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Volume 109, Number 13 | 3 Sections, 28 Pages

Two dead after alcohol fueled dispute

Pair shot, stabbed each other By Don Gronning Of The Miner

IONE – Sheriff deputies believe a dispute that left one man stabbed to death and another dead by gunshot started when someone backed a vehicle into the car belonging to one of the dead men early Sunday, April 29, near the Yocum Lake campground, about 10 miles south of Ione. Steven Q. Divine, 22, died of a stab wound to the upper abdomen, and Richard R. Hill, 18, died from a single gunshot wound to the chest, according to Pend Oreille County prosecutor and coroner Tom Metzger. Divine is from Mead and Hill from Spokane.

“It was pretty clear what killed them,” Metzger Botzheim said it appears the altercation started said. He said blood alcohol levels for the two men after someone backed a vehicle into Divine’s 1986 Courtesy won’t be available for several weeks from the autopsy Honda Civic. map|Google report. “He was upset about “It was pretty clear what killed them.” who would pay,” Yocum Lake is Deputies were called at 12:20 about 10 miles a.m. Sunday, responding to Botzheim said. numerous calls from the camp, Tom Metzger The two men were with south of Ione on the east side of Pend Oreille County Sheriff Alan Pend Oreille County Prosecutor, Coroner two groups of people Botzheim said. camping on county land, the Pend Oreille “It was pretty chaotic,” he said. Botzheim said. Some members of the groups knew River. It’s surBotzheim said it appeared Hill stabbed Divine each other. There were about 11 people in all, ages rounded by U.S. Forest Service twice, and Divine shot Hill with a handgun. 18 to 24. Botzheim didn’t say who acted first. Deputies have After the confrontation, members of each group land and land owned by Pend the .40 caliber handgun and the knife in their posSee Homicide, 2A Oreille County. session.

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Pend Oreille River on the rise Property owners urged to prepare for flooding NEWPORT – Snowpack levels are high, and the Pend Oreille River level is rising. Property owners along the Pend Oreille River are encouraged to take precautions and prepare for possible flooding, including securing docks and boats. Peak river elevation for this year is expected to be sometime in late May or early June. “Unfortunately, we simply do not know exactly how high the river will rise or when peak flows will be reached,” said Terry Borden, manager of hydro production at the Pend Oreille Public Utility District’s Box Canyon Dam. “When and how quickly

the snowpack melts is determined solely by the weather.” Current snowpack levels for the Pend Oreille River drainage, which are the Upper and Lower Clark Fork Basins and the Flathead Basin, are 95 to 100 percent of average. Rainy weather is predicted through next week. Power production at Box Canyon Dam was shut down Sunday, April 29. Due to operational limitations, the dam is normally unable to produce electricity above 80,000 cubic feet per second (cfs). As of May 1, river flow rates were between 78,000 and 81,000 cfs. The peak flow rate for 2011 was 126,000 cfs, and during the flood year of 1997, the maximum flow rate was

140,000 cfs. The river level was at 2,040.48 feet above sea level at the Cusick gauge Tuesday. A level of 2,042.9 feet or higher is considered flood stage. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is operating its reservoirs to reduce flood risk. At Albeni Falls Dam near Oldtown, the powerhouse was taken offline and the spillway gates were raised April 24, transitioning to a free-flow operation. The normal maximum elevation for April on Lake Pend Oreille is 2,056 feet and the corresponding channel capacity at the lake limits outflows to 56,000 cfs. Since inflows are See River, 2A

Courtesy photo|Diane Wear

Anglers, fish turn out for opening day Myron Kerr of Mead caught these two fish at Sacheen Lake on opening day, Saturday, April 28. The brookie, on the left, was 14 inches and the tiger trout 14.5 inches. Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife only checked Diamond Lake in Pend Oreille County on Saturday. Forty-four anglers were interviewed with 74 fish, 81 released and an overall caught rate of 3.5 fish per angler. The over harvest rate was 1.68 fish per angler. WDFW’s creel checkers reported most anglers were happy with the fishing opportunities, information officer Madonna Luers said. It was cold but the sun came out for most of the day with wind picking up in the afternoon. The largest fish reported caught at Diamond was a 21-inch rainbow trout.

Shoreline program gets fine tuned Courtesy photo|Marianne Nichols

Alternative ways to meet setback requirements discussed By Don Gronning Of The Miner

NEWPORT – Pend Oreille County commissioners continued to work on the Shoreline Master Program at a meeting Tuesday, May 1. It was their fourth workshop on the program since the county’s planning commission finished their work on the draft. This meeting focused on setbacks – the distance from the water where there could be no new structures built. Community Development Director Mike Lithgow and Gregg Dohrn, the county’s consultant for the Shoreline Master Program, said that most of the land in the county,

including the county’s shorelines, were publically owned and were already off limits for development. Dohrn said that there are about 28,000 acres of shoreline in the county. Under the current draft of the shoreline management plan, about 68 percent is designated either rural or urban conservancy and 24 percent designated natural. Conservancy is a designation to preserve natural resource lands, designate environmentally sensitive areas and protect valuable historic and cultural areas, while providing recreational opportunities. Rural conservancy has a 150-foot setback and urban conservancy has a 100-foot setback. Setbacks for land See shoreline, 2A

|| Muddy conditions close two county roads

NEWPORT – Two roads in North Pend Oreille County have been closed due to spring runoff. Meadow Road is closed at milepost 6, and Rocky Creek Road is closed at Highway 20. Meadow Road extends west of Ione, passing Big Meadow Lane. Rocky Creek Road (also known as Lost Creek Road) meets Highway 20 just north of Frater and Nile lakes. The Pend Oreille County Road Department announced the closures Thursday afternoon, April 26. All other road restrictions have been removed.

Kidnap suspect held on $300,000 SPOKANE – A 53-year-old Chattaroy man arrested near the Kings Lake Sno Park in Pend Oreille County April 19 remains in the Spokane

Robin McCroskey accepts her Eagle Volunteer award as Karen Skoog looks on during the Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Day Dinner Saturday.

Volunteers recognized at Lincoln Day Dinner CUSICK – The Pend Oreille County Republicans recognized the members of the party that were the “the hardest working, most dedicated and most effective volunteers within your county.” Awards were presented at the annual Lincoln Day Dinner Saturday, April 28, at the Cusick American Legion Hall. Volunteers received Eagle Awards, including Robin McCroskey, Karen Skoog, Walter “Buzz” Price, Billie Goodno, Larry Brown, Bob Moran,

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County Jail, held on $300,000 bond. Steven Tofte is charged with second degree kidnapping, residential burglary, identity theft and unlawful possession of a firearm. He was charged with kidnapping a 14-year-old family member. He has 15 felony convictions, according to news reports. Tofte was the subject of a two county search involving U.S. Marshalls, Spokane Police and Pend Oreille County Sheriff deputies. When he was captured standing outside his vehicle, there was a shotgun in his vehicle but he made no attempt to grab it, Pend Oreille County Undersheriff Grant Sirevog said. Tofte told a Spokane television station that the family member called him and told him she was running away. He said he took the girl to protect her and to talk

Doreen Moran, Alice Moran, Greg Portrey, Barbara Boyd, Robert Christenson, Bob Eggelston, party chairman Norris Boyd, and Wayne Antcliff. Local elected officials and candidates attended the event, including Reps. Shelly Short and Joel Kretz, Sen. Bob Morton, Rep. Kevin Parker from the 6th District in Spokane, Jeff Kent, a volunteer with the National Committee for Washington and the vice chairman of the Republican National Committee, and Republican county commissioner candidates Karen Skoog and Tim Ibbetson.

her into going back to her family.

Teck planning group to meet May 15 METALINE FALLS – The next meeting of the Teck Community Planners, the group making plans for the future of the mine site in Metaline Falls, has been set for Tuesday, May 15 at 1:30 p.m. at Metaline Falls Town Hall. They will be kicking off the integrated project grant and beginning the game plan with Jim Darling and Bill Hager of Maul Foster and Alongi engineering firm. The group is making plans for the Pend Oreille Mine property, once the facility permanently shuts down. Those interested in being on the committee or who have any questions but are not able to make this

meeting can call Jamie Wyrobeck, director of the Pend Oreille County Economic Development Council, at 509447-5569.

Preschool screening at Newport May 14 NEWPORT – The Newport School District will provide a free screening to preschoolers Monday, May 14. Children 5 years old and younger will be screened for special needs in the following areas: cognitive (thinking and pre-academic skills), communication (speech and language), fine motor (writing, drawing, cutting and visual-motor), gross motor (balance, throwing and kicking), vision and hearing. For more information about available services or to have a preschooler screened, contact Keri Leslie at 509-447-3167.

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Candidates address citizen concerns By Michelle Nedved Of The Miner

PRIEST RIVER – A long line of candidates gathered at the Beardmore Building in Priest River Tuesday evening, April 24, to address citizen’s concerns prior to the primary election to be held Tuesday, May 15. In attendance were county commissioner District 1 candidates Joyce Broadsword, Steve John and Cornel Rasor; commissioner District 3 candidates Sage Dixon, Cary Kelly and Lewis Rich; prosecuting attorney candidates Tevis Hull and Michael Waldrup, sheriff candidates Tim Fry, Rocky Jordan and Daryl Wheeler; District 1 state representative candidates, Position B, George Eskridge and Pam Stout; District 1 state senator candidates Danielle Ahrens and Shawn Keough; and District 1 state representative candidates, Position A, Eric Anderson, Donna Capurso and Louis Kins. Citizen questions centered on the individual’s rights. One citizen questioned why the state legislature is taking away local municipalities’ regulation of speed limits on state highways. Incumbents Keough and Anderson said they were against the change in legislation and their opponents agreed that decisions should be made as close to home as possible.

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Another question asked the sheriff candidates if they would stand up against the federal government if it passed an unconstitutional law. Wheeler, Jordan and Fry agreed they would. All candidates were asked their stance on Agenda 21, an action plan by the United Nations regulating actions that affect the environment. All candidates were opposed to Agenda 21, saying it goes too far to take property owners’ rights away. Issues specific to the west side of Bonner County were also on people’s minds. The candidates were asked what they would do to help develop Bonner Park West, a county-operated park located within Priest River’s city limits. While not all candidates were familiar with the park, many said they would do what they can, given the poor economic times. Candidates were also asked when was the last time they attended an event on the west side of the county. Many candidates had attended previous forums in recent weeks and many of the incumbents had attended events in the last year. Polls are open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 15. Only candidates running on the Republican and Democratic tickets will be on the primary ballot. No Democrats are running for local offices. Independents and Constitution candidates, such as Jordan, Hull, Waldrup and Johnson, will appear only on the General Election ballot in November.

Priest River PRIDE group to meet May 10 PRIEST RIVER – The PRIDE quarterly regroup meeting will be held Thursday, May 10 at 6 p.m. at the Priest River Library, 118 Main St. The PRIDE steering committee will discuss new partnerships and

share news regarding the group’s 501(c)(3) status. Also on the agenda is discussion on the community goals developed during the first series of meetings. The PRIDE action groups will report on the progress of their projects,

and the ACE group will give a presentation on their recent successes in the community and how they were accomplished. Everyone interested in furthering the efforts of PRIDE in the community is welcome to attend.

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Fiber in the ground Ben Banks and David Alderman of Henkels & McCoy, the contractor who will be doing the underground fiber optic installation, lay down the first underground fiber lines at a Woodman Road residence Wednesday, April 25. Henkels & McCoy were awarded the bid by the local public utility district as part of federal grant funded project to bring fiber to every home in South Pend Oreille County by April 2013. About 900 people have given consent to have the fiber optic lines hooked to their homes and businesses at no cost during sign up sessions held by the PUD. Another is set for Tuesday, May 8, from 9 a.m. to noon and from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the fiber showroom behind Safeway. There is no obligation to use the fiber at this time but signing up will allow retail service providers to offer services in the future.

Trost named Distinguished Young Woman PRIEST RIVER – In a night of talent, scholarship and other fine attributes displayed by 10 Priest River girls, Melissa Trost was the one selected as this year’s Distinguished Young Woman in the scholarship program held at Priest River Junior High Saturday, April 28. She’ll represent Priest River at a variety of local events, along with runner up Steffie Pavey. Trost will also advance to the state competition where she’ll compete with participants from 42 local programs in

Idaho Falls this September. Attendees at Saturday’s program were entertained with various performances in the talent section, from African drumming to Hawaiian hula. Trost and Kiki Broschet were the talent winners. Trost played “Hallelujah” by Kate Voegele and Broschet played Bach’s “Gavotte” on the flute. A panel of five judges also gave awards in other categories. Trost and Pavey won in the scholastic

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HOMICIDE | Car ran off the road in Riverbend Loop area From Page 1 Miner photo|Don Gronning

Pend Oreille County Commissioner Laura Merrill asks about a shoreline designation at a meeting to work on the Shoreline Master Program Tuesday, May 1, while county commissioner John Hankey and community development director Mike Lithgow look on. From Page 1

with a natural shoreline designation is 200 feet under the current draft. Commissioner John Hankey said he wanted that changed to 50 feet for both conservancy designations. The planning commission had already grandfathered in anybody that has a lot in areas designated conservancy. They would allow them to build a single family home as close as 50 feet from the shoreline. That was something Jaime Short of the Department of Ecology expressed concern over when she met with commissioners March 21. The new Shoreline Master Program proposes expanding the highest level of protection – the natural shoreline designation – to cover about 6,500 acres, up from the 247 acres currently designated natural. Property designated natural shoreline must have a 200 feet setback, the largest setback. “That’s a pretty significant increase,” Dohrn said. He said Ecology will look favorably on that. Ultimately, Ecology must approve the Shoreline Master Program. There will be two ways people

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can comply when the Shoreline Master Program is completed. If the current proposed designations will work, people can just comply with them. But if there is some reason why they need to build something closer to the water, there is a more individual way to comply. It will be up to the landowner to make the case – using and paying for a qualified professional. Commissioners are considering several custom ways to comply with the setback requirement. These include: • Buffer averaging, where the standard setback could be reduced in one place if it is increased in another, with no net loss of ecological function. • In-fill development, where landowners would be able to build closer to the water if the houses on both sides have built closer. The idea is that there would be no net loss of ecological function since the area was already developed. • An administrative adjustment may be made to a property on a case-by-case basis. This would also require a written justification by a qualified professional and additional conditions of approval may

apply. • A variance, where shoreline buffers could be reduced with the approval of the county and the Department of Ecology. These would be rare. Dohrn said that having two ways to comply is more flexible. He pointed out that a setback by itself may not accomplish what the Department of Ecology wants. For instance, if the setback is stripped of vegetation and fertilized, the shoreline wouldn’t be protected. He said that the time to intervene where shorelines are concerned is before they are created and sold. Dohrn and Lithgow will make changes the commissioners wanted and send them an updated draft. If the commissioners accept the draft, they will open another 60-day comment period. Towards the end of the comment period commissioners will hold two town hall meetings – one in the north county and one in the southern part of the county. They will probably be held in mid to late July. Lithgow expects the Shoreline Master Program will be forwarded to Ecology for review by August.

loaded the injured men into separate vehicles and headed toward town, Botzheim said. The vehicle with Divine ended up at Fire District 2’s station 24. He was dead by the time they got there. Hill’s friends put him in a car and headed for the Newport Hospital. “But they ran off the road in the Riverbend Loop area,” Botzheim said. Hill was dead in the car when deputies arrived about 1:25 a.m., he said. Because of the alcohol and movement, interviewing the witnesses at the different locations wasn’t easy, Botzheim said. “We had nine people to start

RIVER | Outflow at 77,000 From Page 1

now exceeding 80,000 cfs, switching to free-flow operations allows the corps to keep the lake level as low as possible. Under this operation, outflow from Albeni Falls averaged 77,400 cfs Monday and is increasing gradually as the lake level rises. The elevation of Lake Pend Oreille, as measured at Hope gauge, Tuesday was 2,059.2 feet. Flood stage is 2,063 feet. Water levels are high at area lakes as well. To help reduce erosion

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interviewing in the middle of the night,” he said. He added that they had help from the Washington State Patrol and the U.S. Border Patrol. Deputies impounded four vehicles, including Divine’s Honda. “We’re executing search warrants today,” Botzheim said Tuesday. He said the case is an active investigation to determine if any charges will be brought for minor in possession of alcohol and driving under the influence. It hasn’t been determined if anyone acted in self defense. Because it’s apparent the two killed one another, no arrests are expected in the homicide, Botzheim said.

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along shorelines, the Pend Oreille County commissioners have issued wake restrictions at Diamond, Sacheen and Bead lakes. Boats must operate at a speed slow enough to keep from creating a wake. The Army Corps has two flood teams out in northern Idaho and has completed levee strengthening work in central Washington near Naches. The Coeur d’Alene basin team is finishing work with Bonner County to stabilize an eroding outfall structure/access road at Cocolalla Lake near Sagle.

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Highs during this week last year were mostly in the 50s, but temps warmed up to 70 by May 9. Lows stayed above freezing in the Newport area, and three days saw rain.

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BR I E FLY Riverside levy passes narrowly SPOKANE – Voters in Fertile Valley South and Camden precincts in the far south end of Pend Oreille County voted on levies for the Deer Park School District and a replacement educational programs and operation levy for the Riverside School District. Riverside’s levy was tied evenly after the first count, and as of the final tabulation it passed by 11 votes. A total 2,161 people (50.13 percent) said yes and 2,150 or 49.87 percent saying no. A capital levy in February failed. This current proposal did not include the capital levy, but rather replaces the district’s levy. Pend Oreille County voters in the Riverside district were also pretty evenly split. One-hundred-thirty-nine said yes while 144 said no. Homeowners would pay about $3.49 per $1,000 in assessed value to raise $2.9 million for the district. It will help Riverside keep music, advanced placement and other programs. The April 17 election results were canvassed last Thursday. Combined with results from Spokane and Stevens counties, the Deer Park levy passed with 58.35 percent approval. A total 15 people from Pend Oreille County voted with two saying yes to the levy and 13 saying no.

Boating safety classes planned this summer NEWPORT – Boating safety classes will be offered at area lakes this summer. The Diamond Lake Improvement Association is organizing a class Saturday, May 26 at 8:30 a.m. The Sacheen Lake Association is hosting a class June 23 at 8 a.m. Sign up by calling Linda Walters at 509-447-0446.

BLM seeks committee members PORTLAND, Ore. – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is extending the deadline for nominations for positions on its Resource Advisory Council (RAC) in eastern Washington. Nominations must be submitted by June 4. RACs are citizen-based groups that make recommendations to the BLM regarding public land and resource management, including land-use planning, recreation, fire management, livestock grazing, and wild horse and burro herd management.

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Local Democrats discuss issues of concern to form into a party platform at the annual county convention in Cusick Saturday.

Democrats gather for county convention CUSICK – The Pend Oreille County Democratic Convention met Saturday, April 28 at Cusick High School to draft resolutions and revise the platform that will define the local party for the next two years. The group agreed that the most important issue for them was the endorsement of a resolution to amend the constitution excluding corporations from the definition of people as defined in the Bill of Rights. They believe those rights

should be reserved only for human beings. The resolution that garnered the second most support called for a universal health care system similar to Medicare. The platform was revised to reflect a strong concern for funding of education, healthcare and the right of workers to bargain collectively. Concern was expressed that all federal expenditures be listed in the budget, and that the costs of war be listed clearly in the federal

budget. All constitutional rights, including the right to keep and bear arms and protection against unlawful search and seizure were reaffirmed. In this year’s election, the party is supporting Maria Cantwell in the U.S. Senate, Jay Inslee for governor, Rich Cowan for 5th District Representative and Diane Wear for county commissioner. The group will meet next May 15 at 6 p.m. at the Hospitality House in Newport.

Grant project improves elk habitat MISSOULA, Mont. – To rejuvenate forage for elk in the upper Middle Fork of the Calispel Creek area, about 200 acres will be burned this summer as part of a grantfunded conservation project with the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. Another 90 acres in the Lost Creek area will be burned. Both are Colville National Forest land. The RMEF funding commitment totals $189,960 and affects 11 counties: Asotin, Columbia, Garfield, Grays Harbor, King, Lewis, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, San Juan, Stevens and Yakima. Funding for RMEF grants is based on local membership drives and banquet fundraising by RMEF chapters and volunteers in Washington. Another major project will use GPS collars to research the Snoqualmie Valley elk herd.

