Briefs February 16, 2011
Calling allleprechauns ... and runners
COEUR d'ALENE - It's almost time to get out your favorite green shorts, shirts, socks and shoes.
The 21st annual Leprechaun Scurry is set for 9 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 28. It will be at Lake City High School for the second year.
The 3-mile fun run attracts about 400 runners and walkers and is considered the kick-off to the spring running season.
The race had been at North Idaho College for 19 years before the move to LCHS last year. It is a fundraiser for the school.
Registration by Friday is $15 including a T-shirt, $7 without a shirt. Late registration is $15, no shirt, or day of race $20.
There will be age group awards, refreshments and prizes after the race.
Mail entries to: Heather Harmon-LCHS 6101 N. Ramsey, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83815. You may also register at Fleet Feet in Coeur d'Alene. Make checks payable to: LCHS Leprechaun Scurry.
Entry forms are available at http://www.bicycleservice.com/2011scurryFlier.pdf
Information: Heather Harmon (208) 691-4931 or e-mail [email protected]
Police seek missing teen
COEUR d'ALENE - Police are looking for a 15-year-old girl who is considered an "endangered runaway" due to her age.
Meagan D. Schnall was last seen by her mother on Feb. 11 at 7:30 a.m. Witnesses told police they saw her around 4 p.m. that day at Riverstone when she got into an older, brown truck driven by a white male in his 20s wearing a baseball hat. Schnall has also been seen hanging around male transients, police said.
Schnall is described as 5 feet, 1 inch tall, 102 pounds,, with hazel eyes and black hair.
Anyone with information on Schnall is asked to call the Coeur d'Alene Police Department, 769-2320.
Man dies inelk-snow machine crash
KINGSTON - A Kingston man died following a snowmobile accident Sunday on a trail along the Coeur d'Alene River Road.
David Korff, 62, was leading five other riders about 6 p.m. when he struck an elk about 1.5 miles beyond Shoshone Base Camp, according to the Shoshone County Sheriff's Office.
Korff was knocked off his snowmobile. Fellow snowmobile riders provided aid to Korff while another rider went for help. The Prichard/Murray Quick Response Unit arrived, but efforts to revive Korff were unsuccessful.
Left turns will be restricted along U.S. 95
COEUR d'ALENE -
All left turns will be restricted at the intersection of U.S. 95 and Lancaster Road, beginning March 1, the Idaho Transportation Department announced.
The median crossing at the intersection will be closed while crews assemble and erect structures for a traffic signal.
The project will begin, and the restrictions will be in place, on March 1. Work requiring the left-turn restrictions is expected to take about one week to complete. When the span over the median is in place, the median will be reopened. Daily closures will occur as work progresses to install the U.S. 95 spans. The median will reopen at night.
Boekel Road is the designated detour route. Right turns onto Lancaster and onto U.S. 95 will be permitted.
Once installation is complete, the signal heads will be covered and will not become operational until the final layer of pavement and pavement striping are completed later this spring.
The contractor for the $6 million project is Interstate Concrete and Asphalt, of Coeur d'Alene. Signal and intersection work is part of a project to widen U.S. 95 between Wyoming Avenue and the Idaho 53 junction south of Garwood.
Funding is provided through savings from other American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (federal stimulus) projects that were bid in 2010.
Fundraiser to help TESH scheduled Friday
A fundraiser for TESH and the North Idaho Building Contractors Association is Friday at the Best Western Coeur d'Alene Inn.
The event begins at 5 p.m. and includes dinner at 6:45 and an auction.
Items up for bid include a three-bedroom condo in Mazatlan over spring break, $1,200 toward any cruise, a Silver Mountain stay and play, wine package and a fly fishing trip.
Tickets are $25.
The two groups said their partnership "is a natural result of two organizations that are strongly committed to enhancing our community's quality of life."
NIBCA "is dedicated to protecting and promoting the building industry for the benefit of its members and the citizens of North Idaho," while TESH "works to make our community a place where people with disabilities can be active and fully participating members."
Ticket info: Angela Erickson, 415-5741, ext. 3266