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Tonasket funds next phase of pool project

BY BRENT BAKER BBAKER@GAZETTE-TRIBUNE.COM

TONASKET - The long and arduous process of making a new swimming pool in Tonasket officially moved into its next phase as the City Council voted to commit $17,980 to a study that will yield concrete options and cost estimates that can be put before the community for discussion.

The motion, initiated by new council member Claire Jeffko, was approved unanimously, though council member Jill Vugteveen was absent.

The council had been reluctant to move forward without other stakehold-

ers in the pool project, as it will ultimately need the support of much more than city residents to become a reality. But as two years of discussion in the community wasn’t able to provide focus or a plan to move forward, the council determined it would need to take the lead in moving onto the next phase.

The city will pay Pool World of Spokane to produce cost estimates and visual renderings, based on the assumption that the new pool would be in the same place (Tonasket’s History Park) as the old one; that there won’t be problems with permitting or additional archaeological surveys, and that the pool would be a season, outdoor pool.

Boiler to be replaced

to be completed, after which the counOPTIONS Three options will be provided: a cil plans to arrange a forum for the simple, moderately-sized lap pool of Tonasket area (not just city) residents to discuss the availabout 32x75 able options. feet; a similar There was some pool with an “We get comments that we urgency to make additional wadhave to have a pool. But when it a decision on ing pool adjato move cent to it; and comes down to discussion, we whether forward or not. a multi-purpose pool with “zero never have any public show up “ A major deadline for grant applicaentry” water Jean Ramsey, Tonasket City Council Member tions is March, features (to aid 2014; missing that in handicapped deadline would access) and the delay access to that type of state funding ability to incorporate a water slide.

The work will take about two months for another two years.

The money will be taken from what remains of a $50,000 capital improvement fund dedicated to the pool several years ago, half of which had been spent on the study that led to the original pool being condemned.

“The idea is once we have that information, we hold a public meetings ... and see if there is a preferred option, or a combination of features,” said city planner Kurt Danison of Highlands Associates. “At that point we’d make a decision that this is the pool we want for the city of Tonasket. Then we’d know what it was going to cost ... and then be in

Oroville as center of Okanogan

AN ABSOLUTE CLASSIC

Chamber presentation focuses on tourism development

NVH phasing in geothermal system, not ‘Band Aid’

BY BRENT BAKER

BY GARY A. DEVON

BBAKER@GAZETTE-TRIBUNE.COM

MANAGING EDITOR

TONASKET - North Valley Hospital is proceeding with the replacement of its aging boiler system, a portion of which is inoperative and will leave the hospital inadequately heated this fall if the issue isn’t addressed immediately.

Kelly Cariker, who doubles as the Facilities Director and Chief Information Officer, reported on the status of the boiler project at the Thursday, July 11, NVH Board of Commissioners meeting.

The boiler system will be replaced by a geothermal sys-

“Because we have the one boiler that is down we’ll be unable to provide enough heat or hot water once the weather changes, which will probably be in October. That’s an emergency situation.”

Kelly Cariker, NVH Facilities Director

tem, he said, with the project to be taken on in phases. The first phase will deal with the portion of the system that is currently inoperative.

The McKinstry Construction Corporation, which has taken on numerous health care facilities projects and is overseen by the state’s Department of Enterprise Services, presented the hospital with a number of options, Cariker said.

The options included: • replace the boilers with propane boilers; • replace the boilers with the same type of fuel oil type boilers currently used; • replace the boilers with electric boilers; • replace the boilers with a geothermal system, which can provide both heat and cooling at the same time.

“Currently we have the fuel oil, basically using diesel to make

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Gary DeVon/staff photo

Classic autos, old and new gathered at Gold Digger Park last Saturday for the cruise in, including this vintage red Jaguar from British Columbia. Most of Saturday’s participants came from Oroville, Tonasket and southern B.C.

OROVILLE - Oroville as a Unique Travel Destination was the topic of conversation in a presentation by Sandy Lorentzen at the Oroville Chamber of Commerce’s Thursday, July 11 meeting.

Lorentzen lives in Seattle has been marketing the Pastime Bar & Grill for her friends Vickie and Brant Henzie, but describes herself as an outsider who is a “509er at heart.” She said she has fallen in love with the Oroville area.

“To be successful we don’t need to move diners from one restaurant to another, but be a catalyst for increasing the size of the diner pool and this means drawing more people to Oroville to eat and spend.”

Lorentzen has been involved in tourism development in various capacities over the years, including helping to build international audiences for the Pacific Northwest Wagner Festival in Seattle and the Brighton Festival in England. Currently she is the website content editor for a South and Central American tour operator. She has spoken to many travel associations and written about making communities unique as travel destinations.

“I hope you will take my remarks as they are intended, to stimulate a conversation about a common vision for making tourism a greater asset to Oroville

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Tumbleweed celebrates fourth year in Oroville Film festival to run Aug. 1-3 THE GAZETTE-TRIBUNE

OROVILLE - The Tumbleweed Film Festival (TwFF), Washington’s most unique film fest, brings 40 short films to its fourth annual film festival in Oroville on Aug. 1, 2 and 3.

Tumbleweed, www.tumbleweedfilmfest.com, highlights short films from around the world, as well as local wineries and breweries, which are turned into movie theaters for a night.

Tumbleweed’s festival offers attendees the opportunity to

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watch seldom seen international films, while sampling locally made wines and beers.

“We’re very excited to expand our film festival in Oroville this fourth year and look forward to bringing a fun cultural event to the community, getting the word out on this beautiful part of Washington State and letting the world know about the Okanogan,” says TwFF co-founder Mo Fine.

This year’s festival includes four venues over three evening showings, which will take place at Veranda Beach, the Pastime Bar and Grill, Alpine Brewing and Esther Bricques Winery.

Each night features different short films, ranging from comedy and drama, to documentaries and animation. Forty short films will screen over the three-day festival, which includes an academy award nominated short, as well as films from the US, Spain, England, South Korea, Russia, Australia, Egypt, Latvia, Ireland and Canada. Some films this year even include a star-studded cast like the British short “Walking the Dogs” with the actress Emma Thompson. There is even a little local talent involved with the short film “Shakey’s Coffee,” which was produced by Osoyoos

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Seattle filmmakers and Tumbleweed Film Festival co-founders Geoff Klein and Mo Fine prepare the Tumbleweed Film Festival screen for the Alpine Brewery venue. It is also used at Esther Bricques Winery and will also be used at the Pastime Bar & Grill this year.

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Okanogan Valley Life UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT

boiler | FROM A1

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Tracy Bauhs (right) has taken over operations of Back to the Basics at 1419 Main St. The cafe and arcade has added a gift shop and will feature “good food, great gifts and lots of family fun in the arcade” promises Bauhs. She hopes her business continues to grow within the community. Back to the Basics is open Monday to Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and can be reached at (509) 476-2196. Bauhs says bring in their ad for 10 percent off your bill.

Fire season begins in earnest The Gazette-Tribune

OKANOGAN COUNTY Two significant fires flared up last weekend in Okanogan County, including one that knocked out power to the Methow Valley for more than eight hours on Monday, July 15.

That fire, south of Okanogan, briefly closed Highway 20 between Okanogan and the Methhow Valley, burning about 2,000 acres of dry brush and one outbuilding.

As of Tuesday afternoon, the fire was 90 percent contained and no injuries had been reported.

Sun Mountain Fire Meanwhile, Hotshot crews from La Grande, Ore. and Entiat, Wash. arrived in the Methow Valley Saturday to catch helicopter flights

in to work on the Sun Mountain Fire. The fire is still estimated at about 35 acres and is burning in the steep terrain of the Lake Chelan Sawtooth Wilderness; in the south fork of War Creek drainage, southwest of Winthrop.

Five helicopters are supporting the fire, two for transport, two providing bucket drops and another providing aerial reconnaissance. With the calmer winds, there was less fire activity today.

Firefighters worked along the left flank of the fire, using chainsaws, Pulaskis and shovels to establish a containment line.Some of the firefighters who have been working on the fire since earlier in the week will return home tonight to refurbish their gear and get ready for other assignments.

An area closure is in place to provide for public and firefighter

safety. It begins at the confluence of War Creek and the South Fork War Creek and extends southwest following Black Ridge to Sun Mt, then following Chelan Crest from Sun Mt. to Battle Mt. continuing northeast along Snowshoe Ridge to the wilderness boundary, then north along the wilderness boundary back to the beginning.

Though the name may cause some confusion, Sun Mountain Lodge is not threatened by the fire, and is in fact separated from the fire by several miles of forest, rivers and ridgetops.

Sun Mountain Fire information is available online at http:// inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/3507 and updates are posted at www. twitter.com/OkaWenNF. Information from by Shannon O’Brien, USFS Public Information, was used in this report.

steam, then cooling the steam down to make hot water,” Cariker said. “It’s really inefficient.

Because we have the one boiler that is down we’ll be unable to provide enough heat or hot water once the weather changes, which will probably be in October.

“That’s an emergency situation.”

Cariker said that McKinstry, along with a team that included hospital senior leadership and board members Lael Duncan and Dick Larson, reviewed factors that included system cost, energy usage and efficiency, redundancy, versatility, maintenance, environmental impact, phasing flexibility, equipment life, system turndown, future expandability, reliability, complexity of control systems, fuel storage considerations and amount of space required.

The consensus, Cariker said, was that while a geothermal system would carry greater up front costs, for the long term it was the best solution for the hospital’s needs.

“It will be a hybrid system,” he said. “Phase I would be a smaller propane boiler to provide redundancy if the geothermal system ever went down. It also enables us to phase in, because the first phase is to replace the non-working boiler right now and get us through the winter.

“Then we can look at the other phases, which would include putting in wells for the geothermal.

But this gives us the time to get through the winter.”

With time of the essence, CEO Linda Michel individually polled the rest of the board members before authorizing McKinstry to proceed.

“We had to give them an answer or we won’t meet the Ocotber time frame for the first phase,” Michel said. “All of the board members voted ‘yes,’ so we did inform then they could go ahead with that first phase.”

Duncan, who participated in the meeting via phone, said she had great confidence in McKinstry.

“They are internationally recognized as experts ... they know what they’re doing,” Duncan said. “They’ll be assisting us with

grant writing to help fund this.

They have connections with the Department of Commerce...

“I’m hopeful we can really upgrade and sustain the system as a long term system instead of just a Band-Aid.” The next step was for McKinstry to put together a guaranteed maximum bid for the project.

“The Department of Enterprise Services ... looks over everything McKinstry does so we can make sure we’re being as cost-effective as we can,” Cariker said.

“They guarantee the maximum amount. If they go over that, McKinstry pays for it. If they come in under that, we get the money back. So that’s kind of a win-win scenario.”

Cariker said that, with the state budget finalized, there may be some grant money available for the project that McKinstry has begun researching.

“There is ... $10 million for small communities,” he said.

“They’re breaking that up into maximums of half a million.

(McKinstry) is also looking to see if there are emergency monies available, and we’re pursuing that at the same time.”

Duncan reiterated her position from a previous meeting that asking for legislative help would be appropriate, given the circumstances.

“It’s time for us to get hold of Rep. Joel Kretz (R-Wauconda) and let him know that we need some sort of assistance with this project at the next session in January,” she said.

“We can get through Phase I with the propane boiler, but it’s completely appropriate to ask the state for additional assistance with funding this improvement.”

Medicare, Medicaid still holding funds

Patient Financial Services director Jana Symonds presented a synopsis compiled by her and chargemaster Patrick Plumb that illustrated where and why Medicare and Medicaid have been withholding funds, which has been a major factor in driving the hospital district’s warrants

back up over $1.9 million.

The funds are being withheld in several different manners for different reasons, which include national-level software glitches and system and procedural changes.

The percentage of hospital payers in Medicare is 44 percent; those in Medicare managed care plans are 24 percent; and Medicaid recipients are 18 percent. So the effects have been drastic, Symonds said during her presentation, which expanded on information presented at the previous Board of Commissioners meeting.

“Patrick is on a provider outreach board,” she said. “He’s written extensive emails to CMS, Medicare, (Congressman) Doc Hastings, (Senators) Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell, alerting all parties as to what’s happening with our warrants.

“We call it holding our money captive because it’s not at our disposal. We’ve been vocal on letting them know what’s happening and how it’s affecting us.”

In other business, Michel said that papers have been signed for the sale of the Oroville Clinic for more than $600,000.

Michel also said she was pleased that the laboratory received just one “finding” during a recent inspection.

“It was a documentation finding, so I applaud Noreen (Olma) and her staff,” she said. “I’ve never been any place that had only one finding. It’s the auditors’ job to come up with those.”

Also, Long Term Care director Linda Holden said that the nursing home had received 42 new dressers and night stands thanks to the Hospital Foundation’s efforts.

“I just wanted to make a public thank you to the Foundation for gifting us those,” Holden said.

“They’re beautiful and getting moved in now. I was wishing Linda Noon would have been here to thank her, so I may have to do this again.”

The Board of Commissioners next meets on Thursday, July 25.

The following meeting, for Aug. 8, will be canceled and rescheduled for Monday, Aug. 5.

Heritage Days Make This A Historic Weekend!

Friday 6:00 p.m.

7:00 p.m.

Softball Tournament - Bud Clark field “The Valley Band” with Chuck Oakes, Brock Hires and more! Held at Vicki’s Backdoor Club.

