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This week, in honor of the 49 people that were killed in the Orlando shooting, we’ve decided to publish each of the victim’s names below.

Our sympathy goes out to their loved ones in this time of tragedy. Our regular (Wo)man on the Street will return next week.

•Stanley Almodovar III, 23 •Amanda Alvear, 25 •Oscar A Aracena-Montero, 26 •Rodolfo Ayala-Ayala, 33 •Antonio Davon Brown, 29 •Darryl Roman Burt II, 29 •Angel L. Candelario-Padro, 28 •Juan Chevez-Martinez, 25 •Luis Daniel Conde, 39 •Cory James Connell, 21 •Tevin Eugene Crosby, 25 •Deonka Deidra Drayton, 32 •Simon Adrian Carrillo Fernandez, 31 •Leroy Valentin Fernandez, 25 •Mercedez Marisol Flores, 26 •Peter O. Gonzalez-Cruz, 22 •Juan Ramon Guerrero, 22 •Paul Terrell Henry, 41 •Frank Hernandez, 27 •Miguel Angel Honorato, 30 •Javier Jorge-Reyes, 40 •Jason Benjamin Josaphat, 19 •Eddie Jamoldroy Justice, 30 •Anthony Luis Laureanodisla, 25 •Christopher Andrew Leinonen, 32 •Alejandro Barrios Martinez, 21 •Brenda Lee Marquez McCool, 49 •Gilberto Ramon Silva Menendez, 25 •Kimberly Morris, 37 •Akyra Monet Murray, 18 •Luis Omar Ocasio-Capo, 20 •Geraldo A. Ortiz-Jimenez, 25 •Eric Ivan Ortiz-Rivera, 36 •Joel Rayon Paniagua, 32 •Jean Carlos Mendez Perez, 35 •Enrique L. Rios, Jr., 25 •Jean C. Nives Rodriguez, 27 •Xavier Emmanuel Serrano Rosado, 35 •Christopher Joseph Sanfeliz, 24 •Yilmary Rodriguez Solivan, 24 •Edward Sotomayor Jr., 34 •Shane Evan Tomlinson, 33 •Martin Benitez Torres, 33 •Jonathan Antonio Camuy Vega, 24 •Juan P. Rivera Velazquez, 37 •Luis S. Vielma, 22 •Franky Jimmy Dejesus Velazquez, 50 •Luis Daniel Wilson-Leon, 37 •Jerald Arthur Wright, 31

DEAR READERS,

It’s been a tough week for us all.

I’d like to express our deepest sympathy for the victims of the Orlando shooting earlier this week. Our hearts go out to everyone touched by this tragedy, especially the LGBT community across the nation. Here at the Reader, we support the LGBT community wholeheartedly. Personally, I’ll never support any individual or organization that discriminates against anyone because of their religion, skin color, sexual preference or identity. This is not about being conservative or liberal, it’s not about being gay or straight, it’s about being human.

We seem to be slipping into a political quagmire when it comes to gay rights in America. Last year, when the Supreme Court made gay marriage legal nationwide, I felt like we were finally one step closer to accepting LGBT individuals as human beings whose rights are just as inalienable as the rest. Now, with all of these “bathroom bills” springing up around the country that essentially find a new loophole to discriminate against LGBT individuals, it’s almost like the old “one step forward, two steps back” routine.

The state of Idaho has a long way to go to show their support for greater humanity. After all these years of arguing before the state legislature, Idaho has still failed to add the words “sexual orientation” and “sexual identity” to the Idaho Human Rights Act. Since the words are not included in the act, LGBT individuals still face potential discrimination in workplace, housing, public accommodation and educational disputes. The proposed bill keeps getting kicked down the road by the Republican-majority legislature, despite the fact that a recent poll shows two out of three Idahoans support it. Meanwhile, we pass bills that allow anyone over 21 years old to carry a concealed firearm without a permit. Meanwhile, we waste important legislative time discussing unconstitutional bills like the “Bible in schools” bill that Gov. Otter vetoed. Meanwhile, 78,000 uninsured Idahoans will go another year without health insurance because the Idaho Legislature neglected to close the Medicaid gap.

On top of all this, Gov. Otter has expressed interest in joining 11 states suing the Obama administration over the President’s so-called “bathroom directive,” mandating that public schools and universities allow transgender students to use restrooms, showers, and overnight accommodations of their identified gender.

We certainly do have a long way to go, Idaho. Do your part, dear readers, and vote this November. We can be the change we wish to see.

-Ben Olson, Publisher

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COMMENTARY Muhammad Ali and the power of pride

By Nick Gier Reader Columnist

Muhammad Ali taught us all that, whatever color you are, whatever religion you are, you can be proud of who you are.

—Bill Clinton Most of the nation’s founders were intellectuals who drew moral and political lessons from ancient philosophy. With regard to pride, they would have been aware that Aristotle ranked it as a virtue second only to wisdom. They would also have known that in the Christian tradition pride was one of the seven deadly sins.

In Sunday School we are taught that boasting is a sin, but the previous Friday or Saturday we were out rooting for our athletic teams with unabashed pride. It is also still common to see the 9/11 bumper sticker “The Power of Pride.”

The Greek philosopher Aristotle said that pride is knowing what we have accomplished and freely acknowledging that we have done it. Aristotle did not respect people who hid their lights under a bushel.

NPR’s inspiring series This I Believe ended with an essay

by Muhammad Ali, and he sounded just like the brash young boxer we knew in the 1960s. Ali said that he was still the greatest and that everyone

could succeed just as he did.

Ali was unwittingly following Aristotle when he once proclaimed, “It ain’t bragging if you can do it.”

Normally we would not tolerate people who say that they are the greatest even though they may have accomplished much. Do we give Ali a pass because he was a unique personality, or because he was one of the greatest boxers of all time, or because of his great humanitarian accomplishments while crippled with Parkinson’s disease?

As a young black man, facing brutal discrimination at every turn, Ali felt that he had no choice but to lash out and refuse to be yet another “white man’s Negro.” Black athletes were expected to be kind, civil, and grateful, but not Ali. Here is one of his most provocative statements: “I am America. I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky, my name not yours. My religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.” Not only did we get used to him, but we have made him, rightfully so, into a national hero.

Newspapers persisted in referring to him by his “slave name” Cassius Clay, and Time

Walk on the Left Side...

Dear Editor, Just a tip for your readers: Since Sandpoint is a walking town, it is much safer and more legal to walk on the left facing traffic and bikers on the right with traffic.

I live on Larch and I see mothers with strollers walking on the right and not even checking traffic as they try and navigate around trash bins in the street. Not safe!

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at the cop shop, but it doesn’t seem to be enforced. Also if a walker is accidentally hit by a car while walking illegally on the right (incorrect) side of the road, the driver will probably not be cited. I hope this helps.

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magazine called him “Gaseous Cassius.” Even Howard University, America’s finest black school, blocked him from speaking in a campus hall.

With regard to the Vietnam War, he was defiant: “I ain’t got no quarrel with them Viet Cong. Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?”

He had of course more to say: “They never called me nigger, they never lynched me, they didn’t put no dogs on me, they didn’t rob me of my nationality, rape or kill my mother and father.”

Ali converted to Islam and took a new name that means “beloved of Allah.” His spiritual journey took him from the radical black nationalism of Malcom X (he said that he never believed that white men were devils), then to orthodox Sunni Islam and finally

to the peace-loving Sufis. His favorite author was the Indian Sufi Hazrat Inayat Khan, who founded the Sufi Order of the West and who believed in the unity of all religions.

The Muslim world honored Ali, and the king of Muslim Jordan and president of Muslim attended his funeral. The United Nations made him “A Messenger of Peace,” and in 1985 he was successful bringing back four Americans held in Beirut, Lebanon.

In 1990, six weeks before Saddam Hussein in-

vaded Kuwait, Ali traveled to Baghdad and secured the release of 15 American hostages.

In his autobiography Ali writes: “I guess I’d settle for being remembered only as a great boxer who became a leader and a champion of his people,” and with a twinkle in his eye and a glimmer of true humility, adds: “And I wouldn’t even mind if folks forgot how pretty I was.”

The Greek word megalopsychia, which we translate as “pride,” literally means “having a great soul.” Muhammad Ali was definitely a great soul, but not the greatest. May this fierce yet gentle soul rest in peace and may he continue to be an inspiration to us all.

Nick Gier of Moscow taught philosophy and religion at the University of Idaho for 31 years.

Read all of his columns on civil rights at http://webpages. uidaho.edu/ngier/ civilrights.htm.

PERSPECTIVES

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Writer s block of thrones Sometimes I open up my laptop, and the words just fly off my fingertips on to the page. Other times I open it, and I freeze.

I have a chance to say something, and people will read it, and they will laugh or get pissed or high-five me in the street, but maybe it will suck.

Maybe my column will suck a date you thought was going so well, but when it came down to go-time, the night ended with a high-five right into the friendzone.

It’s hard to perform under that kind of pressure. It’s hard to write a column when the world around you feels like you are smack-dab in the middle of George R. R. Martin’s “Game of Thrones” saga. I’m going to clarify this for you, dear reader: “Game of Thrones” is a book series and an HBO series. If you haven’t heard of it, I’m surprised you are reading my column, because seriously? “Game” is the shit.

