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ROAD ATLAS Current, detailed road atlas, spiral bound with laminated cover. Pend Oreille County, Washington $29.50. Bonner County, Idaho $37.50. Sold at The Miner Newspapers, 421 South Spokane Avenue, Newport. (509) 447-2433.

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(35p) MISSING REMINISCING? “Down Memory Lane” may not always make it into the paper, but it is on our Facebook page every week. Like us on Facebook today.(49HB-TF) CUSICK COTTAGE River front, view. Furnished or not. Available October 1st. Rent negotiable. Two references. (509) 4422068. (34HB-2p) FALL GARAGE CLEAN OUT SALE Hauling things out of multiple sheds. 18 years of accumulated stuff has to go. I’m not even sure what I have. Friday and Saturday 9:00- 3:00, 363 Frissell Rd, Usk.(35p) AUCTION October 8th, 10:00, Diamond Lake. Pictures next week. Facebook and Craigslist- Gold Rush Auction.(35p) 2 HOME ESTATE SALE Trunks, dishes, clothing, boats, canning, farming, stoves, decorations, collectibles. September 30- October 1, 8:00- 5:00, cash only. 641 Buckeye Lane, Newport.(34HB-2p) STAN SMITH AND MILA are back in concert. Create, October 8th, 7:00 p.m.

Advanced tickets $8. (509) 447-9277. 900 West 4th, Newport. www.createarts. org (35p) GRASS HAY FOR SALE $35 each. 80 grass hay round bales, 560 pounds each. In the Calispel Lake area, Usk, Washington. $35. (509) 939-7157 or (509) 445-1461.(35p) WANTED: Spoiled/ rotten hay. Loose or bales. Any amount for garden mulch. Will haul. Call (509) 447-2287.

(35HB-2p) Every day is Sale Day in The Newport Miner and Gem State Miner Classifieds. Read them every day.

WANTED: Good rummage items for Pend Oreille County Museum rummage sale, October 15th. Judy (509) 671-7456, Faith (509) 4477901.(35p) ABANDONED VEHICLE AUCTION Newport Towing,137 South Newport Avenue. (509) 447-1200. October 4, 2016 at 10:00 a.m. Viewing starts at 9:00 a.m.(35) JOIN US FOR OUR OPEN HOUSE! The Law Office of Denise Stewart invites you to celebrate our new office location. Enjoy refreshments and look around our new space. No RSVP required.

Friday, September 30th, 12:00- 2:00 p.m. 418 West 3rd Street, Newport, Washington.(34HB-2) OLDTOWN AUTO SALES Let us sell your car, truck or recreational vehicle.

We charge 10 percent or a minimum of $200. We get results! We also buy used cars, trucks and recreational vehicles. (208) 437-4011.(49HB-tf) HUGE SALE Wednesday 28th and Thursday 29th, 10:00 a.m.4:00 p.m., 327 McAvoy, Newport. Inboard boat, 41 Chevy, 97 Explorer, tools, fabric, sewing, quilting and craft supplies, over 300 modern books, sewing machines, household, decor, electric piano, bookcases, lots more miscellaneous.

(35p) GARAGE SALE Friday and Saturday 10:004:00. 221 Gregg’s Court, Newport. Tools, furniture, miscellaneous. So much more!(35p) WANTED TO RENT 1 bedroom house, with garden. Newport area.

Responsible, references available. Please text, (509) 589-1257.(34HB-2p) FUNDRAISER AUCTION Homemade baked goods and miscellaneous items.

Saturday October 8th.

Preview 3:00 p.m., auction 4:00 p.m. Spaghetti dinner to follow at Cusick American Legion. (509) 445-1537.(35HB-2) RAIN OR SHINE SALE Craft items, clothes, miscellaneous. 434011 Highway 20, Newport. Saturday, October 1st, 9:00- 3:00. In covered garage.(35p) 50 PLUS FENCE POSTS 4 inch by 4 inch by 10 feet, pressure treated. $400.

