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Entertainment: CDA resident wins award for screenwriting

| August 6, 2021 1:00 AM

Coeur d'Alene resident Anita Waggoner was recently named a 2021 preliminary finalist in the Creative World Awards international screenwriting contest for her screenplay, "Freedom".

Waggoner was born and raised in Omak. She is the granddaughter of Omak rodeo legend Leo Moomaw.

"A professional with an entrepreneurial spirit, Anita has been involved in many successful business ventures since leaving her hometown for Seattle in the late sixties," according to a press releaes.

She later purchased a 3,400-acre ranch and opened a western guest lodge and restaurant.

The film "Freedom" is in development and the goal is it will be filmed and produced in the state of Oklahoma.