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Business |
May 12 |
Lynn
and Leah Jantz 2021 Conservation Farmers of the Year:
Each year the Boundary Soil Conservation District looks back over
the previous farming season and nominates and chooses a local
farmer who went above and beyond. BSCD is pleased to announce
their choice for 2021 Conservation Farmer of the Year to Kootenai
Valley Ranch Inc., also known as Lynn and Leah Jantz. KVR is
deeply rooted in agriculture, as well as soil and water
conservation. |
Social |
May 29 |
 Liermann,
Callison earn academic honors: Two Boundary County
students earned academic honors for the 2022 spring semester at
the University of Montana, Missoula. Tanner Liermann, Naples,
earned president's list honors with a 4.0 GPA and Edie Callison,
Bonners Ferry, was awarded dean's list honors with a GPA between
3.5 and 3.9. |
May 23 |
Nine local students
earn honors a LCSC: A total of 870 students at
Lewis-Clark State College earned honor roll distinction for the
spring 2022 semester, LC State administrators have announced.
Among the honorees, 471 made the President’s List while 399 were
named to the Dean’s List. Nine students so honored are from
Boundary County. |
May 19 |
Morris
celebrates 96th on horseback: To celebrate her 96th
birthday, staff helped Community Restorium resident Fay Morris
fulfill her wish of horseback riding one more time. Fay has a long
history of riding horses and this experience was a dream come true
as you can see from the smile on her face. |
May 18 |
Mechelle
and Rocky say thank you: Mechelle Lech and her
service dog, Rocky, received their mobility support harness today,
helping to increase Mechelle's mobility and safety. She extends
her thanks to everyone in the community who helped make it
possible for her to get this piece of equipment. |
May 12 |
Cole
Fitch Boundary County's Ag Baby for 2022: In
observance of agriculture, spring and new beginnings, Farm Bureau
is pleased to announce this year’s first Boundary County baby of
spring! Cole Louis Fitch was born at 9:26 p.m. Wednesday, March
30, to Natasha and Cameron Fitch. This little guy came into the
world weighing 6.8 pounds and he was 21 3/4 inches long, and he is
well loved by a long list of agricultural families in Boundary
County. |
Sports/Outdoors |
May 11 |
Getting
ready for summer fun: Despite the threat of rain, a
number of young Boundary County residents turned out today to take
part in the motorcycle and ATV course taught by sheriff Dave
Kramer, undersheriff Rich Stephens, corporal Clint Randall and
Deputy Dave Wion, earning their Idaho Department of Parks and
Recreation cards so they can legally ride on forest service trails
open to motorbikes and ATVs without a driver’s license. |
Guess who's going to
state? |
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!! GO, BADGERS !! |
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May 10 |
KVRC
shooters make their mark at Spokane tourney: On April
30, four shooters from the Kootenai Valley Rifle Club travelled to
Spokane to participate in the 51st annual George Conner Outdoor
Smallbore Tournament. They would join 19 other shooters from the
Spokane Rifle Club to shoot, with .22 smallbore single shot
rifles, at the 100-yard, 50-yard and 50-meter distances. |
May 9 |
District champions
two years running! |
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The Bonners Ferry Badgers girls golf team are
district champions for the second year in a row, with a
team score of 374 on their home turf today! Avery Bayer
shot an 83, Braylyn Bayer 87, Cali Iacolucci 97, Mia
Blackmore 107 and Holly Alexander 148. They'll travel to
River Bend Golf Course in Wilder to play for the state 3-A
championship May 16-17. |
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IDFG
seeks info on Kerr Lake elk poaching: Idaho Fish and
Game has received information about two bull elk that were killed
and left to waste near Kerr Lake in Boundary County in the
Panhandle Region. Fish and Game is requesting the public to report
any information about the incident. The investigating officer
estimated the elk were killed sometime between the evening of
April 30 and the morning of May 1 based on evidence observed. |
May 6 |
Osborn takes it all
in Tuesday's Trouble finale: Just days before her
90th birthday, Jeanne Osborn took all the marbles in the 32nd and
final week of the Tuesday's Trouble ladies bowling league season
at AJ's Lanes, taking high scratch game with a 204, rolling a four
bagger along the way, high scratch series, 494, high handicap game
272 and high handicap series, leading the Lady Slippers, Jeanne,
Evelyn Smith and Donna Nystrom, to landing high scratch game, 412,
high scratch series 1,176, second high handicap game 638 and
