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on the street

Who is your favorite local artist?

“I love Connie Scherr; she does watercolor and oil paintings mostly of landscapes and wildlife — wonderful moose paintings. I think she would be the perfect choice for the festival artist next year.”

Linda Mitchell First mate on the Shawnodese Sagle “My long-time favorite local artist is Dan Shook, potter. I especially like his sculptures. I like Amy O’Hara’s fun abstract pieces, Holly Walker’s watercolors and Sharon Gunter’s baskets.”

Paul and Lyla Gunter Music teacher at Forrest Bird Charter School Sandpoint “My all-time favorite local artists are Bill Klein, watercolors; the late Ross Hall and his son Dann, black and white photography; Ward Tollbom, watercolors; and Larry Clark, pottery.”

Tamara Verby Accounts manager Festival at Sandpoint Sandpoint “I like Don Fisher’s photography. I love his photos of the lake and of our area.”

Vince Huntsberger Physician Sandpoint

“I like Maria Larson’s visual artwork. She paints on maps.

One of her paintings was featured as a Festival at Sandpoint poster in 2013.”

Carolin Hawkins Student at University of Idaho studying business Sandpoint

DEAR READERS,

It’s ArtWalk time again! Welcome to the 42nd year of showcasing local artists.

This is a special event for Sandpoint, hosted by our friends over at the Pend Oreille Arts Council and always drawing a ton of people.

For the second year, we hosted a cover design contest open to our readers. This year we received SO many amazing submissions. Really, such a good job, Sandpoint artists. It was a really difficult decision, but we awarded this year’s prize to Sandpoint artist Nellie Lutzwolf, who also won the contest last year. We tried hard to remain unbiased and select the cover design that won our hearts. Nellie’s artwork of the beloved (perhaps feared?) Pend Oreille Paddler, our very own lake monster, really nailed the contest for us. Great job, Nellie. For our youth division, we selected eightyear-old Natalie Branstetter’s piece, “Walking Art.” Great job, Natalie!

If your cover design wasn’t selected, have no fear - we are fully intending to use several of the submissions for covers in the future. Now go check out some art! It’s going on 5-8 p.m. Friday, June 21 all over Sandpoint (check page 12 for a map).

-Ben Olson, Publisher

READER 111 Cedar Street, Suite 9 Sandpoint, ID 83864 (208)265-9724

www.sandpointreader.com Publisher: Ben Olson ben@sandpointreader.com Editorial: Cameron Rasmusson cameron@sandpointreader.com Lyndsie Kiebert lyndsie@sandpointreader.com Zach Hagadone (emeritus) John Reuter (emeritus) Advertising: Jodi Berge Jodi@sandpointreader.com Contributing Artists: Nellie Lutzwolf (cover), Ben Olson, Bill Borders.

Contributing Writers: Cameron Rasmusson, Ben Olson, Lyndsie Kiebert, Lorraine H. Marie Nick Gier, Brenden Bobby, Sandra Rasor, Scott Taylor, Jim Mitsui, Brenda Hammond, Robens Napolitan, Sen. David Nelson, Katherine Greenland, Marcia Pilgeram Submit stories to: stories@sandpointreader.com Printed weekly at: Griffin Publishing Spokane, Wash.

Subscription Price: $95 per year Web Content: Keokee The Sandpoint Reader is a weekly publication owned and operated by Ben Olson and Keokee. It is devoted to the arts, entertainment, politics and lifestyle in and around Sandpoint, Idaho.

We hope to provide a quality alternative by offering honest, in-depth reporting that reflects the intelligence and interests of our diverse and growing community.

The Reader is printed on recycled paper using soy-based ink. Leftover copies are collected and recycled weekly, or burned in massive bonfires to appease the gods of journalism.

Free to all, limit two copies per person.

Sandpoint Reader letter policy: The Sandpoint Reader welcomes letters to the editor on all topics.

Requirements: –No more than 400 words –Letters may not contain excessive profanity or libelous material. Please elevate the discussion.

Letters will be edited to comply with the above requirements. Opinions expressed in these pages are those of the writers, not necessarily the publishers.

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About the Cover This week’s cover was selected as our grand prize winner for the 2019 ArtWalk cover design contest. It depicts the famous Pend Oreille Paddler lake monster, drawn by Nellie Lutzwolf.

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NEWS

School board to choose new superintendent Thursday

By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Lake Pend Oreille School District will have a new superintendent this week.

With three finalists in the running, the LPOSD School Board will select a final candidate today — Thursday, June 20.

Three educators are vying to replace Shawn Woodward as head administrator of the school district. They include Tom Albertson, Paul Peterson and Dr. Paula Vincent.

Already a well-known figure

in local education, Albertson is the principal of Sandpoint High School. Peterson is assistant superintendent of Northwest Regional Educational Service District in Hillsboro, Ore. And Vincent is the chief administrator at Heartland Area Education Agency in Johnston, Iowa.

All three education professionals underwent an in-depth interview process this week.

School board officials are looking for a candidate with strong communication skills, a diplomatic personality, an understanding of facility bond and levy renewals, an appreciation

From left to right, Dr. Paula Vincent, Paul Peterson and Tom Albertson. Courtesy photos

for rural schools, an eye for innovation and experience in leading educational institutions.

LPOSD officials initiat-

Physicians oppose Newport smelter

By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff A coalition of physicians and health care professionals has issued an open letter opposing the proposed Newport silicon smelter.

Known as the Inland NW Physicians for Healthy Communities, the group consists of more than 40 health care professionals in eastern Washington and northern Idaho. Chief among their concerns is the smelter’s potential to increase air and water pollution, contaminate soil,

endanger its own employees and further environmental injustice, particularly to underserved and Native communities.

The letter breaks down in detail the risks health care providers foresee from the smelter’s pollution. It also highlights the link between increased pollution levels and health problems, especially for those who already suffer from poor health.

Even more concerning to the group members is the short public scoping period and the lack of a detailed proposal from PacWest, the company seeking

permits for the smelter project.

“We as physicians and allied health care providers of this region are writing to you, our Washington State Department of Ecology, with our STRONG OPPOSITION to the proposal to build a silicon smelter in Newport, Wash.,” the letter concludes. “We have the firm belief that this silicon smelter would be a direct health threat to the citizens of this area, and we know that our opinions are grounded in scientific facts.”

Quest Aircraft purchased by French company

By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff Sandpoint-based company Quest Aircraft announced last week it has been acquired by a French manufacturer.

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sify its product line, with the utility and versatility of Quest’s signature Kodiak rounding out Daher’s speed-focused models.

“We think it’s an aircraft that perfectly fits with (our family of aircraft models,)” Daher Senior Vice President Nicolas Chabbert told the Aircraft Owners and Pilot Association.

The Kodiak was originally designed for missionary and humanitarian work. It is equipped to operate in some

of the world’s roughest areas, capable of taking off from very short runways and withstanding harsh environments.

There are 270 Quest airplanes in operation, and the company employs 240 people in North Idaho.

Daher will acquire Quest Aircraft from Japanese firm Setouchi Holdings, which purchased the local company in 2015.

ed the superintendent search after Woodward announced he was departing to become superintendent of Mead School

District. Woodward’s replacement will begin the new job on July 1.

Goose battle rages at City Hall

By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff The city of Sandpoint’s plan for Canada geese management has escalated into a full-blown controversy.

Opponents filled the Sandpoint City Council public comment period Wednesday night to push back against the plan, objecting to perceived inhumane elements and suggesting alternatives.

The controversy centers on a partnership with state and federal government agencies to relocate geese from parks like City Beach, where they are a nuisance for the high volume of fecal matter they produce. Sandpoint Parks and Recreation Director Kim Woodruff told City Council members

when the plan was approved early this year that geese would be banded and relocated. He added it was possible that geese who returned to the beach may need to be euthanized for the plan to be effective.

At the Wednesday meeting, Woodruff assured residents that non-lethal control methods like dog hazing will continue to be utilized at City Beach.

“We’re not just quitting everything else,” he said.

While the majority attending the council meeting opposed the plan, others were in favor. They said the goose poop problem at City Beach was a crisis that needed to be addressed and urged council members to stick to the plan.

Idaho ranks last in census data

By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff

New census data paint a grim picture of Idaho education, with the state coming in last in per-pupil revenues and next-tolast in per-pupil spending.

According to new reports from the U.S. Census, Idaho is 51st among 50 states and the

District of Columbia in per-pupil revenue, the Idaho Press reports.

The state ranked at $8,587 against a national average of $14,273, with Utah coming in next to last. Idaho managed to beat Utah when it comes to per-pupil spending, with the southern neighbor ranking in last place.

NEWS

IDFG Priest River Cold Water Bypass open house Thursday

By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff The Idaho Department of Fish and Game will hold an open house in Priest Lake Thursday to display options for a Cold Water Bypass system meant to cool Priest River and hopefully create more inhabitable water for native fish species.

Priest River is dealing with “multiple impacts” that could cause warmer water temperature, said Kiira Siitari with IDFG. One such impact could be the Outlet Dam, which has been in place since before IDFG started collecting data on fish populations in the river.

Siitari said that during drier years, there’s less water available to send from Priest Lake over the dam to tributaries like Priest River, and shallow water heats up quickly.

That, combined with the ebb and flow of the seasons, creates a waterway too warm for native fisheries like westslope cutthroat trout and bull trout.

“Longer, hotter summers and

shorter winters exacerbate this problem, which we saw happen in 2015,” Siitari said.

And this problem isn’t new, Siitari said.

“Summer temperatures in Priest River have been limiting to native fish for at least the last 45 years, basically as long as Fish and Game has been sampling this river,” she said. “We have a report from 1974 that notes water temperatures above 65 degrees and low cutthroat trout numbers even back then.”

Stocking the river with hatchery fish even proved unsuccessful, Siitari said, because the trout couldn’t handle the August and September heat.

To help combat the issue, IDFG has been working to create a cold water bypass system, bringing cold water from Priest Lake into Priest River. How they’ll do that, exactly, is still in the works and will be on display at an open house Thursday at Priest Lake Elementary 3-6 p.m. The school

is located at 27732 Highway 57.

The four alternatives currently up for consideration are a pump system, siphon system, gravity-fed system or groundwater well system — all of which would move cold water around the Outlet Dam and, ideally, cool Priest River.

“We’re not voting on any one alternative,” Siitari said. “The alternatives were meant to give us an idea of the feasibility of using cold water from the lake to cool the river.”

Next, IDFG will research the potential impacts the four designs could have beyond the intention to add cold water to Priest River, including “limnological, water quality and groundwater analyses,” according to Siitari.

Schweitzer roundabout sculpture installed

By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff

It’s been a long time coming, but the Schweitzer Cutoff Roundabout public art project is installed and making waves on social media.

Installed at the beginning of the month, the artwork is a stainless steel structure with a blue interior and an orbital finish. Named Celestial Sierra, the sculpture is intended to evoke images essential to Sandpoint’s character, including its mountains, lake and skiing culture. As with previous public art installation, the piece has provoked spirited debate on social media. Some find the sculpture’s abstract design and understated color accents elegant, while others are less impressed.

“Trees, sailboats, mountains.

We have it all. Kinda cool it can be viewed as any of those,” commented Christa Francis on a Sandpoint Online Facebook post.

“Can’t wait to see it all lit up and reflecting on the snow that will surround it in the winter.”

“We can’t make a decision on whether or not to build anything until we can assure folks that there won’t be unintended consequences to the lake or river,” she said.

Because the Priest River Cold Water Bypass is expected to be a long-term process, Siitari said there is no set start and end date for comments on the project.

“Eye sore and is so out of place in this area!” commented Maria Montague-Mahoney immediately afterward.

The design was approved by the Sandpoint City Council almost exactly a year ago after a robust selection process by the Sandpoint Arts Commission. Narrowing down the project proposals was a task in its own right. The commission received 150 responses to its request for proposals, 73 of which advanced for more serious consid-

eration. Seattle artist Troy Pillow ultimately landed the contract with a proposal that evoked several Sandpoint motifs and echoed the Sand Creek Byway with planned blue lighting.

Altogether, the Schweitzer Cutoff Roundabout public art project cost $90,000, plus another $20,000 for landscaping and other aesthetic improvements. The project was paid for by Sandpoint Urban Renewal Agency.

Those with questions or comments about the project unable to attend Thursday’s open house are welcome to call the IDFG Regional Office at 208-769-1414 or email Siitari at kiira.siitari@ idfg.idaho.gov.

