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 pantyhose) to keep sand out of rifles, combs, gum and neck coolers. Leave filled, unsealed boxes at the Post before March 17. 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.

Dine With Style – A four-course dinner prepared by students from Katie Nelson’s University of Idaho class will be served from 6-8 p.m. in the Commons Clearwater/Whitewater Room, with UI alumna Debra Lybyer instructing students on professional dining etiquette. Cost: $15. Tickets are available at the UI Career and Professional Planning Office, Room 334, of the commons. Information: 885-6121.

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

Auditions for Private Eyes – Today 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 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.

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

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

Upcoming

Hayden Lake Management Plan Steering Committee – will meet Wednesday at 7 p.m. to choose board members, at the Hayden Lake City Hall, 9545 N. Strahorn. Information: 769-1422.

Calypso Chapter of the Idaho Native Plant Society – will meet Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Life Care Center, 500 Aqua Drive. Information: 683-2407.

Making Dollar Decisions – The University of Idaho Extension Nutrition Program, is offering free weekly classes to recipients of food stamps or other Health and Welfare programs. This class will be offered Wednesday from 9-11 a.m. at the Coeur d’Alene S.L. Start, 1323 E. Sherman, Suite 5. Storybook Nutrition with hands-on activities will be offered for the kids. Information: 446-1680.

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 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.

“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. Cost: $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.

Latte Talks Lecture Series – Bill Hall, a longtime Lewiston resident and former editorial page editor for the Lewiston Tribune, will speak Thursday, 7-8:30 p.m., on “The False Religions of Liberalism and Conservatism,” exploring the tendency of moral snobbery in political activism, in the LCSC Center for Arts and History at 415 Main St. in Lewiston. Information: 792-2317.

Progress in International Organization – lectures by Jordan Paust, University of Houston Law Center professor, and Abraham Sofaer, professor at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, 4 p.m. Thursday at the Coeur d’Alene Resort. Reception for the scholars at 6:30 p.m. The event is part of the University of Idaho’s International Law Symposium. Information: 885-7634.

Importance of Detoxification for Your Health – Thursday, 7-8:30 p.m., with Dr. Pamela Langenderfer in Room 13 of the Winton Building, at North Idaho College. Information: 664-1644.

Kootenai Environmental Alliance – will meet at noon Thursday at the Iron Horse restaurant. Bliss and Annette Bignall will speak about Rachael Carson’s Silent Spring revisited. Information: 667-9093.

Post Falls Parks and Recreation – Registration closes Friday for Youth Volleyball for grades 3-6 girls and boys, (ages 8-12). Sign up at the Post Falls Parks and Recreation office at 408 Spokane St. or call 773-0539. Cost: $19 resident, $23 nonresident.

Diablo Ballet – Friday at the Panida Theater in Sandpoint at 8 p.m. Cost: $20 adults, $16 POAC members, $8 students under 18. Information: 263-6139.

Arbor Day Button Art Contest – Designs must be submitted by Friday. The contest is open to middle and high school students who live within the Coeur d’Alene, Post Falls and Lakeland school districts. For more information, call Karen Haskew, Coeur d’Alene Parks Department, 769-2266.

University of Idaho International Law Symposium – at the Coeur d’Alene Resort. Friday’s panel discussions: 10 a.m.-noon, “The Rise and Fall of International Actors”; 1:30-3:30, “The Use of Force and The World’s Peace”; 4-6 p.m., “International Jurisdiction and International Jurisprudence”; 7-9 p.m. Barry Carter, professor at Georgetown University Law Center, on topic “International Law and Institutions for a New Era.” Saturday: 10 a.m.-noon, “The World Trade, Development and Environmental Protection”; and 1:30-3:30, “The Challenge of International Human Rights”; 4 p.m., reception. Information: 885-7634.

Auditions for the Red Hot Mamas – Friday and Saturday from 12:45 p.m. until finished at Ironwood Athletic Club. Cost: $6. Wear athletic shoes, workout clothing. All over 18 are welcome. Information: RHMamas@aol.com or Sherry at 765-5734.

“Jesus Christ Superstar” – opens Friday at the Lake City Playhouse with an opening gala at 7 p.m., showtime at 8. Additional performances will be Saturday and Sunday, March 11-13, 17-20 and 24-26. Show times are 7 p.m. Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays. Cost: $14 adults, $12 seniors/students and $8 children. Information: 667-1323.

Crabfest 2005 – To benefit ICARE Children and Family Advocacy Center, with auction viewing beginning at 5:30 p.m. and dinner at 6. Saturday at the Coeur d’Alene Resort. Cost: $45 in advance only. Call 676-1515 for tickets and information.

Art in the Window – Saturday from 1-4 p.m., Kathy Pierce will demonstrate the art of stain glass at Angel Gallery of Fine Arts and Antiques, 423 Sherman Ave. Information: 665-7232.