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Are our schools adequately funded? And if not, and the levy on March 10th passes, for what should the money be used?

“No, they never have been. All my friends are schoolteachers and most of them get pay decreases instead of pay increases. The money should benefit classrooms and school libraries, not administration.”

Justin Otis Culinary mastermind Sagle

“I would say no. Clark Fork doesn’t have enough funding if they don’t have a hot lunch program. Some of those children come from poverty and below poverty and that may be the only hot meal they have in a day.”

Heidi Gardner Full-time NIC student Mother of two Sandpoint

“Yes, for the most part they are. I have attended many of the schools— Northside, Kootenai, Farmin, and Sandpoint Middle School. The teachers are really good at Northside, but the building could use some improvements. Kootenai School has a nice new building with iPads in the classrooms.”

Aliyah Jiminez Former SHS student/home schooler Bonner County

“No, it isn’t. The money should go to the places they’ve indicated. The school district has been very transparent about where the money is going. The fault for poor school funding lies with the state legislators, not the local school district.”

Mike Lefler History, government teacher LPO (alternative high school) Sandpoint

“I just graduated last year from SHS. I was in choir all four years and the budgets were so tight.

They had to do fundraisers for the choirs.”

Rachel Winget NIC college student Sagle

DEAR READERS,

As the Winter Carnival wraps up, I am reminded of how this community bands together for a good time.

There was a great crowd at the Parade last week and the Cirque de Sandpoint. I enjoyed my role as M.C., even if I did have to wear a tie for the first time in years. My hat’s off to the S.T.E.P. gymnasts for working so hard to bring us a great performance, and also to Taryn Quayle, who produced the event. Producers, like writers, often don’t get the recognition they deserve. Nice work, Taryn!

This week we feature a DIY page with a humorous piece about what lurks underneath your home from local builder Ted Bowers, as well as a garden planning feature by Dan Eskelson of Priest River. If you have any DIY ideas, or something you’d like to see in the future, drop us a line at stories@sandpointreader.com.

I want to give one final shout-out to Andrew Sorg, who will be moving to Boston for a new job in March. Andrew has been a vital member of this community. He has hosted the Follies, directed all three of my plays, and left his mark here in Sandpoint. His smiling face will be missed by us at the Reader. Don’t forget us, Andrew!

-Ben Olson, Publisher

TABLE OF CONTENTS commentary

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G. Washington’s Religion Revisited

By Nick Gier

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Long Distance Hikers Unite!

By Phil Hough

news

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News

By Reader Staff

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Ag-gag bill under fire

By Cameron Rasmusson Jesús Quintero dreams of Sandpoint

By Cameron Rasmusson

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The Event Calendar

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87th Annual Oscars Preview

By Chris Balboni What is lurking under your home?

By Ted Bowers Plan twice, plant once

by Dan Eskelson The Wagoner Band: A family affair.

By Patrice Webb

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Email letters to: letters@sandpointreader.com Check us out on the web at: www.sandpointreader.com About the Cover This week’s cover features a photograph taken by Mark J. Anderson and EzyDog. The K-9 Dog Pull is one of Sandpoint’s favorite Winter Carnival events. It will take place Sunday, Feb. 22, 10am at the Granary Parking Lot.

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COMMENTARY George Washington’s religion revisited

By Nick Gier For SPR

Thanks to Glenn Beck’s fawning promotion, a self-published book on George Washington’s religion has become a best seller on Amazon. On his show, Beck enthused: “It so discredits all of the scholars and it’s amazing. It’s the best book on faith and the founding I think I’ve ever read.”

Did Beck actually read this huge tome? Running almost 1,200 pages with 500 pages of endnotes and 10 indices, conservative Presbyterian minister Peter Lillback’s “George Washington’s Sacred Fire” gives the impression of thorough scholarship.

Lillback really has to stretch the evidence and indulge in a lot speculation to make Washington an orthodox, trinitarian Christian. Here is the essence of his argument: Anglicans are orthodox Christians; Washington was an Anglican; therefore, Washington was an orthodox Christian.

Thomas Jefferson rejected the divinity of Christ and the Trinity, but he was a life-long member of the Anglican church. This fact leads us to believe that Lillback’s major premise is obviously false. Washington was a nominal Anglican who attended church irregularly,

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ceasing after his retirement.

Washington’s diaries show that he frequently dishonored the Sabbath. We learn from one entry that he would have collected his rents on Sundays, but he declined because the people living on his land were “apparently very religious.” This is the real “honest George,” making no pretenses about being pious.

The weakest arguments are devoted to proving that Washington believed in the deity of Christ and the Trinity. In all of his voluminous writing, only once does he speak of Jesus. The single incident occurred in a speech to the Delaware Indians, most likely written by a more orthodox aide.

On the manuscript of another presidential speech to Indian leaders, we can clearly see the word “God” crossed out and the phrase “Great Spirit” written in Washington’s own hand. Church historian Forrest Church states that on the question of his belief in Christ, Washington was “deafeningly silent.”

With so little evidence, Lillback is forced to make some very indirect and dubious inferences. For example, he thinks that Jesus is the referent in phrases such as “divine author of our blessed religion,” when it most likely means God himself or Providence, which is more characteristic of Washington.

The only argument that Lillbeck can make that Washington believed in

a triune deity is that as an Anglican he would have affirmed church creeds, which contain that doctrine, and he would have read from the trinitarian “Common Book of Prayer.”

Jefferson attended church far more often than Washington did, and he, too, would have joined the congregation in reciting the trinitarian creeds. Witnesses also noticed that he always put his prayer book in his pocket as he rode off to church. In stark contrast to Washington, Jefferson, after his retirement, rode all the way to Charlottesville to church.