County voices support for biological weed deterrents

By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff

The sculpture at the Roundabout in Ponderay. Courtesy photo.

Priest River. Photo courtesy IDFG.

Bonner County Commissioners voted unanimously to send a letter of support for two biological control agents — insects — that could help control certain noxious weeds in North Idaho.

Aphalara itadori and cheilosia urbana may be utilized to manage knotweeds and hawkweeds, respectively. The insects dine on the weeds, making them a biological means to cut down on those plants’ populations.

Bonner County Weeds Manager Chase Youngdahl drafted the letter to the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service division, which expresses the county’s desire to utilize the

insects should they be made an option for weed management.

“These have been studied for quite a while,” Youngdahl said.

“Those of us in the noxious weeds world have been waiting with bated breath to get to this particular point.”

Careywood resident Kevin Moore asked for clarification regarding when Bonner County would begin to use the insects for noxious weed abatement, to which Youngdahl responded there’s no set timeline until APHIS moves into the permitting process.

“We’re not there yet,” Youngdahl said. “This is just a letter of support to wrap up the Environmental Assessment to move forward with permitting so we can acquire these.”

Photo: yellow flowers of hawkweed.

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COMMUNITY Basketball School of Sandpoint to host July camps

Water safety course offered

By Reader Staff

Bouquets: GUEST SUBMISSION: • I want to express my gratitude for a wonderful celebration of my teaching career upon retirement.

Thank you to my daughter for organizing the event, Pend Oreille Winery for hosting it and to my Sandpoint school families and friends for their gifts, cards, stories and kind, heartfelt words. Thank you for sharing my special evening with me. It has been a honor to serve so many beautiful children in beginning their journey of school education.

-Submitted by Cynthia Mason • I don’t thank Susan Drinkard enough for her weekly contribution to the Reader. Every week, rain or shine, Susan scours the areas where people congregate and asks them all a question, which is often the first thing readers see when they open our newspaper.

She has submitted her (wo)Man on the Street column since we started publication again in 2015, and we are so thankful for her.

Barbs • It never ceases to baffle me that people will praise the Reader for being independent, yet in the next breath they will repeatedly, and sometimes belligerently, attempt to influence our editorial decisions. Let me share with you one of the pet peeves newspaper editors deal with everywhere. None of us appreciate when people demand we cover (or not cover) a particular story or topic. We are always happy to receive tips and story suggestions — that’s what we rely on — but that’s where your work ends and ours begins. Quite a few people repeatedly harangue and harass our editorial staff, thinking their repeated attempts to influence our editorial coverage will somehow beat us down. By definition, a reporter is not on anyone’s “side.”

I notice this usually comes from the extreme wings of the political spectrum, both right and left. I can appreciate passion for a topic, but I draw the line when passion turns to incivility.

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By Reader Staff The Basketball School of Sandpoint is hosting basketball camps at Kootenai Elementary the week of July 15-19 for kids ages 7 to 15.

Each day, boys and girls ages 7-10 will have the gym 8 a.m.-12 p.m. Boys and girls ages 11-15 will play 1-5 p.m.

Campers will be grouped based on ability and taught fundamentals like ball-handling, passing, shooting, rebounding and defense. The camp consists of classic drills along with creative games, competitions, races and tournaments, all while developing

SASi hosts pizza fundraiser

By Reader Staff

The Sandpoint Area Seniors, Inc. is hosting another pizza fundraiser with Papa Murphy’s in Ponderay on June 27 from 11 a.m.-8 p.m.

Obtain a flyer from the Sandpoint Senior Center and use it to order your next pizza at Papa Murphy’s. They will then donate 9% of all food sales to the DayBreak Family Assistance Fund.

Please note, this is only good for the Ponderay Papa Murphy’s.

Online orders will not be included towards the donation.

those core skills.

Cost per player for the five-day camp is $90. Two siblings may attend for $170, three siblings for $250 and four siblings for $330.

Each player will receive an official camp T-shirt and have the chance to be recognized at the end of camp with a Camp Championship Award.

“Last year 80 participants worked hard and had a lot of fun with the great game of basketball,” said basketball school founder Darren Laiche.

For more information and to register, visit www.BasketballSchoolOfSandpoint.com. To contact Laiche with questions, call 208-304-9140.

Community Storytelling

By Reader Staff Sandpoint Library and Sandpoint Parks and Recreation are inviting storytellers to share their talents for a part talent show, part open mic, part multimedia event Thursday, June 27 at 6 p.m. in Lakeview Park.

Campfireball, the traveling adventure show, will present a live interactive community event with the town banding together to survive an attack by monsters!

Audience participation helps decide choices to take. Feel free to bring monster protection gear (think Nerf guns).

Entering the summer months, water safety is an important topic for North Idaho. Sandpoint Parks and Recreation is offering a community presentation where participants will be able to recognize the important of water safety training and swimming lessons, describe the Circle of Drowning prevention and the Chain of Drowning survival, understand the elements of water competency and explain steps to take to remain safe in, on and around water. This course is

presented by highly experienced, certified water safety and lifeguarding instructors.

Session 1 will be June 29 from 1-2:30 p.m. at the City Beach lifeguard shack. Register online by the June 26 deadline.

Session 2 will be July 13 from 1-2:30 p.m. at the same location.

Register online by the July 10 deadline.

This is free and open to the general public 10 years old and up. Register at www.SandpointIdaho.gov/parksrecretaion or call (208) 263-3613.

Soccer Camps for kids

By Reader Staff The Tiny Hawks soccer camp for children 3-4 years old will be held from 8-8:45 a.m. on July 1-3 at Traver’s Park.

This camp is designed specifically to introduce the essentials of soccer to pre-school kids through games and activities, balance exploration, hand/eye coordination and skill development.

Participants must be toilet-trained to participate.

The cost is $51, with a $2 discount for city residents. The deadline to register is June 26.

The Mini Hawk soccer, baseball and basketball camp is for the next age group: kids 4-7 years old.

This camp also takes place on July 1-3, but the time will be 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Traver’s Park.

The cost will be $119 with a $3 city resident discount, and the registration deadline will be June 26.

The Mini Hawk camps will teach the essentials of baseball, basketball and soccer in a safe, structured environment with lots of encouragement and a big focus on fun.

These camps are brought to you by the Skyhawks and Sandpoint Parks and Recreation.

Register at www.SandpointIdaho. gov/parksrecretaion or call (208) 263-3613.

KONNICHIWA READER

Salsa dance workshop

By Reader Staff

Salsa dancing is a dynamic, energetic social dance. Feel the spicy rhythm of the music, learn footwork, styling, pattern combinations, choreography and enjoy a great connection with your dance partners with instructor Chika Orton’s intensive workshop.

The workshop for ages 12 to adult will be Thursday-Saturday, June 27-29, from 6-8 p.m. at the Sandpoint Community Hall.

The fee is $65 per person, with a $5 discount for city residents.

Pre-register by June 21 at Sandpointidaho.gov/parksrecreation or call (208) 263-3613

Pamela Woolnough at Kinkaku-ji, officially named Rokuon-ji, a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan. Pamela joined her husband A.C. at the World Parkinson Congress in Kyoto recently.

Bits n’ Pieces

From east, west and beyond

By Lorraine H. Marie Reader Columnist East, west or beyond, sooner or later events elsewhere may have a local impact.

A recent sampling: Thirty years ago Elizabeth McChesney began invading laundromats to read to and share books with children, thereby launching a laundry literary movement. Today the concept has spread, and it now influences what times parents will do their laundry, according to Mother Jones.

Oops: some are blaming the decline in funding for newsrooms for recent misleading headlines about Social Security.

Some headlines went so far as to say there would be a SS shortfall in six months. The organization Social Security Works points out what journalists should know: SS has a secure $2.9 trillion trust fund that was built with the knowledge of expanded funding being needed for current retirees.

But what the fund did not account for, SS Works says, is the influence of growth in income inequality: currently, after earnings of $132,900, an individual pays no more into the fund. And nothing is paid in on unearned income. Social Security Works says that lack of contribution would lead to a shortfall in 2035 that would mean 80% of SS payouts instead of today’s 100%.

The Social Security solution: instead of cutting benefits, which some politicians prefer, Social Security Works says Congress could pass pending legislation that requires higher income earners to pay into SS proportionate to what those earning less than $132,900 pay.

Refined or virgin? Unrefined coconut oil comes from fresh coconuts and is minimally processed, retaining more anti-inflammatory and antioxidant qualities, says healthyeating. sfgate.com. Refined coconut oil goes through a clay filtration process after baking the coconuts, and lacks the coconut taste. Make sure the label for the latter does not include “partially hydrogenated fat.”

Toyota in Japan states they are the economic force behind 475,000 jobs in the U.S., at 10 manufacturing plants, research and development centers, dealers and supply chains, Bloomberg reports.

The ACLU has tips for travelers at border crossings: if asked about your religious or political beliefs, you have the right to not answer, and you cannot be denied entry.

You also can refuse to provide passwords and to unlock your cell phone or computer.

But not revealing a password can lead to being questioned, denied entry or seizure of the devices for further inspection.

Greenhouse gases that warm the atmosphere and lead to more turbulence may be driving storms that set the stage for development of tornadoes, says a Pennsyl-

vania State University climate scientist. The Fourth National Climate assessment says tornadoes are now more variable and the number of days suitable for severe thunderstorm activities is likely to increase.

Tornadoes in the U.S. are occurring more in new areas, with fewer occurring in the Great Plains and more in densely populated areas of the mid-West and south-East, according to a study in Nature. Typically there are around 1,200 tornadoes annually in the U.S., but, says the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, this year there have already been more than 1,000 tornado reports.

Numerous corporations promised benefits for workers if Trump’s tax bill, which would lower the corporate taxes from 35% to 21%, were to pass. It passed, but according to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, the tax cuts have not boosted wages or had a significant economic impact.

Rather, The Guardian reports, AT&T promised to create 7,000 new jobs if the tax bill passed; instead they have announced plans to eliminate 23,328 jobs. Wells-Fargo promised to raise their minimum wage if the corporate tax cut occurred, but has announced plans to eliminate 26,000 jobs.

Recently 150 gray whales were found emaciated and dead, in what the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration called an “unusual mortality event.” The whales make a 10,000 mile journey from calving grounds in Mexico to Alaska’s Arctic coast. According to the organization Oceana, help for the whales will consist of reducing overfishing, protecting critical habitat, stopping expansion of offshore oil drilling, and moving forward with science-based ocean management.

NPR.org says 80% of parents approve of teaching climate change in schools. But 55% of teachers say they don’t do so.

Blast from the past: Renowned Mexican artist Francisco Toledo, who turns 79 this month, rose quickly to fame not only for his art, but also for his creative humanitarian projects. Five years ago when 43 Mexican students disappeared and were presumed murdered by local police (in league with a drug cartel), Toledo painted each child’s face on individual kites. The kites were flown in protest. In another creative action, when a hamburger chain announced plans to open in a 500-year-old town square, Toledo said he would stand naked at the site in protest; other artists distributed free tamales to protesters (who chanted, “Tamales, yes! Hamburgers, no!”)

Before Toledo could strip, the protesters had successfully stopped the project. Rather than live an opulent life, the artist has used his profits to found art centers, museums, libraries and an ethno-botanical garden, most of which charge no admission fee.

Family fun in the forest

By Reader Staff

Sandpoint Parks and Recreation and the Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness are sponsoring a class to help families get the most from their hiking and camping experience.

The family-friendly class will take place from 1-4 p.m. Saturday, June 29, at Lakeview Park Picnic Shelter, 801 Ontario. This is a free activity that is open to all ages.

On the docket: review common and largely preventable problems encountered

in outdoor activities, brush up on safety skills with a Red Cross Wilderness first aid instructor (bring your first aid kits and learn how to update them). Also learn the latest on animal encounters, lightning strikes, severe bleeding, dehydration and hypothermia. Test your knowledge of plant and tree identification. Learn about wild critters through hands on with skulls, antlers, fur pelts and more.

To register: www.sandpointidaho.gov/ parksrecreation or visit the P&R office located at 1123 Lake Street.

Jr. lifeguarding class offered

By Reader Staff

Junior lifeguarding is tailored for 12-15 year olds who are both strong swimmers and comfortable in deep open water.

This class will provide participants with opportunities to learn water safety and guarding basics while improving swimming ability and stroke mechanics.

