Coeur d’Alene Councilman Ron Edinger retires

Longtime Coeur d’Alene Councilman Ron Edinger says goodbye after 50 years in office

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Thu., Nov. 14, 2019

Ron Edinger is greeted during his retirement party at the Hagadone Event Center in Coeur d'Alene on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2019. He has spent nearly 50 years in Coeur d'Alene city government both as councilman and as mayor.

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Coeur d’Alene city council candidate John Bruning, center right, holding glass, and Ron Edinger, center left/behind, listen intently to the reading of the latest election returns in this November 2007 photo at Cricket’s Restaurant in Coeur d’Alene. At left are supporters Nicki Anderson and Garry Loeffler, right.

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Ron Edinger watches (left to right) Aubreee Dinning, 7, and Renee Sutton, 7, dance along to Born to Be Wild during an assembly at Sorensen Elementary in this May 1998 photo. The assembly was held in Edinger’s honor for his seven years of custodial work at the elementary school.

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Coeur d’Alene Councilman Ron Edinger mops a section of the gym floor as part of his job at Sorensen Elementary in this November 1995 photo. Edinger said that he feels like he is doing a good job on the council because he can get up every morning and look in the mirror and not feel like he did something he didn’t believe in and because the people keep electing him.

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Coeur d'Alene city council member Ron Edinger, center, and a group of CdA police officers listen as Mayor Steve Judy, left, of Coeur d'Alene talks to the media in 1999 about the city's support for the police and about the mini-riot that occurred after the Car d'Lane car show.

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Ron Edinger will have been seated on the Coeur d'Alene City Council 26 years in 1995.

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Ron Edinger announces his bid for re-election in 1987 from City Council's chambers.

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CDA Councilman Ron Edinger in front of Community Center in 1986.

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