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Family gets surprise home remodel

When Leslie Nelson met Deb Farnsworth last year, she couldn’t have imagined their friendship would result in a community project that changed her entire house. Nelson just wanted to change her life. Farnsworth leads a Celebrate Recovery group at Valley Real Life church. The ministry focuses on those “struggling with hurts, habits and hang-ups.” Farnsworth recalled their initial meeting. “Leslie had come out of a dysfunctional, abusive relationship and was a recovering meth addict. When she told me her story, crying, I asked her, ‘What do you want?’ ”
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Gittel’s three-dog lunch special makes you feel like a wiener

Some years, I tend to get a little extravagant around Christmastime and end up spending pretty much my every last dime. I like to give gifts that people might actually remember and use, and I enjoy going out for nice dinners and festive nights on the town. These things are never cheap, and this year was no exception. Now that the yuletide cheer has faded, my bank account is as empty as my cup of hot buttered rum at bedtime on Christmas Eve.
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Hayden resident makes cuddly pillows

Sometimes, when life closes one door, another door opens. At least this is what Hayden resident Lori White came to believe after the threat of a lawsuit threatened to end a successful business and a violent earthquake shook the family home off its foundations. Lori and her husband Dennis White, natives of Nebraska, lived for 30 years in the California town of Northridge, where they raised their family of four daughters and a son. During this time her husband worked in Hollywood, where he was sales manager for Capitol Records. Lori White had been a homemaker and was a grandmother when she made her unplanned venture into the business world 18 years ago.
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In brief: Library to host LEGO competition

COEUR D’ALENE – The Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave., has a number of events in January. •The fifth annual LEGO-rama will be Jan. 16 from 1 to 3 p.m. Children ages 4 to 13 are encouraged to enter their designs and will be judged in age groups 4-6, 7-10 and 11-13. Builders ages 14 and older may display their designs but will not be included in the judging.
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It’s winter in Yellowstone

Exhaled breath creates a steam cloud in front of the face that lingers and then drifts away in the windless air. Gradually it evaporates and disappears. The frigid air is a wakeup call to the senses. Stepping out into the winter landscape at Snow Lodge in Yellowstone National Park is an incredible experience. It’s winter in the park. There is snow on the ground – lots of it – but the sidewalks have been plowed or shoveled.
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Nature journals record what lives and thrives around us

Earl the cat made it very clear it was time for his walk. He’s afraid of our other cat and has hired us, his staff, as a protection detail. The walk usually goes down through our field to a favorite sand pile or a wander through the pines. Anywhere that is of interest to him, we go. Yes, I know we are nuts. The time isn’t wasted though. Every season, as we wander, I get to see things happening in our field I would otherwise miss. Animal tracks of all kinds tell me who has wandered through. Wildflowers covered with honeybees mean I need to plant more of them for my hive. The first blades of spring grass mean the weather is warming. The sound of robins in February means spring is close.
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Reunions

Military Waves National Organization Unit 140 – Sea Service organization of women veterans. Meets the third Saturday of October, November and April. Welcoming new members. Call Naomi at (509) 747-8383 or Pat at (509) 456-8612 for more information.
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Seasonal storms help clean up stagnant air

When people think of bad weather, they are usually thinking of some type of storm. During the warm season, it might be thunderstorms with dry lightning or even tornadoes. During the cold season, we worry about snow storms and ice storms.
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Shady

Shady is an 11-month-old female Australian kelpie with a beautiful black coat. Our Shady is an active and energetic girl and will need some basic training. Due to her activity level we recommend children in the home be in their teens and absolutely no cats. If you have another dog we recommend that they are introduced before taking Shady home. Shady has been spayed and is current on vaccinations. Kootenai Humane Society is open noon to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. For more information, call (208) 772-4019. You can view the animals at kootenaihumanesociety.com and also on petfinder.com.
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Teen whose life sparkled won’t be quickly forgotten

Joyful. The Beatles. Funny. Taco. Bright colors. These are just some of the words and phrases shared on Dec. 23 at a Sandpoint candlelight vigil that was held to honor the life and memory of a boy taken from this world much too soon. William Johnson, 15, a sophomore at Sandpoint High School, died Dec. 22 in a ski accident at Schweitzer Mountain Resort – a mountain Will had skied for years and knew well.
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Their furry fate

Some things are just meant to be no matter how much one fights it. Just ask Angela and Ash Updike, of Clark Fork. The couple were on a run near their home when they saw two people pushing a dog out of the back of a pickup. The truck sped away with the dog chasing it, begging not to be left behind.
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4th Street Pantry sets high bar for 24-hour dining

