Bonner County History - March 25, 2021

From the archives of the

Bonner County History Museum

611 S. Ella Ave., Sandpoint, Idaho, 83864

208-263-2344

50 Years Ago

Sandpoint News-Bulletin

March 25, 1971 – BIRTHS

March 15 – Mr. and Mrs. Gary Hunt, Sandpoint, boy, 8 lb. 13½ oz. March 17 – Mr. and Mrs. David Wedgren, Clark Fork, girl 6 lb. 2 oz.; and Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Converse, Kootenai, girl 9 lb. 10 oz.

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DOWN WITH THE OLD, UP WITH THE NEW

Pacific Power & Light crews removed old low intensity street lights along Boyer and Pine and installed new high intensity units, which have a luminosity seven times greater than the old ones.

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PINKY COCHRAN BROKE LEG AGAIN

Pinky Cochran is back in a Spokane hospital with a fractured right leg, after slipping on the snow-covered driveway at his Lakeshore Drive home, breaking the leg above the knee. He broke the same leg below the knee two years ago in a Schweitzer ski accident.

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ATTENDED STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL

Members of Circle ’N Swing Square Dance Club who attended the Strawberry Festival in Wyndel, B.C. Saturday were Mr. and Mrs. Ron May, Mr. and Mrs. Larry Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Hawkins, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Klefstad, Patsy Littlefield, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Green, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Lund, Shirley Regher, Charlie Amsden and Pearl and Mary Colhoff. The next regular dance will be March 27 in the Community hall.

100 Years Ago

Pend d’Oreille Review

March 25, 1921 – FULL CARLOAD OF SUGAR

A whole carload of sugar, the first received here since the government took over the sugar situation during the war, has been received by the Merchants Delivery for distribution among local merchants.

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CITY BREVITIES

A freak March snowstorm Saturday covered the ground to a six inch depth. It was all gone by evening and dust was flying on the paved streets.

The ladies of the Presbyterian church will give an Easter tea and musicale at the home of Mrs. H.L. Thomason, 527 Euclid avenue, Saturday afternoon. All are cordially invited to attend.

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ADVISES IMPROVEMENT OF LAKE SITE

Spokane’s superintendent of parks was here to inspect local park sites and confer with the chamber of commerce park committee. He recommended that a park site be established along the Northern Pacific right-of-way and the lake shore, and advised acquiring, as soon as possible the entire strip between the railway and the beach from the city dock to the N.P. bridge crossing the lake. He recommended opening this area from the dock to Sand creek, planting trees and shrubbery and cleaning up the entire space at as early a date as possible. “You have here as choice a location for a city park as any I have ever seen. If properly built, a park on this site would be as beautiful as any in the country,” he said.

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