With the world watching, PresidentDonald Trump and Russian PresidentVladimir Putin held their first in-personconversation Friday on the sidelines ofthe Group of 20 summit in Hamburg,Germany. During the 2 hour and 16 min-ute conversation Trump reportedly con-fronted Putin on Moscow’s meddling inthe 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.NEWS, 3

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Wood smoke, dust and carbonmonoxide aren’t the only pol-lutants causing problems in Spo-kane.

Ozone levels rise during thehot days of summer, at timesreaching unhealthy levels.

Officials at the Spokane Re-

gional Clean Air Agency said theproblem of ozone is largely re-lated to gasoline-powered ve-hicles and tools.

On Wednesday, the ozonemeasuring station at Green Bluffreported that ozone had gone in-to a level considered unhealthyfor people with lung and heartconditions.

That was among the highest

readings so far this season.The Green Bluff sensors

placed the ozone level at 103 onthe air quality index. That trans-lated into ozone pollution of0.074 parts per million in the air.

At that concentration, ozonewill irritate the lungs and airwaysand potentially cause dam-

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A former Pacific Steel and Re-cycling employee injured in achlorine gas leak in 2015 has fileda lawsuit against the companyand driver suspected of deliver-ing an unlabeled drum contain-ing the poisonous gas to the recy-cling facility.

Felix W. Shuck suffered severerespiratory injuries from in-haling chlorine gas. His lung ca-pacity was permanently reduced50 percent, said his attorney, Ja-nelle Carney. Shuck was also di-agnosed with restrictive lung dis-ease and had to leave his job atPacific Steel as a result, she said.

Shuck was one of eight work-ers hospitalized from chlorineexposure after an unlabeled one-ton cylinder containing the gaswas crushed the morning of Aug.12, 2015. One of those employees,Edward Dumaw, died from his in-

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OLYMPIA – Manufacturers inWashington shouldn’t start mak-ing plans to spend the moneythey will save on lower businesstaxes the Legislature approvedlast week in the late-night scram-ble to pass a budget.

Gov. Jay Inslee took that taxbreak out of a package of incen-tives Friday through a line-itemveto, contending it was unfair toother taxpayers and lacked ac-countability.

After several days of celebrat-ing a bipartisan effort to pass a$43.7 billion operating budget, amajor revision in school policy

and the many bills tied to thosetwo accomplishments, Inslee setup a possible showdown withSenate Republicans who said thetax break would help bringmanufacturing jobs back to thestate.

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Reporter Hannah Hinsdalewrote, “Spokane yesterdaytouched the hem of history, afleeting contact that sent a thrillthrough every nerve.”

The occasion was the visit of theRoyal Belgian Commission, whichpassed through Spokane on theway to the coast.

The youngest man in the group,a lieutenant, told Hinsdale that“only one-twentieth of Belgium isin Belgian hands now.”

“There are men in our platoonwho have not heard one wordfrom their wives and families sincethe beginning of the war,” he said.

When Hinsdale asked him if he

sought revenge, he said, “No,madame, you should never giveevil for evil. We do not want thewomen and children of Germanyto suffer as our people havesuffered.”

As for life in the trenches, “newsis hard to get, but sometimes whenwe have it, we give it even to theGermans.”

“The time you entered the war,we wrote the news on a big pieceof paper and held it up by tworifles and on it we said, ‘TheUnited States has entered the war;it is a sad day for you.’ ”

Hinsdale described the attire ofthe visiting Belgians and noted,

“Many wore decorations and allwore wrist watches. That seemedprobably the most striking thingabout their attire, but no manseeing them would ever againthink wrist watches effeminate.”

Also on this dateFrom Associated Press1947: A New Mexico

newspaper, the Roswell DailyRecord, quoted officials at RoswellArmy Air Field as saying they hadrecovered a “flying saucer” thatcrashed onto a ranch; officials thensaid it was actually a weatherballoon. (To this day, there arethose who believe what fell toEarth was an alien spaceshipcarrying extraterrestrial beings.)

