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Pot ban hearing March 8

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By Don Gronning Of The Miner

NEWPORT – The Pend Oreille County commissioners will hold the required public hearing on its six-month retail marijuana moratorium Tuesday, March 8, at 3 p.m. in the commissioners meeting room at the county courthouse at 625 W. Fourth St. in Newport.

That hearing will follow a March 2 hearing scheduled in Ione, in which the town will take up the matter of whether to allow marijuana producing, processing or retail within city limits. That meeting will start at 7:10 p.m.

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Forest Plan out for comment

Buffalo near road in wet season This buffalo bull is one of more than 100 buffalo the Kalispel Tribe owns. During the winter melt off they are kept near the Camas Center where they are easier to feed. They will likely be there for the next several weeks and draw a fair amount of spectators.

Increased wilderness among the options the draft Forest Plan, and a few of us have asked for an extension of the comment period,” said Mike Peterson of the Lands Council.

The Lands Council is a Spokane-based environmental organization.

Peterson is active on the Northeast Washington Forestry Coalition, along with Russ Vagaan.

The Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) shows the analysis and compari-

By Don Gronning Of The Miner

COLVILLE – Some 10 years in the making, the Colville Draft Forest Plan is out for public comment. The plan, which is intended to provide a roadmap for long term planning for the forest, was developed with input from a variety of sources.

The public has 90 days, until May 19, to comment. Some say that’s not enough time.

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Tundra Swans on their way to Pend Oreille County USK – Rumor has it, some of the tundra swan scouts have been spotted around Calispel Lake, aka Swan Lake, just southwest of Usk. That can only mean the tundra swans will soon make their annual migration pit-stop in the Pend Oreille River Valley. Witness it for yourself at the Pend Oreille County Swan Festival Saturday, March 19.

The tundra swans are sometimes called “whistling swans,” since Meriwether Lewis, of the famous Lewis and Clark, noted the characteristic whistling sound made by their wings. Uniquely, the bill is mostly black, often with a spot of yellow at the base. Their legs and

feet are all black as well.

Their annual migration only takes them through this area in the winter months, as they head to their breeding territories of arctic North America. From about two to three years old, tundra swans tend to pair for life, feeding and roosting together throughout the year.

It is easy to understand why swans have been closely associated with ideals of romance and commitment in tales and symbolism.

While it is something of a calculated guess when exactly the swans will be at their most abundant on

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‘It’s been a delightful life’ Howard Wildin says goodbye for now with his own wake

By Sophia Aldous Of The miner

NEWPORT – How does one sum up a life? Can it even be done in a way that isn’t either entirely clinical (he was born, went to school, worked, and died), or nostalgically saccharine?

The life, in this instance, belongs to Howard Wildin, a Newport resident since 1998, who was diagnosed with terminal kidney cancer last fall, two days after he sold his house with plans to settle in Sequim, Wash.

“Last November was a

Hell of a month,” Wildin says.

The cancer had already progressed to his liver and lymph nodes, spreading to his lungs. He underwent one dose of chemotherapy and decided once was enough.

“It’s not worth living my life like that,” Wildin says decisively.

Doctors have told him he has maybe a month or two left.

“I’m on the downward slope,” Wildin says. “My health is declining, I’m losing weight, and tired all the time.”

With his plans radi-

cally altered, Wildin opted to remain in Newport, closer to friends and the medical care he wants. He rented a house on Fir Avenue and has made arrangements with Hospice of Spokane.

“Rotary and a couple of friends swooped in and helped me move in one day,” Wildin says of having to transfer from his sold home to his temporary house.

Members of the Newport/ Priest River Rotary Club and friends from Pend

Oreille Players “Howard’s Follies” productions rallied to assist Wildin in relocat-

ing.

“It was kind of like The Grapes of Wrath,” Wildin jokes of the vehicles laden down with his possessions.

Those same friends and more turned out for Wildin’s “First Annual Wake Celebration” at the Cork and Barrel Saturday, Feb. 20. It was a joyous, slightly raucous gathering of people who have known See howard, 9A Miner photo|Sophia Aldous

Howard Watson Wildin stands on the porch of his home in Newport.

B r i e f ly Priest River Driver’s License office closed

Relay for Life Kickoff Party March 9

West Bonner school meeting changed

PRIEST RIVER – The Priest River Driver’s License Office will be closed until further notice, due to employee training. The Bonner County Sheriff’s Office hopes to reopen the Priest River Office as soon as possible and apologizes for any inconvenience.

The Sandpoint Driver’s License Office will continue to remain open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Sandpoint Office is available to serve Priest River area residents.

NEWPORT - Pend Oreille Valley Relay for Life will hold a Kickoff Party for 2016 on Wednesday, March 9 at the Newport Community Hospital Cafeteria at 6 p.m.

The theme this year is Dr. Seuss: I do not like cancer here or there, I do not like cancer anywhere!

This year’s Relay event is scheduled for August 12-13, 6:30 p.m.-6:30 a.m. at the Newport High School Track.

Any questions about the event can be directed to Shannon Foote, Event Lead, at 208-255-9243.

PRIEST RIVER – Trustees of the West Bonner County School District will meet Wednesday, March 9, at 6 p.m., a week earlier than usual. The meeting date was changed for just this meeting because of a schedule conflict.

West Bonne School District board meetings are held at district offices at 134 Main St. in Priest River.

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Bible-in-schools bill will get a rewrite

By Kevin Richert Idaho Education News

BOISE – A bill designed to clarify the role of the Bible in Idaho public schools is headed to the Senate floor – for some rewrite.

The Senate State Affairs Committee voted unanimously last week to send Senate Bill 1342 to the floor for amendments. And the committee discussion offered a glimpse into how the bill might be reworked.

For one thing, senators said they wanted to delete references to using the Bible to teach astronomy, biology and geology. They also said they wanted to rework the bill to address not only the Bible, but other religious texts.

The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll, R-Cottonwood, said she was amenable to both changes.

As currently written, SB 1342 would allow the use of the Bible as a reference work, “to further the study of literature, comparative religion, English and foreign languages, United States and world history, comparative government, law, philosophy, ethics, astronomy, biology, geology, world geography, archaeology, music, sociology, and other topics of study where an understanding of the Bible may be useful or relevant.”

Sen. Todd Lakey, RNampa, suggested striking the sciences from this list as a safeguard against using the Bible to teach creationism. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against teaching creationism in public schools.

Senators also suggested references to other religious texts, prompting some public bargaining between committee members, Nuxoll and Christ Troupis, an Eagle

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The Pend Oreille County Planning Commission held the first of their monthly meetings Tuesday, Feb. 23, to gather information on marijuana, with a small group opposed to marijuana sales attending.

Commissioners enacted the moratorium Jan. 26.

It will expire July 26 unless it is extended.

County commissioner Steve Kiss said the county was considering what conditions, if any, retail marijuana could be sold in the county. The moratorium only affects unincorporated land in county. Towns and cities are free to do what they want.

Newport adopted a year long moratorium in 2014. City council members let the moratorium expire in February 2015.

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attorney who testified in favor of SB 1342.

“I’m trying to help you here figure out a way to get this done,” said Sen. Chuck Winder, R-Boise, the Senate’s assistant majority leader. Like Lakey, Winder is listed as a co-sponsor of SB 1342.

The possible amendments won over Sen. Michelle Stennett, D-Ketchum. For much of Friday’s hearing, Stennett posed pointed questions to the bill’s supporters, reminding supporters that teachers are already allowed to use the Bible as a reference work.

Supporters agreed – to a point. But they repeatedly said SB 1342 would provide teachers with clear direction on the use of the Bible.

“There is this vague fear of it being used in the classroom,” said Steve Crane, a minister from Eagle Christian Church.

The committee’s debate sent a signal about how SB 1342 could be amended. But there are no guarantees. When a bill is opened up for amendment, any lawmaker can propose any change.

The amended bill would still have to pass the Senate before it goes to the House.

who score at the middle contracts. The House (law).” level on the reading tests Education Committee The bill next heads to — still below grade-level voted along party lines the House floor. It previbenchmarks — schools to approve a bill relaxously cleared the Senate would be required to ing teacher contract 22-13. offer a minimum of 30 language for charter hours of supplemental schools.

Powdered alcohol. reading instruction anSenate Bill 1248 The House passed a bill nually. would remove the state that would ban the posSchool districts would mandate that charter session, sale, use and choose the method of schools must use teacher purchase of powdered supplemental instruccontract forms approved alcohol, widely known as tion, which could take by the superintendent of “palcohol.” the form of before-school, public instruction.

Powdered alcohol is after-school or summer Supporters say this not yet available in the school programs. For move would provide United States. However, students who score at the charter schools more the state’s Division of very lowest level on state flexibility in developAlcohol is pushing for reading tests, districts ing contracts. Charter House Bill 331, saying could make optional, schools would be able powdered alcohol could all-day kindergarten to “adapt contracts that easily be smuggled into available. better fit the unique school cafeterias or The bill is designed to needs of their students, sporting events. enact the $10.7 million teachers and schools,” With the House’s 42literacy proposal Gov. said the bill’s sponsor, 24 vote, the alcohol ban Butch Otter outlined Sen. Bob Nonini, Rnow goes to the Senate. in his State of the State Coeur d’Alene.

Reps. Heather Scott address. Superintendent The Idaho Charter R-Blanchard and Sage of Public Instruction School Network, the Dixon R-Ponderay voted Sherri Ybarra called Northwest Professional no. for $5 million to boost Educators Association literacy instruction or to and the employees of 12 School safety. House rewrite and replace the charter schools backed Education advanced a Idaho Reading Indicator the bill Friday, through school safety bill that test, but supports Otter’s testimony or written let- is designed to create proposal as well. ters of support. partnerships between House Bill 526 replaces Meanwhile, opponents the state, local school House Bill 450, which say the bill could destabi- districts and law enforcestalled in committee. lize faculties by creatment to enhance safety.

The new bill goes ing different classes of House Bill 514 would beyond House Bill 450 teachers working within create a new Office of by incorporating goalthe same building. OpSchool Safety and Sesetting timelines and ponents also worry the curity within the state’s specifying that supplechange could make it dif- division of Building mental instruction must ficult to recruit teachers. Safety. The office would take the form of “proven, “Let us not fool ourprovide on-site security effective research-based selves,” attorney Paul assessments and trainIn other Statehouse substantial intervenStark said, of the Idaho ing, identify areas of vulaction Friday: tion.”

Education Association. nerabilities and provide Literacy. With almost House Bill 526 passed “We are not talking technical assistance to no debate, the House out of the House 62-2. about any innovation for local districts. voted swiftly and deciReps. Ron Nate, R-Rexeducation, we’re talkSee bible, 10A sively to pass a rewritten burg, and Heather Scott, ing about employment bill to provide suppleR-Blanchard, were the mental reading instruconly two lawmakers to tion to struggling young vote against it. They students. did not explain their House Bill 526 would no votes or debate require schools to offer a against its passage. minimum of 60 hours of The bill next moves supplemental instruction to the Senate for conper year to kindergarten sideration. It is likely From Page 1 through third grade to start its journey in students who score at the the Senate Education Calispel Lake, the spectacle of flapping wings and sparlowest of three levels on Committee. kling, all-white plumage is always memorable. Easily their Idaho Reading Indinumbering in the hundreds, the cacophony of bugling cator tests. For students Charter school calls and water slapping can be heard from far away.

Attendance at last year’s event was well over 100, and reservations have already been coming in for this year. The cost of $10 per adult and $5 for children 12 and under, includes a directed bus tour starting from the Kalispel Tribal Camas Wellness Center in Usk to the privately-owned Calispel Lake and back, lunch and an County commission sold from Pend Oreille afternoon nature presentation. chairman Mike Manus County. The county colFor those who have more time in the day, the Camas said the county needed to lected $43,294 in excise Wellness Center has two swimming pools plus a waddo its due diligence before tax, according to the ing pool that can be used by guests for a day-use fee. considering any retail state Liquor and CannaBuffalo are often seen grazing around the Center’s marijuana establishbis Control Board. That grounds. ments. was before the change Organizers suggest bringing binoculars, a camera, Only one retail license to the way taxes are colweather appropriate clothes, a hat, plenty of water, and has been issued by the lected was made. Now all a birding guide if applicable as one might spot some of state in Pend Oreille taxes are collected at the the more than 200 species of birds reportedly calling County or its towns or retail level and if there is Pend Oreille County home. cities. The only person no retail shop, there will The buses depart at 10 a.m. from the Camas Wellness granted a license by the be no excise tax going to Center at 1981 N. LeClerc Road in Usk. A free shuttle state, Jacob Sattleen, was the county. will be available from the north Spokane Walmart denied a conditional use According to the Liquor parking lot at the “Y”, departing at 8 a.m. Seats are limpermit by the planning and Cannabis Control ited, so register soon at www.porta.us. Plan for about commission. He wanted Board the state collected an hour and a half drive from Spokane. to open a shop in Usk. $65 million in excise tax The tour will return to the center for lunch by noon, While there are no from July 2014 to July followed by the presentation. retail shops, there is legal 2015, the first 12 months Space is limited, so register soon to guarantee a spot. marijuana business in legal marijuana was The event is co-hosted by the Natural Resources DePend Oreille County. available. From July 2015 partment of the Kalispel Tribe of Indians and the Pend There are currently 10 through January 2016, Oreille River Tourism Alliance. active marijuana produc- the state has collected When traveling to the area, keep an eye out for the ers and six processor $92.3 million in excise varied wildlife in the countryside; wolves, moose, elk, licenses issued for Pend taxes on marijuana. mountain lion, plus several species of deer and bear.

Oreille County.

In addition to the excise For more information, contact Sonya Scauflaire of In the fiscal year that taxes, the state also colPend Oreille River Tourism Alliance at info@porta.us took place July 1, 2014, to lects sales tax and busior 509-589-1224. Register online via PayPal at www.

June 30, 2015, there was ness and operations tax porta.us to secure a reservation. $173,177 of marijuana on marijuana businesses.

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b r i e f ly Port to meet March 15 USK – The Port of Pend Oreille commissioners will hold a meeting Tuesday, March 15, starting at 9 a.m. This is a change from their regular meeting date of March 8.

Commissioners will meet at the Port office at 1981 Black Road in Usk.

Art walk March 19 NEWPORT – Spring Art Walk will take place in downtown Newport, Saturday, March 19, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Twelve or more artists will be showing their artwork at Mi Pueblo, Fleur de Lis, Cork & Barrel and My Favorite Things.

“This is fast becoming a must attend art event for the entire family and community,” says Robert Karr, president of Evergreen Art Association. Oil paintings, acrylic, watercolor, pastels, and photography by local artists will feature a wide range of subject manner. Individual artists will be on hand to show their respective work and talk to the public about their techniques and choice of mediums.

Evergreen Art welcomes all area artists to join and participate in numerous art events throughout the year.

Call Karr, 509-671-1539, for more information.

Beware Salmonella when raising chickens OLYMPIA – The state Department of Health is warning that people should take care not to contract Salmonella germs if they are raising chickens and ducks.

Last year, at least 57 Washingtonians, including many children, got sick from contact with live poultry. Over the past four years, 211 people got sick from Salmonella through contact with these animals.

Chicks and ducklings commonly carry germs that can make people sick. The Salmonella germs can be in droppings and on feathers, feet, and beaks – even when the birds look healthy and clean. The germs also get on cages, coops, and areas where the birds roam. Salmonella illness is especially dangerous to the very young, the very old, and people with weakened immune systems.

People who come into contact with chicks and ducklings should protect themselves by following a few precautions: Always wash hands with soap and water immediately after handling birds and after touching the cages and coops.

Don’t let live poultry inside the house, and keep a close eye on children when they’re near the birds. Learn about more ways to prevent Salmonella illness at the Washington State Department of Health website, at www.doh.wa.gov and search for Salmonella from chicks and ducks.

These preventive measures apply to handling all live poultry, regardless of the age of the birds or where they were purchased. Facts on keeping birds healthy are on the Washington State Department of Agriculture’s website, www.doh.wa.gov.

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Community Development’s new home The Pend Oreille County Community Development Department is now in a new location, in the Old County Courthouse Annex Building at 418 S. Scott Ave., behind the county courthouse. They are in the building formerly occupied by the Weed board, which moved to the Garden Building. Workers were able to get the historic desk into the annex with a lot of effort. Pictured are assistant planner Andy Huddleston and Community Development Director Mike Lithgow and design professional consultant David Hunt.

6.8 percent increase in Idaho public school funding proposed

By Clark Corbin Idaho Education News

the budget boost passed in 2015. Public schools would account for about 48 percent of all state general fund spending.

As things stand now, the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee voted to increase public school general fund spending by $100.3 million, a 6.8 percent increase. This 6.8 increase would bring total general fund spending on education to nearly $1.6 billion.

“I’m very excited — this is a great day for education,” Superintendent of Public Instruction Sherri Ybarra said

BOISE – Legislative budget-writers approved a 6.8 percent increase in public school funding Monday — but are taking a wait-and-see approach to some unsettled policy initiatives.

Lawmakers are holding off on four significant policy initiatives that have yet to pass the Legislature. Those initiatives include a re-written literacy proposal that could cost up to $10.7 million, but has yet to be addressed in the Senate.

If those policy bills pass, budget-writers have said they will provide separate funding through so-called trailer bills that would 25 % off be drafted and voted g Everythin upon later this year.

“Hopefully we will get some combination of those requests that will get us up to at least a 7.4 percent increase,” said Rep. Wendy Horman, RIdaho Falls, who helped write the school budget. Now thru March 31 Silver Lake Mall A 7.4 percent inCoeur d’Alene crease would mirror

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after the hearing. “If they’re going to put more money into education, of course, I am going to be the champion for that.”

