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Today is the first day of summer. Do you have any interesting summer plans?

“I would like to hike Scotchman’s this year. I’ve always wanted to.”

Daniel Spencer Farm hand for family farm in Cocolalla and for a blueberry farm Cocolalla

DEAR READERS,

Cheers to the first day of summer! Get out there and do something!

I have an assignment for you travelers out there. In late November, my girlfriend Cadie and I will be joining forces with a friend as he sails across the Atlantic Ocean in a 39-foot catamaran. It’s an adventurous trip that will take us from the Portugeuse island of Madeira to the Caribbean in about 20 days. Throw in a visit to Portugal and some days on Antigua after the crossing, it looks like I’ll be away from the Reader for at least five issues, probably six. That means I need you, dear readers, to help fill the issues while I’m gone so Cameron and Lyndsie don’t get too swamped in my absence.

I’d like to put the call out for travel stories, with one double-page feature publishing in each issue I’m away. This is your chance to show off your great photos and tell those travel stories that you’ve been holding onto. We’ll select the top five (or six) stories to publish, and will award the best with a $50 gift certificate to Eichardt’s Pub. I’ll expand upon this at a later date, but for now, compile those travel photos and start writing your travelogue. We are looking for under 1,500 words, with photos to run with the article.

Thanks and enjoy that sunshine out there.

-Ben Olson, Publisher

“I’m going to a big bluegrass festival — Northwest String Summit — in Oregon. I plan to do more hikes than I did last year.”

LIVE MUSIC

SATURDAY, June 23 @ 8-10pm (208) 610-7359 HOURS: 3pm to close Brian Jacobs & Chris Lynch 111 Cedar St. (lower level) Mon. through Sat. Classic covers from this

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“My summer will be spent primarily working to save money for college at the U of I, where I will major in accounting.”

“We are planning a trip to the Oregon coast, and then we’re going to visit family in Medford, Ore., and then we’re going to California to see the redwoods.”

Jojo Peterson Stay-at-home mother of three Laclede

www.sandpointreader.com Publisher: Ben Olson ben@sandpointreader.com Editor: Cameron Rasmusson cameron@sandpointreader.com Zach Hagadone (emeritus) John Reuter (emeritus) Advertising: Jodi Taylor Jodi@sandpointreader.com

Contributing Writers: Cameron Rasmusson, Ben Olson, Lyndsie Kiebert, Emily Erickson, Brenden Bobby, Barry Burgess, Jim Mitsui, Brenda Hammon, Amy Craven, Tom Woodward, Marcia Pilgeram, Laurie Brown.

Alyssa Nunke Bartender at Connie’s Upper Pack

Nick Butler Deli cook at Super 1 Foods Sandpoint

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

Contributing Artists: Cadie Archer (cover), Ben Olson, Lyndsie Kiebert, Annie Spratt, Susan Drinkard.

“We want to go to the swinging bridge, which is in Idaho, but toward Montana. We plan to do a lot of hiking and dirt biking. We like to hike Mickinnick, Gold Hill and Round Lake.”

Eva and Chance Torgerson Cashier at Exxon gas station Sagle

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About the Cover

Cadie Archer took this week’s cover photograph after a day of rock piling and summer day drinking on the lake with her degenerate publisher boyfriend.

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NEWS

City ponders fire service options

By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff

When Sandpoint City Council members shape next year’s budget this July and August, the structure of local fire services could be reshaped along with it.

The central question before council members is whether to maintain the existing joint powers agreement between Sandpoint, Sagle and Westside fire services or regionalize the JPA as its own legal entity.

According to Sandpoint City Administrator Jennifer Stapleton, council members technically have three options available to them. They could return Sandpoint Fire to its original structure of localized service, maintain the existing JPA or regionalize it. However, Stapleton said only the last two options are under serious consideration, and each has its advantages and disadvantages.

Whichever decision the council makes, it will be guided by a rigorous process of data collection and cost-benefit analysis, Stapleton said.

“It’s got to make good business sense, and the facts have to point there,” she added.

Sandpoint, Sagle and Westside fire services currently operate under a JPA called Selkirk Fire, Rescue and EMS that cuts down on the duplication of resources, saving money for all entities. The cohesion of the JPA also benefits mutual aid agreements.

However, Selkirk Fire doesn’t exist in any legal sense. Instead, the three fire districts in the JPA manage independent finances and are guided by their own governing bodies.

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we have our own fire department,” Stapleton said. “We’ve agreed to work collaboratively and function together.”

Should members of Selkirk Fire choose to regionalize the services, the JPA would become its own legal entity with a single budget. Members of the JPA would contract its services rather than managing their own departments directly. An independent board of directors would ultimately make the critical guiding decisions, with seats on the board divided between the JPA members. The members would retain ownership of any contributed assets like firefighting apparatus.

“The city would have a couple seats on a joint board, but it would actually be an independent governing body,”

Stapleton said.

The upside to making the JPA its own independent entity is easing the process for new members to join. It potentially paves the way for fire service to expand on a countywide scale. However, Stapleton also said that the membership model doesn’t offer one-to-one savings for

the city. Under the existing JPA structure, for instance, the city is able to provide its fire department with its existing legal and human resources services.

“The question is, in the short to medium term is this in the best interest of Sandpoint taxpayers?” Stapleton said.

Chief Ron Stocking, left, stands with Selkirk Fire, Rescue and EMS crew members in a vintage fire engine in 2015, re-enacting a Ross Hall portrait taken in the late 1940s. To the right of Stocking is Capt. Jake Hilton (at the wheel), Eng. Troy Badeaux, Eng Jeff Littlefield and Lt. Mick Adams.

Photograph by Ben Olson, with special thanks to Ross Hall and Dann Hall at the Hallans Gallery.

NEWS

Sandpoint Lions select grand marshal, parade route

‘No Spray’ hard Repair work to begin on Lightning deadline June 30

By Reader Staff Creek Road

By Reader Staff

By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff This year’s Fourth of July parade will have not one grand marshal, but four.

According to Sandpoint Lions spokesperson Judy Dabrowski, the organization has selected four local law enforcement officers injured in the line of duty as joint grand marshals. Sandpoint Police officers Michael Hutter and Eric Clark, who were each shot twice in a March gunfire exchange, will join Bonner County Sheriff deputies Mike Gagnon and Justin Penn, who were wounded by gunfire in January 2017, as this year’s parade grand marshals.

The theme of the parade will be “the sounds of freedom.”

When selecting a grand marshal, Dabrowski said Lions members all suggest names of community residents they feel have contributed in major ways to local well-being. When one member pointed out that no less than four officers had been injured in recent incidents, the group realized that their selection was set.

“We always try to pick someone who has done something for the community, … and we all came to the conclusion that it would be a really good thing to honor (the officers) by having them be our grand marshal,” Dabrowski set.

Having four joint grand marshals instead of one isn’t the only unusual direction the Lions are taking for this year’s Independence Day celebrations. Due to ongoing construction, the parade route will start at Church Street and Fifth Avenue, turn left onto First Avenue, turn again onto Oak Street and turn once more back onto Fifth, ending at Fifth and Cedar Street.

“We can’t go down Cedar like we normally do because of the construction,” Dabrowski said.

As always, Fourth of July celebrations this year rely on raffle ticket purchases to fund the parade and fireworks show.

Dabrowski encourages everyone to purchase some tickets next time they see Sandpoint Lions representatives manning booths at local grocery stores. They go a long way to making local Inde-

A map of the Indepence Day parade route, courtesy of Sandpoint Lions Club. pendence Day festivities the best they can be, Dabrowski said.

“Buy more tickets — it’s always a nail-biter as to whether we’re going to raise enough,” Dabrowski said. “This money that we raise, that’s how we pay for the Fourth of July.”

Repair work on the Lightning Creek Road and Boulder Creek Road will begin June 25.

Heavy equipment has been moving into these areas and Noble Excavating, Inc., will mobilize and install traffic controls on Lightning Creek Road before active construction begins. Repairs are projected to be completed before the 2018 winter season. The road closures will remain in effect until the repairs are completed. For additional information and a timeline for this project, please visit https://flh.fhwa. dot.gov/projects/id/panhandle/.

Lightning Creek Road, located on the Sandpoint Ranger District of the Idaho Panhandle National Forests, and Boulder Creek Road, located on the Bonners Ferry Ranger District, were significantly damaged by flooding in December 2015. The USDA Forest Service (USFS) implemented temporary emergency closures on both roads for public safety. The USFS received Emergency Relief for Federally Owned Roads Program funding from the Western Federal Lands Highway Division (WFLHD) following these events. The WFLHD awarded the contract to repair the flood damage in May 2018.

For more information, please contact the Sandpoint Ranger District at (208) 263-5111.

Bonner County residents who wish to participate in the county’s No Spray program have until June 30 to obtain and place certified signs on their property. Homemade signs will not be recognized.

Residents must also go into the Bonner County Weeds office to sign a document agreeing to control any state and county listed noxious weeds in the road rightof-way adjacent to their property.

If alternative weed control is not performed by July 15, the roadway is subject to being treated with herbicide by the county if a solution with Weeds Manager Chase Youngdahl is not agreed upon.

While May 31 is the suggested deadline, residents can still participate. However, the weed department warns residents that road right-of-way herbicide treatments usually begin in June, so if you haven’t already secured your place in the No Spray program, your area could be sprayed.

Youngdahl would also like to remind residents participating in the program that their county-approved signs must be visible both at the beginning and end of their property. Stapled to a tree off the road is not visible, Youngdahl said. The county suggests placing the signs in clear view of the travel lane.

Call the Bonner County Noxious Weeds office at 208-255-5681 ext. 6 with questions.

County commissioners invited to White House Invitations thought to be fake, but were confirmed real

By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Every Idaho legislator and county commissioner — totaling 237 people — received email invitations to meet with Trump administration officials at the White House, including Bonner County commissioners.

The email arrived on May 23, according to Commissioner Glen Bailey. He said he initially thought the invitation was spam.

