‘It was a miracle’
Mayor Sandi Bloem, center, and Salvation Army officials celebrate on May 1, 2006, after Coeur d’Alene is awarded a Kroc Center by the Salvation Army. Pictured are, from left: Lt. Col. Joann Brodin, Lt. Col. Harold Brodin, Bloem, Maj. John Chamness and Maj. Benton Markham.
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Three of the original six members of the Renovators are shown in April 1996. They are, from left: Tom Husby, Darrell Dlouhy and Mike Burkholder.
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Shown in April 1956, Dr. Victoria Carbury of the Hitching Post officiated at nearly 1,000 weddings the previous year.
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Holding a marriage license in his left hand and his fiancée, Peggy Beadles, 18, in his right one, Wayne Leroy Trenary, 19, is ready to marry on April 13, 1956.
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Barry McHugh, 8, and his sister, Maureen, 6, are pictured in The Press on April 23, 1966, promoting Daylight Saving Time awareness.
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Mrs. Leroy Dixson of Dixon’s Drugs in Rathdrum prepares an ice cream soda in April 1971.
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Templin’s Resort in Post Falls opened April 1, 1986. But the official grand opening was held three weeks later. Shown cutting the ribbon are, front from left: Bob Jr. Blythe and Barbara Templin. Watching in the back row are, from left: Gov. John Evans and Bob and Mary Templin.
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Office manager Catherine Roche cuts the ribbon at the grand opening of Montgomery Ward and the Coeur d’Alene Mall on April 27, 1966. Pictured are (from left): Miss Coeur d’Alene Susie Wolden, Karen Sand, Roche, Ward’s executive Ray Struve, Katie Brodie, Kathy Guindon, and Ward’s executive C.E. O’Laughlin. The young women hosted the opening.
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Don Johnston works on a downtown building façade in April 1971.
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Christmas 2006 arrived early for Sandi Bloem and Coeur d’Alene.
On May 1, 2006, then Mayor Bloem and 100 supporters jammed the old City Council chambers to learn the fate of the city application for a Salvation Army Kroc Center.
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