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Chronic wasting disease surveillance hunt planned for north Idaho deer population [Video]
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Chronic wasting disease surveillance hunt planned for north Idaho deer population [Video]

COEUR DALENE, Idaho The Idaho Fish and Game commission (IDFG) is conducting a chronic wasting disease surveillance hunt in late August. According to IDFG, the hunt will take place over 9 days starting on Aug. 24. Chronic wasting disease, which is lethal in deer with no known cure, has been found in deer populations

Two hurt after sailboat, motorboat collide off Weymouth coast [Video]
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Two hurt after sailboat, motorboat collide off Weymouth coast [Video]

Two boats collided in the water in Hingham Bay on Friday afternoon, with video from Sky 5 showing a sailboat partially submerged in the water with another boat nearby.The incident happened in the vicinity of Grape Island, which is approximately one mile north of Hingham Harbor in Weymouth.The U.S. Coast Guard said they responded to a collision between a 21 foot sailboat and a 38 foot power boat along with the Quincy and Weymouth harbormasters.Authorities believe the power boat was heading away from Hingham into the main channel and struck a 21 foot sail boat.What appears to be blood is visible on the back of the motorboat.The crash submerged the sailboat, leaving only the top of its mast and the tip of the bow visible above the waterline.A source says the motorboat struck the sailboat, and a man and woman on board the sailboat both suffered serious injuries, apparently hit by the other boat’s propeller.”I was hoping that everyone was ok,” said Ann Goldman, a ferry passenger who witnessed the aftermath.Goldman was on an MBTA ferry that passed by the two boats and took pictures shortly after they collided around noon.”I mean when you see a collision, when you see police boats, you’re like, ‘I hope something wasn’t terribly wrong.’ But something was definitely terribly wrong,” Goldman said.Two people on the motorboat appeared unhurt and were brought to shore and questioned by state environmental police.”We’ve never seen anything like that going in and out to Boston. And so it was a bit of a shock, especially on a calm day,” said David McGuiness, another ferry passenger.Longtime sailboater Dennis Hynes said boats are supposed to slow down in the narrow channel between Weymouth and Grape Island.”If you were leaving this area, you would go right through that point,” Hynes said.Hynes said that if the sailboat was under sail power, it would have the right of way.”It should not have been that busy out there. So it looks like maybe some inattention and excessive speed just looking at the pictures you showed me,” Hynes said.The female suffered injuries which were describe by officials as serious. She was transported to a Boston area hospital while the male was transported to a hpWeymouth. The investigation into the collision continues as authorities work to determine if someone is at fault.

Historic ASL Sailing course takes place at Burlington’s community sailing center [Video]
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Historic ASL Sailing course takes place at Burlington’s community sailing center [Video]

This past week, the Community Sailing Center in Burlington has been hosting the only U.S. Sailing Association-certified American Sign Language course in the country.People from all over traveled to Burlington for this experience. Rachel Boll, from Massachusetts, said learning from a teacher who knows ASL made the trip worthwhile.”Direct instruction is the best way to learn,” Boll said. Instructor Bill Millios has been sailing since he was a kid.He started this course because more and more of his friends in the deaf and hard-of-hearing community were asking him for advice on how to sail.It inspired him to get certified as an instructor and create this one-of-a-kind course.”We share the same way of walking in the world. We understand what it’s like to use vision as your main form of communication. So, the way that I frame things or explain things are specific for them,” Millios said.At the beginning of the week, students learned the basics of how a sailboat operates.By the end, they were sailing out on Lake Champlain on their own.For some students like Allen Winfree of Essex Junction, at times, it was information overload.However, he still impressed himself with how much he had learned in that short period.”How to set up the jib, all the different terminology that’s used in sailing,” Winfree said. “I had no idea that there was so much to learn.”For Shanna Gibbs of New York, retaining all that information wouldn’t have been possible if she didn’t have an instructor that knew sign language as well.”I can ask questions immediately,” Gibbs said. “I don’t have to think about if it’s a language barrier causing me not to understand. I can instead ask my question and feel confident that I’ll get an answer.”Gibbs joked when she gets back to New York, you can expect to find her back on the water as soon as possible. “I’m motivated to buy a boat tomorrow so I can keep doing this over and over again,” Gibbs said. The annual “Sailorbration” event is taking place the Community Sailing Center on Saturdaay from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.It’s a chance to celebrate the diversity of sailors in our community.