For the 16 years that I could get diary evidence (periodic from 1760 to 1791), Washington attended church on average only 10 times a year. Scholars at Mt. Vernon state: “Washington’s diaries show no church attendance by anyone in the family after they returned to Mount Vernon at the end of his presidency.” Washington obviously did not follow his own advice to his soldiers when he commanded: “See that the men regularly attend divine worship.”

In a recent biography of Washington, Joseph J. Ellis describes the scene at Washington’s death: “There were no ministers in the room, no prayers uttered, no Christian rituals offering the solace of everlasting life.” Lillback’s excuse that Washington died quickly and there was no time to call a minister simply does not persuade.

Editor: regarding Solar Roadways [Vol. 12, Issue 3 SPR].

As much as I don’t want to rain on anybody’s parade (or shade their solar panel), it is only necessary to consider the “solar roads” concept for about five minutes to conclude it is absurd.

Roads are exposed to enormous loads and freeze/thaw cycles, suffering so much damage that the surface must be chiseled off and new asphalt re-laid about every 15 years.

They recently did this on a 20-mile section of Highway 2 north of Spokane. It was an awesome logistical operation. Working only at night but with modern machinery and hundreds of dump trucks, they managed to do three to four miles a night. Now it is beautifully smooth and much quieter to drive on.

Anyway, the point is that there are so many better, cheaper and lower cost places to put solar panels, starting with all the

flat roofed commercial buildings. This is happening now, but there are thousands of acres available. Solar-shaded parking lots are also starting to happen, cooling cars and producing power. They are slightly more expensive due to the structural demands, but what better place to charge your 2018 Tesla Model 3?

So I just don’t see the roadway itself as being the optimum location for solar panels. Plus, all the cars contribute considerable shading and lots of dust, oil and debris.

Sorry, I am 100 percent for solar, but I hate to see so much enthusiasm and money invested in an idea that will prove to be a non-starter. Especially when there are so many better options.

The fact that this superficially attractive idea is a hit on the Twitterverse may be a clue to it’s actual value.

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Dr. Benjamin Rush reported to Thomas Jefferson that upon leaving office, Washington met with a group of clergy who submitted a number of questions for him to answer. Washington very kindly answered all of the questions except the one asking him whether he was a Christian.

As historian Paul Boller concludes: “If Washington was a Christian, he was surely a Protestant of the most liberal persuasion.” He would have fit John Adam’s definition of a Christian very well: “I believe all the honest men among you are Christians, in my sense of the word.”

In closing, I would like to wish the honest and religiously liberal George a very happy 283rd birthday.

Nick Gier taught religion and philosophy at the University of Idaho for 31 years. Read the full version at www.NickGier.com/WashRel.pdf.

Long Distance Hikers of the World Unite!

Want to tackle the Pacific Crest, Appalachian or Continental Divide Trails? Want to learn more about Long Distance Hiking? Attend the

“Ruck” in CDA on Feb. 21 to learn more

Deb Hunsicker hiking along the Continental Divide Trail in the Eagle’s Nest Wilderness in Colorado. Photo by Phil Hough

By Phil Hough For SPR

So you’ve read the book or watched the movie “Wild” or “A Walk in the Woods” and you think you’re ready for a long hike on the Pacific Crest Trail or the Appalachian Trail? Think again! Both stories are entertaining and inspirational, but they don’t prepare you for a long hike any more than reading “Moby Dick” would teach you how to fish or watching Tom Hanks in “Apollo 13” would get you ready for space travel.

On Feb. 21, the American Long Distance Hiking Association-West, ALDHA-West, will sponsor a “Ruck” (a long-distance backpacking clinic) in Coeur d’Alene, which will help you!

When I hiked the Pacific Crest Trail in 1994, I knew backpacking, but not long distance hiking. My preparation was David Green’s memoir, not as well-written as Cheryl Stayed’s, with less sex and drugs and even less worthwhile advice. I would have been better off reading Ray Jardine’s “Thru Hikers Handbook,” but I only discovered it the week before I left. I found it again on the trail and slowly I incorporated some of its advice.

Sadly, I still carried a seven-pound backpack (that’s with nothing inside it) and a two-pound water filter. I did not appreciate how much those extra pounds would mean to my knees, legs, and back, until six months and 2,700 miles later when I finally arrived in Canada and my recovery took another three months. I learned a lot in ’94, and I met Deb. Flash forward to 2004 on our joint PCT hike (my second time). With knees that aged ten years but a 1.25-pound pack, it

took three weeks less to hike the trail and my recovery time was only a week or two.

What happened? I went to the first ALDHA West hiker gathering in 1995 and compared notes with others. I finished reading Ray Jardine’s book. The Internet arrived. When Deb and I hiked the AT in 1997, we lightened our loads, made some of our gear, shared stuff and I dropped my base pack weight in half. We cruised through the PCT in 2004 and enjoyed the Continental Divide Trail over three summers in 2008, 2009 and 2010, improving our style over time. Now you can learn in one day the knowledge that took us 16 years to compile!

Ruck, so I am told, is the German word for backpacking. The trail community has adopted Ruck as a name for events that bring our hiking community together to share stories, swap information, and help both the novice backpacker and experienced long distance hiker get ready for their next trail adventure, whether it be the Pacific Crest Trail, the Appalachian Trail or the Continental Divide Trail.

