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wasn’t quick to let go. Even up though 1915 as the new courthouse was going up, the town tried to claim the seat.

After the county division bill passed both houses, Gov. Marion E. Hay signed off on March 1, making it official. The bill took effect June 10, but that was a Saturday, so the first county officers, ap-pointed by Hay, were sworn in at 2:10 p.m. on June 12, 1911. Commissioners were Dr. G. W. Sutherland, a large property owner from Newport who had served on the county board in Stevens County; D. R. Atherton, a farmer from Cusick who had experience in road work, logging and administration; and L. L. Mathews, an ac-countant from Ione who had served as a treasurer before he left Minnesota.

The people were quick to criticize their appointed leaders. All three were voted out in the next general elec-tion. And early on, citizens balked at the commissioners’ stipend of $4 per day. Sound familiar?

The name for the state’s youngest county was up for debate in Olympia. “Pend Oreille” had come from the French fur traders, their name for the Kalispel Indi-ans supposedly because of the ear pendants they wore, or perhaps because Lake Pend Oreille was shaped like such an adornment. What-ever the case, it was hard to pronounce, even harder to spell, and it was French. Lawmakers in Olympia sug-gested Allen County, after John B. Allen, the state’s first U.S. Senator.

The first county offices

were on Washington Avenue, just north of what is today POVN and was then The Newport Miner offices. They converted the second story of the Craig building and added a secured vault and jail to the back. Once the new county was allowed to take on debt, it went out for a bond, and in 1915, what we now know as the “old” court-house was built for $27,000 – much to Ione’s dismay.

New buildings were springing up all over New-port in those days. Although voters were tight with their tax dollars and originally rejected the bonds, New-port was able to put up its city hall in 1913 and a new high school in 1915. “Our demands cause taxes,” Fred Wolf wrote on The Miner’s front page in 1914. “People must awaken to reform.”

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McMorris Rodgers said that using the milfoil harvesting boat and the Aquamog rotovator is becoming less effective as the weed spreads and fragments of the plant are left behind.

“As a result, the community is looking increasingly towards the use of other appropriate treat-ment options such as herbi-cides,” she said.

Just weeks prior, McMorris Rodg-ers received a letter from the Kalispel Tribe of Indians restating its preference for avoiding chemi-cal treatments. The tribe and other communities pull drinking water from the river. The tribe’s letter accompanied correspon-dence from the Pend Oreille Public Utility District that said it would be willing to explore other treatment methods, but noted the water systems on the river.

“We’re trying to understand how it fits into the context of all of the thought that went into fighting milfoil over the years,” Deane Osterman said in response to the letter. Osterman is the executive director of the tribe’s natural resources depart-ment. “I think we’ve got to talk across jurisdictions to come up with a coherent, comprehensive plan … I’m not sure where herbi-cide fits into all of that.”

Osterman said the letter from the congresswomen helps move toward having a bigger dialogue on the issue.

PUD general manger Bob Ged-des disagrees with the letter’s statement that mechanical treat-ment is not working. He said that chemicals likely won’t work in all areas of the river.

McMorris Rodgers is not against using mechanical methods, her communications director, Todd Weiner told The Miner. He said she is attempting to find funding to continue us-ing mechanical treatments.

“But with the recent pull out by the county, the PUD is being left to cover the entire cost itself. The Congresswoman’s letter was an effort to reengage the corps,” he said.

The corps helped with funding back in the late 1990s and early 2000s and then pulled out due to a change in policy.

“Eurasian water milfoil con-tinues to devastate the Pend Oreille River and its surround-ing community. As community costs continue to rise, funding to control the noxious weed are increasingly difficult to secure,” McMorris Rodgers wrote.

Bonner County proposes milfoil treatment sites

SANDPOINT – Bonner County has used chemicals to treat mil-foil in the Pend Oreille River for

years, focusing on the slow mov-ing water in bays. Tuesday, Feb. 1, the county commissioners sent a recommendation of areas they’d like the state to treat this year.

The prioritized list includes 13 sites that are high public use areas such as boat launches and swim areas. One goal is to avoid treatment near water intakes. No. 1 on the list is City Beach, Sand Creek and the Windbag

area, followed by Memorial Field, Hope launches, Bonner Park West, Laclede, including Willow Bay and Riley Creek, Dover and Springy Point, Garfield Bay,

Morton Slough River access, Priest River area, Above Albeni Cove, Johnson Creek, Bottle Bay, and Ellisport Bay.

Recommendations went to the Idaho State Department of Agriculture.