“At first I thought is was probably a hoax or a phishing email, but we were assured by the Idaho

Association of Counties that it was a valid invitation,” Bailey said.

Bailey said he will not be attending the June 22 White House meeting due partly to the short notice, as well as other factors.

“I toured the White House back in 1988 and enjoyed it, but I have no need to return,” he said.

“Although it would be an honor to meet and shake hands with President Trump some day. However, I really doubt that I would have that opportunity on this proposed trip.”

Greg Johnson, chairman of the Lewis County Commission, told the Spokesman-Review that the

invitation was very clear that Idaho commissioners and legislators will not be meeting with President Donald Trump on the trip.

The invitations sent to Idaho officials are part of a larger effort by the Trump administration to connect local and federal governments.

Politico reports that every county commissioner and legislator in the nation is expected to receive an invitation by the end of this year.

Bonner County Commissioner Dan McDonald confirmed that he also received an invitation, but won’t be attending due to a prior engagement.

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PERSPECTIVES

Emily Articulated

A column by and about Millennials

One small thread

By Emily Erickson Reader Columnist If you’re leery of something radical, stop reading. If you’re set in a stagnant process of thought, stop reading. If you’re unable to experience objectivity, stop reading.

However, if you are ready to engage in a productive (albeit flowery) thought experiment, then please, carry on. *** You’re sitting in an airplane seat, feeling your skin stick to the leather underneath your legs. As the other passengers file in, you take note of each of them, seeing every person’s unique expression and disposition.

One man is somber, the corners of his mouth turned down. You can’t quite decipher if it’s from being travel weary or if a sadness he is carrying is spilling onto his face. He is holding the hand of a small child, eyes swiveling in both the wonder and apprehension of his first flight.

Another woman with bright eyes files in next. Flailing her arms and smiling, she turns around to face her travel companion, excitedly jabbering about their plans upon landing.

Listening to her words you hear, “We’ll get an Uber to the resort and drop our bags before …” until the sound of her voice melts into the jumbled mix of conversations from each chattering passenger around you. You close your eyes and soak up everyone’s voices, everyone’s stories, everyone’s experiences, and suddenly real6 /

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Emily Erickson. ize something profound.

You are so small. And your life is but one tiny thread in the magnificent tapestry that is the world.

If you’ve ever been on a plane soaring high above the patchwork of towns and cities sprawling below, with lined cars like ants making their way to their respective pinprick homes, this concept of our personal smallness isn’t that radical. From the sky, it’s easy to see just how many lives exist in which we play no part.

The radicalness, however, lies in what we do with that understanding.

We tend to think of ourselves and our problems as being monumental. The thing is, so does everyone else. But when we understand our peers and their lives as having the same sized thread as ours, with each person facing unique struggles, problems, triumphs, and fears equally monumental to them, we can experience true empathy and strive for genuine kindness.

A prayer from the Native Ute tribe asks, “Earth, teach me humility, as blossoms are humble with beginning. Earth, teach me caring, as mothers

nurture their young. Earth teach me limitation, as the ant that crawls on the ground. Earth, teach me to forget myself, as the melted snow forgets its life.

And Earth, teach me to remember kindness, as dry fields weep with the rain.”

In recognizing that our neighbors look just as small as we do from the plane soaring 10,000 feet above, we find humility. In realizing the problems that feel so big to us are no bigger than those of the people’s around us, we discover limitation. In understanding each person is the culmination of their past experiences and their current battles, leading their lives the best they can with the tools to which they have access, we can act from kindness.

Because if people wore their challenges like name tags, how much harder would it be to judge their actions, or react negatively to their plight?

Striving to live with empathy and acting from kindness will so rarely lead us astray.

Furthermore, in choosing to understand others like we want to be understood, we get to reap the confidence and self-esteem that comes from being our best selves. When we show respect to another person, regardless of their deservedness at the surface, we get to feel good about our actions and take pride in our behavior. Because altruism isn’t necessary.

But humanity is. *** The engines of the plane rumble, firing themselves into life. The lines on the runway begin to blur from individual

stripes to long yellow lines speeding by. Looking out the window, you watch as the buildings below shrink into Lego pieces, and the people within them mere specs of dust.

Smiling at all of the stories you’ll never hear and the lives you’ll never touch, you pull the plastic blind closed, and drift quietly to sleep.

Retroactive

By BO

Vote...!

Dear Editor, After thinking about the primary outcome for awhile now I think I’ve figured it out. I know why Scotchman Peak failed. The answer is comprised of two parts: 1) Less than 48 percent of the registered voters showed up at the polls; and, 2) The usual suspects were among that 48 percent.

The “usual suspects” mean the far-right wing of the GOP. They took the Commissioners’ specious argument that a wilderness designation would deny them access to the area. It was pure crap but those voters bought it.

Putting this measure on the primary ballot all but guaranteed its failure simply based on history and statistics.

Registered voters are less than 48 percent of the age-eligible residents, and if 60 percent of the registered voters vote GOP they have a lock on everything. We are being controlled by less than 35 percent of the voting age-eligible population.

So, it all falls on the non-registered voting age eligible population. They are responsible for this situation. Don’t tell me your vote doesn’t matter.

It only doesn’t matter if you don’t participate. You can’t win PowerBall if you don’t buy a ticket. If you want change you must register, become informed and vote in November!

Gil Beyer Sandpoint

Read, Listen, Watch...

Dear Editor, Read “Merchants Of Doubt,” written by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, explores the schemes of climate change deniers. “... they don’t have to win, they just have to create doubt and delay.”

Listen “Freedom Highway” by Rhiannon Giddens, operatically trained singer/songwriter, recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship “Genius Grant” Award in 2017. As the “New York Times put it, ‘the fervor of a spiritual, the yips of a folk holler, and the sultry insinuation of the blues.’”

Watch “The Moon Is Down”, (1943) adapted from novel a John Steinbeck (1942), Written and produced to encourage the resistance movements in Nazi-occupied countries during the first years of WWII. In closing: Why is President Trump still concealing his tax returns?

What is the dirt that president Putin has on President Trump?

What is the pathology behind President Trump’s love of savage dictators and the slavish kowtowing demanded of his underlings? (Chicago Tribune, 6/14/2017, by columnist Rex Huppke) Trump, his administration, accomplices and family are pathological liars, criminal profiteers and traitors to the Constitution and this country.

Lock’em up!

Thank you.

Chris Mielke, USMC 1974-78 Sagle

Fuhrman Insult...

Dear Editor, Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! I’m sorry, but as a newspaper that promotes community peace, love and togetherness, where do you get off blasting one of our citizens, Mark Fuhrman, as someone you wish hadn’t moved here?

What has he EVER done to harm Sandpoint?

I’ve never met Mark Fuhrman but over the years

have heard nothing but positive and caring things from those who have. He has paid dearly for mistakes made 23 years ago, has admitted wrongdoing and has genuinely asked for forgiveness.

This man served as a Marine in Vietnam, was a decorated police officer, and is a successful author and journalist. Doesn’t sound like such a bad citizen to me! It’s time to stop hating. Take off the blinders, see the whole man, and know that people can and do change.

Scott Francis Sagle

Scott, I think you need to check your outrage for just a moment. You’re the one who is claiming I am “hating” when, if you read my “watch” blurb, I never said anything about hating the guy. I merely said I wished he hadn’t chosen Sandpoint to live after the O.J. trial.

In the years following Ruby Ridge, when North Idaho was being ridiculed throughout the nation as some kind of haven for white supremacists, it was absolutely a blow, and embarrassing when Mark Fuhrman chose to retire here. This is the same Mark Fuhrman who perjured himself on the stand, who pleaded the Fifth Amendment when asked if he falsified any evidence, and also, more importantly, was caught on tape saying the N-word dozens of times. You can understand the trepidation some people felt in Sandpoint when such an person decided to move here, especially after dealing with the national ridicule and reputation this area had unfairly received.

Yes, I know people change. Everyone deserves a second chance. And yes, I am always grateful for anyone who serves our country, or works in the arduous field of law enforcement, but that doesn’t give anyone a free pass to spew racist epithets. Fuhrman did apologize for his racist remarks after the trial in an interview and in his book, but he also didn’t exactly own up to his words. He claimed he was just showboating for a film screenplay and that he wasn’t a racist. I don’t know about you, but I don’t hang out with anyone who regularly drops the N-word dozens of times in conversation who isn’t a racist.

You ask what Mark Fuhrman has ever done to harm Sandpoint? What exactly has he done to help Sandpoint? Perhaps he could’ve paid for his comments by talking with local high school kids about how casual racism and jokes can morph into something larger. He could’ve reached out to the Bonner County Human Rights Task force and volunteered his time with them, or joined their organization.

He could’ve done any number of outreach-type situations with the community to atone for his mistakes, but I have yet to see him do any of that.

Instead, he sold a few books and participated in a conservative talk radio show in Spokane and is an occasional guest for Sean Hannity on Fox News.

I do not hate him or you or anyone else. I just think racism is wrong.

Ben Olson, publisher

Insulting Immigration Policy...

Dear Editor, Families from Central America are fleeing the worst criminal violence in the world. They are arriving at our borders. These men, women and children are seeking asylum as they are literally running for their lives. They have left behind their family, their friends, their homes, their land, their property and their professions. America has the moral and ethical obligation to accept them. This is a core American value, and it is clearly the

right thing to do. It is also international law. In 1948 The United Nations proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states that every human being has the fundamental right of protection from persecution in other countries. The 1951 UN Refugee Convention asserts that a refugee should not be returned to a country where they face serious threats to their life or freedom.

The current U.S. executive administration [Trump and Sessions] says “nope” to the international codes above AND “nope” to American values.

They have recently separated thousands of children from their refugee asylum-seeking mothers and fathers. These children are being kept in cages.

Can we all agree that it is unethical and immoral to mistreat children? Well, separating children from their mothers and fathers is clearly abuse. And that is exactly what Mr. Trump and Mr. Sessions are doing.

