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“I feel blessed to be an American rather than proud right now.

There are many things going on that make me question where we are going as a country.”

Alani Strang Farmer, nanny Sandpoint

DEAR READERS,

We hope everyone had an enjoyable Fourth of July.

Special thanks goes out to the Sandpoint Lions Club for all they do to make the Fourth of July a special time for one and all.

Our deadline for this week’s issue came a day early because of the holiday, but we didn’t get the paper until our normal Thursday, which means we weren’t able to include photographs of the Independence Day parade and fireworks. Check our Facebook Thursday morning if you’d like to see the photos from those events.

I hope everyone has a great weekend. Be safe, put out your campfires, clean up after your fireworks, kiss your wife, hug your mom, scratch your dog’s ears and give thanks for all the wonder you have in your life.

-Ben Olson, Publisher

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NEWS

Cedar construction to advance after Fourth of July

By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Cedar Street businesses between Second and Third avenues, rejoice: construction is moving on to the next block.

According to Sandpoint City Administrator Jennifer Stapleton, construction between Second and Third avenues is wrapping up, with crews preparing to move the next stage of work between Third and Fourth avenues. Some concrete pouring will still take place between Second and Third.

Work has advanced smoothly over the past few weeks. At the end of July, crews focused on grading the roadway and placing sidewalk on the south side of Second and Third. The concrete pours were staggered to account for the joints in the sidewalks, which were opened to pedestrians within 24 hours of placement.

Child dies in Boise stabbing

By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff

A vehicle navigates the newly opened Cedar St. Photo by Ben Olson.

“Our on-site personnel are in direct contact with affected businesses,” Stapleton said in a construction update to local businesses. “Access to all business entrances will be provided by the end of shift on Friday.”

Between Monday and Tuesday, crews continued with roadway grading, sidewalk pouring and seat wall placement on the north side of the block. By the end of

Tuesday, Cedar Street opened to motorists, with equipment lined on the north side of Cedar between Third and Fourth.

Starting today — Thursday, July 5 — work began between Third and Fourth, closing it to motorists.

In other construction news, paving recently completed on Ella Avenue.

“We just have a few wrap-up items with curbing,” Stapleton said.

A stabbing rampage at a Boise birthday last week left one child dead, eight individuals wounded and the Idaho capital city grief-stricken.

Ruya Kadir, a 3-year-old Ethiopian refugee who was celebrating her birthday Saturday, died of her wounds Monday at a Utah hospital. The attack also injured five other children and three adults.

Thousands gathered at a Boise vigil Monday night to show solidarity with the victims and mourn Ruya’s death. The girl was remembered by her loved ones as a buoyant personality who loved Disney princesses.

Following the attack, Timmy Earl Kinner Jr., 30, stands accused

Giddings post sparks national controversy

By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff North Idaho Rep. Priscilla Giddings, R-White Bird, received a national backlash last week after one of her Facebook posts went viral.

The post, which included a photo of Giddings posing with four college-age students, read, “Idaho State University students peacefully protesting our Republican convention.

Do you think I should show these girls the empty 30mm shell I have in the truck?”

The girls were at the Idaho GOP convention in Pocatello to call for an increase in firearms regulation.

While Giddings’ supporters wrote the post off as a joke, many other Facebook users saw it as no laughing matter.

Critics, most of whom lived out of state, flooded Giddings’ Facebook pages with negative reviews. As of Tuesday, the state representative had a 1.6-out-of-five rating on Facebook, with more than 1,100 reviews in total.

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Timmy Earl Kinner.

Photo courtesy Ada County Sheriff’s Office. of first-degree murder and eight counts of aggravated battery.

Kinner, who has a long criminal history, is alleged to have been enraged after being removed from the apartment complex where the Saturday birthday party was held and staged his attack there as revenge.

Electric car charger enters service

By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff

Rep. Priscilla Giddings, R-White Bird.

Courtesy photo. news outlets ran stories on the controversy. It also attracted the attention of well-known public figures, with the likes of Chelsea Clinton calling the post “monstrous.”

Giddings has developed a reputation for a provocative style of representation, following in President Donald Trump’s footsteps to establish Idaho “fake news awards.”

She aligns herself with Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard, in advancing a “liberty

agenda” of deeply conservative-libertarian policies. After winning her primary election in May, the freshman legislator runs unopposed in November. She did not respond to a request for comment.

A screenshot of Rep. Priscilla Giddings’ Facebook post, which was still up as of press time Tuesday evening. Courtesy Facebook.

An electric car charger at Jeff Jones Town Square is operational after its installation two weeks ago.

According to City Administrator Jennifer Stapleton, the new charger supports charging two cars at a time at either parking spot adjacent to the device. The city is considering re-striping the parking spots to make the service more obvious.

It is powered by the electric feed at the town square, which itself has energy costs offset by the Solar Roadways panel installation.

There is currently no cost to use the charger.

“It is connected to the city internet so we can monitor usage, and we would have the ability to charge in the future if the City Council determines that is appropriate,” Stapleton said.

NEWS

County receives no-wake buoy donation

By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff County commissioners approved the use of 10 new mobile no-wake buoys on the Pend Oreille River Tuesday, marking the latest in the Bonner County wake issue.

“This is part of an ongoing effort to reduce wake, and I think (placing these buoys) is a good program,” said Commissioner Glen Bailey at Tuesday’s meeting.

The county’s Waterways Advisory Committee has been working on ways to reduce the wake reaching shoreline on area waterways — an issue that’s gained traction with the popularity of wake surfing. Placing more buoys is one possible solution, Bailey said.

The Bonner County Sheriff Marine Division, with recommendations from area landowners, will place the buoys.

Funding for the 10 roving buoys, which will be regularly moved between “problem areas” on the river, comes from local man Rick Peterson. A waterfront landowner on the Pend Oreille River and avid wake surfer, Peterson has seen the effectiveness of buoys on his own property, thanks to the county placing one in front of his dock last summer. He said it happened by chance — he did not request the buoy be stationed there.

“We live in a narrow part of the river on a bend, so everybody comes by too close to our dock,” he said. “We immediately noticed all the boats were staying in front of the buoy.”

Peterson, 58, said he attended the

Courtesy photo. county wake workshop back in April and was surprised to hear so much negative discourse around wake surfing. He started doing research on waves, erosion and laws in different parts of the country in hopes of finding a solution.

“I wanted to apply what I found to protect our right to surf,” he said.

For now, the 10 buoys he’s buying for the county — totaling around $3,000 — is a start. He said he plans to continue educating fellow surfers about the 200-foot no-wake zone law in Bonner County.

“I think there’s a few upset people making a stink, and luckily the commissioners are taking a measured approach,” he said.

“I’m just trying to be an advocate for the sport. Education is the answer.”

IMMIGRATION PROTEST IN SANDPOINT

About 150 people gathered at a rally in front of the Bonner County courthouse on Saturday to protest the Trump Administration’s “zero tolerance” policy towards undocumented immigrants. Many held signs calling for the reunification of separated families and an end to the policy. Photo by Ben Olson.

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FEATURE

One mother’s quest for action:

One year after her son fell to his death at Palouse Falls State Park, Dorothy Prophet is seeing changes implemented

By Ben Olson Reader Staff Just over a year ago, Dorothy Prophet took a phone call no mother wants to receive.

Prophet was told her 25-year-old son Cade slipped and fallen over 40 feet from a cliff above Palouse Falls in Washington while hiking and sightseeing with his girlfriend on May 29, 2017. His body was recovered by rescue personnel the next day.

In the months following her son’s death, Prophet began looking into how it happened.

What began as a few questions slowly morphed into her campaign to convince Washington State Park officials to implement changes to increase the safety of Palouse Falls State Park — changes she thinks are crucial to avoid another fatality in the future.

“I started looking at this problem and said, ‘This doesn’t work, we have to fix this,’” Prophet said. “I found an article from 2015 when the fire district had warned the parks department that this was a death trap, that they were responding to a lot more emergency calls. If they knew that in 2015, why did my son die in 2017? That lit a fire under me.”

The park is located two hours southwest of Spokane, and features a 198-foot waterfall that formed as a direct result of the ice age floods more than 13,000 years ago. The falls has seen an increase in popularity after it was named the “State Waterfall” in 2014. In just over a decade, the annual visitors to the park spiked from 46,000 to 200,000.

With the increase of visitors, the park has also seen an uptick in fatalities and injuries due to falls from the cliff above the waterfall, as well as drowning deaths in the pool below.

“We had quite a few injuries in 2015,” said Virginia Painter with Washington State Parks.

Painter said of 11 emergency rescues that year, five had to be flown out by medical aircraft.

“These are terrible things,” Painter said.

“The deaths are really hard to deal with. Every time something happened, we get staff out there looking and asking how it happened and where it went wrong.”

Since 2016, four people have died at Palouse Falls. In May 2016, James Hopkins, 22, drowned while swimming with friends.

In May 2017, Cade Prophet slipped and fell off the cliff above the falls. There were two fatalities reported in 2018: Isaac Engell, 23, drowned while swimming in the turbulent water below the falls in April, and most recently, Noble Stoneman, 25, fell to his death from the cliffs in May. Painter said changes were implemented in the past as a result of these incidents. Portions of the park were closed off at one point.

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Left: The view at Palouse Falls State Park. Photo courtesy Wash. State Parks. Top right: Cade Prophet, 25, celebrating his final birthday. Prophet fell to his death at Palouse Falls in May, 2017. Photo courtesy Dorothy Prophet. Bottom right: One of the recently installed signs, with hikers ignoring their message in the background. Photo by Dorothy Prophet. to go there,” said Painter. “Last time we put up temporary fencing and people complained.

