HUCKLEBERRIES: Be prepared ... to travel
Athol residents, from left, Joreen Bohn, Robby Bohn and June McDaniel greeted the Girl Scout Roundupper in 1965.
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National Girl Scout leader Margaret Price and Idaho Gov. Robert Smylie dedicated the Roundup City crossroads in 1965.
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Legislator Dean Haagenson, Rick Rochat, Spence Guerin and Bob Wheeler reprised a long motorcycle trip two decades earlier in 1990.
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San Francisco quarterback John Brodie and his father, A.L., posed at the Hayden Lake Country Club in 1965.
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John Brodie’s little sister, Katie, in 2017.
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Robert Singletary, left, and Coeur d’Alene Press editor Mike Feiler viewed a compilation of Robert’s “Kootenai Chronicles” columns in 1995.
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Mayor Jim Fromm posed at the old Louisiana Pacific building in 1985, which became the Coeur d’Alene Library for 21 years.
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Real Life Ministries pastor Jim Putman, center, prayed at the groundbreaking ceremony of the new Post Falls church in 2000.
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Jim Byrd walked his dog, Bridgett, on a new section of North Idaho Centennial Trail along the Spokane River in 2005.
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An unidentified neo-Nazi Sieg Heiled at the annual Aryan Nations World Congress in 1990. Violence later bankrupted Richard Butler’s group.
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Tiny Athol once was the railhead at the center of the Girl Scouts’ universe.
On July 15, 1965, 616 girls from New York and New Jersey emerged from 27 Northern Pacific cars at Athol “singing, chanting and bustling with energy,” according to the Coeur d'Alene Press.
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