Where is Everyone???

I read Slight Detour blog Sunday morning
knowing Marianne would have great things
to say about the 100th Celebrations of Bonner
County show.

Sadly I was disappointed. I didn't go yesterday,
as I thought it would be a packed house. Packed
parking lot. After all this is the county history. And
it was FREE!!!! Great way for parents to show their
kids about the county they live in, no matter how long
they have lived here. I guess I was wrong. According
to Slight Detour, it was a dismay of input of people on
Saturday.

I had decided to go Sunday to beat the crowd. I knew
my Pastor was going to be there for the church services.
And figured I would do both on Sunday. So we went
to the church service. In the crowd (?), I would say
half of them were from our church. And there was only
6 families from our church.

After taking care of some important business,
I returned alone at 11:30am. The King was
helping the grandson get his engine out of
the pickup he had bought.

I drove up to, 4 cars in the parking lot. I decided
to take a picture later as there would be more
people. As you can see there are about 10
cars including my own. And the 4 before?
Well, they belonged to the people who were
there for the manning of two booths and to help
with one other one. The crew in other words.

I found 10 booths and 2 tables by the door.
I don't know what the one was on the right.
The one on the left was the library, which
had some town pictures too, in a time line.

Then off to the booths. Sheriff, Ponderay, which
started out as the town of Boyer. And then
the town of Kootenai, Which had so many business
in it. Now I understand why Main Street is called that,
as it was a main street of businesses. Also an area
called Hog Haven... which is the area where my house
is now. I will have to ask my neighbor why that name.
It took me about 15 minutes for each town, to read and look at the pictures..

And there were some other organization booths.
Like Northern Lights and the Cattlemen Assoc.
and Granges. There was a lady setting up her booth,
that said items were for sale, but only saw 4 items. They
look like stain glass items.

What I didn't see was ... where was the city of Sandpoint?
Only small patches of it there. Where was the mayors
over the years? Fire Dept. Pictures of the old stores?
Where was Priest River? Where was Priest Lake?
Where was Idaho Hills? Where was the Vay area,
and several other area's out there? Harlem, etc.
Where was Dover? Where was Sagle, Where was
Laclede? Elmira? wasn't there a town called
Samuels at one time? Where was Clark Fork,
and Hope. Small amount of mention of them thru
the railroad articles. All of these places where and
are in Bonner County. I have to give credit due for
Ponderay and Kootenai as they did the best and
even the sheriff had a few interesting pictures.

I left at 12:44. I took a picture of the parking lot
close and far, so you can see how big the parking
lot is.. and how few cars were there. What happen?

Wasn't there enough people to get involved? Didn't those
towns I mention want to participate? No one cared?
I really feel bad for those who did. They worked hard.
But I am sure it is like most things, only the few stand
up to be counted. The rest just gritch at how badly it was
done. The few that showed up that is. Looks most of
the people decided not to come to see anyway.

I can not throw stones. I was asked to help. But I
only lived here for 12 years. I gave them names of
4 people who stand at the post office and talk about
the good old days when they were kids in Kootenai
over 50 years ago.
But maybe they are the ones who don't want to get
involved. And I do give a lot of credit to those who
tried. At least they tried.

Doesn't seem like most cared, in town.
As you can see from my pictures... there
was a heck of a lot more at Wal-Mart than at the
fairgrounds.

This is how many cars at almost 1pm Sunday



Where is everyone???

Oh, here they are.....