Golf course gets new members

COLFAX - Golfers will come across two new critters on the course, as an eagle and a bear become permanent members of the golf course and country club.

Golf Course Manager Craig Gronning said that the bear and eagle were carved from two trees they had to cut down. "They were a nuisance and we wanted something unique done to them, so we contacted a guy to do wood carvings in them," he said.

The new eagle and bear carvings are located off the number five green, Gronning said, and are done by Aaron Chavez of Chavez Carving, Carving, Concrete, Craftmanship located in Spokane.

Gronning said that the...