Community Thanks May 2, 2010

SPORTS: Support youth programs

The Post Falls Parks and Recreation Department would like to extend special thanks and appreciation for the dedicated businesses that sponsor youth events provided to the community during the spring of 2010. Programs such as Youth Volleyball and Spring Soccer are made possible by the following sponsors. We are proud to thank the following businesses for their continued support.

Access Endodontics Specialist, Ace Hardware, Advanced Benefits, Air Comfort Heating & Cooling, Blue Dog RV, Brumbach Family Dental, Cabelas, Coeur d'Alene Pediatrics, Center Partners, Century Publishing Company Inc., C-Link, Custom Building & Supply, Flattop Concepts, Hagadone Directories, Idaho Thunder, IMCO Recycling In Touch Physical Therapy, Kimmel Athletic Supply, Kootenai Animal Hospital, Kootenai Title, Lakeside Eyecare, Lifeway Chapel, Little Smiles Pediatric Dentistry, Meineke Car Care Center, Mountain View Motors Sales & Service, Mr. Moms, Carpet & Floor, Noodle Express, North Idaho Medical Care Center, Northcon Inc., NW Recumbent Cycles, Post Falls Dental, Post Falls Family Medicine, Peach Orthodontics, Michael S. Scholes, DMD, PC, Rainbow, River City Chiropractic, Saturday Night Inc., Silverlake Tire & Auto, Spokane Soccer Academy, Welch-Comer, The UPS Store, Awards ETC., Grace Tree Service, KN Media, Legends Sports Photography, Paul Bunyan, Post Falls Taco Bell, Schini Family Dental, SEC LLC, Silver Safari, St. Joseph's Ears, Nose & Throat, Suzanna Graham and Taco Time/Samurai Sams.

We would also like to thank those businesses that continue to donate to our ongoing special event programs that our department offers to Post Falls and the surrounding communities.

Again, thank you for your continued support of Post Falls Parks and Recreation youth sports programs and community events.

Sincerely,

JILL McDOWELL

Recreation Coordinator

VOLUNTEERS: Show dedication

In honoring April as Volunteer Appreciation Month, I would like to take this time to thank our local volunteers of Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (www.pancan.org) for all of their time and dedication. When the statistics for this devastating disease say that you only have a 5 percent chance of survival after five years and see the pathetic amount of funding this disease gets for research, it gives you a passion to change that! This group of volunteers has the drive to do that!

We are a network of people that are dedicated to working together to advance research, support patients and create hope for those affected by pancreatic cancer. We raise money for direct private funding of research-and advocate for more aggressive federal research funding of medical breakthroughs in prevention, diagnosis and treatment.

We are in the planning stages of a bike ride from Spokane to Coeur d'Alene, called Purple Ride SPOKE->d'ALENE, to be held on Aug. 28, 2010. It will end in Riverstone Park with a community picnic.

Again, thank you, North Idaho Affiliate! You are making a difference!

KATHY HLEBICHUK

Pancreatic Cancer Action Network

N. Idaho Affiliate coordinator