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February 26, 2015 / FREE / Vol. 12 Issue 6

The photography of Chris Brunkhart

PAFE Tax Credit on the Chopping block

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aerospace soaring into the future

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Chris Brunkhart’s photography

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Vote for our Schools

On March 10, the Lake Pend Oreille School District is asking voters to approve a two-year, $15.7 million supplemental levy. The levy will allow the district to continue to improve and provide an effective teaching and learning environment for every child and staff member. This is not a new levy; it replaces the expiring levy passed by voters in 2013. And this is not a permanent levy; it will last only two years, and would need to again be approved by voters. But it is critically important! The levy now funds one-third of the district budget, that will otherwise have to be cut.

Vote for our Kids

Voting yes on the levy will ensure we can maintain the programs that have continually increased student ISAT scores for 7-plus years. We are succeeding! Passage of the levy will help sustain our progress. We believe that providing a good education for our children is the best investment we can make as a community.

Vote Smart At $15,767,484, the levy amount is the same as the current levy; with no increase. But thanks to the rising tax base, most homeowners will see a decrease in their tax bill. A home valued at $200,000 with a homeowner’s exemption would see a projected decrease of $1.67/month in 2016 and $2.42/ month in 2017, from the current levy amount. And our levy rate is still 50 percent below the state average.

Get more on the levy, plus how and where to vote:

www.VoteOurSchools.org

Why not vote early? Get info to vote absentee on website

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on the street

Who are some of your favorite photographers and why?

“Other than my dad? It would be Hiro. He was so innovative. He was known mostly for fashion photography, he worked with Avedon... but he started out doing street photography at ten years old. I also really like Robert ParkeHarrison and Misha Gordin.”

Dann Hall Photographer Owner of Hallans Gallery Sandpoint

“Other than my daughter, Michaella? Ansel Adams, not only because of the final products he put out, but his work in pioneering and developing the Zone System. You’ve got to include Ross Hall, too, not just because of the shots you see every day. I liked how he shot every graduating class of soldiers at Farragut, some who went off to war and died right after.

You have to also give Hazel part of the credit, too. They were a great team.”

Mike Hammersberg Owner of Image Maker Sandpoint “I like Don Fisher. He does scenery and train shots. His bridge works are really good. I also like Lynn Campbell’s closeup shots she does of flowers. And Greg Sprangle is great, too. I like that he doesn’t shoot digital. He uses old time film, and shoots with his father’s cameras and develops his own film.”

Kaori Parkinson POAC Gallery Assistant Sandpoint

“A buddy of mine, Patrick Andrew Adams from Kansas City. He has a quirky sense of humor. He shoots a lot of toys in weird situations. It’s total nonsense. I love it. He doesn’t take himself too seriously.”

Atom Welch Photographer Sandpoint (soon to be Boston!)

“Growing up in Cali, I’m influenced by surf photographers.

Art Brewer is an amazing surf lifestyle photographer. I still shoot Polaroids, so I’m influenced by Mike Slack, who does these great single shot per page books of Polaroids. Conceptually, I’m inspired by Scarlett Hooft Graafland. I like the way she thinks. Historically, I’m into Martin Parr from the UK. I’m attracted to photographers with original minds.”

Woods Wheatcroft Photographer Sandpoint

DEAR READERS,

From time to time, we’ll dedicate an issue to an art form that has always captivated me; photography.

This issue’s featured photographer is Chris Brunkhart. Chris took the cover photo, as well as the photos in the feature spread on pages 10 and 11.

I first met Chris years ago, while I was managing the Downtown Crossing Bar. He and filmmaker musician Matt Donahue, said they were working on a short film in the gothic western style, and asked me to help write some of the scenes on the fly. While we were talking at the bar, Chris took a small manual 35mm up from under his jacket and quietly snapped a photo of me wiping up bar mess. If I hadn’t have seen it out of the corner of my eye, I wouldn’t have known it had happened.

I understood Chris in that moment.

A good photographer is one who can capture a moment without taking it over. Chris has traveled the world taking beautiful photographs, and has quietly amassed one hell of a body of work that deserves to be recognized.

Read the touching story on pages 10 and 11. Chris Brunkhart is not only a great photographer, but a damn fine human being, and I, for one, am honored to have unwittingly posed for his art.

-Ben Olson, Publisher

TABLE OF CONTENTS commentary

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Lost in a Triumph TR-2

By Tim Henney

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Perspectives on Medicaid

By Ken Meyers and Dan McDonald

news

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News

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feature

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Aviation soars ahead

By Barney Ballard Photography of Chris Brunkhart

By Cameron Rasmusson

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About the Cover This week’s cover photo taken by our featured photographer Chris Brunkhart. The photo is from a series

by Brunkhart called “Below the Water Line” and was taken at low water, looking east to the lake from near the Pend d’Oreille Bay Trail.

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COMMENTARY

Lost in a Triumph TR-2

By Tim Henney For SPR

Weeks of May-like weather remind us that Sandpoint’s Lost In The Fifties soiree looms on the horizon. With Lost In The Fifties come the cars of yesteryear. And for those of us of a certain mellow vintage, with the cars of yesteryear come romantic memories. Here are two: I was a 22-year-old U.S. Air Force newspaper editor in Albany, Georgia during the Korean War when I bought my first new car, a shiny, bright red 1953 Nash Rambler convertible with whitewall tires. The Miss America pageant had a contract stipulating that Miss America be driven in parades only in shiny new Nash Ramblers. To my great good fortune, Neva Jane Langley, Miss America of 1953 and a Georgia Wesleyan College coed, was coming to town. The chamber of commerce guys hosting Neva Jane asked to borrow my car, the only shiny new Rambler in town. They said in return they’d wash it for me. What were they thinking?

