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The Liberty Lake Farmers Market has been a staple for the past 10 years for families seeking the freshest and finest of locally grown and produced items.

This year, vendors and patrons are finding something else new to the market — Mike Durkin.

Durkin is the new manager for the Farmers Market. He transitioned into the role this summer after shadowing and learning the ropes from former manager Holli Parker.

A native of Plattsmouth, Neb., Durkin moved to Spokane as a teenager to live with his mother. He graduated from Shadle Park High School.

Durkin said the best part of managing the Farmers Market is interacting with both the vendors and the customers.

“And, of course, you can get a plethora of information about farming you wouldn’t necessarily read in any book because you’re talking to local farmers,” he said.

When the Farmers Market first started in 2002, there were eight vendors on opening day. Last weekend, there were 40. He explained that presently there are no available spaces for additional booths unless the board of directors decides to expand around the other side

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of the building, which he does not see as optimal for the event. The only other option would be to wait until the vacant lot adjacent to the present Farmers Market, which is owned by the city of Liberty Lake, is developed.

When asked if there are any vendors he would like to see on Saturday mornings, Durkin said it would not be his decision as he would only be one vote on the Market’s board.

“There is a board that sits and qualifies applicants,” he explained. “We have a set of standards, and we like to see what a vendor would bring.”

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Calendar of events COMMUNITY Sept. 1 | Chef’s Demonstration 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Liberty Lake Farmers Market, 1421 N. Meadowwood Lane Sept. 7-16 | Annual Best Foot Forward Career Clothing Drive Liberty Lake Safeway, 1233 N Liberty Lake Road. Dress clothes and accessories are being collected to benefit men and women who may need a professional wardrobe for a job search or position or for a special occasion. The program is operated by Spokane Valley Partners, and volunteers are also needed. For more: Sharon Jayne, 255-6758 Sept. 9 | Bailey’s Brigade Car Show 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Allsport Polaris and Honda, 19505 E. Broadway. The car show will benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. Registration for cars is from 8 to 10 a.m., and awards will be announced at 1:15 p.m. Music, food, raffle prizes and a Wheel of Fun and Fortune. Basic registration is $15. For more: www.baileysbrigade.com

Recurring Friends of the Liberty Lake Municipal Library 6 p.m., the last Tuesday of every month, 23123 E. Mission Ave. Kiwanis Club of Liberty Lake 6:45 a.m.

Wednesdays, Liberty Lake City Hall, 22510 E. Country Vista Drive. For more: www.libertylakekiwanis.org Liberty Lake Centennial Rotary Club Noon Thursdays, Meadowwood Technology Campus Liberty Room, 2100 N. Molter Road

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Liberty Lake Farmers Market 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Saturdays, 1421 N. Meadowwood Lane. For more: www.llfarmersmarket.com Liberty Lake Lions Club Noon on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month, Barlow’s Restaurant, 1400 N. Meadowwood Lane. For more: 927-2193 or cheshierll@aol.com Liberty Lake Municipal Library 23123 E. Mission Ave. 10:30 a.m. Saturdays, Knitting Club; 10:30 a.m. Saturdays, computer classes; 1 p.m. Fridays, crafts for preschoolers; 1 p.m.

Saturdays, crafts for ages 6 and up; 10:30 a.m.

Tuesdays, baby lapsit story time; 10:30 a.m.

Wednesdays, toddler/preschool story time.

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Wednesdays at the Liberty Lake Sewer and Water District building, 22510 E. Mission Ave. For more: 208-765-8657

Senior Lunch programs 11 a.m. Mondays and Wednesdays at Liberty Lake City Hall, 22710 E. Country Vista Drive, and 11 a.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at Talon Hills Senior Complex, 24950 E. Hawkstone Loop. Seniors age 60 and older invited; recommended donation $3.50.

