Hey, Larry! You Gotta A Phone Call!
Coeur d’Alene High’s Larry Schwenke is in danger of becoming known as the absent-minded athletic director. On Tuesday, he left his cellular phone at the scorekeeper’s table of a girls’ volleyball match. Then, Wednesday morning, he left the phone at the Coeur d’Alene Press (the Huckleberry Hound has sources even in the bowels of Brand X). The Brand X receptionist asked that this message be passed along: “If you see Larry, would you tell him that it’s down here?” Done.
Then & now: Some time ago, Bob Myklebust, an S-R ad exec and ex-CdA haberdasher, joined his daughter for school lunch - only to have it spoiled by a tyke who asked Lauren: “Is that your grandfather?” Now, let’s fast forward to Bob’s 44th birthday last week. Grandpa Bob was enjoying a Franklin’s Hoagies lunch (especially since his 9-years-younger brother Bill was paying) when co-owner/waitress Pauline Anderson asked him: “Is this your son?” That gray definitely needs to be washed away. … Realtor Tom Torgerson claims he’s innocent. He had nothing to do with the group from his reunion class of 1985 that reclaimed the CHS cafeteria roof with some white paint (“Huckleberries,” Aug. 21). “I’ve turned over a new leaf,” claims the former class prankster. Maybe this leopard has changed his spots.
Hound trap: An ugly rumor is making the rounds that I, the Huckleberry Hound, got caught speeding at midnight Thursday in Colton, Wash. And that I escaped a $95 ticket (45 in a 30 mph) with a sob story about being tired after attending a CHS JV football game at Orofino. Well, I just want to say this about that: No comment. … Earlier in the day, an angry subscriber told S-R cartoonist Milt Priggee on a KXLY call-in show that H. Hound is “a liberal, deep down” - just like fellow travelers Cousin Miltie and outdoor writer Rich Landers. Yikes. I guess I’ve been outed. … Hmmm. Graffiti writers are getting dumber and dumbest. As I arrived for work Thursday, I saw the swastika and racial epithet spray-painted on the Skate Park barrier. Only the N-word was misspelled. Does anyone know where Mark Fuhrman was Wednesday night?
A sign of spring? A joke making the rounds: Do you know how you can tell that spring has arrived in Sandpoint? That’s when you’ll see Mark Fuhrman outside planting gloves. Badabump. Onward. … On Thursday, Max Harrel probably got the first standing ovation ever given a schools superintendent by Bonner County teachers. Apparently, the mentors appreciated that the new super promised to work with them rather than harangue them at night on the phone like his predecessor. That and the fact that he promised to find the money to fund their new raises. … I was a bit surprised to see letters missing from a CdA thrift store sign Monday. Maybe you saw it, too: “St. Vincent de Pu.”
Huckleberries: A political bumpersnicker you’ll soon see circulated locally among Democrats: “Save the sockeye, can Chenoweth.” … Then, there’s the bumpersnicker on an emerald GMC that obviously belongs to a winter sports nut: “If hell freezes over, I’ll ski there, too!” … The Davis Donuts philosopher let his feelings be known on the recent Kootenai County sheriff’s deputies’ controversy: “Need a cop? Call a K.C. commissioner - 1-800-BUG OFF!” … .. A road sign along state Highway 200, near Clark Fork, takes modesty a bit far: “This highway cleaned up by anonymous community group.”
Parting shot: The Post Falls Fire District is trying to justify big budget increases next year. But it’s hard to take the district seriously when the bulldog hood ornaments on its two Mack trucks wear dog licenses - and, sometimes during the winter, knit sweaters? (Yeah, yeah, I suppose it’s cute.)
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