The County Lines

Fri., April 30, 1999

WASHINGTON

ADAMS COUNTY

Lind

Principal Chris Johnson didn’t go through the roof when his students broke their reading record - he went to the roof. Johnson challenged kids at Lind Elementary to read more than 81,000 minutes during the school read-a-thon. After 91,920 minutes, Johnson was sent to the school roof. A lounge chair, sunglasses, sunscreen, slicker, snacks, cell phone and port-a-potty were provided by staff and students to make his stay more comfortable.

FERRY COUNTY

Republic

Fire season is in full swing as Republic Volunteer firefighters were called out 11 times in one week recently. Of those calls, two were structure fires. Leonard Millbrandt of Redmond lost his summer home on Curlew Lake to one blaze, while the roof on Tiffany’s Resort was destroyed by flames as well. The team says it is being run ragged, with some businessmen being in the fire trucks more than in their businesses.

GRANT COUNTY

Ephrata

Inmates put in 30,000 building the new Grant County Work Release Center at the Port of Ephrata. Computer classes and workplace basics will be offered to prisoners, as will jobs in the facility’s greenhouse, garden and leather repair shop. Before the center was built, the county could not accept misdemeanor prisoners due to lack of space and housed inmates in a tent jail.

LINCOLN COUNTY

Davenport

Davenport’s Bill Reinbold has been named Lincoln County’s Conservation Farmer of the Year. Reinbold worked on the Hawk Creek Project to check well water quality in that area. He completed a nutrient plan and divided slopes to plant grasses along the drainage area. Reinbold worked with the local conservation district on this project.

PEND OREILLE COUNTY

Metaline

The community is rallying around Mike Coppock. Coppock has inoperable prostate cancer and is seeking alternative treatments. To help him with medical bills, friends are having a fund-raiser dinner/dance tonight at the Selkirk High School gym. The event begins at 5 p.m. and lasts until 10 p.m. Three popular bands from Spokane and Post Falls have been booked for the event.

SPOKANE COUNTY

Deer Park

Lisa A. Rooney, daughter of Edward and Suzanne Rooney of Deer Park, has been invited to join a national honor society at Washington State University.

Phi Eta Sigma recognizes first-year students who have earned a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.5.

Rooney, a 1998 Deer Park High School graduate, is studying business at WSU.

STEVENS COUNTY

Colville

Colville’s fish hatchery is still not a sure thing. Curt Vail, fish biologist with the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, recently spoke on the hatchery to the Colville Chamber of Commerce. The hatchery is funded to operate through 2000 by the Colville Confederated Tribes. After that, no sources of money have been earmarked.

WHITMAN COUNTY

Pullman

A personnel shortage in the Pullman Police Department has prompted a variety of staffing changes.

A youth services officer and detective have been moved into the Pullman police patrol division to cover shifts. Three new hires for Pullman, funded through a federal COPS grant, are expected to provide more foot patrol in the College HIll area.

Two Pullman police officers, Don Heroff, 31, and Dan Hargraves, 29, began training this week at the Seattle Police Academy just one week after two other officers, Mike Crow, 24, and Aaron Breshears, 24, graduated from the police academy in Spokane. This week also marks the halfway point for two other academy graduates, Matthew Burkett and Ruben Harris, both 22, who are undergoing field training with the department.

Weatherly said the department plans no mandatory training or extra duty this summer in order to allow officers to get their vacation time.

IDAHO

BENEWAH COUNTY

Plummer

Seventeen Coeur d’Alene Tribe members have announced candidacy for three tribal council seats. Polls will be open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday at the tribal headquarters. Seats to be filled include a three-year term for tribal chairman, a position currently held by Ernie Stensgar. Enrolled tribal members at least 18 years old can vote in the election.

BONNER COUNTY

Sandpoint

The University of Idaho, Idaho 4-H and the Panhandle Health District is offering a Stop Teen Addiction to Tobacco workshop May 7-8 at Camp Lutherhaven on Lake Coeur d’Alene. Students in grades 7-12 from Bonner, Boundary and Kootenai counties are invited to meet and network with North Idaho youth leaders to learn and implement tobacco prevention programs to junior and senior high school teens. Registration forms are available at the Bonner County extension office. For information, call Nancy at (208) 263-8511.

BOUNDARY COUNTY

Bonners Ferry

The Boundary County Community Kitchen at the United Methodist Church offers free lunch Thursdays at noon. The Community Kitchen is seeking a cook and a group interested in continuing the event. To help, call Christine at (208) 267-3663.

KOOTENAI COUNTY

Coeur d’Alene

Kootenai County will offer disposal of unwanted pesticides, herbicides and other hazardous chemicals May 17 at the Kooteni County transfer station. No fee will be charged for the first 1,000 pounds of material per producer. Farmers and other agricultural producers must preregister by calling the Idaho Department of Agricultural’s pesticide disposal program at (208) 332-8161.

LATAH COUNTY

Moscow

Imagination Dance Theatre will present the ballet “Coppelia” Sunday at 3 p.m. in the University of Idaho Auditorium. The ballet will be performed Friday for more than 400 third grade students from Moscow, Troy, Deary, Genesee and Julietta schools as part of the Festival Dance Ballet program, which teaches dance in schools. For information, call (208) 883-3267.

SHOSHONE COUNTY

Kellogg

Construction has begun on a temporary flood control pipe in Kellogg and Wardner. The Army Corps of Engineers and the city are installing the partially buried pipe to help prevent potential flooding of Milo Creek this spring. The 54-inch pipe will channel water away from homes and to the Coeur d’Alene River. The project is expected to be completed by Monday or Tuesday.

MONTANA

LINCOLN COUNTY

Troy

The Three Rivers Ranger District is seeking public comment on a proposed timber sale. The proposal includes openings larger than 40 acres. Copies of the Clay Beaver Environmental Assessment are available at Three Rivers Ranger District and libraries in Troy, Libby and Bonners Ferry. The deadline for comments is May 17. For information, call environmental coordinator Michael Donald at (406) 295-4693.

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