Warning: This analogy is going to work much better for the normal people (the ones who read books, watch TV or have heard of the Internet) .

If the United States is the seven kingdoms—clearly, Donald Trump is Joffery Baratheon and Hillary is Stannis Baratheon; they are the strongest competitors for crown. The Trumps and Clintons have pedigrees, money, “armies,” and they are willing to go to unthinkable measures to rule.

Meanwhile the average American is like a member of the Stark family: divided, separated and weakened by the constant negative politics. If you watch the show, everyone’s favorite house is Stark. I think it’s because the Starks don’t really give a shit about what is going on in the political landscape.

The Starks are sick of being pawns,

trapped by their civic duties. If you are a Stark in “Game of Thrones,” you are either trying to get back home or dead.

The average American like the Stark family—they don’t want to play games anymore.

Of course, none of this political hierarchy matters, because winter is coming. When winter arrives in “Game of Thrones,” everyone who can’t work together will be killed by an ice zombie hoard. Here in our kingdom—in America—we are so busy arguing about things like Hillary’s emails, Donald’s exotic comb-over and where people are allowed to take a shit at Target that we are oblivious. Americans do not live in a George R. R. Martin novel, but we do live amongst human-monsters hiding in plain sight with semi-automatic weapons taking the lives of beautiful, innocent human beings indiscriminately.

Life and George R. R. Martin kill off our favorite characters gruesomely, without warning, and our hearts hurt, sometimes forever.

When I miss a column for a week, it’s because instead of becoming inspired by the events around me, I become literarily impotent. I don’t know if literary impotence is a real thing, and I only have a cursory understanding of sexual impotence. In fact, most of my knowledge of impotence was provided to me by a college roommate.

My roommate came home frustrated one night because he talked to his grandmother on the phone earlier, and he told her a bunch of lies. Later, when the liar went to have intimate relations with his female friend, he couldn’t rise to the occasion. He explained that he couldn’t emotionally move past the lies and overcome his flaccid issue, until he apologized to his grandma.

I get it. I feel like I can’t write anything hilarious without at least acknowledging that there are more important things going on in the world than trying to get a date in Sandpoint, Idaho.

There is no Viagra for writers. We have to figure out how to draw inspi-

ration from our lives, imagination and surroundings, even when we don’t want to have anything to do with them.

I don’t want my readers to think that I am oblivious to reality. I just prefer to focus on the parts of life that make it worth the struggle. A story is just a story without gratuitous sex, booze and the possibility of dragons. Those are the things that make everything we go through worth it.

Having said that, I think I will be finally able to climax… literarily.

I hope you are all gearing up for an amazing summer.

Enjoy the amazing place we call home. Be a Stark. Make yourself king of your castle, and try to forget about the war going on around you once in a while.

Or be Tyrion. He drinks, and he knows things.

XOXO, SQ

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NEWS Community mourns Orlando shooting

By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff

The tears started early Monday at a candlelight vigil for the victims of the Orlando shooting and kept flowing throughout the night.

Local residents—and some out-of-towners—visited Farmin Park to stand vigil for the victims and against hatred and violence.

While stubborn breezes made the candlelight portion of the event a bit difficult to maintain, the sincerity of the words spoken carried its own power.

“The candles might blow out, but they can’t take our light,” said one meeting attendee.

Event co-organizer Jeff Bohnhof opened the meeting with an emotional recounting of his reaction to the Sunday shooting. He recalled accounts of the massacre’s aftermath, where the silence was frequently broken by the phone calls from the victims’ loved ones.

He also remembered reports of Muslims turning out to donate blood despite their fasting for Ramadan.

“The last few days have pretty much broken my heart,” he said. “What happened shouldn’t happen anywhere.”

Members of Sandpoint’s faith community turned out in a bid for peace and tolerance.

Pastor Andy Kennaly of Sandpoint First Presbyterian Church led the gathering in a short prayer, saying the loss of life in Orlando diminished the entire human family.

“These were your children, enjoying an evening of music and friendship, whose lives were ended in a hail of hatred and gunfire,” he said.

“It wasn’t just a nightclub,” he added.

“It was a place of refuge, because many had been kicked out of their churches.”

Likewise, Pastor Bob Evans recalled the maxim across many faiths commanding people to love their neighbor as themselves.

“We are all neighbors,” he said. “Let us learn to be neighbors.”

The gathering was just one of several held around Idaho, which in turn joined the rest of the nation in mourning the Orlando shooting. As Jessica Chilcott, who closed the gathering, observed, it was a fleeting moment of countrywide solidarity in the face of tragedy.

“We will not let terror take our joy away from us,” she said. “We will not let terror take our community away from us.”

Around 60 people gathered at Farmin Park for a candlelight vigil Monday. Photo by Ben Olson.

Public invited to help reform parking There are fewer longer-standing local complaints than local parking. Mayor Shelby Rognstad hopes to improve the situation.

City officials invite the public to attend a pair of parking planning meetings this week. According to Sandpoint City Administrator Jennifer Stapleton, the meetings are an opportunity to provide feedback and propose solutions. They are scheduled for June 16, 5:30 p.m., at the Pend d’Oreille Winery, 301 Cedar Street, and June 17, 9:00 a.m., at Tango Café, 6 /

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414 Church Street. The meetings will pave the way for council consideration of the reforms on July 6.

The proposed reforms include a new system to enforce parking ticket collections. Under this system, vehicles with at least six parking tickets more than 45 days old will be added to a scofflaw list and immobilized with a booting device.

To date, there are 44 vehicles that qualify, with 949 outstanding fines and late fees adding up to around $56,000. [CR]

Boiseans show solidarity with victims of Orlando mass shooting

By Harrison Berry Contributor

Approximately 70 Boiseans attended a rally at the Idaho State Capitol in solidarity with the victims of the attack in Orlando, Fla. Photo by Harrison Berry.

Nearly 100 people attended a rally at the Idaho Capitol steps the morning of June 12 to show their solidarity with the victims of yet another mass shooting— this time, at a Orlando, Fla., gay nightclub. The incident left at least 50 dead and another 53 wounded, and is being called the most deadly mass shooting in United States history.

“I feel like something like what happened in Orlando could happen here as well,” said Joseph Kibbe, one of the Boise rally’s attendees and an organizer of this year’s Pride events in Boise.

The shooting started in the early morning hours of June 12 at Pulse, a gay nightclub. It escalated into a hostage situation and police reportedly drove a vehicle into the nightclub in an attempt to rescue people trapped inside. When they entered, they found the suspect, Omar Mateen, 29, of Port Luce, Fla., dead inside.

Kibbe said in the wake of the shooting, one person posted a threat on the Boise Pridefest Facebook page, including detailed descriptions of violence and weapons. Kibbe and other Pridefest leaders removed the post from the page and contacted the Boise Police Department. As yet, Pridefest has not announced additional security measures for this year’s event, but officials with Add the Words Idaho cautioned attendees at vigils for those slain in Orlando to “exercise caution and have a safety plan in mind at these events.”

“This tragedy underscores the importance of adding the words ‘sexual orientation and gender identity’ to Idaho’s Human Rights Act,” stated Gaona Lincoln, chairwoman of Add the Words Idaho in a news release. “It’s terrifying that in Idaho, only those living in 12 cities would be protected from discrimination, and some would have to hesitate before contacting authorities for fear of being outed.”

This most recent act of anti-gay terror has left Kibbe and others shaken.

“It’s serious. This could be a potential threat,” he said.

Speaking before the crowd, Liberation Spirit Metropolitan Community Church Pastor Renee McCall issued a call to action, imploring attendees to meet the violence with love and not let it affect this year’s Pride events.

“We need to not let this stop us from celebrating our pride. Let us not have this repeated in Boise, Idaho, during our festival,” she said.

Boise Democratic Sen. Cherie Buckner-Webb fought through tears to talk about the responsibility members of the LGBT community have in addressing the shooting.

“I ask you to try to counter this attack with love and peace,” she said. “We are tied in a web of mutuality, and we must remain strong.”

The mass shooting in Orlando is the most recent in a series of incidents of violence directed at members of the LGBT community, including in Idaho. In late April, four men lured Steven Nelson, a Boise State University employee and openly gay advocate for equality, to a remote location near Lake Lowell in Canyon County with the promise of sex for money, where they stripped, robbed and beat him, kicking him in the head more than 30 times. The suspects have been charged with first-degree murder, but the office of the U.S. district attorney has not yet ruled out charging them with federal hate crimes, as well.

Drawing a connection between the shooting in Orlando and Nelson’s murder, Kibbe said it’s a shame Idaho’s malicious harassment law—which enhances sentences for violent crimes motivated by race, religion or sex—does not cover sexual orientation or gender identity.

“We don’t have a mechanism in place to prosecute these individuals. What message does that send to the community?” he said. “This is real and very fresh for this community.”

This story originally appeared in the Boise Weekly.

OPINION ‘We are dancing, dancing for our lives’ Public statement by

By Jim Healey Reader Contributor Once again we are faced with the senseless actions of a lost soul.

The ever-so-familiar discourse replays anew. President Obama stands in front of a microphone and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. All of the appropriate people—Trump, Clinton, Sanders, the governor of Florida, the mayor of Orlando, representatives from different LGBT groups, and so on—are outraged and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. The talking heads on Fox News, CNN, and CNBC are devoting countless television hours to blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Nation-wide vigils are held, candles are lit, and flowers are placed on makeshift tributes.

