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Carnival comes back to Newport Rodeo

BY MICHELLE NEDVED OF THE MINER

NEWPORT – The carnival is back during Newport Rodeo weekend. The much-missed carnival, by Paradise Amusements, has been absent during Newport Rodeo weekend, June

22-23 this year, for the past several years.

Monica Dowis, manager of Paradise Amusements, said it was the tenacity of Rodeo Association President Ray Hanson that got the carnival back.

“Because Ray wouldn’t stop calling Monica,” she said with

a laugh. “It just worked out we were able to do it.”

She said she’s hoping the community comes out in droves to make the venture worthwhile.

While the Newport Rodeo is Friday and Saturday, the carnival will be in town four days, from Thursday, June 21

through Sunday, June 24. A family fun night with discounted tickets will be offered, but the details were unknown at press time, Dowis said.

The carnival will include three adult rides, three children’s rides, games and carnival food booths.

Rodeo weekend will also include Festivities in the Park, put on by the Newport/Priest River Rotary Club. Held at Newport City Park, next to the rodeo grounds, it runs from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, with SEE CARNIVAL, 2A

PacWest wants Environmental Impact Statement for smelter

BY DON GRONNING OF THE MINER

NEWPORT – Several months behind schedule, PacWest Silicon Inc., formerly known as HiTest Sands, asked the state Department of Ecology on June 5 if they can skip the State Environmental Policy Act checklist and proceed to an Environmental Impact Statement.

“PacWest wants to accelerate the SEPA process by launching the public scoping process for an EIS prior to submitting any applications for licenses or permits,” PacWest Silicon, Inc.’s Chief Operating Officer Jayson Tymko writes in a June 5 letter to state Department of Ecology Regional Director Grant Pfeifer. An EIS would have been SEE PACWEST, 2A

Smelter opponents file lawsuit

BY DON GRONNING OF THE MINER

SPOKANE – Two citizen groups and individuals opposed to the proposed silicon smelter to be built within a couple miles of Newport filed a lawsuit in Spokane County Superior Court seeking to overturn the sale of land by the Pend Oreille PUD to HiTest Silicon.

Citizens Against Newport Silicon Smelter (CANSS) and Responsible

Growth*Northeast Washington (“RG*NEW”) filed the lawsuit June 6, along with Theodore and Phyllis Kardos, Denise D. Teeples, Gretchen L. Koenig, Sheryl L. Miller, James W. and Rosemary Chandler and Pamela Byers Luby.

The citizen groups had sent a demand letter to the PUD a month ago, requesting that the land sale to HiTest Sand, Inc. be unwound SEE CANSS, 2A

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Apartment fire Firefighters battled an apartment fire in Newport Friday afternoon, June 8. The cause of the fire is still under investigation, but there were no injuries, according to fire inspector Chris Lee Smith. The fire displaced seven adults and 12 children. Pend Oreille Counseling Service and Lifeline Ministries are accepting donations of household items and toiletries. Donations can be dropped off at Pend Oreille Counseling Services during business hours.

Castro, County part ways with differing takes on his leaving

BY SOPHIA ALDOUS OF THE MINER

NEWPORT – Former Pend Oreille County Public Works Director Sam Castro was asked to leave his position earlier than he had planned, being put on paid administrative leave until his last day in office, which was scheduled for June 15.

According to Castro he was basically told to leave last Friday, June 8, by Pend Oreille County Commissioner Mike Manus.

Manus and fellow commissioners

Steve Kiss and Karen Skoog said Tuesday that Castro left on his own terms.

“I don’t think we really have much to comment on,” Board Chair Kiss said in a phone call with all three. “Sam left of his own volition.”

Castro, who has worked for the county for almost eight years, submitted his letter of resignation on May 15. He had told the Pend Oreille County Board of Commissioners that he wanted to spend more time with his family, particularly his grandchildren, and he

was looking into opening his own utilities consultation business.

According to Castro, on Friday, June 8, he was approached in the courthouse by Manus who asked him if he had any vacation time coming up. The conversation quickly turned to Manus saying it would be better if Castro “left early,” according to Castro.

“It was made clear to me that my presence was no longer required,” Castro said later Friday. “I left SEE CASTRO, 2A

B R I E F LY Hazardous materials and mass casualty emergency exercise NEWPORT – The Local Emergency Planning Committee is testing the Pend Oreille County Comprehensive Emergency Plan Saturday morning June 16 in Newport.

They will be simulating a hazardous materials and mass casualty incident.

Emergency vehicles will be in the north Newport area to the Newport Hospital all morning.

The exercise will be completed by noon.

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PRIEST RIVER – The Beardmore Building will be the site of the Priest River Chamber Meet and Greet for business networking and vendor booths Tuesday, June 26, 6-8 p.m. Vendor booths are free to chamber members and $10 for non-chamber members. Admission to the event is free and for $10 participants can eat at the potato bar.

The Beardmore Building is located at 119 Main St. For more information, go to www.priestriverchamber.com.

NEWPORT – The United Church of Christ in Newport will host a blood drive Thursday, June 21, 12-5 p.m.

The drive is coordinated by Inland Northwest Blood Center and walk-ins and ore-registrations are welcome.

INBC needs an average of 200 blood donors every day to meet the needs of more than 35 hospitals in the inland northwest.

For more information, call 208-659-7085.

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CANSS: Lawsuit asks court to declare land sale void FROM PAGE 1A

and the public land returned.

“Instead of declaring the land transactions void, the PUD responded by hiring an attorney and adopting a resolution, seeking to ‘cover up’ its illegal actions after the fact,” CANSS president Deborah Barker wrote in a news release about the lawsuit.

PUD General Manager Colin Willenbrock said the PUD will review the lawsuit and defend against it.

“While the PUD is still reviewing the complaint, it’s clear that the claims are based on an incomplete and inaccurate set of facts,” Willenbrock wrote in

an email. “The PUD’s actions described in the complaint were done in conformance with state law. This lawsuit will not keep us from working hard every day to provide all of our customers with quality service at low cost.”

The lawsuit asks the court to declare that the PUD acted outside its authority when it bought a parcel from Pend Oreille County and to declare the purchase void. For the same reason, the lawsuit asks the land sale to HiTest Sand be declared void. It asks that the PUD be prohibited from buying the land from the county and selling it to HiTest. It also asks that the county

resolution authorizing the sale to the PUD be declared void, as well as any other relief the court deems appropriate.

According to the lawsuit, the case was filed in Spokane County Superior Court because that court has jurisdiction “to hear all cases at law for which jurisdiction has not been vested by law exclusively in some other court.”

Pend Oreille County, along with HiTest Sand, Inc., are named in the suit.

When a county is sued, the lawsuit may be filed in either of the two nearest jurisdictions, the lawsuit claims, citing state law.

“While the PUD is still reviewing the complaint, it’s clear that the claims are based on an incomplete and inaccurate set of facts” Colin Willenbrock

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PACWEST: Townsend’s bat colony found on PacWest property FROM PAGE 1A

required anyway, Tymko writes.

“This is their proposal,” Ecology spokesperson Brook Beeler said. She says it is Ecology’s role to decide whether the SEPA checklist can be skipped.

“We’re in agreement that an EIS is appropriate,” Beeler said.

Tymko’s four page letter outlines where PacWest wants to build, “...

1.6 kilometers (km) from the center of Newport,” and where it will get its water.

“Water used by the facility would be provided by the City of Newport; usage is expected to be less than 10,000 gallons per day,” Tymko writes.

“The facility would also be connected to the City of Newport’s sewer system, so no wastewater would be discharged to surface waters on into the

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Growth Area. King says there is no agreement with the city to supply water.

“I’m not saying it couldn’t happen someday,” King said. But there is a lot that would have to be done first, he said.

Beeler says for the project to be approved

by Ecology, they would have to show it has “legal water,” she says.

Tymko writes the facility would receive about 170,000 tons of Blue Gem coal per year and another 150,000 tons of coal and charcoal, delivered by rail. Tymko says rail traffic could range from 0-100 rail cars per day, with about 10 per day average.

The facility is expected to generate about 200 passenger vehicle trips per day and up to 50 commercial and non-passenger vehicle trips per day, resulting in about

250 vehicle trips per day, Tymko writes. He writes that about 130,000 tons of wood chips would be brought to the facility each year.

Tymko says PacWest will produce about 73,000 tons of silicon a year. About five rail road cars a day will be used to ship silicon off site.

A new railroad spur is proposed to connect the facility site with existing tracks, Tymko writes.

A new road to the site is also needed.

“Among the alternatives under consideration is a road that would connect the site with U.S. Highway 2,” Tymko writes.

The site will emit regulated pollution, he writes, including hazardous air pollutants, toxic air pollutants and greenhouse gasses.

At least one pollutant will exceed 250 tons per

year, exceeding the prevention of significant deterioration major source threshold, he wrote. That triggers a review by Ecology, he writes.

A three-day anthropological survey was conducted last December, with 15-20 shovel probes and review of historical map, surveys and GIS date, Tymko wrote.

No cultural or historic resources were discovered, but since the area was covered with snow, another survey will be conducted.

A Townsend’s big-eared bat communal roost site was observed. The bat is not an endangered species, although it is identified as a Washington Candidate Species for endangered, threatened or sensitive species.

Another wildlife survey is scheduled, as the previous survey was conducted in the winter.

CASTRO: Worked for Pend Oreille County for eight years FROM PAGE 1A

because I did not think it would help to cause a scene, but I did not do so voluntarily. I didn’t even get a chance to address my staff.”

Castro added that Pend Oreille County Information Technology personnel arrived shortly after his conversation with Manus to take his work computer and work cell phone. Castro expressed concerns that he wasn’t made aware of the decision to

be put on paid administrative leave in an executive session on a day the commissioners met for county business, which is Mondays and Tuesdays. Manus said Tuesday that it is not uncommon for people in executive positions like Castro to be put on paid administrative leave after they after submitted their resignation. “Businesses do that all the time and in these types of situations we need to run the county like a business,” Manus said. “He did tell his staff it was his last day

(Friday) and he had his personal belongings packed.”

Castro said one of the reasons he resigned was his belief that commissioners did not appreciate his criticism of the county’s involvement with HiTest Sands, now known as PacWest Silicon.

Castro said he was critical of the county’s approach to the access road from Highway 2 to the property where the proposed smelter will be located.

“I’m not for or against the smelter; I have no strong beliefs

either way,” Castro said. “However, my job was to protest the county from potential liability, meaning hard questions had to be asked, and I feel that was resented.”

The commissioners disputed Castro’s version of events. According to Skoog, “There is no story.”

“That was never an issue at all,” Manus said of Castro’s claims. “It had nothing to do with any of this. Again, it was his choice to leave.”

CARNIVAL: Carnival back because of Hanson’s persistence FROM PAGE 1A

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ground.”

Tymko was in Newport Tuesday. He said that the city is more comfortable with a smaller amount of water. HiTest had asked if 240,000 gallons a day was available previously.

The city said no.

Tymko says PacWest has options, including water rights they bought from private citizens.

Newport Mayor Pro Tem Keith Campbell said in order to get water from Newport the project would have to be within city limits. It is not. To be annexed into the city, the property would need to be contiguous to the city, which it is not, he said.

“We have not negotiated with HiTest in any way shape or form because it’s impossible to do,” Campbell said.

City administrator Ray King said the PacWest property is about 90 feet outside the city’s Urban

a beer and wine garden, free games for the kids such as silly string tag and a bungee trampoline, chicken poop bingo, live music and lots of vendors. There will be a free photo booth.

The Newport Rodeo Association has lots going on in the rodeo

grounds, including food booths, a Brazilian ox with a saddle so people can get their pictures taken on what looks like a bull, and camel rides.

There will also be a bouncy castle, a kids carnival tent put on by Relay for Life, and the Roxy Theater will play a children’s movie in the park Friday night at

about 9:30 p.m., after the rodeo.

The Newport Rodeo parade is Saturday at 11 a.m. The route is new this year because of road construction on Highway 41.

In normal years, trucks can be re-routed on Highway 41, instead of down Union Street, which is usually turned

into a two-way road.

For this year and next, the parade will leave Stratton Elementary as usual, turn left on Calispel to First Street and then jog to continue on Caplispel.

It will take the rounded corner on Spruce Street to Spokane Avenue, and then head all the way to Fourth Street

and end at Stratton Elementary.

It’s the same route the Newport Homecoming parade takes in the fall.

The rodeo association is still taking applications for parade entries.

Visit newportrodeo. weebly.com.

The Newport Rodeo is Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. both nights.

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b r i e f ly Maycumber going to Harvard REPUBLIC – State Rep. Jacquelin Maycumber, R-Republic, has been awarded the Cahn Public Service Fellowship to Harvard University. She will be attending the Senior Executives in State and Local Government Academy in July. Executive Education participants come from 165 countries and territories from around the world.

Maycumber was nominated by former state senator and Republican House of Representatives leader JT Wilcox. Maycumber is a biochemist, former law enforcement officer and 7th District legislator. The 7th Legislative District includes Pend Oreille, Stevens, Ferry and parts of Okanogan and Spokane counties.

Free meals for children all summer NEWPORT- The Newport School District is beginning its summer meal program. Children 18 and younger can receive free meals at either the Newport Library 116 S. Washington Ave., or at Stratton Elementary, 1201 W. 5th St. The Newport Library will provide lunch from 11:45-12:45 p.m., June 18–August 10 except Saturdays, Sundays, and July 4. The Stratton Elementary will provide breakfast from 7:45–8:15 a.m. and lunch from 11:40-12:10 p.m., July 5–August 1. For more information, call Sheila Myrvang at 509447-3167 ext. 4521.

Registration open for free youth day camp NEWPORT – Area youth, ages 8-11, will have the chance to learn about gardening, play great games and prepare some amazing foods during this free, one-day camp, called “Fitness, Fun and Food.”

Two different dates and locations will be offered: Tuesday, June 19, in Newport at the WSU/Pend Oreille County Extension Office at 227-A S. Garden Avenue and Wednesday, June 20, at the Elk Park, 40500 North Elk-Camden Road in Elk. The camps will run from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m.

Lunch is provided and a free afternoon BBQ, prepared by the campers for their families, will follow at 4:15 p.m. The day camp is free, but people must call the WSU/Pend Oreille County Extension Office at 509-447-2401 to register. Information packets and permission slips will be mailed a few days prior to the camps.

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NEWPORT – For a little over a year, a group of Pend Oreille County activists have been meeting and working to advance their political agenda.

“Indivisible provides framework for information that supports progressive viewpoints, provides opportunity for action, and a venue for open discussion on any issue important to the group or individual both locally and nationally,” said Bob Schutte one of the steering committee members.

