In brief: Holiday will affect offices, services

The following offices and services will be affected by the Memorial Day holiday Monday.

•City, county, state and federal offices will be closed.

•Post offices will be closed.

•State liquor stores will be closed in Idaho, but most will be open in Washington.

•Most banks will be closed.

•Area public schools will be closed.

•Garbage pickup will be one day late for the week.

Drive-by shooter hits 10-year-old

A 10-year-old boy was shot in the head Saturday during a drive-by shooting in Grant County, the Sheriff’s Office there reported.

A woman called authorities early Saturday morning to say that several gunshots had been fired at her mobile home about three miles northwest of Royal City, Wash., authorities said.

One of the rounds struck her 10-year-old son, who was sleeping in his bedroom at the far end of the mobile home situated near a road.

The suspects were gone by the time authorities arrived, as deputies were responding from a bar brawl 45 miles away, said Undersheriff John Turley.

The victim was initially taken to a Yakima hospital, and later airlifted to a Spokane hospital, police said. His condition was unknown. The shooting is under investigation.

Climbers detoured for nesting falcons

LEAVENWORTH, Wash. – For the second year in a row, a pair of peregrine falcons is nesting on Snow Creek Wall, causing a temporary closure of parts of the highly popular climbing wall in the Icicle Valley near Leavenworth.

The Wenatchee River Ranger District closed the north end of the wall through July 31, but some of the more popular climbing routes on the wall that closed last year remain open, said Janet Millard, the district’s wildlife biological technician.

Champagne, Spring Fever and Chicken on a Leash are closed to all entry during the nesting period, she said.

The closure is both for the protection of climbers and the falcons, once protected as a threatened species.

Last year, the nesting birds of prey dive-bombed two Seattle climbers as they were making their way up the wall in late April. The U.S. Forest Service closed the wall until mid-July last summer, after the babies hatched and fledged.

The district also regularly closes either Midnight or Noontime rocks due to a nesting pair of peregrine falcons, Millard said.