okanogan valley gazette-tribune, december 27, 2012
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December 27, 2012 edition of the Okanogan Valley Gazette-TribuneTRANSCRIPT
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OROVILLE – The Oroville City Council approved a 2013 Budget of $8 million, $1.5 million more than last year due to additional projects.
The budget was approved following a public hearing at the beginning of the Tuesday, Dec. 18 city council meeting.
“These projects include the construc-tion of the North End reservoir, STP and TIB Central to Main and Central to the
Cherry Street Bridge project, including replacing a portion of the water main, the city’s share of the new ambulance, Stonegarden participation, water and electric extension to 20 to 26 camping spots at Veterans Memorial Park,” said City Clerk Kathy Jones.
The cost of the street improvements are primarily covered by grants, while the reservoir project is funded through the federal government as part of the deal to supply water to the new U.S. Border Station through the city’s North End Water System. Stonegarden is a program of the U.S. Homeland Security Agency and in the past has helped to purchase equipment, including one patrol vehicle, for Oroville’s police department.
“The budget includes a 1.5 percent adjustment in wages and there are no water or sewer utility rate increases pro-posed at this time,” Jones added.
The council meeting was also adver-tised as a public hearing regarding a text amendment to the land uses within the city limits regarding collective gardens for the growing of medical marijuana.
“Collective gardens are not allowed under federal law, it’s pretty straight forward and the council gave us (the planning commis-sion) direction,” said Chris Branch, director of community development.
“If it is against federal law it is not allowed in our zoning code. I would suggest you allow public testimony and recommend you adopt specific word-
ing regarding collective gardens,” said Branch.
“This does not address personal pos-session or anything like that.”
Mayor Pro Tem Walt Hart asked if there was any public testimony and hear-ing none called for a motion.
“This ordinance covers anything that is not allowed under federal law... I move to adopt 821 according to the findings of staff and the planning commission,” said Councilman Ed Naillon.
The motion received a second from Councilman Tony Koepke and was approved.
The council received a letter from the owner of several businesses requesting the late fee on his water, garbage and
sewer bills be waved.“We received about nine calls in two
or three days regarding the matter,” said Clerk Jones. “They said things had been really hectic and that they hadn’t got around to paying their bills and asked for a waiver.”
Jones said her office said that she could not waive the fee and referred the party to her superior, Mayor Chuck Spieth.
“Apparently they were not satisfied and felt their only option was to write the city council,” said Jones.
The clerk was asked when the bill, which was due Dec. 19 was paid.
“We received it in our office on the
Oroville passes $8 million 2013 budgetNo collective marijuana gardens allowed
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TONASKET - Despite short notice and a raging snowstorm, more than 50 community members attended a public meeting Wednesday, Dec. 19, to brainstorm and discuss potential solutions to he North Valley Assisted Living facility’s financial crisis.
The meeting, held at the Tonasket Community Church, was organized primarily by Don and Pat Atchison and prompted in large part by NVH administrator Linda Michel’s letter to the community asking for input to find a way to keep the facility open.
A number of NVH administrators and staff - including Michel, Chief Financial Officer Helen Verhasselt and Long Term Care director Linda
Holden - attended as well.According to North Valley Hospital
financial records, Assisted Living has lost more than $800,000 since 2006 and is projected to finish 2012 at $197,702 in the red.
While Michel reiterated at several points during the meeting that a deci-sion has not been made as to what to do with the facility, the pressure to make a decision in the short term has only increased. Michel read a letter she received last week from Okanogan County Treasurer Leah McCormack, which indicated that the county wants the hospital district to get back on track with its efforts its registered warrants balance.
“In order for hospitals to run prop-erty they must be able to operate in the black and not depend on the county if they run short,” the letter
Assisted Living plight ponderedTreasurer’s letter adds urgency to decision on facility’s future
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“This is our dilemma. It’s coming at us from all
sides. We want to keep the Assisted Living open.
... that’s why I wanted to get the community
together to try and figure out another way.”
Linda Michel, North Valley Hospital Administrator
Brent Baker and Gary DeVon/staff photos
Jessica Calderon and Tommy Spikes were winners of snow sleds in this year’s Letters to Santa Contest held annually by the Gazette-Tribune. Jessica, a second-grader at Tonasket Elementary, received her sled from Lee Frank Mercantile in Tonasket, which was presented by Karen Kane (above left). Jessica asked Santa for a necklace for her sister and Legos for her brothers. Tommy, an Oroville Elementary second grader, said he’d worked hard to get on Santa’s “nice” list this year by taking out the trash, taking care of his sister and listening to his teacher. Prince’s Ace Hardware owner Jack Hughes presented Tommy with his sled. Each year a letter from a Tonasket and Oroville child is drawn randomly at the G-T office. Both stores generously donate sleds to the lucky winners, something they’ve been doing for more than a decade.
‘SNOW DOUBT’ IT’S TIME FOR SLEDDIN’
BY GARY A. DEVONMANAGING EDITOR
OROVILLE – Oroville Junior/Senior High School was named a “2012 School of Distinction” by the Center for Educational Effectiveness.
The announcement that Oroville was one of only 97 schools to receive the des-ignation was made during “Good News and Announcements” at the Monday, Dec. 17 board meeting.
To be eligible for the Schools of Distinction Award, a school must per-form at or above the state median in grades six through eight (middle schools) or grade 10 (for high schools) in state reading and math assessments.
“Three years ago we were said to have one of the lowest percentages,
now we are in the top five percent of those schools that have improved,” said Kristin Sarmiento, Oroville High School Principal.
“The kids did a great job, staff did a great job. And we weren’t a school that received any money, but still achieved great gains,” she added.
Under Superintendent Steve Quick’s Report he said he had consulted with Seattle Northwest Securities about using public bonds or getting a bank loan to pay for the new new roof project on the elementary school.
“With interest rates low, around 1.5 percent, it would be better to get a loan for the project,” said Quick.
The loan would be paid back using funds collected over a three-year period from the special levy approved by district voters in November.
“We should have bid package in January and be fully funded in February. We need to get construction bids in March and start on the south end of the elementary. It should be all done by the summer,” Quick said.
Quick also said he attended confer-ences during the first part of December. These included an AVID conference, a program to get students ready for college. The program encourages kids to start thinking about college at an early age.
“Kids in the program made great prog-ress,” said Quick. “We are already taking great steps and AVID is one more tool to keep us moving forward.”
Quick spoke about school safety, say-ing a meeting was planned for the fol-lowing Wednesday.
“We do do drills regularly. I don’t know if we can fully plan, but we hope things
come out of this to keep us safer.”Becky Arrigoni, a high school stu-
dent, reported on her senior project, which was the organization of Challenge Day held Oct. 10 and 11. She said 100 high school and 100 junior high students attended the workshops.
“Challenge Day was a huge success, they all seemed to love it… we received mostly positive feedback in the student and staff comments,” said Arrigoni.
Challenge Day, according to their web-site http://www.challengeday.org/chal-lenge-day-program.php, “(goes) beyond traditional anti-bullying efforts, building empathy and igniting a movement of compassion and positive change.”
“It is something we definitely need to carry on throughout the school year,” said Arrigoni, repeating what many stu-
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SPOKANE - A judge in the U.S. District Court in Yakima issued a ruling that Canadian mining and smelting company Teck Metals Ltd. is liable under United States environmental law for contaminating the Columbia River with millions of tons of smelting waste.
According to the Colville Confederated Tribes, in find-ing Teck liable under the Comprehensive, Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (also known as Superfund), Judge Lonny R. Suko ruled that, “for decades Teck’s leadership knew its slag and effluent flowed from Trail downstream and are now found in Lake Roosevelt, but nonethe-less Teck continued discharging wastes into the Columbia River.”
The court noted Teck’s man-ager’s recognition that it, “had been treating Lake Roosevelt as a ‘free,’ ‘convenient’ disposal facility for its wastes.” Given this conduct and connection with Washington, Judge Suko decided that Teck could be tried in Washington, even though its smelter is located in Canada.
“We are very pleased with this outcome,” said John Sirois, Chairman of the Colville Business Council. “Now that the Court has found that Teck is liable for its contamination of the Columbia
River, we look forward to its par-ticipation in cleaning it up and paying for any resulting dam-ages.”
