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Forest project will set precedent Work could start soon; second shift at Usk mill could follow

By Fred Willenbrock Correspondent

COLVILLE – With more than two years of studies, reports and public comment behind them, the managers of the Colville National Forest made the decision this week to proceed with an unprecedented project. The massive forest health restoration will include logging but also road removal and stream rehabilitation.

The first phase of what is being called the A to Z project will involve 17,875 acres with a second phase soon to follow. Both projects will span a 10year period in a 54,000-acre area on the northeast side of the Three Rivers Ranger District near Colville. There is 30-50 million board feet of small saw logs and non-saw material to harvest. Volume will be offered as task orders as they are ready for treatment. Price will be negotiated with the contractor based on appraised rates at the time of the task order release.

This marks the first time that a private contractor – Vaagen Brothers Lumber – was awarded a contract that called for them to pay for an independent company to do all the environmental assessment (EA) work without guaranteed returns. The sole advantage is that they will not have to bid on each phase. The cost of the EA was originally estimated at $1 million but company officials said they have spent more $2 million.

Forest Supervisor Rodney Smolden delayed his decision to go forward on the project several times

Miner photo|Sophia Aldous

A proud day Taylor Belton and her mother, Janelle Belton, embrace during Newport High School’s graduation ceremony for the class of 2016 Saturday. At one point during the event, seniors gave a rose to someone in the crowd they felt was a positive influence on their lives. For more graduation photos from area high schools, see page 7A.

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PUD approves rate increase

By Sophia Aldous Of The Miner

NEWPORT – Residential PUD customers in Pend Oreille County will see their rates increase by $5 per month after commissioners approved a rate increase Tuesday, June 7.

Per staff recommendations presented at a public hearing on May 17, PUD commissioners agreed to the increase, which is designed to bolster some of the PUD’s fixed cost for infrastructure, as well as to cushion financial reserves used after windstorms the last two years. PUD officials anticipate it will take two and a half or three years to rebuild the reserves.

With the increase, the monthly charge for basic service rises from

Commissioners to decide whether or not pot should be put to a vote

$24.50 to $29.50. The charge for electricity will rise to $0.0508 per kilowatt hour.

PUD staff also proposed a low-income discount for senior citizens. Customers 62 and older with a gross household income less than $25,000 annually would be eligible for a $5 a month discount on their electric bill.

According to PUD Treasurer Sarah Holderman, the PUD plans to work with Rural Resources to determine eligibility.

Staff is recommending a $5 a month increase to the basic charge that applies to all customers regardless of how much electricity they use. There is an automatic increase of $0.0007 per kilowatt hour – about $1.40 a month for an aver-

By Sophia Aldous Of The Miner

NEWPORT – It looks like Pend Oreille County residents might be seeing the issue of retail marijuana on the ballot this November. At the Pend Oreille County Planning Commission Workshop May 24, the commission formalized a recommendation to county commissioners on the issue of retail sales of marijuana in the unincorporated areas of Pend Oreille County.

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The recommendation was unanimous and is as follows: Extend the current Moratorium to put this issue to an advisory vote on the general election in November.

“Depending on what commissioners decide will depend on the specific details we write up concerning this issue,” says Pend Oreille County Community Development Director Mike Lithgow.

If voters would like to see retail sales of marijuana in the unincorporated areas

of Pend Oreille County, the planning commission recommended the county develop a regulation that specifically regulates retail sales of marijuana. If Pend Oreille County voters are against retail sales of marijuana in the unincorporated areas of Pend Oreille County, the planning commission recommends the commissioners ban the retail sale of marijuana in the unincorporated areas of Pend Oreille County.

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B r i e f ly Trump, Sanders carry county NEWPORT - Bernie Sanders got the most Democratic votes and Donald Trump got the most Republican votes in the Pend Oreille County presidential preference primary May 24. Sanders outpolled Clinton 771-663. Trump got 1,997 votes, Ted Cruz got 236 votes, John Kasich got 114, and Ben Carson got 103 votes.

The election had a turnout of 45.65 percent and was certified June 7.

The election didn’t mean a lot, since all but Trump had dropped out of the GOP race and Democrats will award delegates based on the caucus results, which Sanders

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won. Since the Democrats award delegates in a proportional system, both Clinton and Sanders will get delegates.

Cake, ice cream at Blanchard Grange BLANCHARD – The Blanchard Grange is holding an ice cream social and cake auction Saturday, June 11, at 2 p.m.

Enjoy a free ice cream bar and bid on homemade cakes.

Funds raised will go toward the remodeling of the grange.

Anyone interested in bringing a homemade cake is encouraged to do so.

The grange is located at 36 Mason Ave., Blanchard.

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Spartan Commercial Building coming PRIEST RIVER - A storage complex and office, a fitness center, and a salon are some of the uses planned for new construction being built off Highway 2, near Napa Auto on the city’s west side.

Shane Douglas owns the property, according to the Priest River building permit.

The 5,600 square foot building is being constructed on two parcels that were annexed into the city in late March.

The new construction is valued at $136,240, according to the building permit.

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By Don Gronning Of The Miner

DIAMOND LAKE – Dan Rogers is calling on his cell phone, waiting to go to the boat yard to get a propeller.

He had been up at Priest Lake testing his boat in rough water.

“If you’re the only one out on the lake, you know why,” he says. He ended up having the propeller fall off, scuttling another planned messabout.

A messabout, he explained, is a gathering of boat aficionados who get together to mess about with their boats. The term comes from the children’s book “The Wind in the Willows,” by Kenneth Grahame.

In the story, Mole and Rat are rowing up a canal when Rat says “Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats …”

That pretty well captures Rogers’ affection for boats. The 69-year-old retired Navy man acquires old boats and restores them, writing about it for the Duckworks magazine website (www.duckworksmagazine.com).

Rogers has an engaging writing style. He wrote about rebuilding a little tug boat that he took to Priest Lake.

His readers needed a little history lesson, he figured, about what it was like back in the day.

“Back when the girls in the Glen-L catalog were not yet grandmothers.

Back when a kid could

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ABOVE: Little “Shenanigan” is shown here on a beach camping trip to Priest Lake.

She was converted from a 1957 Glaspar Lido hull the fall of 2012, and has traveled to small boat events as far away as Oklahoma.

Miner photo|Don Gronning

RIGHT: Dan Rogers on land with “The Elizabeth,” one of his restored boats. Rogers tows his restored boats to lakes throughout the country.

build a canoe or kayak or small sailboat from plans ordered with a small coupon clipped from the back pages of Boys’ Life.

Back when Popular Mechanics’ monthly offering almost always featured a

build-in-your-backyard hydroplane article side by side with stories on the latest advances in flying

automobiles. Back then, when Eisenhower was still president, and Nixon wasn’t yet a crook. Sure,

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PROJECT: Forester received official approval Monday From Page 1

in order to address the concerns registered by individuals and environmental groups during the comment process. He chose a modified Alternative B for the North Fork Mill Creek A to Z part of the project and sent it to the regional forester for approval.

On Monday, Smolden received official approval on this part of the project from Jim Pena, Regional Forester, according to Franklin Pemberton, Colville National Forest public information officer.

Smolden said several weeks ago that Forest Service crews had been preparing a site for work, including logging, in anticipation of the decision. The last hurdles before boots and equipment hit the ground will be negotiating a stumpage price with Vaagen.

Opposition groups could try to stop the project with a court injunction.

Those submitting objections during the comment periods the past two years were: Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Helena, Mont.;

Barry Rosenberg, Priest Lake, former regional environmental group leader; Sierra Club Upper Columbia River Group, Spokane; Native Forest Council, Eugene, Ore.; Friends of the Clearwater and American Forest Resource Council, Moscow, Idaho.

Rosenberg has been involved with environmental groups, as a director and member, in the region for 30 years. He said Monday, when contacted at his Priest Lake home, that he has not seen the decision and doesn’t know if legal action is planned.

Michael Garrity of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, also said Monday that his group hadn’t discussed legal action. They hadn’t retained an attorney to review the Forest Service action to see if they had a case. They have about 2,500 members from throughout the United States, including some from northeast Washington. They hadn’t recently requested an injunction to stop a timber sale, he said.

Rosenberg said he thought at least one of the other environmental groups that filed objections

to A to Z had recently been successful getting court ordered injunctions to stop timber sales.

He said “the heart of the argument” is that this is a very large area and large timber sale with “significant impacts.” Rosenberg said he doesn’t think the work by Cramer Fish Sciences has adequately addressed this nor is there a plan to monitor the impacts on the environment when underway.

“We have shown lots of patience and perseverance,” said Duane Vaagen, president of Vaagen Bros.

Lumber. “We want the objectors to even be proud of this when done.”

He said they are committed to making this new way of doing business work to sustain a timber supply for industry but also to improve the forest health.

He said he believes this unique concept could be the last chance to accomplish both in this forest. It’s a win for all sides, he said.

The EA has concluded that several forest restoration activities must be performed by Vaagen.

These task orders will

include commercial and pre commercial thinning, regeneration harvests, mechanical fuels reduction, tree planting, prescribed fire treatment, treatment of noxious weeds and road maintenance.

“Others want to stall,” Vaagen said.

He said he believes some environmental groups are afraid this concept will succeed and don’t want any work done in the forests. This is the last third of the public forests not controlled by environmentalists and they want it too.

The objections have centered on the differences in opinion over what is the best science for managing and improving forest health. The Forest Service and Cramer Fish Sciences, the contractor for the environmental analysis, have taken what they believe is the best science to develop the prescriptions for improving the forest health in this area, according to their responses to the objections.

Both sides generally agree that the highly visible Mill Creek area has been mismanaged for

decades.

A local collaborative group called the Northeast Washington Forestry Coalition (NEWFC) that includes timber industry members, community leaders, recreation groups and environmental groups, has agreed with the EA and the forest restoration plans with some modifications.

Mike Peterson, executive director of The Lands Council, is a member of NEWFC. He has publicly said this is a project worth trying but watching closely.

Other environmentalists who did not participate in the collaboration effort of NEWFC don’t like parts or all of the plan. They chose not to participate in the collaboration process involving NEWFC. Environmentalists like Rosenberg disagree with specific parts of the plan that they believe fail to consider cumulative effects from past, present and future activities. They also believe that an environmental impact statement is needed. They disagree See PROJECT, 10A

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The celebration of Lawrence ‘Larry’ Sherman’s

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life will be June 11, 11:00am at the Newport First Baptist Church.

Join with us in sharing memories and stories from his 90 years of life.

This male sapsucker is working on a mountain ash in Newport. In the lower photo, the male green-wing teal was in Calispell Creek, at the bridge above the lake.

Davis sentenced for theft, meth possession Old Goat Jr. Golf

By Don Gronning Of The Miner

NEWPORT – Ricky G. Davis, 54, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess methamphetamine and third degree theft in Pend Oreille County Superior Court Thursday, May 26.

Prosecuting attorney Lori Smith said she felt the reduced conspiracy to posses charge was more appropriate for the residue amount of meth found in the ink pen Davis had. She said she didn’t see many such cases. She recommended a four-month sentence on the meth charge and 364 days in jail with all but 10 days suspended for the third degree theft charge, which was for

stealing light bulbs from a store.

Defense attorney Brett Billingsley said that there might have been some diminished capacity, although he acknowledged voluntary intoxication meant it wasn’t a defense. He said he and Davis added a chemical evaluation as a sentencing condition. He said the crime was a connected string of events complicated by Davis’ pain.

Davis has neck problems and eye sensitivity, he said.

David told the court he had no idea of what happened after he appeared in court the day of the crime.

Pend Oreille County Superior Court Judge Pat Monasmith was

skeptical.

“Your credibility is suspect after a quarter century of crime,” he said. Davis acknowledged that and said he did quite a bit of prison time on previous drug charges.

Monasmith said he was hearing it was sort of glorified shoplifting that would normally have been resolved as a misdemeanor, except for Davis’ extensive criminal record.

He sentenced Davis to 364 days in jail, with 244 suspended, leaving 120 days on each of the charges, with the sentences to be served concurrently. He also imposed $800 in legal financial obligations.

Dry weather prompts increase in fire danger rating OLYMPIA – With warming temperatures and erratic behavior of early-season wildfires, the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced last week it would increase fire danger ratings and burn restrictions on lands it protects in Eastern Washington.

Those with burn permits must check for additional restrictions from

the increased fire danger ratings.

As of Friday, June 3, the fire danger rating increased from low to moderate in Spokane, Okanogan and northern Lincoln counties.

Also in Stevens County in Fire District Nos. 1 and 2.

Fire danger in Pend Oreille and Ferry counties, and in Stevens County outside Fire District Nos. 1 and 2,

remains low.

Rule burning is now prohibited on DNRprotected lands where the danger level increased to moderate, but permit burning and campfires in designated campgrounds are still allowed.

Rule burning, campfires and permit burns are still allowed in Pend Oreille and other areas where danger remains low.

Daily updates on burn restrictions are available at 1-800-323-BURN or on DNR’s website at www.dnr.wa.gov/OutdoorBurning.

Property owners can reduce fire risk to their homes and lands by keeping dead vegetation off roofs and away from buildings. Keeping trees and bushes near buildings healthy and trimmed can also reduce risk.

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Give A to Z forest project a chance

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he A to Z forest health restoration project on the Colville National Forest is an unprecedented attempt to alleviate the financial strain on the U.S. Forest Service and its inability to properly manage these forests. This week should be a time to celebrate a positive change in forest management because the Regional Forester gave the green light to the project after two years of analysis. Nobody is celebrating yet.

Everyone involved in the collaboration to reach this point is holding their breaths waiting to see if environmental groups challenge it in court to further delay boots on the ground. It’s important that the project not be delayed any longer or bogged down with litigation.

It’s time to try something new before everyone loses the national forests around us.

The forests of the West are a mess. Last year was the worst forest fire season in Washington state’s history, including a fire right here in Pend Oreille and Bonner counties. Disease and insect infestations are rampant.

Not much is being done to fix the problem.

Our region depends on resource-based jobs, and our timber industry has a vested interest in keeping our forests healthy.

Vaagen Brothers Lumber is the first contractor to manage the project from “A” to “Z.” This is the first time ever that a private contractor is willing to pay for all environmental assessment work – provided by an independent company – without any guarantee on returns.

The project has undergone unmatched scrutiny. The environmental assessment was first estimated to cost Vaagens $1 million. The price tag is now more than $2 million. Any litigation costs would be paid for by the U.S. Forest Service, i.e. taxpayer money, i.e. by you and me. It would also delay the forest health improvement work that is part of the A to Z project in the Mill Creek area near Colville.

Forest Supervisor Rodney Smolden postponed approval of the project several times to address concerns by individuals and environmental groups during the comment process. He did his due diligence. The collaborative group that guided the proposal included environmentalists and timber industry representatives.

This project also has economic development promise.

Vaagens has cut back operations at its Usk Mill. Some workers were moved to Colville operations and some lost their jobs. Allowing Vaagens to harvest timber while improving forest health could bring jobs back.

Don’t waste time and money on litigation. We need to see if this works; the forests need rehabilitation and the Forest Service can’t do it.

The A to Z project is win-win for both the environment and the economy, something we can all get behind. The nation could become proud of their national forests again.

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The shift of thrift You’ve probably heard countless bloggers and fashion aficionados promulgate how searching for that perfect piece of vintage goodness is like a sportsman on the hunt. The thrill of the pursuit (in this case, digging through bins and racks of unremarkable clothes) until you come across that article of clothing that seems to emanate that “I’m for you” aura like I imagine an eight point buck does for a patient hunter. It’s an overused metaphor, but an apt one.

An endearment for gently used odds and ends, specifically garments, started young for me. Like so many who decide to make rural communities their home, my parents were by no means rich, but our temporal needs were met and then some. My dad worked at the county landfill and was continuously bringing home treasures that someone else had considered junk: brand new rugs, still rolled up, a toaster from the 1950s that continued to work into my pre-teen years, a whole set of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle action figures that delighted my brother and I, even rose bushes.

The idea of bringing new life to something someone else had cast away never occurred to me as a S o p h i E ’ s philosophy to embody the rest of my life when I was a kid; instead I C HOI C E came to look at it with the interest of Sophia spying half of an uneaten, delectablealdous looking entrée and questioning, “Are you going to eat the rest of that?”

Style wasn’t something I didn’t even consider until peer scrutiny in junior high. Somewhere in the family archives there exists a photo of me in polka dot pants and the 3D, multi-colored squirrel and acorn sweater (no kidding) my grandparents bestowed on me for my 10th birthday. I rocked that ensemble with all the conviction of someone who has no idea what color blocking is, much less being interested in how it relates to personal outfits.

However, like most of us, my ideas concerning individual élan have changed over the years, and thrifting fulfills that passion and coincides with my personal ethics. Not to sound stodgy about something seemingly so trivial as purchasing a top or a set of placemats, but I feel better knowing that my dollars are going to support a local business and/or charitable programs those businesses sometimes support.

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yo u r o p i n i o n ‘Coordination’ in our best interest To editor: I enjoyed reading Dwight C. Opp’s commentary concerning the Natural Resource Plan proposed by the county commission. Mr. Opp has correctly pointed out that there are more uses for the Federal lands within the county than the single-use roadless and wilderness designations that have been thrust upon the local citizens of this region by outside elitists.

In past years I had attended and participated in U.S. Forest Service “planning workshops” that were in reality rigged sessions totally controlled by outside environmental groups and their sympathetic upper-management USFS employees who were hell-bent on closing off most, if not all, of our public lands to motorized access, free range camping, logging, and mining.

