The County Lines

Sat., Oct. 31, 1998

WASHINGTON

ADAMS COUNTY

Lind

Residents on Nov. 3 will decide the future of the city pool. The town is asking for a $30,000 one-year maintenance and operations levy for it. That sum also includes funds for the local jogging trail, PeeWee basketball program and T-ball activities. The estimated assessment would be $12 for a $50,000 home.

FERRY COUNTY

Republic

Local woman Helen Ritzschke recently received a postcard from her brother and sister-in-law, John and Isabel Davis, postmarked Flagstaff, Ariz., Oct. 3, 1972. It bore a 6-cent stamp commemorating the Munich Olympics. Ritzschke says receiving the card was unnerving because her brother and sister-in-law are now deceased.

GRANT COUNTY

Ephrata

Paying $26,000 per year for copy machine maintenance alone, the Ephrata School District has decided to scrap the machines altogether. The district has contracted with Copyco of Wenatchee to provide copy machines, service and materials for $27,480 per year. The district, which makes nearly 2 million copies per year, will benefit from special Risograph machines, which make bulk copies cheaply.

LINCOLN COUNTY

Davenport

Lincoln County District Court now takes credit cards for traffic tickets, and you can pay by phone from your own home. An automated Citation Service Bureau is always open.

PEND OREILLE COUNTY

Ione

The fire department is having its annual haunted house fund-raiser today from 6 to 10 p.m. Admission is one can (or more) of food, to be distributed to local senior citizens.

SPOKANE COUNTY

Fairfield

Fairfield’s SCOPE office will provide free Halloween candy scanning from 5 to 9 p.m. today at the SCOPE office, W. 401 Hamilton Ave. For more information, call the Fairfield Town Hall at 283-2414 or the SCOPE office at 283-4128.

STEVENS COUNTY

Colville

Mt. Carmel Hospital offers free X-rays of Halloween candy to look for foreign objects, until 9 tonight.

WHITMAN COUNTY

St. John

The Community Current, a monthly newspaper serving 1,200 rural residents, earned second place for general excellence in its category in the National Newspaper Association’s Better Newspaper Contest. Current publisher Rebecca Dickerson praised the St. John community for supporting the paper.

IDAHO

BENEWAH COUNTY

St. Maries

St. Maries has received $4.7million in federal money to upgrade the city’s water system. The money will allow the city to install a mechanical filter system for Rochat Creek, the city’s primary source of drinking water. St. Maries was one of 12 Idaho communities to share $13 million for water system upgrades.

BONNER COUNTY

Priest River

Priest River Junior High School librarian Barbara Moore is looking for a community group to organize and run the book fair in early December. Moore and library aide Carol Lindburg will not have time for it this year. Please contact Moore at the school, (208) 448-1118.

BOUNDARY COUNTY

Bonners Ferry

The Kootenai Valley Chapter of Ducks Unlimited will hold its 17th Annual Banquet and Auction on Nov. 13, at 5:30 p.m. in the Exhibition Hall of the Boundary County Fairgrounds. Tickets are $42 for singles and $59 for couples. For tickets, contact Larry Napier at (208) 267-3139.

KOOTENAI COUNTY

Post Falls

Youth First is sponsoring a Halloween dance at the Post Falls Recreation Center tonight from 8-10 p.m. Two bands will perform. Games, a raffle and food will be offered. The dance is free for recreation center members and $5 for nonmembers. For information, call (208) 777-2066.

LATAH COUNTY

Moscow

Construction on an $11.5 million agriculture-biotechnology building at the University of Idaho will begin in spring, with completion expected in the fall of 1999. The building will house laboratories, classrooms and offices. UI also will spend $2.78 million to remodel the agriculture science building and food science laboratories.

SHOSHONE COUNTY

Silver Valley

With the completion of million-gallon water tanks in Big Creek and Smelterville, the Central Shoshone County Water District is testing the new pump stations, which will cause some debris to move in the water mains. The new systems will start Tuesday and the areas with debris movement will be flushed out.

MONTANA

LINCOLN COUNTY

Libby

Lack of a licensed boiler operator at Memorial Gym threatens to close the Lincoln County campus of Flathead Valley Community College. The facility has been without a licensed boiler operator since Steve Shuey replaced retiring custodian Ron Rayome in summer. Without a licensed boiler operator, the county may lose its insurance on the building. Commissioners are looking at a possible solution of contracting a certified boiler operator for part-time assistance while Shuey trains for his license. The issue came about after the closing of Memorial Gym because of damaged asbestos floor tiles.

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