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DAILY NEWS 6-28-2024
Friday that means the weekend it's right around the corner Eric Carpenter with you this is KCBL KCRK. Some extra people here in Caulville this week a Grange convention. It's been happening at the Ag Trade Center. It originally said not to be open to the public but there will be an opportunity for the public to go down and look at some of the winning displays. We talked with the Washington State Grange president Tom Gwen got an update on how the convention is going. I'm Tom Gwen I am the president of the Washington State Grange and we have our annual state session it rotates around the state. The last time we were in Caulville was 2008 and when we were looking for a location in this eastern district the people from the Stevens County area thought that Caulville would be appropriate and made the important contacts with your fair manager and we decided to have our convention here in Caulville this year. We have approximately 200 delegates between 350 and 400 people in town for the week and we will be here finishing up our business on Sunday. We are using this week to set our legislative policy and the future direction of the Grange on a statewide basis. We talked about a lot of internal issues with Grange law and Grange activities and then it will be all of the external topics. We have 44 resolutions presented to us from Grange's from throughout the state and this year our biggest committee is the Transportation Committee dealing with transportation issues a lot of electric cars rail issues and that type of thing will be up for discussion as we get into our business. Moving into the fair season the emergence especially in this part of the state on the Grange Youth Fairs program which Stevens County was the first county that came on board and we have a lot of kids in the Grange that show their animals and their other events. On Saturday we will have our statewide Grange Livestock judging contest which is similar to what you see in the other youth organizations and we have kids from coming from across the state comparing their knowledge with our official judge and then we will be recognizing the top individuals and the top Grange teams from around the state as well. So something of note that is open to the public is our statewide displays of contests and activities. We have our photo contest where the winners of each county contest come to state and we have upwards of 200 photos and 200 crafts and then canning and sewing and quilting and needle arts. All of that is on display along with a lot of entries from some of our junior Grangers. I know on the educational posters we have over a hundred entries on educational posters and many of those are from here and the kids compete not only for ribbons but cash prizes as well and then the adults are in most the other contests. Educational posters are specifically for the kids. That's open to the public all day Friday all day Saturday and Sunday morning. You can go down to the Egg Trade Center here in Colville take a look at the displays today Saturday and Sunday morning at the Egg Trade Center here in Colville. Art and tree farms for nearly seven decades we've been a part of Northeast Washington caring for our forest and helping to support the people in our communities. Now we've decided to step outside the box by creating art and tree farms timberland consulting paving the way for us to help you whether it is questions on your timberland needing equipment work done or a vast array of other services we are here to help visit us at art and tree farms timberland consulting.com or call 509 684 2507 contact us today for a free initial consultation. The next gathering of gardening friends that's coming up on Sunday and it will be a recyclers dream event. Nancy Christopher has more. Hi I'm Nancy Christopher and I wanted to welcome you to our Colville Valley gardening friends meeting. We're going to have this Sunday the 30th at 2 o'clock it's going to be exciting we're going to be talking about recycling arts for the garden and we're going to be meeting at 794 Pinkston Creek Road at the Pinkston Creek Schoolhouse. Sue Richardson has wonderful fantastical whimsical gardens that we will be looking at with a lot of recycling ideas for your garden and Sarah O'Hare is going to be coming and showing us how to make and doing a demonstration on how to make broken pot or teacup fairy tale gardens so bring your teacups and bring your broken pots if you like dirt will be provided bring some small things to put in the teacup or just watch we'd love to see you there again as 10 is this Sunday the 30th at 2 o'clock at 794 Pinkston Creek Road now become a friend with your garden and come and join us thank you. The events coming up on Sunday 2 in the afternoon at the restored schoolhouse at 794 Pinkston Creek Road is Kettle Falls. Attention Kavo residents get ready to experience the ultimate fusion of comfort and community at Sondra's furniture a haven for quality styles and artistic flair nestled within the walls of Sondra's furniture lies a hidden gem. 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discover something new downtown Kavo the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife making an announcement that starting July 1st a number of activities will be restricted on fish and wildlife managed lands fires or campfires including those in rings will be prohibited discharging firearms for target shooting or other purposes aside from lawful hunting prohibited from August 16th through September 15th restrictions prohibit discharging firearms for target shooting at all fish and wildlife managed lands in eastern Washington smoking except for an enclosed vehicle prohibited welding and operating chainsaws including the use of an acetylene torch or other open flame prohibited and operating a motor vehicle away from developed roads parking is permitted within designated parking areas including developed campgrounds and trailheads and in areas without vegetation that are within 10 feet of roadways these restrictions going into effect until further notice again effective July the first of course we know that the fire danger is going up and the Department of Fish and Wildlife doing