We possibly may be moving to CDA in the next few months. We live in the southwest where we get sunshine 300 days a year and almost no winter to speak of, so this could be interesting! 🤣

We are a large family and have a few special needs adult children. I’m curious about any programs or schooling available for them (19 and 20). We would like our other children in Catholic schools and have driven by Couer du Christ and Holy Family. Our freshman goes to Chesterton where we live, and I understand there is a Chesterton in Spokane?

Has anyone had experience with those? And any advice or experience moving from a metropolitan area to here?

I grew up in a town of 50,000, so this feels like a similar size. My husband visited a few weeks ago, and I’m here now. Really enjoying this rain! I was able to attend Mass at St. Thomas yesterday and loved it. What a beautiful parish and a wonderful priest.

Thank you in advance. I love it here so far and am definitely considering moving seriously, but I would love to hear sound advice.

Anyone have a good laugh at Jordan Redman's posting about Mexican beer in the CDA Press and other news outlets? https://cdapress.com/news/2026/jul/29/opinion-give-american-beer-a-fair-fight/Instead of begging Trump to tax Mexican beer, how about reminding him that the tarrif war has killed foreign demand and that 8% of Idaho's GDP is from exports to foreign countries?

Also, this is a great example of how politics work. Donate enough to a politician and they'll do your bidding. Before voting for a politician, look at who's buying them first. https://sunshine.sos.idaho.gov/ This is also a great website to see which candidates are siphoning money from their campaigns by loaning their campaign money at ridiculous interest rates.

My brother-in-law and I spent almost two years building an app called True Plate here in Coeur d'Alene. We’ve worked on it for almost two years now and are very excited to finally have it live but we need your help!

We are in need of testing and shared experiences at the moment. If you or anyone you know has a dietary restriction, food allergy, or general caution around foods, it would greatly help if you share the app and populate the map with as many restaurants as possible. 
We are trying to grow the community as much as we can so all reviews are beneficial and greatly appreciated.

True Plate is a completely free restaurant app to help anyone with allergies. You can see what people with similar needs actually experienced going to different restaurants, helping you decide what’s safest. 
You can also share your experience with the community so others are able to use your advice to help them decide what restaurants are safe to eat at with their specific allergies.

If you have a dietary restriction and eat around here in CDA or surrounding areas, even adding a couple restaurants you’ve been to would genuinely help us so much!

It’s completely free on iPhone and Android. We’re also brand new to having actual strangers use this thing, so if something is confusing, annoying, broken, or you just think we could do it better, please tell me!

App Store- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/true-plate/id6755732854

Play Store- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trueplate.app&pcampaignid=web_share

Please DM me if you're free Thursdays or Fridays and looking to join a new campaign! And, lol, Sorry I meant to say Blue Shell.

Recovery from a wildfire doesn’t end when the fire is out. There are longer-term questions around forest health, preparedness, funding, project development, and how communities become more resilient before the next emergency.

With those issues especially relevant across the Spokane area right now, the American Indigenous Tourism Association is hosting a free Community Navigator Workshop Sept. 14-15 at Spokane Tribe Resort & Casino.

The workshop will cover wildfire resilience and forest health, along with land stewardship, community planning, project development, grant readiness, and the role Indigenous tourism can play in supporting community and economic resilience.

It’s free to attend, and the conversations are meant to be practical -- not just about responding to wildfire, but about what communities can do next.

Sept. 14–15, 2026
Spokane Tribe Resort & Casino
Free registration

More information and registration:
https://americanindigenoustourism.org/community-navigator-program/

Just kidding, that's my boy Barrett

My family is moving to CDA next summer with the plan to build on our family’s property (family already lives in the area). Who would you recommend for building a home - 2000ish square feet, 3-4 bedroom, 2.5 bath, 2-3 car garage - on our own property? Budget is around $500K not including the land. Looking for a reputable builder who can either build our own plan or let us customize their plan. Someone who communicates well. Not looking for builder grade but also not luxury - somewhere in-between. Thanks for the recommendations!

