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Directors plan to ask for smaller $3 million levy in May

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NEWPORT – A bill that would direct the state to send more than $70,000 in federal funds to the Newport School District is sitting on Governor Jay Inslee’s desk awaiting his signature, as of Tuesday, March 18.

BY DON GRONNING OF THE MINER

‘In the past, the (state has) taken it all.’

Tom Crouch

Newport School District Business Manager

It could be several days before he takes action on it with most observers saying it is just a formality and expect him to sign it into law. Spokesperson Jaime Smith with the governor’s office said the governor has 20 days to sign a bill after the close of the Legislative session.

HB 2207 directed the state to return some federal Secure Rural Schools funds to the communities where the federal timberlands are used to calculate them. In the past, the state had deducted the amount from what it paid the local school districts, essentially nullifying any benefits. The federal money was intended to be payments in lieu of taxes in those counties like Pend Oreille where the federal government owns vast areas of land and doesn’t

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Garage crasher This was the scene at Bill Svederus’ garage on Highway 211, about a half mile south of the Circle Moon Theater near Sacheen Lake. Svederus was finishing up some projects about 1 a.m. Monday morning, March 17, when a car came crashing into the garage. The driver scrambled out and ran off, he said. A Pend Oreille County Sheriff deputy was first on the scene, followed by a Washington State Patrol trooper. After about an hour the deputy found the driver, James D. Culp-Bricker, 24, at his home in bed. Culp-Bricker was arrested for driving under the influence and hit and run.

Svederus was not injured. The garage sustained a yet-to-be determined amount of damage.

PRIEST RIVER – Voters rejected West Bonner County School District’s $3.5 million supplemental levy Tuesday, March 11 by a vote of 747-550, the first time in the district’s history voters denied a supplemental levy.

The district was formed in 1999.

Board members held a special meeting Thursday, March 13, at Priest River Lamanna High School to decide what to do next.

Supporters and opponents of the levy packed the cafeteria. School board

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North County development gets conditional approval Developers must submit master planned resort application; group formed

BY DON GRONNING OF THE MINER

CUSICK – The Pend Oreille Planning Commission conditionally approved a rezone of 436 acres in the north part of the county that developers say they want to turn into an equestrian themed resort development.

“The rezone is contingent on acceptance of a master planned resort, with a binding site plan,” said Mike Lithgow, the county’s community development director.

The master planned resort would go back to the planning commission for an advisory vote.

After the meeting, the developer, Jay Henrie, of Ore, Utah, said he wanted to form a citizens’ group to help with the development plan, Lithgow said. The group would be made up of about six or eight people chosen by Henrie. They would include a member of the nearby Aspen Reflections development, a large landowner, someone with forestry experience and an elk specialist, Lithgow said.

The approval is advisory only, county commissioners will have the final say on the rezone. Planning commissioner John Stuart voted no on the rezone and com-

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Developer Jay Henrie, left, looks at a map of the area he wants to develop just south of the Ione Bridge. Doug Cash of Intermountain Land Surveyors, located in Priest River, shows the map to planning commissioners at their meeting Tuesday, March 11. Henrie, one of the principles in Wasatch Associates, asked the planning commission to rezone 430 acres of natural resource land to allow for a master planned resort.

missioner Rob Payne recused himself. The remaining planning commission members voted for the rezone.

If the developers, Wasatch Associates, submit a master planned

resort application, planning commissioners agreed to recommend the land be rezoned from NR-20, a designation for natural resource lands with lots no smaller than 20 acres, to rural designation, with

five acres lots.

Planning commissioners heard from Henrie and Doug Cash and Greg Snow of Intermountain Land Surveyors of Priest River as to why the rezone should be allowed at

the regular planning commission meeting Tuesday, March 11.

A number of the public also gave comments during the meeting.

Most wanted the commissioners to get more information about what the developer would do after the rezone, including binding site plans of the development. Some wanted them to deny the rezone. Nobody spoke in favor of the rezone, including any members of the economic development community.

Henrie, the developer, addressed the commission first.

He said Wasatch Associates was made up of himself and another man.

“We’re not greedy people,” he said, “but we do want to make a return on property we’ve owned 29 years.”

The partners had started out as six, but now were down to two, he said, and they would like to make some money on the land that they’ve owned almost three decades.

Henrie and his partner had three goals, he said. To make some money, to do so in a way that is “easy on the environment” and to develop a win-win situation with the people SEE PLANNING, 2A

B R I E F LY Sheriff warns of possible phone fraud SANDPOINT – The Bonner County Sheriff’s Office is warning residents of a possible fraud alert.

A potential victim reported receiving a phone call from someone purporting to be from the Bonner County Detention Center. The caller stated the call was in regards to an inmate and requested personal information from the victim, such as his Social Security number.

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If you receive a similar call, report it by calling the sheriff’s office at 208-263-8417 in Bonner County and 509447-3151 in Pend Oreille County.

Pike netting starts up on Pend Oreille River USK – The Kalispel Tribe began netting northern pike in the Pend Oreille River last week. About 30 nets are put out Monday through Friday, from the Box Canyon Reservoir to Newport, to catch the non-native fish.

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ment of Fish and Wildlife, in the hopes it will curtail the burgeoning population before it spreads downstream and takes hold in the Columbia River.

This is the third year the tribe is gillnetting pike. The work continues through May 2, unless pike numbers are above goals during the Spring Pike Index Netting survey (SPIN). In that case, the removal will continue for an additional three to four weeks, according to Jason Olson, the tribe’s leader for pike suppression.

Olson suggests anglers cast right on the edge of the ice still formed on the river’s sloughs. Gillnetters caught more than 600 pike in the first five days of netting.

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in the community.

The Wasatch Group wasn’t a big development company, he said, although he was involved in a small condo project in Utah. He had also served on the Orem City Planning Commission, he said.

Snow emphasized that what the commission was deciding that night was only the rezone.

He did touch on what was planned after the rezone. The group planned to build cluster housing, a form of development that allows smaller than five acre sized lots if they are grouped closely together and the remaining land left open. He said there would be more than one cluster on the property.

“Clusters will be like neighborhoods,” he said.

Cash said there were five wells on the property, two of which were running at full capacity now. He said all five could be running.

Planning commissioner Doug Smith asked if they had water and sewer. Cash said no, they would need to acquire water rights, but said

‘The rezone is contingent on acceptance of a master planned resort, with a binding site plan.’

Mike Lithgow

Pend Oreille County Community Development Director

there would be no problem doing so.

Former planning commissioner Steve Wilson was the first of the public to testify. He said he was worried about loss of elk habitat if the project is developed. The commission couldn’t make a decision on the rezone until the whole plan is known, he said. The county has no obligation to ensure someone who purchased natural resource lands can make a profit by

developing them, he said.

Another former planning commissioner, Susan Hobbs, also spoke against the rezone.

She showed pictures of wildlife that weren’t listed on the environmental checklist filed with the application. She passed out recommendations to the commissioners that she suggested they include.

Both Hobbs and Wilson were replaced on the commission when their terms expired at the end of 2013.

People giving public testimony who objected to the rezone said the development wouldn’t be consistent with existing use of the property, that the loss of resource land shouldn’t be allowed, that there have been numerous failed resort schemes in the county, that there is already plenty of housing on the market that isn’t selling and that creating a new town is a significant change to the area.

Patty White reflected the mood of several in the audience.

“Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should,” she said. She said keeping a sunlit south facing big open field is important to elk.

Others didn’t recommend flatly rejecting the rezone, but wanted the planning commission to get more information.

“I’m not saying deny it, I’m saying don’t approve it tonight,” Bob Eugene said. He said the commission should require more information from the developers about their future plans for the land.

After the public testimony, commissioners went down a checklist of six items to evaluate about the rezone. Community development director Mike Lithgow, in response to a question from chairwoman Judy Ashton, said the project had to meet all six of the criteria for the rezone to be granted.

The six items commissioners deliberated on included the suitability of the property for uses permitted under the proposed rezone; the

extent the proposed rezone complies with the county’s comprehensive plan; the adequacy of sewer, water and other required public services; the compatibility of the proposed change with neighboring land uses; the public need or benefit of the change and whether the proposed amendment complies with the Washington State Growth Management Act. Hobbs, the former planning commissioner, blasted the planning commission for not seeing the project met the six criteria for the rezone.

She said the project failed outright to meet two of the criteria – water and sewer and the public benefit of the rezone – and the other four weren’t convincingly argued, she said after the meeting.

She said many in the audience were dumbfounded by the decision.

“It’s a recommendation that puts wealth-building for an out-of-state investment group above cultural identity, above rural values, above working land and the people already in residence,” she wrote in an email. “This is forever, and the planning commission got this one wrong.”

Planning Commissioner Norris Boyd said that even without the rezone, the developer could already put up 20 20-acre lots on the 436-acre property. He said downsizing the zoning to five-acre lots was appropriate, as most of the lots nearby were far smaller than that.

Boyd, the current Pend Oreille County Republican Party chairman and Doug Smith, former county Democratic Party chairman clashed briefly over cluster housing. Smith wanted to discuss it and Boyd said it wasn’t appropriate to talk about it in a rezone.

Planning commissioners asked Lithgow if cluster housing were allowed in NR20 zoned lands. Lithgow said it was. In addition, in both NR 20 and R 5 zoned lands, each home is allowed an ancillary building, sometimes called mother-in-law cottages.

Newport woman dies in Highway 2 accident OLDTOWN – A 39-year-old Newport woman died from injuries sustained in a car accident on Highway 2 between Oldtown and Priest River Friday evening, March 14. Amy Brady died at the scene.

According to the Idaho State Police, 50-year-old Christopher Jewsbury, of Spokane, was driving westbound near milepost 3.8 when his 2005 GMC pickup went left of the centerline at about 5:20 p.m. He side-swiped the 1990 Chevy Trailblazer traveling eastbound, driven by 61-yearold David Oakes of Olympia. Jewsbury then collided with Brady’s 2008 Chrysler 300 head on, which was also traveling eastbound.

The investigation continues.

Opt out bill on Governor’s desk OLYMPIA – A bill sponsored by 7th District state Rep. Brian Dansel R-Republic has passed both houses and is awaiting the governor’s signature, Dansel said.

“I’ve been told it has a good chance to be signed into law,” Dansel said.

The bill would allow four small counties, including Pend Oreille County, to opt out of some of the planning requirements of the Growth Management Act. Dansel said the bill would give more local control to counties, although long range planning and other state regulations would still be required. “This is not going to be an end all,” he said. “But it is getting our foot in the door.”

In addition to Pend Oreille County, Ferry, Garfield and Columbia counties will be able to take advantage of the reduced planning requirements.

All but Ferry County, where Dansel is a county commissioner, are in compliance with the Growth Management Act. If the bill is signed into law, each county board of commissioners would have to decide if they wanted to opt out. The cities in the county would first have to agree to opt out before the county could. Ferry County has three years to come into compliance with the growth management act before they can opt out.

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pay taxes.

The Legislative session ended Thursday, March 13 and the bill was delivered to the governor.

The bill passed the House on the third reading with 97 yeas and zero nays. The bill passed the Senate on the third reading with 47 yeas and two nays. This was the second substitute bill and the first engrossed.

Newport School District Business Manager Tom Crouch said the district would collect about $300,000 in timber funds next year and under the new law the state would now take about $230,000, if Gov. Inslee signs the bill.

“In the past, they have taken it all,” Crouch said.

In other school business, Crouch told the board at its regular meeting Tuesday, March 11, the district received a grant from the state for bicycle safety for $25,000. The grant will be used to purchase 30 bicycles, 30 helmets and a trailer to keep the bicycles in. Crouch said training would be given to teachers to teach them to “ride them.”

“The bikes are $450 bucks a piece so they are nice bikes,” Crouch said.

Superintendent Dave Smith reported to the board that more than three interested people have talked to the band director about the upcoming band director position. In addition, Smith said he has received more than nine applications for high school principal, which will also be open at the end of this school year. Band Director Barbara Bell is retiring and Principal Dennis Matson is taking over a program in the middle of the state.

“I have had some quality applicants so far, from what I hear,” Smith said.

Smith said the school restoration following the fire in the woodshop after a hot ember was sucked into the sawdust collector, Friday, Feb. 21, is in the final phases. The color of the paint may be changing around the school as light gray will be used instead of the white color being used currently.

A sawdust collector has been found and will be delivered to the school in about four weeks. Smith said the shop can be used during the waiting time but it has to be cleaned of debris daily.

The board is working to revise the student handbook to make things “more user friendly,” Smith said.

Enrollment is up almost four students for the month, coming off a four-month trend of losing students. The district has not seen a substantial fund difference from the enrollment numbers.

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Town of Metaline Falls and PUD hold public meeting

B R I E F LY New law for motorcyclists gets green light OLYMPIA – Washington motorcyclists will soon be allowed to run red lights, if Gov. Jay Inslee signs into law Senate Bill 5141, that passed both houses of the legislature last week.

First introduced during last year’s legislative session, Senate Bill 5141 would make it legal for motorcyclists to go through a red traffic signal when the detection device fails to recognize the bike’s presence. The motorcyclist would have to wait through one full cycle of the traffic signal before proceeding.

In February, the Senate approved the bill and passed it onto the House, where it was overwhelmingly approved on March 10. The bill will now be passed onto Gov. Jay Inslee for consideration.

Lakes Commission meets in Dover DOVER – The Lake Pend Oreille, Pend Oreille River, Priest Lake, Priest River Commission meets Wednesday, March 26 at the Dover City Hall, 699 Lakeshore Ave. The meeting begins at 9 a.m. with introductions.

Agenda items include discussion of engineering and the NEPA Process of the Clark Fork Delta Restoration, an update on Pend Oreille River modeling and review of the lake level.

Learn about dual credits at Priest River high PRIEST RIVER – Priest River Lamanna High School will be hosting a Dual Credit Night event Monday, March 24, from 5:30-6:30 p.m.

This is for current 10th or 11th graders who are interested in attending Dual Credit classes next year. North Idaho College’s Dual Credit coordinator will be visiting to answer questions and explain the process for registering for Dual Credit.

Call Elizabeth Rosen with questions at 208448-1211.

Get help with the Affordable Care Act BLANCHARD – Those living in Blanchard and surrounding areas are invited to an informational session about the new healthcare law, the Affordable Care Act Thursday, March 20, at 6 p.m. at the Blanchard Community Center.

This will include information about the law, help in sign-up and information about exemptions and lowcost assistance that you may qualify for.

If you can’t attend or want help prior to the Blanchard meeting, make an appointment with an “In-Person Assister” at Kaniksu Health Services in Priest River. Call 208263-7101 and ask for Greg.

This is a free service.

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The fifth graders from Stratton Elementary took first place at the Math is Cool competition March 7. Pictured are Chloe Jones, top left, Steven Burkett, Tiegen Prange, Michael Owen, Daegan Brown, Ben Krogh, Brandon Nokes; Tessa Pierce, bottom left, Deb Van Dyke, Ruth Hildreth, Anita Urmann, Keelan Mitcham.

Fifth graders show Math is Cool NEWPORT – Eleven fifth grade students from Stratton Elementary took first place at the Math is Cool competition Friday, March 7 at Whitworth University, competing against 23 other schools.

The students were broke into groups and assigned a room. They then competed against other groups in five competitions with the group scores going into a team score. The competitions included team multiple-choice questions, a team test, team

relay, team mental math and three rounds of the College Bowl, similar to “Jeopardy!”

Overall, Newport consistently put up high group totals that helped them beat Lynnwood 130 to 127. Freeman took third with a team score of 120 points. More than 64 groups competed from 23 schools.

“All across the scoring matrix, it was a different group who had the highest score,” honors program coordinator Anita Urmann said. “It really was a joint effort.”

