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Winter pushes cougars, Maycumber humans into contact new 7th District Representative

Three cats killed in January

By Don Gronning Of The Miner

OLYMPIA – Jacquelin Maycumber is the newest representative for the 7th District, which includes Pend Oreille County. County commissioners from Pend Oreille, Stevens, Ferry, Okanogan and Spokane counties elected Maycumber Wednesday night, Feb. 1, during a conference call.

Maycumber was chosen to fill the seat vacated by Shelly Short when Short was Maycumber appointed to former state Sen. Brian Dansel’s seat. Dansel resigned to take a job with the Trump administration as special assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.

County commissioners voted on three candidates advanced by Republican Precinct Committee Officers in the five counties. The PCOs selected Maycumber, who worked as legislative assistant to Shelly Short, former state Sen. John Smith and Larry Stickney, a conservative activist best known for a 2009 campaign to roll back domestic partnership benefits.

Maycumber won on a 12-3 vote, with Pend Oreille County commissioners Mike Manus and Karen Skoog voting for her and commissioner Steve Kiss voting for Smith. Stickney didn’t get any votes from county commissioners of any of the five counties.

Maycumber was sworn in Thursday, Feb. 2.

Rep. Joel Kretz R-Wauconda, says he’s known Maycumber since she interviewed to be his legislative assistant eight years ago.

“She knows the issues,” Kretz said in a brief phone interview Tuesday before he was called into session.

Maycumber, 37, says she was influenced by the late Sen. Bob Morton.

“He stressed service and being humble,” she said.

Maycumber says water rights are a priority for her.

She wants to make sure a recent state Supreme Court ruling doesn’t restrict people’s ability to build homes.

She also got to work right away, dropping a bill that

By Sophia Aldous Of The Miner

NEWPORT – More snow means more contact with wildlife as bitter cold and heavy snowfall pushes ungulates like deer down from the mountains and forests in search of food and water. Where they go, cougars aren’t far behind.

According to state wildlife officer Severin Erickson so far in 2017 in Pend Oreille County there have been three unconfirmed cougar sightings, four confirmed cougar sightings and six confirmed cougar depredations.

“For the last couple of years we really haven’t had much of a winter, so human contact with See Cougars, 2A

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Fish and Wildlife employees collared a sedated adult female cougar on the Stevens County side of Flowery Trail Road, Jan. 10, 2017, as part of the predator/prey project that tracks predatory wildlife and prey like deer and elk in Northeast Washington.

Pend Oreille Character

No more shift work

Retired at 55, female paper mill worker looks to future

By Don Gronning Of The Miner Editor’s note: This is the first in a continuing series of stories about people who live in the Pend Oreille River Valley.

NEWPORT - Liz Coon isn’t quite 55. Her house isn’t quite paid off. She isn’t quite retired.

But she’s within an eyelash of all three and looking forward to retired life. And she will spend it in Pend Oreille County.

“I love it here,” she says. She loves the mountains, the trees, the river, the natural beauty here. “I like the defined seasons,” she says. She enjoys snowboarding, hiking and bicycling, all activities that you can do in the area.

She has been planning her retirement for years, so she has frequently encountered the “what are you going to do?” question, followed by surprise when she doesn’t say she’s going to move south.

Coon has been in the newsprint industry nearly 33 years, working shift work almost all that time. She finished her career at Ponderay Newsprint

Company in Usk in January. She won’t be officially retired until she turns 55 later this year, but she’s pretty much retired. Her last day on the job was Jan. 20.

It’s not like she won’t do some traveling. She’s traveled a fair amount before. She’s been backpacking in Europe, been to Mexico and Hawaii. She’s going to Sedona, Ariz., later this winter and to Kauai in March. Like before, she’ll return to Newport.

But now she won’t have to go to work when she gets back, namely shift work.

“People who don’t work shift work don’t get it,” she says. For decades her work schedule has been four nights on, two days off, three days on, one day off, three nights on, two days off, four days on, seven days off. Repeat for 28 years.

“Everything has to be planned ahead,” she says. Holidays aren’t necessarily celebrated on the same day they appear on the calendar. They’re celebrated according to your work schedule.

She used to get her work schedule a year at a time, so she could make plans. Now that she

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doesn’t work shifts anymore, she can schedule her time with a weekly planner.

Coon is a fourth generation paper mill worker. Her greatgrandfather started in the business in Maine.

Coon grew up in Longview, Wash., where her father worked for the North Pacific Paper Corporation (NORPAC) paper mill.

After graduating high school, Coon wasn’t sure what she wanted to do. She went to Trend College for a time and worked in fast foods.

But she wanted more. She had worked at NORPAC in the shipping department as a summer student.

“I thought the paper machine was cool,” she said. She wanted to work there. So she called to see if they were hiring. They were not.

“At this point I was 24 and needing to do something,” she said. So she went to talk to an Army recruiter. She took a placement test and was told what job she would likely get if she

Dog’s death raises suspicions

By Sophia Aldous Of The Miner

DIAMOND LAKE – A couple living near Diamond Lake received a nasty surprise last week when their blue heeler dog, Bandit, was discovered dead and wrapped in a plastic trash bag Monday, Jan. 30 around 5:30 p.m. near Viet Road.

The 14-year-old dog had been shot multiple times according to his owners, who asked not to be identified out of fear of possible retaliation

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and because they want the story to focus on Bandit, not themselves.

“We’re not vengeful people,” says Bandit’s owner.

“We don’t want to press charges; we just want to warn other pet owners in the area to be on the lookout and to watch their pets.”

The couple said Bandit went missing Saturday, Jan. 28.

They called neighbors, drove around looking for See bandit, 2A

B r i e f ly Glimpse back at winter weather NEWPORT - The first day of 2017 started off like a lion as a major winter storm dropped over 11 inches of snow at the volunteer weather station in Pend Oreille County. According to reports, the Pend Oreille Valley received around three feet of snow for the month of January. Several rounds of Arctic air helped preserve a rather significant snow pack around much of the Inland Northwest. By mid-month, the area experienced somewhat of a January thaw with milder temperatures and a mixed bag of wintry precipitation. A massive

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ridge of high pressure then provided the rest of the month with cloudy, but unseasonably dry weather.

Chamber to honor citizen of the year PRIEST RIVER – The public is invited to the Priest River Chamber of Commerce’s reception for the 2016 Citizen of the Year.

The reception is Thursday, Feb. 16, at 6 p.m., at the Artisan Gallery in Priest River. Wine and appetizers will be served. Call the chamber office at 208-4482721.

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Northeast Washington Trails website has bike info COLVILLE – ‘Find Road Cycling Loops,’ has been added to the www.newashingtontrails.com website. Visitors to the site will find 24 mapped road bike loops, primarily in Stevens County. Each loop includes maps and information.

“We’re treating this initial addition of the road bike maps, which are primarily in Stevens County, as a pilot project, we would like to see the creation of bike loops extended to Ferry and Pend Oreille counties,” Tri County Economic Development District (TEDD), Executive Director Jeff Koffel says.

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him, and put up posters.

They spent hours searching for him and putting up posters.

A neighbor found Bandit near a driveway by a tree, with his body visibly protruding from the bag. The couple drove over and identified him.

They say their biggest question that will most likely never be answered is why would someone do this? According to them, Bandit wasn’t aggressive and acted peaceably, even amicably, toward the other animas on their farm, which includes chicken and goats.

His owners say he would often just sit or lay down in the front yard and watch flocks of turkeys or several deer pass through without incident. “It wasn’t like

someone shot at him to try and scare him away,” says his owner. “He had multiple bullet wounds, including one in his back leg and his head.” The owners say that other residents in the community have told them that they have had similar tragic experiences with dogs being shot or poisoned. Pend Oreille County Sheriff Alan Botzheim says he can’t confirm or deny any of those reports, because no complaints have been filed with his office.

“If people have reason to believe that someone is out there purposefully targeting pets, we ask them to call us so can have something on record,” Botzheim says.

He adds that the Sheriff’s Office is investigating Bandit’s death. If

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NEWPORT – An outbreak of chicken pox, also known as varicella, caused 25 students to be excluded from attendance in the Newport School District (NSD), according to NSD Nurse Beth Anheier. Anheier says the first case of chicken pox was suspected at Sadie Halstead Middle School Thursday, Jan. 26, and confirmed by the child’s family physician Jan. 27.

Chickenpox is a common childhood disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). It is usually mild, but it can be serious, especially in young infants and older adults.

It causes a rash, itching, fever, and tiredness. Before the vaccine, about 11,000 people were hospitalized and about 100 people died of chickenpox each year in the United States.

The students were excluded were identified as having direct contact with the infected student and due to their lack of immunization against the chickSee Chicken Pox, 9A

Coon: Girls should not rule out non traditional work; it pays From Page 1A

joined the Army. But she decided to give NORPAC one more try. This time she was hired – at $8.94 an hour, good money in 1984 when the minimum wage was $3.35 an hour.

Coon didn’t consider herself particularly mechanically inclined, although the Army was going to train her to be a helicopter mechanic, so they saw some mechanical potential.

She started work in the paper mill.

“I went to work on the paper machine,” she said. Working at NORPAC didn’t surprise her father Gerald Coon. Her mother Jackie wasn’t sure what to make of her daughter going to work at the paper mill.

“I think Mom was disappointed at first,” Coon said. “She thought I would go to school and work in a doctor’s office.”

While the papermaking industry tends to have more male workers than female, NORPAC was progressive about recruiting women, Coon says.

“Some of my friends worked there,” she said. It wasn’t long until she felt at home. “Chick workers tend to hang out with each other,” she said.

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Liz Coon gives the dogs some treats at her Newport home while her father, Gerald Coon, looks on. The Coons come from a papermaking family. Liz is the fourth generation to work in the industry. She is retiring after nearly 33 years.

Still it took a while to get used to the physical work.

“I remember being physically wiped out,” she says. Being on your feet all day on a concrete floor takes its toll.

She continued to work at NORPAC but started looking elsewhere.

“In 1989 I heard about Ponderay Newsprint,” she said. She applied. “Ponderay was the third mill I had sent an application to,” she said.

“It was touch and go if I would get hired,” she said. She kept in contact with people she knew who had been hired and soon she was among them. She started work in April 1989. The first few months she spent in training. The rest of the crew came on in July.

Then, Nov. 12, 1989, the first sheet of newsprint was produced. It was a big day for the company, the county and for Coon.

Coon says the newsprint industry has been good to her, even though she was one of the only women working in production at the newsprint plant. She wants young girls to know they can work in well paying jobs that traditionally went to men. Females shouldn’t rule out jobs like welding, being a heavy equipment operator or being a contractor just because they’re male dominated professions.

“The main thing is,

if you don’t know what

you want to do, there is good money to be made in non traditional work,” Coon says. “That’s what happened to me.” Another thing she wants people to know is the value of saving. “My father said to put as much money in the 401k as you can and then don’t think about it,” she said. So that’s what she did. She made good money at the mill – about $40 an hour.

“To me the money meant independence,” she says.

“It gave me enough to do what I want and I’m really thankful for that.”

Maycumber: replaces Rep. Shelly Short From Page 1A

would allow some money counties get for homelessness to be used for education and other measures to prevent homelessness when there is a wildfire.

“It’s a small bill,” she says, with bipartisan support.

Maycumber makes her home in Republic, where she lives with her husband Martin and their three children.

Her husband is a fourth generation rancher.

She has an interesting background. She and her family moved to Ferry County when she was 12, although the family has roots there.

She’s worked as a deputy sheriff in Colorado and has an undergraduate degree in biochemistry from Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colo. She worked in that field after graduating.

Maycumber has held only one elected office. She served on the Republic School Board.

She will have to stand for election this fall to fill out the remainder of Short’s term.

Cougars: More cougar interactions in 2016 than year before From Page 1A

predatory wildlife was down as a result,” says Erickson. “But with all the snowfall we’ve been having, that makes animals spread out and search for food. Where deer go, cougars follow, and sometimes that leads to conflict with people.”

In 2015 there were six unconfirmed cougar sightings, three confirmed sightings, and three confirmed cougar depredations in Pend Oreille County. In 2016

there were seven unconfirmed cougar sightings, six confirmed and two confirmed depredations.

On Jan. 9, two cougars were reported in North Pend Oreille County. The wife of the man reporting the incident witnessed a cougar attack their dog in the driveway. The man ran outside and saw one cougar dragging the dog away. The man shot at the cougar, causing it to drop the dog and both cougars ran off. A houndsman responded and tracked and eutha-

nized both cougars.

On Jan. 23 a resident on Spring Hill Road accidentally shot and wounded a cougar while trying to scare it away after he spotted it about 30 yards from his home.

A houndsman responded and pursued the cougar for an estimated half a mile before the trail was lost in steep terrain and dense undergrowth. The fate of the cat is unknown.

On Jan. 27, a man let his dog out and it did not return as usual. He

went outside and found that his dog had been killed and there were cougar tracks and drag marks around the area.

A houndsman responded and his hounds located the cougar, which was euthanized.

Erickson says there is no information on confirmed depredations by grizzly bears in Pend Oreille County.

On May 14, 2016 in Pend Oreille County a complainant advised that he had seen a collared wolf in the pen with his

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calves. He claimed has had a cow eaten in the past, but the responsible attacker was indeterminable. None of the man’s calves were harmed during this sighting, according to Washington State Department Fish and Wildlife website.

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b r i e f ly Earn $25 gas card by completing parenting class PRIEST RIVER – Love and Logic, a six week series of parenting classes, will get underway Monday, Feb. 13, at 6 p.m. at Priest River Elementary School.

The two-hour classes are free, with free childcare available. Students who complete the class will get a $25 gas card.

The classes will take place Feb. 10, 27, March 8, 13, 20, 27. There will be no class President’s Day. The course is for West Bonner School District parents and guardians.

People who live in West Bonner county have first priority, but if there is room others will be considered.

Contact school counselor Sheree Rizzardi for more information at 208 448-1181.

Safe child policy updated at county libraries NEWPORT – The Pend Oreille County Library District is in the process of reviewing and updating its policy manual.

Because children are their highest priority and concern, the libraries will focus first on a policy that will ensure the safety of children within the libraries.

This new policy lays out the library staff’s responsibilities – and what they cannot be responsible for – as well as their mandated actions in providing for and protecting children.

The full text of the policy is available online at www.pocld.org/about/ policies and is available to view at each of the District’s four branches.

Questions about the new policy can be directed to Mandy Walters, POCLD Director, at mwalters@pocld.org or 800-366-3654.

Iron Sommelier set for Feb. 18 PRIEST RIVER – The 2017 Iron Sommelier and Brewmaster Event is set for Saturday, Feb. 18, at the Priest River event Center, at 5:30 p.m.

The event is a fundraiser of Newport Hospital And Health Services Foundation’s Healthy Kids Snacks Bag program and the Reach Out and Read program, as well as other foundation hospital programs.

People are invited to vote for their favorite wine or microbrew pairings while enjoying gourmet small bites by Chef William and the hospitality of the Beardmore Bistro & Wine Bar. Snacks will be served prior to the program and Kicho Forrest will provide live, acoustic entertainment.

While non-alcoholic beverages will be available, people must be 21 or older to attend. Tickets cost $50. Call (509) 4477928 ext. 4373 to order tickets.

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Sees her shadow Pend Oreille County’s resident prairie dog Snowy played the groundhog for the 19th annual Pend Oreille County Groundhog Day celebration at Sacheen Lake Feb. 2. With the temperature hovering at 2 degrees Fahrenheit, Snowy’s owner Bob Lutz interpreted for her. “A shadow I do see, six more weeks of winter it will be. Now put me back to bed.”

Cusick Food Bank burglarized

By Sophia Aldous Of The Miner

CUSICK – The Cusick Food Bank suffered a break in sometime between Jan. 28-30, resulting in an estimated 200 pounds of food being stolen, according to the Pend Oreille County

Idaho seeks people for open council transportation positions BOISE - Three positions on the Public Transportation Advisory Council (PTAC) are open for renewal or reselection, and interested members of the public are encouraged to apply.

Those open positions are for representation in District 1 (North Idaho), District 3 (Southwest Idaho), and District 5 (Southeast Idaho). Applications will be accepted between Feb. 1 and March 2.

