The Spokesman-Review from Spokane, Washington • 11

A9 By D.F. Oliveria Staff writer COEUR dALENE A request by a merchants group to remove parking meters downtown won Tuesday the unanimous endorsement of the City Council. The council also approved a rezoning request that allows a mixture of light and heavy manufacturing and commercial uses for 106 acres north of the county landfill and city sludge ponds at Kathleen Avenue and Ramsey Road. After an hour-long discussion Tuesday, the council unanimously approved a request by the Down town Business and Professional Association to eliminate the meters for six months. In place of the meters, the council agreed to institute two-hour parking by chalking tires downtown from Second to Seventh streets and from Front to Indiana.

In making his motion to approve the merchants reouest, Councilman Bill Jones said the city also needs to address the overall downtown parking problem, including the use of two city lots and a possible increase in fines for parking tickets. Additionally, Jones suggested that the council negotiate with the merchants association to determine how to pay for about $12,000 in new signs necessary for parking changes. City Administrator Gene McAdams predicted that the change could cost the city $40,000 to $45,000 in lost revenue. I havent heard a plan for reimbursement of costs, McAdams told the council. However, Jones said the city should support the merchants proposal as a long-term benefit for the benefit of the downtown business community.

Council members thought the city could regain some lost revenue through higher fines, but were cautioned by downtown business representatives not to make fines too high. Sandi Bloem, president of the organization, balked at a council suggestion that the merchants pay part of the costs of the new signs. I dont feel we should subsidize parking on public streets, she said. McAdams said city staff would have to begin first thing this morning to be able to have the new parking regulations in place by early May. When he askeri how the city will pay for the signs, McAdams was told by council members to use its travel funds.

Jones and Councilman A1 Hassell were appointed to meet with the merchants to work out details of the program. About nine ordinances need to be changed to allow the removal of the meters. The ordinances will be discussed at the next council meeting May 6. In other action, the council unanimously approved a request by Dave Schreiber to rezone his Fruitland Lane area to Highway 95. Area land owner Jerry Mote, who owns 30 acres across Kathleen Avenue, cautioned the council that the manufacturing zone on the south part of the property could introduce such heavy uses as lumber mills and steel fabrication onto the property.

Im not in favor of heavy, noisy, smelly, smoky manufacturing on that property, he said. Ed Morse, representing Schreiber, insisted that his client wasnt going to introduce onto his land anything negative that would harm other portions of his development. prop- ert ty- Th he rezoning divides the tv into light manufacturing along Kathleen Avenue, manufacturing on a southern piece adjacent to the sludge ponds, and commercial use for land that extends from the Spokane, April 16, 1986. The SpOKISMAN-RevWA Lake City council backs removal of downtown parking meters kmji Busches lauded as believers Bonner schools set meeting on double shifting SANDPOINT Bonner County school trustees will decide at a special meeting Thursday whether to implement double shifts of classes for Sandpoint students next year. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m.

at the Farmin School cafeteria. A board decision to close three schools and a part of a fourth at the end of the school year will mean displacing more than 1,000 Sand-point-area students next year. Kootenai and Lincoln grade schools, Sandpoint Ninth Grade Center and the old section of Sagle School will be shut down in June. Trustees are closing the schools because of structure and safety problems. Administrators have developed five options for placing students next year.

School officials recommend that double sessions be limited to Sandpoint High School. At one time, officials favored a plan involving double-shift classes at Sandpoints Stidwell-Farmin complex and the high school. However, to avoid two shifts for younger students, administrators recommend double sessions for grades seven through 12. Elementary students would have a normal school day at Stidwell-Farmin. Trustees said they hoped to prevent double shifts of classes, but administrators said last week they believed some double sessions will be unavoidable.

Three storytellers to speak Saturday SANDPOINT Storyteller Mag-gi Peirce and two area writers will share their talents and stories at a spring writers celebration Saturday at the Sandpoint Community Hall. East Bonner County Library officials said they hope to gather people of all ages who want to write illustrate, publish, dramatize or simply enjoy a book. The program will begin at 6 p.m. id include a soup supper and en- and LEWISTON (AP) Peter and Charlene Busch were eulogized Tuesday as people who believed strongly in education and in their responsibility to take chances in the political arena. The assessment of Busch, 51, and his wife Charlene, 42, was delivered at their funeral.

The couple died Thursday night when Buschs private plane crashed near Dubois, about 65 miles northwest of Idaho Falls. Also killed was state Sen. Terry Reilly, one of two candidates seeking the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor. Among those attending the hour-long ceremony were Gov. John Evans and former Gov.

Cecil Andrus. Busch, the' unsuccessful 1984 Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, had been the sole Democrat candidate to announce for the congressional seat now held by Rep. Larry Craig, R-Idaho. Busch flew about 400 missions as a Marine Corps pilot before retiring.

