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HiTest smelter going to Addy Company opts for Stevens over Pend Oreille County Operating Officer Jim May, before the House Technology and Economic Development Committee Wednesday, Jan. 25. May thanked Rep. Shelly Short, R-Addy, for her “strong support of our project,” saying she’s been instrumental in get-

By Michelle Nedved and Don Gronning Of The Miner

OLYMPIA – HiTest Sand will not be building a $300 million smelter in Pend Oreille County, according to testimony by Chief

ting to this point. Pend Oreille County commissioners released a statement Tuesday, expressing their disappointment, stating there is a need for more job opportunities here. “Existing industries like

Vaagen Brothers and Ponderay Newsprint provide the economic foundation for our county, and we need to attract additional investment in order to maintain our high quality of life in Pend Oreille County,” Commissioner Mike Manus said.

The Washington Department of Commerce made an announcement in August that the project was receiving $300,000 to do initial planning. Pend Oreille County itself received See HiTest, 9A

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Salish language school teaches in native language By Don Gronning Of The Miner

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Todd Ellingburg, lead teacher for the Salish Language Survival School, works with Mylind Whitford Renaud and Nathan Whitford. They are working on measuring and counting in Salish.

Short will replace Dansel in state senate

By Don Gronning Of The Miner

NEWPORT – Shelly Short, the five term GOP state Representative from Addy, has been selected to replace Brian Dansel in the state Senate. Dansel resigned last week to take a job with the Trump administration as special assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. Short said she was going to be sworn in Wednesday, Feb. 1. She will resign her House seat before that. “I certainly didn’t expect this when I started the session,” she said. Even after hearing Dansel was resigning last Tuesday, she was reluctant to seek the position. By Thursday that had changed.

Dansel’s abrupt resignation took most by surprise, leaving the Senate in a 24-24 tie, causing the state Republican Party to quickly convene a meeting of 60 Republican Precinct Committee Officers from Pend Oreille, Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Spokane counties. That meeting was held Sunday in Chewelah with the object of selecting three names to advance to the county commissioners from the five counties. The county commissioners made their vote Monday in Colville, electing Short. The PCOs nominated nine people for the position at the Chewelah meeting. Each had to be nominated in person and have a PCO second the nomination, said Caleb Heimlich,

executive director for the state Republican Party. Short received a majority on the first ballot. The PCOs then voted again with Jacquelin Maycumber and Larry Stickney rounding out the three names to go to commissioners. Maycumber is Short’s legislative assistant and Stickney is a conservative activist best known for a campaign to roll back domestic partnership benefits for gay people in 2009. After selecting the three nominees for the Senate, PCOs moved on to select three people to be considered to fill Short’s position in the House in case she was selected by the county See Short, 10A

CUSICK – It’s after lunch at the Salish Language Survival School across the street from the Cusick Schools. Seventeen children in grades kindergarten through second grade are in a doublewide trailer listening as their teacher speaks to them in Salish, the native language of the Kalispel people. The students are divided into two groups, with the nine older children sitting at desks going over some measuring and mathematics with their teacher, Todd Ellingburg, who mostly teaches in Salish but will go into English as needed. The eight kindergarteners are learning the letters and associated sounds of the Kalispel language. It’s an active group, with the students scampering around on the floor as the teacher points to a letter of the language that is printed on a piece of laminated paper and asks what sound it makes. This is the first year for the emersion school but the Kalispel Tribe has had a language program for years. The tribe has offered the Early Learning Center for preschool See Salish, 2A

Moratorium continues with marijuana issues By Sophia Aldous Of The Miner

NEWPORT - The Pend Oreille County Commissioners voted to extend the moratorium on retail marijuana sales, as well as prohibit medical marijuana community gardens at last week’s public hearing, Jan. 24. A smattering of community members attended the public hearing to give testimony regarding their views on retail and medical marijuana with some voicing opposition, citing concerns over youth access to marijuana and others showing their support, saying the county was missing out on

an economic opportunity. The six-month moratorium was passed by county commissioners in January 2016 and extended for another six months in July 2016. This latest moratorium, the third, will last another six months. “While the moratorium was in effect, county staff had a chance to look at state regulations concerning marijuana and how those would coincide with rules and ordinances in Pend Oreille County,” said consultant Gregg Dorhn. Last month, the Pend Oreille County Planning Commission voted to recommend that See Marijuana, 2A

B r i e f ly Snow day make-ups for Newport schools

Get ready for Polar Plunge

NEWPORT – There are two upcoming days that will serve as snow day make-ups for the Newport School District. There will be classes Friday, Feb. 17 and Friday, May 26 to compensate for schools being closed due to weather on Jan. 18 and 19. Feb. 17 and May 26 were previously scheduled as snow days on the school calendar.

PRIEST RIVER – The annual Priest River Panthers Polar Plunge will take place Saturday, Feb. 18, from noon to 5 p.m. The event is a fundraiser for the Special Olympics team, the Panthers, and features a live auction and chili cook-off. The plunge happens at Bonner Park West at noon, and then participants go to Priest River Lamanna High School for food.

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Cub Scouts bake sale Feb. 12 PRIEST RIVER – Cub Scout Pack 604 is going to have a Valentines Bake Sale at Mitchells IGA in Priest River, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12. There will be a variety of baked goods including cakes, breads, cookies and pies.

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students for some time and most of these students come from there. Building a language program hasn’t been easy, says JR Bluff, the tribe’s language director and head of the immersion school. For one thing, when he started the program nearly 10 years ago, there were just a handful of aging Salish speakers left. A curriculum and textbooks for the language had to be developed. Bluff himself needed to learn the language that his father, Stan Bluff, grew up speaking. But, with the help of the Salish Language School in Spokane, a curriculum was developed. Native speakers learned the language by living in it, Bluff says, something the school is trying to get back to. “We want kids to learn without knowing they’re learning,” he says. He says it wasn’t clear right away that all the students were grasping all that was being said to them in Salish. “We thought some weren’t paying attention,” he says. “But they were.” Bluff says the tribe is good at teaching language and wants to expand to teaching academic subjects like math and science in Salish. The Salish Language Survival School doesn’t have any state certificated teachers. Instead Ellingburg says the Kalispel Tribe certified the three main instructors in First Peoples Language, Cultural and Oral Traditions. In addition to the tribal training, Ellingburg has an undergraduate degree from the Moody Bible Institute and a masters degree in divinity from Multnomah University in Oregon. He has studied Greek and Hebrew. “I’ve been around language all my life,” he says. Ellingburg says the school reflects tribal values in everything it does and doesn’t do. “It’s not within tribal values to cut open a frog to look at the insides,” he says.

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the county ban all retail marijuana sales in the unincorporated areas of the county, as well as prohibit medical marijuana community gardens. The planning commission was charged with making recommendations regarding marijuana and the county’s development regulations. The PUD told the planning commission that the production of marijuana can frequently demand a large supply of electricity that can become problematic for electrical providers. “Problematic in the sense that there isn’t very much experience, or at least legal experience, to draw on for this issue and how to properly develop it with utility providers in the parameters of the law,” said Dorhn. Pend Oreille Public Utility District (PUD) representative Chris Jones said the PUD does not have an official stance on allowing retail marijuana in the county, but advised that any potential marijuana producers

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progress. Hawpe says they will continue to collaborate on the best strategies to meet student needs. “We work together to provide a variety of opportunities for students to build skills,” Hawpe says. While Ellingburg is not a native he is married to a native. The other two teachers, Dakota Litttlecrow and Nalene Andrews, are native. Ellingburg says it is important for the mostly native students to see teachers who look like them. “The kids play teacher because they have role models who look like them,” he says. The school is in the third year of a three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Native Americans. The grant is $300,000 a year, Bluff says. After the grant ends, the tribe intends to continue the school. “We want to expand to third grade,” Bluff says. The Cusick School District has been supportive of the school, Bluff says. “It’s been a good relationship,” he says. “We’ve always been partners.” The tribe consulted the school district from the start, Hawpe says. The Cusick school board has been provided updates since the start of the process. A memorandum of understanding was jointly developed between the tribe and the school district that outlines the way the immersion school and the district interact. One of the key points of the agreement is that the district gets the apportionment money from the state, which amounts to about $6,900 per student per school year. In addition to teaching immersion school students other courses about half the day, the district provides transportation and feeds the students as well as providing secretarial and administrative support. According to the MOU, the district is responsible for major

student discipline infractions, while the immersion school staff handles any in-class discipline. Both the district and the immersion school agreed to get their own insurance, including general liability, auto and workers compensation and employees liability insurance. There have been some bumpy spots along the way as the school district and the immersion get used to working together. There was some tension around the Christmas program. Cusick School and the Salish Language Survival School held a program, with children from the Salish school singing in Salish and the Cusick students performing in English. Students from the immersion school were invited to participate with their regular school classmates the day before the program, but there wasn’t time to learn the songs and moves that went with them, Bluff said. That resulted in parents attending a school board meeting, in which the district promised better communication. An awards assembly held last week went much better, Bluff says, with Salish Language Survival School students receiving their awards along with other student awards. Bluff says the school is valuable. The tribe is behind it as a way of preparing students for the future, as well as a way to maintain the language. Superintendent Hawpe also sees the value in the school. “Building a strong community with a strong cultural identity is a benefit to local schools,” he said. “Research regarding bilingualism and cognitive development shows many studies benefit when children are proficient in two languages at an early age.” Bluff says any growing pains with developing a new school are to be expected. The language school is a new way of looking at education. “Change is hard,” Bluff said. “Our worlds are different.”

should consult with the PUD on their operating plan to ensure that the producer’s system would support the amount of electricity being used and not cause any damage or unnecessary repairs. According to state law, there are four kinds of facilities that are legally allowed to handle marijuana. Those are facilities that produce, process, or sell marijuana, and collective medical marijuana gardens, which means only four individuals licensed by the state and possessing medical marijuana cards are allowed to grow a certain amount of marijuana on one of the card holder’s property. It is illegal for collective gardens to deal in any facet of retail marijuana. Also present at the pubic hearing were county residents Jim Brewster, Bob Eugene, Bob Sanborn, JoHanna Grider, Donna Anderson, Ty Krohn, and Diana Fredley, and Pend Oreille County Counseling Services Prevention Specialist Carrie McKin-

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Consultant Gregg Dohrn speaks to Pend Oreille County Commissioners in regards to planning commission recommendations for marijuana at last Tuesday’s public hearing.

ley, and Director Annabelle Payne. “I don’t understand why this is still up for debate or what the holdup still is,” said Brewster, when it was time for public testimony. “It’s (marijuana) legal in the state now. This is not a moral issue; it’s an economic one. We don’t need our commissioners legislating us morally.”

Fredley voiced her support of the moratorium and cited concerns over possible water issues that large marijuana grow operations might create. “With the decision that has been passed down by the state (Whatcom County vs. Hirst), I am curious as to how this would affect the availability of water

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He says the school also follows the core standards of Washington state, with students learning common core subjects like math, reading and science, all taught in Salish. He says the first 16 weeks were spent teaching the students the 41 characters of the written Salish alphabet. After that the students worked on spoken words. Since the school started, the teachers speak mostly Salish, slipping in and out of English as needed. The school is long on action to go along with lessons learned sitting in the classroom. “We use both sides of the brain,” he says, the analytical side as well as the creative side. The school is fun for students, Ellingburg says. “Kids don’t think of it as school,” he says. “We’re always having fun.” Ensuring the course fun is one of the school’s strategies, Bluff says. “Making it fun is one of the most important things,” Bluff says. Nothing about learning in Salish is shame based, he says. If students don’t get the words right, they are taught the right way and encouraged to keep talking. One day Bluff came over and he and the students all drummed together, with Bluff explaining drum etiquette to the students before leading them in spirited drumming and singing. The school district monitors students’ progress, Elingburg says. The district found the immersion school students were not keeping up with the regular school students in some areas. “So we started an after school program to help them,” Ellingburg says. “If the kids have a need, we’ll meet it,” he says, “and not just in Salish.” District superintendent Don Hawpe says the district and the immersion school work together to gather data to monitor student

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NEWPORT – Pend Oreille County Counseling made a request at the commissioners’ meeting Tuesday, Jan. 24 to promote within the department. Counseling Director Annabelle Payne requested to promote Jessica Ausborn to the chemical dependency professional training position. It was agreed on by the Pend Oreille County Commissioners to promote Ausborn and to advertise and hire for the Business Office Assistant position she vacated.

NEWPORT – Newport School District Superintendent Dave Smith will be the guest speaker for Pend Oreille County Democrats when they hold their monthly meeting Saturday, Feb. 11 at Create Art Center in Newport. The meeting will start at 10 a.m. Create is located at 900 W. 4th Street in Newport. For more information contact Linda Waring, chair at 509 447-4547.

Rotary Club moves forwards with train ride negotiations NEWPORT – The Newport/Priest River Rotary Club is moving forward with negotiations with the North Pend Oreille Valley (NPOV) Lions Club to transfer the time-honored train rides to south Pend Oreille County. Rotary club members voted Wednesday, Jan. 25, 21-6 in favor of attempting to keep the train rides alive, after it was announced last year the rides would close indefinitely due to costly repairs the federal government required be made to a section of track in the north county. “There is an overwhelming support from our club to keep these rides in Pend Oreille County,” says Sam Brooks, Newport/ Priest River Rotary Club President. The two clubs are currently in financial negotiations for the cost, income and transfer of the trains.

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County purchases new vehicles By Sophia Aldous Of The Miner

NEWPORT – Several new vehicles are slated to be purchased for varying Pend Oreille County departments in 2017, including four vehicles for the Sheriff’s Office, a grader for roads, a pickup truck for buildings and grounds, and a pickup truck for the solid waste department. Pend Oreille County Public Works Director Sam Castro said funds for these replacements are available through the the county’s Equipment Rental and Revolving account. “There are state contracts that allow us to enter into competitive purchasing processes so that we can get the equipment we need without losing trade-in value on our older models,” Castro said. Castro recently requested approval at the

Jan. 23 commissioner’s meeting for the purchase under state contract of four white 2017 Chevy Tahoes in the amount of $155,112, excluding tax. These vehicles will replace models the Sheriff’s Office currently uses. Under the National Joint Power Alliance (NJPA) Membership, Castro requested to purchase a 2017 Grader to replace the current 2010 model. The grader is a 2017 John Deere 772G 6-wheel drive motor for a net purchase amount of $203,491 excluding tax. According to Castro, the NJPA is a municipal national contracting agency that provides nationally leveraged and competitively solicited purchasing contracts under the guidance of the Uniform Municipal Contracting Law. This allows members like Pend Oreille County to be eligible for contracts to replace certain types

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NEWPORT – The Pend Oreille County Commissioners recently approved an increase in the rates for tipping fees for solid waste disposal that will go into effect on Tuesday, Feb. 7. The tipping fees will increase at the Deer Valley, Usk and Ione Transfer Stations to $143 per ton, with a minimum flat rate of $10.38 for 0-140 pounds. The former rate was $137 per ton. For a customer bringing three or four garbage cans to a transfer station, the rate will increase from $10 plus tax to $10.75 plus tax. The two disposal companies contracted through the county to do curbside pickup for municipalities are Excess Disposal of Oldtown, which serves south Pend Oreille County, and Gary’s Garbage Services of Ione, which services the north part of the county. They will be responsible for letting their customers know about any increase.

BOISE - The Idaho State Tax Commission will start processing 2016 Idaho individual income tax returns on Jan. 23, the same date the Internal Revenue Service begins processing federal returns. As in previous years, all Idaho tax returns will go through identity theft fraud detection, as well as accuracy checks before any refunds are issued. As part of the safeguard measures, some taxpayers may be asked to verify that they filed a return or to verify their identity before a refund is issued. E-filing a return is the quickest way to receive a refund, and adding the direct deposit option gets money in the bank even faster. First-time filers: It takes about three weeks to enter your account into the system. Until that time, refund updates will report your return as “not entered in system.” Add those three weeks to the estimates to determine your refund timeframe. E-filers: Expect your refund about seven to eight weeks from the date you receive your filing acknowledgement from the state. Paper filers: Your refund will take about 10-11 weeks to process. Received a letter from us asking for more information: Your refund will be delayed until the requested information is received and reviewed. Taxpayers can get help by visiting the website at tax.idaho.gov, check their refund status by clicking on the “Refund Status” button on our site, or get other questions answered by calling the Tax Commission at (208) 334-7660 in the Boise area or toll-free at (800) 972-7660. The deadline to file 2016 income taxes is April 18, which follows the federal income tax due date.

of equipment. The new pickup for Buildings and Grounds will be a 2017 Ford F350 4x4 that will replace the Chevy S10 currently being used. The purchase is $31,600 excluding tax. The requested vehicle to replace the half-ton pickup for the Solid Waste department is a 2017 Ford F250 4x4 in the amount of $28,144, excluding sales tax. County commissioners unanimously approved all of the purchases.

