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Photos of the Week: Sept. 22-28

From top right, moving clockwise: A variety of hitch wagons stand for display at the Bonner County Fairgrounds during the 40th annual Idaho State Draft Horse and Mule International Show. -Photo by Cameron Barnes.

A half-rainbow spans the sky during a recent sun shower at Sandpoint City Beach. -Photo by Cameron Barnes.

Rowers compete during the Pend d’Oreille Regatta -Photo by Chris Bessler.

Cookbook author and longtime Sandpoint resident Mark Nichols readies his tropical togs for his winter escape to Costa Rica. -Photo by Alan Barber.

Calling all photographers, would you like one of your photos to be featured on our Photos of the Week page? Submit them to cb@sandpointreader.com.

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S F. H A True Democrat Candidate for Idaho State Representative Legislative District 1 Seat B I have lived in Idaho since 1969, first in Blaine County, then moving to Bonner and Boundary County in 1977. I’m a lifetime Democrat and have been active in the Boundary County Democratic Central Committee for 14 years and have been elected Precinct Captain for Naples for the last 12 years. I am endorsed by the Democratic Central Committee in both Bonner and Boundary County.

-Stephen F. Howlett

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I support funding for school teachers students and buildings

I support current practices and will consider inter-agencies and State Department collaborations

I support increasing the minimum wage to $9.75 over 3 years

Taxes are necessary to operate a government. I will seriously check the databefore adding, lowering or increasing any taxes

I support the Medicaid Insurance Gap

I support the Second Amendment

Paid for by candidate – Stephen F. Howlett, Treasurer

Pre-game with Bob Witte and Chris Chatburn at 6:40pm

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READER 111 Cedar Street, Suite 9 Sandpoint, ID 83864 (208)265-9724

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We hope to provide a quality alternative by offering honest, in-depth reporting that reflects the intelligence and interests of our diverse and growing community.

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About the Cover This week’s cover featuring an original piece of art by Amy Tessier. The piece is called “Lone Cowboy” and was done in soft pastel. Amy grew up in Spokane, Wash. and was selected as the Festival at Sandpoint’s poster artist in 1993. She resides in Maui with her husband Brooks for most of the year. You can see more of Amy’s work at Evans Brothers or to purchase, www.vivrearts.com.

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(wo)MAN compiled by

Susan Drinkard

on the street

“Did you watch the debate? What are your thoughts on how it went?”

“I saw parts of it. I am going for Hillary because she is smarter than Trump and has political experience.”

Lawana Beebout Volunteer at The Cove Sandpoint

DEAR READERS,

Do you like free stuff? Me too. That’s why the Reader is available for free every week, rain or shine. OK, enough shameless plugging.

Really what I’m getting at is reminding you to check our Facebook page for the post at the top of the page. We’re giving away $50 in dining and drinking certificates to MickDuff’s to anyone who comments on that post and likes our page. Just a little thank you to our loyal readers.

We’ll draw the winner Friday morning, so don’t forget to head over to our page and comment today. You could be elbow deep in beer cheese soup and microbrew by noon on Friday.

In other news, the big story of the week is the demonstration project being unveiled by Solar Roadways at the Jeff Jones Town Square. Word is that there will be quite a few news outlets covering the event. Head down to the town fountain at 3 p.m. to check it out, or go to www.sandpointidaho.gov to watch live online if you can’t make it in person.

-Ben Olson, Publisher

“I watched the debate. I liked Donald Trump. He speaks his mind. He seems to understand people’s frustrations and is willing to help.”

Carissa Lonzisero Junior at the charter school Sagle

“I watched the debate. There is no question in my mind that Hillary has the character, integrity, knowledge and experience for the job. It was evident the other candidate doesn’t have the presence we need to represent us in the world.”

Karen Bowers Retired theater director Sandpoint

“I thought Hillary Clinton clearly won the debate, and I felt embarrassed for Donald Trump.”

Rob McKenney Medicaid transportation driver Bonners Ferry

“No, I did not watch the debate because I went to a book club where we do not discuss politics. I did watch snippets and read about the debate the next day in the newspaper; obviously, Hillary won.”

Gloria Ray Retired librarian Sandpoint

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It’s Not a Choice...

Dear Editor, This letter is in response to the letter from Mr. Don D. Otis.

Yes, anyone can see that Adam had issues with depression. I could ramble on, but first I am going to collect my thoughts before I send a complete response.

As I said in a previous letter, yes, I am gay, always have been, always will be. My question for Mr. Otis right now is simply this; “When did you choose to become the ethnicity that you are now?”

I’m pretty sure you were born that way. You didn’t have a choice.

My hope is, Mr. Otis, that you would be willing to embrace diversity, and celebrate life’s differences.

Jeff Bohnhof Sandpoint

A Grieving Brother...

Dear Editor, Don Otis speaks of etiologies yet gives the impression Adam Ferris’ alcoholism and depression are merely secondary to his sexuality. It is absurd. I’m sure The American Psychiatric Association, The American Psychological Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics agree that homosexuality is not an illness or disorder, but a form of sexual expression. Therefore, Adam’s sexuality has nothing to do with causation of his intrinsic problems.

If anything, the stigma the LGBT community endures merely exacerbated his real problems. The stigmatized are vast and various. Who is Don Otis to tell us we all need therapy? The fact of the matter is Otis is not a psychiatric professional, had never met Adam and has offended Adam’s family by publicly stating Adam struggled alone.

Adam was young, aspired to be independent and, like the majority of humanity, his journey of self-discovery was complex. Adam had the support of a loving family who encouraged him to be himself as he adjusted to rural Idaho. His family constantly addressed his feelings and offered every resource to facilitate his aspirations. Adam was indeed confused and frustrated, but he didn’t need a therapist to figure out he wanted to live in a big city where he had a better chance of meeting new friends and lovers. He had his goal and he was anxious to fulfill it.

On behalf of Adam’s family, my

family, we commend Jim Healey for writing “Yup Yups” which illustrates the many facets of Adam’s life—transgender being one of those facets. Don Otis boldly claims Adam was “desperate” and “alone.” Otis’ words were a slap in the face. We do not require an apology and believe everyone is entitled to their opinion, even if it is a stupid one.

A grieving brother, Don L. White San Diego, Calif.

McAlister a Good Choice...

Dear Editor, Kate McAlister is my choice for the job of representing our District in the state legislature.

Kate is smart, articulate and experienced with many years of local involvement, from being President/CEO of the Greater Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce to serving on various community development and educational boards. She is comfortable with expressing herself when the issue is important, and she is more than willing to debate her opponent, who at this point won’t step up to the podium.

I feel strongly that Kate McAlister will actually represent me at the state level. She ranks right up there with Shawn Keough in wanting to work for the common good.

At times like this, co-existence across party lines is important to those of us who like to see life in balanced terms.

Very importantly, let me urge you to get out and vote, and if you think you may not be able to make it to the polls on Nov. 8, please apply (by Nov. 2) to the County Clerk for an absentee ballot.

Marilyn McIntyre Grouse Creek

Dissension Becoming a Bore...

Dear Editor, To Lee Santa: the first essay I read of yours was a letter to the editor printed first in the Daily Bee and then a few days later in the Reader. It was about our local police victim, Jeanetta, and it was bold and provocative. I also enjoyed your jazz article, published in the Reader, written from your experience.

Lately, your topic choice seems to be limited to your dislike of Ben Olson. For some, your writing

It says here, “If you see one DO NOT RUN.” is foreign and probably doesn’t get read. For those of us whom have read your series of disgruntled letters, we already know that Ben is flawed, and that you are too, so the dissension is becoming a bore.

Ben Olson is a witty, hard working, published author, whom has the unpleasant job of rejecting articles.

He HAS to. We are writing for thousands of community members with a “board” of local advertisers, and this has to be considered. In my experience, Ben is very open and receptive to positive local stories, especially if they are current.

The Reader is more about arts/ culture than politics, and I hope it stays that way.

Please continue to write Lee (on any topic other than Ben). Send your stories, essays and poetry to the Reader and some may get printed. If not, publish them in your own blog. I know you have more interesting material for us to read than your opinions about our ornery ol’ publisher.

Keep Writing!

Jodi Rawson Sandpoint

McAlister a Fine Choice...

Dear Editor, Kate McAlister is a fine choice for our District 1A Representative to the State Legislature.

Kate works effectively to broaden economic opportunity in our area, through her leadership of the local Chamber of Commerce, her support for expanding fiber optic networks, and her involvement with education.

Kate knows first hand that fiscal responsibility and balancing budgets is important. We can count on her to keep public expenditures in line and to spend taxpayer money wisely.

Kate will represent the breath of community values; she listens well to all and does not take extreme positions. We encourage you to vote for Kate McAlister!

Steve Lockwood and Molly O’Reilly Sandpoint Submit letters to the editor to letters@sandpointreader.com. All letters under 400 words and lacking any libelous statements or profanity are printed.

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COMMENTARY

Debate takeaways:

By Ben Olson Reader Staff An estimated 80 million people watched Monday night’s debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Though it started out in a civilized manner, the debate soon rolled off the curb and poured into the gutter. Are any of us surprised?

This debate mirrored much of Trump’s campaign strategy in that he spent most of the night blustering statements that either failed to make sense or were outright false.

Clinton, on the other hand, seemed very much prepared for this showdown. She showed remarkable restraint after Trump’s constant interruptions. According to most media outlets, Clinton came through as the clear winner.

Clinton scored points with comments about stamina, her successful baiting of Trump regarding the birther issue and his refusal to release his tax information. Trump scored a minor point or two, namely criticizing Clinton’s “30-year” history in politics (it’s more accurately around 24 years) and his lob about her supporting NAFTA. However, Trump’s minor points were outshined by his incessant rambling about

By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff It’s hard to imagine many people were satisfied by the first debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

The so-called Super Bowl of presidential debates, which drew higher ratings than any other in U.S. history, saw the candidates playing two different sports.

Trump brought the bravado of a professional wrestler, swinging wildly with attacks that missed more often than they hit. Clinton, evidently the more prepared of the two, aimed for the precision of an archer. The upshot was a contest in which the participants, guided by different sets of rules, failed to engage on the issues in any substantive way.

To be sure, there were a few body blows landed throughout the course of the evening. Trump started out fairly surefooted, eventually scoring some stinging rebukes of Clinton’s 30-year record and her disturbing tendency toward secrecy.