I fear that the same one-sided determination of the use of our public lands is being thrust upon our county again by the federal government with the current USFS planning now underway.

What else can I conclude when I see the USFS repetition of using radical and prejudicial environmental groups to control the very public meetings and workshops that “we the local people” are financially affected by.

People need to realize that such “mediators” as the Udall Foundation’s “Conflict Resolution Mediation” and the current “meeting facilitator” Susan Hayman (who uses “shayman@enviroissues. com) are heavily leaning toward the environmental groups. They are obvi-

ously not representing the best economic interests of the local working class majority and the extractive industries that provide the local jobs.

Another red flag that should be obvious to concerned citizens is the repeated use of meeting places held in locations that are owned or controlled by certain stakeholders who are against the extractive industries that had provided good paying jobs in the past.

Presently, it seems that the county commissioners’ proposed “Coordination” with the federal agencies concerning the usage of our public lands within our county is in our best interest.

-Jim Cowan Newport

Economy and environment dependent on each other To the editor: I’ve recently participated in your weekly poll, but I was appalled at the poll to vote on last week that will be published in this issue. It is a false dichotomy, good for sensationalism and political rhetoric – and shame on you for setting a poor example for our budding journalists – but useless to being informative to the public or our elected officials.

The anthropological record, let alone current events, are clear that a healthy and vibrant economy is as dependent on a healthy and vibrant environment as is a healthy and vibrant environment is dependent on a healthy and vibrant economy. You cannot have one without the other.

Societies that overextended their environmental constraints,

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

Steve McCurry, a Magnum photographer and contributor to National Geographic magazine, admitted recently to using the image editing software Photoshop in a selection of his images, crossing what many consider the ethical red line of photojournalism.

breaking its resiliency, have been doomed through millennia to collapse. Mass starvation usually ensued and the surviving population remained impoverished, usually malnourished, at a lower level of technology and culturally bereft.

The ghost towns that dot our western landscape are testament to this phenomenon from our western expansion phase. They had the luxury of picking up stakes and moving on, we do not. Even in this county a hundred years ago, Dalkena was the largest community, with a large lumber mill and ferry crossing, and even vied to be the county seat. Now it is a small community.

Forest Service land was never intended to be a preserve, but rather a reserve of valuable resources to be extracted at a sustainable rate, supporting local communities, without operating at the expense of clean and abundant water and fish and wildlife habitat. If we cannot conduct our business with these values, then our souls are surely impoverished and our community is doomed to collapse.

-Lynnette A. Johnson Newport

Soldiers are dying to protect investments of the rich To the editor: Last week The Miner covered the local Memorial Day commemoration. We did the same in Spokane for our parents’ and grandparents’ graves. One grandfather was a veteran of World War I and the father was a veteran of World War II and the D-Day invasion of June 6, 1944.

We honor both the

veterans killed in action and the survivors of the horrors of war who have passed on. At the same time that we honor those people, we continue to send our military into harm’s way for very suspect reasons.

The average American citizen takes no risk or sacrifice. We don’t even pay for the wars as the government does war on monetary credit and debt. We listen to politicians who invoke war just to get votes. We cheer and shout USA, USA, USA, but do absolutely nothing to back up our chest pounding nationalism.

We should be a nation of ashamed citizens.

Some citizens even put on revolutionary war costumes and march with signs saying we must prevent the government from being a government. “Don’t Tread on Me” takes on a different meaning of total opposition to the government the veterans served and died to defend. We are angry, but risk nothing compared to our soldiers.

An American soldier who has been deployed to Iraq four or five times has a right to be angry.

We do not. Our soldiers are not fighting invading armies, but being deployed for economic interests of multi-national corporations. Our soldiers are wounded and die protecting the investments of rich people. Our freedom doesn’t depend on a soldier being killed in a foreign land that doesn’t even have Americans to defend or protect.

National defense doesn’t require never ending pre-emptive military conflicts. Peace is the best memorial we can give to veterans.

-Pete Scobby Newport

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With hot weather here, firefighting volunteers are needed

By Bon Wakabayashi

NEWPORT – Imagine looking out your window to discover your barn is on fire, or realize your neighbor’s slash fire has ignited a wildland fire and is heading your way.

These are recent terrifying events in our area.

Now imagine the relief you feel when you hear the wail of sirens, and know that help has arrived – competent, professional and dedicated. Once the situation is under control and the firefighters start removing their gear you are surprised to recognize your neighbor, your pastor, or your former student. We choose to live in this rural area for many reasons, close to nature, the quiet, the beauty. A downside is the lack of paid emergency personnel. Our firefighters and EMT’s (Emergency Medical Technicians) are volunteers, adhering to the code of neighbors helping neighbors. Volunteers are a diverse group, both men and women, college students, working professionals and retirees.

Besides wildland and

structure fires, many emergency calls are medical situations, frequently elderly people living alone.

Auto accidents require both EMT’s and firefighters to extricate people from vehicles, assess potential injuries and fire concerns and provide traffic control.

Personnel are also trained in ice rescue.

Volunteer training is rigorous and difficult, rigorous because firefighters must be skilled, difficult because they need to be safe.

Fire academy is held yearly, on weekends and week nights, while drills are held regularly in the evening to maintain skills. According to Mike Nokes, Fire Chief of South Pend Oreille Fire and Rescue, “We were very fortunate last year not to have a large wildland fire in our fire district, but most predictions are that we will have another busy fire season, and resources are limited.”

In order for our community to be safe, committed volunteer firefighters and EMT’s are needed now. If you are willing to become a member of a skilled

team providing necessary, sometimes difficult service,

Meet our May

No Cavity Club Winner

Fashion Show at the 2016 Health and Fitness Expo in Spokane, so I was allowed a peek into the effort and care that is put forth by employees and volunteers into helping their respective communities through the encouragement of thrifting. Granted, we aren’t our clothes, and while you can’t properly judge a book by its cover, how we choose to present ourselves to the world says something about us, whether we admit it or not (the message isn’t always interpreted how we originally intend-

ed, but that’s life).

According to the Council for Textile Recycling, Americans recycle or donate only 15 percent of their used clothing, and the rest – about 10.5 million tons a year – goes into landfills, giving fabric (including shoes) one of the more pitiable recycling rates of any reusable material. Not patting myself on the back too enthusiastically, but it does make me feel better knowing I’m doing my own small bit to keep perfectly good textiles out of the garbage bin (and looking fabulous doing it, dahling!).

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Free books at Autumns Loft PRIEST LAKE – Children in the Priest Lake community can pick up a free book at Autumns Loft Sunday, June 11, at 2 p.m., part of the “Stop the Summer Slide” program by the Children’s Reading Foundation.

Snacks and lemonade will be served while volunteers read aloud in the garden.

Jenny Eggers from Kiva Therapeutics organizes local businesses to distribute the free books available to the Priest Lake and surrounding communities.

This year 3,000 books were given to the Priest Lake area to pass out, encouraging summer reading.

Baby board books and grade school chapter books will be handed out.

The program is intended to help families, caregivers, and children make reading aloud part of their daily summer routines. The Read Up summer literacy program aims to reverse the “summer slide,” a situation where students lose up to three months of reading skills when school is out.

The program is funded by the Regina D. Weiss Literacy Legacy and a new two-year, $3.78 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education through the Innovative Approaches to Literacy Program.

New public defender for Pend Oreille County NEWPORT – Jason Couey, 45, is the conflict public defender for Pend Oreille County, defending people who can’t be represented by the county’s other three public defendCouey ers because of various

conflicts of interest.

He is a 2002 Gonzaga law school graduate who has a solo practice in Spokane. He and longtime county public defender Robin McCroskey have known each other for some time.

He credits her with urging him to go to law school.

Online transit trip planner now available for Northeast Washington COLVILLE – The Tri-County Economic Development District (TEDD) is making public transportation routes and schedules available on the Google Trip Planner.

Residents of Northeast Washington can now use an online trip planner to find public bus services in the region. Using the trip planner, which can be found at google.com/ transit, travelers simply

enter starting and ending locations for their trip. If

TEDD coordinates transportation services across the region. public bus services are available, the trip plan-

ner will display schedule times and route information.

TEDD also coordinates other transportation services across the region for those who need a lift.

Options include dial-aride, transportation for veterans, and volunteer driver networks. Call TEDD’s Regional Mobility Coordinator at 800-7767318 for more information.

o b i t u a r i es Michael Louis Wohld Oregon City, Ore.

Michael Louis Wohld, 78, lovingly known as “Papa,” passed away peacefully with his family by his side, in his Oregon City, Ore., home, on Dec. 16, 2015.

Michael was born in Newport, March 5, 1937, to Paul and Beatrice Wohld, of Elk. He graduated in the class of 1955, from Newport High School. He participated in football, basketball, track & field and the boxing team, F.F.A., debate team, and served as Vice President and President on the Student Council. He then went on to attend Washington State University and graduated with a Bachelors in Agriculture Economics and a minor in journalism.

He retired after 30 years as an agriculture journalist/editor for the NW Farmers Stockton. He loved traveling the Northwest, visiting farms and writing about their successes.

He is preceded in death by his sister, Barbara Evans Hanson and his parents, Paul and Beatrice Wohld. He is survived by his only daughter, Tami Staley, Oregon City; sister, Susan Wohld, Tigard, Ore.; nephews Jeff Hanson, Lansdowne, Pa., and Mike Hanson, Spokane; grandsons, Joshua Widmer and David

Staley and great-granddaughter Caliyah Widmer, as well as his loving extended family and dear friends from Oregon to Pennslyvania.

Michael loved to take long walks throughout Oregon City, admiring the beauty of nature and the changing of the seasons. He also loved listening to football and baseball on his radio, as well as attending the local ballparks to watch his grandsons play baseball. He always enjoyed spending time with his loving family and friends.

Michael loved growing up on the family farm in the Camden/Elk area.

He joined the Camden Grange No. 67 more than 64 years ago, when he was 14 years old. The Camden Grange in Elk, is graciously hosting a memorial service and refreshments, Wednesday, June 15, at 2 p.m.

Michael will be interned alongside his parents at Fairmount Memorial Park, in Spokane, during a private family service Tuesday June 14. The family would love to have you share your memories and condolences at 503-575-5185.

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Cusick grads receive scholarships CUSICK – Graduating seniors at Cusick High School were honored during a ceremony Tuesday, May 31. The following awards and scholarships were given out: American Legion Scholarship: $1,000 - Kaleigh Driver Nancy Conrady Scholarship: $1,000 - Tyson Shanholtzer Cusick Dollars for Scholars: $1,500 – Kaleigh Driver, $ 2,000 – Tyson Shanholtzer Calispel Grange: $300 - Kaleigh Driver, $300 – Tyson Shanholtzer Rodney Miller Scholarship: $750 - Tyson Shanholtzer Washington Public Ports Association: $1,500 - Kaleigh Driver Davis Lake Grange:

$200 - Tyson Shanholtzer Newport Priest River Rotary Club: $1,000 Tiffany Yarber, $1,000 - Tyson Shanholtzer Masonic Lodge: $1,000 - Tyson Shanholtzer Usk Community Club: $300 - Kaleigh Driver, $300 - Tiffany Yarber Ponderay Newsprint Employees Association: $500 - Tiffany Yarber, $500 - Tyson Shanholtzer Cusick Education Association: $500 - Tyson Shanholtzer Whitworth Academic Scholarship: $16,000 Kaleigh Driver Class awards were as follows: Citizenship: Tiffany Yarber Spirit: Tiffany Yarber and Franklin Pope Jr. Athletic: Tyson Shan-

holtzer and Cassidy Hansen Industrial Technology: Joe Cutshall Language Arts: Tiffany Yarber Foreign Language: Bailey Brown Math: Tyson Shanholtzer and William Nielsen History/Government: BriAnna Balcom Science: Kaleigh Driver National Honor Society: Tyson Shanholtzer, Josh Keogh and Tiffany Yarber Honor cord: William Nielsen AA Degrees (from SCC later in June): Kaleigh Driver, Tyson Shanholtzer, Josh Keogh and Tiffany Yarber Associate of Science degree: William Nielsen

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everal high school commencement ceremonies were held Saturday, June 4 in the area, including Newport, Cusick and Selkirk.

COURTESY photos|Rosemary Daniel

TOP RIGHT: The Selkirk Class of 2016.

RIGHT: New graduate Brady Filler poses with his mother Britta Noonan, just after the graduation ceremony at Selkirk High School this past Saturday afternoon, June 4.

FAR RIGHT: Selkirk Valedictorian Lauren McGeorge and fellow classmate, Christopher Descloux march into the gymnasium at Selkirk High School during the processional of graduates at the commencement ceremony on Saturday, June 4.

Courtesy photos|Kelly Driver

ABOVE: The Cusick High School graduating class of 2016.

RIGHT: Cusick Salutatorian Tyson Shanholtzer gives a speech at Saturday’s graduation ceremony.

FAR RIGHT: Colton Hansen congratulates Kaleigh Driver after Cusick’s graduation Saturday.

Miner photoS|Sophia Aldous

BELOW: Michelle Contreras and Joseph Fitzmorris give a commencement speech for their fellow classmates during Newport’s graduation Saturday.

LEFT BELOW: Maurissa Slover, Newport graduate.

FAR LEFT: Alex Solis, Newport graduate.

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Anglers can fish for free June 11-12 in Washington

Saturday is free Fishing Day in Idaho PRIEST RIVER – This Saturday, June 11 is Free Fishing Day in Idaho, and Idaho Fish and Game invites veteran and novice anglers of all ages, residents and nonresidents alike, to celebrate the day by fishing anywhere in Idaho without a license.

Though fishing license requirements are suspended for this special day, all other rules, such as limits or tackle restrictions, remain in effect.

Free fishing day includes salmon; anglers don’t need a license or salmon permit, but they are still subject to all bag and possession limits.

Free fishing day provides a great opportunity for novices to give fishing a try and perhaps develop it into a life-long pursuit.

Parents are encouraged to bring their children out for a day of fun fishing excitement.

Lack of fishing experience is no excuse.

At special locations around the state, equipment will be available for use, and fishing experts will be on hand to help novice anglers learn the ins and outs of fishing.

In addition, all these locations will be stocked with hatchery rainbow trout prior to the special day.

For more information about events in the area, contact the local Fish and Game office, visit Fish and Game’s Free Fishing Day page at www.fishandgame.idaho.gov/public/fish/?getPage=147, or the Idaho Fishing Planner at www.fishandgame.idaho.gov/ifwis/fishingplanner/ where the events are mapped.

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OLYMPIA – Each year, thousands of Washingtonians go fishing – legally – without a license on “Free Fishing Weekend,” scheduled for June 11-12.

During those two days, no license will be required to fish or gather shellfish in any waters open to fishing in Washington state. Also, no vehicle access pass or Discover Pass will be required during Free Fishing Weekend to park at any of the nearly 700 water-access sites maintained by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW).

Anglers will not need a Two Pole Endorsement to fish with two poles on selected waters where twopole fishing is permitted.

Anglers will also not need a Columbia River Salmon and Steelhead Endorsement, otherwise required to fish for salmon and steelhead in the Columbia

River and its tributaries.

“If you haven’t fished for years, never fished in Washington, or want to introduce fishing to someone new to the sport, this is the weekend to get out there,” said Larry Phillips, WDFW inland fish program manager. Anglers have been catching daily limits of trout at lakes for the past month, and many rivers will open to trout fishing June 4 throughout the state. Other options available on Free Fishing Weekend include: • Lingcod on the coast • Bass, crappie, perch and other warmwater fish biting in lakes throughout Washington • Shad on the Columbia River • Chinook salmon on the Columbia River • Hatchery steelhead on the mainstem Columbia River and rivers on the Olympic Peninsula

Anglers should note that six lakes and the lower sections of most rivers that flow into Puget Sound are closed to all fishing at this time. More information is available on WDFW’s webpage www.wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/pugetsound_salmon_ update/.

For tips, new anglers should check online for the “Fish Washington” feature at the department’s homepage www. wdfw.wa.gov. The site provides details on lowland lake fishing, high lake fishing and marine area opportunities.

For those planning fishing vacations, Great Washington Getaways www.wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/vacation is a WDFW web feature that showcases some of the state’s best family travel and fishing opportunities.

And, for those who

want even more fishing advice, the Fish Washington video page www. wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/ washington/videos/ provides “how to” fishing videos designed to introduce techniques to both new and seasoned anglers.

Before heading out, anglers should also check the current fishing regulations valid through June at www.wdfw.wa.gov/ fishing/regulations/.

While no licenses are required on Free Fishing Weekend, other rules such as size limits, bag limits and closures will still be in effect. Anglers will also be required to complete a catch record card for any salmon, steelhead, sturgeon or halibut they catch.

Catch record cards are available free at hundreds of sporting goods stores and other license dealers throughout the state.

Graduates Priest River Lamanna High Class of 2016

Ceremony Saturday, June 11at 10 a.m.

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ue to changes in technology at Priest River Lamanna High School, the West Bonner County School District was not able to supply individual photos of graduates this school year. A group photo of the Class of 2016 will be in next week’s issue of The Miner, along with photos from the graduation ceremony.

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age residence. That will go into effect for any bills received after July 1, as will the increase approved for the base rate.

