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900 W. Main St.,
PO Box 690 Grangeville, ID 83530
Phone: 208.983.1200 |
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| Deer hunters are in, around waiting for the rut |
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| Lowell/Syringa - Marie Smith |
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LOWELL/SYRINGA -- There's about 100 deer hunters in and around Lowell, waiting for the rut. They all have the same stories of wolf sightings, howlings, day and night, and actually frolicking.
Planting wolves in the upper Clearwater Selway Bitterroot Wilderness might rank right up there with charter schools and capitol gains taxes. I didn't knock the BLM or the USFS or the IRS because of course we really need those guys.
Just like Halloween, the election is over and now we can go on with our lives and hope for the best.
Idaho County made a clean sweep with their choice of candidates, as always, but some of us do remember the olden days when a Democrat had a chance more than just a snowball in a really hot place. So as Sarah Palin said, let's move on. It won't be the last we see of her! I can see Montana from my house.
In town last week I bumped into an old friend and Kooskia girl, Lorrie Fluharty Asker. She graduated from CVHS and then went on to U of I, then got her masters degree from William and Mary, and then came back home to Idaho living now in Grangeville. She has always been one of my favorite good guys. She's on the top of the good guy list just because she's such a neat gal. Anyway she said she didn't know Sarah Palin when she was at U of I, and never met her. Lorrie is a Kooskia gal forever, and if she ever ran for vice president she'd have my vote.
We lost a good friend last week. Denny Curtis spent many a summer fishing the Lochsa and Selway rivers. He was a nephew and fishing buddy of Scrappy Curtis who everyone knows from Lewiston. Denny was a highly decorated Vietnam veteran, sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps, wounded many times, and served his country honorably. Always smiling, ready with a joke, loved the sunshine, he was a good friend and we will miss him. His cousins, Tim and Marilyn Curtis, not only lost a fellow fishermen, but a best friend. A quote from Denny, "The two most frightening words he ever heard were,'Fix Bayonets!'"
Two Lowell residents, Rick Moore and Mike Smith, flew to Boise this week to pick up and drive back a 1976 John Deere bulldozer, 350C before the snow flies. Not too big, but enough to push snow downhill, the old one died last spring after 30 years of faithful service and many a snow storm. It is a 1946 International TD6 and it is at Brown Motors in Grangeville. It needs a couple of clutches, and if you want to donate or visit it you can ask at the office. We miss it up here in Lowell, but then we also miss the days when there were no wolves, and you could raft the river without a permit and nobody cared.
Miss Ruth got a haircut last week -- it's a cute little pageboy style. She had a sleepover at Gramma and Grampas and the last thing she said before falling asleep was, "Thank you to cut my hair gramma." Now how sweet is that for a 2-year old to know enough to thank me and also to be able to articulate her feelings. She's the best!
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