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Wild Card/Thursday — 9.1.11

Kerri Thoreson tells Hucks Online that she'll be interviewing former Coeur d'Alene mayor Ray Stone on her KVNI show at 8 o'clock Friday morning, on his 88th birthday. I had some fun at Stone's expense back in the mid- to late 1980s. Some of you oldtimers know that I called him "Mayor for Life." One of my favorite stories about him involved the time that he accidentally commented into an open mike before a council meeting that the "biggest jerk in town" had just come into council chambers. Can any of you remember who he was talking about? Now to replay your Wild Card ...



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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