This Ruck will be in Coeur d’Alene at the “House at Lake City Community Church,” 6200 N Ramsey Rd, February 21, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Deb and I will share slides and stories of our Triple Crown hike. Bob and Chris Turner and Lara Talaga have each hiked well over 5000-10,000 miles and will share their experiences and knowledge, too. We’ll look at planning tools, information resources, gear, hiking and resupply strategies, trail and town etiquette and more. A chili lunch will be provided. A $10 donation is requested.

For more information contact Phil Hough: nowhere_man97@hotmail.com.

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NEWS Japanese Company Purchases Quest Aircraft

By Cameron Rasmusson For SPR

A sweet rush of mutual profitability is in the air for Quest Aircraft following its Tuesday acquisition for an undisclosed sum by Japanese company Setouchi Holdings.

The local aircraft manufacturing company flew into its new beau’s arms this week following an extended courtship.

However, Setouchi Holdings, a subsidiary of Tsuneishi Group, was far from the first suitor, according to company spokesperson Julie Stone.

“As a private company, we’ve been approached by many potential buyers,” Stone said.

According to company officials, Sandpoint residents shouldn’t have cause to object to the new union. The company is going to be the same old Quest Aircraft locals know and love—maybe even better, Stone said. Headquarters will remain in Sandpoint, as will the leadership team headed up

by CEO Sam Hill. Its robust manufacturing department, which provides jobs for many of the company’s 184 employees, also stays in town.

-BRIEFSQuiet zone moves forward

Sandpoint might be a railroad town, but most residents agree that the trains bring their share of headaches. Take, for example, those moments where you and your friends finish a nice dinner and step outside to enjoy the sunset, only to have the evening calm split by the BWAAAAAA of a train horn.

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“This is a very exciting time for us coming off a very productive year last year,” Stone said.

After several shy glances from across the Pacific Ocean, Tsuneishi Group finally worked up the courage to talk to Quest some time ago. The two eventually hit it off thanks to a bevy of common characteristics.

For instance, they were both privately-held companies with strong backgrounds in manufacturing. They shared a history with Setouchi Holdings’ subsidiary Setouchi Trading already a licensed Quest dealer. And they both had a sensitive side, as evidenced by their shared reputation for charitable contributions and community involvement, Stone said.

“They have extensive experience in manufacturing along with other global capabilities which will benefit us greatly,” Hill said in a press release. “In addition, their corporate philosophy is similar to ours in how they treat their customers and employees and in how they view their place in the world.”

Quest Aircraft was drawn to Tsuneishi Group’s large scope of operations and proven busilution by applying for an intown quiet zone, a process run by the Federal Railroad Administration. Since eliminating the requirement for horn blasts is a safety hazard, all affected crossings will need to be fitted with appropriate safety equipment to qualify.

The council opted Wednesday for the least expensive of three options, which will target two BNSF Railway crossings at Great Northern near Gooby Road and Boyer Avenue at Baldy Road. Since those crossings have much of the equipment they need already, it should only cost $30,000 apiece to qualify, an expense that will be included in next year’s budget. [CR]

Quest Aircraft employees pose in front of their 100th Kodiak in September, 2013. Photo courtesy of Quest Aircraft.

ness acumen, honed over a long history in shipbuilding, transportation and similar industries. Tsuneishi Group, meanwhile, found much to admire in Quest’s ample finances and solid expansion plan. The attractive qualities provide an array of mutual benefits for both companies.

“Having a parent company with skills and expertise you can tap into is a big plus,” Stone said.

Thanks to the expanded resources made possible by the new pairing, Quest may well ramp up production of its signature Kodiak aircraft sooner than expected. The company

Public art prompts rare mayoral vote

In the world of art, everyone’s a critic. The Sandpoint City Council is no different.

Unable to agree whether or not a proposed Jeff Jones Town Square art installation captured a certain je ne sais quoi, the split council needed a rare tie-breaking vote from Mayor Carrie Logan, who gave the project her stamp of approval.

What could this controversial piece of subversive art be?

Well, it’s a bike. A really colorful bike. According to the Sandpoint Arts Commission, it’s meant to honor both the local bicycling community and

is flying high after an output of 30 Kodiaks made 2014 its most productive year ever.

Stone said they hope to capitalize on that momentum by eventually boosting their twoand-a-half airplanes produced every month to a full three per month, although they don’t have an official time table to accomplish this.

Either way, there’s plenty of demand for the product. While Stone couldn’t disclose the number of Quest’s outstanding Kodiak orders, the company nevertheless has buyers waiting in line. In 2013, the company completed the delivery of its 100th Kodiak sold.

If nothing else, the business relationship further globalizes the already impressively global Kodiak. It’s already certified in 17 different countries, with more soon to be completed.

A single-engine turboprop aircraft designed to function in the harshest conditions the globe can offer, the Kodiak can take off and land in short distances from rugged runways and hold up to serious environmental punishment, making it a favorite for humanitarian and missions organizations. Company officials hope to see the aircraft become even more of a worldwide presence thanks to their new fruitful relationship.

the late Jeff Jones, who was an avid bicyclist himself.

The project’s $15,800 cost will be funded by the Sandpoint Urban Renewal Agency.

Installation should be completed by early summer, so keep an eye out for it in the months to come. [CR]

to the Spokesman-Review.

Upon completion, the Idaho Education Network did the job it was proposed to do, but controversy struck when project bidder Syringa Networks sued, claiming it had been unfairly passed over. Fourth District Court Judge Patrick Owen ruled in November that Idaho broke its procurement law and declared the project null and void.

