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Watersports free to try at NIC Summer Splash

WATERSPORTS -- North Idaho College is offering a free opportunity to try out paddleboards, kayaks, canoes and catamarans, and awarding scholarships, too, at the school's annual beach party (open to the public).

  • What: North Idaho College Cecil’s Summer Splash
  • When: 4 p.m.-7 p.m. Thursday, July 21
  • Where:  NIC campus beach -  Hnya’(pqi’nn Beach - on Lake  Coeur d'Alene

The event is open to the public, but especially attractive to current or prospective NIC students, since there will be drawings for $5,000 in scholarships at 6:30 p.m.

Games with prizes are planned throughout the event. The first 300 guests will be treated to a free barbecue.

Info: (208) 769-5958.



Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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