HUCKLEBERRIES: Better planning for the future
Director Dorothy Dahlgren keeps the Museum of North Idaho afloat in 2000.
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Co-operative Supply (Cenex) operates in a building next to City Park in 1975, later becoming the Museum of North Idaho’s longtime home.
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Vance Everson of Spokane thanks Canada for rescuing six American diplomats in Iran, including one from Post Falls, in 1980.
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Paul Edwards of Hayden Lake recalls his role as an Earth Day organizer in 1995.
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Jo Robinson, Miss 1960 Restaurant Show, serves cheesecake to Coeur d’Alene Mayor P.A. Christianson (overcoat) and others in 1960.
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Mining magnate Henry (Hank) Day, pictured sometime before 1985.
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Commissioner Henry J. Meyer, left, swears in Post Falls attorney James Judd as Kootenai County’s first public defender in 1970.
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Steve Siefert set an eating record because he couldn’t pass up a free hot dog in 1985.
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Tidyman’s director Pat Dahmen displays Hometown Stars cereal in 2000.
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Dorothy Dahlgren was a fan of Coeur d’Alene history before it was cool.
She relished our blue-collar tapestry of steamboats, mining, railroads and logging. And, for 38 years, she shared her passion for local history as director of the Museum of North Idaho.
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