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April 14, 2016 / FREE / Vol. 13, Issue 15

How the Panama Papers financial data leak tracks back to Idaho

Peace and Purity:

Keeping the ‘peace and purity’ of a small town Idaho empire

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Susan Drinkard on the street compiled by

In which class at school are you learning the most?

“Pre-algebra with Mrs. Marine because I just love math.”

Mitch Zantow 7th, Sandpoint Middle School Sandpoint “I’m an elementary education major going to school part-time. I’m learning different ways to teach math, some methods of which are new to me. In physical education I’m learning ways to integrate physical activity into other subjects.”

DEAR READERS,

We had a fun problem with this issue: We ended up selling so many ads that we had to expand the size of the paper. So, dear readers, welcome to the largest Sandpoint Reader in the paper’s history—24 pages! Allow yourself an extra chunk of time to get through this issue, because we’ve got a lot packed into it. Special thanks to Katie Botkin and Zach Hagadone for their excellent features this week.

On another note, Fortune just released their top ten worst jobs in America, and guess what ranked as the worst job? You guessed it, newspaper reporting. This is the third straight year that reporters placed as the worst job in America.

The Jobs Report used four criteria to rate America’s worst jobs: environment, income, outlook, and stress. Well, for me, the environment I work in couldn’t be better.

I love this town, and I love my dinky office looking at Schweitzer Mountain. Income?

Well, no comment there. Outlook? The Reader has been growing ever since we brought it back. The future is bright, my friends. And stress? Well, no comment again there. Seriously though, as hard as this job is, I can think of literally hundreds of jobs worse than mine. I’m not buying it, Fortune (mostly because I’m broke and I have the worst job in America. Kind of sounds cool, doesn’t it?).

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COMMENTARY Strange times in the

By Louie de Palma Reader Road Warrior In the off-season of sleepy little ski towns, the streets are lonely and vacant.

Nights such as these only yield two options: I’m not going to do a damn thing all night, or something weird is about to blow my way.

On one such night, I’d made so many left turns I found myself becoming dizzy. I contemplated pulling over for a third cup of coffee or sixth stick of jerky just to ease the spins. My mind wandered to the familiar faces of my regulars. Where were they?

Should I check on them? Maybe they’re in trouble. That one lady with the stinky wounds is pretty old, after all. But just when I’d convinced myself the entire town is in dire need of assistance, the phone rang. I frantically searched out the phone, answering with an all too chipper, “Hello, this is Louie with Road Warrior Taxi! ...Hmmm, uh huh, well ... It’s pretty busy for me to go that far, but I guess for you, we’ll make an exception. See you in just a deer tick, jiffy.”

Land Use Code Changes...

Dear Editor, There has been much news about the recent changes to the Bonner County Land Use code and in the county Planning Department. I am often asked, “What happened, and why should I care?” Good questions.

What happened? The county commissioners recently changed the land use code in two ways. The first was to remove the Planning Commission from any future amendments to the land use code. The second was to streamline the process for appealing Planning Commission decisions. Both were done to make it easier and faster to change the code and appeal decisions. Noble goals.

Why does it matter to you? At first glance, removing the Planning Commission from future code changes doesn’t seem like much. After all, they are just seven volunteers trying to help make the code better. Because they are thorough, they sometimes take longer to make a 4 /

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Panhandle

The client had called for a lift up to yonder border. Final destination: Daddy’s Pub. It was approaching midnight, and although I wasn’t afraid that my taxi would turn into a pumpkin, I figured I should probably transform my dog into a bodyguard. She has a way of detecting things, and with the twitch of an ear, a double sniff or an uneasy body shift, I can read her warning signs well before any of my gauges or my own intuition. You can’t blame me. If I disappeared with nothing left but a shoe, I don’t have a lick of faith anyone local could track me down.

The man I drove to Daddy’s Pub turned out to be a perfectly pleasant individual.

He was a quiet Native American man with cool blue earrings and a disposition to match. He spoke in a calming manner with long pauses, the end of each sentence teetering in the wind like a dandelion puff until it finally broke free and trailed off.

When we arrived, I dropped him at the corner of the dark Daddy’s parking lot, which is slammed against edge of the Canadian border by a dumpster. He unloaded his pack, rolled his sleeping bag and vanished into the night. As odd as the journey seemed at first, it was uneventful, but the real strangeness was yet to come.

On the way up, I had passed a state

border patrolman stealthily parked in a giant, all-white Suburban. On the way back, I passed two, and as I did so, they pulled behind me, tailing close. The lights didn’t come on at first, oh no. Too simple. They just tailed dangerously close for 30 miles. Three times I almost pulled over to just speed up the process.

They were going to stop me. The question was for what, and why?

When the lights did come on, it was a relief. The tension rushed out of me like my fourth cup of coffee had earlier.

As I watched the silhouettes of the men approach my taxi through the pulsating light in my mirror, I could tell they were straight out of a cliché’ movie. One, waddling toward my vehicle, was robust and squat. The other was goofy, tall, gangly and awkward, like a young fawn following a cranky boar. Both sported huge hats, and everything seemed normal as could be. Wrong. As soon as they closed within 10 feet of the car, my dog unleashed menacing and deep growls mixed with guttural barking, the like of which I’d never heard before. It was then that I knew the weird was about to take hold of the evening and

shake it like a health food drink.

When they reached the car, I rolled down the windows. Giant hats and large accusatory faces that flashed from blue to red to dark in the police lights filled the empty space. They gave me the normal question, and then started asking me about about coyote smugglers and the illegal transport of Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints members.

I was informed that on the Mexican border, taxis smuggle people all the time.

The next thing I know, I’m standing on the side of the road at 1:30 a.m., restraining my furious dog as Rocky and Bullwinkle search my taxi for stowaway Mormons. They even looked in the glove box for them. I began to wonder if perhaps my passenger was some sort of Mormon coyote border guide. Why did they need to sneak across? To get more fabric from Walmart? How many jean skirts could one need? Is there really a market for Mormon smuggling?

To find out how this unfolds and other strange happenings tipped off by Taxi Dog, pick up a Reader in two weeks, because this is TO BE CONTINUED...

recommendation than the commissioners would like, and sometimes they arrive at recommendations not welcomed by the county commissioners.

You should care because the Planning Commission held well-publicized evening public hearings so you could comment on proposed changes to the codes. Those comments and testimony had a real impact on proposed changes. Removing the Planning Commission from the process going forward, you have lost an important opportunity to be heard. Now, your only chance to comment is at the commissioners’ regular business meeting, held on Tuesday mornings, with just two days’ notice of the agenda. No details provided. If you can’t get off work to attend, too bad.

The result of this change is loss of transparency and the opportunity to comment on proposed changes. The public’s voice, your voice, is lost. You won’t even know what the proposed change is unless you attend the Tuesday morning meeting, leaving you no chance to consider the change or prepare comments. Opportunities for increased cronyism abound, as

well as the probability of bad code that hasn’t been properly vetted through public comment and involvement. Expect bad code to proliferate. When it comes to local code changes, your voice has been silenced.

As for streamlining the appeals process for Planning Commission decisions, it matters to you not so much because of the streamlining itself, but rather that many land use decisions will now be made by two commissioners in the appeal hearing.

Anything you want to do with your property, no matter how objectionable to your neighbors, will be possible by convincing just two commissioners it’s OK. This is moving from Rule of Law, to Rule of Man. My wife and I lived outside the U.S. for 12 years, most of them in third world countries. We have seen first hand what poor zoning and Rule of Man looks like. No one I’ve met here wants to live like that. Some regulation and restraint is needed to reduce lawsuits between neighbors, have predictability in what we can do where and keep Bonner County

beautiful. The quiet enjoyment of our property gets harder when our neighbors have too much freedom for uses we find objectionable. And when your neighbor is allowed objectionable uses, your property value goes down. Who wants that?

Somewhere between the extremes of complete freedom with no regulations and no freedom due to total regulation lies where we all want to live. The public deserves to be allowed to help find that balance.

Helping our elected officials find the right balance between property rights and property values as well as between freedom and regulation is important.

They need your input. But since they’ve removed a very valuable opportunity for you to be heard, I encourage you to get informed and involved in the upcoming primary election on May 17. Learn the candidates’ positions on these issues, and vote based on the kind of Bonner County you want to live in.