Under the budget set Monday, teachers can expect another raise next year. JFAC’s budget would increase teacher pay by $41.5 million by paying for the second year of the career ladder salary law. The budget also moves pupil-servicSee school, 8A

COEUR D’ALENE – With spring just around the corner, many residents are looking to dispose of downed trees and broken branches from severe winter weather conditions and November’s windstorm.

The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) reminds residents that smoke from burning yard waste impacts air quality and health.

Yard waste may be burned if allowed by local ordinance or rule and conducted on the property where the waste was generated, according to a news release from DEQ. However, smoke impacts must be considered, and depending on weather conditions, may not always be conducive to good smoke dispersion. Smoke can cause breathing difficulties and serious health problems, especially for older adults and children.

DEQ encourages residents to use cleaner and safer alternatives to burning, such as composting, mulching, or curbside recycling of yard waste where available.

If burning is the only option, these guidelines can minimize smoke impacts from open burning: Burn only dry material.

Green limbs and other vegetative garden waste smolder and produce excessive smoke.

Keep burn pile small and manageable. Large piles develop a lot of ash, robbing the pile of oxygen and causing smoky conditions.

Burn during the midday hours when solar heating and ventilation is at its maximum. To prevent smoke from lingering near the ground never start a burn in the evening or during early morning hours. Complete burning before dusk.

Do not burn green slash piles and use additional precautions when burning near residential areas.

Burners are also reminded that open burning rules prohibit the burning of most processed or manufactured materials such as garbage, plastics, demolition debris, tires, asphaltic materials, treated lumber and animal waste.

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Converting animal poop to power makes sense, but today it is too expensive. The good news is it reduces greenhouse gas emissions and curtails odors from farms.

Biomass is an important part of our nation’s effort to generate electricity from renewable sources. However, in Washington, where electric rates are low, it is difficult to make an economic argument using biomass to solely produce power.

Our state’s forest products companies have burned wood wastes for decades as part of the manufacturing process. It is called co-generation. Pressurized steam is run through power turbines and then used to make paper, lumber and plywood. In fact, during the last recession, our mills kept afloat by selling their electricity.

In recent years, our state’s farmers also started investing in biomass plants to turn animal dung into electrical energy. The process is complex. Here is how it works.

Digesters are oxygen-free tanks in which microorganisms break down manure and capture methane that otherwise would be released into the atmosphere as a greenhouse gas.

The biogas from digesters is mostly composed of methane and can be burned to produce electricity or cleaned and pressurized for transport in natural-gas pipelines. Fertilizers are byproducts, which farmers can use or sell.

By diverting waste from open-air lagoons, digesters limit the potential for spills that can pollute waterways and air contamination.

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Worlds between the pages When was the last time you read for fun?

That question may seem like a paradox nowadays, with a majority of the populace (not just kids) staring at our screens, whether it’s computer, television, Ipad, Smartphone, or some other electronic device. A May 2014 digest of studies cited by Common Sense Media indicates that American teen-agers are less likely to read “for fun” at 17 than at 13. The category of reading “for fun” is itself a little dismal, since it divides reading into duty (for school or work) and pleasure (lounging beachside), as if the two were somehow at odds.

Common Sense Media also found that reading rates don’t just S o p h i E ’ s fall as kids grow up, but they’ve also dropped dramatically over CHOICE the last three decades, with 45 Sophia percent of 17-year-olds admitting they read by choice only once or aldous twice a year I read for work a lot, and admittedly it’s not always pleasurable. I’m certainly not unique in this respect, considering what I do for a living, but anyone who works with the public extensively has some take-home documentation to peruse that isn’t exactly up there with the Harry Potter series in terms of entertainment value, or on par with the profundity of Kerouac.

However, I can’t imagine not reading as a pastime, or just for the simple sake of it. Sometimes I think reading is considered a luxurious pastime of the donnish glitterati, an exclusive realm for those who remark, with raised nose and closed eyes, “Well, dahling, you really should read the book, because it’s so much better than the movie.”

First of all, as long as there have been movies based on books, that has almost always been true (except for Peter Benchley’s Jaws, true story).

Second of all, the idea that reading is a culturally pretentious rite of the pseudo intellectual is well, just not true.

Not to sound like your latest presidential candidate, but my parents were both working, lowermiddle class people who busted their respective backsides in ways that I really didn’t appreciate or comprehend until later in life. One of the things I shall be eternally grateful for to both of them is the love for the written word that they helped foster within me. They both read to my brother and I, with dad taking us on adventures with Sherlock Holmes, Rudyard Kipling or Jim Corbett for bedtime stories. As I entered pubescence, the tables turned and mom was a willing participant in letting me read her a bedtime story of my choice, usually a chapter from the latest fantasy novel from Brian Jacques that had caught my attention.

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yo u r o p i n i o n We must ensure our own security To the editor, This is in regards to the comments made by Pete Scobby about the Oath Keepers in the Feb. 17 paper (“Oath keeper-like groups manufacturing fear of Muslims”).

Mr. Scobby, if you are going to give such an artful opinion about an article, you should at the very least, try to get the facts straight. The level of incompetence and misinformation you displayed was astonishing. The Oath Keeper’s organization had nothing to do with the proposed resolution.

The Oath Keepers are, however, a great organization. An organization consisting of good men and women who serve their country, current and former law enforcement and military, men and women with honor and integrity (words you will have to look up). Did you really compare these people and their oaths to the Boy Scouts? No offense to the Boy Scouts, of course. Furthermore, why mention the county commissioners’ oaths at all, since quite obviously, they mean nothing to you.

As the legislative body of our county, it is the job of the commissioners to adopt ordinances and resolutions that are in the best interest of this county and its residents. Security and economic stability are a part of that. Taking into consideration the current atrocities going on in Europe and the impact they are having on their economy and security, I’d say addressing this issue is a high priority.

Maybe even higher than plowing snow. No offense to those snowplow operators either.

The FBI and DHS have both stated that the Federal Government does not have an efficient vetting system in place in regards to Syrian refugees. Until that is accomplished, it is up to us, at a local level, to put things into place for our own security.

-Floyd Christman Metaline Falls

Clinton belongs in jail To the editor, Hilary Clinton and our so called President think they can get away with anything.

I know that the President will shield and protect Hillary right to the end. I hope when Trump becomes the President that he puts her behind bars where she belongs.

I don’t see how the Democrats can vote for her unless they’re crooked, too.

People should understand that Benghazi and Fast ‘N Furious happened on Hillary and Holders’ watch, and they worked for President Obama. Even when the buck stopped at his door, nothing was ever done about it.

The government on all levels has let the American people down.

Got Trump. And, as for immigration, about anybody here illegally: Spock of “Star Treck” said, “the few may have to go, so the many can survive.”

-Tom Dishaw Diamond Lake

Supports better vetting of refugees To the editor, In a recent letter Mr. Scobby raises the question “What is an oath keeper anyway?” (“Oath keeper-like groups manufacturing fear of Muslims,” Feb. 17 Miner)

reade r’s poll Visit The Miner Online to answer our readers’ poll question through Monday afternoon. Find it on the left-hand side of the page at www.PendOreilleRiverValley.com. The results will be printed next week on this page. You need not be a subscriber to participate. If you have any ideas for future readers’ poll questions, submit them at minernews@povn.com.

The presidential primary race is dominating the news. Who do you think will be the next president?

1. Ted Cruz 2. Bernie Sanders 3. Marco Rubio 4. Hillary Clinton 5. Dr. Ben Carson 6. Donald Trump 7. John Kasich

I would have to agree with Mr. Scobby that the simple act of taking an oath certainly does not insure that one will keep it. The oaths one takes value lies within the individual taking it.

To some it is a meaningless repetition of mumbo jumbo. To others it is a sacred promise to aide by the promises and the constraints that are contained within that oath.

Mr. Scobby refers to an Oath Keeper like group submitting a resolution to the county commissioner regarding the vetting of Muslim refugees.

While the Oath Keeper organization, which I represent in this area, had nothing to do with this resolution, I myself would support it 100 percent.

As Oath Keepers contains both active and retired military, police first responders and fire personnel, along with other like minded individuals who are adept at accessing risk, I would assume that most, if not all would support a resolution to vet immigrants as well. Our own F.B.I. has stated that there is no way at this time to be sure we don’t import terrorists along with legitimate refugees.

That being said, would you, Pete Scobby, invite me into your home with your family on a dark night without knowing exactly who I was?

In closing, I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the constitution of the United States of America against all enemies foreign and domestic ... Pledging my life, my fortune and my sacred honor. So help me God. -Brad Hanson Oath Keepers, Pend Oreille County

Mixing government, religion corrupts religion To the editor, My month ago letter regarding Islamic state (ISIS) recruitment received a response alleging kowtowing to ISIS. This misinterpretation clearly indicates the need to further detail my letter’s intent.

The ISIS recruitment videos featured Donald Trump’s call to ban all Muslims from the U.S., and Ted Cruz had mentioned the carpet-bombing of enemy-controlled areas, revealing examples of the two Republicans’ bigotry and disregard for innocent civilian life. My assumption was (is) those attitudes are un-Christian and unAmerican, portraying us as similar to ISIS – a recruitment argument for ISIS – rather than separating us from ISIS. Although not evident from these two Republicans, the U.S. culture does embody Christian values. However, our country’s founders were very consensual in establishing the separation of church and state.

John Adams, a devout Christian, argued that mixing government with religion, Christianity in our case, would corrupt religion. Some Republican presidential candidates suggest opposition to this separation concept. But certainly ISIS is the “poster child” for such prescient thinking

by Adams and the other founders of our country.

-Norm Luther Spokane

Ban bait stations To the editor, When I found a See letters, 5A

r e a d e r ’ s p o l l r e s u lt s Should Apple unlock the iPhone used by the San Bernardino shooters?

Yes.

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61% No.

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ends, it was not uncommon to get dropped of at one of the local libraries in the Stevens County Library District while mom and dad had to work. It wasn’t a ploy to get free babysitting; libraries were a place to go to relax, learn, and/ or immerse and we were expected to behave accordingly. Dad fueled my respect for journalism by bequeathing me books based on the lives of Nellie Bly or Lowell Thomas.

Even into adulthood, he continually gave me literary diamonds in the rough based on little known historical figures with intriguing titles like Princesses Behaving Badly by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie.

So yeah, long story somewhat nut shelled, bookworm syndrome factors strongly into my family. So while I certainly don’t mean to sound snobbish on the subject, it just doesn’t compute when I come across the person who says, “I don’t read.” It makes my brain seize up and I literally look at them with the same

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guest: frozen surprise of a deer caught in headlights.

It’s understandable if someone has a negative connotation with reading: maybe they were singled out in a classroom were they told their opinion regarding a certain book was “wrong” or perhaps they are dyslexic and have struggled to make sense of what many of us take for granted in our day-to-day transactions. We’re naturally hardwired to reject experiences that stir up past discomforts and pain, which is probably why I approach what I can only describe as emotional anaphylaxis when it comes to any mathematical equation or theory that extends beyond the most basic of teachings. In high school I had a physics teacher that was (and still is) one of the nicest guys to become willingly entangled in our educational system, but he would have his students get up in front of the class and solve problems on the white board. It freaked the ever-loving verve right out of me, because he might as well

have been teaching the class in Urdu, as far as I was concerned. I didn’t understand it, no matter how much it was patiently explained to me, and my final grade in that class barely skated by with a D. To this day, as a somewhat fully functional adult who will most likely never have to rectify physics equations again, the memory of being stranded at the head of that class, dry erase marker poised impotently in my fist, still makes me a shrink inside.

So if someone has an issue with reading because they found themselves in a similar situation, I get it. However, the world is small enough without cutting ourselves off from experiences that can help us empathize with another human being, or think critically about what we’ve always assumed is true. Whether it’s science fiction, mystery, true crime, history, or what have you, reading makes us realize that we are not alone in our struggles, that perspective is a freeing thing, and that a whole other world is just a page away.

Here’s what I think socialism means

to give 10 percent to the church. Likewise socialism requires taxes to be paid to the government for a similar redistribution.

As a socialist, I don’t need or want anyone’s money. I think that everyone who benefits from the government should pay taxes. It seems corporations and super rich people have no problem taking government welfare in the form of subsidies, direct payments and tax breaks.

Consider this example of corporate welfare: Bear Stearns invested in the sub-prime mortgage market from 2003 after the government deregulated derivative trading.

After a stock price high of $172/share BS was bought by JP Morgan for $2/share with a $29 billion guaranteed loan from the U.S. Federal Reserve (paid for by you).

There are of course different levels of socialism. I desire clean water, air, safe food, reasonable shelter, healthcare and public education and transportation.

The greedy investment banks and corporations can have what’s left over.

-Pete Scobby Newport

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higher expenses, state and federal officials have provided grants and guaranteed loans.

Farm Power in Skagit County received $500,000 grants from the state and federal governments and $2.1 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to build a plant, which generates enough electricity for 500 homes.

Puget Sound Energy (PSE) uses Farm Power as a way to achieve Washington state’s requirement that 15 percent of its electricity must come from renewable sources (other than hydropower) by 2020. However, in recent years costs have slowed further development.

In 2011, University of Vermont professor, Dr. Qingbin Wang pegged the initial investment at $2 million per farm for equipment and also added that grants and subsidies from government agencies were necessary.

Wang estimated that converting manure from the 95 million animals in the United States would produce renewable energy equal to 8 billion gallons of gasoline – approximately 1 percent of the nation’s total energy consumption.

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Nationally, President Obama is encouraging farmers to build manure digesters and pipe the methane gas to electric generators. According to the White House, agriculture accounts for 36 percent of America’s methane emissions.

In 2014, the President issued a “biogas opportunities road map” with a goal of producing enough power for 1 million homes by 2025. Last year, 70,000 homes got their electricity from farm generators.

The Wall Street Journal reported in February that construction of new U.S. farm digesters has slowed sharply over the past two years. Some big meatpackers that have supported development of digesters have become more cautious.

WJS reported Perdue Farms Inc., among the largest U.S. chicken processors, has pledged to contribute poultry waste to a planned Maryland biogas project, but the company has rejected several other manure-to-energy proposals. “With today’s fossil-fuel prices, many such projects can’t stand on their own,” said Mike Phillips, director of special projects for Perdue AgriBusiness.

Don C. Brunell is a business analyst, writer and columnist. He retired as president of the Association of Washington Business.

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secluded bait-station/ camera set-up five years ago, I called up the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and was totally surprised to find that hunting over bait was legal. And I had been hunting since 1975 in Washington.

I grew up on the idea of fair chase and just assumed that my state was forward-thinking enough to be in that camp. To insure good wildlife populations it is always necessary for the big-brained omnivore to show some humility. In the years around 1900, white-tailed deer were (hard to imagine) very rare in the U.S. because so many people were eating venison and states were just getting started at setting rules and limits on hunting. Even with simple technology, people can always outsmart the animals.

Staying with fair chase and banning bait stations is a simple improvement on our game rules.

-John Stuart Newport

To the editor, Don’t think of me as a Democrat, liberal or a progressive. I now identify myself as a socialist.

Think of me the same way you think of schoolteachers, PUD employees or someone working at our public hospital. Then of course there are many government employees and contractors who work for local, state and federal governments. We are all socialists. Fees and taxes are collected to provide public services that benefit all citizens.

That’s how I describe socialism, which is decried by many people in our community. Republicans like to lump communism and socialism together even though they are very different. It’s like me saying that Republicans and Nazis are the same. The idea is to make socialism sound really bad. I must say that Christianity and socialism are much alike and I am puzzled by people who associate atheism with socialism.

You can start with some Christians being required

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Wildland Fire Academy winds up This string of firefighters (right photo) heads into the woods for the Wildland Fire Academy held Feb. 22-26. The academy was put on by the Kalispel Fire Department, with 60 people participating. In the left photo, firefighter Craig Shantz of Pend Oreille Fire District 6 jokingly gives Captain Ken Peralta a hug during graduation ceremonies at the Camas Center. Also pictured is firefighter Jared Murphy.

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Found finger causes alarm at casino

By Sophia Aldous Of The Miner

AIRWAY HEIGHTS – A human finger found in a jar in an unattended bag baffled security at Northern Quest Casino and Resort Friday, Feb. 19, causing staff to contact law enforcement.

According to a police report from the Kalispel

Tribal Police Department, Officer Jesse Aston responded to the casino in reference to a bag that had been found in the casino with a severed human finger in it. Casino security said the bag had been left on the floor of the establishment. When the bag was searched to try to determine whom the owner was, a glass container

Workshop for loggers offered PONDERAY – More than 1,400 Idaho loggers have taken the threeday University of Idaho Extension program on forest ecology, silviculture, and water quality, titled Logger Education to Advance Professionalism or “LEAP.” LEAP Update is an annual opportunity for LEAP graduates to build on that professional development in forestry.

LEAP Update will be held in Ponderay, March 15-16. This year’s topics include: salvage logging and silviculture; concrete bridge installations over class 1 streams; recent global and regional forest die-offs; insects that breed in slash and winter damaged trees; fungi that invade dead trees; an overview of Sustainable Forestry Initiative changes; tethered logging systems; and a UI logger safety research survey.

LEAP Update is held in conjunction with Associated Logging Contractor’s (ALC) first aid training, which allows loggers to fulfill Idaho Pro-Logger program annual continuing education requirements in one, 2-day session. The session also meets Idaho Pro-Logger forest best management practice training require-

ments.

Program enrollment is limited to 60 participants per session. Those wishing to participate should pre-register as soon as possible, but no later than March 8. A $45 registration fee ($48 for online registration with a credit card) includes resource materials and refreshments.