On the other hand, he failed completely to defend against attacks on his missing tax returns or his strange statements about climate change, the Iraq War and Obama’s place of birth, instead resorting to demonstrably false denials or clumsy dodges. His performance was peppered with the lies now characteristic of his campaign, and the bloviation and repetition of his speech far outweighed the 6 /

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properties that he owns, his refusal to walk back any further on his role in perpetuating the racist birther controversy, and, more than anything, refusing to debate substantive policies. He stated that by not paying federal taxes, it made him “smart.” He outright lied about his stance on the Iraq War, claiming he was against it prior to the invasion despite factual evidence pointing otherwise. At one point, Trump even praised his own temperament, prompting those in the audience to snicker.

The worst moment came when Clinton brought up Trump’s comments against a former Miss Universe candidate. Trump called her “Miss Piggy” because she had gained weight and “Miss Housekeeping” because of her Latina ethnicity.

Overall, the debate left a sour taste in my mouth. These are supposed to be the most dignified choices for our top elected position, yet both candidates came across as bickering bridge partners.

Sadly, despite Trump’s awful performance, I don’t think he lost many of his core supporters. This election is proving to be one that proves facts and dignity have no place in a presidential race anymore.

And that is sad on so many levels.

substance of his proposed policies. Perhaps the sharpest indictment of Trump’s self-delusion came not at the hands of Clinton but the audience itself, which burst into incredulous laughter when he claimed his temperament was better suited for the Oval Office.

That’s not to hand Clinton an unblemished victory. While Trump blundered into one lie after another like mines in a minefield, Clinton’s navigation of the truth was more calculated and rapacious.

She did not offer a satisfying answer for the dishonest handling of her email scandal, nor did she show convincing signs of true contrition. Her defense of her record on trade, particularly the Trans-Pacific Partnership, was equally deceitful and self-serving. Nevertheless, she mostly marshaled the facts in her arguments and spent considerably more time discussing practical policy ideas. And, perhaps most importantly for her campaign, she took the stage looking hale and hearty after a nasty brush with ill health.

The debate’s most useful aspect was its direct contrast between the two personalities. One struck me as impulsive, unfocused and chaotic, the other as knowledgeable and capable, if somewhat insincere. In an election that has sparked unprecedented interest with its high stakes, bizarre turns and reality TV candy coating, that contrast could be instrumental in swaying undecided voters.

Einstein and the GPS

By Phil Deutchman Reader Contributor

A hundred years ago, Einstein published his famous work on General Relativity (GR). Little did he know then that the results of his new, radical theory would be used today in the Global Positioning System (GPS).

GR needs to be taken into account in the system. It is absolutely essential for the accuracy required, especially if you want airplanes to land on the airport tarmac at the right spot. In this brief note, I can’t go into a complete analysis of the GPS because many, many factors are involved. Instead, for fun, I’d like to focus on two basic and fascinating General Relativistic effects that deal with the time rates of clocks. The first is a velocity effect and the second is a gravity effect.

What happens to clocks is important because the GPS uses atomic clocks in orbiting communications satellites; and, another clock is placed inside a receiver on Earth. A satellite sends a signal that codes the emission time, while the receiver clock times the reception of the signal. You can see that time may be of utmost importance in the operation of the GPS. Before Einstein, it was assumed that any two perfectly-made clocks would “tick” at the same rate. But, with Einstein’s GR, this is no longer true!

For the sake of understanding the basic ideas, I’ll use somewhat loose language for what follows. Strictly speaking, in relativity, you always have to compare one clock with another one.

After all, that’s where the word “relativity” comes from. For our example, the velocity of a clock is compared relative to another clock; and, the position of a clock in a gravity field is compared relative to another clock at a different position. Since it becomes cumbersome to repeat this over and over, just keep those comparisons in the back of your mind.

Now, for the velocity effect, GR predicts that a speeding clock will actually tick slower. And, for the gravity effect, a clock immersed in a gravity field will also tick slower. Furthermore, the stronger the field, the slower a clock ticks. I’m not saying that these effects are obvious, but they are two major predictions from the Theory of General Relativity.

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Applying this to the GPS, a satellite clock wants to tick slower than an Earth clock. This is because the orbiting satellite moves at a higher speed than the Earth clock, which is slowly rotating with the Earth. However, the satellite clock also wants to tick faster.

Since it is farther away from the Earth, it experiences a weaker field than does the Earth clock. Both clocks are ticking slower, but the Earth clock ticks more slowly because it is in a stronger field.

To summarize: A satellite clock wants to tick slower because of velocity, but it also wants to tick faster because of gravity. So … which effect dominates? Doing careful calculations using GR, it turns out that the gravity effect slightly dominates. The end result is that a satellite clock ticks slightly faster than the Earth clock. This difference is extremely small, but it can add up to a large discrepancy over long times of operation. Fortunately, today’s technology is sensitive enough to measure these small differences, and provides the accuracy needed for a successful GPS. Do these time effects on clocks actually happen? Yes! Atomic clocks have been flown around the Earth and then compared to Earth clocks. The experimental results very much confirm the time predictions given by Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity.

So, when you pick up your GPS device, you are literally holding General Relativity in the palm of your hand.

Paying it forward:

Jim Woodward, construction angel, donates Memorial Field demo work

By Cameron Barnes Reader Staff

During our recent coverage of the memorial field grandstand demolition, I met Jim Woodward, the man behind Apex Construction. As we watched the grandstands being ripped out, he told me about how he first offered to demolish the aged structure, services he donated to the cause. “[I told Sandpoint Parks and Recreation director Kim Woodruff,] ‘Hey, get the Memorial Field replacement funded, and just to get it kicked off, we’ll go down there and tear down the old one if you like,” he said. “That was probably almost two years ago when we first talked about that.

I just kept telling him, ‘Hey, I’m serious. I’ll do that if you just get your project going. I’ll take care of the demo.’ So here we are doing it.”

It’s not the first time Apex Construction has offered its services out of community spirit.

Another such project was the setting of the nine pilings for the Long Bridge swim. Not only do these pilings act as navigation markers for the swimmers during the race, but also they keep boats away from the rocks that lie just beneath the water there.

“It’s not that difficult once you’ve done it a few times, but we had a barge and tugboat, and then

View from Apex Construction’s tugboat during the installation of the pylons for the Long Bridge Swim. Courtesy Photo. we used a vibratory driver on a hydraulic excavator,” Woodward said of the specialized equipment used for the job. “... The steel pilings are loaded onto the barge, then just like a logging choker, they’re picked up, stood into position and vibrated into the ground.”

This project idea was sparked after Woodward noticed the original broken pilings as he drove along the Long Bridge one day. He knew he could help, so he gave a call to Woodruff. The Parks and Recreation director loved the idea and contacted the Long Bridge Swim organization to figure out whose permission he needed to make the

project happen.

The Sandpoint Boardwalk, which Woodward worked on through its first two phases of construction, is yet more Apex handiwork.

“Every day I look down at that and enjoy the fact that we did that. It’s something that’s part of Sandpoint now,” he said.

Now a Sandpoint landmark, the boardwalk may soon see its third construction phase, which would run it from the Panida up to the Cedar Street Bridge. You can be sure Apex Construction will be putting in their bid for that job.

“I’ve been trying to pick out

Markwardt said. “We’ve had an amazing turnout for registration so far [140-plus] and an incredible group of sponsors ... We’re really looking forward to a fantastic first annual event. Hopefully we can do this for many years to come and raise a lot of money.”

As you might expect, there will be no shortage of beer on hand for thirsty attendees, but plenty of other attractions are planned, too. A 5K fun run will begin at 11 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 2, from Sandpoint City Beach and follows the Sand Creek Trail.

Same-day registration is available as early as 8:30 a.m. at Sandpoint City Beach, and each participant will receive a T-shirt, beer, water bottle and a pretzel necklace.

It’s estimated that even those who walk will arrive back to MickDuff’s Beer Hall by 12:30 p.m., just in time for the start of Oktoberfest. The reception is set

to be quite the party with many specials.

Still Tipsy and the Hangovers performs at 4 p.m. Food for the event will be hosted by Beat & Basil as well as the Old Tin Can, which will sport a grass-fed burger topped with bratwurst, sauerkraut and muenster cheese.

Both vendors will be donating a portion of their sales to the cause.

Boobs ‘n Beer arrives just in time for October, which is breast cancer awareness month. Intended to raise awareness of the horrible disease, the month of activism also encourages people to support local cancer services nonprofits.

“This event is truly the brainchild of the 7B Women Committee,” said Markwardt. “... we want to raise awareness for both Celebrate Life and Community Cancer Services, which do so much for not only breast cancer victims, but also people with a myriad of different cancers in the

one item per year to make my contribution...” Woodward said. “We ought to do something every year.

I don’t know when the next one is, but it will come up some day and we’ll go do it.”

Woodward grew up in Bonners Ferry, where his father was a city administrator. His family moved to Sandpoint in 1973, where they owned The Pine Street Bakery for four years.

After high school, Jim spent a year abroad in Germany studying the language he had grown fond of but was never fully immersed in.

He later graduated from the University of Idaho with a Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering. This was followed by seven years in the Navy where he was assigned to a Trident missile submarine.

Woodward knew he wanted to return to North Idaho, so he did precisely that and began working in the construction industry for eight years with C.E. Kramer. In 2008 he decided to start his own company here in Sandpoint: Apex Construction.

“We live in a community, and so I think that it’s important to participate, essentially,” Woodward said. “I remember at Sandpoint Beach when I was a kid, I was always told that my grandpa Frank helped build that pavilion down there. ... He owned the Paint Bucket a long time ago

and worked on that when he was younger. It was always just a memory I had. If you do something like that, then the memory lasts for a while.”

Apex’s current crew consists of Tyler Pauls, Tim Loudon, Jim Majchrowicz, Cody Bleckwenn, Spencer Pauls. Their normal line of work is usually marine construction and site development, but they’ve also taken on restoration work to develop streams, wetlands and spawning beds across North Idaho. When the opportunity presents itself, Woodward and crew will go above and beyond to complete projects solely for the benefit of our community.

“To be fair, there are often many players involved when it comes to initiating development that benefits our town such as the Parks Department, Waste Management [and] private organizations,” Woodward said. “I have to commend these guys who thoroughly get their hands dirty from a hard day of labor, all for knowing they will be making Sandpoint more modern and an overall better place to live.”

For more information on Apex Construction please visit their website at www.apexconstructionservice.com.

