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One moment changed everything

Jesse Raymond. (Courtesy photo via Coeur d'Alene Press)
Jesse Raymond. (Courtesy photo via Coeur d'Alene Press)

Everything was fine in Jesse Raymond's world just a little more than a month ago.

His business, Ace Moving, was really getting off the ground. He just bought a house. Life was going along smoothly.

Then one innocent dive into the Snake River changed everything for the 43-year-old Coeur d'Alene dad.

"He dove into the water and he was face down," Jesse's sister, Jeanine Raymond, said Tuesday. "They thought he was kidding."

Jesse dove from a sandy beach into the river, where he collided with an unseen rock that crushed his spine, gashed his scalp and rendered him unconscious/Devin Heilman, Coeur d'Alene Press. More here.



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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