Hayden Days set for July 22-23

The annual Hayden Days Celebration sponsored by Hayden Lake Rotary will be held July 22-23 at Hayden City Park.

Hayden Days events will include the annual Hayden Days Parade, NLFD/Hayden Chamber Pancake Breakfast, Kelly Hughes Band, a car show, live entertainment, cow-chip bingo, beer and wine garden, and lots of children's games and activities. There will be food and craft vendors.

The Hayden Chamber of Commerce and the Northern Lakes Fire District will host a pancake breakfast at the Northern Lakes Fire Station prior to the start of the parade. Breakfast will be served from 7-9:30 a.m. Saturday morning, July 23.

The annual Hayden Days Parade will begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday, July 23, and will run along Government Way starting at Hayden Avenue and ending at Honeysuckle Avenue.

For information, visit www.cityofhaydenid.us, call 209-1080 or email jarrotta@cityofhaydenid.us.

Hayden Lake Rotary is still accepting vendors for the event and the city of Hayden is still accepting applications for the parade.

Traffic shift needed to finish paving

COEUR d'ALENE - A major traffic shift will be required for the final pavement work on U.S. 95, from Wyoming Avenue to Idaho 53, the Idaho Transportation Department announced. Work is set to begin Wednesday and finish by September.

Traffic will be shifted from a divided four lane road to an undivided two lane road. Traffic will be rerouted at median crossovers placed at either end of the project.

The southbound lanes will be closed for paving for two to three weeks, and two-way traffic placed on the northbound lanes. When completed, traffic will be shifted again to the southbound lanes, and the northbound lanes will be paved.

Once paving is complete, the traffic signal at Lancaster Road will be activated.

The speed limit will be reduced to 45 mph at all times through the length of the project corridor.

The contractor for this $6 million project is Interstate Concrete and Asphalt, of Coeur d'Alene. The project is funded with savings from federal highway stimulus projects bid last year.