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Former Bonner General Health CFO was re-cently sentenced for embezzling upwards of $220,000 from BGH. She got 90 days in jail, 5 years of probation and has agreed to pay back restitution for what she stole. Is this a fair punishment for her crime?

“For me, it’s hard to see a lot of justice in the world. No, this was not a fair sentence. There should have been a substantial cash pen-alty. It seems she got off pretty light.”

Steve NavarreOwner Steve’s Import AutoSandpoint

“She should have to do a whole shitload of community service for the hospital. That’s the way people learn. They have to give back to the community.”

Janice SmithStudentSandpoint

“I’m no judge, but in my opin-ion she should have gotten at least a year. It was her first time and she’s paying it back, but still, she should’ve gotten more.”

Lenny HessOwner 7BTVSandpoint

“No. I’d think it might encour-age others to take that risk.”

Samantha CarstonBartender/singerSandpoint

“When someone does some-thing over that long period of time, she did a lot of thinking about it. The punishment has to be longer than 90 days. It’s a slap on the wrist. I see this with congressmen and public offi-cials, too. They don’t give them the same level of punishment. She should be doing a lot more community service.”Larry WrightRetiredSandpoint

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Name-calling...

Reinvent the Fourth...

In June 20th’s Read-er, Nick Geir stated on page 4: “A clueless Donald Trump tweeted, ‘What sport is he talking about?’” then he stated, “he must have forgotten …” (about Muhammad Ali).

I’ve studied verbal abuse extensively over the past few years. Name-call-ing (“clueless”) is obvious overt verbal abuse, but it is also an accusation, an anecdotal opinion, not based on facts, which is covert verbal abusive.

Trump is asking a non-offensive statement

Dear Editor,In response to the

“Loud Tradition” letter written by Charlotte

that I too would have asked, as a good com-municator avoiding as-sumptions. “… he must have forgotten” is not only an assumption, but it is “countering,” which is when one opposes a non-offensive statement made by another. Con-trollers employ the use of “countering” to position themselves to know more or better than another in order to appear superi-or. The act of countering indicates a person believes they are an omniscient god who knows what an-other is thinking without asking, and it is verbal abuse.

Nick Geir’s statements clearly show himself to be a controller, which is amus-ing to me, considering that he is pointing a finger at Trump while ignoring the three pointed at himself. I highly recommend he read Patricia Evans’ “Con-trolling People.”

His entire article seems to be in defense of Mus-lims. He seems to be teaching that which he needs to learn the most, and it is understandable to view him as Muslim. His religious preference is his prerogative, but when one outwardly shows a strong need to defend their religion, their beliefs

may be built on shaky ground.

From Nick Geir’s state-ments, he seems to be showing that he is more interested in examining the contents of Trump’s mind, when his own seems to be lacking in analysis. I think he has done a dis-service to the Reader, but then… I am not a Muslim.

Vickey BabaycoSandpoint

Where is our Iraq War report?British investigation yields a damning verdict

By Nick GierReader Columnist

After seven long years of investigation, a British commission led by Sir John Chilcot has issued its findings on the British participation in the Iraq War. The report, 2.6 million words in 12 volumes, concludes that plans were “seriously flawed” and that the war “went badly wrong, with consequences to this day.”

As an example, Chilcot mentioned the recent ISIS car bombing in Baghdad that claimed 250 lives. There would be no ISIS today if President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair had not taken their nations into war.

The inquiry has led to the re-lease of secret memos between Bush and Blair in which both, as early as October 2001, agreed that Hussein should be removed from power. In a declassified “Note on Iraq” (7/28/02) Blair promises Bush that “I will be with you, whatever,” and he offered this prediction: “If we win quickly, everyone will be our friend. If we don’t, recrimi-nations will start fast.”

The initial ground war did indeed go quickly, and Bush celebrated “Mission Accom-plished” with a stunt landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln. But the Chilcot Report found that plans for a post-invasion Iraq were “wholly inade-quate.” On the American side, Bush political appointees with little or no training in nation building and ignorant of Arab culture made fatal mistakes.

Major among these errors was the decision to disband the Iraqi army, many of whom joined Al Qaeda and then ISIS. Early on Abu Masab al-Zarqa-wi, future head of Al Qaeda in Iraq, joined Ansar al-Islam, but he and these Kurdish Islamists had, contrary to claims by the Bush administration, no rela-tionship with Hussein.

The Pentagon wanted to take out the Ansar al-Islam base in Northeast Iraq prior to the invasion of Iraq, but this idea was vetoed by the Nation-al Security Agency. Tragically, Zarqawi was then free to lead a brutal campaign against Shia

Muslims and Coalition forces until he was killed in 2006.

It is clear that the invasion itself caused the rise of Sunni ji-hadists and the Sunni/Shia civil war that followed. Hussein was a moderate Sunni, so sectarian tensions were held in check and attacks on Shia Muslims were rare. His human rights record was of course horrible.

Paul Bremer, Bush’s top man in Iraq, has responded to the Chilcot Report by saying that it is unfair to blame his boss for failed intelligence. A more accu-rate phrase is “cooked” intelli-gence, many examples of which are found in former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s infamous speech to the UN. His own State Department knew that the aluminum tubes, which he said were manufactured for nuclear weapons, were in fact rocket launchers. On other allegations State Department officials warned Powell that they were “weak,” “not credible” or “high-ly questionable.”

Parents of British soldiers killed in Iraq are now consid-

ering law suits against Blair, and protestors in the streets are calling him a war criminal. The Chilcot Report maintains that the legal basis for the war was “questionable,” but Chilcot said that jurists would have to settle that issue. The Justice Department decided not to pur-sue charges against the Bush administration, so the legality issue has not been resolved in the U.S. either.

That there were violations of international law is cer-tain. In 2011 George W. Bush cancelled a trip to Switzerland because a complaint had been filed in a Geneva court against him. Bush has admitted that he ordered waterboarding, con-sidered a war crime under the Geneva Convention on Torture.

Not only did Bush’s pros-ecution of the war undermine our moral standing in the world, it also led to the deaths of 4,502 U. S. service men and women. Although U. S. offi-cials were forbidden from tally-ing Iraqi fatalities, estimates run from 180,000 to 1 million.

The 32,223 wounded Amer-icans (many of them severely injured) has put a huge burden on the Veterans Administration even with increased funding. On average 20 Iraq and Af-ghanistan War veterans take their lives every day.

Finally, there is the issue of billions and billions of dollars spent on this tragic and unnec-essary war. A report by Reuters estimated that the cost, includ-ing veterans’ benefits, is $2.2 trillion, which would grow to over $4 trillion over the next four decades.

The GOP Congress has done nine investigations of Benghazi, but there has been no compre-hensive investigation of the Iraq War. Instead of yet again harassing Clinton, why doesn’t Congress put Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld in the hot seat?

Nick Gier of Moscow taught philosophy at the University of Idaho for 31 years. Read all of his columns about the Iraq War on the appropriate links at www.NickGier.com.

Wright: Thank you, Char-lotte, for bringing atten-tion to many important issues, especially those concerning our Native Americans who we should be thanking instead of neglecting.

Do we have to continue to scare our animals into a panic or jeopardize our environment with need-less hazards and noise? Why don’t we up our con-sciousness a step or two and reinvent a better way to celebrate the Fourth?

Evie LeuchtSandpoint

PERSPECTIVES

July 14, 2016 / R / 5

Parking Woes...

Dear Editor,I was surprised to

read, after the fact, that the city held two work-shops regarding downtown parking. As a downtown business owner, I can em-pathize with the construc-tion workers getting tickets downtown, but the fact is, this happens every day to many business owners try-ing to make a living and serve the community.

The funniest damn thing I’ve seen in a long time is the string of tickets around the tree on First Ave. (The BID tax must not cover tree-trimming). It’s one of the most brash scenes of civil disobedi-ence in Sandpoint, and I think more of that mental-ity is needed.

The article states that we are now adopting the parking laws of Seattle and Boise—a few short years after being named Best Small Town in America. It seems we are catering to all the city-folk (read: Yuppies) and tourists, while overlooking small business owners and residents of downtown.

The constant money grab from the city will only result in even more vacant buildings down-town. City employees can get parking passes, but none are available to business owners. I see people moving their cars all day, every day, (includ-ing myself) and the loss of productivity of this or having to walk to the city lot five times a day will cost more than $127k the scofflaws owe.

I will end my rant by saying that Chris with Diamond Parking actually took time out to talk to me, shake my hand and understand my actual dai-ly parking situation, more than I can say for anyone with the BID or the city.

Derek SecorSandpoint

A curious mind is a good thing. However; asking ques-tions when you’re capable of obtaining the information yourself is annoying. Really annoying.

I am convinced that the genius behind Google at one time lived in a resort town and got sick of answering ridiculous questions from tourists. The genius was motivated to create something that would answer simple, obvious questions quickly for tourists and other annoying people who refuse to take the extra two minutes to find out information for them-selves. Google was made for the average gas station cashier who is constantly telling people how to get to a place literally two blocks away or where to find the nearest Chinese restau-rant. When customers ask for a well-crafted review of local din-ing experiences, the cashier is fantasizing about punching them in the throat. Trust me, I’ve been the cashier.

If you can Google an answer, the questions should disappear. To hear the answer in a forced polite voice, you can now ask Siri. Seriously. Have you ever been in the line behind one of these people grilling the 16 year old working at McDonald’s for a highlighted verbal tour of our town? I try to wait patiently, but in my head I am thinking, “You are driving a $20,000 SUV. I’m pretty sure you have a smart-phone. In fact, I’m pretty sure I just saw your kid using it to look for pokemon.”

No offense to the “Pokemon Go” people out there. I am actually in support of putting an app on everyone’s phone that encourages them to exercise

and capture cartoon creatures instead of disseminating images of their genitalia to the public.

I get how some of you parents are skeptical, especially those of you who have kids ob-sessed with comic books. Those comic book-crazed adolescents aren’t the nerds we grew up with. I became aware of how ingenious these kids are when I went to the opening night of “Deadpool.” I was expecting to be around a bunch of super-hero-obsessed weirdos, not a bunch of tween daughters and their friends dragging along middle-aged fathers. I imagine these kids told their parents that it was rated R because of violence and “bad words.” I bet the guy sitting in front of me, nervously shifting around in his seat while his 13-year-old daughter laughed hysterically at Deadpool’s eye- opening sexual journey with a stripper girlfriend, wishes that he would have “Googled it.” It was almost as hilarious to watch the horri-fied fathers as the movie itself. Almost. “Deadpool” is pretty freaking hilarious.