They just went right over it, saying it blocked their access.”

Last month, Washington State Park officials traveled from Olympia, Wash., to Sandpoint to meet with Prophet and hear her concerns. Chief among Prophet’s concerns were that signage was not aggressive enough to stop wayward hikers from going onto “social trails” that lead to unsafe vista points.

“People see these trails where you can see it’s been worn down, and they think that’s a safe way down to the falls,” she said. “It’s not, that rock is slippery, and can break easily. I see pictures of parents standing on the edge with their kids in their arms and it terrifies me.”

Painter said safety improvements have now been implemented.

“All along we have been making changes on signage and trying different things to impress upon people the potential danger,” Painter said. “We’re very well aware that the way these primitive paths are worn in everywhere, they’re on slopes, they cut across angles. It’s really hard packed dirt with light dry dirt on top – very slippery.”

Prophet said she approves of new signs have been installed along the edges, as well as a fencing system that corrals hikers to a point where they must read the warning signs before entering the view area.

The fencing will “discourage people

from going to that area” which leads to the cliff edge, Painter said. “We’re hoping that somebody will make a decision to save their lives or keep them from harm. … Our staff deeply feels compassion and concern for these people. We want them to be safe.”

One sign reads, ‘Warning, people have died here, we want you to live, stay back from the cliff edge.”

While driving into the park, an electronic reader board flashed the messages, “Stay far from cliff edges,” “Danger 4 recent deaths,” and “Water currents deadly.”

“That’s a pretty strong message,” said Painter. “The ‘4 recent deaths’ is the strongest.

It’s so important to stress that this is a beautiful place to go, but please mind the signs. The dangers are real.”

“They’ve done an awful lot,” Prophet said.

“It’s a vast improvement from what it had been.”

While she appreciates the improvements

by Wash. State Parks, Prophet sees two issues that still need to be addressed.

One is the primitive trail leading to the cliff edge where Prophet’s son fell to his death.

While a sign exists a short distance before the edge, a trail still can deceive hikers into thinking it leads down to the water. Prophet wants a sign placed at the mouth of that trail to further deter anyone from entering the area.

The other problem area Prophet sees is the pool below, where two of the recent fatalities

occurred. Currently, there is only a small sign with a graphic of a swimmer with a “not” symbol over it. Prophet thinks this area needs to be marked more clearly.

“The reality of what happens at the park when there are guests or visitors there versus what (Washington State Parks staff) thinks happens, there’s a disconnect,” Prophet said.

“If they would watch what visitors do when they’re actually at the park, to sit there for an hour or two and watch as I have, they could see where they were lacking in their efforts to warn people.”

In the meantime, Prophet will continue to communicate with park officials to see that the waterfall gives everybody a chance to be as safe as possible.

“I don’t want another mother to ever get that phone call,” she said. “If I can help somebody else, even if I’m not aware of it, if one mom doesn’t get that call that her child is dead, I’ve done something good. I just can’t ignore a problem if I’m aware of it.”

OPINION

‘We are putting out a damn paper tomorrow’

By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Society is fueled by simple, everyday acts of courage.

Sometimes those acts are obvious, while other times, they’re more subtle. And this week, it’s tough to think of a better example of understated bravery than the staff of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Md., rallying together to put out a newspaper mere hours after five of their coworkers were murdered by a gunman. It was crystallized by reporter Chase Cook, who tweeted, “I can tell you this: We are putting out a damn paper tomorrow.”

There is immense power in that simple, defiant sentence.

It’s a battle cry and statement of purpose for the Fourth Estate. It tells the world, “You can insult

Festival Woes...

Dear Editor, Well, here it is: July. And our family hasn’t purchased any tickets for the Festival at Sandpoint this year.

We have a 25-plus year tradition of attending at least one concert event and some years up to three. Why you ask is there such procrastination this year? Simple: line changes and the extra $25 surcharge.

Seems like folks wanting to attend and grab a good seat have few good options now. Come out to the park at oh-dark thirty in the morning, to get the privilege of sitting on the city sidewalk near Memorial Field for many, many hours. Second option, pay an additional $25 for the ‘better’ solution of coming out to the park in the middle of the night (or, again, oh-dark thirty in the morning depending on SPD ordinance enforcement) to sit in a different, though shorter line, on the lake side of Memorial Field for many, many hours. Third option, arrive late and hope that you can enjoy the show from the back of the venue (I know, no bad seats). Fourth, maybe not attend at all.

Having built a rich history of memories while attending all these years, I will tell you that the numbered system that had been in place

us, you can harass us, you can attempt to de-legitimize us and you can murder us, but you cannot stop the free press.”

Honest journalists — those whose first loyalty is to the facts rather than any partisan cause or ideological creed — face a Sisyphean task in this era of bifurcated media, competing narratives and “alternative facts.”

Ideologues of all political stripes question their motives, criticize their neutrality or simply reject their reporting out of hand. It can be a frustrating experience, especially when many public figures successfully reshape narratives — and rewrite reality in the eyes of their followers — without any commitment to the truth, ethical norms or moral responsibilities.

The vast majority of journalism jobs offer little pay for long hours. They’re jobs that guaran-

tee, at best, a steady stream of criticism and, at worst, incidents of targeted harassment. Just about any working journalist today can rattle off a litany of stories about outraged messages, public confrontations and threats of violence. It’s a hostile climate that heats up with every tweet of “fake news.”

Despite all this, thousands of American journalists feel privileged to go to work everyday. Even at its worst, it’s a job underlined by a fundamental optimism that society can be better, that people can choose knowledge over ignorance and that, slowly but surely, the long arc of the moral universe bends toward justice.

“Those ideals are so perfect and so beautiful: to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. To give people the infor-

mation they need to live. To teach you something you didn’t know. And yes, to challenge your beliefs,” Nyssa Kruse of the Hartford Courant tweeted in the aftermath of the Annapolis shooting. “... Please also know that no matter what, we’re not the enemy. We care about you and we’re always ready to listen.”

That’s as pure a distillation of what it means to be a journalist as one is likely to find. And it’s why, in good times and bad, in the tragic and the ecstatic, newsmen and women around the country will assert to the

until now, with tweaks through the last seven to eight years, was something that worked pretty well for my family. In looking at some of last year’s posts on The Festival’s Facebook page, I see that not everyone had a good experience. I am sorry to see that, as nearly all of the locals and every Festival volunteer I have run into in line and while waiting for numbers have been pretty reasonable and patient. Here’s hoping that the $30,000 bounty from the surcharge will help with some of the issues.

Guess we still have some time to buy tickets, maybe.

towards me after my letter to you dated 2-22-18.

In a column dated 11-10-16, you stated that you “… will always call out bullies, racists and hypocrites.” Your self-righteous indignation toward Mark Furhman and your chastising tone toward Scott Francis gives the impression that as publisher of the Reader, you are the bully.

In “Les Miserables,” Inspector Javert is so self-absorbed by his enforcement of the almighty law that he loses sight of love and forgiveness (as an aside, the musical version also loses that focus and over emphasizes anger and revolution. Is that the mistake of today’s socialists?). Ben, an ocean voyage could be good for you.

place last Friday night. Noisy crowds drifted among ArtWalk venues marked with colorful balloons. Scofflaws jaywalked to greet friends. Ice cream cones and smiles were everywhere. Did anyone notice that it was the sixth anniversary of the byway dedication? Does anyone believe that scene could have played out if we still had Canadian pig and cattle trucks rumbling through town dripping odiferous fluids? Thank you ArtWalk. Thank you, Byway.

Dave Wood & Family Sandpoint

Is Truth Relative...?

Dear Editor, In your reply to Scott Francis’ letter to the editor about Mark Furhman (a reply more than three times as lengthy as Mr. Francis’) you spent a lot of space demonstrating that you really do not give “everyone” a second chance. Clearly there are some words or actions that you have not learned to forgive – even if they had not been directed toward you. You have difficulty “checking your outrage” when someone calls you out – as you did so

Jeremy Conlin Sandpoint

Jeremy, If speaking out against racism makes me a bully, so be it. Your words, not mine. Better to be called a bully than defend hate speech.

Ben Olson, publisher.

Thank You, Byway...

Dear Editor, First Avenue was a happenin’

Alan Barber Sandpoint

We’re Not Ready for a Catastrophic Oil Fire on the Tracks...

Dear Editor, Why do you care if Bonner County has a skilled manager as commissioner? The proposed new railroad bridge across the Pend Oreille River is one reason. It’s very likely to be built, especially as the first permit has been issued.

But, right now is the only time Bonner County and its EMS, fire districts and cities have leverage for needed improvements. If a trainload of oil or coal overturns into the water, we have to send to

A flag flying at half-staff.

Photo courtesy Facebook. world: “I can tell you this: We are putting out a damn paper tomorrow.”

Spokane or Whitefish for emergency supplies. BNSF has provided some containment materials but not enough for a major spill. A large stockpile should be right here to use at a moment’s notice.

A catastrophic oil fire? We’re not ready to deal with it. People would likely die, property and waterways be destroyed. BNSF needs to make sure needed materials are stored right here in Bonner County.

The new bridge might temporarily shorten wait times at RR crossings. Long term, have the cars go over or under the railway is the solution. That’s expensive and the moment to secure BNSF funding for that is now.

These are all negotiations the county should have underway with BNSF. Instead, inexperienced managers are just saying, “Sure, build a bridge.” Improvements come from serious negotiations! That’s why I am running for Bonner County Commissioner.

