Large job fair planned Friday at NIC gym
A job fair – billed as one of the region’s largest – is planned Friday at North Idaho College.
Employers seeking part-time, full-time and seasonal workers will be represented, according to an NIC press release. About 75 employers are expected from fields including manufacturing, health care, law enforcement, finance, education, hospitality and government.
The event is free and open to the public. The job fair will run from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the college’s Christianson Gym.
NIC offers informational night
North Idaho College is inviting North Idaho high school students and their parents to an information night on the college’s dual enrollment program.
Through dual enrollment, high school juniors and seniors can earn both high school and college credit, according to an NIC press release. Classes are offered at a discounted rate at area high schools, on NIC’s campus, through the Internet and via interactive video conferencing.
The meeting is planned for 5:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Driftwood Bay Room of NIC’s Edminster Student Union Building.
For information, call (208) 769-3311.
Theater sued over vacation pay
A former employee is suing the Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre for vacation time he says he was entitled to, but never took.
Jim Speirs filed a lawsuit in Kootenai County Court on April 14 seeking nearly $12,000. The claim alleges that Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre owes Speirs nearly $4,000 for vacation time that wasn’t taken. Under Idaho law, he is entitled to three times the money he’s owed, plus interest, according to the lawsuit.
Speirs was hired in 1996 as developmental director for the Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre and was employed by the theater through 2004, according to the lawsuit.
George Conrad, attorney and board member for the Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre, declined to comment on the lawsuit Wednesday.
Storyteller’s life remembered
Coeur d’Alene Casino CEO Dave Matheson will talk about the importance of storytelling in Native American culture today at North Idaho College.
Matheson will also talk about the life of Coeur d’Alene tribal elder and storyteller Lawrence Aripa during the event named in his honor, according to a press release. Aripa died in 1998.
The Lawrence Aripa Memorial Storytelling Address begins at noon in Todd Lecture Hall, located inside the Molstead Library at NIC. The event, sponsored by NIC’s Diversity Events Committee, is free and open to the public.
For information, call (208) 769-3397.
Deputy hurt in motorcycle crash
A Spokane County sheriff’s deputy suffered minor injuries when he lost control of a brand new Harley-Davidson motorcycle and crashed at about noon on Wednesday.
Deputy Brad Nave was thrown from the motorcycle, which flipped, and was initially unconscious, Undersheriff Dave Wiyrick said.
Nave and Deputy Randy Stezlecki were ferrying two new motorcycles back from Montana to Spokane and had just come through Thompson Falls Pass on their way to Kingston, Idaho, Wiyrick said.
Wiyrick said Nave was going around a curve when he hit some gravel on the highway and the bike began fishtailing. Nave went off the side of the motorcycle as it flipped.
“He had his helmet on but he lost consciousness for a short period of time,” Wiyrick said. “He was up walking around but they transported him as a precaution.”
The new motorcycle suffered extensive damage. It’s part of a lease program where the Sheriff’s Office gets use of the motorcycles for about $500 or $600 for a year, Wiyrick said.
“The bike isn’t the issue. We just wanted to make sure he’s OK,” he said. “He’s very lucky.”
Doors open at 6 for Chomsky talk
The doors open at Gonzaga University’s Martin Centre at 6 p.m. today for those wishing to attend the lecture by Noam Chomsky, a renowned linguist and leading U.S. dissident intellectual.
Chomsky’s speech, “America’s Quest for Global Dominance,” the first in the fledgling Gonzaga Faculty Speaker Series, begins at 7 p.m. It is free and open to the public. Rumors that tickets are sold out are untrue, because tickets are not being sold, said Susan English, a GU instructor and member of the faculty committee bringing Chomsky to Spokane.
With the exception of reserved seating for university faculty, admission is on a first-come, first-served basis. Tickets for the purpose of counting the audience at the insistence of the fire marshal will be distributed to those first in line, English said. After inquiries from as far away as British Columbia, Idaho and central Washington, she said, it was decided to make bleacher seating available.
The center can accommodate 2,600 people for tonight’s event. Saving seats for late-comers will not be allowed, English said.
Chomsky, 76, a professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a prominent critic of U.S. foreign policy.
He is also scheduled to speak in Pullman on Friday at 3:30 p.m. in the Beasley Performing Arts Coliseum at Washington State University.
Still time to enter Kids Run
It’s not too late to sign up for America’s Kids Run, which will be held Saturday.
The event, formerly called Junior Bloomsday, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. So far, about 3,000 children have registered, and organizers expect another 500 or so to sign up by Saturday.
To participate, sign up at the Ag Trade Center on Friday between 2 and 8 p.m. It now costs $10 per child.
Participants must pick up their race numbers Friday, also during those times at the Ag Trade Center. Children must have their race number to run.
Only out-of-town participants may pick up their numbers at Joe Albi Stadium, where America’s Kids Run will be held, on Saturday starting at 8 a.m. Registration isn’t allowed Saturday.
The event starts at 8:45 a.m. with the Middle School Championship, the only timed race of the day. After that, wheelchair participants start the course at 9, followed by 12-year-olds down to 5-year-olds throughout the day. The courses range from a half mile to two miles, depending on age.
For more information, visit www.americaskidsrun.org.
Trial in UI slaying delayed
Moscow, Idaho A judge has delayed the murder and conspiracy trial of three Washington state men accused in the shooting death of a University of Idaho student last fall.
The new trial date of Sept. 19 is exactly one year after Eric McMillan, 19, was killed. Police say he was shot twice – once in the chest and once behind the ear – with different weapons.
Brothers Matthew R. Wells II and James J. Wells, both of Seattle, and their nephew, Thomas J. Riggins of Kent, Wash., had been scheduled for trial in May.