The Slice More Presents To Open

Tue., Dec. 26, 1995

By Paul Turner srpaulturner@gmail.com

Boxing Day already?

Hey, look. Here are a couple of items we forgot to unwrap till today.

When Marla Powers was 5, she was in a Christmas pageant at a little church in Hunters, Wash. She had rehearsed, of course. But when the time came to deliver her big line, it came out “Behold! The new brown king.”

And Bonners Ferry’s Hayden Maxwell, 4, grew weary of his family’s drawn-out efforts a few weeks ago to find a Christmas tree. So finally, he came up with a time-saving suggestion. Why not borrow the neighbor’s tree until after Christmas?

Yes, thanks for asking: We WOULD like to see photocopies of smile-producing thank-you notes written by little kids.

If I’d never been born: “There’d be fewer flowers and fruit trees in the Spokane Valley, Post Falls and here in Rathdrum,” wrote Marilyn Roberge.

Surfing: Tonight on “NOVA” on PBS, “Can Buildings Make You Sick?” A look at the search to find out why people were convinced something about their office buildings was making them ill.

More great drivers: Tekoa’s Dorothy Lindgren has been driving a school bus for 39 years. “Never had a scratch,” said her husband, Bob.

And a caller who didn’t leave her name praised the driver of Windsor Elementary’s bus No. 12.

Slice answers: Voting was pretty much split down the middle in the matter of whether public schools should be allowed to require that students wear uniforms.

And after we asked for splashed-by-slush stories, about a dozen readers told chilling tales about surprise drenchings that almost all included the phrase “wall of slush.”

Warm-up question: What do almost all Inland Northwest New Year’s Eve parties have in common?

Today’s Slice question: If we just went ahead an divided the entire Inland Northwest into two huge “Smoking” and “Non-Smoking” sections, how would you draw the geographic lines?

(Our preference: Smokers would get all the towns that have tried to pass those ludicrous “Everyone must own a gun” ordinances.)

, DataTimes ILLUSTRATION: Drawing

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