<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Tom,</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Are you saying that not being able to pay your rent or mortgage isn't worth standing up for the right not to have access to health care?</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>Donovan J. Arnold</span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span></span> </div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <div class="hr" style="margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" contenteditable="false" readonly="true"></div> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Tom Hansen
<thansen@moscow.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020@moscow.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, October 6, 2013 7:58 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Vision2020] Federal shutdown having impact in Moscow, Idaho<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv9935329688"><div><div><span></span></div><div><div><span></span></div><div><div>Courtesy of today's (October 6, 2013) Spokesman-Review.</div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------</div><div><h1 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); line-height: 1.2; clear: both; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Federal shutdown having impact in Moscow, Idaho</h1></div><div><span>MOSCOW, Idaho – For Dworshak State Park ranger Andrew Singer, the partial shutdown of the federal
government could not have come at a worse time.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Singer, a U.S. Coast Guard veteran, and his wife, Allison, live in Lewiston and are in the process of buying a home in Troy. The couple are also expecting their first child to be born in the next few weeks.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>While Singer, who manages a campground, does patrols on land and water, assists visitors and helps with emergency response, has been exempted from furloughs due to the shutdown so far, he said he expects be furloughed this week.</span></div><div><div style="overflow: visible; margin-bottom: 21px;"><span>“It’s rather unfortunate timing,” Singer said. “It’s a bit nerve-wracking, frustrating.</span></div></div><div><div style="overflow: visible; margin-bottom: 21px;"><span>Singer said he and his wife have been smart about their finances and will just have to minimize big
purchases or pull from other resources until the shutdown is over. Luckily, Singer said, he and his wife have almost completed the home purchase and are using a Department of Veterans Affairs loan, which is user-funded rather than tax-funded.</span></div><div style="overflow: visible; margin-bottom: 21px;"><span>“We’re thinking that will be OK, but there could be some obstacles there as far as getting some paperwork together,” Singer said.</span></div><h3 style="margin: 21px 0px 7px; overflow: visible;"><font size="3"><span>No Smokey</span></font></h3><div style="overflow: visible; margin-bottom: 21px;"><span>Jim Fazio, owner of Northwest Showcase in Moscow, knows the story. Because of the shutdown, Fazio has thousands of dollars worth of product orders on hold for Smokey Bear and fire prevention products that he orders from federal agencies.</span></div><div style="overflow: visible; margin-bottom: 21px;"><span>“We can’t
fill those, we can’t ship them off, so it is hurting our business,” Fazio said.</span></div><div style="overflow: visible; margin-bottom: 21px;"><span>Fazio said he was also told by the U.S. Forest Service on Monday that Northwest Showcase can’t sell firewood permits during the shutdown.</span></div><div style="overflow: visible; margin-bottom: 21px;"><span>“I personally don’t see the connection myself, because it doesn’t entail any work or effort on any employees’ part. We sell the permit, and people go get the firewood and once or twice a year we send money to the Forest Service,” Fazio said. “It’s just almost a comical annoyance.”</span></div><h3 style="margin: 21px 0px 7px; overflow: visible;"><font size="3"><span>Rental plea</span></font></h3><div style="overflow: visible; margin-bottom: 21px;"><span>Brett Travis, a University of Idaho student and lance corporal in the Marine Corps Reserves, said he had to
ask his rental company to waive late rent fees this month as a result of the shutdown. In an email to Palouse Properties, Travis stated he uses his drill pay and education bill pay to cover his rent each month and just received word he won’t be receiving either until further notice.</span></div><div style="overflow: visible; margin-bottom: 21px;"><span>Karl Johnson, owner of Palouse Properties, said he spoke with Travis on the phone and the company is considering his request. So far, Johnson said, Travis’ request has been the only one of its kind in regard to the shutdown.</span></div><div style="overflow: visible; margin-bottom: 21px;"><span>“If we started receiving hundreds, I guess the answer would have to be no, we can’t do that … the city won’t say you don’t have to pay your water bill because of this,” Johnson said.</span></div><div style="overflow: visible; margin-bottom:
21px;"><span>--------------------</span></div><div style="overflow: visible; margin-bottom: 21px;"><span>Dworshak Reservoir is the centerpiece of Dworshak State Park, near Orofino, Idaho. Rangers there expect to be furloughed this week amid the government shutdown.</span></div><div style="overflow: visible; margin-bottom: 21px;"><img width="620" height="465" id="yiv9935329688DA825E3C-31DA-4FD2-BDD7-B6D79D9A4F67" alt="id_06dworshak_t620.jpg" src="cid:1.683573409@web161303.mail.bf1.yahoo.com"></div></div><div>---------------------------------<br><br><div>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.moscowcares.com/</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium;">There's room at the top they are
telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span>- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>=======================================================<br> List services made available by First Step Internet,<br> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.<br> <a href="http://www.fsr.net/" target="_blank">http://www.fsr.net/</a><br> mailto:<a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com"
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