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PAIR HURT IN SINGLE-VEHICLE COLLISION
• Two people were hospitalized after an allegedly intoxicated driver ran off U.S. Highway 12 east of Glenoma early yesterday morning, drove through a guard rail and hit a utility pole. Troopers and aid called about 1:45 a.m. to the scene near Scott Road found the pickup truck destroyed but the occupants were outside of it, according to responders. “From what I understand, he had minor injuries and the female had a broken arm,” Lewis County Fire District 18 Chief Ed Lowe said. Scotty R. Mays, 35, from Glenoma, and Brooke D. Pyles, 21, of Randle, were transported to Morton General Hospital, according to the Washington State Patrol. “They’re lucky to be alive,” Lowe said. Pyles was treated and then released, but Mays was stabilized and then transferred to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle; he has been released, according to hospital spokespersons. The state patrol reports Mays faces possible charges of driving under the influence and vehicular assault.
THEFT
• Someone stole a cargo trailer from the 100 block of North Ash Street in Centralia, according to a report made to police about 8 a.m. yesterday. The white 2002 Pace enclosed trailer has a license plate of 0961 VX, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Someone apparently crawled through the window of a residence on the 1300 block of Windsor Avenue in Centralia and stole two firearms. Missing is a Ruger semi-automatic and a Taurus revolver, according to a report made to police about 5:40 p.m. on Friday. The case is under investigation, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Centralia police are investigating a second-degree theft regarding a report made from the 600 block of F Street on Friday. “Items” were missing, according to the Centralia Police Department.
• Centralia police took a report late Friday afternoon from the 100 block of North Ash Street that someone stole the spare tires from two vehicles.
POLICE: MEDS NOT MISSING
• Centralia police yesterday reported they are referring a case for a possible charge of fraud related to a 27-year-old woman allegedly attempting to file a false police report of stolen medications.
UNCOOPERATIVE SUBECT JAILED
• A 41-year-old man was arrested and booked into jail for obstructing after he allegedly failed to follow police officers’ instructions during a dispute about 9:20 p.m. on Friday at the 2800 block of Russell Road in Centralia. Wuilson Alverto Lopez was booked into the Lewis County Jail, according to the Centralia Police Department.
VANDALISM
• Police were called about 4 p.m. yesterday regarding a window broken out of a vehicle at the 100 block of Virginia Drive in Centralia.
MILLIONS GIVEN TO ASSIST LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT EFFORTS
• The U.S. Department of Justice has awarded more than $1.1 million to the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation as part of series of grants to enhance services to crime victims and improve criminal justice in tribal communities. A little more than $407,000 will go towards crime issues related to alcohol and substance abuse, a little more than $307,000 is to combat violence against women and the remainder is for tribal police for training, equipment and to fund their community oriented policing efforts, according to an announcement on Friday from U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan. More than $10 million awarded last week was distributed among eight Indian Tribes in Western Washington, according to Durkan. “We look forward to continuing our partnership with the Tribes, and are confident these grants will help increase the public safety of each community,” Durkan stated in a news release. “One size does not fit all, and I am pleased these grants will address specific needs on Tribal lands.”
AND MORE
• And as usual, other incidents such as arrests for warrants, driving under the influence, driving with suspended license, misdemeanor assault; responses for minor collision, other misdemeanor theft, someone who found the air had been let out of their tire … and more.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
Curious…I witnessed a bar patron getting roughed up by casinosecurity and wasTasered unconscious …he really did not do anything to deserve such forceful measures…paramedics were called and pilice came too. Would like more info if you know what happened to man.
Cliff states “they already get more rights and money than they deserve”. I am very curious how that is determined? What is the list of requisites for what they do or do not deserve? And who or what committee came up with the list?
Hey Cliff…in case you weren’t aware of WHITE MAN’S LAW it states:
“When you take up residence on someone elses property, you must PAY THEM RENT.”
You sound like someone who gives something away and then wants it back. I think there’s a name for that.
oops, “Noah & God” author unknown
It is the year 20XX and Noah lives in the United States. The Lord speaks to Noah and says, “In one year, I am going to make it rain and cover the whole earth with water until all is destroyed. But I want you to save the righteous people and two of every kind of living thing on the earth. Therefore, I am commanding you to build an Ark.”
In a flash of lightning, God delivered the specifications for an Ark.
Fearful and trembling, Noah took the plans and agreed to build the Ark. “Remember, “said the Lord, “You must complete the Ark and bring everything aboard in one year.”
Exactly one year later, a fierce storm cloud covered the earth and all the seas of the earth went into a tumult. The Lord saw Noah sitting in his front yard weeping. “Noah,” He shouted, “where is the Ark?”
“Lord, please forgive me!” cried Noah. “I did my best, but there were big problems. First, I had to get a permit for construction and your plans did not comply with the codes. I had to hire an engineering firm and redraw the plans.
Then I got into a fight with OSHA over whether or not the Ark needed a fire sprinkler system and floatation devices. Then my neighbor objected, claiming I was violating zoning ordinances by building the Ark in my front yard, so I had to get a variance from the city planning commission.
I had problems getting enough wood for the Ark, because there was a ban on cutting trees to protect the Spotted Owl. I finally convinced the U.S. Forest Service that I needed the wood to save the owls. However, the Fish and Wildlife Service won’t let me catch any owls. So, no owls.
The carpenters formed a union and went out on strike. I had to negotiate a settlement with the National Labor Union. Now I have 16 carpenters on the Ark, but still no owls.
When I started rounding up the other animals, I got sued by an animal rights group. They objected to me only taking two of each kind aboard.
