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Index: Local Trivia Bragging rights are on the line at Kelly’s Trivia Night Page 4

Shooting ranges Take aim at several regional gun clubs, ranges Page 14

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Editor’s Note:

f you’re wondering what to do with your time this fall, we have some ideas. This issue of Horizon focuses on the various options for target practice in this region. We were surprised at the vast number of shooting ranges in the Inland Northwest, so we focused on a few that are local and run either by the state, or non-profit groups. It is obvious that community members love shooting guns but also obvious is the fact they practice their gun skills regularly. Young and old also take training classes offered in the area.

Newport and Metaline Falls both have gun clubs that hold weekly shoots starting in January. Both clubs are for shotgun use only, but Farragut State Park on Lake Pend Oreille recently opened a newly-renovated gun range that offers both shotgun and rifle shooting. Starting next spring, Farragut will open its pistol range.

A few other clubs are located in Spokane, Colville and Sandpoint.

The clubs are open to the public at certain times, but memberships are also available for nominal costs. The clubs are always looking for new members.

If target shooting isn’t your passion during the fall, there’s another option on the first and third Wednesday of each month. Kelly’s Restaurant and Lounge in Newport offers Trivia Nights, organized and MC’d by Jason Lindburg, a local wood artist. The competition is fierce, and the prize is bragging rights … and a T-shirt or two. The questions are diverse so everyone can participate.

Finally, we talked to a New Orleans chef whose ties to Ione bring him back here to visit his folks. Tory McPhail won the prestigious James Beard Best Chef of the South award, the “Oscar” of the culinary world.

So as the weather turns cooler, read up on how to pick up a new hobby and meet some great people in the process.

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Horizon photo|Don Gronning

Visual questions called Rebus puzzles are a key part of Trivia night. Teams guess what the phrase or work the letters symbolize. The answer to the top one is “you are out of control,” and the answer to the bottom puzzle is “forensic.”

Trivia night growing in popularity

BY DON GRONNING

S

ome of the most spirited competition in Pend Oreille County

happens the first and third Wednesday of each month at a bar in Newport.

That’s when Trivia Night takes place at Kelly’s Restaurant and Lounge in Newport. A couple dozen people form teams ranging from three to five members and compete to see who 4 Horizon|2014 Fall

knows the most, err... trivial things.

Jason Lindburg started the Trivia Night at Kelly’s.

“It wasn’t my idea,” Lindburg said. “Payton, one of the people who worked here, suggested I do it.”

Lindburg took the idea and ran.

The night starts at 5:30 p.m. Lindburg passes out papers to teams, who have made up names like Dan Rather b Drinkin’, TNT and Teasers and Weezers. There are other imaginative names but they probably shouldn’t be printed in a family publication. After the papers are passed out, Lindburg, also known as Stretch because of his 6 foot, 4 inch height, starts asking the questions.

The questions cover a wide range of topics, from pop culture to historic

events to geography.

“Name four European countries that start with the letter A,” he says.

The answer is Austria, Albania, Armenia and Andorra.

Lindburg says public speaking wasn’t easy at first but now it is pretty much second nature. He even officiates at weddings, and on the rare occasion, funerals, using his online credentials.

“I’ve probably performed 15 weddings,” he says.

He also serves as referee for disputed answers.

“Somebody has to,” he says.

Lindburg comes to Trivia Night prepared with questions. He says he makes an effort to have some tough questions as well as some easy ques-

tions. He is aware of the age range of his crowd, which runs from early 20s to over 60.

“You don’t want anyone to feel dumb,” he says. He strives to have the questions challenging enough to keep people’s interest but not to have so many hard ones that nobody returns.

Robin Clemens and her husband, Kevin Penttilla are landlords for Kelly’s. They try to come to Trivia Night as much as possible.

Clemens said she is an enthusiastic player now, but was shy at first.

“I didn’t even want to play, but they were short of players,” she says. She was nervous at first but got over it.

“That’s the fear you have to get CONTINUED ON PAGE 5

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over,” she says. “But once you push past the fear factor, it’s great.”

She says Lindburg deserves the credit for making the event happen and making sure it is competitive.

