Andrea Vogt

Claiming teens are seeking help elsewhere, board members overseeing North Idaho's Youth Help Line are disconnecting their service. "It was a very difficult decision for this board," said Tom Legel of Coeur d'Alene, chairman of the Youth Help Line board, "but it really came down to the fact that kids felt that they would use other resources."

Virginia Johnson portrays Mary Wollstonecraft, an 18th-century feminist author. Denise Clark, playing Antigone, is in the background. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review

Lake City High School teachers overwhelmingly support a new schedule they say would boost instruction time and increase the number of courses students can take over four years. The block schedule - which lengthens the school day by five minutes - would enroll students in four, 88-minute classes one day, alternating to a different four the following day. Students would have one 30-minute lunch break and would take eight classes per semester, compared to six now.

Doggone good time 1. Rob Cadwallader of Sula, Mont., praises his sled dogs Haley, left, and Laurel as they cross the finish line with his sister-in-law, Ann Cadwallader. She came in fifth in the 2.4-mile novice race on Sunday at the U.S. Pacific Coast Championship at Priest Lake, Idaho. Photo by Liz Kishimoto/The Spokesman-Review 2. North waits patiently with his musher, 11-year-old Kim Ezell, for the novice race to begin on Sunday. Photo by Liz Kishimoto/The Spokesman-Review

Jeanne Givens

A campuswide survey reveals many employees distrust administrators, fear retribution and resent low pay and favoritism at North Idaho College. The campus is torn between gender lines, however, about whether there is sexual discrimination and what to do about it.

Rick Johnson of Modern Drywall hangs steel studs in the new middle in a room of the new middle school in Coeur d'Alene. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review

FOR THE RECORD (January 27, 1998): Hotel incorrect: The Coeur d'Alene Inn provided 21 European tour operators and foreign journalists with complimentary lodging last weekend. A story in Monday's paper credited the wrong hotel.

A merger between Kootenai Medical Center and the Inland Behavioral Health Institute will mean expanded psychiatric services for North Idaho residents, officials said Thursday. KMC bought out the institute, formerly Pine Crest Hospital, for $557,000, to create a jointly owned $3.8 million company. The new company, North Idaho Behavioral Health, will be owned 50 percent by KMC and 50 percent by IBHI's two owners, Jack Yuditsky and Mike Cancelosi. A four-person board of directors will oversee the new company, which is KMC's sixth joint venture. Most recently, KMC joined with Sacred Heart to construct a new dialysis facility.

The Middle School Boundary Committee said Wednesday it will not support an alternate proposal presented by two patrons at the last school board meeting. The alternate plan tied middle school boundaries to elementary school boundaries rather than using geographic lines.

North Idaho College's presidential search committee narrowed the field of candidates for the school's top post to four Wednesday. All four candidates began academic careers in liberal arts fields - two in English, one in political science and one in music - and later pursued doctoral degrees in higher education administration.

A Hauser Lake family will testify in Boise next week in favor of better sex offender notification laws. Sandy and Ralph Tatham will travel with their 16-year-old daughter next Wednesday to make their case before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Making a difference. Doug Crasswell presents Dawn and Duane Nightingale with the human rights award. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review

The Lakeland Board of Trustees voted Monday night to spend $1.4 million on new classrooms, remodeling and computer purchases. To accommodate significant growth in Athol and Spirit Lake, Athol Elementary will receive four classrooms, remodeling for a Chapter One room and a new computer lab.

Richard Masker makes a pitch before the North Idaho College student senate on Wednesday to be allowed to teach that a Judeo-Marxist conspiracy controls government, academia and the media. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review

The Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations will host three human rights events in the coming week to recognize the national Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. The task force will join with the North Idaho College Popcorn Forum, NIC Human Equality Club and the Coeur d'Alene and Post Falls school districts to sponsor the 13th annual fifth-grade children's program at 9:30 a.m. Thursday at NIC.

Three women and eight men will arrive in Coeur d'Alene Thursday and Friday to interview for North Idaho College's presidency. The list of semifinalists was made public Tuesday. Three are from Texas, two from Colorado, two from Washington and one each from Montana, Arizona, Ohio and Illinois.

The Coeur d'Alene School Board voted Monday to ask its reluctant boundaries committee to go back to the drawing table again. Independent of one another, two school district patrons presented the same alternative boundaries proposal at Monday night's board meeting. Board members felt the option was good enough to warrant further investigation.

1. 'It's some nasty weather'. Washington Water Power employees Clayton Reynolds and Sam Mullins repair power lines in Hayden Sunday. Power was restored to most residents by midmorning. Photo by Tom Davenport/The Spokesman-Review 2. Firefighters remove debris from a Post Falls home after a space heater, used to thaw frozen pipes, ignited a dryer vent Sunday.

Like peas in a pod 1. Art, left, and Kerby Krulitz hold the same job, transportation director, for neighboring school districts, Kellogg and Wallace, respectively. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review 2. Art Krulitz, 50, has put in time as a mechanic, a miner and in the Air Force... 3. ...all the time working side-by-side with his twin brother, Kerby.

State schools chief Anne Fox arrives in her hometown today with as much anticipation as a kid waiting to show a good report card to her parents. She's eager to boast that test scores are up, and tell how she's satisfactorily delivered phonics.

Sonny Bono's death on a California ski hill left Hayden's Donna Montgomery dazed Tuesday. The Kootenai County Republican Women membership chairwoman was an avid supporter of Bono while working for the Southern Division of Republican Women in California. She moved to North Idaho two years ago from Southern California. "I'm so shocked and upset today I can just hardly stand it," Montgomery said. An early supporter of Bono, Montgomery said she took him seriously back when others just thought of him as "that Sonny and Cher guy."

The Coeur d'Alene School District will take comment on its latest boundaries plan for the new Woodland Middle School at a public forum tonight. The proposal generally uses U.S. Highway 95 and Interstate 90 as boundary guidelines, but it also offers a choice to families living in the neighborhood known as "the Borah triangle."

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