Traveling back in time: This day in Bonners Ferry history
100 Year
The Bonners Ferry Lumber company is all ready for the annual spring drive on the Kootenai river which is to start as soon as the water has risen sufficiently. The wanagans and boats were shipped to Montana points last Friday. This year the lumber company secured many of its logs by rail and the spring drive will not amount to as much as usual.
Ambrosse Boileau, Allen Shultis, Dick Crocker, Claude Smith and Lagrande Bush had a pleasant outing last Friday when they made the trip to Naples and back on their bicycles. They took lunches with them and the “eats” of course, were the feature of the day’s fun.
A number of local people are catching good sized sturgeon these days. Clarence Fry caught a 175 pound sturgeon Saturday and Ralph Fisher, of Copeland, caught one weighing about 100 pounds. Both fish contained a great quantity of eggs which sell in Spokane for 50 cents per pound. The sturgeon sell for from 10 to 12 ½ cents per pound.
Henry Driscoll, proprietor of the Commercial Hotel, is the owner of a Ford roadster which he purchased yesterday from W.H. Ayers, of Eastport. Mr. Driscoll is rapidly learning to handle the car but is not overly confident about making the short turns and he insists that Main street was not made wide enough.
The graduation exercises of the senior class of the high school were attended by a large crowd of the parents and friends of the graduates. The class this year numbered 15, the largest in the history of the Bonners Ferry schools.
50 Year
Miss Linda Owsley was recently chosen 1967 Selkirk Saddle Club Queen. Serving as princesses will be Sherry Engert and Maridel Severson The girls very capably represented the Saddle club and Boundary county when they rode they horses in the Apple Blossom Festival parade in Creston.
The 90 hourly employees of Moyie River Lumber company returned to their jobs Monday, following settlement of a strike that started April 24. The company and the bargaining committee of Local 3171, Lumber and Sawmill Workers union, had reached tentative agreement on a new contract last week. The membership of the local voted approval of the settlement at a meeting held last Friday.
Betty Mulvaney led the Boundary county livestock judging team in the Spokane Junior Livestock Show last weekend with the score of 261 out of a possible 300. Other judges on the team were Laurel Robertson, Sandy Wallace and Tracie Maas. The team placed 21st in the field of almost 40 teams from eastern Washington and northern Idaho.
Members of the 1967 graduating class of Bonners Ferry high school were obviously impressed with the stimulating commencement address given by Sen. Frank Church. Church told the graduating class it is not required that everyone become a student body president or a Rhodes scholar to lead a successful life. “What is necessary is that you face up to life, accept its responsibilities, find a constructive role to play and then set your goals high enough so you must keep reaching for them,” he said.
15 Year
As flood waters raged down the Kootenai and Moyie Rivers Wednesday, Boundary County Commissioners declared a flood disaster emergency. By late afternoon the flood level at the Bonners Ferry gage had reached 1,795.35 and was expected to peak at 1,761.60 feet above sea level by noon Thursday According to commissioner Kevin Lederhos, a check of the Moyie Dam before the meeting showed the water level had reached 10 feet over the spillway. The marker extends to a height of 11 feet. Due to the continuing threat of storms, commissioners asked county residents to “be vigilant to any sudden changes and use caution near all county waterways.”
Showing our Bonners Ferry Herald in front of a medical classroom where Ryan K. Jenkins is attending the Army’s X-ray technician school at Fort Sam Houston, Texas are Sarah Jenkins (holding daughter, Bailey), Alice Jenkins and Pat Steward during a warm and wonderful spring break.
The Rod Benders Car Club of Bonners Ferry will hold its second annual Borders Three Car Jamboree on Main Street June 1. If it’s anything like last year’s, it should be a real knockout.
It’s more than just a wish that’s coming true for Boundary Community Hospital in its desire to draw qualified physicians to the community. Bolstered by a three-year $105,000 Rural Health Care Access Grant that provides recruitment incentives for doctors to move to Boundary County, the hospital has landed a second doctor in less than a year through the program. Dr. Troy Geyman starts May 29 working along with Karen Walker in Dr. Hill’s former office at 6635 Comanche St.
How will returning almost $27,000 of last year’s funding from the Byrne Grant affect officer safety? According to Drug Task Force officers, returning this money could jeopardize their safety during the execution of high-risk search warrants.