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Wednesday, August 27, 2014

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PUD offers rebate for cut fiber service Retail service providers will decide who and how much

BY DESIREÉ HOOD OF THE MINER

NEWPORT – The Pend Oreille Public Utility District will give the retail service providers reimbursement for customers who were without fiber service for more than two weeks from the severe storms that came through the county a month ago. The retail service providers have said they plan some reimbursements to customers and will work to find verifiable days the customers were out of fiber.

PUD Commissioner Curt

Knapp said the board did not take any action on fiber rates or rebates during the CNS public hearing, Tues-

‘At least for us, it (PUD reimbursement) makes the blow a little softer.’

Kelly Ryan iFiber CEO

day, Aug. 19. He said they discussed a reimbursement with the General Manager and told him to handle the SEE PUD, 2A

County moving forward on Garden building

MINER PHOTO|CHARISSE NEUFELDT

Drag racing lawnmowers The last lawnmower drag race of the season took place Saturday, Aug. 23 in Oldtown. This year had 32 participants, the most number in the five years the race has been held, said Larry Gerow, one of the organizers. The Oldtown event, along with lawnmower races in Spirit Lake, Post Falls, Rathdrum, Ponderay and Priest River make up the Big Back-In lawnmower racing circuit. Year end winners will be named soon. Competitors compete for trophies and bragging rights.

Roof repairs first

BY DON GRONNING OF THE MINER

NEWPORT – A county building that has been vacant for more than two years is deteriorating and needs repairs to the roof this year.

Pend Oreille County commissioners gave the go ahead for the roof work at the building, located at 231 S. Garden Ave., in Newport, between the Hall of Justice and the Counseling Services buildings. That work will go ahead, probably later this fall. The county expects it will cost $40,000 to $50,000 for the roof, which will go out SEE BUILDING, 2A

Affair on Main Street returns over Labor Day Trains, car show and vendors delight north residents

Falls, Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 30-31, with celebrations planned to improve the business and tourism in the community and the North Pend Oreille Valley.

Affair on Main Street started more than 25 years ago when a garden club brought in pots of plants and tended and decorated them for the town Hard Hat Days,

BY DESIREÉ HOOD OF THE MINER

METALINE FALLS – Affair on Main Street returns to Metaline

stemming from the mining and logging abundant in the area.

“When hard hat days discontinued, they combined to become Affair on Main Street 25-plus years ago,” committee member Mary Cates said.

The NuVu Movie Theater will SEE AFFAIR, 2A

Big stink in town of Ione over ‘sludge’ Company wants to spread sludge close to town, community protests

County considering moratorium

BY DESIREÉ HOOD OF THE MINER

IONE – Contractor Fire Mountain Farms will be ordered to ship the ‘sludge’ or biosolid from the bottom of the Ione town sewage lagoon to a beneficial use site that is not local to the north county after community members voiced their concerns about a plan to spread it on nearby fields.

Mayor Donnie Fowell and Water/Sewer CommisSEE IONE, 9A

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Department of Ecology Regional Biosolids Coordinator Betty Ann Bickner, right, made the trip from Spokane to Ione to discuss land applications of biosolids with more than 35 concerned north county residents, Wednesday, Aug. 20.

NEWPORT – Pend Oreille County commissioners asked county prosecutor Tom Metzger to look into the feasibility of a moratorium on biosolid applications in the county.

Metzger said he would but a moratorium must have a purpose and a deadline for the moratorium to end.

The state’s smallest county, Wahkiakum County, has outright banned Class B biosolid application there, claiming it was unsafe for waterways. Class B biosolids are what Fire Mountain Farms wanted to apply on two locations in the north part of the county.

The state Department of Ecology challenged the ban, claiming the ban violated the state’s constitution by prohibiting something that state law allows. Wahkiakum County’s attorney argued that banning one type of biosolid doesn’t violate state law because the county is trying to be more restrictive than state rules, not less.

The case went to Cowlitz County Superior Court, where the county won. Ecology appealed to the State Court of Appeals, where the case was heard July 1. A decision is expected this fall.

B R I E F LY PUD pays membership to EDC NEWPORT – The Pend Oreille Public Utility District board recently agreed to pay $5,000 to the Pend Oreille County Economic Development Council as its annual contribution to support economic development in the county.

“We’ve been doing it for years and years,” PUD Commissioner Curt Knapp said. The amount has varied.

The PUD earmarked the contribution for certain projects some years, Knapp said. He said the PUD had earmarked the contribution for a technical skills training center, located near Cusick operated by the Kalispel Tribe last year.

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Army Corps to host public information meeting in Priest River PRIEST RIVER – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is hosting a public meeting Aug. 27 in Priest River, to inform the public on Albeni Falls Dam operations.

Representatives from the Corps will discuss upcoming fall and winter operations, lake level coordination and review this year’s spring and summer operations.

The meeting will be from 5-7 p.m. at the Priest River Event Center, 5399 Highway 2.

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Bonner County seeks planning commissioner SANDPOINT – The Bonner County Board of Commissioners is seeking applications from people living in Commission District No. 3 to serve on the Bonner County Planning & Zoning Commission. Commission District No. 3 generally covers the areas of Sandpoint, Ponderay, Kootenai, Hope, East Hope, and Clark Fork and those areas northeast of the Pend Oreille River and Lake Pend Oreille. Currently the Planning and Zoning Commission is comprised of residents from Sagle, Priest Lake, Oldtown, Hope, and the Kootenai area. The term for this vacant position runs until Sept. 30, 2017.

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AFFAIR: Music will fill the City Park FROM PAGE 1

open at 6:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 29-30, with showings starting at 7 p.m. The show information was unavailable.

Also for two nights, The Cutter Affair Variety Show with the Cutter Players, will start at 7 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.

The event kicks off Saturday with a pancake breakfast at 8 a.m. at the United Church of Christ on Grandview.

A new event to Affair on Main Street, the Team Horseshoe Tournament will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. The tournament will be located on the west side of the Pend Oreille Apartments. The event is open to people of all ages and is weather permitting.

“It’s something different and a family thing,” Affair committee member Lynn Barnes said. “We are always looking for family things to do.”

Sisters on the Fly Vintage Trailer Tours near the Cutter Theater will delight audiences again from 9 a.m. to noon.

Vendors will line the town park throughout the weekend, starting at 9:30 a.m. Saturday.

The Classy Car Show will run from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Main Street. The judging begins at 2:30 p.m. with awards presented at 3 p.m.

The Can Can dancers will hold their first show at 10 a.m., with shows also scheduled for 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. The Arts and Crafts show and Autumn Splendor Quilt Show in City Hall will also start at 10 a.m. and run through 5 p.m.

The Affair Key Auction starts at noon.

The auction involves a jar of money, with an undisclosed amount, and bidders bid on envelopes with keys inside, hoping for the one lucky key.

“They win the money that’s in there,” Barnes said.

Music will fill the city park at 1 p.m. when the Midnight Run band hits the stage.

The North Pend Oreille Lions Club will offer train rides at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. The train takes passengers over Box

Canyon Dam where they will have views of the scenic Pend Oreille River from far above the water. Tickets cost $15 for adults and $10 for seniors and children ages 2-12. Children under 2 ride for free.

This is the only weekend that the train travels from Metaline Falls to Ione and returns to Metaline Falls. It normally starts in Ione. Passengers may also encounter train robbers along the way where the money raised will go to benefit the Cutter Theatre.

Sunday events also start with a Pancake Breakfast at the United Church of Christ from 8-9:30 a.m.

The Team Horseshoe Tournament will finish up from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the west side of the Pend Oreille Apartments.

‘It’s something different and a family thing.’

Lynn Barnes

Affair committee member

A Motorcycle and Off Road Vehicle Show will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The awards will be given at 3 p.m.

Can Can Dancers will grace the park at 10 a.m. with their final performance at 3 p.m.

The Arts and Crafts show and Autumn Splendor Quilt Show in City Hall will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The band Raptor will perform in the park at 11 a.m. with the band Project Smash hitting the stage at 1 p.m.

The Cutter Theatre is holding a matinee performance of the A Cutter Affair Variety Show with the Cutter Players at 2 p.m.

The movie theater will open at 6:30 p.m. with the show starting at 7 p.m.

The North Pend Oreille Lions Club will offer train rides at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.

Barnes said as a committee member, there is excitement to see everything.

“It should be interesting to see all the cars, off road vehicles and everything,” Barnes said.

BUILDING: County plans to remodel FROM PAGE 1

to bid and be performed by contactors before the end of the year. A foam roofing product will be used that should last about 10-20 years.

The county will use some of its .09 tax fund, which totals almost $400,000.

This is money returned to the county by the state from sales tax collections.

It must be used for specific infrastructure improvements and economic development.

Some county officials have said they believe the economic development and planning/community development offices should relocate there as well.

The building is valued, for replacement purposes, at $1.1 million.

The county also wants to remodel the building to bring it into compliance with Americans with Disabilities requirements and prepare it for use by Washington State University Pend Oreille County Extension. University officials have said they need to move from their current location in the old jail behind the county courthouse.

Extension director Mike Jenson says the university is willing to spend $50,000 towards making their portion of the building usable

by Extension.

Jenson said that the university can’t spend the money on “bricks and

mortar,” for buildings it doesn’t own. The money can be spent on things like technology, paint, carpeting and furniture.

Jenson said he expects to hire as many as eight new people who will need office space. He said extension is flexible.

“We’re willing to be a work in progress,” Jenson said. One of the things extension will need is a kitchen for the Food $ense program. Jenson said it didn’t necessarily need to be a commercial kitchen.

Public Works Director Sam Castro has been meeting with Jenson to see what needs to be done before they move in.

Extension was initially going to move into the west side of the building. That’s still where they would like to be, Castro said, but they

‘We’re willing to be a work in progress.’

Mike Jenson

Extension director

are willing to move into the east side while work is being done this fall.

County commissioners gave Castro the approval to contact Zeck Butler Architects, the firm that produced a 2011 report on rehabilitating the building. They had estimated

the remodel would cost $350,000.

They have been contacted and are available. The next step is to hire them.

Once hired, the scope of work will be defined and Zeck Butler Architects will estimate what it will cost to do the work.

Castro also told the commissioners the building, like many of its era, has asbestos. The asbestos in the roof will be removed when the roof is replaced, but what will happen to the asbestos in the building will depend on what Zeck Butler’s report recommends.

The building has been vacant since late 2011. It has been used for storage and there is one conference room that the county uses, Castro said.

In addition to the roof, Castro said it is likely that work on the bathrooms in the front of the building will need to be done to make them ADA compliant.

The county eventually hopes to rent office space in the building. The county had a tenant in 2008, when Tri County Health was located there. They were asked to move by former commissioners when the county decided they had use for the space. They later found out they didn’t have the funds to remodel it.

The county’s Department of Emergency Management was housed in the Garden building until 2011.

West Bonner schools’ well child screening Sept. 4 PRIEST RIVER – A well child developmental checkup will be held Thursday, Sept. 4, from 8:30 a.m. to noon at Idaho Hill Elementary in Oldtown. An additional screening will be held Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 8 and 9, from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Priest River Elementary Preschool.

The screenings are free and check children birth through 5 years for vision, hearing, speech, language, gross motor,

fine motor, readiness, and other developmental areas.

The screenings are sponsored by West Bonner County School District and the Idaho Infant Toddler Program.

Parents should schedule an appointment by calling 208-448-1181, Ext. 3134, and bring to the appointment with them their child’s baby book or any other information that might be helpful about the child’s development.

PUD: Hundreds of customers out for weeks FROM PAGE 1

reimbursement for customers who were out the longest.

“We just said, ‘Come up with something fair,’” Knapp said.

The PUD has restored fiber to all 1,111 customers as of Tuesday, Aug. 26. The final restoration was in the Sacheen Lake area, the hardest hit area after the storms.

“No board motion was made as the maximum dollar amount is so small, well under my purchase order authorization limits,” PUD General Manager John Jordan said. “Only a few hundred broadband customers were out for more than two weeks.”

In a letter from the PUD to the retail service providers dated Aug. 20, there are three options for reimbursement. Jordan states in the letter that this is a one-time only offer to only the RSPs. He noted that the PUD does not reduce costs for basic monthly power charges for a service outage interruption.

“The District has never reduced its basic monthly power charge for a service outage disruption,” Jordan writes to the RSPs. “For one time only, not to set any precedent, and unlikely to ever be repeated, the District is offering to provide a partial refund for the July/ August 2014 storm related service interruptions.”

The conditions for reimbursement to the retail service providers from the PUD were stated in the letter given to each of them.

For those out for at least two weeks but less than three weeks, the RSP will receive a $17.50 refund. For those out at least three weeks but less than four, a $26.25 refund. For longer than four weeks the RSPs will get a $35 refund. RSPs now pay the PUD $35 a month for each customer for the use of the broadband system.

The letter asks the RSPs to not discuss the refund with the general public.

“The refund will be given to you as a RSP and it is our desire that it be kept confidential between you and the District,” the letter states.

When asked by The Miner, Jordan said the confidentiality clause is because the PUD does not wish to factor in to the RSP competition for customers.

“The RSPs are in competition with each other for those 1,200 customers and they each have their own business models and ways of differentiating service and value. Each of them will decide who to give a refund to and how much,” Jordan said to The Miner on Tuesday. “They may decide to use the District refund to lower their costs or to pass it onto customers in the form of a refund.”

Jordan said the PUD costs for the refunds should not exceed $10,000 and the CNS system will make the payment.

PUD Director of Information Technology Rhonda Thomas said on Monday that all connections were restored. There are 1,280 requests for fiber service with 1,111 customers connected.

“The storm caused considerable damage to the fiber as well as causing multiple electronic issues that took time to trouble shoot. As of today, everyone that lost connection due to the storms will be back on,” Thomas said. “We have some system restoration work to do yet this week but plan to allocate our full attention to installing service for those who have requested it by the first of next week.”

Melannie Jones, co-owner of POVN, said they would wait until all the fiber is restored before looking at how to reimburse the customers. They want to look at the “whole picture” before making any determination.

She said on Monday that the PUD and POVN are having an “ongoing conversation” about the reimbursements.

“The PUD is aware it’s a hardship,” Jones said. “No decisions have been made.”

Wayne Antcliff, owner of Concept Cable, said they are also waiting on the system to be fully restored before contacting customers about a reimbursement.

CEO of iFiber Kelly Ryan said they sent letters out to customers asking them to report the number of outage days. He said iFiber will credit customers accordingly with a prorated system based on verifiable days they were out of service. He said the PUD offering a rebate will help offset the costs.

“At least for us, it makes the blow a little softer,” Ryan said.

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Source: Albeni Falls Dam

The weather this time last year was warm and sunny as summer was in full swing. We saw some sun, had one day of rain mid week, followed by full sun to dry out what little rain fell. The high for the week at a warm 90, the nights held the week’s low at 45.

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County reviews airport facilities plan

B R I E F LY Meth mailed to inmate intercepted NEWPORT – Methamphetamine that was mailed to a Pend Oreille County Jail inmate last week was intercepted by jail officials, Capt. Geoff Rusho said. “It didn’t get in the jail,” he said.

Rusho said the incident was under investigation.

He declined to name the inmate to whom the mail was addressed because it is an active investigation.

Hearing continued on boat storage standards

Hydroplane accident causes injuries IONE – A 47-year-old male from Lewiston was injured in a boating accident during the Hydroplane Races at the Ione City Park, July 5.

Sharifah Nicholson was listed as injured, Pend Oreille County Sheriff Alan Botzheim said. Botzheim said one hydroplane driver hit another hydroplane and Life Flight was dispatched.

Botzheim was unsure of the severity of the injuries.

Safe boating class offered USK – A safe boating education class will be offered Saturday, Sept.

6, at the Camas Wellness Center in Usk. Instructor Charlie Schaefer said interest in the class has increased with hunters wanting to use water to access sites.

Registration for the free class will take place at 8:30 a.m., with the class starting at 9 a.m.

People are asked to bring a sack lunch.

To register, call Schaefer at 509-447-2279.

Schaefer is a certified boating safety instructor for Washington and Idaho, and is offering the class for those that still need to get the training for their Washington state required boater safety cards.

Anyone born after Jan. 1, 1955, who would be 59 or younger this year, are required to take the course.

You must be 12 years or older to operate a boat in Washington.

The class is also available online at www. parks.wa.gov, or you can request to take an equivalency exam instead of the course.

A boat operator from another state is not required to take the course for the first 60 consecutive days of their visit.

City council shops for insurance NEWPORT – Newport City Administrator Ray King said the City Council was presented different insurance options, Monday, Aug. 18, with no immediate plans of changing their current policy but to see what other options are available.

“We are looking to make sure we get the best bang for our buck,” King said. “It behooves us to make sure we get the best prices.”

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Three people were transported to Sacred Heart Medical Center when a travel trailer swayed and the driver lost control Thursday, Aug. 21 on Highway 2 near Pend Oreille County Park.

Accident slows highway traffic into Newport DIAMOND LAKE – A 1997 Ford truck pulling a 2012 34-foot travel trailer lost control when the trailer started to sway about 2 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 21, and rolled into the median. The accident occurred in the northbound lane on U.S. Highway 2 about 15 miles south of Newport near Pend Oreille County Park.

Larry Hoggarth, 66, was driving the vehicle. He was transported to Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane with non-life

threatening injuries.

Two minors were in the vehicle, a 12-year-old girl who was airlifted to Sacred Heart and a 9-year-old, who was also taken to Sacred Heart, via an ambulance.

All three in the vehicle are from Marysville, Wash.

The truck and trailer were totaled in the accident and according to the Washington State Patrol, no drugs or alcohol were involved.

SANDPOINT – The Bonner County Planning and Zoning Commission will review the public airport facilities component of the county’s comprehensive plan at a workshop Thursday, Aug. 28, at 5:15 p.m.

The workshop will be in the Bonner County Administrative Building first floor conference room, 1500 Highway 2, Sandpoint.

Idaho Code now requires communities to adopt an airport facilities component to their comp plan. Chris Pomeroy, the planning services leader with T-O Engineering, will present information on the new code, efforts underway to update the county plan, and potential zoning codes and overlay maps that may be proposed after the comp plant us updated.

A draft on the proposed update to Bonner County’s plan will be discussed and coordination with the Priest River and Sandpoint airports will be reviewed.

Following the workshop, the commission will continue a hearing on standards

for rental warehouses, ministorage and boat storage, requested by Todd McKay and Dave Carlson.

McKay and Carlson are requesting amendments to Chapters 3 and 4 of Title 12 of the county’s revised code. The amendments would include five changes: separate boat storage requirements from rental warehouse and ministorage unit standards; allow boat storage outright in the Commercial and Industrial districts; allow rental warehouses and ministorage outright in the Commercial and Industrial District; and eliminate the 10,000 square foot maximum square footage standard for boat, rental and ministorage rentals in Chapter 4.

The hearing was continued in order for the commission to receive additional input from staff and the applicant on the location of commercial zoning districts and the effect of the amendment on the Recreation and Rural Service Center District standards.

Man sentenced to treatment for sex charges

BY DON GRONNING OF THE MINER

NEWPORT – A 45-year-old man who has been held in Pend Oreille County Jail since January 2013, was given Byrd a Special Sex Offender Sentencing Alternative when he was sentenced

by Pend Oreille County Superior Court Judge Pat Monasmith Thursday, Aug. 21.

Michael R. Byrd of Ione will receive three years of intensive outpatient therapy.