PTAC was created to advise the transportation department on issues related to public transportation in Idaho. It is composed of six members, one representing each of ITD’s administrative districts. The successful applicant will represent their respective district on the committee for a three year term.

For more information, visit the public transportation web page at itd.idaho.gov/ pt or contact Kim McGourty at (208)334475

Priest River Council off the air PRIEST RIVER Concept Cable has terminated the cable channel that Priest River City Council broadcasted City Council meetings on.

“Our plan is to livestream the meetings on our website and we are currently looking into what that entails,” says city clerk Laurel Knowles.

Sheriff’s Office.

The incident was reported Tuesday, Jan. 31 after volunteers discovered that the suspect(s) had cut the hasp of the lock with a hacksaw and helped themselves to the food supply, taking mostly sweets. No cash or other items were stolen, says Cusick Food Bank Board President Jim Gemmrig.

“Whoever it was, they tried to bust the door in

and when they saw that didn’t work, they took a hacksaw to the lock,” says Gemmrig.

Located on Riverside Road, the non-profit Cusick Food Bank distributes about seven tons of food per month to community residents.

According to Gemmrig, this is the third time in the past six months that the food See food bank, 6A

NEWPORT – A man who pleaded guilty to possession of methamphetamine Thursday, Feb. 2, and was sentenced to 20 days in jail told Pend Oreille County Superior Court Judge Pat Monasmith that he has had two birth certificates.

Adam Oclair, 45, said he was adopted and it had been a problem ever since he was in the military. One birth certificate said he was born in 1969 and one in 1971.

Prosecuting attorney Lori Smith recommended a 20-day sentence. He was initially arrested on an Island County warrant and she said the time could be served concurrent to any jail time he gets in Island County.

Defense attorney Robin McCroskey said that Oclair was wanted over legal financial obligations. When it went to warrant, Oclair’s Veterans Assistance payments were cut off. She said he went to Island County to get it worked out but to no avail. She said he lives in Priest River now.

Oclair said he was a 100 percent disabled and when he was getting VA benefits, got $3,200 monthly.

Monasmith said Oclair was taking responsibility for a crime that occurred a little over a week earlier. He said Oclair would be extradited to Island County. He found Oclair indigent and ordered minimal financial obligations of $600.

According to the statement of probable cause, a sheriff deputy pulled Oclair and a passenger over for not having taillights as they were driving through Newport Jan. 22.

Oclair had a felony warrant for eluding from Island County. When asked if there was anything illegal in the car, Oclair said there was a marijuana cigarette.

The sheriff deputy asked for a drug dog and when the drug dog signaled at the driver’s side door, he asked for permission to search the vehicle. Oclair said yes and signed a form allowing the search.

Deputies found a black zip case containing two glass pipes with residue, four hypodermic needles, a rubber band and a spoon. Oclair admitted it was his drug kit, according to the statement.

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Common ground is right at home If you’ve been having trouble talking freely with friends and neighbors since the last election, you’re not alone.

And the media wouldn’t have it any other way.

Whether we’re sounding the drums of the Left or the Right, there’s nothing that sells quite as well as conflict.

Even your hometown newspaper is guilty of leading with the bleeding.

That’s because conflict is what makes a story interesting.

You’re a reader – think about the last book you read.

Now take all of the conflict out of it.

Reading can be a pretty boring exercise without the conflict.

But why do we have to carry that kind of baggage with us after we’ve put the newspaper down, or turned off the television set, the radio or our social media?

If you’re having difficulty keeping calm about the state of our national affairs, perhaps you’re spending an inordinate amount of your time focusing your attention on such things.

If you are ready to exercise your First Amendment rights of assembly we don’t wish to deter you, only to ask that you do so peaceably and with malice toward no one.

It’s easier to attract flies with honey than it is with vinegar.

That is to say that people are more likely to come around to your way of thinking when there’s something appealing about your way of thinking.

So take the time to exercise a little persuasive argumentation.

And keep in mind that we’re all a little tired of being harangued about our political beliefs.

Most of America was blessed on Sunday with a great national distraction: the Superbowl.

Whether you were rooting for the Patriots, the Falcons or licking your wounds over the Seahawks, Americans came together to enjoy the game, the commercials and yes, Lady Gaga.

So if you’re having indigestion or trouble sleeping at night, maybe the medicine you need is a respite from all the bad news.

Go to a high school basketball tournament or a production at Circle Moon or Pend Oreille Playhouse if you want to see your community getting behind something. Or go to the library and crack open a good book.

Maybe the events that play out in Pend Oreille or Bonner counties don’t carry much weight on the world stage but they are every bit as important in our day-to-day lives.

Such events provide common ground for our community and a starting place for civil discourse.

And don’t surround yourself with like-minded thinkers because they will ease you into the shallow notion that your ways are the right ways. Challenge yourself by calmly discussing your opinions with those whose beliefs differ from your own. The best place to start changing the world is right at home.

Just remember: when you give someone a piece of your mind, save a piece for yourself.

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Why bridging the political divide is more important than ever “…we as a people have to work together as a team because we are in hard times. I know if we do… we’ll continue to be the best nation in the world and accomplish goals none of us thought we could set.”

That was Major Scotty Smiley’s message to the House and Senate Republicans in Philadelphia last week. As we gathered in America’s birthplace for our annual reg u e st treat, keynotes by the President, o p i n i o n Vice President and British Prime Minister dominated headlines Rep. Cathy around the globe. But it was the McMorris story of this hometown hero, a Rodgers R-Wash.

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yo u r o p i n i o n Vote yes for the Cusick school levy Editor’s note: This letter was inadvertently omitted from last week’s paper so we’re publishing it this week. The Miner normally doesn’t publish election letters the week of the election.

To the editor, I recently was able to attend a meeting at the Cusick School District regarding the upcoming levy. I would like to encourage everyone to vote yes when you receive your ballot. This levy is not in addition to the existing levy but instead will replace it. We are very fortunate to live in a small community that strongly supports our children. By voting yes, you are supporting the school and our children in many areas from transportation, food services, maintenance, drivers education, as well as sports. Our small school needs the contin-

ued support of our community. Please be sure to mail your ballot in by the appropriate date and vote yes to continue supporting the Cusick School District and our children.

-Chris Tellessen Usk

Had good experience with Muslims To the editor, I have been blessed to have friends from many countries throughout the years, and believe it would be great for our country and the world for others to have those opportunities as well. Being immersed in university environments since the age of 18, and living overseas for 17 years, I have gradually accepted the belief that we are all brothers and sisters.

Since Muslims seem to be on the radar right now, I remember with great fondness the graciousness of Muslim families – from Pakistan,

Indonesia, India, Nigeria, Libya, Palestine, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Mali and Iran. One memorable experience at Iowa State University is with a Palestinian neighbor; the husband was finishing his PH.D. in mathematics and his wife spoke only Arabic. She agreed to take care of my son all summer when I was a graduate assistant.

When I asked her what I could pay her, she said that she couldn’t take any money, because my son was her son. It was a loving gesture that always brings tears to my eyes. How I wish more people could have such wonderful experiences.

Only if you open your hearts and minds.

-Nancy Street Cheney

Snow removal a safety issue To the editor, I am sending a note puzzled by the fact that

when I was in Newport this last week to shop that is was unsafe and difficult to even get to the sidewalks in front of the businesses. Due to this, I went on up to Priest River and Sandpoint to shop.

As a small community I would think that the removal of snow would be an automatic for safety issues and to keep business locally.

I am unsure who makes these decisions. I feel that someone is just not thinking or absence during the winter months to notice that it should be a no brainer to have the snow removed when plowing. The loss of revenue is a loss of taxes. That does not make sense. Is it worth a lawsuit that could happen if someone was to be hurt due the city’s neglect? Probably not.

-Rhonda Baker Spokane See letters, 5A

Washington has lots riding on NAFTA In 1993, President Bill Clinton was pictured holding a Washington State apple while promoting the virtues of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

That photo only underscored the g u e st importance of opinion the agreement and our trade DON C. with Mexico and BRUNELL Canada.

Washington is Association the most trade of dependent state Washington in the nation.

Business The Puget Sound President Business Journal (PSBJ) reported last November, Washington State exported at least $134.5 billion

worth of goods to Canada and Mexico since the agreement was signed.

The dust up over NAFTA focuses on Mexico from which we import more than we export.

PSBJ figures Washington has 150,000 jobs depend directly on trade with Mexico, which happens to be the world’s sixth largest exporter of aerospace parts to companies like Boeing.

NAFTA, negotiated under President George H.W. Bush and implemented by Clinton, eliminated most tariffs on traded goods between Canada, the United States and Mexico. It was designed to encourage economic integration among the three countries and thereby, boost the economic prosperity of all three.

In large part it has accomplished that goal. The Council on Foreign Relations reports trade

reade r’s poll 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.

Do you think animal noise caused by barking dogs is a problem in your town?

Yes, it’s non-stop and not very neighborly.

between the three countries increased from $290 billion in 1993 to over $1 trillion in 2016.

States like Washington and Texas, the nation’s largest exporter, have benefitted. Texas has more than a million jobs relying on exports, and Mexico accounts for roughly 37 percent of that total. Whereas, Washington’s exports to Mexico are heavy to agriculture, Texas sends mostly electronics, oil, gas and chemicals, and machinery south of the border.

The Business Insider recently reported NAFTA has been credited with helping the U.S. auto sector become globally competitive due to cross-border supply chains.

Midwestern auto workers don’t see it that way. They blame carSee Brunell, 5A

r e a d e r ’ s p o l l r e s u lt s Do you agree with Trump’s travel ban?

45% No.

Sometimes it gets annoying, but it’s not too bad.

Yes.

55%

No, it doesn’t bother me where I live.

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Brunell makers for abandoning plants and workers in states like Michigan and moving those factories and jobs to Mexico and China.

The frustration over trade agreements hit the boiling point during last year’s presidential campaign. Both socialist-leaning Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) and now President Donald Trump lambasted trade deals for killing American jobs and allowing companies to move to nations with lower wages and benefits; and, weaker worker protections and environmental regulations.

Trump called NAFTA “the worst trade deal in the history of the country” and confirmed his intent to renegotiate it since becoming president. That’s where the new president needs to exercise caution.

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Pend Oreille County Republicans balanced. Scrapping NAFTA and imposing tariffs on Mexican and Canadian goods would likely trigger countertariffs imposed on U.S. products. The same goes for other international trade agreements. While critics blame NAFTA for the loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs, decline in manufacturing employment started over 40 years ago as robots and automation replaced assembly line workers.

However, it took a nose dive between 2000 and 2009, according to U.S. Labor Dept. statistics, and has rebounded slowly since. Roughly, six million U.S. factory workers lost their jobs in that nine year period.

NAFTA has benefitted agriculture, which is particularly good news for Washington farmers, ranchers and tree-fruit growers. According to the U.S. Trade Representative’s office, agriculture exports to

Mexico have doubled and increased by 44 percent to Canada since 1993.

It is always good to take a look at existing trade agreements, especially in our rapidly changing world. Modifications to those treaties should be carefully planned and negotiated with our trading partners, not hastily imposed by administration fiat.

Trade is a two-way street and no country gets all it wants. Hopefully, there is a better deal for American workers by opening up NAFTA. President Trump just needs to be more measured in his rhetoric and methodical in our national approach.

Don C. Brunell is a business analyst, writer and columnist. He retired as president of the Association of Washington Business, the state’s oldest and largest business organization, and now lives in Vancouver.

He can be contacted at theBrunells@msn.com.

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An open letter to Cathy McMorris Rodgers To the editor, Good morning, Cathy: I have become concerned with your continuing support of Trump’s policies and points of view, and am asking that you re-think such support.

This president has become an embarrassment to individuals and a threat to our previously respected national reputation. The demonstrations are continuing, even in northeast Washington state.

The historically conservative Spokane Spokesman-Review newspaper as well as Spokane City Council have each taken big, unexpected, subtle and not-so-subtle steps to question his immigration “policies” and threats against religious freedoms. Cartoons, TV gag shows, editorials, and news commentators continue to see Trump’s behaviors, attitudes, and tweets as worthy of critical attention.

Honestly, Cathy, do you really want to be associated with and supportive of someone so widely considered as incompetent, insulting, not knowledgeable, a threat to our own security and world standing, racist, and a violator of women’s rights? Someone whose staff must continually interpret and explain and correct? Is that what you went to D.C. to accomplish?

In 2012, I retired from a 37-year career as Director of the WSU/Pend Oreille County Extension Office. As you know, we Extension agents cover a lot of territory. We understand our clientele base well. We are basically non-political. Our work is generally well respected because we provide education and help to our clientele around their economic development, family, and lifestyle concerns.

I am deeply concerned about what we have gotten ourselves into in electing Trump. People have told me that you will only do what other Republicans tell you to do. I hope that is not true. I am asking that you help get us out of the messes Trump is creating and do what is really best for your northeast Washington constituents. I am counting on you.

-Janet Kiser Lambarth, PhD Newport

Free press not undermined by Trump To the editor, In the “Our Opinion” editorial of Jan. 25, (‘Trump vs. media is Trump vs. the public’), The Miner publisher equated the media with the general public. The president and the media, according to the editorial, have an ongoing feud. There were several provocative statements in the column.

In the article, it is declared that “…the “media” is actually the general public…” and that “…Trump’s administration shuts out reporters…” If one lived in a shoe and relied on The Miner for information, one would assume the Trump administration is providing no information to reporters.

The so-called “feud” is primarily between Mr. Trump and CNN, who never encountered a fake news item they

couldn’t embrace. The Miner also then gives a minor (no pun intended) dissertation on the difference between bloggers and real journalists. A real journalist, for instance, has taken at least one class in journalism at Western Washington University.

Somehow, by refusing to allow a CNN reporter to ask a question at a press conference, Mr. Trump is undermining the American institution of the free press.

But the straw that breaks the camel’s back is when the publisher says, “Let’s remember where we all learn the facts: hard-nosed reporters who are doing the work laid out by our Constitution.” Really? That’s where we get our facts? And since when does “freedom of the press” require anyone to talk to a CNN reporter? Hard-nosed reporters are required to vet their information, to fact-check, and to do due diligence. Why not take CNN to task for reporting fake news? Why not report that Mr. Trump is only ignoring one media outlet. Why not report the true facts?

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-Larry Montgomery Newport

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Hypothetical fear unreasonable To the editor, After returning from a vacation in Mexico I am now inspired by the hypothetical that something might happen and we must act to stop it. That sums up the President Trump ban on travel to America by Muslims. The hypothetical is that a Muslim entering our country today might kill a family member in the future. The same would apply to Mexicans illegally entering America who might (as Trump stated) rape our wives or daughters.

Try to imagine a 5-year-old Muslim boy nearly drowning after crossing the sea into Europe, and later being admitted to America as a refugee. The boy grows into a man and commits a crime or act of terror killing someone in our family. Our first thought is why did we allow that boy to enter our country.

Why didn’t we act to prevent his crime?

Since the hypothetical rules our thinking, imagine that same boy growing into a man and being the person who rescues a family member from certain death.

Consider that anyone is capable of being good or bad. Apparently their race, religion or political views are bad if they are not exactly like us.

I often think of Timothy McVeigh, a white, Christian, Gulf War veteran who bombed the federal building in Oklahoma City and wonder if he would have been aborted as a fetus in 1968. Unfortunately, Roe v. Wade didn’t happen until 1973. Could we support abortion solely on the basis that we are killing a future killer like McVeigh?

The same flawed thinking applies to allowing anyone to enter our country or live in our community. I am glad that McVeigh and not some radical Islamic terrorist killed all those people in Oklahoma. It’s a lot better to be killed by one of us rather than one of them.

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Man gets drug treatment sentence

By Don Gronning Of The Miner

NEWPORT – A 23-year-old man who admitted breaking into his grandmother’s home was sentenced to drug and mental health treatment instead of prison by Pend Oreille County Superior Court Judge Pat Monasmith Thursday, Feb. 2. Robert James Kelly pleaded guilty to two charges earlier – residential burglary for the break in at his grandmother’s and second degree malicious mischief for breaking a security camera at the jail.

Prosecuting attorney Brooks Clemmons argued for a prison based Drug Offender Sentencing Alternative. He said Kelly had only been out of jail two days when he broke in his grandmother’s door.

“The structure of a lockdown facility is needed,” he said.