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The assessor’s office used to have two full time and two part time appraisers. The office was NEWPORT – Pend Oreille down to one appraiser, plus County Assessor Jim McCroskey McCroskey himself who does requested to hire another apfield work along with his official praiser in order to keep up with duties, and a part time appraiser the annual assessments this year. hired in February. Appraisers are in the McCroskey said field visiting proper- “When we run late, he needs to have ties in the Diamond we can’t pick up new another appraiser and Sacheen lake to keep equitabilareas and within the construction, so tax ity among the Newport city limits. payers who are paying county’s taxing Properties get a are basically picking up districts. physical inspection “When we run their share.” every four years, late, we can’t pick and all properties up new construcare revalued every Jim McCroskey tion, so tax payers year based on mar- Pend Oreille County Assessor who are paying ket statistics. So far, are basically pickvalues are mostly flat, and a few ing up their share,” he explained. areas are seeing their property Forgoing the appraisal for new values decrease, McCroskey said. construction would cost the If values are going up, he said it’s county about $35,000 in annual because something has been built property tax revenue, McCroskey or added or because there was an told the commissioners. error in the last assessment. The full time appraiser position McCroskey said they’re about the county is hiring for is a union a third of the way through the position paying between $2,863 physical inspections, and they and $3,036 per month, dependhope to be done by May 31. Aping on experience. Applications praisals ran late last year and the are due May 3. The position is county wasn’t done with the work budgeted for, McCroskey said. until the first part of October, McAlong with the appraising Croskey said. work, the assessor’s office has “Luckily it’s closer to home been swamped with property here. The communities are close owners filing for exemptions nit and there’s not as much travel- ahead of the property tax deading,” he said. line.

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Wild animals aren’t only camping danger

fter the fatal stabbing and shooting deaths of two campers in Pend Oreille County were first reported, it was sad to hear one reporter comment that she didn’t feel safe camping anymore. But it is a fact everyone should be aware of; people in our forests can pose as big a danger as wild animals. There have been frequent violent incidents during the past few years in local campgrounds and remote areas. They usually involve alcohol and many times guns. Like Sunday’s incident in north Pend Oreille County, they usually are senseless moments of alcohol-induced rage. In this case, two young men fought to the death over a dented car. One man stabbed the other and then was shot to death while the rest of the partygoers watched. Like the truck dragging death a few years ago, they all started out with a camping party in the remote woods. Of course these incidents happen in the city as well but there is something more alarming about them when they break the pristine silence of our forests or occur where lawmen are few and far away. National Park and Forest Service statistics show millions of people camp each summer on public land with only a few hundred serious violent crimes. A person is probably still more likely to be assaulted in Spokane than in a campground in Pend Oreille or west Bonner County. But the fact is some people are coming to local camping areas to drink heavily and they usually have weapons. Unfortunately, we don’t believe there is a way for society to prevent these crimes. Only people acting rationally while in the woods can do that. So until that day arrives, stay cautious while camping. --FJW

All kinds commit fraud It’s bad enough that the cream of the security crop in our government, the Secret Service, dallied with prostitutes on a trip to Colombia while making sure of the safety of our soon to arrive on a visit president. The more worrisome thing to me, however, was the stupidity of the agent or agents who questioned the fee charged by his lady for the night, thus blowing the lid off the whole thing by triggering her complaint to the local cops. Prostitution is not against the law in Colombia so she had as much of a right to complain as if she were a taxi driver stiffed for his fare by the American visitors. I thought Secret Service guys were smarter than that. And the ones involved appear to have been Secret Service veterans, not rookies who didn’t know any better. A further scandal has been revealed wherein senior managers of the General Services Administration joined in a fourday conference in Las Vegas that cost taxpayers over $800,000 for expenses and entertainment including private parties in their rooms. But don’t reserve your anger just for what government employees in D.C. are doing on your nickel. Your fellow American citizens of various ages have behaved in just as rotten and contemptible a manner. Try some of these. Authorities say the son of a good friend of the victim of a gunpoint robbery at her house in Pierce County helped plan the attack. Prosecutors charged Bobby Ray McKinner, 26, with one count each of first-degree robbery, burglary and unlawful imprisonment. He told two of his buddies how to get into the 67-year-old woman’s house and gave them an inventory of property to steal. The two held her at gunpoint and robbed her, but one was caught by police when he was seen carrying a large screen TV out of the house. His partner and McKinner were also picked up and charged. Olga Fedorovsky, head of the Literacy Council of Kitsap County, confessed to embezzling nearly $20,000 by forging a cohort’s name on checks she cashed and credit card advances. Her lawyer

said she suffered from depression and dealt with it by trips to the gambling halls of the Suquamish Clearwater casino. An 83-yearold Seattle man who was not named in the newspaper story was cheated out of $89,000 by a GUEST telephone caller OPINION who identified himself as the Adele man’s teenFerguson aged grandson, Correspondent Ryan. In his first call, he needed $4,300 for bail after being arrested for thinking and driving in Georgia where he attended a wedding, he said. After subsequent calls during the next few days the old man sent an additional $84,000. It stopped after his real grandson called and said he was not in trouble and was in the Seattle area, all the time. The embattled superintendent of Darrington School District agreed to resign, a year and a half after another school manager died of a cocaine overdose in his house. KOMO-TV reported Larry Johnson will resign April 30 under a settlement with the school board where he agreed to drop his lawsuit in return for his contract being bought out and other monetary awards. Johnson was cleared of wrongdoing though it was revealed he was having an affair with the dead woman and a hearings officer directed that he be reinstated in his job because the district did not establish sufficient cause for termination. In February, a 25-year-old woman and her son went door to door in Navy Yard City, Bremerton, offering to do repairs and yard work for payment in advance. One woman wrote $19,000 in checks to the pair before they vanished without doing any work. The woman had a record of similar bilking in Hawaii and the cops hope to catch up with her. (Adele Ferguson can be reached at P.O. Box 69, Hansville, WA 98340.)

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|| Vote for Broadsword May 15 To the editor: If you believe Bonner County commissioners should spend their time, and your tax dollars, hiring lawyers and mediators because they cannot get along with each other; let alone work with other elected county officials; if you want your county commissioners to focus on fighting the federal government at the expense of attending to local issues; then by all means vote to retain the current District 1 County Commissioner. If, however, you are tired of the fighting and constant uproar in the Bonner County courthouse and would like a commissioner who will weigh the issues and vote her conscience rather than marching blindly to the “party line”; consider voting for Joyce Broadsword, Republican candidate for District 1 county commissioner in the primary election on May 15. Broadsword has lived in Bonner County all her life. She has represented Bonner County interests for the past eight years as an Idaho State Senator. As senator she focused on economic development; funding to control milfoil in Lake Pend Oreille and Cocolalla; supported road funding for North Idaho; advocated for reasonable responsible tax policy; and made many tough decisions resulting in cuts to agency budgets rather than raising taxes. Broadsword works hard to solve problems, not to create them, and, very importantly, she will work with other county officials on problems that are critical to productive county government. If you want a commissioner who is an effective county leader, vote for Joyce Broadsword Re-

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for Bonner County To the editor: Cornel Rasor’s opposition continues attacking him on the premise that county commissioners used every dime available for the budget by giving the Bonner County Sheriff’s Office a 25 percent raise, thus the reason everyone’s property taxes are high this year. The fact is that certain ranches and farms, which saw the highest tax increase, were reorganized as part of the homeowners exemption four years ago. For the past four years the county assessor has been implementing Rule 625, which requires the assessor to assess the first acre of land that has the home and improvements on it as though it were completely separate from the remaining land. It is required that the one improved acre compare to similar improved lots anywhere in the county. These increases coincidentally showed up this year. Rasor’s opponents have tried to twist the facts to imply because the commissioners took all the taxes they could to pay for the services they needed, taxes have gone up radically. It is common practice for county commissions throughout all of Idaho every year uses every dime available to them because of the need for a balanced budget. The sheriff’s office increase was about 17 percent for 2011 which was determined appropriate to try to stem the loss of trained employees who were leaving for better paying jobs elsewhere. Other county cuts were made to offset this raise. Commissioner Rasor is on record stating several times that the decision to increase deputy would result in an overall savings. Idaho counties have the

UN treaty could threaten our guns To the editor: We have a permanent seat in the United Nations, as do China, Russia, Syria, North Korea and many other countries that rule their people rather than the people ruling their government. This coming July President Obama will send Secretary of State Hillary (Anti-Gun) Clinton to the UN in New York to possibly sign in the United States as being in favor of the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty. One of the major tenants of this “treaty” is that its members pointedly refuse to recognize armed self-defense as a human right. If we become a signatory by a stroke of a pen, then that pen will next be used to register our guns. What follows gun registration is well documented and serves to cement the position of tyrants and despots worldwide. U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., has introduced the Second Amendment Sovereignty Act, S 2205. If passed and signed by President (Anti-Gun) Obama, it will keep American gun ownership from falling under the UN’s Arms Trade Treaty. If Clinton, or whoever, should sign this bill by Sen. Moran it will stop the UN from getting its nose into our second amendments tent! And from having power over a part of our constitution. -Larry Connelly Cusick

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Visit The Miner Online to answer our readers’ poll question through Tuesday morning. Find it on the left-hand side of the page at www.PendOreilleRiverValley.com. The results will be printed next week on this page. You need not be a subscriber to participate. If you have ideas for future readers’ poll topics, submit them to minernews@povn.com. Have a tattoo? Do you regret it? I used to want a tattoo, but now I’m glad I didn’t get one.

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Rasor is a true conservative To the editor: We are writing to urge all my fellow Bonner County residents to support Cornel Rasor in his bid for re-election to the Bonner County Commission. Rasor has proven himself during his current term as a very capable commissioner willing to stand up and battle for the rights of Bonner County citizens with intelligence and common sense. He has worked hard to preserve our rural life styles here in Bonner County and has promised to continue those same efforts if elected to a second term. The same cannot be said about his opponent, Joyce Broadsword. Broadsword, while claiming to affiliate with conservatives and the Republican Party, has spent her days as an Idaho state senator voting against her Republican party and against bills and amendments aimed at strengthening Idaho, reducing energy costs and protecting Idaho’s unique rural lifestyle. Only once in the past 12 months has she voted in favor of legislation with her party. Broadsword voted against all nine education bills; voted to permit abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy; voted to allow illegal aliens to receive public welfare benefits; and she did not even vote on legislation to encourage

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same mandate as the state to have a balanced budget. The final increase was 5.6 percent, which is in fact an increase but not the implied 50 percent that the opposition keeps slinging around. Cornel Rasor has worked tirelessly to better the lives of Bonner County residents. -Andrew Scott Blanchard

Fishing season opens April 28. Will you be out there?

I have yet to get one, but it’s on my bucket list.

I still cherish my tattoos. They’re each a special memory.

I fished as a kid, but haven’t carried on the hobby.

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I’ve never fished and never will.

I’ve never fished, but I’d like to get in to it.

I’ll fish this season, but opening day is too crowded for me.

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recruitment of new hunters. She must have deemed just the effort of voting to be an incredible waste of her time as she did not even vote on nine out of 12 budget bills in 2011-12. Why does she even call herself a Republican or attempt to speak with a conservative voice? Cornel Rasor is a true conservative who understands current issues and what is important now and in the future to the majority of Bonner County residents. Cornel has proven he will listen and implement plans and ideas consistent to the rural life style of Bonner County. Please vote for Cornel Rasor for Bonner County Commissioner. -Don Jacobs Blanchard

Game animals and politicians don’t mix To the editor: I would like to introduce myself. I’m the son of Henry Dishaw who was assistant manager of the state game farm at Deer Park. Bill Watkins was the manager. The winter of 1966, Bill Watkins, my dad and I went up to Gold Creek in Idaho to look for woodland caribou. What is a woodland caribou, I asked myself. Bill Watkins started to tell me. They look a little like reindeer with big hooves and a little bigger paddles on their horns. They like to eat the green moss hanging on the north side of trees. We had to snowshoe in about two miles before we found what we were looking for. Bill Watkins

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said at that time that there were about four. Well it’s been 46 years. What I know about the woodland caribou, from back then to now is leave them alone because anything done by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife or the people that live there is going to be a waste of time. The woodland caribou are not native to the U.S. They are from Canada. The boys flying around in the helicopter should have asked if they had passports to be here. Why haven’t they multiplied by now, almost 46 years later? Alberta (Canada) Environmental Protection Fish and Wildlife branch has enlisted the help of oil, gas and forestry industries to protect the woodland caribou habitat. The branch also hopes to reduce wolf predation and illegal hunting, also fitting caribou with radio collars to aid with data collection. The old boys of the state game and wildlife once told me that game animals and politicians don’t mix. Increase the wolf population and hope they don’t find the woodland caribou. Makes sense. - Thomas Dishaw Diamond Lake

Life, liberty and pursuit of happiness foundation of U.S. To the editor: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of happiness. The trunk of my family tree dates back to the founding of Jamestown. That means every war this country has ever known since its discovery, I have had a parent, grandparent, brother, cousin or uncle fight, sacrifice or die for those three statements of freedom. If every American Democrat or Republican could understand and run this country with that mindset then we as a nation could ultimately fix what is wrong. We as a country have strayed away from the very foundation of what makes us strong. Life means protecting life of our citizens, born or unborn. If a country attacks us we should fight back, but if a country does not attack us don’t start a war. Liberty means freedom to make decisions concerning my life and property without hurting my neighbor. Government and corporations should not create regulations or pollutions that destroy my value but should also protect my value. Pursuit of Happiness: How I decide to go about my life in my be-

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liefs that make me happy. I should not push these beliefs on others nor should others have the right to stop me from my beliefs. Peace between our political systems could and should come together under the branches of those three statements every single day they are in office. Stop fighting for the parties and start fighting for this country. When you vote ask yourself, “Does this person honestly care about my Life, Liberty or Pursuit of Happiness?” Has this person proven themselves concerning the foundation of this country or do they care more about dividing and squabbling about dumb stupid politics? -Donna Lands Newport

We don’t want a police state To the editor: The Arizona immigration law heard before the U.S. Supreme

Court represents a significant threat to our freedom to move in public without police profiling and harassment. It’s white people’s last stand against non-white or brown skin people. Note that I didn’t say Mexican or Hispanic; just anyone that looks like a non-white person to a police officer. The idea is to round up people that are illegally in America at the expense of our own freedom. Government police can’t stop or detain citizens without probable cause. Once stopped, the police officer gets to ask for proof of citizenship. Since 9-11 the Congress and some state legislatures have passed bad laws out of fear of terrorism and perceived threats to our security. Too much power has been grabbed by the government in the pursuit of an unachievable goal of 100 percent security. The Bush administration talked constantly

of “the next warning being a mushroom cloud.” Now we have fearful white people passing laws that are aimed at anyone with brown skin or a non-white profile. Who wants to live in a society where the color of your skin or the hat or clothes you wear are subject to the scrutiny of government police? Once the non-white people are categorized then white people can be profiled into groups. I often get emails that show pictures of “different” white people that shop at Wal-Mart. I wonder if it would be viewed as tasteless humor by government run police agencies. Have they made a connection between how people look and their potential to commit crimes or hide illegal behavior? Just look at the police states in the Middle East that have clouds of smoke bellowing over their cities, See LETTERS, 6A

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and ask yourself if an American police state will protect us from terrorism and illegal aliens. -Pete Scobby Newport

School, hospital address need for nurses aides To the editor: In this era of the blame game and filing lawsuits, I believe it’s better to show some positives. As we all should know, Newport is the regional health care center, with the hospital, the Long Term Care facility and the assisted living (River Mountain Village) facility. Today these facilities along with the Newport School District are to be commended for facing this issues. With the growing need of nurse aides certified (NACs), the school district has put in an NAC course for senior students, taught by the school nurse. She not only teaches the class, but she also has the students have hands-on experiences in the hospital’s facilities. The teacher accompanies the students several days a week, including Saturday mornings, while they shadow the working staff and assist with patient care. At the end of the school term, the students must pass the certification exam. Upon success, the students then are prepared to enter the workforce or use this training as a step in going further in the health care field. Is it great to see the school district and hospital district cooperating in helping a local situation? My wife of nearly 60 years is a resident of the Long Term Care, so I am privileged to witness this program on a daily basis. As the lyrics to a nice old song begin: “Accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative!” Makes a lot of good sense. Thank you, Newport School District and Community Hospital. -Eugene M. Nelson Newport

Do they think we are stupid? To the editor: The two heads of the Democrat party, President Obama and Debbie Wasserman-Schutlz, are saying some interesting things about the Republicans. According to Wasserman-Schutlz, the chairwoman of the Democrat National

Committee and Congresswoman from Florida, (not some obscure minor official), “Republicans want to take us back to a time where insurance companies will deny us coverage,” “my rights as a woman are in jeopardy if Mitt Romney becomes President,” and “Now you have the Republicans who want to drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws and literally – and very transparently block access to the polls to voters who are more likely to vote for Democratic candidates than Republican candidates. And President Obama, (again no minor official), “You got their plan, which is let’s have dirtier air, dirtier water, (and) less people with health insurance,” in speaking about people complaining about too many regulations. And, speaking about too many regulations, how about the Labor of Department’s latest efforts to place restrictions on kids working on the family farms? Oh, and how about Al Armendariz, a regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency, explaining in 2010 that he understands the EPA policy to be to “crucify” a few oil and gas companies to get the rest of the industry to comply with the laws. Do we need regulations? Yes. But do we need the government to “crucify” businesses? Do we need the government to regulate the family farm? If the Democrats want to be taken serious, they really ought to explain how their policies are positive and healthy for all citizens, including businesses that supply vital goods and services and not continue in such idiotic rhetoric. Does anybody seriously believe that Republicans want dirty air and water and that we want to restrict insurance coverage to women, or that we want to re-institute Jim Crow laws? Riiiiiiiight! -LeRoy Leland Diamond Lake

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ed against every piece of proposed legislation that would provide relief, including the Senate Jobs Bill, Small Business Lending Fund, the Small Business Tax Amendment, and Aid to States which would provide additional funding to hire and/or retain teachers. Her response to bills in favor of extending unemployment benefits, as well as support for science and technology: A clear and resounding, “No.” She states that she worked hard to maintain Fairchild Air Force Base, yet voted against key measures for defense funding, which Sens. Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray both supported. I have spent a great deal of time researching her voting record and trying to find a connection between what she says and what she does. What I have found is a consistent pattern of evasions, distractions and out-right lies. If you truly want change, I urge you to join me in supporting Rich Cowan for Congress. -Gail Cory-Betz Newport

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NEWPORT – Pend Oreille Spay/Neuter Alliance has been hard at work getting as many dogs and cats fixed as possible before the usual springtime flood of puppies and kittens. The organization has helped spay/neuter 160 animals in the first three months of this year. With 200 animals helped last year, this strong start shows they are on track to surpass their goal of helping 400 animals in 2012. “With strong community support, we can make a big impact on the unwanted animal problem in our area,” said Cindy Knudsen, president of the organization. “We all know the problems – animals being dumped, shelters overflowing – this just doesn’t need to happen. We know the answer to this, and it just isn’t that hard to solve: get them fixed!” Knudsen said. The Pend Oreille Spay/Neuter Alliance works not only with companion animals, but also stray and abandoned animals.

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The group recently completed a feral cat trapping situation in Priest River. Over nearly two weeks, 28 cats were trapped, altered, vaccinated and given basic health care for any existing problems. “Obviously that was a big drain on our finances, but we couldn’t very well ignore a problem that had been going on for years,” treasurer Nancy Hollingsworth said. Homes have been found for 10 of the kittens, but placements are still needed for those in foster care. “We need more volunteers for all aspects of our work, but especially people who can foster animals until good homes can be found. We never know when something like this will come up, so we need better options for the animals involved,” said Becky Cooper, a long time volunteer. A situation where a family had to give up most of their animals due to crushing medical bills, is another ongoing project. Placements have been found for the dogs, but a number of very

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Several cats are in need of a home after the Pend Oreille Spay/Neuter Alliance helped trap strays in Priest River. The animals have all been fixed and have their shots.

friendly cats are in need of good homes. All animals are altered and vaccinated before being adopted. Volunteers thanked staff at the Animal Doctor veterinary office in Oldtown for their help providing medical care to the animals. Donations of good quality pet food and money are always needed. If you can help or if you need help getting your own animals altered, contact Cindy at 509-671-1427.

