Do You Recall

| March 25, 2010 9:00 PM

10 Years Ago

• After eight years as CEO of Boundary Community Hospital, Bill McClintock announced his retirement, to be effective in August. “Besides learning to fish again,” he said, he and his wife, Wendy planned to reconnect with their three children and perhaps do some foreign travel as well.

• Lydia Morgan, a sixth grader at Evergreen Elementary, took first place in her division in the 2000 Area Spelling Bee.

• Tama Bergstrand was selected by the National Art Education Association as recipient of the prestigious Idaho Art Educator of the Year award.

• After serving four terms as a Boundary County Commissioner, Merle Dinning announced he would not seek a fifth term in face of public support for the 1994 Term Limits Initiative, even though that measure had been blocked by Sixth District Judge Randy Smith and was held in abeyance until the matter could be decided by the Idaho Supreme Court.

15 Years Ago

• Twenty-two Union Pacific Railroad freight cars on the way from Spokane to Eastport jumped the tracks and tore up about 1,000-feet of track along the Moyie River in northern Boundary County. No one was injured in the mishap, and as most of the cars were empty, there was no danger of spillage.

• A series of radio ads aired over stations in Sandpoint and Bonners Ferry urged prosecuting attorney Randy Day to bring charges against the federal snipers who shot and killed Vickie and Sam Weaver in 1991. The ads were paid for by a group called the Weaver Justice Alliance of Atwood, Calif. An attorney spokesman for the group said it formed after a lengthy Justice Department investigation led to only minor disciplinary action.

• Test wells had been installed and bids were sought to drill two 12-inch wells and build a pumping station, reservoir and the first stage of pipeline that would be the foundation of the Cabinet Mountain Water system.

• Joe Figgins, Jim Paulus and Ed Torrence were named to the county Planning and Zoning Commission, even as the validity of the Boundary County Interim Land Use Plan was headed to the Idaho Supreme Court after being overturned in October, 1994, during a wave of similar land use challenges across the west dubbed the “Sagebrush Rebellion.”

50 Years Ago

• Students and loggers enjoyed an unscheduled vacation as a rise in temperatures softened roads, prompting county commissioners to stop school buses from using county roads. Weight restrictions were also imposed on state highways, with no overweight permits being offered. School Superintendent Robert Burns hoped buses would be able to travel by next week, meanwhile, kids throughout the county enjoyed some time off to enjoy the unseasonably nice weather.

• Miss Loretta Lynch and her crew of journalists working on the high school paper “The Badger” earned all-state superior honor ratings for the tenth year in a row at the 14th annual University of Idaho high school journalism conference in Moscow.

• Don Stueve, manager of the Kootenai Valley Creamery, announced that extensive work on upgrading all the coolers had been completed, using modern-design styrofoam finished concrete to double capacity.

• “Porthill Pickups” reporter Anita Bender reported that LaMar Olsen, attending college in The Dalles, Ore.,, was visiting home on spring vacation.

100 Years Ago

• John Wales, about 65 years old, suffered a broken leg and will likely lose the sight in his right eye after falling from the new bridge. The “old pioneer” was taken immediately to his home and Drs. Frye and Ratz called. The fall, attributed to age, is expected to curtail Mr. Wales’ travels for several months.

• J.A. Carlson at the Bonner Hotel offered a good work team for sale, including good harness and a good wagon, for $300 cash.

• Reverend A.M. Skindlov announced the first service of the new Scandinavian Lutheran Church would be held at 3 p.m. Easter Sunday.

• Sixteen large, 163- by 264-foot lots in F.H. McCall’s Addition and McNear Acre Tracts, located near school and church on the North Side, were offered on easy terms by Hawkins & Leslie for prices ranging from $75 to $400.

If you were looking for something more substantial, D.F. Fewkes, Moravia, was offering 25-acres of the best fruit or farmland in the valley, right on the railroad siding and within a quarter mile of a good school, store and post office, for $1,00, also on easy terms.