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Dec. 12 – I received a question on Twitter about the last time Gonzaga was sub-.500 (presuming he meant this late into the season). If my scan of the media guide is correct, that would be mid-February of the 1990-’91 season. GU was 12-13 before winning two of its last three to finish 14-14.

 Gonzaga hasn’t had a losing mark under Few other than being 0-1 after losing the ’03-’04 opener to Saint Joseph’s and the ’01-’02 opener to Illinois. Gonzaga was 5-4 and 6-5 during the 2001 season under Few.

Dec. 10 – They come just a few at a time from their home in the Arctic, but they stand out like NBA players on a grade-school tour bus when they arrive in Lincoln County each winter. Snowy owls are always welcome sights to Inland Northwest birdwatchers. The birds have a calm demeanor as they perch on fence posts and power poles over the wheat fields and scablands west of Spokane.

Dec. 9 – Highway 12 resident Linwood Laughy said the first he heard about the proposed megaloads was in April of 2010, when he was working in his home office and the power went out. He headed down the road and encountered an Avista power truck and crew working on the lines. “They told me they were raising all the power lines on the highway because there were some very tall loads that were going to be transported,” he said. “We got a little concerned and started investigating.”

He and his wife, Karen “Borg” Hendrickson, found a federal grant application in which the director of the Port of Lewiston wrote that if one oil company is successful at using this route, many others would follow its lead.

Dec. 7 – We recently heard from some of our friends and KEA members from the east side of Coeur d’Alene Lake about how a small herd of llamas at Arrow Ranch was struggling to survive the recent winter weather. We thought we’d pass along their story:

“When the snow began last Monday, I noticed the herd of fifteen clustered around the manger in the pasture.  As the week progressed, I would pass them on my way into town and again later in the day.  They were always standing there.  Oddly, I never saw them eating anything. Finally, I stopped to investigate.  Nowhere was there any evidence that these animals had been fed since the snow began.”