Tekoa students plan trail as memorial for 2 students

Tekoa high school students and leaders have plans to make a running and walking trail through town in memory of two Tekoa students who died early this school year.

Tekoa students Brandon Hay and Zach Smith died in separate car accidents. Hay died in a car accident on Lovell Valley Road northeast Tekoa July 7. Smith died in a Nov. 3 accident in Spokane County, outside Latah.

Both were members of this year’s graduating class at Tekoa High School.

The trail will run for roughly two miles from Crosby Street at the north end of Tekoa, east to the Tekoa Airport at Tilma.

“I’m hoping if we keep the s...