Classes will take place at Sandpoint City Beach Monday, Wednesday and Fri-

day on July 8-19 from 9-10:30 a.m. The fee is $30 ($3 city resident discount). Participants will meet at the City Beach Lifeguard Shack, located adjacent to the concessions building. Online registration at www.sandpointidaho.gov/ parksrecreation Deadline for sign up is June 27 so hurry in.

Shadow guarding will be scheduled with the Beach Guards at 11:30 a.m. on the last week of class.

Laughing Matter

By Bill Borders

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No Jazz at Festival...

Dear Editor, Once again the “Festival at Sandpoint” has seen fit to snub America’s ONLY home grown high art form: JAZZ. In the past I have expressed disappointment with the “Festival’s” lack of jazz, and the excuse for not having jazz is it is a money loser.

Let’s look at the Portland Jazz Festival, whose first festival was in 2004. The PDX Jazz Fest starts during the latter part of February, runs for two weeks and has over 100 concerts at several venues throughout the city.

Starting in 2010, I have made the trip to Portland six times for jazz concerts, with five of ‘em being the PDX Jazz Fest, and have been impressed with how successful and well run they are. It has been my experience that the large concert halls (where the major jazz stars play) have always been sold out.

One reason for this is Portland has become, because of its festival, a destination for European and Japanese jazz tours of the United States.

Yes, there are people from all over the world taking in the PDX Jazz Fest.

If the “Festival” would like to have serious jazz, seeking advice from the PDX Jazz Festival about promotion would be a very good place to start. If the “Festival” promoted jazz properly, it would not be a money loser. Jazz fans are the most loyal of music fans and will literally travel hundreds and often thousands of miles to see their favorites. The PDX Jazz Festival is proof of that.

To see my photos of the concerts I attended, go here: lee-santa.pixels. com.

Lee Santa Sandpoint

No More Misleading Public with Second Bridge...

Dear Editor, Those fighting against an Environmental Impact Statement continue in their ridiculous efforts to mislead the public. Ken Brown proved this in his recent opinion article disputing Matt Nykiel’s support of an EIS. Brown says the Coast Guard has already conducted an extensive review of this proposal. What review?

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Engineering.

Again EIS opponents are trying to deceive the public into thinking the Coast Guard wrote the EA, saying this document’s conclusions are the Coast Guard’s conclusions.

Ken Brown accuses Mr. Nykiel of deceit, and yet his entire response is based upon this lie.

Lynn Settle Cocolalla

Closing Wrenco Site...

Dear Reader, Like most of the folks that live between Dover and Laclede, I found out about the county closing the Wrenco site from the article in the Reader.

There are hundreds of homeowners that use that site. It would have been very easy to post a notice on the dumpsters so we would have known this was under consideration.

Once the word got out, dozens of people showed up for the Bonner County Solid Waste Advisory committee meeting on Monday morning. I think everyone agreed that a manned site is needed; just don’t take away our dumpsters until it is built. Several great suggestions were made that I don’t think the committee had considered before they made their recommendation to the county commissioners.

Kuddos to Commissioner McDonald, who answered our questions for over an hour until everyone had spoken their peace. I hope the Commissioners will decide to hold an open meeting so they all can get our feedback and then reconsider their vote.

Randy Daniels Wrenco area

Re-Think Goose Plan...

Dear Reader, There appears to be a mindset brewing regarding the geese at City Beach — and the locals are taking a back seat to the needs of the tourists.

Please re-think this and try to see the harm being done. The geese are gorgeous and have a right to be here.

They add to the beauty we see all around us.

An alternative choice to the removal of the geese (which, by the way, is foolhardy because geese will always be attracted to this area) is having civil offenders come to do the cleanup on a weekly basis.

You know, you destroy nature, you destroy yourself.

Evie Leucht Sandpoint

COMMUNITY

‘Eat in for Ethan’ to support NAMI

By Reader Staff On the third Thursday of each month starting June 20, Uptown Bagel Co. will host “Eat In For Ethan,” a fundraiser for NAMI Far North (National Association for Mental Illness, North Idaho Chapter). A portion of proceeds from each sandwich sold that day will go to the organization in Ethan Murray’s name.

Ethan Murray, son of local shop owner Justine Murray, recently lost his life due to his ongoing battle with mental illness.

Ethan had suffered from schizophrenia and was unable to get help for his condition despite exhaustive efforts by his mother. Justine is using her story to bring attention to the stigma and challenges of establishing proper care for those with mental illness.

Uptown Bagel Co. owners Angelina Henry and Marcy Timblin, both locals, realized that despite the natural beauty and friendly people here, the incidence of de-

pression and mental illness is high compared to other parts of the country. In fact, Idaho ranks 7th highest in the country for suicide.

Nearly everyone is touched by some form of mental illness. Timblin herself has a grown child who suffers from schizophrenia.

Uptown’s “Choose Happy” tagline is more than a superficial slogan. The goal is create a sense of belonging and fun. Henry compares the energetic and welcoming atmosphere to “the Cheers experience,” where the customers are like a second family.

However, maintaining that upbeat and cheerful culture while addressing such serious issues is challenging.

Timblin assures customers that the fun and energy that Uptown is known for will not go to the wayside on those third Thursdays.

“Like Dutch Bros.’ Drink One For Dane events, Eat In For Ethan is about using our fun brand to highlight education about a cause that happens to be very personal,” said Timblin.

Ethan and Justine Murray. Courtesy photo.

Uptown owners and staff hope that this initiative will encourage people to talk openly about mental illness and learn more about it through NAMI Far North. Free information will be available for interested ones.

Eat In For Ethan takes place at Uptown Bagel Co., 313 N. Third Ave. in downtown Sandpoint on Thursday, June 20 from 7 a.m.-2 p.m. For more information email marcy@uptownbagels.com or call (208)263-9276.

Family gardening with the Library

By Reader Staff

If time, square footage or inexperience are keeping your family from planting a garden, you are invited to join other families at “Thursdays in the Garden” (formerly called Garden Club) at the Sandpoint Library. Each week, kids and their families can support the success of the new Library Garden while enjoying a gardening project of their own. The Library Garden serves to educate the public and benefits participants and the community with its fruitage.

Thursdays in the Garden is geared for kids aged 6-9 with projects relating to the garden season and plant cycle. Families are encouraged to participate together and should wear weatherappropriate clothing. Shade and drinking water are provided. Each week, kids can participate in a different project and “gardening time.” Families can qualify to earn a metal watering can by attending multiple sessions.

“Learning about planting, growing and harvesting teaches kids where their food comes from. It gives them a new appreciation for nutrition, finances and the environment,” Said Suzanne Davis, Children’s Department coordinator.

Everyone is welcome to attend every Thursday at 10 a.m. in The Library Garden at the Sandpoint Library, 1407 Cedar Street. For more information, contact Suzanne Davis at (208)2636930 ext. 1211 or suzanne@ebonnerlibrary.org.

OPINION

The ‘logic’ of anti-abortion extremism ain’t pretty

By Nick Gier Reader Staff “It is absurd to call a fertilized ovum a baby.”

—Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain Only just recently pro-lifers have argued that abortions should be allowed up to the point when the fetus feels pain, or when a heart beat can be detected. Most have also allowed exceptions in cases of rape or incest. But now, for the men in the Alabama Legislature, this is neither “logical” nor “scientific.”

The argument goes like this: If the fetus is a person from conception on (a premise I believe is false), then no exceptions may be allowed. At any point after this moment, abortion is murder, and any doctor who performs this procedure should be prosecuted and imprisoned for 99 years.

The Alabama bill states that the woman seeking an abortion would not be held “criminally culpable or civilly liable,” but this does not follow because she has conspired to take her fetus’ life. Former Idaho state senator Dan Foreman was brutally “logical” on this point.

Foreman is joined by GOP Rep. Ron Wright from Texas who said that such women should be jailed because they have committed murder. Texas state legislator Tony Tinderholt (he is a Republican, of course) recently introduced a bill that would have banned abortion and subjected women and their doctors to the death penalty.

Foreman, Wright and Tinderholt would have American women join those already in jail in Egypt, Iraq, the Phillipines, El Salvador and other “pro-life” countries.

Some of these hapless souls have been

imprisoned after being accused of causing their own miscarriages.

Further adhering to “logic” of their extreme position, Alabama legislators will not allow exceptions in the case of rape or incest. The fetus is a person, so women must, in every case, complete their pregnancies.

Every conception, after all, is God’s will, so these traumatized women must give birth and raise their rapists’ children.

Incredible and as outrageous as it seems, Alabama law allows these moral reprobates to file for custody rights!

Poor Indiana Republican Richard Mourdock agonized and prayed over his decision: “I struggled with myself for a long time but I came to realize that life is a gift from God, even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape. It is something that God intended to happen.”

Following Mourdock’s logic, miscarriages are also God’s will, and this means that God is the greatest abortionist. It is estimated that upwards of one third of pregnancies end in miscarriage, and some women face life-threatening hemorrhaging as a result.

In response to the charge that they base their position on religion, anti-abortionists counter that no one can deny that the fertilized ovum has a unique genetic identity. Twinning, however, is possible within the first two weeks, so in this case there are two persons rather than one. This proves that genetic identity is not the same a personal identity. Some other moral and/ or legal criterion must be used instead.

Christians who use the genetic argument need to be reminded that, for them, personal identity is not a biological determination.

Rather, it is a spiritual gift from God. As Catholic theologian Thomas Aquinas states: “Human persons are created by God at the

completion of their coming into being.”

English Common Law defined this “completion” as “quickening” (animation) in the womb — sometime during the second trimester. Our founding thinkers would have learned about this in their law books, so those Supreme Court justices who believe in “original intent” should then support Roe v. Wade.

Many animal fetuses have beating hearts, brain waves and unique genetic identity. Some of them, such as whales, dolphins, apes and parrots, develop into self-conscious, cognitively sophisticated beings, so we should honor their right to life as well.

We recognize that animals feel pain, and we give them legal protection against unnecessary harm. This gives us a moral and legal foundation for a consistent prolife position. Medical experts agree that human fetuses do not feel pain until late in the second trimester. This is the point in pregnancy where Roe v. Wade protects the life of the fetus.

Right after the Alabama abortion ban was approved, State Senator Linda Coleman-Madison proposed a bill that “would require the state to provide free prenatal and medical care for mothers who had been denied an abortion by the new law.” It went down to defeat by a vote of 23-6.

There is a pithy saying that goes something like this: “The last time Republicans cared for you was when you were a fetus.”

Nick Gier of Moscow taught religion and philosophy at the University of Idaho for 31 years. Read his article on abortion at webpages.uidaho.edu/ngier/abortion. htm. Email him at ngier006@gmail.com.

Utara Brewing Co. Idaho Panhandle RAC meeting planned celebrates one year

By Reader Staff

By Reader Staff Celebrate Utara Brewing Company’s one-year anniversary Saturday, June 22, with beer specials beginning at 12 p.m. and the official opening of their Pine Street Beer Garden.

All pints from the first keg of Utara’s First Anniversary Tangerine Pale Ale will be $1 until the keg kicks. Get there early and get in on the fun! Kids are welcome if accompanied by parent or legal guardian.

Utara Brewing Co. is located at 214 Pine Street in Sandpoint.

The Idaho Panhandle Resource Advisory Committee will meet on June 21 at 9 a.m. at the Idaho Panhandle National Forests Supervisor’s Office, 3815 Schreiber Way, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. The purpose of this meeting is to review and recommend projects to the designated federal officer for funding. The meeting is open to the public.

The RAC works closely with the Forest Service to recommend projects that will benefit forest health, fish, wildlife, soils, watersheds and other resources; maintains roads, trails and other infrastructure; or control noxious weeds. The Idaho Pan-

handle RAC covers the Idaho Panhandle National Forests within the State of Idaho and includes Bonner, Boundary, Kootenai, Shoshone, Benewah and Latah Counties.

The committee is authorized under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act and operates in compliance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act. The purpose of the committee is to improve collaborative relationships and to provide advice and recommendations to the Forest Service concerning projects and funding consistent with Title II of the Act. For additional information, please contact Phillip Blundell, RAC coordinator, at 208-783-2101, or at phillip.blundell@usda.gov.

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By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist The search is over — we found a ‘squatch in them there woods!

Well, we would have, but we were about 1,000 centuries late to the party, but our great-tothe-seven-thousandth grandpappy may have seen one around the time he and his friends were just learning how to extinctify neanderthals with tools.