their part to help prevent wildfires join Kavo together a Main Street program for the first fourth Friday of the year on June 28th this family-friendly event features vendors along Main and Aster a downtown art walk starting at three and free kids crafts at the library from 3 to 5 30 enjoy the bouncy house and games next to Rancho Chico plus face painting at the library then cap off the evening with live music by Chipton Broken from 5 until 8 in Heritage Court sponsored by the Vincent Fund it's fourth Friday in downtown Colville don't miss it we're very quickly finding a lot of fires all around Washington and Oregon lot of evacuations down in Oregon Guy Gifford at DNR gives us an update on new fire restrictions Guy Gifford the Washington State Department Natural Resources currently burn restrictions are in place outdoor burning of your forest debris is not allowed currently in any of our counties Northeast region including Stevens County so any outdoor burning no matter the size where you have a fire truck is currently prohibited if you're in a campground with an approved campfire ring you may be able to have a campfire there allowed but individual campgrounds may shut down their campground for specific reasons so always check with your campground host before you light a campfire and again the campfires are only in and out campground approved campfire rings so you cannot have a campfire in the woods or as you're not in a campground well today is travel day for me yesterday it was a day of just cruising the ocean in route to Dover we go from Dover to the airport in London back to Los Angeles let's take a quick recap of the past couple weeks here went around Iceland kind of an interesting place good to see not a place that I really particularly want to go back and spend a lot of time at beautiful countryside a lot of green a lot of waterfalls but for being June and 30 degrees it was cold windy and wet and yes everything they say about prices in Iceland is correct everything is very expensive everything from the over eight dollar a gallon gasoline to your basic food services everything in Iceland is very expensive with the exception of electricity electricity very cheap in Iceland the crews overall pretty good if you have a family you're going on a cruise carnival might just be the way to go they've got activities going on from nine in the morning till midnight one in the morning stuff going on every hour for all ages they've got activities for the young kids the teenagers for the adults if you like things with good service probably not the cruise line to take the food the food selection quality and service was all very subpar for cruise ships the carnival legend kind of disappointed as this is only the third voyage that it has made after being in dry dock getting refurbished they about doubled the size of the casino that was very nice if you like spending a lot of time in the casino other than that they obviously I'm sure they spent a lot of money and did a lot of things but there's a lot of things with the carnival legend that really dates it back to its original days the state rooms they did not do much if anything with it was the common open areas that they primarily remodeled but the a lot of activities tell you what if you're gonna have a family might be a way to go some of the other Norwegian princess they have a lot of family activities to if you're not taking any kids along I still am gonna have to lean toward Holland America because they don't have a lot of kids running around and they will give you old-fashioned cruise line service and old-fashioned cruise line food that's probably gonna top a lot of the other cruise lines so was a enjoyable trip I'll tell you Belfast a place that I've wanted to go for a long time kind of what I expected it to be I didn't realize there was still such a divide between the Catholics and the Protestants very serious issue there and they they are really divided still today Dublin absolutely wonderful town fast fast growth they have cranes everywhere they're putting up high rises they're putting up new buildings they are the only English speaking country in the EU and since Great Britain dropped out of the EU a lot of the headquarters offices for companies are being built right there in Dublin top of that the people were very friendly it was a nice town to get around in hopefully I'll be able to make the Southwest connecting flight and get back to Spokane but that kind of wraps up this two weeks coming up in August be off on the road again but beyond that I'll be back be back joining you in Colville this next week so hope that you enjoy the adventures to Iceland and Ireland and I don't I'm getting out of here via London Vagan brothers lumber a leader in the forest products industry is now offering a free forest health checkup if you have ten or more acres of timberland Vagan brothers lumber can help you determine if your family's forest is healthy and fire resilient schedule your free forest evaluation today by calling Vagan brothers lumber at 684 5071 Vagan brothers lumber adding value to the forest for people products and the environment it was a travel day yesterday back to Mariner baseball coming up tonight join us Seattle Mariner baseball on 92.1 KCRK today's local weather forecasts brought to you by ABC heaving an electric at 411 West second in Colville if you're looking for a little comfort in your life call the expert your carrier dealer at ABC heaving an electric give Deb a call make an appointment 684 2018 it should be a lot calmer today after yesterday storms and thunderstorms and power outages and everything else partly cloudy skies lots of sunshine though 75 for an afternoon high beautiful 79 degrees on Saturday 79 on Sunday and a little cooler on Monday possibility of some showers and thunderstorms again 76 on Monday 78 Tuesday might get to 80 degrees again Wednesday and coming up for the 4th of July sunny skies and 83 degrees in the forecast yeah we're right around the corner from the big 4th of July holiday good to have you with us here on a Friday a lot of activities going on downtown Colville at the library stuff for everybody fourth Friday celebration going on here in Colville I'm Eric Carpenter and this is K C V L K C R K