In brief: Fund set up for bereaved family

COEUR D’ALENE – The Kootenai County 4-H organization has created the Julie Wilson Memorial Fund at Mountain West Bank to assist Steve and Sharla Wilson and their family after their daughter Julie died in an accident at a home in Wolf Lodge last Sunday.

The family has been involved in and supportive of the 4-H program. Sharla Wilson is the Kootenai program coordinator and Steve Wilson is involved in the annual North Idaho Fair.

Forum will discuss youth success

SPIRIT LAKE – The Spirit Lake Youth Equipped for Success will hold a community forum, “Defining at Risk: Current Youth Issues and Balanced Restorative Justice for Our Community,” at the Community Center on Thursday from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

The topic will include panel speakers including members of the Spirit Lake Police Department; Shelley Tschida, executive director of the Spirit Lake Y.E.S. program; Clyde Owens, the co-director of the Wilderness Ranch Ministries; and Nancy Scofield, author of “Running High: A True Life Story.”

The forum will address youth safety, accountability and productivity. The evening will also include a question and answer session.

For more information call Crystal Owens, Y.E.S. juvenile support program project director, at (208) 691-9152.

Relay for Life begins Friday

POST FALLS – The Kootenai County Relay for Life will be 6 p.m. Friday through noon on Saturday at the Greyhound Park and Event Center.

The survivors dinner will begin at 7 p.m. on Saturday. The ceremony of hope will follow at 9:30 p.m.

For more information, call Suzanna Spencer at (208) 277-7856, e-mail sspencer@inb.com or visit www.relayforlife.org/ coeurdaleneid.

The Relay for Life golf tournament will be held at the Coeur d’Alene Resort Golf Course on May 28, beginning at 2 p.m.

A $115 entry fee includes golf at the Coeur d’Alene Resort; a deluxe cart and caddie service; pre-round practice balls and a warm-up sports massage; a barbecue raffle lunch at noon, prior to the tournament; a $10,000 hole-in-one prize on the floating green; tee prizes for all entrants; and the grand prize of four rounds of golf at the Coeur d’Alene Resort.

For a registration form or for more information, call (208) 818-5182.

Golfers will swing for crisis nursery

COEUR D’ALENE – The Coeur d’Alene Resort Golf Course will host the Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery Golf “Give-Back” day on May 24, to benefit the Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery.

The cost is $125 per person; $25 of every participant’s fees will be donated to the crisis nursery. The discounted price includes a round of golf; complimentary use of a custom golf cart; unlimited range balls at the over-the-water practice facility; a complimentary warm-up sports massage; and a personalized engraved souvenir bag tag.

To make reservations call (208) 667-4653 between 7:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.

Chef offers class in Italian cuisine

POST FALLS – Chef Angelo Brunson of Angelo’s Ristorante, 846 N. Fourth St. in Coeur d’Alene, will be at the Jacklin Arts and Cultural Center, 405 N. William St. in Post Falls, on May 25 to share his expertise in Italian cooking.

Cost is $50 per person and space is limited.

To reserve a spot and for more information, call (208) 457-8950 or visit www.jacklincenter.org.

Talk covers Idaho Basque history

COEUR D’ALENE – Boise State University history professor John Bieter will speak about the changing perspective of Idaho’s Basque-heritage citizens toward their culture on May 27 at the Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave., at 7 p.m.

Bieter will lecture on the immigrant generation, from 1890 until the early 1920s; the Basque-American generation, from the 1920s until about 1949; and the American-Basque generation, from about 1950 to the present. Bieter will explain how each generation has a different perspective on their culture and a different experience in Idaho.