ARTICLES BY BOB GUNTER
Sandpoint used to be just a 'regular' town
Sandpoint Furniture/Carpet One, home of The Ponderay Design Center and Selkirk Glass & Cabinets (208-263-5138), sponsors this column.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Sittin' Here Thinkin'
Today, I want to share with you my trip to the WWII Memorial in Washington D.C. Inland Northwest Honor Flight had chosen 35 veterans to make the flight back to Washington along with an excellent group of volunteers called “guardians.” We flew from Spokane to Salt Lake, and then on …
BONNERS FERRY HERALD | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
The real face of war is nation's soldiers
Recently, I made a trip to Veterans Hospital in Spokane and what I saw, and heard, changed how I think and feel about some of the political braying I hear on television. I am sick of politicians wrapping themselves in a flag and spewing out sanctimonious verbiage trying to cover …
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 3 MONTHS AGO
Man given year in prison after bloody fight
(Today, we continue the story told to me by Dale Selle about the fight between two railroad workers, John Quigley and John Vallino. We left off last week when Quigley got Vallino’s fingers in his mouth and bit down hard. Vallino yelled out in pain as a bystander yelled, “Kill …
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
Lend your ear to story of woe
“It is only natural to look back on the history of our area through rose colored glasses. It is only natural to see the people of yesteryear as harder working, more honest, more friendly, and edging on perfection.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
Newman School taught plenty of reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic
(Recently, I had the opportunity to sit around a table with a whole bunch of young people about my age - eighty something or other. Someone brought up the subject of one room schools and a heated discussion was off and running. The main thrust of the conversation was comparing …
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
Erik's next film is just a Google search away
Folks, I need a minute of your time before I tell you what is taking place at the Panida’s Little Theater this afternoon and evening. I thought when we stopped saying to cinematography Erik Daarstad, “Stay, Erik, Stay” and changed to, “Go, Erik, Go,” all would be well.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO
Community's welcome made a big impression
(Ted Farmin sent me a video clip about the North Platte Nebraska Canteen. It brought back memories of World War II years when communities across our country did all they could to give a GI (government issue) a touch of home. In North Platte, a troop train would stop for …
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
Early day justice often marked by disorder in the court
On Feb. 7 1901, Sandpoint became a real city and like all cities, it needed to be governed. It did not take long to realize that a place was needed for the governors as well as those who refused to be governed. Someone came up with the idea of combining …
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
Rope swing lives on in residents' memories
Folks, the human brain has been called the fastest, most efficient, computer ever produced by unskilled labor. Let me tell you what I mean. I was rocking away the other day and in a few nanoseconds, I visited my birthplace in Alabama, the Bitterroot Valley in Montana, and ended by …
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