Steve Temple Sandpoint

PERSPECTIVES

Once Upon a Time in North Idaho

By Alan Millar Reader Contributor Once upon a time way back in 2014 North Idaho had three highly competent legislators. They were Republicans and worked together to help all of Bonner County. They worked on the economy, education, transportation and invasive species and worked on issues that would improve the lives of their constituents and the people of Idaho.

Two of those hard working legislators are gone, replaced by people who are fearful of mythical refugees and support militant takeovers of government offices. They are gone because most Bonner County citizens don’t come out and vote in primary elections, but the Tea Party contingent certainly does. In addition, the Republican Party has closed its primary and made it much more complicated to cast a ballot. It is time to push back.

This document is an attempt to explain how to vote to ensure that your vote counts. The directions apply to District 1—not District 7. (District 7 includes Careywood, Gamlin Lake, Lakeview, Sagle and Southside.)

To the right are sample ballots as of April 8 for the Republican and Democratic primaries on May 17. Here is where it gets tricky (can you spell gerrymander?)

•If you are registered as a Democrat at this time you cannot vote in the Republican primary.

•However, if you are “unaffiliated” you can choose a party up to the day of the election on May 17.

•If you are a registered Republican at this time you can choose to vote in the Democratic Primary. How crazy is that?

Commissioners Flaunting Regs...

Dear Editor, The Clagstone Meadows incident is the latest in a disturbing string of actions by county commissioners suggesting a disregard for the laws they’re tasked with upholding.

The project—a win-win for sportsmen, conservationists, and Stimson Lumber Company—was opposed by two commissioners in an illegal letter that they composed in violation of the Idaho Open Meetings Act. This is not the only recent case of commissioners flaunting the regulations.

The board fired county planner Dan Carlson last fall, after he filed a grievance against commissioner Todd Sudick. Sudick allegedly demanded that Carlson break the law to expedite a Building Location Permit.

There are two Tea Party types that are masquerading as Democrats in the primary; Bob Vickaryous and Steve Tanner. Democrats are encouraging a write-in campaign for Steven F. Howlett to stop Mr. Vickaryous from being the Democratic candidate in the general election in November. That might seem like a good idea, but it is also possible that this ultra radical group is using this as a ruse to get people to request a Democratic ballot to vote against Mr. Vickaryous and keep those votes out of the Republican Primary.

Sen. Shawn Keough has a contested primary on May 17.

The fewer people that vote in that primary, the more likely it is that her opponent will win. That is why we have two of our three state legislators in the crazy wing of the Republican Party.

Some Democrats can’t wait to cast a vote for Kate McAlister, since everyone wants to elect the Queen of Ireland. Kate is running unopposed in the primary. There is no need to register as a D just to vote for her. She will be on the ballot in the fall, running against the truly strange Heather Other planning department employees have corroborated Carlson’s claim, adding that Sudick regularly confronted employees aggressively. Now there is another suit for wrongful termination by the county’s top land-use planner, Clare Marley, who was demoted and then fired.

Then there’s the spectacle of the commissioners violating Bonner County Revised Code in order to make changes to the law, in spite of objections from the Planning Commission. I am concerned that the very officials we entrust with administering our laws may consider themselves exempt from these same standards. This is no longer the rule of law!

Carol Jenkins Sandpoint

Sample ballots for the May 17 primary election.

Scott, the Malheur Maniac.

So if you are already a D—you can’t switch anyway—go ahead and write in Mr. Howlett. If he is successful he will take on the guy with the little Supreme Court in his head (Rep. Sage Dixon).

Could be fun.

But if you are unaffiliated or an R, I

An Open Letter to Gov. Otter...

Governor Otter, Thank you for your important and courageous veto against the “Bible in schools” bill.

I live in Sandpoint and am a retired professor of physics from the University of Idaho. As a scientist, I could envision that if the Christian Bible were brought into a science class in public school, a science teacher might show that many of the claims in the Bible are not physically possible. I am aware that senators deleted references to using the Bible in astronomy, biology and geology classes, but it could be used in literature, comparative religion, history, music, ethics and philosophy classes. I can easily imagine that my colleagues in English, phi-

strongly encourage you to go out and vote for Sen. Keough. The difference in the 2014 primary was only 200 votes.

Let’s save the best legislator we have on May 17 and then make sure to take out Heather Scott in November.

losophy and even in the other included subjects could make counter claims based on what we know to be true in science. I don’t think any of us would enjoy the controversy that might ensue should a teacher point out such inconsistencies in the Bible.

I am tired of those bullying and radical legislators who wish to impose their religious views on the citizens of this state, which includes non-Christians and non-believers.

Thank you for supporting the Separation of Church and State Principle codified in both the Idaho State Constitution, as well as the U.S. Constitution.

Sincerely, Philip A. Deutchman Sandpoint

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NEWS More lawsuits hit Bonner County Big crowd at service provider symposium

By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Yet another round of lawsuits questioning the legality of recent Bonner County commissioner decisions have hit the courts.

Hot off the heels of several lawsuits and tort claims over the past half-year, former county planning director Clare Marley sued the county last week in a wrongful termination claim. Lisa Grande, a former Bonner County EMS captain, is seeking $3 million in another wrongful termination claim.

And Steve Temple, the former chairman of the Bonner County Planning Commission who resigned in protest of county commissioner actions, filed a complaint against the county on March 28 for alleged violations of county code.

“I filed the action because I want a judge to confirm that the commissioners acted legally when they changed the code without actually following the existing code. That’s all,” Temple said. “If the judge agrees that they didn’t act legally, I have asked the judge to reinstate the old code. They would then have to change the code within the existing code.”

For Temple, the number of lawsuits in motion is reason to worry about the stability of county government.

“There have been at least four lawsuits filed since the start of the year due to the commissioners’ actions,” he said. “Those, and the Clagstone fiasco, normally wouldn’t be considered an indication of competence.”

The code changes Temple references are at the center of his decision to resign from the Planning Commission. In January, the Planning Commission decided to delay its recommendation on proposed land use appeals process changes.

County commissioners then scheduled their own hearing without a Planning Commission recommendation, which

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opponents said violated county code. Commissioners then changed county code to place limits on Planning Commission recommendations.

Marley’s lawsuit, meanwhile, seeks unspecified damages and reinstatement to her position for her firing in January. She also filed a tort claim seeking restitution for due process violations in her removal from her job. Her court filings contend that she was removed from her position for not reducing land use regulation without code-mandated public procedure.

That claim is mirrored in former county planner Dan Carlson’s lawsuit filed last year. Fired from his position in October, Carlson’s legal paperwork claims the termination stems from an argument with Commissioner Todd Sudick, who allegedly wanted him to violate county procedure in the approval of a cell tower.

The county’s legal troubles

don’t end there. Former Sandpoint planning director Jeremy Grimm is seeking $100,000 from the county for damages to income and reputation. Grimm’s tort claim, filed in March, alleges his work responsibilities at Kochava were reduced after county commissioners complained to his employer about his comments at land use public hearings and in emails to county attorneys. A county property owner, Grimm has been active in a dispute between Alpine Cedar sawmill and nearby homeowners over the mill’s expansion of operations.

Finally, former Bonner County EMS chief Robert Wakeley recently settled a longstanding dispute with the county over his alleged wrongful termination in 2014.

“I can confirm the suit ended, and I am very satisfied,” Wakeley said. “I would add that I would have preferred to remain chief until my planned retirement at 70.”

Pie & Whiskey returns

By Reader Staff GET LIT! presents the fifth annual Pie & Whiskey Reading, to be held at the Spokane’s Women’s Club (1428 W 9th Ave, Spokane) on Thursday, April 14, from 9:30-11:00 p.m. Hosted by writers Samuel Ligon and Kate Lebo, the event features readings of flash fiction, flash nonfiction, and poetry inspired by everyone’s favorite food and drink.

Pies served at the event will be baked by Kate Lebo, with help from other heroic pie bakers of Spokane. Lost Horse Press will produce a chapbook featuring the

pieces written for Pie & Whiskey, using artwork by Spokane artist Chris Bovey; the books are hand-stitched by EWU students. A limited number of the chapbooks will be available, sales of which help support the event. Donations are also gladly accepted. Whiskey generously donated by Spokane’s delicious and award-winning Dry Fly Distilling.

