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Ferry County
Republic
The Republic Emergency Medical Service District will hold a Chinese feed fund-raiser Saturday from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Fire Hall. The menu will include egg flower soup, sweet and sour pork, chicken chow mein, fried rice and egg foo yong for $8 per plate. Funds raised will be used for the local kids halloween party and other EMS activities.
Grant County
Quincy
Abel Espinoza, 14, has pleaded guilty to intimidating a witness and rendering criminal assistance in the June 3 shooting death of Augustino Trevino, 17. Espinoza made the plea to avoid a murder trial. The Grant County prosecutor’s office was ready for trial but agreed to the plea when a number of witnesses said Espinoza was not the shooter.
Lincoln County
Davenport
Jake Booth, 15, and his team won top prize at the recent Lake Coeur d’Alene Anglers Association chinook derby for reeling in a 20-pound chinook salmon. The prize, a 16-foot Starcraft Derby fishing boat with motor and trailer, probably will get plenty of use - Booth lives on the banks of the Spokane River.
Pend Oreille County
Cusick
The local school district still is searching for a new school board member. Glen Nenema, Kalispel tribal chairman, had applied, but recent changes in director district boundaries have made him ineligible.
Spokane County
Nine Mile Falls
Nine Mile Falls School District’s Lakeside High School will celebrate its 10th anniversary in November 2000. Twelve current staff members were part of the original faculty. They are Barbara Anderson, Larry Carpenter, Maria DiBartolo, Steve Feider, Sue Fisk, Scott Jones, Deborah Krupp, Mary McAdam, Odette Rubright, Lisa Schultz, Jamie Seaburg and Linda Willett.
Stevens County
Colville
Police Chief Damon Meshishnek is tooling around in perhaps the hottest car in town. The 1993 Chevy Camaro isn’t the type of vehicle citizens are accustomed to seeing the chief in. Meshishnek says he could sell the car, which was confiscated in a drug bust. Instead, he says he thinks the local force could use it for undercover work or as part of a program such as DARE.
Whitman County
Pullman
The Washington state Liquor Control Board is meeting in Pullman today to give students, residents and community representatives the opportunity to discuss alcohol problems. The meeting will start at 2 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites. The board is asking specifically what, if any, of its services the public would like changed and in what ways the agency can be more effective in Whitman County. For more information, contact Tricia Currier, public information officer, at (360) 664-1784.
IDAHO
Benewah County
Plummer
The Plummer Public Library is sponsoring a pumpkin decorating contest. Pumpkins, which will be on display in October, will be judged, and winners will be announced at a Halloween party Oct. 28. Age categories are 5 to 8 years old, 9 to 13 and 14 and older including adults. Entry forms are available at the library.
Bonner County
Sandpoint
The Dover bridge on U.S. Highway 2 just west of Dover, Idaho, will be closed for deck repairs from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. from Monday through next Thursday. Drivers traveling between Sandpoint and Priest River will need to take the Pine Street loop or Dufort Road on the south side of the Pend Oreille River.
Boundary County
Bonners Ferry
The Bonners Ferry Seniors Hospitality Center operates from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Mondays through Fridays. It serves meals Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays at noon, and home-delivered meals also are available. The center also provides transportation for elderly people to recreational activities and operates subsidized housing for elderly and handicapped people. For more information, contact the center at (208) 267-5553.
Kootenai County
Coeur d’Alene
The third University of Idaho-sponsored Rural Towns Symposium, “Partnerships for Change,” will be held Oct. 7-9 in the Edminster Student Union Building on the North Idaho College campus in Coeur d’Alene. The UI College of Art and Architecture’s Center for Community Design and Rural Planning is sponsoring the event. Four keynote speakers are scheduled: Gary Machlis, visiting chief social scientist for the National Park Service and professor of forest resources at UI; William Johnson, landscape architect and former dean of the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources; Jim Grossman, president of Grossman Family Properties, which earned the Urban Lands Institute’s Award for Excellence in 1997; and Frank Martin, development manager for Hidden Springs and Prairie Crossing, two innovative, nationally recognized master planned communities. Registration fee is $180 or $55 for students; the fee for only the Saturday workshop is $60. To register, call (208) 885-6611.
Latah County
Moscow
The number of minority students enrolled in University of Idaho programs throughout the state grew about 3 percent this semester - from 821 last fall to 843 this year. Minority students now constitute 7.5 percent of UI’s overall enrollment. On the Moscow campus, the number of minority students grew 2 percent, and they now make up 7.7 percent of the student population there. Hal Godwin, UI vice president for student affairs, attributed the rise to three factors: more scholarship dollars for minority students, broader academic programming and better retention rates.
Shoshone County
Kellogg
The Kellogg School District facilities committee will conduct building walk-throughs at Canyon and Pinehurst elementary schools on Tuesday and at Kellogg Middle School, Kellogg High School and Sunnyside Elementary School on Wednesday. Community meetings in October, November and December will gather residents’ suggestions on buildings, enrollment, the district and individual schools.
MONTANA
Lincoln County
Libby
St. John’s Lutheran Hospital has decided not to continue its management relationship with Brim Healthcare when the agreement expires Oct. 1. The volunteer board recently completed a 90-day review of the contract.