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School levy too important to fail Fellow citizens. It is now time to pass another maintenance and operation levy for Newport School District. It is for 2018, 2019, 2020. Usually I start with superintendents, principals and teachers. I congratulate you, the voters, for electing the best school board ever. Chairman Paul Wilson, is a great community leader. Mitch Stratton, April Owen, Jim Brewster have been there for a long time. Connie Moore, is doing a great job. The board could not have hired a better superintendent than Dr. David Smith. Dr. Smith and the board did a great job vetting three outstanding principals. They are as good as it gets. The district office has new people since the last M & O levy. Debra Buttrey, business manager, has 24 years of experience, most in schools. She is g u e st a genius at her job. Cheryl Bradbury, op i n i o n assistant to the superintendent, receptionist and executive secretary. I find that this intelligent charismatic Bob Moran Former Pend lady is the best I have seen in that job in any school ever. Dr. Smith, the Oreille principals, teachers and staff are very County lucky to have her. Deputy Jake LarRepublican son, Resource Officer, is paid jointly Chairman by the sheriff’s office and school. Teddy Armstrong is assistant to the business manager, Keri Leslie is administrative assistant for special programs, and Teresa Monk, admin payroll, has been there a long time, still doing a good job. High school principal Troy Whittle, a 1992 graduate of Riverside High School, a degree in social sciences, master’s degree in education leadership at EWU, taught history in Yakima, was principal at Columbia High School, in White Salmon Wash., and has future plans for a doctorate. He works very hard and long hours to make everything work. He’s a team player and leader that gets the job done. His passion is doing a great job for the students. Tony Moser, principal at Sadie Hallstead Middle School has a WSU BA in Elementary and Special Education, is a graduate of University of Cincinnati; MA in educational leadership, has a Washington state principal certification, Principal experience at Mead School District, and Principal administrative intern Quillayute Valley School. He has perhaps 30 professional experiences listed: too numerous to mention. Noteworthy is 2010-13 as teacher at Forks Wash., and Rogers High School Behavior Intervention 2013-14. He has taught reading, math, writing and behavior in social skills, effective writing and implementing compliant IEP. He has successfully completed Washington’s alternate assessment system. In 2014 he was Rogers High School’s track and field coach and assistant football coach. His character, philosophy, integrity, students are number one always. Optimism; obtain a growth mindset. Respect; build positive relationships. Leadership style; enthusiasm, fuels positivity. Collaboration; communicates frequently and transparently with all stakeholders focusing on learning. Accountability; fosters trust. Servant leadership; inspires healthy school culture. I just met Tony Mosher today. He is an impressive principal and I believe a good leader. Teachers enjoy working for him. Our principal at Stratton Elementary is Jennifer Erickson. Her credentials are impressive. K-12 reading, K-8 elementary education, early childhood development. An intern from August 2014 until she was hired at Newport school; kindergarten teacher from 2008 until coming to Newport. Deer Park kindergarten teacher 1992-2008. Principal certification, 2014- 2015 Gonzaga University BA in education; June 1992 MA Education. BAC majored in reading, minored in math; in the Masters 1997 majored in Early Childhood Development EWU. As important as teaching and leadership are in our schools I believe all three principals’ best assets are their love of teaching and helping these students through this phase of their life. I am very impressed. Parents should be proud of them. Steve Shumski is the vocational director. He is still the best vo-tech instructor/director that I have ever met. I have written about Steve before. Travis Stott has been our shop teacher for a long time. This program has come a long way. Highlights of some really great things happening. He teaches stick welding, MIG welding, TIG welding and OXY/fuel cutting. Three new TIG welders brings us up to four. Travis is teaching welding this year to eighth graders. A semester long welding class, 20 students finished yesterday. Sixteen are coming back to take welding in high school, they can graduate with a welding certificate. Travis also teaches rhino CAD used to create designs used with the laser engraver; torch made CAD used to create designs; CNC plasma table part works cut using the CNC router. He also teaches an advanced fabrication class where students combine their welding and design skills to fabricate projects. He teaches a basic carpentry course and construction techniques. Students have used the skill set to acquire work, welders, ironworkers, millwrights, etc. The relatively new news – the Satellite Skills Center – puts education into a relevant context by lengthening what is learned in school to the knowledge and skills that are needed in the workplace. Participants are Newport School District, which is the home school, the Kalispel Tribe through the Kalispel Career Training Center, Cusick, Selkirk, and Spokane public schools. This offers credential programs, such as automotive technology, taught by an ASCD licensed technician. See moran, 5A

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yo u r op i n i o n Media biased, mostly vote Democratic To the editor, I read this week’s editorial with great interest (‘Trump vs. media is Trump vs. the public,’ Miner Jan. 25), as this topic has absorbed much of my attention for years. I couldn’t agree more with the concept that the media is actually the general public. The free flow of information is essential to the survival of our democracy and the press is supposed to be the conduit. Trust is the glue that holds us together, but America’s media has violated that trust by deliberately blurring the lines between news and blarney. Their bias has been evident for years now. They vote overwhelmingly Democrat, which, in and of itself wouldn’t be so bad, except that they bring their political bias into everything they report. Examples of this bias are endless; the difference between the way Obama and Trump are covered; Obama can do no wrong and Trump can do nothing right. News articles are slanted or ignored if they don’t fit the network’s agenda. So much for “hard nosed reporting.” But even that disparity could be lived with if the press wasn’t so obviously disdainful of any views not found in their progressive manual. The arrogance they display toward people of faith, for instance, is blatant and continual. They couldn’t care less if Obamacare runs roughshod over the rights of The Little Sisters of the Poor or if Planned Parenthood is slaughtering an entire generation because these ideas are popular among today’s mean-streak media.

This is the first election with effective resistance to this inequity. Most Americans want to be informed and now have the tools to do so. As in most any transformative process, mistakes will be made, but you can already see a new media emerging, one that serves America by reporting truthfully and by respecting the values of its population. -Tom Frisque Usk

‘Trump effect’ could inspire terrorism To the editor, It’s a dream come true for terrorists. Without any effort of their own, they have been given the best recruiting tool possible: the U.S. president. One constant of Donald Trump’s ego-maniacal, unstable behavior is belief that he can intimidate anyone to follow his directives. Obviously it has the opposite effect on terrorists. Even before he was the presumptive Republican nominee for president, ISIS recruited terrorists using videos featuring his call to ban Muslims from the U.S. How much more effective this recruitment will be now that he is president and has broadcast worldwide that the ban will involve seven predominantly Muslim countries, especially when Christians are allowed entry. Even if courts block the ban as violation of the Constitution’s Freedom of Religion clause, the gift has already been given to terrorists by the ban’s stated intent. Meanwhile, patriotic, hard-working Americans from other countries of origin – or who look a little different – fear being deported or incarcerated,

r e ad e r ’ s po l l Visit The Miner Online to answer our readers’ poll question through Monday afternoon. Find it on the right-hand side of the page at www.PendOreilleRiverValley.com. The results will be printed next week on this page. You need not be a subscriber to participate. If you have any ideas for future readers’ poll questions, submit them at minernews@povn.com.

President Trump signed an executive order halting all refugee admissions and temporarily barring people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States late last week. Trump says the ban is to prevent terrorist attacks, while protesters across the country say the ban is discriminatory and anti-American. Do you agree with Trump’s travel ban?

while the Republican congressional leadership quietly caves to Trump’s executive mandates. When future terrorist attacks occur against U.S. interests at home or abroad and we question what radicalized the perpetrators, we should begin by carefully scrutinizing the Trump effect. -Norm Luther Spokane

Environmentalism out, unregulated capitalism in To the editor, Inspired by Donald Trump’s populism, I am going to start burning coal in my stove, stop recycling everything, not fix my smoking car, waste water and dump chemicals into my drain. No more being told by liberals that I must save the environment or the planet. My goal is to bring back the pollution that made America great. I really miss the rotten egg smell of those pulp mills. Bring back the burn barrels for our garbage and dump your waste oil in the gutter now that Trump is President. We are like a bunch of wolves around the uneaten carcass of the Earth and need to start eating to get the biggest share of the feast. Americans can be the winners of the race to humanity’s demise. Trump gives me the freedom to be a complete ass in dealing with other people or the land. The most useful thing we can do is build better atomic bombs. Perhaps Trump will bring back nerve gas production along with waterboarding. Environmentalism is out and unregulated capitalism is in. You

might want to recall the pictures of giant piles of buffalo bones when proud Americans shot them by the thousands from trains. The meat rotted and the Indians starved. That’s when America was really great and most of the federal government didn’t exist. That drained swamp was refilled with the same type of people, so what do you think is going to change? Nothing is free no matter who runs the government. The question you need to ask is who is paying for all the freedom that you have? In two years and in four years, check out your bottom line and you will have the answer. -Pete Scobby Newport

School levy vital, please support To the editor, First and foremost, I would like to thank this community for its support of the Newport School District. Your continuous backing of our Maintenance and Operations Levy has helped to provide our students with a quality education which includes: extracurricular and highly capable programs, elective courses (art, band, etc.), technology for students and staff, activity buses for after-school programs, and well-maintained facilities. We are able to employ vital staff, such as fulltime guidance counselors, para educators, our district nurse, a resource officer, and members of our maintenance and custodial crews. The M and O Levy is absolutely essential for our school See letters, 5A

r e ad e r ’ s po l l r e s u lt s Do you think President Trump is taking the right tone with the media?

45%

No, Trump’s contempt for the media hurts American democracy. It shows a contempt for the American public.

Yes. No.

Total Votes: 44

Yes, they’ve clearly been out to get him from the start. He needs to push back to set the record straight.

55%

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Upon completion, students will be AOCD certified, allowing them to be employed immediately upon graduation. CTE programs provide rigorous and relevant career pathways that allow students to plan their futures; develop technical and employability skills and provide opportunities for work-based learning and mentorship. The site is Pend Oreille River Alternative School. Our goal is to improve student retention, support and employment services. Just think, a student who graduates as a certified mechanic can go to work for $50-$80 an hour. A great plan for students who aren’t going to college, can possibly earn more money than most college graduates. There is a big shortage of plumbers, welders, and auto mechanics. Computer education came to school. Shop training got reduced to virtually nothing, the time was used for computers, which was put into the vocational training hours that had been woodworking. So I withdrew from the vo-tech committee. It’s great to see that Dr. Smith, school board, Steve Shumski and Travis Stott have brought it back and more. Newport school has a great class for the gifted and talented. The original teacher asked me to teach a navigation course, complete with maps, compasses and practical application. In addition to navigation, other skills were taught simultaneously; measuring distances over land by learning the lengths in inches of their normal steps to measure distances. Trigonometry and math problems to figure out distances and angles on the navigation course laid out on the ground in the trees. They learned attention to detail and the importance of doing everything perfectly. All students received a perfect score except one very small girl. She missed one point of the possible of 100. She was crying because it wasn’t perfect. She announced thru tears to teacher Bill Gee that she knew she was smarter than that and wanted to do it over. Bill thought a minute and said if Mr. Moran is willing and wants to take the time you may do that. How could I say no to this broken-hearted child? I asked if she could figure out what she did wrong. Her answer, yes sir, I know I can. I told her yes, but she had to figure out and tell me exactly where she went wrong on about two feet of being off course. She did figure it out, navigated it over, and came out with her perfect score. I will never forget that little girl and her changing from absolute sadness to happiness so quick. The principals and teachers set up a program to identify brilliant third or fourth graders in order to go into the gifted program the following year. Let’s cut to last week when I told high school principal Troy Whittle I wanted to interview three top students. One from the 12th grade, one from the 11th grade, one from the 10th grade. Travis Dillon: senior, considered to be the most brilliant math student in the school, perhaps ever. Into college level calculus, enrolled in multi-levels calculus. Erica Simila: junior, she loves math because of the challenge. Likes chemistry, into quantum mechanics. In elective classes choir and leadership. In Algebra 2, English 101 and US History both at college level. After college wants to come back as a teacher in NHS. Melaina Lenzi: sophomore. Science, chemistry and music are her favorite subjects, too many other endeavors to name. A quote from Melaina, “Material science is important because it reveals the complexity of our world and shows one how artfully designed our world is. Science shows that there is a God because our world is too beautifully and thoughtfully composed for there not to be one.” I learned much more interviewing these three high school scholars. Their grade average is 4.0 plus due to extra subjects. Travis Dillon could be a nuclear physicist or anything else requiring high intellect. These three high schoolers are among the most intelligent I have ever met. Pass the M&O levy that funds this and many other important things. Randy Wyrobek still teaches Fire Science, another saleable skill. The Newport school system has a plethora of outstanding teachers and many other workers. Too much to include here. This is the first M&O levy I’ve worked that had not one complaining parent or anyone else. This school is the best run that I’ve ever seen due to the great leadership and management of Dr. Dave Smith, principals and staff. It finally is a great working team. We will lose many great programs of importance if the levy fails. Please vote YES on the Newport School M&O Levy so we can keep three really outstanding programs going.  Seniors, remember to check your senior exempt status.

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district to not only maintain current staffing levels and student programs, but also to help expand new programs, like our Satellite Skills Center. This new Skills Center houses both our Automotive and Alternative Learning Program. Another important program funded by this levy is the Child Nutrition Services Program, which helps to feed our school children. Additionally, this replacement levy will

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Legislation proposes two cellphone bills By Tim Gruver WNPA Olympia News Bureau

OLYMPIA – Two new bills could drive a deeper wedge between you and your smartphone on the road if passed by the Washington State Legislature.

Drafted by Rep. Jessyn Farrell, D-Seattle, House Bill 1371 effectively prohibits any hands on interaction with handhelds of any kind while behind the wheel. This includes using cell phones, smartphones, and any forms of communication such as texting.

A companion bill, SB 5289, sponsored by Sen. Ann Rivers, R-La Center, was filed the last week of January. According to state law, anyone “holding a wireless communications device to his or her ear,” either while driving or at

traffic stops, is in violation. Drivers can pull over with or without the motor running when the driver has moved a vehicle safely to the side of, or off, a highway. The law does not apply to emergency vehicles or tow trucks respond-

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ing to disabled vehicles, or to drivers summoning emergency help or reporting illegal activity. Voice-command, handsfree global positioning systems are also exempt from traffic infraction. In their current form the bills would permit drivers to interact with handheld devices with a one-finger touch to perform actions such as answering incoming calls. Any further interactions would only be permissible through hands-free, voice-commanded GPS or Bluetooth devices. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that 80 percent of crashes are caused by distracted driving, 12 percent of which include cell phone usage, the highest single factor regulated by law. Based on a bill originally introduced in 2015, the Senate bill mandates that drivers are not to have a smartphone in hand for any reason. “Right now you can have [a smartphone] in your lap and look at it,” Rivers said. “If a phone is mounted on your dashboard, that’s a much more obvious thing.” Multitasking, behind the wheel and otherwise, is a serious factor shaping motorists’ selective attention. Studies by the American Psychological Association found that even losing as much as half a second could result in a fatal accident on the road for drivers dividing their attention between the road and their phones. “Any diversion of your attention from looking straight forward can lead to accidents,” said a spokesperson for the 911 Driving School in Lacey who preferred not to be named. “You cannot multitask on a cellphone.” While state law explicitly prohibits texting while driving, Farrell, one of the House bill’s sponsors, believes that it does not address driver distractions such as smartphone apps — like Google Maps — while on the road. “It is important to realize that our current laws are out of date,” Farrell said. “It says that you cannot text while driving, but if you were to be pulled over, you could

just say, ‘Oh, well, I was just typing into the map function.’” The bills would more than double the state’s minimum $124 fine for using a handheld device while driving to $350. Under current state law, use of a handheld behind the wheel is currently classified as a traffic infraction. The new bills would classify it as a moving violation and repeat offenders would be reported to insurance providers. “When we report a traffic infraction, we submit a record of it to the court,” said Sgt. James Prouty of the Washington State Patrol’s Government and Media Relations Division. “Reporting infractions to auto insurers is not something we do.” A proposed budget allocation in the bills includes an educational component bringing awareness of the law to drivers. This lines up with the state’s “Click It or Ticket” safety campaign, which encourages drivers to wear their seatbelt while driving. Enforcing the traffic infraction created by the bills, based on driver interaction with a handheld, may be more difficult, however. According to Prouty, traffic citations are typically issued by the state patrol for motorists’ behavior on the road such as speeding or erratic driving, in addition to any information gathered from on-site interviews. Proving whether a driver was texting, or typing in coordinates to a map app, may be challenging to enforce. “It’s not hard to know if a driver’s texting while driving or holding a cell phone to the ear. You can see that when you’re passing by,” Prouty said. “But proving whether someone was typing into their phone to text or conduct some other communication is much more difficult.” Farrell said he hopes his bill reiterates the increasing harm of distracted driving. “It’s important that we minimize the distraction of looking down at our phones which is just as dangerous as drinking while driving,” Farrell said.