Boobs ‘n Beer: An unlikely combo to fight cancer

By Cameron Barnes Reader Staff

Boobs ‘n Beer: It sounds like something out of a National Lampoon college comedy, right?

Well, this event will leave some people crying, but more likely from gratitude instead of laughter.

The inaugural Boobs ‘n Beer Fest—an event hosted by 7B Women, a committee of the Greater Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce—aims to help families in need by raising money for Community Cancer Services and Celebrate Life. These two essential local organizations provide families affected by cancer with the money and resources they need to keep hope alive.

“We not only wanted to give back, but do it in a fun way, and it’s proving to be great,” 7B Women Committee member Jenn

7B Women Committee members sport the new Boobs ‘N Beer event shirts. From left to right: Jesse Wurm, Alice Sloane, Sherri Lies, Gina Hall, Kim Diercks, and Jenn Markwardt. Photo by Cameron Barnes.

community.”

For some folks, beer is always welcome, but it’s even better when it’s serving amazing causes like Celebrate Life and Community Cancer Services. Given that one in eight women will develop

invasive breast cancer in her lifetime, their services are essential to the community.

For more information, check out Chamber 7B Women on Facebook. Support the boobs, drink the beer!

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NEWS

Legislature to take testimony on faith healing

By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff

It’s been a long time coming, but the Idaho Legislature may be preparing to take action on the state’s controversial faith healing laws in its 2017 session.

The Children at Risk-Faith Healing working group, a task force purposed with investigating the impact of faith healing on children, announced it is taking testimony from the public on the controversial issue. The hearings will take place at the Idaho State Capitol from 9:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 10.

“This is a complex issue,” Sen. Marv Hagedorn, R-Meridian, said at an August meeting of the working group. “... I don’t know yet where we’re going to go with this.”

At the center of the debate are state statutes protecting Idaho parents from prosecution for illness, injury or even death to children resulting from withheld medical care for religious reasons. Child welfare advocates argue that no matter the parents’ religious beliefs, they have no

right to withhold necessary medical care from their children.

“Idaho should repeal all four of its religious exemptions pertaining to medical care of sick and injured children,” said Rita Swan, president of Children’s Healthcare Is A Legal Duty, or CHILD. “Such a repeal will send a message that Idaho values all of its children.”

However, members of Idaho religious sects that practice faith healing, particularly the Followers of Christ, contend that principles of religious freedom are at stake. When the Children at Risk working group met in August, Idaho Followers of Christ member Dan Sevy argued that he has a religious right to determine what is best for his children.

“I have all faith in prayer and the results it gives, even though sometimes we don’t like the results,” he said. “We believe pharmaceuticals and medicine are from Satan. That is our belief and use it to condemn no one but ourselves.”

Pivotal to the discussion are proven instances of child maltreatment or death due to faith healing. According to an

annual report by the Idaho Child Fatality Review Team, a survey of 2013 turned up five confirmed cases of infant fatalities directly related to religiously motivated withholding of health care. Over three annual reports, the team has confirmed 10 cases in total.

However, due to a flawed reporting method, there may well be more, the report indicates.

“Since Vital Statistics does not compile the number of deaths in this category, it is difficult to estimate the actual number of preventable deaths to children of religious objectors,” the report states.

Records kept by CHILD of Peaceful Valley Cemetery, the largest cemetery used by Followers of Christ, paint a more disturbing picture. Out of 113 people buried in the cemetery between 2002 and 2011, 40 are child graves. According to Governor’s Task Force on Children at Risk Chair Kirtlan Naylor, that is a child mortality rate 10 times greater than the statewide average.

“The Governor’s Task Force on Children at Risk has reviewed

these matters and is concerned for the well-being and protection of Idaho’s children in circumstances where children have no voice in medical choice,” Naylor wrote. “Religious freedoms must be protected, but vulnerable children must also be appropriately sheltered from unnecessary harm and death.”

It is as yet unclear whether or not the Children at Risk working Catherine (right) and Matthew (left), the children of Rita and Doug Swan. group will forward Matthew passed away after emergency brain surgery. Rita Swan is now president of Children’s Healthcare Is A Legal Duty, which advocates for a recommendathe overturning of exemptions to faith healing. Courtesy photo. tion to the Idaho Legislature for its 2017 session. While child welHealth and Welfare Committee. fare advocates have urged a vote To read our full investigation to amend religious exemption into the past and present of Idaho laws for the past few years, the issue has so far failed to secure a faith healing, visit sandpointreader.com/suffer-the-little-children. full hearing in the Idaho Senate

Solar Roadways demonstration opens this week

By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff The long-awaited moment is finally here.

City and business officials are excited to introduce the first-ever public demonstration of Solar Roadways panels this Friday.

Given the immense public interest surrounding the technology since its viral crowdfunding campaign, the event is expected to place significant media attention on Sandpoint.

“The weather report said it should be a good day for us to be outside, and we’re supposed to have some sun,” Sandpoint City Administrator Jennifer Stapleton told council members last week.

The day kicks off with a 1 p.m. press conference at the Columbia Bank Building, located at 414 Church Street. Following the media frenzy, an official ceremony will begin 3 p.m. at Jeff Jones Town Square, where the demonstration project is located.

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the demonstration boasts many of the Solar Roadways panels’ envisioned features. Snow and ice should be no problem on the panels this winter thanks to heating elements, while the solar energy collected throughout the day will help power the square’s fountain and bathrooms. What’s more, kids and families should have plenty of fun playing with the panels’ programmed sequences of LED lights, which are intended to paint road lines when used as a driving surface.

A proof of concept for Solar Roadways technology, the project is a first step toward largescale, multi-functional walking and biking surfaces. According to Solar Roadways officials, similar demonstrations are expected to open in other areas of the country.

The project is funded primarily through an Idaho GEM grant from the Idaho Department of Commerce and a grant from the Sandpoint Urban Renewal A mysterious white tent covers the Solar Roadways demonstration project Agency. during construction at Jeff Jones Town Square. Photo by Cameron Barnes.

Hope resident sentenced for counterfeiting

By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff A Hope man is facing hard time in federal prison for printing several fake $50 bills.

The Spokesman-Review reports that Keith Daniel Snyder, 51, was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for using phony $50 bills in stores throughout Sandpoint and Ponderay. Afterward, he’ll serve three months of home confinement, three years of supervised release and pay $1,150 in restitution to affected businesses.

Snyder pulled off his crime by using a simple Hewlett-Packard printer to ink a $50 bill face over treated $1 bills. Prosecutors were able to prove 46 counts of the crime between November 2015 and January 2016.

Defense attorneys for Snyder said his actions were spurred by a methamphetamine addiction that began in 2012. They argued for a lenient sentence based on Snyder’s previously clean record. While Snyder will face prison time despite their arguments, it’s a sentence far shy of the maximum 20 years in prison and $250,000 in fines.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Spokane office of the United States Secret Service, Bonner County Sheriff’s Office and Ponderay Police Department teamed up on a joint investigation of the crime.

FEATURE

Donald Trump and the return of seditious libel

By Richard Tofel For ProPublica

In 1733, New York printer John Peter Zenger began publishing the eighth newspaper in the American colonies, and the first willing to venture criticism of the government.

The New-York Weekly Journal was the second paper in a city of 10,000 or so people, 1,700 of them slaves.

As we are reminded in Richard Kluger’s comprehensive new book, “Indelible Ink,” the first full-length account of Zenger’s travails, by 1735, Zenger (and the likely editor of his paper, James Alexander) had so offended Britain’s royal governor of New York and New Jersey, William Cosby, that Cosby brought suit against Zenger for seditious libel—the crime of criticizing the government. Under the law then in effect in Britain and its colonies, truth was not a defense to this charge. The leading legal treatise of the day explained that “since the greater appearance there is of truth in any malicious invective, so much the more provoking it is.” And: “The malicious prosecution of even truth itself cannot… be suffered to interrupt the tranquility of a well-ordered society.” This was deemed especially the case with true attacks on those in power, as they would have “a direct tendency to breed in the people a dislike of their governors and incline

them to faction and sedition.”

New Yorkers in 1735, though, weren’t buying it.

While the jury in the Zenger trial was instructed that the truth of Zenger’s attacks on Cosby was no defense, Zenger’s lawyer argued that it should be, and asked the jury, if they found the stories true, to acquit the printer. This the jury did, striking a dramatic blow against the law of seditious libel, and launching a proud American tradition, ratified in 1791 in the First Amendment, and laid out over the centuries in a range of Supreme Court decisions.

For at least the last 30 years, since Chief Justice William Rehnquist acquiesced in the constitutionalization of the law of libel, which has safeguarded the American press for more than a half century, we appeared to have a consensus in this country around our modern system of protections for the value of a free and untrammeled press to the process of self-government.

Until now. This year, for the first time since at least Richard Nixon, the leader of one of our major political parties has pledged to limit press freedom by restricting criticism of his prospective rule.

But Nixon’s threats were private, revealed only by his own taping system, while Donald Trump’s are very public, loud and clear. And to be fair to Nixon, he never made good on his private threats, and in the

one Supreme Court case he argued personally as a lawyer, he seemed to accept modern constitutional protections for libel.

In fact, Trump is more hostile to the legal and constitutional rights of the press than any major presidential candidate of the last two centuries. What he proposes is reminiscent of the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 championed (to his immortal disgrace) by President John Adams in the last serious attempt to relitigate at the federal level what had seemed resolved in the Zenger case. It is cold comfort—although it may be some warning to Republicans inclined to go along—that Adams was not only defeated for re-election after passage of those laws, but lost the White House to Thomas Jefferson and his close associates James Madison and James Monroe for a quarter of a century, while Adams’ Federalist Party never really recovered.

In case you think a comparison of Trump’s goals with Zenger’s opponents or the sponsors of the Alien and Sedition Acts is unfair, a quick review of the record may be in order.

Trump has said that most reporters are “absolute dishonest, absolute scum.” He’s said that “I think the media is among the most dishonest groups of people I’ve ever met. They’re terrible.”

In February he pledged that “one of the things I’m gonna do if I win, and I hope that I do, and we’re certainly leading, is I’m gonna open up our libel laws

so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money. We’re gonna open up those libel laws. So that when the New York Times writes a hit piece that is a total disgrace, or when the Washington Post, which is there for other reasons, writes a hit piece, we can sue them and win money rather than have no chance of winning because they’re totally protected. You see, with me, they’re not protected, because I’m not like other people, but I’m not taking money, I’m not taking their money. We’re gonna open up those libel laws, folks, and we’re gonna have people sue you like you never got sued before.”

