Lake Life

Volume 1, Issue 3

Learn to wakesurf Page 4

June 2012

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e thought we would get everyone that enjoys Lake Life on the grandest day of the year – Fourth of July – in the spirit with our cover picture. It is from last year’s Fourth of July boat parade on Diamond Lake. Remember the sun and fun? It’s on its

way.

I’m looking forward to Fourth of July because sometime around that date I’m going to meet my first grandchild. I’m going to give him his first marshmallow, fishing lesson, firecracker and dunk in Diamond Lake. Another lake rat to motor around the coves and docks on a summer day is on his way.

Before you know it there are three generations of lake residents – they grow like algae around here.

Speaking of algae, there was a bloom like nothing the real old-timers say they had seen before. (See story in this issue.) It might not be a concern but something changed to give the little bacteria unusual amounts of nutrients. It can’t be ignored because it might impact future generations of lake users and wildlife.

This is our third of five issues we plan for this summer. We also put the publication on The Miner’s website for those far off lake life dreamers.

Let the summer fun begin.

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Large algae bloom found at Diamond Lake State tests show not toxic

BY FRED WILLENBROCK OF THE MINER

DIAMOND LAKE – An unusual discoloring of the crystal clear waters of Diamond Lake during the second week of May has been identified by state officials as an algae bloom. Although some algae can produce toxins that are harmful to animals and humans, there were no toxins in the sample tested. The lake is now clear again but the mystery continues.

The exact cause of the bloom that was observed in most of the lake is debatable, according to state officials but the clue is to find the increased nutrients.

The other issue that came up was who to call when a bloom is observed.

Washington State Department of Ecology officials said people could call them. The Spokane telephone number is 509-329-3400. They said to ask for the water quality department. They will test the water or ask the Northeast Tri-County Health District to do it.

DOE tests will determine if the algae is toxic but not the source of nutrients.

“A lake turns over after winter, releasing nutrients from the bottom,” said Mike Hepp from the state Courtesy photo|Washington Department of Ecology Department of Ecology compliance department in Spo- This is a blue-green algae scum on Lake Steilacoom, Wash. The algae on Diamond Lake looked similar but had a red tint to it. kane, when asked by The Miner for a possible cause.

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The main concern is that the • Variety bloom can contain Cyanobacteria, formerly called “blue-green algae” which are relatively simple, primitive life forms closely related to bacteria. They are sometimes toxic to animals and humans.

Hepp said they don’t know why some types of algae grow and others don’t. Only tests can tell. Many types of algae are always present in area lakes.

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How to start wakesurfing Wakesurfing has exploded onto the lake scene in a big way. What started in the 1950s with a couple of guys goofing around on longboards behind their boat has become one of the fasting growing watersports on the planet – Wakesurfing.

To get in on the wakesurfing action here are a few tips.

Boat: Only wakesurf behind an inboard boat. The prop on inboard boats is usually about 2 feet or so in front of the rudder, well away from any chance of falling too close to the prop while wakesurfing.

Rope: Get a wakesurf specific rope. A wakeboarding rope is thin and will likely leave you with a nasty case of rope burn. Wakeboarding handles are big and can be dangerous when falling. Not fun. Wakesurf ropes are typically thicker and sometimes have a small handle or T-bar, sometimes not. Some ropes have knots to help you pull yourself into the “sweet spot” of the wake.

Ballast: Getting the wake dialed is critical to having STOCK PHOTO a successful wakesurfing Wakesurfing has exploded on the water sport scene in recent years. session. For most boats that means utilizing any built in ballast system along with several fat sacs. easier than it looks. Lay back in the water Generally, you want get as much weight as with your feet laying loosely on the wakesurf possible to one side of the boat, with most of board, your knees bent and the rope between the weight towards the back. Be sure not to your legs. The driver should start slowly – just exceed the manufacturer’s maximum weight 1-2 mph should allow you to dig your heels specifications when wakesurfing. into the wakesurf board and pop it up vertiBoard: People originally used ocean cally. The people in the boat should now be surfboards, but now more than 15 compaable to see the bottom of the wakesurf board. nies make wakesurf specific surfboards. Do At that point the driver gives more throttle yourself a favor and get a board specific to while you keep your arms straight and begin wakesurfing. It will make the learning curve pulling yourself up. It is almost like when easier and you’ll be having fun faster. There you are sitting on the floor and you reach out are two styles of boards – “surf” and “skim.” your hand while someone pulls you up with Surf style boards usually have two or more theirs. Once up, keep your knees slightly bent fins towards the tail of the board and look like and edge away from the wake so you can get mini surfboards. your feet into position.

Skim style boards usually have one cenFeet Positioning: Generally you want ter fin in the back and possibly a small fin your feet about shoulder width apart, with in the front. Surf style boards are good for your back foot anywhere from 6 to 18 inches aggressive carving and catching air. Skim from the tail of the board. It will be different style boards are usually easier to spin and do for each wakesurf board. shuv-its.

Your feet should usually be closest to the Speed: Most people wakesurf around 10 edge of the wakesurf board that is cutting mph, but sometimes as slow as 9 mph and as into the wake – that will allow you to hold fast as 13 mph depending on the hull, length your edge in the wake and keep you in the of the boat, and amount of ballast. Additionsweet spot. Additionally, keep in mind that ally, each board has an ideal speed depending shifting your weight to your front foot is like on length and rocker. the “gas” and putting weight on the back OK – so now you are saying, “Enough with foot is like the “brake.” Same goes for moving the ‘basics’ mumbo jumbo. Let’s get on to forward on the wakesurf board and moving riding!” back. As you progress you will move your feet So, let’s get to it. all over the wakesurf board while riding to Getting Up: Standing up on the board is recover from tricks.

