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if fe SECTION Rescue Five people helped off Washingtons 4th-tallest peak Page B3 0plnlonB6 RoundtableB7 Saturday, September 14, 2002 The Spokesman-Review Spokane, Wash.Coeur d'Alene, Idaho ul'Ls Heart surgery rooms at the top of Kootenai list Soltman, vice president of ancillary and support services. The fourth floor is scheduled for completion in 2004. The first two phases of the five-year plan focus heavily on cardiac care, which is a growing area for the hospital, Soltman said. the first full year of operation, the new cardiac suites are projected to serve about 350 patients. The second phase begins next spring with the demolition of part of KMCs original structure.

A $10 million, two-story addition opening in November 2003 will rise in its place. The first floor will be devoted to magnetic-resonance imaging. The second floor will contain a heart center, with labs and equipment. In conjunction with the new addition, the hospital will spend $10 million on updating the hospitals heating and cooling system, Soltman said. Later improvements include remodeling of the hospitals second and third floors, and a four-story parking garage.

As you grow your beds, then it becomes necessary to grow support services, Soltman said. By Becky Kramer Staff writer CGEUR dALENE Two operating rooms for open-heart surgery will kick off a $50 million capital expansion at Kootenai Medical Center. Construction of the $1.2 million surgery suites will begin this fall. They should be ready for operations by late April. Last year, a consultant recommended that the nonprofit hospital add 36 new beds over the next five years.

KMCs board responded with a five-year plan that includes renovations, new construction and equipment purchases. The hospital actually plans to add more than 36 rooms by 2006, but the exact number wont be known until hospital administrators figure out how space will be used on a fourth floor addition to the KMC tower, said Don Chance's levels when they purchased them. Lead nondisclosure by property owners, Realtors and landlords to prospective buyers and renters is a violation of federal law that can carry a hefty fine. The federal Lead Paint Hazard Reduction Act mandates disclosure of all lead hazards in any property built before 1978. The Hyllesteds paid $80,000 for their 1929 house two years ago, but say they werent told the yard contained lead.

When they got the soil tested this year, they found the driveway contained lead 2Vi times EPAs 1,000 parts per million safety limit qualifying it for cleanup. The yard cleanup by DEQ contractor the same thing, too, when I was hurt. Applying medication to the wounds, Dawna introduced the Fjord to the boy. She called the horse Olaf. Amazement in his eyes, the boy declared that it was just like the name of his medication, Zoloft, an antidepressant.

From that moment, Olaf became Zoloft and a bond was cemented. Stroking Olaf, the boy spoke for the first time in months of the abuse he had suffered at the hands of his stepfather. Olaf was the medicine that broke North Idaho office: (208) 765-7100, toll-free (800) In Lead disclosures to homeowners on Karen Bowers will be honored tonight. State lauds Panidas shilling light Director oversees threaters busy life By Renee E. D'Aoust Correspondent SANDPOINT Tonight, Karen Bowers will receive the Governors Award for Excellence in Arts Administration at a gala attended by Gov.

Dirk Kempthorne. The executive director of Sandpoints beloved Panida theater will join 20 recipients lauded for their dedication to the arts in Idaho. Its an incredible honor that I never expected, Bowers said. The celebration will be at North Idaho College. When audiences enter through the Panidas glass doors, pass the central ticket booth, walk through the carpeted lobby, and find a plush seat in the theater, they might feel like theyre stepping back in time.

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Panida opened in 1927 as a 550-seat vaudeville and movie house for the Panhandle. There is still not a bad seat in the house. Live concerts have an acoustic warmth not readily found in many modern theaters. Bowers commitment to the Panida is evident. Anyone phoning the theater for Continued.

Bowers B8 Bones may be those of missing gay student Hunters find skull in Latah County Associated Press wi MOSCOW, Idaho Human remains, including a skull, found in rural Latah County may be those of an openly gay University of Idaho drama student who has been missing for nearly four years. Positive identification of all the remains are pending DNA, analysis, County Sheriff Jeff Crouch said. This case is under invests gation and being treated as a homicide unttj shown to be otherwise. Hunters reportedly discovered the remains near Bovill last weekend. Crouch said they would probably be sent to a private laboratory for identification because an FBI laboratory is backed up.