Tears are shed, the grieving process unfolds, and soon the recent dead become mere numbers—filed under the category of “the deadliest mass shooting in the United States.” The noise increases, and it then becomes political, cultural, and religious. Lines are drawn, positions are outlined, and wagons are circled.

Days pass here in Sandpoint, and soon it will be Fourth of July. Summer winds down, and it is time to pick huckleberries and watch the shortening of days. Then Thanksgiving and Christmas and a new year, and the Pulse in Orlando joins the growing list of other places—such as Columbine High School; Sandy Hook Elementary School; Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colo.; Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virg.; Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C.; and the Regional Center in San Bernardino—where mass shootings occurred.

Life continues on as we know it except for the families, friends, and acquaintances of

those whose lives were extinguished by Omar Mateen.

Do I sound cynical? Do I sound like I am “comfortably numb” with news such as what happened in Orlando? Maybe I’m tired. Maybe I’m frustrated feeling powerless once again.

Maybe I don’t know what to do.

Move over, ostrich. I need more sand in which to bury my head.

But wait! Isn’t this the easy thing to do? I mean, “What can I do up here in North Idaho?”

Well, begin in your home, at school, in your neighborhood, at church, at the health club, around the campfire, at work; wherever you find yourself.

Claim ownership of your environment and take a stand against hate. When you hear the word “nigger” used, say, “Ouch!” When someone calls another person “faggot” in your presence, say, “Ouch!”

The next time you hear Hillary Clinton referred to as a “bitch,” say, “Ouch!” And the next time you hear someone saying that he/she “jewed” a price down at a yard sale, say, “Ouch!”

Let family members, friends, and daily contacts know that hate and how it is expressed is never, ever tolerated.

Thanks to Idaho’s “Add the Words” campaign (www. addthewords.org), the word “ouch” is empowering. You are letting other people know that your ears find hateful language offensive and unacceptable.

Hateful words that people use do not exist in a vacuum. Language embodies attitudes, beliefs, and worldviews. Change begins with you. One person and one word at a time.

Now, I am not so foolish as

to believe that “ouch” could have stopped or even made a difference to Omar Mateen.

But isn’t it scary to live in a world where witnessing two men kissing in public—something which straight people do all the time—could possibly set in motion the tragic events that occurred at Orlando’s Pulse?

Me? I realize that I could be jailed or even executed in some countries because I am a homosexual. In fact, I don’t even have to leave the shores of this country to become a casualty of another person’s hate. Matthew Shepard comes to mind along with the murdered people at the Pulse. And there are people here in North Idaho who hate me for who I am. That is just the way things are. For right now.

But there are also people who love me for who I am, my gayness included. I will never let my life be defined by the Omar Mateens of the world.

I find comfort in the lyrics of Holly Near’s “Singing for Our Lives”:

Let family members, friends, and daily contacts know that hate and how it is expressed is never, ever tolerated.

We are a gentle, angry people We are a justice-seeking people We are young and old together We are a land of many colors We are gay and straight together We are a gentle, loving people And we are singing, singing for our lives.

After the dead have been eulogized and buried, after all the tributes have been said and after all the candles have gone out, you will find me on the dance floor of the Pulse in Orlando. Come join me for “we are dancing, dancing for our lives.”

Bonner County Human Rights Task Force

By Lynn Bridges President, BCHRTF Reader Contributor Sunday we awoke yet again to violence and hate.

When I learned about the events in Orlando my heart ached. It ached for the victims of the shootings; it ached for the families and loved ones of the victims; it ached for the children who may have lost one or more parents; it ached for us as a country facing the reality of mass shootings that just seems to creep ever higher.

My heart also aches for Muslim Americans who may be targeted as a result of this heinous crime even though they are as shocked and saddened at the news.

It appears that this is a crime of not only terrorism but of hate as well. The target group at Pulse nightclub was the LGBTQ community. They were targeted for no reason other than their sexual orientation or sexual identity. This is not the first time the LGBTQ community has been the targeted group.

The mission of the BCHRTF is to promote and secure mutual understanding and respect among all people.

BCHRTF recognizes that it is the racial, social and cultural diversity of our people that makes Bonner County a rich and worthwhile place to live.

We support the LGBTQ community not only in Bonner County but also across the nation. We stand with you in support and prayer for your grief and loss. We stand with you as voices that say no more.

As a community we can no longer choose non-action.

We must stand together and embrace our humanity. This is

not to say we don’t have differences but that we come to the table and have civil discourse.

As community members we need to attend public meetings and speak about our convictions, without fear of harassing comments. It is only through our acceptance of differences that we will find our common ground.

Local blood supplies ‘critically low’ There’s no better time to donate blood.

According to representatives of Inland Northwest Blood Center, blood supplies are critically low. The word “critically” isn’t used lightly, either—that’s the center’s official status.

Despite reporting that blood donated in the Northwest will be sent to Orlando, officials confirmed that all blood remains within the area. To donate, visit inbcsaves.org or call (800) 423-0151 and press 1.

You can schedule an appointment or search for the next organized blood drive. [CR]

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The Puppy Whisperer:

The benefits of training service dogs for the disabled

By Ben Olson Reader Staff Bouquets: •The Bonner County Human Rights Task Force deserves a bouquet for their dedication to human rights in North Idaho. It was touching to see such a good presence at the candlelight vigil on Monday evening, and even more touching to know that this group of individuals are looking out for our human rights.

•The Community Assistance League recently awarded 16 high school graduates $33,000 in scholarships. I was a recipient of a CAL scholarship when I graduated SHS in 1999, and I can say that every little bit helps when it comes to college tuition.

I’m so impressed with the assistance that CAL gives our community. Not only did they award these scholarships, but they gave out $91,500 in grants to Bonner County nonprofits this spring. To support CAL, shop at Bizarre Bazaar thrift store in Sandpoint.

Barbs: •In the wake of the Orlando shooting, it seems the best response would be one of compassion, empathy and consolation.

In the case of Donald Trump, it was a chance to toot his own horn. I am disgusted by the fact that instead of mourning the 49 victims of the shooting, he wrote, “Appreciate the congrats for being right about radical Islam terrorism,” and set off a firestorm of disapproval from all over the political spectrum.

This was a chance for him to act presidential, but instead he acted like an opportunistic narcissist.

Such a shame that the GOP is likely choosing this man to represent them in the 2016 election.

Locally, Rep. Heather Scott decided to share an image on her personal Facebook page of a cartoon depicting a tree labeled “Islam” with a man labeled “Liberals” watering it. There is a noose around the man’s neck, tied around the trunk of the tree.

Classy move, Rep. Scott.

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Lilly Mitsui might just be known as the “Puppy Whisperer” from this point forth.

She is currently training her third service dog for the disabled, and loves every moment of it. “[My husband] Jim had never had a dog, so I thought this was a good way for us to try it out,” said Mitsui.

Mitsui became involved with Canine Companions for Independence, a national nonprofit organization that provides service dogs for people with disabilities, and is currently raising Falcon—a Labrador/ golden retriever cross.

Canine Companions for Independence is one of the most highly regarded service dog associations in the country.

“A lot of people don’t realize that there are guide dogs for all disabilities, not just the blind,” said Mitsui.

Canine Companions places service dogs to people that are wheelchair bound, and also those with multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, spinal cord injuries, hearing impaired and more.

“These dogs are trained to pull wheelchairs, pick things up off the ground, open drawers,” said Mitsui. “They’re really special dogs.”

For Mitsui, raising service dogs is a passion that truly gives back. Since the demand for trained service dogs is high—the waiting list usually has around 400 people on it—Mitsui hopes others in the community will show interest in raising these special dogs.

“My goal is to bring the attention to what these dogs do for the disabled and get more puppy raisers here in the community,” she said.

The process is pretty straight-forward: After the puppies are weaned at 8 weeks old, they are provided to the trainers by Canine Companions. The trainers are asked to

Lilly Mitsui and her special pupil, Falcon. Photo by Ben Olson. work with the dogs for 30 to 45 minutes per day, focusing mostly on positive reinforcement and social skills.

“One thing that people should know is that they aren’t supposed to pet a service dog without asking,” said Mitsui.

“When they have their vest on, they’re working and shouldn’t be distracted. When they’re with the disabled partner, they have to be the main focus.”

After a year and a half of training, the dog is then turned into the Santa Rosa, Calif. facility, where they will continue onto “graduate school” for an additional six to eight months of advanced training. The

training standards are so high that only 45 percent of these dogs make it through their grad school and get placed with a disabled individual.

The dogs that do make it are then matched with a compatible partner, who then spends the next two weeks in their own version of obedience school learning the commands the dogs already know. The best part?

Canine Companions provides these dogs 100-percent free of charge to the disabled. When trained service dogs are valued at $50,000 apiece, this is indeed quite a service.

Mitsui acknowledges that after a year and a half of

raising and training a dog, it’s often hard to give them up.

“I’m not going to tell you I don’t fall in love with every one of the dogs I train,” she said. “When you see what happens with the family you’re giving the dogs to, however, it’s all worth it.”

Mitsui gets the honor to present Falcon to his new family upon “graduation.” If Falcon never graduates from his final training, she has the first right to welcome him back to her home.

Mitsui pointed out that it’s important to train these service dogs correctly not only so they’ll serve their new masters well, but also because of the inordinate amount of “fake service dogs” there are in the community.

