Sandpoint Chamber Installs Officers At Annual Dinner
The Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce named Bob Farmin as 1976 president at the October 24 dinner. Bill Watkins relinquished the post, Don McCormick received Director of the Year for work with the Development Committee and Community Congress. John A. Whittaker, guest speaker, urged new committees and public leadership in the year ahead.
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Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce
Bill Watkins
Chamber
Bob Farmin
Don McCormick
Sandpoint Development Committee
Community Congress
John A. Whittaker
Chambers of Commerce
Whittaker
Sandpoint
Missing Hunter Found After Nightlong REACT Search
Idaho Panhandle REACT members mobilized about 6 40 p m to locate 17 year old Don Peterson near Packsaddle Mountain. By 11 15 p m the boy was found and en route home with his father after being kept safe by units and relayed radio messages. His mother was notified.
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Idaho
Cooke
Peterson
Weekend string of Sandpoint crashes leaves two injured
Police and sheriff report multiple weekend car accidents with two injuries from a five car wreck at Third and Cedar. Gene A Truppe was cited for driving under the influence after sideswiping Dan Hunter then hitting a parked car. Truppe and Floyd Kallio were treated. Kallio released. Fire damaged Sandra Cove’s car near Connie's Cafe. fire department extinguished the blaze.
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Sandpoint
Bonner County
Trappe
Floyd Kallio
Bonner General Hospital
Kallio
Truppe
Hunter
Sandra Cove
Connie’s
Disqualified Candidate Over Ponderay City Limits Mistake
Ponderay candidate Harry Hughes was ruled ineligible after city clerks found his Bonner County tax records listed him as a resident of Ponderay though he lives outside the city. The annexation confusion briefly placed Hughes and three neighbors in Ponderay before they were removed from the limits. No taxes were affected as the city does not rely on property tax for operating revenue.
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Harry Hughes
Bonner County
Ponderay
James Steinhouse
Hughes
Steinhouse
Daily Bee
Highway 200
North Idaho
Kootenai Cutoffs
Hofmeister Trial Hints At Wrecked Truck In Wife Slaying
Testimony in the Everett Hofmeister Jr murder trial suggests the jury may view the wrecked Chevrolet pickup where Julie Hofmeister's body was found. Deputies testified the truck was moved from Sandpoint to Lewiston by U Haul, while evidence of an affair and forged receipts emerged.
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Robert C. Gibson
Lewiston
Everett Hofmeister Jr
Bonner County
Julie Darlene Hofmeister
Sandpoint
Hofmeister
Bee
Phillis Tibbetts
Denver
City Urges Residents Not to Rake Leaves into Streets
Public Works Superintendent Jack Leckner urged City residents today to stop raking leaves into streets. He said leaf piles clog storm sewers and hinder street cleaving.
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Public Works
Jack Leckner
Leckner
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Library Dept
Moscow
Jim Miller
REACT
Dave Cooke
Clark Fork
Ponderay City Council
Ponderay City
Hofmeister Trial
Tibbetts
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