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Outdoors blog
By Rich Landers
March 19 – A leftover trick from Halloween is no treat for a whitetail deer near Newman Lake, where it’s been lured by human food sources to the danger of human garbage.
The deer has a kids’ Halloween bucket stuck on its face and the strap dropped behind its head, locking it on so it can’t eat.
Calls to vets and Fish and Wildlife officers have not generated any help, said Diana Sellers, even though they know the deer has been entrapped for at least two days and is “trying desperately to eat.”
“My kids are begging me to find someone to help,” she said.
Huckleberries Online
By D.F. Oliveria
March 18 – She never made it to the big screen working for Disney, but her hair did. Cheryl Prueher, of Harrison, said that the animators may have taken their inspiration for “The Little Mermaid’s” hair from her own red locks. She grew up in California, learned French while attending private school and ended up working for Disney through a temporary hire agency. Mrs. Prueher and her husband recently retired in Harrison. While in California she worked at Walt Disney Imagineering for a couple years as a French translator and assistant to the project manager in charge of designing Disneyland Paris in the 1980s/Mary Orr, St. Maries Gazette-Record.
A Matter
of Opinion
By Doug Floyd
March 15 – When processing a letter (to the editor) that derides teachers in the public schools, it’s often tempting to publish it as is – without correcting spelling or punctuation.
Sirens & Gavels
By Meghann Cuniff
March 15 – A Spokane woman faked a heart attack during her son’s court appearance on a drug charge Monday, court officials said.
An ambulance rushed to the Spokane County Courthouse but did not transport the woman, who had fallen to the floor after Judge Michael Price imposed $1,000 bond for her 29-year-old son on a drug possession charge.
“She fell into the aisle and was yelling ‘I’m having a heart attack,’ ” Price said.
Though suspicious, court officials immediately called 911, and a transport deputy tended to the woman outside the courtroom.
The woman’s son told court officials there was a 10 percent chance his mother wasn’t faking.