second high handicap series, 643. |
May 5 |
Kootenai
River anglers have until May 10 to turn in creel packets:
If you are one of the many anglers who participated in the 2022
Kootenai River Angler Science Program, thank you for investing
time and energy into helping us. Information collected by all of
you will help us manage the unique and fairly new burbot fishery
in the Kootenai River. The peak of burbot fishing has come and
gone, so make sure to turn in your completed creel packet by May
10 for a chance to win some great prizes! |
May 4 |
Richards
to fight as a Golden Bear: Standout Badger Wrestler
Eli Richards has signed a letter of intent to continue his
wrestling career at the next level the University of Alberta. With
colleges from over 10 different states recruiting Eli, he has
decided to head out of the country, north to Edmonton to wrestle
for the University of Alberta Golden Bears next year. |
May 3 |
Local shooters shine
at Columbia State match: The Sandpoint Rifle Club
hosted the Columbia State Rifle and Pistol Match on April 23,
2022, at the Leo Hadley Rifle Range in Sandpoint. The shooters had
the opportunity to shoot a three-position rifle match or a 90 shot
pistol match or both. Shooters from Bonners Ferry, Sandpoint and
Spokane attended. |
Letters |
May 27 |
What a difference:
What a difference a few hundred years makes. When on December 15,
1791, the words "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the
security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear
Arms, shall not be infringed," were ratified as the second
amendment to this nation's constitution, they who drafted that
cherished right had only recently defeated an experienced, trained
and provisioned military, thanks to a well regulated militia
comprised of a rabble of heroes armed and equipped not by
government funds, but by their own wherewithal; knives, spears,
tomahawks and muskets, wielded with courage and intrepidity.
By Mike Weland |
May 25 |
To
do nothing is unacceptable: I spent last night, like
many of us in Idaho and across the nation, poring over the
information coming out of Uvalde, holding my children with a
greater intensity than I had that morning, and reflecting on how
... how in the United States of America, we could be dealing with
another horrific school shooting ... how more families, more
students, more first responders and more teachers could be
experiencing a pain that I cannot begin to fathom ... and how to
account for our leaders’ failures. By Kaylee Peterson,
Candidate for U.S. Representative |
Remembering
the children who died that our rights be uninfringed:
A man, no matter his color, creed, race or religion, who thinks of
himself so highly that he can lose sight of the fact that we all
love our children equally is a man lost. The man who would betray
an innocent's trust and take from a child, his or another's, their
innocence, is a creature reprehensible. |
May 23 |
Another point
of view about the election: Yes we lost, but have you
any idea what has been lost? The county has been overrun with a
collection of people with the most extreme ideology and dangerous
self-righteous, self-serving, self-promoting and pompous
posturing; dangerous in the fact that they use God as their
hammer. By Jody McClintock |
Boundary County
built and sustained on strong backs of volunteers: A
recent letter states a reason to vote for someone should be based
upon the person who volunteers and sits on the many boards and
organizations that make Boundary County “work.” Appearing to
remain distant and being uninvolved does not mean someone cares
less. By Rosanne Smith |
May 20 |
Human Rights groups
call for an end to the killing: We call for immediate
action by the federal government and the states for passage of
strong domestic terrorist control acts to combat the epidemic of
mass shootings in the United States taking the lives and injuring
so many innocent individuals. By the Boundary County Human
Rights Task Force et al. |
May 18 |
Boundary County
vote perfect in battle of good vs. evil: Bonners
Ferry and Boundary County Republicans voted 100-percent for our
area's endorsed recommended candidates for this midterm primary
election. The people voted accordingly in North Idaho's upper
Panhandle and the all the candidates won they voted for! By
Ferly Savage Greenhalgh |
May 16 |
No redoubt will
long stand for those who would not share the blessings of liberty:
This country's founders were consummate writers, who, with great
deliberation and care, drafted for us a constitution establishing
the basic form and principals of our government using very much
that same language extant today. Like writers of any age, they
strove to be concise and unambiguous, to make the words mean
