Hilltop iris gardener keeps thriving above Sandpoint
Mrs True Wilson and her husband continue to run Hilltop Gardens above Pinecrest Cemetery near Sandpoint Idaho. She hybridizes irises with a three week longer growing season and hand pollinates to protect rare varieties. Visitors come from as far as Spokane to see four to five hundred iris varieties and view seed mosaics while local speculators linger.
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Richard Faylor
Wilson
Tris Gardens
Pinecrest Cemetery
Spokane
Pinecrest
Wilsons
Sandpoint
Social Security COLA Raises July Payments
Cost of living increase of 6.4 percent automatically boosts July checks according to Charles R. Farrell in Coeur d Alene. Average retiree payments rise from 210 to 224 monthly, disability from 228 to 242, and survivor payments from 479 to 510. Social Security covers over 32 million people with 5.85 percent employee and employer contributions and 7.9 percent self employed. The COLA uses price changes from early 1975 to early 1976 under the Social Security Administration, part of HEW.
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Charles R. Farrell
Coeur d’ Alene
Farrell
Social Security
The
Social Security Administration
U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
Community notices and meetings in Sandpoint and Bonner County
Multiple events listed including Clark Fork School Boosters meeting on Tuesday June 22 at 7 30 p m at the school Social Security rep visiting Sandpoint June 22 10 a m to noon at the new Senior Center Bonner General Hospital lecture on female hormones June 17 7 p m and nurse meeting to follow University of Idaho behavioral modification course starts June 17 Sandpoint Senior High hosts first class Three college credits offered Golden Grouse 4H meeting June 17 Bonner County Humane Society June 17 8 p m Ponderay City Hall vacation Bible school at St Josephs begins June 21 23 Eagles auxiliary meeting rescheduled June 22 Mum's Green Thumb Garden Club June 21 and a free history lecture June 17 LDS Sandpoint Garden Club potluck June 21 Girl Scouts parade prep Friday at Memorial Park Parking Lot Senior Citizens blood pressure clinic June 21 1 3 p m and senior center dances June 18 Beekeepers Association June 17 7 9 p m slide on Beg diseases Sandpoint Senior Citizens potluck June 18 12 moon
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Coeur d’ Alene
Social Security Administration
Sandpoint
West Main
University of Idaho
Extortion Letters Threaten Big Corporations From Ardmore
A New York firm received a postmarked Ardmore letter with diseased ticks and threats. Ardmore letters, bearing ticks, targeted multiple companies including Mobil Chemical in Macedon New York and a Denver insurer. FBI in Oklahoma City investigates with coordination from Washington authorities.
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Ardmore, Okla
UPI
New York
Ardmore
Consumer Department
Mobil Chemical Co
Plastics Division
Macedon
N.Y
FBI
Washington
Denver
Oklahoma City
Richard Cox
Cox
Senator Church Visits Teton Dam Victims in Idaho
Senator Frank Church arrives in Idaho for a two day tour aiding Teton Dam disaster victims. He meets with Federal Disaster Assistance staff in Idaho Falls and travels to Rexburg and St Anthony for briefings and a news conference. He plans meetings with residents at Ricks College fieldhouse and an evening session with victims in St Anthony.
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Washington
UPI
Sen Frank Church
Idaho
Teton Dam
Twin Falls
Church
Idaho Falls
Federal Disaster Assistance Administration
Rexburg and
St Anthony
Snake River Valley
Rexburg
Ricks College
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Clark Fork
Dr. Fox
Bonner General Hospital
Golden Grouse
Selle Grange
Sandpoint Manor
Becky Price
Virginia Shaffer
Bonner County Humane Society
Ponderay City Hall
Eagles
FOE
Mum's Green Thumb Garden Club
Lucille Kiebert
Evelyn Frank
Alta Barber
LDS Church
Garden Club
Bourbon Lake
Memorial Park
South
Boyer
Ontario St
Senior Citizens Center
Forest.St
Forest and
Main
North Idaho Beekeepers Assn
Sandpoint Senior Citizens
Moon
Senior Citizen Center
Stoddard
Zenith
Chowmein
Steve
Robert
Adler
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