Saturday

7am - 10am Breakfast served by the Boy Scouts @ Senior Center 8 - 9 am Escorted talk of the Smilkameen Trail from Trailhead to Taber’s Vineyard 9 am Softball Tournament restarts - Bud Clark Field Farmer’s Market Opens at Library Vintage Tractor Exhibit by Prince’s Warehouse Spinning - Betty Roberts at Depot Veranda Garden Club Sale at Veranda & Vendors in Madeline Wells Park 10am - 12pm Gold panning demo - provided by Kinross at Madeline Wells Park 11 a.m.

Fresh pie by the Senior Citizens at Depot Veranda Fresh ice cream by Historical Society at Depot Veranda Popcorn made in 1940’s machine at Depot Veranda 11am - 2 pm 1894 Log Cabin Open - 914 14th Ave 1pm Photo talk with Edward Curtis/Herbert Gregg

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LOVING THE MUSIC 4th Annual

Tonasket Comancheros

at the Tonasket Rodeo Grounds

Friday, July 19 Open Pull FREE Admission on Friday Night!

Saturday, July 20th at 7 pm

Truck and Tractor Pulls

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Steve Pollard gets into a groove during at Music in the Park on Friday, July 12, at Tonasket’s History Park. Ruby Rust, including Pollard, performed for about two hours for about 100 listeners. The next Music in the Park event will be on July 26.

FESTIVAL | FROM A1 native Sharon Roberts.

“We look for short films that provide great stories and this year we’ve found a great selection for every night. Audiences are going to find plenty of films to like each evening”, says Geoff Klein, the festival’s other founder. “We offer a highlight of each venue’s films on our website, so attendees can get a quick glimpse of the types of short films they’ll see at each event.”

This year’s festival kicksoff with two special events on Thursday, Aug. 1, which are both free to the public. At dusk, Veranda Beach Resort will host an outdoor family night of films, where attendees will enjoy a drivein theater experience by watching the films outside, under the stars, beside Lake Osoyoos. And the Pastime Bar and Grill will offer a “Blast from the Past” special screening of audience favorites from previous Tumbleweed Film Festivals. This event is geared to a 21 and over crowd and takes place at 9:15 pm.

“We are very pleased to be a sponsor, as well as a venue, for this year’s festival,” said Victoria Hinze, owner of the Pastime Bar and Grill. “We want to help build

Tumbleweed into an important tourist attraction for our region and hope our free event at the Pastime will introduce the event to a wider audience. Who says a town needs a movie theater to have a great film festival?” adds Hinze.

On Friday, Aug. 2, TwFF turns the Alpine Brewing Co. into a movie theater for a night. Films include a brand new slate of adult oriented comedies, a little drama and some twist and turns.

Attendees may sample the brewery’s hand-crafted beers, or drink wines from four local wineries.

Attendees will also have an opportunity to ask some questions to filmmaker Sharon Roberts, an Osoyoos native, who produced “Shakey’s Coffee,” as well as to actor Fraser Corbett, who starred in this Canadian short. A barbecue featuring Uli’s “Wurst of the Fest” is available for purchase. Doors open at 5 p.m. and films start at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 and all attendees must be 21 or older. Tickets may be purchased directly at the door or online at Tumbleweed’s website.

Saturday, Aug. 3 features a night of movies in the vineyards at the Esther Bricques Winery. Films include many award-winning

shorts from other film festivals.

The event offers live music, light appetizers and features tastings of the winery’s vintages. Doors open at 5 p.m. and films start at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 and may be purchased at the door or online at Tumbleweed’s website.

Attendees may also visit the Tumbleweed Film Festival’s Facebook page, www.facebook. com/TumbleweedFilmFestival, for more information on films, including trailers, and venues.

Festival founders Fine and Klein, both filmmakers in their own right, started the festival to combine their love of filmmaking with their love of Washington’s Okanogan Valley and hope to continue growing their festival throughout the Okanogan, including Tonasket, for many years to come.

This year’s primary festival sponsors include The Pastime Bar and Grill, Baines Title and Escrow, Veranda Beach Resort as well as Okanogan Estate and Vineyards. Other community sponsors include the Camaray Motel, Hometown Pizza, the Oroville Chamber of Commerce and the Okanogan Valley GazetteTribune.

New security business opens in Oroville

By Gary A. DeVon

Managing Editor

OROVILLE - Christopher Wald has opened Okanogan Patrol Services in Oroville, a full service private security and investigative agency.

Okanogan Patrol Services provides 24-hour alarm response, armed and unarmed mobile patrol, estate security, close protection (body guarding), process service, private investigations and uniformed and non-uniformed services. It has office hours Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., at 1411 Main Street, Unit C, in Oroville.

“I am originally from Oregon, however I got married and spent the last six years in Canada where I formed Gryphon Protection Service, Corp.” Wald said. “I missed the U.S. so much, that I have moved back to the United States and formed Okanogan Patrol Services.

His company bridges the gap between current law enforcement roles and the communities in which they serve, according to Wald.

“We do not replace law enforcement,” he said. “Instead, we compliment these agencies by providing services in three main areas of focus. These areas often challenge local law enforcement agencies resources, especially within rural areas.”

These areas of focus include: target deterrence patrols of residential and private commercial property, alarm response to homeowners and business owners, and assistance with security patrols of civic buildings and properties.

“Effectively providing security solutions in these three areas is no small feat,” Wald said.

“While it doesn’t require sworn law enforcement officers, it does

require specialized training and skills to successfully and safely deter those willing to take advantage of people, property, and our pursuit of happiness that we are all entitled to.”

“Okanogan Patrol Services has that training, knowledge and skill. We acknowledge that operating in this realm requires officers whose skills far exceed the industry standard. Our training doesn’t stop at state mandated minimums. We pay for additional third-party training by experts qualified to teach these higher advanced elevated skills. We supervise officers closely through a strict FTO (Field Training Officer) and FTX (Field Training Exercises) to ensure excellence skills in service and moral character.”

The company also requires all its officers to participate in a 80 to 100 hour “Ride along” program before they are allowed to patrol on their own.

Okanogan Patrol Services’ goal is to stay small and remain community focused and will be attending local events and festivals throughout the Okanogan Valley.

“We wish to grow one community at a time. We want our guards to be known by all those around us for who we serve. So that if the time comes, people know they can trust us with what matters most to them,” he said.

“Coming from a law enforcement family and background, especially in rural areas as I did,” he added. “I saw the problem forming that the smaller agencies don’t have the resources to respond to all calls with the high quality service and priority they would prefer, but just physically can’t achieve. This isn’t saying they won’t respond, however the purpose of police is to deal with criminal acts and community

safety once called on. However, the goal of Private Security is to deter said criminal acts before they reach the police. Also, through our mobile patrol and emergency response units we are able to respond to alarms (which 90 percent of the time are false alarms) well in advance of police response.

“This is a huge burden on Local Law Enforcement and we are able to assist them and then call them if criminal acts have or are being committed.

Also, we can respond to residential and commercial properties and deal with almost 100 percent of the problems ranging from trespassers to angry individuals or groups. None of these issues require sworn law enforcement officers. This a long with a whole slew of other issues, private security is the right answer.

“Remember: we’re here to assist the police not replace them.”

Wald has owned other businesses as well. He owned and operated a Mobile Treatment and Paramedic Company that served the oil and gas industries, later expanding into logging and mining operations.

“Before that, I was really good at roping and steer wrestling (High School & Collegiate Rodeo) a buddy and collegiate rodeo team mate and I formed a training academy for 3-18-year olds teaching the future generations of rodeo how to rope and wrestle. It wasn’t so much a business as a hobby, but we did file taxes.”

When not at work, Wald says he enjoys harvest season, camping, hiking, skiing, rodeo, the color purple, mountain climbing, traveling and volunteering in the community.

You can reach Okanogan Patrol Services at (509) 557-2222.

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They are BIG! They are POWERFUL! They are LOUD! And they pack the stands...

Don’t miss the Excitement and Fun!!

at the Tonasket Rodeo Grounds Saturday, July 20th at 7 p.m.

Gates open at 5:30 OPEN PULL - Friday, July 19 at 7:00 p.m.

Pre-sale Tickets Available at: • Superior Auto Parts • The Junction • Paul’s Service • II Sisters • Local Federated Auto Part Stores

Ticket Prices: Adults: $10 Kids 6 - 12: $7 Children 5 and under get in for FREE! Gate Tickets: Adults $12 Kids 6 - 12 $9 Children 5 and under get in for FREE!

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CHAMBER | FROM A1 as a generator of tax revenues, employment and economic development,” she said.

She added that she wanted to start talking about the community’s assets to attract more tourists and about what makes people travel and what makes the media talk up a place.

She spoke about why people travel - the need to experience something special and how things like convention centers are not the boon that people once thought they would be.

“It’s the vacationers who spends the most because that’s all he/she has to do with time spent at the destination,” she said. “For communities that are unlikely to ever be in the game of vying for conventions, they must look to the vacationer for their tourism dollars anyway, which is what makes image so important. The great thing about image is it’s something you create.”

About events: “There are events and there are events. Events that people can see at home or that happen in a number of different places close to home will be less appealing in motivating a person to travel than a unique events,” she said. “Some of the most successful festivals attract a specialized audience. You either like chamber music or you don’t.”

The most beneficial events are ones that give visitors reasons to stop and stay, turning day trips into hotel nights, according to Lorentzen.

She gave several examples of events that started small and have grown into big events, like the Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Ore. that started in 1935 as part of their Fourth of July celebration.

Today it attracts 125,000 visitors a year, has an annual budget of $75 million and a total estimated economic impact of $168 million.

She also points to Seattle’s Wagner Festival. “You don’t have to love high German opera. You just have to love money, because not only were big spenders coming to the event, but the event was generating a lot of press,” Lorentzen said.

She says festival events that happen in the evening, or are multi-day events, are important because at least some segment of the audience doesn’t go home at night.

She said she was excited about the Tumbleweed Film Festival and thinks it has a good chance of growing into something big for Oroville and the surrounding communities. She described how the Toronto International Film Festival and the Banff Mountain Film Festival have grown into big successes.

“I would sell our Okanogan counterparts this way: Like Tumbleweed, the Napa Valley International Film Festival takes place in non-traditional venues and is intertwined with its wine and food industries,” she said.

“Like Tumbleweed, it started in 2010. Its first year consisted of three evenings showing six films.

Today, 125 wineries and 30 restaurants participate and over 100 films are shown in 11 venues spread among four towns. I think is potential the Canadian Okanagan travel industry will like.

“The most successful highprofile film festivals are treated like tourism assets and supported as such by their communities. Those that struggle along unaided by the beneficiary business and local economic development agencies meet a common end.”

Lorentzen said the festival’s founders have big ambitions and hope to build the event to an international stature that attracts nationwide audiences as well as establishing a filmmaking summer camp in Oroville for kids.

“How many of Oroville’s festivals hold regular events in Seattle to promote traveling to Oroville?”

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Tonasket’s city swimming pool is in the middle of its second summer of sitting empty. The Tonasket City Council last week approved nearly $18,000 to proceed with the next stage of a project to replace the obsolete pool.

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Sandy Lorentzen talks with Oroville Chamber of Commerce members at their Thursday, July 11 meeting about making Oroville a unique travel destination. she asked. “Tumbleweed hosts several promotional film screenings a year in Seattle for that purpose.”

She also said going after the “foodies” can be profitable.

Food and drink events make people travel and attract a high value, low impact guest.

She describes these guests as “Affluent adults who can afford and appreciate fine wine, worldclass cuisine, great natural beauty and who respect community values that have served to make the Napa Valley ‘legendary.’”

She also points to the Gilroy Garlic Festival, saying that it has grown into the “garlic capital of the world,” processing more garlic than anywhere else. However they feature only a couple types of garlic, while the Okanogan grows the most commercial varieties in the world.

“The Okanogan is the Napa Valley of garlic,” she said. “If ever there was a place that should have a huge, tourist attracting, media-generating garlic festival, it’s here. We have one in Tonasket and I applaud them for it, but its economic impact could be much, much greater.

“Maybe they would like to expand their concept geographically to include Oroville or brainstorm how to attract more tourists, but if not, there are other ways for Oroville to attract foodies,” she said.

Then there are the birders, the bicyclists, the motorcyclists and outdoor adventure enthusiasts.

“You’ve already got what they want. It’s just a matter of convincing them to come here instead of going somewhere else. For the most part, like the foodies, these people are urban too and they have discretionary income for experiences,” she said.

Lorentzen said after several months of analyzing the subject of attracting more tourists to Oroville, she has concluded Oroville is located in the wrong place - on the edge of the Cascade Loop Route but not in it, too far west and north of the Coulee Corridor and barely included in the Cascade Foothills Farmland Association’s map and cut off entirely on their website.

“Oroville needs to move to the middle,” she said, adding that Arnie Marchand had pointed out Oroville really is in the middle - between Wenatchee and the northern end of the Canadian Okanagan.

“You can get anywhere east, west, south or north in the Okanagan/Okanogan from Oroville. We know we’re in the middle, but everyone else thinks we’re on the edge. I think we can

change that,” she said, diagramming an oval on a map with Oroville at its center.

She also presented a chart that showed how many more wineries, golf courses, ski areas, wine festivals restaurants, cideries and distilleries there were when Oroville is at the center.

The chart showed the number of such businesses located in Oroville, often with a zero, but how they increased when you added the Canadian Okanagan and how they increased even more by adding in the American Okanogan.

A second chart showed the distances from Vancouver to Osoyoos and from Seattle to Oroville, within about 25 miles of being equidistant.

“If Vancouver is a big market for Osoyoos, Seattle should be a big market for us,” she said, suggesting the two Okanogans work together.

