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U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse tours NVHBY KATIE [email protected]

TONASKET - North Valley Hospital (NVH) Board of Commissioners moved to appoint Mike Zwicker of Harlowton, Montana, as CEO-Administrator/Superintendent at the May 14 Board of Commissioners meeting. The motion was made by Clarice Nelson and sec-onded by Herb Wandler. The appoint-ment will be acted upon at the next meeting, May 28, with the position commencing May 29. Compensation offered Zwicker includes a salary of $150,500 per year.

According to the Revised Code of Washington, appointment of a super-intendent to a public hospital district is made by commissioners by resolution; introduced at a regular meeting and adopted at a subsequent regular meet-ing by a majority vote.

Zwicker was serving as CEO of Wheatland Memorial Healthcare in Harlowton when offered the position at

NVH. According to Nelson, a member of the Long Range Focus Committee, Zwicker has been at that hospital several years, starting out as a rehab techni-cian. Harlowton is a rural community with a population of 994 as of July 1, 2014.

Nelson said after Zwicker’s interview at NVH, the Board of Commissioners met with the committee May 13 and decided to offer him the position.

Zwicker takes over the position left vacant by former CEO Linda Michel, who was put on paid administra-tive leave February 26, 2014. Michel had resigned from her position that included a salary of $176,966 per year.

Ron O’Hallaoran, retired CEO of Ferry County Hospital, stepped in as Interim Administrator April 1 on a tem-porary contract with a monthly salary of $10,250.

Chief Financial Officer Helen Verhassselt has been filling in as Acting Administrator.

Board Chair Helen Casey said the search for the new administrator, head-ed by Jim Passage of Passage and Associates, looked at resumes of 40 appli-cants.

“Some of them were not serious; some were from other countries, and some got scared off when they got the phone call saying, ‘This real-ly is a rural area, and you have to drive five hours after you get off the airplane,” said Casey.

NEWHOUSE VISITS NVHU.S. Representative Dan Newhouse

visited North Valley Hospital (NVH) Wednesday, May 6 during a first-time tour of his district after taking office in January.

Newhouse toured the facility and sat down and talked with staff and senior leaders for over an hour about issues pertaining to the hospital and long term care facility currently being discussed in

Washington, D.C. “I thought it was really awesome he

took the time to come up to this hos-pital without an agenda,” said Tonasket

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BORN TO RIDE

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North Valley Hospital hires new CEO

Above, and right members of the Columbia River Harley Owners Group roar into Oroville after a 150 mile ride

from Wenatchee. As many as 165 riders took part in this year’s Run for the Border

charity ride to raise money for a worthy cause. The event has been taking place for

the past 13 years and riders on all types of motorcycles are welcome to take part.

While there was some construction on Highway 97, it was much less than last

year and the weather was great for riding, according to participants.

Several riders enjoyed Oroville for a few hours, grabbing lunch and looking around

town, before heading back south. Several stayed and went to the Rally at the Border

Blues Festival at Deep Bay Park, now in it’s second year. For more on the ride and the

blues festival, see page A2.

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U.S. Representative Dan Newhouse shakes Emergency Department Coordinator Katrina Kindred’s hand during a tour of the North Valley Hospital Emergency Department May 6. Also pictured is Tonasket Mayor Patrick Plumb, who is also a hospital employee.

“A lot of times when they are looking at

budget cuts, it seems like the rural health-

care comes under the fiscal axe and we just

wanted to underscore with Rep. Newhouse

the importance of rural healthcare”

Kelly Cariker, Information OfficerNorth Valley Hospital District

BY GARY A. DE [email protected]

OKANOGAN COUNTY – It looks like next fall’s election is shaping up to be an interesting one as several local offices have incumbents facing challengers.

OROVILLE SCHOOL BOARDFor Oroville area voters the most

stacked race is for Oroville School District, with two candidates looking to push out incumbent Rocky DeVon, including a former school board chair-man and former Oroville High School teacher. Phil Barker, who served in DeVon’s current spot, wants a second chance on the board in Director Position 5. Saying people did not like his “John Wayne style” of governance, Barker resigned his board position without serv-

ing the full four-year term at the end of May 2012. Ryan Frazier, a social stud-ies teacher, did not have his contract renewed last year after a bad evaluation by Superintendent Steve Quick. After some heated public meetings, including protesters outside the board room, the directors voted to not reverse the super-intendent’s decision and Frazier was let go. There is also a three- way race for Director Position 2, which is a two-year unexpired term. Seeking the seat held by the longest serving member of the board are Patricia Maher, Kolo Moser and Becky Lewis. Wise did not file to run for the office again. The other two posi-tions, that of Director Positions 1 and 4 will only have the names of the incum-bents, Todd C. Hill and Mike Egerton, respectively. Position 1 is for a full four-

Next fall’s election shaping up to be an interesting oneCandidates with agendas looking to unseat incumbents in several local races

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TONASKET - Tonasket City Council’s second meeting in June will include a public hearing for the Six Year Transportation Plan. The community is invited to come and express any needs they see at the meeting about roads in the city of Tonasket. The needs are pri-oritized every year, and filed with county agencies for future funding. The public hearing is set for the June 23 meeting, which begins at 7 p.m.

Tammy Tatum of Okanogan Properties and manager of River Road Mobile Park (formerly John’s Landing/Oaks Trailer Park) appeared before the council at their Tuesday, May 12 meeting, to request ten new septic connections. The city is cur-rently in the process of updating the

septic system at Parry’s Acres, including a rebuilding of the lift station. Mayor Plumb said Tatum’s timing in making her request was very good and the city would consider it.

Tatum said the the owner, Gary Fant, was considering expanding the trailer park. She said they still needed approval from the Department of Health and the building permits, but approval for the septic connections was the first step.

“We haven’t started that project yet, so if we could spend a little more money on it and give you more service in order to provide more affordable housing in that area, it’s a win-win situation,” said Plumb.

Public Works Supervisor Hugh Jensen said “the way the pump hours are right now we could handle the extra ten or

Council sets hearing for transportation plan

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OKANOGAN VALLEY LIFE

Performers pay tribute to the late B.B. KingBY GARY A. DE [email protected]

OROVILLE – They may have left singing the blues, but no one who attended last Saturday’s Rally at the Border Blues Fest left unhappy.Between 350 and 400 people attended the festival, now in it’s second year. That rep-resents an increase in attendance by more than 100, according to organizers. Visitors came from as far away as Vancouver BC, Seattle and Twin Falls Idaho. “The only thing we would change next year is the weather. We couldn’t have asked for more memorable music festival weather all day Saturday. Then, just as the festival was winding down and campers were about to settle in, the downpour started,” said Vicki Hinze, who heads up the Rally at the Border Blues Fest Committee.“Twenty-seven tourists camped at Deep Bay, and the poker run got rained out, but everyone we talked to seemed to take it in stride,” she adds.

Committee member Mark Morris, who arranged for the six talented bands, said he couldn’t be more pleased.“All the bands gave 100 percent and knocked it out of the park as far as I’m con-cerned. Everyone I talked to thought that each and every one of the bands put on a great show. Audiences got to hear Chicago style, Delta and Texas style blues, with periodic tributes to the late blues legend, B.B. King.”Hinze and Morris both say they heard noth-ing but positive feedback and predictions the event will continue to grow.“From all the positive feedback the com-mittee received, I think we can expect that our audience and reputation will keep growing,” said Hinze.“People loved it, they absolutely loved it. I kept hearing from those who came and from the bands ‘you know this is going to grow... it’s going to grow big,’” added Morris. “The bands all loved it and want to come back. They kept saying what a beauti-ful venue it is.”This years bands were: The Randy Oxford Band – Featuring Lady A, Steve Bailey and the Blue Flames, The CD Woodbury Band, Jesse Weston Band, Voo Doo Church of Blues and Royce-Govedare High Rollers

Morris said Randy Oxford, one of the lineup for the festival has been spreading the word about the Rally at the Border Blues Fest.“He’s really promoting us and Steve Bailey is a really good guy and puts on a great show,” Morris said, adding that other bands were ‘bummed’ that they couldn’t make it.

“It would be hard to step it up any better, but we’re looking to find bands all along the Pacific coast,” he said.

Morris also gives much of the credit to those working behind the scenes – the sound and stage guys, for making the fes-tival a success this year. He said he hopes to have an even greater line-up next year, casting his net further to bring in some other great bands.“This year, we knew much more about how to put on a blues festival than we did in our inaugural year. We couldn’t have done it without the time and energy of our 75 plus tireless volunteers. Pulling off an event of this magnitude will always be challenging, especially without any paid staff,” adds Hinze.Following the festival, people were invited to attend a jam session at the Pastime, with

the Deep Water Blues, a local band, and many of the musicians from the festival sit-ting in.

“The Pastime was packed from 10 p.m. until closing. The jam session gave folks a unique opportunity to hear musicians from different bands playing together and everyone seemed to have fun. It was great to see Main Street so alive again,” said Hinze, who owns the Pastime Bar & Grill with husband Brant.“Randy Oxford and members of his band made the jam session so much more fun. How fantastic that amateur musicians got to play alongside musicians of this caliber. We’ll likely be hearing more from a couple of the promising young guitar players who joined in,” Morris adds.The blues festival was conceived as a way to keep some of the riders from the Run to the Border charity motorcycle ride in town for the weekend. This year 165 riders made their way to Oroville from Wenatchee, where the ride starts. The annual ride, in it’s 13th year, is a way for members of the Columbia Harley Owners Group to raise money for various charities. This year the funds they raise go toward the CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) for Children Program of Chelan and Douglas County.

Osoyoos Lake serves as ‘beautiful’ backdrop for Blues Fest

Six bands did their inter-pretation of the blues at the second annual Rally at the Border Blues Fest on the shores of Osoyoos Lake last Saturday in Oroville’s Deep Bay Park. Clockwise from above, Randy Oxford (the trombone man) and Lady A sing under the lights; CD Woodbury takes it to the people; Jesse Weston; hot harmonica and vocals; Lady A; and shaking it to Steve Bailey and the Blue Flames. Also appearing were Royce-Govedare High Rollers and the VooDoo Church of Blues.

Gary DeVon/staff photos

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TONASKET - Tonasket’s Out-reach Program received rec-ognition for their success as an Alternative Learning Program (ALE), with the State Auditor’s Office requesting an on-site visit as part of a longitudinal study of ALEs across the state.

“This is quite an honor,” said Outreach Program Director Carol Lanigan. “Outreach was one of ten schools chosen for a site-visit based on high student outcomes in the 2012-2013 school year.”

The State Auditor’s Office assessed 80 ALEs throughout the state before choosing ten of the most successful programs for fur-ther study, and will continue to study Tonasket for the next three years.

Tom Ferguson and Elle Watts from the Auditor’s Office visited the school Tuesday, May 12, and met with administrators, a school board member, Outreach staff, school counselors, students and parents.

“In 2013, the state legisla-tor approved a number of rules to govern ALE programs, with accountability and transpar-ency in mind,” said Tonasket High School Principal Jeff Hardesty. “Within a particular bill, the State Auditor’s Office was required to audit ALE pro-grams and analyze academic outcomes and post-high school data of ALE students in compar-ison to traditional educational programs. During the initial phase of the audit, the State Auditor’s Office found a num-ber of positive indicators about the Tonasket Outreach Program. Our ALE program was identi-fied for further study because they would like to know what it is we are doing in comparison to other programs. They vis-ited on May 12th to conduct the qualitative component of their research. We are very excited about being identified for our quality performance, as well as for the opportunity to provide feedback for how ALE programs across the state might improve.”

There are 363 ALE programs across the state.

“The Board is proud of the accomplishments of our Outreach students, and grateful for the

excellent teachers, mentors, and volunteers who are doing such stellar work. We offer them our congratulations on being made an example of what can be done to support families who have cho-sen to homeschool,” said Tonasket School Board member Catherine Stangland.

Lanigan pointed out the pro-gram, in operation for 18 years, has developed and grown over the years to meet the needs of the students.

“We are proud of the work our students, families and staff do to make our students successful,” Lanigan said.

“The audit was a testiment to the quality program that Carol and her staff have developed over the years,” said Superintendent Paul Turner. The Auditors were very interested on the workings of our program.”

“Our Outreach program pro-

vides expertise, high standards, and effective curriculum along with individualized direction and guidance,” Stangland said. “TSD is committed to meeting the diverse needs of students, and pleased to offer this program as one way to do so.”

“Simply put, there are a lot of great things taking place in the Tonasket District,” said Hardesty.

The Auditor’s Office will pub-lish their first full report in late 2015, evaluating ALE students statewide and comparing their outcomes from the 2013-14 school year to those of a matched set of students receiving only tradition-al instruction. A second report, planned for late 2016, will fol-low the matched student cohorts through the 2014-15 school year. A third report, planned for late 2018, will follow these students through the 2015-16 and 2016-17 school years.

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year term, while Position 4 is for a two-year unexpired term.

TONASKET SCHOOL BOARDIn Tonasket, Catherine

Stangland and Jerry Asmussen are asking a return to the Tonasket School Board in Director Positions 2 and 5, both four-year terms. In Director Position 3, another former school board member, as well as a retiring Tonasket teacher, Joyce Fancher, wants to unseat current incum-bent Ty Olson for a four-year term.

OROVILLE CITY COUNCILThe Oroville City Council is

guaranteed to see some changes as Ed Naillon, who has had some recurring health problems, has decided to not run for Position 3 on the council. Robert Fuchs and David “Mac” McElheren have thrown their hats in the race for the position. Incumbent Neysa Roley faces a challenge from Chris Allen for Council Position 5. Allen, who tried to displace Oroville Mayor Chuck Spieth in the last election, has

been vocal about the way the city has been running the ambulance service, especially after former ambulance coordinator Debra Donohue refused to put him on the Oroville crew. All three offic-es are for four-year terms.

TONASKET CITY COUNCILClaire Jeffko’s seat at the table

seems secure, as the incumbent will run unopposed for Tonasket Council Position 5. Also running unopposed are Jensen Sackman for Position 2, currently held by Scott Olson and Maria Moreno for Council Position 4, which is currently Lois Rice’s seat. All are four-year terms.

HOSPITAL, FIRE, CEMETERY AND WATER

Herbert Wandler will find himself back on the board for Hospital District 4. The current North Valley Hospital District Commissioner is running unop-posed for another six-year term in Position 3.

Candidates for other offic-es include: Gary Nelson, Cemetery District 4 (Riverview,

Oroville); Kenneth D. Ripley, Commissioner Position 3 for Fire District 1 (Oroville, Rural); Duane Van Woert and Jack Denison, for Commissioner Positions 2 and 3 respectively, for Fire District 4 (Tonasket area) Mark Robanske for Position 3, for Fire District 12 (Swanson Mill); Michael Woelke and Robert K. Bauer, for Commissioner Positions 2 and 3 respectively, for Fire District 16 (Aeneas Valley) and Guy D. Fisher, Leland “Lee” Chapman and Mike Cantwell, for Commisioner Positions 1, 2 and 3, respectively for the Lake Osoyoos Water District.

SPECIAL FILING PERIODElection officials have opened

up a special three-day filing period, May 20-22, for all offices that no one filed for during the regular filing week, according to Mila Jury, election official with the Okanogan County Auditor’s Office. For a full list of which offices these are see the Auditor’s Website at https://wei.sos.wa.gov/county/okanogan/en/elections/Pages/Candidates-Filed.aspx

Mayor and NVH employee Patrick Plumb. “We were one of the first hospitals in this area to be toured. He listened to us, and a staff member of his took four pages of detailed notes. I was really impressed.”

According to NVH Chief Information Officer Kelly Cariker, this was the second critical access hospital (CAH) Newhouse visited this week in Washington State.

“Between the two of us (crit-ical-access hospitals) he picked up a lot of information on the differences between rural and urban healthcare, and how we have drastically different needs,” said Cariker. “There are a lot of things that are being proposed as fiscal cuts at the national level, and sometimes rural healthcare is targeted because it is perceived as being more expensive than in an urban setting.”

Cariker said the opposite was true; rural healthcare provides more cost effective care for ser-vices provided, compared to the

same services in an urban set-ting.

“A lot of times when they are looking budget cuts, it seems like the rural healthcare comes under the fiscal axe, and we just wanted to underscore with Rep. Newhouse the importance of rural healthcare,” said Cariker.

The Office of Inspector General is proposing cuts to CAHs. CAHs are hospitals that have 25 or fewer beds.

Joe Carlson, writing for Modern Healthcare.com, quotes CEO of the National Rural Health Association Alan Morgan as stating deep cuts to medicare funding “would effectively kill rural healthcare.”

“Looking at CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaide Services) data, critical-access hospitals do primary care, and that is where we want our health system headed,” Morgan said. “If those patients are not being seen in a rural hospital, are they expecting the patient to go to urban facilities? Or are they

expecting them to not seek care? There is a larger issue that is not being talked about here.”

“We asked Newhouse to keep in mind the old adage, ‘When you see one Critical Access Hospital, you’ve seen one,” said Interim Hospital Administrator Ron O’Halloran. “You can’t do this tweaking under one blanket motion.”

O’Halloran said as CMS looks to refine or tweak conditions of participation, they look at each hospital individually as to how it will affect access to care and how closures would affect the eco-nomic viability of the community it serves.

“The hospitals often help support long term care beds,” O’Halloran added.

Cariker said several issues, including the importance of the swing bed program, were dis-cussed with Newhouse.

