In brief: NIC trustees forum will be Tuesday

COEUR D’ALENE – The Associated Students of North Idaho College will hold a board of trustees candidate forum on Tuesday at noon in the Edminster Student Union Building Lake Coeur d’Alene Room.

The forum will last one hour and will consist of timed answers to questions for candidates Robert Ketchum, running against incumbent Christie Wood for Seat B, and Ken Howard, running against Ron Nilson for Seat A. Seat A is currently held by Rolly Williams, who is retiring. The questions were gathered from student input and will be followed by questions from attendees.

Trustees serve four-year terms on the five-member board.

For more information, call (208) 769-5934.

Play depicts murder aftermath

COEUR D’ALENE – The North Idaho College Theatre Department will present “The Laramie Project,” beginning Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Schuler Performing Arts Center.

The show, by Moises Kaufman and the members of Tectonic Theater Project, is a powerful look at Laramie, Wyo., in the aftermath of Matthew Shepard’s murder in October 1998. It is not a biography but a view into how the community and the people affected by the murder responded to the attention of the media.

Other performances will be on Friday and Saturday and Oct. 28-30 at 7:30 p.m.

The show is free and open to the public. The play contains mature themes and language. It is not appropriate for children.

For more information, call (208) 769-3220.

Former newspaper editor to speak

COEUR D’ALENE – On Thursday, former New York Times editor and author Robert Phelps will speak in Molstead Library’s Todd Hall at North Idaho College at 10:30 a.m.

Phelps was with the New York Times for 20 years and was news editor of the paper’s Washington, D.C., bureau from 1965 to 1974, during the Watergate scandal. As editor, he also dealt daily with Sy Hersh, Neil Sheehan, Johnny Apple and other fearless New York Times journalists on other big stories as the Vietnam War, civil rights and the Cold War.

Syracuse University Press recently published his memoirs “God and the Editor: My Search for Meaning at The New York Times.” Phelps is the co-author of “Libel: Rights, Risks, Responsibilities,” a handbook for journalists; editor-rewriter of “Witness to History, the memoirs of Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen,” and editor of two volumes of New York Times profiles. He has contributed to a number of Times books on politics and to various journalistic publications, including Nieman Reports, which he edited for 10 years at Harvard University.

Thursday’s event is sponsored by the NIC Publications Club and the Sentinel, NIC’s student newspaper.

Artists to receive mayor’s awards

COEUR D’ALENE – The mayor of Coeur d’Alene, Sandi Bloem, will present awards to local artists for their significant contributions to the arts at the 15th annual “Mayor’s Awards in the Arts.” The event will be Thursday at the Coeur d’Alene Resort at 6 p.m.

Artists being recognized for their contributions include Max Mendez and Susan Nipp, receiving the Excellence in the Arts award; Len Mattei, receiving the Support of the Arts award; and Yvonne Benzinger, receiving the Education in the Arts award.

For more information about the awards event call Tami Smith at (208) 818-3270. For information about the Arts Commission visit www.cdaid.org/index. php?module=pagemaster& PAGE_user_op=view_page & PAGE_id=201.

Roche named NIC library director

COEUR D’ALENE – Phil Roche was hired as North Idaho College’s new library director. He is expected to begin his new position in January.

Roche has a master’s degree in library science and is currently assistant professor/access services librarian at Southern Utah University. He has been the dean of instructional and information support services at North Seattle Community College and the director of library and media services at Lake Tahoe Community College.

Roche received his master’s degree in library science from San Jose State University and his bachelor’s degree in English from Humbolt State University.

Grant provides kids’ dental care

COEUR D’ALENE – Head Start preschoolers at the Harding Family Center, 411 N. 15th St., recently had fluoride varnish applied to their teeth and were given dental supplies for free thanks to a $1,037 grant from the Coeur d’Alene Kiwanis Club.

Dental hygienists with the Panhandle Health District painted the children’s teeth and the agency purchased supplies for 300 infants and 500 children from lower-income families and 200 pregnant women in the Women, Infants and Children program with the grant. The fluoride varnish will last six months.

Children received bags filled with toothpaste, dental floss, two-minute timers to use while brushing, toothbrush covers, stickers, information on tooth care and a list of area dentists who accept Medicaid. Mothers with infants also received baby tooth wipes.

For more information on the oral health program, visit www.phd1.idaho.gov.