precisely what the writers intended for all days to come. By
Mike Weland, Publisher |
May 13 |
Support Ben
Robertson for county commissioner: What do I want in
a County Commissioner for Boundary County? Many things is the
answer to this question. Probably the most important aspect would
be integrity. An individual who will look you in the face and say
the truth as they see it. A person who has no problem being honest
in the face of adversity. By Kyle Watts et al |
On junkyards,
persistence is key: I do sympathize with the
frustrations that Mr. Poland ("Time to change county leadership,"
letters, May 10) is experiencing. I hope what I have to say is
useful. A few years ago, I got my belly full of a different
junkyard on the west side of Highway 95 south of Naples. At the
time, I visited with former Boundary County Planning Administrator
John Moss. John suggested that I put my concerns in writing and
bring them back to him. |
May 10 |
I got my knee on
his neck, Ma! Take a pitcher! "Critical race theory,
an ugly ideology that divides people based on race, has crept into
Idaho’s public school classrooms right under our noses. Except
it's not and it hasn't. It's yet another farcical far-right
imaginary bugaboo, another lie piled on a heap of lies created by
an insidious cabal of office-seeking miscreants bent on rousing
fears and imposing their own narrow racial, political and
religious moral certitude on those of us who can't imagine what
they are railing about. By Mike Weland |
Mark Sauter for
Idaho House Seat 1A: Please elect Mark Sauter for our
legislative district 1A seat in the Idaho House of
Representatives. Mark is a traditional Republican, well known for
his hard work in whatever task he takes on. Many of you may have
met Mark through his fire outreach with Selkirk Fire. By
Kennon & Jody McClintock |
We face a choice May
17, let your voice be heard: My final thoughts on
Idaho’s May 17 primary election are simple: Elections matter. If
you don’t vote, you don’t count. In Idaho, it is the Republican
primary that actually determines who is going to represent us, not
the general election this fall. During the last 50 years in Idaho
we - you and I - have built a state that is the envy of
conservatives nationwide. It was built by those of us who have
lived here, voted here and paid taxes here over the same period of
time. By Darrell Kerby |
Time
to change county leadership: Is this a junkyard?
According to your Boundary County Commissioners this is not a
junkyard. To them, these aren't even pictures of a junkyard. To
us, the neighbors who must live next to this, it most certainly is
a junkyard. If it looks like one, smells like one, sounds like
one, and conducts business like one, then it must be one. So why
is it in an agricultural area? By John Poland |
May 7 |
The
awful price of lies: If the statistics of late hold,
by this time next week, the United States will have lost
one-million people to COVID-19, a number far disproportionate to
the rest of the world, where 6,250,452 have died to date,
according to Johns Hopkins. Of those, 997,503 are from the U.S.
Our nation's failure wasn't because our physicians and scientists
were lacking. No, we were led by a charismatic con man with a
propensity for lying. A significant number of our citizens chose
to give credence to the easily disproved lies they wanted to hear
rather than the truths they didn't. By Mike Weland |
Woodward has
integrity, deserves our vote: As members of the
Bonners Ferry community, we have known Jim Woodward, his wife
Brenda, and their respective families for decades. However, many
citizens, old and new alike, in Boundary and Bonner counties may
be unaware of the full extent of service and representation Jim
has provided us. By Dave and Brenda Walter |
May 6 |
Idaho GOP is
misunderstood: The new folks here seem to assume that
Idaho republicans are a far-right, ultra-conservative group. We
are not like the rust-belt states, nor the confederacy. Our
history is rooted in demographics which are often at odds,
politically. Specifically, union miners and ranchers have very
little in common. By Gerald Higgs |
We
commend and endorse Sage Dixon: We endorse Sage
Dixon, Idaho State Representative District 1B. Sage holds his
office with honor, integrity, and a strong sense of community. He
stood with us on lawns during wildfire meetings for the Alpine
wildfire and the other fires that nearly took homes and property
in our North Idaho neighborhoods. By Louise and Jim Peterson |
May 5 |
Time to speak out
... and vote: I am haunted by the well-known quote of
Pastor Martin Niemoller, who miraculously survived seven years in
Nazi concentration camps because of his protests against Hitler.