I said they could borrow my car providing I drove it in the Miss America Day parade. The male chamber of commerce hosts, angling as I was for access to Miss America but not owning a new bright red Nash Rambler convertible as I did, phoned the base commander (The “King Of Mississippi Golf” in his home state) in a poorly executed power play.

Because I regularly ran his picture in the weekly base paper and also put his name in headlines whenever he won a golf tournament, he liked me. The townies failed in their bid to unseat me and I drove Miss America in the parade.

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told her I had attended the University of Southern California prior to joining the Air Force.

Unfortunately, she asked if I knew the handsome, heroic USC football player, Jim Sears.

Neva Jane had evidently dated him during a Miss America visit to L.A. As a bewildered, bespectacled 18-year-old nerd I had, in fact, spent a semester at L.A.’s enormous, urban USC campus in 1950. However, I was hardly the sort of freshman who would have hung out with the dashing senior halfback, Jim Sears. Apparently I had grown more bold with the passing years, though, because I told Neva Jane Langley that Jim Sears and I were inseparable pals. Peas in a pod. Further questions about Sears by Miss America revealed that I was a bald-faced liar. Neva Jane ignored me for the rest of the route and I never saw her again.

So much for shiny, bright red Nash Rambler convertibles with white sidewall tires.

Later, because of a spunky little British roadster called a Triumph TR-2, the story was decidedly different. Back in my native California, I traded in the Rambler for an almost new 1954 Triumph. I drove the beloved little roadster all through college, including a year or so during which I “went steady” with the homecoming queen.

A psychologist might suggest this protracted TR-2 tryst was a deep seated, dastardly act of revenge at Miss America of 1953.

Or perhaps at USC football star Jim Sears. Who knew?

The peppy little roadster, usually with top down, carried a buddy and me to collegiate fraternity events in Chicago via old Route 66, and eventually took me back to NYC to start a corporate career. But earlier, in the summer of 1956, the TR and I, with a giant German Shepherd named Hershel in the jump seat, zoomed up Highway 101 to Cal-Berkeley, where I enrolled in a couple of graduate journalism courses.

There I met Jackie Lee

Tim Henney drives Neva Jane Langley, Miss America 1953 in his shiny, bright red Nash Rambler. This photo was taken just moments after Henney attempted to put his entire foot in his mouth.

Pelton, a senior working her way through school. She wore sandals when few did and was even more gorgeous, if somewhat less a celebrity, than Neva Jane Langley. And, as luck would have it, Jackie had never heard of Jim Sears. Later in life, in discussing with friends our 1956 on-campus introduction, Jackie would often confess that early on she considered me somewhat run-of-the-mill. But she loved the TR-2 right from the get-go. With a car like that I couldn’t be all bad. And she loved Hershel, too. That helped.

We spent much of that memorable year of ‘56 on weekends and college breaks camping with the Triumph in the redwoods along the Eel and Russian Rivers and dashing up and down the coast between Southern California, where I was fin-

ishing college, and Northern California, where Jackie was.

To the accompaniment of The Kingston Trio and The Four Freshmen on the radio, we drove the little speedster top down to Lake Tahoe up north and to Lake Arrowhead down south. We drove to rallies and, as spectators, to sports car races in Palm Springs, LaJolla, Santa Barbara, Carmel and more. We camped nearby.

Then, in 1957, I let the TR-2, bongo drums instead of Hershel in the jump seat, carry me east to New York City. After lucking into a tiny walkup brownstone apartment with terrace and no kitchen for $104 a month in the heart of bohemian Greenwich Village, Jackie flew there to join me. I picked her up at Kennedy (then called Idlewild) Airport in the TR-2. We wed on Block

Island, R.I., and when our first son was born, in Greenwich Village, we sold the TR to raise money to pay the hospital $250, the doctor $250, and buy into a corporate health care plan -- after the horse, so to speak, had left the barn.

The car and the dog Hershel are long gone. But Jackie is in Sandpoint. And so am I. For that we thank our lucky stars and the little Triumph TR-2, with which we were happily lost in the fifties.

Tim Henney retired in 1986 as corporate public relations director of “the old” AT&T in New York City when it was parent company of the erstwhile Bell Telephone System. He claims he never did understand how the telephone worked.

Tim and neighborhood kids in Long Beach, CA in 1955, in the fabled Triumph TR-2 roadster

PERSPECTIVES

We asked representatives from the Democrat and Republican Parties in Bonner County to weigh in on the issue of Medicaid Expansion...

By Ken Meyers, Bonner County Democrats For SPR

By Dan McDonald For SPR

Between free clinics and emergency room care, low-income Idahoans have a few health care options. However, they are limited and inadequate. Emergency room visits often can’t address chronic issues and are expensive. That cost is paid by the state catastrophic fund and the county, which allocated $552,045 to its indigent and charity budget this year.

These expenditures could be virtually eliminated by expanding Medicaid. Under the Healthy Idaho Plan developed by the governor’s Medicaid Redesign Workgroup, Idahoans who earn 100-138 percent of the federal poverty level (about $27,000 for a family of three) could gain health care through private insurance in the state exchange. Those below the federal poverty level could turn to state-run managed care contracts. If Idaho does not expand Medicaid, an estimated 54,700 of Idaho’s most vulnerable residents will be left without an affordable care option.

The health benefits of expanding Medicaid are significant. The old adage that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure is true. A focus on health and wellness rather than illness reduces financial hardship, improves health and well-being and significantly reduces mortality and delayed care. This is especially true for women who have two-thirds of the low-wage jobs and have greater annual health care expenses than men.

By adopting the Healthy Idaho Plan, Idaho will save money. Its public/private plan is estimated to save Idaho $173 million over the next 10 years. This is because the federal government covers the cost of expanding Medicaid between 2014 and 2016. After the first three years, the federal government contribution will gradually fall from 100 percent to 90 percent by 2020 and stay constant after that.

