Monique lives in a tent in the forest near Hayden that has been her home for months. She wears two pairs of long johns on cold nights, has no air mattress, and relies on Fresh Start for occasional meals, showers and computer access. She is sober, and free of alcohol …
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The 8-year-old boy, with his dad in hand, came from Spokane to see the hydroplane races for the first time, and he came to me to claim the souvenir prize he had been promised. After several calls, I found where he should go, and a smiling boy and his father …
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Every eye at the North Idaho College gym was on the participant, as she was lifted high to the 10-foot rim of the basket by three very tall smiling college basketball players for NIC. She launched the ball, it rolled around the rim a little, then dropped into the basket …
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On Aug. 12, Anne Veseth was killed while fighting the Steep Corner fire, when a snag 200 feet up the mountain in front of her fell onto another tree, which fell on her, according to the Missoulian. Anne, a second-year firefighter, was just 20 years old.
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The headline read "here's the pitch" as Ron Ouren, fundraising director, sought $3 million in private donations to build a new field on distant Cherry Hill to replace historic Legion Field at McEuen Field. Perhaps Ron, comfortable in retirement from his successful banking career, does not appreciate what is happening …
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At the Kootenai County Fair, I witnessed a so-called attraction that I hadn't seen since my childhood at circuses during the 1950s in Moscow, Idaho. That was the display of "little Linda" - loudly announced by a loudspeaker as "the World's Smallest Woman - she's from Haiti, only 29 inches …
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In the mid-1960s, my buddy and I took his orange VW bug and drove from Moscow to Coeur d'Alene to watch the thunderboats. A trip to Coeur d'Alene was "really cool" since the good-looking girls lived in the Lake City. We camped out on Tubbs Hill. Thousands of people got …
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