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AFRICA: Painful reminders
Some of you know that Betsy and I have been in West Africa for several weeks volunteering in a small coastal school. Most of our stories are of heartwarming encounters and amazing adventures.
Light your splendid torch
Nobody was going to mistake the woman for Mother Teresa.
TEACHER: Resignation welcomed
In the absence of appropriate action-taking by local public school officials regarding Jeff Kantola, a certified social deviate, it is a relief that for whatever reasons, he has now resigned from being allowed a jo…
MARINES: We salute you
I wondered how long it would be before I simply HAD to write a letter to the editor. We’ve been here about a month, having relocated from a state and city where the politics simply drove us out. Monday’s headline i…
PRAYER: Plea for help
Dear God,
FUTURE: Letter to descendants
Last month I wrote a letter addressed to our grandchildren and (yet unborn) great-grandchildren. I indicated that the letter was to be read in 20 years, in 2036. I wrote that we were writing in response to the elec…
DEMENTIA: Dolls matter
A group called CDA Crazy Love reached out to many residents and wanted to help with my goal to help reach into the long-term memory of my lovely residents suffering from this disease. There has been so much respons…
ORV PARK: No way, county
Approving an off road park on Tweete Road is crazy. The reason people come to this area to vacation is the quiet and tranquility, and this is why we moved here to get the family values back to what they should be: …
A LOVE POEM
There aren’t enough words in our language,
ELECTION: Real deplorables
I’m getting a real kick out of seeing and listening to all of these sobbing, sniveling and whining liberal losers in the Democratic Party, the media, Hollywood and in the streets who are having a meltdown over Nurs…
TRUMP: Presidential rejection
I do not accept Donald Trump and will never call him president. Even though Comey and the Russians helped him get elected by our country’s 18th century rules (come on, people, Hillary won by more than 2.5 million p…
BERMS: Unbeatable foes
As winter comes I was thinking of previous letters about plowing and berms left at the end of our driveways. Mr. Koch should feel fortunate that he lives where he does. I also live in Coeur d’Alene, in the Fernan S…
ELECTION: Our next step
Dear Fellow Citizens:
PARK: Nightmare awaits
We are writing in regard to a proposal that we heard about last week. It is being proposed that a 500-acre motor event park be built on public land off Tweet and Good Hope in Athol. We live just a short distance fr…
House of campaign finance needs cleaning
Idaho wields a dull blade when it comes to fending off campaign finance violators.