Nor is a threat by Trump to sue for libel an idle one. In 2006 he brought such a suit against a book that asserted he had wildly overstated his wealth. He lost the case on the merits as well as for failure to prove fault. But the Washington Post reported that “Trump said in an interview that he knew he couldn’t win the suit but brought it anyway to make a point. ‘I spent a couple of bucks on legal fees, and they spent a whole lot more. I did it to make [author Tim O’Brien’s] life miserable, which I’m happy about.’” Trump has also sued the Chicago Tribune and comedian Bill Maher, and threatened to sue the New York Times (more than once), ABC, the Daily Beast, Rolling Stone,

the Huffington Post, reporter David Cay Johnston, TV host Lawrence O’Donnell and comedian Rosie O’Donnell In the February rant, Trump also seemed to threaten to force Jeff Bezos to divest himself of the Washington Post, asserting that it had been purchased to obtain political influence, and declaring that such purchases should be forbidden.

Asked in June if his stance on the press would continue as president, he said, “Yeah, it is going to be like this…

You think I’m gonna change?

I’m not going to change.” He repeated his view that “I am going to continue to attack the press. I find the press to be extremely dishonest. I find the political press to be unbelievably dishonest.”

In August he tweeted that “It is not ‘freedom of the press’ when newspapers and others are allowed to say and write whatever they want even if it is completely false!”

Melania Trump’s libel lawyer (she is suing the Daily Mail in Maryland for a story on her modeling days) is even more specific, saying that New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, the 1964 Supreme Court decision that established modern press protections, should be overruled.

Anyone paying attention knows there is a great deal at stake in this election. Freedom of the press in this country may be among those stakes.

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10,000 reasons it’s great to be part of 101 Women

By Jen Heller Reader Contributor

Bouquets: •Pretty soon, we’ll be in the midst of another holiday season, but for now, let us enjoy the quiet post-summer Sandpoint shoulder season. While many of us are out there cramming in as many outdoor activities as we can, there are downtown shopkeepers trying their best to get through this quiet part of the year. Do them a favor and shop their stores whenever you get a chance. To shop local means to give back to our local economy. The money funds families instead of corporations. I’d like to offer a bribe to anyone who is interested. Send me a photo of yourself and your purchase at any local shop in Sandpoint (no box stores, please). I’ll select one photo every week and give you a gift certificate to enjoy a free dinner at one of a handful of restaurants in Sandpoint. No joke. Send it to ben@sandpointreader.com and title the subject line SHOPPING. Now get out there and spend some money!

Barbs: •We all have a friend or two who almost seem proud of the fact that they don’t vote. I know I have more than one, and no matter how many times I chide them, it doesn’t make any difference. Well, here’s a Barb to all of you unregistered eligible voters out there. Get with it.

Registering to vote is so easy.

Voting is so easy (and you even get time off work to do it!). Yes, we don’t always get the candidate we want. Yes, it sometimes seems like our votes don’t count. These are all caveats of a functioning democracy. But, as with the lottery, you can’t win if you don’t buy a ticket. In democracy, you can’t bitch about anything if you don’t vote. So do us all a favor; register to vote at the Bonner County Administration Building (usually takes about five minutes) and vote on Nov. 8. It doesn’t matter to me who you vote for, just that we all participate in this democracy. End of sermon.

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As last Thursday’s work day came to a close, a group of women swarmed not-so-quietly into a busy white tent at the Idaho Club.

In the crisp air, spirits were high with that sense of anticipation which springs from a beautiful fall evening, and from the excitement that something good was about to happen.

It was a diverse crowd – depending on which way you turned you might bump into a restaurateur, a few non-profit workers, or a squadron of medical staff.

Stay-at-home moms and business owners and spa workers all strode into the tent with one purpose: to support the people who need it most in our hometown.

Bonner County is known for its plethora of non-profits, but as its newest fledgling, 101 Women offers a fresh opportunity for everyday people to change lives.

Briefly put, 101 Women takes the best ideas from crowdfunding, global women’s groups, and the microloans trend and applies them to local needs.

Over the last six months, exactly a hundred and one local women joined the organization with a brief written application and a donation of $225. Their donations are split in this manner: $25 goes to the running of the 501(c), which is staffed solely

Members of 101 Women and Bonner Partners in Care stand with the “big check.” From left to right: Judy Thompson, Maureen Hammond, Jacinda Bokowy, Kelli West, Gina Woodruff, Emma Gibson, Nicole Grimm, Tracey Gibson, Amy Topp, Nancy Dooley, Becca Orchard, Angie Dail, Jennifer Macdonald. Photo by Angie Dail.

by several volunteer boards; and $200 is donated directly back to the community in a biannual $10,000 grant, for a total of $20,000 donated in the course of a year.

Donations are given only to local 501(c) organizations through a stringent application process.

The grant committee directs three finalist organizations to a semi-annual gathering, during which three delegations present their needs. After the presentations, the entire group of a hundred (and one) women puts the donation decision to a democratic vote.

Simplicity is the speciality of 101 Women, which runs all operations under the tagline “Alone we can do so little, TOGETHER we can do so much.” Food and bever-

ages are brought to the convention potluck-style by members, and a different individual or organization donates the venue each time (kudos to the Idaho Club for this fall’s grand kick-off). And, as the clock hands tick to 5:30pm on a Thursday night, two hours of celebrating true bad-assery begins.

As several people pointed out, being a grant finalist with 101 Women is already a winning situation – each group gets 20 minutes of enthusiastic, undivided attention to explain the purpose of their organization and their future needs. This fall’s presenters came from Bonner Partners in Care, a free local clinic staffed primarily by volunteers; CASA, which trains a volunteer army of court advocates for child victims of homelessness or abuse; and SASI, which offers various

services to Sandpoint seniors, including free meals at the senior center and an adult daycare center.

As the session prepared to vote after three impassioned presentations, more than a few members complained about the difficulty of having to choose between three “goods.” Sandpoint as a whole won on Thursday, but in the end it was Bonners Partners in Care that walked away with 101 Women’s first $10,000 check.

If you’re interested in joining, check out 101 Women’s website for the member waiting list and application. If you’re part of a local organization that could benefit from some extra funds, prep your proposal by March 15 to be a part of next spring’s grant cycle.

Grab your brushes, it’s Scotchman Peaks Plein Air Paintout

By Reader Staff

The proposed Scotchman Peaks Wilderness is a beautiful place. Its presence on the northeast edge of Lake Pend Oreille has attracted the attention of artists for decades. In that tradition, for the past nine years, Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness (FSPW) and the Outskirts Gallery in Hope have hosted the Scotchman Peaks Plein Air Paintout. This event, to be held this year on Saturday, October 8, is a chance for artists from all over the Northwest to capture the beauty of the West Cabinets as well as the lake, Lightning Creek and the Clark Fork and Bull River valleys surrounding these rugged peaks.

This year, accomplished professional and amateur artists as well as beginners are invited to “create your best post card.”

Participants will be given a sixby-eight-inch canvas at registration upon which to produce what they feel will make a great postcard representation of the Peaks or surrounding area.

“Artists of all skill levels can have fun with this,” sad FSPW program coordinator Sandy Compton. “I might even do one, and I’m definitely not a fine artist.”

Artists will have from “dawn to dusk” to make the best rendition of the Scotchmans that they can. The results will be hung at the Outskirts Gallery just after sundown. Participants might keep in mind that the three favorites will actually become post cards that will be sold to benefit the Scotchman Peaks Wilderness effort. The registration fee for this event is $25, also to benefit FSPW. Scholarships are available for kids who wish to

paint with parents or grandparents.

“We want to see how the kids see this area, too,” said FSPW executive director Phil Hough.

“This is also a great opportunity to get young people outside and engaged in the arts, all in one day.”

One of the paintings sold at last year’s Plein Air Paintout was done during the event by Moscow painter Aaron Johnson’s young daughter.

Moscow painter Aaron Johnson captures a scene for the 2015 Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness Plein Air Paintout.

Courtesy photo.

Kally Thurman at the Outskirts Gallery in Hope is handling registration. Call 208-264-5856 or e-mail her at kallythurman@gmail.com

Mad about Science:

By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist Gonna’ take you right into the danger zone with this post. Warplanes are freaking awesome, like I can’t even tell you how awesome.

When I was younger, I wanted to be a combat pilot when I grew up. I got to be pretty stellar in every simulation I played, but I also liked bacon, and I also liked spending more time than I care to admit in front of gaming consoles, two things that quickly tank your chances to fly one of these magnificent planes before you even get to the academy.

Nevertheless, you don’t have to be a pilot to enjoy how cool the planes are. Let’s take off!

Perhaps the most iconic warplane of the ‘80s and ‘90s is a plane that’s still in use today, although it has long been nearing the end of its life and we’ve been scrambling for at least a decade to replace our fleet.

The F/A-18 Hornet is the plane that the Blue Angels use, and the plane that every ‘90s kid that watched Independence Day wanted to fly when they grew up. Designed by Boeing, it is classified as a fourth-generation fighter jet capable of reaching a top speed of Mach 1.8, or 1,190 mph, nearly twice the speed of sound.

The F/A-18 was first used in 1986, when President Reagan condemned Libya of the Berlin discotheque bombing, and retaliated with a series of airstrikes against Libya. Since then, the Hornet has seen use in the 1991 Gulf War and the 2003 War in Iraq.

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american warplanes A-10 Thunderbolt II “Warthog.”

Thunderbolt II, though it’s been nicknamed and widely called the Warthog, is a funny looking plane. It’s not quite as sleek or sexy as a fighter, but its funniness disappears the moment it opens fire on you. The plane was built around the GAU-8 Avenger, a rotary cannon (think: Gatling Gun ‘roided out.) that spits out up to 4,200 rounds per minute, with each round being 30mm. That’s like something twice the width of your thumb, made of metal, falling out of the sky at a little over 1,000 meters per second headed straight for your face.

The Warthog is used mostly to counter tanks, and it does a great job of it.

There is a civilian counterpart to this plane, which essentially means the Air Force gutted all military components, weapons, avionics and oxygen and replaced them with civilian versions (minus weapons) and scientific equipment. Can you imagine having the job of flying that beast?

The F/A-22 Raptor, until just a few years ago, was the most expensive warplane ever developed, with a research cost of $66.7 billion, and an individual plane cost of $150 million. Only 195 were ever built, with 8 of those being test vehicles.