The federal funds for Medicaid expansion are not new monies. These funds are already appropriated. If we do not use it, we lose it. So far, the net loss of federal funds to Idaho is $297 million. By

not participating, Idahoans are paying for Medicaid expansion, but nobody in our state benefits from it. The $297 million that left Idaho went to other areas to provide expansion coverage for their residents.

Other states that have Republican governors have taken advantage of the health benefits and cost savings of redesigning Medicaid. For example, Arkansas and Michigan both have recently taken steps to close the gap and have projected savings of $89M and $100M, respectively.

Medicaid expansion also has economic benefits. The governor’s workgroup estimates 150,000 will enroll in Medicaid.

This will generate more than $615 million in sales, property and income taxes over 10 years from 2014 to 2024. The economic stimulus is due to an estimated 16,000 new jobs, and the multiplier effects of these jobs and federal funds associated with expanded Medicaid.

Expanding Medicaid to the working poor makes perfect sense from a financial and humanitarian perspective. It is a win-win. As a fiscally conservative and socially responsible party, North Idaho Democrats believe expanding Medicaid can make for a better Idaho. It will provide affordable health care for nearly all residents while freeing up revenue for important services like public education or property tax relief. We urge you to contact your state legislators urging them to support expansion of Medicaid.

Under the current Medicaid expansion program, the federal government picks up 100 percent of the bill. However, the federal government will reduce funding support to 90 percent after 2016, putting the burden back on Idaho.

That’s especially concerning when the federal government continues to borrow money at an alarming rate, spending more than it generates. The CBO and most economists have warned this is unsustainable, and in the future, it could prompt the federal government to shift an even greater financial burden onto the states.

What would Idaho do should the federal government finally realize it can’t sustain this level of spending? What state-funded programs would have to suffer? Schools? Highways? There is also a concern that under section 1396 of the Social Security Act, the Health and Human Services secretary has the ability to suspend the $1.3 billion in taxpayers dollars Idaho receives under Medicaid should we attempt to back out of what is clearly a bad deal.

Projections in health care cost, coverage and participation have proven inaccurate in Arizona, Maine and other states, sending them scrambling to pay the additional cost of helping folks in poverty. As with Obamacare, the predictions about program benefits have fallen far from the mark in many of these states. Additionally, the increase in demand for the free care has put a strain on both doctors and hospitals.

A government solution is always the same: Instead of dealing with the root of the problem, throw more of our money at it. The right move is to provide the poor with opportunities and incentives to become more productive and reduce poverty.

Idaho Sen. Steven Thayn (District 8) provided the following information in response to this issue.

1. In order to improve medical access

other poisons for the sake of “health?” Sounds like fear propaganda to me. Thankfully, I don’t listen to fearful news anymore, and my family’s health is flourishing.

Hospital accidents and experiments account for far more death than measles. Deaths resulting from legal drugs soar. When I was training for my EMT in the Army, I had my last set of vaccines. At the time, I was chronically and unbearably ill. Since that time I have had three natural childbirths and rely on gratitude, gardening and goats for my health.

My children have a cat named “Doctor” and he is our family physician, because they have no need

for any others. “The picture of health,” is what I often hear about my kids. “If it aint broke, don’t fix it,” I have believed to be truth, and “the wise disturb very little.” I chose not to disturb my perfectly healthy, (breast-fed only) babies. I chose not to allow them to be shot up with foreign, poisonous invaders. I know that I am not alone in this opinion, especially in health conscious, alternative living Sandpoint.

A friend of mine recently suggested that instead of health insurance being mandatory, give people stipends for not needing the hospital (it takes prevention and work to be healthy these days). While

Dear Editor, What is up with the Valentine’s Day issue? There were the great articles about the Winter Carnival, but there was so very little about love. Instead of asking people what they planned on doing for Valentine’s Day, which would have been interesting and light, the [Wo]Man on the Street interviews were about vaccines.

Vaccines are a topic like war. Do we spend billions of dollars and risk countless lives for the sake of “safety?” Should we inject ourselves with mercury, formaldehyde, aborted fetal cells and

Hometown: Great Falls, Mont.

Occupation: Retired as a professor of

veterinary medicine Party Affiliation: Chairperson of

Bonner County Democrats

Hometown: Napa, Calif. Idaho resident for 20 years Occupation: Commercial Roof Con

sultant and Radio Host at

KPND 1400, “Face to Face” Party Affiliation: Conservative Republican and reduce cost, we need a greater investment in primary care. One such effort is SB 1062, which deals with direct primary care. This bill will provide a safe haven for a direct primary care network to grow in Idaho. Direct primary care has been shown to reduce medical costs by 20 percent. This is important for individuals, businesses and public entities.

2. This brings us to the Medicaid expansion argument. Adults at or below 138 percent of poverty do not qualify for health insurance subsidies or Medicaid.

With a limited amount of funding, how do we spend medical dollars? Do we spend them on expensive hospital costs, or do we use funds to expand primary care?

3. The proposal is to take $1 million of the Catastrophic Care Fund and create a pilot program in five counties. Eventually, we’ll phase out the CAT Fund approach, which pays for hospital care, and use the money to provide primary care for those individuals at or below 138 percent of poverty.

4. Another fact: community health centers already provide basic medical care to 150,000 Idahoans. Between the centers and this pilot program, I think we can create an alternative to Medicaid expansion and still provide care. hospitals are amazing for acute emergencies, their business of keeping people chronically ill is disabling our country.

Thank you, and I am rooting for you, Jodi Rawson, Sandpoint, ID Jodi, I assure you, we are all about the

love here at the Reader. We are also all about journalistic ethics and unbiased coverage.

While we’re sorry you take offense with our coverage of the vaccination issue, we will continue to report on all sides of every argument. We believe that every issue deserves to have both sides covered. Thanks for reading.