Cattle feeders with pollution plans seek Clean Air Act permit exemption By Enrique Pérez de la Rosa WNPA Olympia News Bureau

OLYMPIA – Cattle feeders across Washington may become exempt from state regulations on dust kicked up by their livestock and equipment if a bill being considered by the 2017 Legislature become law. The bills amend the Washington Clean Air Act to include cattle feedlots within exemptions for odor or dust caused by agricultural activity so long as the facility implements a fugitive dust control plan. As defined by the proposed legislation, SB 5196 and HB 1299, fugitive dust is a particulate emission that results from human activity or wind, and that does not go through a chimney or vent. If enacted, cattle feedlots that have implemented dust-control plans would not have to register for an airpollution permit from the Department of Ecology. Because cattle feedlots must use best-management practices to be exempt, air quality near feeding operations would not go down, according to Rob Miller, general manager of the Moses Lake Division of Cattle Feeding Operations for the Agri Beef Company, a beef producer based in Boise, Idaho. See Cattle Feeders, 1A

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Passion, pleas prevail as water-access remedies sought By Matt Spaw WNPA Olympia News Bureau

OLYMPIA – A polite but passionate debate concerning water access in rural Washington unfolded Tuesday before the Senate Agriculture, Trade, Water and Economic Development Committee. A public hearing on SB 5024 and SB 5239, aiming to relieve water resource limits as a result of a recent Supreme Court decision, drew people who have been denied building permits because counties must now determine water availability, instead of relying on the technical expertise of the state’s Department of Ecology (DOE). And an impassioned plea from one Whatcom County landowner displayed the intensity of the issue for those now affected by the court’s edict. As he was ending his remarks to the committee Zach Nutting rose from his chair, stepped

aside, then dropped to his knees to prayerfully seek the committee’s support in resolving the issues. For Nutting that meant restoring his ability to get a building permit so he could construct his family home on five acres he owns. He told the committee he had sold his former house and moved onto the acreage to build his new home. After obtaining permits for electricity and other elements related to construction, he was denied a building permit because it could affect nearby in-stream flows. The Court’s decision has affected a handful of counties including Spokane, Pierce and Whatcom County. In that decision the court determined counties, as part of the duties they have under the state Growth Management Act, must determine the effects water usage has on aquifer and surface water resources. Counties relied on what the DOE determined was available water, but the

court halted that relationship. “We are technically homeless because we are thousands and thousands (of dollars) into this project. We have septic and electric, but we can’t have our building permit,” Nutting said. “I’m going to get on my knees and beg you to fix this.” He did. Both bills had supporters and detractors, but SB 5239 received the most passionate support from some who came to testify. The bills are in response to the Whatcom County v. Hirst decision in which the Court ruled the county violated its responsibilities outlined in the Growth Management Act. Counties must make their own decisions about whether water is available legally and physically, rather than relying on the DOE. Whatcom County ceased issuing permits after the court decision while it attempts to deal with the new responsi-

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“We mitigate dust every day,” Miller said. “It’s in our best interest to keep the dust down. It’s in everyone’s best interest. It’s in our animals’ best interest.” The Clean Air Act regulates outdoor air pollution. It also gives power to regional pollution-control authorities to put federal and state air pollution-control regulations into place. In addition, it requires permits for certain facilities that are sources of air pollution and allows state and local authorities to impose registration requirements. The state law exempts dust and odor created by agricultural activity that is consistent with good agricultural practices. Before issuing a notice of violation, the air-pollution authority must work with a third-party expert to confirm that the activity is consistent with good standard practices. However, because cattle feeders are required to register for an air operating permit, as are all businesses and industries that produce air pollution, the exemption does not apply to them. Jack Field, incoming executive director of the Washington Cattle Feeders Association, says the goal of the bill is not to avoid regulations on dust, noting that cattle feeders worked with the Department of Ecology to publish guidelines in 1995 on managing dust and keeping air clean of pollution. “We’re an agricultural activity and we’d like to be treated like an agricultural activity,” Field said. “This is a great opportunity to refocus and come back to continue work with the Department of Ecology.”

The state Department of Ecology is concerned that passing the bill would reduce the department’s authority to address public health concerns from cattle feeding operations, according to Camille St. Onge, a spokesperson for the department. Unlike other agricultural operations, the dust created by cattle feedlots is not benign, she said. Cattle feedlot dust contains fine particulates, hydrogen sulfide and ammonia that can result in respiratory problems for those exposed, she stated. In an email to the Senate Agriculture, Water, Trade and Economic Development Committee, the state Department of Health also expressed reservations about SB 5196. The department wrote that pathogens such as E. coli and salmonella are often present in manure that, along with urine, makes up fugitive dust emissions from cattle farms. Over the past 18 months the Department of Ecology has been working alongside cattle feeders to update the guidelines published in 1995, St. Onge said. “We’re big on partnerships here and that’s been our approach.” The bill, SB 5196 sponsored by Sen. Judy Warnick, R-Moses Lake, and five other senators, received a public hearing Thursday, Jan. 26. Its companion in the House, HB 1299, sponsored by Rep. Brian Blake, D-Aberdeen, and nine House colleagues, received a public hearing Jan 23. (This story is part of a series of news reports from the Washington State Legislature provided through a reporting internship sponsored by the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation. Reach reporter Enrique Pérez de la Rosa at perezenrique17@gmail.com.)

bility of managing the technical aspects of water sourcing formerly done by DOE. Other counties in the state have halted permitting for the same reasons as Whatcom County. The bills’ sponsors are mostly divided along party lines. Sponsors of SB 5024 are all Democrats, while 11 out of 13 of the sponsors for SB 5239 are Republicans. Sen. Lisa Wellman, D-Mercer Island, is the only cosponsor for both bills. SB 5024 would allow

counties to establish an optional program to mitigate surface water impacts for new permitexempt groundwater withdrawals, such as home-use wells. Those applying for a well could use county-issued mitigation certificates — permission slips. These slips prove that the county can find water that makes up for water used by the well. All participants in the program pay the same fee. The Department of Ecology would provide ground and surface water data to

county officials developing the programs. Home-use wells use relatively little water —- less than one percent of the state’s total water — according to Sen. Jim Honeyford, R-Sunnyside. Exemptions to seeking full water rights include domestic or industrial uses not exceeding 5,000 gallons a day, as well as purposes such as stock watering or lawn care. A seven-member committee would also be See Water, 10B

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Bonner County looking to buy airspace By Michelle Nedved Of The Miner

PRIEST RIVER – In an attempt to make flying in and out of Priest River Airport safer, Bonner County is looking to purchase avigation easements from property owners around the airport. An avigation easement is a property right acquired from a landowner that protects the use of airspace above a specified height, and imposes limitations on use of the land subject to the easement. A public meeting was held Tuesday, Jan. 23, for affected property owners. “This is a major safety issue,” said Corrie EsveltSiegford, an engineer with T-O Engineers, who headed the meeting. Over the course of 50 years or so, the trees around the airport have grown into the approach and take off airspace. Aircraft have to dog-leg around the obstructions. “(Airplanes) aren’t going to be any lower. They’re going to be straight in

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Engineer Corrie Esvelt-Siegford, left, talks with property owners Mike Low and Debra Malpica after a meeting in Priest River Tuesday, Jan. 24, when the purchase of avigation easements was discussed.

and straight out, like 50 years ago,” said Jim Kaiser, Bonner County Airports Director. Property owners will be paid for the easements. Ninety percent of the funding is federal, 4 percent is state and 6 percent comes from Bonner County. The sale of the easements is voluntary, and property owners have a few options. They can either sell the airspace and have any obstructing trees removed and replaced by a lowgrowing tree; have a tree

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Thursday, Feb. 2 Metaline Cemetery District No. 2 Board Meeting: 10 a.m. - Metaline City Hall Story Time: 11 a.m. - Ione Library North Pend Oreille Lions: 6:30 p.m. - Ione Train Depot

Friday, Feb. 3 Story Time and Crafts: 10:30 a.m. - Metalines Library Metaline Cemetery District No. 2 Board: 11 a.m. - Metaline Town Hall

Alcoholics Anonymous: 7 p.m. - Ione Senior Center

Monday, Feb. 6 Story Time: 10:30 a.m. Metalines Library Emergency Food Bank Board: 7 p.m. - Ione Senior Center

Tuesday, Feb. 7 Story Time: 11 a.m. - Ione Library Forgotten Corner Quilt Guild: 6:30 p.m. - Ione Senior Center Metaline Falls Gun Club Meeting: 7 p.m. - 72 Pend Oreille Mine Road, Metaline Falls

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“topped” so it remains but is shorter; or sell access to their property to allow for the installation and maintenance of obstruction lights. Most of the obstructions are trees, Esvelt-Siegford said. But there are a few buildings and power lines that will need to be marked with obstruction lights. There are also a handful of actual properties the county would be interested in buying, if property owners are willing. If the property owner is not interested, the county will not pursue purchase. Property owner Tom Peterson asked if it wasn’t possible to instead move the airport, which would allow for the future expansion of the facility. J.R. Norvell, an engineer with T-O, explained that when his firm worked on the county’s airport master plan, the idea of moving the airport was discussed with the Federal Aviation Administration. Priest River Airport’s master plan is a complex one, because of the constraints around the airport, such as the Pend Oreille River and Highway 57, as well as the residential neighborhoods. However, he said that if a municipality is wanting to move its airport, the FAA will suggest just using a different airport. In this case, it would be easier to use the Sandpoint Airport rather than move Priest River’s. “We’re not expanding the footprint of the airport. We’re just looking to operate the airport more safely,” Norvell said. Bruce Jolicoeur of Auble, Jolicoeur and Gentry, an appraisal company, explained how the process would work. He compared the purchase of a home to the purchase of a bundle of rights. If you think of those rights as a bundle of sticks, the county wants to buy one or two of those sticks. Jolicoeur, who has been an appraiser since 1979, would come out to a property and assess its value. He would then assess the value if one or two rights were no longer part of the bundle. The difference in appraisals would be the amount paid to the property owners. The sale of the easements would be recorded with the county, and follow any sale of the property in the future. The county will contact each property owner. Some in attendance were worried about how selling easements would affect their ability to build in the future, such as a second story or a shop. EsveltSiegford pointed out that the airspace in question is much higher than a shop would be. “We’ll go through it line by line, until you’re totally comfortable,” said Raphael Barta, a broker with Century 21, who will be handling the sale of easements.

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$250,000 in November, for sub-area planning in the Usk area, money that was applied for with HiTest in mind, but is not linked to HiTest. Manus said the $300,000 was never formally passed onto the Pend Oreille Economic Development Council, who was to administer the funds had HiTest chosen Pend Oreille County. He assumes that the money will now go to the Tri County Economic Development District for the Stevens County project. May explained to the committee that they had been looking at Ponderay Newsprint-owned property near Usk, but have settled on Addy. “We had looked at a site in Usk,” he said. “We’ve pretty much refocused everything on working through the acquisition with Northwest Alloys of the Addy site.” Northwest Alloys was a magnesium smelter in Addy. The facility is not in use now, but is expected to be used as the HiTest Smelter. When HiTest was looking at Pend Oreille County, construction costs were estimated at $300 million. May said during the hearing that getting the Northwest Alloys facility ready would also cost about $300 million, employ about 300 construction workers from 18 to 20 months, and construction will begin in the second quarter of 2017. They have also increased their projection target from 50,000 tons of silicon metal to

60,000 per year of production. Their annual power bill is expected to be about $30 million, using a base load of 90 megawatts, running 24/7. Complete start up is expected in two years. The smelter will employ 130150 full time staff, with wages 10 percent higher than the average annual wage in Stevens County, not including benefits. Pend Oreille County Commissioner Karen Skoog said the announcement underscores the important of the county preparing a plan for the Cusick/Usk urban growth area. “This area is an economic development focal point of our county. It has highway and rail access, is served by high capacity electrical power, has internet access, and has access to water and sewer service from the town of Cusick.” She said the county needs to continue working with the Port of Pend Oreille, the PUD, town of Cusick, Kalispel Tribe, and the citizens of Usk. Manus thanked the PUD for their efforts, and said he knows they remain ready to work with HiTest should they reconsider the Usk site. He also commended Rep. Short for her work on the project. PUD General Manager Colin Willenbrock didn’t have a comment. The PUD will start a two-day mediation process in Spokane Wednesday, Feb. 1 over a lawsuit with Ponderay Newsprint. His attention is focused on the mediation hearing but he wanted the public to know that HiTest was likely going to Addy.

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Charges filed in deputy shooting COEUR D’ALENE – The man suspected of shooting two Bonner County sheriff’s deputies near Blanchard on Jan. 16 has been officially charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder, according to the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office, the lead investigating agency. Adam Deacon Foster, 30, was served the arrest warrant while still in custody at the Kootenai County Public Safety Building. Foster’s bond has been set at $2 million. He had his first appearance in court Thursday, Jan. 26. Foster was released from Kootenai Health Tuesday, Jan. 24, and transferred directly

to the public safety building, where he was charged. Deputies Justin M. Penn, 30, Michael Gagnon, 53, and William T. Craffey, 47, attempted to serve an arrest warrant Jan. 16, to Foster’s home on Mountain View Road, just west of Blanchard off Blanchard-Elk Road. Foster allegedly shot at the deputies, injuring Penn and Gagnon, who both spent several days recovering in the hospital. Craffey was not hit. Foster was also shot in the altercation. Per normal protocol, all three deputies involved will be on administrative leave pending the outcome of this investigation.

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commissioners for the Senate seat. The PCOs went through a similar process, with Maycumber, Stickney and former state senator John Smith selected to be advanced to the commissioners. Smith was appointed in 2013, served one year, then was defeated by Dansel in 2014. Heimlich said county commissioners only provided notice that they were going to select a Senate replacement. In order to meet and vote on a replacement for the House, new notice would need to be given, he said. Pend Oreille County Commissioners gave that notice Tuesday, when they sent a notice that they would be meeting by phone Wednesday, Feb. 1, at 5 p.m. to discuss the qualifications and make a selection to fill the House seat. Short said Dansel let it be know after the presidential election in November that he would be seeking a job with the Trump administration. Then when the offer looked like it was coming last week, he contacted Rep. Joel Kretz, Short said.

“A couple days before he resigned, he contacted Joel and said he had a chance at a job,” Short said. “Joel called me and gave me a heads up but until he was selected, we were in a holding pattern.” Dansel left immediately and attempts to contact him have not been successful. Short acknowledges there will be a difference between serving in the House, with two-year terms and the senate, with a four-year term. In the House the GOP has long been a minority but in the Senate, with the help of a Democrat who caucuses with the Republicans, the GOP coalition will be the majority when Short is sworn in. But for her, relationships in both houses are the important thing about being a lawmaker. “I’m going to continue to build those relationships,” she said. She says funding education will take up a lot time in both houses. Short was first elected to the House in 2008. She is currently in her fifth term. She didn’t have an opponent in last fall’s election. Short could stand for reelection for the Senate seat twice in two

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If all goes as planned, Republican Rep. Shelly Short will be sworn in Wednesday, Feb. 1, to replace Sen. Brian Dansel, who resigned abruptly to work for the Trump administration.

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Correction The Priest River Spartans boys basketball team lost 70-56 to Wallace Monday night. A story in last week’s Miner incorrectly reported they won by the same score. We regret any confusion this caused.

