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One final present to give
If you're delighting in this joyful season with family and friends, count your blessings.
POEM: Saint Nick's Touch
Good old jolly Saint Nick,
How reading can change the world
Learn to read.
SHOW: Nothing but the truth
The recent PBS showing of “Our Private Idaho” has generated a surprising amount of emotional reaction locally. My perspective is that it wasn’t an attack on Idaho. It merely pointed out a statistic that Idaho is pr…
LYRICS: Well worth reflection
This is just a reminder of the Reason for the Season:
DEER: Dalton or Snitch City?
Last week our illustrious mayor and City Council caved in to the anti-deer faction in Dalton Gardens by voting in a no feed/trapping ordinance. Section one in part states how deer pose a threat to both humans and p…
MILLIE: Apology not needed, wanted
To C.M. Cameron — you don’t need to apologize to the Coeur d’Alene Press for printing my letters. And you’re too much of a coward to print your full name. If they didn’t want to print it, they wouldn’t.
TRAPPING: The logic is missing
On Dec. 4 Fred Trevey, of Lewiston, Chairman of the Idaho Department of Fish and Game Commission, wrote a response to the public, regarding resolution to our trapping problems that was so far off tract I felt it re…
MEDICAL: Bills burying Americans
Buried on page 14A of Sunday’s paper was an article on unpaid medical bills. A whopping 20 percent of all credit files or nearly 43 million people have unpaid medical bills. This is unsustainable.
TRAPS: Time to ban them
I’m a hunter, and I am all about hunting rights, but trapping is non-discriminate. You never know what will wander into a trap. It is equivalent to setting up a shotgun in the woods with trip wires and a string on …
Countdown is on for kindness
Surely the calendar lies. It can't be just five days until Christmas Eve - can it?
LETTER: She missed point
Maybe Beverly Benson did not read all the letters correctly, or did not see the “I hope your roofs cave in and you all hurt your backs from the snow” comment, because I did not see any real “California bashing” as …
MILLIE: It's all in your outlook
I feel compelled to write this letter about Millie and Beverly. I have lived several places: New Jersey, California and now Idaho. Because of a job opportunity for my husband, we moved to California. I told my husb…
NUMBERS: Have fun with these
Here’s something to think over. I saw the picture of the little girl who had her 11th birthday on 12/13/14. I have an interesting birthday…I think. I was born on 1/9/38 — translates to 1938, right? The following ye…
WARDELL: A fitting tribute
Thank you for the well written editorial of Friday, Dec. 12.As a close longtime friend and neighbor of Wendell Wardell, I know how hard he worked. “If it was easy, anybody could do it.”