He Really Was Out On The Town
A thirtysome thing Sandpoint man, whom Huckleberries’ll call Brian (because that’s his first name), had a grand time here Wednesday morning - until the bars closed. Then, he couldn’t find his motel. Oh, he knew which room was his: 106, according to the key on the orange chain in his pocket. But he was too soused to recall the name of the motel. The Holiday Inn Express had no record of his registration. Nor did the Sundowner. Finally, Brian told Ossifer Langley that (hic!) he was going to sleep off his stupor in his car - that is, if he could find it.
Aryans on parade
Huckleberries hears the 16-block march of Rev’rend Butler & his 100 Mental Midgets should take 45 minutes - from Independence Point up Sherman to 7th and back again. So, the supremacists could raise $45,000 for human rights if the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations succeeds in gathering pledges totaling $1,000 per minute of the march. Yes … Huckleberries also hears some stormtroopers aren’t happy about raising money for human rights. Too bad, so sad … Hmmm. The “What’s Cooking” column in Wednesday’s edition of Brand X seemed a bit, ah, how shall we say, insensitive, when it suggested that you can keep charcoal dry by storing it in a 5-gallon bucket. And then added: “Be careful transferring it or you’ll be singing, ‘Mammy”’ … Then, what can you expect of a snoozepaper that mentioned the Church of Jesus Christ Christian (Aryan Nations) in its annual publication, “100 Things to Do in North Idaho”? Sure, blame it on the proofreader.
NIMBY
Real estate broker Dee Jameson saw how the other half lives when Harry Magnuson tried to resurrect Bentwood development, between Thomas and Shadduck lanes. That’s too close to home.
So, Dee and other neighbors protested the proposal as too dense for their neighborhood, at five lots per acre - and they were right … The recent theft of three - count ‘em, three - wedding rings from a 19th Street home raises questions. But Huckleberries won’t rub salt into the victims’ wound by asking them … Parents of two young girls who used a pedestrian light to cross busy Lincoln Way at Lacrosse on Thursday morning can thank ex-Gov. Cecil Andrus for ordering transportation officials to quit stalling and install the safety device.
Huckleberries
“Just like in the ‘Titanic,”’ says Jack Dawson, director of the University of Idaho’s Coeur d’Alene center, when explaining how his name is spelled … Does Huckleberries really want to know why a “driver’s education” sign was littering the roadside near the intersection of I-90 and Highway 41 at closing time Wednesday? … Say, wasn’t that Kootenai County attorney Scott Wayman tripping around the courthouse Tuesday in flip flops? Seems the casual footwear was necessary because he cut his foot during a Hawaiian vacation. And if you don’t believe him? Wayman is packing a note from his doctor defending the beach garb. Touchy. Touchy … Add Bruce Cutter to appropriately named local sawbones Slaughter, Kutteruf and Cutting. Dr. Cutter will dedicate the Inland Northwest Blood Center, 2100 Ironwood Court, at grand opening ceremonies this afternoon … The Kootenai County Waterways Advisory Board meeting Tuesday has been canceled “due to lack of agenda items.” Translation: We’d rather be boating.
Parting shot
Psst. Don’t tell CDA Mayor Steve Judy, but … the N.Y. Times has sicced the Environmental Protection Agency on regulation-eschewing states like Idaho. Whined a Times editorialist Friday: “The administration (sniff!), not to mention Vice President Al Gore’s reputation as an environmentalist (sniff!), can only suffer if it fails to bring ornery states into line (honk!).” This, from the concrete canyons, where honks, sirens, rattling garbage trucks and the sporadic shriek of a murder victim provides background Muzak.