Washington State Parks announces another ‘free day’ No Discover Pass needed on State Parks birthday March 19 OLYMPIA – Washington State Parks turns 101 years old Wednesday, March 19, and visitors are invited to help celebrate by getting out to enjoy a state park for free that day.

‘We’re hoping that you’ll get out on Wednesday to a state park in your area and just remind yourself of the treasures we have in our state.’

Lucinda Whaley

Commission Chairwoman

With the 2014 spring and summer season just around the corner, the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission reminds the public that there are recreation opportunities available in more than 100 parks, trails and recreation sites all over the state. March 19 is the third of 12 State Parks “free days” in 2014, when visitors are not required to display the Discover Pass to visit a park.

“We’re hoping that you’ll get out on Wednesday to a state park in your area and just remind yourself of the treasures we have in our state,” said Commission Chairwoman Lucinda Whaley of Spokane. “The State Parks free days give people a chance to sample some of the beauty of the park system –

and then we hope you’ll support your state park system and buy your Discover Pass.

Revenues from the pass are very important because they allow us to keep operating parks and services.”

For information about Discover Pass, visit online at www.DiscoverPass.wa.gov.

Free days are in keeping with legislation that created the Discover Pass, a $30 annual or $10 one-day permit required on recreation lands managed by Washington State Parks, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) and the Department of Natural Resources (DNR). The Discover Pass legislation provided that State Parks could designate up to 12 “free days” each year when the pass would not be required to visit state parks.

Discover Pass is required to access DFW and DNR Lands on State Parks free days.

2014 State Parks free days are as follows:

· Jan. 19-20 – in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day · March 19 – Washington State Parks birthday · April 19 – A spring Saturday “free day” · April 22 – Earth Day · May 11 – A spring Sunday “free day” · June 7-8 – National Trails Day and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Free Fishing Weekend · June 14 – National Get Outdoors Day · Aug. 25 – National Park Service birthday · Sept. 27 – National Public Lands Day · Nov. 11 – Veterans Day The Discover Pass provides daytime access to parks. Overnight visitors are charged fees for camping and other overnight accommodations, and day access is included in the overnight fee.

The Discover Pass does not replace the Sno-park permit requirement for use of SnoPark winter recreation sites.

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METALINE FALLS – Representatives from the town of Metaline Falls will meet with officials from the Pend Oreille Public Utility District to begin discussions on the acquisition of the water system. The meeting is set for Saturday, March 22 at 10 a.m. in the Metaline Falls Town Hall Community Center, 201 Fifth Ave. The public is invited to attend. This is expected to be the first of several meetings between the town and the PUD. Mayor Tara Leininger is expecting the PUD will present its first proposal about the assets of the water system and what would be the price of acquisition.

The town of Metaline Falls has been discussing an acquisition with the PUD because the ratepayers on the water treatment plant are more than $200,000 in debt to the PUD and the cost of water has increased recently. The PUD adjusted the labor on the system in October 2013, however, discussions are still being held regarding a possible acquisition.

For more information, contact the town of Metaline Falls at 509-446-2211.

Small object goes through Boundary turbine METALINE FALLS – A small “foreign” object passed through an air gap during the testing phase of a turbine at Boundary Dam, Monday, Feb. 27, causing an unknown amount of damage, Seattle City Light Spokesman Scott Thompson said.

“It’s not a common occurrence but this is why you do testing,” Thompson said.

“There was something that went through there.”

Thompson said the amount of damages would not be known until the turbine gets completed. The turbines are being refurbished for regular maintenance. The unknown object has already been removed

and it is in final testing currently. “We don’t expect those costs to be substantial,” Thompson said. “Until you actually get the repairs made, you won’t know the associated costs.”

He said the damages might be covered under the warranty but he is unsure where the object originated from.

Thompson said the maintenance schedule allows for only one turbine to be down at a time. He said there was no lost revenue to SCL because of the foreign object.

He said the main concern for the timeline of the turbine repair is to get the unit working in time for the spring runoff.

Local students graduate from WSU PULLMAN – Washington State University announced Fall 2013 graduates recently.

Alex John Carrougher of Newport received a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice. Carolyn Eileen Guthrie of Ione received a Bachelor of Arts in Human Development, summa cum laude. Casey Randal Holter of Metaline Falls received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, magna cum laude. The honor of summa cum laude is for a cumulative grade point average of 3.90 or better, magna cum laude is for a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.70 but less than 3.90 and cum laude for a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.50 but less than 3.70.

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Bright lights shined on government transparency

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Friday for publication the following Wednesday. No letter will be published unless it is signed by at least one individual, even if the letter represents the view of a group.

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t is encouraging to see Washington state government officials trying to work with the open public records and meetings laws instead of battling to change them this legislative session.

Washington State Auditor Troy Kelley marked national Sunshine Week by announcing that his office will offer local governments a series of Open Government and Transparency Training Sessions this spring and summer.

According to his press release, Sunshine Week – March 16-22 – is an annual initiative to promote open government and spark a nationwide discussion about the critical importance of access to public information.

Sunshine Week highlights freedom of information as a cornerstone of democracy, enlightening and empowering people to play an active role in their government at all levels.

We agree and know the people do as well.

In the past, the attitudes from cities, counties and state officials have been much different. They vigorously attempted to change the open records and meeting laws, usually through their government associations during every session. The changes they wanted were designed to reduce in some way the public’s access. The officials said in one way or another that they wanted the changes in access for the people because open records and meetings were too costly.

The newspaper industry argued that it was government’s job and they should understand the law and streamline their systems to make it less costly. They didn’t need to change it. We think they heard us and should be applauded.

The Washington State Auditor’s Office Local Government Performance Center has partnered with the Municipal Research and Services Center of Washington to develop tools and resources that will provide practical assistance and a guide to best practices to comply with open records and meetings laws.

The training sessions are free of charge and designed to help elected and appointed local government leaders excel in records management and compliance with the Open Public Meetings Act and the Public Records Act. The sessions will also include a presentation by state auditor’s office staff on the role of their office and common issues that arise during an audit.

Every government in Pend Oreille County should get a representative to one of these sessions. It’s part of the job.

--FJW

‘A to Z’ Growing up in Kettle Falls, I enjoyed a skyline of Colville National Forest evergreens, which could be seen from just about anywhere in town. I was raised G U E ST to appreciO P I N I O N ate their beauty REP. CATHY and still MCMORRIS do – but RODGERS today, I see R-WASH. the forest’s potential to be a loud, roaring engine – an economic engine.

In Ferry, Stevens and Pend Oreille counties, the Colville National Forest provides jobs, energy, and recreational opportunities for our communities in Northeastern Washington. Over the years I have walked the forest and met with the Forest Service many times. We have discussed the numerous challenges facing our forest communities including reduced catastrophic fire, timber supply, more diseased and dying trees, and underutilization, and increased unemployment.

The federal government made a promise over a century ago to actively manage our forests and provide 25 percent of revenues for counties containing National Forest land. The federal government has not upheld

that commitment – allowing federal regulations and lawsuits to block active forest management. Many people don’t realize that of the 1.1 million acre Colville National Forest, over 300,000 acres are bug infested. This is tragic and I believe that the federal government, through the Forest Service, can and must do better.

That’s when “A to Z” was born. The idea that the private sector can partner on public lands to promote better forest management and boost the economy.

Since then, I’ve been working with local stakeholders and the Forest Service on an innovative public-private approach in the Colville National Forest. The “A to Z” Mill Creek Pilot Project establishes a 10-year contract on 50,000 acres in the Colville National Forest. It allows for a private sector to fund everything after the timber sale is laid out, including the pre-sale environmental requirements and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requirements. I believe that with private funds and local management, the Colville National Forest can be better managed to maintain healthier forests and give certainty to the community by providing stable and sustainable wood supply.

I believe the Forest Service should work with the private sector to create jobs, proSEE RODGERS, 7A

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YO U R O P I N I O N Corporations are not people To the editor: In 2010, the Supreme Court, in their 5-4 Citizens United decision, gave unprecedented power to corporations to contribute unlimited money to political campaigns anonymously. In addition to ruling that money equals speech, this decision gave corporations ongoing ability to give unlimited amounts of money to political campaigns via political entities created specifically to funnel unrestricted corporate money to specific candidates or issues.

All voters, irrespective of political preferences, will have increasingly diminished ability to affect the outcome of elections. When powerful wealthy entities are able to purchase elections, individuals’ preferences will not matter. When only the voices of the wealthiest define who is elected we will only have leaders who meet the needs of the needs of the already powerful.

An additional unintended result from this court decision can unlock the door to multi-national corporations contributing unlimited dollars to domestic policies. Having foreign interests influence United States’ politics does not serve United States’ best interest.

Sixteen states have already stood against this Supreme Court ‘Citizen United’ ruling, including pressing for a Constitutional Amendment to overturn it. Because the majority of United States’ citizens don’t believe corporations are people, they recognize that it is in citizens’ best interest to get unlimited corporate dollars out of politics.

Toward this end, volunteers created the WAmend organization to overturn Citizen United via a “We the People” initiative No. 1329. It’s vital we all learn about the Citizens United court decision and WAmend’s initiative No. 1329. An informational gathering is scheduled on Saturday, April 5, at Sacheen Fire Station 32, 6131 Highway 211 at 10 a.m. An Eastern Washington WAmend coordinator will be presenting background information that prompted the development of I-1329

and laying out future steps.

-Gayle Cain Cusick

State reps didn’t listen to their constituents To the editor: It’s been nearly a year since Idaho signed on to Obamacare in the form of a State Health Insurance Exchange, aided by our trio of North Idaho representatives.

Sen. Shawn Keough, R-Sandpoint, Rep. George Eskridge, R-Dover, and Rep. Eric Anderson, R-Priest Lake, were all aware of the Supreme Court calling it a “tax” before they cast their votes. They also knew that Justice Roberts not just left the door open for states to challenge it, but outright encouraged it by telling them that “they should act like” sovereign entities. Twenty-six states did heed that advice and rejected an Exchange because the regulations and costs were entirely unknown.

But not Idaho. Like a broken record, our three representatives insisted that “it’s the law,” and they “had no choice” but to set up an Exchange. Countless constituents registered their opposition but received form letters with those talking points. Many called or traveled to Boise to be heard. They were ignored, as was the unanimous resolution of the Bonner County Republican Central Committee rejecting the Exchange.

Not long after this shameful vote we learned that Idaho couldn’t manage to get its Exchange off the ground, there was insider-dealing, and we would have to rely on the Federal Exchange – temporarily, of course.

So when our three legislators try to impress you with how hard they’re working for you, it would be entirely appropriate to remind them that playing along with Obamacare was enough of an example of their hard work that we look forward to expediting their retirement.

-Jane Geray Blanchard

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Malaysia Airlines flight 370 mysteriously went missing on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, early morning Saturday, March 8. More than 26 countries are helping search for the Boeing 777 that quit sending radar signals an hour into the flight. No signs of the aircraft or the 239 passengers have been found in the days following the disappearance.

What do you think happened to Malaysia Airlines flight 370?

The airplane crashed into the ocean because of mechanical errors and will be found by search crews in due time.

The plane landed on an island and the passengers and crew are waiting to be rescued, similar to an episode of “Lost.”

The plane was hijacked and deliberately taken off course before crash landing in the ocean.

The plane was hijacked and the passengers are being held as prisoners in an unknown country.

A UFO took control of the plane and made it disappear.

Help kids now, they’ll be productive adults To the editor: Last week, conservatives at their annual conference heard Rep. Paul Ryan explain how free school lunches harm poor kids. Ryan lifted a story from a book about a kid who wanted someone to make him a sack lunch rather than face the stigma of going through the free lunch line. Ryan’s unfortunate remarks follows a report that implies that government anti-poverty programs don’t work, that like the kid, free programs make poor people dependent on the government.

My first thought are the thousands of elk that are fed during the winter by the game department, so they don’t die and are available for hunters to shoot them the next hunting season. The government collects license and tag fees, the merchants supporting the hunters with gear make profits and the meat packing people process the kill. Even the taxidermist makes out. Now why wouldn’t it be better to let those elk starve?

Certainly, if you feed a kid today with school lunches and food stamps for his parents, he grows up healthier and can work productively in society. You might not get to eat him, but a healthy and well developed adult is beneficial and worth government assistance as a child.

The real reason that Ryan opposes school lunches is that he thinks that those kids will grow up and vote for Democrats. Looking at our community, I wish that was the case as the people getting government assistance vote overwhelmingly for Republicans. Once elected, those Republicans tell them that they are takers and undeserving, and that making rich people richer is their way out of the government trap. Yes, go over to the rich guy’s house and steal his stuff when he isn’t home.

That’s one form of trickle down that doesn’t need a government welfare program.

-Pete Scobby Newport

R E A D E R ’ S P O L L R E S U LT S How do you think the U.S. should react to the crisis in Ukraine?

The U.S. should send financial and other aid to Ukraine.

The U.S. should intervene militarily. Russia broke International Law.

3% 9% 19% 69%

The U.S. should place economic sanctions on Russia in an attempt to strong arm them out of Ukraine. It is a sovereign nation.

Total Votes: 32

The U.S. should stay out of it. We have enough of our own problems.

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‘Double paying’ for clean energy only hurts Washington consumers Nobody likes to pay twice for the same thing. Our inherent understanding of value and fairness encompasses this fact.

Yet here in Washington state, energy consumers continually see their rates increase as they are forced to pay twice for energy efficiency upgrades as a direct result of the Energy Investment Act (EIA), passed by voters a few years back as Initiative 937. This ratepayer inequality epitomizes the notion of “unforeseen circumstances” and is something that can – and should – be rectified.

The EIA mandates that large utilities obtain 15 percent of their electricity through GUEST renewable resources. While it fails to recognize hydropower as clean energy (one OPINION of the only states that fails to do so), it does REP. SHELLY allow utilities to count efficiency improveSHORT ments to certain existing hydro projects SEN. SHARON towards the new law’s green energy manBROWN date. These are upgrades or changes that allow more electricity to be produced from the same amount of water.

But here’s where the double jeopardy part comes in. The EIA very specifically does not recognize any efficiency upgrades made to the federal hydro system marketed by the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA).

This is unfortunate as ratepayers have paid millions of dollars to help these hydro systems become more energy efficient through incremental rate increases.

In essence, the hydro systems and the consumers engaged in a good-faith effort to make better use of what we have, but are now being punished for those efforts by having to pay twice – once on the front end, and now again through mandated compliance via the purchase of renewable energy credits or more expensive in-state power, whether they need

it or not.

This “double paying” hurts all Washingtonians but is particularly painful to minority communities and the poor, who tend to pay a greater percentage of their income towards energy costs.

We have a solution.

Senate Bill 6058 (and companion bill House Bill 2112) would allow some incremental electricity produced by efficiency improvements to hydro projects to qualify as an eligible renewable resource. It is our belief that the millions of Washingtonians who have already paid for these efficiency improvements to hydro projects should be able to see the benefits of those improvements.

This small, simple allowance is a far cry from “gutting” Initiative 937’s original intent. Our proposal is a small, commonsense compromise that recognizes the need for new investments in clean energy technologies while at the same time recognizing the work – and consumer payments – already undertaken.

Our families need electricity, and they need jobs so they can afford it. SB 6058 would help provide both by allowing our utilities to pass any cost savings on to their customers. This not only provides a lifeline to families who must make the difficult choice between paying the light bill and putting food on the table; it may very well help to create the job or pay raise that family desperately needs.

While it looks like both bills are dead for this year, we will continue to work toward this common-sense solution for Washington ratepayers.

‘Unfortunately too much of a good thing can also lead to problems such as traffic jams, high avalanche danger, localized flooding and landslides.’

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NRCS Water Supply Specialist

Conservation Service in its third 2014 forecast.

