Student Summit at CdA High
Coeur d’Alene area high school and middle school students, their parents and coaches are invited to celebrate Martin Luther King Day by participating in a Student Summit on how athletics has promoted gender and racial equality in America.
The event will be Monday from 1 to 3 p.m. in the Coeur d’Alene High School auditorium and will feature a keynote address by Dr. Josh Culbreath, a bronze medalist in the 1956 Olympics in the 400-meter hurdles. He has since served as a college coach and athletic director. He is currently a personal fitness coach to Bill Cosby.
Other speakers will include Harvey Glance, Dominique Arnold, Anson Henry and Ellenee Richardson. There will also be breakout sessions with regional college and professional athletes and coaches.
The frees event is co-sponsored by the Human Rights Education Institute, School District 271, Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane Shock, area Kiwanis clubs and several local businesses.
NIC’s outreach adviser
Current and prospective North Idaho College students are encouraged to meet with new NIC outreach adviser Kari Hynes, who will now be at NIC’s outreach centers weekly to advise students.
Hynes will be at the NIC Bonners Ferry Center from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Mondays beginning Jan. 28; at the NIC Ponderay Center from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays beginning this Tuesday; and at the NIC Silver Valley Center in Kellogg from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays beginning Wednesday.
Hynes’ position is a new one at NIC, designed to provide an adviser designated specifically to outreach students across the five northern counties of Idaho. She holds a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Massachusetts and has worked as a university adviser.
Walk-ins are welcome, but 30-minute appointments are recommended to ensure one-on-one time.
To make an appointment, call the NIC Bonners Ferry Center at 267-3878, the NIC Ponderay Center at 263-4594 or the NIC Silver Valley Center at 783-1254.
Grant benefits fire departments
Several local fire departments will benefit this year from a U.S. Department of Homeland Security grant to buy radio equipment.
The $667,408 Federal Emergency Management Agency grant is being matched with additional local money for a total of $834,260 to purchase 170 hand-held radios, five control stations and 100 in-vehicle radios that will allow local firefighters, emergency personnel and police to talk directly to one another.
“Right now we have to call central dispatch and have them relay the call,” said Hauser Lake Fire Protection District Chief Larry Simms.
That’s because the frequencies the different departments use now don’t match. The new radios will have matching frequencies.
All the equipment is expected to be up and running by October.
NIC faculty displaying art
North Idaho College instructors will have the chance to display their own artistic talents during the NIC Art Faculty Exhibit Jan. 28 through Feb. 22 in the Boswell Hall Corner Gallery.
NIC art instructors Donna Bain, Larry Clark, Priscilla Cooper, Phil Corlis, Robin Dare, Rachel Dolezal, Don Hopkins, Michael Horswill, Joan Grey Smith, Philippe Valle, David Van Etten and Allie Kurtz Vogt will display their work in the exhibit.
The opening reception will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Jan. 28 in the gallery.
Corner Gallery hours are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Admission is free.
Information: 769-3276.
Library closed for MLK holiday
The Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave., will be closed Monday for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Regular hours resume at 10 a.m. Tuesday.
More news and information about the library is available at www.cdalibrary.org.
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Spelling Bee qualifiers set
School districts across the five northern counties of Idaho will begin holding spelling bees this month as qualifiers to the North Idaho Regional Spelling Bee, held at North Idaho College March 29. The winner of the regional bee will receive an all-expense paid trip to the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., in May, courtesy of bee sponsor Hagadone Newspapers.
A total of 48 schools are involved in this year’s spelling bee from 10 districts across North Idaho, including home school and private school students. District spelling bees will wrap up in January in preparation for the North Idaho Regional Spelling Bee at NIC in March, which will include nearly 50 students in the fifth annual event.
District Bees:
•Coeur d’Alene School District, 7 p.m. Thursday, Coeur d’Alene High School
•Kellogg School District, 7 p.m. Thursday, Pinehurst Elementary School
•Kootenai School District, various times, Friday, Harrison Elementary School
•Home School Spelling Bee, 6 p.m. Friday, Mountain Lakes Bible Church in Coeur d’Alene
•Lake Pend Oreille School District, 8 a.m., Jan. 28, Sandpoint Middle School
•Idaho Virtual Academy, 2 p.m. Jan. 28, Lutheran Church of the Master in Coeur d’Alene
•West Bonner County School District, 6 p.m., Jan. 30, Priest River Elementary School
•St. Maries School District, 9:30 a.m. fourth grade; 10:30 a.m. fifth grade, Jan. 30, Heyburn Elementary School
– From staff reports