“First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak
out—because I was not a Socialist," he said. By Jo Len
Everhart |
May 4 |
Appears someone's
lying: I read with dismay the letter of April 28 by a
trio from Bonners Ferry. The trio claimed that Scott Herndon lied
about Jim Woodward; that Jim Woodward is a conservative and that
claims against him are funded by out of state money. Yet, all of
the claims by the three letter writers are demonstrably false.
By Dean Cannon |
Supports Sauter for
House seat: I had the opportunity to attend the
Reader’s Candidate Forum for District 1 Senate and House Race on
Tuesday May 3. The race that interests me most is for the open
seat for the House of Representatives, Seat A. The candidate who
was able to separate himself from the rest was Mark Sauter. By
Bob Presta |
May 3 |
Instead
of fighting, let's keep the puddle wet: I'm not the
sharpest cookie in the knife drawer, but I simply do not
understand the brouhaha over abortion "rights." It just doesn't
seem to me a legitimate topic of national discourse requiring
political intervention any more than a man's right to get a
vasectomy or a death bed patient's right to choose between
advanced medical treatment or a dignified death in the comfort of
familiar surroundings. By Mike Weland |
With
Critchfield, we got this! State Superintendent
candidate Debbie Critchfield stands apart from her May 17
Republican primary competition. What distinguishes her is a “can
do” attitude. While one of her opponents might make a good stand
in for Waldo in “Where’s Waldo?” and the other likes to play the
fear card in order to convince voters they are the helpless
victims of the big, bad government, Critchfield shows her ability
to bring people together to actually get things done. By Mary
Ollie |
Obituaries |
May 26 |
Ashley M. Brady, 33, passed away peacefully at
her Bonners Ferry home on May 23, 2022, surrounded by her family.
Ashley was born January 10, 1989, the daughter of Charles "Chuck"
Jones and Margaret Sieber in Aurora, Colorado. Services will be
announced at a later date. |
Patricia "Patti" Preston, 66, passed away at her
home May 23, 2022, in Bonners Ferry. Patti was born in Chicago
February 6, 1956. No services are planned at this time. |
May 9 |
Myrna Lavey
Phillips Carlson Watkins, 86, Bonners Ferry, passed
away May 5, 2022. She was born August 15, 1935, in Mesa, Idaho, to
Leslie (Jack) and Almeda Phillips. Funeral services will take
place at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, May 14 at Trinity Lutheran Church,
6784 Cody Street, Bonners Ferry. Burial Services will be held at
the Grandview Cemetery following the funeral service. |
May 6 |
Carol
Kristin “Kris” Lefebvre (Chubb) succumbed to cancer
with her husband John at her side May 4, 2022. A memorial is
planned for July 7, 2022 at Kris and John’s home. Kris was born in
Bonners Ferry December 23, 1948, to Bill and Carol Chubb and lived
in Bonners Ferry until graduating high school in 1967. She met her
future husband John at a dance in 1964 in the parking lot next to
what is now Larson’s. |
May 4 |
Gina
Randine Ballinger passed away peacefully in her house
in Fleming Island, Florida, on March 8, 2022, surrounded by her
loved ones. A memorial service will take place at 2 p.m. Saturday,
May 21, at Advent Lutheran Church, 2156 Loch Rane Boulevard,
Orange Park, Florida. |
Joseph
Thomas Richardson, 93, passed away peacefully in the
early morning hours on April 24 from COPD. His last week was spent
with various members of his family as he transitioned to his
heavenly home. He was playful, loving and gentle during this
transition. It was very much a reflection of who he was throughout
his life. A memorial service will be scheduled at a later date. |