The Latest: New Zealand reports 1st community case in months

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand has reported its first coronavirus case outside of a quarantine facility in more than two months, although there was no immediate evidence the virus was spreading in the community.

The Latest: New Zealand reports 1st community case in months

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand has reported its first coronavirus case outside of a quarantine facility in more than two months, although there was no immediate evidence the virus was spreading in the community.

SCHOOLS: No egos, ideologies

How should we understand the nature of elected boards? Originally designed to be non-partisan, there have been attempts to change that practice. I believe that there are two questions that need to be addressed. Is it desirable to have boards retain their non-partisan nature? Is it possible for boards to be non-partisan? I would like to draw on 14 years as a Trustee with the Post Falls

Owner jumps back into furniture game

What’s Al Rohrich thinking, opening a furniture store just when most Flathead residents are closing their wallets?

Wilson Creek to go online

WSU intern assisting town in bid to spread the word

State capital pays visit to North Idaho

By BRIAN WALKER

What is stuttering?

DEAR DR. GOTT: "The King's Speech" movie has everyone talking about stuttering. We at The Stuttering Foundation are seeing a four-fold increase in inquiries. So are therapists. Please consider answering the simple question, "What is stuttering?" for the benefit of your readers. Our website, www.StutteringHelp.org, has a trove of helpful materials and can make referrals. President Jane Fraser can offer thoughts and advice. I've searched your site and did not see any information on stuttering. Thank you.

World/Nation

Real life lessons and blessings

Readers of this column and friends and family know that my all-time favorite movie is "It's a Wonderful Life."

The Trails development promises quality family homes

Neighborhood of the Week

With the neighborhoods in and around Coeur d’Alene Place still in high demand for North Idaho families, there is opportunity for builders to distinguish themselves in the area.

Legals December 16, 2017

No. 25007 NOTICE OF BOARD POSITION VACANCIES MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN YOUR COMMUNITY Flathead County is seeking individuals who want to make a difference in their community by filling vacancies on various Boards. Letters of interest are being accepted for a limited number of openings on the following Boards: Flathead County Board of Adjustment, Flathead County Planning Board, Columbia Falls City-County Planning Board and Zoning Commission, Whitefish City Planning Board, Ashley Lake Land Use Advisory Committee, Helena Flats Land Use Advisory Committee, LaBrant-Lindsey Land Use Advisory Committee, Little Bitterroot Lake Land Use Advisory Committee, Riverdale Land Use Advisory Committee, Rogers Lake Land Use Advisory Committee and the West Valley Land Use Advisory Committee. All positions are appointed by the Board of County Commissioners. TO APPLY FOR ANY OF THESE POSITIONS: Letters of interest (please specify which board/committee you are applying for) including name, physical address, mailing address, daytime phone number and qualifications should be submitted to: Mary Fisher Flathead County Planning & Zoning Office South Campus Building 40 11th Street West, Ste 220 Kalispell, MT 59901 All letters of interest should be received by 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 2, 2018. For additional information and specific qualifications please call 751-8200 or visit our website: flathead.mt.gov/planning_zoning December 16, 20, 24, 27, 31, 2017 MNAXLP _________________________

Transit center's policies driving some riders crazy

The $2.16 million Citylink transit center that recently opened in Coeur d’Alene’s Riverstone development is causing some grumblings over restricted public access to the 2,600-square-foot building, its locked public bathrooms and a lack of parking.