He had pleaded guilty in December 2013 to first degree incest, first degree possession of images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct and first degree viewing pictures of minors

engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

Byrd has been held so long in the county jail because it was unclear whether he was competent or not to be tried. When Byrd was being evaluated for sex offender treatment after pleading guilty, the doctor noticed he appeared to be confused and guessing at answers to an evaluation test. She suspected he may not be competent and he was sent to Eastern Washington Hospital for further evaluation.

Byrd, who has difficulty hearing, also has limited intellectual ability. He was found incompetent, but subsequently restored to competency.

Byrd was arrested in January 2013 after a minor girl told an adult that she suspected Byrd had had sex with two juvenile girls.

The investigation led to a third female, who was communicating with Byrd on Facebook. She was 17 at the time of the communication.

When arrested for communicating with a minor for immoral purposes, Byrd

‘What are your odds of success?

I don’t know but they’re next to zero in prison.’

Pat Monasmith

Pend Oreille County Superior Court Judge

admitted to communicating with the girl in order to have sex with her. He also admitted having sex with a juvenile girl on multiple occasions and grabbing an-

other juvenile girl for sexual gratification.

The investigation also turned up 110 images on a Yahoo Messenger photo sharing file and eight images were found on a thumb cache on a laptop computer.

The images were of minors engaging in sexual conduct/ erotica, according to a statement of probable cause.

In December 2013, the charges were amended to add possession of images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct and first degree viewing pictures of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. The charge of communicating with a minor for immoral purposes was dropped, as was a second degree incest charge.

In court Thursday, deputy prosecutor Dolly Hunt said she had spoken with the victim of the incest and her mother. Hunt said the mother wanted Byrd to get help. Hunt said the victim was uncomfortable discussing Byrd. Hunt recommendSEE CHARGES, 5A

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Spokane Airport road construction affects drivers, airline customers SPOKANE – Construction near the Spokane International Airport may affect drivers accessing the area through Thursday, Sept. 4.

The work includes a series of on and off ramp closures to allow the contractor time to grind out old pavement and place a new asphalt surface.

The full closures are limited to single-lane ramp sections where the roadway will be blocked during the work.

Most work will be scheduled during hours when traffic counts are lowest. Signed detours will direct drivers to and from Spokane International Airport, however, drivers should expect slow traffic, congestion and delays on the detour routes. Motorists should allow for plenty of extra time to reach their destinations during these periods to avoid missing flight connections.

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he use of dangerous chemicals to kill noxious weeds and plants is a necessary fact of rural life.

But the notification of property owners and the public before and after spraying needs improvements.

This became apparent last week when Lakeland Restoration Services completed the spraying of Eurasian milfoil, Yellow flag iris, Fragrant water lily and Reed canary grass at Diamond Lake on Tuesday, Aug. 19. The first problem was that they posted notices on docks saying they would be spraying from Monday to Friday. The notice said among other things to stay out of the water until 24 hours after spraying, which people would assume was Friday. They never came around and posted an all-clear notice when they finished early. So a prudent person would stay out of the water for four days longer than they had to. This in itself is not a big problem but it does demonstrate a lack of consideration for property owners and the public.

The second problem is they started spraying without submitting a final spray plan to county officials. The Miner was told a map circulating and published in The Miner last week was a draft and that Lakeland would submit a final one when they were done spraying.

Apparently, letters were posted outside the intended spray areas just to be safe. But it would make more sense to only post the areas that were being sprayed.

Why alarm people if nothing was going to happen?

This recent operation was overseen by the Pend Oreille County Conservation District. At other times the spraying is managed by the county weed board.

More spraying projects on area lakes and the Pend Oreille River are planned for the future.

The Pend Oreille County Commissioners should tell these departments and the contractor that they must improve the planning and notification system before proceeding. They should have a final map of spraying areas approved before starting. They should only notify those property owners where spraying is going to be done. And they should notify them when it is completed or their schedule changes.

-FJW

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 theminer@povn.com.

Now that the United States has an African American president, many think that racial relations have improved in this country. But the riots in Ferguson, Mo., show that there still is racial tension in the country.

Do you think racial relations have substantially improved?

Somewhat. But it is a long way from a color-blind society.

Yes, it is night and day better than it used to be for African Americans.

No. Whether it is criminal justice, housing or financial services, black people are still discriminated against.

R E A D E R ’ S P O L L R E S U LT S Does the amount of tax money collected change your mind on recreational marijuana?

Yes. Marijuana should be legalized nationally.

No, selling marijuana is a bad idea and the state shouldn’t be profiting from it.

21% 29%

50%

No, I knew legal marijuana would make money for the state.

The places with moratoriums, like Newport, should drop them.

0%

Yes, this is a substantial amount of money.

I don’t use marijuana but the state needs the money and taxing those who do is one way to raise revenue.

Total Votes: 14

WE B COM M E NTS We welcome comment on select stories on our web site. You may comment anonymously. We will review comments before posting and we reserve the right to omit or edit comments. If you want to comment only to our writers and editors, let us know that you do not want your comment published.

YO U R O P I N I O N Fiber lines need to be underground To the editor: After reading your article in the Aug. 20 edition, I would like to make some comments.

Like a lot of people, were without power, phone and Internet during the past two storms for days.

(Internet and phone for nine days). However, this is not the issue.

Millions of dollars were provided to design and build a high speed internet system. My question is why did they locate the cables on pole through trees without removal of any limbs or replacement of pole that are 50 years old, especially in the Furport area and up the river? This is a system designed for failure. Why were the fiber lines put not put underground?

The cost of $250,00 in damages and $80,000 for additional contractors would have buried a lot of cable.

We are hooked up to

the system and when it is working it is a slight step above satellite. Some glitches in the system is expected but as time goes by, I see a problematic system. Today we had a quick power surge. Power went off and came right back on at 9 a.m. this morning. However, the quick surge made the phone and Internet to go down from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

I am slowly getting a case of buyers remorse. I think before you consider expanding the system or have a rate increase, you need to look at the design of the one existing for changes needed.

-Doug Furlott Newport

Freedom of speech shouldn’t be limited To the editor: After reading Richard Miller’s letter last week it’s only a matter of time when he will want Democrats to give up their Sec-

ond Amendment guns.

His letter implies that if you are a Democrat, you shouldn’t get to write letters to the editor under the First Amendment.

Even the idea that any letter in The Miner must only come from a local source seems rather limiting. Well, how Republican of Richard. Why doesn’t he send letters to Asotin County if he wants to oppose letters from people who live there?

Free speech isn’t limiting; otherwise it wouldn’t be free. Why complain about another person’s speech?

Miller asserts that equal pay for women doesn’t need more legislation passed. If he was a woman I wonder if he would work for 33 percent less than a male employee doing the same work. Our congresswoman has been very clear on her lack of support for equal pay. She says that women are happy with the choices they make which of course get them less pay for the

same work as men.

The congresswoman says that women are happy with the work limitations imposed by a woman’s role in the family. So if you are a woman working part-time to be with her kids, taking less pay for equal work apparently is an acceptable tradeoff.

Well, Cathy McMorris Rodgers is a woman and mother who works parttime as a congresswoman and I wonder if she would accept 33 percent less pay than a congressman. She certainly expects other women to accept less. She and Richard are on the same page with wanting people other than themselves to accept less speech and money. Both Richard and Cathy have a different standard for others and don’t get the concept of equal treatment for all citizens.

-Pete Scobby Newport

WDFW continues effort to protect sheep from wolf attacks in Stevens County Up to four wolves will be killed from a pack of 12 OLYMPIA – Personnel from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) continued their effort this week to find and remove up to four wolves from a pack that has killed at least 22 sheep from a flock grazing in southern Stevens County.

A federal wildlife agent contracted by WDFW killed one wolf on Saturday.

Since Aug. 14, WDFW has confirmed that wolves from the Huckleberry Pack have killed 22 sheep and injured three more in six separate incidents, despite an array of preventive measures employed by the department and the livestock owner, Dave Dashiell of Hunters.

This does not include 10 other sheep that died earlier and had decomposed to the point they could not be confirmed as wolf kills.

On Saturday, crews found five dead and three injured sheep that were attacked Friday night or early Saturday morning.

Investigators confirmed that wolves were responsible for all of the attacks.

In an effort to break the cycle of predation, WDFW Director Phil Anderson has authorized the removal of up to four members of the pack, which is estimated to have up to 12 members.

Early on Saturday evening, Aug. 23, a marksman from the Wildlife Services division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, contracted by WDFW, killed one member of the pack from a helicopter.

“Unfortunately, lethal action is clearly warranted in this case,” said Nate Pamplin, WDFW wildlife

program director.

“Before we considered reducing the size of the pack, our staff and Mr. Dashiell used a wide range of preventive measures to keep the wolves from preying on the pack, but these efforts have not succeeded.”

He said non-lethal activities are continuing.

Pamplin said the situation meets all of the conditions for lethal removal established in the depart-

‘Unfortunately, lethal action is clearly warranted in this case.’

Nate Pamplin

WDFW wildlife program director

ment’s Wolf Conservation and Management Plan and related procedures: There have been repeated, documented wolf kills; non-lethal methods have not stopped the predation; the attacks are likely to continue; and the livestock owner has not done anything to attract the wolves.

Dashiell has worked closely with WDFW staff to prevent wolf attacks on the flock, which includes 1,800 sheep.

He has maintained a continual human presence with his flock since Aug. 14, when WDFW confirmed the first wolf attacks.

He has used four large guard dogs to safeguard the flock and deter wolves and has recovered and

buried sheep carcasses whenever possible.

Up to four WDFW employees and two range riders also have helped watch the flock.

Pamplin said Dashiell and WDFW staff have moved the flock away from the scene of the original attacks and are working to find a new grazing site far from the area near Hunters, about 50 miles northwest of Spokane.

To protect public safety during the operation, WDFW law enforcement officers from WDFW are strictly limiting access to the grazing area.

On Wednesday, Aug. 20, Anderson authorized Dashiell and agency field staff to shoot wolves that approached the flock. No wolves were killed under that authorization, which did not permit WDFW staff or the livestock owner to hunt the wolves or attempt to draw them into range.

In 2011, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed gray wolves from the federal list of endangered species in the eastern third of the state, but the species is still protected under Washington state law.

The state Wolf Conservation and Management Plan and state laws set the parameters for responding to wolf predation on livestock.

The Huckleberry Pack is one of 13 confirmed packs in Washington state.

It was confirmed as the state’s seventh pack in June 2012.

There is no documented evidence that the pack, named after nearby Huckleberry Mountain, has preyed on livestock until now.

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Newport’s Public Works Supervisor Dave North shows the land that will be graded and hydro seeded along Highway 2. The land closest to the highway will be re-graded for proper drainage along the sidewalk. The project should be more than 90 percent complete by the start of school, North said.

Sidewalks almost complete along highway

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NEWPORT – The city of Newport has been installing sidewalks along Highway 2 during the last month, with completion of the project expected soon, Public Works Supervisor Dave North said.

City Administrator Ray King said the sidewalk project going through Newport along Highway 2 should be completed before school returns, with the exception of the LED lights being installed in September and a few small remaining projects to complete.

The project started July 7.

“This project is winding down real fast,” King said. “I don’t think there is too much left.”

The work still to be done includes finishing up paving in a couple of areas, including near Owen’s Grocery and Deli and near the Golden China Restaurant. All of the land beside the sidewalks will be re-graded for

proper drainage, the concrete slabs holding back the retaining wall will be repainted, topsoil added to the areas where property was disturbed and hydroseeding near the retaining wall.

Newport School District officials said they would install a hydration system to water the retaining wall to keep the area green.

The project added sidewalks from Owen’s Grocery on Fourth Street to Golden China Restaurant on Seventh Street along the north side of the highway and include two sidewalks to enter the Newport School District campus, one near the high school and one near Stratton Elementary.

King said the project should be completed within budget. The city received a grant from the Washington State Department of Transportation under the Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Program for $646,000. The city matched $71,800. The Non-Motorized Transportation Improvement project will total more than $718,000 when completed.

Forest Service improves forest Open house coming in Ione

NEWPORT – The Newport and Sullivan Lake Ranger Districts of the Colville National Forest invite the public to the Renshaw Forest Health Improvement Project open house, Thursday, Sept. 4, at 5 p.m. at the Ione Community Center.

The purpose of the open house is to share information regarding the project and collect additional public input regarding the forest health improvement activities proposed in the Renshaw Vegetation Management Project Environmental Assessment.

This is an opportunity for the public to learn more about the Renshaw Forest Health Improvement Project and provide comments.

The project area is located within the Lost Creek subwatershed and primary access to the area is from Hanks Butte (County Road 2625), Rocky Creek (County Road 4699)

and State Highway 20 in Ione on the Colville National Forest.

The primary purpose of this project is to improve forest health and sustainability.

Specific treatments being proposed include commercial timber harvesting, non-

commercial thinning, tree planting, road construction, reconstruction, and decommissioning, restoration of ecological processes and hazardous fuels treatment.

The Ione Community Center is located at 210 Blackwell St. in Ione.

NEWPORT – The Pend Oreille Public Utility District is seeking an amendment to the Shoreline Master Program and the county’s Development Regulations to allow for adaptive use of historic buildings within any shoreline designation.

The PUD wants the change so the powerhouse at Metaline Falls can be used. It isn’t used to generate electricity anymore and recent zoning changes preclude using the building for residential, commercial or light industrial use but the PUD believes it has value to someone who would refurbish it for small offices

or residential use. To do that, an amendment to the SMP and Development Regulations is needed.

A public meeting will be held Sunday, Oct. 26, at 6 p.m. at the Department of Community Development at the county courthouse at 625 W. Fourth in Newport.

Public comments can be submitted through Wednesday, Oct. 22.

More information about the project is available at the county website at: http:// www.pendoreilleco.org/county/limited_ ammendment_to_smp.asp.

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ed the SSOSA. Jeffrey Hawkins, a Department of Corrections community corrections officer 2, wrote a detailed pre-sentence investigation report that recommended a SSOA. Hawkins told Monasmith that he did so because of the totality of the other recommendations and his confidence in the Department of Corrections to supervise Byrd.

Defense attorney Barrett Scudder said Byrd had already served 19 months in jail. Because of that, a SSOA sentence would not be too lenient and the community would benefit from Byrd receiving treatment.

Monasmith asked how Byrd would pay for the treatment. Scudder said he would apply for disability.

He said he has family support and several options, including buying a trailer and living in a trailer park.

In court Thursday, Byrd said that he made a mistake and could use some help.

Monasmith said it was a close call whether to send Byrd to prison or not. He said Byrd’s crimes were especially immoral, as well as illegal. He said Byrd had a history of chronic alcohol and marijuana abuse and was subject to abuse himself as a child. He said it was an exception rather than the rule that the psychologist who evaluated Byrd recommended a SSOSA. He also noted Hawkins’ recommendation for a SSOSA. Monasmith said Byrd faced significant financial, intellectual and substance abuse challenges.

“What are your odds of success?” he said. “I don’t know but they’re next to zero in prison.”

He sentenced Byrd to three years in treatment, followed by three years of community custody. He

also imposed a suspended sentence of 61 months for the incest charge and 43 months each on the other two charges. If Byrd fails to complete treatment, that’s the amount of prison time he faces.

There are a host of conditions attached to the SSOSA. In addition to a prohibition against contact with minors, Byrd is prohibited from contacting any of the victims, consuming alcohol or controlled substances, must complete sexual deviancy treatment, must not engage in a romantic relationship without the approval of the community corrections officer and therapist and must not use any internet connected devices, except for an employment search and then only with the approval of the community corrections officer. In addition to the SOSSA, and community custody, Byrd must pay $1,100 in fines and court costs.

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M O ST WA N T E D L I ST EDITOR’S NOTE: The following are descriptions of people currently wanted by the Pend Oreille County Sheriff’s Office and other law enforcement agencies. Any information about these suspects should be directed to the sheriff’s office by calling 509-4473151. This is a regular section of The Miner. All information is provided by the sheriff’s office.

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Ribbon cut on 19-year project The North Pend Oreille Scenic Byway celebrates the completion of a 19-year restoration project with Keith Martin cutting the ribbon, Saturday, Aug. 23 at the Tiger Historic Center. The State Route 31 North Pend Oreille Scenic Byway project was themed The River and the Road and the byways include the Tiger Historic Center, the Ione, Metaline and Metaline Falls City Parks, Box Canyon and Eagles Nest View Points, Sweet Creek Rest Area, Hooknose View Point and Crescent Lake. Also incorporated was the historic theme of the Native American presence along the river and logging and mining, in order to tell the story of this scenic corner of Pend Oreille County.

DOT performance report released OLYMPIA – The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) released its 54th quarterly report titled the Gray Notebook on June 30, continuing the publication’s tradition of comprehensive and clear performance analysis to support accountability and transparency throughout WSDOT. This edition provides annual reports on the condition of Washington’s bridges, ferry vessels and terminals, as well as how much goods and freight are being moved through state airports and ports and via roads and rail.

The report includes sections on how Washington continues the low-level trend with 439 collision fatalities in 2013. WSDOT teams helped clear 13,153 incidents

this quarter, providing an estimated $18.4 million in economic benefit. Passengers getting on or off trains increased at six of the 12 stations in Washington during the second quarter of 2014 and WSDOT and the Department of Licensing reduced the time it takes to approve a new license plate design by 84 percent.

The Gray Notebook and the Gray Notebook Lite, a summary of selected performance topics covered in this quarter’s publication, can be viewed and printed from the WSDOT accountability website at www.wsdot.wa.gov/accountability. Previous editions can also be accessed online.

The Gray Notebook can be found online at http://wsdot.wa.gov/publications/fulltext/graynotebook/Jun14.pdf.

West Nile confirmed in Washington resident OLYMPIA – A Walla Walla County man is the first Washington resident in 2014 to have been infected with West Nile virus in the state.

The man in his 20s was likely exposed near his home and was hospitalized. The infection was confirmed by testing at the Washington State Public Health Laboratories in Shoreline, Wash.

Two other Washington residents have been diagnosed with the infection this year, both with exposures from other states. A King County man in his 70s and a Grays Harbor woman in her 50s were infected with West Nile virus this year while traveling out of state. Additional reports of possible infections are currently under investi-

gation.

“The mosquito samples that have tested positive for West Nile virus in eastern Washington this season are a reminder that the virus is here and we should protect ourselves,” State Health Officer Dr. Kathy Lofy said. “The best prevention is to avoid mosquito bites — at home and while traveling.”

So far, 34 mosquito samples have tested positive for West Nile virus in 2014, including Benton County (11), Franklin County (11), and Grant County (12). The number of positive mosquito samples detected this year has already surpassed the number found during the past three years, combined (28).

John L. Scott Real Estate Says THANK YOU to

Mary Ann Jones Broker

For going the extra mile during our recent storms and power outages

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Teresa Zamora

509-447-3144 301 N. Union Ave., Newport

Jacob Allen Frueh, 34, is wanted on two Pend Oreille County warrants for failure to notify address change and taking vehicle Frueh without permission. He is 6 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 150 pounds, with green eyes and brown hair. His last known address was in the Newport area. Extradition is Washington and Idaho.

Adina Marie Ahlers, 30, is wanted on one Pend

Oreille County warrant for failing to appear for arraignment.

She is 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighs Ahlers 140 pounds, with blue eyes and blond hair. His last known address was in the Priest River area. Extradition is Washington and Idaho.