She points to the efforts of the Thompson Okanogan Tourism Council to develop a ten-year plan to turn the area into as big an economic generator in the shoulder and winter months as it is in the summer.

The major focus of this effort is to promote the uniqueness and build the reputation of its natural attractions and events.

One example is they plan to inventory and promote the regions agricultural products that fit into the slow food movement. All the sub-units of the Thompson Okanogan region are working at this same goal, according to Lorentzen.

“We want Canadians.

Thompson Okanogan wants Americans. Unlike some communities, we also want Americans to travel to Canada if they have to pass through Oroville to get there. The Okanogan/Okanagan is a win win,” she said.

When she began her hour-long talk, Lorentzen said she wanted to head up the chamber’s “Wacky Ideas Committee.”

“That’s where I’d like to serve because daydreaming is a good thing in tourism development,” she said. “Dreams put people in motion and most ideas, until proven, seem farfetched - like landing a man on the moon.”

She concluded by saying tourism development is not rocket science and that unique events and attractions make people travel...commonplace attractions and events don’t.

“It always takes time and small successes building on one another to get a community to embrace common vision for tourism development. I think we can do it.”

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a position to make a grant request for that amount of money. With a 50 percent grant we’d know what our match would need to be.

“We could still apply, if federal money is still there, we could apply for a federal grant. If we got a state and federal, that could be a 90 percent match, but you still have to be able to walk in the door with the money for a 50 percent match, and then celebrate if you got both.”

Danison pointed out that getting into position to put together a solid grant proposal is likely the only way the project will come to fruition.

Even the least-expensive option - based on a similar project in Davenport - is likely to cost upwards of $1.2 million just for construction.

Danison went through the ins and outs of much of the details of getting the project on solid footing, answering questions from both the council and from the family of Gordon Stangland, who last year bequeathed an unspecified amount of money to the project.

Many of the questions revolved around ways to cut costs, such as using the engineering and plans from previously completed projects elsewhere (such as Davenport).

NO QUICK, EASY PATH “In order to get the grant money, you have to jump through hoops,” he said. “Ask Linda Black what it costs to get a simple little slab with some water features on it to get it engineered and approved by the state. It costs thousands and thousands of dollars. It’s not that easy.

“It’s a municipality, there are public bidding laws, and you have to have the complete design approved. I can guarantee you that Pool World, that did the Davenport design, isn’t going to just give us the plans... As long as you don’t need anyone else’s money, you have more flexibility.

“I agree with the spirit of what you’re saying,” said council member Scott Olson. “That $18,000, just to get the concept, when they have the plans done ...”

“Not really,” Danison said.

“Every site is different. We’re in the 100-year flood plain, there’s an existing pool. It’s not just like you can take their design and put it somewhere else.”

Olson, as he has on previous occasions, asked about the possibility of pool that could be used for more than just three months out of the year.

“An indoor pool, unless there’s a bunch of millionaires around that have a bunch of money that they don’t need to hang onto, isn’t feasible,” Danison said.

KEEPING IT UP Not only is the cost of building the pool substantially higher, but the cost of maintenance is exponentially greater than that of an outdoor seasonal pool.

“I still have the idea this is not just going to be a pool for the kids to play in the summer,” Olson said. “Swim lessons, but also rehabilitation (for patients) with the hospital. Adults didn’t seem to use the (old) pool. There must have been some reason. If we’re going to built something this expensive, it has to serve more needs.”

“In may ways I agree with Scott,” said council member Jean Ramsey. “I would like to see a pool. We get comments that we have to have a pool. But when it comes down to discussion, we never have any public show up or have support.

“We will have to maintain this year after year, and I haven’t wrapped my mind around how we’re going to do that. For 50 years. I’m not against the pool; I have kids. But I have to wrap my mind around being fiscally responsible about doing it.”

Mayor Patrick Plumb talked about even with a small temporary pool in his back yard, which he got for free, has cost him hundreds of dollars to maintain.

“All of this is on an exponential scale as a city,” he said. “(What it amounts to is that) we are subsidizing kids to swim, and we’re not getting away from that. We are not going to charge $15 a day to swim in the pool, and even that probably wouldn’t do it (to cover maintenance costs). That’s where you have families taking the lead wanting to make sure there is a pool here. It’s not going to pay for itself.”

Danison and the council discussed what it would take to form a pool or recreational district that could support maintenance of the pool through local taxes.

“The county commissioners have to allow the ability to form a junior taxing district,” Plumb said, noting it would probably cover the area of the Tonasket School District. “All that does is gives us the ability to put something on the ballot. You still have to spend money to put it on the ballot.”

Furthermore, even if a taxing district is approved, voters would then have to approve the actual taxes.

“Would it be sales tax generated or property tax generated?” asked Plumb. “They have to pass that. But the city can’t take the lead. The commissioners have to establish that taxing district.”

Danison added that will in itself entail a two-year process,

even if successful.

LONG WAIT NO MATTER WHAT At the earliest, a pool wouldn’t be in use until 2016, and Danison said even that would require a miracle.

The (Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office) requires - park plan that shows the project a priority (which we have),” Danison said.

“The application initially due in March, so we submit application, have it undergo a technical review. Then they chew you apart, you rewrite it. So if we’re going to make the March deadline - we have to have what it’s going to cost, what the design will look like.”

He said having the Pool World work in place will make that next step possible.

“Even then in order to be truly competitive we’d need to spend another $100-150,000 so that when we apply for the grant, we (other studies completed). If we apply for federal money there is an additional process there. I can’t explain why it works the way it does. Then if we get the grant .... funding wouldn’t be available til 2015. That’s if we had all the matching money, walked in with a killer application, and everything lined up in place.

“And if not, we’ll wait until 2016 and apply again.”

Olson said at a later point in the meeting that he regretted that with some people it has become a point of tension over whether or not to fund the pool or the Tonasket Water Ranch, when the reality is that the water ranch project completion would be beneficial to moving along the pool project.

“I fear that this could have been seed money heading into the pool,” he said of the water ranch. “The idea of, look what we’ve done as a community by ourselves (when filing a grant application) “Now we’re asking for grant money for the next step. It’s been a hard issue, people saying they’re saving their money, or accusing the water ranch of stealing ‘their’ money.”

“People don’t have a good perception of the two,” Ramsey said.

“Some seem to think that you have to drop one to support the other.”

But, as Ramsey added, the city’s commitment to the pool project became a lot more real with Tuesday’s vote.

“This is the city showing a commitment with a solid dollar,” she said. “The city is making that commitment with city money.

Just us, the city, saying OK, we’ll commit to this.”

The Community Cultural Center

would like to thank to all of this year’s Tonasket Community Theater Sponsors.

We had a fun and successful showing of the “The Legend of Cat Ballou”, THANKS TO THESE FOLKS:

• Wenatchee Valley Medical Center • Robert Pellegrini • Anonymous • Dr. Carlton F. Roos, The Barkuloo Trust • Okanogan Family Faire • MidWay Building Supply • Paul & Rachel Lacey • Veranda Beach Resort • P.T. Works • Doug & Jacqueline Sklar of Edward Jones • Esther Briques Winery & Vineyard LLC • Pastime Bar and Grill • Thom Speidel • Scott & Montie Smith

• RDL Auto Service • Patti & George Baumgardner • Fernne & Roger Rosenblatt • Barbara Culp • Marija & Richard Welton • Grant’s Market • Karen Schimpf • Lyman & Pamela Skow • Red Apple Inn • Tom & Linda Black • Claire Jeffko • Tonasket Natural Foods Co-Op • Janet & Trygve Culp • Kim & Jim Helleson • Maya Watershine Woods

• Peter Clitherow • US Bank • Bea & Leon Alden • Sharon & Ernie Bolz • Gary Bramer DDS • Beyers Market • OK Chevrolet • Susie & Troy Shaddox • Robin Stice • Victoria & Jerry Jones • Rose & Andre Corso • Lida & Rick Lind • Junction • Dr. Robert Nau • Okanogan Properties LLC • Superior Auto Parts Inc.

The CCC would also like to express our deep gratitude to Tonasket Community Theater Director, Sarah Kaiser, whose passion and persistence brings culture to our town every year. Appreciation also goes out to the cast, crew and musicians who donated so much time and talent for the cause. Thank you!

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THE TOWN CRIER

Oroville gets a love letter

While Sandy Lorentzen was talking to the Oroville Chamber of Commerce about using Oroville’s cultural assets to attract more tourists, Richmond, B.C. writer Patrick Robinson was writing a love letter to Oroville, Washington in the Huffington Post, Part of that publication’s “anthology of reflections on American places.”

He writes about spending weekends and holidays in his family’s cabin he describes as sandwiched between Osoyoos and Oroville. He says Oroville never fails to impress and marches to the beat of its own drummer.

Robertson writes: “Oroville, you’re like no other small town. You just have a way of bringing things together. Nestled against the border with Osoyoos, Canada, you graze the fingertips of the Sonora Desert, finishing their long reach from Mexico.

Geographically you’re far from the middle, but culturally, right at the center of three countries.

“Oroville, you never fail to impress. Bringing three countries together is no easy feat, yet you do it without batting an eye. You charm them and then claim them as your own. Coming up on weekends and holidays, I’ve gotten to know your people a little, but mine a lot, at our little house by the lake. With no TV, no clock on every wall, and no mall to run off to, you bring us together.

Out of Whoever ‘us’ is on that particular day.”

My Mind Local historian Arnie Marchand, Colville Tribal member and promoter of the “Three Gary A. DeVon Nation Vacation,” might argue that the three nations in play are that of the United States, Canada and the Native Americans/First Peoples. We all know how much Canadians love Mexican food and flock to Trinos, Rancho Chico, La Ultima (see letter this week) and the taco wagons -- maybe Robinson would accept Oroville as bringing four nations together.

At the last Oroville Chamber meeting, Lorentzen suggested we embrace the cultural differences. Use them as a means to bring more people to visit, to stay and spend their money. She also puts Oroville in the middle - the middle of the Okanagan/Okanogan - and suggests Americans and Canadians work together to have visitors going north and south and share in what makes this area special.

After we shared the link with the Love Letter on Facebook and Twitter there were a lot of people asking what Robinson was talking about when he wrote that the new stoplight was big, albeit old news in the local paper (that’s us). Rather than describing Oroville itself, he was describing small towns in general, the “every small town.” That is unless he was talking about the stoplights at the border crossing, which we doubt.

The author isn’t the first to wax poetic about Oroville (or Tonasket, for that matter). Our communities have graced the occasional column in big dailies like the Seattle Times.

Robinson’s letter is a romanticized version of the town, something that perhaps not everyone sees. It may make you recall the wonder one might have felt growing up here, something we often take for granted.

Seeing the town through his eyes can make you a little jealous of people like him who come here to get away from things like the big city. While we toil to earn our bread in “God’s Country” Robinson’s letter might just help a local reconnect with the reasons we live here in good times and bad.

To read Robinson’s full “Love Letter to Oroville,” see http:// www.huffingtonpost.com/love-letters/love-letters-orovillewashington_b_3401729.html.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The People versus Okanogan County PUD Dear Gary, Our PUD is in disarray, piling up millions in additional debt each year. The PUD debt is currently $38 million. Is the public aware? Where is our watch dog press? We and our utility are in over our heads, literally drowning, and there are still plans to continue spending more than we are making.

Any rancher, farmer, business or household can tell you that economic plan will fail.

The PUD needs one-third more money from the ratepayers, scheduling three public meetings to let us know. I hope your readers saw the small PUD advertisement on page 2 in last week’s Gazette-Tribune. With no news release or article or community calendar announcement, a low public turnout will make a wrong decision by the PUD easier.

If the 33 percent increase over five years proposed by the PUD was enough to fix the problem and balance the books for good, I just might tighten my belt and help the utility cover real costs. Unfortunately, what they plan next, after the rate increases, really has me worried, Municipal Bonds!

Our Similkameen River, its scenic Similkameen Falls, its salmon and steelhead fishing, and the economic benefits of outdoor recreation and tourism will all be sacrificed for a failed business plan. Our utility wants so badly to be a hydro-electric producer, they would sell $64.2 million dollars in municipal bonds to the rich elites of Wall Street, as a fundraiser for their project.

In truth, the flows of the Similkameen River are too low and seasonal for generation of affordable electricity at today’s construction costs. An independent economic study, prepared by Rocky Mountain Econometrics,

using PUD estimates, shows a loss of $26/ megawatt-hour generated, net loss to the PUD, $ I million/annually. We cannot afford this debt and damage to our natural resources.

Stop the Spending! Attend the public meeting, Monday, July 22 at 6:30 p.m. in the Okanogan PUD Auditorium.

Joseph Enzensperger Oroville

La Ultima in Tonasket, it is the ‘ultimate’ find Dear Editor, My husband and I are from the Canadian Okonagan Valley. Over the past five years, we have come to love the American Okanogon and have passed through Tonasket regularly on our way to the Methow Valley. At the garlic festival a couple of years ago, we were wooed by the excellent tamales made by Michael and his family from La Ultima. We decided we had to try the restaurant the next time through and soon it became a necessary stop each time we ventured south.

When we decided to marry this year in Twisp this year, we thought our Canadian relatives would love a true tamale experience.

We asked Michael if his family could prepare tamales for 60 and he smiled and said they would be honored. Our plan was to pick up the tamales the day before the wedding but Michael had one look at our small car and insisted he and his children do the delivery for us on the wedding day. He arrived at the hall right on time with tamales for all, extra rice, beans, salsa and chips.