“We try to stay pretty apprised of what is happening in the State and National level and give input when we can,” Cariker said.

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SUPERIOR COURTCriminal

Brandon William Cate, 28, Tonasket, pleaded guilty May 8 to second-degree burglary, attempted second-degree theft, first-degree criminal trespassing and second-degree criminal trespassing. Cate was sentenced to 10 months in jail and fined $600 for the Jan. 24 crimes.

Gordon Lester Dick Jr., 40, Omak, pleaded guilty May 12 to attempted theft of a motor vehicle (lesser included of theft of a motor vehicle) and attempt to elude a pursuing police vehicle. The court dismissed three additional charges: third-degree DWLS, hit-and-run (unattended vehi-cle) and conspiracy to commit second-degree assault (with a deadly weapon). Dick was sentenced to 32.25 months (2.7 years) in prison and fined $1,110.50 for the Sept. 7, 2014 crimes.

Alfonso Cardenas Jr., 57, Omak, pleaded guilty May 12 to vio-lation of a no-contact order (third or subsequent violation of a similar order). Cardenas was sentenced to six months in jail and fined $1,210.50.

Jose Miguel Niebla Plata, 46, Okanogan, pleaded guilty May 12 to four counts of dis-tribution of a controlled sub-stance (methamphetamine). The court dismissed an addi-tional count of distribution of a controlled substance (meth-amphetamine). Niebla Plata was sentenced to 50 months (4.16 years) in prison and fined $3,370.50. The crimes occurred between April and May of 2014.

James Michael Eriksen, 32, Riv-erside, pleaded guilty May 12 to residential burglary, third-degree malicious mischief and third-degree theft. Eriksen was sentenced to six months in jail and fined $1,110.50 for the June 11 crimes.

The court found probable cause to charge Jeremy John Lav-ender, 29, Omak, with POCS (methamphetamine). The crime allegedly occurred May 5.

The court found probable cause to charge Justin Shane Rog-ers, 25, Okanogan, with POCS (methamphetamine) and second-degree unlawful hunting of wild animals. The crimes allegedly occurred May 5.

The court found probable cause to charge Rosalino Sanchez Sanchez, 41, Oroville, with first-degree assault (with a deadly weapon). The crime allegedly occurred March 6.

Juvenile

A 16-year-old Oroville boy pleaded guilty May 6 to two counts of third-degree mali-cious mischief (DV) and one count of third-degree theft. The boy was sentenced to three days in detention with

credit for three days served, and fined $100 for the April 21 crime. A restitution hearing was scheduled for July 29. In a separate case, the same boy pleaded guilty May 6 to third-degree theft. The boy was sen-tenced to two days in deten-tion with credit for two days served, and fined $100 plus an additional $50 in restitution. The crime occurred Jan. 15.

A 16-year-old Omak girl plead-ed guilty to possession of marijuana by a person under 21 years of age. The girl was sentenced to 16 hours of com-munity service and one day in detention with credit for one day served. She was fined $75 for the March 19 crime.

Civil

The state Department of Labor and Industries fined Curtis Construction Services, Omak, $7,404.96 in unpaid workers’ compensation taxes, penalties and fees.

DISTRICT COURTKerry William Louie, 51, Omak,

guilty of first-degree criminal trespassing. Louie was sen-tenced to 364 days in jail with 362 days suspended, and fined $768.

Clomiat Annemaude McCraigie, 39, Omak, guilty of first-degree DWLS. McCraigie was sentenced to 364 days in jail with 94 days suspended, and fined $808.

Tami Jean McCraigie, 35, Tonasket, had a third-degree DWLS charge dismissed.

Joseph Edward McEthmar, 49, Tonasket, guilty (deferred prosecution revoked) of third-degree DWLS and DUI. McEthmar received a 364-day suspended sentence and fined $2,361.

Yvonne Delene McMillan, 48, Omak, guilty on two counts of third-degree theft. McMillan was sentenced to 364 days in jail with 354 days suspended, and fined $1,576.

Cory James Michels, 23, Omak, had two charges dismissed: third-degree malicious mischief and fourth-degree assault. Michels was fined $200.

Tommy Eugene Moore, 48, guilty of third-degree DWLS and third-degree theft. Moore received a 364-day suspended sentence and fined a total of $1,876.

Brenden Joe Ostby, 20, Oroville, guilty of carrying a loaded pistol in a vehicle. Ostby received a 90-day suspended sentence and fined $318.

Justin Mikel Pearson, 32, Tonas-ket, guilty of fourth-degree assault, second-degree crimi-nal trespassing and two counts of violation of a no-contact order. The court dismissed a third-degree malicious mis-chief charge. Pearson was sentenced to 364 days in jail with 359 days suspended, and fined a total of $2,649.

Garret t Thomas Peterson, 21, Omak, had a third-degree DWLS charge dismissed.

Lacey Ann Picard, 24, Omak,

guilty of three counts of third-degree theft. Picard was sen-tenced to 180 days in jail with 175 days suspended, and fined a total of $794.

Alexis Sara Porter, 23, Oroville, had a third-degree DWLS charge dismissed.

Alan Forbes Price, 41, Oroville, guilty of third-degree DWLS. Price was sentenced to 90 days in jail with 87 days sus-pended, and fined $658.

Steven Wayne Raynes, 30, Omak, had a fourth-degree assault charge dismissed. Raynes was fined $500.

Jose Luis Rosas Cipriano, 34, Omak, had a third-degree DWLS charge dismissed.

Alisha Ann Russell, 22, Omak, guilty of DUI. Russell was sentenced to 180 days in jail with 173 days suspended, and fined $1,681.

David Sanchez Hernandez, 21, Oroville, guilty of third-degree theft. Sanchez Hernan-dez was sentenced to 180 in jail with 173 days suspended, and fined $708.

911 CALLS & JAIL BOOKINGS

monday, may 11, 2015Robbery on Dayton St. in Omak.Fraud on Toroda Creek Rd. near

Wauconda.Warrant arrest on E. Apple Ave.

in Omak.Threats on Rodeo Trail Rd. near

Okanogan.Assault on Hwy. 20 near Tonas-

ket.Harassment on N. Fourth Ave. in

Okanogan.Warrant arrest on Broser Way

near Tonasket.Domestic dispute on S. Second

Ave. in Okanogan.Fraud on Omak River Rd. near

Omak.Domestic dispute on Tonasket

Shop Rd. near Tonasket.DWLS on Hwy. 97 near Ellis-

forde.Theft on Riverside Dr. in Omak.Warrant arrest on W. Fourth

Ave. in Omak.Harassment on N. Main St. in

Omak.Assault on Engh Rd. near Omak.Theft on E. Third St. in Tonas-

ket.Threats on Hwy. 20 near Tonas-

ket.Automobile theft on Hwy. 20

near Tonasket.Derek Justin Allen, 34, booked

for felony eluding and third-degree DWLS.

Matthew Russell Carden, 28, booked for obstruction.

Billy Dale Anderson, 48, DOC detainer.

Robert Trevor Richardson, 35, booked on POCS (metham-phetamine), POCS (heroin), possession of drug parapher-nalia, and two State Patrol FTA warrants: both for POCS (methamphetamine and heroin).

Anthony Robert Jolly, 37, booked on six FTA warrants: five for third-degree DWLS and one for third-degree theft.

David Allen Gorr, 56, DOC hold.

Lacey Ann Picard, 25, booked for POCS (methamphet-amine), POCS (heroin), pos-

session of drug paraphernalia and obstruction.

Tuesday, may 12, 2015Warrant arrest on E. Division St.

in Tonasket.Warrant arrest on Riverside Dr.

in Omak.Domestic dispute on S. Second

Ave. in Okanogan.Warrant arrest on Hwy. 97 near

Riverside.DWLS on Chesaw Rd. near

Oroville.Drugs on Queen St. in Okano-

gan.Domestic dispute on Nichols

Rd. near Omak.Theft on W. Fourth Ave. in

Omak.Warrant arrest on E. Third Ave.

in Omak.Assault on Shumway Rd. near

Omak.Two reports of theft on Engh

Rd. in Omak.Public intoxication on Koala Dr.

in Omak.Assault on Columbia St. in

Omak.Trespassing on S. Ash St. in

Omak.Theft on Omache Dr. in Omak.Trespassing on Juniper St. in

Oroville.One-vehicle crash on Hwy.

20 near Tonasket. Injuries reported.

Ernest Lee Knight, 51, booked on a State Patrol FTA warrant for third-degree DWLS.

Randy Lee Timentwa, 34, booked for fourth-degree assault (DV) and an Omak Police Department FTA war-rant for unlawful display of a weapon.

Janalda Lynn Warbus, 24, booked on a State Patrol FTA warrant for third-degree DWLS.

Jory L. Vallee, 25, booked for third-degree DWLS, an igni-tion interlock violation and on a DOC secretary’s warrant.

Jason Lee Buchanan, 30, booked for fourth-degree assault (DV).

Dustin Rex Hawley Hennigs, 21, booked for third-degree rape.

Marcos Florention Rosas, 30, booked for POCS (meth-amphetamine), possession of drug paraphernalia and a DOC detainer.

Wednesday, may 13, 2015Domestic dispute on N. Railroad

Ave. in Okanogan.Theft on Elmway in Okanogan.Recovered vehicle on Rocky

River HUD Rd. near Omak.Domestic dispute on N. Fourth

Ave. in Okanogan.Assault on Johnson Creek Rd.

near Omak.Theft on Omache Dr. in Omak.Theft on Engh Rd. in Omak.Assault on Benton St. in Omak.Warrant arrest on Hwy. 7 near

Oroville.Assault on Ironwood St. in Oro-

ville.Theft on Main St. in Oroville.Theft on Hwy. 20 in Tonasket.Joaquin Rendon Tomas, 27,

booked for second-degree unlawful recreational fish-ing, obstruction, third-degree DWLS, a Douglas County FTA warrant for third-degree DWLS and a USBP hold.

Bernardino Saldana Rodriguez, 46, booked on an OCSO FTA warrant for fourth-degree assault.

Marti Lynn Worrell, 35, court commitments for POCS and possession of drug parapher-nalia.

David Thomas Kay, 34, DOC detainer.

Lisa Louis Best, 44, booked for fourth-degree assault.

Thursday, may 14, 2015Warrant arrest on Okanogan Air-

port Rd. near Okanogan.Theft on S. First Ave. in Okano-

gan.Boating accident on Sinlahekin

Rd. near Conconully.Theft on Main St. in Riverside.

Firearm reported missing.Burglary on Omak River Rd.

near Omak.Domestic dispute on Bluebell

Lane near Tonasket.Warrant arrest on Oak St. in

Omak.Vehicle prowl on W. Apple Ave.

in Omak.Harassment on S. Main St. in

Omak.DWLS on Main St. in Oroville.Rodolfo Valdovinos, 24, booked

for attempted to elude a pur-suing police vehicle, third-degree DWLS, an Omak Police Department FTA war-rant for criminal trespassing, a prosecutor’s FTA warrant for forgery and a DOC detainer.

Joe David Allen Gorr, 20, booked on an FTA warrant for MIP/C.

Bruce Leroy Wisner Jr., 51, booked on an OCSO FTA warrant for second-degree criminal trespassing.

Brisia Andrade Carrasco, 26, booked on four counts of delivery of a controlled sub-stance (methamphetamine), two counts of delivery of a controlled substance (cocaine) and POCS (methamphet-amine).

Clifford Benjamin Williams, 61, booked on a State Patrol FTA warrant for DUI.

Friday, may 15, 2015One-vehicle hit-and-run crash

on Eighme Rd. near Oroville.Theft on Wolf Dance Rd. near

Tonasket.Assault on S. Second Ave. in

Okanogan.Threats on Nichols Rd. near

Omak.Sex offense on Okanogan Cem-

etery Rd. near Okanogan.Warrant arrest on Pine St. in

Omak.Theft on Appleway Ave. in

Okanogan.Harassment on N. Douglas St.

in Omak.Trespassing on Omache Dr. in

Omak.Theft on E. Division St. in

Tonasket. Spare tire cover reported missing.

DWLS on E. Fourth St. in Tonasket.

Kristina M. Grooms-Sloan, 41, booked on an Omak Police Department FTA warrant for third-degree theft.

Jennifer Louise Ballesteros, 44, booked for a drug court viola-tion.

Travis Lowell Watson, 44, DOC detainer.

Matthew James Blackledge, 49, booked for violation of an anti-harassment order and cyber stalking.

saTurday, may 16, 2015One-vehicle crash on Hwy. 20

near Okanogan.

Theft on Greenacres Rd. near Riverside. Chainsaw reported missing.

Burglary on Bolster Rd. near Oroville.

Trespassing on Ed Louis Rd. near Okanogan.

Trespassing on Omache Dr. in Omak.

Public urination on W. Central Ave. in Omak.

Theft on Omache Dr. in Omak.Domestic dispute on Okoma Dr.

in Omak.Drugs on Pine St. in Omak.Hit-and-run vehicle crash on

Omache Dr. in Omak.Lost property on Omak-River-

side Eastside Rd. near Omak. Purse reported missing.

Domestic dispute on N. Elm St. in Omak.

Theft on Engh Rd. in Omak.Derrick Ryan Boggess, 25,

booked on an Omak Police Department FTA warrant for third-degree DWLS and a Spokane County FTA warrant for third-degree DWLS.

sunday, may 17, 2015Vehicle prowl on Hanford St. in

Omak.One-vehicle crash on Hwy. 97 in

Omak. Fatality reported.Found property on Westlake Rd.

near Oroville. Jetski recov-ered.

Sex offense on Weatherstone Rd. near Omak.

Domestic dispute on W. High Valley Rd. near Tonasket.

Trespassing on Hubbard Rd. near Riverside.

Domestic dispute on Johnson Creek Rd. near Omak.

Automobile theft on Pine St. in Omak.

Fraud on S. Birch St. in Omak.Malicious mischief on Pinyon

Place near Omak. Mailboxes reported damaged.

Burglary on Ferry St. in Oro-ville.

Harassment on W. Apple Ave. in Omak.

Theft on Engh Rd. in Omak.Threats on N. Elm St. in Omak.Theft on Engh Rd. in Omak.Flood on Fir St. in Oroville.Domestic dispute on Central

Ave. in Oroville.Leif Ragnar Gustafson, 47,

booked for DUI.Charles Francis Shirley, 47,

booked for second-degree criminal trespassing.

Key:DUI – Driving Under the

InfluenceDWLS/R – Driving While

License Suspended/RevokedPOSC – Possession of a

Controlled SubstanceMIP/C – Minor in Possession/

ConsumptionTMVWOP – Taking a Motor

Vehicle without Owner’s Permission

DV– Domestic ViolenceFTA/C – Failure to Appear/

Comply (on a warrant)FTPF – Failure to Pay FineOCSO – Okanogan County

Sheriff ’s OfficerRP– Reporting PartyDOC – State Department of

CorrectionsUSBP– U.S. Border PatrolCBP– U.S. Customs and Border

Protection.ICE– Immigration and Customs

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Can you believe it’s been 35 years since Mount St. Helens blew her top? May 18, 1980 had many different impacts on those living in the Pacific Northwest depending on where you were. Most of us still remember what they were doing when they heard the news.

For myself I was on my way back from Spokane, a city that was greatly affected by the volcanic eruption. The Friday before I was home in Oroville for the summer from Gonzaga. I drove to Wenatchee to pick up my brother Dante, as well as a couple friends who were competing in district tennis in Wenatchee. I had offered to take them to Spokane to march in the Oroville High School band for the Lilac Festival.

On Sunday we crammed ourselves back into the Datsun for the return trip. As radio reception had been so-so, we mostly listened to cassettes and watched what looked like a storm rolling in. Little did we know, until we switched to the radio, that the volcano had erupted. It didn’t really affect our travels home, but it was pretty exciting news.

My friend Mark Schultz had to wait it out in the Davenport Hotel in Spokane. This was back in the days before the hotel was renovated, so we’re talking about a tiny, old-fashioned room, not something luxurious. That’s where the Army used to put you up before you headed out to boot camp. If memory serves me right he wasn’t able to leave for a couple of weeks because no planes were flying out of Spokane International because of all the ash and poor visibility.

While some ash settled in Okanogan County, several other counties in Washington and Oregon bore the brunt of the messy stuff. It made it hard to breath in some areas and ash clogged car radiators. Later, as the dust began to settle, so to speak, it became more of a curiosity with everyone having their mason jar or other container full of ash.

While for most of us the eruption was more of a fascinating natural occurrence, that got us thinking about what else in the Pacific Ring of Fire could explode, there were long lasting repercussion from the explosion.

As Sen. Patty Murray writes in her statement last Monday about the eruption, “May 18, 1980, is a day many of us from the Pacific Northwest will never forget. In an instant, the catastrophic eruption on Mount St. Helens took the lives of 57 people, decimated wildlife populations, flattened forests, and forever altered the landscape. Ash darkened our skies, making the morning seem like night.”

She goes on to say, “But while the story of Mount St. Helens is a story of destruction, it is also a story of renewal. Over the past 35 years we’ve seen an incredible return to life. The mountain has become not only a premier destination for nature lovers and adventur-ers, but also an important laboratory for scientists who come from all over the world to learn valuable lessons about nature’s power to both destroy and regrow.

