Feast your eyes on this wild dinner

Ready to get wild in the new year?

Tickets to the 10th annual Wild Game Feast are on sale through the North Idaho College Alumni Association.

The dinner will be Jan. 24 in the Ts’elusm Dining Room of NIC’s Edminster Student Union Building.

Eddie Nelson of NIC food services has designed the menu for this year’s six-course feast, which begins with a social hour at 6 p.m.

Appetizers will include rabbit and duck sausage in a horseradish and dill cream sauce, elk bratwurst in a sweet Black Butte Porter sauce, smoked salmon mousse canapés and duck pate.

The dinner menu includes cream of wild mushroom and toasted hazelnut soup, spring salad with duck confit , fresh lemon and rosemary sorbet, venison osso bucco over herbed risotto with roasted root vegetables as the entree, and chocolate decadence for dessert.

A special wine selection will be available with dinner in addition to a no-host bar. All proceeds benefit the alumni association and scholarships for NIC students.

Tickets are $55 per person, or $49.50 for NIC Alumni Association members. Limited seating is available. Edminster Student Union Building is at the corner of Garden Avenue and College Drive, in Coeur d’Alene.

Call (208) 769-5978 or buy online at www.nic.edu/alumni.

Food advisory positions open

The Spokane Regional Health District is searching for new people to join its Food Advisory Committee.

The 13-member committee is a cooperative effort between the district’s food safety program and the food industry. Committee members help develop educational materials and classes, and give input on health district policies, procedures, regulations and fees.

The committee has openings for a food service industry representative, higher education institution representative, school district food program representative and a consumer representative.

Applicants must be willing to serve a two-year term and must be available to attend meetings on the first Wednesday of February, June and November. In addition, members must attend a special member selection meeting each January.

For more information about the committee or to request an application, call the Spokane Regional Health District food program at 324-1560, ext. 2. Applications must be received no later than Jan. 12.