Joseph Carl Klempel Jr., 90

Joseph Carl Klempel Jr., 90, of Bigfork, heard the trumpet call to his eternal home up yonder, where there is no pain, only peace, on June 23, 2010. Joey was born in a log-sod house on his parents homestead out in the hills southwest of Lambert. He began his education in the Round Butte School where he walked or rode a horse six miles one way. He later attended Sidney Elementary School. At age 14 he moved with his parents to a farm in the Yellowstone Valley, north of Savage. There as a teenager he sang in a family trio at church and on the radio. He especially enjoyed singing bass in the song When the Roll is Called Up Yonder. In 1943 at the First Baptist Church in Sidney, he married his sweetheart and lifetime partner, Annie Almond, his wife of 67 years. They farmed near Crane, raising sugar beets, corn, chickens, milk and beef cows, and a garden. During this time Joey also helped feed out feeder lambs for his parents and helped with lambing for different sheep ranchers. He was a good neighbor to many, especially in time of need. A man of few words, but in that few he said much. He loved riding and working with horses even as a young child. He was a cowboy and rancher at heart. He owned two outstanding saddle horses, Pepper and Midnight, and often rode 30 miles from the valley farm to the homestead to herd cattle or sheep. During the 1950s he horse logged in the Flathead Valley west of Kalispell. Prior to his retirement, he would rather rake a field of hay with a team of mules than do the job with a tractor. In August 1947 he moved his wife and family to the Flathead Valley and bought property. They harvested and sold wild trees in the fall for many years to various tree yards in Kalispell, Phoenix and Utah. In 1958 he bought a farm in Bigfork, where he raised Black Angus cattle and had a dairy for a number of years. He gave his nine children spiritual values and a strong work ethic. He was preceded in death by parents, Joseph Sr. and Martha Nollmeyer Klempel; three brothers; two sisters; and one daughter, Delia May Klempel. He is survived by his wife, Annie Klempel, at the family home in Bigfork; his children, Pat Burnham and Wes of Columbia Falls; Doris Rost and Jon of Whitefish, Edith Benson and Duane of Bigfork, Naoimi Oldfield and Bob of Chandler, Ariz., Joe Klempel III and Gina of Kalispell, Cathy Benson and Jerry, Ron Klempel and Lisa, and Richard Klempel and Rachel of Bigfork; sisters-in-law, Harriet, Ethel and Lois Klempel; grandchildren, Denise Oldfield, Nicole (Klempel) Shoshenskiy, Collin Klempel, Jay Dee Rost, Heidi Oldfield Obey, Kim Rost, Gregory Oldfield, Martin Burnham, Violet Benson, Stephanie Benson Lepinski, Justin Benson, Daryn Benson, Crystal Burnham, Daryl Benson, Candy Burnham, James Barnhart, Brenda Benson Olson, Jenny Klempel Miner, Jessie Klempel, Rainey Klempel and Levi Klempel; and 12 great-grandchildren. A celebration of life service will be held at 2 p.m. today, Monday, June 28, at the Little Brown Church with the Rev. Pat Pierce officiating. Interment will follow at Lone Pine Cemetery, next to his daughter Delia May. Friends are encouraged to visit the Web site at www.buffalohillfh.com to leave notes of condolences for the family. Buffalo Hill Funeral Home is caring for the family.

MSU students of varying disciplines travel to Antarctica for studies

Eight Montana State University students majoring in everything from English to earth sciences have headed to Antarctica to learn more about the ecology, climate and geopolitics of the Antarctic Peninsula.

Raymond B. Nockleby, 94

Raymond B. Nockleby, 94, a resident of the Kalispell area for more than 50 years, died Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010, at Immanuel Lutheran Home. Born May 5, 1915, in Russell, N.D., to Renhard Nockleby and Lydia Schultz Nockleby, Ray spent the early years of his life helping his mother cope with his father Renhard s illness and eventual death from tuberculosis, which his father had contracted in the wake of the great flu outbreak of 1918-19. The family eventually relocated to Fergus Falls, Minn., where Ray graduated from high school, and where his stepfather, Otto Nockleby, operated the family farm. Ray attended a technical institute in Chicago and worked in the defense industry during World War II in Minneapolis, where he first met and later married the love of his life, Evelyn Bjorge, who was then working at the Lutheran Church headquarters. Ray and Evelyn married on June 30, 1945, in Circle and began a partnership with Evelyn s parents on the family farm 20 miles north of Circle. In 1948, Ray and Evelyn moved their young family to suburban Portland, where Ray took a job as a draftsman with the Bingham Pump Company. In 1959, having been impressed with the beauty of the Flathead and wanting to rear their five young boys on a family-owned farm, Ray and Evelyn moved to the Helena Flats area and operated a family farm for many years. Ray was elected to the school board of Helena Flats in the early 1960s, and was re-elected an additional term, and served as chairman of the school board during a period in which the school doubled in size. A lifelong Lutheran, Ray served on the church council and building committee of Calvary Lutheran Church in Evergreen during a major expansion begun under Pastor Rodney Kvamme in 1966. Ray was also a lifelong supporter of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, which had touched his life in Minneapolis and Portland days. Ray was a quiet but thoughtful inventor of mechanical products. He developed several hand and garden tools, and holds four patents. His drawings are precise and his tools are ingenious. In their retirement years beginning in 1982, trips to Arizona and travels throughout the U.S. to visit their sons and their families was a source of joy and fulfillment for both Ray and Evelyn. Ray was preceded in death by his father, in 1923; his mother, in 1962; as well as his two younger sisters, Nellie and Aldine. Ray is survived by his wife of nearly 65 years, Evelyn, and by his five sons, Brian, an insurance lawyer in Silver Spring, Md., and his wife Belinda; Robert, an area representative for Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, in Lakeside, and his wife Kathy; Donald, a neuropsychologist in Austin, Texas, and Phoenix, and his wife Jo Ann; Paul, an editor and publisher in St. Paul, Minn., and his wife Kathleen; and John, a professor of law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, and his wife Lucie; and by nine grandchildren. A service for Raymond will be held at 2 p.m. today, Feb. 16, at Northridge Lutheran Church in Kalispell, with reception following at Buffalo Hill Terrace. Memorials to Raymond B. Nockleby may be directed to The Chapel Fund, Buffalo Hill Terrace, 40 Claremont Street, Kalispell, MT 59901; or to The Campership Fund, Flathead Lutheran Bible Camp, 603 Main Street, Kalispell, MT 59901. To send condolences please go to the Web site, www.buffalohillfh.com. Buffalo Hill Funeral Home is caring for the family.

