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Day 39

It was a lazy day today, there wasn’t too much scheduled so I had some time to archive my photos from February. I’m going to be finishing up this internship at the first of the month and so I have some archiving to do for the Press. Thinking about my experience so far I’m so grateful. Not everybody gets a chance like this to get hands on work training in the job field and take that knowledge back to school and into a future career; it really is a blessing. I’ve also been pleased to see myself improve, I’m definitely not where I want to be quite yet, I know I have a long way to go…but I have noticed an improvement from where I started to where I am now. I just need to keep things going! I’m excited to put my new experience toward the Save the Romance project that I will have a chance to work on again starting in April. Okay, I’m off my soap box and there will be plenty of time for that later.

After archiving for awhile I got another one of my photos from the Silverwood project ready for print because there was going to be an update running tomorrow. Then I went to a pottery painting studio which is participating in a fundraiser for the Post Falls food bank called Empty Bowls. There will be a dinner with gourmet soups and it costs $15 to get an artisan bowl and a soup. When I got there I ran into a situation that happens sometimes; the people being photographed are nervous and so they really don’t know what to do, they think they need to set up for the photos… yada yada, nope, I just want you to pretend that I’m not here and just go on doing what you’re doing… oh well. It was fun to talk pottery though.

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Day 37

Today started out with a trip to Hauser. A local lady just recently purchased a restaurant that is a local landmark and has gone under a few different times; she had some new ideas about how to get it to be a successful place so we did a story on her. Next was a photo from a location in Athol near Silverwood Theme Park which is being debated over to be subdivided for over 80 homes. There is a big fuss over it though because it is a plot of land which is zoned as rural and it could have a big impact on the wild life especially the elk in the area.

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Day 34

There was another long drive first thing this morning, out to a place called Careywood. Careywood is in danger of loosing their Post Office because it is such a tiny town. We were doing a feature story on that. Then, on the way back we went into Hayden and took a photo for a NIBJ story about a man who went from being a volunteer employee at a boat dealer to being their business manager.

Then there was a stand alone opportunity with a non-profit called Wings of Rescue  where animal shelter dogs are flown here from California to be cared for by other non-profits, however after being there for about 15 minutes still waiting for the plane to get there I was called out to a 50 acre grass fire in Athol and that took first priority. It was also pretty fun being with the fire fighters, they were all cool with me being there. That was today, pretty exciting!

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