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one thing, does another To the editor: If the definition of insanity is “doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results,” then how can anyone realistically believe that re-electing Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers will make a difference? McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., states she is working hard to reduce unemployment, yet has vot-

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Rummage sale benefits scholarships

NEWPORT – The Pend Oreille Players Association will be holding a rummage sale to raise money for scholarships Saturday, May 12 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Pend Oreille Playhouse Community Theatre, 240 N. Union Ave. in Newport. All proceeds raised will be split 50/50 between the POPA scholarship fund for graduating seniors and summer theater camp programs. Donations for the sale will be accepted May 7-11. The theater is open Wednesdays through Fridays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. To arrange drop-off for donation, contact Gail at 509-447-2750.

NEWPORT – Summer is just around the corner, and the dates have been set for the Pend Oreille Players summer theatre camps. Class sizes are limited, so enroll early. Registration forms are available at the Pend Oreille Playhouse, 240 N. Union Ave. in Newport, and online at www.pendoreilleplayers.org. Grades 1, 2 and 3 will meet July 16-19 from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Tuition is $25 per student. There’s a limit of 12 students. They’ll put on a performance for family and friends July 19 at 1:30 p.m. Grades 4, 5 and 6 will meet July 30, 31 and Aug. 1-3 from 9:30

NEWPORT – The Newport Area Beautification Committee is sponsoring a Clean-Up Newport Day Saturday, May 5. Volunteers will meet at 8 a.m. at either Owen Grocery or Seeber’s Pharmacy. Volunteers and business people are urged to help out with sweeping, picking up trash, and in general sprucing up downtown Newport to erase the last signs of winter. Bring brooms, garbage bags, gloves and enthusiasm. This is the second year a downtown cleanup has been sponsored by the Newport Beautification Committee. In 2011, decorative flower pots were added by many businesses and volunteers swept sidewalks, picked up litter, and cleaned up the entry way and windows of the vacant Martin Hotel. For questions or comments, contact Nancy Thompson at 509-447-0897 or Robert Karr at 509-671-1539.

Market hogs weigh in May 12 CUSICK – The Pend Oreille County Fair’s spring market hog weigh-in will be Saturday, May 12 from 9-11 a.m. at the fairgrounds in Cusick. This is for exhibitors who wish to sell their hogs at the market animal sale during the 2012 fair. Weigh-in is still optional, but you must register your hog even if you do not plan to attend the weigh-in. Registrations must be postmarked by May 12 to be eligible to sell your hog at the market animal sale at the fair. In order to be able to compete in the “daily rate of grain” competition, you must attend the spring weigh-in. New this year for market swine, there will no longer be a max weight at the sale. The minimum will still be 225 pounds. However, you will be paid only up to 300 pounds even if your pig weighs more than that. For more information or for registration forms, call swine superintendents Johnny and Lindsey Newman at 509-4473188.

a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Tuition is $35 per student, limit of 15 students. The performance will be Aug. 3 at 2 p.m. Grades 7-12 will meet Aug. 1317 and 20-24 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Tuition is $75 per student, limit of 25 students. Public performances will be Friday and Saturday, Aug. 24 and 25 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Aug. 26 at 3 p.m. All participants are asked to bring a sack lunch. POPA will provide a nutritious snack. If you would like to sponsor a child’s camp fees or help in any way, contact the theatre at 509-671-3389.

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PRIEST RIVER – Priest River Lamanna High School invites community members to attend the several events planned for Tuesday, May 15, from 5:307:30 p.m. The school’s Idaho Drug Free Youth are hosting and sponsoring a potato bar dinner in appreciation of all the support the Priest River community provides the school and students all year. Adults and students are invited to be introduced to colleges, trade schools and industry opportunities in the region. Visit the school and get information from many different areas and fields. PRLHS students and teachers are hosting a Showcase of Student Senior Projects and other student work, which will be displayed, along with musical and improv entertainment and presentations.

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Cool mathematicians Several Sadie Halstead Middle School fifth graders recently attended the “Math Is Cool” competition in Spokane. Students competed in several areas of math, both as individuals as well as in teams. Sadie Halstead placed fifth out of more than 20 teams from the Spokane area. Pictured from left to right are front row: Cydni Lewis, Kyle Lawrence, Dylan Ralston, Blake Haney and Adam Moorhead. Middle Row: Matthew Ragsdale, Chelsea Hansen, Jessie Dillon, Zach Heinz, Elizabeth O’Neal, Megan Vaughn and Faith Rosen. Back Row: Alexis Polensky, Racine Balow, Matthew Burkett and Danny Bradbury.

Kids artists invited to create poster art NEWPORT – Young artists can prepare to enter their art for the Lavender Festival’s youth juried art show and post competition. The deadline is May 23. The competition is open to young artists, ages 8 to 12 years. The visual artwork needs to be suited for copying as the “Youth Lavender Festival Poster.” All entries must be original work by the youth artist. Artwork must be no larger than 8 ½ by 11 inches. Label your entries with artist’s name, address, phone number and description of materials and deliver to Create Arts

Center in Newport. All poster competition entries will be displayed at the youth artist booth in the youth activities area at the Pend Oreille Valley Lavender Festival in July. The winning original poster artwork will be featured and poster prints will be available for purchase. The second and third place entries will be awarded ribbons. Also at Create, the Artists Shop is open Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 1-5 p.m. or by appointment. A variety of artwork from paintings, knitted hats and

scarves, decorated vases, jewelry, fused glass plates, ornaments, necklaces and more is available for purchase. Dance classes continue Fridays at 4 p.m. with nightclub two-step and 6 p.m. with tango. Ballet and tap classes for 5-7 year olds are Wednesdays at 3:34 p.m. Domino night is the third Sunday of the month, May 20 at 1 p.m. The drop-in sewing group meets on the second Friday, May 10, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Watercolor classes with Shirley Bird Wright are every third Friday, May 18, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. for $35. The fiber arts studio meets Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to noon, and the stitchery club meets Fridays from 1-3 p.m. For more information, call Create at 509-447-9277, email create@createarts.org or visit www.createarts.org. The arts center is located at 900 W. Fourth St. in Newport. CALVARY CHAPEL NEWPORT

“Where The Sheep Go To Be Fed” 409 S. Spokane • 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 Miner photo|Janelle Atyeo

Newport resident Sharon Gerber gets food and litter for her four cats at the pet food distribution put on by the Angel Paws organization at the Newport Food Bank Thursday, April 26.

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Organization distributes food for cats and dogs NEWPORT – The Angel Paws organization of Pend Oreille County distributed more than 800 pounds of dog and cat food to Pend Oreille and Bonner county residents Thursday, April 26. Angel Paws served 82 clients with 180 dogs or puppies and more than 120 cats. Items given out included dog and cat kibble and canned food, treats, feeders, cat litter and boxes, toys and doghouses. The distribution was done in conjunction with the American Lutheran Church and Second Harvest. In addition to the food and items distributed, Angel Paws was able to provide information to qualifying individuals about a free spay and neuter program and a program to assistance with necessary veterinary costs including dog and cat vaccinations. Angel Paws received the items distributed from Pacific Northwest

Animal Welfare Project and from the kindness of local Pend Oreille County donors. The Newport Food Bank and Crime Victims Services provides Angel Paws with use of the Newport Food Bank for storage of its food items and for a distribution site. Angel Paws is a non-profit organization that promotes responsible pet ownership in Pend Oreille County. In the last two months, Angel Paws members have assisted in nine necessary pet surgeries and distributed almost 2,000 pounds of dog and cat food and other items. Angel Paws needs donations of dog and cat food, clean cat and dog beds, dog houses, leashes and collars and other items for the ongoing need of pets in this county. Monetary donations to assist with necessary veterinary expenses can be made at Mountain West Bank. Angel Paws directors can be reached by calling Cindy at 509-999-6965, Janet at 509-4473541 or at Debbie 509-445-1005.

REAL LIFE MINISTRIES

“Where Jesus and Real Life Meet.” Worship Time: Sunday 10:30 a.m. at the Newport High School Real Life Ministries office, 420 4th St. Newport, WA - Office Phone: (509) 447-2164 or Toll Free (877) 997-1200

Air Force Airman Michael E. Gillette graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. Gillette is the son of Gary Gillette of Newport. He is a 2008 graduate of Newport High School. The airman completed an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills. Airmen who complete basic training earn four credits toward an associate in applied science degree through the Community College of the Air Force.

Local students make EWU dean’s list CHENEY – Eastern Washington University has released its dean’s list for the winter quarter. An undergraduate student who earns 12 quality hours and receives a GPA of 3.5 or better is placed on the dean’s list for the quarter. The following local students made the list: From Cusick: Katelin Alsept, Holly Edwards, Ashley Keogh and Raymond Ostlie From Ione: Sarah Dunn and Randi Shaw

Blanchard stitchers host quilting tea BLANCHARD – The Blanchard Stitchers are hosting a quilting tea Saturday, May 5 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Blanchard Community Center. Bring old and new quilts, and 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

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S.S. ~ 9:30 • Worship ~ 11 a.m. Family Night, Wednesday ~ 7 p.m. (Bible and Youth Clubs) Pastor Sandy Strait - 509-447-3687

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36245 Hwy 41, Oldtown, ID Sunday School 9 a.m. Sunday Services - 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wed. - Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Pastor Jack Jones Church Office 208-437-0150 www.newportchurchoffaith.com

dress in vintage attire if you wish. A speaker will give a presentation on Civil War quilts. RSVP to Margie at 208-4370368, Patsy at 208-437-0969 or Janet 509-447-3561. SPRING VALLEY MENNONITE CHURCH

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

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

1428 1st Street West Sunday School ~ 9:15 a.m. Morning Worship ~ 10:30 a.m. Church ~ 447-3265 Pastor Mitch McGhee E-mail pineridgecc@gmail.com

DALKENA COMMUNITY CHURCH • VILLAGE MISSIONS

From Newport: Jacqueline Arana, Sasha Buckley, Kaitlyn Cunningham, Elyce Cutshall, William Endahl, Brendan Graham, Heidi Jones, Kristen Langley, James Langley, Amber Lewis, Heather Molvik, Kaileb Monk, Joshua Richter, Lisia Stuart, Ashley Tate, Maxwell Thew and Brianna WilliamsonFrom Priest River: Vienna Bridges and Daisy Dice From Spirit Lake: Mikayla Blood, Jeffrey Hershey and Nathan Lewis

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 5pm 2nd Saturdays Pastor, Walt Campbell: 447-5101

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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.

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Diamond Lake Church 326002 Hwy. 2, West of Newport Pastor Clinton Schultz, (509) 447-4565 Newport Church - Corner of Lilac Lane & Hwy. 20 North Pastor Ron Fleck (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

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NEWPORT SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH

1 mile S. of Newport on Hwy. 2 • 447-3742 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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Sand pit comes before planning commission IONE – The Pend Oreille County Planning Commission will consider the county road department’s proposal to create at new sand pit on county property near Ione at its meeting Tuesday, May 8 at the Cusick Community Center, 111 S. First Ave. The county wants to mine for sand on 15.5 acres at Greenhouse and Picket Roads south of Ione. The current sand pit off of Sullivan Lake Road is yielding sand high in clay content and it requires extra screening work. Public works director Sam Castro said material from that pit, which is part of the old landfill, would

still be used for other purposes such as fill or road building. To mitigate for impacts to the private road Mill Yard Road near the new pit, the county would provide some grading before and after mining operations, Castro said. Mining would likely take place four to six months out of the year. The new pit would have a 60year supply of sand, according to county surveys. Comments on the proposal are due by May 3 to the Pend Oreille County community development department P.O. Box 5066, Newport, WA 99156 or 509-4474821.

West Bonner Library bond on ballot PRIEST RIVER – If the West Bonner Library District bond passes on May 15, the district won’t ask voters for another measure for at least 20 years, library trustee Alice Booth told the audience Tuesday, April 24 at a candidates’ night in Priest River. The bond, which requires a super majority of 66 2/3 percent to pass, would expand the Priest River library and replace the 23-year-old leased modular unit that houses the Blanchard library. This is the fourth time the district has brought

the bond before voters. While a majority of voters approved it in 2010 and 2011, it didn’t gain the super majority needed to pass. According to the board, the need to replace the 50-plus year-old trailer attached to the Priest River branch and the costly and inefficient modular unit in Blanchard has not diminished. Both improvements would reduce operating costs of the buildings and eliminate the need to send tax dollars to an out-of-state landlord.

Selkirk levy gets final approval NEWPORT – A couple more votes trickled in, in favor of renewing the Selkirk School District’s maintenance and operations levy. When results from the April 17 election were canvassed last week there were 437 (52.91 percent) in favor and 389 (47.09 percent) voting no. School levies need a simple majority to pass. Property owners in the Selkirk district will pay an estimated $2.11 per $1,000 of assessed property value. Because the current levy rate is a bit lower – $1.53 – a resident with property valued at $100,000

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Donations sought for fireworks METALINE – The committee for a Patriotic Fourth of July is preparing for Independence Day festivities in Metaline Waterfront Park this summer. They are asking businesses, towns, clubs and individuals to contribute toward the purchase of fireworks. Send donations to: Citizens for a Patriotic Fourth, P.O. Box 544, Ione, WA 99139. This is an annual North Pend Oreille County celebration, and all are welcome.

N o rt h P e n d Oreille C o u n ty E v e n t s

Wednesday, May 2 Ione Community Center Advisory Board: 7 p.m. - Old Ione Town Hall Ione Town Council: 7 p.m. Clerk’s Office Thursday, May 3 Story Time and Crafts: 10:30 a.m. - Ione Library North Pend Oreille Lions: 7 p.m. Ione Train Depot Friday, May 4 Lions White Cane Days: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. - Ione, Metaline, Metaline Falls Story Time and Crafts: 10:30 a.m. - Metalines Library Alcoholics Anonymous: 7 p.m. Ione Senior Center

Monday, May 7 Story Time and Crafts: 10:30 a.m. - Metalines Library Emergency Food Bank Board: 7 p.m. - Ione Senior Center North County Computer Club: 7 p.m. - Metalines Library Tuesday, May 8 Metaline Cemetery District No. 2 Board: 10 a.m. - Metaline Town Hall Story Time and Crafts: 10:30 a.m. - Ione Library Metaline Falls Town Council: 7 p.m. - Metaline Falls Town Hall Wednesday, May 9 Metaline Town Council: 7 p.m. Metaline Town Hall VFW Post 3082: 7:30 p.m. - American Legion in Metaline Falls

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Selkirk winning streak continues

BR I E FLY Cusick golfers wrap up regular season CUSICK – The Cusick golf team competed at Colville Monday and Tuesday, April 30 and May 1, after The Miner went to press. They play at Sub-Districts Monday, May 7, at Meadowwood Golf Course in Medical Lake, starting at 10:30 a.m.

Wiese takes second at Chewelah invite NEWPORT – The Newport girls golf team played at the Chewelah Invite Friday, April 27. Courtney Wiese hit an 86 for second place and Sydney Hearnden tied for seventh with a 107. Both the boys and girls head to sub-districts this week in Colville, followed by districts hosted by Newport at StoneRidge Golf Course Wednesday. With both scores combined, the top 17 boys and top six girls will move on.

Spartan golfers finish regular season PRIEST RIVER – The Priest River golf team hosted Bonners Ferry Thursday, April 26, at the Ranch Club. Results were not available at press time. The Spartans will travel to Kellogg for a match Thursday, May 3, and then head to Districts at St. Maries Monday, May 7 at 9 a.m.

Cusick wins two high scoring games CUSICK – The Cusick softball team won two high scoring games against Columbia Tuesday, April 24. The Panthers won the first game 30-28 and the second 24-22. Shanelle Savage and Brittany Adamson pitched the first game with Haley Adams and Brianna Balcom behind the plate. Game two saw Adamson on the mound with Balcom behind the plate. “This game was a complete lack of focus and fundamentals on the part of both teams,” Cusick coach Dan Savage said. “Pitching and hitting were not the problem, defense however was. “Luckily the bats did show up with Brianna Balcom going eight for 11 on the day.” Haley Adams, Riegan Allen and Chelsea Samuels each hit a homerun. Diana Soto Magana picked up her first two hits of the season. “The rest of the team contributed greatly on offence as well,” coach Savage said. The Panthers hosted Northport Tuesday, May 1 after The Miner went to press. They travel to St. Michael’s Saturday, May 5 to play at noon.

Selkirk, Cusick host league teams By Janelle Atyeo Of The Miner

IONE – Pend Oreille County’s Panorama League track and field teams hosted their only meet of the season Tuesday, April 24 at Selkirk High School. The Selkirk girls took fourth behind Republic, Northwest Christian and St. George’s. Helping her team to a high ranking, sophomore O n D ec k: Georgie League Qualifier Shafer won Tuesday, May 8, all four of 10 a.m. her events: the 100, 400 and both hurdle events. Her time in the 100-meter hurdles was her best yet – 16.79 seconds. She’s still ranked first in the state 1B class. Senior Emily Guthrie was another top placer for Selkirk. She was sixth in the 1,600. In the throws, Aley Curran was fourth in the shot put and eighth in discus, Erin Rummelhart was seventh in shot and ninth in disc, and Kaci Nearing was eighth in shot put. Cusick’s Andrea Heinen was the top thrower. She leads the state 1B in shot and disc. At Selkirk, she See league, 4B

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Priest River’s Nick Farnham makes a play on a line drive hit to center field in a game against Kellogg Tuesday, April 24. Priest River won the home game 7-6.

Priest River wins 10-inning league contest By Don Gronning Of The Miner

PRIEST RIVER – It took them 10 innings to do it, but the Priest River Spartans came away with a 7-6 Intermountain League victory over the visiting Kellogg baseball team Tuesday, April 24. “We came out hitting and playing well,” Spartan coach Mark Schultz said. R.C. Akre pitched a solid six innings for the Sparts but Kellogg tied the game in the seventh inning on a walk and an error and hit. Dalton Sommer and Ashton Brooks handled pitching duties in the extra innings. In the 10th inning, Jalen Griffin led off with a double. He advanced to third, Schultz said,

but was thrown out at home 13 hits. They scored four points when the Sparts tried a suicide in the top of the seventh to win squeeze. Nick Farnham hit a the game. double that led to the victory, Jake Perkins pitched well for driving in Kole Akre. three innings, Schultz said. He Priest River struck out one, travelled to allowed three hits O n D ec k: Riverside for and no runs or Vs. Bonners Ferry Thursday, walks. a non-league May 3, 4 p.m. game Wednes“It was a nice day, April 25, win, being up and taking a 12-8 At Bonners Ferry Saturday, then tied and goMay 5, 10 a.m. win. ing ahead in the “We jumped seventh,” Schultz out to an early lead,” Schultz said. said. The Sparts were up 8-2 The Spartans hosted league going into the fourth inning. leading St. Maries for a doubleBut couple of walks and hits alheader Saturday, April 28, loslowed Riverside to put six points ing both games. on the board in the bottom of The Spartans found themthe fourth, to tie the game. selves behind 4-0 in the second But Priest River offense was See PRIEST RIVER, 4B going, generating a season-high

Newport girls beat Freeman, fall to Lakeside caught. Bianca Sanchez and Kirkwood each hit homeruns for Newport. NEWPORT – The Newport Jordan Braun hit three singles, softball team beat Freeman and Douglas, Shauna Over, Tuesday, April 24, but lost Tamarah Bund and Madi Merboth games of a doubleheader rill each hit singles. against Lakeside Friday’s first Friday, April 27. game against O n D ec k: The Grizzlies Lakeside ended Vs. Chewelah Saturday, after five innings are now 5-9 May 5, 3 p.m. overall and 3-9 on the 10-run in Northeast A rule, with Lakeside League play. leading 13-3. They Newport was steady at the scored four runs in the first, five plate Tuesday against Freeman. in the second, one in the third The Grizzlies scored one run and three in the top of the fifth. in the first, third and fourth Newport scored one run in the innings, four in the fifth and first and two in the fourth. one in the sixth, while holding Douglas pitched and KirkFreeman scoreless. wood caught for Newport. Alex Douglas pitched for NewBianca Sanchez hit a homeport and Chaleigh Kirkwood run for Newport and Kirkwood

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hit two doubles. The second game against Lakeside went seven innings, but Newport lost 8-1. Newport led 1-0 through the fourth inning, but Lakeside scored three in the fifth, two in the sixth and three in the seventh for the win. Douglas and Kirkwood once again teamed up on the mound and behind the plate for Newport. Alex Abercrombie hit a triple for Newport and Douglas smacked a double. Kirkwood hit two singles and Haley Braun hit one single. The Grizzlies played at Riverside Tuesday after The Miner went to press. They host Chewelah in a doubleheader Saturday, May 5 at 3 p.m.

