Idaho calendar

Today

Easter Baskets for Idaho Troops – The Athol American Legion Post 149 on Highway 54 plans to send care packages to Idaho Troops. Items needed include small personal toiletries, batteries, cards, hard candy, international phone cards, panty liners (for helmets), full-length nylon hose (not panty hose) to keep sand out of rifles, combs, gum and neck coolers. Leave filled, unsealed boxes at the Post. Information: Joy at 623-4221.

Lake City Playhouse season tickets on sale – for the theater’s 2005-06 season. Cost: $70 adults, $65 seniors, $65 students and $40 for children. For more information, call the playhouse at 667-1323.

North Idaho College Faculty Recitals – 2 p.m. in Boswell Hall’s Schuler Auditorium, featuring an original composition by NIC music instructor Gerard Mathes. Information: 769-7764.

Upcoming

Heart of Hope in a World of Violence – This seminar series sponsored by Diakonia will feature Linda Kincaid, the new executive director of the Women’s Center, to discuss family violence and the alternatives available for individuals and the community, Monday, 7 p.m., at the Harding Family Center, 15th and Wallace. Information: 667-8446.

Ancient Free and Accepted Masons – will meet at Elmer’s Restaurant in Coeur d’Alene Monday at 11:30 a.m. The guest speaker is Gary Hamilton, regional manager, Idaho Division of Vocational Rehabilitation. Information: 664-1063.

Purchasing, planting and maintaining landscape trees and shrubs in North Idaho – Monday 1-3 p.m., at the University of Idaho Kootenai County Extension Office, 1000 W. Hubbard Suite 142. Cost: $5. Preregister by calling 446-1693.

West Nile Disease/Lyme Disease – Insect Borne Disease in Humans – Monday, 7-9 p.m., at the Kootenai County Administration Building, 451 Government Way; $5. Preregister by calling 446-1693.

Country Western Gospel Jubilee – Featuring The Living Room, Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Lake City Senior Center, 1916 Lakewood Drive. Information: 765-8580.

Auditions for Private Eyes – Tuesday and Wednesday from 7-9 p.m. in Boswell Hall, Room 001 (in the basement) on the North Idaho College campus. Needed are two men 20s-30s, two women 20s-30s and one man 40s-50s. No prepared material necessary. For more information or to check out a script call Joe Jacoby at 769-3220.

“Instant Antiquity” – An exhibit of ceramic sculptures by A. Lee Ayars, studio artist and ceramic arts instructor at Spokane Falls Community College, opens Tuesday with a reception from 5-7 p.m. in the Corner Gallery in Boswell Hall on the North Idaho College Campus. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Information: 769-7764.

Ancient Free and Accepted Masons – Kootenai Lodge No. 24, will meet Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the Masonic Temple, 515 N. Fourth St. Information: 663-0303. The Kaniksu Lodge No. 97 meets for a 6 p.m. dinner followed by a 7 p.m. meeting at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall, Priest River. Information: (509) 447-4462.

William Clark Biographer – Landon Jones will read from his book “William Clark and the Shaping of the West,” and discuss it on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Sandpoint Community Hall. Information: Gloria Ray at 263-6930.

Career Expo of the Palouse – Tuesday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., at the Washington State University Beasley Performing Arts Coliseum. Information: (509) 335-7127.

Talk on upcoming U.S. Supreme Court Case on file sharing – Tuesday in the Mendard Law Building, Room 104 at the University of Idaho, with visiting law professor Malla Pollcack. Information: 885-2017.

North Idaho Dahlia Society – will meet Wednesday at 7:30 p.m., in the upstairs meeting room of the Coeur d’Alene Tidyman’s. Information: Susan 665-0619.

Book reading – David James Duncan, author of “The River Why” and “The Brothers K,” will be in the University of Idaho Administration Building Auditorium Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. Information: 885-6823.

American Cancer Society Relay for Life – meetings will be Wednesday at the Post Falls Library, 821 N. Spokane. Committees meet at 6 p.m., team captains at 7 p.m. Information: (509) 242-8290.

Logger Education to Advance Professionalism – Register by Wednesday. The class will be held March 9-10 in St. Maries. Cost: $38. Call 245-2422 to register.

Pedestrian and Bicycle Advisory Committee – will meet Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. in the City Council Chambers at 710 Mullan Ave.

Ancient Free and Accepted Masons – Dinner meeting Thursday at 6:30 p.m. followed by 7:30 p.m. meeting at the Scottish Rite Center, Strahorn Road at Honeysuckle. Information: 772-4314.

“The Vagina Monologues” – The University of Idaho student organization MUSE production will begin at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday in the Hartung Theater; $7 students, $9 general admission. Tickets are available at the Women’s Center in Memorial Gym, Room 109; Violence prevention programs office in the Administration Building, Room 347; or Bookpeople of Moscow. Information: 885-6616.