“Jason works really hard to get to know people at Kelly’s,” she says. “He picks up on their forte and designs questions accordingly.”

The game takes about two hours. It is made up of four sets of 10 questions each, with each set followed by a Rebus puzzle. Rebus puzzles are basically little pictures, often made with letters and words, which cryptically repre-

sent a word, phrase, or saying.

A recent addition to the Newport contest is the double jeopardy round.

In that round teams can bet all the points they’ve earned on four questions about a similar topic. Teams double their bet if they get three questions right and an additional 15 points if they get the fourth question right.

“It gives teams who are behind a chance to catch up,” Lindburg says.

The game has evolved since it started in the spring of 2013. It was first a monthly game that started at 7:30 p.m. Then it moved to 6 p.m., then CONTINUED ON PAGE 6

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5:30 p.m. This past spring it expanded to twice a month – the first and third Wednesday.

Lindburg spends some time preparing the questions.

“When I first started, it would take me hours,” he says. Now he’s down to just a couple hours. He finds most of his questions and Rebus puzzles online.

“I probably look at 200 questions to get 40 for the game,” he says.

Occasionally he’ll make up a question, even a Rebus puzzle.

“Sometimes it’s quicker,” he said.

Turning “musically inclined” into a Rebus puzzle just takes writing the work musically at a slant, he says.

For people playing Trivia at Kelly’s for the first time, the Rebus puzzles are probably the toughest questions.

“For me, they were tough at first,” says Penttilla. “But I’m catching on.”

Once you get a feel for the puzzles, with their tricky “withins” and “betweens” and other visual clues, they become easier.

The trivia game, called pub trivia in a lot of places, is a big thing around CONTINUED ON PAGE 20

Horizon photo|Don Gronning

Judy Campbell appeals to Jason “Stretch” Lindburg about one of her answers. Lindburg plays referee as well as Master of Ceremonies at Trivia Night.

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Horizon photo|Michelle Nedved

ith hunting season here, and skeet shooting season on its way, The Miner staff took a look at the various options in the region for people who want to practice their shooting skills.

Local clubs are located in Newport and Metaline Falls. They are open to the public on certain days, with either small day use fees or annual membership fees.

Other clubs in the region include Colville, Spokane and Sandpoint, and Idaho Fish and Game operates a public shooting range at Farragut State Park.

There are many other gun ranges around the area. We focused on the ones that are non-profit or operated by state agencies.

The clubs are always looking for members, and the IDFG range at Farragut just underwent a major overhaul making it one of the best in the region.

Contact information for all the clubs can be found in the following stories.

Lynn Taylor, left, Dan Willner, shooting, Dale Maki and Nick Larson shoot on a Thursday evening at the Newport Gun Club, located just west of Newport on Deer Valley Road.

-MCN

Trapshooting offers winter-time entertainment

BY MICHELLE NEDVED

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f you’re looking for something to do on weekends during the winter, you might want to think about taking up

trap shooting. The Newport Gun Club began back in the 1930s or 40s because there was nothing else to do on the weekends, according to longtime member Don Deerwester.

While it’s moved locations a few times over the past several decades, it still offers something to do on winter weekends – and Thursday nights – for area residents 8 Horizon|2014 Fall

young and old. Plus, you can win some money.

“Trapshooting is a legalized form of gambling,” Deerwester said. “You’re gambling on yourself.”

The winter shoot season begins Sunday, Jan. 3, 2015.

Everyone is welcome and each shoot pays out to the winners. Since the beginning, the Newport Gun Club,

‘Trapshooting is a legalized form of gambling. You’re gambling on yourself.’

Don Deerwester

Longtime Newport Gun Club Member

along with all the other little clubs around the region, has sent the top four shooters to the Spokesman Review after each Sunday shoot. They are also published each week in The Miner Newspapers, along with results from the Metaline Falls Gun Club.

“That’s been happening for decades,” Deerwester said.

The club is also open Thursday evenings, to whoever wants to trap shoot.

Lynn Taylor has been shooting for years, but just recently began showing up on Thursday nights.

“I think it’s great that they open up like that for the public,” he said.

Individual annual memberships are $15, annual family memberships are $20 and a lifetime membership is a one-time fee of $150. A round of trap for non-members is $4, and $3.50 for members.