Included in the decision, the judge determined:
Between 1930 and 1995, Teck intentionally discharged at least 9.97 million tons of slag, includ-ing heavy met-als such as lead, zinc, mercury, cadmium, cop-per, and arsenic, directly into the Columbia river via outfalls at its Trail smelter.
Teck knew its disposal of haz-ardous waste into the Upper Columbia river was likely to cause harm, and was told by the Canadian govern-ment that its slag was toxic to fish and leached hazardous metals.
Pursuant to CERCLA, Teck is liable to the Tribes and the State in any subsequent action or actions to recover past or future response costs at the Upper Columbia river site.
“This is a great day for the citi-zens and the environment of the state of Washington. The District Court has made a just decision in holding Teck Metals responsible for pollution in Washington that came from the company’s smelt-
ing facility in Trail, B.C. Teck discharged an immense amount of waste to the river over the last century, in close proximity to the border. This included 10 mil-lion tons of slag waste, much of which visibly accumulated along the beds and beaches of the river
in Washington State,” said Jim P e n d o w s k i , manager of the Wa s h i ng t on D ep ar t ment of Ecology’s Toxics Cleanup Program in an official state-ment.
“Experts in the case con-firmed Teck to be the domi-nant source of metals con-tamination in
the Columbia River, south of the border. These facts fully support the court’s ruling. The State and Tribes can now recover from Teck their costs for responding to the contamination in Washington. This will also ultimately allow the federal government, in conjunc-tion with the State and Tribes as resource trustees, to hold Teck Metals accountable to perform cleanup and to restore or com-pensate for natural resources injured by the contamination. Had the court not found Teck liable, the burden of paying for a
long and expensive cleanup could have fallen on taxpayers,” said Pendowski.
He went on to say that Ecology is committed to working as partners with the Colville Confederated Tribes, the Environmental Protection Agency, and other fed-eral and tribal interests. Ecology also hopes Teck Metals will make the same commitment.
“The water, sediments and soil of our scenic and beloved Upper Columbia River area are no place for toxic smelter waste, and our children should not grow up with a legacy of pollution.”
Judge Lonny Suko made the ruling on Friday, Dec. 14. A week before trial beagan the compa-ny conceded its waste is leach-ing heavy metals in the upper Columbia River in Washington, according to Ecolgy.
The trial was to have focused on whether Teck’s waste from the company’s smelter in Trail, B.C. has “released” hazardous sub-stances in the United States. Teck now admits that it does, making a trial on these issues unnecessary.
The admission, in the form of a legal stipulation that was entered by the federal court last September, came after eight years of litigation by the Colville Confederated Tribes and the state of Washington. Teck admits it intentionally discharged nearly 10 million tons of slag-waste sep-arated from ore during smelting-along with industrial sewage con-
taining hundreds of thousands of tons of toxic metals such as mercury, copper, cadmium, arse-nic, lead, and zinc to the river in Canada over the last century.
Teck admitted these substances are hazardous and that they came to rest in the sediments along the shores of the Upper Columbia River in Washington state. They also conceded that heavy metals continue to leach from its waste into Washington state’s environ-ment, meaning they are poten-tially available to cause harm.
“Establishing liability is the first step to hold the company account-able for assessing and addressing the risks posed to the public and the environment,” said Ecology in a September press release.
Even though they admitted they released hazardous sub-stances, Tech still argued it was not subject to U.S. law, given that the initial discharge of waste
occurred less than 10 miles north of Washington in Canada. Arguments to this effect were already rejected in an early phase of the case, but Teck wass entitled to renew them on appeal.
“This river is the heart of our people. It has always been and will always be our homeland, and damages to our natural resources must be addressed,” said CCT’s Sirios.
According to Ecology, studies have shown that slag and indus-trial sewage from the Teck smelt-er have deposited toxic materials to the sediments and banks of the river in Washington.
Ecology is concerned that the pollution will harm an array of important aquatic life, such as the small bottom dwelling creatures that form a key foundation to the underwater food chain. Their health directly affects the fishery and river ecosystem.
Ecology comments on finding against Teck Metals for Columbia contamination
“this river is the heart of our people. it has always been and will always be our home-
land, and damages to our natural resources must be addressed”
John Sirois, Chairman, Colville Business Council
26th and it was not postmarked by the 19th, they said they had just gotten busy,” she replied.
“We expect all other residents to pay, why should we make an exception in this case?” asked Koepke.
“Unless we want to change our policy for all the citizens if we don’t enforce it we are left with-
out a policy,” added Naillon.It was the council’s decision
that no waiver will be granted.In other business, Koepke
asked that people be reminded to shovel the snow in the spots where they place their garbage cans “so the garbage men don’t have to hurt their backs trying to haul the cans over berms.”
dents have told her.Tyler Vonderhaar also report-
ed on his senior project to raise awareness about self-harm among students and the public. He will be using posters, brochures and in-depth pamphlets created by students, talking about what to look for, the signs and reasons for self-harm.
“Like cutting, depression, drug and alcohol awareness and suicide prevention,” said Vonderhaar. “If one person is helped the program is a success.”
In her financial report, district business manager Shay Shaw said that December enrollment in the school district was 613.86 FTEs, and the district had averaged just under 614 for the year.
“We budgeted for 599… the district enrollment could drop
five kids a month to June before we would go under budget,” said Shaw.
At the beginning of the meeting on Monday, Director Rocky DeVon was nominated by Director Todd Hill to con-tinue to be the chairperson for the board in 2013. Director Amy Wise seconded DeVon’s nomina-tion. Hill also nominated Wise as vice-chairperson and the motion was seconded by Director Travis Loudon. Both motions passed unanimously.
The January meeting has been moved from Monday, Jan. 28 to Tuesday, Jan. 29 so the superin-tendent can attend the legislative session on Jan. 28. The board meets at 6:30 p.m. in the dis-trict office located at 816 Juniper Street.
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SPOKANE – Former Oroville High School Principal Frank Motta died from injuries sustained while trying to help a neighbor whose Spokane area home had been overrun by a teenage party.
Apparently Motta was asked to keep an eye on the house by his neighbor and on Saturday, March 10 when he saw there was a party going on he called the neighbor who was out of town.
She gave him the security code to the garage door and called 911. Motta then went to try and break up the party.
Spokane County Sheriff ’s Deputies responded to an assault call in North Spokane County.
When deputies arrived on scene they found a male subject in the residence had been assaulted, according to Craig Chamberlain, a spokesman with the Spokane County Sheriff ’s office.
“There were over 100 people at the residence where there had been a large party throughout the evening.
Deputies immediately requested medics when they located the victim.
The victim was transported to a local medical facility where he is listed in critical condition,” said a Spokane Sheriff ’s office press release.
Investigators identified the suspect as Treven Lewis, an 18-year-old who is accused of knocking Motta to the ground and beating him in front of
several witnesses at the party. The Spokane Violent Crime Gang Enforcement
Team was requested to assist locating Lewis and located him at his residence.
They arrested him and transported to the Spokane County Jail where he was interviewed by Major
Crimes Detectives. He was booked into the Spokane County Jail on
the charge of felony assault. Motta, who was in critical condition at Sacred
Heart Hospital, died of his injuries on March 15. Information Officer Chamberlain speculated that
the charges against Lewis would be upgraded to second degree murder by the Spokane County Prosecutor’s office, but as of Monday they were still listed as first degree assault.
When Motta came to Oroville in 1981 to take his first principal’s job he was just 34-years-old and stayed here for four years, according to his good friend Don DeVon, who served under Motta as a high school councilor in Oroville, as well as in Palm Desert, Calif.
DeVon described Motta as a “highly innovative” educator who always had an open door policy to students, staff, parents and the community in gen-eral.
“When Frank first came to Oroville to take his first principal’s job he hit the ground running.
His enthusiasm was a positive motivators for stu-dents and staff,” DeVon said.
Motta went on to be the youngest president of the Washington State Principal’s Association, accord-ing to his friend, who added that he had also been a well-respected football coach in several high schools in Washington State before becoming a principal.
“He played college football at the University of California at Irvine,” said DeVon, “and he was a highly decorated combat veteran who won the bronze star.”
After retiring as a teacher and principal for schools in Washington and California, Motta settled in Spokane with his wife and family.
He was working as a volunteer at the Spokane Veterans Administration Hospital.
The 65-year-old was a combat Air Force Veteran who served in Vietnam.
He had recently been hired as a patient advocate at the VA Hospital.