Defense attorney Robin McCroskey said a prison based DOSA wouldn’t do much good because there isn’t enough time. Kelly was only looking at a few months prison time. She asked for a residential DOSA, in which Kelly would be sentenced to 3-6 months chemical dependency and mental health treatment in lieu of going to prison. She said Kelly had been dealing with a bi-polar condition for years. She said now that he has medication, it’s better.

Monasmith asked Clemmons what good prison would do. Clemmons said there were no guarantees but a locked down facility was better than the drug

treatment facility. He said Kelly could leave the drug treatment facility when he became frustrated, which would land him new charges.

Kelly said he had been in and out of jail and juvenile facilities since he was 10 years old.

“Now I am asking for help,” Kelly said.

“I need help.”

He said this was the first time he had asked for help with his conditions. He said he wanted to change.

Monasmith said he had seen the “good, bad and ugly” sides of Kelly in various court appearances. “I’ve never heard you say you need help,” he said.

Monasmith said he viewed a prison sentence as a significant punishment. He said Kelly had no history of significant violence.

“I don’t see how anything is helped by sending you to prison,” he said. He gave Kelly a DOSA sentence of three to six months treatment and two years community custody for the residential burglary. He also sentenced Kelly to 90 days in jail for malicious mischief, with credit for 77 days.

According to a statement of probable cause, Kelly was found hiding in his grandmother’s Newport home in midOctober 2015 after somebody saw a male break in and called law enforcement.

The malicious mischief charge came from an incident in July 2016 in which Kelly broke a security camera at the jail.

A reimbursement hearing will be held on both the damage from the burglary and the jail camera.

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bank has been burglarized, and the seventh time in the last three years.

He says the thief, or thieves, always make off with sugary snack foods, seeming to ignore the produce and canned goods.

“If they are hungry, all they have to do is come in and ask for something to eat and we’ll give it to them,” says Cusick Food Bank Director Gary Beach.

Gemmrig says the damage done to the door totals around $300 in repairs. Volunteers hope to

install security cameras in the spring some where out of reach of vandalism and theft.

“It’s pretty sad when you have to steal from the poor,” says Gemmrig.

To report information on this crime, call the Pend Oreille County Dispatch at (509) 447-3151.

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soldier living in Spokane who lost his eyesight to a suicide bomber in Iraq, that renewed our commitment as Republicans – on behalf of the nation we’ve been elected to lead – to teamwork and values.

Major Smiley’s inspiring message of service before self, teamwork and coming together touched me deeply, especially at this moment in our nation’s history.

Ever since, I’ve been thinking a lot about everything going on in our country, and the word I keep coming back to is civility. After such a tense election cycle, we can’t ignore how divided we’ve become and how, as a nation, we can and must heal.

While Republicans are energized and excited to work with the administration to tackle the biggest challenges of our time, there’s no denying the divisiveness that’s taken hold of modern politics. “Comment sections” on social media, grocery store checkouts, family dinners – everything has become a breeding ground for disagreement and negativity. I think back to Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, when I spoke at an NAACP rally in Spokane about unity.

During the event, protesters interrupted, waving signs and yelling.

As I stood there listening to their chants and shouts, I was heartbroken. Not out of pride for my own speech, but out of sadness for our country.

We’ve forgotten how to listen to each other, and how to come together for productive conversations.

Everything is viewed through an “us versus them” lens. It shouldn’t

be “us versus them.” It should just be us – all of us.

This isn’t an issue exclusive to politics.

There’s a sense of brokenness and hopelessness splitting communities apart. A Gallup poll taken after the election found that 77 percent of adults views America as divided when it comes to the most important values. But we don’t have to take our frustrations out on each other.

Division stifles progress and prevents good ideas – no matter their source – from being heard and considered. Reveling in our opponents’ missteps and losses drags us down as a country and diminishes our potential as people.

We must remember that although we come from different backgrounds and ideologies, we’re all part of this great experiment in self-governance. We’re all united by common values of liberty, justice and equality of opportunity, even if we don’t always agree on how to achieve them. As Major Smiley reminds us, ultimately, we’re all on the same team.

It’s going to take every American playing on the same team – and everyone trying to be the best version of themselves – to make America great.

That’s why I’ve challenged my own team to live by example and help change the culture on “the Hill.”

In our office on Capitol Hill, the epicenter of partisanship and egos, my team and I established a system of values, a motto called, “Have Fun While We SERVE” – Seek Excellence, Everybody Matters, Responsibly Own It, Vigilant Integrity, and

Embrace Change – and at staff meetings we talk about how we are living these values, and where we fall short.

Through this exercise we are consciously reflecting on how our actions impact those around us, and how we can strive to be better public servants, teammates and citizens.

When it comes to changing culture and bridging the divide, it starts with us – one person, one team, one meeting at a time. It’s up to every office, neighborhood, block and community to embrace the values that tie us together as Americans.

Our country faces a number of unknowns, and sometimes fear of the unknown can be more difficult than moving ahead. It isn’t always easy to work together, especially when every issue threatens to tear us apart.

But courage is moving ahead in spite of fear, and that’s where trust comes in – trusting that, as elected representatives, we are all here because we want what’s best for people; trusting that we’re all doing the best we can; and trusting that together we can be a team that finds solutions for health care, taxes, and any problem facing our country.

America is strongest when we work together – despite our differences.

Our shared values of liberty, justice, and equality of opportunity are stronger than any campaign or controversy. We can’t – and shouldn’t – go at it alone.

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., is a U.S. Representative for Washington’s 5th District and Chairwoman of the House Republican Conference.

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New Washington State lands commissioner promises balance in meeting operation goals

By Matt Spaw WNPA Olympia News Bureau

OLYMPIA – Hilary Franz became the state’s new commissioner of Public Lands last month after earning that title in the November election.

The management of much of the state’s natural resources rests with her department.

Washington is one of only four states that elect public lands commissioners. The others are Arkansas, New Mexico and South Dakota. In many states, this position is called director of Natural Resources. Wyoming is the only state without this position.

“This is one of the least known positions in Washington State, but I believe it’s one of the most important due to the amount of land we manage and regulate,” Franz said in an interview during her first weeks on the job.

As commissioner, Franz administers the state Department of Natural Resources and its 1,500 employees, directs the management of 5.6 million acres of state-owned lands, directs resource protection on millions of acres of state and private forest lands and chairs the state’s Board of Natural Resources and the Forest Practices Board.

The natural resources board has final approval authority on state trustland timber sales, and on sales, exchanges or purchases of trust lands.

It also establishes the sustainable harvest level for forested trust lands.

The Forest Practices Board sets standards for practices on state and private timberlands, including timber harvests, pre-commercial thinning, road construction and forest chemical applications.

The decisions of the commissioner heavily affect rural communities and the environment in and around those communities. Franz is aware of this duality.

“I will focus on improving the health of our environment and how that pertains to our public, agricultural, forest, aquatic lands,” Franz said. “Equally important is strengthening rural economic health. Many communities near DNR

Courtesy photo|Department of Natural Resources

Hilary Franz is sworn in as Washington State’s Commissioner of Public Lands Jan. 11. Franz, a Democrat, is the former executive director of Futurewise.

lands have economies dependent on our natural resources.”

The 5.6 million acres of DNR-managed stateowned land includes forestlands, agricultural leased lands, commercial lands, and aquatic lands, such as navigable lakes and streams, as well as the underwater earth of the coast and Puget Sound. DNR and the Board of Natural Resources award leases and timber harvest rights on state-owned lands to generate revenue for an array of public benefits, such as K-12 school construction, universities, state Capitol buildings and certain forested counties.

The state is divided into six districts. The Northeast Region includes Pend Oreille, Okanogan, Ferry, Stevens and Spokane counties, as well as the northern half of Lincoln County. The region manages about 567,000 acres of mostly forested and grazing lands and oversees 29,000 acres of conservation lands, including Loomis Conservation Area − DNR’s largest natural area, according to the DNR website. The Northeast Region staff also oversees forest practices and lead wildfire prevention and fighting efforts on 2.5 million acres of state and private forestland. The region administers 27 recreational sites.

Those looking for an answer to the McCleary decision in DNR land management should look elsewhere, Franz iterated.

Trust land revenue, she noted, doesn’t go toward the operating budgets of schools, the budget the McCleary decision is concerned with. Instead, it goes to the capital budget for school construction.

Franz said DNR also regulates and provides wildfire protection on over 8 million acres of private and state-owned land.

One of the greatest challenges and duties facing the DNR, according to Franz, is preventing and fighting forest fires.

The new commissioner said 2.7 million acres of private and state-owned forestlands are in poor health, which makes that land even more susceptible to burning. Her department has the largest on-call fire department in the state, with 1,300 people trained to respond to wildfires.

Franz, who ran as a Democrat in the November election against Steve McLaughlin, received strong support from environmentalists. She is the former executive director of Futurewise, a nonprofit that supports the state’s Growth Management Act, adopted by the Legislature in 1990. The organization had an important role in Whatcom County

v. Hirst suit, where the court found that it is the job of counties, not the Department of Ecology, to determine water availability. That suit was filed when she was executive director at Futurewise.

The department she now leads has little responsibility for overseeing water resources, she says.

Franz won 53 percent of the vote in the November election while losing in all eastern Washington counties, in some cases getting less than half the votes of McLaughlin there.

The new commissioner has ideas about how to diversify land use, such as encouraging DNR land be leased for wind and solar power. She opposes land use for fossil-fuel projects.

Franz has personal ties to farming. She is a thirdgeneration cattle farmer and owns land in Pierce County.

In a recent state Senate Natural Resources and Parks committee meeting, she noted that her family owned “some of the last Ponderosa pine west of the Cascades.”

(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)

School districts facing levy-lid crisis Legislature considers one-year extension

By Grace Swanson WNPA Olympia News Bureau

OLYMPIA – With a 4 percent decrease in next year’s levy lid, Courtney Schrieve, North Thurston Public Schools executive director of public relations, says her district could lose $10 million, which could fund 105 teachers.

Maximum levy percentages are scheduled to drop from 28 percent to 24 percent in the beginning of the 2017 school year this Fall unless the Legislature extends the limit or approves a budget with supportive funding.

According to data from the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI), Kent School District could lose approximately $20 million while Yelm Community Schools could lose $2.2 million in 2018 without the levy limit extension.

Schrieve says North Thurston Public Schools wants the Legis-

lature to focus on funding basic education, but also views the “levy freeze” as a necessary measure.

“It’s kind of a Band Aid for now,” she said, of the levy lid freeze.

The future of the state’s current school tax levy lid remains uncertain after much debate in the Legislature last week.

Minority Senate Democrats on Friday and again on Saturday (Jan. 26 and 27) tried and failed to bring Senate Bill 5023 to the floor without a committee hearing. The bill would freeze the current levy lid at 28 percent until 2019 and thus assure local school districts of necessary funding resources until a new funding plan is adopted within the state budget.

Senate Republicans approved an education budget, SSB 5607, following floor debate Feb. 1 that would defer lowering the levy lid to 24 percent until the 2018 school year and would eliminate voter-approved special levies in 2019. The lid would

drop to 10 percent by 2020. The budget passed with 25 in support and 24 opposed. The bill now faces House consideration. A hearing is scheduled Feb. 6 in the Appropriations Committee.

Democrats seek to address the “levy cliff” issue now instead of waiting for final budget approval.

The House of Representatives, Jan. 23, passed House Bill 1059, which would delay revisions to the levy lid until 2019. To become law, the bill still requires approval by the Senate and the governor.

Shannon McCann, Federal Way Education Association president, said she hoped the Legislature would place more emphasis this session on solving the basic education funding issue.

“I understand the relief that it brings to districts to know the socalled ‘levy cliff’ is pushed back and that helps inform planning,” said

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McCann. So-called “levy cliffs” occur when local levy rates are lowered by the state without providing new revenue resources and school districts are unable to raise the funds to meet basic education levels.

“But at the same time, the students and the families and the educators of our state know the real work that needs to be done immediately is finding a tangible solution,” added McCann, a former special-education teacher.

In the state Supreme Court’s 2012 McCleary decision, the state must come up with a budget this session to fully fund basic education. The court ordered the state to propose a plan to fund basic education by 2018.

Through past decades, local school districts have made up the difference between what the state

has funded for education and the revenue necessary to meet the “basic education” standard.

Districts have done this by asking their voters to approve special property tax levies. According to the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction voters historically have overwhelmingly supported to tax increases for education.

Federal Way School Public Schools have been broadly affected by state underfunding, McCann said. The state funds 70 percent of basic education staffing costs; the remaining $37 million must be raised through local levies. The state provides, for example, only enough funding for 3.5 nurses for approximately 23,000 students in that district.

Larry Delaney, a math teacher from Lakewood High School and president of the Lakewood Education Association south of Tacoma, said the “levy

cliff” would hit rural schools hardest. Smaller districts don’t have the resources to create two or three budgets that would be based on varying levels of state funding and local levies, he noted. He said it’s imperative to extend the current levy rates.

Lakewood School District would raise $1.4 million less in levy funding with a 4 percent levy lid decrease.

Delaney is reminded about the basic educationfunding problem every morning he teaches math.

More than 40 students may enroll in one of his advanced math classes, while math classes with “at risk-students” are limited to 20 students.

“At risk students” have failed many of their math classes. The district maintains advanced students are “more resilient” in larger class sizes than students who struggle with math, he said. With increased state funding,

Levy lid changes buried in pending budget proposals OLYMPIA – Senate Republicans and House Democrats have proposed budget plans to satisfy the Washington Supreme Court’s mandate to fund basic education.

Lowering maximum levy percentages permitted local school districts is part of both proposals.

School districts in Washington State have relied on local levies to fund basic education. With a decrease in the levy lid, which currently sits at 28 percent, districts would rely more on state funding and less, to some extent, on local dollars.

• Republicans propose a plan (SB 5607) that would freeze the levy rate at 28 percent until the beginning of the 2018 school year when the maximum levy percentage would drop to 24 percent. It the district would be able to hire more teachers and wouldn’t need to decide which students can succeed in large classes.

Voter-approved levies, which apply to property taxes, fund a school district’s education expenditures for two to three years.

HB 1059 would delay

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eliminates voter-approved special levies in 2019, then beyond that year it limits voter approved levies to 10 percent of a district’s budget. The bill won Senate approval Feb. 1 on a partisan 25-24 vote. It now goes to the House for consideration, starting with the Appropriations Committee hearing Feb. 6.

• Beginning in 2019, the plan put forth

by Democrats (HB 1843) would reduce the levy lid by one percent from the current levy lid, 28 percent. Each subsequent school year, the levy lid would decrease by one percent until 2021, when the levy lid would remain at 24 percent. The bill, introduced Jan. 31, awaits its first hearing in House Appropriations Committee on Monday, Feb. 6.

the “levy cliff” by one year – through 2018. Current law allows districts to fund 28 percent of their budgets through levy funding, but the levy rate would drop to 24 percent at the start of the 2017 school year.

If levy rates were reduced to 24 percent, the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) estimates that school districts would raise $470 million less in 2018 than in 2017.

Nathan Olson, OSPI communications director, says the agency supports HB 1059 because the Legislature’s work toward a basic education funding solution would assure uninterrupted school district funding.

Some House Republicans opposed the measure during Floor Debate Jan. 23, arguing it would delay the Legislature’s progress toward fulfilling the Supreme Court’s order to fully fund basic education.

“I think it’s conceding defeat that we’re not going to be able to fix this in 105 days, and so it’s the punt of all punts,” said Rep. Drew MacEwen, R-Union in an interview.

MacEwen said he would have voted to keep the current levy rates if the Legislature didn’t reach a

clear solution close to the scheduled end of the session, April 23.

Rep. Sharon Tomiko Santos, D-Seattle, said HB 1059 is an answer to a problem that is separate from the basic education issue. During the floor debate, she argued that the Legislature’s 2018 funding deadline doesn’t align with the timeline school districts have for developing their budgets.

House Democrats also said reduced district budgets would mean the loss of more teachers, which could exacerbate the teacher shortage problem.

“When we’re facing huge teacher shortages we can’t afford to lose some of our very best young teachers,” said Rep. Laurie Dolan, D-Olympia.

SHB 1059 passed the House chamber with 62 in support, 35 opposed, and 1 excused. The Senate Ways and Means committee considered the bill in a public hearing Jan. 30.

