Caleb Allen, 10, from the Spokane Boxing Club, is congratulated by his coach and another club boxer after winning his 85-pound bout at "Fight Night" in Wallace, Idaho which was an event that was prominent in the town of miners and loggers from the early 1900s up until the 1990s. (Photo: Jerome A. Pollos)

When a straight-talking, 41-year-old ex-pro boxer named Rick Welliver stood in front of a panel of Wallace decision-makers last year and said his dream was to revive the long-gone boxing culture of the Silver Valley, it made sense to Marci Hayman. She tagged along when Welliver – whose uniform is sweatpants, a hooded sweatshirt and a cellphone at his ear – presented his new boxing club – to a gymnasium full of Wallace High School kids. “He was like the Pied Piper,” said Hayman, who owns Metals Bar, a tavern popular with miners. “They’d have followed him out of the school that day if he’d said, ‘Let’s go to the gym.’ ” Welliver’s club is set to open next month/Leah Sottile, special to the SR. More here.

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