PUD General Manager Colin Willenbrock says rate increases in recent years haven’t kept up with fixed costs, which he partially attributes to the weather – warm winters mean not as much electricity use and therefore not as much money to the PUD. Previous rate increases were tied to how much electricity customers used. The proposed increase to the basic rate will generate about $480,000 annually and will stay the same whether there is a warm

winter or not.

PUD staff also recommended doubling the reconnect fee, from $100 to $200.

The proposed reconnect fee will more accurately recover costs associated with disconnecting and reconnecting power.

Most of the reconnections are for seasonal customers, with about 200 disconnecting and going south for the winter. About 100 customers are disconnected for non-payment annually.

Holderman says it costs about $75 to send someone to the house to reconnect the electric service. It also costs about $75 to disconnect the service. The $200 reconnect feel will cover both the disconnection

and reconnection costs. While the number of PUD residential customers has increased by about 100 since 2012, the amount of electricity they consume has declined.

The basic monthly charge for PUDs across the state varies from a high of $40.52 by the Grays Harbor PUD to nothing by the Snohomish PUD.

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tion going on.”

The revolution was boat building in the late 50s and early 60s. There were a lot of boats.

“Some had fins like a ‘57 Dodge. Some had windshields and cabin tops borrowed from ‘59 Chevys and ‘63 Caddys.

And on, and on. How do I know this stuff?

“I collected and agonized over the brochures, clipped magazine pictures, and especially studied (memorized, actually) the annual Buyers’ Guides. Sure, if I’d put that kind of effort into memorizing my times tables, I coulda’ been a math genius like my friend Sam. But, you pays your dime and you takes your ride.”

Sill he learned a lot about boats. These days he rebuilds boats from that era, turning them into usable vessels.

Rebuilds, might not be the right word.

“I don’t know what it looks like until it’s done,” he says. “I figure it out as I go.

Some are more successful than others.”

Landfills are full of boats, he says. “No one fixes boats.”

Rogers was born in Spokane but moved to southern California when he was young.

“I was raised in Spokane but call myself a Californian,” Rogers said. He was drafted, so he joined the Navy. He retired

from the Navy and was towing one of his boats around the country when he had a wheel come off in Montana on the Fourth of July weekend.

He found his way to Diamond Lake and decided to buy a house.

“I used to sail everyday,” he says.

Now he spends part of the year sailing his snow plow.

Not counting his Navy career, Rogers figures he’s sailed more than 50,000 miles, much of it in boats that he’s restored. The smallest has been an 8 footer and the largest a 22 footer.

He has probably restored six or eight boats in the last four or five years. It takes him about two to four months to get one ready. He says being a type A personality helps. “It would probably take someone else a couple years.”

He’s given away some of his boats.

“I’m trying not to do that anymore,” he says.

While he gets boats nobody else wants, he is quick to point out there is no such thing as a cheap boat. They cost the time and materials he puts into them and as any boat owner knows, the cost doesn’t stop. Boats need upkeep.

But he doesn’t do it for the money. He does it because he likes boats.

“I’m the only one doing this that I know about,” he says.

Selkirk awards musical students IONE – Selkirk School District recognized students in middle and high school for their musical achievements during the 2015-16 school years.

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d o w n r i v er eve nts Wednesday, June 8 Story Time: 10:30 a.m. Metalines Library

received the Danielle Smith Memorial Award, presented to the outstanding music student in the eighth grade.

Freshman Destiny Evans received the National High School Choral Award. Sophomore Levi Grant received the Arion Foundation Award for Outstanding Musical Achievement.

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Weigh in 6:30-7 p.m. meeting Ione Catholic Church Metaline Town Council: 7 p.m. - Metaline Town Hall

Thursday, June 9 Story Time: 11 a.m. - Ione Library North Pend Oreille Chamber of Commerce: 6-8:30 p.m. – American Legion, Metaline Falls

Friday, June 10 Story Time and Crafts: 10:30 a.m. - Metalines Library Alcoholics Anonymous: 7 p.m. - Ione Senior Center

Monday, June 13 Fire District No. 2 Commissioners: 10 a.m. - Fire Station 23, 390442 Highway 20, Ione Story Time: 10:30 a.m. Metalines Library

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

Wednesday, June 15 Story Time: 10:30 a.m. Metalines Library Basic Computer Class: 11 a.m. to Noon - Ione Library, Call 509-442-3030 For Reservations Commissioner Kiss Office Hours: 3-6:45 p.m. - Ione Library Weight Watchers: 6 p.m.

Weigh in 6:30-7 p.m. meeting Ione Catholic Church Ione Town Council: 7 p.m.

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Three seniors, Lauren McGeorge, Dana Riggleman and Bryce Seaney received the John Philip Sousa Band Award.

Eighth grader Justin Krabbenhoft received the Louis Armstrong Jazz Award. Junior Jennifer Goodnight received the Director’s Award for Outstanding Music Student.

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with Forest Service managers’ determination based on the environmental assessment that an impact statement is not needed.

The process to develop a full impact statement would be costly and take much more time.

Rosenberg also questioned Monday the independence of the studies

since Vaagen pays Cramer Fish Sciences. He calls Vaagen “the elephant in the room.”

The Forest Service answered this during the comment period by pointing out: · Vaagen Brothers does not communicate with Cramer Fish Sciences regarding the project with the exception of receiving invoices for services. · Communications between Vaagen and Cramer Fish Sciences are funneled

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through the Forest Service including project status updates, meeting management, and planned future activities. · Vaagen Brothers recused themselves from any votes by (NEWFC) working group regarding the current North Fork Mill Creek A to Z project, and the upcoming South and Middle Fork A to Z project. · Vaagen Brothers employees are not actively participating in public meetings regarding mill creek planning area.

Smolden said the Forest Service still monitors all projects and they go through stringent screens.

Vaagen said they began to think outside the box years ago to find ways to get a reliable supply of logs for their mills in Colville and Usk and improve the health of a sick forest. They were responding to the fact that the Forest Service does not have the budget or staff to accomplish either.

One impact specifically in Pend Oreille County will be increased employment at the Usk mill, Vaagen has said. The company couldn’t do that without a sustainable supply of logs from A to Z. They have even discussed closing the Usk mill completely because of

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a lack of timber.

Smolden said there wouldn’t have been funding to do this for years, if ever. The project will improve forest health while also fueling the local economy.

The Forest Service needs mills and the cash they pay for timber to survive if they are ever going to complete needed forest health improvement work, Smolden said. They aren’t keeping up with the work now; only doing about 1 percent a year of what is needed for the past several years.

In a recent interview, Smolden said the Colville National Forest has way too many untreated areas with overstocked, drought stressed havens for insect and disease infestations and thus a high risk for wildfire. He pointed out that these fires are so destructive that they make natural recovery extremely difficult.

The next step in this unusual arrangement will be to appraise the value of timber in the project area and negotiate with Vaagen for a price, Smolden said.

Much of it in the starting area has been cruised and is ready to sell.

“Vaagen is the only bidder,” under the terms of

this pilot project, Smolden said.

Once this step is over it will be “business as usual,” Smolden said.

The Forest Service has experimented with stewardship contracts for years with Vaagen being awarded some of them, but none that are as extensive as this going from start to finish.

Business as usual means Forest Service oversight of each step and reporting, Smolden said.

Rosenberg said he is skeptical of how well the Forest Service will monitor this project. He doesn’t believe they will do the necessary scientific work to really monitor environmental impacts.

Vaagen said he believes that they will be under an even bigger spotlight for this project because of its potential for future management changes in all national forests.

He has said in the past that this intense scrutiny was a reason it took the Forest Service more time to reach a decision. He also realizes this has cost his company more money.

Vaagen will be responsible for environment and forest health improvement projects from tree plant-

ing to road removal and stream rehabilitation.

After agreeing on costs of the work, the Forest Service will issue credits for it towards the amount Vaagen owes for timber they purchased. This again is not a new concept for the Forest Service.

What is new is the fact that the contract does not allow any consideration for the more than $2 million Vaagen spent for the environmental assessment so far. They will have to recoup that through the 10 years of the two-phase project. Any legal challenges of the decision would be paid by the Forest Service.

Cramer Fish Sciences is currently completing analyses of the second part of the project called Middle/ South Fork A to Z, and preparing another draft environmental assessment for Forest Service review.

The draft would then go out for 30-day public review followed by a 45-day objection period.

If there are no objections, a signed decision notice for this second half of the project from the Forest Supervisor, after approval of the Regional Forester, could go out by this fall with Vaagen beginning work soon after that.

According to Lithgow, only 1 percent of the land area in the county is incorporated. The moratorium doesn’t affect municipalities, since city governments can decide whether or not they want to allow the sale of retail marijuana within city limits.

If the commissioners decide to put the issue of retail marijuana on the November ballot, written material must be submitted to the Pend Oreille County Auditor’s Office by July 26.

“We’ve already taken a

lot of public feedback and are continuing to do our own research,” says Commissioner Mike Manus, adding that no official decision has been made either way. “We’re looking at all the alternatives so we can make a well-informed decision.”

According to Pend Oreille County Auditor Marianne Nichols, it would be less expensive for the county to put the issue on the ballot this November as opposed to waiting and running

a special election in the spring.

“Because there are so many issues on the ballot this November, it would cost less,” says Nichols.

“When you’re running an election for just one specific issue, then that increases your cost.”

Nichols adds that if commissioners run the advisory vote this fall, the estimated cost is around $1,000. However, in the spring, the cost could be anywhere from $15,000 to $20,000.

HOT BOX

Special deadline Tuesdays 12 p.m.

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Free transportation to and from Newport. Washington and Idaho subsidies accepted. Children’s Learning World. (208) 448-4482.

(16HB-4p) YARD SALE Corner of Southshore Road and Coyote Trail Road, Diamond Lake. 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Saturday, June 11.(19p) MARSHALL LAKE Cabin for sale. 2 bedroom, 1 bath, 100 feet waterfront. $170,000. Phone (509) 927-7179.(19-4p) MISSING REMINISCING? “Down Memory Lane” may not always make it into the paper, but it is on our Facebook page every week. Like us on Facebook today.(49HB-TF) OPTOMETRIC ASSISTANT Part time approximately 20 hours/ week. Duties include taking health histories and working up patients for doctors, eyewear selection, contact lenses, and various office duties.

Will train. Salary depending on experience. Leave resume: Newport Vision Source, 205 South Washington, Newport. No phone calls please. (19) MOM’S GARDEN Full line of heirloom/ naturally grown garden starts.

4” pots, 6” pots, 2 gallon pots, cherry tomato baskets, hanging flower baskets. Contact Renee (509) 671-7937.(19p)

GARAGE SALE China hutch, 2 piece bookcase, queen head/ f o o t b o a rd , c h i l d re n s clothes, 62 Austin- Healy and treasures galore!

5922 Northshore Road, Diamond Lake. Friday and Saturday 8:00- 3:00.(19p) 311 SANDY SHORES, Newport. Whole house and shed sale. No junk!

Yard and snow equipment, yard and home furniture, rugs, older 6 horsepower boat motor with tank, household, dishes, etc.

Thursday and Friday, June 9th and 10th. 8:00- 5:00.

(19p) FOR SALE Butcher pigs, 200- 250 pounds. Raised on nonGMO grains. From $250.

(208) 818-5170.(18-3p) FOR SALE Upright freezer $80. 12 foot aluminum row boat with 9.8 Mercury $500.

Pine storage chest- free to good home. (509) 5509030.(19p) KARENSKOOG.COM Meet Karen at Bushel’s at Diamond Lake, Saturday June 11th, 8:00-10:00 A.M. Paid by Karen Skoog.

(19p) NEWPORT 801 South Spokane Avenue. Manufactured home, recently remodeled. $635/ month, water, sewer, garbage included. Pets negotiable. (509) 671-7541, (509) 842-0665. (19p) WE’VE MOVED! The Law Office of Denise Stewart has moved right next door to 418 West 3rd Street, Newport. Can’t wait to see you! (509) 4473242.(19)

OLDTOWN AUTO SALES Let us sell your car, truck or recreational vehicle.

We charge 10 percent or a minimum of $200. We get results! We also buy used cars, trucks and recreational vehicles. (208) 437-4011.(49HB-tf) FUNDS AVAILABLE through the United Way for agencies who provide food and/ or shelter services in Pend Oreille County.

Agencies interested in participating in the program may apply by filling out an application form at Family Crisis Network, 730 West 1st Street, Newport, Washington.(19) ELECT BOB EUGENE Join us at the campaign kickoff meet and greet event Wednesday, June 15 from 6:30- 8:30 p.m., the Boat Launch Restaurant, Diamond Lake. Bob is seeking the position of County Commissioner, District 1, Democrat.

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b r i e f ly Gun amendment discussed at library PRIEST RIVER – Permitless concealed weapons is the topic of the next Live and Learn program, Thursday, June 16, at the Priest River Library.

Priest River Police Chief Drew McLain will give an update on the amendment to Idaho State Code concerning permitless concealed carry. The amendment takes affect July 1.

McLain will provide clear understanding of the amendment and ample time for discussion with questions.

Call 208-448-2207 or email library@westbonnerlibrary.org for more information or check the library website at westbonner.lili.org for additional programs throughout the year.

The library is located at 219 Main St., Priest River.

Clue: The Musical starts Friday NEWPORT – Pend Oreille Players presents this internationally popular board game turned audience participation murder mystery “Clue: The Musical” on June 10, 11, 17 and 18 at 7 p.m. and June 12 and 19 at 3 p.m.

The cast includes Mike Hunter, Gail Cory-Betz, Tammy Pogue, Gwen Stuivenga, Danny Litowitz, Sophia Aldous, Chris Demlow and Stephanie Brooks. The show is directed by Millie Brumbaugh and accompanied

by Cathi Rawley.

Tickets are $6 for students, age 18 and under, $12 for adults, and $25 for dinner at the Cork & Barrel Public House before the show (or after the show on Sundays).

Tickets are available at the Playhouse or online.

Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. For more information call 509-447-9900.

Evergreen Arts hosts art show, encourages new members NEWPORT – Evergreen Arts Association will hold their monthly meeting Monday, June 13 at the Create Arts Center 900 W. 4th in Newport, beginning at 10 a.m.

EAA’s Artist of the Month is Tamara Taylor, whose works will be on display at Pend Oreille Valley Network, 108 S. Washington Ave., in Newport.

June rotation artists are Janet Steiner, Randy Haa, Steve Patton, Brittany Sears and Gail Cory-Betz. A $3 donation to Create is requested, and guests and prospective new members are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Evergreen Artists will be featured at “Artists of the West,” a two day western themed art show on June 24-25 in Newport. Paintings, prints, glass art, cards and other western-themed artworks will be offered for sale, along with a raffle and door prizes. The show will be open Friday, June 24, noon to 6 p.m. and Saturday, June 25, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 331 S. Washington Ave. (Next to Owens’ Deli.)

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Treasures during yard sale season “I can’t believe they have so much cloth left,” said Kelly Josephson, digging through stacks of material at the United Church of Christ yard sale in Newport, Friday, June 3. As a hobby and business on the side, Josephson makes doll clothes that she sells on eBay.

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Soroptimist Girl of the Month NEWPORT – Kayla Warner is the Girl of the Month for Soroptimist International of NewWarner port. She describes herself as, “A highly motivated person and I always try to do my best even when things at home may be rough.”

She adds that she’s learned to take the hardships in life and turn them into a meaningful lesson. When her parents divorced, she took it hard and even let it bring her down for quite a while until she overcame it.

“Or when my mom had cancer,” Warner says. “That was also a very hard thing to go through while trying to push through high school. I used both of those events as a motiva-

tion for myself. I looked at my mom having cancer almost like a lesson.

I thought about how I should push myself harder and make the best out of my life and be recognizable for things I’m proud of because you never know what could happen.”

Warner has always pushed herself to take harder courses and to try new things. She has kept a job throughout high school and also volunteered many hours of her time to organizations such as Long Term Care, River Mountain Village, and the Big Brother, Big Sister Mentoring Program.

She has been accepted into Western Washington University for fall quarter of 2016. She intends to major in Marine Biology. She plans to keep working and perhaps get a second job until she moves.

we e k ah ead Wednesday, June 8 Rotary Club: 7:15 a.m. Oldtown Rotary Park Overeaters Anonymous: 8 a.m. - Pineridge Community Church, 1428 W. First St., Newport, use back entrance Newport TOPS: 8:30 a.m. Hospitality House Fiber Arts Knitting and Spinning Group: 9 a.m. Create Arts Center, Newport Story Time: 10:30 a.m. Blanchard Library Priest River Lioness: 11:30 a.m. - Priest River Senior Center Home and Community Educators Diamond Lake Club: Noon - Call Billie Goodno at 509-447-3781 or Chris King at 208-437-0971 Al-Anon: Noon - American Lutheran Church Weavers’ Group: Noon to 3:30 p.m. - Create Arts Center Pinochle: 1 p.m. - Priest River Senior Center Alcoholics Anonymous: 5:45 p.m. - Hospitality House, Newport Spirit Lake Historical Society: 6:30 p.m. - Call 208-665-5921 for locations Thursday, June 9 BASIC Meeting: 10 a.m. Blanchard Community Center Alcoholic’s Anonymous Women’s meeting: 10 a.m.

