Idaho Briefs September 27, 2010

Candidate forum is Oct. 13

The League of Women Voters of Kootenai County will be hosting a televised candidate forum on Oct. 13 for the county and legislative District 4 and 5 races where there is opposition. It will be 6:30-8:30 p.m. in the Coeur d’Alene Public Library.

The forum will be televised on CDATV, Time Warner Cable Channel 19. It will be repeated as their schedule allows.The League of Women Voters of Kootenai County also has an online Voter Guide at http:

//lwvkcvoterguide.org.

Road safe class set for Oct. 9

HAYDEN — Idaho State Police will hold road safe classes on Saturday, Oct. 9, at noon and Saturday, Oct. 23, at 9 a.m. The free classes will be held at the ISP office at 615 W. Wilbur Ave.

The class educates drivers of all ages on the typical problems associated with winter road conditions in Idaho. Other topics discussed will be how to deal with aggressive drivers on the roadways, DUIs, and other driving problems and situations. The class lasts for about three hours. To reserve a seat, call 209-8620 Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Class size is limited to 60 people.

Veterans group seeks shuttle drivers

IDAHO FALLS (AP) — A nonprofit organization that provides veterans in eastern Idaho a shuttle service to Salt Lake City for medical treatment is seeking volunteer drivers to maintain the route.

Heidi Hopper with Disabled American Veterans said two routes that run from eastern Idaho to the George E. Whalen Medical Center in Utah are now idle because her organization is short on drivers.

Hopper told The Post Register that the shuttle service is critical because some veterans cannot afford to make the drive in the economic downturn.

The group typically runs five roundtrips, every two weeks, between eastern Idaho and Salt Lake City.

Three plead guilty in water case

BOISE — Federal prosecutors say three people from North Idaho have pleaded guilty to damaging steelhead trout habitat during an illegal channelization project in 2007.

Sixty-nine-year-old Paul McConnell and 49-year-old James Renshaw pleaded guilty in federal court this week to discharge of a pollutant and illegal taking of a threatened species. Donna McConnell pleaded guilty to discharge of a pollutant.

All three are from Kooskia and scheduled for sentencing Dec. 14.