Flock of flamingos
CAROLYN BOSTICK | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 1 day, 3 hours AGO
Carl Lovick puts pink flamingos on a lawn in Coeur d'Alene as part of a Post Falls Kiwanis Club fundraiser. The club begin its month-long flamingo flocking event on Monday.
Michele Forkner plants pink flamingos on a lawn in Coeur d'Alene on Monday as part of a benefit for the Post Falls Kiwanis Club.
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. | May 5, 2026 1:08 AM
COEUR d’ALENE — The Post Falls Kiwanis Club is deploying pink flamingos to raise money for scholarships.
“These flamingos will roost on your lawn until tomorrow and they will mysteriously migrate to another friend/subject’s yard,” the letter left on the flocked home’s front door reads.
Tavis Throm said over the decade the group has put on the event, they’ve changed their tactics slightly, but the fun of the prank remains the same.
“When we started, we would do it under cover of darkness,” Throm said, adding they now deliver in daylight hours.
Michele Forkner said a lot of the homes they flock get into the festivities and many pay it forward to the next house, helping students by providing funds for scholarships in the process.
“People see it and it is a kick. My grandkids just love it,” Forkner said.
About six or seven scholarships will be given away this year, but thanks to a large donation, Post Falls Kiwanis Club is donating two $1,500 scholarships.
Fundraiser organizer Carl Lovick said about 10 volunteers will flock a couple of homes a day, four days a week during the month of May.
Members of the community can pay $20 for a dozen flamingos, $35 for two dozen and $50 for three dozen to festoon a lawn.
The group sticks to the immediate area around Post Falls, but as the word spreads throughout the month, Lovick said it’s great to see the community catch on to the fun.
“It snowballs,” Lovick said.
Participants are asked to contact Carl Lovick at 208-818-0840.
Michele Forkner plants pink flamingos on a lawn in Coeur d'Alene on Monday as part of a benefit for the Post Falls Kiwanis Club.ARTICLES BY CAROLYN BOSTICK
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