IONE – Selkirk remained ters over the seven innings. unbeaten with two Panorama Selkirk had eight hits again. League wins at Northport TuesCozza Curran and Abiona day, April 24, at two non-league Carrasco each had two hits for wins against Wilbur-Creston the Rangers. McCollim and Saturday, April 28. Holter each doubled, and Reiber On Tuesday, Selkirk won the and Katie Couch had singles. first game 10-0, and game two The Rangers improve season 9-2. Courtney Holter threw her record 16-0 with two nonsecond no-hitter of the year league wins against the Wildcats against the Mustangs in game of Wilbur-Creston Saturday. one. Holter faced 18 batters, Selkirk won the first game of the giving up no hits, doubleheader 17striking out 11, 1. Holter threw for and walking one. O n D ec k: the Rangers earnAt Priest River Monday, The Ranger ing her eighth win May 7, 4 p.m. defense commitof the season. ted two errors in In the first inthe game. Selkirk ning, Holter gave had eight hits, three by Annie up a triple on a changeup that Couch, one a double, and two was left up in the zone, with the by RaeAnn McCollim. Jessika runner scoring from third on a Reiber smacked a double, driving passed ball. The Wildcats took in two runs. Josie Miller and Saa one run lead. After the run vanah Christman each singled scored Wilbur-Creston loaded for the Rangers. the bases before Holter pitched Game two saw the Ranger deher way out of trouble. fense commit more errors than In their half of the first inning in any other game this season Selkirk scored 11 times. with four miscues. Kirbi AnderMcCollim hit a single and son threw another good game Holter smacked a two-run for Selkirk, allowing two runs on See SELKIRK, 4B five hits and striking out 11 bat-

Cusick clobbers Columbia winning 14-4. “We hit the ball all game but we did better in the second CUSICK – The Cusick Pangame,” Hamilton said. Cusick thers are quite a bit better team was up 14-2 by the second inthan the Columbia Lions basening and the game was stopped ball team, so it was a surprise by the 10 run rule in the fifth when they found themselves inning. behind going into the end of Bluff and Sears hit triples in the game. the second game. Gavin Peter“We were behind 9-4 going son and Gould hit doubles and into the bottom Dustin Newkirk of the seventh,” O n D ec k: hit two doubles. At St. Michael’s Saturday, Cusick coach The wins left May 5, noon Tell Hamilton Cusick with a 1-3 said. Then league record. Cusick batters The Panthers are started picking it up. “I think 5-7 overall. we hit four doubles in a row.” They are in fifth place in the Cusick ended up scoring six Northeast 1 B North League, runs in the bottom of the sevbehind Republic, Curlew, Selenth to take a 10-9 win. kirk and Northport. Derick Bluff hit two doubles The Panthers faced Northport in the game, with Taylor after press time Tuesday and Gould, Aiden Sears and Miplay St. Michaels in Spokane chael Konkright also getting a Saturday. The Saturday game two-bagger. will start at noon. The momentum shifted after “We’re one game out of the that and Cusick rolled over playoffs,” Hamilton said. “We Columbia in the second game, have to beat Northport.”

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Colville soccer puts Newport out for the season By Janelle Atyeo

Spartan relays place at Timberlake “The kids that did compete performed well and we continue improve our marks for the SPIRIT LAKE – Priest River’s year,” Hughes said. track and field team took on Timberlake won the boys league rivals among other division. teams at the Timberlake Invite The Priest River boys had the Friday, April 27. second place four-by-200-meThe Lady Spartans had ter relay with Dallas Hopkins, some of the top throwers. Beth Chris Van der Heijden, Andy Bykerk was second in shot put Meyer and Austin Glazier runand fifth in discus, and Cassie ning a time of 1:36.88. Hopkins Stagner was fourth in disc and was also fifth in the 400-meter. fifth in shot. Jacob McDonald was the Jill Weimer also had a good highest individual placer for day. She took third in high the Spartans. He took third in jump, fourth pole vault at 11 in triple jump feet. O n D ec k: and fifth in the Priest River will At Meet of Champions 100-meter high take about half its Thursday, May 3, 2:30 p.m. team to the Meet hurdles. The girls fourof Champions in At Newport Invite by-200 meter Post Falls ThursSaturday, May 5, 10 a.m. relay took third day, May 3. The with a team of top 16 individuals Mollie French, and eight relays Katlyn Summers, BreeAnna in each event qualify. Events Marks and Brady Nelson. start at 2:30 p.m. Nelson also made her way to Then Saturday, they have fourth place in the 300-meter their final tune up before hurdles, and Summers was districts at the Newport Invite. fifth in the 400 with a personal Events start at 10 a.m., and disbest time of 1:06.66. tricts start the following Friday. In the distance events, it was “Districts next Friday and the Spartans’ up and coming Saturday should be a lot of fun Erica McCracken who took – and stressful,” Hughes said. fourth in the mile and fifth in “We could qualify anywhere the two mile. from eight to 18 kids for the The Priest River girls were state meet.” fifth out of 13 teams. Deer The top three individuals and Park was first, followed by top one relay qualify automatiTimberlake, Bonners Ferry and cally. Then there are two other Kellogg. The Spartans were at-large individual spots and without several of their aththree relay spots. letes due to the Distinguished As for the team title, the boys Young Women competition and will try to crack the top three, injury. Coach Jared Hughes Hughes predicts, and on the said they limited events for girls side any of four Intersome kids to get them healthy mountain League teams could for districts. win.

By Janelle Atyeo

Of The Miner

COLVILLE – It was a déjà vu of last season. The Newport boys soccer team’s season ending game had them scoreless to Colville in the first round of Districts. This time Colville won 4-0 in a game played between the No. 3 (Newport) and No. 2 (Colville) Northeast A League teams. Taking the home field advantage, Colville scored early in the first half and put another one in before the whistle. They added two more in the second half. Newport had 17 shots on goal, but with the league’s MVP in goal, he put a stop to all of them. Colville had six shutouts this year. Freshman starter Mathew Solis was in goal for Newport, making 12 saves. It was a loser out game. Newport ended the season with a record much improved over last year – 3-6 in league, 4-9 overall. Colville’s record is just the opposite, 6-3 in league and 9-4 overall. “We’re moving up,” coach Jerry Person said. Colville goes on to face No. 1 Lakeside (8-1, 10-5) Wednesday, May 2 for seeding to the Tri-District Tournament. League awards and presentations will take place at halftime of that championship game Wednesday. The Tri-Districts start Saturday where the Northeast A League’s top two teams will face off with teams from the Caribou Trail League and the Central Washington B League. The top three from the tournament will go to state.

Newport 4, Riverside 1 The Grizzlies were looking to sweep Riverside in their three

Miner photo|Janelle Atyeo

Newport No. 7, exchange student Victor Fernandes charges toward the goal in the game against Riverside Thursday. Fernandes scored one of the team’s four goals to give the Grizzlies the win.

match-ups this season, and the boys did it handily with a 4-1 win at home Thursday, April 26. It was the last regular season game and it was also senior night. Riverside opened the scoring and lead 1-0 at the half, but Newport came back strong in the second making four goals in an eight-minute span. Erik Person scored two, one on an assist from freshman Kade Barranco. Brazilian exchange student Victor Fernandes maneuvered around the Rams to score the team’s second

goal of the night off an assist from Philip Behrend. It was Behrend and Person who combined for Newport’s other goal. Grizzlies keeper Solis made 16 saves and back up Cody Philips, a freshman, made one save.

Colville 4, Newport 3 Newport took on Colville for the third time this season Tuesday, April 24. The scoring was a little higher this time with a 4-3 final score in Colville’s favor. Colville is the second ranked Northeast A

Lady Spartans take down Kellogg, St. Maries By Michelle Nedved Of The Miner

PRIEST RIVER – The Priest River softball team had a winning week, beating Kellogg Tuesday 9-6, and taking down St. Maries in both games of a doubleheader Saturday. The Spartans also play Freeman in a non-league game Wednesday, but results were not available at press time. Priest River took the lead with two runs in the first inning against Kellogg Tuesday, April 24. They added another run in the third and six in the fifth. Kellogg waited until the top of the seventh inning to score six runs, but it wasn’t enough to catch the Spartans. Brittany Krampert pitched for Priest River and Ayonna Lentz caught. Taylar Doolittle hit three triples for Priest River. Lentz hit a double and two singles, Kelsey Bradbury, Kelsie Fink and Allysa Deal each hit doubles. Emma Reed, Krampert and Erika Nelson each hit singles. It was a close one, the first game of a doubleheader against St. Maries Saturday, April 28. Priest River won 13-12. St. Maries led with one run in the first inning and five in the second before Priest River crossed homeplate in the bottom of the second. O n D ec k: St. Maries Vs. Bonners scored Ferry Thursday, another run May 3, 4 p.m. in the third and Priest River added At Bonners Ferry Saturday, two. Both teams scored May 5, 10 a.m. one run in the fourth but Priest River rallied in the bottom of the fifth for six runs. Three more in the sixth kept them alive when St. Maries tied it up with four runs in the seventh. Priest River scored a run

team behind Lakeside and they’ve beaten Newport in all three contests this year. Playing in Colville this time, the Indians lead 2-0 at the half. They were the first to score in the second, but Newport answered with a penalty kick goal from Behrend. Colville scored another, but Behrend scored two more times before the final whistle, including another on a penalty kick. With Solis in goal, Newport made 14 saves, but the Grizzlies were outshot 19-8.

Newport boys take third at Riverside By Janelle Atyeo Of The Miner

Miner photo|Jason Duchow Photography

Priest River’s Kelsey Bradbury fires the ball to first base for an out after fielding a grounder to third when Priest River played Kellogg Tuesday, April 24. The Spartans won 9-6.

to win the game. Krampert and Lentz once again teamed up on the mound and behind the plate. Fink hit a homerun, a single and a double for the Spartans. Krampert hit a double and three singles, and Lentz hit two singles and a double for Priest River. Reed hit a double, Bradbury hit a single and a double and Doolittle hit two singles. The second game went a bit different. The game ended in the middle of the fifth inning because of the 10-run rule. Priest River scored four in the first and second innings, followed by two runs in the third

and fourth. St. Maries scored one run in the fourth and fifth, and lost the game 12-5. Bradbury pitched for Priest River and Lentz was behind the plate. Deal and Krampert each hit a single and a double for Priest River. Lentz and Karly Douglas each hit two singles, and Reed, Fink, Bradbury and Nelson each hit singles. The Spartans played at Sandpoint Tuesday, after The Miner went to press. They host Bonners Ferry Thursday, May 3 at 4 p.m. and travel to Bonners Ferry to play at doubleheader Saturday, May 5 at 10 a.m.

RIVERSIDE – The Newport boys track and field team landed in third place, ahead of any other Northeast A League team at the Riverside Invitational Saturday, April 28. Teams from Selkirk and Cusick competed there too. Helping rack up the points for Newport, senior Jake Wiley improved his times in the sprints, winning the 200 meter dash (22.09 seconds), the 400 (50.93) and taking second in the 200 with a personal best 10.92 seconds. Thrower Aaron Castle took both of his events with a toss of 176 feet to win discus and a winning 61-03 toss in the shot put. Branden Cass was another Grizzly to make the top 10. He tied for ninth in high jump at 5-06. Local girls showed their strength in the field events. Cusick’s Andrea Heinen gave the Panthers some points with a first-place discus throw of 132-10. She was second in shot (3608) and eighth in javelin (10208). Newport’s Adrienne Seger placed fourth in shot put. Two Newport girls were amongst the top 10 pole vaulters. Erin Rednour tied for seventh at 7 feet, and Kylee Witt tied for 10th at 6-06. Newport’s Arielle Walden won the triple jump (3502.25) and was second in long jump as well as in the 100-meter hurdles. Selkirk’s Georgie Shafer took fourth in the 300-meter low hurdles, fifth in the 400-meter run and seventh in the 100.

Selkirk wins, loses in last inning has coached. “I have to be honest with you in that I have never coached a IONE – The Selkirk Rangers game in high school with this faced an undefeated Northport type of inning,” he said. baseball team Tuesday, April All the Rangers had tough 24, losing a heartbreaker first at bats in the last inning. game 5-4 and the second 11-7. Logan Miller had a clutch two Selkirk coach Pete Whitrun double that brought the tekiend said the Rangers took a Rangers to within two. Charlie lead in the first game, scoring Lavigueur won the game with runs off an errant throw to a suicide squeeze later in the third and a couple off a double inning, he said. by Matt Emerson. The Rangers have areas that The Rangers were up 4-3 gocould be improved, Whiting into the bottom of the last tekiend said. innning, but a clutch two-run “I was not pleased with our single by a Northport batter defense,” he said. “We had four snatched the win. errors in the top of the seventh The and close to next game “Overall our boys made a big 20 errors on didn’t go as the day.” well, with step in having confidence that The Rangsome men- they can beat solid teams when ers will need tal errors to make they believe in themselves.” leading to some simple the 11-7 mental Pete Whittekiend loss. adjustments Selkirk Coach Still, on defense if Whitthey plan on tekiend playing in said playing competitively with the postseason,” he said. the league’s top ranked team “On the flip side, I was very gave the Rangers a lift. pleased with our resolve in the “Overall our boys made a big first game. This group of boys step in having confidence that is special and it will be excitthey can beat solid teams when ing to see how they finish the they believe in themselves,” he season.” said. The Rangers are ranked The Rangers entertained second in the Northeast 1 B Wilbur-Creston Saturday, April League, with a 4-2 record, 28, winning the first game 14behind Northport, which suf13 and losing the second 9-4. fered their first defeat of the “We had Wilbur-Creston on year Saturday at the hands lf the ropes,” Whittekiend said. Odessa-Harrington. The Rangers were up 6-0 after The Rangers overall record is six innings. 6-10. But a big 10 run seventh They played Curlew after inning gave Wilbur-Creston press time Tuesday and will a 13-8 lead when the Rangers be ranked second or third for went to bat at the bottom of the districts, which will be held at seventh inning. Odessa and Northport. “Our boys responded well, The Rangers have a game scoring six in the bottom of the with Wellpinit tentatively inning,” Whittekiend said. This scheduled for Tuesday, May 8, game was unlike any other he at Wellpinit at noon.

By Don Gronning Of The Miner

| May 2, 2012

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Newport nine splits week against Freeman, Riverside

Grizzlies step up to Freeman

By Don Gronning Of The Miner

NEWPORT – The Newport Grizzly baseball team won two and lost two of the four games they played last week. They started the week off with a 10-3 loss to Freeman Monday, April 23. Newport scored first in the first inning of that game and again in the third. But Freeman came back to O n D ec k: tie it up at 3-3 At Lakeside in the third vs. Freeman inning. Wednesday, May Newport 2, 2 p.m. didn’t score again and Freeman scored points in the remaining innings to take the win. The next day Newport played Riverside, getting a 6-5 win with a seventh inning rally, in which they scored five runs. In fact, Newport didn’t start to score until the sixth inning. The Grizzlies hosted Chewelah for a doubleheader Friday, April 27, winning the first game 7-3 and dropping the second 7-2. The Grizzlies did all their scoring in the second inning of the first game, racking up all seven points. Jared Schultz hit a double and a couple singles for the Grizzlies. Tyler Hunt got a pair of singles, as did Jacob Satterlee. Spenser Douglas, who also pitched the win, got a single, as

Miner photo|Don Gronning

Newport pitcher Michael Rapp got the win against Chewelah Friday, April 27 at Newport.

did Travis Martin. The second game didn’t go as smoothly. Chewelah took a two-run lead in the first inning. Newport was able to tie it up in the fifth inning but a five-run seventh inning gave Chewelah the win. Newport finished the regular

|| BASEBALL Monday, April 23 At Freeman Freeman 10, Newport 3 Newport 102 000 0 Freeman 003 142 0 W-Phipps, L-Rapp.

Tuesday, April 24 At Riverside Newport 6, Riverside 5 Newport 000 001 5 6 5 2 Riverside 120 000 2 5 6 4 Statistics: Douglas and R. Rapp; Maxwell, Taney (7) and Foley. W-Douglas. L-Maxwell. Sv-who. HITS: Newport-Reyes, Douglas, M. Rapp, R. Rapp 2. Riverside-W. Hardan 3, Stirton 2, Shuler. 2B-Stirton, R, Rapp 2.

At Riverside Priest River 053 000 4 12 13 3 Riverside 020 600 0 8 9 2 King(2) Brooks(4) Farnham(4) Perkins and Je. Griffin(5) Barber: Cevaness(3) Striton(7) Wetherell WP: Perkins 2-1 LP: Striton. PR Hits: Farnham, Barber, Riley, Brooks, R.C. Akre 2, Ja. Griffin 2, Edwards, Sommer, Perkins 2, K. Akre. RIV Hits: W. Hardon,Wetherell, Striton, R. Hardon 3, Cevaness, Foley 2. 2B: PR Barber, R.C. Akre Riv R. Hardin, Cevaness 3B Striton.

At Cusick Cusick 10, Columbia 9 Columbia 123 200 1 9 5 4 Cusick 110 200 6 10 12 3 Statistics: Foster, Cohen (7) and Cohen, Flett (7); Reynolds, Cutshall (5) and Cutshall, G. Petersen (5). W-Cutshall. L-Cohen. HITS: 2B-Clm, Flett; Cus, Bluff 2, Gould, Sears, Konkright.

Cusick 14, Columbia 4 Columbia 110 02 4 4 4 Cusick 680 0x 14 12 0 Statistics: Flett, Singer (3) and Cohen; Bluff and Cutshall. W-Bluff. L-Flett. HITS: 2B-Cus, G. Peterson, Gould 2, Newkirk 2. 3B-Cus, Bluff, Sears. HR-Clm, Cohen.

At Northport Northport 11, Selkirk 7 Selkirk 200 122 0 7 10 5 Northport 320 033 x 11 9 6 Statistics: Weiss, Cain (4) and Ross; Konkler, Burke (4) and Hedrick. W-Burke (4-0). L-Cain. HITS: Selkirk, Cain 2B. Northport, Johnson 2B, Hedrick HR (3), Burke HR (6).

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Sco r e boa r d Wilbur-Creston 000 003 (10) 13 7 4 Selkirk 420 011 6 14 8 9

Statistics: A. Miller and Ross; Johnson and Hedrick. W-Johnson (7-0). L-Miller. HITS: Selkirk, Emerson 2B.

Statistics: Coffman, T. Rosman (7) and B. Rosman; A. Miller, Cain (6) and Ross. W-Cain (1-0). L-T. Rosman. 2B-Collins (WC), L. Miller (Sel). HR- Magers (WC).

At Priest River Priest River 7, Kellogg 6 Kellogg 001 000 500 0 6 6 3 Priest River 120 120 000 1 7 8 3 Statistics: Beggerly, Garner (6) and Garner, Hendel (6); A.Akre, Sommer (6), Brooks (10) and Barber. W-Brooks (1-2). L-Garner. HITS: Kellogg-Garner, Beggerly 2, Waechtee, Golferd, Figeroa. Priest RiverFarnham, Sommer, Riley, R.Akre, Brooks, Ja.Griffin, K.Akre 2. 2B-Farnham, Beggerly 2, Garner.

