Spotlight: Former mayor Sandi Bloem

When a young Sandi Bloem wasn’t skating on or swimming in Lake Coeur d’Alene, she was “running the log booms.” “We’d go down (to the Potlatch lumber mill) and see if we could run across the boom without falling between the logs,” she said with a glint in her eye. “We weren’t supposed to do it but we did.” Bloem was only 5 when she moved with her family to a house her great-grandfather built at Sanders Beach, but she wasn’t too young to realize that she had landed in childhood heaven/ Ric Clarke , Coeur d’Alene Press. More here.