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TONASKET - Teresa Hawkins expressed her concern over the resigna-tion of varsity basketball coach Glenn Braman during the public comment por-tion of the Tonasket School Board meet-ing on Monday, March 12.
Hawkins, wife of longtime varsity football coach Jay Hawkins, said she was concerned that the direction of the school district concerning its coaches was taking an ugly turn.
“I’m concerned with the resignation of coach Braman,” she said.
“I’m concerned because my husband is also a coach. I’m not comfortable with how that came about.”
Hawkins said she had heard second-hand remarks attributed to a school board member that fed into her con-cern.
“I’m hoping the school board acts as a board, and not on individual agendas,” she said. “I hope we’ve learned from the process that went down.
“I think it’s sad if we let a group of parents who are upset or who have a ven-geance with a coach from a long time ago to come in and rally people up to make a decision to not reinstate a coach.
I think it would be really sad if we have to go around the community to bring in support to show that a coach has just as many people, and more, (supporting him) as those who complained about him.”
Citing her experience as a coach’s wife and as a mother of an athlete coached by others, Hawkins said that athletics teaches kids to deal with adversity, but that parents encourage that growth.
“We want the situation to be perfect for our kids,” she said. “But what do we teach them when we run to every need they have?
“(Coaches) love the game, they’re competitors, and they want to teach kids to work together, to go out in life and be successful.
Kids can’t be successful if their parents don’t let them grow as individuals. That’s a part of athletics. Nothing is going to be perfect.”
Hawkins said she was concerned that situations that contributed to Braman’s resignation, as well as rumors about her husband’s position, could damage the reputation of the district.
“People want to come to this district,” she said. “It’s because of you guys (the school board) up here. You have done a great job of keeping this school district as one of the elite.
“Don’t ruin that. Don’t let that happen, you guys.”
In other business, superintendent Paul Turner read a proclamation from Governor Christine Gregoire honoring classified school employees.
Board member Catherine Stangland read off the list of all TSD classified employees’ names.
Principals from each of the schools presented their mid-year student data to the board
The board also reviewed information about switching over to a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) phone system as presented by Jive Communications, which answered questions via a video conference call.
They later approved switching to a VOIP system at a meeting last Thursday.
Jive is currently serving the education market in 23 states, offered lifetime pric-ing and, significantly, qualified, for e-rate discounting that is calculated through the district’s free and reduced meal rate.
The board requested a few days to think about the information presented, and at a special meeting on Thursday, March 15.
The school board next meets on Monday, March 26.
Concern expressed over coaches resignation
BY BRENT BAKER
TONASKET - The Tonasket City Council provided updates on a num-ber of civic projects that are progress-ing through their planning stages at the Tuesday, March 13, council meeting.
Tonasket city planner Kurt Danison said he met with three property owners affected by the need for an easement to complete the Mill Drive/Bonaparte Creek sewer project and said that they seemed to be willing to provide the ease-ment access.
“They’re willing to provide easement through their property so we can connect up the sewer through there,” Danison said. “They were under the impression that water was included in this... I don’t know how it came about... I don’t think we said we were going to put in a water system there.
“I think they walked away with a better understanding.”
The council planned an open house for March 20 for residents to interact with the engineers and councilmembers on the sewer project committee.
The council also responded to a memo Varela and Associates seeking to clar-ify priorities on the upcoming street improvement projects that had been dis-cussed at a previous council meeting. The project was facing a delay without such a prioritization as funding for the project may not be enough to complete the entire “wish list.”
“We want the (hospital parking cross-ing) beacon as the base project,” said Mayor Patrick Plumb. “The rest we will have done as we have the funding to complete.”
The council authorized Councilwoman Jill Vugteveen and Danison to make a final decision to move forward, with a priority on creating a “straight shot” from one end of town to the other along at least one side of the road with ADA-approved curb access ramps.
The airport runway seal project’s tar-get schedule is for completion before the Father’s Day Fly-in.
Meanwhile, the council granted public works director Bill Pilkinton a leave of absence of indefinite length and appoint-ed Hugh Jensen as acting public services director.
Fuller passes exam, video policy progress
Police Chief Robert Burks said that he is working on a policy governing the department’s handling of data collected during video surveillance.
Burks also announced that officer Audra Fuller passed her civil service exam and has been hired as a full-time officer.
Burks said he is finalizing a “wish list” to be submitted for Stonegarden describing how potential grant money would be used. Stonegarden grants pro-vide money for local law enforcement entities to use while assisting in U.S. Border Patrol operations, although any equipment purchased is not limited to those operations.
“Oroville was able to get an SUV through Stonegarden grant money,” Burks said. “This is the initial part of the process that we do every year. We don’t
Tonasket council updates on projectsCity’s engineers seek to clarify priorities regarding upcoming street improvement projects
Kaylee Clough performs “The Glow” at the Variety Show and Auction presented by Dollars for Scholars and the Oroville High School Music Department on Wednesday, March 14 in the high school commons. The eight-year-old has been taking ballet for five years and recently performed at the Seattle Dance Workshop Competition and took a silver medal. The annual talent show is used to raise funds for the Oroville Dollars for Scholars Continuing Education awards. For more from the event see page B2.
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“I realize you have worked very hard to reduce the amount of registered warrants... in recent months those figures are not going down, but have increased since the first of the year ...
“I ask that you take action immediately to turn this issue around. Registered warrants must be paid down and timeli-ness needs to be met for doing so. Dependency on the county for registered warrants has to be and will be a thing of the past, in the future.”
McCormack also said in the letter that she was considering raising the interest rate on the warrants from 2.5 percent to the prime rate, which is 3.25 per-cent.
“This is our dilemma,” Michel said. “It’s coming at us from all sides. We want to keep the Assisted Living open. I told Don today, I know you’re still hearing that ‘we’ want it closed. When you say ‘we’ I don’t know who you mean, and it’s not me.
“I will not hold my senior lead-ers hostage from saying their opinions, and some of them feel that’s the only way to go because they’ve been there so long, they don’t see any other way.
“So that’s why I wanted to get the community together to try and figure out another way.”
The hospital district also announced this week that it is closing its Oroville clinic, partial-ly due to its inability to find a new M.D. to staff it and partly due to its continuing financial losses.
Much of the discussion cen-tered around the Assisted Living facility itself and making it more attractive to its residents and, therefore, to privately-paying customers that may come there in the future.
But as a public facility, the dis-trict cannot turn away Medicaid patients, which make up the vast majority of the residents. Medicaid only pays about $60 per resident per day, while the expense of running the facility is currently about $100 per resident per day.
Pending state and federal bud-get cuts are not likely to make that situation any better.
Participants largely adhered to Don Atchison’s early admonition that “our objective here is not to fight and argue, but to make it work.”
But after much discussion, it was Michael Stewart - a leading advocate for Okanogan County veterans that helped spearhead the opening of the local Veterans Clinic - who most concisely sum-marized the situation.
“I think Linda and her crew have gone through everything with a scalpel,” he said. “There’s no way to cut any excess waste...
“I am interested in keeping it open. We’ve got to go to one of the major churches - they have money, they know what our com-munity needs.
“We need to approach one of them to do what we’re talking about, otherwise it’s not going to happen. We don’t have it in our community. We can sit here all night and tear these num-bers apart. There’s no damn waste
there. Everything has been cut to the bone.”
With the possibility of trying to sell the facility to a church or another non-profit on the table, the need for an appraisal was brought up, so that all of the needed numbers would be in play from the start.
In the end, as an informal forum, no official decisions could be made. At the same time, Michel asked for volunteers to serve on the Assisted Living Committee that published the original letter asking for help, that currently includes some hospital district administrators, staff and com-missioners.
Pat Atchison also noted that a second community meeting may be called, with more advance notice to allow greater participa-tion.
The hospital’s Board of Commissioners holds its next offi-cial board meeting on Thursday, Dec. 27, at 7 p.m.
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OROVILLE - The North Valley Hospital District is closing the Oroville Family Medical Clinic, effective Jan. 31, 2013, according to NVH administrator Linda Michel.
As stated in a letter sent to the clinic’s patients, efforts to find a replacement for Dr. Theresa DiCroce have proven unsuccessful due to a nationwide shortage of family practice physicians.
Michel said that a regional clinic system has expressed interest in assuming ownership of the clinic, but since no agreement has been finalized was not prepared to release any details.
