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| Kerri Thoreson |
Ironman a real treat for the area
We've become big Ironman fans the past few years. Bert volunteers with the Post Falls Lions on the biking leg of the event where they detour on the railroad overpass on Seltice Way. I've found the best place to see the athletes while they're biking, and that's when they make the loop around the track at the Greyhound Park mid-morning. It's fun to cheer them on as they ride into the infield. My second-favorite place is the finish line an hour or so after the elite runners have finished. We stood in the human chain on Sherman Avenue and high-fived those nearing the finish line after about 9 p.m. and it was awesome. To put this Ironman accomplishment in perspective for us mere mortals ... a 2.4 mile swim, followed by a 112-mile bicycle course and then toss in a 26.2 mile marathon for the finale. Wow.
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My friend Loretta Reed was named Panhandle Bank's Community Star last week. A testament to Loretta's good works is that I imagine lots of people would describe her as a friend. She's a hero to all who know her and if anyone deserves the blue bird of happiness to sing on her windowsill, it's Loretta. Congratulations!
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Don't you love it when a season lives up to its billing, like temperatures in the 90s yesterday on the first day of summer. Bring it on!
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On Thursday night I stopped at the Conoco store at Highway 41 and Poleline and noticed a K-102 poster promoting a drawing for tickets to the Lipizzaner Stallions show at the Spokane Arena. Thursday was the last day of the contest so I filled out an entry form. Got the phone call Friday morning that I'd won two tickets!
Did I mention that the landscaping is in on NIC's Really Big Raffle house?
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Teens Brittany and Vanessa Smith took advantage of the $1 admission price at the new Regal Cinemas at Riverstone on Monday. They later told their mom that the seats in the theater "rock". Not the slang for being really cool ... evidently the comfy seats really rock back and forth.
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Veteran Jim Hall of Hayden called to introduce himself last week. He said he was a "handshaking friend" of my father's. Jim told me that a few years ago he saw Dad out at the North Idaho Fair promoting the Veterans Memorial Plaza and they got to chatting. Jim noticed Dad didn't have a good conduct medal among his service ribbons. So he told him that since he'd earned four, he'd bring Dad one of his, which he did. Which maybe indicates why Mr. Hall received so many citations for being a nice guy.
Kerri Rankin Thoreson is the former publisher of the Post Falls Tribune and a member of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. "Main Street" appears in The Press every Wednesday. Kerri can be reached at rkthor@webtv.net.
