Daring dogs: Stunt show wows audience at North Idaho Fair
CAROLYN BOSTICK | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 11 months, 1 week AGO
Carolyn Bostick has worked for the Coeur d’Alene Press since June 2023. She covers Shoshone County and Coeur d'Alene. Carolyn previously worked in Utica, New York at the Observer-Dispatch for almost seven years before briefly working at The Inquirer and Mirror in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Since she moved to the Pacific Northwest from upstate New York in 2021, she's performed with the Spokane Shakespeare Society for three summers. | August 20, 2024 1:07 AM
COEUR d’ALENE — For most of the audience in the stands, it was an entertaining performance of canines running, jumping and occasionally even soaring through the air Monday during the Extreme Dogs stunt show at the North Idaho State Fair.
Dogs like Rio ran through high-energy acrobatics and cooled off with an extreme game of catch, jumping as far as they could into a pool of water to catch a toy.
For Delia Bodnar, however, there was an extra layer of excitement to see the graceful dogs put through their paces.
“Delia is interested in training dogs,” her mother, Jamie Bodnar, said.
For Coeur d’Alene locals like the Bodnars, going to the fair is a cornerstone of summer traditions.
Rides like the Zipper are family favorites, but the Bodnars find the fair food worth thinking about all summer leading up to the fair.
“It's the corn dogs,” Justin Bodnar said.
To start off the week, the North Idaho State Fair hosted Mental Health Monday, raising $1 from every ticket for the Suicide Prevention Action Network of North Idaho.
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