Local Youth Graduate Hunter Education Course

For the first time in three years in-person hunter education has resumed in Cascade. Seventeen students, ranging from 10 to 15 years of age, successfully completed this year's class by passing both a written test and practical field exam. Students participated in classroom learning for 2 and a half hours after school Monday through Friday where they learned the safe and proper handling of firearms including loading and unloading, crossing a fence while carrying a firearm, and the safe loading of a firearm into a vehicle. Students also learn different hunting skills and techniques, ethics, surv...