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Deals on wheels, fenders and more

Cash and carry: Brian Bentley, of Mead, packs his newly-acquired 1971 Chevy pickup front quarterpanel away from the 47th annual Spokane Swap Meet, sponsored by the Early Ford V8 Club of the

Inland Empire, Friday at the Spokane County Fair & Expo Center. Bentley said he could not pass up thedeal, only $20. The swap meet, featuring antique and street rod cars, auto parts, tractors and old toys,

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Spokane County Library DistrictExecutive Director Nancy Ledeboer willretire this September.

“It’s so refreshing to be in a communitythat supports libraries,” Ledeboer said,recalling her first impression of Spokane.

In 1992, she began working at the Spo-kane City Library as youth services coor-dinator and later as assistant director ofthe library system.

She moved to the King County LibrarySystem on the West Side in 1998 as an as-sociate director. She then spent six yearsoverseeing the 24 branches of the Las Ve-

gas-Clark County Library District, first asthe head of public services and eventuallyas the deputy director. She next moved toTucson, Arizona, to be executive directorof the Pima County Public Library.

“I became a librarian knowing that li-braries can change a life by opening up

doors and opening up minds,” she said.“But it was really working in Tucson that Icame to see how libraries can actuallytransform communities.”

After an absence of roughly 13 years, she

Library directorannouncesretirement

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Nancy Ledeboer is seen in the Argonne Library branch in 2012. Ledeboer, theexecutive director of the Spokane County Library District, will retire in September.

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Former Lincoln County reserveDeputy Dwayne Thurman hasbeen charged with first-degreemanslaughter for the shootingdeath of his wife Brenda last year.

The couple, both military vet-erans, had gone to a shootingrange the day before. Thurman

told investigators that he wascleaning his wife’s gun when itwent off accidentally. He also saidthe gun had been malfunctioning,and he thought it was unloaded.

Thurman’s attorney, Carl Ores-kovich, said he doesn’t believeThurman should be charged withanything.

“This is simply a case of a tragicaccident that occurred and could

occur to anybody,” he said. “It’snot a criminal case and shouldn’tbe a criminal case.”

The charge was filed June 29,and Thurman received a sum-mons this week ordering him toappear in court, Oreskovich said.He is scheduled to appear Wed-nesday, when his bond and releaseconditions will be set.

New court documents filed inthe case include some new details,including the fact that BrendaThurman’s daughter, GabrielleCorriette, approached a deputy at

the emergency room and said,“Arrest him, he did this,” with re-gard to Dwayne Thurman.

Dwayne Thurman told thesame deputy, “It’s my fault, I’m anidiot,” according to court docu-ments.

Though Dwayne Thurman re-ported that his wife’s gun hadbeen malfunctioning, the forensicexpert who examined the gun saidhe found it to “function reliably”and it “did not have any malfunc-

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See SHOOTING, 2I love minor league sports.The romanticism – literally and

figuratively – of the ’80s classicbaseball movie Bull Durham hitme at an impressionable age.

As a young sports reporter for atiny daily newspaper in the Mid-west back in the ’90s, coveringMajor League Baseball in KansasCity meant writing more than myfair share of stories about theRoyals’ farm teams in Wichita andOmaha. It was at those incrediblyhot and humid Wichita Wran-glers games that I first fell in lovewith the action between half in-nings at minor league baseballgames.

Even if the team stank – andthat era’s Royals pretty muchstank at all levels, as we can attesteven here in Spokane, which wasKansas City’s short-season affili-ate between 1995 and 2002 – atleast the goofy promotions keptthings interesting and entertain-ing when the game lacked both ofthose qualities.

So, when I watched my firstSpokane Indians game last sum-mer from the comfy confines ofAvista Stadium, I felt right athome when fans went on the fieldto throw rubber chickens overtheir shoulders to friends holdingbig fishing nets. Or when peopleraced on oversized, bouncy ham-burgers.

These things aren’t just ac-cepted, but encouraged. Es-pecially during a game when theumps are committing more errorsthan the players are – and theplayers have four through the firstfive innings.

But something also felt a littledifferent to me at that first Indiansgame.

