CdA Symphony presenting concert
The Coeur d’Alene Symphony presents “A Night at the Movies” family concert on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in Boswell Hall, North Idaho College. Free tickets are available for ages 18 and under through the Coeur d’Alene Symphony office, thanks to the Idaho Commission on the Arts.
The symphony will perform full pieces and excerpts from the greatest movie soundtracks and theme songs of all time, including: “2001 Space Odyssey,” “Jaws,” “E.T.,” “Batman,” “Dancing with Wolves,” “Superman,” “Star Wars,” “Mission Impossible,” “Pink Panther,” “Saving Private Ryan,” James Bond (“For Your Eyes Only,” “Goldfinger,” “Live and Let Die,” “Nobody Does It Better”) and Warner Brothers’ “What’s Up at The Symphony?”
Ticket prices are $15 for adults, $12 for seniors and $8 for students. Free tickets are available for ages 18 and under through the Coeur d’Alene Symphony office. Call (208) 765-3833 for details. Tickets are available at all TicketsWest locations or charge by phone (800) 325-SEAT (Spokane (509) 325-SEAT), or online at www.ticketswest.com. Convenience fees may apply. For show information only, phone (509) 325-SHOW. Tickets also are available at the Spokane Arena box office, Spokane Opera House, Templin’s, Coeur d’Alene Casino and University of Idaho North Campus; 765-3833
More information can be found on the symphony’s Web site at www.cdasymphony.org.
Faculty displaying own art
North Idaho College instructors will display their own artistic talents during the NIC Art Faculty Exhibit Jan. 28-Feb. 22 in the Boswell Hall Corner Gallery.
The exhibit features a wide range of two- and three-dimensional work, including drawing, photography, sculpture, painting, ceramics and graphic design.
NIC art instructors Donna Bain, Larry Clark, Priscilla Cooper, Phil Corlis, Robin Dare, Rachel Dolezal, Don Hopkins, Michael Horswill, Joan Grey Smith, Philippe Valle, David Van Etten and Allie Kurtz Vogt will display their work in the exhibit.
The opening reception will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday in the gallery.
Corner Gallery hours are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Admission is free.
Writers Competition marks 20th year
The Writers Competition at the Coeur d’Alene Public Library will celebrate its 20th anniversary this year with early availability of entry forms.
Beginning Monday forms can be picked up at the library, 702 E. Front Ave., or downloaded at the library’s Web site, www.cdalibrary.org.
The competition is for unpublished fiction and nonfiction prose of 2,000 words or less. No entry is too short. There is no category for poetry or rhyming prose due to the specialized nature of the judging criteria. Entries are judged by professional writers and editors working in North Idaho and Eastern Washington.
Forms downloaded online are available in a PDF format at the Web site under the “Information” link. Participants are urged to be sure they download and print the entry form and rules pages, especially if they plan to make copies for others.
Fiction and nonfiction are judged separately as are the different age groups in each of those categories: 6-8, 9-11, 12-14, 15-18 and 19-plus.
An entry fee – $1 for ages 6-11 and $2 for ages 12 and up – and a complete entry form must be submitted with each entry. The form includes permission to include entries in the bound volumes added to the library collection. This permission is signed by participants or the parents or guardians of participants under age 19. The writers are not giving up future publication rights by signing the form.
Entries submitted by competitors in the 6-8 age group may be handwritten, but cannot be in cursive, must be double-spaced, and must otherwise follow the rules for margins and other elements.
The deadline for entries is 8 p.m., March 31. Mailed entries must be postmarked no later than March 29.
Cash prizes donated by the Coeur d’Alene Kiwanis Club will be awarded in each category and age group – $100 for first, $50 for second and $25 for third – at a ceremony hosted by the Friends of the Coeur d’Alene Public Library in May.
For more information, David Townsend, library communications coordinator, at dtown@cdalibrary.org or call 769-2315, ext. 426.
North Idaho
Fire departments awarded grant
Several local fire departments will benefit this year from a U.S. Department of Homeland Security grant to buy radio equipment.
The $667,408 Federal Emergency Management Agency grant is being matched with additional local money for a total of $834,260 to purchase 170 hand-held radios, five control stations and 100 in-vehicle radios that will allow local firefighters, emergency personnel and police to talk directly to one another.
“Right now we have to call central dispatch and have them relay the call,” Hauser Lake Fire Protection District Chief Larry Simms said late week.
That’s because the frequencies the different departments use now don’t match. The new radios will have matching frequencies.
All the equipment is expected to be operational by October.
– From staff reports