The Raptor hasn’t seen very much use in combat, and this conundrum has been noted by top military brass. The nations we built this plane to counter in air-to-air combat, Russia and China, have too much to gain from economic

ties to us to warrant waging full-scale war, thus leaving us with a machine of incredible agility and power that … pretty much just sits in the garage.

It’s like owning a Lamborghini in North Idaho. Sure, you have the best car in town, but why on Earth would you drive it out here?

Either way, the Raptor deserves an honorable mention. It is the most advanced warplane in active service right now, able to achieve Mach 2 with afterburners, stealth capabilities and the most powerful and precise avionics on the planet. It saw limited use during the Iraq War, exclusively on ground strikes, because, well, there really wasn’t an air force to fight.

The most unique thing about the Raptor is how the flight computers interact with the cockpit and the helmet, offering a real time HUD, or Heads-Up Display, that tracks things for the pilot, such as enemy craft, objectives—pretty much all that junk you barely pay attention to while playing video games, but is really important when you’re actually being shot at.

I was planning on covering the new F-35, the cutting edge of warplane design, but after quite a bit of reading, all ends seemed to lead to a single point: It’s a grotesquely expensive project to develop the most advanced piece of war machinery in the history of mankind to counter threats that don’t even seem to exist.

The military is actually in talks now to develop a jet to replace the F-35 within the next 30 years. These are called Sixth Generation Fighters.

While there’s not a lot of info on them, yet, they’re expected

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to be extremely fast, completely stealthy, capable of using traditional ballistic projectiles, missiles and even lasers.

That’s right.

The USAF wants to make an X-wing.

While The Outer Space Treaty (1967) prohibits WMDs

from being placed in outer space, or the claiming of celestial bodies in national interests, it doesn’t expressly limit the use of conventional weapons, such as ballistics (counterintuitive in space), missiles or lasers would be equipped on these cutting-edge fighters.

As long as no one decides to build a planet-busting Death Star, I think we’ll be okay!

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•Leonardo da Vinci designed an armored car, a scythed chariot, a pile driver, a pulley, a lagoon dredge and a flying ship. He invented the bicycle 300 years before it appeared on the road.

•Unlike other well-known Renaissance artists, da Vinci never received any kind of formal education. He did, however, receive instruction at home in subjects such as reading, writing and mathematics.

•Leonardo da Vinci was a notoriously slow painter, and many of his works were never finished.

• When da Vinci was 24 years old, he was arrested along with several male companions on charges of sodomy. When no witnesses came forward to testify against the artist and his friends, the charges were dropped.

But da Vinci’s journals suggest that the allegations were somewhat devastating to a man who liked to keep his private life private.

• Two of his works, the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, are the most famous, most reproduced and most parodied portrait and religious painting of all time. It took da Vinci about ten years to paint Mona Lisa’s lips.

• Leonardo was one of the first Italians to use oil paint. He was also left-handed.

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Sounds of the East: An Evening of Indian Classical Music 7pm @ Panida Theater Featuring world-renowned Indian classical musician Pandit Partho Sarothy, who will be joined by Abhijit Bannerjee and Somnath Roy. This will prove to be an evening filled with cultural music of India. Advance tickets $15, or $20 at the door. Students and those under 18 get in for $10.

Live Music w/ Old Sap 5:30-8:30pm @ Pend d’Oreille Winery Old Sap fuses folk, Celtic traditional, Manhattan Short Film Festival Americana and old time blues 5:30pm @ Panida Theater You be the judge! The world’s first Live Music w/ Miah Kohal Band global film festival is coming back 8pm @ Ol’ Red’s Pub to the Panida Theater. Tickets $10 Come on downstairs for some great tunes and cold beer

Live Music w/ John Hastings 5-7pm @ Idaho Pour Authority

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Live Music w/ John Firshi 5-7pm @ Idaho Pour Authority

Terry Ford Fundraiser 6-9pm @ Gypo Meadows Equestrian Arena (951 Shingle Mill Rd.) It’s a barn dance and dessert auction fundraiser for write-in candidate for Bonner Co. Sheriff, Terry Ford. Featuring live music by the Baldy Mountain Boys, this event will feature lots of fun events and dancing, plus a chance to meet and ask Terry questions. $3 suggested donation

Manhattan Short Film Festival 3:30pm @ Panida Theater You be the judge! The world’s first global film festival is coming back to the Panida Theater. Tickets $10 Hope Oktoberfest 4-10pm @ Memorial Community Center (415 Wellington Pl. in Hope Enjoy fabulous food featuring the Hess’ homemade brats, plus wine and beer on tap, along with live music featuring the Miah Kohal Band. Free admission. Proceeds benefit the Community Center

Sandpoint Chess Club Game Night at the Niner 9am @ Evans Brothers Coffee 9pm @ 219 Lounge Meets every Sunday at 9am. All are welcome Monday Night Blues Jam w/ Truck Mills 7:30pm @ Eichardt’s Pub Seniors Day 9am-12pm @ Bonner Mall Walk the mall, listen to speakers, learn health tips, enter drawings, play bingo and enjoy free refreshments. Sponsored by Bonner Mall merchants and Life Care Aging Better In Home Care. 263-4272 Sandpoint Farmers’ Market 3-5:30pm @ Farmin Park Come for the locally grown produce, stay for the live music

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3D Printing Workshop for Adults 4pm @ Clark Fork Library A beginner class. Explore the potential of 3D printing and design a 3D printable object. Preregistration required: 266-1321

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Friday Night Fro Down 7:30pm @ Evans Brothers Coffee A latte art competition begins at 7:30, plus there will be espresso shots and cold brew on the house, coffee beer with MickDuff’s Brewing Co., cash bar, food trucks, funky dance grooves by Avery Day, fire spinning and aerial performance

5th Annual CrosstoberFest 9am-4pm @ U of I Annex (2504 N. Boyer) Grab your bike, family and friends, it’s CrosstoberFest. A fundraiser for Autism Awareness 24/7, there will be different courses both days. Free camping, and food and drink will be available. 208-610-2106 Jack Nisbet: The Longest Journey 7pm @ Oden Community Hall Come listen to the story of a meteroite found n Wales that is an ice-rafted erratic that was probably washed downstream through Lake Pend Oreille during the Lake Missoula Floods. Free admission and open to the pubic. 263-2344 for more info

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Yappy Hour and Ambassadog Finalists 4-7pm @ Eichardt’s Pub Bring your dog and enjoy a Panhandle Animal Shelter benefit with live music, beverages and fun. Plus this is the event when Sandpoint’s Ambassadog will be chosen from five finalists, so don’t miss it

Scareywood at Silverwood 7pm-1am @ Silverwood The opening night for the DJ Night at the Niner month-long Scareywood 9pm @ 219 Lounge Sandpoint Farmers’ Market Featuring DJ Josh Adams 9am-1pm @ Farmin Park Come for the local produce, stay for the live music

Remembering Their Legacy: Drs. Forrest & Pamela Bird 5:30pm @ Bird Aviation Museum Check-in begins at 5:30 p.m. followed by cocktail hour and mingling at 6 p.m. and plated dinner service at 7 p.m. Celebrate the evening with live music, a video presentation, delicious desserts and fine wines for tasting and for purchase. Tickets $125. Proceeds support local education and the Bird Aviation Museum and Invention Center. 255-4321 FOL Book Sale 10am-2pm @ Sandpoint Library Live Music w/ Still Sandpoint Friends of the Library Tipsy and the Hangovers host a used book sale with a new 9pm @ 219 Lounge theme and special featured se- Check out this great rockabilly trio at the 219! lections each month Manhattan Short Film Festival 3:30pm @ Panida Theater

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FOL Evening Social at Laughing Dog Brewing 5-7pm @ Laughing Dog Brewery Enjoy the chili, courtesy of the Sandpoint Friends of the Library, along with the no host bar of Fetchingly Good Beer. Bring your friends and learn about how craft beers are brewed and distributed at Laughing Dog’s new production facility, 805 Schweitzer Plaza Drive in Ponderay

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WELLNESS

Living Life:

If a stranger on the street asked ‘Are you happy?’

What would your answer be?

By Dianne Smith Reader Columnist

It’s estimated that over 50 percent of our happiness depends on actions and thoughts we can control. That means simply that there are direct actions we can take to help ourselves feel better, be more content and see life in a more positive light.When we take control, we are the pilot of our lives instead of a passenger just along for the ride.

•Practice self care and take care of your body through healthy eating and exercise. Studies show that exercise releases endorphins which help us feels better and that regular physical activity increases happiness and self-esteem, reduces anxiety and stress, and can even lift symptoms of depression.

•Give back and do for others. When we do for others, it helps us feel better because the brain releases feel-good chemicals, and we feel a sense of social connectivity. Neuroscience research shows that when we do nice things for others, our brains light up in areas associated with pleasure and reward. Give and share what you can, whenever you can. Give compliments, love, affection, help, resources, time, consideration, thoughtfulness, respect, empathy, etc. It feels delightful and karma will bring it back to you, threefold •Don’t sweat the small things or things you cannot control. We will always have bumps in the road of life. Focus on what is going right instead of what is going wrong. See the goodness in yourself, in others and in the world around you.

•Live in the moment. Enjoy what is happening today, in the present, as we cannot change the past or predict the future. Happy people look for the joy in the moment. Studies show that people who practice mindfulness, the moment-by-moment awareness of our thoughts and feelings not only have stronger immune systems but are more likely to be happy and content.

•Find contentment with what you have and with a simpler life. We run into problems when we let what we can buy or have determine our happiness, as we will always need the bigger and the better.

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count your blessings. I do this when I walk, watch the sunset or sunrise, or when I’m out in nature. Another great way is a gratitude session—think of all the things and people you’re thankful for, and thank them silently.

•Show people you appreciate them. It’s good to appreciate people, but it’s even better to show them.

Give them a hug, smile, spend time with them, thank them out loud and thank them publicly.

•People who have rich social connections, with good friends who will help them out when they are down are generally happier. They have the pleasure of meeting people they trust and the sense of security in knowing there’s always someone there who can help.

•Give up grudges and anger. Studies show that when we forgive those who have wronged us, we feel better about ourselves, experience more positive emotions, and feel closer to others.

•Choose to smile more often. Don’t wait for people to smile. Show them how by smiling at them. A genuine smile makes you and everyone around you feel better.

The simple act of smiling sends a message to your brain that you’re happy. And when you’re happy, your body pumps out all kinds of feel-good endorphins.

