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North Central W A S H I N G T O N City editor Russ Hemphill (509) 665-1161 [email protected] Assistant city editor Kevira Voegele (509) 664-7146 [email protected] Page A2 Monday, October 18, 2010 T ODAY Government Pateros City Council: ◆ 6 p.m., City Hall, 923-2571 Malaga Water District: ◆ 7 p.m., 3957 Malaga Ave., 664-0142 Omak City Council: ◆ 7 p.m., City Hall, 826-1170 Waterville City Council: ◆ 7:30 p.m., City Hall, 745-8871 Schools Ephrata School Board: ◆ 6 p.m., district office, 754-2474 Cashmere School Board: ◆ 7 p.m., district office, 782-3355 Palisades School Board: ◆ 7:30 p.m., Palisades School, 884-8071 T UESDAY Government Port of Chelan County: ◆ Special meeting, 8:30 a.m., 238 Olds Station Road, Suite A, Wenatchee, 663-5159 Douglas County ◆ Commission: 8:30 a.m., courthouse, Waterville, 745-8537 Okanogan County ◆ Commission: 9 a.m., 123 Fifth Ave., Okanogan, 422-7100 Chelan County ◆ Commission: 9 a.m., 400 Douglas St., 667-6215 Wenatchee Parks Board: ◆ Noon, downstairs conference room, 129 S. Chelan St., 664-3392 Link Transit Board ◆ and LTAC Advisory Committee joint meeting: 4 p.m., Washington Apple Commission conference room, 2900 Euclid Ave., Wenatchee, 662-1595 Chelan County PUD: ◆ special meeting, 5:30 p.m., 1034 E Woodin Ave., Chelan, 661-4258 Eastmont Metropolitan ◆ Park District: 6:30 p.m., Eastmont Jr. High School library, 884-8015 Okanogan City Council: ◆ 7 p.m., City Hall, 422-3600 Oroville City Council: ◆ 7 p.m., City Hall, 476-2926 Quincy City Council: ◆ 7:30 p.m., City Hall, 787-3523 Plug in Your connection to community events through tomorrow If you have a comment or question about the paper, call managing editor Cal FitzSimmons at 665-1176 or e-mail him at fitzsimmons@ wenatcheeworld.com. If your question has to do with delivery of the paper, please contact our circulation department directly at 662-2904. ◆ HAVE A QUESTION? The Wenatchee World strives for accuracy, but when errors occur in print, we want to correct them as soon as possible. If you believe information printed in The World is incorrect, please call 665-1161. ◆ CORRECTIONS To bee or not to bee: Tech-whiz brothers Charles and David Wick, both graduates of Wenatchee High School, have contributed toward solving one of nature’s great murder mysteries — the enormous kill of honeybees over the last four years — the New York Times has reported. The Wicks — Charles is an Army microbiologist in Maryland and David is a tech entrepreneur in Montana — were part of a military and university team that identified two possible culprits that have killed off 20 to 40 percent of U.S. bee colonies since 2006. Charles graduated from Wenatchee High in 1967, and David in 1970. Their sister, Suzan Beeson, lives in Wenatchee and is the librarian at Cascade Christian Academy. Back in August, the science team published a report that pointed to a possible two-punch bee killer consisting of a virus and a fungus that work together in a bee’s gut to somehow affect its nutrition. No one’s sure yet, but the tag-team killer may also cause a type of insect insanity that sends the bee away from the colony to die. That would explain why scientists have found thousands of colonies abandoned with few telltale bee corpses. The science team’s report said the virus-fungus killers were found in every colony the group studied. They just don’t know exactly how the killers do the dirty deed. The bee research began with University of Montana scientists studying the causes of bee colony collapse. When David Wick heard of the studies, he knew that his brother Charles was working on virus-detection for the U.S. military and thought the two research teams might be able to help each other. He connected the two groups and, as it turned out, they came up with a possible virus-fungus solution. Beeson said Charles was inspired in high school by science teacher Bill Asplund, who taught chemistry at Wenatchee High for 24 years (1963 to 1987). “I got chills up my spine when I heard of the work being done by Charles,” Asplund said. “That’s ‘doctor’ Charles to the rest of us. He has a Ph.D., you know.” Asplund said few students asked as many questions as Charles Wick. “He’d sit on the arm of the chair right near me, feet on the seat, and ask, ‘How do atoms come apart? What happens when they do?’ He was such an outstanding student. I always knew he’d do important work.” As a microbiologist for the U.S. Army, Charles has worked to develop technol- ogies to protect soldiers in the field from biological attacks. He actually used the bee-killer problem to test new analytic software to detect bioagents. “Charles is on the science end of this problem, and David is on the marketing end,” Beeson said. “When they work together, good things can happen.” Supporting survivors: The blisters are healed, but Amy Sembritzky is still feeling the emotional effects of her 60-mile walk last month in Seattle’s Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure event. The 42-year-old Wenatchee walker —“That’s my regular exercise,” she said — joined with friend Theresa Kunz of East Wenatchee to trek about 20 miles per day to earn money to fund research to fight cancer. More than 2,250 walkers participated in the event Sept. 24 to 26. “It was awesome,” Sembritz- ky said. “The huge number of people joining to support cancer victims and survivors was inspiring.” Sembritzky said some members of her extended family have experienced breast cancer, but she had the strongest emotions for the survivors she accompanied on the walk. One woman, just emerging from a round of chemotherapy trekked the entire 60 miles, Sembritzky said. “Her success brought tears to everyone’s eyes.” Bystanders cheered encour- agement to the walkers as they streamed past, Sembritzky added. A woman on the sidelines, she said, held a placard that spoke a hard- hitting truth: “Keep walking — blisters don’t require chemo!” The two Wenatchee Valley walkers gathered pledges of $2,300 each for the event. And now, said Sembritzky, they’re walking hard in preparation for next year. This week’s Worm was compiled by World staff writer Mike Irwin. Have a tip? E-mail newsroomwenatcheeworld. com. Local grads buzz to the bee science forefront THE WORM Photo provided Amy Sembritzky, right, and her friend Theresa Kunz partici- pated last month in Seattle’s Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure, a 60-mile walk to raise funds for breast-cancer research. SURELY YOU JOUST Above: Darius Thorne, Okanogan, practices jousting from a horse, breaking a piece of stiff foam off his weapon as it hits Ed Carthell of Amboy on Saturday. Local members of the Society For Creative Anachronism put on their first equestrian games near Pangborn Memorial Airport over the weekend, spending much of their time learning how to safely participate in competitions on their horses. They hope to make the event an annual festival. Left: Tammie Fjelstad, Cashmere, sews trophies for winners of the equestrian games. World photos/Don Seabrook The Associated Press MOSES LAKE — Fair- child Air Force Base will move operations to the Grant County Airport next year while runways and taxiways are rebuilt in Spokane. The Columbia Basin Herald reports the Port of Moses Lake has approved a one-year lease with Fairchild worth just over $1 million. Air Force back at Moses Lake OROVILLE — Two Western Washington hunters who shot a grouse near Oroville were held at gunpoint Sunday and reportedly threatened by a man who believed they had trespassed onto his property. Okanogan County Sheriff Frank Rogers said the hunters were forced to lie on the ground for at least 30 minutes while the man walked around with a shotgun and described to them how he planned to kill them. The hunters — a 50-year-old Lake Stevens man and 39-year-old Tacoma man — were not injured and reported the incident about 3 p.m. Sunday. Rogers said the two men were apparently acquainted with the 51-year-old Tenino man who confronted them at about 9:30 a.m. on a side road near what is apparently the Tenino man’s vacation home in the Pontiac Ridge area, 15 miles east of Oroville. The men told deputies that the Tenino man drove up to them and pulled out a shotgun, the sheriff said. The man pointed the gun at one man’s stomach and forced him to his knees, then poked it in the other man’s face before taking his shotgun and telling them both to lie down. Deputies arrested the man without incident and booked him into the Okanogan County Corrections Center on suspicion of first-degree assault, first-degree robbery, harassment, unlawful impris- onment and theft of a firearm. — K.C. Mehaffey, World staff Hunters held at gunpoint following dispute Specializing in Glass Panel, Stainless Cable, and Picket Railing, Skylights, Replacement Glass and Shower Doors, Mirrors Cut to Size LICENSED / BONDED / INSURED / #PREMIRS939N1 CABLE RAILING R ob M cCord 50 9 -6 7 0 - 0 4 9 4
