PATEROS – An Oroville racer, Chris Wolley, placed second in the ski lites consolation event during watercross racing July 16-18 during the Apple Pie Jamboree.

OKANOGAN – A day of flat track horse racing is planned Saturday, July 24, as a fundraiser for the World-Famous Suicide Race.

WENATCHEE – The Farmers Insurance senior softball team won the third division and Winthrop Ace Hardware the second division in the end-of-season tournament July 17-18 in Wenatchee.

OLYMPIA - The Washington State Parks boating program is observing Paddle Safe Week July 18-24, and wants paddlers to have fun – and be safe - on the water.

OKANOGAN – A set of “unusually high scores” was turned in by pinochle players at the Okanogan Eagles the night of July 13, said spokesman Buck Workman.

OLYMPIA – The state Department of Fish and Wildlife has closed retention of sockeye salmon on the mid-Columbia (Hanford Reach) and upper Columbia River as of July 19.

OLYMPIA–The state Recreation and Conservation Office is seeking 45 volunteers to fill positions on advisory committees that help determine how the state invests in the outdoors.

OLYMPIA – A tiger trout pulled from Loon Lake in Stevens County in late June has set a new state record, state fishery managers have confirmed.

PATEROS – Northwest Jet Sports Association will start and end its shortened watercross season in Okanogan County, with a race in Idaho sandwiched in between.

COLVILLE — Work is underway on two Colville National Forest trail projects in Ferry County.

GRANTS PASS, Ore. – A Curlew native rode to a second straight riding crown July 6 at Grants Pass Downs as the race course concluded its 17-day spring/summer meeting.

OLYMPIA – State grants will allow Omak and Republic to get rolling on skate park construction projects.