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Boundary County Archives ~ January, 2012 |
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January 28 |
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WAY TO GO! |
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Young Badger second graders Ethan Whittaker, Kyle Smith and Eli
Richards won gold medals last week ... and the Badgers went 15-0
at last week's Deer Park Tournament. In addition, Valley View
girls Lily Blackmore, third grade, Katie Clairmont, fourth
grade, and Ashlynn Rushing, fifth grade, took top honors in the
Boundary County Community Spelling Bee! |
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PPP: Pfleuger's pupils
making strides! The students of Valley View have had a very
productive week! They participated in the “Fill the Bus”
project on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, collecting a total of 851 items for the Food
Bank. |
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BSU's
veggie-powered pickup wows D.C. crowds: Fresh off their achievement of the building the
world’s fastest vehicle that runs on vegetable
oil, Boise State University’s Greenspeed student
club is in the nation’s capital this week to
talk about their record-setting performance and
sustainable fuels. |
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January 27 |
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Burglars strike again ... ineptly: Two separate burglaries were reported in Bonners
Ferry today; in one of them, a culprit yet to be
captured made off with an empty cash till ...
in the other, two alleged culrpits who dropped
the loot when the lady they stole it from told
them they'd better, and who ran, each blaming
the other. |
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January 26 |
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Apologies:
There have been two reports recently published
on this site and picked up by local media which
were inaccurate and for which I am solely
responsible. |
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Two teens arrested
for Pro-X burglary: Two Boundary County teens are in custody in the Kootenai County Juvenile Detention Center after being charged for
Tuesday for allegedly breaking
into Pro-X Building Supply. Hopefully, their
period of confinement will allow them to
contemplate a career different from the one they
appear to have embarked on ... if as guilty as
the evidence makes them appear, it's obvious they aren't smart
enough to be thieves. |
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City residents asked to
weigh in on recycling: After a two month free trial offered by
Frederickson's Bonners Ferry Garbage, and a
city-funded extension until February 10, the
City of Bonners Ferry wants to know if city
residents are willing to pay increased fees for
easier recycling, or retain current garbage
disposal fees and leave it up to the individual
as to whether solid waste is recycled or merely
hauled to the county landfill. |
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Commissioners gain
concessions on caribou habitat: After Boundary County
Commissioners formally invoked their intent to
coordinate with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service earlier this month and asked for an
extension of a public comment period that ends
January 30 regarding the establishment of
critical habitat for the woodland caribou, the
Service’s state supervisor, Brian Kelly, has
agreed. |
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City faces
annexation challenge: The Annex Opposition Group, an Idaho
unincorportated non-profit group comprised of
most of the owners of the more than 70
properties recently annexed by the City of
Bonners Ferry, have formally requested a
judicial review of that decision. |
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January 24 |
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IDFG commissioner
calls for common sense on caribou: Until the USFWS properly evaluates the effect of
predation on the Selkirk Caribou herd, they
should withdraw their habitat plan and evaluate
more realistic options. |
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Con
artists targeting Idaho's jobless claimants:
The Idaho Department of Labor has received a
number of reports recently of unemployment
insurance benefit claimants being asked to
provide personal financial information over the
telephone to a person identifying himself as
associated with a bank. |
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Court dispositions and
sheriff's log |
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January 23 |
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Not necessarily
news: An open letter to Darrell Kerby on caribou, a way of life,
and pileated peckerheds ... by Mike Weland ... revisited
February 2 |
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January 22 |
 Fill
the Bus food drive adds 2,880 pounds to food bank's shelves:
The fifth annual Fill the Bus food drive held on
Martin Luther King Jr. Day was another
successful year for food collection in Boundary
County, according to Pam Moe. |
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January 21 |
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One dead, two injured
in Bonner County crash: An Oregon truck driver was killed and two people
injured, one critically, in a multi-vehicle
collision at about 8:40 a.m. today near milepost
459 on U.S. 95, near Cocolalla Creek. One of
those involved in the collision was Brian
Fendos, 39, Bonners Ferry, who was not injured. |
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Expert to address
community leaders on crisis de-escalation:
Memphis, Tennessee, Police Major Sam Cochran,
the nation’s acknowledged leader in implementation of Crisis
Intervention Training (CIT) for law enforcement, will address
community leaders at a February 8, 2012, banquet at the Ponderay Event
Center behind Sandpoint Furniture. |
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December jobless
rates drop in 27 of Idaho’s 44 counties: The
seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped from November to
December in 27 of Idaho’s 44 counties, following the decline in
the statewide rate to 8.4 percent. |
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Labrador announces
re-election bid: U.S.