“I love how dog-friendly Sandpoint is, but I’ve never seen so many fake service dogs in my life,” she said. “All people have to do is go online and spend $25 to get a vest that says they have a service dog.

That’s wrong. It’s like parking in a disabled parking space.”

Though it may seem tempting to order a vest online without having a trained and certified animal, it’s actually quite detrimental to all parties involved.

“If a dog is not trained to be a service dog and he misbehaves or is dirty or not paying attention … it gives a bad name to service dogs and the disabled community,” said Mitsui. “I believe a lot of people are doing this and don’t realize what they’re doing is wrong.

It’s a serious problem.”

Mitsui said to always look for a reputable organization such as Canine Companions or Leader Dogs when searching for a service animal In the end, training service dogs is another way for Mitsui to volunteer her time for a noble cause: “You can write a check, or you can raise a puppy. It’s a lot of fun and a lot of work, but it’s always worth it.”

For more information, go to www.cci.org.

Tamarack Aerospace taking flight

A Cessna CJ with Tamarack winglets takes flight. Photo by Jim Ramsey.

By Jim Ramsey Reader Contributor

When Tamarack Aerospace Group announced last month the first customer installation of its “ATLAS” active winglet system, it served notice that it is a major player in Sandpoint’s growing reputation as an aerospace center.

Engineering and test work is centered in a hangar just south of the airport fixed-base operator building, while component assembly work and quality control is located at a facility on Ontario Street. Tamarack currently has 25 employees, nine of which work at the Ontario facility. As Tamarack expands, it will add employees, the company says.

Founded by inventor Nick Guida, Tamarack is now offering its active winglet system, which he describes as a “game changer,” for an entire series of Cessna business jets. It is also being closely looked at by Learjet, Dassault Falcon and other business jet makers.

The first customer installation was on a Cessna Citation CJ operated by a private-hire firm in Zurich, Switzerland.

It chose the Tamarack system “because of the significant fuel savings and the extended range it will allow us to offer our guests, “ said JetPingu pilot Hugo Dobler.

“Today we installed the world’s most efficient winglets on a customer aircraft,” Guida said. “The active winglets are two to three times more efficient than previous designs.

This is a very exciting milestone for everyone at Tamarack Aerospace.”

Winglets are the small upturned sections you see at the end of an airplane’s wings. Fairly new since the past decade, these winglets provide added lift and are key to increasing aircraft fuel efficiency, critical to operators when prices for jet and aviation fuel are high. They also reduce takeoff distance— allowing operation out of smaller, secondary airports—and enable higher cruise altitudes for “overflying” adverse weather. Winglets are a standard feature on most new transport and business aircraft ranging from Boeing 737s and 747s to a number of business jets.

Prior to active winglet availability, passive winglets required the strengthening of the wings, which grounded the aircraft until work was completed. In contrast, Tamarack’s ATLAS system incorporates a “load-alleviation device,” an active control system actuator that drives small moveable surfaces to counter and alleviate wing load, according to.

“That negates the need for additional wing structure, reducing downtime, “ said Hal

Gates, an aeronautical engineer who started work at Tamarack as an intern.

The ATLAS system also increases aircraft stability when encountering in-fight turbulence, he added. Last January, the European Aviation Safety Agency(EASA) granted a supplemental type certificate (STC) for the Tamarack system to be installed on the CitationJet and its variants the CJ, and C J1.

In the U.S, FAA certification for the system is expected this summer, Guida said. “We

are already planning modifications to larger aircraft for which we have predicted similar improvements in fuel economy,” he added.

The approvals culminate a three-year program involving more than 300 flight test hours on a testbed CJ C525 aircraft. In 2013, the Sandpoint company signed an agreement allowing Cessna to sell, market and install the active winglets on its CJ series in the aftermarket. (Installations take place at Cessna-authorized Textron

Aviation Service Centers).

“We do all the quality control, assembly, inspection and acceptance testing of the ATLAS components [at the Ontario Street facility],” said Danny Hiner, production manager. “We also kit, ship and run product support from the site.”

The work includes that with composites but “we receive the components fully assembled to our type design,” Hiner added.

“We do the final quality check on them.”

Tamarack employee Eric Schneider takes a 3D scan of a faro arm at the Ontario Street facility. Photo by Ben Olson.

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Patrick Orton Scholarship winner announced

By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff There’s no question about it: Following your dreams takes courage. Fortunately for Jordan Kamauoha, she has a little help to set her on her way.

Kamauoha, 17, is an artist interested in studio art, carving, video creation and more. As she neared the end of her high school education this year, Kamauoha began searching for a path to turn her creative interests into a career. She found a valuable ally in Kristina and George Orton of the Live Your Dreams scholarship.

Set up in memory of the Ortons’ son, Patrick Orton, the Live Your Dreams scholarship offers financial assistance to students trying to turn their passion into a livelihood. An adventure and outdoor sports photographer, Patrick Orton died at the age of 24 in an accident. His parents determined to spread his passion for creative exploration by establishing a scholarship for students following his footsteps.

That certainly describes Kamauoha. Her artistic sensibilities are informed by a youth spent absorbing many places and cultures. Shortly before her sophomore year, her family moved to American Samoa. Kamauoha, herself half-Samoan, became fascinated with the culture’s tribal art and carvings.

“I was aware of my roots but never really connected with them,” she said. “It was a cool experience to see more of my own background.” “[The experience] made me who I am today,” she added.

Kamauoha moved to Sandpoint last July after her father, Edwin Kamauoha, took a job in town. She quickly developed a reputation among her art teachers as a driven and curious creative mind. According to her father, it’s a quality she demonstrated since her childhood.

“She’s a self-starter, and she’s not demanding at all,” he said.

“She works with what she has.”

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By Reader Staff

A newly formed nonprofit organization called 101 Women Sandpoint has announced two grant opportunities.

The group is offering two $10,000 grants per year to Bonner County nonprofits organizations. The group’s funding includes a wide focus area with only religious and political groups being excluded.

“This is a wonderful opportunity for a group of smaller donors to join forces to show their support for the community they love,” said 101 Women board member Angie Dail.

Interested applicants are asked to submit an online application by July 15 for the fall award, or March 15 for the spring award. Three applicants

will be chosen from those that apply. These top three applicants will be asked to present their organization’s purpose and need for funding at one of 101 Women’s bi-annual meetings. The club’s membership will then cast their votes to choose the winning organization, who will receive the $10,000 grant award.

101 Women is a membership group made up of—you guessed it—101 local women. The group is continually accepting and encouraging new members to register for future opportunities.

Member information and registration is available at the groups website: www.101womensandpoint.wildapricot.org or by emailing 101womensandpoint@gmail.com.

Take your dad into the woods for Father’s Day

By Reader Staff

Jordan Kamauoha, 17, is the winner of the 2016 Patrick Ortan Live Your Dreams Scholarship. Photo by Ben Olson. mauoha takes inspiration from the cultural icons of the past. She enjoys classic film and music and uses it as a focus for her artwork, exploring the personas of musicians like Jimi Hendrix or actors like Audrey Hepburn and Lauren Bacall.

In the past few years, Kamauoha started experimenting in other mediums. Video-making in particular has caught her interest, and she has found new forms of expression in editing together old clips and music. One of her first projects was a video on the free speech movement of the 1960s.

For the Ortons, Kamauoha’s singular passion leaped off the page in her scholarship application. In a year that flooded the Live Your Dreams board with 38 applications—the most it has ever received—Kamauoha distin-

guished herself by ably communicating the universality of art.

“Jordan stood out because she was more about humanity,” Kristina Orton said. “She had a much broader perspective than anyone else.”

Kamauoha’s love of cinema will take her to Santa Fe University of Art and Design, where she will major in film with an emphasis on screenwriting. As the home of Garson Studios, which takes on film and TV projects, the university represents for Kamauoha a chance to jump straight into the action.

“I’m just excited to go to an art school surrounded by people who are constantly creating things and collaborating together,” she said. “I’m really excited to completely immerse myself in that.”

FSPW outdoor ed expert Brian Baxter will share his forest knowledge on Father’s Day.

What better way to connect with your dad on Father’s Day than taking a walk in the woods?

On Father’s Day, June 19, Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness outdoor education specialist Brian Baxter and FSPW intern Kara Adam will lead an enjoyable day of learning to identify local trees, shrubs, forbs, wildflowers, grasses, sedges and fungi as well as spend some time looking at characteristics of habitats and individual species plants.

Beginning at 9 a.m. PST (10 a.m. MST), the class will follow an informative but relaxed pace as participants learn to sort out the basics of vegetative identification. Wildlife utilization, medicinal uses and Native American uses will also be discussed, and an effort will be

made to acquaint students with common and scientific names.

The class begins with an outdoor “classroom” session at Heron Community Center in Heron, Mont.. Please come prepared for the day with lunch, water, proper field clothes and boots, and personal gear. Recommended reading or field guides: “Field Guide to Forest Plants of Northern Idaho,” Patterson, Neiman, and Tonn. “Rocky Mountain Wildflowers,” Craighead and Davis.

“Plants of Southern Interior B.C.,” Paris, Coupe and Lloyd.

