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Girl Scouts asking for support during Idaho Gives

Girl Scouts asking for support during Idaho Gives

Girl Scouts of Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho is hoping the region will jump on board and donate during the first ever Idaho Gives campaign.

 

Idaho Gives is a 24 hour giving campaign sponsored by the Idaho Nonprofit Center. The event gives donors the opportunity to give to any of the 531 participating non profits across Idaho. For every $10 donation made groups will be entered to win a Golden Ticket prize. The more donors that GSEWNI gets, the more chances they have to win prize money.

 

Groups have also been divided by size into three separate scoreboards. Each scoreboard carries an additional $5,000 worth of prize money that will be divided between the top five money raisers at the end of the day. Idaho Gives also features an Everybody Wins Award, this award takes a general pool of money and divides it by the percentage if the total raised. For example, if Girl Scouts raises one percent of the total for the entire campaign, then they receive one percent of the Everybody Wins Award.

Pink tractor at the finish line

Pink tractor at the finish line

Race for the Cure runners will be greeted by something new at the finish line this year. A bright pink tractor. Northwest Farm Credit Services have been working with volunteers and donors from across the North Idaho and Eastern Washington region to get the tractor ready in time for its race day debut.

 

Northwest FCS is the finish line sponsor at this year's Race for the Cure and they wanted something big to greet finishers. Jennifer Rohrer, the Public Relations Communications Coordinator, saw a picture of a pink tractor online and thought it would be a great way to represent the communities that they serve.

 

Family Seeks Community Help in Treatment for Daughter

Family Seeks Community Help in Treatment for Daughter

LEWISTON, ID - Family and friends of a Lewiston toddler are asking for the public's help in raising money to help send the young girl outside of the region for specialized treatment for a rare type of brain tumor.

Moscow Accepting Farmers Market Commission Applicants

Moscow Accepting Farmers Market Commission Applicants

 

April 2, 2013 (Moscow, Idaho) — The City of Moscow is now accepting applications for the Farmer Market Commission, created by City Council action on March 18, 2013. The new Commission has been charged with suggesting ways to promote and improve the Farmers Market, propose and/or review Market policies, keep abreast of trends and opportunities for advancing Market interests, products, standards, and offerings, and to otherwise act in an advisory role to the Council.  Membership for the Commission will include Farmers Market vendors (3), the Chamber of Commerce (1), University of Idaho Extension (1), and four at-large community positions. 

 

Applications are being accepted for all positions.  The City invites citizens who are interested in the Market and would like to serve to consider applying.  Candidates for at-large positions may not be relatives of Market vendors, employed by the Chamber of Commerce, or employed by the University of Idaho Extension office.

 

Cougar Crimson license plate craze continues

Cougar Crimson license plate craze continues

More Washington state drivers than ever before are seeing red – in the form of Cougar Crimson.

Since the new crimson Washington State University vehicle plates went on sale in early 2012, they’ve been selling at a clip that outpaces all other specialty plates in the state. Today, the new crimson plate has been mounted to the bumpers of more than 7,000 vehicles from Makah Bay to Newport and from Blaine to Goldendale.

Sally van Boheemen, the WSU Alumni Association’s 1st-vice president and mother of a proud WSU grad, said sales of the new plate over the past 12 months have driven the total number of active WSU plates on Washington roads to 16,257, making it by far the most popular of the state’s specialty license plates.

Photo contest: We want your best pictures from the mountain!

Photo contest: We want your best pictures from the mountain!

 

With ski season entering its final stretch, we at KXLY want to see the awesome mountain photos you took of your friends and family shredding.

Send your best shots to news4@kxly.com (with the subject line: Photo contest), and the newsroom will vote on the best photo, which will be shown during Chief Meteorologist Kris Crocker's ski report on Friday's newscasts. We will put together a slideshow for the KXLY Communities sites, so even if you don't win, your work will still be showcased.

Make sure to include where you are, the name of the photographer, names of the people in the photo and your contact information so you can be reached for a short story.

So sift through those awesome stills of your loved ones dominating some pow-pow and send them in for a chance to be shown to the Inland Northwest.