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.

It's been a year and half since Bobby Clark suffered a brain injury playing football at Priest River High School. Now his family his hoping the community can rally behind them one more time to raise money for a treatment that could help him heal.

“He's come a long way and has potential to go a lot further and needs all the opportunities he can get,” his mother Julie Clark. Bobby is hoping to travel to Spokane for treatments in a hyperbaric chamber, but unfortunately his insurance does not cover the care. After doing extensive research on the the chamber and it's lasting effects Julie believes that it could go a long way toward improving his physical and cognitive capabilities.

Facing a debilitating disease and a Christmas season with three kids – including a newborn – a Coeur d'Alene artist did something extremely rare: He decided to focus on helping others.

Jason Sanchez had the idea to help Children's Village in Coeur d'Alene this Christmas because he knew he "had to do something out of the goodness out of the heart." So he contacted the charity and told them he had a plan to help by building a gingerbread replica to raise donations.

"My first reaction was to burst out laughing," Janie Givas, development director for Children's Village, said. "People have grand ideas all the time, until they realize what it will take to actually complete the project."

But when Sanchez came in with "a beautiful board already drawn of this great gingerbread house I knew he was for real," Givas said.

Sanchez had spoken with Sarah Colbert of Tom Addis Lake City Ford, who OK'd funding – about $500 – the project, and he was all set to start creating.