Mr. Sessions then pours salt on the wound: He attempts to justify his horrendous behavior through Biblical verses: Romans 13. However, the Bible is very clear (over and over again) about how we must treat the foreigner, the oppressed, the weak and the poor. For example, Leviticus 19:33: “When a foreigner dwells within your land, you shall not wrong him. The foreigner that dwells with you shall be like a native among you; you shall love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt” … Jeremiah 22:3: “Thus said the Creator: Do what is just and right; rescue from the oppressor he who is oppressed, do not wrong the stranger, the fatherless, the widow…”

Perhaps Trump and Sessions should schedule a weekly Bible study and spend less time mistreating the poor, the weak, the oppressed and their children. These actions and this policy insult every American, past and present. It’s one thing to act immorally and unethically. Its quite another thing to take cover for such acts in Biblical verse. This insults every person of faith.

Danny Strauss Sandpoint

To Senators Risch and Crapo...

To Sens. Risch and Crapo, As our elected representatives in the U.S. Senate, we are asking you to act in our behalf to immediately halt the inhumane policy of the Trump administration in separating children from their parents at the border.

With hundreds of children, some ripped from their mother’s arms, separated from their families, and some living in cage-like conditions, something must be done to halt the executive order which has caused this. Many of these children are from families seeking asylum because of conditions making it impossible to live in their home countries.

America has always been a beacon of hope for these families. The Trump administration’s action is, in the words of a Catholic priest, “Pure evil.” It should sicken anyone who purports to be a Christian in this nation. As Gov. John Kasich, Republican governor of Ohio, put it, “It was enough to make me cry.”

We can only hope that you have some measure of humanity, whether it’s through religion or otherwise, to pursue action in Congress that will bring an immediate halt to this immoral action. As a veteran who risked my life for our country, I have always trusted that it could live up to its ideals.

Jim Ramsey Sandpoint

BY THE NUMBERS

By Ben Olson Reader Staff

2,300

The number of children, according to the Trump administration, who were separated from parents facing criminal prosecution for unlawfully crossing the border over a six-week period that ended last month. Controversy over the practice has led to growing cries for the White House to end the “zero-tolerance” policy on illegal immigration that it put in place in April.

President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday ending family separation.

nearlY 6,000

The number of unaccompanied migrant children the Trump administration has likely lost track of. Federal officials acknowledged last month that nearly 1,500 unaccompanied minors arrived on the southern border alone without their parents and were placed with sponsors who did not keep in touch with federal officials, but those numbers were only a snapshot of a three-month period during the last fiscal year. The real number is estimated at thousands higher, around 6,000.

$75,510

What people in Hawaii need to earn to afford a two-bedroom apartment at fair market prices without spending more than 30 percent of their income on rent. That so-called housing wage is more than any other state’s.

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The number of wild horses released by the Bureau of Land Management into the Sands Basin Herd Management Area in southwestern Idaho. This marks the first time wild horses managed by the agency will roam in the area in three years following a 2015 wildfire that burned nearly all the Sands Basin Herd Management Area.

237

The combined number of White House invitations sent to all 132 Idaho county commissioners and 105 Idaho lawmakers.

Some thought the invitation was spam and deleted them, but it turned out they were legitimate invitations.

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COMMUNITY

A bright future: Bouquets: • Wow, we just received a very generous donation from the Idaho Panhandle Chapter of Trout Unlimited. Thank you, Reg Crawford and everyone at TU, for the sentiment.

And thanks to all of you out there who regularly donate to the Reader. It really means a lot to us, and we couldn’t bring you this rag each week without the support.

Barbs • I know the downtown revitalization project in Sandpoint is quite contentious, as we’ve seen from the plethora of comments on our Facebook page. I have my reservations about it, too, but I’m willing to have an open mind and see how it comes together. I was, after all, a fierce opponent of the Sand Creek Byway, and now I’ve come to accept the fact that there is much less traffic in town after it opened. One thing that pains me is the fact that there are so many comments that are knee-jerk reactions, often where the commenter doesn’t even take the time to read about the project, or read the news story, which answers a lot of their questions. We have a tendency to fear change aggressively here in Sandpoint, almost to the point where it makes us look like sticks in the mud. My advice? If you’re going to oppose something, find out the basic information about it and comment intelligently about why you oppose it — don’t just broadcast your outrage.

• What’s happening at our southern border right now is atrocious. We need to inform our elected officials that the “zero tolerance” policy that the Trump Administration has enacted (not the Democrats, as Trump incorrectly states) needs an overhaul.

Trump’s recent executive action aiming to keep families together is a step in the right direction, and I commend him for it, but why did we have to wade through so much BS to get here? We are better than this. We can have strong borders without treating people like animals and placing children in cages. Call your elected officials and let them know you don’t support the “zero tolerance” policy.

• Sen. Mike Crapo 202-224-6142 • Sen. Jim Risch 202-224-2752 • Rep. Raul Labrador 202-225-6611 8 /

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CAL awards nearly $40k in scholarships to area students

By Ben Olson Reader Staff The Community Assistance League, a local nonprofit organization which provides annual financial grants and scholarships to worthy individuals and organizations, awarded $39,400 in scholarships to 29 high school students on Wednesday.

Eight of the 29 students met at the Sandpoint Center inside Columbia Bank to share their future plans, as well as receive their scholarships.

Ron Korn, a graduating senior from Sandpoint High School, plans to attend University of Idaho in the fall and will major in mechanical engineering, with a minor in math and computer sciences.

“This scholarship provides a financial base so I can afford to go to school without taking out hundreds of thousands of dollars of loans and end up in debt,” Korn said. “I want to graduate with as little debt as possible.”

Recent SHS grad Payton Finney also plans to attend University of Idaho in the fall.

“I want to study virtual technology and design,” Finney said. “I want to get into an animation or virtual reality career.

It’s growing really fast.”

Kaytlyn Wooden, also from SHS, plans to attend North Idaho College in Coeur d’Alene after the summer.

“I want to get an associate’s degree in construction and construction management,” she said.

“The scholarship funds come from sales from our store Bizarre Bazaar,” said Linda Melia, the incoming chairperson for the CAL Scholarship Committee.

Outgoing chair for the Scholarship Committee Sherry Ennis said this year’s decision

CAL Scholarship winners, from left to right: Randolph Stuart, Jessica Klein, Hannah Hurst, Rachel Meyer, Cienna Roget, Kaytlyn Wooden, Payton Finney, Ron Korn. Photo by Ben Olson. was a difficult one.

“Choosing the most outstanding students out of so many outstanding students was a difficult task,” wrote Ennis.

Here is a full list of 2018 CAL Scholarship recipients: Sandpoint High School Brianna Baldree, Saydee Brass, Ciena Christensen, Garrett Connolly, Rebecca Coop, Payton Finney, Shelby

Flathers, Lily Hartman, Samuel Hendricks, Taylor Hill, Hannah Hurst, Abigail Johnson, August Johnson, Ron Korn, Ellie McCray, Rachel Meyer, Soncirey Mitchell, Garrett Pierce, Cienna Roget, Emily Shveyda, Maclain Stultz and Kaytlyn Wooden.

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Forrest Bird Charter School Carissa Lonzisero Home Schooled Jessica Klein

Clark Fork High School Bryant Moore

Renewing Scholars Corinne Ariss, Rachel Osborne.

Priest River High School Randolph Stuart, Kalyee

For more info, check out calsandpoint.org

THE READER HEADS TO THE COAST Sandpoint’s Carl Zmuda brought the Reader westward to the Oregon Coast and snapped this photo of himself with his “favorite daughter Laura” with Molly (the black lab) and Annie (the yellow lab). The crew were hanging out on the beach near Haystack Rock, just outside of Cannon Beach, Oregon.

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By Brenden Bobby Reader Columnist It’s America’s favorite friendship-ruining board game. Most of us associate this with a fun family night, or a table-flipping rampage, but what you might not realize is that it has some pretty deep roots in economic and political theory. I was shocked when I started reading about just how much research has gone into, and come out of Monopoly, and now I intend to share that shock with you.

The roots of Monopoly start with a game from 1903 called The Landlord’s Game, which used Georgist principles to showcase an economic principle without making the public’s head spin. What in the heck does that even mean?

Well, think about the entire point of Monopoly. It starts off easy, where everyone has a fair shot, but the goal is to choke everyone else out into bankruptcy and dominate the board.

That’s the antithesis of Georgism in a nutshell.

If I was interpreting it correctly, Georgist thought is that land should belong to society, and that taxation should be based off the value generated from the land, be it profit from oil, rent, agriculture, you name it, rather than arbitrary values that exist to enrich a sole owner, such as a landlord or a corporation.

Basically, if you have five tenants, with four of them making $1,200 a month and one making $750 a month, it doesn’t make sense to charge everyone $900 a month starting off, then adding $32 every month on top of that.

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happens anyway. When trying to compare this thought process to modern economics, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense because it’s been a bit lost with the times. Theoretical socialism is the closest thing, along with the ideas of “flat-tax” where everyone pays a fixed percentage to society (rather, government.)

To be clear, I’m not advocating for political or economic agendas. I’m just presenting what I discovered while researching Monopoly!

The inception of Monopoly was rife with drama and deceit.

The original creator, Elizabeth Magie, patented the game in 1904. Sometime around 1930, a man named Charles Darrow asked for a set of written rules for the game, then plagiarized the whole thing, changed the name to Monopoly and sold it for a buttload of money to the Parker brothers, who went on to turn the game into a worldwide phenomenon.

That’s right, a game that tries to expose terrible human nature and shady business deals was conceived by terrible human nature and a shady business deal.

The premise of the game is pretty brilliant when you think about it. It teaches us the worst about ourselves by making us utilize the worst in ourselves to win.

This applies to real-world business too, and we watch it happen around us on a daily basis. It’s kind of the nature of economics, really.