WEEDS Fragrant water lily poses threat

BY SHARON SORBY PEND OREILLE COUNTY WEED DEPARTMENT

Fragrant water lily will begin its bloom period shortly. Although a spectacular sight, with white or bright pink flowers dotting large round leaves floating on the water’s surface, infestations are harmful to many of the values we hold dear for living on the water.

Water lily infestations reduce habitat for many aquatic organisms, fish and native plants. They also interfere with many recreational activities, listed as second only to COURTESY PHOTO|SHARON SORBY milfoil in being problematic.

This fragrant water lily infestation is similar to the one at There are several infestations of water Sacheen Lake. lily on Diamond and Sacheen lakes. If allowed to continue without addressing these populations, these infestations will continue face area over depths up to 6 feet). Such an infestato increase until they fill all available sites (the sur- tion level will make boating, paddling, swimming and fishing unsafe to impossible.

The Pend Oreille County Weed Board has treated a small infestation about a half mile down the West Branch of the Little Spokane River. The treatment proved effective, but without funding, a more comprehensive project is not possible.

We are happy to assist landowners who wish to undertake similar action. Another option includes faithfully pulling the leaves as they appear throughout the season. If this option is chosen, it is necessary to have the “Blue Book” – “Aquatic Weeds and Fish” on site as it constitutes your permit to perform the work. Books are available from our office. It’s also important COURTESY PHOTO|SHARON SORBY to wear gloves with any noxious weed removal The fragrant water lily, while beautiful with pink or white project. petals, is a danger to local waters.

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Fire season preparations in a serious wildfire situation, this is the best CLIMATOLOGIST thing to do because saving property is simply not worth risking your life. So, allow me to bore SACHEEN LAKE – The summer season is you with the details as to what we have done to finally upon us and now is the time to reflect prepare just in case. upon our past spring. You’re probably thinkIn our home, we have one room with all our ing why bother, but we’re going to do it anyfamily picture albums all in one location for way because that’s what I do! In easy collection. Not far from them in a hidden summary, our spring, while on the location is a small locked fire box with all of our wetter side of normal, was not at important paperwork such as birth certificates, all that abnormal. After we made it insurance documents, wills, marriage license, through the 40 days and 40 nights deeds and vehicle titles. Also in that box is of rain early in the season, the pata thumb drive with a complete inventory of terns took on a much calmer mode, our “worldly” possessions which include item and Mother Nature even threw in a Lutz descriptions, approximate value, and model/ couple of summer-like periods just serial numbers. Just outside of our door into the to wet our appetites a bit. Overall, not a bad garage sits a pet carrier in which we can carry spring at all! all our “beasts” to safety if a wildfire threatens.

The one thing that our wet spring has done In theory, we should be able to evacuate our was encourage lots of undergrowth place along with which will no doubt dry out and ‘In our home, we have one all the most imporcreate one heck of a fire hazard come tant items in our room with all our family mid-summer. Unlike last year, I do lives within 5-10 picture albums all in one anticipate some rather prolonged minutes. The only dry periods this summer due to the location for easy collection.’ wildcard is how changing La Nina patterns. The only will two cats and a saving grace would be showers movpet prairie dog get ing in from the southern monsoonal flow, but along in a small cage together? (Ah, perhaps I even they could present their own hazards in should re-think that to avoid a sea of claws and the form of thunderstorms. So, what can we do teeth.) In any event, I think you get the drift. to prepare now?

While leaving your home is a hard thing to do, We have heard the list over and over again: you can make it a little less painful by at least keep roofs clear of debris, maintain a green preserving some of the most important things belt, cut back bushes from around the house in your life. and the list goes on. Now, I don’t mean to unNext time we meet here in Lake Life, we’ll disderscore the importance of all this, but here’s cuss thunderstorms and how to avoid getting the thing: In a real “wild” fire (like the ones a 1 billion volt lightning jolt to the head like I that occurred back on Oct. 16, 1991) are you almost did. Or did I? Hmmm. prepared to evacuate? After all,

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Celebrate independence, lake style DIAMOND LAKE – The Diamond Lake Improvement Association knows how to celebrate. They’ll be putting on the annual Fourth of July activities Wednesday, July 4, starting with a boat parade.

Anyone is welcome to join the parade. Many participants deck their boats in red, white and blue. Line up at the Beach Club on the east end of the lake around 1:30 p.m. The parade will tour the lake in a counter clockwise fashion.

Fireworks will be set off from a barge in the center of the lake at dusk, or around 10 p.m.

Spectators are welcome, but any boats on the water should keep a safe distance from the barge.

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NEWPORT – Spring rains have caused the lake level to remain high at Diamond Lake, and as of the first full week of June, the county-imposed no wake zone remains in effect.

County commissioners lifted the wake restrictions on Sacheen Lake May 22.

“The lake is alive with activity, and I’d say summer has begun,” commissioner Diane Wear said following the Memorial Day weekend.

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From North Shore Road to the beaver dams, the water level drops 2 feet. Tubes in beaver dams and weed removal could drop lake level 2 feet.

permit in place that allows work clearing debris from beaver dams,” Wear said.

“Diamond is still working on its permitting and access and remains unusually high.”

The Diamond Lake Improvement Association recently got approval on its permits to do herbicide weed treatments and install beaver tubes in the lake’s outlet at Moon Creek.