(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 Grace Swanson at grace.swanson47@ gmail.com)

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Sponsored by House Majority Leader Mike Moyle, R-Star, House Bill 67 would reduce corporate and the highest individual income tax rates from 7.4 percent to 7.2 percent. The bill would also exempt the first $750 of individual income Idaho residents pay income taxes on.

The House passed the bill, 58-11, after a 50-minute debate.

Republicans argued that the bill would provide muchneeded tax relief to all Idahoans, while Democrats argued the tax cut would be more expensive than advertised and jeopardize the state’s ability to meet funding obligations for public schools and transportation.

“When people and businesses look to settle or bring their business (into a new state), they look at things like taxes,” Moyle said. “One of the first things they look at is the income tax rate.”

Rep. Ilana Rubel, D-Boise, argued against the tax cut.

Between unexpected student enrollment growth that may add $8 million to this year’s education budget and a higher education task force that is just about to get to work, Rubel said the state needs to make sure it can meet its basic obligations before cutting taxes.

“I feel like on education we’ve been out to sea after the recession and we’re finally at the point where we can see land on the horizon,” Rubel said. “This bill proposes we chop up our boat for firewood before we get to shore.”

Moyle argued the choice between cutting taxes or supporting education and teacher pay was a false dilemma.

“Education is still my top priority, and I’m sure it is yours,” Moyle said.

In backing the tax cut, Rep. Ryan Kerby, R-New Plymouth, said it is important for him to remember a campaign promise he made to voters.

“I promised I would try to keep government growing slower than the economy,” Kerby said.

The bill next heads to the Senate for consideration, and is likely to go to the Senate Local Government and Taxation Committee.

Over the past two or three sessions, the Senate has been reluctant to embrace tax cuts, choosing instead to favor investments in public schools and teacher pay.

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enpox. The exclusion is a period of 21 days unless the students receive a varicella (chickenpox) immunization or proof from a medical provider that they have had chickenpox.

If new cases are identified, the exclusion time will be extended. The exclusion dates for different diseases vary because of the difference in the incubation time – the time from exposure until an individual gets sick. According to Anheier, as of Friday, Feb. 3, 17 of the 25 children had returned to school and only eight were still on an exclusion basis.

“At this point, if we don’t have any more cases, those children may return to school Feb. 16,” says Anheier.

Of those 17 that were allowed to return, students had either received the vaccine or were able to prove they had immunity to the varicella virus.

Washington State law requires that children must be immunized before attending a licensed childcare or school. Parents and guardians can meet this requirement by turning in a completed Certificate of Immunization Status. This form confirms that a child has received

all required vaccinations (or that the child already had an illness and is now immune).

If parents or guardians choose to exempt their child from one or more required vaccines, they must fill out the Certificate of Exemption. Exemptions are granted for medical, religious, or philosophical reasons.

By Washington law, during an outbreak of a highly contagious disease, health districts like Northeast Tri-County Health can exclude any child that hasn’t received required vaccinations, or whose legal guardians haven’t filed out proper exemption paperwork from attending school, but NSD Superintendent Dave Smith says he doesn’t want to, “Push that envelope.”

According to NSD immunization/exemption data there are currently 1,109 students enrolled in the district grades kindergarten through 12. Of those students, 673 have been completely immunized in compliance with state regulations, 196 students have vaccination exemptions on file and 240 are out of compliance.

“We want to work with parents and be respectful of their choices,” Smith says. “However, the law is

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Tuesday, Feb. 14 Story Time: 11 a.m. - Ione Library Book Discussion Group: 4-5 p.m. - Ione Library Metaline Falls Town Council: 7 p.m. - Metaline Falls Town Hall

Wednesday, Feb. 15 Story Time: 10:30 a.m. Metalines Library Basic Computer Class: 11 a.m. to Noon - Ione Library, call 509-442-3030 for reservations County Commissioner Kiss Office Hours: 3-6:45 p.m. - Ione Library Weight Watchers: 6 p.m.

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the law, and we trust the health district to act in the best interest of the population.”

According to Sandy Perkins, Community Health Director of Northeast Tri-County Health, exclusion of students is based on their exposure to their diseased child and their vaccination status.

Smith also pointed out the mumps cases that have been identified in neighboring counties are cause for a watchful eye and preparedness from the school district and parents.

As of Feb. 1, there are 349 cases of Mumps identified in Washington State including 123 cases in Spokane County. The Northeast Tri County Health District, which covers Ferry, Pend Oreille, and Stevens Counties, has been working to continue monitoring for mumps cases. Currently, there are two cases of mumps identified in Ferry County, but none have been reported in Pend Oreille County.

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Council member John Redinger said there have been complications with the Ione airport gate not closing due to all of the snow and freezing weather. He said that snow was sufficiently hauled away to allow enough room for the gate to shut.

Kathleen Turpin said the bench design has been approved and benches will be ordered soon, to be placed along Ione’s sidewalks.

Selkirk High School student Elisa King will work with Hutchinson for her school internship.

Mayor Charles Spears announced there are frozen pipes all over town. He recommended the town be diligent in flushing water pipes and letting water trickle from faucets to avoid freezing and corrosion built up in the pipes.

Selkirk School Board announces meetings SELKIRK – The following are Selkirk School Board meetings for the month of February. There will be a special meeting Thursday, Feb. 16 at Selkirk High School Gym. A board work session will be Wednesday, Feb. 22 in the Selkirk Elementary MP Room. The regular board meeting will be Monday, Feb. 27, in the Selkirk HS Music Room.

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The Talk of the Town

Oldtown Mayor Lonnie Orr (left) and local resident Steve Norton taste test samples of chili from nine competitors in the Chili Cook-off at Club Rio Sunday, Feb. 5, while Club Rio employee Cheyenne Watson looks on. The event was held as a community Super Bowl party. First place winner was Jazy Frye, second place was Brandy Hicks, and third place was Peyton Montgomery.

D o w n M e m o ry L a n e 100 YEARS AGO 1917 Millwrights were working on the Phelps mill at Cusick getting ready for operations of the Willis Lumber Co. Plans were being made for a land clearing demonstration to be conducted by experts sent out by the Great Northern Railway.

A commercial organization was organized under the name of Citizens Club of Newport. The club began with 35 members.

90 YEARS AGO 1927 J.A. Wike and O.H. Snow of Cusick appeared before the board of Pend Oreille County commissioners in favor of a petition asking that an election be called on the matter of incorporation of the Town of Cusick.

While walking on the state highway west of Diamond Lake, George Vanderhoff of Newport was followed by a pack of about a dozen coyotes for over a mile. He kept them at bay with chunks of ice picked off from the highway until a car came along and scared the coyotes away.

The Newport rifle team won a victory over the Dalkena team with a score of 292 to 288.

80 YEARS AGO 1937 The President’s birthday ball held in the Newport High School gymnasium was a colorful event, with nearly 300 people in attendance.

An old-age pension was launched in Newport.

The Newport Gun Club

was one of four high clubs in the Spokesman-Review trap shooting tournament.

70 YEARS AGO 1947 Air mail cost only five cents an ounce anywhere in the U.S.A., also to Canada, Mexico, Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Panama Canal and APO and FPO addresses.

The Boy Scouts of America observed the 37th anniversary of the organization.

Republic Pictures Corporation of Hollywood paid $20,000 for the movie rights to a story written

by Barbara Hampton Ellersick of Newport.

60 YEARS AGO 1957 The Metaline Falls school district board accepted the bid of the state of Washington for buying the $128,000 school bond issue at an interest rate of 3.75 percent.

Grass and timothy hay, wire-baled, was advertised for $18 per ton.

Marvin Gregoire sold his Newport Texaco agency to Jerry Geary.

50 YEARS AGO 1967 Cindy Lynn Graham of Cusick brought in the first buttercup of the year Feb. 7 to Owen Grocery and won a big box of chocolates.

Informal notification was received by the Newport Community Hospital that funds in the amount of $113,015 had been granted by the Hill-Harris

advisory council toward building a new longterm unit adjacent to the hospital.

Mrs. Frank Bockemuehl of Newport, long-time worker for the American Cancer Society in the Pend Oreille County Unit, was a delegate to the American Cancer Society’s 1967 National Volunteers Education and Crusade held in Chicago, Ill.

40 YEARS AGO 1977 The restoration of South Skookum Campground located east of Kings Lake above Usk began and the boat launch and area adjacent to the lake would be open to the public the summer of 1977.

The Monk Brothers were pouring a cement floor in their repair shop in Furport.

Idaho Hill School added a new indoor sport to the P.E. classes- a five-week course in bowling

30 YEARS AGO 1987 Newport School Superintendent Dave Smith said the district had about 30 more students than anticipated, with an average of 1,137. That was the most since the high school was built. The previous year’s enrollment was 1,090.

The Priest River Spartans boys basketball team upset Kellogg 65-60.

Kellogg was one of the top ranked teams in the state.

Broomball teams were still needed for the Priest Lake State Park’s annual Snowlymics. Other competitions included

snowball throwing and cross country skiing.

20 YEARS AGO 1997 Priest River Lamanna High School announced it was going to go to change from a seven period school day to six periods, starting the next fall. Each class would be extended seven minutes to 57 minutes.

Construction of the new Newport Southern Baptist Church outside Newport was scheduled to begin the following summer.

The St. Valentines Day Massacre Softball Tournament was set to take place the following weekend no matter the weather.

10 YEARS AGO 2007 President George Bush was proposing salea of U.S. Forest Service land to fund the Secure Rural Schools Program. Some 6,560 acres in Bonner County and about 327 acres in Pend Oreille County was proposed to be sold.

The seventh annual Selkirk Trailblazers snowmobile poker run was set for the weekend, with $1,700 up for grabs.

Two Newport wrestlers, senior Eric Moody at 130 pounds and junior Brad Thew at 285 won their weight classes at the regional meet at Colfax, as more than half Newport’s eight member team qualified for state. Daniel Swain at 112 pounds and Steffen Ellison at 125 pounds qualified with a second place finish.

Grocery credit refund available BOISE – Idaho residents who don’t normally make enough money to file an income tax return can still get a refund of the grocery tax credit for 2016. The tax credit, which offsets the sales tax on groceries, is $100 for most Idaho residents who aren’t required to file an income tax return, plus $100 for each of their dependents. Residents age 65 and older get $20

more.

To qualify for the refund, residents must have lived in Idaho during all of 2016. Dependents born or adopted in 2016 and residents and dependents who were deceased in 2016 qualify for the full credit.

If Idaho residents received federal food stamps, were in jail, or were in the U.S. illegally for part of the year, their

refund will be prorated to exclude the months those conditions applied.

Last year more than 65,000 residents who weren’t required to file a tax return filed for a grocery credit refund.

Residents age 65 and older and their spouses can claim the refund by filing a Form 24, Idaho Grocery Credit Refund.

Residents under the age of 65 should file their

claim on Form 40, Idaho Individual Income Tax Return.

For more information, Idahoans can visit the Tax Commission’s website at tax.idaho.gov (click on “Get a grocery credit refund” in the “Quick Picks” section). Taxpayers can also get help by calling the Tax Commission at (208) 334-7660 in the Boise area or toll-free at (800) 972-7660.

Taxaide program underway NEWPORT – The AARP Taxaide program got underway Feb. 3 at the Hospitality House in Newport, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

“We will be open every Friday until the end of the season,” says Karen Squires, one of the volunteers.

Filing season has been extended until Monday, April 18, because of Washington D.C. celebrating Emancipation Day. Squires says it is important that people bring last year’s tax return whether or not the Taxaide program did the taxes or if they were done by someone else.

“We are starting a news software program and do not have carry foward as we have in the past. Your

last year’s return will give us more information needed to prepare this year’s return.”

People are asked to bring everything needed to complete a return, including social security cards for all members of the household, work-related W-2 forms, retirement 1099s, educational information, childcare and any information for schedule A, to increase standard deduction.

Squires advises people to be aware of any changes for the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This item calls for more paperwork. If individuals have insurance through Medicare, Medicaid, an employer or any insurances which constitutes minimum essential coverage, it’s a

check mark away, Squires says.

“If you have gone through the market place exchange, you will receive a 1095-A in the mail and that form has to be brought with you.

The AARP volunteer tax assistance program offers free help to prepare and e-file federal and state tax returns. Volunteers are trained yearly on new tax laws. Volunteers will also help with a federal return for property tax, even if a person does not have a filing requirement, she says.

“We can help do amended returns if needed, if we have prepared your return at this site,” she says.

From more information call 208597-3237, evenings if possible. If not, leave a message, no text.

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b r i e f ly Results from Metaline Falls Gun Club METALINE FALLS – Sixteen shooters participated in the Metaline Falls Gun Club Shoot Sunday, Feb. 5.

Following are the results: 16-yard: Lisa Enyeart 24, Mike Barton 24, Bill Wade 23, Tony Zaren 23; Ladies 16-yard: Diane Luhr 20, Rhonda McKenzie 9; Youth 16-yard: Brayden Taylor 21, Gavin Stark 12; Handicap: Skip Luhr 24, Keith Enyeart 22, Mike Barton 22; 27-yard: Sam McGeorge 21, Brad Gotham 19, Keith Enyeart 16, Arlie Ward 15; Continentals: Johann Mayrhofer 22, Mike Barton 22, Arlie Ward 19, Brad Gotham 17, Tony Zaren 16

Cusick boys play Columbia ODESSA – The Cusick boys’ basketball team will play Odessa-Harrington in the first round of the Northeast 1B District playoffs Wednesday, Feb. 8, at 6 p.m. Cusick will have their work cut out for them.

Odessa-Harrington is the No. 2 ranked team in the Northeast 1B South conference. They beat Cusick by 10 points when the teams played in a high scoring game in mid-January.

This time the Panthers will be playing without Cameron Cotter, who is out with a broken hand.

Regardless of how the OH game turns out, Cusick will play again Thursday, Feb. 11 in Deer Park.

Bowli ng Wednesday, Feb. 1 Lucky Ladies Team Won Lost Morning Glories 59 21 Country Lane 48 32 Country Lane Sparklers 45 35 Golden Girls 38 42 State Line Girls 33 47 Ballsy Broads 14 18 High scratch game: Kim Rusho 213.

High scratch series: Kim Rusho 563. High handicap game: Kim Rusho 247. High handicap series: Evie Logan 678.

Converted splits: Betty Balison 3-10, Sharon Clark 3-10, Darlene Dinwoodie 5-10.

Wednesday Night Loopers Team Won Lost Club Rio 267 216 Why Try Harder 266 217 McCroskey Defense 257.5 225.5 Woodwise 240 243 OK Lanes 213.5 269.5 Here for the Beer 190 274 High scratch game: Brian Hilliard 257.

High handicap game: Brian Hilliard 269.

High scratch series: Jim Loveridge 630. High handicap series: Jim Loveridge 693. High team scratch game: McCroskey Defense 857. High handicap game: McCroskey Defense 943. High team scratch series: McCroskey Defense 2,378. High handicap series: McCroskey Defense 2,636.

Thursday, Feb. 2 Thursday Niters Team Won Lost Plain Nasty’s 48.5 35.5 Wilkinson Rentals 46 38 Hi-Rollers 44 40 Gutter Gang 41 43 Odds and Ends 40.5 43.5 Enforcers 36 48 High scratch game team: Odds and Ends 6709. High scratch series team: Odds and Ends 2,000. High handicap game team: Odds and Ends 886. High handicap series team: Odds and Ends 2,531. High scratch game: Jim Goss 245, Sara Goss 236. High handicap game: Jim Goss 260, Sara Goss 268. High scratch series: Jim Goss 627, Sara Goss 602. High handicap series: Floyd Degele 694, Sara Goss 698.

Friday, Feb. 3 Friday Night Leftovers Team Won Lost Timber Room 53.5 30.5 EZ-Rider 52.5 35.5 Pooch Parlor 48 40 O.K. Lanes 41 47 Cook’in Turkeys 40.5 47.5 East River Plumbing 39.5 48.5 The No Names 36 44 Party of Four 34 54 High scratch game team: Timber Room 856. High handicap game team: Timber Room 922. High scratch series team: Timber Room 2,498. High handicap series team: Timber Room 2,696. High scratch games: Rob Campbell 248, Jen Hudson 211. High handicap games: Rob Campbell 260, Sharon Reed 246. High scratch series: Jim Hudson 702, Jen Hudson 607. High handicap series: Rob Campbell 702, Jen Hudson 706.