What might surprise you is how the questions you’re asking may be affecting your dating options or lack thereof. Are you turning off potential love match-es and infuriating people wher-ever you go because you refuse to use Google and/or common sense? Does your spouse se-cretly hate you because of your constant barrage of ridiculous questions? Let me shed some light on this for you.

Questions to stop asking, for the sake of mankind.

1. Any question to a cashier that requires an answer longer than 10 seconds, especially if there is even one person in line after you. I have worked as a cashier on many occasions and

never once did I think to myself, “That was so awesome when that guy asked me how I liked working here, then followed up with, ‘So how about this weather?’” Cashiers and other hourly employees get asked these things hundreds of times a day, and guess what? They have to lie to you. It’s called custom-er service. The truth would get them fired.

2. “Have you seen this or that ‘film?’” Stop saying film. It gives you an aura of preten-tiousness that cannot be over-come. I see film in my shower and movies at the theatre. If we are friends or potential lovers, we are going to a movie. Films are for professors and hipsters. This kind of language will only attract other people who think they are smarter than everyone else, and a relationship can only (barely) work with one of these types of people in it. Think about it. This applies to any pretentious word that you may feel the need to use in common conversation. Save your vast vo-cabulary for things like Scrab-ble and midterms, not asking strangers questions.

3. Asking for substitutions and menu changes instead of what you want exactly. Let me clarify: If you go to order at a restaurant and you find yourself saying something like, “I’ll have the chicken Caesar salad without dressing, cheese, croutons or chicken,” you have annoyed ev-eryone in the room. That is not a salad. That’s just a leaf dipped in air and sprinkled with tears, and it’s not on the menu. The waiter will comply and charge $13.50 for that bullshit, but everyone within earshot feels sorry for your dining companion, who is stuck with someone who would pay or expect someone else to pay for a blatant cry for help.

4.“Can you make me look skinny?” When someone takes your picture, cuts your hair or does a beauty treatment for you, they hate when you ask them this. Why? Well, if you are skin-ny, it’s just annoying. Just stop fishing for compliments. If you are fat, the person is searching for a nice way to say, “ Hey, I am talented enough to make you look better, but this camera/pair of scissors/bronzer isn’t a magic wand.” Again, don’t ask ques-tions that force the other person to lie. It hurts everyone.

5. “Can you get your [ran-dom loved one] to do this for me?” I am going to provide a personal example on this one. I regularly have people come up to me and ask me this: “Can you get your sexy musician boyfriend to sing ‘More Than a Feeling’ for me? You should talk him into it.” OK, here is the deal. Don’t ask someone else to do something you are uncom-fortable doing. That is the be-havior of a complete sissy pants. Furthermore, speaking from experience, negotiations with a boyfriend typically involve some sort of payment relative to the discomfort of the request. I am going to have to “offer” him something that makes playing a song he might hate worth it. Now, maybe I am a bit selfish, but I am going to use that type of currency to fulfill my own desires. My leverage cannot be bought easily.

I hope that I have shed some light on this crucial issue. If you got lost somewhere in this column, try to answer your own questions first.

Happy hunting, whether it is for a Pikachu or piece of A . . .

Xoxo, Scarlette

The art of asking questions

NEWS

6 / R / July 14, 2016

Harvel sentenced in BGH embezzlement caseBy Cameron RasmussonReader Staff

By Cameron RasmussonReader Staff

By Cameron RasmussonReader Staff

By Cameron RasmussonReader Staff

Norilina Harvel, who plead-ed guilty to embezzling more than $200,000 from Bonner General Health in May, was sentenced to 90 days in jail on Friday.

The sentence, which also included a handful of court fees and restitution as a requirement of probation, brings to an end nine months of legal proceed-ings since Harvel’s arrest. Altogether, Harvel will pay $217,075 in restitution.

“We were satisfied with the outcome, especially the large amount of restitution paid by the defendant,” said Bonner County Prosecutor Louis Mar-shall. “I was pleased with the cooperation shown by Bonner Health throughout this process.”

An employee of the hospi-tal for 18 years and its chief financial officer for 10 years, Harvel was accused last year of funneling funds into fraud-ulent bank accounts set up in the hospital’s name. By the time BGH officials discovered the malfeasance, Harvel had already left her position and taken a job outside the state. Once the accusations against her went public at the end of September, Harvel surrendered to the authorities less than a week after her arrest warrant was issued.

At Harvel’s sentencing, Judge Barbara Buchanan noted that while many expect prison sentences for major embezzlement, Harvel’s Level of Service Inventory score, which measures an individual’s likelihood of re-offending, was exceptionally low. Moreover, Harvel and her attorney’s filed a large majority of her restitu-tion payments at the sentenc-ing, with the rest likely to be paid within her probationary period.

While hospital officials were disappointed with the short incarceration period, they appreciated the sense of the

decision.“We would have liked a

longer jail sentence,” said BGH CEO Sheryl Rickard. “How-ever, it is more important that she pay back the funds that she took from the hospital, which can only happen if she is working and not in a jail cell. We are pleased that paying restitution is a condition of her probation.”

Likewise, Prosecutor Louis Marshall was happy to have resolution in what proved to be a complicated case.

“These are difficult crimes to prosecute given the large amount of paper evidence,” Marshall said. “We were able to utilize the forensic accoun-tant hired by the hospital as opposed to having to hire our

own accountant, which would have cost the taxpayers thou-sands of dollars.”

Harvel is just the latest in a string of embezzlers that have run afoul of regional businesses and municipalities. In 2012, Susan Hopkins was sentenced to five years in a state prison plus reimbursement payments for embezzling $246,561 from Coldwater Creek. And last year, former Athol clerk Sally Hansen was sentenced to four years in federal prison for embezzling $417,879 from the city.

“This case illustrates the problem in society with em-bezzlement,” Marshall said. “In general and in this case as well, people who steal a lot of money from their organizations tend to be trusted employees

with good educations and spot-less criminal records. Managers need to be vigilant as this can happen to any organization.”

Memorial Field grandstands restoration selected

Speed limit raises on U.S. 95Bonner County Garden Tour returns

Pending council approval, the city has its contractor for the Memorial Field restoration project.

Sandpoint Parks and Recreation Director Kim Woodruff announced on the KRFY Morning Show that he is recommending North Con, Inc., as the job contractor. Out of about half a dozen bids, North Con came in the lowest at $3.14 million.

The last game will be played in mid-September prior to the restoration, Woodruff said. Apex Construction has volunteered its services to demolish the old grandstands, and the project will hopefully be complete before high school graduation next year.

Get ready to shave a few minutes off your drive to Coeur d’Alene.

Idaho Transportation De-partment officials announced this week that a 15-mile stretch of U.S. 95 between Sandpoint and Coeur d’Alene will raise to 70 mph starting Monday, July 18. The change is in line with ITD’s engineering team recommendations and data borne out by traffic studies.

According to ITD officials, a full 85 percent of drivers are already speeding in the area, driving between 68 and 74 mph. The bump to maximum speed is possible following a 2014 Idaho Legislature change, which adjusted max-imum state speeds on state highways to 70 mph. The ITD board approved the speed increase in June.

“The increase is appropriate for safety and traffic flow,” said ITD Northern Idaho Traf-fic Engineer Ryan Hawkins. “However, speed-limit signs

cannot replace common sense. They are intended to supple-ment—not substitute for—the driver’s judgment.”

The change-over won’t be official until the speed limit signs are replaced. That process will begin at 6 a.m. on July 18 and should finish by about 10 a.m. Until then, motorists must abide by the current 65 mph limit, although ITD will notify drivers of the upcoming change by placing portable electronic message signs in the area.

“Safety is a core mission of this department and will always be our top priority,” said ITD State Design Traffic Engineer Jesse Barrus. “We will con-tinue to monitor trends and make adjustments if necessary to always ensure the safety of motorists in Idaho.”

Gardeners, take note: The Bonner County Garden Tour is back after a year-long hiatus.

A showcase of eight local gardens, the tour spans the county from Kootenai to Gar-field Bay and features a wealth of fruiting shrubs, culinary herbs and beautiful locales.

“This year we have a diverse group of offerings, including some with spectacu-lar lake front views,” said Pat Congleton, tour committee co-chair. “There are garden ideas for full sun to full shade and everything in between.”

Find out more information or buy tickets at the Bonner County Gardeners Association website, bcgardeners.org. Tick-ets are $10 per adult and avail-able at any garden on the day of the tour or online. The tour is self-guided, and gardens may be visited in any order between 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, July 17.

Norilina Harvel’s mugshot after turning

herself into the Bon-ner County Sheriff’s

Office. Courtesy BCSH.

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FEATURE

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BID in the community’s eyesBy Lyndsie KiebertReader Intern

Taxes—can’t live with them, can’t live without them. And yet one tax, imposed by Sand-point’s Business Improvement District upon local businesses, has business owners reflecting on whether the benefits mirror the dues they’ve paid. While some are sold on the BID’s benefits, others are not so sure.

“I think it is misunderstood because most people aren’t clear on what the BID provides,” said Nicole French, owner of the florist shop Petal Talk on Cedar Street.

French noted the flower baskets that dot downtown as the biggest part of the BID’s bud-get, which she said she believes make Sandpoint look “amazingly welcoming.” She also said that when retail shop owners want to host an event, they can use BID money to advertise.

“I think there is a lot of sup-port in that aspect,” French said. “But the BID is hard because is represents so many different types of businesses, and I think that that’s the biggest challenge.”

She said that services, such as salons, lawyers and doctor’s offic-es have different needs and goals than retail businesses—making everyone hard to please. She also noted that there are disparities in the square footage system the BID dues are determined for each business.

“I guess if I changed any-thing, then I think it should be more a flat tax fee,” French said, noting that while a business down the street may be larger and therefore paying more than her, that may not mean they have more money.

Brooke Deccio, owner of Azalea Handpicked Style on First Avenue, said she attended the most recent City Council meeting, and the BID has been on her mind since.