Roxane Marie Perry, 50, is wanted on two Pend Oreille County warrants for Fail to comply and escape community custody. She Perry is 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs 130 pounds, with blue eyes and red hair. Her last known address was in the Newport area. Extradition is Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Montana.

Kyle James Mischenko, 32, is wanted on one Pend Oreille County warrant for failure to Mischenko appear for pretrial criminal assististance and residential burglary. He is 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighs 150 pounds, with brown eyes and brown hair. His last known address was in the Oldtown area. Extradition is Washington and Idaho.

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Pend Oreille County Fair winners

EDITOR’S NOTE:

THE PEND OREILLE COUNTY FAIR WAS HELD AUG. 14-17 AT THE FAIRGROUNDS IN CUSICK. FOLLOWING ARE SOME OF THE RESULTS FROM THE FAIR. THEY WILL CONTINUE IN FOLLOWING WEEKS’ ISSUES OF THE MINER. ALL RESULTS WILL BE POSTED AT THE MINER ONLINE, WWW. PENDOREILLERIVERVALLEY. COM.

Booths $65 First Place Award - Grange Booth - Camden Grange - Sponsor: Pend Oreille County Fair Association $60 Second Place Award - Grange Booth - Inland Grange - Sponsor: Pend Oreille County Fair Association $55 Third Place Award - Grange Booth - Calispell Grange - Sponsor: Pend Oreille County Fair Association $50 - Grange Booth - Davis Lake Grange - Sponsor: Pend Oreille County Fair Association $50 Award - Pend Oreille Rock, Gem and Mineral Club Educational Exhibit - Pend Oreille Rock, Gem and Mineral Club - Sponsor: Pend Oreille County Fair Association

Hay King Contest $50 Northeast Washington Hay Growers Assn. Hay King Award Travis Hanson - Sponsor: Northeast Washington Hay Growers Assn. $20 Northeast Washington Hay Growers Assn. First Place Grass Award - Kevin Koesel - Sponsor: Northeast Washington Hay Growers Assn. $20 Northeast Washington Hay Growers Assn. First Place Grass/ Legume Award - Travis Hanson Sponsor: Northeast Washington Hay Growers Assn. $20 Northeast Washington Hay Growers Assn. First Place Timothy Award - Jon Paul Driver - Sponsor: Northeast Washington Hay Growers Assn.

Car Show Car Show - Best of Show - Dennis & Brenda Marshall - 1956 Oldsmobile Rocket 88 1900 - 1948 Car Stock - First Place Award - Car Show - Gary & Virginia Tucker - 1941 Chevy Special Deluxe 1900 - 1948 Car Stock - Second Place Award - Car Show - Harry Miller - 1948 Chevy Coupe 1949 - 1963 Car Stock - First Place Award - Car Show - Kester & Ann Pode - 1962 Chevy BelAir 1949 - 1963 Car Stock - Second Place Award - Car Show - Jerry

Shaum - 1956 Chevy BelAir 1949 - 1963 Car Stock - Third Place Award - Car Show - Audrey Staab - 1963 Ford Galaxie 1964 - 1985 Car Stock - First Place Award - Car Show - Larry & Linda Thompson - 1964 Chevy SS Impala 1964 - 1985 Car Stock - Second Place Award - Car Show - George Gazelius - 1979 Mercury Marquis 1964 - 1985 Car Stock - Third Place Award - Car Show - Chuck Higgens - 1966 Dodge Dart GT 1900 - 1948 Car Modified - First Place Award - Car Show - Jack Wiley - 1940 Ford Tudor 1900 - 1948 Car Modified - Second Place Award - Car Show - Betty Janke - 1947 Chevy Style Masters 1949 - 1963 Car Modified - First Place Award - Car Show - Paul Snyder - 1957 Chevy BelAir 1964 - 1985 Car Modified - First Place Award - Car Show - Kari & Mark Lidbeck - 1964 Pontiac GTO 1985 - 2014 Street Machine/Sport Car - First Place Award - Car Show - Jeff Simon - 1994 Mitsubish, 3000 GT VR4 1985 - 2014 Street Machine/Sport Car - Second Place Award - Car Show - Tom Luthy - 1967 Datsum FairLady 1600 1985 - 2014 Street Machine/ Sport Car - Third Place Award - Car Show - Evie Vineyard - 2004 Chevy Monte Carlo 1900 - 1985 Traditional Hot Rod - First Place Award - Car Show - Bob Helton - 1947 International 1900 - 1985 Traditional Hot Rod - Second Place Award - Car Show Russ Fletcher - 1959 Chevy BelAir 1900 - 1985 Traditional Hot Rod - Third Place Award - Car Show - Bill Lands - 1951 Chevy Pickup 1900 - 1985 Pickup Stock - First Place Award - Car Show - Chris Johnston - 1972 Chevy Cheyenne Super 1900 - 1985 Pickup Stock - Second Place Award - Car Show - Ron Hendershott - 1963 International Scout 1900 - 1985 Pickup Modified First Place Award - Car Show - John Gray - 1948 Ford Pickup 1900 - 1985 Pickup Modified Second Place Award - Car Show - Christine Chaney - 1995 Dodge Dakota 1900 - 1970 Tractor - First Place Award - Car Show - Larry McGill 1941 Farmall H 1900 - 1970 Tractor - Second Place Award - Car Show - LeRoy Linton - 1939 John Deere H 1900 - 1970 Tractor - Third Place Award - Car Show - Jerry Schultz 1949 Ford 8N

Stall Decorations

Best Club Cage Decoration Award - Rabbit - Country Pride 4-H - Sponsor: 4-H Leader’s Council Best Club Cage Decoration Award - Poultry - Bare Mt. Bandits 4-H Sponsor: 4-H Leader’s Council Best Club Dairy Stall Decoration - Selkirk Valley 4-H - Sponsor: 4-H Leader’s Council Best Club Sheep Stall Decoration - Grassroots 4-H - Sponsor: 4-H Leader’s Council Best Club Swine Stall Decoration - Mt. View 4-H - Sponsor: 4-H Leader’s Council Best Club Beef Cattle Stall Decoration - Mt. View 4-H - Sponsor: 4-H Leader’s Council Best Club Goat Stall Decoration - Selkirk Valley 4-H - Sponsor: 4-H Leader’s Council

Small Animal Barn Top 4-H Club Herdsmanship Award - Poultry - Bare Mt. Bandits 4-H - Sponsor: Glenn Miller Top 4-H Club Herdsmanship Award - Rabbit - Country Pride 4-H - Sponsor: Glenn Miller Top Open Group Herdsmanship Award - Poultry - Gloria Ledbetter Sponsor: Glenn Miller Top Individual Herdsmanship Award - Poultry - T J Taylor - Sponsor: Glenn Miller Top Individual Herdsmanship Award - Rabbit - Willow Vaughn Sponsor: Glenn Miller Best Cage Decoration Award - Small Animal Barn - Bare Mt. Bandits 4-H/Waterman - Sponsor: 4-H Leader’s Council

Poultry & Game Birds Grand Champion EXCLUDING Department C Market Animals Poultry - 50 extra premium points awarded - Gavin Gay $5 Mountain West Bank Youth Award for Best Trio Chickens (Pen of Three Pullets) - Christian Waterman - Sponsor: Mountain West Bank Overall Poultry Fitting and Showing Champion - Gavin Gay - Sponsor: Exbabylon Overall Reserve Champion Poultry Fitting and Showing - Willow Vaughn - Sponsor: BooBoo’s Bakery Poultry PeeWee Fitting and Showing Champion - Alyssa Percival - Sponsor: Connie’s Cuts Reserve Champion Poultry Fitting and Showing - Pee Wee - Kellene Ledbetter - Sponsor: BooBoo’s

Bakery Poultry Junior Fitting and Showing Champion - Gavin Gay - Sponsor: Seeber’s Reserve Champion Poultry Fitting and Showing - Junior - Gavin Stark - Sponsor: Bruce Hunt, Farmers Insurance Poultry Intermediate Fitting and Showing Champion - Willow Vaughn - Sponsor: Bruce Hunt, Farmers Insurance Reserve Champion Poultry Fitting and Showing - Intermediate - Lilly Cupp - Sponsor: Seeber’s Best of Division - Commercial Poultry - Tia Phillipy - Sponsor: Chitwood Enterprises Best of Division - Fancy Poultry - Gavin Gay - Sponsor: Chitwood Enterprises Best of Division - Bantam - Gavin Gay - Sponsor: Chitwood Enterprises Best of Division - Guinea Fowl Carrie Forster - Sponsor: Chitwood Enterprises Best of Division - Eggs - Gavin Stark - Sponsor: Chitwood Enterprises Best of Division - Geese - Connor Taylor - Sponsor: Chitwood Enterprises Best of Division - Ducks - TJ Taylor - Sponsor: Chitwood Enterprises Superintendent’s Award - Christian Waterman - Sponsor: Glenn Miller Rooster Crowing Contest - First Place - Gavin Gay - Sponsor: Linda Everett Rooster Crowing Contest - Second Place - Christian Waterman - Sponsor: Linda Everett Rooster Crowing Contest - Third Place - Holly Waterman - Sponsor: Linda Everett

Rabbits Grand Champion EXCLUDING Department C Market Animals Rabbit - 50 extra premium points awarded - Tia Phillipy $4.50 Mountain West Bank Youth Award for Champion Show Breed Rabbit - Tia Phillipy - Sponsor: Mountain West Bank $4.50 Mountain West Bank Youth Award for Champion Meat Breed Rabbit - Aaron Simon - Sponsor: Mountain West Bank Rabbit PeeWee Fitting and Showing Champion - Connor Taylor Sponsor: Ben Franklin Rabbit PeeWee Reserve Fitting and Showing Champion - Logan Simon

Rabbit Junior Fitting and Showing Champion - TJ Taylor - Sponsor: Paradise Liquors & I-Own Auto Parts Rabbit Junior Reserve Fitting and Showing Champion - Logan Ware Rabbit Intermediate Fitting and Showing Champion - Taylor Allen Sponsor: Pizza Factory Rabbit Intermediate Reserve Fitting and Showing Champion Willow Vaughn Rabbit Senior Fitting and Showing Champion - Reigan Allen - Sponsor: Crossroads Restaurant Rabbit Senior Reserve Fitting and Showing Champion - Ethan Sugimura Overall Rabbit Fitting and Showing Champion - Reigan Allen - Sponsor: Country Lane Reserve Overall Fitting and Showing - Rabbit - TJ Taylor - Sponsor: Loon Lake Sand & Gravel Rabbit Best of Show - Tia Phillipy - Sponsor: Mary’s Feed & Farm Best Costume - Rabbit - Nicole Priest - Sponsor: Loon Lake Sand & Gravel Superintendent’s Award - Rabbits - Michael Thomas - Sponsor: Loon Lake Sand & Gravel Best In Division - Meat Breed Rabbit - Aaron Simon - Sponsor: Loon Lake Sand & Gravel Best in Division - Show Breed - Rabbit - Tia Phillipy - Sponsor: Seeber’s Pharmacy Judge’s Choice - Rabbit - TJ Taylor - Sponsor: Petroglyph Printing

Pocket Pets Grand Champion Pocket Pet - 50 extra premium points awarded Kaycee Wilson $4.50 Mountain West Bank Youth Award for Pocket Pet - Kaycee Wilson - Sponsor: Mountain West Bank Pocket Pet PeeWee Fitting and Showing Champion - Tia Phillipy Sponsor: The Ives Family Pocket Pet Intermediate Fitting and Showing Champion - Kaycee Wilson - Sponsor: Ben Franklin Overall Pocket Pet Fitting and Showing Champion - Kaycee Wilson - Sponsor: Ben Franklin Top Mammal - Pocket Pet - Kaycee Wilson - Sponsor: Petroglyph Printing Judges Choice - Pocket Pet - Tia Phillipy - Sponsor: Ben Franklin Top Reptile - Pocket Pet - Madeline Waterman - Sponsor: Ben Franklin

Thank you for the added support of Bill & Bev Ives, Mary Manus, Eric & Nickole Schutte of the Nickeric Ranch, John & Pat Hankey, and The Kalispel Tribe

Pend Oreille Co Fair & Rodeo Queen try outs Sunday September 21•2 pm at the Fair Office.

Queen eligibility: • must be 16-19 • live in Pend Oreille County • be single & never married • ability to travel to required events

For more information and applications (due Friday September 12th) contact Joyce Montgomery 509-939-3751

Livestock - Dairy Cattle Grand Champion EXCLUDING Department C Market Animals Dairy Cattle - 50 extra premium points awarded - Connor Stark $12 Mountain West Bank Youth Award for Best Dairy Calf - Under One Year - Jacob Gaffaney - Sponsor: Mountain West Bank Dairy Individual Herdsmanship - Jacob & Justin Gaffaney - Sponsor: Darilane Farms Top Dairy Cow in the Barn Connor Stark - Sponsor: Darilane Farms Top Dairy Fitting and Showing - Blake Koesel - Sponsor: David & Colleen Nyberg Dairy Club Youth Herdsmanship - Connor Stark Overall Champion Dairy - Connor Stark Dairy PeeWee Fitting and Showing Champion - Blake Koesel Sponsor: Darilane Farms Dairy Junior Fitting and Showing Champion - Nathan Lyon Sponsor: Driver Family Dairy Intermediate Fitting and Showing Champion - Connor Stark - Sponsor: Travis & Lori Hanson Superintendent’s Choice - Dairy Cassidy Whittekiend

Livestock - DairyBeef Cross $12 Mountain West Bank Youth Award for Best Dairy-Beef Cross Conner Stark - Sponsor: Mountain West Bank Best Dairy-Beef Cross - Connor Stark - Sponsor: T & D Dairy Dairy-Beef Cross Overall Champion - Connor Stark

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Sam Castro for buying my Hog

Idaho WestCody & Lindsay Basnaw For buying my Sheep POC Fair

Youth Showman Sportsman Award - Coby Percival - Sponsor: John & Pat Hankey & Dan & Cindy Reigonen

Mike Manus for buying my Sheep

Ready’s Meats For buying my Hog

Earl Insurance- Jason Earl For buying my Steer

Livestock - General

Thank You

Thank You

Amy Reijonen

Best of Show - Pocket Pet - Kaycee Wilson - Sponsor: Ben Franklin Best Costume - Pocket Pet - Madeline Waterman - Sponsor: Griffin Furniture Superintendent Award - Pocket Pet - Madeline Waterman - Sponsor: Loon Lake Sand & Gravel

Dylan Reijonen POC Fair

Jimmy & Loretta Reed, Kay Driver and John & Pat Hankey for buying my Steer

Thank you for the added support of Bill and Bev Ives, Mary Manus, Eric and Nickole Schutte of the Nickeric Ranch, John & Part Hankey, and the Kalispel Tribe

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THE MINER

PEND OREILLE COUNTY FAIR MARKET ANIMAL SALE 2014 THANK YOU to all our BUYERS!

Grand Champion Goat Cody Percival Buyer - Evan Haney

Grand Champion Lamb Ashley Hanson Buyer – Darilane Farms

Grand Champion Hog Amy Reijonen Buyer – Reedy’s Custom Meats

Grand Champion Beef Colin Hanson Buyer – Ponderay Newsprint

Reserve Champion Goat Rachelle Busby Buyer – Kalispel Tribe

Reserve Champion Lamb Nathan Allen Buyer – Kalispel Tribe

Reserve Champion Hog Jaxson Walwrath Buyer – Kalispel Tribe

Reserve Champion Beef Olivia Hanson Buyer – Industrial Preventative Maintenance

Brian & Lorrie Crumpler Cathy McMorris Rogers Darilane Farms Davaz Logging Deer Park Veterinary Clinic DNA Embryo Transfer Evan Haney Hedrick Ranch Helen Bond HOG EXHIBITORS Alyssa Walrath Amy Reijonen Ashley Dana Ashley Hanson Ashton Hall-Martinez Brooke Basnaw Caleb Whittekiend Cassidy Whittekiend Cassidy Hansen Charlie Ewart Christian Waterman Coby Percival Cody Main

Buyers

Idaho Forest Group Idaho West Industrial Preventative Maintenance James & Robin McCrosky JL Chantry Kalispel Tribe MacArthur Land & Timber Marvin Lindemann

Colton Hansen Dylan Reijonen Emily Denham Emma Hardie Emma Waterman Ethan Hardie Garrett Hanson Gus Newman Jack Ewart Jason Graves Jedd Cupp Jessica Hankey Joshua Whittekiend Kaitlyn Scheller Kaleigh Driver Lillian Cupp

Madeline Waterman Nicole Denham Rebekah Whittekiend Talon Haney TJ Taylor Trevor Shanholtzer Tanner Shanholtzer Tyson Shanholtzer Courtney Hendershott Dylan Hendershott Thadeus Trepanier Coldin Ackerman Dallin Miller Christian Miller Jesse Miller Ty Phillipy

Mike Jensen Mike Manus Myron Johnson Newport Equipment Pee Wee Creek Unlimited Ponderay Newsprint POVA Precast By Design, INC. Reedy’s Custom Meats Bo Petrich Jaxson Walrath Paige Hamilton LAMB EXHIBITORS Amy Hipol Alianna Koesel Amy Reijonen Ashley Hanson Clay Wilson Dallin Miller Doug Jess Dylan Reijonen Gavin Hanson

Sam Castro Selkirk Ace Hardware Sewell Engineering T&D Farms Teck Pend Oreille Mine Vaagen Brothers Lumber Versatile Industries

Jessica Hankey Julianna Trepanier Nathan Allen Reigan Allen Sadie Ainsworth William Nagle BEEF EXHIBITORS Alianna Koesel Colin Hanson Emily Denham Evan Priest Kaleigh Driver Kelcey Hanson

Olivia Hanson GOAT EXHIBITORS Ashley Percival Casey Wilson Clay Wilson Coby Percival Connor Taylor Rachelle Busby TJ Taylor

TOTAL MARKET ANIMAL SALE $82,465.38 ADDITIONAL SUPPORT: The following Businesses and individuals have given additional funding to the market animal exhibitors for their long term commitment to the care and responsibility of an animal. Exhibitors must learn principles of livestock nutrition, how to train and safely handle the animal, and how to accept the consequences of one’s work. Your participation in this sale is a major motivation for continued growth and education of the 4-H/Youth exhibitor.

Livestock Transportation Driver Ranch, Fountain Ranch, Dave Williams Veterinary - Deer Park Vet Clinic Auctioneer - Tucker Carlson

Individual Support – Bill & Bev Ives, Para Livestock, Plummer Forest Products, Bare Mountain Cattle Company, Mary Manus, Nickeric Ranch, Darilane Farms, John & Pat Hankey, Lydig Construction, McArthur Land & Timber, Selkirk Excavating & Trenching, Evan Haney, IPM, Kalispel Tribe

Wood Chips and Shavings and Delivery – Ponderay Newsprint, Tri Pro Cedar Products and POVA Thank You to all the volunteers that make sale day such a success!

Thank You to SELKIRK ACE HARDWARE for your generous support and sponsoring the livestock arena.

Thank You to THE MINER for your continued support and help to make the market sale a community event.

THE NEWPORT MINER

AUGUST 27, 2014 |

Judge says too soon to award attorneys fees in Moon Creek lawsuit Arguments on countersuit heard last week of August

BY DON GRONNING OF THE MINER

DIAMOND LAKE – The federal judge hearing the Moon Creek lawsuit turned down the Friends of Moon Creeks’ request for $57,980 in attorney’s fees.

