GALLERY: Best Photos of August 2016

<p>Post Falls' Macky Morris digs off a Coeur d'Alene player's serve last Tuesday at Coeur d'Alene High School.</p>

<p>Eli Ashby, 4, concentrates as he creates bubbles on Friday afternoon in his grandparents' backyard in Dalton Garden. Eli has undergone two open heart surguries, one of which was to install a mechanical mitral heart valve.</p>

<p>Northern Lakes Fire Marshal Tyler Drechsel, left, and firefighter Tyler Denham work the fire line of a roughly one-acre fire on Monday on private property near Highway 53 and Honu Court. Lightning striking a tree sparked the fire.</p>

<p>Evie Rau, 7, holds a lime-flavored shaved ice treat on Friday at Taste of Coeur d'Alene in City Park.</p>

<p>Coeur d'Alene Police Officer Ashley Caiafa, 27, will be competing in Ironman Coeur d'Alene for the first time this Sunday. The Ironman Coeur d'Alene 70.3 finisher will be racing with a black and blue triathlon suit and a matching K27 wristband as a tribute to fallen officer Sgt. Greg Moore.</p>

<p>Naomi Kanges, 7, smiles as a giant bubble is about to burst over her head on Wednesday at City Park.</p>

<p>Northern Lakes firefighter Tyler Denham douses hot spots at a roughly on-acre fire on Monday behind a private residence alongside Highway 53 near Greensferry Road.</p>

<p>David Evensizer and his son Sean look through the charred remains of their two-story home on Monday on Hillcrest Circle in Coeur d'Alene. The home, which the Evansizers lived in for more than six years, caught flame Sunday evening. No injuries were reported, however the family lost three pets.</p>

<p>Jerry Briggs, a pilot on the "Maid in the Shade" B-25 bomber, stands near the tail section of the plane on Wednesday at the Coeur d'Alene Airport. The plane flew 15 combat missions in Italy in late 1944.</p>

<p>Post Falls' Zach Lari, top, grapples with Tony Sanchezduring the 145 pound MMA fight at King of the Kage on Thursday at the Coeur d'Alene Casino Resort.</p>

<p>Eric York drags scraps of steel from a trailer into a dump pile on Wednesday at Hern Iron Works in Coeur d'Alene. York has frequently recycled scrap metal at Hern Iron Works for five years.</p>

<p>Stephanie Hall holds her 2-year-old daughter Sophia as she hula hoops with 15 others on Thursday at Natural Grocers while attempting to break the world record for most people hula-hooping at the same time for two minutes. More than 120 Natural Grocers locations participated in the attempt as it was live-streamed on Facebook. The current record is 4,700 people.</p>

<p>Lake City sophomore Greyden Lee (10) battles for a header against Jack Rinck of Sandpoint at a jamboree on Wednesday at Lake City High School. The Timberwolves defeated the Bulldogs 2-0.</p>

<p>The American Flag is paraded around the arena before the start of the Gem State Stampede Coeur d'Alene PRCA Rodeo.</p>

<p>Walt Schrading of Birmingham, Ala., fixes his flat tire at an aid station on Highway 95.</p>

<p>Fair-goers watch fireworks explode over the Kootenai County Fairgrounds during opening night at the North Idaho State Fair Wednesday night.</p>

<p>People view art at the Juried Art Show at Art on the Green.</p>

<p>Plummer resident Jesse Hodgson hands a banana to Douglas Reeves, of McMinnville, OR., as he bikes south on Highway 95, Saturday, during Ironman Coeur d'Alene.</p>

<p>Atlas Elementary School Principal Heather Somers grabs backpacks donated by the Kroc Center and Coeur d'Alene Tribe, Wednesday, out of a car at the school parking for kids in need as part of the Tools 2 School Pick up program.</p>

<p>Kyli Cantrell, center, of Post Falls, places an athlete's gear bag in the bike-to-run transition area at City Park.</p>

<p>The sun sets Friday night at the North Idaho State Fair.</p>

<p>Light reflects off of Barry Shingar's (3) car as he drives into turn three during the Idaho 200 Saturday night at the Stateline Speedway in Post Falls.</p>

<p>Scott Dodson, of Coeur d'Alene, waters down sand donated from Central Pre-Mix for a sandcastle, Wednesday, before this weekend's Art on The Green at North Idaho College. This is Dodson's seventeenth year at Art on The Green carving a castle, totaling around 16 tons of sand.</p>