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Short of cash; long on “Stuff?” Advertise in The Newport Miner and Gem State Miner Classifieds. Call (509) 447-2433 for full details.

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Energy assistance accepting pre-applications Oct. 3 NEWPORT - Rural Resources Community Action will begin accepting pre-applications for the federally funded Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Oct. 3. This program provides a single grant opportunity to qualifying low-income households in Stevens, Pend Oreille, Ferry and Lincoln Counties for the purpose of subsidizing winter heat costs.

Pre-applications will be mailed to households that qualified in the past two seasons and will also be available at food banks, senior centers, Rural Resources offices, and on the internet at www.ruralresources.org under Get Help/Energy Assistance.

Appointments will be scheduled on a first-come, firstserved basis, and will prioritize disabled, seniors, and households with children under five years old during the first 30 days. Additional programs may be available for those not qualifying for the LIHEAP grant, so all interested households are encouraged to apply. Note that service is not guaranteed, as funding is limited and program criteria must be met.

WDFW seeks comments on woodland caribou, pond turtles and sandhill cranes OLYMPIA – State wildlife managers are seeking public input on their recommendations to keep woodland caribou, western pond turtles and sandhill cranes on Washington’s list of endangered species.

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) periodically reviews the status of protected species in the state to determine whether each species warrants its current listing or deserves to be reclassified or delisted. The public can comment through Dec. 23 on the listing recommendations and periodic status reports for woodland caribou, western pond turtles and sandhill cranes.

The draft reviews for all three species are available online at www.wdfw.wa.gov/conservation/endangered/ status_review/.

Written comments on the reviews and recommendations can be submitted via email to TandEpubliccom@ dfw.wa.gov or by mail to Hannah Anderson, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, 600 Capitol Way N., Olympia, WA 98501-1091.

WDFW staff members are tentatively scheduled to discuss the reviews and recommendations with the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission at its January 2017 meeting. The commission is a citizen panel appointed by the governor to set policy for WDFW. For meeting dates and times, check the commission webpage at www.wdfw.wa.gov/commission/.

The Selkirk Mountains in northeastern Washington are home to a unique type of woodland caribou. Southern mountain caribou are distinguishable from other populations of woodland caribou by their habitation of mountainous areas with deep snow accumulations and their primary winter diet of arboreal lichens. The group of caribou living in the southern Selkirks has been listed as an endangered species in the state since 1982.

South Selkirk caribou were once considered abundant, possibly numbering in the hundreds in the late 1800s. But the population decreased to an estimated 25 to 100 animals between 1925 and the mid-1980s.

Most recently, this isolated subpopulation declined rapidly from 46 to 12 caribou between 2009 and 2016.

Threats to these caribou include high levels of predation, collisions with vehicles on highways, human disturbance in the form of backcountry winter recreation, and climate change.

The western pond turtle is one of only two freshwater turtle species native to Washington. It inhabits lakes, wetlands, ponds and adjoining upland habitats. The species was once common around the Puget Sound lowlands and probably the Columbia River Gorge but, by 1994, the statewide population had declined to about 150 turtles. The recovery of this species is challenging because pond turtles grow at a slow rate and have a delayed sexual maturity. Threats in Washington to western pond turtles include habitat loss, predation and competition with other species, especially the non-native American bullfrog. Shell disease also has emerged as a major concern.

In recent years, the species’ population has increased to an estimated total of 800 to 1,000 turtles statewide due to various recovery actions, including reintroductions of turtles. Despite this progress, the statewide population remains below the state’s recovery goal and is still reliant on programs, such as rearing young turtles in captivity, to supplement the population.

The sandhill crane was listed as an endangered species by the state of Washington in 1981. Sandhill crane numbers were reduced throughout the western states by commercial hunting and habitat loss. No pairs nested in Washington for 30 years, beginning in the late 1940s. Three subspecies of sandhill crane occur in Washington, including lesser, greater, and Canadian cranes. Lesser sandhill cranes make up most of the flocks that stop in eastern Washington during migration. Greater sandhill crane is the only type of sandhill crane that breeds in Washington. The number of nesting pairs has steadily increased since the late 1970s, and the summer population in Washington totaled 89 birds, including 33 pairs in 2015.

