Wednesday, March 19, 2025

ARTICLES BY SUSAN DRINKARD

Local blooms as 100th birthday nears

Large San Marzano tomatoes are sun ripening on the vines in Maebeth Fulmer’s backyard raised beds, dense and verdant with winter squash, basil, cantaloupe, and zucchini plants, to name a few.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Food bank boasts fresh produce thanks to SHS grad

SANDPOINT — An extended soaking-wet spring made it more challenging for Sandpoint’s Organic Agriculture Center staff on North Boyer, but you wouldn’t know it by the 200-plus pounds of vegetables donated to the Bonner Community Food Bank, so far, from its garden this summer.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Museum navigates present to honor the past

SANDPOINT — It holds our county’s past between its walls.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Treatments, recovery & the future

SANDPOINT — It has been 21 years since Linda Larson’s daughter suffered a traumatic brain injury from a fall while riding horseback in an English jumping competition.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

Mother, daughter turn special bond, love of outdoors into art

SANDPOINT — Combining artwork with hiking, Lillian Lassen and her young daughter Pearl have created a special bond. They’ve also created a seven-part mother and daughter series of “happy paintings” entitled “Sandpoint Mountain Flora Paintings” on display at two locations at the Pend Oreille Arts Council’s ArtWalk show.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Pandemic hampers Panida finances

SANDPOINT — Residents and visitors alike love the Panida Theater, the anchor of our downtown, where performers such as the late John Prine, Emmy Lou Harris, Bonnie Raitt, Jesse Colin Young, Taj Mahal, Jerry Jeff Walker, Keb Mo,’ Wynton Marsalis, Arlo Guthrie and Joan Baez have livened our lives on …
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO

Father Day says goodbye to St. Joe’s

SANDPOINT — St. Joseph’s Catholic Church members are saying goodbye this week to their beloved priest, Father Dennis Day, who has served parishioners in Sandpoint for the past 24 years. At age 70, the priest is retiring and moving back to his hometown of Boise.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Year-round market celebrates region’s best

COCOLALLA — If you really want to support our local economy and its agricultural community, it is not only possible, it’s easier than ever now that Thomas and Darla Fletcher have opened the Only Local Farmers Market in the log cabin near the post office in Cocolalla.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

PSW draws from the past to mow meadows

SANDPOINT — An ancient practice is under way at Pine Street Woods.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

The righteous work of rescuing bicycles

SANDPOINT — Righteous work is how some might view it.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Uncovering a community treasure

The Pearl Theater brings a variety of entertainment to Boundary County
BONNERS FERRY HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Uncovering a community treasure

The Pearl Theater brings a variety of entertainment to Boundary County
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Historic BF theater is a ‘Pearl’ of a place

BONNERS FERRY — The Pearl Theater in Bonners Ferry is aptly named.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Tire tubes transformed into wearable artwork

SANDPOINT — Taking something no one wants, ugly and worn out, and recycling it into affordable wearable art, is what Lacey Inge of Sagle finds gratifying about making earrings out of exhausted bicycle inner tubes.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Idaho Gives campaign reaches new record

SANDPOINT — Sandpoint-area residents are generous, as evidenced by the money contributed through Idaho Gives’ fund drive for the many nonprofits in Bonner and Boundary counties.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

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