Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune, March 01, 2012

BY GARY A. DEVONMANAGING EDITOR

OROVILLE - Ali Miller, the daughter of Scott and Benie Miller, was chosen as this year’s Oroville May Festival Queen at the Selection Night ceremony held at OHS on Monday, Feb. 20.

“I didn’t think I would really get it, Dayna’s more business and high heels, I’m more casual. She’s more ‘girlie-girl,’” said Miller. “I didn’t go in with the mindset that I would be selected and when I was I didn’t think I’d be all happy and giddy... but I was.”

Queen Ali and Princess Dayna Roley will repre-sent the Oroville com-munity during this year’s May Festival on Saturday, May 12. Miller and Roley, the daughter of Ross and Neysa Roley, will ride the float at Oroville’s annual festival, as well as at other community festivals around the region.

Miller is active in school and the com-munity. She runs cross country, plays basketball and tennis and is a member of the O-Club. She is also a member of the Border Patrol Explorer Post 0023.

“I’m very proud to be able to partici-pate in all these activities and still main-tain a good grade point average. I’m still unsure about my future, but I’m looking into possibly joining the Air Force,” said Miller in her speech. “I love to hang out with friends. It’s never boring when we’re all together.”

The new queen said she has been part of May Festival activities since she was in kindergarten – everything from riding her bicycle in the parade, being a third-grade princess, dancing in the May Pole Dance in the fourth-grade to

playing in the Three on Three Basketball Tournament.

Roley has been a cheerleader for foot-ball and basketball since the seventh grade, works on the yearbook staff, is a member of Future Business Leaders of American and has served in student government.

“In addition, I participate actively with my church youth group doing service

projects, activities and being a youth leader at church camp. I love children and plan on getting a degree in elemen-tary education. I also enjoy drawing, doing crafts, photography and music,” she said in her speech.

Princess Dayna’s family moved to Oroville when she

was in the third grade and she says they very quickly came to love living here.

“There is a true sense of community... of people who are neighbors, neighbors who have become friends and friends who have become family. Oroville is a community of people that gathers together to support each other,” she said. “Memories, relationships and traditions are created in communities like this one. I hope I will have a chance to tell people about our great community to share about our wonderful people, our celebrations and traditions, our busi-nesses, neighborhoods and schools. And encourage them to come enjoy our beau-tiful scenery, wonderful weather and plentiful recreational opportunities.”

The 2011 May Festival Queen, Madison Hatch, will pass her crown to Queen Ali in a Coronation Ceremony on May 11, with a special lighted mini-parade down Main Street following.

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Ali Miller selected as May Festival Queen

“I didn’t think I would really get it, Dayna’s more business and high hells, I’m more casual. She’s more

‘girlie-girl’.”Queen Ali Miller

Queen Madison to pass her crown to Queen Ali at the 2012 Coronation Ceremony on May 11

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May Festival Royalty Princess Dayna Roley (left) and Queen Ali Miller at Selection Night held Monday, Feb. 20. The two girls, juniors at Oroville High School, will represent the Oroville community during May Festival and at other festivals around the region.

Kinross donates to buy reader board

BY BRENT BAKERSTAFF WRITER

TONASKET - North Valley Hospital is enter-ing the final stages of preparations to roll out its Affordable Clinic Exam (ACEs) program beginning in April, said NVH Patient Financial Services Manager Jana Symonds at the Thursday, Feb. 23, dis-trict board meeting.

Preparations have been underway since September, when the board decided to ini-tiate the program to be run through the Tonasket and Oroville Family Medical Clinics.

“We’re ready to go with ACEs, and we’ll have our first care pro-vided April 1,” she said.

“We’re getting all the set-up done. It should be a real positive pro-gram for the commu-nity.”

The program is designed to provide affordable health care in the clinics and decrease charity care and bad debt costs.

“It’s an affordable alternative to costly health insurance,” Symonds said.

Director of Ancillary Services Noreen Olma showed rolled the hospital’s new portable ultrasound unit into the meet-ing to show how easily it could be trans-

ported to wherever it was needed.

She said that choos-ing what to include on the new unit had been similar to buying a new car.

“What we chose was based upon what the providers wanted for what kind of exams they do in the ER and in OB,” Olma said.

“That’s why we have two different transduc-ers on it to use.”

Long Term Care Division Manager Judy Gladden said her facility had had its first meeting with a con-sultant from Harmony Health Care.

“He spent a lot of time getting acquaint-ed with our systems,” she said. “He’s teach-ing us how to get paid for what we’re doing already, ut maybe don’t know how to put things together to get the highest possible

rate. It could bring our average Medicare rate up by a couple hundred dollars.

The nice thing is they check us for compliance at the same time. We’re get-ting more than just how to get compen-sated; we’re being audited at the same time.”

The Board of Commissioners next meets Thursday, March 8.

NVH soon to roll out ACEs program


OROVILLE – Arnie Marchand updated the Oroville City Council about Carbon Cycle Crush’s canola seed mill-ing operation located in the old Oro Fruit Warehouse.

“The project began about 18 months ago when Tim King and Ryan Skinner came here and gave a presentation. What they heard from you was ‘how can we help,’” said Marchand, adding the fledgling company got much the same response from the county commissioners and Roni Holder-Diefenbach, executive

director of Economic Alliance.While Marchand said other munici-

palities and counties were not accepting of the proposed milling and training operation, Oroville had several positive attributes Carbon Cycle Crush was look-ing for. These included a heavy-haul cor-ridor from the Canadian Border to the active railhead in the middle of town.

“We expect about half our seed to come from Canada. Our first real truckload is on its way from there now,” Marchand said. “That will also be the first real test of our milling machines and allow us to

Marchand updates council on canola crusher


OROVILLE – Kinross Gold Company and the Oroville Booster Club have donated $22,000 to the Oroville School District towards the purchase of a new programable electronic reader board to replace the current sign at Oroville’s Triangle Park.

The school board approved the $12,000 donation from the Booster Club and $10,000 from Kinross at their Monday, Feb. 27 meeting. The two-sided elec-tronic billboard will cost about $32,000 with taxes and installation, according to Superintendent Steve Quick, who researched the project for the Booster Club.

“We got three different bids and that was by far the best deal,” said Supt. Quick. “It will be wirelessly programma-ble from the school. Everyone is pretty excited because we’ll be able to get school events up in a more timely manner and also be able to run some city events dur-ing the summer.”

In addition to accepting the donation, the board also approved a field trip to Washington, D.C. for five students and their teacher, administering the Healthy Youth Survey, accepting Linda Zosel’s retirement at the end of the year, adding Diana Luca to the substitute teachers list and having Kristin Sarmiento and Walt Arnold as co-coaches of the tennis team.

Under ‘Good News and Announcements’ Quick commented on his gratitude to the community for passing the two-year Maintenance and Operations levy by 63 percent.

“That’s huge, it only passed by 55 per-cent last time,” Quick said.

Shay Shaw, district business manager, reported that the district has 631.34 FTE students enrolled.

“That’s still above what we budgeted for, but we did see an eight student drop from January through February. That often happens because parents who are planning a move usually plan it around semester change,” said Shaw.

She added the numbers in kinder-garten through first grade are going up, saying she hopes the trend continues as the high school is graduating a large class in June.

“We usually check with pre-schools and Head Start to estimate what our incoming kindergarten classes will be. They did screening early last year and we still had about 15 more in kindergarten than we expected,” she said. “We have a big class graduating so it would be great if the numbers in the lower grades go up.”

The board briefly discussed rumors of bus route changes that were brought to the attention of Director David Nutt.

“I got another phone call from a per-son in my district about rumors of bus route changes. I emailed Steve (Supt. Quick) and he said of course anything is possible, but no changes are planned in the immediate future,” Nutt said.

“We are just looking at the routes, there could be changes if we could com-bine two routes on the hill and determine if the kids could have less time riding the bus on a combined route,” said Quick.

Director Christine Rise said she was concerned that there could be a trickle

Enrollment still up for Oroville School District

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Brent Baker / staff photo

North Valley Hospital Director of Ancillary Services Noreen Olma shows of the hospital’s new porta-ble ultrasound unit at the NVH board of commissioners’ meeting on Thursday, Feb. 23.

Photo by Gary A. DeVon

The first of what’s hoped to be many truckloads of canola arrives at Carbon Cycle Crush in Oroville to deliver several tons of canola seed to be crushed for oil and meal. Arnie Marchand updated the Oroville council about the operation at the council’s Tuesday, Feb. 21 meeting.

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This year the challenge was about filling buckets, a theme the whole school adopted from the book

“Have you filled a bucket today?” written by Carol McCloud.

The book talks about positive behavior as children see how rewarding it is to express daily kindness, appreciation and love.

Visitors to the elementary school saw students all over read-ing in every available corner using any extra time to read as many

books as possible.On Day 6 of the Challenge stu-

dents had read 1500 books and earned their first reward, buck-ets of popcorn for each class. In addition, after learning the song herself, Principal Hoehn taught the children the song;

“There’s a hole in my bucket.” By Day 14 the kids had read 4889

books and earned a piñata for each class level.

Two days later the number of books read got up to 5921 and the students earned a Bucket Filled Field Day.

The principal and the students planned to deliver a filled bucket to the community and share the story of “Filling a bucket.”

By Brent BakerStaff Writer

TONASKET - Tonasket High School’s work in closing achieve-ment gaps has earned state-wide recognition as the school recently received a Washington Achievement Award from the

Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI).

Tonasket was one of just seven high schools in the state to receive an award in the “clos-ing achievement gap” category.

Tonasket principal Jeff Hardesty said the

award reflects the work the high school staff has put in both to improve their instruction and to respond to ever-shifting demands from the state.

