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Idaho stories for Sunday, November 22, 2009
In extolling the goodwill of North Idahoans, Michael and Vickie Hillicoss would top the list.
Lake City High School is helping people in need and getting into the holiday spirit with its annual food drive.
Kendra Goodrick- Martinez, the ex-meth dealer who continues to go straight, was an interested observer when Kootenai County voters rejected that jail expansion proposal. She knows first-hand that a bigger jail is needed. In a Huckleberries Online comment, she described a spot of crumbling wall during her stay in the local hoosegow that separated pods that was called the "fax machine." It was so porous that men and women passed notes back and forth. Space was so jammed in her women's quarters that there was no ability to segregate known enemies and sex predators. Hence, she said, all sorts of "hijinks" took place outside the view of the security cameras. Worst, she said, was the time a young woman of 19 or 20 hemorrhaged for an hour from a miscarriage because jailers were too busy dealing with other crises. And the two nurses on duty (who handle 175 inmates each) were busy administering insulin shots to diabetics. Kendra concludes by saying that former male prisoners say things were
BOISE – If it were up to Gov. Butch Otter, owners of boat docks on state-owned lakes would be free to put up solid wooden boat covers, complete with roofs, posts and multiple pilings.
You really have to get accustomed to much less sun this time of year. Aside from the fact we're down to only about nine hours of daylight each day, those daylight hours are likely to be much cloudier.
COEUR D'ALENE – North Idaho College's Outdoor Pursuits will present the Warren Miller winter sports film "Dynasty: Celebrating 60 Years of Filmmaking." at 6:30 tonight in the Boswell Hall Schuler Performing Arts Center.
Good things come to those who wait. Just ask the people of Cabinet Mountain Calvary Chapel in Clark Fork.
The disease is frightening. Its victims are mothers, fathers, spouses and grandparents who do not recognize the faces of those who have loved them for most of their lives. The disease is Alzheimer's.
Coeur d'AleneSandy Seright, 1217 N. Fourth St. commercial, framing for mechanical unit, valued at $35,000.
I can't recall exactly who, but every Thanksgiving, in the hazy afterglow of a full Turkey Day meal, one of my relatives says it. "Tryptophan must be short for 'trip the light fantastic.' "
Filings from Oct. 28-29.Chapter 7 (liquidation petitions)David and Melanie Smith, fdba Cascade Cabinets, fdba Interior Technique, Coeur d'Alene, debts of $951,594.
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Charley Packard (Originals) – 6 p.m., Spuds Grill, 102 N. First, Sandpoint, (208) 265-4311.
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Lake City High School Food Drive – Accepting nonperishable food items, frozen turkeys and used cell phones through Wednesday at Lake City High School, 6101 Ramsey Road. Call Don Callister for more information, (208) 769-0769.
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