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MUSIC & THE ARTS Sept. 29 | Artist Showcase Auction 5 p.m., Great Room at CenterPlace, 2426 N. Discovery Place, Spokane Valley. Annual Spokane Valley Arts Council fundraiser features wine, food, live music and art. Tickets: $35 individual, $50 couple. For more: www.spokanevalleyarts.com/ ArtistSh.html

CIVIC & BUSINESS Aug. 30 | Camping World grand opening and ribbon cutting 10 a.m., 19651 E. Cataldo Ave., Liberty Lake Sept. 14 | Washington Health Insurance Exchange presentation 11:30 a.m. networking, noon program, Mirabeau Park Hotel, 1100 N. Sullivan Road, Spokane Valley. Washington State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler will speak on the “Washington Health Insurance Exchange: How it will work and implications for your business,” as part of the regular monthly meeting of the Greater Spokane Valley Chamber of Commerce. Tickets are $35 and open to the public. For more info or to register: www.spokanevalleychamber.org

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News briefs CVSD board approves budget A long process came to a quick conclusion Monday, as the Central Valley School Board unanimously approved its $129.6 million 2012-2013 budget.

A planned public hearing opened and closed without comment, and CVSD Executive Director of Finance Jan Hutton reiterated her view of the district’s financial situation as in a “pivot year” after several years of budget constraints.

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ton said funding stability from the state was a key factor.

In other business, the school board heard a presentation regarding the need to increase fees at the Central Valley Early Learning Center, a child care and preschool program the district operates at 10304 E. 9th Ave. Executive Director of Elementary Learning and Teaching Tim Nootenboom presented a recommendation to increase per child fees across the board by $25 per month. The school board will consider the change at its next meet-

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Two changes to library hours A pair of operating hour adjustments — one permanent and the other a single event — are planned at the Liberty Lake Municipal Library in the first part of September.

The long-term change happens Sept. 10, when the library opens its doors Mondays from 2 to 8 p.m. On Sept. 6, staff training will cause the library to open late, at 1:30 p.m.

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He said vendors don’t have to be organic, but if that is what they advertise, then they have to be certified as such.

He said every vendor who sets up a booth at the Liberty Lake Farmers Market takes pride in what they do.

“Everything is grown by local farmers,” he said. “Everything is fresh. Even the people who bring in the Alaskan salmon; they’re still catching them right now. As soon as they process the salmon, they freeze them and send them right down.”

Durkin said that because of the weather earlier this year, some of the vendors have asked him if he and the board would consider extending the Market season. Presently, the Farmers Market is scheduled to close on Oct. 13.

“With the season being so late this year, some of the vendors don’t have their stuff in yet,” Durkin said. “I’ve had a couple of requests to extend the season. I don’t know if the Market has been that flexible in the past or not. If it has, then that’s probably good. If we still have people coming in and it’s not slowing down at all, then we’ll see.”

Durkin said the management experience he will receive from this tenure at the Farmers Market will serve him well in the future. He explained that his in-laws, who live in Pennsylvania, own a property management company and eventually he and his wife, Heather, will end up with a portion of the operation, which they hope to continue to run as a family business while still living here.

Durkin met his wife in Spokane after clicking onto the Match.com dating site.

He smiles when he says he thinks the only reason she agreed to go out with him is because of his profile where he mentioned that one of his favorite books was, “The Humanure Handbook,” which details composting techniques.

“You might say it caught her eye,” he laughed. “We kind of have similar interests. She likes sustainable living.”

Heather Durkin has an associate’s degree in horticulture, a bachelor’s with a focus in environmental studies and sustainable agriculture, and a master’s in school counseling. She is presently a school counselor at Evergreen Middle School.

After graduating from Shadle Park, Durkin went to a local community college and received an electronics engineering technician degree. He spent the next 13 years working at Travis Pattern in Spokane. He left there and took a position as a traveling technician for Northwest Organ.

While at Northwest Organ, he met Heather. Not wanting to be on the road so often, Durkin left to go to work for

another company, which was bought out and his job was eliminated. However, he took the opportunity to go back to school for retraining, and he received his degree as a civil engineering technician.

While seeking a fulltime position, he said the opening with the Farmers Market was the perfect opportunity for him to utilize his interest in agriculture.

When he isn’t managing the Farmers Market, the Durkins are starting a blueberry farm south of Diamond Lake. He explained they are presently working the soil to make it optimal for a successful blueberry crop. The growing season is perfect for blueberries, he said, and once they reduce the acidic level of the soil they will begin adding the plants — probably next year. Once the blueberries mature in about three to four years, the couple will open the farm to “u-pick” customers and, of course, will sell them at the Liberty Lake Farmers Market.

