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Ronan Pioneer, Thursday, April 21, 1960

Turnbull named to head Dist. 28 school board

Ed Turnbull, Charlo, was elected chairman of the board of trustees of School District No. 28 at the annual reorganization  meeting in Ronan on April 16.  Dr. R.D. Read, Ronan, was named vice chairman.

Earl J. Summers, Ronan, was re-appointed clerk. Other trustees are Howard Delaney, St. Ignatius; Wayne Burrell, Moiese; and L.E. Cullen, Round Butte.

Spring street cleaning to start Sunday

The Ronan spring street cleaning project will start at 7 a.m. on Sunday, April 24, instead of at 1 p.m. as announced last week, according to Al Hamlin, chairman of the Ronan Lion’s Club.

The Lions Club is sponsoring the project in cooperation with the Ronan Chamber of Commerce and the Ronan Area Jaycees. Each Main Street business is asked to have a representative on the work crew.

By starting at an early hour, it is hoped to have the project completed in time for crew members to attend church, if they should desire to do so. Crew members are asked to bring wheel barrows, shovels and brushes.

Mission Valley News, June 8, 1977

Change is coming as Kaschkes move on

The area will lose a friend next week when Bison Range Manager Marvin Kaschke and his family move on to new responsibilities for the U.S. Bureau of Sports Fisheries and Wildlife. 

The soft-spoken, easy-smiling range manager has achieved almost universal popularity with residents here during his eight-and-a-half year tour at the Bison Range.

The Kaschke children have attended Charlo schools, while Marv has been a diligent worker for civic organizations, outside his professional duties. He’s a member of  the Charlo Lions Club, the P.T.A., three sportsmen’s clubs, and was active with the now defunct Charlo baseball program.

His range work evidently sat well with the higher-ups, too, for when it came time to move on from the local refuge he was offered not one but two choice locations.

“It was a really tough decision,” his wife Janet recalls. The Kaschkes could have gone either to the tri-state ranges in Oregon, Nevada and California, which were eventually chosen, or to the spectacular Jackson Hole, Wyo., area where he could also have had the top job.

It took a good deal of soul searching to pass up the Tetons in Wyoming, but Marv at last settled on the Oregon-based job of managing the Sheldon, Nev., Range; the Hart Mountain, Ore., Range; and the Modoc, Calif., bird refuge. There, range management will be the primary job. At Jackson Hole, it is rapidly becoming a case of tourist-handling coming first.

The three ranges encompass 806,000 acres of high desert country and a lot of antelope and bighorn sheep.