Bowli ng Wednesday, Jan. 25 Lucky Ladies Team Won Lost Morning Glories 57 19 Country Lane 47 29 Country Lane Sparklers 43 33 Golden Girls 35 41 State Line Girls 32 44 Ballsy Broads 11 17 High scratch game: Claudia McKinney 205. High scratch series: Claudia McKinney 497. High handicap game: Carol Becks 255. High handicap series: Carol Becks 632. Converted splits: Kim Rusho 3-10, Sharon Smith 3-10, Pat Shields 4-7-9, Stephanie Pitts 5-10.

Wednesday Night Loopers Team Won Lost Why Try Harder 266 196 Club Rio 254.5 207.5 McCroskey Defense 236.5 225.5 Woodwise 231.5 230.5 OK Lanes 196.5 265.5 Here for the Beer 186 260 High scratch game: Jeff Huling 245. High handicap game: Terry Hastings 255. High scratch series: Jeff Huling 694. High handicap series: Jeff Huling 694. High team scratch game: McCroskey Defense 816. High handicap game: McCroskey Defense 910. High team scratch series: McCroskey Defense 2,239. High handicap series: McCroskey Defense 2,521.

Thursday, Jan. 26 Thursday Niters Team Won Lost Plain Nasty’s 45.5 34.5 Wilkinson Rentals 44 36 Hi-Rollers 43 37 Gutter Gang 40 40 Odds and Ends 37.5 42.5 Enforcers 34 46 High scratch game team: Hi-Rollers 688. High scratch series team: Hi-Rollers 1,984. High handicap game team: Gutter Gang 862. High handicap series team: Gutter Gang 2,531. High scratch game: Larry Burnham 233, Sara Goss 189. High handicap game: Larry Burnham 266, Sharon Smith 240. High scratch series: Ralph LaGrand 600, Sara Goss 520. High handicap series: Ralph LaGrand 684, Sharon Smith 661. Converted splits: Jan Edgar 8-9, Esther Wilkinson 2-4-5-10, Liz Pope 3-10, Karen Batsch 3-10, Arlo Hoisington 5-7, 4-5, 3-10.

Friday, Jan. 27 Friday Night Leftovers Team Won Lost Timber Room 54.5 29.5 EZ-Rider 48.5 35.5 Pooch Parlor 47 37 East River Plumbing 38.5 45.5 O.K. Lanes 38 46 Cook’in Turkeys 37.5 46.5 The No Names 35 41 Party of Four 34 50 High scratch game team: Timber Room 803. High handicap game team: OK Lanes 899. High scratch series team: Timber Room 2,298. High handicap series team: OK Lanes 2,601. High scratch games: Jim Hudson 258, Jen Hudson 200. High handicap games: Brian Hilliard 268, Rondee Cook 237. High scratch series: Jim Hudson 691, Jen Hudson 526. High handicap series: Brian Hilliard 721, Louise Slusser 636. Converted splits: Cathy Wagner 5-7, Pat Shields 5-7.

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Newport holds off Medical Lake By Don Gronning Of The Miner

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Wyatt Stoddard goes up against a Kettle Falls opponent, whom he pinned for the win.

All the way to Mat Classic Selkirk wrestlers ranked in top five for league

By Sophia Aldous Of The Miner

REPUBLIC – The Selkirk High School wrestling team traveled to Republic Saturday, Jan. 28, for a post season seeding match, basically reaffirming what almost anyone who has been paying attention to high school wrestling in the region already knows---Selkirk continues to produce some of the top rated wrestlers in the state. According to www.washingtonwrestlingreport.net, Selkirk has five wrestlers in the top ten for the B sized schools in the state. In the 120-pound weight division, Ryan Issikides, a former state champion, is ranked number one, followed by Tristan Chantry, 145, ranked at number three, Hunter Carmen, 170, ranked at number four, and Jared Taft, 182, and Wyatt Stoddard, 195, ranked at number five, respectively. This late in the season we concentrate on our cardio, because whoever has the best cardio in the match usually has the best outcome,” says coach Keith Saxe. “I am very proud of these wrestlers and looking forward to post season and all the way to the Mat Classic in Tacoma.” At the Republic tournament, Rood, 132, wrestled an opponent from Almira, Coulee City, and Hartline (ACH) and lost by points. Issikides won his match against Davenport by a pin. At 145-pounds, Selkirk’s Bert Barnett wrestled twice. His first match was

against Republic/Curlew, which Barnett won with a pin in the third round. In his second match against Springdale he won, 18-2. Chase Miller, 170, lost by a pin his first match to Northwest Christian (NWC). He won his second match by a pin in the first round against Davenport. Miller lost a third match against NWC that was just for exhibition. At 182-pounds, Jared Taft lost to Kettle Falls by a pin. Zayren Bubb, 132, pinned his Davenport opponent and Hunter Carmen, 160, followed suit, pinning the wrestler he went up against from Kettle Falls. In the 195-pound weight division, Wyatt Stoddard pinned his Kettle Falls opponent. At 220-pounds Quentin White lost to Mary Walker. “The wrestlers are working very hard On Deck: At Davenport: Saturday, Feb. 4, 9 a.m.

in the wrestling room and it shows with their stats, rankings, and seeding for the post season with five of our wrestlers ranked in the top five for B schools in the State of Washington, which is pretty awesome,” says Saxe. “And we have four kids seeded #1 going into the district tournament this weekend.” The Rangers travel to Davenport for the North Divisional Tournament Saturday, Feb. 4, 9 a.m.

Lady Griz tied for fifth By Michelle Nedved Of The Miner

NEWPORT – The Newport girls basketball team was tied for fifth place with Colville and Freeman, as of Monday night. That might have changed Tuesday night, when the Grizzlies traveled to Colville, after The Miner went to press. “It all depends on what we do. We can control our own destiny. Tomor-

row night’s game is huge because it’s one of the teams we’re tied with,” coach Mike Frederick said Monday. Last week, Newport lost to Medical Lake, but came back to beat Riverside in what is always a close game. Newport hosted Medical Lake Tuesday, Jan. 24, losing 41-27. “We kind of followed a certain pattern. We got down early,” Frederick

said. Medical Lake led 25-12 at the half. Newport outscored Medical Lake 11-0 in the third quarter, coming within three points before Medical Lake scored four. “We couldn’t get over the hump, which is exactly what we did at their place,” Frederick said. Medical Lake scored 12 to Newport’s four in the See Lady Griz, 3B

Spartan earns championship at North Idaho Rumble By Sophia Aldous Of The Miner

COEUR D’ALENE – The North Idaho Rumble on Saturday, Jan. 28 saw the Priest River Lamanna High School wrestlers battle their way to the top ten, coming in seventh place overall and winning the top place for an Intermountain Jamison League team. “It always feels good to set the pace for your league,” says Priest River wrestling coach Jesse Hellinger. The Spartans had an overall team score of 111.5. Other schools that competed included Post Falls, Lakeland, Coeur d’Alene, Mountain Home,

Capital High School, Sandpoint, Kellogg, Moscow, Lake City, Timberlake, West Valley, Middleton, and Bonners Ferry. At 160-pounds Priest River’s Noah Jamison pinned his Mountain Home opponent at 5:29, earning the championship title at the tournament. Trevor Rusho, 170, lost to Middleton 9-2. At 285-pounds Sammy Hernandez pinned his Coeur d’Alene opponent at 2:39, winning a fifth place medal. At 113-pounds Brandon Downs pinned his Coeur d’Alene opponent at 5:04. Manuel Naccarato, 126, was defeated by a Kellogg wrestler, 4-2, but he earned sixth place. See Spartans, 3B

NEWPORT – The Newport Grizzlies boys basketball team beat a visiting Medical Lake team Tuesday, Jan. 24 in an exciting game between the Nos. nine and 10 ranked 1A teams in the state. Newport is ranked nine and improved their Northeast A League standing. They currently are No. 2 in the Northeast A League, with a 9-3 league record, ahead of Medical Lake, which has an 8-4 league record. Freeman leads the league with a 12-0 record, with two games left for most league teams. Against Medical Lake, who beat Newport 56-41 when they played in early January, the Grizzlies got out to a quick start, taking a 24-8 first quarter lead. Newport cooled off a little in the second quarter, with Medical Lake outscoring them 14-9. Newport was up 33-22 at the half. Newport added to the lead in the third quarter, but gave up some in the fourth quarter, when the Cardinals made a 21-7 run, pulling to within a basket of tying. Newport head coach Jamie Pancho said Newport has a bad fourth quarter habit when they have a big lead. “We’re stingy with finding shots,” Pancho said. “We tend to hold onto the ball.” Koa Pancho led Newport scoring with 21 points. He also had seven rebounds. Danny Bradbury scored 16 points and also had seven rebounds. Robbie Owen had a good game, Pancho said. At 6 feet 3 inches tall, Owen is Newport’s only really big See Grizzlies, 3B

Lady Rangers clinch second By Michelle Nedved Of The Miner

IONE – The Selkirk girls basketball team beat Columbia Saturday, 58-23, securing second place in the Northeast 1B North League. They are 10th in the state in the 1B division. Selkirk dominated from the beginning, leading 14-5 at the end of the first, and 36-10 at the half. They scored 11 points in both the third and fourth quarters, while Columbia scored 13 points in the half. “We started our first five girls and within four minutes we then mixed in all of our bench,” coach Jack Couch said. “We were able to get some good minutes for our less experienced girls.” Gabi Rick scored 10 for the Rangers, followed by Allison Petrich with nine. Jenna Couch and Whitney Dawson each

scored seven, Shelby Rood added six, Ellen Huttle scored five, and Kaitlyn Chantry, Bree Dawson and Meagan Marshall each added four. Nicol Lyons scored two. Megan Marshall, a young post player, scored her first four points of her varsity career. “Megan has done very well for us this year, playing full JV games and sneaking in a few minutes, here and there, on the varsity games. (She’s) On Deck: Vs. Wellpinit, District Tournament: Tuesday, Feb. 7, 6 p.m.

a sophomore that played as a seventh grader. She will be a big time player for the Lady Rangers in our near future,” Couch said. The Rangers start their district tournament play Tuesday, Feb. 7, when they host Wellpinit at 6 p.m.

s p o rt s c a l e n d a r Thursday, Feb. 2 Newport Girls Basketball vs. Lakeside: 5:45 p.m. - Newport High School Priest River Girls Basketball vs. North Idaho Christian: 6 p.m. - Priest River Lamanna High School Newport Boys Basketball vs. Lakeside: 7:30 p.m. - Newport High School Priest River Boys Basketball vs. North Idaho Christian: 7:30 p.m. - Priest River Lamanna High School

Friday, Feb. 3 Newport Wrestling at Northeast A League District Tournament: TBA Priest River Wrestling at Bonners Ferry Invite: 3 p.m. - Bonners Ferry High School

Saturday, Feb. 4 Newport Wrestling at

Northeast A League District Tournament: TBA Open Gym, Adult Basketball: 7 a.m. - Newport High School Priest River Wrestling at Bonners Ferry Invite: 8 a.m. - Bonners Ferry High School Selkirk Wrestling at North Division Tournament: 10:30 a.m. - Davenport High School

Tuesday, Feb. 7 Newport Girls Basketball at Northeast A League Districts Priest River Girls Basketball at 3A District 1 Championship: TBA North Idaho College

Wednesday, Feb. 8 Newport Boys Basketball at Northeast A League Playoffs

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Grizzlies get butted by Rams, beat Cougars By Sophia Aldous Of The Miner

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Cusick senior Michael Grzechowiak drives to the basket on Senior Night Tuesday, Jan. 24 at Cusick, with fellow senior Bryce Nomee looking on. Grzechowiak scored two points in the 73-47 Cusick win.

Cusick beats Columbia, falls to Wellpinit

CUSICK – The Cusick Panthers boys basketball team was in action twice last week, beating Columbia 73-47 Tuesday, Jan. 24 at home, then traveling to Wellpinit for a game Saturday, Jan. 28 that they lost 77-40. Cusick jumped out to 39-25 halftime lead. They didn’t let up after the break, going on a 19-1 third quarter run before easing off the gas with a 15-13 fourth quarter. Dylan Hendershott was top scorer for Cusick with 23 points. Panther scoring was spread around, with all nine players getting on the scoreboard. Colton Hansen scored 10 and Bryce Nomee, Trevor Browneagle and Tanner Shanholtzer each scored nine points. Saturday night was different,

when the Panthers travelled to Wellpinit. The host team got out to a 21-6 first quarter lead over Cusick, who rallied a bit in the second quarter and went into the half trailing 42-17. The game was a lot closer in the third quarter, with Cusick scoring 16 to Wellpinit’s 18, but still trailing 60-33 heading into the fourth quarter. Cusick didn’t have much offensive success in the last quarter, scoring seven to Wellpinit’s 17. Devin Browneagle scored 16 points, the only Cusick player to score in double digits. The game capped the Panthers’ regular season. They finished with a 9-6 Northeast 1B conference record. If Selkirk beat Inchelium Tuesday night, Jan. 31 after the newspaper deadline, Cusick will

Lady Spartans end league play with loss By Michelle Nedved Of The Miner

PRIEST RIVER – The Priest River girls basketball team ended Intermountain League play Friday, with a loss to Bonners Ferry. The visiting Badgers won 53-46. Priest River is in last place in the league, with a 1-6 league record and 5-12 overall record. Timberlake leads, followed by Bonners Ferry, Kellogg, and Coeur d’Alene Charter. Bonners Ferry led from the get-go, with 11 points On Deck: Vs. North Idaho Christian: Thursday, Feb. 2, 6 p.m. At 3A District 1 Championship: North Idaho College

to Priest River’s seven in the first quarter. They added six to the lead with 18 in the second. After the half, they continued to dominate with 16 points in the third. Priest River rallied in the fourth with 14 points while holding the Badgers to eight, but it wasn’t enough for a comeback. Avery Summers scored 12 points and grabbed eight rebounds for Priest River. Rachel Akre scored 11, Melissa Krampert scored 10 and Elizabeth Downs added six. Genevieve Hurd scored five and Morgan DeMent added two. The Spartans traveled to Kellogg Tuesday, after The Miner went to press. They host North Idaho Christian School Thursday, Feb. 2, at 6 p.m., and then attend the 3A District 1 Championship Tuesday, Feb. 7, at North Idaho College.

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finish tied for second. The playoffs include Northeast 1B North and South conference teams, with the top two teams advancing to regionals. Playoffs will start Wednesday, Feb. 8, at the schools of the No. 1 and 2 seeds. Selkirk won the North conference regardless of how the Jan. 31 game turned out. The Rangers have a two game lead over Inchelium and Cusick and will host the first playoff game. Almira/Coulee-Hartline leads the Northeast 1B South conference with a 13-0 record and one game to go at press time – against Columbia Jan. 31. They will host a first round playoff game Feb. 8. Sites for the other Feb. 8 games will depend on who won Tuesday.

CHEWELAH – Newport High School wrestlers duked it out with the Riverside Rams and Chewelah Cougars Tuesday, Jan. 24 in a double dual at Jenkins High School. Going up against Riverside, Newport finished with an overall score of 27 to Riverside’s 47. At 120-pounds Newport’s Gage Seeger won by a pin. Nathan Allen, 126, took a win by forfeit, as did Lance Knight at 195 pounds. Jared Cupp, 160, won by decision over his opponent with an 8-4 score. Bradley Corkrum, 220, won by a pin over his Riverside opponent. Riverside won five categories by forfeit. “To be completely honest, I am a little disappointed that we (and other schools) have so many forfeits,” says coach Adrian Bojorquez. “I hope that in the future those of us with lower numbers can recruit more kids, have full lineups and put on a better show in our duals for the On Deck: At Freeman: Friday, Feb. 3, 4 p.m. and Saturday, Feb. 4, 10 a.m. Girls at Warden: Saturday, Feb. 4, 10 a.m.

fans. All in all, it was a great night and I was, am, and will continue to be proud of the growth our kids show each day.” The Grizzlies came back with victory against the Chewelah Cougars. Newport won overall, 33-29. Seger, Allen, and Teresa Pillers, 132, all won by forfeit. There was a double forfeit in the 106 and 113-pound weight divisions. Cupp won against his

‘I hope that in the future those of us with lower numbers can recruit more kids, have full line-ups and put on a better show in our duals for the fans.’ Adrian Bojorquez

Newport wrestling coach

opponent by decision, 5-1. Megan Mason, 182, also won by a forfeit. Knight won by a pin. “I was very satisfied with the effort every one put out on these duals,” says Bojorquez. “It was nice to finally get a league win in one of our last duals. All of the kids were very excited and it made practicing and staying motivated for the post season a little easier.” Bojorquez added that the standout for the night was Jed Cupp. “Both his matches (against Riverside and Chewelah) were very close and he fought his tail off for both wins,” Bojorquez says. “Jed’s match with the Chewelah kid is what sealed the match for us.” Bojorquez cited Brady Corkrum’s return as also being a boost for The Grizzlies, after Corkrum was out for several days with an injury. Newport wrestling will travel to NEA Districts at Freeman Friday, Feb. 3, 4 p.m., and Saturday, Feb. 4, 10 a.m. The Lady Grizzlies will go to Warden for a subregional tournament Saturday, Feb. 4 at 10 a.m.

