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Monday News from KCVL
It was a fabulous Northeast Washington Fair, but things are going to stay busy this week around the Callville area. Boy, get ready for another busy week. It is a Monday. Thanks for joining us on the radio. I'm Eric Carpenter, and this is KCL, KCRK. Hard to believe it's almost Labor Day, and yeah, kind of the end of summer here in Callville means it's Farm Jam time. Yeah, Farm Jam 2024 is coming up this weekend. Let's get an update on the big event from host Greg Knight. Greg Knight, Farm Jam Music Festival. Callville, Washington takes place Labor Day weekend. It starts Friday, August 30th with four bands, and then it continues on Saturday, the 31st and ends on Sunday, September 1st. Each night we have a big headliner, Friday night we have Drake Milligan. He's an up-and-comer, but he's been playing with Cody Johnson all over the US and in Europe. Saturday night's headliner is Jackson Dean. You've heard his songs all over the radio. Sunday's headliner is Craig Morgan. He's 90s and early 2000s. Everyone knows his songs International Harvester and Redneck Yacht Club. We've got a Sunday morning jam of faith where we've got First Baptist Youth Pastor David Christ doing a sermon with some gospel music by Cheto Kief, and that starts at 12.15 on Sunday. We've got over 20 food vendors this year. We've got every kind of food you can imagine. We have camping for tents, camping for RVs, campground opens at 3 o'clock on Thursday, which would be the 29th. This is the fifth year of the festival, and we're really looking forward to a huge crowd again. So single day tickets are $85, and that's for whichever day you go. That's Friday, Saturday, or Sunday. So if you go on Saturday, $85, that's $13 roughly a band, which is a pretty good cost. If you want to go for the full weekend, it's $179. Camping is extra, $100 for RVs, and $35 for tents. We get a surprising amount of locals who camp out for the RV. They kind of want to get away even though it's close and they don't have to go very far. So we have a lot of locals who drive their RV down there and actually will run home on Saturday morning and Sunday morning and shower because we don't have shower and water and power facilities, but it gives them a place to crash after partying too hard, late into the evening. VIPs are sold out. We expanded it this year from the last year, but it's still sold out. So that's always been a pretty good add-on for people to be up close to the stage. This year we have some VIPs seating as well and a few other add-ons for the VIPs and that sells out every year. All right, we're going to be talking about more Farm Jam again tomorrow. Big event expanded this year. It is Farm Jam 2024 here in Colville. A huge thank you to everyone who shop during Saunders Furniture Inventory Reduction Sale. Your support made it a tremendous success, but don't forget there's still time to end our drawing for $500 in free furniture you have until August 31 to drop your entry. Thank you for being part of the excitement we couldn't have done it without you. Enter by August 31 for your chance to win. Saunders Furniture where amazing deals and great customers make all the difference. We have finally been able to get details on that fatal accident last Wednesday evening. The accident happening on Aladdin Road near Pinkney City that happening about 6.30 in the evening. A two vehicle collision appears to be a head-on collision, a fatality in that accident was a Charles Felisir, he was going down the highway in a Volkswagen Beetle, was in the wrong lane and was struck head-on. He was deceased at the scene. The driver of the northbound truck was Smitty, Hagopian did not suffer serious injuries in that collision, indicates that he was en route home, Hagopian indicates to investigators that while he was driving he saw the motor home nearing him in the opposite lane and then a Volkswagen Beetle came out into his lane. He said it didn't appear like the vehicle was passing because it was not gaining speed and the action of going into the other lane didn't look like someone who was passing rather than someone possibly falling asleep. Now Smitty says he slowed down, eventually had nowhere to go, locked up his brakes and that caused his truck to skid straight ahead into the collision. Again that accident last Wednesday evening about 6.30 in the evening. The Kettlefall School District is currently seeking a skilled and reliable bus driver for the 2024-2025 school year. Accelerate your career in this high demand field. As a bus driver you will be transporting students and staff on regular school routes and extracurricular activities such as field trips. Be a part of our team and help us continue to provide safe and efficient transportation to our community. Apply online at kfschools.org or call 509-738-6625 for more information. To ensure fair trials, the Supreme Court of the United States created the Brady Doctrine Obligating the prosecutor of every case to investigate, gather and disclose all information about any individual upon whose testimony they will rely. The Brady list is a definitive public-facing platform of record for information about officer misconduct, de-certification, public complaints, use of force reports and do not call listings