The list was put together by Bonner County’s invasive spe-cies taskforce, which is made of nine or 10 members from local agencies such as Idaho Fish and Game and the Department of Lands, as well as private individ-uals and environmental groups, including the Kinnikinnick Na-tive Plant Society and Lake Pend Oreille Waterkeeper.

The state has not announced how much money will be avail-able for fighting milfoil in Bon-ner County.

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School board appoints new trustee

PRIEST RIVER – The newest West Bonner County School Board trustee is Phil Hixson, a Blanchard-area resident who will represent Zone 5.

Hixon was the only one to apply for the vacancy left when long-time member Ken Corning resigned last month. He was in-terviewed, appointed and sworn in at the board meeting Wednes-day, Jan. 19.

“It’s good to have the board back to full strength, having five people sit around that table and making good decisions for our children,” superintendent Mike McGuire said.

The position will be up for election May 17. The school board will be discussing possible changes to its trustee zones once the latest census information is released to the county.

NEWPORT – The Newport School District will offer free screening for children up to age 5 on Monday, Feb. 7. Parents can bring their children in to have their child’s skills tested, including, cognitive (thinking and pre-academic skills), com-munication, fine motor skills (writing, drawing, cutting,

and visual-motor) and gross motor skills (balance, throw-ing, kicking). The district offers a variety of special programs for preschoolers with special needs.

To schedule a screening or for more information, contact Keri Leslie at 509-447-3167, exten-sion 4507.

OLDTOWN – A 39-year-old Oldtown man was being held in lieu of a $50,000 bond after being arrested for cutting a man Saturday, Jan. 29, at an Oldtown wrecking yard, according to a Bonner County Sheriffs Detec-

tive. The man who was cut received stitches on his arm.

Daryl James Hollingsworth was charged with aggravated battery. He was also held on a Washington state warrant alleg-ing possession of a stolen vehicle.

Moose, sheep and goat seasons set

BOISE – The Idaho Fish and Game Commission approved moose, bighorn sheep and mountain goat seasons for 2011 and 2012 at its meeting Thurs-day, Jan. 27.

The number of moose tags dropped, following declining hunt success in central Idaho. The new quota includes 761 tags for antlered bull moose, down by 7 percent from 2009-2010, and 163 tags for antlerless moose, down from 197 earlier.

Three tags for bighorn sheep were added in controlled hunt area 37, following a 2010 census of the herd.

Two new hunts for mountain goats, with one tag each, were established in the Panhandle

Region – one in Unit 1 and the other in units 7 and 9. In the Clearwater area, hunt bound-aries were adjusted to create a new hunt in units 10 and 12, and a tag was added in eastern Idaho’s Unit 67.

The fall 2010 hunting season was notable in that two new state record bighorn sheep were taken by Idaho hunters. The largest Rocky Mountain bighorn ram ever harvested by an Idaho hunter, scoring more than 197 Boone and Crockett points, was taken in Hells Can-yon, and the largest California bighorn harvested by a hunter, at more than 185 points, was taken in the Jarbidge River drainage.

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Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has received a request for an air quality per-mit to construct from Stimson Lumber Co., Priest River. The permit will regulate emissions from the company’s dimen-sional lumber mill located on Old Priest River Road.

A public comment period on the proposed permit will be provided if a written request is submitted to DEQ by 5 p.m.

MST, Wednesday, Feb. 16. The permit application is

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“Folks don’t dress up,” he said. “The populations are similar,”

Baker said. They’re small town and rural.

She said she used to think Ferry County was unique. Ferry County is the least populated of the three counties.

“I used to say ‘Only in Ferry County,’” she said. “But no more. Every county has their share of characters.”

Prosecutors, county commis-sioners differ

The thing that does vary is the

approach of the different elected prosecutors and county commis-sioners.

“The three prosecutors have different priorities,” Baker said. The prosecutors have a great deal of influence on what happens in court by how they charge crimes. “The prosecutors can determine the caseload,” she said.

Criminal trials in Pend Oreille County tend to be serious crimes like murder and sex offenses, Nielsen said.

“The lower level felonies seem to work themselves out,” he said.

Baker agrees.

“Not as many cases go to trial here,” she said.

Each county also has an elected clerk and a staff to tend to day-to-day activities, such as record keeping.

“There is a lot that goes on behind the scenes,” Baker said. Both judges speak highly of the staff that handles the day-to-day work. In addition to the staff in the individual counties, there is also a court officer in Colville who schedules the judges’ time.

“The goal is not to waste any days,” Nielsen said. “There’s al-ways work waiting.”