“The cost of guns and ammunition is expensive enough,” said Phil Flack, a gun club member. “We try to keep our costs down – enough to cover our bills.” They want to encourage families and youth to trap shoot.

They used to get between 50 and 60 shooters on Sundays, but now it’s around 25 or 30 on a good day.

Standard procedure is five people shooting at a time, rotating through five stations. Each person shoots a total of 25 clay pigeons, or “birds,” for a total of 125 rounds.

The non-profit organization calls a lot off Deer Valley CONTINUED ON PAGE 10

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Lynn Taylor takes aim at the Newport Gun Club on a recent Thursday evening.

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Road home. It moved there after a land swap with the Catholic Church in the 1960s, from where the current sheriff’s office is located. Prior to that it was located where Spokane Teachers Credit Union now sits in Newport.

Everything has been built by hand through volunteer labor. The club house was built in 1969, along with a porch that has since been covered because they needed more room. They’ve talked about pouring sidewalks.

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‘I think it’s great that they open up like that for the public.’

Lynn Taylor

Newport Gun Club Member

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They recently mined the lead from used shot, which raised a chunk of money, explained member Dale Maki. The shot Horizon photo|Michelle Nedved

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Shooters rotate through five stations, shooting 25 birds each. Pictured here are Dan Willner, Dale Maki, Nick Larson and Lynn Taylor.

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The club offers trap shooting only, which some people do to practice for hunting season. But mostly it’s for fun.

“I like guns,” said Deerwester, who has been a member since 1963. He began shooting with his wife, and eventually their kids got involved when they were 11 or 12 years old. Now much of the Deerwester clan, grandkids included, turn out every weekend in the winter for the weekly shoot. Deerwester himself doesn’t shoot anymore because of poor eyesight, but he’s there to welcome anyone who wants to shoot.

They’re hoping to attract more young people. Priest River 4-H groups come to shoot at the club, but members would be more than happy to welcome other youth groups such as the Boy Scouts, or 4-H groups from Pend Oreille County.

“We need to attract some younger people,” said Maki, who’s been a member 12 years. The club has talked about installing a rifle range, but the liability is too high. A lawsuit was filed against another shooting range in the region when a neighbor found a shell in her yard, despite a high gravel pit.

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The Metaline Falls Gun Club is located at 72 Pend Oreille Mine Road, a few miles north of the town. It boasts a forested landscape with cement walkways and multiple target areas.

North county shoots year round

BY DESIREÉ HOOD

T

he Metaline Falls Gun Club is nestled into a forested setting near Meta-

line Falls. It has about 58 members and is open year round.

Skip and Diane Luhr have been shooting at the Metaline Falls Gun Club for more than 20 years, with Skip starting to shoot as a child.

“He’s done trap shooting since he was about 9-years-old,” Diane Luhr said.

The couple started shooting in Metaline Falls and participates as members of the 12 Horizon|2014 Fall

club. According to Luhr, the club has 58 members and shooting started before the 1930s.

“It’s been there forever,” Luhr said.

They offer summer shooting hours during the evenings after 5 p.m. and Luhr said they will shoot until dark. In the winter months, the gun club participates in the eight-week Spokesman Review Trap Shoot, where a winner is awarded in each class.

Luhr said preparation for the contest starts the first Sunday in January from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The club tied for sixth during the 2014 shoot in the Division III class.

Luhr said the club also participates in summer and spring shoots as well as a county shoot. She said the distances vary CONTINUED ON PAGE 13

Courtesy photo|Angie Snyder Wylie

The Metaline Falls Gun Club operates year round with hours after 5 p.m. during the summer evenings and during the winter starting the first Sunday in January from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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from 16 yards to 27 yards, and offers doubles and handicaps.

“And you win money if you win the event,” Luhr said.

Trophies are also awarded according to classes. Luhr said her husband has “too many” trophies from his years of shooting. “He’s a very good shooter,” Luhr said.

The cost varies to join the club. It is $25 for single people and $50 for families, no matter the amount of children per family.

For a child without an accompanying adult, the cost is $15, and for father/ daughter teams, the cost is $35. These prices are yearly memberships.

