Jul. 31—The spouse of slain Coeur d’Alene Fireplace Battalion Chief John Morrison introduced this week the top of a enterprise that she began together with her late husband: the Coeur d’Alene Cider Firm.
Jill Morrison wrote on Fb that Friday can be the store’s final day. It is situated at 1327 E. Sherman Ave. in Coeur d’Alene
“The time has come to shut the cider home,” Jill Morrison wrote. “It has been loads of enjoyable over time.”
John Morrison, 52, was shot and killed on June 29 in what authorities stated was an ambush by 20-year-old Wess Roley, who was discovered useless on the scene from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Additionally killed was Battalion Chief Frank Harwood, 42, of Kootenai County Fireplace and Rescue, and injured was Coeur d’Alene Fireplace Division engineer David Tysdal. The 47-year-old continues to recuperate in a Colorado hospital after his wounds induced him to lose the usage of his legs.
Jill Morrison, by division officers, stated Thursday that she didn’t wish to remark past what she wrote in her social media submit.
“I want I might preserve it going, however life has modified, and I not have it in me to run it the best way it deserves,” she wrote. “To our clients: Thanks to your help, your loyalty, and for making this really feel like greater than a enterprise.
“I am happy with what we constructed right here,” she continued, “and I am grateful to everybody who helped me make it what it was.”
The enterprise shall be open from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, in accordance with its web site.
“Thanks for being a part of it,” Jill Morrison wrote.
Following a month of grieving and honoring Morrison and Harwood, the Coeur d’Alene Fireplace Division has introduced that officers have picked Captain Tom Hiltenbrand to develop into battalion chief.
Hiltenbrand replaces Morrison, “a person whose presence, knowledge, and braveness formed the very soul of our fireplace household,” the division wrote in a information launch. “His absence is deeply felt, however his legacy lives on in each life he touched — and within the continued service of those that observe in his footsteps.”
The announcement congratulated Hiltenbrand for the promotion.
“His dedication, power, and compassion have lengthy made him a pillar of our division,” the assertion reads, “and we all know he’ll carry this new duty with the identical integrity and coronary heart he is all the time proven.”