In brief: Woman honored for passing 100-year mark
Coeur d’Alene resident Isabel Powley is among the centenarians inducted into the 10{+2} Talking Book Club this week.
The club recognizes people 100 years old or older who participate in the national Talking Book program, which loans, via mail, recorded or Braille books and magazines to people who have difficulty reading printed material.
Powley and eight other Idahoans were inducted into the book club this week to launch Idaho’s chapter of the free national program, according to a press release from the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.
The Idaho Library Commission had a ceremony Tuesday to honor the inductees, the release said.
Information on the program is available online at www.loc.gov/nls or by calling (800) 424-9100.
– Taryn Brodwater
Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness
Information sought on fire at historic cabin
Authorities are seeking information on how a historic backcountry cabin in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness burned down in June.
U.S. Forest Service officials want to talk to anyone who has information on the fire or who may have visited the Colt Killed Cabin this spring.
“We want to talk with anyone who might be able to help us piece together what happened,” Powell District Ranger Chad Benson said in a press release.
It wasn’t until this week that the authorities learned the cabin southeast of the Powell Ranger Station had burned, according to spokeswoman Kathy Thompson.
“It’s way off the beaten path,” she said. The cabin, built in the 1930s, was used for decades as a stopover for Forest Service workers. It became a popular place for backcountry horsemen and kayakers.
The Forest Service had planned to make the cabin available for public rental.
Anyone with information is asked to call Special Agent Pat Finnegan at (208) 983-4058.
– Taryn Brodwater
Kootenai County
Man recovering after leg crushed by grader
A man whose leg was crushed in a job site accident Monday is in satisfactory condition at Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center.
Heavy equipment operator Jerry Lange, 58, was getting onto a grader when he bumped the controls, trapping his leg between the grader and its blade, according to press releases from Harrison Community Ambulance and the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Department.
Lange, of Weippe, Idaho, was working for Big Rock Timber & Development at the Gotham Bay Estates subdivision on the east side of Lake Coeur d’Alene, one of the releases said.
He was flown to Kootenai Medical Center and later transferred to Harborview.
– Taryn Brodwater