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NEWSBRIEFSS. Pierce CowboyBreakfast at rodeo

South Pierce Fire and Res-cue is holding its semi-annual Cowboy Breakfast in conjunc-tion with the Roy Pioneer Rodeo.

Breakfast is 7-11 a.m. Sun-day and Monday at the Roy Fire Station on McNaught Street.

Menu includes biscuits and gravy, pancakes, ham and eggs with hashbrowns, coffee, orange juice and milk.

Proceeds benefi t department volunteers.

Entertainment books benefi t Yelm Lions

Yelm Lions Club is selling Entertainment Books for $25. Up to 50 percent of the purchasesupports the Lions and, in turn, the community.

Books are available at theNisqually Valley News offi ce located at 106 Plaza Dr. N.E.,behind Dairy Queen.

Rocks thrown atvehicles in Pines

Thurston County Sheriff’sOffi ce received two reports of rocks being thrown at cars Sun-day in the Nisqually Pines.

Both drivers said juveniles were hiding in bushes at about 3 p.m. near Port Orford Boulevard and Briar Street.

A 2006 Kia Spectra and 2008 Dodge Ram were hit.

The Spectra’s driver’s side door and Ram’s passenger door were damaged.

Road signs knockeddown over weekend

Multiple street signs were knocked down on State Highway 507 between Yelm and Rainier.

Thurston County Sheriff spokesman Chris Mealy said his offi ce received at least three reports of signs knocked down.

State Department of Trans-portation was contacted and the signs were fi xed by Tuesday morning.

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88th Year, Issue No. 35

VALLEY NEWSNISQUALLY

Back in schoolPhoto by Melanie Lockhart

Duncan Brown, left, Adrian Kill, Christina Wilson and Alex Leal listen intently to their fourth-grade teacher, Rita Meldrum, during the first few minutes of class on the first day of school at Rainier Elementary. School started Sept. 1 for Rainier students. Classes at Yelm Community Schools begin Tuesday, Sept. 7 following the Labor Day holiday.

Golf fundraiserdrives $4,000 toward Nortonscholarship

By Melanie LockhartNisqually Valley News

Some drives were worthy of applause while others showedoff the distinct sound of balls hitting trees throughout the golf course.

Regardless of the talent dis-played, the second annual Cuffs and Trucks golf tournament atTahoma Valley Golf Course wasa fundraising success.

About $4,000 will ben-efi t the Justin Norton Memorial Scholarship following Sunday’s tournament. Scholarships are awarded each spring to graduat-ing seniors at Rainier, Yelm andTenino high schools.

“We give it all to the YelmChamber of Commerce,” Yelm

See CUFFS, page A9

Lengthy request seeks police info

Photo by Megan Hansen

Yelm Police Chief Todd Stancil shows the thickness of the packetof documents requested.

By Megan HansenNisqually Valley NewsThe City of Yelm had its

hands full when it received a fi ve-page records request from a man who was tased and ar-rested in late June.

Raymond Leo Jarlik-Bell, 67, of Yelm, was arrested for obstructing a public servant after being pulled over for not having a back license plate.

Jarlik-Bell, who is a mem-ber of a Constitutionalist movement called the Assem-bly of Delegates of the United States of American AD 1791, presented a copy of his “politi-cal will” rather than provide license and registration.

He claims he has diplomat-ic immunity from the federal

government.Jarlik-Bell allegedly re-

fused to get out of his vehicle and was combative with po-

lice, resulting in a Yelm offi -cer tasing the man.

He fi led a public records request with the Yelm Po-lice Depart-ment on July 30 listing fi ve pages worth

of requests.However, any information

he asked for pertaining to his case must be handled through

Jarlik-Bell

See REQUEST, page A9

Bar hassles wearing on chief’s nerves

By Megan HansenNisqually Valley News

Fed up with incidents at downtown bars, Yelm police are bringing in the big guns.

After another fi ght broke out in front of the bars early Saturday morning, Yelm Police Chief Todd Stancil said he is call-ing the agency that oversees liquor sales in Washington state.

“We’re going to call the Liquor Control Board and ask them to increase its pres-

ence to see if issues can be reduced,” hesaid.

Last week, police had to tase a man inside the White Horse Tavern after he picked a fi ght with the bartender and re-fused to cooperate with police.

To get the man out of the bar, he wastased and removed.

At about 1 a.m. this past Saturday a fi ght broke out in front of Willoughby’s.

Police received reports of 10-15 people fi ghting in the street and a man down.

There are three bars located between Firstand Second streets in downtown Yelm.

Stancil said there is an ongoing prob-lem because patrons go from bar to bar,drinking as much as they can.

Police are responding to incidents more regularly, he said.

“All the issues we’ve dealt with recent-ly have centered around Willoughby’s andWhite Horse,” Stancil said.

