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Are you ready, boomers? Medicare is here
The average number of boomers turning 65 was 10,000 a day. But 2024 is a “peak year” for boomers, folks. The numbe…
Lifelong Learning Center seeks tutors to help others learn
When I was in the 10th grade, my grades were slipping. I had trouble following teachers. I didn’t understand math and the teacher went too fast, so when I didn…
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Fall into the fun of halloween, autumn festivities
It’s a busy week of fall festivities from Halloween trick-or-treating at the Bonner County Museum and Lions Den to trick-or-treating at Sandpoint City Hall. Th…
The best therapy can be found in man's best friend
There’s nothing like a good dog story to bring out the best in people. Not long ago I stopped by Newport Hospital and was surprised to see a “multi-ethnic” dog about the size of a lab, mostly black with a graying m…
Bonner General hosts Diabetes Day next Monday
“The light bulb just lit up when I was diagnosed as pre-diabetes,” a friend told me the other day over lunch. “My father died of complications of the disease, and he was first diagnosed when he was my age. So, I’ve…
Scarlet fever strikes PR community again
10 Years Ago — 2009
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Desert drama possible in North Idaho with (pseudo) Xeriscaping
The term Xeriscape, common in Arizona and other desert realms, has recently become a new byword up in our Rocky Mountain stronghold, and it’s both a challenge …
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Saturday festival celebrates writing, authors
With the colder weather comes a craving for comforting indoor activities. Sandpoint boasts a healthy population of published and amateur writers, many of whom enjoy getting together to network, encourage each other…
'For to me, to live is Christ'
I have been thinking these past few weeks about someone I met nearly 10 years ago that I have never forgotten. Her name was Beth Hill. She impacted my life in ways that I can’t quite explain. I served as a Hospice …
It's a scary good time on the entertainment scene
SANDPOINT — There is so much fun on tap heading into Halloween it’s downright scary.
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Rotary's goal is to eternally eradicate polio
The first major documented polio outbreak in the U.S. occurred in Vermont in 1894 when eighteen deaths and 132 cases of permanent paralysis were reported. In 1916, New York City experienced the first large epidemic…
The witness in the sky is faithful
Last week my husband and I were married 48 years — which doesn’t make us as old as it sounds. We married young at 19 and 20. Our simple country wedding was on a beautiful autumn afternoon in the little A-frame chur…