‘Go out with some dignity and honor’
Final LPOHS Teen Living class delivers plant starts to food bank By Ben OlsonReader Staff Lake Pend Oreille High School teacher Rand Rosecrans believes that learning to grow and preserve your own food isn’t...
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There are 2.5 million reasons to like this store
By Chuck MalloyReader Contributor As any store manager can attest, retail is a tough business, and good help is hard to find. Not so much with Bizarre Bazaar, Sandpoint’s “upscale resale store,” which is...
Bonner Community Food Bank set to double in size at new location
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff The Bonner Community Food Bank is on the verge of a major new phase in its more than 40 years of serving area residents with free food assistance, after acquiring...
Sandpoint Chamber names April Business and Volunteer of the Month
By Reader Staff The Greater Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce recently honored Wood’s Meat Processing and Michele Murphree as its April business and volunteer of the month, respectively, celebrating their various commitments to the local...
The Sandpoint Eater: Spring’s sprung
By Marcia PilgeramReader Columnist At the risk of sounding cliché, can we please talk about the weather? About “spring” rushing forth like an angry lion and then going absolutely nowhere — lingering, circling back...
‘We’re here helping our neighbors when life gets hard’
Food Bank hosts 45th anniversary fundraiser By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff The Bonner Community Food Bank is celebrating 45 years spent taking care of this ever-growing community with a fundraising dinner on Saturday, Oct. 11,...
Gardeners grow 15,844 summer meals for local kids
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff Local gardeners came together this summer to grow and donate more than 600 pounds of fresh produce to the Lake Pend Oreille School District Summer Lunch Program. The Bonner Community...
Food bank partners with local gardeners to feed the community
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff This summer, the Bonner Community Food Bank, Gardens for Health Collaborative and the Lake Pend Oreille School District are partnering with local gardeners to bring fresh produce to area...
The growing hunger
By Ben Olson Reader Staff “For now I ask no more than the justice of eating.” — Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and Nobel Prize winner There is, perhaps, no worse feeling than going hungry....
A delivery of hope (and food)
By Ben Olson Reader Staff There’s a theory that sandwiches taste better when someone else makes them. I wonder what the consensus is on delivered meals? Since 2019, the students at Lake Pend Oreille...
