Do You Recall
10 years ago
This Saturday the Junior Miss contestants will be searching the county in the “Be Your Best Self Scavenger Hunt.” Their mission, to be the first team to find as many items needed for various charities in the community.
Three Bonners Ferry High School students will be recognized this graduation 2000 for their outstanding academic achievements. Dean Stonehocker was named valedictorian and Kayla Howlett and Rosie Samter were both named salutatorian.
• The Bonners Ferry Special Olympics snowshoe team won medals during the winter games at Schweitzer Mountain. Dana Klein earned a gold and a silver and Dennis Tucker won the silver and a bronze.
• Six Bonners Ferry High School wrestlers place in Libby Classic. Dustin Koehler, Mitchell Pluid, Ben Fisher, Adam Hall, David Hayes and Kenny Koehler.
• County unemployment drops to 7.4 percent a little more than a percentage point lower than last year. This is attributed to Crown-Pacific having re-opened its newly remodeled mill.
15 years ago
Tickets for DARE 49ers basketball game on April 18 are now on sale at county schools for students and families.
• LaVon Williams was recently nominated by the employees and elected by hospital auxiliary to be Boundary County Community Hospital and Nursing Home’s “Caught Ya Caring” employee for the quarter.
• Brenda Poulton has been named Boundary County Art Associations Artist of the Month. Poulton works at First Security Bank and has painted water colors with a floral theme for more than 20 years.
• Kelli Ripatti named Kiwanis Student of the Month. Kelli has attended Mount Hall Elementary School and Bonners Ferry High School earning a 4.0 gpa throughout all four years of high school. Kelli is this years senior valedictorian.
• The AWANA Grand Prix pinewood derby was held and this years trophy winners are Jonathan Hicks, Isaac Grey and Ben Greenslit with honorable mention going to Jennifer Hicks.
50 years ago
• Three Bonners Ferry High School band members are participating in the 125 member band composed of select musicians throughout the state. Billie Jean Maas on clarinet, Lana Alton on tympani and Grace Johnson on trumpet.
• Reports on trips to California by Jack Hern and Alan Gillis were the main items on the agenda of the Bonners Ferry Chamber of Commerce meeting at Don’s Cafe.
• Mrs. Jack Guthrie, leader of Brownie Troop No. 205, said they will make jump ropes with felt handles and knobs of yarn streamers and display them in the window of Anthony’s.
• A four-bedroom, one-bathroom house on two acres with a half basement for sale $4,200 with $500 down and $50 per month until paid off. Located on the North side flat.
• IGA Bonners Ferry Supermarket has pork steak for 39 cents a pound, 12 oz. jar of oysters for 49 cents, spare ribs for 47 cents a pound and 10 pound bag of sugar for $1.15. Come in and stock up on Delmonte tuna four cans for 89 cents.
100 years ago
• G.W. Bush and Sons has a complete line of McGlaughlin’s famous imported coffees from 20 to 40 cents a pound.
• Seeking a married couple to work on a ranch near Porthill. Man to work on ranch and woman to cook. Pay is $40 per month no objection to one or two small children, please reply to G.H. Kendal at the Bonner Hotel in Bonners Ferry.
• The Herald is informed that country people please remember Governor J.H. Brady will be visiting the city of Bonners Ferry on Friday, March 25.
• Last week J.P. Dunn the rancher and logger of Moravia, bought an 80-acre tract of land from Eli B. Moore for $2,000. He will sub-divide the land into five-acre tracts and sell them for fruit ranches.
• M.P. De Wolf was in Bonners Ferry getting businessmen to sign a petition requesting a new railroad bridge be built across the Kootenai River at the place where there is a drawbridge.