Girl Scouts of Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho is hoping the region will jump on board and donate during the first ever Idaho Gives campaign.

Idaho Gives is a 24 hour giving campaign sponsored by the Idaho Nonprofit Center. The event gives donors the opportunity to give to any of the 531 participating non profits across Idaho. For every $10 donation made groups will be entered to win a Golden Ticket prize. The more donors that GSEWNI gets, the more chances they have to win prize money.

Groups have also been divided by size into three separate scoreboards. Each scoreboard carries an additional $5,000 worth of prize money that will be divided between the top five money raisers at the end of the day. Idaho Gives also features an Everybody Wins Award, this award takes a general pool of money and divides it by the percentage if the total raised. For example, if Girl Scouts raises one percent of the total for the entire campaign, then they receive one percent of the Everybody Wins Award.

April is sexual assault awareness month and the Family Support Center wants you to know that there are resources available if you or someone you know has been a victim. Alex Mueller, Community Educator and Victim Advocate for the Family Support Center has written this editorial explaining how our response affects those who have been hurt:

We’re a small community: that sort of thing doesn’t happen here.

If we don’t talk about it, it didn’t happen.

That only happens to poor people.

Only women need to worry about that.

Only promiscuous women need to worry about that.

Only women who fraternize with strangers are at risk.

Bloomsday is just around the corner and even though the road race isn't until May competitors in the Cooperate Cup competition are already racing...at least for the title of best team name.

Bloomsday sponsors and organizers announced this year's top team names today. They have shortened the list from 300 to 25 with the top three slated to be announced after Bloomsday in the Inlander Souvenir Results Booklet. The first place team receives a plaque and will be honored guests at the annual awards luncheon. The Spokane Fire Department won last year's battle of wits sporting "Feeling the Burn" as their team name.