Public and private lands in the Columbia Basin and on the lower Columbia River provide important habitat for cranes during migration, and up to 1,400 Canadian sandhill cranes have wintered on lower Columbia bottomlands in recent years. Sandhill cranes in Washington continue to face threats such as loss of habitat and human disturbance at nesting sites. While cranes have benefitted from management actions, the species’ breeding population in Washington is still quite small and essential habitats remain under threat.

Forty-five species of fish and wildlife are listed for protection by the state as endangered, threatened or sensitive species.

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North County Chamber restructures

PAID FOR BY “KEEP KEOUGH SENATOR” SHAWN KEOUGH, TREASURER

METALINE FALLS – In an effort to keep local economic support going, the North Pend Oreille Chamber of Commerce revamped its structure at the general membership meeting Tuesday, Sept. 27.

The eight individuals who attended last Tuesday’s meeting discussed a different kind of organizational model for the non-profit. A resolution was worked on and will be presented to the rest of the 2016 membership for their approval.

This resolution includes the following: An executive committee, under the establishment of a trust and an outside executor, will continue to exist as a non-profit. The Chamber will maintain its website and Facebook presence, and will financially support local events that it has in the past, using funds currently in their savings and checking account. They will also maintain

the visitor’s center in Metaline and the Highway 31 clean-up route.

The 2017 membership dues will only be $10 and must be paid by April 1, 2017. The lower membership dues are for the maintenance of the web page, post office box, and other minor expenses.

The chamber had announced last March that it would take a hiatus while chamber members attempted to boost membership and involvement.

The NPOCC is a non-profit organization serving the communities of Metaline, Metaline Falls, and Ione. It has about 40 members, but has been lacking volunteers to help facilitate events.

There will only be one general membership meeting, on April 18, 2017 (time and location to be announced), and only those who are members in good standing will be

able to vote to approve all general expenditures and proposed changes to the by-laws.

“Those present were excited by the idea of entering into a different form of governance,” said chamber president Tara Leininger in a press release. “With a single general membership meeting, as done by other local non-profits, the Chamber will continue to maintain its presence in the north county.”

While there are no plans for active fund raising for the time being, Leininger added that the hope is that in the near future a new generation of leadership will see the importance of the Chamber for Ione, Metaline and Metaline Falls.

If more information or if clarification is necessary, contact the North Pend Oreille Chamber of Commerce at PO Box 388, Metaline Falls, WA 99153.

Priest River’s downtown nearing makeover Revitalization Project goes for $500,000 grant

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FALL BAZAAR Usk Community Club. Saturday, October 22nd, 9:00 a.m.- 2:00 p.m. Lunch will be served. Francis (509) 445-1223, Barb (509) 4451433. (36HB-3) FUNDRAISER AUCTION Homemade baked goods and miscellaneous items.

Saturday October 8th.

Preview 3:00 p.m., auction 4:00 p.m. Spaghetti dinner to follow at Cusick American Legion. (509) 445-1537.(35HB-2) MEET BOB EUGENE Sunday, October 9, 2016, 3:00 p.m. Skookum Community Center, 10171 Leclerc Road South, Newport. Paid for by Elect Bob Eugene, Post Office Box 1164, Newport, Washington 99156.(36p) 2008 YAMAHA RHINO 7000 Fl 4x4 side by side. $6000. (907) 355-6150.

(36p) OLDTOWN AUTO SALES Let us sell your car, truck or recreational vehicle.

We charge 10 percent or a minimum of $200. We get results! We also buy used cars, trucks and recreational vehicles. (208) 437-4011.(49HB-tf) OPEN MIC Join in the fun! Pend Oreille Playhouse 236 South Union, Newport (former Eagles building). First Friday of every month at 7:00 p.m. $2.00 admission.

(509) 447-9900.(36,40,44) WANTED: Spoiled/ rotten hay. Loose or bales. Any amount for garden mulch. Will haul. Call (509) 447-2287.

