Oil spill on I-90 causes accident
Idaho State Police were investigating an incident Wednesday evening in which a truck spilled oil on Interstate 90 from Osburn to Cataldo, causing a number of cars to slide but only one minor crash.
Few details were available, but a spokesman said a motorist followed the truck and reported it stopped at Killarney Lake on State Highway 3 about 16 miles southeast of Coeur d’Alene.
The first report of the oil spill came at 6:19 p.m., and Idaho Transportation Department crews were still sanding the freeway at 9:30 p.m. A more extensive cleanup was needed on Highway 3, where the truck stopped, according to state police.
No information was immediately available on how the oil was spilled.
The investigation was interrupted at 9:35 p.m. when a westbound vehicle collided with a moose on the freeway near Cataldo in an unrelated incident. The moose was killed and there were injuries in the vehicle that hit it, but no details were available.
Sandpoint
Arts program gets $5,000 grant
Arts programs for children in the Sandpoint area got a $5,000 boost from the Idaho Community Foundation through a grant given to the Pend Oreille Arts Council.
The money will go toward the council’s student outreach programs, Council President Laurel Taylor said in a news release.
The council’s Perspectives, Ovations and Kaleidoscope programs offer educational performances, classes taught by the performers and professional artists, and once-a-month art classes for elementary school students in Bonner County.
The Idaho Community Foundation has donated more than $27 million to Idaho programs in all 44 counties since it started in 1988.
Coeur d’Alene
Foundation gives to camp for kids
A Coeur d’Alene camp for children with developmental and other disabilities, has received a $2,000 grant from the Windermere Foundation.
Camp Independence, a summer program operated by TESH, Inc. serves children combining traditional summer camp activities with therapy.
Established in 1989, the Windermere Foundation is a nonprofit organization primarily concerned with funding programs that assist homeless and low-income families, particularly women and children.
Pocatello, Idaho
Lava Hot Springs could be state park
Bannock County Commissioner Jim Guthrie, a member of the East Idaho State Parks Site Selection Committee, says he will recommend that Lava Hot Springs become Idaho’s newest state park.
Guthrie said the hot springs site was discussed in only a preliminary way at a meeting of the selection committee.
The host springs location has thermal pools, swimming pools, a water park, mountain biking and cross-country skiing.
“When you look at a map of where all the state parks are now, there’s a glaring absence in southeast Idaho,” Guthrie said.
Also under consideration to become state parks are sites in Bingham, Power, Caribou, Bear Lake, Bonneville, Oneida and Franklin counties.
From staff and wire reports