Hayden Bible Boasts Some High Rollers
Hayden Bible Church probably carries the highest bowling average per capita in North Idaho. Consider. This year, three members of the Miles Avenue church have rolled 300 games: Bub Lawson, Dave Behmer and Keith Babor. The elder board averages 180 or better, if you don’t count Pastor John McMath. And several church ladies are among the best keglers in their leagues. Holy rollers? Nope. Calvinists.
Manure du jour
First, I was told that a disgruntled, masked cusstomer had thrown dog manure all over the 15th Street office of Avista, the utility formerly known as Washington Water Power. Then, the manure of the day was rumored to have been horse. But the CPD Blue report on the Tuesday incident didn’t specify what kind of manure hit everything but the Avista fan … Cheek well tongued, a Boundary County P&Zer explained to a caller why his county doesn’t require building permits: “We figure if it falls in on their head, they’ll do it better next time.” And you wonder why Boundary County schools are in such poor shape?
Courtship
Krista Manis, former North Idaho College student body president - and a good one, too - was a fixture in the audience for the Scott Yager murder trial. Not only is she preparing to take the bar exam but she wanted to see her beau, Deputy Prosecutor Joel Hazel, present his first DNA testimony. Krista, daughter of retired FBI agent Wayne Manis of CdA, met Joel last summer while interning for Judge James Judd … State Sen. Gordon Crow chuckled when he read Deirdre Elison’s return address on her fax lobbying for continued greyhound simulcasting. The Emmett horse racer lives at 3535 Frozen Dog Road. Emmett also has a Thawed Dog Road … Monday, Monday: I hope Gerald Sorbel’s 69th year, which begins today, goes better than his 68th ended. Last Wednesday, he blacked out at least once and crashed twice into poles near the Kootenai Medical Center. You would, too, if you’d just sliced off two fingers with a table saw.
Beeloopers
I can’t reprint the first error in the Bonner County Bee “news of record” Tuesday because it’d be in poor taste (even for Huckleberries). It involves a death. But the second typo was a whopper, too: “Corby A. Thompson, 224, of Sandpoint was arrested on a Bonner County warrant for purchasing alcohol for minors.” Hey, anyone still capable of vice at age 224 should be let off easy … A recent CdA Press business item was written in a way that made readers think Dr. Terence Neff was leaving town. In fact, the pediatrician’s son was informed by a school bus driver his family was moving. “It kind of bummed him out,” Neff said. Ultimately, Neff ran an ad in Brand X to clear up the confusion, promising “to serve the children of North Idaho for the next two decades.”
Huckleberries
When Carolyn Cozzetto’s description of his Spokane performance was passed along, dignified conductor Gunther Schuller laughed so hard his face turned red: “Bach ‘n’ roll” … The aforementioned Sen. Gordon Crow was so excited to become the first committee chairman from North Idaho in years he didn’t mind that his first name on his office window was spelled with an “E” … Stat of the week: From 1995-97, 40 people died in Idaho boating accidents, only one in a hunting accident … Recently, Daron L. Barwick, 28, of Athol, was shaking so badly he barely could register as a sex offender. Then, he was off to the Big House for offering a 15-year-old hundreds of George Washingtons to have sex with him. His excuse? He thought she was 17.
Parting shot
Among the milestones CdA ohficials bragged up in a list of “city firsts” was this: “First city in Idaho to agree to collective bargaining with all eligible employees.” But it left out this: First city in Idaho to rescind collective bargaining with city employees. And this: First city in Idaho to be forced to restore collective bargaining rights after agreeing to them and then rescinding them.