One of my favorite descriptors of what an economy is came from Tim Urban on his online blog, Wait But Why: Think of the economy like a jungle. Huge trees that have

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lived for generations grow big and tall to block out the forest floor and choke out any competition. Eventually, a new sprig that’s adapted to living in this harsh environment will pop up and grow until it’s an even bigger tree that’s choking out the ones before it.

In this analogy, the trees are companies. If that seems silly, think about the chokehold Amazon has put on brick and mortar businesses. It cropped up and adapted to create a new kind of shopping experience where other stores just couldn’t compete. If you don’t believe me, I challenge you to find your latest Toys-R-Us or Circuit City receipt.

It’s hard to separate the game from reality, which is the point of the game, but let’s get back to the board. The layout isn’t random. Statistically, your odds of landing on certain properties are higher for a number of reasons: Their placement on the board and the fact that you use two dice to move, as well as the fact that you get punished and sent to a certain part of the board if you roll poorly According to statisticians (people that study statistics) the orange properties are the best to own. It makes sense when you think about people getting out of jail: two orange properties are grouped up right before Free Parking, and a sufficiently high roll when getting out of jail will land you right on one of the three orange plots.

Monopoly games last a notoriously long time. This has been a lauded problem since before its official release. What doesn’t help is the fact that the bank can never run out of money, so if it

does, it’s allowed to mint more.

In real life, when this starts happening, it generally leads to hyperinflation, which means the price of things goes up while the value of money goes down exponentially. A notorious example of this happening was after Germany lost World War I, they were hit with crushing reparation payments to the countries that won the war, while simultaneously trying to rebuild their

own country. Within months, people were burning stacks of money because it was cheaper to burn several thousand dollars than spend tens of thousands to buy a lesser amount of wood.

Hyperinflation is a can of worms all its own, and I’m running out of words! For the time being, enjoy the random corner and have a good week!

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• The longest game of Monopoly lasted 70 days.

•Chutes and Ladders was originally called Snakes and Ladders in the U.S. It originated in India in the 19th century.

• Clue was patented in 1947, but wasn’t released for two years because of post-war shortages.

• Mr. Green in Clue was originally a reverend, but Parker Brothers objected to a reverend being suspected of murder.

• The highest-scoring word you can open with in Scrabble is “muzjiks” (it’s a Russian peasant).

• For Scrabble’s 50th Anniversary, a giant game was played in Wembley Stadium. Each tile was six feet across.

• The Game of Life was the very first board game invented by Milton Bradley, in 1860.

• Trivial Pursuit was created when two Canadian news editors found pieces of their Scrabble game missing and decided to make their own game.

• In 1984 Fred L. Worth sued for $300 million because more than 25 percent of Trivial Pursuit’s questions were lifted from his books. He lost on the grounds that facts can’t be copyrighted. And that’s a fact.

• Chess originated in Eastern India around 280—550 A.D. The original pieces (infantry, cavalry, elephants, and chariotry) eventually became pawns, knights, bishops, and rooks.

• ”Jenga” is Swahili for “build.” Jenga is relatively new — Leslie Scott produced the game in the 1980s, based on a game her family used to play with children’s building blocks.

FEATURE

Our New Library OR

How I Was Duped into Reading Nonfiction Again

By Barry Burgess Reader Contributor

I used to hide in libraries when I was little.

The school, the church and community libraries all had their particular bibliotheca. They were special places where I could find quiet and read and learn about the world outside in a place of comfort. A peaceful place where millions of characters hid in there with me. I read of the lives of famous people, history of places, and things that one could make, see or do – nonfiction.

I also discovered fiction. I found amazing characters. I could see their homes, their binders arrayed on steel shelves, their colorful places large and small, thick and thin, and of course, private places tucked behind locked glass doors where special, ancient, and the privileged lived. Walk into a library and your imagination begins.

You meet interesting people there. You become entwined in their sorrow, happiness, folly and share their uplifting spirit then watch them fail and be dashed to near death, sigh, and become redeemed again and again. I am speaking of books of course, not library patrons.

Books live incredible lives.

They embrace all the eternal mysterious wonder of words.

Creatively, words employ the most strictest fidelity to truth or lie so believably we have no cause to doubt, and then there is simple entertainment. Open a book at random and peruse the very first sentence of a novel, a mystery, a thriller, western, or scifi and you might find something like: “You do an awful good impression of yourself.” Brett Easton Ellis, “Lunar Park.”

Or how about: “The church had become a tomb where forty-seven bodies turned to leather and stains had

been lying on the concrete floor the past five years, though not lying where they had been shot with kalashnikovs or hacked to death with machetes.” Elmore Leonard, “Pagan Babies.”

And then there is this true story: “Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances.” T. E. Lawrence, “Seven Pillars of Wisdom.”

Our library is not new, but is renewed. I think of Andrew Carnegie who turned his fortunes into great libraries. Where are the benevolent oligarchs of today?

Why are they not turning their fortunes into something other than split stocks?

One great tyrant, warrior, statesman and conquerer stole, borrowed and bought the greatest books one could find on earth and constructed a library for his own city. Considered to be the greatest and very first library in the world, built by Alexander the Great, was the Ancient Library of Alexandria. It was dedicated to the Muses, the nine goddesses of the arts.

The library was part of a larger research institution called the Museaum of Alexandria where many of the most famous thinkers of the ancient world studied. Look it up. I did and learned; because of the Great Library, Alexandria was considered the capital of knowledge and learning for its time — beginning in the 3rd century BC. Now, I like to believe it is also true here in Sandpoint where our community can consider itself the capital of knowledge and learning for its time, 2018, in the county of Bonner. It was great before and now, it’s a monument to reading.

Look at it. The walls have moved, the books disappeared and reappeared, so that after months of construction, the place is more vibrant than ever. Any frustrations (and there were few) were made most amusing by the humorous comments posted on the doors — to calm us nerds and fake us out.

I wish I had copied them down.

Something about “dust and mayhem” though they said it best.

I still hide in the East Bonner County Library. It is a place that has forever helped to inspire me.

You might find me at a table, on a chair, staring amiably into space, a dull guy with dark circles under his eyes, eyeglasses seemingly glued, muttering about something I read, or drifting down the aisles tilting my head up and down looking for titles I’ve never heard of. I’m a readerly rogue and book obsessed. My obsession with words and books came early in my life.

My predilection for word salads came from my father, who required I be fed at the dinner table only after I had acquired a word from the dictionary to spell, pronounce and use in a sentence.

I rarely misspelled anything because the sounds my stomach made helped me remember. It would say things like: P-e-u-n-i-tv-e, but there never were punishments, only accolades. Both parents were readers. They gave to me everything from Kipling to Kerouac and some very heady books in between. Dad was often buried in Graham Greene. And, Ma was silly for De Lillo.

But, this story is not about me.

This story is about my thanking the new Library and their scheming, conniving way in which they got me to read nonfiction once again. My interest had always been fiction: a tale told well, a writer’s vibrant imagination, the things written that would suspend my belief, to rise and fall with anticipation of a plot done well (I have been trying to read Pynchon’s “Gravity’s Rainbow” for three years) —reality is something for news mags and papers).

But those people at the EBC Library, well, they are pretty clever. I think it was a conspiracy. They must have watched carefully all the fiction — the sappy novels, the sci-fi, a few

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“dewey” romances or maybe all the Jim Harrisons I devoured — that evidenced I was a patron of limited scope, and they would have nothing of that. I was to become a well-rounded a reader for nonfiction once again. And they were right.

I think this is how they pulled it off. It was when I arrived one day to search for the latest work from Kurt Vonnegut and found the “Fiction” category had been moved — and they couldn’t tell me where (or cleverly refused to) because they had undertaken this wonderful new building program and said they had no clue.

So, I hung my head and wandered into the sections on science,

art, history and lifted my head to all the wonderful books I had been ignoring. I find myself now cozying up to world history, science and biographical adventures too numerous to list.

I want to thank the EBCL for that. You guys are great, your house is beautiful and I believe you have conspired very well to balance your readers into realms of words and books they may have missed. I used to hide in libraries to read and escape the real world. The real world is in there too, escape unnecessary, cherish the words that will save us.

Thank you for a job done well.

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Live Music w/ Marty & Doug 6-8pm @ Cedar St. Bistro Wine Bar Mandolin guitar duo from Sandpoint Live Music w/ Larry Mooney 5-8pm @ Pend d’Oreille Winery Smooth latin jazz Live Music w/ Bright Moments Jazz 5-7pm @ Idaho Pour Authority

The Library’s STEM in 1-2:15pm @ Travers Park Bring a lunch and come do ing projects! Geared towar 1 through 5, but all are wel (208) 263-6930 for more i

Live Music w/ The Beat Diggers 6:30-9:30pm @ MickDuff’s Beer Hall Classic rock and roll and more!

Live Music w/ Miah Kohal Band 9pm @ 219 Lounge Rock out on the patio with Sandpoint’s rock/outlaw country band

Live Jazz 6-8pm @ jazz and s D’Orazi a INBC Blo 10am-2pm Go to INB appointme

Live Music w/ Chris Molitor Live Music w/ 6-8pm @ MickDuff’s Beer Hall 9pm @ 219 Lou Spokane artist who won 2018 Bart- Talented singer lett Award for Best Local Sing- Walk in the W er-Songwriter. Food by Old Tin Can 10am @ Pine S Residents are i June Bug Ball community fore 7-10pm @ Spt. Community Hall Come shake a leg at the June Bug the Woods serie Ball. Learn the Hustle dance lessons ture Pine Street Live Music w/ Brian Jacobs & Chris Lynch from 7-8, then from 8-10 there will Sandpoint Rad 8-10pm @ The Back Door be general dancing, refreshments, etc. 1pm, 4pm, 7pm 20 Pacific Nort KNPS: John Phillips Astronaut Photography from the ISS from document 9:45pm @ Sandpoint Community Hall festival lineup Sandpoint resident John Phillips will show a sample from his own blocks Learn m “greatest hits” of photography during a free presentation Sweet Serenade Summer Concert @ The Heartwood C Sandpoint Chess Club 9am @ Evans Brothers Coffee The Music Conservatory’s annual Teacher’s Concert and C olate Extravaganza! All proceeds will support MCS schola Meets every Sunday at 9am programs. Tickets $15. (208) 265-4444

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Thursday Night Solo Series w/ Jake Robin 6-8pm @ MickDuff’s Beer Hall Jake’s music has been described as “up music for down people” and “esoteric for everyone.” Plus, food available by Sandpoint Curry

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Monday Night Blues Jam w/ Truck Mills Lifetree Cafe • 2pm @ Jalepeño’s Mexican 7:30pm @ Eichardt’s Pub An hour of conversation and stories. This week’ Night-Out Karaoke 9pm @ 219 Lounge Join DJ Pat for a night of singing, or just come to drink and listen

Tina Friedman India presentation 4-6:30pm @ Sandpoint Library Attend a free slideshow presentation featuring photographs from Sandpoint photographer Tina Friedman’s recent trip to India. Part 2

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

Wednesdays w/ Benny 5-7:30pm @ Connie’s Lounge Weekly music on Connie’s deck with Bennie Baker. This week’s special guest: Mike Thompson

Trivia Takeover Live 6-7:30pm @ Pend d’Oreille Winery Teams encouraged but not required.

