AM Hucks: Local Pols Hit Senior Center, Then Road

In their own spheres of influence, the elected officials from Coeur d’Alene and Kootenai County are accustomed to respect. They speak. People jump. As hungry visitors to the Lake City Senior Center Friday morning, however, they were the ones hopping. Seems city and county officials decided to move their irregular breakfast gabfest from Dockside at the Coeur d’Alene Resort to the senior center this month. All appeared well, at first. The staff and volunteers at the center set a scrumptious breakfast table with eggs, bacon, sausage and spuds. But things soured when the LOLs (Little Old Ladies) noticed two reporters from the local newspapers sitting at a table by themselves, not eating. Who the heck are they? a volunteer demanded of Councilman Mike Kennedy. As Mike explained who Erica Curless/S-R and Tom Green/Coeur d’Alene Press were, the LOL cut him short to complain. In her eyes, the scribes were messing up a table that had been prepared for lunch and would have to be cleaned up after them. In way of explanation, she mentioned the obvious: “We seniors are fussy.” The elected officials themselves learned just how fussy when they dallied for a half-hour longer than the promised 8:30 parting time. Huckleberries is paraphrasing now, but the basic message the seniors said to Her Sandiness, Chairman Rikky Tikky and their entourages was: Git. Then, the Seasoned Citizens stood with their arms folded until the schmoozing pols did. Betcha Her Sandiness, Commish Currie and their entourages return to Dockside next time.