At the time, it was highly unlikely our good ol’ grandpappy called it a sasquatch. He probably called it something like: “HNNNnnfghhhRRR!” Gigantopithecus was perhaps the largest ape to ever exist. It’s possible that it stood anywhere between 6.8 and 9.8 feet tall and possibly weighed well over 1,000 pounds. If you put gigantopithecus into a sumo ring with a world champion sumo wrestler, he could probably spin the poor guy around by the mawashi (the belt/loincloth thing they wear) on one finger like a Harlem Globetrotter spins a basketball.

See, even when I make ridiculous comparisons, you still learn stuff, like what a sumo wears. Because if you’re ever stuck in the wilderness with no food or water, you’ll be glad you knew what a mawashi was.

While you’d think we’d have found these creatures’ remains at Skull Island, we’ve actually found most of their bones (primarily teeth and mandibles) in southeast Asia, namely China. In fact, gigantopithecus teeth were first discovered when they were recovered from Chinese medicine shops, 10 /

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and it was discovered they were used pretty extensively in the practice. To date, we’ve found over 1,300 gigantopithecus teeth, so despite the fact that they’re now extinct, they must have been doing pretty well for themselves for a while.

They likely looked like giant orangutans based on their skeletal structure, but whether or not they had that gorgeous Ed Sheeran hair is anyone’s guess. Being fossilized, we don’t have a lot of data on what color they may have been, the same dilemma we have with just about every dinosaur ever.

All of those fanciful dinosaur pictures you see in books, kids? They’re a lie. Unless you’re Bran Stark, we have no idea what color they were.

As I mentioned before, gigantopithecus lived alongside our ancestors for a while.

We know that it existed for at least a million years, and we can trace a time when it existed alongside Homo sapiens and Homo erectus. Bigfoot jokes aside, that doesn’t make gigantopithecus the missing link, as it’s not really related to us; instead Gigz is closely related to the orangutan.

Giga’s teeth were pretty unique for an ape. Unlike humans or gorillas, Gigz had no sharpened incisors or canines for slashing through meat or leaves, it had very big, very hard and very tough teeth used for gnashing and grinding, much like a giant panda. This is because gigantopithecus very likely shared the same diet of bamboo as the giant panda. Interestingly enough, scientists have been able to differentiate older Giga teeth

from newer ones, and made a connection of a changing climate between them.

Near the end of Gigz’ evolutionary tree, Earth’s climates were changing again. Bamboo forests were shrinking for some reason, and its diet had to change to sugary and acidic fruits, which caused cavities and pitting in its teeth.

Now, before you claim I just accidentally made some misstep in speaking about climate change, you have to keep in mind that a million years is a very long time. It’s not unheard of to see average global temperatures fluctuate up to 15 degrees Celsius over a million years. It’s not normal to see the fluctuations we’ve seen in half a human lifetime.

Our planet, and our species is equipped to adapt when it happens over time, not when it happens all at once. It’s like driving a really nice sports car.

You put your foot to the floor and make that 750 horsepower kitten purr. Then, suddenly, your nice paved road turns into a gravel road and you just became a stuntman in a Michael Bay movie.

That’s climate change in a colorful nutshell.

I digress! I was talking about an ape!

The weirdest thing about gigantopithecus wasn’t even really about gigantopithecus. It was about what would steal its bones after it died. Apparently, during the same million year window of time that Giga lived and died, giant porcupines also lived and died, and they had a serious calcium deficiency. To solve this, they would

Dude, you might want to move your car.

steal bones left laying around, give ‘em a quick chomp and then carry on their merry way.

While this isn’t unusual behavior in the animal kingdom, it is pretty odd that it happened fairly exclusively to one species.

There’s no ‘squatch in them there woods because them there porcupines ate all them there bones!

Aside from this article being a grammatical sports car wreck

of comical proportions, I really do hope you learned something today.

One of my favorite sections at the library is the biology section, especially prehistoric biology. Past that, you have probably guessed by now that I also like to flip annoyingly through the encyclopedia on my way to and fro.

Weirdness awaits, 7B! Go and find it!

Random Corner er solstice?

Don’t know much about summ •The summer solstice always occurs between June 20 and June 22, but because the calendar doesn’t exactly reflect the Earth’s rotation, the time shifts slightly each year.

For 2019, the sun will reach its greatest height in the sky for the northern hemisphere on June 21 at 11:54 a.m. EST. •The term “solstice” is derived from the Latin words sol (sun) and sistere (to stand still). This name came because the sun’s relative position in the sky at noon does not appear to change much during the solstice and its surrounding days.

•The world’s biggest bonfire was part of a solstice celebration. It’s called Sankthans, or “Midsummer,” which is celebrated on June 24 in Scandinavian countries. In 2016, the people of Ålesund, Norway, set a world record for the tallest bonfire with their 155.5-fot celebratory bonfire. The record beat the famous Texas A&M bonfire, which previously set the record at 105-feet tall in 1969.

•You may wonder why, if the

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solstice is the longest day of the year and gets the most sunlight, the temperature usually doesn’t reach its annual peak until a month or two later. The reason is water. Water has a high specific heat, which means it takes a while to both heat up and cool down. Because of this, the Earth’s temperature takes about six weeks to catch up to the sun.

•Pagans and Wiccans celebrate the solstice with symbols of fire and water during a festival known as Litha. In ancient Europe, the festival involved rolling giant wheels lit on fire into bodies of water to symbolize the balance between fire and water.

•An alternative calendar had a month named for the solstice. It was 1902 when a British railway system employee named Moses B. Cotsworth attempted to institute a new calendar system that would standardize the months into even four-week segments. To do so, he added an extra month to the year.

Wedged between June and July, he named it Sol. Despite his traveling promotion campaign, the calendar failed to catch on.

BUSINESS

BGH celebrates 70 years in Sandpoint

By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff From humble beginnings as a refurbished military infirmary to its sprawling, modern medical campus, Bonner General Health has come a long way in 70 years.

Now it’s time to celebrate that progress.

BGH administrators and staff invite the community to celebrate seven decades of service at a celebration set for Saturday, July 13, from 12-3 p.m. It’s a chance to remember the history of the town while enjoying entertainment fit for the whole family. Among the attractions is illusion performances by Star the Magician, gift bags, music, cake and ice cream. Plus, one lucky attendee will be leaving with a cruiser bike, which will be given away during the celebration.

It’s fitting to put community at the center of the hospital’s 70th anniversary. After all, it defines Bonner General’s identity as a health care provider. According to BGH CEO Sheryl Rickard, it’s community partnerships that allow the hospital to remain independent and attuned to local needs.

“As I look toward the future, one of the most exciting and important goals for BGH is to continue working with community partners to improve the health of our community,” she said.

Rickard has seen the shape of local health care change significantly since she began her BGH career in the 1980s. In those days, the hospital relied primarily on in-patient services. Three decades later, 75% of hospital services are performed on an on-patient basis. The transition in service structure was a key factor in the decision to rebrand the hospital as Bonner General Health.

“We also wanted our name to reflect that we are committed to improving the health of our community,” staffers explain on the hospital website.

It’s a world of difference from the

hospital’s earliest days. While other medical facilities pre-date Bonner General Health, it was the hospital that ultimately grew with the town, starting with its official incorporation on July 12, 1949.

Achieving incorporation was no small task. Early efforts to fund the hospital through a tax bond failed at the ballot box. After much work, the hospital board was able to purchase an old military infirmary from Farragut Naval Training Station. The only problem was transporting the facility to Sandpoint. The solution?

Workers carved the infirmary into pieces and barged them one by one across Lake Pend Oreille, where the building was fitted back together like a jigsaw puzzle.

The first Bonner General Health facility lasted for decades before it was replaced.

Altogether, the hospital has undergone six major expansions, additions or renovations, starting in 1972 and continuing in 1978, 1988, 1998, 2000 and 2015.

The most recent project saw the construction of the Health Services Building, which is linked to the main hospital building by a sky bridge. The new building established office space for Sandpoint Women’s Health, the Wound Care Center, an anticoagulation clinic and Performance Therapy Services,

as well as the hospital’s human resources, patient financial services, accounting and IT departments. In turn, the additional space in the original building boosted the hospital’s core services.

Seven decades is no small achievement for any institution. And hospital officials are looking forward to marking the occasion with the people that made it happen: the Sandpoint community.

“The 70th anniversary of BGH is a great

Left: The original hospital building being barged up in chunks from Farragut in 1949. Right: A photo of the BGH nurses in 1960. Photos courtesy BGH.

time to reflect on the people who made BGH what it is today, from our founding fathers to today’s healthcare team of dedicated and talented staff, skilled physicians and generous volunteers,” Rickard said.

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By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff

ometimes the best art is encountered when the observer is least expecting it.

They’re shopping, just walking along the street or taking in a craft beer when there, on the wall, is a piece of artistic expression that strikes a chord.

The observer sets down their juicy IPA and thinks, “Wow. That means something to me.”

This, in a sense, is what ArtWalk brings to Sandpoint.

For the 42nd year, the Pend Oreille Arts Council is facilitating what is ultimately a gigantic, months-long art show throughout downtown Sandpoint’s locales. ArtWalk kicks off Friday as dozens of local artists and businesses host receptions across town (refer to location list in the right-hand sidebar) and art will remain on display until Aug. 23. This year, Ting and KPND Radio are sponsoring ArtWalk.

POAC Board President Carol Deaner said ArtWalk has persisted for more than four decades because it puts “phenomenal local artists” on display in a fun way. One such artist is 2019 ArtWalk Artist of the Year Terrie Kremer. Her medium is quilting, and her work is nothing short of meticulous beauty. Her art will be on display at the POAC office for the duration of ArtWalk.

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selected as the Artist of the Year as “incredible, thrilling and humbling.” Her work titled “Shadows of a Walk” is featured on the cover of this year’s ArtWalk Walking Tour Map, which will be available around town starting Friday. Kremer said she drew inspiration from a photo she took on a walk in Bonners Ferry to create the piece.

“I love the feel of the fiber,” Kremer said of quilting. “I love the colors, the textures of the prints, the designs that are available. Sometimes I make my own fabric by painting and dying it myself.”

Another ArtWalk artist has her work featured on our cover this week: Nellie Lutzwolf, winner of our 2019 ArtWalk Reader cover contest.

Her interpretation of the Pend Oreille Paddler made a major impression on the Reader staff, winning her a $100 MickDuff’s certificate and a week as the newspaper’s cover artist.

Congrats, Nellie! Thanks for your awesome submission, and thanks to everyone else who sent us their cover ideas. We certainly loved many of them, and plan to use them on the covers of future Readers.

ArtWalk receptions are Friday, June 21 5:30-8 p.m. and Friday, July 26 5:30-8 p.m.

For more information, visit artinsandpoint.org or call the POAC office at 208-263-6139.

Participating Venues:

Terrie Kremer’s quilted “Shadows of a Walk.” Courtesy photo.

1. Evans Brothers Coffee Roasters 2. Monarch Mountain Coffee 3. Columbia Bank Community Plaza 4. Pend d’Oreille Winery 5. Nieman’s Floral Market 6. Eichardt’s Pub 7. Idaho Pour Authority 8. Sandpoint Reader 9. Pend Oreille Arts Council 10. Realty Plus 11. La Chic Boutique 12. Campfire Couture 13. Hallans Gallery 14. Baxter’s on Cedar 15. Cedar Street Bridge 16. Mary Ruth’s Gift Market 17. Aquagem Jewelry 18. Syndicate Tattoo Co. 19. Marsha Lutz Photography 20. Azalea 21. Northwest Handmade 22. Wolf & Bell 23. Cedar Glen Gallery / Ferrara Wildlife Photography 24. Zero Point 25. Art Works Gallery 26. Grace & Joy 27. Burlwood Dreams 28. Arlo’s Ristorante 29. The Power House 30. JEP Designs

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Editor’s Note: New businesses are springing up all over Sandpoint this summer, and here at the Reader, we’re making an effort to introduce them to the community. Are you a new business owner in the greater Sandpoint area? Contact Cameron Rasmusson at cameron@sandpointreader. com to be included in future articles.

THE PICKLED KITCHEN

their lives.

For owner Clarita Thrall, the jump into business ownership is a dream come true.

“I wanted to be an entrepreneur like my parents,” she said. “It’s nerve-wracking when you’re running your own business, though.”

As one of the newcomers to the Cedar Street Bridge, she’s excited for what the summer season will bring. After all, pickles and other hor d’oeuvres are delicious and make great gifts for tourists and locals alike.