In response to the imminent closure, state lawmakers have cleared emergency funding to help Idaho schools secure Internet access for the rest of the year. [CR]

Idaho Education Network dismantles So much for the Idaho Education Network. Conceived as a way to provide Internet access and videoconferencing to schools across the state, the network is shutting down amidst controversy, according

FEATURE Ag-gag bill comes under fire In the summer of 2012, Dry Creek Dairy, one of Idaho’s largest dairy producers, hired a batch of new employees. Little did company officials know they were getting more than they anticipated.

The individuals, in fact, were undercover investigators hailing from Mercy For Animals, a nonprofit that documents abuse of farm animals across the nation. Between July and August, they captured video of dairy cows being whipped and beaten.

They recorded employees dragging fallen cows with tractors or kicking them in the face. In one particularly horrifying instance, they caught a dairy employee on video sexually molesting a cow.

For Mercy For Animals director of undercover operations Matt Rice, the incidents were just another instance of abuse uncovered through more than three dozen investigations at various factory farms.

“The industries like to say these are isolated incidents, but we’ve uncovered abuses in every one of our investigations,” he said.

The fallout from the videos’ release was swift. According to Rice, Dry Creek Dairy, owned by the expansive Bettencourt Dairies empire, fired five employees, several of whom faced animal cruelty charges. But there was another action taken as well, this one designed not to limit farm animal abuse but to prevent its exposure.

On Feb. 10, 2014, the Idaho Senate introduced a bill that criminalized the recording of audio or video with “the intent to cause economic injury” at any agricultural facility. First-time penalties for breaking the law included an up-to-$5,000 fine and a year of imprisonment. For comparison, the first violation of Idaho’s animal cruelty law is punishable by no more than six months in jail.

The bill passed the Senate comfortably and the House even more comfortably. Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter signed the bill— now popularly known as the “aggag bill”—into law on Feb. 28,

an impressive turnaround time for any piece of legislation.

One year later, a coalition of animal rights, civil liberties and food safety organizations are fighting the state in court and hope to see the ag-gag law struck down by the year’s end. Among them is Sandpoint Vegetarians, a local group that provides support and information for vegetarians, vegans and animal rights proponents. Group co-founder Eric Ridgway said it’s a battle they’ll fight for as long as it takes.

“When we have high-powered constitutional law experts saying this is unconstitutional, we’re prepared to take this all the way to the Supreme Court,” he said.

Ag-gag laws have been proposed or passed in several states across the country. Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota and Utah join Idaho in having passed some variation of aggag legislation, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Aggag opponents allege many of these laws are heavily based on model legislation drafted in 2002 by the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative organization of state lawmakers and private interest groups.

Opponents of ag-gag laws see many troubling elements cooked into their legal cores. Animal rights activists, for instance, are obviously concerned with the criminalization of whistle-blowing on the kind of animal abuse that turns most people’s stomachs.

“If [these farms] had nothing to hide, [whistle-blowers] wouldn’t concern them,” Ridgway said.

Meanwhile, the Center for Food Safety, another member of the coalition, decries the veil the laws place between state residents and food preparation industries. Associates say that under the law, unsafe or unsanitary practices can persist without anyone being the wiser. Sandpoint Vegetarians co-founder Stephen Augustine shares those concerns.

“The way I see it, farms are

producing products for consumption by the public,” he said.

“Why is it not acceptable to be able to record how that food is produced?”

Finally, American Civil Liberties Union of Idaho legal director Richard Alan Eppink believes the laws strike at Americans’ fundamental First Amendment rights.

It’s a crackdown on personal expression that has far-reaching consequences, he said.

“If the government starts criminalizing the documentation of what goes on at these places, it makes life very difficult for journalists,” he added.

The coalition enjoyed its first victory in September when U.S District Court Judge B. Lynn Winmill denied the state of Idaho’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit. With the case moving forward, coalition members expect to make arguments before Winmill on April 28, according to Eppink. Their hope is to bring proceedings to conclusion three to six months afterward, making

it the first ag-gag lawsuit to reach final judgment.

“So far, so good,” said Eppink. “I think it’s clear from [Winmill’s decision] that the court recognizes the weighty significance of this case.”

From the state’s perspective, the ag-gag law is necessary to protect agriculture businesses from financial ruin. It’s also designed to uphold private property rights and protect employers.

Idaho Attorney General’s Office representatives assert that animal rights activities misrepresent themselves and their work history to gain access to facilities, an act of fraud that directly harms businesses.

However, in his decision to move the coalition’s lawsuit forward, Winmill reasoned that any potential harm to an agricultural business doesn’t come from the investigator’s decision to misrepresent his qualifications. It comes from the existence of the abuse itself. “...If an undercover investiga-

tor lies to get a job at an industrial agricultural facility and then publishes a true story revealing the conditions present at the facility without causing any other harm to the facility, there is no compensable harm for fraud,” Winmill stated.

With ag-gag opponents’ claims largely upheld by Winmill, it will be a long road to a final judgment. Sandpoint Vegetarians intends to follow the issue to the bitter end. While Ridgway said the group can’t lend support in funds and legal expertise, it can spread the word about the law’s implications. He sees their role as that of the cheerleader, keeping up morale until the final throw-down in court.

One thing’s for sure: Neither Ridgway nor Augustine have any doubts about which side has the moral high ground.

“Ag-gags are on the wrong side of constitutional law, morality and the public good,” Augustine said.