By Ben Olson Reader Staff Over 120 people packed into the Ponderay Events Center on Wednesday to attend the First Annual Service Provider Symposium. The event, titled “Unifying the Service Provider Community,” was hosted by Sandpoint Community Resource Center (SCRC).

The ultimate goal of the symposium was to link service providers throughout the community to better serve those who need.

“It’s all about making connections and keeping current with other service providers,” said Becca Orchard, a board member with SCRC. “There’s no universal way we have right now of communicating with each other.”

Orchard said SCRC serves as the “the hub of all the service points in our community, be it transportation, veterans’ affairs, seniors or mental health. The ultimate goal is to create opportunities for people to work collaboratively to improve services in our community.”

“There are so many great organizations in this community,” said Pierce Smith, SCRC board member and treasurer. “A lot of people don’t know what’s happening, so this is an attempt to get everyone introduced and working on a broader scale.”

Orchard said one of the biggest challenges in our community is not only the need that

Over 120 people attended Wednesday’s symposium. Photo by Ben Olson. people have, but the fact that many needs overlap throughout different organizations.

“Whether you’re working with vets or mental health, or seniors, or faith-based situations in a church, you end up sitting across from someone asking for help and they typically have one of two prevailing problems; transportation and housing,” said Orchard. “They would be told where to get what they need, but maybe don’t have a way to get there. Or you’ll have people looking for food, but they’ll also let you know they’ve been kicked out of their apartment.”

The symposium was a mixture of group sessions and keynote speakers like Mark Tucker with United Way, who spoke about the ALICE Project. ALICE stands for Asset Limited Income Constrained Employed, or the “working poor” who earn more than the U.S. poverty level, but less than the basic cost of living for the country.

In 2013, 15 percent of households in Idaho live in poverty, while 22 percent were ALICE. The numbers for Bonner and Boundary Counties fall slightly higher than the state averages.

Orchard said the bottom line is helping those in need however possible.

“It’s all about getting better as a community,” she said.

“Trying to get help to people that need help.”

FEATURE

Keeping the ‘peace and purity’ of a small town Idaho empire

By Katie Botkin Reader Contributor Natalie Greenfield was 13 years old when Jamin Wight began boarding at her family home.

A 24-year-old seminary student, Wight attended Greyfriars Hall, a Moscow-based ministry training program co-founded by Pastor Doug Wilson of Christ Church.

Unbeknownst to anyone but the victim in question, he began repeatedly molesting home-schooled Natalie. When the abuse came to light, Wight was arrested on charges of Lewd Conduct with a Child Under Sixteen Years of Age and Sex Abuse Against a Child. He pleaded guilty in 2006 to the reduced charge of Injury to a Child.

The case went largely unnoticed for more than a decade. Then, in September 2015, Natalie posted a letter to her blog written by Wilson to the investigating officer of the sexual abuse case. The letter softened what Wight had done, stating among other things that Wight was “not a predator.” In her blog post, Natalie was critical of the way Wilson handled the case.

The media response to the blog post brought renewed national attention onto Wilson. A leader of the Reformed Evangelical Church movement, Wilson has amassed followers and critics of equal passion.

Idaho, the epicenter of the Reformed world Wilson, who lives in Moscow, Idaho, has spent much of his pastoral career sparking controversy and feeding off the backlash. In one Amazon product featuring him, Wilson gets the dubious honor of being labeled “the most hated preacher” in America.

Wilson is perhaps best known—or least liked—for co-writing “Southern Slavery As it Was,” a partially-plagiarized pamphlet claiming that slavery as it existed in the antebellum South was better than any mixed-race alternative to date: “There has never been a multi-racial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the world.” But this is hardly a solitary incident—wherever Wilson goes, controversy is sure to follow, and from that controversy Wilson draws his staunchest name recognition. Wilson, a self-described advocate of patriarchy, has a large following in Moscow and has fans spread across the United States—fans who routinely insist that Wilson is misunderstood and, moreover, has really helped them both

An examination of Pastor Doug Wilson’s controversial career in Moscow

personally and through his teachings on Reformed evangelical Christianity.

“Reformed evangelicalism operates more self-consciously in the tradition of the Protestant reformation,” Wilson said.

“Think of it as a form of evangelicalism, but with more of a historical sense.”

Wilson founded his own Reformed denomination, the CREC, complete with a seminary located in Moscow. He and his friends also started Logos, a K-12 classical Christian school in Moscow; started New Saint Andrews (NSA), a college in Moscow that now heavily features his own family members as faculty and dean; and started his own publishing house, Canon Press, which has similarly featured numerous books he and his family members have written. Although Wilson has gained a bevy of disgruntled ex-congregants and is considered a cult leader by many members of the Moscow community, he plays every new scandal off as persecution by liberals and “intoleristas,” a term he coined to describe his detractors.

Controversy is key to gaining wider influence because, as Wilson has noted on his blog, he gets more traffic and more attention when people are outraged. His top post of 2015 included the self-posed question “Do you think supporting same-sex marriage is a more serious problem than supporting slavery?” to which Wilson’s response was “Yes, far more serious.”

Wilson writes with his patent-pending “serrated edge” style, wherein he insults those who disagree with him. Jesus, Wilson says, did this to the Pharisees, and it turned out to be a great rhetorical tactic.

“In some areas I understand the fact of controversy, and am grateful for it,” Wilson said. “You cannot challenge long-accepted ideas without some controversy. That is part of the cost of doing business. But in other areas, you have controversy because people want to accuse you of saying things you do not say, or of doing things you would not do. That is simply slander.”

Wilson seemingly relishes controversy with the wider world, but discourages it within his church. In fact, he appears to expect his congregants (and potentially other pastors within the CREC) to defer to his wisdom and seek his advice on matters of business and law, and some have said he threatened them and their businesses when they did not comply.

In the now-defunct “Justice Primer,” co-written with fellow CREC pastor Randy Booth and also pulled for plagiarism, Wilson states that pastors should get to decide if calling the cops is a good idea, regardless of what the law says on the

matter: “Church leaders make judgment calls regarding which sins rise to the level of crimes.”

This has played out in a couple of sex scandals within Wilson’s own church, where Wilson wrote letters to the court asking for sentencing leniency. He maintained this was a fine idea even after Jamin Wight, who married after resolving his legal troubles from the Greenfield case, went on to commit felony strangulation of his wife. Another man, Steven Sitler, was investigated for additional pedophilia charges resulting from contact with his own son. Wilson performed Sitler’s wedding ceremony, though Wilson knew the man had molested a large number of children and Sitler, following a brief stint in prison for child molestation, had gone on record as saying he intended to have children himself. Wilson has stated recently that he would gladly perform the wedding again.

Wilson, for his part, has denied that he did anything wrong. “I can say that many critics have been grossly unfair in how they have characterized my involvement in those issues,” he said.

“I believe our behavior in the Sitler case was correct,” he added. “He was reported right away, and ... at my instigation he busted himself for additional offenses.”

Who Sitler “busted” himself to is unclear, since the legal authorities found out about the additional offenses through a third-party tip and have no record of any such confessions from Sitler. These additional offenses did not affect Sitler legally, as he plead guilty to only one count of Lewd Conduct With A Minor Under Sixteen Years Of Age and spent 20 months in prison.

An internal church investigation is currently being held to determine if the CREC should take any action on this front.

Randy Booth, Wilson’s friend and co-author, was heading the investigation until it became public that the “Justice Primer” had been plagiarized, whereupon Booth took the blame for the plagiarism and recused himself from the committee.

According to Wilson, this process is better characterized as a review than an investigation, and one his church invited

at that. “When the review is complete we will receive recommendations from the review committee, which will be applied appropriately,” he said.

Threats and blame Wilson’s August 2005 letter to the investigating officer stated that though Wight was at fault, the Greenfields and specifically Gary Greenfield were also at fault for not protecting Natalie. Wilson insisted after this letter became public that Wight and Natalie participated in a “foolish parent-approved relationship,” and that this justified him writing to the investigating officer. Natalie and her parents have maintained that no such relationship existed, though they say one was briefly discussed for a fictional future and subsequently dismissed.