“We should honor those who died 35 years ago today by continuing to learn from the eruption and by dedicating the resources it takes to predict and effectively respond to natural disasters. We must also be ready to act on the things we can control. Recent news that the Spirit Lake Tunnel on the mountain is in need of significant repair reminds us that we must remain vigilant to the continued dangers that exist for surrounding communities. So as we remember the devastation of 35 years ago, we must all keep working to make sure communities have the resources they need to do everything possible to protect families and homes from future disasters.”


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GAZETTE-TRIBUNESERVING WASHINGTON’S OKANOGAN VALLEY SINCE 1905

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Remembering Mount St. Helens

LETTERS TO THE EDITORMay Festival takes a tremendous effortDear Editor,

Having moved back to Oroville at the end of last year, I felt a great need to jump in and give back to the community in which I grew up. In 1988 I had the honor of representing Oroville as a May Festival Princess, so of course, May Day seemed like the perfect

place to use my extra energy towards helping my home town.

Back when I was a teenager I was far too young and naïve to understand what a tre-mendous amount of work goes into making May Day a success. The May Day Committee works throughout an entire year to make sure the many events go off without a problem. But sometimes a glitch can occur, and it is not one persons fault. Everyone is giving of their

own time and works very hard at the task in which they volunteered.

I am absolutely in awe of the work that goes in to making May Day a success. I look forward to learning from the more seasoned volunteers and continuing to volunteer my time for an event that has had an impact my entire life, and teaching my children the value of giving back to the community they now call home. I would urge anyone that has never helped with Selection Night, Coronation, or any of the events that occur on that special Saturday in May to consider coming to a May Day Committee meeting and see where their time could be put to use.

Sincerely,Dana Kernan-McCoyMay Festival Committee Member

Join us in saying farewell to the SeamansDear Editor,

Good Day all OBHS Members and Friends, On Tuesday, May 26 at 5:30 p.m. there will be a Potluck Farewell in the basement of the Immaculate Concepiton Catholic church to honor Bob and Mary Seamans for all the service and work they have done in this com-munity over the years. Please join us to help show our appreciation and to wish them well in their future.

Okanogan Borderlands Historical SocietyBoard of DirectorsOroville

Out of My Mind

Gary A. DeVon

OPINION BY WILLIAM SLUSHERSOCIO-POLITICAL WRITER

Sociologists say everyone on welfare is just an unfulfilled laborer.

But you wonder.You hear a construction company owner

lament that she can’t get anyone to take a job she offers. Partyline, Craigslist, job ads. Nothing. Not just no qualified applicants... no applicants. You run into your friend who runs a county facility. Know any-one looking for work? he asks. Got four positions. Can’t get anyone to apply. At a local office supply firm you hear the owner tell a friend, got two jobs. No responses to ads. Another friend is opening a bar, can’t get help.

A restaurant manager friend says I got four openings. No one applies. At the drive-up window they ask for aps they can give the unemployment office to get their dole checks but they don’t actually interview. A worker quit last week. Says she can make more on social security, WIC and unemployment for watching TV at home than I can pay her and compete.

You think about your own kids, three of them out of work for layoffs during the recession at least twice, but only for a couple of weeks until they found – went out and scoured – another job. Every... time.

A guy calls cold from Spokane, says he does car glass, has references I check out. I hire him to replace two windshields which he does in my yard, in the cold wind, working out of his van. Excellent work. Got laid off from construction, windshield-guy says. Me and the wife, we’re starting this glass repair business. My people don’t do welfare.

My people don’t do welfare.

Windshield-guy? He wants to work. But most folks... not so much.

Technically, there’s not anything wrong with not wanting to work, because it’s true of us all. Oh yeah, you too. Sure, some of us enjoy and are fulfilled by our work more than others, but regardless, most of us would not work if we could afford to buy what we need and want without working. Nope, we’d spend all that work time with our kids or other loved ones, traveling, hunting, fishing, sports, working on our homes, helping others, some creative endeavor, or a hobby we enjoyed more than work.

Noble protestations notwithstanding, nobody really... truly... wants to work. Give almost anyone enough money to have what they want and they’ll quit work and do some-thing they enjoy more or that they obtain more fulfillment from. It’s why we retire. It’s human nature and, again, up to a point, there’s nothing wrong with it.

But once you accept this reality it quickly eviscerates most politically correct social the-ory as to work. Most disturbingly, it destroys the notion that people on the dole will ever voluntarily get off of it if the dole meets their needs. They won’t. Our society gags with millions who – apparently happily – live gen-erations on someone else’s earnings extorted from those workers through excessive taxa-tion. It comes so naturally to them that they not only feel no shame or self-disgust, they feel... entitled.

When this happens, and it has, there festers a fatal cancer in our nation. Accomplishment gives way to endless creative plots to justify the artificial transfer of someone else’s earn-ings to people who haven’t earned it.

This gives rise to endless welfare depen-dency. It manifests in minimum wage laws and union strikes where one is somehow sup-posed to be paid more for their labor than it

can be bought for elsewhere on a competitive market. These employees earn only a portion of their artificially inflated wage and obtain the rest from earnings stolen off others in higher taxes and prices.

Preposterous rationales are fictionalized like a ‘gender wage gap’ where women are supposedly paid less for the exact same – apples to apples – quality/time unit of labor. As the eminent Stanford economist, Dr. Thomas Sowell, has written, this is patently impossible for, as profits rule, employers would long ago have fired all their male workers and hired all allegedly cheaper female labor. Think domestic outsourcing.

Like minimum wage laws, the ‘gap’ is just another shell-game construct to attempt to justify taking the earnings of one person and giving it to (read: bribing votes with it from) someone who hasn’t equally earned it. The same is true of affirmative-action quotaism. They’re all toxic schemes to substitute con-trived social scamsterism for indispensable merit.

If our great American experiment is to survive, we must end this post-modern fetish for replacing performance with the perfumed theft of ‘income redistribution,’ for the latter corrodes us from within and without. The social parasite says why achieve when gov-ernment will support me? The worker says why achieve when government will steal my earnings to bribe votes from they who will not work?

At that point, a fatal social metastasis is underway.

William Slusher’s latest novel is a politi-cal comedy available from Amazon, called CASCADE CHAOS or How Not To Put Your Grizzly In The Statehouse. Mr. Slusher may be insulted and complained to [email protected].

A cancer among us

Bill Slusher

Red Hat Ladies go ‘round at RepublicSUBMITTED BY MARIANNE KNIGHTHIGHLANDS CORRESPONDENT

Well, here it is Sunday evening already and I am sitting here at the computer wondering what to type.

To start off last week, our Red Hat Ladies made a trip to Republic to join the ladies up there for lunch and a ride on the merry go ‘round at the Fair Grounds. It is always a treat to visit with the ladies and have someone else prepare the lunch. Of course the ride on the merry go ‘round was the best. We were given a history lesson of where it started and how it came to Republic. You can rent the ride and the adjoining room and kitchen for receptions or private parties. Other times it is open at fair time. I know our ladies had a good time. As always we did some shopping at the local stores. I am sure we will go again.

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday were spent getting our potluck items ready for the rest of the week. On Friday we attended the Celebration of Life for Ted

Hilstad at the Molson Grange Hall. Ted was a Good Man and liked every one and they all liked him. Thank you to all that said prayers and sent cards.

There will be a Celebration of Life for both Amos and Judy Coffelt on Saturday, June 6 at 2 p.m. in the Community Building in Chesaw. This will be a dessert and light snacks potluck to share.

Also in June, to all Friends of Fiona, this summer Fiona Gallery will be open only for special events during the season. Sandy Vaughn said she appre-ciates the interest and support that has come her way over the years with this little experiment in the Okanogan Highlands. She says it is time to move on and see what the next phase will be. The next special event will be the “GreenStock” Garden and Plant Sale, Saturday and Sunday, June 6 and 7, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. This will be your opportunity to get plants for your garden that have been lovingly tended in the Highlands, both vegetables and flowers. During this event,

Fiona will be open, with art on the walls, the gift and second hand shop open and espresso and treats ready. Come check it out. Watch for future events. Call 509-485-2281 for info.

On Friday evening we went to Molson again. This time for Bingo. As luck would have it we both won a Bingo. That does not happen very often. We will go again, I’m sure. Saturday was over to Molson again. This time it was for a Celebration of Life for Nita (Mountain Ma Ma) Myrick. Nita was a MaMa to every one she met. If you needed applesauce, she was there with her peeler. If you needed phone calls made, she was already dialing the numbers. She made many friends from all over the world when she worked at the School Museum over the years. Thank you Nita for being there for all of us.

I have been telling you for weeks about the Yard Sale on Saturday, May 23. The sale will start at 9 a.m. and go until 2 p.m. Lunch is going to be taco salad, served by the Ladies of the Knob Hill Club of Chesaw. Judy will have her wonderful “World Famous” Cinnamon Rolls. That is our world.

Many venders will be there with their products. See you there.


OKANOGAN VALLEY LIFE

I wouldn’t even need a calendar to know that it is very near Memorial Day, (or Decoration Day as it was called where I grew up) as the old fashioned yellow rose bushes are a mass of golden blos-soms. Somehow they know, regardless of the weather. Also the beautiful pink wild roses are in bloom along the coun-try side.

I’m hoping I have better luck with the computer this week. I just am not into this electronic age and I really get agitat-ed when things go amiss, when I do the same thing, week after week, and then the machine, suddenly “eats” the whole article, after I’d been typing for over an hour. Oh! Well! This too shall pass.

It was reported to me, that Mimi Chinn, wife of Raleigh, had once again had a trip to the hospital, in Wenatchee, this time to have a pacemaker installed, and hopefully that will correct her heart rhythm problems.

It’s graduation time. We’re so proud of our grand daughter’s husband, who has just finished law school and was selected, class speaker, at the Seattle University School of Law and was chosen by his fellow students to be the speaker. And a great nephew graduated in Idaho, with honors. Too often, it is said that the young people of today are “no good” but hasn’t that often been said of the younger generations?

We’ve had lotsa rain and then Heavenly sunshine after, making the grass grow and the humming sounds of the neighbors lawn mowers can be heard in all directions. Sounds of summer I suppose the thunder and lightening we had last Saturday night is the tail ends of some of the torna-does that have been raging in the Midwest, again.

Have you noticed how many really large ravens there are in our area?

How about that person-alized ad from Hughes Ace Hardware with our own Doris Hughes all over the cover? Is she a star or what? And in that same advertisement, what a thoughtful thing to do, giving kudos to the late Forrey Boyer and his wife, Joyce, for being such great care tak-

ers in the garden shop, for a lot of years.It is easy to be critical... but really, did

the fellow that wrote the letter to the editor last week being criti-cal of the emcee at the recent May Festival Coronation need to criticize the young lady, who took time from the busy schedule she keeps, to give a hand when asked to do the job. She doesn’t pretend to be a professional and perhaps it would have been beneficial to her had she been given copy of the participants, in a timely order, instead of just minutes before the program.

Criticizing someone only tends to make them say “NO” the next time they are asked. This function happens yearly and volunteers are always welcome.

The May Day Barbecue needs more

help next year, too. As Mr. Andrews says, “Oroville comes through at the crucial time, but it needs more volunteer leaders, not just workers.’’

We are saddened to learn of the death of Carol (Dietrich) Burton. Although it did not come as a terrific shock as she had been quite ill for the past few weeks, but we still expected that she would recover, while in Swedish hospital in Seattle. But, she had too many strikes against her, from multiple problems through the years and just didn’t have the strength to fight off the serious infection that had invaded her body. Condolences to her parents Dave and Betty Dieterich and all other family and friends.

Take time to stop in and visit with Bob Hirst. “It’s lonely down there” and you know how he likes to talk.

Sorry to learn that Gary Sorenson, has some serious health issues.

Also, Barbara Shaw, went to Wenatchee hospital for further tests and evaluations, stemming from heart issues.

Roses know regardless of the weather

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HILLTOP COMMENTS

Motorbike raffle was successfulSUBMITTED BY JAMES GUTSCHMIDTPRESIDENT, OROVILLE SENIOR CITIZENS

Our motorbike raffle went swell. The winner of the bike was Erik Loera. Lucky fella. I want to thank all who donated their hard earned dollars. Oroville truly has a generous citizenry. It was great fun meeting you all. The money earned went towards repairing our furnace, which is now back on line. An especial Thank you all.

Computer classes have pro-gressed to the next level. Times and signup sheets are in the lunchroom.

Our school days picture con-test is progressing, as Seniors go, so don’t forget to bring yours for

display. Give it to Betty Steg.I attended a conference in

Wenatchee last Tuesday with Adult and Aging Care. We learned how to find volunteers and that any number between one and nine, when multiplied by nine, if the resulting digits are added together they add up to nine again. So, if you call nine volunteers seven times the total number of calls is 63. By add-ing the digits 6 and 3 together again, you get 9. And, there was something about Denmark and gray elephants, I think. All that thinking just wore me out. Oh, yes. And then there was this totally confusing, made no sense,

Conflict Resolution talk. I took notes, but nothing else

seemed too significant, except for 288 miles and a long day, and maybe we could get some dis-cretionary funding somehow or someway. Oh, yes, there is farm-ers market vouchers for some Seniors, but nowhere to use them in Oroville. Lucky us. All in all, though, it was a good conference, and getting to know other Seniors representatives was worthwhile.

Pinochle Report: Door Prize, Ed Craig; Pinochle, Ed Craig; High Man, Dave; High Woman, Betty Steg and Bev Storm. Pinochle Last week: Door Prize, Ed Craig; Pinochle, Danny, and Barb; High Man, Ed Craig; High Woman, Danny Wietrick

I understand that when the Mongols conquered China, the wise men of China were brought into the royal court. The result was Confucian.

Reported by Edward Jones

FINANCIAL FOCUSSandra Rasmussen

If you’re a working parent, you know firsthand about the difficulties of finding quality, affordable care for your children. But eventually, your kids head off to school, and those child care bills go away, or at least diminish greatly. When that happens, you could start putting away money for another one of your children’s milestones: college.

Just how expensive is child care? Costs vary greatly among the 50 states, but the national average for a 4-year-old at a child care center is approximately $7,880 per year, according to Child Care Aware of America, a child care resource and referral agency sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. What could you do with this money once your child enters kindergarten?

Of course, not all schools provide all-day kindergarten, so you still may have some child

Goodbye, Child Care Costs ... Hello, College Savings Opportunities care costs. For the purposes of illustration, let’s presume you can finally say “goodbye” to child care costs when your child is in first grade, and let’s also assume your child is attending a public school. If you invested that $7,880 every year for 12 years, until your child reaches 18, you could accumulate more than $150,000 in a tax-advantaged college savings account, such as a 529 plan — assuming the money was placed in a hypothetical investment that earned 7% per year. (Keep in mind, though, that the word “hypothetical” means exactly that, because whenever you put money in any variable investment, there are no guarantees.)

Actually, earnings in a 529 plan accumulate and are distributed tax free, provided they are used for qualified higher education expenses. (529 plan distributions not used for qualified expenses may be subject to federal and state income tax and a 10% IRS penalty on the earnings.) Also, your 529 plan contributions may be deductible from your state taxes. However, 529 plans vary, so be sure to check with your tax advisor regarding deductibility.

A 529 plan offers other benefits, too. For one thing, the lifetime contribution limits are generous; while these limits vary by state, some plans allow contributions well in excess of $200,000. And a 529 plan is flexible: If your child decides against college or vocational school, you can transfer the

unused funds to another family member, tax and penalty free.

A 529 plan is a widely used choice for college savings, but it is not your only option. You could also consider a Coverdell Education Savings Account, which, like a 529 plan, can generate tax-free earnings if the money is used for higher education expenses. You can typically only put in a maximum of $2,000 per year to a Coverdell account, but it lets you use the funds on K-12 and college expenses.

Whichever college-savings vehicle you choose, it will take discipline on your part to continue investing in it, year after year. And after freeing yourself from those child care bills, you can certainly think of other ways to use this “found” money. That’s why you might want to automatically move money from your checking or savings account to your 529 plan, Coverdell account or other investment earmarked for college. As your income rises over the years, you can increase the amount of these automatic transfers.

In any case, once those child care bills stop, you can put that money to work on your children’s behalf. Make the most of this opportunity.

This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Edward Jones Financial Advisor.

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Next Nursing Home Forum is May 27SUBMITTED BY NURSING HOME SUCCESS TEAM

The Nursing Home Success Team members received enthu-siastic appreciation for the infor-mative forum sessions they pre-sented last month.

The Success Team panel gave an analysis of the issues the Nursing Home (North Valley Extended Care) faces, explored ways the community can become involved in helping to solve prob-lems, and answered questions from the interested audience.

One of those questions was a request for more of the sessions to be held, and so the team is offering two more forums to be held on Wednesday, May 27. The first forum will be at the Tonasket Senior Center, at 12:20 p.m., fol-

lowed by another session at the Community Cultural Center in Tonasket at 7:00 p.m.

Hopefully, all those interested will be able to attend one of the meetings. Do you have questions about our Community Nursing Home? Are you interested in working to protect the future of community elders and seniors?

Perhaps the North Okanogan County could be a model for how a community can come together to help heal our broken health care system.

For those of you who have been wondering what has happened to the Nursing Home News updates that have been in the Community

Section of the Gazette-Tribune, know that we have not stopped submissions to the paper, but had to slow down. We do plan to sub-mit updates or items having to do with the Nursing Home in the future, but not every week.

