Bob Graham was the Ranger of the Bonner’s Ferry Ranger District from 1972 into the early 1980s. He began his career as a smoke jumper in 1952 and 1953. In 1953 the plane he was in crashed.

On a fall day in 1943, Robert T. Pluid started first grade at the Copeland School. So began Boundary County’s great good fortune to have him as a resident and Bob has continued to make his home here ever since. Today he is 83 years old and in “very good condition” as he calls it, health wise.

The man knew what I wanted before I even finished asking the question. The part I was seeking was for an old-time Meeker wood furnace which were once manufactured here in Boundary County. Fact is, I may have one of the last ones made. We acquired that efficient furnace in September 1983, and have been using it every winter since.