Crazy Daze and Gay 90s Arts Festival Heads to Sandpoint
Downtown Sandpoint prepares for Crazy Daze a major shopping day with stalls along First Avenue and Cedar Street from Saturday morning. Parking meters are free and traffic is restricted while the Gay 90s Arts and Crafts Festival opens at Sandpoint City Beach with booths by local artists and craftspeople. Rodger Lubbers expects three to four thousand beachgoers for the barbecue.
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Sandpoint
Lion’s Club
Roger Lubbers
First Avenue
Cedar
Church Streets
Crazy Daze
Larry Sterling
First
Second Avenues
Sandpoint City Beach
Sandpoint Lions Beach Barbecue Weekend Draws Big Crowd
The Sandpoint event weekend features crafts shows, skydiving exhibitions, a jet fly over, and a Beach Barbeque Sunday with 1500 plus expected attendees. Lions Club will serve 850 pounds of top round beef with salad, beans, drinks, and a $3 adult $1.50 child entry.
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Lion’s Beach
Lubbersr
Athol Paracenter
Lake Pend Oreille
Air National Guard
Idaho
Washington Air Guard
Sandpoint Town Barn
Northwest
Leonard Haugse
Bill Martin
Haugse
Roger's M&j Bakery
Kaniksu
Lions Club
Bonner County PZ OKs Lakeview bio-ecology Institute plan
The Bonner County Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval Thursday night for a bio ecology research institute at Lakeview south of Sandpoint. The project aims to study underwater life weather and currents for a junior and senior high school audience.
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Lakeview
Bonner County
Joe Burkhardt
Sandpoint
Senor
Pend Oreille
Robert P Sacksteder
Blanchard
Elmer Schenk
Paul Siem
Blay
Baldy Rd
Dale Lee Ot Hanks Investment Co
Colburn
Paul Cozort
Charles A Finney
Highway 95
Sterling
Lewiston Fire Destroys Timber Yard Area Sparks State Aid
Idaho Governor Evans declared a state of emergency as a massive fire at the Potlatch Corp timber yard burned uncontrolled. Flames rose 300 feet, hundreds evacuated, firefighters from Lewiston Clarkston and Asotin fought the blaze with volunteers and helicopters. Edmonton volunteers offered bomber runs at dawn. A 25-year-old mill worker was sought for questioning in connection with a billboard fire earlier in the week.
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Lewiston
Idaho
UPI
John Evans
Idaho National Guard
Potlack Corp
Moscow
Ote. Bay
Marion Edmonson
Clarkston
Asotin
Wash
U.S. Forest Service
Missoula
Mont
Forest Service
Edmonton
Alberta
Edmonson
Car Damage Report From Cocolalla Loop Road Collision
Westmond resident Kelly Branning told the Bonner County Sheriff a 1963 brown Chevrolet station wagon ran him off on Cocolalla Loop Road Thursday morning. Damage described as extensive.
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Kelly Branning
Westmond
Bonner County
Cocolalla Loop
Antenna Stolen From Lignite Road Site
Lyman Kootenai Communications reports a 100 foot telescoping antenna stolen from Lignite Road. The valued tower is listed at 500 dollars.
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Lee ,Lyman
Kootenai Communications Company
Sandpoint woman injured in crash on Olive Street
A 23 year old Sandpoint woman sustained whiplash and soreness after a pickup driven by 24 year old David James Campbell rear ended her car at the Carnation plant on Olive Street and Dover Highway. Campbell was cited by Sandpoint police for inattentive driving.
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Sandpoint
David
James’ Campbell
Janice
Carnation
Olive St
Dover
Campbell
McArthur Lake Poisoning Aims at Brook Trout Hatchery
McArthur Lake in Idaho will be poisoned and lowered to create a brook trout hatchery. The Idaho Fish and Game Commission approved plans to stock non catchable brook trout next spring and release about 5,000 catchable rainbow trout for a one time fishing test. Readings held in Sandpoint and Bonners Ferry showed support for stocking with brook trout at the Boundary County lake near Sandpoint.
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McArthur Lake
Idaho Fish and Game Commission
IFG
McArthur
Sandpoint
Fish and Game,Department
Bonners Ferry
Avenue Area
Boundary County
Bonner County
Clark Fork Receives HUD Grant for Water Upgrades
Senator Frank Church announced a $242,000 HUD grant to Clark Fork for water quality improvements. Funds will buy filters or wells, pump and reservoir upgrades, and transmission lines to improve drinking water.
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Washington
Frank Church
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Clark Fork
Farm Tour Highlights Rabbit Farm and Dairy Family Award
Five visitors toured the White Wabbit Wanch and tasted rabbit dishes including stew and barbecued wabbit. Jerry and Ginger White have an award from the Sand Point Chamber of Commerce for agriculture enterprise. They hosted a daylong tour with more planned next year to showcase local agricultural activities and award recipients. Ken and Loyce Shreffler were named dairy family of the year, milking eighty cows daily in a family operation. The chamber also recognized forestry co-winners Bill Nordeen and Clarence Davis and beef producer Wain Geaudreau as part of annual awards.
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Gary Palmer
Jerry
Ginger White
Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce Ag Committee
Ray Delay
Charman
Chamber of Commerce Ag Committee
Jerry Stern
Ag Committee
Wabbit Wanch
Ken Shreffler
Ken
Loyce Shreffler
The
Chamber of Commerce Ap
Bill Nordeen
Clarence Davis
Wain Geaudreau
Chamber of Commerce
Shrefflers Win 1977 Dairy Family of the Year honor
Ken and Loyce Shreffler of Selle receive the Northwest Dairymen Association Dairy Family of the Year award for 1977. The couple, with six children at home, manage 85 milk producing Holsteins on 225 acres, plus operate Center Valley Feed and Ken serves on the county dairy advisory board and as an NDA unit president.
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Ken
Center Valley Feed
County Commissioners’ Dairy Advisory Board
NDA
First Christian Church
Sandpoint
Shrefflers
Loyce Shreffler
Four Charged With Cultivation In Bonner County
Four people were arrested Thursday by sheriffs deputies on charges of cultivation of a controlled substance. Ampawn Callen, 27, Sandpoint, detained in Bonner County jail on $1000 bond. Johnny Homer Beach jailed on a Twin Falls warrant and $1300 bond, also charged with cultivation. William Hugh Callen, 25, Sagle, and Constance Carrol, 33, Sandpoint, both charged with cultivation and released on recognizance by Judge Ralph Mills.
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Chuck Schoonover
Ampawn Callen
Sandpoint
Bonner County
Johnny Homer Beach
Twin Falls Beach
William Hugh Callen
Sagle
Constance Carrol
Ralph Mills
Seal Coating Begins Downtown Street Project
The city starts its annual highway district seal-coating on 22 blocks across Church and Pine Streets. Oil and gravel will be laid and left to cure for days, with excess rock chips swept up for reuse next year. Public Works director Jack Leckner notes some streets will be dug up later for water main replacements as older roads age up to forty years.
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Church
Pine
Highway District
Jack Leckner
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Siri
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Debra Gornick
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Brian Moe
Leckner
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