Converted splits: Evie Logan 5-6-10, Mel Logan 2-7, Karen Batsch 5-7.

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Grizzlies roll on to Regionals

By Sophia Aldous Of The Miner

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Priest River’s Karah Fink goes up for a rebound Monday night against Coeur d’Alene Charter.

Priest River won 42-33. It was a play in game to the district tournament.

Lady Spartans win play-in game

By Michelle Nedved Of The Miner

PRIEST RIVER – The Priest River girls basketball team won a play-in game against Coeur d’Alene Charter Monday night, propelling them into the 3A District 1 Tournament.

Priest River beat CDA Charter 42-33. “(It was a) tight ballgame throughout all four quarters,” Spartan coach Gary Stewart said. “(We) pulled away at the end with free throws by Melissa Krampert and Gen Hurd in the last two minutes.”

Krampert made four from the line and Hurd made two.

Avery Summers had a good night for Priest River with 15 points, 15 rebounds and four steals.

The Spartans played Timberlake Tuesday night at North Idaho College, after The Miner went to press.

This was their first district tournament game. Bonners Ferry played Kellogg.

On Thursday, Feb. 9, the two winners of Tuesday’s games play, for the first On Deck: At 3A District 1 Tournament: Thursday, Feb. 9, TBA, North Idaho College

seed to state. The two losers will play for a chance at the second seed to state, with the loser out.

There is a game Friday, between the loser of the championship game on Thursday and the winner of the loserout game.

“This game determines who will be the second seed out of our district tournament to qualify for state,” Stewart said. All games are at North Idaho College. The Spartans finished regular season play last week. They lost to Kellogg Tuesday, Jan. 31, 39-38.

Lady Griz end season with two losses

By Michelle Nedved Of The Miner

NEWPORT – The Newport girls basketball team ended their season in seventh place in the Northeast A League, with losses to Colville Tuesday and Lakeside Thursday. The Griz had been tied for fifth with Colville and Freeman last week.

Newport traveled to Colville Tuesday, and lost by just one point. Newport led 13-8 at the end of the first quarter, and held onto the lead going into the half up 24-22.

They continued to lead through the third, but a 23-point fourth quarter for Colville was too much for Newport. Hallie Cox went three for four at the line down the stretch to steal the game for Colville, who won 58-57.

Jocelin Nenema led Newport with 25 points, the only Grizzly with double-digits. Sydni Lewis scored nine, Julie Schoener scored seven, Madi Hofstee added six and Jalin Earl scored four. Stephanie Huang, Emily Hunt and Sammy Siemsen each scored two.

Newport didn’t lead during their game against Lakeside at home Thursday. Lakeside led 9-8 at the end of first quarter, and Newport trailed 28-21 at the half.

Lakeside outscored Newport 28-12 in the second

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FREEMAN – Newport’s wrestling team is making some serious headway this season with both boys and girls wrestling headed to their own respective regional tournaments this coming weekend (see separate Newport girls’ wrestling story).

Adrian Bojorquez The boys attended the Newport coach District Tournament in Freeman on Friday, Feb. 3 and Saturday, Feb. 4. Nate Allen, 126, and Brady Corkrum, 220, finished third while Lance Knight, 195, took fourth place. Gage Seger, 120, took home a fifth place medal and Jed Cupp, 160, won sixth place. All will move on to Regionals this weekend in Omak.

“We had a pretty good tournament overall,” says Newport coach Adrian Bojorquez. “Every one wrestled their hearts out, but we just were way too over matched at 132, 138, 145,152 and 170 weight divisions. It was very hard to see Christian Loutzenhizer, Colton Malsbury, Tyler Ward, Chris Rivard, Bailey Corkrum and Gus Newman have their season end on Friday and Saturday. They worked very hard all year and gave their hearts and souls to this sport, the team, and to me. I was proud of their effort and attitudes in the face of having season ending losses.”

Allen and Seger ended up wrestling one another last Friday so as to avoid being placed in consolation brackets. Allen got the upper hand on Seger, and then faced a tough opponent from Freeman. Allen wrestled tough, but just couldn’t find a way to capitalize on anything and lost by a pin. His next opponent was from Medical Lake and Allen took care of business, winning by a pin. This advanced him to the round to go for third and fourth. His next opponent was also from Medical Lake.

Allen gave up a quick takedown, but got a reversal and a pin to place third.

Seger’s next match was against a Lakeside opponent, which he won with a pin. Seger then went up against a Medical Lake opponent, which Bojorquez described as, “A war.”

“Gage ended up losing in the first overtime,” Bojorquez says. “Gage took a shot but got stuck underneath the body lock, rolled, and gave up the takedown.”

Seger’s next match was also against Medical Lake.

Both boys wrestled hard, according to Bojorquez, and were evenly matched. This match also went to overtime, but this time Seger was able to finish his shot and score first in order to advance. This earned him a fifth place finish.

Knight won his first match easily by pin. This advanced him to the semi-finals where he ran into a tough opponent from Freeman and Knight lost by points. In his next match he wrestled a Deer Park opponent and won by a pin. In the next match, even though Knight was pinned, he wrestled hard against another Deer Park opponent. Knight had some opportunities to score and possibly change the outcome of the match, but was just unable to get it done. This earned him a 4th place spot.

Corkrum had his first match against a Deer Park opponent.

“Brady was aggressive and wrestled well,” says Bojorquez.

Corkrum earned a pin in this match to advance to the semi-finals. In the next match he faced a Chewelah wrestler. The match was tough and Corkrum couldn’t seem to find any kind of offense. He lost the match, 5-0.

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Audrey Price goes hard to the rim against Colville Tuesday night, Jan. 31.

half for a 56-33 win.

Lakeside finished the season tied for second in league with Chewelah, but had beat the Cougars twice.

Nenema led the Grizzlies again with 11 points. Lewis scored six, Earl, Huang and Audrey

Price each scored four.

Hofstee and Schoener each added two.

Medical Lake leads the NEA, followed by Cheweah and Lakeside, Deer Park, Colville, Freeman, Newport and Riverside.

Playoffs start this week.

Newport Girls Basketball at Northeast A League Districts Priest River Boys Basketball vs. Bonners Ferry: 7:30 p.m. - Bonners Ferry High School

Saturday, Feb. 11 Selkirk Wrestling at District 7/9 Regionals: TBA - Northwest Christian Newport Girls’ Wrestling at Regionals: TBA - Mahluke High School Newport Boys’ Wrestling at Regionals: TBA - Omak Open Gym, Adult Basketball: 7 a.m. - Newport High School Monday, Feb. 13 Priest River Wrestling at District Tournament: TBA Tuesday, Feb.14 Priest River Boys Basketball vs. Kellogg: 7 p.m. - Priest River Lamanna High School

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Aaron Reyes, 182, pinned his Bon-

By Sophia Aldous Of The Miner

COEUR D’ALENE – Priest River Lamanna High School wrestling Coach Jess Hellinger had nothing but praises for his wrestlers at the North Idaho Rumble Team where several Spartans placed in the championship finals.

‘If you love wrestling, come watch the Spartans win it on Senior night.’

Jess Hellinger

Priest River coach

“The Spartans were stunning this last weekend; like cream rising to the top,” says Hellinger. “Our guys are just doing incredible, and I’m so proud of their heart and spirit.”

The team’s overall score was 111.5 out of 14 schools. Noah Jamison and Sammy Hernandez earned first place medals.

At 160-pounds Jamison pinned his Mountain Home opponent with 5:29

On Deck: Vs. Kellogg: Thursday, Feb. 11, 5 p.m.

ners Ferry opponent who was ranked number one.

In the consolation finals Trevor Rusho, 170, was defeated by a Middleton wrestler, 9-2. Josh Coombs, 195, came in second place (opponent not recorded).

At 285-pounds Hernandez pinned his Coeur d’Alene opponent at 2:39.

Coming in fifth place at 113-pounds was Brandon Downs, pinning his Coeur d’Alene opponent at 5:04.

Larry Naccarato put up a hard fight, but lost 4-2 against Kellogg. Riley DeMent, 132, lost to a Coeur d’Alene opponent 5-0.

The Spartans will host the IML Championship against Kellogg Thursday, Feb. 9, 5 p.m. It will also be senior night.

“If you love wrestling, come watch the Spartans win it on senior night,” says Hellinger. “We are representative of our area.”

Courtesy photo|Emma Bradbury

Koa Pancho drives to the basket to score two of his 17 points Tuesday, Jan. 31, in Colville. Newport won 67-43, securing second place in the Northeast A League.

Newport seeded second going into districts

By Don Gronning Of The Miner

NEWPORT – The Grizzly boys basketball team went one and one on the week, beating Colville 6743 on the road Tuesday, Jan. 31, and losing at home 58-47 to Lakeside Thursday, Feb. 2.

The win sewed up second in the Northeast A League for Newport, finishing the regular season with a 10-4 league record, behind Freeman at 14-0.

“This was a huge game for us in the sense that it moved us into the top two in league, which gives us a first-round bye,” Newport coach Jamie Pancho said.

Newport started strong against Colville, with Kade Zorica hitting three 3-pointers in the first quarter to jumpstart the Grizzlies, who got out to a 29-18 first half lead.

“Kade played great all night, but really took charge for us early in the game,” Pancho said.

Newport kept it up in the second half, outscoring Colville by six and seven points in the third

and fourth quarters to get the win.

Zorica finished with 11 points on the night. Newport scoring was led by Owen Leslie, who scored 18. Koa Pancho scored 17.

The Grizzlies forced 23 turnovers, while only giving up eight.

“We committed eight turnovers for the game, and six were in the first half,” Pancho said.

A couple nights later it was a different story at home when Lakeside beat Newport 58-47. Newport beat Lakeside 63-50 when they played earlier this season.

“They are tough kids,” Pancho said of Lakeside.

“We didn’t come to match their mentality in terms of aggressiveness and want.

That made the game difficult for us, as we never seemed to gain traction, especially on the offensive end.”

Lakeside got out to a 15-8 first quarter lead.

Newport made it a contest in the second quarter but gave up another point to trail 27-19 at the half.

The third quarter went better for the Grizzlies.

“Our guys responded

well in the second half, cutting Lakeside’s lead to six points with a minute and a half left,” Pancho said. Newport had a 17-15 fourth quarter but needed more.

Pancho scored 16 for Newport and Robbie On Deck: At NEA District Tournament, West Valley High School: Friday, Feb. 10, 7:30 p.m.

Owen scored 13. Both players also grabbed seven rebounds each.

Newport’s second place regular season finish means the Grizzlies will not have to play in the fist round at NEA District Tournament.

“We still feel like we have better basketball to play, and we are striving for that, but we wanted to lock up second place by beating Colville last week, and we accomplished that goal,” Pancho said.

They’ll start the tournament Friday, Feb. 10, at 7:30 p.m. at West Valley High School in Spokane.

They will play the winner of the Medical LakeChewelah game. Those teams will play Wednesday.

Lady Grizzlies on to Regionals

By Sophia Aldous Of The Miner

WARDEN – Newport High School’s girls wrestling team celebrated their own victories Saturday, Feb. 4, at subregionals in Warden.

Megan Mason placed first in the 190-weight division and Sierra Mason, 170, took third.

Tessa Pillers, 130, will wrestle a pigtail match at Regionals on Saturday, Feb. 11 at Wahluke High School.

Pigtails are an extra bracket used when the regular bracket is full.

Wrestling must win their pigtail match before advancing into the actual tournament.

Megan Mason started the event with a bye, then pinned her Lakeside

opponent in the second period.

She went on to pin an Othello wrestler with 30 seconds left in the second period.

Her finals match was against Eastmont, where she won by a pin with six seconds left in the first period, earning her first place.

Sierra Mason had a bye then wrestled against Eastmont, winning by pin with 59 seconds left in the third period, then lost by a pin with 10 seconds left in second period to Othello.

In her third match she pinned her Warden opponent with 30 left in the third period.

Her final match of the day went to her Liberty opponent in a 4-2 decision, earning Sierra

third place.

Pillers pinned a West Valley Spokane wrestler with 27 seconds left in second period, then lost to her Kinoa-Benton opponent by a pin in the first period.

She beat her Moses Lake opponent with On Deck: At Mattawa: Regionals, Saturday, Feb. 11 (TBD)

59 seconds left in the second period, and then beat a wrestler from Warden by a 6-0 decision.

Her fifth match was against Cashmere and she lost by a 7-4 decision.

The Lady Grizzlies will travel to Mattawa for Regionals Saturday, Feb. 11 at Mahluke High School (TBD).

Selkirk beats Columbia

By Don Gronning Of The Miner

IONE – The Selkirk Rangers boys basketball team got tested Tuesday night, Jan. 31, when they traveled to Inchelium for a game.

“It was a good game,” Selkirk coach Kelly Cain said. The Rangers got the 62-57 win, but not without having to work for it.

“We built a 15-16 point lead in the third On Deck: District playoffs at Deer Park: Saturday, Feb. 11, TBD

quarter, but they came charging back,” Cain said.

“We turned the ball over too much.”

But the Rangers kept playing.

The Rangers outscored Inchelium 15-13 and 21-11 in the first two quarters to lead 36-24 at the half.

It was a close third quarter, with Inchelium outscoring Selkirk 13-12.

The teams battled it out in the fourth quarter.

Inchelium had the lead late in the fourth quarter but Selkirk got the lead back on a basket by Calvin Petrich, a free throw

by Brayden Taylor and a pair of free throws by Jacob Couch.

“We took the lead back with three minutes left,” Cain said.

Couch had a big

‘We took the lead back with three minutes left.’

Kelly Cain

Selkirk coach

game, scoring 23 points and getting 14 rebounds.

Austin Roberson scored 17 points and freshman Ryan Zimmerman scored eight.

Selkirk played Columbia at Selkirk after the newspaper deadline Tuesday.

Win or lose, they will continue on in the double elimination tournament, playing at Deer Park Saturday, Feb. 11.

Spartan boys struggle defensively

By Don Gronning of the miner

PRIEST RIVER – The Priest River Spartans boys basketball team lost two home games, dropping non-league games with North Idaho Christian Thursday, Feb. 2, and a make up game with Genesis Prep Monday, Feb. 6.

Priest River got off to a slow start against North Idaho Christian.

“A slow first half put us down 15 going into halftime,” Spartan coach Kevin Wylie said. “Our inability to get going offensively, along with not getting back on defense caused us to play catch up in the second half.”

The Spartans played an even third quarter, but couldn’t make up any ground in the fourth quarter and lost 57-48.

“In the second half we played better, but our defense still wasn’t getting stops,” Wylie said.

Hunter Hartwig led spartan scoring with 19. Keegan Hegel scored 11 and Anthony Storro scored eight.

‘Anthony (Storro) has been playing really well since he came back from injury.’

Kevin Wylie

Priest River coach

Against Genesis Prep Monday night, Wylie said his offense struggled and the defense wasn’t consistent enough to stop a good, big team. Genesis won 70-40.

“Genesis has a really good program,” Wylie says. “They’re a private school from Post Falls that plays all over.”

They have a couple players that are 6 feet 7 inches and 6 feet 8 inches tall, On Deck: At Bonners Ferry: Friday, Feb. 10, 7:30 p.m.

Vs. Kellogg: Tuesday, Feb. 14, 7 p.m.

he said, and they could shoot from the outside.

“The outside shooting from Genesis Prep opened things up, and we were not able to respond,” Wylie said. “We showed moments of greatness. We now need to play a complete game with confidence and hustle.”

Hartwig led scoring with 15 points.

Storro scored 14, the only other Spartan to score in double figures.

“Anthony has been playing really well since he came back from injury,” Wylie said.

Priest River now has three Intermountain League games left in the regular season.

They will play Bonners Ferry Friday, Feb. 10, at Bonners Ferry and host Kellogg Tuesday, Feb. 14. They will end regular season play with a game with Timberlake Feb. 17.

“We need to win at least one of the next three,” Wylie says to have a good shot at Districts. The Spartans are currently in third place in the fiveteam Intermountain League, with a 3-2 record. Timberlake has 3-1 league record and Kellogg leads the league, with a 4-0 record. Bonners Ferry is in fourth place, with a 1-3 record. Coeur d’Alene Charter is in fifth place, with a 0-5-league record.