The Nursing Home Success team is very thankful to the Gazette-Tribune for giving us the space as we have needed it and we are so thankful to community members who have been sup-porting our efforts.

We look forward to seeing you at one of our forums.

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May Day is over as is The Run to the Border and the Aerie elec-tion. The Eagles Auxiliary will elect on Tuesday, May 26. At this time installation of officers for the new term will be Sunday, May 31. Then we can all go fishing.

It’s time to pay dues! Come on in and get ‘um while they’re hot!

On Friday, May 22 Star Connection Karaoke Show will be with us again. Be there to join your friends for fun music.

Our Aerie meetings are the first and third Tuesday of the month and the Auxiliary meets on the second and fourth Tuesday. Happy hour is 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. every day. We have free pool every Sunday. Thursdays we play Bingo and eat Burgers and More. Fridays are Joker Poker and Meat Draw and Tacos. We are People Helping People!

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Oroville sixth-graders spent last week at Lost Lake for the annual Sixth Grade Camp. The kids learned several different skills, enjoyed nature and wildlife and made art projects. On Thursday, it was parents’ night and family and friends were invited to the camp to see what their kids had been up to. After a chili dinner the kids put on several skits, like the one above where those who didn’t get the king the right “paper” received the axe. The audi-ence jumped as one by one those subjects who displeased the king were marched outside and an axe swing by the outside window could be seen before landing with solid thump. Camp coordinator John Ragsdale thanked his camp councilors, students from Oroville High School, as well as those who volunteered their time to teach the kids during the five day camp.

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GARRET MARTIN TO PER-FORM AT WINERY

OROVILLE - Garret Martin, vocalist and guitarist from the Omak area, will perform at Esther Bricques Winery this Thursday evening, May 21. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Light refreshments are available. Esther Bricques Winery is located at 42 Swanson Mill Road, Oroville. For more information, please call the win-ery at 509-476-2861. Check the events calendar on the websit at www.estherbricques.com to view upcoming weekly performances.

MOLSON/CHESAW YARD SALE

MOLSON - The annual Molson/Chesaw Yard sale is going to be at the Grange Hall in Molson on Saturday, May 23 starting at 9 a.m. with lunch (Taco Salad) served by the Knob Hill Ladies of Chesaw at 11 am. Tables are still available, call Penny at 509-485-2343. There is no charge for tables.

OROVILLE FARMERS’ MARKET

OROVILLE - The next Oroville Farmers’ Market will be Saturday, May 16 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Oroville Public Library Board is presenting this market on Saturday mornings through Oct. 31. The 2015 season also features three Community Yard Sale and Flea Market dates: July 4, Aug. 1 and Sept. 5. New ven-dors are welcome and your booth fee helps support the Oroville Public Library. For more info call 509-476-2096

OKANOGAN DEMOCRATS TO MEET

TWISP - The Okanogan County Democrats May meeting will be held on Saturday, May 23 at the TwispWork in Twisp Wash. at 1:30 p.m.

FAREWELL TO SEAMANSOROVILLE - There will be

a Potluck Farewell to honor Bob and Mary Seamans on Tuesday, May 25 at 5:30 p.m. in the basement of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Oroville for all the service and work they have done in this com-munity over the years. The board of the Borderlands Historical Society asks people to join them to help show their appreciation and to wish them well in their future.

SCHOOL RETIREES ASSOCIATION

OMAK - Okanogan County School Retirees’ Association will hold a no-host luncheon meeting at 11 a.m., Tuesday, May 26, at Koala Street Grill, 914 Koala St, Omak. Okanogan High School science teacher, Kathleen Fergu-son and students will discuss the rehabilitation of salmon habitat on Conservancy Island and the “Oden Road Fire Study.” Infor-mation: 509-422-2954.

STORY TIME AT LIBRARYOROVILLE - The Oroville

Public Library will be having Story Time at the Library “The

Ladybug Club” on Wednesday, May 27 at 10 a.m. This free event will take place each Wednesday and there will be stories, songs, crafts and fun for young children.

NURSING HOME EDUCATIONAL FORUM

TONASKET - On Wednesday, May 27, there will be two Nursing Home Educational Forums in Tonasket. The first forum is at the Tonasket Senior Center at 12:20 p.m., and the second will take place at the Cultural Community Center (CCC) at 7 p.m. Please come and take advantage of this great opportunity to collabora-tively work with North Valley Hospital District for the common goal of preserving this essential service. Do you have questions about the Nursing Home? Come and ask,

OKANOGAN COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION

OKANOGAN - The Okanogan County Community Action Council Board will hold their Regular Board Meeting on Wednesday, May 27 at 5:15 p.m. at Community Action, 424 S. 2nd Ave. Okanogan, Wash. The public is invited and encouraged to attend. If you have questions or need additional information please contact Lael Duncan at OCCAC, (509) 422-4041.

LIBRARY BOOK SALETONASKET - The Tonasket

Library Board will be having their semi-annual book sale dur-ing the week of the Founders Day celebration. The book sale is Thursday, May 28 and Friday, May 29. Both days the time is 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Tonasket City Council room at 209 S Whitcomb Ave, Tonasket, Wash.

All proceeds go to fund Library needs.

WINE AND WOOL NITEOROVILLE - There will be a

Wine and Wool Nite on Friday, May 29 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. It is sure to be a fun night, with lots of information about the North American Wool Cooperative’s future and a chance to share your thoughts with your com-munity members. Contact Sonja Myklebust at 425-241-0151

WVC SPRING FLINGOMAK - Wenatchee Valley

College at Omak invites the com-munity to the first ever Spring

Fling on Friday, May 29, at 2 p.m. at the Omak Civic League Park. This event will feature WVC at Omak clubs, academic programs and community pro-grams and will highlight exciting events happening on the Omak campus. Admissions, financial aid services, and other new stu-dent information will be avail-able. The Spring Fling includes musical performances by The Ruby Scene at 4 p.m. and The Outer Space Blues Band at 4:30 p.m. This event is free to the pub-lic and is sponsored by WVC at Omak Associated Student Body.

REGGIE MILES AT CCCThe CCC presents award

winning musician, singer and songwriter, Reggie Miles, from Seattle on Friday, May 29 at 7 p.m. Cost for this event will be $10 for members and $12 for non-members. A pizza dinner available for $5; Judy Linety will be the chef. Refreshments will be served throughout the evening by donation to the CCC.

TONASKET FREEDOM 5K AND 1 MILE

TONASKET - There will be a Tonasket Freedom 5K and 1 mile kids event on Saturday, May 30 from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. starting and finishing at the Tonasket High School track (north of Ele-mentary School). Contact Heath-er Brownlee at [email protected] or call509-560-0736

OKANOGAN VALLEY FIBER FESTIVAL

OKANOGAN - The Second Annual Okanogan Valley Fiber Festival will be held at the County Fairgrounds Agriplex, 175 Rodeo Trail Road, Okanogan on Saturday, May 30 through Sunday, May 31. Bringing fiber producers and users together to celebrate natural fibers in all forms. Vendors, workshops, live shearing demo and fleece grad-ing, food and more. See www.okfiberfest.org.

CELEBRATION OF LIFECHESAW - There will be a

Celebration of Life for both Amos and Judy Coffelt on Saturday, June 6 at 2 pm in the Community Building in Chesaw. This will be a dessert and light snacks potluck to share.

GREENSTOCK GARDEN AND PLANT SALE

CHESAW - The next special event will be the “GreenStock” Garden and Plant Sale, Saturday and Sunday, June 6 and 7, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.This will be your opportunity to get plants for your garden that have been lovingly tended in the Highlands, both vegetables and flowers. During this event, Fiona will be open, with art on the walls, the gift and second hand shop open and espresso and treats ready. Watch for future events. Call 509-485-2281 for info.

4-H LEADER’S COUNCIL SCHOLARSHIP FUNDRAISER

OKANOGAN - The Okanogan County 4-H Leader’s Council will be holding a yard sale on Saturday, June 6 from 9am-3pm at 531 2nd Ave. North, Okanogan.

Funds raised at this event will support the Council’s scholarship

fund. For more information, or to donate yard sale items, please contact Marnee at 509-422-2130 or 509-557-8523

TONASKET FOOD BANKTONASKET - The Tonasket

Food Bank operates every Thursday from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the old Sarge’s Burger Bunker, 101 Hwy. 97 N. For more infor-mation, contact Debbie Roberts at 509-486-2192.

OROVILLE FOOD BANKOROVILLE - 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 info, call Jeff Austin at 509-476-3978 or Sarah Umana at 509-476-2386.

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SUBMITTED BY SCOTT FURMANOKANOGAN COUNTY ASSESSOR

The Okanogan County Assessor’s Office will mail out approximately 8,500 notice of value change forms May 29, 2015 to property owners pri-marily located within the Omak School District as well as some landowners in the Tonasket and Oroville School District.

The State requires that one-sixth of the county be physically inspected each year. Most of the land within the Omak School District was located in this years’ physical inspection area. Some neighborhoods in the Tonasket and Oroville School District were also adjusted to reflect the real

estate market in that area.Changes in value varied based

upon location with some assess-ments staying in a similar range as the prior value while others were adjusted to reflect sales that have occurred in that particular neighborhood. These new values will affect taxes paid in 2016.

The Assessor’s Office encour-ages anyone who has questions on their assessment to call the office at 509-422-7190. Appeals must be received by the Okanogan County Board of Equalization by Monday, July 1, 2015. Appeal forms can be accessed from the web: www.okanogancounty.org or you can call the Board of Equalization at 509-422-7100 and they can mail a form to you.

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SUBMITTED BY WAYNE WALKEROKANOGAN / N. DOUGLAS EMS COUNCIL

OKANOGAN - In 1973, President Gerald Ford authorized Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Week to celebrate its prac-titioners and the important work they do in responding to medical emergencies.

A lot has changed over the past four decades. EMS is now firmly established as a key component of the medical care continuum and plays an important role in saving lives from sudden cardiac arrest, stroke and trauma. Today, EMS agencies bring the ER to you with highly trained, skilled person-nel and highly technical medical equipment to transport the sick and injured to the best equipped

hospital to treat the problem. These professionals do all this while showing care and compas-sion to their patients. Though they often do not make the news EMS professionals are there for their communities at their great-est time of need, often at great personal sacrifice.

As chairman of the Okanogan/North Douglas County Emergency Care Council and on behalf of the Council in observance of EMS Week, I would like to extend a sin-cere and heartfelt Thank You to all the volunteer and paid EMS pro-fessionals in Okanogan and North Douglas Counties. The Council would also request the public to take a moment to reach out and thank the many individuals and agencies which serve our com-munities.

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Faith Lutheran Church11th & Ironwood, Oroville • 476-2426

Sunday Worship 9:00 a.m. “O taste and see that the Lord is good!”

Pastor Dan Kunkel • Deacon Dave Wildermuth

Immaculate ConceptionCatholic Church

1715 Main Street Oroville9:00 a.m. English Mass every Sunday

1:00 p.m. Spanish Mass every SundayFather Jose Maldonado • 476-2110

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Oroville Ward33420 Highway 97

509-476-2740Sunday, 10:00 a.m.

Visitors are warmly welcomed

Oroville Unit ed Methodist908 Fir, Oroville • 476-2681

Worship on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. Leon L. Alden, Pastor

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

Healing Service: 1st SundayThe Reverend Marilyn Wilder 476-3629

Warden • 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.Pastor Tony Rivera • 509-557-6146

Oroville Free Methodist1516 Fir Street • 509-476.2311

Sunday School 9:15 am Worship Service 10:15am

offi [email protected] Rod Brown

NEW Hope Bible FellowshipService Time: Sun., 10:30 a.m. Wed., 6:30 p.m.Estudio de la Biblia en español Martes 6:30 p.m.

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OROVILLE LOOMISLoomis Community Church

Main Street in Loomis9:45 a.m. Sunday School11 a.m. Worship Service

Pastor Bob HaskellInformation: 509-223-3542

CHESAWChesaw Community Bible Church

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

Pastor Duane Scheidemantle • 485-3826

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Riverside Lighthouse - Assembly of God102 Tower Street

Sunday Bible Study 10:00amSunday Worship 11:00am & 6:30pm

Wednesday- family Night 6:30pmPastor Vern & Anita Weaver

Ph. 509-826-4082

Community Christian FellowshipMolson Grange, Molson

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Holy Rosary Catholic Church1st & Whitcomb Ave., Tonasket

11 a.m. English Mass every Sunday7:00 p.m. Spanish Mass every Saturday

Father Jose Maldonado • 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, throughfaith--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, thoughtfulgroup of Christian People”

Sunday Worship at 11:15 a.m.Leon L. Alden, Pastor

Ellisforde Church of the Brethren32116 Hwy. 97, Tonasket.

11 am Sunday School. 11 am Worship Service “Continuing the work of Jesus...simply, peacefully, together”

Pastor Debbie Roberts, 509-486-4531Open doors affi rming deversity and welcoming to all

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Tonasket Bible Church10 6th East and Whitcomb • 509-429-2948

Pastor Stephen Williams • www.tonasketbiblechurch.orgSun. Worship Service 9:30 am

Sun. Christian Education Hour 11 am • Sun. Eve. Service 6 pm“SANCTIFY THEM IN TRUTH; YOUR

WORD IS TRUTH.” JOHN 17:17

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tatives requested a presence at the May 12 meeting. Jean E. Ramsey was the only one present, and wanted to know why the city shut down parking along the road into and out of Chief Tonasket Park. Mayor Patrick Plumb responded it was impossible to get an ambu-lance in there with cars parked along the road. Ramsey was told there are parking lots available for visitors to the park, and once the Splash Park opens it will have designated parking. The Splash Park is scheduled to open the first week of June.

YEAR OF THE AIRPORTLee Orr and Don Colbert of the

Tonasket Airport Improvement Club said the airport courtesy car was no longer usable. Plumb said the city had delivered a surplus police car over to OK Chevrolet, and suggested that be used as the courtesy car.

Council member Scott Olson said it would be a good deal, as the city was not going to do any-thing else with the car. Audience member and former council member Ramsey said as a pas-senger car it held up fine.

Orr next requested the city assist the Airport Improvement Club with an insurance issue. He said there was a privately owned aircraft fuel station at the airport that the city was requiring liabil-ity insurance on. Orr said the insurance was so cost-prohibitive it would cost them more than going to Omak to buy the fuel.

“All the other cities that have fuel, the system is owned by the city,” said Orr. “We approached the council years ago and they nixed the idea, so we put in the private system, co-oped by 23 people now.”

Orr suggested the city take over the fuel system, but if they did they would need a card lock system, which would cost between six to ten thousand dollars. Plumb sug-gested the Airport Improvement Club meet with the Transportation Committee, made up of Claire Jeffko and Jill Vugteveen.

Orr then said the Airport Improvement Club would like to put up a permanent pavilion in their park to use for the Fly-in BBQ. He said they would build it in stages as they could afford to, starting with a pole building. Orr said they would like to take on all costs of building it, and then give it to the city so they wouldn’t have to pay property tax or pay for permits.

Plumb said they would need to work with both Jensen and Christian Johnson, the City Building Inspector.

“Let’s have 2015 be the year of the airport,” said Plumb.

A motion was made by Jeffko and seconded by Lois Rice to have Tonasket join the Airport Managers Association, with City Planner Kurt Danison as repre-sentative and Jensen as alternate.

ECONOMIC ALLIANCE LOOKING AT N. COUNTYDanison reported the

Economic Alliance Committee was planning a tour of the Oroville Reman and Reload on 9th Ave.

“The Economic Alliance is looking at trying to maintain some presence up here,” said Danison. The Reload plant was chosen because it is a success-ful and growing business in the north part of the county that has experienced some infrastructure and land use issues.

Danison said the Executive Director will be scheduling meet-ings with folks in the northern part of the county interested in the Alliance and how it may be able to help. Persons wanting to meet with Roni should call the Alliance at (509) 826-5107.

The Okanogan County Council of Governments (OCOG) met May 11 and approved the program for how they would spend the $28,000 Okanogan County por-tion of the RTPO funds provided by the legislature. The OCOG adopted a Unified Planning Work Program (UPWP), a requirement for obtaining and spending the money.

“The money will be used to defray administrative costs of the OCOG and pay for consul-tant time to prepare a Regional Transportation Plan,” said Danison.

The $28,000 is an annual allo-cation and can be rolled from the first year of the biennium to the second, but must be expended by the end of the biennium or be lost.

Danison also reported the Geneesee and Wyoming Railroad (GWRR) agreed to allow the City to develop the primitive cross-ing located at the south end of the County Shop property. The City will next need to prepare a petition to the Utilities and Transportation Commission (UTC) requesting a permit for the crossing, hopefully accompa-nied by a letter from the GWRR requesting that the requirement for a UTC public hearing be waived.

Danison said after July 1 he will be able to apply for grant funds from the UTC to get the dollars needed to design the new crossing to the satisfaction of the GWRR. He said the City would identify and pursue a variety of funding sources for the construc-tion of the road/railroad crossing and pedestrian facility to access the park. Danison said the proj-ect would entail rebuilding the county shop road and putting in a paved pathway from down-town to Chief Tonasket Park that will tie in with the Armed Forces Legacy Park on US 97.

“It’s still a couple years out, but considering it was 25 years ago when we first petitioned them, it’s pretty exciting,” said Danison.

