Reg Calls For Sinking Cda’S Floating Green
CdA hit the big time again sort of. B.M.V. (Before My Vacation), Kathie Lee Gifford and Regis Philbin staged an on-air call to a CdA resort golf course employee to discuss the floating green. The hired hand had sent TV’s dynamic duo a postcard featuring “the world’s only floating green (yada, yada, yada).” Philbin laughed when he was told golfers rode a boat to the green to putt out. Said he (and I paraphrase): “Like the game of golf isn’t slow and long enough as it is. I don’t like it. Tell them to get rid of it.” Now, there’s a quote you won’t find on CdA travel brochures.
‘Retired Prostitutes’? The Idaho News Observer is trying to solve the mystery of Miss Lola Love. Although the old Oasis whorehouse in Wallace has been closed for a decade, Miss Love still receives mail from AARP. Wrote Publisher Paul Friend: “We believe that is the American Association for Retired Persons, not Retired Prostitutes. But then who knows? This is Shoshone County, Idaho, after all.” Good point.
Hats off: Although she lost a leg, easy rider Sandy Lacey of Spirit Lake considers herself lucky to be alive after a July 20 crash on Highway 41. This, according to the Northern Lite Press. Says Sandy: “This is just a speed bump on life’s highway. I’m very grateful to be here. You just don’t tangle with a car on a motorcycle and win. I won.” No victimhood here. Saaaalute … My bloodhounds give thumbs up to Bobbi Kotula’s CD, “Red Letter Love.” Bobbi? The actress appeared in all CdA Summer Theater productions this summer. Word has it that her recorded voice is “much more intimate and rounded” than her stage voice.
Sightem: County Clerk Dan English and a CPD Blue inspected Dan’s vandalized car on Foster Avenue Sept. 5, while his wife conducted a yard sale nearby. I’m sure sale proceeds went to a worthy cause - such as the insurance deductible … It’s hard to say who was more surprised by a Brand X fire report Sept. 5: new CdA Fire Chief Rick Lasky, whose surname was misspelled, or veteran Post Falls Fire Chief Lynn Borders, who was referred to as a “her” … If Congressman Helen Chenoweth had been quicker on her feet, she might have used a “legally accurate” Clintonesque evasion when newshounds asked her if she’d slept with a former business partner. No, she should have said, we weren’t sleeping. Onward … Bystanders - I’d like to think they were bloodhounds - needled Kootenai County commissioners when they showed up to judge the annual apple pie contest at the North Idaho Fair. Ain’t you conducting an illegal meeting, they jabbed. God bless ‘em.
Huckleberries: The Idaho Spokesman-Review possesses a government document that outlines “final design for closure of the CIA.” At ease, conspiracy theorists. The initials stand for the Central Impoundment Area within the Bunker Hill Superfund site … Bumpersnickers from Spokaloo: “Rehab Is for Quitters” and (written on a dirty van) “www.washme.com” … Stateline Showgirls will have nothing on Kelly’s country dance club, come Sept. 25. Kelly Hughes’ club has been advertising “Male Dancers.” We’ll soon see if they come with or without chaps and spurs … After noticing dozens of “Save Tibet” bumpersnickers in P.C. Oregon, Doug Burr’s daughter, Hillary, 13, observed: “I bet the drivers of these cars couldn’t find Tibet on a map. After all, none of them can seem to find a comb or a shower” … Doug worries that everyone in those little tourist shops on the Oregon coast seems to know where CdA is. So do I.
Parting shot: Now, Khris Bershers has received another offer she can’t refuse and will leave the National League of Cities to flack for U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford, R-S.C. Khris, of course, once served as Congressman Helen Chenoweth’s spokeswoman. I’ll bet she’s glad she switched horses. Make that elephants.