“I just fell in love with this place,” Thrall said. “I can’t wait for other places to open up (in Cedar Street Bridge).”

KAUAI THERAPY AND WELLNESS

Not all pickles are created equal.

Like many other goods, there’s a world of difference between mass-produced brands and hand-crafted, artisanal products. That’s what customers get at The Pickled Kitchen, which serves up pickles, olives and other hors d’oeuvres that anyone would be proud to serve at a dinner party. Check out its location on the second floor of Cedar Street Bridge to find all the pickles, olives, dips and kitchenware you’ll need to liven up the next family holiday.

The Pickled Kitchen stocks goods made by artisanal suppliers from around the country. Customers are welcome to stop by and try free samples before selecting what delicious goods they’ll be purchasing. And it’s no easy decision. The spicy garlic pickle chips have a sharp, hot kick tempered by a rich sweetness. The bleu cheese olives balance flavor and texture between its two central ingredients. And the habanero-stuffed olives pack serious flavor for those who need a spicy snack in

clients of all kinds. Sometimes patients are individuals suffering lingering effects from an old injury. Other times they’re not sure of the problem’s source. Getting to the root of the issue is what Kauai Therapy and Wellness is all about.

“It might be as simple as a pillow you use at night, or maybe it’s how you’re on your cell phone,” Murray said. “It’s about finding what the damaging behavior is and getting to the bottom of it.”

Located at 30544 Hwy 200 in Ponderay near other medical offices, the Ponderay clinic represents a new life for Murray. After starting her practice in Hawaii, she welcomes the chance to return to her roots here in North Idaho and raise her family.

Overcoming pain, whether it’s acute or chronic, can be an exhausting journey.

Finding the right therapy for the problem, on the other hand, can change lives. And that’s what keeps the crew at Kauai Therapy and Wellness doing what they do. According to owner Mindy Murray, it’s an inspiration when a client is finally free from pain.

“It’s wonderful to see how it really helps people,” she said. “They come to you literally crying from pain, and so quickly they’re feeling 100% better.”

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Live Music w/ Muffy and the Spt. Jazz Society Live Music w/ Miah Kohal Band 4-8pm @ Ivano’s Del Lago, Beyond Hope 5-7pm @ Idaho Pour Authority Live Musi w/ Bright Moments Jazz Live Music w/ Devon Wade 9pm @ 219 Lounge 6:30-9:30pm @ MickDuff’s Beer Hall Live Mus Live Music w/ Right Front Burner Kevin Do Hippie Death Cult in concert 5-9pm @ A&P’s Bar and Grill 8-10pm @ 10pm @ The Hive All you can eat ribs. $20 tickets pre-sale.

Heavy rock band from Portland, Back Doo Come down for the Summer Solstice Party! Ore. Doors open at 3pm. Free show!

Mugs and Music w/ Jake Robin Live Music w/ DogFest North Idah 6-8pm @ Laughing Dog Brewery Baker + Thomas + Packwood 10am-2pm @ Forre Heartfelt music and delicious beer 7-10pm @ Eichardt’s Pub Charter School Live Music w/ Ponderay Paradox Futurebirds in concert Canine games, co 5-7pm @ Idaho Pour Authority vendor booths, dem Live Music w/ Miah Kohal Band 9pm @ The Hive Twangy Southern rock, soaring tions, food, and mu 9pm @ 219 Lounge solos ala Neil Young and Crazy fundraiser for CCI Live Music w/ Harold’s IGA 6:30-9:30pm @ MickDuff’s Beer Hall Horse. $15 advanced tickets. Utara 1st Anniversa Doors open at 8pm. Trego from 12-9pm @ Utara Brew Live Music w/ John Firshi $1 pints until keg kicks Spokane opening 5-8pm @ Pend d’Oreille Winery Piano Sunday w/ Glenda Novinger Pride Bingo Live Music w/ Foxglov 3-5pm @ Pend d’Oreille Winery 4-7:30pm @ Beet and Basil 4:30-7:30pm @ Matchw Folk, blues, Latin, rock, acoustic A benefit for PFLAG Sandpoint. Seattle songwriting f Karaoke Night $15 gets your 13 rounds of Bin- psych rock, experimen 8pm-cl @ Tervan go and 13 drag performances! blues, bluegrass and Am

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Great be Good until the keg’s dry pint or two. Open to all women Vicki for a pairing of ch Thursday Night Solo Series w/ Brian Jacobs Live Music w/ Hector Anchondo 6-8pm @ MickDuff’s Beer Hall 7-10pm @ Eichardt’s Pub All your favorite songs! Food by Sandpoint Curry

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Lifetree Cafe 2pm @ Jalepeño’s Mexican Restaurant An hour of conversation and stories. This week’s topic: “Concussions”

Night-Out Karaoke Trivia Night 9pm @ 219 Lounge 7pm @ MickDuff’s Join DJ Pat for a night of Show off that big, beautiful singing, or just come to brain of yours drink and listen Djembe class 5:45-7:30pm @ Music Conservatory of Sandpoint Join Ali Thomas for this djembe (drum) class

Wind Down Wednesday 5-8pm @ 219 Lounge With live music by blues man Truck Mills and guest musician Bruce Bishop

Magic Wednesday 6-8pm @ Jalapeño’s Enjoy close-up magic shows by Star Alexander right at your table

Yappy Hour 4-7pm @ Greasy Fingers Bikes Live music, beverages, and fun

Live Music w/ Bob Missed the Bus 6-8pm @ MickDuff’s Beer Hall

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Sandpoint Farmers’ Market 3-5:30pm @ Farmin Park Locally grown produce, starts, crafts and more! Live music by David Walsh

Trivia Takeover Live 6-8pm @ Pend d’Oreille Winery Family friendly interactive trivia Live Music w/ Pamela Benton 8-11pm @ 219 Lounge Indie rock, groove jazz, folk, blues

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ut ho Pour Authority Summer Solstice Party Great beer! No dudes! Join 5-8pm @ 219 Lounge iring of cheese and craft beer. A fundraiser for the Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderondo ness, with live music by PB & Jam, a 5-piece jazz ensemble

POAC’s 42nd Annual ArtWalk!

5:30-8pm @ Downtown Sandpoint A community art extravaganza, with 30 Live Music w/ downtown venues displaying local art.

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8-10pm @ The Stop by POAC (110 Main St.) to visit their new gallery. Check out the map on page 12 Back Door for a listing of participating galleries

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Kid’s Grief Camp (June 21-23) 2pm @ Clark Fork A weekend camp experience for children 8-17 years old to help them cope with grief DJ Skwish 9pm @ A&P’s Bar and Grill

Live Music w/ Doug Bond 5:30-8pm @ Pend d’Oreille Winery Part of ArtWalk reception w/ Scott Kirby

Syringa Cyclery 5th Anniversary Party and Vintage Bike Sale 10am-4pm @ Syringa Cyclery BBQ, refreshments, lawn games, and a vintage and (not so vintage) bike sale Festivities in the Park - Newport June Bug Ball orth Idaho @ Forrest Bird 11:30am-5:30pm @ Newport City Park 7-10pm @ Sandpoint Community Hall Water fights, live music, beer/wine gar- Learn the Two-Step from experienced instructors. hool ames, contests, den, free kids activities, chicken poop Lesson from 7-8pm, followed by general dancing oths, demonstra- bingo, photo booth, vendors and more!

Sandpoint Farmers’ Market d, and music. A DJ Exodus 9am-1pm @ Farmin Park Karaoke Night 9pm @ A&P’s Bar for CCI 8pm-cl @ Tervan Come get your produce, starts, crafts and nniversary more! Live music by Truck Mills (solo) Super Smash Bros Tournament Utara Brewing Co 2pm @ Uptown Bagel Co. Live Music w/ Samantha Carston l keg kicks 8-10pm @ The Back Door Live Music w/ Ken Mayginnes / Foxgloves June Bug Ball @ Matchwood Brewing Co. 6-8:30pm @ Chop Restaurant 7-10pm @ Sandpoint Community Hall writing folk duo playing Learn the Country Two-Step from 7B Sunday @ Schweitzer experimental soundscapes, 7-8pm, then general dancing until 10 11am-5pm @ Schweitzer Mtn. Resort ss and Americana. Free!

Outdoor Experience Monday Night Run Publik Yoga 4-5pm @ Matchwood 6pm @ Outdoor Experience s A chill, three-mile(ish) group run with op- $10 + cost of beer. BYO mat. Join Tasha for 60m warm vinyasa flow tional beverages to follow

Festival at Sandpoint All-Star Faculty Concert Matchwood/Evans Bros.)

7pm @ Panida Theater dges Borders, with live Featuring a performance by the instructors of the stage by Chad Patrick, Festival’s Summer Youth Music Camp. $5 & Liam Orton, Crooked auction, local art, food, Triva Night in Hope • 4-6pm @ David Grocery Free and open to the public

ine Out for a Cause am-9pm @ Beet and Basil eet and Basil will donate 30% of sales is day to Jacey’s Race. Proceeds will dictly benefit these children: Ian Baines, edgen Lara-Nelson and Paisley Choate

Wild Idaho Summer Series -8pm @ Matchwood Brewing Co. art 1: Mountain Medicine. Katie Luhy from Longleaf Wilderness Mediine, leads community workshop. Free!

Live Music w/ Matty Sands 7-10pm @ Eichardt’s Pub Sandpoint Literary Collective Author Dinner 5pm @ The Pack River Store Readings by authors Sam Ligon and Kate Lebo. No-host wine and beer, followed by a special dinner menu Summer Sampler 5-8pm @ Farmin Park 14th annual foodie event

June 28-29 Sandpoint Radius Film Festival @ Panida Theater June 29 VFW Beer Festival @ 219 Lounge

June 29 Live Music w/ the Turnspit Dogs July 3 Ben Stein’s Day Off event @ Panida Theater

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COMMUNITY

Pride Bingo to benefit PFLAG Sandpoint

By Reader Staff Show your love for the LGBTQ+ community, as well as benefit Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays with a special Pride Bingo event Sunday, June 23, from 4-7:30 p.m. Doors will open at 3:30 p.m. The event will take place at Beet and Basil, 105 S. First Ave. in Sandpoint This is an all ages, family-friendly event co-sponsored by Montucky Cold Snacks. Everyone is welcome.

The words “Choose Happy” greet you when you walk up to Uptown Bagel Company, 320 Cedar St., Sandpoint. The Greater Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce welcome Uptown Bagel Co. with a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony on Monday, June 10.

Owners Angelina Henry and Marcy Timblin were inspired by carbs, caffeine and music, and late last year, Uptown Bagels opened its doors.

“As I was writing the business plan I thought, this was a place I would want to go,” Timblin said. “Eighties music, an outstandingly happy place, deliciously addictive hot bagelwiches… and hey, why

isn’t there a bagel shop in Sandpoint?!”

With selections with funky names like The Stallone, Pretty in Pink and The Viggo, there is something for everyone!

They have a new yellow bike, especially for deliveries, and regularly have Create and Name the Bagel of the Month contests. Starting on June 20, they will have a Third Thursday’s special event called “Eat for Ethan,” which honors a local family and spreads awareness about mental illness. A percentage of the proceeds from each Third Thursday event

And you thought American politics were crazy.

A live-stream of a Pakistani politician’s press conference went uber-viral last week when the person operating the camera accidentally forgot to turn off the “cat filter.”

Shoukat Yousufzai, the minister of Health and InCourtesy photo. formation for Khyber Pawill be donated to NAMI, Far North (Nakhtunkhwa, appeared in tional Alliance on Mental Illness). the live-stream video with Please join the Chamber in welcoming Uptown Bagel Company. You can visit digitally-added cat ears and them Mon.-Sat. 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Find them whiskers while delivering a on Facebook and www.uptownbagels.com. briefing about local issues.

Yousufzai’s party released a statement acknowledging the mistake, claiming “human error” was to blame for the filter. Better than “cat error,” I suppose.

Staples honored as Business of the Month

By Reader Staff The Greater Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce named Staples Store #572, Ponderay, as the June Business of the Month.

Staples opened at the Bonner Mall in 1998. As a long-standing business in Sandpoint/Ponderay, they have remained consistently active in the community since opening their doors. Their community involvement centers on two themes: kids and teachers as well as supporting events which bring people to town.

They have partnered with local groups to get several events up and running, including the Scenic Half Marathon, Rotary Ducky Derby, Pend d’Oreille Bay Trail Fun Run, WACANID ride, CHAFE 150, the Long Bridge Swim and numerous soccer and lacrosse tournaments. “Supporting and helping to promote these events brings people to town, thus boosting our local economy. It helps everyone,” said Ryan Wells, general

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manager at Staples.