(35HB-2p) FOXWOOD HOUSE WEDDING VENUE OPEN HOUSE Sunday October 9th, 11:00- 4:00. Tour venue, meet DJs, florists, caterers, photographers and more.

(509) 589-0097.(36p) WASHER AND DRYER Maytag. Excellent condition. Dryer needs heating element. $75. (509) 4472871.(36p)

AUCTION 59 year collection going. October 8th, 10:00 a.m. 325084 Highway 2, Diamond Lake. Hand and power tools, military, sporting goods, toys, dolls, clocks, cut glass, silver, lanterns. 100’ building full.

Rain or shine. Pictures on craigslist.(36p) WASHINGTON LEGAL FORMS Available at The Miner Newspapers, 421 South Spokane, Newport. (509) 447-2433.(HB-alt-tf) TAKING APPLICATIONS Class A Commercial Drivers License dump truck and mixer drivers. Apply jlsp@povn.com, in person: 433173 Highway 20, Newport, Monday- Friday, 10:00 a.m.- 3:00 p.m.(36HB-2) MEAT CUTTER/ BONER and/ or assistant on slaughter truck for small custom meat shop. Must be able to bone, read/ cut orders, assemble equipment, lift 50- 70 pounds and move stacks of meat weighing 300 plus pounds.

Must be at least 18, valid driver’s license, pass drug/ background test. Apply in person at Carek’s Custom Meat, West 3125 Findley Road, Deer Park, Washington 99006. (509) 2762237. Wages depending on experience.(36p) BIG SALE 1428 West 1st Street, Newport. Pine Ridge Community Church.Thursday, Friday and Saturday 9:003:00. Proceeds go to Family Crisis Network for domestic violence victims, victims of all crimes and homeless.(36) MISSING REMINISCING? “Down Memory Lane” may not always make it into the paper, but it is on our Facebook page every week. Like us on Facebook today.(49HB-TF) Every day is Sale Day in The Newport Miner and Gem State Miner Classifieds. Read them every day.

PRIEST RIVER – After years of planning, Priest River may be nearing the construction point for its Downtown Revitalization Project, or so it looked that way at the Oct. 3 city council meeting.

“The feedback we’ve received has been mostly positive,” said Priest River Building, Planning and Zoning Director Greg Snow. Snow showed the council and audience print outs of potential designs for the final project.

The downtown revitalization of Priest River has been in the works roughly since 2008.

However, it all hinges on whether or not the city receives a $500,000 federal community development block grant from the Idaho Department of Commerce. The application is being sent to the Panhandle Area Council for review before going to the Department of Commerce. The Panhandle Area Council (PAC) is a non-profit Economic Development District comprised of members that are elected officials from north Idaho cities and counties, as well as the Coeur d’Alene and Kootenai Indian Tribes.

The Council serves the five northern counties of Idaho: Bonner, Boundary, Kootenai, Benewah and

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Priest River Building, Planning and Zoning Director Greg Snow shows the audience possible layouts for the Downtown Revitalization Project that the public perused at Oktoberfest on Saturday, Sept. 24.

Shoshone.The city will find out whether or not they qualified in January or February 2017. If approved, work on the project could start as soon as summer 2017, said Snow. The Coeur d’Alenebased engineering firm Maul, Foster and Alongi, Inc. was hired by the city in July to complete a scope of work evaluation for the town. The scope of work evaluation, not to exceed $22,000, looks at

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water meters, sidewalks, lights, and other tangible downtown fixtures. The work will enable the city to apply for the community development block grant.

“It’s been a long time in the making,” said Priest River Downtown Revitalization Steering Committee member Liz Johnson-Gebhardt. Johnson-Gebhardt was not at the council meeting, but spoke over the phone to The Gem State Miner Tuesday afternoon.

The committee is made up of several downtown business owners in Priest River and other community members and professionals, JohnsonGebhardt added.