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bargain over it. Jones said they also created a

management position, hiring from within the company, and allowed the employee to do union work without bargaining for it.

Peña declined to comment on the complaints before the NLRB. She said each party is pretty strong on its positions.

“We’re going to let the legal process weigh in on that,” she said. “Sometimes it just takes a legal ruling to set the record

straight.” Ponderay operations and tech-

nical service employees chose to unionized by a vote in Septem-ber 2009. The bargaining unit makes up 92 out of 178 mill em-ployees. AWPPW and Ponderay Newsprint began the collective bargaining process Jan. 7, 2010, and have been meeting since.

“We have been disappointed to see that instead of adhering to a fair process for addressing our bargaining differences, man-agement has committed unfair practices that have severely

impeded the bargaining process,” Jones said in a press release. “In our view, management has violated a recent settlement agreement intended to remedy prior unfair labor practices and it has committed new unfair labor practices that show a continuing lack of respect for the bargaining process.”

“During this very difficult period, we continue to focus on the safety of our employees and remain open to further discus-sion with the AWPPW, Local 422,” Peña said.

STRIKE | Mill declines to commentFROM PAGE 1A

it appears Washington will get a 10th congressional district. It could also mean changes in state legislative district boundaries. The new boundaries are being con-sidered by the Washington State Redistricting Commission, which meets next March 29.

Washington’s data from the 2010 census was released Wednes-day, Feb. 23. Idaho’s statistics should come in the next month. Data for all states will be out by April 1.

Newport’s population grew 10.6

percent to 2,126. Ione’s shrank by 32 people, totaling 447. Cusick lost five people for a total of 207 residents. Metaline Falls has 238 and Metaline 173, both growing at a rate of 6.7 percent.

Despite the growth, Metaline Falls has a large number of houses sitting empty – likely a result of the Pend Oreille Mine shutdown in 2009. Eighty-two housing units are unoccupied, according to cen-sus data. That’s nearly 40 percent of the houses in town.

Mayor Tara Leininger said most of the empty housing is at the apartment building where the

mine’s contract workers used to rent. She said, otherwise the town is “holding our own.” The grocery store is still open, and though the movie theatre closed last year, the town has a new hair salon and tanning business on its main street.

The Metaline Falls housing situ-ation is behind the county’s high vacancy rate. Pend Oreille has the third highest number of housing units sitting empty in the state. The county has 30.9 percent of its units unoccupied, behind 42.8 percent in San Juan County and 38.9 percent in Pacific County.

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Architect named for elementary school roof replacement

MINER PHOTO|DON GRONNING

Lynn Kaney, right, chairman of the Newport School Board, presents Janet Koby-larz a $200 gift certificate to Northern Quest Casino for her work on the recently passed maintenance and operations levy. The district didn’t pay for the gift certifi-cate, school board members donated money for it.

BY DON GRONNINGOF THE MINER

NEWPORT – The Newport School Board voted 4-0 to award a con-tract to Bernado-Wells Architects, PC, to design the re-roofing project for Stratton Elementary School at its regular meeting Monday night, Feb. 28. School board member Co-rey Rosen had an excused absence, so he didn’t vote.

The design of the new roof will cost between $63,000 and $67,050, about 9 percent of the expected cost of the roof. That doesn’t include another $3,750 for travel, advertis-ing and printing costs.

District business manager Tom Crouch said architectural services usually come in at about 10 percent of the cost of the project. Bernado-Wells will charge less than that, he said.

The contract for architectural services didn’t go out to bid, but it wasn’t required to, he said.

“The RCW does not require you to go out to bid,” he said. They’re professional services like hiring an attorney, he said.

Crouch selected Bernado-Wells for the district.

“My main goal was to have an

architect who has a track record of building roofs, specifically metal roofs,” Crouch said.

The re-roofing project itself is ex-pected to cost between $700,000 to $750,000. The project will go out to bid in late April or early May, with work expected to start this sum-mer and be completed by the time school starts next fall.

The roof will be built on top of the existing roof, district superinten-dent Jason Thompson said. That will avoid the cost of tearing off the old roof and will also create a cold space between the two roofs.

Stratton Elementary was built in 1995.

There have been problems with the soffits and gutters for some time

and the roof started to leak, creat-ing a safety hazard. The warranty on the water tightness was only about two years, Thompson said. While the architectural services don’t have a warranty, a 25-year water-tight warranty will be re-quired for the new roof, he said.

“We owe the public that much,” Thompson said.

The district will seek a cash settlement for the paint that was on the roof, which was under a 20-year warranty.

