Feature Photos - November

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>Brandi Buller, left, pushes her infant son Reece in a stroller as Haleigh Johnson joins in roller blading through the Coeur d’Alene City Park on Monday.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>A cat sits on a log among a patch of tall grasses near Fernan Lake on Wednesday.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>A firefighter from Northern Lake Fire District sprays water on a small fire that had rekindled in the garage as crews work to contain a structure fire at a home on 15th Street in Dalton Gardens on Saturday. Crews from Coeur d’Alene Fire Department, Kootenai County Fire and Rescue and Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office aided efforts to extinguish the blaze. The cause of the fire, which was suspected to have started in the garage, is under investigation.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>Crews with the City of Coeur d’Alene Street Department use heavy equipment to gather roadside leaves into piles for removal along Second Street near the intersection of Foster Avenue on Monday. Leaf pickup will continue through November.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Taryn Mann adjusts her hat as she walks out of Lee-Kildow Hall on North Idaho College Campus on Thursday afternoon.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>A Coeur d’Alene Police Officer walks towards a house on the 400 Block of West Davidson where a man broke in at approximately 9:45 a.m. Wednesday morning. Police arrested 26-year-old Justin Raymond Stiles on charges of burglary. Stiles entered the house, locking the doors, and told the 21-year-old female who lived there that he needed somewhere to hide because people were after him. Police responded quickly and kicked the door in causing Stiles to flee out of the back of the residence and for police to pursue him on foot.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>Elisa Ferraro, far right, and Cindy Haagenson admire the decorated Christmas Trees during the 2014 Kootenai Health Foundation Festival Of Trees Gala Saturday at the Coeur d’Alene Resort. Hundreds attended the foundation’s primary annual fundraising event.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>Cleone Harwood, who turned 104-years-old Wednesday, was born in Charles City, Iowa and moved to Cascade, Idaho in about 1919. She lived in Cascade until 1995 before moving to Payette, Idaho and finally to Coeur d’Alene in 2009. She worked with her husband as a farmer, in a meat market and at an insurance agency. Harwood, a resident of The Courtyard at Coeur d’Alene-Pacifica Senior Living facility, has four daughters, 11 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>Hayden Meadows Elementary fifth grade students play the drums on plastic buckets during a Veterans Day ceremony Tuesday at Hayden City Hall.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Debi Furey helps Chloe Todd, 6, pick out a sample of 15 bean buffalo chicken soup from the Washington Trust Bank booth at St. Vincent de Paul’s event Souport the End of Homelessness on Thursday. Thrity-six businesses participated in the fifth annual event that raised money for the St. Vince de Paul warming centers.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Ice begins to form on Fernan Lake on Wednesday after temperatures dipped into the teens on Tuesday night in Coeur d’Alene.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Nick Madsen, Youth Service Specialist at the Hayden Library, helps Krista Duncan, 9, stir pancake batter while Hayden Farley, 9, left, Maria Aguiar, 10, and Bethanie Vellone, 10, watch during Hayden Library’s Ka-Boom series on Monday night. Every first and third Monday of the month until the end of December Ka-Boom hosts a different STEM based program at the Hayden Library.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Dorris Londeree, Queen of the Silver Lake Red Hatters Chapter, receives a rose during the chapter’s 13th anniversary celebration at the Greenbriar Inn on Wednesday morning. Londeree started the chapter 13 years ago after she had recently moved to the Coeur d’Alene area.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>JR Harmon, landscaper with the Coeur d’Alene Resort, uses zip ties to secure strands of lighting to the support beams of the clock tower near Sherman Avenue Wednesday in preparation for the annual Coeur d’Alene Holiday Lights Show.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>David McCurdy, of the City of Coeur d’Alene Parks Department, cleans up leaves in City Park on Wednesday afternoon. The City has been removing leaves from the park for a couple of weeks. “There’s still a lot more that are gonna fall,” McCurdy said.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Rebecca George helps Alyssa George, 6, try on a coat at the Coats 4 Kids event at the Harding Family Center on Tuesday afternoon. The event was sponsored by Century 21 who collected an estimate of 1,200 coats from donation boxes in businesses and Coeur d’Alene schools during the month of October. The Harding Family Center will continue to distribute coats 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. until Friday.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>In this 2014 file photo, Douglas Maxfield and his daughter Ambrea Maxfield, 5, sell a customer some of Ambrea’s homemade beaded designs at the Rathdrum Holiday Bazaar.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>From left: Post Falls seniors Caitlin Judge, Zoe Reed and Jessicah Bruner try to keep warm during a night spent out in the cold organized by the Link Leaders at Post Falls High School on Friday night. Post Falls high schoolers spent three hours outside to raise awareness about homelessness. Eighteen kids participated in the event and collected donations and blankets for Saint Vincent de Paul and Kootenai Humane Society.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Three men add christmas lights to the Holiday Wreath for the 2014 Holiday Lights Show onto of the Coeur d’Alene Resort on Wednesday morning.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>Dozens of battery-operated candles line a bench at Independence Point prior to a vigil.</p>