It’s not certain when the work would begin. Installation of beaver tubes would probably

need to wait until the lake level is low, possibly in late September. Issues with accessing the channel will need to be worked out.

In the meantime, county commissioners, the sheriff and the emergency management service departments have received several requests to keep the no wake restriction at Diamond Lake, Wear said.

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Oreille River Valley saw heavy flooding, the lake level peaked at about 2,345.64 feet in late May 2011. In 2011, wake restrictions were in place on Diamond and Sacheen lakes until early July.

The county doesn’t have specific criteria such as a target lake level for determining when the no wake zone goes on or off, but they’ve been discussing it. Sheriff Alan Botzheim has suggested using the high water mark to

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asked the sheriff to help them decide which areas are ready to be lifted. No decisions have been made yet.

Residents around Diamond are still experiencing flooding. As of the latest measurement, taken by the Diamond Lake Water and Sewer District, the level was 2,344.61 feet, up 0.32 inches since the last measurement on May 19, taken at Woodland Drive on the lake’s north shore.

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determine a level. Emergency management director JoAnn Boggs talked about having a process to set the mark, including public meetings.

This year, restrictions were placed on both Sacheen and Diamond lakes March 27. Bead Lake has been under a no wake zone since April 24, and as water remains high there, the wake restriction is still in effect as of early June.

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N AT U R E Tiger trout becoming popular sport fish

BY MICHELLE NEDVED OF THE MINER

SPOKANE – Tiger trout are not only an interesting fish to look at – with their dark stripes on greenish-brown skin – but they also make for good eating.

“I have had a number of reports over the past year or so talking about how they are good table fare,” said biologist Bill Baker of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Tiger trout are a sterile hybrid of brown trout and eastern brook trout. The are stocked in Sacheen Lake in Pend Oreille County, and a few lakes in Stevens County, including the Little Pend Oreille Chain of Gillette, Heritage, Sherry, Thomas and Leo lakes, and Black Lake. Five thousand fingerlings were stocked in Sacheen Lake last October.

They’re becoming quite the popular sport fish. The state record was recently broken by a painting contractor from Mason, who caught a 15.04 pounder in Roses Lake in

Chelan County. Kirk Herrin landed the fish casting a Fluke, which is a soft swim-bait lure.

“They are capable of getting quite large,” Baker said. The only tiger trout bigger than Herrin’s is the world-record holding 20-pound, 13-ounce fish caught in Lake Michigan 34 years ago.

Baker said WDFW likes the tiger trout because the department can control their numbers since the hybrids are sterile, and because anglers like to catch them.

The tiger trout were first bred

by WDFW in the late 1990s or early 2000s.

Brown trout and eastern brook trout spawning periods overlap, which allows them to be bred together manually. Baker said you wouldn’t find the two spawning together in nature, though.

Some were stocked in Sullivan Lake a few years ago, and there should be some still swimming in those waters. Baker said one angler caught a 10-pounder last year when he was trolling for kokanee.

Grant money helped with milfoil

BY SHEILA PEARMAN SACHEEN LAKE WATER AND SEWER DISTRICT

In 1989 the Sacheen Lake Sewer & Water District applied for its first Department of Ecology Centennial Clean Water Fund Grant to perform a diagnostic/feasibility study to determine the

extent of water quality problems at Sacheen Lake. The district was awarded a grant for a total project cost of $75,600. To meet the required local share, the district borrowed $6,000 from Pend Oreille County.

The project aimed to: 1. Develop best management practices 2. Reduce non-point source pollution 3. Control lake level 4. Lower phosphorus loading by eradication of milfoil 5. Install a sewer system With these tasks at hand, the district applied for and was awarded a second Centennial Clean Water Fund Grant for a total project cost of $759,000 to work on the recommendations made in the diagnostic study with a major focus being to rid the lake’s shores of the dreaded Eurasian watermilfoil, generally known as milfoil to all of us.

The lake was basically ringed with milfoil to such a degree that many residents found it difficult to maneuver their boats in and out of dock. This grant was the first CCWF money awarded for the removal of aquatic weeds. It was felt that the dense weed growth’s die off each season was a significant contributing factor to the phosphorus levels in the lake.

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12 Lake Life | June 2012

R E A L E S TAT E

Now’s the time to think about flood insurance

BY MICHELLE NEDVED OF THE MINER

MEAD – With high water at both Sacheen and Diamond lakes this spring, now is the time for property owners to think about flood insurance.

Anyone who lives in a flood plain or is ask risk of their home flooding should get the insurance, said Steve Wilson, owner of Mount Spokane Insurance.

“If you live on a mountain top, you probably don’t need it,” he said.

Flood insurance is a separate policy from homeowners’ insurance. Policies are renewed a year at a time, and most regular flood “If you live on insurance a mountain top, policies are underwrityou probably ten by the don’t need it.” Federal government.

Steve Wilson Insurance through Mount Spokane private Insurance underwriters is also available. Wilson suggests talking with your insurance agent to determine which option is best for you.

The biggest restriction on flood insurance is that it is not effective for the first 30 days after you purchase your policy.

Private insurance can be effective with 15 days. Exceptions to this rule are new loans or refinanced loans. People who are buying a new home or refinancing their current home can get flood insurance that is effective the day the policy is purchased.

The price varies from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars a year, Wilson said. It depends on elevations, locations and the value of the home.

Coverage can be either for just the structure on the property or for both the structure and its contents. Basements, however, are not covered if they are finished. Ordinary items found in basements, such as water heaters or furnaces are covered, but damage to finished rooms is not because basement flooding

is so common.