“It’s tricky for me because I’m right in the middle of down-town, so I get all of the benefits,” Deccio admitted, noting the com-mon benefits that she says ev-eryone knows about—the flower baskets, the Christmas lights and occasional live music. Still, she said she can see where some of the other businesses are coming from—especially the businesses that aren’t right on First Avenue.

“I feel comfortable with what I’m being charged for the benefits that I’m receiving, but I can completely understand where [other] businesses are coming from,” Deccio said. She noted the businesses on Fifth Avenue, where there is no street electricity, don’t benefit from the Christmas lights, and yet are still paying for them in their dues.

“Maybe it’s time for [the dues] to be reassessed,” she said, adding that anyone concerned about BID’s dues should attempt to contact manager Kim Queen, who she has found is easy to communicate with, or attend the quarterly BID meetings.

Calvin Ogle, owner of Sweet Magnolia Bed and Breakfast on Fourth Avenue, voiced concerns over the use of his BID tax money. Ogle has brought these concerns before city administra-tors in the past, and while he said he was assured there would be a change in how BID funds were funneled, he said he has seen no such change and has had rude encounters with BID officials.

“Something weird is going on,” Ogle said. “[The BID] doesn’t understand how hard we work for our money, and that’s why I get emotional talking about it.”

Ogle also noted that local businesses are “scared to death” thanks to “gossip campaigns” that the BID facilitate, and that the political climate of the BID’s dealings reflects their lack of genuine interest in the success of all small businesses.

“It’s not up to them to choose winners and losers,” he said. “They should be helping every-one who pays the tax.”

Ogle feels strongly that there should be further investigation into BID tax funds. He also not-ed that the square-footage-based taxation system needs re-evalu-ation, suggesting a tax based on revenue, or even a flat tax that each business within the district would pay.

“To imply that you got it correct the first time is absurd,” Ogle. “Sometimes you need to tweak things.”

The notorious BIDBID members and officials debate its future

By Cameron RasmussonReader Staff

Every year, the Sandpoint City Council goes through a similar routine.

Deep into the process of pre-paring the city’s finances for the next year, members must approve the operational budget for the Sandpoint Business Improvement District. But unlike most of the budgeting season, with all its diz-zying numbers and spreadsheets, the BID budget usually attracts some public attention. This year’s discussion at last week’s council meeting was no exception.

With its proposed $123,000 2016-17 budget under the micro-scope, BID advocates highlighted the organization’s achievements, while critics questioned the return they were getting on their invest-ment.

At the meeting, Anita Au-rit, owner of office space and co-working business The Office Sandpoint, said that between her type of business and her location on Fifth Avenue, she received minimal value compared to the businesses of the downtown core.

“I’m extremely frustrated because I have tried to make it work,” she told council members.

The BID, funded through a fee paid by downtown businesses between Superior and Larch streets and First and Sixth avenues, has long been controversial. Approved by a vote in 2000, downtown business owners have since divided in opinion over whether they’re getting their money’s worth.

Business improvement dis-tricts are not uncommon. There are more than 1,200 across the country, with the most famous likely being New York City’s Times Square. Regionally, Coeur d’Alene and Spokane both operate business improvement districts.

“The main purpose of a BID is to benefit businesses and the community alike, by offering beautification and vibrancy to a designated area,” Sandpoint BID manager Kim Queen said.

To that end, the local BID runs several events and services. Perhaps the most visible program

under its purview are current-ly the flower baskets hanging throughout the city. According to Queen, by working with local growers this year, they were able to reduce the program’s cost and increase the number of flowers distributed.

The flower baskets are one aspect of the BID’s beautification program, which also includes hol-iday lights and decoration as well as general maintenance and up-keep within the district. Seasonal outreach efforts are often paired with special events, like the Christmas tree lighting ceremony after Thanksgiving. The Winter Carnival is another popular event organized by the BID, drawing people downtown for a series of performances and attractions.

“Winter Carnival has … be-come an important event for the district, held during the dreaded winter/spring ‘shoulder season,’”

Queen said. Other services of the BID

include marketing and advocacy efforts for members in good stand-ing. For example, the BID website, www.downtownsandpoint.com, maintains a directory of district businesses. Whenever considering a project or outreach effort, Queen said the central question is whether or not it will help improve district vitality and prosperity.

Like many publicly funded organizations, however, the Sand-point BID faces scrutiny by its members, some of whom resent being lumped into a program they didn’t vote for back in 2000. Prior to 2013, opponents leveled their complaints against the BID’s previous management organiza-tion, the Downtown Sandpoint Business Association.

In 2013, city and business

see BID, page 8

A flower basket provided by the BID hanging on the corner of Second Ave. and Cedar St. Photo by Ben Olson.

Bouquets:•To all the organizers and vol-

unteers that helped make Sand-point SummerFest so great this weekend, thank you! The music lineup was wonderful, the food from Eichardt’s was fantastic and the camaderie between all the attendees was so great. From the first moment you drive onto the Eureka Center property, you are magically transported away from the hubbub of the everyday world.

Barbs:•Justice is a funny thing.

There is no rubric in place to determine whether justice was served in any legal situation. In the case of Norilina Harvel, who was recently convicted of embezzling over $200,000 from Bonner General Health, I think justice was not served to its full potential. Harvel received 90 days in jail and five years of probation, and must also make restitution for the entire amount stolen. No court fines were as-sessed other than the trivial $225 court costs and another $100 for DNA testing.

Granted, Harvel had no crim-inal record before this, but I’m concerned that such a lenient sentence for white collar crimes like embezzlement (which is a fancy word for STEALING) doesn’t deter people enough. Her lawyer mentioned at the sentenc-ing hearing that she “emptied her retirement account” to help pay back the restitution. I didn’t feel any pity for her, since this was money that she stole from the good people at Bonner Gen-eral Health and the community. There are people serving long sentences for smoking or pos-sessing marijuana, while thieves like Harvel do their quick time in jail and walk free without any other punishment. In my opinion, justice was not served in this case, especially since re-cent embezzlement cases in this region saw actual prison time as punishment.

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By Reader Staff

ICL hosts Summer Adventure Series

Locals and visitors alike will gain new appreciation for Idaho’s spectacular peaks, lakes, streams and wildlife with the Idaho Conservation League’s 10th annual Summer Adventure Series.

With ten excursions planned for this summer and fall, ICL’s hike series offers something for every ability and interest. Featured outings include four different kayaking tours on area lakes, a fishing and hiking jaunt into the Selkirk Moun-tains, a Leave No Trace hike

and a birding excursion.Other hikes include fami-

ly friendly hikes to stunning alpine lakes, strenuous day outings to our highest peaks, and even a naturalist wander through Sherwood Forest.

The Adventure Series kicks off Saturday, July 16 with a paddle on Lake Pend Oreille to Pearl Island. Matt Davidson will lead kayakers from Sam Owen State Park on the Hope Peninsula to Pearl Island, a bird sanctuary where paddlers can expect to see the remains of many eagle nests.

The Pearl Island Paddle and all the outings in the Idaho Conservation League’s Adven-

ture Series are free, but space is limited and registration is re-quired. To sign up for an event or for more information, visit www.idahoconservation.org or contact the Idaho Conservation League’s Sandpoint office at (208) 265-9565.

The Idaho Conservation League is a statewide nonprof-it working to protect Idaho’s clean air, clean water and stun-ning lands. The group has been operating for more than 40 years and has offices in Sand-point, Ketchum and Boise.

2016 List of Adventure Outings

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Saturday, July 16 – Paddle to Pearl Island on Lake Pend Oreille with Matt Davidson.

Sunday, June 24 – Paddle to Upper Priest Lake with ICL Conservation Asso-ciate, Susan Drumheller.

Saturday, July 30 – Leave No Trace hike to Harrison Lake with ICL’s intern, Nathan Faggard.

Sunday, August 7—Hike and Fish to Trout and Big Fisher Lake with ICL’s intern and fishing enthusiast, Nathan Faggard.

Thursday, August 18 – Hike to Fisher Peak with ICL’s Community Strategies Associate, Nancy Dooley.

Saturday, August 20 – Pack River Kayak Tour with Idaho Fish and Game Biologist, Kathy Cousins.

Saturday, August 27 – Kayak Tour of the Clark Fork River Delta with Idaho Fish and Game Biologist, Kathy Cousins.

Monday, Labor Day, September 5 - Birding Ridge Hike on the Pend Oreille Divide Trail with ardent bird watcher and arborist, Rich Del Carlo.

Saturday, September 17 - Harrison to Beehive Scramble with former ICL board member, Rick Price.

Sunday, September 25 - Sherwood Forest Wander with naturalist, Shane Sater.

An aerial view of Priest Lake. Photo courtesy of ICL.

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officials decided to change up the DSBA’s structure. The organiza-tion was folded into the Greater Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce as a separate entity with a unique governing structure. Under the resulting system, the BID oper-ates within the chamber building, eliminating the cost of a separate office and supplies. A team of local business leaders from a vari-ety of backgrounds—restaurants, education, real estate, profession-al/banking/law, health care, retail, arts/entertainment, lodging and more—serve as overseers of the organization while advocating for their individual fields.

“These reps give valuable feedback on what is most pressing in their individual sectors (as it relates to the BID), and offer their insight and guidance in the BID’s decision-making process,” said Queen.

Even after restructuring, however, the BID still drew heat from some members for its fund-ing mechanism. The BID fee is determined primarily through the

business’ square footage footprint irrespective of location. At last week’s council meeting, Queen said businesses on Fifth Avenue, for instance, got short shrift due to the lack of infrastructure for Christ-mas lights or other beautification measures.

For Mayor Shelby Rognstad, the central difficulty is communi-cating the BID’s value to everyone paying into it. That’s especially true since its operational costs in the budget passed last week sit at 56 percent, which could increase to 70 percent if the BID doesn’t receive a $25,000 Sandpoint Urban Renewal Agency grant.

When questioned by Mayor Shelby Rognstad at the council meeting, Aurit said she would become a BID supporter and volunteer under a more equitable payment rate. However, changing the BID is no easy task. Accord-ing to Sandpoint City Attorney Scot Campbell, because the BID was created by the businesses in 2000, city officials can only vote to dissolve the ordinance creating

it. He was not aware of a means for the city to change the fund-ing mechanism or add a sunset clause.