“There seems to be a constant criticism of education and educa-tors,” Hardesty said.

“I think the legislative process needs to own part of that.

It’s not real consistent and fair -- different funding structures from year to year, different tests and who is doing the testing from year to year. In the midst of all that, we get this award and it says that we are still doing OK.

Things are not as bad as some people want to make education sound.

“This staff has worked extreme-ly hard. They are constantly react-ing to legislative change, and they have not given up.

They continue to keep their eye on the prize and keep their focus on what they’re trying to do.”

The category measures achieve-ment gaps in terms of race/ethnic-ity (white vs. non-white students) and economic status (low income vs. non-low income).

“What I like about the achieve-ment index is, it’s a more com-prehensive, fair way of measuring a school’s performance” Hardesty said. “It doesn’t just take the state test. It factors in growth over time. It factors in a comparison of other schools of our like demographics. To me there’s more credibility.

“People want to see their tax dollars at work. When they talk about education dollars and the levy, I think this shows that the dollars are at work.”

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TONASKET - The Tonasket School District continues to examine the feasibility of returning the district to a full-length school day for the first time in more than a decade, as Superintendent Paul Turner outlined at the Tuesday, Feb. 27, board meeting.

The final decision won’t be made until the Washington state legisla-ture makes its final funding decisions, particularly in regards to Levy Equalization Act (LEA) funding. If the district receives close to its current LEA funding level of $762,000, Turner was optimistic that the district’s plans to return to a full school day will come to fruition.

“We are moving ahead with planning for next year,” Turner said. “We feel pretty good at this point. From what we know at this point from the state, it looks like LEA will be safe. Of course, there is no guarantee until the last gavel falls. As long as that’s safe we can go ahead and get lined up for next year.”

To accommodate adding about 45 minutes of class time to the school day from its current level, the district would need to add several staff positions in each building. Turner said right now the task is determin-ing exactly what staffing needs there were to be addressed.

“We’re trying to identify a general education staffing number for each building so they can schedule accordingly,” he said. “Then we also need to determine which disciplines are needed in the different build-ings above and beyond the basic ed number.

“The principals are working with their staffs to see where the areas of need are.”

Turner said that the district is lined up to attend four job fairs to attract applicants for when a final decision is made.

“Our fingers are crossed,” Turner said. “Hopefully we’ll be able to move forward and do this.”

The Tonasket School Board meets Monday, March 12, at 7:30 p.m., as the meetings will be moved back to their spring/summer timetable.

tonasket School District prepares to extend dayPlanning ahead by looking for new staff

correction...Staff writer brent baker wasn’t really in two places at once last week. With the state wrestling finals and Oroville’s district tournament basketball games going on feb. 17-18 at the same time, the gazette-tribune asked Oroville high School senior caleb haney to provide us with basketball pictures while brent traveled to the tacoma Dome. haney provided us with several out-standing photos, of which we used three. the fact that the pictures accompanying the

boys basketball article “Oroville boys advance toward State” (of which the image above is one of the three) in our feb. 23 are credited to baker was due to a production error that slipped past us unnoticed. While baker would have been proud to claim them as his own, the images of hughes, michael garrett and c.J. mathews were all captured by caleb haney.

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Students from Mrs. Wahl’s reading class (L-R) Kaylee Clough, Kayra Koepke and Kolo Moster catching up on reading. (Left) Oroville Elementary School Principal Joan Hoehn is head over heels for the Principal’s Challenge. The principal challenged her students to read over 5000 books in February – and they did. So Hoehn stood on her head as one of the many rewards the kids earned during the annual February event.

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The other half of the seed is expected to come from local farmers, who will share in the company’s profits, and from other farmers in Washington state. Canola is a used in many places as a rotation crop with wheat that often leads to much higher wheat yields, Marchand said.

Marchand, whose title at the company is Native American and First Nations Business Development Director, said the company also started working with the Colville Confederated Tribe 18 months ago.

The Tribe has some test plots, but is still struggling, according to Marchand.

“We believe there’s 51,000 irri-gable acres in the valley... con-ceivably we could get half our seed from here alone,” he said.

Marchand also talked about a dairy farmer in Douglas County who has been growing his own canola and crushing it to feed the meal to his cows for the past 20 years.

Another farmer in the Palouse

crushes canola he grows with a small crusher he invented, according to Marchand.

That farmer feeds his cows with the mush-like product he gets and also makes his own biodiesel using the oil.

“From Spokane to the Palouse there’s tons of it,” he said. “Our plan is to stay the size we are and be a training facility as well as a crush facility. We are work-ing on setting up similar opera-tions wherever they’re needed and Oroville will be the training center.”

After a few questions from the council, Mayor Chuck Spieth thanked Marchand for the pre-sentation, saying it was well done and easy to listen to.

From there the council read-dressed the question of another type of plant that can be grown locally – marijuana.

The council is still discussing what to do about the potential for collective medicinal marijuana gardens medicinal marijuana dis-pensaries.

The city approved a morato-rium on both at their previous

meeting in February, however it is still researching what to do if someone approaches the city looking to locate a dispensary or to start a collective grow opera-tion within the city limits. The biggest concern was for how this will affect the city when apply-ing for federal grants because despite a state law that allows some marijuana production and use for medical purposes, it is still against federal law.

“(City attorney) Mick Howe has advised the City of Omak to flatly deny permitting and fight it in court if need be,” said Kathy Jones, city clerk.

Police Chief Clay Warnstaff said he hadn’t heard back from the City of Naches which has strong laws against cooperative grows and dispensaries.

“Actually the governor did veto parts of the law,” said Jones.

“Actually I think the governor vetoed the dispensary part,” said Chief Warnstaff. “The law already allows for individuals to grow for their own purposes... I just see a problem when you have collec-tive gardens or dispensaries.”

down affect if a senior driver bumps one with less seniority leading to a driver who doesn’t know the kids on a particular route.

Director Phil Barker, chairman of the board, said he would like the board to consider readdress-ing student policy that makes a

Running Start student ineligible to be named class valedictorian.

He also said he felt the district had violated his right to privacy when it printed an email he had sent to a school employee that

was on the district’s server.There was disagreement among

the board, as well as those in atten-dance, about whether the email on the district’s server was cov-ered under a federal law protect-ing electronic correspondence or under the state law which would make it a public record.

Barker argued that printing it out would require either his per-mission or a court order.

While others argued that as a public official his correspon-dence regarding school matters

was considered part of the school record.

Supt. Quick suggested Ed Naillon, who teaches technology, attend a future board meeting to discuss the ins and outs of pri-vacy in regards to what’s on the district’s server.

He said the other option was to pay the district’s attorney to come to a board meeting and discuss the issue.

“Having Ed come and address the board would be a good first start,” Quick said.

BY ANITA ASMUSSENTONASKET ASB ADVISOR

TONASKET - The Tonasket High School junior class is preparing for one last fund-raiser to help cover expenses for the upcom-ing Junior Prom.

Sarah Prock has set up a a web site (www.sarahprock.scentsy.us) to help the Junior Class to help with their Prom efforts.

Items from the Scentsy Product Catalog will be available by clicking on the JR Prom Fundraiser link on the site.

The Junior Class will have catalogs avail-able to hand out, and Sarah will be have items available to look over Mar. 6, 6:30-7:30 p.m., in the Tonasket High School library.

The Junior Class also expresses its appre-ciation and thanks to those who bought roses for the Valentine’s Day fundraiser.


OROVILLE – GEAR UP and the Oroville School District held it’s annual Career Fair with stu-dents from Oroville and Tonasket attending the Feb. 8 event

The Career Fair was open to students in grades six through 12 having first prepared for the day with lessons from Navigation 101 and the districts’ advisory curriculum, according to Dawn

Miller with GEAR UP site direc-tor at Oroville.

Cody Swenson, a senior from Oroville high, took the fair on as his senior project while being mentored by Miller.

This year’s attendees were North Valley Hospital; Oroville Re-Max Lake and Country Realty; U.S. Customs, Border Patrol, Army, Navy and Air Force; EMT Debra Donahue; Okanogan County Sheriffs Department; Oroville Police Department; Central Washington University; Perry

Technical Institute; dentist Dr. Chen; Okanogan County PUD; Howard Zosel: Sandra’s Blossom and Brier: Hair Designs; teachers Jodi Shirley and Lisa Bourn; Eagle Home Mortgage: Community Auto; Pastor Duane Turner; Alpine Veterinary; College Success Foundation: Career Path Services; Dish Network; Joyce Forthum; Work Source and Wal-Mart.

“A special ‘Thank You’ to each person who gave of their time to mentor our students,” said Miller.

Career Day at OHS

Photo by Gary DeVon

Luis Perez owner of Oroville Community Auto talks with students about his business at the Career Fair held in February at Oroville High School.

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OMAK - The House Jacks of San Francisco will bring their unique sound to the Omak Performing Arts Center on Friday, March 16 at 7 p.m. They have been featured on NBC’s The Sing Off and on ESPN’s Monday Night Football as well as in Rolling Stone Magazine.

The House Jacks of San Francisco are the original “rock band without instruments.” Using nothing more than their five voices (and mouths), they deliver everything from blistering funk to screaming rock to heart-melting ballads for their ever-growing legion of fans. These pioneering musicians have per-formed over 1,000 shows and have shared the stage with some of the biggest names in music.

Their music can also be heard in places as far-reaching as movie soundtracks and computer desk-tops worldwide.

The House Jacks’ live shows typically include not only singing but also vocally imitated instruments such as trumpets, guitars, harmonicas and strings.

They also take audience-requests for songs and render in musical styles unlike the original versions.

The group composes and arranges most of their material and is considered the first professional a cappella group to have a dedicated vocal percus-sionist.

