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Wild Card/Tuesday — 4.12.11

Huckleberries congratulates Doug Cresswell, the former Coeur d'Alene School District superintendent and president of the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations. At the Human Rights Banquet Monday night, Doug was awarded the Bill Wassmuth Award for his many years as a volunteer for human rights causes. He was holding the Wassmuth Award when I congratulated him in person last night. To the sculptor's credit, the bronze statue of Wassmuth actually looked like the late human rights leader, during the days that he wore a perm. I referred to it as Bill's "poodle look." Now, for your Wild Card ...



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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