HUCKLEBERRIES: Ramsey Road recollection, a motor sled and women in charge
In January 1994, Mayor Al Hassell pitched a $9 million street bond to the Coeur d’Alene Chamber of Commerce Upbeat Breakfast.
Photo courtesy of The Coeur d'Alene Press archives
In January 1994, the Coeur d’Alene Press endorsed the $9 million street bond.
Fred Murphy, right, and a Casco Bay neighbor are shown with Fred's “motor sled."
In January 1974, Lisa Dunton, 10, showed off the first buttercup.
In January 1969, Miss Coeur d’Alene Linda Dreschel challenged the media to a snowmobile race.
In January 1964, Dr. “Ted” Fox pretended to inoculate a spot-marked basketball against measles as CHS Viks Bob Pegg, left, and Don Barnes watched.
When this January 1994 photo was taken, employee Loretta Richards had been a fixture at the old Cove Bowl for 30 years.
In 2013, fallen USFS officer Brent “Jake” Jacobson was featured in a memorial outside the Bonner County Sheriff’s Office.
Pennaluna & Co. stockbrokers Tom Wobker, right, and Tim Major in January 2004. Tom would gain local fame as The Bard of Sherman Avenue.
Successful candidates often say they plan to “hit the ground running.”
Al Hassell, the late Coeur d’Alene mayor, did just that in 1994 when he proposed, won voter approval for, and expanded Ramsey Road into a four-lane street in less than nine months.
A quiet but effective leader, Mayor Al used his first State of the City address a week after taking office to introduce a $9 million bond to rebuild sections of three substandard roads: Ramsey, Government Way, and East Sherman Avenue.
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