OKANOGAN, Wash. —

What started out as a couple's renovation project to convert a historic building into a bar has turned into an effort to restore decades-old artwork in a small Washington town.

Nick and Lisa Timm purchased the building in Okanogan, located about four hours east of Seattle, at the end of 2021. This past week, they discovered 60-foot murals painted on canvases along its north and south walls.

"We were about 20 minutes from covering up the walls," Nick told CNN on Wednesday. "I then was like 'Well, let's just look at what's behind all this plaster.'"

As the plaster peeled away, they discovered a giant mural — stretching 60 feet long and 20 feet high — depicting a lake, cabins and trees.

One crew member threw out the idea that there could be another canvas on the opposite wall. Lo and behold, there was indeed a matching mural.

They found the murals at around 5 p.m. and had been working since 5 a.m., Nick said. But the team stayed for four more hours to uncover the rest of the artwork.

"It was like a lightning bolt of energy," Nick said. "We were just hooting and hollering and pulling things down."

The Timms moved back to Okanogan last year to take care of Nick's father, who was diagnosed with lung cancer. After he died in September, a family friend told the couple about the chance to purchase the building.

"One of our main goals moving back was to reenergize Okanogan and then this happened," Nick said.

Dating back to around 1907, the building had served as a movie theater, a pool hall and even a rooster fighting rink, according to Nick.

The couple's plan was to turn the 3,000-square-foot space into a bar and gathering place for the community, building on Nick's experience running bars and restaurants in Olympia.

"It's funny how this worked out," Nick said. "We were going to make it a historical showcase by bringing in a bunch of historical stuff about the area."

After the Timms' big find, the Okanogan County Historical Society was able to dig up a newspaper clipping from 1915 that reveals the original plan for the murals.

A local artist was set to paint the murals for what was the Hub Theatre at that time, according to the clipping, which was provided to CNN by the society.

"The new improvements at the Hub include 120 feet of panoramic landscape scenery in light tans," the clipping reads.

Now, that panoramic scenery will be cautiously taken down, refurbished and rehung. Nick said some sections of the murals have extensive water damage that they want to get restored as quickly as possible.

It will likely be a pricey process. The couple has started a GoFundMe page to gain support from the community.

The Timms had hoped to open their renovated bar by the end of March, but it may now take until midsummer to finish work on the murals, Nick said.

The mural will be the centerpiece of the establishment, and the plan still is to fill the rest of the space with other historical items. Nick's family has lived in the area for centuries, so many of the items have been passed down for generations. Other memorabilia have been donated by others in the community.

And Okanogan's future gathering place already has a name: the Red Light Bar, an ode to the singular red light in town.

LEBANON COUNTY, Pa. —

A search for a wallaby in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania is over after the marsupial was captured by state game officials.

A state game warden caught the animal on Wednesday in Mount Zion, south of Harrisburg. A resident spotted the wallaby and called the Pennsylvania Game Commission. The warden tranquilized the wallaby, and it was taken to a wildlife facility.

The marsupial had been spotted over the last few days and everyone wanted to catch a glimpse.

"Each day I stop here on my way home just to look for it," Dave Berger told sister station WGAL.

Game Warden Derek Spitler was looking for the animal in the hopes of catching it.

"We want to do it in the safest way possible, and we want to try to get that wallaby to a facility where it can be well taken care of," he said.

Some people were worried the wallaby could get hit by a car, and the Pennsylvania Game Commission said a coyote could be a predator. But the wallaby mostly attracted humans.

"They have a lot of people coming out in the last couple of nights looking for this thing. So, people are interested in it," Spitler said.

You can keep a wallaby in Pennsylvania with a permit. The game commission said no one in the area has a permit.

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What would you do if you happened to peek out your window and spot a strange creature sitting on a tree limb? Well, for one Krakow, Poland, woman, the only option was to call animal control.

The only problem was, the "strange creature" she spotted was actually just an old croissant.

The yet-to-be named well-meaning woman alerted the Krakow Society for the Protection of Animals (KTOZ) after the "strange creature" had been sitting outside in the tree for two days. According to a post on the KTOZ Facebook page, she wasn't the only person concerned about the unidentified creature; the entire neighborhood was, too.

"People don't open their windows because they're afraid it's going to enter their house," the post quoted her as saying. "He's been sitting here for two days, and everyone is scared of him!"

Inspector Adam — who identified himself as such on the KTOZ post — went on to say that he thought the call was a late April Fool's joke, but the woman — who vehemently denied it being a bird — assumed it could have possibly been an iguana stuck in the tree that may be in some trouble.

And with his "years of inspection" teaching him that people are "willing to get rid of any animal that causes some trouble," Inspector Adam thought it to be necessary to check out the scene.

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After dissecting the weird directions she gave them to locate the tree hosting the "creature," Inspector Adam and his team were finally able to spot the troublemaker quietly nestled in between two lilac branches.

Adding a bit of humor to their find, he wrote, "We are looking more closely [and] the poor guy has no legs or head. We already know that we can't help the creature, because it's hard to help something that was previously baked, not in the sunlight."

So, how did the croissant get there, you ask? Well, Inspector Adam assumes it probably got stuck there when some other well-intentioned neighbor attempted to feed the birds in the area.

Though the story has a lighthearted, unforgettable, and laughable ending, KTOZ said that they are happy the woman's worry caused her to reach out.

"It's always worth reporting if something concerns you," he wrote. "It's better to check and be pleasantly disappointed, sometimes — unfortunately very rarely — laugh, than not react, which can sometimes lead to a tragedy."

Some heroes really don't need to wear any capes.