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DAILY NEWS 7-31-2024
Mhm. Good morning. It's Wednesday and we're 10 minutes past 7 a.m. You're listening to AM 1240 94.1 FM K C V L 92.1 K C R K. It's 65 degree. And it's warming up pretty quickly here at the radio station. Fire danger still remains very high. The swill of fire is at 45% containment and the South Columbia Basin fire started back on Monday or on the 26th and is approximately 252 acres they have that 175% contained and the upper cemetery fire started on the 26th as well as at 44 acres that fire is 60% contained air quality is improving in many areas as the wind is picked up we'll get the AQI index and the new news but before kind of getting more into the weather I want to talk a little bit about the election you've received your ballot or should have if you haven't you want to contact the elections department as soon as you can down at the courthouse room 106 but one of the primary races is the Congressional District race for Congressional District 5 that's been held by Representative Kathy McMorris Rogers for the past 20 years. There are count them 11 candidates vying for the seat. One of those candidates is Jacqueline Maycomber. We spoke with Jacqueline about her campaign. Hi this is state Representative Jacqueline Maycomber and I am not running for the house again however I am running for Congress for Catholic Morris Rogers seat and I'm coming to you today to talk about why I'm running and what I'm fighting for. As a farmer in Republic I have five generations on our family farm over a hundred years and I know what it means to fight hard for the people of the district. Seven years ago I made a promise that I would fight for every single one of you and I did. We fought against Hearst and we held a capital budget and forty six billion dollars to make sure we in Eastern Washington had our property rights. I led the charge and was elected the House Republican floor leader. After that I promised to get things done when I was told you couldn't as a minority in Washington state a Republican and yet I capped the cost of insulin. I fought hard lower our prescription drug costs including Epi pens and life-saving medications and then I created the veteran service officer program. When I was told veterans were only receiving twenty five percent of the federal funds owed to them I fought the federal government and said we were going to bring veteran service officers to Washington state and just in the tri-county area over a million dollars were directly paid to those veterans who earned that money. I said I would continue to fight for kids to make sure they graduated high school and they had some kind of skill to graduate with. I passed the apprenticeships and high school bill and now many children across Eastern Washington are going to school and getting certifications including EMT welding certifications painting and every aspect now looking at the medical field it is so important that every kid has an equal opportunity and a job to go do after graduation. Those are the promises I made in the district. I fought against the decriminalization of drugs and made sure that our law enforcement could do their job and today I'm coming to you to go to Congress to fight again to put results above talking to make sure we close the border and we protect our children. We make sure that we lower the cost of inflation and every dollar mounts. We lower the cost of gas and food so we can each put food on the table. I'm from the area and I know what it means to work hard and work hard for every dollar and now it's time to go to DC and push back. I've been endorsed by the Washington State Farm Bureau a large honor to be able to fight for our farmers. I've been endorsed by many of the sheriffs within the district including Sheriff Brad Mankey. I've been endorsed by the NRA one of the few races in the nation. I've also been endorsed by gun owners of America. I said I would fight and I have and I'm gonna go to DC and fight for you there. We will protect our children. We will protect our dollar. We will protect our economy and our farms. We need to make sure we reduce the cost of energy, reduce the cost of food and fuel, save the dams and more importantly close the border and protect our children against fentanyl drugs and the cartels. This can be done. I'm Jacqueline Maykumber. You can go to votemaykumber.com to learn more, see my endorsements and I'm honored to continue to fight for you. You can email and call me on the website, votemaykumber.com. Thank you so much. Jacqueline, she has been our seventh district representative, position one for well since 2017 so she's running for Congress along with a smorgasborg of others. Hey, Colville. Ready to transform your sleep? Discover the all new Tempur-Pedic mattresses at Saunders Furniture. Downtown Colville's sleep experts take the test dress and let our sleep experts fit you for the perfect mattress. Whether you're looking for a firm support or luxurious softness, Tempur-Pedic adapts to your body like no other. 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WDFW has had several calls involving bare sightings and encounters this spring and early summer. That's no reason though to stay home. Every year we get a lot of calls usually starting in April and then they start to taper off mid-June and then those calls come back up again in the fall. So mid-September through the end of October and that's typical and part of the cycle of bears because bears hibernate in the winter for up to six months out of the year. They come out of the den in early spring. We've been receiving a lot of calls this year but not necessarily out of the normal for bears. So don't stay home. Don't use that as a reason not to go out. By taking some precautions when you're out you can significantly reduce your chances of having a negative bear encounter while camping. The majority of our reported bear conflicts however are usually