Flood of entries rolling in for Sandpoint Film Festival
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Geoff Penrose: Offering alternatives in education
SANDPOINT — Geoff Penrose points right to his staff when asked why Lake Pend Oreille Alternative High School has been able to improve its metrics since he first arrived on the scene a little more than two years ago.
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Carol Deaner: Champion for the arts
SANDPOINT — In a town that prides itself as a hotbed of artistic talent, Carol Deaner keeps raising the bar on what the definition of “arts community” really means.
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Paul Graves: Elder Advocate
SANDPOINT — Paul Graves has no qualms about being called a geezer. To the contrary, he throws the term about as a badge of honor, recognition of what it means to be someone “of a certain age” who still brims with life.
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Phyllis Horvath: Kinderhaven executive director
SANDPOINT — The stories are horrifying: Children who have never had a meal cooked for them by their parents. Kids who can barely speak because they have been virtually ignored since birth. And those stories are nothing compared with the ones of serial sexual abuse, sometimes involving every child in …
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Alice Wallace: A legacy of compassion
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COMING HOME: Divers recover bodies from deep water
For 15 years, she was known as "the girl whose father is in the lake."
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Dyno Wahl: Festival at Sandpoint spark plug
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Jack Parker: Bridge to the community
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Patricia Walker White: Passionately Panida
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Charley Packard: A Life in Music
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On guard
SANDPOINT - For some people, joining an organization is a matter of choice. For others, it is a mandate.
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Garbage turns togold in compost pile
SANDPOINT - Start with a few tons of castoff paper plates and food scraps, mix it with several yards of manure and rotten hay, let it cook for two years and the result is what gardeners like to call "black gold."
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Discussions bring end-of-life issues to light
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Poet takes ancient art to modern platform
SANDPOINT - If there is a subtext that weaves its way through the more than three decades that Lawrence E. Keith has been writing poetry, it might be the thread of longing for real and lasting communication.
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'Love is greater than fear'
SANDPOINT - Hate slithers around in the shadows. Hate slinks up from behind and hides. And when a community has the guts to turn around and stare it down, hate blinks first.
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The Joy of Music
SANDPOINT - Imagine what could happen if you took a bunch of former band instrument players, lumped them together with a passel of wannabe musicians and got them under the same roof to rehearse every week. Before long, you might have an orchestra on your hands.
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Powell brothers push harp guitar into spotlight
SANDPOINT - At first glance, the harp guitar appears to be an unwieldy way to make music. True to its name, the instrument looks as if a standard six-string guitar collided with the low end of a harp, with both somehow surviving the incident and coming out the better for …
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Songwriter showcase moves to Little Theater stage
SANDPOINT - Like families adapting to a tight economy by revisiting their household budgets, the folks behind the 4th Annual Songwriters' Circle have "miniaturized" their format by moving the concert to the Panida Little Theater this Saturday, Nov. 10.
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Little dresses to make a big difference
SANDPOINT - Neighbors didn't see a lot of Barbara Tritch this summer. While they were out and about enjoying the sunshine, she was busy inside at her sewing machine, turning mountains of fabric into a heartfelt gift for little girls in Africa.
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Priest Lake Museum opens door to history
PRIEST LAKE - The view from Luby Bay is an absolute stunner, blessed with a panorama of Priest Lake that rolls like an unfurled tapestry from north to south and back again. That could explain why the Civilian Conservation Corps chose this very spot to construct a U.S. Forest Service …
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Theatrical homecoming
SANDPOINT - If time spent onstage, backstage and in front of the stage count for anything in the job skills department, Sarah Caruso is eminently qualified to teach her craft.
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BAYFEST brings world of theater to Sandpoint
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CASA celebrates family reunification
SANDPOINT - Jan remembers vividly the lowest ebb of her fortunes and the moment that turned out to be a high water mark of her fate. She remembers, because they share a precise moment in time.
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Blind entrepreneur rolls out radio business
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Panida prepares for digital movie conversion
SANDPOINT - The Panida Theater's love affair with film goes back 85 years, to a time when the first audiences sat hushed as the lights dimmed and stories appeared as if by magic on the movie screen.
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Glass recycler bottles recipe for success
SANDPOINT - Take a big idea, add a healthy pinch of passion, stir in community awareness and you have the recipe for Terra Cressey's overnight success story at GlassRoots Recycling.