La Ultima was a complete hit with the crowd and Michael refused to accept payment or mileage compensation for the 120 mile

return trip. What a wonderful family and what great food. Tonasket is fortunate to have “La Ultima” as part of its community!

Kerry Bokenfohr Vernon, B.C.

Nelson Mandela is no George Washington Dear Editor, President Obama comparing Nelson Mandela to George Washington reminded me of Herbert Matthews of the New York Times in the late 50’s comparing Fidel Castro to George Washington. Mandela was jailed for years because he admitted he planned sabotage to violently overthrow the South African government. He said “We communist party members are the most advanced revolutionaries in the world.”

He was repeatedly offered the chance to get out of jail if he would just renounce violence.

He refused. Mandela led the African National Congress when it was listed as a terrorist group by the U.S. Congress. Mandela’s wife in the 80’s Winnie Mandela became notorious for encouraging the murder of blacks opposed to the ANC by placing gas filled tires around their necks and lighting them on fire.

Today , according to Dr Gregory Stanton , the head of Genocide Watch, the ANC is conducting an orchestrated genocidal campaign targeting white farmers having already murdered over 3000 or 10 percent of South Africa’s commercial farmers.

President Obama supports this terrorism by the ANC through foreign aid and the praise he gives to the former ANC leader and terrorist Nelson Mandela.

Steve Dunham Spokane

Working taxpayers the new persecuted minority “The only difference between death and taxes is death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets.” - Will Rogers.

OPINION BY WILLIAM SLUSHER

It certainly seems that Democrat legislators in both Washingtons have never met any working Americans who weren’t earning too much money for their own good. In Olympia, legislative Republicans and two constitutionally salvageable rogue Democrats may have been able to hold the line on Democrats’ ever more ravenous addiction to other people’s money by virtue of a windfall from existing taxes. Still, as their remarks to the Seattle Times suggest, Democrat legislators are drooling in delirious tremens for want of new taxes. Oh what to do? So much targetable working people’s money William Slusher out there to be confiscated, so little time to take it.

There is an inescapable dilemma with they who presume to decide what someone else’s “fair share” of taxes should be. Once such a figure is determined, it is but a nanosecond before the revelation strikes Democrat congresspersons that if taxing the workers this much is fair, then ... zounds! ... taxing them more must be even fairer!

And so the situation devolves to an entire political party of legislators who have such uber-arrogant contempt for taxpaying Washingtonians as to actually sue for the ‘right’ to pillage the worker yet more easily with less accountability. These Democrat legislators actually stick their middle finger in the voting public’s eye and squat all

over the latter’s clear initiative-expressed, heavy majority mandate that taxes only be increased with a two-thirds vote. “A simple majority should rule,” these taxation obsessed Democrats piously pontificate, blithely ignoring that a simple and huge majority of voters has already ruled by initiative for the twothirds restriction.

Yes of course taxes are unavoidable, even desirable on anything approaching a reasonable scale. America needs infrastructure, security, and the opportunity to earn one’s way up the prosperity ladder in a business friendly nation. But there are four acidic problems with our current taxation: First, the taxpaying worker has lost all control over government’s power to extort his income. That famed 1% are blessed with so much money they can live well no matter how high taxes get. But those average workers crawling from check to check, writing those carnivorous due dates on bill envelopes, doing without, stretching each cent to the max, they live in constant fear that taxaholic legislators will choke the life out of their families. Recently revealed, rampant partisan corruption in our Democrat-puppet IRS speaks ominously for itself.

Second, the working taxpayer has no control over how his money is spent. Millions for weapons to Syrians who danced on 911, annual billions for wars that just succeed in getting our young volunteers killed, federal funding for the mass Gosnellation of live human fetal infants, ad infinitum. It doesn’t matter your political party here. We all shake our heads daily at unimaginable extremes of tax dollars squandered on waste and schemes so egregious we agree across party lines that it’s lunacy.

The third problem is that abysmally too few citizens and corporations pay any income taxes at all. They criminally ride free on the

worker.

The fourth toxic problem is the worst, for it prohibits any solution to the first three. Once enacted simply to pay national bills, taxation has become a social engineering cattle prod for government to stick us with, to forcibly herd us into behaviors they decide for us that we must adhere to. ‘Sin’ taxes, incentive tax breaks, carbon taxes, energy taxes, electric car tax rebates, etc. The list is endless and growing daily. Are we a free people, or are those of us who pay taxes merely slaves on the hoof to be herded and milked to serve the powerati? If not, why the prod taxes?

Government tax guzzlers forget or, worse, don’t care that somebody had to work hard and long for every dime of those billions extorted from workers. Most workers desperately need that money. But government ... just ... keeps ... mega-spending it on too many insane projects and too much negligent waste.

As of election 2012 working taxpayers have become the new persecuted minority in America. It’s time for some affirmative action to save him and her, for it is the sands of their lives through the hourglass spent earning the money so carelessly bled away by reckless taxation.

What’s called for here is a shift of some of that famed American compassion from such insanity as spending billions supporting foreigners who hate us to helping American workers who must surrender the bulk of their finite breaths dearly earning the money exacted in taxes with barely - maybe - enough left over to feed their families. These working, taxpaying Americans have profoundly earned some sadly overdue compassion from government and its avaricious taxation fetishists.

William “Bill” Slusher is a writer with a horse ranch on the Okanogan near Riverside. He may be complained to at williamslusher@live.com.

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Okanogan Valley Life

Birthdays, anniversaries, reunions Due to a glitch, somewhere along the element to them. To get the families of way last week, part of this column didn’t Rises and Loe’s and a whole assortment get printed, so we’ll add it this week. of other folks makes for a good bunch What a great 80th birthof people. day party was held at Mary Using the word bunch Louise Loe’s home, honorbrings to mind that Judy ing Wally on his birthday, Bunch had an accident at the almost 60th Wedding the Chesaw rodeo, riding in Anniversary of Wally and a drill team, and the horse Ruth and also near the 80th went one way and Judy’s foot for Ruth. went another. No broken The day was perfect for bones, but enough pain to the outdoor occasion and the require the use of crutches. surrounding hillsides were What is that old German lush and green from all the saying Judy, too soon old THIS & THAT …..too late schmart? recent rains.

To have so lived your life Joyce Emry A recent Sunday afterthat folks came from far and noon was spent visiting near to help celebrate with the elderly, the sick and the this couple is a great achievement in deceased. First we visited the Extended life, since most of their time has been Care Facility where we chatted with Bill spent elsewhere, but home, their Molson Hilderbrand, Rita (Nigg) Birch and Kay home, has always been an important (Sherling) Tracy and said “hi” to others.

Then, was on to see Ellen Roberts, who is now 103 and our most special aunt.

Then, on our return home we stopped at the Ellisforde Cemetery. The Indian way is to have natural settings in their burial grounds and the walking isn’t easy, but if you’ve never seen an Indian cemetery, you should take the time to visit this one.

The Pierre family has some very nice markers, with etched pictures of the sons and their sister.

On that same Sunday evening I witnessed the most gorgeous rainbow that I have ever seen, and I have seen quite a few. It was most spectacular, during a light rain and bright sunshine, causing brilliant colors. And to those of you who didn’t see it, I’m sorry. We all know who makes rainbows and He did a great job on this one… and don’t give me any of that scientific gobbled-goop, about the sun and the rain and shadows etc. because you won’t change my mind.

WEDDING BELLS KATIE GLANZER & TODD PHILLIPS

The hot month is about half finished… and still no ripe tomatoes. We finally made it to the Farmer’s Mkt. There was a nice turn out.

It’s good to report that Bud Gerken is home. Hopefully he’ll continue to improve and be out and able to visit with friends.

Steve Retasket had to be taken to Wenatchee hospital recently, due to infections.

Lotsa pro’s and con’s on the tree removal in front of the grade school. I think I’ll just stay out of that discussion.

A phone call from “Rinky” Fritz, Omak, announced the death of his cousin, Gail Sanborne, July 9 after a lingering illness. Many will remember him from former high school days in Oroville.

Lloyd and Beverly Curtis have returned from a trip to Copenhagen, very tired after the long flight and travels, but had a most interesting trip.

The airwaves have certainly been doing overkill on the Zimmerman/Martin trial, or so it seems to me.

The cherry lines have been operating

Sweeten your life at the Market SUBMITTED By Suzanne Dailey Howard Tonasket Farmers’ Market

Katie Glanzer and Todd Phillips are happy to announce their engagement and forthcoming marriage. Katie is the daughter of Tyrone and Janet Glanzer from Tonasket. She graduated with a Master’s degree in education from University of Washington. She is employed at East Omak Elementary School as a special education teacher. Todd is the son of Randy and Karla Phillips of Brewster, WA. He graduated from Whitworth University with a major in education. He is employed at Brewster Middle School as a math teacher. The wedding will be held in Chelan, WA on Aug. 13. After a honeymoon in Cancun, Mexico, the couple will reside in Brewster.

ANDY GLANZER & MCKENZIE JEPPSON Tyrone and Janet Glanzer of Tonasket are excited to announce the engagement and upcoming marriage of their son, Andy Glanzer, to McKenzie Jeppson.

Andy is currently attending Brigham Young University Idaho studying nursing. McKenzie is the daughter of David and Tonya Jeppson from Eagle, ID. She is also attending Brigham Young University Idaho studying music.

Their wedding will be held in Boise on July 26. After the summer, the couple will reside in Rexburg, ID.

While strolling through Tonasket Farmers’ Market this past Thursday, the song “L’Chaim” from Fiddler on the Roof came to mind. L’chaim is used as a Jewish toast and means “to life.” Life indeed is apparent and abundantly present at the market, from sweet fresh fruit to the smiling, berry-stained faces of children, life abounds.

Returning to the market is John DeLap from Malott, who sells ripened to perfection apricots, blueberries and peaches from DeLap Orchard. I purchased apricots to give to friends from the Coast, and

Heritage Days this weekend

OROVILLE SENIOR NEWS

Submitted by Dolly Engelbretson Heritage Days are this Friday and Saturday, July 19-20. The Senior Center will be serving a wide variety of pies including rhubarb, apple, blueberry and custard and maybe some I haven’t mentioned.

Pies will be served by the piece, 1/6 slide for $3, or $8 for the whole pie. We will be stationed near the kitchen and next to Bob Seaman and his home made ice cream stand. A lot will be going on.

The Museum veranda. Betty Roberts will be demonstrating

her spinning techniques on her own professionally made spinning wheels. She makes each and they are so beautifully handcrafted that they are actually a work of art. The Garden Club will be at the north end with their annual plant sale and will have some other items for sale as well. Meanwhile, back at the Senior Center, Walt Hart and Scout Troop #29 will be serving breakfast from 7-10 a.m. This is a fundraiser for the troop.

We received word this week that due to unforeseen circumstances Jessica Russell will not be

ridge bread, bumbleberry, dutch apple and rhubarb pies, plus white chocolate chip cookies baked by her young daughters. Ah, the sweet life.

Several young people representing Range Riders 4H Club brought their lively wares to market. Dan and Katie Keane, aided by their mother, Emily, sold zesty salsa and jam. I couldn’t resist their craft offering, “refrigerator pockets,” jeans pockets decorated with buttons, appliquÈ and beads and having magnets on the back.

Dan, quite the young entrepreneur, made me a deal on three.

All the proceeds support their 4H club and they learn valuable skills creating products and bringing them to market.

Sweeten up your life this week, shop at the market. You might just find yourself humming “L’Chaim.” See you at the market! available to tell us about her shop in July 18, but will be rescheduled for a date in August. Just a reminder to those who signed up for the Post Office tour on July 23. Please meet at the Senior Center no later than 9:15 a.m. I will be calling those who have indicated they were interested in the tour. We will have a standby list in case of a cancellation.

Pinochle scores for July 13: Wilma Colburn won the door prize two weeks in a row. Dolly Engelbretson had the high ladies score. WOW! A first. Evelyn Dull and Dolly had 1,000 aces. No wonder I ended with a high score.

Evelyn had the most pinochles.

Ed Craig had the high score for the men, again. He is pretty consistent.

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This week, Major League Baseball’s All-Star game will be played at Citi Field in New York.

If you’re a baseball fan, you’ll enjoy the annual gathering of the sport’s best players. And if you’re an investor, you may be able to take away some valuable lessons from the AllStars — lessons that can prove valuable to you long after the game’s final out is recorded.

So, what can you learn from the All-Stars?

Here are a few of their traits:

Brent and Kim Baker of Tonasket are excited to announce the upcoming marriage of their son, A.J. Baker, to Robyn Zeidler.

A.J. recently graduated from Seattle Pacific University with a degree in Educational Ministries. Robyn is the daughter of Bob and Joanne Zeidler of Plymouth, MN, and is a current SPU student, studying Global Nutrition and Health. The wedding will be in Plymouth on Sunday, Aug. 4. The couple will reside in Seattle at least until Robyn’s graduation next spring.

TONASKET MARKET REPORT had to sample them to make sure they were good. They were so good I had to sample a few more.

Mary Capote, of Capote Orchards, is back as well with fresh cherries. There were three varieties to choose from: Rainier, Lapin, and Sweetheart, and the varieties will change with the season. Right now, life is truly a bowl of cherries, and it doesn’t get much better or sweeter than that.

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two shifts, but the overall run will probably be much shorter, due to so much damage to the fruit. Some didn’t even pick their crop. Would make one believe in insurance, as something is better than nothing.

Yeah! Twinkies are back on the shelf, so I heard.

Some flowers are so prolific…..hollyhocks just come back year after year and are so pretty and the hummingbird vine (trumpet vine I think) keep those little birds really busy as they bury their noses deep into the flowers.

