HUCKLEBERRIES: A woman with a cause
Newcomer Dixie Reid is sworn in two days after her City Council election win to fill the unexpired term of Stan Eischen in 1975.
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Dixie Reid is shown with her three children, from left, Michael, 4, Toni, 11, and Raini, 8, in 1975.
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City Clerk Sheila Gustin flips a coin to decide the winner of the Harrison mayor’s race in 1995.
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David LePard becomes mayor-elect on a coin toss in 1995.
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On Sept. 23, 1909, President William Howard Taft, with Coeur d'Alene Mayor Boyd Hamilton, speaks to a large crowd from the back of a Coeur d'Alene & Spokane Electric Line train at Second Street and Sherman Avenue.
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Doug Cresswell, the Coeur d’Alene school superintendent, laughs with Verna Driessen, 92, at Winton’s 70th anniversary celebration in 1995.
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Mrs. Vernon James of KVNI-AM radio changes tallies on a chalkboard at The Press while newsman Jack Weatherford reads results in 1970.
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Gary Sylte, right, and hunting partner Aaron Clark display the cougar that followed Sylte too closely in 1970.
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Controversy caught up with 1st District Magistrate Virginia Balser when 59.3% of the voters rejected her reappointment in 1990.
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Betty Owens celebrates her 98th birthday with a ride in the Hagadone Corp. helicopter in 2005.
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Dixie Reid made one thing clear after she became the first woman to be elected to the Coeur d’Alene City Council: She wasn’t a women’s liberationist.
“They can call me either a councilwoman or a councilman but not a councilperson,” she told the Coeur d’Alene Press after her November 1975 victory to fill an unexpired term.
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