Jesse Tinsley/SR
Rusty Marsh, playing Santa Claus, hands out candy canes to the kids of Spirit Lake Elementary recently. At the annual event, the kids walk from their school to the downtown area, listen to the Timberlake High jazz band play carols and then meet Santa. Prairie Voice story here.

*Serious decade winding down/DFO, Prairie Voice Huckleberries
*Raptor crashes through window of CDA home/Bill Buley, CDA Press
*Idaho Forest Groups mills announce layoffs/Rick Thomas, CDA Press
*Homeless man crushed by papers drunk 3X beyond legal limit/KTVB
*Doll helps police find sibling robbers/KXLY
*Pot, marmots & Mark Fuhrman/Kevin Taylor, Inlander
*Sharon Graham's Chrismas Project benefits servicemen, kids/Mary Jane Honegger, Prairie Voice

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