Blast From The Past: Oct. 27, 2004

Retired executive Art Brown, left, and Dr. Jack Riggs, right, flank Mayor Sandi Bloem as they listen to speeches at the official groundbreaking of the Kroc Center in Coeur d’Alene on June 27, 2007.

Since Huckleberries Online is in its 10th year of operation, I’m launching a new feature today, titled blast from the past. I hope you enjoy these items that played out here from way back when. The first BFTP is from Oct. 27, 2004:

The Salvation Army in Idaho announced today that it will seek funding from the estate of Joan Kroc (pictured) for the construction and operation of a $20 million Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center in Coeur d’Alene. In making its decision, the Army accepted the recommendation of the Idaho Kroc Initiative Task Force, which was chaired by Mrs. Patricia Kempthorne , and which heard presentations from nine communities throughout Idaho. Based upon that information, the Task Force recommended that construction and operation of a Kroc Center in Coeur d’Alene would best serve the goals established by Kroc’s estate. Full post here.

Question: Can you get a better definition of community vision than the Kroc Center? And yet there were plenty of noisy people who fought this project.