Ford Wesley Knight, 80

Ford went to be with our Lord Jesus Christ on Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010, in Kalispell. Ford was born Sept. 18, 1929, in Butte, to Jack and Blanche (Dickson) Knight. He was followed by brother, Rutherford, and sister, Geraldine. He went to grade school in Bannack and graduated from Beaverhead High School where he played in the East-West Shrine Football game. During the summer he spent time in the Big Hole, haying on the Jardine ranch. He received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in metallurgical engineering and graduate fellowship from the Montana School of Mines while working in several of the Butte mines. Over his extensive international career, Ford performed duties as manager and project engineer for the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. in Anaconda; E.I. Dupont, Savannah River Plane, Aiken, S.C.; Los Alamos Scientific Lab, K Division, Los Alamos, N.M.; Atomic Power Development Association (Detroit Edison) and FERMI lab, Detroit; United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Dounreay Fast Reactor Facility, Thurso, Scotland; Westinghouse Electric, France; General Electric in Richland, Wash., San Jose and Vallecitos, Calif., and Tokyo, Japan; Westinghouse Nuclear Fuel Division, Pittsburgh; Westinghouse Electric, Advanced Energy Systems/Waste Management/Environmental Remediation Divisions, Pittsburgh; and Westinghouse Hanford Co., Richland, Wash. Ford s professional affiliations included: Westinghouse Electric s representative on and charter member of the committee on Nuclear Quality Assurance, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and an early and catalyzing member of the ASQC working group on ASQC E-4, Environmental Quality Assurance. Ford was published many times in major publications between 1960 and 1991. One of these publications titled, Acubic Expansion of PU and PU-FE Eutectic Between Room Temperature and 700 to 800 degrees Celsius, was presented at the Second International Conference on Plutonium Metallurgy, Grenoble, France. While in Pittsburgh, Ford met and married his wife, Nancy Fried Knight. They together raised sons, John and Matthew, on a farm in Saxonburg, Pa. Ford was a well-respected farmer, raising corn and soybeans along with hogs and black angus cattle. All of this was to show my sons good work ethic. Ford and his family returned to his beloved Montana in 1991. He and his family have enjoyed many years in the Flathead Valley where both sons have met and married their wives, Carrie Griffin Knight and daughter, Tia, and Heather Broeder Knight and daughter, Tiffany, and son, Cody. Ford is survived by his loving wife, Nancy; his sons, John and Matthew; daughter, Leslie Smail, and husband, Eric Hunley; nephew and niece, Jarrod and Atari Faust; and countless friends. Ford was a patriot and loved the free United States of America. The most important thing in Ford s life was his relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. Throughout his entire life he credited and honored our Heavenly Father. This was his most cherished legacy. Amen. The celebration of Ford s life will be held at 4 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 30, at Cornerstone Community Church, 1970 U.S. 93 N., in Kalispell. Now go straight home and no bar hopping. Friends are encouraged to visit the Web site at www.buffalohillfh.com to leave notes of condolences for the family. Buffalo Hill Funeral Home is caring for the family. Memorials are suggested to Crossroads Community Church; the Veterans Food Pantry; or a charity of the donor s choice.

Othello Preschool reports on operations, priorities

OTHELLO – Othello School District Early Childhood Director Jennifer Garza presented to the Othello School Board Tuesday evening, following the board’s May 21 site visit at the Othello Preschool, on how the preschool is doing and some of its priorities over this school year.

A view to the past

Gravis Tech interns spearhead virtual Burke tour project

Biden marks 9/11 anniversary with tribute, call for unity

NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden is making an appeal for the nation to reclaim the spirit of cooperation that sprung up in the days following the 9/11 terror attacks as he commemorates those who died 20 years ago.

Biden marks 9/11 anniversary with tribute, call for unity

NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden is making an appeal for the nation to reclaim the spirit of cooperation that sprung up in the days following the 9/11 terror attacks as he commemorates those who died 20 years ago.