Spokesman-Review Photo

In 1999, Dick Haugen, then with KVNI, asks 9-year-old Heather Hendry if she snuck into her brothers' rooms to collect loose change for Hayden Lake Elementary's donation of $515 in loose change to the 1999 Child Abuse Prevention Campaign Thursday morning.

DFO: Were you surprised when KVNI fired you?
DH: I think shocked was more the word. I remember having to go to Spokane for a meeting and then being toasted over there and sitting in my car wondering what the hell just happened. They fired me and made me walk outside around the building. They wouldn't let me walk through the building. Pretty bizarre.
DFO: Have you figured out what happened yet?
DH: I got an idea but I don't dwell on it much any more. I've moved on. Their loss is KGA's gain, in my opinion.
DFO: Is there any such thing as job security in the broadcast business?
DH: Not unless you own the station.

Newspaper interview here, complete interview in Extended Entry.

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