•Have time for play and fun, and pay attention to pleasures in life. A balanced life includes time for things you enjoy and that bring you pleasure and smiles.

A 2010 study found that there are five key items that contribute to positive thinking, which, in turn, results in happiness: being grateful, being optimistic, practicing acts of kindness, counting your blessings and using your strengths. Happiness is a choice.

For every minute you are angry or irritated, you lose 60 seconds of happiness that you can never get back.

“Happiness is not something you get in life, happiness is something that you bring to life. “ —Wayne Dyer Dianne Smith, LMFT is a licensed counselor who works with both children and adults. She has offices in Bonners Ferry and Sandpoint and can be reached at 951-440-0982.

Shop, give and share the love Sandpoint merchants and charities team up with ‘Fall For Sandpoint’

By Reader Staff We all love living in Sandpoint and the surrounding area, partly because it’s so beautiful and partly because it’s such a sharing, giving, supportive community. Bonner County has more than 300 nonprofit organizations, each one serving the community and making this a better place for us all to live.

On Saturday, Oct. 1, 20 downtown Sandpoint merchants have teamed with local charities to bring you “Fall For Sandpoint,” your chance to show that you appreciate what local merchants and nonprofits mean to our community. Participating retailers are donating part of the day’s shopping proceeds to their sponsored organization. Representatives from local charities will be on hand to answer your questions and show you how they serve our area.

Shop Local to Give Local and celebrate the strength of our North Idaho community.

Get in on face painting and craft activities for kids at Creations, food and drink sampling, prizes, mini manicures, product demonstrations, artist’s demonstrations at Art Works, Eve’s Leaves will have a bin for Food Bank donations and much more in the participating store. Most activities will

take place from 11 a.m.-3 p.m., but instore sales will be available throughout the day.

Enter to win a passel of local gift certificates. Just pick up a passport at any participating retailer. Visit stores and get your passport stamped, no purchase necessary. Eight stamps is all it takes to enter the drawing for three prizes totaling $500 in local gift certificates.

Nonprofit organizations in Sandpoint and the surrounding communities provide important human services, promote the arts, entertainment and recreation and safeguard the quality of our beautiful environment. All of the donations raised during Fall For Sandpoint will stay here in North Idaho. Purchases made at local retail stores also support our community by providing jobs and tax revenue for local government and creating a vibrant, attractive downtown.

Join your neighbors at Fall for Sandpoint on Saturday, Oct. 1, and fall in love with this outstanding community all over again.

For additional information, see the ad in this week’s Reader, or check out the Sandpoint Shopping District’s Facebook page.

Farm to Table dinner planned

By Reader Staff Gardeners for Organic Wellbeing (GROW!) will be holding a farm to table dinner at the Boundary County Fairgrounds in Bonners Ferry on Saturday, Oct. 15, at 6 p.m. GROW! will be hosting this feast to showcase local production as well as raise funds for the community garden.

A number of local producers are supplying produce, dairy products and meat for the event. A raffle and silent auction will also be held to raise funds for GROW! Those attending will enjoy music, a magic show and a delicious five course meal featuring locally produced food, including many local sup-

pliers. In addition, attendees will learn more about the activities and history of GROW! Tickets are $40/person and available through Oct. 7 at Bonners Books or by calling 509-432-5755.

If you would like to attend a meeting, GROW’s next meetings are Oct. 5 and 19 at 6:00 p.m., at the UI Extension Office, 6447 Kootenai St., Bonners Ferry.

All are welcome!

LITERATURE where it all began in 1971

This open Window

Vol. 1 No. 10

poetry and prose by local writers

edited by Jim mitsui

by Jerry Luther

Did it start in Santa Barbara, Isla Vista or Buellton no, it was meeting Sheila in Mattes Tavern.

Was it hearing those two guys sing “Take Me Home Country Roads” or the images of a simpler way to live.

Was it the pot I tried while talking politics by soft candlelight or the quiet moments listening to 60’s music.

Was it the pea soup, fresh vegetables and focus on healthy living or giving up smoking, red meat and white bread.

Was it playing volleyball on the nude beach Where arousal and restraint, respect and playfulness churned together like the waves breaking on the sand.

Maybe it was ending a day watching dogs catching Frisbees while the burning red sun slowly sank into the purple ocean.

regret Silence always hovered like fog between me and my father as he watered his garden, summer evenings,

Or, was it getting to have a do-over of my youthful years a chance to make different choices.

—Jerry Luther

The scorn Of poetry

by Amy Craven

when I see a poem cascading down the page, falling like a chilly rain on the heads of umbrella—less pedestrians well then, I hate poetry too the pretention to expect your reader to meet you at the bottom of all that spewing and when the emotions are heartfelt but served up cold in cliche it’s a nauseating meal of left-overs as for rhyme, most of the time it’s best to keep it internal unless you are vastly clever and truly shine in that endeavor

—Amy Craven (June, 2016)

Some people make poetry harder than it really is; today’s poetry is generally free verse but not always—the best contemporary rhyming poems are those where you do not think about the Jerry is working on a 60+ page book about his 20 years in the NW counter-culture after dropping out of a corporate market- rhyme but the message. Amy Craven was born in Pittsburgh but transplanted in Sandpoint. She is a singer, songwriter, poet and ing & management career. He lives near Garfield Bay. retired teacher. Her house is surrounded by lilac trees.

nighthawks slipping in the air above us. Exact rows of white radish and pole beans grew longer each summer. Cucumbers and egg plants spread into neighboring lots. When he quietly died one April morning in 1963 we rented a U-Haul trailer and moved my mother to Seattle. Left behind what wouldn’t fit, what we decided she didn’t need. Buried my father’s urn 300 miles away from the love that was his garden.

—James Masao Mitsui The ancient Persians subsidized their artists, and true to most bureaucracies, they set up “rules” to justify this payment. For poets, they required writing a “ghazal”, a 10-line poem arranged in five 2-line stanzas. This had to done daily and turned into the authorities. American poet Robert Haas popularized this form. Try this exercise; it’s a good way to force yourself to write regularly.

My poem above is an example. I chose it because we all have regrets; things that we said or did that we didn’t handle the way that we should have. In my case, I wish I would have helped my father more, but more importantly I wish I would have talked to him more. He had had a hard life, immigrating to this country in 1908. He was not the oldest son so he had to leave the family farm and was expected to figure out how to survive. He ended up getting a job as a laborer for the Great Northern Railroad in Skykomish, Wash., where I was born. He experienced the 1942 relocation of all Japanese living within 100 miles of the West Coast, when our family lost most of its possessions because we could only take what we could carry.

He ended up working on the railroad for over 50 years.

Try a ghazal that focuses on a regret, something you wish you would have handled differently. If you’re not into poetry, write a 10-sentence piece of prose (memoir). Make it real, not fiction. Remember to show the reader, not tell him/her. Maybe try writing one each day for a week. Or the rest of your life.

You won’t get paid but it’s a good way to record the history that is your life. Good luck. If you like what you came up with, send it to me at Jim3wells@aol.com for consideration for This Open Window.

my favorite time of day

chickadee

by Brenda Hammond

is my first cup of coffee.

Both hands around a warm cup, hot coffee awakens my throat, aroma, memories rising-Water rapping on the sides of Baba’s blue enamel pot as she stirred in coffee grounds with egg; sweet sips from DeDe’s cup, dipping crusts of hard, black bread; serving coffee to mother’s teacher friends made myself from old used grounds.

Even on Christmas morning presents weren’t opened until coffee was in hand.

Hot paper cups held in mittened hands under the bleachers at high school football games; thick white cups in the Student Union endless refills with cigarettes; dark smoky coffee houses—candles, poetry and jazz; Coffee perking on the coals of countless campfires; Waking to the sound of beans grinding in the kitchen, Now---giving sips to grand-girls sitting in my lap.

—Brenda Hammond (May, 2015)

Brenda Hammond works in Sandpoint as a Mental Health Specialist for Early Head Start, and a therapist at North Idaho Children’s Mental Health. She has four grown children and 4 grandchildren, and was honored this year as a Woman of Wisdom.

by Beth Weber You were not at all bothered by me when I moved my basket of tomatoes to the nearer side of the greenhouse and caught you and your well dressed family bathing and playing in the automatic drippers under the blueberry bushes. You were the loudest, maybe the leader, as you ruffled and splashed, calling chickadee-dee-dee-dee as if you were the cook clanging the dinner bell, hollering to the field hands Come get it ‘fore it gets throwed out. I watched you waggle your belly in a puddle the little stream of water made in the bark mulch below the nearest bush.You lifted your wings, so unselfconsciously, enjoying the cool water after all those weeks of no rain. And further down the berry row, others of your clan, springing branch to lower branch, dipping in and out of glistening arches, wetting their beaks or bathing a head or wing, flitted about and nickered with

excitement, like children do beneath a newly broken piñata. I think you knew the watering would stop in a few minutes, because you wasted

no time nor hesitated to enjoy your task, even as I, knowing of the coming rains, enjoyed my hurried harvest and unexpected beholding of you.

—Beth Weber (September, 2016)

One of the obvious benefits of living in North Idaho is the opportunity to witness the wonders of nature—in this case one of our native birds. Beth Weber lives in Cocolalla, and lets us experience what she saw.

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The Sandpoint Eater BAKING NOSTALGIA

By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Food Columnist

Myriad reading material litters my nightstand and clutters the top of my comfortable leather chair side table (formerly my grandfather’s smoking stand). I always have the best intentions to finish a book I’m nearly done with, but then, a new read happens: A magazine arrives in my mail box, and an alluring article or a recipe catches my eye. Then a new book from Ryanne, her current favorite, arrives from Amazon, and my bedside stack continues to grow.

The truth is, my favorite read (and most of these stacks) is a cookbook, which is ironic, because I rarely refer to one when I’m ready to cook.

I’ve downsized my cookbook library considerably, from 1,000 or so to my favorite collection of 500-600 books.

The old cookbooks will always be my favorites.

In addition to actual cookbooks, I have hundreds of softbound, saddle-stitched vintage recipe books that were premiums gifts from food and appliance manufacturers. Most are dog-eared and worn, and besides recipes they’re filled with beautiful colored photos, lifestyle tips for the “modern cook,” and endless plugs for the products of the respective company.

A favorite in this collection is a prized 1918 edition, “For Best Salads and Better Cooking, Douglas Book of Recipes.”

The photos and illustrations are beautiful, and the recipes appetizing and the tips are still timeless.

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satisfied my curiosity about the Douglas Oil Company.

