10 Years Ago
Kathy Pence has joined the staff at The Real Estaters. She and her husband Paul and daughters, Natasha and Rebecca recently moved here from Montana.
Holly Gentry and Stephanie Ford are the 1999 winners of the Orofino High School Alumni Scholarships.
Lewis-Clark State College announces the students that are on the Presidents and Dean’s list for the spring semester. Area students on the President’s List with an 3.75 or better from Orofino are Lacey Alberts, Kenneth Bennett, Heather Breedlove, Amber Christensen, Joey Nygaard and from Pierce, Linda Lampman.
Those making the Dean’s List with a 3.25 to 3.749 from Orofino are Andrea Dell, Valerie Dickinson, Annette Haag, Russell Haueter, Robert Horton, Holly Stanton, Henry Loughery and Josh Wilson and Gabriel Kanes Michael Strawn, Melissa Harris, Peck and Tanya Shoemaker from Pierce.
20 Years Ago
Recent participants in the District I and II North-South All Star football game held in Wallace were Garett Bretz, John Knapik and Jeff Schwartz.
Winning first place in the men’s division of the Lewis-Clark Challenge Raft Race were Scott Bonnalie, Kevin Zywina, Brett Pippenger, John Erbst, Kevin Roby and Emery Jenks.
Placing first in the women’s division were Marilyn Thompson, Phyllis Wyatt, Pennie Custer, Pam Bower and Sally Suk.
Forty students were chosen from the Panhandle of Idaho to attend the Junior Statesman Symposium on a scholarship fund provided by the George Frederick Jewett Foundation. Alisa Doman and Shelly Thompson were the two students to attend the symposium.
30 Years Ago
Sandy Barham, 16 year old daughter of Ernie and Jeanie Barham is the first girl from Clearwater County to ever capture Grangeville Border Days Queen title.
Contractors began moving construction equipment into the Freeman Creek Recreation site to set up for construction beginning July 16 of a 2 million camping development scheduled to open next summer. Freeman Creek is located on the north bank of Dworshak Reservoir some six miles by boat, upstream from the dam, and by car, 21 miles west of Orofino, off Highway 7, east of Cavendish.
35 Years Ago
Jan White was chosen queen of the 1860 Days Pierce Winter Carnival. Carol McMillen and Debbie Dahl are princesses.
Orofino under graduate students at the University of Idaho named to the Dean’s List are College of Education: Darcy Aldrich and Judith Wilfong; College of Letters and Science: Ty R. Johnson, Marion Reuther and Donna S. Schlader.
Joe Lientz of Bozeman, MT., started employment as Hatchery Biologist at Dworshak National Fish Hatchery. He was employed by the government as Hatchery Biologist at Bozeman.
Cresting at a high of 18.36 feet the Clearwater River began to recede after running nearly bankful for several days. Daytime temperatures which climbed to 90 degrees plus, for the past week melted some of the record snow pack in the high mountains.
40 Years Ago
Earl Pickett, employed at the Orofino Post Office for the past seven years, is a new insurance agent at the Hans Wetter office.
Bill and Mick Jackson are Grassmen of the Year for Clearwater County.
Five Orofino boys have enlisted in the Navy’s 120 day delayed program and are scheduled to report for basic training in October. Reporting for training will be Richard Lee Enyeart, Terry Lee Nygaard, David Lynn Young, Steven Douglas McGill and Ronald Dean Choate.
50 Years Ago
Orofino Creamery reports buying of more than $250,000 in dairy products from local producers this year, to aid the Clearwater economy.
80 Years Ago
W. A. Shaw has moved his undertaking business from Main Avenue to a new building built on A Street near the Masonic Hall.