Bonner County History - Aug. 8, 2024

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50 Years Ago

Sandpoint News-Bulletin

Aug. 8, 1974 – ROTARY INSTALLS THREE

The Sandpoint Rotary Club recently installed three new members. George Harper, Fred Darnell and Pierre Huguenin became members in a ceremony presided over by official installer Ray Kincaid. All three are active businessmen in the community. Harper also serves on the city council. 

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SON BORN TO BRADETICHES

Mr. and Mrs. Dick Bradetich, LaGrande, Ore., are the parents of their first child, a son, Ryan, weighing 7 lb. 15 oz.  Paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. David Bradetich, Sagle; maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. John Thomas, Atlin, B.C., Canada, formerly of Sandpoint. 

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NEWS FROM LACLEDE by Nora Graves

Jeffrey Graves was honored Saturday for his ninth birthday. Having dinner with him at his parents’ home, the Pat Graveses, were Nora Graves, Julie Graves of Kootenai, Mr. and Mrs. Chet Howell and four daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Belwood and two children, Neta Belwood, his parents and brothers, Jerry and Rickie, and John Connelly of Priest River. 

Paul Moore, Tammy Needs, Tinna Brooks and Scott Newcomb spent this week at American Bible School Camp at Cocolalla Lake.

The Leon Rembowskis, visiting at Anchorage, got caught there by flooding and are not back home yet.

75 Years Ago

Sandpoint News-Bulletin

Aug. 8, 1949 – HEALTH UNIT SET UP HERE

Miss Electa Gartin, Coeur d’Alene, supervisor of nurses for the city-county health unit, and D.J. Boughton, sanitarian for Bonner and Kootenai counties, spent Monday working with Mrs. Clara Patterson, county health nurse, on the opening of the new city-county health office here. The health unit is combined with the Kootenai county health unit to form a two-county health district supervised by C.F. Bain. The office will be in the courthouse in the office of Mrs. Patterson, whose title will change to public health nurse. Miss Merlene Miley, coming from Twin Lakes, is office clerk and registrar of vital statistics. A second health nurse will be added soon. 

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CAFE HAS NEW HOURS

As of this week Lee’s cafe, Sandpoint’s Chinese cafe, will be open until 11 p.m. each week day. This has been done, said owner Lee Eng, to satisfy calls for special Chinese dishes during the evening. This is the first time in eight years that the cafe, on Cedar street, has not opened at seven [a.m.] and closed at eight in the evening. Special Chinese dishes have been added to the menu for those with an oriental flair in their appetites. Chicken Almond, Chop Suey, Egg Foo Young, Chow Mein, Chinese and fried prawns, and sweet and sour spareribs head the list. 

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A NEW OLD GLORY AT HALL

A brand new star spangled banner now flies from the pole in the yard at the Community hall, thanks to a donation made by the American Legion.

For more information, visit the museum online at bonnercountyhistory.org.