“We will make every effort to keep you informed of our progress with these negotiations,” the letter said.
“We’re doing everything we can to find spots for all of our employees,” Michel added.
OROVILLE - The Oroville Elementary School held their fourth, fifth and sixth grade Winter Concert on Thursday, Dec. 10 in the elementary school gym.
Under the direction of Music Teacher Eric Stiles the fourth grade music class, fifth grade band, combined fifth and sixth grade choir and sixth grade band played several selections to a packed audience of fellow stu-dents, friends and relatives.
The fourth grade music class, accompanied by Elizabeth Grunst sang: Jolly Old St. Nicholas, The Holly and the Ivy, Do You Hear What I Hear and Jingle Bell Rock.
The fifth grade band, also accompanied by Grunst, played:
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A combined fifth and sixth grade choir sang the Dreidel Song, O’ Christmas Tree and
Chocolate!The concert ended with the
sixth grade band performing: Serenity, Good King Wenceslas, Dreidel Song (instrumental) and Jingle Bells.
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The fourth grade music students were the first to perform. They are (not in order): Carson Allie, Easton Anderson, Nelsie Avelino, Emma Bocook, Jiana Carrillo, Victoria Castrejon, Lana Cheney, Melinda Clark, Cody Field, Olivia Finsen, Isabel Galvan, Sean Glover, Ethan Godinez, Emily Grunert, Kael Harris, Alexis Herrera, Casey Hirst, Hailey Hughes, Mykensie Hugus, Adam Johnson, Kaylene Long, Julian Lopez, Aurora Martin, Madelyn Martin, Victoria Martinez, Austin Mathis, Taylor McCoy, Caleb Mieirs, Billie Nelson, Michael Oaks, Sergio Ocampo, Tristan Poff, Emily Rawley, Jesus Reyes, Angel Rosales-Cortez, Anthony Sutton, Samantha Turner, Jasmin Valdovinos-Nava, Esmeralda Valverde, Thomas Verellen
Fifth Grade Band Members are: Flute – Jeidi Avelino, Gwen Hankins, Christina Herrick, Brianna Pollock, Hunter Rounds, Jasmin Valdovinos, Yulissa Viveros; Clarinet – Paul Graf, Alli Harris; Alto Saxophone - Taralynn Fox, Jeremiah Janczyk, Kaytie Miller, Jose Nemecio, Jose Quezada, Esmeralda Reyes; Tenor Saxophone - Jose Orozco-Delgado; Trumpet - Samuel Allenby, Sheridan Blasey, Charles Egerton, Hanna Curdie, Gary Maldonado, Darian Range, Jaxon Rise, Brayden Thompson; Trombone – Jamie Garcia, Chris Worrell; and Percussion - Austin Bernard, Edwin Garcia, Colby Guzman, Lazaro Soria, Corey Olson, Seth Baugher, Kolby Blackler, Josue Capote, Ronald Olynyk.
Fifth and Sixth Grade Choir (not in order): Anthony Cardona, Rose Cook, Mariya Mathis, Steven Lopez, Samuel Porter, Sidney Stanfield, Ashleigh Hurst, Jadyn Mieirs, Nicole Minarcin, Mikayla Rounds, Paige Wirth, Katherine Rawley, Brigido Ocampo, Dezirae Allison, Caitlyn Trump, Jasmin Valdovinos, Mayra Valdovinos-Nava, Shiloh Williamson.
Sixth Grade Band Members are: Flute –Wendy Ortega, Jasmine Valdovinos, Jennifer Cisneros; Clarinet – Erik Cocino, Rogelio Castillo; Alto Saxophone – Wyatt Cousineau, Sugeysi Layata, Angela Viveros; Tenor Saxophone - Alexis Allenby; Trumpet – Jose Cervantes, Dorian Carleton, Hunter Crain, Jessie Deaquino, Jared Garcia, Gilberto Hernandez-Delgado, Nicholas Hugus, Lindsay Koepke, Jerry Milholland, Madison Whiteaker, Sergio Contreras; Trombone - Sage SarmientoEuphonium - Brandon Duran; Tuba – Elijah Burnell; Percussion – Andrew Del Rosario, Matthew Galvan, Hunter Johnson, Andres Lopez, Collin Mathis, Justin West; Guitar - Hunter DeVon, Spencer Martin; Bass Guitar - Jack Montowski, Daniel Sanchez-Escobar.
The fourth grade music class sang several songs including Jolly Old St. Nicholas, The Holly and the Ivy, Do You Hear What I Hear and Jingle Bell Rock.
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Well, we really don’t know for sure, but we can only assume if you’re reading this (as I write it on Friday, Dec. 21), that the Mayans were wrong. If we didn’t have an early deadline for this week’s issue because of the Christmas holiday then we’d know for sure.
For those that didn’t know it, some say the Mayans predicted the end of the world would occur on Friday, Dec. 27. If that was true, then, well you get the point - or perhaps I should say, didn’t get the chance to.
There is less than a week left of 2012 and soon it will be 2013 – if we’re still here maybe 13 will be a lucky, rather than unlucky number. How many out there can remember figuring out just how old you’d be in the year 2000?
There were all the doomsayers fretting about the disasters that would occur because of Y2K. Our computers were supposed to mel down from being fed a steady diet of just two numbers to represent the four-digit year. This of course, was because back then coding 19 in front of the year would have been a waste
of time and precious memory. Did you construct your underground shelter, invest in generators and freeze dried food?
Y2K pretty much came and went with little fanfare, but now we have the “Doomsday Preppers” as featured each week on the National Geographic Channel. The possible doomsday scenarios seem endless - watching them get ready for the end makes one’s head spin. One theme seems to be “bug out” to the wilderness, so don’t be surprised to see a prepper coming to a neighborhood near you. Perhaps you might have an old buried cargo container left over from Y2K you’re willing to sell them at a discount. The Okanogan has been a great place for people to bug out to for years, why not for preppers too?
Asking what they’re preparing for is a little like the old line from The Wild Ones. When Johnny, played by Marlon Brando, is asked, “What are you rebelling against?” he answers, “Whattdoya got?” It seems the list of things to worry about – the government, Mayan predictions, EMPs, is as long as my arm. So dig a hole in the back yard, lay on the provisions and wait it out. This is taking the old Boy Scout motto to the nth degree – I’d be more worried about the Zombie Apocalypse.
How about you George Orwell fans, do you remember wondering if things would really be like they were in his book “1984”? At the risk of dating myself, I’ve got to admit at one time 1984 seemed far enough off that who knew what the possibilities would be. We might not be living in a full on “1984,” but with what seems like people watching our every move on security cameras and tracking our likes and dislikes on the web, it gets to feeling a little 1984ish at times.
Anyway, if we’re all still here today, then it’s time again to reflect on the past year and to get ready to greet the new year. We hope you had a wonderful Christmas holiday and that you’ve recovered from the rush to do the shopping for everyone on your list. We also hope that your family had a chance to gather to celebrate together. It’s not always possible, but sure makes the season more enjoyable when you can.
Here’s wishing you a joyous and safe new year from everyone at the Gazette-Tribune.
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Gary A. DeVon
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75 YEARS AGO:Dec. 31, 1937 - Jan. 7, 1938:
Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock will mark the beginning of Civic League activities for the winter season. Immediately following a brief business meeting, the League will take on the appear-ance of a three ring circus under a big top. Contract bridge les-sons will be offered; knitting instructions will be available for those inclined and the third ring? That’s the last act and executed by the culinary division with refreshments served to add zest to the happy occasion.
In view of the great and growing importance of min-ing to the people of Okanogan County, a large crowd is expect-ed in Okanogan Tuesday eve-ning, January 18, when a unit of the Washington Miners and Prospectors Ass’n is to be formed for this county.
The Royal Neighbors held their usual Christmas party for all members and families on Wednesday afternoon. Thirty five or forty were present and enjoyed a gift exchange and pro-gram of singing, tap dance and recitations.
Quintuplets, that magic word at once brings thoughts of Calendar, Ontario where the only living human babies to be born five at a time live. However, the animal kingdom has produced that number of offspring time and time again. This week our Ellisforde correspondent informs us that her dog, Mickey, present-ed them a set of Quintuplets.
