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Seems the show did go on

This Dec. 18, 2014, SR file photo shows Jeremy Morris next to his wife Kristy and their daughter Savannah Claire, then 3, in front of their home in Hayden. The couple had transformed their home into a holiday destination with an abundance of lights, music, a choir, and a live camel and free hot chocolate. (Kathy Plonka/SR file photo)
This Dec. 18, 2014, SR file photo shows Jeremy Morris next to his wife Kristy and their daughter Savannah Claire, then 3, in front of their home in Hayden. The couple had transformed their home into a holiday destination with an abundance of lights, music, a choir, and a live camel and free hot chocolate. (Kathy Plonka/SR file photo)

Without the usual media fanfare, attorney Jeremy Morris's annual Christmas light extravaganza took place Dec. 14-18 in Hayden. There wasn't any loud squawking from neighbors who tried unsuccessfully to use subdivision covenants to rein Morris in. And it appears from Morris' Facebook page that it was well attended. Morris, however, wondered why the light show -- with 10 more miles of lights this year, a camel, goats and "27 professional costumed-designed Bible characters" -- didn't make the "holiday lights" list of the Coeur d'Alene Press. Facebooked Morris: "Apparently, outspoken conservatives are not permitted to be on their list." Morris put the Press on his "naughty list." Morris uses the light show to raise money for the Children's Village and Emmett Paul Snyders Foundation.



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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