“The focus of the project is how do we liven up our historic downtown and bring more people

here to bolster our local economy?” Johnson-Gebhardt said. “It’s a beautiful location, so we would like to be able to utilize to its fullest extent in a way that supports the whole city.”

The design most favored by the public at Oktoberfest includes a 15-foot wide sidewalk that would stretch from Wisconsin Street past the front of AJ’s Café, and elevating the intersection at High Street and Main Street to sidewalk level. Other aspects of the design include better outdoor seating and lighting and flower planters.

“It’s all about making downtown more open to people coming through it and being seen, whether it’s foot traffic, bicycles, people driving through and so on,” said Snow.

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To maximize the impact of donation budgets, Ponderay Newsprint Company, Mountain West Bank, and Teck Pend Oreille Mine joined together to fund the Pend Oreille Valley Foundation (POVF). The POVF Board meets 4 times per year to review applications. Any request for funding that will benefit the youth of the Pend Oreille Valley will qualify for consideration.

Applications available at Mountain West Bank, Newport. - Next meeting: January 11, 2017- Deadline: December 28, 2016.

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Newport High School: Kaben Hastings, Melaina Lenz, Rylan Hastings, Kim Aubrey, Tug Smith

Priest River Lamanna High School: Lilly Hernandez, Von Flavel, Genevieve Hurd, Candace Turner

Cusick High School: Kaleigh Driver, Jennifer Fountain, Canon Keogh, Taylor Allen

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Newport Library Branch Program Specialist, Maria Town, clears away the featured fall-themed books in the children’s section to make way for holiday reading.

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NEWPORT – An avid reader, Maria Town loves books. However, the librarian, recently promoted to Program Specialist at the Newport Branch within the Pend Oreille Library District, knows that libraries are so much more these days.

“I’m more than happy to have it keep growing,” Town says of the libraries varied offerings. Programs run the gamut from after school movies every Thursdays at 3:30 p.m., story time for toddlers and preschoolers, computer classes, a fiber arts group, craft activities, game nights every Friday and the occasional community party.

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rin, Brandee McClellan, Grace McGhee, Sarah Neale, Megan Schult and Cynthia Williamson.

Junior high students with GPAs of 3.5 to 3.99 included Hunter Ellingburg, Morgan Hall, Andrea Harris, Evelyn Jurgens, Rose Lemas, Elizabeth Neale, Destiney Palmer and Seth Wohlberg.

Elementary students receiving GPAs of 3.5 to 3.99 included Jonathan Freshman, Ryan Durbin, Joseph Shukle and Carter Williamson.

Other students honored for academic achievement of receiving grade point averages of 3.2-3.49 included high schooler Jocelin Nenema, junior high students Conlen Campbell and Morgan Mills and elementary students Chevelle Kibbie, McKinzi Tanner and Gabbie Youk.

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b r i e f ly President Trump approves major disaster declaration for Washington WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced this week that federal disaster assistance has been made available to the state of Washington to supplement state, tribal, and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by severe winter storms, flooding, landslides, and mudslides from Jan. 30 to Feb. 22.

Federal funding is available to state, tribal, and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis for emergency work and the repair or replacement of facilities damaged by severe winter storms, flooding, landslides, and mudslides in the Adams, Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Grant, Lewis, Lincoln, Pend Oreille, Skamania, Spokane, Wahkiakum, Walla Walla, and Whatcom counties.

Federal funding is also available on a cost-sharing basis for hazard mitigation measures statewide.

Thomas J. Dargan has been named as the Federal Coordinating Officer for federal recovery operations in the affected area.

Dargan said additional designations may be made at a later date if requested by the state and warranted by the results of damage assessments.

County fair market hog weigh-in May 20 CUSICK – The Pend Oreille County Fair Market hog weigh-in will be held May 20 from 9-11 a.m. at the Pend Oreille County Fairgrounds in Cusick.

The weigh-in is optional.

However, if you choose to not attend the weigh-in you must register your hog with the Hog Superintendents by May 20. No late registrations will be accepted.

