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Celebrate 50 Years Of Fun!
Now here’s something to really celebrate this winter. It’s the 50th Anniversary of the Winter Carnival—the season’s prime-time fun time.
Enjoy two weeks of jam-packed events, entertainment, contests, costumes and good-time activities in Sandpoint and Schweitzer. There are music venues with a diverse selection of performers all over town plus special food and beverage options from the local restaurants and bars.
The carnival kicks off with the Weird Wonderful Winter Parade of Lights, featuring zany floats, marching groups, dancers and more. It’s the perfect excuse to come out and light up the night.
The K-9 Keg Pull is one of the most popular events, based
on the size of the cheering crowd of dog lovers. Bonfires— courtesy of the Fire Department—offer a warm welcome to all.
Over Presidents’ Day Weekend are the grand finale festivities at Schweitzer. There’s music, camp fires, tubing sessions, children’s crafts and a “snow bar” to give the adults even more to cheer about.
When it’s showtime, kids with battery-powered glow sticks ski down the slope, creating a gala parade that renders
the slopes all aglow. The evening ends with a spectacular fireworks extravaganza that takes awesome to a new level.
Too Nice, No Ice for Skating
If you’re a fan of irony, you’ll love this. Here in Sandpoint—home of Schweitzer’s 300 inches of yearly snowfall fostering five months of fabulous skiing—it doesn’t get cold enough to sustain outdoor ice skating.
Only a few weeks a year can ice skaters and hockey players find places on Lake Pend Oreille that are shallow enough to freeze over. The solution? Build an indoor ice rink. That’s the goal of Sandpoint Community Center Corporation, whose board members include Schweitzer CEO Tom Chasse, Washington Trust Bank’s Eric Paul and retired veterinarian Dr. Rob Pierce (who also founded the Sandpoint Hockey Association). The group is now working with the city of Ponderay and Northern Idaho ICE to build a facility in neighboring Ponderay.
Pierce, SC3 President, said, “We desperately need healthful, fun, and affordable wintertime activities, especially for kids. An all-weather facility can serve both kids and adults, during the day and into the evening.”
Pierce said it’s going to take public funds and private donations to create a financially sustainable, non-profit facility that can accommodate non- competitive free skating as well as figure skating and hockey.
The facility would also be used in non-winter months as a venue for concerts, events and roller skating.
To make a donation go to: Niicearena.com
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Merry Woodsman
Featured this winter at Schweitzer’s Crow’s Bench restaurant and bar, the Merry Woodsman is a colorfully festive fusion of gin and juices that re- wards with equal touches of tang and sweet. Prost!
1.5 oz Hendricks Gin Juices
1.5 oz Pomegranate
.5 oz Lemon
.25 oz Lime
.75 oz Simple Syrup
Egg White
Place all ingredients in shaker Reverse dry shake and strain Top with splash of soda
Garnish with rosemary sprig and pomegranate arils
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