Wilson has admitted that he can’t prove Natalie knew about any such “courtship,” but insists it took place, and insists that this is completely relevant to discussions about her abuse. He also insists that his threats to suspend Gary from communion in a separate letter written 10 years ago were warranted, because Gary was “abusive” and what Gary did was just as bad as what Wight did.

Natalie and her entire family have vehemently denied this, and Natalie has indicated that these claims can potentially be traced back to a longstanding

Natalie Greenfield. Courtesy photo.

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Bouquets: •A bouquet to Schweitzer Mountain Resort for a fabulous 2015/16 winter season. We’re so blessed to have a great place to ski in our backyard.

Barbs: •Ah, there’s nothing like heading out to your favorite camp spot for the first time of the season, loading all of your gear down to the fire pit and standing in horror as you see yet another douche-bag has left enough garbage behind to choke a manatee. Not just your average beer cans and bottle caps, but dirty diapers? Plastic blow-up air mattresses? Destroyed camp chairs? Come on, people. You’d think being surrounded by the great outdoors would breed some sort of common sense in people when they go camping, but everytime I go out in nature I’m amazed at the things people do to it.

Here are some pointers to avoid being a douche-bag camper: 1. Despite evidence to the contrary, the campfire pit is NOT a trash can. There isn’t a janitor that comes out of the woods to clean up your poopy diapers and trashbags full of empties. It’s usually the camper that comes to your spot next that ends up cleaning up after you, so please try to leave your spot as you would like to see it when arriving. Leave no trace.

2. Broken bottles on the beach? Why, people? If you break a glass where people walk and swim, the glass gets stepped on. Break a glass? Pick it up.

3. Stop chopping down trees to burn. Not only are they green and burn terribly, but there’s no way you’ll burn through an entire tree. Buy a bundle of firewood for $5 or collect driftwood.

4. I go camping to get away from people. Don’t set up your camp right next to mine when there is room to spread out.

5. Put out your damn fire when you leave.

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business-related grudge Wilson had against her father.

On December 15, 2004, mere months before the Greenfield family erupted with the knowledge of Wight’s abuse, Wilson interrogated then-congregant Gary about his loyalty to the church. In a recorded conversation, Wilson emphasizes the need to keep matters of dispute within the church.

He was particularly insistent that those who are unhappy with the church are only telling one side of the story: “Have you been careful to not talk to people about any concerns, grievances, complaints, whatever they might be, until you know the whole story?” Wilson asks. Throughout the recent controversies, Wilson has maintained that his detractors are not telling the whole story, which he cannot reveal because he’s protecting unspecified people.

In the December 2004 recording, Wilson indicated that if Gary broke with the church, his business would suffer: “if there were some sort of rupture between you and the elders or you and the church … there are all sorts of scenarios that I can imagine that would, that would affect your business dramatically.” He suggested Gary sell his coffee shop, Bucers, to someone presumably more loyal to the church.

The meeting also heavily featured Wilson taking Gary to task for not entering into a written agreement with fellow congregant and would-be businessman Mark Beauchamp, whose business was backed by Wilson’s son Nate, better known as children’s author N.D. Wilson. Gary has said since then that he was leery of the written agreement Beauchamp proposed because it gave the church elders legal authority to settle business disagreements between him and Beauchamp.

Soon after this meeting, Wilson published a 178-word story about a man who “would not write anything down,” which was “a significant problem in his extensive business dealings.”

The story concludes: “One day, while crossing the street at an intersection, he objected to a written message that, when summarized, read something like, ‘Don’t Walk,’ and he was struck and killed by a UPS truck.”

Gary has stated that this story was supposed to be about him, and explains what happened after he refused to sell: “Doug realized that I wasn’t going to mindlessly

subject myself to his corrupt authority. Since he determined that I was an independent thinker, he felt the only way to deal with me was to buy me out and get rid of me. He wanted to destroy me and my family as retaliation for not submitting to his authority. He wanted revenge and he got it.”

Wilson denied any and all of this. Asked via email, “Did you ever ask Gary Greenfield, prior to his leaving your church, to remain quiet about his concerns and/or to encourage other church members to remain quiet about their concerns?” Wilson replied “No.” To the question “Did you ever indicate to Gary that if Gary left the church, it would affect his business at Bucers?” Wilson again replied “No.” He elaborates that these answers “interact with the text of your questions at face value. I can’t really interact with background assumptions or definitions.”

“Gary was the one threatening his own business, and I was trying to stop him from continuing on that self-destructive path,” Wilson told the Reader.

One of the phrases Wilson used when urging Gary not to discuss things with disgruntled congregants was “the peace and purity” of the church. This phrase, and this idea, has cropped up repeatedly in other situations where critique of Doug or the church was involved. “[Resolving disputes within the church] should be done wherever possible,” Wilson said.

Peace and purity Back in November 2004, Louis Schuler, who at that time taught at NSA and was involved in Christ Church ministry, voted against promoting Nate Wilson to the position of NSA Fellow.

Schuler was taken aside and reprimanded for this, and shortly thereafter was served with a new contract, which included the paragraph “I pledge to conduct myself in such a way that no one could ever question my loyalty to the peace and purity of Christ Church. This includes refusing to speak to any unauthorized person about grievances I might have, and includes refusing to hear any such criticisms as well.” Schuler refused to sign the contract, resigned from NSA and withdrew from Christ Church. Nate was subsequently instituted as Fellow of Literature at NSA in 2005, which helped in his search to get

Pastor Doug Wilson of the Christ Church in Moscow, Id. Facebook photo. published by non-CREC-affiliated presses.

Doug Wilson and his allies have attempted to silence congregants who link to Natalie’s blog posts on Facebook with similar admonitions to keep the peace. CREC pastors, elders and their family members have contacted current and former CREC members from all over the United States to rebuke them for posting links to posts and stories critical of Wilson. Often, the elders or pastors in question are not friends with the person they’re contacting, and in some cases have never even met them.

Over 21 households confirmed that this has happened to them— some single individuals, some larger families. In the case of families, the husband or another male relative is typically contacted, even if another person, most often a female, was the only one to post something to social media. Additional people who have seemed sympathetic to those speaking against Wilson say they received sudden interest from CREC elders in the form of Facebook friend requests—and again, they’d never met those

making the requests.

Publicly, Wilson has vilified Natalie as a liar and worse. In November 2015, via his blog, Wilson linked to obscure nude performance art videos Natalie’s husband did in grad school at Portland State University, calling them “demented” and claiming this proved what kind of person Natalie was—in brief, as he put it, a “daughter of Portlandia” who was not to be trusted when it came to sexual ethics. Wilson did this two months after writing Natalie a letter telling her “it is not really possible to dig up just half the story. The rest of it is going to want to come up too.”

He specifically mentioned having access “to the love letters/journals that you wrote that the court reviewed and then sealed” from the time she was abused, though he knows at least by now that to publish pages from it would be illegal given that it was sealed by the court.

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to know the financial details held by Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca. Run by two lawyers—one the son of a Waffen-SS soldier, the other a novelist-turned financial expert—the firm has long been known for its discretion, drawing hundreds of clients from world leaders to arms dealers, drug kingpins, high-flown financiers, and at least three dozen individuals or businesses with Idaho addresses. More than 500 banks, including subsidiaries and branches, have funneled business through Mossack Fonseca over the past 40 years—many of them taking advantage of lax regulations to push their clients’ money, tax-free, through a labyrinth of offshore trusts and shell companies spanning the globe.

That changed on April 3, when the International Consortium of International Journalists went public with more than 11 million files leaked in 2015 to the German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung. For the past year, hundreds of journalists from the around the world collaborated to comb through the files—now known as the “Panama Papers”—and published a series of bombshell revelations, among them: Russian President Vladimir Putin is connected with a $2 billion money laundering scheme, a stream of hidden funds have been propping up the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Iceland’s Prime

Minister Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson has been stashing money in offshore accounts for years. Gunnlaugsson stepped down amid the controversy on April 5.

As details from the largest data leak in history continue to come out, attention is turning to smaller players and, so far, relatively few United States individuals or businesses have been found buried in the files.