Their biggest and longest partnership started with Community Action Partnership almost 20 years ago to provide school supplies to low-income Bonner County students. Now they are working with the Angels over Sandpoint and supply 1,000 kids all over Bonner County with a backpack filled with enough supplies to ensure a successful school year. This relieves the pressure of our local teachers and schools who would try to help students who arrived to school unprepared to start the year. In August, Staples delivers pallets of school supplies to the Farmin-Stidwell Elementary School gym, and the Angels Over Sandpoint sort and pack by grade-level supplies for students in need.

Staples’ newest partnership is with the local teachers and their classrooms. When families are back to school shopping at Staples, they can designate their classroom and teacher to receive 5% of their purchase

By Ben Olson Reader Staff

PAKISTANI POLITICIAN’S PRESS CONFERENCE LIVE STREAMED WITH ACCIDENTAL CAT FILTER

The cost will be $15 per person, which includes 13 Bingo cards and a dauber.

Proceeds will benefit PFLAG Sandpoint, including $0.50 from every Rainbow Unicorn Montucky Cold Snack and 25% of all other beverages and food sold during the event.

There will be 13 rounds of Bingo with prizes for each round, 13 live drag performances between rounds.

Chamber welcomes Uptown Bagel Co.

By Reader Staff

WEIRD NEWS

Bob Witte, right, presents Staples General Manager Ryan Wells with Bus. of the Month. Courtesy photo. value. Teacher will get 5% of all Back to School purchases up to $250 per classroom.

Staples is open seven days a week, located at 260 Bonner Mall Way in Ponderay.

LITERATURE

This open Window

Vol. 4 No.9

poetry and prose by local writers

edited by Jim mitsui

inch worm measurements One of my children, I think it was Jared, said “like pieces of a puzzle?”

I was reading him a children’s book about men and women about how God created them to “fit together”.

The book endeavored to explain sex without all the messy references to body parts. I liked that book, I liked it a lot, and I loved his response, “yes” I said, “that’s exactly right” it was a relief to laugh.

I put the book away, another parenting chore accomplished.

my mother's bread Hearty, heavy whole wheat bread with a hint of molasses Mother kneaded on a floured board thinking of Saskatchewan prairies where she grew up free, her father harvesting wheat on the homestead.

Slamming down the rounded lump she pushed hard against constraints of living in a grid of cement streets and narrow sidewalks. No horse to ride, no wind in her hair except for the electric fan on the kitchen counter; no forests to enter quietly with moccasin feet; no university where her mind could wander, climb and grow; no laboratory where her microscope explored unseen frontiers.

Instead she filled our boxy house with rich, yeasty smell of nourishing bread.

She cut thick slices for my lunchbox,

carefully wrapped with carrot sticks and cheese that I would trade for Wonder Bread with mayonnaise and bologna-- bread you could roll into a ball in the palm of your hand. Mother’s bread couldn’t be cut into neat triangles with narrow corners. I’d upset her by asking her to cut my sandwiches diagonallylike the other kids’. One day recently I heard her voice as I stood at the kitchen counter making bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches.

I sliced them straight down the middle.

-Brenda Hammond -June 28, 2017 Brenda grew up in Michigan. She is active in the Bonner County Human Rights Commission and teaches a parenting class.

This poem takes us back into the past, and then brings us back to the present. Wonder Bread and all. It also reminds us how connected we are to our mothers and our childhood traditions.

How do you like your sandwiches sliced?

may 18th, on this, my late mother's 102nd birthday

It’s not dark today, not like that birthday when Mt. St. Helens blew.

But rather, it’s a seamless gray, barely a whisper of wind, the rain coming, when it does, in drops one could almost run between.

The earth continues to green, as spring turns up its tempo.

I’m content to watch, wait, and give

thanks, as each ruby colored tulip petal separates and floats to the ground, its job done.

-Robens Napolitan

A Sandpoint native, Robens is a mega gardener, artist and poet. This poem takes us back to the memory of May 18, and where we were when Mt. St. Helens erupted. Me? I noticed the funny dark cloud in the southern sky while I was playing a softball game in North Seattle. For Robens it’s also a memorable way to remember her Mother’s birthday, and the cycle of life.

Humor saved most days back then and is still working hard today, harder than the vacuum or the washing machine ever did and I’ve gone through more than one of each of those.

If a historian measured my life by new appliances what would the conclusion be? Now it’s cell phones and computers I burn my way through, and brain cells, lots of brain cells.

-Sandra Rasor Sandra is that rarity, an original Sandpoint native. While working full time she enjoys writing as a way of decompressing and expressing her thoughts. She’s blessed with a large family that provides material for her poems.

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I sat solid as a mountain silent as snow watching the river trickle below me crystalline and half-frozen sunlight diamonds sparkling like fireflies on a summer night In my ears I heard every clump of snow that ever fell from a branch every drop of water that ever melted every crow that ever rasped out a question across a valley and in my solitude I felt the infinite stillness and peace -Scott Taylor of just being Scott is a retired teacher and current writer, musician, and artist who lives on Caribou Creek and sleeps in his own bed once in awhile. This poem was written after meditating along Pack River. When was the last time you heard a crow rasp out a question?

jim3wells@ aol.com

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OPINION

Idaho has a long way to go on opioid crisis

By Sen. David Nelson Reader Contributor

going, let’s review where we are at. For the last 10 years, opioid use and Nearly everyone addiction has steadily inin Idaho has a friend, creased in Idaho. Accordfamily member or ing to the Office of Drug neighbor who has been Policy, a person dies from impacted by the ongoing drug overdose every 36 opioid crisis. Idahoans hours. have spent years trying During the legislative to figure out how to session, lawmakers took contend with the most steps to begin tackling the addictive, widespread opioid crisis. Rep. Jake drugs in modern history.

Ellis and I championed The opioid epidemic has a bill that makes opioid Sen. David Nelson, D-Moscow. antidotes like Naloxone become a pressing issue for lawmakers, stakeholders and various and Narcan easier to prescribe and more organizations alike. available to Idahoans. The legislation Earlier this week, Gov. Little signed had strong bipartisan support and passed an executive order to address opioid with flying colors in both the House and abuse among Idaho citizens. The execSenate. These drugs can be used to save utive order creates a group that will exsomeone’s life if they are experiencing an amine the ongoing crisis and provide the opioid overdose. They are becoming easGovernor with recommendations about ier and easier to use (some even function how to move forward. as a nasal spray) so that a family member Before we figure out where we are or friend could quickly take action. We

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are hopeful that the new law will drastically reduce opioid deaths by reducing the amount of time it takes someone to get treatment. In some situations, a few minutes can be the difference between life and death.

But, wouldn’t it be better to avoid using these drugs in the first place?

Gov. Little has the opportunity to provide services that would make sure Idahoans didn’t have to suffer from opioid addiction or overdose in the first place. Lifesaving antidotes are great when you have no other options, but it would be better to prevent suffering from ever happening. Idahoans need affordable, accessible treatment options that can help to manage and eliminate opioid addictions.

Thanks to the hard work of Idaho citizens, Medicaid Expansion will help to create some of these services. Recovery centers in all our regions are critical to fund to help people kick addictions. Funding from the new law passed by ballot initiative will make a huge difference in the quantity and quality of treatment services.

The governor has publicly stated that he wants to reduce the amount of opioid arrests in Idaho. If companies that sell opioid based pain killers are part of the problem and must be held accountable.

Purdue Pharma agreed to a $270 million opioid settlement with Oklahoma. We need to punish companies that have used marketing tactics filled with inaccurate information about how addictive and dangerous these drugs truly are. Idaho must join states like New York, Massachusetts, and Utah to put a stop to the predator practices of the pharmaceutical industry.

Drug addiction is, undoubtedly, a bipartisan issue. No one wants to see Idaho citizens addicted to powerful opioids with no ability to get treatment. We have the ability to make a real change, to save lives. And, hopefully, Gov. Little has taken a step in the right direction. I support Gov. Little’s proposals and will work to help reduce this horrible problem in Idaho.

David Nelson is an Idaho State Senator from Moscow.

PERSPECTIVES

Summer solstice:

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GAME ROOM UPSTAIRS

How to spend the ultimate 16 hours of daylight

By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff On Friday, North Idaho will experience 16 hours, five minutes and 18 seconds of daylight. It marks the summer solstice, also known as the official start to summer in the Earth’s northern hemisphere and longest stretch of daylight we’ll experience during the calendar year.

This happens due to the Earth’s tilt — on June 21, the North Pole will be at its maximum tilt toward the sun.

This is all fine and dandy, but how can one take full advantage of such a momentous occasion?

Drive from Sandpoint to Yellowstone Park, watch Old Faithful erupt once, then drive home

Teach yourself to knit, then get seriously ahead on Christmas presents

I learned to knit a few years ago, and now every time I attempt to re-teach myself it takes at least two hours. Still, I occasionally get roped back into the almost therapeutic rhythm of wrapping and pulling yarn over and over. It always seems like a good idea to put this skill to use for practical purposes like Christmas gifts, and what better time to kick that goal into high gear than in the nearly endless sunshine of June 21? Let’s say two hours of learning plus 14 hours of knitting means, for a beginner, that by day’s end you have … maybe a scarf? But if you’re looking to get into the pot-holder business, summer solstice could be a seriously lucrative day for you.

to dispose of the Ring by experiencing a grueling trek ourselves — to the top of Mickinnick Trail. Melodramatic? Maybe.

But that trail has kicked my butt pretty thoroughly, and provided some of the most satisfying views. As satisfying as saving Middle-earth? Maybe not, but I imagine watching the sun set over the lake might be a close second.

Regardless as to how we all spend our summer solstice this year, be sure to take a moment to savor the sunlight. It’s hard to believe, but from Friday forward, we’ll be losing a few seconds of light each day.

I plan to get a little work done, walk the dog and hopefully put my feet in a chilly body of water. It might not be as epic as the aforementioned suggestions, but I’m looking forward to it.

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Watch all extended editions of the “Lord of the Rings” movie trilogy, then hike the Mickinnick Trail

It takes about 7.5 hours to get from Sandpoint to Yellowstone National Park.

Hit the road at sunrise, take in the entirety of western Montana and witness one of America’s most beloved geyser features, because why the hell not? This suggestion does come with a couple of disclaimers, however. For one, there will not — I repeat, will not — be time for bathroom breaks. And secondly, even Old Faithful is only so faithful. The geyser does her thing every 44 to 125 minutes, so here’s hoping she doesn’t wait too long once you arrive, or else you’ll be getting home in the dark. And what an insult that would be to the spirit of the summer solstice.

According to a random man on the internet who clearly has great taste in movies and far too much time on his hands, the three extended-cut versions of the LOTR trilogy total 11 hours, 23 minutes and 59 seconds. Tolkien’s tale of daring bravery and unyielding friendship is sure to kick off an excellent summer solstice, but what to do with the remaining 4.5 hours of daylight? I believe it’s only fair we pay tribute to Frodo and Sam’s trek June 20, 2019 /

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EATS & DRINK

Where community and coffee collide

Scotchman’s Coffee brings roasting, serving and loving coffee to Clark Fork

By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff It’s nearly 80 degrees in the roasting room at Scotchman’s Coffee on a sweltering, early-summer day. The small drum roaster heats up while the three of us — roaster Dustin Drennen, pastor Nick Larsen and I — monitor the various temperature gauges and wait patiently to add the raw beans.

Drennen tells me: “You’re going to see the magic.”

The magic lies partially in watching and smelling the transformation of the small, green coffee beans into pungent, glimmering morsels of roasted goodness. But mostly, the magic is happening between Drennen and Larsen as they work together, speaking their own language, to achieve a roast they’ve done only once before. It’s a perfect personification of the symbiotic relationship between Scotchman’s Coffee (Drennen) and Living Water Lutheran Church (Larsen), as they undertake a venture that’s equal parts business and fun at the church’s secondary property, known as The Well.

“This is the most fun I’ve had in my life,” Larsen says as the beans roast, adding quickly, “OK, not my life, because I’ve got kids.”

“There are many times my kids aren’t as fun as this,” Drennen counters. “And you can go on the record with that.”

Scotchman’s Coffee is the second time Drennen and his wife, Robynne Hoffman, have entered the coffee roasting realm.

