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There were 90 entries in this year’s parade. Here is the last of my posts showing some of them.
Addendum on July 12, 2010: Brenda Young, Coeur d’Alene Chamber of Commerce, informed me that these are this year’s parade prize winners.
Community Float 1st Place Deer Park
Company Category 1st Hot Rod Café, 2nd North Idaho College, 3rd Matson’s Plumbing
Non profit Category 1st Boy Scouts of America, 2nd Girl Scouts
Marching Band Category 1st The Prefection-nots, 2nd Cranbrook Bugle Band
Marching Unit Category 1st Blazen Divas
Classic Car Category 1st Doug Murdock, 2nd Wiggett’s Antique Mall
Equestrian Category 1st Kootenai County Saddle Club
Equestrian Horse Drawn Category 1st Bridle Path Quarter Horses
These were the folks who judged the parade entries.
The parade begins!
I just got time to see these great pictures. It looks like a Norman Rockwell event!
Comment by citizen — July 7, 2010 @ 8:18 pm
Boy howdy, Citizen’s comment nailed it right on the head! However, Citizen is showing his/her age by the reference to N.R. Sadly we don’t see much of his work displayed anymore. My personal favorites are the Four Freedoms.
Comment by Happy Trails — July 8, 2010 @ 8:07 am
Here’s my favorite Normal Rockwell poster, a copy of which hangs behind the receptionist’s desk at CdA City Hall (without my additions, of course):
I believe the young man standing the photo is supposedly modeled after Abraham Lincoln.
Comment by Dan — July 8, 2010 @ 6:56 pm
That painting brings back memories. I represented Mike Edmondson in a case against Shearer Lumber Co. out of Elk City. He worked at the mill for over 20 years, starting as a laborer and moving up to night shift foreman. He had injured his lungs trying save the mill from a fire a few years earlier. He was declared the first Idaho Gem Citizen, for his community involvement, by then Gov. Batt. He went to a public meeting in Elk City that was organized by the State of Idaho. He sat in the audience but did not actually say anything. He was fired. The reason for his firing was that he attended this public meeting. For some strange reason I thought that somewhere the rights of free speech and assembly were guaranteed. In Idaho a private employer can fire anyone at anytime so long as the reason for the firing does not violate public policy. I filed a suit on his behalf for wrongful termination in violation of “public policy.” I attached a copy of this painting to one of my briefs. The District Court Judge threw the case out. The Judge had spent over an hour on the case before us that involved the intricate question of; Where, exactly, does one have to stop a car at a stop sign? How close, or far, does it have to be from some imaginary line across the road. Thinking that the Judge had been overwhelmed with the complexities of the first case, and considering the fact that I may not have been clear in my argument, I asked the Judge to reconsider his decision. Thrown out again. The case was appealed to the Idaho Supreme Court. At oral argument in Boise one of the Justices asked the employer’s attorney; If a person is white and dating a person of “color” can a private employer fire that person just for doing that? The answer was; Yes, in Idaho. The Justice said, Well that will have to be changed. I felt fairly good about the chances on the appeal. The Court, in a unanimous decision, then held that First Amendment rights are not “public policy” in Idaho. “Public policy” has to be stated in a statute. It is a nice painting though.
Comment by Starr — July 9, 2010 @ 8:35 am
Starr,
Did you know that Edmondson v Shearer Lumber Products was cited and used in the US Supreme Court’s decision Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission? Here’s what was said:
Comment by Bill — July 9, 2010 @ 9:09 am
First, thank you Bill for the pictures. I didn’t get to the parade, so I doubly appreciate your pictures.
Another good laugh Dan, although I would enjoy laughing much more were the comments not true.
Starr….you’re kidding, right? I know you’re not….I would be interested in these justices definition of First Ammendment rights.
Comment by rochereau — July 9, 2010 @ 10:32 am
Bill, I wasn’t aware of that citation. It is always nice to see cases cited by the US Supreme Court. Idahoans can be proud of the fact that Idaho is now widely known for not believing that the First Amendment represents “public policy” which, at least, is something other than the Aryan Nations. An interesting (well at least to me) fact is that the Idaho Legislature has never enacted a statute incorporating the “at-will” employment doctrine. I suppose, given that most citizens of Idaho are “blue-collar workers” our representatives in that big building in Boise might have received some negative comments from their constituents if they had passed such a law. The “at-will” doctrine was judicially adopted by the Idaho Supreme Court in one of it’s decisions. I suppose that could be called, at least by some, judicial activism. The Idaho Legislature did enact the “right-to-work” laws. Most people I have met believe that “at-will” and “right-to-work” are one in the same. For example, people refer to Idaho as being a “right-to-work” state as the reason for its stance on “employee rights.” In fact the “right-to-work” laws only apply to a person’s “right-to-work” without being required to join a labor union. They have nothing to do with “at-will” terminations. Essentially the only “public policy” exceptions arise when (1) a person is fired for refusing sexual advances; (2)a person is fired for refusing to commit a criminal act; and/or (3) a person is fired for filing a worker’s compensation claim.
Comment by Starr — July 9, 2010 @ 12:45 pm
rochereau,
Thank you. I’m hope the pictures brought a smile. Unfortunately, they don’t really capture the fun of a parade, but they’re the best I can do.
Comment by Bill — July 9, 2010 @ 2:18 pm
Idaho has no employee rights unless you are lucky enough to get a decent boss. At one time, I was forced to work 6 days a week – no overtime. I complained down at the local Employment shop and they said, “That’s a Federal issue, we can’t help you.” In other words, the state said it was legal. When we moved and I quit over the phone, the employer started yelling that I could not quit because they were busy paving their driveway. They did not want to open on their Saturday. Yep, for reals. They just did not understand the word “quit.”
I love this public policy stuff.
Are smoking bans considered “public policy?” Do the statutes actually state that? I could not find it, in fact I found that the state controls cigarette emissions and they are within acceptable limits.
Cigarettes in Idaho are still legal. Idaho still collects the taxes from them. That is public policy per se. Idaho is essentially causing and promoting smoking related diseases. Idaho dictates to business’ regarding employees who smoke. They have no right to their own private policies – yet Idaho still promotes the sale of cigarettes and even brags about the restoration of the Statehouse through those sales.
Also, if I decide to open a suntan booth for folks who want to enhance their mood -will the feds or state sue me if I don’t collect the extra 10 percent in the name of “Protect white skin from Cancer?”
Just wondering.
Comment by Stebbijo — July 9, 2010 @ 2:49 pm
So the question seems to be, what is Public Policy? From this discussion it seems to be somewhat elusive. Well, as regards the formation of it, Idaho’s Open Meeting Law which I authored says in Idaho Code 67-2340, “The people of the state of Idaho in creating the instruments of government that serve them, do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies so created. Therefore, the legislature finds and declares that it is the policy of this state that the formation of public policy is public business and shall not be conducted in secret.”
Comment by Gary Ingram — July 9, 2010 @ 8:57 pm
Well said.
Comment by Stebbijo — July 9, 2010 @ 9:10 pm