One of the most notable elements of contempo-rary a cappella, vocal percussion has become an essential element in presenting a dynamic, current sound with nothing but voices.

The House Jacks will perform in six school dis-tricts during their stay in the region.

Through the Methow Arts Education Consortium, they will visit the Omak, Okanogan, Pateros, Bridgeport and Methow Valley school districts and Paschal Sherman Indian School.

Visit House Jacks on Facebook and www.house-jacks.com. For more information go to www.omak-pac.org, Facebook or call Omak PAC at 509-826-8323.

Tickets can be purchased on line through Brown Paper Tickets or at Rawson’s in Okanogan, Corner Shelf and North Cascades Broadcasting in Omak, Tonasket Interiors or Oroville Pharmacy. Adult tick-ets are $15.00, children’s tickets are $10.00.

The House Jacks will also be performing at the Winthrop Barn on Mar. 17.

SF’s House Jacks to perform at Omak PAC

Tonasket Junior Class set for one last fundraiser

Submitted Photo

Members of Tonasket’s Junior Class assemble orders of roses purchased for their Valentine’s Day fundraiser. Proceeds went to help defray the Junior Prom costs.

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Citizens should be aware of – and opposed to – House Bill 2801 and the provisions that would allow local governments to cease publishing public notices in their local newspapers. The presumed cost savings to local government is in fact false economy – there is a hidden and very dangerous cost. In trying to save money, local governments would cur-tail access to the legislative process, and ensure that fewer – rather than more – citizens know what their representatives are up to.

The publishing of public notices in newspapers of record dates to 1789, when the first Congress required publication of its bills, orders, resolutions and votes in at least three generally available newspapers. The founders recognized that government should not be the gatekeepers of its own information. So their purpose was to require government to report its actions to citizens in a medium independent of government influence or control: the newspaper.

It was good policy then, and it remains good policy today.Publishing legal notices in a newspaper of record ensures that deci-

sions related to public debt, ordinances and laws, zoning, taxation and quality of life – all matters of compelling and perpetual public interest – are made with transparency. Legal notices empower the public to get involved in the process. And they contribute to a reservoir of archived material in a form that cannot be altered, changed, hacked, hidden or manipulated after the fact. This would simply not be true of notices pub-lished exclusively online.

In publishing public notices in newspapers of record, local govern-ment acknowledges that government itself carries the burden of keeping citizens informed, and that it will not shift that burden to the citizens themselves to go hunting for information.

To that end, the local, general-interest newspaper remains the vehicle with the widest reach to the widest cross-section of the community. And we can prove it.

Sound Publishing, the owner of this newspaper, alone reaches 700,000 Washington households through our print publications. Our colleagues from newspaper organizations around the state maintain commensu-rately broad distribution within their own communities. This is not “theoretical” reach, a “potential” audience that may or may not find its way to notices posted on a government website. This is actual reach, to readers who are active and interested and engaged in the community around them – and most certainly in local government affairs.

Not all citizens have computers, or smartphones, and not all have access to the web. Indeed, there are cost barriers to entry into, and par-ticipation in, today’s world of digital communication.

But anyone – everyone – can at any time go down to the public library or the coffee shop, pick up the community newspaper and find out through the public notices what their government is up to. Affordable, egalitarian and very popular, general interest newspapers provide precisely what government needs most – a direct and demon-strable conduit to its citizens.

This issue really comes down to a philosophical question: Should gov-ernment take its information to the people, or should government make the people come looking for that information, through a maze of agency and departmental websites?

We believe – and we are confident Washington citizens agree – that government at ALL levels has an affirmative obligation to take its infor-mation to the people – to make that extra effort, to ensure that public notices are not just “available,” but also widely seen and widely read.

House Bill 2801 flouts that obligation, and it should be rejected. The Legislature had the wisdom to dismiss similar legislation last session, and should demonstrate that same wisdom today.

HB 2801 reduces public’s awareness

Item From The Past

BY CLAYTON EMRYCONTRIBUTOR

75 Years Ago, February 5, 1937

The Oroville Town Council met to discuss several items as follows: A letter was read by Dale S. Rice, who had looked into the pos-sibility of securing government financing to erect a new Town Hall. It stated that the funds were still available for such grants and 45% of the costs are given as a grant. Mr. Rice was instructed to continue working with this.

A motion was made to install and maintain a police light on Main Street, which would be a red light, turned on by the central operator, to let the Marshall know he was needed.

A motion was made and carried that the sounding of the fire siren on each evening at 9 p.m. as a curfew, be discontinued and sounded at noon instead.

The Oroville Canning Company is call-ing a meeting of the tomato growers of the Oroville vicinity, to discuss prices and acre-ages and varieties for the 1937 season.

Oroville has been having one of the heaviest snows in several years, with 13 inches on the level behind the Gazette office. About twenty inches of ice is on the lake. Temperatures for January, ranged from a maximum high of 28 degrees and a low of -11 degrees.

Buy a new Ford with a new 60 HO motor with monthly payments of $25 after the usual down payment.

February 12-19, 1937:A total of 192 miles of rural power lines

was built by the Washington Water Power Co. and farmers in 1936 in Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho. Zero weather and snow in January caused most of th Inland Empire to use more electricity than normal. The result was that the average residential customer used 163 KW hours in January as compared to 151 KW for the same month last year.

Assistance with sustenance needs is now available for destitute drought refugee fami-lies living in Chelan, Douglas and Okanogan Counties. Monthly grants based on need to those who migrated west during the droughts of 1935 and 1936, hoping to establish them-selves in Washington State.

L. W. Barnes and Son have had a very fine job refurnishing done in the inside of their funeral home. All rooms, as well as the chapel, have been done in “Nu=Wood,” new floor coverings, draperies and indirect lighting. The material was supplied by Zosel Lumber Co.

A Belonco monoplane from San Francisco

made an emergency l a n d i n g on Lake Osoyoos at Oroville. In Alaska, it is necessary to have skis in order to take off and he had to remove them before going on to Seattle. He had contacted local customs and the immigration office to secure permission to land.

50 years Ago, February 1-22 1962:

Flint Howell took the spotlight at the Kiwanis Installation Banquet held in the Oroville Civic League building on January 24. The gavel was passed from Fred Balmes, the outgoing president.

Fao’s Café Chuck Wagon Dinners will be served buffet style from 7 to 9 p.m. every Saturday night, take your time and eat all you can eat for $2.25 per plate.

Cascade Market has Boneless U.W. Good or Choice Tip Sirloin Steaks at $.89 per lb.; grapefruit, Arizona, 8 lb. Bag, $.49.

BenPrince Foodliner offers Grade A cut-up fryers for $.33 per pound; lettuce, two heads for $.25.

John Corrigan, Allan Dull Darell Shumway, Karen Haskell, ski instructors Perry Blackler and Norman Schultz taking part in the Sitzmark Ski School.

County Auditor, Coleman Walls, announced that beginning Feb. 16, 1962, the automobile license agent in Oroville will be the Hart & Hardenburgh Agency after the resignation of Jack Banker.

The Royal Neighbors held their instal-lation of officers Friday night. Those ladies installed were: Neighbor Evelyn Christiansen; Oracle, Dorothy Hinton; Vice Oracle, Ethel Jones and Chancellor, Edna Hart.

Stanley Porter, Oroville High School Principal, has announced ten students on the first semester honor roll with straight “A” grades, four freshman Bruce Scott, Luanne Emry, Vicki Emry and Kris Landreth; three sophomores, Patricia Sagli, Raymond Wilson and Gayle Robinson; two juniors, Joanne Angerson, Marsha Harnasch and one senior, Mary Zosel.

March 1 is our birthday Oroville Gazette! This marks the completion of two years of publishing and editing of the Oroville Gazette and we are planning a party - Cleland & Clayton Emry.

If telephones are a good barometer of a community’s growth, the needle pointed

upward for Oroville during 1961. Manager, A. B. Erkin, said total telephones in Oroville as of Jan. 1, 1962, amounted to 1015, an increase of 40 from one year ago. Calls placed also increased from 3,494 to 3,668 in 1961.

The Oroville State Bank has tickets avail-able for the Seattle World’s Fair and was able to purchase in a block at a reduced price. Family Adult Bonus Books that will sell for $10 at the gate can be had for $5.85, while children’s Bonus Books, regularly $6.50 will be $3.55.

The Oroville Chamber of Commerce at their regular meeting Tuesday noon, voted to endorse a resolution in favor of the Indian Termination bill.

Mr. & Mrs. Alden Sawtells wish to announce the engagement of their daughter, Judy Louise, to Kenneth Ripley, son of Mr. & Mrs. William J. Ripley.

The Molson School Board will call a mass meeting to discuss alternatives to continuing the school with three options: 1. To retain the full 12 grades in Molson: 2. Non high district to send grades 9-12 to the Oroville School and 3: Non-high district to send grades 7-12 to the Oroville School District.

25 Years Ago, February 13-27, 1986:

The Okanogan County PUD is assisting the Corp. of Engineers with arrangements for a meeting to review the current status of the Corp’s Similkameen Hydropower Study. All potential sponsors, who have an interest in power generation, irrigation or flood control, are urged to attend.

The Tonasket boy’s basketball teamchalked up another in on their now seven game long winning streak by a domination win over the Oroville Hornets with a 53-41 score. The Tonasket girl’s varsity made their first league win with a win of the Oroville girls with a score of 42-33.

In a match-up between the Cascade Kodiaks and Oroville Hornets, the Hornets came out on top with a score of 45-43.

