Cruisin’ for a good time
Classic cars like Linda Fleming’s ’48 Dodge “The Red Rascal” will be featured in The Flames of the Spirit car cruise Saturday.
Photo courtesy Linda Fleming
Post Falls church plans socially distanced event for community
POST FALLS — Car lovers, get ready to start your engines for Calvary Lutheran Church’s Flames of the Spirit Car Cruise.
Instead of hosting their annual car show, a car cruise will leave the church at 11 a.m. Saturday through Post Falls neighborhoods.
“It brings the community together and gives something to look forward to in all of this,” said Linda Fleming of Calvary Lutheran Church. “So many beautiful cars to be seen, gorgeous paint jobs, beautiful interiors, and the pride of ownership.”
After the city canceled the Post Falls Festival last week, the church leaders decided if the people couldn’t come to them, they would go to the people.
“It’s understandable that the city of Post Falls canceled the Post Falls Festival,” Fleming said Thursday. “We were really saddened to hear it but not surprised.”
Last year, the show featured 53 vehicles. This year Fleming is anticipating about the same.
Participating cars can line up at City Hall at 9 a.m. Fleming said cars will follow a route starting at the Plaza Retirement Center through the Windsong, Singing Hills, Fieldstone, Prairie Falls, Pioneer Ridge, Crown Point, Northern Plains, Montrose, and Camelot Estates subdivisions, staying west of Highway 41 and north of the Spokane River.
The awards ceremony will be held at Post Falls City Hall before the cruise, handing out plaques for best in the show, as well as awards for classic cars, custom cars, trucks, and rat rods.
For the past eight years, Calvary Lutheran Church has coordinated the car show as part of its fundraising efforts for different charities such as the Family Promise and Meal on Wheels. Usually, the money is raised by collecting entrance fees from car owners but because of the lack of a showing, the church is asking for canned and nonperishable food donations.
Any monetary donations will be split between the Post Falls Food Bank and sponsoring teens to attend the National Youth Conference next summer.
“We want the people to know if they hear a bunch of honking that we are doing a vintage car cruise and they should come outside to join us,” Fleming said. “We just hope the community will enjoy it.”