Update: Sandpoint Mayor Ogilvie Dies

Sandpoint Mayor Marsha Ogilvie died this morning after a battle with cancer. Ogilvie was elected in 2011, succeeding Mayor Gretchen Hellar, and had served previously on the Sandpoint City Council. She helped establish Kinderhaven, a nonprofit group that supports neglected, abused and abandoned children, and also was active with the Community Assistance League. More than 1,000 children were sheltered during Ogilvie’s 13 years as president of Kinderhaven, which received Idaho’s first annual “Brightest Star” award in 2002. “We have won the hearts and minds of this community and have seen them wrap their arms around us and the children,” Ogilvie said in a 2009 article in The Spokesman-Review. Ogilvie was devoted to arts and economic vitality as well as to children, said Kate McAlister, president and CEO of the Greater Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce/ Scott Maben , SR. More here.