Photojournalism

Thousands of fish are prepared for burial following major mudslide activity in the hills of East Lewis County, Washington.
*Published January 2009, winner of Society of Professional Journalists photo award

A firefighter examines the final stages of a blaze at the Chehalis Industrial Park late Wednesday night. The Cascade Structural Laminators plant was mostly destroyed.

Emilee Titus, 1, smiles among the early blooming tulips at Degeodes Bulb Farm in Mossyrock. Although only a few rows of tulips have reached their full color potential, the rest aren’t far behind, according to staff at the farm.

Schwingfest drew a crowd to Frances on Saturday for the annual dose of Swiss-style fun, including sausages, beer and traditional wrestling in a sawdust pit.

Two boys walk across the remnants of a bridge across the Chehalis River following historic flooding throughout the valley.

Paul Wallace, 20, kicks a 55-yard field goal on Tuesday evening at Tiger Stadium in Centralia. Wallace, a native of Ukraine, says he is training with the goal of playing in the NFL.

Washington Army National Guardsman Zach Meikle, 18, of Napavine, gets a hug from his big sister, Tori Matthews, as his younger sister, Ashley, looks on. The Centralia Armory was full Sunday morning during a ceremony for the National Guard’s 204th Engineer Company, which is headed to Fort McCoy, Wis., on Tuesday to prepare for a 400-day tour of duty in Afghanistan.

Richard Tracy, also known as Richart, surveys the “Art Yard” at his Centralia Home on Tuesday. Tracy has been maintaining the local landmark for nearly three decades.

Lewis County Sheriff’s Office detectives examine items on a pickup truck with a bullet hole through the front and back windows on Tuesday east of Onalaska. A man with a flashlight was shot and killed by the owner of the home in the 2100 block of state Route 508.

Stephany Marquez, 12, sits among the colorful dresses of her folk dance group, Las Altenitas, on Friday at the Hispanic Festival at Centralia College.

The Centralia High School infield gathers during a pitching change Tuesday in the midst of being beaten handily by W.F. West High School.

Emu farmer Julie Brown hugs Pinky, one of 12 breeding birds on her land south of Chehalis last week. Brown’s health has forced her to begin plans to disband the farm and give away the emus to other farmers.

Foreigner rocked the grandstands at the Southwest Washington Fair in Chehalis on Friday night. At right is lead singer Kelly Hansen. At far left is founding member Mick Jones.

With the TransAlta steam plant billowing in the background, Chehalis Middle School sixth graders Ana Manco and Jessica McKay, left to right, plant a tree Thursday at the company’s defunct strip mine site, which is in the process of being reclaimed.

An inmate flashes signs behind a glass window scrawled with gang insignias at the Green Hill Juvenile Detention Center on Wednesday.

With fading Spider Man makeup, Mason Winter, 4, of Centralia, hangs out with his kitten, Peter Parker, at the Twin Cities Pet Show at Washington Park in Centralia on Tuesday.

Kiley McClay spends time in her room Wednesday at her Centralia home. The 7-year-old was diagnosed at birth with muscular atrophy, a condition for which she and her family are trying to raise money and awareness to find a cure.

Clyde Wilson, 72, sits atop his 1000-pound pumpkin Friday at his home outside Napavine. Wilson has big plans for the oversized squash at the giant pumpkin competition during the upcoming Puyallup Fair.

Vic Bonagofski hauls a makeshift bicycle trailer past a wall of graffiti in Centralia Tuesday.

Centralia bank robbery suspect Michael Anthony Lar appeared in Lewis County Superior Court Thursday morning for a hearing in which attorneys agreed to allow his DNA to be examined. Lar is suspected of several bank robberies across Washington, including one at the TwinStar Credit Union in Centralia last month.