<p>People ride the YoYo at the North Idaho State Fair on Wednesday.</p>

<p>Kelsey O'Haver watches bikers wiz by Seasons of Coeur d'Alene during Ironman Coeur d'Alene on Sunday.</p>

<p>JerrySue Limandri paddles her way up the Spokane River to Lake Coeur d'Alene with other Coeur d'Alene Canoe and Kayak Club goers Thursday evening during Thursday Night Paddle.</p>

<p>Norine Cowell views Rodi Sheet Ludlum's fabric pottery art, Friday, at Art on the Green 2016.</p>

<p>Individuals rush into the waters of Lake Coeur d'Alene from the starting line of the Coeur d'Alene Triathlon Saturday morning at City Beach.</p>

<p>A runner makes his way down Sherman Avenue to the finish line of Ironman Coeur d'Alene on Sunday under smoke a smoke filled sky.</p>

<p>Fire fighters work to contain smoke of a three alarm three story building fire at 325 Sherman Ave in downtown Coeur d'Alene Wednesday night. Occupants were successfully evacuated from the building. The cause of the fire is under investigation.</p>

<p>Jed McKinlay holds on as he is bucked up and down while riding bareback Friday night at the Gem State Stampede Coeur d'Alene PRCA Rodeo.</p>

<p>Karissa Wilson of Cle Elum, Wash. begins the climb up Mica Grade on Highway 95.</p>

<p>Athletes swim to City Beach during the first leg of Ironman Coeur d'Alene.</p>

<p>Hayden native Bryan Langford will compete in Ironman Coeur d'Alene to honor his son 8-year-old son, Conner, who died in May of 2011 due to Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy. "This is what Conner would have wanted me to do," Says Langford. </p>

<p>Michael Villane, of Little Silver, NJ., inhales as he swims in the waters of Lake Coeur d'Alene during Ironman Coeur d'Alene's first swim leg on Sunday.</p>

<p>More than 1,300 athletes from around the world gathered on Coeur d'Alene's City Beach on the morning of August 21, 2016 for the start of the 14th annual Ironman Coeur d'Alene triathlon. Participants were challenged to a 2.4-mile open water swim in Lake Coeur d'Alene, followed by a 122-mile bike ride and finishing the race with a 26.2-mile run. Thousands of spectators cheered on the athletes as they raced through the 94-degree weather for the event.</p>

<p>Judy Edwards has been the president of the Friends of the Library nonprofit for more than a decade. Edwards 'last day as president was Tuesday after serving ten years as president. She is photographed here inside the Second Story Bookstore in the Coeur d'Alene Public Library on Wednesday.</p>

<p>In this in-camera double-exposure, Kristen Yax and a competitor race the 112-mile bike portion of the Ironman Coeur d'Alene triathlon.</p>

<p>Tim Cotreau of Manchester, New Hampshire navigates the turn-around corner of the 2.4 mile swim portion.</p>

<p>Coeur d'Alene's Gillian Noll lets out a celebratory scream as she is named the victor over Kelly Clayton in the 135 pound MMA bout at King of the Kage on Thursday at the Coeur d'Alene Casino Resort.</p>

<p>Jesse Paschane, right, lights candles with his friends in memory of 17-month-old Maliki Wilburn on Monday at Crowley Park in Spokane.</p>

<p>Matt Spink, left, races Sean Yokoyama up a cedar tree trunk using traditional tree climbing spurs on Thursday at the West Coast Lumberjacks Show at the North Idaho State Fair at the Kootenai County Fairgrounds.</p>

<p>Close family friends of Maili Wilburn mourn the death of the 17-month-old boy, who allegedly suffered massive head trauma while under the supervision of his stepfather last Friday. Maliki was pronounced 100% brain dead Monday evening. After the news of Maliki's death broke,, more than 125 people gathered at Crowley Park in Spokane, Wash. to remember the boy. The people in this photo requested to not be named.</p>

<p>Post Falls senior Brittany Deitz smacks a hard spike over Coeur d'Alene's Carli Daniels on Tuesday at Coeur d'Alene High School.</p>

<p>Barbara McLean shows off pieces of cloth she uses to make quilts for children who are hospitalized. "I just feel like this is the right thing to do," McLean says. Last week, McLean recieved a Lifetime Achievement Award from President Obama for her decades of volunteerism.</p>

<p>An Ironman athlete runs underneath the Coeur d'Alene Resort skybridge on her second loop of the 26.2 mile running portion.</p>