Non-members are allowed to shoot, however, the cost increases slightly for clay pigeons.

Luhr said members pay $4 for 25 birds and non-members pay $4.50.

The range is mostly used for trap shooting, member Roy Linney said. However, they offer a pistol range with a maximum distance of 50 feet. Linney said no rifles are allowed.

If interested, people can go to the clubhouse, located at 72 Pend Oreille Mine Road for more information.

“It’s a family adventure,” Luhr said.

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Renovated Farragut Shooting Range opens

he Farragut Shooting Range opened this past spring after a major renovation.

The range is managed by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) and has been the recipient of several IDFG range grants for safety upgrades. The NRA has also been a major financial supporter of range safety improvements at Farragut and is providing an additional $25,000 this year to continue safety improvements.

With the addition of this year’s grant, NRA support for the range comes to nearly $90,000.

“I am very appreciative of the NRA’s strong support of the Farragut Range and excited about this year’s grant,” said Idaho Fish and Game’s Dave Leptich who has overseen safety improvements.

Leptich manages the range for IDFG in cooperation with staff at Farragut State Park where the range is located.

“This year’s $25,000 grant is allowing us to initiate and complete improvements to the 50-yard handgun

and small-bore range,” Lepitch said.

Although the range reopened to the use of rifles last year, handgun use is still prohibited until the 50-yard range safety improvements are completed, which is expected to be done in May. “We’ve heard from the shooting community and there

‘I am very appreciative of the NRA’s strong support of the Farragut Range and excited about this year’s grant.’

Dave Leptich

Idaho Fish and Game

is tremendous demand for the new pistol range. I expect as much as half of the range use will be handguns once that venue is opened,” said Leptich.

IDFG is installing a new 12 position armored shooting

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Last year, only the 100-yard rifle range was available.

This year IDFG is opened both a 12 position 200-yard rifle range; and, four positions of informal trap shooting for those who would like to learn shotgun skills.

The user fee for the range is $5 per day. New this year is range access using Perimeter Road on the east side of the park.

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organized Muzzle Loader, Cast Bullet and Action Pistol program,” according to their website.

Our hours of operation are 8 a.m. to dusk, 365 days a year. Non-members are welcome to use the north range Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to two hours before dusk, for $20 a day; the Trap Range anytime it’s are open for $5 per day and $4 per line. They have a few club shotguns the public can use.

The public is welcome to the indoor range during listed open shooting for $10.

If you want to become a member, visit the north range any time its open and find the Range Safety Officer. He will accept your payment, have you sign an application and waiver and give you a safety briefing. The cost to join the club is $80 in administration fees plus $25 per each quarter that remains for the year.

Thereafter it is a $100 annual member fee. The Spokane Rifle Club is located at 6411 Aubrey L. White Parkway and Rifle Club Road, Spokane. www.spokanerifleclub.com 509-327-9632 spokanerifle@spokanerifleclub.org 18 Horizon|2014 Fall

Washington

More youths and women are participating in the clay target sports than men – 80 percent more, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF). One of the biggest reasons is that neither age, gender, nor physical strength has any direct impact on success; anybody can build the skills.

Idaho

SRC offers an Indoor Pistol Range (50 feet), Trap Range, Outdoor Pistol Range (10 to 25 yards) and a 100 and 200 yard rifle range. They have a full schedule of High Power and Black Powder Cartridge Rifle matches.

“We have for many years sponsored one of the finest junior rifle club programs in the country and we have a well

Miner map

There are many options for people who want to practice their aim at various gun clubs and shooting ranges around the region. Clubs and/or shooting ranges are located in Newport, Metaline Falls, Colville, Spokane, Sandpoint and at Farragut State Park.

FORT COLVILLE GUN CLUB The Fort Colville Gun Club has five trap houses, three skeet fields, one 5-Stand

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The club is home to the local 4-H club, USA Youth Education in Shooting Sports

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the country and in Europe.

“We played in Atlanta a few weeks ago,” Penttilla said. At that game, there were 12 teams. “There they pay cash.”

At Newport teams compete for various small prizes – T-shirts, hats, free drinks.

“It’s mainly about bragging rights,” says Clemens.

