In brief: Wild Game Feast tickets on sale

Tickets are on sale for the North Idaho College Alumni Association’s ninth annual Wild Game Feast Feb. 2, featuring a five-course meal of wild game delicacies created by Steve Taylor of NIC Food Services.

This year’s event will begin with a social at 6 p.m. in which attendees will have a chance to enjoy the appetizers, alligator wontons, Tibetan yak meatballs and wapiti quesadillas, while listening to music and viewing silent auction items.

A four-course dinner will be served at 6:45 in the Ts’elusm Dining Room of NIC’s Edminster Student Union Building. The menu will feature Creole turtle soup, spinach salad with crispy boar bacon and quail eggs, kangaroo medallions and a huckleberry bread pudding.

Tickets are $75 per person or $70 for NIC Alumni Association members. Limited seating is available. All proceeds benefit the NIC Alumni Association and scholarships for NIC students.

For tickets, mail a check to the NIC Alumni Association, 1000 W. Garden Ave., Coeur d’Alene, ID 83814, or call 769-5978.

CYT classes start Jan. 8

Christian Youth Theater-North Idaho will begin its second session of classes on Jan. 8, at The Altar Church, 901 E. Best Ave., Coeur d’Alene, every Tuesday from 4 to 6 p.m.

Children ages 6-18 may register for classes including: Beginning Drama, Beginning Voice, Theatrical Make-Up, Advanced Acting, Beginning Theatrical Dance with styles from the Broadway show, “Hairspray” and Musical Theater for 6 and 7 year olds.

Along with classes, all students ages 8 to 18 may audition for “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” a fully-scaled musical which will be performed in March. The show calls for a big cast and needs children of all ages. No experience is needed so all students 8 and older are encouraged to audition.

For more information, call 819-9281 or e-mail Bliss Lanier at cytnorthidaho@comcast.net.

CYT is a nonprofit after-school theater arts training program. CYT has no religious affiliation and is open to children of all faiths.

NIC campus closed for holiday

The North Idaho College campus will close for the holidays at noon Monday through Jan. 1.

Campus will reopen Jan. 2 and resume normal business hours of 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays and 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Fridays.

NIC’s Molstead Library will be closed from Friday to Jan. 13. The library will reopen with the start of spring semester Jan. 14.

Christmas play opens today at NIC

“This Child,” a Christmas-themed play, opens today at North Idaho College.

The play was written by local playwright Tim Rarick based on a true story about his mother. It centers around the life of a 7-year-old girl whose family began to crumble after the stock market crash of 1929. A group of nuns decide to ask the child to participate in a Christmas pageant, as a way of caring for the girl and helping boost her self esteem.

Curtain time is 7:30 p.m. today, Friday and Saturday in Boswell Hall Schuler Performing Arts Center. A 2 p.m. matinee will be held Sunday.

Admission is $11 for adults and $9 for children 12 and younger. The play is recommended for children 5 and older. Tickets can be purchased at the door or in advance at the NIC TicketQuik Box Office, 769-7780, inside Boswell Hall.

Proceeds from ticket sales will benefit the NIC Boswell Hall Schuler Performing Arts Center. Additional donations will be accepted through the NIC Foundation.

Kootenai County

Recycle those Christmas trees

The Kootenai County Solid Waste Department will no longer accept Christmas trees with household garbage at satellite sites, as they have in the past.

Focusing on the promotion of recycling and the preservation of landfill space, the department is urging residents to exercise other recycling options.

Options include supporting one of the local high school tree drives, which includes a small donation, or taking trees to the transfer station on Ramsey Road free of charge. Local garbage haulers may also be willing to pick up Christmas trees for a small fee. Check with your garbage service for information.

Trees taken to the transfer station will be placed in the wood recycling pile to be ground up for fuel to generate electricity. For more information, call 446-1430.

– From staff reports