This FSPW hike is rated easy, with short hikes into field locations, and several “Stop and Hops!” Learn more and sign up for this free class at http://www. scotchmanpeaks.org/stewardship/events-schedule/

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Throwback Thursdays at the 219 Live 8pm @ Eichardt’s Pub 8pm @ 219 Lounge and Good until the keg’s dry Featuring live music with Brian Jacobs 7pm ULTIMATE Frisbee and friends, $2 domestics and $3 crafts. Ecle 5:30pm @ Great Northern Field Join in playing in this informal open mic Fast-moving, fun, non-contact sport with a night setting every Thursday night Frisbee! Teens and adults welcome Live Music w/ the Flying Mammals ArtWalk at IP ArtWalk Opening Reception 5:30-7:30pm @ 5:30-8:30pm @ Downtown Sandpoint 5-8pm @ Pend d’Oreille Winery The 38th annual ArtWalk kicks off all NW trio of brothers with melodic songs Live music by

over Sandpoint. Go check out the 30 Live Music w/ Harold’s IGA Winery Ann different locations of this popular an- 8pm @ Ol’ Red’s Tavern June 17-19, nual event. See page 15 for a full list The indie rock trio plays at Ol’ Red’s Tavern (the former location of the DTC) The Pend d’ of all the locations We’re finall Live Music w/ Chris Lynch Live Music w/ Miah Kohal Band drink! Come 6pm - 9pm @ Arlo’s Ristorante 9pm @ 219 Lounge live music al Loud, live and ready to roll!

Sandpoint Farmers’ Market versary sales 9am - 1pm @ Farmin Park Chafe 150 bike race Live music with Dave Walsch Sandpoint Rotary sponsors the annual Chafe Live Music w/ Mike & Sadie Wagoner benefit ride on a 150-mile route through Ida 5-8pm @ Pend d’Oreille Winery Montana. www.Chafe150.org Father/daughter duo with great collection of music WaterLife Discovery Center Bird Walk – 9-11am @ Kootenai National Wildlife Refuge 1-4pm @ WaterLife Discovery All are welcome, regardless of experience. Bring binoculars The Pend Oreille Chapter of th and/or a scope and a field guide, plus water and sun protecter Naturalist’s would like to i tion. 267-3888 for more information Live Music w/ lic to an Open House at the W Winery Anniversary Party Brian Jacobs covery Center (2100 LakeSho June 17-19, 2016 5-7pm @ Idaho Pour There will be interpretive walk Live Music w/ Chris Lynch Authority hibits and much more 6pm - 9pm @ Arlo’s Ristorante

Game Night at the Niner 9pm @ 219 Lounge Come down and take part in game night with

Sandpoint Chess Club 9am @ Evans Brothers Coffee Meets every Sunday at 9am. All are welcome Monday Night Blues Jam w/ Truck Mills 7:30pm @ Eichardt’s Pub

ULTIMATE Frisbee – 5:30pm @ Great Northe Fast-moving fun, non-contact Olympic-grade spo Frisbee! Teens and adults welcome

Parent/Grandparent Grief Group 6-7:30pm @ Bonner General Health Bonner General Health Community Hospice hosts a Parent an Karaoke Night ent Grief Group, which meets on the first and third Tuesday of 10pm - Midnight @ 219 Lounge A free community service, the support group is for parents a ents who have experienced the death of a child or grandchild.

Trivia Night 7pm - 9pm @ MickDuff’s

Sandpoint Farmers’ Market 3-5:30pm @ Farmin Park Local produce, arts and crafts, yummy grub. It’s always a good day at the Farmers’ Market. Live music with Larry Mooney Dollar Beers!

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

The Library’s Summer Reading Family Football Fun with Spokane Empire 6pm @ Memorial Field

Throwback Thursdays at the 219 7-11pm @ 219 Lounge Featuring live music with Brian Jacobs ULTIMATE Frisbee and friends, $2 domestics and $3 crafts.

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Book signing with Dave Mundell - 4-6pm @ Keokee (405 Church St.) Author Dave Mundell will be signing copies of his book “Time To Get Out” about his father’s experiences in WWII

Music Through the Ages 7pm @ First Lutheran Church (526 S. Olive St.) Pend Oreille Chorale and Orchestra presents uplifting classical music during their Music Through the Ages program. The program runs about 1 Walk at IPA -7:30pm @ Idaho Pour Authority hour 30 minutes and a reception will follow. Free and open to the public music by Marty Perron & Doug Bond Live Music w/ Still Tipsy & the Hangovers Live Music w/ 8pm @ Eichardt’s Pub Devon Wade Rockabilly all stars nery Anniversary Party 6:30-9:30pm @ ne 17-19, 2016 A Royal Gypsy Takeover MickDuff’s Beer Hall e Pend d’Oreille Winery turns 21! 6:30pm @ Evans Brothers Coffee Celebrate Third Fri’re finally old enough to legally A multifaceted event for ArtWalk featuring days with Devon nk! Come in and join the winery for the ferocious urban paintings of Biscuit Street Wade, a Sandpoint e music all weekend long, plus anni- Preacher, music by DJ Cake Mix, tribal danccountry singer sary sales on wine and merchandise ers, food and lots of fun

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Birds of Prey Northwest: Meet Live Raptors 10am-1pm @ Kootenai National Wildlife Refuge View a Golden Eagle, a Swainson’s Hawk, a Red-tailed Hawk, a Great Horned Owl, a Peregrine Falcon, an American Kestrel, and a Merlin at the Education Barn. 267-3888 WaterLife Discovery Center Open House Summer Sounds 4-6pm @ Park Place Stage (by Arlo’s) 1-4pm @ WaterLife Discovery Center An open house will be held at 2100 Lake- Featuring the music of Jake Robin. shore Dr. in Sagle. The center has a wetland Sponsored by Sandpoint B.I.D. and interpretive walk, fish pond with viewing the Holly Eve Foundation windows, natural science center, and much Live Music w/ the Dayfalls 9pm @ 219 Lounge more. Free admission. 610-6784 for info Great electronic project by Jake Robin

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A BBQ at the Sandpoint Senior Center hosted by the Injector’s Car Club.

Winery Anniversary Party $5 gets you a plate of grub and goes June 17-19, 2016 to a good cause.

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Bike Repair Workshop 3pm @ Sandpoint Library Parent and Grandpar- Learn how to take care of your favorite Tuesday of each month two-wheeled conveyance parents and grandpar3D Printing for Adults andchild. 265-1185 5pm @ Sandpoint Library Preregistration required — 263-6930

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BGH Volunteer Council Annual Scrub Sale 7am - 5pm @ Bonner General Health classrooms Uniforms & More from Spokane will provide a variety of scrubs, shoes and more during the Scrub Sale. A 10% discount applies to all purchases, with proceeds going to the BGH Employee and Volunteer Education Fund

June 25-26 Chili Cook-Off @ Trinity @ City Beach

June 25 June Bug Ball @ Sandpoint Community Hall June 26 7B Sunday @ Schweitzer Mountain Resort

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Miss Selle Pippin is the newest member of our family. Be on the lookout for this spunky little pup frockling around Sandpoint Orchard next summer! She’ll sure be excited to greet you! How can you not LOVE that face!

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Angels,Thegrizzlies and saddle sores Tour Divide: the craziest bike race you’ve never heard of

By Jen Heller Reader Contributor

On June 10, just like the second Friday in every June, several hundred people trickled into a Banff parking lot for a small gathering. They were ultra bikepackers and cycling fans, trekking in from around the world with bags full of granola bars, bivy sacks and butt cream. In the chilly, nerve-ridden gathering, stories were tossed about by fidgety riders, trying to calm butterflies and kill the slow minutes until 8 a.m.

A lot of the spandex-wearers had been here before, and many of their stories were about “that time.”

As in, that time someone woke up groggily in the dawn light next to his bike, with his half-eaten fried chicken laying on his chest, and a grizzly bear standing next to him hungrily. That day she got hypothermia—for the second time—and had a random stranger peel her from her bike, wrap her in blankets, and thaw her out while her clothes were thrown in a dryer. That midnight hour he spent pressed flat in the Colorado sage brush, hoping the truck lights scanning the field for him wouldn’t see his bike handle and start spraying the area with gunfire.

In the world of difficult bike races, there’s a couple of tiers of sanity. There’s the joy rides; there’s media-pleasers like the Tour de France; and then, there’s races that no person in their right mind should even trace on a map.

Cue the Tour Divide—the craziest race you’ve never heard of.

The Tour Divide follows the world’s longest off-pavement cycling route down the Continental Divide—up single-track and down jeep trails; winding through gravel roads or puttering along old railroad beds. Participants ride 2,745 miles from Banff to the U.S.-Mexico border, with over 170,000 feet of climbing and absolutely no outside support.

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June—Banff, Alberta and Antelope Wells, NM. Having a pack of similarly crazy people eager to ride near you (and being able to ride during June’s maximum daylight hours) makes the long haul much more interesting.

What does it mean to ride an unsupported race with an elite group of cyclists? It means, if you want to keep up with the “pack,” you’d better be able to pull off about 140 miles of riding a day; and, if you want to win this thing, you’d better set your sights closer to 200 miles per day. It means you can choose to sleep in a hotel, or in a ditch on the side of the road— whatever suits you, and whichever’s available when your legs stop moving. It means you get to carry as much food as you can fit on your bike, and when you run out, if there’s a town, you can use your credit card to buy more. (If there isn’t, you’re going to be hungry for a while).