- Rotary Club, Old Diamond Mill Rd., Oldtown Story Time - Calispel Valley Library, Cusick: 10:30 a.m. - Calispel Valley Library, Cusick

Dance Classes: 5:30-6:30 p.m. - Create Arts Center, Newport Alcoholics Anonymous Open Meeting: 7 p.m. - St. Catherine’s Catholic Church Al-Anon: 7-8 p.m. - Priest River, 119 Main St., Suite 204, Room 16, Call Jan 208-9466131 Friday Night Live: 7 p.m. Hospitality House, Newport Saturday, June 11 Kids’ Movie Club: 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. - Newport Library Happy Agers Card Party: 1 p.m. - Priest River Senior Center AA Meeting: 5 p.m. - Cornerstone Building, Selkirk Way, Oldtown Sunday, June 12 Newport Youth: 4 p.m. Sadie Halstead Middle School Alcoholics Anonymous: 7 p.m. - Hospitality House, Newport Monday, June 13 Evergreen Art Association: 10 a.m. - Create Arts Center Hospitality House Senior Potluck: Noon Newport Blanchard Grange Meeting: 5:30 p.m. Blanchard Grange Habitat for Humanity: 6 p.m. - Sandifur Room, Newport Hospital Priest River Lions: 6:30 p.m. - Priest River Senior Center

Story Time: 10:30 a.m. Priest River Library

Alcoholics Anonymous: 7 p.m. - Pend Oreille Bible Church in Cusick

Open Painting Workshop: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. - Create Arts Center, Newport

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

Home and Community Educators Dalkena Club: Noon - Call Bonnie Witt 509-447-3647 or Billie Goodno at 509-447-3781

Tuesday, June 14

Duplicate Bridge: 12:30 p.m. - Hospitality House in Newport Loosely Knit: 1-3 p.m. Calispel Valley Library, Cusick Priest River Food Bank Open: 3-5:45 p.m. - Priest River Senior Center Family Movie Night: 5:308 p.m. - Newport Library Pend Oreille Kids Club: 6 p.m. - Pend Oreille Mennonite Church

Priest River Food Bank Open: 9-11:45 a.m. - Priest River Senior Center Blanchard Stitchers Quilting Group: 10 a.m. Blanchard Inn River Arts Alliance: 10 a.m. - Various Locations Writers Group: 2 p.m. Create Arts Center Weight Watchers: 5:30-6 p.m. Weigh in and 6 p.m. meeting - Pineridge Community Church, 1428 W. First St., Newport Pinochle: 6 p.m. - Calispel Valley Library, Cusick

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

Alcoholics Anonymous: 7 p.m. - St. Anthony’s Church

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

Spirit Lake Lodge No. 57: 8 p.m. - Spirit Lake

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

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

Friday, June 10 Happy Agers Meeting and Potluck: Noon - Priest River Senior Center Story Time: 3 p.m. - Newport Library

Wednesday, June 15

Overeaters Anonymous: 8 a.m. - Pineridge Community Church, 1428 W. First St., Newport, use back entrance Newport TOPS: 8:30 a.m. Hospitality House Fiber Arts Knitting and

Spinning Group: 9 a.m. Create Arts Center, Newport Story Time: 10:30 a.m. Blanchard Library Master Chef Cooking Series: 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. - Blanchard Community Center Al-Anon: Noon - American Lutheran Church Pinochle: 1 p.m. - Priest River Senior Center Alcoholics Anonymous: 5:45 p.m. - Hospitality House, Newport Veterans of Foreign Wars Post/Auxiliary: 6 p.m. - Priest River VFW North Idaho Pattern Racers 4-H: 6 p.m. - Cornerstone Building, Oldtown Priest River Animal Rescue: 6 p.m. - 1710 9th St., Priest River York Rite of Freemasonry: 6:30 p.m. - Spirit Lake Temple

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Out and about In this installment of “Out and About,” where we take photos of community members going about their day, we asked Newport resident Kelly Hopkins, “What do you like about this time of year?” “It’s warmer, the weather is nice, so of course you want to be outside at every opportunity,” says Hopkins. “People just seem to be in a better, friendlier mood.”

Where to Worship

CALVARY CHAPEL NEWPORT

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

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

John 6:35

PINE RIDGE COMMUNITY CHURCH 1428 1st Street West Sunday School ~ 9:15 a.m.

Morning Worship ~ 10:30 a.m.

Wednesday: Youth ~7:00 p.m.

Pastor Mitch McGhee 447-3265

DALKENA COMMUNITY CHURCH • VILLAGE MISSIONS S.S. ~ 9:15 • Worship ~ 10:45 a.m.

Family Night, Wednesday ~ 7 p.m.

(Bible and Youth Clubs) Pastor Steve Powers - 509-447-3687

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

509-671-3436

CHURCH OF FAITH

36245 Hwy 41, Oldtown, ID Sunday School 9 a.m.

Sunday Services - 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.

Wed. - Bible Study 6 p.m.

Pastor Jack Jones Church Office 208-437-0150 www.churchoffaitholdtown.org

SPRING VALLEY MENNONITE CHURCH

4912 Spring Valley Road Sunday: 9:45 a.m. Worship Service 11 a.m. -- Sunday School (509) 447-2659

UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST

3rd and Spokane St., Newport, WA Worship Service 10:00 a.m.

Sunday School 10:00 a.m.

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

REAL LIFE NEWPORT

“Where Jesus and Real Life Meet.”

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

NEWPORT SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH

1 mile S. of Newport on Hwy. 2 447-3742 Pastor Rob Greenslade Sun. School 9:45 a.m. • Worship 11:00 a.m.

Evening Worship 6:30 p.m.

Bible Study Weds. 6:30 p.m.

CATHOLIC MASSES www.pocoparishes.org Newport: St. Anthony’s, 447-4231 612 W. First St., Sun. - 11 a.m.

Usk: St. Jude’s River Rd., Sat. - 4:00 p.m.

Usk: Our Lady of Sorrows LeClerc Creek Rd. Sun. - 1st & 2nd - 5:30pm Ione: St. Bernard’s, 802 8th St., Sun. - 2nd & 4th - 8:00 a.m.

Metaline Falls: St. Joseph’s, 446-2651 -- 406 Park St., Sun., 1st, 3rd & 5th - 8:00 a.m.

AMERICAN LUTHERAN CHURCH E.L.C.A.

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

(509) 447-4338

HOUSE OF THE LORD

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

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

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

BAHÁ’Í FAITH OF NEWPORT

“Verily I say, this is the Day in which mankind can behold the Face and hear the Voice of the Promised One.” The Divine Springtime has come.

Rejoice!

Please call 509-550-2035 for the next scheduled devotional. Wonderful resources can be found at www.bahai.us and www.bahai.org

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

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Sports

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B R I E F LY Parents’ meeting set for Pop Warner football, cheer NEWPORT – Parents interested in their kids participating in Pop Warner football and cheerleading should attend an information meeting Monday, June 13 at 6:30 p.m., on the Newport City Park stage, located on the corner of Calispel and First streets.

Registration for 2016 tackle football and cheer for ages five and up is open now. Scholarships are available for those who qualify. More information available at www.northcountypw.org, or e-mail presidentncpw@gmail. com.

Registration closes July 15.

Boys basketball camp starts next week NEWPORT – Newport boys basketball coach Jamie Pancho is offering a camp for grades first through eighth next week, Monday, June 13 through Thursday, June 16.

The cost is $30, and includes a T-shirt. Camp for boys going into grades first through fourth next school year is from 9-11 a.m. Camp for those going into fifth through eighth grade is from noon to 2 p.m. The camp will be held at Newport High School.

Register on the first day, or at the district office or at Stratton Elementary.

Questions can be directed to Pancho at 509447-0656 ex. 1303.

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Final race of the season Hedy Seeber of Newport competed in the Golden Rose Slalom Races at Mt. Hood, Ore., over Memorial Weekend. The weather provided blue bird skies and decent skiing conditions for 200 youth racing for FIS points. Seeber won her Category 3 ability classes moving her into Category 2 for the 2016-17 ski race season. She also placed fifth, sixth and eighth out of a field of twenty U16 females. Racers represented the western region of USSA sanctioned events.

Newport soccer All League, Zorica Coach of the Year NEWPORT – It was a triumphant soccer season for the Newport High School boys soccer team, winning the District Championships and going on to the state tournament.

Jase Hoadley Jr., was named to the All League team, earning Best

Defense and Kade Zorica earned Best Mid-Fielder.

Mark Zorica was named Coach of the Year.

This is his second year coaching the Grizzlies.

“I’m here for as long as they will have me,” Zorica says of continu-

ing to coach soccer for Newport.

“I’m pretty demanding with my team. It’s about total commitment from everyone, not just one person, or ‘star player.’ It takes a team to get the job done, to help each other in defeat as much as in victory.”

Panthers named to All League

CUSICK – Several athletes from Cusick High School Track and Field were named to the All League team at the end of the season.

Those Panthers include Gracie StrangeOwl in the 1600-meter, 4x400 relay and 4x100 relay. Alana Keogh was named All

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League in the 100-meter, 200-meter, the 4x400 and the 4x100. Val Keogh and StrangeOwl Rachelle Busby got the award for the 4x400 and 4x100 relays.

The Cusick team held their athletic awards event Monday, June 6. Josh Keogh won Most Improved, StrangeOwl and Ke-

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Not ogh both received Pictured: Captain Rachelle awards Busby and Nicole Tesdahl received the Most Inspirational award.

S P O RT S C A L E N D A R SATURDAY, JUNE 11 FREE FISHING: Washington FREE FISHING: Idaho

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OPEN GYM, ADULT BASKETBALL: 7 a.m. - Newport High School

SUNDAY, JUNE 12 FREE FISHING: Washington

Fri & Sat - 7:30 pm

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WBRA Barrel Race June 26th • 11am

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•Covered Bleacherss •Free ree Parki Par Parking Parkin g Tickets: •Beer Garden In Rodeo Arena Friday Advanced Adults $10, •Food & Vendors At Gate $12

Military Night - Friday Tickets $10 at gate for Military and First Responders

Saturday Advanced Adults $12, S At Gate $15 Children 5-11 $5 Children 4 & Under FREE

Saturday S d •Parade 11am ROUGH STOCK OPEN • JULY 15 •Music and Entertainment BULL-A-RAMA • JULY 16 •McMillan Kids Trick Riding PRO WEST RODEO ASSOCIATION LAYTON MCMILLIAN RODEO STOCK

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NEWPORT – Grizzly Volleyball Camp is July 5-8 with grades first through seventh participation from 9-a.m. and grades eighth through 12 from noon to 3 p.m.

Location will be at either the Newport High School gym or Sadie Halstead Middle School gym.

Cost is $30. Participants should arrive 15 minutes early for check-in on first day.

Wear comfortable shorts, T-shirt and court shoes and bring a water bottle. No jewelry or gum allowed. Kneepads are recommended, but not required.

For more information, call Shannon Hansen at 509-589-1785.

Commission discusses deer hunting in Northeast Washington OLYMPIA – The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission is considering additional restrictions on antlerless deer hunting in Northeast Washington, during a public hearing meeting June 10-11 in Olympia.

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is asking for the reduction in antlerless white-tailed deer harvest in response to concerns about deer populations affected last year by blue tongue disease, a virus commonly spread by biting gnats.

In April, the commission reduced the number of hunting days for antlerless deer for youth, seniors and hunters with disabilities.

WDFW is now requesting the commission also limit hunting opportunities for archery and muzzleloader hunters in Northeast Washington.

After taking public comments on the matter, the commission will decide whether any action is necessary.

The commission will convene in Room 172 of the Natural Resources Building at 1111 Washington St. SE in Olympia.

The meeting is scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. both days. An agenda for the meeting is available at www.wdfw.wa.gov/commission/.

Track and Field Camp starts June 13 NEWPORT – Track and Field Summer Camp will be held June 13-17 at Newport High School from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Cost is $30.

The activity is geared toward junior high and high school students.

For more information, call Newport High School at 447-2481.

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Seventh Grade Press

Volume 1, Number 4

POVA railroad integral to local economy

BY MADELENE BEARDALL

The POVA Railroad was bought by the Port of Pend Oreille Sept. 9, 1979. It was 61 miles long, and cost $1.385 million.

POVA means Pend Oreille Valley Railroad. It travels from Newport to Metaline Falls, Wash. The POVA railroad saved two of Pend Oreille’s biggest employers: the cement plant and the timber mill. It still operates, serving other shippers. Now, the railroad goes to Sandpoint, Idaho, on the original route built by the Idaho and Washington Railway in 1908.

The railroad was constructed by Frederick Blackwell (1852-1922) in 1909-1911.

The railroad is used for transporting large cargo throughout the county. In 1916, Blackwell lost the POVA to the Milwaukee Road, which was the company that the Port first bought the railroad from.

A while later, the Milwaukee Road abandoned the railroad in 1976.

Losing the railroad decreased the population in Pend Oreille County.

Almost 1,000 of the 8,000 residents worked regular fulltime jobs. This was already an economic difficulty in the county. Nearly one third of those who moved worked at the Lehigh Portland Cement Company, or at the Louisiana Pacific’s Lumber

Mill. Both of these depended on the railroad for transportation of products. Without the railroad, they would have to close.

In December 1977, the residents started to find a way to save the railroad. They decided to build a port in the county. They would first have to get approved by the Legislature. Shortly after they received approval, they started the process of establishing a new port district.

Later, the county needed upgrades on the tracks. Even though they have authority for the upgrades, the Pend Oreille County citizens did not give them that power.

On Sept. 19, 1978 , the Port District was approved to make the new port in Pend Oreille County.

The Port gave a check to the Milwaukee Railroad. The check was worth $1,385,000. The ceremony was held at the Pend Oreille County courthouse in Newport. By October the railroad was using cars leased from the Milwaukee Railroad and Burlington Northern Railroad.

The railroad needed more shippers to keep running. They took advantage of the 20-mile stretch that went through Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) territory reaching into Idaho. The railroad obtained trackage rights to operate as far as Sandpoint.

The companies that POVA shipped with include Tri Pro Cedar, Bell Pole, Dyna Nobel, and Mountain West Bank. POVA has been trying to attract business to the region.

In 2011, they started working with Tri-County Economic Development District (TEDD) to develop an industrial park on Port owned land in Newport. However, the railroad is the Port’s main endeavor. The Port’s 17 fulltime employees (including summer help) have to handle more than 80 miles of track. In 1999, the Port constructed a working shop where employees work on POVA’s own locomotives and ones from other lines.

Day-to-day railroad operations occurred and locomotives were rebuilt. In 2013, POVA added on to the working shop. A 30-ton crane and a locomotive paint booth were included in this construction. POVA is one of the few Port Districts that do not collect property tax.

The POVA might just be one of the most important pieces of history in Pend Oreille County. Without it, we might not have the town of Newport.

Sources: www.historylink.org www.waymarking.com www.povarr.com www.icehouse.net

Early settlers and their food

BY LANA HANNI

I’m sure that kids got hungry back in the day, and they didn’t go to the refrigerator like I do when I want to eat.

In the beginning of Pend Oreille County, there wasn’t electricity. In the 1930’s electricity came to the county. The PUD was established in 1936 and then it became affordable to many houses. People used ice for refrigeration until about the 1940s.

They usually used root cellars to store food. To make a root cellar people dug holes in the side of a hill, and built a front on it.

Sometimes they got ice in winter and covered it with layers of straw to keep it from melting. This kept the food cold so it didn’t spoil or rot.

Storing food without refrigeration was very hard, but pioneers had multiple ways to store food.

People made almost everything. They mostly bought only essential foods such as flour, coffee and tea. They also bought molasses, and sometimes sugar. One way they stored food was drying it by hanging it in the sun.

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he Seventh Grade Press is a series of stories written by seventh graders in Ms. Irene Ewing’s class at Sadie Halstead Middle School in Newport. Each student chose a topic of local historical importance, conducted research and interviews and went through a lengthy editing process.

More than 80 students participated and each one will get a ‘by line’ in The Miner Newspapers. This is the fourth week of the project. Check back for the next several weeks for more on local history. See more on page 4B. If you find that you have something to add, interview candidates the class should talk to, or documents and artifacts you want registered in the local museum, contact the Seventh Grade Class, at Sadie Halstead Middle School, in Newport. They have agreed to collect and catalog everything that comes in, and deliver it to the museum for archiving.

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A root cellar.

The next most common way to store food was to smoke it in a wood shed with a fire making smoke.

Fermentation was kind of like canning, they just didn’t compress it, that way the good bacteria could come in.

Salting saves food too, especially ham or bacon.

They just pile it in salt and then wash it off when it’s time to eat.

Everything else came from the farm and animals.

Some of the common foods they had are things I would like even today.

I like homemade bread, apple sauce, steaks, pie, jelly, fried potatoes, cake, and hot cakes (that now we call pancakes), and cornbread. Some of the food they made are things I wouldn’t like. They ate some weird foods because they used up everything and because they had to grow what they could for free. Some of the things I could deal with are om-

elets, vegetables, stewed fruit, sausages, and maybe, frizzled beef, but I don’t know what it is.

The foods that would have been more than I can take were too weird.

They ate dandelion salad.

They ate pickled pigs feet, or soused calves’ feet, and they had oxtail soup.

I think that it would be kind of cool to try all the foods that the people in the olden days ate, and maybe someday I will try these foods.

Little Blue Grouse, Boyer mountains offer views of region

BY ANDREW BAILEY

JUNE 8, 2016 |

Let’s start out with Blue Grouse Mountain. Blue Grouse can be seen from Spokane. From the top it’s really cool, you can see Sacheen Lake and Diamond Lake, as well as Spokane.