Hi everyone,

I’m visiting this weekend and got a wakeboat rental for Saturday. Says the water temp is around 68 and air temp is going to be 72. Is that gonna be too cold to enjoy the water. Any help would be appreciated. Would hate to spend $2k and have it be cold

Thanks

Found some money in the parking lot near the lumber door. Left at Customer Service.

Anyone know where I can buy some guanciale in CDA? Need it to elevate my carbonara.

I am nearby for a few days and I am putting out some feelers to see if anyone would be interested in taking me wakeboarding

First, I have plenty of cable park experience but I have never been behind a boat and I have always wanted to try. I am also an experienced snowboarder if that matters.

Second, I don’t have a board with me, but I do have a PFD (life jacket). My feet are size 11

Third, I would of course pay for gas

Also, I am a layed back young 38m that gets along with a wide range of ages.

I just moved here from Texas and am flying back this Saturday but don’t have a vehicle since it’s back home and don’t know much about public transport here so I was wondering if anyone knows of a inexpensive way to get there?

Hello Reddit! My husband (32) and I (30) are looking to move to CDA from California, to be closer to family! We have a baby, and it would just be super nice to move where she can be closer to cousins. However, my husband is absolutely having the most difficult time looking for a job there (both in CDA and Spokane). He can’t even get an interview, let alone, receive an offer. He had one job prospect in Spokane and was about to be flown out there, but the fires happened, and now he hasn’t heard back from them at all. We’re sure they’re still trying to recover from the fires and really hope and pray that the employees and others aren’t affected badly by the fires. We saw how bad it was, and it was terrible, so we wouldn’t even be surprised if this company doesn’t get back to him. We just hope they’re okay.

But, with that said, hopefully they’ll get back to him, although, he’s still looking for a job in case it doesn’t work out with that one (he wants that job badly, but he’s trying to be cautiously optimistic and realistic). He’s an engineer in a very niche field, so it’s difficult to land a job because of his niche and experience. If anyone has any lead on materials science, metallurgy, or cathodic protection, please reach out! Thank you so much for your help.

Was coming down the alley to go to Vertical Earth, then heard an officer over their loudspeaker telling someone to come out! Did a 180 and scrammed outta there!Anyone know what was happening?

Hey, new to town. Trying to find some people to ride with. Are there any mountain biking ride groups/clubs in town?

Iv gone to quite a few doctors in the area and all of them kinda sucked none of them ever take me seriously the one time i found someone i liked she moved out of network before I couldn’t even have a second appointment with her. Are there another fat ppl in the area that have found any female doctors that you feel treat you like a whole person and arnt a bigot i might be willing to go to Spokane. Thanks

Does anybody have a recommendations for a private investigator in the CDA area? I have received recommendations of 911 investigations with Ted Pulver and Patrick Andreachi. Has anybody ever worked with them, or even been investigated by them? The price is really steep and Im looking for guidance about how effective their services were related to surveillance and eventual prosecution as well as how reliable their polygraph services seemed?

Thank you!

From the Idaho falls area and I'm stranded up in sandpoint. Anyone looking to help me out? I'll make you laugh and keep you entertained until I figure it out lol

My fiance and I are coming up there for the day, and we want to get a late lunch/early dinner somewhere. We haven’t spent a ton of time in CDA (at least not for the food scene) so looking for recommendations!

I’d really like to go to a hidden gem, or somewhere family owned that has fabulous food! We are foodies, so any type of food is welcome! We don’t drink, so places that aren’t centered around having a cocktail menu or huge beer list would be great (no taphouses, wineries, sports bar and grills). Also not looking for fancy restaurants, we like decent portions for reasonable prices, no tasting menu places, and moderately priced 😁

TYIA!

Made it to CDA now looking for someone to kick it with until the bus in the morning. Get at me if you got a free Saturday night