District basketball playoffs begin Feb. 18. Both the Tigers and Hornets will be going to Eastmont in East Wenatchee. wOROVILLE-TONASKET SCHOOL CONSOLIDATION,to be or not to be. This possibility was pre-sented to the Oroville School Board on Tuesday, Feb. 11, by local dentist Irv Roller and Tonasket businessman Bob Thompson, along with a letter signed by 53 voters, 14 from Oroville and 39 from Tonasket. The let-ter will be presented to the Tonasket School Board at their next meeting on Feb. 19.

Grateful for levy vote

Dear Editor,During these difficult eco-

nomic times, the Tonasket School Board is heartened by the contin-ued commitment of voters to the children of Tonasket and its sur-rounding communities.

Their approval of a two-year maintenance and operations levy shows these precious children how very important their edu-cation is to their future and to ours.

Strong schools benefit the community in numerous ways, and a solid partnership between schools and community is better for all.

We thank each voter who sup-ported this levy, and each of the many individuals and businesses that helped promote it.

Because of this support, our children will receive improved learning materials, updated tech-nology, and numerous programs that would otherwise not exist.

Our beautiful buildings and grounds, provided by these very same taxpayers, will receive nec-essary maintenance..

We are grateful for all who involve themselves in the educa-tional processes of the Tonasket schools, and encourage every-one to become involved in some aspect, whether volunteering, attending performances and competitions, or simply paying a visit.

We are committed to honor-ing the financial commitment made by voters by managing these fiscal resources responsibly and efficiently to effect student learning.

Together we give our children, and ourselves, opportunities for a lifetime.

With sincere thanks,Tonasket School BoardJerry Asmussen, ChairCatherine Stangland, Vice-ChairLloyd Caton, Legislative Rep.Ernesto Cerrillo, DirectorTy Olson, Director

Be a blood donor

Dear Editor.As I look at the newspaper

I read about members of our community helping each other in crisis, it makes me proud to

live where people still help one another in all medical areas; car wrecks, struggling with vari-ous ailments and traumas of all types.

The next American Red Cross Blood drive will be Thursday, March 8 in Tonasket from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Tonasket Community United Church of Christ at 24 E 4th Ave.

Donating blood can help up to three people in less than one hour of your time.

Your donation stays local, to be used when a medical situation requires you, a family member, friend or neighbor the need of blood.

Please call 1-800-733-2767 to make an appointment and become a blood donor.

Walk-ins are welcome but making an appointment will help the Red Cross team to schedule so your wait time is minimal.

Consider asking someone to come with you, and double the amount of life-giving blood for our community.

The March 8th blood drive is earlier in the day this time. Employers, please allow yourself and employees time out of the work day and donate blood.

The life you save may be your own!

Cathie DinkinsTonasket

Reach out

Dear Editor,I am writing in response to a

letter Ms. Cole and family had

written in the Feb. 16 issue.My heart was deeply touched.

What strength is found in our weaknesses!

“My mind and body may grow weak, but God is my strength, he is all I ever need” Psalm 73:26.

I truly do believe that God has a purpose in everything and we may not understand it nor may we not know until we are in his Glory, but one day we will know all. We will see the masterpiece. We will see the master!

God knows all and I choose to rest in his love.

You see “they intended to harm, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.” Exodus 50:20.

Community we reach out to those hurting, in prison, hungry, those mourning! This is love, this is truth.

Ms. Cole expressed in her let-ter Justin’s “heart”. He may have been broken but his “heart” was not.

His heart is pure, good, kind, gentle, selfless. His heart is what Jesus talks about over and over and over.

Please community, grasp onto this. Help others in need!

I don’t care what they’ve done. Give them your smile if you ain’t got nothing else to give!

I’ve learned this and believe me I’ve done my share of taking from others.

There was a time I didn’t have that pure heart Ms. Cole talks about in Justin.

I had contempt, bitterness, jeal-ousy, greed and mainly against myself for all my lies and decep-

tion.My father, Jerry Rounds,

reached out in the only way he knew how in “truth” and Ms. Cole is right. “Nobody does any-one any favors by covering up and making excuses.”

My dad exposed my lies, my behaviors and I know that it was so hard on him! He did it in love. I thank him for this.

He reached out. It’s never too late to reach out. Speak up.

Stop with the hiding and lying to protect!

Thank you Ms. Cole for your letter on the editorial pae. This is what it’s all about! The truth!

I understand my grandpa, Ed Rounds, more and more every day.

He wrote the community. He reached out.

He had a heart to serve others and share a gift given to him. I too know now my Evangelistic heart to serve and I’ve learned “I can’t keep it without giving it away.”

My heart goes out to Ms. Cole and her family.

I know that Justin’s life will not be in vain. His life will save many others and God will continue to paint the picture.

God knows his children and he keeps them for his Glory!

And we all know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, Who have been called according to his pur-pose. Romans 8:28.

God bless community!Thank you family and friends

for your support,Sabrina RoundsBillings, Montana

Letters to the Editor

march 1, 2012 | OkanOgan Valley gazette-tribune Page a5

OkanOgan Valley life

THIS & THATJoyce Emry

Oroville Senior news

HillTOP COMMenTS

The learning Tree

Blue Star Mothers

A new month, with some fairly nice days and thoughts of many are turning to plans for gardening and lawn mowing.

Neither of those things come to my mind as my, would-be lawn space, is filled with river rock and gardening is for those that have the ability to grow yummy veg-etables, for me to buy at Farmer’s Market or receive from wonder-ful friends that share their excess with me.

Love those gardeners! Especially the tomato growers.

The winds had made shreds of the flags at Prince’s shopping cen-ter and they have been replaced with beautiful, bright and clean new ones.

We that live behind the Center, use those flags to determine which way the wind is blowing from and how hard it is blowing.

Thanks for displaying them, for all, well most all, to enjoy. And aren’t we lucky to live in a country where we can display our beauti-ful “Stars and Stripes” as well as the Maple Leaf of our neighbors to the north?

Well, it is official that the Peerless has been sold to the own-ers of “Rancho Chico”, a Mexican

chain of restaurants. This was told to me by Ken Neal, former owner of the property.

I’m glad to see it occupied, but as it is one of the pioneer land-marks of Oroville, I will be disap-pointed if the outside appearance is changed to bright colors...but that would be the norm for a Mexican establishment.

Rumor has it that Trino’s won’t reopen due to a break-in leaving the premises “trashed”. Hope that isn’t true.

So, we have a beautiful young lady, Ali Miller, as our 2012 May Queen with Dayna Roley as her princess...only one?

I can imagine that the feet of Don Beanblossom, Ali’s Grandpa, haven’t touched the ground yet. Congratulations to all of the fam-ilies involved.

Last week I reported that Howard Cumbo would be moved to Tonasket hospital, as told to me by family, but fate intervened and he had a serious set-back and after a number of blood transfu-

sions and getting the bleeding stopped, hopefully he has been transferred by the time this edi-tion is out.

I still have not been able to get word from Betty Campbell, as to the status of the health of Lloyd.

Cal and Tillie Porter have been pretty much housebound as have Bob and Margaret Hirst, with health issues, from coughs, con-gestion and various other “stuff ”.

And Irv Friemuth, recovering from a broken hip, is home with Barbie, grateful for the help, vol-unteer and other, that took over when needed, during the stressful time they were having.

The first pancake of the series of 2012, was last Sunday at Molson Grange, with the count being 127, when I left the hall.

What a great place to eat and the camaraderie between those attending is wonderful. As always Kay (Sherling) Tracy was embraced with hugs and more hugs. What a delightful lady, and she had nephews and other folks

on hand, making for a mini fam-ily reunion. Just what she loves!

The Grange ladies always have handcrafted items, that one might need for a gift, and the raffle bas-kets are fun things to win, helping to add to the coffers of the Grange operation.

On the drive to and from Molson, making the circle, our only sighting of wildlife was, one beautiful eagle and one fast mov-ing deer.

Then, when we came by the city park at the end of Lake Osoyoos and the beginning of the river, it was easy to see why the park is referred to as “Goosepoop Park” as there were so many geese I couldn’t count all of them.

A beautiful sight but not so beautiful under foot.

A pleasant surprise letter came from Jan and Marion Gadberry, from where else but “Surprise, Ariz.”

Gadberry’s, former residents and teachers, have a winter resi-dence in Arizona where a “Happy

Trails Washington” dinner was recently held. Bruce and Joan Cool won second and Spence and Janice Higby fourth, in the dance contest. M. C. of the affair was Jane (Ward) Wiley, remember her?

There are other couples from Oroville living there and send warm greetings to their shivering friends and families in Oroville.

Remember the Red Cross Blood drawing that will be held at the Oroville High School, as it is a Senior project of one of the Senior girls, with assistance from the United Methodist Church, March 7 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Exciting things are happening at the old Princes store (Prince’s Warehouse) Wait and see!

Just when you think you have seen the most stupid commer-cial ever, up comes one that tops them all. Re: the one from Jack in the Box with the young man marrying bacon. And to think good money is spent to make such dribble.

Molson Grange’s first Pancake Feed of the 2012 series feeds 127 people

By Dolly EngElbrEtson

I am sorry to hear of so many sick and ailing members.

Juanita Waggy is still in the Tonasket Hospital but may be transferred to Wenatchee soon.

Howard Cumbo is in the Wenatchee Hospital but may be transferred to Tonasket soon.

Ervin Freimuth is home now,

but is undergoing physical ther-apy.

Beverly Storm and Evelyn Dull are headed to Yuma, Ariz.., for the annual picnic there.

The exercise class is still exer-cising but there are openings for several more people. No cost...but the benefits are great! They are low impact and are geared toward seniors. They will increase your energy, you will feel stronger and have more energy, improves your walking and flexibility, decreases your risk of falling, helps main-tain a healthy weight, improves

your self image, you will sleep better and you will have more fun and maybe even make new friends.