There’s no pit crew, and there’s little encouragement of any outside help. In the past, some participants have gotten flak over getting too many smart phone tips and phone calls from family and friends. The forecasted winner of this year’s race, Mike Hall, is riding completely without a phone so he can focus on fast times. Most of the other top tier riders only use theirs once every few days to touch base with loved ones.

All that being said, no one’s riding alone. There are occasional Tour Divide “angels” along the route—people who live and work along the Divide, who watch for cyclists and take photos for worried family members. Angels pop up in a number of riders’ stories, maybe by serving an exhausted cyclist a warm meal hours after a restaurant closed, or fetching an essential piece of gear that a rider accidentally dropped along the trail.

Probably the most famous fan of the TD is a Banff resident affectionately known as “Crazy Larry.”

Last week he was out in full style, carrying a small camera and interviewing as many riders as he could reach, and giving out balloon animals to riders he recognized. In an unwritten tradition, Crazy Larry has adopted the honor of leading the Banff Grand Départ from the

YWCA to the trailhead for the race’s rolling start. Each year, as the race grows in recognition and in attendence, this grows into an ever-larger bicycle parade.

On Friday, close to 170 bicycles pulled out of the parking lot behind his colorful bike, blaring the “Rocky” theme, headed towards a new collection of ludicrous stories.

As life gets increasingly comfortable in these United States, and around the world, sporting events seem to be growing increasingly extreme. The pioneers who bushwacked their way across our mountains the first time would probably have a hard time believing that, less than 300 years later, people would be willingly facing down grizzlies without guns and charging up and down mountain roads on spindly bits of metal and rubber (then again, they would probably be in awe of our gas station convenience stores as well).

Are our lives too easy, that we now seek out such thrills? Or are longer races like this even about a thrill at all? Hard to say. Conversations with veteran TD riders are always a little unpredictable, but their enthusiasm for the long, slow slog of the race is surprisingly consistent, and seems to move beyond temporary highs into other themes—the love of being alone; the desire to be surrounded by untouched natural beauty; a promise made to oneself, or a loved one.

Whatever gets a cyclist into the race initially, once someone’s caught “the bug,” it’s not uncommon to see a rider show up at three, four, even five Tour Divides.

Maybe they’ll tweak it a little

bit—this year, they’re on a tandem bike with their spouse; the next year, they bike it NoBo (northbound) to mix things up. It’s worth remembering, too, that it often takes a couple of tries to get a finish under one’s belt—the TD only has a 50-60-percent finishing rate due to the high rate of injuries, mechanical failure and wandering off-route.

Whether they complete the race or not, time and time again the riders return. They stalk the online forums, and they show up at popular pit stops with cameras and cheery greetings. Non-racing veterans ride out to check on racers when their GPS trackers stop moving down the map, to make sure all’s well. In off season, TD riders frequent the places that fed them and housed them, particularly the infamous string of cheerful bakeries in Pie Town, NM. With all this positive energy, the Tour Divide has acquired the feeling of a large, eccentric family (albeit a family with several unhealthy obsessions).

While preparing for this year’s race (and his third time down the

The 160 riders give one last round of cheers before Banff-departing riders hit the long trail to Mexico. Photo by Hannah Tranberg. continent’s spine), last year’s winner Josh Kato mused at length on his blog about what it is that keeps him coming back. Ultimately, he said, “The times I was having the most fun were the times I was going the fastest. Riding your bike is easy. Everything else is hard.” (faroutwanderings.blogspot.com) In other words, at the end of the day, we may as well toss deep philosophical discussions aside.

The Tour Divide is just a lot of people united in the common goal of riding their bikes, to the best of their own individual limits, one difficult pedal turn at a time.

Want to follow this year’s race? Now that we’re a week in, the action is starting to heat up.

You can watch the SPOT markers move slowly down the Rockies at http://trackleaders.com/tourdivide16

Opening hearts and minds When is a song more than a song?

By Suzen Fiskin Reader Columnist I’ve mentioned taking a happiness coaching course here in town before. It’s been quite an awakening! One of the coolest ideas that I’ve embraced is that our thoughts are things. In the land of quantum physics, our thoughts literally create our reality.

I’ve learned that we can rewire our brains to be happier humans by taking a pause in our automatic thought patterns to consider other options. The mere act of taking even a few moments of reflection to shop around for different thoughts shifts our brain chemistry in wondrous ways.

As heebie jeebie as it sounds, science confirms that what we focus on expands, which is why it’s so important to focus on what we do want. Our lives are the reflection of our choices. What if we expand this idea to thoughts held by large groups of people? What are we creating en masse?

Webster’s dictionary describes a meme (“meem”) as: “an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture.”

For some mysterious reason, my mind zoomed in on the meme of our national anthem.

It’s a musical ode designed to evoke and inspire a sense of patriotism and good feelings about our country. In the world of the new thought, a meme carries the vibration of an idea into the ethers and on to 3D reality.

I’m here to make a case for reconsidering the “Star-Spangled Banner” as our unifying melodic meme for the U.S. of A. While it may have been the perfect tune to stir up pride for our young country following the War of 1812, perhaps there are better choices for resonating with the world as we know it now.

Let’s start with the melody. Even professional singers have one helluva time stretching their chops to cover the octave and a half range that this song requires.

Many a pro has hit the rocks when they didn’t start on a low enough note, which becomes abundantly clear when the high notes slap them upside their vocal cords.

What hope does Joe or Mary Schmo have when they have a hard time staying in

tune with “Puff the Magic Dragon?”

Next, we have the lyrics which are a bear to memorize. C’mon—what’s a rampart? In all my years as an American, I still don’t know the lyrics, and I know that I have lots of company! I laughed out loud when I Googled “national anthem mistakes.” There were oodles of videos of celebrities botching the words. My favorite was singer Michael Bolton who stopped mid-song and overtly read the lyrics on his palm as he struggled his way through the tune at a 2003 Red Sox vs.

Yankees ball game.

Be honest, how well can you sing our nation’s anthem? I thought so!

Okay. So we have a song that’s a national meme with lyrics that few can remember let alone understand, and a melody that takes Celine Dion to carry.

What other choices might we consider?

My top pick for an alternative anthem is “America the Beautiful.” It has a lovely and easy-to-sing melody, and lyrics that reflect the breadth of our country’s natural beauty.

Personally, I much prefer “purple mountains majesty” over “bombs bursting in air.”

How might the vibration and frequency of a nation singing about spacious skies and amber waves of grain shift from that of warbling about red, glaring rockets? We’ve enjoyed peace in our country for a total of 21 years of our 240 years of existence. Might a

new meme extend that time of harmony?

Here’s another choice to ponder. What if we expanded our idea of a national anthem to one that embraces all of humanity on our home planet? What if we shared an earth anthem that includes all of us, free from lines drawn on maps?

I googled “Earth Anthem” and listened to a number of songs that came up. My hands down favorite was by an old acquaintance of mine from California, Stephen L. Fiske. His sweet, clear voice rang true and touched my heart with his lyrics like “where our children can play in a world without war; where the rivers run clean through the forests of green.” While his words are sung to the melody of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” the difficulty of the melody melted away with his uplifting verse.

I would love to see what kind of shared magic we could create singing Stephen’s lyrics en masse. With his closing words, I wish us all great happiness, “on the planet of our birth, blessed with peace on earth.”

Even with the daunting melody, this is an anthem I can get excited about!

Suzen Fiskin is a life coach, inspirational speaker, and marketing maven.

She’s also the author of “Playboy Mansion Memoirs.” If you have any questions, here’s how to find her – (208)572-0009 or suzenfiskin@yahoo.com

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CAL scholarship winners receive awards FSPW shares summer plans for Scotchman Peak Trail

By Ben Olson Reader Staff

By Ben Olson Reader Staff Sixteen high school graduates met Wednesday at the Columbia Bank Building to receive $33,000 in scholarships from the Community Assistance League (CAL).

For graduate Nate Dillon, the scholarship will help toward a mechanical engineering degree. In the fall, he’ll attend University of Idaho, and then hopefully Cal Poly or Colorado School of Mines. Dillon wants to eventually work in a nonprofit or humanitarian environment.

Graduate Genevieve Price first heard

of the CAL scholarships in eighth grade when she was part of the CAL Teams workshop. Price plans to attend NIC this fall and eventually Lewis and Clark State College to obtain her teaching degree. She aims to teach kindergarten.

CAL not only awarded the scholarships, but also gave out $91,500 this spring to worthy nonprofits in Bonner County.

CAL has given away more than $1 million since they began their grants and scholarships program. Funds for CAL are raised primarily through their thrift store Bizarre Bazaar at 502 Church St. in Sandpoint.

Back row (L to R): Carly Orr, Katelyn Bruhjell, Sarah Wells, Corinne McClelland, Genevieve Price, Kasey Stearns, Isaac Nelson, Jacob Graham. Front row (L to R): Annie Slippy, Ian Barnes, Gavin Klein, Nathaniel Dillon, Justin Marks, Derek Lowry, Danika Moore, Greg Marks.

Photo by Ben Olson.

NY Film Critic Series screens film at Panida

By Reader Staff

Rolling Stone movie critic Peter Travers’ New York Film Critic Series is coming to the Panida.

