Yet another area icon has been lost. I wrote a tribute mostly dictated by his lovely three step-daughters several years ago. Today I must write another.
Hans arrived with friend and co-worker when Chan bought the Scenic Bay Marina, thence when the developer, who had bought up troubled resort properties got the y herself..opportunity to snap up these resorts at pennies on the dollar.
As before, the tribute was that he was a great Pop. This time it is about his work ethic, his integrity and his friendly approach to doing business. His loyalty to Chan is legendary.
We will all miss him. It is our understanding that Lynn, his widow does not want to run J.D.s by herself so reopening is up in the air. We understand that there will be a tribute this Saturday, time unknown. (2:00 pm)
The story in today's Coeur d'Alene Press outlined several features, but left other glaring errors and omissions.
To start with it featured prominently the Silverwood Theme Park which indeed is a fine place to recreate. Still there are problems with the story by Tyler Wilson.
For starters, you cannot reach Athol from Hwy 53. Athol is framed by Hwy 54 which is the main street. Also, to arrive at Farragut State Park you must be on Hwy 54 as well. But wait. There is more.
Just four more miles you can access the premier vacation spot, Bayview. Nestled on the shores of Scenic Bay and adjacent to Idlewild Bay, the only sheltered waters in Lake Pend Oreille.
Seven marinas serve people from all parts of Washington and even Oregon. The sailing capitol of North Idaho fishing and swimming, these activities rival Silverwood.They both serve the recreation needs, just in different ways.
Real Estate is also available both lots and homes with a fantastic view of the sparkling waters that treat residents and visitors alike.
So please return Athol, Farragut State Park and yes, Bayview, too.
Many of you are wondering why The Lake House aka floating Patio has been closed for the past three days. It will reopen today, Thursday June 6.
The closure was due to significant damage suffered from last weekend's severe Thunder Storm. Repairs have been completed and Natasha & company are again operational. Come on down.
Prosecutors are not asked to find the innocent, only the guilty and then only if a crime has been committed.
for those of you that rely on opinion over facts, you need to stop casting aspersions based on philosophy and other Quackeries, and start using governing tactics along with communication aimed toward the inaccuracies of the socialist left, leaning harder every year.
This country cannot survive in a maelstrom of bitter denunciations and falsehood. Win at the ballot box if you will, but stop tearing this country apart.
The mainstream media is harping on the premise that the prosecutor is hiding something. He is. a protection for those that were found not guilty of any crime and any further info on them is not legal.
Eureka. I passed 601,000 page views without looking back.Thank you all for your interest. These numbers are since I started this blog which if you are that interested, you can scroll back to the beginning for.
My two favorite fiction authors, Tom Clancy and now William E. Griffin 111 who wrote under the pen name of W.E.B. Griffin died at 98 years old a few days ago.
A veteran of the Korean war, has been there, done that and yes, has the T-shirt. He wrote several series on WW11 and Korea covering the Marine Corps, army, Special forces, CIA and many other facets of combat.
He is survived by his son who co-wrote several books with him.
An unhappy coincidence is I grow older, many of my friends and those that I admire have gone before me.
I grew up celebrating the birthdays of President Washington and Lincoln. Lincoln February 12 and Washington February 22. Let us look back for a moment.
George Washington known as "The father of our country," lead the ragtag army to victory,then served as our first president. Without his leadership we probably would still be British.
Abraham Lincoln was president throughout the civil war, but managed to hold our union together.
Both birthdays were national holidays. Now we have Presidents day. Why? Because the federal bleeding hearts awarded Martin Luther King the one spot that erased the two greatest presidents from national recognition.
To take nothing away from King, he did nothing more than give a rousing speech in favor of equality. A noble gesture but hardly deserving of or measuring up to that of Washington or Lincoln, who were the giants of our country's birth.
We as a community have lost some icons lately. Whether every place has the same problem I couldn't say. Bayview is a community where we all either know everyone, or at least know of them. An unfortunate coincidence has two Jones' passing in the same year, both huge contributors to their neighbors.
Captain Wes Jones was an innovator. Where waterborne mail carriers used to just deliver mail, bring groceries to snow bound east side residents, Captain Wes went a lot further. He renamed his boat the Liquid Limo and started combining mail delivery with hauling tourists on his route, stopping to admire mountain goats as he went.
My big beef is with the medical community and/or the overbearing government that is hammering pain medication abuse, dragging legitimate patients along with abusers. One size fits all is bullshit and caused a good man to end his life because he could no longer stand the unrelenting pain.
Services will be held at the Bayview Community Center, Saturday 2/16 at 100 pm.
As we age, so does society. we learn as we all do. In the 1980's racial stereotypes abounded. Before that our leading singer was Al Jolson who sang what was then known as Negro Spirituals. He did it in black face. It wasn't to mock the black race, but black people were not allowed to perform so those like Jolson, who admired spirituals, who wore black face to honor that music.
This and other practices were socially acceptable then, but not now. Our society has grown and learned about equality. Thirty to fifty years later, young people without a sense of history are tearing down historical monuments to the civil war and suddenly examining these behaviors through 21st century eyes, discounting the intervening years, reexamining behavior long in the past with today's standards. This is dead wrong. Just as society has grown, so have individuals.