Despite the critics, Queen said that compared to many business improvement districts, Sand-point’s offers a lot for relatively little money. Moving forward, she hopes to find a mid-dle ground with BID opponents.

“... My hope is that those business owners would reach out, to either their representative or directly to me, and see if we can get their ques-tions answered and their con-cerns addressed,” Queen said.

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Disability Action Center presents award at ADA celebrationBy Reader Staff

Disability Action Center NW will be hosting a free family event Friday, July 29 to celebrate the Americans with Disabilities Act, signed into law in 1990. Held from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at Sandpoint City Beach, it will be open to the public and feature free food, live music, prizes and awards, wheelchair basketball, disability resource booths, and face painting for the kids. Free t-shirts will be given to the first 100 people.

“We serve all of northern Idaho and part of eastern Wash-ington, so we are reaching out to Sandpoint this year” said Executive Director Mark Leep-er. “The community of Sand-point has worked very hard to support accessibility.”

DAC will be presenting the first Tom McTevia Memorial Award at the celebration to the Sandpoint Police Chief Corey Coon and City Administrator Jennifer Stapleton for their work in assisting citizen Bill Yeager to get his guide dog.

Idaho breweries to admit minors with parentsBy Ben OlsonReader Staff

As of July 1, breweries in Idaho are allowed to admit minors inside beer-tasting rooms as long as they are ac-companied by a parent or legal guardian.

The change in state law came about this spring, when Sen. Shawn Keough (R-Sand-point) and Rep. Sage Dixon (R-Ponderay) were contacted regarding the disparity between the legal definition of a winery and brewery.

“This issue was first brought to me about three years ago by local brewers who pointed out the inequity between brewery and winery tasting rooms,” said Keough.

Before the passage of House Bill H649, wineries were allowed to have minors on the premises with their parents or legal guardians. Breweries, on the other hand, were not.

“Rep. Dixon took an inter-est in the issue and took the work in the House and I assist-ed in the Senate,” said Keough.

Dixon said the bill took weeks of back and forth with winery and brewery lobbyists and Alcohol and Beverage Control (ABC) to ensure the language in the bill would suit everyone before it was intro-duced in the House.

“After passing the House, the Senate amended the language to stipulate what a ‘brewery’ was, and Sen. Ke-ough carried it successfully on the Senate floor,” said Dixon.

The bill was signed by Gov. Otter on April 5 and the law change took effect July 1, 2016.

Local brewer Duffy Ma-honey of MickDuff’s Brewing Company was an integral part of introducing this bill to Rep. Dixon.

“A lot of our beers are actually considered wine,” said Mahoney. “We’re taxed as a wine. I figured, if we’re already taxed as a wine, why wouldn’t we have the same

rights as them? I like to have the right to do things.”

Technically, beer containing more than 4 percent of alcohol by weight is taxed as “wine” in the state of Idaho. Mahoney estimates 90 percent of Mick-Duff’s beers are taxed like wine.

“We are not a bar, we’re a tasting room,” said Mahoney. “This is not a place for people to get drunk. We’re not selling shots.”

Mahoney said the law change will only affect a small portion of his customers; mainly the brewery tourism industry.

“We’ve already seen a lot of families coming in and buying merchandise, filling growlers,” said Mahoney. “Kids coming in with them hasn’t been an issue. A couple of local patrons have said they don’t like the idea of children coming in there, but the pros outweigh the cons.”

Brewery tourism has taken off in Idaho in recent years. There are multiple “Ale Trails” throughout the state that cater to people traveling to brewer-ies in a given area. Participants check off each brewery their

visit and, upon completing a “passport,” they can win prizes like glass growlers.

“It’s very difficult to explain to people that have driven from Montana or Wash-ington that have minors with them that they are not allowed into our tasting room,” said Mahoney.

“We have a growing num-ber of family-owned small breweries in Idaho,” said Ke-ough. “We can see that in our own communities in Sandpoint and Bonners Ferry. … Visi-tors—families—seem to enjoy being able to take tours of both wineries and breweries, [and] learn about the craftsmanship that goes into making beer and wine.”

For Rep. Dixon, the law has the po-tential to help Idaho brewers grow their businesses: “Not only will this Law directly affect our breweries in District 1, it will help the Craft Brew industry throughout Idaho engage their patrons better, which should

Beer for the big kids, pop-corn for the small ones (left to right): Lily DeFord, 1 ½, and Lucy Thwaites, 2, kick back with some popcorn while their parents enjoy some mi-crobrews at MickDuff’s Beer Hall. Photo by Kayle DeFord.

result in increased business growth. Many of Idaho’s brew-eries use ingredients grown in Idaho, which multiplies the economic benefit to the State, and many are vital local econo-mies as well.”

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Wining is ALLOWEDIn fact, it’s even encouraged

By Ben OlsonReader Staff

Winos, winers, oenophiles, grape nuts and vino enthusi-asts, get ready for a weekend especially dedicated to that magical nectar of the gods.

The Schweitzer Mountain Northwest Winefest is back for its second year. Due to the pop-ularity of the inaugural event last year, a second day has been added to the itinerary. Saturday and Sunday, July 16-17, will see the greatest congregation of wine drinkers this side of Napa Valley, all united under their common love for the grape.

With 20 regional wineries serving up over 80 different varieties, five bands, a craft beer tent, a sizzling barbeque, arts and crafts vendors and all of your favorite village activ-ities, there’s fun to be had for everyone this weekend. And the best part, as always—it’s 100 percent free to attend.

Both Pend d’Oreille Winery and Small House Winery will represent Bonner County at this year’s Winefest.

“We had so many people come up for 7B Sunday, that said ‘I haven’t been up here in years,’” said Dig Chris-mer, marketing manager for Schweitzer Mountain Resort. “Well, here’s another chance to come up and enjoy the music, wine and activities. We’re not

that far away!”The fun starts Saturday at

10 a.m. with the Schweitzer Mountain Trail Run. A local favorite, the Trail Run kicks off from the Village and features great single track with lake and mountain views. The Great Escape Uphill Challenge starts at 10:05 a.m. The 10 Mile starts at 10 a.m. and the 3.5 mile starts at 10:15 a.m. All races have a mandatory pre-race meeting at 9:45 a.m., and registration for all races will take place by the tennis courts from 8-9:30 a.m.

After you’ve run yourself out, grab a lawn chair and plop down on the grass for a day of wine and music. It’s free to listen to music on the lawn, though there are no outside alcoholic beverages allowed on the mountain. That’s okay, Schweitzer has you covered.

To participate in the wine tasting, stop by the sales tent and purchase your stemless souvenir wine glass with tast-ing tickets. The wine glass with 10 one-ounce tasting tickets will run you $20. Additional tasting tickets are $3 for two tickets. Premium wines require two tickets per ounce.

Feel like taking a ride to the top of the world? The chairlift opens at 11 a.m. and unlimited

rides normally run $15 for foot traffic and $25 for mountain bikes. However, it being a festive weekend, Schweitzer is offering unlimited rides at 20 percent off—$12 and $20 respectively.

The live music kicks off at 11 a.m. with Brenden McCoy (of local duo Owen & Mc-Coy). The Nicole Lewis Band will play at 1:30 p.m and Nor-man Baker and the Backroads will finish off the day from 4-7 p.m.

Why settle for one day of fun when you can double down on Sunday at Schweitzer? The second round of the cross country mountain bike races will take place, with the route slated to head out to Wolf Ridge.

Day two of Winefest will start at 11 a.m. with live music from Brown Salmon Truck, featuring local blues master Truck Mills. Fan favorites Milonga will be rocking the Village from 2-5 p.m.

“Milonga was with us last year,” said Chrismer. “They were absolutely perfect for drinking wine and dancing. They have this Latin-infused swing that is really incredible.”

There will be barbeque and food vendors available both days, as well as all the fun Vil-

lage activites like the Monkey Motion air jumper, zip lines, climbing wall, disc golf and much more.

For more information about the big weekend of festivities, call Schweitzer at 263-9555.

The Gateway Lot features complimentary parking while the Lakeview Lot will cost $10 per vehicle. Also, RV camping is available in the Gateway Lot for $20 per night.

A beautiful day of wine, live music and fun activites at Schweitzer’s Winefest. Photo by SMR.

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Karaoke Night10pm - Midnight @ 219 Lounge

Monday Night Blues Jam w/ Truck Mills7:30pm @ Eichardt’s Pub

Trivia Night7pm - 9pm @ MickDuff’s

Live Music w/ Chris Lynch6pm - 9pm @ Arlo’s Ristorante

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Sandpoint Chess Club9am @ Evans Brothers Coffee

Throwback Thurs-days at the 2197-11pm @ 219 LoungeFeaturing live music with Brian Jacobs and friends

Kalispel-led lake tour10:30am @ City BeachA special tour of the lake on the Shawnodese hosted by the Idaho Mythweaver and led by Anna Arm-strong—educational director for the Kootenai tribe. 265-8323

Game Night at the Niner9pm @ 219 Lounge

Learn to dance the Swing – 7pm @ SWACLearn the Triple Time East Coast Swing from Diane Peters. 610-1770 for info

Sandpoint Farmers’ Market3-5:30pm @ Farmin ParkGreat local produce, fun arts and crafts, yummy food and live music by Larry Goldberg and Chris Murphy

The Wailers in concert8pm @ The HiveCome see the legendary reggae band The Wailers, who have sold over 240 million albums worldwide as Bob Marley and the Wailers. Tickets $20 advance, $25 at door. Doors open at 7 p.m. Don’t miss it!

