‘Time Killers’ Just Might Be More Accurate
Incredibly, the Idaho Transportation Board wasted time Thursday talking about - Huckleberries. John McHugh of Post Falls was honked because he thought I’d called board members “baby killers” for not doing more to fix U.S. 95. “It’s slander,” McHugh McHuffed. But Chairman Chuck Winder correctly noted that Huckleberries (Jan. 31) simply repeated a name hung on the board by someone else. In the end, McHugh said dealing with me(dia) is like wrestling a pig. Both sides get dirty. Another said: “Never argue with someone who buys ink by the barrel.” And another: “If you dance with a bear just remember that the bear decides when to stop.” And while they nattered? Another motorist died on 95.
Spring’s in the air
A 40-something couple eyed a Valentine’s Day champagne display at Super One. She: “Did you notice that the bottle of champagne I put in the snow bank New Year’s Eve has resurfaced?” … Marvin Dugger, a Potlatch Corp. employee, was “really, really angry” that dam opponents stacked the deck in favor of breaching at a Corps of Engineers hearing. Yeah, the same guy who orchestrated a flood of letters to the editor on the subject to try to sway S-R subscribers … John Rook, ex-KCDA station owner, didn’t mind getting a “Dear John” letter from another John - John McCain. Yep, Big John is back in the GOP fold, backing the underdog. As always.
Cuffed
If you find a pair of handcuffs in the snow, don’t slap them on. Ask Jennifer Ward’s son, Josh. He thought the cuffs his sister found Feb. 7 were fake. Our little Houdini learned otherwise when the cuffs wouldn’t come off - without the help of a CPD Blue.
Right guy, wrong rig
Can’t blame a CdA man for going bonkers when he caught his wife with another man at the Sunset Bar. But he should have thought twice before ramming Don Juan’s pickup through a chain-link fence. That earned the jilted husband a criminal charge and higher insurance rates. And that wasn’t the worst of it. The other pickup didn’t belong to his rival … Credit CdA’s Jon Paragamian and Athol’s Bob Griffin with running down the punk who tried to steal $25 in pennies from North Idaho Immediate Care on Wednesday. The money is targeted for cancer research … Sightem: Mayor Steve Judy and Post Falls Police Chief Cliff Hayes huddled at JB’s on Appleway. This, while CdA has openings for police chief and administrator.
Huckleberries
Big Earl sez Chief Hayes shouldn’t fret about wasting tax dollars by dough-nating an $80 badge to the annual Coppers Ball raffle (Huckleberries, Feb. 14): “All his troops have to do is write another ticket” … Bumpersnicker: “You could be a redneck if the highlight of your day is finding a toy in your Cracker Jacks!” … Rumorama: Where did you hear state Sen. Gordon Crow isn’t running for re-election? Wife Sandy has given him the green light - and it’s all systems go … Separated at birth: Councilman Dave Walker and my brother Ray from Kalispell, Mont. … Sure, I support the move to make huckleberries the state fruit. But (wink) I’d prefer it be named the state column, too … Jobs Plus exec Bob Potter shouldn’t use such salty language when he’s out in public, like reminiscing with other ex-Marines before the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe depot hearings. My shell-shocked Berry Pickers are everywhere … In a news release, Idahoans for Buckling Everyone - Big and Tall used this acronym: I-BELT. But shouldn’t it be I-BEBT? Or should the group be trying to buckle everyone - “Little and Tall?”
Parting shot
Yeah, that was Dean Haagenson and Hayden’s Bob Horton sitting almost side by side at the Lincoln Day fest. Back when, Haagenson was a three-term solon with visions of higher office when Horton knocked him off in a GOP primary. With a $300 campaign. Horton went on to lose in the general election. And Haagenson? He was left to wonder what might have been.