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Marimn Health Coeur Center a safe, fun space for youth, community members

Marimn Health Coeur Center a safe, fun space for youth, community members

UPDATED Letter from CDA School District

The Board of Trustees is scheduled to consider moving the entire District from the Yellow to the Orange risk level at a special board meeting Monday at 11:30 a.m.

Idaho employers should support 'Add the Words'

Our Idaho Legislature has considered amending the Idaho Human Rights Act to include "sexual orientation" and "sexual identity" as protected classes. This amendment would prohibit workplace and housing discrimination based on these characteristics. Our Legislature has rejected this amendment during the 2012 and 2013 legislative sessions.

Seasonal health

Doctor of Oriental Medicine

As I put my garden to bed for the winter, I find myself reflecting on the parallels between our gardens, nature and ourselves. This is a significant time of year, where great changes occur, and the type of stressors we encounter morphs us into a chaotic jumble of dis-ease.

Slow and steady wins the race with preventing holiday weight gain

Increasing your pant size may seem inevitable this winter season as so many of us seem to munch our way through the holidays. At parties and days of celebration, we often find ourselves grazing throughout the day or eating plates and plates full of mouthwatering classics. By the end of the day, pants are tight, stomachs are uncomfortable and pounds are added. Believe it or not, there is one small strategy that we dietitians recommend that does not involve changing or avoiding your favorite treats: PACING. The old saying is right, "slow and steady wins the race."

CBE: This is who we are

Two weeks ago, before the Cd'A School Board Election, Citizens for Better Education ("CBE") found itself the subject of a despicable, desperate political attack. In an effort to discredit the new trustee candidates, who were supported and endorsed by CBE, City Councilman Mike Kennedy started a brief firestorm with his "tweet" falsely suggesting a connection between CBE and the Aryan Nations. It didn't work, and the people chose wisely, electing Terri Seymour and Tom Hamilton to the Board of Trustees.

The power of vitamin supplements

Doctor of Oriental Medicine

As we witness the deplorable state of health the people of this nation is in, more and more health conscious consumers are turning toward alternatives. One of those alternatives is supplements. Vitamins, minerals, herbs and more, comprise a multi-billion dollar industry, as we search for solutions to our decaying health. Unfortunately, most are using supplements with a drug-like approach. This undermines the power that supplements can really be.

Tribe: Let compromise prevail

It's time to buckle down and address one of the biggest budget issues this country has faced in decades, the "fiscal cliff" - a series of expiring tax cuts and automatic spending cuts that are set to go into effect in January 2013 unless Congress acts.

Can we stop cells from aging?

Ask Dr. K

Virginia Walton, 83

Virginia Teataphi Walton, 83, departed from her loved ones in her home at 8:15 AM, Monday, September 30, 2013. Memorial Services will be held at a later date. She is succeeded by two children Candi Landers and Monty Belknap, eight grandchildren, and 18 great grandchildren preceded in death by one child Ernest Bristow. Virginia was born in Port Angeles Washington to Ernest Wellington Constans and Dorothy Tipton. The oldest of eight siblings, Jim Jacobson and Skip Snyder survive. She spent the last years before her passing as a freelance crafter and avid baker. To her family she was a beaming reminder that at any age you can still retain a zest for life and a strong admiration for family. Being deaf gave Virginia an opportunity to express maternal warmth outside the realm of commonplace insincerity; however, she was never at a loss for words. Her insurmountable positivity and vigor made her welcome in all surroundings especially around Holidays and gatherings. Her eccentric character was something to be admired; a myriad of interests and wealth of unique expression made her charm inescapably loving and tender, combined with her passion for family there was never a moment wasted and never a plate absent of homemade goods made from scratch. Always giving, and grateful in return, she had a gift to make inhibitions vanish. Overwhelming everyone with lasting compassion, any reflection on individual exchange is nothing more than buoyant and carefree. As woman with many titles it’s hard to focus on a singular aspect that made her great but through exhibiting an enormous sense of wonder she remains at the bottom of our hearts as an inspiration to everyone. As she earns her wings it’s an unfortunate reminder that we have to learn to spread ours without her. She was the current that kept our lives effervescent and the wind that raised us. Our fridges will be vacant of marvels, our faces absent of glow, and our hearts empty of laughter. She will be dearly missed. Please visit Virginia’s online memorial at www.yatesfuneralhomes.com and sign her guest book.

Vtest your stress

Doctor of Oriental Medicine

If we really evaluated stress, its impact in our lives, and especially on our health, we would be wise to approach it like an inventor would. When a company produces a new product, during research and development, it must go through stringent testing. Tests frequently used are Stress Tests. There are two basic types of stress tests - Tensile Strength (aka: Ultimate Strength), and Compressive Strength.

Nelson: Firing Delavan was wrong

Recently, regarding issues at the airport, there have been reporting and comments attributed to me which are inaccurate. I did not support Mr. Delavan's dismissal. I was not in attendance in the meeting when he was dismissed. Furthermore, I do not support how the dismissal was handled. Mr. Delavan is a long-term county employee who has served as the airport director for many years. He has been a stalwart advocate for the airport. During the past 10 years, he has overseen nearly $18 million in FAA grant funds for airport improvement projects. Under his direction, our airport is becoming much closer to operating as a self-sustaining department. In the past few years, fee-based revenues are steadily increasing and the airport is much less reliant on taxpayers for operational support.

Two critical appointments to be made

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Celebrate – and preserve – the Constitution today

As a constitutional law professor, the Fourth of July provides me an opportunity to appraise the health of our grand “experiment,” a term Thomas Jefferson used to describe our constitutional democracy. While there is certainly much to cause alarm, there is also much to celebrate.

Community Thanks

GOLF: Scramble was a success

A back-to-school message from Grammy

Dear Grandchildren,

ADVERTISING: Advertorial — Way too many women suffer!

Way too many women suffer! So often I hear women suffering “at that time of month.”

Public hearing needed for big Hayden Lake decisions

Many of the lake front property owners on Hayden Lake believe we have a right to protect our shoreline property and docks from damage and erosion, help the kayak and paddleboard users needing a safe zone on the lake, and swimmers that are left totally unprotected. It has been clearly reported many times that the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office doesn’t have the equipment or manpower to be enforcing to any minimal degree the abuses and violations occurring on the lake. Mr. Steve Meyer’s comment about simply wanting to educate people as to what 200 feet looks like is simply naive and is why we all have our legal buoys 200 feet from the shore and dock in the first place. Enforcing the use of legal buoys that are truly set at 200 feet makes sense, but to mandate the complete removal of all the buoys and replacing them with only 14 buoys is insane!

What's behind distortion of reality

What's happening in Kootenai County is happening coast to coast, too.

OPINION: Condemn racism and build a better future for Kootenai County

As Chair of the Kootenai County Democratic Central Committee, I am deeply troubled by recent events surrounding the NCAA Women's Basketball tournament held in Spokane. The fact that teams competing in the tournament felt compelled to change hotels from Coeur d'Alene to Spokane due to racism directed at them is not just a stain on our community, but a reminder of the work we still have ahead of us in combating bigotry and intolerance.