Community Thanks May 13, 2012

ARBOR DAY: Kudos Volunteers, businesses

The Kootenai County Arbor Day Committee would like to thank all the volunteers and businesses who participated in making the 2012 Arbor Day program a big success again this year.

The Kootenai County Arbor Day program has given away more than 57,000 trees over the past 26 years to fourth-graders throughout Kootenai County.

The program is run entirely by volunteers that donate hundreds of hours to make the program a success. We especially appreciated all the volunteers that helped bag the 2,500 trees given to the fourth-graders (and we couldn't have done it without the enthusiastic efforts of Project CDA students!). Also a special thanks to all the young artists that participated in the art contest to design the commemorative button for this year.

The annual costs for trees and commemorative buttons is nearly $2,000 per year, so please thank these companies and organizations for their generous support - both financial and with products or services - for this year.

Stimpson Lumber Company, Specialty Tree Service, Potlatch Corporation, Idaho Veneer Company, Idaho Forest Group, Inland Empire Paper Company, Forest Capital Partners LLC, Out on a Limb Tree Service, Northland Nursery, Grace Tree Service, Coeur d'Alene Safeway, Coeur d'Alene Press, Coeur d'Alene Master Gardeners and U.S. Forest Service.

If you would like to be a corporate sponsor or support this program in other ways, please contact us.

We also want to thank all that attended the official Coeur d'Alene Arbor Day celebration on Saturday at North Pines City Park and thanks to Sun Valley Tree Service for providing our picnic lunch. We encourage everyone who received free seedlings to take good care of them. They will be a living legacy of 2012 Arbor Day.

JOHN SCHWANDT and KAREN HASKEW

Coeur d'Alene

KIBBLES: Your contributions appreciated

We at MasterCuts in the Silver Lake Mall would like to thank our current customers and the community for contributing to Katie's Kibbles!

Katie is a 10-year-old whose current vision is to help St. Vincent de Paul's homeless with providing dog food and other support for their animals. We are proud to say with your help we were able to give Katie $130 and donated bags of dog food and other items.

If you feel like helping Katie, donations can be made directly to Katie at St. Vincent de Paul. Thank you Katie for letting us help you.

THE STAFF AT MASTERCUTS

Silver Lake Mall

IGNITE HOPE: Thanks for all

the donations

To generous members of an incredible community:

It goes without saying that it takes a village..." And on behalf of the Ignite Hope Warming Center, there have been many in "our village" who have come forward to donate time and resources to our very important cause.

Ignite Hope, which opened last November (from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. daily), would like to thank so many. In the very first moments on the very first day, St. Vincent de Paul and Dirne Community Health stepped up. Thank you! And to Sonja's Cleaners, Cleanco Laundry, Cleaning and Laundry Village and Country Cleaners - all of whom launder so many blankets and sleeping bags on a weekly basis... THANK YOU! Thank you, too, to Comfort Sleepers and "My Favorite Things." Ignite Hope's Community Partners, Twin Lakes Golf Association, Kootenai County Fire and Rescue, Thorco Electric, S & S Mechanical and Michael Kramer Carpentry have gone above and beyond the call of duty and for that, we say THANK YOU!

Many of our area church members have also come forward in love and generosity: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Coeur d'Alene Stake, Post Falls Real Life Ministries, Hayden Lake Friends Church, Christ the King Lutheran, Coeur d'Alene Bible and New Life Community Church have been actively involved in providing food, cooking, clothing, cleaning, sorting and organizing.

Among the many individuals who have been actively involved in coordinating the myriad of duties necessary to keep the Warming Center running smoothly are Jennifer Bonner, Karen King, Sally Stuber, Tim Scott, Christina and Dave Zampich, Una Hamilton and Diana Anson. We say, with grateful hearts, thank you. And to others, who have served and continue to serve quietly behind the scenes but wish to remain anonymous, we say thank you.

And so... from those who have been served and the board who serves them,

We say THANK YOU!

IGNITE HOPE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Kootenai County