Friday, December 19, 2025

ARTICLES BY KERRI THORESON

MAIN STREET: Mentors can change a child's world

I love backstories and when I heard this one last week, knew it was worth sharing.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Tales too good not to share

Alan Wolfe, 57, a first-time Ironman competitor from Post Falls, made it to the finish line on Sherman Avenue about 9:45 p.m., pausing, going down into a prone position and rolling across the line. What most people in the viewing area wouldn't have known about Alan's unique finish is that …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 13 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Competitive couple continues to run

Dani Zibell and Alan Wolfe married just over four years ago and are such a great match-up. Dani was a devotee of running and in the course of their marriage the couple have competed in four Bloomsdays, a number of 5Ks for charity, two duathlons, four half-marathons and over the …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 14 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

Home is where the heart always was

Tracey Brown has led a charmed life... the Post Falls woman is one of the few to represent Idaho at both the Miss America and Miss USA pageants. She's a Whitworth grad, now in her first year at Pepperdine School of Law. Tracey has traveled the world and even modeled …
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 15 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Main Street

There’s much ado about social networking these days but my friend, Bob Driscoll has cornered the market in a more traditional way ... via an extensive network of e-mail contacts. Bob’s e-mail list is legendary and spans local governmental agencies, churches, nonprofits and service organizations. At the press of the …
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Main Street - Living the Dream

This week's column features a 20-something playwright pioneering art via social media and a 70-something daughter of the Depression realizing a lifetime dream to sing and perform. Laveda Fay Jordan was born on Dec. 7, 1931 in Kellogg, Idaho. As a little girl her bedroom walls were covered with posters …
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