It was an interesting week, that’s for sure. Recently I noticed a slim, elderly lady with a jaunty blue cap being led by a gorgeous black Labrador guide dog. I said hello. Her name was Gerda and she spoke with a soft German accent.
After a week or so, Urny, her dog, would pause on the path opposite the cottage, push against Gerda until she patted him approvingly, then trot across the road, and sit outside my half-door. “He misses people talking to him,” she said. “Before Covid we used to have lots of visitors and they spoilt him. Urny is ever so social.”
Peggy Louise Peterson (Meiners), 73, passed peacefully Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, at Prestige Care and Rehabilitation â The Orchards in Lewiston.
Peggy was born March 8, 1947, and raised in Nezperce on the family farm by her parents, Joe and Lucy Meiners, and alongside her beloved brother, Dale, all who predeceased her. She was a 1965 graduate of Nezperce High School and attended the Lewis-Clark Normal School in Lewiston. She developed a love of Idaho, the outdoors, camping, fishing, cooking, crafting and an independence that she passed along to her children. Peggy was a loving single mother who raised two children during often difficult times, readily sacrificing for them when necessary.
The story of the Irish who fought for Republican Spain
There was no escaping the Spanish question in Ireland in the twelve months after the summer of 1936, write Barry McLoughlin and Emmet O’Connor By Barry McLoughlin and Emmet O’Connor Tuesday 22 Dec 2020, 9:00 PM Dec 22nd 2020, 9:00 PM 18,520 Views 36 Comments
ON 20 JULY 1936, reports appeared in Irish newspapers of an attempted coup d’etat in Spain. It would come to be led by General Francisco Franco.
Trouble had been brewing since the left-wing Popular Front won the general election in February. Political violence was increasing, and the government was losing its grip on the country. Spain had a long history of army intervention in politics, and seemed a backward, isolated country. But things were different in 1936 because of the way events in Spain intersected wit