Steve Lockwood Sandpoint

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COMMUNITY

Ribbon cutting for Innova Foundation

By Reader Staff Bouquets: • I’d like to take a moment to recognize the lives of Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, John McNamara, Wendi Winters and Rebecca Smith – the five people who were senselessly gunned down last week in their newsroom at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland. This story hit close to home for us here at the Reader.

After watching the erosion of trust in journalism over the last two years and dealing with our own received threats and hate mail, this is very much the worst-case scenario we’ve discussed at various times in the office. My heart goes out to the victims and their families. I do hope we can all return to a time of civility and understanding soon Barbs • Rep. Priscilla Giddings gets the big Barb of the week. The Idaho State Representative from District 7 earned national scorn last week when she posted a photo of herself standing with three protesters on Facebook. In the photo, the protesters held signs advocating for gun control, with Giddings standing in the middle with a smile on her face. Giddings’ comment in the post reads: “Idaho State University students peacefully protesting our Republican convention. Do you think I should show these girls the empty 30mm shell I have in my truck?”

The post drew scorn from across the nation, including a tweet from Chelsea Clinton calling the post “monstrous.”

When are we going to stop electing these people to our statehouse? In Giddings’ case, she’s running unopposed, so we’re stuck with her. It’s an embarrassment to the state of Idaho to see our lawmakers stooping to trolling techniques like this. People can support the Second Amendment without issuing veiled threats to peaceful protesters. Whether or not you agree with the protesters’ message, we all have the right to peacefully assemble under the U.S. Constitution.

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The Greater Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce welcomed Innovia Foundation to the Chamber with a ribbon cutting ceremony on Thursday, June 14.

Previously known as Inland Northwest Community Foundation, Innovia Foundation focuses on Community Transformation.

They connect donor generosity to the region’s most pressing causes and collaborate with community partners to drive transformation across 20 counties in eastern Washington and North Idaho.

Since 1974, the foundation’s endowment has grown to $120 million, working to improve access to education, promote health and well-being, support arts and culture, create economic opportunity and enhance quality of life. Through the generosity of donors and the passionate support of their nonprofit and community partners, Innovia Foundation has awarded more than $70 million dollars to organizations who work

By Ben Olson Reader Staff

From left to Right: Patricia Walker, Molly Sanchez, Elisabeth Klontz, Bob Witte, Benson Brown, Vicky Jacobson, Cheryl Siefert, Erin LeVan, Phil Hough. Courtesy photo. to improve the lives of others and strengthen their communities.

The foundation began the rebranding journey to bring greater awareness and engagement around important issues in the community, and the important work the foundation is already doing. “The work of the foundation continues to evolve and adapt to the changing needs of our regions, says

Shelly O’Quinn, CEO of Innovia Foundation. “We saw an opportunity to create a new brand that is forward-looking, that inspires a new generation of philanthropy and community engagement.”

Please join the Greater Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce in welcoming Innovia Foundation.

For more information visit them online at www.innovia.org.

Operation Donation Station set to launch

By Ben Olson Reader Staff Panhandle Animal Shelter is building a new donation and sorting facility on land owned by the Shelter, just west of the Thrift Store. It will be 4,500 sq. ft. with a parking lot and streamlined drop-off donation area which includes overhangs to protect donors and donations from finicky Idaho weather.

“We have secured the construction loan, the necessary permits and the builder,” PAS wrote in a statement. “Of the projected $270,000 needed for this project, we have so far raised $150,000 which leaves us with $120,000 still to fund.”

The Donation Station will be placed alongside a New Dog Park slated for later this year.

“This is why we are reaching out to the community to help us retire the note on the building,” PAS wrote.

It costs a significant amount of money to keep the doors at

Pints for Pups fundraiser benefits service dogs

PAS open, but most people do not know that the majority of their funding comes from our exceptional Thrift Store. A staggering 84 percent of their operating revenue is directly attributed to sales at the store. The success and growth of the Thrift Store is the result of the community helping area animals through donations and sales.

“Opening the Donation Station 100-percent debt-free would be an amazing gift to our community animals,” says Mandy Evans, executive director of the Panhandle Animal Shelter.

“The monies saved on rent alone could vaccinate almost 10,000 animals, alter over 2,000, or provide 1,200 40-pound bags of high quality food annually. The impact would be tremendous!”

More animals would be helped, and services would continue to be provided to the community by way of spaying and neutering, the Helpline, the community cat Trap-Neuter-Release program, and Home-Home.org. All of this would allow PAS to continue to bring innovative, cutting edge programs that benefit the people and animals of North Idaho, such as the leading “2025 Idaho No-Kill Coalition.”

Panhandle Animal Shelter and Thrift Store will be launching the Donation Station Fund Drive and groundbreaking with a Golden Shovel Celebration July 11 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. with light refreshments. Meet the board of directors and staff to discuss this project and plans for the new Dog Park.

Persons wanting to donate to Operation Donation Station can visit the Animal Shelter or the PAS Thrift Store during business hours. A fund has been set up at https://www.mightycause.com/ organization/Friends-Of-TheShelter-9

The 219 Lounge is throwing a Pints for Pups Tap Takeover fundraiser this weekend, with a portion of proceeds benefiting Canine for Companions for Independence (CCI). The fundraiser will be Saturday, July 7, from 4-9 p.m.

The 219 will be featuring beers from Sandpoint’s own MickDuff’s Brewing Co., and Edelwagon food truck will be on site. Local singer-songwriter Kevin Dorin will provide live music during this from 5-8 p.m.

Since 1975, CCI has provided expertly-trained assistance dogs to children, adults and veterans with disabilities free of charge. They are the oldest and largest assistance dog organization in the country.

“We gift service dogs to people with spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, children with cognitive disabilities, people with amputations and more,” said CCI’s public relations and marketing coordinator Michelle Williams.

Dogs trained by CCI are born in volunteer homes within a 90mile radius of their home office in Santa Rosa, Calif. From there, the puppies are given to puppy raisers at eight weeks old. Puppy raisers agree to train and socialize dogs for 18 months, when they will be turned into one of CCI’s training centers around the country.

After six to nine months of training by a professional trainer, the service dogs will then “graduate” and hopefully will be matched with a person with a disability.

Because of the extensive training CCI dogs receive, they are valued at upwards of $50,000 each, which means CCI relies on grants and private donations.

To learn more about CCI and to see if you’d like to train a service puppy for a needy home, check out www.cci.org.

PERSPECTIVES

Emily Articulated

A column by and about Millennials

Rustling grass and sidewalk cracks

By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist Perception is a fickle thing, and despite its dynamic nature, it has the ability to shape our choices and, ultimately, our lives.

I am a long-distance trail runner, regularly following a small strip of uncovered dirt into the deepest, most desolate wilderness areas North Idaho has to offer. Through this hobby, I’ve been exposed to heart-palpitating vistas, breath-taking climbs, and brain-tingling canopies, often finding myself hours from any shred of recognizable civilization.

In these spaces of significant remoteness, surrounded by towering pines, trickling snowmelt, and a forest full of critters, the power of perception reveals itself.

When accompanied by fellow runners and friends, winding our way through mountainous miles in collective camaraderie, a rustle in the leaves simply adds to the overall ambiance of an adventure run. While in a group, I have the ability to assess nature noises rationally, considering that the foliage disturbance was likely caused by the jolt of a field mouse or a family of bustling grouse.

When by myself, however, the same rustle of leaves just as readily becomes a ravenous, lumbering bear or a lurking mountain lion, hungrily rumbling it’s way through the woods in anticipation of its next meal (me).

Similarly, when in the comfortable confines of a city

Emily Erickson. or town, walking along a threefoot-wide sidewalk is second nature. I confidently occupy the space, absentmindedly hopping over cracks and dodging anthills while on the phone or rummaging through my pack.

But, if that same three-footwide space is on top of a mountainous cliff, even the hyper-focus of individual, calculated steps can feel insufficient. My breath will likely catch if I peer over the edge, with the sides of the path seeming far too small to support the mass of my body.

Our perception of our reality directly impacts our experiences, as the same elation-filled trail run so quickly shifts into a short-of-breath, anxiety-fueled race for life, and the excitement of a mountainous frolic becomes a toe-edge away from certain death.

But why is this important?

Because negatively perceiving our lives can strip us of the extraordinary, leaving us to exist in the confines of fear.

In psychology, fear is categorized into two camps: the biochemical reaction and the emotional reaction. The biochemical understanding of fear involves our bodies’ physical

reaction to situations in which we feel endangered. These physical reactions include elevated adrenaline, sweating and increased heart rates.

Humans have evolved to experience physical reactions to feeling unsafe, and the symptoms are largely universal. The emotional reaction, however, is a highly individualized occurrence, with each person experiencing it in their own unique way.

For example, some people seek out opportunities to feel the biochemical reactions to fear, as they perceive it positively. These people are those that take big risks, fling themselves out of airplanes, or freeclimb rock faces. Colloquially, they’re adrenalin junkies.

Others avoid fear at all costs, paralyzed by the physical reactions, as they perceive their bodily responses to danger as negative.

The trouble is, in most cases, like my irrational perception of rustling grass equating to my imminent death, a negative reaction to feeling afraid is unwarranted, and holds us back from living our lives to their fullest potential. We see angry bears and poisonous rattlesnakes instead of wildflowers and lush ferns.

Fortunately, we can train ourselves to alter our perceptions of and our experiences with fear through exposure.

Exposure therapy, developed in the 1950s, is a psychological technique in which a person repeatedly confronts the things of which they are afraid until those sources become more familiar.

