Jett named ML SCOPE volunteer of the year

Officials at Espanola-Medical Lake SCOPE (Sheriff's Community Oriented Policing Effort) have named community resident Hilda Jett as the Medical Lake SCOPE's 2015 Volunteer of the Year.

In a Sept. 24 interview, Jett said she was "really quite surprised" to be receiving the award. A resident of Medical Lake for over 50 years, Jett has been serving with SCOPE for the last three and a half years, as well as being a Block Watch captain on her block on Jefferson Street for about the same length of time.

Jett said she has done about everything there is to do in the organization. She has served as a t...