OpenCdA took several hundred photos of the Coeur d’Alene Independence Day parade.   Our July 6 post titled Subtlety in CdA’s Independence Day Parade included a photo of two nationally-prominent personalities, Bill Whittle and Burt Rutan, riding Segway PTs.

But the parade’s theme also wanted to focus attention on local American Heroes, the people who often go unrecognized but who are heroes because they are committed to making our community work day after day.   Maybe because we have become so used to seeing smiling faces of people we don’t know on stationary and mobile billboards, we may not have looked closely enough at the faces on the sides of parade entry #66, the “Mary Souza for Mayor” truck.  Here are photos of both sides of the truck (mouse click on the photos to enlarge them on your computer screen).   Yep.  Every person in those photos is a local resident, not a model from a distant advertising agency’s stock photo bin.  Do you recognize your neighbors?

Keep an eye out for the truck in the weeks to come.  It will be back…