George Douglas, Sr., was a Scottish immigrant who became a founding partner in the cereal firm of Douglas and Stuart, which later merged to become Quaker Oats. In 1903, his sons George and Walter began Douglas Starch Works, which produced cornstarch and cooking oil (in 1912, Walter celebrated his birthday on the ill-fated Titanic, and when his wife requested he join her in a lifeboat, he replied, “No. I must be a gentleman.” He was last seen on the deck of the Titanic in his evening wear).

The Cedar Rapids, Iowa, company continued to grow and by 1914 was the largest starch works company in the world, employing 400 people who ground 10,000 bushels of corn per day. The business ended abruptly and tragically in

1919 with an industrial accident. A devastating explosion leveled the starch works as hundreds of windows shattered across Cedar Rapids and water mains ruptured. Parts of Douglas & Company buildings landed two miles from the site and 43 employees lost their lives.

I wonder if they’d still be in existence, not long forgotten, if their factory hadn’t been leveled to the ground 100 years ago. Between Walter’s chivalrous behavior on the Titanic and learning that the Douglas family personally attended to their former employees’ graves every Memorial Day, my imagination sees Douglas Oil Company, guided by social responsibility, as a great progressive food company with tasty products and test kitchens filled with culinologists, perfecting their recipes to inspire today’s

home cooks.

Fascinated by their story, I was anxious to try one the baking recipes from their cookbook, which not surprisingly utilizes cornstarch along with flour, in most of their recipes.* This mixture is essentially cake flour, which produces a lighter, softer texture in baked goods.

I settled on an authentic cookie recipe that also included Quaker Oats. The purist in me tried replacing the cooking oil with butter, then a batch with half butter and half oil. Finally, following the recipe exactly yielded the perfect batch.

And guess what I else I discovered? Today, Sept. 29, is National Coffee Day! I’m as passionate about coffee (especially that first addictive, aromatic morning cup) as I am about food, and really, I feel like I have earned credibility as a coffee connoisseur.

Twenty years ago, daughter Ryanne’s best high school friend, Meagan, described me as “caffeinated,” which is a label I don’t dispute. In the same essay, however, my own daughter referred to me as “definitely a bit crazy.” I’d like to think the jury is still out on that one.

Regardless, whip up a batch of these cookies and make your way to Evans Brothers or Monarch Mountain to pick up a bag of locally roasted coffee as a great complement to your baking efforts. Celebrate this natural pair, the oatmeal cookie and coffee. And hoist a cup to the Douglas boys. *For each cup of cake flour, sift 7/8 cup (one cup minus 2 tablespoons) of flour plus 2 tablespoons of corn starch.

Oatmeal Cookies from the 1918 ‘Douglas Book of Recipes’ The addition of corn starch makes a light and crispy, delicious cookie. Be sure and add the ingredients in the order listed in the directions (it makes a difference in the cookies’ texture).

INGREDIENTS: •1 cup granulated sugar •½ cup oil •2 eggs, beaten •1 cup seeded raisins •¾ cup flour (after sifting) •¼ cup corn starch •1 tsp baking soda •2 tsp ground cinnamon •2 cups oatmeal •½ tsp salt

DIRECTIONS: •Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

•In large bowl, whisk sift flour, cornstarch, baking soda and salt, set aside.

•In standup mixer or by hand, mix sugar, oil, and beaten eggs. Beat well; add raisins and oatmeal, then add flour and cornstarch mixture.

•Drop by spoonful on parchment paper lined or greased cookie sheet.

•Bake for 12 minutes.

yield 32 cookies

Make it a Mandala Pizza

By Jules Fox Reader Food Reviewer

This little gem of a pizza parlor disguised as a trailer with a dome on top might be mistaken for a part of the glamping summer fun RV tow-behinds.

But then you would notice the oversized pizza paddles aren’t for kayaks, and the side hatch opens to reveal an oven filled with real hardwood and some bubbling cheese baking on the bricks.

Nestled in the back of the food court across from Sandpoint Farmers’ Market lies a set of umbrella’d picnic tables and benches with some surprises in store. Walk through the grass and see the red brick oven, the Mandala Pizza sign in colorful chalk and the hand drawn menu.

The Details The hardest part of the menu is deciding what looks best. Everything looks great, but what do you want today?

My one-and-a-half-year-old daughter was an easy choice, as she is currently in love with mutooms (mushrooms). We went with the “Fun Guy,” and she delighted in picking off the wild and crimini mutooms from the melted cheese blend. Then she picked and ate the cheese off the crust. Then she devoured the crust and said “mio, peas” (more, please. It’s not authentic Italian, she’s just still learning).

My wife went with the “Bianca,” boasting real Italian prosciutto, mozzarella, goat chevre and parmesan, in a white sauce, with arugula liberally sprinkled on top.

I had only mild regrets about not going with a tomato-based pizza, as somehow my formative memories of pizza always involve this unnecessary but delicious staple. And they totally have tomato-based pizzas here! I must return.

Wood fired pizzas taste different, and by different I mean better. If you’re not used to eating amazing pizza, you might be taken aback, so look behind you. The 850 degree oven cooks up caramelized pizzas in minutes.

Cheese bubbles and meat sizzles in sixty seconds. And the crust? Crispy, crusty outside and soft cooshy center, the ring around the rose bud is as delicious as what’s inside.

Still not sold? Let me dispel any misconceptions about food truck pizza: Myth 1: Food Trucks Have Old, Premade Food Everything at Mandala Pizza is made fresh to order. And you can watch them!

Myth 2: Food Trucks Use Cheap Ingredients Mandala Pizza imports their meats and tomatoes from Italy. They use almost entirely fresh ingredients, and source locally when possible.

Myth 3: Food Trucks Are Dirty Mandala Pizza has a hand-washing station, and they use it before they prep your pizza. Then they put your pizza in an 850-degree oven. No bacteria can survive that.

Cater To Your Needs Having a brick oven pizza joint that is literally on wheels is not only convenient and fun, but also makes it easy for them to offer catering. Ask them about how they can serve up some goodness at your next event.

Options For Restricted Diets Gluten-Free? Yes Vegetarian? Yes

Additional Notes: Open Tuesday-Saturday for lunch, and later for Wednesday Farmers’ Market.

Mandala Pizza (208) 217-1006 317 Oak St. Sandpoint, ID

Top: A bubbling piece of edible perfection emerges from the 850-degree wood fired oven.

Bottom: Find Mandala Pizza at the Oak Street Food Carts across from Farmin Park.

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Uncommon uses for Plants for autumn color common items

Gardening with Laurie:

By Laurie Brown Reader Garden Columnist

There are some clever folks out there. Most of these tips I’ve learned by word of mouth from people throughout life. I thought I’d share my bounty of uncommon uses for common household items.

Use at your own risk, I’m no scientist. By Ben Olson, Reader Staff

Shower Caps

Autumn is officially here, which means some plants will start putting on a colorful show. The colors we see in the leaves now are actually there all year; they are just masked by the green chlorophyll. As the days grow shorter, plants stop replacing chlorophyll, and it fades and the other colors can be seen. The timing of fall color depends more on day length than it does on temperature, although cool weather with no frost encourages good color formation. Temperatures below freezing will cause the leaves to stop production of pigments. When it gets very cold, only tannin, which is brown, stays in the leaves, which gives us those brown oak leaves that stay on the trees most of winter. A cloudy autumn will result in dull colors, especially if the temperatures are warm. Soil moisture can also affect the leaves; not enough water early in the growing season can cause early leaf drop- they will drop before they have time to color up.

The first plants we think of for fall color are the trees. In the Northwest, we don’t have the large array of deciduous trees that exist in the east, so our hills don’t turn those glorious colors.

But a good number of them will grow here if planted. Maples are the first tree everyone thinks of for fall color, and a lot of them can grow here. Sugar, red, silver, trident, Norway, sycamore, amur, our native Rocky Mountain maple and Japanese maples will all grown here.

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drop huge numbers of seeds, all of which seem to germinate. They are easily mown over in the lawn or pulled out of flower beds—except, of course, when you don’t notice one for months and it’s two feet tall when you go to pull it. Other colorful trees are larch, birch, sumac, gingko, some oaks, horse chestnut, smoke tree/bush and mountain ash, which has bonus red berries in fall.

For lower growing color, there is the red twig dogwood, whose leaves turn purple in fall- the variegated variety is exceptionally nice-, both oak leaf and PG hydrangeas, blueberry bushes (marvelous color AND edible!), barberries, ‘Goldflame’ spirea, and the highbush cranberry (a viburnum), which has great green, gold, red and orange all at the same time along with red berries that are theoretically edible but in reality will about eat the enamel off your teeth. The one we all think of first, the burning bush, has great color and turns early, but the leaves don’t stay on very long. Virginia creeper, that brilliant scarlet climber, has the same problem.

Perennials aren’t usually thought of as having fall color, but a few do color up. Peonies will frequently get very nice gold and orange colors and the leaves are great in cut flower arrangements when they turn. Some years they just turn brown… I have no idea why.

Amsonia, the blue star plant, shines again in fall by turning a bright, clear yellow. ‘Ring of Fire’ heuchera gets a red zone in the leaves in autumn.

Hostas will usually turn yellow. The hardy geranium sanguineum turns deep red. Some grasses, like miscanthus and feather reed grass, turn yellow instead of brown, and look striking with their plumes- a look that stays until they are beaten down by snow.

I’ve used shower caps for just about anything—except for showering, that is.

As an avid bike rider, I use shower caps as a seat protector for the rainy season.

You can tuck it under the seat when not in use and avoid chronic wet butt. I also like to use them as camera covers when out hiking in the rain. It keeps the moisture off the camera and allows for easy on/off functions.

Rice Most of you have lost a mobile phone to our beautiful lake. I’ve donated my fair share. It’s handy to have a Ziploc bag of rice in the cupboard for your clumsy times. Just dry off your phone the best you can and put it into the rice for 24 hours. Hopefully, the rice will suck out the moisture and you can get back to texting nonsense. Rice is also a great DIY heating pad. Just wrap it in fabric, microwave it and put it on a sore shoulder. Finally, rice is great for a makeshift knife rack. Just pour some in a container and put your knives in upright. It’s also good for the toolshed to store tools (this can also prevent rust).

Dryer Sheets If you lived in a college dorm, you probably know the trick to use with dryer sheets and toilet paper tubes. But here are a few practical uses that won’t land you in jail. Ever get deoderant marks on your tee-shirts? Try rubbing them out with a dryer sheet. They’re also great to toss into a vacuum bag to freshen the room while vacuuming. I sometimes stick a dryer sheet in a drawer of clothes just to keep things fresh.