I spent many hours at 24-hour diners in my late teens and early 20s, drinking oceans of coffee, chain smoking and filling notebooks with pretentious poetry. At the time, they were pretty much the only places for the under-21 crowd to meet and socialize without pesky parental units leering over their shoulders. Our circle of friends started out at Perkins, where we regularly annoyed the waitresses by acting like it was our living room and never buying anything more than a bottomless cup of joe and a large order of fries with a side of ranch dressing. When the management finally got fed up and threw us out for good, we relocated to Denny’s, where they seemed much more receptive to our chaos and where we would see a preview of our future selves; hungry post-bar drunks not quite ready to let the night come to a graceful end.
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Arts and Music

Today Charley Packard (Originals) – 6 p.m., Spuds Grill, 102 N. First, Sandpoint, (208) 265-4311.
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A Tyler-made smile

Tyler Cordle’s mom used to say if there was one thing she feared, it was something happening to her son. She always prayed to keep him safe and healthy. So when she and her husband were told on Dec. 1 last year that their then 13- month-old boy had neuroblastoma stage 4 cancer and only had a 30 percent chance of survival, her world fell apart. But even doctors cannot predict miracles.
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Automated system tracks snowpack in remote areas

Precipitation reports are important for many reasons. There are issues to deal with on both sides of the spectrum when it comes to amounts. Too much, and flooding, mud slides, and even ruined harvests are a possibility. Too little, and again agriculture, our use of water for recreation, and our basic need for fresh drinking water are affected. It is relatively easy to keep track of the liquid precipitation, rainfall. There are many different types of rain gauges available, from the simple tin can, to the more advanced automated “tipping bucket” rain gauges.
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Church notebook

Weekly Events Our Daily Bread Soup Kitchen – Offers free lunches each Sunday, 1:30-3 p.m., at Lutheran Church of the Master, 4800 N. Ramsey Road, Coeur d’Alene. Sponsored by the church’s Outreach Ministry. Contact Mitch at (208) 660-4309 or mitch@agencysoftware.com.
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clubs

New listing Rathdrum Knitalong – Group to help each other improve knitting skills. Meets the first and third Tuesdays of each month, 1-3 p.m. at Rathdrum Library, 16780 W. Highway 41, Rathdrum, Idaho. Call (208) 687-1029, e-mail Rathdrum@cin.kcl.org or visit www.ksalibraries.org/Rathdrum for more information.
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Couple’s Greek cooking returns

Greek traditions run strong in the Tsakarestos family. So strong, in fact, that it brought Dino and Fotini Tsakarestos out of retirement and back into the limelight of business ownership with the opening of Santorini’s Authentic Greek Cuisine in Coeur d’Alene. Located across from Kootenai County Fairgrounds on Government Way, the restaurant, which serves lunch, dinner and pastries made from scratch, is an ode to all the things the couple has learned in their 30 years of owning and operating eateries. The duo, who’ve been married for almost 35 years and emigrated from Greece in the 1970s, had formerly operated businesses in Missoula in the ’80s and ’90s, and in Coeur d’Alene until a few years ago.
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In brief: Catch CYT-NI’s ‘Play in a Day’

COEUR D’ALENE – CYT-North Idaho is holding a “Play in a Day” on Tuesday and Wednesday for area kids who’d like to experience what it’s like to put on a fully staged play in just 24 hours. Those who are interested can audition or sign up to be on crew at the Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Road, on Tuesday at 4 p.m. Children will be on stage or working behind the scenes on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.
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Inkstained fingers get snippy slap

So there I was minding my own business when – shazam! – I found myself in the middle of Jim Brannon’s sour-grapes lawsuit to overthrow the 2009 Coeur d’Alene city elections. OK, OK, I wasn’t minding my business much. After all, I’d tapped some sources to get my hands on the latest public documents in Brannon’s lawsuit for my online crowd – sometimes, as Brannon’s lawyer Starr Kelso groused in a letter to City Attorney Mike Gridley, “almost before the ink was dry.” Grumbles Kelso: “Perhaps it was a novel, or naïve, thought that counsel might discuss a matter before running off to the media and formal court proceedings.” (Never mind that Gridley didn’t release Kelso’s letter to me, detailing his desire to reach a compromise behind closed doors re: Brannon’s various legal gripes about the election process in his five-vote loss to incumbent Mike Kennedy. Again, Kelso: “I really don’t wish to argue the merits of the complaint in the press, because such conduct generally only serves to polarize the parties.” Seems Kelso wants to keep a lid on things. Which is his job. But I don’t. Which is my job. Tricky scammers
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