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.

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, 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 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 – 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 – 7-9 p.m., at the Kootenai County Administration Building, 451 Government Way; $5. Preregister by calling 446-1693.

Upcoming

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.