Lindburg, 41, is a 1991 Newport High School graduate. His family moved here from Montana, when his father, Richard Lindburg, went to work at Pend Oreille Bank.

Lindburg makes his living with art and installing floors. He is self employed. The floor work pays most of the bills but his wood cut art is starting to take off. He makes all natural wood art with various types of wood and wood inlays.

“I started doing floors in ’97,” Lindburg says. He moved into wood art soon after.

Now he has his wood art for sale at galleries. He figures it makes up about 30 percent of his income these days.

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Chris Coon discusses an answer with his wife, Michelle Nedved, while Micki Brass mulls the question during a recent Trivia night.

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He enjoys the intellectual challenge of preparing Trivia Night and says he will do it for the foreseeable future.

Micki Brass is a frequent player. She says the game is fun and promotes

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“It makes people intermingle instead of staying in their little groups,” Brass says.

“I’ve been getting to know the people in the bar much better,” she says. “It’s amazing how much the people who play know about different things.”

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The Department of Fish and Wildlife offers two distinct types of hunter education training opportunities, the traditional class and an online class. WDFW strongly recommends the traditional hunter education class. One or more instructors typically offer detailed classroom instruction, practical exercises and live-firing activities to prepare successful students.

The online course has the same hunter safety content as the Washington DFW classroom course.

Completing this course will prepare you for the Field Evaluation Course.

There are no hunter classes scheduled for this area at this time.

The classes focus on firearms and outdoor safety, wildlife management and hunter responsibility. Successful students must pass a written test, demonstrate safe firearm handling skills, and have a positive attitude. There is no minimum age required to enroll in hunter education, but instructors may require a parent or guardian to attend all classes if students are under 12 years of age. All hunter education classes are taught by instructors certified by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. The classes include lectures, video, and hands-on training exercises. The average class includes four to six sessions, spanning about 16 hours.

Visit http://wdfw.wa.gov/hunting/huntered/classes/basic.php.

Three options for hunter education in Idaho

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o buy a hunting license in Idaho, all hunters must show

proof that they have completed a hunter education course if they were born on or after January 1, 1975, unless they have held a hunting license from Idaho or another state.

The course includes hunter ethics, wildlife management, conservation, survival and wildlife laws.

All hunter education courses include an outdoor field day that requires students to demonstrate safe firearm handling exercises with nonfire training guns. The outdoor field day includes a final examination and demonstrating safe firearm handling techniques with training guns. Live fire exercises are not a requirement to certify in hunter education.

Instructor-led courses are considered the best option for youth ages 9 to 14 and/or for individuals having minimal hunting experience. Students will be evaluated on their class participation, attendance, exam score and safety during the outdoor field day.

The courses last 12 to 18 hours, depending on location and instructor.

All courses provide students with the highest level of interactive, hands-on training from experienced, certified, volunteer instructors.

Students can register online or at

a Fish and Game office. The cost is $8 per student. Online registration includes an additional convenience fee of $1.24. Currently, there aren’t any instructor-led courses planned in the Panhandle at this time. Computerbased courses designed for self-motivated students. Internet course students must have internet access, an adequate computer and printer and be at least 10 years of age to participate.

However, this course is not recommended for students under 14 years of age because of it’s increased level of difficulty.

It is recommended for adults. There are two Internet course options. Upon successful completion of either Internet course examination, print the required Hunter Education Internet Course Voucher and use the voucher number to register for an Internet Course Field Day. Also, bring the printed voucher to the Field Day – it is required.

Both online course providers charge a fee at the end of their courses.

An Internet-led field day is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 4, from 8-11 a.m. at the Leo Hadley Range, 1114 Lake St., Sandpoint, and at the CDA Rifle and Pistol Club, 6001 Atlas Road, Coeur d’Alene.

A third option is the workbook course, designed for self-motivated students with good reading and comprehension skills. It’s recommended for ages 14 to adult.

No computer is needed. Students must complete a student manual, answer approximately 90 questions, have their work verified by Fish and Game staff, and then attend an outdoor Field Day. Register for a workbook course and Field Day at a Fish and Game office.

Visit https://fishandgame.idaho.gov/ hed/public/default.aspx to find the dates and locations of the classes you’re looking for.