For registration questions, contact the University of Idaho Extension office in Kootenai County at 208-446-1680. Registration forms can also be downloaded at www. uidaho.edu/extension/ forestry.

For more information on the Idaho Pro-Logger program or the logging safety/first aid sessions, contact the Associated Logging Contractors of Idaho 208-667-6473.

with a human finger was discovered.

According to the report, Officer Aston interviewed casino security before being directed to a male inside the south end of the casino. Officer Aston approached the male, who said, “You’re here about my finger.”

He complied in showing Officer Aston his hands, which had several fingers missing from both.

One of the stumps of his fingers appeared swollen and scabbed over with what looked like a dried tendon protruding through the scab. When questioned,

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the man said that he was homeless and had gone to sleep in the cold with wet gloves on. He said that he had gotten frostbite and the doctor had to amputate his finger. The man said the last couple of times this occurred he was unconscious, and the doctors had thrown his fingers away. This time, he said he requested the doctor save his finger for him so that the man could make a necklace from it when it was just bone.

Being that there was no crime in the incident, Officer Aston turned the matter back over to casino security.

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The Road Division of Pend Oreille County sands and snowplows about 480 miles of maintained County Roads from three maintenance facilities: Newport(D1), Usk (D2) and Ione(D3). Road maintenance personnel provide snow and ice control services during the winter season. Equipment available includes: snowplows, sander trucks and graders. The road crews will work during normal work hours 6:00 am-2:30 pm, Monday through Friday. Snow and ice control priorities will be collector and school bus routes first, then to other roads as time permits.

We are encouraging everyone to prepare and plan ahead for winter driving conditions.

PLOWING

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Snow plowing of non-maintained County roads, easement/ private roads and driveways will not be performed by County crews.

The County’s primary objective is to keep all roads open for safe travel. Whenever possible the operators try to minimize the size of the snow berm across driveways and private roads. However, the blade can only hold so much snow. The County does not have the resources available to remove snow berms from driveways and private roads.

CARD OF THANKS I would like to thank all my wonderful family and friends that came to drop a card and wish me a Happy 90th Birthday! It was a great turnout! A special thank you to Kelly’s and their fun staff for doing such a good job! Love, Lefty Stratton.(5p)

Happy 100th Hazel!

Long time Newport resident, Hazel Taylor just celebrated her 100th birthday surrounded by dozens of family members and even more of her dear friends from Newport and surrounding areas.

She was very active in the Rebecca Lodge and the First Baptist Church where she held offices over the years.

Living alone until just the past few months, Hazel has recently moved to the Royal Park Assisted Living in North Spokane. Although she walks with the aid of a walker, her mind is still sharp as a tack, she still has a quick wit and sense of humor and she still loves to visit with her family and friends.

SANDING

SNOW STORAGE

The County uses sand mixed with road salt to improve traction on ice and to help the sand adhere to the road surface and prevent storage piles from freezing.

Whenever possible the snow is stored behind the ditch line on the right-of-way. After the initial plow out graders will return and push snow back with a wing blade making room to plow succeeding snowfalls when time permits.

YOU CAN HELP Winter road maintenance is expensive, dangerous and time consuming.

There are several ways the public can help make the County’s job safer and more cost effective: • Children love to watch snow removal operations- the large equipment, noise, lights and activity can be very exciting.

Although operators are glad to have people watch, everyone should be cautioned to stay a safe distance away. The concentration required for efficient snow removal combined with the noise and types of equipment used means the operator may not see small children close by and an accident could result.

Please encourage children not to build tunnels, forts or play in snow berms along the roadsides.

• Residents who remove snow from their driveways or sidewalks are reminded that State Law prohibits placing snow or ice on any public road or sidewalk in a manner that impedes vehicle or pedestrian traffic or makes it unsafe.

• If residents have vehicles parked on a roadway and there is a snowfall, please move it immediately. If you don’t it will most likely be bermed in and it will be your responsibility to shovel it out or the vehicle may be towed away if it creates a traffic hazard.

• Any snowplowing obstructions such as rocks, fences, or planters within the roads right of way, should be removed for winter. Not only can they be destroyed by snow removal

operations, they can do substantial damage to snow plows.

Owners of such obstructions are at risk should the County’s equipment by unnecessarily damaged.

• Please place garbage cans a least ten feet inside driveway from the roadway edge. This will prevent hitting them or operators having to veer around them and not completely plowing the route.

• Snow from resident’s property should not be stacked over the ends of culverts or drainage structures. Rapid warming cycles in winter could result in blocked ditches being unable to drain and local flooding could occur.

• Mail boxes are occasionally damaged during snow removal operations. Damage due to poor construction, such as rotting posts or improper location, will be the responsibility of the property owner/resident.

• Snow removal operations require the use of large, heavy, and noisy equipment used during periods of darkness usually accompanied by limited visibility caused by falling snow. Pend Oreille County operators are carefully trained and safety is stressed at all times. Drivers of automobiles should follow at a safe distance.

For further information, please call the Road Division’s Hot line at (509) 447-6464 or Public Works Main Office (509)447-4513, M-F 8 am to 4:30 pm.

Please see www.accuweather.com for Current Conditions in the County

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Bliss Chiropractic Center welcomes new doctor

By Sophia Aldous Of The Miner

NEWPORT – For those who may be wondering, no, Dr. Bonnie Bliss has not resigned from her practice, Bliss Chiropractic Center.

She’s just welcomed Dr. Zenker another doctor, Lizabeth Zenker, into the business.

Dr. Zenker fills the vacancy left by Dr. Christopher Thomas, who opened his own practice recently on Union Street.

“I’m glad to be here, people have been very welcoming,” says Dr. Zenker.

Originally from Phoenix, Ariz., Dr. Zenker grew up in Las Vegas and earned her bachelors

degree in biochemistry at the University of Nevada, Reno, before attending and graduating from Palmer College of Chiropractic in San Jose, Calif. She had her own practice in Phoenix for 10 years before she and her husband, and their two daughters, ages 5 and 7, moved to Spokane a little over a year ago.

Chiropractors diagnose and treat common spinal misalignments that can occur from lifestyle or injuries causing pain, discomfort and degenerative conditions.

“I treat the body as a whole with a very holistic approach,” says Dr. Zenker. “I look at what’s causing the problem, not just how it can be fixed.

It’s important to engage the patient in their own recovery, so they have the

business

tools to help heal themselves faster.”

Dr. Zenker says she has helped patients age newborn to 102-years-old, and enjoys working with a variety of people. When she’s not working, she enjoys knitting, crocheting, or reading, but admits it can be difficult to find the time for hobbies with two little girls.

“We’re really enjoying the area though, and getting out to explore,” Dr. Zenker says. “I think Dr. Bliss and I are very similar in our approach to what we do, so I’m happy to be working with her.”

Bliss Chiropractic Center is located at 601 WA-20, Newport, 509447-2413.

Casey brings 25 years to It’s a Miracle massage PRIEST RIVER – The name of Jennifer Casey’s new massage practice, which opened its doors Jan. 1, is all in how clients feel after a session.

“The name “It’s A Miracle,” was chosen because so many of my clients have returned over the years saying, “It’s a Miracle!” after having experienced significant relief of pain and restoration of mobility after just one session,” Casey explains. “I approach massage with a very critical way of thinking; I want to make a difference for my clients.”

Casey, who moved to Priest River from Portland, Ore., in May, holds a doctoral degree (ND) in Natural Medicine from National College of Natural Medicine in Portland, Ore., an accredited fouryear medical college. She also holds active massage licenses in Oregon, Washington, Montana, and Idaho.

Casey says she moved to North Idaho from Oregon because she was attracted by the beautiful landscapes and she relates with the patriotism of the local population. She loves to hike in the forests and enjoy the lakes and rivers with her two Great Pyrenees dogs.

She says her specialty is in helping people with pain and restrictions of

movement. She has practiced in the field of medical/rehabilitative and therapeutic massage for more than 25 years.

“Our musCasey cles react to a variety of things, whether the cause is physical, like a fall or pulling something at the gym, or emotional, like a high-stress job or the death of a loved one,” Casey explains. “My job is to help people learn how to relax, whether it’s through massage, or just giving them helpful pointers.”

Casey says she is looking forward to sharing her skills and knowledge with people in the area.

She will also be offering classes in the use of homeopathic remedies, herbs, and many other types of natural medicine for family and personal health.

“My job makes my life very interesting, because I get to meet all kinds of people, and it feels rewarding to help them with the skills and knowledge I have,” Casey says. “It’s a blessing to do what I do.”

It’s a Miracle is located in the Rivertown Mall at 45 S. McKinley St., Suite 109 in Priest River, (208) 230-8560.

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By Don Gronning Of The Miner

NEWPORT - Dr. Christopher Thomas of Thomas Chiropractic Group opened his Newport practice in a newly renovated building on South Union Feb. 1.

“It hadn’t been occupied in 14 years,” says Sarah Thomas, Dr. Thomas’ wife.

She said it took about five months to do the work to Dr. Thomas get the building ready.

Dr. Thomas set up his own practice after 14 years with Bliss Chiropractic in Newport.

“He felt like it was time,” says Sarah.

Dr. Thomas is a graduate of Palmer Chiropractic Winje College of Davenport, Iowa. He went to work for Bliss after graduation. He also travels to the north county each week, something he has done for the last 12 years.

“He has a loyal following up there,”

Sarah says. He’s at The Cutter Theatre each Wednesday from 2-5 p.m.

Dr. Thomas and Sarah make their home in Newport. They have four children, ages 14-24.

Amanda Winje works as massage therapist at Thomas Chiropractic.

Winje, a licensed massage therapist, is a graduate of Carrington College in Spokane. She was born and raised in Newport and is a 2007 Newport High School graduate.

She worked as a massage therapist for the Spokane Shock arena football team.

When she worked in the Las Vegas, she massaged athletes and entertainers regularly.

She and her husband Trevor Roberts, a stay at home dad, have three children, ages six months, 20 months and six years.

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d o w n m e m o ry l a n e 100 years ago 1916 The Bonner County treasurer reported less than a 2 percent delinquency on 1915 taxes.

A five room house in good repair, best residential section, street grade and cement walks was advertised for $750.

The Camden Cash Store and its stock was destroyed by fire.

J.B. Stoneman opened a soft drink establishment and card room in the Newport building formerly occupied by the City Bar. It was called the “Fountain.”

90 years ago 1926 “The Everlasting Whisper,” starring Tom Mix, played at the Gem Theater.

G.A. Zweygberg, former Newport grocer, sold his business at Spirit Lake to the Burgan Co., which was starting a grocery chain.

H.D. Andrews, a Spokane dentist spent a few days at Metaline Falls looking into a possibility of locating there part time.

80 years ago 1956 Gasoline price in Newport on March 5, 1936, was 19 ½ cents a gallon, the lowest in 20 years.

J.T. Halin of Spokane, holder of the general contract for construction of Newport High School, expected to begin excavation within a couple weeks.

With a score of 74, Newport Gun Club trapshooters rolled into a tie for

third place in the Spokesman-Review Tournament.

70 years ago 1946 A total of 1,042 “woman hours” was devoted to volunteer Red Cross sewing during February by 57 women, according to Lillian Lewis, the production chairwoman.

Mrs. Vilas Bockenhauer and Sherman Zigler were elected as Cusick school directors for the Usk-Hoisington and Calispell Lake-Dalkena districts, respectively.

Clark Kennedy announced a meeting for March 12 at the courthouse to discuss forming a cooperative hospital.

60 years ago 1956 According to its 1955 annual report Grandview Mines, Inc., received no income from its mine at Metaline Falls, which was operated by American Zinc, Lead & Smelting Co. Newport Community Hospital was congratulated for its part in the nationwide enrollment of 50 million members in the Blue Cross health plan.

Twin boys, weighing 5 pounds ¾ ounces and 6 pounds 2 ¼ ounces, were born to Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Kinne of Priest River. Danny Fay and David Jay joined nine brothers and sisters.

50 years ago 1965 The Pend Oreille County commis-

sioners announced the appointment of Howard Filliam as Pend Oreille County Extension agent.

Leroy Hedlund announced plans to build a chip and sawmill on property he leased on land located near Cusick from Stanton Culp.

A rehabilitation program at the Newport nursing home was in its seventh week.

$1,000 in charges in two weeks before the city said no more.

The widow of white power leader Robert Matthews sued in an attempt to get his $50,000 life insurance policy, that she said he bought and paid premiums on for a year before he died in a fiery shootout with the FBI on Whidbey Island.

40 years ago 1975

Internet access options were expanding. Pend Oreille Valley Network had just opened for business.

Remodeling of the Newport Safeway was halfway completed. Manager Mike Manus said when completed the remodel will relieve congestion and improve customer traffic flow.

T.J. Keogh of Usk and Denys Brown of Newport took first place in short story and poetry in a contest sponsored by the Friends of the Library’s Young Adult Writers Competition. They each received $50.

Dan Warren took over as a manager of Par Sports in Newport.

The Diamond Lake Sewer District took an option on 80 acres to be used for a lagoon and other treatment facilities.

Newport debaters racked up wins over East Valley and gained a tie for first in the league.

30 years ago 1986 Pend Oreille County Cattlemen Association president Charlie Hoisington said cattle rustling was an overlooked crime and called for a crackdown on rustlers.

He estimated more than 20 animals are stolen each year, although the Sheriff’s Office didn’t have the figures to back him up. They said the crime was mostly unreported.

A Newport woman complained she couldn’t go home because sewage from a clogged sewer line flooded her house. She and two neighbors were put up by the city at local motels, running up more than

20 years ago 1996

10 years ago 2006 Priest River wrestler Kelly Miller took second at state at 145 pounds and Richie Morales at 140 won fifth.

Keeping up with federal law, Bonner and Pend Oreille Counties installed new voter assistance terminals so disabled people could cast private ballots. The voter wears headphones and the machine reads the ballot. The voter makes his choice by touching a screen or using keys with Braille marking.

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es staffers onto the salary ladder.

Legislators also voted to spend $27.3 million to reverse recession-era cuts to discretionary funding sent to local school districts – a pot of money sometimes called operations funding.

Discretionary spending would increase to $25,696 per classroom, a number last reached in 2008-09. Current per-classroom spending levels are $23,868.

JFAC Democrats tried unsuccessfully to boost operational spending to $26,032 per classroom, at an additional cost of $5 million. The effort failed along party lines and the committee then unanimously backed the increase to $25,696.

Boosting teacher pay and restoring operational funding were among Horman’s top priorities.

“I was thrilled to get budgets out with unanimous support for the career ladder funding and restoring our discretionary dollars,” Horman said. “That sends a great message out to our educators in schools that we

value them.”

Lawmakers did not fund Ybarra’s proposed $300,000 rural schools center. After the hearing, Ybarra said she wanted to focus on what schools got under the budget, not what they didn’t get.

“We still have some work to do,” Ybarra told reporters. “Hopefully, if it doesn’t happen this year, we will try again next year.”

Even if lawmakers bolster the school budget in the coming weeks, the spending plans are likely to fall short of early-session budget recommendations.

In his State of the State address, Gov. Butch Otter proposed a 7.9 percent increase. Ybarra called for a 7.6 percent increase.

One big reason the school budget will fall short of Otter’s recommendations is because the governor underestimated student enrollment growth that JFAC is paying for. Another reason is a dip in state revenues, which are nearly $14 million below initial projections.

Budget highlights include: • $5 million in new, ongoing funding for classroom technology

• $3 million in increased funding for educators’ professional development training, bringing the total to $16.4 million • 3 percent raises for school administrators and classified staff members not paid under the career ladder salary law • $16.6 million in ongoing funding for salary awards called teacher leadership premiums • $6.7 million for remediation and limited English proficiency • $6 million in ongoing funding to pay for advanced opportunities programs that allow students to earn college credits while they attend high school • $3 million for local school districts or charter schools to purchase instructional management systems as the state shuts down its Schoolnet system • $2.1 million for WiFi services for local districts As with previous years, the school budget was broken into seven different pieces. JFAC passed each bill unanimously.

The seven bills must pass the House and Senate before going to Otter’s desk.

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howard: Came to Diamond Lake in 1998 after being priced out of Seattle Wildin throughout his life, gathering to drink, dance, sing, and remember in his honor. There were those who knew him from his involvement in Rotary, an international peacekeeping organization; fellow theatre buffs who worked with him when he wrote and directed the Follies for the Pend Oreille Players Association; colleagues from his time as a real estate agent and teacher at Bellevue Community College.

Songs were sung, poems were recited, and there was even a spirited rendition of the Hokey Pokey.

“What an incredible day,” Wildin reflects on the celebration, smiling. “An incredible day.”

Some guests walked around with shirts that declared, “I love Howard” across the front. Wildin was bequeathed his own shirt that responded with a pert, “Everybody loves me.”

He estimates around 150 people were in attendance.

Born July 17, 1939, in San Luis Obispo, Calif., Wildin’s family moved to Western Washington when he was 4 years old.

He graduated high school

at 16 and from the University of Washington at age 20 with a degree in political science. He enlisted in the United States Army and served overseas in Germany from 1961 to 1964.

“I kind of don’t like to talk to other veterans about it, because while they were being drafted and serving in Vietnam, I was this young kid working intelligence in Europe,” Wildin say. “It wasn’t what you would call James Bondish, but in many ways it was like a vacation. I was able to do a lot of traveling, and that is priceless.”

He remembers a trip to Luxembourg where he was waiting at the train station and stopped in to a little café. The majority of seats in the establishment were taken, so Wildin approached an elderly gentleman and asked politely, in German, if he could sit next to him. The man looked at him and nodded, returning his attention to the newspaper he was reading.

A waiter approached with a menu written in French, which Wildin doesn’t read.

In German, he asked the waiter what he recommended. Before the waiter could reply, the elderly man

next to him spoke tersely in French, “What could be recommended, to a pig like you?”