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Winter Bites (formerly the Taste of Sandpoint) 5pm - 8pm @ Sandpoint Events Center Over a dozen local restaurants offer their best fares at bite-sized prices. $1 at the door, most sample dishes / drinks are $3-$7 apiece

The Annual 219 Party 2:19pm on @ 219 Lounge Music by Harold’s IGA @ 9pm

Wine Dinner with Morgan Winery 6:30pm @ Forty-One South - $75 Five course dinner paired w/ wines

An Acoustic Doors @ 7pm Presented by donate proce lies. Tickets $ Live Music w 5pm - 8pm @ Sing us a son

Third Friday Live Music 5:30pm @ MickDuff’s Beer Hall Featuring Devon Wade, a country-musician who knows damn near every country song there is Live Music with Dave Hannon 5:30pm @ Pend d’Oreille Winery Singer-songwriter from Spokane Live Music with Mike and Sadie Wagoner 5:30pm @ Pend d’Oreille Winery Great father / daughter duo who always bring smiles and sing-a-longs from the crowd. See story on page 13

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SHS Grad Nigh 5pm @ Tango C Raise money for Tickets $30 each

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Live Music with Bright Moments 5pm - 7pm @ Idaho Pour Authority Jazz, baby. Dig it

K9 Keg Pull, Neighborhood Coffee Tasting and Family Faire Keg pull @ 10am @ The Granary parking lot One of Sandpoint’s most endearing, popular events. $5 entry fee goes to the Panhandle Animal Shelter. Live music from Bright Moments Jazz, face painting, soap and candle making, and much more!

Auditions for Missoula Children’s Theater The Princess and the Pea 4pm - 6pm @ Farmin-Stidwell Elementary School Roles available for K-12 graders. Sponsored by POAC & Litehouse, Inc. There are over 50 roles to fill and rehearsals start right after the audition Karaoke Night 9pm - Midnight @ 219 Lounge Whoa-oh here she comes... she’s a man-eater Trivia Night 7pm - 9pm @ MickDuff’s Impress your friends with useless knowledge KPND Ski and Board Party 5:30 pm @ The Neighborhood Pub Where everybody knows your name...

Cards Against Humanity 7pm @ Neighborhood Pub Apples to Apples gone sexy and so, so rotten

Monday Night Blues 7:30pm @ Eichardt’s P

Interview with Cedar & Boye 8pm on FM 88.5 KRFY Jen & Justin Landis talk to the about the upcoming Live @ Th Geezer Forum 2:30pm - 4pm @ Tango Cafe Explore the issues of aging with

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Live @ The Office with Cedar & Boyer 6pm @ Sandpoint Reader Office (111 Cedar St.) Jen and Justin Landis will play an intimate evening for the music-hungry masses. $5 tickets go on sale Monday in the Reader office. Don’t miss it!

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Bangkok and Cambodia Travels Slide Show 6pm - 8pm @ The Quaker Meeting House Slide-show presentation fundraiser for education projects and water wells in Cambodia and Thailand by Dr. Duebendorfer, a Naturopathic Physician. The second part of the presentation will take place March 5. Suggested $10 donation. Call 265-2213 for more info Partner Yoga 5:30pm-7:30pm @ Downtown Yoga $25/couple. Bring your partner, friend, mom, brother or whomever you want! This will be lighthearted, relational and challenging at times if you decide to make it!

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Jesús Quintero Dreams of Sandpoint

By Cameron Rasmusson For SPR Jesús Quintero mills around his kitchen, chopping chicken in preparation for an imminent lunch meeting. He’s got a busy day ahead of him, and no wonder. As a husband, father and new home owner, his responsibilities are stacking up.

It’s not just his family that’s relying on him, either. His influence as an actor, director and drama teacher is felt at Monarch School in Heron, Mont., the Sandpoint Waldorf School and his own production company, American Laboratory Theatre. As Quintero sweeps his lunch ingredients into a cooking pot, however, he notes he’s just one actor in a greater, grander scene. Much like the meal he’s cooking up, theater is by definition a fusion of many ingredients, each with its own flavor, texture and influence. And Sandpoint has everything it needs to make a feast worth remembering, he said.

“We should be humble to know we can share this space,” Quintero said. “I dream of a Sandpoint full of all kinds of theater—international, national and local.”

Now invested in Sandpoint life with his own home and plenty of connections, Quintero is becoming a leader within the theater community. The Colombian-born actor and director is planning an upcoming meeting among playwrights, directors, actors and venue managers that could redefine the way theater operates within town. He hopes to see greater collaboration among local theater companies, particularly when it comes to their relationship with local venues.

“I think we could be more efficient in that regard,” he said.

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in inspiring a love of the performing arts. What’s far more critical is commitment—commitment from actors to refine their roles, commitment from a production team to meet their deadlines and commitment from a community to support the arts when it’s time to raise the curtain.

Just as important are local leaders who make their knowledge available to everyone.

Quintero sees himself taking an expanded place in that landscape this year. In a sense, he’s completed the transition from student to teacher. The feeling is humbling, he said.

“I’m going to be 41 this year,” he said. “My life has reached the point where I can say I don’t have anyone I can follow anymore.”

That sense of leadership is partially what brought the Quintero family to the Northwest, but it wasn’t the only consideration. The family fell in love with the North Idaho-Northwest Montana area after a stretch in the comparably unfriendly Miami. Quintero and his wife, Carolina Sa, made the move to the region several years ago, originally settling in Heron, Mont., to direct theater at the Monarch School. The move from the sticky humidity of Florida to the blankets of Montana snow was quite the transition for the family, but one they were happy to undertake.

The couple brought with them an extensive background in theater. Trained as an actor in the prestigious Teatro Libre of Bogota, Colombia, Quintero’s theatrical touch is felt in productions and educational programs all around the country. In fact, he met Sa, a trained actress herself, while directing her in a Miami production. They apparently got along just as well personally as they did professionally,

because they soon married.

