Wild Card/Saturday — 3/14/09

I’m becoming increasingly aware that there’s hundreds of stories behind the short items that appear in Scanner Traffic. An unattended death leaves behind families. A trailer fire in Athol is dealt with quickly. But it wipes out a family’s possessions. This week, two items hit close to home. First, a little boy was knocked down by Husky dogs at a bus stop @ Lunceford & 17th. That happened to be the son of an HBO regular who told me that one of the dogs tried to drag the boy off. She asked for Stickman’s address, so she could comfort him with one of Stickman’s treasured sticks. Then, an older man fell on ice at Shopko and badly hurt his left shoulder. That was the father of a friend of mine, a former North Idaho sheriff. He faces a long rehabilitation after suffering other recent health problems. It’s amazing how connected we are in this community. Now, for your Wild Card …