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Rainy Day Monday

I'll start out with this photo of the 1950's era Safeway across the street from where we work. It was in the news last week that the Safeway Supermarket chain has bought out the only contemporary grocery store in town, Boundary Trading Company. This old building is very small and has none of the features most people think of in markets these days, deli sections, decent sized meat departments and lots of fresh fruit and veggies. The B.T.C. market has all of these and is quite a bit larger since it is only a few years old. It had been rumored for the last few years that Safeway wanted to build a bigger store in the area. Now they don't have to by taking one over. Boundary Trading Company was a local store that was bought up by a small chain a couple of years ago. All the staff at this Safeway market get first dibs at the jobs transferring to the 'new' store next month when the take over happens. Supposedly the staff at B.T.C. that aren't hired can transfer to another Trading Company store except the other stores are not anywhere in this end of the world.
This old store? Well, it is supposed to have been bought by another company and should reopen sometime this summer as a Co-Op kind of market. We'll see!
Above photo looks Northerly and you can see across the Kootenai River and see the bridge that is the highway to Canada and Montana as well as most of the older residential. It was rainy most of the morning, the road is still all wet in these photos, and we might even get some snow over night Tuesday to Wednesday. Stacy has to fly to Boise for meetings on Wednesday and will be back late Thursday. Since she has to leave early on Wednesday and take people with her to the airport I'm hoping it doesn't snow as predicted.

Below looks Southerly as a train rolls by. Building on the left with the flag is the Bonners Ferry City Fire Department's headquarters and station. On the right is the Sheriff's Office, drivers licenses and the town jail.
The last few days had been really nice, clear and almost 60 degrees.

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