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Toy-Collecting Landscaper Gets Boot

Mark Lehan, a landscaper by trade and toy collector the rest of the time, is being evicted from a storage unit in Rathdrum. He talked about his situation from the unit on Wednesday, April 8, 2009. KATHY PLONKA The Spokesman-Review (Kathy Plonka / The Spokesman-Review)
Mark Lehan, a landscaper by trade and toy collector the rest of the time, is being evicted from a storage unit in Rathdrum. He talked about his situation from the unit on Wednesday, April 8, 2009. KATHY PLONKA The Spokesman-Review (Kathy Plonka / The Spokesman-Review)

Mark Lehan, a landscaper by trade and toy collector the rest of the time, is being evicted from a storage unit in Rathdrum. By his own estimate, Lehan has 20,000 toys that he’s spent years collecting from secondhand stores, antique shops and toy bins across the region. “I’m probably the oldest kid in the world,” Lehan said.  He talked about his situation from the unit on Wednesday. (Kathy Plonka/Spokesman-Review)

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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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