Feature Photos - January
<p>Courtney Johnson, a kindergarten student at Fernan Elementary School, reacts as she holds her balloon hovercraft art project up to her ear on Monday night during Fernan Family Engineering and Technology Night in Coeur dAlene.</p>
<p>Bryan Elementary 4th graders Cooper Erickson, left, Kyle Seman and Olivia Jolley trade football cards with fellow students on Friday during the school's sports themed lunch. Students that participated in hot lunch were given a football card from the school.</p>
<p>Roan Wheelan shovels fresh snow from a pathway to a homemade hockey rink on Fernan Lake on Saturday afternoon. Temperatures below freezing have solidified a layer of ice that is five inches thick on Fernan Lake.</p>
<p>David Baze, a shooting guard for the North Idaho College mens basketball team, keeps the ball out of reach of Kyler Cooley on Monday while the team visited children on the basketball court at the Boys and Girls Club of North Idaho in Post Falls.</p>
<p>Kootenai County Fire and Rescue works with Ground Force employees pull a rope on the scene of an industrial accident at Ground Force. An employee was spraying the inside of a tank when he suffered a medical emergency, according to Chief Scot Haug. Post Falls Police officers were able to successfully remove the unidentified employee from the tank and transport him to Kootenai Health.</p>
<p>Elsie Deane, of Coeur dAlene, celebrated her 100th birthday on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2015 at the Garden Plaza of Post Falls. Deane moved to Coeur dAlene four years ago to be closer to her son, one of her four children. I had a good time dancing and raising children, Deane said. I never believed I would make it to 100.</p>
<p>At the edge of the fog, Sommersby Picard, left, and Dakota Ray practice yoga on a quiet Monday morning at McEuen Park in Coeur d'Alene.</p>
<p>A bald eagle takes flight after feeding on a carcass on the ice on Fernan Lake on Monday afternoon.</p>
<p>Erin Wright helps her son Caleb Wright, 8, put on his gloves during a commemorative march and rally organized by the local Right to Life chapter in Coeur dAlene. The event started with speakers Nancy Tefft with Open Arms Pregnancy Care Center and Real Choices Clinic and Dr. Thomas deTar and was followed by a march down Highway 95.</p>
<p>Kate White, 5th grader at Bryan Elementary School asks for some Seahawks pudding on Friday during the schools sports themed lunch. Students were encouraged to wear their favorite sports team's jersey and hat to school today.</p>
<p>Samantha Lee, a seventh-grade student at Post Falls Middle School, reacts after being announced the winner of the Credit 2 Kids winner by Spokane Teachers Credit Union and KREM 2 for her volunteer work during a presentation Friday in Post Falls. Lee has donated about 40 in the first semester tutoring fellow students after school hours. Post Falls Middle School received $500 on her behalf.</p>
<p>Kootenai County firefighter Rusty Kramer and Lieutenant Frank Harwood carry wood panels from a house that suffered from an electrical fire on Cecil Road in Post Falls on Tuesday afternoon. The fire was caused by a electrical splice that overheated in-between the walls of the bedroom causing minimal damage.</p>
<p>Jaden Alicea, front, and Johnny Delbridge dodge a fallen utility pole on Appleway Drive on Tuesday afternoon. A driver of a Ford F-350 truck was traveling eastbound on Appleway Drive when their tire spun out causing them to hit the pole.</p>
<p>Tristin Dunn, 19, sleds down the hill behind the Coeur dAlene Fire Station #3 during heavy snowfall on Friday afternoon. </p>
<p>Jim Markley, water superintendent for the City of Coeur dAlene, right, and councilman Dan Gookin discuss how the workings of the newest water well during a dedication ceremony Friday at the well site on Atlas Road in Coeur dAlene. The system will increase pumping capacity of the city from 37 million gallons per day to 43 million gallons per day. A a 600-horsepower engine that is capable of pumping 4,000 gallons of water per minute and went online in December.</p>
<p>Mica Kidd Island Fire Protection District Chief Jason Blubaum returned from vacation recently to find his office painted pink by his volunteer firefighters. Chief Blubaum has had several family members diagnosed with breast cancer, including his mom who is undergoing treatment. It was the best christmas present Ive ever received, Blubaum said.</p>
<p>Aman Sterling from the City of Coeur dAlene Street Department, saws off a branch of a freshly cut down tree next to West River Avenue on North Idaho College campus on Wednesday morning. The City of Coeur dAlene Street Department cut down trees next to West River Drive to prevent further damage to the street.</p>
<p>Kolten King, 6, feeds geese, ducks and seagulls at the water fowl feeding area on the Spokane River on Friday afternoon.</p>
<p>Cody Lippy, 12, left, is launched into the air after hitting a jump while sledding with Mark Priebe, 11, on Cherry Hill Monday in Coeur dAlene.</p>
<p>Friends and family of Veronica Rutledge, the 29-year-old Blackfoot, Idaho woman who was accidentally shot by her 2-year-old son at the Hayden Walmart last Tuesday, grieve near the steps of St. Thomas Catholic Church Tuesday in Coeur dAlene. The Family of Veronica "Roni" Rutledge has established a memorial fund to help offset the cost of funeral costs. Donations can be made to the Veronica Rutledge Memorial Fund at any US Bank location.</p>
<p>Kootenai County Fire and Rescue firefighters remove the insulation from a garage that caught fire on East First Street in Post Falls on Thursday morning. Kootenai County Fire and Rescue responded to the fire at 10:07 a.m. The cause of the fire is non-suspicious but still officially undetermined.</p>