Guild’S Tour Includes Strawbale-Walled Home

Fri., July 17, 1998

Susan English (Wire Services Contributed To This R Staff writer

The Environmental Home Tour, sponsored by the Inland Chapter of the Edo-Building Guild, will be all day Saturday.

The tour includes a large strawbale-walled home near Spirit Lake, Idaho; and near Freeman, another strawbale structure under construction; an earth-sheltered, log-framed home; a healthy home, also under construction; and a toolshed in which new technologies are utilized. There will also be an interactive component to the tour.

Participants should meet at 8:15 a.m. at the Spokane Valley Park and Ride lot on Montgomery Drive (take the Pines exit from Interstate 90 and drive just north of the freeway). North Idaho participants should meet Saturday at 9:45 a.m. on the north side of Highway 54 in front of the new Timberlake Junior High School (just east of Highway 41 and south of Spirit Lake).

Bring a sun hat, brown-bag lunch and beverages. The tour should finish about 3:30, and the hands-on activities, about 5:30 p.m. Non-members of the guild can make a $5 donation to cover event expenses.

For detailed information, call 838-8222 or (208) 263-3815.

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(Wire services contributed to this report.)

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