December 25, 2014 Front Page

Good tidings of great joy. - St. Luke 2:11
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CLEARWATER TRIBUNE
Two Sections
Volume 101, Number 52 Thursday, December 25, 2014 Published every Thursday at Orofino, Idaho 83544 - Clearwater County - Second Class (USPS 117-340) Section One
Captain Doug Stuffle shakes hands with the leaders of the PLA-N as they prepare to disembark USS
STERETT on the flight deck. (See more photos on page 8A)
This distinguished-looking bear sends Christmas greetings to all
neighbors and passersby on Fremont Ave. in Riverside. The tree
bear belongs to Ken and Fran Harvey and was designed from the
stump of a pine tree that was cut down from their yard. Charlie
Pottenger photo
Next week’s ads and
news due Friday, Dec. 26
This Friday, Dec. 26 is the early
due date for articles and ads intended to run in the Jan. 1 issue
of the Clearwater Tribune.
Due to the New Year’s holiday,
the paper will be out on Tuesday
instead of Wednesday again next
week.
If you have ads or news you
would like to turn in for the Jan. 1
issue, please submit them Friday,
Dec. 26.
Seven-day weather forecast
Tuesday: Patchy fog before 10
a.m. Otherwise, mostly cloudy,
with a high near 43. Light wind.
Tuesday Night: Rain likely,
mainly after 4 a.m. Mostly cloudy,
with a low around 36. South
southeast wind around 6 mph.
Wednesday: Rain. High near
42. South wind around 7 mph.
Chance of precipitation is 90%.
Wednesday Night: Rain before
4am, then a chance of rain and
snow. Low around 36. West wind
around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch
possible.
Christmas Day: A chance of
rain and snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 39.
Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Where have all our
children gone?
This week’s Mystery Child,
pictured with Santa, was a 12
year Orofino student. He loves
motorbikes and anyone that
knows him knows of his passion
for 1956 Chevys. He also had a
love for logging. Can you guess
this week’s Mystery Child?
Last week’s Mystery Child,
New snow accumulation of less
than a half inch possible.
Thursday Night: A slight
chance of rain and snow showers.
Mostly cloudy, with a low around
28.
Friday: A chance of rain and
snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with
a high near 38 and a low of 26.
Saturday: Rain likely. Cloudy,
with a high near 39 and a low
around 32.
Sunday: A chance of rain. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 38 and
a low around 24.
Monday: A slight chance of
snow. Partly sunny, with a high
near 27.
This weather forecast is provided by the National Weather Service
in Missoula, MT.
Corby Finke, celebrated his 60th
birthday. Corby has never lived
anywhere but Clearwater County.
Logging has been his livelihood
for the last 41 years, due in large
part to his grandfather, who
established the Finke Logging
Company in the 1930’s.
Corby is married to Kelly, and
has two daughters, Heather and
Megan, and a son, Justin. He
also has six grandchildren, and
a sassy little “grand-dog” named
Biscuit.
Corby loves to golf and twice
has claimed the title of Orofino
Golf Course Club Champion.
When he is not golfing he
enjoys trapshooting. If he is not
working, swinging at golf balls,
or shooting trap, he is most
likely “bull-shooting.”
The first person to correctly
guess Corby as the Mystery
Child was Carmen Rinehart.
Also submitting correct guesses
were Julie Walker, Shirley
Seeley, John and Dolly Cooke,
Dorothy Medalen, Bill Jared,
Tracy Lubke, and Chris Marvin.
Idaho well represented at
the helm of U.S. Navy counterpiracy exercise with China
The U.S. Navy counterpiracy
exercise with the Chinese People’s
Liberation Army (Navy) PLA-N began as of Dec. 11, off the coastal
states in the Gulf of Aden and the
Horn of Africa. Two of the ships
participating in the exercise are
led by Idaho natives. U. S. Navy
Capt. Doug Stuffle, born and
raised in Orofino, and CDR Ted
Nunamaker, from Meridian.
Earlier this year, the Clearwater
Tribune featured Capt. Doug
Stuffle, who took command of Destroyer Squadron One in February
of 2014.Destroyer Squadron One
(DESRON ONE) is part of Carrier Strike Group One, embarked
on USS CARL VINSON (CVN 70)
and is currently deployed to Fifth
Fleet.