“An award of fees at this time would be premature,” Senior U.S. Judge Justin Quackenbush wrote in his July 15 ruling. “In the event Plaintiffs ultimately prevail in this action, they may renew their request for fees, but should bear in mind the concerns expressed regarding the reasonableness of the fees expended.”

The case involves a dispute between Diamond Lake residents who were trying to lower unusually high water and residents along the outlet at the south end of the lake who object to spraying herbicide on Reed canarygrass and breaching the new beaver dams.

It names the Diamond Lake Improvement Association, the Pend Oreille County Noxious Weed Control Board coordinator Sharon Sorby and Phil Anderson, Director of the Department of Fish and Wildlife.

The Diamond Lake Improvement Association feels that the canarygrass has choked the outlet and caused high lake levels and damage to lakeshore property. They have been doing the work under a state hydraulics permit from the state Department of Fish and Wildlife.

The plaintiffs – a ninemember group called The Friends of Moon Creek – contend they did not receive ad-

equate notice of the herbicide spraying by the county and that their property was trespassed upon and damaged.

The lawsuit asks the judge to prohibit future conduct with an injunction, acknowledge the constitutional, statutory and regulatory rights of the Moon Creek plaintiffs and award costs and fees, including attorney’s fees.

In denying the motion for attorney fees, Quackenbush ON THE WEB: THE DIAMOND LAKE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION HAS POSTED ALL THE FILINGS IN THE MOON CREEK SUIT AT ITS NEW WEBSITE: www.diamondlakewa.com

wrote that much of what was being sought for attorney’s fees was actually clerical work – things such as organizing documents, copying, and electronic filing of documents.

“These tasks are clerical and should have been billed, if at all, at secretarial or paralegal rates,” Quackenbush wrote.

While they lost the ruling on attorney’s fees, at least for now, the Friends of Moon Creek haven’t lost the lawsuit.

In January, Quackenbush heard from attorneys in a conference call. He asked for more information.

In late February, Quackenbush declined to dismiss the lawsuit and extended for a month a temporary injunction prohibiting the Diamond Lake Improvement Association, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife and the county from entering Moon Creek property without giving 10 days written notice or without written permission from the Friends of Moon Creek.

In late March, Quacken-

bush granted a temporary injunction against the Diamond Lake Improvement Association prohibiting its members or agents from entering the property of the Friends of Moon Creek. But in the same ruling the judge said he can’t stop county or state agencies from doing work authorized by state laws.

Also in March, the Diamond Lake Improvement Association filed countersuit against the member of the Friends of Moon Creek. They claim the Friends of Moon Creek created a public and private nuisance by interfering with the outflow of Diamond Lake and were negligent by doing so. The counterclaim asks for a jury trial and attorneys fees. The claim also asks that the Friends of Moon Creek be enjoined from continuing unlawful actions that create the nuisance.

The counterclaim names the Friends of Moon Creek and their spouses, including Gaylan R. and Jane Doe Warren, Michael and Jane Doe Jeffry, Mark P. and Jane Doe Moeser, Joe F. and Jane Doe Struthers, Douglas M. and Jane Doe Anderson, George A. and Jane Doe Tyler, Cheryl and Robert Balentine and Tom and Michele Struthers.

The Friends of Moon Creek, through their attorney Mark Wilson, have sought to have the counterclaims dismissed under Washington’s antiSLAPP law (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation).

Arguments were scheduled to be heard the last week of August.

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

THURSDAY, AUGUST 28 STORY TIME: 11 a.m. - Ione Library

FRIDAY, AUGUST 29 STORY TIME AND CRAFTS: 10:30 a.m. - Metalines Library

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: 7 p.m. - Ione Senior Center

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IONE: Should be moved by Sept. 15 FROM PAGE 1

sioner Charlie Spears stated that the company will be required to haul it outside the area instead of to nearby land as they wanted during the regular council meeting, Wednesday, Aug. 20. There are 180 dry tons of biosolid being stored in a 100-foot by 50-foot bag.

“It’s a rather large baggie,” Spears said.

Fowell said Fire Mountain Farms would be sent a letter stating the biosolids had to be removed within two weeks of receipt of the letter or they will be fined $1,300 per day.

“There will be no local land pouring,” Spears said.

“Per our contract with the engineer Fire Mountain,

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they have to take it to a beneficial use site to be disposed of.”

Fire Mountain Farms owner Robert Thode said they are evaluating their options for the removal and not counting out a local land application.

“It’s got to get moved out of there,” Thode said.

Thode said the biosolid would be removed by Monday, Sept. 15.

“As far as I am concerned, the permit is still active until I am told otherwise,” said Betty Ann Bickner on Tuesday, Department of Ecology Regional Biosolids

Coordinator. She attended the meeting in Ione with Wayne Krafft, section manager for waste 2 resources in Spokane.

Bickner said that Fire Mountain Farms has held a permit for more than 15 years as a beneficial use facility, which means Fire Mountain Farms has to find people that want the material applied to their land for the land application process.

“He has to find someone to take biosolids as a soil conditioner,” Bickner said.

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IONE: Newport, Diamond Lake don’t apply locally FROM PAGE 9A

residents, all three county commissioners, county leaders, and two Department of Ecology personnel attended the Aug. 20 town council meeting. The majority of the residents in the town were opposed to the biosolid being applied locally. There is one application still in the works with the county for property off of Sullivan Lake Road.

The town was not a part

‘I am not going to live in a county that is called cesspool county...’

LeAnna Powers

Former water sewer commissioner

of the permit process as Fire Mountain Farms approached the Department of Ecology directly about keeping the biosolid local, Spears said.

This is the first time in more than 50 years that the lagoon has needed emptied. Spears said the town felt blindsided because the contractor did not talk with the town about this change. The contract between the town of Ione and Fire Mountain Farms, signed July 23, 2013, states the town of Ione is to be given documents about the beneficial use facility that will receive the biosolids, including contact information, Department of Ecology permits and required materials. “Work shall not commence until submittals have been approved,” the contract states.

The contract further states the disposal site “shall be permitted by the Washington State Department of Ecology, or other appropriate agency, (if located outside of Washington State) for receipt and disposal of biosolids.”

The county’s Mike Lithgow, Director of Community Development, attended the meeting and said the county took over the permit process when the information on the application from Fire Mountain was not correct regarding the buffer zones required because of a small creek going through the property.

The county took over the process to ensure that residents were properly notified about the permit and a proper SEPA checklist was filed.

Lithgow said the Department of Ecology is not required to notify residents, however, the county is. Bickner said they posted notifications in Ione at the end of July regarding the application to have the biosolid land applied locally.

Bickner said the land does

get restricted after application. Root growing plants, such as potatoes, onions and carrots are restricted from growing on the land for three years. The upward growing plants, such as hay, may have a 30-day restriction or longer.

Animals are not allowed to graze, either wild or domestic, for 30 days after application.

The biosolids are tilled into the soil, Bickner said, and added there are no reasons for animals to be digging into the ground. More than a year ago, the town discussed the wastewater plan and land application of the materials was requested then to maximize the grant. “There was so much public outcry about that,” Spears said. They put out bids for someone to remove the biosolids to a beneficial use facility outside of the town. Fire Mountain Farms was contracted for the removal with a base bid of $175,443. “Frankly, we feel like we have kind of been used as a training ground while they got their act together with their mixtures of emulsifiers and the baggies and everything,” Spears said.

Spears said only cell one had the biosolids removed because the money for cell two had to be allocated to transport the material out to a beneficial use site.

During the meeting, north county resident LeAnna Powers, who had served as a water sewer commissioner for about 11 years, addressed the council about land application of biosolids.

She said the material is not a biosolid because it has never been treated, and has to be incinerated.

“We are dealing with sludge,” Powers said. “Sixty years of prescription drugs that the department of Ecology doesn’t test for.”

Powers strongly stated that she was not in favor of local land application.

“Do you want to put it in your neighborhood? How would your neighbors feel about that in Spokane?” Powers said to Bickner and Krafft during the meeting. “I am not going to live in a county that is called ‘Cesspool County’ because that is exactly what is going to happen to this county if we allow this to happen.”

Krafft said on Tuesday that Ecology is more than willing to talk to the residents in Ione to clarify some of the “misinformation” that may have been stated during the council meeting.

“It seems clear there is a misunderstanding,” Krafft said. “The benefit of it being on the ground is like compost.

It has a high fertilizer value.”

Krafft said having a town

upset about the land application process of biosolid removal is rare.

“Biosolids removal happens all across the state all the time,” Krafft said. “We have quite a bit of experience dealing with this material.”

Thode said there is one other land application site in Pend Oreille County and about 15 sites spread throughout the state. He said transporting the biosolid is the most dangerous part of the removal process.

“The end result, we haul this out, the greatest risk is in transport,” Thode said.

The towns of Newport and Diamond Lake do not apply biosolids locally, City Administrator Ray King said. King said that Newport has no lagoons and any biosolid removals needed are contracted to go to a site near Ritzville, which is where the Ione Town Council thought their biosolid was going originally.

King said Diamond Lake does not have enough biosolids for removal. Cusick used to have aerated lagoons, King said. “In time, they will have to haul theirs also,” King said.

In Idaho, King said they would likely haul biosolids to a beneficial use facility, same as in Washington.

“They do the same because they are all regulated by the EPA,” King said.

The Ione lagoon is lined with clay. It is a three-pool system with lagoons one and two needing the biosolids removed. Only unit one had biosolids removed because of the costs to transport the material.

Bickner said the biosolids in Ione are “Class B,” meaning they “substantially reduced” in the percent of pathogen indicators the treatment is designed to destroy.

According to Ecology, Class B biosolids are handled or processed in a way that does not attract flies and rodents, but does not say the material is odorless. The removal process is detailed and includes screening the biosolids through a 3/8-inch bar screen, or equivalent device, to capture manufactured inert materials. The screen should be cleaned at least once a day to maintain flow and filtering efficiency.

The captured products will be disposed of as solid waste.

The contractor was also required to take three samples, spread throughout the day, to be combined and sent to a certified laboratory for “determination of solids content.”

“Declaration of Intent to Provide HomeBased Instruction” is required by law in the State of Washington It must be filed within two weeks of the beginning of a semester each year with your local school district superintendent’s office. Home-based instruction must be: • Provided by a parent who is instructing his or her child only and is supervised by a person with a valid teaching certificate; or • Provided by a parent who is instructing his or her child only and who has either earned forty-five college level credit hours or the equivalent in semester hours or has completed a course in home-based instruction at a post-secondary institution or a vocational-technical institute; or • Provided by a parent who is deemed sufficiently qualified to provide home-based instruction by the superintendent of the local school district in which the child reside.

Newport School District is interested in maintaining a positive working relationship with home schooled families in any way that would help to provide the best quality educational experience for every school-aged child. Our own in-district Parent Partnership Programs are still accepting applications.

Please contact Dave Smith, Superintendent, at 447-3167 for more information.

HOT BOX

Special deadline Tuesdays 2 p.m.

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(30HB-2p) SALES BY TUDY Our sale at our home, 4736 Old Priest River Road. Friday and Saturday 8:00 to 5:00.

Collectibles, glassware, furniture, housewares, linens, bedding, clothes, jewelry, adult health aids, yard items, Snapper mower, snow blower, tools. Way too much to list. No previews or early sales- cash preferred.(30p) OLDTOWN AUTO SALES We buy clean used cars and RV’s. See our complete inventory online at www. oldtownautos.com.(51HB-tf) LUANA BURNETT previous Animal Control Officer, Newport, is temporarily at Newport Long Term Care and would love visitors! (30p) HIRING IMMEDIATELY Laborers and experienced roofers. Pay depending on experience. Must be 18.

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Appliances, gazebo, wood stove, good stuff!(30p) ABANDONED VEHICLE AUCTION Newport Towing. 137 South Newport Avenue. (509) 4471200. September 2, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. Viewing starts at 9:00 a.m. (30) DID YOU MISS IT? You won’t miss a thing when you subscribe to The Miner.

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(47HB-altTF) FIVE FAMILY SALE Rain or shine. August 29, 30, 31 and September 1, 9:00- 5:00. 453 Calispel Trail Loop Road, Newport. Tools, camping, furniture and so much more! (30p) YARD SALE! SATURDAY ONLY Coldwell lead sled bench rest 50 mm, Barksa Red Dot CQB site, Harris bipod, tires, televisions, vcrs, Complete Beta Max system with videos, Wilson trucker antenna for cell phones, printers, scanners, cables, furniture and mattress set. Much, much more. 6242 LeClerc Road, Newport. 9:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.(30p)

END OF SUMMER GARAGE SALE! This Saturday 8:00 to 4:00 and Sunday 8:00 to noon.

Paint ball pistol, televisions, television stand, women’s golf clubs, children’s bikes, scooters, booster seats, toys, overstuffed chair, throw pillows, lamps, framed art, home decor, bedding sets, blankets, dorm organizer, shelves, holiday decor, kitchenware, bar stools, 2 person bistro table and chairs, men’s and women’s clothing plus children’s back to school clothes! In front of the Miner Newspaper garage on Highway 2, Newport.

Cross street is 421 South Spokane Avenue. No early birds please.(30) NEED 2 PEOPLE to help clean up tree damage and machine split firewood, in Newport. Call Ray (509) 671-1222.(30p) VERY, VERY, VERY BIG SALE! Thousands of books and records, shop tools, tools, toys, compact discs, games, all sorts of electronics, clothes and a lot more. See craigslist for more. 32 Stohr Road, Newport. Saturday and Sunday 10:00 a.m.- ?(30p) JL SHERMAN EXCAVATION looking for experienced operator/ laborer. Apply at jlsp@povn.com, (509) 4474214, pay depending on experience.(30HB-2) BEAUTIFUL Parcel on highway to place a mobile home or build a house or business. 397802 Highway 20, 15 minutes south of Ione, Washington. 12.5 acres of trees, meadow and mountain views. Septic 3 bedroom permitted system in. Power in. Needs well. $68,500. Cell (509) 671-6212, home (509) 445-1353.(28HB-4p) YARD SALE 112 Spokane Avenue, Newport. Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 9:00-5:00. Half off Saturday! Lots of school clothes, all sizes. Look for yellow sign. (30p) CAMPER FOR SALE 1974 Astro Cruiser 8’. New bed, propane heater, camper jacks. $500.00 or best offer. (509) 447-5402 ask for Pat. Trades welcome. (30p) NEED MUSIC TEACHER! on electric organ. Newport (509) 447-5502. (30)

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Soroptimist program helps local women, girls

B R I E F LY ‘Strut your mutt’ for Priest River Animal Rescue PRIEST RIVER – There will be a dog walk and poker run Saturday, Sept. 13 to benefit the Priest River Animal Rescue.

Check in will be at 9:30 a.m. at the Priest River Animal Rescue at 5538 Highway 2, across from Mitchell’s Harvest Food. The 3-mile dog walk will start at 10 a.m.

Cost to participate is $20. In addition to the dog walk, there will be a poker run with cash prizes, as well as a raffle for gift baskets. Call 208-448-0699 or go online to www.pranimalrescue.org/upcoming_events.

COURTESY PHOTO|BARBARA JOHNSON

About 80 Priest Lake residents enjoyed pizza, salad and entertainment during the Community Picnic, Saturday, Aug. 16, hosted by the Priest Lake Public Library.

Pizza, sunshine at Priest Lake picnic

Newport offers free preschool screening NEWPORT – The Newport School District will offer free preschool screening, Thursday, Sept. 4, to help parents identify a child’s special needs at an early age to reach their full learning potential.

The screening is for children ages 0-5 in the Newport district.

The district makes available some of their programs to preschoolers with special needs at no cost.

The screening includes cognitive skills for thinking and preacademic skills, communication for speech and language, fine motor for writing, drawing and cutting, gross motor for balance, throwing and kicking and vision and hearing.

Parents who would like to schedule appointments or gather more information should call Keri Leslie at 509-4473167, ext. 4507.

Fair queen tryouts set for Sept. 21 NEWPORT – Pend Oreille County Fair and Rodeo Queen tryouts are Sunday, Sept. 21, at 2 p.m. at the Pend Oreille County Fair Office in Cusick.

The queen must be ages 16-19, live in Pend Oreille County, be single and never married and able to travel throughout the year.

Applications are due Friday, Sept. 12. Call Joyce Montgomery at 509-939-3751.

PRIEST LAKE – The Priest Lake Public Library held a Community Picnic for patrons to thank the community and volunteers for their support, Saturday, Aug. 16.

The library was founded 40 years ago and thanks to many volunteers, the library continues to thrive. For the picnic, the library provided free pizza, salad, cake, drinks and a magician for entertainment for more than 80 people who attended.

The Community Picnic was also the grand finale for the Summer Reading Program.

This year’s summer reading theme was

“Fizz, Boom and Read,” which the magician Cecil Lewis used throughout his magic act.

The kids loved participating in the magic tricks, organizers said.

The library raised $367 through a silent auction at the event to help offset costs.

Organizers expressed appreciation to all attendees that bid on the items and to the local businesses that made the silent auction possible.

For more information about the Priest Lake Public Library, go to priestlake.lili.org or call 208-443-2454.

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NEWPORT – Soroptimists of Newport announce the 2014-15 Live Your Dream Award that is available to women and girls who work or reside in the Pend Oreille Valley.

Women and girls who want to pursue or are enrolled in a vocational, educational or training program are eligible to apply for the scholarship.

Applicants should be able to demonstrate financial need to complete their goal, and have primary financial responsibility for themselves or their family. Applications are available from the Soroptomist President, Michelene Weisbarth at michelenew@ifiber.tv or call at 509-671-2552.

The application must be completed and submitted by Nov. 1. A soroptimist can help with the application process.

Last year’s award recipients included Terri Harding of Young Lives, Leah Schaeffer of Community College Center in Newport and Kathleen Huffman of the Pend Oreille Library District. Huffman received a total of $3,000 for the local and area awards, which is enabling her to complete her Library Science Program.

Soroptimists of Newport is a group of women in the Pend Oreille Valley, part of Soroptomists International, that strives to improve the lives of women around the world.

Membership is open to all women in the Pend Oreille Valley. They meet the first and third Tuesday of each month at the Pine Ridge Community Church in Newport at noon.

Local musicians hosting benefit for Youth Emergency Services NEWPORT – Local musicians are hosting a benefit concert for Youth Emergency Services to raise money for school supplies. The concert will be at the Pend Oreille Players Association Playhouse, Saturday, Sept. 6 at 7 p.m., with a $10 suggested donation at the door.

If you don’t have $10, come anyway and support the effort with your presence. Live music will be by The Oracle’s Kitchen, Scotia Road, Mila, Howard Wildin, Jaime Zachary, Mia Shults and other surprise artists.

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 28

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

NIA DANCE LESSONS: 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. - Create Arts Center

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

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

NEWPORT TOPS: 9 a.m. - Newport Eagles

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

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

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

STORY TIME: 10:30 a.m. Blanchard Library

DUPLICATE BRIDGE: 12:30 p.m.