The Pend Oreille chapter was formed in February 2017. It is an agenda and action-based group that focuses on the needs and desires of its members. “It is a democratic and informal style group where everyone’s opinion matters,” Shutte says.

While the group has no official party affiliation, the two candidates they have endorsed so far are both Democrats.

They support Karen Hardy, who is running for 7th district state senator against incumbent Shelly Short R-Addy, and Lisa Brown who is running for U.S. House of Representatives against incumbent Cathy McMorris Rodgers R-Spokane.

The group backs Brown because she supports the Affordable Care Act, environmental protection, and does not want to cut Social Security and Medicare.

They like Hardy because they say she understands the need for compromise and what is right for the district.

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Suicide: Let’s talk about it When I was 17-years-old, I tried to kill myself.

Yeah, I know, what a subtle and pleasant way to start a column. Happy weekday, everyone!

To summarize, I overdosed on prescription pills with the idea that I would go to sleep and never wake up. Having zero understanding of how certain medications actually work, I ended up in the emergency room for almost two days, sipping charcoal shakes (there’s no milk in that stuff), barely able to move, but blessedly still alive. I’ll spare you S o p h i E ’ s all the gory details, because you don’t need to hear them and I don’t C H OI C E want to spill them.

Even if you’ve only glanced at Sophia the news lately, you’ve probably aldous noticed that suicide is making copious headlines, from the deaths of designer Kate Spade and chef, writer, and television personality Anthony Bourdain within a matter of days of each other, to the CDC’s report that suicide rates are becoming one of the leading causes of death in the United States.

For many of us, it’s unfathomable that someone would take their own life, and there’s plenty of stigma, stereotypes, and fear associated with suicide that leads us to make simplifications or outright false judgments about why people do it.

Maybe one of the best ways to handle it is to talk about it. I used to think that the preeminent way to avoid problems was to not acknowledge them in the first place, but that’s a fallacy. We can possibly alleviate that fear and pain if we don’t treat it like the proverbial elephant in the room. Wryness, levity, and outright avoidance have always been a defense for me when it comes to subjects that make me uncomfortable. Depression and suicidal ideation certainly apply here. I’m not a mental health expert, and obviously my experiences aren’t the final word on the matter. But if this column entry somehow, in some small way, encourages people to ask questions and/or seek help, then that’s something. So here are several generalizations about suicide that I find to be a bunch of horse pucky.

Only “gloomy” people are suicidal-When I was a teen, this meant the kids who dressed Goth, clad in black and spiked dog collars, and listened to Marilyn Manson, or they had authority issues and were more likely to be sent to the office for flipping a teacher the bird than they were to inspire adults to make comments on what a bright future said kid had. It’s common for us to sum up a person’s character based on nothing more than their looks, because that equation makes it feel easier to process: Dressing darkly plus listening to dark music equals having dark thoughts, so it’s no wonder they committed suicide!

It’s much more complex. Yeah, I had a spiked dog collar (pretty and Pit Bull chic, if I do say so myself), but I wasn’t allowed to wear it to school. No, I was the kid who wore the mascot costume at football games and the occasional pep rally. When adults conversed with me I didn’t shy away like a shrinking violet or mumble indifferently; I smiled and looked them in the eye. Drama club was an enthusiastic passion, and in my last two years of high school I was an avid writer for our school newspaper. FFA, FCCLA, 4-H – engaged in all of those activities too.

I helped with fundraisers, volunteer work – my exterior was what everyone thinks a promising youth should be, what a decent member of society should be. It belied the struggle going on interiorly.

People kill themselves because they were bulliedAgain the issue is far more complicated. There are suicide victims that are bullied, but not all bullied people die by suicide. Cruel teasing was aimed my way in junior high, and it did hurt, but I wasn’t thinking about the people who had gone out of their way to insult me when I made the decision to do what I did. Admittedly, I was a bit of a bully myself my first few years beyond elementary school. There were kids lower on the social totem pole than me, and while I didn’t seek them out to be the butt of my insecurities, I treated them with the same dismissiveness and irritation that the seemingly more popular students did in a miscalculated attempt to make myself look better. The point is that quite a few of the kids considered to be social pariahs of the teenage set didn’t decide to end their own lives based solely on how their peers treated them.

Suicides are just selfish attention seekers-This assumption is the equivalent of deep sea fishing with a blowgun. Where’s the strategy in drawing attention to yourself if you’re not around to benefit from it?

Again, I’m not the spokesperson on the issue, only my own dealings with it, and all I can say is that there is already a tremendous amount of guilt and shame a depressed person feels about their disorder.

The logical part of your brain knows that you may indeed have a lot to be thankful for, that there are people out there who live in worse circumstances.

However, the chemical imbalance in your brain persists in making you feel like a fraud that is just one tiny mishap from being exposed as the worthless, horrible person you’re certain you are. For myself it wasn’t even so much that I wanted to die, I just wanted to escape what I felt was a permanent state of existence. It never occurred to me that anyone See Sophie, 5A

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yo u r o p i n i o n PUD help with banners appreciated To the editor, I am writing today to publicly thank Pend Oreille Public Utility District No. 1 for providing a valuable service to our community. Several local organizations purchase banners to highlight their upcoming events. The banners are designed to span the main routes that go through downtown Newport, Washington Avenue (southbound) and Union Street (northbound). PUD installs and removes the banners, free of charge, as a courtesy to the community. Thank you, PUD! -Alice Booth, for Northwoods Performing Arts Priest River

Much to be thankful for here To the editor, I have been a resident of Pend Oreille County for 47 years and I have so

much gratitude for this community. I attended the seminar at Camas Center on the Indian Creek Community Forest that the tribe is developing. This community forest will offer forestry education and recreation. The Tribe also contributes to the free art programs for children at Create through grants.

They also contributed to the renovation of the art room.

Create had a community event celebrating the “Honor and Retirement of the Flag” followed by a barbecue. Create offers coffee in the garden on Thursdays from 10 a.m. to noon during July and August. Everyone is welcome.

Create also offers Open Mic night on the second Saturday of each month.

Musicians, poets, and talented people are invited to share their talent.

Jason and Brittany Totland purchased the Roxy Theater, preserving a popular venue for families.

They are providing Movies in the Park in both New-

port and Priest River. They have offered several movie programs benefitting the community.

Kenny Arthur, Mark and Clair Clark purchased the historic Kelly’s Tavern, preserving this landmark.

Members of the Naccarato family purchased Club Energy and renamed it “The Club.” Ace Hardware and Perfection Tire have upgraded the appearance of their buildings.

The Rotary Club had the foresight to buy the trains to conduct rides along the river to Dalkena. This is a popular attraction.

Thank you Pend Oreille Players for allowing the farmer’s market to relocate in your parking area.

Farmer’s markets are a hub of a community and now we can keep ours.

And thank you to the vendors who provide quality goods and conversation.

I am also thankful to my group of friends who want to retain the quality of life in our rural community.

-Phoenix Luby Newport

Open government standards vary in practice To the editor, In visiting our local monthly town council meetings, there is a variety of ever changing open government procedures in use.

Freedom of information rules has been in effect for many decades. Selfgovernment through open records and meetings sounds simple enough.

When problems arise, activists sometimes change the rules.

Transparency in self-government leads to better decision-making and promotes public trust.

By 2004 our Idaho and Washington “sunshine” laws formally recognized and required more open government.

In 2014 open government training laws were made on meetings and records conduct.

In 2017 email records See Letters, 5A

Washington’s expensive culvert court case

By Don C. Brunell

While much of the media buzz over declining salmon runs focuses on dam removal and predation by sea lions and cormorants, the U.S. Supreme Court is asked to decide whether Washington State needs to spend an additional $2.4 billion to replace more road culverts.

In 2001, Western Washington Tribes sued claiming the state needed to remove culverts, which block salmon migrating to spawning channels. The Ninth Circuit agreed with the Tribes and oral arguments were heard at the Supreme Court in April.

The state argues much of the culvert replacement is completed.

In 2013, the state legislature added $300 million to the transportation budget to remove fish barriers.

Washington’s State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) worked with the state’s Dept. of Fish & Wildlife to identify and repair problem culverts on over 7,000 miles of state highways. g u e st Washington o p i n i o n State Solicitor General Noah Purcell argued DON C. that the lower BRUNELL court rulings Association ignore the fact of that the salmon Washington harvests affected Business by the culverts President have declined less than 5 percent.

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

A California Superior Court judge who gave a UCLA student a six-month sentence for raping an unconscious woman was recalled by California voters for giving the man too light a sentence. The judge worried about the effect of a longer sentence on the student.

Do you think judges should be recalled because of a single sentence?

Yes, enough is enough. Crimes against women have been downplayed for too long.

No, it will have a chilling effect on judicial decisions.

Judges need to be able to make decisions without worrying about being recalled. The next election is the place to vote them out.

“We have to replace culverts when no salmon can reach them,” he said.

“And that is an utter waste of public funds.”

Agriculture groups, such as the Washington Farm Bureau, support the state’s contention and believe, if the nation’s high court allows the decision to stand, “it will bolster lawsuits to remove dams, restrict irrigation and challenge anything else potentially harmful to fish,” the Capital Press website reported in April.

As part of the Forests & Fish Law, forest landowners in Washington — both private landowners and public forestland managers — have removed 7,300 fish passage barriers since 2001 across 9.3 million acres, See Brunell, 6A

r e a d e r ’ s p o l l r e s u lt s Do you think the show “Roseanne” should have been canceled for Barr’s remarks?

Yes, it was inevitable that the show’s advertisers would have faced No, hundreds of people pressure. The show were thrown out of had to go, better work that had nothing sooner than later. to do with the remarks.

7% 4% Yes, Barr’s remarks were deranged and openly racist. To not cancel the show is to endorse them.

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No, it was a typical overreaction by Hollywood liberals to the remarks of a creative, conservative person.

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and records archives and retention training laws were included.

Annual town clerk training courses keep our friendly towns updated, despite some resistance.

The public has been left in the dark about most of this, until recently.

Local newspapers don’t have the time and resources to pursue records searches and investigative reports, so they just print what they are told by the clerks and town officials. There is a lot of stuff going on that the public doesn’t know.

Idaho has recently taken steps to change that with state attorney general, nonprofit public informational workshops to teach fundamentals of governance in the public eye.

Idahoans for Openness in Government (IDOG) use Idaho Code 74-201 for formation of public policy at open meetings.

Washington relies more on state attorney general pamphlets and online courses, but I will be contacting the

Eastern Washington deputy attorney general on this to see about local public workshops.

Our town council members only have so much time and attention to give this. Our town public members are lucky to even get word of some important issues, let alone their rights and responsibilities.

Maybe we can gradually change this for the better. It could help Save Our Friendly Towns!

Your thoughts and comments are welcome.

-Duane Schofield Cusick

Supports Blakeslee for sheriff To the editor, A political newcomer seeking the Republican vote for Pend Oreille County Sheriff was demoted from detective to deputy with the Pend Oreille County Sheriff’s Office in late December 2016 for incompetence. He could not do the job required of his

position. Notice of (Intent to Demote) from Undersheriff Grant Sirevog: “Detective Carman, your mistakes are adding up, thirteen times in the past three years there is documentation of poor work performance.”

In one such documentation, Carman had taken a year to finish a report on a drug investigation into a youth worker alleged to have smoked marijuana with at-risk youth and rumored to have illegally sought opioids from the teens. Sgt. Glenn Blakeslee, who also is running for sheriff, says that not having finished the case report that is over a year old is not acceptable.

Carman resigned from the sheriff’s office and now works for the Kalispel Tribe. One would wonder about the motivation that would move Carman to seek the position of sheriff, when he could not function as a detective.

My support is for Glenn Blakeslee to become our next sheriff of Pend Oreille County.

-Ron Niederbrach Newport, WA

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Mark Doumit, executive director of the Washington Forest Protection Association, wrote recently in the Everett Herald.

These landowners have spent $313 million opening up 5,100 miles of fish habitat. Private and public forest landowners have completed 84 percent of their goals and are on track to clear all the fish passage barriers in forested streams by 2021.

While Washington’s Attorney General Bob Ferguson appealed the 9th Circuit Court Order to upgrade more than 800 culverts by 2030. Former AG Rob McKenna submitted a brief on behalf of the Washington State

Association of Counties and the Association of Washington of Cities.

McKenna’s brief warns that letting the court order stand could force local governments spend money they don’t have.

Doumit, a former state legislator from Cathlamet, believes that collaboration is better than confrontation. “We sat at the table on an agreement that is paying dividends for the environment and keeping all the parties out of court.”

Washington forest landowners have fixed the thousands of culverts as part of the Forests & Fish Law, a historic agreement between federal, state, tribal and county governments and private

forest landowners. All of the parties agreed on a set of forest practices that protect 60,000 miles of streams running through 9.3 million acres of state and private forestland.

There are many reasons for the decline in salmon runs, but improving water quality and fixing the tens of thousands of fish-blocking culverts in Washington are already part of the solution.

“While we have made a lot of progress in fixing fish passage barriers, we need to address all the major habitat factors affecting salmon. We have a shared responsibility to address the health of our salmon and waterways, and collaboration is the best way to ensure our

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would miss me; I honestly thought it would be easier for my loved ones if I weren’t around to be such a burden on them. Long story short, I’ve never been happier to be wrong.

All suicidal people are depressed-Nope.

While depression is a contributory factor in a lot of suicides, it’s not always the cause for why people kill themselves.

I used to think it was, based on nothing more than my own attempt, but in truth, the issue is much broader.

If someone is intent on completing suicide, there’s nothing that can be doneEmpathy, hope, and listening ears were my lifeline out of the misery that was my mental state. If not for my friends and family and the kindness of strangers

like counselors, nurses, doctors, teachers, and more, I’m not sure I would have made the decision to keep fighting, even when I didn’t feel like it. I thought my depression would be my life forever. It was only through therapy, medication, the understanding and encouragement of people that care about me, and learning self-care, that I realized depression is just an aspect of my life, not the sum of who I am and what I’m capable of. I would rather we all erred on the side of hope and compassion any day.

If you’re contemplating suicide, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255. For more information on available mental health resources, call Pen Oreille County Counseling at 509-447-5651 or 1-800-4045151, [TDD 509-447-0480].

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Unfortunately, today far too much money is spent in court where it should go to increasing the salmon population.

Don Brunell is a business analyst, writer and columnist. He recently retired as president of the Association of Washington Business, the state’s oldest and largest business organization, and now lives in Vancouver. He can be contacted at TheBrunells@msn.com.

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Metaline Waterfront Park bid was higher than expected.