Lots of memories were shared as the Rainsberry family gathered for a family reunion. I imagine there were at least five generations represented. It was nice to see and visit with Donna R. Forney and Virgil and feel privilege to be included when they have their gatherings.

Forneys and their daughter had lodgings at Veranda Beach. That place is still growing by leaps and bounds with vineyards all over the hill sides and it is a beautiful spot and very well kept. A nice place to visit.

• Consistency — All-Star teams rarely include ballplayers who are having one great year amidst a mediocre career; typically, All-Star players perform well every season. As an investor, you also want to seek consistent performers — those investments that, year in and year out, are likely to meet their objectives, whether those are growth,

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income or a combination of both. Of course, in the financial world, there are no sure things, so just like the best ballplayers, any investment can have an “off year.” Still, by sticking with quality investment vehicles, you should be able to improve the overall performance consistency of your portfolio.

markets are struggling. During these times, you may be tempted to take a “time out” from investing. But if you do, you could miss out on the beginning of a market rally. The best investors stay invested, through “up” and “down” markets, following a long-term strategy and keeping their focus on their goals.

• Flexibility – Not surprisingly, most Major League Baseball players are big, strong men.

However, in recent years, many ballplayers — like other professional athletes — have discovered that various types of training, including yoga, can greatly increase their flexibility, allowing them to reduce injuries and play more effectively. As an investor, you, too, need flexibility in the sense of being able to adjust your portfolio, as needed, in response to changes in your life or in your goals. As part of this flexibility, you need, among other things, enough liquidity in your accounts to take • Durability — The Major League Baseball advantage of new investment opportunities as season is 162 games long, which means that, they arise. over the course of six months, ballplayers play almost every day. And since baseball is In all likelihood, you won’t be swinging a bat or a physically demanding game, injuries are throwing a ball in front of a national audience common — yet, many All-Stars seem to make — but by following the above suggestions, you it through the entire season without missing may be able to become an “all-star investor.” more than a few games. When you invest, you will need plenty of durability as well. Over the This article was written by Edward Jones for course of decades, you will see some bumps use by your local Edward Jones Financial in the road — periods in which the financial Advisor.

• Ability to avoid “errors” — All-Star players (apart from pitchers) are typically superior hitters, but many of them also have superior defensive skills — which means they make few errors in the field. And as an investor, you will definitely want to avoid as many errors as possible, because these mistakes can be costly. Some of the most common “errors” are chasing after “hot” stocks (they may have already cooled off by the time you hear about them), investing too aggressively and investing too conservatively.

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Okanogan Valley Life Annual picnic to be on Aug. 3

Community Bulletin Board TONASKET Green Okanogan will hold a metal and e-Cycle collection on Thursday, July 18 and the third Thursday of each month from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Corner of N. Western Ave. and Division St. in Tonasket.

We will accept all metals and the following e-Cycle materials: TVs, computers, monitors, towers and laptops. For more information contact clanigan2@gmail.com or call (509) 556-2250.

Oroville Grange Flea Market The flea maret will take place Saturday, July 20, from 10 a.m-2 p.m. Watch for the sign on Highway 97 south of town. A lot of new vendors and bargains. We rent tables to sell yours. Coffee anytime. For more information call (509) 476-3878.

Oroville Youth Soccer Fall Registration OROVILLE - Registration for fall season is now open, with early registration closing Wednesday, July 31. Oroville Youth Soccer is a recreational soccer club open to all kids living in the Oroville and surrounding areas, and between the ages of 4 - 15. To register online go to www.ncwsoccer. com and follow the links under Oroville Youth Soccer. For more information go to Oroville (WA) Youth Soccer Club on Facebook, or contact Karrie Scott at 5609037

British Soccer & TetraBrazil Soccer Camp Registration OROVILLE – Oroville Youth Soccer is hosting two different styles of soccer camp this summer, August 12 – 16.British Soccer Camp returns for the fourth year with programs for players ages 3 – 12. Registration is now open for TetraBrazil Camp which returns for the third year to offer a more skill intensive camp for player 11 – 18. Register online at www.challengersports. com.For more information go to Oroville (WA) Youth Soccer Club on Facebook, or contact Karrie Scott at (509) 560-9037.

Tonasket Farmers’ Market Tonasket Farmers’ Market is held on Thursdays, from 3 p.m. until 7 p.m. The next market is Thursday, July 18. Come join us for some of the best in local produce, crafts, personal care products, homegrown music and farmstead cheeses. Whether you make a quick spin to pick up supper ingredients or hang out for hours, you’re sure to get what you want. For more info call (509) 486-1199

NCRL Books on Stage TONASKET - As part of the Summer Reading Program at the Tonasket Public Library various programs are put on. The North Central Regional Library Books on Stage is one these free programs and will perform Thursday, July 18 at at 1 p.m. at the library located at 209 S. Whitcomb Ave. For more information call the library at (509) 486-2366.

Oroville Farmers’ Market OROVILLE - The Oroville Farmers’ Market is Saturday, July 20, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Oroville Community Library located at 1276 Main St. Purchase art, crafts, plant starts, fresh baked goods and tamales plus the best produce on the planet.

The Oroville Farmers’ Market continues each Saturday through October 26 and new vendors are welcome. Call (509) 476-2662 for more information.

Music at the Market OROVILLE - The Oroville Public Library will host “Music at the Market” each Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. during the Farmers’

Market season. Musicians who would like to showcase (volunteer) their acoustic talents are invited to call the Oroville Public Library to book a date. The next Music at the Market is Saturday, July 20, featuring The Oroville Neighborhood Band. For more information call Barbara at (509) 476-2662.

OHA Presents Okanogan Highlands Alliance presents, “Watershed Functioning, Plant Ecology & Stream Processes: Tying it All Together,” Saturday, July 20, 10:00 a.m. at the Chesaw Community Center. Gina McCoy, Stream Morphologist, will discuss how watershed functioning leads to characteristic patterns of streamflow and sediment delivery, creating the watershed “signature.”

Tom McCoy, Plant Ecologist, will discuss how disturbance ecology shapes the upland and riparian plant communities, contributing significantly to the characteristic watershed “signature” and fluvial processes. This is a two-part event. Everyone is welcome to attend the indoor presentation in Chesaw. For the field trip following the presentation, space is limited, so pre-registration is required. Priority registration for the field trip is offered to OHA members, and remaining space will be available on a first come, first serve basis to the public.

For more info visit http://okanoganhighlands.org/education/hw online, or contact Julie Ashmore at julie@okanoganhighlands.org, or (509)-433-7893.

NCRL Puppet Show TONASKET - As part of the Summer Reading Program at the Tonasket Public Library various programs are put on. The North Central Regional Library Puppet Show is one these free programs and will perform on Thursday, July 25 at 1 p.m. at the library located at 209 S. Whitcomb Ave. For more information call the library at (509) 486-2366.

Stroke Support Group This support group is for anyone who has had a stroke, no matter how long ago. We will be meeting Thursday, July 25, at 10:30 a.m. at the youth center located at 607 Central Ave., Oroville, adjacent to the Free Methodist Church. Discussion from those who have recovered from a stroke would also be very welcome.

Music in the Park TONASKET - The Community Cultural Center of Tonasket will be presenting Music in the Park on Friday, July 26, from 6-9 p.m. featuring the Hyde Family and Friends. The concert will be held in its usual spot at History Park in Tonasket. La Ultima will have food available for purchase, while the CCC will provide refreshments by donation. A tip jar will be passed around for the musicians.

Molson School Reunion MOLSON - The Molson School Reunion picnic will be held at Lost Lake on Saturday, July 27 starting at around noon.

The potluck lunch will be at 1 p.m. For more information call Mary Louise Loe at (509) 4853292.

Vacation Bible School VBS is set for Monday-Friday, Aug.5-9, 9:00-11:30 a.m. at the Loomis Community Church, on Main Street in Loomis. Ages are 3-12. The theme for VBS is, “Gone Fishing.” Stories, games,crafts and music will be included in the program. For information or rides call 509 223 3902. All kids are welcome, and it’s free!

Western and Native art show OMAK - The Courtyard in Omak will be hosting the Western and Native Art Show, ThursdaySaturday, Aug. 8-10 from 10 a.m-7 p.m. and Sunday, Aug. 11 from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. There also will be a reception on Saturday from 2-5 p.m. and a live auction

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Quilt Show in Molson MOLSON - The Second Annual Quilt Show in Molson will take place on Saturday, Aug. 31 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Quilters will be displaying patriotic quilts and military memorabilia from all branches of service. Many of the quilts were created from the proceeds of last years quilt show.

Those that would like to like to donate a quilt should contact Vicky Didenhover. Quilts will be on display for peoples’ viewing pleasure, but there will also be a selection of quilts and other sewing related items for sale. Those with sewing related items that would like to have a table to sell items and/or would would like to display a quilt at the show contact Didenhover at (509) 485-3020.

Food Banks TONASKET - The Tonasket food bank operates every Thursday from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Sarge’s Burger Bunker, 101 Hwy. 97 N. For more information contact Jack Gavin at (509) 486-2480. OROVILLE - The Oroville food bank operates every Thursday from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., excluding holidays, in the basement of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. For more information, call Jeff Austin at (509) 476-3978 or Sarah Umana at (509) 476-2386.

Editor’s Note: Our Community Bulletin Board generally allows listing your event for up two weeks prior to the day it occurs. If space allows it may be included prior to the two week limit. However, our online calendar at www.gazettetribune.com allows the event to be listed for much longer periods. You may place an event on the online calendar by going to our website and clicking on the “Add an Event” button on the homepage. Once your request is submitted, it can take up to 48 hours for the event to appear on the calendar. Online submissions don’t always go into the hardcopy edition, so it helps if they are also submitted to us at gdevon@gazette-tribune.com or at Gazette-Tribune, P.O. Box 250, Oroville, WA. 98844. G.A.D.

The weather has been fantastic for us and I hope that all have been saying cool this week as the temperatures rise. Dues renewal has been going great and we would like to thank all those that have been getting in and updating their membership status.

This Friday, Bingo is at 7 p.m. and you can come and test your dauber skills. The kitchen will be open at 5:30 p.m. so you can enjoy one of our great hamburgers while waiting to win the jackpot Bingo. Saturday the 20th the

band Bad Habits will be playing here at 9 p.m. Make sure to get your good dancing shoes out and come enjoy some great music with us. Don’t forget to come and enjoy a nice afternoon on Sunday at 1 p.m and play pinochle.

Our annual Eagles Picnic will be held on Aug. 3 up by Bonaparte Lake Resort. It is a potluck picnic so make your favorite dish and spend a day with your fellow Brothers and Sisters. Later that evening of the picnic, Merv will be doing karaoke at the picnic

Reunion July 27 MOLSON - Over 400 people visited the Molson School Museum on July 4th and through the weekend. They came from all parts of Washington and British Columbia, as well as New York, Oregon, California, Alaska, Arizona, France and Alberta,

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Visitors continue to visit the Old Molson Museum and the School Museum.

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Just a reminder that the Eagles will be closed Aug. 3-4 due to the picnic event.

Our pinochle scores from last Sunday are as follows.

Dale Byers too first place and Ken Cook ran off with second.

Low score was Cindy Byers and the last pinochle of the day was taken by Penny Smith and Ken Cook. We wish those who may be ill a speedy recovery to good health. God bless all.

The Biggest Little Eagles in the State.

calendar has been put together showing old school pictures, some history of the building and transforming it into a museum.

They are now available for sale at the School Museum for $14.

The Molson School Reunion picnic will be held at Lost Lake on Saturday, July 27 starting at around noon. The potluck lunch will be at 1 p.m.

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Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request to persons with disabilities.

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July 29th and 30th. Responsible, Experienced Boaters.

Skis and PFDs Required.

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Substantive typographical error (wrong address, telephone number, name or price) will result in a “make good�, in which a corrected ad will be run the following week. WNPA incurs no other liability for errors in publication.

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Saturday, July 20th, 9am to 4pm at the Flower Mill in Havillah. 12’ Aluminum Boat & Trailer, Cast Iron Heating Stove, Glassware, Pictures, Furniture and Lots of ‘Stuff’.

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1 full time and several Per Diem positions at our Tonasket clinic. We’re seeking an energetic team player who has a desire to make a difference. FHC is a not for profit Community Health Center dedicated to providing quality health care regardless of ability to pay. Take vital signs, review history with patient, administer medications, perform EKG’s, performs, prepares for and assists with procedures in accordance with clinical protocols, coordinates and processes refill requests with Provider, documents information to EHR and other duties as assigned.

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Are you tired of sitting in traffic while your life passes you by? Do you desire wide open spaces and the beauty of nature at your door? Do you want to be part of a beautiful rural community with four true seasons? If you are an energetic team player with the desire to make a difference, we are looking for YOU! Family Health Centers is a growing, comprehensive health care system incorporating State services (WIC) with first rate medical and dental care to facilitate a healthy community.

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PUBLISHER’S NOTICE All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination�. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate that is in violation of the law.

To complain of discrimination call HUD at 1-800-6699777. The number for hearing impaired is 1-800-9279275

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Public Notices NOTICE The Tonasket School District will be holding the Budget Hearing on Monday, July 29, at 7:00 p.m. in the district office board room.

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meeting is also considered as an informational meeting for water system consumers. For additional information regarding the proposed goals please contact Alice Attwood, 509486-2132. Anyone is invited to attend the meeting and those with special language, hearing or access needs should contact city hall, 509486-2132, 24 hours prior to the meeting.

