Best of the local Blogs (1/27/05)

* Big John Rook , a radio hall of famer who settled in CDA, pays tribute to Johnny Carson and Ray Peterson (“Tell Laura I Love Her,” “Fever” and “Corinna, Corianna”) here .

* Bill McCrory (Whitecaps), Kristin Hoppe (Not So Fast) and Phil Corless (The Old Goat Trail) provide their views of last night’s blogfest here , here and here .

*In Slight Detour, Marianne Love focuses today on Canadian transplant Ed Elliott , who started the Northern Navigation Co., which handled the mail on Lake Pend Oreille and moved houses acrossed it, here .

*The Old Goat Trail tells of the depending departure of Proud Mary from the CDA post office to the one at Cataldo here .