For other buildings, such as garages and barns, separate policies need to be purchased, Wilson said.

Law enforcement calls up in May NEWPORT – The Pend Oreille County Sheriff’s Office responded to 218 calls in May around the Diamond and Sacheen lake areas. This is up from 177 in April.

There were five reported burglaries and the sheriff’s office has arrested two suspects and recovered stolen property in three of the five burglaries.

There was one fatal traffic accident.

Two bicycles were found and no one has claimed them yet. Anyone missing a bicycle should contact the sheriff’s office at 509-447-3151.

Nine thefts were reported. Items stolen range from a large generator and motor to county road signs and fuel.

“As always please watch out for each other and report suspicious activity.

Burglaries and thefts seem to be on the rise again so we really depend on our community partners for help in preventing and solving these crimes,” sheriff Alan Botzheim said.

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W H O T O CO N TAC T

Diamond, Sacheen Lake Government Directory

Noxious Weed Control Board 509-447-2402 Fax: 509-447-6477 Charged with ensuring the control of noxious weeds in the county. The weed board office is located in the courthouse annex 418 S Scott Ave., and is open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday.

Mail: P.O. Box 5085, Newport WA 99156 Board: Dist. 1 Warren Koontz, Dist.

2 Wes Bailey, Dist. 3 Vacant, Dist. 4 Joe Sherman, Dist. 5 Vacant The board meets every even month on the second Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the county commissioners’ meeting room.

Weed coordinator: Sharon Sorby E-mail: ssorby@pendoreille.org

Diamond Lake Water & Sewer District

509-447-4660 Fax: 509-447-0180 172 South Shore Road, Newport, WA

99156-9300 Operates water and sewer systems around Diamond Lake.

Commissioners (six-year term): chairman Bob Graham (2017), Secretary Richard Swan (2016), Ray King (2013).

Board meets on the first and third Wednesday at 10 a.m. at the district office.

Office open 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Monday-Friday. Maintenance hours 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Monday-Sunday.

In addition, they can be reached by telephone after hours for emergencies.

Sacheen Lake Sewer & Water District

509-447-4641 Mail: P.O. Box 463, Colbert, WA 99005 Located at Sacheen Lake in southern Pend Oreille County, the Sacheen Lake Sewer & Water District is working on lake water quality, lake level issues, milfoil control and beginning design and construction of phase 1 sewer collection and treatment plant.

The district also maintains the Myers/Harter Sanctuary, located near the corner of Highway 211 and Fertile Valley Road.

Commissioners: position 1 Perry Pearman (2017), position 2 Gary Garrett (2015), position 3 Peggy Johnsen (2013) Managing secretary: Sheila Pearman Commissioners meet at Sacheen Lake Fire Station, Highway 211, on the first Wednesday of the month at 7 p.m.

South Pend Oreille Fire & Rescue

Serving south Pend Oreille County including Diamond Lake, Sacheen Lake, Deer Valley, Camden and Fertile Valley areas.

Chief: Mike Nokes 509-4475305 Commissioners: Gary Wilkey 509-447-0744, Randy Miller 509-292-8065, Leonard Pielli 509-447-3793, Galen Hansen 509-292-9458, Karen Johnston 509-939-7714.

Commissioners meet the third Thursday of the month at 7 p.m. at Diamond Lake Station.

Diamond Lake Station is staffed 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Friday.

Mail: 325272 Hwy. 2, Newport WA Web site: www.spofr.org 14 Lake Life | June 2012

INFR ASTRUC TURE

First retail fiber service coming in fall

BY FRED WILLENBROCK OF THE MINER

NEWPORT – With almost 2,000 people signed up to get hooked up, the question is when will they be able to use the high speed fiber network now lacing the south county. Pend Oreille PUD officials are finally saying the network will be ready for retail service providers to begin offering services to homes and businesses this fall.

The fiber lines in Newport, the last of the overhead part of the fiber system, are near completion. Contract crews and their boom trucks with spools of wire have been visible around town for weeks. Underground conduit is just beginning to be installed in other areas. Fiber is later pulled through the conduit.

Joe Onley, PUD community network system manager, said the actual gray boxes that will house the electronics that retail service providers (RSPs) will use to provide services such as phone, Internet, television and security will be installed this summer. The electronics will be installed in these boxes and connected to the underground or overhead fiber by the PUD as RSPs receive orders.

The PUD does not charge for any of the work or equipment to the house including the final electronics in the box. That is all covered by the federal grant and PUD funds.

Until April 2013 when the grant period ends, the PUD will do the fiber work and electronics without charging customers.

After that, they will cover only the first $1,500. This has been one of the incentives for the signup program underway by the PUD. Customers who haven’t signed up can now stop by the PUD’s Community Connectivity building behind Safeway or sign up online.

This summer, contractors will also be installing the electronic hubs that connect groups of individual drops to the PUD fiber network. These will be attached to poles in most areas.

People can get a good idea of where the fiber is located by finding the loops of black fiber coiled on the poles at regular intervals.

These must remain to allow for any repairs in the future.

Crews have also been clearing rights of way of trees and branches. The grant allowed for some of this work, which will benefit the fiber system and – as

an extra bonus – the electrical. They have completed most of this work.

Onley said they will have enough funds to connect all of the roughly 5,000 homes and businesses in the south county area. The grant had a minimum requirement of hooking up 1,000 in the south county. The grant did not cover north Pend Oreille County

because Pend Oreille Telephone had received a federal grant.

Onley said the plan is to have drops to every home and business by April 2013.