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Not as many concealed weapons permits issued this year

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he number of concealed weapons permits in Bonner and Pend

Oreille counties has been on the increase for the last several years but that seems to have peaked in 2013 in both counties.

Concealed weapons permits are pretty much what they say, permits to lawfully carry concealed weapons.

In Bonner County, in 2013 the number of new permits doubled from the previous year – from 315 to 714. The number of people renewing the permit increased as well, from 254 in 2012 to 272 in 2013.

The total number of permits has increased over the last few years but appears to have peaked in 2013 in Bonner County, when 986 people got permits. In 2011, 394 people got concealed weapons permits. In 2012, 569 people got permits.

So far this year there have been 341 new permits issued in Bonner County and 239 renewed – a total of 580 permits.

The number of concealed pistol licenses – as concealed weapons permits are called in Washington – has also increased in Pend Oreille County, from 633 in 2012 to 880 in 2013. Year to date there have been 494 concealed weapons permits issued in 2014. The concealed pistol licenses generated $10,665 for the county in 2012 and $14,472 in 2013. So far this year, they

have brought in $7,755.

Bonner County charges $22 for the permit, $50 for the background check and $15 for fingerprinting. The permits are good for five years.

Pend Oreille County charges $36 for the license and $16.50 for the fingerprinting for first time licenses. Renewals cost $32.

The permits are good for five years.

States handle concealed weapon permits differently. Some honor permits from another state and some don’t.

Idaho has two types of permits. The enhanced permit requires applicants show proof of familiarity with firearms. For the regular permit the proof was optional.

The enhanced permit is recognized by Washington, while the regular permit

is not. Idaho recognizes Washington’s permits.

You have to meet certain requirements in both states. You have to be 21 years of age, you can’t have been convicted of a felony and you can’t be mentally ill. You can’t be facing criminal charges.

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Cook with ties to Ione wins national award

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ONE – A New Orleans chef with ties to Ione is the latest recipient of one of the most prestigious culinary

awards in the country.

Tory McPhail spent his childhood summers in Ione, enjoying the scenic Pend Oreille River and the great outdoors.

His grandmother Alice Oliver is from Metaline Falls, and his parents Ken and Connie Oliver have lived in Ione for more

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than 14 years. Ken is a former county commissioner.

“The boys learned to hunt up here,” Connie Oliver said about Tory and his brother. “This was a part of their childhood up here.”

Born in Ferndale, Wash., McPhail grew up on his family’s farm and ate fresh, locally sourced foods.

McPhail said he has memories growing up of doing homework in the kitchen, helping prepare the food and just sitting to hang out. He became “comfortable” in that room of the house.

“It was always like the heart of the house,” McPhail said.

Currently he is the executive chef over Commander’s Palace in New Orleans. He started at the Las Vegas location, but moved to the New Orleans location in 2002. He has since been training future generations of chefs and helping to rebuild the dining scene after Hurricane Katrina.

It was this position that led to the 2013 James Beard Best Chef of the South award, which McPhail said is a huge honor for the culinary field.

“That’s like winning an Oscar for us,” McPhail said.

His restaurant is known for its policy of “dirt to plate within 100 miles,” meaning 90 percent of the

‘That’s like winning an Oscar for us.’

Tory McPhail

2013 James Beard Best Chef of the South award recipient

ingredients used comes from within 100 miles of the Garden District, where the restaurant is located.

Finding his home in New Orleans and with Creole cooking, McPhail has been awarded many honors, including Southern Living naming Commander’s Palace the “Best Splurge Restaurant in the South,” and it remains as one of Zagat’s most popular restaurants for close to two decades. McPhail won the 2009 Great American Seafood Cookoff in addition CONTINUED ON PAGE 28

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to last year’s honor from the James Beard Foundation and awards from the Culinary Institute of America, Wine Spectator, and Gambit.

Oliver said McPhail met Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu during one of his trips and he has cooked for a number of American presidents, including Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. McPhail said the White House chef had to taste everything he plated before the presidents could partake.

McPhail has cooked in many places, including Florida, London, Israel, Africa and the Virgin Islands. Most recently, he was asked by the State Department to be a Goodwill Culinary Ambassador in Australia, an honor he shared with five well-known chefs from around the world. Oliver said the trip included showing African chefs “some New Orleans cooking.”