Wildin recalls the tension that filled the next few moments. The waiter froze, as if anticipating a scene.

Wildin wasn’t sure what to do at first, then looked at the waiter and asked him in English if he would translate, as he was from America and had only taken German lessons. The old man’s face went bright red with embarrassment and the situation was deflated, but Wildin says he didn’t do it out of pettiness.

“You have to remember that at that time, World War II was only 16 years ago, and the Nazis had raped Luxembourg,” Wildin says. “This man had lived through that, so I didn’t take it personally. I can’t remember his name, but he ended up being my guide for the next two days as I explored Luxembourg City.”

Wildin isn’t one for loftiness in regards to how others should live their lives, and even with a limited amount of time left, he’s not about to start.

However, he does advocate travel.

“Those experiences are ones that I treasure,” he says. “They opened my mind to other people and other ways of thinking.”

Upon returning to the United States, a journey that consisted of 12 weeks on a cattle barge across the Atlantic Ocean, Wildin entered into the world of banking.

“I basically got into it when I was living with my parents and my dad announced that they had sold the house, so I had about six weeks to figure something out,” Wildin laughs.

While he showed proficiency at banking, working at First National Bank of Seattle, it wasn’t something Wildin saw himself making a career out of.

“I was dying of terminal boredom,” he jokes.

He obtained his realtor’s license and began showing homes in King County, which eventually transpired into a 27-year teaching job at Bellevue Community College. Black and white pictures of Wildin standing in front of his class show a welldressed, vivacious man with a dazzling grin, obvi-

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son of the six alternatives considered for managing the Colville National Forest, according to the Forest Service website. The Forest Service prefers option P. The feature of the plan that got the most attention from Pend Oreille County Commissioner Steve Kiss is the expansion of wilderness area proposed.

He says if the land is designated wilderness, it will be very hard to do anything with it.

“You can’t do anything to degrade it once designated,” he said. He says after a wilderness designation is made, it is hard to undo it. “They’re sort of like National Parks.”

Peterson says the preferred alternative recommends expanding three wilderness areas across the forest. Two of those are in Pend Oreille County – Abercrombie-Hooknose and Salmo Priest additions.

“These two areas are roadless and non-motorized, so management would not change much – although chainsaws would not be allowed,” he said, noting they are not part of the suitable timber base.

Peterson says the Colville National Forest has about

3 percent of its 1.1 million acres designated wilderness, one of the lowest ratios in the west.

Kiss is particularly concerned about the expansion of the AbercrombieHooknose wilderness. He said the expansion would have the wilderness area bumping up against some private land. He worries about fire coming from the wilderness area to the private land.

Kiss said the Forest Service will likely let wilderness fires burn until there is a threat. He says the expansion would go to a ridge within a couple miles of town and he fears embers could blow down on the town.

Peterson says wildfire can be managed in wilderness, even using bulldozers and other equipment.

“Probably more effective is fuel treatments between the wilderness and private lands – as well as ensuring that private residences are as firewise as possible,” Peterson said.

Vagaan said the forest industry got together several years ago and told the Forest Service that they didn’t want the Forest Service to pursue timber harvests in roadless areas. He said the industry wants them to

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creased since the formation of the Northeast Washington Forestry Coalition – and the Coalition helped attract dollars under the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Act,” Peterson said. “However, budgets do limit staff, and that limits the number of projects that can proceed.”

Ray Entz, Director of Wildlife and Terrestrial Resources for the Kalispel Tribe, says the forest plan is big and unlikely to please everybody.

“Anything that big has to bridge many different interest groups,” Entz said.

“There are so many interest groups, that it won’t make everyone happy.”

Entz says the tribe has been involved in the process and is likely to comment. The county also plans to comment.

Peterson says the Forest Service can only recommend that land be designated wilderness.

“It takes Congress and the President to officially designate Wilderness,” he said.

Entz says as a practical matter, it really takes action from the U.S. Representative of the area to get a wilderness designation.

Currently the 5th Legislative District is represented

by Republican Cathy McMorris Rodgers, who is considered unlikely to request expansion of wilderness designation for the Colville National Forest.

senic and Old Lace,” then going on to craft Howard’s Follies based off the vintage sheet music he had started collecting in the early 90s.

“Now that was so much fun,” Wildin says. “The jokes, the improvisation, the humor – it got pretty crazy, but then I always told my cast that I prefer to have to dial them back then try to get them to liven it up.”

Such ruminations seem to be what Wildin carries with him now as he approaches the end of his life. Not how much money he made, what school he graduated from, but stories of people and how his life intertwined with theirs.

People to laugh with, who have shared a sense of kinship and moments that are hard to express in words, maybe because they don’t need to be. When asked whether or not he’s scared, or if he has any regrets, he waves a hand dismissively.

“Everybody asks me that,” he says. “I’m 76 years old. Of course I have some regrets, but what good does it do to dwell on them? As for being scared, no. What is there to be afraid of? It’s been a delightful life.”

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pursue timber where there have been roads and active management before.

County commission chairman Mike Manus says he’s taking a hard look at the recreation piece of the plan.

“The more we can use the forest for multi use, the better,” he said. He was scheduled to meet with an ATV group this week and intends to meet with snowmobilers.

Timber harvest is increased slightly in the option favored by the Forest Service, to about 80 million board feet, up significantly from recent averages.

Since the formation of the Northeast Washington Forestry Coalition in 2002, annual timber harvest has averaged about 40 million board feet, says Vagaan, a member of the coalition.

He said timber harvest in the Colville Forest had dipped as low as 18 million in the mid 1990s. They have averaged between 3545 million board feet annually since then, although one year they spiked to 61 million board feet.

Vagaan says an increase to 80 million board feet would be great.

“If we could get to 80 million board feet, that means the Usk Mill could get running, and probably at two shifts,” Vagaan said.

The problem is that it takes money to prepare timber harvests and Congress has been stingy with Forest Service money.

“Timber harvest has in-

ously in his element.

“I have a tremendous ego,” Wildin says of his love for teaching. “It certainly gave me a thrill to have an audience and be considered their pinnacle of wisdom.”

Wildin ended up in Newport almost on a whim, after a realtor friend of his came into Little John’s Café were Wildin was having lunch on Queen Anne Hill.

His friend was carrying a foreclosures list from Pend Oreille County, and marveled at 10 acres for $7,500.

“My home in Seattle had a great view of the Olympic Mountains, but the (property) taxes were already killing me,” Wildin says. “I had a good job, but I had to rent out the basement just to make ends meet. I figured I could continue to scrape by just to keep my house, or retire somewhere else.”

After negotiating, Wildin was able to purchase the acreage for $800 and moved to a rental on Diamond Lake in 1998, retiring from Bellevue at 59 years old. From there, he became involved with Pend Oreille Players after being cast as the villain in “Ar-

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Several Idaho superintendents and administrators testified in support of the bill.

Marsing Superintendent Norm Stewart said his community does not have its own local policed department, but instead contracts with the Owyhee County Sheriff’s Office. Stewart is concerned that, in the event of a threat or emergency, law enforcement may not be able to respond in time because the county’s deputies are responsible for patrolling nearly 8,000 square-miles of territory within the county.

“It is an enormous undertaking to be everywhere they need to be at a moment’s notice, but the safety of our students and of our staff has to be one of my highest priorities,” Stewart said.

“Passage of this … would give district such as mine more resources to improve safety.”

Nampa Police Captain Curt Shankel, a veteran

school resource officer, also backed the bill.

Shankel has worked with earlier versions of the program in the Nampa School District alongside the Idaho-based school safety consulting firm Educators Eyes.

“This endeavor has really shown me that regardless of the size of the school district or how many officers you have involved, this is a great resource,” Shankel told lawmakers.

The bill next heads to the House floor for consideration.

School autonomy.

Idaho Falls Republican Rep. Wendy Horman is pushing a new bill that she said is designed to empower local school districts.

The bill is rooted in one of the 2013 recommendations issued by Gov. Butch Otter’s Task Force for Improving Education that calls for lawmakers to empower local districts by removing constraints and promoting autono-

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Horman said the bill would not allow districts to opt out of the Idaho Standards Achievement

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NEWPORT – Selkirk senior Cole Dawson and junior Jacob Couch, along with Cusick senior Spirit White, were named to Dawson the Northeast 1B North/ South All Opponent boys basketball team. The team is selected by the league’s coaches.

Almira/ Coulee-Hartline’s Dallas Isaak was Couch the league’s Most Valuable Player and ACH coach Graham Grindy was Coach of the Year. Wellpinit had three players chosen: Brandon Flett, Jason Holt and Cedric Bowen.

Curlew had two: Gunner White Brown and Daniel Tresham, as did Republic: Aaron Fritts and Adrian McCarthy. Colton Hunt of Odessa Harrington and Payton Nielson of Almira/Coulee-Hartline rounded out the team. Republic’s Taylor Campbell received an honorable mention.

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SPOKANE VALLEY – The Northeast A League champion Freeman Scotties boys basketball team beat Naches Valley 61-56 in their 1A regional contest. The win allows Freeman to move on to the final eight in Yakima next week.

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Freeman boys in final eight

NEWPORT – The Newport Gun Club held their weekly shoot Sunday, Feb. 27. Next Sunday, March 6, Newport will host the Metaline Falls Gun Club for the 2016 County Shoot, ending the 10 week Wintershoot.

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Selkirk’s No. 34, Gabrielle Rick goes up for a rebound against Evergreen Lutheran Saturday, Feb. 27. Selkirk lost by one point, 35-34.

Lady Rangers one point out of state

By Michelle Nedved Of The Miner

TACOMA – The Selkirk girls basketball team lost their bid to state by one point Saturday, when they fell to Evergreen Lutheran 35-34.

“Yes, we ended our season with the one point loss,” Selkirk coach Jack Couch said. “It was a very competitive game!”

Selkirk was up by one, 7-6 at the end of the first quarter, then down by one by the half, 17-16.

The third quarter ended in the same manner: Selkirk down 24-23.

“We found ourselves down by seven, 23-30 with 4:12 left in the game,” Couch said. “Our guards pulled down five boards in the paint with Evergreen Lutheran’s 6-foot Emily Holder and 6’1” sister Jessie Holder

battling for possessions.”

Selkirk freshman Jenna Couch had seven steals in the fourth quarter, and hit a 3-pointer to tie the game at 30 each.

Freshman Whitney Dawson and senior Hannah Rick each had a bucket to close the gap during a thrilling comeback.

Rick’s score came with less than one minute left, Jenna Couch hit two free throws and Selkirk had to foul on the inbounds, as they could not obtain another steal.

Evergreen Lutheran failed to convert the free throws but were able to scramble for the ball, causing time to expire.

Jenna Couch finished the game with 11 points, followed by Hannah Rick with eight and Gabi Rick with seven. Whitney Dawson scored five, Ellen

Huttle added two and Hannah Jensen scored one.

The Lady Rangers finished the season strong earning 16 wins. They have three four-year varsity players graduating in Hannah Rick, Mackenzie McAnerin and Hannah Jensen.

“All three of these young ladies have contributed greatly to our program,” Coach Couch said. “These three seniors are very special and obtain of the highest character you will ever see in high school ladies.”

The Rangers have two freshmen and two sophomore starters who are returning next season, and will bring back another sophomore post and a junior shooting guard.

“We’ll be a very competitive team,” Couch said.

Stratton, Lewis All League NEWPORT – Hadley Stratton, a Newport senior, was named to the Northeast A League’s All League first team and freshman Cyndi Lewis was selected for the second team.

Other first team selections included Chewelah’s Stratton Maggie Cobb, Freeman’s Sydney Sather, Lakeside’s Shaye Swannack and Medical Lake’s

Bradyn Wegner.

Cassidy Crosswhite of Freeman, Krislyn Koler of Chewelah, Kayla Morris of Colville, and Alie Shannon and Julianna Trepanier of Riverside rounded out the second team.

Lakeside’s Sienna SwanLewis nack was Most Valuable Player and Riverside’s Buddy Wood was Coach of the Year.

POCATELLO – Priest River Lamanna High School wrestling team fought and won tenth place at Idaho State Wrestling Championships Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Feb. 25-27 at Holt Arena. Priest River came in with an overall score of 68 in the 3A division, preceded by Snake River (232), a tie between Fruitland and Weiser (203), Sugar-Salem (202), Teton (179), Shelley (134), American Falls (124), Kellogg (92), and South Fremont (69).

Caldwell High School wrestling team swept the tournament, earning its second state wrestling championship in program history with a 57.5-point lead after the first day of competition and 11 wrestlers in the semifinals.

The Spartan’s Gregory Fitzmorris was second at 182 pounds and Brandon Downs came in fifth at 98 pounds. Noah Jamison, 145 pounds, took fourth place after a defeat by Shane Loughran of Weiser due to what coach Jesse Hillinger referred to as “subpar officiating.”

“If you review the tape, and we did, he should have came in third,” Hellinger said. “He had a clear pin that was not declared by the ref, and there was a bad call.

It’s disappointing, because he (Jamison) gave it his all.”

Jamison lost to Weiser 9-6.

Fitzmorris, lost to Tate Grover of American Falls, 4-2.

“He was in the zone and wrestled well,” Hellinger said of Fitzmorris. “He was up against a tough opponent and gave a really good, dramatic match.”

Nathan Nelson, 113 pounds, suffered appendicitis the day before the tournament was scheduled to start, causing him to have to forego competing for health reasons.

Hellinger praised his team, dubbed “The Dangerous Dozen” for a good year of wrestling and more victories to come with next year’s wrestling season.

“These guys are great kids, and I expect they will do more great things in the future,” Hellinger said.

Priest River boys close out improved year with loss

By Don Gronning Of The Miner

COEUR d’ALENE – The Priest River boys basketball team has had a challenging couple of years. In 2013 they won only one game.

Last year, they won three games.

This season the team won seven games, including the first league victory in three years.

So in many ways it was a successful year, but that didn’t make the season ending 65-48 loss to Timberlake in a loser out game at the district playoffs any easier to take. The Spartans played Timberlake in the 3A District I loser out game at North Idaho College Wednesday, Feb. 24.

Priest River took a 12-10 first quarter lead. Both teams stepped up the offense in the second quarter, with Timberlake outscoring the Spartans 19-18.

Priest River was up one at the half on the strength of 3-point shooting. The Spartans hit five 3-pointers in the first half.

But it was the third quarter that really hurt Priest River. Timberlake outscored the Spartans 18-7 in the third quarter

after going on a 10-0 run early in the quarter. They continued to score in the fourth, outscoring Priest River 18-11 to close out the game. Hunter Hartwig led Priest River scoring with a dozen points. Cobie Haggerty scored nine points, with Mason Clark scoring eight. Anthony Storro hit six points, as did Alex Simpkins. Andrew Jeter scored three points and Tommy Anselmo, Zach Huddleston and Chris Deremer each scored two points to round out Spartan scoring. Priest River ended the season with a 7-14 overall record. They were third in the Intermountain League, with a 2-4 record.

Kellogg won the league, with a 6-0 regular season record. Bonners Ferry was second with a 3-4 record and Timberlake was fourth with a 1-5 record.

Timberlake’s win got them a chance to play-in to the state tournament, but their season was ended with a 72-54 loss to Fruitland Saturday, Feb. 27. The Intermountain League’s champion, Kellogg, will play Parma, at Meridian High School Thursday, March 3, in the state boys basketball tournament.

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Zorica, Pancho named All League second team NEWPORT – Newport’s Kyler Zorica, a senior, and Koa Pancho, a sophomore, were named to the Northeast Zorica A League’s second team for boys basketball. Free-

man coach Marty Jessett was Coach of the Year and Lakeside’s Cameron Gay was Most Valuable Player.

Pancho The five player first team was made up of Ryan

Maine and Jack Paukert of Freeman, Jaleon Stith and Cory Wagnor of Medical Lake and Gunnar Swannack of Lakeside. In addition to Zorica and Pancho, the second team was made up of Michael Coumont of Freeman, Chayse Frizzell of Chewelah and Cole Soliday of Medical Lake.

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Deer Park, Colville dominate All League wrestling selections

By Sophia Aldous Of The Miner

WASHINGTON – The Northeast A (NEA) League recently released the results of the 2016 first and second Team All League wrestling selections. Deer Park and Colville dominated the first team selections. Deer Park had five and Colville had four.

Freeman had three selected for first team and Chewelah and Lakeside each had one. No Newport wrestlers were selected for the teams.

Matt Jorgensen of Deer Park was awarded Coach of the Year, along with Keith Stamps of Deer Park receiving Assistant coach of the Year.

Dalton Young, a 132-pound junior from Lakeside was named Wrestler of the Year.

The first Team All League includes freshmen Trevor Morrison, 106, and Trent Baun, 113 pounds, both of Colville; junior Seth Hoog, 120 pounds, of Deer Park; senior Matthew Crise, 126 pounds, of Chewelah; Lakeside junior Dalton Young, 132 pounds; freshman Brent Hodgson, 138 pounds, of Deer Park; senior Tysen Jorgensen, 145 pounds of Deer Park, and 152-pound junior Dean Lockwood of Deer Park; junior Garrett Brown, 160 pounds, Lakeside; 170 pound senior Ryley Smith of Colville, senior Zack Pieper, 182 pounds, of Colville; senior Sebastian Hyta, 195 pounds, of Freeman; senior Trevor Eicher, Deer Park, and Freeman senior Peyton Smetana, 285 pounds.

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Hartwig, Clark make Intermountain All League PRIEST RIVER – Spartan senior Mason Clark and junior Hunter Hartwig were selected for the All InClark termountain League boys basketball team.

