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Hotel home for the holidays

Two-year-old Sythia Bowen plays in the lobby at Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites in Coeur d’Alene on Thursday. Sythia’s family is going to spend Christmas at the hotel, courtesy of the hotel and the nonprofit Family Promise of North Idaho. (Kathy Plonka)
Two-year-old Sythia Bowen plays in the lobby at Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites in Coeur d’Alene on Thursday. Sythia’s family is going to spend Christmas at the hotel, courtesy of the hotel and the nonprofit Family Promise of North Idaho. (Kathy Plonka)

Two-year-old Sythia Bowen plays in the lobby at Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites in Coeur d’Alene on Thursday. Kathy Plonka, SR

A 2-year-old girl’s grin, as she frolicked in the lobby of a Coeur d’Alene hotel Thursday morning, gave no hint that her family has no place to call home.

And that was precisely the goal of the staff at Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites as they worked to deliver Christmas joy to two homeless families they’re hosting for the week. Alison Boggs, SR Read more.

Christmas can be a hard time of year for many. Have you ever experienced a blue Christmas?

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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.