1. Betsy Hoermann builds respect and understanding with Cat after a good workout. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review
2. Bill Basham talks with Classy. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review
Close to Home
As my daughter Lindsay churned inside me 19 years ago, wedging her small parts between my ribs and bouncing on my backbone, I devoured one child development book after another.
They advised me to hold her and talk to her, read to and encourage her. They told me to enjoy and respect her and not to judge her. They warned me about the terrible twos, coached me through sibling rivalry and prepared me for the scary teenage years.
But they never told me how to let her go. I'm learning that lesson now.
At Ease. Above: Virginia Brink, 93, left, and Margaret Moate, 96, find their lives at Sylvan House in Hayden, Idaho, to their liking. They enjoy the fact that they are living elegantly and independently. Photo by Torsten Kjellstrand/The Spokesman-Review
1. Sister Judith Brower stands on the grounds of the Monastery of St. Gertrude's, where she is returning full time after working 12 years at North Idaho College. Photo by Liz Kishimoto/The Spokesman-Review
2. Sister Judith Brower meets with Michael Schmickrath, director of development at St. Gertrude's, to discuss a project they are working on. Photo by Liz Kishimoto/The Spokesman-Review
3. The chapel at St. Gertrude's.
Dou Merrick is an entrpreneur who is trying to make his entertainment maps a fixture in hotels and restaurants around North Idaho. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review
Burlin Conner, Beverly Toelle and Vicki Hall will be the starting crew of Kootenai Medical Center's Clown Corps. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review
Betty Mills has spent 18 years organizing the candy stripers at Kootenai Medical Center. With her are Colleen Frei and Afton Schwartz, two of her charges. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review
Liz Johnson-Gebhardt threw herself into a snowbank and cried the day she closed the book on Kenzie Hammond.
"I had nothing left. I was drained," she says, clearly still sick of the emotionally needy woman.
But Kenzie refused to disappear - and now Liz is grateful. The frustrating protagonist in Liz's first book, "Vancouver Rendezvous," caught the attention of a Canadian publishing house last year.
(From For the Record, August 9, 1997:)
The Coeur d'Alene Youth Triathlon is today on Coeur d'Alene Lake Drive and Sherman Avenue. The wrong race day was given in Friday's Close to Home column.
Richard and Loretta Thompson, who both have health problems, were unable to keep their electricity on due to mounting money problems. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review
Gary Waters and Dan Blackwood teamed up to take 85 Shoshone County Babe Ruth baseball players and their coaches on a trip to Seattle to see the Mariners. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review