According to McClatchy, parent corporation of the Idaho Statesman and the only U.S. newspaper company to participate in the ICIJ project, at least 200 U.S. passports appear in the files and 3,500 offshore shareholders are attached to U.S. addresses.

Meanwhile, the way the joint venture was structured provides a glimpse into the complexity of offshore holdings.

A search in the database shows Idaho interests ranging from individuals—many from eastern Idaho—to businesses and organizations including Ketchum-based Mar Vista Capital Ltd. and Yellowstone Trust, which lists its address as Idaho Falls.

By far the biggest name in the files belongs to Boise-based agriculture giant Simplot Company.

According to the records, Simplot International Inc. is listed as an owner/shareholder of Simkar Ltd., an offshore entity with a Cayman Islands address. Also an owner/shareholder of Simkar is West Side

Ltd.—another offshore entity with the same address as Simkar.

The master client of both Simkar and West Side is PT Simplot Agritama, a company with a Jakarta, Indonesia-area address.

Ken Dey, a Boise-based spokesman for Simplot, said PT Simplot Agritama was formed in 1997 as a joint venture between Simplot and WestSide Corp., the latter a Brisbane, Australia-based gas producer founded by businessman Angus Nelson Karoll, who is also named as a director of Simkar and beneficial owner of West Side Ltd. According to Dey, PT Simplot Agritama operated as a vendor of frozen potatoes and other vegetables to independent distributors in Indonesia.

West Side, meanwhile, had expertise in distribution. Simplot sold off its share of the venture in 2003, Dey said, because “it didn’t live up to what we had hoped for in sales growth.”

“How it was structured or why it was structured in this way is hard to determine given that this is nearly 20 years old and the executives who were involved with this have since retired,” Dey wrote in an email. “Bottom line, this was a legitimate business structure and we are no longer involved with this.”

Among the other parties involved with the Simkar-West Side servicing of PT Simplot Agritama were fellow offshore entities CTC Corporation Ltd. and CSS Corporation Ltd.,

both of which shared Simkar and West Side’s Cayman Islands address and served as director and assistant secretary, respectively. A search of CTC and CSS’ other offshore connections yields another web of almost 40 entities with addresses ranging from the Cayman Islands to Hong Kong and including industries from land development to semiconductors, energy interests and food production.

Karoll served as director of

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The only Boise addresses connected to the Simplot joint venture, aside from Simplot International Inc., were attached to Simkar shareholders James T. Hungelmann and James R. Munyon, both former executives in Simplot’s food group division (Hungelmann was a Simplot lawyer while Munyon is a past Simplot president).

Rounding out the parties were WestSide Corp. Director Trent Karoll, who served as a director of Simkar, and British Virgin Islands-based Founders Services, Inc., which is listed as a director of West Side Ltd. John Miller, a University of Idaho law professor with a specialty in business entities taxation, said the data revealed in the Panama Papers raise a number of questions for businesses and individuals mentioned in the files.

“For government officials, such as the Icelandic head of state, it may raise the question of whether their purpose was to conceal a conflicts of interest.

For example, a politician might secretly hold bank stock while engaging in official activities that favor banks. For private citizens it raises the question of whether they have concealed the money from the tax authorities. In short, have they used the entities to commit tax fraud?” he said.

One of the primary takeaways from the flood of reporting on the leak has been that the structures described are quite often intended to create anonymity and avoid paying taxes.

“Basically the foreign income of a foreign subsidiary corporation of a U.S. corporation is not currently taxable in the U.S.,” Miller said. “Almost all U.S. companies that operate abroad have foreign subsidiaries. There is nothing nefarious about this in and of itself.”

However, he added, “there may be nothing wrong with having assets held in a trust or LLC abroad unless that entity is used to hide income from the U.S. government and thereby evade income or other taxes.”

Online news outlet The Intercept reported April 5 on how much offshore asset holdings and shell companies cost the global economy in both tax evasion (illegal) and tax avoidance (“technically legal,” according to The Intercept).

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tax evasion costs world governments upwards of $200 billion a year, while tax avoidance—from U.S. companies alone—tacks on another $130 billion a year.

In a regional breakdown of offshore wealth and tax evasion, U.S. companies and individuals in 2014 were shown to have socked away a full $1.2 billion, or 4 percent of total national financial wealth, in offshore funds—amounting to a tax revenue loss of $35 billion.

The dual outcomes of tax evasion and avoidance fall more heavily on certain communities. Writing for The Intercept, reporter Jon Schwarz noted more wealth from some regions is held overseas than others. A full 10 percent of European wealth resides on different shores and that number rises to 22 percent in Latin America, 30 percent in Africa and 52 percent in Russia.

Meanwhile, the fallout from the Panama Papers has landed much closer to home.

Wyoming Secretary of State Ed Murray has opened a probe into Cheyenne-based M.F. Corporate Services Wyoming LLC, which records reveal “serves as a registered agent for Mossack Fonseca,” according to the Wyoming Tribune Eagle.

Following an audit by the Wyoming secretary of state’s office, it was reported April 7 that 24 entities named in the Panama Papers could be traced to M.F. Corporate Services.

“For years, Wyoming has been considered a haven for shell companies because of the state’s relatively lenient requirements and extra privacy protections,” the Tribune Eagle reported.

“And even though legislative changes have been put in place since 2009 to strengthen the state’s laws, Wyoming remains one of the most attractive locations in the country for these groups.”

Miller underscored that are legitimate reasons for using offshore entities, typically for asset protection. Given the murky nature of how and why a business or individual would do business in such a way, Miller added that the full significance of the Panama Papers leak has not yet been revealed.

“What has been revealed however, is billions of dollars have been salted away in a secretive manner and people would like to know why this was done and where the money came from,” he said.

Zach Hagadone is Editor of the Boise Weekly, where this story was first published.

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When it comes to the health and cleanliness of our lake, we’re all on the same team. It’s good for locals, good for tourists and good for the environment.

Want to do your part and help out? The Lakes Commission, in cahoots with Lake Assist and the City of Sandpoint will be holding their annual City Beach weed pull on Saturday, April 16 at 10 a.m.

The culprit is flowering rush, which is an invasive aquatic plant species that is infesting City Beach. Flowering rush grows very dense and breeds swimmer’s itch. City Beach needs your help to keep winning the battle with flowering rush.

Participants are asked to bring gloves, boots, a trowel and a bucket to the City Beach before 10 a.m. to help with the clean-up.

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In the Corcoran family, there are two sides to living with autism.

On the one hand, the condition brings about incredible focus, attention to detail and talent. On the other, the tendency to be overwhelmed by sensory overload can bring about meltdowns and panic attacks.

Christine Corcoran knows both sides in all their nuance.

Her son, Jean-Paul, now 12, was 3 years old when she first suspected that he might have autism. An official diagnosis came the next year, and almost a decade later, the Corcorans have learned to live with the special needs of autism while appreciating the special characteristics that come along with it.

“The most important thing in our family is being able to laugh,” said Corcoran. “That saves our butts every day.”

As with every other individual on the spectrum, JeanPaul’s autism manifests in its own unique way. He is verbally communicative but often fixates on particular ideas or images. When he feels overwhelmed by his environment, he often breaks down in fits.

And he has difficulty in social situations, preferring to spend time by himself than with other kids his age.

“That’s one of the things we’re focusing on,” said Dan Mohn of North Idaho Children’s Mental Health, who has worked with Jean-Paul for many years.

“I remember saying to him, ‘You enjoy your own company, don’t you, Jean-Paul?’ And he told me, ‘Well, yeah, I’m a pretty cool guy,” Mohn continued with a laugh.

Acclimating to social situations is just one method Mohn uses to help Jean-Paul adjust as he grows older. He focuses therapy on specific goals, whether they be improving communication, practicing interaction skills or making faster decisions. They pursue those goals through several practical exercises. Sometimes it’s as simple going out for a hike.

Other times, it means Mohn prodding him to use more descriptive language when explaining how his day went, recounting the details rather than just saying, “Great.”

According to Corcoran, people like Mohn have been invaluable in helping Jean-Paul improve his life skills over the years. Another essential individual is Dr. Diana Travers-Lucanto, who has worked with him as a staff member at Farmin-Stidwell Elementary School. Corcoran can’t imagine what life would be like today without Travers-Lucanto, who anticipates retirement this year.