Live Music w/ Jake Robin6-8pm @ Pend d’Oreille WineryAcoustic rock sounds with pop culture lyrical charismaLive Music w/ Scott Reid7-9pm @ MickDuff’s Beer HallBluegrass standards, and folk rock covers

Five Minutes of Fame6:30pm @ Cafe Bodega Writers, musicians, listeners, welcome all. Third Wednesday of every monthTurnt Up Wednesdays8pm @ 219 Lounge Featuring DJ Josh Adams

Sandpoint Farmers’ Market9-1pm @ Farmin ParkGreat local produce, fun arts and crafts, yummy food and live music by Kathy Colton and the Reluctants

Sing and Dance the Night Away7-10pm @ Sandpoint Senior CenterHosted by Gayle Williams and Rich Speidell, this fun night of karaoke and dancing takes place at the Sandpoint Se-nior Center! $10 suggested donation at the door helps support SASi

Dollar Beers!8pm @ Eichardt’s PubThrowback Thursdays at the 219

7-11pm @ 219 LoungeFeaturing live music with Brian Ja-cobs and friends

Winter Ridge Speaker Series6pm @ Winter RidgeLearn to make decadent body lotions and creams

Bonner Partners in Care Clinic fundraiser5:30-8pm @ MickDuff’s Beer HallA percentage of of the proceeds for this fund-raiser will be donated to BPICC, a free health care clinic that serves those in need. Featuring live music by Kevin Dorin, beer and a rocking pool table. Free admission for those 21+

Live Music w/ Arthur and Mia6-9pm @ Trinity at City Beach

Live Music w/ the Dayfalls9-12pm @ 219 LoungeWith live DJ music afterward

Jazz ‘n’ Java6-8pm @ Monarch Mountain Coffee All players welcome! Sit in or listen

Live Music w/ Justin Lantrip5:30-8:30pm @ Pend d’Oreille WinerySinger/songwriter with a soulful sound

Live Music w/ David Walsh5-7pm @ Idaho Pour AuthorityFlamenco guitar playing performer

Live Music w/ Devon Wade7-10pm @ MickDuff’s Beer HallCelebrate Third Fridays at the Beer Hall with Sandpoint country musician Devon Wade. Free and open to public

Live Music w/ Harold’s IGA7-10pm @ MickDuff’s Beer HallIndie rock bar trio from Sandpoint. They sound their best after you’ve had a few beers. Free and open to all

Schweitzer Mountain Trail Run10am @ Schweitzer Mountain ResortEnjoy awesome single track with lake and mountain views on the challenging and beautiful trails at Schweitzer!Summer Sounds4-6pm @ Park Place StageLive music outside by Kathy Colton & the Reluctants. Near Cedar St. Bridge

Live Music w/ Deep Roots5:30-8:30pm @ Pend d’Oreille WineryDeep Roots, an energetic band playing an eclectic mix of traditional Celtic, old-timey and Scandinavian music. Free!

Live Music w/ Running with Scissors6-9pm @ Trinity at City Beach

Live Music w/ Laney Jones and the Spirits8pm @ Di Luna’s CafeFolk rock band exploding with unique sound and arrangements. Come early for dinner at 5:30 p.m.

Bonner County Garden TourThe Garden Tour is back after a year hiatus. Go to www.bcgardeners.org for more info

Live Music w/ Bruce Bishop and Drew6-9pm @ Trinity

Full Moon and Hors d’oeuvres Cruise8:30pm @ Sandpoint City BeachSavor a variety of complimentary hors d’oeuvres while cruising through eagle territory during the Full Moon and Hors d’oeuvres Cruise aboard the Shawnodese. To cap off the evening, watch the full moon rise above the spectacular Cabinet Mountains before re-turning to port. Departs at 8:30 p.m. from Sandpoint City Beach, returning at 10:30 p.m.

Airplanes with Quest Aircraft10:30am @ Spt. LibraryDiscover the world of aeronautics at this free Tuesday Fun program for kids and families

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Learn to use a compass2:30pm @ Sandpoint LibraryLearn to use a compass and then track down treasure for free!

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July 22-24Northwest Yoga-Feast @ Eureka CenterJuly 22Polly O’Keary and The Rhythm Meth-od @ Di Luna’sJuly 22Cinema in the Park @ Lakeview Park

Throwback Thurs-days at the 2197-11pm @ 219 LoungeFeaturing live music with Brian Jacobs and friends

Kalispel-led lake tour10:30am @ City BeachA special tour of the lake on the Shawnodese hosted by the Idaho Mythweaver and led by Anna Arm-strong—educational director for the Kootenai tribe. 265-8323

Learn to dance the Swing – 7pm @ SWACLearn the Triple Time East Coast Swing from Diane Peters. 610-1770 for info

Life as Art workshop9am - 12pm @ the Little Panida TheaterWhat would like to see more of in your lifestyle and livelihood? 208-991-6257 or email Patricia at patri-cia@successSOULutions.com for more information

Five Minutes of Fame6:30pm @ Cafe Bodega Writers, musicians, listeners, welcome all. Third Wednesday of every monthTurnt Up Wednesdays8pm @ 219 Lounge Featuring DJ Josh Adams

Sing and Dance the Night Away7-10pm @ Sandpoint Senior CenterHosted by Gayle Williams and Rich Speidell, this fun night of karaoke and dancing takes place at the Sandpoint Se-nior Center! $10 suggested donation at the door helps support SASi

Dollar Beers!8pm @ Eichardt’s Pub

Live Music w/ Arthur and Mia6-9pm @ Trinity at City Beach

Live Music w/ the Beat Diggers9-12pm @ 219 Lounge

Festival at Sandpoint Art Unveiling@ Dover BayFine art poster for the festival un-veiled at Dover Bay. 265-4554 for more informationJazz ‘n’ Java

6-8pm @ Monarch Mountain Coffee All players welcome! Sit in or listen

Live Music w/ Marty Perron & Doug Bond5:30-7:30pm @ Idaho Pour AuthorityMandolin/guitar duo with hearts of gold

Live Music w/ David Walsh5-7pm @ Idaho Pour AuthorityFlamenco guitar playing performer

Hope’s Bodacious BBQ Luau4:30pm @ Litehouse Beach HouseEnjoy a live auction, bucket raffle, appetizers, a bodacious bar, plus a roasted pig with all the fixin’s catered by Two Lakes Catering. Sponsored in part by Litehouse Foods. Advance tickets are $50 each. 264-5481 for more info

Live Music w/ Deep Roots5:30-8:30pm @ Pend d’Oreille WineryDeep Roots, an energetic band playing an eclectic mix of traditional Celtic, old-timey and Scandinavian music. Free!

Live Music w/ Marty Perron and Doug Bond6-9pm @ Trinity at City BeachMandolin and guitar duo with a great sound

HuckFest@ Priest Lake Golf CourseSponsored by the Priest Lake Search and Rescue. Events in-clude painting, sculpture, met-alworks, basketry, esoterica, spices, foodstuffs and baked goods, plus enjoy bluegrass music, homesteading demon-strations, as well as Search and Rescue dog team and oth-er skills demonstrations. Free event. 509-220-7235

Northwest WineFest11am-7pm @ Schweitzer Mountain ResortThere will be 20 regional wineries pouring 80 wines, plus a craft beer tent, barbecue, arts and crafts ven-dors, and activities for the entire family. Bands in-clude Brenden McCoy, the Nicole Lewis Band, Nor-man Baker and the Backroads, Brown Salmon Truck, and the Northwest’s hottest Latin band Milonga

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Full Moon and Hors d’oeuvres Cruise8:30pm @ Sandpoint City BeachSavor a variety of complimentary hors d’oeuvres while cruising through eagle territory during the Full Moon and Hors d’oeuvres Cruise aboard the Shawnodese. To cap off the evening, watch the full moon rise above the spectacular Cabinet Mountains before re-turning to port. Departs at 8:30 p.m. from Sandpoint City Beach, returning at 10:30 p.m.

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SPORTSMy First Love

Ken Griffey Jr. to be inducted to the Baseball Hall of Fame July 24

By Jodi RawsonReader Contributor

Most girls had posters in their rooms of boy bands and unicorns from their past. In junior high, my walls were blue and teal, the lovely modern colors of our closest Major League Baseball team. The posters had my idol, Ken Grifffey Jr.

In one poster his smile was beautifully bright, set off by his rich chocolate skin. In another he obviously had just hit a home run, and in the third he was biting his lip, body loaded like a cannon and ready to ex-plode into another home run. Finesse was the word people used for him. It was like baseball was his art, his dance.

I can still hear the way the announcer yelled his name: “Now bat-

ting for the Seattle Mariners... Number 24... Keeeeeeeen GriffEEEY... Jooonior!” back in ‘96 when we watched them battle the Yanks in the post sea-son. We all went crazy when we heard that song-like intro-duction.

One game I saw Griffey hit two home runs. That fluid swing of his and the way that we all watched the ball fly out of the Kingdome was to me the

most beautiful thing in the world. I played on the boys’ baseball team that year. Center field, just like Ken Griffey Jr.

The first time I saw him I was around eight, when my dad

took me for a field trip to instill a love for “America’s Favorite Pastime.” It helped me under-stand the dynamics and strate-gy of the game at a young age, especially when he took me to his personal paradise—a Major League ballpark. I idolized my Dad, so I loved what he loved. At that time, Griffey Sr. was on the Mariner payroll, phas-ing out, but still playing with his son. They became the first father-son combo to play in the majors at the same time.

My dad would love to see me play for the Mariners, but my short baseball season proved I couldn’t hit the little

balls. Alas, I could never be paid for my gift of

hitting the much larger softball.

Ken Griffey Jr.

was stun-ning. He

could run up a wall and steal a home run from someone

with his golden glove, and he could

fly a home run into the triple deck as though

he were slicing warm butter. While he warmed up he wore his hat backward, laughed and blew

bubbles with his “Big League Chew.” He hugged his dad, signed autographs and encouraged fans, and later married a

nice wife and had ball playing boys (the el-

dest, Trey, signed on with the Mariners organization

this year—three generations of Mariners).

On Aug. 6 my Dad and I are driving to the “House That Griffey Built” otherwise known as Safeco Field (the massive modern Mariner stadium that they don’t have to share with the Seahawks). The Mariners decided to retire the number 24 that day, as a result of the legend being inducted into the Hall of Fame on July 24.

My dad will be there, at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY, that weekend, with tickets to the inner sanctum to maybe raise his hand and ask Griffey a question. “Could I hug you,” I’d ask, but I am missing this. I will see him with binoculars as he is applauded for a fine career at Safeco.

Honor is another word used for Griffey. During a time when players were breaking records and getting huge on the now-banned “performance en-hancing drugs” Griffey stayed pure and leads a healthy life to this day. His stats and records are indisputable as a result.

One interesting fact about this year’s two inductees is Griffey Jr. was the number one draft pick when he began and Dodger catcher, Mike Piaza, was the last draft pick when he entered. Neither one of those things has ever happened be-fore or since.