SEATTLE – Seattle City Light plans to re-solicit bids this fall for a construction project to enhance the Metaline Waterfront Park in Metaline after an initial attempt drew only one bid that was 54 percent higher than the projected cost.

“High demand for construction work across the state meant fewer bidders on this project than expected and a higher bid cost,” Project Manager Michael Aronowitz said. “By revising specifications and rebidding the job in the fall, we hope to attract additional bidders and get

this important project done at a reasonable price.” The project includes building an extended concrete boat ramp with a boarding dock, a kayak ramp and parking to improve access to the Pend Oreille River. City Light is making the improvements as part of its responsibilities under its license to operate Boundary Dam. The project is expected to cost about $2.1 million. Under the revised plan, construction would occur in 2019 and there will be no restrictions to reservoir access from the park in 2018.

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Mike is a tireless and loyal member of our PUD team. He is devoted to modernizing and maintaining our mapping system so we can improve reliability and better serve our customers.”

-Colin Willenbrock PUD General Manager

efore coming to the PUD 17 years ago, Mike worked for various other companies like UltraBac, Washington State Community and Technical College Consortium, Nauvoo Restoration C IIncorporated n and Seattle City Light. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and h Minors in Math and Music from Western Illinois M University.

U M Mike is married to his wife, Margene Chantry and they have 18 children, 28 grandchildren (three more on the way) and three greatgrandchildren (with one more on the way). Mike visited Russia twice when adopting three children from Vladivostok. He also adopted three children from Ethiopia. Another fun fact about Mike is that he learned sign language to communicate with one of his daughters.

Mike’s favorite part about working for the PUD is the employees. He said they are hardworking, dedicated, friendly, capable and just all around good people. He also enjoys his job and producing things which help others in their jobs.

When Mike isn’t at work he is composing music, writing stories (specifically children’s stories), or enjoying the outdoors by hiking, fishing, hunting and camping.

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DeWitt new counseling clinical director

By Sophia Aldous Of The Miner

NEWPORT – Pend Oreille County Counseling has a new clinical director, Sonya DeWitt, who was hired June 4.

She fills the DeWitt vacancy left by former director Theresa Allen, who retired last February.

“I appreciate rural communities and how they value their families, their neighbors, their communities and natural resources,” DeWitt said.

“I am touched by how people know and care about each other more here than in the cities.

Neighbors talk to neighbors here. People take more time in rural communities to stay in touch with each other, whereas I’ve found busy city life to pull people away from each other and more into their careers and individual lives. When they drive home they close their garage doors and disappear.”

DeWitt is a 1993 graduate of Antioch University with a Masters in Clini-

cal Psychology. She has 25 years of experience in the behavioral healthcare field, serving as a supervisor and therapist in multiple settings, from Children Administration, the Department of Corrections, an outpatient Mental Health Children’s Hospital Alternative Program, to the Sacred Heart Adult-Geriatric Inpatient Psychiatric Care Unit, and as a Behavioral Health Utilization Manager with a Managed Care Organization (MCO).

“Based on her breadth of experience, I anticipate she will get up to speed pretty quick and will be a valuable contributor to our many efforts,” wrote

Pend Oreille County Counseling Director Annabelle Payne in an email.

Dewitt will also attend various community systems of care meetings, like Newport Hospital and Health Services Foundation meetings and Northeast Tri-County Health District meetings.

She will earn $65,844 annually.

“Building strong communities is what Pend Oreille County Services is all about and I am happy to assist in that endeavor here at our local counseling center,” said DeWitt.

“I think it’s fair to say that here in Pend Oreille County, people matter.”

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Getting ready for camping Jason Leal is out working on his RV Thursday, June 7. Leal bought the 1978 vehicle for $1,500. He will spend another $1,500 on refurbishing it. He plans to take his daughter camping at Albeni Cove this weekend.

Upcoming events at Usk Community Hall USK – The Usk Community Club will be hosting three events in the coming weeks. On Saturday, June 23, there will be a light breakfast served from 9:30-10:30 a.m. This is in conjunction with the Pend Oreille County Historical Society weekend celebration. From the Community Hall, there will be a tour of various homesteads.

On July 4 there will be the Annual Pancake Breakfast at the Community Hall. Breakfast will be served from 8-11 a.m. Cost is $6 for all you can eat. The address of the Community Hall is 2442 Black Road in Usk. There will also be various raffles held through out the morning. One of the

prizes is a barbecue donated by Selkirk Ace Hardware. The other prizes will be gift baskets for different occasions.

All proceeds from the breakfast and raffles stay in the community. Some monies go for scholarships, holiday programs and upkeep of the community hall. The community parade will also start at the Community Hall. Anyone can be in the parade, which begins at noon.

The last event will be on July 14 during the Cusick All-School Reunion. There will be another pancake breakfast, 8-11 a.m. Cost is $6 for all you can eat.

There will be raffles throughout the event.

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about voting.

“Not everyone is aware that many felons can restore their right to vote,” says Shutte. “A gentleman was nearly in tears to learn that he may be able to vote again.”

One person scowled and called her a communist, she said, but most people were either nice or ignored her. By the third day they were asking her how she was and wishing her luck.

So far she has collected

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The National Indivisible group was initiated in response to President Donald Trump’s policies and agenda.

“There is no set ideology. It is an open forum where anyone can present a concern,” Schutte says.

The Pend Oreille group is reluctant to criticize Trump personally, but feels his policies are detrimental to the country.

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is that his agenda is not beneficial to the long-term wealth, health or wellbeing of the United States citizens,” the Schuttes wrote in response to an email from The Miner.

“His administration is sending us backward on a journey through time to where the environment was dying, women and people of color were fighting for equality and the right to vote without impediment.”

The group currently has 12-30 active members with more following them on their email and website.

There is not a formal board, but it does have a round table style steering committee consisting of four individuals including Bob and Katherine Schutte, Jake Waters, and Geoffrey Thompson.

They meet the second and fourth Tuesday of the month. There will be only one meeting in July because they will be holding their annual social gathering. The meetings are held at Create Arts Center at 900 W. 4th in Newport. The meetings starts between 5:45 p.m. – 6 p.m. People interested in learning more about the group can email indivisiblependoriellecounty@ gmail.com.

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Summer events in the Pend Oreille Library District NEWPORT - The Pend Oreille County Libraries will provide many activities for children and adults this summer at the four county libraries.

Here is a listing of June events.

Newport: For preschoolers the library will host Rock Jr. every Thursday starting June 21 at 10:30 a.m. There will be a new activity each week including art, songs, crafts, puppets, and more.

Children ages 5 to 12 will be able to attend Kids Games and Building every Tuesday starting June 19 at 3 p.m. there will be cards, board games, and Legos available for free play.

Registration is required for Robots Rock June 20 and the 27 at 1 p.m. where children will learn coding with Cubelets.

Crafty Kids, where children learn to make a different craft each week will be held every Saturday at 11 a.m.

The Chess club will meet every second and fourth Saturday at 12 p.m.

For tweens (grades four to six) and teens there is Game Day every Wednesday at 3 p.m. starting June 20. Mario, Magic the Gathering, and board games will be available for free play.

Dungeons and Dragons will be available Thursdays at 4 p.m. starting June 21. It is good for newbies and experienced players. Adults are also welcome.

Advanced D&D will be held every Saturday starting June 23 at 10:30 a.m. it is for experienced players only. Adults are also welcome.

Tweens (ages 5 – 12) are also invited to make It at the library, held June 22 at 3 p.m. They will learn to cook something new each week.

Adults can enjoy Fiber Fanatics every Tuesday at 3 p.m. starting June 19.

Crocheters, knitters, and any other fiber artist and beginners are welcome.

Family events are also available. The Community Information Fair will held June 30 at 3:30 p.m. Come see what local non-profits, community organizations, and other service organizations have to offer or inquire about volunteering.

Movies in the Park (in partnership with the Newport Roxy) will be held June 16 at 8:30 p.m. The movies will start at dusk. There will be activities for one hour prior to the movie.

The Reptile Man will bring reptiles from all over the world to be seen, discussed, and held at the Newport Library on June 20 at 4 p.m.

Lunch at the Library will be available for all children under the age of 18. It will be Monday – Saturday from 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.

Ione: For preschool kids the Summer Reading Rocks will be held July 24. The children will get to play musical instruments.

The Reptile Man will bring reptiles from all over the world to be seen, discussed, and held on June 20 at 2 p.m.

Cusick: Calispel Valley Library in Cusick for children ages five to 12, features Paper Bag Coloring June 13 at 11 a.m. and Ice Cream Magnets June 27 at 11 a.m.

The Reptile Man will bring reptiles from all over the world to be seen, discussed, and held on June 20 at 11 a.m.

Cummings resigns and Hines takes over

By Caneel Johnson Of The Miner

NEWPORT- Don Cummings resigned from the District 2 Pend Oreille County Planning Commission March 27. He will continue to serve on the park board. Jean Hines is his replacement for the voluntary four-year term.

“I have the desire to make a contribution to the community and make it inviting for others to share in what we have,” says Hines in her application for the position.

Hines has been a resident of Bead Lake for 26 years.

She is a former flight attendant for Delta Airlines,

has managed a small private business, and aided in the construction of several multi-family housing projects, which involved site selection, zoning changes, financing, construction, and marketing.

She is an active member of St. Anthony’s Parish and is also involved in the Adopt-a-Highway program, Fire Wise Community, and the organization of celebrations in her small neighborhood.

She has participated in a community Thanksgiving dinner for Newport, assisted in a variety of projects for the Knights of Columbus, and hosts

a trivia competition at Kelly’s Lounge and Restaurant.

“Having resided in several small communities in the past, I have come to realize that responsible growth is necessary,” Hines wrote in her application. “Business is the heart of a community and balancing it with desirable home sites is necessary to keep the community alive.” She believes that laws and rules are necessary but they must be tempered with common sense. The planning committee meets the second Tuesday of every month at the Cusick Community Center 6 p.m.

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Selkirk threat charges dropped

By Don Gronning Of The Miner

NEWPORT – Pend Oreille County District Court Judge Phil Van de Veer dismissed a felony charge of harassment threats to kill against a 17-year-old Selkirk student after a Spokane psychologist confirmed the teen has autism.

It was a recommendation by both defense and prosecuting attorneys. The charge was dismissed without prejudice, meaning it could be brought back, although Van de Veer says he can’t remember that happening. Charges were dismissed in court June 1.

The charges stemmed from remarks the boy made March 12 at Selkirk High School.

According to a statement of probable cause, two witnesses told the Selkirk High School principal that the boy

made a statement about shooting up the school. The boy allegedly said something to the effect of “you shut up or somebody might shoot up the school,” after another student told him to turn around and shut up in a morning class, according to the statement.

The boy was expelled from Selkirk High School and arrested.

The arrest was the first of three arrests made over gun incidents at area schools. Pend Oreille County Prosecutor Dolly Hunt and Sheriff Alan Botzheim have taken a zero tolerance policy about threats and gun crimes on school grounds.

Two Cusick boys, 14 and 15, pleaded guilty to felonies for their roles in bringing a handgun to school to sell and a 15-year old Newport boy was convicted of felony harassment for threatening to shoot school staff.

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The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is teaming up with the Pend Oreille Sherriff’s Office to provide an easier way for ranchers to report any problem animals. Bear, cougar and wolves are the biggest concern for Pend Oreille County.

The WDFW wildlife con-

flict specialist is working with ranchers to reduce conflict with predators like wolves. They can provide non-lethal methods to protect livestock.

Many ranchers have already taken proactive steps with the help of the WDFW. Ranchers with suspected wildlife predations can contact the Pend Oreille Sherriff’s office at 509-447-

1980. Anyone else suspecting a wild animal problem should call 877-933-9847.

Incidents should be reported quickly to be investigated. Compensation for animal injury caused by wolves is available.

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Congratulations, graduates

he classes of 2018 at Priest River Lamanna, Cusick, and Selkirk high schools said goodbye to their high school years at area graduation ceremonies Saturday, June 9 with plenty of tributes, tears, and photo ops.

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Each senior at Priest River Lamanna High School received a rose from an usher after they walked across the stage, shaking hands with teachers and administrators.

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Capturing the moment: students’ parents and loved ones got closer to the stage at PRLHS for pictures.

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Selkirk graduate Ellen Huttle expresses her feelings on the top of her graduation cap.

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West Bonner School District Superintendent Paul Anselmo hugs a student.

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Hunter Carman wears a well-wishers gift of a money and flower lei at the Selkirk graduation Saturday.

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Cusick High School graduated 25 seniors Saturday, June 9.

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Metaline Falls to honor Daniel Bailey METALINE FALLS – The Town of Metaline Falls will honor a special community member, Daniel Bailey, on Friday, June 15 at 10 a.m. at the Visitor’s Center in Busta Park.

Bailey was a volunteer for the Town, taking care of the Visitor’s Center and public restrooms, helping with general maintenance, painting street stripes, and often worked with Maintenance Director David Kurlo at the waste-water lagoons or

in the sewer pipes. Bailey died early this spring, and the Town’s officials and staff, as well as his many friends miss his presence.

A commemorative plaque will be dedicated, with several individuals speaking as to the work that Bailey had done since coming to Metaline Falls. The public is welcome to the event.

Any questions should be made to the Town of Metaline Falls at 509446-2211.

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Ken Smith has art show at Kirtland Cutter Gallery METALINE FALLS – Regional artist Ken Smith has a show at the Kirtland Cutter Gallery in the Cutter Theatre upper level. The show runs through July 6, and is on view Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. and during special events.

Smith’s show, entitled “Unintentional Ink,” features free-spirited drawings done in ink. There are no themes or recognizable designs in Smith’s work, but rather it allows the viewer to discern their own interpretation of the designs. From very simple flows of ink, to intricate designs, the original drawings or prints are worth the viewing. All of the works in this particular show are for sale and can be purchased through The Cutter office.

For more information or to arrange a special viewing, contact The Cutter at 509-446-4108. The Cutter Theatre is located at 302 Park Street in Metaline Falls.

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SELKIRK SCHOOL BOARD: 6 p.m. - Selkirk Middle/High School Music Room

WEIGHT WATCHERS: 6 p.m.