With increased familiarity to the things that evoke fear, is a reduction in the anxiety and rational that accompanies negative emotional responses to the biochemical reactions in those situations. Simply, through exposure, we can change how we perceive our realities to have better, more positive experiences when we are afraid.

So what does this mean?

For some people, confronting fear may literally mean jumping out of a plane or

climbing a rock face. For others, it may simply mean trying; trying something new, taking a risk, talking to a stranger, making a phone call, starting a business or joining a gym.

And even though these things may evoke fear, they get a little bit easier each time they’re tried.

So, who knows? You may be chewing gum and skipping along mountain tops before you know it. As always, just be sure to watch out for the cracks.

Retroactive

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Abe in his early years, before the presidency, when he was still ghostbusting.

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By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist

Nature is not perfect, let’s get that straight.

From a scientific perspective, life is just a very long series of best guesses at environment adaptation.

Sometimes, life hits the nail on the head. Think about owls.

They’ve adapted to be perfect aerial hunters for their terrain, capable of striking prey with an otherworldly silence.

Not much farther away, you can find the platypus, so… yeah.

Let’s look at some of life’s failed experiments from a time before we figured out how to write things down.

Deinotherium

Ever wonder what would happen if an elephant and a wild boar had a baby? Apparently nature did, because this creature (nicknamed “terrible beast”) was basically just an elephant with tusks growing out of its chin. One of the tallest relatives of elephants, standing at about 4.8 meters at the shoulder, Deinotherium must’ve been an odd spectacle to behold. Based off fossilized teeth, we know it was an herbivore, and scientists think it may have used its weird chin-tusks for pulling out tubers and other root vegetables. Skulls found

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on the isle of Crete led to the development of several Greek myths such as the cyclops and other great monsters.

Elasmosaurus

Most people know about plesiosaurs, and anyone that doesn’t knows about the Loch Ness Monster. Imagine if a snake had a fish for a tail, and were 50 feet long and weighed three tons. Elasmosaurus is weird because its neck was so long in proportion to its body.

With 71 vertebrae in the neck, taking up over half its total body length, it’s no wonder early paleontologists thought its neck was a tail and put the skull on the wrong end. Even weirder, it was a marine reptile that likely live birthed. You know, like a hamster. Or a human. Its fossils were found in Kansas, proving that, at one point in ancient history, the great plains were under an ocean.

Helicoprion

This fish can be summed up by the phrase: “What the?!”

Not a lot is known about this freaky fish, other than the fact that it is the only known creature on Earth to have 360 degrees of teeth. We believe it’s lower jaw was like something out of a “SAW” movie, and scientists still have no idea why. What we do know is that we’re glad it was inefficient enough for this nightmare fuel to go extinct and not create an ocean full of buzzsaw sharks.

I mean, they have hammerheads, why not sawmouths?

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Then they got bored of that and came back on land until they reached their current mindset of:”Why not both?”

The strangest thing about this evolutionary path? For tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of years, snakes had legs and feet. Want to know what’s even weirder? They still have legs and feet. The gene to grow legs and feet is dormant in all snakes, just waiting for something to trigger it.

Heck, they may never even

need it. They mastered the ground, they mastered the water, and chrysopelea, the flying snake, knows how to command the sky. Basically a long muscle, the snake climbs up a tree, finds the highest branch and flings itself with its tail. Once airborne, chrysopelea sucks in its gut to create a concave surface that creates lift and allows the snake to paraglide into your darkest nightmares.

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• Between 10 and 20 volcanoes are erupting somewhere on Earth every day.

If there ever were proof of aliens, this bad boy is front and center. A crustacean from the former ocean of British Columbia, it had five eyes, 30 legs and 30 flippers, but perhaps the strangest thing about it was the hollow proboscis adorned with a lobster claw that came out of its ... face? This thing was so weird that the first time it was presented to a room full of scientists in the 1970s, the room laughed.

• The word “volcano” originally comes from the name of the Roman god of fire, Vulcan.

Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes? Our general understanding of life is that we started in water and moved to land, and the rest was history.

Snakes said forget that, and seemed to have evolved from reptiles on land, then decided to take up swimming and evolved serpentine bodies.

• In 1943, a fissure opened in a farmer’s cornfield in Mexico, growing into a five story tall volcano in only a week and up to 1,100 feet after a year.

• The southernmost active volcano on Earth is in Antarctica. It spews crystals and is very close to the U.S. Research Center.

• There’s a volcano in Indonesia that spews blue flames.

• On April 1, 1974, black smoke was seen rising from Mount Edgecumbe, a volcano in Alaska. When a Coast Guard pilot came closer to investigate, he found 70 tires burning and the words “APRIL FOOL” spray painted into the snow.

• In 1600, a volcano eruption in Peru caused a famine that killed about 2 million people in Russia.

• The Japanese authorities constructed a fence around a volcano at Mount Mihara to stop a trend of over 2000 people committing suicide by jumping in.

• No other country in Europe has as many volcanoes as Italy: the peninsula stands on a fault line.

• In 1986, a volcanic lake in Cameroon, Africa burped a C02 gas cloud that killed 1,746 people in minutes.

• The volcanic system beneath Yellowstone holds enough lava to fill 11 Grand Canyons.

• A volcano in Guatemala has erupted almost once an hour since 1923.

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The sandpoint street revitalization:

Will the new ‘bulb outs’ improve the look of town, or are they just a mess?

‘Bulb-outs’ don’t make sense in our community

By Larry Fury Reader Contributor

“I shop for my clothes in Coeur d’Alene or in Ponderay. In the last 20 years, the only thing I’ve bought in Sandpoint are a couple of beers and gas.”

“Driving to work I use the bypass to avoid downtown.”

“There is little downtown for me and what there is, is overpriced.”

“There is precious little parking.”

These are just a few comments that I’ve heard from co-workers and others for some time now.

With the return of two-way traffic along with parallel parking you can’t see oncoming traffic until you’re practically in the middle of the street. How is this adding safety when going an inch more into the intersection to see oncoming traffic might mean the difference of getting your fender clipped or not?

Now with the redesign between Second and Fifth Avenues, even more parking spaces will be eliminated and the sorry, ridiculous bulbout intersection curbing will barely allow two cars to pass at the same time. Not to mention two larger rigs. Instead of subscribing to cable or satellite television I think once a week I’ll get a big bucket of popcorn, a lawn chair and entertain myself watching one of these large pickups and a motorhome try to make it through at the same time. It’ll be most entertaining.

Frankly, this thing looks like a shopping mall parking lot, not a city street meant to facilitate customer traffic. What about snowplows? They’ll be hitting them and I know that the city not only plows, but removes the snow to the curb in the winter. Won’t this tight design make that more difficult? Not to mention the extra snow removal for the businesses on the wider sidewalks. And, if Sandpoint is biker friendly what about a bicyclist riding down Cedar, having to go around the bulbouts which will put them in closer proximity to the cars?

If this is what downtown businesses want, mission accomplished, but it will drive locals further afield as the Sandpoint business district becomes even more

irrelevant in their lives while catering to tourists and the well heeled apparently becomes more important.

If you’re a downtown business, sorry, I really know few of your names. They seem to change annually. I wish you well — you’ll probably need it. You have a distressing way of routinely going out of business every year or so to be replaced by another one that in turn will suffer the same fate a year or two after that.

It’s too bad though, as I fondly remember shopping for back to school with my mom at Larson’s and Anthony’s. Visiting Ross Rexall Drug store on the corner of First and Cedar, whatever that is now.

Merwin’s at the corner of Main and First, Ben Franklin’s, a burger at Don’s DriveIn, a new movie at the Panida. Now most of that local customer business for most of these things goes elsewhere.

To summarize and at the risk or repeating myself, this will only make downtown more irrelevant to the locals. You’d think they’d want to maximize their customer base to lever out the seasonal highs and lows. Scarcer parking places, even more difficulty in negotiating the streets and the frankly non-competitive prices won’t accomplish this.

The city should have taken their grant money and do with it what they just did to Ella Avenue: tear up the old asphalt and lay down a nice new smooth surface. As for the bulbouts, they might make sense in a two-season climate. The only place they might come in handy around here is on Fifth from Cedar to Larch. Now if you want to cross Fifth Avenue, you need a flag, bright clothing, a map, a sign asking motorists not to run you down and a snack to tide you over until you make it to the other side.

I timed a three-member family once crossing east to west at the intersection between Mr. Sub and the Banner Ban: 45 seconds.

In Larry Fury’s earlier days, he lived for a time in Los Angeles, writing raw scripts for Norway Productions at Paramount. More recently he wrote a monthly column for the now defunct River Journal.

Wider sidewalks mean safer pedestrians in the heart of our community

By Stephen Meyer Reader Contributor

The downtown street corridor is the heart of our community. The elements of the rebuild like city sidewalks, trees, street lighting, storm water facilities and way-finding should be easy to understand and to utilize in finding your way around downtown streets. The current revitalization project will do this and more.

Let’s start with the traffic patterns through Sandpoint. The city of Sandpoint has developed a good system to get through Sandpoint. It does not go through First Avenue or Cedar Street.

Rather it goes up Pine Street and then over to Church Street where drivers can choose their route. As soon as the public starts to follow this pattern, the better off we will all be.

We will have bulb-out intersections at all major crossings in town to allow safer passage for pedestrians of all persuasions. Imagine someone in a wheel chair or with a walker or just slow to cross. The bulb-outs will make it easier for all of us to go out into the streets and navigate clean passage from one side of the street to the other. This is the golden rule for all small towns, and these will make it easier and safer for all who use the downtown either for work purposes or shopping purposes.

