Every weekend, the Capital News and Lake Country Calendar will highlight this week’s top news stories.
1. A famous cuddly deer has been popular on social media lately. Lake Country firefighters combating wildfires in the Burns Lake area got the chance to meet it and also snapped a photo.
2. As part of Overdose Awareness Day Friday, the Capital News interviewed a mother who lost both her sons to overdoses.
Helen Jennens keeps an old photo of her sons – both sporting huge grins, their arms around each others’ shoulders – on her dresser, near to a metal sculpture inscribed with their names: Tyler and Rian.