Twelve years of Silverwood's Classic Car Show

COEUR d'ALENE - Classic cars from across the Northwest converge on Silverwood on the Saturday and Sunday of Labor Day weekend.

The 12th annual Labor Day Weekend Classic Car Show is one of the biggest events of its kind in the Inland Northwest. Last year, in 2011, more than 500 nostalgic cars filled Silverwood's lawns to the brim to make one of the largest classic car shows in the region.

The show encompasses classics from 1936 through 1979 with 25 different categories to compete in, including best of show awards.

Registration for one car includes free admission for the driver and one passenger to Silverwood Theme Park and Boulder Beach Water Park.

Vehicle must be a classic (1936-1979) and in show condition. Same day registration is available from 7-10:30 a.m. both days.

Admission to the car show is included in guests' admission to Silverwood.

CHS senior takes part in Caltech, MIT program

Matthew Induni, a Coeur d'Alene High senior, recently returned from participating in one of the oldest and most prestigious pre-college science programs in the country.

Induni was one of 72 seniors selected for the Summer Science Program, a five-week intensive research program in cooperation with MIT and Caltech.

"This college-like experience challenges academically gifted math and science students, preparing them both intellectually and socially to excel at selective universities," according to a press release.

"It was such an honor to be surrounded by some of the brightest science students in the world," Induni said. "The work was extremely intense and in many instances we learned more in a three-hour lecture than we'd normally learn in three weeks of a course during a typical school year."

Induni, a top math and science student at CHS, was the only junior at his school last year to take AP Calculus, AP Physics and AP Chemistry at once.

He is also a captain of the TeraViks FIRST Robotics team, a member of National Honor Society, and on the school's Scholastics Team. He plays on the CHS varsity lacrosse team, and received one of the first varsity letters in Idaho for rowing crew.

Induni will enter college in the fall of 2013, and plans to major in mechanical engineering with a focus on research and development.

Bear cub found in wildfire getting daily treatment

BOISE (AP) - State wildlife officials say a black bear cub rescued from a wildfire burning the backcountry in eastern Idaho will need daily medical care for burns on all four paws.

The 25-pound bear nicknamed "Boo Boo" was discovered Sunday night all alone and clinging to a tree in an area recently scorched by fires associated with the Mustang Complex Fire. Efforts to find the mother were unsuccessful

Officials also say the cub likely had not eaten for at least four days.

A veterinarian with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game said Boo Boo has second-degree burns on each paw, needs daily bandage changes and six weeks to heal.

Officials wanted to rehabilitate the bear at a wildlife sanctuary in McCall, but the extent of the burns requires more intensive care.

Logger killed

by falling tree north of Kooskia

KOOSKIA (AP) - Officials in Idaho County have released the name of northern Idaho man who was hit by a falling tree and killed while he worked at a logging operation north of Kooskia.

Sheriff Doug Giddings said the victim of the Monday morning accident was 51-year-old Vernie R. Sinclair of Weippe.

Officials say Sinclair was working with a logging crew on the Blue North Forest Products site in the Smith Creek area.