Idaho Mountain Express: Briefs

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Briefs

Talk offered on coping with anxiety

A talk titled "Anxiety and Panic and the Healing Arts" will take place Thursday, March 22, from 12:15-1:15 p.m. at St. Luke's Wood River's Baldy Rooms. Clinical social worker Gay Miremont and Company of Fools actress Denise Simone will explain how to manage anxiety.

All Brown Bag lectures are free and no pre-registration is required. Call St. Luke's Center for Community Health for information on this or other educational programs: 727-8733.

ARCH gets $10,000 grant

Wells Fargo Bank has awarded ARCH Community Housing Trust a $10,000 grant as part of the bank's 160th anniversary celebration. ARCH was one of 16 nonprofits throughout the state awarded the $10,000 grants.

In a news release, ARCH stated that it will use the grant to buy and renovate homes that are resold as deed-restricted affordable housing for low- to moderate-income families in Blaine County.

Firefighter helps combat leukemia

Nic Turco, born in Hailey and a graduate of Wood River High School, participated Sunday in the Scott Seattle Firefighter Stairclimb fundraiser event benefiting The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Turco is now a student at the University of Idaho and volunteers with the Moscow Volunteer Department.

Firefighter teams traveled from as far as New Zealand for the event. Participants race in full combat gear and self-contained breathing apparatuses to the top of Seattle's Columbia Center. At 69 stories and 788 vertical feet, the Columbia Center is the tallest building in Seattle.

Turco placed 78 out of 1,551 participants, sixth in his age group and first on the Moscow team.

Anyone interested in pledging support to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society through the Scott Seattle Stairclimb event can do so through March at www.llswa.org.

$100K to go toward mental health

St. Luke's Wood River Volunteer Core last week presented $100,000 to the St. Luke's Wood River Foundation to expand outpatient mental-health services in the Wood River Valley.

The money comes from proceeds from the Winter Ball and the gift shop.

"We are truly privileged to assist St. Luke's Wood River and the St. Luke's Wood River Foundation in their joint efforts to expand accessible and affordable outpatient mental-health services in the Wood River Valley," Jennifer Halverson, St. Luke's Wood River Volunteer Core president, said in a news release.

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