If you choose to not attend the weigh-in you will not be eligible for the Daily Rate of Gain Contest. To be eligible to show a hog at the fair, exhibitors must have completed the third grade.

Classes will be as followed: Juniors (third, fourth and fifth grade); Intermediates (sixth, seventh and eighth grade); Seniors (ninth, 10th, 11th and 12th grade) must be under 19 years of age as of Jan. 1. Exhibitors should have received their Market Hog paperwork via mail. If you have any questions please contact the Hog Superintendents.

Contact Jennifer Gaffaney 509-292-2783 or Tracy Schweiger 509-2929624 for more information.

Public invited to Child Abuse Awareness Walk NEWPORT – The Child Abuse Awareness Walk is Saturday, April 29, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Newport City Park. Family Crisis Network hosts the event.

This year’s theme is “Build up a Child Today, So That They Can Build a Future for Tomorrow.” T-shirt proceeds will go towards a $500 scholarship fund for high school seniors who have overcome adversity.

A Lego competition will be held after the walk that is open to youth and adults.

For more information contact Lea Porter at Family Crisis Network 509447-2274.

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Jason Butler of Diamond Lake was out bright and early Saturday. “I got my first fish at 6,” he said. He had three by mid morning.

Cold weather makes slow opening day, better fishing later NEWPORT - The opening day of the fishing season saw anglers taking fish out of Diamond and Sacheen Lakes, but because of the cold, wet winter, fishing was slow opening day, says Madonna Luers of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.

“That means there’s a lot of good fishing ahead of us,” she said.

Opening day this year was more like March.

Some veteran fishers may have stayed away knowing it was a little early for a lot of action.

But there were plenty of fish planted at Diamond Lake, including 300 jumbo rainbow trout released – fish Miner photo|Don Gronning a pound or larger.

There were 21,500 fish Tom Fredenberg of Sacheen Lake shows off some rainbows he planted in April, rang- caught at Diamond Lake on power eggs. ing in size from 1/10 to ½ pound. There were a similar sized plant also 25,000 planted planned for this comlast May and June, with ing May.

Early wildfire suppression bill signed into law OLYMPIA – Under legislation sponsored

by Rep. Joel Kretz and signed into law by Gov. Jay Inslee, much of the groundwork for Washington state’s next wildfire suppression response will be laid months in advance as the state seeks to enter into preemptive agreements with local contractors.

“We’re continuing to respond to the devastation and experiences of the record wildfires our region has seen over the last few years,” said Kretz, R-Wauconda. “This bill is a direct result of some hard lessons that were learned when folks in Central and Eastern Washington were in the thick of it.

It’s a positive step in the right direction and I’m grateful legislators on both sides of the aisle can agree wildfire suppression and forest health are critical issues that needed to be addressed this year.”

House Bill 1489 specifically requires the state Department of Natural Resources to enter into preemptive wildfire suppression agreements with local contractors as well as land owners.

The department must take into consideration the availability,

NEWPORT – Pend Oreille County Superior Court Judge Jessica Reeves wasn’t convinced Troy Rauter would not be a threat to his former neighbor if she went along with the lawyers’ plea bargain and let him out of jail after a three-month stint.

Rauter, 49, pleaded guilty to several charges in Superior Court Thursday, April 20, including

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possession of methadone, second degree unlawful possession of a firearm, harassment threats to kill and obstructing.

Prosecuting attorney Greg Hicks said he was recommending a four-month sentence on each of the charges, with the time to be served concurrently. Since Rauter had been in jail about 90 days, with good time he would be released within a day or so, if the judge went along. Hicks said that Rauter had substantial medical problems that were costing the jail money, one of the reasons for the plea deal.

Hicks said Rauter had barricaded himself in his home with a firearm and challenged deputies to come get him, Hicks said, in an apparent attempt to get law enforcement to kill him.

The deputies left and came back later to arrest him, Hicks said.

Defense attorney Brett Billingsly said Rauter had been called a walking paraplegic by his doctor. He said Rauter had been in a number of car wrecks, starting when he was a child. He said he had been with pain for years.

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