Healing Hearts Counseling of Coeur d'Alene

08/02/2025

https://cdapress.com/news/2025/feb/08/heritage-health-lays-off-10-of-employees/

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08/02/2025

This is tough tough news for Heritage and our community. We receive many referrals from Heritage for mental health services at our clinic.

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18/12/2024

I can appreciate wanting to get a pay raise, but in this case I would think all the extra tips they get would more than offset the need in salary $$.

It would be the first pay raise for members of Congress since 2009.

06/11/2024

Well, at least it looks like we'll save NIC, that's not nothing.

24/10/2024

So, as some of you know, I was the county clerk for 15 years and very engaged in the election process. I tend to be old school, so while I made lots of efforts to provide early absentee voting for folks to have choices, I have tended to want to vote on election day at my polling site to get a feel of things as much as anything else. Well, not this year. I've decided to go in and vote at the elections office this morning and be able to sleep easy tonight in case I get hit by a truck or something else tomorrow. It is too important to take a chance if you don't have to.

16/10/2024

An easy primer on which way to vote on Prop 1. If you're good with paying for elections with your own hard earned property tax $$ so only some "rated and vetted" people and their minders can have their private election while slurping at the public trough, then vote no. But if you think ALL all the people who pay for public elections should get to vote in them, since they paid pay for them, then vote YES. Class over!

15/10/2024

Well, just got home from Kootenai Health where I had a little "nip and tuck" procedure for a couple of hernias. A great team led by Dr. May. When I went down the list of optional equipment, I passed on the whitewalls but checked the box for a new set of 6-Pac abs, figured what the hey. Still too sore to attend our council meeting tonight but will be watching. If I were there, I would be voting to confirm Woody's choice of Kenny for our open council seat and happy we got the best person for the job and honored the right process in the mix. It's a great day to be a council guy in Coeur d'Alene.

06/10/2024

I got a message from a constituent earlier this evening with a disturbing message that a white supremacist group was having an event down at McEuen Park complete with loudspeakers and a planned torchlight parade later. I just got back from down there and am happy to report that it was the opposite of what was feared. It is a group (which you can Google to read all about them) that is actually raising awareness to combat human trafficking. I talked with some of our police who said they had no problems with the event but they were going to let them know that they need to get a permit in they have another event in the future. At times, I am really happy for what you might call a false alarm.

04/10/2024

We'll I've never had the occasion to consider a gun safe before. But now I'm hearing we may need one to keep our Costco toilet paper safe. What a world we are coming too...

18/09/2024

Some readers of my stuff will recall the dustup I had with Pastor Van Noy about the first of the year when I said my main goal as a council person for this year was to promote civil discussions between folks of different viewpoints. I followed through and had 6 sessions in the library earlier this summer based on the After Party series, sponsored by the Redeeming Babel project. It went very well and now I have been approved to be a presenter at the Idaho Counseling Association's annual training conference in Boise in about a month doing a 1.5-hour breakout session based on that experience. I am very happy and feel honored to be selected for this. Here is a flyer about it.

18/09/2024

So here's something else that doesn't happen to me every day. I just got interviewed down by city hall and the park by a TV crew from the Washington DC bureau of TF1, the largest network in France. The were interviewing people here and in Oregon about American politics and the divides that seem to be growing here. I don't know if my part will make the final cut but they said it will run about a month from now on their evening broadcast. If I get word, I will post a link. They spoke in French about half the time, they said just on technical stuff. I told them any secrets they were talking about were safe with me because I only got a 35 in my one tragic semester in High School French.

17/09/2024

So, just had a friend send me this flyer, wondering if I had seen it. I hadn't but it has me a bit confused. I don't know why anyone would be against world globes. I think every home should have one so both kids and adults alike can appreciate how our world is fashioned, and be able to locate various countries on it. But I'm glad to see they want all of us to wear our patriotic gear. I'm as patriotic as the next fellow but don't have to wear it on my sleeve or have a giant American flag in the back of my pickup, often in tatters, which shows huge disrespect to our flag. And one final point about globes in the form of a personal confession...I am a sucker for snow globes!