Bonner County History - Feb. 3, 2022
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
Feb. 3, 1972 – BIRTHS
Jan. 25 – Mr. and Mrs. Truman Bennett, Sandpoint, girl, 10 lb. 4¾ oz; Jan 26 – Mr. and Mrs. Robert Frazier, Newport, Wash., boy, 8 lb. 12¼ oz. and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Evans, Sandpoint, girl, 6 lb. 6 oz.; Jan 29 - Mr. and Mrs. George Bramall, Sandpoint, boy, 6 lb. 14 oz.; Jan. 30 – Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Bruce, Sandpoint, girl, 8 lb. 9½ oz.
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NEW HEALTH FOOD STORE
Bruce and Kathryn Black are opening the newest Sandpoint business, The Dharma Health Food Store, in the Eagles building at 206 N. First today. The young couple, formerly of Seattle, came here last August.
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‘BAMBI’ SAW CITY ON RECENT SUNDAY
The word is out about the deer seen a few Sundays ago as it trotted south on Fourth Ave., enroute toward Connie’s Cafe. Those who had the greatest chuckles over the story seem to have been the Leonard Fisters and the Roger Beauchenes. The deer is a tame one that hangs around the Beauchene home at the end of North Boyer. This was not the first time the deer visited Sandpoint, but it is apparently the first time it has gone so far into the city. On one recent afternoon Fister and Beauchene were coming back from hunting when they saw the deer. “Bambi” hopped into the truck for a ride home. Along the way another hunter stopped them to ask if they had any luck. The men motioned to the pickup box. The other hunter stared in. Bambi stared back. “It’s alive,” was all he could say.
100 Years Ago
Pend d’Oreille Review
Feb. 3, 1922 – GROUND HOG GETS NOSE WET
The one consolation of a hard winter was that old man ground hog got his nose wet with snow and could not see his shadow yesterday, and turned back to his burrow for only four more weeks’ snooze before catching the filmy garments of spring in his teeth and dragging her into the limelight. Had he seen his shadow he would have delayed spring’s appearance for six weeks – but only four, well, that’s not so bad.
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ANOTHER SNAG IN PLANNING SCHOOL
With opposition to the school district’s purchase of a site at the corner of Pine and Euclid for the new high school building and opposition of a majority of the board to placing the building upon the site of the present Farmin building (in 2022, site of U.S. Bank and the city parking lot), the school board Monday struck a further snag. Along about 11 o’clock after a long threshing over of the situation, Trustee Phinney proposed that one way out of the dilemma would be to build on the four lots owned by the school district and located in the rear of the Methodist church, upon one of which the manual training building stands. The lots were purchased by a former board with the aim of eventually purchasing the Methodist church property (in 2022, site of Wells Fargo Bank) and locating a new high school building there. Negotiations, however, failed to secure that site, two 50-foot lots thus remaining the property of the church. The board adjourned without arriving at any final conclusion.
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