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

THURSDAY, JUNE 14 STORY TIME: 11 a.m. - Ione Library

FRIDAY, JUNE 15 STORY TIME AND CRAFTS: 10:30 a.m. - Metalines Library ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: 7 p.m. - Ione Senior Center

SUNDAY, JUNE 17 AMERICAN LEGION POST 144: 3 p.m. - American Legion in Metaline Falls

MONDAY, JUNE 18 STORY TIME: 10:30 a.m. -

TUESDAY, JUNE 19 STORY TIME: 11 a.m. - Ione Library BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP: 4-5 p.m. - Ione Library NORTH PEND OREILLE VALLEY LIONS: 7 p.m. - Lions Train Depot in Ione

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20 STORY TIME: 10:30 a.m. Metalines Library 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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W H O TO C O N TA C T WASHINGTON

Federal

President Donald J. Trump (R) The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington D.C. 20500 Phone: Comments 202-456-1111 Switchboard: 202-456-1414 Senator Patty Murray (D) 111 Senate Russell Office Building Washington D.C. 20510 Phone: (202) 224-0238 Spokane office: 10 North Post Street Spokane WA 00201 Phone: (509) 624-9561 Senator Maria Cantwell (D) 111 Senate Russell Office Building Washington D.C. 20510 Phone: (202) 224-0238 Spokane office: W. 910 Riverside, No. 697 Spokane WA 99201 Phone: (509) 353-2547 Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R) 1708 Longworth House Office Bldg.

Washington D.C. 20515 Phone: (202) 224-0238 Colville Office: 555 South Main Colville WA 99114 Phone: (509) 684-3481

State

Governor Jay Inslee (D) Office of the Governor PO Box 40002 Olympia, WA 98504-0002 360-902-4111 Relay operators for the deaf or hard of hearing, dial 7-1-1 www.governor.wa.gov Legislative District 7 - Position 1 Rep. Jacquelin Maycumber (R) 411 John L. O’Brian building PO Box 40600 Olympia, WA 98504-0600 Phone: (360) 786-7908 Email: Jacquelin.Maycumber@leg. wa.gov No home office yet Legislative District 7 - Position 2 Rep. Joel Kretz (R) 335A Legislative Building PO Box 40600 Olympia, WA 98504-0600 Phone: (360) 786-7988 Email: kretz.joel@leg.wa.gov Local Address (March-December) 20 North Main St. PO Box 1 Omak, WA 98441 Phone: (509) 826-7203 State Senator - Legislative District 7 Shelly Short 409 Legislative Building PO Box 40407 Olympia WA 98504 Phone: (360) 786-7612 Email: shelly.short@leg.wa.gov

Washington Legislative Hotline 1-800-562-6000 During session, weekdays 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Legislative homepage: www.leg.wa.gov

River of time In this photo, titled “Kalispel village on the Pend Oreille-Wash” a Native American woman Catherine Fry stands on the riverbank near Cusick and Usk. The photo was taken by Frank Palmer. Do you have any more information on this photo? Call The Miner at 509-447-2433.

Priest River drops alternative school program

BY SOPHIA ALDOUS OF THE MINER

PRIEST RIVER — Students looking for an alternative to traditional high school education in Priest River may have to look elsewhere, since the West Bonner School District (WBSD) is planning on closing its alternative high school program due to low enrollment numbers.

“This is not something we want to do,” said Anselmo. “It’s a tough decision, one that we’ve thought a lot about, but the student numbers we need to justify keeping the doors open aren’t there.”

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gram (PREP) started in August 2000 to offer students another option than the usual brick and mortar high school classroom setting.

According to Anselmo there were only 10 students enrolled for the 2017-2018 school year, with three graduates. The projection for enrollment the 2018-2019 school year is seven students. The program can accommodate 36 students. Anselmo estimated the most students PREP has ever had during a school year is 30. He said it takes at least 14 to 16 students to drive a funding unit. Closing PREP is expected to save the WBSD $100,000 a SEE ALTERNATIVE, 10A

Cutter Clutter Sale going on through August METALINE FALLS – The Continual Cutter Clutter Rummage Sale continues through Sept.

9. The sale is open on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays during regular Cutter office hours, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. The sale has added some Saturday sales on June 30, July 14 and 28, and August 4 and 25. The Saturday sales are 9 a.m.- 1 p.m.

The Continual Cutter Clutter is a “make us an offer” sale, and no reasonable offer will be refused. The other unusual feature of this sale is that things are constantly being added. Each week new items will be taken

from donated items and from the purging going on in the Cutter attics.

From household items, collectables, hidden treasures, and furniture, it is in the best interest of the shopper to visit frequently, at least every other week, to discover what new items have been placed for sale in the Artscape Room in the Cutter lower level.

Coming up later in June will be a large collection of glassware and in July a large collection of cigar boxes. Call the Cutter to make arrangements with sale chair Tara Leininger for a private viewing if needed.

Movies coming to the Cutter Theatre starting this Friday METALINE FALLS – Cutter Theatre will be finishing the schedule for its summer movies. The movies will be on Fridays, beginning June 15. A 2 p.m. matinee will feature kid-friendly films, while the 7 p.m. movies will be more adult fare. The films will be shown for a donation only, with a suggested $2 for children under 13 and $5 for those over 13. At both shows, popcorn, soft drinks and a variety of candy will be available for sale. Adult beverages will be sold at the 7 p.m. movie only.

One unusual factor is the movies are being shown through a special arrangement, which means that the title of the movies may not be used. A description of the film will be used in lieu of the title so that everyone knows what is playing that particular Friday.

The title will be posted only at the Cutter Theatre auditorium door the day of the showing.

As the local movie theatre will not be reopening, the Cutter is looking at how this event works for both the Cutter and for the public. If it proves successful, the schedule may be continued or slightly modified for the autumn and winter.

For more information on the summer movie schedule, contact the Cutter at 509 446-4108. The Cutter is located at 302 Park Street in Metaline Falls.

For more information contact the Cutter at 509-446-4108. The Cutter is located at 302 Park Street in Metaline Falls.

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year. The district’s Board of Trustees will make the final call on whether or not to close the school.

The decline in PREP students reflects a declining enrollment in rural school districts across the county, said Anselmo.

He projects that student enrollment in the district for the 2018-2019 school year will be down 50 students to 1,050 from

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Emergency 911 Service-The State-.25/County-.70 mandated surcharges for exchanges: 442, 445, and 446.

Toll Restriction Services- Currently there is no charge from RTI Pend Oreille Telecom for toll blocking services to low-income customers participating in the Lifeline program. Please contact your local Health & Welfare office for more information on Lifeline and Link-Up programs.

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

Access to directory assistance- There is no charge from RTI Pend Oreille Telecom for the ability to call Directory Assistance. The amount charged depends on the area called and the rates of the company whose operator provided information.

Access to operator Service: There is no service from RTI Pend Oreille Telecom for the ability to call the operator; however, the call may involve a charge depending on the service requested and the rates of the Company whose operator handled the call: These services are available to all consumers of RTI Pend Oreille Telecom. The cost associated with each are reflected each month on the regular telephone billing along with charges for services provided by RTI Pend Oreille Telecom. The services listed above are the basic serves offered by our company. Other services are available by contacting RTI Pend Oreille Telecom office at (888)636-2840.

In accordance with Federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, the USDA, its Agencies, offices, and employees, and institutions participating in or administering USDA programs are prohibited from discriminating based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity (including gender expression), sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, family/parental status, income derived from a public assistance program, political beliefs, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity, in any program or activity conducted or funded by USDA (not all bases apply to all programs). Remedies and complaint filing deadlines vary by program or incident.

Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication for program information (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language, etc.) should contact the responsible Agency or USDA’s TARGET Center at (202)720-2600 (voice and TTY) or contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800)877-8339. Additionally, program information may be made available in languages other than English.

USDA is an equal opportunity provider, employer and lender. If you wish to file a Civil Rights program complaint of discrimination, complete the USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form (PDF), found online at http://www.ascr.usda.gov/complaint_filing_cust.html, or at any USDA office, or call (866) 632-9992 to request the form. You may also write a letter containing all of the information requested in the form. Send your completed complaint form or letter to us by mail at U.S. Department of Agriculture, Director, Office of Adjudication, 1400 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20250-9410, by fax (202) 690-7442 or email at program.intake@usda.gov.

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Lifeline Services are programs designed to assist low income-households to afford local telephone service. Lifeline assists with monthly telephone bills. Enhanced Lifeline benefits are available to low-income residents of Tribal lands. Provides a monthly discount of the cost of telephone service. Tribal Lands Link Up provides qualified subscribers living on tribal land with a one-time discount up to $100 on the initial installation or activation of wire line or wireless telephone for the primary residence. For more information on Tribal Lifeline and Link-up, visit: http://www.fcc.gov/indians/financialassistance.html or call RTI-Pend Oreille Telephone Company office Toll Free (888) 636-2840.

the 1,100 students in the 2017-2018 school year.

PREP teacher Liz Cork is the only full-time teacher in the program and has already accepted another position in the district. The program also has a paraprofessional who is considering retiring.

Anselmo said that with online education options increasing, students may be opting to go that route instead of attend the alternative program. Priest River Lamanna High School also offers a credit

recovery program as an option for students who need to make up credits.

Before the PREP was started in West Bonner School District, Priest River students were bused to Lake Pend Oreille High School in Sandpoint if they chose to go to an alternative school. The Bonner County School District was split into two districts in 1999, culminating in the creation of the PREP school. The alternative school offered individualized instruc-

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tion and small group classes that was closer to home while providing all the courses needed for a regular high school diploma. The program also had a focus on teaching how to write resumes, fill out job applications, interviewing techniques, and consumer or business math in the math curriculum.

The proposed closing of the PREP school will be on the agenda for next WBCSD meeting at 6 p.m. June 20.

Just across the border in Washington, the Newport School District’s alternative high school, Pend Oreille River School (PORS) is seeing steady enrollment. For the 2017-2018 school year there were 54 students enrolled, with 15 graduating.

However, according to PORS teacher Peg Waterman the school cannot legally accept students who live in Idaho.

“I’ve had a couple of Priest River parents contact me asking if their kid can attend, but unless they have a legal guardian who is a Washington resident, or the students themselves are Washington residents, we can’t enroll them,” Waterman said.

She added that there have been students who have moved from Priest River and rented apartments in Pend Oreille County, making them eligible to attend PORS. The school serves youth up to age 21-years-old.

“Those students have been independent and in the 18 to 21-year-old age range,” said Waterman.

“They are moved out of their parents’ house and wanting to finish their GED.” The PORS was established in 2015 and includes the skill resource center that teaches classes in automotive repair, which is open to all students in the district. Besides Waterman the school is staffed with one full-time paraprofessional and one full-time secretary.

Priest River PREP teacher Liz Cork did not respond to requests for comment before deadline.

CARD OF THANKS We would like to thank our family and friends who called, gave food and money, visited and gathered to say farewell to our Mother, Shirley Wylie. We are blessed in numbers by the show of support you showered us with. Days without mom are easier knowing that each and every one of you loved her as much as we do. Our hearts are broken and our world upside down but, we will forever have mom with us through the millions of memories she gifted us.

Thanks again, Shirley Wylie Family

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B R I E F LY Foreign exchange students need homes NEWPORT – ASSE International Student Exchange Programs (ASSE), in cooperation with area high schools, is looking for local families to host boys and girls between the ages of 15 to 18 from a variety of countries: Norway, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Japan, to name a few.

ASSE students come with an enthusiasm to practice their English and experience American culture - food, sports, shopping and more.

They also love to share their own culture and language with their host families. Host families welcome these students into their family as a family member, giving both the students and families a rich cultural experience.

In addition, ASSE students have pocket money for personal expenses and full health, accident and liability insurance. ASSE students are academically selected into the program, and host families can choose their student from a wide variety of backgrounds, countries and personal interests.

To become a host family or to find out how to become involved with ASSE, call the ASSE Western Regional Office at 1-800-733-2773 or go to www.host.asse.com to choose a student and begin a host family application.

BY CANEEL JOHNSON OF THE MINER

NEWPORT – It is no secret that women love jewelry, and I am not immune to this womanly inclination. When I was presented with the opportunity to learn how to make the sparkling objects of my desire I jumped at the chance. I mean who wouldn’t want to learn to make the coveted all too expensive pretties that linger in shop windows? The thought of filling my jewelry box with whatever my heart desired was too tempting to resist.

My mentor, Fred Rossman, has been a master bench jeweler and metal smith since 1974. He owned Fredrick’s Jewelers in Colville for 10 years.

I started making jewelry in 2013, six months after moving to Washington. Rossman is always hesitant to teach people at first, only because so many people change their minds after they see how laborious the process is. After many months of pestering him he finally gave in.

“Come and watch me make a ring first. If you are still interested after you see the process, we will begin,” Rossman said.

Despite my apprehension about using a torch, I could not miss out in the chance to learn to make things I had always yearned for but had never been able to afford.

The process is a difficult one fraught with dangerous equipment and poisonous chemicals.

The process for each piece is different depending on what you are making, and each jeweler has their own method. Rossman taught me the old school way. I mill all my own metal, no premade sheet,

ROTARY CLUB: 8 a.m. - Oldtown Rotary Park NEWPORT TOPS: 8:30 a.m. Hospitality House OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS: 9 a.m. - Pineridge Community Church, 1428 W. First St., Newport, use front entrance.

Contact Barb at 509-447-0775.

KNITTING AND SPINNING GROUP: 9 a.m. - Create Arts Center, Newport STORY TIME: 10:30 a.m. Blanchard Library STORY TIME - CALISPEL VALLEY LIBRARY, CUSICK: 11 a.m. - Calispel Valley Library, Cusick PRIEST RIVER LIONESS: 11:30 a.m. - Priest River Senior Center PRIEST RIVER LIONESS MEETING: 11:45 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 208665-5921 for sites

THURSDAY, JUNE 14 LINE DANCING: 11 a.m. Priest River Senior Center UCC NON-DENOMINATIONAL BIBLE STUDY GROUP: 10 a.m.

- United Church of Christ, 430 W. Third St., Newport ALCOHOLIC’S ANONYMOUS WOMEN’S MEETING: 10 a.m.

- Rotary Club, Old Diamond Mill Rd., Oldtown STORY TIME: 10:30 a.m. Priest River Library OPEN PAINTING WORKSHOP: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. - Create Arts Center, Newport QUILTERS MEET: 11 a.m. Priest River Senior Center HOME AND COMMUNITY EDUCATORS DALKENA CLUB: Noon - Call Bonnie Witt 509447-3647 or Billie Goodno at 509-447-3781 DUPLICATE BRIDGE: 12:30

p.m. - Hospitality House in Newport

half-rounds, or jump rings for me.

In fact, Rossman made most of the tools I own.

I have made a variety of rings, earrings, and pendants. The last piece of jewelry I made was my first bracelet, which is the process I would like to share with you.

The procedure for a plain cuff bracelet from bullion to finished product starts with mixing metal.