Newport High School tennis team in the works By Sophia Aldous Of The Miner

NEWPORT – The next Serena Williams or Andy Murray could come from Newport High School, if Principal Troy Whittle and Athletic Director/ Assistant Principal Geoff Pearson can realize their goal of creating a tennis team in time for the 20172018 school year. All right, so neither administrator is thinking in strict terms of kids going on to play professionally. Their aim is much more local and still in the fledging process, according to Whittle. “We were looking at what other extra-curricular activities we could provide our students,” Whittle said during a presentation to the Newport School Board on Jan. 9. “We asked them, and the majority response was to form a tennis team.” According to Pearson, two years ago the high school conducted a Title IX survey of students, asking them what extracurricular activities they were involved in, if any, what extra-curricular activities would they like to participate in and what activities were not being

offered by their school. Of the students that participated in the survey, tennis was the number one requested activity with over 40 responses by girls and over 30 responses from boys, Pearson said. After tennis, swimming, skeet shooting and skiing were also high on the list of sports students would like to participate in. Newport is currently the only school in the Northeast A League not to have a tennis team, Pearson added. “Since then, we’ve been fielding questions about a (tennis) team and since we refurbished the courts last summer, we’ve been fielding even more questions,” Pearson said. “Troy and mine’s proposal is to have a one year pilot program to see if this is something that the high school can sustain and that we have the numbers for.” Of course, funding is the key issue, and finding a coach. The coach’s salary would be $1,500, the lowest of any payment the district issues to its athletic coaches, said Pearson. The money would come form high school funds that have been set aside by Whittle. Equipment would be funded through the

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Site of future tennis teams: Newport School District Maintenance Supervisor Scott Armstrong (front) and helper Galen Abercrombie paint the surface of the tennis courts behind Newport High School on Monday, July 11, 2016.

high schools Associated Student Body (ASB) fund for $1,000, which would fund tennis balls, ball baskets and a ball cart. Pearson said it would not affect funds already allotted for other sports. Athletes are responsible for providing their own tennis rackets, just like they would be for providing their own basketball shoes. About $2,500 would be budgeted for travel expenses, which would include seven league matches. Both Whittle and Pearson have coached tennis

at other school districts, and both said they feel comfortable that tennis will develop into a sustainable program. “Most of the prospective athletes we’ve had come to us so far have said that they are not doing anything else in the spring and would like to do tennis, so we don’t think it would interfere with enrollment in other sports,” says Whittle. “If I doesn’t work, as in we don’t get the numbers to keep it viable, then it goes away, but we’d like to try.”

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Selkirk boys win conference By Don Gronning Of The Miner

IONE – The Selkirk Rangers boys basketball team still had a game to play Tuesday night after The Miner went to press, but they have wrapped up the Northeast 1B North conference title on the strength of their two game lead. “We wrapped up first place in the North with our victory at Columbia,” Selkirk coach Kelly Cain said. The Rangers beat Columbia 72-40 Saturday, Jan. 28. “Thomas Huttle played his best offensive game of the year and provided a spark for us,” Cain said. Huttle scored 11 points in a game that saw three Rangers score in double digits. In addition to Huttle, Jacob Couch

scored 16 points to lead all players. Austin Robertson scored 14. The Rangers led stem to stern over Columbia, getting out to a 28-7 first quarter lead. They were up 30-18 at the half. Earlier in the week the Rangers played Northwest Christian’s junior varsity squad, where Jacob Couch scored his 1,000th career point. Couch led all scoring with 20 points. The low scoring Northwest Christian game was closer than the Columbia contest, with Selkirk up by one at the half 21-20. The Rangers had a strong third quarter, outscoring the NWC JV 10-5. The Rangers gave back three points in the final quarter, for a 42-39 final score. Eight Rangers got on the scoreboard, including

Benny Fristad with three, Robertson with two, Ben Avey with six, Ryan Zimmerman with two, Steven Issakideas with four, Calvin Petrich with two and Huttle with one. The playoffs include Northeast 1B North and South conference teams, with the top two teams advancing to regionals. Playoffs are held at the schools of the No. 1 and 2 seeds. Selkirk will host the first round playoff game Wednesday, Feb. 8 against either Wellpinit or Odessa-Harrington, who still have league games to play to decide second in the South conference. Selkirk beat Wellpinit in a close game earlier this season and was blown out by Odessa-Harrington in early January.

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Cusick senior Talieya Tonasket rebounds against Columbia at home Friday during Senior Night.

Cusick girls lose to Wellpinit CUSICK – The Cusick girls basketball team ended their regular season with a loss to Wellpinit Saturday, Jan. 28, losing 51-31. They played Columbia at home Friday, but results were not available at press time. The Panthers were down 18-10 at the end of the first quarter against

Wellpinit. Both team scored nine in the second. Wellpinit scored 11 in both the third and fourth quarters, while Cusick managed 15 in the second half. Gracie StrangeOwl scored seven for the Cusick, followed by Nicole Stensgar with six. Emma Hardie and Madalyn

Whitford each scored four. Jaden Cox and Allison Nomee each scored three. Jessica Hankey, Kyla Merson, Amy Reijonen and Talieya Tonasket each scored two. The Panthers are in last place in the Northeast 1B North League. The district tournament beings Feb. 7.

Spartans beat Bonners By Don Gronning Of The Miner

PRIEST RIVER – The Priest River boys basketball team fought off injuries and illness long enough to beat Bonners Ferry 54-51 in an Intermountain League game Friday, Jan. 27. “It was a good win,” Spartan coach Kevin Wylie said. He said the team got the win even with Hunter Hartwig, the team’s leading scorer, on the bench for most of the game. “He drove hard into the lane on our first offensive possession, got called for a charge and landed hard on his right hip,” Wylie said. Hartwig immediately came out of the game and didn’t play much the rest of the game. Still, he scored 11 for Priest River, a season low for Hartwig. Fortunately Anthony Storro returned to play after missing four games because of an injury. He was the leading Spartan scorer, with 14 points. He also grabbed a dozen rebounds. Kobe Haggerty scored 10 points for Priest River. Wylie said the Spartans trailed 16-13 at the end of the first quarter, the only quarter in which they trailed. That’s not to say the game was put away early. “It was tied in the third quarter,” Wylie said. Bonners Ferry made a 13-11 run in the final quarter but the Spartans held them off for the win. The next night the Spartans traveled

to Kellogg to play the league-leading Wildcats, losing 63-46. “We prepped for Kellogg all week,” Wylie said. The Kellogg team is known for its effective press. “We knew the defensive pressure would be intense.” Kellogg presses from the start, looking for every opportunity to apply pressure. Despite the Spartans’ preparation, Kellogg still forced 19 Priest River turnovers. Hartwig returned to play, sort of. “He was still sore and had the flu,” WyOn Deck: Vs. North Idaho Christian School: Thursday, Feb. 2, 7:30 p.m. Vs. Genesis Prep: Monday, Feb. 6, 7:30 p.m.

lie said. “We’ve struggled all year with injuries and illness.” With 18 points, Hartwig was the Spartans’ highest scorer, despite his limited time. Keegan Hegel scored 11 points and Haggerty scored 10. Priest River is currently in the No. 2 position in the Intermountain League, with a 3-2 league record, behind Kellogg at 4-0. The Spartans have an overall record of 6-9. Priest River will entertain North Idaho Christian School Thursday, Feb. 2, at 7:30 p.m. They will play a make up game against Genesis Prep Monday, Feb. 6, a 7:30 p.m. at home.

Results from Metaline Falls Gun Club METALINE FALLS – The Metaline Falls Gun Club held their third and fourth winter shoots of the winter season Sunday, Jan. 22, and Sunday, Jan. 29. Following are the results: Jan. 22 – 17 shooters 16-yard: Bill Wade 25, Keith Enyeart 24, Sam McGeorge 24, Rob Kline 24 Ladies 16-yard: Diane Luhr 22, Lisa Enyeart 20 Youth 16-yard: Kory Enyeart 20, Brayden Taylor 18, TJ Taylor 18, Gavin Stark 16

Handicap: Andrew Marshall 22, Rob Kline 22, Sam McGeorge 21, Keith Enyeart 21 27-yard: Keith Enyeart 22, Andrew Marshall 16, Lisa Enyeart 15, Mike Barton 15, Tony Zaren 15, Arlie Ward 15 Continentals: Bill Wade 24, Keith Enyeart 24, Arlie Ward 21, Sam McGeorge 20 Sunday, Jan. 28 – 27 shooters 16-yard: Keith Enyeart 25, Johann Mayrhofer 25,

Mike Barton 25, Bill Wade 24 Ladies 16-yard: Lisa Enyeart 22, Megan Marshall 18, Melanie Gagliardo 10 Youth 16-yard: Parker Jenkins 19, Brayden Taylor 19, Kory Enyeart 17, Hunter Marshall 17 Handicap: Keith Enyeart 23, Bill Wade 23, Lisa Enyeart 22, Andrew Marshall 20, Bruce Gagliardo 20, Larry Jungblom 20 Doubles: Mike Barton 42, Johann Mayrhofer 41, Bill Wade 39, Tony Zaren 38

Riley Dement, 132, lost to a Coeur d’Alene opponent, 5-0. Hellinger says he thinks Priest River would have placed high in the tournament if they had the 145-pound weight division filled, but Spartan Spencer MacDonald

was having his wisdom teeth removed and was unable to attend. “We missed him and are looking forward to having him back,” Hellinger says. He adds that the Spartans’ chances of bringing home the IML title are practically guaranteed.

“I firmly believe we are burning the tires around the corner to IML title,” Hellinger says. “Write and print it, it’s happening.” Priest River will host Kellogg for the IML title Thursday, Feb. 9, 5 p.m. That will also be senior night.

Lady Griz: Pleased with guards From Page 1B

fourth. Jocelin Nenema scored eight for Newport. Jalin Earl had three points and 11 rebounds. Cydni Lewis scored seven, Sammy Siemsen scored six and Stephanie Huang scored two. Tiara Hamberg added a free throw. Newport traveled to Riverside Friday, Jan. 27, and won 45-42. “Most of our games, for the last few years, have been extremely close,” Frederick said of his matchups with Riverside. Riverside came out with a 10-7 lead, but Newport got up 19-16 by the half. It was a back and forth game until

finally late in the fourth opened up a six-point lead. Riverside hit a long three and cut the lead to three. “We hit free throws for the win,” Frederick said. Lewis and Schoener each scored 10 for Newport. Earl scored nine and Nenema scored eight. Madi Hofstee scored six for Newport. “She’s come a long way,” Frederick said. Audrey Price and Siemsen each scored two. Earl was eight of 12 from the free throw line. Frederick was pleased with the work by his two guards, Lewis and Schoener.

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player. He led Newport rebounding with 10 boards. “Robbie’s biggest play was a block,” Pancho said. Newport intentionally fouled Medical Lake late in the game. Medical Lake missed both foul shots, which would have tied the game, and were trying to inbound the ball. “They called two time outs to try to get the play right,” Pancho said. Owen stepped up, held his ground and the Medical Lake player charged into him, giving Newport the ball back with one second left. Friday, Jan. 27, the

Grizzlies travelled to Riverside for a game. They defeated the last place Rams 57-34. While Riverside hasn’t won a league game this season, Pancho says the Rams have potential. “They’re bigger than us,” he says. Still it wasn’t much of a contest, with Newport up 36-12 at the half. “We were up by 34 at one point,” Pancho said. Riverside wasn’t able to score more than six points until the fourth quarter, when they outscored Newport 16-8. Newport spread the scoring around, with eight of nine players getting on the scoreboard, led by Owen with

19 points. Owen Leslie scored 14. Newport has two games left, then playoffs. Newport played Colville after the newspaper deadline Tuesday. They will host Lakeside Thursday, Feb. 2. The game On Deck: Vs. Lakeside: Thursday, Feb. 2, 7:30 p.m.

starts at 7:30 p.m. District playoffs will start Wednesday, Feb. 8, at West Valley High School in Spokane Valley. If Newport holds on to the No. 2 position, they will play Thursday, Feb. 8, against the winner of the No. 3 and No. 6 teams.

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b r i e f ly Cusick Honor Roll is out CUSICK – Cusick High School students who received a grade point average of 3.5 or better were named to the Honor Roll recently. Seniors Jennifer Fountain, Toni Hays, Alana Keogh; juniors Rylee Brown, Lilly Cupp, Colton Hansen, Megan Hays, Canon Keogh, Jared Nelson, Thong Nguyen, Tanner Shanholtzer, Gracie Strangeowl and Nicole Tesdahl; sophomores Taylor Allen, Susannah Chantry, Chanelle Hunt, Nilawan Kongdee, Amy Reijonen and fresman and freshmen Nate Allen, Samantha Mason and Trevor Shanholtzer were named to the Honor Roll for first semester.

Newport Community Blood Drive Feb. 16 NEWPORT - Inland Northwest Blood Center (INBC) along with the Newport Community Blood Drive volunteers will hold a blood drive Thursday, Feb. 16, at the United Church of Christ. Donation hours are 11:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. INBC needs an average of 200 blood donors every day to meet the needs of more than 35 hospitals in the Inland Northwest. For more information, call Noreen Johnson, INBC Recruiter at 509-991-2418.

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Ben Kardos (Jim) and Christopher Demlow (Pappy) rehearse a scene from Choices, a family dramedy premiering at Pend Oreille Players Feb. 17.

Choices, a new play, combines humor, pathos NEWPORT – The crux of a new play premiering at Pend Oreille Playhouse is in the title. Choices written by Brad Field of North Carolina and directed by Kristi Bell of Diamond Lake, addresses the choices people make and how the consequences never just affect them alone. The plot revolves around a mid-western farm family in the early nineties as they navigate some tricky issues. Pappy (Chris Demlow) has been farming this land for most of life. He has been joined on the farm by his son and daughter-in-law, Jim (Ben Kardos) and Rebecca Sue (Paulina Staab). His daughter, Ann-Elise (Gillian Monte), and her

boyfriend, Harry (Scott McMeen), have come out to the farm to welcome Pappy home from his stay in the hospital. Now, Pappy has some big decisions to make about his farm, his kids, his grandkids, and his life. This full-length play is a part of the Pend Oreille Players New Works Program. Choices opens Friday, Feb. 17 and closes Sunday, Feb. 26. Friday and Saturday shows begin at 7 p.m., Sunday shows begin at 3 p.m. at the Pend Oreille Playhouse, 236 S. Union, in Newport, WA. Tickets may be purchased online

at www.pendoreilleplayhouse.org or at the Playhouse during office hours. For more information call 4479900. Adult tickets are $12, student tickets are $6 (there is some mild language).

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Dr. Kersting to talk gardening Feb. 8 NEWPORT - The first of the WSU/Pend Oreille County Master Gardeners 2017 gardening classes series will be “Ready, Set, Garden” presented by local super gardener Dr. Clay Kersting on Thursday, Feb. 9 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the WSU Extension Office, 227 S. Garden Avenue in Newport. Dr. Kersting will discuss seed selection, a seed starting timeline, and preparing the garden soil for planting. He will also offer tips from watering to weeding to lowering the maintenance chores in a garden. Kersting is well known throughout the county for his prize winning produce entered each year in the Pend Oreille County Fair. The cost for the class is $5 for community members and $3 for Master Gardeners. All funds raised from the class will be used by the local Master Gardener Foundation to provide gardening education programs to the community. Pre-register by calling the WSU/Pend Oreille County Extension Office at 509-447-2401 to provide contact information should the class schedule change and ensure adequate materials for all participants will be available. The next class in the series will cover Tomatoes: Growing to Harvesting. It will be co-sponsored by WSU Pend Oreille County Extension Master Gardeners and WSU Kalispel Extension and will be held at the Camus Center in Usk. For complete details and a class schedule contact Dixie Chichester d.chichester@wsu.edu at 509-447-6453.

