Avista Utilities is taking their services on the road setting up their mobile Energy Resource Team in communities throughout the area. Today, they were in the Spokane Valley with Second Harvest's mobile food bank offering tips and supplies to make homes more energy efficient.

“The biggest goal is to educate people on ways to conserve energy in their homes,” says Ana Matthews, a Consumer Affairs Program Manager with Avista. The Energy Resource Team provides resources and materials to help people who are struggling lower their monthly bills and set them up with resources such as SNAP when they need more help.

Avista workers handed out bags with rope caulk, window insulation kits, fridge coil cleaners and compact florescent light bulbs to help get homes on their way to a lower bill. Matthews says the biggest energy sucker is drafts in the home and they come from places you might not think to look such as your outlets.

Thousands of military veterans come home every year. They sometimes come from a life of war and are thrown into the civilian world where, for anyone, finding a job is tough. One local company is trying to change that.

Haskins Steel has been around for 58 years and through that time many wars. You can bet that with their emphasis on hiring veterans you're bound to fun into someone on the warehouse floor who has served in those wars.

"I went to Iraq three times, got deployed to Okinawa once, " Derek Blomquist-Worley said.

At his desk Wednesday, Blomquist-Worley is worlds away from his life as a Marine Corps infantryman. The husband and father planned on a 20-year military career but injuries to his knees wouldn't allow it.

Going back to civilian life after what he had done and what he had seen overseas was tough ? to put it lightly.

"I felt that I had nothing there, I didn't have a purpose, I didn't have a plan, I didn't know what I was going to do, " Bloomquist-Worley said.

Eventually, his father-in-law, an employee at Haskins Steel, suggested Blomquist-Worley also apply or a job at the company.

A cat in Chattaroy is safe and sound with her owner after being stuck 60 feet above ground for six days. 

A KXLY viewer, Christina Poor, emailed us asking for help to get her neighbor's cat down from a pine tree in the Riverside Village Mobile Home Park. The cat had been up in the branches for almost a week and was so high that residents couldn't reach her. 

The owner had contacted the local fire station, but learned that despite what we see on T.V. fireman don't actually rescue cats from sticky situations. She then called arborists around the area, but couldn't afford the fee to save her pet. 

SCRAPS was able to contact the Pacific Northwest Animal Welfare Project. The group helps cover the costs of veterinary care, foster homes and transportation of local rescued animals and operates only on donations. PNW Animal Welfare Project paid for an arborist to bring the cat down safely. 

What can you do if your cat get stuck?