The main road to get to Blue Grouse is called Harworth Road. The other way up is pretty hard to ride up to. You may need a dirt bike or in the winter you need a snowmobile. Either way you end up on Harworth Road, which takes you to the same place. It’s hard to get through because there’s these two hills of dirt blocking the road, one after the other. If you’re on a dirtbike you have to accelerate right after you go down. I’ve wrecked on it and it’s not fun.

One day our family planned a day trip, to go up Little Blue Grouse and Boyer Mountain.

We rode all day, it was really fun. It was in November, so when we got high enough it started to snow a little, but not that badly.

A long time ago I was on Harworth Road, the road that takes you up to Boyer and Blue Grouse. My friend and I were riding dirtbikes when a logging truck was pulling off of Fertile Valley Road onto Hayworth Road.

We were on the gas going up to Fertile Valley Road.

When I turned to get out of the way of the logging truck, he cut the corner and I went off the road into a really steep drop off on the side because I didn’t want to get hit.

Before I went off, I yelled at my friend to get out of the way, and he did. The reason I went flying over the drop off was because I was on the edge of the road. The side of the road gave away right as the logging truck almost hit me.

When I went down the side of the hill the dirt bike landed on me and I burned my leg, but it wasn’t that bad. What seems funny to me is the truck never driver SEE MOUNTAINS, 4B

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Biography of Lester J. Jared

BY MADISON HILDEN

I chose to do my report on Lester Jared because I looked in a Big Smoke magazine at the table of contents and I saw the name Jared.

I knew that our family is part of the Jareds. So I went home and I asked my dad if he knew who Lester Jared was. He told me, “That’s my grandpa, your great-grandpa.” I never knew that until he told me.

Lester Jared was my great-grandpa, who was born July 28, 1912, to John Madison Jared and Tina Marie Jared. He had nine brothers and sisters. He and his brothers would have to get a deer or two every couple weeks to feed the family. His brothers and he logged to provide for the family too. He was an avid hunter and fisherman and trapped animals and sold their furs for extra money too.

He went to school in Usk from 1917-1929. When he went to school he would have to walk four miles one way to get to the school in Cusick. During the Great Depression he went to Grand Coulee Dam and worked for two years. When he came back he was able to pay the taxes owed so the family could keep the ranch. The Jared ranch is out by Calispell Lake.

He got married to Helen Slater on Dec. 24, 1938.

He moved to Seattle and had a daughter, Dixie Jeanne Jared, July 12, 1941, and a son, Robert Richard Jared, Oct. 4, 1943. In Seattle he was a welder, building boats for World War II. He worked until 1974 as a welder until he retired.

The town of Jared was first started when Lester’s grandpa, Robert Payne Jared, moved west in 1870 and settled north of Cusick and started a town called Jared. The location is where the Riverview Bible camp is now in Cusick.

Names of his brothers and sisters were, Emmett Van, Sept. 26, 1901; Myrtle May, April 4, 1905; Jack, Aug. 15, 1910; Lester John, July 28, 1912; Claude Robert, Aug. 30, 1914; Russell Robert, about 1916; Cecil Richard, June 6, 1919; Pearl, May 6, 1922; Ruby, Nov. 25, 1925; and Bonnie March, 18, 1928.

He did a lot in the Usk and Cusick areas when he was younger and older. I never met him, but the way my dad described him made him sound like a cool person. I learned a lot doing this project, it may even motivate me to research other Jared family relatives.

My sources were The Big Smoke articles from 1979, The Book of Jared that my dad’s mother gave him or the original from my great-grandpa. My primary source was interviewing my dad who knew mostly every important detail of Lester’s life.

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SEVENTH GRADE PRESS

The restoration of Bull Trout passage at Albeni Falls Dam

BY KEAGAN STOTT

Listed as a threatened species of fish by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) in 1998, the bull trout are in need of help. Albeni Falls Dam was built on the Pend Oreille River, and there was a question of how many bull trout were provided passage through the dam to reach Pend Oreille Lake.

A study was designed to monitor movements of bull trout that were provided passage above the Aleni Falls Dam. There is a problem for the bull trout, but there is no solution yet, even after all this time. All the discussion has brought this topic to a study.

The big fish must make it into Lake Pend Oreille from the Pend Oreille River to find refuge from heat in the summer time.

Bull Trout that can’t find a way from the warm river to the cool lake face a death sentence. Pend Oreille Lake has a constant water temperature of 39.5 degrees at 1,100 foot depth. This cools the upper part of the lake for the fish to hang around.

Years after Albeni Falls Dam was built, the bull trout populations had noticeably declined and were listed as endangered under the endan-

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gered species act. Congress requested the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers agency to be responsible for studying the continuation of the species.

I interviewed Lori Morris, Tribal Liaison, the person in charge of The Albani Fish Passage study, in the Seattle office. In her work she first looked to see what needed to be done to save the bull trout. As part of the study it was determined that downstream from the dam is not the problem. The Corp looked at the upstream passage as the critical concern, ensuring the fish’s ability moving through Albeni Falls Dam. Could the bull trout make it up the Columbia River, through the Pend Oreille River, through the Dam, and to the cool, lifesaving lake?

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they went through the turbines of the dam and they were counted.

Roughly 90 percent of the mountain whitefish, similar to bull trout, made it through the dam unscathed. Tissue samples were collected from each bull trout and sent to the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service Abernathy Fish Technology Center Conservation Genetics Lab in Washington.

The DNA extracted from tissue samples were compared to a catalog of bull trout population DNA from the Priest River drainage, Lake Pend Oreille tributaries, and the Clark Fork drainage to determine the most probable tributary of origin.

The study, considering the need for a ladder or passage for the bull trout to make it through the

dam is not completed yet, but is coming to fruition. A decision will be made as soon as possible, but not too far in the future. Congress will consider future suggestions for funding, design, plan, and completion after they review the study. Only the study phase was funded by Congress.

A passage around the Dam would allow bull trout that would have been lost from local populations to return to natal tributaries and contribute to overall recovery goals.

Fifty-three percent of all bull trout captured below Albeni Falls Dam have been genetically assigned to depressed spawning tributaries. These special fish were saved by the hard work of many men and women.

Newport, Idaho vs. Newport, Washington

BY STEVEN BURKETT

I would like to take you back to when Newport started. At that time people wore top hats and ugly mustaches. I was excited when I found out that I was assigned this particular project.

I knew it wasn’t only for the students who might learn, but also the adults. They are the only people who read newspaper anymore, within the county, who were interested in learning the not necessarily new information but actually very interesting information.

My information came from researching Newport, Wash., through Tony Bamonte’s book “History of Pend Oreille County” (1996). My missions was how it obtained its name and why the settlement was created.

Newport first started as a village. It was around 1890, and that is old. It was an ideal location because it was connected directly to the Pend Oreille River.

Therefore, it connected to Sandpoint and Rathdrum. At this time, the Model T wasn’t even invented, according to Model T Ford Club of America and the Albany Dam hadn’t been built yet.

So, water travel was highly sought after.

The Great Northern Railway was built in 1892. It made a huge impact and greatly improved the chances of Newport growing in size, population, and commerce.

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However, with more people, more problems.

Three years later in 1895, the Talmadge Brothers came. They were surveyors. The brothers made controversy over whether or not Newport was located in Idaho or Washington. The post office was in Idaho so all the locals thought Newport must be in Idaho. To me, why would it matter? Since Washington in 1889 and Idaho in 1890 were official states and the borders had already been established.

The population in 1901 was 200 as compared to 2016 which is about 2,100 for Newport, Wash. But one of the problems was that the majority of the population was on the Washington State side in 1901. It became that way because the Talmadge Brothers bought 40 acres of land in Washington.

The Talmadge Brothers were selfish, so they teamed up with the Kelly Brothers to change the route of the railway to the Washington side. They knew it would make lots of profit for the Talmadge Brothers. The Kelly Brothers heavily advertised Newport, Wash., in the Newport Pilot which later became the Newport Miner.

This led people to believe that it should be Newport, Wash., not Newport, Idaho. So the Kelly Brothers did an under the table deal with one of the governors to change where the post office would be located.

Finally, many factors affected the development of Newport. Newport started as a village on the Pend Oreille River. The Great Northern Railway came and expanded the town, which led to the Talmadge Brothers that brought a dispute as to whether Newport was in Idaho or Washington.

I have learned this dispute has been colorful and that’s how Newport, Wash., got its name.

BY RUTH HILDRETH

“The Diamond City had an aerial tram, which took match stock across the Pend Oreille River to Lost Creek,” says Faith McClenny in her book titled Pend Oreille County.

Lumber was crucial in Pend Oreille County’s development. There was a sufficient amount of resource and a substantial demand for those products in the county.

Pend Oreille County was founded in 1911 and has an area of 1,425 square miles, with a population of 12,896 as of 2013.

Lost Creek is located in Pend Oreille County and on the Pend Oreille River. Lost Creek is approximately 2,050 feet above sea level. The outlying communities are Cusick and Ione. Although Lost Creek has creek in the name it is actually a stream.

My great-grandparents, Wilda and Arthur Chantry lived and owned a great cattle ranch at Lost Creek. After Wilda passed away on April 15, 2010, my family and I went camping on their property at Lost Creek. It was a lot of fun even though the water was super cold. We had fun fishing and walking around the property to see it all.

Lost Creek was and always will be a fun place to go. Also it is definitely not lost. It had an aerial tram and was home for many which later became a city named Diamond City.

Lost Creek had a contribution to Pend Oreille’s development.

MOUNTAINS: Good for dirt bikes, snowmobiles FROM PAGE 3B

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Let’s get started with Mt. Boyer. Boyer Mountain is wider than Blue Grouse. On a topographical map it shows Boyer Mountain is a 5,256 feet mountain peak that is in Pend Oreille County. The mountain can be seen near Deer Park. It actually can be seen easily from Spokane also. It is a pretty high peak for this area. The nearest peaks are Granite Mountain, Power Peak, Little Round Top, Little Blue Grouse Mountain, Brush Mountain and Nelson Peak.

See the Boyer Mountain map, 3D fly around, and the Boyer Mountain photos to get a better sense of the mountain. The Latitude is 48°11’49.64” ,and the Longitude is : 117° 26’0.83”. Boyer Mountain is a lot like Little Blue Grouse as far as views go you can see Diamond Lake, Sacheen Lake, Spokane, and that’s from Pend Oreille County, but that’s just about all I know about Little Blue Grouse and Boyer Mountain. These Mountains are pretty cool and they are mostly cool for dirt bikes, quads, and snowmobiles.

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Newport

On May 24, after quite a fight with cancer, Mom got to go to Heaven. She was born in Yukon, Mo., Jan. 26, 1939, to William and Inez Hern.

They later moved to this area with their children, David, Dora, Ernest, Elvin, Elsie and Mom, all of who were waiting to hold her in their arms again.

Mom and Dad (Mervin Dana VanderVanderholm holm) were married on Sept. 18, 1954.

They raised five children on the family farm near Diamond Lake: Darla (Mark) McBroom, Brenda Wickham, Arnold (Rheta) Vanderholm, Glen Vanderholm and Mervin, Jr. (Gayle) Vanderholm.

Strong-willed, determination and hard work best describes Mom’s life, which was very rewarding, but not always a piece a cake. Throughout her battle with cancer, Mom stayed at home and was cared for by all.

She shared the last 20 plus years with love and devotion to Jim Sheldon, her long-time partner and companion.

Her puppies, Cocoa Puff and Mr. Cuddles, and us kids smothered her with hugs and kisses and many precious snuggles. Mom loved country music, knew the words to many songs and right up to the end, she was singing and we all sang along with her. She is now dancing in Heaven with her husband and two grandsons.

She has 14 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren, a legacy to be proud of and memories of love. Feel free to pay respects anytime, anywhere you like. Give our precious God all the praise and glory and help others see the light.

Paul F. Heath Spokane

Paul F. Heath of Spokane joined his wife of 73-years, Ruth A. Heath on June 2. He was 95-years-old.

He was born Dec. 2, 1920, in Spokane.

He was a World War II Army veteran serving with the 84th Infantry Division 325th Field Artillery Battalion. Dad retired from the USPS in 1972. Our folks then enjoyed many winters in Yuma, Ariz.

He is survived by his three daughters Heath Terry Bacon, Sandy Benedetti and Vickie Simpson, nine grandchildren, nine greatgrandchildren, five great-great-grandchildren, his sister-in-law, Gladys Duley, and numerous nieces and nephews. Dad was preceded in death by one greatgrandchild.

At his request no services were held.

Sherman-Knapp Funeral Home in Newport is in charge of arrangements. Family and friends are invited to sign the online guestbook at www.sherman-knapp. com.

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m o s t wa n t e d l i st Editor’s Note: The following are descriptions of people currently wanted by the Pend Oreille County Sheriff’s Office and other law enforcement agencies. Any information about these suspects should be directed to the sheriff’s office by calling 509-447-3151.

This is a regular section of The Miner. All information is provided by the sheriff’s office.

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Dennis A. Fisher, 19, is wanted on one Pend Oreille County warrant for failure to comply on original charges for negligent driving first degree. The subject is 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs 154 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. His last known address was in the Newport area. Extradition is surrounding Washington counties only.

Gregory A. Gillmore, 24, is wanted on two Pend Oreille County warrants for failure to appear on original charges of driving with license suspended in the third degree, making a false statement and unattended hit and run. He is 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighs 180 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. Subject’s last known address was in the Newport area. Extradition is statewide.

Robert J. Foust, 20, is wanted on one Pend Oreille County warrant for failure to comply with a court order, driving under the influence and driving with a suspended license. He is 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighs 160 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. Subject’s last known address was in the Usk area. Extradition is statewide.

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.

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Monday, May 30 SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: N. Fea Ave., complaint of elder abuse.

ANIMAL BITE: Sunset Drive N., Ione, complaint of a dog attacking another dog while complainant out walking.

THEFT: Boundary Dam, Metaline, report of campers stealing wood.

DISTURBANCE: W. 6th Ave., Airway Heights, report of a male chasing another male.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights, report of a suspicious person on the gaming floor.

ERRATIC DRIVER: Hwy. 2 ERRATIC DRIVER: Hwy. 211, report of an erratic driver crossing lanes.

ANIMAL CRUELTY: South Ave., report of a dog left in a car with no windows down.

DISTURBANCE: Knott Rd., report of subjects yelling and starting a fight.

ARREST: Knott Rd., Newport, Robert L. Meeker, 24, of Newport arrested for disorderly conduct.

FIRE-SMOKE ONLY: LeClerc Rd. N. and Coachmen, third party report of smoke in the area.

Tuesday, May 31 ACCIDENT: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights, report of one vehicle, non-injury.

THEFT: W. 2nd St., report of subject that broke into donation bin outside again and this time they also tried to gain entry thru the back door of the building.

ANIMAL PROBLEM: 7th, report of light brown dog running loose in the area.

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ANIMAL BITE: Main St., complainant reports grandmother’s dog bit complainant on the hand; no medical needed.

ARREST: Railroad Ave., Newport, Douglas Carroll Brogdon, 36, of Newport arrested for use of drug paraphernalia and possession with intent to manufacture.

GRASS FIRE: W. 7th St., report of fire behind apartments’ grass and trees.

ACCIDENT: N. Washington Ave., Newport, report of motorcycle crashed and one injured.

WEAPON OFFENSE: Deeter Rd., report of suspicious circumstance.

ILLEGAL BURNING: W. Circle Drive, report of smoke coming from neighbor’s back yard.

JUVENILE PROBLEM: Riverside Ave. ANIMAL PROBLEM: Vanes Lake Rd., complainant states neighbor’s dog keeps coming onto their property bothering their pregnant horse.

Wednesday, June 1 RECOVERED VEHICLE: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights, report of recovered stolen vehicle.

BURGLARY: McGowen Rd., complainant reports that yesterday complainant’s ex-wife came and took items.

SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights, report that security called about possible vehicle prowlers.

SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE: Vanes Lake Rd., report of found blow gun darts in garden.

POSSIBLE DUI: Hwy. 2 SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE: W. 6th, report of a suspicious vehicle.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PJYSICAL: 6th St. SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: Deer Valley Rd., report of large green flatbed truck going up to neighbor’s property.

ANIMAL NOISE: W. Joyner Drive, report of ongoing issue with dog barking at the above location.

AGENCY ASSIST: Diamond Lake, report of assist marine unit with removing item from Diamond Lake.

THREATENING: Lenora Drive, complainant reports receiving threatening letter from male subject who lives at the RV park and is concerned about it escalating further.

ANIMAL BITE: Wolf Trails, report of female bit by dog while walking on the trails.

ANIMAL PROBLEM: N. Warren Ave., report of ongoing issue with neighbor’s dog coming over and getting into the garbage.

ERRATIC DRIVER: Hwy. 2, report of greenish gray truck with canopy tailgating.

JUVENILE PROBLEM: S. Calispel Ave., report of juvenile problem.

ANIMAL PROBLEM: Industry, report of deputy out with an animal problem.

ANIMAL CRUELTY: S. Spokane Ave., Newport, complainant believes neighbor is neglecting dog.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PHYSICAL: W. Kelly Drive, complainant reports grandson kicked in front door.

ACCIDENT: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights, report of a non-injury accident.

ACCIDENT: Hwy. 2, report of vehicle vs. deer; deer needs to be dispatched.

Thursday, June 2 ABANDONED VEHICLE: W. 4th St., report that someone abandoned a small gray car with no plates in front of the old court house.

