In brief: Healing Day will be held Thursday

POST FALLS – The Post Falls Women in Networking will host a “Healing Day” on Thursday from noon to 6 p.m. at the Post Falls Police Department community room.

Therapists and consultants will be available to provide brief massage therapy, scalp and hand massage, facials, financial counseling and stress counseling to help participants de-stress their lives.

No appointment is necessary. The event is free to the public on a first-come, first-served basis.

For more information, call (208) 457-1999 or visit www.livingwellcc.com.

Library offering youth programs

HAYDEN – The fall programs have returned for children and teenagers at the Hayden Library, 8385 N. Government Way.

On Mondays, ages 3-5 can enjoy preschool story time at 1 p.m. and beginning Oct. 11, ages 9-12 can participate in “Ka-Boom Science” on the second Monday of the month, from 4 to 5 p.m.

On Tuesdays, children up to 2 years old, can participate in Mother Goose Time at 10:30 a.m., and for ages 3-5, preschool story time is from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

On Wednesdays, preschool story time is at 10:30 a.m. and Tales for 2s, for ages 2-3 is at 10:30 a.m. and again on Thursdays at 10:30.

On Friday, the Literacy Playgroup meets from 10:30 a.m. to noon. The group is for children up to age 5 and a parent or caregiver.

The Checkmate Chess Club meets the first and third Saturdays of each month, from 10 a.m. to noon.

Scrapbookers meet at the Hayden Library for a scrapbook party on the fourth Thursday of every month, from 6 to 7:30 p.m.

The library will host a community blood drive on Wednesday, from 12:30 to 4 p.m. To make an appointment and for more information, call Karen at (208) 772-5612, Ext. 121, or e-mail karens@cin.kcl.org.

Beginning Monday, the library will hold a family literacy workshop, Every Child Ready to Read. The program will run Mondays from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. through Oct. 25. The workshop for children 3-6 and their parents or caregivers aims to help them learn early literacy skills in preparation for reading success in school.

For more information on any of these programs, visit www.ksalibraries.org.

Art exhibits, KSPS to feature Horswill

COEUR D’ALENE – North Idaho College art instructor Michael Horswill will be a featured artist in two regional exhibitions this fall. He also will appear on “Northwest Profiles” on KSPS-Channel 7 on Oct. 28 at 7 p.m.

The exhibitions include Gonzaga University’s “Drawn to the Wall IV” at the Jundt Art Museum, running through Oct. 9. This year’s Northwest artists, including Horswill, Louise Kodis, Ken Spiering, Carolyn Stephens and Gordon Wilson, were invited by museum director Scott Patnode to draw on individual museum walls, measuring 11 ½-by-8 feet. At the conclusion of the exhibit, the artists will erase their drawings from the walls. The exhibition has been recognized nationally in academic and art circles.

Horswill’s drawing is entitled “The Evolution of Good Intentions” and is created using traditional black and white charcoal.

Jundt is open Monday through Friday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Saturdays, from noon to 4 p.m.

Horswill will be the featured artist in a solo exhibition in the Art Spirit Gallery at 415 E. Sherman Ave. in Coeur d’Alene in October. The show opens on the second Friday “Art Walk” Oct. 8 and will run through Nov. 6. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Recycling receives matching grant

POST FALLS – Post Falls Mayor Clay Larkin, and Post Falls finance director Shelly Enderud were given a $5,000 check on Aug. 30 from Phil Damiano of Post Falls Sanitation.

The check was for a matching grant to promote residential recycling in Post Falls.

Past recycling projects include recycling bins for the new city hall campus and rotunda and free reusable grocery bags for residents to encourage recycling in the community.

Details of the 2010 Recycling Project have not been finalized.

COEUR D’ALENE – The Specialized Needs Recreation Program was awarded a grant for $4,436 from the Inland Northwest Community Foundation, through the Florence Wasmer Fund for Children and Families.

The grant will support the Camp All-Stars program.

The recreation program is a nonprofit organization that provides recreational opportunities for youths and adults who have disabilities. Camp All-Stars provides day camps from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. during spring, winter, and summer breaks and school days off, for ages 4 to 21.