HUCKLEBERRIES: Boom, baby!
Carla Taylor holds her “Ash Baby,” Ashlee Beth, in 1981.
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Nurses at Kootenai Medical Center hustle to keep up with the baby boom of February 1981.
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Instructor Al Kulig shows Carol Moffitt how to handle a gun in 1981.
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Louise Shadduck, center, launches her congressional campaign in Coeur d’Alene in 1956 surrounded by supporters, including, from left, Jim Parsons of Sandpoint; Florence Nichols and William D. McFarland of Kootenai County; Shadduck; treasurer Ted Hoff Jr. of Horseshoe Bend; and Ralph Wickberg of Shoshone County.
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Manager Samantha Gordon and employee Derek Richey open Idaho’s first Starbucks coffee bar at Coeur d’Alene’s Ironwood Square in 1996.
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Chris Steinley Holloway, 15, reads the March 1976 edition of Appaloosa News with her racing photo on the cover.
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Marlin Harris of Hauser was elected into the Idaho Softball Hall of Fame in 2006.
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Instructor JoAnn Dilorio, center, leads Paul Streeter and Wanda Myhre in a disco dance in 1981.
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Joe Whitley of the Community Theatre and pest controller Don Killian pose with Joe’s cat, Spooky, in 1966.
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It rained ash first, and then it rained babies.
In February 1981, nine months after Mount St. Helens blew, doctors at Kootenai Medical Center delivered a bumper crop of newborns — 100 in all.
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