The road work widening the Ellisforde bridge will last forty days. This is a much needed improvement. The U. S. Weather Bureau station at Oroville gives out some interesting figures on rain and snowfall here during the past year. The records show
that we had more moisture here during 1937 than for several years past. In 1935, there were 8.27 inches of precipitation; in 1936, 9.77 inches and 1937, 13.38 inches, over four inches more than the previous year. The most snow of the year fell in February with 22.5 inches, although the December just past has a record of 12.1 inches.
The town treasurer’s report for the month of December was read and ordered placed on file. It showed that the Town of Oroville went into the new year on a cash basis in all funds and for the time being, no warrants are being reg-istered. Grocery items: 9# bag of flour, $.55; #2 potatoes, $.69 per 100 #;fresh grade A local eggs, 2 doz. $49; Tang salad dressing $.29 per qt.; 2# box crackers, $.21.
50 YEARS AGO: Dec. 27 – Jan. 4, 1963 It must have been a pretty
dull week in the area as there was no news of any consequence. However, it seemed to be a good money maker for the Oroville Gazette for all of the season’s greetings from the many busi-nesses in town. It was interesting though to look at those ads. I counted a total of 61 greeting ads and at the time of this writing, only the following are still doing business, however not under the same name or use: FAO’s CAFÉ, now the Plaza; Cascade Market, now Frontier Foods; Oroville State Bank, now Sterling Bank; Oroville Plumbing & Hardware, now Alpine Brewery; Howard Aaron Chevron, now Union 76 Mini Mart; John’s Pontiac, now Oroville Auto Repair; Oroville Pharmacy and still is; Zosel Lumber Co. also still operating; Pastime Tavern, now in process of remodeling; Valley Evaporating, now a Oroville Reman & Reload;
Trinity Episcopal Church, still operating; Oroville Trading Post, still in operation; Midway Tile Works, now Oroville Building Supply; Peerless Hotel and Coffee Shop, now being remod-eled as restaurant; Oroville Ministerial Assiation, still here; Apple’s Barber Shop, now a real estate office; Mom’s Lunch, now operating as a Christian house for the needy; A & W Root Beer, now a medical clinic; Orada Theater, now 76 Quick Mart parking lot.
Mr. & Mrs. Don Wood Sr., Mr. & Mrs. Don Wood Jr. Lori and Gay, Mr. & Mrs. Lester Kingsley and family, Mrs. Roy Wheeler, Cheryl and Pamela spent Christmas day in Tonasket with the Jack Wood family.
Efforts are being made to organize a Junior Bowling League in Oroville. The League will be sanctioned by the American Junior Bowling League and will include all youngsters up to the age of 18.
Weather for the past week: Dec. 25, 27 degrees, maximum and 18 minimum; Dec. 26, 33 and 25; Dec. 27, 32 and 22; Dec. 28, 40 and 18; Dec. 29, 44 and 25; Dec. 30,44 and 37 and Dec. 31, 44 and 38. There was precipitation on Dec. 29 of .02.” According to local historians, this was the first black Christmas since 1938.
FOR SALE: All my farm equipment: Oliver “80” wheel tractor; “MM” 14 ft. self pro-pelled combine; Jon Deere 11 ft. grain drill; single disc; two 8 ft. tandem disc with hitch; 6 sec-tions flexible harrow; 4 section spring tooth harrow; one 5 ft. offset disc; one 6 ft tiller on rub-ber; one 10 inch hammer mill; one 10 ft. power binder; 3 good dairy cows, 2 will freshen soon, one milking; one 2 yr-old colt, 1/3 Arabian, not broke but very gentle; Roy Cockle, Molson, WA.
25 YEARS AGO: December 24 - 31, 1987The date for the Oroville School
District two-year special levy elec-tion has been set by the Oroville School Board as February 2, 1988. The district will be asking the public to approve a $235,000 levy amount, slightly higher than the last at $213,000. The levy on assessable land will be $1.89 per $1,000, up from $1.68 from the last.
Brad Wilson, 38, an Oroville Deputy of the Okanogan county Sheriff ’s Dept., has been promot-ed to Deputy Sergeant. Wilson fills the slot vacated by Jim Weed when he was chosen to be sher-iff by the Okanogan County Commissioners earlier this year.
Members of the 4-H Hats and Halters club raffled a large Teddy Bear and Christmas Wreath as a fund raiser. They raised $105.00 above expenses that will be used for projects and the Nursing Home.
Chesaw News: We finally have gotten into winter a small bit. It has been zero or a little below for a few days and more snow has fallen. Probably six or eight inches of snow lie on the grounds now. Hardly any fog and some days we had beautiful sunshine and overcast days.
Tonasket voters are being asked to approve an annual school levy amount of $415,000 in each of l989 and 1990 collec-tion years. The levy election will be held on March 15, 1988. Local district taxpayers will have to pay approximately $2.70 per $1,000 of assessed valuation.
The monthly meeting of the Tonasket Chamber of Commerce December 28 was the last for 1987. New officers for 1988 are: Don Glover, president; Burna Frank, vice president; Kathy Michels, corresponding secre-tary and Helen Casey and Joyce Fancher, will share secretary and Steve Mattson, treasurer.
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Endorses Smith for Morton’s spot
Dear Editor,I was disappointed to hear the
news that Sen. Bob Morton was retiring early, and wish him well.
The PCO’s (Precinct Committee Officers) and the County Commissioners of Okanogan, Ferry, Stevens, Pend Oreille and Spokane counties have a tough decision to make
on behalf of the voters of the 7th Legislative District. Before I even saw the short list of candi-dates in last week’s newspapers, I knew who I was pulling for. I am writing today to endorse John Smith of Colville for the position of State Senator. John has impressed me as a strong
conservative, thoughtful and articulate. John is a successful small business owner, active in his community and will serve the 7th District well in the newly re-organized State Senate.
I urge you to support John Smith to fill Sen. Bob Morton’s position.
Sue Lani MadsenEdwall, Washington
Continue to shoot selves in foot
Dear EditorIt is truly amazing how stub-
bornly this country’s foreign policy and national security establishment clings to obvious instances of failure. Whether the issue at hand is our economic embargo of Cuba or our refusal to support upgrading Palestine’s official status, we seem to con-tinually find ourselves stuck off in a corner of diplomatic isola-tion. Foggy Bottom even takes a kind of perverse pride in making
A m e r i c a stand out like a very sore thumb in the global community. We continually delight in shooting ourselves in the foot when it comes to world affairs. Why is this?
The answer is pretty com-monsensical. For a surprising number of big-shots inside the Washington, D.C. Beltway the Cold War never really ended. Their brains continue to be glued fast to the intellectual paradigms of that era. The rest of the planet has moved on to bigger and better things than the tiresome moral crusading of the Cold War, but in this country’s seat of government it may just as well continue to be 1955.
Fresh thinking is sorely required when it comes to the manner in which this nation approaches other parts of the world. We are not getting it from the Obama team, and what’s more we are extremely unlikely to get it.
So it would seem that more mortifying humiliations like those we suffered over the Cuban Embargo and over Palestine’s official status are in the offing.
Frank GoheenCamas, Washington
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
After the hustle and bustle of the Holidays, isn’t it nice to have some “slow down days?”
We spent Christmas week at our condo in Pt. Townsend. It’s always nice to see all the grand-
kids on the “other side” of the moun-tains, but somehow it does seem very different, to not be at home. Six years ago we did this and it w o r k e d
out well.Too much is spent on Christmas
gifts, or so it seems to me. I can remember when my stocking was filled with an orange, hard candy and perhaps a popcorn ball. Wouldn’t the youngsters scoff at that these days?
We’ve always had a tree in our house - sometimes tiny and sometimes large. Our first house was two rooms and the tree was mighty small. Did you know that white light bulbs on your tree helps the tree last longer? Reason: they mimic the sunlight. And the best way to water a poinsettia is to place four ice cubes on the top soil and let them melt slowly. Now, can you remember that ‘till next Christmas?
Another hint! Put your candles in the fridge six or eight hours before lighting them and they’ll burn twice as long.
Another thing ice cubes are good for, besides your drinks, is to place them in the “grooves” your furniture has made while smashing down the carpet. It works.
If furniture has been sitting for a very long time and the groove is deep, you may need to repeat the process.
A man has six items in his bathroom. A toothbrush and paste, shaving cream and razor, a bar of soap and a towel. A woman has an average of 337 items. A man can’t identify more than two of those items.
Can you remember Saturday night baths in the big old tub, in the kitchen?
