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IDAHO

Benewah County St. Maries

The Downtown Beautification Committee is having a raffle to raise money to plant 10 flowering trees and buy banners to liven up Main Street. Some items to be raffled include a $500 camping package, a $200 mountain bike and a St. Joe afghan. Tickets will be $1, or 6 for $5, and will be available downtown through Sept. 20.

Bonner County Sandpoint

A course for small-acreage landowners will give a variety of ideas on how to raise money using small farms. The Small Acreage Farming/Market Gardening course is sponsored by the Northeast Washington/Northern Idaho Extension Small Farms team.

Classes will be held 6-9 p.m. Wednesday evenings from Sept. 6 to Nov. 15 at the Bonner County Extension office. Course cost is $85 a person or $100 a couple. Call (208) 667-6426 to register.

Boundary County Bonners Ferry

The local Wishing Star Foundation has a rifle to raffle. The rifle, donated by the Single Action Shoot Society, is a single shot, .45-70 caliber valued at $1,200. Raffle tickets ($1 each or 6 for $5) will be sold Aug. 24-27 at Farragut State Park during the annual Great Northern event. Second prize is a framed Boots Reynolds Western print.

Kootenai County Coeur d’Alene

Kenneth Guenther reported Aug. 13 to the Coeur d’Alene Police Department that it looked like someone had set the Dumpster, near the Men’s Shelter on Walnut Avenue, on fire. A charred book of matches had been found with the burned garbage in the Dumpster. Both lids on the Dumpster were melted.

Latah County Moscow

The Moscow Community Theater will perform the female version of the Odd Couple by Neil Simon. It will be performed in dinner theater format starting at 6 p.m. Sept 8, catered by El Mercado. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20, seniors and students $17. The show will also be performed Sept. 9, 25, 26, 22 and the 23 at the Eastside Marketplace. For details or reservations, call (208) 882-4731.

Shoshone County Osburn

Bill Leetch, 58, who was in an accident last week in the electrical substation at Sunshine Mine, was burned over 40 percent of his body. Leetch is in the intensive care unit at Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center. Letters of encouragement may be sent to: Inn at Virginia Mason, c/o Tona Leetch, Room 412, Seattle, WA 98104. The cause of the accident has not yet been determined.

WASHINGTON

Pend Oreille County Newport

An investigation into the physical therapy department at Newport Community Hospital is under way. Hospital commissioners are looking into charges of inappropriate patient interactions and patient complaints of treatment that has worsened, rather than helped, medical conditions. Also in question is possible inappropriate charting, poor patient relations and staffers diagnosing patients, which is beyond their scope of duties.

Spokane County Liberty Lake

Crews have started building new trails for bicyclists and walkers. The asphalt trails now under construction, about a mile in total length, will link sections of Molter Road and Valleyway and Sprague avenues to exiting trails in Liberty Lake. The work will cost $125,000 and is being funded by a $650,000 bond passed last November by Liberty Lake voters. Construction of a bicycle bridge over Interstate 90 near the Harvard Road interchange is planned for next summer.

Stevens County Colville

The much-needed dog run at the local animal shelter is in place. A group of volunteers called Families That Work volunteered to put the fence together. The Adult Basic Education teacher at the community college says she reads the Stray Corner column in the local newspaper weekly, and felt her newly formed group could provide the labor necessary for the run. Families That Work is a support group resulting from the Welfare to Work program.

Whitman County Pullman

The Kiwanis Club is holding its giant yard sale on Saturday in the parking lot of Palouse Empire Realty, 1045 N. Grand Ave. The sale begins at 7 a.m. At 10:30 the prices start going down. All proceeds will go to benefit children of local low-income families and victims of iodine deficiency disorder.

MONTANA

Lincoln County Libby

Fewer tours of the Libby Dam are being given because college students who run the tours are returning to school.

A 25th anniversary celebration will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Colonel Ralph Graves, Gov. Marc Racicot and Canadian Parliament representative Jim Abbot will be guest speakers. Tours will begin every hour from 2-5 p.m. following the celebration. For more information, call (406) 293-5577.