The bulb-outs will also slow down traffic in the downtown core. The city of Sandpoint has already built a designated side passage and developed parking. When people begin to use these side routes, then everyone will see the beauty of these improvements. First Avenue and Cedar Street should be for pedestrians, bicyclists and visitors to our town.

Next there are the sidewalks. The current buildout looks a bit rustic, but it can and will be so much better with wider sidewalks and bulbed-out intersections. Constructing wider sidewalks

means that everyone can have the opportunity to walk the streets and say hello to the other people on their route.

Wider sidewalks will also mean that the restaurants will be able to comfortably get seating outside.

The wider sidewalks will also allow for better storm water management as we have seen recently with the construction of storm water traps along Church Street, Second and Third avenues. This is something we all need.

Slowing down the water flow to the lake and allowing it to filter out is really something everyone should appreciate.

And the new trees that will be placed in the storm water planters will truly compliment our lovely town.

The street lighting and way finding will match the current city models. The street lights will be modeled as they currently are and conserve the night time sky views. The way finding will also be something to observe and to appreciate. Imagine how it must feel for first time visitors to know their way around by following signs.

Ultimately the slower traffic and a more common ground for walking and bike riding will make everyone happier in the long run. The traffic will find a way around the downtown. Bikes and pedestrians will be able to co-mingle with traffic that is circulating and cars will find the parking lots.

So when you see the downtown street workers, be sure to compliment them on the job they are doing. We are all working to get these changes completed in the shortest most courteous method possible. And when it is done, we will all be able to sit back comfortably in the comfort of the beauty of the city of Sandpoint.

Stephen Meyer is the former owner of Pend d’Oreille Winery and a property owner in the downtown core.

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8pm @ Eichardt’s Pub Good until the keg’s dry

Live Music w/ Bright Moments Jazz 6-9pm @ Trinity at City Beach Jazz on the Trinity lawn

The Festival at Sandpoint Music Camp Finale Concert - $5 6pm @ Panida Theater Live Music w/ Tekla Waterfield 5-8pm @ Pend d’Oreille Winery Seattle-based folk, country, indie, rhythm and blues and soul Live Music w/ the Beat Diggers 9pm @ 219 Lounge Sandpoint classic rock band playing your favorite rock and roll tunes

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Live Music w/ Ben & Cadie 5-7pm @ Idaho Pour Authority A multi-instrumental duo from the indie rock band Harold’s IGA Live Music w/ Devon Wade 6:30pm @ MickDuff’s Beer Hall Celebrate First Fridays with Sandpoint country singer Devon Wade

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Live Music w/ the Mike Wagoner Trio 8pm @ Eichardt’s Pub Great old time country, rock and everything between Live Music w/ Monarch Mountain Band 5-8pm @ Pend d’Oreille Winery Sandpoint bluegrass band Live Music w/ the Down South Band 9pm @ 219 Lounge Get ready to party as Down South will have you up and dancing to the beat of their digital drums while playing a variety of classic rock, Southern rock, Texas blues, country rock and Americana

Sandpoint Chess Club 9am @ Evans Brothers Coffee Meets every Sunday at 9am

Sandpoint Farmers’ Market 9am-1pm @ Farmin Park Shop for locally grown produce, shop artisa wares, eat some good food and enjoy live musi by blues man Truck Mills Live Music w/ Local trio 6:30-9:30pm @ MickDuff’s Beer Hall Local trio of Kelly McTavish, Jeff Poole an Ali Maverick Thomas will get you dancing an grooving. Food by Old Tin Can food truck. Fre and open to the public Live Music w/ Truck Mills 4-6pm @ Laughing Dog Brewery Authentic blues from the master, with food

by One Night Stand BBQ food truck Jacey’s Race • 8:30 Piano Sunday with Annie Welle Competitive 5k race 4-6pm @ Pend d’Oreille Winery for kids benefits loc Live piano jazz on the grand ing illnesses. See ja

The Festival at Sandpoint Music Camp All-Star Faculty Concert - $5 6pm @ Panida Theater Lifetree Cafe • 2pm @ Jalepeño’s Mexican Restaur This week’s topic - “Who Can You Trust?”

Monday Night Blues Jam w/ Truck Mills 7:30pm @ Eichardt’s Pub Night-Out Karaoke 9pm @ 219 Lounge Join DJ Pat for a night of singing, or just come to drink and listen Wind Down Wednesday 5-8pm @ 219 Lounge With live music by blues man Truck Mills and guest musician Ali Thomas

Beer Hall Bingo & Spokane to Sandpoint Relay R Every game is different and last game starts at 8pm.

Wednesdays w/ Bennie 5-7:30pm @ Connie’s Lounge Weekly music on Connie’s deck with Bennie Baker. This week’s special guest: Nashville recording artist Sammy Eubanks

Live Music w/ Brian Stai Dollar Beers!

9pm @ 219 Lounge 8pm @ Eichardt’s Pub Americana folksinger from Spo- Good until the keg’s dry kane with authentic storytelling The Festival at Sandpoint Youth Concert - $5 6pm @ Panida Theater

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Idaho Draft Horse and Mule International 9am-9pm @ Bonner County Fairgrounds (July 5-8) The Northwest’s largest draft horse and mule expo at the Bonner County Fairgrounds. 208-263-8414

Thursday Night Solo Series w/ Kerry Leigh 6-8pm @ MickDuff’s Beer Hall Enjoy listening to his original Americana, folk, rock, country and blues tunes! Joining the fun is the Mandala Pizza food truck serving on-site goodness

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Junior Ranger Program: Round Lake Rocks 3pm @ Round Lake State Park A Junior Ranger program for kids ages 6 to 12 every Saturday. This week, discover the geology of Round Lake. Starts at the amphitheater; free and open to the public Pints for Pups Tap Takeover 4-9pm @ 219 Lounge The 219 will be donating a portion of sales to Canine Companions for Independence, which provides highly trained assistance dogs. Plus, Kevin Doran will be performing from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m., and food by Edelwagon food truck

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Walk with a Doc 8am @ Sand Creek Trail (by bear statue) Presented by the Bonner Co. Coalition for Health, the Walk with a Doc series is free and open to everyone! This week’s walk led by Paula Lund, PT. First and Third Saturdays of the month

Yoga on Tap 11am @ Laughing Dog Brewery One hour class that ends with the group having a beer together. $12 includes your first beer Hope Tailgate Sale 8am-1pm @ Memorial Community Center Free and open to the public; call 208-2645481 to reserve a spot Museum Free First Saturday 10am-2pm @ Bonner Co. History Museum Free and open to the public; call 208-264-5481 to reserve a spot Live Music w/ Kevin Dorin 8:30-10:30pm @ Back Door Bar Soulful folk and blues

Monday Hike with a Master Naturalist 9:30pm @ Round Lake State Park Every Monday a master naturalist will lead a hike, with topics varying depending on the interest of the participants.

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Creek Trail (by bear statue) day evening. This week’s walk er, NP. www.WalkWithADoc. mation

Sandpoint Farmers’ Market 3-5:30pm @ Farmin Park Buy produce, shop local wares and listen to live music by Kevin Dorin Magic Wednesday with Star Alexander 6-8pm @ Jalapeño’s Mexican Restaurant

July 13-15 Sandpoint Antique & Classic Boat Show @ Sand Creek Boardwalk July 13-15 Sandpoint SummerFest @ Eureka Center July 14 Rails to Resort Hill Climb @ Red Barn Parking Lot (base of Schweitzer Mountain Resort)

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Sandpoint summer could never be complete without a meal or two overlooking Lake Pend Oreille. Fortunately, the lake boasts a diverse selection of dining options for all palates and preferences, each with its own unique view of the water. Get started soon, and you’ll be able to check them all off of your summer bucket list! This week’s part one features The Floating Restaurant, Beet & Basil, Ivano’s Del Lago and Forty-One South. Check back in next week’s paper for Part two with more lakeside dining options.

The Floating Restaurant (208) 264-5311 Hours: Mon. — Sat. 11:30-9 p.m.

Sunday 10-9 p.m.

47392 ID-200 • Hope, ID As the name suggests, the Floating Restaurant takes eating on the lake to another level. Set against the beauty of the Hope Marina, ‘the Floater’ offers bites for the whole family, plus delectable desserts. It’s a dining experience unlike any other.

One Dish: Fresh halibut cheeks with wild morel mushrooms. “And of course, topping that off with homemade huckleberry pie just screams Idaho summer,” manager Elissa Robbins added.

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105 S 1st Ave. • Sandpoint Beet & Basil’s menu takes you on a tour of the world from the comfort of your seat (which, by the way, has a stunning view of Sand Creek). Self-described as “street food with an international flair”, crafted with all-natural, organic ingredients, Beet & Basil is the perfect place to fall in love with new flavors.

One Dish: Beet hummus platter with cucumbers, feta, heirloom tomatoes, castelvetrano olives, pesto, fresh basil, and buttery garlic naan.

Ivano’s Del Lago (208) 264-0466 Hours: Mon. — Sun. 11-9 p.m.

1267 Peninsula Rd. • Hope Nestled in the Beyond Hope Resort on the beautiful Hope peninsula, Ivano’s del Lago brings the fine dining experience of Ivano’s Ristorante to the lake. Boasting a wide array of seafood and handcrafted Italian fare, Ivano’s is a perfect place to soak up a beautiful sunset. Be sure to try their signature huckleberry cocktails, too.

One Dish: Linguine di mare, featuring prawns, sea scallops, artichoke hearts, and capers cooked in a white wine, butter, and garlic sauce over linguini and sprinkled with parmesan. Can be made with gluten-free rice noodles.