Open Mic this Friday NEWPORT – Open Mic Night will be held at the Pend Oreille Playhouse Friday, Feb. 3, from 7-9 p.m. People are invited to come entertain or watch. A donation of $2 is requested. The Pend Oreille Playhouse, the old Newport Eagles, is located at 236 South Union Ave., in Newport.

we e k ah ead Wednesday, Feb. 1 Rotary Club: 7:15 a.m. Oldtown Rotary Park Overeaters Anonymous: 8 a.m. - Pineridge Community Church, 1428 W. First St., Newport, use front entrance. Contact Barb at 509-447-0775. Newport TOPS: 8:30 a.m. Hospitality House Fiber Arts Knitting and Spinning Group: 9 a.m. Create Arts Center, Newport Computer Basics for Adults: 10 a.m. to Noon Newport Library Story Time: 10:30 a.m. Blanchard Library Calispel Valley Library, Cusick: 11 a.m. - Calispel Valley Library, Cusick Al-Anon: Noon - American Lutheran Church Pinochle: 1 p.m. - Priest River Senior Center Alcoholics Anonymous: 5:45 p.m. - Hospitality House, Newport Pend Oreille Rock and Gem Club: 6 p.m. - Oldtown Rotary Park Priest River Animal Rescue: 6 p.m. - 1710 9th St., Priest River Calispel Post 217: 6 p.m. American Legion in Cusick BASIC Meeting: 6 p.m. Blanchard Community Center

Thursday, Feb. 2 Alcoholic’s Anonymous Women’s meeting: 10 a.m. - Rotary Club, Old Diamond Mill Rd., Oldtown Story Time: 10:30 a.m. Priest River Library Open Painting Workshop: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. - Create Arts Center, Newport Duplicate Bridge: 12:30 p.m. - Hospitality House in Newport Loosely Knit: 1-3 p.m. - Calispel Valley Library, Cusick Priest River Food Bank Open: 3-5:45 p.m. - Priest River Senior Center Pend Oreille Kids Club: 6 p.m. - Pend Oreille Mennonite Church Pinochle: 6 p.m. - Hospitality House in Newport Bingo: 6 p.m. - Priest River Senior Center

Celebrate Recovery: 6 p.m. - 301 E. Third St. N., Oldtown Alcoholics Anonymous: 7 p.m. - Blanchard Community Church Newport Masonic Lodge: 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 3 Oil Painting Class: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. - Create Arts Center Books Out Back: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. - Priest River Library Davis Lake Grange: Noon Davis Lake Grange Story Time: 3 p.m. - Newport Library Dance Classes: 5:30-6:30 p.m. - Create Arts Center, Newport Open Mic: 7-9:30 p.m. - Pend Oreille Playhouse, 236 S. Union Ave., Newport (Former Eagles Building) Alcoholics Anonymous Open Meeting: 7 p.m. - St. Catherine’s Catholic Church Al-Anon: 7-8 p.m. - Priest River, 119 Main St., Suite 204, Room 16, CallJan 208-9466131

Saturday, Feb. 4 Priest River American Legion Breakfast: 8-10:30 a.m. - VFW on Larch Street Notes: On duty police officers, fire fighters and EMS personnel are invited Books out Back: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. - Priest River Library Angel Paws: Noon - The Ranch Club, Contact Debbie 509-445-1005 Notes: Angel Paws is a non profit organization in Pend Oreille County Happy Agers Card Party: 1 p.m. - Priest River Senior Center AA Meeting: 5 p.m. - Cornerstone Building, Selkirk Way, Oldtown Oath Keepers Constitutional Study Group: 6:30 p.m. - Hospitality House, Newport

Sunday, Feb. 5 Alcoholics Anonymous: 7 p.m. - Hospitality House, Newport

Monday, Feb. 6 Bonner County Homeschool Group: 2:30 p.m.

- Priest River City Park Youth Advisory Council: 4 p.m. - Blanchard Library Priest River Chamber Board: 4 p.m. - Chamber Office Newport Maws and Paws Booster Club: 6 p.m. - Newport High School Library Newport Lions Club: 6:30 p.m. - Kelly’s Restaurant, Call Ota Harris at 509-447-4157 Blanchard Lions: 7 p.m. Blanchard Inn Alcoholics Anonymous: 7 p.m. - Blanchard Community Church

Tuesday, Feb.7 Priest River Food Bank Open: 9-11:45 a.m. - Priest River Senior Center Mothers of Preschoolers Gathering: 10 a.m. - Priest River Assembly of God Church Soroptimist International of Newport Business Meeting: 12-1 p.m. - Pineridge Community Church Weight Watchers: 5:30-6 p.m. Weigh in and 6 p.m. meeting – Pineridge Community Church, 1428 W. First St., Newport Kaniksu Lodge 97: 6 p.m. 111 Main St., Priest River Alcoholics Anonymous: 7 p.m. - St. Anthony’s Church Pend Oreille County Search and Rescue: 7 p.m. - Newport Health Center Basement

Wednesday, Feb. 8 Rotary Club: 7:15 a.m. Oldtown Rotary Park Overeaters Anonymous: 8 a.m. - Pineridge Community Church, 1428 W. First St., Newport, use front entrance. Contact Barb at 509-447-0775. Newport TOPS: 8:30 a.m. Hospitality House Story Time: 10:30 a.m. Blanchard Library Story Time - Calispel Valley Library, Cusick: 11 a.m. - Calispel Valley Library, Cusick Priest River Lioness: 11:30 a.m. - Priest River Senior Center Home and Community Educators Diamond Lake Club: Noon - Call Billie

Goodno at 509-447-3781 or Chris King at 208-437-0971 Weavers’ Group: Noon to 3:30 p.m. - Create Arts Center Al-Anon: Noon - American Lutheran Church Pinochle: 1 p.m. - Priest River Senior Center Alcoholics Anonymous: 5:45 p.m. - Hospitality House, Newport Spirit Lake Historical Society: 6:30 p.m. - Call 208665-5921 for sights

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Bikes for books Samantha Tellessen and David Lyon were the Masons’ Bikes for Books reading program winners. They received their bikes during an awards ceremony at Bess Herian Elementary School at Cusick recently, along with students who received Star Student awards for character and leadership outside the classroom, and Salish Language Survival School students who got awards in science, drumming, PE, math and improvement.

Where to Worship

PINE RIDGE COMMUNITY CHURCH 1428 1st Street West Sunday School ~ 9:15 a.m. Morning Worship ~ 10:30 a.m. Wednesday: Youth ~7:00 p.m. Pastor Mitch McGhee 447-3265

DALKENA COMMUNITY CHURCH • VILLAGE MISSIONS S.S. ~ 9:15 • Worship ~ 10:45 a.m. Family Night, Wednesday ~ 7 p.m. (Bible and Youth Clubs) Pastor Steve Powers - 509-447-3687

GRACE BIBLE CHURCH of Diamond Lake Corner of North Shore Road and Jorgens Road Informal Family-style Worship Sundays 10:00 a.m. 509-671-3436

CHURCH OF FAITH

36245 Hwy 41, Oldtown, ID Sunday School 9 a.m. Sunday Services - 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wed. - Bible Study 6 p.m. Pastor Jack Jones Church Office 208-437-0150 www.churchoffaitholdtown.org

UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST

3rd and Spokane St., Newport, WA Worship Service 10:00 a.m. Sunday School 10:00 a.m. Nursery Care Available 447-4121 newportucc@conceptcable.com www.newportucc.org

CATHOLIC MASSES www.pocoparishes.org Newport: St. Anthony’s, 447-4231 612 W. First St., Sun. - 11 a.m. Usk: St. Jude’s River Rd., Sat. 4 p.m. Usk: Our Lady of Sorrows LeClerc Creek Rd. Sun. - 1st & 2nd - 5:30pm Ione: St. Bernard’s, 802 8th St., Sun. - 2nd & 4th - 8:00 a.m. Metaline Falls: St. Joseph’s, 446-2651 -- 406 Park St., Sun., 1st, 3rd & 5th - 8:00 a.m.

NEWPORT SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH

1 mile S. of Newport on Hwy. 2 447-3742 Pastor Rob Greenslade Sun. School 9:45 a.m. • Worship 11:00 a.m. Evening Worship 6:30 p.m. Bible Study Weds. 6:30 p.m.

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“Backbiting quencheth the light of the heart, and extinguisheth the life of the soul.” Please call 509-550-2035 for the next HOUSE OF THE LORD scheduled devotional. Wonderful 754 Silver Birch Ln. • Oldtown, ID 83822 resources can be found at ‘’Contemporary Worship’’ www.bahai.us and www.bahai.org

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“Where Jesus and Real Life Meet.” Worship Time: Sunday 10:30 a.m., at the Newport High School Real Life Ministries office, 420 4th St. Newport, WA Office Phone: (509) 447-2164 www.reallifenewport.com

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“Sharing Christ As He Is, With People As They Are” 2nd & Spokane Sts 447-3846 9 a.m. Sunday School 10:15 a.m. Worship Service 11:30 a.m. Fellowship Time September - May AWANA - Tuesday 5:30 p.m. The Immortals (13-High School ) Thur. 7-9 Pastor Rob Malcolm

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tudents at Idaho Hill Elementary School recently celebrated the end results of their second quarter reading challenge with a pizza party and spraying silly string on special education teacher Robert Selle, Thursday, Jan. 26. For the reading challenge, students that brought in their reading logs showing they read more then the minimum challenge of twenty minutes at least three nights a week after school hours got a pizza lunch from Safeway and Westside and administer some silly strong to an authority figure.

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Second and third graders take advantage of their sweet rewards.

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The pastel colored aftermath. According to Instructional Aid Savanna Jones, the reward for the third reading challenge is going to be a surprise.

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obituari es Billy Dale West Newport

Longtime Newport resident Billy Dale West passed away on Jan. 28, 2017, at the age of 82. He was born May 23, 1934 in Ronan, Mont., the son of Hilda Wright and Willard West. He has lived in various places in Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon. He had many different occupations throughout his life, including truck driver, mechanic, West rancher, farmer, and groundskeeper. Bill was a lifelong member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served faithfully in many callings. His testimony and love of the gospel brought him great joy. Bill enjoyed camping, gardening, model trains, and woodworking. He especially enjoyed making wooden cars and tractors and sold them at craft shows and events in the Newport area. But Bill’s greatest joy in life was his family. He loved spending time with his loved ones more than anything else in the world. Bill leaves behind a great legacy of faith, love and endurance. Bill is survived by his wife Barbara (Hume) of Newport; his children, William Tavenner, Pagosa Springs, Colo.; James Tavenner, Fountain, Colo.; April (and Roger) Hawks, Hanna, Wyo.; Cameron (and Ronda) West, Lafayette, Ore.; Steven (and Stephanie) West, Salem, Ore.; Michael (and Christine) West, Salem, Ore.; Melissa (and Terry) Reynolds, Quincy, Wash., and Aimee West, Ione, Ore. In addition to his wife and children, Bill is survived by his siblings Gary West, Lafayette, Ore.; Judy Colgrove, Malad, Idaho; Richard West, West Jordan, Utah; Sandra Shaw, Pleasant Grove, Utah; Penny Haynie, Beaverton, Ore., and David West, Springville, Utah. He is also survived by 35 grandchildren and 25 greatgrandchildren. Bill was preceded in death by his parents, his brother Willard, and his son, Barton. A funeral service will be held Saturday, Feb. 4, at 10 a.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints building in Riverside. Sherman-Knapp Funeral Home in Newport is in charge of arrangements. Family and friends are invited to sign the online guest book at sherman-knapp.com

Cindy Lou Danielson-Guerard Spokane

Cindy Lou Danielson-Guerard, 51, passed away Jan. 24, 2017 in Spokane peacefully in her home. Cindy was born June 12, 1965, at Spokane Deaconess Hospital to Sandra Musser and Larry Danielson. She graduated from Cheney High School in 1983 and attended cosmetology school. DanielsonHer charismatic personality drew many Guerard people to her. Within just a few words of meeting Cindy people already made a spot for her in their hearts, being a person they would never forget. Cindy is survived by her two loving daughters Bailey Miller, Tiara Kuhn, and her faithful dog Leo, a.k.a. Little B. The memories she gave us will always be cherished and the love she showed us will always be in our hearts. Services will be held Feb. 4, at 6 p.m. at Spokane First Assembly, 828 W. Indiana, in Spokane.

Leota Statton Oldtown

Leota Juanita Statton passed away Jan. 14, at her home in Oldtown with her family at her bedside. She was 87. Leota was born in Elreno, Okla., March 31, 1929. She is preceded in death by husband, Marvin V. Statton of 67 years, and her son, Marvin Edward (Ed) Statton. She is survived by her daughter Anita K. Craig, two grandchildren, Angela Hunt and Marvin Craig, five great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren. A memorial service will be held Saturday, Feb. 4, at 1:30 p.m. at the New Testament Church, 56 Woodstock Drive on Highway 2 in Newport. Sherman-Knapp Funeral Home in Newport is in charge of arrangements. Family and friends are invited to sign the online guestbook at www.sherman-knapp. com.

d e at h n ot i c e Lois Lunden Newport

Lois Lunden, 84, of Newport passed away Jan. 25. There will be a celebration of life Saturday, Feb. 18 at 11 a.m. at the United Church of Christ, 430 W. 3rd, Newport. Full obituary to follow. Sherman-Knapp Funeral Home in Newport is in charge of arrangements. Family and friends are invited to sign the online guestbook at www.sherman-knapp. com.

DISABLED VEHICLE: Hwy. 2, Newport

Editor’s note: The police reports, taken from dispatch logs provided to The Miner by law enforcement agencies, are not intended to be an exact report, but rather a comprehensive list of police calls in Pend Oreille and West Bonner counties. Dispatch also fields calls for the Kalispel Tribe property in Airway Heights. Certain police calls are generally omitted because of space constraints. These include but aren’t limited to ambulance calls for illness, unfounded alarms, traffic stops, dogs at large, abandoned vehicles, 911 hang–ups and civil standbys. All dispositions for the police reports are assumed to be active, assist or transfer at press time. The police reports are updated each weekday on The Miner Online.

ALCOHOL OFFENSE: Scotia Rd., report of a minor under the influence. ANIMAL PROBLEM: Watertower Lane, report of horses that have been running loose in area for couple of weeks. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PHYSICAL: W. 2nd St., Newport, report of brother and grandfather fighting. MISSING PERSON: Jorgens Rd., Newport, report of 8-year-old granddaughter missing. TRAFFIC HAZARD: Hwy. 20, Usk, report of semi-truck blocking northbound lane. ARREST: 4th and Washington Ave., Newport, Reesa M. Yancey, 28, Usk, arrested for failure to appear.

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Wednesday, Jan. 25

FISH AND GAME: Spring Hill Rd., report of large cougar spotted in yard.

TRAFFIC HAZARD: LeClerc Rd. N., report of deer needing dispatched.

CHIMNEY FIRE: Park St., report of smell of smoke upstairs, complainant can see smoke coming from wall with chimney behind it.

ACCIDENT: Camden and Phay, report of vehicle on east side of road overhanging a large ditch. JUVENILE PROBLEM: W. 5th St., report of juvenile refusing to leave class.

CITIZEN ASSIST: LeClerc Rd. N., report of caller that has questions regarding cyber bullying of her brother.

RUNAWAY JUVENILE: W. 1st St., report of juvenile that jumped out of car and refused to get back in.

BURGLARY: E. 4th Ave., report of firearm stolen from residence.

DRUG: W. 2nd St., report of parent turning in drug paraphernalia.

THEFT: W. 1st St., report that son stole money from complainant.

BURGLARY: Hwy. 2, report of two chainsaws stolen sometime over a two-week period.

ACCIDENT: River Rd., deputy requesting medical respond to check out driver of accident, one ton plow truck backed into another vehicle.

CIVIL: Jefferson Rd., report of civil issue over a firearm and no contact order.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: N. Washington Ave., Newport, complainant stopped by the business and went inside to find all the lights off and no one around.

WELFARE CHECK: Hwy. 2, report of man hitchhiking with small child. TRAFFIC HAZARD: LeClerc Rd. N., report of delivery truck blocking the road.

VEHICLE PROWL: Frater Lake, report that Jeep Cherokee was broken into while it was parked at above location.

AGENCY ASSIST: Hwy. 20, report of CPS requesting a deputy go with complainant to interview family.

THREATENING: Levitch Rd., complainant reports receiving threatening emails from a client.

SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE: Royal Lane, report of truck parked in driveway with footprints to neighbor’s residence.

FRAUD: Quail Loop, Newport, report of fraudulent charges on credit card.

ANIMAL PROBLEM: Hwy. 20, report of five pigs on the highway.

DRIVING WHILE LICENSE SUSPENDED/REVOKED: Hwy. 2, report of cite/release on suspended driver.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: Rocky Gorge Rd., report of footprints in the snow today around residence.

ARREST: S. Washington Ave., Newport, Jordin M. Opp, 23, Priest River, arrested on an out of county warrant.

ASSAULT: W. 5th St., report of juvenile assaulted at school today. BURGLARY: River Rd., report that someone has been sleeping in complainant’s shop, stole bicycle.

Tuesday, Jan. 24 ALCOHOL OFFENSE: Scotia Rd., report that an 18-yearold-male showed up highly intoxicated last night around 1 a.m.

ANIMAL BITE: S. Warren Ave., Newport, report of subject bitten on hand by own dog. ANIMAL NOISE: Hwy. 20, report that neighbor’s dogs have been barking for two hours.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: Usk Bridge, Usk, caller driving reporting seeing a red and blue life jacket floating by the Usk Bridge.

TRAFFIC HAZARD: Hwy. 31, report of furniture truck with flashers on in middle of northbound lane.

ELECTRICAL FIRE: Sullivan Lake Rd., complainant can smell a strange burning smell, no smoke or fire.

Thursday, Jan. 26

JUVENILE PROBLEM: S. Calispel Ave., Newport

TRAFFIC OFFENSE: Winchester, report of red Chevy

pickup and white Ford pickup and some others parked under snow the vehicles are making the road a one lane road and the busses are having a hard time getting around. ARREST: Hwy. 2, Cortney A. Robinson, 20, Priest River, arrested for driving with a suspended license. THEFT: River Rd., complainant took four tires to friend’s house for storage and they are no longer there.

Friday, Jan. 27 MISSING PERSON: S. Scott Ave., report that complainant has not heard from son in 23 days. SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: Hwy. 31, complainant thinks known subjects were stealing from residence. FISH AND GAME: Deer Valley Rd., report of moose on property that won’t leave. TRAFFIC HAZARD: Camden Rd., report of van partially blocking roadway.

Kelly Drive, report of male that came to visit and will not leave, acting weird, alcohol involved. SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: 2nd Ave., complainant concerned about comments made by child she was babysitting. SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE: Green Rd., report of unoccupied white Ford pickup pulled off the roadway, caller has never seen it before and doesn’t think it belongs in the area. ERRATIC DRIVER: Hwy. 2, report of dark colored Ford Expedition. DRIVING WHILE LICENSE SUSPENDED/REVOKED: S. Warren, report of cite and release for DWLS. West Bonner County

Monday, Jan. 23 NON-INJURY ACCIDENT: Blanchard Cutoff, Blanchard

Tuesday, Jan. 23 HUNTING AND FISHING VIOLATION: Fir St., Priest River

ARREST: N. Newport Ave., Crystal Michelle Umbarger, 26, Newport, arrested for domestic violence assault in the 4th degree.

THEFT OF PROPERTY: Ediah Rd., Spirit Lake

ACCIDENT: LeClerc Rd. S., report of red Subaru in ditch, did not appear anyone was in vehicle. NOISE COMPLAINT: Hwy. 2, report that neighbor across highway is playing drums.

Saturday, Jan. 28

BUSINESS/RESIDENTIAL ALARM: Selkirk Way, Oldtown RECKLESS DRIVING: Hwy. 41, Blanchard

Wednesday, Jan. 25 THEFT OF PROPERTY: Freeman Lake Rd., Oldtown

Thursday, Jan. 26

ACCIDENT: Flowery Trail Rd., report of one vehicle rollover non-injury. ANIMAL PROBLEM: N. Warren Ave., Newport, report of neighbor’s dog keeps coming over. THEFT: Bud Porter Rd., report of known subject that stole cell phone sometime in the last week. SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: Youngreen Rd., complainant found a suspicious duffle bag that he thinks a known person may have ditched. ARREST: Scotia Rd., Newport, Jason E. Smith, 21, Newport, arrested for malicious mischief and assault in the 4th degree. TRESPASSING: Vista Drive, report of people on complainant’s property cutting trees, driving a light colored pickup truck and blazer. SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: S. Scott Ave., Newport, report of 3-year-old male that has been coming back from custody exchange smelling of marijuana. ANIMAL PROBLEM: E. Circle Drive, complainant reports injured dog came into her house. DRIVING WHILE LICENSE SUSPENDED/REVOKED: W. Walnut St., report of cite release for 3rd degree driving while license suspended. DISTURBANCE: Bead Lake Rd., report of male wearing plaid, flannel jeans and acting agitated.

NON-INJURY ACCIDENT: Old Priest River Road and Endicott Loop, Priest River ABANDONED VEHICLE: Hwy. 57, Priest River RECKLESS DRIVING: Hwy. 2, Sandpoint, a 21-year-old female from Priest River was cited/released for second offense driver without insurance. ARREST: Meadowland Drive, Blanchard, Misty Schuck, 38, of Blanchard, was arrested for driving under the influence.

Friday, Jan. 27 DISORDERLY CONDUCT: Hwy. 2, Priest River, report of a fight. ARREST: Meadowland Drive, Blanchard, Robyn Marshall of Spirit Lake was arrested on a Kootenai County warrant.

Saturday, Jan. 28 AGENCY ASSIST: Freeman Lake Rd., Oldtown, report of possibly suicidal male in close proximity to Priest River. ACCIDENT, UNKNOWN INJURY: Hwy. 41, Oldtown ACCIDENT, SLIDE-OFF: Arnold Drive, Coolin MISSING PERSON: Cavanaugh Bay Rd., Coolin, report that Priest Lake Search and Rescue was activated for a stranded snowmobile rider in the Upper Priest Lake area.

Sunday, Jan. 29 NON-INJURY ACCIDENT: Hwy. 41 and Hoo Doo Loop, Oldtown

Sunday, Jan. 29 SUSPICIOUS PERSONS: W.

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Bonner County Fair Board: 6 p.m. - Fairgrounds Office in Sandpoint

West Pend Oreille Fire District: 6:30 p.m. - Fire Hall on Highway 57

Priest River City Council: 6 p.m. - Priest River City Hall

Pend Oreille Fire District No. 5: 7 p.m. - Fire Station 51, 406722 Highway 20, Cusick

Newport City Council: 6 p.m. Newport City Hall

Fire District No. 4 Commissioners: 6 p.m. - Dalkena Fire Station No. 41

Property Rights Council: 6:30 p.m. - Bonner County Administration Building, Sandpoint

Diamond Lake Improvement Association: 6:30 p.m. - Diamond Lake Fire Station, Highway 2

Blanchard Tea Party: 6:30 p.m. Blanchard Community Center

Ione Town Council: 7 p.m. Clerk’s Office

Thursday, Feb. 2 Bonner County Planning and Zoning Commission Hearing: 5 p.m. - Bonner County Administrative Building, Sandpoint

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Wednesday, Feb. 8 Pend Oreille Cemetery No. 1: 8:15 a.m. - E. 100 Circle Drive, Newport Pend Oreille Conservation District Board: 9:30 a.m. - Newport Post Office Building Pend Oreille County Noxious Weed Control Board: 2 p.m. - Commissioners’ Meeting Room, Newport Bonner County Democrats: 6:30-8 p.m. - Panhandle Health, 322 Marion St., Sandpoint West Bonner Water and Sewer District: 6:30 p.m. - Oldtown City Hall Metaline Town Council: 7 p.m. Metaline Town Hall

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the following amounts now in arrears and/or other defaults: Payments $88,430.38 late Charges $3,619.82 Fees $4,673.83 Paid Recoverable $2,913.16 Grand Total $99,637.19. IV. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is: Principal $126,825.23, together with interest as provided in the note or other instrument secured August 1, 2009, and such other costs and fees as are due under the note or other instrument secured, and as are provided by statute. V. The abovedescribed real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust as provided by statute. The sale will be made without warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances on February 10, 2017. The defaults referred to in paragraph III must be cured by January 30, 2016 (11 days before the sale date), to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated at any time before January 30, 2016 (11 days before the sale date), the defaults as set forth in paragraph III are cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. Payment must be in cash or with cashiers’ or certified check from a state or federally chartered bank. The sale may be terminated any time after January 30, 2016 (11 days before the sale date), and before the sale by the Borrower, Grantor, any Guarantor, or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance paying the entire principal and interest secured by the Deed of Trust, plus costs, fees, and advances, if any, made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and curing all other defaults. VI. A written notice of default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the Bor-

Continued from 7B 735 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE SOUTH 31°18’53” EAST, A DISTANCE OF 1,139.42 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER (SW1/4 NW1/4) OF SAID SECTION 16, KNOWN AS LOT 2 OF RECORD OF SURVEY NO. BOOK 1, PAGE 33. CARRIED ON THE COUNTY ASSESSOR’S TAX ROLLS AS TAX 7 LESS TAX 7A, 7B & 7C. APN: 443016-23-0003 More commonly known as: 322271 Highway 2, Newport, WA 99156 which is subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated March 24, 2008, recorded March 28, 2008, under Auditor’s File No. 296811, records of Pend Oreille County, Washington, from William M. Cleveland and Kimberly J0 Cleveland, as Grantor, to Legacy Escrow , as Trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. (“MERS”), SOLEY AS NOMINEE FOR LENDER AND LENDER’S SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS: LENDER IS TAYLOR, BEAN & WHITAKER MORTGAGE CORP. as Beneficiary, the beneficial interest in which was assigned to Carrington Mortgage Services, LLC under an Assignment recorded on October 29, 2015 under Auditor’s File 20150323 180 in the official records in the Office of the Recorder of Pend Oreille County, Washington. II. No action commenced by the current Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust is now pending to seek satisfaction of the obligation in any Court by reason of the Borrower’s or Grantor’s default on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust/Mortgage. III. The Beneficiary alleges default of the Deed of Trust as of for failure to pay

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rower and Grantor at the following addresses: Kimberly Jo Cleveland 322271 Highway 2 Newport, WA 99156 Kimberly Jo Cleveland P.O. BOX 1162 Newport, WA 99156 William M. Cleveland 322271 Highway 2 Newport, WA 99156 William M. Cleveland P.O. BOX 1162 Newport, WA 99156 Unknown Spouse of Kimberly Jo Cleveland 322271 Highway 2 Newport, WA 99156 Unknown Spouse of William M. Cleveland 322271 Highway 2 Newport, WA 99156 Current Occupant 322271 Highway 2 Newport, WA 99156 by both first-class and certified mail on August 10, 2016, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and the Borrower and Grantor were personally served, if applicable, with said written Notice of Default or the written Notice of Default was posted in a conspicuous place on the real property described in paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting. VII. The Trustee whose name and address are set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale. VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the above-described property. IX. Anyone having any objection to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such a lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for invalidating the Trustee’s sale. X. NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TENANTS The purchaser at the trustee’s sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20th day

following the sale, as against the grantor under the deed of trust (the owner) and anyone having an Interest junior to the deed of trust, including occupants who are not tenants. After the 20th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants who are not tenants by summary proceedings under chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenant-occupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060. To access sale information, please go to salestrack.tdsf.com or call the automated sales line at: 888-988-6736 Dated: September 29, 2016 North Cascade Trustee Services Inc., Duly Appointed Successor Trustee By Trevor Brown, Authorized Signatory 801 Second Avenue, Suite 600 Seattle, Washington 98104 Telephone 1-855-676-9686 TAC: 6302 PUB: 01/11/17, 02/01/17 Published in The Newport Miner on January 11 and February 1, 2017. (50, 1) __________________________ 201731 PUBLIC NOTICE SUPERIOR COURT OF WA S H I N G T O N IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF PEND OREILLE No. 16-2-00142-1 S U M M O N S B Y P U B L I C AT I O N NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC, its successors in interest and/or assigns, Plaintiff, v. DEANNA WILLIAMS; UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF TIMOTHY E. WILLIAMS; JACKIE LEE WILLIAMS; LAURA LOU WILLIAMS; Continued on 9B

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Continued from 8B AUTOMATED ACCOUNTS, INC.; OCCUPANTS OF THE PREMISES, Defendants. TO THE DEFENDANTS Deanna Williams; Unknown Heirs and Devisees of Timothy E. Williams and Occupants of the Premises: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty (60) days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to wit, within sixty (60) days after January 18, 2017, and defend the real property foreclosure action in Pend Oreille County Superior Court, and answer the complaint of Nationstar Mortgage LLC, (“Plaintiff”). You are asked to serve a copy of your answer or responsive pleading upon the undersigned attorneys for Plaintiff at its office stated below. In case of your failure to do so, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the Clerk of said Court. The purpose of this lawsuit is to obtain a judgment, and if not immediately paid, to be satisfied through the foreclosure of real property located in Pend Oreille County, Washington, and legally described as follows: A TRACT OF LAND IN SECTION 2, TOWNSHIP 30 NORTH, RANGE 45 E.W.M., PEND OREILLE COUNTY, WASHINGTON, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT ON THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID SECTION 2, SAID POINT BEING LOCATED NORTH 89°35 29 WEST, 1416.00 FEET FROM THE SOUTH 1/4 CORNER (GRANITE STONE WITH + ) OF SAID SECTION 2; THENCE NORTH 0°24 31 EAST, PERPENDICULAR TO SAID SOUTH LINE OF SECTION 2, 323.50 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 89°35 29 EAST, PARALLEL WITH THE SOUTH LINE OF SAID SECTION 2, 1341.35 FEET TO ITS INTERSECTION WITH THE WESTERLY RIGHT OF WAY LINE (30 FEET FROM CENTER LINE) OF SPRING VALLEY ROAD; THENCE SOUTH 1°43 30 EAST, ALONG SAID WESTERLY RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF SPRING VALLEY ROAD, 323.72 FEET TO ITS INTERSECTION WITH THE SOUTH LINE OF SECTION 2; THENCE NORTH 89°35 29 WEST, ALONG SAID SOUTH LINE OF SECTION 2, 1353.40 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. ALSO KNOWN AS TRACT “A” OF R.S. #1157. Commonly known as: 2600 Spring Valley Road, Newport, WA 99156 DATED this _________ day of _________________________, 2017. RCO LEGAL, P.S. Laura Coughlin, WSBA #46124 Synova M. L. Edwards, WSBA #43063 Attorneys for Plaintiff 13555 SE 36th Street, Ste 300 Bellevue, WA 98006

PUBLISHER’S NOTICE: All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention, to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.” Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18. The newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising or real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination call HUD toll-free at 1-800-669-9777. The toll-free telephone number for the hearing impaired is 1-800927-9275. (31tf)

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Published in The Newport Miner on January 18, 25, February 1, 8, 15 and 22, 2017. (51-6) ____________________________ 201725 PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Per RCW 35.77.010, the CITY OF NEWPORT will hold a public hearing at 6:00 p.m. at its regular scheduled Council Meeting on February 6, 2017 in Council Chambers located at 200 S. Washington, Newport, Washington on the proposed Six Year Transportation Improvement Program. City Council Newport, WA Nickole North City Clerk / Treas. Published in the Newport Miner on January 25 and February 1, 2017. (52-2) ___________________________ 201734 PUBLIC NOTICE Pend Oreille County Public Works, PO BOX 5040 Newport, WA 99156, is seeking coverage under the Washington State Department of Ecology’s Construction Stormwater NPDES and State Waste Discharge General Permit. The proposed project, Sandy Shores Rd Intersection, is located at MP 4.462 Le Clerc Rd S Newport, WA 99156 in Pend Oreille County. This project involves 2.25 acres of soil disturbance for Highway or Road construction activities. The receiving waterbody is the Pend Oreille River Any persons desiring to present their views to the Washington State Department of Ecology regarding this application, or interested in Ecology’s action on this application, may notify Ecology in writing no later than 30 days of the last date of publication of this notice. Ecology reviews public comments and considers whether discharges from this project would cause a measurable change in receiving water quality, and, if so, whether the project is necessary and in the overriding public interest according to Tier II antidegradation requirements under WAC 173-201A-320. Comments can be submitted to: Department of Ecology Attn: Water Quality Program, Construction Stormwater P.O. Box 47696, Olympia, WA 98504-7696 Published in The Newport Miner on January 25 and February 1, 2017. (52-2) __________________________ 201735 PUBLIC NOTICE SUPERIOR COURT OF WA S H I N G T O N FOR PEND OREILLE COUNTY NO. 17-4-00003-9 P R O B AT E N O T I C E T O CREDITORS (RCW 11.40.030) Estate of PETE LAZAROFF ANEFF, Deceased. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE The above Court has appointed me as Personal Representative of Decedent’s estate. Any person having a claim against the Decedent must present the claim: (a) Before the time when the claim would be barred by any applicable statute of limitations, and (b) In the manner provided in RCW 11.40.070: (i) By filing the original of the claim with the foregoing Court, and (ii) By serving on or mailing to me at the address below a copy of the claim. The claim must be presented by the later of: (a) Thirty (30) days after I served or mailed this Notice as provided in RCW 11.40.020(1)(c), or (b) Four (4) months after the date of first publication of this Notice. If the claim is not presented within this time period, the claim will be forever barred except as provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective for claims against both the Decedent’s probate and non-probate assets. Date of First Publication of this Notice: JANUARY 25, 2017 /s/Jerry D. Aneff, Personal Representative Denise Stewart Attorney at Law PLLC Ross S. Anderson, Associate Attorney PO Box 301 Newport, WA 99156 (509) 447-3242 Published in The Newport Miner on January 25, February 1, and 8, 2017. (52-3) __________________________