The board opened the meet-ing with a special award to Janet Kobylarz for her work with the school levy that passed in February. She and Duane Hopkins co-chaired the Citizens Actively Promoting Schools (CAPS), which campaigned for the levy. Kobylarz had made it known the most recent levy was the last one she was going to head up.

Board members contributed their own money to buy a $200 gift cer-tificate to Northern Quest Casino

and presented her with a framed certificate.

Thompson said Kobylarz’s help was invaluable.

“I thought I knew about levies,” he said. “But she taught me about levies here. I learned a ton.”

Kaney said he appreciated her work.

“She did an outstanding job,” he said. He said she has been involved in levies for the last 10 years, at least. “She’s well organized and makes it easy to plan,” he said.

IONE – Following the county commissioners’ town hall meeting in Ione late last month, the Pend Oreille Public Utility District com-mission will hold a special public informational meeting Tuesday, April 26, 6-8 p.m. at the Ione Com-munity Center, 210 E. Blackwell in Ione.

At the casual meeting, attend-

ees can learn about ongoing PUD projects, including the Box Canyon turbine upgrade, Sullivan Creek, progress on the Metaline Falls water project and wildlife projects. The PUD board of commissioners and staff will be present.

There will be a question and answer session, and light refresh-ments will be served.

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High resolution photogra-phy will give firefighters, public view of countyBY DON GRONNINGOF THE MINER

NEWPORT – Later this spring the entire county will be photographed from the air as a result of a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Assistance to Firefighters grant made to the South Pend Oreille County Fire and Rescue Dis-trict.

“We’ll get the results in late June or early July,” said Mike Lithgow, the county’s director of community development. The high-resolution images will go up on the county’s website, on the GIS page. The grant was written by former fire chief Mark Havener and Josh Shelton of the county’s community de-velopment department, Lithgow said.

FEMA awarded the fire dis-trict $262,504 and the PUD will put up $13,816 as a 5 percent match, according to SPOFR chief Mike Nokes. He said the fire district will contract with Pictography, a firm headquar-tered in Rochester, N.Y.

The company will f ly over

the entire county, taking aerial photos.

“They’ll do it on as nice a day as possible, when the leaves are off the trees,” Nokes said.

The images will be have more resolution than the current images on the county’s website. The current images, which were taken in 2009, have a resolution ratio of one pixel to 1 meter. Pixels are the little dots that make up a digital image.

The resolution for the new images will be one pixel to 4 inches in the south part of the county and one pixel to 12 inches in the forested northern part of the county.

The images will also be more than overhead pictures. They will show an oblique view, with 12 to 20 images taken from ap-

proximately a 40-degree angle, according to the company’s website. That means buildings, properties and geographic areas can be seen in detailed, 3-D views.

That will enable firefighters to have a lot more information when they are preparing to go to a fire.

“Firefighters will be able to see windows and doors to look for access points,” Lithgow said. They will also be able to use the images to plan for things like fuel reduction.

The images will be available to the public, as well as to all government agencies, including the Kalispel tribe and the PUD.

They will be useful for law enforcement and planning, as well as firefighting.

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VOLUNTEERS NEEDEDto transport people with their pri-vate cars in Pend Oreille County. Flexible hours are available. Vol-unteers are reimbursed the cur-rent state rate for mileage, parking fees and meals while on duty. You must have a valid driver’s license, proof of auto insurance, a good-clean running car, and a clean driving record. If you are interested in becoming a volun-teer, please call Rural Resources Community Action Transportation at (800) 776-9026. (7HB-3)

MISCELLANEOUS SALESaturday, April 9th, 9:00 am- 3:00 pm. Newport Eagle Dance Hall. Public Welcome!(9p)

TRIPLE CREEKFAMILY FARM

Greenhouse kits: 10’x12’ $550.00, 10’x16’ $600.00, 10’x20’ $650.00. Blueberry plants, hardy, healthy, $12.00 each. Compost worms: 1 pound $25.00. Worm castings: 15 pounds $20.00, 30 pounds $35.00. Bulk/ton pricing avail-able. www.triplecreekfamilyfarm.com (509) 675-3545.(9p)

SPRING BAZAARUsk Community Club, Saturday, April 16th, 9 a.m- 2 p.m. Door prizes! Crafters needed! Tables $5. Amy (509) 445-1453, Francis Hupp (509) 445-1223. Fabulous food served! (8HB-3)

RADIATION PROTECTIONFOR HORSES!