- Hospitality House in Newport

PRIEST RIVER LIONESS: 11:30 a.m. - Priest River Senior Center

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

SACHEEN LADIES OF THE LAKE: Noon - Various Locations, call President Maria Bullock at 509-998-4221

CELEBRATE RECOVERY: 5:30 p.m. - House of the Lord, 754 Silverbirch Lane, Oldtown

BONNER COUNTY HOMESCHOOL GROUP: 2:30 p.m. Priest River City Park

AL-ANON: Noon - American Lutheran Church

PEND OREILLE KIDS CLUB: 6 p.m. - Pend Oreille Mennonite Church

YOUTH ADVISORY COUNCIL 4 P.M. - BLANCHARD LIBRARY

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

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

PRM-ADVOCATES FOR WOMEN: 1-3 p.m. - Station 2:41 Coffee Shop, Oldtown

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

FRIDAY, AUGUST 29

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

STORY TIME: 11 a.m. - Newport Library

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: 5:45 p.m. - Hospitality House, Newport

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

PRIEST RIVER TOPS: 6 p.m.

- Priest River Free Methodist Church SPIRIT LAKE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: 6:30 p.m. - Call 208-6235626 for locations

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

HAPPY AGERS CARD PARTY: 1 p.m. - Priest River Senior Center AA MEETING: 5 p.m. - Cornerstone Building, Selkirk Way, Oldtown SET FREE NORTHWEST MEAL AND WORSHIP: 6:30 p.m. Conerstone Building Behind Ace Hardware, Oldtown

SUNDAY, AUGUST 31 ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: 7 p.m. - Hospitality House, Newport MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1

PRIEST RIVER CHAMBER BOARD: 4 p.m. - Chamber Of-

CALVARY CHAPEL NEWPORT

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

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

John 6:35

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

Morning Worship ~ 10:30 a.m.

Wednesday: Youth ~7:00 p.m.

Pastor Mitch McGhee 447-3265

DALKENA COMMUNITY CHURCH • VILLAGE MISSIONS

Vaagen Bros. Lumber, Inc.

WE ARE BUYING LOGS! • We’re buying saw logs and chip logs.

Competitive Prices, High Value!

• We have foresters on staff to help with your timber management needs.

• We are also buying and selling timberland.

“Adding value to the forest for people, products, and the environment”

Call Now.

Colville: 509-684-5071 Usk: 888-445-1732

S.S. ~ 9:30 • Worship ~ 11 a.m.

Family Night, Wednesday ~ 7 p.m.

(Bible and Youth Clubs) Pastor Sandy Strait - 509-447-3687

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

509-671-3436

fice NEWPORT MAWS AND PAWS BOOSTER CLUB: 6 p.m. - Newport High School Library NEWPORT LIONS CLUB: 6:30 p.m. - Kelly’s Restaurant, Call Ota Harris at 509-447-4157 BLANCHARD LIONS: 7 p.m. Blanchard Inn ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: 7 p.m. - Blanchard Community Church ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: 7 p.m. - Pend Oreille Bible Church in Cusick

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 NIA DANCE LESSONS: 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. - Create Arts Center MOTHERS OF PRESCHOOLERS GATHERING: 10 a.m. - Priest River Assembly of God Church SOROPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL OF NEWPORT BUSINESS

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

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

Community Church Directory CATHOLIC MASSES

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

Saturday Evening 7 p.m.

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

Ione: St. Bernard’s, 802 - 8th St., Sun. - 2nd & 4th - 8:00 a.m.

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

SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS

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

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

Wed. - Bible Study 6 p.m.

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

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

SPRING VALLEY MENNONITE CHURCH

AMERICAN LUTHERAN CHURCH E.L.C.A.

CHURCH OF FAITH

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

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

MEETING: 12-1 p.m. - Pineridge Community Church JESSA’S CREATIVE DANCE CLASS: 4 p.m. - Create Arts Center WEIGHT WATCHERS: 5:306 p.m. Weigh in and 6 p.m. meeting - Pineridge Community Church, 1428 W. First St., Newport PINOCHLE: 6 p.m. - Calispel Valley Library, Cusick KANIKSU LODGE 97: 6 p.m. VFW Hall in Priest River BINGO: 6:30 p.m. - Newport Eagles ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: 7 p.m. - St. Anthony’s Church PEND OREILLE COUNTY SEARCH AND RESCUE: 7 p.m.

- Newport Health Center Basement

NEWPORT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

“Sharing Christ As He Is, With People As They Are” 2nd & Spokane Sts 447-3846 9 a.m. Sunday School 10:15 a.m. Worship Service 11:30 a.m. Fellowship Time September - May AWANA - Tuesday 5:30 p.m.

The Immortals (13-High School ) Thur. 7-9 Pastor Rob Malcolm

NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH

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

HOUSE OF THE LORD

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

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

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

NEWPORT SOUTHERN BAPTIST CHURCH

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

Evening Worship 6:30 p.m.

Bible Study Weds. 6:30 p.m.

BAHÁ’Í FAITH OF NEWPORT

“The aim of this Wronged One in sustaining woes and tribulations, in revealing the Holy Verses and in demonstrating proofs hath been naught but to quench the flame of hate and enmity, that the horizon of the hearts of men may be illumined with the light of concord and attain real peace and tranquility.” Bahá ’u’ lláh Please call 509-550-2035 for the next scheduled devotional. Wonderful resources can be found at www.bahai.us and www.bahai.org

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Sports

WDFW director to leave at the end of the year OLYMPIA – After nearly six years at the helm, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) Director Phil Anderson has informed the state Fish and Wildlife Commission he will resign from his position, effective Dec. 31.

“Deciding when to move on is a difficult decision,” Anderson said.

“But after 20 great years with the department, the time is right for me to step aside. I will leave

‘I will leave knowing that the talented people I have had the privilege to work with here at WDFW are fully capable of taking on the challenges that lie ahead.’

Phil Anderson

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Getting ready for game day These Newport Grizzlies football players are running through some line up drills, practicing getting on and off the field and lining up quickly for a play. There are 35 players who turned out for this year’s team. Coach Zac Farnam expects more once school starts. The first game is Sept. 5 at Bonners Ferry.

Second controlled hunt drawing complete BOISE – Hunters who applied for controlled hunts in the second application period in Idaho can find out if they were successful by logging into Fish and Game’s website http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/CH. Now that the second draw is complete, hunters can purchase their tags in a variety of ways; at any IDFG license vendor, any IDFG office, or online at https:// id.outdoorcentral.us/. Hunters who were drawn can claim their tags at any time; there is no deadline to pick up a tag.

In some hunts there were more tags avail-

able than applicants. Those leftover tags are available on a first come, first served basis beginning Monday, Aug. 25, at 10 a.m.

MDT. For a list of available leftover tags go to http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/content/ leftovers.

Many hunters who choose general hunts are choosing to increase their opportunity and enjoy some extra time in Idaho’s beautiful back country by taking advantage of the reduced price for second tags for deer and elk. For more information go to https://fishandgame.idaho.gov/content/tagdiscount.

WDFW Director

knowing that the talented people I have had the privilege to work with here at WDFW are fully capable of taking on the challenges that lie ahead.”

The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission, a citizen panel appointed by the governor to set policy for WDFW, will begin the recruitment process for a new director in the next few weeks.

“Phil has done a tremendous job leading the department through some difficult and challenging issues over the past several years,” said Miranda Wecker, chairwoman of the commission. “His strong conservation ethic, dedication to sound fiscal management and expertise in intergovernmental relations have greatly benefitted the department and the state’s fish and wildlife resources it protects and manages.”

As director, Anderson guided the department through the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.

During the unprecedented budget shortfall, state General Fund support for WDFW declined by nearly $50 million – 45 percent – threatening department operations and fishing and hunting opportunities throughout the state.

To address the shortfall, Anderson and his staff worked to restructure the agency while continuing to provide key services and maintain a high conservation standard for Washington’s fish and wildlife.

As part of that effort, WDFW worked closely with stakeholders to develop new revenue streams and reduce the department’s reliance on the state General Fund.

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Farragut range free sight-in day set for Sept. 20 ATHOL – A special hunter sight-in day will be held Saturday, Sept 20, at the newly remodeled Farragut State Park shooting range. Free rifle targets will be available, and the $5 range fee will be waived.

The 100-yard and 200-yard rifle ranges and the shotgun range will be open the regular hours of 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Rim fire and center fire rifles of less than .50 caliber; and shoulder-fired muzzle-loaded rifles may be sighted in. Work on the 50-yard handgun range is in progress, so it is not yet open.

Hunters will also be able to practice shotgun skills on the shotgun range. Hand operated throwers are available, but shotgun shooters must bring their own clay targets.

The shooting range reopened last summer after being closed for several years. The closure allowed for extensive work that increased safety and reduced noise. Administered by the Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG), the range is located at Farragut State Park near Athol, Idaho.

The range is open Fridays, noon to 7 p.m., and Saturdays and Sundays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., from June 1 through Nov. 1.

The improved range includes all-weather shooting sheds, bench rests, safety baffles, safe backstops, side containment berms, and target frames.

When the range is open, it is staffed by trained volunteers or IDFG employees. There is a $5/shooter daily use fee.

Eye and ear protection is required. Shooters can bring their own, or purchase earplugs and safety glasses at the

S P O RT S C A L E N D A R THURSDAY, AUGUST 28 PRIEST RIVER BOYS SOCCER VS. TIMBERLAKE: 2 p.m. - Priest River Lamanna High School PRIEST RIVER GIRLS SOCCER VS. TIMBERLAKE: 4 p.m. - Priest River Lamanna High School PRIEST RIVER CROSS COUNTRY AT POST FALLS: 4 p.m. - Post Falls High School

FRIDAY, AUGUST 29 PRIEST RIVER FOOTBALL VS. NAMPA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS, INC.: Noon - Nampa Christian School PRIEST RIVER BOYS SOCCER VS. STILLWATER CHRISTIAN: 4 p.m. Priest River Lamanna High School PRIEST RIVER GIRLS SOCCER VS. STILLWATER CHRISTIAN: 6 p.m. Priest River Lamanna High School

SATURDAY, AUGUST 30 OPEN GYM, ADULT BASKETBALL: 7 a.m. - Newport High School PRIEST RIVER BOYS SOCCER VS. OROFINO: 2 p.m. - Orofino High School

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 PRIEST RIVER BOYS SOCCER VS. ST. MARIES: 6 p.m. - Priest River Lamanna High School

Big turnout for volleyball

208-448-2311

Some 55 players turned out for volleyball at Newport High School, nearly double from last year. Here Norwegian exchange student Linnea Valand returns a ball. While Valand, a senior, played volleyball in gym class back in Norway, this is her first season on an organized team.

The team will play their first games in Yakima Sept. 13.

Albeni Hwy. • Priest River Washington Customers Call Toll Free 1-800-440-8254

We’re looking for our

2015 Newport Rodeo Queen TRYOUTS

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Layton McMillon Rodeo Stock & Newport Rodeo Association Present

Sept. 13th • 10 am River Bank Restaurant Application deadline Sept. 6th

NEWPORT ROUGH STOCK OPEN Saturday September 13th 7pm Newport Rodeo Grounds

Advanced Tickets $ 10.00 At Gate $ 12.00 Children 5-11 $5.00

4 and under FREE

• Bull Riding • Stock Saddle Bronc • Bareback • Saddle Bronc • Conessions & Beer Garden

Newport Rodeo Queen Tryouts

Advanced Tickets At: Owen’s, Seebers, Safeway, Oldtown Hardware, Family Foods, Selkirk Ace, AJ’s Cafe, Priest River Times, HAV Western Wear, Big R Store

Added Purse Sponsors: Albeni Falls Home Center, Club Rio, McDonald’s Newport, Zodiac Aerospace, Meek Harvesting, Kardos Plumbing For More Information Call 360-770-1180 • Paid for by Newport Hotel/Motel Tax

Represent your community Be part of The Rodeo Famly!

Ages 16-22 years of age Like riding your horse? Like people?

Resident of Pend Oreille County / west Bonner County?

Now is your chance!

Call for Information Lola (509) 292-2223 or Ricki (208) 691-2920 Open to West Bonner School District Young Ladies Too!!

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SC H E DU LE OF EVE NTS LOCALLY OWNED & OPERATED SINCE 1983

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Shell 509-467-3130 • 8321 N MARKET • 800-791-2149

Friday, Aug. 29 7 P.M.: NuVu Movie Theater 7 P.M.: The Cutter Affair Variety Show at the Cutter

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DANEKAS Funeral Chapel & Crematory Family owned and operated Colville: 509-684-6271 • Chewelah: 509-935-8411

People You Know and Trust

Saturday, Aug. 30

5th Avenue Bar & Grill House Specials all weekend for

Affair on Main Street Pulled Pork Sandwich Potato Salad • Baked Beans Wraps • German Dogs • Spirits

214 E. 5th Ave., Metaline Falls 509-446-4234

Most insurance Accepted

509-684-3137 1165 S. Main, Colville

24 HOUR TOWING • LOCKOUTS • JUMP STARTS WE ACCEPT MOST MAJOR ROADSIDE SERVICES

I V L L L O E C Since 1966

GLASS

• Home • Business • Auto Glass • Mobile Service • Rock Chip Repair

111 S. Oak St. Colville 509-684-6501 888-254-9973

ABC HEATING & ELECTRIC Your Comfort System Specialists Heating, Air Conditioning, Electric, Refrigeration, Sheer Metal

SALES & SERVICE for Residential, Commercial, Industrial 411 W. 2nd Ave • Colville, WA • (509) 684-2018 Fax (509) 684-1532 • Email: abc-heating@hotmail.com

8-10 A.M.: Kindred Kitchen Pancake Breakfast by Assembly of God at the UCC 9 A.M. TO 5 P.M.: Team Horseshow Tournament 9 A.M. TO NOON: Sisters on the Fly Vintage Trailer Tours 9:30 A.M. TO 3 P.M.: Classy Car Show 10 A.M.: Can Can Dancers 10 A.M. TO 5 P.M.: Arts and Crafts Show 10 A.M. TO 5 P.M.: Autumn Splendor Quilt Show in City Hall 11 A.M.: Can Can Dancers 11 A.M.: North Pend Oreille Lions Club Train Ride NOON: Affair Key Auction Start the fun in Metaline Falls at

Cathy’s Cafe

PLAIN OLD SECOND-HAND TREASURES

Celebrating our 8th Anniversary Vintage Clothes Cottage Collectables Backyard Bits

304 Main Street • Ione, WA • (509) 442-2209 Open: 10 - 4 Tues. - Sat.

Hardwick Family Dentistry ROB HARDWICK, D.D.S.

154 East First Street • Colville, WA (509) 684-3592 • Fax: (509) 685-9118

Home Cooked Meals Homemade Pies, Milkshakes

And Enjoy a Movie at

Nu-Vu Theatre

Cathy’s (509) 446-2447 • Nu-Vu (509) 446-5000

H & D DIESEL, INC.

Over 20 Years Roadside Service CAT Dealer Experience Licensed • Insured

D 3 2 R N 1 P 509-684-9200 “Trust the Specialist!”

9381 Coyote Trail Phone (509) 447-4699 Newport, WA

Have A Safe nd e k e e W See us for your outdoor recreation needs

Ben Franklin Near Hwy 41 & Hwy 2 • Idaho

Open 7 Days A Week

Mon-Sat 8am-7pm, Sun 10am-6pm 208-437-4822 • facebook.com/bfoldtown

NORMAN MERKEL 1046 N. Hwy 395 Colville, WA

Stay Cool This Summer.

We Repair All A/C Systems (509) 684-3581

ROD HILDEN

(509) 442-3852

702 North Highway • Colville, WA 509-685-1880 Store Hours: Mon-Fri 9am - 6:30pm Sat 9am - 6pm • Sun 11am-4pm

DOUGLAS S. MacKAY, D.D.S.

877-447-4699

Van Dyke Logging

Sears Authorized Retail Dealer

• ALL AUTOMOTIVE REPAIRS • BRAKES/ ALIGNMENTS • TRANSMISSIONS • COMPUTER DIAGNOSTICS • TUNE-UPS/ EXHAUST

We Employ Technicians Certified By The National Institute For Automotive Service Excellence

Mon-Fri: 8:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. • 505 S. Main • Colville

The Cutter Affair Variety Show Fri & Sat - Aug. 29-30 • 7:00pm Sun- Aug. 31 • 2pm Tickets: $1200 Reservations (509) 446-4108 302 Park St., Metaline Falls, WA

www.cuttertheatre.com

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s Falrl ket Ma 509-446-2424

1 P.M.: Midnight Run plays in park Low Prices 1 P.M.: North Pend Oreille Lions Club Train Ride Produce • Groceries Beer • Wine 2:30 P.M.: Car Show judging Weekdays 8-8 3 P.M.: North Pend Oreille Lions Sat & Sun 9-8 Club Train Ride Metaline Falls 3 P.M.: Car Show Awards 3 P.M.: Can Can Dancers 7 P.M.: NuVu Movie Theater 7 P.M.: The Cutter Affair Variety Show at the Cutter

Supplying Industrial Sand since 1961

Sunday, Aug. 31

Serving the Tri County Area for 30 years

Kindred Kitchen Metaline Falls Assembly of God ...Invites you to breakfast this weekend!

Saturday 8-10am Sunday 8-9:30 am $ 7 per person $ 3 for 10 and under

CAREY’S INC AUTO BODY

Hi-Tech Collision Repair We work with your insurance company to repair your vehicle to “before-accident” condition

Corner of 5th & Grandview • Metaline Falls

Deborah Smoldon • 509-446-2160

CELEBRATING 102 YEARS!

8-9:30 A.M.: Kindred Kitchen Pancake Breakfast by Assembly of God at the UCC (509) 937-2221 • Valley, Washington 9 A.M. TO 5 P.M.: Team Horseshow Tournament 9:30 A.M. TO 3 P.M.: Motorcycle Excavation and Paving and Off Road Vehicle Show Specialists 10 A.M.: Can Can Dancers 10 A.M. TO 5 P.M.: Arts and Crafts Show 10 A.M. TO 5 P.M.: Autumn Splendor Quilt Show in City Hall 11 A.M.: Raptor plays in the park

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Tiger Historical Museum Blacksmith Shop Gift Shop Open Thur-Mon • 10 - 4 (thru Labor Day)

Open first 3 weekends in Oct. 24/7 Rest Area

Intersection of Hwy 31 & 20 Ione, WA 509-442-4656

• Computer Estimates • Color Matched Electronically On-Site • Semi-Down Draft Bake Spray Booth • Six Tower Frame Rack • Unibody Universal Measuring System with Upper Body Measuring • The Area’s Finest Technicians • Built by Satisfied Customers

509-684-2587

1101 S. Main. St., Colville

Family Focused Services for All Age Groups

SELKIRK COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER We also offer Computerized Radiography Minor Surgery Fire & DOT Physicals Fracture Care • EKG’s . . . and much more

(509) 442-3514 or (800) 554-2413 Monday thru Friday: 8am to 5pm 208 Cedar Creek Terrace, Ione

Versatile Industries, Inc. Free Estimates

Owned by the Hedrick family serving the TriCounty area for over 30 years.

E. 219 5th Ave. • Box 307 • Metaline Falls, WA 99153

EOE & Provider

509-442-2444

Building a better future today...

For our families of tomorrow.

Re-Elect

Curt Knapp PUD Commissioner District 2

Election campaign paid solely by Curt Knapp

Email: knappcj@gmail.com • http://curtknapp.wix.compendoreille-pud

Thanks to the people of Pend Oreille County for their support in the reopening of the Pend Oreille Mine.

If you have questions, please contact us. This is a team effort.

For Job Postings see: teck.com 509-446-4516

Don’t be a stranger to electrical danger.

