This Week In History for April 28, 2022

100 Years Ago

The citizens of Leonia are making arrangements for the celebration of the Leonia Bridge across the Kootenai River. The celebration will be on May 6 beginning at 2 p.m. with speakers. A dinner will be served at the Guhr store at 6 p.m., followed by dancing.

The first baseball practice of the season had a good turnout of players and fans alike. The complete schedule is not out but the first game for the local team will be May 14 at Troy, Mont.

Members of the three Boy Scout troops in Boundary County will be attending the troop rally in Sandpoint next week.

50 Years Ago

Tom Hill, son of Mr. and Mrs. Max Hill, Bonners Ferry, has been selected to serve as an intern in the office of Congressman James A. McClure in Washington, D.C., this summer for ten weeks.

About 75 BFHS students and 4-H promoters participated in tree planting activities and clean-up projects on the high school grounds and throughout the city Friday in conjunction with Earth Day.

The Idaho Fish and Game Commission lowered the daily trout limit from 15 fish daily to 10 fish daily commencing the 1972 season.

15 Years Ago

More than 100 students will be joining together to present this year’s “Spring Festival Concert.”

As the curtain opened, excitement filled the air as family, friends, and local community members gathered in Becker Auditorium to see who would win this year’s coveted title, Junior Miss. With the excitement at its highest point, Ellen Pi'ilani Gatchell was named the 2007-2008 Junior Miss.

Trevor Koberstein shot a 76 to lead the Bonners Ferry boys golf team at the Sandpoint Invitational Monday afternoon at Stoneridge Golf Course.

— Submitted by the Boundary County Museum