Around Oregon/Idaho
Wednesday, September 9, 2009 10:25 AM PDT
Idaho’s Risch names Strickfaden to DC office
BOISE (AP) — U.S. Senator Jim Risch has hired the Idaho bowling industry’s former lobbyist to head his Washington, D.C. constituent services operation.
Barbara Strickfaden, who headed the Idaho State Bowling Proprietors Association as well as the Idaho Bankers Association, also worked for Risch in a similar capacity when he was Idaho’s temporary governor in 2006.
In the nation’s capital, Strickfaden will help handle contacts with Idaho residents and oversee the freshman Republican’s college internship program.
Risch said, ‘‘Barbara has a proven track record of service to Idaho. She was a great asset when I was in the governor’s office and I’m glad to have her help in Washington, D.C.’’
Strickfaden, who was born in Salmon, Idaho, is also the former president of the Coeur d’Alene Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Friends with a nuke lab? INL on Facebook
IDAHO FALLS (AP) — People can become closer friends with the nuclear research facility that brought atomic power to Cold War America, now that the Idaho National Laboratory has its own Facebook page.
The INL’s new Web site — www.facebook.com/IdahoNationalLaboratory — includes video interviews with researchers, as well as photos of life at the site in the eastern Idaho desert where scientists produced usable amounts of electricity from nuclear power back in 1951.
Ore. sheriff resigns after recall from
retirement
PORTLAND (AP) — A retired sheriff who was appointed to replace another that resigned under pressure is giving up the helm after repeated unsuccessful efforts to become recertified as a police officer. Multnomah County Sheriff Bob Skipper on Tuesday ended weeks of speculation about his plans by saying he will retire Nov. 5, the day state law dictates he must leave because he failed to secure the certification.