Kellogg’s Toby Colburn was the league’s Most Valuable Player and Jeff Lambert of Kellogg was Coach of the Year.

Bonners Ferry had three players selected: Caleb Harrington, Caleb Blackmore and Kaleb StockHartwig ton. Timberlake had two players chosen: Daniel Smith and Brayden Menti. In addition to the league MVP, Kellogg had two other players chosen: Ryan Martin and Chase Jerome.

Pierce, 106 pounds, was named to the NEA Wrestling Second Team All League, followed by senior Nick Reed, 113 pounds, of Medical Lake; junior TJ Baun, 120 pounds, of Colville; Lakeside freshman Lane Young, 126 pounds; sophomore Ethan Newman, 132 pounds, of Deer Park; Jonathan Crise, 138 pounds, a senior from Chewelah; senior Cole Ahrendt, 145 pounds, of Lakeside; Christian Goldbach, 152 pound senior from Freeman; senior Neil Lockwood, 160 pounds, of Deer Park; sophomore Brandon Iris, 170 pounds, of Freeman; senior Tele Seemann, 182 pounds, of Colville; 195 pound Conner Krouse, a junior from Chewelah; junior Tim Jarrad, 220pounds, of Lakeside, and senior Joey Sims, 285 pounds, of Freeman.

Carey, Summers named All Intermountain players PRIEST RIVER – Spartan girls basketball players Alyssa Carey, a senior, Carey and Avery Summers, a junior, were named to the All Intermountain League for Priest River. Timberlake’s Allison Kirby and Keelie Lawler shared Most Valuable Player honors. Timberlake’a Matt

Miller was Coach of the year.

Timberlake had two other players named All InterSummers mountain: Shelby Starr and McKeeley Tonkin. Bonners Ferry’s Trinity Golder and Kerstin Oxford, and Kellogg’s Kailli Cates and Marley Chambers rounded out the selections.

Cascade produces another state record perch

By Roger Phillips Idaho Fish and Game Public Information Specialist

BOISE – It’s no longer rumor or speculation whether Lake Cascade will break another state record; it happened Feb. 26 when Skye Coulter of Donnelly landed a 2-pound, 15.36-ounce yellow perch that topped Tia Weise’s previous state record of 2 pounds, 11.68 ounces. Coulter’s record fish was 15 5/8-inches long with a girth of 131/4 inches. He caught it on a worm.

Lake Cascade is about 90 miles north of Boise.

Weise still holds the catch-andrelease yellow perch record of 16 inches, which she set on Feb. 7. Because that fish was released, there was no official weight.

Cascade has consistently produced trophy perch in the last two years. Before 2014, the state record had stood for 38 years, but it has

been topped at least four times in the last two years by perch caught in the reservoir.

Lake Cascade has been a success story for perch fishing and anglers since it was overhauled in the early 2000s. Fish and Game crews removed tons of unwanted fish, mostly northern pikeminnows, and transplanted 850,000 adult perch.

Those transplants sparked a perch revival that produced billions of young perch, which not only recovered the perch population, but also provided a flourishing food base for other game fish in the reservoir.

Fish and Game surveyed Lake Cascade in the fall of 2015 and found about 27 percent of the perch were over 12 inches long, and 8 percent were over 14 inches long.

With that many large perch, biologists suspected a new state record was living there.

It will be interesting to see how long Coulter’s record stands con-

sidering the four fish caught in the last two years that topped the 38year record fish were landed in the months of February and March.

Idaho anglers now have two ways to get their name in the state record books.

Large fish that are harvested and weighed on a certified scale qualify for weight records. Fish that are released can be photographed with the fish and a tape measure in the photo and entered into the catchand-release records, which are ranked by length.

Fish and Game started the catchand-release records in January, and there are still many blanks remaining to be filled.

For current state records, rules and details on entering potential record fish, go to fishandgame.idaho. gov and look for “Record Fish” under the “Fishing” tab. Direct link: www.fishandgame.idaho.gov/public/fish/?getPage=82.

Spring bear controlled hunt results available BOISE – The draw for controlled hunts for spring black bear has been completed. Hunters who applied can determine if they were drawn at www. fishandgame.idaho.gov/ public/licenses/controlledHunts/results or by going to Drawing Results under the Licensing tab. Fish and

Game has mailed notification cards to those who were successful in the draw. However, it is the responsibility of hunters to find out whether their names were drawn in these hunts. Hunters who have a general season bear tag, may exchange their general season bear tag for

the controlled hunt tag. Or they may keep their general season bear tag and purchase a controlled hunt bear tag. Any exchanges of tags must be completed at an Idaho Fish and Game office.

To prevent mistaken identity, bear hunters must learn to accurately identify

black bears and distinguish them from grizzly bears in the wild, often in poor light conditions and possibly from long distances. A bear identification training program is available on the Idaho Fish and Game website at www.fishandgame. idaho.gov/public/education/bearIdentification.

s p o rt s s c o r e b o a r d BOWLING Wednesday, Feb. 24 Lucky Ladies My Favorite Things 58 Country Lane 51.5 Country Lane Sparklers 51.5 Morning Glories 49.5 Golden Girls 48 Stateline Girls 41.5

42 48.5 48.5 50.5 52 58.5

High game scratch: Laura O’Brien 231.

High game handicap: Vicki Nolting 253.

High series scratch: Laura O’Brien 588. High series handicap: Barb Mix 644. High team game scratch: My Favorite Things 667. High team game handicap: My Favorite Things 854. High team series scratch: My Favorite Things 1,822. High team series handicap: Country Lane Sparklers 2,414.

Converted splits: Sharon Smith 5-8-10, Pat Shields 2-7, Marcia York 5-6, Sharon Clark 3-20, Judy Gregonis 3-10, Gail Weaver 2-7, Gina Green 5-10, Kim Rusho 2-5-7, Deb Hilzer 9-20, Barb Mix 4-5, Vicki Nolting 3-10, Betty Balison 3-10.

Liz Pope 3-10, Gina Green 4-5, Kim Rusho 2-7, Nicki Nolting 3-10, Deb Smith 4-7-10. Laura O’Brien 3-10.

Thursday, Feb. 25 Thursday Niters Newby’s 53 Northwest Renovations 51 Diesel Dawgs 48 Wilkinson Rentals 45.5 Gutter Gang 44 Plain Nasty’s 42 King Pins 39 Family Ties 36 Enforcers 32.5 Team 10 32

39 41 44 46.5 48 50 25 40 59.5 32

High Scratch Game: Family Ties 817.

High scratch series team: Family Ties 2,298.

High handicap team game: Family Ties 901.

High handicap team series: Family Ties 2,543. High scratch game: Jim Goss 265, Diane Campbell 234. High scratch series: Jim Goss 694, Diane Campbell 507. High handicap game: Jim Goss 269, Terri King 234. High handicap series: Jim Goss 694, Jan Edgar 669.

Split conversions: Floyd Degele 4-5.

Friday, Feb. 26 Friday Night Leftovers TEAM WON LOST Timber Room 64 28 Party of Four 54.5 37.5 O.K. Lanes 51 41 Knights Realty 50 42 Gutter Gang 46 46 Pooch Parlor 45.5 46.5 EZ-Rider 44 48 King Pin 39 53 Nifty Fifty 37 51 High Scratch Game Team: Timber Room 823. High Handicap Game Team: Gutter Gang 913. High Scratch Series Team: Timber Room 2,271. High Handicap Series Team: Gutter Gang 2,578. High Scratch Games: Shelby Thomas 259, Jen Hudson 207. High Handicap Games: Brian Hilliard 260, Sherry Loveridge 241. High Scratch Series: Shelby Thomas 699, Jen Hudson 597. High Handicap Series: Brian Hilliard 733, Sherry Loveridge 690.

Converted Splits: Evie Logan 4-7-10, 3-10, Mia Doughty 5-10, Larry Burnham 4-5.

BOYS BASKETBALL Wednesday, Feb. 24 Timberlake 65 Priest River 48 Timberlake 10 19 18 18 -65 Priest River 12 18 7 11 -48 TIMBERLAKE - Hardy 0, Smith 24, Hofer 0, George 2, Sommers 5, Hauck 6, Menti 15, Jessen 0, Nowlan 0, Hausladen 12, Ostler 1, Suko 0, Counts 0, Dickinson 0, Kistler 0.

PRIEST RIVER - Storro 6, Clark 8, T. Anselmo 2, Holman 0, Hartwig 12, Haggerty 9, Luckey 0, Simpkins 6, Jeter 3, Huddleston 2, Deremer 2.

GIRLS BASKETBALL Saturday, Feb. 27 Evergreen Lutheran 35, Selkirk 34 Selkirk (16-7, 11-4)

7 9 6 11 -34 Evergreen Lutheran (0-0, 0-0)

6 11 7 11 -35 Scoring: Selkirk - Jenna Couch 11, Hannah Rick 8, Hannah Jensen 1, Whitney Dawson 5, Emma Avey 0, Ellen Huttle 2, Gabi Rick 7, Mackenzie McAnerin 0

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Girls NE1B All Opponent team named IONE – Selkirk senior Hannah Rick and freshman Jenna Couch were named to the NorthCouch east 1B North/ South All Opponent girls basketball team and Cusick sophomore Racheal Wynne received an honorable Rick mention.

Mike Correia of Almira/

Coulee-Hartline was named Coach of the Year and Republic’s Shania Graham was the league’s Most Valuable Player. ACH had four girls on the All Opponent team: Gabi Isaak, Brenna Oliver, Berlyn Hunt and Kara Oliver.

In addition to the MVP, Republic had three other players selected: Savannah Bowe, Lily Beckwith and Demi Jo Vaughn. Katie DeWulf of Odessa-Harrington, Phoebe Trigsted of Valley Christian and Christina Carden-Flett of Wellpinit made up the rest of the team.

Steelhead, salmon are Idaho’s heavyweights

By Roger Phillips Idaho Fish and Game public information specialist

Want to catch big fish? Of course you do, and if you want to consistently catch them, steelhead and salmon are your best bets. Let’s look at the tape, scale and ticker.

The average Idaho rainbow trout is around 10-14 inches and weighs about a pound. A trophy-size rainbow is about 20 inches and weighs in the 4-pound range. A 30-inch rainbow is probably a once-per-lifetime fish that weighs in the 10 to 15-pound range, although several northern Idaho lakes consistently grow trout that large and larger.

Now let’s look at steelhead. Steelhead are rainbow trout that leave Idaho in the spring as juveniles known as “smolts” and migrate to the ocean, then spend about a year or two there before returning as adults much larger than trout.

The average-sized “A” run steelhead is between 23 and 26 inches and weighs 4 to 6 pounds. “A” run steelhead are most common in the Snake and Salmon rivers. Their larger cousins, the “B” run steelhead, are found mostly in the Clearwater River system, although some are also in the Salmon and Snake rivers. The fish have a different life history.

“B” run fish spend two or three years in the ocean and return much larger, typically 31 to 34 inches and 10 to 13 pounds, but some are upwards of 20 pounds.

Over the last five years, an average of about 141,000 steelhead have returned to Idaho annually.

Adult steelhead start returning to Idaho in late summer and “winter over” in rivers before making their push to the upper tributaries to spawn in late winter and early spring. That gives anglers roughly seven months to fish for them, and the most popular times are during October and March.

Chinook salmon are even larger than steelhead.

They’re typically in the 12- to 15-pound range, but chinook weighing more than 20 pounds are common. Over the last five years, chinook returns to Idaho have averaged about 134,000 fish. The first chinook typically return to Idaho late March and early April and are segregated into three categories: spring, summer and fall runs.

So let’s do some quick math. In recent years, Idaho got about 275,000 steelhead and chinook annually, although run sizes vary from year to year. Steelhead and chinook dwarf your average trout and likely will exceed the largest trout you catch in a given year, and possibly in your lifetime.

Got your attention?

Unlike a once-per-lifetime trout, steelhead and chinook are plentiful, reliable, predictable and not difficult to catch. You need to have the right gear, know a few basic fishing techniques and know when to go.

You also need to know the basic rules. A full set of rules and seasons can be found in the current Idaho Fish and Game fishing rules booklet, or online at www.fishandgame.idaho.gov/. But a critical thing to know is that only hatchery steelhead and chinook can be harvested. You can identify a hatchery fish by the clipped adipose fin on the fish’s back directly in front of its tail. If the full adipose fin is intact, you have to release the fish unharmed. You will also need a permit to fish steelhead and salmon in addition to your fishing license.

March is prime time for spring steelhead fishing and one of the best times for novice steelhead anglers to give it a try. The fish migrate into the smaller tributary streams, which means there’s easy river access along highways and lots of fish in the rivers. Some favorite steelhead spots are the South Fork of the Clearwater River upstream from Kooskia, the Little Salmon River along U.S. 95 between New Meadows and Riggins, and the upper Salmon River along Idaho 75 and U.S. 93 between Salmon and Stanley.

While you can be assured there will be ample steelhead in these rivers during March and April, river conditions can vary wildly depending on rain or snow melt. Rivers can go from low and clear to high and muddy within a day or two.

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b r i e f ly Evergreen Arts meets March 14 NEWPORT – Evergreen Arts Association will hold their monthly meeting Monday, March 14, at the Create Arts Center 900 W. 4th in Newport, beginning at 10 a.m. Members are asked to bring one or two pieces of art that they are currently working on for group critique.

Artist of the Month is Sharon Smith, whose paintings will be on display at Pend Oreille Valley Network (POVN) office in Newport throughout the month of March.

A $2 donation to Create is requested.

Guests are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Want to perform?

Open Mic this Friday NEWPORT – The monthly Open Mic at the Pend Oreille Playhouse will take place Friday, March 4, at 7 p.m. Open Mics are held the first Friday of each month.

The Pend Oreille Playhouse is located at 236 S. Union Ave. Musicians, singers, actors, dancers, poets, and anyone who wants to perform are welcome.

There is a $2 donation fee for admittance.

Knights of Columbus fish fry Friday NEWPORT – The Knights of Columbus will hold a fish fry Friday, March 4, from 5-7 p.m. at St. Anthony’s Church at 610 W. First St. in Newport. The Knights of Columbus donates to a variety of community causes, including the food bank.

The Knights of Columbus recently donated $1,200 to the Selkirk Superstars Special Olympics team.

The fish fry will feature fish, fries and cole slaw for $8 and clam chowder for $3.50.

Children under 12 can eat for $4.

Wine tasting, auction set for March 6 PRIEST RIVER – The Friends of the West Bonner Libraries’ 15th annual Wine & Microbrew Tasting and Auction is set for Sunday, March 6, at 4 p.m. at the Beardmore Building, 119 Main St. Tickets are $20 each or two for $35 and can be purchased at the Priest River or Blanchard libraries.

People are invited to try a variety of wine and craft beers, enjoy good food and good company, and support West Bonner Libraries.

For more information, call the Priest River branch at 208-4482207, or email library@ westbonnerlibrary.org.

There is still time to donate auction items.

They will be accepted until March 3 and can be dropped off at either the Priest River or Blanchard library.

Follow library programs and events at www.westbonner. lili.org or on Facebook: www.facebook. com/WestBonnerLibraries.

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Planting seeds for reading The Friends of the Pend Oreille County Library District, a fundraising group comprised of volunteers, packed books into cloth bags for Stratton Elementary School students Thursday, Feb. 25. FPOLD President Sandy Loskill and volunteer Carol Lindburg put books, pencils, and a library card application in about 80 cloth totes to be given to students March 1. “It’s a way to promote literacy and our libraries,” Loskill says. “If we can get kids in here, we can get there parents in here too. Everybody wins.”

we e k ah ead Wednesday, March 2 Rotary Club: 7:15 a.m. Oldtown Rotary Park Overeaters Anonymous: 8 a.m. - Pineridge Community Church, 1428 W. First St., Newport, use back entrance Newport TOPS: 8:30 a.m. Hospitality House Fiber Arts Knitting and Spinning Group: 9 a.m. Create Arts Center, Newport Computer Basics for Adults: 10 a.m. to Noon Newport Library Story Time: 10:30 a.m. Blanchard Library Al-Anon: Noon - American Lutheran Church Pinochle: 1 p.m. - Priest River Senior Center Alcoholics Anonymous: 5:45 p.m. - Hospitality House, Newport Pend Oreille Rock and Gem Club: 6 p.m. - Oldtown Rotary Park Calispel Post 217: 6 p.m. American Legion in Cusick Priest River Animal Rescue: 6 p.m. - 1710 9th St., Priest River BASIC Meeting: 6 p.m. Blanchard Community Center

Thursday, March 3 Priest River Food Bank Open: 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Priest River Senior Center Story Time - Calispel Valley Library, Cusick: 10:30 a.m. - Calispel Valley Library, Cusick Story Time: 10:30 a.m. Priest River Library Open Painting Workshop: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. - Create Arts Center, Newport Duplicate Bridge: 12:30 p.m. - Hospitality House in Newport

River, 119 Main St., Suite 204, Room 16, Call Jan 208-9466131 Open Mic: 7-9:30 p.m.

- Pend Oreille Playhouse, 236 S. Union Ave., Newport (Former Eagles Building) Alcoholics Anonymous Open Meeting: 7 p.m. - St. Catherine’s Catholic Church

Saturday, March 5 Priest River American Legion Breakfast: 8-10:30 a.m. - VFW on Larch Street Angel Paws: Noon - The Cork and Barrel, Contact Debbie 509-445-1005 Happy Agers Card Party: 1 p.m. - Priest River Senior Center AA Meeting: 5 p.m. - Cornerstone Building, Selkirk Way, Oldtown Oath Keepers Constitutional Study Group: 6:30 p.m. - Hospitality House, Newport

Sunday, March 6 Alcoholics Anonymous: 7 p.m. - Hospitality House, Newport

Monday, March 7 Bonner County Homeschool Group: 2:30 p.m.