Well above average precipitation along with cooler than normal temperatures brought much needed relief to both the mountain

snowpack and soil moisture in the valleys.

Forecasts for spring and summer runoff have increased dramatically over last month as well.

In February, the National Weather Service and NRCS climate stations reported a higher probability of above normal temperatures and below normal precipitation, and long-term predictions also indicate a chance of above normal temperatures but uncertainty on precipitation.

“Unfortunately too much of a good thing can also lead to problems such as traffic jams, high avalanche danger, localized flooding and landslides,” said Scott Pattee, NRCS Water Supply Specialist.

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February storms increase Washington snowpack SPOKANE – February saw two to three times normal snowfall, putting Washington State snowpack at near normal levels according to data from USDA’s Natural Resources

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Woman sentenced for stealing broken van

BY DON GRONNING OF THE MINER

NEWPORT – When the owner of an inoperable van found three people loading it onto a flatbed trailer, he pulled a gun.

When his wife told them the van belonged to them they fled with the van and he fired a shot, according to a statement of probable cause in the case of Paula S. Larson, 45. Larson pleaded guilty to second degree theft Thursday, March 6, in Pend Oreille County Superior Court.

According to the state-

ment of probable cause, Larson said the van fell off the trailer as she was fleeing. The van’s owner said one of the two men with her jumped out of the vehicle and released the winch on the trailer, causing the van to fall off.

Pend Oreille County Superior Court Judge Pat Monasmith asked her what they were doing when they took the van.

“We thought we bought it,” she said. He told her that since she had theft convictions in the 1990s, she should have been more careful.

For sentencing purposes, the 1990s convictions didn’t count, as they occurred too far in the past.

The standard sentencing range was 0-6 months.

Monasmith went along with recommendations and sentenced Larson to three months in jail.

He also ordered she pay $1,000 court costs and fines and $373 restitution.

Larson asked to be allowed to report to jail March 11 so she could attend her children’s parent teacher conferences.

Monasmith granted the request.

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Driver sentenced for pawn shop, playhouse burglaries

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Wall turning into a window The remodel at Owen’s Grocery is scheduled to be completed by mid May, owner Rob Owen said. Here April Owen looks at the progress. The side will be similar to the front of the building, with large windows on the bottom and smaller windows at the top.

Newport college center to offer more vocational programs

BY DESIREÉ HOOD OF THE MINER

NEWPORT – The Newport Institute for Extended Learning is changing from a Spokane Falls Community College (SFCC) program to a Spokane Community College (SCC) program, extending graduation options to include vocational training in July.

For more than 25 years, the Newport center has been part of the IEL program under SFCC, however, more than a year ago, the parent institution Community Colleges of Spokane (CCS) decided to dissolve the program and absorb it into the SCC program options. Starting July 1, the Newport center will officially be called the Spokane Community College Newport Center, manager Pat McGinty said.

“That means that starting next June, they will be getting diplomas from SCC rather than SFCC,” McGinty said.

McGinty said if the students are scheduled to graduate before the end of 2014, the diploma would read Spokane Falls Community College. Anyone graduating starting in 2015, will have a diploma that reads Spokane Community College.

‘If any credits are lost, it will be very, very few.’

Pat McGinty

Newport Center Manager

McGinty said the Newport Center would be fully under the SCC program by July 2015.

Vocational classes being offered will be the biggest change, McGinty said. Programs in automotive technician, natural resources, fire science, legal secretary, medical assisting and pharmacy technicians are some of the new programs that will be offered at the New-

port Center. Also coming is an Emergency Responder Program, which is the first step to becoming an Emergency Medical Technician.

McGinty said some of the classes should start during the summer session.

“It’s going to open up the vocational area the county’s so needed,” McGinty said.

She said this would help the unemployment rate in the county by increasing the amount of training the students receive.

Financial aid requirements are changing slightly and McGinty said the rules state a student should know what degree they are going after when they start schooling.

“You cannot experiment with what you want to be when you grow up,” McGinty said.

The students who attend the college currently will have a couple of options. The transfer program will be the same and see minimal changes. McGinty said both

SCC and SFCC have similar transfer options so those credits will not be lost to those students.

The business students, however, may have a little more difficulty with the change over. McGinty said SCC offers different courses to satisfy the business degree.

The schools have to decide what classes to honor from the previous program. There are about 14 business students in Newport and 132 business students in Pend Oreille, Stevens and Ferry counties.

“If any credits are lost, it will be very, very few,” McGinty said.

The final SFCC graduation ceremony will be Thursday, June 19 at 6:30 p.m. at Stratton Elementary School.

NEWPORT – Michael Givens, 22, was sentenced to two months in jail for his role in burglaries at two pawn shops and the Pend Oreille Players Playhouse last July.

Givens pleaded guilty to second degree burglary and third degree malicious mischief. In exchange for his pleas, an attempted burglary charge was dismissed.

Defense attorney Robin McCroskey said Givens had no previous felony history and had just driven the car used in the burglaries.

Givens provided rides to three others who burglarized SOS Pawn Shop, Newport Pawn Shop and the

Street sweepers come out at night NEWPORT – Newport City Administrator Ray King said area residents may see street sweepers out during the night to clear the streets of the sand used during the winter months. King said the best time is at night so traffic is not impeded and a pilot car is not needed.

“There is a lot of sand,” King said, adding the city will get it up as quick as possible.

Lights went out for area residents NEWPORT – About 45 people around Newport experienced power outages Saturday, March 1. The Pend Oreille Public Utility District said the outages were caused by high winds in the area.

PUD Contracts and Public Information Administrator Eileen Dugger said there were three different outages in Newport, two from a tree falling on power lines and a

SNOWPACK: Surveys since 1939 FROM PAGE 6A

and flood control. For the most part, reservoir storage remained pretty static from the February forecast.

Streamflow forecasts vary from 65 percent of average for the Colville River at Kettle Falls to 124 percent of average for the Okanogan River at Malott. However, April through September streamflow forecasts predict most rivers will remain near normal levels based on the 30-year average. NRCS’ streamflow forecasts are one of the tools used to predict drought.

They provide information about future water supply in states where snowmelt accounts for the majority of seasonal water supply.

Streamflow in the West consists largely of accumulated mountain snow that melts and flows into streams as temperatures warm into spring and summer. NRCS scientists analyze the snowpack, air temperature, soil moisture and other measurements taken from remote sites to develop the water supply forecasts.

USDA is partnering with Western states to help mitigate the severe effects of drought on agriculture. The department is also co-leading the National Drought Resilience Partnership, comprised of seven federal agencies col-

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The standard sentencing range for someone with Given’s lack of felony history was 0-3 months for the burglary and 0-364 days on the malicious mischief charge, which is a gross misdemeanor.

Givens was the third person sentenced for the burglaries. A juvenile and another adult male were given similar sentences, Pend Oreille County Superior Court Judge Allen Nielson was told at sentencing Thursday, March 13.

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third was possibly a phase slap event. That occurs when snow falls from one line “slapping” it against the other line, causing an arc in power and the breaker to trip.

Dugger said the power was restored in less than two hours on all three outages.

“These type of outages are very typical for wind events,” Dugger said.

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Planning commission discusses various trail projects

Legislature ends on time with basic education funding unresolved

BY ELLIOT SUHR WNPA NEWS SERVICE

voted to put the bill on floor, but said it was a matter of timing.

“I think there’s a strong feeling that those are very good topics and that concept is resonating with the Legislature,” he said. “But to make that kind of decision that impacts four biennia with two days left in a short session – it’s not the best way to make that policy.”

Several bills failed to make it out of the chambers this session, including bills to

OLYMPIA – House Bill 2797 and Senate Bill 6483 have a lot in common. Both increased funding for K-3 classroom construction, both had bipartisan sponsorship and both failed to reach the governor’s desk.

In McCleary v. Washington, the state Supreme Court ruled the state was not sufficiently funding basic education. Earlier this year, the court ordered legislators to quicken the pace of funding ‘This was kind of to meet McCleary obligations – including K-3 class size a work-around to reductions. According to the see if we could get National Education Association, Washington state is support, but we’re fourth worst in the nation for still not there.’ classroom sizes.

House Bill 2797 would have sold $700 million in lotterySen. Karen Keiser, D-Kent backed bonds to fund K-3 Prime sponsor of SB 6483 classroom construction, and passed out of the House 90-7 fund teacher cost-of-living with bipartisan support. It adjustments, close tax exempfailed to make it to the Senate tions for basic education and floor after State Treasurer Jim amend teacher evaluations to McIntire said lottery-backed maintain the federal waiver bonds were too risky. for the No Child Left Behind “We couldn’t get traction act. “The problem, I think, we for it over here. There was too see somewhat similarly, it’s much opposition,” said Sen. the solution that is very differKaren Keiser, D-Kent, prime ent,” Dammeier said. sponsor of SB 6483. “This was “So to assume that we’d kind of a work-around to see be able to reconcile these if we could get support, but two approaches and get the we’re still not there.”

Legislature to agree – not in SB 6483 would have sold two days. Not in two weeks. $825 million in generalProbably not in two months,” obligation bonds – as opposed he said. to lottery-backed revenue The House Democrats probonds – to modernize STEM posed a supplemental budget facilities, fund all-day kinderearlier this year that included garten and reduce K-3 class a bill that would raise $100 sizes. million for basic education After the bill failed to pass by closing tax exemptions. out of the Senate Rules ComLeaders in the Senate Majority mittee Wednesday mornCoalition Caucus said that ing, Keiser said: “We’ll see. education funding discussions Miracles do happen, but I would be better suited for next wouldn’t hold my breath.” session when the 2015-2017 Sen. Bruce Dammeier, Rbiennium budget is on the Puyallup, who is a member of table. the Senate Rules Committee, “We’ll probably be looking

at this for next year,” said Rep. Drew MacEwen, R-Union, cosponsor on House Bill 2797. “I think later this fall, we can sit down and hammer out something that both chambers can agree to.” The court called for more money to pay for existing reforms – including teacher cost-of-living adjustments, additional funding for schools, and a plan to fully fund basic education by April 30. According to lawmakers and education officials, the state needs to find $5 billion for basic education by 2018.

The $155 million supplemental budget enacted last Thursday allocated $58 million for K-12 materials and operating costs, but included no provisions for K-3 class size reductions.

“If we go out another year, it puts us in more of a crunch,” MacEwen said. “We’ll definitely have to work harder to get it addressed sooner.”

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SANDPOINT – The paths that various trail projects and plans are taking in Bonner County will be the topic of a special planning and zoning commission workshop Thursday, March 20, in Sandpoint. The meeting starts at 5:30 p.m. in the county administration building, 1500 Highway 2.

The county has drafted a trails master plan that is awaiting key mapping components.

Meanwhile, the community has been working several trails projects and exploring other potential trails and trail plans.

Liz Johnson-Gebhardt of the Priest Community Forest Connection will update the commission on the Pend Oreille River Passage Trail, proposed from Dover to Oldtown.

The passage trail has been given a technical assistance grant from the National Park Service.

Susan Drumheller will update the commission the Pend d’Oreille Bay Trail project in SEE TRAILS, 8A

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mote healthier forests and improve the economy. I am confident that this can be done in a way that protects the environment and ensures a sustainable harvest.

The “A to Z” Project will demonstrate how it can be done – I want Ferry, Stevens

and Pend Oreille counties to be the model for the rest of the nation.

With a creative and innovative approach by the federal government, the Colville National Forest will continue to be the economic engine for our Northeast Washington counties for years to come. Looking

ahead, I will continue to fight for priorities that reflect the needs of Eastern Washington and that will promote jobs, economic growth, and prosperity.

REP. CATHY MCMORRIS RODGERS, R-WASH., IS THE CONGRESSWOMAN REPRESENTING DISTRICT 5 OF WASHINGTON STATE, INCLUDING PEND OREILLE COUNTY.

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Museum to hold quarterly historical lectures

BY DESIREÉ HOOD OF THE MINER

NEWPORT – The Pend Oreille County Historical Society and Museum is bringing the Society Lecture Series 2014 to Newport this summer to teach area residents the history of past wars, the Civilian Conservation Corps in the Pacific Northwest and other popular history subjects.

Four lectures will be offered throughout 2014 on a quarterly basis. The lectures are free to the public. Donations will be accepted. This series of four is on a trial basis and Historical Society President Duane Becker said this series would pave the way for future lectures.

“We are going to see if the public supports it and helps out,” Becker said. “Then we can continue in the future.”

“The Civil War: The day-to-day life of the soldier,” will be presented Tuesday, April 22 at 7 p.m. at the museum meeting room, 402 S. Washington Ave. Civil War historian Bill Kendall will be presenting.

“Naturalist David Douglas in the Pacific Northwest 1825-33” by Author Jack Nisbet is scheduled Thursday, June 19 at 7 p.m. at the Roxy Theater.

Nisbet is a teacher and naturalist living in Spokane. He has several publications on human and natural history including “Sources of the River” and “Purple Flat Top.” Becker said this would be a popular show for area residents so the museum rented the Roxy.

“We expect quite a large attendance,” Becker said.

“The One Hundredth Anniversary of World War I” by Spokane Community College History Professor Don Popejoy will be Tuesday, Aug. 12 at 7 p.m. at the museum meeting room.

The final lecture of the season, “The Civilian

Conservation Corps in the Pacific Northwest”

by Spokane Community College History Professor at the Newport Center Kris Cornelis will be Tuesday, Sept. 9 at WHAT’S NEXT: 7 p.m. in the museum “THE CIVIL WAR: The meeting room. day-to-day life of the soldier,” Tuesday, April 22, Each lecture is about 7 p.m. an hour in length with a half hour scheduled for a question and answer session with the speakers. Becker said the speakers would have their books and publications on hand for any interested parties.

The Society Lecture Series will offer lectures on history, art, geology and current events in the hopes to increase the area residents understanding of the world.

The lectures are possible because the museum received a $1,000 Opportunity Grant from Humanities Washington. This grant

‘We are going to see if the public supports it and helps out.’

Duane Becker

Historical Society President

does not require a cash match and is available to rural organizations for public presentations.

Becker said the funds from this grant only cover the speakers’ stipends. The Friends of the Museum will be holding fundraisers to help with additional costs.

Becker said flyers about each lecture would be out about two weeks prior to the event. He said the museum board is happy to be giving back to the community.

“Everybody is confident it will work,” Becker said.

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the Sandpoint/Ponderay/Kootenai area and will discuss a recently launched communi-

ty-wide trails planning effort, given an early tag name of “Trail Mix.” After the presentations, the commission will discuss strat-

egies to complete its master plan, and how the plan can work with these community efforts. The public is invited to attend.

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Middle school, hospital raising funds for Meals On Wheels Program NEWPORT – Sadie Halstead Middle School is collecting coins for the local Meals on Wheels program, March 17, through April 4, and Newport Hospital and Health Services is auctioning off gift baskets to support the cause March 24-28.

In 2013, the local Meals on Wheels program of Rural Resources Community Action, served more than 13,000 meals to seniors in the tri-county area, 3,847 of those going to residents in Pend Oreille County.

Projections show that in 2014 as many as 16,000 meals will be provided through the program.

All proceeds from these events will go to sustaining the work of Meals on Wheels. You can also make a donation to the program by sending a check to the Senior Nutrition Program (at-

tention March for Meals) at 956 South Main St., Colville, WA 99114 or by contacting Anita Sailor at 1-800-873-

‘Thus, they remain happier, extend their independence and can stay connected to the communities that provide them comfort.’

Senior Nutrition Program Rural Resources

5889 or 509-685-6054.

Meals on Wheels delivers a nutritious meal, a safety

check and the smile that serve as a lifeline to seniors of limited mobility. This combination goes well beyond fighting the battle against the hunger that threatens one in six of American seniors, it provides the support and peace of mind that enable them to remain safely and securely in their own homes as they continue to age, according to the Senior Nutrition Program press release.