The most immediate project for the Quinteros is a production of “Venus in Fur,” set for 8 p.m. March 27 and 28 and April 3 and 4 at the Outskirts Gallery-Hope Marketplace.

Directed by Quintero and starring both him and Sa, the David-Ives-penned play explores the balance of power between a writer-director and his actress. An intimate, two-person production, “Venus in Fur” will be the first time Sa takes to the stage since moving to Sandpoint.

The challenge of nurturing local theater

“I really want to reciprocate the care this town has shown us,” she said.

The production is a first step toward a bigger dream for Quintero. He’s seen, for instance, how Ashland, Ore.,

grew the Oregon Shakespeare Festival from a tiny operation to a renowned seasonal event through sheer force of community will.

Quintero sees those same qualities in Sandpoint. And he’s eager to transfer his vision from dream to reality in the years to come.

“This moment in time is a little chaotic, but it’s leading to something great,” he said.

Jesús Quintero Illustrated by Daniel Cape

Oscars Preview: your guide to the 87th Acadamy Awards

By Chris Balboni For SPR

It’s easy these days for people to shrug off cinema by pointing at the endless stream of flashy, hollow blockbusters with budgets that could finance several small countries. “Movies nowadays…” they’ll begin, before launching into a recycled tirade about recycled Michael Bay films.

Thankfully, the 87th Academy Awards nominees prove 2014 was a banner year for inspired films with a lot of heart. Here’s a brief run-down of what you can expect.

Best Picture The nominees are: “American Sniper,” “Birdman,” “Boyhood,” “Grand Budapest Hotel,” “The Imitation Game,” “Selma,” “The Theory of Everything,” and “Whiplash.” With all the recent attention and controversy surrounding “American Sniper,” it may seem the clear winner. However, Eastwood’s biopic of Chris Kyle will likely be too paint-by-the-numbers compared to Linklater’s “Boyhood,” an understated epic about adolescence filmed over 12 years, or the layers of meaning and remarkable cinematography found in Iñárritu’s satirical drama “Birdman.”

Best Actor With the exception of Michael Keaton in “Birdman,” all nominees this year portrayed real people to great effect. Eddie Redmayne’s role as Stephen Hawking has already garnered him a telling SAG award, but Benedict Cumberbatch’s powerful performance as tormented mathematician Alan Turing in “The Imitation Game” is a serious contender. With Bradley Cooper’s undeniably remarkable transformation in “American Sniper” and Steve Carell’s dramatic turn in “Foxcatcher,” whoever takes the Oscar home this year will have done so against formidable competition.

Best Actress This year’s nominations find most of its actresses in small films giving anything-but-small performances. Julianne Moore seems set to finally take home an Oscar this year for her aching performance in “Still Alice,” but not without stiff competition from Marion Cotillard for the internationally acclaimed “Two Days, One Night,” and Reese Witherspoon’s gritty portrayal of hiker/novelist Cheryl Strayed in “Wild.”

Best Screenplay The breathtaking scope of “Boyhood” may bring it the win this year, but don’t be surprised if “Birdman’s” dark mockery of egoism and the Hollywood system give Iñárritu and company the edge. Graham Moore’s emo-

tional, thought-provoking work in “The Imitation Game” will be hard to beat for Adapted Screenplay, despite Hall’s crowd-pleasing efforts in “American Sniper” and McCarten’s work on “The Theory of Everything.”

Best Cinematography Notable nominees include Roger Deakins, who gets his traditional (twelfth) nomination from the Academy for “Unbroken,” and Robert Yeoman for making a Wes Anderson film look like a Wes Anderson film once again. But the clear winner this year is Emmanuel Lubezki, whose jaw-dropping work in “Birdman” drew viewers in by giving the two-hour film the appearance of being a single, continuous shot. Lubezki won last year for “Gravity,” and once again demonstrates why he’s one of the most innovative cinematographers working today.

There are, of course, many other categories recognizing the past year’s great film achievements. Tune into ABC at 5:30 p.m. Sunday to catch everyone’s favorite doctor, Neil Patrick Harris, ruling over the proceedings.

Chris Balboni is a writer, photographer and filmmaker based in the Inland Northwest. Check out his work at www. balbonifilms.com.

Michael Keaton in Best Picture nominee “Birdman.”

With days to go before the Academy Awards, we can already announce the winners of the best live action and animated short film categories. OK, alright—so it’s the Panida Theater’s audience choice

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awards and not the official vote. Still, it’ll be interesting to see if Oscar voters follow local residents in honoring the live-action “Boogaloo and Graham” and the animated “The Dam Keeper” this Sunday.

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DO IT YOURSELF

What is lurking underneath your home?

By Ted Bowers For SPR Much of my earliest training in the building industry consisted of performing repairs on foundations of old homes in Sandpoint. It was (and is) dirty work, often requiring belly-crawling in spaces under houses barely deep enough to fit a human.

Along the way, you’re dragging heavy timbers and hydraulic jacks, swiping at cobwebs, breathing contaminated air and putting elbows in piles of... well, you get the idea.

It’s dark, it’s musty, dusty and dank, and all in all, thankless,

demanding (but worthwhile) work.

At the time I was young and enthusiastic to learn my trade and willing to do almost anything for my boss, whom I idolized for taking a green, untrained hippie in the ‘70s under his wing to teach the business.

Earl Boles had earned the reputation of being the local expert on foundation repairs, so a lot of those jobs came our way.

Sandpoint certainly has its share of homes with varied degrees of rot in their floor systems, and I was to learn just about all of them during my career. Foundations with insufficient ventilation, vapor barriers and drainage will suffer decay in their floor systems—mud sills, floor joists and beams are all susceptible.