ANIMAL PROBLEM: S. Warren Ave., Newport, report of black and white Chihuahua getting out of the wood fence going after people.

TRESPASSING: Makai Lane, report of known subject that keeps trespassing on complainant’s property and said he will keep doing it.

SUSPICIOUS PERSON: N. LeClerc, report of a suspicious person in the brush.

TRESPASSING: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights ILLEGAL BURNING: City View Lane, caller reports smell of garbage burning in the area, possibly rubber or tires.

AUTOMOBILE THEFT: N. Union Ave., Newport, report of dark green newer Jeep with no top, two males and a female wearing baseball hats.

LITTERING: Weber Rd., caller stating someone is dumping garbage illegally on neighboring property.

ERRATIC DRIVER: Greenhouse Rd., report of black and silver Polaris side by side, male wearing white T-shirt and driving at excessive speeds.

SUSPICIOUS PERSON: Pine St. N., caller suspicious of male walking in the area, last seen walking South on Pine St.

MALICIOUS MISCHEIF: N. Washington Ave., complainant requesting to speak to a deputy about damage that was done to apartment.

ASSAULT: E. 4th Ave., report that complainant stated tenant punched her and knocked her down.

FOUND PROPERTY: S. Garden Ave., Newport, report that complainant found a DOT Border sign in Bonner County and brought to Pend Oreille County Sheriff’s Office.

ANIMAL BITE: Hwy. 2, report of patient in ER after bite by dog.

ALCOHOL OFFENSE: Scotia Rd., report of resident under 21 on premises highly intoxicated.

ATTEMPT TO LOCATE: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights, law enforcement looking for a Volkswagen Bug with two intoxicated females.

ABANDONED VEHICLE: Harworth Rd., report of vehicle that has been parked in the bushes since at least last weekend.

ANIMAL BITE: W. Pine St., Newport, report of dog bite.

DISTURBANCE: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights, report of domestic violence.

THEFT: W. Walnut St. SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE: Woodstock Drive, report of vehicle parked off Woodstock in woods.

DISTURBANCE: Veit Rd., complainant reports neighbor is highly intoxicated and in middle of Veit Road yelling.

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POSSIBLE DUI: Hwy. 20, report of female highly intoxicated that left in a red passenger car pulling utility trailer with tables.

MALICIOUS MISCHIEF: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights, report of vehicle prowl with damage.

TRESPASSING: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights ARREST: Timothy John Porter, 33, of Newport arrested for unlawful possession of a firearm.

Friday, June 3 INTOXICATION: Flowery Trail Rd., report of violent male trying to leave intoxicated; wanting subject escorted off premises.

BURGLARY: Deer Valley Rd., report that shop was burglarized yesterday morning.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: Bunge Rd., report of unknown car in driveway no one around.

DISTURBANCE: Hwy. 2, report of little black car in parking lot; subjects appear to be fighting.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PHYSICAL: Copper Landing

EXTRA PATROL: W. 2nd St., complainant believes there are drug deals going on in the area.

SUSPICIOUS PERSON: Scott Ave., Newport, report of subject on bicycle.

TRAFFIC HAZARD: Winchester St., report of 90’s blue Ford Taurus with red bumper parked on street corner for three to four weeks.

DISTURBANCE: S. Newport Ave., report of plumber in parking lot being belligerent and trying to fight subjects in yard.

TRESPASSING: W. Walnut St., Newport

SUSPICIOUS PERSON: E. 5th Ave., report of male subject in yard messing with kayaks about 5 min. ago.

JUVENILE PROBLEM: S. Washington Ave., Newport, report of three juveniles on the locomotive parked by the

SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE: S. Garden Ave., report of white utility van in parking lot, two subjects loaded up large box then one male went back into building.

THEFT: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights

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

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Monday, June 13

County Administrative Building

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

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

Pend Oreille Fire District No. 2: 10 a.m. - Fire Station 23, 390442 Highway 20, Ione

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

Oldtown Urban Renewal District Board: 5:30 p.m. Oldtown City Hall, as needed

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

Pend Oreille Fire District No. 6: 6 p.m. - Furport Fire Hall, 7572 LeClerc Road

Friends of the Library: Noon - Priest River Library

Oldtown City Council: 6:30 p.m. - Oldtown City Hall Cusick Town Council: 7 p.m. - Cusick Community Center

Tuesday, June 14 Bonner County Commissioners: 8:45 a.m. - Bonner

Newport School Board: 5 p.m. - District Offices Pend Oreille County Planning Commission Hearings: 6 p.m. - Cusick Community Center Metaline Falls Town Council: 7 p.m. - Metaline Falls Town Hall West Bonner Library

Board: 7 p.m. - Priest River Library Laclede Water District: 7:30 p.m. - Laclede Community Hall

Wednesday, June 15 Pend Oreille Economic Development Council: 8:30 a.m. - Various Locations Diamond Lake Water and Sewer District Board: 10 a.m. - District Office Pend Oreille County Park Board: 2 p.m. - Cusick Community Center West Bonner County School Board: 6 p.m. - District Office, Priest River Fire District No. 4 Commissioners: 6 p.m. - Dalkena Fire Station Ione Town Council: 7 p.m.

- Clerk’s Office

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Please check your ad the first time it appears and immediately report any error to the Classified Department. We regret that we cannot be responsible for more than a one-time incorrect insertion if you do not call the error to our attention.

CASHIER Full and part time.

Apply in person, Usk General Store, 111 5th Street, Usk.(17-3)

Every day is Sale Day in The Newport Miner and Gem State Miner Classifieds.

SHERIFF’S DEPUTY ENTRY and LATERAL

$4076.16/mo. to $4585.69/mo.

Full benefits, union.

Application deadline June 27, 2016, 4pm. Examinations held June 29, 2016.

Civil Service application required. $15.00 Processing fee. Application and job announcement available: www.pendoreilleco.org (Human Resources) or Civil Service, 625 W. 4th, Newport, WA 99156. (509) 447-6480

Current open positions with the Cusick School District:

High School Girl’s Head Volleyball Coach Junior High Head Football Coach High School Head Girl’s Basketball Coach Certificated and Classified Substitutes Substitute Bus Drivers Please visit our website at www.cusick.wednet.edu for details, or call Jennifer at (509) 445-1125 for more information. Equal Opportunity Employer.

PONDERAY NEWSPRINT COMPANY 422767 SR 20; Usk, WA 99180 Ponderay Newsprint in Usk, WA is accepting bids for a janitorial service contractor. Contractor must be licensed, insured, and meet contractor management requirements. Minimum of 3 years commercial cleaning experience required. To obtain a detailed list of responsibilities and schedule a facilities tour please contact Tracy Cox (509) 445-2161 or email: Tracy.Cox@resolutefp.com.

Bid and a current reference list must be received by 4pm on June 16, 2016.

Public Utility District No. 1 of Pend Oreille County Director/Manager, Information Technology and Telecommunications The Information Technology and Telecommunications Director/Manager will supervise and oversee all operational aspects of the District’s information and telecommunications systems in an efficient and economical manner while protecting the integrity, stability, security and confidentiality of the District’s computer and network systems. Provide leadership and participate in tactical and strategic planning to accomplish the District’s mission and goals.

Foster an environment that allows employees to achieve optimal performance and productivity.

Must have experience working in a regulated environment. Experience in managing within the NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) Reliability Standards a plus but not required.

Qualified candidates will have education/training equivalent to a Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field. Such experience must include a working knowledge of a variety of operating systems and application software packages.

An employment application and detailed job description are available at www.popud.org.

Please email the application, along with a resume and cover letter, including salary requirements, to: careers@popud.org; or, mail application materials to P.O. Box 190, Newport WA 99156 Attn: Human Resources. Deadline for submissions is June 17, 2016. Starting rate of pay DOQ; excellent benefit package.

The District is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

has 2 full-time flex positions opened in production. Will cross train in a variety of production positions and be flexible to fill those positions when needed. Requires attention to detail and ability to read blueprints. Must have the ability to learn and retain training. Benefits after 60 days. $10$12 DOE. Apply in person at 265 Shannon Lane, Priest River, ID or contact us online for an application at hr@aerocet.com.

PEND OREILLE COUNTY Tr a n s p o r t a t i o n Technical Specialist. Public Works/ Road Division.

Must possess Bachelor’s or Associate’s degree.

Wage: $3508.59$3718.61/ month depending on experience. See detailed job des c r i p t i o n w w w. pendoreilleco. org. Apply online or in the Human Resources office.

Open until filled.

(17-3) HOUSE CLEANER Needed in Diamond Lake from mid- June to midSeptember. tracyrob9@gmail. com or call (250) 352-5052.(17-3p) JANITORIAL SERVICES For Port of Pend Oreille. See Public Notice #2016178 in this week’s Miner Newspapers.

(18-2) CAREGIVING 2- 12 hour temporary day shifts available for 4-6 weeks. May work into permanent.

NAC or HCA required. Newport.

Call (509) 4470139. (18-4)

FISCAL MANAGER Family Crisis Network. 25 hours/ week. Duties include managing grant monies and payroll. Send resume to Post Office Box 944, Newport, Washington 99156.

(509) 447-2274.

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NEWPORT 801 South Spokane Avenue.

Manufactured home, recently remodeled. $635/ m o n t h , w a t e r, sewer, garbage included. Pets negotiable. (509) 671-7541, (509) 842-0665. (193p)

DIAMOND LAKE WAT E R F R O N T Lovely 2 bedroom 1 bath cabin/ year round lake home. Beautiful view, covered porch faces east/ southeast, gets a lot of sun. WoodNEWPORT stove heat. Level MINI-STORAGE lawn. Dock. Won(509) 447-0119 derful for famEnter at Hwy 41 and ily and children.

1st Street Good neighbors.

Family owned for Lighted & Secure 14 years. 5302 In-Town Location Northshore Diamond Lake Road.

Please call for appointment. Do not disturb tenEVENTS-FESTIVALS a n t s , d r i v e b y okay. $230,000.

P R O M O T E (509) 822-8903.

YOUR REGION(19-3p) 13-6-24 AL EVENT for only pennies. Reach 2.7 million readers in newspaYA R D S A L E S pers statewide for All yard sales are $275 classified or $1,350 display ad. in the Hot Box, last Call this newspa- page of Section per or (360) 515- A.(49-tf) 0974 for details.

LEGAL SERVICES DIVORCE $155. $175 with children.

No court appearances. Complete preparation. Includes custody, support, property division and bills.

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2006 14’ LOWE Fishing boat, trailer, 15 horsepower electric start 4 stroke outboard. $3,000 or best offer. (509) 447-2006 or (509) 850-7112.

(19)

FOR SALE 1976 MGB Roadster convertible.

Roof frame on carcover missing.

Mostly original/ complete. Wire wheels/ needs wiring. Does not run. $1000 or best offer/ possible trade? Call for viewing (509) 981-8240, (509) 447-3337.(18-3p) G R A D U AT I O N PRESENT? Pearl white 1995 Cadillac El Dorado, beautiful car. $6,900. Also 1992 Subaru Legacy, all wheel drive $1,995. (509) 292-8286.(19-3)

All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention, to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.” Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18.

The newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising or real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination call HUD tollfree at 1-800-669-9777. The toll-free telephone number for the hearing impaired is 1-800-927-9275. (31tf)

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CHIROPRACTIC Camas Center Medical & Dental Services Ryan Leisy, DC - (509) 447-7111 1821 N. LeClerc Rd., #1, Cusick, WA 99119

COUNSELING Pend Oreille County Counseling Services

TrussTek Fast, friendly service since 1990

Roof & Floor Trusses Bill • Ed • Marcus • Ted • Jeff

208-267-7471 1-800-269-7471

Substance Abuse Treatment/Prevention/Mental Health/Developmental Disabilities Offices in Newport & Metaline Falls (509) 447-5651

DENTIST Newport Dental Center

James G. Cool, D.M.D. Family Dentistry -- Evening Hours 610 W. 2nd -- (509) 447-3105 • 800-221-9929

Wayne Lemley, D.D.S.

Complete Family Dentistry & Orthodontics 424 N. Warren Ave., Newport -- 447-5960 Toll Free 877-447-5960

M E TA L I N E FA L L S 3 bedroom, 1 bath duplex. Small garage. $650/ month, $300 deposit. 2 bedroom, 1 bath duplex. $600/ month, $200 deposit.

(509) 279-4045, (503) 753-8615.

(17-3p) Every day is Sale Day in The Newport Miner and Gem State Miner Classifieds. Read them every day.

Camas Center Medical & Dental Services

1821 N. LeClerc Rd., #1, Cusick, WA 99119 (509) 447-7111 - (509) 445-1152 fax

Molly Gunsaulis, D.D.S.

Dentistry for Children 15404 E. Springfield, Ste 102 Spokane Valley - (509) 922-1333

HEALTH CLINICS Camas Center Medical & Dental Services 1821 N. LeClerc Rd., #1, Cusick, WA 99119 (509) 447-7111 - (509) 445-1152 fax

HEARING AID CENTERS Professional Hearing Center Jorgen Bang H.I.S. (866) 924-3459, Spokane Valley

Lois Robertson, Licensed Massage Therapist 322 S. Washington -- Newport -- 447-3898

The Willows - Massage & Bodywork Studio Judy C. Fredrickson, RN, LMP Newport -- (509) 671-7035

OPTOMETRIST Newport Vision Source

Drs. Michael & Cheryl Fenno 205 S. Washington -- 447-2945

PHYSICAL THERAPY Priest River Rehab Services

A Service of Bonner General Hospital Tim Gray, P.T. -- 448-4151 Mon.-Wed.-Fri. - 9-5 • Tues. & Thurs. 9-4

Core Physical Therapy

at Club Energy • Newport Gary Schneider PT • (509) 671-3122 Monday thru Friday By Appointment

PODIATRIST -- FOOT SPECIALIST Dr. Brent A. Clark

Patients seen at Newport Hospital twice a month 509-924-2600 -- Call for appointments

PRINTING Printing & Design . . . at The Miner

We Have a Million Ideas for Our Customers!

421 S. Spokane, Newport -- 447-2433

REAL ESTATE Richard Bockemuehl

Century 21 Beutler - Waterfront Office (509) 321-1121 • Cell (509) 951-4390

VICTIMS ASSISTANCE Pend Oreille Crime Victim Services

Serving victims of all crime and the homeless Office 447-2274, 24 hr Helpline: 447-5483

WEB DESIGN AND HOSTING Clearwater Web Design and Video Production Website Development, Management and Hosting http://clearwaterweb.org • (208) 255-8849

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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.

2016174 PUBLIC NOTICE Superior Court Of Washington For Pend Oreille County NO. 16-4-00031-6 Nonprobate Notice To Creditors (RCW 11.42.030) Nonprobate Estate of Gerald W. Sirevog, Deceased.

Please Take Notice As Notice Agent, I have elected to give notice to Decedent’s creditors.

On the date of filing of this Nonprobate Notice to Creditors with the Court: I had no knowledge of: Any other person acting as Notice Agent, or

The appointment of a Personal Representative for Decedent’s probate estate in the state of Washington.

According to the records of the Court that were then available: No cause number regarding Decedent had been issued to any other Notice Agent, and No Personal Representative of Decedent’s probate estate had been appointed.

Any person having a claim against 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 11.42.070: By filing with the Court the original of the signed Creditor’s Claim, and By serving upon or mailing by first class mail to me at the address provided below a copy of the signed Creditor’s Claim.

The Creditor’s Claim must be presented by the later to occur of: Thirty (30) days after I served or mailed this Notice to you as provided in RCW 11.42.020(2)(c), or Four (4) months after the date of first publication of this Notice.

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If the Creditor’s Claim is not presented within the foregoing time period, the claim will be forever barred except as provided in RCW 11.42.050 and 11.42.060. This bar is effective for claims against both the Decedent’s probate and nonprobate assets.

In accordance with RCW 9A.72.085, I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Washington that the foregoing is true and correct to the best of my knowledge.

Aleita I. Sirevog, Notice Agent Denise Stewart Attorney at Law PLLC PO Box 301 Newport, WA 99156 Date of First Publication of this Notice: May 25, 2016 Published in The Newport May 25, June 1 and 8, 2016. (17-3) ___________________________ 2016175 PUBLIC NOTICE Request For Proposals (RFP) For Qualified Residential Electricians, Plumbers, Glaziers, HVAC/Heating System Service/Repair, Weatheriza-

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This project is partially supported by Grant No. F14-43103-419 awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and administered by the Washington State Low Income Weatherization Assistance Program, Washington State Department of Commerce. The total funding for the Low-Income Weatherization Program for the tenure of this proposed contract is projected to be $520,110.

Federal resources are projected to be $231,026 or approximately 44% of the project. Of the remaining funds, $95,084 or approximately 18% is from state resources and $194,000 or approximately 38% from local/private resources. The amounts and percentages illustrated are estimates, subject to change, Continued on 8B

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Continued from 7B and do not reflect Energy Assistance and Rehab projects which will also utilize approved contractors. It is expressly stated that the 1) amount of funding herein referenced is for all aspects of the Low-Income Weatherization Program so no single contractor will be awarded the entire amount, and 2) this document does not represent the official position or policies of DOE or the United States Government.