In case you may have over-looked it, Dues are due. Vera will be posting a membership list

soon. Please look for your name and proceed accordingly if it is not on the list.

The pool players are playing several afternoons per week. We have two pool tables so there is still room for more players. Bring

your own cue or use one of ours, no fee.

Leanne Whitener will be our speaker at the Center on March 6 to discuss any questions you may have about home delivered meals.

By MariannE Knight

Is it winter? Or is it spring? Can you figure it out? Some of our days have been just beauti-ful, with blue skies and sunshine, yet others have been cloudy and snowing.

We just think the end has come for the white covered, everything, and it is back again, and some-times more than the time before. Then we start over with sun, snow, wind and mud.

With March here now, will it come in and roar like the lion? Then end like the lambs of spring at the end? Ya wanna take any bets?

Last Sunday was the first of the three Pancake Feed fundraisers at the Molson Grange. They served 125 breakfasts. The next one will be on March 25. The Auxiliary

ladies put together some really nice baskets for their raffle again this year.

The winners this time were: Karen Cockle, Ciara Field, Wanda Zacher, Susan Eder and Rodney Field. You could be a winner next time. All you have to do is be there and buy a ticket, and wait for the drawing.

Also at the Grange this past week were the Pinochle players, and here are the big winners: Highs went to Ken Chaplin and Bev Holden; Low’s went to Everett Turner and Dolly Engelbretson; the Traveling went to Ray Visser; and the Series High was Darrell

Bunch.We have a few friends and fam-

ily a little under the weather still, so here are some wishes for to feel better: Cal, Warren, Penny and Dolly.

I missed a couple of birthdays last month, belated wishes to Tyler and Harry. Mary Louise has her birthday the end of March. Bob and Kathy celebrated their 50th Anniversary last Sunday. Congrats to all.

The Red Hat Ladies will have a Bingo Day on March 10.

The Chesaw Mercantile has Family Movie Nights on the fourth Friday of each month. Bring a dish to share for the pot-luck at 6 p.m.

The Chesaw Bible Church has Family Movie Night on the first Friday of the month at 7 p.m. Free Popcorn.

By north VallEy CommunITy schools

March classes start on the first. The month begins with Sculpting Stone, beginning on March 1, and will teach you the basics of direct stone sculpting. At the end of four sessions you will take home a work of art that will become a conversation piece. The Group Improvising Workshop on the second is a one session class focusing on making bass, rhythm and lead work together. Starting

on Monday, March 5, you will learn how to design metal art or repair equipment with the Art of Welding class, and on Tuesday, March 6, you won’t want to miss this important one evening dis-cussion, Don’t Put if Off! We all need a will and it’s something too many of us put off. See the Bulletin Board for more on this

class.Call Ellen at 476-2011 or go

online to www.northvalleycom-munityschools.com to register. Remember, if the class is just a day or two away and we have reached our minimum number of students, we will still take your registration.

By Daralyn hollEnbEcK

We have installed our board for 2012 and would like to introduce them to you!

Our Blue Star Mothers chapter was chartered Nov. 2010 and have grown exponentially.

We are so happy to be serving military mothers and families in North Central Washington.

This year’s president will be Daralyn Hollenbeck from Chesaw. She has a son who has been serv-ing in the Air Force for seven years and has been deployed.

Her youngest daughter is mar-ried to an eight year Airman who has deployed two times.

Vice President Georgie Berry is married to a Navy Veteran and lives in Oroville.

Her son has served in the Navy for many years and has spent the last two years forward deployed in Japan.

Tonasket’s Julie Conkle will be serving as Secretary. Her Air Force son is married to an Airwoman whose hometown is Loomis.

Karen Hicks from Oroville will be serving again as Financial Secretary. Her son has is a Rescue Swimmer with the Coast Guard.

Also from Oroville, Georgia Nelson, will remain our Treasurer. She has two sons in the Air Force. Her older son has deployed four times and his younger brother has deployed twice.

Our board is enthusiastic, patriotic and experienced.

You can contact us at [email protected] and (509) 485-2906. Or visit us at facebook.com/ncw.blue.star.mothers.


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1321 Main St., Oroville509-476-4400

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101 6th, Brewster509-689-3789

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Community Bulletin BoardLocal Food Banks

OROVILLE – The Oroville food bank operates every Thursday from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., excluding holidays, in the basement of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. For more information, call Jeff Austin at 476-3978 or Sarah Umana at 476-2386. It is that time of year again - the Oroville Food Bank could use help in food and money donations for the upcoming holiday season and thank you too everyone who helped out through the year.

TONASKET – The Tonasket food bank operates every Thursday from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Sarge’s Burger Bunker, 101 Hwy 97 N. For more informa-tion contact Jack Gavin at (509) 486-2480.

OK-SNIP Spay-ghetti Dinner & Auction

OKANOGAN – The Spay-

ghetti Dinner, Auction and Dance will be held Saturday, March 3 at the Cariboo Inn in Okanogan. Proceeds will ben-efit the Animal Foster Care Cat Shelter and Spay and Neuter Project. Dinner will be served at 5 p.m., followed by a live auc-tion at 6 p.m. and live music at 9 p.m. from Hippies on Vacation. Call Deb Lantrip at (509) 429-2438 for more information or to donate to the auction.

Historical Society Annual Dinner & Auction

OROVILLE – The Borderlands Historical Society’s Annual Dinner and Auction will be held Saturday, March 3 at 5:30 p.m. at the Oroville American Legion. This dinner and auction sup-ports north country projects including the new 2012 exhibit “Then and Now”. To donate auc-tionable items or for more infor-mation call (509) 476-2476.

Spanish First Aid/CPR Class

LOOMIS – Spanish First Aid and CPR Class will be held on Saturday, March 3, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Whitestone Church

basement, 577 Loomis-Oroville Road. Bring a pillow and sack lunch. For information call Ben Hylton at (509) 223-3412 and leave a message.

Secret Life of BatsTONASKET – Okanogan

Highlands Alliance pres-ents, “The Secret Life of Bats in the Okanogan Highlands and Beyond” with Roger Christophersen on Friday, March 2 at 6:30 p.m. at the Community Cultural Center. Dinner benefiting the CCC will be served at 5 p.m. followed by the presentation with tea, cof-fee and desserts. Contact Julie Ashmore at (509) 433-7893 or [email protected] for more information.

Best for Women Fair

OKANOGAN – Okanogan Valley Soroptimist and Omak Clinic present Best for Women Fair, Saturday, March 3 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Okanogan High School Cafetorium. Admission is free. There will be a silent auction as well as many different vendor booths.

Red Cross Blood Drive

OROVILLE – A Red Cross Blood Drive will take place at the Oroville High School from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, March 7.

Tonasket Blood Drive

TONASKET – Thursday, March 8 will be the American Red Cross Blood Drive from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. It will be held at the Tonasket Community United Church of Christ. To schedule an appointment or for more information contact the Red Cross at 800-733-2767. Walk-ins are welcome but an appointment will take less time for the donors. Refreshments are from Subway and Grant’s Market. Bring a friend!

An evening of music

OROVILLE – A free concert will be held on Saturday, March 10 at 7 p.m. at the Oroville Free Methodist Church at 1516 Fir St., in Oroville. The concert will fea-ture “Touch of Grace” hand bell choir, harpist, Mariliz Romano and friends, and the choral group, “The Episcopettes”. A free will offering for Okanogan County Habitat for Humanity will be taken.

100 year celebration

OROVILLE – Celebrating 100 years all Girl Scouts are invited to a luncheon March 11 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the American Legion Hall in Oroville. Contact Cassie Thornton (509) 476-2715 for more information.

Women of Worth 2012

TONASKET - “Heart to Heart” Third annual Women of Worth 2012 is at the Tonasket High School Commons on Thursday, March 15 at 6 p.m. Enjoy inspi-rational message TFMC Worship Team and Choir, Drama and Hors d oeuvres. A woman’s event for all women of Tonasket, Oroville and surrounding areas. There is no charge at the door but donations can be made to cover costs. Please register with Kristi by March 13 at (509) 486-2910 or [email protected].

Singer’s One Day Bootcamp

OROVILLE – A Singers’ One

Day Bootcamp will be held on Saturday, March 24 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Valley Christian Fellowship. Instructor, Shine Morrison is a roster artist of Incubator Creative Group since 2004, singer/songwriter and a recording artist with Incubator Records, a concert performing artist, a worship leader and a vocal coach at Shine Morrison Ministries. She has been in music ministry for over 16 years and received professional vocal training by a Julliard School of Music graduate. Register online by visiting www.myministryof-f i c e . c om / S h i n e - Mor r i s on -Singers-Bootcamp. For more information call Shine at (509) 476-3383 or e-mail [email protected].

Diploma/GED Schooling

OKANOGAN – Okanogan School District is offering a free outreach program to those under 21, who are unable to attend daytime classes and are not cur-rently enrolled. Students will be responsible for one hour/week attendance during an evening session. Teaching sessions will depend on number of responses but will be held Tuesday and/or Wednesday night at Okanogan School District Outreach office, 91 East Pine Street, Okanogan. Enrollment information is avail-able at (509) 826-7612.

Girls Scout Cookie Time

TONASKET – It is Girl Scout Cookie time so find your local Girl Scout and support your com-munity. Don’t know a Girl Scout? Call Kari at (509) 429-3493 to orders.

Don’t Put if OffOroville - Do you have a will,

a revocable living trust, a com-munity property agreement or a health directive? Are you subject to probate, and exactly what is probate? What does it all cost or can you do it your-self? If you don’t have an estate plan, or if what you already have needs updating, our expert will give you the answers you need. Protect your assets, your family, and your peace of mind. This is an important class. Call Ellen at 476-2011 or go online to www.northvalleycommunityschools.com to register.

