeRuyter Brothers Dairy of Outlook was filed

on behalf of nearly 300 workers

claiming the company failed to

provide adequate meal and rest

breaks and that workers were not

paid for all time worked.

The workers claimed they

worked at the 5,000-herd dairy

nine to 12 hours a day, six days

a week without rest breaks, meal

periods or overtime pay.

Former dairy co-owner

Genny DeRuyter did not return

an email seeking comment. A

worker who picked up a call to

the DeRuyter Brothers Dairy,

now under new ownership, said

DeRuyter no longer worked at

the office.

Sheriff¡¯s Deputy on

Leave After Drawing

Gun on Motorcyclist

SEATTLE (AP) ¡ª King

County Sheriff John Urquhart

says he has placed a veteran deputy on administrative leave after

the deputy drew his gun on a

motorcyclist during a traffic stop.

KIRO-TV reported that the

motorcyclist, Alex Randall, captured the encounter on his helmet

camera as he was stopped at a

red light on Aug. 16, at Northeast

145th Street and 5th Avenue Northeast between Seattle and Shoreline.

The video shows the plainclothes deputy suddenly standing next to Randall with his gun

drawn. The motorcyclist asks

why he has his gun out, tells the

deputy he¡¯s unarmed, and offers

to move his motorcycle to the

side of the road. The deputy orders Randall to get out his identification, and tells him, ¡°You

move this bike, I¡¯m gonna dump

you.¡±

The deputy tells Randall he

was driving recklessly, but Randall says he didn¡¯t get a ticket.

Urquhart wrote on his Facebook page Tuesday that he was

¡°deeply disturbed¡± by the deputy¡¯s actions and placed him on

administrative leave pending an

investigation. The deputy¡¯s name

was not immediately released.

Three Indicted on Big

Game Hunt Charges in

Alaska National Park

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP)

¡ª A federal grand jury has indicted three men on charges connected to illegal hunting in an

Alaska national park.

The indictment announced

Tuesday names 44-year-old Jef-

frey Harris, of Poulsbo, 72-yearold Dale Lackner, of Haines,

Alaska, and 47-year-old Casey

Richardson of Huson, Montana.

Online court documents do

not list their attorneys.

Federal prosecutors say the

hunts occurred at a lodge in

Wrangell-St. Elias National Park

and Preserve.

The indictment says Harris

and Richardson, who don¡¯t hold

guide licenses, guided out-ofstate hunters on Dall sheep hunts.

Lackner, a registered guide in

2015, is charged with conspiring

to conduct illegal hunts and creating false hunt records.

The indictment also alleges

that Richardson and Harris used

artificial sweetener harmful to

canines on bait piles to try to kill

wolves and coyotes.

Officer to Get Back

Pay, Firing Reversed

in Golf Club Case

SEATTLE (AP) ¡ª A Seattle

police officer fired for arresting

a 69-year-old black man while

he was walking with a golf club

has settled with the city for back

pay and to have her termination

changed to a retirement.

KIRO-TV reported the agreement regarding Cynthia Whitlatch was released to the station

Tuesday by the City Attorney¡¯s

Office after a request.

Police

Chief

Kathleen

O¡¯Toole Saturday signed the

agreement Saturday, which provides over $105,000 in back pay

and is expected to give Whitlatch her full pension for 18 years

as an officer.

All sustained findings by the

Office of Professional Accountability about Whitlatch¡¯s conduct will remain in place.

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