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Gopher’s Diesel Repair Serving the Tri-County for Over 10 Years

883 Williams Lake Rd. • Colville • 509-684-6637

Meet me in Metaline Falls

Integrity • Leadership • Experience

Vote for

11 A.M.: North Pend Oreille Lions Club Train Ride 1 P.M.: Project Smash plays in the park 1 P.M.: North Pend Oreille Lions Club Train Ride 2 P.M.: The Cutter Affair Variety Show at the Cutter 3 P.M.: Motorcycle and Off Road Vehicle Show Awards 3 P.M.: Can Can Dancers 3 P.M.: North Pend Oreille Lions Club Train Ride 7 P.M.: NuVu Movie Theater

Dolly Hunt (R) Pend Oreille County Prosecutor

www.dollyhunt.com

Paid for by Committee to elect Dolly Hunt-Lori Hunt, Campaign Manager

We salute the Down River Communities and the people who make this a wonderful place to live.

Affair on Main Street Aug. 30 & 31 Sat. & Sun. 11 am, 1 pm & 3 pm Train leaves from Metaline Falls Park

We deliver to North County

Autumn Colors Oct. 4 & 5, 11 & 12, 18 & 19

Great Pumpkin rides Oct. 25 & 26 Leaves from Ione Station Reservations: www.lionstrainrides.com or call 877-525-5226. M-F 6am-5pm Reservations highly recommended.

RE-ELECT

Mike Manus (R)

SELKIRK K “Your Hometown Difference” 208-437-5669 East End of the Oldtown Bridge

District 2 County Commissioner

Enjoy the Affair on Main Street Aug. 30 & 31 Paid for by Mike Manus for District 2 Commissioner Kim Manus, Treasurer

BOUNDARY TOURS

Feel the Power & Enjoy the Scenery!

Vaagen Bros. Lumber, Inc.

WE ARE BUYING LOGS! • We’re buying saw logs and chip logs.

Competitive Prices, High Value!

• We have foresters on staff to help with your timber management needs.

• We are also buying and selling timberland.

ROAD TRIP!

Whatever Job

Visit Northeast Washington and the majestic Pend Oreille County

YOU PLAN TO TACKLE. . .

GEAR UP FOR AN ADVENTURE

. . .check with us, we have a little bit of everything!

“Adding value to the forest for people, products, and the environment”

Call Now.

Colville: 509-684-5071 Usk: 888-445-1732

METALINE FALLS TRADING CO. 509-446-2301

Schedule a FREE guided tour today! www.seattle.gov/light/tours/boundary

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OBITUARI ES Robert Michael Umbarger NEWPORT

Robert Michael Umbarger passed away Friday, Aug. 15, at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, surrounded by his loved ones.

He was 60 Umbarger years old.

Mr. Umbarger was born Aug. 3, 1954, in Ione. He was a master cement finisher, and also did carpentry and construction. He loved restoring old cars, fishing, hunting, gold panning, baseball and most of all his family. He was a great husband, dad, son, brother and grandfather, his family said.

His whole world revolved around his family. He was also a Vietnam era veteran.

Mr. Umbarger is survived by his wife, Lori Umbarger of Newport, his son Robert and daughter-in-law Britny Umbarger, as well as their children Patience, Brawk and Kiara of Newport, his daughter Crystal Umbarger and son-in-law Aymen Alsanfi of Spokane, mother and step-father Betty and Stewart Belling of Chewelah, step-mother Mildred Umbarger of Arlington, sister Shannon Umbarger and brother-in-law Tim Gray of Oregon, sister Vicki and brother-in-law Paul Tigner of Ione, brother Alan Umbarger of Metaline, and his sister D’Anne and brother-in-law James McClellan of Colville. He was preceded in death by his father Alvin Umbarger in 1994 and his brother Kenneth Umbarger in 1999.

A memorial graveside service with military honors will be held Saturday, Aug. 30, at 1 p.m. at the Newport Cemetery, 161 Cemetery Lane, Newport, followed by a potluck at the Newport Seventh-day Adventist Church, 777 Lilac Lane, Newport.

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

Family and friends are invited to sign the online guestbook at www.Sherman-Knapp.com.

Bernice Emrick IONE

Bernice Emrick passed away Aug. 19 at Prestige Care in Sunnyside with family at her bedside. She was 90 years old.

Mrs. Emrick was born May 19, 1924, to William and Ethel (Craig) Stevens of Pritchett, Colo., in a sod house on her mother’s homestead. She rode her horse the first nine years of her education to attend a one-room school and then boarded in town to complete high school, graduating in 1942.

After completing a year of college in Salinas, Calif., she received an emergency teaching certificate and returned to her hometown where she taught for two years.

In 1944, she married her high school sweetheart Marion. They moved to Indiana where their daughter, Dianne, was born, then to Nevada where Bernice taught until daughter Deena arrived. Finally, they settled in Granger, Wash., and welcomed sons Steven and Allan. Family members said Mrs. Emrick enjoyed her homemaking career, creating an environment that was welcoming for all.

Thirty years in Ione allowed her to participate in a variety of community and church activities, often serving in leadership roles. Nine years ago she returned to the valley to reside with her daughter Deena. Always a teacher, she became a foster grandparent serving the

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students in Mabton.

She is preceded in death by her husband Marion, son Allan, her parents, and brother Donald Stevens. She is survived by daughters Dianne Lacy of Yakima, Deena (and Stephen) Culver of Sunnyside, son Steven (and Dana) of San Rafael, Calif., and daughter-in-law Jane Emrick of Ione, as well as eight grandchildren, and 11 great-grandchildren.

The family is hosting a celebration of life Saturday, Sept. 20 at 2:30 p.m. at Faith Alive Church 6711 Summitview Ave., Yakima.

Diane M. Mercer PRIEST RIVER

Diane M. Mercer of Priest River passed away at Holy Family Hospital in Spokane, Aug. 17, due to lung cancer.

She was 68 years old.

Mercer Friends said Priest River lost one of its biggest boosters and arguably its hardest working community volunteer when she died.

Mrs. Mercer was born in Eldora, Iowa, April 7, 1946, to Clarence and Marcella Emmert. She would later classify her father as a jackof-all-trades who ended up at Lockheed in California, where he did all the testing for Polaris submarines. The family moved to San Jose, when she was eight. She graduated from Del Mar High School in 1964, and attended business college for a year before moving to Seattle. She attended Shoreline Community College there and the University of Washington, leaving at the end of her junior year to marry Ray Mercer on June 3, 1973. Ray was a Property Master in Hollywood, who had come to Seattle to work on a movie. She then moved to Los Angeles, and at the age of 27 became a second mother to his three young children from a previous marriage.

Mrs. Mercer led an adventurous life. She worked on films with props, did decorating, assisted with script changes, and, to use her words, helped “wherever they (the movies) needed a body.” She worked in the production office when needed, and between stints in insurance for Manhattan Life. Her specialty was designing Employee Benefit Packages, which had helped her work her way through college. She claimed to have become a wage earner at age 13, foregoing all extracurricular school activities.

Although she and Ray were based in L.A., in a year’s time they rarely spent more than four consecutive months at home, according to what she told the late Bob Gunter, who interviewed her for his book, “People I Have Met.” All motion pictures were filmed on location, in England, Spain, Mexico, Santo Domingo, Ireland, and other places, and at those times Ray’s children lived with their mother.

The couple bought property in Springdale Gardens at Priest River in 1980 and moved to it permanently in 1986. They opened Mercer’s Memories antique store in town, which she was still operating at the time of her death.

Life might have been more settled after the move to Priest River, but for Diane it was no less busy, as she became the consummate community volunteer. It is difficult to remember all of her activities on behalf of her adopted town. She was very active in the Priest River Chamber of Commerce, serving in official capacities SEE OBIT, 10B

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

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

PEND OREILLE COUNTY

MONDAY, AUG. 18 AGENCY ASSIST: Hwy. 2, agency assist with wanted subject.

ARREST: Sunset Drive N., David Walter Onstad, 40, of Ione was arrested for violation of a protection order.

THEFT: Skookum Meadow Drive, report of known female using debit card.

MALICIOUS MISCHIEF: N. Spokane Ave., report of tire slashed overnight.

HARASSMENT: S. Newport Ave., report of harassing text messages.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: Lily Pond Lane, complainant can hear loud explosion in area.

TRESPASSING: LeClerc Rd. S. SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: Powwow Park, report that boat was broken into.

HARASSMENT: Deer Valley Lane, known subject continues to drive by residence.

domestic violence.

SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE: Smokehouse Lane, suspicious vehicle driving in the area.

ARREST: Jeremy James Scheller, 40, of Usk was arrested on a warrant.

ARREST: Shelley Marie Gardner, 47, of Post Falls was arrested on a warrant.

WARRANT: Christopher W. Islitzer, 45, of Coeur d’Alene was arrested on a warrant.

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 20 DRUGS: S. Newport Ave., report of drugs in motor home.

SUSPICIOUC VEHICLE: Veit Rd., report of damaged vehicle parked in area all day.

ARREST: S. Garden Ave., Newport, Michael S. Deverna, 48, of Newport was arrested on a warrant.

TRESPASSING: S. Newport Ave., report of subjects drinking on railroad property.

DRUGS: S. Garden Ave., Newport, report of inmate with drugs.

COURT COMMITMENT: S. Garden Ave., Newport, Thomas Carlyle Mccaffrey, 20, of Newport was arrested for a probation violation.

ACCIDENT: Calispell, report of two-vehicle accident.

ARREST: Hwy. 2, John Eric Landgren, 49, of Spokane was arrested for driving under the influence.

ARREST: Southshore Diamond Lake, Randy Edward Kinney, Jr., 34, of Newport, was arrested for driving under the influence.

THEFT: N. Washington Ave., Newport, report of wallet stolen from parking lot.

THURSDAY, AUG. 21

ARREST: Hwy. 2, Richard D. Smith, 28, of Newport was arrested on a warrant.

MALICIOUS MISCHIEF: N. Washington Ave., Newport, reported damage to windows.

AGENCY ASSIST: Oldtown, agency assist with Bonner County.

MALICIOUS MISCHIEF: W. Pine St., Newport, complainant states someone is keying her vehicle.

VEHICLE THEFT: Hwy. 31, report of Chevy pickup missing from driveway this morning.

VIOLATION OF PROTECTION ORDER: Northshore Diamond Lake, reported violation of order.

ACCIDENT: Westside Calispel, report of Honda Civic no one around partially blocking.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: Gun Club Rd., suspicious vehicle.

ARREST: Nicholson Rd., Tony A. Lambert, 41, of Oldtown was arrested for driving with a suspended license.

TRESPASSING: Hwy. 2, report of transient and dog sleeping behind building.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: Western Larch Rd., report of two males driving around looking at houses claimed to be with PUD but they are not.

ACCIDENT: Hwy. 2, report of multiple vehicle accident unknown injuries.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: Allen Rd., report of items moved to back door; looks like may have been getting ready to take later.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: Hwy. 20, report of outside light bulb unscrewed.

AGENCY ASSIST: Flowery Trail Rd., deputy assist in locating a runaway/missing juvenile.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: W. Walnut St., complainant believes he has photos of a female he believes was prostituting herself.

ARREST: W. 1st, Bobby J. Ross, 25, of Priest River was arrested for driving with a suspended license.

ARREST: W. 7th St., Shane Michael Hart, 27, of Spokane was arrested for driving with a suspended license.

ERRATIC DRIVER: Hwy. 2, report of swerving Volvo station wagon.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: Lehigh Hill Rd., citizen reported male being out in the woods.

THEFT: W. Walnut St., Newport, report that female walked out with a cart of groceries.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: Little Diamond Lake, report of verbal

ERRATIC DRIVER: Hwy. 2, report that vehicle passed complainant, and then slammed on the brakes.

ANIMAL PROBLEM: Terrace Ave., report of female yellow Lab contained for pick up.

TUESDAY, AUG. 19

ILLEGAL BURNING: Sullivan Creek Rd.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: N. Shore Diamond Lake, report of elderly female in middle of roadway.

ARREST: Blackwell St., Wyatt W. Walker, 19, of Ione was arrested for driving with a suspended license.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VERBAL: N. Washington Ave., Newport, report of male and female yelling in the street.

MALICIOUS MISCHIEF: Deer Valley Rd., multiple reports of mailboxes damaged.

FRIDAY, AUG. 22 TRESPASSING: Fertile Valley Rd., report of subjects on property cutting wood.

MALICIOUS MISCHIEF: Veit Rd., report that someone tore items off complainant’s fence.

THEFT: Beaver Valley Rd., report of prescriptions stolen from mailbox.

MALICIOUS MISCHIEF: Sunrise Hill Lane, report of mailboxes damaged.

36, of Newport was arrested for second degree criminal trespass and making a false statement to an officer.

ARREST: S. Newport Ave., Bruce A. Lauzon, 43, of Newport was arrested on a warrant.

ARREST: Dale Durfee Tucker,

TRESPASSING: Lenora Drive MALICIOUS MISCHIEF: N. Shore Diamond Lake, report that cable wire has been cut.

ILLEGAL BURNING: Lehigh Hill Rd., report of subjects burning garbage in area.

WEAPON OFFENSE: Sullivan Lake Rd., report of gunshots in area.

DISTURBANCE: W. 7th St., report of male and female yelling.

SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE: Monumental Way, report of suspicious vehicle driving through the area with no lights on.

ERRATIC DRIVER: Hwy. 2, report of vehicle all over the roadway.

THEFT: W., 6th, report of male attempting to steal a tire.

SATURDAY, AUG. 23 SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: Pioneer Park, report that vehicle broke through gate.

ACCIDENT: Hwy. 31, report of ATV accident on railroad tracks, driver breathing, conscious, hurt back .

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VERBAL: Gray Rd., report of DV Verbal between parents and child.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: Hwy. 20, report of 54-year-old male assaulted, bitten.

AGENCY ASSISTL HWY. 2, AGENCY ASSIST ON PROTECTION ORDER VIOLATION. MALICISIOUS MISCHIEF: Riverbend Loop, report that mailbox was hit by vehicle.

TRESPASSING: W. Walnut St., Newport, report that subjects previously trespassed are back.

RECOVERED VEHICLE: S. Cass Ave., stolen vehicle at this location.

ARREST: S. Washington Ave., Newport, Jordan M. Dalziel, 24, of Newport was arrested on a warrant.

ILLEGAL BURNING: Flowery Trail Rd., DNR reported smoke.

JUVENILE PROBLEM: Gray Rd., mother reports she just realized daughter is gone.

ARREST: Hwy. 2, Noah D. Wellington, 25, of Spokane was arrested for driving under the influence.

ERRATIC DRIVER: Henry Rd., report of 4 wheeler going up and down road.

SUSPICIOUS PERSON: W. 3rd St. report that subject pulled gun on respondent’s friend in parking lot.

ILLEGAL BURNING: River Rd.,

report of subjects burning in their back yard.

ACCIDENT: N. Spokane Ave., Newport, report that pickup backed into building.

ARREST: Joseph Allen Van Duyne Pagano, 21, was arrested on a Department of Corrections detainer.

ARRREST: Deanna Lee Frederick, 41, of Deer Park was arrested for driving under the influence and possession of a controlled substance.

ARREST: Amanda Nicole Kasper, 30, of Spokane was arrested for criminal trespass.

SUNDAY, AUG. 24 TRAFFIC OFFENSE: S. Shore Diamond Lake, report of vehicles partially blocking roadway.

MISSING PERSON: Skookum Meadow Drive, report of missing child.

LITTERING: Pow Wow Park, report of illegal dumping.

FIRE SMOKE ONLY: Flowery Trail Rd., report of smoke in area.

POSSIBLE DUI: Hwy. 2, report of vehicle pulling trailer swerving all over roadway.

TRESPASSING: Gray Rd., report of children on ATV in back yard.

JUVENILE PROBLEM: N. Newport Ave., report of juveniles loitering in parking lot and stealing soda from business.

ARREST: Hwy. 2, Daria M. Medina, 38, of Spokane was arrested for driving with a suspended license and Sampson Edward Shove, 34, of Spokane was arrested for driving with a suspended license.

ILLEGAL BURING: S. Shore Diamond Lake, report of illegal burning in area.

ASSAULT: W. 7th St. FOUND PROPERTY: W. 1st St., report of wallet found in area.

WEST BONNER COUNTY

MONDAY, AUG. 18 FRAUD: Hwy. 57, Priest Lake

TUESDAY, AUG. 19 SEARCH WARRANT: S. State Ave., Oldtown THREATENING: Peninsula Rd., Priest River

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 20 NO REPORTABLE INCIDENTS.

THURSDAY, AUG. 21 NO REPORTABLE INCIDENTS.

FRIDAY, AUG. 22 RECKLESS DRIVING: Hwy. 2, Priest River ARREST: Hwy. 41, Oldtown, Charles Weber, 47, of Oldtown was arrested on an outstanding felony warrant.

SATURDAY, AUG. 23 ACCIDENT: Hwy. 57, Priest Lake, report of an injury ATV crash in the Priest Lake area.

SUNDAY, AUG. 24 MARINE INCIDENT: Bartoo Island Shore, Priest Lake, a marine deputy assisted a boater on Priest Lake.

BATTERY: Old Priest River Rd., Priest River, report of a battery.

SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES: Old Priest River Rd., Priest River.

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TRI-COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT: 11 a.m. - TEDD Conference Room, 986 S. Main, Suite A, Colville

PRIEST RIVER CITY COUNCIL: 6 p.m. - Priest River City Hall

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

THURSDAY, AUGUST 28 PUBLIC HOSPITAL DISTRICT NO. 1 BOARD: 4 p.m. - Sandifur Meeting Room, Newport Hospital PEND OREILLE COUNTY LIBRARY DISTRICT BOARD: 5 p.m. - PUD Conference Room, Newport PRIEST RIVER AIRPORT BOARD: 6:30 p.m. - Priest River City Hall

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 PEND OREILLE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS: 9 a.m. - Pend Oreille County Courthouse LENORA WATER AND SEWER DISTRICT: 10 a.m. - Skookum

NEWPORT CITY COUNCIL: 6 p.m. - Newport City Hall BONNER COUNTY FAIR BOARD: 6 p.m. - Fairgrounds Office in Sandpoint BLANCHARD TEA PARTY: 6:30 p.m. - Blanchard Community Center PROPERTY RIGHTS COUNCIL: 6:30 p.m. - Bonner County Administration Building, Sandpoint

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 BONNER COUNTY COMMISSIONERS: 8:45 a.m. - Bonner County Administrative Building PEND OREILLE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS: 9 a.m. Pend Oreille County Court-

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BONNER COUNTY SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT: 1:30 p.m. - USDA Office, 1224 Washington Ave., Ste. 101

WEST PEND OREILLE FIRE DISTRICT: 6:30 p.m. - Fire Hall on Highway 57 PEND OREILLE FIRE DISTRICT NO. 5: 7 p.m. - Fire Station 51, 406722 Highway 20, Cusick PEND OREILLE COUNTY FAIR BOARD: 7 p.m. - Fairgrounds at Cusick

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HEAD START LEAD TEACHER (NEWPORT) Rural Resources Community Action is currently accepting applications for a Lead Teacher - Level 2 or 3 in our Newport Head Start classroom. Full-time school year, exempt; $1,702-$2,006/month plus benefits; DOE. Position is required to plan, organize and conduct activities in a Head Start preschool classroom. Valid driver’s license & criminal history check required. For application and complete position description, contact WorkSource at 956 South Main Street, Suite A, Colville, WA 99114 or 509-685-6158. This position is open until filled.

