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Trustee Brooks Loses Dozens Of Signs

Veteran school board member Edie Brooks reports to Coeur d'Alene police that 60 of her yard signs were taken without her permission from locations along 15th Street Friday and Saturday. Brooks, who has served on the Coeur d'Alene School Board for 11 years, told Huckleberries a short while ago that former Republican legislative candidate Jim Hollingsworth called her Friday evening to say that she had put her signs up illegally and that he was going to have her arrested. She reportedly thanked Hollingsworth for the information and told him that she would obtain a necessary permit the following day. Which she did. However, she noticed signs missing Saturday. According to a police report, Hollingsworth told an officer who called about the signs: "I think I might know someone who may have removed them." When Hollingsworth was asked who that was, he told the officer: "I'm not at liberty to say." Later, Brooks was told by phone that her signs would be at the school district office or City Hall. Some were at the district office while others were thrown in bushes. She's still missing 27 of the 100 signs she obtained to promote her candidacy against challenger James Purtee.  Brooks' Zone One runs south of Hayden Lake and east of 15th Street. The school board election is Tuesday.



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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