Briefs for September 12, 2012
Fundraiser to help homeless in North Dakota
POST FALLS - A fundraiser to help establish a homeless shelter in Williston, N.D., is scheduled 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday and Saturday at Sky Prairie Church, 1910 E. Seltice Way.
There will be a silent auction, music, refreshments and prizes.
Jane Morgan, an organizer, said with the harsh North Dakota winter on the way, a shelter is desperately needed in Williston.
"People are dying over there in the winter time right now," she said.
The shelter will provide a place for people to receive meals, clothing and other assistance, and as well as a place to sleep.
Sky Prairie is involved because the drummer on its worship team recently moved to North Dakota and requested the help of his old church in North Idaho.
Morgan is hoping the community responds, as it did earlier this year when it helped her family survive financial troubles and stay in their Rathdrum home through donations.
She considered it a miracle.
"This is an opportunity to be part of God's plan in establishing a rescue mission for the homeless in North Dakota," she said.
Info: Jane, 618-9085, or 277-4559
Six candidates on presidential ballot in Idaho
BOISE (AP) - Idaho's ballot for the presidential election has been finalized, and six contenders made the ticket.
President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are joined by four lesser-known candidates.
Rocky Anderson, the former two-term mayor of Salt Lake City, is listed as an independent because Idaho doesn't give ballot status to the Justice Party. Anderson was a longtime Democrat before resigning from the party in 2011, saying it was gutless and unprincipled. The Justice Party is a new party that says its guiding principles are "integrity, justice and liberty for all."
Idaho also doesn't give ballot status to the Green Party, so Jill Stein, a doctor and environmental health advocate, also is running as an independent. Stein is the co-founder of the Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities, and was the Green Party candidate for governor of Massachusetts in 2010 and in 2002, when she lost to Romney.
Virgil H. Goode Jr., a former congressman from Virginia, is running as the Constitution Party candidate. He was first elected to Congress as a Democrat, and after two terms switched to independent and won a third term. He switched to the Republican Party before winning his fourth term.
Gary Johnson, a former two-term Republican governor of New Mexico, is running as the Libertarian candidate. During his time as governor from 1995 to 2003 he issued more vetoes - more than 750 - than all previous New Mexico governors combined.