Forty-One South (208) 265-2000 Hours: Mon. — Thurs. 4:30-9 p.m. Fri.— Sat. 4:30 p.m.-10 p.m. Sunday 4:30-9 p.m.

41 Lakeshore Dr. • Sagle With outstanding views and exceptional ambiance, Forty-One South is the lakeside dining experience of your dreams. Frequent live music and innovative cuisine ensure an exciting and enjoyable dining experience — every time.

One Dish: Sunset salad, with mixed greens (local and organic from Moose Meadow Farms), almonds, seasonal fruit, cucumbers, carrots and feta with a spicy berry vinaigrette.

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t’s getting to be that time of year again, when, like every spring, the same old perennial question begins to grow in me like fresh needles on a tamarack. “Will I spend yet another summer at Priest Lake?” There are other lakes, other mountains, lots of nice places I’ve never seen. I have relations on both coasts. I could go there, but probably won’t. I know what I’ll end up doin’.

I’ll drive up that magical little highway, get out, smell the air, and that’s all it’ll take.

For me, Priest Lake has not been an addiction but more like a contradiction.

It has to do with that old saying, “You can never go home again.” But see, there’s this little spot in Idaho that lets me come home over and over again. It’s

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Celebrating antique and classic boats

By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff

The biggest event of the year for fans of antique and classical boats is right around the corner.

For some local boating enthusiasts, there’s no replacing the elegance and beauty of a wooden boat. Fortunately, the Sandpoint Antique and Classical Show is there to connect them to the wider world of antique and classical boat appreciation. And thanks to the beautiful, boater-friendly waters of Lake Pend Oreille, many members of the Antique and Classical Boat Society say there are few better places in the world to experience that community.

“There are more than 40 boats registered, so it’s looking like it’s going to be a pretty good show,” said Daryl Reynolds Jr., president of the Antique and Classic Boat Society Inland Empire Chapter, in an interview last month.

The 2018 show is shaping up to be a terrific few days on Lake Pend Oreille. Taking place from Friday, July 13, to Sunday, July 15, the show is a perfect opportunity to check out wooden and antique boats, take part in water-based activities and contests and check out some arts and crafts. Kids will be able to turn mahogany blocks into toy speed boats, and the U.S. Coast Guard will be on hand to conduct boat inspections, ensuring no invasive species are spread throughout the event. And as usual, attendees

may well see Captain Dan and his famous pirate ship sailing the high seas.

“It’s going to be a fun-filled weekend, I think,” Reynolds said.

The best times to check out all the boats and events will be approximately Friday, July 13, from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. and Saturday, July 14, from 10a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday is blocked out for Chapter members to have a day of fun on the water to put their boats through their paces. And on 3 p.m. Saturday, be sure to see the boats in action when they parade along Sand Creek.

“Boats will be launched at the ramp at City Beach and once again our friendly, skilled and dedicated launch crew will be there to assist,” said B.K. Powell, chairman of the Sandpoint boat show committee, on the organization’s website.

One of the great advantages of the Sandpoint Antique and Classical Boat Show is that is the only Antique and Classic Boat Society event in the Pacific Northwest which includes a 100-point judgment by an inspection committee.

For boat owners seeking to connect with the international classic boat community, that makes Sandpoint an important destination, since getting a 100-point grade opens the door to more Antique and Classic Boat Society events and benefits.

“It tests which boats go on to international competitions,” said Reynolds.

Indeed, it’s no small honor to be judged best in show at a society

competition. Reynolds said they have made a special effort to ensure last year’s winner will attend this year, when they intend to present him with a watercolor painting of his winning boat, Nameless, on the water by Trestle Bridge.

Reynolds said that local members of the Antique and Classic Boat Society hope to boost North Idaho’s renown as a classic boat destination.

With an international show slated to take place in Coeur d’Alene in 2022, the coming years should be a good time to work on that goal.

Whether you’re a classic boat owner, a fan or merely enjoy a good summer day on the beach,

stop by this year’s boat show and get in on the fun. You may be surprised by the unique spectacles and visitors it brings to the community.

Participants in last year’s show pilot their antique Chris Craft across Lake Pend Oreille. Photo courtesy of Inland Empire Chapter of the Antique and Classic Boat Society.

(OLD) FAITHFULLY YOURS

Giddyup to the Draft Horse show

By Ben Olson Reader Staff The Idaho State Draft Horse and Mule International Show will kick off this weekend and go from July 5-8, with different events happening each day.

The annual show takes place at the Bonner County Fairgrounds, and features a wide variety of equine events, including log skidding, team driving, cart racing, a braiding competition and more.

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from wildfires, so this will be the first show since 2016.

If you haven’t seen these “gentle giants” up close before, grab the family and head out to the Bonner Co. Fairgrounds to check them out.

The grounds will be open Thursday-Saturday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Check out www.idahodrafthorseshow.com for more info.

A driver leads his horse across the arena at a previous show.

Photo by Cameron Barnes.

Sandpoint’s Scott and Barbara McLongstreet (pictured), took a Reader along with them while seeing the Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone. Photo by Scott McLongstreet.

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COMMUNITY

The glass is half full — of kombucha

By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff

To some, kombucha is a health supplement. For others, it’s just a tasty drink. To most, kombucha is … well … what is it?

Carson Racicot and Tianna Valiani are bringing kombucha to Sandpoint through their business, Upside Kombucha, and with it they’re bringing a new understanding about what exactly the fizzy concoction is.

Put simply, Racicot said, it’s tea put through a process of fermentation.

“Fermentation is a big word, but people are very familiar with its byproducts,” Racicot said, naming yogurt, cheese, wine, beer, distilled goods and sourdough as a few examples.

He said kombucha is the product of a tea-specific nutrient exchange, where bacteria and yeast — in the form of a symbiotic culture (SCOBY) — eat the sugar in the tea and then excrete beneficial byproducts that could help with digestion and more. Racicot said research is still being done on the positive effects of the brew, but he said one thing is for sure: it’s tasty.

“We want to be health oriented,” he said, noting that Upside Kombucha is made with organic tea and juices. “But we don’t want to just be a health brand. We also want to expand to an image of lifestyle. It’s about living life on the upside.”

The married couple grew up in the Seattle area, but knew they wanted to live more simply than the I-5 corridor would allow. What that would look like, they didn’t know. In the midst of and figuring it out, Racicot said he experienced some digestion troubles due to a thyroid issue.

A friend suggested kombucha as a digestive aid, and after getting hooked on the stuff, Racicot started brewing his own.

“It wasn’t a career choice. (Brewing kombucha) was just a home activity we did that we liked,” Valiani said. “But we knew we wanted to work for ourselves, and we were really trying to make a push to be healthy.”

What better way to launch into a healthy lifestyle than to pack up and move to Bayview to work on a farm? The couple did just that, and worked for Racicot’s sister at Rugged Roots Farm. While there, the kombucha operation expanded into five-gallon batches in the back of

Meet the couple that’s bringing ‘booch to Sandpoint

a trailer — “because you have to start somewhere,” Racicot said with a laugh — and from there grew into 60 or 70 gallons a week when they began selling at the farmers’ markets in Sandpoint and Coeur d’Alene.

Now, Racicot and Valiani are doing ‘booch full time at their tap house on Superior Street, serving up ice-cold pints or growlers to take home in flavors like lemon ginger, cranberry, apricot and more.

“People here are so supportive of small businesses, so we’re excited,” Valiani said.

Valiani said it’s an exciting time to be making kombucha because the industry is getting traction in the Pacific Northwest.

Most importantly, she said, she’s proud of Upside’s product.

“We wanted a business based around

Upside Kombucha owners Tianna Valiani and Carson Racicot. Photo by Lyndsie Kiebert. something we’d be proud to make — something we’d be happy to give people,” she said. “It’s all just a fun experience.

We’ll see what the future holds.”

Check out Upside Kombucha on Facebook, and visit their new tap house at 1333 Superior Street in Sandpoint Tuesday-Friday 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

Annie Welle plays jazz on concert grand at the Winery

By Jane Fritz Reader Contributor

Thirty years ago a wellspring of music culture existed in Sandpoint. On the mountain, Gunther Schuller’s Festival at Sandpoint chamber musicians amazed audiences in the old ski lodge, while at Memorial Field the Spokane Symphony Orchestra and a Russian pianist mesmerized listeners as rain fell, and no one moved. Along Sand Creek, at the former Garden Restaurant Lounge, pianist Raphael played Debussy with cascading ferns framing listeners sipping wine.

In those days, Annie Welle played the Garden’s grand on a New Years Eve. Pend d’Oreille Winery vintner and new owner, Jim Bopp, was a teenager washing dishes in the restaurant’s back room. It’s an era that still captivates Bopp, and one that he would like to see return. It’s why he has moved his grandparents’ piano out of storage, where it’s been for 25 years, and into the Winery so musicians like Welle can play it.

But this isn’t just any piano, and she isn’t just any pianist.

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Classically trained, and playing since she was four, Welle now performs solo jazz. Improvisations, original works, and the standards — Fats Waller, Gershwin, Cole Porter and pieces that will have you thinking you’re listening to Miles Davis or Chet Baker. A workshop and positive critique of her composing by Marian McPartland many years ago at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival inspired Welle to find her signature sound.

The Winery’s piano is unique. It’s an 1875 Decker Brothers of New York concert grand whose cabinet is 7’, 4” long and made of coastal Brazilian rosewood, a tree now protected. This gorgeous wood is very resonant, which is why the finest acoustic guitars are made with it. The piano was bought by Bopp’s grandparents — the late, former Schweitzer Resort and Pack River Management owners Jim and Jean Brown — as part of the purchase of their lakeside home. Bopp and his brothers grew up in that house, but played under the piano. It made a great hideout with couch cushions placed around the perimeter.