“Without her help, we would be like a bobber just floating along until we got bit,” Corcoran said. “She has been so instrumental in challenging Jean-Paul to go beyond his comfort zone—which means the rest of us have to get outside of ours!”

Sure enough, special needs education for kids on the spectrum is hard work, both for the child and his or her family members. Corcoran remembers a challenging incident many years ago when JeanPaul worked with specialist Cindy Ruguleiski. After noticing how Corcoran would baby Jean-Paul, Ruguleiski asked her, “How long do you want him to be 3 years old?” At first, Corcoran was offended.

Then she realized the necessity of pushing and challenging

The Corcoran family: Christine (back), Jean-Paul (left) Simone (right). Photo by Ben Olson. her son.

“He has to adapt,” she said.

“Whether it’s fair or not, that’s the way of the world.”

“It’s OK to push these kids,” said Mohn. “In fact, it’s necessary.”

That Jean-Paul has come as far as he has is a testament to the work of both his teachers and his family. His sister, Simone, finds herself in a unique position as she navigates his autism on top of normal sibling turmoil. That can be challenging, Corcoran said, and it makes for both good days and bad. But they get through it one step at a time with the help of one another and the many supporters around them.

“If I didn’t have the team together that I have, I couldn’t do it,” she said.

One of the most important things is developing Jean-

Paul’s interests, of which he has many. He loves video games, drawing and building with Legos. Music is a particular talent. Coming from a musical home with a musician for a father, Jean-Paul plays the bass and piano, and he has a beautiful singing voice.

There’s no question that challenges lie ahead.

Farmin-Stidwell Elementary School has been a very supportive and bullying-free environment, but with middle school just around the corner, there are uncharted waters on the horizon. Add puberty into the mix, and that adds up to a lot of change.

There’s also the stress of dealing with Optum, which took over managing Idaho Medicaid outpatient mental health services in 2013.

According to Corcoran, the

transition has been nothing but negative. She worries that service cuts will have a disastrous effect on families like hers, especially considering the growth of autism diagnoses in recent years.

“It’s very terrifying to think of the state we’ll be in 10 years if these things are cut,” she said.

The Corcorans intend to take on those challenges as they come. In the meantime, all that remains is standing together in good times and bad, just like any other family.

“I’m so proud of JeanPaul,” Corcoran said. “I tell him that all the time.”

This article is the second in a three-part series profiling local families living with autism.

The series will conclude next week with a final profile.

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Opening hearts and minds Re-Inspirement

By Suzen Fiskin Reader Columnist

In 1937 when Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Social Security into law, the life expectancy of an American male was 58. Women’s life expectancy was 62, but they barely counted since their career options were pretty dismal. With this in mind, 65 was chosen as the age for “retirement benefits.”

The idea was that people would pay into the Social Security system for decades and plotz before they had a chance to collect their investment. Clever, huh? But that plan has backfired. 80 is now the average life expectancy in the U.S., and we all know many folks who are still active and healthy well into their 80s. Ooops!

We have a whole lot of living to do after checking out of our first round careers.

With 10,000 Boomers hitting 65 each day, our lazy dreams of playing golf, gin, and touring in our RVs are stretching beyond the old confines. Through necessity and desire, we are re-inventing how we live the latter part of our lives.

With the cost of living and medical care rising, pensions disappearing and stagnant Social Security payouts, there are many retirees wanting and needing to supplement their income. This is new territory.

I moved to Sandpoint in 2007, all set to retire early and enjoy a life of leisure on the big slide home. I’m a lifelong entrepreneur, and this was the first time in my life I wasn’t consumed with making money and drumming up new clients for my speaking and coaching business. Ahhh!

I kayaked, played tennis and volunteered for a potpourri of not-for-profits. I also used my time to write the book I always knew I’d write, “Playboy Mansion Memoirs.”

It took nearly eight years to complete my tome. It’s been well received and gives me a fabulous sense of accomplishment.

Time marches on, and I find myself wanting more: more buzz from interacting with interesting, new people; more money for travel, fun and games; and more of the juicy satisfaction I used to get from coaching people to be more successful – both inside and out.

And so I’ve put myself on the path that I call RE-INSPIREMENT. It’s a word I invented to replace the old model of retirement. It’s not about checking out of society to watch daytime TV and eat bon bons, but rather an opportunity to re-engage with the world with passion, purpose and a paycheck. The name may be mine, but the idea has spread over our 50 states and beyond.

This time around, we get to re-imagine our lives for who we are today, not who our parents wanted us to be, or following society’s “shoulds.” Today, we get to figure out what floats our boat and gets our juices flowing when considering new second half of life careers. There are lots of success stories out there that are truly inspirational.

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Mad about Science:

By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist

You can get online and hunt some down to fan your own fires.

Almost a quarter (23.6 percent) of new businesses were started by entrepreneurs ages 55 to 64 in 2013, an increase from 14 percent in 1996, according to the latest data from the Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity. With technology, it’s never been easier or cheaper to start our own businesses that reflect our interests and sweet spots. Having trouble getting hired?

Start your own endeavor!

“Some of the best enterprises are started by people who pull together different threads from previous jobs, hobbies and interests,” says Nancy Collamer, author of “Second-Act Careers: 50+ Ways to Profit from Your Passions During Semi-Retirement.”

Personally, I’ve been testing the waters using a number of skills I honed back in the day – I’ve been doing boudoir, portrait and real estate photography; advertising, graphic and web design; and have been seeing hypnotherapy and coaching clients. Okay, so I’m a bit eclectic . . .

I’ve also enrolled in a six-month “Happy on Purpose” coach training course with Leslie Villelli that starts this week. I’m so excited about the possibilities of helping people get happier, and gain the added bonus of learning how to be happier myself.

Coolness!

There are many of us retirees in our neck of the woods, and after the 2008 fiscal meltdown, many of us are looking at our later life differently. Take heart and consider replacing those worn out concepts of retirement and put the spark of new life in them to create RE-INSPIREMENT instead . . . Be bold, be wild, go against the grain and jump in . . . the water’s fine!

Suzen Fiskin is a lifelong entrepreneur who’s exploring her old passions to see what sparks her rockets of desire. A photographer, writer, speaker, designer, hypnotherapist and life coach – she’s excited about what’s next!

If you have any questions, or need any of the above skills, please find her – (208)572-0009 or suzenfiskin@yahoo.com.

This week, we’re talking about Electricity. Electricity is fast. How fast?

Really fast: about 186 miles per second.

To honor the speed of electricity, we’re going to talk really, really fast. 186 miles per second fast? You bet your cat on it.

Actually, don’t. That’s a terrible wager.

Electricity. What is it? Electrons moving fast along wires. Why wires?

We make them, they’re conductive, they slip into places we want them to go with minimal fuss. Don’t get cocky.

If you grab the wires and complete the circuit, you become the wires. Electricity hurts when you are the wires. How bad? It can stop your heart. Burns you from the inside out. Locks your hands into a fist. That’s bad, really bad when you want to let go of the wire.

So electricity is bad? Only if you grab a lot of it. It powers everything.

It makes the lights come on. Makes the computer work. Makes your phone work. It lets the blender make smoothies. It makes your car get you to the taco truck, and it kept their lights on.

Electricity is good. Electricity is awesome.

How do you make electricity? You don’t. Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only transform.

What? Example!

Turn a hand crank on a manual generator. It created energy!

It really didn’t.

You ate some delicious tacos earlier.

Your body gathered the energy stored from the delicious feast, and your body used that energy to transfer it into the manual generator to create electricity.

If you look far enough back, you’ll see that all energy we have on Earth comes from the Sun. Coal? It was algae that gained energy through photosynthesis, light from the sun, fossilized and stored for millions upon millions of years. Your bacon burger? The pigs and cows ate plants that gained energy from

Brought to you by:

the sun.

So why don’t we make a generator like the sun?

We’re trying. It’s called Nuclear Fusion.

What’s Nuclear Fusion? It’s the sun.

In a box. That sounds awesome, can I get one?