Just when I got the suit dismissed, the EPA notified me that I could not complete the Ark without filing an environmental impact statement on your proposed flood. They didn’t take very kindly to the idea that they had no jurisdiction over the conduct of the Creator of the universe.
Then the Army Corps of Engineers demanded a map of the proposed new
flood plane. I sent them a globe.
Right now, I am trying to resolve a complaint filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that I am practicing discrimination by not taking godless, unbelieving people aboard!
The IRS has seized my assets, claiming that I’m building the Ark in preparation to flee the country to avoid paying taxes. I just got a notice from the state that I owe them some kind of user tax and failed to register the Ark as a “recreational water craft.”
Finally, the ACLU got the courts to issue an injunction against further construction of the Ark, saying that since God is flooding the earth, it is a religious event and therefore, unconstitutional. I really don’t think I can finish the Ark for another 5 or 6 years!”
Noah wailed.
The sky began to clear, the sun began to shine and the seas began to calm. A rainbow arched across the sky. Noah looked up hopefully. “You mean you are not going to destroy the earth, Lord.
“No,” said the Lord sadly. “I don’t have to. The government already has!!!”
IWonder: Of course treatment works, for those who want it to. If someone doesn’t want help, might as well led a satisfied horse to water and see how interested they are.
Are you kidding me? Who gives a crap if we took there land its been a long long time and they already get more rights and money than they deserve… and were almost in a financial depression? I don’t see Spain paying the natives in south America or did Germany take over any of the Land they took over. we conquered them… Leave it at that and stop trying to make up for the past
The money given to the tribes by the federal government is RENT MONEY because the U.S. Government continues to squat on their land.
It’s a simple business arrangement.
Don’t want to pay rent? Then move off the land.
Meh: treatment works. Studies (you know, double blind, scientific studies), not opinion, demonstrate that fact even in populations “forced” into treatment (such as through corrections programs) and also that the disease is genetic and that vulnerability is related to exposure, not choice:
“People from the Mediterranean areas of Europe have been drinking alcohol for more than seven thousand years. Today, they have a very low (10 percent) susceptibility to alcoholism. Those from northern European countries, including Ireland, Scotland, Wales, northern parts of Russia and Poland, and the Scandinavian countries, have been using alcohol for only fifteen hundred years. As a result, their susceptibility to alcoholism is measurably higher (between 20 and 40 percent). Native Americans (including Eskimos) had no access to alcohol until three hundred years ago. Their vulnerability to alcoholism is extraordinarily high between 80 and 90 percent).”
http://www.joanmathewslarson.com/HRC_2006/GeneticLink.htm
It sounds like you don’t choose to be an alcoholic, for what are obvious and logical reasons. Are you really stating that an ENTIRE CULTURE has made a “decision” to up and choose all the negative effects of alcoholism and addiction … just because? If it doesn’t make sense… it probably is nonsensical. Especially in light of so MANY scientific studies that prove (repeatedly) that it is not a choice.
My ancestors may have “screwed” the Native Americans a century or more ago, but what does that have to do with me? I wasn’t around! Talk abt holding a grudge! Spend that $$ on cleaning up that dump you call home! The Lucky Eagle is a joke!!!
I wonder how much of that money will be used to fund the tribe police SUV to drive from south LC to Rochester on a daily commute? Must be perks from the job.
No matter how much education is thrown at a problem, they will never get around personal choice. It is a personal choice to drink alcohol, smoke cigarettes, etc., and the fall-out can be felt for generations. I can understand the need to help pay for their clean-ups or health care, but to put the people in more “training” will do nothing when they don’t want the help.
It’s not a cultural issue – just look at the local “drug courts”. It’s not an era issue either, so “back in the day” doesn’t apply here.
First of all, I agree with anyone who says that historically the Indians have been screwed royally in this country. What they had when Europeans arrived was far from perfect, but it was theirs and we systematically destroyed it (including their culture). I don’t feel personal guilt because it was all before our time, but I get it.
I don’t even have a big problem with the casinos because we all have a choice whether to go to them or not, although I have a problem with the tax exemptions Gregoire gave as a political quid pro quo for campaign contributions. I have no doubt that organized crime has at least one foot firmly inside the Lucky Eagle’s door, too. Why subsidize the Cosa Nostra by spending money there?
What I do have a problem with is the double-standard the tribes operate under. On one hand, they claim to be sovereign within their reservation borders. I can deal with that because the rez is where we pushed them. However, that sovereignty goes out the window when it comes to government handouts because you’ll find the tribes standing in line at the trough with everyone else who expects something for nothing (and that line is growing). How can anyone truly be both “sovereign” and “dependent?”
I didn’t know going to the casino was mandatory.
You’ve got to be kidding. We are throwing yet more money at the Natives? Like they don’t get enough from that ripoff casino out there. What is it…something like if you had a relative that was indian back in 1824 in your family’s history you already get almost $20,000 per year? Now we are going to beef up their police force? Here is an idea…cut their force in half and you’d still have a couple of guys that just hang out at the Lucky Eagle parked right up at the door WITH NOTHING TO DO.
If we must send money that way why doesn’t it get put towards something useful. Like cleaning up that whole area. It’s like mother nature’s ghetto out there. Or best idea yet…how about paying back the patrons who get robbed at that casino on a regular basis?
It’s only a matter of time until they move that casino to where the Great Wolf presently is (it’s already wired up for slot machines) and turn the current Lucky Eagle property into a convalescent center anyways. At least the elders out there will have a state of the art police force…with NOTHING TO DO.