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MONDAY, OCT. 4, 2004

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*So you have a new old name... I liked the No Hold Barred name...Hot Potatoes feels flat... where NHB seems fuller.reminds me of the old adage..if it isn't broke don't fix it.... ..just my meek opinion -- Cis The Retired.HP: I always regretted not naming…

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Mount St. Helens

It's been 24 years since Mount St. Helens blew her top,So sit back and have a beer or a cold pop.There ain't no danger,Unless you're a forest ranger.The Edge

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Ex-Rep. Jerry Stoicheiff, RIP

Hot Potatoes has learned that ex-Rep. Jerry Stoicheff of Sandpoint died Friday. We have some obit info: Jerry Stoicheff, 69, died Friday in Santa Barbara, Calif. Services will be held 11 a.m. Wednesday at Sandpoint United Methodist Church. She was born Jerry Louise Dickson in…

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Monday Quick Fix 6 (10/4/04)

A draft dodger from Nelson, B.C., left a pleasant message on the answering machine in response to my Friday edit: "Nelson right to dodge monument." In the edit, I applauded the town's wise decision not to support a privately funded memorial to American draft dodgers…

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Huckleberries Online

D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.