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Where else can you find one of the last tuneups for those throwing specialists in track and field just before the U.S. Olympic Trials? Well, besides the television.
“It was my first Silver Valley Tournament as athletic director, so I was still learning,” Bailey remembered. “There was about a minute and a half left in the championship game, and Kellogg was going to be the tournament champions, and I started thinking, ‘Geez, do we need a trophy for this?’ So I looked at Drager and said, ‘Hey, Coach, do we hand out a trophy for this? I remember in high school, we used to get a trophy.’
In true and humble statesmanly fashion, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. refused to take the glory for creating the American Legion. “No one man can claim to be the founder of The American Legion," he once said, according to legion.org, the American Legion's website.
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Klein Fragoso, Sandpoint Track & Field
More than $115,000 in scholarships was presented at the event that honored some of the area’s best and brightest graduates.