Resort Workers Rush To Provide Buffer For Guest
So, what do you say to a naked lady? Employees working The Coeur d’Alene Resort’s graveyard shift asked themselves that question April 23 when a guest popped out of the public restrooms wearing little but a smile. Apparently, she had gotten snockered, fought with her boyfriend in the hotel bar and then gone to the bathroom. Once there, she thought she was home and took off her clothes to get ready for bed. Afterward, chaos reigned. This Naked City has many stories you won’t find anywhere else but here.
Driveway finishing line
Mike Winderman of The Bookery is my kind of Bloomsday participant. He has never broken a sweat at the annual Spokane road race. Yet he has T-shirts from every one of them. That’s what garage-saling on Spokane’s South Hill will get you … Fittingly, Art Manley won the grand prize in the recent Nature Conservancy raffle: a 1999 Ford Expedition XLT. And that’s not simply because the former state senator buys a book of tickets every year. He’s spent his life protecting environmental treasures from Tubbs Hill here to upper Priest Lake … Mr. Mayor - yeah, the guy who lent his voice to the City Hall recording after hours that begins, “Hello, this is Steve Judy, mayor …” - has given his notice at North Idaho Immediate Care Center. The parting with owner/state Sen. Jack Riggs was sweet sorrow - reportedly. But don’t ask me how the lad is going to raise his family on a city salary of $800 monthly … City Councilmaniac Sue Servick packed it in as an attorney for Ramsden & Lyons Law Office Friday. Stay tuned.
Gotcha
You’ve heard that Kootenai County wasted $6,000 by making two mistakes on the official ballot for the May 25 sales-tax measure. But did you know that one of our guys drew the commissioners’ attention to the first error during an editorial board meeting? Nah, we didn’t mention our new motto: “Wake up and read it” … Strike Two: Eagle-eyed Parks Director Doug Eastwood noticed that the Natural Resources Committee corrected the spelling of McEuen Field in the minutes from its March 3 meeting - from “McQuinn Field” to “McQuen Field.”
Huckleberries
The Flynt Report about all the naughty R’s, including Our Miss Chenoweth, is on sale for $4.95 at Hastings. But copies aren’t selling all that fast. There’s no centerfold … And here’s another parallel between Vietnam and Bill Clinton’s war on Yugoslavia: The American public backs the war, but five of seven North Idaho College students quizzed by the Sentinel said we should butt out. Amen … The world record for the keg toss? Locals say it’s held by NIC - thanks to Barry Simon, the engineering instructor who lost his battle with cancer March 30. “The Red Baron,” designed by Simon, flew almost a quarter of a mile in the 1970s to win competition among community colleges at what is now Silverwood theme park … Contrary to Brand X claims, the city of Coeur d’Alene was presented the Raoul Wallenberg Civic Award for human rights in January 1987, not on July 16 of that year. If the competition had sent someone to New York City to view the ceremony, as I did, it would know that … Sightem: Bumper to bumper on Northwest Boulevard recently were an old station wagon with a “Church wins for Idaho” bumpersnicker and a Toyota with a faded “Go Beavers” sticker from Oregon State. Hmm. The late U.S. Sen. Frank Church lost in 1980 and OSU football hasn’t had a winning season since 1971. Indeed, hope burns eternal in some breasts.
Parting shot
Oh, I love those Christian Science Monitor ads - the ones that blast the national media for painting Idaho as a racist haven. By contrast, the Monitor took time during last summer’s Not-So-Great Nazi Hate March to cover the ongoing human-rights story here. The first ad ran in the New Yorker Nov. 3. Now, another - two pages no less - appears in the recent issue of Harper’s magazine. Lake City couldn’t buy good publicity like that.