“Thus, they remain happier, extend their independence and can stay connected to the communities that provide them comfort,” the press release stated.

The month of March mobilizes hundreds of local Meals on Wheels programs across the country to reach out to their communities and build the support that will sustain them all year long.

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Gallery exhibits local, regional artists METALINE FALLS – The work of local artisan Chris Scauflaire will be on display in the Kirtland Cutter Gallery, Saturday, March 15 through Wednesday, April 9.

Chris Scauflaire’s work includes the use of driftwood and other woods to create home decorations and art pieces as well as walking sticks. All the pieces in the show are for sale and arrangements for purchase can be made through the

Cutter Theatre office.

The gallery is looking to book area and regional artists for the remainder of the 2014 season as well as considering artists for 2015.

An artist may choose to have an independent show or join with other artists for a joint show. The shows run for about four weeks.

An artist may sell their works through the Cutter on commission. The

gallery is open during regular business hours Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and during special events at the Cutter Theatre.

For complete details on gallery exhibitions and to answer any questions on a gallery show, contact the Cutter Theatre at 509-446-4108. The Cutter Theatre is located at 302 Park St. in Metaline Falls.

Garden cart raffle tickets available METALINE FALLS – The Women’s Fellowship of the Metaline Falls Congregational United Church of Christ is holding its annual Garden Cart Raffle. The drawing will be held after worship Sunday, April 27 and residents do not need to be present to win.

Tickets are $1 each and are available from any member of the Fellowship or by contacting the church at 509446-3301.

The prize includes a garden cart or wheelbarrow plus tools, seeds, soil and other gardening items, on display at the Metaline Falls Trading Company in the front window.

The proceeds of the raffle help the Fellowship support local, regional and world mission work.

Cutter hiring Executive Director METALINE FALLS – The Cutter Theatre is hiring an Executive Director for a full-time position, with relatively flexible hours beginning at $11 per hour.

The best qualified candidates will demonstrate excellent communication and organizational skills, previous work experience managing volunteers, a working knowledge of Microsoft Office and other computer software, prioritize in a busy work environment, have strong attention to detail, be comfortable working with the public, have previous experi-

ence working with and for non-profit organizations and with a board of directors, and to believe and work for the mission and long-term commitment of the Cutter Theatre.

Applicants interested in joining the Cutter team should send a cover letter and resume with professional references to cutter@potc.net or deliver in person to The Cutter Theatre, 302 Park St., Metaline Falls. Applications will be accepted until Monday, March 31 at 4 p.m.

For more information call 509-446-4108.

Play auditions rescheduled METALINE FALLS – The Cutter Theatre’s production of the musical “Free To Be, You And Me” has been rescheduled for May of 2015.

The rescheduling is due to situations beyond the control of the Cutter.

Those interested in auditions are asked to look at their 2015 calendar. The auditions are rescheduled for March 2015.

Information on the auditions will be available in January. If you have questions about this production, contact the Cutter Theatre artistic director Tara Leininger at 509-446-4108.

Information request denied

BY DESIREÉ HOOD OF THE MINER

NEWPORT – A Freedom of Information Act request from The Miner for information about the whistleblower complaint being investigated involving the Pend Oreille Public Utility District’s federal grant for their fiber project was denied by the Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Commerce, Friday, March 7. The reason stated for denial was FOIA Exemption 7(a), stating the information could interfere with an ongoing investigation.

The Miner filed the FOIA request Jan. 31.

The Pend Oreille Public Utility District received a letter dated Jan. 9 stating the OIG had “credible infor-

mation” about actions by employees and contractors to the PUD that “could constitute fraud related to funds derived” from the CNS fiber to the premise federal stimulus grant.

The investigator was following up on a whistleblower complaint. The federal procedures for investigating these complaints is unique for funds granted under stimulus programs.

In 2009, Congress realized that large amounts of cash were being quickly granted for stimulus projects and added these procedures that are largely confidential to protect the whistleblower.

The letter does not state who the whistleblower was or what the OIG is investigating regarding the National Telecommunications and Informa-

tion Agency’s (NTIA) Broadband Technologies Opportunity Program (BTOP) grant CNS was awarded for the fiber to the premise project. The Miner had requested both.

The whistleblower protection clause of the law makes the OIG responsible for determining if a whistleblower was demoted or had a reduction in pay made by the employer because of the complaint.

The investigator for OIG visited the PUD Jan. 15. According to the law, the Inspector General has 180 days to file a report of findings from the time the complaint was received.

Within 30 days of receiving the findings, the agency head will determine whether there was a violation and order appropriate relief.

George Winston returns to Cutter METALINE FALLS – The Cutter Theatre welcomes back George Winston for a benefit matinee performance Sunday, April 13 at 2 p.m.

Tickets are $20 and reservations are strongly encouraged.

Winston is a worldrenowned pianist and composer and came to the Cutter Theatre in 2009. He asked the Cutter Theatre for a return appearance for another benefit concert.

Along with the Cutter Theatre, the local food bank will also be part of the evening. Winston asks all those in attendance to bring canned items to donate to the Ione Food Bank.

Winston’s latest album, “Gulf Coast Blues & Impressions 2: A Louisiana Wetlands Benefit,” is his third benefit album. All proceeds will be donated to groups working to cleanup after

BOISE – The Idaho State Board of Land Commissioners Land Board last week approved new values for 377 lake lots owned by the state endowment trust.

Most of the lots that were appraised – 342 of them – are located on the shores of Priest Lake and currently leased by individuals who own cabins and other improvements on the land.

Values for 16 leased lots at Payette Lake in McCall also were approved, along with some lots at both lakes that are not leased. The Land Board and Idaho Department of Lands

At Priest Lake the change in values between 2012 and 2013 increased substantially. manage more than 500 lots at both lakes under a constitutional mandate to maximize financial returns to public schools and other State institutions.

Most Priest Lake lessees voiced concerns in early 2013 when IDL released values for the more than 500 lots at both lakes, based on third party appraisals that were completed in 2013. The appraisals establish fee simple market value of the lots for leasing purposes.

At Payette Lake there was little difference in the collective

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values of the lots between 2012 and 2013, and most lessees accepted the new values as the basis for lease payments.

However, at Priest Lake the change in values between 2012 and 2013 increased substantially.

In light of concerns about the 2013 appraisals, in May 2013 the Land Board offered lessees the option to request a reappraisal of the land beneath their cabins. Many of the Priest Lake lessees opted for reappraisals. IDL subsequently hired a different appraisal firm to perform the reappraisals.

The 2014 values approved last week were the result of the reappraisal process. A review team of IDL staff and one deputy attorney general was established for each lake, and every single appraisal was reviewed for quality assurance and quality control.

Lessees again can challenge the newest values. The newest values and other information about the process are available on the IDL Web site at http://www.idl.idaho.gov/ cottage-sites/index.html.

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His album, “Forest” won a Grammy in 1994, while seven of his albums have gone Multi-Platinum, Platinum, and Gold. Winston founded his recording company, Dancing Cat Records, in 1983.

Winston grew up in Montana but spent years in Mississippi and Florida.

Blues, R&B, rock and jazz have all had a part in Winston’s musical growth.

He developed what he calls “folk piano” as a composition style.

Winston has released 13 albums and tours extensively throughout the country. He is currently working on Hawaiian slack key guitar recordings and continues to play the harmonica.

For reservations contact the Cutter Theatre at 509446-4108.

Poster contest for Cutter auction METALINE FALLS – The Cutter Theatre is holding a poster contest for the upcoming benefit auction. Event chairwoman Cheri Winther is looking for a logo or design that highlights the Cutter Theatre and an auction.

Deadline for entries is Friday, March 28 at 4 p.m. All entries should be dropped off at the Cutter Theatre at 302 Park St., mailed to P.O. Box 133, Metaline Falls, WA 99153 or emailed email to cutter@potc.net.

The winning designer will receive two tickets to any upcoming Cutter production, with their name in the auction program and their introduction at the auction itself. The winning design will be used with the information for the event, including the date of the event, Saturday, May 10 at 7 p.m. with a silent and bidding auction. Spirits and beverages will be sold.

For more information, call the Cutter Theatre at 509-4464108.

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LEVY: Hundreds of no votes because of common core “I wonder what happened to that money,” she said. When cuts are made, they don’t members heard from both sides during the come from sports. public comment period, including parents, “Sports were never in danger of being students and teachers. cut,” she said.

“They are now,” someone in the audience said.

‘We need to reduce the levy One parent said she didn’t like the way by enough that people who she was treated by a teacher when she inquired about her son’s class. didn’t support it think we “Why should I vote for a levy when I can’t get an answer from a teacher?” she did all we can.’ said.

Another student said some students voted against the levy as a statement Eric Eldenburg against the dominance of sports in school Board Vice Chairman life. But when the levy isn’t passed, more than sports suffer, she said.

“This should be humbling for the board “We all lose out, not just sports,” she said. and the district,” one woman said. She The levy was too large, a woman said. said the public needs specifics about what She said she had been working in the area the levy money would be used for. She said 20 years and had received only one raise the flyers that the district distributed were in that time. This year her wages were cut, essentially threats about what would be she said. lost if the levy failed.

Common core standards – national stanThe individual board members didn’t do dards for basic subjects – were blasted. enough to promote the levy, one student One man said common core standards said. She said she and other students had were a primary reason the levy failed. worked to get the levy passed, attending “The underlying problems will hurt every many events. student,” he said of common core stan“I didn’t see any of you there,” she said. dards. He said if the board would be specific Another student said the district didn’t about what the levy would pay for, then the keep promises about what last year’s levy public could decide what to cut. money would be used for. The district didn’t Greg Schuh, the district’s band director, have the academic decathlon program, one agreed that perceptions about common of the things promised in the last levy, she core standards were a major reason the said. The district promised the program levy failed. He said he works in every school $3,000, she said. in the district and heard about common core throughout the district.

“There were hundreds of no votes because of common core,” he said.

The district hasn’t any control over common core, though, he said.

“It’s not going away,” he NEWPORT – Stratton Elementary is hosting a Spring Carsaid. nival, Thursday, March 20 from 5-7:15 p.m., where games, Levy supporters, inclown searching and a ball-filled dunk tank will take center cluding several students, stage. spoke in support of the Kindergarten teacher Pam Nichols said there would be lots school and the need to of activities for children and adults. pass a levy.

Nichols said the games include bingo, bowling, mini “puttOne parent of three putt” golf, a cake walk, a dunk tank filled with balls, a jumpy said she would help procastle, a gold fish toss, a coin toss and Plinko. mote the levy next time.

A roaming clown with balloons will be at the carnival and She said too many people any child that gets a balloon will win a prize. didn’t have enough inIn addition to games, there will be chicken strips, nachos, formation about the levy. cookies and cotton candy.

About 50 items are being raffled off, tickets costing $1 each.

Prizes include a two-night stay at StoneRidge Resort, a family trip to Cattails in Spokane, a family pass to Triple Play Family Fun Park and many different gift certificates from local businesses.

“People just donate really well for us,” Nichols said. “It’s pretty fun.”

The money raised from the event will be put toward playground equipment for the school. Nichols said some of the bigger equipment can cost up to $10,000.

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Games, clown search at Stratton Carnival

Priest River License Office re-opens doors PRIEST RIVER – The Priest River Driver’s License Office will be open for business Thursday, March 27 at 9 a.m. The office closed Feb. 12 due to a shortage of personnel. It is located off E. Settlement Road, next to the sheriff’s substation on the east side of Priest River.

Licensing staff appreciates the residents of Bonner County for patience during the closure of the licensing office.

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Butch Perry tells the West Bonner County School District board of trustees that the $3.5 million failed levy was simply too large. The district held a special meeting at Priest River Lamanna High School to decide whether to put a new levy forward in May and to decide what size it would be. Directors unanimously voted to put a $3 million before voters in May.

After the public comments, school board members discussed what to do.

Vice chairman Eric Eldenburg said that the board needed to decide whether to run the levy again. The board voted to do so.

The next step was to decide the amount of the levy. As they did when they set the levy size to begin with, they went around the table asking for an amount.

Eldenburg said that people were not happy with the amount of the levy. He said the levy amount represented wants, not needs, a position he held from the start.

“We have one chance to pass it and if it doesn’t pass, we’ll have to cut fall sports,” he said. “We need to reduce the levy by enough that people who didn’t support it think we did all we can.”

Board chairwoman Sandy Brower said she didn’t want the public to think the levy was padded to begin with.

“When we picked the amount, it was bare bones,” she said.

Phil Hixson was in favor of putting the same levy back before the voters.

“We should not reduce it,” he said. He said the quality of schools were important in attracting businesses.

Tony Lamanna said there was a real danger with putting the same levy back to the voters. He said the board represented the no votes as much as the people who supported the levy.

“Are we willing to fail again?” he asked.

“I’m not.”

Drew McLain acknowledged that the board hadn’t communicated enough about the levy. He initially favored a $3.7 million levy, larger than the $3.5 million levy that was defeated.

“Am I willing to double down?” he said.

He wasn’t. “I’m not willing to ask for $3.5 million.”

Eldenburg said that the district should run a 10 or 20 year bond issue for the capital improvements and use the supplemental levy for maintenance and operations.

In the end the board voted unanimously to go for a $3 million supplemental levy in May. A meeting of the board’s finance committee was set for Wednesday, March 19, at 7 a.m. at the district’s office in Priest River to decide the specifics of what to cut from the proposal.

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B R I E F LY Art group calls all artists for April show NEWPORT – The Evergreen Art Association is sponsoring an open juried art show April 25.

Joe Kronenberg of Spirit Lake, an oil painter of western art, will jury the show.

Monetary awards will be given in six categories. For a prospectus, go to www.evergreenartassociation.weebly.com or call Robert Karr at 509-671-1539.

Dinner and dancing benefit food bank NEWPORT – Three high school students are hosting a Spring Roundup Dinner and Dance as a senior project, to raise money for the Newport Food Bank Saturday, March 29 from 5-9 p.m. at the Newport High School cafeteria.

The country-style dinner costs $7 per person, $10 for a couple and $25 for a family of up to seven people. Tickets can be purchased at Sadie Halstead Middle School, The Shanty, Station 2:41 Coffeehouse and at the door.

A raffle will be offered during the event.

Taste lots of chili, vote for your favorite PRIEST RIVER – The Priest River Chamber of Commerce is holding its first annual Chili CookOff, Saturday, April 5, from 4-6 p.m. in downtown Priest River.

The winner will be chosen by popular vote. Each sample is $1.

For entry into the contest, contact the chamber at 208-448-2721 or prchamber@conceptcable. com. The event will be held at the corner of Main and High streets.

Local resident named to Dean’s List at Pacific University FOREST GROVE, Ore. – Kathryn Onley of Newport has been named to the Dean’s List at Pacific University, Ore., for Fall Semester 2013. Onley is among 332 of Pacific’s 1,783 undergraduate students to achieve this high academic honor.

To qualify for the Dean’s List at Pacific, a student must achieve a term grade-point average 3.70 out of 4.0 and complete 12 or more graded hours.

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Tea, fashion supports young lives NEWPORT – Young Lives is hosting An Elegant Tea and Fashion Show, Saturday, April 12 at the Foxwood House to raise money for the program that supports pregnant teens and teenage mothers.

The showings will be at 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.

Tickets for the adult only show cost $20 and can be purchased at My Sister’s Cottage, Petticoat Junction, The Shanty and North Country Clothing.

Preschool mothers gather and share playtime DALKENA – Mothers of preschoolers are invited to Moms of Precious Little Ones (MOPLO) Friday, March 21 from 9-11 a.m. at Dalkena Church to learn first aid and CPR for infants and children.

