Feature Photos - October

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Bella Mismer, 10, and her dad Josh Mismer build their cardboard house to sleep in at the beginning of the Cardboard Box City event on Friday night at Fernan Elementary School. Participants raise over $100 from friends and family and then spend the night in cardboard boxes to raise awareness for homelessness and raise money for Family Promise in Coeur d’Alene. Family Promise provides services to help homeless families with children to find sustainable housing.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Josh Mismer puts the fourth wall of his cardboard house in his Batman pajamas at the Cardboard Box City event, a fundraiser for Family Promise in North Idaho. Participants set up their houses on Friday evening and sleep in them overnight.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>Isabella McPeak, right, and Libby Kennedy react after receiving hats and mittens from Jeannie McDermott during class Monday at John Brown Elementary School in Rathdrum. The Panhandle Happy Hatters, a group of about 40, made more 350 hats while Panhandle State Bank provided a donation of $500 for as many gloves and mittens for the school’s students.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press The moon nears the full phase of a total lunar eclipse, creating a deep red color also known as a “blood moon,” at 3:24 a.m. Wednesday during the second part of a tetrad of total lunar eclipses. The first took place in April, the third is set to take place in April 2015 with the final eclipse in the tetrad set for September 2015.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>Taylor Wilcox, 4, a pre-kindergarten student at Holy Family Catholic School, thinks about a question while visiting with her grandmother Julie Smith, left, and great-grandmother Virginia Smith, left, during a Grandparent’s Day event Thursday at the Coeur d’Alene school. The event, that includes an assembly followed by refreshments in the classroom, is held annually for pre-kindergarten through second grade students as a way to honor their grandparents.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>A Halloween scene sure to frighten is illuminated in the front yard of Shawn Lambert’s Coeur d’Alene home on west Fallview Drive.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>A female moose scraps some leaves off the trees in the backyard of a house on West Blackwell Road in Coeur d’Alene on Thursday morning.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Kyle Olivier, an engineer for Hagadone, attaches artificial pine boughs to the exterior of a 65-foot-tall floating tree that will be part of the North Pole during the Holiday Lights Cruise this December.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>Hayden Adams, a first grade student at Atlas Elementary School, pulls his cape over his mouth in his vampire Halloween costume while walking the hall with class mates as part of a parade Friday in Hayden.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Low-lying clouds hide the top of Canfield Mountain on Thursday afternoon during the heavy rainstorms that hit Coeur d’Alene and the surrounding area.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>A large skeleton ghost character is among the Halloween-themed decorations at a home on west Wilbur Avenue in Coeur d’Alene.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Attendees of the Stoddard Park opening ceremony walk through the newly completed park in Hayden on Tuesday afternoon. The city of Hayden purchased the property in 2005 and the city spent $800,000 from impact fees on the project.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>Prairie View Elementary student Bailey Nipp-Berger takes off at the starting line with dozens of other second-graders during the Post Falls School District cross county meet Wednesday at Post Falls High School. Approximately 800 students participated in the event in its 12th year.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>An elderly man comforts his wife as Coeur d’Alene Police officers take statements and begin their investigation of a crash that left a passenger car on its top in the middle of Third Street just north of Foster Avenue after it collided with a parked vehicle trailer Friday in Coeur d’Alene. The couple escaped their sedan with minor injuries.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>With warm wishes from his wife, Tracy, Press Circulation Director Dan Phillips was all smiles Wednesday night at a retirement party in his honor. Phillips has been with The Press for 17 years. Today is his last day on the job.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>Coeur d’Alene Rotary Club member places cards in rose bouquets at the Coeur d’Alene Resort Friday prior to pick and distribution of 1,200 dozen roses. The roses were sold earlier this month as part of the 25th annual rose sale fundraiser for the group.