Briefs May 3, 2011

Preparedness fair set for Saturday

COEUR d'ALENE - A free community preparedness fair is scheduled noon to 5 p.m. Saturday at the LDS Stake Center, 2801 N. Fourth St.

Activities include child identifications, gardening tips, financial preparation, food and water storage and 72-hour kits.

People are asked to bring items for St. Vincent de Paul hygiene kits, which will be assembled at the fair and given to the homeless. Items needed include combs, toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap and hand towels.

Nonperishable food is also being collected for the Community Action Partnership Food Bank.

Tubbs foundation opposes ADA trail

COEUR d'ALENE - The Tubbs Hill Foundation opposes the proposed Americans with Disabilities Act hiking trail conceptualized in the McEuen Park redesign project.

The foundation does not disapprove of making the downtown hiking hill more accessible for people with disabilities, according to an April 28 letter to city officials, and is willing to work with the city to see that happens.

But constructing the proposed trail would "disrupt the natural state of the hill," the letter states.

The nonprofit continued that it would prefer that Tubbs Hill issues should be dealt with separately from the McEuen Park plan since both are complex issues in their own right.

Viking Voice wins first place award

The Viking Voice, Coeur d'Alene High School's student newspaper, earned a first place award in the 2011 American Scholastic Press Association's newspaper competition.

Entries were evaluated on content coverage, page design, general plan, art advertising, illustrations, editing and creativity.

The Viking Voice earned 950 out of 1,000 possible points. Just one other Idaho newspaper was listed among the first place winners in schools with 1,100-1,700 students.

The judge said, "You have an excellent school newspaper, which shows the creativity and journalistic knowledge of your editors, reporters, writers, photographers, layout/graphics designers and adviser."