It wasn’t until the person sit-ting next to me at the ballgame –the incredibly talented and superknowledgeable Spokesman-Re-

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Kaboom! Thesound echoed acrossthe water andthrough our tent at11:23 p.m. last Satur-day. Camping on In-dependence Dayweekend can meanenduring a thought-less stranger’s ill-timed fireworks.

But the settingwasn’t an isolated campground next to apristine lake. We were in Central Park inIssaquah (population 37,322), next to thestormwater pond. Over 200 goats werebedded down nearby, protected by electricnetting running at 7,000 volts. The fencedeters most predators and usually keepsthe goats in place. The possibility of a stam-pede brought us instantly alert.

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view photographer Dan Pelle– explained the team’s unin-telligible jersey to me that Ifirst started to see the differ-ence.

Sp’q’n’i.A jersey written in the Na-

tive American language orig-inally spoken in the area?That’s not only unique, butshows a social consciousnessthat you just don’t see at otherballparks.

And people here are proudof it.

When I walk around town,I’m more likely to see a T-shirt or ballcap with“Sp’q’n’i” on the front than Iam “Mariners.” That simplydoesn’t happen in other com-munities.

Oh sure, the Spokane In-dians have all the thingsyou’d expect at minor leaguebaseball games. Dollar hotdogs. More Macarena thananyone really wants or needs.A recycling superhero withthe best dance moves thisside of downtown Spokane’sBro-muda Triangle.

There’s also that fire-jug-gling guy on a unicycle –which, by the way, never dis-appoints. And fireworks.Lots and lots of fireworks.

Promotions like this arethe lifeblood of minor leaguesports.

The Stockton Ports haveAsparagus Night, completewith uniforms that are co-vered with the vegetable. TheHudson Valley Renegadesheld a “Toilet Seat CushionNight” in 2007 where thefirst 3,000 fans in the ball-park were given toilet seats.

The Erie SeaWolves areholding an “AlternativeFacts” Night in August. Theteam will give the first 1,000fans replica championshiprings from the team’s 2016Eastern League champion-ship ... except the team hasnever won a league cham-pionship.

The SeaWolves’ stadiumholds 6,000 people, but theteam is expecting “1.2 millionfans” to attend that night’sgame.

None of these promotionsmeasure up to the crazy crea-tivity I saw as an editor in LasVegas for four or five years.

The Las Vegas Wranglershockey team were the perfect

minor league team for a placenicknamed Sin City. Formore than a decade – andsadly ending in 2014 – whathappened in Vegas rarelystayed in Vegas because thisteam’s off-the-wall pro-motions were always endingup in the national media.

The team once had uni-forms that looked like anaked body so they couldplay “topless.” Some gamesstarted at midnight so thatthose who worked in the ca-sinos when most of theteam’s games were playedcould watch their hometownteam play.

The Wranglers had R-rat-ed nights that aren’t that easyto explain in a family news-paper. In 2006, after the DickCheney hunting incident, theteam had a “hunting vestgiveaway night.” They oncewore prison uniforms for“Rod Blagojevich Prison Uni-form Night.”

For years, my personal lit-mus test for minor leagueawesomeness was the Wran-glers’ brand of madness.

Not anymore. Spokane’s baseball team

now holds that honor, but forcompletely different reasons.

There’s a huge differencebetween dreaming up a pro-motion that makes ESPN’sSportscenter and dreamingup one that makes it intobaseball’s hall of fame in Coo-perstown.

That’s exactly what hap-pened with the Spokane In-dians’ historic Salish jerseys.

And that’s what tonight’spromotion at the Indians’game feels like to me, as well.

Our area’s native redband

trout is in trouble. It’s notconsidered endangered,though some conservationgroups say it should be. Eith-er way, its numbers are waydown.

What the fish needs is agood, strong rally.

If you’ve been payingmuch attention to the In-dians this season, you knowthey could stand for a solidrally, as well.

So bring on the RedbandRally.

Tonight, the Indians willdebut their new redbandtrout uniforms. They’re bothcolorful and cool, with thefish’s distinctive black andred speckles down the sides.The team’s matching ball-caps have a jumping redbandtrout on the front and are eas-ily one of the most distinctiveand locally relevant hats in allof baseball.

