HUCKLEBERRIES: Earning the spotlight
Tracey Brown poses with her Miss Idaho crown before traveling to Las Vegas for the 2006 Miss America Pageant.
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Tracey Brown, center of women in red dresses, enjoys the opening number at the 2006 Miss America Pageant. Miss Oklahoma Jennifer Berry, contestant to Tracey’s right, won the contest.
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Tracey Brown autographs programs for a 2006 Miss America viewing party at Templin’s Resort.
Kerri Thoreson photo
Gov. Dirk Kempthorne, left, and State Sen. Jack Riggs answer questions at a news conference in 2001.
Photo courtesy of the Coeur d'Alene Press archives
Gary Lee, left, and Mike Budvarson search for a body in 1976, while diver Terry Lee and a marine deputy watch in a boat.
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Opened in 1975 as a Sambo’s restaurant at 817 Sherman Ave., this building later housed the popular Rustler’s Roost.
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Peg Kelly, left, became chairman of the Coeur d’Alene Cemetery Board in 1986 after Betty Stone, right, resigned.
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Rain didn’t stop the Red Hot Mamas from enjoying themselves at George W. Bush’s inauguration parade in 2001.
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Alice Eaton won the best hat competition at a "Fun Friends" party at the Captain’s Wheel in Bayview in 2001.
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Tracey Brown didn’t win big in Las Vegas, but she didn’t come home empty-handed either.
On Jan. 21, 2006, the Post Falls brunette with a radiant smile failed to capture the Miss America Pageant crown. But, as Miss Idaho, she received a nice consolation prize: the prestigious Quality of Life Award for community service.
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