OTHER BUSINESSVugteveen expressed concern

over flood damage that may have occurred for area businesses dur-ing Monday’s (May 11) storm. She said a video was made show-ing a wave in front of Lee Franks whenever a car went past. Jensen

said Public Works was having dif-ficulty keeping the storm drains cleared of Chinese Elm leaves. Vugteveen asked if documenta-tion was being done to get storm water issues dealt with by the DOT. Plumb said the DOT didn’t have any funding, and Vugteveen said Tonasket projects were often given low priority.

Interim Police Chief Darren Curtis reported receiving lots of positive community feedback over proactive patrols at the school.

“We’ve got unmarked cars up there, and multiple communi-ty members have come by and thanked us for the extra patrols, which have led to a decrease in activity around the high school and alternative school,” said Curtis.

He also reported looking into purchasing a surplus Fish and Wildlife vehicle to be used for animal control. Stray animals cannot be transported in the same vehicle compartment as prisoners, and the Crown Vics have only one compartment.

While approving bills to be paid, Vugteveen questioned the city spending $66 for a 60-day supply of methocarbamol for a prisoner who had a short stay in jail last month.

“Why are we providing prison-ers with more medical care than just the time they are in jail?” Vugteveen asked.

Plumb reported being pleased with U.S. Representative Dan Newhouse’s May 13 visit to North Valley Hospital.

“We conveyed to him the importance of protecting jobs there,” said Plumb. “I also invited him to utilize city hall here for monthly meetings they hold in Omak. Staff said half the issues they are dealing with are veteran issues, and we have a lot of veter-ans here.”

Plumb said he also saw the tour of the hospital as “a good thing for the community to go in and see the hospital.

“We supported the bond, so it’s good to come in and see the money at work,” said Plumb, an NVH employee.

The council declared May 23, 24, 29 and 30 as “Poppy Days” for the American Legion Auxiliary.

According to the proclama-tion, the poppy grew wild on the battlefields of Flanders, flourish-ing among shelled buildings and the bomb-scarred landscape. Its brilliant red bloom, so much like the blood which had been shed there, became a sign of hope and renewal for World War I Veterans who lived and walked away from the battlefields. For those who would never leave, it was a perpetual memorial to their bravery.

The nine-piece crepe paper poppy, made by veterans, serves as physical and psychological therapy. The Memorial Poppy contributions are devoted entirely to rehabilitation and assistance for veterans and their families. The poppies will be available for purchase at local businesses in Tonasket during Poppy Days.

COUNCIL | FROM A1

Spring Barrel Tastings

Slippery Slope sang the blues Saturuday, May 16, while visitors to Esther Bricques Winery enjoyed Spring Barrel Tastings. Left, Chuck Oakes on guitar and vocals; above, Ron Champagne on bass, Dave Wheatley on congas and harp, Jim Attwood on drums and Oakes entertain guests on the patio. Right, Linda Colvin serves samplings of 2013 and 2014 white wines from stainless steel tanks and 2013 reds from French Oak barrells to (left to right) Marcia and Terry Peterson, Harriet Stangland, LeeAnn Peterson and Karen Stangland. Esther Bricques Winery holds summer tasting hours Thursday through Monday from 1:00 p.m. to 5 p.m., and Thursday Eve Music Socials at 6 p.m. Copper Mountain Vineyard also held a Spring Barrel Tasting Saturday, May 16, from 1-5 p.m.Katie Teachout/staff photos

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BY BRENT BAKEROKVALLEYSPORTS.COM

EPHRATA - May 16, 2015 - Tonasket’s softball team won its first post-season game in 12 years on Saturday, but that doesn’t come close to describing the improbable run that the Tigers suddenly find themselves on.

Where does one start? A 15-5 win over Waterville will some-

day show as just a line in the scorebook, but for a program that has struggled since the most of the players in uniform on Saturday were in pre-school, it wasn’t something anyone could have predicted even a few weeks ago.

It took half the season to shake off the mentality that comes with a league-game losing streak so long that no one really remembered when it started. Granted, there were a couple non-league victories sprinkled into most every season, but through several coaching changes and all the different permutations of the Caribou Trail and Central Washington Leagues, the Tigers hadn’t won a league contest since 2007. That was 111 straight games, a streak that ended emphati-cally with a pair of mercy-rule wins over Manson a few weeks ago.

The improvement has been there in fits and starts. But that is what one might expect on a team with just four returning players, a lone senior that only had slow-pitch softball experience, and several others that hadn’t ever played the game before.

“The Streak” was broken with two mercy-rule wins over Manson. Later in the season a superb effort in a 7-3 loss to Pateros was followed by a 21-4 loss to the Nannies. A doubleheader sweep at Oroville was followed by two disspirit-ing losses to Bridgeport.

Surviving two games at Lake Roosevelt on Tuesday, May 12, set the Tigers up for their dramatic three-way playoff victories over the Fillies and Hornets the next day (see story below).

The reward?A matchup with powerful Kittitas,

with its 17-1 record, ranked in Scoreczar.org’s computer rankings as the No. 2 Class 2B team in the state, that had played only three games all year that didn’t end early thanks to a 10 or 15-run margin of victory.

What looked on paper to be a rout was anything but.

The Tigers fell to the Coyotes 7-2, but in doing so likely played the best seven innings turned in by a Tonasket softball team in a decade.

“I’m honest with the girls about everybody we play,” said Tonasket coach Emily Rimestad. “I said that if we worked hard, we could compete with them, that we could go down fighting.

“But never in my wildest dreams did I expect to have a coach a little nervous

at that level. The girls wanted it so bad, you could taste it in the air.”

Kittitas took a 2-0 lead in the first, but Trinity DeJong prevented further damage with a bases loaded strikeout. DeJong worked her way out of several jams over the next several innings.

“It could have gotten out of hand,” Rimestad said. “But the girls had the spirit of not wanting to just give it to them.”

“I knew they were going to be really tough to beat,” DeJong said. “But going out there as a team, and pushing our hardest, really paid off.”

Meanwhile, the Tigers put together a two out rally in the fourth. Megan Powell walked, Kayla Willis singled and Sam Keller walked to load the bases. DeJong followed with an RBI single, but Willis was thrown out trying to score what would have been the tying run from second base to end the rally.

In the fifth, Madilynn Larson scored on Lexi Wahl’s RBI double, and Dayzi Keller followed with a single that put Wahl on third.

That rally ended in frustrating fashion as Keller tried to steal second. Kittitas shortstop Brianna Shipley dropped the throw and landed on the ball while tagging Keller with her empty glove;

the umpire didn’t see the loose ball and called her out. Wahl safely reached home on the play, but with Keller called out the Tigers were denied the go-ahead run.

“When I slid I felt her tag me,” said Keller, the team’s lone senior. “I was like, ‘Dang, I’m out,’ then I saw the ball there and started to get excited because I was safe. Then he called me out. I wasn’t sure what had happened, but people in the dugout were pretty mad.”

Brita Stermetz’s two-run double in the bottom of the fifth put the Coyotes ahead for good. Stermetz later scored, and Kittitas added two more in the sixth.

DeJong allowed four hits and six walks while striking out five. Kittitas went on to edge Okanogan 5-4 in the district semifinal.

The Tigers took their frustration out on Waterville in a loser-out contest, with the 10-run win guaranteeing two more games next weekend, racking up 10 extra-base hits.

Vanessa Pershing doubled in the first inning and Lexi Wahl followed with an RBI single that, with Alexa Sutton scor-ing on a wild pitch, gave the Tigers a 2-0 first inning lead.

From there the Tigers pounded the

ball. Sam Keller hit a single, double, triple and scored on a four-base error (not quite hitting for the cycle); Sutton hit two triples and two doubles; and Pershing had a triple and two doubles.

Pershing earned the win in the pitch-ing circle, allowing five runs - four in the third inning - while striking out 11.

With that win, the Tigers (9-13) move on to play CWL North co-cham-pion Brewster to open tournament play at noon on Saturday. They’ll also have a 2:30 game - either for third and fourth place (if they beat Brewster) or a fifth place, winner-to-state/loser out contest.

Needing just one win to get to the state tournament, especially with such an inexperienced squad, seemed unfath-omable not too long ago. Now?

“When we played Brewster before (in March), we made a lot of mistakes,” Rimestad said. “I don’t feel like we’ll do that now. We’re playing together as a true team. We’ve taken to heart that it’s not an ‘I’ sport.

“Coach (Breanne) Hansen and I are just incredibly proud of what these girls have accomplished.”

“If we play the way we did against Kittitas,” said Pershing, “we feel like we can compete with anyone.”


OROVILLE - May 13, 2015 - Softball may not be best played in the rain, but after Wednesday’s three-way tiebreak playoff, the Tonasket Tigers weren’t com-plaining.

Oroville’s Hornets made the best of it, still reasonably happy after losing in extra innings to the Tigers as both teams lived to fight another day in the post-season.

Bridgeport, which had to travel to Oroville for the second straight day after losing both ends of a doubleheader to the Hornets on Tuesday, didn’t have that consola-tion.

The Tigers clinched their first district tournament berth since 2005 with a 6-4 victory over the Fillies in the loser-out, four inning mini-game.

Oroville, which had a first-round bye (thanks to a pre-season number draw), rallied for four runs in the bottom of the fourth (and final) inning of the second game to force extra innings, but Tonasket scratched out a run in the fifth and held on for an 8-7 win.

The Tigers headed straight to Saturday’s district tournament, while the Hornets had to play again on Thursday in Ephrata against White Swan in a district play-in game.

“This really is a Cinderella story,” said Tonasket coach Emily Rimestad. “I’m so proud of the girls, I almost can’t believe this.

“Coming in here, the girls were nervous because they’d just lost to Bridgeport on Saturday. They knew it would be tough, but they came with the attitude that they were winners, they wouldn’t give up and they wanted to be the team that proved they could make it to districts.”

Most of both games were played in a driving rain that would have forced a postpone-ment under most circumstances. But neither umpires nor coaches

seemed inclined to put things off due to the potential of dis-rupting the entire eight-team dis-trict tournament despite pools forming around third base and on top of home plate. Pitchers struggled to keep their grip on the ball throughout as coaches spent most of the game wiping off softballs with towels and shirts before returning them to play.

Adding to the intrigue, the Tigers were missing three players who were in Pullman for state FFA competition, leaving them with exactly the nine girls needed to play. Considering most of them were in pre-school or kindergar-ten the last time Tonasket played a meaningful softball game, it probably never occurred to any-one until Tuesday night that there might be a scheduling issue.

Though the Tonasket-Oroville matchup wasn’t a matter of sur-vival, winning it did mean the winner avoided an extra trip to Ephrata the next day. Add to that the usual back-and-forth between rivals - including some pre-game social media sniping - and there was no lack of desire in either dugout.

A seven-run third inning put the Tigers in solid, though as it turned out not secure, position. Four walks and an error got the rally started, with Kayla Willis’ two-run single, Sam Keller’s RBI hit and Vanessa Pershing’s run-scoring double providing the big hits. Rachelle Nutt threw out Keller at home on Pershing’s double to end the rally with the Tigers up 7-1.

The Hornets rallied in the bot-tom of the third as Pie Todd plated Faith Martin with an RBI single and later scored on a wild pitch.

The Hornets needed four to tie in the bottom of the fourth, and got them. Pershing’s control deserted her in the downpour as she hit two batters and walked five in the inning. But the Tigers caught a break when Alexis Allenby apparently scored on a wild pitch, but was ruled to have

missed the puddle that was pass-ing as home plate by that point.

The Tigers gave that break right back. Pitchers had been tossing the ball to coaches between near-ly every pitch to be dried off, had to be granted time out by umpires first. But when the Tigers failed to secure a time out before toss-ing the ball to the dugout, Martin came racing home from third base to tie the score.

Pershing recovered to strike out two of the next three batters to retire the side and force extra innings.

“The rain was awful,” Pershing said, taking no satisfaction in the fact that Bridgeport and Oroville pitchers struggled with it as well. “I was just trying to focus on my own game and not what the other team was doing.

“Most of the time I can just focus on Lexi and throw it.”

Lexi Wahl, Dayzi Keller and Megan Powell walked to lead off the inning. The Hornets nearly got out of it on Kayla Willis’ grounder as first basemen Syd Egerton tagged Willis and fired to home plate in time for Martin to tag out Wahl trying to score from third. Dayzi Keller scored on a wild pitch to give the Tigers the lead, and Pershing struck out the final two batters with a runner on second to secure the win.

The Hornets quickly shook off their disappointment, belly flop-ping in the mud around third base after the game and treating anyone within arms’ reach to a mud facial of sorts.

“To be honest, we’d been told that even if we won yesterday we were done,” said Oroville coach Dane Forrester. “Then we got a call last night that there would be this playoff, which made sense.

“This was the muddiest game I’ve ever been a part of in my life. But if we didn’t play this out today, it would have been tomor-row and they’d have had to move the play-in game. No one wanted to play Thursday, Friday and then in districts on Saturday without a break. Typically they would have called these games pretty quick; everyone agreed, we were going to play it out.”

Forrester was much happier with his team’s play than he had been during the Hornets’ double-header loss on May 1 that helped set the stage for the three-way tie.

“I think we came in overconfi-dent that first game,” he said. “We played better the seond game, but our heads still weren’t there.

“Vanessa (Pershing) is a good pitcher. She puts the ball across the plate. We needed to be patient with her a couple of weeks ago

and we weren’t. Today we did a much better job.”

Tonasket started against a Bridgeport team that had wal-loped them twice just four days earlier, 15-3 and 22-2.

The Fillies jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the second inning. Viridiana Santana singled, and Brianna Rogers walked, with both eventually scoring on wild pitches. Jessica Quesada singled, and Tonasket pitcher Vanessa Pershing walked three straight batters to force in one run and had another score on a wild pitch.

The rain, which had con-tributed to Pershing’s wildness, didn’t help Bridgeport pitcher Samantha Martinez, either. The Tigers’ two out rally in the third started with walks to Pershing and Alexa Sutton. Trinity DeJong singled home Pershing, and after Madilynn Larson walked, Lexi Wahl roped a two-run single to cut the deficit to 4-3. Larson came home with the tying run on a wild pitch.

The Tigers won it in their final at bat in the fourth, as Kayla Willis and Sam Keller opened the inning both walked. With two outs, Sutton’s two-run double off the glove of a leaping Bridgeport outfielder brought home the go-head runs.

Bridgeport put two runners on with one out in the bottom of the frame, but Pershing induced a groundout for the second out and Larson snagged Mari Hourie’s line drive to second to end the game.

And so Tonasket (8-12) - short-handed, youthful and inexperi-enced - earned a date with sec-ond-ranked Kittitas (17-1), which has won 15 games by the 10 or 15-run mercy rule. The Tigers would still have just nine available players. Rimestad didn’t care.

“This is a whole new team from last year,” she said. “They’d never played together, a number of girls had never picked up a bat or thrown a ball to speak of. This is a real Cinderella story. To have a team with no experience, to this, is pretty cool.”

Brent Baker/OK Valley Sports

No one was safe from a good-natured Oroville softball squad after last Wednesday’s three-way tiebreak that was played in the muddiest conditions anyone could remember. Faith Martin spreads mud on willing victim Rachelle Nutt, while in the background coach Dane Forrester tries in vain to avoid a mud bath from another player.

Tigers, Hornets survive 3-way playoff, mud bath


EPHRATA - A long week of ups and downs for the Oroville softball team came to an end on Saturday with a pair of losses at the 2B District 5/6 tournament as the Hornets lost to Brewster 28-1 and to Liberty Bell 10-5.

There didn’t appear to be much left in the proverbial tank as the team took the field for its eighth and ninth games since last Saturday.

That included their May Day double-header with Okanogan; a must-win, 8-4, 12-11 doubleheader sweep of Bridgeport on Tuesday; Wednesday’s tiebreak loss to Tonasket (see below); a trip to Ephrata on Thursday to defeat White Swan 23-16 in a district-play-in game; and Saturday’s two games in the double-elimination tournament that will see five of eight teams head to the state finals.

The Hornets, matched up against CWL North co-champion Brewster, actually led 1-0 in the first inning as Rachelle Nutt came in to score on a wild pitch.

Brewster’s 14-run second inning put the game out of reach.

The Hornets had a much better outing in their loser-out game with Liberty Bell. They started out with a bang as Rachelle Nutt walked, and Faith Martin, Courtnee Kallstrom and Pie Todd followed with hits as the Hornets scored four runs in the first inning.

Oroville (9-14 for the year) wasn’t able to cross the plate again until the seventh.

Terry Mills/submitted photo

The Hornets’ Courtnee Kallstrom winds up for a pitch during her team’s season-ending 10-5 loss to Liberty Bell in district tournament play on Saturday, May 16.

Hornets bow out

Tonasket softball keeps surprising run alive

Brent Baker/OK Valley Sports

Tonasket’s Trinity DeJong tags out Kittitas’ Natasha Vincett at home plate during the Tigers’ loss to the Coyotes on Saturday.