Alice J. Attwood Clerk-Treasurer Published in the Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune on July 11, 18, 2013. #495652

36.70A.130; and establishing an effective date.

The above summary is of an ordinance adopted by the Oroville City Council during the July 2, 2013 regular meeting. Entire copies of the ordinance may be obtained at the Oroville City Hall, 1308 Ironwood, during normal working hours (Monday - Friday, 8:00 - 4:00).

Published in the Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune on July 18, 2013. #498159

Published in the Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune on July 11, 18, 2013. #495654

probate and non-probate assets.

Date of First Publication of this Notice: July 4, 2013 Signed: TONI L. ORAVEZ, Personal Representative Address for Mailing of Service: C / O Joshua F. Grant, P.S. Attorney at Law P.O. Box 619 Wilbur, WA 99185 Published in the Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune on July 4, 11, 18, 2013. #492667

the Plaintiffs undersigned attorneys at their office location provided below. If you fail to properly file and serve your Answer by the above deadline,ajudgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of Plaintiffs Complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of the above-entitled court. The “Complaint for Quiet Title” in the above-entitled action seeks to quiet title in favor the above Plaintiff, GUY T. DREW, with respect to the following real property: Legal Description: The Southeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter of Section 13, Township 39 North, Range 30 East, W.M. Situate in the County of Okanogan, State of Washington.

Current Assessor’s. Parcel Number: 3930134002 Additionally, the Complaint seeks to recognize the satisfaction and fulfillment of (1) the Real Estate Contract between Defendant PONTIAC RIDGE SPORTSMEN, A JOINT VENTURE and Defendants DALE E. COVEY and MARY JEAN LEWIS (f/k/a MARY JEAN COVEY), recorded on or around June 27, 1978. under Okanogan County Auditor’s File No. 646427, and (2) the Real Estate Contract between Defendants DALE E. COVEY and MARY JEAN LEWIS (f/k/a MARY JEAN COVEY) and Plaintiff, recorded on or around December 24, 1980 under Okanogan County Auditor’s FileNo. 674503.

If you wish to seek the advice of an attorney in this matter,you should do so promptly to avoid any impairment of your legal rights. This “Civil Summons by Publication” is issued pursuant to CR 4 and RCW 4.28.110.

LARSONBERG &PERKlNS PLLC Attorneys for Plaintiffs /s/ Jon W. Scott Jon W. Scott (WSBA#45290) for: Paul M. Larson (WSBA#06010) File your written Answer with: Okanogan County Clerk’s Office 149 N.3rd Ave. P.O. Box 72 Okanogan,WA98840 Phone: (509) 422-7275 Serve a copy of your Answer upon: Paul M. Larson Larson Berg & Perkins;PLLC 105 North Third Street Yakima, WA.98901 Phone: (509)457-1515 Published in the Oakanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune on June 27, July 4, 11, 18, 25, August 1, 8, 2013 #491451

AUCTION NOTICE There will be a public auction at Budget Towing, 32156 Hwy. 97, Tonasket, WA, 509-560-1056, on Friday, August 2, 2013. Viewing time starts at 11:00 AM with the auction at 12:00 PM. Up for auction will be: 1992 CHEVY BLAZER WA 590WST 1GNDT13W9N2196232 1997 PONTIAC GRAND AM WA-AKA-7828 1G2NE52M8VC867130 1996 BUICK CENTURY 102XHO 4H29J6H100624 Published in the Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune on July 18, 2013. #498164 City of Tonasket Public Forum The City Council of the City of Tonasket will be holding a public forum on the changes made to the Land Use Designation Map for the Comprehensive Plan, as requested by the Tonasket City Council. The forum will be held during the regular Council meeting on Tuesday, July 23, 2013. This meeting begins at 7:00 pm. The location is the Tonasket City Council Room, 209 S. Whitcomb Ave, Tonasket, WA. For additional information please contact Alice Attwood, 509-486-2132. Anyone is invited to attend the meeting and those with special language, hearing or access needs should contact city hall, 509-486-2132, 24 hours prior to the meeting.

Alice J. Attwood Clerk-Treasurer Published in the Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune on July 11, 18, 2013. #495648 City of Tonasket Water Use Efficiency Goals Public Forum The City Council of the City of Tonasket will be holding a public forum to set goals for the City’s water system. The forum will be held during the regular Council meeting on Tuesday, July 23, 2013. This meeting begins at 7:00 pm. The location is the Tonasket City Council Room, 209 S. Whitcomb Ave, Tonasket, WA. This

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR OKANOGAN COUNTY In Re the Adoption of: G.T. S., a person under the age of eighteen.

No. 13-5-00028-1 SUMMONS TO APPEAR FOR HEARING (AMENDED) TO: EDWARD W. ARBUCKLE A Petition for Termination of ParentiChild Relationship has been filed in the above-referenced cause of action, a copy of which is served upon you with this summons.

You are hereby summoned to appear on the 5th day of August, 2013, at 1:30 p.m. and respond to the petition. If you fail to appear and respond, an Order of Termination will be entered.

If you wish to seek the advice of an attorney in this matter, you should do so promptly.

DATED this 21st day of June, 2013 CALLAWAY & DETRO PLLC /s/ Robert R. Colbert Robert R. Colbert; WSBA #45494 Attorney for Petitioners Keith R. Corine and Kimberle A. Cornie.

Published in the Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune on July 4, 11, 18, 2013. #494012 PUBLIC NOTICE ORDINANCE NO. 827 An ordinance of the City of Oroville, Washington adopting amendments to Chapter 18.02, Interim Critical Areas Ordinance as permanent regulations of the City per RCW

OROVILLE-TONASKET IRRIGATION DISTRICT SMALL WORKS ROSTER The Oroville-Tonasket Irrigation District maintains a Small Works Roster to the completion of public works projects in accordance with District’s Resolution No. 2010-02, and RCW 39.04.155 provisions. The maximum cost for any project cannot exceed $300,000.00 which included the costs of labor, material, equipment and sales and/or use taxes as applicable. All interested contractors not currently on the Small Works Roster are encouraged to submit an application at this time.

Small Works Roster application can be obtained and submitted to the Oroville-Tonasket Irrigation District, PO Box 1729; Oroville, WA 98844.

Inquiries and requests for applications may be directed to the manager at 509-476-3696.

Published in the Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune on July 18, 2013. #497877 Public Hearing Six Year Transportation Improvement Program City of Tonasket The Tonasket City Council will hold a public hearing during the regular Council meeting on Tuesday, July 23, 2013 in the City Hall, 209 S. Whitcomb Ave. Tonasket, WA. The regular meeting commences at 7:00 pm.

The purpose of the hearing is to review and possibly adopt the Six Year Transportation Improvement Program for the years 2014 - 2019.

Interested persons are invited to attend. Persons with special language, hearing or access needs should contact City Hall at 509-486-2132, 24 hours prior to the hearing.

Alice J. Attwood City Clerk-Treasurer

SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET HEARING Notice is hereby given that the Board of Directors of Oroville School District No. 410 will hold a public hearing on July 29, 2013, at 6:30 p.m. to adopt the 20132014 school year budgets.

The hearing will be held in the boardroom at 816 Juniper Street.

The public is invited to attend, and comments will be heard for or against any part of the budget.

Steve Quick - Superintendent of Schools Published in the Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune on July 11, 18, 2013. #496305 SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON FOR LINCOLN COUNTY Estate of STANLEY H. SPEILER., Deceased.

NO. 13-4 00036-7 PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS (RCW 11.40.030) PLEASE TAKE NOTICE The above Court has appointed me Personal Representative of Decedent’s estate. Any person having a claim against Decedent must present the claim: Before the time when the claim would be barred by any applicable statute of limitations, and In the manner provided in RCW 11.40.070: By filing with the foregoing Court the original of the signed Creditor’s Claim, and By serving upon or mailing by first class mail to us at the address provided below a copy of the signed Creditor’s Claim.

The Creditor’s Claim must be presented by the later to occur of: Thirty (30) days after we served or mailed this Notice to you as provided in RCW 11.40.020(3), or Four (4) months after the date of first publication of this Notice. If the Creditor’s Claim is not presented within the foregoing time period, the claim will be forever barred except as provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective for claims against both the Decedent’s

SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON FOR OKANOGAN COUNTY GUY T. DREW, an individual, Plaintiff, vs.

PONTIAC RIDGE SPORTSMEN, a Joint Venture; ANY UNKNOWN HEIRS of the members of Pontiac Ridge Sportsmen,a·Joint Venture; DALE E.COVEY; MARY JEAN LEWIS flkla MARY JEAN COVEY; and ALSO ALL OTHER PERSONS OR PARTIES UNKNOWN CLAIMING ANY RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE, LIEN, OR INTEREST IN THE REAL ESTATE DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT HEREIN; Defendants.

NO. 132003360 CIVIL SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF WASHINGTON TO THE FOLLOWING PERSONS AND PARTIES: 1. PONTIAC RIDGE SPORTSMEN, a JoInt Venture 2. ANY UNKNOWN HEIRS of the members of Pontiac Ridge Sportsmen, a Joint Venture; 3. DALE E.COVEY; 4. MARY JEAN LEWIS f/k/a MARY JEAN COVEY; and 5. ALSO ALL OTHER PERSONS OR PARTIES UNKNOWN CLAIMING ANY RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE, LIEN, OR INTEREST IN THE REAL ESTATE DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT HEREIN. YOU AND EACH OF YOU are hereby summoned to appear within sixty calendar days after the date of first publication of this “Civil Summons by Publication”, to wit, within sixty days after the 27th day ofJune, 2013, and defend the above-entitled action in the above-entitled Court by (1) filing your “Answer” to the Plaintiffs “Complaint for Quiet Title” with the County Clerk of Okanogan County and (2). serving a copy of your Answer upon

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SPORTS & OUTDOORS

Booker heading to Oklahoma college on wrestling scholarship

BY BRENT BAKER BBAKER@GAZETTE-TRIBUNE.COM

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Oroville’s girls took first place at the Camp Classic Tournament in Liberty Lake last week. Pictured are (front row, l-r) assistant coach Phil Willingham, Sydney Egerton, Mikayla Scott, Pie Todd, head coach Mike Bourn, (back) Katie Egerton, Lily Hilderbrand, Kaitlyn Grunst, Kali Peters, Meagan Moralez, Hannah Hilderbrand and Marissa Garcia. Not pictured is Kendal Miller.

Oroville girls win summer hoops title SUBMITTED BY CORI HILDERBRAND LIBERTY LAKE - The Oroville Girls summer league basketball coached by Mike Bourn and his buddy Phil Willingham played in the Camp Classic tournament in

Liberty Lake Washington.

Last year they took 2nd place, but this year they won the championship. The girls played hard every game. They played a teams from Alberta, Idaho, and Washington. The Oroville

girls were a mix of next season’s seniors all the way down to some eighth graders.

Thanks to the Oroville Booster Club and Jack and Mary Hughes; without them it wouldn’t be possible.

TONASKET - When Austin Booker stood on the podium after taking second place at the state 1A wrestling championships in February, he wasn’t how much of a future he had in the sport.

But the recently-graduated Tonasket senior will be departing the area at the end of July for Bacone College in Muskogee, Okla., where he’ll start practicing with his new teammates on the Warriors’ wrestling squad.

“I had no idea wrestling in college was even a possibility,” he said.

“But after state, I was hoping something would come up because I knew I wasn’t done. I wanted to keep on wrestling.”

Bacone is a four-year college that competes in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), which competitively is equivalent to NCAA Division II in most sports.

Booker said the coaching staff made a positive impression on him.

“When I went and visited, the coaches were really personable,” he said. “(They) had a good relationship with the wrestlers, so it reminded me of how me and my

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OLYMPIA - Hunters have until Aug. 14 at midnight to apply for an opportunity to hunt deer this fall on the 6,000-acre Charles and Mary Eder unit of the Scotch Creek Wildlife Area in northeastern Okanogan County.

Hunters can submit an application for the “limited-entry” deer hunt on the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife’s (WDFW) website at http:// wdfw.wa.gov/hunting/permits/ scotchcreek or by contacting the WDFW north central region office at (509) 754-4624 or headquarters at (360) 902-2515.

Eighteen applicants will be chosen during a random drawing scheduled Aug. 15. Winners of the drawing will receive access permits to the Charles and Mary Eder Unit of the Scotch Creek

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“This is part of our effort to provide quality hunting opportunities in Washington,” said Matt Monda, WDFW Northcentral Regional Wildlife Manager.

“This drawing is open to the general public without any additional fees beyond the cost of a hunting license and the standard tags.”

Of the 18 access permits available this year, six will be reserved for bowhunters, six for muzzleloaders and six for hunters using

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“That’s really good,” he said.

“They (usually) only offer 25 percent to freshmen and 50 percent to national qualifiers.

“They say they expect big things from me.”

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GIRLS SOCCER Hunter DeVon was the lone Oroville Boy Scout to attend Camp Bonaparte this year. Pictured is the all camp race, in which his unit took second place. He was at camp with a Chelan, Entiat and Oroville combined Troop.

He earned five merit badges while at camp: canoeing, soil and water conservation, Indian Lore, orienteering and swimming. He also completed his Camping merit badge from going to camp. Hunter is a First Class Scout. Camp will also earn him the requirements for the Rank of Star. Hunter is also a Patrol Leader for his Troop and a member of the Brotherhood of the “Order of the Arrow”.

(Tonasket) coaches are.”

Booker, who intends to get a criminal justice degree and hopes to become a Border Patrol agent, will start off with a 40 percent scholarship.

