Human rights group emerges from pandemic
(From left) Jerry Keane, Norman Gissel, Dane Hanna, Ken Howard and Cedric Clark humbly accepted awards from the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations Saturday. Keane was awarded the 2020 Civil Rights Award for his work as Post Falls School Superintendent battling with bullying in his district. Gissel and Howard received 20th-anniversary commemorations for their work on the lawsuit that brought down the Aryan Nations. Clark and Judi Hanna received Bill Wassmuth Memorial Volunteer Of The Year awards for their work with the task force; Dane accepted the award on his wife's behalf. (CRAIG…
Post Falls School Superintendent Jerry Keane accepts an award and an embrace from Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations President Christie Wood Saturday. "It was an opportunity to tell these people how important they are to the community," Wood said. "We didn't want to wait another year. These awards were from last year. For us, we want to recognize people who work so hard for human rights and civil rights all the time. We didn't want to wait any longer." (CRAIG NORTHRUP/Press)
The roughly two dozen residents and civic leaders sitting behind the Community United Methodist Church in Coeur d’Alene on Saturday was not a typical gathering of the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations. ...
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