Scope of Project • To reduce structural heat loss and reduce energy consumption by installing weatherization measures which improve the thermal efficiency of the unit • To provide for the health and safety of the customer within the scope of the project(s) • To provide incidental plumbing, electrical and/or heating equipment service and minor repair within the scope of the project(s) Rural Resources Community Action (RRCA) is a private, non-profit 501(c) 3 agency. RRCA is seeking to establish a list of qualified contractors to perform repair and weatherization in program-eligible homes located in Stevens, Ferry, Pend Oreille, and Lincoln Counties. Weatherization, General, and Professional Service Contractors (Electricians, Plumbers, HVAC, Glaziers, Quality Control Inspectors, & BPI Certified Auditors), will submit prices for common items and/or hourly billing and travel charges as part of the RFP. Evaluation, analysis, and selection for work will be determined using a system outlined in the RFP application packet. Qualified Contractors will be notified of available work on a rotating basis, with availability and timeliness being a priority.

The duration of a contract awarded as a result of this Proposal will be for one year. RRCA reserves the right to extend the contract resulting from this RFP for up to four (4) one (1) year periods, with the same terms and conditions or to make amendments as needed. Contractors that meet the required criteria as specified in the RFP will be considered “qualified” and may be eligible for a contract to provide services as required by RRCA. Small businesses as well as women and minorityowned businesses are encouraged to participate. Prior to requesting the RFP application packet, it is recommended that all prospective contractors visit the following websites for information regarding the Low-Income Weatherization Assistance Program: 1) http://www. waptac.org and 2) http://www.commerce.wa.gov/Programs/services/ weatherization/Pages/WeatherizationTechnicaIDocuments.aspx The information provides guidance regarding the required expectations and standards for participation in the project.

Request for Proposals will open at 9:00 am on May 9,2016. RFP application packets may be picked up at 956 S. Main Ste A, Colville, WA 99114. Request for Proposals prepared on the forms provided in the packet will be received until 4:30 pm on June 10, 2016 at the following address: Rural Resources Community Action Attn: Doreen Hogan, Housing Director 956 S. Main Ste A Colville, WA 99114 Faxed or e-mailed proposals will not be accepted. Proposals received after the date and hour stated will not be considered. All submitted Request for Proposals will become the property of RRCA. Contact (509) 685-6055 or (509) 685-6101 with questions.

Published in The Newport Miner May 25, June 1 and 8, 2016. (17-3) ___________________________ 2016177 PUBLIC NOTICE SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON COUNTY OF PEND OREILLE JUVENILE COURT No: 16-7-00011-2 Notice and Summons by Publication (Termination) (SMPB) (Optional Use) In re the Welfare of: ETHAN LEE-MCGILLIS (DOB: 07/21/2013) To: Teddy, alleged father and/or any Paternal Interest A Petition to Terminate Parental Rights was filed on March 7, 2016; a fact-finding hearing will be held on this matter on July 21, 2016, at 11:00 a.m. at the Pend Oreille County Superior Court, 229 S. Garden Ave., Newport, Washington 99156. You

should be present at this hearing.

The hearing will determine if your parental rights to your child are terminated. If you do not appear at the hearing, the court may enter and order in your absence terminating your parental rights.

To request a copy of the Notice, Summons, and Termination Petition, call DSHS at (509) 447-6216. To view information about your rights, including right to a lawyer, go to www.atg.wa.gov/TRM.aspx.

Dated: 5-19-16 By direction of: Patrick A. Monasmith JUDGE Tammie A. Ownbey Clerk By: /s/Kathy Hill Deputy Clerk Published in The Newport Miner on June 1, 8, and 15, 2016. (18-3) ___________________________ 2016178 PUBLIC NOTICE PORT OF PEND OREILLE REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS JANITORIAL SERVICES The Port of Pend Oreille is soliciting proposals from qualified contractors to provide a variety of janitorial services at the Port office and shop facilities. The facilities include administrative offices as well as designated portions of the shop facilities. The requested services are for janitorial, carpet cleaning, solid surface floor care, and window washing for the facilities.

The Port of Pend Oreille is an equal opportunity employer and requires contractors to be the same.

RFP due date and time is June 13, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. /s/ Kelly J. Driver Published in The Newport Miner on June 1 and 8, 2016. (18-2) ___________________________ 2016180 PUBLIC NOTICE SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON COUNTY OF PEND OREILLE JUVENILE COURT No: 16-7-00009-1 Notice and Summons by Publication (Termination) (SMPB) (Optional Use) In re the Welfare of: ROBERT BELL (DOB: 01/22/2009) To: PHILLIP BELL, Father A Petition to Terminate Parental Rights was filed on February 2, 2016; a fact-finding hearing will be held on this matter on July 21, 2016, at 11:00 a.m. at the Pend Oreille County Superior Court, 229 S. Garden Ave., Newport, Washington 99156. You should be present at this hearing.

The hearing will determine if your parental rights to your child are terminated. If you do not appear at the hearing, the court may enter and order in your absence terminating your parental rights.

To request a copy of the Notice, Summons, and Termination Petition, call DSHS at (509) 447-6216. To view information about your rights, including right to a lawyer, go to www.atg.wa.gov/TRM.aspx.

Dated: 5-25-16 By direction of: Patrick A. Monasmith JUDGE Tammie A. Ownbey Clerk By: /s/Kathy Hill Deputy Clerk Published in The Newport Miner on June 1, 8, and 15, 2016. (18-3) ____________________________ 2016179 PUBLIC NOTICE CALL FOR BIDS Sealed bids will be received through Monday, June 27, 2016, 11:00 a.m., bids will be opened by the Selkirk School Board of Directors for Milk products at the June Regular Board of Directors Meeting on June 27, 2016. Approximately 21,000 halfpints 1% Grade A homogenized milk, approximately 20,000 halfpints nonfat chocolate milk, and approximately 5,000 half-pints lowfat strawberry milk. All milk must meet U.S.D.A. standards. For bid information and bid forms please contact the Selkirk School District at (509) 446-2951, or P.O. Box 129, Metaline Falls, WA 99153.

The Board of Directors reserves the right to reject any or all bids.

Published in The Newport Miner on June 8 and 15, 2016. (19-2) ___________________________

2016181 2016 MRSC ROSTERS SMALL PUBLIC WORKS, CONSULTANT, and VENDOR ROSTERS For Participating Washington State Local Government Agencies Located In Eastern Washington The Municipal Research and Services Center of Washington (MRSC) hereby advertises on behalf of local government agencies in Washington State (local governments) in Eastern Washington (Okanogan, Chelan, Douglas, Grant, Adams, Whitman, Garfield, Asotin, Spokane, Lincoln, Ferry Stevens, and Pend Oreille counties), including - but not limited to - cities (Title 35 RCW and Title 35A RCW), counties (Title 36 RCW), port districts (Title 53 RCW), water- sewer districts (Title 57 RCW), school districts and educational service districts (Title 28A RCW), fire districts (Title 52 RCW), transit agencies (e.g., Ch. 35.58 RCW, Ch. 36.57A RCW, Ch. 36.73 RCW, Title 81 RCW), and public utility districts (Title 54 RCW), for their projected needs for small public works estimated to cost $300,000 or less, and for consulting services throughout 2016. Additionally, MRSC advertises on behalf of some local government for their projected needs for vendor services throughout 2016. Interested businesses may apply at any time by visiting the MRSC Rosters website at www.mrscrosters.org.

For questions about MRSC Rosters, email mrscrosters@mrsc.org.

SMALL PUBLIC WORKS ROSTERS: Service categories include construction, building, renovation, remodeling, alteration, repair, or improvement of real property as referenced in RCW 39.04.155. Subcategories can be viewed on the MRSC Rosters website.

CONSULTANT ROSTERS: Service categories include architectural, engineering, and surveying services as referenced in Chapter 39.80 RCW, as well as other personal and professional consulting services.

Sub-categories can be viewed on the MRSC Rosters website.

VENDOR ROSTERS: Service categories include supplies, materials, and equipment not being purchased in connection with public works contracts and limited service contracts as referenced in RCW 39.04.190.

Subcategories can be viewed on the MRSC Rosters website.

Currently subscribing local government which have their Small Works Roster, Consultant Roster, and Vendor Roster hosted by MRSC Rosters: Adams County Public Hospital District No. 3, Asotin County Rural Library District, Bridgeport School District, Chelan County FPD 6, Chelan-Douglas PTBA, Cheney Public Schools (Cheney School District # 360), City of Airway Heights, City of Brewster, City of Cheney, City of Chewelah, City of Colfax, City of East Wenatchee, City of George, City of Grand Coulee, City of Kettle Falls, City of Mattawa, City of Medical Lake, City of Othello, City of Quincy, City of Royal City, City of Sprague, Eastmont Metropolitan Park District, Enduris Washington, Ferry County, Medical Lake School District, Okanogan Conservation District, Okanogan County Public Hospital District #4, Okanogan Irrigation District, Pend Oreille County, Pend Oreille County Fire District #4, Quincy School District, South Pend Oreille Fire & Rescue, Spokane Conservation District, Spokane County Fire District 8, The Greater Wenatchee Regional Events Center Public Facilities District, Town of Conconully, Town of Coulee City, Town of Coulee Dam, Town of Ione, Town of Mansfield, Town of Odessa, Town of Riverside, Town of Rosalia, Town of Springdale, Town of Waterville, Waterville School District #209.

Currently subscribing local governments which have only their Small Works Roster and Consultant Roster hosted by MRSC Rosters: Chelan County, Chelan County Public Hospital District #1, Chelan County Public Hospital District #2, City of Bridgeport, City of Ephrata, City of Moses Lake, City of Omak, City of Soap Lake, Grant County, Grant County Port District No.1, Pend Oreille County Fire District #8, Spokane Regional Clean Air Agency, Town of Creston, Town of Marcus, Town of Northport, Town of Reardan, Town of Wilbur, Wenatchee School District #246.

Some or all of the local governments listed above may choose to use the MRSC Rosters service to select businesses. Master contracts for certain types of work may be required. In accordance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 252, 42 U.S.C. 2000d to

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2000d-4, and Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Department of Transportation, Subtitle A, Office of the Secretary, Part 21, Nondiscrimination in Federally Assisted Programs of the Department of Transportation Issued Pursuant to Such Act, these local governments hereby notify all businesses that they will affirmatively ensure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged business enterprises as defined at 49 CFR Part 26 will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids or proposals in response to any invitations and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, national origin, or sex in consideration for an award.

Published in The Newport Miner on June 8, 2016. (19) ___________________________ 2016184 PUBLIC NOTICE City of Newport Notice of Vendor Roster and Small Works Roster Pursuant to Ordinance No. 957, the City of Newport maintains a Vendor Roster for purchasing materials, supplies and equipment, as well as a Small Works Roster for public works projects involving the construction, alteration, repair or improvements of public facilities. Once on the roster, contractors and vendors need not resubmit an application.

Applications for either roster may be obtained from the City of Newport, 200 S. Washington Ave., Newport, WA 99156 or by telephone at (509) 447-5611.

Published in The Newport Miner on June 8, 2016. (19) ___________________________ 2016185 PUBLIC NOTICE Notice of Application Notice is hereby given that Pend Oreille County did on May 22nd, 2016, receive a complete application from Peggy Cuddy requesting a variance from the Pend Oreille County Building Regulations (Chapter XX.84), to build a new house, garage and deck 15 feet from the front property line. The Pend Oreille County building regulations require all structures to be placed/ constructed at least 25 feet from front property lines. LOCATION: 632 CUDDY RESIDENCE PARCEL #453232-52-9011; Within Sec. 32, TWN. 32, R45E, WM. Any person desiring to express their views or to be notified of the action taken on this application should contact the Community Development Dept. A copy of the complete file may be examined by the public between 8:00 AM & 4:30 PM at the Courthouse, Lower Level, 625 West 4th, Newport, WA 99156, (509) 447-4821. Contact: Mike Lithgow, Community Development Director. Written comments from the public may be submitted to the County no later than 4:30 PM, June 23rd 2016 after which an administrative decision will be made the County Community Development Director.

Dated: June 01, 2016 Published in The Newport Miner on June 8, 2016. (19) ___________________________ 2016186 PUBLIC NOTICE Notice of Application Notice is hereby given that Pend Oreille County did on May 22nd, 2016, receive a complete application from Michael & Cheryl McDonald requesting a variance from the Pend Oreille County Frequently Flooded Areas Regulations (Chapter XX.36.070), to build a new house 2 inches below the required elevation.

The Pend Oreille County floodplain regulations require all residential structures to be built so that the top of the lowest living floor is 1 foot above the Base Flood Elevation. LOCATION: 428864 HWY. 20 PARCEL #443236-06-9007; Within Sec. 36, TWN. 32, R44E, WM. Any person desiring to express their views or to be notified of the action taken on this application should contact the Community Development Dept. A copy of the complete file may be examined by the public between 8:00 AM & 4:30 PM at the Courthouse, Lower Level, 625 West 4th, Newport, WA 99156, (509) 447-4821. Contact: Mike Lithgow, Community Development Director.

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Dated: June 01, 2016 Published in The Newport Miner on June 8, 2016. (19) ___________________________ 2016188 PUBLIC NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE Cusick School District Board of Directors announce the following 2016-2017 Fiscal Budget. Let it be publicly known to all persons that Cusick School District No 59, Pend Oreille County, State of Washington, has completed preparation of the 2016-2017 Fiscal Budget. Also let it be publicly known to all persons that the Board of Directors will meet in a public meeting at 3:30 p.m. on June 21, 2016 in the library for the purpose of fixing and adopting the 2016-2017 Fiscal Budget. All inquiries regarding this notice should be directed to Don Hawpe, Superintendent, at (509) 445-1125.

Cusick School District No. 59 Don Hawpe, Supt.

Published in The Newport Miner on June 8th and June 15th, 2016. (19-2) ___________________________ 2016189 PUBLIC NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE The following ordinance was adopted at the regular meeting of the Town of Ione Council on June 1, 2016. The complete text of the ordinances is available for review at the Clerk’s office during regular business hours.

ORDINANCE NO. 587 An emergency exists in the office of the Treasurer of the Town of Ione relating to the 2016 annual budget, which emergency could not have been reasonably foreseen at the time of adoption. The said emergency arises from clerical error current budget $1,487,512 amended to $1,508,012. Underestimated appropriation in Fund 401 $35,000 for water line repair and line installation, Fund 302 $1,500 for window replacement, Fund 316 the receipt of grant money from Department of Health EMS $1,290, the sum is hereby appropriated, transfer from Fund 001 to Fund 326 Park Reserve funds received from PUD, the sum is hereby appropriated. /s/ Sandy Hutchinson Town Clerk/Treasurer Published in The Newport Miner on June 8, 2016. (19) ____________________________ 2016190 PUBLIC NOTICE Ordinance No. 320 An ordinance of the Town of Cusick repealing a moratorium and amending the town’s development regulations to prohibit the establishment,

location, permitting, licensing, and/ or the operation of facilities associated with the commercial growing and production, or the retail sales of cannabis for recreational or medical uses; adopting findings of fact; providing for severability; and declaring an emergency.

Passed and approved by the town council of the Town of Cusick this 9th day of May 2016.

This ordinance in its entirety can be obtained from the Clerk’s office at the Town Hall, Cusick.

Ss/ Chris Evers Attest: Charlotte Yergens, Clerk/ Treasurer Published in The Newport Miner on June 8, 2016. (19) ___________________________ 2016191 PUBLIC NOTICE Ordinance No. 321 TOWN OF CUSICK ORDINANCE ADOPTING POLICY FOR PARKING FEE IN BOAT LAUNCH PARKING LOT AS ALLOWED IN RCW 35.23.454 AND PROVIDING FOR THE ADOPTION AND EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF Section 1. Purpose The purpose of Ordinance #321 is to adopt policies for the Cusick Town Park with inclusion of a parking fee in the Boat Launch parking lot of the Town of Cusick.

Passed and approved by the Town Council of the Town of Cusick this 9TH day of May 2016.

This ordinance in its entirety can be obtained from the Clerk’s office at the Town Hall, Cusick.

Ss/ Chris Evers Attest: Charlotte Yergens, Clerk/ Treasurer Published in The Newport Miner on June 8, 2016. (19) ____________________________ 2016192 PUBLIC NOTICE Ordinance No. 322 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE 2016 BUDGET of the TOWN of CUSICK , AS ADOPTED IN ORDINANCE NO. 315 WHEREAS, the Town of Cusick adopted the 2016 budget in final form

by Ordinance No. 315 on the 9th day of November , 2015 and WHEREAS, subsequent thereto it has become necessary for the Town to amend said ordinance because of revenues and expenditures of same, which could not reasonably have been foreseen at the time of adopting said budget; and WHEREAS, said expenditures are not one of the emergencies specifically enumerated in RCW 35.33.081; and WHEREAS, the Town is desirous of amending its budget pursuant to RCW 35.33.121; NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the Town of Cusick, Washington as follows: Section 1. The following accounts contained in the 2016 Budget and

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new revenue account is hereby amended as set forth below:

Budget Amendment Total Expenditure Water/Sewer Fund (#401) DOH & CDBG grants $ 12,000 $49,000.00 $61,000 Revenues DOH & CDBG grants $00.0 $49,000.00 $49,000 Water collections $170,000 $10,000 $180,000 Parking collections $00.0 $1,600. $1,600 PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF CUSICK this 9TH day of May 2016.