- Priest River City Park Priest River Chamber Board: 4 p.m. - Chamber Office Youth Advisory Council: 4 p.m. - Blanchard Library Newport Maws and Paws Booster Club: 6 p.m. - Newport High School Library Newport Lions Club: 6:30 p.m. - Kelly’s Restaurant, Call Ota Harris at 509-4474157 Blanchard Lions: 7 p.m. Blanchard Inn

Loosely Knit: 1-3 p.m. Calispel Valley Library, Cusick

Alcoholics Anonymous: 7 p.m. - Blanchard Community Church

Celebrate Recovery: 5:30 p.m. - 301 S. Third St., Oldtown

Alcoholics Anonymous: 7 p.m. - Pend Oreille Bible Church in Cusick

Bingo: 6 p.m. - Priest River Senior Center Pend Oreille Kids Club: 6 p.m. - Pend Oreille Mennonite Church Pinochle: 6 p.m. - Hospitality House in Newport Alcoholics Anonymous: 7 p.m. - Blanchard Community Church Newport Masonic Lodge: 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, March 8 Blanchard Stitchers Quilting Group: 10 a.m. Blanchard Inn Writers Group: 2 p.m. Create Arts Center Weight Watchers: 5:30-6 p.m. Weigh in and 6 p.m. meeting - Pineridge Community Church, 1428 W. First St., Newport

Friday, March 4

Pinochle: 6 p.m. - Calispel Valley Library, Cusick

Oil Painting Class: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. - Create Arts Center

Alcoholics Anonymous: 7 p.m. - St. Anthony’s Church

Davis Lake Grange: Noon - Davis Lake Grange

Spirit Lake Lodge No. 57: 8 p.m. - Spirit Lake

Story Time: 3 p.m. - Newport Library

Wednesday, March 9

Dance Classes: 5:30-6:30 p.m. - Create Arts Center, Newport Al-Anon: 7-8 p.m. - Priest

Rotary Club: 7:15 a.m. Oldtown Rotary Park Overeaters Anonymous: 8 a.m. - Pineridge Community Church, 1428 W. First St.,

Newport, use back entrance Newport TOPS: 8:30 a.m. Hospitality House Fiber Arts Knitting and Spinning Group: 9 a.m. Create Arts Center, Newport Story Time: 10:30 a.m. Blanchard Library Priest River Lioness: 11:30 a.m. - Priest River Senior Center Al-Anon: Noon - American Lutheran Church Home and Community Educators Diamond LakeClub: Noon - Call Billie Goodno at 509-447-3781 or Chris King at208-437-0971 Weavers’ Group: Noon to 3:30 p.m. - Create Arts Center Pinochle: 1 p.m. - Priest River Senior Center Alcoholics Anonymous: 5:45 p.m. - Hospitality House, Newport Spirit Lake Historical Society: 6:30 p.m. - Call 208-665-5921 for site.

CALVARY CHAPEL NEWPORT

“Where The Sheep Go To Be Fed” 101 S. Scott • Newport Sunday Morning 10 a.m.

(509) 939-0676 CalvaryNewport@aol.com / 97.3 FM “I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.”

John 6:35

PINE RIDGE COMMUNITY CHURCH 1428 1st Street West Sunday School ~ 9:15 a.m.

Morning Worship ~ 10:30 a.m.

Wednesday: Youth ~7:00 p.m.

Pastor Mitch McGhee 447-3265

DALKENA COMMUNITY CHURCH • VILLAGE MISSIONS S.S. ~ 9:15 • Worship ~ 10:45 a.m.

Family Night, Wednesday ~ 7 p.m.

(Bible and Youth Clubs) Pastor Steve Powers - 509-447-3687

GRACE BIBLE CHURCH of Diamond Lake Corner of North Shore Road and Jorgens Road Informal Family-style Worship Sundays 10:00 a.m.

509-671-3436

CHURCH OF FAITH

36245 Hwy 41, Oldtown, ID Sunday School 9 a.m.

Sunday Services - 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.

Wed. - Bible Study 6 p.m.

Pastor Jack Jones Church Office 208-437-0150 www.churchoffaitholdtown.org

SPRING VALLEY MENNONITE CHURCH

4912 Spring Valley Road Sunday: 9:45 a.m. Worship Service 11 a.m. -- Sunday School (509) 447-2659

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River Arts Alliance releases meeting schedule NEWPORT – The River Arts Alliance, founded in 1999 as the Pend Oreille River Arts Alliance, as a consortium of arts and humanities organizations, has released their 2016 meeting schedule.

March 10 the group will meet at the Cork and Barrel in Newport at 10 a.m. The monthly meetings are held the second Thursday of each month, except July.

The annual meeting is set for April 14 at Create in Newport, followed by a potluck.

Vice chair John Linch was named interim chairman after former chair Loyce Akres moved. Rober Karr was named interim vice chair. Joyce Weir is treasurer and Gail Cory-Betz is secretary.

Officers will be elected at the annual meeting in April.

The River Arts Alliance is made up of a variety of organizations, including Cre-

ate, Cutter Theatre, Elk Community Park/ Elk Music Association, Evergreen Arts Association, Friends of the Priest River Theatre, North of Spokane Artists’ Community, Pend Oreille Historical Society, Pend Oreille Festival Association, Pend Oreille Players Association, and Newport/Oldtown Rotary.

The River Arts Alliance is always open for new members.

Groups pay $25 annual dues.

The River Arts Alliance mission is to support culture throughout the Pend Oreille River Valley by promoting communication, coordination and cooperation among the arts and humanities organizations.

The group encourages, supports and collaborates with artists and other arts and humanities organizations throughout Washington, Idaho and beyond.

‘Pinocchio’ auditions March 14 PRIEST LAKE – Auditions for the Missoula Children’s Theater production of “Pinocchio” will take place Monday, March 14, at Priest Lake Elementary School.

About 30 – 40 local students from kindergarten through high school age are expected to take part.

People planning to audition should arrive by 3:30 p.m. and be prepared to stay the entire two hours.

It’s a group audition so no advance preparation is necessary.

Rehearsals will be daily from about 3:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Not all cast members will be needed for every session, but those auditioning must be prepared to attend all the rehearsals required for their roll.

Performances will be held March 18 at 6 p.m. and March 18 at noon at Priest Lake Elementary.

UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST 3rd and Spokane St., Newport, WA Worship Service 10:00 a.m.

Sunday School 10:00 a.m.

Nursery Care Available Rev. Russell Clark 447-4121 newportucc@conceptcable.com www.newportucc.org

Community Church Directory CATHOLIC MASSES

www.pocoparishes.org Newport: St. Anthony’s, 447-4231 612 W. First St., Sun. - 11 a.m.

Usk: St. Jude’s River Rd., Sat. - 4:00 p.m.

Usk: Our Lady of Sorrows LeClerc Creek Rd. Sun. - 1st & 2nd - 5:30pm Ione: St. Bernard’s, 802 8th St., Sun. - 2nd & 4th - 8:00 a.m.

Metaline Falls: St. Joseph’s, 446-2651 -- 406 Park St., Sun., 1st, 3rd & 5th - 8:00 a.m.

AMERICAN LUTHERAN CHURCH E.L.C.A.

332801 Hwy. 2, P.O. Box 653, Newport Pastors Matt & Janine Goodrich Worship Service 10 a.m.

(509) 447-4338

HOUSE OF THE LORD

754 Silver Birch Ln. • Oldtown, ID 83822 ‘’Contemporary Worship’’ Sun. ~ 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.

“United Generation Church” Youth Group Wednesday 6 p.m.

Jeff & Robie Ecklund, Pastors • 437-2032 www.houseofthelordchurch.com

REAL LIFE NEWPORT

“Where Jesus and Real Life Meet.”

Worship Time: Sunday 10:30 a.m., at the Newport High School Real Life Ministries office, 420 4th St. Newport, WA Office Phone: (509) 447-2164 www.reallifenewport.com

NEWPORT SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH

1 mile S. of Newport on Hwy. 2 447-3742 Pastor Rob Greenslade Sun. School 9:45 a.m. • Worship 11:00 a.m.

Evening Worship 6:30 p.m.

Bible Study Weds. 6:30 p.m.

BAHÁ’Í FAITH OF NEWPORT

Human happiness consists only in drawing closer to the Threshold of Almighty God, and in securing the peace and well-being of every individual member, high and low alike, of the human race. ‘Abdu’l Bahá Please call 509-550-2035 for the next scheduled devotional. Wonderful resources can be found at www.bahai.us and www.bahai.org

NEWPORT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

“Sharing Christ As He Is, With People As They Are” 2nd & Spokane Sts 447-3846 9 a.m. Sunday School 10:15 a.m. Worship Service 11:30 a.m. Fellowship Time September - May AWANA - Tuesday 5:30 p.m.

The Immortals (13-High School ) Thur. 7-9 Pastor Rob Malcolm

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obituari es JoAnn McGilvra Newport

JoAnn McGilvra passed away Feb. 4.

She was 74.

Born JoAnn Dowell Feb. 19, 1941, her laugh will be remembered McGilvra and missed by countless family members and friends. She cared for everyone very much and was always there to help out anyone in need.

JoAnn was preceded in death by her mother, Lois Helen Stamps, brother, Wilber, sister, Peggy, and twin brother, Jerry.

She is survived by her sister, Roberta, three children: Ron, Vicky and her husband Paul, Allen and his wife Tammy, and eight grandchildren: Richard, Brittany, Michael, Jessica, Sarah, David, Arlo, and Eric, along with three greatgrandchildren: Lanice, Rafe, and Johnathan.

She was well known and loved in her small community of Newport, where she lived for over 40 years until passing Feb. 4, 2016, just days before her 75th birthday.

Carol Grogan Newport

Carol Grogan of Newport said goodbye Feb. 20.

She was 70.

Carol was born Nov. 1, 1945, in Spokane, to

Ida and Bud Davis. She is survived by her daughter Laura, of Newport, as well as her sister, Barb Stoopes, of Grogan Washington, Utah; and her brother Jimmy Davis, of Tacoma; as well as many loving nieces and nephews.

Carol completed middle school in Cusick, and then moved to Metaline Falls, where she met her sweetheart Glen Grogan.

They were married at the Hitchin’ Post in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, May 23, 1964, and welcomed their daughter one year later.

Carol enjoyed camping and steelhead fishing and took pride in the fact that she could always out-fish her husband. She also enjoyed collecting antiques and music, and big holiday dinners with family and friends.

She always seemed to be taking care of someone and was there whenever anyone needed her. She was the perfect person to take your troubles to because she could find the positive in any situation.

A memorial service will be held by the family at a future time. ShermanKnapp Funeral Home in Priest River is in charge of arrangements. Family and friends are invited to sign the online guestbook at www.sherman-knapp. com.

m o s t wa n t e d l i st Editor’s Note: The following are descriptions of people currently wanted by the Pend Oreille County Sheriff’s Office and other law enforcement agencies. Any information about these suspects should be directed to the sheriff’s office by calling 509447-3151. This is a regular section of The Miner. All information is provided by the sheriff’s office.

Stuart

Dittmann

McMaster

Fletcher

Dean R. Stuart, 31, is wanted on one Pend Oreille County warrant for failure to appear on original charges of controlled substance violation and carrying a pistol in vehicle. He is 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 190 pounds with brown hair and green eyes. His last known address was in the Priest River area. Extradition is Washington and Idaho.

Anthony P. Dittmann, 35, is wanted on one Pend Oreille County warrant for failure to appear on original charges of domestic violence assault 4th degree and malicious mischief 3rd degree. He is 6 feet 1 inch tall and weighs 190 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes. His last known address was in the Elk area. Extradition is statewide.

Jason M. McMaster, 42, is wanted on one Pend Oreille County warrant for failure to appear on original charges of theft 3rd degree. He is 6 feet 1 inch tall and weighs 185 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. His known address was in the Elk area. Extradition is surrounding Washington counties only.

Jeffrey D. Fletcher, 24, is wanted on one Pend Oreille County warrant for failure to appear on original charges of criminal trespass 1st degree and theft 3rd degree.

He is 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighs 170 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes. His last known address was in the Usk area.

Extradition is surrounding Washington counties only.

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p o l i c e r e p o rt s Editor’s note: The police reports, taken from dispatch logs provided to The Miner by law enforcement agencies, are not intended to be an exact report, but rather a comprehensive list of police calls in Pend Oreille and West Bonner counties.

Dispatch also fields calls for the Kalispel Tribe property in Airway Heights. Certain police calls are generally omitted because of space constraints. These include but aren’t limited to ambulance calls for illness, unfounded alarms, traffic stops, dogs at large, abandoned vehicles, 911 hang–ups and civil standbys. All dispositions for the police reports are assumed to be active, assist or transfer at press time. The police reports are updated each weekday on The Miner Online.

Pend Oreille County

Monday, Feb. 22 ABANDONED VEHICLE: LeClerc Rd. N., report of vehicle with flat tire on side of road marked for 24-hour removal.

THEFT: N. 2nd Ave., report of a gas drive off.

DRUGS: Newport BURGLARY: Hwy. 2, report of home broken into within last two days and legal papers stolen.

ARREST: Nikita M. Collett, 26, of Newport was arrested on local warrant.

TRESPASSED: Deer Valley Lane, complainant reports they would like to have subject that is trespassing arrested.

ARREST: Sunshine L. Vancleave, 41, of Loon Lake arrested on local warrant.

POSSIBLE DUI: Tacoma Creek Rd., report of vehicle southbound on the road and the male driver smells like alcohol.

ACCIDENT: W. Walnut St., Newport, complainant reports vehicle swiped her car in parking lot.

VIOLATION OF ORDER: S. Spokane Ave., Newport, complainant reports female in no contact order is at the house.

DISABLED VEHICLE: Hwy. 20, report of disabled vehicle partially blocking.

POSSIBLE DUI: Hwy. 2, report of a silver Pontiac four door vehicle swerving all over road.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VERBAL: N. Fea Ave., report of mother having verbal argument with daughter.

THEFT: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights MALICIOUS MISCHIEF: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights TRESPASSING: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights, report of subject refusing to leave.

Tuesday, Feb. 23 FOUND PROPERTY: Pend Oreille River, Cusick, report of a boat found.

RECOVERED VEHICLE: Copper Landing, report of officer recovering a stolen vehicle.

ANIMAL PROBLEM: Milepost 2, Hwy. 31, report of deer needing to be removed from the side of the road.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: McInnis St., Ione, report of a subject taking items from complainant’s home.

THEFT: Hwy. 211, report of a subject taking wood from a vacant lot.

THEFT OF AUTOMOBILE: 6th Ave., report of a vehicle being stolen.

ACCIDENT: Hwy. 20 and Turner Rd., report of a one vehicle rollover accident.

ARREST: Joel D. Pierard, 21,

of Coeur d’Alene was arrested on a local warrant.

THEFT: W. 2nd St., report of a theft.

SUSPICIOUS PERSON: S. Spokane Ave., Newport, report of a suspicious person walking in and out of the wooded area.

TRESPASSING: Buffalo Lane, Cusick, report of a subject trespassing.

ARREST: Levi B. Nomee, 25, of Usk arrested on violation of protection order.

ARREST: Mark Phillip Hagan, 35, of Cusick arrested on a local warrant.

ARREST: Jesse A. Campbell, 18, of Colville arrested for driving under the influence.

ARREST: Jesse Aron Campbell, 18, of Colville arrested for reckless driving.

NOISE COMPLAINT: W. Kelly Drive, report of loud music in the area.

ANIMAL PROBLEM: Nicholson and Regal, Elk, report of an injured deer by the roadway.

Diamond Lake Water and Sewer: 10 a.m. - District Office, 172 South Shore Road Sacheen Lake Sewer and Water District Board: 3 p.m. - Sacheen Fire Station, Highway 211 Fire District No. 4 Commissioners: 6 p.m. - Dalkena Fire Station No. 41 Diamond Lake Improvement Association: 6:30 p.m. - Diamond Lake Fire Station, Highway 2 Ione Town Council: 7 p.m.

- Clerk’s Office

and Sewer District: 9 a.m.

- Water District Pump House, 202 Winnie Lane, Pondoray Shores Subdivision Monday, March 7 Pend Oreille County Commissioners: 9 a.m. Pend Oreille County Courthouse Priest River City Council: 6 p.m. - Priest River City Hall Newport City Council: 6 p.m. - Newport City Hall Bonner County Fair Board: 6 p.m. - Fairgrounds Office in Sandpoint

sioners: 8:45 a.m. - Bonner County Administrative Building Pend Oreille County Commissioners: 9 a.m. Pend Oreille County Courthouse West Bonner Library District Board of Trustees: 9 a.m. - Priest River Library Port of Pend Oreille Commissioners: 9 a.m. Usk, 1981 Black Road

Bonner County Planning and Zoning Commission Hearing: 5 p.m. - Bonner County Administrative Building, Sandpoint

Blanchard Tea Party: 6:30 p.m. - Blanchard Community Center

West Bonner Library Board: 7 p.m. - Priest River Library

Saturday, March 5

Tuesday, March 8

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Metaline Falls Town Council: 7 p.m. - Metaline

DISORDERLY: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights, report of multiple subjects having an altercation.

Sunday, Feb. 28

BURGLARY: 12th and Hayford Rd., Airway Heights, report of a burglary.

INTOXICATION: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights, report of intoxicated subjects.

BURGLARY: Ojibway Rd., Usk, report of neighbor’s residence burglarized last week.

Wednesday, Feb. 24

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VERBAL: N. Fea Ave., Newport, report of a male and female arguing.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: Grizzly Loop, reports of neighbors driving down the road with the dog on a leash outside the vehicle.