There is 7.5 percent of copper mixed with a troy ounce of fine silver to make sterling silver. It comes out to 2.33 grams of copper. Put the copper and silver into a ceramic crucible.

Then set the torch flame high enough to hear it screaming, sprinkle on a little borax to make the flame stick to the metal, and hold the flame over the metal while you carefully make tiny circles with MINER PHOTO|CANEEL JOHNSON Cleaning the sharp edges and defects the crucible.

When the metal is glowing red on the silver to make a bracelet and as liquidly as a drop of water you can pour it into the ingot mold. hammer over and over until it looks Not too fast or too slow, or you will the way you want it to. have spaces and bubbles in your Then you have to clean up all the ingot. scratches with the dermal like tool.

Next you mill the metal, which Finally, you buff out the surface and means that you will put it through bring out the shine that catches the a machine to manipulate its shape. eye so pleasingly.

Always remember to hammer I have always been a lover of the metal first to bond the metal’s crafts, but never knew that they surface or it will be too brittle to could be more than just a way to manipulate. pass the time. I always thought I Every few runs through the mill had to buy things, now I know I it must be annealed (heated unit can make anything I desire. Makglowing red and quenched in waing jewelry has shown me that ter) to keep the metal flexible. nothing is out of reach. It has been When the metal is the proper an amazing experience. thickness it is time to cut it to length and shape it on a mandrel by PINE RIDGE CATHOLIC MASSES hitting it with a

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: 5:30-8 p.m. - Newport Library BASIC MEETING: 6 p.m. Blanchard Community Center PEND OREILLE KIDS CLUB: 6 p.m. - Pend Oreille Mennonite Church PINOCHLE: 6 p.m. - Hospitality House in Newport ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: 7 p.m. - Blanchard Community Church

FRIDAY, JUNE 15 BOOKS OUT BACK: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. - Priest River Library STORY TIME: 3 p.m. - Newport Library

FAMILIES FOR KIDS AND DCFS: 9-11 a.m. - 1600 W. First St., Newport BLANCHARD STITCHERS’ QUILTING SESSION: 9 a.m. to noon - Blanchard Community Center LINE DANCING: 10 a.m. Priest River Senior Center MOTHERS OF PRESCHOOLERS GATHERING: 10 a.m.

- Priest River Assembly of God Church SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF NEWPORT SOCIAL MEETING: 12-1 p.m. - Pineridge Community Church WEIGHT WATCHERS: 5:30-6 p.m. Weigh in and 6 p.m. meeting – Pineridge Community Church, 1428 W. First St., Newport PRIEST RIVER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE DINNER MEETING: 5:30 p.m. - Rotating Restaurants

DANCE CLASSES: 5:30-6:30 p.m. - Create Arts Center, Newport

ANONYMOUS: 7 p.m. - St. Anthony’s Church

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS OPEN MEETING: 7 p.m. - St. Catherine’s Catholic Church

ROTARY CLUB: 8 a.m. - Oldtown Rotary Park

SATURDAY, JUNE 16 FREE BREAKFAST: 8-10 a.m.

- Hospitality House, 216 S. Washington, Newport VFW BREAKFAST: 8-11 a.m. 112 Larch St., Priest River BOOKS OUT BACK: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. - Priest River Library HAPPY AGERS CARD PARTY: 1 p.m. - Priest River Senior Center AA MEETING: 5 p.m. - Hospitality House, Newport OATH KEEPERS CONSTITUTIONAL STUDY GROUP: 6:30 p.m. - Hospitality House, Newport

SUNDAY, JUNE 17 NEWPORT YOUTH: 4 p.m. Sadie Halstead Middle School ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: 7 p.m. - Hospitality House, Newport

MONDAY, JUNE 18 PRIEST RIVER LIONS: 6:30 p.m. - Priest River Senior Center ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: 7 p.m. - Blanchard Community Church

TUESDAY, JUNE 19 PRIEST RIVER FOOD BANK OPEN: 9-11:45 a.m. - Priest River Senior Center

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20

NEWPORT TOPS: 8:30 a.m. Hospitality House FIBER ARTS KNITTING AND SPINNING GROUP: 9 a.m. Create Arts Center, Newport OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS: 9 a.m. - Pineridge Community Church, 1428 W. First St., Newport, use front entrance.

Contact Barb at 509-447-0775.

MASTER CHEF COOKING SERIES: 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. - Blanchard Community Center STORY TIME: 10:30 a.m. Blanchard Library STORY TIME - CALISPEL VALLEY LIBRARY, CUSICK: 11 a.m. - Calispel Valley Library, Cusick

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

Morning Worship ~ 10:30 a.m.

Wednesday: Youth ~6:30 p.m.

Pastor Mitch McGhee 447-3265

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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.

CHURCH OF FAITH

36245 Hwy 41, Oldtown, ID Sunday School 10 a.m. for all ages Sunday Worship - 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.

Wed. - Bible Study 6 p.m.

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

UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST

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

Thursday Bible Study 10:00 a.m.

Pastor Becky Anderson 509-447-4121 newportucc@conceptcable.com www.newportucc.org

LIFELINE MINISTRIES Full Gospel - Spirit Filled 214 S. Montana Ave., Oldtown 916-671-4460 Sunday Service 10:00 a.m.

Friday Service 6:00 p.m.

Wednesday Prayer 4:30 p.m.

Pastor Jim McDonald

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

Usk: St. Jude’s 111 River Rd., Sat. 4:00 p.m.

Usk: Our Lady of Sorrows 1981 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.

BAHÁ’Í FAITH OF NEWPORT

“Through His potency everything that hath, from time immemorial, been veiled and hidden, is now revealed.”

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

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

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

BLESSED HOPE BAPTIST CHURCH

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 Real 4 Life - College ages 3rd & 4th Mondays The Immortals (13-High School ) Thur. 7-9 Pastor Rob Malcolm

AMERICAN LUTHERAN CHURCH E.L.C.A.

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

(509) 447-4338 www.americanlutheranchurch.net

SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST

Saturdays, 10:00a.m.

Diamond Lake 301 W. Spruce St, Newport 326002 Highway 2 Sunday 10:30 a.m. Wednesday 7:00 p.m. diamondlakeadventist.org Pastor R. Shannon Chasteen Edgemere - 5161 Vay Rd 11:00a.m.

(864) 378-7056 edgemereadventist.org Bible preaching, God Newport - 777 Lilac Ln 10:40a.m. honoring music newportsda.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.

TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH 180 Osprey Lane Priest River 208-448-2724 Sunday School 10:00a.m.

Sunday Service 11:00a.m.

Elder Led

We have a new look!

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

www.pendoreillerivervalley.com

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: 5:45 p.m. - Hospitality House, Newport VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST/AUXILIARY: 6 p.m. - Priest River VFW

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

NEWPORT – Upcoming classes at Create Art Center include the Fiber Arts Studio and Spinners Workshop, Wednesdays, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Participants can bring their spinning wheels, fiber, knitting needles, and/or crochet hooks.

North Country Weavers meet every second Wednesday of the month, Noon - 3 p.m.

The hand stitchery group meets the third Wednesday of every month, 1 – 4 p.m.

The group works in appliqué, cross-stitch, embroidery, crochet, knitting, and more handwork. The group is open to anyone at any skill level. A $3 donation to Create is appreciated.

Nightclub two step dance classes for youth and adults are Fridays at 6 p.m.

Dance style changes occasionally, alternating between tango, waltz, salsa and ballroom.

Call 208-448-2601 for more information or message 208-306-9125.

Where to Worship

AL-ANON: Noon - American Lutheran Church

PRIEST RIVER ANIMAL RESCUE: 6 p.m. - 1710 9th St., Priest River

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Community Shuttle SPOKANE / NEWPORT

SPECIAL MOBILITY SERVICES Monday • Wednesday • Thursday • Friday A.M. ARRIVE 6:30 AM 8:15 AM 10:15 AM

DEPART Spokane: Bank of America Howard & Riverside 6:35 AM Newport: Safeway 8:30 AM Spokane Bank of America Howard & Riverside

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In the City of Spokane, we pick up or drop off at the Bank of America on Riverside and Howard. Upon request, we can also pick up at the following locations: Spokane International Airport, any of the major Hospitals including VA hospital, NorthTown Mall, Northpoint Wal-Mart, 29th and Regal, Fancher and Sprague or Trent and Fancher.

If you have a disability that prevents you from reaching one of our stops, please call our office to see if we can arrange a pickup at your home.

One-way fares $5.00 Newport/Spokane Reserve seating has priority. Open seating is available without reservations as capacity allows.

To reserve a seat, please call 24-hours in advance or during office hours: 8:30am to 5:00pm

FRIDAY, JUNE 15 NOON TO 6 P.M. VENDORS SET UP IN THE PARK 3-8 P.M. VENDORS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 7 P.M. ALL AGES FAMILY DANCE AT ELK PARK DANCE TO LIVE MUSIC BY D.R. SLY AND THE CULPRITS 4-10 P.M. VFW BEVERAGE GARDEN OPEN

1-877-264-RIDE (7433) 509-534-7171 • www.sms1.org Service is open to the general public. Service is available to all regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin or disability.

This service meets the requirements of the American’s With Disabilities Act. This service is funded through grants from Washington DOT.

Deer Park Auto Licensing For over 30 years!

• Boats • Titles • Tonnages • Vehicle Plates • Registration • Trip Permits Come to us for quick & convenient services!

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ROAD CLOSES AT 9:15 A.M. 10 A.M. PARADE STARTS :P.A. Parade Announcements in front of the Welcome to Elk sign. Parade goes through Elk to Elk Community Park, then circles back. Car show entrants and any registered vendors who are also in the parade drive into the ball field.

9 A.M. TO 6 P.M. VENDORS OPEN

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NOON PARADE ANNOUNCEMENTS AT ELK PARK 10 A.M. TO 8 P.M. ELK VFW BEVERAGE GARDEN OPEN IN THE PARK 11 A.M. TO 2 P.M. THUNDER VALLEY CAR SHOW AT ELK PARK 1:30 P.M. PING PONG BALL RACES, CHECK-IN AT

COMMUNITY BOOTH 1-8 P.M. MUSIC IN THE PARK 8 P.M. TO MIDNIGHT ELK DAYS DANCE AT VFW

WITH MY OWN WORSE ENEMY

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ELK COMMUNITY PARK 40044 N. ELK-CAMDEN ROAD ELK VFW POST 39716 N. CAMDEN EXT. ROAD ELK FIRE STATION ELK-CAMDEN ROAD CONTACT: parkopinion@gmail.com VENDORS: 509-768-0418 PARADE: 509-993-3681 CAR SHOW: 509-993-3681

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OUR URGENT CARE PROVIDES

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

The Urgent Care Clinic is available to everyone.

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Camden Ranch 1521 Willms Road • Elk Christmas Trees & Event Facility

INLAND FEED & FARM SUPPLY Supplying Ranch & Farm Products

Odynski’s Accounting & Tax Service John S. Odynski, EA, ATA Vern W. Rozelle, EA, ATP ________________________ ACCOUNTING • INCOME TAX BOOKKEEPING SERVICE • PAYROLL STATE & FEDERAL AUDIT SERVICE _______________________________

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Newport Rodeo, Parade: June 22-23

Probably the biggest event in the area each year is the Newport Rodeo weekend, well, Friday and Saturday really. The rodeo action is only part of the festivities. There is also a parade, games for kids, vendors, live music, and a beer garden.

The rodeo starts Friday night, with all the regular rodeo events. Ranch bronc riding was added several years ago and is a popular event. It’s a special contest in which working cowboys try to ride a buck

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ing horse with a regular saddle. Just about anything goes and contestants can ride with one hand, two hands or no hands. The wildest ride wins.

Saturday gets underway with a Cowboy Breakfast at the Rodeo Grounds. The parade happens at 11 a.m. and winds though downtown Newport.

This year there will be a slack performance on Sunday as well.

RTI’s Annual Customer Appreciation Day BBQ July 27th, 2018 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.

RTI Pend Oreille Office Main Street Ione, Washington

FREE Summer Events & Programs at The Newport Library!

Reading for prizes, Movies, Crafts, Games, Music, Perfomances & More! Select Dates from June e -August August

Children Teens & Families

Other events & full schedule found @ pocld.org or 800-366-3654

Some events and items at the fair Antique Tractors & Machinery Demonstrations throughout the fair. Entertainment through the fair by Dave King, Professor Bamboozle, Scotia Road Band, Skookum Creek Music Co., & Hay and Pony Rides

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VBS June 25-29 9 a.m - noon Kids ages 3 years to 6th grade

FREE EVENT Newport Southern Baptist Church 52 Sitton Rd • Hwy 2 • South 509-447-3370 / 509-447-3742

JO IN In t US Par he k!

Held in conjunction with the Newport Rodeo, Festivities in the Park brings live music, a beer and wine garden, hometown style games, including silly string tag and chicken poop bingo, to Newport City Park.

Festivities kick off about 11 a.m., just as the Newport Rodeo Parade ends. Lots of vendors and stick horse races for the kids. Call 509-710-9379 for information.

Tri-Town Float Down: July 21-22

There is always fun to be had while paddling down the scenic Pend Oreille River, and fun is sure to be had at the Tri-Town Float Down in north Pend Oreille County.

Boaters launch at the Ruby Crossing boat launch near mile-marker 404 on Highway 20.

The early morning start gives paddlers a gorgeous view as they head north to Ione Park. There are three stops on the first day for cards, one at the launch and take-out, and one about halfway on the paddle.

The second day, floaters put in at Box Canyon Dam, using tubes and floating devices or a small boat. They end the Float Down at Metaline Park, where the last card is given.

The Float Down is partnering with the North Pend Oreille Chamber of Commerce to give away $1,000 in the Ducky Derby Sunday, July 22.

Down River Days: July 27-29

People come from all over the area to participate in the annual Down River Days celebration in Ione Park. The Watercross brings a new level to snowmobiling in the summer. There will also be Extreme Barbie Jeep races and a tug-of-war, featuring four person teams in canoes.

Head north on Highway 20 about 46 miles after leaving Newport, and continue on to Highway 31 for about 4 miles. Turn right onto Main Street and the park entrance is a couple blocks up the road.

Saturday events include shopping at vendors for clothes, jewelry, blown glass and other household items. Food can be purchased from local groups raising money for their sport or organization, and can be eaten along the scenic river at the waterfront part of the park.

The Watercross takes center stage on Sunday, with snowmobiles lining up at the boat launch. Throughout the day, participants race their machines across the river, landing on a strip on the east side of the Pend Oreille.

The park is still full of activities for the young and old while the Watercross takes place. Watch the races from a boat in the water or from the park, and attendees will quickly learn that a snowmobile does not float.