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NEWS

Rep.Proposed Scottamendment targets education foundations to tax credit may leave Panhandle Alliance for Education in the cold

By Cameron Rasmusson For SPR In the tricky world of local school funding, every little bit helps. Panhandle Alliance for Education is one of those little bits—although with its most recent grant distribution topping $185,000, that description is probably short-selling them.

Considering its contributions to local schools, there was understandable consternation when Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard, held up legislation in committee that would extend a popular education tax credit.

Scott proposed amending the credit to disqualify donations to third party foundations or organizations like PAFE. According to PAFE representatives, the tax credit provides incentive to donate by offering a deduction of half the gift. For example, an individual could receive a maximum credit of $500 by donating $1,000. A couple could receive their maximum $1,000 credit by donating $2,000.

“People give very generously because they know a portion of that comes back to them,” said PAFE executive director Marcia Wilson.

Legislator learns about vaginas, digestion Vaginas: a very popular reproductive organ. Studies suggest that as much as half the global population owns or has owned one at some point.

Despite their prevalence, they remain an enigma—the puzzle box of human anatomy, you might say.

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Scott failed to return requests for comment in time for this article. However, she told the Spokesman-Review she wasn’t gunning for PAFE specifically and admires the work they do.

Her main concern is that donations to foundations aren’t guaranteed to go directly to schools, since they have payroll, administrative costs and other overhead to consider. Scott prefers encouraging people to donate directly to schools rather than foundations.

Wilson contends that foundations play an essential role in raising money for Idaho schools.

After all, the PAFE crew is much more able to get into the community and raise funds than the Lake Pend Oreille School District staff or other education employees.

Through a variety of fundraising events and other initiatives, PAFE has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years. According to Wilson, PAFE does have bills to pay, but it’s a small investment considering the money they raise.

“The reality is someone needs to be out there raising funds, so we do have some overhead,” she said.

Most recently, PAFE con-

over legislation banning doctors from prescribing abortion medication over webcam, the state lawmaker asked if women could swallow a tiny camera for gynecology exams instead.

Dr. Julie Madsen, testifying in opposition to the bill, replied that swallowed items don’t end up in the vagina.

Barbieri later told the Spokesman-Review he was being rhetorical, but he shouldn’t equivocate. In learning about basic female anatomy, his knowledge is now our knowledge. It’s also supplied national media with another quality Idaho headline, so there’s that, too. [CR]

tributions include $75,000 for teacher grant requests, $60,000 for kindergarten readiness programs and a special $50,000 grant designed in partnership with the Equinox Foundation, Wilson said.

PAFE took a hit last year when one of their biggest supporters, Coldwater Creek, declared bankruptcy. However, Wilson said they’ve weathered the setback. Much of the money they’ve collected up until now is invested in an endowment, meaning the money is constantly growing through investments.

“That money has been working for our community,” Wilson said.

Wilson is optimistic that Scott will change her mind on her proposed amendment. She said the legislature has received many community comments describing how important PAFE is to regional schools. Meanwhile, other Idahoans are voicing their concern for their regional foundations as well.

“We’re a state that needs every benefit we can find,” Wilson said. “We need to give our schools as many resources as possible.”

Lignetics Announces Merger Are you a fan of wood pellets? I know, I know—who isn’t? That means we’re all in luck, because Lignetics, Inc., announced Tuesday it’s merging with Bear Mountain Forest Products, Inc. Sandpoint’s Lignetics location joins manufacturing facilities across the country, from Oregon to Virginia. The two venerable wood pellet manufacturers’ merger creates a total manufacturing potential of 450,000 tons per year.

Pictured above are the current board members for the Panhandle Alliance for Education Chris Bessler, Lisa Blaese, Mindy Cameron, Carol Deaner, Mel Dick, Wendy Dunn, Karl Dye, Brent Eacret, Allison Gilmore, Megan Johnson, Travis Kaul, Geraldine Lewis, Naticia Litven, Roxie Lowther, Vickie Pfeifer, Andy Platte, Kelly Prior, Tom Puckett, Annie Reeves, Georgia Simmons, David Slaughter, Brad Williams, Joe Williams, Shawn Woodward, Marcia Wilson There’s no word yet whether the merger means a boost to local jobs, but the potential is there. Company CEOs say they now have the capital base to expand existing facilities and add on new ones. Let’s hope Sandpoint embarks into a bright future with support from the wood pellet business. [CR]

Team Laughing Dog starts fundraising Biking across America is no small feat, but for five years, Team Laughing Dog has tackled the challenge for several good causes. The 2015 team

kicks off its fundraising next week in support of cystinosis awareness and research.

The first event will be held Wednesday, March 4 at Idaho Pour Authority from 4-7 p.m. Meet this year’s team members—Dave Sturgis, Kirk Johnson, Deb Fragoso and Bob Robinson—and learn about this year’s Race Across America.

Later in the year, a golf tournament and Laughing Dog fundraiser will occur in April, another Laughing Dog fundraiser in June, and a dinner with Ben Stein in July. [CR]

Aerospace soaring in the economic future

By Barney Ballard For SPR It’s a longstanding criticism of Idaho: The state simply doesn’t prepare its youth for a career after they finish high school. With statistics putting Idaho close to the bottom of the nation in advancing students to college or post-high school training, local educators have poured untold hours into developing solutions for Bonner County students.

One local industry is poised to become a frontrunner in training and employing young people for lucrative careers: the aerospace industry. With several programs offering multiple forms of training and experience, students have more options than ever to pursue exciting careers.

The road to establishing these opportunities goes back more than five years.

In 2009, community activists Connie Kimble, Alan Millar, Jim Zuberbuhler and Karl Dye formed a group to expand Sandpoint education opportunities. The resulting “Communiversity” became the genesis of efforts to expand aerospace education.

In June 2010, aviation legends Forrest and Pam Bird hosted an educational forum dedicated to uniting diverse scholastic efforts. This group focused upon creating a relationship with the charter school and local industries at the airport.

