Bonner County History - June 10, 2025
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50 Years Ago
Sandpoint News-Bulletin
June 10, 1975 – WOMEN’S SHOP OPENS
A new women’s clothing shop opens this week in Sandpoint. Mode O’Day, a popular California chain with trend setting garments, will open shop at 305 First, former home of The Fair Lady. Ms. Berg Schmitt is the owner/operator of the shop.
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TROOP 423 HELD COURT OF AWARDS
Senior Girl Scout Troop No. 423 and their mothers met in the City Council Chambers Friday for a Court of Awards. For their work with the Adjustment Classes at Washington School, the girls received their “Aid to the Handicapped” Service Bars. Carol Mahler and Betty Robinson each received 10-year pins; receiving 5-year pins were Lynnae Seppala, Debbie Huff and Prendy Mikesell. An appreciation plaque was given to Ed Robinson for sponsoring the troop and to Mrs. Joan Mikesell for letting the girls meet in her home. The girls gave their leader, Mrs. Robinson, a beautiful corsage and gift. Snacks were served, as it was a farewell party for Miss Mahler and Miss Mikesell, graduates of the class of 1975.
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LESLIE TATTERSON IS ISU GRADUATE
Miss Leslie J. Tatterson, a1970 SHS graduate and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R.G. Tatterson, Sr., received her B.S. degree in nursing May 17 from Idaho State University. During her time at ISU she was an active leader in Campus Crusade for Christ.
75 Years Ago
Sandpoint News-Bulletin
June 10, 1950 – GOLDEN JUBILEE
All indications are that Sandpoint’s 50th birthday party will be the biggest celebration in the Inland Empire over the Fourth. Principal events of the big Golden Jubilee celebration will be an outboard fishing contest on July 2; kiddies pet parade and professional wrestling card July 3; and an old-time parade, boat races and fireworks display on the Fourth. There will be a number of concessions, and Meeker’s Shows, the largest collection of carnival rides in the Northwest, will be here July 1-4.
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NEWS FROM KOOTENAI
Dennis Roth and Dianna Breeden celebrated their birthday anniversaries together last Thursday with guests Tommy Rickett, Donalee Spangle, Philip and Phyllis Jean Bloom, Martha Marie Hand, Sandra Bloom, Judy Ann LaMoreaux, Frankie Rose, Teddy and Claudia Hoover and Marvella and Nellie Allbee.
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STREET OILING TO START SOON
The Sandpoint highway district is bending every effort to get oil laid on city streets before July 4, a resident who appeared on behalf of property owners in the residential district was told at the city council meeting Monday. Calling attention to Sandpoint’s golden jubilee celebration, he urged that everything possible be done to lay the dust before the first of July. “After all, we are 50 years old now and we should do something about our streets,” he said, to which Councilman A.R. Nelson quipped: “Well you know, the streets can get pretty bad in 50 years.”
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