I first met Duane Hagadone 37 years ago at a dinner at the old Outlaw Inn for management of his Kalispell (Mont.) Daily Inter Lake. I was the paper’s news editor then. Duane was 44 at the time. He was a larger-than-life figure even then. He sat across the table from Mrs. O and me. I asked him: “What plans do you have for your newspapers?” He responded: “I’m going to make them the best damn newspaper chain in the United States.” Why am I telling you all this? Coeur d’Alene’s Favorite Son turned 82 on Wednesday. Kerri Thoreson, Post Falls councilwoman and Coeur d’Alene Press columnist, chronicled the news. She’d led her Main Street column that day by discussing the closure of the Beachouse on Silver Beach days before. Which prompted a phone call from Hagadone, who owns the Press and the Beachouse property. Kerri related part of the conversation on Facebook. Hagadone told her of a couple who attended a Labor Day barbecue at Silver Beach 82 years ago to the day. At about 6 p.m., the wife, Beverly, who was pregnant, told her husband, Burl, that the baby was coming. Four hours later, the Hagadones’ son, Duane, was born. And Coeur d’Alene has never been the same/DFO, Sunday Huckleberries. More here.

Question: Do you have an interesting story re: circumstances surrounding your birth?