Ken Peralta will be teaching the CPR and first aid. He is an EMT with the Kalispel Tribal Fire Department.

The meetings are held on the third Friday of each month and are free to attend. Meetings include speakers, crafts, snacks, encouragement and networking with other moms. A children’s program is provided for ages 5 and under.

For more information, call Denise Pontius at 509-447-0271 or email timdenisep@yahoo.com.

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A five-course tea will be served and the fashion show will feature spring outfits from local retailers. Young Lives is part of the greater YoungLife organization. It provides a change in the lives of pregnant teens and teenage mothers through mentoring, club activities and camps.

Donations will be accepted by calling Terry at 509-589-0033 or by mail at P.O. Box 941, Newport, WA 99156.

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Sun and fun at the Skate Park Even a few puddles would not stop area teenagers from enjoying the first peek of the warming spring weather by going to Newport City Park and skating the ramps, Tuesday, March 11.

NEWPORT – Pend Oreille County Sheriff Alan Botzheim will speak at the local Oath Keepers meeting Saturday, March 22, at 5:30 p.m. at the Hospitality House in Newport.

Oath Keepers is an organization of military, veterans, reserves, peace officers, National Guard, first responders and other like-minded citizens, who will “honor the oath we swore to defend the Constitution.”

For more information, call Brad Hanson at 509-6713585.

Usk Spring bazaar set for April 12 USK – The Usk Community Club is preparing for its biggest fundraiser of the year, the Spring Bazaar, set for Saturday, April 12, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., with lunch served from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event will take place at the Old Usk School at 2221 Black Road.

In addition to a variety of things to buy from venders, the Spring Bazaar will feature plenty of good food, including homemade soups, chili, chilidogs, pies, breads and cinnamon rolls.

“It’s all homemade and tastes great,” said Barb McGill, president of the Usk Community Club.

The food is affordable.

People can buy as much or as little as they want. All proceeds will benefit the Usk Community Club.

The club put in new flooring in the bathroom and kitchen with the money raised at earlier events. The Usk Community Club also sponsors two $500 scholarships each year.

The fundraiser is key to the activities of the group continuing, McGill said.

“If people don’t support us, we won’t be here,” she said.

McGill said the group is still looking for old pictures of Usk, Cusick and the Civilian Conservation Corps camp. Copies are desired, rather that the original pictures.

“We have a lot of old pictures,” McGill said. The pictures are one of the main things of interest at events at the Usk school, along with old athletic trophies.

The group is also seeking vendors for the Spring Bazaar, she said.

“We normally have about 26-28 tables,” she said. “We still have room for about 10. If we get any more than that, people can’t move around and look at all the things.”

The Usk Community Club holds the popular annual Fourth of July pancake breakfast.

The all classes Usk School Reunion is set for July 12, starting at 9:30 a.m.

People who attended Cusick schools are also welcome. There will be a

‘Beauty is a Beast’ this weekend NEWPORT – The Pend Oreille Players present “Beauty is a Beast” Friday through Sunday, March 21-23, at the Pend Oreille Playhouse, 240 N. Union, Newport. The production is put on by area third through sixth graders.

Tickets are $10 in advance and $12 at the door for adults.

Youth, ages 5-18, get in for $5.

The cast includes Drew Clark at Princess Beauty, Mia Shults as Honor, Connor Davis as Nick, Sierra Hudson as Fairy Godmother, J.D. Brooks as Andres, Taylia Culver as Janie, Kayla Carvell as Scribe, Hannah Livingston as Queen/Mary, Bekah Brooks as Tutor/Meg/Patty/Mary, Ayla Culver as Mayor/Guard 1/Penny (Peter), Brian Taylor as Sam/Jimmy/Bill/Guard 2, Malerie Gay as Cindy/ Sarah/Sally/Patty, and Helen Whiting Thompson as Jill.

Tickets can be purchased in advance at the playhouse, or online at www.pendoreilleplayers.org.

Church offers free meal NEWPORT – The Newport Southern Baptist Church is hosting a free meal Friday, March 21 at 6 p.m. at the Hospitality

House, 216 Washington Ave., Newport.

This is a New Beginnings event. For more information call 509-447-3742.

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Students at the old Usk School pose for a picture in this undated picture. The school will hold its all class reunion July 12. On April 12 the Usk Community Club will hold its big fundraiser – the Spring Bazaar.

brunch served.

Later this fall, the Fall Bazaar will be held, although CALVARY CHAPEL NEWPORT

“Where The Sheep Go To Be Fed” 101 S. Scott • Newport Sunday Morning 10 a.m.

(509) 939-0676 CalvaryNewport@aol.com / 97.3 FM “I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.”

John 6:35

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

a date hasn’t been finalized yet, McGill said.

For more information, UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST 3rd and Spokane St., Newport, WA Worship Service ~ 10:00 a.m.

Church School ~ 10:00 a.m.

Nursery Care Available Rev. Russell Clark 447-4121 newportucc@conceptcable.com www.newportucc.org

Community Church Directory

S.S. ~ 9:30 • Worship ~ 11 a.m.

Family Night, Wednesday ~ 7 p.m.

(Bible and Youth Clubs) Pastor Sandy Strait - 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

SPRING VALLEY MENNONITE CHURCH

4912 Spring Valley Road Sunday: 9:45 a.m. Worship Service 11 a.m. -- Sunday School (509) 447-3588

contact McGill at 509-4451433 or Frances Hupp at 509-445-1223.

AMERICAN LUTHERAN CHURCH E.L.C.A.

332801 Hwy. 2, P.O. Box 653, Newport Pastors Matt & Janine Goodrich Sunday School 9 am - Worship Service 10 am (509) 447-4338

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

NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH

CATHOLIC MASSES

Newport: St. Anthony’s, 447-4231 612 W. First St., Sun. - 11 a.m.

Usk: St. Jude’s River Rd., Sat. - 5p.m.

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.

SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS

Newport Church - Corner of Lilac Lane & Hwy. 20 North Head Elder Gilbert Navarro (509) 447-4755 Sat. Morning Services Sabbath School 9:30 • Worship 11:00 NACS THRIFT SHOP (509) 447-3488 PO Valley Church School (208) 437-2638

4 Miles South of Newport, Hwy. 2 Sun.: 9:30 Sun. School, 10:30, Worship, 6 p.m. Evening Service Sun. & Wed. at Pastor’s house. Jams 5 pm 2nd Saturdays Pastor, Walt Campbell: 447-5101

HOUSE OF THE LORD

754 Silver Birch Ln. • Oldtown, ID 83822 ‘’Contemporary Worship’’ Sun. ~ 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.

“United Generation Church” Youth Group Wednesday 6 p.m.

Jeff & Robie Ecklund, Pastors • 437-2032 www.hotl.me

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 a.m.

Evening Worship 6:30 p.m.

Bible Study Weds. 6:30 p.m.

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Sports

B R I E F LY Cusick, Selkirk open baseball seasons Saturday CUSICK – Both Cusick and Selkirk baseball teams are scheduled to open their season Saturday, March 22.

Cusick will host LindRitzville-Sprague for a game that starts at noon.

Tuesday, March 25, the Panthers are scheduled to play St. George’s, also at Cusick.

Selkirk will host Columbia at noon Saturday, March 22, with the game scheduled to start at noon.

PRIEST RIVER – The Priest River and Newport high school baseball teams opened their seasons after deadline Tuesday, playing each other at Priest River.

The Spartans are scheduled to host St. Maries Thursday, March 20. That game will start at 4 p.m. at Priest River Junior High. The fol-

Newport boys take on Colville

NEWPORT – The Newport Grizzlies travel to Bonners Ferry Saturday, March 22 at 10 a.m., to take on the Bonners Ferry Badgers in the track invitational meet.

This is the first meet of the season for the Grizzlies.

Cusick, Selkirk begin softball season CUSICK – The Cusick softball team hosts LindRitzville-Sprague Saturday, March 22, at noon.

Selkirk hosts Columbia Saturday, March 22, at noon.

lowing Tuesday, March 25, the Spartans will travel to St. Maries to play again.

After Priest River, Newport will travel to Medical Lake for a game Saturday, March 22, at 11 a.m. The Grizzlies will return home to host Chewelah Wednesday, March 26. That game will start at 4 p.m.

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Snow flies when having fun Senior Erin Rednour, left, dives to finish her race at the Newport High School track practice where they held the annual Snowshoe 50. Her opponent, freshman Sonja Moore, finished the 50-yard dash in 12.5 seconds and Rednour finished in 11.55 seconds. Both are distance runners for the track team.

Plenty of time to enter super hunt drawing

Newport Gun Club results

Grizzly track gets underway

Newport, Priest River softball game canceled

Grizzlies, Spartans open baseball season

PRIEST RIVER – The Priest River Spartans high school basketball team will hold their awards Monday, March 24, at 7 p.m. at the cafeteria at Priest River Lamanna High School.

NEWPORT – The Newport Gun Club held its weekly shoot Sunday, March 16.

Following are the results: 16 Yard: A-class: Steve Patton, winner, Nick Larson, runner-up by shoot off; B-class: Bud Leu, winner, Runnerup, undecided. C-class: Duane Randolph, winner; Bob Avey, runnerup. D-class: Ben Weeks, winner; Chris Yeaw, runner-up.

Ladies: Amy Reijonen, winner; Jessica Hankey, runner-up Youth: Nick Deerwester, winner Handicap: Steve Patton, winner; Bud Leu, runner-up Doubles: A-class: Rob Linton, winner; Dan Reijonen, runner-up B-class: Phil Flack, winner; Dale Maki, runner-up C-class: Nick Larson, winner; Harry Williamson, runner-up Continental: Bud Leu, winner; Mark Deinhardt, runner-up 27 Yard: Mark Deinhardt, winner; Bud Leu, runner-up High Overall: Bud Leu

PRIEST RIVER – The Priest River and Newport softball game scheduled for Tuesday was canceled due to unplayable field conditions. It is tentatively rescheduled for Thursday, March 27.

Priest River will host St. Maries Thursday, March 20, and Mary Walker in a doubleheader Saturday, March 22. Thursday’s game begins at 4 p.m. and the first game of the Mary Walker doubleheader is at 11 a.m.

The Spartans then travel to St. Maries Tuesday, March 25, starting at 4 p.m.

Newport travels to Medical Lake Saturday, March 22 to play at 11 a.m., then hosts Chewelah Wednesday, March 26, at 4 p.m.

Spartan basketball awards given March 24

NEWPORT – The Newport boys soccer team plays Colville at home Friday, March 21, at 4 p.m.

Their first game of the season was Tuesday, March 18, against Mead junior varsity, played after The Miner went to press.

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BOISE – It’s not too early to enter the first Super Hunt drawing in June. The deadline is May 31.

With every entry in Fish and Game’s Super Hunt drawings, hunters get a chance at winning the hunt of a lifetime, and their entry fee helps support hunter and angler access to and across private lands.

The first drawing in June will pick 26 lucky hunters, each of whom will win one of 25 tags – eight elk, eight deer, and eight pronghorn hunts as well as one moose hunt. One “Super Hunt Combo” entry also will be drawn that will entitle the winner to hunt for one each elk, deer, pronghorn and moose.

The second drawing will be in August when another “Super Hunt Combo” and entries for two elk, two deer, and two pronghorn hunts along with one moose hunt will be drawn. The entry period for the second drawing is June 1 through Aug. 10.

Winners can participate in any open hunt in the state for deer, elk, pronghorn or moose, including general hunts and controlled hunts, in addition to any general season or controlled hunt tags they also hold.

Hunters who win any Super Hunt tag may still enter controlled hunts, except where other restrictions apply. All other rules of individual hunts apply.

The first Super Hunt entry will cost $6.

Each additional entry purchased at the same time will cost $4 each. The Super Hunt Combo entries work the same way.

The first one costs $20, and each additional entry purchased at the same time will cost $16. There is no limit to the number of entries.

Entries are available at license vendors,

The first drawing in June will pick 26 lucky hunters, each of whom will win one of 25 tags – eight elk, eight deer, and eight pronghorn hunts as well as one moose hunt.

Fish and Game offices, or they can be ordered on the Internet at http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/public/hunt/?getPage=22, and on the phone at 800-554-8685. Completed entry order forms can be mailed to: Idaho Fish and Game License Section, P.O. Box 25, Boise, ID 83707.

Check out the Super Hunt Facebook page at www.facebook.com/#!/pages/SuperHunt-Idaho/171792339534643.

S P O RT S S C O R E B O A R D BOWLING MARCH 10 OK Lanes Junior League Team Ya Ya’s Strike Outs Prehistoric Turk Turkey Hunters

Won 33.5 33 33 20.5

High scratch game: Collin Dietrick 210, Madison Hilden 127. High scratch series: John Hilden 484, Madison Hilden 361. High handicap game: Collin Dietrick 303, Madison Hilden 199. High handicap series: Collin Dietrick 703, Madison Hilden 577.

Tigers Jaguars Lions

37 15 11

High scratch game: Cody Stewart 29, Teagan Zinsky. High scratch series: Cody Stewart 53, Teagan Zinsky. High handicap game: Cody Stewart 177. High handicap series: Cody Stewart 349.

MARCH 12 Wednesday Night Looper News Team Won Lost Ok Lanes 377 298 Pooch Parlor 351 324 Club Rio 345.5 329.5

McCroskey Defense Pend Oreille Marine Treasurers A-Z

341 334 318 357 292.5 382.5

High scratch game: Larry Burnham 247.

High handicap game: Larry Burnham 272.

High scratch series: Larry Burnham, Arlo Hoisington 597. High handicap series: Arlo Hoisington 678. High team scratch game: OK Lanes 884. High handicap game: OK Lanes 1,040. High team scratch series: OK Lanes 2,575. High handicap series: OK Lanes 3,043. Converted splits: Sharon Reed 3-10; Jeff Huling 7-9; Tom Porinchok 3-10, 3-10.

MARCH 13 Thursday Niters Team Dysfunctional Wilkinson Rental Enforcers Plain Nasty’s Wanna Bees Country Lane Diesel Dawgs OK Lanes

Won Lost 66 42 59 49 59 49 54 54 52 56 50 58 47 61 45 59

High scratch game team: Country Lane 740. High handicap game team: Country Lane 901. High scratch series team: Country Lane 2,062. High handicap series: Dysfunctional 2,546. High scratch game: Duane Jones 246, Vicki Nolting 201. High handicap game: Duane Jones 246, Vicki Nolting 272.

High scratch series: Duane Jones 601, Vicki Nolting 491. High handicap series: Michael Frisque 647, Vicki Nolting 704. Converted splits: Shirley Ownbey 4-5-7, Duane Jones 5-7, Ralph LeGrand 2-7-8, Pinky Ownbey 4-6-7-9-10, Kendra Dodge 3-5-10, Gordon Batsch 3-10.

MARCH 14 Friday Night Leftovers Team Stoney Rollers Party of Four EZ-Rider Weber Enterprises Gutter Gang Timber Room O.K. Lanes Stone Ridge Lakers Cusick Tavern King Pin Nick’s Angels Screamin 4 Ice Cream

Won Lost 68 44 64 48 62 50 60 52 60 52 57 55 55.5 56.5 53.5 58.5 53 59 47 65 46 66 46 66

High scratch game: Jeff Huling 258, Sara Goss 201. High handicap game: Larry Burnham 277, Linda Benzo 267. High scratch series: Jeff Huling 711, Sara Goss 462. High handicap series: Nate Rodriquez 738, Linda Benzo 677. Converted splits: Linda Benzo 5-8-10, Cindy Lattery 5-10, Sherry Loveridge 6-10, Pat Shields 4-7-8-10, Jim Loveridge 6-10, Jim Goss 3-6-7-10.

