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Today’s newsCongreSSionAl inTern:� Terassa Wren Joins Jaime Herrera Beutler’s Team / Page 3
TrAFFiC TiCkeTS:� State Patrol Tallies Up Tickets Issued During Recent Crackdown in Lewis County / Page 3
liberTY ringS True:� State Attorney General Vindicated in Calling Out Obamacare With U.S. Circuit Court’s Decision / Opinion
DiAl bACk ForeST PoliCY:� Reader Laments State of National Forest Policies and Recent Layoffs / Opinion
upcoming newsPorT oF CAll:� A Close Look at the Port of Centralia / Monday’s Life: Business
buSineSS movemenTS:� Reporter Christopher Brewer on Latest Business Activity / Monday’s Life: Business
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Centralia Youth Ballet members Allen Holloway, 13, and Daniel Hawkins, right, 8, practice a dance routine at the Thousand Trails campground in Chehalis Thursday night.
Ballet Academy and Youth Circus Work
PrePAring For THe FAir:� Centralia Youth Ballet Joins Wenatchee Youth Circus for a Weekend at Thousand Trailsby Christopher brewer
For those that think ballet simply involves girls dancing blissfully around a stage — and that circus performances and dance don’t belong together — the Centralia Ballet Academy set out to prove them wrong this weekend. “There are actually more guys than people think that are involved in ballet, and professional ballet dancers are some of the most fit people you’ll know,” said Centralia Ballet Academy director Mick Gunter.
Ten Young PeoPle, mostly boys ranging in age from 7 to 15, joined Gunter at Thou-sand Trails Campground east of Chehalis Thursday evening for an hourlong rehearsal for an upcoming Tuesday perfor-mance at the Southwest Wash-ington Fair. Behind them, the Wenatchee Youth Circus made preparations for a series of weekend performances in a picturesque meadow overlook-ing mountains in the distance. Both will work together this
weekend, with several of the academy’s members perform-ing pre-show entertainment for the circus’s performances. As the youths took staffs in their hands and rehearsed a hybrid dance/martial arts piece to the tune of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” soundtrack, several of the circus perform-ers — themselves teenagers — came over to help the dancers refine their technique after fin-ishing their work on preparing the grounds for the circus. “A lot of people wouldn’t think a circus and dance could go hand in hand, but when you’re out there flying on a trapeze you’re using a lot of the same body control tech-niques,” said 10-year youth
circus performer Billy Tuthill, 17, Wenatchee. “We’re both out here to help each other out and have a good time — and we’re all learning a lot too.” gunTer beCAme acquainted with Wenatchee Youth Circus director Paul Pugh in 2001 when he attended a show in Federal Way and was given an opportunity to swing from a trapeze himself. Swinging by his legs from a bar high in the air gave Gunter a feeling of liberation and excitement he said he had never felt before, even through previous years of martial arts and dance train-ing. “When I hit the net below, I just remembered thinking
that was one of the coolest feel-ings I’d felt in my life,” Gunter, who also has a martial arts background, said. “I thought the training these artists go through are remarkably simi-lar to dance, and I always wanted an opportunity for our group to meet his.” Ten years after Gunter flew off that trapeze, his wish was finally granted as his students helped drive in stakes and tie ropes for the circus’s setup; their help would be recipro-cated later on during their one-hour rehearsal. Gunter, Tuthill and 15-year-old Cole Tipton worked with their counterparts to nail down a complicated series of steps and techniques the ballet
Hand-in-Hand
Wenatchee Youth Circus members Cole Tipton, left, 15, and Austin Habich, 19, drive a stake into the ground to set up their trapeze array at the Thousand Trails campground in Chehalis Thursday night.
iF You go ... The Centralia Ballet Academy will perform at the Southwest Washington Fair on Stage South at 6 p.m. Tuesday evening. The cost is free with fair admission; it will be the second year in a row the academy will perform at the fair. For more information or to learn how to get involved with the academy, contact director Mick Gunter at (360) 623-9010 or visit http://www.centraliaballet.com.
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Love’s Travel Centerto OpenSept. 8nAPAvine:� Construction Nearly Finished on Second-Largest Truck Stop, Travel Center in Lewis Countyby Christopher brewer
A new travel center in Napavine that will offer more than 70 truck parking spots and 24 gas and die-sel pumps is nearing completion — just in time for a grand opening in less than a month. Officials with Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores told The Chroni-cle on Friday it plans to open its $7.5 million, 11,000-square-foot facility at the intersection of Rush Road and Hamilton Road Sept. 8, bringing with it a Carl’s Jr. fast-food restaurant and 70 jobs to the Napavine area. Kyla Turner, communications manager at Love’s Oklahoma City, Okla., headquarters, said crews have been on site working “near-ly 24/7” to complete the project, which was only briefly delayed ear-lier in the summer by weather. “We had a pretty aggressive construction timeframe and ev-erything is pretty well on schedule,” Turner said. Turner said truck drivers will be well taken care of at the stop with multiple amenities: 73 truck park-ing spots, eight fuel pumps and a truck tire care center. The on-site convenience store will also offer five showers for traveling drivers. For the rest of the general popu-lation, the travel center will offer 16 pumps that will offer what the company bills as “the cheapest gas around,” Turner said.
“We had a pretty aggressive
construction timeframe and
everything is pretty well on schedule.”
kyla TurnerLove’s communications manager
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