Home and Garden Show in full bloom
DEVIN WEEKS | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 5 years, 2 months AGO
Dave Humbert, with Screen Solutions Northwest, shares a window screen brochure with Marcella Mathews, center, and Josephine Reid at Friday's Home and Garden show at the Kootenai County Fairgrounds. (LOREN BENOIT/Press)
Guests browse booths at the Home and Garden show at the Kootenai County Fairgrounds on Friday. The Home and Garden Show continues today from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Devin Weeks is a third-generation North Idaho resident. She holds an associate degree in journalism from North Idaho College and a bachelor's in communication arts from Lewis-Clark State College Coeur d'Alene. Devin embarked on her journalism career at the Coeur d'Alene Press in 2013. She worked weekends for several years, covering a wide variety of events and issues throughout Kootenai County. Devin now mainly covers K-12 education and the city of Post Falls. She enjoys delivering daily chuckles through the Ghastly Groaner and loves highlighting local people in the Fast Five segment that runs in CoeurVoice. Devin lives in Post Falls with her husband and their three eccentric and very needy cats. | March 7, 2020 1:10 AM
COEUR d’ALENE — For their 44th wedding anniversary, Glenda and John Duggan didn’t need to go to a fancy restaurant or out on the town.
Instead, they searched for yard art and found an abundance of cool project ideas they could do together at the North Idaho Building Contractors Association's 48th annual Home and Garden Show at the Kootenai County Fairgrounds on Friday.
“This is a date,” Glenda said with a smile as they poked around a few samples of outdoor sheds.
The Post Falls couple was among the first to explore the show, where friendly experts at more than 125 vendor exhibits eagerly engaged guests in the market for landscaping materials, patio furniture, safety upgrades and pet products, among an array of other goods and services.
“The water softener,” Glenda said. “And the sprinkler blowout, we weren’t even hunting for that.”
“If you live here you know you need a water softener,” John added.
Droves of delighted show-goers wandered through the exhibit halls and walked out of Building 19 with free flowers to plant at home, a perk for the first 250 people to the show each day.
Neighbors Lisa Jewett and Patty Campitelli of Spirit Lake held red and purple primroses as they strolled into the next building.
They had one thing on their mind as they perused the booths.
“Landscaping!” Jewett said.
“Landscaping and a few things that need to be tweaked in the house,” Campitelli said. “I just want to get some ideas, more contemporary. And we have water issues, and there’s a lot of air purifier companies."
This was the friends' first time at the NIBCA Home and Garden Show, where they were pleased to find so many resources.
"If they don't have the answer, they steer you to where you can get the right answers," Campitelli said. "That’s what’s really cool."
The Home and Garden Show continues today from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Admission is $6 per person. Save $1 with a can of food to donate to the local food bank. Kids 12 and younger get in free with a paying adult.
Parking is free.
The fairgrounds are at 4056 N. Government Way.
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