FALL VARSITY SPORTS SCHEDULES Subject to change

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Tonasket’s Austin Booker will have a big chunk of his college education paid for as he heads to Bacone College in Oklahoma to wrestle and study criminal justice.

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SUPERIOR COURT CRIMINAL

Vanessa Marie Bejar, 28, Tonasket, pleaded guilty July 8 to unlawful issuance of a bank check. Bejar was sentenced to 364 days in jail with 364 days suspended. From April to June 2010, Bejar issued four checks from a closed account totaling $594.21. All restitution has been paid.

Greggory Michael Jessee, 36, Omak, pleaded guilty July 11 to possession of a stolen motor vehicle, DUI, reckless driving and resisting arrest. Jessee was sentenced to six months in jail for the first count, 364 days in jail with 184 days suspended on the second, 364 days in jail with 184 suspended for the third and 90 days in jail for the fourth. The court dismissed a charge of no valid operator’s license. He was fined $623. The crimes occurred Dec. 23, 2012.

Robert James Long, 27, Oroville, pleaded guilty July 11 to residential burglary and third-degree theft. He was sentenced to 22 months in prison for the first count, 364 days in jail for the second, and fined $500. The crimes occurred March 21.

Geoffrey Christopher Mazalin, 40, British Columbia, pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled substance (marijuana) with intent to manufacture or deliver. The crime occurred June 26 at the Oroville Port of Entry. Mazalin was sentenced to 30 days in jail and fined $2,110.50.

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A 17-year-old Oroville boy pleaded guilty July 3 to third-degree theft. He was sentenced to six months community supervision, two days in detention, and fined $100. The crime occurred Nov. 10, 2012.

A 14-year-old Omak boy pleaded guilty to July 3 to third-degree theft. He was sentenced to six months community supervision, five days in detention with credit for five days served, and fined $100.

The crime occurred June 25.

A 15-year-old Omak girl pleaded guilty July 10 to third-degree theft and minor in possession of intoxicants. She was sentenced to six months community supervision, four days in juvenile on the first charge, another four for the second, and fined $100. The crimes occurred Jan. 27.

A 13-year-old Omak girl pleaded guilty July 10 to minor in possession of intoxicants and obstruction a law enforcement officer. She was sentenced to six months community supervision, one day in juvenile on the first charge, and one day for the second. Time in juvenile hall is to run concurrently. She was also ordered to pay a $100 fine. The crimes occurred Dec. 31, 2012.

A 17-year-old Oroville girl pleaded guilty July 10 to two counts of fourth-degree assault. She was sentenced to six months community supervision, four days in juvenile on the first charge, another four for the second, and fined $100. The crimes occurred June 18.

A 13-year-old Okanogan boy pleaded guilty July 12 to minor in possession of intoxicants and obstructing a law enforcement officer. He was sentenced to five days in juvenile for the first count, 10 days in juvenile for the second, and fined $100. The crimes occurred June 29.

DISTRICT COURT Billy Dale Anderson, 45, Okanogan, pleaded guilty to thirddegree DWLS. Anderson was sentenced to 90 days in jail with 90 days suspended and fined $618.

Eugene Troy Anhalt, 45, Oroville, pleaded guilty to third-degree theft and third-degree possession of stolen property. Anhalt was sentenced to 364 days in jail with 358 days suspended, and fined $1,058.

Eugenia Earline Camelin, 39, Okanogan, pleaded guilty to third-degree DWLS. Camelin was sentenced to 90 days in jail with 90 days suspended and fined $618.

Curtis Michael Cargile Jr., 41, Omak, pleaded guilty to thirddegree malicious mischief. He was sentenced to 364 days in jail with 359 days suspended and fined $1,038. Cargile also had a fourth-degree assault charge dismissed.

Ashley Ann Carpenter, 29, Omak, had a third-degree DWLS

charge dismissed.

Malcolm David Carlson, 33, Omak, pleaded guilty to thirddegree theft. Carlson was sentenced to 364 days in jail with 334 days suspended, and fined $508.

Daggon D. Chaska, 21, Tonasket, pleaded guilty to obstructing a law enforcement officer and possession of a dangerous weapon. Chaska was sentenced to 180 days in jail with 170 suspended and fined $1,058. He also had a resisting arrest charge dismissed.

Louis Mark Clark, 21, Omak, pleaded guilty to fourth-degree assault. Clark was sentenced to 364 days in jail with 362 suspended and fined $1,033.

Karilyn Ann Cline, 23, Omak, pleaded guilty to use or possession of drug paraphernalia. Cline was sentenced to 90 days in jail with 89 days suspended and fined $608. She also had a third-degree DWLS charge dismissed.

Maria Asusena Contreras, 57, Oroville, pleaded guilty to thirddegree DWLS. Contreras was sentenced to 90 days in jail with 76 days suspended and fined $858.

Zaida Elena Contreras, 24, Okanogan, pleaded guilty to thirddegree DWLS. Contreras was sentenced to 90 days in jail with 89 days suspended and fined $658.

Ronnie Nigle Davis, 20, Oroville, had a third-degree DWLS charge dismissed.

Gustavo Diego Garcia, 33, Omak, pleaded guilty to thirddegree DWLS. Garcia was sentenced to 90 days in jail with 80 days suspended and fined $658.

Alysha K.M. George, 24, Oroville, pleaded guilty to thirddegree malicious mischief and fourth-degree assault.

George was sentenced to 364 days in jail for each count, with 354 suspended on the first and 334 suspended on the second. She was fined $2,316 and had a violation of a no-contact order charge dismissed.

Isaiah Aaron George, 27, Omak, pleaded guilty to thirddegree DWLS. George was sentenced to 90 days in jail with 90 days suspended and fined $468. He also had a firearm possession charge dismissed.

Steven Wallace George, 25, Omak, pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. George was sentenced to 90 days in jail with 90 days suspended, and fined $568.

911 CALLS AND JAIL BOOKINGS Monday, July 8, 2013 Theft on South Fifth Ave. in Okanogan. Diesel fuel reported missing.

Theft at the Okanogan County Fairgrounds. Cashbox reported missing.

Civil issue on Rehmke Rd. near Tonasket.

Threats on North Third Ave. in Okanogan.

Threats on North Main St. in Riverside.

One-vehicle crash on Old Hwy. 97 near Okanogan. No injuries reported.

Assault near Cougar Creek near Wauconda.

Trespassing on South Kirkpatrick Rd. near Omak.

Fireworks complaint on Robinson Canyon Rd. near Omak.

Assault on West Third Ave. in Omak.

Firearms offense on J.H. Green Rd. in Riverside.

Illegal burning on B&O Rd. near Okanogan.

Two-vehicle crash on West Apple Rd. No injuries reported.

Custodial interference on Garfield St. in Omak.

Harassment on North Juniper St. in Omak.

Civil dispute on Oak St. in Omak.

Harassment on North Juniper St. in Omak.

Assault on West Third Ave. in Omak.

Theft on Main St. in Oroville.

Unsecured premises on Golden St. in Oroville.

Automobile theft at Veteran Memorial Park in Oroville.

Theft on Ironwood St. in Oroville.

Fire reported on South Whitcomb Ave. in Tonasket. No fire found.

Trespassing on South Railroad Ave. in Tonasket.

Jesus Martinez-Diaz, 22, booked for fourth-degree assault and a Border Patrol hold.

James Carl Walker, 45, booked on an OCSO FTA warrant for DUI and an Everett Municipal FTA warrant for fourth-degree assault (DV).

COPS & COURTS Brian Wayne Goff, 27, booked on an Okanogan County FTA warrant for possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver and an Okanogan County warrant for unlawful possession of a firearm.

Jesus Renteria Hernandez, 19, booked for second-degree trafficking of stolen property, second-degree trafficking and second-degree theft.

Ocias Gordillo-Velazquez, 46, booked for violation of a nocontact order.

Sarina Lynn Andrews, 26, booked on State Patrol FTA warrant for third-degree DWLS. Tuesday, July 9, 2013 Trespassing on South Railroad Ave. in Tonasket.

Theft on the north end of Tonasket.

A revolver reported missing.

Assault on Hwy. 155 in Omak.

Theft on Hwy. 7 in Oroville. Two iPods and watches reported missing and later found.

Two-vehicle crash on Pine Street Rd. near Tonasket. No injuries reported.

Missing person on Toroda Creek Rd. near Wauconda. Seven-yearold girl reported missing and later found.

DWLS on North First Ave. in Okanogan.

Malicious mischief on West Apple Rd. in Omak.

Automobile theft on Pine St. in Okanogan.

Alcohol offense on Sout Main St. in Omak.

Theft on Engh Rd. in Omak.

Assault on West Cherry Ave. in Omak.

Warrant arrest on South Main St. in Omak.

Alcohol offense on Main St. in Oroville.

Jose Rosario Lopez, 63, booked for second-degree criminal trespassing and resisting arrest.

Douglas Edward Moomaw, 54, booked for DUI. Jacob Henry Bessette, 24, booked on three OCSO FTA warrants: obstruction, DUI and seconddegree DWLS. Jennifer Lynn Valdez, 20, booked on an Omak Police Department FTA warrant for criminal trespassing.

David Ross McHenry, 50, booked for third-degree malicious mischief and interference with a health care provider.

Susan Anne Michels, 34, booked for fourth-degree assault (DV) and third-degree malicious mischief.

Josephine Michelle Valdez, 21, booked for an Omak Police Department FTA warrant for possession of a controlled substance (marijuana) less than 40 grams, and a Spokane Tribal FTA warrant for minor in possession of intoxicants.

Wednesday, July 10, 2013 Theft on Spring Coulee Rd. near Okanogan. Video games reported missing.

Missing person on South Second Ave. in Okanogan.

Violation of a no-contact order on North Second Ave. in Okanogan.

Weapons offense on Westlund Dr. near Oroville.

Threats on Jasmine St. in Omak.

Motorcycle crash on Pine Creek Rd. near Tonasket. Injuries reported.

Custodial interference on Garfield St. in Omak.

Threats on Cobey Trail Rd. near Tonasket.

Vehicle prowl on South Main St. in Omak.

Theft on Ironwood St. in Omak.

Cash, a cell phone and jewelry were reported missing.

Automobile theft on West Bartlett Ave. in Omak.

Two-vehicle crash at Hwy. 97 and Riverside Dr. in Omak. No injuries reported.

Burglary on Engh Rd. in Omak.

Public intoxication on NorthMain St. in Omak.

Theft on East Apple Ave. in Omak.

Assault on Omak Ave. in Omak.

Burglary on Golden St. in Oroville.

Attempted kidnapping on Main St. in Oroville.

Burglary on North Whitcomb Ave. in Tonasket.

Harassment on South Whitcomb Ave. in Tonasket.

Warren William Louie, 47, booked for first-degree robbery.

Tina M. Lounsberry, 51, booked for first-degree robbery.

Annette Louise Squetimkin, 32, booked on a Department of Corrections detainer.

Casey Peone, no middle name listed, 20, booked on a Department of Corrections warrant.

Joseph Ronald Wise, 44, booked on an OCSO FTA warrant for fourth-degree assault (DV).

Sebastian Joseph Martinez, 22, booked on three OCSO FTA warrants: third-degree malicious mischief, minor in possession of intoxicants, and obstruction; and an Omak Police Department FTA warrant for minor intoxicated in a public place.

Violet Jean Yellowhorse, 47, booked on an OCSA FTA warrant for third-degree DWLS. Thursday, July 11, 2013 DWLS on West Oak. St and North Third Ave. in Okanogan.

Malicious mischief on Grove St. in Riverside. Spray paint reported on hay bales.

Threats on South First Ave. in Okanogan.

Threats on Wannacut Lake Rd. near Oroville.

Theft on Sunrise Heights in Okanogan. Silver and clock reported missing.

Theft on Aeneas Valley Rd. near Tonasket.

Fraud on Elmway in Okanogan. A counterfeit bill was passed.

Weapons offense on South First Ave. in Okanogan.

Assault on Greenacres Rd. near Riverside.

Assault on South Ash St. in Omak.

DWLS on Rodeo Trail Rd. near Omak.

Trespassing on Rodeo Trail Rd. near Okanogan.

Malicious mischief on West Apple Ave. in Omak.

Vehicle prowl on East Grape Ave. in Omak. Keys, backpack, pistol and binoculars reported missing.

Violation of a no-contact order on West Jonathan Ave. in Omak.

Malicious mischief on Oak St. in Omak.

Assault on West Apple Ave. in Omak.

Theft on Omache Dr. in Omak.

Tablet computer reported missing.

Theft on Engh Rd. in Omak.

Theft on Ironwood St. in Oroville.

Tattoo gun reported missing.

Assault on Golden St. in Oroville.

DWLS on Hwy. 97 in Tonasket.

Theft on South Tonasket Ave. in Tonasket.

Harassment on South Tonasket Ave. in Tonasket.

Miguel Amparo, 21, booked for first-degree DWLS. Robert Charles Swan, 74, booked for possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine).

Stephen Kuykendall, no middle name listed, 43, booked for second-degree child molestation.

Gary Lee Day II, 22, booked on an OCSO FTA warrant: four counts of harassment (threats to kill).

Shawna Mae Barber, 34, booked on first-degree arson, felony harassment, telephone harassment and stalking.

Mark Alan Stanger, 35, booked on an order of production, and for FTA for fourth-degree assault (DV) and FTA for interference with reporting (DV).

Rebecca Lynn Cabrera, 52, booked for two counts of forgery, third degree theft and possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine).