Out on the townYour Guide to...

DINING &Entertainment

* Wednesday *PRIME RIB

starting at 5 pm.

Main St., Tonasket 486-2996

Open: Mon. - Sat. 11 to close

* Thursday *Steak Night

(8 oz top sirloin)

WaucondaStore & Cafe

The Heart of Waucondaest. 1898

OPEN:Monday - Thursday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Store is open until 5:30 p.m.Friday & Saturday, 8 a.m. until 7 p.m.

Sunday, 9 a.m. until 3 p.m.

2360 Highway 20, Wauconda 509-486-4044 (HOGG)

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from 2 p.m. until 5 p.m.We offer a limited menu on Sunday,as well as beer and wine specials.

Come on in and Jam with everyone.

FRIDAY:12 oz Prime Rib Special (for two)Served your way! Fresh baked potato, fresh vegetable, choice of homemade soup and or

salad, basket of bread and dessert.

Daily Specials l Breakfast all day!

Saturday Night Steak Special (for two)6 oz Sirloin or the 8 oz SirloinSeafood Special on Steak night for an

additional cost of $6.25. Changes every Sat.Served your way, fresh baked potato, fresh

vegetable, choice of homemade soup and/or salad, basket of bread and dessert.

SUNDAY:3-piece Fried Chicken

mashed potatoes, gravy, fresh veggies, choiceof soup / salad, Homemade Biscuit & Dessert.

All you can eat Fish and Chips SERVED ANY TIME!

SATURDAY:

with Aeneas Valley Band

“The DeMarre family would like to thankSuperintendent Steve Quick and the Oroville School

District Staff for all of their generous contributions and help with arrangements these past few weeks. Charlie enjoyed living and working in Oroville and being a part of the larger

Okanogan County Community; we appreciateall of the support and kind words that

everyone has shared.”

~ THANK YOU ~

The House Jacks, Friday, March 16Omak – the house Jacks will be performing at the Omak Performing arts center on Friday, march 16 at 7 p.m. For more information contact the Omak Pac at (509) 826-8323 or visit www.omakpac.org. tickets are available at the door or in advance at the following locations: rawson’s, cornershelf, tonasket interiors, tonasket Pharmacy, north cascades broadcasting and Oroville Pharmacy.

tonasket eagles

SuBMITTED

Coming up this Saturday, March 3 we are having our 10th Annual Crab Feed from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. For $20 you get a whole crab (1-1 ½ lbs) three salads and garlic bread.

There are only 100 tickets avail-

able so get yours soon! Tickets are on sale at the Aerie. If you don’t like crab there is ham available for $10.

Pinochle scores from Sunday, Feb. 19 are: First - Jean Jones; Second - Lyle Anderson; Low Score - Alice Rawley; Last

Pinochle - Penny Smith and Neil Fifer.

Scores from the monthly tour-nament held on Sunday, Feb. 26 are: First - Ken Cook and Jo Porter; Second - Jerry Cooksey and Penny Smith; Low Score - Ken Hovland and Julie Hovland; Last Pinochle - Gib McDougal and Betty Paul.

We wish anyone who is ill a speedy recovery to good health. God bless you all. The Biggest Little Eagles in the state.

10th Annual Crab Feed, March 3

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

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

Adult Bible Study: 9:30 a.m. • Sun. School: 9:30 a.m. Sunday Worship: 11 a.m.

4th Sundays, 6 p.m. Prayer & Healing Service. Pastor Karen Davison

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

Okanogan ValleyChurch Guide

CHESAWChesaw Community Bible Church

Nondenominational • Everyone WelcomeEvery Sunday 10:30 a.m. to Noon

Pastor Duane Scheidemantle • 485-3826Youth Pastor Matthew Valdez

TONASKET

MOLSON

RIVERSIDERiverside Lighthouse - Assembly of God

102 Tower Street Sunday Bible Study 10:00am

Sunday Worship 11:00am & 6:30pmWednesday- family Night 6:30pm

Pastor Vern & Anita WeaverPh. 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

To reserve this spot call Charlene at 476-3602 for details

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local sportsmarch 1, 2012 | OkanOgan Valley gazette-triBune

BY BRENT [email protected]

TONASKET - The weather is still win-tery, but for Dyllan Gage, summer might as well already have started.

The Tonasket High School sophomore, who has been riding since he was four and seriously racing off-road motorcy-cles since age nine, has already competed in a pair of races this season.

Early returns so far have been posi-tive. Gage and his KTM 350 won the Oreana 100 near Boise, Idaho, on Feb. 18, then hit his first Northwest Motorcycle Association Off-road Series race the next day in the Tri-Cities.

“The Boise race wasn’t part of the NMA series; I just went to race it,” Gage said. “It was supposed to be 100 miles, but it was cut to two 46-47 mile loops.”

Despite the unusual course length and a weather delay, Gage won the Open B class by more than 11 minutes with a finishing time of about 144 minutes.

“The first 25 miles it was snowing,” he said. “My goggles kept fogging up and snow kept getting on them, so I had to go without. The second lap, it was too cold to put them on.”

A wreck as he was coming in for gas

after the first loop slowed him down, but he said the only blood came from a nose-bleed caused by the bitter cold.

With a quick turnaround, he wasn’t exactly fresh when racing the NWA Team Tortoise Sand Flea the next day.

“It was pretty fun, but I was tired,” Gage said. “I think without racing the previous day I might have finished in the top five or trophied (top three).”

As it was, he took seventh of 19 in his class, despite blistered hands bleeding through his gloves.

“Two races in a row to start off, that can happen,” Gage said.

Gage has moved up in classification from last year, when he competed in the 200-C. He capped the 2011 season with a victory in his class in the Rimrock Grand Prix Short Course race at Yakima on Nov. 2, completing his four laps in 11:39.17 to outdistance nine other bikes.

Despite that win, Gage said that wasn’t his best performance of the season.

That occurred at the Big Sky AMA Off-road National in Montana on Aug. 27. Though there were just five 200-C bikes competing, two of the other three in his class were the top two national points leaders. Gage finished second in that one.

Moving UpHe hopes his step up in class this year

gets him ready to race with an even more competitive pack next year.

“(Open B) open to any sized bike,” Gage said. “I’m thinking of racing Open A next year, which would be a big step. I wouldn’t want to be finishing last; I want

to be able to compete with those guys.”For practice, Gage says to get as much

riding in as he can. Sunday he said he rode in Vantage, outside of Ellensburg, despite three inches of snow still on the ground there.

“I need to get my hands in shape,” he said. “My body gets in shape pretty quickly, but it’s definitely pretty tough on

the hands.“I want to be able to place in the

top three in the 15-and-under class,” he added. “When I get older, I’d like to be able to go down and race in Baja.”

The NMA Off-Road Series contin-ues March 24-25 in Odessa with a pair of races - aptly named the Frostbite (Saturday) and White Knuckle (Sunday).

BY BRENT [email protected]

MEAD - On this night at least, Goliath had his way.

Oroville’s Hornets needed to play the game of their lives, and hope Colfax might suffer a letdown after pulling off its own upset in last Saturday’s dis-trict tournament, to knock the Bulldogs out of post-season play. And indeed, the Hornets were within shouting range of Colfax midway through the second quarter, trailing 18-10 with pos-session of the ball.

Foul trouble, combined with the Bulldogs’ numerous weapons, ended any chance the Hornets had of springing an upset of their own. Colfax pulled away to a 76-38 2B regional victory that ended the Hornets’ season and earned the Bulldogs a berth in the eight-team state finals tourna-ment this weekend.

Colfax, coming off an upset of unbeaten defending state cham-pion Northwest Christian, strug-gled with the Hornets’ defense for much of the first half.

Oroville coach Allen Allie set the Hornets up in a box-and-

one to defend against Colfax’s Brandon Gfeller, a 6-3 guard with a sweet outside shooting touch.

“We’d never played a box-and one-before tonight,” Allie said. “We came out a little weak, but once we got past the emotions a little bit we got into it and did well.

“Connor (Hughes) did a great job on him, and that’s why we stayed in the game.”

Gfeller was shut out through the first 13 minutes. Other than a game-opening spurt by Kyle Johnson, who hit 3-pointers on his first three shots, Colfax had as much trouble as Oroville getting into an offensive flow, with an eight-point lead with five minutes to go in the half.

But when Hughes went to the bench with his third foul, it was the domino Colfax needed to set off an irreversible chain reaction.

“We started getting screened, and guys were trying to help out,” Allie said. “(Gfeller) is a great shooter, not a set shooter, so it makes it tough because he doesn’t stand there with the ball. You’ve got to stay on him. We felt like if

we could hold him to around 15 points other guys would have to step up and they did.”

Gfeller torched the Hornets for 11 points in four minutes, includ-ing three treys, and finished with 18 points. The Bulldogs buried the Hornets with a 21-2 run to end the half.

The only highlight for Oroville during that stretch was two free throws from Michael Garrett to give the Hornet junior his 1,000th career point.

Garrett finished with 16 and Hughes had 13 to tally all but nine of the Hornets’ points.

Oroville’s (14-11) available

reserves - who saw most of their action in JV games - combined for just 21 varsity points all sea-son. Colfax’s bench scored 29 points in this game alone, includ-ing a game-high 20 from sixth man Brady Ellis.

“These guys pressured you,” Allie said. “I was worried about

putting the bench guys in there because they haven’t been in that position enough. They actually did a pretty good job when I put them in.”

The Bulldogs’ outside shooting was also something the Hornets hadn’t encountered all season. Colfax (19-5) rained in 13-of-23 3-pointers for the game, outscor-ing Oroville by 30 points from beyond the arc, while the Hornets struggled to get the kind of shots that led to much of their late-season success.