He had lived in Lewiston during the 1984 race and last year moved to Caldwell to establish a base for the congressional campaign. Busch saw his role as a candidate as one of outlining the issues, rather than taking the safe political course, said Doug McConnaughey, news director of KNPA Radio in Nampa and a personal friend of Busch. In running for the Senate and the Congress, he felt it was his responsibility to teach and enlighten, rather than be a cheerleader, McConnaughey said. Busch also disregarded his political advisers in strongly opposing a military build-up ana an interventionist foreign policy. He wanted people to know exactly what it was like to be in the military and to be at risk, McConnaughey said.

But Busch handled personal risk with grace. McConnaughey noted a July 4, 1985 campaign flight to North Idaho with Busch as pilot as an example. During the flight, the plane ran into turbulence and Busch lost control temporarily. At one point, an aircraft window broke, and the cockpit rapidly lost air pressure. Anything that wasnt locked down or strapped in was sucked out the window opening.

When it was over, Pete turned to me with a big Pete Busch grin and said, Did you guys get all the crumbs blown off? McCon- AP photo Funeral Mass for Idaho First District congressional candidate Peter M. Busch, 51, and his wife Charlene, 42, was said Tuesday at St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Lewiston. DODGE W150 4 WHEEL DRIVE PICKUP TRUCK STOCK NO. T9C307 life and Idahoans lives, Evans said.

The couple was buried Tuesday afternoon in Colton, Wash. Funeral services for Reilly, 39, are scheduled for this afternoon in Boise. Steve McCreay, a National Transportation Safety Board investigator, said Tuesday that preliminary investigation results have ruled out mechanical problems with the aircraft. I dont see any evidence on the site of any mechanical problems with the engine, the air frame or the planes controls, McCreay said. Tuesdays scheduled plan to remove the wreckage of the singleengine Piper Arrow from the isolated canyon side in a remote area of western Clark County was delayed until today.

naughey said. Thomas Williams, a priest at St. Stanislaus, noted the attendance of two Idaho dignitaries. Thats a nice token, but its also a nice token that people who are not dignitaries are here, Williams said. They were friends of us all.

Williams credited the couple with having the courage to take political risks. They both had the courage to risk failure, Williams said. Both of these people had that kind of courage. I would just hope that Pete, Charlene and Terry would be remembered for the service they gave to the state and the nation and not because of the tragedy of an airplane accident, Andru said. will be remembered for his dedication and optimism that he could make a change in American tertainment.

Peirce, a Fairhaven, professional storyteller, is the Bonner County School Districts artist-in-residence. She will be joined by poet Paul Croy and writer Compton White, both from the Hope area. The trio will offer stories, historical anecdotes and local humor. County schoolchildren will perform a dance based on the book, I Can Dance Mountains, and musicians will entertain with works from the Big Band era. The library will provide homemade soups.

Participants are asked to bring desserts, breads or finger foods. Additional information about the program is available at the library. "9 NEW I SUGG. RETAIL PRICE 12,381.00 TRUCKS I SUNSET DODGE DISCOUNT 1,473.40 IN STOCK factory REBATE .800.00 YOUR PRICE 10,10760 $500 DOWN, CASH OR TRADE. $800 REBATE DOWN, $224 36 PER MO.

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UP TO SEE THE DODGE BOYS IN COEUR DALENE AND SAVE! goal with the override is to fund one-time expenses not recurring ones, such as teaching positions. Three board members, however, chose to return to Urbanac the sample override ballot for more work. Trustee Mike Boyd voted against adding the librarians, citing the districts past. When we looked at our building program (last year), the more people talked the more the program grew, Boyd said. The rhetoric ran, Why go for a partial fix? Lets meet the district building needs for a long time (with an $8 million bond levy).

We got a definite answer on that one. It went down to resounding defeat. The board has proposed the override election be held May 13. four category ballot. At least it will tell us if people want more than the ground level in our schools.

said one audience member. And if it goes down, what have we lost that we have now? Superintendent Anne Fox, who was absent from Tuesdays meeting, had proposed the district ask voters for $162,000 to maintain programs that affect accreditation; $139,000 to repair roofs, hook up two schools to the sewer, remove asbestos and pay for a bus; $25,000 for instructional materials; and $64,000 for extracurricular activities. Urbanac urged the board to stay below $400,000, admitting to pressure from a local property owners group. He also said the administrations POST FALLS Apparently persuaded by emotional pleas from the public, the Post Falls School Board Tuesday agreed to ask for more than $390,000 in the May override levy election. Because district administration must compute the additional cost to taxpayers to reinstate four elementary librarians and the elementary music program, the board delayed setting the levy amount until Thursday.

The boards decision came hard and followed 90 minutes of pleas from the public to ask for more than the bare minimum. Teachers and parents argued that the district has nothing to lose by adding an item to the proposed Wreck blocks U.S. 95 south of Grangeville U.S. 95 south of Grangeville, Idaho, was blocked Tuesday night after a tractor-trailer rig and another vehicle collided, Idaho State Police said. The accident occurred about 8 p.m., 37 miles south of Grangeville.

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