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Pend Oreille County All Stars Cusick’s Caytlin Nenema defends Selkirk’s Katie Couch in the District 7 All Star Basketball Showcase played at Davenport High School this past weekend. Also playing from Cusick were Nalene Andrews and Alajah Henry.

S P O RT S C A L E N D A R THURSDAY, MARCH 20

cal Lake High School

PRIEST RIVER SOFTBALL VS. ST. MARIES: 4 p.m. - Priest River Junior High

NEWPORT SOFTBALL VS. MEDICAL LAKE: 11 a.m. - Medical Lake High School

PRIEST RIVER BASEBALL VS. ST. MARIES: 4 p.m. - Priest River Junior High

SELKIRK SOFTBALL VS. COLUMBIA: Noon - Selkirk High School

FRIDAY, MARCH 21

CUSICK SOFTBALL VS. LINDRITZVILLE-SPRAGUE: Noon Cusick High School

NEWPORT BOYS SOCCER VS. COLVILLE: 4 p.m. - Newport High School

SATURDAY, MARCH 22 OPEN GYM, ADULT BASKETBALL LOCATION: 7 a.m. - Newport High School PRIEST RIVER AND NEWPORT TRACK AT BONNERS FERRY INVITE: 10 a.m. - Bonners Ferry High School SELKIRK BASEBALL VS. NORTHWEST CHRISTIAN: 10 a.m. Northwest Christian PRIEST RIVER SOFTBALL VS. MARY WALKER: 11 a.m. - Priest River Junior High NEWPORT BASEBALL VS. MEDICAL LAKE: 11 a.m. - Medi-

TUESDAY, MARCH 25 CUSICK BASEBALL VS. ST. GEORGE’S: 1 p.m. - Cusick High School PRIEST RIVER SOFTBALL VS. ST. MARIES: 4 p.m. - St. Maries High School PRIEST RIVER BASEBALL VS. ST. MARIES: 4 p.m. - St. Maries High School

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26 NEWPORT BASEBALL VS. CHEWELAH: 4 p.m. - Newport High School NEWPORT SOFTBALL VS. CHEWELAH: 4 p.m. - Newport High School

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Wedding Planner

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We proudly offer the Northern Idaho & N. E. Washington area a wide selection of the highest quality, most stunning party and event rental items. Whether your event is large or small, simple or elaborate, our friendly staff at Event Rents are your party and event rental specialists.

Event Rents’ highly skilled team will assist your in coordinating all of your party and event rentals needs down to the smallest detail.

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Wedding Day Coordinator and Floral Designers on Staff to assist you in planning your romantic day.

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FRESH FLOWERS & GIFTS

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We Rent When you hold your event at Stoneridge, you experience the best in service, food, value and atmosphere in North Idaho.

White 10 x 10 Tents • Tables • Chairs • Linens For Weddings, Holiday Parties, Reunions, Etc. Reasonable Rates Pend Oreille Festival Assoc. • Loyce Akers (509) 671-0295 • lavenderfestival@live.com

Banquets • Holiday Events • Weddings Reunions • Private Gatherings • Conferences Business Meetings Full Service Bar & Restaurant Overnight Condominium Accommodations 208-437-3565 • Blanchard, ID rdilcox@stoneridgeidaho.com

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Be Married by the Captain himself on Lake Pend Oreille Lake Pend Oreille Cruises at (208) 255-Lake (255-5253)

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Our Events Center overlooks the beautiful golf course and the Selkirk Mountain range.

Our Center will accommodate up to 200 guests and allows for dancing and entertainment.

Extend your event onto the outdoor area and lawn, and your guests are guaranteed a great time!

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Beautiful Reception Hall

Open to the Public

The Miner runs wedding and engagement photos and announcements for free.

Call us at 509-447-2433.

When planning a destination wedding, you want a location that is breathtaking and unique. A place that sets the romantic theme for your special day.

The historic Cutter Theatre in Metaline Falls is available for your wedding and reception. Our facility can meet your needs for that intimate affair you’ve dreamed of. We’ll work with your wedding team, or help you find what you’re looking for from our local businesses.

If you are thinking about the beauty of an outdoor wedding, the Selkirk Mountains and Sullivan Lake offer the perfect backdrop, with your reception at the Cutter a perfect conclusion to the day you will always remember.

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OBITUARI ES Merritt D. Rice METALINE FALLS

Merritt D. Rice of Metaline Falls passed away March 9, 2014 in Spokane, due to complications of respiratory failure. He was Rice 78.

Mr. Rice was born Feb. 22, 1936, at Pomeroy, Wash., to George Henry Rice and Minnie Elizabeth Rice (Clark).

At the age of 7, his family moved to Lapwai, Idaho, where the family farmed and cattle ranched. He graduated from the Lapwai High School in 1955. At the age of 20, the family leased the cattle ranch and moved to Metaline Falls, where he gained employment as a bus driver for Auto Inter Urban Bus Lines providing transportation between Spokane and Metaline Falls. He worked with another employer, Henry George and Sons, in the construction of the long standing cement silos in Metaline Falls. He also worked in the Diamond Match Sawmill, and later as an underground miner at the Grandview Mine. It was at this time that the home and property was purchased in Metaline Falls where he resided until the time of his death.

He was employed with Robinson Excavating and Trucking of Metaline Falls during this time and in the years to follow. Upon the closure of the Grandview Mine in 1965, Mr. Rice moved his wife and children to Deep Lake, Wash., to continue his mining at the Calhoun Mine. Upon the closure of the Calhoun Mine in 1969, he and his family moved back to the family home in Metaline Falls. He then gained employment with the Lehigh Portland Cement Company. He remained employed until 1985, when he and Janet leased the Hang Out Café where their children worked beside them. Mr. Rice then purchased the old Olsen Store with the addition of grocery, clothing, mercantile and liquor in 1991.

After his retirement he could not sit still and began working for the city of Metaline Falls in the maintenance department until 2006, all along having his own business, Rice and Sons Carpentry, in which all of his children helped in building, roofing, and cabinetry, throughout the surrounding communities. Always active he was a devoted fan of the Selkirk Ranger softball team, gaining him the “Fan of the Year” award in 2001. He spent many years dedicating his time and service to the North Pend Oreille County Lions Club as well as the American Legion Post No. 144, receiving awards and recognition from both.

In his younger years he was an avid hunter and fisherman. He enjoyed the raising of cattle, hogs, chickens and turkeys, often having a freezer full of meat. Meanwhile his wife preserved the fruits of their garden, and people wonder why there are five children, family said. He was devoted to his firewood getting weekends with family and friends. He was also able to take several family outings and only missed the states of Alaska and Hawaii.

Mr. Rice really enjoyed his daily stops at the local establishments and garages conversing with his many friends, who would kindly assist him to and fro due to the neuropathy in his feet.

He is survived by his wife Janet of 55 years, at their home; four sons, Doug in Colville, Brian and wife

Sandi Jo in Metaline, Roger and Debbi in Ione, Monte in Balad, Iraq; one daughter, Lynnette in Metaline; six grandsons and two granddaughters, Travis, Everett, Derek, Scott, Curtis, Autumn Rice, and Kea and Marcus Johnson; four stepgrandchildren, Richard and Sara Bomhard and Nikki and Amanda Heim; four great-grandsons and three great-granddaughters with another girl expected in June. He is also survived by his brother Mikal in Colville; sisters Merilyn in Winchester, Idaho, and Macil and husband George of Metaline; several nieces, nephews and cousins and family friends he considered his own, as well as his blue heeler sidekick, Babe.

He was preceded in death by his parents, daughterin-law, loyal friend and coworker Kim Rice (Grant) and his faithful Malteze Poodle, Star.

There was a celebration of Mr. Rice’s life at the Merritt Rice Public Works Building in Metaline Falls March 15 at 1 p.m. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the NPOC Ambulance Service, Metaline Falls, WA 99153 or another charity of your choice.

“May your horse never stumble, your cinch never break, your belly never grumble, your heart never ache,” family said.

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

Family and friends are invited to sign the online guestbook at www.sherman-knapp.com.

Gloria “Glo” Faye Score PRIEST RIVER

Gloria “Glo” Faye Score of Priest River passed away Sunday, March 9. She was 61.

Her family said the void Score that has been left is felt by so many, from the fields of North Dakota where she was born and raised to Priest River, where she spent the last 35 years, to each of the coastal borders.

She was a beloved wife, mother, grandmother, sister, aunt and friend. She led a good life though at times a trying life, from watching loved ones struggle with cancer and kidney transplants to being such long distances from her grandchildren whom she loved so very much.

Mrs. Score operated Lou’s Tavern for the past 12 years where she became a beloved member of many families.

She was always the first one to step up and help anyone in need without hesitation or put together celebrations for any occasion.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Vern Score. She is survived by her son Jarrett, his wife Terra, granddaughter McKenzie and grandson Dylan; her son Davis, grandson Seth, Davis’s girlfriend Johanna and her daughter Shayanna and sons Dylan and Mason; brothers Wayne and Dennis Walch, sisters Connie Welch, Donna Schaff and eight nieces and nephews, plus hundreds of dear friends near and far and her “Lou’s crew.”

“She was truly one of a kind, mom, grandma, sister, aunt, friend, we will miss you,” family said.

A memorial service was held Saturday, March 15, at the Sherman-Knapp Funeral Home in Newport.

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

Family and friends are invited to sign the online guestbook at www.sherman-knapp.com.

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P O L I C E R E P O RT 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.

complainant said he received a citation in the mail for a traffic stop and he has never been here.

PEND OREILLE COUNTY

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: Stohr Rd., complainant states she hears a bunch of what sounds like gunshots going off across the street.

MONDAY, MARCH 10 THEFT: Fertile Valley Rd., reported theft of items out of vehicle.

ARREST: Northshore Diamond Lake, Thomas David Wiese, 61, of Newport was arrested for fourth degree assault domestic violence.

ARREST: Hwy. 20, Thomas Chy McQuire, 43, of Cusick was arrested on a warrant.

SEARCH WARRANT: Northshore Diamond Lake ARREST: Hwy. 20, James Allen Meyer, 48, of Spokane was arrested for driving with a suspended license.

ARREST: W. Walnut St., Newport, Ronald James Edwards, 61, was arrested for driving under the influence.

ACCIDENT: Hwy. 20, report of a vehicle-deer collision, non injury.

POSSIBLE DUI: Hwy. 20, report of dark blue Lebaron all over road coming into Newport.

SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE: 1st Ave., suspicious vehicle reported in the area.

ASSAULT: Hwy. 20, report that female and two males came to residence and attacked complainant’s boyfriend.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: S. Union Ave., Newport, report of dog left in vehicle.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: Stohr Rd., complainant reports she came home and found the shop lights are on, when she left they were off.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: 10th Ave., report that elderly couple went into complainant’s yard, got stuck, out of fuel, complainant pulled them out still there and very confused.

ASSAULT: W. Pine St., report of assault.

ARREST: N. Grandview Ave., Paul J. Leonard, 63, of Metaline Falls was arrested for driving while license suspended.

SUSPICIOUS PERSON: S. Front St., suspicious male in area.

ARREST: Hwy. 2, Shane C. Haynes, 33, of Spirit Lake was arrested for driving while license suspended.

ARREST: N. Union Ave., Newport, Rochelle D. Drosche, 20, of Newport was arrested on a warrant.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: N. Union Ave., Newport

TUESDAY, MARCH 11 SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: Camden Rd., report of gas caps off all vehicles and tires flattened over night.

ERRATIC DRIVER: W. 5th St., report of black Ford Ranger speeding and spinning out last seen heading towards the high school.

ERRATIC DRIVER: Hwy. 2, report that early 90’s Dodge pickup swerving all over the road went off in ditch possibly hit a guard rail.

ARREST: John Thomas Ross, 74, of Chewelah and Tawnya Michelle Vivier, 34, of Chattaroy were transported to the Pend Oreille County Jail on warrants.

ARREST: W. 4th St., Angela M. Johnson, 33, of Priest River was arrested for driving with a suspended license.

BURGLARY: Spring Valley Rd., report of window broken on shed and propane missing.

VEHICLE THEFT: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights, stolen vehicle reported.

MALICIOUS MISCHIEF: W. 1st St., report of damage done to property unknown time frame.

UNKNOWN: Rockwood Rd., female reports husband trapped in garage hung up on call backs, phone is answered and then disconnected.

FRAUD: Pend Oreille County,

ARREST: W. 4th St., Billy Floyd Lambright, 37, of Newport was arrested for fourth degree assault domestic violence and Johni Johnson-Hamilton, 31, of Newport was arrested on a warrant.

JUVENILE PROBLEM: 2nd Ave.

ARREST: S. Garden Ave., Newport, Rachel Amber Walker, 27, of Deer Park was arrested on a Department of Corrections Detainer.

DRIVING WITH A SUSPENDED LICENSE: Hwy. 2, a person was cited and released for driving with a suspended license.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VERBAL: Stohr Rd., report that female served husband papers and now arguing.

AGENCY ASSIST: W. Pine St., Newport, requesting mental health hold for suicidal female subject.

HARASSMENT: Hwy. 20, report that known female involved in threatening last night sitting in red two door across street.

SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE: W. 4th

SEARCH WARRANT: S. Newport Ave., Newport, reported execution of search warrant.

RECOVERED PROPERTY: N. Washington Ave., Newport, trafficking in stolen property reported.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12

ARREST: Black Rd., Shelby Rose Vickrey, 32, of Usk was arrested for driving while license suspended.

INFORMATION: Metaline, report that street sign and rest area sign are broken.

FOUND PROPERTY: Triangle Rd., complainant reports finding drug kit in recently purchased house, would like deputy to dispose of it.

HARASSMENT: Hwy. 20, complainant states subject in a red 4 door car was sitting on highway in front of residence.

RECOVERED STOLEN VEHICLE: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights

THURSDAY, MARCH 13 SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: Monumental Way, Cusick

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: Veit Rd., report of suspicious circumstance.

ARREST: Myles CJ Robertson, 27, of Metaline Falls was arrested for driving with a suspended license.

ARREST: Dale Durfee Tucker, 36, of Newport was arrested for residential burglary.

ASSAULT: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights NOISE COMPLAINT: Stohr Rd., report of loud noises from neighbor’s SUSPICIOUS PERSON: W. 7th St., report of male sleeping by curb of road.

NOISE COMPLAINT: Willms Rd., report of neighbors playing music loudly.

ARREST: Stacey Ann Delamater, 26, of Usk was arrested on a warrant.

SUNDAY, MARCH 16 ARREST: LeClerc Rd. N., Jessica L. Finley, 29, of Newport was arrested on a warrant.

TRESPASSING: LeClerc Rd. N., report of vehicle parked on property THEFT: W. Kelly Drive, Newport, reported of theft of prescription drugs.

ANIMAL BITE: W. Pine St., Newport, report of 1 year old female bitten by dog.

SUSPICIOUS PERSON: W. 5th St., suspicious person reported.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VERBAL: LeClerc Rd. N., report of male yelling at female.

ACCIDENT: Hwy. 211, report of vehicle-shed collision.

ARREST: Willa Lee Sherman, 33, of Usk was arrested for fourth degree assault domestic violence.

FRIDAY, MARCH 14 AGENCY ASSIST: W. Trails, reported theft of automobile.

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ACCIDENT: Hwy. 31, report of slide off non-injury.

NO REPORTABLE INCIDENTS.

ANIMAL CRUELTY: Box Canyon Rd., animal cruelty reported.

MONDAY, MARCH 10

TUESDAY, MARCH 11

SUSPICIOUS PERSON: W. Pine St., report of suspicious male.

NO REPORTABLE INCIDENTS.

THEFT: Conklin Meadows Rd., stolen game cameras reported.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12

SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE: S. Calispell Ave., vehicle with no plates reported.

ARREST: Shelly St., Priest Lake, Richard Mcullough, 55, of Priest Lake was arrested on an outstanding Bonner County warrant.