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Fighting nature with nature City turns to grazing goats to combat hillside’s longtime weed infestation Story and photos by Josh Johnson Splash Staff Writer

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ancy Walker and Suzanne Forte will be bringing family to the same Liberty Lake slope this week. Walker will be accompanied by her grandkids.

Forte is bringing Lily, Buzz, Spot, Gizmo — and 23 other goats she loves by name.

The two women’s shared concern is seeing the city of Liberty Lake rid a long hillside of pesky, unsightly weeds. It’s an ambition Walker has had since January 2011, when the Meadowwood Homeowners Association gave the city the sloped, 1.4-acre parcel that rises up from North Garry Road to meet her Tanglewood Lane home. Coupled with a similar parcel donated to the city in April 2005 — the 2.8-acre plot that is home to the city’s budding arboretum — a total of 15 Tanglewood Lane homes in the Gardens Ridge neighborhood jut up against the steepest portion of this property.

A large portion of the combined 4.2 acres is being smartly controlled and neatly manicured into Nature’s Place at Meadowwood, the first phase of which was completed last year. The lengthy slope that extends along the arboretum and down Garry Road, however, has a long history of losing its battle with weeds.

“It’s a real challenge,” City Parks and Open Space Superintendent Jennifer Camp said. “I don’t have the staff and the time to weed the whole thing.”

Earlier this year, Camp said she asked several large landscape contractors how much it would cost to knock down the weeds. Some balked at even quoting it because of the danger and difficulty of the terrain, she said, while others estimated costs of nearly $2,000. That figure doesn’t include another $600 in pesticide application she was calculating — before her plans changed.

On Sunday, Camp will launch a trial study of a method that promises to be greener, safer and more effective, all for a price tag she estimates closer to $500.

That’s when Forte plans to arrive with 27 ever-hungry goats.

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A goat from Green Goat Rental chews away while working at a Coeur d’Alene water department site on Tuesday. Twenty-seven goats from the company will turn their appetites toward Liberty Lake beginning Sunday.

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Forte had never owned a goat until four years ago, when she bought the first ones to gobble away the knapweed at her horse ranch in Hayden, Idaho. The concept was effective, and she no longer had to spray her fields. Green Goat Rental was born.

Now in its fourth season, Forte’s company caters to private residences, business and government entities. This week, her goats trimmed down weeds near a city of Coeur d’Alene water department wellhead.

An animal lover, Forte considers the goats her pets. They all have names, but

WHERE ARE THE GOATS? Twenty-seven goats from Green Goat Rental of Hayden, Idaho, are expected to get to work in Liberty Lake starting Sunday. The anticipated three- to seven-day project will take place on the hillside adjoining Nature’s Place at Meadowwood (behind City Hall and the Trailhead Golf Course driving range) and along North Garry Road. Members of the public are welcome to watch the goats at work. she waits to bestow the moniker until its meaningful to her.

Big Mama is a retired dairy goat who had to have a caesarean. No longer able to breed after four babies, Big Mama’s career as a dairy goat was over, but she has found a home with Forte.

Some names come about more randomly, such as the inseparable pair who seemingly finish one another’s sentences.

“When they were little, this one would go “bleh,” and that one would go “bleh” — so Pete and Re-Pete,” Forte explained.

Then there’s Shamequa.

“I don’t know why my son named her Shamequa,” Forte laughed.

Walking from goat to goat, Forte pets and interacts with the animals.

“They are smart like dogs,” she said.

“And each of them has a personality like dogs.”

Unlike dogs, however, Forte’s 27 pets feel at home on hillsides and eat 25 percent of their body weight each day on everything from blackberry bushes to thistles.

An enduring problem Examining the hillside a week before the goats are to arrive, Camp points out the various noxious and broadleaf weeds that dominate the terrain. Here and there, tufts of native grasses line the bases of the ridge, some leftover from prior attempts to encourage native turf to hold together the hillside.

Walker, who has lived along the ridge for 17 years, has seen many efforts — or more commonly, she said, a lack of effort — to control the hillside, and she applauds Camp for thinking outside the box.

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“I’m excited to try something,” Walker said. “Since (Camp) told me about the goats, there are others I have talked to who have said, ‘Oh yeah, that really works and they do it a lot of places.’ It’s innovative, and I hope it works.”