ERRATIC DRIVER: Hwy. 2, report of blue Ford F150 swerving all over the road and then slamming on their brakes.

ARREST: David C. Porter, 35, of Newport arrested on local warrants.

ANIMAL PROBLEM: McCloud Creek Rd, report dog killed complainant’s livestock.

THREATENING: W 5th St. ANIMAL PROBLEM: Pine St., Newport, report of tall slender male walking his dog off the leash. Dog is large short hair grey and black in color.

SUSPICIOUS PERSON: S. Calispel Ave., report of suspicious person in baseball dugouts.

ARREST: Austin P. Binder, 23, of Spokane arrested on out of county warrant.

SUSPICIOUS PERSON: Spring Valley Rd., report of male with large knife on left side wearing backpack and has headphones.

ARREST: Logan J. McNamara, 25, of Newport arrested on felony warrant.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: Coyote Trail, complainant reports they can hear a baby screaming, seems to be coming from the direction of Deer Valley Rd. ERRATIC DRIVER: Hwy. 2, report of black Ford Ranger driving into oncoming traffic.

SUSPICIOUS PERSON: Warren St. and Hwy. 20, Newport, report of male subject standing by dentist office pointing a gun at people as they drive by.

DISTURBANCE: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights, report of argument between several people.

ARREST: Michael Richard Givens, 23, of Spokane arrested for failure to appear.

ARREST: Jacob Lewis Allen Juhnke, 25, of Newport arrested for failure to appear.

ARREST: Robert James Crawshaw, 38, of Spokane arrested on local warrants.

ARREST: Michael John Vickrey, 56, of Spokane arrested on local warrants.

Thursday, Feb. 25 ERRATIC DRIVER: LeClerc Rd. and Sandy Shore, report of green SUV swerving into oncoming traffic.

ERRATIC DRIVER: Hwy. 20 and Tiger, report of white Ford truck driving erratically.

DRUG INFORAMTION: W. 7th St., request to speak to a deputy about drug activity.

FORGERY: Fertile Valley Rd., report of a company forging information.

ILLEGAL BURNING: 5th and Fea, report of an illegal burn in the city limits.

THEFT: 1st Ave., Cusick, report of a theft.

ANIMAL NOISE: W. 1st St., Newport, report of a dog barking at all hours.

SUSPICIOUS PERSON: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights, report of a suspicious person.

Friday, Feb. 19 TRAFFIC HAZARD: Hwy. 2, report of 2 dogs on the highway impeding traffic.

DRIVING WITH A SUSPENDED LICENSE: Beeman Rd., Usk DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: W. Kelly Drive, Newport ANIMAL PROBLEM: 6th St., Newport, report of a small black and tan dog running in the area.

FISH AND GAME: Tule Rd., report of agency contacting subject fishing.

JUVENILE PROBLEM: Cemetery, Newport, report of four to six juveniles damaging property.

ANIMAL PROBLEM: E. 5th, Usk, report of dogs running loose.

ARREST: Hwy. 2, Jeremiah T. Trusty, 40, of Priest Lake was arrested for driving under the influence and driving with a suspended license.

ARREST: Telephone Rd. E., Newport, Ruben D. Lopez, 48, of Newport was arrested on warrants and a Department of Corrections detainer.

SUSPICIOUS PERSON: Green Rd., Newport, report of a female who came to the door.

ASSAULT: S. Union Ave., Newport, report of two females fighting.

ACCIDENT: Cusick Meadow Rd., Cusick, report of a onevehicle accident.

ACCIDENT: Hwy. 2, Newport, report of a one-vehicle accident.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: Hwy. 20, Cusick, report of a loud explosion in the area.

Saturday, Feb. 27 THEFT OF AUTOMOBILE: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights, report of a stolen Honda 2-door, white in color, has tinted windows and dent on left fender.

ANIMAL PROBLEM: Green Rd., Newport, report of neighbor’s dog on property again.

SUSPICIOUS PERSON: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights TRESPASSING: S. Union Ave., Newport, report that neighbor kids are playing in the residence.

ANIMAL BITE: W. Sacheen St., Cusick, report of person bitten on the leg by neighbor’s dog.

BURGLARY: LeClerc Rd. N. THREATENING: N. Spokane Ave., Newport, complainant reports receiving threats from husband.

ARREST: Union Ave. and Spruce St., David Paul Holden, 44, of Spokane arrested for out of county war-

Falls Town Hall Laclede Water District: 7:30 p.m. - Laclede Community Hall Wednesday, March 9 Pend Oreille Cemetery No. 1: 8:15 a.m. - E. 100 Circle Drive, Newport Pend Oreille Conservation District Board: 9:30

a.m. - Newport Post Office Building West Bonner Water and Sewer District: 6:30 p.m. Oldtown City Hall Bonner County Democrats: 6:30-8 p.m. - Panhandle Health, 322 Marion St., Sandpoint Metaline Town Council: 7 p.m. - Metaline Town Hall

Newport School Board: 5 p.m. - District Offices Pend Oreille County Planning Commission Hearings: 6 p.m. - Cusick Community Center

DISORDERLY: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights, report of male subject urinating in public.

SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE: Scott and 3rd, Newport

SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights, report of a suspicious vehicle.

Friends of the Library: Noon - Priest River Library

Property Rights Council: 6:30 p.m. - Bonner County Administration Building, Sandpoint

Thursday, March 3

THEFT OF AUTOMOBILE: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights

THREATENING: W. Pine St., Newport, report of female making threats to kill husband, harm herself and is causing a disturbance.

pu blic m e eti ngs Wednesday, March 2

rants and driving with license suspended.

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ERRATIC DRIVER: Hwy. 2, Newport DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VERBAL: N. Spokane Ave., Newport, report of verbal argument between male and female. Male subject reportedly kicked in the door.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VERBAL: W. Walnut St., Newport, report of male and female screaming and cussing at each other.

FRAUD: Smackout Pass Rd., Ione, report of someone opening credit card account in complainant’s name.

ARREST: Anthony B. Carson, 26, of Cheney was arrested on local warrant.

FOUND PROPERTY: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights, report of found firearm.

ILLEGAL BURNING: Houghton St., Ione, report of subject burning leaves and a couch.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VERBAL: W. 6th, report of what sounds like a verbal domestic between two subjects.

TRESPASSING: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights West Bonner County

Monday, Feb. 22 No reportable incidents

Tuesday, Feb. 23 BURGLARY: Dufort Rd., Priest River

Wednesday, Feb. 24 No reportable incidents

Thursday, Feb. 25 ARREST: Woods Rd., Priest River, David Check, 29, of Priest River was arrested on a felony warrant out of Bonner County.

Friday, Feb. 26 NON-INJURY ACCIDENT: Hwy. 57, Priest River ACCIDENT: Hwy. 41, Spirit Lake CHILD NEGLECT: Hwy. 57, Priest River HUNTING AND FISHING VIOLATIONS: Railroad Ave., Priest River

Saturday, Feb. 27 ARREST: Ogilvie Lane, Oldtown, Katie Whitaker, 29, of Oldtown was arrested on a local warrant.

BURGLARY: E. Lakeview Blvd., Priest River, report of a vehicle burglary.

AGENCY ASSIST: Union Ave., Newport, deputy assisted Pend Oreille County Sheriff with a K9 sniff on a vehicle.

ANIMAL PROBLEM: E. Valley St. S., Oldtown

Sunday, Feb. 28 THEFT OF AUTOMOBILE: W. Jackson Ave., Priest River, report of an auto theft.

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201654 PUBLIC NOTICE S U P E R I O R C O U R T, S TAT E O F WA S H I N G T O N , COUNTY OF SPOKANE No. 16-4-00174-4 PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS RCW 11.40.030 In the Matter of the Estate of: VICTOR J. RAY, Deceased.

The Personal Representative named below has been appointed and has qualified as Personal Representative of this Estate. The Personal Representative has appointed the attorneys of record named below agent for service of all claims.

Persons having claims against the deceased must, prior to the time such claims would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, serve their claims on the attorneys of record at the address stated below and file an executed copy of the claim with the Clerk of this Court within four months after the date of first publication of this notice or within four months after the date of the filing of the copy of this notice with the Clerk of Court, whichever is later, or, except under those provisions included in R.C.W. 11.40.011 or 11.40.013, the claim will be forever barred. This bar is effective as to claims against both the probate assets and non-probate assets of the decedent.

DATE OF FILING OF NOTICE TO CREDITORS with Clerk of Court: February 9, 2016.

DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION: February 17, 2016 /s/Jeffrey A. Herbster JEFFREY A. HERBSTER, Attorney for

Personal Representative Presented by: /s/Jeffrey A. Herbster Jeffrey A. Herbster, WSBA NO. 23841 WINSTON & CASHATT, LAWYERS 601 W Riverside, Suite 1900 Spokane, WA 99201 Phone: (509) 838-6131 Attorneys for RANDI RAY Personal Representative Published in The Newport Miner on February 17, 24 and March 2, 2016. (3-3) ___________________________ 201624 PUBLIC NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE PORT OF PEND OREILLE C H A N G E I N M E E T I N G D AT E The Port of Pend Oreille Board of Commissioners meeting scheduled for March 8th has been changed to March 15th. The meeting will begin at 9:00 a.m. and will be held at the Port office located at 1981 Black Road, Usk, WA. /s/ Kelly J. Driver, Manager Published in the Newport Miner on February 24 and March 2, 2016. (4-2) ____________________________ 201664 PUBLIC NOTICE SUPERIOR COURT OF WA S H I N G T O N COUNTY OF PEND OREILLE No. 16-4-00009-0 PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS RCW.11.40.030 In the Estate of: SYLVIS LYNN STEMPNIAK Deceased The personal representative named below has been appointed as personal representative of this estate.

Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time this claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.0.070 by serving or mailing to Continued on 8B

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Continued from 7B the personal representative or the personal representative’s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the court in which the probate proceedings were commenced. The representative served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1) (c); or (2) four months after the date of the first publication of the notice.

If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and RCW 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate and nonprobate assets.

Date of first publication: February 24, 2016 Personal Representative: Douglas Archer Attorney for Personal Representative: Linda Mathis Address for Mailing or Service: P.O. Box 1440 Newport, WA 99156 Published in The Newport Miner on February 24, March 2, and 9,

2016. (4-3) ___________________________ 201667 PUBLIC NOTICE S U P E R I O R C O U R T, S TAT E O F WA S H I N G T O N , C O U N T Y O F SPOKANE No. 16-4-0007-3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS RCW 11.40.030 In the Matter of the Estate of JACK CHARLES, MATEER, Deceased.

The Administrator named below has been appointed as Administrator of this Estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Administrator or the Administrator’s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the Court in which the probate proceedings were commenced.

The claim must be presented within the later of 1) thirty (30) days after

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the Administrator served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or 2) four (4) months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate and non-probate assets.

DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION: February 24, 2016.

TAMALA H. REED, Administrator Presented by: STAMPER RUBENS, P.S. KYLE W. NOLTE, WSBA #27073 Attorney for the Estate West 720 Boone, Suite 200 Spokane, WA 99201 Published in the Newport Miner on February 24, March 2 and 9, 2016.

(4-3) ____________________________ 201668 PUBLIC NOTICE SUPERIOR COURT OF WA S H I N G T O N

FOR PEND OREILLE COUNTY NO. 16-4-00010-3 PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS (RCW 11.40.030) Estate of ROBERT A. KONKRIGHT, Deceased.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE The above Court has appointed me as Personal Representative of Decedent’s estate. Any person having a claim against the Decedent must present the claim: (a) Before the time when the claim would be barred by any applicable statute of limitations, and (b) In the manner provided in RCW 11.40.070: (i) By filing the original of the claim with the foregoing Court, and (ii) By serving on or mailing to me at the address below a copy of the claim. The claim must be presented by the later of: (a) Thirty (30) days after I served or mailed this Notice as provided in RCW 11.40.020(1)(c), or (b) Four (4) months after the date of first publication of this Notice. If the claim is not presented within this time period, the Continued on 9B

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Date of First Publication of this Notice: February 24, 2016 Barbara Konkright, Personal Representative Denise Stewart Attorney at Law PLLC PO Box 301 Newport, WA 99156 (509) 447 3242 Published in The Newport Miner on February 24, March 2, and 9, 2016. (4-3) ____________________________ 201669 PUBLIC NOTICE C ombined N otice of A pplication and A ction Pursuant to County Development Regulations, notice is hereby given that Pend Oreille County did on February 18, 2016 receive a complete SEPA Environmental Checklist prepared by Pend Oreille County Public Works and did on February 22, 2016 issue a Determination of Completeness for review of the West Branch LeClerc Creek Bridge #2 Replacement Project in the West Branch LeClerc Watershed (FILE NO. SEPA-16-004), Location: West Branch LeClerc Watershed, Sec: 06; Township: 35; Range: 44 Pend Oreille County An Environmental Checklist under the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) was prepared by the applicant on February 18, 2016 and the county expects to issue a Determination of NonSignificance for this project. The optional DNS process is being used and this may be the only opportunity to comment on the environmental impacts for the proposal. Written comments from the public may be submitted to Pend Oreille County no later than March 10, 2016. Any person desiring to express their views, or to be notified of the action taken on this application should contact the Pend Oreille County Community Development Department. The submitted application and related file documents may be examined by the public between 8:00 AM & 4:30 PM at the Pend Oreille County Courthouse, Lower Level, 625 West 4th, Newport, WA 99156, (509) 447-4821 and viewed at www.pendoreilleco.org. Contact: Andy Huddleston, Community Dev. Assistant Planner, ahuddleston@ pendoreille.org.

Required Permits: Pend Oreille County Authorization/Permits, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Authorization/Permits, United States Army Corp of Engineers Authorization/Permits & Other Applicable Agencies Dated: February 22, 2016 Published in The Newport Miner on February 24 and March 2, 2016.

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in determining your rights and opportunities to keep your house, you may contact the following: The statewide foreclosure hotline for assistance and referral to housing counselors recommended by the Housing Finance Commission: Telephone: 1-877-894HOME (1877-894-4663) Web site: http://www.dfi.wa.gov/ consumers/homeownership/ The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development: Telephone: 1-800-569-4287 Web site: http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD The statewide civil legal aid hotline for assistance and referrals to other housing counselors and attorneys Telephone: 1-800-606-4819 Web site: http://www.ocla.wa.gov/ I. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned Trustee, BENJAMIN D. PETIPRIN will on 4/1/2016, at 10:00 AM at main stairs of the Old City Courthouse, 625 W 4th St, Newport, WA sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, payable at the time of sale, the following described real property, situated in the County of Pend Oreille, State of Washington, to-wit: The West Half of the East Half of the Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter and the East Half of the East Half of the Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of Section 4, Township 31 North, Range 45 EWM, Pend Oreille County, Washington; TOGETHER WITH those easements as set forth in Instrument No.(s) 132290, 214778 and the plat of Saddle Mountain Estates (plat book 1410.)

Commonly known as: 781 WESTERN LARCH ROAD NEWPORT, Washington 99156 which is subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated 11/21/2006, recorded 11/27/2006, under Auditor’s File No. 2006 0290243, Rerecorded on 12/7/2006 as Instrument No. 2006 0290401 records of Pend Oreille County, Washington, from JASON H WOOD, A SINGLE MAN, as Grantor(s), to OLD REPUBLIC NATIONAL TITLE INS., as Trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of DECISION ONE MORTGAGE COMPANY, LLC as Lender . VENTURES TRUST 2013-I-H-R BY MCM CAPITAL PARTNERS LLC, ITS TRUSTEE is the holder of the Promissory Note and current Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust.

II. No action commenced by the Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust is now pending to seek satisfaction of the obligation in any Court by reason of the Borrower’s or Grantor’s default on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust.

III. The default(s) for which this foreclosure is made is/are as follows: Failure to pay when due the following amounts which are now in arrears: PAYMENT INFORMATION FROM THRU NO.PMT AMOUNT TOTAL 10/1/2013 04/01/2015 19 $1,171.89 $22,265.91 5/1/2015 11/20/2015 7 $1,088.30 $7,618.10 LATE CHARGE INFORMATION NO. LATE CHARGES TOTAL 0 $0.00 PROMISSORY NOTE INFORMATION Note Dated: 11/21/2006 Note Amount: $168,000.00 Interest Paid To: 9/1/2013 Next Due Date: 10/1/2013 IV. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is: Principal $151,480.16, together with interest as provided in the note or other instrument secured from the 10/1/2013, and such other costs and fees as are due under the note or other instrument secured, and as are provided by statute.

V. The above-described real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust as provided by statute. The sale will be made without warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances on 4/1/2016. The default(s) referred to in Paragraph III must be cured by 3/21/2016, (11 days before the sale date) to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time before 3/21/2016 (11 days before the sale) the default as set forth in Paragraph III is cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. Payment must be in cash or with cashiers or certified checks from a State or federally chartered bank. The sale may be terminated any time after the 3/21/2016 (11 days before the sale date) and before the sale, by the Borrower or Grantor or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance paying the entire principal and interest secured by the

Deed of Trust, plus costs, fees, and advances, if any, made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and curing all other defaults.

VI. A written Notice of Default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following addresses: NAME ADDRESS JASON H WOOD 4587 VIEW RD LOON LAKE, WA 99148-9634 JASON H WOOD 714 WESTERN LARCH RD NEWPORT, Washington 99156 JASON H WOOD 714 WESTERN LARCH ROAD NEWPORT, WA 99156 JASON H WOOD 781 WESTERN LARCH ROAD NEWPORT, Washington 99156 JASON H WOOD C/O SADDLE MOUNTAIN DR NEWPORT, WA 99156 JASON H WOOD SADDLE MOUNTAIN DR NEWPORT, WA 99156 by both first class and certified mail on 9/23/2015, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and the Borrower and Grantor were personally served, if applicable, with said written Notice of Default or the written Notice of Default was posted in a conspicuous place on the real property described in Paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting.

