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'Health care kind of runs in my blood'

CAROLYN BOSTICK | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 3 weeks, 3 days AGO
by CAROLYN BOSTICK
Carolyn Bostick has worked for the Coeur d’Alene Press since June 2023. She covers Shoshone County and Coeur d'Alene. Carolyn previously worked in Utica, New York at the Observer-Dispatch for almost seven years before briefly working at The Inquirer and Mirror in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Since she moved to the Pacific Northwest from upstate New York in 2021, she's performed with the Spokane Shakespeare Society for three summers. | June 10, 2026 1:00 AM


    Harper Beare and Sydney Reep-McKinnon celebrate virtual graduation from the nursing program at Nightengale College.
    Evelyn McKinnon, Harper Beare and Sydney Reep-McKinnon pile onto Conner McKinnon and another in a family photo. Conner and Sydney are getting married later this month.
    Artwork Sydney Reep-McKinnon made of their daughter Harper holding balloons with the names of her friends who died while she was in treatment: Kaine, Thomas, Micah, Quintin, LJ and Gabe.
 
 

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