This ordinance in its entirety can be obtained from the Clerk’s office at the Town Hall, Cusick. /s/ Chris Evers Attest: Charlotte Yergens, Clerk/ Treasurer Published in The Newport Miner on June 8, 2016 (19) ____________________________ 2016193 PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, the Town of Cusick Town Council is proposing annexation into Pend Oreille County Fire District #4. Citizens will be given an opportunity to comment on June 13th, 6:00 p.m. at the Cusick Community Center. Charlotte Yergens, Town Clerk/ Treasurer Published in The Newport Miner on June 8, 2016. (19) ___________________________ 2016194 PUBLIC NOTICE Notice of Application Pursuant to County Development Regulations, notice is hereby given that Pend Oreille County did on April 6, 2016, receive a complete Vacation Rental Permit Application, from Patricia Milliken, and did on June 6, 2016 issue a Determination of Completeness for “The Milliken Vacation Rental”. Location: Within Sect. 32, T32N, R45E WM, 612 Yergens Rd., Newport, WA 99156. Any person desiring to express their views, or to be notified of the action taken on this application should contact the Pend Oreille County Community Development Department. The submitted application and related file documents may be examined by the public between 8:00 AM & 4:30 PM at the Pend Oreille County Courthouse, Lower Level, 625 West 4th, Newport, WA 99156, (509) 447-4821. Contact: Mike Lithgow, Community Development Director.

Written comments from the public may be submitted to Pend Oreille County no later than June 23rd, 2016. A final decision will be made by the Community Development Director after the comment period

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Required Permits: Vacation Rental Permit (Pend Oreille County) Dated: June 06, 2016 Published in The Newport Miner on June 8 and 15, 2016. (19-2) ___________________________ 2016195 PUBLIC NOTICE Notice of Application Pursuant to County Development Regulations, notice is hereby given that Pend Oreille County did on June 1st, 2016 received a complete Shoreline Substantial Development Permit Application, Joint Aquatic Resources Permit Application, and associated documents from Pend Oreille County Public Works and did on June 2nd, 2016 issue a Determination of Completeness for a Boulder Maintenance Project (FILE NO. SSDP-16-006), Location: On Sullivan Lake Road (MP 6.79) Ione WA 99139; Sec. 30, Town. 38, Range 44. Any person desiring to express their views, or to be notified of the action taken on this application should contact the Pend Oreille County Community Development Department. The submitted application and related file documents may be examined by the public between 8:00 AM & 4:30 PM at the Pend Oreille County Courthouse, Annex Building, 418 South Scott Street, Newport, WA 99156, (509) 447-4821 and viewed at www.pendoreilleco.org.

Contact: Andy Huddleston, Community Development Department Assistant Planner, (509) 447-6462, ahuddleston@pendoreille.org. Written comments from the public may be submitted to Pend Oreille County no later than June 23rd 2016.

Required Permits: Shoreline Substantial Development Permit (Pend Oreille County), Floodplain Development Permit (Pend Oreille County), Hydraulic Project Approval (WDFW), and if applicable- Army Corp Permit (Corps of Engineers) Washington Department of Natural Resources (WA DNR) Dated: June 2, 2016 Published in The Newport Miner on June 8 and 15, 2016. (19-2) ____________________________ 2016196 PUBLIC NOTICE Notice of Application Pursuant to County Development Regulations, notice is hereby given that Pend Oreille County did on June 2, 2016 received a complete Shoreline Substantial Development Permit Application, Joint Aquatic Resources Permit Application, SEPA and associated documents from Doug Cole for Travis Thompson and did on June 6, 2016 issue a Determination of Completeness for a Bank Stabilization Project (FILE NO. SSDP-16-007), Location: On the Pend Oreille River @ 522 Yergens Road, Newport, WA 99156; Sec. 32, Town. 32, Range 45. Any person Continued on 10B

2016182 PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF BUDGET HEARING West Bonner County School District #83-Bonner County, Idaho NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to Section 33-801 of the Idaho Code, The BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF WEST BONNER COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, #83, Bonner County Idaho, has designated June 15,2016 6:00 p.m., at WBCSD Administrative Office, 134 Main Street Priest River, Idaho, as the time and place to hold the Budget Hearing for the 2016-17 fiscal year budget. Copies of the proposed tentative budget, showing proposed receipts and expenditures are available for public inspection at the School District Office at 134 Main, Priest River, Idaho 83856 between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, from the date of this notice until the date of the hearing, and will also be available at the Budget Hearing.

Dated this 27th Day of May, 2016 /s/Jennifer Phillips, Clerk of the Board West Bonner County School District #83 GENERAL FUND M&O ALL OTHER FUNDS

PRIOR YEAR PRIOR YEAR PROPOSED PRIOR YEAR PRIOR YEAR PROPOSED

ACTUAL ACTUAL BUDGET ACTUAL ACTUAL BUDGET

2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 REVENUES BEGINNING BALANCES $125,679 $109,040 $368,025 $278,681 $67,924 $75,000 LOCAL TAX REVENUE $3,223,412 $3,220,490 $3,210,89 $ - $ OTHER LOCAL $112,190 $101,846 $232,832 $56,599 $12,000 $45,000 STATE REVENUE $6,059,193 $6,207,331 $5,955,578 $83,793 $80,382 $89,797 FEDERAL REVENUE $1,627,056 $1,645,398 $1,587,923 OTHER SOURCES $30,344 $3,169 $172,760 $150,369 $83,286

TOTALS $9,550,818 $9,641,876 $9,767,327 $2,218,889 $1,956,073 $1,881,006 EXPENDITURES SALARIES BENEFITS PURCHASED SERVICES SUPPLIES & MATERIALS CAPTIAL OUTLAY DEBT RETIREMENT

$5,517,330 $1,886,703 $1,069,140 $699,449 $124,725 $29,822

INSURANCE & JUDGEMENTS

$50,889

$5,439,060 $1,961,711 $1,148,833 $685,551 $136,430 $29,822

$5,674,333 $1,982,425 $1,101,058 $629,312 $197,953 $29,822

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P o lic e R e p o rt s From Page 5B TRAFFIC OFFENSE: Hwy. 31 ANIMAL PROBLEM: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PHYSICAL: Hwy. 2, complainant reports girlfriend attacked him in car.

MISSING PERSON: Hwy. 2, complainant reports grandfather is not at residence, first aid kit is on the table, and grandfather does not drive.

SUSPICIOUS PERSON: 2nd Ave., report of female in red hoody and white dress stepping out into traffic.

GUNSHOT: Driskill Rd., report of accidental gunshot wound to the hand.

SUSPICIOUS PERSON: Box Canyon Dam, complainant states male at campground is acting strange and talking to himself; keeps contacting complainant after she told him not to.

SUSPICIOUS PERSON: S. Scott Ave., Newport, report of male in area looking in cars.

DRUG INFORMATION: W. Kelly Drive, report of people outside possibly doing drug deal.

ANIMAL PROBLEM: Northshore Diamond Lake, report of chestnut colored horse jogging down the roadway.

TRESPASSING: Addison St.

Saturday, June 4

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights THEFT: S. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights, report of shoplifting at location.

RECOVERED VEHICLE: W. 6th Ave. SUSPICIOUS PERSON: Quail Loop, report of male subject that seems incoherent walking down street.

JUNK VEHICLE: Berry Rd., report of junk vehicle on property.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: Hwy. 31, report that male jumped from bridge.

NOISE COMPLAINT: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights ARREST: Hwy. 2, Kurt A. Thomas, 27, of Spokane arrested for refusing to obey a police officer and possession of a dangerous weapon at a school.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VERBAL: Valley View Drive, report of neighbors in trailer at end of street yelling at each other.

VEHICLE FIRE: E. 4th St., report of vehicle fire smoke only from inside of vehicle.

INTOXICATION: Summer Pl, report of intoxicated male.

TIMBER FIRE: Middle Fork, report of slash pile unattended, out of control.

AGENCY ASSIST: Waterfront Park, report of agency assist on search for lost child.

ANIMAL PROBLEM: W. Walnut St., Newport

SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights AGENCY ASSIST: LeClerc Rd. S., report of assist with swimmer.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: McAvoy Ave., report of three males putting stuff in a Dodge truck.

PURSUIT: Hwy. 31 THREATENING: Coyote Trail, report of neighbors making threatening remarks to complainant.

Published in The Newport Miner on June 8 and 15, 2016. (19-2) ____________________________ 2016197 PUBLIC NOTICE Combined Notice of Application and Action Pend Oreille County did on June 2, 2016 receive a complete Shoreline Authorization Application, SEPA Environmental Checklist, and associated documents from David Hood for Marsha Dilling and did on June 3, 2016 issue a Determination of Completeness for installation of bank stabilization project and dock replacement on the Pend Oreille River. (FILE NO. SA-16-017), Location: 1901 Riverbend Loop Road; Parcel# 443406500005 An Environmental Checklist under the State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) was prepared by the applicant on May 23, 2016 and the county expects to issue a Determination of Non-Significance for this project. The optional DNS process is being used and this may be the only opportunity to comment on the environmental impacts for the proposal (WAC 197-11-355). The submitted application and related file documents may be examined by the public between 8:00 AM & 4:30 PM at the Pend Oreille County Courthouse, Annex Building, 418 South Scott Street, Newport, WA 99156, (509) 447-4821 and viewed at www.pendoreilleco.org. Contact: Andy Huddleston, Community Development Assistant Planner, (509) 447-6462, ahuddleston@ pendoreille.org. Written comments from the public may be submitted to Pend Oreille County no later than June 23, 2016.

Required Permits: Shoreline Authorization (Pend Oreille County), Floodplain Development Permit (Pend Oreille County), Hydraulic Project Approval (WDFW) Army Corp of Engineers (Approval Letter) Dated: June 6, 2016

DISTURBANCE: Tesoro SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights WEAPON OFFENSE: W. 1st St., report of gunshot in the area.

Sunday, May 5 ACCIDENT: Hwy. 20, report of vehicle injury accident.

DECEASED PERSON: Spring Valley Rd.

ford Rd., Airway Heights, report of male sleeping in car.

SHOPLIFTING: Hwy. 2, Priest River

ASSAULT: Schaefers Beach Drive, report of an assault.

TRAFFIC HAZARD: Hwy. 2, Priest River

THEFT: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights ANIMAL PROBLEM: Hwy. 2, report that neighbor’s dog attacked another dog.

TRAFFIC HAZARD: Hwy. 20 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VERBAL: Orrs Corner Rd.

THEFT: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PHYSICAL: N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights

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AUTOMOBILE THEFT: Locke Cutoff Rd., report of motorcycle stolen today.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VERBAL: S. Spokane Ave., Newport

MISSING PERSON: 6th St., Priest River

ACCIDENT: Hayford Rd., Airway Heights, report of vehicle non-injury accident.

NON-INJURY ACCIDENT: Spirit Lake Cutoff, Spirit Lake

ARREST: Coyote Trail, Kyle E. Seal, 36, of Newport arrested on local warrant.

THREATENING: South Ave., complainant is being threatened by known subject over the phone.

BURGLARY: Dawson Lane, report that someone came into apartment through window yesterday.

SUSPICIOUS PERSON: W. 1st St. SUSPICIOUS PERSON: W. 1st St., report of people in the park.

NOISE COMPLAINT: Viewpoint Rd. NOISE COMPLAINT: Spring Valley Rd., report of loud music playing in the area.

SUSPICIOUS PERSON: Hwy. 2, report of suspicious male

Continued from 9B desiring to express their views, or to be notified of the action taken on this application should contact the Pend Oreille County Community Development Department. The submitted application and related file documents may be examined by the public between 8:00 AM & 4:30 PM at the Pend Oreille County Courthouse, Annex Building, 418 South Scott Street, Newport, WA 99156, (509) 447-4821 and viewed at www. pendoreilleco.org. Contact: Andy Huddleston, Community Development Department Assistant Planner, (509) 447-6462, ahuddleston@ pendoreille.org. Written comments from the public may be submitted to Pend Oreille County no later than June 23, 2016.

Required Permits: Shoreline Substantial Development Permit (Pend Oreille County), Floodplain Development Permit (Pend Oreille County), Hydraulic Project Approval (WDFW), Army Corp Permit (Corps of Engineers) Dated: June 6, 2016

hitchhiking.

Published in The Newport Miner on June 8 and 15, 2016. (19-2) ___________________________ 2016198 PUBLIC NOTICE Notice of Application Pursuant to County Development Regulations, notice is hereby given that Pend Oreille County did on June 6, 2016 received a complete Shoreline Substantial Development Permit Application, Joint Aquatic Resources Permit Application, SEPA and associated documents from William J. Kelly and did on June 6, 2016 issue a Determination of Completeness for installation of a dock & ramp (FILE NO. SSDP-16008), Location: On the Pend Oreille River @ 221 Dilling Road, Cusick, WA 99119; Sec. 05, Town. 34, Range 44, Parcel #: 443405510018. Any person desiring to express their views, or to be notified of the action taken on this application should contact the Pend Oreille County Community Development Department. The submitted application and related file documents may be examined by the public between 8:00 AM & 4:30 PM at the Pend Oreille County Courthouse, Annex Building, 418 South Scott Street, Newport, WA 99156, (509) 447-4821 and viewed at www.pendoreilleco.org.

Contact: Andy Huddleston, Community Development Department Assistant Planner, (509) 447-6462, ahuddleston@pendoreille.org. Written comments from the public may be submitted to Pend Oreille County no later than June 23, 2016.

Required Permits: Shoreline Substantial Development Permit (Pend Oreille County), Floodplain Development Permit (Pend Oreille County), Hydraulic Project Approval (WDFW), Army Corp Permit (Corps of Engineers) Dated: June 6, 2016 Published in The Newport Miner on June 8 and 15, 2016. (19-2) ___________________________ 2016199 PUBLIC NOTICE Legal Notice POCLD Board of Trustees Emergency Meeting. Chair Katherine Schutte has called for an emergency meeting of the POCLD Board of Trustees for Friday, June 10, 2016 at 9 AM in the District Office.

Published in The Newport Miner on June 8, 2016. (19) ___________________________ 2016200 PUBLIC NOTICE Pend Oreille PUD #1, Scott Jungblom, PO Box 547 Ione, WA 99139, is seeking coverage under the Washington State Department of Ecology’s Construction Stormwater NPDES and State Waste Discharge General Permit.

The proposed project, Box Canyon Dam Upstream Fish Passage, is located at 7492 Highway 31 in Ione in Pend Oreille County. This project

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PHYSICAL: South Skookum Lake SUSPICIOUS PERSON: W. Pine St., report of male from earlier calls wearing olive green shirt, blue pants.

ANIMAL PROBLEM: Hwy. 2, report of ongoing issue with neighbors’ dogs coming onto complainant’s property.

SUSPICIOUS PERSON: N. Newport Ave. ACCIDENT: Knott Rd., report of vehicle non-injury accident.

SUSPICIOUS PERSON: Hwy. 211, report of a male laying along the side of the road by an orange pickup.

SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE: W. 2nd SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE: S. Hay-

Monday, May 30

CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE: Hwy. 2 and N. Washington Ave., Oldtown

Tuesday, May 31 RECKLESS DRIVING: Hwy. 57, Priest River ANIMAL PROBLEM: Hwy. 57, Priest River VEHICLE THEFT: Clagstone Rd., Spirit Lake DUI, ALCOHOL, OR DRUGS: LeClerc Rd., Oldtown, William Donley, 47, of Newport, was arrested for DUI and possession of marijuana.

Wednesday, June 1

involves 3 acres of soil disturbance for other (fish ladder construction) construction activities. The receiving waterbody is Pend Oreille River.

Any persons desiring to present their views to the Washington State Department of Ecology regarding this application, or interested in Ecology’s action on this application, may notify Ecology in writing no later than 30 days of the last date of publication of this notice. Ecology reviews public comments and considers whether discharges from this project would cause a measurable change in receiving water quality, and, if so, whether the project is

Thursday, June 2 ARREST: Hwy. 2, Priest River, Alexander Larsen, 24, Spokane, was arrested on a misdemeanor warrant.

Friday, June 3 RECKLESS DRIVING: Hwy. 41, Spirit Lake MARINE INCIDENT: S. Granite Bay Rd., Nordman ABANDONED VEHICLE: Eastshore Rd., Coolin Saturday, June 4 DUI, ALCOHOL, OR DRUGS: Riley Creek Park Drive, Priest River SUSPICIOUS PERSON/CIRCUMSTANCE: Binarch Creek Pit, Priest Lake NON-INJURY ACCIDENT: Hwy. 57, Priest Lake

Sunday, June 5 TRESPASSING: Hwy. 2, Priest River BATTERY: Hwy. 57, Priest River RECKLESS DRIVING: Hwy. 2, Oldtown THEFT OF PROPERTY: Akre Drive, Blanchard

necessary and in the overriding public interest according to Tier II antidegradation requirements under WAC 173-201A-320.

Comments can be submitted to: Department of Ecology Attn: Water Quality Program, Construction Stormwater P.O. Box 47696, Olympia, WA 98504-7696 Published in The Newport Miner on June 8 and 15, 2016. (19-2) ___________________________

Saturday June 25 Newport City Park Rodeo Weekend

Live Music all day!

‘Sumo’ Wrestling Pulled Pork BBQ Silly String Tag Jousting Chicken Poop bingo Vendors Stick Horse Races

(Get your stick horse at The Miner, Petroglyph, Cork & Barrel, ALbeni Falls Building Supply)

... And Lots more!

Beer and Wine Garden Want a booth? $40 - call The Miner 509-447-2433 Deadline June 10