Independent theater partners are carefully chosen for their dedication to presenting the finest films available and the NYFCS is granted to a very limited number of theaters.

Theaters chosen have demonstrated they take pride in their shows, and the Panida has recently been selected to host the series.

The Panida is the first theater selected for Idaho so far.

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broadcast from New York City.

Travers introduces the film not yet showing in theaters.

This series kicks off at the Panida Theater on Wednesday, June 22, at 7 p.m. Due to the simulcast nature there is only one showing of the film.

The first film kicking off this new series will be the pre-release screening of “The Phenom” starring Paul Giamatti, Ethan Hawke and Johnny Simmons.

The film follows major-league rookie pitcher Hopper Gibbson (Simmons), who has lost his focus. After choking on the mound, he’s sent down to the minors and prescribed sessions with an unorthodox sports therapist (Giamatti), who pushes him to uncover the origins of his anxiety. Beneath it all is his fraught relationship with his overbearing ex-con father (Ethan

Hawke), whose tough love is the source of both his success and his paralysis.

“The Phenom” is not your typical sports movie; director Noah Buschel (“Glass Chin”) brings depth and complexity to this gripping psychological portrait of an athlete at a crossroads in the big-league sports grind.

In future series events Sandpoint patrons will have the opportunity to send in questions prior to the screening. NYFCS offers an up close and personal moment with major movie stars, producers, writers and directors at the screening of the film with this special talent conversation component.

Special ticket prices will be $10 for all age levels.

For more information, check out www.panida.org.

Last summer’s fires and troubles with mountain goat encounters of the close kind conspired to keep Scotchman Peak Trail #65 closed for much of summer and fall.

The popular trail at the south end of the proposed Scotchman Peaks Wilderness was closed in mid-August when fires began on the mountain’s east flank in the West Fork of Blue Creek. When the fire season ended, the trail was kept closed because of several incidents in which mountain goats acted aggressively toward hikers.

The goats, habituated by human interaction that included hand feeding and letting the animals lick perspiration off of arms and legs, had become somewhat of a danger to humans and themselves.

Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness, in partnership with the Forest Service and Idaho Fish and Game, are endeavoring to keep Trail #65 open this year by providing education about mountain goats on site.

Over a dozen volunteer “trail ambassadors” will be hiking Scotchman on weekends and holidays to help teach humans how to—and how not to—interact with goats. They will also be sharing information about Leave No Trace and the Scotchman Peaks proposal.

Jay Sicilia, newly hired FSPW mountain goat education coordinator, will hold a training day at Scotchman Peak Trail #65 trailhead on Saturday, June 18, beginning at 10 a.m.

“I have plenty of volunteers already,” Sicilia said, “but anyone who is interested is welcome. The purpose of this program is to educate the public on mountain goat behavior and to help ensure that human interaction does not further alter the natural behaviors of these animals.”

FSPW is also planning this summer to finish a onemile trail construction project

replacing the beginning stretch of Trail #65 with a much more user-friendly section of tread.

“The first third of a mile of the old approach was basically a hike up the fall line,” said FSPW program coordinator Sandy Compton. “The new track will be much easier on the heart going up and on the knees coming down. And it’s prettier to boot.”

FSPW trail crews finished the first half mile last summer and decommissioned the fallline section of the old approach.

The plan is to finish the new tread this year by the end of September.

“We have five workdays on Trail #65 this summer, including a two-day event on September 23 and 24 to celebrate National Public Lands Day,” said Compton. “We plan to finish and dedicate the new portion of trail that weekend.”

To learn more visit www. scotchmanpeaks.org/stewardship/events-schedule

Hiking trail closes

By Ben Olson Reader Staff The popular hiking trail to Two Mouths Lake near Bonners Ferry will be closed through September 2016 due to public health and safety concerns.

In a press release by the USDA Forest Service, the trail closure states that roadwork and logging activities that Hancock Forest Management are conducting on their property have forced the closure of the trail.

The trailhead and first one and a half miles of road and trail are located on Hancock’s property. The trail runs through the logging units and log trucks will be hauling on the road, making it unsafe for travel.

COMMUNITY

Students gain national attention

By Ben Olson Reader Staff

Two school years ago, Washington Elementary School teacher Ann Dickinson started researching how she could begin teaching graphic art in her classroom.

“I wanted to find out where to begin, if there was a curriculum to teach,” said Dickinson. “I contacted the American Institute of Graphic Arts to find out where to begin, and they said, ‘Don’t teach graphic art, teach them design.’”

Dickinson found that graphic design is a profession that reaches throughout the workforce.

“It’s really interesting how it’s used in all kinds of professions when kids are done with school,” she said. “Architecture, design, graphic art, but they’re also using it in business, in board rooms to solve problems with companies, computer sciences, you name it.”

Dickinson found through her research that there are quite a few people calling for graphic design to be taught to elementary schools so kids can solve problems and think creatively. When Dickinson found an organization called Design for Change, she dove right in.

“For the kids, it was just amazing,” she said. “Design for Change takes vocabulary for design and makes it kid-friendly.

Once we started with Design for Change, I said they were going to use the design process to find a problem in the community and solve it.”

The students began researching and brainstorming problems within the school and community. During research, they found an article by a college dean in Oklahoma calling for college kids to buck up and have some more perseverance and grit. The term stuck.

“The kids were intrigued by this,” said Dickinson. “If we have a community without perseverance and grit, businesses can’t work. We can’t finish college. What will happen to our town?”

The students took action. They set up their own YouTube channel and uploaded a series of videos establishing the importance of teaching perseverance and grit.

“They did it all on their own,” said Dickinson. “The scripts, the filming, the iMovie editing.”

In one video, students ask the question; “Have you ever given up on something just because it was hard? If so, then you haven’t used enough perseverance …

Grit is where you finish what you started.

Grit is the key to a long-term goal.”

Dickinson entered the class into the Design for Change national contest in

Some members of Ann Dickinson’s fifth-grade class at Washington Elementary School. Courtesy photo.

May. The contest judges entries based on four criteria: Feel, in which applicants are asked to observe and list the issues in their community that bothers them; Imagine, where young people interact with the people of their community to identify points of intervention and possible solutions; Do, where they develop a plan of action; and Share, to share the story of change and inspire others to get involved with their own project.

Out of 1,000 submissions from across the nation, Dickinson’s class placed in the top four finalists.

“It was really neck-and-neck,” said Sanjli Gidwanney with Design for Change in an email. “The judges were truly impressed by the thoughtfulness your students displayed.”

For the 27 students in Dickinson’s fifth grade class, the project proved to them that through perseverance and grit, they could achieve their goals.

“I’m moving to sixth grade next year, so we’re going to continue on and do this again,” said Dickinson. “We have to maintain these things that we’ve put in place. The whole idea is to make a sustainable change and identify a new problem.”

To check out the students’ videos, type in “perseverance and grit squad” to YouTube search. For more information about Design for Change, go to www.designforchange.us.

friday june 17 @ 7pm

Danceworks

JUNE 18 @ 8:30pm / June 19 @ 5:30pm

“eye in the sky” Alan Rickman's final film

june 23 @ 7:30pm / June 27 @ 5:30pm june 25 @ 5:30pm / June 26 @ 3:30pm

“Me Before You”

june 24 & 25 @ 8:30pm

reader reels - “The Lobster” june 25 @ 3:30pm / June 27 @ 6:30pm

“Singing with the angels” july 1 @ 8pm

the duke evers band Seattle-based indie rock duo

a midsummer night’s dream / Cinema Paradiso just announced - gallagher’s final tour (september)

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The Straight Poop:

The quest for dog-friendly businesses in North Idaho

Doggie Deck Dining Part 1

By Drake the Dog Reader Pet Columnist Where am I taking my humans today?

It’s summertime, and the living is easy. I am on a mission to sniff out doggie deck dining in Sandpoint.

First stop, Trinity at City Beach. Owner Justin Dick tells me during the past seven years he has seen a large increase in the number of customers wanting to chow down with their pups by their table. Dog-loving customers even purchase meals for their pooches—prime rib is the favorite. Reservations are not needed, but it helps to secure the best table near pup hitches.

Y’all come to Yappy Hour at Trinity on Thursday, July 28. Justin and Hayden will be serving beer, wine and appetizers with all proceeds going to the Panhandle Animal Shelter.

Barkaroo!

Wowza! One dog-friendly owner equals two barking good venues.

My next stop is Ivano’s Ristorante, a Sandpoint dining tradition since 1984, and Ivano’s Del Lago in East Hope (formerly known as Beyond Hope). Both welcome two-footed and four-footed customers to deck dine “at their house.”

Relax on the outdoor patio at Ivano’s, or chill on the grass or deck at Ivano’s Del Lago. You can listen to the live music, and bark your order for a Dirty Dog Martini to bartender Tim. Give slobbery dog kisses to Kalee and Mark who take great pride in offering the best in customer service—from antipasti to dolce. Let’s hear a big woof to Jim Lippi, as his vision lives on!

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(for humans and dogs), New York-style bagels and cream cheese, sausage rolls, scones, coffee, tea and an awesome deck-dining experience awaits me and the pack at the Pine Street Bakery. This place is special to me—as this is where I adopted the Mister and Missus last June!

You are all invited to celebrate my fourth birthday and my one-year anniversary in my forever home at the Pine Street Bakery’s Yappy Hour, Thursday, June 30 from 4-7 p.m.