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North CentralW A S H I N G T O N
City editorRuss Hemphill (509) [email protected]
Assistant city editorKevira Voegele (509) [email protected]
Page
A2Monday, October 18, 2010
TODAY
GovernmentPateros City Council: ◆
6 p.m., City Hall, 923-2571Malaga Water District: ◆
7 p.m., 3957 Malaga Ave., 664-0142
Omak City Council: ◆ 7 p.m., City Hall, 826-1170
Waterville City Council: ◆ 7:30 p.m., City Hall, 745-8871
SchoolsEphrata School Board: ◆
6 p.m., district offi ce, 754-2474
Cashmere School Board: ◆ 7 p.m., district offi ce, 782-3355
Palisades School Board: ◆ 7:30 p.m., Palisades School, 884-8071
TUESDAY
GovernmentPort of Chelan County: ◆
Special meeting, 8:30 a.m., 238 Olds Station Road, Suite A, Wenatchee, 663-5159
Douglas County ◆
Commission: 8:30 a.m., courthouse, Waterville, 745-8537
Okanogan County ◆
Commission: 9 a.m., 123 Fifth Ave., Okanogan, 422-7100
Chelan County ◆
Commission: 9 a.m., 400 Douglas St., 667-6215
Wenatchee Parks Board: ◆ Noon, downstairs conference room, 129 S. Chelan St., 664-3392
Link Transit Board ◆
and LTAC Advisory Committee joint meeting: 4 p.m., Washington Apple Commission conference room, 2900 Euclid Ave., Wenatchee, 662-1595
Chelan County PUD: ◆ special meeting, 5:30 p.m., 1034 E Woodin Ave., Chelan, 661-4258
Eastmont Metropolitan ◆
Park District: 6:30 p.m., Eastmont Jr. High School library, 884-8015
Okanogan City Council: ◆ 7 p.m., City Hall, 422-3600
Oroville City Council: ◆ 7 p.m., City Hall, 476-2926
Quincy City Council: ◆ 7:30 p.m., City Hall, 787-3523
Plug inYour connection to community
events through tomorrow
If you have a comment or question about the paper, call managing editor Cal FitzSimmons at 665-1176 or e-mail him at fi [email protected].
If your question has to do with delivery of the paper, please contact our circulation department directly at 662-2904.
◆ HAVE A QUESTION?
The Wenatchee World strives for accuracy, but when errors occur in print, we want to correct them as soon as possible. If you believe information printed in The World is incorrect, please call 665-1161.
◆ CORRECTIONS
To bee or not to bee: Tech-whiz brothers Charles and David Wick, both graduates of Wenatchee High School, have contributed toward solving one of nature’s great murder mysteries — the enormous kill of honeybees over the last four years — the New York Times has reported.
The Wicks — Charles is an Army microbiologist in Maryland and David is a tech entrepreneur in Montana — were part of a military and university team that identifi ed two possible culprits that have killed off 20 to 40 percent of U.S. bee colonies since 2006.
Charles graduated from Wenatchee High in 1967, and David in 1970. Their sister, Suzan Beeson, lives in Wenatchee and is the librarian at Cascade Christian Academy.
Back in August, the science team published a report that pointed to a possible two-punch bee killer consisting of a virus and a fungus that work together in a bee’s gut to somehow aff ect its nutrition.
No one’s sure yet, but the tag-team killer may also cause a type of insect insanity that sends the bee away from the colony to die. That would explain why scientists have found thousands of colonies abandoned with few telltale bee corpses.
The science team’s report said the virus-fungus killers were found in every colony the group studied. They just don’t know exactly how the killers do the dirty deed.
The bee research began with University of Montana scientists studying the causes of bee colony collapse. When David Wick heard of the studies, he knew that his brother Charles was working on virus-detection for the U.S. military and thought the two research teams might be able to help each other. He connected the two groups and, as it turned out, they came up with a possible virus-fungus solution.
Beeson said Charles was inspired in high school by science teacher Bill Asplund, who taught chemistry at Wenatchee High for 24 years (1963 to 1987).