Friday, April 27 Newport 7, Chewelah 3 Chewelah 000 300 0 3 5 2 Newport 070 000 0 7 7 0 Statistics: Baker, Coleman (2) and Bean; Douglas and R. Rapp. W-Douglas. L-Baker. HITS: ChewelahConnall, D. Smith, Biglar, B. Smith. Newport- 1. Hunt, Douglas, Martin, 2. Hunt, Satterlee, Schultz 2. 2B-Schultz, Connall, B. Smith.

Chewelah 7, Newport 2 Chewelah 200 000 5 7 8 1 Newport 000 020 0 2 6 1 Statistics: Sweat and Bean; M. Rapp, Reyes (7), and R. Rapp. W-Sweat (4-0). L-M. Rapp. HITS: ChewelahConnall 2, D. Smith, Biglar 2, B. Smith, Sweat, Curtis. Newport-Reyes 2, M. Rapp, Martin, Hunt, Shultz. 2B-Reyes, M. Rapp, Martin, Biglar.

Saturday, April 28 St. Maries 7, Priest River 2 St. Maries 130 000 3 7 8 0 Priest River 000 011 0 2 5 8 Statistics: Stephenson and Flowers; R.Akre, Sommer (7) and Barber. W-Stephenson. L-Akre (24). HITS: St. Maries-Stapleton, Stephenson, Turner, Barbour, Sullivan, Michael, Waiters, Flowers. Priest River-Farnham, Reily 2, Barber, Akre. 2B-Barber, Akre, Waiters. 3B-Stephenson.

St. Maries 12, Priest River 2 St. Maries 009 201 12 10 0 Priest River 000 002 0 2 7 1 Statistics: Sullivan, Barbour (6) and Flowers; Perkins, Brooks (3), Sommer (5) and Barber. W-SullivanPerkins (2-2). L-Perkins (2-2). HITS: St. Maries-Stapleton 2, Stephenson, Turner, Sullivan, Michael, Waiters 3, Flowers. Priest River-Akre 2, Brooks 2, Perkins, Edwards, King. 2B-Akre, Perkins, Turner, Sullivan, Waiters.

At Selkirk Selkirk 14, Wilbur-Creston 13

was second in javelin to a Curlew thrower. Panther teammate Alajah Henry was 10th in both shot and disc. Also for Cusick, Iris Strange Owl took seventh in the 1,600 and 10th in the 800. Cusick’s 400-meter relay was in third behind Valley Christian and Curlew. The team of Bridgett Fountain, Strange Owl, Sara Davis and Jamie Samuels finished in 1:06.33. The 800-meter relay with the same girls took fourth. The Cusick boys were amongst some of the top placers. Warren Piengkam had a personal best time in the 200 (26.30 seconds) to take fourth place. Teammate Roma Chantry was seventh in the 200 and third in the 800. Piengkam also ran the 800 for

10th place and tied for ninth in the 400. Nolan Finley took eighth in the 400. Quinton Montgomery took fifth in the 100, was seventh in shot put and ninth in disc. He was also part of the fourth-place 400-meter relay with Josiah Thompson, Piengkam and Finley. Beau Taylor was the top Selkirk placer with a second place finish in the 100 and 200 as well as in long jump. Josh Ross took third in discus and ninth in shot. Michael Haskins improved his 100-meter time to take seventh place. He was also seventh in triple jump. The Selkirk and Cusick teams competed at the Riverside Invite Saturday (see separate story) and in Republic Tuesday, May 1 after The Miner’s deadline. The league qualifier is scheduled for Tuesday, May 8 at 10 a.m. at Riverside.

overall record. Newport will face Freeman in a loser out game in the first round of the district playoffs. They will play at Lakeside Wednesday, May 2, as Freeman’s field is unplayable. The game will get underway at 2 p.m.

Selkirk 100 020 1 4 3 4 Northport 201 000 2 5 4 5

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season in fifth place with a 6-9 Northeast A League record, ahead of Riverside, which had a 5-9 league record. Lakeside has the best league record at 10-5, followed by Colville at 9-6, Chewelah at 7-7 and Freeman at 7-8. Newport has a 7-9

Wilbur-Creston 9, Selkirk 4 Wilbur-Creston 103 122 0 9 6 2 Selkirk 000 031 0 4 6 8 Statistics: Gronlund and B. Rosman; Weiss, Cain (7) and Ross. W-Gronlund. L-Weiss. 2B-T. Rosman (WC), L. Miller. HR-T. Rosman (WC).

SOCCER Tuesday, April 24 Northeast A League at Colville Colville 4, Newport 3 Scoring: First half - 1, Col, F. Susin (Johansen) 5:00. 2, Col, Johnston (Harvey) 22:00. Second half - 3, Col, F. Susin 46:00. 4, New, Behrend (PK) 53:00. 5, Col, Johansen (PK) 54:00. 6, New, Behrend 57:00. 7, New, Behrend (PK) 64:00. Shots: Newport 8, Colville 19. Saves: Newport, Solis 14. Colville, Thompson 6.

Thursday, April 26 Northeast A League at Newport Newport 4, Riverside 1 Scoring: First half - 1, Riv, Suhr (Major) 38:00. Second half - 2, New, Person (Barranco) 60:00. 3, New, Fernandes (Behrend) 62:00. 4, New, Behrend (Person) 65:00. 5, New, Person 68:00. Shots: Riverside 18, Newport 20. Saves: Newport, Solis 16, Phillips 1. Riverside, Collins 16.

Monday, April 30 Northeast A League Districts Round 1 at Colville Colville 4, Newport 0 Scoring: First half - 1, Col, Melvin (P.Susin) 4:00. 2, Col, P.Susin 34:00. Second half - 3, Col, F.Susin (Melvin) 49:00. 4, Col, F.Susin (Thompson) 65:00. Shots: Newport 8, Colville 17. Saves: Newport, Solis 12. Colville, Thompson 8.

SOFTBALL Tuesday, April 24 At Northport Selkirk 10, Northport 0 Selkirk (14-0, 2-0) 120 34 10 8 2 Northport (0-6, 0-3) 000 00 0 0 4 Statistics: Holter and Reiber; Cox and Pratt. W-Holter (7-0). L-Cox. 2B-Reiber (Sel), A. Couch (Sel).

Selkirk 9, Northport 2 Northport (0-6, 0-3) 000 002 0 2 5 3 Selkirk (14-0, 2-0) 052 101 x 9 8 4 Statistics: Gosen and Cox; Anderson and Reiber. W-Anderson (7-0). L-Gosen. 2B-Holter (Sel), McCollim (Sel).

At Priest River Priest River 9, Kellogg 6 Kellogg (1-7, 1-7) 000 000 6 6 6 2 Priest River (8-4, 5-3) 201 060 x 9 12 3 Statistics: Lish, Yergler (5) and Specht; Krampert and Lentz. W-Krampert. L-Lish. HITS: Kellogg-Barr, Gurick, Ivie, Dulaney, Zisk. Priest River-Reed, Deal, Krampert, Ke.Fink, Lentz 3, Doolittle 3, Bradbury, Nelson. 2B-Bradbury, Lentz, Ke.Fink, Deal. 3B-Doolittle 3.

At Newport Newport 8, Freeman 0 Freeman (3-7, 3-7) 000 000 Newport (5-9, 3-9) 101 141

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He continues to edge closer to 40 feet in the triple jump. “Newport continues to grow as a team and new members continue to step up with outstanding performances,” coach Rory Axel said. He pointed out one of the new rising stars as Cody Smith, who surprised even himself when he took three seconds off of his personal best in the 300 hurdles with a 45.4 finish for second place. Smith followed this with a personal record of 18 feet in the long jump, which was good for third. The girls team, coming off a third place finish out of 10 teams at Priest River, is under the lead of team captain Arielle Walden who had an outstanding Priest River Invitational where she won four gold medals and set two new meet records in the long and triple jumps. “The woman’s team continues to grow closer, and are learning what it means to take one for the team, as nearly every team member stepped into events that were new to them to try and upset their league rivals from Freeman,” Axel said. Freeman had the upper hand with a 92-52 score. Freshman hurdler Jackie Morrell stepped in and ran the mile for third place and the two mile for first. Another was Erin Renour, one of Newport’s top pole vaulters, who also stepped in the 800 relay and then came back and ran the two mile. Axel thanked all the volunteers who helped run the home dual meets over the last weeks. “We literally could not do it without you,” he said. The Grizzlies will host the Newport Invite Saturday, May 5 at 10 a.m. Districts are coming up May 12.

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Statistics: Malloy and Barnes; Douglas and Kirkwood. W-Douglas. L-Malloy. HITS: Freeman-Schultz. Newport-Braun 3, Douglas, Kirkwood, Sanchez, Over, Bunt, Merrill. 2B-. 3B-. HR-Kirkwood, Sanchez.

Friday, April 27 At Newport Lakeside 13, Newport 3 Lakeside (WA) (11-1, 10-1) 451 03 13 11 0 Newport (5-9, 3-9) 100 20 3 3 7 Statistics: Ahrendt and Rolston; Douglas and Kirkwood. W-Ahrendt. L-Douglas. HITS: LakesideAhrendt, Brittos, Tiffany 2, Kyllo 2, Rolston 2, Spencer 2, J. Nacarrato. Newport-Kirkwood 2, Sanchez. 2B-Tiffany 2, Kyllo. 3B-Ahrendt, Kirkwood 2. HR-Rolston, Sanchez.

Lakeside 8, Newport 1 Lakeside (WA) (11-1, 10-1) 000 Newport (5-9, 3-9) 100 000

032 3 8 8 0 0 154

Statistics: Tiffany and Rolston; Douglas and Kirkwood. W-Tiffany. L-Douglas. HITS: Lakeside-Ahrendt 2, Tiffany, Kyllo, Spencer, M. Nacarrato, Carden, Bennett. Newport-Braun, A. Abercrombie, Douglas, Kirkwood 2. 2B-Douglas, Tiffany. 3B-A. Abercrombie, Carden.

Saturday, April 28 At Selkirk Selkirk 17, Wilbur-Creston 1 Wilbur-Creston (4-7, 0-2) 100 0 1 5 1 Selkirk (16-0, 2-0) (11)60 x 17 16 1 Statistics: McCartney and Haglin, Stumpf (3); Holter and Reiber. W-Holter (8-0). L-McCartney. 2B-Holter (Sel), Reiber (Sel), McCollim (Sel), Christman (Sel). 3B-Camp (WC), K. Couch (Sel). HR-Holter (Sel) (8), K. Couch (Sel) (3), Miller (Sel) (2), Reiber (Sel) (2), McCollim (Sel) (1).

Selkirk 22, Wilbur-Creston 3 Wilbur-Creston (4-7, 0-2) 001 02 3 3 7 Selkirk (16-0, 2-0) 060 1(15) 22 12 3 Statistics: McCartney, Sandmann (5), Copenhavr (5) and Camp; Anderson, K. Couch (5) and Reiber. W-Anderson (8-0). L-McCartney. 2B-McCartney (WC), Holter (Sel) 2, K. Couch (Sel). 3B-Camp (WC).

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PRIEST RIVER | was too little too late against the league’s top ranked team. inning of the first game. They St. Maries closed it out in the scored in the fifth and sixth sixth inning with a score, innings to get to 4-2 but winning 12-2. couldn’t close the gap further. Priest River is ranked No. 3 “Too many mistakes in the in the Intermountain League, beginning led with a 4-6 record. “It was a nice win.” They are 6-10 to a hole we just couldn’t climb out overall. of,” Schultz said. Mark Schultz They played The Spartans gave Priest River Coach Sandpoint after up eight errors in press time Tuesthe first game. day and will host The teams played evenly Bonners Ferry Thursday, May through the third inning of 3 for a game that will get the second game before St. underway at 4 p.m. Maries exploded for nine runs Saturday, May 5 they travel in the sixth inning. Priest Riv- to Bonners Ferry for a doubleer got on the board in the fifth header that will start at 10 inning with two runs but it a.m.

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NEWPORT – After winning the Priest River Invite with an incredible team total of 188 points the weekend before, the Newport boys track and field team went against their league rival Freeman at a home meet Wednesday, April 25. Freeman is leading the Northeast A League in wins and they barely edged the Grizzlies, even though Newport was missing one of their best throwers. Freeman won 75-61. Jake Wiley won the 100 meter and then the 400, both in a season best time and then ran the 200 against a rested Quinn Robinson from Freeman. Wiley won with a new school record of 22.02 seconds. That broke sprints coach Tony Yeaw’s 2005 record of 22.4. Wiley is also getting close to Yeaw’s 100 meter record of 10.7. Wiley ran a 10.84 on Wednesday. The Newport distance team stepped up to the challenge by blanking the Freeman runners in the 1,600 and the 3,200, led by Jake Zickler, Scott McMeen and Chris Nichols who were side by side the whole way. The 800 was hotly contested and ended in a three-way sprint to the finish that was barely won by the two Freeman runners against McMeen, who ran a personal best of 2:08.9. Aaron Castle continues his dominance of the throws once again breaking the school record he set in the discus the week before. His latest throw was 179 feet, 9 inches. Jordan Duke and Eric Cunningham stepped in with great personal efforts in all of the throws. Branden Cass continues to set personal records in all of the jumping events as he cleared 11 feet in the pole vault and just missed at 6 feet for the high jump.

Miner photo|Janelle Atyeo

Newport’s Branden Cass arcs over the high jump bar in Wednesday’s home dual with Freeman. Cass is nearing 6 feet with a personal best jump of 5-10 that put him in second against Freeman.

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homerun to put Selkirk in front to stay. The Rangers had eight more hits in the inning after McCollim and Holter got it rolling. Other hits in the inning were a three run homerun by Josie Miller, a two run homerun by McCollim, and a solo homerun by Reiber. Katie Couch had a triple, and Holter added a double. Annie Couch had a single along with Anderson, and Carrasco. After holding W-C scoreless in the second the Rangers continued to hit the ball hard. Katie Couch hit a grand slam homerun, and Christman, McCollim, and Reiber each doubled. Annie Couch added a single and Selkirk moved their lead to 17-1 after two innings. W-C did not score in the third inning and the Rangers failed to score even though McCollim had her fourth hit of the game with a single. The game ended after three and a half innings when WilburCreston failed to score in the top of the fourth. Game two had a little different

start with each team going scoreless. In the second inning Selkirk jumped out in front with six runs. Holter and Katie Couch each had doubles in the inning and Miller chipped in with a single. The Wildcats did not score in their half of the second but pushed a run across in the third when Camp hit a two out triple to score Bulkonch who had reached on an error. Selkirk scored one more run in the fourth before exploding in the fifth inning with 15 runs to lead 22-1. Wilbur Creston scored two runs in the bottom of the fifth to make the final score 22-3. Anderson pitched game two to improve her perfect pitching record to eight straight wins. She allowed just one run on two hits and struck out four over four innings. Katie Couch gave up a couple runs in relief on just one hit. The Rangers hosted Curlew for the league championship Tuesday, after The Miner went to press. They travel to Priest River for a non-league game Monday, May 7 at 4 p.m.

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Bradly Eugene Bagdon Priest River

Bradly Eugene Bagdon passed away April 10 at the age of 58. Born in Spokane July 3, 1953, to Gene and Joyce Bagdon, Mr. Bagdon was the Bagdon oldest of five siblings. He spent a portion of his life in eastern Oregon and eventually settled in Priest River. He graduated from Shadle Park High School in Spokane and went on to pursue a career as HVAC service technician. In his younger years, he was involved in motocross and taught scuba diving. He was an avid outdoorsman and loved fishing and hunting and took joy in archery. He was ranked among the top five archers in the United States during the 1990s. Mr. Bagdon also enjoyed watching his daughters play softball and took an active role in helping them improve their pitching. He is survived by his daughter and son-in-law Ashley and Matt VanMeter of Newberg, Ore., and daughters Joelle and Mary Bagdon of Athena, Ore.; and ex-wife, Colleen Bagdon of Athena, Ore. He was preceded in death by his father, Gene Bagdon, and survived by mother, Joyce Bagdon, of Spokane, as well as brothers Doug and Mike and sisters Lynne and Sue. A celebration of his life will be held at Calvary Chapel, 511 W. Hastings Road in Spokane Saturday, May 5 at 3 p.m. with a time of fellowship and refreshments to follow. Memorial contributions may be sent in Mr. Bagdon’s name to the Priest River Food Bank, P.O. Box 1321, Priest River, ID 83856 or Real Life Ministries, P.O. Box 1709, Newport, WA 99156. Sherman-Knapp Funeral Home in Priest River is in charge of arrangements. Family and friends are invited to sign the online guestbook at www.shermanknapp.com.

Betty Mae Casteel Loon Lake

Betty Mae (Tyer) Casteel of Loon Lake passed away April 19 at Holy Family Hospital in Spokane. She was 81. Mrs. Casteel was Casteel born Nov. 26, 1930, to Lewis and Dollie Tyer in Portland, Ore. She attended North Central High School. On June 14, 1947, at 16 years old, she married the love of her life Melvin Casteel. She gave birth to four children and adopted one, resulting in raising five wonderful children. In the summer, they would spend their time enjoying the outdoors. She was always full of spunk and loved adventuring with family. During her life when people would tell her she couldn’t do something, she would make sure to do it better than anyone else. The Casteels lived and worked in the Newport area from about 1975 to 1985. Mrs. Casteel worked at the Keytronics plant and Melvin worked at Diamond Match. Most holidays were spent at her house surrounded by family. She was perpetually optimistic and never thought twice about regrets, family said. Those seeking care – family, strangers and animals – were given the love, attention, respect they deserved, and the coffee pot was always on. Around 1998, Mrs. Casteel started researching her family’s genealogy, digitally archiving photos and various records for the safe keeping and further inquiry of her family. She wanted to pass along the knowledge she gained to her family and those who are to come, so as none would forget their roots. All her life including her last days, she had a charming wit and the ability to make you laugh, family said. She would blow spit bubbles with her great-grandchildren or give serious advice about the things she learned in life. She will be greatly missed and always cherished. Mrs. Casteel is joined again with Melvin, who passed in 1996. Survivors include her five children: sons Mike (and Rene), Bob and Bill; daughters Peggy Rieper

(and Dave) and Bonnie Ackerman (and Karl); seven grandchildren, Toby, Deseray, Marcus, Matt, Polly, Darlene and Troy; and seven great-grandchildren, Dakota, Ellianna, Kiran, Perri, Lily, Hayden and Wyatt. A graveside service for the immediate family will be held at a later date. Ball & Dodd Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

Alberta “Lynne” Payne Blanchard

Alberta “Lynne” Payne passed away Wednesday, April 18, after a brief illness, surrounded by her family and loved ones. She was 80 years old. She was born Alberta Madeline Chambers in Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 27, 1931. In 1953, she married the love of her life, John Payne, and spent the next 48 years of her life with him until his death in 2002. Mrs. Payne was an auxiliary member of the Valley Eagles, an active member of the Valley Senior Center, a part of the North Idaho Christian Cowboy Balladeers and was a proud member of the Deer Park Gospel Musical Ministries. She loved to dance, sing, laugh and spread joy wherever she went. She was a strong Christian and loved the Lord with all her heart. She is survived by her “sweetheart and best friend” of the last five years, Emmett McLaughlin; her four children James Payne and his wife Maria, Nancy Schaffer and her husband Jim, Rebecca Ward and Lori Bullers, all of Spokane. She had nine grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and an abundant circle of loving friends. She will be greatly missed and mourned. A potluck and celebration of life was held Saturday, April 28 at All Saints Lutheran Church in Browne’s Addition in Spokane, following a private graveside service for immediate family.

