North Idaho Briefs August 3, 2011
4 mountain bikes stolen at Motel 6
COEUR d'ALENE - Four bicycles were swiped sometime Sunday night or Monday morning at the Motel 6 on the 600 block of West Appleway Avenue in Coeur d'Alene.
The mountain bikes were valued at $10,000, according to a police report.
The bikes were secured to a rack attached to a vehicle in the parking lot. The vehicle owner, from Vancouver, B.C., told police someone used bolt cutters to cut the lock and remove the bikes.
One of those stolen, valued at $4,000, was a Gary Fisher hardtail travel bike with a carbon fiber frame and 27 speeds. The bike is carbon fiber colored, the police report said.
The owner told police he has the serial numbers for the bikes and would be providing them to police.
Author to read
from recent novel
Tara Reed Woolpy will read from her recently published novel, "Releasing Gillian's Wolves," at an author's reception at the Art Spirit Gallery on Thursday.
Dr. Woolpy, daughter of local residents Mary Lou and Scott Reed, was born and grew up in Coeur d'Alene. She has been a professor of aquatic sciences for the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay for 13 years.
The Art Spirit Gallery is also exhibiting new works by multi-media artists Frank Boyden and Brad Rude.
The reception will begin at 5 p.m. and, along with the artist exhibitions, is open to the public.
Owner reports boat was burglarized
COEUR d'ALENE - Some strong swimmers may have been behind a theft at the 11th Street Marina.
A boat owner reported to police Friday that his boat was burglarized sometime in the past 12 days since he last used his boat.
He said a DVR, a Vizio HDTV, seven bottles of alcohol and binoculars, items with a total value of $900, were missing.
The only way in and out of the marina is with a key.
The boat owner said he thinks the "suspects swam to the docks from Tubbs Hill."
FEMA funding
is now available
Local food and shelter organizations are invited to apply for funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency Emergency Food and Shelter Program.
Kootenai County will receive $76,573 from the FEMA Emergency Food and Shelter Program.
Local agencies chosen to receive funds must:
* be private voluntary nonprofits or units of government;
* have an accounting system;
* practice nondiscrimination;
* have demonstrated the capability to deliver emergency food and/or shelter programs, and
* if they are a private voluntary organization, they must have a voluntary board.
Info: United Way, 667-8112
Download the application at www.kootenaiunitedway.org
The application must be returned via fax, mail, or email, by Friday.