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WENATCHEE

Passed-out motorist earns prison time for drugs

A Republic man who was found sleeping in his car with bags of black tar heroin and jars of illicit prescription drugs was sentenced to 21 months in prison under an addiction treatment plan.

A Chelan County sheriff ’s deputy discovered Charles Anthony Landert, 23, asleep in his 1990 Honda Accord Dec. 11, parked in a Leaven-worth ditch at the junction of Icicle Road and Highway 2. Once roused, Landert told the deputy he’d pulled over en route to Marysville to smoke heroin, and lost consciousness.

Found in a search of Landert’s car were a chunk of black tar heroin lodged between the driver’s seat and center console, two clear plastic bags also containing black tar heroin, a bottle of 34 unprescribed Xanax pills, a bottle of mixed morphine and oxycodone tablets, two rifl es and two shotguns.

Landert pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges of unlawful possession of heroin, oxycodone and fi rearms. Superior Court Judge T.W. “Chip” Small sentenced him under the Drug Off ender Sentencing Alternative, which provides treatment and counseling to criminals whose off enses are related to addiction.

— Jeff erson Robbins, World staff

WENATCHEE

SCORE seeks volunteer offi ce manager

A local group of volunteer business advisers needs a new offi ce manager to help with emails, phones messages and scheduling.

The Wenatchee chapter of SCORE, counselors to new and existing businesses, seeks a part-time volunteer offi ce manager who’s computer literate and able to work both in the SCORE offi ce and at home. The job would require about six hours a week.

For more info, call Paul Bondo at 860-2729.

— Mike Irwin, World staff

PATEROS

Chelan man killed in Highway 97 crash

A Chelan man died early

Saturday morning after he lost control of his pickup truck on a Highway 97 curve fi ve miles south of Pateros.

Cole Ballenger, 48, died at the scene of the crash. The accident was reported at 1:17 a.m. Saturday. Ballenger was likely driving too fast to negotiate the turn and lost control and left the north-bound lane of the highway, according to the Washington State Patrol report. The 2003 Chevrolet pickup crossed a private driveway and came to rest in a roadside pond.

It’s not known whether drugs or alcohol were involved in the crash. Ballenger was wearing a seatbelt.

— Rick Steigmeyer, World staff

CHESAW

Kinross applies for water change

Crown Resources Corp., a subsidiary of Kinross Gold, has applied for a water rights change that could pave the way for more exploratory drilling near Buckhorn Mine outside of Chesaw.

Last month, Kinross, which operates the mine, withdrew a major proposal to explore for gold on about 9,200 acres of federal, state and private land. After spending $10 million on preparation of an environ-mental impact statement, the company said it planned to pursue other exploration options because the EIS was too costly and taking too much time.

“This is simply a water right change application. There’s no proposal right now for exploratory drilling,” said Deana Zakar, community and government relations specialist for

Kinross Gold.The request for a water

right change through the Okanogan County Water Conservancy, if granted, would not increase the volume of water use or impact existing instream fl ow mitigation require-ments, a news release from the company said.

David Kliegman, executive director of Okanogan Highlands Alliance, said the change would move some water from Toroda Creek into the Myers Creek basin. He said Toroda Creek has been closed to new water rights since the 1950s because it’s over-ap-propriated, so he believes moving water would have adverse impacts.

The application is available for the public to review, and is open to comment through July 4, the statement added.

— K.C. Mehaff ey, World staff

WATERVILLE

County buildings becoming effi cient

Three Douglas County buildings will be running more effi ciently this summer after a Spokane company adds controls to make heating and cooling systems

work better.The county received a low

interest loan and will pay McKinstry up to $423,663 to add mechanical controls to allow for fi ne-tuning of existing equipment at the Douglas County Courthouse in Waterville, and its law and justice building on 3rd Street and administrative building on 19th Street in East Wenatchee.

The company guarantees energy savings will cover the costs of the work, and recovery is expected in about eight years, said Douglas County Adminis-trator Jim Barker.

“The main reason we did it was to extend the life of our equipment,” said Commissioner Dale Snyder. “The chiller at the court-house is a $300,000 piece of equipment. If we can extend it an extra fi ve years, that pays for the project right there,” he said.

Work is expected to be completed by July.

— K.C. Mehaff ey, World staff

Celeb lookalikes and a night with George Lopez

Derek Scott

Anna Scott Carrie Underwood

Paola Beltran Adam Levine

THE WORMThe Worm can totally see

the resemblance.A few months back, we

asked readers to tell us if they look like famous people. We

got quite a few responses but only three people sent in photos. Many thanks to Paola Beltran of East Wenatchee, whose famous look-alike is actress Jennifer Love Hewitt; and to Anna and Derek Scott, former Wenatchee area residents who now live in Spokane. Anna, a 2009 graduate of Wenatchee High School, says she gets told a lot that she looks like singer Carrie Underwood.

Anna thinks Derek, a 2007 graduate of Eastmont High School, resembles singer Adam Levine.

None one reported being asked for

autographs, however. Now maybe if they visited Nashville, Hollywood or some big concert hall.

Baseball freebees: Want a free ticket to an Applesox game? Ride a Link bus.

Link employees are handing

out tickets this summer as part of “a fun, summertime thing,” said Link spokesman Eric West.

“We wanted to create a little buzz with this,” West said. Tickets will be given out randomly throughout the season, so you may have to

catch a lot of buses to get one.Star-struck: “What a

way to end the school year,” said Ramon Rivera, Maria-chi Huenachi teacher at Wenatchee High School. Twenty-three of his 25 Maria-chi Huenachi students played for a half hour at two shows Sunday that featured comedi-an and actor George Lopez. The group played on stage at the Northern Quest Casino in Spokane as the audience entered for the show.

“He is a major artist and for the students to meet him and talk to him and have our program be recognized by

him was a tremendous honor for our students,” Rivera said. “I told the students, ‘This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be involved with this major star, and he was really happy with our performance.”

This week’s Worm was compiled by reporter Dee Riggs. Email newsroom@wenatcheeworld.com with tips.

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