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Thieves Steal Entire Cabin

When Chris Hempel returned to her family’s rural property and found the gate’s lock cut, she was expecting to find thieves had broken into their cabin. What she didn’t count on was finding the entire cabin missing. “We drove up to the cabin and the cabin was gone, it was just an empty hole where it used to sit,” she said. Hempel, her husband, and their two children have owned property just outside of Springdale for about four years, and say the forest is a perfect place to hunt, relax and get away from work on the weekends. They visit their cabin about every two weeks, but returned on April 7 to find the structure missing – stolen off its foundation. “We’re just kind of at a loss right now. Like, seriously?” she said/Rachel Alexander, SR. More here. (Photo courtesy of Chris Hempel)



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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