Timber Days: July 27-28

In celebration of the heritage that built Priest River, Timber Days highlights activities around the logging industry.

Drive through Priest River, heading east, and the park is on the right side of the Highway, just past the only streetlight in town.

The event begins Friday evening with the Asphalt Angels’ Hot Neon Lights Car Show

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through downtown Priest River. Saturday kicks off with the Run for the Berries Fun Run. A parade of floats, most in a logging theme, comes through Priest River City Park at 11 a.m. Children are thrown candy from parade participants for their enjoyment throughout the day. The classic car show at the junior high is enjoyable for people of all ages. This year logging competitions occur near Bonner Park West near the Pend Oreille River and will including burling, aka log rolling. Lawnmower races will start their engines in downtown Priest River at about 4 p.m.

Kalispel Tribe’s Powwow: Aug. 3-5

The Kalispel Tribe’s 43rd annual Powwow will take place at the powwow grounds at Usk, located about 20 miles north of Newport at 1981 Leclerc Road. The event is open to the public and admission is free.

One of the highlights of the year, the powwow attracts tribes from the Northwest and Canada. Contestants compete in a variety of dancing and drumming events for tens of thousands of dollars in prize money.

In addition to dance and drum contests, there will be a buffalo barbecue, an allIndian softball tournament, a Buffalo Fun Run and stick game tournaments, as well as a variety of food and other vendors.

“Our annual Kalispel powwow is a time for us to share our hospitality with our community,” said April Pierre, communications director for the tribe. “It’s a time for celebration, reflection and socializing with old friends and meeting new ones. Our visitors come from Canada, across the United States and even a few international visitors.”

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and contests are held throughout the week, such as a spud decorating contest, a pig scramble and coloring contests. A 4-H Market Animal Sale is held on Saturday, and a parade of champions is that afternoon. The fairgrounds are located in Sandpoint, on Boyer Avenue. Visit www.bonnercountyfair.com. The rodeo is Aug. 3-4 at the fairgrounds.

Pend Oreille County Fair: Aug. 16-19

The annual fair and rodeo at Cusick are a much-anticipated time of the year, both for participants and visitors. For participants, it is a time to show off your animals, vegetables or hobbies and see where they stand in relation to other entries. For the visitors, the Pend Oreille County Fair is a great example of what a rural fair can be. There are a variety of animals to see, from chickens to llamas. There are displays of the best fruits and vegetables, canned goods, photography and spinning demonstrations.

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July 4, 1 13, 5 1

The Addams Family, a New Musical June 15, 16, 22, 23 at 7:00pm June 17 & 24 at 3:00pm

((Dad’s recieve a $4 concession voucher on Father’s Day) Beer e & Win

The One Act Play Festival Th July 20 & 21 at 7:00pm

POPA’s Annual A BBQ & Membership Drive July 22 at 1:00pm

236 S. Union, Newport | 509.447.9900 www.PendOreillePlayers.org mail@PendOreillePlayers.org

Master Gardeners Tour: Aug. 5

The 27th Annual Master Gardeners Garden Tour and Dinner will be held Aug. 5, showcasing some of the best gardens and yards in the area. Visit www.extension.wsu.edu/ pendoreille for details closer to the event date.

Bonner County Fair: Aug. 8-11

The goal of the Bonner County Fair is to provide a free educational opportunity for residents of Bonner County to display their ideas and projects from their areas of expertise and interest, as well as allowing local organizations and businesses to present their products to the public. Events

Stevens County Historical Museum Keller House & Museum June, July & August, 10 am - 4 pm, Mon.-Thurs.

1-4 pm, Fri.-Sun.

Visit www.HOTL.church

June 23, 1-4 p.m.

Old Leather Techniques

July 14, 1-4 p.m.

Facinating Tools in our Museum

July 21, 1-2 p.m.

Newport School District FREE Summer Meals (No Income Requirements)

How quilts were made in our Museum

700 N. Wynne St., Colville • 509-684-5968

Ages 1-18 · 2 Locations Mon-Fri · Both Locations

Newport Library June 18th - August 10 116 S. Washington Ave. lunch 11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.

Stratton Elementary July 5th - August 1st Breakfast - 7:45 a.m. - 8:15 a.m.

Lunch - 11:40 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.

SATURDAY JUNE 23

• Chicken Poop Bingo • Silly String Tag • • Vendors • FREE Kids Activities • • Photo Booth • Stick Horse Races • • Bungee Trampoline •

Beer/Wine Garden...

Featuring Top Frog Brewery

LIVE MUSIC! Devon Wade

Skookum Creek Music Co. Trout pond sammy and spawn

Newport City Park • Corner of 1st & Calispel

Rodeo Weekend StartS at 11 a.m.

Vendors wanted!

509-671-6333

301 Park Street, Metaline Falls, WA 99153 509-446-4108 | cuttertheatre.com UPCOMING EVENTS The Continual Cutter Clutter Rummage Sale

May 14th - June 30, July 14, July 28, August 4, August 25 9am - 1pm

Scott Kirby, Pianist

July 21 - 7pm | Dinner at 6pm ($15 ) 00

Red Yarn - Free Event

July 31 - 1pm | Lunch at 11:30 ($500)

Labor Day Shrimp Boil & Ping Pong Raffle - $2500 September 1 - 5pm

Driver’s Education Classes Next Session Starts in Newport

July 24th - August 23rd

Tues-Wed-Thurs • 10 am - 12:15 pm (509) 466-2343 for more information www.bbdrivingschool.net Newport High School

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JOIN US THIS SUMMER CHURCH OF FAITH

36245 Hwy 41, Oldtown, ID Sunday School 10 a.m.

Sunday Services - 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.

Wed. - Bible Study 6 p.m.

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

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Sports

B R I E F LY Spartan baseball awards presented PRIEST RIVER – Team awards for the Priest River Lamanna High School baseball team were given recently.

Tyson Brooks and Logan Isenberger received Most Improved awards.

Defensive Most Valuable Player awards went to Jantzan Lucas and Logan Shockey.

Cameron Reeves was selected Best Teammate.

Offensive Most Valuable Player and Big Stick ward winner was Coal Stevens.

Public comment period is open for proposed F&G rules requiring legislative approval

Future varsity Young players get some basketball coaching from Newport High School boys’ basketball coach Jamie Pancho Tuesday morning at the high school. Pancho said about 25 players young players turn out for the morning sessions, which were for youngsters in the first through fourth grades.

There were about 40 students total participating in the camp.

BY ROGER PHILLIPS PUBLIC INFORMATION SPECIALIST

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Volunteers key to rodeo The Colville rodeo is coming up this week. It is a rodeo with almost as much history as Newport, but one that didn’t happen a couple of years ago.

The Colville Rodeo has undergone quite a bit of change over the years.

When I first started riding in the late 1960s, Colville was an open rodeo put on by the late Jim McGowan of Republic.

McGowan, a stock contractor, pretty much had all the amateur rodeos in those days. My dad worked as a pickup man for him, so McGowan got me entered in the Stevens County boys bareback riding that was held during the girls’ rodeo one year. I won my first real trophy buckle that night.

The Washington Rodeo Association was formed in 1967 partially in a response to McGowan’s monopoly of northwest rodeos.

My dad, Gordon Gronning, was elected first calf roping director for the new association. The WRA eventually became the Professional Western Rodeo Association or ProWest.

When we went to Colville, it was always tense, as that was about the time we were supposed to be putting up our hay. It was always a question of whether it was going to rain or not.

The Gronning family has had some luck at Colville over RODEO the years.

SCENE My dad won his first DON team-roping GRONNING buckle at Colville in 1964, a leather buckle. Team roping was just getting established in the northwest at that time.

Team roping became popular, especially at Colville.

My dad, roping with my brother, Doug Gronning, won buckles for winning an eight head roping in 1988.

Colville went from being an open rodeo to being a WRA rodeo to being a Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association rodeo, and then was a ProW-

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est rodeo.

A couple years ago there was no rodeo in Colville, something that was strange.

The rodeo was picked up again and is a ProWest Rodeo once more.

Colville’s experience with having no rodeo makes obvious that rodeos don’t happen by themselves.

Local businessmen have to ante up some money and local volunteers have to get the grounds ready and handle the countless chores that need to happen during the rodeo, from taking tickets to handling parking to taking saddles off bucking horses.

It’s hard work performed by volunteers who don’t really get the credit they deserve for their roles in making the biggest tourism event of the year happen in Newport.

But if they didn’t do their work, the rodeo would go away, just like it did the oneyear in Colville, and the community would be worse off.

DON GRONNING IS A FORMER PROFESSIONAL RODEO COWBOYS ASSOCIATION BULL RIDER AND PUBLISHER OF NORTHWEST RODEO SCENE.

BOISE – People have until June 27 to enter their comments on several proposals by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game Commission. People can read the full proposals and comment by going to F&G’s Rulemaking Page and filling out online comments.

• Limit transport of cervid (deer) carcasses into Idaho from states with CWD To reduce the possibility of entry of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) into the state, and to prevent spread of CWD within the state after detection, the IDFG draft strategy for CWD prevention, detection, and management recommends the prohibition of importation of any wild cervid carcass into Idaho from any CWD positive state, and the prohibition of the export/ transport of a wild cervid carcass from within a defined CWD management zone in Idaho (post detection) to an area outside of the zone.

• Integrate CWD risk into consideration of emergency winter feeding decisions IDFG’s Chronic Wasting Disease Strategy recommends that the risks of spreading Chronic Wasting Disease are considered along with the other conditions and criteria considered by IDFG, and the recommendations from Winter Feeding Advisory Committees, for determining an emergency exists and that it is appropriate to initiate distribution of supplemental feed for wintering deer, elk, and pronghorn.

• Restrict public from winter feeding wild deer and elk in designated Chronic Wasting Disease Management Zone Winter feeding causes artificial concentrations of wild deer and elk that creates a high potential for disease transmission between animals and may increase the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). To reduce the possibility of transmission of CWD where wild deer and elk are concentrated by unsanctioned supplemental feed provided by the public, IDFG is proposing a rule that would restrict the public from feeding wild deer and elk in a designated CWD Management Zone following confirmation of CWD

detection.

• Adopt a landowner permission hunt for turkeys in controlled hunt areas In recent years, localized turkey populations have expanded and created depredation issues on private lands. In addition to turkey depredation issues, landowners who provide valuable turkey habitat in controlled hunt areas have expressed frustration at being unable to hunt turkeys on their own property, because of low controlled hunt drawing odds.

• Eliminate mail as an option to submit controlled hunt applications Currently, hunters can submit controlled hunt applications to the Idaho Department of Fish and Game via mail or electronically through the automated licensing system at any vendor location including Fish and Game regional offices and headquarters, or via the telephone.

In 2017, only 3 percent of the controlled hunt applications were submitted via mail, but ensuring all post-marked mail has arrived, processing the mail, and entering the controlled hunt application information into the electronic licensing system adds an additional five to seven processing days, delaying conducting the draw and announcing results.

• Ban importation and possession of live mule deer, whitetailed deer, moose, and wild elk in Idaho The Idaho Department of Fish and Game’s Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Strategy recommends discontinuing the issuance of IDFG permits authorizing import or possession of live mule deer, white-tailed deer, moose, and wild elk. IDFG is proposing a rule change to reduce the possibility of CWD prions being introduced into the state through the importation and possession of wildlife. This rule would not affect domestic elk importation.

• Prohibit use of natural cervidbased urine The prions that cause Chronic Wasting Disease may be excreted in the urine of infected animals and may result in transmitting the disease to other cervids (deer, elk, moose).

To reduce the possibility of introducing or spreading prions that cause CWD through the use of scents or lures, the Department is proposing to ban the use of natural cervid urine products.

Synthetic substitutes for urine products may be still be used.

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Shirley Claire Barker went to meet her Lord and Savior on June 4, 2018. She was born in Port Arthur, Texas on Sept. 27, 1930, to Viva C. and Donald F. Monroe. She was preceded in death by her husband of 65-years, Robert W. Barker.

She is survived by her children Jane Hankins of Mustang, Okla., Donald Barker of Spirit Lake, Idaho, and Anne Barker of Spirit Lake, Idaho; her grandchildren Matthew, Daniel Savannah, Christopher, Weslie, Kara, Tammy, and Melanee, as well as six great grandchildren.

She was a teacher for 35-years in Bonner County School District, San Diego, California and Goodyear, Ariz. She was an avid quilter and true believer in God’s saving grace.

Services were held Monday, June 11, at Pine Ridge Community Church in Newport.

Sherman-Campbell Funeral and Cremation Services in Priest River is in charge of arrangements.

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

D I ST R I C T C O U R T May 2 Isaac Albe, 19, stipulated to a probation violation and was sentenced to 13 days jail with credit for time served 13 days.

John Amicarella, 22, was sentenced to 90 days in jail with 90 days suspended, 24 months probation and fined $1,000 ($500 suspended) for negligent driving, amended from driving under the influence; $1,934 total fees and fines.

Paul Brantner, 31, was sentenced to 23 days in jail with 23 days credit for time served for violating a protection order; $250 total fees and fines.

Dyann Bussard, 58, was sentenced to 90 days in jail, (89 suspended), 24 months probation and fined $1,000 ($500 suspended); $750 total fines and fees.

Stephen Daniel Day, 25, was sentenced to 180 days in jail for a probation violation. Defendant to serve two days before May 31 and report for the remaining jail time Sept. 11.

Eugene Fox, 69, was sentenced to 364 days in jail (361 suspended), 60 months probation and fined $5,000 ($4,000 suspended) for driving under the influence; a charge of driving too fast for conditions was dismissed; $2,337 total fees and fines.

Gregory Jesberger, 63, was sentenced to 364 days in jail (362 suspended) 60 months probation and fined $5,000 ($4,000 suspended) for driving under the influence; $2,555 total fees and fines.

Juan Ledesma, 42, was fined $250 for no valid operators license.

Allan Moore, 63, was sentenced to 364 days in jail (362 suspended) 60 months probation and fined $5,000 ($4,000 suspended): $2,321 total fees and fines.

Curtis Norton, 47, was fined $250 for no valid operator’s license; $250 total fees and fines.

Dustin Simpson, 34, was fined $250 for no valid operator’s license; $250 total fees and fines.

May 9 Cassandra Andrews, 27, was sentenced to 240 days in jail with credit for 16 days time served.