As a low-maintenance neighborhood, most Gardens Ridge homes have no fencing and are open right up to the ridgeline.

Walker said she constantly battles the weeds back from her yard and has “gone over the hill and sprayed as far as I can go.”

Audrey Kreuziger lives just up the street. She said the tall, dry weeds become quite a fire hazard, particularly this time of year. Her concern turns into an annual phone call.

“It seems like every year, we have to call,” she said. “And we shouldn’t have to. When we email or call and ask them, they’re always very good. They always respond and do something about it.”

Learning about the goats while talking to The Splash, Kreuziger was hopeful.

“I don’t care how they do it, it’s fine with me,” she said.

Nearby neighbor Nadine Butler offered a similar reaction: “If it works, great.”

“We were told years ago when we bought the house that this was all going to be finished off,” Butler said. “Well, they did the arboretum last year. We thought they would start on our hillside, but they never have. … You know, it’s an eyesore.”

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City of Liberty Lake Parks and Open Space Superintendent Jennifer Camp points out various types of noxious and broadleaf weeds she hopes will disappear from the hillside after a visit from goats this coming week.

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Piloting a solution After arriving Sunday, Camp said Green Goat Rental will “mow” the hillside for an estimated three to seven days.

Low-voltage electric netting will be set up to help guide the goats a section at a time. Signs will be posted about the voltage, but the fences deliver “just a light shock,” and spectators are encouraged, Camp said.

The cost is $2.25 per goat per day, plus some transportation, setup and other miscellaneous fees. The goats won’t be working through the night, said Camp, who is as enthusiastic about the environmental savings with goats as she is about the economic advantages.

“If we have goats out here, and if it does in fact work — and we don’t anticipate it not working — then we can eliminate the need for pesticides, period,” she said.

As an added bonus, the goats’ digestive systems actually sterilize the seeds. While machines knock the weeds down and spread the seeds, the goats capture most of the seed and the resulting waste works as a natural fertilizer for the hillside — something Camp said she hopes spurs the growth of the native grasses. She said

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Suzanne Forte, owner of Green Goat Rental, stops for a photo with Big Mama. Forte was visiting the goats while they mowed down weeds at a site in Coeur d’Alene on Tuesday. the plan is that the native grasses will win out entirely over the course of a few years.

In the meantime, Camp said the goats “will mow (the weeds) down to within an inch or so of the ground.”

“They’ll definitely take the fire hazard away,” Forte said. “… They’re very ecofriendly, don’t bother anybody, are not noisy and the public seems to like them.”

An optimistic Camp said that if the goat plan pans out, the grazers could become a twice-a-year presence on the hillside — and possibly elsewhere in the city.

It’s a prospect that has long-suffering homeowners like Butler anxious to see the goats in action.

“I just hope they don’t get full on the first pass through,” she laughed.

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Pie Festival serves up a mess of fun

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At left, Liberty Lake Farmers Market Manager Mike Durkin asks the crowd to vote by applause which pie they believed was most consumed during the Pie Festival Saturday. Above, Danielle Patchin, 5, and her father, Karl Patchin, clean up after the first pie-eating contest. Karl was named winner in the contest. At right, Mia Streifel, 6, tackles her coconut cream pie a lick at a time. A family member said she was celebrating her birthday, which happened to be the day before.

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Cotton candy, comedy and lots of mistaken identity all worked into the script as traveling actors from Montana Shakespeare in the Parks presented “Twelfth Night” at Pavillion Park on Saturday. The event marked the second consecutive year the group visited Liberty Lake as Friends of Pavillion Park reintegrated a theater component into its summer lineup.

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The Beattie family — from left, Mark, Chan and John — visited the site of the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada, during a recent trip.

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Annual Symphony encore Saturday Program includes some new titles and some familiar classics to Lud Kramer Memorial event

COMMUNITY GOLF 8/22 Trailhead Ladies 9 Hole Golf Club Flight A: gross, CC Marshall 46; net, Bea Carroll 28 Flight B: gross, Bobbie Larsen 53; net, Elaine Lukes 32 Flight C: gross, Peg Nadvornick 61; net, Judy Clark 45

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There are those who consider Labor Day weekend to be the unofficial end of an all-too-short summer, while others consider it the start of what always promises to be an autumn complete with trees awash with shades of red and gold, bountiful harvests and footballs filling the air. However, for many residents in and around Liberty Lake, it is a time to grab the blankets, camping chairs, perhaps fix a picnic and make their way to Pavillion Park for the annual Lud Kramer Memorial Spokane Symphony concert.

