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Jim and Kathleen Vopat of Grangeville are Grand Marshals of the 2023 Idaho County Fair. Photo by Lorie Palmer. Click on the photo for a larger view.
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The 2023 Idaho County Fair
Royalty welcomes you to the Idaho County Fair. From left are 1st
Princess Makenna York, Queen Abbie Frei and 2nd Princess Payton Brown. Click on the photo for a larger view.
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Prairie Booster club has
selected Idaho Forest Group as the 2022-2023 Business Booster of the
Year. IFG has contributed lumber to our shop program, firewood
logs to team fundraisers, done Mock interviews for the HS careers
classes for years and participated in career fairs and sponsored the
reading buddie program at the Elementary School. Pictured is Glenn
Poxleitner from the Prairie Booster club, Eric Smith, Sheryl
Workman and Tracy Gilmore representing Idaho Forest Group. Thank
you for your continued support. Photo submitted by Glenn
Poxleitner.
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Developed in Idaho in 2004,
Fit and Fall Proof is an exercise-based fall prevention program for
older adults that focuses on improving strength, mobility, and balance.
Volunteer leaders are trained to teach classes in their communities.
Fit and Fall Proof class meets at the Cottonwood Community Hall every
Monday and Thursday 9:30-10:30 A.M.Standing from left are Connie
Bruegeman, L.P. Pearl, Sally Duman, Sheryl Wensman, Patti Greene, Bev
Christensen, Barbara Morris, Charlotte Dasenbrock, Kristine Garcia,
Bertie Forsmann and Fit and Fall Coordinator Kate Wilson. Sitting
from left are Mary Ann Kuther, Bonnita Lynne, Lorraine Nuxoll, Sue
Crea, Linda Arnzen, Mary Funke and Cathy Bross. Photo submitted by Mary
Funke. Click on the photo
for a larger view.
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The
classroom addition at Prairie Elementary School is starting to take
shape with the walls and roof as well as doors and windows formed in.
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The prize winners in monthly summer reading drawing. Photo by Kari Holman. Click on the photo for a larger view.
The summer reading program
participants learned about making butter last week. Library Board
president Emmett Wilson tries a sample of the newly made butter. Photo
by Kari Holman. Also, come
into the Cottonwood library in the month of August, check out a book
and enter to win a family pass to the Lewiston roundup rodeo September
7-9. Two family passes will be given away and any age can enter to win!
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The
stage decor in the Schmidt Building. The top photo is the Idaho County
Treasure Map as you come in the door while the lower two photos are
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Prairie
High School graduate Nikki Clark-Vega is one of three people named to
the Idaho Athletic Trainers’ Association 2023 Hall of Fame Class. She
joins Dani Gouerber Moffit and Dick Leander. Pictured from left are
Moffit, Shannon Campbell who represented Leander and Clark-Vega.
Clark-Vega is the daughter of Doug Clark of Cottonwood. Photo shared by
Nikki Clark-Vega. Click on the photo for a larger view.
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On the weekend of July 28-30
there was a University of Idaho Vandal Basketball reunion in Moscow,
Idaho to celebrate the teams of the early 80s, which included the 1982
Sweet Sixteen team.
Friday
night’s meet and greet in the Fairfield Inn conference room gave the
former teammates a chance to reconnect after 40+ years. The room was
decorated with a variety of Vandal swag. Old uniforms, warmup suits and
Converse basketball shoes were also on display to bring back thehoop
memories. Several scrapbooks were spread around to browse through. The
evening also included a 35 minute video highlight show. The guys were
excited to watch the video and cheered for every fast break, blocked
shot and allyoop dunk shot. Just like after the games 40 years ago,
pizza and beverages were provided for the players and coaches.
Saturday
started off with a U of I campus tour in the Vandal Trolly. The tour
consisted of stops at the student rec center, the bookstore, Memorial
Gym and the new ICCU Arena. Loose basketballs at the ICCU Arena
practice gym allowed several of the former players to attempt to prove
they could still shoot the 3 point shot. We’ll just say that success
was very limited.
Early
Saturday afternoon the Vandal trolly dropped the players off at the
famous Corner Club in downtown Moscow. Memories abounded as the players
viewed all the old newspaper clipping on the walls of the
establishment. The Corner Club was very gracious in hosting us for the
afternoon.
The
activities for Saturday culminated with a catered dinner at the Kibbie
Dome in the open-air Litehouse Suite that overlooks the football field.
A delicious dinner was provided and a slide show was shown on the jumbo
screen above the football field. The evening also included a birthday
cake for Coach Monson as he turned 90 this past April.
Each
player was given the opportunity to speak at the dinner. Many players
thanked the coaches and teammates for all the success these teams
achieved and how much those teams meant to them.Pete Prigge shared how
great it is to live in North Central Idaho and how nice it is to be
reminded occasionally by Vandal fans from that era how much they
enjoyed the games during that successful season. Pete told the former
players that they are probably all more “famous” than they realize, and
that people are frequently asking Pete about them.
Many thanks go out to Matt Haskins, The Fairfield Inn, the U of I Alumni Association and the Vandal Athletics Department. With their assistance this reunion
weekend turned out to be an awesome event and will be remembered for a
long time. Go Vandals! Photo submitted by Leah Prigge. Click on the
photo for a larger view.
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