People like Virginia's governor and many others are having to deal with behavior from many years go when it was permissible. It is time to ditch retroactive blame and salute those that have grown past the socially ignorant years, not acting like leftist Nazis living in the past.
Leave history alone. The civil war happened and though many of our young people haven't a clue as to the real causes of rural vs.industrial areas of our country and the friction it caused. We now live in a much more enlightened age. Celebrate that rather than denigrate those that lived before you were born.
I have the sad duty to announce the passing of a good friend of mine, Jim Campbell. He died this afternoon in his sleep at 6:30 this afternoon.
Jim worked at the Naval Base for many years, as did his wife, Jean. When he retired in 1995 he bought The Captain's Wheel out of bankruptcy.
The last loan I did before I retired was to arrange the SBA loan. But before that, I negotiated the sale between the seller, Jim and Jean Campbell and Norm and Sue Nordstrom
The extra edition of Shorelines did an exceptional job of informing us of the festivities in the "large parking lot on Main St, " scheduled for December first.
Unfortunately some of her personal prejudices were obvious.I checked into this today and found that the entire expense of this extravaganza is being picked up by the owner of that "large parking lot on Main Street."
Chan Karupiah, owner of that lot plus five marinas, is picking up the tab. For shame, Sheryl Puckett. You know better. If you want to be a news person, you must follow the rules. Otherwise you are just another extremist parroting your viewpoint instead of news.
This ceremony and others must always credit the sponsors.
A few years ago I wrote about the Bayview mail boat. That was two contractors ago. The Sunday paper had a great piece as a follow up to my story in the Handle Extra. Unfortunately, who ever writes the captions erred on at least three and possibly four pictures.
First and most egregious, was naming Jim Kirkelie as having received his mail in Bayview. That pic is not of Bayview.
Several references were made saying Wes Jones delivers in Bayview. He does not. He picks up the mail in Bayview and delivers to residents lining the east side of Lake Pend Oreille.
Wes does not create a huge wake in Bayview, as stated. Scenic Bay is a no wake zone. One that Jones respects.
Whether the reporter, Nathanael Massey, the photographer, or the editors made these sloppy captions, somebody needs to learn about accuracy.
Other than the errors in mislabeling pictures, the story was first rate, as is the subject, Wes Jones who does an excellent job in serving the community's in the lake's south end.
Much debate is taking place over the sale of Avista to a Canadian Distributor, for what purpose? If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Recently, a Canadian firm has offered to buy Avista. Why? Avista is locally owned and controlled, financially sound and doesn't need a new owner.
The board of directors was fired by the province of ONTARIO.
Now, with a new board they still want to steal our utility. If there is a compelling reason to sell it hasn't been publicized. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
“It could happen in a matter of months,” says Martin Mlynczak of NASA’s Langley Research Center.
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“The sun is entering one of the deepest Solar Minima of the Space
Age,” wrote Dr Tony Phillips just six weeks ago, on 27 Sep 2018.
Sunspots have been absent for most of 2018 and Earth’s upper
atmosphere is responding, says Phillips, editor of spaceweather.com.
Data from NASA’s TIMED satellite show that the thermosphere (the
uppermost layer of air around our planet) is cooling and shrinking,
literally decreasing the radius of the atmosphere.
To help track the latest developments, Martin Mlynczak of NASA’s
Langley Research Center and his colleagues recently introduced the
“Thermosphere Climate Index.”
The Thermosphere Climate Index (TCI) tells how much heat nitric oxide
(NO) molecules are dumping into space. During Solar Maximum, TCI is
high (meaning “Hot”); during Solar Minimum, it is low (meaning “Cold”).
“Right now, it is very low indeed … 10 times smaller than we see during more active phases of the solar cycle,” says Mlynczak The Thermosphere Climate Index by Mlynczak and colleagues. Displays times of Cold, Cool, Neutral, Warm, and Hot since 1940.Record cold in a matter of months
“If current trends continue, it could soon set a Space Age record for
cold,” says Mlynczak. “We’re not there quite yet, but it could happen
in a matter of months.” The TIMED satellite monitoring the temperature of the upper atmosphere
This brings me back to the King county fraud from a few years ago. Florida appears to be fraught with corruption, not just the useal bs, but dirty, filth lies to defeat those that they couldn't defeat at the polls.
Now we have what appears to be massive frajud in Florida...Again.
I don't believe I have ever looked forward the day after election day as much as this year. So much juvenile acrimony from both sides, but as exhibited during the senate hearings, the Democrats won the award for childish, shrill behavior. Ask yourselves. Do you want to have these idiots, yes on both extremes, govern on your behalf?
Next Tuesday, we have what might be the last gasp in preserving this union of ours. Not since the 1960's have we had the chance to return to constitutional government.Not the constitution the radical left wants, one of flexibility, meaning what ever they want it to mean
Please, when you go to the polls Tuesday, think years ahead, not just tomorrow. Establish a political trend that will define the future of our our county, our state, our nation. Stay away from personalities, both pro and con and stick to the issues.
Are we at the highest level of employment, of hell, every measure of success since the 1940's. Folks,? if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Starting with this Friday, Ralph's Internet Cafe will stay open until 7:00 pm Friday and Saturdays. This will give diners another option for eating out.
Kevin and Daveana Huff now own Ralph's and are following the traditions that Ralph Jones established.