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Guitar builder hears echoes of Sandpoint's past
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Small town, huge start
SANDPOINT - For one local start-up business, 2011 turned out to be the launch pad for what has become a hot, national clothing concept.
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'It's a Wonderful Life:' Holiday classic gets new wrapping
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Memoir sheds light on professional dance
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Mike Ehredt: Honoring the fallen, one flag at a time
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Laughing Dog doubles production, payroll
PONDERAY - The truck Fred Colby drove to work on the day he started up Laughing Dog Brewery in 2005 was 10 years old at the time. Six years, tens of thousands of barrels of beer and a boatload of brewing awards later, he's still behind the wheel of that …
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Caller's zeal revives contra dance
SANDPOINT - Being a dancer gave Emily Faulkner a leg up when she started to call the moves at community contra dances. She took up the caller's mantle only recently, after deciding to spearhead the resurgence of the movement- and music-filled social gatherings, which had been on hold for about …
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Small press thrives in tiny niche
SANDPOINT - Few business sagas are as rough and tumble as the one surrounding the book selling trade. Once the domain of cozy little mom and pop bookstores, the landscape was altered dramatically when "category killers" such as Borders and Barnes & Noble cropped up in malls and shopping centers …
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Swimmer set to go the distance
SANDPOINT - It's one thing to rack up a couple of miles swimming laps in a pool, altogether another matter to cover more than five miles across the murky depths of open water.
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Boatwright keeps history afloat
SAGLE - If you focused your attention solely on the hands doing the work, the rhythmic sliding motion and the curls of wood that fall gently to the shop floor with each forward stroke of the block plane could just as easily have been a scene from centuries past.
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Nanci Jenkins: Gentle warrior battles life-threatening childhood illness
SANDPOINT - Since 2001, an event called Jacey's Race has reached out to help 23 individual children and a host of organizations in the fight against childhood cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. The race first was held in Boulder, Colo., but moved to Sandpoint when Nanci Jenkins and her family …
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Saving Bambi Arts Briefs
SANDPOINT - The unusual path that Dory McIsaac walks today didn't wait to be chosen, it strolled into her backyard and proceeded to take over her life.
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Susie Haskins: Award-winning kindergarten teacher
SANDPOINT - In a chance social encounter, Susie Haskins was asked the ubiquitous questions that often doubles as a conversation starter: So, what do you do?
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Sandpoint artist captures heart of New Orleans
SANDPOINT - If walls could talk, New Orleans would give you an earful. Tales of late night jazz and midnight voodoo, intense celebration and abject misery would twist and intertwine until a picture began to form of a city that has always seemed to teeter precariously, but happily, on the …
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Kootenai River Inn Casino & Spa celebrates 25 years
BONNERS FERRY - Want to know what can be accomplished by a successful business over the course of 25 very busy years? Just read the name of one of Boundary County's largest employers out loud to find the answer: Best Western Kootenai River Inn Casino & Spa.
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ICF fills funding gap for Idaho
Federal grants - once a financial mainstay for schools, community improvement projects and arts organizations - have become as rare as non-partisan debate on Capitol Hill.
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New law leaves IRS, tax pros scrambling
SANDPOINT - When Republicans in Congress flexed their muscle for new tax changes and President Obama signed the bill into law in mid-December, the deal appeared to be a classic political fait accompli.
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Frozen Fun
SANDPOINT - This year's Sandpoint Winter Carnival will look altogether different from cold-season celebrations of the past. The small but stalwart committee behind the event has added yet another major crowd-pleaser to the six-day carnival, scheduled for Jan. 12-17, while at the same time considering an eventual return to some …
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Keepsake for community's sake
SANDPOINT - Five years and a couple thousand books into the process, photographer Tina Friedman now finds herself just a small stack shy of breaking even on a photo-filled coffee table book project she began in January 2006.
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Transitory masterpieces
SANDPOINT - She paints like she sings, in flowing lines that turn Sandpoint into her canvas and her song each holiday season.
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Shelter closure leaves victims in danger
SANDPOINT - A homeless puppy is cute and thoroughly adoptable. A child in need is heart-rending and easy to help. But a woman who has been beaten black-and-blue is just plain terrifying.
