Crafty Cravings showcases local talent

New gift store features variety of hand-made items

POST FALLS - Pam Gassaway has been an avid crafter most of her life and has always wanted a permanent place to sell and showcase her and others' work.

2020-21 Upland Forecast:

Here's what hunting looks like across the state

Signs point to solid season

Recalling a 4-legged friend each spring

Food for Thought

This morning starts as most Sunday mornings, with a cup of coffee, the morning paper and CBS Sunday Morning on the television. Relaxing in my PJ's sitting in my man-chair, I finish my second cup of coffee then look out the window of my living room to take the pulse of what the day has to offer. The weather on this drizzly, spring day decides fishing with my grandchildren is out and yard work in a raincoat will be the task of the day.

STORM: That was a tornado

I read your front page article concerning some houses in the  Hayden Lake area that were damaged by the abrupt windstorm last week.  I can say that here in Dalton Gardens, I was out after 8:30 p.m., I was putting up some rebuilt metal shelves to store as extra shelf space in my new green house.  I noticed that clouds coming out of the west were particularly fast moving.  It had been real calm as to the wind until those clouds came very swiftly overhead.  Then in a matter of minutes, especially when I went to feed the dogs, the wind had become particularly strong and had a whirling sound in it.  A very fast whirling sound.  I also saw a low hanging giant wedged-shaped cloud over the hills.  It was, by that time to the southeast.  But it wouldn't surprise me that it had come over the Hayden Lake area.  Tornadoes are known to move pretty erratically.  And this definitely looked like and further sounded like a tornado.  The wind was loud enough that even my mother heard it and thought it was "cars traveling in front of the house"  or rain.  And had soon come out to see what was going on.

Cd'A: Welcome to Ferguson

I am proposing that the name of Coeur d’Alene be changed to Ferguson. Ours is the most recent city to find a white police officer guilty of murder. This time a black dog. That qualifies us to make the citizens of Coeur d’Alene a racist city! I never thought that Coeur d’Alene residents or The Press would buy into a mob mentality that was to be spread by mob violence and the general press. Has no one ever been frightened by a dog? I would suggest each of us has been at one time or another in our life!

Donald Walker, 99

Donald Everette Walker, 99, of Coeur d’Alene, passed away Nov. 16, 2012. Don was born to Alfred E. and Eva M. (Wiggins) Walker on Sept. 10, 1913, in Epping, N.D.; the youngest of six children.

A column with some meat to it

You learn something new every day. At least that is what we are led to believe.

Spring into some fun

COEUR d’ALENE — Archery, herding dogs, monster trucks, carnival rides.

Toxic food additives we love to eat

This week I would like to jump onto my soapbox and rant a bit about food. More specifically, toxic food additives we love to eat.

Do you take OTC medications seriously?

According to one survey, nearly one-third of consumers polled said that they did not consider over-the-counter (OTC) medications to be as "serious" as prescribed medications. Are you among those who think this way?

Summer is time to run the dog or exercise

Running the dog is what we call getting the dog some exercise during the summer months because his workout regime has been similar to an average college student on spring break.

Oregon's Cannon Beach reopens after cougar sighting on iconic coastal rock led to closure

State biologists believe the cougar ventured to Haystack Rock at low tide Saturday night to hunt birds, a behavior they have not previously witnessed at that site

CHICKENS: Squabble should be addressed

I am writing this in regard to the article in the Coeur d'Alene Press, on the front page of the Local Section entitled "Woman cries fowl over chicken rule" dated Tuesday, Oct. 19.

MY TURN: Vote with prairie, aquifer in mind

Without natural resource protection, our paradise is lost.

Wildfires cost ranchers cattle, rangeland

Christmas for the birds, the hunters chasing them and the dogs that bring them back

He hunted with his brothers and dad on Christmas Eve and the next morning, but that was long ago, he said.

Preventing colds and flu naturally

Here are your bird flu basics

News flash: Avian flu detected in Idaho. Should we worry?

A poodle in the field is worth a ton of mutts in the bush

His dog chased squirrels like nobody’s business, and for a squirrel hunter walking from woodlot to woodlot in pursuit of the big gray or red-colored fox squirrels, any dog that was wild about pointing tree tops, stalking and fervently retrieving to hand the small upland game, was hard to beat.

Tips for hunting birds from a duck boat

Duck hunters who use a boat to get to their blinds should remember they must follow boating, as well as hunting rules. And because inclement weather is common during the duck season, it’s advisable to implement proper safety measures.