Idaho calendar

Today

Lake City Playhouse season tickets on sale – for the theater’s 2005-06 season. Cost: $70 adults, $65 seniors, $65 students and $40 for children. For more information, call the playhouse at 667-1323.

Instant Antiquity – An exhibit of ceramic sculptures by A. Lee Ayars, studio artist and ceramic arts instructor at Spokane Falls Community College, at Corner Gallery in Boswell Hall on the North Idaho College campus, through March 25. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Information: 769-7764.

Landscape to Protect Your Home From Fire – 7-9 p.m., at the County Administration Building, 451 Government Way. Chris Schnepf, Extension Education, Forestry, for the University of Idaho Extension, will teach landscape techniques for minimizing a catastrophe. Cost: $5. Information and registration: 446-1693.

Coeur d’Alene Art Association – will meet at 10 a.m. at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Fifth and Wallace. Information: 762-9107.

North Idaho Partners in Care Mobile Clinic – will be at the Kellogg Panhandle Health District Office, 114 Riverside, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. for dental care only. For an appointment, call 786-7474.

National Active and Retired Federal Employees (NARF) Chapter 218 – will meet at noon at Red Lions Templins Hotel in Post Falls.

Audubon Society – Board meeting today at 4:30 p.m. at Mountain West Bank, 125 Ironwood Drive, then regular meeting at 7 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church, 521 E. Lakeside with speaker Suzanne Audet on “Woodland Caribou Status in the Selkirk Mountains.” On Tuesday the group will lead a one hour birding trip around Tubbs Hill from noon to 1 p.m. Meet at Third Street entrance. For information, leave a message for Lynn Sheridan at 664-4739. On March 29 there will be a three hour birding trip beginning at 8 a.m., meet at Fairmont Loop and U.S. Highway 95. For information, call Shirley Sturts, 664-5318.

North Idaho College 35th annual Popcorn Forum Series – today with Congressman Butch Otter, and U.S. attorney for the state of Idaho Thomas E. Moss, speaking at 10 a.m. on “The Patriot Act: National Security vs. Civil Liberties,” in Boswell Hall’s Schuler Auditorium. There will be a response panel in the Edminster Student Union Building from 1-2:30 p.m. Tuesday’s presentation will be “Free Speech and Press vs. Censorship,” featuring Gonzaga law professor James Vache and corporate attorney Gary Maehara at 10:30 a.m., response panels will be from 1-2:30 p.m. and 7-8:30 p.m. in the NIC Edminster Student Union Building, Lake Coeur d’Alene Room. Wednesday will feature “Sex and Politics: The Arguments For and Against Same-Sex Marriage,” at 9 a.m. at Boswell Hall Auditorium. Guest speakers Praveen Fernandes, a public policy advocate with the Human Rights Campaign in Washington D.C., and Dwight Duncan, a professor at the Southern New England School of Law, will present opposing sides of the topic. A response panel will follow from 1 to 2:30 p.m. at the SUB. Information: 769-3300.

Upcoming

Blanchard Area Seniors Inc. – is sponsoring Mr. Potato Head Night on Tuesday from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Loft Restaurant at Stoneridge Resort in Blanchard. Various potato dishes will be served with a requested donation of $5 for adults and $3 for children. Kids potato project with prizes will be from 5 o 6 p.m. Proceeds to benefit the Blanchard Senior/Community Center Project.

Intuitive Awareness and Modern Metaphysics Workshop – Tuesday, 6:30 to 8 p.m., at the North Idaho College Work Force Training Center. Cost is $29. For more information, call 769-3444.

North Idaho Partners in Care Mobile Clinic – will be at Gary’s Drug Center in Pinehurst Tuesday; for appointment, call 786-7474. At the Spirit Lake Community Center Wednesday for medical only; appointments, call 415-5100. At St. Maries IGA Store Friday for only dental; appointments, call 245-4556. The mobile clinic is open

UI Research Park “Corridor Connection” speaker presentation – will feature Paul Berger, president and CEO of NightHawk Radiology Services in Coeur d’Alene will speak Wednesday, 4:30-7 p.m., at the UI Research Park in Post Falls. The free event will be followed with hors d’oeuvres and cocktails. For details call Theresa at 777-4700.

Kids in the Kitchen – Making fun and health snacks is the topic of this class Wednesday, 6-7:30 p.m. ,at the Harding Family Center, 411 N. 15th St, Coeur d’Alene. Sponsored by the University of Idaho Extension Nutrition Program. For information, 446-1680.

from 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

“Jesus Christ Superstar” – at the Lake City Playhouse. Thursday through Saturday. Show times are 7 p.m. Thursday and 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Cost: $14 adults, $12 seniors/students and $8 children. Information: 667-1323.

“Taming of the Shrew” – Idaho Shakespeare Festival live event Friday at The Panida Theater in Sandpoint. For information, call 263-9191.

University of Idaho Vandal Friday – UI campus preview for high school seniors and parents will be Friday Cost: $40. To register, call New Student Services at (888) 884-3246 or on the Web at www.uidaho.edu/vandalfriday.