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Mens Open ~ BALL DON’T LIE ~Jeremiah Riggle/Omak, Gabe Aubertin/Wilbur, Ambrose Bessett/ Omak, Nick Verbeck/Omak

Womens Opens ~ HAS BEENS ~ Janice Wilson/Tonasket, Kylie Dellinger/Tonasket, Ashley Baker/Riverside, Naomie Boesel/Malott

Boys High School ~ DEEZ NUTS ~ Jesse Ramon/Tonasket, Jorden Thrasher/Tonasket, Adrian McCarthy/Tonas-ket, Raven Boyd/Omak

Girls High School ~ JUST ELEVATE ~ Lily Hilderbrand/Oroville, Hannah Hilderbrand/Oroville, Katie Egerton/Oroville, Havannah Worrell/Oroville

Boy 14 and Under ~ BULLDOGS ~ Gage Wilson/Okanogan, Levi Veenhuizen/Okanogan, Frank Vega/Okanogan, Gavin Cohen/Omak

Girls 14 and Under ~ FAB 4 ~Madi Larson/Tonasket, Ellie Alberts/Tonasket, Masie Ramon/Tonasket, Alex Perez/Tonasket

Boys 12 and Under ~ THE ELITE 4 ~ Kyle Hendrick/Ephrata, Tyler Lybbert/Ephrata, Jacob Rawley/Ephrata, Owen Towry/Ephrata

Girls 12 and Under ~ BAT GIRLS ~ Hadley Blasey/Oroville, Maddie Martin/Oroville, Kensie Hugus/Oroville, Emily Rawley/Oroville

OROVILLE MAY DAY 3 ON 3 CHAMPS

Submitted photo

Oroville’s May Day 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament was again a big success, with perfect weather and a huge crowd on hand two weekends ago.

OKANOGAN - Three Oroville Hornets and one Tonasket Tiger qualified for the District 5/6 Class 1A/2B tennis tournament by earning top-four finishes at Saturday’s Central Washington League meet.

The four CWL qualifiers will be matched up against the top four Caribou Trail League fin-ishers Tuesday and Saturday at the district tourney, played at Cashmere and Cascade.

Oroville’s Nathan Hugus advanced to the champion-ship match, falling to top-seed-ed Alberto Quezada of Entiat. Hugus, the second seed, defeated Stoney Hulon of Liberty Bell and Caeleb Hardesty of Tonasket to reach the finals.

The Hornets’ doubles team of Joe Sarmiento and Connor BoCook also earned a district spot with a fourth place finish.

They lost their second round match but came back through the consolation brackets to reach the third place match. That was highlighted by an upset of the second-seeded Rojas brothers of Pateros in an elimination match.

Tonasket’s Aspen Verhasselt, seeded 10th coming into the tournament, is peaking at the right time. Verhasselt topped seventh seeded Anna Spencer in the opening round and second-seeded EmmaLee Luft of Pateros in the second round. Brianna Cox topped Verhasselt in the semifinals, but she defeated fifth-seeded Tiger teammate Baillie Hirst to reach the third place match, where she fell to Luft in a rematch.

CWB TENNIS TOURNAMENT

Oroville & Tonasket players and District Quali� ers

Girls Singles - best of 3 except where noted

Round 1 - Pro Set (no ad scoring)(5) Baillie Hirst (TON) def. (12) Ireland

Looper (PAT)(4) Hanna Smith (OKA) def. (13) Lena

Fuchs (ORO)(3) Lily Hilderbrand (ORO) def. (14)

Tiva Ward (LBE)(10) Aspen Verhasselt (TON) def. (7)

Anna Spencer (ENT)

Round 2 (4) Hanna Smith (OKA) def. (5) Baillie

Hirst (TON)(6) Brianna Cox (OKA) def. (3) Lily

Hilderbrand (ORO)(10) Aspen Verhasselt (TON) def. (2)

EmmaLee Luft (PAT)

Round 3 - Semi� nal(6) Brianna Cox (OKA) def. (10) Aspen

Verhasselt (TON)

Round 3 - Consolation(5) Baillie Hirst (TON) def. (9) Erin Frey

(LBE)(2) EmmaLee Luft (PAT) def. (3) Lily

Hilderbrand (ORO)

Round 4 - Consolation semi� nal(10) Aspen Verhasselt (TON) def. (5)

Baillie Hirst (TON)

Third Place(2) EmmaLee Luft (PAT) def. (10)

Aspen Verhasselt (TON)

District Quali� ers1. Morelia Maravilla - White Swan2. Brianna Cox - Okanogan3. EmmaLee Luft - Pateros4. Aspen Verhasselt - Tonasket

Girls Doubles - best of 3 except where noted

Round 1 - Pro Set (no ad scoring)(4) Mandi Wilson/ Johnna Terris def.

(13) Delgado/Anguiano (WS)(6) Spoonhunter/Gutierrez (WS) def.

(11) Brooke Nelson/Jensen Sack-man (TON)

Round 2(4) Mandi Wilson/ Johnna Terris (TON)

def. (5) Southard/Arias (ENT)

Round 3(1) Walker/Patrick (OKA) def. (4) Man-

di Wilson/ Johnna Terris (TON)

Round 4 - Consolation(6) Spoonhunter/Gutierrez (WS) def.

(4) Mandi Wilson/ Johnna Terris (TON)

District Quali� ers1. Walker/Patrick - Okanogan2. Beetchenow/Spencer - Okanogan3. Morales/Karkkainen - Pateros4. Spoonhunter/Gutierrez - White

Swan

Boys Singles - best of 3 except where noted

Round 1 - Pro Set (no ad scoring)(9) Elijah Burnell (ORO) def. (8) Jordan

Charles (LR)(4) Blake Chsledon (OKA) def. (13) Tim

Frazier (TON)(6) Caeleb Hardesty (TON) def. (11)

Alex Richards (OKA)(2) Nathan Hugus (ORO) def. (15)

Spencer Southard (ENT)

Round 2(1) Alberto Quezada (PAT) def. (9)

Elijah Burnell (ORO)(6) Caeleb Hardesty (TON) def. (3)

Carlos Ceniceros (PAT)(2) Nathan Hugus (ORO) def. (10)

Stoney Hulon (LBE)

Round 2 - Consolation(4) Blake Chesledon (OKA) def. (9)

Elijah Burnell (ORO)

Round 3 - Semi� nal(2) Nathan Hugus (ORO) def. (6)

Caeleb Hardesty (TON)

Round 3 - Consolation(4) Blake Chelsedon (OK) def. (6)

Caeleb Hardesty (TON)

Championship(1) Alberto Quezada (ENT) def. (2)

Nathan Hugus (ORO)

District Quali� ers1. Alberto Quezada - Entiat2. Nathan Hugus - Oroville3. Josh Frey - Liberty Bell4. Blake Chesledon - Okangan

Boys Doubles - best of 3 except where noted

Round 1 - Pro Set (no ad scoring)(8) Alexander/Rickenbaugh (LBE) def.

(9) Eric Owsley/Joe Schell (TON)(5) Joe Sarmiento/Connor BoCook

(ORO) def. (12) Lopez/Vasquez (WS)

(2) Rojas/Rojas (PAT) def. (15) Ryan MarcolinJaxon Blackler

Round 2(4) Montgomery/Olmos (ENT) def. (5)

Joe Sarmiento/Connor BoCook (ORO)

Round 3 - Consolation(5) Joe Sarmiento/Connor BoCook

(ORO) def. (8) Alexander/Ricka-baugh (LBE)

Round 4 - Consolation(5) Joe Sarmiento/Connor BoCook

(ORO) def. (2) Rojas/Rojas (PAT)

Third Place(1) Linklater/Cheeseman (OKA) def.

(5) Joe Sarmiento/Connor BoCook (ORO)

District Quali� ers1. Montgomery/Olmos - Entiat2. Schulz/Acord - Liberty Bell3. Linklater/Cheeseman - Okanogan 4. Joe Sarmiento/Connor BoCook -

Oroville

Oroville’s Nathan Hugus advanced to the finals of the CWB League tennis tournament and will be competing at the district tourney this week.Brent Baker/OK Valley Sports

3 Hornets, Verhasselt advance in tennis


TONASKET - Quantity and quality both count in the team scoring in track and field, and while the new, larger schools didn’t totally clean up on the 2B league holdovers, they certain-ly changed the dynamics of the CWL North Subdivision meet on Wednesday, May 13.

Okanogan and Tonasket took the top two spots in the girls meet, with the Bulldogs dou-bling up on the Tigers’ score in a dominant team performance. Tonasket, in turn, ran twice the score of third place Manson while Oroville placed seventh out of eight teams.

Bridgeport edged Okanogan and Liberty Bell for the boys team title. Tonasket was fourth, while the Hornets were seventh in that meet as well.

“That was the most competi-tive sub-district meet that I’ve seen in years,” said Oroville coach Harold Jensen.

Tonasket had success up and down the board. The Tigers’ inablity to keep pace with Okanogan had more to do with the Bulldogs placing two or more athletes in the top five of numer-ous events. While Tonasket nearly always had one top placer and several event wins, it wasn’t enough in terms of team scoring.

The Tigers qualified 17 athletes in 30 events for the District 5/6 championship meet Friday, May 22, in Ephrata.

Winning events for the Tigers were Rose Walts in the triple jump (34-0), long jump (15-8) and 100 hurdles (15.99); Katie Henneman in the 400 (1:05.43); Jenna Valentine in the 1600 (6:15.68); Henneman, Camille Wilson, Jaden Vugteveen and Alina Vlahovich in the 4x100 (52.70); and Ethan Bensing in the long jump (19-9).

Also moving on to next week for the girls are Vlahovich (100, 200, triple jump); Henneman (100); the 4x200 relay team (Wilson, Alycia Tibbs, Morgan Tyus, Madyson Clark); the 4x400 relay (Henneman, Vugteveen, Wilson and Shyane Lewis); Alissa Young (javelin); Tyus (high jump); Vugteveen (pole vault, triple jump).

The Tigers’ boys qualifiers include Smith Condon (200); Justin McDonald (400); Ryan Rylie (400); Abe Podkranic (800); Hunter Swanson (1600, 3200); the 4x100 relay (Condon, Rylie, Bensing, Johnathan Tellez); the 4x400 relay (Condon, Podkranic, Swanson, McDonald); Chad Edwards (shot put); Bensing

(high jump); and Lloyd Temby (high jump, long jump, triple jump).

The Hornets only send five athletes to the regional meet, but had several near-misses as well. What bodes well for the Hornets’ future is that all five qualifiers are freshmen, highlighted by Katie Egerton, a winner in the pole vault (8-6) and third place fin-isher in the 400.

Tylynne Watkins took sec-ond in the pole vault and Tori Kindred was fourth in the shot to round out the girls’ qualifiers.

Seth Miller (110 hurdles, 2nd and long jump, 4th) and Brandon Baugher (300 hurdles and long jump, 5th in both) qualified in two events each.

“Five freshman making it to the meet next week was an incredible feat on their part,” Jensen said.

Thornton, the meet’s host, added, “Thanks to the many vol-unteers who gave their time for our kids.”

The top four finishers in this Friday’s meet in each event advance to the state finals at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, May 28-30.

CWL NORTH SUB-DISTRICT

Boys Team Scoring: Bridgeport 109, Okanogan 105, Liberty Bell 96, Tonasket 80, Brewster 54, Manson 32, Oroville 17, Lake Roosevelt 12.

Boys Individual - Top 5 � nishers ad-vance to regionals; Quali� ers and Tonasket/Oroville � nishers listed

100 Dash - 1. Greyson Fields, OKAN, 11.53; 2. Mason Guerrette, OKAN, 11.58; 3. Jose Dominguez, LBEL, 12.15; 4. Elliel Roa, BREW, 12.32; 5. Spencer Ward, MNSN, 12.37; 6. Seth Miller, OROV, 12.48; 10. Justin McDonald, TONA, 12.76; 11. Johnathan Tellez, TONA, 12.79.

200 Dash - 1. Greyson Fields, OKAN, 23.54; 2. Wil Chandler, LBEL, 24.61; 3. Smith Condon, TONA 24.74; 4. Spencer Ward, MNSN. 25.46; 5. Jus-tin McDonald, TONA, 25.46; 12. Johnathan Tellez, TONA, 27.13.

400 Dash - 1. Payton Staggs, OKAN, 53.43; 2. Ryan Rylie, TONA, 53.46; 3. Wil Chandler, LBEL, 54.38; 4. Matt Sonneman, BREW, 55.98; 5. Bladimir Martinez, BRPT, 56.58; 8. Zach Clark, TONA, 1:03.64.

800 Run - 1. Oren Cox, BRPT, 2:08.52; 2. Edgar Guzman, BREW, 2:14.16; 3. Jordi Hernandez, BRPT, 2:15.19; 4. Abe Podkranic, TONA, 2:15.94; 5. Carter Dornfeld, LBEL, 2:17.43; 9. Matus Sitar, TONA, 2:32.81.

1600 Run - 1. Oren Cox, BRPT, 4:43.65; 2. Ben Klemmeck, LBEL, 4:49.48; 3. Josiah Klemmeck, LBEL, 4:51.61; 4. Hunter Swanson, TONA, 4:54.28; 5. Edgar Guzman, BREW, 4:54.58.

3200 Run - 1. Oren Cox, BRPT, 9:59.00; 2. Ben Klemmeck, LBEL, 10:28.19; 3. Josiah Klemmeck, LBEL, 10:42.46; 4. Hunter Swanson, TONA, 11:00.22; 5. Edgar Alcantara, BRPT, 11:09.38.

110 Hurdles - 1. Micah Klemmeck, LBEL, 17:51; 2. Seth Miller, OROV, 17.86; 3. Bailey Evenson, BRPT, 18.34; 4. Michael Brown, BRPT, 18.64; 5. Spencer Cleveland, OKAN, 18.96; 7. Brandon Baugher, OROV,

20.54.300 Hurdles - 1. Micah Klemmeck,

LBEL, 43.83; 2. Bailey Evenson, BRPT, 45.04; 3. Nicanor Palacios, BRPT, 45.44; 4. Michael Brown, BRPT, 47.03; 5. Brandon Baugher, OROV, 47.61.

4x100 Relay - 1. Okanogan 44.84; 2. Liberty Bell 45.25; 3. Tonasket (Smith Condon, Ryan Rylie, Johnathan Tellez, Ethan Bensing) 46.81; 4. Brewster 48.22; 5. Bridge-port 48.76.

4x400 Relay - 1. Liberty Bell 3:44.99; 2. Bridgeport 3:48.10; 3. Brews-ter 3:48.40; 4. Tonasket (Smith Condon, Abe Podkranic, Hunter Swanson, Justin McDonald) 3:48.48; 5. Okanogan 3:51.83.

Shot Put - 1. Octavio Alejandre, LROS, 49-1; 2. Chance Williams, BREW, 42-10; 3. Willy Picton, MNSN, 42-10; 4. Chad Edwards, TONA, 40-2; 5. Dakota Hu� , OKAN, 39-9; 9. Dakota Haney, OROV, 34-4; 25. Zeke Silverthorn, TONA, 21-7.5.

Discus - 1. Willy Picton, MNSN, 123-6; 2. David Cruz, BREW, 111-1; 3. Mason Cameron, MNSN, 110-2; 4. Marc Martinez, BRPT, 109-8; 5. Tyler Cox, OKAN, 101-4; 10. Dakota Haney, OROV, 87-11; 19. Riley Morris, TONA, 53-7.

Javelin - 1. Austin Warren, OKAN, 154-2; 2. Greyson Fields, OKAN, 140-6; 3. Brandon Bach, BREW, 137-5; 4. Marc Martinez, BRPT, 130-10; 5. Andrew Reggiatore, LBEL, 120-6; 15. Dakota Haney, OROV, 85-3; 19. Zeke Silverthorn, TONA, 64-7.

High Jump - 1. Mason Guerrette, OKAN, 6-0; 2. Bailey Evenson, BRPT, 5-8; 3. Ethan Bensing, TONA, 5-2; 4. Lloyd Temby, TONA, 5-0; 5. Jordi Hernandez, BRPT, 5-0.

Pole Vault - 1. Bailey Evenson, BRPT, 9-0.

Long Jump - 1. Ethan Bensing, TONA, 19-9; 2. Payton Staggs, OKAN, 19-5; 3. Lloyd Temby, TONA, 19-2; 4. Seth Miller, OROV, 18-8; 5. Bran-don Baugher, OROV, 16-9.5.

Triple Jump - 1. Mason Guerrette, OKAN, 41-4; 2. Ethan Bensing, TONA, 41-1; 3. Andrew Reggiatore, LBEL, 40-5; 4. Lloyd Temby, TONA, 36-8; 5. Martin Trejo, BRPT, 32-3.5.

Girls Team Scoring: Okanogan 221, Tonasket 118, Manson 57, Bridge-port 43, Brewster 34, Liberty Bell 34, Oroville 29, Lake Roosevelt 12.

Individual - Top 5 � nishers advance to regionals; Quali� ers and Tonasket/Oroville � nishers listed

100 Dash - 1. Cayden Diefenbach, OKAN, 13.61; 2. Alina Vlahovich, TONA, 13.66; 3. Katie Henneman, TONA, 13.78; 4. Keanna Egbert, OKAN, 13.86; 5. Baylee Ward, MNSN, 13.93; 20. Alycia Tibbs, TONA, 16.06; 24. Madyson Clark, TONA, 16.78;

200 Dash - 1. Jillyan Taylor, OKAN, 28.28; 2. Alina Vlahovich, TONA, 28.45; 3. Jasmine LeDuc, BRPT, 29.36; 4. Alexis Jones, OKAN, 29.46; 5. Faviola Pamatz, BREW, 29.93; 15. Alycia Tibbs, TONA, 33.31.

