NIC Foundation completes mill buy
The North Idaho College Foundation on Thursday finalized the $10 million purchase of a former sawmill site adjacent to the college’s Coeur d’Alene campus.
The NIC Foundation, an independent nonprofit organization, financed the purchase of the 17-acre parcel, the former site of Stimson Lumber Co.’s DeArmond Mill, NIC said in a news release.
Earlier this week, the NIC board of trustees authorized a lease agreement with the NIC Foundation that will allow the college to begin developing the property.
“This property will afford the college room to grow as increased enrollments push us closer and closer to capacity,” NIC President Priscilla Bell said in the release.
Man badly hurt working on car
A 50-year-old man working on a Ford Explorer along Day-Mount Spokane Road was critically injured when a car rear-ended the Ford about 9:50 p.m. Wednesday.
Timothy Carl Jackson, of Mead, was airlifted to a downtown Spokane hospital, said sheriff’s Sgt. Dave Reagan.
Jackson’s dark green Ford was disabled in the eastbound lane of the roadway, and neither the Ford’s lights nor flashers were operating.
Jackson was working at the front of the SUV when it was hit and pushed 100 feet forward by a Honda Accord driven by Cameron James Stevenson, 21.
Jackson was thrown beneath the Ford and dragged with the vehicle. His wife was inside the SUV but not hurt.
Stevenson suffered minor head injuries from striking the windshield of his Honda. He was not wearing a seat belt. Jackson remained in critical condition as of 4:15 p.m. Thursday, Reagan said.
The accident remains under investigation, Reagan said.
Officials will set wolf-hunt quotas
The Idaho Fish and Game Commission will meet in August to set quotas for the state’s first public wolf hunt in decades.
After being hunted to near-extinction in the 1930s, the gray wolf population in Idaho and Montana has rebounded to about 1,300 animals, not including this year’s pups. The wolves were removed from the federal Endangered Species List in April. Environmentalists are challenging the delisting in court.
On Thursday, Idaho Fish and Game commissioners were briefed on the lawsuit’s status at their monthly meeting in McCall. Depending how the suit progresses, it could block public hunts from beginning this fall, said Niels Nokkentved, a Fish and Game spokesman.
Police identify burglary suspects
Spokane Valley police are looking for two suspects wanted in connected with the mid-July burglary of a woman’s apartment.
The 30-year-old victim left town July 13, and returned to find her apartment in the 17800 block of North Hutchinson Road had been burgled, said Sgt. Dave Reagan, police spokesman.
Police have cause to arrest Andrea B. Geier, 22, and Nathan E. Sumner, 21. The pair have abandoned their apartment at 711 S. Elm St., police said.
Geier is white, 5 foot 9 inches, 200 pounds, with brown hair and green eyes. Sumner is white, 5 feet 10 inches tall, 155 pounds, with blond hair and hazel eyes.
Anyone with information should call Crime Check at (509) 456-2233.