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Newport Gun Club results NEWPORT – The Newport Gun Club held their fifth trapshoot of the winter season Sunday, Feb. 5.

Following are the results.

16-yard: Bret Willner 23, Phil Flack 23, Nick Larson 23, Harry Williamson 22, Dale Maki 22, Dan Willner 22, Leland White 22, Brent Livengood 22, Tony Yeaw 22, Adam Collison 22, John Hankey 21, Chris Yeaw 21, Bud Leu 21, Steve Patton 21, Ryan Wiese 21, Jim Rainey 20, Craig Jenkins 20 (from Metaline Falls Gun Club) Youth: Jacob Willner 19, Dalton Mullaley 17, Henry White 17, Parker Jenkins 16 (MFGC), James Wiese 13 Handicap: Bud Leu 23, Chris Yeaw 22, Steve Patton 22, Adam Collison 22, Bret Willner 21, Sean Groom 21, Brent Livengood 21, Jack Clark 21 Doubles: Phil Flack 41, Leland White 39, Nick Larson 34, Bret Willner 34 Continental: Dale Maki 23, Bud Leu 22, Sean Groom 21, Parker Jenkins 21 (MFGC)

Lady Rangers head to districts Courtesy photo|Katie Chantry

Selkirk’s Hunter Carmen got the advantage over Davenport’s Bailey Hunton, beating him 3-1 to win first place at the District Tournament in Davenport Saturday, Feb. 4.

Rangers sweep Districts with four first place medals, move on to Regionals

By Sophia Aldous Of The Miner

DAVENPORT – The Selkirk High School wrestling team had plenty to celebrate, winning four first place medals at District tournament in Davenport Saturday, Feb. 4. First place winners were Ryan Issakides, Tristan Chantry, Hunter Carman, and Wyatt Stoddard. Also, Selkirk assistant coach Tim Rood was chosen as Coach of the Year.

According to Selkirk head coach Keith Saxe, the Rangers only had one wrestler lose at Districts and two others will go on as alternates this weekend at Northwest Christian in Colbert.

“I couldn’t be more excited for this weekend.

We wrestle and practice for these last three weekends,” says Saxe. “Cardio is number one right now (in our training) and I hope we will take them all to state.”

The Rangers will travel to Northwest Christian in Colbert for Regional Wrestling Saturday, Feb. 11, 11 a.m.

Courtesy photo|Katie Chantry

Tristan Chantry is hoisted on the shoulders of his teammate after winning two matches against Wilbur Keller Crestline (WKC) opponents.

Northeast A League L 1 7 7 9 11 11 15 19

W 16 10 9 8 6 6

L 4 9 10 11 13 14

W 12 8 6 4

L 2 5 9 9

Northeast 1B League

Team Selkirk Inchelium Cusick Republic Curlew Northport

League Overall W L 12 3 9 6 9 6 6 9 5 10 3 12

League Overall Team W L Kellogg 4 0 Timberlake 3 1 Priest River 3 2 Bonners Ferry 1 3 Coeur d’Alene Charter

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IONE – The Selkirk girls basketball team finished Northeast 1B North League play in second place and ranked ninth in the state. They beat No. 4 Inchelium in overtime Tuesday, Jan. 31, 43-39.

They began district play Tuesday, after The Miner went to press.

They hosted Northeast 1B South No. 4 Wellpinit at 6 p.m. Win or lose, they continue on to play Saturday, Feb. 11 at Deer Park.

Selkirk led 8-5 at the end of the first quarter against Inchelium.

Inchelium rallied in the second, though, and led 19-15 at the half. Selkirk tied it up with 11 points in the fourth, and both teams scored eight in the fourth to take it to OT. Selkirk dominated the extra period, outscoring Inchelium 9-5 for the win.

Jenna Couch led the Rangers with 22 points.

Gabi Rick scored 11 points, Whitney Dawson and Ellen Huttle each scored four and Bree Dawson scored two.

USK – All boys and girls age 9-14 are invited to participate in the local level of competition for the 2017 Knights of Columbus Basketball Free Throw Championship. The local competition will be Saturday, Feb. 11, at 11 a.m. at the Camas Center for Community Wellness in Usk. The basketball contest is sponsored annually, with winners progressing through local, district and state competitions. All boys and girls will compete in their respective age division. All winners will be awarded medals.

All contestants will be recognized for their participation in the event. Participants are required to furnish proof of age and written parental consent.

For additional information or entry forms, contact Ed. Zupich at 509-447-3943. There is no cost for this event.

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League Overall Team W L Freeman 14 0 Newport 10 4 Medical Lake 9 5 Lakeside (WA) 9 5 Deer Park 7 7 Chewelah 4 10 Colville 3 11 Riverside 0 14

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Tuesday, Jan. 31 Newport 67 Colville 43 Newport (13-7, 10-4) 12 17 21 17 67 Colville (5-15, 3-11) 8 10 15 10 43 Newport: Zorica 11, Smith 7, Pancho 17, Ownbey 0, Hastings 0, Moorhead 3, Owen 3, Leslie 18, Bradbury 8.

Colville: Cisneros 9, Sandaine 10, Cunningham 0, Sandaine 2, Benson 6, Lembcke 8, Maddox 5, Floener 0, Say 3.

Selkirk 62 Inchelium 57 Selkirk (16-4, 12-3) 15 21 12 14 62 Inchelium (10-9, 9-6) 13 11 13 20 57 Selkirk: Fristad 2, Couch 23, Robertson 17, B.Taylor 1, Avey 7, Zimmerman 8, Issakideas 0, Petrich 4, Huttle 0.

Inchelium: Seymour 11, Flett 0, Holford 3, Segerser 5, Finley 14, Erickson 9, Andrews 9, Stensgar 2, Christianson 4.

Thursday, Feb. 2 Lakeside 58 Newport 47 Lakeside (WA) (11-9, 9-5)

15 12 16 15 58 Newport (13-7, 10-4) 8 11 11 17 47 Lakeside (WA): Gifford 13, Baerwald 15, Holmes 6, Cox 16, Smith 3, Harrington 0, J.Meyer 0, H.Meyer 5.

Newport: Zorica 0, Smith 6, Pancho 16, Ownbey 0, Hastings 0, Moorhead 0, Owen 13, Leslie 4, Bradbury 8.

North Idaho Christian 57 Priest River 48 Priest River 12 7 11 18-48 NIC 19 15 11 12-57 PR stats: Storro-8, Hegel-11, R. Anselmo-1, T. Anselmo-0, Hartwig-19, Haggerty-0, Luckey-9, McCracken-0

Monday, Feb. 6 Genesis Prep 70 Priest River 40 Priest River 6 13 7 14-40 Geesis Prep 11 20 19 20-70 PR: Storro 14, Hegel 7, R. Anselmo 0, T. Anselmo 2, Hartwig 15, Haggerty 2, Luckey 0, McCracken 0 G Prep: Shelton 5, J Williams 13, Schrdeder 7, Hillman 24, Schultz 2, Mandi 12, Gonzalez 7

GIRLS BASKETBALL Northeast A League

League Overall Team W L Medical Lake 14 0 Chewelah 10 4 Lakeside (WA) 10 4 Deer Park 6 8 Colville 5 9 Freeman 5 9 Newport 4 10 Riverside 2 12

W 18 14 13 9 6 6 5 4

L 2 5 7 11 14 14 15 17

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Team Republic Selkirk

League Overall W L W L 16 0 19 1 12 3 17 3

Curlew Inchelium Northport Cusick

8 7 3 2

8 8 13 12

10 9 4 2

9 9 16 14

W 18 8 10 5

L 2 8 9 13

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League Overall Team W L Timberlake 8 0 Bonners Ferry 5 3 Kellogg 5 3 Priest River 1 7 Coeur d’Alene Charter

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Tuesday, Jan. 31 Newport (5-15, 4-10) 13 11 15 18 -57 Colville (6-14, 5-9) 8 14 13 23 -58 Scoring: Newport - Earl 4, Hofstee 6, Huang 2, Hunt 2, Lewis 9, Nenema 25, Price 0, Schoener 7, Siemsen 2.

Colville - Brooks 0, Han. Hartman 0, Cox 9, Hay. Hartman 22, Fisk 6, Noetzelman 2, Merritt 0, Petrey 8, Holland 0, Broden 0, Cox 11, Clark 0.

Selkirk 43 Inchelium 30 Selkirk (17-3, 12-3) 8 7 11 8 9 43 Inchelium (9-9, 7-8) 5 14 7 8 5 39 Selkirk: Chantry 0, Couch 22, Dawson 2, Dawson 4, Engquist 0, Huttle 4, Lyons 0, Marshall 0, Petrich 0, Rick 11, Rood 0, Emerson 0.

Inchelium: Desautel 19, Erickson 0, Ferguson 0, Finley 0, Finley 3, Heth 13, Kohler 0, Lelone 2, Swan 2, C.Simpson 0, Boyd 0, A.Simpson 0.

Thursday, Feb. 2 Lakeside (WA) (13-7, 10-4)

9 19 17 11 -56 Newport (5-15, 4-10) 8 13 4 8 -33 Scoring: Lakeside (WA) - Gay 0, Jensen 11, Mahowald 6, Mahowald 1, Marikis 8, Mikkelsen 6, Mikkelsen 0, Mitchell 2, Morrison 0, Padayao 0, Smith 1, Swannack 21, Thomas 0. Newport - Earl 4, Hamberg 0, Hofstee 2, Huang 4, Hunt 0, Lewis 6, Nenema 11, Potter 0, Price 4, Schoener 2, Siemsen 0, Malcolm 0.

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opponents (Lakeside and Colville).

This earned him a third place finish.

Cupp had a tough second day the districts.

On Friday, Cupp lost to his Riverside opponent in his first match.

In the next match Cupp took care of business against a Deer Park wrestler with a pin and advanced to face another Deer Park opponent.

“Jed wrestled hard, but just couldn’t get going in this match and ended up losing,” says Bojorquez.

In the next match Cupp wrestled a tough Medical Lake opponent, taking a tough loss by pin.

This earned Cupp a sixth place finish, meaning he will go on to regionals as an alternate.

“I am excite and nerOn Deck: At Omak: Regional Tournament, Saturday, Feb. 11 (TBD)

vous for the next event,” Bojorquez says. “All of our boys will have to wrestle tough and some of them above what they have been, in order to move on to state. We will get all the hard work done this week in order to be successful in Omak this weekend.”

The Grizzlies will travel to Omak for Regional Tournament Saturday, Feb. 11 (TBD).

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b r i e f ly Free books at Cusick science discussion CUSICK – “Pushing the Limits,” a free reading, viewing and science discussion series with Carol Mack will discuss the book Arctic Drift by Clive Cussler at the Feb. 25 event, which will be held at the Calisel Valley Library in Cusick at 10 a.m.

There will be free copies of the book available.

The Pushing the Limits programs are for adults in communities served by rural libraries, funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

Sweetheart bingo Friday PRIEST RIVER-The annual Sweetheart bingo fundraiser is Friday, Feb. 10, at 6 p.m. at the Priest River Senior Center. It is $10 for 10 games with the last game a blackout worth $100. The rest of the prizes are goodies made by the distinguished young ladies. There are refreshments and door prizes too. Priest River Distinguished Young Women Scholarship Program sponsors it with proceeds going towards the program.

Northwoods choir welcomes new singers NEWPORT – Northwoods Performing Arts (NPA) is looking for more people to join its choir. No singing experience is necessary and anyone that is interested can participate.

For more information, call NPA Director Mark Caldwell at 208.448.1294.

Kersting earns masters degree NEWPORT – Kaileen Elizabeth Kersting graduated from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., Dec. 18. She earned her Master of Social Work (MSW) degree and certifications in geriatrics and management of human services. She is now working at Hospice of Spokane. Kersting graduated from Newport High School in 2011.

Actors needed for “Legally Blonde, The Musical” NEWPORT - Auditions for “Legally Blonde, The Musical” are Monday, March 27, and Monday, April 3, at 6:30 p.m. at the Pend Oreille Playhouse.

Auditions are open to ages 14 and up.

Based on the 2001 film of the same name, “Legally Blonde, The musical” revolves around Elle Woods, a sorority girl who enrolls at Harvard Law School to win back her exboyfriend, Warner, after he dumps her for “Not being serious enough.”

Throughout the show, the people around her underestimate Elle, dismissing her as a dumb blonde except for her friends, spunky salon owner Paulette, and teaching assistant Emmet. However, Woods is more than what she seems.

Performances are June 16-25. Rehearsals begin April 10 - Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 6:30 p.m.

- 9:30 p.m.

For more information, contact the playhouse at 509-447-9900.

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When a staged wedding is a wonderful thing Ilea Elam (Wilson) and Benton Elam celebrated their wedding at Circle Moon Theatre near Sacheen Lake Thursday, Feb. 2, exchanging vows on stage and performing a sand ceremony in front of a small group of friends and family. The couple resides in the Newport area. Ilea works at Mount Spokane insurance and Benton is a general contractor.

Relay for Life kick off Feb. 23 OLDTOWN- The 12th annual Pend Oreille Valley Relay for Life will kick off 2017 with a Feb. 23 open house, 6 p.m., at Oldtown Rotary Park.

If interested in helping the American Cancer Society (ACS) in

the fight against cancer, honoring and celebrating survivors as well as remembering those lost to the disease, come and see what Relay is all about.

Relay for Life is Aug. 11 and 12 at Newport High School.

This year’s theme is “Cancer doesn’t take a vacation.” For more information see relayforlife.org/ pendoreillevalleywa or facebook. com/pendoreillevalleyrfl. Call Terri at 208-448-1949 or the ACS at 1-800-227-2345.

COLVILLE - It’s that time of the year when the Panorama Gem and Mineral Club from Arden will hold the annual Gem and Mineral Show at the Ag. Trade Center in Colville, on Friday, March 17, and Saturday, March 18.

The show is free and open to the public and the theme this year is “Rock My World” and will feature gems and minerals from around the world, gold panning, jewelry, Wheel of Fortune, silent auctions, door prizes, fossils, and the popular back light tunnel where many of the minerals glow under black lights.

Donated money raised from the rock show is used to help graduating seniors from Kettle Falls, Colville, and Chewelah.

Each school has one graduating senior awarded a scholarship based on academic excellence, career commitment and the desire to go to college. In 2016 the club awarded a $1000 scholarship to a senior from each school.

we e k ah ead 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 509-4470775.

Newport TOPS: 8:30 a.m. Hospitality House Fiber Arts Knitting and Spinning Group: 9 a.m. Create Arts Center, Newport

p.m. - Pend Oreille Mennonite Church

Quilting Group: 10 a.m. Blanchard Inn

Rotary Club: 7:15 a.m. Oldtown Rotary Park

Alcoholics Anonymous: 7 p.m. - Blanchard Community Church

River Arts Alliance: 10 a.m - Various sites

Overeaters Anonymous: 8 a.m. - Pineridge Community Church, 1428 W. First St., Newport, use front entrance.

Contact Barb at 509-4470775.