Sure! Have $20 billion? It’s complicated, but we’re getting there. Why is it so complicated? We can’t seem to figure out how to get more energy out of it than we put into it. There’s that Conservation of Energy law, again.

Also, it’s hot. Not like your tacos. More like the sun.

What about lightning? Lightning is awesome. Lightning is huge, it’s fast.

It’s electricity as provided by nature.

They say it never strikes twice in the same place: That’s not true. So what if you’re struck by lightning? Well, I’m sorry for you, I hope you feel better. If you die, it will probably happen too fast for you to realize that you’re dying. It may be horrendously painful, we’re not really sure; we haven’t perfected the art of polling the dead.

Enough about that, talk about the lightning.

How strong is it? That’s hard to say, no two bolts are identical. Not even close. We do know that it’s a lot. That 60watt light bulb in your bathroom?

The average strike carries enough power to equal about 166,666,666 of those running all at once. Line all of those bulbs up side by side, and they’d stretch for about 6,234 miles, just under 2,000 shy of the diameter of the Earth.

So much info, so little time. Check back next week. I promise I won’t talk like a goon from a Chicago noir movie in the ‘20s again.

STAGE & SCREEN

‘Cartel Land’ a gritty account of drug violence

Vigilante border patrol leader and former meth user Tim ‘Nailer’ Foley, left, in ‘Cartel Land.’ Photograph: Everett/Shutterstock/Rex Features

By Ben Olson Reader Staff When documentary filmmaker Matthew Heineman originally began work on his Academy-Award nominated film “Cartel Land,” the initial idea was simply to take a closer look at an Arizona border-patrol vigilante named Tim “Nailer” Foley.

When Heineman’s father sent him a clipping about an anti-cartel vigilante group across the border called the Autodefensas, Heineman said, “Immediately upon reading that, I knew I wanted to create the parallel portrait of vigilantism on both sides of the border.”

The resulting film, “Cartel Land” has been hailed as a riveting, on-theground look at the journeys of two modern-day vigilante groups and their shares enemy—the murderous Mexican drug cartels.

From the opening scene of a group of masked men cooking crystal meth by torchlight, to the end of the film with a cinematic encounter with a uniformed man whose chilling allegiances blur the lines between good and bad, it’s easy to mistake this documentary for fiction.

Sadly, it is real in every way, and serves as an alarming account of a crisis that seems to only be getting worse.

“The phrase vigilante has been given a bad name by the media,” said Foley,

an army vet and former meth user who sees his role as “upholding the law where there is no law.”

Through Heineman’s camera we meet all sorts of enigmatic characters who occupy a myriad of positions throughout the drug war with cartels.

There is Dr. Jose Mireles, a small-town physician known as “El Doctor,” who leads the Autodefensas, a citizen uprising against the violent Knights Templar drug cartel that has wreaked havoc on the region for years.

There are also several rebel militiamen that seem to come straight out of a bad action movie. One overwhelming idea behind “Cartel Land” is that the lines of “good and bad” are not as clear as one would hope for them to be.

With Kathryn Bigelow numbering among its executive producers (Bigelow directed “Zero Dark Thirty,” and “The Hurt Locker,” among other films), “Cartel Land” is unique in the sense that it was shot by a man who goes where no one in their right mind would think to go; right into the heart of darkness. The results just might terrify you.

Oscar-nominated “Cartel Land” will be playing at the Panida Theater on April 14-15. The film will begin at 7 p.m. both nights, and is rated-R. General admission is $7.50, seniors is $6.50, and students is $5.50.

april 14-15 @ 7pm “cartel land” documentary film

a ground-level look at vigilante efforts to thwart organized crime at the Mexican-American border

April 15 & 16 @ 7:30pm, april 17 @ 3:30pm

“Hello my name is doris” film thursday, April 21 @ 7pm

Full Draw Film Fest Tour

bow hunting films like you’ve never seen before

friday, April 22 @ 7:30pm

“Love Thy Nature” Earth day celebration film

April 23 @ 7:30pm, April 24 @ 3:30pm

“race” film

wednesday, April 27 @ 7:30pm

POAC presents: dakhaBrakha

The creative quartet from Kiev, Ukraine make music that sounds like nothing you've ever heard

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OUTDOORS

Gardening with Laurie: Starting Seeds

By Laurie Brown Reader Columnist

Seed starting time is upon us! Many people rely on nursery plants, but starting from seed offers more selection, and you can control all the inputs and not worry about something the plants may have been exposed to. Vegetables and most annual flowers are easy to start from seed; why not try it?

Before you start, read the seed packet or the instructions in the catalog. Most packets will tell you what sun exposure the plant needs (most vegetables want full sun), the time it takes to make the edible parts or to bloom, the depth to plant the seeds, the mature size of the plant, how far from each other to put them and the soil temperature the seed needs to start. This is almost all you need to know for veggies.

Seeds can be started in almost anything that will hold soil, has drain holes, and will not fall apart when watered.

Used plant containers should be sterilized before use; soak in a 1:10 solution of bleach water for a few minutes; no rinsing necessary. Do NOT use garden soil to start in containers; use a soilless potting mix. Garden soil or compost can contain pathogens that don’t bother mature plants but can kill seedlings.

Fill containers with potting soil and water well. You want the surface a halfinch below the top of the container; higher and water runs off, deeper can lead to fungus due to lack of air movement. Use a pencil to make holes the depth the seed packet calls for, and drop the seeds in. If you don’t know the depth, put the seed in at three times the size of the seed.

Once seeds are moistened, they start to grow and must not dry out. At this point, they do not need fertilizing; do not fertilize until they have two sets of true leaves— six leaves in all. While they are young, mix fertilizer at one-fourth the label strength and feed frequently rather than giving them strong fertilizer all at once; because the seedlings need watering twice a day, fertilizer gets washed out quickly.

As soon as the seeds sprout, they need a lot of light. You can get a full spectrum by using one warm white and one cool white fluorescent tube. The 18 /

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lights should be movable, as they need to be kept one inch above the tops of the seedlings and moved up as they grow.

Use tubes for only one growing season; they lose output quickly. Humans can’t see the difference but the plants can.

They are still fine to use in the garage or kitchen.

A few seeds need to a little extra care to sprout quickly: they need soaking.

Artichokes and asparagus seeds it, and peas are sped up by it. Place the seeds in a cup, and pour water that feels hot to your hand but doesn’t burn you. Allow to sit in this water overnight and plant the next day.

Seedlings will be stunted if they run out of root room. As soon as roots touch the walls of the container, they need to be moved. When you handle a seedling, grab them by a leaf, not the stem. Damage to the stem can stop nutrients from making it to the top of the plant, whereas it can always grow a new leaf. Most seedlings should be planted to the depth they were; tomatoes, peppers and squash can be planted deeper and will grow more roots and make a stronger plant.

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Next column: Hardening off and planting out Laurie Brown is a master gardener, garden writer and member of the Bonner County Gardeners Association.

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FOOD The Sandpoint Eater

By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Food Columnist It looks like we have another gorgeous weekend of picnic weather headed our way, and many will take the opportunity to pack up a basketful of food and head to the great outdoors.

Whether you’re packing your gourmet food into a vintage wicker basket with corresponding linens and cold champagne or dropping freeze-dried ice cream into a trusty backpack as sustenance for a daylong hike, nothing matches a meal shared in the great outdoors.

Picnics can be served for brunch, lunch or supper, and around here it’s not uncommon to see moveable feasts hauled to some pretty extraordinary places: the Festival at Sandpoint, City Beach, Sam Owen Campground, up to Schweitzer Mountain and down the Pack River. A day on the lake is sure to include some type of fare as well. Picnics pack a punch and win the vote, hands down, whenever I ask the proverbial question, “Where do you kids want to eat today?”

Around my house, all visiting offspring and extras get into the act of packing the treasured basket with our old favorite standbys, including the featured chicken salad recipe. Picnics are universal, and gourmands can be found everywhere, though the most elaborate picnic I have come across is the Dîner en Blanc, which I learned about from daughter Casey, who’s attended the one in Chicago for the past few years.

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Picnic season is upon us!

White Party, is an invitation-only secret dinner party that originated in France. It is so secret, in fact, that even though thousands attend an annual event, the location is not known until it is announced upon boarding the bus to the pre-arranged event. Everyone must wear white, bring their own picnic basket, chairs, table (and linens) and champagne.

