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SATURDAY, OCT. 22, 2011

Weekend Wild Card -- 10.22-23.11 12 

I plan to spend the weekend saying goodbye to my wunnerful garden and puttering around in the yard. KXLY's Kris Crocker and other weathercasters are predicting a killing frost for midweek next week. We've had a good run since the Fourth of July. I'm not…

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Capt. Corey Steiner is welcomed home by his daughter, Lilliana Steiner, during a homecoming ceremony, Friday, Oct. 21, 2011 at Ft. Carson, Colo. All U.S. troops "will definitely be home for the holidays," President Barack Obama declared Friday, in his statement that the war in Iraq will be over by year's end.  More than 4,400 members of the military have been killed, and more than 32,000 have been wounded in the war that has stretched more than eight years. (Jerilee Bennett / The Gazette)

U.S. Troops Are Coming Home 17 

Capt. Corey Steiner is welcomed home by his daughter, Lilliana Steiner, during a homecoming ceremony Friday at Ft. Carson, Colo. All U.S. troops "will definitely be home for the holidays," President Barack Obama declared Friday, in his statement that the war in Iraq will be…

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Geezers: Term Wins No Votes, Friends 15 

We are just so tired of the arrogant politicians at the Federal and state levels, and now Adam Graves is bringing that disgusting format to the local race for City Council. Apparently Mr. Graves has no respect for senior citizens and the valuable contributions they…

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Vandals Destroy Downtown CdA Statue 

Item: Vandals destroy, steal downtown statue: Public art project dismantled/Tom Hasslinger, Coeur d'Alene Press More Info: The statue bird - the centerpiece to the $3,000 public art piece "The Great Blue Heron" - vanished late Thursday night or early Friday morning, the result of vandalism…

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Activist musician Pete Seeger, 92, center, sings before a crowd of nearly a thousand demonstrators sympathetic to the Occupy Wall Street protests at a brief acoustic concert in Columbus Circle, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011, in New York. The demonstrators marched down Broadway singing "This Little Light of Mine" and other folk and gospel songs while ad-libbing lines about corporate greed and social justice. (John Minchillo / Fr170537 Ap)

Seeger Helps Occupy New York 13 

Activist musician Pete Seeger, 92, center, sings before a crowd of nearly a thousand demonstrators sympathetic to the Occupy Wall Street protests at a brief acoustic concert in Columbus Circle Saturday in New York. The demonstrators marched down Broadway singing "This Little Light of Mine"…

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Huckleberries Online

D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.