PM/Idaho — 2.9.12

Boise State Men’s Tennis Coach Greg Patton remembers his friend Steve Appleton Friday at the tennis courts named in his honor at in Boise. “Steve pursued excellence in everything he did, working from the ground up to the highest mountain top where the view was majestic,” Patton said. Today, more than 400 people attended a private service for Appleton, who was killed in a plane crash last week at the Boise airport. Story below. (AP photo/Idaho Statesman,Darin Oswald)

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