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News >  Idaho

He Wears Badge Of Devotion

In his next life, Bob Smalley most likely will be a cop. He's had plenty of practice in this life. As chaplain for the Kootenai County Sheriff's Department, he's walked the walk and talked the talk for eight years, but a little more prudently than most. He knows how to cope after grisly accidents, disasters and suicides. He knows what his soul needs after knocking on a door at 3 a.m. to tell parents that their son or daughter died in a car wreck.

News >  Idaho

Country Life For Write Stuff

After deciding to get out of debt and move, Gail from Post Falls is giving her farmhouse and acreage away in an essay contest. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review
News >  Idaho

Teacher Hits Nail On The Head

Terry Sundsted, who runs North Idaho's Young Community Builders program, helps Hanna English, 21, size a piece of drywall. Photo by Liz Kishimoto/The Spokesman-Review
News >  Idaho

Foster Mom’s Heart Never Runs Out Of Love

Pat Stoddard couldn't ask the woman to leave, though it was long past Pat's bedtime. The woman wanted to hold the grandchild she wouldn't have a chance to spoil. Social workers had placed the newborn with Pat while the baby's mother weighed her options and chose adoption. A new family would take the baby the next day. The grandmother couldn't let go. "She was rocking and crying, rocking and crying," Pat says. "I didn't have the heart to tell her it was time to leave. Sometimes I really feel sorry for the grandparents."
News >  Nation/World

His Kite Soars High Multitalented Michael Koep Moves Smoothly From One Medium To The Next

FOR THE RECORD (February 17, 1998): Location wrong: Michael Koep's watercolor interpretations of his music on the album "Gravity" are on display now at Lindaman's South in Spokane. The wrong Lindaman's was listed in a story on Monday. 1. "Laughable" is one of Koep's pieces at Lindaman's Cafe North. 2. Michael Koep is fearless about pushing the boundaries of art and expression. Photo by Kristy MacDonald/The Spokesman-Review 3. Teachers and friends comment on Koep's thirst for knowledge and sense of integrity. Photo by Kristy MacDonald/The Spokesman-Review
News >  Idaho

Volunteer Helps Make A Difference

Chris Everts' trial by fire started in Kootenai Medical Center's emergency room when she held a bucket for a new mother so sick over being raped that she couldn't stop vomiting. Chris, a volunteer for the Women's Center's rape crisis line, nearly upchucked herself after doctors told the 21-year-old woman there was a chance the rapist had impregnated her. Still recovering from giving birth, the woman hadn't restarted birth control. She took the "morning-after" pill doctors offered her.
News >  Features

Home Alone Thanks To The Efforts Of Social Workers, A Number Of North Idaho’s Developmentally Disabled Are Staring New Lives Outside State Hospitals

1. With assistance from a program that helps him train for jobs and other challenges of the world, Charles Ouldhouse has left a state hospital and now lives in a Post Falls apartment. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review 2. Charles Ouldhouse prepares dinner in his Post Falls apartment. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review
News >  Idaho

Teacher Helps Students Find Happy Trails

P.E. teacher JoAnn Harvey has been an after-school coach and surrogate mom for dozens of kids who love to run. With her are four officers of her cross-country club. From left are third-graders Conor Finity, Jessica Zabel, Nick Blank and Jeff Crump (front). Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review
News >  Idaho

Gymnast Sounds A Lot Like Elvis

Cory Bliss has found a niche, singing Elivs tunes with backup singers Jenna Hutson, left, Sarah Bligh and Demi Palm. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review
News >  Idaho

Victims’ Ally Is On The Move To A New Battle

It's the Deborah Whipples and the Patricia Gallaghers who haunt Cricket Green. She could have been either one of them - the woman whose abusive husband allegedly killed her or the woman who killed her abusive husband. Instead, Cricket became the person to whom battered women ran. For seven years, she was a constant at the Coeur d'Alene Women's Shelter and buoyed 2,500 women and children on the run.
News >  Idaho

Humble Maestro Sweeps Them Away

Louis Fromherz, a janitor from a junior high school, is an accomplished, self-taught pianist. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review