North Idaho Briefs April 6, 2012
Coeur d'Alene Press | UPDATED 14 years AGO
Free class on credit reports will be offered April 25
POST FALLS - A free class on credit reports will be held at the Post Falls branch of Inland Northwest Bank, 1729 E. Seltice Way, on April 25 from 6-7 p.m.
Call 777-0887 to save a space.
Information will be provided by Money Management International and presented by Marcia Dorwin and Carmen Jacobs of Inland Northwest Bank.
The class will cover what a credit report is, who uses a report, where information comes from in your credit report, how to get a free copy of your credit report, different components of your credit score and identity fraud.
NIC president candidates to meet the public next week
The public is invited to attend open forums all next week to meet and pose questions to the candidates for North Idaho College's new president.
Each forum will be held in the Edminster Student Union Building, Lake Coeur d'Alene Room.
Candidate forums are scheduled from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. as followed:
* Denise Yochum, April 9
* Nathan "Clark" Williams, April 11
* Karin Hilgersom, April 12
* Jack Becherer, April 13
In addition, a candidate forum with candidate Joseph Dunlap is 1-2 p.m., April 10
A complete presidential profile and other information on the search process can be found by visiting www.nic.edu/presidentialsearch.
'Education Under Fire' documentary will be screened Monday
COEUR d'ALENE - The Bah'' community and Human Rights Education Institute are co-sponsoring a public screening of the documentary, Education Under Fire, 5-630 p.m. Monday at the Human Rights Education Institute, 414 W. Mullan.
The documentary addresses the continued government-sanctioned persecution of specific groups in Iran and "the blatant disregard of Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which guarantees education as an inalienable right of every human being."
The film will focus on the experience of one among many persecuted Iranian groups, the Bah'' Community.
Education Under Fire is a campaign developed to address the Iranian government's denial of the right to education for ideological and religious reasons.
Info: 765-1830 or 699-6051
Child dies after falling into frozen Montana pond
KALISPELL, Mont. - A 2 1/2-year-old boy died Tuesday night after he fell into a frozen pond in Lincoln County.
The boy had been airlifted to Kalispell Regional Medical Center early Tuesday afternoon after being pulled, unresponsive, from the pond.
He was pronounced dead at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the hospital.
According to a press release from the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office, at 12:37 p.m., emergency responders were called to the Edna Creek area in north Lincoln County.
When law enforcement and search-and-rescue personnel arrived at the scene, the boy's family already had found him in a frozen pond about half a mile south of their home and pulled him out of a hole in the ice.
Family members had begun CPR, which responders took over upon their arrival.
The ALERT medical helicopter was called and the boy was transported to the Kalispell hospital.
Along with the Sheriff's Office, CAN-AM Search and Rescue, Eureka Volunteer Ambulance, the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Border Patrol responded to the initial call.