The resulting collaboration with Forrest Bird Charter School and local aerospace businesses Tamarack and Quest coincided with North Idaho College establishing a satellite school in downtown Sandpoint.

The disparate projects all had one common theme: to enhance education, and consequently the economy, throughout the greater Sandpoint area. The educational institutions sought ways to directly plug graduating high schoolers into career pathways, while businesses like Tamarack and Quest saw value in a locally trained workforce. All the elements were in place—now someone needed to connect the dots.

That process began in 2013, when the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation launched Pathways in Technology Early College High School—or PTECH—a program supporting high schools that cooperated with a specific college or industry. Serendipitously, Millar and Zuberbuhler brought the charter school, aerospace businesses, and the expanded NIC together for a successful proposal.

The presentation was so well received that the Albertson Foundation asked Millar to lead the program’s expansion throughout Idaho.

PTECH essentially prepares students for careers in growing industries by adding two years onto a standard K-12 education. Students receive a dual enrollment status, but, more importantly, they receive a mentor and financial support through the first two years of college. Under those circumstances, it’s conceivable to earn an associate degree with no debt. A student taking advantage of PTECH could graduate from high school with a great deal of the basic college courses already completed.

For instance, a student wanting to become an aircraft mechanic could go to NIC and follow up at Spokane Community College (with a six-month power plant course). After completing the program, they’d wind up with an associate degree and a license as a certified aircraft mechanic within two years of graduation from high school. It’s not just aerospace industry, either—these career pathways are also being offered in information technology and the incredibly successful NIC nursing program. The resulting debt is minimal with careful planning.

It wasn’t long before Sandpoint High School joined in on the action, starting with participation in the PTECH program. Principal Tom Albertson also collaborated with the charter school on a Career Pathways in Aerospace class.

Taught by Nayla Morton and certified flight instructor Ken Larson, the club was created to build an airplane kit that was donated to the school district. About 30 students now participate in the club or aerospace classes between both schools.

Many generous people in the aerospace community created the buzz around the Career Pathways class.

Thanks to these outstanding contributors, the second semester kicked off with a dedicated core of students pursuing either a mechanic’s focus, an engineering perspective, or a sport pilot ground school to attain knowledge and flight experience for a license. Malia Meschko picked up the ball for the second semester, leading students in a Computer Assisted Design class focusing on aircraft design that will hopefully provide an opportunity to build an airplane.

While there are still great options for the traditional four-year college, it’s very exciting and fulfilling to know that hands-on career opportunities are waiting for students with different goals.

Many aerospace careers offer high-paying jobs and do not require a four-year college degree. Plus, having little to no debt when entering the job force should strike anyone’s interest.

Illustration by Daniel Cape

Many aviation luminaries contributed to making local aerospace education programs a success. They include:

•Legendary aviator and engineer

Burt Rutan •Astronaut John Phillips •Apollo engineer Roger King •Aerospace engineer and Dreamlin-

er test pilot Anna Nystrom •Aviatrixes Pam Bird and Tonya Ru- tan •The Tamarack engineering and me-

chanical crew •The Quest manufacturing team •Boeing satellite engineer Duncan Watson •Local aircraft builders Nate Dyk

and Don McIntosh •Legendary mechanics Joseph and

Meriah D’Atillo with Steve

Hewitt and Steve Ruff

•Lifeflight crews •Gary Hojan from Aerocet •Air Traffic Control Northwest Re- gional Chief Jamie Erdt •Dave Mundel and numerous com- mercial pilots •Paul Nowaski from Flying Tiger Maintenance and Mechanics •Granite Aviation’s Andy Berrey, Emma Carter and Sara Williams

•U.S. Air Force pilot Chris Dempsey •Loadmaster Zach Ward •The NIC Composite and Airframe

program crew •The EAA #1441 group •Air show competitor Jacquie Warda

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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! Co-sponsored by 88.5 KRFY

Live Music with Bright Moments Jazz 5:30pm @ Pend d’Oreille Winery

Evening With Owls 5:45pm @ Kootenai National Wildlife Refuge At the refuge six miles east of Bonners Ferry.

Owl calling at dusk, live and wild owls, and a presentation by specialist Beth Paragamian.

Free admission, dress warm, bring a headlamp

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Live Music w/ Marty Pe 5pm - 7pm @ Idaho Pour Buy them a beer, they des

Senior Center Dance Live Music with Ben & Cadie 1-4pm @ Sandpoint Senior Center 5pm - 7pm @ Idaho Pour Authority Music by Betty & Harold Overland and Joanne & Bob Brown. Call 263-6860 for info Free Fly-Tying Class 9am - 12pm @ North 40 Outfitters Live Music with Bright Moments Jazz Learn how to tie the best flies for FREE. 7pm @ La Rosa Club Includes all materials and equipment, inUpbeat classic jazz band featuring trumstruction, even coffee and doughnuts. pet and keyboard Poetry & Fiction @ The Heartwood 2pm @ The Heartwood Center Hear some of the Northwest’s best writers read from their works. Free admission and all are welcome

Fiesta Fundraiser 4pm @ First Lutheran Church All proceeds benefit the Young Artist Exch Programs. Raffle and silent auction. Perfor Choir, Youth Orchestra, Ensemble Choir an

Monday Night Blues Jam w/ Truck Mills 7:30pm @ Eichardt’s Pub “American Bear” Screening and Q&A 7pm @ The Panida Theater An Adventure in the Kindness of Strangers. After the film, meet the filmmakers during a Q & A session.

Karaoke Night 9pm - Midnight @ 219 Lounge

Seniors Day 9am - 12pm @ Bonner Mall This monthly event sponsored by Trivia Night Bonner Mall merchants and Life 7pm - 9pm @ MickDuff’s Care includes walking the mall, That annoying kid in class who always raised their hand first? They’d do well here speakers and refreshments. Free!