The traditional finale of the Summer Festival Series presented by Friends of Pavillion Park will is set for 6 p.m. Saturday.

This year’s performance marks the unofficial start of the Spokane Symphony’s concert season and will offer something for almost every musical taste, said Annie Matlow, the Symphony’s director of marketing.

“The season actually begins on Sept. 22, but the Labor Day weekend is the unofficial kickoff,” she said. “It’s kind of funny, but the public as a whole is a pretty interesting group of folks. We start getting calls in the middle of May asking, ‘When is the Labor Day concert going to be?’”

Matlow said the event has become a real tradition, and she meets people all the time who say they never miss the concert at Liberty Lake. She has become a fixture at the Pavillion Park concert, staffing the Symphony’s table to take orders for its concert season and to answer questions about the upcoming events.

“I take orders from as far away as Elk,” she said. “It’s both a local concert and a community celebration; it links people to Liberty Lake from throughout the region who may not come here at other times.”

Matlow smiles when she recalls looking out in the audience and seeing some little kids dancing or a young boy conducting the music.

“It really is a family time,” she said. “It’s an outreach to the community and a real gift from Friends of Pavillion Park.”

Matlow explained that many members of the Symphony could be familiar faces to the parents and students in the audience.

A number of them are on the staff at Whitworth, Gonzaga, Eastern and a few who don’t perform regularly teach at Washing-

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The annual Lud Kramer Memorial Spokane Symphony Concert will be performed at 6 p.m.

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Lud Kramer Memorial Spokane Symphony concert, 6 p.m. Saturday at Pavillion Park Program: The Star-Spangled Banner Prelude to Act III of “Lohengrin” “Polovtzian Dances” from Prince Igor Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34 Heiter bis Wolkig World of Warcraft The Sea Hawk Suite for Orchestra The March from 1941 NBC NFL Football Themes The Liberty Bell March 1812 Overture ton State University. There are others who teach in Spokane area public schools.

Matlow confirmed that this year, as in the past, the Symphony will begin its concert with the “Star Spangled Banner.”

“Our conductor, Eckart Preu, always walks out with such a flair, the musicians stand and it really is something special,” she said.

She recalled that when Preu came to Spokane seven years ago, he decided he wasn’t going to play “Stars and Stripes Forever” as the encore.

“Oh, you would have thought it was a sacrilege,” she laughed. “He just wanted to shake it up a little and offer the audience something different.”

Needless to say, his addition to the program didn’t go over well, and the rousing

song continues to be the last piece of each event.

Matlow said the audience has certain expectations of the Spokane Symphony, with every performance starting with the “Star Spangled Banner” and concluding with the “1812 Overture.”

“They don’t care what you play in the middle,” she said.

This year, the Symphony will play a number of familiar pieces, including prelude to Act III of “Lohengrin,” which is where the Wedding March originated, and “Polovtzian Dances,” which is the “Stranger in Paradise” theme.

The Symphony will also perform “Heiter bis Wolkig,” by Hans Peter Preu, a talented composer/conductor and brother of Eckart Preu.

The Symphony will also be performing two pieces not usually found in a Symphony’s playbook: the theme from the “World of Warcraft” and the NBC NFL football theme.

“We kind of reach out there and stretch it a little bit,” she said.” It really will be a great mix.”

Matlow concludes that she believes music of all kinds, particularly symphonic, is both uplifting and challenging for the audience.

“It lets them see and hear something that is bigger and different in their life, and from my perspective they see what a group of people with a common mission united can do,” she said. “Each one of those individual musicians plays very well and sounds good by themselves, but together they bring that stirring feeling we all get. It shows us what life can be.”

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73-year-old Jim Thawley celebrated a lifetime first Aug. 20 at MeadowWood Golf Course: A hole-in-one on the par 3 No. 11 hole. The accomplishment came during the weekly Over the Hill Gang golf tournament.