Friday, Feb. 10 Books Out Back: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. - Priest River Library Happy Agers Meeting and Potluck: Noon - Priest River Senior Center Story Time: 3 p.m. - Newport Library

Story Time: 10:30 a.m. Blanchard Library

Dance Classes: 5:30-6:30 p.m. - Create Arts Center, Newport

Story Time - Calispel Valley Library, Cusick: 11 a.m. - Calispel Valley Library, Cusick

Alcoholics Anonymous Open Meeting: 7 p.m. - St. Catherine’s Catholic Church

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 208-665-5921 for sites

Thursday, Feb. 9 BASIC Meeting: 10 a.m. Blanchard Community Center 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

Al-Anon: 7-8 p.m. - Priest River, 119 Main St., Suite 204, Room 16, call Jan 208-9466131 Friday Night Live: 7 p.m. Hospitality House, Newport

Saturday, Feb. 11 Books out Back: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. - Priest River Library Kids Movie Club: 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. - Newport Library Happy Agers Card Party: 1 p.m. - Priest River Senior Center AA Meeting: 5 p.m. - Cornerstone Building, Selkirk Way, Oldtown

Sunday, Feb. 12 Newport Youth: 4 p.m. Sadie Halstead Middle School Alcoholics Anonymous: 7 p.m. - Hospitality House, Newport

Monday, Feb. 13 Evergreen Art Association: 10 a.m. - Create Arts Center Hospitality House Senior Potluck: Noon Newport Blanchard Grange Meeting: 5:30 p.m. Blanchard Grange

Loosely Knit: 1-3 p.m. - Calispel Valley Library, Cusick

6:00 PM to 7:00 PM Habitat for Humanity: 6 p.m. - Sandifur Room, Newport Hospital

Priest River Food Bank Open: 3-5:45 p.m. - Priest River Senior Center

Priest River Lions: 6:30 p.m. - Priest River Senior Center

Family Movie Night: 5:308 p.m. - Newport Library

Alcoholics Anonymous: 7 p.m. - Blanchard Community Church

Pinochle: 6 p.m. - Hospitality House in Newport

Tuesday, Feb. 14

Celebrate Recovery: 6 p.m. - 301 E. Third St. N., Oldtown

Priest River Food Bank Open: 9-11:45 a.m. - Priest River Senior Center

Pend Oreille Kids Club: 6

Blanchard Stitchers

Writers Group: 2 p.m. Create Arts Center Weight Watchers: 5:30-6 p.m. Weigh in and 6 p.m. meeting – Pineridge Community Church, 1428 W. First St., Newport Love and Logic Parenting Class: 6 p.m. – Priest River Elementary School Alcoholics Anonymous: 7 p.m. - St. Anthony’s Church Spirit Lake Lodge No. 57: 8 p.m. - Spirit Lake

Wednesday, Feb. 15

Newport TOPS: 8:30 a.m. Hospitality House Fiber Arts Knitting and Spinning Group: 9 a.m. Create Arts Center, Newport Master Chef Cooking Series: 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. - Blanchard Community Center Story Time: 10:30 a.m. Blanchard Library Story Time - Calispel

Valley Library, Cusick: 11 a.m. - Calispel Valley Library, Cusick PM Al-Anon: Noon - American Lutheran Church Pinochle: 1 p.m. - Priest River Senior Center Alcoholics Anonymous: 5:45 p.m. - Hospitality House, Newport Veterans of Foreign Wars Post/Auxiliary: 6 p.m. - Priest River VFW Priest River Animal Rescue: 6 p.m. - 1710 9th St., Priest River York Rite of Freemasonry: 6:30 p.m. - Spirit Lake Temple

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.

BAHÁ’Í FAITH OF NEWPORT

“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

Sun. ~ 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.

“Jesus Youth Church” Youth Group Wednesday 6:30 p.m.

Jeff & Robie Ecklund, Pastors • 437-2032 www.houseofthelordchurch.com

REAL LIFE NEWPORT

“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

NEWPORT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

“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

AMERICAN LUTHERAN CHURCH E.L.C.A.

332801 Hwy. 2, P.O. Box 653, Newport Pastors Matt & Janine Goodrich Worship Service 10 a.m.

(509) 447-4338

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o b it u a r i e s James Arthur Zubaugh Newport

“Jim,” James Arthur Zubaugh, went to be with his Lord and Savior on Jan. 31, 2017 from cancer. Jim had famZubaugh ily with him when he peacefully left this life. He was 74 years old and just short of his next birthday on Feb. 6, 1942. He was born in Akron, Ohio. He had one brother, Bob. His family moved from Ohio to California when he was a teenager. He graduated from high school at Chula Vista, a suburb of San Diego.

That’s where he also met his first wife, Beverly Holsclaw while they were both teenagers.

They were married in 1962. Jim and Bev and their three children moved from San Diego to the Newport area in 1974.

They had ten acres with a small A-frame shed up on Baker Lake Road, which they called home until the weather turned cold, and then they moved into Newport. They were married for 20 years.

Jim and his second wife, Doreen (Irish) O’Keefe spent 30 years together in Newport.

He was very proud of his three children, 14 grandchildren, and 16 great grandchildren. Jim is survived by his son Brian and Lesa Zubaugh, son Lance and Jennie Zubaugh, and daughter Sherry and Daryl Warner. He is survived by 14 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren, as well as his brother Bob (Sherryl) Zubaugh.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Walter and Marrion Zubaugh.

Jim loved gardening and was known to produce some fantastic vegetables.

He also loved to go fishing and camping with his family. He was a dog lover and had them as his companions. His favorite dog was named Shadow. Jim would often say, “Me and my shadow.”

Jim’s love for the Lord was known to all who knew him. He was a founding member of the House of the Lord, active in the Church of Faith, and Real Life Ministries. He had friendships with many in other churches in the Newport community.

A Celebration of Life memorial service will be held on Saturday, Feb. 11, at 10:30 a.m. at the Church of Faith, 36245 Highway 41, Oldtown, ID 83822. Pastor Jack Jones will be officiating at the service. There will be a luncheon served at the end of the service.

We know Jim is enjoying running, and leaping, and praising God with those that have gone on before him.

Sherman-Knapp Funeral Home in Newport is in charge of arrangements.

Family and friends are

invited to sign the online guest book at shermanknapp.com.

Iona Trotter Priest River

Iona Rose Trotter passed away on Feb. 1, 2017, at the age of 86. She left behind her loving husband of 50-years, Don Trotter.

Iona was born April 2, 1931 in a little mining town in South Dakota. She was the seventh child in a family of 11 kids.

Iona was preceded in death by two older sisters, Madeline Meyers and Vivian Griggs, both of Longview, Wash., and three brothers, Paul Fox, Durley Fox, and Eugene Fox, all of Longview.

She left behind five siblings: Her older sister Elizabeth Kristler in South Dakota; three younger sisters, Delores Burton, Caroline Hugarh, both of Longview, Wash., Charlene Randolph of Priest River, and her younger brother, Michael Fox of Longview, Wash. Iona was a loving mother and left behind seven children: Tony, George, Randy, Gary, Carrie, and Sherrie. She will also be greatly missed by her 11 grandchildren, nine great grandchildren and one great-great granddaughter. Iona was a hard worker and was always friendly and welcoming to everybody. She adored all of her family and will be greatly missed by everybody who had the pleasure of knowing her.

A celebration of life will be held at a later date.

Marjorie Lois Freeman Lunden Marjorie Lois Freeman Lunden “Lois” was born Feb. 18, 1932, in St. John, Wash. She entered into rest Jan. 25, 2017. She was 84. Lois was the youngest child of Roy and Marjorie Freeman.

She is preceded in death by her brothers: Harold J. (Ted), his wife Cleona; and L. Joseph (Joe). She is also predeceased by her sister, Dorothy E. Donaldson, and her husband, Norman.

Lois graduated from St. John High School, Class of 1950. She also graduated from Eastern Washington State College (now Eastern Washington University) with a degree in Home Economics in 1954. She taught school in Ione and Harrington, Wash.

On June 16, 1957, Lois married George L. Lunden of Ione. She is survived by her husband, George, at their home in Newport; their son, Eric R., of Cowiche, Wash.; and their daughter Karen J. and her husband Frank Lewis and her two beautiful, intelligent granddaughters Kristin M. Lewis and Katharine M. Lewis, all of Yorktown, Va. Lois is also survived by her sister-in-law, Camille Freeman, of St John, Wash.

Lois was an accomplished seamstress, and she enjoyed knitting, crocheting, and other crafts. Her

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candy and cookies were always favorites with many people. She was a member of Soroptimist International, PEO, United Church of Christ, and active with the Newport Chapter of the Inland Northwest Blood

Bank.

Donations in Lois’s memory may be made to: American Diabetes Society, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, United Church of Christ Newport, or consider donating a pint to the

Blood Bank.

A Celebration of Lois’s life will be held Feb. 18, at 11a.m. in the United Church of Christ in Newport, at 430 W. Third Street.

Sherman-Knapp Funeral

Home in Newport is in charge of arrangements.

Family and friends are invited to sign the online guest book at shermanknapp.com.

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p o li c e r e p o r t s 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.

VEHICLE PROWL: W. 6th

TRAFFIC HAZARD: Hwy. 2, report of metal lawn chair in roadway.

ARREST: S. Garden Ave., Newport, Kerri E. Westlie, 46, Newport, arrested for probation violation.

ARREST: Hwy. 31, Stephen D. Day, 24, of Ione was arrested for driving under the influence.

ACCIDENT: River Rd., Usk, report of two vehicles, noninjury accident.

DISABLED VEHICLE: Hwy. 2, report of car on the side of Hwy. 2 with hazard lights on.

MISSING PERSON: Scotia Rd., Newport, report that male left and has not returned since Sunday morning.

MALICIOUS MISCHIEF: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights, report of suspect arrested for property damage.

ASSAULT: S. Washington Ave., Newport, report that a person was hit intentionally by subject’s car.

ERRATIC DRIVER: Hwy. 2, report of silver/grey Ford F150 swerving in the lane.

Pend Oreille County

Monday, Jan. 30

Wednesday, Feb. 1

SUDSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: N. Newport Ave., report of front doors to business that are open.

ARREST: S. Washington Ave., Newport, David C. Porter, 36, Newport was arrested on two counts of failure to appear and one count of unlawful possession of illegal drug.

ARREST: S. Garden Ave., Johna M. Pack, 23, Newport, was arrested on a local warrant.

MISSING PERSON: Deer Valley Rd., report of daughter that has been missing for two days, no one has had contact with her.

ANIMAL PROBLEM: Willms Rd., complainant reports issue with neighbor’s dog coming onto complainant’s property and he has photos.

SUSPICIOUS PERSON: S. Scott Ave., Newport, report of male in grey sweatshirt, jeans, yelling and screaming at himself and stumbling around.

DRUGS-MARIJUANA: Monumental Way, report of confiscating a pipe and pot from a juvenile male.

ABANDONED VEHICLE: Woodman Rd., Newport, report of vehicle blocking SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE: Northshore Diamond Lake, report of Dodge Caravan with black left front fender with two males inside, drove by then parked, seems suspicious to complainant.

TRAFFIC HAZARD: Winchester Street, Cusick, report of black Toyota Camry parked on street making it a one lane road and hard for the buses to get through.

THREATENING: Bead Lake Rd., Newport, caller reports she was verbally threatened when she talked to homeowner about gas smell.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: Hwy. 2, out with Ford Explorer with flashers on.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: Hwy.2, report of two people in their early 20s driving older Ford Explorer, went to front of business after owner closed.

MALICIOUS MISCHIEF: McCloud Creek Rd., report of someone that attempted to pry door open either last night or today.

CIVIL: 2nd Ave., complainant is concerned that his brother is mistreating their father.

Tuesday, Jan. 31 ANIMAL PROBLEM: LeClerc Rd. S. & Indian Creek, report of injured deer needs dispatched.

7th St., report of husband that came and took vehicle from parking lot.

BURGLARY: River Rd., report of food bank broken into in the last few days, locks cut and about 200-lbs of food taken.

SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE: S. 8th Ave., report of unoccupied car parked partially in the alley and the parking lot.

ARREST: S. Washington Ave., Newport, James R. Wilson, 24, Cusick, arrested for probation violation.

ARREST: S. Garden Ave., Newport, Misty L. Patterson, 36, Athol, remanded from court.

ARREST: S. Garden Ave., Newport, Terrance M. Annis, 49, Spokane, arrested on a felony out of county warrant.

THEFT: Blackwell St., report of bike stolen 10 minutes ago.

ACCIDENT: Hwy. 20, report of vehicle versus deer.

Friday, Feb. 3 DISORDERLY: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights, out with a couple disorderly subjects.

TRAFFIC HAZARD: Larsen Blvd., Metaline Falls, report of utility trailer blocking the road, unable to sand and plow.

ANIMAL PROBLEM: Camden Rd., Newport, report of five horses out on the roadway eating hay.

ATTEMPT TO LOCATE: Camden Rd., Newport, report of attempt to locate wanted subject.

ANIMAL PROBLEM: Northshore Diamond Lake, report of a dog found shot.

TRAFFIC HAZARD: Quail Loop, Newport, report of white 4-door car parked in the middle of the road for about 10 minutes and no one is in vehicle or around it.

ACCIDENT: LeClerc Rd. S., report of slide off.

ACCIDENT: Hwy. 211 and Veit Rd., report of two-vehicle accident, non-blocking.

ARREST: Diamond Drive, Newport, Skyler F. Nelson, 23, Newport, arrested for domestic violence assault.

ANIMAL PROBLEM: Quail Loop, Newport, report of dog at this address barking for hours.

TRAFFIC HAZARD: Hwy. 20, report of tree over roadway blocking southbound lane.

TRAFFIC HAZARD: Calicoma Rd. and Westside Calispel Rd., report of tree completely blocking roadway.

West Bonner County

Monday, Jan. 30 SUSPICIOUS PERSON/CIRCUMSTANCES: Lakeshore Rd., Priest Lake

Tuesday, Jan. 31 SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE: Shady Lane, Priest River TRAFFIC HAZARD: Spirit Lake Cutoff and Hwy. 41, Spirit Lake

SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE: E. Wisconsin Ave., report of a subject sitting in vehicle for a long time.

HUNTING AND FISHING VIOLATIONS: LeClerc Rd., Oldtown

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: Vista Drive, Newport, report of a suspicious person in the neighborhood.

ACCIDENT, HIT AND RUN: Rogstad Powerline Rd., Blanchard

ASSAULT: W. 8th St., Usk, report of a subject being assaulted.

BUSINESS/RESIDENTIAL ALARM: Stoneridge Rd., Blanchard

THEFT: Sullivan Lake Rd., report of subjects stealing wood.

Wednesday, Feb. 1

TRAFFIC HAZARD: LeClerc Rd. N., report that logging company is blocking one lane of road.

DISABLED VEHICLE: Camden Rd., report of a minivan blocking the road.

ANIMAL PROBLEM: Eastside Rd., Priest River

ARREST: S. Garden Ave., Newport, Tony A. Lambert, 44, Oldtown, was arrested on a local warrant.

Saturday, Feb. 4

FELONY WARRANT ARREST: Hwy. 2, Oldtown, Tony A. Lambert, 43, Oldtown, was arrested on a felony warrant.

ANIMAL NOISE: W. 1st St., report on going problem with dog barking in area.

SUSPICIOUS PERSON: W. Hwy. 2 NOISE COMPLAINT: W. 6th Ave., report of noise complaint.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PHYSICAL: Deer Valley Rd., report of complainant’s mother being grabbed while on the phone.

Thursday, Feb. 2 SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: S. Fea Ave., complainant believes neighbor was trying to break into his house SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: Deer Valley Rd., report that sometime last night complainant thinks her car was taken ANIMAL CRUELTY: Westside Calispel, report of dogs at this location barking all the time and have no shelter.

ACCIDENT: W. Walnut St., report of vehicle backed into complainant in the parking lot THEFT OF AUTOMOBILE: S. Washington Ave., complainant’s 1990 Honda Accord was reportedly taken.

VIOLATION OF ORDER: W.

AGENCY ASSIST: Hwy. 2, assisting Department of Transportation with removal of vehicle parked on highway.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: W. 8th St., report of complainant’s gate plowed in.

AGENCY ASSIST: Hwy. 211, assist WSP with non-injury rollover accident.

UNATTENDED DEATH: Hwy. 2, Oldtown

Thursday, Feb. 2 NON-INJURY ACCIDENT: Hwy. 57, Priest River ANIMAL PROBLEM: Pinehaven Rd., Spirit Lake

DISABLED VEHICLE: LeClerc Rd. N., report of white truck partially blocking lane.

TRAFFIC OFFENSE: W. Larch St. ARREST: Hwy. 31, Brian Keith Eubank, 41, Ione, was arrested for driving under the influence.

ARREST: Benjamin A. Hankins, 31, Colville, was arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia and trespassing in the 2nd degree.

Sunday, Feb. 5 ATTEMPT TO LOCATE: Hwy. 211, report of wanted subject walking northbound from store.

ARREST: Highway 211, Spain T. Welch, 40, Newport, was arrested on local warrants and DOC warrant, after a report of a male with warrant in a store wearing green flannel and a hood was called in.

ARREST: Memory Lane, Oldtown, Clayton Newman, 25, Oldtown, was arrested for domestic battery pursuant to an altercation taking place at his resident.

Friday, Feb. 3 CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE: Hwy. 2, Priest River

Saturday, Feb. 4 ARREST: Old Priest River Rd. and Hoo Doo Loop, Oldtown, Steven Zirjacks, 58, Oldtown, was arrested on a Bonner County warrant.

