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July 22, 2015
EVENT: Chief Joseph Days starts
Continued from Page A1
There’s also “slack” rodeo
action in the arena, weekday
afternoons starting at 2 p.m.
Spectators can attend the
slack events free of charge.
Among CJD’s most pleas-
ing community activities are
its two parades: the Junior
Parade starting Friday morn-
ing at 10 a.m. (to have your
costumed kids in the parade,
bring them to registration
starting at 9 a.m.), and the
Grand Parade on Saturday,
again starting at 10 a.m. This
year’s grand marshal is Judy
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of the Chieftain.
After the Grand Parade,
the public is invited to the
28th
annual
Friendship
Feast, hosted by members
of the Nez Perce Tribe at the
Chief Joseph Commemora-
tive Encampment next to the
rodeo grounds. The Native
Americans provide delicious
salmon, and attendees are en-
couraged to bring salads and
desserts to share at this pot-
luck event.
Following the meal, the
tables are cleared away from
under the big tent top so that
everyone can enjoy watching
traditional native dancing.
As such a long-estab-
lished,
community-wide,
multi-day festival, CJD has of
course grown to include more
activities than can be fully
described in one short news
article. Through Saturday, the
local area is abuzz with ex-
panded shopping, dining and
entertainment opportunities.
Check the advertised schedule
today on page A7, and see the
articles about CJD in today’s
newspaper and in the special
publication that’s inserted.
And, take note of the motto
for the 70th annual CJD Ro-
deo. It’s “Feel the Thunder!”
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LIBRARY: Donor
leaves money in will
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Joseph.
Al Albee eventually end-
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back in November or Decem- RXW¿WWLQJFRPSDQ\SDFNLQJLQ
ber, but we weren’t really say- elk hunters in the area above
ing anything because it’s like, Troy before he and his wife
‘This is from an estate, it’s in moved to Milton-Freewater.
McBride said Albee and
probate. We don’t know what
can happen,’” Kingsford said. his wife, who were childless,
It was late April or early appreciated all the people in
May before the library got their lives, and Al Albee re-
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the amount. The library re- and how the staff there went
ceived the check in early June. out of its way to make sure
It took some time for that his wife had access to
Kingsford and the board to professional books and jour-
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VXFKDVWKH$VVHVVRU¶V2I¿FHDV tions) and other sources. Hay- although the state provides the ¿QGWKHOLQNEHWZHHQWKHGR- nals so she could keep abreast
ZHOODVWKH6KHULII¶V2I¿FH7KH ward added that some county majority of funds for some of nor and the library. Kingsford, of current events.
The big issue for Hayward General Fund includes a contin- departments run in the black. the positions.
Kingsford said the librari-
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and the budget is the infrastruc- gency fund of about $85,000, The Road Department, because
For the time being, the com- sition the last 22 years, didn’t an at the time the Albees were
ture of the county. He used the and Hayward doesn’t want to it has an asphalt plant, occasion- missioners and budget commit- remember Al Albee, and nei- in the valley was Mary Fioril-
example of a much-needed new see it get much lower. To keep ally makes money, as does the tee will tread softly when they ther did the previous librarian. lo, who remembers the Albees
roof on the courthouse. “We it at that level, some budgetary museum.
NQXFNOH GRZQ WR FRQ¿JXUH WKH Kingsford tried “googling” well.
can’t just write a check out of changes must be made.
As for the library today,
Hayward said that no partic- 2016-17 budget. “All of us be- Albee and only found he had
the General Fund to put a new
That is, of course, dependent ular department is a drag on the tween the commissioners and worked for a jet propulsion Kingsford knows exactly
roof on this building. As we on the county’s budget commit- budget. “We have seen increas- budget committee are relatively company in Los Angeles.
what will happen with the re-
move forward, these things be- tee agreeing. The committee is LQJ ZDJHV DQG EHQH¿WV WDNLQJ conservative people and we’ll
As a last resort, Kingsford cent windfall. It will be add-
come more of an issue we have made up of the three commis- up a bigger percentage of the approach this pretty cautiously. contacted Roy McBride, the ed to the library’s expansion
to address,” Hayward said.
sioners as well as three “lay citi- EXGJHW(YHU\RQH¶VEHQH¿WVFRVW We always have to be cognizant estate executor, who solved fund, which will considerably
This conundrum leaves the zens.” “If the budget committee PRUH WRGD\ WKDQ WKH\ GLG ¿YH of, and raise the question of: the mystery for the library.
add to the library’s available
commissioners with the un- said, ‘We don’t care about a con- years ago,” Hayward explained. Are we leaving the things we’re
According to a letter sent space. “This is really excit-
appealing choices of either in- tingency,’ then we’d probably be
The county’s employee charged with overseeing in a from McBride to Kingsford, ing for us. This contribution
creasing revenue, decreasing OK. We’re not talking in terms numbers have increased over better condition than we found Albee and his wife, Rita, brings our total fund to over
expenses, or both. Hayward of millions of dollars of gap, but the years as well (currently rang- them for the ones who come af- worked in Seattle, and when $24,000,” Kingsford said.
According to Kingsford,
said that some departments have tens of thousands of dollars,” ing up to around 100 employees ter us?” Hayward said.
Rita Albee retired from her
gone out on their own to ob- Hayward said.
at mid-summer, but mainly in-
As it stands, no particular federal government job, the the library board can now be-
tain funding that makes up for
Property taxes are already at cluding only 55 full-time, year- GHSDUWPHQW IXQGV DUH GH¿QLWH- couple moved to Joseph gin the grant process.
budget shortfalls. Ultimately, their legal maximum, so raising round positions), but Hayward ly on the chopping block. “Not during the 1970s and early
he said, the commissioners will them is not an option, and only said the positions were needed. only does the public have a right ’80s. Al Albee, who was a cer-
look to trim the budget in order $1.6-1.7 million of the entire “We now have a full-time vet- to weigh in on that, but I would WL¿HG DLU IUDPH DQG DLUSODQH
WRIDFLOLWDWHVXFKSURMHFWVDV¿[- budget comes from property HUDQV VHUYLFHV RI¿FHU IRU H[- surmise that they have a bit of mechanic, worked for a com-
ing the courthouse roof.
taxes. The rest of the funds come ample,” Hayward said. He also an obligation to weigh in on it,” pany that serviced helicopters
The county’s current bud- from various sources such as the cited examples of a full-time Hayward said.
for the U.S. Forest Service in
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Hayward said is somewhat in the form of Payment in Lieu and a work crew supervisor, as
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misleading in that it includes of Taxes, fees for services (such well as child support enforce-
10-20% off
unappropriated monies, such as as building permits or inspec- ment and a victims advocate,
$500,000 set aside to pay for
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Liberty Black
cal year that starts July 1, and the
incoming tax revenue that starts
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around Nov. 15. “It’s not enough
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total money, but with other rev-
Open Daily
enue coming in, we can make
10 am – 5 pm
TO FETCH THE
that work,” Hayward said.
While the commissioners
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