“Their defense pressured us enough to push us out (away from the basket),” Allie said. “They took us out of our offense. They’re a good team. They’re definitely not 38 points better than us. But they were tonight and that’s all that matters.”

It wasn’t the kind of finish Allie wanted to his team’s season, but he was pleased that the squad had reached its pre-season goal of making the round of 16.

“I couldn’t be happier,” he said. “I’m proud of these guys. It was a lofty but reachable goal and they made it. I hate to see the seniors go. You can get a little emotional. I love all these kids dearly. They never gave up, they’re fun to be with, they’re great kids who have never been trouble. You get attached to them ... it’s just like having you’re kid.

“I don’t think they’re down (about losing), and they shouldn’t be.”

LR boys, Brewster girls advance

The Central Washington League’s North Division had only one team apiece advance to the boys and girls 2B state finals tour-naments.

Lake Roosevelt’s boys, led by Ty Egbert’s 36 points and 19 rebounds, beat Waitsburg-Prescott 70-53 in Walla Walla on Friday to advance to the state tournament. The Raiders will open on Thursday, Mar. 1, with defending champion Northwest Christian, which rebounded from its upset loss to Colfax to return to the quarterfinals.

On the girls side, Brewster got 24 points from Chandler Smith, 20 from Brette Boesel and 18 from Becky Mae Taylor as the Bears ripped Dayton 71-37. Brewster will try to avoid the flu bug that derailed its state title chances last season and opens Thursday against Tacoma Baptist.

Caribou Trail League teams advancing to 1A state include

Cashmere’s boys, who beat Seattle Academy 48-34 on Friday in its regional contest.

On the girls’ side, Okanogan whipped LaSalle 64-40, while this year’s Cinderella squad, Chelan, upset Goldendale 45-39 to give the CTL two teams at state.

Okanogan and Chelan meet in the quarterfinals Thursday.

Large school finals not on TV

For the first time since 1981, the large school state champion-ship basketball games will not be televised.

The WIAA and ROOT Sports, which (as Fox Sports N o r t h w e s t ) televised games in the past, were not able to reach an agree-ment on rights fees, accord-ing to a report published in the Tacoma News-Tribune last Friday.

KHQ of Spokane and cable chan-nel SWX will be televising the 1B and 2B finals, which are played locally in the Spokane Arena.

S t r e a m i n g webcast video of all of the c h a m p i o n -ship games, as well as select qu ar te r f i n a l and semifinal

games, will be available online at wiaanetwork.com.

The WIAA’s online portal also has archived footage of other championships, including cham-pionship matches from last week’s Mat Classic wrestling finals.

CoLfax ends HoRneTs’ sTaTe BidGarrett scores 1,000th career point in defeat

“they took us out of our offense. they’re

a good team. they’re definitely not 38

points better than us. But they were tonight and that’s all that mat-

ters.”oroville basketball coach allen allie

Fully engagedTonasket teen racing NMA off-road series

submitted photo

Dyllan Gage survived snow, mud and bitter cold in to win a season-opening race in Oreana, Idaho, on Feb. 21, then raced again in the Tri-Cities the next day.. He’ll next race in a pair of Northwest Motorcycle Association Off-Road Series events in Odessa in late March.

Box scorecolfax 76, Oroville 38

2B regional at mt. Spokane hS, Feb. 24

OrO - cJ mathews 1 0-2 2, chase nigg 0 0-0 0, zack Speiker 1 2-2 5, connor hughes 4 3-4 13, luke kindred 0 0-0 0, lane tietje 1 0-0 2, Joe Sarmiento 0 0-0 0, michael garrett 4 8-11 16. totals 11 13-19 38.cFX - Brandon gfeller 7 0-1 18, kyle Johnson 5 0-0 14, tyler Stevenson 0 0-0 0, rich Scholz 0 0-0 0, Brady ellis 6 3-3 20, Jay hart 1 0-0 2, kasey Johnson 1 0-0 2, Justin Berarducci 5 1-2 13, cole klaveano 0 0-0 0, Sky-lar Simonson 3 1-2 7. totals 29 5-8 76. Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 FOrO 5 6 11 15 38cFX 16 23 26 11 76

Brent Baker/staff photos

The Hornets’ Michael Garrett wraps a pass around Colfax’s Kyle Johnson during the first half of Oroville’s season-ending regional loss to the Bulldogs on Feb. 24.Connor Hughes (top inset) drives into the lane against Colfax during the second half, while Oroville senior Zack Speiker (lower inset) gets fist bumps from the officiating crew prior to the game.

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� e Mitchell family was in full force at Mat Classic XXIV last weekend as Tonasket wrestling coach Dave Mitchell (right) and all three of his sons were busy coaching their athletes on the big stage. Patrick (far le� ) had � ve Chewelah wrestlers and Dave four Tonasket grapplers, both in 1A, while Martin and assis-tant Kevin (center), coach-ing at Rogers (Spokane) had one wrestler in the 4A � nals. None of the Tonasket or Chewelah wrestlers were in the same weight classes, so there were no Tacoma Dome father-son face-o� s.

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LEGAL NOTICEThe Okanogan County Public Health Board of Health has changed their regular meeting time to 2:00 p.m., beginning with the March 13th Board of Health meeting. The regular Board of Health meeting is scheduled on the second Tuesday of each month and members of the public are invited to attend. Board of Health meetings are at the Public Health Offices located in the Public Services Build- ing, 1234 S. Second in Okanogan.Published in the Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune and Quad City Her- ald on March 1, 2012.#368643

NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETINGThe Okanogan County open space advisory committee will be holding their annual meeting Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. in the Okanogan County Assessor’s Office located at 149 3rd Avenue North, Room 202, in the Courthouse. The public is invited.Published in the Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune and Quad City Her- ald on March 1, 2012.#368628

Code Amendment 2012-1 Subdivisions

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County’s subdivision code consistent with other County and State regula- tions. The proposal does not change development standards currently required for subdivisions. Project comments must be submitted in writing or attend the public hearing. The Okanogan County Regional Planning Commission scheduled a public hearing on March 26, 2012 at 7:00 p.m., located in the Commissioners Hearing Room in the Virginia Graing- er Administration Building at 123 5th Ave. North, Okanogan, WA 98840. The SEPA Responsible Official issued a final determination of non-significance (DNS). This decision may be appealed in accordance with OCC 14.04.220. Appeals must be made in writing to the Board of Okanogan County Commissioners, 123 5th Ave N Ste. 150, Okanogan, WA 98840. Appeals must be submitted or postmarked by 5:00 p.m. on March 16, 2012. Appeals shall state with specificity the elements of the environmental checklist and resulting determination the appellant finds objectionable and shall state the reason therefore. Appeals must include the $300.00 appeal fee. Failure to file a timely and complete appeal shall constitute waiver of all rights to an administrative appeal under county code. Information is available at the Office of Planning and Devel- opment. Direct questions and comments to: Okanogan County Office of Planning & Development, Ben Rough, 123 5th Ave. N, Suite 130, Okanogan, WA 98840, (509) 422-7122.Published in the Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune and Quad City Her- ald on March 1, 2012.#368613

LEGAL NOTICENEGOTIATION OF STATE LEASES WITH EXISTING LESSEES BE- TWEEN APRIL 2012 AND JUNE 2012 EXPIRES: AUGUST 2012.10-A56168-GRAZING- Gov Lots 5 & 6 (S1/2SE1/4), Section 33, Gov Lots 7 & 8 (S1/2SW1/4), Section 34, all in Township 36 North, Range 30 East, W.M. 10-A58399-GRAZING- NW1/4NW1/4, Section 11, Township 35 North, Range 27 East, W.M.Written request to lease must be received by March 30, 2012, at Depart- ment 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 certified 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 applicant’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 March 1, 2012.#368649

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Road. The tax parcel number is 8835700200. Questions regarding this application can be directed to: OKANOGAN COUNTY OFFICE OF PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT Randy Johnson, Planner II, 123 Fifth Avenue North, Suite 130 Okanogan, WA 98840 (509) 422-7117.Published in the Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune and Quad City Her- ald on Marcdh 1, 2012.#368644

Okanogan CountyNotice of Final Decision

Project: Exempt Segregation, Parcel #3426093002Proponent: Linda FastenowDecision: ApprovedDate of Publication: February 23, 2012Appeal Deadline: March 15, 2012The Okanogan County Office of Planning and Development approved the above-noted project. Within 21 calendar days of the publication date, parties with standing may appeal this decision to Okanogan County Superior Court at 149 N. 3rd Ave., Okanogan, WA, pursuant to RCW 36.70 C.Published in the Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune and Quad City Her- ald on March 1, 2012.#368605

SEPA 2012-1 Okanogan County Outdoor Recreation Plan Notice of

Final SEPA DeterminationThe SEPA Responsible Official for Okanogan County has issued a Final Determination of Non-Significance for the 2012 Outdoor Recreation Plan update. This plan covers the entire County and supersedes the previous plan adopted in 2004. This decision may be appealed in accordance with OCC 14.04.220. Appeals must be made in writing to the Board of Okanogan County Commission-

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ers, 123 5th Ave N Ste. 150, Okano- gan, WA 98840. Appeals must be submitted or postmarked by 5:00 p.m. on March 15, 2012. Appeals shall state with specificity the elements of the environmental checklist and resulting determination the appellant finds objectionable and shall state the reason therefore. Appeals must include the $300.00 appeal fee. The date of publication in Okanogan County’s legal periodical of record is March, 1 2012. Failure to file a timely and complete appeal shall constitute waiver of all rights to an administrative appeal under county code. Information is available at the Office of Planning and Development. Direct questions to: Ted Murray, Recreation Coordinator, Okanogan County Of- fice of Planning & Development, 123 5th Ave. N, Suite 130, Okanogan, WA 98840, (509) 422-7118.Published in the Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune and Quad City Her- ald on March 1, 2012.#368596

SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHING- TON FOR OKANOGAN COUNTY

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATIONNo. 11-2-00622-2

JOHN DANIEL GEBBERS and REBA GEBBERS, husband and wife,Plaintiffs,vs.HILDA D. NELSON, individually and as executrix of the ESTATE OF WIL- LIAM W. NELSON, deceased; and all other persons or parties unknown claiming any right, title, estate, lien, or interest in the real estate described in the Complaint herein,Defendants.The State of Washington to the said defendants, HILDA D. NELSON, individually and as executrix of the ES-

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TATE OF WILLIAM W. NELSON, deceased; all unknown heirs of said parties; and all other persons or parties unknown claiming any right, title, estate, lien, or interest in the real estate described in the Complaint herein:You are hereby summoned to ap- pear within sixty (60) days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to wit, within sixty (60) days after the 26th day of January, 2012, and defend the above-entitled action in the above-entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiffs, John Daniel Gebbers and Reba Gebbers, husband and wife, and serve a copy of your answer upon the undersigned attorneys for plaintiffs, Thomas F. O’Connell, at his office below stated; and in case of your failure to do so, judgment will be rendered against you according to the demand of the complaint, which has been filed with the clerk of said court.The object of this action is to quiet title.DAVIS, ARNEIL LAW FIRM, LLP/s/: Thomas F. O’Connell, WSBA# 16539Attorneys for Plaintiffs617 Washington StreetPO Box 2136Wenatchee, WA 98807Published in the Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune on Jan. 26, Feb. 2, 9, 16, and 23 and March 1, 2012.#361237

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Paul James Farmer

Paul James Farmer peacefully slipped away into the arms of his loving savior on Feb. 16, 2012.

His passing leaves a hole in our hearts but his memory remains bright and alive. His family mem-bers and friends will miss him.

Paul was born on Dec. 26, 1920 in Pocahontas, Va., to Carrie and James Farmer. He met his wife Thelma at an old fashioned tent meeting.

They were married on Dec. 26, 1940 in Snowville, Va., and recently celebrated their 71st wed-ding anniversary. Paul honorably served his country in the United States Army during World War II and loved to share those experi-ences, especially about driving the amphibious “DUCK.”

The family moved to Oroville in June 1947 where he and Thelma lived for over 60 years. They loved this small community and their many friends and asso-ciations there. In September 2007 Paul and Thelma moved to the East Wenatchee Assisted Living in East Wenatchee, Wash.

Paul worked for over 53 years as a mechanic in the apple indus-try, most of those with the Valley Evaporating Company and later with Gold Digger where he final-ly retired at the age of 80. He was known to all as an extremely con-scientious, dedicated and hard worker who could absolutely repair anything. His work ethic was certainly an example to his children and grandchildren.

Paul was a member of the Pentecostal Church of God in Oroville. He loved to worship, served as a Deacon and especially enjoyed playing the guitar with the church musical group. As he battled kidney failure in recent years, his courage and uncom-plaining attitude served as an inspiration to all of us.

He is survived by his devoted and loving wife of 71 years, Thelma Farmer of East Wenatchee, Wash.; children Mari Riggan (Dewayne), Brush Prairie, Wash., Nancy Riel (Harley), Sunnyside, Wash., Don Farmer (Carol), Richland, Wash.; daughter-in-law, Judy Farmer, East Wenatchee, Wash.; grand-children Monica Riggan, Jerry Keeney (Jacquie), Darren Farmer, Kristin Churnside (Adam), Jeff Farmer, Tammy Wallin (Kurt), Tom Riel (Ana); sisters: Madeline “Tunie” Noel (Victor) and Frances

Day (Jerry) and brother, Robert Farmer. He is also survived by nine great grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews

He was preceded in death by his parents; son, Larry Farmer; grandson, Troy Riel; sisters Sara “Elizabeth” Eshom and Mattie Lee (Effie) Hill; and brothers: Frank Farmer and Charlie Farmer.

A Memorial Service will be held at a later date at the Pentecostal Church of God in Oroville.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Central Washington Hospital Foundation-Dialysis Unit - http://www.cwhs.com/foundation/default.aspx (Select “dialysis” drop down tab).

Express your thoughts and memories in the online guest book at http://www.telfordscha-pel.com.

Pamela J. Jones

Pamela J. Jones, Oroville, died Feb. 17, 2012 at North Valley Hospital in Tonasket.

She was born in Tonasket on June 30, 1959. Pam attended school in Oroville. She moved to California where she raised her three sons. Pam returned to Oroville in 2008. She was a mem-ber of the Oroville Eagles, where she was a bartender.

She is survived by two sons: Chris (Robin) Toth of Citrus Heights, Calif. and Ryan (Dani) Toth of Destin, Fla.; granddaugh-ters: Trinity and McKenzi Toth; mother, Jackie Lynch; grand-mother, Madge Haney; two sis-ters: Kim (Sam) Sneve and Karen

(Walt) Acord; numerous nieces and nephews and a very special friend, Brian Clark.

She was preceded in death by her son Robby Toth; father, Sid Hart; grandfather, Harry Haney; grandparents, Sylvan and Ola Neihouse; two brothers: Scott and Jerry Neihouse and a nephew, Adam Sneve.

Memorials may be made to the Oroville Ambulance Fund or a charity of your choice.

Memorial services will be held at a later date.

Bergh Funeral Service of Oroville/Tonasket in care of arrangements.

michael hunter haney

Born Oct. 3, 1969, Kennewick, Wash. he died Feb. 21, 2012 in

Snohomish, Wash., at the age of 42, due to complications from the traumatic brain injury he sus-tained during a Cashmere High School football drill in Cashmere, Wash. on Nov. 3, 1987.

Michael grew up on Kodiak Island, Alaska, moving to Cashmere with his parents and sister Meagan. His parents, Harry and Linda Haney, retired in Kodiak when Michael finished tenth grade, and returned to Cashmere, where they had begun their teaching careers.

Michael Haney loved school and athletics, achieving success in both. He was a “straight A” student, and won recognition for his athletic success.

As a youngster in Alaska, Michael won state championships in both the Elks’ Hoop Shoot and the Ford Punt, Pass, and Kick, and represented the state of Alaska in national competitions in both.

He was MVP of the Anchorage Little League tournament, which led to a state championship for Kodiak.

As a high school student-ath-lete, Michael won all-conference honors in baseball, basketball and football, and was a member of the National Honor Society.

While Michael Haney was for-tunate to enjoy much success in both athletics and academics, his most important quality was the fact he was just a “darn good kid!”

Michael is survived by his parents; sisters: Meagan (John) Dover, Gig Harbor, Wash. and Dawn (Mike) Jensen, Paonia, Colo.; grandmother, Madge

Haney, Oroville; aunts: Lil Evans, Ft. Fraser B.C. and Carole Santistevan, Nampa, Idaho and by many cousins, nieces and nephews.

Michael had previously lost his grandparents: Vic and Helen Swanson and Harry Haney, Sr., all Oroville; as well as his Uncle Bill Evans and Bill’s son, Mark; and Mark’s daughter, Meghan, all of Ft. Fraser, B.C.

Michael’s ashes will be interred beside his maternal grandparents in the Molson, Wash., country cemetery.

Almost 25 years of surgeries, hospitals, rehabilitation centers and nursing homes ended Feb. 21, 2012, with peace for Michael Hunter Haney. Throughout, he was a real champion. Memorial plans have not been finalized. Donations suggested to any schol-arship fund of your choice.

Arrangements by Bauer Funeral Chapel, Snohomish, Wash.

Michael’s family would like to express their gratitude for all the love and support they’ve received over the years from people every-where.

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Ice Fishing Festival

Close to 100 adults and youth bought entries in the Eighth Annual NW Ice Fishing Festival at Molson this year, and in spite of very poor fishing (not a single fish caught) the event was a big success.

There was a great pancake breakfast and Italian-style din-ner and it was decided that all the prizes, including the $500 top prize provided by Kinross Gold would be handed out by draw-

ing. This was a lot of prizes and everyone in the Molson Grange Hall had a great time cheering for the winners. This was the second year that no fish were caught in the derby and the WDFW and organizers are continuing to try to figure out why.

Low oxygen content in the chilly winter water is suspect-ed and the timing of the derby is right when the fish are most lethargic. Both Molson and Sidley lakes offer great fishing in the spring and fall. On my way home from Molson

I checked the condition of the Similkameen and Okanogan riv-ers. The Similkameen is ice free and there are long stretches of open water on the Okanogan in its upper reaches.

It is ice bound though from Malott down to the mouth.

Where are the

trout?No one knows exactly why but

the fishing for trout and kokanee hasn’t been anything close to what it usually is this time of year on Lake Roosevelt.

Anglers fishing out of Spring Canyon are either getting a few fish or getting blanked. Even Rufus Woods has been hot and cold. It seems that anglers fishing during the week, when there is more current, are doing better, but it still can be inconsistent. Once again, one of the better trout fisheries in the region this time of year is at Banks Lake. Few people take advantage of it, but the early spring fishing for rainbow can be very good. Anglers pulling Flatfish or Rapalas can get limits in the north basin right now in pretty short order. Another good method is to pull a large, black Wooly Bugger fly. Anglers may

want to try using a Wiggle Fin ahead of it, Rufus Woods style. The rainbow are worth the effort, too. Most range from 15 to 19 inches, with a few in the over 20 inch class mixed in the catches. Most of lower Banks Lake is still frozen over, but the Northrup launch is open now. Most anglers are still using the Coulee Playland launch at Electric City.

Catching walleyeAnglers are getting the itch to

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