David Keyes, former publisher of the Bonner County Bee, offers this recollection of his early days of newspapering in North Idaho:
“I remember my second week of work at the Bonners Ferry Herald back in 1986. I had just moved there after
college and a brief stint at home in Forsyth, Mont. The Herald is located on Main Street and is pretty close to being across from the Panhandle Restaurant. I was walking across Main Street after buying a Diet Pepsi at the restaurant and had just stepped onto the sidewalk in front of the Herald when a man came out of a store down the street and leveled a rifled right at me. I had two choices, jump into the bushes to save my life or to say a silent prayer that I was just imagining the scene and to save the Diet Pepsi by not jumping. As it turned out, the man who had stepped out of the store was sighting in a scope on his rifle he had just purchased at Roundheels, a gun and pawn shop a few doors down. I didn’t jump.”
Question: Do you have a tale to tell of a wild adventure in North Idaho?