Finally, seamstresses might know this trick: drag a needle and thread across a dryer sheet and you’ll prevent the thread from sticking to itself.

Condoms Yes, condoms. Did you know you can open a stubborn jar with a non-lubricated condom? Just stretch it over

the lid and give it a twist. Be sure to remove the condom before serving your guests, though. Condoms also make great emergency ice packs. Fill up a condom with one part rubbing alcohol and three parts water, tie a knot in the end and stick in the freezer. This will leave the cold pack malleable and able to contour to wherever you put it.

Finally, for you sportsmen out there, condoms are great as rifle barrel protectors when out hunting on a rainy day and they can also be used as a fishing bobber.

Coconut Oil Making cookies for someone who is lactose intolerant? There are lots of great recipes out there that use coconut oil as a substitute. If you have a wood burning stove and suffer from dry skin in the winter, rub coconut oil on your body after a shower to keep moisturized (avoid your face because of potential for break outs). Coconut oil is also a great soothing agent for burns, bug bites and rashes. Last but not least, coconut oil makes a great sexual lubricant.

Just don’t use with a condom, since it weakens the latex. Because it is not water-based, it won’t dry out. It also has anti-fungal properties, so it’s great for folks that are prone to yeast infections.

Also, it tastes and smells about 100 percent better than standard lubricants.

Cheap Vodka While we all enjoy a shot of cheap, warm vodka from time to time (yuk), here are some practical uses. Keep a spray bottle filled with vodka to clean your eyeglasses and windows. It’s also good to use as a Goo Gone substitute when gummy residue just won’t do.

Add a teaspoon of vodka and sugar to water to keep flowers fresh. You can also make homemade extracts like vanilla and chocolate. My girlfriend makes a tincture with usnea lichen (old man’s beard) that she takes when feeling cold symptoms coming on.

Also, spray vodka in your shoes (and even on your feet) to rid them of that funky odor.

STAGE & SCREEN

By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Leave it to Banff Mountain Film Festival: When it comes to capturing the most spectacular cinematography in the world of action sports, it’s tough to beat its lineup.

Thanks to the committed work of local community members, Sandpoint gets to share in every frame of adrenaline-pumping action. The 2016 Banff Mountain Film Festival’s Radical Reels tour is coming to the Panida Theater, with a showing set for 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7. This selection of high-energy sports and outdoor adventure short films will be sure to have you jonesing for another season of winter sports—or maybe thinking fondly of your dearly departed summer.

The touring short film series, now in its 13th year in Sandpoint, is a selection of the best action sports films screened at the annual Banff Mountain Film Festival. This year’s selection of short films will take you across the world, jumping from mountain bikers testing their skills in Namibia to a traditional climber tackling her biggest challenge yet on El Capitan’s legendary Golden Gate in Yosemite. All in all, audiences will encounter 11 short movies, each with their own unique personalities, settings and adventures.

Throughout the worldwide journey, viewers will meet fascinating characters driven by a thirst for adventure or a desire to push themselves to their limits.

In “Rey del Rio,” the world’s best kayakers test their skills by challenging the massive waterfalls of Mexico. “Degrees North” follows renowned snowboarder Xavier De Le Lue’s search for the most amazing powder in the Northern Hemisphere, taking to the sky on a paraglider for a bird’s eye view of the mountains.

Sandpoint plays host each year to the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour, a film series similarly global in scope. However, action sports films became so popular for the festival that officials devised the Radical Reels tour, a highlight of the year’s top selec-

Via Ferrata combines mountain climbing with mountain biking. Photograph by Manfred Stromberg.

tions. As Sandpoint had proven itself a valuable partner for the World Tour film series—thanks in large part to local partner and event organizer Michael Boge—the town was selected as one of six sites worldwide to host the initial Radical Reels program.

You can be sure that everyone who attends the screening will walk away with their own pick for best movie of the series. On the other hand, just about everyone will share an awe of the natural world’s beauty and an enthusiasm to experience it in all its glory.

Check out the Banff Mountain Film Festival Radical Reels Tour on Friday, Oct. 7, at the Panida Theater. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. with doors opening at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are available in advance at Eichardt’s, the Alpine Shop, the Outdoor Experience and Burger Express in Sandpoint or at Zip’s Drive-In in Bonners Ferry. If any tickets remain, they will be sold at the door on the night of the show.

Thursday, sept. 29 @ 7pm

SARODE & TABLA

AN EVENING OF INDIAN CLASSICAL MUSIC Sept. 30 @ 5:30pm | Oct. 1 @ 3:30pm & 7:30pm Oct. 2 @ 3:30pm

MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival

The World’s First Global Film Festival! • You, the audience, picks the winner!

Wednesday, Oct. 5 @ 7:30pm

“Silver Skies” New york film critic series Oct. 6 @ 7:30pm | 8th @ 3:30 & 7:30pm | 9th @ 3:30pm

“snowden”

Friday, Oct. 7 @ 7:30pm

Banff Radical Reels film festival saturday, Oct. 15 @ 7:30pm

songwriter’s circle presents

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This week’s RLW by Ben Olson

READ

I randomly picked up “Seabiscuit: An American Legend,” at a thrift store and put it on the stack of books to read when I run out of good ones. Little did I know that the amazing biographical novel by Laura Hillenbrand was actually a fantastic read from cover to cover.

What I really enjoyed was the immersion in the world of horseracing—a sport I knew little about until reading this book.

If I wasn’t such a lumbering ox, I’d love to be a jockey.

LISTEN

Recently, I gave David Bowie’s “Blackstar” a shout out as my favorite album of 2016.

I just read that a new album is going to be released on Oct. 21 called “Lazarus,” which will feature three never-before-heard songs sung by Bowie himself.

The songs, “No Plan,” “Killing A Little Time,” and “When I Met You” were originally written for a musical called “Lazarus,” starring Michael C. Hall.

If they are anywhere close to his work with “Blackstar,” I’m excited all over again.

WATCH

Speaking of Bowie, has anyone ever watched the music video for “Dancing in the Street,” he did with Mick Jagger? If not, stop what you’re doing and watch it.

It is probably one of the most cringe-worthy videos every to come out of the ‘80s. I don’t know what’s worse: Jagger’s baggy turquoise silk shirt or Bowie’s cheetah print jumpsuit. Or maybe it’s the awkwardly erotic singing cheek to cheek. Or perhaps the freestyle dance battles. Ah, so that’s where your lame father learned those moves.

One thing’s for sure, the video looks like it was shot on a VHS camcorder for about seven bucks and a cup of coffee. Hilarious.

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East meets West:

An evening of Indian classical music at the Panida

By Ben Olson Reader Staff

One common lament of folks living in Sandpoint is the lack of cultural diversity. Peter Hicks is trying to change that.

Hicks is presenting “Sounds of the East: An Evening of Indian Classical Music,” at the Panida Theater on Thursday, Sept. 29, at 7 p.m.

The performance features Pandit Partho Sarothy, a world-renowned classically musician known for his exploration of harmony and tranquility.

Partho has toured the world performing Indian Classical Music at Carnegie Hall, the Royal Albert Hall in London and with Ravi Shanker in the George Harrison memorial concert.

Joining Partho for this special show is Abhijit Bannerjee on Tabla and Somnath Roy on the South Indian instrument called the Ghatam.

“I met Partho Sarothy in 2003,” said Hicks, who also owns Sandpoint Curry in a Hurry. “I was in Calcutta and got connected to him through a friend.”

Hicks and Partho shared a cup of tea and played together for a half hour: “My jaw still

Pandit Partho Sarothy will be playing the Panida Theater tonight at 7 p.m. with Abhijit Bannerjee and Somnath Roy. Courtesy photo.

hasn’t recovered—it’s still on the floor.”

After taking music lessons with Partho for a month, the two developed a friendship and have stayed in contact over the past 12 years. When Hicks saw Partho was touring in the U.S. again, he thought it would be a good fit to bring the performer to

the Panida Theater.

“Partho is one of the foremost disciples from Ravi Shanker who you might recognize from the Beatles,” said Hicks.

“Shanker is the one who first started bridging Indian music to the west.”

Hicks said that Partho’s style features a fusion between North Indian rhythms and south Indian rhythms, though most people probably won’t pick up on the subtlety.

“Partho is part of a heritage of Indian music that stretches

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back hundreds of years,” said Hicks. “So much of Indian music has to do with heritage and giving respect to those who have come before.”

For Hicks, who moved to Sandpoint to raise his children, cultural diversity is something his heart yearned for.

“I grew up in a house that was very international,” said Hicks. “My parents were missionaries for 30 years, and they loved India. I left a big piece of my heart there. This concert is a small way to feed that desire for more culture in Sandpoint.

I was in a band for 13 years … we played Indian fusion music.

I moved to Sandpoint and really missed India a lot, so this is my way of bringing India to me.”

Catch the “Sounds of the East” show featuring Pandit Partho Sarothy takes place tonight at 7 p.m. at the Panida Theater. Tickets are available for $15 in advance from Sandpoint Curry in a Hurry, Eichardt’s Pub, the Panida Theater and Evans Brothers Coffee.

They will be $20 at the door and $10 for students and those under 18 years old.

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

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Charles Stuart’s Sandpoint Flour and Feed Company about 1921 on First Avenue in Sandpoint, looking east. Al’s Dray Line (owned by Al LaBlanc) occupied the south half of the building.

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The same view today. Sharon’s Hallmark now occupies the building as it has for the past 45 years. Before Hallmark, it was Bi-Rite Drug.

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Corrections: As my esteemed readers pointed out, I misspelled golf last week.

Pretty sad, since I used to be a golf professional. No more beer on deadline night! -BO

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I’m not sure I want to get the nickname “The Love Machine,” because how does that affect my nickname now, which is “The Lawn-Cutting Machine?”

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Saturday, Oct. 8 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Sandpoint station 1 (1123 Lake Street)

•Free smoke alarms •Engine rides •Education on wood stove safety •free lunch provided •station tours •Quick draw competition •Climbing wall

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Fun for the whole family!

For more info, call Firehouse - (208) 263-3533

In The Cedar Street Bridge Public Market

OCTOBER SPECIAL:

bratwurst and german potato salad!

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Meadowbrook Home and Gift 334 N. 1st Ave. #101 Sandpoint, Idaho 83864 (208) 255-2824

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