August 2012
Volume 7, Issue 3
EDITOR’S NOTE This is the latest issue of Chimney Rock Chronicles, brought to you by The Newport and Gem State Miner Newspapers. Anyone with comments, suggestions or submissions is encouraged to contact our offices at 509-4472433, e-mail theminer@povn. com or mail to 421 S. Spokane, Newport, WA 99156. The Miner staff enjoys producing this quarterly newsletter, as it gives us a chance to focus on what is happening around Priest Lake. We maintain our unbiased point of view and want to focus on news stories and events that affect the community of Priest Lake. COURTESY PHOTO|DENNIS DAHL/WWW.PRIESTLAKER.COM
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Tetherball, anyone? An uninvited guest stopped by to play a little tetherball at Steamboat Bay – until the ball popped. The bear visited about three weeks ago at Priest Lake.
Milfoil control appears to be working at Priest Lake BY JANELLE ATYEO OF THE MINER
Photograph compliments of Tom Holman Northwest Images
PRIEST LAKE – The annual survey of Priest Lake showed that the milfoil infestation there is pretty well under control. Still, boaters are urged to clean their boats to prevent spreading of the noxious weed. Lead by the Idaho State Department of Agriculture, a crew launched from the Kalispell
boat ramp on a stormy morning He said there is still some Tuesday, Aug. 21. Eurasian watermil“There’s not “There’s not much foil growth in Bear much milfoil Creek, which was out there,” ISDA milfoil out there.” treated with heraquatic plant probicide in the past. Tom Woolf gram manager This season, no herISDA Aquatic Plant Program bicide treatment is Tom Woolf told The Miner follow- Manager planned, but divers ing the search. have been working “We’re still finding plants here about 10 days to pull weeds. and there, but it’s easily addressable.” SEE MILFOIL, 5