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THE VOICE OF PEND OREILLE COUNT Y SINCE 1901

The Miner Celebrating 100 years of Pend Oreille County

A county is born 1910s a decade of growth for the region, birth of Pend Oreille County

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he Pend Oreille valley was growing rapidly

100 years ago, as the people of Washington’s northeast corner looked to break away from Stevens County and form their own government. Business was booming, with lumber mills working around the clock and a new cement plant in the new, new town of Metaline Falls (also established in 1911).

Over the last 25 years, the Pend Oreille valley had been homesteaded, and numerous little communities sprang up all along the river.

Places like Blueslide and Jared that are all but wiped from the map today looked just as bustling as the established towns of Newport and Ione.

Stevens County was all well and good with the division, so long as those Pend Oreille folks didn’t inch the boundary line any further west than was proposed. Stevens County had once encapsulated much of eastern Washington. For the last 40 years leading up to Pend Oreille’s split, 10 or so counties had been formed from its reach. Pend Oreille was the last to leave the nest.

It’s the states youngest county.

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Talk of taking Pend Oreille on its own had been going RQ IRU ÀYH RU VR \HDUV 7KH major players from King and Spokane counties didn’t take so warmly to the idea.

Their major quarrel was with representation in the Legislature. At the time, each county had one rep. Giving lil’ ole Pend Oreille its own man would mean populous King County would have that much less of a say over things. King County’s delegate pointed out that representation would be 6,500 to 1 (Pend Oreille’s population) versus 15,000:1.

We all know how much of a pull our rural counties have in Olympia today. I think King is GRLQJ MXVW ÀQH The division’s major movers were Fred and Fred. Trumbull and Wolf, that is. Trumbull was an attorney from Ione who planned the town’s incorporation the year before, and Wolf was publisher of The Newport Miner. He was an all-around citizen activist VLQFH ÀUVW FRPLQJ WR 1HZSRUW to take the helm of the paper in 1907. The county division ZDV KLV ÀUVW PDMRU ORFDO FDXVH He also served three terms in the state House of Representatives, starting in 1919.

He pushed for an improved highway through Newport, and all the way Fred into the 1950s, he Trumbull helped bring about the construction of Albeni Falls Dam. The two local men sent petitions around and lobbied for the division in Olympia.

The reasons for splitting off from Stevens County had to do with transportation and population growth, but mostly – as in

most movements in history – it was money.

Taxes from Pend Oreille citizens contributed $32,000 per year to the Stevens County general fund. They guessed they could run their own county government for $27,000 per year, and they’d be better off for it. The people felt under represented. The Pend Oreille side held only 17 of the county’s 77 voting precincts.

They didn’t like all the new bridges and infrastructure they saw going up on the other side of the The first mountains. county officers, And there being appointed by no roads Gov. Hay, were across those sworn in at 2:10 Selkirks, the trip to p.m. on Colville was June 12, 1911. exhausting.

For a local person wanting to conduct business with Stevens County, it was a three-day journey from Newport. The way the train schedules worked, a Pend Oreille resident would have to overnight in Spokane and in Colville, and again in Spokane on the homeward journey.

Choosing a county seat was a hot issue. Newport was named as the temporary seat by the legislature’s bill. It would stand until the next general election in 1912, so that meant a lot of talk in each community’s newspapers about why they were the best.

Cusick and Usk proclaimed their central locations as their claim for the title. Ione edged Newport on population (both were about 1,600) and infrastructure, but Newport had the link to the outside world with the railroad there connecting so readily to Spokane and Idaho. Ione

The New County FROM CHINOOKERS IN THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW (PRINTED IN THE NEWPORT MINER FEB. 23, 1911)

The people up to Metaline Exult in nature’s bounty, And know they’ve land enough in sign To continue a county; But how they groan and grouch and yell When people call it Penn Dorell.

Ione, we know, has got the worth, Surrounding towns to dazzle; Her boosters say she has the earth All pounded to a frazzle; What boots it if competitors Are ground into a jelly, When rank outsiders call the place A name like Pan Dorelly?

COURTESY PHOTO|PEND OREILLE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM

Two loggers work in nearly perfect winter logging conditions – cold with moderate snow. They started a cut with a saw and axes on the left side and are about halfway through the trunk on the right.

There’s Newport, future county seat, A lively town, believe me; But what a wrench They give their French – Or do my ears deceive me?

For even boosters proud as they Pronounce it blandly Ponderay.

Small wonder that the senator Whose soul is steeped in history Should find the new-found title An Orthographic Mystery.

But vain regrets would bow his head And salt tears drip a gallon Should he successfully impose The sainted name of Allen.

COURTESY PHOTO|PEND OREILLE COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM

Haying operations are in progress at George Johnston’s “Sky Ranch,� located southwest of Newport in Spring Valley.

Accept we then this county new, And place the name on file Where every prospect please And only man is vile.

But wish yourself in for Hawaii Before you call it Pon-Do-rye-ee!

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Traveling on Cusick streets was rough in 1910. The Wike family’s store was one of the town’s first businesses.

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THE VOICE OF PEND OREILLE COUNT Y SINCE 1901

The Miner Celebrating 100 years of Pend Oreille County

Rough and tumble Pend Oreille behavior. Joe Cusick, who founded the mid-county town, shot and killed a former employee of his who did him wrong. It took two trials to convict him, but he went to prison, serving four years hinking of life in early before the governor gave him a pardon. Still, he didn’t return Pend Oreille County, to Cusick. He lived out his it’s not a stretch to days in California.

