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In this Feb. 27, 2002, SR file photo by Torsten Kjellstrand/SR, Lakeside fan Charlotte Nilson of Plummer cheers for her son Tim Wolfe during the 1A boys basketball in Caldwell. With Nilson are her other children Jordan, 4, left, and Christina, 6. Charlotte’s husband Jim cheers behind. Wolfe, who was gunned down in Coeur d’Alene Saturday morning was a star athlete at Lakeside High in Plummer.
The victim, Wolfe, was a star athlete at Lakeside High School in Plummer and one of a small
group of his graduating class to go on to college, said Mike Sifford, a lifelong friend. Wolfe studied and played basketball at Salish Kootenai College in Pablo, Mont., but he returned to Worley often to visit his girlfriend and 16-month-old daughter, Sifford said. “Everything was always about his little girl,” Sifford said. “The thing about Tim is he always excelled. There was never a peak or plateau for Tim; he just kept getting better at what he did.” The tribal and Plummer-Worley communities are reeling from Wolfe’s death, Sifford said, and no funeral plans have been announced/Meghann Cuniff, SR. More here.
DFO: I don’t know if there’s anything left to be said re: this senseless killing. But I’m posting this because Meghann wrote a thorough story that humanizes the victim. I found the 2002 photo in the SR archives. Remember to hug your children today.
D.F. Oliveria is an associate editor, editorialist, columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Recently, the Idaho Press Club selected Huckleberries as the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog. In 2007, the Society of Professional Journalists selected Huckleberries Online as the best news blog in the five-state Pacific Northwest. The print version of Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Tidbits Column contest sponsored by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University has cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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