Congratulations to area graduates

Congratulations to the Class of 2010!

It’s been fun watching you grow up. We have been your fans since you took your first swing at T ball. We cheered when your name was on the honor roll. We smiled at your refrigerator art and tried not to laugh when you went through the awkward stages with missing teeth, acne and braces.

We are your fans. We have tried our best as a community to give you the best education possible. We hope that as you grow into young, productive adults you will remember us as your unabashed, gung ho supporters and do the best at whatever it is you plan to do.

We have given you the headstart of living in the most beautiful place on earth. We have surrounded you with caring teachers.

As you make your way, please remember that the world is in great need of awesome __________________.

You fill in the blank. Remember the awesome part!

All the best and to your good health,

Signed,

Your Hometown.

If you are attending Sandpoint High School’s graduation ceremonies, remember it begins at 4:30 p.m. Saturday at War Memorial Stadium on the football field.

Something new this year. I have been told that there will be no seats reserved after 4 p.m. In year’s past, parents would duct tape certain areas off to reserve areas for friends and relatives. This year, seats may still be saved — until 4 p.m. and then administration folks will fill in those seats with the public.

Time to buy a raffle ticket to support and support the Sandpoint Lions.

If everyone would purchase only one ticket, the Lions would net more than $10,000 and that would put them on the sunnyside of planning for next year’s Fourth of July celebration.

Tickets are on sale at the Bee and numerous other locations. $5.

Remember the old saying about building a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door?

Curtis Wyborny changed it to say build a bigger mousetrap and beat a path to the Daily Bee.

He stopped by the office Monday morning with an exact replica of a real mousetrap that he constructed in about four hours. (See photo.)

It really works. He found the spring in a junkyard and attached it all on three-quarter inch plywood. He even copied the signage from his actual mousetrap.

When he left the office, he was thinking about either  going to the Litehouse Cheese Factory or buying a real big cat in case he is overrun with really big mice.

Extremes must run in the family, about 30 years ago his father made the world’s biggest bear trap at eight feet and world’s smallest one at an inch and a half.

He traded the large trap for a rifle in an Oregon sports shop.

Curtis isn’t sure what he will do with his trap. Who has the address to Disneyland?

Congrats to all of the Relay for Lifers. The Daily Bee Stingers had a great time Friday night at Saturday. Hat’s off to all the organizers but especially to our Stinger organizers, Jennifer Albert and Sheri Jones. Shoes off to Caroline Lobsinger who logged 501 laps to bring the trophy home.

I haven’t heard the final total yet, but I know the money raised will save at least one life. That’s worth it, right there.

It’s almost summer vacation time. Who has the best summer vacation story — or better yet — traveling with  children story.

Send the stories in so we can share them.

We went to the Grand Canyon, Moab and many points in between with nine of us on Spring Break. I’ll share that story soon. I’ll give you a hint: The police were called, one vehicle broke and only one kid got carsick and don’t look for a bathroom after dark in Lima, Mont.

Stay tuned…

E-mail of the week…

Last year I replaced all the  windows in my house with that expensive double-pane energy efficient kind, and today, I got a call from the contractor who installed them.

 He was  complaining that the work had been completed a whole year ago and I still  hadn’t paid for them.

 Helloooo … just because I’m blonde doesn’t  mean that I am dumb.

 So, I told him just what his fast-talking sales guy had told me last year… that in one year these windows  would pay for themselves!

 Hellooooo? It’s been a year! I told him.

 There  was only silence at the other end of the line, so I finally just hung up.

 He never called back.

David Keyes is publisher of the Daily Bee.