VII. The Trustee whose name and address are set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale.

VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the above described property.

IX. Anyone having any objections to this sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustee’s sale.

X. NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS – The purchaser at the Trustee’s Sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20th day following the sale, as against the Grantor under the deed of trust (the owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the deed of trust, including occupants and tenants.

After the 20th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants and tenants by summary proceedings under the Unlawful Detainer Act, Chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenant-occupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060.

DATED: 11-20-15 Benjamin D.Petiprin, Esq., c/o Law Offices of Les Zieve as Trustee Address for service: Law Offices of Les Zieve 1100 Dexter Avenue North, Suite 100 Seattle, WA 98109 Phone No: (206) 866-5345 Beneficiary / Servicer Phone: (866) 581-4498 Published in The Newport Miner on March 2 and 23, 2016. (5, 8) ___________________________ 201672 PUBLIC NOTICE F E M A 4 2 4 9 and 4 2 5 3 – D R – WA The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) hereby gives notice to the public of its intent to reimburse eligible applicants for eligible costs to repair and/or replace facilities damaged by severe storms, straight-line winds, flooding, landslides, and mudslides occurring between November 12 and November 21, 2015 and a severe winter storm, straight-line winds, flooding, landslides, mudslides, and a tornado occurring between December 1 and December 14, 2015. This notice applies to the Public Assistance (PA) and Hazard Mitigation Grant (HMGP) programs implemented under the authority of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 5121-5207.

Under a major disaster declaration (FEMA 4249 DR–WA) signed by the President on January 15, 2016, the following counties have been designated eligible for Public Assistance funding: Chelan, Clallam, Garfield, Island, Jefferson, Kittitas, Lewis, Lincoln, Mason, Pend Oreille, Skamania, Snohomish, Spokane, Stevens, Wahkiakum, and Whitman.

An additional major disaster declaration (FEMA 4253 DR-WA) signed by

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the President on February 2, 2016 designates Public Assistance funding for the following counties: Clallam, Clark, Cowlitz, Grays Harbor, Jefferson, Lewis, Mason, Pacific, Skamania, and Wahkiakum. Additional counties may be designated at a later date. All counties in the State of Washington are eligible for HMGP. This public notice concerns activities that may affect historic properties, activities that are located in or affect wetland areas or the 100-year floodplain, and critical actions within the 500-year floodplain. Such activities may adversely affect the historic property, floodplain or wetland, or may result in continuing vulnerability to flood damage.

Presidential Executive Orders 11988 and 11990 require that all federal actions in or affecting the floodplain or wetlands be reviewed for opportunities to relocate, and evaluated for social, economic, historical, environmental, legal and safety considerations. Where there is no opportunity to relocate, FEMA is required to undertake a detailed review to determine what measures can be taken to minimize future damages. The public is invited to participate in the process of identifying alternatives and analyzing their impacts through this notification.

FEMA has determined that for certain types of facilities there are normally no alternatives to restoration in the floodplain/wetland. These are facilities that meet all of the following criteria: 1) FEMA’s estimate of the cost of repairs is less than 50-percent of the cost to replace the entire facility, and is less than $100,000; 2) the facility is not located in a floodway; 3) the facility has not sustained major structural damage in a previous presidentially declared flooding disaster or emergency; and 4) the facility is not critical (e.g., the facility is not a hospital, generating plant, emergency operations center, or a facility that contains dangerous materials). FEMA intends to provide assistance for the restoration of these facilities to their pre-disaster condition, except that certain measures to mitigate the effects of future flooding or other hazards may be included in the work. For example, a bridge or culvert restoration may include a larger waterway opening to decrease the risk of future washouts.

For routine activities, this will be the only public notice provided.

Other activities and those involving facilities that do not meet the four criteria are required to undergo more detailed review, including study of alternate locations. Subsequent public notices regarding such projects will be published if necessary, as more specific information becomes available.

In many cases, an applicant may have started facility restoration before federal involvement. Even if the facility must undergo detailed review and analysis of alternate locations, FEMA will fund eligible restoration at the original location if the facility is functionally dependent on its floodplain location (e.g., bridges and flood control facilities), or the project facilitates an open space use, or the facility is an integral part of a larger network that is impractical or uneconomical to relocate, such as a road. In such cases, FEMA must also examine the possible effects of not restoring the facility, minimize floodplain/wetland impacts, and determine both that an overriding public need for the facility clearly outweighs the Executive Order requirements to avoid the floodplain/wetland, and that the site is the only practicable alternative. State of Washington and local officials will confirm to FEMA that proposed actions comply with all applicable state and local floodplain management and wetland protection requirements.

FEMA also intends to provide HMGP funding to the State of Washington to mitigate future disaster damages. These projects may include construction of new facilities, modification of existing, undamaged facilities, relocation of facilities out of floodplains, demolition of structures, or other types of projects to mitigate future disaster damages. In the course of developing project proposals, subsequent public notices will be published if necessary, as more specific information becomes available.

The National Historic Preservation Act requires federal agencies to take into account the effects of their undertakings on historic properties.

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Five weeks left to nominate for Idaho Medal of Achievement BOISE – The March 31 deadline is fast approaching for submission of nominees to be among the first recipients of the Idaho Medal of Achievement.

Governor C. L. “Butch” Otter issued an executive order in November 2015 creating the highest civilian honor to be conferred by the State of Idaho. Sponsored

by Hecla Mining Co., the award will recognize individual Idahoans for their “exceptional, meritorious, and inspirational” service to the people of Idaho.

The Idaho Medal of Achievement will

be awarded annually to individuals – living or dead – who are nominated by the public and considered by a five-member Idaho Medal of Achievement Commission.

That panel will advance the names of no more than five finalists for the Governor’s consideration.

The public is encouraged to go to the Governor’s website or contact the Governor’s Office to receive a nomination form by mail on which to submit the names of deserving individuals. The deadline for

nominations is March 31 of each year, and the Commission will submit finalists to the Governor by May 1.

Governor Otter named former Idaho Secretary of State Ben Ysursa, Idaho Business for Education Chairman Skip Oppenheimer, Public Employee Retirement System of Idaho (PERSI) board member Kirk Sullivan, and former Idaho Supreme Court Chief Justice Linda Copple Trout as the inaugural commissioners.

A fifth commissioner remains to be

named.

Coeur d’Alene-based Hecla Mining Co. is providing the silver for the Idaho Medal of Achievement medallions. Each is made of 99.9 percent fine silver and weighs 19.7 troy ounces. They feature a relief carving of the Idaho State Capitol on the front and the Idaho State Seal on the back.

The award will be presented in the Capitol at a time and date to be determined by the Idaho Medal of Achievement Commission.

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District owned lands.

The hearing will be held at the PUD’s Administrative Building, in the Newport Conference Room, located at 130 N. Washington, Newport, Washington.

The public is invited to attend and be heard.

Karen Willner Clerk of the Board Published in the Newport Miner on March 2 and 9, 2016. (5-2) ___________________________

did on February 26, 2016 issue a Determination of Completeness for installation of a recreational dock and attached boat lift on the Pend Oreille River. (FILE NO. SV16-002), Location: 712 Ponderay Shores Road, Newport, WA 99156; Sec. 27, Town. 32, Range 44. An Environmental Checklist under the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) was prepared by the applicant on February 22, 2016 and the county expects to issue a Determination of Non-Significance for this project. The optional DNS process is being used and this may be the only opportunity to comment on the environmental impacts for the proposal (WAC 197-11-355).

Any person desiring to express their views, or to be notified of the action taken on this application should contact the Pend Oreille County Community Development Department. The submitted application and related file documents may be examined by the public between 8:00 AM & 4:30 PM at the Pend Oreille County Courthouse, Annex, 418 South Scott Street, Newport, WA 99156, (509) 447-4821 and viewed at www.pendoreilleco.org. Contact: Andy Huddleston, Community Dev. Assistant Planner, (509) 447-6462, ahuddleston@pendoreille.org. Written comments from the public may be submitted to Pend Oreille County no later than March 17, 2016.

Required Permits: Shoreline Variance (Pend Oreille County), Floodplain Development Permit (Pend Oreille County), Hydraulic Project Approval (WDFW) Army Corp of Engineers (USACOE) Dated: February 26, 2016

Shoreline Substantial Development Permit Application, Joint Aquatic Resources Permit Application, and associated documents from Seattle City Light and did on February 26, 2016 issue a Determination of Completeness for a Gravel Augmentation Project (FILE NO. SSDP-16-001), Location: On the Pend Oreille River downstream of Box Canyon Dam, Ione WA 99139; Sec. 18 & 19, Town. 38, Range 43. Any person desiring to express their views, or to be notified of the action taken on this application should contact the Pend Oreille County Community Development Department. The submitted application and related file documents may be examined by the public between 8:00 AM & 4:30 PM at the Pend Oreille County Courthouse, Annex Building, 418 South Scott Street, Newport, WA 99156, (509) 447-4821 and viewed at www. pendoreilleco.org. Contact: Andy Huddleston, Community Development Department Assistant Planner, (509) 447-6462, ahuddleston@ pendoreille.org. Written comments from the public may be submitted to Pend Oreille County no later than March 17, 2016.

Required Permits: Shoreline Substantial Development Permit (Pend Oreille County), Floodplain Development Permit (Pend Oreille County), Hydraulic Project Approval (WDFW), Army Corp Permit (Corps of Engineers) Washington Department of Natural Resources (WA DNR) Dated: February 29, 2016

Published in The Newport Miner March 2 and 9, 2016. (5-2) ___________________________

201680 PUBLIC NOTICE C ombined N otice of A pplication and A ction Pursuant to County Development Regulations, notice is hereby given that Pend Oreille County did on February 26, 2016, received a complete Shoreline Variance Application, Setback Variance, Joint Aquatic Resources Permit Application, SEPA and associated documents from David Hood for Michael Crouse, and did on February 29, 2016 issue a Determination of Completeness for a landing and associated stair access to the lake and relocation of an existing recreational dock on Bead Lake.

(FILE NO. SV-16-003), Location: 442 Cunningham Road, Newport, WA 99156; Sec. 04, Town. 32, Range 45. An Environmental Checklist under the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) was prepared by the applicant on February 26, 2016 and the county expects to issue a Determination of Non-Significance for this project. The optional DNS process is being used and this may be the only opportunity to comment on the environmental impacts for the proposal (WAC 197-11-355).

Any person desiring to express their views, or to be notified of the action taken on this application should contact the Pend Oreille County Community Development Department. The submitted application and related file documents may be examined by the public between 8:00 AM & 4:30 PM at the Pend Oreille County Courthouse, Annex Building, 418 South Scott Street, Newport, WA 99156, (509) 447-4821 and viewed at www.pendoreilleco.org. Contact: Andy Huddleston, Community Dev. Assistant Planner, (509) 447-6462, ahuddleston@pendoreille.org. Written comments from the public may be submitted to Pend Oreille County no later than March 17, 2016.

Required Permits: Shoreline Variance & Building Setback Variance (Pend Oreille County), Floodplain Development Permit (Pend Oreille County), Hydraulic Project Approval (WDFW) Dated: February 29, 2016

archeological sites or undisturbed ground will require further review to determine if the property is eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places (Register). If the property is determined to be eligible for the Register, and FEMA’s undertaking will adversely affect it, FEMA will provide additional public notices.

For historic properties not adversely affected by FEMA’s undertaking, this will be the only public notice.

As noted, this may be the only public notice regarding the abovedescribed actions under the PA and HMGP programs. Interested persons may obtain information about these actions or a specific project by writing to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Joint Field Office, 2800 Center Drive, DuPont, Washington 98327, or by calling (253) 964-7200. Comments should be sent in writing to Thomas J. Dargan, Federal Coordinating Officer, at the above address within 15 days of the date of this notice.

Published in The Newport Miner on March 2, 2016. (5) ___________________________ 201673 PUBLIC NOTICE Application for Coverage Under the General Permit for Biosolids Management Notice is hereby given that the Town of Metaline Wastewater Treatment Plant has submitted an application to the Department of Ecology to obtain coverage under the General Permit for Biosolids Management.

A copy of the general permit can be found at: http://www.ecy.wa.gov/ programs/swfa/biosolids/pdf/BiosolidsManagement.pdf The Town of Metaline has reviewed documentation previously submitted in accordance with the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) and has determined that for the purposes of this proposal, SEPA requirements have been satisfied.

Biosolids produced by the Metaline WWTP will be sent to a permitted facility, who will have submitted all required plans and has separately conducted SEPA and public notice.

Any person who wants to comment on this proposal or to request a public hearing or meeting must do so, in writing. Comments or requests must be submitted to Department of Ecology, Betty Ann Bickner by 4/1/2016 If you wish to be included on an Interested Parties List to receive notification of activities relating to this project, please notify, in writing, the Town of Metaline, DeLane Cates.

The Town of Metaline will provide written confirmation by certified mail, return receipt requested, to each interested person or organization that their name has been placed on the list.

Contact persons to receive questions, comments, or requests: Betty Ann Bickner Department of Ecology W2R N 4601 Monroe, Ste 100 Spokane, WA 99205-1295 509-329-3505 DeLane Cates The Town of Metaline PO Box 85 Metaline, WA 99152 1-509-446-4641 Published in The Newport Miner on March 2, 2016. (5) ___________________________ 201675 PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT NO.1 OF PEND OREILLE COUNTY SURPLUS AND SALE OF REAL PROPERTY DISTRICT OWNED LANDS A public hearing will be held at 11:00 a.m., March 15, 2016, so that the Board of Commissioners may consider public comments related to the surplus and sale of real property

201674 PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, the Newport School District No. 56416 is accepting written proposals according to District specification provided in the proposal document.

Projects for Request for Proposal: 1. Sand, Buff and Seal the Newport High School Gym Floor 2. Anchored Resilient Floor System for Stratton Elementary School Proposal documents are available in electronic form on the district website at www.newport.wednet.edu or may be obtained in printed form from the District Business Manager at 509-447-3167. Proposals shall be returned to the following address: Newport School District Debra Buttrey, Business Manager 1380 W. 5th Street Newport, WA 99156 Phone: 509-447-3167 Proposal timeline is as follows. Note: Proposals received after scheduled closing cannot be considered.

Proposal advertised: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 & Wednesday, March 9, 2016 Proposal due date: Wednesday, March 9, 2016 by 4:00 p.m.

Proposal award date: Friday, March 11, 2016 The District reserves the right to accept any proposal it deems most favorable to the interests of the District. It also reserves the right to waive any informalities and irregularities and reject any and/or all proposals or any portion submitted which in their opinion is not the best interest of the District.

No contractor may withdraw or alter his proposal after the time set for opening thereof, unless of award of contract is delayed for a period of more than forty-five (45) days.

Newport School District 56-416 Published in The Newport Miner on March 2 and 9, 2016. (5-2) ___________________________ 201676 PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT NO. 1 OF PEND OREILLE COUNTY NOTICE OF PUBLIC BUDGET HEARING Pursuant to RCW 54.16.080, there will be a public hearing at 11:30 a.m., March 15, 2016, to amend the proposed Year 2016 Budget of the Public Utility District No. 1 of Pend Oreille County.

The public hearing will take place in the Newport Administration Offices, Newport Conference Room, located at 130 N. Washington Avenue, Newport, WA. The public is invited to attend and be heard.

Karen Willner Clerk of the Board Published in the Newport Miner on March 2 and 9, 2016. (5-2) ___________________________ 201677 PUBLIC NOTICE C ombined N otice of A pplication and A ction Pursuant to County Development Regulations, notice is hereby given that Pend Oreille County did on February 22, 2016, received a complete Shoreline Variance Application, Joint Aquatic Resources Permit Application, SEPA and associated documents from Rick Naumoff, and

201678 PUBLIC NOTICE N otice of A pplication Pursuant to County Development Regulations, notice is hereby given that Pend Oreille County did on February 19, 2016 received a complete Shoreline Substantial Development Permit Application, Joint Aquatic Resources Permit Application, SEPA and associated documents from Eralee Jordan for Ken Blankenship and did on February 26, 2016 issue a Determination of Completeness for a Bank Stabilization Project (FILE NO. SSDP-16-002), Location: On the Pend Oreille River @ 15 Ridge Road Cusick, WA 99119; Sec. 11, Town. 35, Range 43. Any person desiring to express their views, or to be notified of the action taken on this application should contact the Pend Oreille County Community Development Department. The submitted application and related file documents may be examined by the public between 8:00 AM & 4:30 PM at the Pend Oreille County Courthouse, Annex Building, 418 South Scott Street, Newport, WA 99156, (509) 447-4821 and viewed at www. pendoreilleco.org. Contact: Andy Huddleston, Community Development Department Assistant Planner, (509) 447-6462, ahuddleston@ pendoreille.org. Written comments from the public may be submitted to Pend Oreille County no later than March 17, 2016.

Required Permits: Shoreline Substantial Development Permit (Pend Oreille County), Floodplain Development Permit (Pend Oreille County), Hydraulic Project Approval (WDFW), Army Corp Permit (Corps of Engineers) Dated: February 29, 2016 Published in The Newport Miner March 2 and 9, 2016. (5-2) ___________________________ 201679 PUBLIC NOTICE N otice of A pplication Pursuant to County Development Regulations, notice is hereby given that Pend Oreille County did on February 22, 2016 received a complete

Published in The Newport Miner March 2 and 9, 2016. (5-2) ___________________________

Published in The Newport Miner March 2 and 9, 2016. (5-2) ___________________________