Of course, hand-in-hand with decay come all forms of mold and fungi, which brings to mind one of my more memorable experiences. Asked to

inspect a foundation on a home on Cedar Street in Sandpoint, I entered the crawlspace with my flashlight and encountered an otherworldly sight; spread out across the entire space were little piles of something with long thin stalks of ghostly white fungus growing out of them, like some alien bushes.

When I got closer, I saw that the clumps were actually piles of cat shit—dozens of them! It didn’t take me long to abandon the crawlspace and that job.

I’ve never seen anything like it since.

More frequently, I’ve seen mushrooms growing out of the sides of floor joists—not a good sign, since they only grow in wood that is in advanced decay.

Many of these old homes can be saved if the damage is caught in time. However, in some cases, the cost of repairs exceeds the worth of the structure. I found one like this

done well in advance, for when it comes, the explosive growth of spring will not wait for deliberation.

If you are creating a new garden area, additional planting beds or an entire landscape, consult with as many resources as time allows. Garden and landscape books are plentiful at most libraries, and online resources are growing daily. You could spend months (perhaps years) just studying the information available on the web.

One of the easiest ways to draw up your ideas for a new garden area is with graph paper.

Let each small square equal one foot, or more depending on the size of your project. For very large projects, you can tape the pages together. You could also use the high-tech method with one of the consumer-grade design programs—just keep in mind some of them are frustrating to learn and could dampen your enthusiasm for the project.

Regardless of the tools you use,

the main thing to remember is this: plan twice, plant once.

Fortunately, there are some garden chores that can shake off the mental cobwebs of winter.

First: If you are set up with an indoor growing system, start seeding long season crops like onions sooner. For suggestions, search online for “seed starting chart.”

Second: On a decent day, venture outdoors to prune dormant shrubs and trees, but only if you have a basic understanding of pruning. Pruning is not rocket science, but an inexperienced pruner can cause an awful lot of damage.

Third: Sharpen and oil hand tools—shovels, hoes, pruning shears—and perform maintenance on mowers, trimmers and other power equipment. Inspect all for safety.

Fourth: When temperatures stay above freezing, apply a dormant oil spray to deciduous trees and shrubs. This is the most important insect control measure

on the south side of town in a nice neighborhood back in the 1970s. It was a brick veneered home on an immaculate lot and the interior was as nice as the outside, with expensive finishes and hardwood floors, but sadly, when I saw what was underneath all that, an entirely different picture emerged.

Whoever built the place 20 or so years earlier hadn’t provided it with any foundation venting, and every sill, joist and beam were rotten to the extent that I could grab handfuls of (former) wood with little effort. I still don’t understand how the place was still standing. When I informed the owner of my discovery and told him the repairs would run in excess of $20,000—a lot of money in those days—he never called me back. Frankly, I was happy, because I wasn’t sure even that amount was enough to correct the problem.

My advice is, if you have

noticed soft or uneven flooring in your home, especially around areas with plumbing, look underneath it. Take note of odors, and if you have any concerns, put on your overalls and a respirator, grab a hammer and screwdriver and crawl around poking and beating on anything that looks questionable. Check to see if there is a vapor barrier on the ground and that it is covering adequately, look to see if the foundation vents are clear and unobstructed and remove any organic debris from the crawlspace.

Alternatively, hire a professional to do this for you. A reasonable fee could start at $150.00 and go up from there depending on what needs to be done. Good luck!

Ted and Gini Bowers own and operate Bowers Construction in Sandpoint. Check them out online at: sandpointcontractor.com.

Plan Twice, Plant Once: an early season guide to planning your garden

By Dan Eskelson For SPR

If you’re like me, fellow gardeners, you’re anxious this time of year to work the soil, turn the compost or plant some seeds.

Then your plans are thwarted when a late snow or freezing rain sends you back inside.

That’s just as well, since any soil work in our wet spring would likely do more damage than good. Even cold-tolerant plants need a soil temperature of 50 degrees to germinate. Instead of rushing the season, evaluate ideas and strategies for upcoming plantings.

When planning for this year’s gardens, take stock of the previous season’s growth, evaluating its successes and failures. Which varieties did best? Was your irrigation schedule adequate? Did you plant too much or too little?

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Using graph paper is a good way to plan your garden. you can take.

Though we’re all suffering from cabin fever, make time for planning and completion of early season chores. It will help the garden season start off smoothly. Here are a few websites that will help you with your garden planning:

http://organicgardening.com http://www.johnnyseeds.com http://www.monrovia.com http://arborday.org Garden questions? Contact support@clearwaterlandscapes. com

It’s a family affair:

By Patrice Webb For SPR

It’ll be all in the family, musically speaking, when father-daughter duo Mike and Sadie Wagoner of Priest Lake take the stage at the Pend d’Oreille Winery this Saturday.

Billing themselves as the Wagoner Band, the duo specializes in well-known cover tunes, plus originals that range from country-rock to folk with sprinkles of soulful ballads that speak to the not-so-distant musical past.

A family band years in the making, the Wagoner Band plays music rooted firmly in the sounds of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. Fans of those eras will find a lot to love. Mike plays guitar and sings, while Sadie brings vocals and percussion on hand drum. Live shows reveal a bond between the two that is down-to-earth and genuine, contributing to a warm, intimate atmosphere throughout performances.

It doesn’t hurt that both bring serious musical backgrounds to the table, either.