In my folks’ storage I found the hard plastic filing box I kept my Griffey cards in, like a buried treasure. There he was on all sixty-seven of my cards, in their protective cases. Seeing the beautiful photos of this master at his trade, 20 years later, rekindled my love—not just for him, but for the wonderful game of baseball.

DeLaVergne to retire from Outdoor ExperienceBy Reader Staff

After 30 years as co-owner of Outdoor Experience, Inc, Marc DeLaVergne has an-nounced his retirement from the business effective July 7, 2016.

After moving to Sandpoint with his wife, Joyce, from Brookings, Ore., in 1980, DeLaVergne and business partner Kevin Nye opened Outdoor Experience in 1986. The store, which specializes in outdoor equipment and clothing, has been an integral part of downtown Sandpoint’s business district operating from their location at 314 N. First Ave.

Nye had this to say about his partnership with DeLaVergne: “Marc and I have had an amazing 30 years together as partners in this business. Our manage-ment styles, directional focus and desire to balance work with play have meshed well over the years. I have been extremely fortunate to have had Marc as a partner, and he will be missed at the store by not only myself, but our staff and the many, many friends and customers he’s made and helped over the years.”

For his part, DeLaVergne plans to spend his retirement time pursuing various inter-ests. An avid gardener, sailor, cyclist and swimmer, he and Joyce plan to spend time both here in Sandpoint and at their property in Newport, Ore.

Marc and Joyce DeLaVergne.

Illustration by Jodi Rawson.

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Opening hearts and mindsWe SeeWhat

We Believe

By Suzen FiskinReader Columnist

Many moons ago, my boyfriend and I stopped by an International House of Pancakes for a late night snack. We sat at a table closest to the entrance, and I faced the door. Shortly after being seated, I looked up and saw three masked men with guns holding up the cash register.

They came into the dining room and screamed at us to put our wallets in their shopping bag and then circled the room stopping at each table. Behind me, I heard one of the customers arguing with the robbers, and I cringed at the possibilities.

After they ran out, I got a pen from the waitress and quickly jotted down all I could remember. The disparity of stories others told the police was stunning.

How could dozens of people be present at the same event and have such varied accounts? Our perceptions are shaped by our beliefs and our expecta-tions. We’re all wired differently.

Dr. Bruce Lipton nuked the old par-adigm that our biology—our health—is inescapably linked to our biography—our genes. In his bestselling book “The Biology of Belief” he demonstrates that 95 percent of our health is the byproduct of our beliefs and thought patterns rather than our family genealogy. We are not the victims of our DNA that we were led to believe.

The theories of quantum mechanics are at the core of most of our modern technology from computers to lasers to the MRI your mother got at the hospital. It has, at its core, the concept that human thought and expectations affect every-thing that we observe—including all scientific experiments. In other words, thought affects things.

Many studies show that as many as 90 percent of physicians and nurses have given their patients placebos rather than pharmaceuticals at least once in their ca-reers. The patient’s perception and belief that they’ve been given a drug that will take care of their symptoms is enough to give them the result they’re after.

As a seasoned hypnotherapist and life coach I’ve seen the power of perceptions first hand for decades. Big life changes can be faster than my clients’ might have thought possible when they are able to make a simple realignment in their beliefs.

SO WHAT’S THIS GOT TO DO WITH

YOU?

For starters, un-derstanding the power of our beliefs

can make a huge difference in our health because we can change our beliefs!

There are numerous studies that show that there are two primary profiles of people who survive life threatening illness. The first group is people who are 100 percent certain that they will regain their health, no matter what.

The second profile is someone who flat out denies the possibility that he or she is ill. My grandfather, Marty, was diagnosed with terminal intestinal cancer when he was 52 years old. Being the or-nery cuss that he was, he refused to give the idea of being ill another thought. He told his doctor to screw off and lived an active life until he was 90, when he died from complications of a broken hip.

In his bestselling book, “You’ll See It When You Believe It,” long time person-al development mentor, Dr. Wayne Dyer, shares how important recognizing and taking the reins of our beliefs are on our perceived quality of life. “Our thoughts are a magic part of us, and they carry us to places that have no boundaries, and no limitations.” Or not!

Beliefs are just the thoughts that we think over and over. Keep it up, and they

become our personalities. The good news is that they can be morphed into some-thing new in a matter of moments, or they can haunt us for all our lives.

In the film “What the Bleep Do We Know?” there’s a story about the Amer-ican Indians literally being unable to see Columbus’ ships because their belief systems did not include anything like them. Whether this is true or not isn’t as important as the message: We see what we believe.

Feel like a winner? You are. Think that your mother in law is a self-centered witch? You got it! Wonder why nothing ever seems to go your way? You’ll keep being stuck.

Would you like to be happier? Pay attention to your beliefs. People who self-identify as happy are apt to focus on what gives them joy rather than what’s wrong. They tend to see what’s good in their world, rather than ruminate on what’s messed up. They focus on what they do want, rather than what’s holding them back.

It isn’t rocket science. To be a happier and healthier human, recognizing and updating our beliefs is a great place to start!

Suzen Fiskin is a marketing maven, life coach, and inspirational speaker. She’s also the author of the book, “Play-boy Mansion Memoirs.” If you have any questions or comments, here’s how to find her – (208)572-0009 or suzen-fiskin@yahoo.com.

Karaoke at the Senior Center

Utility bills sent to Caldwell?

By Reader Staff

By Ben OlsonReader Staff

Dust off those dancing shoes and get those vocal chords warmed up, it’s time for another installment of singing and dancing at the Sandpoint Senior Center.

Join hosts Gayle Williams and Rich Speidell for a night of karaoke singing and dancing on Friday, July 15 at 7 p.m.

Those in attendance can sing and dance, or simply sit back and enjoy the talents of others.

A $10 donation at the door will help SASi’s great programs benefitting our community’s seniors.

For more information, call 263-6860 or stop by the Sandpoint Senior Center at 820 Main Street.

We hear from our readers about a wide variety of subjects. It’s always an interesting experience getting to the bot-tom of an issue, no matter how trivial.

One of our readers called this week expressing concern about the City of Sandpoint’s utility bills. When she sends in her payment, she was confused that the bills were sent to Caldwell instead of being processed here in Sandpoint.

I called Shannon Syth, the finance director for the city of Sandpoint, and asked what the deal was.

“In last year’s budget, we had an employee who was retiring,” said Syth. “Since a majority of our residents are making their payments electronically, via the telephone or Internet, we don’t have enough hours to keep a cashier busy.”

Syth said upon the former cashier’s retirement, the city elected not to re-place the position but hire a “lock box” system out of Caldwell.

“It’s greater security, actually,” said Syth. “And we can do it for $9,000 per year instead of a part-time person for $27,000.” Syth also pointed out that the city put notices in the first three bills since the change, and it was also in the budget discussions.

So, in case you’re wondering why your utility bills go all the way to Cald-well, that’s why.

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Science:Mad about

Brought to you by:

By Brenden BobbyReader Columnist Juno

Over the Fourth of July weekend, you probably en-joyed a few brews and some good ol’ American beef along-side a show of fireworks. You also probably saw the internet and the news exploding with news about Juno, a fairly reg-ular looking space-y satellite thing having something to do with Jupiter.

Everyone was making a really big deal about it, but it just looked like another normal satellite.

It’s not.Juno wasn’t named after the

movie. It was named after Ju-piter’s wife in Roman mythol-ogy. Jupiter was a bit of a mis-chievous cheater and cloaked himself in clouds to conceal his wrongdoings. His wife, Juno, was able to peer through the clouds and see exactly what he was doing.

That’s what the spacecraft, Juno, intends to do with the planet Jupiter.

Why is that important?It’s important because we

only have theoretical knowl-edge about how gas giants work. We’ve never actually seen the inner workings of a gas giant before, even the ones in our own backyard.

Why not?Well, they like to conceal

their mischief in clouds, and we haven’t been able to see through clouds. Until now.

Juno is equipped to pierce the veil using infrared and microwave instruments, but don’t count on trying to cook a burrito onboard the space-craft—it’s not a microwave oven (though that would be pretty cool. Space burritos!). It will use these instruments throughout its several orbits to peek into the inner workings of our solar system’s largest plan-et. The reason that’s important is it tells us a lot about how

Jupiter formed, which tells us even more about how the rest of our planets formed: Where we came from, where we are now and where we are headed, and similarly, what makes for other habitable (and uninhab-itable) planets and their place-ment throughout the galaxy and beyond.

Gas giants are a pretty unique breed. Before we were able to look deep into space thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, we figured every gas giant in every system could only form a set distance away from its host star and stay there. Why? Gas is light, rock is heavy, rock is pulled in greater and more concentrat-ed quantities toward the Star, while gas hovers further out and stays there.

We thought this was the absolute truth until we found something called a Hot Jupiter.

Science, in its eternal quest to tell us that we’re wrong, showed how gas giants could exist within very close prox-imity to their host stars. We’re talking the distance from Earth to the Sun, which is really, real-ly close.

Essentially, Juno is chasing the endless pursuit of science to illuminate new facts and answer old questions with new questions.

If you haven’t noticed by now, science is like a hydra. Cut one head (question) off, and two more replace it. Isn’t it great? At the very least, you’re never bored.

So what else is cool about Juno?

It has the largest solar array of any planetary probe ever created, which in itself is pretty cool, but missions to the outer solar system don’t normally use solar arrays (because the sun is so far away), they tend to use something called a Radio-

isotope Thermo-electric Genera-tor (RTG), which is a generator that uses the heat generated from decaying radio-active material to create energy for the device.

And to think, 200 years ago we were still dying of frequent bacte-rial infections because washing your hands after shoveling cow poop for a few hours was con-sidered a weird thing to do.

What else is cool about Juno?

It took a pretty unconven-tional path to Jupiter, travers-ing over 1.74 billion miles (or 18.7 times the distance from the Sun to Earth). This wasn’t a straight line, mind you. Noth-ing in space is ever in a straight line. Juno used the Earth’s gravity not once, but twice to slingshot itself towards Jupiter in a roundabout way.