Eventually the piano was moved to the

Company Store, which the Browns owned — the former Pend d’Oreille Winery site where MickDuff’s Beer Hall is today. The piano might have sold for $30,000, but the Company Store closed, and the piano was put into storage. Until now.

Jim Bopp thinks it’s time to try that rebirth of music culture in Sandpoint, and his and co-owner Kylie Presta’s winery might be the perfect place for it. He hopes that others will want to perform on their special piano, and that people will come to the Winery to hear it and toast its sound.

So how does this 1875 concert grand sound?

“It’s got a lot of character,” says Welle. “There’s a lot of depth when you play a key, you can feel a length of that string on the soundboard. It’s very deep

Annie Welle plays piano jazz at the Pend Oreille Winery this Sunday, July 8, from 4-6 p.m. Photo by Jane Fritz.

and rich; I can almost feel the other end of the piano in my toes.” She adds that its full sound is perfect in the Winery’s large room, and the wood is part of that sound.

“I really think the spirit of the tree that the wood came from is still in the wood,” says Welle. “It’s contributing to the vibration of the music. It’s gone down through all these decades and back to a time when that tree was alive.”

STAGE & SCREEN

Giving the Gift of Music

Festival of Sandpoint Summer Youth Music Camp debuts next week

By McCalee Cain Reader Intern The Festival at Sandpoint’s mission to inspire area youth through music comes full circle with the debut of the Summer Youth Music Camp July 9-12.

Camp Director and First Chair Violinist for the Spokane Symphony Jason Moody was the very first recipient of the Festival at Sandpoint scholarship in 1998. He’s also a Sandpoint High School graduate.

“His parents were really instrumental in the beginning of the Festival, and they brought him along and he has said that he remembers looking up at the violinists in the orchestra and thinking, ‘that’s what I want to do,’ and now that’s what he does,” said Executive Director Dyno Wahl.

Moody will lead an all-star faculty of some of the areas finest music educators in what the Festival hopes will be the first of many Youth Music Camps.

On Monday, July 9, these educators will take to the Panida stage for a special

All-Star Faculty Concert to inspire their students after the first day of camp.

“They’re such fantastic musicians, most of them have either a masters or a Ph.D. in performance in their instrument, and if they don’t have those, they’ve got years and years of experience. It’s quite an amazing group of musicians,” Camp Coordinator Beth Weber said.

Weber began planning the camp last November.

“I called up the local music instructors to see if they were interested and they were all excited about it. That was a word they all used, exciting,” she said. “That was a big go-ahead for me, that they were all so enthusiastic.”

Nearly 120 students from all over the Pacific Northwest will attend the camp, which will consist of four days of instruction, crescendoing with the Grand Finale Student Concert on Thursday, July 12, at the Panida. Thanks to Festival at Sandpoint Donors, students only had to pay a $25 registration fee to participate.

Panida films take us back to ‘80s

“If we can pull this off well this year, I think people will want to come back,” Weber said.

She hopes students will leave the camp with enthusiasm for music.

“I hope they understand that music is a group effort. You know, you put in your private practice, but then one of the most beautiful things about it is the group interaction you get when you play music,” Weber said. “It’s part of the mission of the

The Festival at Sandpoint tent during a past show.

Courtesy of Sandpoint Online.

Festival to support music education in the community, so it really answers that aspect of the mission. I think it was something the Festival was really eager and ready to do.”

By Ben Olson Reader Staff

There’s something so appealing about ‘80s movies. Whether it’s the over-the-top cheesy plots, the villains so evil they are laughable, the ridiculous montages fueled by awful pop music or the outrageous hair and clothing styles, I can’t get enough.

If you want to take a trip back to the awesome ‘80s, the Panida Theater has you covered the next couple weeks.

This week, the Panida is offering a triple threat of John Hughes movies, starting tonight with “Sixteen Candles.” Starring the ‘80s it-girl Molly Ringwald and the quintessential ‘80s nerd Anthony Michael Hall, “Sixteen Candles” is another one of the “Brat Pack” films depicting social cliques, high school woes and coming-to-age dramas surrounding love. It plays Thursday, July 5, at 7:30 p.m.

Friday, July 6, at 7:30 p.m. is another fabulous ‘80s film: “Uncle Buck,” starring the inimitable John Candy. When a death in the family causes the Russells to suddenly leave their kids unattended, they are forced to ask their lovable but rough-around-the-edges brother-in-law to come watch the kids. What follows are hilarious hijinks as the children, one of them being Macauley Caulkin, adjust to the new order under Uncle Buck.

thursday, july 5 @ 7:30pm

“sixteen candles”

Friday, july 6 @ 7:30pm

“uncle buck”

Rounding out the weekend is one of my all-time favorites, “Planes, Trains and Automobiles.”

Starring the incredible comedy duo of Steve Martin and John Candy, “Planes” follows the arduous journey of Neil Page, an advertising executive trying to get home to his family for Thanksgiving. When fate throws Page in with Candy’s obnoxious but lovable shower curtain salesman Del Griffith, you can’t help but laugh until the credits roll. This is an excellent Hughes film that will make you laugh and cry.

The Panida will continue the old movie theme next week, with “10” starring Bo Derek on Saturday, July 14 at 7:30 p.m., “Arthur” starring Dudley Moore on Saturday, July 15 at 3:30 p.m. and “Empire of the Sun” on Saturday, July 21 at 7:30 p.m. Plus, catch a Sunday showing of “A River Runs Through It,” on July 22 at 3:30 p.m.

Find showtimes and info at panida.org.

saturday, july 7 @ 7:30pm

“planes, trains and automobiles” Monday, july 9 @ 6pm

at sandpoint’s “all star concert” festival A show for teachers and musicians that make it happen for the kids! thursday, july 12 @ 6pm

festival at sandpoint’s “youth concert” saturday, july 14 @ 7:30pm

“10” starring bo derek

sunday, july 15 @ 3:30pm

“arthur”

saturday, july 21 @ 7:30pm

“empire of the sun”

sunday, july 22 @ 3:30pm

“A river runs through it” saturday, july 28 @ TBD

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FOOD

The Sandpoint Eater

Kitchen sports

By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Food Columnist

Last week I had breakfast at DuPar’s, a landmark restaurant at LA’s Farmers Market that’s been operating since 1937. It’s a beloved institution for tourists as well as the locals. Esquire magazine votes their pancakes as #1 in the US. (Personally, I think Wendy’s Hoot Owl pancakes could stack right up against them). It’s only fitting that such a beloved breakfast staple would have more than one holiday in its honor, so take your pick: you can celebrate Pancake Day, international pancake Day and more specifically, you can even celebrate Blueberry (insert “Huckleberry” here) Pancake Day. Pancakes, hotcakes, flapjacks, or griddle cakes: Call them what you like, they rank right up there as one of America’s favorite breakfast staples, and they’ve basically been around forever. The ancient Romans ate theirs drizzled with honey, and the first American colonists sweetened theirs with molasses.

Many countries claim a version.

The Swedish pancake is a silver dollar-sized round cake that’s cooked in a special pan (Plett) and served with lingonberries.

We can thank the French for the iconic crêpe, cooked paper thin, then filled with either a sweet or savory filling and rolled or folded to a triangle (my favorite is a Swiss cheese filled triangle). Thomas Jefferson loved crêpes so much that he sent a recipe home to Monticello while presiding at the White House.

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special pan (the Aebleskiver), to make perfect little golden-brown balls (filled with fruit or Nutella).

At our house, besides our annual Christmas Olympics (a.k.a. a feats of strength contests where alcohol might be included), our other favorite activity is Kitchen Sports, a.k.a. pancake tossing.

We’ve played ever since I can remember. It probably started as a last resort bribe to encourage a whiny toddler to “please, take just one bite,” and the game now lives in infamy in our household.

There are few rules: the cook tosses the pancake from the griddle, across the room to the fearless, plate-holding victim.

The youngest have a handicap—a small puddle of syrup on the plate that keeps the pancake (most of the time) from sliding

off. Back at the ranch, when I had open-beamed ceilings, I was at the peak of my tossing career. I could achieve two to three rotations, with heights of 15 feet, and never failed to land the pancake smack in the middle of the plate. Those days are over, friends. In one of my last attempts, I misjudged the height and distance, and much to the delight of my grandsons, the pancake hit the edge of the overhead light fixture, and it was sheared in half before landing in the center of the table. Soon my clan will all gather for our annual retreat in Montana, and the first request from the youngest set will be a round of Kitchen Sports (though I have passed on the proverbial spatula to their nimbler fathers).

Apparently, my family is not

the only one to be entertained with pancake competitions.

There’s a myriad of pancake-related world records that have been achieved, including the fastest flipper (Australian celebrity chef Brad Jolly), who holds the record for most tosses of a pancake in one minute: 140 flips in 60 seconds. Another Aussie, chef, Andy Wrobel, broke the Guinness world record for the tallest stack of pancakes (60 of them reaching 2 1/2 feet). Of course, my hero is American Dominic Cuzzacrea, who holds the world record for tossing a pancake an astounding 31 feet in the air.

When we aren’t tossing pancakes, we’re eating them, and it seems everyone has a favorite topping. Maple syrup, fruit, peanut butter and Nutella are staples

Fluffy Pancake Recipe

Two batches will feed eight people. If I plan to add huckleberries, I fold them into the batter just before the pancakes go on the griddle.

