Bonner County History - Aug. 15, 2024

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Bonner County Historical

Society and Museum

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

208-263-2344

50 Years Ago

Sandpoint News-Bulletin

Aug. 15, 1974 – HUCKLEBERRIES ABUNDANT

Huckleberry pickers are enjoying one of the largest harvests of the luscious native berries in the past decade. Almost everywhere anyone goes in the high country in Bonner and Boundary counties, they find bushes loaded with large berries. Berries will soon be ready at the levels above 5000 feet.

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NEW CITY DOCK WINS APPROVAL

The Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation approved 27 outdoor recreation projects around the state at their meeting in July, one of them an $80,000 project to help construct a new Sandpoint city dock. The proposed dock will replace the old wooden city dock which was badly damaged during last winter’s flooding. The new dock will be of the fill variety, and eventually will have boat slips and a beacon. 

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ANITA ROBINSON TRAINING IN VA HOSPITAL

Dr. Anita Robinson is serving her internship at the Veterans Hospital, Sepulveda, Calif., with rotation work at UCLA and Cedars of Lebanon-Mt. Sinai hospitals. After graduation from Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Tex., Dr. Robinson spent several days visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Robinson, Sagle, and her brother, Major Dan Robinson and family of Missoula, Mont., before reporting for duty in California. Dr. Robinson is a 1964 SHS graduate and a graduate of U of I. 

75 Years Ago

Sandpoint News-Bulletin

Aug. 15, 1949 – HOSPITAL ASSURED

The Bonner General hospital is now a certainty, said J.M. Brown Jr., as drive workers reported that $52,000 has been subscribed in either donations or trust certificates, the amount the committee said must be provided as a minimum to start the work of moving the dispensary to Sandpoint. The building will be moved from Farragut in three sections by barge, unloaded at Dover and moved to the site. 

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BIDS CALLED FOR ADDITION TO GARAGE

A call for bids has been issued by the Independent School District No. 81 for the construction of an addition to the present school bus garage at the high school. Specifications may be had from Charles Selle, clerk. The present garage is inadequate to house the four buses now in use. With the possibility of a fifth and larger bus being added this fall, larger quarters must be provided. Bids are also asked for furnishing gas and oil and for a half-ton pickup. Stoker and steam coal are needed, besides 100 cords of wood. 

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MUZZY IS NEW MANAGER OF SIGMAN’S

R.E. Muzzy, who has been with Sigman’s at Walla Walla and Lewiston for four years, was promoted to managership of the Sandpoint Sigman store, to succeed Karl Berg. Mr. Muzzy is house hunting at present and will move Mrs. Muzzy and their four children here from Walla Walla as soon as they can find a home. Mr. Muzzy says he’s glad to be transferred here, as “I trained at Farragut in the navy and I like this part of the country very much.”

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