From left: John Marcheso, Bill Reagan, Craig Brosenne, Robert Cliff and Al Williams pose for a photo at the North Idaho College Booster Club. The Coeur d'Alene Crossing gave an award to Bill Reagan for his ongoing support of the Coeur d'Alene Crossing.

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>Ted Duncan, executive director for the Eastern Washington/North Idaho chapter of the American Diabetes Association, talks to Dalton Elementary students on Wednesday after fourth-graders Isabella Tomasi and Payton Smith, far right, presented a check in the amount of $256.30 in the school library. The funds were raised by Dalton’s Kid Corps by hosting a hat day fundraiser on National Diabetes Awareness Day last Friday.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>A whitetail doe peers through the grass near Mullan Trail Road Wednesday in Coeur d’Alene.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Chris Gross of Rathdrum throws leaves for his daughter Haley Gross, 3, at city park in Coeur d’Alene on Friday afternoon. “This is really the only place where there's all these nice leaves to play in,” Gross said.  </p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>Artist Terry Lee describes the structural features of his sculpture “The American Worker” after the piece was installed on the promenade area of McEuen Park Thursday near Front Street in Coeur d’Alene. The project, a 6-foot-6-inch bronze cast statue, took about three months to build before being sent to a foundry for completion.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>Chris Green, far left, Carmen Vukasin, 8, and Jacqueline Sottilo display candles in support of Homeless Awareness month during a vigil Monday night at Independence Point in Coeur d’Alene. More than 30 attended the event sponsored by St. Vincent de Paul of North Idaho.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>Andy Hayes shops for a pair of new skis Saturday at the 16th annual Winter Swap at the Kootenai County Fairgrounds in Coeur d’Alene. The event is hosted and organized by Silver Mountain and Lookout Pass volunteer ski patrols and a portion of the proceeds from sales of winter gear will be used for patroller training.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Will Ohlenkamp, 7, climbs to the top of a leaf pile in downtown Coeur d’Alene on Thursday afternoon. The City of Coeur d’Alene will be collecting over 1,400 tons of leaves off the streets of Coeur d’Alene until Dec. 1st.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>A pair of horses bask in the afternoon sun Wednesday in a pasture near Mullan Trail Road in Coeur d’Alene.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Nancy Wood speaks to the 3C’s Book Club about a 1930’s rowing oar that her father, Robin Montgomery, obtained while attending University of Washington in the early 1930’s with members of the 1936 Olympic rowing team. Montogermy was instrumental in funding for the University of Washington’s Rowing team. The 3C’s Book Club just finished reading “The Boys of the Boat” about the nine Americans who won gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Landen Butterfield, front, and Hudson Funk pass bags of blankets to a St. Vincent de Paul van at Post Falls High School on Friday afternoon. The Post Falls Link Crew collected 465 blankets and $1,100 for the Kootenai County Humane Society and St. Vincent de Paul.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Brad Case, Executive Chef of Fedora’s Pub and Grille, grabs a turkey out of the oven in preparation for Thursday’s free 3rd Annual free Thanksgiving dinner. Fedora’s will serve the community from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. and expects around 1,200 people.</p>