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In brief: Postal workers gather food donations

The Spokesman-Review

Thousands of letter carriers delivered more than last-minute Mother’s Day cards on Saturday, which was Stamp Out Hunger Day across the nation.

In the Spokane area, members of the National Association of Letter Carriers gathered food on their routes for the Second Harvest Food Bank on the largest one-day food drive of the year.

“It was a huge effort on their part, and we are very appreciative,” said Rod Wieber of Second Harvest.

How much food was collected will not be known until later this week. Last year the drive collected 70 million pounds nationally, including 160,000 pounds locally, Wieber said.

Other sponsors include Campbell Soups and Progressions Credit Union, which provided more than 150,000 collection bags.

- Kevin Graman

Stevens County

Accidental shooting kills man, sheriff says

A 43-year-old man died in an apparent accidental shooting Saturday morning near Springdale, Wash., the Stevens County Sheriff’s Department said.

The county 911 center received a call about 11:10 a.m. that there was a shooting at a residence on the 4700 block of Highway 231, according to a statement by Sheriff Craig Thayer.

Deputies responding to the call provided care until emergency medical personnel arrived, but the victim, whose identity is being withheld pending notification of relatives, died at the scene as a result of a single gunshot to the chest, Thayer said.

The investigation is continuing and an autopsy has been scheduled.

– Kevin Graman

MOSCOW, Idaho

48th family member graduates from UI

The Vandal Nation can be found in Melissa Newhouse’s family.

On Saturday, she became the 48th member of her extended family to graduate from the University of Idaho. After picking up her accounting degree, Newhouse, 21, joined her kin who graduated from the Moscow university into careers in law, real estate, business, engineering and finance.

Newhouse says she was so steeped in Vandal lore it was a natural choice for her to move to Moscow from her hometown of Pendleton, Ore.

“I heard so many stories growing up, it almost became familiar to me,” she said.

Mother Roberta, a Vandal alumna and accounting graduate, was there to give a tour of campus when Melissa arrived as a student-to-be. Newhouse’s father, Charles, and his brothers are all alumni, as is her grandfather, retired Idaho District Judge Robert Newhouse.

She believes the earliest Vandal in the family was her great-great grandfather John Rossgood, who came to Moscow in 1908.

– Associated Press