Ervin Oscar Richter Newport

Ervin Oscar Richter of Newport passed away Friday, April 27 at his home in Newport. He was 88. Mr. Richter was born at home in Mandan, N.D., April 30, Richter 1923. His birth certificate said “Boy Richter.” Erv, as he was known to his family and friends, was the middle child of Emil and Erna Richter. He lived on the family homestead in Scotia Valley since 1940. An avid outdoorsman and cowboy, he loved horses, dogs and family, in that order. He was a member and past president of the Pend Oreille Rodeo Association for 31 years and a 26-year member and captain of the Pend Oreille County Mounted Sheriff’s Posse. He retired from the Pend Oreille County road department on Dec. 31, 1979, after 25 years of dedicated service. He was a lifetime member of the NRA and belonged to AARP, North American Hunting Club, Ducks Unlimited, and Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. Preceded in death by his father Emil, mother Erna and brother Art, Mr. Richter is survived by Marcy Ryan, his loving companion of 27 years; Monte and Linda Richter, his son and daughter-inlaw of Newport; Lana and Steve Eberhard, his daughter and sonin-law of Willits, Calif.; and his sister Joyce Brooks of Spokane. He is also survived by three grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, numerous nieces, nephews and cousins as well as his 97-year-old aunt and his beloved extended family. A visitation will be held at Sherman-Knapp Funeral Home, 423 W. Second St., in Newport Wednesday, May 2 from 1-5 p.m. A private graveside service is Thursday, May 3, with a public memorial service to be held Friday, May 4 at 1 p.m. at the Newport Rodeo Grounds. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in Ervin’s name to the Newport Rodeo Association, P.O. Box 910, Newport, WA 99156. Sherman-Knapp Funeral Home in Newport is in charge of arrangements. Family and friends are invited to sign the online guestbook at www.shermanknapp.com.

|| 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.

Pend Oreille County Monday, April 23 SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE – E. 5th St., report that unknown vehicle with damage is in parking lot. SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES – S. Washington Ave., Newport, report of unknown motorcycle found on property. BOATING OFFENSE – Diamond Lake, report that a 12-foot aluminum boat is in violation of no wake zone. ANIMAL PROBLEM – Heart Delight Lane, Newport, report that a black and white cow was found in their yard, unknown owner. SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE – W. Kelly Drive, report that two males are cutting fence with wire cutters. THEFT – S. Union Ave., Newport, report that items were taken from vehicle that was parked in the parking lot. BURGLARY – North River Rd., Ione, reported damage to door. THEFT – W. 1st St., Newport, report that eight snow tires were missing from alley. DOMSTIC VIOLENCE PHYSICAL – LeClerc Rd. N., Cusick, report that woman just assaulted now complaining of neck pain. MALICIOUS MISCHIEF – S. Scott Ave, Newport, complainant reports car was keyed today. THEFT – LeClerc Rd. N., Ione, generator reported stolen from inside camper. SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES – Cemetery Rd., Newport, flagged down deputy in reference to heavy smoke from unattended fire. Tuesday, April 24 THEFT – Hwy. 2, report that vehicle had wheels and tires stolen, radiator stolen from other vehicle. BOATING OFFENSE – Diamond Lake, reported violation of no-wake zone. ELECTRICAL FIRE – S. State Ave., report that fuse box is hot, filled house with smoke. BOATING OFFENSE – Diamond Lake, reported violation of no-wake zone. SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES – Silver Birch Rd., report of possible entry into basement. THEFT – 2nd Ave., report that friend took items from house. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PHYSICAL – LeClerc Rd. N., child reporting domestic violence between parents. DISTURBANCE – E. 5th Ave., report two males fighting. SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES – S. Spokane Ave., report of front

Friday, May 4 Bonner County Candidate Forum: 7 p.m. - Blanchard Grange Saturday, May 5 Pondoray Shores Water and Sewer District: 9 a.m. - Pend Oreille Public Utility District Office, Newport Monday, May 7 Pend Oreille County Commission-

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door of vacant house open. SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES – S. Union Ave., Newport, report of beer found in the park bathroom. VIOLATION OF PROTECTION ORDER – Riverside Ave., report of protection order violation. MALICIOUS MISCHIEF – W. 1st St., report of juveniles spray painting tables and ramps at the skate park. AGENCY ASSIST – N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights, report of custodial interference. HARASSMENT – Hwy. 31, report that subject is coming into complainant’s place of work and harassing her. Wednesday, April 25 ARREST – S. Garden Ave., Newport, Laurie L. Hildesheim, 50, of Elk was arrested on local warrants. ACCIDENT – Horseshoe Lake Rd., two vehicle blocking accident noninjury. WEAPON OFFENSE – Hwy. 20, Cusick, investigation with another agency. ARREST – Spokane County Jail, Cole R. Brown, 20, of Spokane and Angela L. Reese, 37, of Moses Lake were transported from Spokane on local warrants. DRUGS – Tule Rd., report of a drug case. BRUSH FIRE – Hwy. 20, Cusick SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES – LeClerc Rd. N., Cusick, report of suspicious circumstance. DISTURBANCE – S. Washington Ave., Newport, third party report of a male causing a disturbance. JUVENILE PROBLEM – W. 5th St., report that dependent child refuses to leave with her. TRESPASSING – N. Union Ave., Newport, report that someone is trespassing on complainant’s property and is burning something. THEFT – W. Walnut St., report of shoplifter caught on video. THEFT – Blackwell St., complainant reported daughter’s iPod was stolen. DISTURBANCE – N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights, report of two individuals arguing. ARREST – Haley Miranda Augustine, 18, of Newport was arrested for possession of less than 40 grams of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. ARREST – Jeremy Allan Fraley, 31, of Ione was arrested for violation of a restraining order. Thursday, April 26 ANIMAL PROBLEM – LeClerc Rd. N., report of loose horse on golf course. ACCIDENT – S. Washington Ave., Newport, report that vehicle rear ended another and left scene. BURGLARY – Hazel St., Cusick, items reported missing from residence. SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE – W. 8th St., Newport, report that silver van with broken window driving in area. THEFT – 8th St., Newport, complainant reports he came home and his bike was gone. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PHYSICAL – N. Grandview Ave., report that complainant was physically thrown out of home. MALICIOUS MISCHIEF – N. 8th Ave., Ione, report of subject throwing eggs at complainant’s vehicles.

|| Wednesday, May 2 Diamond Lake Water and Sewer: 10 a.m. - District Office, 172 South Shore Road Oldtown Urban Renewal District Board: 5:30 p.m. - Oldtown City Hall Fire District No. 4 Commissioners: 6 p.m. - Dalkena Fire Station No. 41 Northern Panhandle Green Party: 6 p.m. - Friends Meeting House in Sandpoint Diamond Lake Improvement Association: 6:30 p.m. - Diamond Lake Fire Station, Highway 2 Idaho Candidate Forum: 7 p.m. Edgemere Grange Sacheen Lake Sewer and Water District Board: 7 p.m. - Sacheen Fire Station, Highway 211

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Friday, April 27 ACCIDENT – Fertile Valley Rd., report of red Ford Escort on the side of the road. MALICIOUS MISCHIEF – Main St., Ione, report of slashed tire and rock thrown through windshield. THEFT – Hwy. 211, report of gas stolen from U-Haul truck. BURGLARY – LeClerc Rd. N., Ione, report that cabin was broken into. BURGLARY – LeClerc Rd. N., Ione, report that door was kicked open. SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES – Deer Valley Rd., Newport, complainant believes someone is sabotaging the well. ARREST – W. 4th St., Newport, Douglas Dee Holman, 45, of Newport was arrested for fourth degree assault domestic violence and unlawful imprisonment. THEFT – Hwy. 20, report that some items were stolen from fire station. AGENCY ASSIST – S. Calispell Ave., individual informed the complainant that a parent made threats to kill the family. LITTERING – Amherst Lane, Newport, report that household garbage was dumped in the driveway. ARREST – W. Railroad Ave., Newport, Richard Dean Hiebert, 50, of Newport arrested for driving under the influence. CUSTODIAL INTERFERENCE – Winchester St., report of custodial interference. THEFT – N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights, report of theft of motor vehicle. TRAFFIC OFFENSE – Fertile Valley Rd., report that vehicle passed the bus while ambers were on and paddle was going out. DISTURBANCE – Hwy. 211, Newport, third party advised that there was a guy that got into a truck and attempted to drive away while another man was hanging onto the door handle. ARREST – Richard Lee Smith, 27, of Spokane was arrested for driving while license suspended. Saturday, April 28 THEFT – Hwy. 2, report of tools and diesel stolen. TRESPASSING – Hwy. 211, report of vehicle trespassing on property. SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE – N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights TRAFFIC OFFENSE – W. 1st St., report of mini bike driving down the street. VIOLATION OF COURT ORDER – Hwy. 2, reported violation of order by text. SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE – Deer Valley Lane, report of male in blue Land Rover acting suspicious. THEFT – Monumental Way, Cusick, report of bank card taken from purse. TRESPASSING – N. Hayford Rd. SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE – W. 1st St., report of silver four door sedan driving erratic. SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES – N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights STABBING – Yocum Lake Rd., report of two people stabbed or shot. ACCIDENT – Hwy. 20, report of one vehicle accident, airbags deployed, nobody around. ARREST – Miquel Angel MendozaCruz, 35, was arrested on a Border Patrol hold. ARREST – Roberto Cardozo-Cruz,

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Pend Oreille County Commissioners: 9 a.m. - Pend Oreille County Courthouse West Bonner Library District Board of Trustees: 9 a.m. - Priest River Library Lenora Water and Sewer District: 10 a.m. - Skookum Rendezvous Lodge, 1432 Lenora Drive, Usk Friends of the Library: Noon Priest River Library Pend Oreille County Planning Commission Hearings: 7 p.m. Cusick Community Center Pend Oreille Fire District No. 5: 6:30 p.m. - District No. 5 Fire Station, 406722 Highway 20, Cusick West Bonner Water and Sewer District: 6:30 p.m. - Oldtown City Hall West Bonner Library Board: 7 p.m.

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33, was arrested on a Border Patrol hold. Sunday, April 29 TRESPASSING – N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights, report of trespassing. RECOVERED VEHICLE – Veit Rd., report of recovered vehicle stolen out of Spokane. THEFT – W. Walnut St., report of disabled placard stolen from vehicle. THEFT – Pend Oreille Village, report of items stolen. MISSING PERSON – S. Spokane Ave., Newport, report that father and son not heard from for a month. ARREST – Hwy. 2, Kayla M. Harrison, 18, was arrested for driving on a suspended license. ARREST – S. Union Ave., Newport, Javier P. Jaimes, 24, of Newport was arrested on out of county warrants.

West Bonner County Monday, April 23 RECKLESS DRIVING – 3rd St., Priest River BATTERY – Harriet St., Priest River Tuesday, April 24 ARREST – Diamond Heights Rd., Oldtown, Janet E. Hunt, 59, of Oldtown was arrested for domestic battery. BURGLARY – Sherwood Beach Rd., Coolin TOBACCO VIOLATION – Hwy. 2, Priest River SHOPLIFTING – Hwy. 2, Priest River FRAUD – Santiago Rd., Blanchard ARREST – LeClerc Rd., Oldtown, Sarah J. Luscier, 24, was arrested on a warrants and for possession of hyrdrocodone. Wednesday, April 25 THREATENING – Railroad Ave., Blanchard SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE – E. 4th St. N., Oldtown STRUCTURE FIRE – Groves Addition, Oldtown Thursday, April 26 BURGLARY – Freeman Lake Rd., Oldtown UNLAWFUL ENTRY – Substation Cutoff, Priest River, report of a residential burglary. Friday, April 27 BURGLARY – Pleasants View Rd., Blanchard CHILD NEGLECT – Eastside Rd., Priest River, report of child abuse in Priest River. DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE – 4th St., Priest River, deputy assisted Priest River Police on a DUI stop. Saturday, April 28 No reportable incidents. Sunday, April 29 VEHICLE THEFT – Hank Allen Way, Blanchard BURGLARY – Poirier Rd., Blanchard SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE – Big Creek Rd., Priest River, several reports of an abandoned camp site. ARREST – Memory Lane, Oldtown, Bruce Lauzon, 41, of Newport was arrested for petit theft, trespassing, resist/obstruct/delaying a police officer and for an outstanding warrant.

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Technical Support/Systems Administration Assistant POVN, an Internet Service Provider, located in Newport, Washington is hiring for a part time position that could lead to full time as the area Fiber to the Home Project is complete and installations begin in the fall. Some computer experience and understanding of Internet programs are required. POVN will train on its systems and services. Primary Job Responsibilities: • Ability to provide friendly, efficient Customer Support for a wide range of Internet Services • Set up and trouble shooting of Internet Services, including Dial-up, WiFi, DSL, Fiber, VOIP, and Web Hosting • Schedule and track WiFi, VOIP, and Fiber installations; interfacing with clients to assure satisfaction • Support Systems Administrator as needed Required Skills: • Ability to provide friendly and effective interaction with clients and potential clients; by phone, in person, and through email • Must be able to work independently; following through, recognizing priorities, and communicating well with fellow employees and management • Experience trouble shooting Internet related hardware and software systems • Working knowledge of Internet network hardware configurations Resumes can be dropped off at the POVN office M-F 9:00am - 4:00pm. POVN (Pend Oreille Valley Networks, Inc.) is an Equal Opportunity Employer • Position Location: Newport, Washington • Salary based on experience • Applicants Only – Recruiters Please Do not Contact • Please – No phone calls regarding this job posting • Please do not contact job poster about other services, products, or commercial interests

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SEASONAL/FULL TIME Equipment Operator for Priest Lake Excavating Company. Dump Truck, Excavator, Bobcat experience required. Job requires capability for physical labor. Year round job potential with benefits. CDL required. E-mail resume to info@copperbayconstruction.com with references or fax to (208) 443-2841. (12-3p) SEASONAL/FULL TIME Dock Builder for Priest Lake dock builder. Construction experience required. Wages depending on experience. Potential for permanent position with benefits. E-mail resume to info@copperbayconstruction.com with references or fax to (208) 443-2841. (12-3p)

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MIDDLE SCHOOL 7-8TH GRADE FOOTBALL COACH(S) MIDDLE SCHOOL 7-8TH GIRLS SOFTBALL COACH(S) (Positions are dependent on participation numbers.) Open until filled. The Newport School District is accepting applications for the above coaching positions. Applications accepted through noon, May 4, 2012. Additional information and applications may be obtained by calling the Newport School District at (509) 447-3167. Equal Opportunity Employer. (12-2) COMPUTER GRAPHIC PRODUCTION POSITION Produce effective print ads, layout text & graphics for newspapers. Work under deadlines and well with others. Proficient with InDesign, Photo Shop and Microsoft Word. Full time plus medical. Send resume and cover letter to: Newport and Gem State Miner Newspapers, Post Office Box 349, Newport, Washington, 99156 or theminer@ povn.com.(13)

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THE ANIMAL DOCTOR Quality veterinary care for your pets and barnyard friends.

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WiFi - $36.95/Month Dial UP - Web Services DSL - Internet Telephone No contract required (509) 447-3067 or 1-888-800-POVN (7686)

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Furniture • Appliances Household Items Fabric & More Consignments Available 9 am-5 pm Mon-Sat 5489 Hwy 2, Timberline Center Priest River, ID (208) 290-2248

Tree Service Frontier

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Owners Bob & Jane Clark Model Home By Appointment

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METALINE FALLS WASHINGTON RV lot, beautiful large lot with river view, all utilities and wifi included. $250/ month. (208) 610-9220. (13-3) METALINE FALLS WASHINGTON Beautiful 1 bedroom apartment. Water, sewer, garbage plus wi-fi included. Post office building. $410 plus deposit. (208) 6109220. (13-3) 1200 SQUARE FEET 2 bedroom, 1 bath. Cathedral ceilings. $525 per month plus deposit, includes water/ sewer/ garbage. Priest River. (208) 448-1823.(13-tf)

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NEWPORT 4 BEDROOM House with 18.5 acres for sale by owner (FSBO). 1/3 mile off of Highway 2 about 2 miles from Newport schools, close in location for this amount of land. Set up for horses with large shop/barn. Two story building next to house has lots of room for crafts and a shop. Buyers representatives welcome at 3%. Flexible, motivated sellers asking $330,000. Call Chris (509) 671-7022. (11-3p)

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Your Right to Know

Your right to know and be informed of the functions of your government are embodied in public notices. In that self-government charges all citizens to be informed, this newspaper urges every citizen to read and study these notices. We strongly advise those citizens seeking further information to exercise their right of access to public records and public meetings.

2012126 SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF PEND OREILLE No. 11-2-00230-2 Summons for Publication (RCW 4.28.110) Wilmington Trust Co., as Successor to J.P.Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., Plaintiff, v. Dean D. Hunt and Angela M. Hunt, both individually and the marital community comprised thereof; Spokane Teachers Credit Union; Defendants. The State of Washington to the said defendants Dean D. Hunt and Angela M. Hunt: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to with, within sixty days after the 18th day of April, 2012, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the Plaintiff Wilmington Trust Co., as successor to J. P. Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., (“Plaintiff”), and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorneys for Plaintiff at her office below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. A lawsuit has been started against you in the Superior Court of Pend Oreille County by Plaintiff to

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 womenandpeoplesecuring 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)

Quiet Title and for Declaratory Relief. Dated this 18th day of April, 2012. Routh Crabtree Olson, P.S. Kathleen A. Allen, WSBA No. 19655 Attorneys for Plaintiff Routh Crabtree Olsen, P.S. 13555 SE 36th St., Ste 300 Bellevue, WA 98006 Telephone: 425-4582122, Facsimile: 425-4582131 Published in The Newport Miner April 18, 25, May 2, 9, 16 and 23, 2012. (11-6)

_________________ 2012128 SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON, FOR PEND OREILLE COUNTY No. 12-4-00017-8 P R O B AT E N O T I C E TO CREDITORS (RCW 11.40.030) Estate of Clifford Allen Noxon, Jr., Deceased. Diane Marie Noxon and Chad R. Noxon have been appointed as CoPersonal Representatives of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must present the claim before the time when the claim would be barred by any applicable statute of limitations and in the manner provided in RCW 11.40.070 by filing the original of the claim with the Court, and by serving on or mailing to the Co-Personal Representatives in care of the address stated below a copy of the claim. The claim must be presented by the later of: (a) 30 days after the Co-Personal Representatives served or mailed the notice as provided in RCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or (b) 4 months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time period, the claim will be forever barred except as provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective for claims against both the Decedent’s probate and non-probate assets. Date of First Publication: Diane Marie Noxon, CoPersonal Representative Chad R. Noxon, CoPersonal Representative Amy E. Bilyeu, WSBA 39083 Cavanaugh Levy Bilyeu LLP 888 S.W. Fifth Avenue, Suite 650 Portland, Oregon 97204 Published in The Newport Miner April 18, 25 and May2, 2012. (11-3)

_________________ 2012129 SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON COUNTY OF PEND OREILLE Case No.: 12-4-00018-6 Probate Notice to Creditors In RE. The Estate of Ronald J. McBride, Deceased. Probate Notice to Creditors (RCW 11.40.030) The personal representative named below has

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been appointed and has qualified as personal representative of this estate. Persons having claims against the decedent must, prior to the time such claims would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitation, serve their claims on the personal representative or the attorneys of record at the address stated below and file an executed copy of the claim with the Clerk of this Court within four months after the date of first publication of this notice or within four months after the date of the filing of the copy of this Notice with the Clerk of the Court, whichever is later or, except under those provisions included in RCW 11.40.011 and 11.40.013, the claim will be forever bared. This bar is effective as to the claims against both the probate assets and nonprobate assets of the decedent. Date of filing copy of 4/12/12 Date of first publication 4/18/12 /s/John McBride John McBride c/o Douglas D. Lambarth P.O. Box 366 Newport, WA 99156 509-447-3036 Published in The Newport Miner April 18, 25, May 2 and 9, 2012. (11-4)

_________________ 2012138 SURPLUS MATERIAL FOR SALE PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT NO. 1 OF PEND OREILLE COUNTY The Public Utility District No. 1 of Pend Oreille County has declared the following as no longer necessary, material to, or useful in the operations of the District and, therefore, surplus to the needs of the Public Utility District: Approximately 40 wooden utility poles and miscellaneous pole ends The item may be viewed between the hours of 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m., by contacting the Newport office, (509) 447-3137. The successful bidder must sign a Release of Indemnity form and must accept the entire lot and is responsible for the pick up and delivery of the poles. All material must be picked up no later than Friday, May 18, 2012. Sealed bids will be received at the PUD offices, 130 N. Washington, PO Box 190, Newport, WA. 99156, or at the Box Canyon Dam Visitors Center, 7492 Hwy. 31, PO Box 547, Ione, WA. 99139 until 5:00 p.m., Friday, May 4, 2012. on the outside of the envelope. The bids will be opened Monday, May 7, 2012 and awarded at the May 15, 2012, Board meeting. Karen Willner Clerk of the Board Published in The Newport Miner April 25 and May 2, 2012. (12-2)