Or a home made quilt on your bed?
We’ve had enough snow for a while. We had some carolers, come in the snow, and said they’d be back the next day to shovel snow for us. And they were. Cute neighbor kids!
Monday night pinochle at Molson, will be played on Wednesday night, Jan. 2 because of conflicting with New Year’s Eve. It seems that having played pinochle, as many years as I have, that I wouldn’t still be winning low ….must be the partners I get.
This year I hung our Christmas cards on the tree and very few other decorations.
My peanut butter peanut brittle turned out to be “chewy.” No, that isn’t what it is supposed to be. But it was still tasty.
How comforting it must have been for Betty Steg to have so
many of her family on hand dur-ing the passing of John. What a lot of beautiful little “grands” and how nice that numerous mem-bers of the family participated in the mass, for their grandpa John. I think he would have approved and been very proud.
It seems more and more quail are showing up in our neighbor-hood. Such busy little birds!
Larry Eder is still sharing his garden with us…Yukon gold spuds and corn, frozen and ready to eat. What a guy!
Does snow sometimes fill your TV Dish and make it stop working? Our grandson (our TV expert) alerted us of that.
Many Canadians were seen this year at the post office and UPS (Betta’s) store mailing parcels. Don’t know if the price is less or time much faster, or perhaps both.
Emma (Kuhlman) LeRoy, Tonasket, was in the hospital and not where you’d want to be to cel-ebrate your 91st birthday.
Surely Gary Sorensen and Glen Hauenstein felt good after the accolades given them by Ralph Rise, former science student, in the recent article, where Ralph is a teacher in the Coulee Dam area.
It is very nice to again have an enthusiastic music department. The winter concert was very good with varied music selections. And even with lotsa’ snow coming’ down, there was a good sized audience.
The kids are having a winter break now and will soon return to begin the year 2013.
Enjoying the ‘slow down days’ after the holidays
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TONASKET - Tonasket’s boys basketball team is showing it can play against the top Caribou Trail League teams in stretches.
Putting together four quarters of that kind of play is another matter.
Brewster nailed 12 3-point baskets in Tuesday’s contest and raced to a 28-9 first quarter on the way to a 72-50 victory over Tonasket on Tuesday, Dec. 18.
“It’s tough to control their 3-pointers, especially when they get off the bus ready to play and we were still daydreaming,” said Tonasket coach Agustin Pedregon.
“When you’re down 28-9 after one quarter, it’s that much harder, especially against a good team that can stroke it. They were hot tonight and we were lacking intensity.”
Tonasket responded with a big run in the second quarter to pull within 38-28 at the half but could get no closer.
“We outscored them 19-10 in the second quarter, so we know we can compete with these teams,” Pedregon said. “But we can’t turn the ball over 16 times against these teams.
“You can’t take anything away from the non-league teams we played, but it’s not the same. It’s good to see these top teams early in the (league season). I as a coach and the kids can see what this league is about. In the long run this will help us, wake us up.”
Bears used solid inside play to set up their continued barrage from the outside.
Easton Driessen scored 19 points (including three 3-point-ers), Timbo Taylor added 17 (four treys) and Parker Landdeck
had 15 (three 3-pointers) to lead Brewster (5-1, 3-0 CTL).
“Taylor had a night,” Pedregon said. “You know he’s going to shoot the ball. The are a good uptempo team. They play solid defense and it’s difficult to go full speed with them offensively and defensively.”
Michael Orozco and Trevor Terris each scored 12 for the Tigers (4-3, 0-3).
The Tigers were set to head to Cashmere on Friday, Dec. 21,
and also compete in the Brewster Christmas Tournament Dec. 28-29.
“It’s a good opportunity for these young kids to know what it is to play a tough team on the road,” Pedregon said. “At the end of the day, I’m proud of the boys. Every day we improve in some area. They fight to the end for me, so I can’t ask for much more than that.
“We’re a work in progress and we know that.”
Brewster’s treys too much for tigers
terry Mills/submitted photo
Ethan Bensing (10) provided some quality minutes off the bench for the Tigers during their 72-50 loss to Brewster on Dec. 18.
Oroville’s Michael Ripley tries to turn over Tonasket’s Tim Frazier for a pin, but Frazier eventually wound up with the victory. Tonasket defeated the Hornets 78-3 in a non-league dual meet on Thursday, Dec. 20.
Brent Baker/staff photo
By Brent [email protected]
OROVILLE - Oroville’s young and inexpe-rienced wrestling team struggled Thursday, Dec. 20, with Tonasket’s not-so-young and very much more-experienced wrestlers, as the Tigers took a 78-3 non-league dual meet victory.
Winning with pins for the Tigers were Trevor Peterson (113 pounds), Collin Aitcheson (120), Tim Frazier (126), Jeff Stedtfeld (132), Zach Lofthus (145), Austin Knowlton (160), Austin Booker (170) and John Rawley (220).
Picking up forfeit wins were Rade Pilkinton (103), Jorge Juarez (138), Lucas Vugteveen (182), Frank Holfeltz (195) and Chad Edwards (285).
The only Hornet winner (and the only bout that went the distance) was Eddie Ocampo (152), who outlasted Tonasket’s Quinn Mirick 13-8.
The two squads were amongst of field of 13 teams scheduled to compete at the Hornets’ NOHI tournament on Dec. 22, which occurred after the Gazette-Tribune’s early Christmas deadline.
tonasket wrestlers pin down youthful Hornets
By Brent [email protected]
TONASKET - Another game, another loss to a state power for Tonasket’s girls basketball team.
The Tigers, playing their third straight team that advanced to at least the state quarterfinals
last year, fell hard to Brewster on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 82-13.
The Bears were last season’s Class 2B runners-up and this year bumped up to the Class 1A Caribou Trail League.
Monica Landdeck scored 26 points and Chandler Smith added 23 for the Bears, who led
48-11 at the half.Devan Utt led the Tigers (1-6,
0-3) with seven points.Tonasket played at Cashmere
on Friday, Dec. 21, after the G-T’s early Christmas deadline.
Check online at gazette-tri-bune.com or in next week’s print edition for the results.
Brewster overwhelms Tiger girlsterry Mills/submitted photo
Tonasket’s Kylie Dellinger (20) battles for a rebound during Tuesday’s home contest with Brewster.
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LEGAL NOTICENEGOTIATION OF STATE LEASES WITH EXISTING LESSEES BE- TWEEN FEBRUARY AND APRIL 2013 EXPIRES: JUNE 2013.10-074646-GRAZING-1/S1/2SW1/4, SECTION 1, SW1/4,S1/2SE1/4, SECTION 2, ALL OF SECTION 3, E1/2NE1/4 SECTION 4, E1/2, N1/2NW1/4, SE1/4NW1/4, E1/2SW1/4, SECTION 10, E1/2, SW1/4NW1/4, SW1/4 SECTION 11, ALL IN TOWNSHIP 39 NORTH, RANGE 25 EAST, W.M.10-A53481-GRAZING- E1/2, SEC- TION 36, TOWNSHIP 35 NORTH, RANGE 25 EAST, W.M.1 0 - A 5 5 2 4 8 - G R A Z I N G - NE1/4NW1/4, S1/2NW1/4, NW1/4SW1/4, GOV LOT 3; SEC- TION 33, TOWNSHIP 36 NORTH, RANGE 25, EAST, W.M.10-A57949-GRAZING-W1/2SW1/4, SECTION 10, TOWNSHIP 34 NORTH, RANGE 25 EAST, W.M.10-A58629-GRAZING- N1/2NW1/4, SW1/4NW1/4, NW1/4SW1/4, SEC- TION 16, TOWNSHIP 34 NORTH, RANGE 26 EAST, W.M.10-C54337-GRAZING-W1/2NE1/4, SE1/4NE1/4, SE1/4NW1/4, E1/2SE1/4, SECTION 16, TOWN- SHIP 36 NORTH, RANGE 28 EAST, W.M.10-C56891-GRAZING-SW1/4NE1/4, SE1/4NW1/4, E1/2E1/2, SECTION 22, TOWNSHIP 33 NORTH, RANGE 25 EAST, W.M.Written request to lease must be re- ceived by January 25, 2013, at De- partment of Natural Resources, 225 S Silke Rd, Colville, Washington 99114-9369. Each request to lease must include the lease number, the name, address and phone number of applicant, and must contain a certi- fied check or money order payable to the Department of Natural Resourc- es for the amount of any bonus bid plus a $100.00 deposit. The enve- lope must be marked “Sealed Bid” and give lease number, expiration date of lease applied for and give ap- plicant’s name. The applicant must be prepared to purchase improve- ments that belong to the current lessee. Persons wishing to bid to lease any of these properties can ob- tain more details, bid packet, and qualification requirements by con- tacting the Colville office or calling (509) 684-7474.Published in the Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune on Dec. 27, 2012. #445275
LEGAL NOTICEThe Department of Natural Resourc- es will be entering into negotiations on Special Use Lease No. 60-A74725. This lease expires on May 31, 2013, and DNR intends to
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enter into a 10 year term with the current lessee. Comments and questions should be directed to Brian Derting at the Colville office at 509-684-7474.Published in the Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune on Dec. 27, 2012. #445284
Public NoticeCity Council meetings are regularly held on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. Since the first Tues- day in January 2013 falls on a holi- day, the Oroville City Council meet- ing will be held the following day, on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact City Hall at 509-476- 2926.Attest: Kathy M. JonesClerk-TreasurerPublished in the Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune on Dec. 20 and 27, 2012.#444778
PUBLIC NOTICEORDINANCE NO. 819
An ordinance of the City of Oroville, Washington amending the 2012 bud- get.The above summary is of an ordi- nance adopted by the Oroville City Council during the December 18, 2012 regular meeting. Entire copies of the ordinance may be obtained at the Oroville City Hall, 1308 Iron- wood, during normal working hours (Monday - Friday, 8:00 - 4:00).