7KH FRXQW\¡V Ă€UVW KRPLFLGH imagine settlers toiling away occurred when a man at Lost to raise a crop and feed their Creek came home drunk and families, or loggers with crude took to beating his wife and kids. As they ran away, he equipment bucking away in followed them, but not before the dense woods. getting in a tussle with the The 1910s weren’t easy. neighbor and threatening him %XW NQLIH Ă€JKWV" 3RLVRQLQJ" with a knife. The neighbor 3XEOLF RIĂ€FLDOV GXFNLQJ IRU Ă€UHG IRXU VKRWV OHDYLQJ WKH FRYHU IURP D KDLO RI JXQĂ€UH DW notoriously bad man dead on D ORFDO WUDLQ VWDWLRQ" KLV FDELQ Ă RRU 7KH Ă€UVW 3HQG 2UHLOOH Alcohol was often the residents went through some incendiary factor when trying times. confrontations between People from all over the neighbors and partners turned U.S. and other countries violent. Prohibition didn’t take were settling in northeast effect in Washington until Washington in the early 1900s. 1916 (lasting what must have When neighbors bickered, been an agonizing 17 years), they preferred to take but controlling alcohol sales matters into their own hands. was one of the law’s major Several murders resulted tasks. Women and “lewd in the early days. A mining personsâ€? were prohibited from man in Metaline Falls was loitering at the saloons. poisoned with strychnine in One Chinese immigrant, his coffee after an altercation Sam Lee, was suspected with a nearby homesteader. of selling liquor without a Neighbors at license, an article Blueslide and As the newly established in The Miner said.

Ruby were Pend Oreille County The law set up a quarreling sting, sending in began to grow and in what was a couple of hoboes expand, it was called the to order a round. “Kentucky constantly defending That was at the Feud,â€? named itself and its worth to City Cafe, not to after the the state’s larger cities. be confused with state many the City Bar, which of them had advertised on the moved from. An ambush at same page of The Miner that the Blueslide train station LW KDG D VHOHFWLRQ RI Ă€QH EHHUV happened in 1915. Shots Gilt Top (brewed in Spokane), were meant for the county’s Schlitz, Budweiser, Olympia, prosecuting attorney, and the and Pabst Blue Ribbon in suspect wasn’t captured for pints and quarts. nearly two years.

Along with that Even the founding fathers “unneighborly� conduct, the weren’t always on their best people of early Pend Oreille

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Union Avenue leveled three buildings, two residences and outbuildings within an hour.

7KH &DOLVSHOO 9DOOH\ Ă RRGHG annually where there were no dams on the river. Logging accidents were frequent.

Businesses, particularly hardware stores, were victim to burglars, and bandits still held up the trains now and then.

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COURTESY PHOTO|PEND OREILLE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM

Fid’s Bar was a popular watering hole in early day Newport. It operated on Union Avenue in a building that is no longer standing. Fid’s Opera House, built in 1911, brought live shows and movies to Newport. It survives today as the apartments behind Owen’s Grocery.

COURTESY PHOTO|PEND OREILLE COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM FILE PHOTO

A Kalispel Indian mother poses with her baby at Cusick in 1911. In those days, the tribe numbered fewer than 100 members and suffered from foreign disease brought by white settlers.

IONE DEPOT IN 1910 – COURTESY PHOTO|PEND OREILLE COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM

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Latest draft of Shoreline Plan has changes

BY DON GRONNING OF THE MINER

NEWPORT – For more than four years, Pend Oreille County commissioners have been working on developing the Shoreline Master Program. They received a draft document from the planning commission, which they have been fine tuning for several weeks.

Their edited draft of the Shoreline Master Plan is on the Pend Oreille County website at www.pendoreilleco.

org/county/shoreline_master_program_update.asp.

The commissioners opened up the public comment period for another 60 days. That will end Aug. 8.

Many of the changes are small things, said Mike Lithgow, community development director for the county. Lithgow has been involved with the four-year process from the start.

“They’re things like moving the cumulative impact analysis towards the front of the document,” he said.

The commissioners eliminated the size requirements for platform landings located near docks. They did away with the requirement that future subdivisions on shorelines share a common buffer.

The commissioners made some changes to the setbacks for some designations of land.

They increased the setbacks for urban and rural intensive use, extending them from 50 feet to 100 feet. That means no development could occur within 100

feet of the ordinary high water mark.

An example of rural higher intensity designated property is the Box Canyon Dam. The Mill Pond area in the northern part of the county is an example of an urban higher intensity area.

The commissioners decreased the setbacks for urban and rural conservancy lands to 50 feet. In the draft approved by the planning commission, the setback was 150 feet for rural conservancy and 100 feet for urban conservancy areas.

Whether the state Department of Ecology signs off on such changes remains to be seen. DOE must approve the Shoreline Master Plan before the program is implemented.

Greg Dohrn is a land use consultant who has worked on the Shoreline Master Program with Lithgow. He said the commissioners received a lot of input from a variety of sources.

They received comments from individuals, as well as from state and federal agencies.

“They balanced and reviewed and changed the document to reflect what is best for the county,” Dohrn said.

The setbacks or buffers have been among the most contentious of the issues dealt with in the Shoreline plan. They are the distance from the ordinary high water mark where development cannot occur.

Commissioners wanted to give landowners a choice, Dohrn said. If the current proposed designations work, people can just comply with them.

But if there is some reason why they need to build something closer to the water, there is a more individual way to comply. It will be up to the landowner to make the case – using and paying for a qualified professional.

Some alternates that will be considered on a case by case basis include: • Buffer averaging, where the standard setback could be reduced in one place if it is increased in another, with no net loss of ecological function.

