Feature Photos - August

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Peter Dragomir, 14, jumps over his sister Kristina Dragomir, 13, at the cliffs on Tubbs Hill on Tuesday afternoon.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>Warren Amelsberg, with Jacobson Tree Service, works on cutting limbs off a tree trunk as crews work to remove debris from the roof of a home on Vista Drive Friday in Coeur d’Alene. Shortly before 7:00 a.m. the homeowners and nearby golfers heard a couple of popping sounds before the tree top crashed onto the home.</p>

<p><span>TESS FREEMAN/Press</span></p><p><span>Devon Dorn, an intern with NIC Outdoor Pursuits, practices a kayak roll during a kayaking class on Wednesday afternoon.</span></p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Brandon Hillding attempts practices a trick between competitions at the Coeur d’Alene Skateboard Classic at the Coeur d’Alene Skatepark on Saturday afternoon. The event had a total of 18 competitors and the winner won a year long sponsorship with Reel Cameras.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Chris Weitzel, with Parkwood Business Properties, picks up pieces of the Interlake Medical Building Sign after a driver ran into it on Friday morning.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Randy Young, a metro aviation pilot, watches Josiah Heisz, 5, explore the Northwest MedStar helicopter at the Kootenai County’s National Night Out celebration on Tuesday night. Kootenai County law enforcement, fire departments and other public agencies participated in the event to help promote crime prevention and public safety.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Spencer Slaven-Lazzar and Jaime Cochran sprint into Lake Coeur d’Alene during the start of the Coeur d’Alene Stand-up Paddle Board Cup at the NIC beach on Saturday morning.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Serenity Horner, 5, pets Hermes the goat inside the goat barn at the North Idaho Fair and Rodeo on Friday morning.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>Stu Miller lifts weights from a laying position Thursday during the Pump in the Park fundraiser at Peak Health and Wellness in Post Falls. The event benefits the Boys and Girls Club of Kootenai County.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Jovanni Stanton, 4, tries on a Northern Lakes firefighter’s gear at Kootenai County’s National Night out Celebration in Hayden on Tuesday evening.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Steve Bruno, right,  Sam Clevenger and Dave Holinka prepare hamburgers for the Post Falls Community Picnic in Q’emilin Park.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Brooke Dodson, 8, watches two men construct a sand castle made of 16 tons of sand at the Art on the Green at the NIC campus.</p>

<p>JAKE PARRISH/Press</p><p>Paradise Creek Brewery owner Tom Handy pours Mark Vehr of Coeur d'Alene a cup of Huckleberry Pucker on Saturday at the North Idaho Trail Foundation's Ales for Trails microbrew festival in McEuen Park. The festival raises money to fund the Centennial Trail, and offers live music and beer tasting.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>People browse the arts and crafts at the 2014 Street Fair on Sherman Ave. The fair featured over 250 venders.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Spencer Slaven-Lazzar paddles towards the finish line of the five mile race in the Coeur d’Alene Stand-up Paddle Board Cup. Slaven-Lazzar finished first with a time of 55 minutes and 58 seconds.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Lane Boyle, of the Idaho Department of Lands, waits for a helicopter to lower it’s pulley at the Idaho National Guard DET 1 1-112th Aviation’s helicopter rescue training. The Idaho National Guard trained five agencies from Kootenai County in passenger helicopter rescue at Fernan Saddle in Coeur d’Alene National Forest on Wednesday afternoon.</p>

<p>JAKE PARRISH/Press </p><p>Enthusiast check out wooden boats tied to the Coeur d'Alene Resort Marina during the Coeur d'Alene annual Wooden Boat show. </p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>From left: Gabriel Johnson, Karl Haakenson, and Jens Kuetemeyer of Coeur d’Alene let the water out of their kayaks during an NIC Outdoor Pursuits kayak class on Wednesday afternoon. North Idaho College welcomed students back with various activities during Week of Welcome.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Janne Sappington, right, and Joyce Wrightman, of Mission of Charity, thank Midge Smock, Owner and Treasurer of Winderemere Foundation, for the grant they received at the Windermere Grant Presentation on Tuesday morning. The Windermere Foundation gave a total of $26,650 to 21 local non-profits.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Post Falls Community Volunteer Morgan Holinka, 14, serves Bill Jones a hamburger at the Post Falls Community Picnic on Thursday evening. The Post Falls Community Picnic is the Post Falls Community Volunteers biggest fundraiser of the year.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>Farmer Ed Jacquot operates a combine while harvesting oats Monday in a field that he and his brother farm east of Huetter Road and north of Hayden Avenue on the Rathdrum Prairie. The 120-acre field can take about a week to complete a harvest that yields some 250-tons of oats.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>The sun appears as a giant red disk as it sets behind a stand of trees Monday in Coeur d’Alene.</p>

<p>JAKE PARRISH/Press</p><p>From left to right, U.S. Army Specialist Samantha Young, Kootenai County Search and Rescue volunteer Matt Dill, Coeur d'Alene Fire Department Deputy Chief Jim Washko and Kootenai County Sheriff's Office Deputy Chris Fresh watch as a rescue helicopter approaches their evacuation site during a helicopter rescue training drill Tuesday at Fernan Saddle in the Coeur d'Alene National Forest. The training involved evacuating a "patient" from the ground via helicopter using a system of pulleys.</p>

