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| Kerri Thoreson |
Exercise your right to vote this Tuesday
By the time the next Main Street appears on Wednesday, the elections of 2006 will be all over but the shouting. Kudos to the management of the local Verizon Call Center for providing a recent Voter Education Day at the workplace for their employees. Verizon's Kristy Reed Johnson set up the full day of equal time for legislative candidates from District 4 and 5, sample ballots, voter guides on ballot initiatives, applications for absentee ballots, precinct maps and polling site information. What a great example in citizenship the Verizon folks have displayed. Observes Kristy ... democracy is not a spectator sport. To that I say, amen, and hope that everyone reading this will exercise their right on Tuesday, Nov. 7.
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Like everyone else in town, I buy a lot of raffle tickets for good causes. What a treat that even though I didn't win the classic Mustang convertible at the Coeur d'Alene Chamber banquet, the person whose name was drawn was actually in the room. The fact that Bill Everson of Everson Jewelry fame is also an esteemed member of my very own Coeur d'Alene High School Class of 1970 made it even sweeter.
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My tablemates at the Chamber banquet included the new VP/Branch Manager of Idaho Independent Bank Kyle Hendricks and Jennifer, his bride of five months, along with Matthew Grupp and John Kauprath of the Grupp Law Firm. It was a real treat to have newly-met people seem like old friends.
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I was worried about Dick Wandrocke when he found out after the fact that the Fighting Creek Tavern and Fighting Creek Chamber of Commerce buildings had been torn down. Dick is a former mayor of Fighting Creek and had a genuine affection for the historic old building. Even though the chamber building was in reality just an outhouse, I'm sure that if he'd had the chance, Dick would have moved it to his property for posterity.
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Joni McCoury was the winner by a mile of last week's old timer's question. Her answer arrived in my e-mail inbox long before I woke up on Wednesday. The wife of a logger, she says early rising is the norm. The answer to the question of which popular restaurant is across from the old G & H Tavern and kitty corner from where Economart once stood is the White House Grill. Joni even knew that the restaurant is in the former First Interstate Bank building at the corner of Spokane and Seltice in Post Falls.
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Everyone's heard that Vice President Dick Cheney will be making an appearance in Air Force Two at the Coeur d'Alene Airport tomorrow, but my sources tell me that the VP has long made quiet visits to Post Falls and the surrounding area whenever he has the chance ... likely that he has hunting partners in North Idaho.
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 rkthor52@aol.com or www.kthoreson.com.