“I got chills up my spine when I heard of the work being done by Charles,” Asplund said. “That’s ‘doctor’ Charles to the rest of us. He has a Ph.D., you know.”
Asplund said few students asked as many questions as Charles Wick. “He’d sit on the arm of the chair right near me, feet on the seat, and ask, ‘How do atoms come apart? What happens when they do?’ He was such an outstanding
student. I always knew he’d do important work.”
As a microbiologist for the U.S. Army, Charles has worked to develop technol-ogies to protect soldiers in the fi eld from biological attacks. He actually used the bee-killer problem to test new analytic software to detect bioagents.
“Charles is on the science end of this problem, and David is on the marketing end,” Beeson said. “When they work together, good things can happen.”
Supporting survivors: The blisters are healed, but Amy Sembritzky is still feeling the emotional eff ects of her 60-mile walk last month in Seattle’s Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure event.
The 42-year-old Wenatchee walker —“That’s my regular exercise,” she said — joined with friend Theresa Kunz of East Wenatchee to trek about 20 miles per day to earn money to fund research to fi ght cancer. More than 2,250 walkers participated in the event Sept. 24 to 26.
“It was awesome,” Sembritz-ky said. “The huge number of people joining to support cancer victims and survivors was inspiring.”
Sembritzky said some
members of her extended family have experienced breast cancer, but she had the strongest emotions for the survivors she accompanied on the walk. One woman, just emerging from a round of chemotherapy trekked the entire 60 miles, Sembritzky said. “Her success brought tears to everyone’s eyes.”
Bystanders cheered encour-agement to the walkers as they streamed past, Sembritzky added. A woman on the sidelines, she said, held
a placard that spoke a hard-hitting truth: “Keep walking — blisters don’t require chemo!”
The two Wenatchee Valley walkers gathered pledges of $2,300 each for the event. And now, said Sembritzky, they’re walking hard in preparation for next year.
This week’s Worm was compiled by World staff writer Mike Irwin. Have a tip? E-mail newsroomwenatcheeworld.com.
Local grads buzz to the bee science forefrontTHE WORM
Photo provided
Amy Sembritzky, right, and her friend Theresa Kunz partici-pated last month in Seattle’s Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure, a 60-mile walk to raise funds for breast-cancer research.
SURELY YOU JOUST
Above: Darius Thorne, Okanogan, practices jousting from a horse, breaking a piece of stiff foam off his weapon as it hits Ed Carthell of Amboy on Saturday. Local members of the Society For Creative Anachronism put on their fi rst equestrian games near Pangborn Memorial Airport over the weekend, spending much of their time learning how to safely participate in competitions on their horses. They hope to make the event an annual festival. Left: Tammie Fjelstad, Cashmere, sews trophies for winners of the equestrian games.
World photos/Don Seabrook
The Associated Press
MOSES LAKE — Fair-child Air Force Base will move operations to the Grant County Airport next year while runways and taxiways are rebuilt in Spokane.
The Columbia Basin Herald reports the Port of Moses Lake has approved a one-year lease with Fairchild worth just over $1 million.
Air Force back at Moses Lake
OROVILLE — Two Western Washington hunters who shot a grouse near Oroville were held at gunpoint Sunday and reportedly threatened by a man who believed they had trespassed onto his property.
Okanogan County Sheriff Frank Rogers said the hunters were forced to lie on the ground for at least 30 minutes while the man walked around with a shotgun and described to them how he planned to kill them.
The hunters — a 50-year-old Lake Stevens man and 39-year-old Tacoma man — were not injured and reported the incident about 3 p.m. Sunday.
Rogers said the two men were apparently acquainted with the 51-year-old Tenino man who confronted them at about 9:30 a.m. on a side road near what is apparently the Tenino man’s vacation home in the Pontiac Ridge area, 15 miles east of Oroville.
The men told deputies that the Tenino man drove up to them and pulled out a shotgun, the sheriff said. The man pointed the gun at one man’s stomach and forced him to his knees, then poked it in the other man’s face before taking his shotgun and telling them both to lie down.
Deputies arrested the man without incident and booked him into the Okanogan County Corrections Center on suspicion of fi rst-degree assault, fi rst-degree robbery, harassment, unlawful impris-onment and theft of a fi rearm.
— K.C. Mehaff ey, World staff
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