and more potential impeachment disclosures. On August the 15th the Stevens County prosecutor informed a Colville police officer Julio Valencia that he is being placed on the PID list maintained by the Stevens County prosecuting attorney's office. The letter along with supporting documentation and a declination letter is going to be maintained as PID material. Now being placed on this list does not automatically impeach a witness, whether or not the material is admissible at trial requires a ruling from a judge, but this potential impeachment disclosure is required to provide material that should be recognized as conduct that creates the potential for impeachment of a witness. This all revolves around an investigation from the Stevens County sheriff's office where the prosecuting attorney has decided there was no criminal act for the conduct. The state views the conduct that could create potential though for impeachment. It's a number of aspects of conduct. Number one, the prosecuting attorney says the relationship started based on you responding to a call in your capacity in law enforcement. The female in question still in high school had been reported as a runaway. After she returned home you initiated contact with her through social media and a relationship sexual in nature progressed. The letter to Valencia continues that you engaged in a personal sexual relationship while on duty. It is presumed that you are to be available at all times while on shift and engaging in personal business while on shift in the least would be a misuse of city resources. The potential impeachment here lies in your willingness to engage in personal sexual conduct while on the clock for the city of Colville in your official capacity as a law enforcement officer. This creates the appearance that you may be willing to steal time from your employer. This is what the Stevens County prosecuting attorney in a formal letter written to officer Valencia indicates. He says to conduct personal business calls into question your reliability and your decision making in the fact that you made the choice to pursue a relationship of sexual nature with an 18 year old who is still in high school that you initially came in contact with while responding to a report of a runaway. The impeachment potential is increased in the event of an investigation into a sex crime due to the potential for the appearance of bias. Further there is the appearance that you took advantage of your position within law enforcement to engage in a relationship sexual in nature potentially being dishonest about your relationship status in order to appear more available to the female. You engaged in sexual contact with also the investigative materials could be viewed that you exceeded the consent of the sexual interaction with the female. The prosecutor's office says they have to evaluate every case that relies solely on an investigation conducted by you. The effect of this PID material will be reduced by the use of body cams. If a case becomes based solely on your testimony with nothing to collaborate your testimony it may be problematic for the state to proceed depending on the nature of the case. And given the nature of the PID material the defense counsel is likely to argue that the conduct specifically relates to engaging in a sexual relationship while on duty relates to honesty. It will be up to the court to determine if it would be admissible impeachment material at any trial in which you are a witness. If the court ever does rule that this evidence would be admissible at trial for purposes of impeachment the state may never be able to call you as a witness at that point. So that was the letter going to a Colville police officer who while on duty was having a sexual relationship with a high school student. This all began back June the 30th. That's when the Colville police department were advised and became involved. Since that time this officer is still actively on duty for the Colville police department. The Colville police chief the Colville mayor they have both opted to take no action against this officer. A little more about what has gone on the Colville police department was aware of the situation back in June a rape kit was taken at Mount Carmel hospital ultimately was secured as evidence. When the Colville police department first became aware of the Valencia incident indications are that he was placed on administrative leave that day on his shift. It's unclear when officer Valencia went back to normal duties no word from the police chief. The initial report came from the father he said he felt his daughter had been taken advantage of due to her recent vulnerable state went on to say that he had caught his daughter having the relationship with officer Valencia he advised that he had discovered information on her Google account that revealed that they were involved in the sexual relationship and advised that his daughter was at her senior year of high school and that she was 18 years old. He had seen text messages relating to having sex about a week prior. As well as on June 30th and June 30th it was when Valencia was on duty the first contact with Valencia regarding his daughter had occurred sometime in April when he had reported her as a runaway Valencia met the father took the report back