Auction Raises $22,000 For Cda Library Fund

Tue., July 13, 1999

The Coeur d’Alene Public Library Foundation Inc. recently earned $22,000 in the third annual, “A Tisket, A Tasket, A Literary Basket” fund-raiser held at the Coeur d’Alene Inn.

More than 200 people bid for nearly 100 creative baskets in the silent and oral auction.

High bid items included the Fernan Pontoon Boat Wine Taste and Dinner with a winning $1,000 bid, a kitchen remodel earned $900, a “Golf, Golf, Golf” package brought in $700, and a Middle Eastern belly dance dinner raised $650.

Coeur d’Alene Library Foundation Inc. Board of Directors are Jon Hippler, president; Mary Sanderson M.D., vice president; Rick Maxey, treasurer; Mark Jackson, secretary; Ernest Fokes M.D., E.R.W. Fox, Fred Harris, Ellen Jaeger, Judi Jackson Messina, Ed Morse, Susan Nipp, Bob Nonini, Hank Roseth, Donald Smock and Parker Woodall, members; Cyndi Hippler and Kim Jacklin served as co-directors of the event.

Kootenai Electric Cooperative recently donated a laptop computer, three computers with printers, a LCD computer projector, and various office furniture to Post Falls High School.

The equipment will be used in the school’s keyboarding, accounting, marketing economics and business law classes, and will help teachers promote student technology skills.

KEC is a nonprofit, member-owned electric utility cooperative serving 16,000 homes, farms and businesses in North Idaho and Eastern Washington.

With funding from a $300 Chevron Corp. grant, the Dalton Country Cousins 4-H Club and Pinewood Care Center residents recently united to construct six birdhouses and install a feeder and birdbath in the courtyard of the Pinewood center at 2514 N. Seventh St. in Coeur d’Alene.

Pinewood social worker Barbara Jones, employees and administration also contributed support to the project.

Country Cousins co-leader Peggy Wasserman helped secure the grant, which also will fund several future community projects, including the painting of the clinic rooms at Coeur d’Alene’s free Dirne Community Health Clinic and a tree planting at the Dalton Gardens Horse Arena.

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