Rural Resources is an AA/EOE employer.

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PET GROOMER New salon opening soon in Priest River.

Full time, experienced, certified. Cat grooming a plus. Send cover letter and resume to Pawsitively Posh Pet Salon, Post Office Box 472, Priest River, Idaho 83856.(28-3p) OPEN COOK POSITION Camp Spalding, a Christian camp on Davis Lake. Commercial food service experience necessary. Part time. Call Ruth at (509) 447-4388, extension 42.

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Real Estate Wanted Mobile/Mfg. Homes Commercial Property Misc. Wanted Boats & Motors Cars & Trucks Motorcycles Recreational Vehicles Machinery, Tractors Logging Timber Farm & Ranch Animals for Sale Notices

2 JOB OPENINGS Part time/ full time cashier positions. Apply at Usk General Store.

(509) 445-1294.(30-3) NEWPORT Adult Family Home needs part time 12 hour night shift. (509) 447-0139. (30-3p) WEST BONNER SCHOOL DISTRICT Number 83. Substitute teachers, custodial and bus drivers needed.

Application available at www.sd83.org.(30-3)

21ST Century Community Learning 7-12 SITE COORDINATOR The Newport School District is accepting applications for the above positions. Additional information and applications may be obtained by calling the Newport School District at (509) 447-3167 or at www.newport.wednet.edu.

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BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE AND MEDICAL CLINIC

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Okanogan Behavioral HealthCare is currently accepting applications for a Chemical Dependency Professional. Duties may include providing group and individual counseling sessions, assessments and referrals. Qualified applicant must have knowledge of ASAM criteria, WAC and RCW regulations and a minimum 1 year experience working directly with chemically dependent individuals.

Candidate must also possess current Chemical Dependency Professional license through the State of Washington and a current driver’s license. Bi-Lingual English/Spanish preferred.

Salary DOE. Send cover letter and resume’ to: Okanogan Behavioral HealthCare – ATTN: Jessica Blake -1007 Koala Dr. – Omak, WA 98841 or inquire by email at jblake@okbhc. org. OBHC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Newport School District ELEMENTARY SCHOOL COUNSELOR The Newport School District is accepting applications for the Elementary School Counseling position. Additional information and applications may be obtained by calling the Newport School District at (509) 447-3167 or by visiting our website at www.newport.wednet.edu.

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CIVIL DEPUTY (Clerical Position) - Applications being accepted until September 16, 2014 at 4:00 p.m. to establish an eligibility list for Civil Deputy in Pend Oreille County Sheriff’s Office. Keyboarding test (30 words per minute minimum) and written exam on September 17, 2014.

Civil Service application required. Application, exam announcement and job description available at: www.pendoreilleco.org or Civil Service, 625 West 4th, Post Office Box 5060, Newport, Washington 99156; phone: (509) 447-2712.(30-3) Miner want ads work.

PARENT CHILD EDUCATOR Child & Family Outreach Program Eastern anticipates openings for one or more Parent Child Educators in its Child & Family Outreach Program. These positions work in partnership with parents to provide comprehensive Early Head Start services in a home-based program option for pregnant women, infants and toddlers. Ninety-minute home visits are scheduled on a weekly basis, year round. Caseloads per PCE include 8 to 12 infants, toddlers and pregnant women.

While PCEs are the primary service provider for the home-based EHS program option, they work collaboratively with parents, other EHS staff, volunteers, community partners and other providers plan and implement the full range of EHS services.

Candidates for this position must have knowledge and experience in: • Child development and early childhood education; • Principles of child health, safety, and nutrition; • Adult learning principles; and • Family dynamics.

Additionally, they must be skilled in communicating and motivating people, and must have knowledge of community resources and the skills to link families with appropriate agencies and services.

Don’t Delay! Screening for this position will begin September 8th. Complete information about the position is available on our website listed below. Apply through our online jobs portal located here: https://jobs.hr.ewu.edu Position is listed under Administrative jobs. Application instructions are available through the portal.

Eastern Washington University is committed to increasing the diversity of its faculty, staff, students and academic program offerings and to strengthening sensitivity to diversity throughout the institution. We are an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer, and applications from members of historically underrepresented groups are especially encouraged.

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MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES AGENCY seeking independent individuals with a desire to impact our community. Community Based Rehabilitation Specialists work with clients in their homes and communities to build various coping skills.

Clinical supervision, training, and continuing education units provided. Applicants must have a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degree. Part time and full time positions available in Priest River/ Oldtown area.

Hourly wage is based on experience (generally $15 to $16 an hour); good benefits including mileage reimbursement, health insurance, paid time off (full time), and 401k. Complete online application at www.sequelemployment.com (27-4) CARETAKER Pend Oreille County Fair, Cusick, Washington will be contracting the position of Caretaker to begin on/ about October 1, 2014. Contractor is responsible for security, landscaping, light maintenance, cleanup during and after fair, plus other duties outlined in the caretakers agreement.

Caretaker must live in provided residence on fairgrounds, paid $500 per month. Must possess valid Washington drivers license with clean record. Apply with letter of interest and resume by August 31, 2014: 1382 Ashenfelter Bay Road, Newport, Washington 99156.(28-3) Place your classified or display ad with The Miner and it will appear in both newspapers - The Newport Miner (Pend Oreille County) and The Gem State Miner (West Bonner County).

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HEALTH CLINICS Kaniksu Health Services Priest River Medical Clinic

Family Practice, Minor Emergencies Behavioral Health Mon. & Wed., 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Tue. & Thu., 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

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MASSAGE THERAPY Harmony Healing Arts Center Gloria Campbell -- 448-2623 47 10th -- Priest River

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

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

OPTOMETRIST Newport Vision Source

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PHYSICAL THERAPY Priest River Rehab Services

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

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THE MINER

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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.

2014284 PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF REQUEST FOR SMALL WORKS ROSTER PROPOSALS The Pend Oreille County Road Department is accepting proposals for maintenance sand production and stockpiling.

The Department is seeking proposals for approximately 7,000 yards truck measure of maintenance sand to be produced at a commercial source of materials within a radius of fifteen (15) miles of the Cusick Maintenance Shop. Hauling will be the responsibility of Pend Oreille County Road Department.

Please submit proposals to the Pend Oreille County Road Department Office at 625 W 4th St, P.O. Box 5040, Newport, WA 99156.

For further information please call (509) 447-4513.

Proposals are due at the above address no later than September 8, 2014 at 9:00 A.M. Published in The Newport Miner August 20 and 27, 2014. (29-2)

______________ 2014285 PUBLIC NOTICE Notice of Road Closure Best Chance Road at Skookum Creek near the five mile marker will be closed for bridge replacement starting August 18th, 2014 for three weeks. Please contact the Public Works Department for more information at 509-447-4513.

PUBLISHER’S NOTICE: All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or an intention, to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.”

Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18.

The newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising or real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination call HUD toll-free at 1-800669-9777. The toll-free telephone number for the hearing impaired is 1-800927-9275. (31tf)

Published in The Newport Miner August 20 and 27, 2014. (29-2)

______________ 2014286 PUBLIC NOTICE IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF PEND OREILLE Cause No.: 13-200136-1 SHERIFF’S NOTICE OF SALE WRIT OF EXECUTION ON REAL PROPERTY BY FORECLOSURE ISSUED: 08/11/14 STEWART PORTER, an individual dealing In his separate property Plaintiff, vs.

TODD and CARO LY N G U T H R I E , husband and wife; COUNTRY HARDWARE STORE, INC., a corporation organized in the State of Washington; STATE OF WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICES DIVISION OF CHILD SUPPORT, an arm of Washington State government; TOWN OF IONE, a government municipal corporation; and other unknown JOHN DOES ONE through TEN and JANE DOES ONE through TEN Defendant(s).

TO: TODD and CAROLYN GUTHRIE, husband and wife; COUNTRY HARDWARE STORE, INC., a corporation organized in the State of Washington; STATE OF WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICES DIVISION OF CHILD SUPPORT, an arm of Washington State government; TOWN OF IONE, a government municipal corporation; and other unknown JOHN DOES ONE through TEN and JANE DOES ONE through TEN; occupants of the premises; and any persons or parties claiming to have any right, title, estate, lien or interest in the real property described in the complaint; The Superior Court of Pend Oreille County has directed the undersigned Sheriff of Pend Oreille County to sell the property described below to satisfy a judgment in the above-entitled action. The property to be sold is described as: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: That portion of Government Lot 4, Section 6, Township 37 North, Range 43 E.W.M., described as follows: Commencing at Corner No. 1 and the TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING of the property, which is 347.9 feet South and 334.5 feet east of the Northwest

BLANKET WASHINGTON

corner of said Lot 4, running thence South 27 degrees East 49.1 feet; thence South 24 degrees East 98.4 feet: thence South 12 feet; thence East 63 feet; thence North 28 feet; thence East 23 feet; thence North 19 degrees East 89.5 feet; thence North 60 degrees 124.5 feet; thence North 60 degrees West 192.3 feet; thence South 37 degrees 30’ West 102.3 feet; thence South 52 degrees 71.0 feet to the TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING, known as Tax 43C and 39B on the County Assessor’s Tax Rolls.

More commonly known as 110 S. 10th Ave., Ione, Washington 99139 The sale of the above-described property is to take place: Time: 10:00 a.m.

Date: Friday, September 26, 2014 Place: Pend Oreille County Hall of Justice; Front Door, East Entrance 229 S. Garden Avenue Newport, WA 99156 The judgment debtor can avoid the sale by paying the judgment amount of $38,954.39, together with interest, costs, and fees, before the sale date. For the exact amount, contact the Pend Oreille County Sheriff’s Office.

DATED this 14th day of August, 2014 A L A N A .

BOTZHEIM, SHERIFF PEND OREILLE COUNTY, WASHINGTON by: DeLana Lacy, Civil Deputy Published in The Newport Miner August 20, 27, September 3 and 10, 2014. (29-4)

_____________ 2014289 PUBLIC NOTICE PEND OREILLE COUNTY REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS STATE-INSURED L&I THIRD PARTY ADMINISTRATOR NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed proposals will be received by the Risk Management Department located in the Old Courthouse, 625 W. 4th Street, Newport, WA 99156 for the following: THIRD PARTY ADMINISTRATION SERVICES TO MANAGE THE COUNTY’S S TAT E - I N S U R E D WORKER’S COMPENSATION PROGRAM UNTIL: September 24, 2014 at 4:00 pm At which time and place they will be opened and the names of the proposers identified. Late submittals will not be accepted.

Pend Oreille County Risk Management is seeking proposals from qualified firms who are interested in providing third party administration services to manage the County’s state-insured workers’ compensation program. From the proposals submitted, the County intends to select a provider to commence services December 16, 2014.

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Further information is contained in the RFP document, which may be obtained from our website www.pendoreilleco.org or by calling 509-447-4513.

Pend Oreille County reserves the right to reject any or all proposals, and to waive any irregularities.

Published in The Newport Miner August 27, and September 3, 2014. (30-2)

_____________ 2014290 PUBLIC NOTICE REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL FIRE RETARDANT CLOTHING SUPPLIER Pend Oreille Public Utility District The Public Utility District No. 1 of Pend Oreille County (the District), is requesting proposals for the supply of fire retardant clothing for electrical (distribution and hydroelectric) workers, in accordance with OSHA/WISHA requirements. Supplier proposals will be evaluated on price, quality, brand selection, sizes, color, customer service, guarantee, durability, return policy, shipping costs, employee purchase discounts, and care requirements.

The successful supplier will enter into a 5-year contract with the District. Fire retardant clothing will be provided under this contract for approximately 38 District employees. Interested parties may obtain a complete scope of procurement by contacting the District’s Contract Administrator at (509) 447-9345.

All proposals must be received no later than 2:30 p.m., September 10, 2014.

Please send proposals to: Pend Oreille County Public Utility District P.O. Box 190 130 N. Washington Newport, WA 99156 ATTN: Contracts Administrator Women’s, minority, and small business enterprises are encouraged to apply.

Published in The Newport Miner August 27, 2014. (30)

_____________ 2014291 PUBLIC NOTICE SUPERIOR COURT, STATE OF WASHINGTON, COUNTY OF SPOKANE Case No.: 14-400755-0 NOTICE TO CREDITORS (RCW 11.40.010) In The Matter of the Estate of ELIZABETH A. HARKINSON, Deceased.

The Administrator named below has been appointed as Administrator of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Administrator or the Administrator’s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the court in which the probate proceedings were commenced.

The claim must be

AUGUST 27, 2014 |

presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the Administrator served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1) (c); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate and non-probate assets.

Date publication: August 27, 2014 Dated this 20 day of August, 2014. /s/ JAMES P. SPURGETIS Administrator: JAMES P. SPURGETIS Address for Mailing or Service: 601 W. Main, Ste. 820, SPOKANE WA 99201 Published in The Newport Miner August 27, September 3, and 10, 2014. (30-3)

_____________ 2014292 PUBLIC NOTIC REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS PEND OREILLE COUNTY PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT 2014 ROAD SALT Proposals will be received by the County of Pend Oreille Public Works Office, located in the Pend Oreille County Courthouse at 625 West Fourth Street, Newpor t, Washington 99156 or P.O. Box 5040, Newport, Washington 99156, for furnishing ROAD SALT to the Pend Oreille County Road Department in the estimated quantity of 270 tons of 3% moisture or less, Type 2, Grade 2 ASTM-D 632-84. Price quoted shall be per ton, delivered using hopper or end dump trucks, as follows: 90 tons delivered to 9302 Deer Valley Road, Newport, WA 99156 90 tons delivered to 13571 Highway 211, Usk, WA 99119 90 tons delivered to 161 Sullivan Lake Road, Ione, WA 99139 Salt shall be delivered to these County Maintenance Shops, Monday through Thursday, 6:00am to 4:30pm on or before October 2, 2014.

Proposals will be due no later than 9:00 AM Monday, September 8th, 2014.

Proposals are to be submitted by Email, Fax or envelope as follows: E-MAIL – Don Ramsey, dramsey@ pendoreille.org and Teresa Brooks, tbrooks@pendoreille. org with “Proposal for ROAD SALT” in the subject line Fax - (509) 4475890 with “Proposal for ROAD SALT” in the subject line Mail – Public Works Department, P.O. Box 5040, Newport, WA 99156 with “Proposal for ROAD SALT” on the envelope Hand delivered Public Works Department, 625 West Fourth Street, Newport, WA 99156 with “Proposal for ROAD SALT” on the envelope.

Information concerning submission of proposals is available from the Pend Oreille County Public Works Department at 625 W.

4th Street in Newport, Washington, 99156 or by phone at (509) 447-4513.

Bids will be evaluated on total cost of road salt delivered to all three locations.

Pend Oreille County reserves the right to reject any or all bids, to waive any informality in the bids and to accept such bid or bids as may deemed in the best interest of Pend Oreille County.

Published in the Newport Miner August 27, & Sept 3, 2014.

Published in The Newport Miner August 27 and September 3, 2014. (30-2)

______________ 2014293 PUBLIC NOTICE SUPERIOR COURT PEND OREILLE COUNTY, WA IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF PEND OREILLE No. 14-2-00133-5 SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR JUDGMENT FORECLOSING TAX LIENS PEND OREILLE COUNTY, a Municipal Corporation of the State of Washington, Plaintiff, vs.

NANCY ROSCOE, TRUSTEE FOR THE BENEFIT OF SHAWN J. MCELROY AND MATTHEW D. MCELROY; AKA NANCY ROSCO, TRUSTEE FOR THE BENEFIT OF SHAWN J. MCELROY AND MATTHEW D. MCELROY; SHAWN MCELROY, AKA SHAWN SEIDEL; MATTHEW D. MCELROY; WENDY C. WOODARD AND KELLY C. JOHNSON, PRESUMPTIVELY SUBJECT TO THE COMMUNITY INTEREST OF THEIR SPOUSES, IF MARRIED Defendants.

YOU AND EACH OF YOU, and all other persons or parties unknown, claiming any right, title, estate, lien or interest in or to the real property described in this notice and summons of foreclosure of tax liens, are hereby notified that PEND OREILLE COUNTY a duly organized and existing county of the State of Washington, is the owner and holder of Certificate of Delinquency No. 80 dated the 21st day of August, 2014. That said Certificate was issued to Pend Oreille County on that date by the Treasurer of Pend Oreille County, pursuant to law, for real property taxes and interest due, unpaid and delinquent for three or more years for which no certificate of delinquency has previously been issued, that the description of the several lots, tracts and parcels of real property included and described in said Certificate of Delinquency; the names of the several reputed owners as they appear on the tax roll of the Pend Oreille County Treasurer; and the amount of 2010 through 2014 delinquent taxes on said lots, tracts and parcels of said real property, including interest thereon at 12% per annum and penalty at 11% per annum on the balance of unpaid taxes,

computed to the 31st day of August, 2014, the years for which the same are due and unpaid, appear and are set forth and described in said Certificate of Delinquency.

(See this Certificate on file and the publication to follow hereafter).

YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED that the plaintiff, PEND OREILLE COUNTY, will apply to the Superior Court of the State of Washington in and for the County of Pend Oreille for Judgment foreclosing its lien for taxes against the lots, parcels and tracts of real property in this notice and summons hereinafter described, and you and each of you, are summoned to appear in the above-entitled court within thirty (30) days after the date of the first publication of this summons, exclusive of the date of the first publication of this summons, which day of said first publication will be the 27th day of August, 2014, and defend this action or pay the amount due, plus allowable costs. In case of your failure to do so, judgment will be rendered in this action foreclosing the lien of such taxes, and interest against the several amounts shown to be due against each of said lots, parcels and tracts, as described in the Certificate of Delinquency No. 80, filed herein, plus allowable costs. You may redeem your property by payment of delinquent taxes, interest, penalty and costs; however, there is no right of redemption after the close of business on the day before the sale date, according to RCW 84.64.070.

The property is all located in Pend Oreille County, Washington, and is described in said certificate and on the tax rolls, as follows: PID #10331/Parcel #443035520001.

Wendy C. Woodard and Kelly C. Johnson.

Legal Description: The Northwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter of Section 35, Township 30 North, Range 44 E.W.M., Pend Oreille County, Washington, EXCEPT railroad right-of-way.

Approximate property location: 1612 Willms Rd. Elk, WA. 99009. Certificate Total: $5,512.40.

PID #13958/Parcel #443518060001. Nancy Rosco, Trustee for the benefit of Shawn J. McElroy and Matthew D. McElroy. Legal Description: Government Lots 6 and 7 in Section 18, Township 35 North, Range 44 E.W.M., Pend Oreille County, Washington, excepting therefrom roads and railroad, and except any portion lying in Birchwood Homes, formerly known as Tax 1, and except the following: all that portion of Government Lot 7 lying northerly of the northerly boundary of Lot 1 of the platted area of Birchwood Homes near Ruby, Washington, to a line drawn at right angles from the center line of Primary State Highway 6, Ruby to Blueslide, and extending from Highway Engineer’s Station 872+00, which equation equals Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Station 3053+32, easterly to the Easterly boundary line of Government Lot 7, Section

9B

18, Township 35 North, Range 44 EWM., Pend Oreille County, Washington, except that part of Government Lot 7 platted as Birchwood Homes. Carried on the County Assessor’s Tax Rolls as Tax 2.

Approximate property location: 403077 Highway 20, Cusick, WA 99119. Certificate Total: $1,361.98.