PUBLIC NOTICEORDINANCE NO. 820
An ordinance of the City of Oroville, Washington adopting the 2013 bud- get for the City of Oroville in Final Summary Form.The above summary is of an ordi- nance adopted by the Oroville City Council during the December 18, 2012 regular meeting. Entire copies of the ordinance may be obtained at the Oroville City Hall, 1308 Iron- wood, during normal working hours (Monday - Friday, 8:00 - 4:00).
PUBLIC NOTICEORDINANCE NO. 821
An ordinance of the City of Oroville, Washington amending Title 17 of the Oroville Municipal Code to add new section 17.12.075 providing that no use that is illegal under local, state or federal law shall be allowed in any zone of the city, and applying such regulations to medical marijuana dis- pensaries and collective gardens.The above summary is of an ordi- nance adopted by the Oroville City Council during the December 18, 2012 regular meeting. Entire copies of the ordinance may be obtained at the Oroville City Hall, 1308 Iron- wood, during normal working hours (Monday - Friday, 8:00 - 4:00).Published in the Okanogan Valley Gazette, December 27, 2012.#446772
PUBLIC NOTICEThe Board of Directors of the White- stone Reclamation District will meet to equalize the 2013 Irrigation As- sessment Roll on Monday, January 7, 2013, 7:00 PM at the office of the Whitestone Reclamation District, 901 Loomis Highway, Loomis WA. Ja- nine McCormick, Secretary.Published in the Okanogan Valley Gazette on December 20, 27, 2012.#445287
Public NoticeVacant Council Position
The City Council of the City of To- nasket will be accepting letters of in- terest to fill a Council position that will be vacated December 31, 2012. The letters will be accepted until 7:00 pm Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013. The applicants will be interviewed at the January 22nd, 2013 City Council meeting. Applicants must be a regis- tered voter and a resident of the City of Tonasket for 1 full year. For more information, call Tonasket City Hall, 509-486-2132.Alice AttwoodCity Clerk-TreasurerPublished in the Okanogan Valley Gazette on December 27, 2012, January 3, 2013.#446691
Tonasket City Council Meeting Cancelled 1-8-2013
Special Meeting to be held 1-9-2013
The regular meeting of the Tonasket City Council to be held on Tuesday, January 8, 2013 has been cancelled. A special meeting of the Tonasket City Council will be held on Wednes- day, January 9, 2013 at 7:00 pm. This meeting will be held as a regu- lar meeting of the City Council. All items on the agenda and any other items that are brought forward may be acted upon. All interested per- sons are invited to attend and those with special language, hearing or ac- cess needs should contact City Hall, 509-486-2132, 24 hours prior to the meeting.Alice J. AttwoodCity Clerk-TreasurerPublished in the Okanogan Valley Gazette on December 27, 2012, January 3, 2013.#446693
Tonasket residents can drop off information for the Gazette-Tribune at Highlandia Jewelry on 312 S. Whitcomb
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For many Americans, “com-ing up” with a down-payment for their first home purchase can be a major roadblock -- and quite often the reason for renting, rather than owning, a home.
A “down-payment” is the differ-ence between the home’s purchase price and its mortgage amount. This percentage of the sale price must be paid up-front and can vary by lender, location, and loan program. A higher down-pay-ment usually translates into lower loan interest rate requirements.
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State Housing Authorities - State agencies may offer down-payment assistance programs in your state.
Private Mortgage Insurance - Private insurance companies that offer you the opportunity to finance some of your down-pay-ment requirements. This allows lenders to accept lower down-payments than they would nor-mally allow.
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Holy Rosary Parish1st & Whitcomb Ave., Tonasket
10:30 a.m. English Mass 1st Sunday of the MonthOther Sundays at 8:30 a.m.
1:00 p.m. Spanish Mass every other Sun.Rev. David Kuttner • 476-2110
Immanuel Lutheran Church1608 Havillah Rd., Tonasket • 509-485-3342
Sun. Worship 9 a.m. • Bible Study & Sun. School 10:15“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God--not by works,
so that no one can boast.” -Eph. 2:8-9“To every generation.” Celebrating 100 years 1905-2005
Crossroads Meeting Place Tonasket Foursquare Church415-A S. Whitcomb Ave. • Pastor George Conkle
Sunday: 10 a.m.(509) 486-2000 • cell: (509) 429-1663
Tonasket Community UCC 24 E. 4th, Tonasket • 486-2181
“A biblically based, thoughtful group of Christian People”Sunday Worship at 11 a.m.
Call for program/activity information Leon L. Alden, Pastor
Whitestone Church of the Brethren577 Loomis-Oroville Rd., Tonasket. 846-4278
9:15am Praise Singing. 9:30am Worship Service10:45am Sunday school for all ages
Ellisforde Church of the Brethren32116 Hwy. 97, Tonasket. 846-4278
10am Sunday School. 11am Worship Service “Continuing the work of Jesus...simply, peacefully, together”
Pastor Jim Yaussy Albright. [email protected]
Oroville Community Bible FellowshipSunday Service, 10:00 a.m.
923 Main St. • [email protected] Fast, Pastor
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Faith Lutheran Church11th & Ironwood, Oroville • 476-2426
Sunday Worship 9:00 a.m. “O taste and see that the Lord is good!”
Pastor Dan Kunkel • Deacon Dave Wildermuth
Immaculate Conception Parish1715 Main Street Oroville
8:30 a.m. English Mass 1st Sunday of the MonthOther Sundays at 10:30 a.m.
1:00 p.m. Spanish Mass every other Sun.Rev. David Kuttner • 476-2110
PC of G Bible Faith Family Church476-3063 • 1012 Fir Street, Oroville
SUNDAY: 7 a.m. Men’s Meeting 9:45 Sunday School (2-17 yrs) • Life Skills (18+) 10:45 Worship Service • Children’s Church (3-8 yrs)
WEDNESDAY: 7 p.m. Bible Study (13+)Pastor Claude Roberts
Oroville Unit ed Methodist908 Fir, Oroville • 476-2681
Sunday Worship: 9 a.m. Rev. Leon Alden
Valley Christian FellowshipPastor Randy McAllister
142 East Oroville Rd. • 476-2028• Sunday School (Adult & Teens) 10:00 a.m.
Morning Worship 11 a.m.• Sun. Evening Worship 6 p.m.Sunday School & Children’s Church K-6
9:45 to 1:00 p.m. Open to Community! Located at Kid City 142 East Oroville
• Wednesday Evening Worship 7 p.m.
Trinity Episcopal602 Central Ave., Oroville
Sunday School & Services 10:00 a.m.Holy Eucharist: 1st, 3rd, & 5th • Morning Prayer: 2nd & 4th
The Reverend Marilyn Wilder 476-3629Warden • 476-2022
Church of ChristIronwood & 12th, Oroville • 476-3926
Sunday School 10 a.m. • Sunday Worship 11 a.m. Wednesday Bible Study: 7 p.m.
