Giving Smokey the Bear a much needed repair

Sometimes, what appears to be the path of least resistance turns out to be exactly the opposite.

Cheney High School senior and Boy Scout Seth Wilcox found that out firsthand when searching about for his Eagle project. The state Department of Natural Resources had contacted his father, who is also a Troop 356 Scoutmaster, with a project that involved replacing two Smokey the Bear fire danger signs at a pair of Spokane County Fire District 3 fire stations — one at Tyler and one on Grove Road in Marshall.

Seth Wilcox said he didn’t see any other projects around at the time, and the locations of t...