associated near homes and involving unnatural attractants like trash or unnatural food items or a food source. Because bears are so strongly food driven because they're only awake for six months out of the year and they have a really high caloric need sometimes up to 35,000 calories a day to gain enough weight so that they can make it through hibernation. They find themselves into trouble and it usually is associated with trash or human food. One of the things to avoid this that you can do is there's lots of steps but the first step is really to secure your trash in any other attractants while you're camping. The best way is if you're camping in an established campsite there's usually bear-proof garbages and food storage containers as Callville is a mandatory food storage container location because of both black bears and grizzly bears. So use those when available. So there's a place where you can store your food in a locker that's bear resistant and then usually great places to put your trash so you don't have to put them in a less secure location like your car. You can purchase bear resistant portable containers for hiking. You can find those online at the IGBC so that Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee. All of those things are tested by grizzly bears to make sure that they're bear resistant so those things include food storage for hiking or camping, garbage containers, coolers for example that are bear resistant so all of those things are a great way for you to reduce your interactions with a bear. But if you don't have those things make sure you store food and beverages and anything else with a smell and an airtight container and put it in a trunk if you have it. Make sure it's locked because bears do have ambidextric fingers and can open up car doors or unlock trunks for example. So this includes gum, deodorant, any type of lip gloss or cap stick for example anything that has a smell make sure you put those away. Sunscreen, bug repellent, all of those things bears can smell because they can smell 10,000 times more than a blood hound so they have a really good sniffer. The other thing is to keep a clean camp. Bears are attracted to odors and they'll come into to investigate in hopes that they'll find something edible making sure that you're not leaving unwashed dishes out or dishwasher bins or things like that making sure you put those away. Close your windows and lock your vehicle when you're away from the vehicle just because pretty good about opening that stuff up if they really want in. But the most important thing that we always tell people is make sure you carry bear spray and know how to use it. We offer bear spray trainings throughout the year and there are many online resources as well but you can always reach out to any of us and we can walk you through making sure that your bear spray if you already have it has an expired and that it's safe to use but feel free to reach out anytime. If a bear does come into your camp encourage it to leave by yelling or tossing small things in its direction bang on pots, honker horn, things like that and slowly back away give the bear space most likely the bear will like to move on. Remember the biggest thing that you hear across the country is a fed bear is a dead bear then it means that if a bear becomes habituated to human food or trash for example most of the time those bears are least removed because that habituation is so strong when it comes to bear. So every year when a bear becomes too comfortable so that's another way some people describe habituation around people like I said we have to least remove it. We can help prevent this by taking these prevention measures as we just talked about. Every time a bear is removed we lose a little bit of the wilderness that makes our area so special. So if you have any more questions for Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife feel free to reach out. You can send emails to communications@dfw.wa.gov or you can call 509-563-5495 please include an email or phone number because you can win a prize for asking questions. If you have a question for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife send it to communications@dfw.wa.gov or you can call 509-563-5495. Please include an email address or phone number because you can win a prize for asking questions. There will be a random drawing each week of people who submit questions. If your name is drawn you win a can of bears free to take with you on your outdoor adventures. On that note of being outdoors wildlife officials are considering killing wolves from two packs here in northeast Washington after two separate series of attacks on livestock. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced Tuesday just yesterday that it was considering killing wolves from the lead point and dominion packs after investigation showed that wolves had killed cattle within both packs territories in Stevens County. In the dominion packs territory near Colville three calves were killed and four more were injured between July 19th and July 28th. In the lead point packs territory near the Canadian border between the Columbia and Ponderay rivers wolves killed two calves and injured another between June 28th and July 29th. During that span a wolf in the area was killed and reportedly after reportedly chasing livestock officials are discussing the incidents with the use of measures to prevent wolf cattle interactions according to WDFW. In the next few days they expect to make a recommendation to the WDFW director on whether to kill one or more wolves. Wolf removals in Washington are governed by a set of protocols that lay out when the state can consider killing problem wolves lethal removal can be used in response to three depredation events within 30 days or four within 10 months. The protocols also require that livestock producers use at least two non-lethal measures but meant to deter wolves from interacting with livestock such as