Seventh-Day Adventist10th & Main, Oroville - 509-476-2552
Bible Study: Sat. 9:30 a.m. • Worship: Sat. 11 a.m.Skip Johnson • 509-826-0266
Oroville Free Methodist1516 Fir Street • Pastor Rod Brown • 476.2311
Sun. School 9:15 am • Worship Service 10:15amYouth Activity Center • 607 Central Ave.
Monday 7:00 pm • After School M-W-F 3-5pm offi [email protected]
OROVILLE CHESAWChesaw Community Bible Church
Nondenominational • Everyone WelcomeEvery Sunday 10:30 a.m. to Noon
Pastor Duane Scheidemantle • 485-3826
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Riverside Lighthouse - Assembly of God102 Tower Street
Sunday Bible Study 10:00amSunday Worship 11:00am & 6:30pm
Wednesday- family Night 6:30pmPastor Vern & Anita Weaver
Ph. 509-826-4082
Community Christian FellowshipMolson Grange, Molson
Sunday 10:30 a.m., Worship & Youth Sun. SchoolWednesday 6:30pm, Bible Study
“For by grace are ye saved through faith...” Eph. 2:8-9“...lovest thou me...Feed my lambs...John 21:1-17
LOOMISLoomis Community Church
Main Street in Loomis9:45 a.m. Sunday School • 11 a.m. Worship Service
Call for other events information • 509-223-3542Pastor Vern Fenton
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WDFW News Release
OLYMPIA - The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) is seeking nominations through Jan. 25 for member-ship on the Inland Fish Policy Advisory Group.
Up to 15 qualified individu-als will be chosen to serve on the advisory group for 2013 and 2014. Those selected will provide guidance to WDFW on statewide issues related to management of inland fish species, such as trout, bass, panfish and kokanee. They also serve as an important com-munication link between WDFW and its constituents.
Advisors should have a broad
interest in inland fish manage-ment and the ability to commu-nicate effectively with large seg-ments of the public.
The advisory group meets approximately three times each year, and advisors are asked peri-odically to comment on written materials throughout the year. Advisors serve for a term of two years and can be reappointed. Appointments become effective Feb. 1, 2013.
Current members are encour-aged to reapply.
Advisors do not receive direct compensation for their work.
Any group or individual can submit a nomination, and self-nominations are also accepted.
Nominees do not need to be affil-iated with an organized group.
Nominations must include the following information:
The nominee’s name, address and telephone number; the nomi-nee’s affiliations, if any; the name, address and telephone number of any organization submitting a nomination; experience, includ-ing the type of experience, and any species or areas of interest, as well as references.
Nominations must be received by Jan. 25. Submit to: Bruce Bolding, WDFW Fish Management Division. By mail: 600 Capitol Way N., Olympia, WA, 98501. Email: [email protected].
WDFW seeks fish policy nominees
OKANOGAN - Action: Open Leader Lake to fishing. Effective: Jan. 1 through Apr. 26, 2013.
Species affected: All game fishLocation: Leader Lake, locat-
ed 3 miles west of the town of Okanogan on Hwy 20.
This four-month fishery will
provide winter angling opportu-nity in the Omak/Okanogan area and take advantage of an abun-dant spiny ray population within Leader Lake. New regulations proposed for Leader Lake would open this water year around, and all public comment has been
favorable.Statewide gear and freshwater
species rules are in effect for all game fish. Contacts: Bob Jateff, District 6 Fish Biologist, (509) 997-0316, Jeff Korth, Region 2 Fish Program Manager,(509) 754-4624.
Open winter fishery on Leader LakeDaniel and Ginger Poleschook/submitted photo
North Central Washington’s loons will be the topic at the Okanogan Highlands Alliance’s Jan. 4 presentation at the Community Cultural Center of Tonasket.
SubmitteD by Julie ashmoRecOnserVatiOn cOOrdinatOr, OHa
TONASKET - On Friday, Jan. 4, avian medi-cine and surgery specialist Dr. Scott Ford will share information about the loons of North Central Washington at the Community Cultural Center of Tonasket.
The presentation begins at 6:30 p.m. with des-serts, tea and coffee; a dinner benefiting the CCC begins at 5:00 p.m.
Loon biology and conservation will be discussed, along with stunning images taken by Dan and Ginger Poleschook, loon researchers and profes-sional photographers.
Dr. Ford will discuss where our loons go in the winter and provide updates on telemetry technology that will allow researchers to better track individual loons from our area in the coming years.
“Loons carry a universal appeal - their beckoning cry, their surreal beauty, and their dependable pres-ence every summer - but their dwindling presence leaves a noticeable gap,” says Dr. Ford. “Come and be inspired by the beauty of these birds and the chal-lenges they face in a changing world.”
In the summers of 2011 and 2012, Dr. Scott Ford has assisted with efforts to capture, band, and sam-ple common loons in Northeastern Washington. This banding and research work has been carried out for many years with the cooperation of biologist Darwin Long (Biodiversity Research Institute) and Daniel and Ginger Poleschook (Loon Lake Loon Association).
Scott is a board-certified specialist in avian medi-cine and surgery. His career with wild birds began
in Alaska in 1989 working in a wildlife rehabilita-tion center with bald eagles. He graduated from Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine in 1998. His veterinary career has includ-ed private practice, specialty avian practice, staff vet-erinarian at the Alaska Raptor Center, online avian medical consultant, and he currently practices as a free-lance pet-bird and wildlife veterinarian.
Scott provides support to various wildlife reha-bilitation centers. He also provides veterinary sup-port to field projects involving raptors, waterfowl, and loons. Scott presents at professional conferences around the country and has published several avian medicine articles in peer-reviewed journals. Further details can be found on his business website at www.avian-vet.com.
The Highland Wonders indoor educational series brings the natural history of the Okanogan Highlands and surrounding areas to Tonasket on the first Friday of each month, from November through May (skipping December). More excit-ing Highland Wonders events will be offered in the months to come, including a presentation on Grouse of the Okanogan Highlands with Dr. Mike Schroeder in February.
OHA’s Education Program is designed to build the capacity of the community to steward natural habitats and resources by helping to develop an informed and empowered population.
Okanogan Highlands Alliance is a non-profit that works to educate the public on watershed issues. The educational series is offered by OHA, free of charge, at the Community Cultural Center (CCC) of Tonasket. The indoor events are held at the CCC, at 411 S. Western Avenue, Tonasket, and details are provided on OHA’s website: www.okanoganhigh-lands.org/education/hw.
For more information, email [email protected] or call 509-433-7893.
OHA explores local loonsOkanogan Highlands Alliance presents avian specialist
WDFW News Release
OLYMPIA - Hunters have a chance to win one of nine 2013 special hunting permits if they report this yearís hunting activi-ties for black bear, deer, elk, or turkey to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) by Jan. 10.
Those who meet the deadline will be included in a drawing for five deer permits and four elk permits in various areas of the state. Those permits will be valid from Sept. 1 through Dec. 31, 2013.
To qualify for the drawing, hunters must submit a report for each black bear, deer, elk, or tur-key tag they purchased and for each special hunting permit they received in 2012.
All hunters, whether success-ful or not, are required to submit hunting reports for those species by Jan. 31. Failure to meet the deadline can result in a $10 fine, payable before a hunter can pur-chase a 2013 license.
Dave Ware, WDFW game manager, said the annual hunting reports are an important source of information for managing the resource and developing future hunting seasons.
“The drawing for special per-mits is designed to give hunters an extra incentive to file their reports early,” he said.
“If everyone waits until the last minute, it creates problems with reporting.”
Hunters can report by phone (877-945-3492) or the Internet (https://fishhunt.dfw.wa.gov). Hunters should be prepared to give the game management unit they hunted and their individual WILD identification number, which is printed on license docu-ments.
As in recent years, hunters are required to file separate reports for general-season hunting activi-ties and for special-permit hunts for deer, elk, black bear and tur-key.
Whether reporting online or over the phone, hunters should
follow the prompts until they receive a confirmation number for each report, he said.
More information the WDFWís incentive permit drawing is avail-able on page 17 of the 2012 Big Game Hunting pamphlet (http://wdfw.wa.gov/hunting/regula-tions/).
File hunting reports by Jan. 10 to qualify for permit drawing
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