May 16 Curtis Norton, 47, was sentenced to 90 days in jail (90 suspended), fined $1,000 ($1,000 suspended) for failure to transfer title within 45 days; $118 total fees and fines. Troy Simpson, 25, was sentenced to 364 days in jail (364 suspended) 24 months probation and fined $5,000 ($4,800 suspended) for operating a vehicle without the required ignition interlock; $493 total fees and fines. Timothy Stoddard, 43, was sentenced to 364 days in jail and fined $5,000 ($3,800 suspended) for driving under the influence and sentenced to 90 days in jail (87 suspended) for driving with a suspended license; $2,507 total fees and fines.

Bobbi Tweten, 39, was sentenced to 60 days in jail with credit for time served for a probation violation; file closed.

West Pend Oreille fire calls PRIEST RIVER – HERE IS A LIST OF DISPATCH CALLS RESPONDED TO BY THE WEST PEND OREILLE FIRE DISTRICT LAST WEEK: MAY 4: medical assist, E. 5th St. North, Oldtown

EDITOR’S NOTE: The police reports, taken from dispatch logs provided to The Miner by law enforcement agencies, are not intended to be an exact report, but rather a comprehensive list of police calls in Pend Oreille and West Bonner counties.

Dispatch also fields calls for the Kalispel Tribe property in Airway Heights. Certain police calls are generally omitted because of space constraints.

These include but aren’t limited to ambulance calls for illness, unfounded alarms, traffic stops, dogs at large, abandoned vehicles, 911 hang–ups and civil standbys. All dispositions for the police reports are assumed to be active, assist or transfer at press time. The police reports are updated each weekday on The Miner Online.

PEND OREILLE COUNTY

Ohio plates windows rolled up and dog inside.

ARREST: S. Garden Ave., Newport, Ezekiel E. Paine, 27, of Spokane was arrested for failure to appear on local warrants.

SUSPICIOUS PERSON: N. Union Ave.

THEFT-AUTOMOBILE: Riverside Ave., report that a vehicle was stolen last night.

ANIMAL PROBLEM: Baker Lake Rd., Newport, report of a large black dog that won’t leave residence, tried to attack UPS man, and has no collar.

SUSPICIOUS PERSON: N. Spokane Ave., report of a male in alley yelling, cursing and kicking a dumpster.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VERBAL: W. Kelly Drive, report of a fight with his girlfriend and she left on foot.

TUESDAY, JUNE 5 PROBATION VIOLATION: S. Washington Ave., Newport, Norman J. Mack, 28, of Newport, was arrested of a DOC detainer.

JUVENILE PROBLEM: S. Calispel Ave., Newport MALICIOUS MISCHIEF: S Spokane Ave., report that sometime in the last week someone tried to break into complainant’s trailer.

SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE: Hwy. 2, Newport, report of a vehicle parked outside of gate overnight.

ANIMAL CRUELTY: Lenora Drive, report that subject at that space has a Border collie type dog that is full of sores, has matted fur, and is malnourished.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE: Bond Rd., Cusick, report that complainant states there are numerous people at residence that won’t let her into the house.

DISORDERLY CONDUCT: W. Sacheen St., Cusick, report of a known female going around yelling cussing going door to door may be headed to her tent.

TRESPASSING: Hwy 2, Newport, report that a male subject was in residence and would like him trespassed.

FIRE: Deer Valley Rd., Newport, report of burning remnants of a previous structure fire.

MONDAY, JUNE 4

THEFT: W. Spruce St., report that a bicycle was stolen off of porch sometime last night.

BURGLARY: Valley View Drive, Newport, report came home from vacation and found many items gone.

ARREST: W. 5th St., Newport, Jaime J. Barajas Jr., 29, of Newport was arrested for violation of a protection order.

FIRE – GRASS: Baker Lake Rd, Newport, report that a stump pile burning fire getting away.

SUSPICIOUS PERSON: W. 1st St., Newport, report that a homeless male has been sitting outside of the church for about a week and talks to himself.

BURGLARY: Pleasant Drive E., Newport, report that someone broke into the shop at a property that the she is care taking.

CHILD ABUSE: LeClerc Rd. N., Cusick, report that caller saw a women smash a small child’s face into the bumper of the car.

This happened about 20 minutes ago and vehicle left area.

ERRATIC DRIVER: Hwy. 2, report that a gray Chevy pickup passed a logging truck. Then got back in front of the logging truck, slammed their breaks on, and continued to drive 40-mph with their left blinker on.

THREATENING: S. 2nd Ave., Ione, report that his son threatened him and possibly has a 270 rifle with him in the room.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE: Hwy. 211, report that her husband and girlfriend have hacked her phone and unblocked themselves so they can send her messages.

ARREST: S. Garden Ave., Bernard L. Ramsey, 44, of Springfield was arrested on a Department of Corrections detainer.

ARREST: E. 5th Ave., Donald M. Neidigh, 37, of Metaline Falls was arrested on a violation of a protection order.

ARREST: Hwy 2, Kimberly R. Koppy, 40, of Kalispell was arrested on an out of county warrant.

THEFT: 1st Ave., report that stuff was stolen out of her tent.

JUVENILE PROBLEM: W. 1st St., Newport, report of a juvenile female sitting in the middle of the road dark hair shaved in back olive green shirt black pants about 12 years old.

POSSIBLE DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE: Baker Lake Rd., report of a male in a black Nissan car, possibly intoxicated.

ARREST: S. Garden Ave., Paula S. Larson, 49, of Cheney was arrested on a local warrant.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6 ARREST: Paula S. Larson, 49, of Cheney was arrested on local misdemeanor warrants.

ATTEMPT-LOCATE: Deer Valley Rd., Newport, report of a wanted subject just left and bound in a black van.

FIRE – BRUSH: Milwaukee Drive S., report of an unattended slash pile moving slowly through some brush.

ARRETED: Hwy. 2, John L. Lauzon, 49, Newport, was arrested for driving on a suspended license.

ARREST: S. Washington Ave., Newport, Joseph P. Santoro, 19, of Elk was arrested on a DOC detainer.

CIVIL: S. Main Ave., report of civil issue with roommate

DISTURBANCE: W. Pine St., Newport, report of a male in parking lot causing a disturbance.

ANIMAL PROBLE: Scotia Rd., Newport, report that a neighbor’s dogs run onto their property and they are chasing her animals.

INTOXICATION: W. 1st St., report of intoxicated homeless male screaming and yelling by gazebo at the park.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VERBAL: LeClerc Rd S., report of a vehicle that is a 4 door gray car with the windshield smashed.

TRESPASSING: Bead Lake Rd., report of squatters on her father’s property and they don’t have permission to be there.

She advised them they needed to leave and they refused.

PERSONAL INJURY ACCI-

MAY 8: structure fire (mutual aid with Newport Fire), W. 7th St. Newport MAY 9: injury accident, Highway 57, Priest River MAY 10: medical assist, Highway 2, Priest River MAY 10: controlled burn, South 2nd St., Priest River

FRAUD: W. Kelly Drive, Newport

POSSIBLE DUI: Hwy. 31 report that a male was stumbling and appeared intoxicated.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE: W. Walnut St., report of two guys trying to get into a vehicle, west side of parking lot, gray GMC extended cab.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: W. Pine St., report that a complainant discovered lock cut on unit.

THURSDAY, JUNE 7 DISTURBANCE: report of a female causing a disturbance.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: report of a subjects living in residence without permission.

TRAFFIC HAZARD: Hwy. 211, report of a dog running in the roadway.

HARASSMENT: Ione, report of a subjects harassing complainant.

ARREST: S. Garden Ave., John, J. Gleason, 37, of Waitsburg, was arrested for not having required commercial license.

ATTEMPT-LOCATE: Kent Creek Lane, report of an attempt to locate a wanted person.

ACCIDENT: N. Newport Ave., report that a complainant was rear-ended.

SUNDAY, JUNE 10 DISORDERLY: W. Pine St., report of a possibly intoxicated male acting aggressively towards staff.

CIVIL: Williams Rd. PERSONAL INJURY ACCIDENT: Hwy. 2 report of a vehicle vs vehicle, juvenile with minor injuries.

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MALICIOUS MISCHIEF: W. Walnut St., report of a vehicle being vandalized in parking lot.

THREATENING: Baker Lake Rd., report that complainant received a threatening text message.

MONDAY, JUNE 4 BATTERY: Jones Ave., Priest River

TUESDAY, JUNE 5,

TRAFFIC HAZARD: Hwy. 2, report of a piece of sheet metal on the highway.

ATTEMPT-LOCATE: Kent Creek Lane, report of a wanted subject at this address.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: W. Walnut St., report of a male subject confronting customers, possibly on drugs.

ACCIDENT, UNKNOWN INJURY: Eastshore Rd., Coolin

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, WEAPON OFFENSE: Diamond Heights Rd., Oldtown, ACCIDENT- INJURIES: Dufort Rd., Priest River

THURSDAY, JUNE 7

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: W. 5th St., report of a vehicle driving on the football field.

TRAFFIC VIOLATION: Hwy. 2, Oldtown

HAZARDOUS MATERIALS: W. Walnut St., report of a propane leak inside business.

MISSING PERSON: Selkirk Way,

FRIDAY, JUNE 8

TRAFFIC VIOLATION: Hwy. 2, Oldtown TRAFFIC HAZARD: Highway 57, Priest River MISSING PERSON: Selkirk Way,

ARREST: S. Garden Ave., Camille C. Camp, 43, of Newport, was arrested on local and out of county warrants.

CHILD NEGLECT: Hwy. 2, Priest River, report of child abuse in Priest River.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: Hwy. 2, report that it appears that someone may have tried to start trees on fire at the park.

TRESPASSING: Lincoln Ave., Priest River

CIVIL: Bobier Rd. S., report of a court ordered civil standby.

RECKLESS DRIVING: Hwy. 2, Priest River

ACCIDENT SLIDE OFF: Hwy. 2, Priest River

FRIDAY, JUNE 8

SUSPICIOUS PERSON: W. Walnut St., report deputy out with two pedestrians.

SHOPLIFTING: Hwy. 2, Priest River

CIVIL: W. Kelly Drive, report of court ordered civil standby to pick up items.

RUNAWAY JUVENILE: Old Diamond Mill Loop, Oldtown NON-INJURY ACCIDENT: Highway 57, Priest River

ERRATIC DRIVER: Hwy. 2, report of a vehicle speeding and going into other lane.

FIRE –STRUCTURE: W. 7th St., report of an apartment building engulfed in flames.

VEHICLE PROWL: W. 7th St., Newport, report that sometime last night someone got into complainant’s car and took money and daughters fishing license.

ERRATIC DRIVER: Main St., report of an on-going problem with vehicle speeding through area.

ANIMAL CRUELTY: W. Walnut St., report of a gray Chevy truck

SUSPICIOUS PERSON: N. Union Ave., report of out with male subject.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VERBAL: Hwy. 2, report of a verbal argument where a male is very upset.

PERSONAL INJURY ACCIDENT: N. Union Ave., report of vehicle vs bicycle.

VIOLATION OF ORDER: Robarge Rd. N., Metaline Falls, report that respondent is making 3rd party communication.

SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE: W. Walnut St., report of a vehicle that does not match plate.

ERRATIC DRIVER: Hwy. 211

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE: Driskill Rd., Newport, report that sometime in the last 3 or 4 days the GMC truck appears to have a bb shot in the windshield.

ACCIDENT, INJURIES: Union St., ACCIDENT, INJURIES: Hwy. 57, Priest Lake

SATURDAY, JUNE 9 CIVIL DISPUTE: E. 4th St. S., Oldtown

ACCIDENT: Scotia Rd., report of a vehicle in a ditch, no one is inside.

ERRATIC DRIVER: Scotia Rd. report of a vehicle swerving and almost hitting mailboxes.

ARREST: Timothy G. Stoddard, 44, of Newport was arrested for driving while intoxicated and driving with a suspended license.

SUNDAY, JUNE 10 DOMESTIC DISPUTE: Cemetery Rd., Priest River TRAFFIC VIOLATION: Spirit Lake Cutoff, Spirit Lake, report that Larry Lamarr of Rathdrum was cited and released for driving without privileges.

ACCIDENT, HIT AND RUN: Hwy 2, Priest River

PU BLIC M E ETI NGS

MAY 6: public service, E. 3rd. St. Oldtown MAY 8: non-injury accident, Highway 57 Priest River

SATURDAY, JUNE 9

DENT: Riverside Ave., report of and ATV accident.

MAY 5: illegal burn, Lake St., Priest River MAY 6: injury accident, Dufort Rd. Priest River

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OBITUARI ES Shirley Claire Barker

JUNE 13, 2018 |

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13 PEND OREILLE CEMETERY NO. 1: 8:15 a.m. - Courthouse Conference Room, 625 Fourth St., 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 SACHEEN LAKE SEWER AND WATER DISTRICT BOARD: 5 p.m. - Sacheen Fire Station, Highway 211

SIONERS: 9 a.m. - Pend Oreille County Courthouse SELKIRK SCHOOL BOARD: 6 p.m. - Selkirk Middle/High School Music Room NEWPORT CITY COUNCIL: 6 p.m. - Newport City Hall PRIEST RIVER CITY COUNCIL: 6 p.m. Priest River City Hall PEND OREILLE FIRE DISTRICT NO. 8 BOARD: 7 p.m. - Fire Station at Spring Valley and Tweedie Roads

TUESDAY, JUNE 19

WEST BONNER WATER AND SEWER DISTRICT: 6:30 p.m. - Oldtown City Hall

BONNER COUNTY COMMISSIONERS: 8:45 a.m. - Bonner County Administrative Building

BONNER COUNTY DEMOCRATS: 6:30-8 p.m. - Panhandle Health, 322 Marion St., Sandpoint

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

METALINE TOWN COUNCIL: 7 p.m. Metaline Town Hall

PEND OREILLE PUD COMMISSIONERS: 10 a.m. - Newport PUD Offices

MONDAY, JUNE 18 PEND OREILLE COUNTY COMMIS-

CUSICK SCHOOL BOARD: 3:30 p.m. Cusick High School Library

WEST PEND OREILLE FIRE DISTRICT BOARD: 6:30 p.m. - Fire Station on Highway 57 PROPERTY RIGHTS COUNCIL: 6:30 p.m.

- Bonner County Administration Building, Sandpoint

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20 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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MAINTENANCE WORKER I The City of Priest River currently has one opening for the position of full-time Maintenance Worker I. Heavy equipment experience preferred. Starting salary is from $29,702.40 to $32,801.60 DOE, plus medical, dental, employee assistance program, and PERSI retirement plan. All persons interested in this position should request an application form and job description from Priest River City Hall at 208-448-2123, on our website at www.priestriver-id.gov, or by email: lthomas@priestriver-id.gov Please submit a City of Priest River application, resume and any other supporting documents to the City of Priest River by 5:00 pm on Wednesday, June 20, 2018.