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Couple hikes 3,500 miles on local trails
SANDPOINT - Together, they have hiked nearly 3,500 miles over the course of about 360 trips to the trailhead. For Betsy and Jim Fulling, these hikes are more than a passion for the outdoors. They are the weekly remembrance of a love story that plays itself out on the trail.
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Elizabeth Turley: From fired to fabulous
SANDPOINT - Talk about landing on your feet. Less than two years ago, Elizabeth Turley sat stunned by the news that her job as director of marketing and brand management for Coldwater Creek was being cut at a time when downsizing was sweeping through the business world.
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Education via the arts
SANDPOINT - Lesley University sits on Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass., shoulder-to-shoulder with its larger and more famous academic neighbor.
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Angels Over Sandpoint
SANDPOINT - One of the first questions people ask about a work of art is, "What does it mean?" In general, the artist who created the piece is the last person you'd want to go to for an answer.
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'Death of a Small Town in the West'
SANDPOINT - A playwright whose work has never been performed meets up with a director who has never directed to work with a cast of actors who, in the main, have never set foot on stage.
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Fred Hartman: A quiet hero hangs up his hat
SANDPOINT - Residents of Sandpoint always liked seeing the tow truck parked in Fred Hartman's driveway on Church Street. Even if his big rig wasn't on the road, its very presence meant that Fred was on the job.
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Alternative voices
(This is the first in a series of two articles about low-power FM stations that have been licensed by the Federal Communications Commission to serve Bonner County.)
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Alan Millar: Principal steers charter school to leading edge
SANDPOINT - When Alan Millar took the job as an Outward Bound instructor in 1980, he was, in many ways, preparing himself for a career that has been all about pushing boundaries.
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Saying thanks on Father's Day
This Father’s Day will be the first one celebrated by my youngest son, Daniel. He and his wife, Meggan, are the proud parents of a 3-month-old named Wesley Leif, which puts me squarely in the middle of a line of fathers who share the same last name.
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Dignans double up for music camps
SANDPOINT - The options for taking in a musical summer camp just doubled, thanks to a local couple who plan to fill most of August with the sounds of strings, brass, woodwinds and percussion.
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Outreach inspires young musicians
SANDPOINT - Summer is the busy season for The Festival at Sandpoint, as it prepares for and then presents top-name musical acts in its popular concert series. At the end of every school year, the arts organization mounts another, rather elite, flurry of concerts attended by around 700 audience members …
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Dr. Nancy Copeland-Payton:Exploring the cycle of life's gifts, losses
SANDPOINT - Ours is a culture that avoids the topic of death. We run from it throughout our lives until, when the inevitable end chapter draws near, it takes on the kind of terrifying significance that only the dark reaches of the unknown can carry.
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Songs from the wood
SANDPOINT - Michelangelo could see statues trapped inside blocks of marble. His task, he said, was simply to chisel away the excess stone until they were released.
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John Elsa: Standing up for seniors
SANDPOINT - As a boy, John Elsa used to watch a neighbor work on projects in his shop. The man was older and confident in his abilities. Not cocky, just confident. He took his time and worked things out, teaching himself how to do those tasks he hadn't already learned …
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Kinderhaven saves 'throw-away' kids
SANDPOINT - The stories of cruelty defy belief. Even more so because they are all true and all happened here in our own backyard. A 3-year-old swung by his feet and struck against a wall because the mother who had not fed him grew tired of hearing him cry when …
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First Light shines in Panida crown
SANDPOINT - She was there, helping to lead the charge, when the community rallied to save the Panida Theater in the mid-1980s. More than 20 years later, with the main theater paid off and countless improvements completed, she was in the forefront of bringing another project home when the Panida …
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Margarete Fallat: Living through Hitler's rise, fall
SANDPOINT - You've seen the photos: German citizens being marched through concentration camps at the end of World War II, forced to witness the carnage of Hitler's mad design to engender a master race by exterminating the Jews and anyone else that stood in his way.
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Wildlife center teems with fun
SANDPOINT - Ever see an otter doing what it ought to, standing on its hind legs in a pond? How about a beaver, making kids believers, telling them to crawl into his lodge?
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Traveling team fights tooth loss, infection
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POAC show pieces together regional artists
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