This Week in History - Aug. 3, 2023

100 Years Ago

The Bonners Ferry Lumber Company started cutting and skidding logs at Camp No. 28 in the Curly Creek district this week. The company will log about 35,000 feet of lumber in the Curly Creek district and planned to cut about 5-6 million a year. Logs from the Curly Creek camp will be flumed a distance of one and a half miles to the Kootenai River.

Boys who have been throwing rocks at road signs on the Northside are liable to arrest and punishment for the offense, and a reward of $50 will be paid to anyone furnishing information leading to their arrest and conviction, according to J.B. Brophy, chairman of the Good Roads Committee of the Kootenai Valley Commercial Club.

50 Years Ago

Local fiddler Allan MacDonald again claimed first place in the Kootenai River Days Old Time Fiddle Contest, which netted $53 plus a beautiful trophy.

A new business opened in downtown Bonners Ferry this week. It’s called Daybreak Fix-it Shop, and its motto is fixing anything from "toy trains to color TVs." It is located at 308 Main St.

Bonners Ferry Little League defeated two all-star Sandpoint teams to win the Kootenai River Days baseball tourney over the weekend, behind the outstanding pitching performances of Lin Pinkerton and Mitch Vogl.

Members of the State Highway crew hosted a dinner party Tuesday evening at Deep Creek Club and Café honoring Arlo Grunerud’s 25 years of service with the department.

15 Years Ago

Taylor Tompke of Bonners Ferry won the 2008 Idaho State Bowhunters Jamboree for Youth 15 to 17 years old. Ryan Farrens took second in the 13-14 year-old division.

More than 220 basketball players will keep the downtown streets busy on Saturday, Aug. 2, and Sunday, Aug. 3, for the first Bonners Ferry Swish 3 on 3 tournament. The downtown streets — where 55 teams with three or four members will play — will be closed at 4 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 1, so hoops can be set up.

The Bonners Ferry City Police Department had no female police officers last year. After Sept. 2, women will make up 25 percent of the force. City Council recently hired Bonners Ferry High School graduate Tiffany Murray as an officer. Murray, who has a bachelor's degree in criminal justice, will fill a vacancy with the Aug. 1 retirement of Police Chief Dave Kramer.

— Submitted by the Boundary County Museum