Garret Victor James Elsberg, 24, booked on five OCSO FTA warrants: possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine), second-degree unlawful possession of a firearm, obstruction, resisting arrest, and DUI; a State Patrol FTA warrant for use/delivery of drug paraphernalia, and a Montana FTA warrant for obstruction.

Phillip Cody Ruiz, 23, booked for second-degree robbery.

Kurtis Camron Pugsly Bishop, 26, booked under a Department of Corrections hold.

Friday, July 12, 2013 DUI on Hwy. 97 near Tonasket.

Trespassing on Highland Dr. near Okanogan.

Two-vehicle crash on North Birch St. No injuries reported.

Theft on Riverside Dr. in Omak. Beer reported missing.

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Assault on South Birch St. in Omak.

Theft on Golden Rd. in Oroville.

Camera reported missing.

Fraud on South Second Ave. in Okanogan.

Sexual offense on South Second Ave. in Okanogan. Male saying inappropriate things to 15-year-old female.

Custodial interference on DeMerchant Rd. near Oroville.

Found property on Cooper St. in Riverside. Lockbox located.

Illegal burning on Eastlake Rd. near Oroville.

Theft on Holmes Rd. in Tonasket.

Jacket reported missing.

Trespassing on Second Ave. in Okanogan.

DWLS on Apple Way Rd. near Okanogan.

Brush fire on Hwy. 97 in Omak.

Burglary on East Dewberry Ave. in Omak. Laptop and cable box reported missing.

Trespassing on South Birch St. in Omak.

Illegal burning on Ironwood St. in Oroville.

Assault on Ironwood St. in Oroville.

Sheila Denise Taber, 50, booked for DUI and third-degree DWLS. Richard D.A. Poitras, 32, committed by district court for thirddegree DWLS. Melissa M. Holcomb, 24, booked for second-degree burglary, firstdegree trafficking of stolen property, and third-degree theft.

Kevin Earl Devine, 41, booked for second-degree burglary, firstdegree trafficking of stolen property, and third-degree theft.

Norman Edward Whited, 62, booked for DUI. Rachel Cinda Rawley, 36, booked for drug violation.

Tracy Lynne Smith, 26, booked for fourth-degree assault (DV).

Saturday, July 13, 2013 One-vehicle roll-over crash on Loomis-Oroville Rd. near Oroville.

Vehicle crash on Hwy. 97 and Wards Rd. near Oroville.

Motorcycle crash on Hwy. 20 near Okanogan. Injuries reported.

Assault on Duck Lake Rd. near Omak.

Vehicle-vs.-deer crash on Hwy. 20 near Okanogan.

Brush fire on Airport Rd. near Oroville.

Theft on North Third Ave. in Okanogan.

Theft on Spring Coulee Rd. near Okanogan. Tools reported missing.

Threats on North Third Ave. in Okanogan.

Fraud on Warren Rd. in Tonasket.

DUI on North Second Ave. in Okanogan.

Harassment on Hagood Cutoff Rd. near Tonasket.

Theft on Omache Dr. in Omak.

Gasoline reported missing.

Keifer Todd Scrimsher, 22, booked for fourth-degree assault

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Andrea Candice Allen, 38, booked on an Oroville Police Department warrant for third-degree theft.

Carlos Castro-Balderrama, 22, booked on possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine) and a Border Patrol hold.

Sunday, July 14, 2013 Warrant arrest on South Second Ave. in Okanogan.

Illegal burning on Hwy. 7 near Oroville.

Trespassing on Hart Rd. near Oroville.

Theft on South Fifth Ave. in Okanogan.

Assault on Hwy. 97 near Tonasket.

One-vehicle crash at Loomis-Oroville Rd. and Enloe Dam Rd. near Oroville.

Assault on Riverside Dr. in Omak.

DUI on Hwy. 7 near Tonasket.

Illegal burning on South Ash St. in Omak.

Trespassing on South Main St. in Omak.

Assault on North Pine St. in Omak.

Assault on Ellisforde Bridge Rd. in Ellisforde.

Hilario Victorino-Leyva, 27, booked for DUI and a Border Patrol hold.

Timothy Michael Husted, 54, booked for DUI. Wayne Bert Symmonds, 50, booked for violation of an antiharassment order, communication with a minor immoral purposes, violation of a nocontact order, second-degree criminal trespassing, and a Grant County FTA warrant for DUI. Guillermo Mendez-Sanabria, 33, booked for fourth-degree assault (DV).

Salvador Vega Porras, 40, booked for DUI and a Border Patrol hold.

Jesus Antonio Renteria Hernandez, 18, booked for reckless driving and three counts of reckless endangerment.

Ivan Lee Firecrow, 48, booked for fourth-degree assault (DV).

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Okanogan Valley LIFE TAKE A LOOK BACK

Obituary KathArine Leslie Katharine Leslie, 96, of Tonasket, Washington died July 13, 2013. She was born February 24, 1917 to Joshua and Viola Rowton in Sand Springs, Montana.

As a young girl Katharine, along with her parents, sister Claire, and brother Erwin left Sand Springs, Mont. They trailed over one hundred head of horses. Many miles later they reached Molson, Chesaw area where they found helpful people and enough straw to winter the horses. Katharine went to school at the Lone Star, Myncaster, BC and Chesaw schools before graduating from Molson High School. She attended

Washington State College.

Katharine married George Leslie in 1939. They lived on the Henning Place on the Buckley Ranch until George’s death in 1946. Katharine moved to Oroville where she taught piano to students in the Oroville, Molson, Chesaw, Tonasket and Loomis areas. She worked at the Oroville Gazette for sometime before moving in 1963 to Winona Lake, Indiana.

She worked for the Free Methodist Church until she retired at age 65. She then went to work for the World Missionary Press and retired again at the age of 80. She moved back to the Molson Highlands and lived with her sister Claire for several years before moving to Long Term Care in Tonasket, Wash.

She is survived by her son

John (Janet) Leslie, her sister Claire Rise and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband George, her parents and brother Erwin Rowton.

She was a life long member of the Free Methodist Church.

Services will be held Friday, July 19, 2013 at 11 a.m. at the Oroville Free Methodist Church with Pastor Rod Brown officiating. Interment will follow at the Oroville Riverview Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Molson Grange, the Molson Museum or the charity of your choice.

Please share your memories of Katharine by signing her online guestbook at www.berghfuneralservice.com.

Bergh Funeral Service of Oroville/Tonasket in care of arrangements.

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Above, A typical turn of the previous century bedroom, albeit with much abbreviated bed for space’s sake, is featured among the Peerless Hotel displays.

Left, Here, this handcrafted wooden pulley drive wheel was used to transfer power from a steam engine to run box making equipment at the Zosel Lumber Company.

Below, A view of just part of the Prince’s display, which features a look the various stores the family has owned over the years – some selling groceries, some selling dry goods and some selling both.

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OROVILLE

Oroville Community Bible Fellowship Gary Devon - staff photos

Sunday Service, 10:00 a.m.

923 Main St. • ocbf@ymail.com Mark Fast, Pastor www.BrotherOfTheSon.com

Faith Lutheran Church

11th & Ironwood, Oroville • 476-2426 Sunday Worship 9:00 a.m.

“O taste and see that the Lord is good!”

Pastor Dan Kunkel • Deacon Dave Wildermuth

Immaculate Conception Parish

1715 Main Street Oroville 8:30 a.m. English Mass 1st Sunday of the Month Other Sundays at 10:30 a.m.

1:00 p.m. Spanish Mass every other Sun. Rev. David Kuttner • 476-2110

PC of G Bible Faith Family Church

476-3063 • 1012 Fir Street, Oroville SUNDAY: 7 am Men’s Meeting • 9:45 Sunday School 10:45 Worship Service • Children’s Church (3-8 yrs) WEDNESDAY: 7 p.m.

Pastor Claude Roberts Come Worship with Project 3:16

Oroville United Methodist

908 Fir, Oroville • 476-2681 Sunday Worship: 9 a.m.

Rev. Leon Alden

Valley Christian Fellowship

See what Oroville’s Depot Museum offers

By Gary A. DeVon Managing Editor

OROVILLE – While enjoying all that Heritage Days has to offer, the Okanogan Borderlands Historical Society invites everyone to stop by the Depot Museum to have a look at this year’s featured displays featuring familyowned businesses from Oroville’s past, including Prince’s stores, Zosel Lumber and the Peerless Hotel.

Heritage Days starts on Friday, July 19, with a softball tournament at Bud Clark ballfields starting at 7 p.m. Later that evening The Valley Band, with Chuck Oakes, Brock Hires and more, playing at Vicki’s Backdoor Club.

On Saturday, starting at 7 a.m. and going to 10 a.m. there is a breakfast served by the local Boy Scout Troop at the Oroville Senior Center. From 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. there is an escorted tour of the Similkameen Trail starting from the trailhead in Oroville on Kernan Road and going to

Taber’s Vineyard at the old railroad bridge.

The softball tournament continues at Bud Clark Ballfields beginning at 9 a.m. Also at 9 a.m. the Farmers’ Market will also be open at the library and the Vintage Tractor Show will be going by Prince’s Warehouse on Ironwood St. Then there are several events taking place starting at 10 a.m. including a gold panning demonstration provided by Kinross Gold Company at Madeline Wells Park from 10 a.m. to noon. Many of the events will be taking place on the veranda at the Old Oroville Depot, these include a spinning demonstration by Betty Roberts, who handcrafts her own spinning wheels. The Oroville Garden Club will have their annual sale starting at 10 a.m. as well. Still on the veranda, and starting at 11 a.m., the Senior Citizens are serving fresh pie and the historical society is serving homemade ice cream. There is also fresh popcorn from a 1940s popcorn

machine.

The 1884 Customs Cabin will be open from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Then at noon, a historical walk/ talk will feature Curtis/Greg photos of the local area from the early 1916-1918. It will start at the public library.

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Pastor Randy McAllister 142 East Oroville Rd. • 476-2028 • Sunday School (Adult & Teens) 10:00 a.m.

Morning Worship 11 a.m.• Sun. Evening Worship 6 p.m.

Sunday School & Children’s Church K-6 9:45 to 1:00 p.m. Open to Community!

Located at Kid City 142 East Oroville • Wednesday Evening Worship 7 p.m.

Trinity Episcopal

602 Central Ave., Oroville Sunday School & Services 10:00 a.m.

Holy Eucharist: 1st, 3rd, & 5th • Morning Prayer: 2nd & 4th Healing Service: 1st Sunday The Reverend Marilyn Wilder 476-3629 Warden • 476-2022

Church of Christ

Ironwood & 12th, Oroville • 476-3926 Sunday School 10 a.m. • Sunday Worship 11 a.m.

Wednesday Bible Study: 7 p.m.

Seventh-Day Adventist

10th & Main, Oroville - 509-476-2552 Bible Study: Sat. 9:30 a.m. • Worship: Sat. 11 a.m.

Skip Johnson • 509-826-0266

Oroville Free Methodist

1516 Fir Street • Pastor Rod Brown • 476.2311 Sun. School 9:15 am • Worship Service 10:15am Youth Activity Center • 607 Central Ave. Monday 7:00 pm • After School M-W-F 3-5pm office@orovillefmc.org

LOOMIS

Loomis Community Church Main Street in Loomis 9:45 a.m. Sunday School 11 a.m. Worship Service Interim Visiting Pastors Information: 509-223-3542

CHESAW

Chesaw Community Bible Church

Nondenominational • Everyone Welcome Every Sunday 10:30 a.m. to Noon Pastor Duane Scheidemantle • 485-3826

MOLSON Community Christian Fellowship

Molson Grange, Molson Sunday 10 a.m., Worship 10:30 a.m.

Wednesday 6:30pm, Bible Study “For by grace are ye saved through faith...” Eph. 2:8-9 “...lovest thou me...Feed my lambs...John 21:1-17

RIVERSIDE Riverside Lighthouse - Assembly of God

102 Tower Street Sunday Bible Study 10:00am Sunday Worship 11:00am & 6:30pm Wednesday- family Night 6:30pm Pastor Vern & Anita Weaver Ph. 509-826-4082

TONASKET Holy Rosary Parish

1st & Whitcomb Ave., Tonasket 10:30 a.m. English Mass 1st Sunday of the Month Other Sundays at 8:30 a.m.

1:00 p.m. Spanish Mass every other Sun. Rev. David Kuttner • 476-2110

Immanuel Lutheran Church

1608 Havillah Rd., Tonasket • 509-485-3342 Sun. Worship 9 a.m. • Bible Study & Sun. School 10:15

“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God--not by works, so that no one can boast.” -Eph. 2:8-9

“To every generation.” Celebrating 100 years 1905-2005

Crossroads Meeting Place Tonasket Foursquare Church

415-A S. Whitcomb Ave. • Pastor George Conkle Sunday: 10 a.m.

(509) 486-2000 • cell: (509) 429-1663

Tonasket Community UCC

24 E. 4th, Tonasket • 486-2181

“A biblically based, thoughtful group of Christian People”

Sunday Worship at 11 a.m.

Call for program/activity information Leon L. Alden, Pastor

Whitestone Church of the Brethren

577 Loomis-Oroville Rd., Tonasket. 846-4278 9:15am Praise Singing. 9:30am Worship Service 10:45am Sunday school for all ages

Ellisforde Church of the Brethren

32116 Hwy. 97, Tonasket. 846-4278 10am Sunday School. 11am Worship Service

“Continuing the work of Jesus...simply, peacefully, together”

Pastor Jim Yaussy Albright. jim.ya@hotmail.com

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