<p>SHAWN GUST/Press A horse makes its way through a Post Falls pasture while foraging for food Friday as sunlight breaks through storm clouds in the background.</p>
<p>SHAWN GUST/Press Brianna Burton, a third-grader at Ponderosa Elementary in Post Falls, listens to a problem solving lesson Friday during a math class. The elementary school is one of three in the state to be nominated for the Idaho Blue Ribbon Award, an award recognizing excellence in academic standards.</p>
<p>JEROME A. POLLOS/Press Trisha Clark, from Post Falls, delivers diapers, clothing and teddy bears Thursday to the Health and Welfare Department's children's services office in Coeur d'Alene for the 2-year-old Crossley twins who were removed from their home Sunday due to neglect. Clark said she received donations from family and friends after she posted a message on her Facebook page stating she wanted to do something for the toddlers.</p>
<p>JEROME A. POLLOS/Press Debbi Nadrchal, right, and Barbara Turner with the Coeur d'Alene Elks Lodge deliver $2,500 in gifts Thursday to the North Idaho Violence Prevention Center for families the lodge adopted for Christmas. The donation contained food, toys and household items.</p>
<p>SHAWN GUST/Press Wyatt Setian, 12, paints a prop for the Genesis Prep Christian School's drive-through living Nativity scene Friday in Post Falls. The annual holiday scene will be viewable at Real Life Ministries from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. December 18 and 19.</p>
SHAWN GUST/Press Brianna Burton, a third-grader at Ponderosa Elementary in Post Falls, listens to a problem solving lesson Friday during a math class. The elementary school is one of three in the state to be nominated for the Idaho Blue Ribbon Award, an award recognizing excellence in academic standards.
JEROME A. POLLOS/Press Trisha Clark, from Post Falls, delivers diapers, clothing and teddy bears Thursday to the Health and Welfare Department's children's services office in Coeur d'Alene for the 2-year-old Crossley twins who were removed from their home Sunday due to neglect. Clark said she received donations from family and friends after she posted a message on her Facebook page stating she wanted to do something for the toddlers.
JEROME A. POLLOS/Press Debbi Nadrchal, right, and Barbara Turner with the Coeur d'Alene Elks Lodge deliver $2,500 in gifts Thursday to the North Idaho Violence Prevention Center for families the lodge adopted for Christmas. The donation contained food, toys and household items.
SHAWN GUST/Press Wyatt Setian, 12, paints a prop for the Genesis Prep Christian School's drive-through living Nativity scene Friday in Post Falls. The annual holiday scene will be viewable at Real Life Ministries from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. December 18 and 19.
A collection of imagery found while out and about in North Idaho during the past week.