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Jul 8, 2019
4 min

Bring on the Music!

There’s nothing like spending a warm summer day in North Idaho outdoors. And what better way to unwind and spend time with family and friends than at one of the many summer concert series the area has to offer. Over the years, outdoor concerts continue to grow, and the community is loving it. You will find people of all ages enjoying the sounds of local musicians on nearly any given day. Thanks to the support of generous area sponsors, these concerts are abundant, adding just

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Jul 1, 2019
4 min

Breakfast With Dan

When the Dueling Irons restaurant opened its doors in 2014, it wasn’t long before Dan Rankin started showing up each day. He had been having his daily breakfast elsewhere until there was an unexpected breakup in his daily routine. “They let my favorite waitress go, or she quit, anyway, I followed her over here,” recalled Dan. That waitress is Sami, and each morning she or another server at the Post Falls restaurant brings Dan a plate of sausage, hash browns, eggs and toast, a

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Jul 1, 2019
3 min

Escape, Relax, Indulge ...

Located on the beautiful Highlands Golf Course atop the Highlands Bench, surrounded by serene gardens and lawn, Highland’s Day Spa is Post Falls’ first and finest full-service day spa offering guests 14,000 square feet of pleasure and relaxation for body, mind and spirit. Opened in 2002 by Jeane Plastino-Wood, current owner Emily Hildebrand purchased the premier spa in 2017, which features a full range of health and beauty treatments—from massages to facials to hair and nail

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Jun 25, 2019
8 min

Chasing Failure

Richard Kresser stood outside a café in Bend, Oregon, devastated. He cried as he spoke to his girlfriend over the phone. “The trip’s over,” he told her. His bicycle, and the 80 pounds of highly specialized gear that had been attached to it, was gone: stolen by a passerby in the less than 10 minutes he had been inside grabbing breakfast. It was early July of 2018 and Richard was nearly halfway through the Tour de Volcanoes—a human-powered, mostly self-supported challenge he dr

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Jun 18, 2019
1 min

Coeur d'Alene Vacation Homes

A high-end, boutique management company, Coeur d'Alene Vacation Homes specializes in working with out-of-town owners on the management and marketing of their vacation rentals. If you are looking to maximize your return while maintaining a high-quality rental, Coeur d'Alene Vacation Homes is ready to be your partner. Your vacation rental home is beautiful. Coeur d'Alene Vacation Homes ensures to keep it that way. They invite you to contact them today for additional information

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Jun 18, 2019
4 min

Chrome That

As a child growing up in small-town California, Gary Watson liked to bury treasure. The treasures he buried were rocks, ones he painted with paint from his parents’ auto body shop. But one thing about the paint—specifically the lid of the paint can—always bothered him: It just never looked shiny. “At a very young age I noticed that the silver and gold paint cans had a shiny top, but the paint that came out didn’t look like that. It’s still like that today,” Watson said from h

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Jun 4, 2019
3 min

Athletes of the Month: Sarah Swider & Cameron Johnson

Sarah Swider Photo by Christine Woeller Coeur d’Alene High School A senior at Coeur d’Alene High School, Sarah Swider has participated in sports for her entire life. Over the years, some of the organized sports she has been involved with include tennis, soccer, ballet, cross country and track, but it is tennis and soccer that she has chosen to focus on in her high school years. As a testimony to her leadership skills, Sarah was captain of both the varsity soccer and tennis te

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Jun 4, 2019
4 min

Event brings nostalgia to downtown

Like many origin stories, that of Car d’Lane starts with a small idea. In 1990, Idaho’s centennial year, a group from Southern Idaho was coming up as part of the celebration, touring the state in their classic cars. Dennis LeKander, a Coeur d’Alene downtown businessman, got together with a few others and wondered how they might welcome this contingent. LeKander owned a classic car business. “I called as many car people as I could think of and asked them to bring their cars do

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Jun 4, 2019
2 min

Serving and connecting with the community

“It’s an amazing feeling, being able to work with people you genuinely care about, from our patients to our awesome team,” says Dr. Alexis LaRose. Owner of Kootenai Family Dental in Coeur d’Alene and servicing North Idaho communities, Alexis and her team pride themselves as being a full-service general practice that specializes in providing a relaxed “patient first” experience for the entire family. Here, their patients receive more than just the best care in full-service fam

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May 20, 2019
7 min

On Final Approach

Off course and months behind schedule, Jacob Hendrickson continues to propel his custom-made row boat toward what he hopes will be a triumphant landfall in Australia. The former Air Force pilot began his marathon journey in July 2018 for what had been charted to be a 9,150-nautical mile journey from Neah Bay in the northwestern corner of Washington state to Perth on the west coast of Australia. He has admitted the schedule was an optimistic view of a daunting physical and men

