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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks, Joe! It shows what a snowed-in day does to
people that I ahd the time and inclination to call national talk radio and
fiddle with the Washington Post <EM><U>IN THE SAME DAY!!!</U></EM></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Seriously, I have so many to thank for all the
kindnesses I have received during these days of the White Tornado... Snow
shovelling, brushing off the car about 795 times, battery
cable rescue activity (two tiems if you can believe it!!!) at the Mall
with my new-to-me (!) car, offers to shop for food, gifts of food and those
warm, endearing phone calls and e-mails ("Doin' okay? How's Ella the Dog? Do you
need somebody to (choose as needed) shovel, shop, brush, clean, cook, walk the
dog, cuddle the dog, accompany you on the piano while you sing, play the flute
or scratch on the violin???"). They have all been kind and ALL been appreciated.
So many of the offerors have been V2020 that I felt it was appropriate to say
this in this forum.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>You're great, Moscow! Thanks for caring. I'm doing
reasonably well, still practicing lkaw and teaching at WSU (Business Law
Coordinator for the College of Business) and Pulmonary Arterial
Hypertension is being held at bay... no miraculous cures but still breathing and
happy to be here. Happy 2009, Everybody... shovel-ready plans are alive and well
in Moscow: Palouse River Ball Fields and finishing the 1912 Center!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Linda </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Law Office of Linda Pall</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>304 East A Street</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>PO Box 8656</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Moscow, ID 83843</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>208-882-7255</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=josephc@wsu.edu href="mailto:josephc@wsu.edu">Joseph Campbell</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=lpall@moscow.com
href="mailto:lpall@moscow.com">Linda Pall</A> ; <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, January 05, 2009 4:54
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Fw: What is it
with Idahoans and Bathrooms?</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">In case no one else knows, Linda was on NPR today!
Pretty cool! Thanks, Linda! Best, Joe<BR><BR>On 1/5/09 3:49 PM, "Linda Pall"
<<A href="mailto:lpall@moscow.com">lpall@moscow.com</A>>
wrote:<BR><BR></SPAN></FONT>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">Dear Visionaries,<BR> <BR></SPAN></FONT><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><FONT face=Arial>Here's a comment from the
Washington Post that Idahoans around the country found interesting
today...<BR></FONT><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><BR><A
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/04/AR2009010401504.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/04/AR2009010401504.html</A><BR></FONT><FONT
face=Arial>Here's the bit if you don't want to play digital
tag:<BR></FONT><FONT face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><BR><I>A Lavish
Bathroom at Interior<BR><BR>If Sen. Ken Salazar (D-Colo.) is confirmed this
month as interior secretary, he'll have a snappy, scarcely used bathroom in
his fifth-floor office, thanks to Dirk Kempthorne, the outgoing secretary.
<BR><BR>Seems Kempthorne spent about $235,000 in taxpayer funds renovating
the bathroom a few months ago, which included installing a new shower, a
refrigerator and a freezer and buying monogrammed towels, department
officials told our colleague </I>Derek Kravitz<I>. <BR></I><BR>The General
Services Administration approved and partially funded the project, an
Interior Department official said. The GSA paid about half the cost to
refurbish aging plumbing, which needed to be replaced within four years.
<BR><BR>But department officials say much of the money was spent on lavish
wood paneling and tile. Among the choice items found in the new bathroom:
wainscot wood panels extending from floor to ceiling and cabinet doors
revealing a working refrigerator and freezer. <BR><BR>"If Gale Norton<I>
needed to shower, at least she was conservative enough to go to the gym in
the basement of the building," one career employee quipped, referring to
Kempthorne's predecessor. <BR></I><BR>An initial investigation by the
department's inspector general, Earl<I> </I>B. Devaney<I>, found no
wrongdoing on the secretary's part because the GSA had approved the project.
<BR></I><BR>Copyright 2009 The Washington Post<BR><BR><BR><BR>
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