Team Laughing Dog/RAAM Fundraiser 4pm -7pm @ Idaho Pour Authority The cycling team of Dave Sturgis, Kirk Johnson, Deb Fragoso and Bob Robinson will participate in Race Across America (RAAM) for the fifth year in June. Go on down and give them some support Cards Against Humanity 7pm @ Neighborhood Pub

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Bangkok and Cambodia Travels Slide Show - Part 2 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. Admission by donation. Call 265-2213 for more info

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A weekly entertainment guide to keep you on your toes. To list your event free, please send an email to calendar@sandpointreader.com.

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Sandpoint Poetry Open Mic Night 6pm - 8pm @ Monarch Mountain Coffee Come share, come be inspired. No cover charge.

No sign up sheet. No judgement. No censorship

Sagle Elementary School Carnival 4:30pm - 7:30pm @ Sagle Elementary School A great fundraiser for the past 20 years, featuring more than a dozen carnival-style games, food and hundreds of prizes. Games are geared toward participants of all ages.

No admission fee. Funds raised support school programs and activities. (208)927-9187 for more info The Princess and the Pea 2pm and 7pm @ Panida Theater POAC presents Missoula Children’s Theater’s rendition of The Princess and the Pea featuring local actors. Tickets are $10 adult / $5 for 18 and under.

February Fun Fling Dance 7pm @ Sandpoint Community Hall Ballroom dancing lesson @ 7pm, followed by general dancing until 10pm. $6 for USA Dance members, $9 for public

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Winter Tracks 9am - 3pm @ Spt Com Hall Learn about wildlife tracking in northern Idaho and northwest Montana from naturalist Brian Baxter. No admission. Register at ScotchmanPeaks.org/events

The Secret Art of the Performer 10am - 4pm @ Hope Marketplace During this workshop, you will work closely with international theatrical director Jesus Quintero on the care of your craft, discovering the unique qualities within you that captivate an audience. Cost is $175 and space is limited. Sign up at www.americanlaboratorytheater.com

Puppy Class 6pm @ Pend Oreille Pet Lodge All puppies from the ages of 8 weeks old to 6 months with licensed veterinarian vaccines are welcome to join. $65 for a three week course, Mondays and Fridays. Give instructor Lindsey a call at 208-304-2097 or the Pet Lodge at 208-255-7687 for more information First Tuesday with Jack Robin 7pm @ Eichardt’s Pub Special guest Chris Lynch, the piano man, who once had a fantastic mullet in the 80s (who didn’t?)

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Below the Water Line:

Photographer Chris Brunkhart’s battles with cancer, drugs, demons and desolate landscapes Story by Cameron Rasmusson for SPR Photography by Chris Brunkhart

Chris Brunkhart always has his eyes open.

It’s a habit that’s served him well through his career as a photographer. As an enthusiast of the snowboarding scene from its infancy in the 1990s, he quickly learned the virtues of a handy camera and a quick shutter as he documented the early years of the sport.

Brunkhart’s eyes are still open, fixed as much on the future as the opportunity for that perfect shot. Since his diagnosis with Stage 4 colon cancer last September, he’s more mindful than ever of the months to come. Still, his priorities haven’t shifted as an artist. As ever, he lives to capture those moments frozen in time, as much a historic document as a work of art.

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Sunrise over the Pack River Flats in winter ger than ever.”

Brunkhart is no doubt a familiar figure to many Sandpoint residents. He moved to the town in 2009 to reconstitute himself as he struggled with a history of drug abuse. At the time, he knew Sandpoint as the hometown of his best friend, Matt Donahue.

The two met when Donahue was 18 and fully immersed in the snowboarding scene. They later built upon their friendship, starting a snowboarding company and other creative endeavors together.

Given that history, Sandpoint seemed as good a place as any to tackle his demons.But as he settled into a new life living in a cabin in the middle of the woods, he found the town took on a life of its own.

“It was therapeutic. It was creative,” he said. “I had no car. My first North Idaho experience was chopping wood and shoveling snow.”

During that time, Brunkhart and Donahue packed the Pani-

da Theater for the premiere of a short film, “Bound For Nowhere.” Shot and edited by Brunkhart and written and directed by Donahue, with a cast and crew of local luminaries, the film was a new creative experience for Brunkhart.

“Before that movie, I just had still images to tell a story,” he said. “With a movie, there were all these sound effects and music. You could look into the eyes and see the tears or the joy.

It was an eye-opening experience.”

Donahue and Brunkhart also collaborated on a photography book, “How Many Dreams in the Dark?” A collection of essays and hundreds of Brunkhart’s photos, the book charts his history photographing the growth of snowboarding. It was another opportunity for Brunkhart and Donahue to take advantage of their unique creative chemistry.

“I bring a real enthusiasm into the process, and when

Chris hears that, it just fires up his brain,” Donahue said.

While it was Sandpoint’s nature and people that make it memorable for Brunkhart today, it didn’t hurt that it was also a go-to location for snowboarding enthusiasts. By the time Brunkhart arrived in Sandpoint, the sport was everywhere: the ski slopes were dotted with boarders and professionals were earning fat checks through sponsorships and competitions.

As a young man in the Pacific Northwest during the ‘90s, Brunkhart saw a much different picture—pictures he captured on a daily basis. He rode alongside some of the legends of the movement back when boarders were a disreputable and disrespected influence at most resorts. As the athletes Brunkhart ran with became more bold and more adventurous, he was right alongside them, capturing their increasingly impressive feats.

These were people Brunkhart liked and respected—people

just at home with a chord progression or a poetic verse as they were on a ski slope.

“They were my friends, they were my comrades, but they were also my subjects,” he said.

The snowboarding movement grew, and with it Brunkhart’s skill and reputation as a photographer. He traveled the world as one of the sport’s premiere photographers. He captured not only the tricks and the technique of his subjects, but also the culture and the lifestyle of the time.