How did it do that?Once Juno was in orbit

around Earth, NASA made sure that it did a series of orbit-al maneuvers, or burns, to alter its trajectory in orbit. Over time, at several key locations, this allowed it to build enough speed to leave Earth’s orbit and jettison into a solar orbit. As it whirled back towards Earth later on, NASA timed another burn that allowed it to use Earth’s gravity well to alter Juno’s course ever so slightly, and allow it to pick up speed, around an extra 8,800MPH. That’s fast. Really, really fast.

Sadly, Juno’s life will be a short one. The bulk of its life was spent getting to Jupiter, while the final 20 months will be used to study the gas giant. When its science mis-

sion comes to an end in 2018, NASA plans on sending Juno out gloriously, burning the last of its fuel reserves to send it careening into Jupiter’s atmo-sphere, where it will be inev-itably crushed. Why end the mission in such a violent and awesome way?

Simply put, we don’t want to risk contaminating any of Jupiter’s moons, which may hold bacterial life, with bac-teria from Earth stuck on or inside the spacecraft.

Just another day of NASA being awesome.

Random Cornerjupiter

Want to know more about your

favorite gas giant? You got it!

•Jupiter is the fourth brightest object in the solar system. Only the Sun, Moon and Venus are brighter.

•Jupiter has the shortest day of all the planets. It turns on its axis once every 9 hours and 55 minutes. The rapid rotation flattens the planet slightly, giving it an oblate shape.

•Jupiter has a thin ring system. Its rings are com-posed mainly of dust particles ejected from some of Jupi-ter’s smaller worlds during impacts from incoming comets and asteroids.

•The Great Red Spot is a huge storm on Jupiter. It has raged for at least 350 years. It is so large that three Earths could fit inside it.

•Jupiter has 67 moons. However, it is estimated that the planet has over 200 natural satellites orbiting it.

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The Straight Poop:The quest for dog-friendly businesses in North Idaho

DOGGY DECK DININGPART II

By Drake the DogReader Pet Columnist

Where am I taking my humans today? The Mister put the top down on the convertible, and I’m sniffin’ out some serious summer doggie deck din-ing—Schweitzer style! Here we come, Tom Chasse!

I’m celebarking my real birthday on 7B Sunday at Chimney Rock Grill. Manager Kellie Pierce greeted us with a smile and a big hug. We had our pick of the litter, as all of the tables on the out-side deck are for VIPs. Chimney Rock’s doggie deck dining specialties (paws up to the new chef) are hot diggity dogs, hamburgers and french fries. I love the sweet carrots from the salad bar!

The Mister ordered a Laughing Dog Rocket Dog Rye just for the occasion. I overheard that the libations team is paws-ibly working a drink to honor Chaco, Schweitzer’s ski patrol em-ployee dog. According to his dad, Bill Williamson, the end result will be a pawsitive experience, as Chaco likes beer and chocolate. Pawsitive?

Next is dessert, French style at Gourmandie, which has been a Schweit-er favorite for over seven years. The deck sails create a festive doggie deck dining experience. Manager Mikayla Wilkerson brought me my own water in a plastic Schweitzer cup. Slurp, slurp! Gourmandie offers over 200 local wines and features summer wine tasting on Saturdays and sangria on Sundays. There is a wide variety of goat, sheep and cow cheeses that folks can buy by the pound or have as appetizers. And don’t get me started on the French baguettes! Ooooo la-la! The team here makes as many menu items as they can from scratch using local ingredients. Mod’s Panini is named after Mikayla’s friend’s goat, Mod.

Well, it’s been a week since my birthday and party at Yappy Hour, and my recovery is now complete. I’m getting cabin fever, so I called up my uncle, Dr. G-string, to secure his Cobalt for the afternoon. Then I texted Belle, his 9-year-old British lab, (yeah, she’s a cougar, with no baggage and no pups), and asked her to go to lunch with me at

Schweitzer owned Bottle Bay Resort. What a holiday weekend this has been. This is our third date in three days. We swam in the lake at Oden Bay, went to the Fourth of July parade, had a BBQ, and watched fireworks. We were a little late in leaving as Belle, like any girl, had to wash her hair first with doggie black pearl shampoo. After taking a sniff in the usual place, I compliment-ed her on her fine pheromones. We donned our life vests, and Dr. G-String high tailed it to the restaurant. Manager Kelly Kennedy arranged for us to sit at one of the many VIP tables located on the two lower decks by the boat launch. There are many four-footed regulars here, and we were excited to socialize. After placing our order for the usual burgers, fries and beer we waited pa-tiently on my blanket. What a great dog day afternoon!

Doggie Deck Dining Rules:1. No peeing in the pool.2. Forget your leash? No problem—

mooring line works great!3. Schweitzer doggie dining—load

your ski pass with cashola, pay your tab with it, and make 5 percent on your dol-lar. What a dog-gone great investment!

Chimney Rock manager Kellie Pierce with Drake.

Right: Gourmandie manager Mikayla

Wilkerson with Drake.

Bottom: Bottle Bay Marina bartender

Brian Arthun with Drake (right)

and Belle (left).

Look for the Reader paw print sticker denoting a “Drake-ap-proved” pet-friendly business!

STAGE & SCREEN

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Movie in the ParkBy Reader Staff

The Bonner County History Museum is presenting a showing of “The Prin-cess Bride” at Lakeview Park (611 S. Ella) on Friday, July 2. The movie area opens at 6:30 p.m. and the feature film starts at sundown. General admission is $2, Entry for BCHS members is $5, VIP seating is $10. Concessions will be available for purchase.

Pack a picnic, come early and claim your spot. Please remember that alco-hol is not permitted in Lakeview Park. Don’t forget your chairs and blankets, and keep a sharp eye out for Rodents of Unusual Size!

For more information contact the Bonner County History Museum at 208-263-2344.

“love and friendship”

“hunt for the wilder people”

life as art

“me before you”

“Charades at 5” dinner theater

reader reels: “Swiss army man”

visualize the life of your dreams

This New Zealand dram-com is a hilarious, touching crowd-pleaser!

A fun comedy full of missed opportunities, misleads and misdeeds.

disarmingly odd, well-acted and impossible to categorize

must buy ticket early to book a seat for this dinner and play.$27; three dinner options.

july 14 @ 7:30pm / July 15 @ 5:30pmjuly 16 @ 5:30 & 8:30pm / july 17 @ 3:30pm

saturday, july 16 @ 9am

july 22 @ 5:30pm / July 23 @ 8:30pm

july 26 & 28 @ 6pm

july 29 & 30 @ 8:30pm

july 21 @ 7:30pm / July 23 @ 5:30pm

Sunday, july 24 @ 3:30pm

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Daniel Radcliffe’s farting corpse warms the heartBy Cameron RasmussonReader Staff

How effectively can a fart convey the human experience?

That’s the question filmmakers Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan, known professionally as Daniels, tackle in “Swiss Army Man,” an absurdist comedy starring Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe. With a plot seemingly cob-bled together from the weirder corners of the internet, “Swiss Army Man” is a movie that could only be conceived by the younger generation. It lands at the Panida Theater at the end of the month as the latest installment in the Reader Reels film series.

Dano, fresh off bravura turns in movies like “There Will Be Blood” and “12 Years a Slave,” steps into consid-erably different territory as Hank, a man marooned on an island. Despairing any rescue, Hank’s suicide attempt is botched when he discovers the washed-up corpse of Manny, played by none other than Hogwarts alum Radcliffe. The flatulent corpse proves surprisingly versatile. His stiff arms chop firewood, his cadaverous tumescence shows the way home like a compass, his stomach carries fresh water and his gas-filled insides propel Hank, riding his dead friend like a jet ski, across the ocean to the mainland.

If you’re a bit bewildered after read-ing that description, you’re not alone. “Swiss Army Man” rocketed into the public consciousness at the beginning of the year when confused audience members fled the theater at its Sundance Film Festival premiere.

Ultimately, it was probably the best possible outcome for the movie. The ensuing headlines about “Daniel Radcliffe’s farting boner corpse movie” struck a chord on the internet, the nat-ural habitat for bizarre, surreal humor. A second Sundance screening was much more warmingly received, with audience members laughing in disbelief from beginning to end.

If “Swiss Army Man” was just a se-ries of absurdist visual gags, it probably wouldn’t amount to much. Perhaps more shocking than the premise itself, howev-er, is the fact that the directors attempt to craft a visually and thematically com-pelling movie from the madness. “Swiss Army Man” is a surprisingly handsome film, and Scheinert and Kwan, regard-

ed as two of the most visually creative young filmmakers working today, fill the frame with lush imagery and color. The film shoots for real pathos, and once Manny regains his powers of speech, he and Hank share heart-to-hearts about ex-istential meaning and the beauty of life.

“We wanted to start the movie with a fart joke and end the movie with a fart that makes you cry,” the directorial team told Rolling Stone.

It’s probably no surprise that the movie’s concept started as a joke between the two directors. Eventually, they took it as a challenge: What was the best movie they could make from the worst premise they could imagine? “Swiss Army Man” is the result.

It probably won’t surprise you that based on reactions so far, “Swiss Army Man” is a love-it-or-hate-it movie. On the other hand, the one thing it isn’t is bland, derivative or forgettable. In a cinematic era of remakes and franchise

sequels, we need as many of those mov-ies as we can get.

“Swiss Army Man,” the third install-ment in the Reader Reels film series, plays 8:30 p.m. July 29 and 30 at the Panida Theater. Tickets cost $7.50. The film is rated R for language and sexual material.

Paul Dano (left) and Daniel Radcliffe’s corpse (right) star in “Swiss Army Man.” Courtesy photo.

COMMUNITY

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It takes a village:By Sarah KlintworthReader Contributor

This past February, I was fortunate enough to be part of a trip to rural Ethiopia as a result of my work with Uryadi’s Village, an international nonprofit based here in Sandpoint. The Reader kindly ran a story I wrote pri-or to that trip, introducing this organization to the community, and I was so excited about my experience there, as well as the work that is ongoing at our site in Sodo, Ethiopia, that I thought I’d write another story for the readers of the Reader about one of the experiences I had over there.

Sodo is located in the south-west of Ethiopia and has a population of roughly 250,000. It’s part of a larger area called the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People’s Region—makes our country names seem like a piece of cake!

