"You can look at the points and the rebounds and say I had a good game but personally seven turnovers is unacceptable and defensively, I can't allow that girl to hit however many 3-pointers on me, so I've got to do better," DeShields said.Once DeShields found her rhythm and the strong play started off, it showed little signs of stopping. The North Carolina team that trailed by as many as 10 points in the first 10 minutes of play forced 12 turnovers in the second half of the period and went into the locker room up by 16 .Calder said it was only a matter of time before his team's true nature showed."We believe our team will eventually wear everybody down," he said."And I felt like really towards the end of the first half, we wore them down."
And even when N.C. State followed form with a run of its own to bring the game to within five points with just three minutes to play , the Tar Heels' confidence never wavered."It was a comforting win, and I was never worried," DeShields said. "That was a first for me."Hundreds of people filled the seats at the Sandpoint High School auditorium Oct. 8, 2013--a crowd you might expect to see at a high-school musical. But no one was there to be entertained. A tightly coiled tension simmered throughout the room.It was the first--and only--opportunity for public comment on a controversial policy to arm Lake Pend Oreille School District staff. As proposed by school district trustee Steve Youngdahl,Packing on the pounds on purpose
the policy would see select staff carrying concealed weapons.
As an added measure of safety, the weapons would be equipped with an Intelligun system--a device that locks a pistol's firing mechanism until it reads registered fingerprints.At first glance, Tom Bokowy and Bill Aitken aren't dissimilar from Youngdahl. All three are family men with strong ties to their community. Just as Youngdahl is a public official, so too is Aitken, appointed to a vacant seat on the Sandpoint City Council. Yet these very similar men would become the leaders in a charge to recall Youngdahl.Youngdahl first proposed his armed staff policy, citing the at-least-20-minute response time for emergency personnel to reach Clark Fork Junior-Senior High School, one of LPOSD's most rural facilities.