• In-fill development, where landowners would be able to build closer to the water if the houses on both sides have built closer. The idea is that there would be no net loss of ecological function since the area was already developed.

• An administrative adjustment may be made to a property on a case-by-case basis. This Continued on page 18

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“We’ll be out on the water for weekends, holidays and big events,” he said.

The county uses an aluminum boat and a newer SafeBoat purchased two years ago.

NEWPORT – Pend Oreille County Sheriff deputies will once again be patrolling the lakes and Pend Oreille River, looking for safety violations and writing tickets when necessary.

But along with law enforcement activities, depuContinued on page 18 ties also are looking to educate boaters.

“We’ve probably done 100 boat inspections since Memorial Day,” said Geoff Rusho, a reserve sheriff deputy and a marine technician.

“Our biggest concern is safety.”

Most of the inspections were at boat ramps, before the boats got LLC into the water, he said.

All vessels, including canoes A C O N S T R U C T I O N C O M PA N Y and inflatable rafts, must have a U.S. Coast Guard approved personal floatation device for each passenger. Children 12 and under must wear their lifejackets. USCG approved floatation devices are marked with a USCG number.

The flotation devices must be in good working order and easily accessible. People using personal watercraft, like jet skis, must wear an approved flotation device.

In addition, each vessel must have a sound producing device.

Rusho said that has been a requirement for years. Pinning a whistle to the lifejacket is a good way to satisfy that requirement.

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Usually a deputy and a marine tech patrol together. The state has recognized the county’s marine patrol efforts by giving them more funding, Youk said.

“We’re one of six counties in the state where the marine budget was increased,” Youk said. Last year the county performed 500 boat inspections. “That’s pretty important to the state.”

The county will get $40,000 from the state this fiscal year, he said, up from about $30,000 last year. Part of that

money is federal money. zone on Sacheen Lake was lifted.

“We’re seeing a big increase in the The marine patrol spends a lot of time A ticket for violating the no wake number of boaters on the river,” he said. on the more populated lakes, such as Dia- ordinance costs $66. But not many tickets The smaller lakes are also getting more mond Lake and Sacheen Lake, but it also have been written, Rusho said. congested. gets to some remote lakes.

“I think we’ve written one,” he said. In The bottom line for the Marine division “We pretty much patrol any waterway,” order to write the ticket the deputy must is safety for boaters. The boat inspections Youk said. see the violation. have saved lives, he said.

Enforcement of the county’s no wake There are more boaters in the county “They definitely drop the stats on ordinance falls to the marine division. now than in the past, Rusho said. drowning,” he said.

The no wake ordinance is in effect on Diamond Lake and Bead Lake because of the high water from the rainy spring. The no wake CONTINUED FROM PAGE 16 protection of the shoreline the Department of Ecology wants. For instance, if the setback is would also require a written justification by a stripped of vegetation and fertilized, the shorequalified professional and additional conditions line wouldn’t be protected. of approval may apply.

Commissioners will hold three public hear• A variance, where shoreline buffers could ings, one in each commissioner district. The be reduced with the approval of the county dates of the hearings have not been set yet but and the Department of Ecology. These would the meetings will occur before the comment be rare. period ends so that people can make comments A setback by itself may not accomplish the on the record at the hearings.

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Onley added that NoaNet is running fiber along the east side of the river across the highway to Tiger Pass south of Ione. This is opening up some other potential service areas in north Pend Oreille County for the PUD. When the system is completed, retail provid-

ers will offer their services using the new fiber or by other means. Most local providers are saying that the cost will probably vary according to how the service is delivered. The PUD board has set a wholesale price to the RSPs of $50 per household. This will have to be absorbed in their businesses costs and passed on in some way to customers. How all this will work isn’t clear yet.

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A whole lake herbicide treatment was undertaken, keeping the herbicide levels at an optimum level for several weeks in order to get an effective kill. The district continues to employ divers to survey the lake for milfoil, some seasons needing only to hand pull weeds, other times determining that areas need to be treated when the plant density warrants. These continued efforts have been funded with the help of two Department of Ecology Aquatic Manage-

ment Program grants as well as voter elected levy funds.

A requirement of the CCWF grant was that there had to be public access to the lake. In order to meet that requirement, the district, with assistance from an Aquatic Lands Enhancement Account Grant, purchased and developed land formerly used as the campground for the Sacheen Lake Resort. The Myers/Harter Sanctuary has a dock, picnic tables, grill, toilets, a climbing structure as well as a volleyball court and nature path.

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Tricia Shoblom, DOE environmental specialist in the northwest regional office in Seattle, was first contacted by people in Pend Oreille County and helped organize the effort to get a sample and test it. She had asked Tri County Health to get the sample because health districts usually do that for DOE. They apparently didn’t have anyone available so DOE sent someone from Spokane.

The test came back as non-detectable for toxicity, Shoblom said. It did detect Asterionella which is a major group of algae that do not produce toxins. There wasn’t the blue-green algae associated with toxins.

Matt Schanz, from the Tri County Health District Colville office, said he was called by DOE to take a sample but couldn’t get it done

in a timely way. He said the district does take samples but DOE is responsible for tests. The district would post health warning signs if it was determined there were toxins.

Diamond Lake resident Bob Tully, who has been struggling with high water problems at his property, told the Pend Oreille County Commissioners Monday that there is a strong possibility that the high water is causing the algae bloom. He said the water has only dropped a few inches from its high point last year.

