In a surprise event, retail store managers, including Rhonda Thompson (in fringed sweater), center, and Maryann Joy, left, are welcomed by an applauding crowd of Coldwater Creek employees into a "graduation" ceremony in the dining room of the corporate headquarters in Sandpoint after spending most of a week in all-day corporate training to prepare them for opening new CWC retail stores around the nation. Joy, left, will manage a store in Rochester, New York, while Thompson will manage a store in Springfield, Missouri. Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review
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