In brief: Road closures will affect access to Valley hospital

A repaving project along with utility work will cause a series of closures to the streets serving the west side of Valley Hospital starting at 4 p.m. Friday.

The plan calls for a series of closures so that access to and from the medical complex will be maintained through the end of the work period at 6 a.m. Saturday.

Work starts at 4 p.m. Friday on one block of Houk Road from Mission to Maxwell avenues, which will be closed until 9 p.m.

As that is being finished, crews will move south to repave three other sections of street.

Sinto Avenue from Pines Road to Houk will close from 7:30 p.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Saturday.

Houk from Maxwell to Sinto and Maxwell from Pines to Houk will be closed from 9 p.m. Friday through 6 a.m. Saturday.

Avista planning outages in Idaho

Two planned power outages on Sunday will affect residents living southeast of Lake Coeur d’Alene and in St. Maries.

The outages between 4-5 a.m. and 9-10 a.m. will interrupt service to about 667 Avista customers on the east side of the lake from Carlin Bay to the city of Harrison. About 595 Kootenai Electric Cooperative customers on the southeast side of the lake also will be affected.

The two outages will allow Avista crews to perform maintenance and repairs on transmission lines connected to the company’s Ogara substation.

As part of the same project, about 4,500 Avista customers in the town of St. Maries also will experience a power outage from 4-10 a.m. Sunday.

Petition seeks to recall Condon

A critic of Spokane’s red-light cameras who says he was assaulted in 2013 by a city employee while trying to prepare his legal defense against one of the traffic tickets now wants to recall Mayor David Condon.

Spokane resident Kyle Murakami’s recall petition is set for a hearing Aug. 6 in Spokane County Superior Court to determine whether it should be dismissed or be sent to the ballot. The hearing was sought by Spokane County Prosecutor Larry Haskell, who by law must summarize the allegations contained in recall petitions and submit them for judicial review.

Murakami said Wednesday he holds Condon responsible for failing to discipline city employees who he describes in documents as threatening him and shoving him to the ground as he tried to have a subpoena served in April 2013 in connection with his upcoming traffic case. He contends the city failed to follow proper signage and used misleading photos in court to discredit his positions.