Vault, city clerk unexpected guardians of Cd’A history
Coeur d'Alene city clerk Renata McLeod stacks old city council books inside the "vault." (LOREN BENOIT/Press)
City Clerk Renata McLeod said each volume of archived minutes from Coeur d’Alene’s early years gives a glimpse into how our ancestors toiled to build a city from scratch.
CRAIG NORTHRUP/Press
The craftsmanship that went into documenting the earliest Coeur d'Alene council meetings could be permanently forgotten, according to clerk Renata McLeod, as fading ink and deteriorating bindings are prompting her efforts to save the old documents and meeting minutes. (CRAIG NORTHRUP/Press)
COEUR d’ALENE — Hanging on a steel door at the end of a second-floor hallway at City Hall boasts the non-descript label “Vault....
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