In brief: Really BIG raffle sold out

The North Idaho College Foundation’s Really BIG Raffle has sold out for the 14th year in a row. The last of the raffle’s 5,000 tickets were sold June 25, 17 days before the drawing.

All ticket holders and community members are invited to attend the Really BIG Raffle drawing at 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 11 in Fort Sherman Park on NIC’s main campus.

The event will include live music, refreshments and various door prize giveaways. Entry for door prizes and the two $250 cash bonus prizes begins at 6 p.m.

Ticket holders need not be present to win the early bird prizes nor the $300,000 grand-prize house in Post Falls, the first-prize $20,000 car, the second-prize $10,000 boat, a third-prize $3,500 travel package and fourth-prize $2,000 shopping spree.

Post Falls

An evening of cowboy fun

Dust off your spurs and git ready for a chuck wagon-worthy meal and an evening of entertainment by cowboy poets and musicians.

It’s all happening at 6:30 p.m. July 5 at the Post Falls Senior Center, 1215 E. Third Ave. Advance tickets are $10 and are available from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekdays at the center. Or seats can be reserved ahead of time for the same price by calling 773-9582. At the door, tickets will be $15.

Beginning at 7 p.m., a herd of Western entertainers will take the floor. Headliner Rod Erickson will kick things off. He’ll belt out both country and gospel tunes and share his award-winning talent for yodeling.

Cowboy poet Rich Bellert, the musical trio of Banjo Jack & the String-Alongs and cow-gal Hilma “Volcano” Volk will tickle the crowd with her ventriloquism, country-fried humor and rhyming stories.

“It’s just a terrific time. We had them here two years ago and we had a really big crowd,” Fish said.

Vittles will include deep-fried chicken, potato salad and watermelon.

– From staff reports