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Wednesday, June 5, 2019
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Volume 117, Number 19 | 2 Sections, 20 Pages $1.00
Planning commissioner seeks protection By Don Gronning Of the Miner
NEWPORT – It’s not very often that Spokane District Court Commissioner Eric J. Dooyema has to handle an anti harassment case protection order case involving attorneys. “Normally we don’t have attorneys on both sides,” Dooyema said when he heard the case in Pend Oreille County District Court Tuesday, May 28. Of the 400-500 protection order cases he’s See Anti-harassment, 2A Miner photo|Sophia Aldous
Taking time to remember
Glen Nenema is Junior Achievement laureate of the year
Teryn Hanes holds the hand of Sheri Flores, mother of his friend and classmate Garrett Fox, at the graduation ceremony for Priest River Lamina High School Class of 2019 Saturday, June 1. Garrett passed away in 2015 due to complications from muscular dystrophy. Also pictured is West Bonner County School Board trustees Drew McLain and Margaret Hall. See more photos of Spartan graduation in this week’s Booster section.
Small fires pop up around valley By Sophia Aldous Of The Miner
PRIEST RIVER – Fire season seems like it’s getting an early start this year, with a brush fire reported Monday, June 3 off of Hoop Loop Road in Priest River, plus two fires that started the same day Friday, May 31 in north Pend Oreille County. Fortunately, none of the fires have done major damage. According to Sharla Alredge, Pubic Information Officer for the Idaho Department of Lands (IDL) Pend
Oreille Forest Protection District, Monday’s fire was contained to half an acre after IDL and West Pend Oreille Fire District crews responded to the scene around 4:30 p.m. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. “It’s currently in mop up and we have a fire truck and four firefighters out there now,” Alredge said Tuesday afternoon. Of the wildfires IDL responded to around the state in 2018, 80-percent were human-caused, Alredge added.
CUSICK – “He’s so humble; he’s not going to like this, but he deserves the recognition.” So said Jackie Nenema Wright, Regional Director of the Eastern Washington/Northern Idaho region of Junior Achievement of Washington
On Saturday, June 1 Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) sent a helicopter to do a water bucket drop on a fire caused by a lightning strike near Flume Creek in North Pend Oreille County. “The lightning hit only one tree, so luckily it was very small and we were able to contain it where it was,” said Jill Jones, Dispatch Coordinator from DNR’s Colville office. A U.S. Forest Service fire crew See fires, 2A
(JA), about Kalispel Tribe of Indians CEO and Chairman, Glen Nenema. Nenema was recently named Junior Achievement Laureate of the year on Thursday evening, May 23, when JA hosted its 19th annual Business Hall of Fame at the Historic Davenport Hotel. The signature event celebrates prominent business See nenema, 10A
You have to start somewhere, history of House of the Lord By Rick Alkire For The Miner
OLDTOWN – There are several reasons to start a church and there is more than one way to do so. Whatever reason is chosen, it takes a great deal of patience and faith to keep going even through hard times. The House of the Lord in Oldtown is a story of a small group of people who decided one day to start a new congregation. “House of the Lord made being a Believer very simple. Come as you are,” said Cindy Dockins, one of the early church goers. “There was a great deal of honest energy – shoes were optional.” The church body was multigenerational, she said, although families were on the younger
side, so the children were very important back when the church was starting in the early ‘70s. Not every church start is successful but the evidence is visible every time you drive by the church building located at 754 Birch Lane. A large, vibrant congregation has emerged from what started out as a small Bible study held inside a house in Furport. Gil Reno started the study in 1972. He turned it over to Ken and Sami Arthur one year later. During the next two years the group grew to between 30 and 40 people. In 1974, the church was established. The home of Howard and Beverly Hundley was used to handle the larger group. The Courtesy photos|House of the Lord
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This is the group that started the House of the Lord church.
B r i e f ly Rodeo parade goes back to traditional route NEWPORT – Mayor Shirley Sands told the Newport City Council at its regular meeting Monday night that the rodeo parade will be returning to its original route. The parade had been detoured last year while crews worked on the Highway 41 bridge.
Priest River moves towards better streets PRIEST RIVER – Paved streets are getting closer to becoming a reality all over Priest River after city council
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approved $86,935 for a seal coat project at the general council meeting Monday, June 3. The bid went to Road Products Inc. of Spokane Valley and includes funds for a double application of chip sealing and choke covers to several city roadways adjacent to Highway 57. A fog seal will also be done around Third and Fourth Street. The city is also partnering with Bonner County to spend $4,410 each on east Settlement Road and Anselmo Lane.
High school graduations on the horizon NEWPORT – Graduation ceremonies are this weekend
at Newport and Selkirk high schools. Senior Grizzlies will tip their grad caps in farewell to high school Saturday, June 8, from noon to 2 p.m. in the NHS gymnasium. The Rangers will have their commencement ceremony the same day at 1 p.m. in the SHS gym. Senior graduation for House of The Lord Christian Academy in Oldtown is Friday, June 7 at 6:30 p.m. Newport School District’s alternative school program, the Pend Oreille River School, will hold its gradation ceremony Monday, June 10 at 6 p.m. at NHS. Cusick High School (CHS) seniors will celebrate their graduation Saturday, June 15, 10 a.m. in the CHS gym.
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Congratulations Graduates! Newport, Selkirk, House of the Lord Graduate this week