NOISE COMPLAINT: Willms Rd., report of loud music going on at this location.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: Hwy. 41, Oldtown

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE: Sullivan Lake Rd., suspicious circumstance reported.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VERBAL: Hwy. 211 ARREST: Solomon Kaziu Monkiewicz, 22, of Cusick was arrested on a warrant.

ARREST: Kyle Eugene Seal, 34, of Oldtown was arrested for driving with a suspended license.

SATURDAY, MARCH 15 ACCIDENT: LeClerc Rd. S., vehicle accident reported.

THEFT: N. Washington Ave., Newport, theft of wire from back of truck reported.

PROPERTY DAMAGE: Hope Rd., damage to property reported.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: Seymour Lane RUNAWAY JUVENILE: S. Scott Ave., runaway juvenile reported.

THURSDAY, MARCH 13 ARREST: E. 3rd St. N., Oldtown, Ellen Herbert, 48, of Oldtown was arrested for third offense DUI.

FRIDAY, MARCH 14 ACCIDENT: Hwy. 2, Priest River, report of an injury crash.

SATURDAY, MARCH 15 CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE: Eastside Rd., Priest River, a juvenile male from Sandpoint was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and minor in possession of alcohol, and a juvenile female from Sandpoint was charged with frequenting a place were drugs are used or held.

SUNDAY, MARCH 16 NO REPORTABLE INCIDENTS.

PU BLIC M E ETI NGS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19 PEND OREILLE COUNTY CITIZENS SALARY COMMISSION: Pend Oreille County Courthouse PEND OREILLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: 8:30 a.m. - Various Locations

WEST BONNER COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD: 6 p.m. - District Office, Priest River IONE TOWN COUNCIL: 7 p.m. Clerk’s Office

THURSDAY, MARCH 20 BONNER COUNTY PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION WORKSHOP: 5 p.m. - Bonner County Administrative Building, Sandpoint

DIAMOND LAKE WATER AND SEWER DISTRICT BOARD: 10 a.m. - District Office PEND OREILLE COUNTY PARK BOARD: 2 p.m. - Cusick Community Center

SOUTH PEND OREILLE FIRE & RESCUE: 7 p.m. - Station 31, 325272 Highway 2, Diamond Lake

FIRE DISTRICT NO. 4 COMMISSIONERS: 6 p.m. - Dalkena Fire Station

MISSIONERS: 9 a.m. - Pend Oreille County Courthouse PEND OREILLE FIRE DISTRICT NO. 2 BOARD: 10 a.m. - Fire Station 23, 390442 Highway 20, Ione NEWPORT PLANNING COMMISSION: 5 p.m. - Newport City Hall

TUESDAY, MARCH 25 BONNER COUNTY COMMISSIONERS: 8:45 a.m. - Bonner County Administrative Building

MONDAY, MARCH 24

PEND OREILLE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS: 9 a.m. - Pend Oreille County Courthouse

PEND OREILLE COUNTY COM-

NEWPORT SCHOOL BOARD: 5

p.m. - District Office PEND OREILLE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION WORKSHOP: 6 p.m. - Cusick Community Center PEND OREILLE COUNTY REPUBLICAN CENTRAL COMMITTEE: 6 p.m. - Cusick Community Center PEND OREILLE COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY: 7-8:30 p.m.

- American Legion, Cusick

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26 TRI-COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT: 11 a.m.

- TEDD Conference Room, 986 S. Main, Suite A, Colville

M O S T WA N T E D L I ST 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.

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His last known address was in the Elk area. Extradition is statewide.

Stephen C. Sturgill, 63, is wanted on one Pend Oreille County warrant for contempt Sturgill of court. He is 5 feet, 10 inches tall and weighs 170 pounds, with blue eyes and brown hair. His last known address was in the Newport area. Extradition is Washington and Idaho.

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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 s 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 nonprobate assets.

Date of First Publication of this Notice: March 5, 2014. /s/Donna L. Jones Donna L. Jones,

201471 PUBLIC NOTICE SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON FOR PEND OREILLE COUNTY No. 14-4-00009-3 Probate Notice to Creditors (RCW 11.40.030) Estate of Michael W. Jones, 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

______________ 201473 PUBLIC NOTICE The annual meeting of the Metaline Falls Community Hospital Association will be held at the Selkirk High School Music Room on Tuesday, March 25, 2014 at 7:00 p.m.

Kelly Curtiss, President Metaline Falls Community Hospital Association Published in The Newport Miner March 12 and 19, 2014. (6-2)

______________ 201477 PUBLIC NOTICE PEND OREILLE COUNTY WEED BOARD

CALL FOR BIDS AND BID OPENING HEARING Sealed bids for the furnishing of Herbicides and Adjuvants to the Pend Oreille County Weed Board in estimated quantities totaling $20,000 for the year 2014 will be received by the Weed Board of Pend Oreille County, Washington, until 2:30 PM Tuesday, April 2, 2014. They will be publicly opened and read during a hearing held April 9, 2014 at 2:15 PM in the Weed Board Office in the old County Courthouse Annex. Bid specifications are available at the Weed Board office, 418 S Scott Ave, Newport WA, 509-447-2402 or electronically from lnichols@pendoreille. org. The Weed Board reserves the right to reject any or all bids, to waive any informality in the bids and to accept such bid or bids as may be deemed in the best interest of Pend Oreille County. Bids must be either mailed to: Pend Oreille County Weed Board PO Box 5085,

Newport, Washington 99156-5085 or hand delivered to the Weed Board office at the street address above.

If you require any reasonable accommodation to participate in the hearing, contact the Weed Board, 509-4472402, at least 48 hours prior to the meeting.

Published in The Newport Miner March 12 and 19, 2014. (6-2)

______________ 201478 PUBLIC NOTICE Notice of Development Regulation Amendment Notice is hereby given that Pend Oreille County is proposing amendments to the Development Regulations. These amendments include revisions to the following: RV Park Definition, Table of Permitted Uses, Exempting Relocated Structures within Pend Oreille County from the Snow Load Requirement, Off Premise Sign Regulations and Adopting the 2012

International Building Codes as Amended

by Washington State in RCW 19.27 & WAC 50-04. Please contact Mike Lithgow, Director of Community Development for a more detailed description of the proposed changes.

On April 22nd, 2014 the Pend Oreille County Planning Commission will hold a public hearing to discuss and receive comments on the proposed Development Regulation Amendments which includes revisions to the Regulations that were prepared following additional deliberations by the Planning Commission and in response to public comments received during the drafting process. The Planning Commission will also hold a Public Hearing to formalize a recommendation on the Draft Development Regulation Amendments on May 13th, 2014. The Board of County Commissioners will then conduct a public hearing for adoption of the draft De-

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CONTINUED FROM 8B velopment Regulation Amendments in May of 2014 (date & time to be determined).

The comment period for the SEPA checklist ends April 11th, 2014. Copies of the proposed revisions are available to the public between 8:00 AM & 4:30 PM at the Pend Oreille County Community Development Department, Courthouse Lower Level, 625 West 4th, Newport, WA 99156, (509) 447-4821. Copies are also available at Pend Oreille County Libraries and on the Community Development website: http://www.pendoreilleco.org/county/ development_regulations_update_2.asp Public and Agency Comments must be received by May 12th, 2014.

Date of notice of amendment: March 5, 2014 Published in The Newport Miner March 12 and 19, 2014. (6-2)

______________ 201481 PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SPOKANE No. 14-400231-1 Probate Notice to Creditors RCW 11.40.030 In the Matter of the Estate of Mabel E. Allen 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 ap-

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 1-800669-9777. The toll-free telephone number for the hearing impaired is 1-800927-9275. (31tf)

plicable 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 days after the Personal Representative served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1) (c); or (2) four 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: March 12, 2014 / s / D e l o re s A .

Webb DELORES A. WEBB Personal Representative Attorney for Personal Representative: Karen L. Sayre, WSBA #15548 SAYRE & SAYRE, P.S. Address for Mailing or Service: West 201 North River Drive, Suite 460 Spokane, Washington 99201-2262 (509) 325-7330 Published in The Newport Miner March 12, 19 and 26, 2014.

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_____________ 201480 PUBLIC NOTICE T S N o WA09000025-13-1 APN 453124620013 / 17021 TO No 8368254 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE PURSUANT TO THE REVISED CODE OF WASHINGTON CHAPTER 61.24 ET. SEQ. I. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on April 18, 2014, 10:00 AM, at the main entrance to the Superior Courthouse, 229 S. Garden Avenue, 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 cashiers’ 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 King, State of Washington, to-wit: LOT 16, BLOCK B, 3RD ADDITION TO MCAVOY’S ADDITION TO THE CITY OF NEWPORT, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF, RECORDED IN BOOK 3 OF PLATS, PAGE 202, RECORDS OF PEND OREILLE COUNTY, WASHINGTON. APN: 453124620013 / 17021 More commonly known as 121 E CIRCLE DR, NEWPORT, WA 99156 which is subject to that certain

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Deed of Trust dated as of March 10, 2006, recorded on March 29, 2006 as Instrument No. 20060286179 of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Pend Oreille County, Washington from Larry H. Gates and Roseann C. Gates, Married & Husband and Wife, as Trustor(s), to First American Title , as Trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of Washington Mutual Bank, as original Beneficiary. The beneficial interest was assigned to Caliber Home Loans, Inc., FKA Vericrest Financial Inc. and recorded as Instrument Number 20130315982. II. No action commenced by Caliber Home Loans, Inc. FKA Vericrest Financial, Inc., 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 Grantor’s default on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust/Mortgage.

Current Beneficiary: Caliber Home Loans, Inc. FKA Vericrest Financial, Inc. Contact Phone No: 858-6495724 Address: 13801 Wireless Way, Oklahoma City, OK 73134 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 March 1, 2013 To December 9, 2013 Number of Payments 9 Monthly Payment $663.71 To t a l $ 5 , 9 7 3 . 3 9 L AT E CHARGE INFORMATION From March 1, 2013 To December 9, 2013 Number of Payments 8 Monthly Payment $24.99 Total $199.92 PROMISSORY NOTE INFORMATION Note Dated: March 10, 2006 Note Amount: $79,086.00 Interest Paid To: February 1, 2013 Next Due Date: March 1, 2013 IV. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is: The principal sum of $71,728.85, 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 April 18, 2014. The defaults referred to in Paragraph III must be cured by April 7, 2014, (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 April 7, 2014 (11 days before the sale) the default as set forth in Paragraph III

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is cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. Payment must be in cash or with cashier’s or certified checks from a State or federally chartered bank. The sale may be terminated any time after the April 7, 2014 (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, Caliber Home Loans, Inc. FKA Vericrest Financial, Inc. or Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following a d d re s s ( e s ) : A D DRESS UNKNOW SPOUSE OF LARRY GATES 121 E CIRCLE DR, NEWPORT, WA 9 9 1 5 6 L A R RY H .

GATES 121 E CIRCLE DR, NEWPORT, WA 9 9 1 5 6 L A R RY H .

GATES 121 CIRCLE DRIVE, NEWPORT, WA 99156 ROSEANN C. GATES 121 E CIRCLE DR, NEWPORT, WA 99156 by both first class and certified mail on November 6, 2013, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and the Borrower and Grantor were personally served, if applicable, with said written Notice of Default or the written Notice of Default was posted in a conspicuous place on the real property described in Paragraph I above, and the Trustee has possession of proof of such service or posting. VII. The Trustee whose name and address are set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale. VIII The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Grantor and all those who hold by, through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the above described property. IX. Anyone having any 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 Trustee’s 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 of this notice to pursue mediation. DO NOT DELAY. CONTACT A HOUSING COUNSELOR OR AN ATTORNEY LICENSED I N WA S H I N G T O N NOW to assess your situation and refer you to mediation if you are 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:

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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 tenant-occupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060; NOT I C E T O GUARANTOR(S) RCW 61.24.042 - (1) The Guarantor may be liable for a deficiency judgment to the extent the sale price obtained at the Trustees’ Sale is less than the debt secured by the Deed of Trust; (2) The Guarantor has the same rights to reinstate the debt, cure the default, or repay the debt as is given to the Grantor in order to avoid the Trustee’s Sale; (3) The Guarantor will have no right to redeem the property after the Trustee’s Sale; (4) Subject to such longer periods as are provided in the Washington Deed of Trust Act, Chapter 61.24.RCW, any action brought to enforce a guaranty must be commenced within one year after the Trustees’ Sale, or the last Trustee’s Sale under any Deed of Trust granted to secure the same debt; and (5) In any action for a deficiency, the Guarantor will have the right to establish the fair value of the property as of the date of the Trustee’s Sale, less prior liens and encumbrances, and to limit its liability for a deficiency to the difference between the debt and the greater of such fair value or the sale price paid at the Trustee’s Sale, plus interest costs. The failure of the Beneficiary to provide any Guarantor to the difference between the debt and the greater of such fair value or the sale price paid at the Trustee’s Sale, plus interest and costs. The failure of the Beneficiary to provide any Guarantor the notice referred to in this section does not invalidate either the notices given to the Borrower or the Grantor, or the Trustee’s Sale. Dated: December 9, 2013 TRUSTEE CORPS By: Joseph Barragan, Authorized Signatory TRUSTEE CORPS 1700 Seventh Avenue Suite 2100 Seattle WA 98101 TRUSTEE

CORPS 17100 Gillette Ave Irvine, CA 92614 SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ON LINE AT www.priorityposting.com FOR AUTOMATED SALES I N F O R M AT I O N PLEASE CALL: Priority Posting and Publishing at 714-573-1965 P1074409 3/19, 04/09/2014 Published in The Newport Miner March 19 and April 9, 2014.

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_____________ 201482 PUBLIC NOTICE Town of Cusick, Pend Oreille County, Washington The Cusick Town Council is now accepting bids for the 2014 harvest of approximately 100 acres of hayland. The hay is Timothy grass hay mix. Approximately 50 acres are used for effluent land application and a plan describing the harvest schedule and type of equipment proposed to remove the hay is required.

Winning bidder must pay full bid amount by June 1st. Bids must be in a sealed envelope with Hayland bid written on the outside and must be received by April 11th. Send to PO Box 263, Cusick WA 99119. For questions call (509) 991-9263.

The Town Council will open the bids at their regular council meeting on April 14th and reserves the right to reject any or all bids. /s/Charlotte Yergens Clerk/Treasurer Published in The Newport Miner March 19, 2014. (7)

_____________ 201483 PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT NO.1 OF PEND OREILLE COUNTY LINE EXTENSION FEES A public hearing will be held at 11:00 a.m., April 1, 2014, so that the Board of Commissioners may consider the line extension fees.

The hearing will be held at the PUD Administration Building in the Newport Conference Room, 130 N. Washington, Newport, Washington.

The public is invited to attend and be heard.

Karen Willner Clerk of the Board Published in The Newport Miner March 19 and 26, 2014. (7-2)

_____________ 201484 PUBLIC NOTICE RTI – Pend Oreille Telephone Company is a quality telecommunications service provider who provides basic and enhanced services at reasonable rates within its service territory. Basic services are offered at the following rates: Monthly Service Charge Single Party Residence Service $14.00 Single Party Business Service $25.03 Federal Subscriber Line Charge/Residence/Business $ 6.50 Federal Subscriber Line Charge/Multi Line

$ 9.20 Emergency 911 Service-The State-.20/ County-.50 mandated surcharges for exchanges: 442, 445, and 446.

Toll Restriction Services- Currently there is no charge from RTI Pend Oreille Telecom for toll blocking services to low-income customers participating in the Lifeline program.

Please contact your local Health & Welfare office for more information on Lifeline and Link-Up programs.