Mike Wagoner split his time between Nashville and Priest Lake for many years. In that time, he released four critically-acclaimed albums recorded in Nashville’s renowned Moraine Studios: “Down a Country

Road” in 2001, “Gone Fishin’” in 2003, “Blue Collar Heart” in 2005 and “Just Playin’ For Fun” in 2006. Now Wagoner lives full-time in Priest Lake, playing mostly solo or as a duo with his daughter, Sadie. He still plays occasionally with former band members of “Trapper Creek,” a band that was active in the ‘80s.

One of his specialties is taking classics from the likes of Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley, and Neil Young and reinvigorating them with his own style. Wagoner also writes originals that fit comfortably in the realm of Jimmy Buffet or Warren Zevon, infusing his lyrics with earthy vocals that are instantly relatable.

Daughter Sadie Wagoner, meanwhile, is blessed with musical talent from both sides of the cradle. In addition to her father’s prodigious career, her singer-songwriter mom sang backup on one of Willie Nelson’s albums. At 7 years old, she started performing with her father. While he taught her enough guitar to write original songs, her real passion is performing as a singer.

Comparisons to Bette Midler and Janis Joplin spring to mind when she belts out a tune.

Songs like Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love” or Neil Young’s “Cowgirl in the Sand” are staples of many live perfor-

The Wagoner Band, a father-daughter duo

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Pauline “Pat” Shook’s historical novel “Run, Naomi, Run!” is based on the life of Shook’s grandma (born 1873), and follows her from Ohio to Nebraska, where three immediate family members die from typhoid fever, to the wild Palouse. Shook passed in 2005, but her creative talents live on in her son, local potter Dan Shook, and granddaughters Katelyn and Laurie Shook of the Shook Twins. You won’t find this book on amazon.com, but you can get a copy from Mr. Shook; call 597-5339 or find him at Bonner County Bicycles, 521B N. Fourth in Sandpoint.

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mances, revealing her affinity for the tunes of yesteryear.

“At this point with having a daughter, I truly just want to be able to be financially comfortable and bring money into the family,” Sadie Wagoner said.

“If I could do that by playing music and doing what I love, that would be amazing.”

When the time is right, Wagoner can imagine a career as a solo artist or in a band. For now, however, the occasional

gig with her dad keeps her musical muse in motion.

“When I picture myself successful, I never think about the clothes or the house I live in,” she said. “I see me being happy and making a difference doing what I love.”

The Wagoner Band plays the Pend d’Oreille Winery (301 Cedar St.) at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21.

Since the first Steve Forbert album was released in 1978, I’ve been a huge fan of this folk/rockabilly artist. Most people know his one big hit, “Romeo’s Tune,” but are unfamiliar with the rest of his work. Out of my collection of 17 Forbert CDs, my go-to pick is “Young, Guitar Days,” composed of 20 songs that don’t include “Romeo’s Tune” but do include favorites such as “It’s Been a Long Time” and “Get That Vagabond Feeling.” Forbert’s talent is underappreciated, but listen to “Young, Guitar Days” and you’ll soon be a devoted fan, too.

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LeRoy Bell plays cancer benefit at the Panida

Photo by Mat Hayward

By Ben Olson For SPR

For a man who headlines a band called His Only Friends, LeRoy Bell is destined to make a few more this week at the Panida Theater.

Bell has led a storied career as a singer and songwriter, lending his craft to a multitude of performing artists. He and co-writer Casey James from the band Special Blend have written songs for the likes of The Temptations, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Lou Rawls, and most notably Elton John, who received a Grammy nomination for the BellJames song “Mama Can’t Buy You Love.”

In recent years, Bell has focused on R&B and soul with the trio known as LeRoy Bell and His Only Friends.

Friday, Feb. 20 at the Panida Theater, Bell will perform a special acoustic show hosted by Community Cancer Services.

The proceeds will go to benefit local cancer patients and their families.

Community Cancer Services is a nonprofit serving Bonner and Boundary Counties that is dedicated to providing information as well as emotional and financial support to members of our community affected by the diagnosis of cancer. Through their programs they strive to improve both the comfort and quality of life for those diagnosed with cancer and to educate the community on all aspects of cancer, from prevention to end of life issues.

Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at Community Cancer Services, Alpine Shop, Eichardt’s Pub, Sweet Lou’s in Ponderay and online at www.panida.org.

Go on down and make some new friends.

It’s for a good cause. Doors will open at 8pm, and the show will begin at 9pm.

You can’t go wrong with a Ken Burns documentary. “Horatio’s Drive: America’s First Road Trip” is the delightful tale of Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson who, with driving companion Sewall Crocker, became the first person to cross the United States by automobile, in 1903. Along the way, they pick up bulldog Bud, and the three of them experience the adventure of a lifetime. The narrator’s readings of Jackson’s letters to his wife make it a touching love story, too.

This week’s trio of obscure picks is courtesy of Billie Jean Gerke, editor at Keokee.

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w o N & Then compiled by

Ben Olson

Each week, we feature a new photograph taken from the same vantage point as one taken long ago. See how we’ve changed, and how we’ve stayed the same.

Historical information provided and verified by Bonner County Museum staff and volunteers (special thanks to Olivia Morlean, Will Valentine, and Allen Robertson). If you have any scrapbooks or old photographs taken in Bonner County that you would like to see Then & Now’ed, please submit them to the Museum so they can digitize and return the photographs to you. The Museum is located at 611 S. Ella — (208) 263-2344.

The McFarland Building at the corner of Second and Main Streets, looking north. This was the site of the old Knights of Pythias building. At the time of this photograph being taken, this was the home of Rowland’s Furniture. Note the track leading from in front of the Sandpoint & Interurban Railway Depot located on the southeast corner of Main and Second. This track was part of a “Wye” which also extended east on Main to First.

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