Sunday, Feb. 5 UNATTENDED DEATH: Old Priest River Road, Priest River RECKLESS DRIVING: Hwy. 2, Priest River DISORDERLY CONDUCT: Spirit Lake Cutoff, Spirit Lake

p u b li c m e e ti n g s 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 West Bonner Water and Sewer District: 6:30 p.m. - Oldtown City Hall Bonner County Democrats: 6:30-8 p.m. - Panhandle Health, 322 Marion St., Sandpoint Metaline Town Council: 7 p.m. Metaline Town Hall

Thursday, Feb. 9 Monday, February 13 Pend Oreille County Commissioners: 9 a.m. - Pend Oreille County Courthouse Pend Oreille Fire District No. 2: 10 a.m. - Fire Station 23, 390442 Highway 20, Ione Oldtown Urban Renewal District

Board: 5:30 p.m. - Oldtown City Hall, as needed Pend Oreille Fire District No. 6: 6 p.m. - Furport Fire Hall, 7572 LeClerc Road

Pend Oreille County Planning Commission Hearings: 6 p.m. - Cusick Community Center West Bonner Library Board: 7 p.m. - Priest River Library

Cusick Town Council: 6 p.m. - Cusick Community Center

Metaline Falls Town Council: 7 p.m. - Metaline Falls Town Hall

Oldtown City Council: 6:30 p.m. Oldtown City Hall

Laclede Water District: 7:30 p.m. Laclede Community Hall

Tuesday, Feb. 14

Wednesday, Feb. 15

Bonner County Commissioners: 8:45 a.m. - Bonner County Administrative Building

Pend Oreille Economic Development Council: 8:30 a.m. – Cusick Community Center

Port of Pend Oreille Commissioners: 9 a.m. - Usk, 1981 Black Road

Diamond Lake Water and Sewer District Board: 10 a.m. - District Office

West Bonner Library District Board of Trustees: 9 a.m. - Priest River Library

Pend Oreille County Park Board: 2 p.m. - Cusick Community Center

Pend Oreille County Commissioners: 9 a.m. - Pend Oreille County Courthouse

West Bonner County School Board: 6 p.m. - District Office, Priest River

Friends of the Library: Noon Priest River Library

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

Newport School Board: 5 p.m. District Offices

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

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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; 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 COR-

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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

Continued from 7B NER (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

Published in the Newport Miner on February 1 and 8, 2017. (1-2) __________________________ 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

Published in The Newport Miner on January 18, 25, February 1, 8, 15 and 22, 2017. (51-6) ___________________________ 201732 PUBLIC NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEADERS MEETING

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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.

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

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., 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 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 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 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

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Continued from 8B February 1 and 8, 2017.(1-2) ___________________________ 201743 PUBLIC NOTICE A D M I N I S T R AT I V E R E V I E W (OBJECTION) OPPORTUNITY The West Branch LeClerc Creek Watershed Restoration- Closed Road Decommissioning Environmental Assessment (EA) Colville National Forest Pend Oreille County, Washington Analysis has been completed and the West Branch LeClerc Creek Watershed Restoration- Closed Road Decommissioning Environmental Assessment (EA) is now subject to pre-decisional administrative review pursuant to 36 CFR 218, subparts A and B. The Responsible Official is Gayne Sears, Newport-Sullivan Lake District Ranger of the Colville National Forest. The EA, draft Decision Notice, and additional information can be found on the Colville National Forest website at: http://www.fs.usda.gov/projects/ colville/landmanagement/projects.

This draft Decision Notice is being released for a 45-day review and objection period. Only individuals or organizations who submitted specific written comments during a designated opportunity for public participation (scoping or the 30day public comment period) will be eligible to object (36 CFR 218.5).

Issues raised in objections must be based on previously submitted specific written comments regarding the proposed project or activity and attributed to the objector, unless the issue is based on new information that arose after the opportunities for comment. Notices of objection must meet the requirements of 36 CFR 218.8(d), and incorporation of documents by reference is permitted only as provided in 36 CFR 218.8(b).

Objections must be postmarked or received by the Forest Supervisor within 45 days from the publication date of this legal notice. The publication date is the exclusive means for calculating the time to file an objection. Those wishing to file an objection should not rely upon dates or timeframe information provided by any other source.

If you choose to hand deliver or mail your objection, the address is Colville National Forest Supervisors Office, Attn: Rodney Smoldon, 765 South Main Street, Colville, WA between 8:00 AM and 4:00 PM, Monday through Friday excluding holidays.

Objections can also be filed electronically. Please email to: commentspacificnorthwest-colville-newport@ fs.fed.us. Please put OBJECTION and the project name in the subject line. Electronic objections must be submitted as part of an actual email message, or as an attachment in Microsoft Word (.doc or.docx), rich text format (.rtf), or portable document format (.pdf) only. E-mails submit-

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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For additional information contact Gayne Sears, Newport-Sullivan Lake District Ranger, at 509-4477300 (gsears@fs.fed.us).

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Published in The Newport Miner on February 8, 2017. (2) ___________________________ 201744 PUBLIC NOTICE TS No WA07000160-16-1 APN 433929510055 & 433929510056 TO No 160179268-WA-MSO NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE PURSUANT TO THE REVISED CODE OF WASHINGTON CHAPTER 61.24 ET. SEQ. I. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on March 10, 2017, 10:00 AM, At the Main Stairs, Old City Courthouse, 625 W. Fourth Street, Newport, WA 99156, MTC Financial Inc. dba Trustee Corps, the undersigned Trustee, will sell at public auction to the highest and best bidder, payable, in the form of cash, or cashier’s check or certified checks from federally or State chartered banks, at the time of sale the following described real property, situated in the County of Pend Oreille, State of Washington, to-wit: LOTS 8, 9, 10 AND 11 IN BLOCK 12 OF TOWN OF METALINE, WA., PLAT BOOK 1, PAGE 33, RECORDS OF THE AUDITOR OF PEND OREILLE COUNTY, WASHINGTON. APN: 433929510055 & 433929510056 More commonly known as 117 SOUTH SPOKANE AVENUE, METALINE, WA 99152 which is subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated as of October 24, 2014, executed

by JOSHUA E. HICKS AND SARAH HICKS, HUSBAND AND WIFE, as Trustor(s), to secure obligations in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. (“MERS”), as designated nominee for LOANDEPOT.COM, LLC DBA IMORTGAGE, Beneficiary of the security instrument, its successors and assigns, recorded October 27, 2014 as Instrument No. 20140319853 and the beneficial interest was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association and recorded February 5, 2016 as Instrument Number 2016032398 of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Pend Oreille County, Washington. II. No action commenced by U.S. Bank National Association, the current Beneficiary of the Deed of Trust is now pending to seek satisfaction of the obligation in any Court by reason of the Borrowers’ or Grantors’ default on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust/ Mortgage. Current Beneficiary: U.S. Bank National Association Contact Phone No: 855-698-7627 Address: 4801 Frederica St, Owensboro, KY 42301 III. The default(s) for which this foreclosure is made is/are as follows: FAILURE TO PAY WHEN DUE THE FOLLOWING AMOUNTS WHICH ARE NOW IN ARREARS: DELINQUENT PAYMENT INFORMATION From November 1, 2015 To November 16, 2016 Number of Payments 9 $980.05 3 $992.90 Total $11,799.15 LATE CHARGE INFORMATION November 1, 2015 November 16, 2016 $0.00 PROMISSORY NOTE INFORMATION Note Dated: October 24, 2014 Note Amount: $135,009.00 Interest Paid To: October 1, 2015 Next Due Date: November 1, 2015 IV. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is: The principal sum of $132,878.11, together with interest as provided in the Note or other instrument secured, and such other costs and fees as are due under the Note or other instrument secured, and as are provided by statute. V. The above described real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust as provided by statute. Said sale will be made without warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession or encumbrances on March 10, 2017.

The defaults referred to in Paragraph III must be cured by February 27, 2017, (11 days before the sale date) to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time before February 27, 2017 (11 days before the sale) the default as set forth in Paragraph III is cured and the Trustees’ fees and costs are paid.

Payment must be in cash or with cashiers’ or certified checks from a

State or federally chartered bank.

The sale may be terminated any time after the February 27, 2017 (11 days before the sale date) and before the sale, by the Borrower or Grantor or the holder of any recorded junior lien or encumbrance by paying the principal and interest, plus costs, fees and advances, if any, made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust. VI. A written Notice of Default was transmitted by the current Beneficiary, U.S. Bank National Association or Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following address(es): ADDRESS JOSHUA ERIC HICKS 117 SOUTH SPOKANE AVENUE, METALINE, WA 99152 JOSHUA ERIC HICKS PO BOX 101, IONE, WA 991390101 SARAH HICKS 117 SOUTH SPOKANE AVENUE, METALINE, WA 99152 SARAH HICKS PO BOX 101, IONE, WA 99139-0101 by both first class and certified mail on August 16, 2016, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and the Borrower and Grantor were personally served with said written Notice of Default or the written Notice of Default was posted in a conspicuous place August 16, 2016 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 objections to this 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 Trustees’ Sale. X. If the Borrower received a letter under RCW 61.24.031: THIS NOTICE IS THE FINAL STEP BEFORE THE FORECLOSURE SALE OF YOUR HOME. You have only 20 DAYS from the recording date on this notice to pursue mediation. DO NOT DELAY. CONTACT A HOUSING COUNSELOR OR AN ATTORNEY LICENSED IN WASHINGTON NOW to assess your situation and refer you to mediation if you might eligible and it may help you save your home.

See below for safe sources of help.

SEEKING ASSISTANCE Housing counselors and legal assistance may be available at little or no cost to you. If you would like assistance in determining your rights and opportunities to keep your house, you may contact the following: The statewide foreclosure hotline for assistance and referral to housing counselors recommended by the Housing Finance Commission: Telephone: (877) 894-4663 or (800) 606-4819 Website: www.wshfc.org The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development: Telephone: (800) 569-4287 Website: www.hud. gov The statewide civil legal aid hotline for assistance and referrals to other housing counselors and attorneys: Telephone: (800) 606-4819 Website: www.homeownership. wa.gov 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 the Unlawful Detainer Act, Chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenantoccupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060; Dated: October 26, 2016 MTC Financial Inc. dba Trustee Corps, as Duly Appointed Successor Trustee By: Alan Burton, Vice President MTC Financial Inc. dba Trustee Corps 500 Union Street, Suite 620 Seattle, WA 98101 Toll Free Number: (844) 367-8456 TDD: (800) 833-6388 For Reinstatement/ Pay Off Quotes, contact MTC Financial Inc. DBA Trustee Corps SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ONLINE AT www.Auction.com FOR AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL: Auction.com at 800.280.2832ISL Number 21569, Pub Dates: 02/08/2017, 03/01/2017, THE NEWPORT MINER Published in The Newport Miner on February 8 and March 1, 2017. (2, 5)

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___________________________ 201747 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. Falwey, 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 February 8, 15, and 22, 2017. (2-3) __________________________ 201748 PUBLIC NOTICE N otice of A pplication Notice is hereby given that Pend Oreille County did on January 31st, 2017, receive a complete application requesting a boundary line adjustment submitted by John Galley to modify the boundaries between four contiguous parcels, one parcel to be assimilated. (Parcel #’s 433027400003, 433027400002, 433026320004 and 433026320003); Within Sec’s. 26 & 27, T30N, R43 E, WM. Any person desiring to express their views, or to be notified of the action taken on this application should contact the Community Development Dept. A copy of the complete file may be examined by the public between 8:00 AM & 4:30 PM at the Courthouse Annex, 418 S Scott Ave, Newport, WA 99156, (509) 447-4821. Written comments from the public may be submitted no later than Feb 16th, 2017 after which a final administrative decision will be made.

Dated: Jan 31, 2017 Published in The Newport Miner on February 8, 2017. (2) ___________________________

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Sadie Pearl (Brown) Jones began her walk with her eternal father on Feb. 3, 2017, after a long battle with dementia and Alzheimer’s.

She was 92. Sadie was born Jan.20, 1925, in Yeager, Okla., to Charlie and Haley Pearl Brown.

Sadie joined two older siblings, Lucille and Durrell at their home. In her teen years the family moved from Oklahoma to Caldwell, Idaho, where the family farmed. She attended schools in the area and finally earned her high school diploma in 1964. This accomplishment was very important to her.

She married Harold (Babe) Corning and made their home in Oldtown.

They worked in various capacities one of which, many will remember, was operating the “Howdy Hut” drive-in in Oldtown. Harold Corning passed away suddenly in 1962 leaving Sadie with older son Tommy and much younger son Alan.

Sadie married Bobby K. Jones on Feb. 14, 1964.

They spent the next 52 years, 11 months, and three days as one. They were rarely separated and were always looking for the next adventure; visits to Alaska to see children and grandchildren, trips to Yuma, Ariz., or just quietly sitting together on long drives or in their living

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room. Their bond to one another was apparent.

Sadie was given the gift of music. She was an accomplished bass player and had a remarkable voice for harmonizing.

She and Bobby spent years providing entertainment and fun in the area. They were always ready to set-up to have a jam session in someone’s home just to enjoy company.

For a time, the pair were “on the road” throughout the Northwest sharing their talents.

Sadie did not find the need to join clubs or be involved in activities outside the home other than her music. Her focus was on her home, her husband and family.

She did not attend church regularly, but she believed and demonstrated, daily, the behavior of a just and honorable servant who lived the Golden Rule.

Sadie is preceded in death by her parents, sister and brother.

She is survived by her husband, Bobby, at the home, the sons from blended families Tommy and Alan Corning, Daniel, Curtis and Robert Jones, their spouses, 19 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.

The family would like to extend our thanks and appreciation to the

community of Newport for their commitment to build and maintain the Newport Hospital and Health Services facility.

Everyone we encountered at the hospital during Sadie’s stay went out of their way to make sure that we knew what was going on and that

everyone’s needs were being met. Thanks also to Aspen Springs Assisted Living and Auburn Crest Hospice for the comfort and care they provided to Sadie and the family in her final days.

A memorial service will be held in the spring of 2017.

M o s t Wan t e d L ist 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.

Pack

Johna M. Pack, 23, is wanted on one Pend Oreille County warrant for failure to comply on original charges of DV Assault 4th. She is 5 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 140 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes. Her last known address was in the Newport area. Extradition is Washington State.

Grant

David F. T. Grant, 40, is wanted on one Pend Oreille County warrant for failure to appear on original charge of violation of a no contact order. He is 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs 165 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. His last known address was in the Cusick area. Extradition is Washington State.

Beck

Jacob S. Beck, 39, is wanted on one Pend Oreille County warrant for failure to appear and failure to pay on original charges of theft 1st degree. He is 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighs 155 pounds with brown hair and hazel eyes. His last known address was in the Spokane area. Extradition is Washington and Idaho.

Holden

David P. Holden, 45, is wanted on one Pend Oreille County warrant for failure to appear and failure to pay on original charges of possession of controlled substance. He is 5’ feet 10 inches tall and weighs 170 pounds with black hair and hazel eyes. His last known address was in the Spokane area. Extradition is Washington and Idaho.

Carol N. Butler Priest River

Carol N. Butler, 72, of Priest River, passed away on Feb. 5, 2017. A memorial service will be held on Thursday, Feb. 16 at Sherman-Knapp Funeral Home in Priest River at 1 p.m. A full obituary will be printed next week.

Sherman-Knapp Funeral Home in Priest River is in charge of arrangements.

Richard W. Davis Newport

Richard W. Davis of Newport passed away Feb.4, 2017. He was 66.

A funeral service will be held on Saturday, Feb. 18, at noon at ShermanKnapp Funeral Home in Newport. A full obituary will follow. ShermanKnapp Funeral Home in Newport is in charge of arrangements.

“Hogan” Bob Newman Ione

“Hogan” Bob Newman, 92, of Ione passed away Feb. 4, 2017. A funeral service will be held Saturday, Feb. 11 at 1 p.m. at Selkirk High School. A full obituary will follow.

Sherman-Knapp Funeral Home in Newport is in charge of arrangements.

Keith L. Poirier Priest River

Keith L. Poirier of Priest River, passed away Jan. 30, 2017. He was 93.

There will be no service at this time. ShermanKnapp Funeral Home in Newport is in charge of arrangements.

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