Access to long distance carriers- There is no charge from RTI Pend Oreille Telecom for the ability to place and receive calls through long distance carriers that Offer service through our network. However, the call may involve a charge from the long distance carrier depending on the type of call.

Access to directory assistance- There is no charge from RTI Pend Oreille Telecom for the ability to call Directory Assistance.

The amount charged depends on the area called and the rates of the company whose operator provided information.

Access to operator Service: There is no service from RTI Pend Oreille Telecom for the ability to call the operator; however, the call may involve a charge depending on the service requested and the rates of the Company whose operator handled the call: These services are available to all consumers of RTI Pend Oreille Telecom. The cost associated with each are reflected each month on the regular telephone billing along with charges for services provided

by RTI Pend Oreille Telecom. The services listed above are the basic serves offered by our company. Other services are available by contacting RTI Pend Oreille Telecom office at (888)6362840.

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Telephone assistance Programs are available to low-income households. To qualify for Lifeline Services, please contact your local Health & Welfare Office. Lifeline Services are programs designed to assist low income-households to afford local telephone service. Lifeline assists with monthly telephone bills. Enhanced Lifeline benefits are available to low-income residents of Tribal lands. Provides a monthly discount of the cost of telephone service. Tribal Lands Link Up provides qualified subscribers living on tribal land with a one-time discount up to $100 on the initial installation or activation of wire line or wireless telephone for the primary residence.

For more information on Tribal Lifeline and Link-up, visit: http:// www.fcc.gov/indians/ financialassistance. html or contact Washington State Department of Social and Health Services or call our office Toll Free (888) 636-2840.

Published in The Newport Miner March 19, 2014. (7)

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201485 PUBLIC NOTICE: The Town of Metaline Falls passed Ordinance #317, the Final Budget for 2014 and Ordinance #316, the Adjusted 2013 Budget at their regular scheduled council meeting on March 11, 2014.

For a full copy of these ordinances please contact the clerk’s office (509-446-2211).

Tina Swink Clerk/Treasurer Town of Metaline Falls Published in The Newport Miner March 19 and 26, 2014. (7-2)

_____________ 201486 PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF PEND OREILLE No. PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS RCW 11.40.030 In the Matter of the Estate of WILLIAM A. ROACH, Deceased.

The Personal Representative/Administrator named below has been appointed as Personal Representative/Administrator 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/Administrator or the Personal Representative/Administrator’s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the court. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the Personal Representative/Administrators served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(3); or (2) four 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 non-probate assets.

Date of first publication of Notice to Creditors: 3/19/14 Personal Representative/ Administrator: Debra A. Roach Attorney for Personal Representative/ Administrators: Fonda L. Jovick Address for Mailing or Service: Fonda L. Jovick Paine Hamblen LLP 119 Main Street, Suite 201 Priest River, Idaho 83856 DATED: 3/17/ 2014 /s/ DEBRA A. ROACH DEBRA A. ROACH Personal Representative/Administrator Presented by: PAINE HAMBLEN LLP By: /s/ FONDA L. JOVICK FONDA L. JOVICK, WSBA #42120 CONTINUED ON 10B

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B I RT H S Wyatt Michael Corning Wyatt Michael Corning was born Feb. 2, at 4:54 a.m. to Kelly and Alan Corning of Newport. He weighed 9 pounds, 4 ounces and measured 20.5 inches in length, delivered by Dr. Lewis at Newport Hospital. He joins brother Ryder. Maternal grandparents are William and Ogretta Friesz. Paternal grandparents are Ken and Arlene Corning.

Jonathan Travis Schwartzenberger Jonathan Travis Schwartzenberger was born Feb. 3 at 1:23 a.m. to Christine Bennett and Mark Schwartzenberger of Newport. He weighed 9 pounds, 1 ounce and measured 21.25 inches in length, delivered by Dr. Lewis at Newport Hospital. He joins

sister Hadyn, and brothers Zane, Mark and Kale. Maternal grandparents are Wayne and MiSuk Bennett. Paternal grandparents are Mark and Shannon Schwartzenberger.

Bradley Ray Marquardt Bradley Ray Marquardt was born Feb. 3 at 12:53 p.m. to Jennifer and Dan Markquardt of Newport. He weighed 8 pounds, 1 ounce and measured 20.5 inches in length, delivered by Dr. Ragsdale at Newport Hospital.

Meloney Ava Lynn Wylie Meloney Ava Lynn Wylie was born Feb. 13 at 9:48 a.m. to Tammy and Colton Wylie of Newport. She weighed 5 pounds, 15 ounces and measured 19.25 inches in length, delivered by Dr. Kraus

at Newport Hospital. She joins sister Laura. Maternal grandparents are great-grandpa John and grandma Michelle Bell. Paternal grandparents are Sam Wylie and greatgrandma Shirley.

Baylee Jean Dichesare Baylee Jean Dichesare was born Feb. 13 at 12:02 p.m. to Becca and Ryan Dichesare of Newport. She weighed 7 pounds, 6.5 ounces and measured 19.25 inches in length, delivered by Dr. Kersting at Newport Hospital. She joins sister Payton. Maternal grandparents are JR and Ruby Monteith. Paternal grandparents are Vince Dichesare and Fran Kucera.

Wesley James Zickler Wesley James Zickler was

WE E K AH EAD WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19 ROTARY CLUB: 7:15 a.m. - Oldtown Rotary Park OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS: 8 a.m. - Pineridge Community Church, 1428 W. First St., Newport, use back entrance NEWPORT TOPS: 9 a.m. - Newport Eagles 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 PRM-ADVOCATES FOR WOMEN: 1-3 p.m. - Station 2:41 Coffee Shop, Oldtown

PEND OREILLE KIDS CLUB: 6 p.m.

- Pend Oreille Mennonite Church ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: 7 p.m. - Blanchard Community Church NEWPORT MASONIC LODGE: 7:30 p.m. - Newport

JESSA’S CREATIVE DANCE CLASS: 4 p.m. - Create Arts Center

FRIDAY, MARCH 21 MOTHERS OF PRECIOUS LITTLE ONES: 9-11 a.m. - Dalkena Church, Highway 20 OIL PAINTING CLASS: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. - Create Arts Center WATERCOLOR BASICS AND BEYOND CLASS: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Create Arts Center, Newport STORY TIME: 11 a.m. - Newport Library DAVIS LAKE GRANGE: Noon Davis Lake Grange DANCE CLASSES: 5:30-6:30 p.m. Create Arts Center, Newport

AL-ANON: Noon - American Lutheran Church

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS OPEN MEETING: 7 p.m. - Priest River VFW

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: 5:45 p.m. - Hospitality House, Newport PRIEST RIVER ANIMAL RESCUE: 6 p.m. - 1710 9th St., Priest River PRIEST RIVER TOPS: 6 p.m. Priest River Free Methodist Church NORTH IDAHO PATTERN RACERS 4-H: 6 p.m. - Cornerstone Building, Oldtown

AL-ANON: 7-8 p.m. - Priest River, 119 Main St., Suite 204, Room 16, Call Jan 208-946-6131

SATURDAY, MARCH 22

MEETING: 5 p.m. - Cornerstone Building, Selkirk Way, Oldtown

THURSDAY, MARCH 20

SUNDAY, MARCH 23 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: 7 p.m. - Hospitality House, Newport

STORY TIME: 10:30 a.m. - Priest River Library

HOSPITALITY HOUSE POTLUCK: Noon - Hospitality House in Newport

DUPLICATE BRIDGE: 12:30 p.m. Hospitality House in Newport CELEBRATE RECOVERY: 5:30 p.m.

- House of the Lord, 754 Silverbirch Lane, Oldtown

BELLY DANCE FITNESS: 6:30-7:30 p.m. - Create Arts Center, Newport SPIRIT LAKE VISIONS, INC.: 7 p.m. - 5525 New Hampshire St., Spirit Lake SPIRIT LAKE LODGE NO. 57: 8 p.m. - Spirit Lake ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: 7 p.m. - St. Anthony’s Church

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS: 8 a.m. - Pineridge Community Church, 1428 W. First St., Newport, use back entrance

PRIEST RIVER FOOD BANK OPEN: 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. - Priest River Senior Center

LOOSELY KNIT: 1-3 p.m. - Calispel Valley Library, Cusick

BINGO: 6:30 p.m. - Newport Eagles

HAPPY AGERS CARD PARTY: 1 p.m. - Priest River Senior Center

SET FREE NORTHWEST MEAL AND WORSHIP: 6:30 p.m. Conerstone Building Behind Ace Hardware, Oldtown

PEND OREILLE RIVER ARTS ALLIANCE: 11 a.m - Various Locations

PINOCHLE: 6 p.m. - Calispel Valley Library, Cusick

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26

YORK RITE OF FREEMASONRY: 6:30 p.m. - Spirit Lake Temple

OPEN PAINTING WORKSHOP: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. - Create Arts Center, Newport

LADIES BIBLE STUDY: 6 p.m. House of the Lord, 754 Silver Birch Lane, Oldtown

ROTARY CLUB: 7:15 a.m. - Oldtown Rotary Park

OATH KEEPERS CONSTITUTIONAL STUDY GROUP: 5:30 p.m.

- Hospitality House, Newport

STORY TIME - CALISPEL VALLEY LIBRARY, CUSICK: 10:30 a.m. Calispel Valley Library, Cusick

WEIGHT WATCHERS: 5:30-6 p.m.

Weigh in and 6 p.m. meeting - Pineridge Community Church, 1428 W. First St., Newport

WOMEN’S AA: 9:30 a.m. - Create Arts Center, Newport

VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST/AUXILIARY: 1 p.m. - Priest River VFW

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: 7 p.m. - Hospitality House, Newport

WRITERS GROUP: 2 p.m. - Create Arts Center WEST BONNER LIBRARY STORY HOUR: 2:45 p.m. - West Bonner Library in Priest River

PINOCHLE: 1 p.m. - Priest River Senior Center

JESSA’S CREATIVE DANCE CLASS: 4 p.m. - Create Arts Center

a.m. - Priest River Library

MONDAY, MARCH 24

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: 7 p.m. - Blanchard Community Church

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: 7 p.m. - Pend Oreille Bible Church in Cusick PRIEST RIVER FOOD BANK OPEN: 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. - Priest River Senior Center

PRIEST RIVER BOOK TALK: 10 a.m. - Priest River Library

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

PRIEST RIVER BOOK TALK: 10

STORY TIME: 10:30 a.m. Blanchard Library PRIEST RIVER LIONESS: 11:30 a.m. - Priest River Senior Center SACHEEN LADIES OF THE LAKE: Noon - Various Locations, call President Maria Bullock at 509998-4221 PINOCHLE: 1 p.m. - Priest River Senior Center

PRM-ADVOCATES FOR WOMEN: 1-3 p.m. - Station 2:41 Coffee Shop, Oldtown JESSA’S CREATIVE DANCE CLASS: 4 p.m. - Create Arts Center

TUESDAY, MARCH 25

BLANCHARD BOOK TALK: 5:30 p.m. - Blanchard Library

FIBER ARTS KNITTING AND SPINNING GROUP: 9 a.m. - Create Arts Center, Newport

AL-ANON: Noon - American Lutheran Church

BLANCHARD GRANGE POTLUCK: 6:30 p.m. - Blanchard Grange

BLANCHARD SPINNERS: Blanchard Community Center

NEWPORT TOPS: 9 a.m. - Newport Eagles

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: 5:45 p.m. - Hospitality House, Newport PRIEST RIVER TOPS: 6 p.m. Priest River Free Methodist Church SPIRIT LAKE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: 6:30 p.m. - Call 208-6235626 for locations ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: 7 p.m. - Hospitality House, Newport

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born Feb. 17 at 2:46 p.m. to Kourtney Tucker and Tyler Zickler of Newport. He weighed 7 pounds, 9 ounces and measured 21 inches in length, delivered by Dr. Jones at Newport Hospital.

Maternal grandparents are

Attorneys for Estate Published in The Newport Miner March 19, 26, and April 2, 2014. (7-3)

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201487 PUBLIC NOTICE Combined Notice of Application and Action Pursuant to County Development Regulations, notice is hereby given that Pend Oreille County did on March 17, 2014 received a complete Joint Aquatic Resources Permit Application, SEPA Environmental Checklist, and associated documents from Dustin Person, and did on March 17, 2014 issue a Determination of Completeness for a recreational dock, ramp, pier, stairs, and landing project on the Pend Oreille River.

(FILE NO. SSDP-14002), Location: 712 Levitch Rd., Newport, WA 99156. An Environmental Checklist under the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) was prepared by the applicant on March 07, 2014, and the county expects to issue a Determination of NonSignificance for this project. The optional DNS process is being used and this may be the only opportunity

Mike and Diana Tucker.

Paternal grandparents are Phil Zickler and Lori Shryock.

Eli Liam Nikolaychuk Eli Liam Nikolaychuk

to comment on the environmental impacts for the proposal (WAC 197-11-355). Any person desiring to express their views, or to be notified of the action taken on this application should contact the Pend Oreille County Community Development Department. The submitted application and related file documents may be examined by the public between 8:00 AM & 4:30 PM at the Pend Oreille County Courthouse, Lower Level, 625 West 4th, Newport, WA 99156, (509) 4474821 and viewed at www.pendoreilleco. org. Contact: Todd McLaughlin, Community Dev. Natural Resource Planner, (509) 447-6462, tmclaughlin@pendoreille.org.

Written comments from the public may be submitted to Pend Oreille County no later than April 03, 2014. The Pend Oreille County Planning Commission will be hearing this Substantial Shoreline Development Permit Application on April 08, 2014 at 6:00pm in the Cusick Community Center, 111 S. First Ave., Cusick, WA Required Permits: Substantial Shoreline Development Permit (Pend Oreille County), Floodplain Develop-

was born Feb. 19 at 1:57 a.m. to Billi and Yaroslay Nikolaychuk of Newport.

He weighed 7 pounds, 3 ounces and measured 20 inches in length, delivered

by Dr. Ragsdale at Newport Hospital.

ment Permit (Pend Oreille County), Hydraulic Project Approval (WDFW), Regional General Permit 7 (US Army Corps) Dated: March 17, 2014 Published in The Newport Miner March 19 and 26, 2014. (7-2)

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201488 PUBLIC NOTICE Combined Notice of Application Pursuant to County Development Regulations, notice is hereby given that Pend Oreille County did on March 14, 2014 received a complete Joint Aquatic Resources Permit Application, SEPA Checklist Addendum, and Design Plans from Seattle City Light, and did on March 17, 2014 issue a Determination of Completeness for Engineered Log Jam Pilot Project on Sullivan Creek. (FILE NO. SSDP-14-001), Location: Sullivan Creek Delta, Metaline Falls, WA 99153, Section: 21/22, Township: 39N, Range: 43E. Any person desiring to express their views, or to be notified of the action taken on this application should contact the Pend Oreille County Community Development Department. The

submitted application and related file documents may be examined by the public between 8:00 AM & 4:30 PM at the Pend Oreille County Courthouse, Lower Level, 625 West 4th, Newport, WA 99156, (509) 4474821 and viewed at www.pendoreilleco. org. Contact: Todd McLaughlin, Community Dev. Natural Resource Planner, (509) 447-6462, tmclaughlin@pendoreille.org.

Written comments from the public may be submitted to Pend Oreille County no later than April 03, 2014. The Pend Oreille County Planning Commission will be hearing this Substantial Shoreline Development Permit Application on April 08, 2014 at 6:00pm in the Cusick Community Center, 111 S. First Ave., Cusick, WA Required Permits: Substantial Shoreline Development Permit (Pend Oreille County), Floodplain Development Permit (Pend Oreille County), Hydraulic Project Approval (WDFW), Federal Authorization Dated: March 17, 2014 Published in The Newport Miner March 19 and 26, 2014. (7-2)