_________________ 2012139 COMMISSIONER’S NOTICE OF HEARING In the Matter of VACATION of a portion of Little Spokane River Road in Pend Oreille County, Washington. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 7th day of May, 2012, at 11:00 A.M. in the office of the Board of County Commissioners, Newport, Washington, has fixed as the time and place

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for hearing upon the matter of the VACATION of a portion of Little Spokane River Road in Pend Oreille County, Washington, the termini, general course as follows: That portion Little Spokane River Road lying within parcel number 453019-300001 located in the E 1/2 of the SW 1/4 of Section 19, Township 30 North, Range 45 East, W.M., Pend Oreille County, Washington, excepting there from any utility maintenance easement granted to utilities of record. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that all persons interested may appear and be heard at such hearing upon the report and recommendation of the County Engineer either to proceed or not to proceed with the vacation of the described roads. Dated at Newpor t, Washington, this 9th day of April, 2012. Clerk of the Board Published in The Newport Miner April 25 and May 2, 2012. (12-2)

_________________ 2012142 Notice of Application and Action Pursuant to 43.21C RCW, notice is hereby given that Pend Oreille County did on April 20, 2012 receive a complete SEPA Environmental Checklist with supplemental documents prepared for the Habitat Restoration Project on North Fork Calispell Creek. Location: Lower 5.9 miles of North Fork Calispell Creek. 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 Dept. Pend Oreille County has reviewed the proposed project for probable adverse environmental impacts and expects to issue a Determination of Nonsignificance (DNS) for this project. The optional DNS process in WAC 197-11-355 is being used. This may be your only opportunity to comment on the environmental impacts of the proposed application. The proposal may include mitigation measures under applicable codes, and the project review process may incorporate or require mitigation measures regardless of whether an EIS is prepared. Written comments on the SEPA checklist must be submitted to Pend Oreille County no later than May 10, 2012. The submitted application and related documents may be examined by the public between 8:00 AM & 4:30 PM at the County Courthouse, Lower Level, 625 W. 4th, Newport, WA 99156, (509) 447-4821. Contact: Todd McLaughlin, Natural Resource Planner. Required Permit(s): Shoreline Exemption (Pend Oreille County), Hydraulic Project Approval (WDFW), Section 401 (WDOE), Section 404 (USCOE) Date of application: April 20, 2012 Date of determination of completeness: April 23. 2012 Date of notice of application and action: April 23, 2012 Published in The Newport Miner April 25 and May 2, 2012. (12-2)

________________ 2012141 PUBLIC NOTICE The Selkirk School District Board of Directors will hold their May Work Session on May 16, 2012 at 5:30 pm at Selkirk Elementary School, agenda items Levy, Budget, and Facilities. The Regular Board of Directors Meeting for the month of May will be held on May 21, 2012 at 6:00 pm at Selkirk Elementary School.

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/s/Nancy Lotze Nancy Lotze, Superintendent and Secretary to the Board of Directors Published in The Newport Miner May 2 and 9, 2012. (13-2)

_________________ 2012144 PUBLIC NOTICE Spokane Conservation District announces a Public Meeting for the Bear Creek Watershed on May 9, 2012 from 6pm – 8pm at the Riverside Fire Station #46, located at 3818 E Deer Park Milan Rd in Chattaroy, Washington. Topics will include: Developing a Core Local Stakeholder Group, Watershed Stewardship and SCD’s Livestock and Land Program and other available cost-share funding. Questions? Contact Dan Ross at the Spokane Conservation District: 5357274, dan-ross@sccd.org. All SCD programs and services are offered without discrimination. Please allow at least 72 hours if reasonable accommodations are being requested. Published in The Newport Miner May 2, 2012. (13)

_________________ 2012145 PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE Town of Metaline Falls Downtown Pipe Replacement Project NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing will be held by the Town of Metaline Falls at the Town Hall, 203 E. 5th Ave., Metaline Falls, Washington 99153, beginning at 6:45 p.m., local time, on May 8, 2012. The purpose of the public hearing is to receive comments and evaluate project performance for the Downtown Pipe Replacement Project. To fund the project, which principally benefits low-and moderate income persons, the Town of Metaline Falls received a $924,450.00 grant from the state Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program. Comments on the project may be submitted in writing to the Town of Metaline Falls, P.O. Box 277, Metaline Falls, WA 99153. Comments must be received on or before 11:30 a.m., May 8, 2012. The Town of Metaline Falls is handicap accessible. Arrangements to reasonably accommodate special needs, including handicap accessibility or interpreter, will be made upon receiving twenty-four (24) hour advance notice. Contact the town clerk at (509) 446-2211.

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_________________ 2012146 SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON In And For The County Of Pend Oreille Case No.: 12-4-00019-4 Probate Notice To Creditors In the Estate of: Dorothy E. Conrady, Deceased The person named below has been appointed as Personal Representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner provided by RCW 11.40.070 by serving 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. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the Personal Representative served or mailed the Notice to Creditor as provided under RCW 11.040.020(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 11.04.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate and nonprobate assets. Date of First Publication: May 2, 2012 Personal Representative Lauren Conrady Attorney for Personal Representative: Linda J. Mathis Address for Mailing of Service: 301 W. Spruce St., Suite 301, Newport, WA 99156 /s/ Linda J. Mathis Linda J. Mathis Attorney for Personal Representative WSBA# 16495 301 W. Spruce, Suite B Newport, WA 9916 (509) 447-5929 Published in The Newport Miner May 2, 9 and 16, 2010. (13-3)

_________________ 2012148 PORT OF PEND OREILLE ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS PROJECT NAME: LOCOMOTIVE PAINT BOOTH E S T I M AT E D C O S T: $300,000 - $350,000 BIDS DUE: May 18, 2012, 2:00 p.m. PRE-BID MEETING: None

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________________ 2012149A CITY OF NEWPORT, WASHINGTON NOTICE OF LAND USE APPLICATION PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The property owner at 600 N. Washington Avenue in Newport, Washington has submitted a variance application for this property in accordance with the provisions of NDR 17.03.110D, 17.05.050 and 17.01.060. The existing single family residence at this address does not meet the current front yard setback requirement for the R-1 Single Family Residential Zone. The owner is proposing to construct several additions to his residence and an attached garage. The addition in the front will be in line with the current building footprint and will not increase the degree of nonconformity. The additions to the rear will meet City setback requirements for the sewer easement.

The proposed addition on the south side is 5 feet from the property line instead of the required 10 feet. PROJECT LOCATION: The property is located at 600 N. Washington Avenue, Newport, Washington. DATE OF APPLICATION: The variance application for the proposed project was received by the City of Newport on April 17, 2012. The application has been reviewed by the City and determined to be complete and ready for processing on April 17, 2012. REQUIRED PERMITS AND APPROVALS The proposed project will be subject to a Type 2 review by the City of Newport and must comply with all of the provisions of the Newport Development Regulations including but not limited to Section 17.05.050. This shall include a public hearing conducted by the Newport Board of Adjustments. Following approval of the required variance, a building permit will be required. A survey of the rear property line and a building permit will be required. E N V I R O N M E N TA L DOCUMENTS AND/OR STUDIES The proposed action is categorically exempt from the requirements of the Washington State Environmental Policy Act. PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD: The application will be subject to a 30-day comment period. Written comments on the proposed project must be submitted, no later than June 1, 2012 to Robert “Bubba” Hedricks, Newport Building Official, Newport City Hall, 200 S. Washington Avenue, Newport, WA 99156. Written or oral comments may also be submitted at an open record public hearing conducted by the Newport Board of Adjustments on June 5, 2012 at 4:00 pm in the Council Chambers in City Hall. The purpose of this public hearing is to provide the applicant with an opportunity to describe the proposed project and to receive public comments. The City of Newport welcomes full participation in public meetings by all citizens. No qualified person with a disability shall be excluded or denied the benefit from participating in the process. If you wish to use auxiliary aids or require assistance to comment, please contact the City of Newport at (509) 447-5611 or FAX to 509-447-2259 at least ten days prior to the estimated date of decision to make arrangements for special needs. Published in The Newport Miner May 2, 2012. (13)

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Wednesday, April 25 Northeast A League at Newport Boys team scoring: Freeman 75, Newport 61 100: 1, Jake Wiley (New) 10.84. 2, Daniel Wheatley (Fre) 11.45. 3, Christian Dresback (Fre) 11.83. 200: 1, Wiley 22.02. 2, Quinn Robinson (Fre) 22.2. 3, Wheatley 22.9. 400: 1, Wiley 51.8. 2, Max Axtell (Fre) 52.4. 3, Tristen Cutshall (New) 57.3. 800: 1, Austin Fish (Fre) 2:06.9. 2, Konnor Rubright (Fre) 2:07.8. 3, Scott McMeen (New) 2:08.9. 1600: 1, McMeen 5:20. 2, Chris Nichols (New) 5:20.2. 3, Jake Zickler (New) 5:20.6. 3200: 1, Zickler 11:09. 2, Chris Nichols 11:49.8. 3, McMeen 11:50. 110 hurdles: 1, Jacob Lara (Fre) 17.4. 2, Brandy Unfred (Fre) 17.8. 3, Cody Smith (New) 18.9. 300 hurdles: 1, Lara 43.8. 2, Smith 45.4. 3, Dresback 46.43. 400 relay: 1, Freeman 45.01. 1600 relay: 1, Freeman 3:32. Discus: 1, Aaron Castle (New) 179-09. 2, Wheatley 125-01. 3, Jordan Duke (New) 111. Shot put: 1, Castle 64-03. 2, B.Unfred 39-02.5. 3, Duke 37-01.25. Javelin: 1, Kian Genteman (Fre) 133-06. 2, Duke 121. 3, Eric Cunningham (New) 11604. Triple jump: 1, Cody Unfred (Fre) 43-11. 2, Axtell 42-10. 3,Branden Cass (New) 38-04. High jump: 1, Billy Broussard (Fre) 6-0. 2, Cass 5-10. 3, Lara 5-02. Long jump: 1, C.Unfred 20-08.5. 2, Dresback 18-05. 3, Smith 18-0.5. Pole vault: 1, Braden Barranco (New) 11-0. 2, Cass 11. 3, Brett Sinden (Fre) 10-06.

Friday, April 27 Timberlake Invite Boys team scoring: 1, Timberlake 134. 2, Freeman 129. 3, Deer Park 121. 4, Bonners Ferry 74.5. 5, Kellogg 66.5. 6, Kootenai 32. 7, Flathead Valley Christian 31. 8, St. Maries 8. 9, Coeur d’Alene Charter 27. 10, Priest River 25. 11, Lakeside (Rathdrum) 20. 12, Wallace 13.

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improved fitness levels, overall generation active and entertained. health and increased awareness of August is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Active Outdoorsâ&#x20AC;? the importance of making healthy month â&#x20AC;&#x201C; when locals and tourists choices. And alike can itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a lot Our hope is that we can make a enjoy a host of fun! of longpositive difference by bringing To keep the standing momentum together community partners community going, we are to promote healthy activities, traditions planning to such as offer another educate our community about the the Poker group Fit importance of health and wellness Paddle, the Together! county fair, and motivate our community to Challenge lawnmower make healthier choices. in the fall races, the and we have Kalispel already heard rumors of a bunch Tribeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s powwow, Cusick Rodeo, more teams who are eager to OKB Fest, and Pend Oreille Valley show their stuff. Relay for Life. In the interim, we have some Healthy Newport doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t great health & wellness events, organize these events; rather we courses and activities coming just try to help promote them up. May is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fabulous Over Fiftyâ&#x20AC;? throughout our area and motivate month, and some of our local our residents to participate in fun partners have really stepped and healthy activities. up, offering such goodies as free September is all about â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dining passes at local gyms and specials and Entertainmentâ&#x20AC;? and we hope at local businesses â&#x20AC;&#x201C; just for those to be featuring local restaurants 50 years of age and older. With and businesses that are healthy, these great deals, being 50 plus filling and fun! sure does seem fabulous! See HEALTH, 7C June is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Grow It Localâ&#x20AC;? month and we hope to be featuring a variety of growing, harvesting, etc. classes for all ages. July is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kids & Teensâ&#x20AC;? month, where our community can look for a host of events and camps to keep our younger

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NEWPORT â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Healthy Newport campaign kicked off with the new year, and already itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got people hooked on fitness and nutrition. The end of April wrapped up the first Fit Together! challenge that had individuals and corporate teams checking their pedometers to reach the 10,000 steps per day goal. With the corporate challenge, team members were put to the extra challenge of eating right and doing other good deeds to improve overall wellbeing. Challenges over the two-month program included eating a green vegetable with every meal,

Morning walks come with unexpected adventure Twenty years ago my daughter and I decided to walk every morning. Well, the weather was not exTESTIMONIAL actly coCATHI RAWLEY operative. PEND OREILLE One day COUNTY TEAM it would be cold, the next windy, then the

drinking half your body weight in ounces of water and eliminating sugar for 24 hours. Every week, a mystery challenge was revealed: picking up litter, telling a daily joke and telling someone you appreciate them. Following are five testimonials written by Fit Together! corporate team members saying what they learned from the challenge, how it motivated them and how great it was to have the support of a team. If you missed out on this first challenge, start warming up. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talk of a second challenge starting this fall. For more information about Healthy Newport and the Fit Together! challenge, visit www. healthynewport.com.

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OLDTOWN – Students at Idaho Hill Elementary in Oldtown have put on some mileage this school year, and they’re doing it all right around the playground. The Bulldog Mileage Challenge started in October and through snow and all, students had the option of spending their recesses walking or running the perimeter of the playground. For every five laps around the yard (equal to one mile), the student was awarded a colorful token to go on a necklace. They also get stickers to add to their bulldog feet that are posted in the gym where everyone can see who’s racking up the miles – like sixth grader Spencer Sedgwick. He’s put in more than 108 miles this school year. “He does an awesome job,” P.E. teacher Traci Stussi said. “He runs it all.” As a school, Idaho Hill kids have put in more than 2,000 miles. More than 90 percent of the kids are participating. Stussi came up with the mileage club program. Kids don’t necessarily have to run the laps. “Just be healthy, be active – that’s my philosophy,” Stussi said. It’s a good way to keep her students active when she’s away. During the week, Stussi visits Idaho Hill for just a day and a half. “The mileage program proves to students that you don’t need any special equipment to stay fit,” Stussi said. And it can also be fun, she said, adding that some of the chatty girls do the “walk and talk” method. The program has had other positive effects that Stussi didn’t

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What are common signs or symptoms of depression? • Chronic feelings of tiredness • Difficulty getting to sleep, waking up often or sleeping too much • Changes in eating habits, either eating more or less than usual • Chronic aches or pain that does not go away when treated • Difficulty with memory and concentration • Uncommon bouts of feeling anxious, irritable, tearful or being “moody” • Feeling bored, hopeless, or experiencing a loss of interest in activities previously enjoyed • Thoughts of death or suicide Did you know that as we age, our bodies have less water and an increased vulnerability to the physical and mental effects of alcohol and drugs? Our physical tolerance diminishes and the risk of addiction increases. Responsible drink-

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Sixth grader Spencer Sedgwick stands beside his Bulldog paw with the stickers he’s earned for each mile he’s run during recess. Sedgwick has racked up more than 100 miles so far this school year as part of the Bulldog Mileage Challenge.

anticipate. It gives them another option at recess, she said, noting that kids who are having problems with bullying now have something better to occupy their recess time. The kids are responding well, she said, they’re always asking when they get more tokens. At the quarterly assemblies, awards are presented to the boy and girl who have walked or ran the most miles. The parentteacher organization helps fund the program. It happens to be a good complement to the grant the school received for fresh fruit and veggies this year. “Our hope here is that every student will choose a healthy lifestyle by eating right and staying active,” Stussi said.

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that it not only gives us exercise, but also clears our worries and concerns and strengthens our mother-daughter bond. Over the years we have had some really interesting experiences. We have witnessed burglaries and deer poaching. We have found out that bad guys get released from our jail around 5:30 a.m. And we have rescued all kinds of animals. But we have been privileged to experience the beginning of every day. Just this week we were listening to the birds wake up, the coyotes call to one another in the hills and watched the Canada geese call to one another as they passed overhead. We walked by the pond at the Forest Service land and listen to the frogs singing their spring song. I feel honored to be able to start my day experiencing our community at its best and getting a little exercise in the process. (And it’s kind of entertaining to know that some guys go out to get their newspapers without a stitch of clothing on!)

Work should not be damaging to our health The Healthy Newport challenge has increased my awareness of how much activity it takes to generate weight loss and how difficult it can be for people who have sedentary jobs to TESTIMONIAL get enough ALI LORAINE activity inPT NINJAS TEAM cluded into the day.

My job requires a balance of sitting, standing and walking, and I can reach over 5,000 steps per day with just a little added effort. If I want to get over 10,000 steps into a day, I have to include at least a half hour of other activity. To lose weight I would need to include an hour or more, plus cut back on my dietary intake. People who spend the bulk of their workday sitting at a computer have quite a challenge to stay fit, much less lose weight. Since the health of the employee is a benefit to the company, there is great value for our nation as a whole in practices like providing membership to a health club as a benefit of employment. I am grateful to have such a benefit! It is clear to me now, however, that more is required to improve the health of sedentary workers. Incorporating variation in job tasks, work station ergonomics, cross training for other jobs and basic postures, lifting and body mechanics education would be a good start. Other creative solutions should be pursued as well, such as work break core strengthening, stretching, or yoga, and creative seating that allows/ encourages leg movement and core stability. Work should not be damaging to our health, and with a little creativity and a lot of support like Healthy Newport provides, that can be changed.

Challenge encourages all-around health What has the team Fit Together challenge done for me? This challenge has made me

aware of a lot of little changes in my daily habits that can make a huge change in my health. I have become more active just by stepping. It was easy to come home from work and just do a few household chores and sit down for TESTIMONIAL the evening. MELISSA HANEY Stepping has TEAM WALK N ROLL encouraged me to walk after work. It is simple to take a short walk and makes me feel much better at the end of the day for doing so. It also promotes walking with my children. I ask if they want to go for a walk with me and they always say yes. So in addition to making me healthier and my kids healthier it promotes time together in a meaningful way. We talk about the day and get in our exercise at the same time. I enjoy the mystery challenges that promote wellness. It is healthy to laugh or give compliments. It’s good for both the giver and the receiver, and it is easy to do. I am more aware of saying positive things and giving a quick statement to impact another person in a positive way. The nutritional challenges are the most difficult, as my dieting habits are horrible. I don’t eat a lot during the day, and when I do I tend to eat junk food. This challenge has improved my eating habits and shopping habits. I find myself getting more veggies and being more prepared by taking them to work rather than eating without a plan. As I sit and write this, I am looking at the strawberries I brought to work with me.

Overall, this challenge has been great. I am far from perfect in any of these areas, but I am much better off than I was before the challenge. Thanks for encouraging good health.

Teammates give amazing support The Fit Together challenge has been a really great experience for me. I’ve always had a really hard time finding inspiration to get up and be active on a daily basis. At the beginning, I felt a little pressure. I thought I was going to have to lose a certain amount of weight and look a certain way after just TESTIMONIAL eight weeks. CAITLIN PITMAN As the chalTEAM JAVA JUNKIES lenge went on and with my team’s encouragement, however, I then felt that it was so much more about being aware of how much movement I could now spoil my body with. This took the pressure right off and has made the whole experience so much more fun. The nutrition challenges have been the hardest part for me. I’m such a picky eater and my palate has not stretched much since childhood, to my dismay. Again, I receive such amazing support from my teammates. With their help and others, I realize that it’s not about making a dramatic change and never eating the things you love ever again. It’s all about being aware

of how much you’re actually consuming and how filtered your body really should be. The fact is, the more water you drink, the more fruits and vegetables you eat, the more exercise you embrace, the better your body feels. The challenge has been a wonderful warm up into a better way of feeling and treating your body. I’m so happy to have taken part in it, and I really hope to continue with another group challenge or at least an individual challenge.

