Post Falls: Community food drive Saturday

The Post Falls Community Food Drive runs from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at the Trading Company Store between Seltice Way and Schneidmiller Avenue.

In addition to donating food to the needy, participants can also enjoy a bounce area, bike rodeo, hot rod displays, food vendors, music and a karaoke contest.

Learn computers at the library

The Post Falls Library will hold basic computer classes, covering computer components, the Windows operating system, Internet safety, and e-mail accounts, on Saturday and April 19, from 8:30 to 10 a.m.

The cost is $10 and pre-registration is required.

To register and for more information, call the library at 773-1506, ext. 2.

Coeur d’Alene

NIC names vice president for instruction

Jay Lee, dean of career and technical education at Rochester Community and Technical College in Rochester, Minn., has been named North Idaho College’s new vice president for instruction.

Lee has served as the dean of career and technical education at Rochester since 1997. He supervises and manages approximately 60 employees involved in the college’s instructional programs including both occupational and transfer programs.

Lee has worked in higher education for 20 years, also serving as the interim vice president of academic affairs and as coordinator of the law enforcement program at Rochester Community and Technical College and as the director of the peace officer training program at Lake Region State College in North Dakota.

He holds a law degree from the University of North Dakota and a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Moorhead State University in Minnesota.

Lee will start in his new position on July 1.

‘Sex Signals’ to run at NIC

“Sex Signals,” an interactive presentation on dating and sexual assault geared toward college students, will be presented at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Lake Coeur d’Alene Room of NIC’s Edminster Student Union Building, sponsored by North Idaho College’s Student Events.

The show, performed with humor to discuss issues surrounding dating, sex and date rape such as how mixed messages, unrealistic fantasies and gender role stereotypes contribute to misunderstandings between the sexes, will be led by two guest performers with extensive training in interactive theater and improvisation as well as sexual assault.

The show was nominated for the Speaker of the Year Award as well as the Reader’s Choice Award in Campus Activities Magazine.

The event is free and open to the public.

For more information, call 665-5459.

Rathdrum

Shepherd of the Hills plans open house

Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church, 13541 W. Highway 53 in Rathdrum will hold a dedication and open house on April 20, from 2 to 4:30 p.m., celebrating its recent expansion.

Volunteers donated more than 8,000 hours to build the 12,000-square-foot addition which includes an additional 100 seats, multipurpose gym and three additional classrooms, one housing pre-school. The project also enlarged meeting rooms, offices, kitchen and bathrooms, and fulfills requirements for handicap access including an elevator.

The event is open to the public.

Volleyball camp fundraiser

Lakeland High School’s girl’s varsity volleyball team will hold a volleyball skills camp April 19, from 9 a.m. to noon, for girls, grades three to six and their parents.

The camp is a benefit to raise funds to attend the Volleyball Festival in Reno, Nev., in June. According to the group, “The festival is a seven-day tournament comprised of over 12,000 girls playing ball at one time.”

Participating in the national event with girls from across the nation will be a once in a lifetime opportunity for the Lakeland girls, who are already in training for the competition that is said to be “the world’s largest annual sporting event, just slightly smaller in number of participants than the Summer Olympics.”

The varsity team still needs to raise $3,500 of the $9,100 cover travel and expenses for the event. In addition to this clinic, they will be holding a raffle and plan on selling concessions and Lakeland decals at a later date.

More information and forms are available at John Brown, Betty Keifer, Garwood and Twin Lakes elementary schools, or by calling 773-1030.