Young artists can win guitar

Northwest Academy of Music in Coeur d’Alene is encouraging elementary through high school students in the Coeur d’Alene School District to follow their love of music and visual arts with a Win-a-Luna Art Contest.

The Luna Aurora “Imagine” and Neo “Your Space” guitars, designed by a stained glass artist, encourages the students to express their uniqueness by making their own images and collage on the guitar and change it whenever they want. The Academy’s art contest will provide an opportunity for kids to win a guitar to pursue and play music and build and display their artistic talent.

Elementary students who like to draw and want a guitar of their own, in grades three through five, will need to draw a picture that would look good on the Aurora guitar. The grand-prize winner will win the guitar. The first-prize winner will receive a Luna Guitar T-shirt and an Irish Tin Whistle; second prize is a portfolio book bag and a Blues Band Harmonica; third-prize winner will receive a music ball cap and a Glo recorder; and 25 honorable-mention winners will have their choice of a mini harmonica, a slide whistle, a bookmark, a clicker licker pop, or whistle candy.

Artists and musicians in middle and high school, grades six through 12, can design a pick guard for the Neo guitar. The grand prize winner will win the Neo electric guitar. First prize winner will receive a Gypsy Neo Single Cutaway electric guitar; the Johnson JG100 guitar will be the second prize; third prize will receive a Luna T-shirt; and 25 honorable mentions will receive their choice of an Irish Tin Whistle, and inflatable guitar, an egg shaker, claves, or a bumper sticker.

Registration forms must be submitted by Monday, and the judges will decide their winners by Friday.

For a registration form or for more information call Northwest Academy of Music at 667-6200 or visit the Academy at 4055 N. Government Way.

Idaho

Idaho Press Club offers scholarship

Idaho high school graduates, who have completed at least one year of college, may apply for The Idaho Press Club’s Don Watkins Memorial Scholarship for $1,500.

Students must be majoring in journalism or communications to be eligible for the scholarship, or working for a college or professional media outlet in addition to their studies.

The scholarship is given in honor of the late Don Watkins, a former newspaperman and press secretary to Idaho Gov. John Evans, who died in 1981. It is funded by a permanent endowment fund set up by the Press Club through the Idaho Community Foundation in Watkins’ honor.

To apply, students must submit an essay, up to 500 words, describing their interest in a journalism or communications career; a copy of their college transcripts through the 2008 fall semester, including their grade-point average; samples of their journalistic work; and a one-page resume listing their related work experience. Print journalists must submit copies of five articles or photographs; radio or television candidates are asked to submit a recording of up to three news stories, up to a maximum length of 15 minutes.

Application entries must be postmarked by Feb. 15 and mailed to Idaho Press Club, Don Watkins Memorial Scholarship, P.O. Box 2221, Boise ID 83701-2221.

For more information, visit www.idahopressclub.org.

Blanchard

Holiday Bazaar today at Community Center

The annual Blanchard Holiday Bazaar will be at the Blanchard Community Center, 685 Rusho Lane, today, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The event will include arts and crafts, Christmas decorations, and more. Blanchard Area Seniors Inc. also will be selling gently used Christmas items.

For more information, call 437-1037.

Staff reports