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This skateboard was signed by the Red Hot Chili Peppers November 9, 2013 while on tour in Rio for the 501(c)(3) non-profit Ferry County Rail Trail Partners. The group is developing a 25 mile long trail in NE Washington State. Bob Whittaker, tour manager for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, who opened for RHCP in Brazil, purchased the skateboard. Also included are the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' day sheet, set list and Bob's passes for the event. This skateboard isn't just a pretty wall hanger. The 9.5" x 34" Hendrix model, mid-sized longboard deck was handcrafted, signed and dated by the artisans at El Phante in Rio de Janeiro. With Caliber Red Rum trucks and 68mm Volante Checker wheels this board was built to ride.
This item is listed by Keith Bell, Vice President of Ferry County Rail Trail Partners. 100% of the proceeds go directly to this all-volunteer non-profit organization.
More hi res pics @ https://www.mediafire.com/folder/bq6v3hdjuvvhv/RHCP%20auction
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Press release -
Ferry County Rail Trail Partners (a 501c3 non-profit group) have announced a unique auction item to raise funds for the county's 25 mile rail-trail. The auction is for a skateboard signed backstage in Rio deJaneiro by all the members of the 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees and winners of 7 Grammy awards, the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
The hand crafted longboard-style deck was purchased in Rio de Janeiro Brazil by Bob Whittaker, tour manager for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and president of the rail trail group. "This rare longboard was signed and numbered by the makers at El Phante and is an amazing piece of craftsmanship by itself, the signatures by all the members of the Peppers make it a modern-day cultural artifact."
The Ferry County Rail-Trail, located in rural Northeast Washington, is a 25-mile, non-motorized segment of a 30-mile trail that follows a rail corridor that was originally developed by the Great Northern Railroad. This trail is open to everyone for both transportation (getting to school and work, and going shopping) and recreation (walking, bicycling, horseback-riding, snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, and fishing), and is also used by local wildlife.
The Ferry County Rail Trail Partners mission is to preserve the rail corridor for the long term economic benefit of Ferry County and create a non motorized trail.
Whittaker went on to say, "Working together to create safe bicycle and pedestrian connections between schools, neighborhoods and towns has become a common unifying goal and I think this board, an international and cross cultural effort, is symbolic of that fresh and healthy new school of thought."
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Ferry County Rail Trail Partners
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Ron Rattray
I don't remember if I RSVP'd to this. I'll be there. I have a potluck at 3:00, for which I'm setting up beforehand, so if the Annie Oakley meeting keeps going a long time (which, considering the enthusiasm, and number of details to discuss, may happen), I might have to scoot out before the end. Thanks for organizing this.
Janice Smith, Alberta, Canada
Oh
my gosh only today to finish preparing for Santa's arrival at the San
Poil Grange Hall tomorrow ! Baking Apple Dumplings , Pies and other
goodies today. Come down to the Grange to share in the fun. Santa
arrives at 10 and our country breakfast begins at 9. The Bazaar...
Janice Smith
Janice Smith, Alberta, CanadaState wildlife officials have hired a hunter to eliminate two wolf packs in a federal wilderness area in central Idaho because officials say they are eating too many elk calves.
Fish and Game Bureau Chief Jeff Gould tells the Idaho Statesman that hunters are having a difficult time getting into the Frank Church-River of No Return wilderness, so the agency hired hunter-trapper Gus Thoreson of Salmon to kill the wolves in the Golden and Monumental packs.
The U.S. Forest Service allowed the state agency to use an airstrip and cabin in the Payette National Forest as a base.
Fish and Game paid $22,500 for aerial killing of 14 wolves in the Lolo area in 2012. Gould said Monday he didn't know how much the agency would end up paying for Thoreson's salary and expenses.
Francine Malo
In the mid 1920s there were over a half dozen country schools in the area surrounding Republic. There were the schools called Karamin, Trout Creek, McKeen-Safe, Torboy, Deer Park, Dodson, and San Poil. These one-room, one-teacher schools with multiple grades existed to give a little education to the children of the many ranchers and homesteaders in the hills and distant locations. After World War I, the 1920s saw an improvement in the country roads because of the increased use of automobiles and trucks.
This led to the formation of the Republic Consolidated School
District No. 309 in the mid-1920s. It then became the responsibility of
the district to bring the students to the school, and therefore, buses
were needed.
Contracts were given for different routes. The buses were provided by the winners of the contract and were usually a hand-built affair with more or less comfort for the passengers. The six buses in these pictures were all locally crafted. The photos were taken around 1932-33. The present system of district-owned buses came a year or two later. The photographs and information in this article were provided by Hugh Maycumber.
HELENA,
Montana — The hot molten rock beneath Yellowstone National Park is 2 ½
times larger than previously estimated, meaning the park's supervolcano
has the potential to erupt with a force about 2,000 times the size of
Mount St. Helens, according to a new study.
By
measuring seismic waves from earthquakes, scientists were able to map
the magma chamber underneath the Yellowstone caldera as 55 miles long,
lead author Jamie Farrell of the University of Utah said Monday.
The chamber is 18 miles wide and runs at depths from 3 to 9 miles below the earth, he added.
That
means there is enough volcanic material below the surface to match the
largest of the supervolcano's three eruptions over the last 2.1 million
years, Farrell said.
The
largest blast — the volcano's first — was 2,000 times the size of the
1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington state. A similar one
would spew large amounts of volcanic material in the atmosphere, where
it would circle the earth, he said.
Janice Smith
Rick Price
In the mid 1920s there were over a half dozen country schools in the area surrounding Republic. There were the schools called Karamin, Trout Creek, McKeen-Safe, Torboy, Deer Park, Dodson, and San Poil. These one-room, one-teacher schools with multiple grades existed to give a little education to the children of the many ranchers and homesteaders in the hills and distant locations. After World War I, the 1920s saw an improvement in the country roads because of the increased use of automobiles and trucks.
Contracts were given for different routes. The buses were provided by the winners of the contract and were usually a hand-built affair with more or less comfort for the passengers. The six buses in these pictures were all locally crafted. The photos were taken around 1932-33. The present system of district-owned buses came a year or two later. The photographs and information in this article were provided by Hugh Maycumber.
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