Congressman Raul Labrador, representing Idaho's
First District, announced this week that he will
officially kick off his re-election campaign
with a rally on the capitol steps in Boise, to
be followed by a luncheon at the Rose Room. |
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BPA proposes
to buy land near Twin Rivers: The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) is
proposing to fund the purchase of 87 acres in
the Kootenai River watershed in Boundary County,
Idaho for fish and wildlife habitat protection. |
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BPA proposes
to buy land near Mirror Lake: The Bonneville Power
Administration (BPA) is proposing to fund the purchase of
approximately 149 acres along the Kootenai River in Boundary
County, Idaho for fish and wildlife habitat protection. |
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January 19 |
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Commissioners cite
federal law for say in caribou designation: After
weeks of study and consultation, Boundary County Commissioners
today invoked federal law to be included as participants in the
process currently underway to designate over 600-square-miles of
North Idaho and eastern Washington as critical caribou habitat.
Thanks to their efforts, an impossible deadline has been
extended and local voices will be heard. |
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'Fill the Bus' fills the
food bank: The fifth annual Fill the food drive
held on Martin Luther King Jr. Day was another successful year
for food collection in Boundary County according to Pam Moe. It
was much more than that. |
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Not hiring just yet,
Super 1 Foods is fast approaching: Not but a couple
of weeks ago, the site where the old Lantern Tavern and the KOA
campground once stood, there was a massive back wall and the
hint of two sides ... heavy equipment and the people to run it
seeming in constant movement, and it's building fast. The 80
people they'll need to run the store are eager to apply ... have
patience. |
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Montana man sees slide
off ... slides off spectaculary: Traffic on U.S. 95 was snarled this afternoon
after an 80-year-old Montana man, whose name has
not yet been released, lost control of his
Cadillac, rolled over a guard rail and plunged
down a steep embankment and through several
trees before coming to rest at the bottom nearly
20 feet below ... and it turns out that he
crashed on encountering the flares of a "simple"
slide off that deputies were attending just a
little further south. |
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County commission
minutes, January 9 |
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January 17 |
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Court dispositions and
sheriffs log |
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January 13 |
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Valley
View kids help out the Food Bank: Valley View students brought in 851 items of
food for our Fill the Bus food drive, an
AmeriCorp service project. |
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North Idaho up in
arms over Caribou proposal: In late November, with little to no fanfare, the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
made public an intricately detailed
proposal to set aside more than 600 square miles
of the Selkirk Mountains in North Idaho and
eastern Washington as habitat critical to the
Selkirk Mountain Caribou. |
 County's
second oldest business in 'old' new hands: Sharlene Delaney went to work for the late Pete
Wilson’s law firm more than 31 years ago. Two
years later, Pete’s other business, Boundary
Abstract, was going through transition, and he
asked Sharlene, because of a unique skill she
held, if she’d be interested in moving to that
side of the shop. She was, and now, nearly 29
years later, Sharlene has purchased the business. |
 Paisley
Ann Maas is county's first baby of 2012: The first Boundary County baby of 2012 is
Paisley Ann Maas, born to Rebecca Maas, Bonners
Ferry, on January 6 at Bonner General Hospital,
Sandpoint. |
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County GOP to hold
presidential caucus: At its winter meeting, the
Idaho Republican State Central Committee, the governing body of
the Idaho GOP, met in Boise, and reaffirmed its support of a
change to State Party Rules that will move Idaho’s presidential
candidate selection to Super Tuesday and conduct the nominating
process through a county by county caucus system. |
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Bonners Ferry
City Council to address annexation: The Bonners
Ferry City Council has a packed agenda for their meeting at 2
p.m. Tuesday, January 17, and among the things they'll be
discussing is the highly controversial annexation. |
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Martin Luther King Day
celebration set: The Boundary County Human Rights Task Force
announced that Martin Luther King/Human Rights
Day will be celebrated at 2 p.m. Sunday, January
15, in the basement at Trinity Lutheran Church. |
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Principal Pfleuger Press:
As this is the first Principal Press of the New
Year, I would like to wish you all a very happy
and prosperous New Year. I have enjoyed this
school year and look forward to continuing the
positive direction Valley View is heading. |
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North Idaho
schools slate spelling bees: Elementary students throughout the region are
gearing up to compete in the North Idaho
Regional Spelling Bee, which takes place
Saturday, March 17, at the Coeur d'Alene campus
of North Idaho College. Time corrected |
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TIME CORRECTED:
School district
to meet with food service staff: Boundary County
School District 101 will hold a special meeting at 7:30 a.m.