When you buy one of theofficial game hats, or one ofthe replicas, $5 goes to con-servation funds aimed athelping the fish. Mark myword, the limited inventoryof the hats will sell out quick-ly.

The team even knows that.The game doesn’t start until6:30, but the hats go on sale at10 a.m.

Throughout the rest of thissummer’s games, kids in at-tendance will receive coolRedband Rally headbandsthat are also loaded with in-teresting facts about the fishand what we can do to helpsave it.

But the biggest thing hap-pening at tonight’s game isthe reveal of the team’s newmascot, who will join Otto,

Doris and the Avista crowd-favorite, Recycle Man.

The team has kept un-characteristically quiet onwhat it looks like. Thoughfrom the silhouette issued bythe team, it’s clear it’s a fishwith legs, which should makeDarwinists happy.

The idea that the rallytrout might have legs – as inthe ability to survive the testof time – isn’t that goofy. Ma-jor League Baseball’s Los An-geles Angels of Anaheim/Or-ange County/California/Whatever They’re CalledThis Week have the RallyMonkey – an ode to theteam’s 2002 World Seriesteam.

You wouldn’t believe howmany of these little monkeysget sold at the Angels’ sou-venir stands. Only no moneygoes to monkey conser-vation.

None of us has any ideawhether in 10 years we’ll bescratching our heads over theidea behind a baseball teamusing a fish in this manner ortrying to remember the timebefore the rally trout, whichwould then be referred to asTBRT on second reference.

Either way, I’m taking myfamily to tonight’s ballgame.

This is exactly the sort ofthing our entire communityshould get behind. Even ifyou don’t like baseball. Or ifyou like baseball, but can’t be-lieve the Indians already arein last place. By kind of a lot.

This is what happenswhen a team balances havingfun with having both a souland conscience.

It also gives me a reason tobuy a new ballcap. Or two.

The Spokane Indians will unveil a new mascot to help rally fans at the bottom of the sixth inning — the redband trout.

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My husband manages theherd to remove vegetationon steep slopes and riparianareas in lieu of equipment orherbicides. I joined him ov-er the four day weekend incase of trouble on Indepen-dence Day. We weren’t ex-pecting fireworks on thefirst night.

Craig unzipped the tentand crouched at the en-trance, scanning the goatpen uphill for trouble. Ilooked across the pond to-ward the soccer fields intime to see one last high ae-rial burst. Craig pulled onjeans and boots while keep-ing his eye on the nervousgoats, then took off to walkthe fence.

The 911 dispatcher washandling multiple calls fromthe neighborhood, includ-ing mine. Silence returned.The goats milled about atthe far end of the pen withCraig, calmed by his pres-ence.

Midnight, and Kaboom!Kaboom! I stuffed my feetinto shoes and headed in thedirection of the continuingsound while calling 911again. Kaboom! The secondround of missiles fadedaway by the time I reachedthe baseball field. No sign ofthe nincompoops who litthe fuse.

This time, the 911 dis-patcher stayed on the linelong enough to hear howfireworks endangered theherd, and why the goat ladystalking the park in her paja-mas was not amused. Therewasn’t much the officercould do when he arrivedother than express sym-pathy.

Craig successfullycalmed them after the firstattack, but 25 kabooms froman aerial missile packagecalled “Pink Champagne onIce” might as well have beencalled “Pink Blossoms ofTerror.” The second bar-rage sent the goats againpanicking toward the fence.This time they knocked itover and kept going.

God bless Simon, a neigh-bor from one of the houseson the park. He caught on togentle pressure herdingquickly, with no prior ex-perience with animals. We

thanked Simon profuselyfor helping with the roun-dup. Craig found the lasthandful in a backyard nextto the forest, and we securedthem in the pen too.

Next morning, we real-ized Gigi, our livestockguardian dog, had not comeback with the goats. She’stheir protection againstfence-jumping cougars. Herinstinct to chase predatorscould have led her any-where. Social media re-cruited hundreds of helpfuleyes to search the com-munity, but we had fewsightings. Neighbors Julieand Winnie found her 22hours later and three milesaway, totally lost and run-ning down Lake Sammam-ish Parkway.