Wine and beer specials also. Free and open to the public

Trivia Night 7-9pm @ MickDuff Grab your smartest into a booth at Mick Night. Grab a seat ea

Sandpoint Farmers’ Mar 3-5:30pm @ Farmin Park Buy produce, shop local w and listen to live music Doug Bond

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Live Jazz 6-8pm @ Farmhouse Restaurant jazz and swing provided by Tom D’Orazi and Denis Zwang NBC Blood Drive 10am-2pm @ Bonner General Health Go to INBCSaves.org to schedule an appointment. Walk-ins welcome

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

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Native Plant Class and Field Trip 9am-1pm @ Idaho Fish & Game’s Trout Creek property Native plant specialist Derek Antonelli will present a class on plant identification, followed by a walk around the property looking at the diversity of plants found in various habitats. Free and open to the public; RSVP ds.ca.antonelli@gmail.com, (208) 691-1070

Sandpoint Farmers’ Market Painting with Artist Lori Moore 9am-1pm @ Farmin Park 9am-3pm @ Moose Mommas Come paint with artist Lori Moore in Shop for locally grown produce, the beautiful North Idaho woods at shop artisan wares, eat some Moose Mommas in the Flume Creek good food and enjoy live music area. To sign up, e-mail lorimooreart@ by Cranbrook Violin Club and Sandpoint Music Conservatory gmail.com. (208) 263-6502 Yoga on Tap Music w/ Caitlin Jemma and Bart Budwig 11am @ Laughing Dog Brewery @ 219 Lounge One hour class that ends with the group having ted singer-songwriter duo. Folk, Americana, bluegrass a beer together. $12 includes your first beer in the Woods: Bike or Hike Tour @ Pine Street Woods Tina Friedman India presentation ents are invited to discover all that the Pine Street Woods 2-4:30pm @ Sandpoint Library munity forest will offer through Kaniksu Land Trust’s Walk in Attend a free slideshow presentation featuring oods series. Take a guided scenic walk or bike ride on the fuphotographs from Sandpoint photographer ine Street Woods property. Sign up at KaniksuLandTrust.org Tina Friedman’s recent trip to India. Part 1 point Radius Film Festival 4pm, 7pm @ Panida Theater Live jazz w/ Annie Welle cific Northwest short films in three film blocks. Everything 4-6pm @ Pend d’Oreille Winery documentary, narrative and experimental is included in the Sandpoint’s Annie Welle plays solo jazz al lineup this year. Tickets are $8 single block; $15 all three piano. Favorites and standards, contems Learn more at SandpointRadius.com porary works, original compositions 7B Sunday - Schweitzer opener rtwood Center 11am-5pm @ Schweitzer Mountain Resort cert and ChocFree chairlift rides, family activities, live music CS scholarship and more. Schweitzer.com. (208) 255-3081

Mexican Restaurant Rock Out! This week’s topic: “Money, Money, Money” 10:30pm @ Sandpoint Library Learn about rocks, fossils, and petrified wood with Nancy Scott. ght (208) 263-6930 MickDuff’s Restaurant smartest friends and pile Spt. Friends of the Library General Meeting h at MickDuff’s for Trivia 11:30pm @ Sandpoint Library b a seat early, they go fast!

Book sale activity and election of board members mers’ Market Digital Marketing for Smarties 6-8:30pm @ Holiday Inn Express (Ponderay) rmin Park op local wares Google got you frutrated? Have no fear! $20 / $10 for chamber

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Summer Sampler 5-8pm @ Farmin Park Hosted by Greater Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce. Taste fine cuisine from area restaurants, plus enjoy cook-offs and live music

June 29 POAC ArtWalk opening reception @ various locations June 29 Paint and Sip @ The Pottery Bug

June 29 Devon Wade @ MickDuff’s Beer Hall

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High school teen tennis clinic offered

By Reader Staff The High School Teen Tennis Clinic will take place July 9-13 from 10 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at the Travers Park courts. The class fee is $90 ($5 city discount). Online pre-registration is due by June 25 at www.sandpointidaho.gov/parksrecreation.

This clinic will be run by the Sandpoint varsity tennis coach Kent Anderson. Participants will get the opportunity to work out with some of the best college coaches and pros in the state.

These pros will be dedicated to the personal development and improvement of each player. T-shirts and prizes will be available for

all players. The camp is open to existing/incoming high school players or by special permission of instructors. Participants must bring daily sack lunches.

For more information on this and other activities contact Sandpoint Parks and Recreation at (208) 263-3613, or visit us at 1123 Lake Street.

Junior lifeguarding class

Learn about Show Camp

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This class will provide participants with opportunities to learn water safety and guarding basics while improving swimming ability and stroke mechanics. Junior Lifeguarding is tailored for 12 -15 year olds that are both strong swimmers and comfortable in deep open water.

Classes take place at Sandpoint City Beach Monday, Wednesday and Friday on July 9, 11, 13, 16, 18, 20 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 by June 27, so don’t delay!

Youth ages 7-14 are invited to Show Camp! Session 1 is July 9–13 and session 2 is August 6–10 at Lakeview Park. The class fee is $95 ($5 discount for city residents) and scholarships are available.

Register at www.sandpointidaho.gov/parksrecreation by June 27 for session 1 and July 25 for session 2.

Show Camp is under the direction of Darla Dreyer, a former Disney choreographer/director. Camp participants will work on comedy routines and skits, an opening production number and song presentation. Camp will end with a performance for family and friends. Participants should bring a sack lunch, water bottle, and wear comfortable shoes. Class runs daily from 10 a.m.–2 p.m.

Bonner County grads earn Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness scholarships

By Reader Staff

Each year, Friends of Scotchman Peaks Wilderness gives graduating seniors from the high schools within the three counties the proposed wilderness lies in a chance to write about their favorite experience in the wild.

The best submission from each school in Sanders and Lincoln Counties in Montana and Bonner County in Idaho wins a $300 prize that can be spent on whatever the student wishes, although it is the hope of FSPW that they will use it to further their education. The best essay overall earns another $300.

This year’s winner from Bonner County were Soncirey Mitchell and Peik Anderson from Sandpoint High School, Wade Stevens from Clark Fork High and home school student Bryce Barba.

Soncirey and Peik tied for best essay overall, earning each of them $450. Bryce and Wade received $300 each.

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By Reader Staff This weekend, the eyes of the amateur radio community turn toward the annual Field Day operating event. Members of the Bonner County ARES/RACES will be participating in the national Amateur Radio Field Day exercise, June 23-24 at 465838 Highway 95 S, next to the Bonner County Multi-Use Facility. There will be an Open House, Saturday from 2-4 p.m.

Since 1933, as an event to test the field preparedness and emergency communications abilities of the burgeoning amateur radio community, Field Day has evolved into the largest on-the-air operation during the year where ham radio operators across North America have established temporary ham radio stations in public locations to showcase the science and skill of amateur radio. This event is open to the public and all are encouraged to attend.

Field Day is officially an operating event, not a contest. The purpose remains today as it did

in the beginning: to demonstrate the communications ability of the amateur radio community in simulated emergency situations from almost any location and create an independent communications network. Groups across the continent use Field Day as a literal “show and tell” exhibition.

“It’s easy for anyone to pick up a computer or smartphone, connect to the internet and communicate, with no knowledge of how the devices function or connect to each other,” said Dave Isgur of the American Radio Relay League.

“But if there’s an interruption of service or you’re out of range of a cell tower, you have no way to communicate. Ham radio functions completely independent of the internet or cell phone infrastructure, can interface with tablets or smartphones, and can be set up almost anywhere in minutes.

That’s the beauty of amateur radio during a communications outage.”

For more information about Field Day, contact Mark Earls or visit www.bonnerares.org

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essays,” said FSPW program coordinator Sandy Compton. “This kids really like the theme, and tell some great stories.”

FSPW has been giving local seniors scholarships for 10 years. For more information, visit www. scotchmanpeaks.org

Top: FSPW executive director Phil Hough is flanked by FSPW scholarship winners Peik Anderson (left) and Soncirey Mitchell. Bottom left: Wade Stevens wrote the best FSPW essay from Clark Fork High. Bottom right: Home school student Bryce Barba of Kootenai won an FSPW scholarship

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LITERATURE

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Send poems to: jim3wells@aol.com keys to immortality In the 4th century AD, in China, Ge Hong devoted his life to seeking the keys to immortality. He studied alchemy -traveled widely to find the right ingredients for his elixirs. His writings reveal his prescriptions for extending life: exercise, patterned breathing, meditation, prayer-- mindfulness. Recent research would endorse this.

Last week I shared with a friend who is dealing with cancer this 1600 year old advice for extending life. She replied, “Yep!-- and he didn’t have to look for immortality-He’d already found it!”