An ode to the Fit Together challenge Healthy Newport, Together we’re fit. Running and sport, We’ll never quit. Week one was good, Write it all down. Don’t cheat with food, Week two was more tough, Ounces for pounds. For those with more fluff, We nearly TESTIMONIAL SARA RAGSDALE drowned! TEAM HUSTLERS

Week three was all green, Veggies galore. Brussels, kale, beans, Spinach and more. Week four was a breeze, Home cooking is best. Make some and freeze, Nuke when time-pressed. Week five not so sweet. No sugar? You jest. It’s hard not to eat, A prevalent pest. Week six is my fave, A carnivore best. Protein I crave, So now I can feast. We seven? Yes eat, No Skipping a meal. So easy, a treat! Without it I’d keel. Week eight, wrapping up, Don’t drink that Coke! On home food we sup, Going for broke. Through the whole thing The steps increasing. The running some days Seems never ceasing. We joke and we jest And like to have fun. Our bodies, less stressed, Weigh less when we’re done.

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You may have seen chia sprouts growing on the novelty Chia Pets planters, but historically, the seeds have been the most important part of the plant. Chia is an edible seed that comes from the desert plant Salvia hispanica, a member of the mint family that grows abundantly in southern Mexico. In pre-Columbian times the seeds were a main component of the Aztec and Mayan diets and were the basic survival ration of Aztec warriors. I’ve read that one tablespoon was believed to sustain an individual for 24 hours. The Aztecs also used chia medicinally to stimulate saliva flow and to relieve joint pain and sore skin. Chia is very rich in omega-3 fatty acids, even more so than flax seeds. And it has another advantage over flax: chia is so rich in antioxidants Courtesy photo that the seeds don’t deteriorate and can be stored Chia seeds are tiny, hard and have a subtle nut-like flavor for long periods without becoming rancid. And, unlike flax, they do not have to be ground to make when chewed. The high omega fat content of the seeds makes them useful as a substitute for butter or eggs in baking, their nutrients available to the body. Chia seeds also provide fiber (25 grams give you 6.9 grams of which can cut down on calories. fiber) as well as calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, manganese, copper, iron, molybdenum, niacin, tec religion (Indians used the seeds as offerings in and zinc. rituals). Until recently, chia was produced by only Another advantage: when added to water and a few small growers, but commercial production allowed to sit for 30 minutes, chia forms a gel. has resumed in Latin America, and you can now Researchers suggest that this reaction also takes buy the seeds online and in health food stores. place in the stomach, slowing the process by Because of its nutritional value and stability, which digestive enzymes break chia is already being added down carbohydrates and con- Chia seeds also provide fiber (25 to a range of foods. Revert them into sugar. has shown that addgrams give you 6.9 grams of fiber) search Chia has a nutlike flavor. ing it to chicken feed makes as well as calcium, phosphorus, You can mix seeds in water for eggs rich in omega-3s. and add lime or lemon juice Feeding chia to chickens magnesium, manganese, copper, and sugar to make a drink enriches their meat with known in Mexico and Central iron, molybdenum, niacin, and zinc. omega-3s; fed to cattle America as “chia fresca.” As chia enriches milk with with ground flax seeds, you can sprinkle ground omega-3s. Chia can also be added to commercially or whole chia seeds on cereal, in yogurt or salads, prepared infant formulas, baby foods, baked goods, eat them as a snack, or grind them and mix them nutrition bars, yogurt, and other foods. Another with flour when making muffins or other baked bonus: insects don’t like the chia plant so it is goods. I find them tasty and an interesting addieasier to find organically grown varieties. I expect tion to my diet. we’ll soon be hearing much more about chia and Chia is undergoing something of a renaissance its health benefits. after centuries of neglect. It was a major crop in central Mexico between 1500 and 900 B.C. and was still cultivated well into the 16th century SANDPOINT OPTICAL A.D., but after the Spanish conquest, authorities banned it because of its close association with Az-

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24. Soak seeds in beaten eggs and use this mix to make a frittata. 25. Cook brown rice in vegetable stock and stir chia seeds through when rice is cooked. 26. Top a cheesecake with chia seeds soaked in fruit juice to make a gel topping. 27. Add whole or ground seeds to cookie mixes. 28. Mix ground seeds with ground beef to make meatballs. 29. Cook brown rice in apple juice, add grated apple and stir whole chia seeds through the mixture for a tasty dessert. 30. Toasted ground chia seeds mixed with honey and cinnamon makes a wonderful base for cheesecake. 31. Add whole seeds to granola. 32. Mix white chia seeds that have been soaked in milk through mashed potatoes. 33. Sprout the seeds and use in salads. 34. Mix ground seeds with butter or peanut butter for a nutritious spread. 35. Cinnamon, ground chia and butter is great on hot scones. 36. Add a desert spoon of black seeds to a green jelly mix for “frogs egg jelly.” 37. Spread a mixture of honey, cinnamon, dried fruit and ground chia on to filo or puff pastry sheets, roll up and bake. 38. Mix the seeds, whole or ground through Nutella. 39. Add ground seeds soaked in an egg to bind a hamburger mix. 40. Soak chia seeds in milk and mix through hot oatmeal.

SELKIRK GENERAL SURGERY

• Adult & Pediatric Eye Exams • Cataract Surgery • Full Service Optical Charles C. George, MD Bruce D. Bellin, MD

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Judy C. Fredrickson RN, LMP, NCTMB

Over 20 years local experience hearing aid fitting specialists WA/ID Licensed

(509) 671-7035 By Appointment Most Insurances Accepted

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Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back.

Eldon Kellogg Fitting Specialist NBC-HIS

Hear what you’ve been missing starting today! Did you know that 36 million American adults report some degree of hearing loss?

If you’ve noticed lately that... • you turn your television volume up higher than you used to, • you ask people to repeat themselves, or • a friend or family member has suggested a hearing test

...it may be time to speak with a hearing professional. Extractions

Please call today to make an appointment Space is limited, and we want to make sure you receive the time and attention you deserve.

151 Buena Vista Dr. Colville (509) 684-4539

Special Offers

FREE Hearing Aid Demonstration of • FREE Wireless TV Bundle with purchase of QuantumTM - picks Quantum 20 Hearing Aids up the sounds and • FREE Hearing Screening and Consultation* conversations you • 30-day FREE trial want to hear *Hearing screening is not a medical exam. Screening is to determine if you are a candidate for a hearing aid.

933 W. 3rd Ave., Ste 104 | Spokane, WA Call Corner of 3rd & Monroe | BOF Building, FREE Parking 509-835-3999 www.hearingaidspokane.com for your appointment Hearing aids do not restore natural hearing. Experiences may differ based on hearing loss and the ability to adapt to amplification.

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Congratulations to the employees of ManorCare Health Services - Spokane

For their outstanding teamwork and effort in making a difference to our patients. Your dedication is why ManorCare - Spokane was a top performer in the Company’s 2010 and 2011 Family Customer Satisfaction Survey. 2012 proves to be on track with survey results:

95% 94%

of ManorCare of Spokane patients would recommend our facility to others report overall satisfaction

2011 data collected 1st quarter 2011 by outside resource, National Research Corp. to survey our discharged patients and family members on a regular basis. National Research Corp. specialized in the collection of satisfaction information for health care organizations.

Come tour ManorCare, see our staff in action and see why your best way home is through our doors.

ManorCare Health Services - Spokane 6025 North Assembly, Spokane, WA 99205

509-326-8282 www.manorcare.com/spokane

Bringing Health and Wellness to Families at Home Since 1979

In-Home Care Services

I was tired. I hurt all the time. It felt like my health problems were telling me what I could and couldn’t do. Living Well with Chronic Condition workshops put me back in charge. Now I have the energy to do the things that matter. I’ve put life back in my life.

These services assist our clients with the daily living tasks that many find difficult to accomplish without assistance. They are designed to meet your individual needs and keep you in the comforts of your own home.

Also Available: Skilled Home Health

Meal Prep * Grocery * Shopping * Housekeeping Laundry * Bathing Assistance * Dressing Assist Medication Reminders * Transportation * Chore Exercise Routines * Mobility*Companionship… As well as many other tasks designed to meet your needs.

The following services are also available to anyone who needs skilled care such as PT, OT, RN, etc to prevent falls, hospitalizations, nursing home visits, or after a medical procedure or nursing home stay.

Available 24 hours per day 7 days per week in all 5 counties of North Idaho. Medicaid*VA*Area Agency on Aging*Insurance and Self Pay Options Available Offices in Sandpoint, Priest River, Kellogg and Coeur d’Alene Main Office: 914 W Ironwood Drive, Suite 201 Coeur d’Alene, ID 83814 Phone: 208-667-2309 Toll Free: 1-877-855-5433 Fax: 208-667-2585

Physical Therapy*Wound Care*Occupational Therapy* Speech Therapy*Bath Aides* RN’s Main Office: 914 W Ironwood Drive, Suite 202 Coeur d’Alene, ID 83814 Phone: 208-765-8016

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Tri-County area vulnerable to whooping cough outbreak COLVILLE â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Due to low immunization rates, the tri-county area of Pend Oreille, Stevens and Ferry counties is more vulnerable to a whooping cough outbreak. Whooping cough (pertussis) is a highly contagious respiratory illness spread by coughing and sneezing. It causes cold-like symptoms followed by a long and severe cough illness that can last many weeks. The cough is often followed by a â&#x20AC;&#x153;whoopingâ&#x20AC;? sound, giving the disease its common name. Fever is rare. Anyone with cold-like symptoms such as severe cough or a cough lasting longer than two weeks should see a health care provider and stay away from infants and children. Washington is on pace to reach more than 3,000 cases of whooping cough for the year, levels that havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been seen in more than six decades. So far, 1,008 cases have

been reported, but none in Pend Oreille County. Stevens County has reported two cases. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re very concerned about the risk to infants, especially because of how quickly whooping cough is spreading,â&#x20AC;? Secretary of Health Mary Selecky said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whooping cough can be life threatening for infants, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re too young to get enough doses of vaccine to be protected. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why we want everyone else to make sure theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re vaccinated against whooping cough.â&#x20AC;? Already this year 71 infants under a year old have been reported to have whooping cough. Eighteen of them have been hospitalized. No babies have died in 2012, but two babies died in 2010 and two in 2011. Many cases are being reported in school age children. The vaccine that young children get wears off over time, so all children age 11-12

HEALTH | From Page 2C

Fun aside, health & wellness can be a serious topic. The statistics for our country, state and county are scary at best. According to the County Health Rankings, we have a 31 percent adult obesity rate here in Pend Oreille County (compared to 27 percent in Washington state overall). Twenty-two percent of adults smoke (compared to 17 percent in Washington state), and 29 percent of children live in poverty (compared to an 18 percent statewide average). According to a study published in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine, obesity is the No. 1 cause of preventable death in the U.S. (ranked above smoking). A total 80 percent of adults over 25 years old are overweight and 78 percent of Americans are not meeting basic activity level recommendations. We are now eating 31 percent more calories than we were 40 years ago â&#x20AC;&#x201C; including 56 percent more fats and oils and 14 percent more sugars and sweeteners. The average American now eats 15 more pounds of sugar a year than in 1970. The prevalence of obesity in

should get a whooping cough booster shot, called Tdap. children has quadrupled over 25 years. Today, nearly one-third of all children in America are overweight and nearly 20 percent are obese. If things donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t improve, one-third of all children born in 2000 or later will suffer from diabetes at some point in their lives. Many others will face chronic obesity-related health problems such as heart disease, high blood pressure, cancer and asthma. Healthy Newport doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a magic solution for the obesity epidemic that plagues our country and our county. Nor do we have a quick fix for adult smoking or children living in poverty. But our hope is that we can make a positive difference by bringing together community partners to promote healthy activities, educate our community about the importance of health and wellness and motivate our community to make healthier choices. Health and wellness is a topic with potentially serious consequences but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something we can all do something about. Together we can make being healthy fun and we know youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re worth it. Check out our website at www. healthynewport.com and join us as we get â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fit Together!â&#x20AC;?

The Tdap vaccine is also recommended for pregnant women and women who recently gave birth. Getting vaccinated before giving birth helps prevent the mother from spreading the illness to her newborn. People who received the vaccination when they were young are typically no longer immune as adults, but donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t realize this, and can inadvertently spread the disease. For infants under 2 months, who are too young to get the vaccine, it is recommended adults and older siblings who are around the baby get the vaccine. Local vaccination providers include: â&#x20AC;˘ Camas Wellness Center, 1821 N LeClerc Road in Usk, 509-447-7111 â&#x20AC;˘ Newport Family Medicine, 714 W. Pine St. in Newport, 509-4473139 â&#x20AC;˘ Family Health Center, 714 W. Pine St. in Newport, 509-447-6398 â&#x20AC;˘ Northeast Tri-County Health District, 605 Highway 20 in Newport, 509-447-3131 â&#x20AC;˘ Selkirk Community Health Center, 208 Cedar Creek Terrace, Ione, 509-442-3514

May is Mental Health Month

Counseling staff with County Commissioners Hankey & Merrill. The t-shirts flame represents â&#x20AC;&#x153;Emerging Into the Light.â&#x20AC;? Come join the staff for May is Mental Health Month, noon walks. Challenge stigma and support the mind-body connection.

Pend Oreille County Counseling Services 105 S. Garden Ave. â&#x20AC;˘ Newport â&#x20AC;˘ 509-447-5651

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Whatever the Weather Let Us Get You Better! Safe, gentle chiropractic care for the whole family with a total wellness approach.

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We Do Pediatrics No Waiting for Appointments Accept All Insurances Including Medicare & Medicaid

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An Option for Unpaid Family Caregivers IF the individual you are caring for: â&#x20AC;˘ Is not eligible for Medicaid long term care services

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OR â&#x20AC;˘ Chooses not to receive Medicaid funded long term care services

AND you are caring for a parent, spouse, partner, other relative or friend (age 18+), you may want to consider the

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Peter Fern, MD â&#x20AC;˘ Glen Hiss, MD Linda Partoll, MD â&#x20AC;˘ Shawn Barrong, MD Jeff Hilton, MD â&#x20AC;˘ Daniel J. Zwiesler, MD Kathryn Miles, MD â&#x20AC;˘ Sarah Hammil, MD Sarah Holt, CNM â&#x20AC;˘ Shelly Northern, CNM 105 W. 8th Avenue Suite 6020 & 6025 Spokane, WA 99204

To find your local Family Caregiver Support Program, contact JoDee at Rural Resources Community Action

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Enhancing Health with Heart and Spirit Our Sandpoint facility is a 73 bed skilled nursing facility that includes two special care units. These units are gender specific and offer a comfortable living environment with staff who have additional training to care for those with dementia, Alzheinerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Traumatic Brain injury or difficult to manage behaviors. These units also have a higher staff-to-resident ratio.

We accept Medicaid, Medicare, VA and Private Insurance

VALLEY VISTA CARE has a complete Physical Therapy Department offering in-patient and out-patient services Physical â&#x20AC;˘ Occupational â&#x20AC;˘ Speech â&#x20AC;˘ Aquatic Therapy

220 S. Division Street, Sandpoint, Idaho 208-265-4514 www.valleyvista.org

Family Caregiver Support Program (FCSP). The program may be able to offer you things like: â&#x20AC;˘ Services to make your caregiving responsibilities easier â&#x20AC;˘ Problem-solving techniques â&#x20AC;˘ Training with routine care tasks for you or the person you care for â&#x20AC;˘ A break from caregiving or how to reduce your stress â&#x20AC;˘ AND other types of services to help you in caring for a friend or loved one.

Sherman-Knapp Funeral Home & Crematory

â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of the greatest gifts you can give your family is having your funeral arrangements pre-planned.â&#x20AC;?

For assistance in... â&#x20AC;˘ Pre-planning & Pre-payment Plans â&#x20AC;˘ Funerals â&#x20AC;˘ Cremations - performed locally â&#x20AC;˘ Monuments

call or stop by 423 2nd St. â&#x20AC;˘ Newport, WA â&#x20AC;˘ (509) 447-3118 www.sherman-knapp.com

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One Ministry with three campuses Serving Stevens, Ferry & Pend Oreille Counties since 1919

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Patients Receiving Treatment at Cancer Care Northwest...

Mount Carmel Hospital 982 E. Columbia Colville, WA 99114 (509) 685-5100 www.mtcarmelhospital.org

•24-hour Trauma & Emergency services, staffed by physicians, with full air support •24/7 Critical Care Unit with Pulmonary specialist, Gastroenterologist specialists, & Board Certified Nuclear Cardiologist •Advanced Diagnostic Imaging Services including Nuclear Medicine, Ultrasound, X-ray, CT Scanning, MRI, & Mammography •Complete Surgical Suite including Orthopedics specialty, Gynecology, Urologist, & Board Certified Surgeons •Endoscopy center

•Labor & Delivery Center •Swing bed extended & transitional care •Outpatient Day Surgery Center with outpatient IV Therapy •Non-Invasive Cardiovascular Services •Physical, Speech, & Occupational Therapy Rehabilitative Services •24/7 Laboratory & reference lab support •Pharmacy •Full range of Respiratory Care services including breathing treatments, pulmonary function testing, & ventilator care •Dietary Inpatient & Outpatient Consultation by on site Registered Dietitian

St. Joseph’s Hospital E. 500 Webster, PO Box 197 Chewelah, WA 99109 (509) 935-8211 www.sjhospital.org •24 Hour Trauma & Emergency Service, staffed by physicians and mid-level providers, with full air support •Surgery – General & Same Day to include Gynecology, Laparoscopy, Orthopedic & Anesthesia •Endoscopy, Urology & Ophthalmic Procedures •Diagnostic Imaging Services to include Radiology, High Speed CT scan, Mammography, Ultrasound, Cardiac, & MRI •Skilled Nursing & swing beds •Labor & Delivery Services •Laboratory & reference lab support

•Pharmacy •Physical, Speech, & Occupational Therapy to include Short Term Rehabilitation & Wound Care •Respiratory Services to include, breathing treatments & pulmonary function testing •Dietary Inpatient & Outpatient Consultation by on site Registered Dietician •Certified Diabetic Educator Services •Consultation Services with on site visiting physicians Cardiology, Gastroenterology, Orthopedics, Ophthalmology, Podiatry, Teleradiology & Urology

Can now receive limited chemotherapy & physician follow-up in our Outreach Clinic at Newport Hospital

FIRST Thursday of Each Month. If you are interested in setting an appointment in Newport please contact a scheduler at:

(509) 228-1200 P.O.Box Box1070 903 • Chewelah, WA 99109 •(509) 935-4925 P.O.

Serving the frail and elderly in the tri-county area for 25 years! Contact us when you or your loved one needs in-home care.

As People of Providence, we reveal God’s love for all, especially the poor and vulnerable, through our compassionate service.

Serving you from clinics in South Spokane North Spokane Spokane Valley Downtown Spokane and 7 outreach clinics including Newport www.cancercarenorthwest.com Like us on Facebook

New to the Family at DPFCC

We are here to serve you.

Walk-ins Welcome! NEW Hours for your convenience

7 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday-Friday Appointments Call:

(509) 276-5005 or (866) 729-8505 905 E “D” St. • Deer Park www.dpfcc.com

Dr. Jon Wilson

Pediatrics, Preventative Care & Osteopathic Manipulative Therapy (OMT).

We accept all health insurance programs including Medicare and Medicaid and cash. Sliding cash fee schedule.

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See us on Facebook.com/bfoldtown 201 East 4th St. North, Oldtown, ID 208-437-4822 Mon - Sat 8-7 • Sun 10-6

All your makeup name brands at affordable prices

OUR URGENT CARE PROVIDES convenient, economical care for conditions that can’t wait until your next medical appointment.

The Urgent Care Clinic is available to everyone. All insurance types are accepted as well as those without medical insurance on a cash basis. Our Urgent Care provides quality care without the high cost of Emergency Room billing.

Open Daily 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. www.dpurgentcare.com • 702 South Park, Deer Park

509-262-9000