A feather-filled fundraiser met with success in Post Falls
CAROLYN BOSTICK | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 9 months, 3 weeks AGO
A Quail Run home in Post Falls was "flocked" by pink flamingos last week as a part of the Post Falls Kiwanis Club annual fundraiser.
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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. | June 4, 2025 1:00 AM
POST FALLS — It was a flurry of flamingo-filled fundraising in May for the Post Falls Kiwanis Club.
People made donations from $20 for 12 flamingos, $30 for 24 flamingos and $50 for 36 flamingos to “migrate” the pink lawn ornaments along with a sign with contact information and the message, “You’ve been flocked by Post Falls Kiwanis.”
The Kiwanians and their helpers raised about $800 this year and decorated about two lawns a day throughout the month of May.
“We were very happy. I think it was actually one of the biggest years here,” said RaeAnne Capaul of the Kiwanis Club. “It was a great year. I think almost every day that we did it was busy.”
The fundraiser has been going on for more than a decade. Key Club students both help with the fundraiser one day a week and are recipients of the scholarships.
“They also help us pick up garbage on the highway,” Capaul said. “We try to keep them very involved.”
A golf tournament in September helps round out funding for the scholarships, hats and coats for elementary school children during the winter and donations for the 3rd Avenue Marketplace.
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