<p>MIKE CURRY/Press</p><p>Jayden Rowe,15, finishes the final touches on her mural on the side the parks and recreation building in Rathdrum.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>Corey Kupperman, of Coeur d’Alene, tosses a frisbee toward the 8th basket of the Cherry Hill disc golf course Thursday while playing the course with his father.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Jeannene Christ from the Cute as a Bug Mobile Petting Zoo gives Ellie Rivadeneira, 2,  Emmet Rivadeneira, 3 and Ryder Weingart, 3 on her camel Tex at the North Idaho Fair and Rodeo on Thursday afternoon.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>Bill Smith uses a metal detector in a sandy volleyball court Tuesday at the Coeur d’Alene City Park. Smith, who has been metal detecting for about 35 years, pulled his largest haul of 70 holed coins in South Korea, including a Chinese coin dating back 1,000 years.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Tiffani Bartel and her son Austin Bartel, 3, of Hayden stop to talk to Lena Cooley about the kids activities at the Taste of Coeur d’Alene this weekend. The Kiwanis of the Idaho Panhandle provided free activities for kids at the Taste of Coeur d’Alene.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>The recipients of grants from the Windermere Foundation stand for a photo. The Windermere Foundation gave a total of $26,650 to 21 local non-profits.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Alper Ender, 18, left, Andy Hollinger, 23, and Everett Secor, 22, cut drywall for a Habitat for Humanity house in Coeur d’Alene on the tenth stop of their Bike and Build trip across America to raise awareness for affordable housing. The group started in Providence, R.I. on June 9, 2014 and stopped in ten cities to help build affordable houses before arriving in their final destination Seattle, Wash.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Walter Dootson, left and Tim Wardell, from the Gunfighters play the bad guys in their show Tumbleweed Crossing at the North Idaho Fair and Rodeo on Wednesday afternoon.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>The Coeur d’Alene Fire Department transport Glenn Everts, 60, of Coeur d’Alene to the Kootenai Health after a two vehicle accident caused Everts to wreck into the Interlake Medical Building sign on Ironwood Drive and Highway 95. Everts and Ashley Crouch, 25, the driver of the other vehicle, were taken to Kootenai Health after the accident.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Scott Dodson cleans off the cement near his sandcastle at the 46th annual Art on the Green event. Dodson used 16 tons of sand for the sandcastle, which is expected to last 2 weeks after the event.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>From left, Stephen Bottoms, Shirley Welker, Katie and Lori Lynch briskly walk along the sidewalk near Second Street after crossing Sherman Avenue Tuesday during a sudden storm in Coeur d’Alene.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Sheri Mcilvain, left, and her mother Mary Allison help Mcilvain’s daughter Cari Anne Cranney choose a bracelet from Spoonfoolery at Art on the Green on Friday evening</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>Idaho Gov. Butch Otter responds to interview questions from Lauren Sanders during a stop at the storycatcher project booth at Art on the Green on the North Idaho College campus Friday in Coeur d’Alene.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>Mercy Jacobsen and her husband Joel dance in a vacant shop space Tuesday as the band Bakin’ Phat plays in the Coeur d’Alene Resort Plaza Shops. The free concert, normally performed at Sherman Square Park, was moved due to inclement weather.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Austin Gondos, 2, navigates through the kids pedal maze at the North Idaho Fair and Rodeo on Friday afternoon.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>Emergency personnel with the Coeur d’Alene Fire Department and the Coeur d’Alene Police Department work the scene of a vehicle that came to rest on it top after colliding with a parked SUV and rolling over Friday on 15th Street north of Margaret Avenue. Crews were working with the parties involved in a two-car accident at the nearby intersection when the female driver of the white SUV collided with a vehicle parked on the shoulder of 15th Street, causing her to rollover. After extraction, the driver was transported to Kootenai Health with …

<p>MIKE CURRY/Press</p><p>Robbe O’Neill,15, dips his brush in a container of paint while signing his skatepark-themed artwork on the side of the City of Rathdrum Parks and Recreation building Friday.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Mika Nasta, 6, molds a squirrel out of clay at the kids craft area, part of the Art on the Green event at the NIC campus.</p>

<p>SHAWN GUST/Press</p><p>A tree rests on top of a KHQ news vehicle after being blown over in the parking lot near Independence Point Tuesday during a storm that brought heavy winds and rains through Coeur d’Alene.</p>

<p>MIKE CURRY/Press</p><p>Connor Wade, member of the band Sheepbridge Jumpers, plays his violin while practicing during a break in their tour Monday in the Coeur d’Alene City Park.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>From left Jared Bellefeuille, Bri Barnhill, Nick Dorsey, and Adi Ceriello try to pop a balloon on their stomachs by hugging during Post Fall High School’s freshman orientation called LINK on Thursday morning.</p>

<p>TESS FREEMAN/Press</p><p>Elizabeth Hoerner, 12, right, Mary Hoerner, 7, center and their grandmother Miriam McFadden swim in Lake Coeur d’Alene on Tuesday afternoon. Temperatures are expected to drop below 80 degrees for the rest of the week in Coeur d’Alene.</p>