We took steps to avoid arepeat performance. Craiggave the goats a larger pen torun and Gigi a safe space tohide in her kennel. We ar-ranged to close the parkgates at dusk, and Issaquahpolice added extra patrols ofthe parking lots. We had onefull night’s sleep before thenincompoops were back.Fireworks from the soccerfield and then the baseballfield again, this time at 3:20a.m. The larger pen gave thegoats space to dissipatetheir flight response. Craigcalmed the goats while Icalled in another police re-port.

Then came the Fourth ofJuly. Craig was in place totalk soothingly to the herd, Iwas ready to scold teenagersin the parking lot. The pro-fessional fireworks showsended. A golf cart avoidedthe park gates and sped pastme. They set off an aerialburst at the end of the soccerfield, and I realized I’d beenunfairly profiling teenagers.Issaquah police responded,but the two golf cart guysgot away.

Another resident dis-turbed by the explosionjoined me in the parking lot.“I’ve got this. Get somesleep,” Justin said. Goodneighbors outnumberednincompoops in Issaquah.And now I can’t get Mr.Rogers out of my head.Won’t you be my neighbor?

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returned to Spokane in2012 as the executive di-rector of the SpokaneCounty Library District.

When she asked hernew library staff to tell herwhat they were proud of,she said, she receivedanswers like “customerservice” and “being goodfiscal stewards.”

While she said these areimportant qualities, shefound the library lackingan emphasis on “inno-vation” and “community.”

Throughout her time asdirector those two wordsbecame her top priorities.

In Tucson, she said,“The library became atransformational experi-ence for the community.”She wanted the same forSpokane County.

Under Ledeboer’s lead-ership, the Spokane Coun-ty Library District waschosen as one of 10 librarysystems in the U.S. to un-dergo an 18-month-longprogram called LibrariesTransforming Communi-ties, through which thedistrict received a grantfrom the American Li-brary Association to sendfive staff members to a se-ries of workshops.

“We started to turn out-ward and say, ‘What canthe library be in the com-munity? What can we doto serve the community?’”she said.

Ledeboer described thestrategy of “turning out-ward” as an “epiphany forlibraries.”

“Google came in andtransformed” the librarysystem, she said. “Foryears libraries had invest-ed in reference trainingand reference desks andreference collections, andwithin a short period oftime all of that became ir-relevant and libraries sud-denly had to reinventthemselves.

“We started to see thatthe goal of the librarywould be helping connectpeople to local infor-mation and local resourc-es, because the nonprofitdown the street doesn’thave a web presence. Theydon’t have a paid web per-son,” she said.

The purpose of libraries,in the beginning, “wasn’tjust to share books,” shesaid, “it was to createknowledge.”

Many community mem-bers are experts in theirfields wanting to sharetheir knowledge, said Le-deboer, “so it’s about find-ing them, inviting them inand giving them a platformto share that information.”

Ledeboer encouragedher staff to innovate andtake risks, with the goal ofconnecting communitymembers to each otherand information.

A newly implementedproject is a convertedspace called “The Studio,”located at the SpokaneValley branch. It isequipped with photo, au-dio and video recordingdevices along with appro-priate editing software.

Trying to get approvalfor another library branchin Spokane Valley has beenLedeboer’s biggest chal-lenge.

“We thought we hadsupport for it,” she said.The district needs 60 per-cent approval to start theproject, and the secondvote came in 2.3 percentshy of that mark.

Ledeboer earned a Mas-ter of Library and Infor-mation Science from Uni-versity of California, Ber-keley, in 1980, after receiv-ing a bachelor’s in historyfrom the same school.

Ledeboer, 60, has spentfive years as executive di-rector of the SpokaneCounty Library Districtand is ready to move on.

“It’s really sad to say,but you get to be my ageand you start looking atthe obituaries and going‘Oh my gosh, what if I onlyhave five years left? Whatif I only have 8 years left?What would I want to do?’” she said.

“You can work andwork and work and saveand save and save, but itisn’t going to do any goodunless you actually retireand do something with thetime and money,” she said.

She plans to walk theCamino – a monthlonghike in Spain – spend timewith her four grand-children and read “lotsand lots of books,” shesaid.

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