400 Dash - 1. Katie Henneman, TONA, 1:05.43; 2. True Downey, OKAN, 1:05.86; 3. Katie Egerton, OROV, 1:06.94; 4. Daicy Leyva, MNSN, 1:10.11; 5. Ana Garcia, MNSN, 1:13.70.

800 Run - 1. Karina Rincon, BREW, 2:29.95; 2. True Downey, OKAN, 2:37.31; 3. Alyssa Hannah, MNSN, 2:54.86; 4. Ari Martinez, BREW, 2:55.98; 5. Kate Stone, OKAN, 3:03.62; 6. Mary Naylor, TONA, 3:04.07.

1600 Run - 1. Jenna Valentine, TONA,

6:15.68; 2. Kate Stone, OKAN, 6:54.40; 3. Madilyn Tverberg, OKAN, 7:21.94; 4. Wiebke Seelieb, OKAN, 7:29.38; 5. Anahi Zabaleta,OKAN, 7:54.64.

3200 Run - 1. Kate Stone, OKAN, 14:24.0; 2. Alyssa Hannah, MNSN, 14:27.0; 3. Jennifer Gomez, BRPT, 14:39; 4. Madilyn Tverberg, OKAN, 15:07.0; 5. Ana Orozco, BREW, 15:24.0.

100 Hurdles - 1. Rose Walts, TONA, 15.99; 2. Satya Kent, OKAN, 17.28; 3. Natalie Treise, LBEL, 18.14; 4. Laila Kent, OKAN, 18.28; 5. Lauren Fitzmaurice, LBEL, 18.39.

300 Hurdles - 1. Satya Kent, OKAN, 51.71; 2. Laila Kent, OKAN, 53.38; 3. Lauren Fitzmaurice, LBEL, 55.67; 4. Camille Wilson, TONA, 1:01.22.

4x100 Relay - 1. Tonasket (Katie Henneman, Camille Wilson, Jaden Vugteveen, Alina Vlahov-ich), 52.70; 2. Okanogan 53.27; 3. Manson 54.62; 4. Brewster 55.20; 5. Liberty Bell 56.94; 7. Oroville (Katie Egerton, Tori Kindred, Tylynne Watkins, Mikaela McCoy) 59.89.

4x200 Relay - 1. Okanogan 1:52.70; 2. Manson 1:56.00; 3. Brewster 1:57.30; 4. Liberty Bell 1:58.50; 5. Tonasket (Camille Wilson, Alycia Tibbs, Morgan Tyus, Madyson Clark) 2:07.50; 6. Oroville (Bailey Gri� n, Tori Kindred, Yessica Nemcio, Katie Egerton) 2:12.40.

4x400 Relay - 1. Okanogan 4:21.29; 2. Tonasket (Katie Henneman, Shyane Lewis, Jaden Vugteveen, Camille Wilson) 4:38.66; 3. Brew-ster 4:40.33; 4. Manson 4:43.18; 5. Bridgeport 5:17.81.

Shot Put - 1. Jordan Peart, BRPT, 34-3; 2. Katelyn Schilling, LROS, 34-2.5; 3. Cayden Diefenbach, OKAN, 33-4.5; 4. Tori Kindred, OROV, 32-2.5; 5. Maddee Ward, MNSN, 30-10.5; 10. Alissa Young, TONA, 26-1; 12. Allison Glanzer, TONA, 23-9; 13. Kasey Nelson, TONA, 22-2; 18. Mikaela McCoy, OROV, 20-2; 19. Nicole Juarez-Zelaya, TONA, 19-5.

Discus - 1. Jordan Peart, BRPT, 111-10; 2. Emmy Engle, OKAN, 110-0; 3. Raechel Vanderholm, MNSN, 106-1; 4. Katelyn Schilling, LROS, 96-3; 5. Itzel Muniz, BRPT, 86-7; 6. Alissa Young, TONA, 85-2; 9. Mikaela McCoy, OROV, 69-3; 12. Allison Glanzer, TONA, 62-0; 13. Mary Naylor, TONA, 58-1; 15. Kasey Nelson, TONA, 52-0; 16. Nicole Juarez-Zelaya, TONA, 48-10.

Javelin - 1. Emmy Engle, OKAN, 125-8; 2. Sarina Williams, LBEL, 123-3; 3. Jana Russell, MNSN, 111-6; 4. Adilia Zunie, OKAN, 96-6; 5. Alissa Young, TONA, 88-10; 8. Jenna Valentine, TONA, 82-0; 11. Alexa Garcia, OROV, 77-3; 18. Nicole Juarez Zelaya, TONA, 43-1.

High Jump - 1. Rachelle Hamilton, OKAN, 5-0; 2. Alexis Jones, OKAN, 4-8; 3. Lauren Fitzmaurice, LBEL, 4-6; 4. Olivea Oyler, OKAN, 4-4; 5. Morgan Tyus, TONA, 4-2.

Pole Vault - 1. Katie Egerton, OROV, 8-6; 2. Tylynne Watkins, OROV, 7-0; 3. Jaden Vugteveen, TONA, 7-0; 4. Lupe Cancino, BRPT, 6-0.

Long Jump - 1. Rose Walts, TONA, 15-8; 2. Rachelle Hamilton, OKAN, 14-7.5; 3. Samantha Butler, OKAN, 14-3.5; 4. Hailey Shi� ett, OKAN, 14-3; 5. Carmen Fonseca, OKAN, 13-4; 6. Camille Wilson, TONA, 13-2; 9. Madyson Clark, TONA, 11-4.25; 10. Morgan Tyus, TONA, 11-2.

Triple Jump - 1. Rose Walts, TONA, 34-0; 2. Jillyan Tahylor, OKAN, 32-9; 3. Alina Vlahovich, TONA, 31-2; 4. Jaden Vugteveen, TONA, 30-11.5; 5. Aylee Ne� , MNSN, 29-10.5; 9. Mary Naylor, TONA, 27-4.

Oroville’s Tori Kindred gets set to take the hand-off from Katie

Egerton during last Wednesday’s CWB North Subdivision meet in

Tonasket.

Terry Mills/submitted photo

Track season ramps up

SCHOOLS


PULLMAN - Several Tonasket FFA teams competed at State Convention May 14-16, with both individuals and teams rising to the top in multiple divisions.

This was the 85th Washington FFA Convention, held at the WSU campus.

Charlie Sanchez took first place in Fruit Production in Proficiency Awards, and was the sole State Proficiency Award win-ner to be forwarded to Nationals. Proficiency Awards are given in three categories, with Sanchez competing in Placement, or work experience. Sanchez said he put all his work experience over the last four years into a portfolio, including photos of him working.

Additional Proficiency Award Winners were John Symonds, who took first place in Equine Science Entrepreneurship; Brock Henneman, second in Beef Production Placement; Colt Hatch, third in Agricultural Services; and Darbee Sapp, third in Agricultural Sales Placement. They received cash awards from nationwide sponsors ranging from $50 to $250.

Hatch was the chosen Delegate to the convention.

Other Proficiency Award Recipients this year are Jesse Manring, Fruit Production; Manny Puente, Fruit Production; and Brooke Nelson, Swine Production Entrepreneurship. Proficiency Award Recipients are students recognized for devoting additional time and energy to becoming experts in their chosen fields.

Nine students received State Degrees, with Sanchez receiv-ing the Star Award and taking second place in District 7 Star Agricultural Placement Program. This recognition involves all State Degree Recipients being narrowed down to the top nine, and from there the top four are chosen to present a slideshow in front of the 3,000 FFA kids pres-ent at State Convention.

Other State Degree Recipients

this year are Henneman, Nelson, Hatch, Sapp, Manring, Puente, David Curtis and Morgan Obrien.

Rade Pilkinton competed in Extemporaneus Speaking.

TYUS SELECTED AS TREASURERSenior Dallas Tyus was voted

in as the FFA Washington State Treasurer.

With 8,006 FFA members in 150 chapters, Tyus said this is the first year the FFA broke 8,000 members in quite awhile. He said his team includes President Julia Spangler of Wenatchee, Vice President Monica Haugen of Pullman, Secretary Mitch Jamison of Garfield-Palouse, Reporter Jason Wigen of LaCrosse and Sentinel Dan Lyng of Meridian.

“I’m really excited to spend the next year with these people,” said Tyus. “We seem like we will mix really well.” Tyus said the team will be doing a lot of traveling, starting right after graduation, and be on the road throughout most of June. In the summer and early fall, the team will do Fair Visits. They’ll travel in pairs when the whole team can’t make it to an event.

Tyus will attend a meeting in June with FFA Executive Director Abbie DeMeerleer “to learn more about responsibilities and expec-tations, and to get an idea of what the year will look like.”

“It still hasn’t sunk in yet,” Tyus said Monday, May 18. “I’m still trying to wrap my head around it.”

Tyus said everyone on the team will graduate from high school this spring, except Spangler, who graduated last year.

“The FFA won’t let you serve as a State Officer when you’re still in high school because of all the time demands,” said Tyus.

Delegate Hatch said he intro-duced people to Tyus at the con-vention, acting “kind of like an extension; an extra arm.”

TEAM COMPETITIONSThe Parliamentary Procedures

(Parli Pro) Novice Team of Nichole Juarez, President;

Morgyne Hjaltason, Vice President; Katie Henneman, Treasurer; Madyson Clark, Reporter; Camille Wilson, Secretary; and Samantha Whitney, Sentinel took second place in the State Finals out of 24 schools.

A second Novice Team of Morgan Tyus, President; Taylon Pilkinton, Vice President; Mikah Haney, Treasurer; Rycki Cruz, Secretary; Hayley Larson, Sentinel; and Alicia Tibbs, Reporter took fifth place.

The top eight teams move on to finals.

“The number one team goes to Nationals, and both our teams were pretty close to being able to go. Just a few points separated us,” said Henneman. “This is the first year for Tonasket to have two Novice teams qualify for finals.”

The Parli Pro team of President Jordon Hughes, Secretary Rachel Silverthorn, Janelle Catone, Jenna Valentine, Dallas Tyus and Rade Pilkinton took third in finals out of 31 teams.

Placing fifth was Parli Pro team President Deisy Alcauter, Secretary Seth Smith, LeighAnne Barnes, Hunter Swanson, Serenity Poletti, and Bonnie Siegfried.

“All the Tonasket parliamen-tary teams went to State Finals this year, which is an accomplish-ment in itself,” said Henneman.

The Meats Evaluation Team placed eighth out of 24 schools. The team, made up of Peterson, Puente, Karrer, Brendon Asmussen, Wyatt Pershing and Shelby Emery, competed in sev-eral events, including batch for-mulation, retail cut ID, and car-cass judging.

Valentine, Alcauter and Corinna Karrer competed in Prepared Speaking; and Hatch, Curtis, Swanson and Nichole Fletcher competed in Agricultural Issues.

“We should’ve made finals but got beat out by a couple points by a team (Elma) that took seventh,” said Hatch.

Sanchez, Henneman, Hatch,

Curtis and Trevor Peterson competed in Farm Business Management.

“We felt like we did good, but we didn’t make finals,” Hatch said. “But we think we weren’t far from it.”

Candidates from Tonasket whose names were forwarded out of State for the American Degree, a National recognition, are Brisa Leep, Cassie Spear, John Symonds, Kathryn Cleman, Pete Valentine, Timothy Jackson and Elizabeth Jackson. The deci-sion will be made in October, 2015.

RECOGNIZED FOR TEAM SPIRITKeynote speaker Barrett

Keene, PH.D. had his speech all prepared when he saw something noteworthy enough to include at the last-minute. Keene looked over to see Tonasket’s Parli Pro Novice team huddled together, both congratulating and consol-ing one another over their sec-ond-place finish.

“They were congratulating each other, and yet in tears,” noticed Keene.

Tonasket’s Novice Parli Pro team won the state champion-ship and the trip to Nationals the previous two years, and the Parli Pro team went on to Nationals in 2011. So a second-place finish at State was a bit of a disappoint-ment.

“They’ve raised their standards over the past few years to be pretty high now,” said FFA advi-sor Matt Deebach.

Deebach said he was taken by surprise when Keene, who didn’t mention any other schools in his speech, talked of how selfless the team members were; not casting blame but being humble among one another.

“I just witnessed this example of selfless leadership,” Deebach quoted Keene saying as he held Tonasket up as a prime example of teamwork and leadership. “It’s unbelievable to see how much the kids had sacrificed for each

other.” Keene called it one of the best examples of leadership and teamwork he had ever seen.

“That’s what is expected of these kids, to be selfless as a team,” said Deebach. “For the last 15 to 18 years, our whole chapter has acted that way. It’s a big positive for our school, as well as the community.”

Deebach, who has been the Tonasket FFA advisor the past 19 years, said he really appreciated all the chaperones and support among the community members throughout the year “to make this end product happen.”

School Board Member Lloyd Caton, who has chaperoned the FFA for several years, encour-aged others to volunteer.

“Your buttons are going to pop on your shirt because you are so proud of these kids,” said Caton. “Matt really runs a tight ship. To go down there and see what kinds of kids this district is producing is fantastic. If you ever get the chance to, go.”

FFA faces disappointment and distinction at state

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Katie Teachout/staff photo

The Parli Pro Novice Team demonstrated their Rituals proceedings at the Tonasket School Board meeting Monday, May 11, before going on to compete at State. Pictured, clockwise, are Samantha Whitney, Katie Henneman, Madyson Clark, Nichole Juarez, Camille Wilson and Morgyne Hjaltason. The team finished second in State.

Free public event sponsored by ASBSUBMITTED BY LIVIA MILLARDMULTICULTURAL AFFAIRS COORDINATOR

OMAK - Wenatchee Valley College at Omak invites the com-munity to the first ever Spring Fling on Friday, May 29, at 2 p.m. at the Omak Civic League Park.

This event will feature WVC at Omak clubs, academic pro-grams and community programs and will highlight exciting events happening on the Omak cam-pus. Admissions, financial aid services, and other new student information will be available.

The WVC at Omak science department will present hands-on science experiments by cur-rent students. Ornithology, envi-ronmental science, anatomy and physiology, microbiology and chemistry classes will share their experiences with the public. The event also features rescued birds by Linda Lindsay and the Fourth Annual Solar Oven Cook-Off by the environmental science class.

The Science Club will also sell hotdogs and soda pop.

The Spring Fling includes musical performances by The Ruby Scene at 4 p.m., featuring WVC at Omak alumni Denny Richardson and The Outer Space Blues Band at 4:30 p.m. WVC at Omak alumni Cristina Del Rosario provides dynamic, soul-ful vocals as she fronts this tight ensemble, which also features

a keyboard/vocalist, drum, bass and guitar. Del Rosario describes her band’s jamming sound as “High energy blues, rocking blues, southern rock, soul and Motown groove.” Don’t miss this finale to the Spring Fling with perhaps the hottest new band around.

This event is free to the public and is sponsored by WVC at Omak Associated Student Body.

Spring Fling at WVC at Omak, May 29

Tonasket Alternative School to host its first ever reunionSUBMITTED BY CHELSEA FREEMAN, TEACHERTONASKET ALTERNATIVE HIGH SCHOOL

The Tonasket Alternative High School (TAHS) first opened its doors to students in 1995. Since then, they have served an average of 30 students at a time; offering small classes, lots of one-on-one help and a caring atmosphere for students seeking a change in their education.

For over 20 years, students who enrolled in TAHS have seen great improvements in their reading, writing and math skills. For most students, the extra attention and care they received at school trans-lated quickly to higher grades, a more positive attitude about school and ultimately, graduation. TAHS has watched as students blossom, grow and find success in their educations. Now, they would like to celebrate this success by having an informal, 20-year reunion this spring.

TAHS invites all past students and staff to attend. Are you a past graduate, curious to see how the old building has fared over the years? Are you a staff

member who would like to connect with your previous students? During the reunion, there will be a short presentation showing how the program has evolved, followed

by tours of the building, past yearbook and memorabilia viewing, time to chat and light refreshments will be served.

The reunion will be held Friday, June 5, at 4 p.m. and will last until 7 p.m. or later depending on attendance.

80th TONASKET FOUNDER’S DAY PARADE ENTRY FORMTheme: Celebrate Tonasket

These forms must be mailed to this address and arrive no later than May 28th. Do not return them to a place of business or a bank. If you need help call the number below.

TONASKET CHAMBER OF COMMERCEP.O. Box 523

TONASKET, WA 98855509-429-3493 Fax: 509-486-1096

PARADE LINE UP: 9:30 AM (Check-in at Wells Fargo)***JUDGING AT 10:00 AM**NO LATE JUDGING

PARADE WILL BEGIN AT 11:00 AM—SATURDAY—May 30, 2015

**ALL HORSE ENTRIES MUST HAVE YOUR OWN POOPER SCOOPERS****STOPPING DURING THE PARADE TO PERFORM IS PROHIBITED**

**HANDING OUT CANDY IS ALLOWED,BUT THROWING IT FROM VEHICLES IS PROHIBITED**

**THROWING WATER BALLOONS IS PROHIBITED**

NAME OF PARADE ENTRY: _____________________________________________________

ORGANIZATION/INDIVIDUAL: _________________________________________________

CONTACT PERSON: ____________________________________________________________

ADDRESS: ____________________________________________________________________

PHONE: _________________________________ EMAIL: _________________________

Brief Description of entry, i.e. band, float, horse and carriage, royalty, tractor/trailer, wagon,walking group, etc. ______________________________________________________________

If you have a classic car entry are you part of the car club? _______________________________

How long is your entry? (car, truck, Semi with trailer, 2 trailers)___________________________

I agree to make arrangements to clean up after any animals that are a part of our entry: _______________________________

_________________________________________(signature of parade rep.) Statement for MC—Write clearly and exactly what you want the MC to read as your parade entry approaches the center of town, please email statement to [email protected]

INDEMINTY AND HOLD HARMLESS AGREEMENTIn consideration of the acceptance of this application, applicant agrees to indemnify, hold harm-less, and defend any action against the Tonasket Comancheros Rodeo Club, Tonasket Chamber of Commerce, and the City of Tonasket and all liabilities that arise out of its participation in the Tonasket Founder’s Day Parade, May 30, 2015.