The Strike Group, along with
four ships, guided missile destroyer USS Sterett (commanded
by Cmdr. Nunamaker), USS Gridley, USS Dewey, and USS Bunker
Hill have participated in several
multinational exercises.
In a recent article, “U.S. and
China conduct anti-piracy exercise,” U.S. Navy Mass Communication specialists 1st Class Travis
Alston and 3rd Class Eric Coffer,
further define the purpose and
goals of U.S.-China Counter-Piracy Exercise 15.
The following information appears in their article.
The cooperative training aims
to promote partnership, strength
and presence. It includes combined visit, board, search, and
seizure operations, communication exchanges, and various other
aspects of naval operations. Additionally, the exercise represents a
long-standing united front toward
counter-piracy operations shared
by these two world powers.
“The exercise allows us to address our common regional and
global interest,” said Capt. Stuffle,
“It helps both nations pursue a
healthy, stable, reliable and continuous bilateral relationship.” Approximately 700 personnel
from the U.S. and China navies
will participate in the exercise,
and it gives Sterett sailors the opportunity to engage in a shared
mission with other surface platforms.
“Piracy is a long-standing problem, world-wide,” said Cmdr. Theodore Nunamaker. “It has long
been recognized as a problem
that requires an international-cooperative solution. Certainly the
U.S. 5th Fleet AOR (area of responsibility) is one of the focused
points for that effort. Modern-day
piracy has a far-reaching economic impact. Although much of the
world’s population will never encounter piracy, it has an impact on
everyone, by increasing the cost of
goods that are being shipped from
place to place.”
Stuffle expressed that Sterett’s
crew, like all deployed U.S. naval forces, have trained to meet
a variety of mission sets that are
important to the nation’s interest
and stand ready to execute anti-piracy measures when directed.
Both Stuffle and Nunamaker agree the ultimate goal of this
exercise is to strengthen military-to-military relationships between the U.S. and its Chinese
counter-parts. The navies of the
U.S. and China conducted similar
training Aug. 20 - 25, 2013.
“These bi-lateral exercises help
us establish clear paths for communication; they encourage transparency of trust, help us mitigate
risk and allow us to demonstrate
cooperative efforts in the international community to help us work
together to deal with transnational
threats. In the end, we look to create a peaceful, stable and secure
maritime domain,” said Stuffle.
Sterett is deployed as part of the
Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group
and is supporting Operation Inherent Resolve conducting maritime security operations, strike
operations in Iraq and Syria as directed and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet
area of responsibility.
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Beginning Friday, Dec. 26
Rated PG-13
DAILY SHOWTIME 6:30 P.M.
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Weather
Dec. 17
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Dec. 18
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Max.
46
38
42
41
48
55
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Min.
31
33
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39
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Last Year’s Weather
Max.
Min.
39
29
36
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34
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4.5” snow
3” snow
Temps. are read the following morning for the previous
day, i.e. Friday’s listed temp. would be for Thursday.
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Clearwater Tribune Online Poll
VOICE YOUR OPINION
Last week’s poll
Do you agree with Canadian philosopher
Will Kymlicka that domesticated animals
should be granted citizenship rights?
86%
No.
2%
Yes.
12%
It would depend
on which rights
they were given.
This is not a scientific poll.
Every week our online edition
features a new poll, which will
be posted at 5 p.m. every Tuesday. You may vote until 5 p.m.
Tuesday of the following week.
This week’s question: Do you
buy your pet Christmas gifts?
Visit our website and vote in
the poll, located in the far left
column beneath the login box.
Please vote once per poll.
CHRISTMAS IS GOING TO THE DOGS AT OBS—The lucky four-legged winners of the Orofino Builders Supply (OBS) “Christmas is Going to the Dogs” stocking drawing are Angus Stanton (far left)
shown with his “Papa” Darold Stanton, and Nikki Colwell (far right), of Peck, shown with her “Dad”
Pat Colwell. Keith Gwinn and Leila Crockett of OBS are shown in the center with the prizes. OBS donated $150 from the contest to the Clearwater Humane Society. Photo by Tabby Haskett
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