“My take on it was that this was about more than shooting a trick,” he said. “It was about the whole adventure. It was about how we got [to shooting locations]. It was about what we did in our downtime. I always had my camera nearby. Whether we were drinking or doing drugs or creating masterpieces of art, it was always the same.”

As Brunkhart grew older, his interest in subjects shifted.

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Stump Study #112: “I wandered for hours and hours below the water line and came across so many of these great stump skeletons,” said Brunkhart. Taken by the Clark Fork River Delta in winter (From previous page) moved with his boyfriend to New York City, where he spent months scouring the streets for fascinating moments and faces.

It was during that time he was hit with his cancer diagnosis.

“It was a rude eye-opener,” he said. “But it made me value my friends, my loves and my experiences in a much bigger way.”

The shock was hard to take.

But even amidst the ugliness, it brought its share of beautiful moments. Among the greatest was a fundraiser that filled the venue with 400 to 500 people.

Emails from strangers flooded Brunkhart’s inbox describing how his art had touched their lives.

“Until I had cancer, I didn’t know any of that,” he said.

“This really reaffirmed that, wow, I had an effect on people.

It brought me to tears many times.”

Brunkhart has much to anticipate even as he battles his cancer. He’s working on a new film with Donahue, this one based on a Czech folktale that intersects modern and fantastical takes on the story. He’s got

Chris Brunkhart currently lives in Portland, Oregon with his partner Zeke. To view his work online, go to www.chrisbrunkhart.com.

a new book in the works featuring his New York City photograpy. He has his friends and his family and his partner.

And as always, he has photography. His eyes are still open, searching for that perfect moment to carve into history.

“Always be ready,” Brunkhart said. “Be prepared.

Keep your eyes open.”

Unlikely bridge at the Kootenai Falls near Troy, MT

Brunkhart’s luminous photographs have been seen in such magazines as Snowboard, Frequency, Snowboarder, and the photography journal Juxtapoz.

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Poetry and fiction readings at Heartwood Center

By Jennifer Passaro For SPR

Join Lost Horse Press for a springlike sip of poetry and fiction at the Heartwood Center on Sunday, March 1. The event begins at 2 p.m. as Spokane’s best and brightest—Sharma Shields, Tod Marshall, Shann Ray and Maya Jewell Zeller read their work. The event is free and open. Refreshments will be served.

Sharma Shield’s first novel “The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac” hit bookshelves this January. Entrenched in the fantastical, Shield’s novel follows “Favorite Monster;” a collection of short stories.

Justin and Jen Landis of Cedar & Boyer play “Live @ The Office” this week

Tod Marshall, poet, is an English professor at Gonzaga. His published work includes three poetry collections “Bugle,” “The Tangled Line,” and “Dare Say.” Shann Ray writes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. He teaches leadership and forgiveness studies at Gonzaga University.

Maya Jewell Zeller’s poetry collection “Rust Fish” is available from Lost Horse Press. Her work has won numerous awards. She teaches English at Gonzaga.

Sandpoint’s Heartwood Center is located at 615 Oak Street. Questions please contact Lost Horse Press at (208)255-4410.

Another job well done for Habitat for Humanity

By Reader Staff

There’s nothing quite like the feeling of a job well done. It’s even better when it’s a job well done in the service of a worthwhile cause.

Volunteers at Sandpoint Habitat For Humanity and ReStore are enjoying that feeling right now with the recent completion of a home for the Ruff family. The home will be formally dedicated at a ceremony 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28 at 25 Keegan Court in Kootenai.

The ceremony will be a great chance to get to know the Ruffs as well as Habitat For Humanity itself. Attendees will be able to tour the three-bedroom, two-bathroom house and meet the people that brought the project to completion.

“Even if you’re not an emotional person, it’s the kind of thing that tugs at your heartstrings,” said organization

chairperson Jennifer Berkey.

Habitat for Humanity helps local parents in need by building or renovating safe, affordable homes. The program seeks applications from families that have a clean financial history and proven ability to be responsible homeowners—they just need a little help making that step. The local nonprofit branch is run almost entirely through volunteers. To contribute your time, call 265-5313.

Community Assistant League accepting grant proposals

By Reader Staff Can you feel that buzz in the air? It’s not just the spring weather—it’s also the Community Assistance League’s grant season, and that means only good things for local nonprofits.

Every year, CAL members begin accepting grant applications from community organizations across Bonner County. The grant money is generated through CAL’s upscale resale store, Bizarre Bazaar. A second-hand store that stocks high quality clothing, household items, games and more, Bizarre Bazaar is completely staffed by volunteers, and all sales proceeds flow into the organization’s fund for grants and scholarships.

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at the Sandpoint, Priest River and Clark Fork libraries, the Sandpoint and Priest River chambers of commerce and at Bizarre Bazaar, 502 Church St. You can also find more information from the CAL website, www.calsandpoint.com.

Applicants should be nonprofits with projects that will apply to Bonner County only. Successful applications should show how their proposals will significantly impact the community, nurture innovation and address important issues. They must be returned to CAL no later than Friday, March 27.

Grants chairperson Diane Arrants is available to answer questions at calsandpointgrants@gmail.com.

Cedar & Boyer: Live @ The Office

By Reader Staff For SPR

Justin and Jen Landis certainly aren’t strangers to the Northwest music scene. The former is an integral part of the well-loved Marshall McLean Band as bassist and vocalist. The latter contributes bass and backing vocals for the on-the-rise Mama Doll. But this dynamic husband-and-wife duo has plenty of their own music to offer as well, a creative outlet they explore as Cedar & Boyer.

A two-piece indie folk outfit, Cedar & Boyer brings a meditative, unique voice to the Landis’ musical endeavors. Their original songs tend toward reflection and contemplation. Family connections, rocky relationships and the tension between creative fulfillment and making a living are ripe thematic territory for their songwriting.

