Bee rolls for Smart

Oakesdale, Tekoa and Steptoe area farmers Wednesday planned to launch a harvest bee for Oakesdale farmer Jerry Smart to cut more than 550 acres at three locations. Harvest sites were planned along the Hume road.

A total of more than 20 combines are expected to harvest the crop starting at about 9 a.m.

Smart was hospitalized Aug. 15 at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane after sustaining rib fractures. and other injuries when he was thrown from a forklift which subsequently pinned him. He was placed in the intensive care unit.

The harvesters planned to gather at Bromling Grass Flat for a barbecue inner.