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A north Idaho non-profit is getting help to bring its message about child passenger safety to rural communities in the Inland Northwest.
Brian Rauscher and his colleagues at Safe Start of Coeur d’Alene sometimes climb in Rauscher’s truck, rent a U-Haul trailer and take child car seats to small town events. They occasionally give seats to families that can’t afford them and then show parents …
Mobile Safety Lab Ribbon Cutting Event
5/21/2023
The statistics are sobering: Children in rural communities are five times more likely to die in a car crash, and those children are likely to be using incorrect seat restraints.
A new program plans to help teach proper car seat installation in remote areas of Eastern Washington, North Idaho and western Montana.
Safe Start, a Coeur d’Alene-based nonprofit focused on child health and safety, will use a “mobile safety lab” to visit 24 rural …
COEUR d’ALENE – Brian Rauscher knows car seats.
The director of operations for Safe Start based in Coeur d’Alene has a degree in petroleum engineering.
“There’s a ton of engineering that’s built into these car seats,” Rauscher said Wednesday at the nonprofit’s mobile safety lab ribbon-cutting celebration.
He said studies show that a properly installed car seat …
BUCkle up for life funds rural outreach vehicle purchase
10/8/2022
This year in Sun Valley, Idaho at the Idaho Child Passenger Safety Program’s Tech Update, Safe Start Director, Brian Rauscher, was surprised with a HERO award from state coordinator, Carma McKinnon. The award was present to Brian in recognition of all the accomplishments Safe Start was able to make in 2022!
Events
Aug
9
2023
bank cda presents: Night Under the Stars 2023
An amazing night for an amazing organization
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This year’s bank cda presents Night Under the Stars Gala event is officially sold out! Thanks to all our returning partners and our new partners who helped up sell out this event over 3 months early. This year’s event will be bigger and better than ever. A very heartfelt thank you to our naming sponsor, bank cda an incredible local institution that has been with us every step of the way. Also returning this year was the incredibly popular Critical Power Products and Services Happy Hour which featured an amazing huckleberry margarita last year. We would also like to thank Northwest Specialty Hospital for being our dinner sponsor, Idaho Central Credit Union for being out Cut the Deck Sponsor, Next Gen Electric for being our Auction Sponsor, Elk Point for being our venue sponsor, Lancaster Market for being our beverage sponsor, Kootenai Health for being our Program Sponsor, Inland Pump for being our water bottle sponsor, R&J Landscaping for being our volunteer sponsor, TDS for being our Entertainment Sponsor, Perfection Tire Post Falls and CDA for being our desert sponsor, P1FCU for sponsoring our centerpieces and Fairmount Memorial Association for sponsoring our memorial area.
Oct
8
2023
Run for the Angels 2020
5k Memorial Run/Walk & Family Day
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Join us at McEuen Park in beautiful downtown CDA for our 9th annual Run for the Angels 5k. The family day starts at noon with face painting, temporary tattoos, jump houses, informational booths and much more.
Family day is followed by a remembrance ceremony and the 5k run walk. If you’d like to have your child included in this year’s ceremony please call Liz at 208.557.4371.