Sodo is the site of Wolayta Village, which is our first project village. This beautiful site was given to us by the local govern-ment for development into a self sustainable orphanage commu-nity, which is our chosen work. Ethiopia has roughly 5 million orphans due to a wide variety of factors ranging from a high rate of HIV/AIDS transmission to economic and food access chal-lenges. Infants are commonly abandoned at birth, and children at any age can be abandoned due to various pressures on a house-hold or parent, or can just end up on the street through other paths.

Currently, we care for 30-plus children who are temporarily housed in a rented facility. With the help of an incredible Sand-point local, Erik Keller, who is overseeing the construction of our new family style housing at Wolayta Village, we hope to move our children to this permanent, permaculture-based community home by the end of the year.

One example of how chil-dren can end up alone, which I witnessed firsthand, is the case of Hannah Dugana, a 9-year-old girl we admitted to our care center while we were there in February.

The local government office that does its best to care for the wom-en and children of the area who are in crisis invited us to visit one of their sites.

When we arrived at the dilap-idated building, part of an aban-doned guest house compound, there were half a dozen children playing and hanging around out-side, dressed in clothes that had clearly seen better days. Predict-ably, they all wanted a chance to get in front of my camera, and they were enthusiastic about being part of anything and every-thing that we were doing.

Seeing foreigners in rural Ethiopia isn’t the phenomenon that it must have once been, but it’s still an experience that left me feeling uneasily as if I could begin to iden-tify with celebrities. Everywhere we went, we attracted attention. It was enough to make me wonder how I would readjust to being just another normal human being when I got home!

In this situation, it was no different, and as we talked with the official who was giving us the tour, the kids crowded around and jostled for the prime posi-tion to have their pictures taken. They got no end of entertainment out of seeing the pictures I was shooting on my display screen, and had a great time hamming it up for me.

One of them was an excep-tionally beautiful girl who we learned was deaf. She had been found on the street, unable to communicate how she ended up there, where she came from, or even what her name was. She knew some very basic sign lan-guage, but not enough to tell her own story.

This girl was dressed just like the other children, but some-how, she just seemed to glow with some kind of inner light that couldn’t be repressed. I can only imagine what her story is. A young, pretty girl like her, unable to communicate, alone on the city streets—the possibilities are an endless string of horror and atrocities that are all too likely to have happened to her before she found this place of relative safety.

As we heard her story, it be-came clear why the official had invited us here. We were already taking care of a 14-year-old deaf boy, and six of our children are older, special needs children. Our kids attend the local public school but they are part of a spe-cial needs class with tutors and lots of specialized teaching.

As the situation became clear to us, the solution also became very simple. We told the official we would take her and that was that. Since she couldn’t tell us her name, we had to make one up for her, a singularly odd thing to be doing but necessary. And so Hannah Dugana came to live at our care center.

She was given a bath, clean clothes, and a safe, clean place to live, with regular meals and kind, caring women surrounding her. She now attends school with the other kids, and is making progress quickly. She has be-come something of a big sister to the babies we also care for, and we receive regular updates show-ing her holding them, caring for them and looking more at peace and relaxed than she did when we met her.

One of the most incredible parts of this experience for me was her sweetness, and the way her smile lit up every-thing around her. It may be a long time, if ever, before Han-nah is able and willing to explain how she came to be alone on the streets, or what happened to her there. But the amazing part about all this is that our organization, Uryadi’s Village, was able to step in and take care of her, to give her a place to be safe, to get an education, and to be a 9-year old girl without fear. Knowing that a life has been changed, perhaps even saved, by our work, makes it all worth it.

For more informa-tion about Uryadi’s Village, and our work, please check out our website, www.uryadisvillage.org.

A follow-up about a trip to Ethiopia in support of an international nonprofit based in Sandpoint

Hannah Dugana, above, was admitted into a care center managed by Uryadi’s Village. As seen below, she was supplied with new clothes and a lot of love. Photos courtesy Sarah Klintworth.

MUSIC

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READ

LISTEN

WATCHThe Cohen Brothers are a force

to be reckoned with. From “The Big Lebowski” to “Fargo” to “True Grit,” this writing/directing duo have consistently raised the bar for feature films. Their latest, “Hail, Caesar!” shows that they have re-fused to fade away.

Set in 1950s Hollywood, “Hail, Caesar!” has all the elements that Cohen Brothers fans enjoy: dynam-ic characters, irreverant one-lin-ers, communist sympathizers and George Clooney dressed in a Ro-man tunic.

True, it isn’t one of their best, but it’s definitely worth checking out.

When spring turns to summer and I start to feel my old wanderlust again, the best cure is to sit and read Jack Kerouac’s “The Dharma Bums.”

Outshined by “On The Road,” “Dharma” takes up the story years after Kerouac’s fabled cross-coun-try trip. We see many of the same characters at different stages in their lives, including Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg, and we also get to meet Japhy Rider, based on Gary Snyder, who introduces a new Zen Buddhism that accom-panies Kerouac’s train-hopping, fire-tower sitting and hitchhiking travels.

Sometimes I need music that helps keep my mind on track while checking off the hundreds of items to make a Reader happen every week. One band that helps alleviate the computer doldrums is Hammock.

Hammock is an ambient/post-rock band that mixes a lot of live instrumentation, electronic drum beats and droning guitar. They re-mind me of Explosions in the Sky.

The songs are intriguing, but they float somewhere underneath the consiousness, allowing you to focus on studying, reading or pub-lishing a weekly newspaper. Check out their album “Everything and Nothing” on Spo-tify.

This week’s RLW by Ben Olson

Live at the Hive

The Wailers. Courtesy photo.

By Ben OlsonReader Staff

You’d be hard pressed to find anyone on the planet who hasn’t heard a song by The Wailers. Hailing from Kingston, Jamaica, the group was initially made up of Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh and formed in 1969.

What resulted changed popular culture forever, bringing reggae music from a small corner of the world to the masses. When the group disbanded and became Bob Marley and the Wailers in 1971, they succeeded in putting reggae music on the global map. Selling over 250 million albums around the world, the band has gone through many iterations through the years.

The Wailers today features a hybrid of old school reggae roots—notably Aston “Family Man” Barrett—playing alongside some new faces like lead singer Dwayne “Danglin” Anglin.

I had a chance to speak with Danglin about their upcoming show at the Hive on Wednesday, June 20.

Ben Olson: How did you come to be the lead singer of The Wailers?

Danglin: In 2009, I was just coming off the release of my first single in Jamaica, a song called “Excuse Me Miss.” … [The Wail-ers] were looking for a new lead at that time and they heard about me and put in a call.

BO: What was going through your head when you got that call?

D: It was a blessing, really. At the time I was working on my solo music. I had to make a decision how I would put both together. Given the opportunity to work with Family Man and the Wailers and be part of the legacy, I thought it would be a great experience for me.

BO: Speaking of legacy, the

music of the Wailers has reached hundreds of millions of people worldwide. It’s such a cultural revolution. Did you feel these were heavy shoes you were step-ping into?

D: It’s spreading the message that is already celebrated … it’s a message of understanding and respecting what it is that The Wail-ers bring to people and to music in general. I knew that that would be my responsibility, not necessarily to fill any shoes, or to duplicate or replicate the legendary Robert Marley. My job is simply to per-form the songs with sincerity and conviction.

BO: And they are such amaz-ing songs. One thing I’ve always loved about reggae is that the message underneath is usually of peace, unity, of love. What is it about music that makes it such a powerful medium to spread that message?

D: It’s the most universal me-dium for spreading any message. I feel like if you can get thousands of people at a time at a concert to listen to you, then that’s a great way to spread a positive message. If you can record something that millions of people can enjoy time and time again, that’s also another great way to enjoy music and to

spread positive messages. They’re so many negative messages circu-lated and being enforced and pro-moted. It’s always great to have a shoe in the right. … I’m really grateful to be part of something positive.

BO: The world seems pretty angry right now. Can music do anything to curb this anger?

D: With all the injustice going on in the world, there are too many people who claim they are not a part of this problem. They are not for violence or racism or brutality or inequality. Many of those people are inactive. They stay out of any political or social conflict or controversy. They speak on it in a private manner. That doesn’t help. For me, if you’re not a part of the solution, you’re part of the confusion. There are really no innocent bystanders in this world. If you have a voice, you are able to speak against vio-lence and racism and all the things that are evil. If you have mobility, you can march and move. There are so many different things you can do to contribute to the greater good.

BO: Do you have a recollec-tion of when you first heard Bob Marley’s music growing up in Jamaica?

D: That’s hard for me. I’m sure it was being played while I was in the womb, at my birth. It’s such a big part of our culture in Jamaica. It’s hard to be able to say I wasn’t listening to Marley, listening to the lyrics. Throughout my life and throughout most Jamaicans’ lifetimes they had a steady diet of Wailers music throughout their younger years and the rest of their lives. It’s played on the radio everyday. It’s a big part of our culture that we celebrate every day, that we need, it’s food for life.

BO: I’ve heard you guys play a lot of shows every year.

D: Around 200 a year. We have a week off here and there. It’s needed. It just demonstrates there’s a need for the music and we’re grateful to be able to pro-vide it.

BO: Danglin, thanks so much for taking the time to talk with me. I’ll see you at the Hive next week.

D: All right man, thanks.

The Wailers will be playing at the Hive Wednesday, July 20. Tickets are $20 in advance or $25 at the door. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show begins at 8 p.m.

Then & NowHistorical information provided and verified by Bonner County Museum

staff and volunteers. The Museum is located at 611 S. Ella — (208) 263-2344.

compiled by Ben Olson

The same view today. On the right is the former location of La Rosa Club (closed). Ivano’s is left, out of frame.

Each week, we feature a new photograph taken from the same vantage point as one taken long ago. See how we’ve changed, and how we’ve stayed the same.

Looking north on First Avenue from just south of Pine Street. The NW corner of the intersection was Bonner Meat Company in the Bistline Building. On the right is the Fidelity Trust Building with a sign for Myrvin Davis at the Lawyer and Bonner County Abstract Company. The City Bakery is in the middle distance on the right.

Police Detective Riley was a no-nonsense kind of guy. Before, he really loved nonsense, and would use it a lot in his murder investigations. But he found that most people didn’t appreciate it, especially the family of the victim.

Corrections: In last week’s “Dear Readers” section, I mixed up the names of Andra and Abigail Dixon, photographed by Alan Barber. My apologies.

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