--Brenda Hammond

through a glass darkly Walking a given path between shaded cool and sun she kept herself protected from surprise of sudden heat For many a man had taken hold of her misbegotten life and had pushed her to the ridge, to the edge of a coast line sharp with the glassiness of a mirror

As if her life would fall over the ridge of flinty stones fashioned by a sharp and hardened god-like sun Burning her and heaping more than she could hold upon her head cut by a mirror while bending low to battle heat

A ghost reflection in her mirror revealing more of moon and not of sun Wavering, indistinctive, never sharp And threatening to implode in inner heat Fastening hard to crags and rifts within the ridge of a heart that smothers in the hold

The wooden fate, the stones of heat The earth’s cruel boundary, the ridge And all of it shining mirrorlike, steely and bitterly sharp, grasping her strongly in its hold And finally facing her toward the sun

But there were treasures in that hold Some to be apportioned as a mirror shows the echo of a ridge but from the viewer hides the glint of sun A faux passion, not the fullest heat A girl gone soft against the sharp

A brand new mirror, like eternal heat A different sun, expansive as the mountain’s ridge And her mouth, tasting transition, rendered sharp, no longer in the wrestler’s hold

And reaching back to once was sharp and wondering what there ever was to hold, she stretches but still avoids the heat Avoids the time that passes in the mirror And sits with her back turned toward the sun Ever wary of the sloughing ridge

--Amy Craven June 2018

Amy is a Sandpoint transplant from the East Coast, a retired music teacher, singer and aspiring writer. This poem is not the usual free-verse poem that you see in this column.

Poets, during their development, are often asked to write in a traditional form. See if you can figure out what form this is, and its “pattern.”

primitive love I once had a girlfriend who was always into something One day she showed me results from an ancestry.com search.

Sure enough she had the gnome homo Neanderthanis Not much but apparently enough, it wasn’t hard to believe.

I mean the way she ate her chicken, attacking the bone to get to the marrow And how during the coldest days of winter she’d stick her head out the car window Just to feel the cold air burning her face.

There was the paleolithic diet The Pleistocene passions And the primordial love making.

I never minded the unshaven, slightly bowed legs Or the fact that she wasn’t a beach girl or her penchant for year round air conditioning Her sweet and docile countenance and inner strength always won me over But it was that outer strength that made her a keeper If there was a pickle jar to be opened she was the one.

One day she told me she was leaving. Going to La Chapelle aux saints in France To be with her close relatives. In a way I didn’t mind Perhaps a red blooded Homo Sapien as myself would be better off with his own kind.

I was not so sure I wanted my prodigy sucking marrow from chicken bones.

Once not long ago in the dead of winter I thought I spotted her on the open highway That big head of hair flying in the wind, her icy blue eyes glazed in verglas And that bewildered, primitive expression lost in a time long gone by.

--Tom Woodward Brenda teaches parenting classes, and is a mainstay of the Bonner County Human Rights Commission.

Tom lives on the Upper Pack River in a cabin he built himself. He can be This is another form, an ancient one from Persia called seen riding his bicycle during acceptable weather, or sitting in his favorite a ghazal. Interestingly, some poets find that writing perch at the end of the Cedar Street Bridge, observing the comings and goin a traditional form is sometimes easier than writing ings of the publisher of the Reader. One of the attributes of Tom’s writing is his free verse poetry. sense of humor, which can be a challenging thing to achieve in poetry.

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ART 41st Annual

Opening reception Friday, June 29

By Ben Olson Reader Staff

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t’s the end of June, and you know what that means — another ArtWalk is just around the corner.

The Pend Oreille Arts Council is hosting its 41st Annual ArtWalk opening reception on Friday, June 29, at 20 participating locations around Sandpoint.

The annual art exposé features the best works of about 100 diverse and talented artists, strewn about various businesses around town. Opening receptions start at 5:30 p.m. and end at 8 p.m. But that’s not the end of the evening by any stretch of the imagination, because the after party starts at 8 p.m. at Evans Brothers Coffee Roasters where Bright Moments Jazz will play until 9:30 p.m.

Several venues will have live music to add some flavor to the refreshments.

Come out and stroll the town to see the entire spectrum of visual arts including oil, watercolor and acrylic painting, encaustic painting, print making, fiber arts, photography, sculptures, found art and mixed media. There’s apt to be something you’ll want for your own home or office, so don’t forget the checkbook.

Plan your ArtWalk route by picking up a brochure at any of the participating businesses, and if you can’t get to all of them in one night, have no fear, the art will hang in place all summer until Sept. 6. Locations include: •Columbia Bank •Pend d’Oreille Winery •Idaho Pour Authority •Sandpoint Reader •Baxter’s on Cedar •Pend Oreille Arts Council •Azalea’s Handpicked Style •Northwest Handmade •Cedar Glen Gallery/Jerry Ferrara Wildlife Photography 16 /

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A random piece of art along the Galaxy Gallery in the alley between First and Second Avenues in Sandpoint. Photo by Ben Olson.

•Galaxy Gallery (the alley between First and Second Ave.) •Music Conservatory of Sandpoint •Realty Plus, Inc. •La Chic Boutique •219 Lounge •ArtWorks Gallery •Santosha •Hippie Chic Boutique •Monarch Mountain Coffee •Evans Brothers Coffee This is a free event made possible by the generosity of our local businesses and supporters of Pend Oreille Arts Council. If you would like to donate to POAC, their website is www.ArtInSandpoint.org, or you can call (208) 263-6139 for more information.

FOOD & DRINK

Meet Hope’s new grocer

Ross Davis has a vision for Hope’s historic Wellington Place storefront, and he’s excited to jump in

By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff

For Ross Davis, it was an arduous road to Hope, Idaho.

He, his wife and his three young children moved here two years ago to be closer to his wife’s parents. She was deathly ill and bedridden at the time, and Davis’ boat-maker’s salary in Seattle wasn’t cutting it.

The first time Davis went with his wife to see the home they purchased in Hope, he noticed the Hope Marketplace on the hillside by the Post Office and expressed his joy that the small town had a grocery store. His wife, Jamie, told him the marketplace didn’t sell groceries.

“Right then I knew — that’s my grocery store,” he said.

But first, he worked at Monarch School — the Heron, Mont., therapeutic boarding school that suddenly closed in September. There, Davis taught music and provided addiction counseling.

During that time, Davis said Jamie nearly died three times. Thanks to support from Monarch School staff, Cedar Hills Church in Sandpoint and a few others, he said they made it through that awful time.

Hope Marketplace owner Kally Thurman met Davis at the Monarch School and, upon hearing about his grocery store dream, decided it was time for a change.

Come September, Hope’s hillside will feature a new storefront: Davis Grocery and Mercantile.

“He is just on fire with ideas,” Thurman said. “I’m excited for him. It feels like this is what we should be doing.”

Thurman said she recognizes a hands-on work ethic in Davis, and it’s something she respects. She sees the transition from the Hope Marketplace to Davis Grocery as a “when one door closes, another opens” situation.

“My goal was to put art in the walk of everyday life, and I think we’ve done that,” she said. “This has been a good 18-year gig.”

Ross Davis and his rescue dog, Otis, sit outside the Hope Marketplace, which will soon be Davis Grocery and Mercantile. Photo by Lyndsie Kiebert.

Now Davis is making his own goals for the historic storefront, all while keeping the community spirit of the building in mind. His 15 years of work in grocery stores — and in every department imaginable — will only help.

“I can’t wait to meet everybody,” he said. “I want this place to have a neighborhood vibe, and be the spot where everybody runs into each other.”

Davis plans to not only serve as a classic grocery store, but also as a cafe and museum. He said his wife is currently working with the Bonner County Museum to create a collection of photos and artifacts illustrating the history of Hope. Thurman’s art classes and Friday wine tastings will continue at the store for some time.

Davis said the store’s focus will

be healthy, but affordable, food. He said his prices are likely to compare to Yoke’s. He’ll carry a wide array of typical groceries and produce, and even offer a bulk section for things like grains and coffee.

While he understands people in the Hope area are still likely to go to Sandpoint for their larger shopping trips, he isn’t necessarily catering to that crowd.

“I’m catering to the hand basket crowd — you know, the people who are shopping for tonight’s meal, and maybe for tomorrow morning,” he said.

He said he wants to incorporate local goods, and maybe, in the future, to host a small farmers’ market on the street outside.

If anything, Davis’ intuition was right — it’s his grocery store now, and he’s

glad it’s in such a small community.

“Here, people really mean it when they offer to help,” he said. “In Seattle, I didn’t know my neighbors. Here, I know everyone on my street.”

As Davis prepares to make this serendipitous dream a reality, he said he’s grateful for the opportunity to be a resource for the community who gave so much to his family.

“We’re really happy to be through the tunnel and out the other side,” he said. “Now we want to give back.”

Contact Davis about selling your local goods in the store at davisgroceryinhope@gmail.com, and learn more at www.davisgroceryinhope.com.

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FOOD

Summer Sampler puts local food in one place

By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff

Nothing quite says summer in Sandpoint like the Summer Sampler, the perfect event to experience the full range of local cuisine.

Brimming with activity and the excitement of a block party, the Summer Sampler has been a mainstay event of the Greater Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce for more than a decade.

With a wide selection of local restaurants participating this year, attendees can expect a great selection of local food, beer and wine. It all happens 5-8 p.m. Thursday, June 28, at Farmin Park.

The event circulates around ticket purchases, with tickets costing $1 apiece and most food and drink items requiring

three to seven tickets. With several tickets in hand, attendees can hit several vendors and take in a wide variety of drinks and dishes. Along the way, they can enjoy live music and — hopefully — some excellent North Idaho summer weather.

“This locals event is a chance to come out and try small bites and libations from Sandpoint’s finest,” said Greater Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce Communication Specialist Kristin Carlson. “Enjoy the food and drinks and live music

by The Other White Meat, sponsored by Litehouse!”