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Crosswords

ANSWERSAcross

1. Crow’s home

6. Gangster’s blade

10. Fix, in a way

13. Birdlike

14. Desert sight

16. Victorian, for one

17. Bring back into original use

19. Be in session

20. Bosses

21. Vacation souvenirs (hyphen-ated)

23. Shoestring

25. Warm, so to speak

26. Cheat

29. Duck’s home

31. Arm bones

33. Artist Chagall

35. Bakery buy

37. Belief in God based on reason, not revelation

39. Skating jumps

41. Bill and ___

42. Taste, e.g.

43. Japanese-American

44. Chinese dynasty

46. Accommodate

47. Power glitch

49. Tablet

51. Blonde’s secret, maybe

52. Coquette

53. Checked item

55. Having �at polished surfaces, like on a gemstone

58. Ancient upright stone slabs bearing markings

62. Airline’s home base

63. Argue in protest

65. “Is that ___?”

66. Insinuating

67. Overthrow, e.g.

68. Carry on

69. Bring (out)

70. Grating

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1. Hawaiian tuber

2. “... happily ___ after”

3. ___ Piper

4. Artist’s stand

5. Bag

6. Blubber

7. “Stop right there!”

8. Egyptian fertility goddess

9. Hindu deity, protector of worlds

10. Held back

11. Western blue �ag, e.g.

12. Gangster’s gun

15. Police o�cers’ badges

18. English race place

22. Wife of a raja (pl.)

24. Legislate

26. F.B.I. operative (hyphenated)

27. Part of a plane (hyphenated)

28. By reasonable assumption

30. Sag

32. English exam �nale, often

34. Divine

36. Bartender’s supply

38. Allocate, with “out”

40. Washington and Franklin on the Constitution

45. Luster

48. Scope

50. Second of two

54. ___ cotta

55. Holding as much as possible

56. Arabic for “commander”

57. Birdbrain

59. 1968 Chemistry Nobelist Onsager

60. Above

61. Mysterious: Var.

62. Accident

64. After expenses

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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON

IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF OKANOGAN

In re the Estate of: DANIEL CHARLES SMITH,Deceased.NO. 15-4-00042-9NOTICE TO CREDITORSThe personal representative named below has been appointed as personal representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limita- tions, present the claim in the man- ner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the personal representative or the personal representative’s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the court in which the probate proceedings were commenced. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the personal representative served or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020 (1)(c); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate and nonprobate assets.DATE OF FILING COPY OF NO- TICE TO CREDITORS with Clerk of Court: April 28, 2015.DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION: May 7, 2015./s/Kodel Marie MergensKODEL MARIE MERGENSPersonal Representative

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/s/Anthony CasteldaANTHONY CASTELDA, WSBA #28937 Attorney for Smith Estate P.O. Box 1307Tonasket, WA 98855(509) 486-1175Published in the Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune on May 7, 14, 21, 2015.#OVG631046

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE PURSUANT TO THE REVISED CODE OF WASHINGTON CHAP- TER 61.24, ET. SEQ. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT, AND ANY INFORMATION OB- TAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. TO: Lucky and Cindy Wilson; to any occupants of the property; and to all other persons or entities claiming an interest in the subject property. THIS NOTICE IS THE FINAL STEP BEFORE THE FORECLOSURE SALE OF YOUR HOME. You have only 20 DAYS from the recording date of this notice to pursue mediation. DO NOT DE- LAY. CONTACT A HOUSING COUNSELOR OR AN ATTORNEY LICENSED IN WASHINGTON NOW to assess your situation and refer you to mediation if you are eligible and it may help you save your home. See below for safe sources of help. SEEKING ASSISTANCE Housing counselors and legal assistance may be available at little or no cost to you. If you would like assistance in deter- mining your rights and opportunities to keep your house, you may contact the following: oThe statewide foreclosure hotline for assistance and referral to housing counselors recom- mended by the Washington State Housing Finance Commission: Toll- free: 1-877-894-HOME ( 1 - 8 7 7 - 8 9 4 - 4 6 6 3 ) http://www.dfi.wa.gov/consumers/homeownership/post_ purchase_counselors_foreclosure.htm OR http://www.wshfc.org/buyers/counseling.htm United States Department of Housing and Urban Development: Toll-free: 1-800-569-4287 Local counseling agencies in Washington: http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/ hcc/fc/ index.cfm?webListAction= search&searchstate=WA&filterSvc= dfc The statewide civil legal aid hotline for assistance and referrals to

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other housing counselors and attor- neys: Toll-free: 1-800-606-4819 http://nwjustice.org/what-clear I. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned Trustee will on May 29, 2015, at the hour of 10:00 o’clock, a.m., at the OKANOGAN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURTHOUSE 149 3RD N., in the City of OKANOGAN, OKANOGAN COUNTY, State of Washington, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, payable at the time of sale, the following described real property, situated in the County of Okanogan, State of Washington, to-wit: The Southwesterly 77.0 feet of Lot 11, as measured along the Northwesterly boundary thereof of Kahlow’s Second Addition to North Alma, as per plat thereof recorded in the Office of the Auditor of Okano- gan County, Washington. Situate in the County of Okanogan, State of Washington. (commonly known as 951 First Ave. S, Okanogan WA 98840) TAX ACCOUNT NUMBER: 1200110002. Which is subject to that certain Deed of Trust dated the 16th day of July, 2004, recorded the 14th day of July, 2004, in the mort- gage records of Okanogan County, under Auditor’s File No. 3077291, records of Okanogan County, Wash- ington, from : Lucky D. Wilson and Cindy M. Wilson, husband and wife, as Grantors, to The United States of America acting through the State Di- rector, USDA, Rural Development for the State of Washington, as Trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of United States of America acting through the Rural Housing service or successor agency, United States De- partment of Agriculture, as Benefici- ary. Jerome A. Froland, P.S. DBA Alder Lynn Law office was appointed Successor Trustee Okanogan County Auditors File No. 3195363. II. No action commenced by the Ben- eficiary of the Deed of Trust is now pending to seek satisfaction of the obligation in any Court by reason of the Borrower’s or Grantor’s default on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust. III. The default(s) for which this foreclosure is made is/are as follows:- Failure to make monthly payments of principal and interest beginning with the payment due 8/16/2013 -3 Payments of $285.72 /month $857.16 -15 Payments of $474.91 /month $7,123.65 - Fail- ure to make monthly escrow pay-

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ments beginning with the payment due 8/16/2013 -18 Payments of $200.78/month $3,614.04 Fees and Late charges $ 72.74 Total Amount in default, excluding Real Property Taxes: $11,667.59 IV. The sum ow- ing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is: Principal $73,136.52, together with interest as provided in the note or other instrument secured from July 14, 2004 and other costs and fees as are due under the note or other instrument secured, and as are provided by statute. V. The above described real property will be sold to satisfy the expense of sale and the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust as provided by statute. The sale will be made without warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances on May 29, 2015. The Default(s) referred to in paragraph III must be cured by May 18, 2015 (11 Days before the sale date), to cause a discontinuance of the sale. The sale will be discontinued and terminated if at any time on or before May 18, 2015 (11 days before the sale date), the default(s) as set forth in paragraph III is/are cured and the Trustee’s fees and costs are paid. The sale may be terminated any time after May 18, 2015 (11 days before the sale date) and before the sale by Borrower, Grantor, any Guarantor, or the holder of any recorded Junior Lien or encum- brance paying the entire principal and interest secured by the Deed of Trust, plus costs, fees, and advanc- es, if any, made pursuant to the terms of the obligation and/or Deed of Trust, and curing all other de- faults. VI. A written notice of default was transmitted by the Beneficiary or Trustee to the Borrower and Grantor at the following addresses: CINDY M. WILSON AKA CYNTHIA WIL- SON 951 FIRST AVE. S. OKANO- GAN WA 98840-1392 CINDY M. WILSON AKA CYNTHIA WILSON AND JOHN DOE WILSON 951 FIRST AVE. S. OKANOGAN WA 98840-1392 LUCKY WILSON 951 FIRST AVE. S. OKANOGAN WA 98840-1392 LUCKY WILSON AND JANE DOE WILSON 951 FIRST AVE. S. OKANOGAN WA 98840-1392 CURRENT OCCU- PANT 951 FIRST AVE. S. OKANO- GAN WA 98840-1392 By both first class and either registered or certi-

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fied mail on November 3, 2014, proof of which is in the possession of the Trustee; and the Borrower and Gran- tor were personally served on No- vember 4, 2014, with said written notice of default or the written notice of default was posted in a conspicuous place on the real property described in paragraph I above, and the Trus- tee has possession of proof of such service or posting. VII. The Trustee whose name and address are set forth below will provide in writing to anyone requesting it, a statement of all costs and fees due at any time prior to the sale. VIII. The effect of the sale will be to deprive the Gran- tor and all those who hold by through or under the Grantor of all their interest in the above described property. IX. Anyone having any objections to the sale on any grounds whatsoever will be afforded an opportunity to be heard as to those objections if they bring a lawsuit to restrain the sale pursuant to RCW 61.24.130. Failure to bring such lawsuit may result in a waiver of any proper grounds for in- validating the Trustee’s sale. X. NOTICE TO OCCUPANTS OR TEN- ANTS The purchaser at the trustee’s sale is entitled to possession of the property on the 20th day following the sale, as against the Grantor under the Deed of Trust (the Owner) and anyone having an interest junior to the Deed of Trust, including occupants who are not tenants. After the 20th day following the sale the purchaser has the right to evict occupants who are not tenants by sum- mary proceedings chapter 59.12 RCW. For tenant occupied property, the purchaser shall provide a tenant with written notice in accordance with RCW 61.24.060. THIS NOTICE IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT, AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. DATED: Janu- ary 15, 2015 /S/Jerome A. Froland, Jerome A. Froland, WSBA 14916, as Trustee 8 - 164th St. SW, Bothell WA 98012 P.O. Box 13125, Mill Creek WA 98082 Telephone : 425-778-5297 Published in the Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune on April 30 and May 21, 2015.#OVG628487


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OBITUARIESRAYMOND

JAMES BLYSTONE

Raymond James “Jim” Blystone was born in Penticton, B.C., Canada on November 24, 1946, he passed away on May 1, 2015.

He moved to Vancouver, Washington in 1950. He loved working on cars and spent most of his life as a mechanic. He also loved fishing and building model airplanes.

He is survived by his loving

wife Maryann; three daughters: Michelle, Tracie, and Gayle; five brothers and three sisters. He had seven grandchildren whom he adored.

A remembrance will be held Saturday, May 30 at 4 p.m. at Lake Sacagawea in Longview, Washington at 4 p.m. This will be a potluck celebration of life, please feel free to bring a dish. The family is asking that dona-tions to the VFW be made in lieu of flowers.

Bergh Funeral Service and Crematory in care of arrange-ments.Raymond James Blystone

Host families are needed nowSUBMITTED BY NEYSA ROLEYPAX COMMUNITY COORDINATOR

OROVILLE – Oroville resi-dent, Neysa Roley, invites local families to “Share Your America” with a high school exchange stu-dent sponsored by PAX, Program of Academic Exchange.

There are a group of excep-tional young people who are part of special State Department pro-grams called FLEX and YES. These students compete for fully paid scholarships that fund their exchange year in America. These students are very intelligent and motivated students who wouldn’t otherwise be able to afford to par-ticipate in student exchange pro-grams. They come from small towns and rural communities, and they all share a strong desire

to experience American life and culture as a way to enhance their own lives. The Department of State holds its scholarship stu-dents to the highest standards and considers them to be youth ambassadors.

FLEX students come from eight former Soviet Union coun-tries. This program was con-ceived with the idea that young people are the key to establishing democracy. These students are interested in learning about the richness of American life. They are the future business owners and government leaders in their home towns and countries. Every year there are 800 FLEX students who come to the United States.

YES students come from coun-tries with significant Muslim populations. Approximately 900 students from 40 different coun-tries come to the United States each year. These young people believe that learning about each other’s culture will help to bring peace and understanding to the

world. They want to learn about American society and are excited to share their traditions with us.

While these students are here, they are expected to participate in volunteer activities, take a full course of study, and participate in cultural and educational trips provided by the exchange organi-zation. They are also expected to make presentations to the schools and community groups about their home countries.

You can contribute to U.S. public diplomacy by helping exchange students develop a bet-ter understanding to the United States. When they return home, they, in turn, will teach their fellow citizens about life in the United States and the American people, fostering an atmosphere of mutual respect and under-standing.

All types of families are wel-come to host. For more infor-mation, call Neysa Roley, PAX Community Coordinator at 509-560-9220 or visit PAX.org.

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WINTHROP - Mushroom season is underway on National Forest Lands in Okanogan County. Commercial and per-sonal use pickers are seeking out morel mushrooms that often grow in areas that have recently burned.

The only area open to com-mercially harvest National Forest Lands in Okanogan County is last year’s Carlton Fire area. Permits required for commer-cial pickers are available at the Methow Valley Ranger District in Winthrop, the Okanogan Valley Office in Okanogan and the Tonasket Ranger District in Tonasket.

Commercial pickers are encouraged to camp and utilize the facilities brought in for their

use at the North Summit and Black Canyon Sno parks.

“We’ve added dumpsters and porta-potties to the sno parks to accommodate the increased use associated with commercial har-vest,” said Mike Liu, District Ranger.

“Mushroom season is pretty weather dependent,” said Liu. “Wetting rains followed by sun-shine bring on a flush of mush-rooms in a cycle that continues until conditions heat-up and dry out to the point that the mush-rooms quit growing.”

As a condition of their permits, commercial pickers are required to remove their garbage or utilize the dumpsters provided.

“We’ve also increased law enforcement during commercial mushroom season,” said Liu. “Officers from other Districts are helping with patrols.”

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have seized several gallons of mushrooms and commercial per-mits from individuals picking outside the Carlton Fire area.

Individuals who notice and would like to report violations are encouraged to contact the Methow Valley Ranger District at 509-996-4000. The reports are most useful when they include a description of the violation along with a description of the vehicles and individuals involved pictures, license plate numbers and State.

“For your own safety, never confront a violator,” said Liu. “And for emergency situations, or those requiring an immediate response, please call 911.”

Additional information about this year’s commercial or person-al use mushroom gathering pro-gram is available at the Methow Valley Ranger District, 509-996-4000.

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SUBMITTED BY ANGIE WARDWTSC PROGRAM MANAGER

WENATCHEE - This year’s annual statewide “Click It or Ticket” campaign will take place between May 18 and May 31. During these dates, motorists in Washington can expect to see extra seat belt patrols, which will include an emphasis on children who are not properly restrained.

Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of unintentional deaths among children in the U.S. Between 2010 and 2012, in Washington State, 26 child pas-sengers age 12 and younger died,

and another 122 were serious-ly injured as a result of traffic crashes. The majority of these tragedies likely could have been avoided had these children been properly restrained, as dictated by Washington State law.

On Aug. 27, 2013, Deputy Tyson Voss of the Grant County Sheriff ’s Office witnessed a motorist running a stop sign at an intersection just off Interstate 90 near George, WA. When Deputy Voss made contact with this motorist, he noticed two small children in the back seat who were not properly restrained. Deputy Voss had previously spent several years in the GCSO’s Motor Traffic Unit, where he actively participated in the Child Car Seat Project and knew the importance of properly restraining children in a motor vehicle. Before allowing the motorist to leave the scene, he instructed her to properly restrain her one-year-old and three-year-old children in their car seats. Within only a few miles and just minutes later, the motorist Deputy Voss had stopped fell asleep at the wheel. Her car careened off State Route 283, hit a light pole, vaulted over the intersecting county road, and ended up on its side. Had these two children not been prop-erly restrained, the crash forces they sustained would most likely have killed or seriously injured them. Since they were in their

car seats correctly, the children sustained no injuries.

Cesi Velez, Project Manager for Washington Child Passenger Safety, said, “Washington State law requires child passengers to be properly restrained until the motor vehicle safety belt fits properly. It also requires children under the age of 13 to ride in the back seat. Educating the public on Washington law can also be chal-lenging for law enforcement. A new online child passenger safety training will be available to law enforcement officers prior to the start of the “Click It or Ticket” campaign. This training will assist officers to help ensure children are riding safely in the car.”

For more information on Child Passenger Safety in Washington, visit http://washingtonCPS.com.

Chelan, Douglas and Okanogan County Sheriff ’s Offices and the Washington State Patrol will be teaming up and participating in the extra patrols, with the support of the Chelan-Douglas Target Zero Traffic Safety Task Force.

These and all extra patrols are part of Target Zero—striving to end traffic deaths and serious injuries in Washington by 2030. For more information, visit www.targetzero.com. Additional infor-mation on the Washington Traffic Safety Commission can be found on the website, www.wtsc.wa.gov.

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