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Thomas Chiropractic & Massage Therapy Dr. Chris Thomas & Amanda Winje, LMP 129 S. Union Ave. • Newport • (509) 447-9986

COUNSELING Pend Oreille County Counseling Services Substance Abuse Treatment/Prevention/Mental Health/Developmental Disabilities Offices in Newport & Metaline Falls (509) 447-5651

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FEMALE CORRECTIONS OFFICER (Jailer)

Rural Resources Community Action is accepting applications for a Maintenance Tech in Colville, WA and the surrounding area. This positon performs general maintenance functions including sheetrock repair, light carpentry, minor electrical, interior/exterior painting, minor plumbing and custodial duties.

Maintains exterior appearance of facility grounds and walkways and insures building security. It is a full-time position with a starting pay of $13.65 - $14.77 per hour, D.O. E. plus benefits.

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Rural Resources is an AA/EOE employer.

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MASSAGE THERAPY Cedar Mountain Massage Therapy

Lois Robertson, Licensed Massage Therapist 701Viet Rd -- Newport -- 447-3898

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

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CLASSIFIEDS

JUNE 13, 2018 |

OCCUPANTS OF THE PROPERTY, Defendants.

To: UNKNOWN HEIRS, SPOUSE, L E G AT E E S , A N D D E V I S E E S OF JOHN LANHAM; UNKNOWN HEIRS, SPOUSE, LEGATEES, AND DEVISEES OF CHARLES LANHAM; UNKNOWN HEIRS, SPOUSE, LEGATEES, AND DEVISEES OF LINDA LANHAM AKA LINDA M. KEMPERMAN; OCCUPANTS OF THE PROPERTY, THE STATE OF WASHINGTON TO THE SAID DEFENDANTS: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to wit, within sixty days after the 9th day of May 2018, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the Plaintiff, FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION (“FANNIE MAE”), A CORPORATION ORGANIZED AND EXISTING UNDER THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorneys for Plaintiff, McCarthy & Holthus, LLP at the office below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint,

Your Right to Know RIVERFRONT 1 bedroom cottage. Clean, quiet cottage with great river view located in Cusick near Highway 2/ Highway 31 Tiger Store. Looking for responsible, single, no smoking, no pets tenant. Opportunity for reduced rent in exchange for yard and /or house help. $625/ month includes water/ electric. References/ Security deposit. (509) 680-7495 or (520) 301-5126.(18-4p) 2 BEDROOM Mobile near Sacheen Lake. $525/ month with terms. No smoking. No pets. (509) 447-0631. (20-3)

DIAMOND LAKE Lakefront apartment. Perfect for hardworking people. 1 bedroom/ 1 bath, no pets. $750/ month, negotiable. (509) 624-8440.(20-3p)

11 . 9 9 A C R E S Hillside property with good building sites on top. 9554 S p r i n g Va l l e y Road, Newport.

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Your right to know and be informed of the functions of your government are embodied in public notices.

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

2018143 PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF T H E S TAT E O F WA S H I N G T O N FOR THE COUNTY OF PEND OREILLE CASE NO.: 18-2-00004-8 S U M M O N S B Y P U B L I C AT I O N FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION (“FANNIE MAE”), A CORPORATION ORGANIZED AND EXISTING UNDER THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, vs.

UNKNOWN HEIRS, SPOUSE, LEGATEES, AND DEVISEES OF JOHN LANHAM; UNKNOWN HEIRS, SPOUSE, LEGATEES, AND DEVISEES OF CHARLES LANHAM; UNKNOWN HEIRS, SPOUSE, LEGATEES, AND DEVISEES OF LINDA LANHAM AKA LINDA M. KEMPERMAN; CAITY LANHAM;

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| JUNE 13, 2018

Continued from 9B which has been filed with the clerk of said court. The basis for the complaint is a foreclosure of the property commonly known as 4961 North Shore Diamond Lake Road, Newport, WA 99156, Pend Oreille County, Washington as a result of a default under the terms of the note and deed of trust.

DATED: April 26, 2018 McCarthy & Holthus, LLP /s/ Matthew G. Stamper Matthew Stamper WSBA No. 46685 108 1st Avenue South, Ste. 300 Seattle, WA 98104 Attorneys for Plaintiff Published in The Newport Miner on May 9, 16, 23, 30, June 6 and 13, 2018. (15-6) _________________________ 2018161 PUBLIC NOTICE OFFICE CLERK Chippewa Water & Sewer District is seeking an office clerk with basic accounting and computer experience. Must be organized and self motivated. Interested individuals can mail resume to: PO Box 33, Ione, WA 99139, or call 509-442-3270.

Published in The Newport Miner May 30, June 6 and 13, 2018.(18-3) __________________________ 2018164 PUBLIC NOTICE CALL FOR BIDS Sealed bids will be received through Monday, June 25, 2018, 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 29, 2018. 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 June 6 and 13, 2018.(19-2) _________________________ 2018165 PUBLIC NOTICE S U L L I VA N C R E E K L A R G E W O O D Y D E B R I S H A B I TAT R E S T O R AT I O N P R O J E C T Seattle City Light, Lynn Best, PO Box 34023 Seattle, WA 98124, is seeking coverage under the Washington State Department of Ecology’s Construction Stormwater NPDES and State Waste Discharge General Permit. The proposed project, Sullivan Creek Large Woody Debris, has four locations where engineered log jams will be placed. All locations are within the Colville National Forest from River Mile 5.7 to 10.3 at the following locations (Lat/Long): Outlet Creek Confluence (48.845762/117.285206); Oxbow Side Channel 48.832474/-117.246516; Dispersed Recreation Site (DRS) 17 Side Channel 48.834136/-117.234245; Wasson and Cascade Creek Confluences 48.836037/-117.217422.

This project involves 3.4 acres of soil disturbance for restoration activities, specifically, placement of engineered large log jams. The receiving waterbodies include Sullivan creek and its tributaries/ side channels, which include Outlet Creek, Wasson and Cascade Creek. The project will implement

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

The newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising or real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination call HUD toll-free at 1-800-669-9777. The toll-free telephone number for the hearing impaired is 1-800927-9275. (31tf)

CLASSIFIEDS best management practices (BMPs) to manage stormwater and limit sediment release and turbidity within waterbodies. BMPs will include use of cofferdams to contain sediment and turbidity within in-water work areas, temporary bridges at water crossings, and perimeter controls (e.g., silt fencing, straw wattles).

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 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 June 6 and 13, 2018.(19-2) _________________________ 2018166 PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Newport City Council will hold a Public Hearing at 6:00 p.m., June 18, 2018 in Council Chambers located at 200 S. Washington Ave., Newport, Washington for the purpose of declaring certain real property legally described below surplus to the City’s needs: 1. Newport 56, RO-3-1, East ½ West ½ Southeast ¼ Southeast ¼, Section 24 Township 31 Range 45, identified in the assessor’s records as ID#16768, containing 10 acres of undeveloped land Published in The Newport Miner June 6 and13, 2018.(19-2) _________________________ 2018167 PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF BOARD MEETING D AT E / T I M E C H A N G E Cusick School District No. 59 Pend Oreille County, Washington The Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Cusick School District No. 59 (the “District”) hereby provides this notice that they will meet for their June Board Meeting on: Date: Tuesday, June 26, 2018 Time: 8:00 a.m.

Location: High School Library Cusick School District 305 Monumental Way Cusick, WA The purpose of this meeting is for the regularly scheduled June Board Meeting. /s/ Don Hawpe Cusick School District No. 59 Don Hawpe; Supt.

Published in The Newport Miner June 6 and 13, 2018.(19-2) ________________________ 2018160 LEGAL NOTICE The Priest Lake Translator District Board of Trustees has changed the location and dates of their remaining quarterly meetings in 2018 to: 1. Tuesday, August 14 2. Tuesday, November 13 Meetings will be held at 4:00 PM at the Outlet Bay Sewer District meeting room, 149 Outlet Bay Road, Priest Lake, ID, 83856. Anyone wishing to bring business before the Board must notify the Translator District office at least 5 days in advance at (208) 443-2492 to be included on the agenda.

Rosemary Yocum, Secretary Published in The Gem State Miner June 13, 2018.(35) __________________________ 2018170 PUBLIC NOTICE SUPERIOR COURT OF WA S H I N G T O N FOR PEND OREILLE COUNTY NO. 18-4-00021-5 P R O B AT E N O T I C E T O CREDITORS ( R C W 11 . 4 0 . 0 3 0 ) Estate of EYVONNE E. CARSTENS, Deceased.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE The above Court has appointed me as Personal Representative of Decedent’s estate. Any person having a claim against the Decedent

must present the claim: (a) Before the time when the claim would be barred by any applicable statute of limitations, and (b) In the manner provided in RCW 11.40.070: (i) By filing the original of the claim with the foregoing Court, and (ii) By serving on or mailing to me at the address below a copy of the claim. The claim must be presented by the later of: (a) Thirty (30) days after I served or mailed this Notice as provided in RCW 11.40.020(1)(c), or (b) Four (4) months after the date of first publication of this Notice. If the claim is not presented within this time period, the claim will be forever barred except as provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective for claims against both the Decedent’s probate and non-probate assets.

Date of First Publication of this Notice: June 13, 2018 Randy D. Carstens, Personal Representative ELTC Law Group, PLLC Anthony Fry, Attorney PO Box 301 Newport, WA 99156 (509) 447-3242 Published in The Newport Miner June 13, 20 and 27, 2018.(20-3) ________________________ 2018171 PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF T H E S TAT E O F WA S H I N G T O N FOR THE COUNTY OF PEND OREILLE CASE NO.: 18-2-00036-6 S U M M O N S B Y P U B L I C AT I O N NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC D/B/A CHAMPION MORTGAGE COMPANY, Plaintiff, vs.

THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF DOROTHY MARKS; JOHN MARKS; OCCUPANTS OF THE PROPERTY, Defendants.

To: THE UNKNOWN HEIRS AND DEVISEES OF DOROTHY MARKS and OCCUPANTS OF THE PROPERTY THE STATE OF WASHINGTON TO THE SAID DEFENDANTS: You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to wit, within sixty days after the 13 day of June, 2018, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the Plaintiff, NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC D/B/A CHAMPION MORTGAGE COMPANY, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorneys for Plaintiff, McCarthy & Holthus, LLP at the office below stated; and in case of your failure so to do, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court. The basis for the complaint is a foreclosure of the property commonly known as 262 Lillijard Road, Newport, WA 99156, Pend Oreille County, Washington as a result of a default under the terms of the note and deed of trust.

DATED: June 4, 2018 McCarthy & Holthus, LLP /s/ Warren Lance Warren Lance WSBA No. 51586 108 1st Avenue South, Ste. 300 Seattle, WA 98104 Attorneys for Plaintiff Published in The Newport Miner June 13, 20, 27, July 4, 11 and 18, 2018.(20-6) ________________________ 2018172 PUBLIC NOTICE SUPERIOR COURT OF WA S H I N G T O N FOR PEND OREILLE COUNTY NO. 18-4-00025-26 P R O B AT E N O T I C E T O CREDITORS ( R C W 11 . 4 0 . 0 3 0 ) Estate of DONALD E. ANDERSON, Deceased.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE The above Court has appointed me as Personal Representative of Decedent’s estate. Any person having a claim against the Decedent must present the claim: (a) Before the time when the claim would be barred by any applicable statute of limitations, and (b) In the manner provided in RCW 11.40.070: (i) By filing the original of the claim with the foregoing Court, and (ii) By serving on or mailing to me at the address below a copy of the claim. The claim must be presented by the later of: (a) Thirty (30) days after I served or mailed this Notice as provided in RCW 11.40.020(1)(c), or (b) Four (4)

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months after the date of first publication of this Notice. If the claim is not presented within this time period, the claim will be forever barred except as provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective for claims against both the Decedent’s probate and non-probate assets.

Date of First Publication of this Notice: June 13, 2018.

Pamela L. Anderson, Personal Representative ELTC Law Group, PLLC Anthony Fry, Attorney PO Box 301 Newport, WA 99156 (509) 447-3242 Published in The Newport Miner June 13, 20 and 27, 2018.(20-3) ________________________ 2018173 PUBLIC NOTICE Centennial Contractors Enterprises Seeking Subcontractors for Job Order Contracts (JOC) Seattle, WA – June 2018 – Centennial currently holds contracts for, and anticipates in the upcoming year, performance of public works projects of various sizes and scope under job order and similar contracts throughout Washington, including contracts with the City of Seattle, University of Washington, Lake Washington School District, Port of Seattle, State of Washington Department of Enterprise Services, Sound Transit, Spokane Public Schools, City of Vancouver, and Washington State University.

In support of these efforts we are seeking highly qualified, safety and quality conscious subcontractors of all trades and specialties to join our team. Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprises (MWBE) are strongly encouraged to respond.

For information please contact our Western WA office at (206) 5470135; Eastern WA office at (509) 228-9405 or visit our website at www. cce-internal.com/nwnf.

Published in The Newport Miner on June 13, 2018. (20) _________________________ 2018175 PUBLIC NOTICE CALL FOR BIDS SINGLE PHASE DISTRIBUTION C L A S S S T E P V O LTA G E R E G U L AT O R S CONTRACT NO. 18-020 Public Utility District No. 1 of Pend Oreille County, Washington, hereby solicits sealed bids for the following: Twelve (12) 833kVA, 1093 Ampere distribution class voltage regulators with multi-phase controls.

Interested parties may obtain full specifications by contacting the Communications and Public Contracts Manager of Public Utility District No. 1 of Pend Oreille County at ktornow@popud.org. Sealed bids will be received until 4:00 p.m., June 27, 2018 in hard copy to PO Box 190, Newport, WA 99156. A bid opening will take place at 4:00 p.m. on June 27, 2018 in the Newport headquarters.

The Public Utility District No. 1 of Pend Oreille County reserves the right to reject any or all bids, to waive any informality in the bidding, or to exercise any other right or action provided by statute. Women and minority-owned business enterprises are encouraged to bid.

Published in The Newport Miner June 13 and 20, 2018.(20-2) __________________________ 2018176 PUBLIC NOTICE TOWN OF IONE PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing will be held by the Ione Town council at the Ione Council Chambers. 112 Central Avenue, Ione, Washington 99139 at 7:10 p.m., Wednesday, June 20, 2018.

The purpose of the hearing is to provide for public comment on the adoption of the six-year Street Program. /s/ Sandy Hutchinson Clerk-Treasurer Published in The Newport Miner June 13, 2018.(20) __________________________

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