“It’s just not a situation we’re going to deal with.”

“We got to do what we can to keep the

White horse owner hires off-duty offi cer

See BARS, page A9

By Melanie LockhartNisqually Valley News

For years, the identity of a young boy pic-tured standing outside the original NisquallyValley News building was a mystery.

The photo, which dates to the mid-1930s, was recently seen by Charlotte Miller at theNVN’s open house at its new facility.

Photo by Melanie Lockhart

Charlotte Miller and Bob Fristoe reminisce about their home in the original NVN office.

See FRISTOE, page A9

Boy in historic picpays paper a visit

By Megan HansenNisqually Valley News

Yelm School Board president Ed Sorger resigned last week citing person-al reasons.

Sorger announced his resignation verbally at the end of the Aug. 26 school board meeting.

Lorraine Stensager, executive assis-tant for the superintendent’s offi ce said the board knew Sorger would be resign-ing because he is moving out of school district boundaries.

Sorger could not be reached for com-ment.

“Because of it he has to resign,” Sten-

sager said.The resignation is effective Sept.1.

The district will be receiving a written res-ignation as well, shesaid.

According to the boards draft minutes from the Aug. 26 meet-ing, Sorger said it was an honor to serve the last 15 years and he has confi dence in the future

of the district and the support from the

gSorger

Yelm school board prez resigns

Two people were arrested after Yelm police busted an alleged a drug house.

The bust occurred 11 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 14 in the 200 block of Van Trump Avenue.

After conducting surveillance and

confi rming the sale of narcotics, policewere able to obtain a search warrant,said Yelm Police Chief Todd Stancil.

Inside the house police seized 15 marijuana plants, 240 grams of dried

Police bust suspected drug house

See YCS, page A9

See BUST, page A10

It’s rodeo weekend in Roy

VALLEY LIFE

community.A farewell reception is

planned for 6:15 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 23 in the district’s board room.

The reception is open to the public.

The board will have to elect a new president.

In the meantime, vice presi-dent Denise Hendrickson willact as president.

During the school board meeting Thursday, Sept. 9, theboard will discuss the process of fi lling Sorger’s vacant position.

The process includes ac-cepting applications for the position and voting on the ap-plicants, Stensager said.

safety of the community.”Stancil said his department

is maintaining open communi-cation with the bar owners, try-ing to work with them to diffuse problems.

He said bar owners are work-ing together to try and commu-nicate to reduce incidents of over-serving alcohol.

“They can be a partner with us to keep bars safe and patrons safe,” Stancil said.

“They’ve all pledged to do that.”

“But it isn’t working.”White Horse Tavern owner

Kyle Phillips said it’s been a re-ally “weird” couple of weeks.

After last week’s street brawl, he said he also decided something needs to be done.

If someone appears intoxi-cated, they will not be allowed to enter White Horse Tavern, Phillips said.

He’s also hiring an off-duty police offi cer from another dis-trict to go undercover in his bar.

The offi cer is trained to read

people and anticipate problems, Phillips said.

“It’d be good thing to do a few more walk throughs,” Phil-lips said. “(But) I need someone who can cut it off before it hap-pens.”

“I just want people to have a good time. Hopefully people will see we are trying to clean things up.”

Willoughby’s owner Diana Willoughby couldn’t be reached for comment, but in the past has said that she tries to curb inci-dents by opening the restaurant portion of her business as a place for customers to sober up.

Meanwhile, if problems per-

sist downtown, Stancil said he will implement his own mea-sures.

Under Yelm Municipal Code and terms of the establishments’ business licenses, the city can require that an off-duty policeoffi cer be present in the bars.

The establishment would be responsible for paying for the offi cer’s overtime pay, which would be approximately $45 per hour.

“(Unfortunately) Our mea-sures are going to be a detrimentto their business,” Stancil said.

“Who’s going to want to drink with a cop standing near-by.”

Municipal Court, said Yelm Po-lice Chief Todd Stancil.

In his request, Jarlik-Bell seeks information about the of-fi cers involved in his incident, including their “marital sta-tus, weight, height, age, date of birth, race, badge number, full name and address.”

Jarlik-Bell also requests vari-ous documents verifying the of-fi cers’ training, experience and

oaths, Stancil said.Number four on the list asks

“a copy of any City of Yelm is-sued I.D. of the individual re-sponsible to educate the offi cers on scene as to constitutional rights, racial profi ling, nationalprofi ling, fi nancial profi ling of the poor, excessive force, due care and caution when using physical force against the dis-abled and the elderly and dis-abled elderly.”

He also asks for names of

witnesses, copies of any tele-phone calls relating to the inci-dent

Before issuing a response, Yelm’s city attorney reviewed the requests to verify what con-stitutes public record and what does not.

Personal information, includ-ing offi cers’ home addresses, is not considered public informa-tion.