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May 13, 2019
5 min

Trucks, Mud and Adrenaline

Mac Miltz really just needed to borrow a trailer, and he knew Ben Spinney had one. Simple enough. But once the two got to talking on their drive from Sandpoint to Spokane, ideas began to churn. “We started talking about this concept and idea, and between other jobs we kept working on it,” Miltz said. “Then Grey (Whittier) came on board, and within a year, a year and a half, we ended up finding the right piece of property, and that’s how it all jumped off.” And so born was Mou

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May 6, 2019
5 min

More Than Just a Marathon

In one sense, Tabitha Kraack’s daily commute to work is less than one minute. As the executive director of the North Idaho Centennial Trail Foundation, the trail right outside her door is, in a way, her office. “I’m very lucky to have the trail right next to my house,” Kraack said. “I see it every day.” Hired in December, Kraack is relatively fresh on the job. But it’s a role she said she’s wanted for a while—she applied for it when it last opened three years ago—and she’s ea

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Apr 29, 2019
2 min

Athletes of the Month: Travis Kerr & Emma Gray

Travis Kerr Coeur d’Alene High School Photo by Cheryl Nichols Photography Coeur d’Alene High School senior Travis Kerr first began to play sports his freshman year. And when he did, he went all in. “I played football all four years, wrestled freshman and sophomore years, started track and field my junior year, and am currently competing in shot-put and discus,” said Travis, who was named All-League and First Team All-State offensive lineman his senior year. “My first year of

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Apr 29, 2019
3 min

Making an Impact Through Digital Marketing

If you are a business owner, do you ever wonder just how people find out about you? Sure, you can ask a random sample of customers or clients, but it does not provide you with a true picture of just how your message is being spread throughout the community. Steve Russo, owner of Like Media, Inc., the parent company of Living Local 360, realizes that as technology has exploded exponentially over the last several years, there are many avenues to brand one’s business, and he set

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Apr 29, 2019
3 min

Schneidmiller House Set to Expand

End-of-life care is an extremely difficult time, not just for the person battling a terminal illness but for family that surrounds them. For years Hospice of North Idaho has dedicated itself to compassionate and professional end-of-life care for all without regard to a person’s ability to pay. Corporate partners, individual donors and Hospice’s annual Wine Taste event help cover operational costs at the Schneidmiller House, a 24-hour in-patient care facility owned and operate

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Apr 22, 2019
8 min

It started as an idea …

Ideas are powerful. Something as simple as a passing thought can become something huge that impacts our daily lives, or something small impacting the people in our neighborhood. When the idea is something that could positively impact a community, others are usually quick to rally behind it. There are examples all over the Northwest of how an idea can bring together people from all backgrounds and walks of life to find common ground and to better their surroundings; two of whi

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Apr 15, 2019
5 min

Fire up the Taste Buds

Once a meat-and-potatoes town with only a handful of high-quality restaurants, Spokane is now a culinary delight filled with choices to satisfy and challenge any pallet. You can still find a great steak, but choices in seafood, wood-fired pizza, small plates, gourmet burgers, world cuisine and an emerging vegetarian option scene are bringing the Lilac City to the forefront of dining in the West. Even the most dedicated diners would have a tough time hitting all of Spokane’s b

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Apr 2, 2019
3 min

Improving Customer Service, Interaction and Relationships

Texting is the new talking. It’s how we check in with each other, coordinate activities, share, make up, break up and make up again. With Americans sending an average of three text messages per hour around the clock, we’re using our thumbs as our main way of communicating with the world. Except, that is, when we want to talk to a business down the street. That’s the problem father-and-son entrepreneurs David W. Morgan and David A. Morgan, along with longtime tech collaborator

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Apr 2, 2019
3 min

Athletes of the Month: Noah Mayfield & Schreyer Jones

Coeur d’Alene High School Noah Mayfield Noah Mayfield is passionate about the game of baseball, a sport he has been involved in almost his entire life. “It is the greatest game created, and I love the competitive nature that it brings onto the diamond,“ said Noah, a senior at Coeur d’Alene High School. Noah was a three-time Little League All-Star as well as a Spokane Pony All-Star. He has been a starter on the high school varsity team since he was a freshman and credits his p

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Apr 2, 2019
4 min

All About Care

Dementia is a progressive brain disease that is projected to affect 13.5 million Americans by mid-century. Today, more than 5 million Americans are living with the most common form of dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, including an estimated 200,000 under the age of 65. By 2050, up to 16 million people will have the disease. Watching a person’s memory continue to fade each day is heartbreaking for family members and beyond frustrating for those battling the disease. While there i

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