Wil Hendrick, 25, was last seen early Jan. 10, 1999, at a Moscow party where he had been drinking. After leaving, Hendrick reportedly wandered into a basement apartment, where the occupant asked him to leave. His car was found later that night with the keys still in the ignition. Another set of keys, which Hendrick used to let himself into university buildings that he cleaned as part of his job, was found in the unlocked car.

He did not show up for a scheduled play rehearsal, nor did he cash his $6,000 financial aid check. His mother, Leslie Hendrick of Lewiston, ionfirmed Thursday that the family had been contacted by authorities with new information about her sons disappearance. We have been asked not to talk about it, she said. Police Chief Dan Weaver, whose office is investigating Hendricks disappearance, said he was only aware that some human remains were found and that their identification was pending. The case is being handled by the county, and it would be improper for me to comment, he said.

Latah County Prosecutor William Thompson was also hesitant to associate the remains found Saturday with Hendrick because there are a handful of unsolved missing people that are potential homicides around here." choice Native American Services Corp. of Kellogg will cost $18,000 to $20,000. It will be paid for out of federal Superfund money. I hope I can be a good example and get more people to do this, said Hyllested, a computer hardware designer who commutes to work at Liberty Lake. Idaho recently struck a deal with the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency to clean up high-risk yards in the Wallace area, said Scott Peterson of the Idaho DEQ. The state has six or seven yards still to go in the upper Coeur dAlene Basin near Wallace this season, Peterson said. According to the EPA, about 1,000 homes in the upper Basin must be scrubbed free of the boys silence. Later, the boy found the courage to testify against his stepfather, who was ultimately sentenced to 25 years in prison. This is just one of the success stories occurring at the ranch in a new horse therapy program set up under the umbrella of NARHA the North American Riding for Sellers, landlords scramble to comply By Karen Dorn Steele Staff writer Wallace homeowners Tim and Julie Hy-llested have been watching a contractor scrape away dump truck loads of lead-contaminated dirt from their yard this week.

They thought theyd have to wait until next year. But the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality launched a quick yard cleanup for the Hyllesteds after a Sept. 3 Spokesman-Review story about people in the Silver Valley who hadnt been told their homes and yards contained dangerous lead PANHANDLE PIECES By Jane and Jay Gunter the rise lead, a neurological poison thats especially dangerous to young children. A $92 million, five-year program to clean up the yards to protect children is the top priority of the EPAs cleanup plan for the region, released Thursday after four years of study and public hearings. Meanwhile, a Wallace landlord said he didnt know until he read the recent newspa- Eer story that hes also required to provide is tenants with lead warnings.

I never knew landlords have to give out pamphlets, said Jim Baker, adding that he was going to distribute the lead warnings. Continued: LeadB8 the Handicapped Association. Through NARHA a group of ambitious community members from Sandpoint is working to develop a therapeutic program targeting the mental and emotional health of youngsters through association with horses. The work is based on Boo McDaniels Continued PlecesBS Horse therapy helps troubled youngsters COCOLALLA IN THE SPRING, when the grass at Cocolalla Creek Ranch was turning green and lush, a young boy arrived. He had just been released from a psychiatric hospital, where hed been treated for post-traumatic stress disorder.

Dawna Grush, a ranch employee and horsewoman, had just brought in a Fjord that had been injured in a fight with another horse. The stout palomino-colored horse as bleeding and trembling. Whats wrong? the boy asked in a hushed voice, after watching the horse for a While. Dawna gently explained that the horse was shaking because he was hurt and afraid, but that he would be OK. Reaching up and stroking the horse, the boy whispered, I did Contact the 344-67 18; fax (208) 344-6718; e-mail newsspokesman.com Online regional news: www.spokesmanreview.com.