The original Dîner en Blanc took place in Paris in 1988 at the Parc de Bagateller in the Bois de Boulogne. The original dinner included about 25 participants, who all dressed in white so they could spot one another easily. The first dinner has morphed into an annual worldwide event in over 50 cities with over 100,000 participants. Nearly 15,000 gathered for last year’s Paris event. The closest event to us is Seattle, but don’t show up unless you have a coveted invitation from a past participant.

If Dîner en Blanc sounds a little over the top and you’re happy gathered around a picnic table at City Beach, remember that sun and food do not mix well. I hope I’ll see you at the beach… To ensure a fun time before and after the picnic, keep these safe food facts from the FDA handy: • Keep cold food cold. Place cold food in a cooler with ice or frozen gel packs. Cold food should be stored at 40°F or below to prevent bacterial growth. Meat, poultry, and seafood may be packed while still frozen so that they stay colder

longer.

• Organize cooler contents.

Consider packing beverages in one cooler and perishable foods in another. That way, as picnickers open and reopen the beverage cooler to replenish their drinks, the perishable foods won’t be exposed to warm outdoor air temperatures.

• Keep coolers closed. Once at the picnic site, limit the number of times the cooler is opened as much as you can.

This helps to keep the contents cold longer.

• Don’t cross-contaminate.

Be sure to keep raw meat, poultry and seafood securely wrapped. This keeps their juices from contaminating prepared/cooked foods or foods that will be eaten raw, such as fruits and vegetables.

• Clean your produce. Rinse fresh fruits and vegetables under running tap water before packing them in the cooler--including those with skins and rinds that are not eaten. Rub firm-skinned fruits and vegetables under running tap water or scrub with a clean vegetable brush while rinsing with running tap water. Dry fruits and vegetables with a clean cloth towel or paper towel.

Packaged fruits and vegetables that are labeled “ready-to-eat,” “washed,” or “triple washed” need not be washed.

Chicken Salad I always roast the chicken for better flavor (if you’re in a hurry, purchase a roasted deli chicken and chill) Serve with chilled Pinot Grigio and Crusty French bread Makes four salad servings or six sandwiches.

INGREDIENTS: •1 roasted chicken (remove skin and bones and chop into small pieces– approx. 4 cups •1 cup finely chopped celery •¼ cup finely chopped red onion •2/3 cup mayonnaise •2 tbsp apricot jam •2 tsp curry powder •1 tsp salt •½ tsp cracked black pepper •1 avocado,sliced •2 Mandarin oranges, peeled and sectioned * •¼ cup thin almond slices * *Use as garnish for salad or additions to sandwiches

DIRECTIONS: •Roast chicken and chill overnight and remove skin and bones and chop into small pieces.

•Into a large mixing bowl add celery and onion and toss lightly In a small bowl, add mayonnaise, jam, curry powder, salt and pepper and whisk until smooth and creamy.

•Pour over chicken mixture and toss again. Keep chilled until serving.

MUSIC

This week’s RLW by Ben Olson

Hell’s Belles rocks the Hive

By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff

When your AC/DC tribute band has the endorsement of Angus Young, you know you’re doing something right.

Hailing from Seattle, Hell’s Belles is an all-woman rock band covering the discography of hard rock icon AC/ DC. Since forming in 2000, they’ve built a large fanbase of classic rock fans throughout the country. That includes AC/DC lead guitarist and songwriter Young, who in 2003 told the music magazine Blender, “The best AC/DC cover band I’ve heard?

There was an all-girl band in America, Hell’s Belles.”

There’s little cause to wonder why Hell’s Belles has struck a chord with AC/DC fans. The band knows how to channel the energy and drive of hard rock into amazing live performances.

The same anarchic spirit that characterized AC/DC live performances is alive and well in Hell’s Belles, where the band members capture the attitude of the original band as well as their musical style.

The all-woman line-up is no accident. When founding members Om Johari and Amy Stolzenbach created the band in 2000, they wanted to bring AC/DC fans together while proving that women could rock just as hard as the guys. The guiding force was a “commitment to leveling the rock and roll gender playing field, [assembling] an all-female group of equally talented and like-minded female musicians to play AC/DC anywhere and everywhere people wanted them to.”

Sixteen years later, consider that point proven. Now running with members Adrian Conner as Angus Young, Laura Derig as Phil Rudd, Mandy Reed as Cliff Williams, Australia’s Amber Saxon as Bon Scott and Brian Johnson and Lisa Brisbois

READ

Edward Abbey has always appealed to me. His general attitude toward nature and his sometimes ornery distaste for people who don’t get it always make me happy.

One of the best of his extensive cataloge of both fiction and nonfiction work is “Desert Solitaire,” in which he writes about his time living and working as a ranger in the newly formed Arches National Park. This novel captures the essence of the American outdoors, replete with disdain for those who’d seek to spoil its natural wonder.

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and Sharon Needles sharing the role of Malcolm Young, Hell’s Belles still packs venues with fans eager to hear the songs that established AC/DC as rock legends in the 1980s.

Joining Hell’s Belles for the ride is local favorite Miah Kohal Band.

A welcome addition to any party, Miah Kohal and company will open the night with some classic rock and outlaw country tunes. Veterans of the Festival at Sandpoint where they opened for Huey Lewis and The News, they’re sure to see plenty

I’m a big fan of shoegaze/dream pop bands that put a lot of textural Heavy metal never looked so good. Courtesy photo. elements in their music. They make me think of my old days in the big of fans at the show and no doubt win a few city when I would zone out and people watch the weirdos from the bus. more.

One of my favorite bands to If you want to be counted among those stream on Spotify lately is Beach about to rock, The Hive’s Season Bender House, whose album “Bloom” has featuring Hell’s Belles and the Miah Kohal been stuck in my head for awhile.

Band is a night you won’t want to miss. It Beach House’s frontwoman Vicall goes down Friday, April 15 at The Hive. toria Legrand has a voice that reDoors open at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 8 minds me a lot of Nico. The easy, p.m. The show is ages 21 and up, and tickets driving rhythms cost $15 at www.livefromthehive.com, Evans are perfect for Brothers Coffee, 7B Boardshop, Eichardt’s, those of you who have to sit and Pucci’s Pub, Long Ear Records in Coeur stare at computers d’Alene or at the door. for hours every As a special thank you to employees and day. patrons of Schweitzer Mountain Resort for

another great skiing season, anyone who presents a Schweitzer employee ID or season pass at the door or at a local ticket provider will receive a discounted $10 ticket.

Crossword Solution

WATCH

The library has so many great documentaries to sift through. One that caught my attention last week was “Absolute Zero,” a NOVA presentation that dove into the oddly compelling world of cold.

The race to reach absolute zero—the temperature in which all motion in matter stops—had some great side consequences, such as the discovery of refrigeration, air conditioning and superconductivity. But most of all, I was impressed to be so fascinated with something my 13-year-old self would’ve scoffed at.

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w o N & Then compiled by

Ben Olson

Each week, we feature a new photograph taken from the same vantage point as one taken long ago. See how we’ve changed, and how we’ve stayed the same.

Historical information provided and verified by Bonner County Museum staff and volunteers. The Museum is located at 611 S. Ella — (208) 263-2344.

Belwood’s Furniture on the corner of Cedar St. and Third Ave., looking southwest.

Belwood’s closed its doors in August 2009 after more than 30 years of doing business in Sandpoint. This photo was taken during their close-out sale.

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Copyright www.mirroreyes.com

2009

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The same building today. After a critically acclaimed restoration, Pend d’Oreille Winery moved into the historic building at the end of 2013. Offices upstairs also house several other businesses, such as Summit Insurance.

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[noun] 1. Someone who is good at telling stories.

“Grandpa was everyone’s favorite raconteur after he had a few nips off the brandy bottle.”

Corrections: Despite all odds, we made it through another issue without hearing about any errors. Phew!

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As I walked through the woods, I looked up and saw a squirrel. I smiled and he smiled. At least I think it was a smile. My teeth were showing and my cheeks were pulled up.

That’s a smile, isn’t it? (The squirrel was definitely smiling.)

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