What’s more, every 10 tickets purchased earns a chance to win a prize. This year, the Summer Sampler crew will be drawing tickets to award a pair of Festival at Sandpoint season passes.

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Confirmed participating restaurants include: Trinity at City Beach, Jalapenos Family Mexican Restaurant, Eichardt’s, Sweet Lou’s, Laughing Dog Brewing, MickDuff’s Brewing Co., Pend d’Oreille

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Winery, The Fat Pig, Skeyes the Limit Catering, Connie’s Cafe, Joe’s Philly Cheesesteak, Mill Town Distillery and Panhandle Cone and Coffee. More restaurants may sign up before

the event. In addition, the event is sponsored by BlueSky Broadcasting and Schweitzer.

STAGE & SCREEN

Radius Film Festival showcases regional filmmakers

By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff

Talented filmmakers live all over the country. Problem is, outside of global cinematic capital cities like Los Angeles and New York, it’s tough to find an audience.

A new local film festival seeks to address that problem. Started by a core group of local artists and filmmakers and headed up by Sandpoint Filmmakers Network founder Aric Spence, the Sandpoint Radius Film Festival is envisioned as a showcase for short films by filmmakers from Idaho and the Inland Northwest.

“As filmmakers ourselves, we wanted to provide a platform where filmmakers from the Pacific Northwest can have their short films shown to an audience on the big screen,” Spence said. “Filmmakers will receive meaningful feedback from the judges about their work, and we are allowing ample time for the audience and the filmmakers to get together and talk in between each of the film blocks.”

The “radius” in Sandpoint Radius Film Festival refers to the geographical sphere qualifying filmmakers to showcase their work. According to Spence, it was originally a 200-mile zone emanating from Sandpoint. This was later expanded to 400 miles, drawing in larger filmmaking markets and schools in Portland, Seattle, Boise and Vancouver.

“There seems to be a lot of excitement from both the filmmakers and the public,” Spence said. “The idea for a regional festival is fairly unique, and the lineup we have put together for the three

film blocks is quite diverse.”

In seeking out submissions to the festival, Spence and other organizers began by notifying the 150-plus members of Sandpoint Filmmakers Network as well as the nearby universities. They then expanded their reach through social media, which drew in additional submissions.

The expansion from 200 to 400 miles also bolstered submissions, leading to a full lineup prepared for the festival. Accepted films range from documentaries to comedies to dramas.

“We have a musical which was shot at a coffee shop in Spokane, a documentary about Yakima tribal leader Russell Jim. We have a mockumentary poking fun at reality TV shows, a one-take tone poem shot at the Sandpoint Depot, a documentary about a person with ALS, a film from Nampa about what it is like growing up as a younger brother,” Spence said. “There is even a local experimental film, a documentary from Vancouver about a very special crow, an homage to David Lynch, a music video along with many other films for festival goers to enjoy. There really is something for everybody.”

Spence’s hope is that Sandpoint Radius Film Festival will grow into a two-day event drawing in filmmakers and film lovers from all over the region.

If any locals wish to help that happen by sponsoring next year’s event, they can call Spence at 208-263-3278. “(We hope) Sandpoint, Idaho, will become a place known for giving regional filmmakers a platform to shine while promoting emerging filmmaking talent from around the Pacific North-

west,” Spence said.

Sandpoint Radius Film Festival takes place Saturday, June 23, at the Panida Theater with film block one starting at 1 p.m., block two at 4 p.m. and block three at 7 p.m. A single block is $8, while a full pass is $15. Tickets can be purchased online at https://filmfreeway. com/SandpointRadiusFilmFestival/

A still frame from “Russell Jim, A Quiet Warrior” directed

by Jeanne Givens. Courtesy image. tickets until June 21 or with cash at the door. In addition, a meet and greet will take place 6 p.m. Friday, June 22, at the Little Theater. Check out the full lineup of films at http://sandpointradius.com.

thursday, june 21 @ 7:30pm

“The Catcher was a spy” film

New York Film Critics limited release, w/ interview with paul rudd after

Radius Film Festival Sandpoint a festival that caters to Inland Northwest filmmakers Little Theater

friday, june 29 @ 5pm

“Solar roots: the pioneers of pv” a free showing of a documentary film

Monday, july 9 @ 6pm

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

festival at sandpoint’s “youth concert” August 17 @ 7:30pm

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FOOD

The Sandpoint Eater

To market, to market

By Marcia Pilgeram Reader Food Columnist The last time I was in New York City, daughter Casey and I visited the new Todd English Food Hall, in the lower level of the iconic Plaza Hotel. Celebrity Chef English has amassed a delicious and amazing collection of succulent foods to sample and savor. I love these food halls and stalls and courts and such, and New York offers some really great ones—the old traditional ones, like Chelsea Market, and new homogenized ones, like Eatily.

On that particular trip, the culinary buzz about town was the highly anticipated new food lover’s mecca, a massive 100,000-square-foot food hall on Pier 57, which would be home to fast-paced Asian night market-type stalls, authentic French bakeries, charcuteries, green grocers, fish mongers and a couple of sit down restaurants. The anticipated opening was scheduled for 2017, then postponed to 2018.

I promised Casey that our next sojourn to the Big Apple would be planned around the grand opening of Bourdain Market. Last December, Anthony Bourdain announced he was ending plans for the massive project, just six months before he ended his life. I’m sad there will be no Bourdain Market, and I’m especially sad there’ll be no more Anthony Bourdain. I’ll always remember the exceptional food journeys he shared with us, leaving us hungry for more.

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DeKalb Market, a 60,000-square- the Farmer’s Market in Santa court experience was also in Seat- small, homegrown businesses. foot food hall in Brooklyn. Many Fe, New Mexico (located in the I’ll always be fascinated by tle: The Food Circus, an internaof the vendors focus on a single food markets. Sometimes I even rail yards, so I didn’t have far tional food court that was created food ingredient for their livelifor the 1962 World’s Fair. We fantasize about a food stall of to travel). In Oakland, Calif., I hood (think avocado, bacon or bought oversized blueberries and made a trip there from Montana in my own. My specialty would be grilled cheese). organic greens at the vibrant Jack 1966 and though I can’t recall my baked goods: sweet and savory This week, I’ll be far from scones, Blarney Stones (an Irish London Square Farmer’s Market, first trip to the top of the Space New York on a work trip to situated between the waterfront Needle, I still remember the Food cake and nut confection) and Los Angeles, and I’m looking Circus, a huge pavilion with dense fruit and nut breads, sold and the railroad tracks that still forward to familiar food haunts dozens of foreign food vendors, by the slice or the loaf. Until run through the city center.

(I’d choose Olvera Street over and most vividly, I recall choosing then, you’ll have to make your Closer to home, Pike Place Rodeo Drive anytime). Most are own fruit breads. One of my an oversized waffle, piled high Market is rated as one of the within easy walking distance favorites is rhubarb orange bread, oldest and most visited markets in with sweet strawberries and a from Union Station, where I mountain of whipped cream. And and right now, rhubarb is at its North America, with 10 million used to spend weeks at a time on visitors annually. I love that so began my love of culturally-in- peak for picking, so now’s the train layovers, planning menus spired foods. time to harvest the fruit and make market, and no trip to Seattle is and stocking the galleys while I Even now, wherever I’m head- your bread. If you don’t have complete without a visit. Unless awaited the next round of clients, you’re there bright and early to ed, I pass on by the strips of chain a rhubarb patch, don’t let that anxious to travel cross-country restaurants in search of the local stop you. Search out a neighbor beat the crowds, it’s easy to miss on private luxury railcars. Grand some of the small food booths and food scene—food festivals, street who does, and barter fruit for Central Market is one of my baked goods. Or you can be an foods and farmers markets. Marhard to snake through the crowds favorites, still operating after overachiever like me and double kets are such a great way to meet to do any shopping. It’s even a hundred years. The market, the locals, sample their wares, down with bread AND a batch of harder to imagine that in the ‘60s situated in historic old LA, show- this jewel of Seattle was slated rhubarb margaritas. expand your knowledge of local cases the rich cultural and ethnic for demolition. My own first food culture and cuisine and support diversity of the city, and you can sample a variety of foods from new, trendy eateries like Eggslut, or stick to one of the classic old favorites, such as China Cafe.

This makes a pretty and delicious morning bread to enjoy with your tea or coffee.

Slice and serve with butter or softened cream cheese. I always double the recipe and make 2-3 Even closer to Union Station batches. It freezes very well and is nice to have on hand for company. is Chinatown, and if you’re ever in the LA area, it’s well worth an early morning walk to observe the street hustle of multi-generational Cream butter and sugar Asian families, packing fish on in a large bowl until light and 1/4 cup soft butter ice, building colorful displays of fluffy. Beat in egg, orange 1/3 cup sugar exotic fruits and vegetables, and peel and vanilla. In a separate 2 eggs vendors preparing noodles and bowl, combine the flour, bak2 tsp grated orange zest other tasty cart food they’ll hawk ing powder, cream of tartar, 1 tsp vanilla extract baking soda and salt. Add to until well after sunset.

3/4 cup all-purpose flour the cream mixture, alternating When I use to crisscross 1/2 tsp baking powder with the yoghurt. Fold in the 1/2 tsp cream of tartar the continent via private trains, rhubarb and pecans by hand.

1/2 tsp baking soda Atwater Market in Montreal was Line an 8” loaf bread pan (and still is) a favorite destination 1/2 tsp salt with parchment paper and 1/4 cup Greek yoghurt of mine. I’ll always rememcoat lightly with cooking 1 cup diced fresh rhubarb spray. Bake at 350°F 40-45 ber my first visit there, where, 1/4 cup chopped pecans minutes or until a toothpick nibbling on samples, I spent inserted in the middle of the more than an hour surrounded by GLAZE: bread comes out clean. Cool 1 cup powdered sugar hundreds of cheeses in a quaint for 10 minutes in the pan, 1/4 teaspoon grated orange zest little shop that sold nothing else. remove and place on a wire 1 tablespoon fresh squeezed orange juice My traveling job afforded me rack to cool completely. (more or less as needed) many opportunities to experience Drizzle glaze over the top.