INGREDIENTS:

DIRECTIONS:

• 2 cups all-purpose flour • 3 Tbs sugar • 1 1⁄4 tsp baking powder • 1 1⁄4 tsp baking soda • 1 1⁄4 tsp salt • 2 large eggs, beaten • 1 1⁄2 cups buttermilk • 1⁄2 cup cold club soda (new bottle) • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract • ¼ cup melted butter, cooled

Whisk dry ingredients in a large bowl.

In a separate bowl, beat eggs, buttermilk, seltzer, vanilla, and 1/4 cup melted butter until smooth.

Add egg mixture to dry ingredients and whisk to combine (batter will be slightly lumpy).

Heat a large griddle to medium high; brush with shortening or spray with pan coating. Scoop 1/2-cupfuls of batter onto the hot griddle; cook until bubbles form on the entire surface of pancake, then flip and continue to cook until both sides are golden brown. Transfer pancakes to plates or a platter and brush tops lightly with butter. Serve with maple syrup or topping of our choice. *If batter is too thick, add a little more liquid (either buttermilk or soda water

• Pure maple syrup • Lots of extra butter for the table

on our breakfast table. Personally, I prefer mine on the savory side, and top it with a couple of basted eggs and a bit of salt and pepper.

Everyone seems to have a favorite recipe, too – sourdough, buttermilk and yeast leavened are amongst the favorites. In a pinch, I am not above using a pancake mix, and north of us (three miles south of the Canadian border), there’s a local mix worth trying. Farm to Market is a four-generation wheat farm who mill their own grains to produce a pancake mix of soft white and barley flours.

If you don’t already have your own favorite recipe, try mine, and make sure the club soda is fresh and bubbly so it will produce a light and fluffy pancake—one worthy of launching.

Yield – 8-10 medium-sized fluffy pancakes

MUSIC

This week’s RLW by McCalee Cain

‘Share an honest moment’

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Southern soul rockers JJ Grey & Mofro return to the Hive July 17

By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Florida band JJ Grey & Mofro are not new to the funky soul-rock scene, and they’re certainly not new to Sandpoint, having opened at the Festival and played the Hive in past years. Grey said he and the band are stoked to come back.

“You can look at a map (of the Inland Northwest) a million times and sure, you know where Spokane is, but then you tour and you find little gems like Sandpoint,” he said.

Grey and his band are jamming in Sandpoint again on Tuesday, July 17, coming back to the Hive for the second year in a row.

Their newest release, “Ol’ Glory,” dropped in 2015. Grey said he has a catalog of about 50 new songs and song ideas that may or may not appear on their upcoming album. Right now, they’re whittling it down and recording the new stuff here and there.

Is it the time since the last record that’s created this plethora of material, or some new inspiration? Grey said it’s a little of both.

“The material just comes to you,” he said. “All I can do is pray that I can remember, or get it down as fast as I can somehow.”

But even as a veteran of the studio — Grey’s current project is his eighth album — he said he’s never felt as comfortable recording as he does on stage.

“Shows are second nature,” he said.

According to a review of the band’s 2016 Red Rocks performance from The Denver Post, “Grey leaves his impact on every aspect of the show.” A Grey & Mofro performance is “a treat for his longtime fans, but also for new listeners.”

Grey told the Reader the key to putting on a good show isn’t

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about how well he and his band play. Grey said it’s about sharing a genuine connection with the audience.

“I want to share an honest moment,” he said. “Just enjoy it, be there and be in it and be nowhere else. That’s my sole intent at a show.”

Grey said letting go of expectation has been a big theme for him not only as a musician, but in every aspect of his life. “(Expectations don’t) matter, because when you share an honest moment, the music plays itself,” he said. “When I see people smiling, I lose my sense of time and place. I want that feeling to carry on into everything else I do.”

So what should you expect at the Hive on July 17? There’s sure to be plenty of gritty blues guitar and groovy brass melodies, but Grey will say it again and again — shed the expectations and get ready to share an honest moment with an artist and band who have made a name for themselves doing just that.

“We — us, the band and the crowd — we’re gonna play this

thing together and see where it goes,” he said. “We will hopefully laugh some, maybe well up a little bit — I know sometimes I do — and we’ll dance some, too.”

Tickets to JJ Grey & Mofro’s July 17 Hive show are $33 in

JJ Grey. Photograph by Jay Simons.

advance and $40 at the door.

Find advance tickets at Eichardt’s Pub, Pucci’s Pub or www. livefromthehive.com. Doors open at 7 p.m.and the show begins at 8. Must be 21 to attend.

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SPORTS

Highlights of 2018 World Cup soccer

By Joseph Perreault Reader Contributor

From Sandpoint News Bulletin, Sept. 9, 1948

STRUCK IN HEAD

BY ASSAILANT While at work Friday afternoon in the Twin Creek district, in the vicinity of Clarksfork, Dennis Burke and Ole Peterson engaged in an argument which, from reports, resulted in the removal of Peterson to Clarksfork for medical attention. Upon reaching the village, Peterson was in an unconscious condition from which he had not rallied late Saturday afternoon.

Peterson was struck on the left side of the head with a broad ax in the hands of Burke.

For years Burke has operated the Shamrock hotel at Cabinet together with running lumber camps in that vicinity. Peterson has a homestead near Clarksfork but works in the woods around there most of the time. ___________________________ LATER As the News goes to press, word is received that Peterson was unconscious for only two hours and is now engaged in his usual work in the woods.

The rim of his hat protected him from being cut when he was struck on the head. No one was present when the trouble started but it is thought the men had words about a chain, each claiming its ownership.

They were about to begin the preliminary work of a survey which is now being made in a road which was washed out last year by flood waters, and not at work in the woods as stated in the first report reaching Sandpoint.

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The 2018 World Cup group phase is over. Now that we know the 16 teams who have earned a place in the knockout phase, it’s worth taking a minute to appreciate the show these incredible athletes have put on for the world.

Russia 2018, so far, has had everything soccer fans could have hoped for — dazzling goals, last minute heroics, major upsets and more than a few intriguing story lines both on and off the pitch.

Here are my top five highlights from the opening round: Russia Opens Strong: Most pundits had the host country bowing out in the group phase. On paper, at least according to the “experts,” this Russia squad was underwhelming, under-skilled, and overmatched by the competition. Ninety-five minutes after the tournament’s opening whistle, the Saudis were wondering where the Russia team all those pundits were talking about had gone. After scoring 11 minutes in, Russia piled on four more goals for a 5-0 opening-night victory Russians will remember for years to come.

Spain versus Portugal: Fans didn’t have to wait long for the tournament’s first instant all-time classic match. Day Two pitted the reigning European champions against a Spanish side looking to reclaim some of the magic of their World Cup winning side of 2010. This 3-3 match had it all, with four lead changes, two clear candidates for goal of the tournament, and last-minute drama when Christiano Ronaldo snatched victory out of Spain’s hands with an inch-perfect free kick in the 88th minute.

Germany Steals a Victory from Sweden to Stay Alive: In Group F’s first match, Mexico stunned the reigning world champion German squad, dealing the tournament- favorite Germans a surprise opening-match loss. With the pressure on, most prognosticators expected the Germans to respond with

one of their typically dominant performances against Sweden.

A loss and a tie would have left a considerable hill for the Germans to climb heading into their third match. When the Swedes were first to strike in the 32nd minute, it was clear the Germans were in real trouble. Even after equalizing, Germany struggled to pull ahead of this surprisingly stubborn Swedish side. Seconds from the final whistle, though, German midfielder Toni Kroos curved a free-kick past Sweden’s keeper, igniting a ninety-fifth-minute celebration that seemed to spell the end to Germany’s unexpected early struggles.

South Korea Shocks the Soccer World: Matchday three in Group F had a few more surprises in store for World Cup fans. A strong Mexican side, who started the tournament with two victories, seemed destined to advance to the knockout phase. The Swedes had other plans, though, pushing Mexico closer and closer to elimination with each of their three goals en route to a 3-0 victory that guaranteed Sweden’s place in the knockout round. Everything was setting up for world-number-one-ranked Germany to advance with a victory over fifty-seventh ranked South Korea, sending Mexico home. But a funny thing happened on the way to the knockout phase. South Korea held back the German onslaught for over ninety minutes. The Germans threatened often in the first minute of stoppage time, and a German victory seemed well within their grasp. Then the unexpected happened: Korea scored. Even down a goal in stoppage time, the seemingly invincible Germans still had hope until wandering goalkeeper Manuel Neuer gave away the ball 70 yards from his goal, igniting a breakaway that sent the reigning world champions packing. Korea 2, Germany 0, a score line that was all but unthinkable a few weeks ago.

Argentina Survives the Group Stage: With the Germans gone, 2014’s other finalists, Argentina, were determined to avoid the same fate. Anything but a victory from Lionel Messi and company against Nigeria would have ensured their early exit. Messi struck early, deftly

controlling a fifty-yard pass without breaking stride and slotting the ball home for a 1-0 lead that put Argentina on track for the second round. Nigeria refused to bow out quietly, equalizing on a 49th-minute penalty that pushed the Argentines to the brink of elimination again. As the seconds counted down and the frustration mounted, Argentina seemed destined to go home early until a dramatic eighty-seventh minute strike from Marcos Rojo secured their place in the knockout round.

With such a surprising and entertaining group stage over, soccer fans can only hope for more of the same from the knockout stage of the tournament.

The 2018 World Cup is setting up to be a memorable one, and as the stakes get higher, the quality of play and the drama are set to rise as well. You can catch all the upcoming action on Fox Sports as the knockout phase continues.

The 2018 World Cup Final will be at 8 p.m. on Sunday, July 15.

Crossword Solution

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