They owned and operated Rough Rider Coffee in Phoenix, Ariz. for a few years before moving to Clark Fork in 2014.

Hoffman runs the front of the shop, which offers coffee, other drinks and food, while Drennen roasts the coffee and creates the art seen on the various blends — Elderberry espresso, Midnight Yard Sale dark roast, Pend Water cold brew (pronounced like Pend Oreille) and many more.

The business’ namesake, Scotchman Peak, is visible from the front window.

“We wanted (our name) to tie to the community, because even though we hope our coffee goes lots of different places, we wanted to provide something consistent for the community,” Drennen said.

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blocks away — doesn’t own Scotchman’s Coffee, but Larsen said having it as a part of The Well contributes to the building’s overall purpose to serve as a “place to build relationships.” The building will also soon be home to a weekly soup kitchen, and Larsen hopes its uses expand from there.

“The secret of coffee shops is not that coffee is awesome, which it is,” Larsen said. “The secret of coffee shops is that they capitalized on ‘the third place.’ It’s not work, it’s not home. It’s this other place where you can go and be … We need that.”

Though it’s still in the works, Scotchman’s Coffee plans to offer a coffee subscription service specifically for churches, inspired partially by Drennen’s having been raised in churches that had “the worst coffee.” He, Hoffman and Larsen decided that instead of coffee in church being an afterthought, it should be delicious and affordable — Scotchman’s Fellowship blend, specifically — and serve a larger purpose.

Hoffman said the idea is to include a newsletter with each shipment that highlights a ministry or mission submitted by one of

the Fellowship coffee churches, creating connections and fundraising opportunities beyond the coffee.

Scotchman’s Coffee is offering coffee subscriptions for individuals online at scotchmanscoffee.com, as well as selling bags and slinging drinks at The Well: 302 E. 4th Avenue in Clark Fork.

“The vision is to just love people,” Hoffman said of the shop as a whole. “To talk to people and get to know people in our community, and foster relationships over a good-quality cup of coffee.”

Scotchman’s Coffee’s current hours are Tuesday-Friday 6 a.m.-3 p.m. and Saturdays 7:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Find them on Facebook and Instagram @scotchmanscoffee.

Top left photo: A few of the blends available from Scotchman’s Coffee.

Center photo: Nick Larsen and Dustin Drennen roast a batch of coffee.

Top right photo: A Scotchman’s Coffee cup, featuring the logo by Drennen.

Photos by Lyndsie Kiebert.

Take a bite out of the Summer Sampler next week

By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Farmin Park will transform into a foodie paradise next Thursday, showcasing some of Sandpoint’s unique and well-loved eating and drinking establishments thanks to the Greater Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce’s annual Summer Sampler.

MickDuff’s brewer and manager Mack Deibel said the Summer Sampler is a great kickoff to the summer season, comparing it to “a backyard BBQ that all your friends attend, as well as visitors who are in town early for the Fourth (of July).” He said it’s a convenient way to get a well-rounded taste of what Sandpoint’s restaurants offer.

“It’s easy to have a favorite place to go out and eat regularly,” Deibel said. “But this event allows us all a chance to break the norm and try all of the great eateries in our area.”

When it comes to favorite memories from Summer Samplers of years past, Deibel can list many from the last 12 years that MickDuff’s has participated. He recalls being proud of kitchen manager Matt when he narrowly lost a chef cook-off competition. There’s the time MickDuff’s brought a picture frame for people to take their photo behind. He remembers when Sandpoint Chief of Police Corey Coon judged the cook-off and helped turned Farmin Park into a “giant beer garden.” But a memory from the first year he participated in the Summer Sampler stands out most for Deibel.

“Honestly, being 19 years old (in 2007) with my best friend pouring beer for MickDuff’s was a total blast,” he said.

Participating vendors at this year’s Summer Sampler are: • Eichardt’s Pub Grill & Coffee House • Ivano’s Ristorante • Jalapenos Mexican Restaurant

• Laughing Dog Brewing • Litehouse Foods • MickDuff’s Brewing Co. • Pack River Store • Panhandle Cone & Coffee • Pend D’ Oreille Winery • Skeyes The Limit Catering • Sweet Lou’s • The Fat Pig • Trinity at City Beach • Uptown Bagel Co. The Summer Sampler is a family-friendly event happening 5-8 p.m. on Thursday, June 27. Admission is free, but tickets to try vendors’ offerings are $1 each. For every 10 tickets purchased, get a chance at winning a pair of tickets to the Festival at Sandpoint.

Learn more about the Summer Sampler at sandpointchamber.org or contact the Greater Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce office at 208-263-2161.

STAGE & SCREEN

Music exchange benefit happening Tuesday

By Reader Staff Advocates for the arts will have another chance to support music exchange students Tuesday, June 25, in Sandpoint’s Granary Arts District.

The Local Artists Showcase is an afternoon of art and live

performance to benefit Music Bridges Borders, a cultural enrichment program exchanging music students between Sandpoint and Northern Baja, Mexico. The program is run by Rick and Elinor Reed.

Tuesday’s festivities, slated for 12-7:30 p.m., include a silent auction of local art, yoga, food

and live music on the Granary District’s outdoor stage from Chad Patrick, Muffy and Vienna, Chika and Liam Orton and Crooked Tooth.

A portion of the day’s proceeds at both Matchwood Brewing Co. and Evans Brothers Coffee will go to Music Bridges Borders.

Panida’s Playhouse Jr. Theater Camp almost here

By Reader Staff Do you know a kid who loves theater and is ready to have a role in a mystery dinner show? Are you that kid? Then check out the Panida Playhouse Junior Theater Camp happening this summer!

The Panida Playhouse Junior Theater Camp is designed for youth ages 11 to 14 who love to be on stage, want to work on their dramatic skills, and would enjoy being part of a fun production! Participants will be meeting and rehearsing a script entitled “The Secret of the Spoon” — part comedy, part mystery and a dinner show. Rehearsals and performances will be held in the Panida’s Little Theater, and the camp will meet every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, 1:30

Last day for early bird SummerFest tickets approaching

By Reader Staff The deadline to purchase Eureka’s SummerFest tickets at the early bird price is rapidly approaching.

Buy your weekend passes by June 21 to receive the reduced rate. After June 21, the rates for all ticket prices – including day passes and weekend all-inclusive passes – will increase.

Save up to $75 if you purchase tickets before June 21.

Check out www.eureka-institute. org for all the information you need.

to 3:30 p.m., beginning July 2.

Three final performances are scheduled for Aug. 22, 23 and 24.

The participation fee for the Panida Playhouse Junior Theater Camp is $80, and the enrollment form is available online at the Panida Theater website: www. panidatheater.org. The deadline for enrollment is Monday, July 1, and space is limited, so don’t delay!

Previous drama experience isn’t required to participate, but every participant should anticipate having a speaking role on stage. So whether they’re a natural ham or just working on being brave, any enthusiastic kid is welcome.

The Panida Playhouse Junior Theater Camp will be mentored

by Alexi Alfieri, a new addition to the Panida Theater family. Alfieri has written and directed a wide variety of fun shows with youth for over 10 years and currently works as a professional children’s playwright. With her many years of teaching and directing young adolescents, she is very excited to launch a youth drama program through the Panida Theater.

“The Secret of the Spoon” is

a playful mystery dinner show set in an Italian restaurant called Mamma Mia’s and focuses on the passionate, argumentative family that owns the establishment — the Pastaluccis. Following the unexpected death of their Nonni, a beloved heirloom goes missing and accusations start flying. But in spite of things heating up in the kitchen, the cast still manages to serve a three course Italian meal to the audience. And thankfully, by dessert, the secret of the spoon is revealed.

So, mamma mia! Come join the feisty, hilarious fun of a mystery dinner show. Enroll in the Panida Playhouse Junior Theater Camp today.

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HISTORY

? e m a n a What’s in ing the origins An ongoing series explor

of our local placenames

By Ben Olson Reader Staff

This is the fourth installment of an ongoing series exploring the origins of where we got some of our placenames from. Last week, we covered Newport/Oldtown, Scotchman Peak, Talache, Denton, Idaho, Cocolalla and Whiskey Jack.

This has been a great experience researching these placenames and talking with local historians. If you’d like me to investigate the origins of a placename we haven’t covered, please email me anytime: ben@sandpointreader.com Travers Travers Park on Pine St. just west of Sandpoint is an 18-acre recreational facility first opened in 1986. The original five acres was the site of the old city dump, with 10 acres added through a land trade acquisition with the Louisiana Pacific Corporation.

The remaining 2.5 acres were purchased through a private party. The park was named for Frank Travers, who was the commissioner of baseball at Memorial Field for many years in Sandpoint, which included groundskeeping and maintenance duties. Frank was also a farmer and raised nine children, so baseball was often a break from these challenges. Frank’s daughter Therese Stevens recalled, “Dad had the infield completely reconstructed to have the perfect slopes, measurements and smoothness... no stones were left unturned or unremoved. It was like his quiet place.”

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An early photograph of a street scene of early Colburn with depot and hotel. This photo was probably taken between 1901 and 1905.

Courtesy Bonner County Historical Society.

Dufort Dufort Road in Sagle connects south of Sandpoint to Priest River on the south side of the Pend Oreille River. The name Dufort was originally given to the small community south of Sandpoint, which included a general store, post office and a small railroad station by 1905. The area took its name from twin brothers Dilphus and Adolph Dufort, who lived just west of the current road on a 160-acre homestead claim that Dilphus patented in 1909. Dilphus later moved to Colorado, where he died in 1926 shortly before his fiftieth birthday.

Culver (as in Colburn-Culver) Culver was a railroad spur that connected to a small sawmill located east of the intersection of Hickey Road and Highway 200, according to historian Nancy Foster Renk. Sandpoint Cedar Co. had a logging camp there for extracting cedar poles.

When the Northern Pacific

Railroad built a siding there to service both the camp and the mill, they named it Culver after Frank and Horace Culver, owners of the cedar company.

The company changed names to Sandpoint Lumber and Pole Co. in 1907. The original name of this road that connected Colburn to Culver was Farmto-Market Road, built under a federal program to connect farms to markets. The name was changed to Colburn-Culver Rd. in the late 1970s. Some old-timers still refer to Colburn-Culver Rd. as Farm-to-Market Rd. Ellisport Bay Ellisport Bay is the main bay east of Hope where the marinas are located. When the Northern Pacific Railroad was being constructed, small sawmills were set up along the line to cut bridge timbers and other lumber. Small and Ellis ran one of these mills, first at Granite and later at Ellisport Bay just east of Hope. Ellisport Bay was

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most likely named after Ellis.

Westmond Westmond is a small unincorporated community about 10 miles south of Sandpoint.

The name comes from George Westmon, who moved to the area in 1902 and started the Westmon Lumber Co. in 1903 after buying up 350 acres of timberland with a business partner. It was a good location for a sawmill because of the close proximity to Cocolalla Lake, which would serve as a mill pond, and the Northern Pacific Railroad for shipping finished timber. It’s not clear when exactly the “d” was added to the end of the name. Newspaper clippings refer to the area as “Westmond” as early as 1909.

Samuels Samuels is located about 11 miles east of Sandpoint around where Pack River Rd. intersects with Highway 200. The small town was originally called Iola.

Iola was strategically located between the Great Northern and Spokane International railroad lines, making it a growing town.

A Spokane International construction camp formed in Iola, followed by a general store, hotel and bar. The town’s name was changed to Samuels shortly after. It was named for Henry F. Samuels II, who bought 8,000 acres of land with his family in 1912. Samuels was an attorney, mine owner and businessman in Wallace before moving to the area. He later entered politics and ran for governor on the Progressive Party ticket three times, but never won. Samuels sold his share of the Success Mine in 1915, earning him over $1 million. Samuels built a 31-room mansion just east of where Samuels is located now. It was built of brick and hollow tile with reinforced concrete floors, all designed to be fireproof, according to historian Nancy Foster Renk.

Despite all the safeguards, the Samuels mansion burned to the ground in 1929.

Special thanks to local historians like Nancy Foster Renk and Bob Gunter, whose work I have checked to verify my conclusions. Also, very special thanks to the Bonner Co. Historical Society and Museum for keeping history alive. Check out Renk’s book “Driving Past: Tours of Historical Sites in Bonner County, Idaho” for a treat.

Final thought: The best way to keep history alive is to donate to the Bonner Co. History Museum. Their staff and volunteers are all passionate about honoring our region’s storied history. Please consider your next charitable contribution to go toward the Museum.

