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Officials To Dedicate Tubbs Trail

Lynzie Sendra finishes a hike with her daughter, Kylee, on the east portion of Tubbs Hill Tuesday in Coeur d’Alene. (Coeur d'Alene Press photo: Kristen McPeek)

Tom McTevia was the first person in a wheelchair to use the recently constructed Tubbs Hill Accessible Trail. Monte McCully, city of Coeur d'Alene trails coordinator, told The Press it was appropriate that McTevia - who was killed in an ATV crash in April - was the first to use the trail. After all, it was McTevia who fought tirelessly for its creation. On Saturday at noon, members of the community and city officials will be at the east entrance to Tubbs Hill Park, 982 E. Lakeshore Drive, for a ribbon cutting ceremony dedicating the trail, and to honor the life of the man instrumental in its formation. "I think he was really proud of it; he thought it was going to be a wonderful thing for the 'minorly inconvenienced' community to use that trail," McCully said. "I don't know if he was emotional, as far as being choked up or anything, but he was very happy and you could definitely see the light in his eyes"/Keith Cousins, Coeur d'Alene Press. More here.

Question: When did you last hike Tubbs Hill?



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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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