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INW Headlines — 12.12.11

Sgt. 1st Class Reynario Leija, left, shows his friends Joshua Hail, center, and Darian Westrick a flag he flew during a deployment to Iraq that he was presenting to the landscape architecture department before the start of the University of Idaho 2011 Fall Commencement in Moscow. Leija, of Gooding, had to suspend his studies at the UI for his deployment with the Idaho National Guard. Had he not been deployed, he would have been graduating in this ceremony with his friends. (AP Photo/Moscow-Pullman Daily News, Dean Hare)



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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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