The BulleTin • SaTurday, June 12, 2021 A3
TODAY
LOCAL, STATE & REGION
IDAHO
Dog ejected from vehicle in
crash found herding sheep
ASSOCIATED PRESS AND
THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW
(SPOKANE, WASHINGTON)
SPOKANE, Wash. — A pet
dog who vanished for two days
after being ejected from a vehi-
cle during an accident has been
found apparently doing the job
it was bred to do — herding
sheep.
Linda Oswald’s family and
their dog, Tilly, were driving
along Idaho State Highway 41
on Sunday when they crashed
into another car, launching the
dog through the rear window,
The Spokesman-Review re-
ported.
The unharmed but stunned
dog then ran away, prompt-
ing an immediate search with
at least six complete strangers
who witnessed the crash and
pulled over along the highway
to help, Oswald said.
“People just kept going out,”
Oswald said, noting that the
search lasted about 10 hours
on Sunday before the family
went home. “We were sore and
exhausted.”
Oswald said the family then
wrote a Facebook post that in-
cluded a picture of the 2-year-
old border collie and red heeler
mix and more than 3,000
people shared the post. That’s
when Tyler, Travis and Zane
Potter recognized the dog in
the photo as the same dog they
saw on their family farm south
of Rathdrum on Tuesday.
The Potters and Oswald
think Tilly was drawn to the
farm and their sheep.
“I think that dog was trying
to herd,” Travis Potter said.
Oswald said if it weren’t for
Kathy Plonka/The Spokesman-Review
Linda Oswald hugs 2-year-old dog Tilly on Tuesday at their home in Hayden, Idaho.
“People just kept going out,” Linda Oswald said, noting
that the search lasted about 10 hours on Sunday before the
family went home. “We were sore and exhausted.”
the post, he would still be out
there.
She said she’s extremely
grateful for all the people
who helped find Tilly. It was a
rough couple days for her and
her family. They spent much of
their time continuously search-
ing.
“I just cried every day,” Os-
wald said. “It was ridiculous,
but you get so emotional over
your pets.”
She thinks the pandemic,
and all the social isolation it
has caused, is part of the rea-
son so many people were will-
ing to pitch in.
“All of a sudden, I think peo-
ple saw a time to really jump
out and help, even if it was
just a small thing like finding
a dog,” Oswald said. “There’s a
lot of kind people out there.”
It’s Saturday, June 12, the 163rd
day of 2021. There are 202 days left
in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
In 1987, President Ronald Reagan,
during a visit to the divided Ger-
man city of Berlin, exhorted Soviet
leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to
“tear down this wall.”
In 1630, Englishman John Win-
throp, leading a fleet carrying
Puritan refugees, arrived at the
Massachusetts Bay Colony, where
he became its governor.
In 1939, the National Baseball Hall
of Fame and Museum was dedi-
cated in Cooperstown, New York.
In 1942, Anne Frank, a Ger-
man-born Jewish girl living in Am-
sterdam, received a diary for her
13th birthday, less than a month
before she and her family went
into hiding from the Nazis.
In 1963, civil rights leader Medgar
Evers, 37, was shot and killed
outside his home in Jackson,
Mississippi. In 1994, Byron De La
Beckwith was convicted of mur-
dering Evers and sentenced to life
in prison; he died in 2001.
In 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court,
in Loving v. Virginia, unanimously
struck down state laws prohibiting
interracial marriages.
In 1971, Tricia Nixon and Edward
F. Cox were married in the White
House Rose Garden.
In 1981, major league baseball
players began a 49-day strike over
the issue of free-agent compen-
sation. The season did not resume
until Aug. 10.
In 1991, Russians went to the polls
to elect Boris N. Yeltsin president
of their republic.
In 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson
and Ronald Goldman were
slashed to death outside her Los
Angeles home. O.J. Simpson was
later acquitted of the killings in a
criminal trial but was eventually
held liable in a civil action.
In 2004, former President Ronald
Reagan’s body was sealed inside
a tomb at his presidential library
in Simi Valley, California, following
a week of mourning and remem-
brance by world leaders and regu-
lar Americans.
In 2015, Joyce Mitchell, a worker
at the maximum-security Clinton
Correctional Facility in Dannemo-
ra, New York, was arrested on
charges of helping two convicted
killers escape; Mitchell later plead-
ed guilty to promoting prison
contraband and was sentenced to
2 1/3 to seven years in prison.
Ten years ago: The Dallas Mav-
ericks won their first NBA title
by winning Game 6 of the finals
against the Miami Heat, 105-95.
“The Book of Mormon” took home
nine Tony Awards, including the
prize for best musical; “War Horse”
won five Tonys, including the best
play award.
Five years ago: A gunman
opened fire at the Pulse nightclub,
a gay establishment in Orlando,
Florida, leaving 49 people dead
and 53 wounded; Omar Mateen
pledged allegiance to the Islamic
State group during a three-hour
standoff before being killed in a
shootout with police.
One year ago: A federal judge
ordered Seattle police to tempo-
rarily stop using tear gas, pepper
spray and flash-bang devices to
break up peaceful protests. The
Oregon Supreme Court upheld
Gov. Kate Brown’s shutdown
orders aimed at stemming the
coronavirus pandemic. William
Sessions, a former federal judge
appointed by President Ronald
Reagan to head the FBI and fired
years later by President Bill Clinton,
died at his Texas home at 90.
Today’s Birthdays: Songwriter
Richard M. Sherman is 93. Sports-
caster Marv Albert is 80. Singer Roy
Harper is 80. Actor Roger Aaron
Brown is 72. Actor Sonia Manzano
is 71. Rock musician Bun E. Carlos
(Cheap Trick) is 70. Country sing-
er-musician Junior Brown is 69.
Singer-songwriter Rocky Burnette
is 68. Actor Timothy Busfield is 64.
Singer Meredith Brooks is 63. Actor
Jenilee Harrison is 63. Rock musi-
cian John Linnell (They Might Be
Giants) is 62. Actor John Enos is 59.
Rapper Grandmaster Dee (Whod-
ini) is 59. Actor Paul Schulze is 59.
Actor Eamonn Walker is 59. Actor
Paula Marshall is 57. Actor Frances
O’Connor is 54. Actor Rick Hoff-
man is 51. Actor-comedian Finesse
Mitchell is 49. Actor Mel Rodriguez
is 48. Actor Jason Mewes is 47. Ac-
tor Michael Muhney is 46. Blues
musician Kenny Wayne Shepherd
is 44. Actor Timothy Simons is
43. Actor Wil Horneff is 42. Singer
Robyn is 42. Rock singer-musi-
cian John Gourley (Portugal. The
Man) is 40. Actor Dave Franco is 36.
Country singer Chris Young is 36.
Actor Luke Youngblood is 35. Actor
Ryan Malgarini is 29.
— Associated Press
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