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50 Years Ago

Sandpoint News-Bulletin

Aug. 13, 1973 – PROUDLY WE SALUTE…

Dann J. Hall, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Hall of Sandpoint, has been promoted to Airman First Class in the Washington Air National Guard in Spokane.

A 1968 SHS graduate, Airman Frank A. Needham, son of Mrs. Zola B. Leaverton, and Paul Needham, both of Sandpoint, is assigned to Lowry AFB, Colo., after finishing basic training at Lackland AFB, Tex.

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SEVENTH COMPETITIVE TRAIL RIDE

The route was hot and dusty, but the thirty competitors said they enjoyed the beautiful ride through the Cabinet Mountains as they competed in last weekend’s 7th annual Panhandle Competitive Trail Ride. The ride was the largest ever sponsored by the Panhandle Association. It was hosted by the Jim Wood family of Gold Creek.

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NEW PLAYERS, COACH FOR SHS FOOTBALL

Practice for players turning out for high school football will begin Aug.14, said Coach Cotton Barlow, who is returning as SHS athletic director after an 11-year absence. Barlow will be assisted by Ron Hunt and Chuck Schoonover on the backfield, while Al Alt and Don Albertson will assist on the line. Practices will be aided by a new fieldhouse at Memorial Field, which will allow the opportunity to rehearse plays on the actual playing area. The facility is being built by contractor Kirby Scribner.

75 Years Ago

Sandpoint News-Bulletin

Aug. 13, 1948 – SALES EVENT DELAYED

Although good progress is being made on the city streets, it is evident that they will not be completed by the week end of August 21, so the merchants of the city who had planned a celebration sale are now tentatively planning it for the fair week period of September 16, 17 and 18. Laying of blacktop has progressed to First and Church and will continue on down First to the end of the bridge. After First is completed, the project will march up Pine street to Sixth, the last link of the current job which has kept the city “torn up” most of the spring and summer.

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MOOSE LODGE MOVES OLD LEGION HALL

Clarence Neer has completed moving the old American Legion building to the Moose lodge lot on First avenue. When the building is rehabilitated, it will be the lodge’s new home. The building [Note: in 2023, Sunshine Goldmine jewelry store] was purchased by the lodge from the Richfield Oil co., which plans to erect a modern service station on the corner of First and Lake [later the Panhandler Pies Restaurant]. The Moose lodge will continue to meet in the G.A.R. hall until the lodge home is ready.

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OLE PETERSONS TO CELEBRATE WEDDING

Mr. and Mrs. Ole Peterson, 401 Lake, residents of Sandpoint [and Oden] for more than half a century, will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary this Saturday. There will be a special mass Saturday in the morning at 9 o’clock at St. Joseph’s Catholic church and an open house at 7 p.m. that evening.

For more information, visit the museum online at bonnercountyhistory.org.