Daniel Bullard Gets Gold For Piano Performance

Daniel Bullard, a fifth-grader at Winton Elementary School in Coeur d’Alene, won a gold medal last month in the piano division of the Music and Allied Arts Festival at Gonzaga University in Spokane. Bullard’s winning performance was Sonatina in C by Freiderick Koulau.

Bullard, who studies piano with Sue Brunner, also entered performances of a a contemporary composer piece and a selection from the Romantic Era. He received a silver medal for a Baroque piece last year.

The piano division had more than 1,100 performers with more than 1,700 young artist from the western United States participating in the festival.

Brothers Jared J. and Jamin J. Miller, sons of James and Joyce Miller of Athol, recently enlisted in the Army.

Jared, who is a 1998 graduate of the State of Alaska Department of Education, has joined the infantry and recently departed for basic training at Fort Benning, Ga.

Jamin is a 1999 graduate of North Idaho College and has enlisted as a Cavalry Scout. He is currently attending basic training at Fort Knox, Ky., and will be stationed in Europe upon completion of training.

Carole Tabakman, a senior account administrator with Aon Risk Services Inc. in Coeur d’Alene, recently graduated from Gonzaga University with a master of arts in organizational leadership.

Tabakman lives in Coeur d’Alene with her husband, David, and has three children and four grandchildren.

Sgt. 1st Class Randall E. Smith, who lives in Coeur d’Alene with his wife Joann Treece-Smith, was recently assigned to the Army Recruiting Station in south Spokane.

His recruiting duties include the folowing high schools: Cheney, Creston, Davenport, Harrington, Joel E. Ferris, Lewis and Clark, Medical Lake, Reardan, Rosalia, Sprague, St. John/Endicott and Wilbur, and Eastern Washington University and Gonzaga University.

Smith is a 1978 graduate of Lakeland High School in Rathdrum and the son of Warren and Sharon Smith of Hayden Lake.