Oliveria: WSU sorority makes amends to city of Coeur d’Alene

Some of you know that the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority of Washington State University cleaned litter from Tubbs Hill in September 2014. But did you know that 170 sorority sisters duplicated that feat recently? And that the sorority may make the Tubbs Hill cleanup an annual event? Kappa Kappa Gamma’s good deeds began as contrition for one of the sorority’s more embarrassing moments. On May 3, 2014, the sorority bused to Coeur d’Alene with some tag-along boy toys for a cruise and a drunkfest. By the time the ladies and germs tumbled from the buses, many were blotto with full bladders. Several KKGers joined immodest guys who were watering the back side of the North Idaho Museum in full view of City Park users. A Huckleberries Online (www.spokesman.com/ blogs/hbo) reader emailed a photo of the pee-fest to my blog. And the rest was her-story – until the sorority made amends – twice now — by cleaning the same waterfront defiled by their disorderly sisters. All is forgiven.

Urinetown redux

There’s a story behind that hysterical laughter coming from a stall in the women’s public restroom of Rathdrum Super 1 last Monday afternoon. Seems Darcy Johnson of Rathdrum had placed her purse on the toilet paper dispenser and − voila − it took a header into the toilet. Straight shot. All net. Er, all wet. After she quit laughing, Darcy inventoried the contents of her purse, which had gained about 12 pounds of water weight. The only items missing were her fully charged emergency battery for her iPhone and a travel-size deodorant container. She decided not to search further for the missing items. Good move.

Foghorn Leghorn RIP?

A Bayview neighborhood may have heard its last from Foghorn Leghorn. Remember? Jeanna Hofmeister (aka “Baggy-eyed in Bayview) turned to Huckleberries last week in desperation. She has a neighbor who had a rooster that crowed all the live-long day. And night. The operative word here is “had.” The rooster hasn’t been heard from since last Sunday. That’s when this column and the Spokesman-Review hit Bayview door steps, telling of the outbreak of “roostosterone” in Bayview. Jeanna tells Huckleberries that she wished the neighbors had invited her over for some rooster pot pie.

Huckleberries

Poet’s Corner: “Apples and pumpkins,/white frost and red leaves,/the World Series games/and fresh antifreeze” – the Bard of Sherman Avenue (“October”) … Writing in the UIdaho Argonaut, student columnist Claire Whitley objected to the BYU-Idaho ban on “man buns” – the popular new hair style for men: “There are actually several men who can rock the ‘mun.’ Take for example Orlando Bloom or a bearded Chris Hemsworth. They look fabulous. The random fraternity guy − eh” … Poll: On my Huckleberries blog, 63.5 percent agreed that Jonathan Daniel Renfro, 27, of Rathdrum, should face the death penalty if he’s found guilty of first-degree murder in the May 5 slaying of Coeur d’Alene police Sgt. Greg Moore. Bingo.

Parting shot

The main mission of the USFS nursery on Coeur d’Alene’s Kathleen Avenue is to serve as a genetic storehouse for Western forests. It grows seedlings for federal agencies in five states. But here’s a factoid from spokesman Jason Kirchner of the Idaho Panhandle National Forests: If Kootenai County ever had mass casualties, the bodies would be taken to the nursery’s huge refrigerated units, currently used for storing seeds and nursery stock. Which gives new meaning to the term, “Bloom where you’re planted.”