Friday, February 10, in the Valley View Elementary conference
room to meet with food service staff and to recieve input
regarding contracting food services. |
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January 10 |
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Soaring into the New Year: Northern Air is proud to
announce the first two new pilots of 2012. Jared Brown, Creston,
and 2009 Youth Aviation Scholarship winner Adam Alverez both
earned their pilot’s licenses earlier this month. |
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Court records and
sheriff's log |
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January 7 |
Gary Leonard to
make bid for sheriff: Paradise
Valley Fire Chief Gary Leonard, 56, recently
announced his decision to put his name on the
ballot for Boundary County Sheriff, and he's
launched a website,
http://www.leonard4sheriff.org through which
to gain ideas, contributions and support.
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Aitken spared
prison: After spending 274 days in the Boundary County
jail after pleading guilty to his fifth DUI,
former Kootenai Tribal leader Gary A. Aitken Sr.
was released on Thursday, spared up to four
years in prison provided he gets treatment for
alcohol abuse. |
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Moyie
Springs City Council minutes, December 7 |
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January 5 |
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Watts
sentenced to prison: Despite confessing to her crime, working to make
reparations and a plea agreement she thought was
iron-clad, Judge Steven Verby today handed down
a hard sentence against Jennifer Watts, setting
aside
a plea agreement she'd reached with county
prosecutors. |
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Goad solves Bigfoot disappearance: For several years, the eight-foot-tall Bigfoot
sculpture waved to those passing by the home of
Robert McRay on Highway 95 near the Mt. Hall
Junction. When the former "Conan the Adventurer"
actor and master sculptor returned to
California, he left "Biggie" in the care of
Kathryn Ray, poised outside her iconic Good
Grief Grill and Grocery near Eastport, where
people from around the world stopped regularly
to have their picture taken with the friendly
looking monster. On Tuesday night, one
late-night group of passers-by went a little too
far, and as a result, one of them is now sitting
in jail.
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January 4 |
'Word of
the Week' by Goad? Say yes! It seems a simple concept, the word "vigilant."
"Keeping careful watch for possible danger or
difficulties."
I ran afoul, though, of one of my favorite
people in the Sheriff's Department, Chief Patrol
Deputy Bobby Goad, who said he's never said such
a word. His wife thinks he should submit a "word
of the week." What do you think?
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 Idaho
POW may soon be repatriated: The
U.S. has given its blessing for the Taliban to
be brought in from the cold with a critical step
towards reconciliation as the world paused to
mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
So read headlines, and hopes, around the world.
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Funds available to help
land owners assist river restoration:
Agricultural landowners along 55 miles of the
Kootenai River in Boundary County can help the
Kootenai Tribe with a restoration project along
the river corridor. The Tribe received special
funds from the Natural Resources Conservation
Service to restore and enhance fish and wildlife
habitat conditions along the river. NRCS will
provide financial and technical assistance for
conservation work; applications for funding will
be taken through January 27.
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School Board
meeting January 10 |
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County Commission
minutes, December 26-27 |
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January 3 |
Fire destroys shed,
belongings: A quick-moving fire Tuesday afternoon left a
Pleasant Valley family looking on in shock as
possessions collected over a lifetime were
destroyed.
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Police seeking info on
stolen truck: Major crimes in Boundary County, except to law
enforcement officers, are rare. A December 29
truck theft outside a Main Street restaurant in
which the stolen vehicle was found floating down
the Kootenai River, headlights on, even before
the rig had been noticed missing, may give lie
to that assumption.
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Montana man may be
spared prison for felony DUI: A Montana man who admitted drinking, driving
erratically, crashing his truck into a vehicle
bound for the Mother's Day Moyie Mud Bog,
injuring three young women and then fleeing the
scene of the accident has been given the chance
to avoid up to nine years as an inmate in the
Idaho State Prison.