Tully said the Diamond Lake Improvement Association would most likely test the water quality since it didn’t appear anyone else was doing it. The association does this twice a year.

He said he was at the boat launch during the bloom and anglers were reporting it all around the lake. It has cleared up now but he fears it could come back again.

Recreational fires permitted

BY DON GRONNING OF THE MINER

DIAMOND LAKE – Summer is a time for recreational fires, which come with certain rules and obligations under Pend Oreille County’s burn ordinance.

The fire must be attended, be on improved land and be no larger than 3 feet by 3 feet and no taller than 2 feet. There must be a firebreak or non-combustible surface at least 3 feet around the fire. There must be either 5 gallons of water present or a charged hose, along with a shovel.

If the fire gets away, the property owner is responsible for fire suppression costs, under the county’s law.

According to South Pend Oreille Fire and Rescue Chief Mike Nokes, it really isn’t the recreational fires that are a problem.

“It’s the burn piles that get away,” he said.

Nokes said there are precautions that must be taken with recreational fires. In addition to making sure the recreational fire isn’t too big and the other requirements are met, people making a recreational fire should look up.

“Don’t start them under trees,” he said.

The county’s burn ordinance is tied to the state Department of Natural Resources policy.

When the DNR imposes a burn ban on DNR lands within Pend Oreille County, the ban will also apply to county lands, with the exception provided for properly attended recreational fires.

When the DNR bans fires in their campgrounds, all recreational fires will also be prohibited.

The South Pend Oreille Fire and Rescue does not write tickets when there is a violation, Nokes said.

“We’re not a ticketing authority,” Nokes said. If they find a recreational fire violation, they will refer the matter the Pend Oreille County Sheriff. Deputies can write a $125 ticket for the first offense in a calendar year, $250 for a second offense offence and $500 for violations after that. If it really isn’t a recreational fire and is more of a debris fire, DNR will be notified, Nokes said.

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C A L E N DA R O F E V E N T S WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13 Watershed Planning Group Meeting

JUNE 15-16 ‘The American Dream’

The planning group for the Middle and Little Spokane Rivers (the Department of Ecology’s Watershed Resources Inventory Areas 55 and 57) will meet from 9 a.m. to noon at the Spokane County Conservation District office, 210 N. Havana. WRIA 55 includes Diamond and Sacheen lakes as well as Eloika Lake, Dry Creek, Deer Creek, Deadman Creek, Dragoon Creek and the Little Spokane River. Visit www.spokanecounty.org/wqmp/projects.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 16 Sacheen Lake Association Annual Meeting

The Sacheen Lake Association will hold its annual meeting at the Sacheen Lake Fire Station at 10 a.m.

SATURDAY, JUNE 16 Diamond Lake Clean Up

Meet at the South Shore Store at 8 a.m. to help with this clean up, sponsored by the Diamond Lake Improvement Association. Coffee and doughnuts will be provided.

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THURSDAY, JUNE 21 South Pend Oreille Fire & Rescue

The fire district that covers Diamond and Sacheen lakes, as well as the Deer Valley, Camden and Fertile Valley areas, meets at 7 p.m. on the third Thursday of the month at Station 31, 325272 Highway 2, Diamond Lake.

SATURDAY, JUNE 23 Boating Safety Class

A boating safety class will take place from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Sacheen Lake Fire Station on Highway 211. To register, contact Linda Walters at 509-447-0446.

SATURDAY, JUNE 23 Fertile Valley Road Clean-up

The Sacheen Lake Association is organizing a roadside cleanup on Fertile Valley Road. Meet at the Myers-Harter Sanctuary at 9 a.m.

SATURDAY, JUNE 16 Barbecue Lunch

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27 Sacheen Ladies of the Lake

Get to know your neighbors and learn about the lake community with a free barbecue lunch of hamburgers and hot dogs. The Diamond Lake Improvement Association is sponsoring the event at John Hernandez’s Quonset hut on Highway 2, starting at noon.

The philanthropic and social group meets the fourth Wednesday of each month at noon at various locations. Call president Maria Bullock at 509-998-4221 to find out where. The group raises money for various causes. Visit sosacheen.tripod.com/ sacheenladiesofthelake.

JUNE 17-23 Boy Scouts Japeechen Rendezvous

Scouts age 14 and older will spend a week at Camp Cowles camping, eating, sleeping and working like they would have in the 1830s. They’ll travel back to the 1825 Hudson Bay Company’s trapper camp located on the farthest end of Diamond Lake: Japeechen. During the same time, the National Youth Leadership Training will take place.

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The water sewer board will have its bi-monthly meeting at 10 a.m. in the District Office, 172 South Shore Road.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 4 Diamond Lake Half Marathon

The fourth annual Fourth of July Half Marathon starts at the South Shore Store at 7:30 a.m. Last year there was also an optional one-mile swim at the public boat launch starting at 6:15 a.m.

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 4 Independence Day

Celebrate the nation’s birthday with the annual boat parade sponsored by the Diamond Lake Improvement Association. Participants line up at the Beach Club around 1:30 p.m.

They’ll go around the lake in a counter clockwise fashion. A fireworks display from the barge in the middle of the lake begins around 10 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 11 Diamond Lake Improvement Association

The monthly meeting of the DLIA is held at 6:30 p.m. at the fire station on Highway 2. Visit www.diamondlakewa.org. The meeting is held a week later this month due to the Independence Day holiday.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 11 Sacheen Lake Sewer and Water

The water and sewer board will have its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. at the Sacheen Fire Station, Highway 211. The meeting is held a week later this month due to the Independence Day holiday.