201736 PUBLIC NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE PORT OF PEND OREILLE Call for bids. Project: Port of Pend Oreille, Dba Pend Oreille Valley Railroad, Blast Booth Addition Re-Bid. Sealed bids will be received from qualified contractors for the above project by Kelly Driver, Manager, Port of Pend Oreille, Dba Pend Oreille Valley Railroad 1981 Black Road, Usk, WA. 99180. Sealed bids to be delivered on or before 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, February 14, 2017 with the notation “sealed bid” in the lower left hand corner of the sealed envelope. Late bids will not be accepted. The scope of the project consists of construction of a 45’ x 100’ steelframed building addition to the existing steel framed shop/paint booth building. The bid for the project is being separated into base bid and additive alternate bid items. Bid proposals shall be submitted in accordance with the Bidding Requirements and Contract Documents for the above referenced project as prepared by James A. Sewell and Associates LLC, 400 S. Jefferson, Suited 452, Spokane, WA. 99204 dated January 25, 2017. Bid Proposals shall be on forms furnished by James A. Sewell & Associates LLC. Address Bid Proposals to Kelly Driver, Manager, Port of Pend Oreille, 1981 Black Road, Usk, WA. 99180. Bids will be opened at approximately 9:00 a.m. on February 14, 2017. Bids will be reviewed and evaluated prior to making a recommendation to the Board of Commissioners to award, or not award, the bid. Contract documents will be available for examination on or after January 25, 2017. Examination may be made at the following locations: Port of Pend Oreille, 1981 Black Road, Usk, WA. 99180 James A. Sewell & Associates LLC, 600 West Fourth Street, Newport, WA. 99156 James A. Sewell & Associates LLC, 400 South Jefferson, Suite 452, Spokane, WA. 99204 Inland Northwest AGC, 4935 E. Trent Avenue, Spokane, WA. 99212 Associated General Contractors of Americn, Inc.,1649 Shoreline Drive #100, Boise, ID. 83702 Spokane Regional Plan Center, 209 N. Havana, Spokane, WA. 99202 Assoc. Builders & Contractors, 1760 E. Trent Ave., Spokane, WA. 99202 Copies of the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS may be obtained at the office of James A. Sewell & Associates LLC located at 600 West Fourth Street, Newport, WA. 99156, upon payment of a non-refundable plan fee of $100.00 per paper copy and/ or $25.00 per electronic CD copy. All bidders will be required to provide a bid bond, cashier’s check or certified check in the amount of 5% of the total bid amount. The successful bidder will be required to execute a Contract with the Port of Pend Oreille and provide Performance and Payment Bonds for 100% of the bid price, and provide evidence of adequate liability insurance. The Port of Pend Oreille is an equal opportunity employer. The project is being funded by the Port of Pend Oreille. All work on the project is subject to Washington State Prevailing Wage Rates for Pend Oreille County. The right to reject any or all bid proposals, either in whole or in part, or to waive any informalities or irregularities therein is reserved by the Port of Pend Oreille. /s/Kelly J. Driver Manager Published in the Newport Miner on January 25 and February 1, 2017. (52-2)

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201737 PUBLIC NOTICE N otice of A pplication Pursuant to County Development Regulations, notice is hereby given that Pend Oreille County did on January 3, 2017, receive a complete Conditional Use Permit Application from Pend Oreille Partners and did on January 20, 2017 issue a Determination of Completeness for a cannabis processing facility. Location: Within Sect. 33, T32N, R45E WM, Address: 74 Silverleaf Rd. An Environmental Checklist under the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) was prepared by the applicant on December 30, 2016. Any person desiring to express their views, or to be notified of the action taken

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on this application should contact the Pend Oreille County Community Development Department. The submitted application and related file documents may be examined by the public between 8:00 AM & 4:30 PM at the Pend Oreille County Courthouse, Annex Building, 418 S. Scott Ave. Newport, WA 99156. For information or to submit comments contact: Andy Huddleston, Interim Community Development Director (509) 447-6462 or ahuddleston@ pendoreille.org. Written comments from the public may be submitted to Pend Oreille County no later than February 9th 2017. Required Permits: Conditional Use Permit (Pend Oreille County), Commercial Building Permit, Labor & Industries Electrical Permit. Dated: January 23, 2017 Published in The Newport Miner on January 25 and February 1, 2017. (52-2) ___________________________ 201732 PUBLIC NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEADERS MEETING The Boards of Commissioners of the Port of Pend Oreille, Public Utility District No. 1 and Pend Oreille County will meet on Friday, February 10, 2017 at 12 p.m. at the Camas Wellness Center, Usk, WA. /s/ Kelly J. Driver, Manager /s/ Karen Willner Clerk of the Board /s/ Rhonda Cary Clerk of the Board Published in the Newport Miner on February 1 and 8, 2017. (1-2) __________________________ 201739 PUBLIC NOTICE N otice of F unding Available The Washington State Department of Commerce has released a joint application for the Consolidated Homeless Grant (CHG) and the Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG). Both grants provide resources to assist people who are experiencing homelessness obtain and maintain housing stability. Eligible applicants include city governments, nonprofit community/ neighborhood based organizations, housing authorities, and federally recognized Indian tribes in the state of WA. Grant awards resulting from this application will cover the period July 1, 2017 – June 30, 2019. The Application is due to Commerce no later than April 18, 2017. Application, estimated funding available, and additional information is available on the Commerce website at: http://www.commerce.wa.gov/ serving-communities/homelessness/. Published in The Newport Miner on February 1, 2017. (1) ___________________________ 201740 S U P E R I O R C O U R T, S TAT E O F WA S H I N G T O N , C O U N T Y O F SPOKANE NO. 17-4-00102-5 AMENDED NOTICE TO CREDITORS RCW 11.40.030 In the Matter of the Estate of GERALDINE AMELIA KERR a/k/a GERALDINE J. KERR, Deceased. The Personal Representative named below has been appointed as Personal Representative of this Estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Personal Representative or the Personal Representative’s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the Court in which the probate proceedings were commenced. The claim must be presented within the later of 1) thirty (30) days after the Personal Representative served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or 2) four (4) months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate and nonprobate assets. Continued on 10B

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PUD offers low-income senior discount on electricity bills.

Water: Some say poor solution

NEWPORT – A Low Income Senior Discount was approved by Pend Oreille PUD’s Board of Commissioners at the Jan. 24 meeting. Qualified customers, who are at least 62 years or older, with a combined household income that is 125 percent or less than current federally-established poverty levels will be eligible for a $5 monthly discount. Only the person applying has to be 62 or older. Current guidelines list $14,850 as 125 percent of the federal poverty

level for one person in a household, $20,025 for two persons, and $25,200 for three persons. The complete list is included on the application form. Applications are available at the Newport and Box Canyon offices. Applicants are required to verify age and all current household income. Interested persons may contact a PUD Customer Service Representative at 509-4473137, 509-446-3137, or 509-242-3137 for more information.

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A well driller works on the end cap of a well. As a result of a Supreme Court decision last fall, management of groundwater withdrawals are in turmoil as counties now left with the task are unable to determine how well systems affect nearby rivers and those already with operating wells. Rural landowners are being denied building permits as a result. From Page 7A

created by SB 5024, which would work with counties, tribes, rural property owners, conservation groups and various state agencies. It would submit reports to the Legislature and governor at the beginning of 2018 and 2019 that describe how groundwater availability would integrate with land-use planning. SB 5239 would allow local jurisdictions to use the Department of Ecology’s rules when determining water availability for approving building permits. Counties and cities could also use the department’s rules as part of their comprehensive plans, which are adopted in accordance with the state Growth Management Act. The bill also determines that permit-exempt groundwater withdrawal, usually wells, cannot be deemed to be impairing minimum flow of streams. David Danton, an operations manager for Lexar Homes, told the committee this problem is widespread. “We’re seeing home sales decline because people are turning away after seeing all the permits they need. These are impacting thousands of people,” he said. Others who testified said SB 5239 was a poor solution to water issues. Trish Rolfe, executive director for the Center for Environmental Law and Policy, noted that section five of the bill undermines the basic principles of water law. The section, which worried other speakers, would prevent the DOE from considering permit-exempt withdrawal as damaging to in-stream flow rules. “It makes in-stream flows a lesser water right. It will allow permit-exempt wells to irreparably harm fish and wildlife that rely on in-stream flows, including endangered salmon,” Rolfe said. Dave Christensen, program development manager for the DOE, had prob-

Continued from 9B DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION: February 1, 2017 Personal Representative: SARAH K. MOHN Presented By: STAMPER RUBENS, P.S. ALAN L. RUBENS WSBA #12239 Attorney for the Estate West 720 Boone, Suite 200 Spokane, WA 99201 Published in The Newport Miner on February 1, 8 and 15, 2017. (1-3) __________________________ 201742 PUBLIC NOTICE A poll-site election for a board seat on the Pend Oreille Conservation

lems with both bills. He did not support SB 5024 because of its significant budget impact — $10 million appropriated between June 2017 and 2019 — which is not in the governor’s budget. He also did not support SB 5239 because it gives all permit-exempt users too much freedom from DOE rules. “We can’t support SB 5239 as written because of the blanket exemptions to all permit-exempt uses. There needs to be adequate protection for in-stream resources,” Christensen said. Frederick Cardenas, A Spokane resident citizen who developed a well only to find his county was no longer issuing building permits, also spoke. He worked 60 hours a week for seven years to pay for the property. “I have over $81,000 invested in this well and property. It constitutes the bulk of my wealth, which is now valued at zero,” Cardenas told the committee. He had driven to Olympia from Elk, Washington, north of Spokane, to deliver his message in person even though the committee had set up a remote hearing site in Spokane. Dawn Vyvyan, representing the Puyallup tribe and Yakama nation, expressed her conditional support for SB 5024. “We like ecology assisting counties and setting up a fund for mitigation. We think mitigation is one of the solutions to finding water,” Vyvyan said. “However, we would like to see the final determinations on water availability be made by the department. The tribe feels the county does not have the expertise to determine if water is available.” (This story is part of a series of news reports from the Washington State Legislature provided through a reporting internship sponsored by the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation. Reach reporter Matt Spaw at matthewspaw@gmail. com)

District will be held on Monday, March, 20th 2017 from 7am until 7:00 pm at the District administration office located behind Frontier Title and Escrow at 121 N. Washington Ave., Newport, WA 99156. Polls will open at 7:00 am and close at 7:00 pm. Registered voters who reside within the Conservation District boundary are eligible to vote. Candidates must be registered voters residing in the conservation district, and may be required to own land or operate a farm. The candidate filing deadline is February, 20 th, 2017. Election procedures are available upon request at the district office. Absentee ballots are also available upon request for eligible voters, but must be requested on or before February, 27th 2017. Please contact the District office by phone (509-447-1155) or in person at 121 N. Washington Ave.,

COLVILLE - When local food banks need healthy produce for families, why not find a way to buy it fresh from local farmers? This concept will be celebrated at the 3rd Annual N.E.W. Hunger Coalition “Local Farm Fresh Food” Gala Dinner on Saturday, Feb. 11 at the Colville Ag Trade Center, 17 W. Astor, Colville. The doors open at 4:30 p.m. for a social hour, preview silent auction, and Valentinethemed dessert items. Event tickets are $25 and include dinner featuring prime rib and produce grown by local farmers. The Northeast Washington Hunger Coalition, which supplies food to the Newport and

Cusick food banks, has developed a new model of micro-scale pickup and delivery that works to stabilize emergency food distribution while economically supporting local farmers. Freshly picked produce is placed into one of our two trailers, chilled between 36 and 40 degrees and held at that temperature until it’s delivered to food pantries. Last year more than 17,200 of fresh fruits and vegetables were delivered using these innovative new CoolPup Trailers. “Our new microscale model of pickup and delivery combined with the power of your donations enables us to buy produce from local

m o s t wan t e d list Editor’s Note: The following are descriptions of people currently wanted by the Pend Oreille County Sheriff’s Office and other law enforcement agencies. Any information about these suspects should be directed to the sheriff’s office by calling 509-447-3151. This is a regular section of The Miner. All information is provided by the sheriff’s office.

Porter

Buck

Sturgeon

Heaton

David C. Porter, Jr., 36, is wanted on one Pend Oreille County warrant for failure to appear on original charges of legend drug possession, no prescription. He is 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs 155 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes. His last known address was in the Newport area. Extradition is surrounding Washington counties only. Jordan W. Buck, 24, is wanted on one Pend Oreille County warrant for three counts of rape in the 2nd degree. He is 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 150 pounds with brown hair and green eyes. His last known address was in the Sagle area. Extradition is Washington and Idaho. Gene P. Sturgeon, 45, is wanted on one Pend Oreille County warrant for failure to appear on original charges of criminal trespass, 1st degree. He is 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighs 190 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. His last known address was in the Mead area. Extradition is surrounding Washington counties only. Forrest P. Heaton, 47, is wanted on three Pend Oreille County warrants for failure to appear on original charges of possession stolen property, possession of controlled substance and failure to appear for show cause hearing child support. He weighs 175 pounds, with blond hair and blue eyes. His last known address was in the Newport area. Extradition is Washington and Idaho.

Newport, WA 99156 for absentee ballots or if you have any questions. Published in The Newport Miner February 1 and 8, 2017.(1-2) __________________________ 201745 PUBLIC NOTICE PEND OREILLE COUNTY NOXIOUS WEED CONTROL BOARD NOTICE OF HEARING The POC Weed Board will hold a hearing at a special meeting, Wednesday, February 15, 2017, at 2:15 PM in the Weed Board office, located at, 227-B S Garden Ave; Newport. The purpose of the hearing is to review and accept testimony for the adoption process of the 2017 County Noxious Weed List. Anyone

farmers and deliver it to all fifteen food banks in our region,” states project coordinator Nils Johnson. All donations and gifts from the 2017 Gala will go directly to pay for filling food banks refrigerators with trailer loads of fresh produce from local farmers, orchardists, and generous community members with backyard gardens. The event will also celebrate three awards received from Second Harvest for Volunteerism, Innovation and Public Relations. Fifteen food banks and nine community partners in the Tri-county area make up the membership of the NEW Hunger Coalition. “We exist to be more proficient, coordinate access to healthy foods, and build connections to resources. Increased food security from our work leads to better students, more stable families, and healthier senior citizens,” says Johnson. “We are also working to provide healthy eating education with cooking and food preservation classes, as well as developing food production capacity from community gardens.” For more information, to purchase a ticket, or send a donation, contact Susan Urhausen at 738-4565 or sumau@ centurytel.net.

wishing to review the state list or the proposed county list may request a copy from the Weed Board Office (447-2402 or PO Box 5085; Newport, WA 99156-5085 or noxweedinfo@ pendoreille.org or fax, 447-6477) or view them on our website, http://pendoreilleco.org/your-government/ noxious-weed-department/. We will gather and consider testimony during the hearing for class B and C weeds. We will gather, hold, and submit testimony for Class A, B-designate and new weeds to the State Weed Board hearing for the 2018 State Noxious Weed List, to be held in November. Published in The Newport Miner February 1 and 8, 2017.(1-2)