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Piano Man To The Rescue

Coeur d'Alene Realtor Tom Torgerson earns a save today, for telling his Facebook friends about this old upright piano that was abandoned along the Gifted View Road in the new Fernan Lake Estates subdivision. That's John Thompson coming to the rescue above. John was retrieving the piano for Ben Miller of Coeur d'Alene. Ben's girlfriend, Judi, saw Tom's SOS and told her boyfriend about it. Ben's been laid up with a back injury this week after a drunk hit his Judi & him on New Year's Day. Ben sent this Facebook message to me a few minutes ago: "Thanks to john for his ingenuity (in pulling Ben's trailer out of the snow and then getting it under the piano) , and thanks to Judi for bringing it all together. I look forward to bringing the piano back to life."



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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