Unwanted baby badly wanted now; many offering homes to ‘Cookie’
A Lake City General Hospital nurse holds “Cookie” in 1956.
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Above left, Patrolman Walter W. Cox, left, and Deputy Cliff B. Johnson inspect the cookie box that served as a crib in 1956. Above right, Deputy John W. Rasor views the spot where an officer found baby “Cookie.”
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Anne Colborn follows reports of Pope John Paul II’s recovery in 1981.
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Pope John Paul II talks to pilgrim Ann Odre of Buffalo, N.Y., who was wounded with him in 1981.
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Kent Spangler of Young’s Nursery plants a shrub at the old Playland Pier site in 1976, a day after the City Council named it Independence Point.
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Days before the 1976 bicentennial celebration, Independence Point officially replaced Playland Pier, a waterfront amusement park and midway.
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Meter monitor Carol Orr removes mechanisms from downtown parking meters in 1986 as Coeur d’Alene experiments with free parking.
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Dan English quits work as a Kootenai County juvenile officer to join Youth for Christ in 1976.
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Michael Depasquale, second from left, is one of four chefs who helped open The Coeur d’Alene: A Resort on the Lake in 1986. Pictured are, from left, chefs Rod Jessick, DePasquale, Gordon Harris and Bill Steele.
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The doctors and nurses called him “Cookie” because the newborn was found abandoned in a Melrose Fig Bars box with “Cookies” printed on the side.
The baby was four to six hours old when located by State Patrolman Walter W. Cox on Wednesday afternoon, May 30, 1956: Memorial Day.
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