Car club show being held today

The Injectors Car Club’s annual car show will be 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. today near Sandpoint. The event, part of Ponderay Days, will showcase 25 classes of cars, from classic and stock vehicles to muscle cars and motorcycles.

Registration is from 9-11 a.m. Show hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Awards start at 2 p.m.

Other activities include a poker walk to some local stores at 10 a.m., and a craft fair to help promote local artists starting at 9 a.m.

Raffle tickets will be sold to help raise funds for local Toys for Tots and Hospice groups. More than 120 raffle items, including a digital camera, a room with a hot tub and free dinners, will be drawn.

The show will be in the Les Schwab/McDonald’s parking lot at the Bonner Mall on Highway 95.

Idaho

CDs offer advice on teens, Internet

The Idaho Sheriffs’ Association is teaming up with box store mega-giant Wal-Mart to distribute CDs to children that warn of the danger of sexual predators on the Internet.

Called ProtecTeens, the CDs consist of a video presentation intended to educate parents about how to protect their children on the Internet. Wal-Mart paid to produce 50,000 CDs that were distributed all over the state.

Attorney General Lawrence Wasden and Secretary of State Ben Ysursa were in Ponderay on Friday to help distribute them.

The video presentation is about 20 minutes long, with Wasden and Ysursa discussing statistics related to sexual predators and the Internet. They warn parents to be aware and tell their children about the dangers of sharing personal information on the Web.

The CDs are being distributed at the North Idaho County Fair. They’ll be distributed at all Wal-Marts in Idaho today, but the video is also available on the attorney general’s office Web site, www2.state.id.us/ag/ protecteens/index.htm.

Spokane

Diabetes tests set for powwow

Native Health of Spokane is hoping to save some lives at the powwow in Riverfront Park this weekend.

As it has for the past four years, the urban Indian clinic will be screening for diabetes, a disease that has hit Native Americans particularly hard.

Toni Lodge, director of Native Health, said a drastic, high-carbohydrate change in the diet of Native Americans, who had eaten mostly protein until little more than a century ago, is partially responsible.

Native Health also sponsors a Diabetes Awareness Fun Run (or walk) around the park at 8 a.m. today. Registration opens at 7 a.m. Cost is $5, which includes a snack. The Spokane Falls Northwest Encampment and Powwow continues at 1 p.m. today and Sunday.

I-90 viaduct lanes, ramps open

After three months of construction, all lanes and ramps are open on the Interstate 90 viaduct in downtown Spokane.

The first phase of the project to repave the deeply rutted lanes was completed about three weeks earlier than expected.

During the project, there were 27 crashe reported within the 4-mile-long construction area, and none within the 1-mile-long narrow chutes. That’s fewer than the 40 crashes reported within the same area in 2005.

Now that the eastbound lanes are fixed, the Washington State Department of Transportation will move on next spring to repairing the westbound lanes of the viaduct.