in April and then later when she had returned home officer Valencia had met with her in Colville to check up on her said he had learned that sometime after the check up that Valencia then again messaged his daughter on tick tock and then that sparked a sexual relationship the filed reports also indicate both the pictures messages and a cash transfer from officer Valencia to the 18 year old for a plan B medication while on duty officer Valencia had gone with the victim to the Colville Police Department's firearms range area and that is where their intercourse took place. The 18 year old also stated to Stevens County Sheriff's Office that she was worried that officer Valencia had done this with other females due to his knowledge of the range as a lot to have intercourse while on duty. She did give the Stevens County Sheriff's Office permission for her phone locks to be disabled so information could be extracted. There is a time there is a place where a community has to put trust in their police officers when a police officer takes advantage of a distressed young lady still in high school his basis of authority his badge his gun his position puts him at a total unfair advantage not the type of officer that we need in any type of authority position the officer acted badly irresponsibly the Colville City Police Chief and the mayor have acted totally irresponsible in having an individual still on the police force still interacting with youth down at the northeast Washington Fair in police uniform it's wrong. The Stevens County prosecutor chose not to file any type of criminal charges but has put this officer on notice of the potential for his testimony in any case to be impeachable it's time for the city of Colville to do the right thing and not just slide this under the rug as well it's another one of those things we'll see what the city what the police chief what the mayor what they do about this situation but it's unacceptable stories like this that I hope never come about but this is one that we've been aware of for several weeks it's taken a while to get enough of the details to be assured that well this is exactly what has taken place and then back August 15 the official letter that went from the prosecutor to Julio Valencia advising him that he was now on the Brady list the PID list for the prosecuting attorney's office right beginnings preschool has begun enrollment for the 2024 2025 school year with classes available for the seedlings class for kids ages three to four in the sprouts class for kids ages four to five enrolling with bright beginnings provides an academic hands-on play-based program with a comfortable learning environment they also do community guest visits and field trips family fun events music and movement programs along with social emotional guidance and support give bright beginnings a call at 509 684 2686 today or register a callville bright beginnings dot com tomorrow will be talking again about the adventures that I'm having over this summer and a variety of locales soon to be in Norway well we'll talk about how I get from down in Venice to Amsterdam to Norway we'll be talking more about that tomorrow at the length of today's news we're going to have to cut things short for the summer adventures fog and 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 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 gino smith he was in for the opening series in the preseason game for the Seahawks through a 21 yard touchdown pass to DK Metcalf well that helped the Seattle Seahawks beat the Cleveland Browns on Saturday 37 33 well that Saturday night game was the last of the preseason games were ready to get underway it's the opening of the regular season that's coming up should be an exciting year the Seattle Seahawks and the Cleveland Browns 37 33 the final there ready for the regular season to get going they Seattle Mariners picking up a for three victory over the San Francisco Giants yesterday Brian who had a good outing for the Mariners well all is not lost yet because now in the last 10 games Houston has gone five wins and five losses the Mariners are now four and a half games out of first place the wild card that's not looking good at all the Mariners basically are going to have to beat Houston in the American League West we've got a lot of games left four and a half games back let's see if the Seattle Mariners can make a very late season run Mariners ball on 92.1 kcrk today's local weather forecast brought to you by ABC heating 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 heating an electric give them a call make an appointment 509 684 2018 not all that warm 78 the expected high for this afternoon we might get a little bit of afternoon wind overnight down to 46 72 the high on Tuesday 71 on Wednesday and then we're going to start to warm up a little bit Thursday's high temperature 78 degrees 83 by Friday we get underway with the weekend 86 and sunshine expected by Saturday carrier dealers the authorities at getting peak performance from your heating and cooling system see ABC heating and electric getting underway with another exciting week here around the area it's going to be busy thanks for joining us on a Monday I'm Eric Carpenter and this is KCL KCRK. 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