Stancil said he estimates he spent 10-12 hours of his time re-

sponding to the request. That estimate does not in-

clude the city attorney’s time nor the time spent by other de-partments on fi lling part of the requests.

Stancil said the records re-quest “really just proves the of-fi cers involved are fully trained, commissioned offi cers in the state of Washington.”

When Jarlik-Bell was ar-raigned in Yelm MunicipalCourt, extra security was put in

place because he allegedly made threats against police offi cers.

While in jail, Jarlik-Bellwas reportedly heard by police saying, “I really didn’t appreci-ate being tased … and they arelucky I didn’t have my shotgun with me or there would have been a bunch of dead cops.”

“Not that I’m hunting cops,but like hunting pheasant, when you see one, you shoot one.”

Trial for Jarlik-Bell is sched-uled in September.

Police Chief Todd Stancil said. “They are in charge of that scholarship.”

“So we basically write them a check and they distribute the scholarships.”

Norton graduated from Rainier High School in 2003 and immediately joined the mil-itary. He was deployed to Iraq in November 2005 and in June 2006 was killed by an impro-vised explosive device while on patrol in Baghdad.

The scholarship fund was established following Norton’s death, which he requested his parents do if he didn’t return from war.

For Norton’s mother, Chris Warnock, fundraising events are bittersweet even four years after the fact.

“It’s an honor to have an event in Justin’s name,” War-nock said as she began to fi ght back tears. “But the reality is that it’s because he died.”

Twenty-two four-person teams teed off at 9 a.m. on amorning that proved summer is quickly coming to an end. But that didn’t stop participants from turning out for the 18-hole tournament to show off their skills — or lack thereof.

“A lot of people are aiming for that big oak,” Norton’s fa-ther, Jeff Norton, told one four-man team as they all laughed to-gether. “It makes a very distinctsound.”

Two drives later, a familiar “clunk” echoed off the tree.

“Yep, that’s the one,” Jeff Norton said.

Norton did his best to per-sonally thank each team that

came out to support the scholar-ship efforts.

“It’s neat to see all the new faces that come out, as well as the constant supporters,” Nor-ton said. “We have high school kids who also get involved and volunteer. It’s just a testament to the Yelm community and Rainier.”

The winning team consisted of Toby Stevens, Cole Redfi eld, Cory Archibald and Craig Bai-ley after they golfed 12 under par.

Each team member went home with a $50 gift card to a restaurant.

Additionally, 13 of the 18 holes were sponsored by local businesses at $100 apiece. Yelm Police Offi cer Bill DeVore said businesses are already lining up to sponsor holes for next year’s event.

Stancil said the turnout wasgreat and wanted to thank all the participants.

“Obviously the weather

could have been nicer,” Stancil said. “But it didn’t rain. Golfers aren’t too picky as long as it isn’t raining.

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CUFFS: Police, fi re tee off for scholarship donationContinued from page A1

Photo by Melanie Lockhart

John Bowman carefully positions himself before putting towardthe hole.

REQUEST: Constitutionalist seeks public recordsContinued from page A1

BARS: Chief tired of bar brawlsContinued from page A1

Miller identifi ed the boy as her brother, Bob Fristoe.

Fristoe is 12 or 13 years old in the photo. Now at age 86, he doesn’t remember the photo itself being taken, but does re-member seeing prints of it over the years.

The building, however, was also the Fristoe family’s home while they owned and operated the newspaper. It holds many memories as well as a piece of Yelm’s history.

In the 1970s, the Fristoe family sold the home to the City of Yelm, Miller said.

“We sold it to them and about the next day, they started tearing it down,” Miller said.

Now the site holds Yelm City Hall at 105 W. Yelm Ave.

The original building was built by Fristoe and Miller’s grandfather, Miller said.

Their father, Elmer Fristoe, founded the NVN in 1922.N

Miller herself was born in aback bedroom in the home.

Fristoe was born across the street where Gorder’s Auto Re-build is located.

Their sister Dorothy was born where Yelm Floral cur-rently operates.

“We were all born in a tri-angle,” Miller said.

Fristoe and Miller remem-ber phone calls to the home at all hours of the night regarding newspaper business.

Circulation was around 1,200, Fristoe said. The family didn’t have to hand deliver each newspaper, but instead took all the newspapers to the post of-fi ce for mail outs.

“But we all had to fold 1,200 newspapers,” Miller re-members vividly.

They did take some news-paper stacks to the local stores, but groceries in Yelm were limited at the time.

“There’s sure a lot of memo-ries in that house,” Miller said.

The photo can be viewed at the NVN’s new facility at 106 Plaza Drive N.E. on the wall in the main offi ce.

FRISTOE: Photo at NVN sparks memories

Continued from page A1

YCS: Board president announces resignation

Continued from page A1