Now in stock at Sago Naturals & More, 110 East Main Avenue, Chewelah. (509) 935-4388 or (877) 935-2633.(9)

GOT VERTIGO?Call Lefty at (509) 447-4237.(9p)

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PUD to hold evening meeting

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District to ask voters for $2.3 millionLevy expenses range from sports to copy paper

BY MICHELLE NEDVEDOF THE MINER

PRIEST RIVER – Property own-ers in the West Bonner County School District will be asked to pitch in more than $2.3 million in a levy election May 17. The pro-posed levy totals almost $1 mil-lion more than the last one. The district is suffering financially because of a decreased en-rollment and huge state budget cuts to education.

The Idaho legis-lature has passed three “Students Come First” reform bills the governor has signed into law that will signifi-cantly reduce fund-ing levels.

“In many ways, we are back to pre-1998 funding levels,” West Bonner superintendent Mike Mc-Guire said. “More specifically, our legislature has targeted educators’ salaries for deep cuts and they are simply sending us significantly less money for the staff required to provide education for 1,290 students.”

At its regular meeting March 16, the board approved a reduc-tion in force that will eliminate positions for at least seven teach-ers district wide due to a drop in enrollment.

In addition to those reductions, the state is sending the district less funding for required expenditures such as heating and lighting and

transportation, McGuire said. “The message from the Idaho

legislature is that our local com-munities need to help out even more in paying for K-12 educa-tion,” McGuire said. “Passage of the May 17 levy is crucial to continuing district programs and services to our students.”

Last year, voters approved a $1,499,813 levy. This year’s levy will total $2,350,000 and if approved, costing $8.31 per

month for a home valued at $150,000 after the homeown-ers’ exemption. That is up from $5.31 a month for the current levy that expires this year.

The school board held two additional public meetings in the last two weeks

to hear from the public on what should be included on the levy.

“Our district has many things to celebrate, and we believe our voters will support this levy so we can continue to provide a qual-ity K-12 academic program plus transportation, nutrition, and co-curricular and after-school pro-grams for our students,” McGuire said. “Our voters have supported West Bonner Schools on each of our past maintenance and opera-tions levies and we need our voter support now more than ever.”

If approved, the levy will make up the anticipated deficit from this school year, a problem the board is hoping to remedy by adding a line item of $196,249 for a reserve

fund that could be used when other funding falls short.

The levy will also include the following items:

• Unfunded teacher salaries and benefits $1,196,340

• Junior high library tech (15 hours/week) $4,781

• School resource officers $50,000

• All co-curricular expenses (sports, music, drama, etc.) $305,618

• Critical facility repairs/mainte-nance $165,000

• Emergency critical equipment repair $8,000

• Technology $50,000

• Gifted and talented program $6,000

• Library and school funds $68,784

• Copy paper $10,274

• Curriculum (elementary read-ing/math materials) $53,000

• ACADECA (Academic Decath-lon) $3,000

• Longevity stipends $25,954

• Community building usage (custodial, utilities for weekend, evening usage) $47,000

• Tuition credit payments $10,000

“The message from the Idaho legislature is that our local communities need to help out even more in paying for K-12 education.”

Mike McGuireSuperintendent, West Bonner County School District

Water trail group to meet April 7

Studded tire deadline extended another week

OLYMPIA – Washington state officials have extended the stud-ded tire deadline one week for the second time this year. Drivers must now remove their studded tires by the end of the day Thurs-day, April 14. Studded tires are legal in Idaho until April 30.

The Washington State Depart-ment of Transportation (WSDOT) extended the studded tire deadline because forecasts call for contin-ued winter driving conditions across the mountain passes and

higher-elevation areas in eastern Washington. Drivers in lower elevations who have no plans to travel across the passes are asked to remove their studded tires before April 14.

Crews will continue clearing the passes, although those traveling into the higher elevations should always prepare for winter driving conditions. This means having information on current weather and roadway conditions, traction tires, and chains.

Weight limits posted on county roadsSANDPOINT – All roads in Bonner County are posted with weight

limits as warmer weather thaws the surfaces. No early morning haul-ing will be allowed on any county-maintained road.

The portion of Eureka Road maintained by Bonner County is closed to all hauling.

CUSICK – The Pend Oreille Wa-ter Trail group will hold a meeting Thursday, April 7, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Cusick Community Center at 111 First Ave., in Cusick.

The agenda includes an over-view of the project by the county’s community development director Mike Lithgow, a review of draft site and sign recommendations,

discussion of the website, coordi-nation of management issues and other topics.

Lunch is available for $10. People are asked to RSVP by e-mailing susan@porta-us.com.

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