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IPNF forest plan
released: The U.S. Forest
Service is seeking public comment on the Draft
Forest Plan and Draft Environmental Impact
Statement (DEIS) for the Idaho Panhandle
National Forests released today.
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Court records and
sheriff's log |
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January 2 |
A New Year for a
New Resolution: This year instead of
making a resolution out of guilt or pressure that could trap us
in a counterproductive or pessimistic attitude, let's make a
resolution that will empower us with strength and clarity.
Personal empowerment paves a pathway to freedom and in that
freedom, we can explore the best parts of ourselves in ways that
can unleash hidden potentials, regardless of our age or level of
experience.
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Free 'Family to Family'
program set for February: "Family to Family," a twelve week course for
family and friends of individuals with mental
illness, is being offered by the Far North
Chapter of National Alliance on Mental Illness
(NAMI).
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Poston, Gray inducted
into Rotary: Glenda Poston and Marc Gray were
inducted as new members in the Bonners Ferry Rotary Club in
December.
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Japanese tsunami
debris expected on U.S. coast this winter: Debris from the tsunami that devastated Japan in
March could reach the United States as early as
this winter, according to predictions by NOAA
scientists. |
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Obituaries |
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Linda
Darlene Maggi, October 8, 1955 ~ January 19, 2012 |
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Mildred
M. Fleming, January 19, 1914 ~
January 1, 2012 |
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Sam J. LoPorto, April 28, 1918 ~
January 10, 2012 |
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Patricia
Ann Nelson, October 2, 1934 ~
January 8, 2012 |
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Barbara
Thelma Daniel, June 2, 1922 ~ January
8, 2012 |
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Jon Jeffrey
Plum July 28, 1956 ~ January
2, 2012 |
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Vance Neil
Jones, Jr., October 16, 1935 ~ January 2, 2012 |
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Ruth M.
Loughery, May 15, 1922 ~ December
31, 2011 |
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Seward
R. "Denney" Dinsmore, November 15, 1924 ~ January
1, 2012 |
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Harold
Fairchild, September 12, 1926 ~ December 29, 2011 |
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Social |
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Spencer joins Bicknell family: Spencer John Bicknell, the son of John and
Brittany Bicknell, was born at 10:45 p.m.
Thursday, January 5, at St. John's Lutheran
Hospital, Libby, Montana. |
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Copeland, Gage engaged: Jody Copeland, the son of Larry and Pam
Copeland, Bonners Ferry, and Jackie Gage, the
daughter of James and Carrie Gage, Sagle,
recently announced their engagement to be
married. |
 Kyler
Lee born in Germany: Kyler
Lee Cunningham was born January 2 in Grafenweir,
Germany, to Patricia and Army private Brandon
Cunningham. |
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Sports |
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Use
caution snowmobiling on Forest Road 302:
Recent private timber management operations being
conducted on Forest Capital lands north of Nordman are
resulting in logging trucks and snowmobilers sharing
Forest Road 302 for approximately 4 miles. |
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Letters |
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Congressman Raul Labrador: This week marked a milestone as the United
States Senate passed the 1,000th day without a
budget and without a clue. Instead of passing a
budget, the Senate has passed Obamacare,
preferential industry bailouts and failed
stimulus packages ... saddling American
taxpayers with an additional $4 trillion in
debt. |
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Donna Capurso: Insanity continues to remain alive and well in
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U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service as evidenced at the
January 9 meeting at the Kootenai
River Inn in Bonners Ferry. The KVRI agenda was amended to move the
topic of the USFWS’s Caribou Critical Habitat
presentation to the top as every seat in the KRI
banquet room quickly filled with people and then
every bit of standing room was taken up with an
overflow that stood outside the double doors to
listen to the proceedings. |
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Mike Weland: One of the big attractions in our local Boundary
County Museum is a stuffed albino caribou.
People from the world over stop in, take a
picture, and go home, many from places where
caribou are common. The caribou don't raise as
much stink ... we hardly know they're here.
Somehow, it isn't our caribou raising the
controversy, it's us. |
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LeAlan Pinkerton
and Lester Pinkerton: Now is the time for citizens of Boundary County
to join together to make your opinions known
regarding the latest land closures outlined in
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's caribou
critical habitat proposal. We need to join with
the residents of Bonner County to challenge the
rule proposed. |
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U.S.
Congressman Raul Labrador: Last year, I campaigned on a promise to change
the way Washington works. I am proud to report
that in the first year, I’ve done just that. |
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