Pair exemplified true public service

For the last 15 years that we have lived along Grouse Creek, we have counted ourselves fortunate to bare witness to this creek’s beauty as we watch the ebb and flow of the seasons.

That is, until last autumn when an earthen embankment, a levee, gave way from the stress of too much water. This caused the beaver pond on the corner of Samuels Road and Colburn Culver to overflow across the road onto our property and that of our neighbor. Time after time, our gardens, the orchard, to the very steps of our home were threatened. Then, recently, the levee gave way. It has always been our joy to maintain a productive and beautiful corner lot. However, I could not look out my door without shattering as a river ran through it.

The reason for my writing as a grateful citizen is that, just at the darkest moment, when our whole property was under water, into our flooded driveway came our salvation in the form of two public servants — Cary Kelly, Bonner County commissioner for District 3, and Bob Howard of Emergency Management. Within the hour, C.E. Kramer & Co. began the work of rebuilding the levee. All Saturday and returning on Sunday to finish the job. We are fortunate to live in a county where those we elect to do important work, do it.

HATTIE and GLENN GOODMAN

Sandpoint