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FOOD

The Sandpoint Eater

Of meals and memories

By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Food Columnist Like it was yesterday, I can still recall the cocoa-brown dress, with candy-pink piping, that I wore for my first “real” restaurant experience. The occasion was my eighth birthday. After his short lived and ill-fated job in Texas, my father packed us up and we headed back to our beloved Montana. We were living sparsely, awaiting the arrival of our belongings, when our duplex landlord, who lived upstairs, discovered it was my birthday. To commemorate, he took me, along with his own young daughter, Joyce, out to dinner. My previous restaurant experiences had been few, all involving an “extra plate,” of whatever my parents and two older sisters parceled onto my waiting dish. So that bigger-thanlife menu, placed in my young hands, was a novel and exciting experience.

“Have anything you want,” encouraged my generous benefactor, Jack Holmes. It didn’t take me long to choose the most exotic-sounding entree on the menu, “Half a Spring Fried Chicken.”

The words rolled right off my tongue as I placed my order with the big-haired, pink-uniformed waitress. The night only got better when I was encouraged to choose my own beverage. Never was a cherry-topped Shirley Temple more relished. I don’t remember the side dishes, but I recall polishing off every single bite and bit of that juicy, crispy-skinned chicken.

I’ve moved at least a dozen times, downsizing many times along the way — but, tucked away with other prized ephemera, lives that faded beverage napkin from Jorgenson’s Holiday Inn, in Helena, Mont. (still going strong, and run by the same family). No trip “home” is complete without 24 /

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Oldest daughter Ryanne accuses me of planning trips around restaurants. While that’s just not true, I am a big fan of enhancing my travels with memorable dining experiences. I just returned from an epic train journey with two grandsons, and we headed straight to one of my favorite old haunts, the Italian Village, the oldest Italian restaurant in Chicago. We sat at the same dimly-lit booth where, 20-some years ago, I took daughter Casey and her constant, childhood train-companion, Alana.

There they sampled squid for the first time. I remember they stuffed themselves silly from the heaping platter of calamari tentacles and three orders of breadsticks. The food is still always delicious, and so are the memories.

A friend, former Sandpoint resident Terry Gainer, just released

his first book, “When Trains Ruled the Rockies,” so this week, I’m headed to his launch party at the Banff train station. Humbled (and terrified) to have written the book’s forward, I can’t wait to be a small part of his big festivities.

But truth be known, I’m nearly as excited to share my favorite Banff eatery, the Grizzly Fondue House, with a trio of grandkids. It’s an iconic eatery that’s been a Banff landmark for years. I discovered their cheese fondue on my first visit, nearly 40 years ago, and throughout my years of operating a tour train, I was there at least twice a year, often with kids or colleagues in tow. Though the original owner, Peter, has passed away, his heirs still serve up every kind of fondue imaginable. My all-time favorite remains the pot of bubbly Neuchâtel cheese, served with cubed French bread.

Maybe it’s all the recent memory-lane meals I’ve been thinking about, but I’ve also spent a lot of time musing about other favorite restaurants, especially our own: Trinity at City Beach. I can’t begin to count the all the special meals I’ve savored there, but they have been many, and often marked a birthday, anniversary or other lifetime achievement. At the first sign of summer, we swarm to the coveted umbrella-topped tables for drinks on the deck, celebration libations for family, friends and self. When the little ones are in tow, I reserve the deck table near the railing so we adults can enjoy a beverage within earshot and eyesight of the children, romping sandy-footed at lake’s edge. I’ve taken up my share of and time and table in the lounge too, meeting-or making friends, for fun conversations, or debating local, hot topics

over cold drinks, served up by familiar bartenders, or even the omni-present proprietor, Justin Dick.

I’m a creature of habit, and once I discover an epicurean treasure on a menu, I am hard pressed to try something new. My lunchtime favorite at Trinity is the TCB cobb salad, and though I may mix it up a bit for dinner, it always starts with either the savory corn & crawfish chowder or the TCB grilled Caesar. That grilled Caesar gets me at the first bite.

Don’t be a stranger to Trinity at City Beach this summer. Get down there for a meal, and make a memory or two of your own.

Maybe you can even talk Justin out of his recipe for the crawfish chowder (it’s on my to-do list).

Meanwhile, here’s a recipe for another favorite summer chowder of mine!

Corn and Shrimp Chowder with Bacon Recipe Serves 4

I love to make this is summer, when fresh corn is at its peak. Serve up with a side salad and French bread (and don’t forget the chilled white wine).

INGREDIENTS: • 6 slices of bacon, cut into small pieces • 1 pound medium shrimp, peeled and deveined • 1 cup chopped yellow onion • ½ cup of fine diced celery • 1 tbsp fresh minced garlic • 1 tsp smoky paprika • ½ tsp fresh minced thyme • ½ tsp crushed red pepper • 1 ½ cups fresh shucked corn kernels • 3 cups chicken stock • 1 cup heavy cream • Salt and pepper, to taste • Fresh thyme sprigs for garnish

DIRECTIONS: In a large pot or Dutch oven over medium heat, fry the bacon pieces until crispy. Transfer to a plate lined with paper towels. Drain off fat from pot, leaving enough to coat bottom of pan.

Add shrimp to the pot and cook until pink (about 3-4 minutes), stirring frequently. Remove shrimp with a slotted spoon and add to the plate with the bacon.

Add onions and garlic and celery.

Sauté for about 3 minutes, or until soft and translucent.

Add paprika, crushed red pepper, thyme, salt and pepper. Cook, stirring frequently for 2 minutes.

Add corn, chicken stock and

cream. Stir to combine. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer for 15 minutes. Stir often-don’t let scorch!

Add the shrimp, stir and ladle

into bowls.

Sprinkle with bacon pieces and fresh thyme sprigs

MUSIC

Sandpoint students win regional music competition

By Katherine Greenland Reader Contributor Five local students from the Music Conservatory of Sandpoint brought home distinguished medals from MusicFest Northwest on May 17. Jacinta Howard earned a gold medal in the violin category.

Hannah Andring also brought home a gold medal for violin. Zoe Miller was a silver medalist for vocal performance. Nina Ford won a silver for the piano. Levi Hill also won a silver for piano. All five are Honors Program students at the Conservatory.

MusicFest Northwest is the largest classical music festival in the region. Sponsored by Spokane Symphony, Steinway Piano Gallery and Spokane Public Radio, MusicFest Northwest has a mission to encourage, develop and improve the performance of young musicians and dancers through professional adjudication.

MCS students completed adjudication involving a rigorous process of application and performance followed by evaluation from accomplished professionals in their field. MCS encourages students to participate in adjudication each year as part of their commitment to high quality arts education. Students use their adjudication rankings when applying for nationally competitive programs and college admissions.

This comes on the heels of Conservatory students Levi Hill and Cody Moore’s recent acceptance to the esteemed Interlochen Center for the Arts. Both boys were Summer Arts Camp Scholarship recipients, helping to offset the $6,000 per student tuition to attend the prestigious arts camp in Michigan. Moore and Hill played a Mother’s Day concert at the Heartwood Center to fundraise the balance of their tuition.

Both boys leave Sandpoint this Saturday for Interlochen, where they will join over 2,500 students from all over the world to study music, visual arts, theatre, film, dance and creative

Cody Moore, left, and Levi Hill, right, at their Mother’s Day Fundraiser concert at the Heartwood Center. Courtesy photo. writing. During their three-week long camp which runs from June 22 to July 13, Cody and Levi will have a chance to play piano in the famous 3,900-seat Kresge Auditorium, the 950-seat Corson Auditorium and the new, open air Upton-Morley Pavilion, among others.

Cody’s mother Heidi Moore said, “Levi is looking forward to the grand adventure of leaving home and going east, as well as the entire musical experience, especially learning from top-notch instructors. Cody is extremely excited to go to such a prestigious art school and learn from instructors who will challenge him to improve his musical abilities. He is also looking forward to meeting other musicians his age who share his passion for classical music.” Both Cody and Levi aspire to be professional musicians when they grow up.

Other notable Conservatory student award winners include Chloe Issa and Lucina Meshburg, who received the Tom Rodda Honorary Scholarship at the MCS All Stars Concert on May 28th at the Panida. Chloe studies piano and Lucinda studies theatre. The Tom Rodda Honorary Scholarships were delivered with a special message from Lynn

Rhodda on behalf of her late husband and his life long love for music. Tom Rhodda volunteered with the Conservatory until his passing earlier this year.

MCS appreciates the volunteers, businesses and community partners that make Sandpoint a vibrant place for the arts to

thrive. Last month Ethan Rodgers received the Ting Merit Scholarship for theatre. Ethan’s award marks the third scholarship this year that Ting has presented to MCS students who demonstrate promise in the arts and commitment to their studies. MCS Executive Director Karin Wedemeyer shared her appreciation for Ting, describing the effort as an ongoing commitment to community partnerships that foster innovation and collaboration.

Wedemeyer and MCS staff congratulate all the hard work and tireless practice hours these talented young artists have devoted themselves to. The arts community is eager to see what new heights students will reach in the future. MusicFest Northwest as well as robust scholarship programming and peer-topeer mentorship are all part of the MCS vision to make music accessible for everyone and inspire excellence in the arts.

For more information about any of the Music Conservatory of Sandpoint’s classes, visit www.sandpointconservatory.org or call 208-265-4444.

Spaces still available for Hospice Kids Camp

This week’s RLW by Ben Olson

READ

I visited the historic Yuma Prison in Arizona years ago, and saw it again this winter while visiting my mom. How great to stumble onto a book called “Forty Lashes Less One”

by Elmore Leonard which takes place there.

The western has all of Leonard’s trademarks: dark humor, strange characters, violence and a struggle of man vs. man.

LISTEN

I love when my favorite bands come out with new albums. The National just released their 2019 album “I Am Easy to Find.” It’s not their best, but it still contains all the elements you love from The National.

Known for their moody, deep, expressive lyrics and haunting earworm melodies, The National continues to set the indie rock bar high. If you haven’t heard them yet, start with “The Boxer” album and go forward from there. Oh how I wish I could go through that journey again for the first time.

WATCH

By Reader Staff

Stone Cloud 4 at the gig. Courtesy photo.

Bonner General Health expressed thanks to the band Stone Cloud 4 for their “amazing gift of shared presence and the art of sound” during the first Hospice Kids Camp Concert held last month at the Bonner County Fairgrounds.

BGH said the band of Sandpoint teenagers inspired attention to bring support and awareness to their annual grief camp for local children and youth who have suffered a loss.

BGH also wanted to thank Heather McCoy for coordinating the event which included raising $4,000 from a silent auction.

The Grief Camp is available at no cost for children age 8-17 who have experienced a loss through death. Spaces are still available for the June 21-23 camp. Contact Lissa DeFreitas at (208) 265-1185 or email lissa. defreitas@bonnergeneral.org for more information or to sign up.

The Sandpoint Library is a great place in so many ways.

Reason #488 why it rocks is the fact that you stumble across unknown movies that are excellent.

Case in point: “The United States of Leland.” I somehow missed this film in 2003, but it features a very young Ryan Gosling as a 15-year-old who commits a shocking murder. The rest of the film tries to make sense of it, but one aspect that is made very clear is that there are very few situations where there is a “good guy” and a “bad guy.” At times it’s confusing, and Rotten Tomatoes wasn’t kind with their ratings, but it’s still worth a watch.

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From Northern Idaho News, June 13, 1911

HAVE NARROW ESCAPE FROM WATERY GRAVE Chas. L. Fisher and Daisy Ridley, two of Sandpoint’s younger set, who were members of a picnic party at Lakeview yesterday, narrowly escaped meeting death in a watery grave.

The accident occurred just above the intake of the flume that carries the water to Lakeview and at that place is six or seven feet deep and as swift as a mill race.

The entire party of picnicers had been spending the day on the creek and during the afternoon some time was spent in taking photographs of the different members of the party. Mr. Fisher located a log extending over the creek which seemed to be solid. It was the intention of Mr. Fisher to assist Miss Ridley to the log and then to take her photograph, but when they both put their weight on the log it dislodged, hurling them both into the creek.

Other members of the party about one hundred yards further down the creek heard the splash and L.D. Cheery and Frank Barrett hurried to the banks being just in time to assist them from the water.

The creek is not so dangerous on account of the depth of the water, but the fall is so great that it is impossible for a person to gain a foothold on the bed of the creek.

Both parties in the accident suffered no injuries other than getting “a thorough soaking.”

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