luke burbank has the story. >> like a lot of small towns, it was hit hard economically by the covid shutdown. residents like molly an out of work school bus driver. >> i've be cutting down trees, mowing lawns, whatever i can for a buck. >> but there's something unusual going on in this town of 1800 people. the city government of tenino is doing what it can to help folks like her. but not can with a check or a debit card but with, believe it or not, a pile of wood. >> every once in a while i run into a cashier that hasn't taken it before. i'd a blast. i'm paying for food with something historical. you know. >> the up to is printing its open money. $10,000 worth of thin sheets of wood that can only be spent in tenino. it's not the first time. in fact, the city issued its first wooden currency back in 1931 during the great depression. >> they patent infringemented $10,000. only $40 came back. >> wow. >> it was so popular as a souven souvenir, just hike these are today. >> the currency is printed on the same machine. >> this is a press. >> lauren ackerman is the president of the museum and is th

here's luke burbank. >> reporter: ted mcfall, of custer, washington, loves his bees.eally loves them. some people love their cats. some people love their dogs and beekeepers love their bees. some bee colonies are a little more aggressive or a little little more cranky. some bee colonies are faster route to store, honey. each colony kind of has its own little personality. >> he and his kids even name some of the queens. >> i'm not sure that i want to say on national tv, but some of the names are like "bee-yonceÉ," favorite one this year was "queen eliza-buzz." just silly names. >> which is why, it was so upsetting for him, when he found one of his favorite, most productive hives had been slaughtered. >> that that particular colony had a good sixty thousand bees in it. they killed all the workers, the drones, the queen. they slaughtered every last bee in the entire in the entire colony. >> the likely culprit? something called "the asian giant hornet" which you may have also heard called, the "murder hornet" more on that in a minute. >> whenever they find a beehive, they

the kind of advice that may not fly with the hard-occurrence see loving folks in the town our luke burbankorter: like a lot of small towns, tenino, washington, was hit hard economically by the covid shutdown. residents like laurie mahlenbrei, an out of work school bus driver, have been struggling. >> it's been really difficult. i washing windows, scrubbing floors, cutting down trees, mowing lawns, whatever i can for a buck. >> reporter: but there's something unusual going on in this town of 1800 people. the city government of tenino is doing what it can to help folks like laurie mahlenbrei but not with a check or even a debit card but with, believe it or not, a pile of wood. >> every once in a while i run into a cashier that hasn't taken it before. but it's just a blast. i'm paying for food with something historical, you know. >> that's right. the town is printing its own money. $10,000 worth on thin sheets of wood that can only be spent in tenino. >> and it's not the first time. in fact, the city issued its first wood currency way back in 1931 during the great depression. >> they printed