Kerri Thoreson
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Allergies: Nothing to sneeze at
My friend Taryn Thompson had her first ER visit for an allergic reaction last week. I’m sharing some excellent tips she has for anyone with anaphylactic allergies and for those who work in the food service industry.
A woman joining the working men
Alice Corder George was born in 1906. Ruth Fletcher Rankin was born in 1910. These women were my maternal and paternal grandmothers, respectively. They were qu…
A woman joining the working men
Alice Corder George was born in 1906. Ruth Fletcher Rankin was born in 1910. These women were my maternal and paternal grandmothers, respectively. They were qu…
Matters of the heart matter
Following coronary “events” in 2006 and 2008, which earned me four coronary stents, I began to include annual Heart Health Month reminders in this column each February.
Bits and pieces of local life
On Sunday morning while most people were preparing for the Super Bowl parties, Mike McLean was feeding cattle in the back pasture. The McLean Cattle Company off Greensferry is a four-generation farm and ranch on th…
Super Bowl logic for amateurs
Super Bowl Sunday is a few days away and it’s been a little low key on the promotion this year. For those who no longer have a dog in the fight the last two teams standing, Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49er…
Fifty years passes in a flash
Half century, 50 years, 18,250 days ... any way you say it, it’s a long time. My fellow Vikings from Coeur d’Alene High School Class of 1970 are planning for our 50th Class Reunion the fourth weekend in July. It ma…
Tall goals for short films
I’m always attracted to stories of people following their passion.
Traveling light into the new year
Over the weekend I read a story from the Philadelphia Inquirer about a couple who had a novel way to deal with 45 years of overabundant “stuff” that had accumulated in their home. The couple, in their 70s, held a d…
Focus on the river banks in 2020
“Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes,…
Community helpers make a difference
Merry Christmas!
Give the gift of kindness to all
This time of year we all wish, or pretend, that life resembles a Hallmark holiday movie. But alas, life is seldom tied so neatly in a pretty happy ending bow.
Words brought to life for Christmas
In 2012 I attended an event at the Coeur d’Alene Library’s Community Room to benefit the library foundation. Bits and Pieces featured readings by Jack Bannon, Ellen Travolta, Margaret Travolta and Roger Welch. As a…
Season of joy and thankfulness
Big doings in Coeur d’Alene this weekend with the Christmas Lighting Parade, holiday lighting and fireworks over the lake on Friday night and the kick off of Kootenai Health’s Festival of Trees events. The Coeur d’…
Community moved and awed on moving day
In my Main Street column on Aug. 14 I wrote about the efforts by the Museum of North Idaho to move the J.C. White house that had been gifted by the owner to house the museum.