“It was nothing short of fantastic,” McPhail said.

McPhail came back from Australia as a newly-engaged man to Brittingham Nelson.

“We are going to have a daughterin-law next June so we are excited about that,” Oliver said.

McPhail has made appearances on

the Today Show, Food Network and other channels. He said his occupation regularly puts him in the presence of celebrities, including Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, the Rolling Stones and Sandra Bullock. McPhail said Bullock is one of his favorites and has this charming, “girl next door” vibe. Her preference is bacon wrapped shrimp and McPhail said she is a repeat customer for the dish.

Not all memories are good, however, as McPhail said he once lit himself on fire while prepping a graduation dinner for a friend of his. He was preparing a dessert soup dish for the couple and some of the rum 151 he used to light the dish spilled over the glass rim and his left hand caught fire. He finished the meal but the smell was not of delicious dessert soup.

“All you could smell was burnt hair and skin,” McPhail said.

Lucky for McPhail, his friend was a pharmaceutical graduate and the next day showed up with a bottle of lavender oil and told him to apply generously. His friend said it will help to not scar.

“It worked miracles,” McPhail said.

McPhail said he just got done filming a new television series, but would not spoil the show, set to start airing

in November.

“It’s a new Food Network show,” McPhail said.

But future plans don’t stop with television, McPhail said. He hopes to open at least one restaurant of his own and New Orleans may or may not be the background setting. He has a passion for southern cooking so menu items may have the Creole flair.

“That’s probably the next thing on the horizon,” McPhail said. “It’s the only indigenous food to North America.”

McPhail attended culinary school in Seattle and before graduation, he said he got the best advice of his life.

He told his teacher he wanted to be “a great chef fast” and his teacher told him to head to New York City or New Orleans.

So, at 19 years old, McPhail headed south to try his chef’s hat out under new culinary terrain. He worked his way from the lowest level of food preparation in a kitchen, with salads and appetizers, quickly through the 12 stages of the kitchen.

Through everything, McPhail said that he is proud to be a chef and has been having the time of his life.

“You almost have to pinch yourself each morning,” McPhail said.

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Tory McPhail, left, stands with his mother Connie and brother Shawn during his recent trip to Ione, Friday, Sept. 26. McPhail is an award winning executive chef at Commander’s Palace in New Orleans. He spent his childhood summers in the Ione area where he learned the skill of hunting.

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5-Stand shooting, and Sundays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. for skeet, trap and 5-Stand, and 12:30-4 p.m. for riffle and handgun shooting. Sunday is the only day that the public can use the rifle and pistol range. There is a $5 charge per day, per shooter, for both the pistol range and the rifle range. Members have unlimited use, subject to operating hours. www.fortcolvillegunclub.com 509-685-0361 ftcolvillegunclub@gmail.com

CITY OF SANDPOINT OUTDOOR SHOOTING RANGE The City of Sandpoint Outdoor Shooting Range is a 6 acre park located approximately 4 miles west of town on Baldy Mountain Road at 113 Turtle Rock Road.

The range consists of 14 covered concrete shooting lanes with benches and stools, pole barn style structure used for weather protection, 12-foot by 12-foot

secure storage/range master facility, emergency telephone for communication with the city police department.

The outer boundaries of the range consist of dirt berms with a 6-foot chain link fence surrounding the entire complex.

Shooting distances offered to sportsmen are 25, 50,100, 150, and 200 yards.

“The range is part of the city park system as we recognize that the sport of shooting is important to our citizens, just as any other recreational program/facility,” according to the city of Sandpoint’s website.

The Bonner County Sportsmen’s Association was key in obtaining initial funding to construct the facility.

Operation of the range is under the auspices of the city parks and recreation department.

Range masters are present during hours of operation.

The cost if $5 per day. Season passes are $70 for non-Sportsman Association Members and $20 for members.

The range is open daily April 15 through Nov. 15. Visit the website for a daily schedule of hours. www.cityofsandpoint.com/parksrec/ ShootingRange.asp 208-263-3613 recreation@ci.sandpoint.id.us

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