Stay tuned for more info. Ah, the smell of fresh baked goods makes me pant and drool!

Off we go in the convertible to Dish at Dover Bay, a doggiedelish deck dining experience.

I called owner Gary Peitz to make reservations and dug up info that they have three tables especially for humans and fur babies.

While I was recently channeling with Baxter, the Cedar Street restaurant’s namesake, owners Rich and Tommy shared that Baxter’s dream is coming true! Baxter’s on Cedar is adding doggie dining tables outside, which can be reserved for VIPs (very important pups!). Note to self: Ask for Nakia to be our waiter, so I can finally meet Vader! Double paws up!

Hayden Ahner, general manager of Trinity at City Beach, poses with Drake near the bike rack on the lawn in front of the restaurant.

Top: Server Nakia Salazar (left) and Tommy D.,(right) co-owner of Baxter’s on Cedar. Bottom: Drake basks in the sun outside of Ivano’s Del Lago in East Hope.

Doggie Deck Dining Rules: Yes please: 1. Must be adorable and well-behaved.

2. Leashes required.

3. Pack your own water bowl and treats—just in case.

4. Shades and visors are optional.

Paws down: 1. Leave the constant yapping at home.

2. Keep all water toys, sunscreen and towels on the beach.

3. Soft slurping appreciated.

Doggie-deck dining is available at these tail-waggin’ restaurants during paws-up weather—late spring, all summer and early fall.

Stay tuned; I’ll be sniffing out more doggie-deck dining hot spots. Look for the Reader paw sticker in the window of dog friendly businesses.

Are you a doggie-deck restaurant? Send an email— attention DRAKE to ben@ sandpointreader.com.

Book signing at Keokee New book by local resident tells harrowing World War II adventure

By Reader Staff As a boy growing up, David Mundell remembers being enthralled by his father’s stories of his experiences in World War II—and they were extraordinary, by any measure.

A radio operator in the Eighth Army Air Corps, Robert Mundell’s B-24 bomber was shot down over Italy on his first combat sortie in 1943. He managed to bail out of the flaming plane and parachute to safety but was captured and became a prisoner of war.Many years later, with his father in his 70s, David decided to get his father’s experiences in writing before they were lost forever. Over a period of four years David interviewed his father while simultaneously researching military records.

The result has now been published in a new book, “Time To Get Out: Recollections of a World War II B-24 radio operator, POW and escapee.” As told to David, it

is Robert Mundell’s first-person account of his experience augmented with his son’s research plus photos, detailed aircraft diagrams, maps and personnel lists.

Produced locally with the help of Keokee Publishing, the paperback is available now at Vanderford’s, The Corner Book Store, online at Amazon.com, as well as at KeokeeBooks.com. The hardcover is available exclusively at KeokeeBooks.com.

In his first book launch event David Mundell will be signing copies of “Time To Get Out” at Keokee Books, 405 Church St., on Thursday, June 16 from 4-6 p.m.

Everyone is invited.

More than a tribute to father by son, the Mundells’ book provides a window into one man’s service in World War II and provides a notable first-person addition to the literature of the greatest war of the century.

MUSIC Spring Concert features old and new Members of the Pend Oreille Chorale and Orchestra range from 13-96 years

Max Reed’s pleasure in classical music is contagious. Photo by Jodi Rawson.

By Jodi Rawson Reader Contributor “First of all, we have to appreciate what the Reiners do,” said Charlie Glock, who has lived in Sandpoint since 1989. “It’s an amazing gift to the community that they have been doing all of these years, without any compensation.”

Glock began singing in the Pend Oreille Choral when Mark and Caren Reiner started the group in 1994.

Glock was born in 1919 in New York.

While the community choir is filled with elders, nobody is near Glock’s age of 96. Many of us watch in awe as he skillfully parks his car and walks with fine posture to practice once or twice a week. He loves to sing and has been an active choir member since college, singing in the “NYU glee club, the Boston University glee club and the New York Oratorical society... so I have sung three times at Carnegie hall, which is not very usual,” he says with a sly grin.

Glock’s favorite piece is “no doubt, ‘Handle’s Messiah’,” which he has performed several times. The choir is scheduled to begin practicing his favorite piece this Autumn for the upcoming winter concert.

On the other side of the equation, Max Reed just turned 13 years old on his

Charlie Glock reminiscing about his performances at Carnegie Hall. Photo by Jodi Rawson.

last day of seventh grade at Sandpoint Middle School. He excels in school, getting good grades and playing clarinet in the school band. As a musician, he’s most invested in the violin, which the school band doesn’t offer. As a result he is a member of the following three orchestras: the open orchestra with the Music Conservatory of Sandpoint (as a helper), the advanced chamber orchestra with the MCS, and the very, very advanced “Reiner’s Orchestra,” where he is the youngest member.

Reed has been playing the violin since he was 7 years old, beginning two years after his older sister, Nichol, began. Nichol Reed just received the local Distinguished Young Woman Award and is a great inspiration to Max. Both of them study violin under Ruth Klinginsmith, co-founder of the Music Conservatory, and they are very fond of her style and teaching methods.

When asked what his favorite piece in this spring concert was, Reed replied, “I like the Mozart,” but his sister looked at him with big eyes.

“Really?” she asked as though he were a little crazy, “What about the Schubert piece?”

This began a classical quibble—a rather comical disagreement between musical siblings.

The Pend Orielle Choral and Orchestra features the young and the old (and all of those in between) performing June 17 at 7 p.m. and June 19 at 3 p.m. Both performances will take place at the First Lutheran church, 526 S. Olive St. Our members attend all sorts of different churches or none at all, but we gather to become one, practicing and performing at generous church host locations. We are performing part of Mozart’s final composition, “The Requiem,” as well as a piece written by Mark Reiner himself, so the compositions themselves vary a great deal in age and style. As always, this concert is free and open for all to come listen and be uplifted.

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This week’s RLW by Randy Stolz Happy Father’s Day!! This is my fifth Father’s Day since my dad, LaVerne Stolz, passed away. Dad had a 30-year career at Northern Lights as one of its principle financial officers, and at his passing, many of his colleagues called him “the kindest boss they’d ever had.” Dad had a nationwide reputation among rural electric providers for his skills as a financial analyst and forecaster, but for my two brothers, my two nieces and my four nephews, Papa was always there. Family has been the center of my parents’ lives, and I’d like to frame this week’s R-L-W around some of Papa’s favorites.

READ

My three favorite tributes of other sons to their fathers include Leo Buscaglia’s 1989 book “Papa, My Father,” Tim Russert’s “Big Russ & Me,” and John McCain’s 1999 “Faith of My Fathers.” All show how strong, loving fathers influence the lives of their sons as their most important role models and teachers.

My parents both are readers, but I credit my love of history and of current events more to my Dad. There are a number of pictures of a very small Randy engulfed in my Dad’s lap as he read the evening newspaper.

He loved nonfiction too, but he was rarely without a Western paperback novel in his back pocket, for reading in the car while my mom, a talented quilter, perused the inventory of the nearest quilt shop. Dad left behind a pretty complete collection of Louis L’Amour and Zane Grey in hard cover. Other favorites were JT Edson and Max Brand.

LISTEN

Mike and the Mechanics’ single, “The Living Years,” Bob Seger’s “Like a Rock,” and Anne Murray’s “Could I Have This Dance” always make me think of Dad. Dad’s favorite artists were Johnny Cash and Garth Brooks, according to Mom.

WATCH

As a child of the ‘70s, I saw an awful lot of my father in Ralph Waite’s portrayal of John Walton on 1971-81’s “The Waltons.” I saw an awful lot of Dad manifested by iconic ‘60s fathers Andy Taylor of the “Andy Griffith show” and Ben Cartwright (Lorne Greene) on “Bonanza.”

But Dad was a Marine at Camp Pendleton when “The Rifleman’s” Chuck Connors showed off his shooting chops on the range, so I think Dad’s favorite TV father may have been Lucas McCain.

Dad’s two favorite film actors were John Wayne and Clint Eastwood. Of their many movies, I am going to suggest “The Shootist,” “The Searchers,” “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,” and the trilogy, “A Fistful of Dollars,” “For a Few Dollars More,” and “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.”

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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. The Museum is located at 611 S. Ella — (208) 263-2344.

First Interstate Bank on E. Superior Street (Highway 95) in Sandpoint, looking east. The building was later used by Mountain West Bank. Note the Old Power House behind the bank with the famous boat on the roof.

The same view today. The First Interstate Bank building is now home to a Verizon Store. The Old Power House building is still in the background. However, the old boat on the roof was taken down years ago.

2016

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quaff

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[verb] 1. To drink a beverage, especially an intoxicating one, copiously and with hearty enjoyment.

“Ben and Cameron have been known to quaff a few beers on deadline night.”

Corrections: I misspelled Alan Barber’s name in last week’s paper. As Alan pointed out: “‘Barbar’ is a fine Belgian beer, but I use ‘Barber.’” Sorry about the flub, Alan. I owe you a Barbar. -BO

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When I was a little boy, he had always wanted to be an acrobat. It looked like so much fun, spinning through the air, flipping, landing on other people’s shoulders. Little did he know that when he finally did become an acrobat, it would seem so boring. Years later, after he finally quit, he found out he hadn’t been working as an acrobat after all.

He had just been a street weirdo.

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