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Coeur d’Alene High School sophomores Carleigh Waites, right, Kaysha Padilla, center, and Ali Williams work as a team to make a filtration system at the Women in Science event at University of Idaho on Tuesday afternoon. The University of Idaho hosted over 150 girls from Coeur d’Alene High School, Lake City High School and Coeur d’Alene Charter Academy to teach them about careers in the field of science.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>Truck driver Kevin Edwards, far right, talks on the phone as Coeur d’Alene Fire Department crews check for leaks coming from a truck, carrying a load of crushed scrap vehicles, tipped onto its side on the eastbound on-ramp of Interstate-90 near U.S. 95 Monday in Coeur d’Alene. No injuries were reported in the accident.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Fourth graders Dax Larsen, left, Branson Steckman and Corey Stewart use fruits and vegetables from the kitchen to create a pumpkin face during Melissa Giles physical education class at Skyway Elementary School on Wednesday morning.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>Crews with Cannon Hill Industries work on the demolition of the former Beachouse Restaurant Wednesday near Silver Beach in Coeur d’Alene. The restaurant, that operated as the Beachouse for more than two decades, was once a motel and was purchased by the Hagadone Corporation from the former Matelich Marine Company in the late 1980s.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Fourth graders Makenzie Bigler, left, and Cassie Zaring discover that they can use a watermelon rind as a hat for their pumpkin during a physical education lesson on Wednesday morning. Fourth graders at Skyway Elementary used kitchen scraps to learn about the five categories of fruits and vegetables they should eat on a daily basis.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>Crystal White and her daughter Anika, 10, of Hayden, feed Canada geese some scraps of her lunch Thursday along the bank of the Spokane River in Coeur d’Alene.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Freda Emtman and her youngest daughter Marie Skelton order dinner for Emtman’s 105th birthday celebration on Saturday afternoon. Emtman was born on Oct. 23, 1909 in Fairfield, Wash., raised her five kids in Kellogg, Idaho, and moved to Coeur d’Alene in 1980. “I take it one day a time. That’s what I live by,” Emtman said.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>After attaching a label, Chris Leighton, a student with Project SEARCH, left, hands a dictionary to Coeur d’Alene Elks Lodge #1254 member Pam Alexander Tuesday as volunteers prepare 842 dictionaries for delivery to third grade students in the Coeur d’Alene School District. The program, in its 12th year, combines a national Elks Club grant with member donations to purchase the reference materials for distribution.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>Drops of dew, accumulated on a vehicle in the early morning hours, are lit by the rising sun on Wednesday morning.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>Michaela Flerchinger, a junior on the Lake City High softball team, tosses candy to the crowd during the school’s homecoming parade Friday on Sherman Avenue in Coeur d’Alene.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Matthew Heinrichs, of Coeur d’Alene spins his son Grant Heinrichs, 4, while his other son Philip Heinrichs, 6, runs towards him at Bluegrass Park on Tuesday afternoon.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>Students on the freshman float reacts to cheers from spectators during Coeur d’Alene High School’s homecoming parade Friday on Sherman Avenue in Coeur d’Alene. From left, Georgia Worell, Brady Thompson, Bracken Curtis and Noah Throm.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>Lee, left, and Bob Ray describe their amazement toward a large bees nest that appeared to have fallen from a pine tree in the couple’s back yard Wednesday in Coeur d’Alene. The pair have lived in Coeur d’Alene for several decades and have never seen a nest of its size.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>Brtandon Felix, a student at Seltice Elementary, gives a high five just before crossing the finish line in first place of the first grade boys half-mile race.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>A small dog keeps a lookout from the front console of a vehicle parked along Honeysuckle Avenue Friday in Hayden.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>JR Harmon wraps lights around the branches of a tree in City Park on Thursday afternoon in preparation for the Festival of Lights that will take place this November. Over 1.5 million lights will light up downtown Coeur d’Alene for the Holiday season.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>Drew Ranquist, 4, hangs on to his skateboard after losing his balance Monday while practicing his technique on a pump track feature at the Post Falls skate park.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>The view from the summit of Stevens Peak at 6,838 feet features fall colors along the sides of the valley above Upper and Lower Stevens Lakes.</p>