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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=542251817-14122004>All,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=542251817-14122004>First
Step, in conjunction with Latah County Rural Development Services received three
grants from the USDA Rural Utility Services Community-Oriented Connectivity
Broadband Grant Program for Bovill, Deary, and Potlatch. Under the terms
of the grant the libraries, schools, city halls/community centers, and
Fire/Ambulance services are provided with computers and other hardware to
bring broad-band high speed internet service to their operations. Each
community will have at least ten public access computers that are
free and easy to access. First Step spent a lot of man hours
preparing the applications and was able to secure these grants from a
highly competitive grant program. The backbone that will be
installed will provide a lot of rural residents with access to broadband
services. First Step, and Latah County, should be congratulated for this
effort as this project demonstrates that government and business can
cooperate to serve each other's need. First Step has been an
extremely positive force for the Latah County community and should be commended
for their work and dedication.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=542251817-14122004>Chris
Storhok </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com]<B>On
Behalf Of </B>Tbertruss@aol.com<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, December 13, 2004 9:49
PM<BR><B>To:</B> tsaylor@tds.net; vision2020@whale2.fsr.net;
vision2020@moscow.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Rural
wireless?<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0
face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"><BR>Tom et. al.<BR><BR>Yes,
well, I, at least, did respond to this development on V2020. Satellite
Internet can be great, but expensive. I suspect First Steps wireless
high speed Internet is cheaper than the satellite Internet options
available.<BR><BR>As I wrote earlier on V2020:<BR><BR>I may become a First
Step customer if they can provide high speed wireless Internet beamed to my
location in rural Latah County. Apparently they are working on
this.<BR><BR>Ted Moffett</FONT> </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>