Delinquent taxes are for the years 2010 through 2014 with costs, interest and penalty to August 31, 2014, plus costs, interest and penalty to date of payment.

All pleadings and process in this action and proceedings may be served upon Thomas A. Metzger, Pend Oreille County Prosecuting Attorney, at this office in the Pend Oreille County Hall of Justice Building, P.O. Box 5070, Newport, Washington 99156-5070.

Dated at Newport, Washington, this 21st day of August, 2014.

PEND OREILLE COUNTY, a duly organized existing county of the State of Washington, Plaintiff /s/Terri Miller TERRI MILLER Pend Oreille County Treasurer /s/Thomas A. Metzger THOMAS A. METZGER WSBA #9487 Prosecuting Attorney and Attorney for Plaintiff PO Box 5070, Newport, WA 99156-5070 (509) 447-4414 SUPERIOR COURT PEND OREILLE COUNTY, WA IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF PEND OREILLE No. 14-2-00133-5 A F F I D AV I T O F TREASURER PEND OREILLE COUNTY, a Municipal Corporation of the State of Washington, Plaintiff vs.

NANCY ROSCOE, TRUSTEE FOR THE BENEFIT OF SHAWN J. MCELROY AND MATTHEW D. MCELROY; AKA NANCY ROSCO, TRUSTEE FOR THE BENEFIT OF SHAWN J. MCELROY AND MATTHEW D. MCELROY; SHAWN MCELROY, AKA SHAWN SEIDEL; MATTHEW D. MCELROY; WENDY C. WOODARD AND KELLY C. JOHNSON, PRESUMPTIVELY SUBJECT TO THE COMMUNITY INTEREST OF THEIR SPOUSES, IF MARRIED Defendants.

STATE OF WASHINGTON County of Pend Oreille TERRI MILLER, being first duly sworn, on oath, deposes and says: THAT she is the duly elected, qualified and acting Treasurer of Pend Oreille County, State of Washington, and as such Treasurer is Ex-Officio collector of taxes in and for the County of Pend Oreille, State of Washington, whose duty it is to enforce the collection of taxes and assessments, that to the best of her knowledge and belief, none of the property tax, nor any part of parcel thereof, as described in the Notice and Summons in Foreclosure in the above entitled action CONTINUED ON 10B

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Livestock - Sheep $8 Mountain West Bank Youth Award for Best Lamb - Under One Year - Ashley Hanson - Sponsor: Mountain West Bank Top Sheep in the Barn - Amy Reijonen - Sponsor: Maupin’s Logging Daily Rate of Gain - Sheep - Gavin Hanson - Sponsor: Pend Oreille County Fair Board Top Market Lamb - Jason Biss Memorial Trophy - Ashley Hanson - Sponsor: Reserve Market Lamb - Nathan Allen Sheep PeeWee Fitting and Showing Champion - Jocee Driver/Cade Koesel/Anaya Wilson - Sponsor: Lonny & Pam Clifner Sheep Junior Fitting and Showing Champion - Alianna Koesel - Sponsor: Lonny & Pam Clifner Sheep Reserve Champion Junior Fitting and Showing - Gavin Hanson Sheep Intermediate Fitting and Showing Champion - Amy Reijonen - Sponsor: 5 B Farms Sheep Reserve Champion Intermediate Fitting and Showing Dallin Miller Sheep Champion Senior Fitting and Showing - Ashley Hanson -

Sponsor: Emily Bierce Sheep Reserve Champion Senior Fitting and Showing - Ethan Sugimura Overall Top Sheep Showmanship Award - Ashley Hanson - Sponsor: Mary’s Feed & Farm Sheep Club Herdsmanship Grassroots 4-H - Sponsor: Maupin’s Logging Sheep Individual Herdsmanship - Sadie Ainsworth - Sponsor: Maupin’s Logging Superintendent’s Choice - Sheep Julianna Trepanier

Livestock - Swine Grand Champion EXCLUDING Department C Market Animals - Swine - 50 extra premium points awarded - Amy Reijonen $8 Mountain West Bank Youth Award for Best of Show Non-Market Hog - Jaxson Walrath - Sponsor: Mountain West Bank Reserve for Best of Show NonMarket Hog - Jessica Hankey - Sponsor: Lisa Linnemeyer Superintendent’s Choice for Barn Herdsman Helper - Coby Percival Sponsor: Bill Betz Runner Up Superintendent’s Choice for Barn Herdsman Helper - Ashton Hall-Martinez - Sponsor: Bill Betz

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and on many committees. She was the organizer of the Grand Parade for the town’s summer festival, sponsored by the chamber, for many years and led the drive to change the name from the Idaho Huckleberry Festival to Priest River Timber Days in 1993. She received the Chamber’s President’s Award in 1995.

Other activities for the Chamber of Commerce included Christmas on Main Street for the community’s children, which Mrs. Mercer founded in 1989. She purchased toys that were given away at the event every year. She was instrumental as well in organizing a welcome reception when Idaho’s White House Christmas Tree came through town.

In the mid-1990s, the Keysers, descendants of Priest River’s first pioneer family, donated the family farmhouse east of town for use as a historical museum and chamber of commerce office on the condition it be moved from its original site. The chamber borrowed money from the bank for the move, with Mrs. Mercer an integral part of that effort. She headed up the team which restored

CONTINUED FROM 9B fell due during any named defendant’s period of military service for the United States; that each and every assessment being now foreclosed and enforced fell due in the years 2010-2014 A.D., that no Defendant named herein and no person in his behalf has filed with affiant an Affidavit as to military service or requiring or requesting the stay of any tax foreclosure proceedings or of any sale of property for taxes on assessments. /s/Terri Miller Terri Miller, Treasurer Pend Oreille County Affidavit of Treasurer NO.80 Published in The Newport Miner August 27, 2014. (30)

______________ 2014294 PUBLIC NOTICE SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF PEND OREILLE In the Estate of Ronald J. Persyn, Deceased, Case No. 14-4-00031-0 PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS (RCW

Swine Junior Fitting and Showing Champion - Madeline Waterman Sponsor: John & Lindsey Newman Swine Reserve Champion Junior Fitting and Showing - Nathan Allen - Sponsor: Loretta & Jimmy Reed Swine Intermediate Fitting and Showing Champion - Amy Reijonen - Sponsor: MacArthur Land & Timber Swine Reserve Champion Intermediate Fitting and Showing - Taylor Allen - Sponsor: Loretta & Jimmy Reed Swine Senior Fitting and Showing Champion - Ashley Hanson - Sponsor: Ponderay Newsprint Company Swine Reserve Champion Senior Fitting and Showing - Emily Denham - Sponsor: Loretta & Jimmy Reed Overall Swine Fitting and Showing Champion - Amy Reijonen Sponsor: Sandy & Billy Haney Swine Reserve Champion OverAll Fitting and Showing - Ashley Hanson - Sponsor: Toni Williams Swine Club Herdsmanship Sundance Kids 4-H - Sponsor: RTI Pend Oreille Swine Individual Herdsmanship - Jessica Hankey - Sponsor: Bill & Kathy Zenkert Best of Show Gilt - Swine - Ashley Dana - Sponsor: Pam & Marc Scherf Reserve Best of Show Gilt - Swine

the badly dilapidated 1894 frame dwelling, solicited donations from the local timber industry, and also provided some of the museum’s furnishings. She organized the first museum board of directors and served as its president for several years.

When a new board was reorganized in 2009, she led the effort, served as secretary for a time, and was still a museum board member when she died. Her fund-raising talents were phenomenal, friends said.

When DAW Forest Products at Oldtown donated the Diamond Match Company’s Priest River log drive boat, the bateau, to the museum, Mrs. Mercer was part of the effort that culminated in the boat’s move to town, where it sits beside the museum. She also was responsible for the planting of a spruce tree at the museum to be decorated annually as the town’s community Christmas tree. It is now recognized as the Hospice Tree of Memorial Light.

While she had had no prior experience with the timber industry before moving to Priest River, she developed an intense interest in it and became knowledgeable about both the industry and its history. At

11.40.030) The person named below has been appointed as Personal Representative of this Estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner provided

by RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Personal Representative or the Personal Representative’s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim; and filing the original of the claim with the Court. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the Personal Representative served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.040.020(1) (c); or (2) Four months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate and nonprobate assets.

Date of First Publication: August 27, 2014, Personal Rep-

resentative: Gileel I. Persyn Attorney for Personal Representative: Linda J. Mathis, 301 W. Spruce St, Suite B, Newport, WA 99156 LINDA J. MATHIS, Attorney for Estate, WSBA #16495 Published in The Newport Miner August 27, September 3, and 10, 2014. (30-3)

_____________ 2014295 PUBLIC NOTICE P e r R C W 39.10.440(5) Saybr Contractors Inc. is hereby providing notification of intent to perform City of Seattle Job Order Contract, Project #2014-043A. Scope of work: repairs, remodeling new construction of public bldgs & associated parking lot, walkways, landscaping & other site improvements.

Location: City of Seattle. Seeking sub bids from Small/Minority/Women/Disadvantaged/Veteran Business Enterprises EOE. Contact 253-531-2144 for more info.

Published in The Newport Miner August 27, 2014. (30)

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- Tanner Shanholtzer - Sponsor: Employees of Safeway Top Market Hog on the Hoof Amy Reijonen - Sponsor: Terry & Janice Linnemeyer Champion Hog Not for Sale Jaxson Walrath - Sponsor: Lisa Linnemeyer Best of Show Feeder Hog - Swine - Taylor Allen - Sponsor: John Sr. & Debbie Newman Reserve Champion Feeder Hog - Swine - Nathan Allen - Sponsor: Toni Williams Champion Barrow - Swine Colton Hansen - Sponsor: Toni Williams Reserve Champion Barrow Swine - Christian Miller - Sponsor: Toni Williams Superintendent’s Choice - Swine - Zechariah Curran - Sponsor: Tammy Newman Top Hog in the Barn - Swine Amy Reijonen - Sponsor: Winding River Ranch Overall Champion Market Swine Belt Buckle - Amy Reijonen - Sponsor: Jimmy & Loretta Reed Reserve Champion Market Swine - Jaxson Walrath - Sponsor: Toni Williams

Livestock - Beef Grand Champion EXCLUDING

her death, she was a board member of the Priest River Forest Connection group that was organized as the result of a salvage/thinning logging initiative approved by Congress in the Kaniksu Forest of the Idaho Panhandle Forests in recent years. The organization works on many forest economic development programs, one of which is a popular Forest Expo held on the Priest River Experimental Forest annually in May. The Expo brings all West Bonner County sixth graders to the Experiment Station for a day of forest-related activities. Mrs. Mercer manned the Experimental Forest history station until her illness sidelined her in 2013.

As she became deeply interested and involved in learning the community’s history, Mrs. Mercer joined her friend Marylyn Cork’s historic preservation efforts. The two accumulated some 2,000 historic images. Mrs. Mercer became the chairwoman of the Priest River Historic Preservation Commission, established by Marylyn, that makes recommendations to the city council when exterior changes are proposed to buildings in the city’s historic downtown core. They were awarded

2014296 PUBLIC NOTICE Pend Oreille County, Washington Proposed Limited Amendment to Shoreline Master Program and Revised Development Regulations Notice is hereby given that the Pend Oreille Public Utility District is proposing a Limited Amendment to the Pend Oreille County SMP and has proposed a revision to the County Development Regulations (Shoreline Chapter) in accordance with the provisions of the Washington State Shoreline Management and Growth Management Acts. The revisions would allow for the adaptive use of buildings on the State Historic Registry within any Shoreline Designation. An Environmental Checklist for this non-project action has been prepared in accordance with the provisions of the Washington State Environmental Policy Act. Copies of the proposed updated Shoreline Master Program, the revised Development Regulations, and the SEPA Checklist are available for review online at: http://www.pen doreilleco.org/county/limited_ammend-

Orchids for historic preservation by the Idaho Historic Preservation Council in the late 1990s.

The two also compiled a walking tour of the historic district, available at the museum, and collaborated in the publication of a picture book in 2005: “Priest River and Priest Lake Memories.” In 2012, enlisting Jeanne Tomlin of the Priest Lake Museum as co-author, they published a second picture book, “Priest River and Priest Lake: Kaniksu Country.” All proceeds from sale of the first book went to the Priest River Museum, while those from the second book benefited the two museums.

Mrs. Mercer’s crowning triumph may have come in serving as local coordinator for the Smithsonian traveling exhibit, “The Way We Worked,” which arrived in Priest River’s Beardmore Block in 2011 with financial and technical assistance from Brian Runberg, whose great-grandfather, Charles Beardmore, built the historic building in 1922. The exhibit drew more than twice the population of the city over the course of six weeks. Mrs. Mercer loved hearing the comments from some of the surprised visitors, to the

ment_to_smp.asp and at the County Department of Community Development located in the lower level of the Pend Oreille County Courthouse, 625 W. 4th, Newport, WA 99156, between the hours of 8:00 am to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Written comments on the proposed updated Shoreline Master Program, and the revised Development Regulations, must be received no later than Wednesday October 22nd, 2014 at 4:30 PM to Pend Oreille County, Department of Community Development, PO Box 5066, Newport, WA 99156.

The Pend Oreille County Planning Commission will be holding a Public Hearing on this proposal October 28th, at 6pm in Cusick Community Center.

If you have questions regarding this non-project action, please call Mike Lithgow at 509-447-6497.

Date of Publication: August 27, 2014 Published in The Newport Miner August 27, 2014. (30)

_____________ 2014297 PUBLIC NOTICE Notice of Action

Department C Market Animals Beef - Youth - 50 extra premium points awarded - Garrett Hanson $12 Mountain West Bank Youth Award for Best Beef Calf - Under One Year - Amy Reijonen - Sponsor: Mountain West Bank 4-H or FFA Champion Beef CowCalf Pair - In Memory of Charlie Hoisington - Olivia Hanson - Sponsor: Hoisington’s Golden Hereford Ranch Pend Oreille Cowbelles Beef Champion Heifer - From the 4-H, FFA and open class - Garrett Hanson - Sponsor: Pend Oreille Cowbelles Pend Oreille Cowbelles Beef Champion Steer - From the 4-H, FFA and open class - Olivia Hanson Sponsor: Pend Oreille Cowbelles Pend Oreille Cowbelles Beef Champion Cow - From the 4-H, FFA and open class - Olivia Hanson Sponsor: Pend Oreille Cowbelles Pend Oreille Cowbelles Beef Champion Cow-Calf Pair - From the 4-H, FFA and open class - Olivia Hanson - Sponsor: Pend Oreille Cowbelles Pend Oreille Cowbelles Beef Champion of Herd Improvement - Olivia Hanson - Sponsor: Pend Oreille Cowbelles Beef PeeWee Fitting and Showing Champion - Blake Koesel - Sponsor: Running Q Ranch

Pursuant to 43.21C RCW, notice is hereby given that Pend Oreille County did on July 09, 2014 receive a complete SEPA Checklist, Joint Aquatic Resource Application (JARPA), and associated documents prepared by Debra Marthaller for an aquatic weed harvesting project on the Pend Oreille River.

Pend Oreille County has issued a Determination of NonSignificance for this project. This DNS is issued under WAC 197-11-350; the lead agency will not act on this proposal for 15 days from August 22, 2014. Comments must be submitted by September 08, 2014.

This application will be heard by the Pend Oreille County Planning Commission on September 09, 2014 in Cusick at the Community Center @ 6:00pm.

The submitted application and related documents may be examined by the public between 8:00 AM & 4:00 PM at the County Courthouse, Lower Level, 625 W. 4th, Newport, WA 99156, (509) 447-4821 and online at www.pendoreilleco.org. Contact: Todd McLaughlin, Natural Resource Planner, (509) 4476462, tmclaughlin@

Beef Reserve Champion PeeWee Fitting and Showing - Open Youth, 4-H and FFA - Brody Driver Beef Junior Fitting and Showing Champion - Alianna Koesel - Sponsor: Karl & Yvonne McKenzie Beef Intermediate Fitting and Showing Champion - Garrett Hanson - Sponsor: Julie Anderson Beef Reserve Champion Intermediate Fitting and Showing - Open Youth, 4-H and FFA - Amy Reijonen Beef Senior Fitting and Showing Champion - Olivia Hanson - Sponsor: Steve & Trudi Fountain Beef Reserve Champion Senior Fitting and Showing - Open Youth, 4-H and FFA - Emily Denham Overall Beef Fitting and Showing Champion - In Memory of Buster Mykines - Garrett Hanson - Sponsor: John & Nancy Taylor & Family Beef Overall Reserve Fitting and Showing Champion - Open Youth, 4-H and FFA - Olivia Hanson Beef Cattle Youth Individual Herdsmanship Award - In Memory of Roy Rednour - Colin Hanson - Sponsor: Pend Oreille County Livestock Association Beef Club (4-H or FFA) Herdsmanship Award - In Memory of Dave Maghan - Peaceful Valley 4-H Sponsor: Sue Larson RESULTS CONTINUED NEXT WEEK

effect that “This is a charming little town.”

She also hosted a number of art events that have taken place in the Beardmore since. She was an active member of Priest River Animal Rescue, fostering and adopting dogs for the organization. Her last honor, based on her many accomplishments, was to be inducted into the Women of Wisdom organization in Sandpoint, Idaho, this past June. As the nomination read, “There is very little that has happened in Priest River since Diane arrived that she has not been involved in.”

Survivors include her sister Sandra Rizzo of Iowa Falls, Iowa, and three stepchildren: Craig Mercer and his wife, Renee, at Priest River; Denise Mercer, Spokane, Wash.; and Laura Mercer of Oceanside, Calif.

She was preceded in death by her husband in 1997, her parents in Iowa, and her beloved Aunt Beulah, also in Iowa, where her cremains will be interred. No funeral service was held at her request, but friends in Priest River are planning a Celebration of Life in her memory at a later date. Several of them saw her through the vigil at the hospital so she would not have to die alone.

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Required Permits: Conditional Use Date of Permit application: July 09, 2014 Date of Determination of Completeness: August 01, 2014 Date of Notice of Application: August 01, 2014 Date of Threshold SEPA Determination: August 22, 2014 Published in The Newport Miner August 27, 2014. (30)

______________ 2014298 PUBLIC NOTICE Notice of Action Pursuant to 43.21C RCW, notice is hereby given that Pend Oreille County did on July 14, 2014 receive a complete SEPA Checklist, Joint Aquatic Resource Application (JARPA), Planting Plan, and Site Plans prepared by Jeffrey and Linda Jones for shoreline stabilization project on the Pend Oreille River.

Pend Oreille County has issued a Determination of NonSignificance for this project. This DNS is issued under WAC 197-11-350; the lead agency will not act on this proposal for 15 days from August 22, 2014. Comments

must be submitted by September 08, 2014.

This application will be heard by the Pend Oreille County Planning Commission on September 09, 2014 in Cusick at the Community Center @ 6:00pm.

The submitted application and related documents may be examined by the public between 8:00 AM & 4:00 PM at the County Courthouse, Lower Level, 625 W. 4th, Newport, WA 99156, (509) 447-4821 and online at www.pendoreilleco.org. Contact: Todd McLaughlin, Natural Resource Planner, (509) 4476462, tmclaughlin@ pendoreille.org.

Required Permits: Substantial Development Date of Permit application: July 14, 2014 Date of Determination of Completeness: August 01, 2014 Date of Notice of Application: August 01, 2014 Date of Threshold SEPA Determination: August 22, 2014 Published in The Newport Miner August 27, 2014. (30)