Andrew West doesn’t really have a “million things” he has to get done. But sometimes the 20-year-old North Idaho College student feels like he has a million things to do. Before last week’s lesson in time management, West’s juggling act was getting tricky at times.
One mom told Kootenai County commissioners that the Parent Project saved her son’s life. “She says we saved her son,” said Carolyn Peterson, one of four volunteers who teaches parenting classes through the county’s Juvenile Diversion program. “Really we didn’t. She did. We gave her some of the skills.”
Instead of making do, Bryan Martin is hoping for a makeover. The Coeur d’Alene School District’s maintenance director is proposing a remodel of Lakes Middle School, classroom by classroom.
SPIRIT LAKE – For teens who aren’t on the sports teams at school, there just isn’t much to do in Spirit Lake once school’s done for the day. So they hang out in front of the grocery store, Shelley Tschida says, at the skate park even if they don’t skate, or head into the woods to drink beer or “roughneck on ATVs.”
Opponents of a proposed asphalt batch plant near Rathdrum thought they could rest easy after Kootenai County officials rejected the project in July. When Coeur d’Alene Paving nonetheless moved forward with construction on the 30-acre site, neighbors like Tiny Wilson were flummoxed. “We’re very concerned, we’re very upset,” Wilson said.
The day seemed a lot like summer vacation: Ice cream, hiking, a visit to the library and swimming in Lake Coeur d’Alene. On the last day of the first week of school, fifth-graders from Sorensen Magnet School did all of those things.
It’s a match-making service without the romance, but plenty of warm fuzzies. United Way of Kootenai County has launched a new Web site linking do-gooders with nonprofits and agencies that need help.