Thawley’s playing partner, Bill Ellis, submitted the photo and said, “In keeping with long tradition, Jim bought the drinks for a clubhouse filled with admirers.” Thawley is a past president of the Over the Hill Gang, the group of 100-plus golfers over age 60 that play Mondays at MeadowWood and Liberty Lake golf courses.

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LEGAL NOTICES IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF WASHINGTON

IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SPOKANE In the Matter of the Estate of

No. 12-4-00990-4

MILDRED F. OVIATT,

PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Deceased.

RCW 11.40.030

The Personal Representative named below has been appointed as Personal Representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Personal Representative or the Personal Representative=s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the court in which the probate proceedings were commenced. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the Personal Representative served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent=s probate and nonprobate assets.

Date of first publication:

August 23, 2012

/s/ Deborah F. Cross

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Police Report The following incidents, arrests, calls for service and citations were reported by the Liberty Lake Police Department Aug. 20-27.

Incidents and arrests Police Records Clerk Bobbi Anderson provided case information this week.

Highlights from the submitted information include: • Vehicle prowl: A pair of vehicle prowls occurred in the 1900 block of North Cavalier Road. In one, $3,000 in firefighting equipment was taken from a vehicle.

A second prowl next door resulted in $300 in personal items. There was no sign of forced entry in either prowl.

• Theft: A homeless couple reported the bags with all of their possessions were stolen when they left them outside to go into Liberty Lake Albertsons to buy a soda.

• Agency assist: LLPD responded to an accident near South Henry and South Molter roads. A vehicle was towed.

• Attempted fraud: Liberty Lake Walgreens reported an individual attempting to fill a fake prescription. It wasn’t filled, and staff plan to notify police of if the person in question returns.

• Domestic violence investigation: Police are investigating an incident in which a man allegedly held his wife down and struck her in the face. He was not at the location when officers arrived and is being summoned to relay his side of the story.

• Panhandling: LLPD informed two individuals panhandling in Liberty Lake that it was illegal. The panhandlers left the area.

• Commercial burglary: About $4,000 in

LEGALS Continued from page 10 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF WASHINGTON

IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SPOKANE In the Matter of the Estate of

No. 12-400991-2

NEIL T. WILLIAMS,

PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Deceased.

RCW 11.40.030

The Personal Representative named below has been appointed as Personal Representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Personal Representative or the Personal Representative=s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the court in which the probate proceedings were commenced. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the Personal Representative served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent=s probate and nonprobate assets.

Date of first publication:

August 23, 2012

/s/ Susan L. Norton

SUSAN L. NORTON Personal Representative

Attorney for Personal Representative: Karen L. Sayre, WSBA #15548 SAYRE & SAYRE, P.S. Address for Mailing or Service: West 201 North River Drive, Suite 460 Spokane, Washington 99201-2262 (509) 325-7330

copper wiring was reported stolen from a local Verizon cell phone tower.

• Commercial burglary: LLPD responded to a report of forced entry and stolen golf clubs at MeadowWood Golf Course.

• Domestic violence: LLPD investigated an incident involving an argument between a couple that resulted in a black eye. The suspect fled the scene by the time officers arrived, and later came back to damage the victim’s vehicle. A warrant is out for his arrest.

• Warrant arrest: Officers responded to a report of suspicious activity at the 1500 block of North Meyers Court. A resident at the address was found to have a felony warrant for escape. She was taken into custody without incident.

• Suspended license: LLPD officers made three arrests for driving with a

suspended license during the reporting period, including: - 6:50 p.m. Aug. 21 at Mission Avenue and Barker Road - 3:20 p.m. Aug. 22 at Appleway Avenue and Liberty Lake Road - 1:40 p.m. Aug. 23 at Appleway Avenue and Liberty Lake Road

Domestic violence 2 Family fight (nonviolent) 1 Fugitive 1 Malicious mischief 1 Suspicious person/circumstance 4 Theft, property 1 Traffic offense 3 Vehicle prowl 2

Calls for service

Citations

Agency assist 2 Alarm 1 Burglary, non-residential 2 Burglary, residential 1 Citizen assist 2

DWLS 3 Liability insurance 3 Defective muffler 1 Speeding 4 Use of cell phone 2

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