Best of the Local Blogs — 12/12/05

CDADave/Thin Air published this cool photo of the Fortgrounds area (current site of North Idaho College) pre-1900s, or at least sometime before the current building boom. For text, click here .

* Bill McCrory /Whitecaps have some thoughts worth reading on that CDA Press story by former SR Girl Friday Linda Ball re: increased gang activity in Kootenai County here .

* Colin Mulvany /Video Journal waited around long enough to get a little different view of a hell fire and brimstone preacher from Spokane whom most ignore in his wonderful Find The Frame online feature here .

* Marianne Love /Slight Detour explains why the locals refer to the Bonner Mall at Ponderay as “The Bonner Morgue” here .

* Stebbijo /Your Choice offers a pretty good list of possibilities as she wonders aloud re: what you think of when you hear the term “white trash” here .

*Put your hands together for 8 weeks of nicotine-free living by His Bobness (those of you who aren’t fans of BB can fashion your hands in the form of an anticipated choke hold) here .

Digital Fog offers more of his “Nativity Scenes Gone Wrong” here , Cis Gors /From A Simple Mind introduces us to a pet peeve, misbehaving children, here , and Family Phil Jr. /A Family Runs Thru It has mixed a kid-tested, father-approved, family-friendly Christmas CD for us here .