The Landis duo makes smart, efficient instrumentation choices, crafting a much fuller sound than you’d expect from two musicians. Justin handles guitar and lead vocals, while Jen takes the

bass and percussion duties. Their music is buoyed by Justin’s creative guitar work, which uses a variety of electronic modulation to produce textured soundscapes.

Cedar & Boyer has enjoyed exposure throughout the Northwest thanks to collaboration with prominent regional and national artists like Terrible Buttons, Andy Fitts, Chris Staples, Bart Budwig and & Yet. Their 2013 Family Van tour included a prestigious recording session for the popular website Daytrotter.

Experience Cedar & Boyer for yourself when they play live at the Sandpoint Reader office (111 Cedar St., Suite 9, just above Baxter’s restaurant) tonight at 6 p.m. Tickets will be $5.

Space is very limited, so drop by early to guarantee your place.

Check out Cedar & Boyer online by visiting their website—www.cedarandboyer.com/music—and listen to their Daytrotter recordings by searching for them at www.daytrotter.com. Their self-titled EP is available to play or purchase from iTunes, Amazon, Spotify and more.

Documentary ‘American Bear’ explores human kindness “American Bear: An Adventure in the Kindness of Strangers” will show at the Panida Theater at 7 p.m. Monday, March 2 with a chance to meet the filmmakers and Q&A after the film

By Cameron Rasmusson For SPR

We’ve all been there—your car breaks down on the side of the road, or you get yourself completely lost, or you find you don’t have the money to purchase your groceries. Then a complete stranger saves the day in an act of kindness with no possibility of reward.

It’s easy to cynically assume that those actions are a relic of kinder times.

But Greg Grano and Sarah Sellman believe otherwise. They spent 60 days circling the country to learn and record the experience of interacting with strangers.

One of the towns they stopped in was Bonners Ferry. Now they’re returning to the Panhandle to present their film, “American Bear” at the Panida Theater 7 p.m. Monday, March 2.

“American Bear” recounts the couple’s trip as they hopped from town to town each day, traveling through 30 states and relying on a stranger to

Director Greg Grano hangs out with kids in Bonners Ferry provide them with shelter each night.

Their ultimate goal was to visit each of the five American towns named Bear, a journey that brought them face-to-face with strangers that freely shared their homes and lives.

They met some remarkable people along the way. The descendents of a Cheyenne mountain tribe share how they still face bigotry in Montana today, while an Oklahoma woman struggles to rebuild her relationship with her moth-

er following a history of drug abuse.

Throughout their journey, the filmmakers question how relationships and identities form and how they influence the way we connect with others.

As Grano and Sellman move from state to state, they uncover more and more slices of everyday lives. While they find that fear and mistrust are alive and well in America, kindness and compassion are hardly down for the count.

This week’s RLW

by Susan Drinkard

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The month of March in North Idaho generally holds the promise of spring, but no actual spring. All the fog and rain can feel like you’re lost in a Sylvia Plath poem.

My book group recommends Where’d You Go, Bernadette as fog tonic.

When Bee excels at her private middle school in Seattle where she receives all “S” grades for “Surpasses Excellence,” her parents agree to a family trip to Antarctica. Written in epistolary style—mostly e-mails—it is a hilarious ride with eccentric characters created by Maria Semple, a former television writer for “Arrested Development” and “Mad About You,” among others. Genius architect mom, Bernadette, is LOL funny with her scalding digs at all things Seattle—including its creepy weather.

LISTEN

My favorite place in Coeur d’Alene is The Long Ear—one of the surviving independent music stores. Last time there I brought home Brandi Carlile’s country/folk 2012 CD, “Bear Creek” which was listed as No. 1 on US Folk Album charts that year. Bear Creek, named for the very old studio where it was recorded somewhere near Seattle, Carlile’s home, seems to have a permanent hold on my car CD player. I just like the way she belts out tunes, especially “Keep Your Heart Young,” with that crackling emotive power for which she is known.

Carlile, who has treated Sandpoint Festival goers twice in recent years, will release “The Firewatcher’s Daughter,” on her own label on March 3, a 12-song album that is said to be more rock than country.

WATCH

Maybe it’s because my job allows me to spend much time at a local assisted living, but I am partial to the British mockudrama, “Derek,” not to be confused with “Dexter.”

Derek” is a 14-episode Netflix-streamed Ricky Gervais creation set in a small nursing home where Derek is played by Gervais, a quirky and pure-hearted care provider. His interactions with the residents and co-workers—Karl Pilkington as handyman Dougie, and facility director Kerry Godliman as Hannah—are funny and worthy of close attention.

The show is written and directed by Gervais, who apparently has many family members who work in nursing centers.

You have never seen Gervais in a role like this one before.

Though it may be an acquired taste, the show and the man Derek, are golden.

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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 southwest corner of First Avenue and Main Street (to the right). The Saratoga Bar (the white square building in the center) with Sims Pharmacy to the right.

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The same corner today. Pedro’s occupies the corner, with the 219 Lounge on the left, and B&D’s Barber Shop to the right.

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VEHICLES FOR SALE: 2004 Trail Blazer (loaded) 2004 North Face Edition Trail Blazer Leather, Delux Tow Package (auto adjusts) V-8, Blue Tooth, navigation, OnStar capable, mint condition, winch, low miles, automatic, luxury towing machine!

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MOTORCYCLES FOR SALE: 2008 Honda crf450r Bought new in 2010 and put maybe a dozen rides on it. $800 in new fmf exhaust, the rest is stock. This bike is awesome, never been wrecked. Possible trade for boat or street bike same year or newer. $4900 208-255-9095. Posted Feb 20 by hewz72.

STUFF FOR SALE: Lift Tickets for Schweitzer We have 6 adult full-day ski passes for Schweitzer, $50.00 each. Please call or e-mail Forrest: 208-610-6046 or Forrest@Sandpoint.com. Posted Feb 21 by SdptMoto.

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