Once the bread is completely diverse cultures and local foodcool, wrap well and store up stuffs. I remember hand selecting to a week, or freeze. colorful hot peppers from the dozens of varieties offered at

Rhubarb Orange Bread INGREDIENTS:

DIRECTIONS:

This week’s RLW by Ben Olson

OUTDOORS

Gardening with Laurie:

Own-root vs. grafted roses

By Laurie Brown Reader Columnist Roses come in hundreds of species and varieties, but there are only two methods of growing them: on their own roots, or grafted onto a rootstock.

While proponents of both methods proclaim them to be the one true way, both methods have merits.

An own-root rose is grown by taking cuttings from an existing rose bush and placing them in potting soil, sand or perlite and keeping them moist so they grow roots from the nodes that are buried (the “nodes” are the lumps on the canes that leaves and flower stems spring from; these are also where roots will grow out of) and new leaves and ultimately branches will grow from the nodes above the growing media.

Roses grown this way will grow at their own speed; some are vigorous growers and some are very slow, weak growers.

Own-root roses grow slower than grafted roses at first, as they must grow a root system.

In year three, however, most will match a grafted rose in size and later surpass it. They tend to live longer than grafted roses. An own-root rose can be killed by cold right to the ground, and, when it comes back in spring, it will still be the rose you bought. Because of their initial slower growth, own-root roses are usually more expensive than grafted ones- the grower has to take care of it longer.

A grafted rose is created by taking a growth bud from the desired rose, placing it on a

rootstock plant so the cambium layers (right below the bark) match and cutting the top off the rootstock rose. The grafted bud takes nourishment from the rootstock, grows as if it were still on its own roots and they grow into one.

The most popular root-stock rose in America is “Dr. Huey.”

Because it’s a climber, it really pushes the graft, and the resultant bush can be sold quickly.

Some roses that are weak growers on their own, like the floribunda “Angel Face,” are really only practical when grown on rootstock.

I had an older Austin rose that I took a cutting of and planted; at four years old it still was less than six inches tall! But the graft is a weak spot; the rootstock can reject the graft just like humans can reject transplants. If the top of the rose gets frozen down to the graft point, what comes up next spring will be the rootstock- long, arching canes that, left unpruned, will produce dark red, barely double roses the next year. The rootstock can also produce suckers even when the top part is healthy.

While grafted plants work okay in warmer areas (although they sucker there, too), they can be a problem up here in the cold.

To prevent losing your grafted roses, dig a hole deeper than you think you need and bury the graft — that lump in the middle of the

READ

I’ve always enjoyed a good hardboiled detective novel, but some of them are so blasé and overdone.

This is one of the big problems with genre fiction. I really appreciate when authors write within a genre, but add an artistic flavor that allows the work to stand on its own.

One author that has absolutely nailed the genre is Dennis Lehane, who you may recognize as the author of “Shutter Island” and “Mystic River.”

I’ve read all of Lehane’s work, but his Kenzie/Gennaro novels are by far the best. I’m currently re-reading “Sacred.”

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plant — two inches below the soil level. That way part of the “real” rose is protected, even if it freezes to the ground. It has a chance of coming back up from that area, and the top part can sprout roots and be able to fend for itself should rejection occur.

I prefer to buy own root roses, but I have a few grafted ones because that was the only way they were available.

I buried the grafts deep, and they are doing fine. But they

“Rose is a rose is a rose.” (Gertrude Stein). This rose is called the Distant Drums.Courtesy photo. do sucker, and the bush is putting energy into suckers that it could use making the rose I want. With our hardpan, it can be difficult to dig deep enough to bury a graft.

But I really would have liked that six-inch-tall rose to have grown bigger!

... to nature.

Seriously, when is the last time you went out in nature and shut your mouth for a long enough period of time that the voice of the wind and trees came through uninterrupted?

In this constant deluge of social media, text messages and emails popping into your inbox like bugs to a blue flame, it is not only restorative to remove yourself from time to time, but downright necessary.

Go on, do it. Drive out to the lake by yourself and sit there for two hours without uttering a sound.

You’ll be better afterward. I was.

WATCH

T h e Sandpoint Radius Film Festi-val this weekend.

Talk about catering to locals — the whole mission of this new event in Sandpoint is to promote filmmakers from around the region.

This is the inaugural festival, so let’s get behind them and turn out for some great films made all around the Inland Northwest.

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COMMUNITY

‘Take what you need, leave what you can’

7B Culinary Connections, a nonprofit dedicated to food availability and education, is just getting started

From Northern Idaho News, June 4, 1918

ECLIPSE OF SUN NEXT SATURDAY AFTERNOON Nex t Saturday, June 8, the most wonderful eclipse of the sun will take place that will not be visible from this part of the earth for 99 years or until 2017. The shadow will be seen at about the mouth of the Columbia River on the western coast and will leave this continent at the southern coast of Florida.

The shadow of the moon which comes between the earth and the sun at this time is about 70 miles across and in the 70 mile strip the eclipse will be total and absolute darkness will prevail for approximately two minutes after which it will become lighter until such time as the sun’s rays hit the earth.

Bonner County will not be directly in the path of the shadow but partial darkness will prevail and persons who view this spectacle should fit themselves with colored glasses, as injury to the eye might result should one look directly at that part of the sun that is not covered. With the day cloudless, everyone may see this priceless show that the planets will give that afternoon.

The solar eclipse will be first seen in Bonner County between 4 and 4:15 in the afternoon.

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By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff

People have started to notice the cooler of fruits and veggies on the corner of Fifth and Cedar.

Those who bother to stop find a sign reading “Free fresh produce.”

The women behind 7B Culinary Connections (7BCC) — Adreeanna Black, Alyssa Lucero and Carmen Daugherty — say they’ve had more than one person ask, “Wait, it’s really free?”

7BCC is responsible for the cooler and a whole lot more, all in the name of “connecting the community through food.”

And yes, the produce is free, thanks to Daugherty’s efforts to implement “grocery rescue” in Sandpoint.

“We go to the grocery stores in the morning, pick up the food they would normally throw out — food that’s too big (or strangely shaped), that has a bruise on it, something a little wilty, or just the old shipment when they get a new one — then bring it back here and go through it,” she said. “We repackage it and put it in the cooler.”

7BCC is the nonprofit associated with Bistro at Home, a for-profit catering and personal chef business run by the same women. 7BCC is their way of giving back to the community, Lucero said.

The grocery rescue is a fairly new aspect of their operations, having only been around for a month. The nonprofit’s other programs include a small dry goods pantry (also located at the 503 Cedar St. location, near Foster’s Crossing) and cooking classes for children ages 2-12.

Lucero said the kids’ classes began thanks to popular demand and typically run $30-$40. The hope is to educate local children in the entire food production process from start to finish.

“We want to teach them to grow stuff in a garden, then go into the kitchen and show them how to cook it,” she said.

“Then, they’re cutting tops off carrots and the question becomes, ‘What’s next?’ So we introduce compost bins, and then the compost goes into the garden. They get to see that full circle.”

Lucero said community support for the dry goods pantry has been a pleasant

Top left: “The Little Pantry” where a sign reads: “Take what you need, leave what you can.”

Right: Grocery Rescue Manager Carmen Daugherty is all smiles. Courtesy photos.

surprise. Originally, 7BCC put aside funds to keep the pantry stocked, but have only had to do so twice since they moved into the Cedar Street building in November.

“One time I put up a post on Facebook (about how it was almost empty), then came back the next day and stuff was falling out,” she said. She said suggested items for the pantry include low-sodium and organic canned goods, as well as whole wheat bread and pasta.

Adreeanna said she knows what it’s like to need extra help when it comes to groceries.

“You’re hardly able to pay for daycare, let alone think about food,” she said.

“There’s no way that I would go buy a $7 container of blueberries. It was much easier to buy a case of Top Ramen for the same price.”

When it comes to their cooler and pantry, 7BCC’s policy is simple: Take what you need, leave what you can. And everyone is welcome.

“It doesn’t matter what the demographic is — at the end of the day you’re still hungry,” Black said. “People gotta eat, and I don’t think it should be a hard or humiliating experience.”

Keep up to date on all 7BCC happenings on their Facebook page, or contact them at (208) 304-7328.

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[adjective] 1. of the color of brick; brick-red.

“His lateritious face betrayed his emotions for his classmate.”

Correction: In a June 7 story, the author spelled Helen Keller’s name with two “l’s” instead of one. Sorry about the dumb mistake, we missed it during proofing. -BO

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10. Appear 11. Plunders 12. Grownup 13. S S S S 19. A type of plastic 21. Go fly a ____!

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SANDPOINT JUNCTION CONNECTOR PROJECT Freight rail plays an important role in the regional economy, providing jobs and transporting the consumer goods and commodities we all use every day.

To meetthe needs of our customers and the communities we serve, BNSF Railway is proposing to build a second bridge over Lake Pend Oreille, which would be adjacentto the existing rail bridge, as well as new bridges over Sand Creek and Bridge Street.

SUPPORTING ECONOMIC GROWTH

CUTTING CARBON EMISSIONS

The proposed parallel track will help keep passenger and freight trains moving efficiently, improving the flow of local agricultural products, food, clothing, appliances, electronics, cars, trucks, and more.

Freight rail is by far the safest and most environmentally sound way to move goods over land. In fact, shipping with BNSF enabled our customers to reduce their total carbon emissions by 37.5 million metric tons in 2017.

Reducing the need for trains to idle while waiting to cross Lake Pend Oreille will help reduce emissions even further.

IMPROVING EGIONAL MOBILITY

Once completed, the project will allow trains to run in both directions instead of just one at a time, reducing delays for passenger and freighttrains throughout the region. As a result, local drivers could see shorter wait times on nearby roads that cross BNSF tracks.

Learn more about the Sandpoint Junction Connector Project at

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