Editing Chehalis, Washington (section)

===Motto and nickname===
An early motto for the city, "What Chehalis makes makes Chehalis" was initiated under Mayor John West in late-1926.<ref>{{cite news |title=Condensed Synopsis Of Late State News |url=https://washingtondigitalnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=VASHON19261231.1.1 |access-date=March 19, 2025 |work=[[Vashon Island News-Record]] |date=December 31, 1926 |page=1}}</ref> As red roses had long been a symbol of the community, including the [[All-America Rose Selections]] (AARS) accredited [[Parks and recreation in Chehalis, Washington#Chehalis Municipal Rose Garden|Chehalis Municipal Rose Garden]],<ref>{{cite news |last1=Slaughter |first1=Mai Ling |title=Chehalis rose garden grows in importance |url=https://www.newspaperarchive.com/us/washington/centralia/centralia-chronicle/2000/08-15/page-1 |access-date=August 13, 2024 |work=[[The Chronicle (Centralia, Washington)|The Chronicle]] |date=August 15, 2000 |pages=A1, A12}}</ref> the city adopted the red rose as an official community flower in 1955,<ref name="CARRA">{{cite news |title=Chehalins Adopt Red Rose As Their Community Flower |url=https://www.newspaperarchive.com/us/washington/centralia/centralia-daily-chronicle/1955/05-10/page-1 |access-date=October 30, 2024 |work=[[The Chronicle (Centralia, Washington)|The Daily Chronicle]] |date=May 10, 1955 |page=1}}</ref> leading to the nickname for Chehalis, "The Rose City", which was made official in 2000. The city's motto, "A Heritage to be Proud Of" was concurrently adopted. The community has been informally known as "The Mint City" due to I.P. Callison's mint plant<ref>{{cite news |author1=The Chronicle staff |title=Chehalis becomes Rose City |url=https://www.newspaperarchive.com/us/washington/centralia/centralia-chronicle/2000/07-25/page-1 |access-date=August 13, 2024 |work=The Chronicle |pages=A1, A8}}</ref><ref name="IOAC">{{cite book |last1=McDonald Zander |first1=Julie |title=Images of America - Chehalis |date=2011 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=9780738576039 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NaVwkcPhFwEC |access-date=April 24, 2024}}</ref>{{rp|31}} and as "The Friendly City", nomenclature born from social symbolism connected to roses.<ref name="CARRA"/> An attempt to change the official moniker to "The Friendly City" in 2009 did not pass, but the city changed its motto to "Where Heart and History Shape Our Future".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Pearson |first1=Adam |title=Chehalis Changes Motto to 'Where Heart and History Shape Our Future' |url=https://www.chronline.com/stories/chehalis-changes-motto-to-where-heart-and-history-shape-our-future,178565? |access-date=August 13, 2024 |work=The Chronicle |date=April 13, 2010}}</ref>