AM Hucks: Avista Bill Gives Credit Where It’s Overdue

Huckleberries Online commenter Post Falls Dad shoulda thought he’d hit the lottery when he opened his Avista bill Thursday. After all, he got a natural gas credit of $909.86. Thinking he’d been “punked,” he called the utility and was told: “We tested your meter and found out we have been overcharging you by 3 percent on your gas usage. The canceled billing amounts are credits to repay you for the overcharges. Have a great day.” Unimpressed, Post Falls Dad told Huckleberries: “It’s not enough that we were hit with a huge increase, but to be overcharged?” P’haps he shoulda demanded interest, too?

•Poet’s Corner: “There are few things that farmers hate/like arthropods that masticate,/and so to halt an insect tide/they fill the skies with pesticide” – The Bard of Sherman Avenue (“Summer Travels: Crop Dusters Near Moses Lake”).

•Nah, CdA Councilman Mike Kennedy isn’t expanding constituent service to include lawn-mowing duties. He was paying off a bet when you saw him behind that mower in the Bentwood subdivision Sunday – to fellow former New Yorker Thom George . Seems Mike picked the wrong team in the Big Apple series, which the Mets won last spring, and he couldn’t get Thom to go double or nothing on a rematch.

•ITD spokeswoman Barbara Babic tells Huckleberries she has all her fingers and toes crossed that the Government Way bridge will reopen Wednesday, after more than a year of work. We all do.

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