range riding using guard dogs and removing livestock carcasses among other options. WDFW's latest population estimate found that the state has at least 260 wolves across 42 packs. The annual count estimated that lead point pack consisted of at least seven wolves. The agency began looking into conflicts in the packs territory on June 28th when an injured calf was found. An investigation found a wolf responsible the calf later died. Last week agency officials investigated a killing of another calf and found that it was caused by a wolf. A day later a yearling female wolf was killed after it was reported to be chasing livestock. WDFW is investigating the killing and on Sunday the WDFW investigated two injured calves from the same pasture as the previous conflicts. Only one was found to be injured by a wolf. The agency's estimate for the Dominion pack was at least four wolves. Investigations in that territory began July 19 when WDFW confirmed that a wolf had killed a calf. And then on Saturday the agency returned to investigate one dead calf and four injured calves again confirming that wolves were involved. Another calf was found to be killed by a wolf on Sunday if the agency authorizes lethal removal in either case. It would mark the first time this year that it's been okayed to kill wolves in response to livestock conflicts. The last lethal removal came in August of 2023 when the agency killed an adult male and yearling female down in Asotan County. 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Same-store sales in China plunged 14% as the company struggled to compete with lower priced rivals. U.S. same-store sales fell 2%. Authorities in Washington have determined that a Tesla that hit and killed a motorcyclist near Seattle in April was operating on the company's full self-driving system. Captain Deong Glover said Tuesday that investigators from the Washington State Patrol made the discovery after downloading information from the event data recorder on the 2022 Tesla Model S. Authorities say no charges have been filed and the investigation is ongoing. Elon Musk said last week that full self-driving should be able to run without human supervision by the end of this year. Oregonians they happened to be traveling to Paris for the Summer Olympics at higher numbers than expected. According to new data analysis this tiny state here in the northwest home to only 4.23 million Americans 1.3% of the nation's population. However Oregonians make up nearly 13% of the Americans currently in Paris for the opening week of the Summer Games. And the analysis a representative sample of more than 50,000 American tourists in Paris between July 18th and July 28th ranked by their home state. Other states that have higher than expected number of American tourists per capita include our state here in Washington, New Jersey, California, and New York. By the way 10.46% of the travelers to Paris are Washingtonian. We'll be right back with sports and weather. Vog and Brothers Lumber, a leader in the forest products industry, is now offering a free forest health checkup. If you have 10 or more acres of timberland Vog and Brothers Lumber can help you determine if your family's forest is healthy and fire resilient. Schedule your free forest evaluation today by calling Vog and Brothers Lumber at 684-5071. Vog and Brothers Lumber adding value to the forest for people, products, and the environment. Jorge Polanco homered in the fourth inning and added an RBI double in the sixth. Dylan Moore drove in three with the bases loaded double in the fifth and the Mariners beat the Boston Red Sox 10 to six. The eight run outburst midway through the game helps Seattle win for the fourth time in five games as the Mariners capitalized on three errors that had Boston fans booing. Seattle starter Louis Castillo pitched six synings holding Boston to three runs on six hits in a walk. He struck out three Rafael Divers hit a three run homer for Boston in the third. James Paxton took the loss. Mariners have the rubber match against the Red Sox. Today pregame starts at noon time. First pitch at 110 for the third and final match up against the Red Sox. Next up for the Mariners is on Friday against the Philadelphia Phillies. They got Thursday off but they'll play the Phillies on Friday. Pregame starts at 5.30. First pitch at 640. Those games can be heard on 92.1 KCRK. Today's local weather forecast is brought to you by ABC Heating and Electric at 411 West 2nd in Colville. If you're looking for a little comfort in your life, call the expert your carrier dealer at ABC Heating and Electric Call Deb for an appointment at 684 2018. We will see sunny skies today with a high reaching 86 degrees. Tonight we'll see mostly clear skies a low of 50. Then tomorrow more sunshine with a little bit warmer temperatures a high near 94. Then overnight we'll see mostly clear skies in a low around 53. For Friday, sunny and hot with a high reaching 100 degrees. Then overnight we'll see partly cloudy skies in a low around 57. Saturday partly sunny and hot with a high near 97. Saturday night mostly cloudy in a low of 57. Sunday we have a 20% chance of showers through the mid morning with partly sunny skies a high near 93. Then overnight we'll see partly cloudy skies in a low of 54. For Monday we'll see mostly sunny skies in a high near 94. Then on Monday night we'll have partly cloudy skies in a low of 52. Then Tuesday we'll have sunshine with a high near 95 degrees. Carrier dealers are the authorities at getting peak performance from your heating and cooling system. Visit ABC Heating and Electric at 411 West 2nd in Colville or give them a call 684 2018. Thanks for joining me this morning. I'm Ben Carpenter. You've been listening to news on KCVL. KCRK have a great rest of your Wednesday today. It should be a gorgeous day out there. I hope you get to see some sunshine and we'll be back again at 8 o'clock and then after that it's party line on KCVL. Thanks for joining me.