Ah’m Your Huckleberry

Larry Bassett, center, Mary Adams, right, and Lee Freyer, left, declare their Culinary Arts major with their headwear during North Idaho College graduation ceremonies Friday morning

First, you should know that “Sunshine Shelly” Monahan /KHQ and her family are diehard sports fans. Now, let’s proceed to her North Idaho College commencement address Friday. Toward the end of the address, she mentioned how upset she’d been with Pope John Paul II’s approaching death. He died on April 2, Shelly’s birthday. She was in her kitchen mourning after learning of the pope’s death when her 9-year-old approached, wondering how the Catholics would pick the next pope. Responded Shelly, the cardinals will pick him. At that, her daughter put her hands on her hips and challenged: “Why does a baseball team get to pick the new pope?”

DFO: I published this late Friday when some of you may not have seen it. It’s fun enough to run again.