Patty Stiffler has combined her knack for doing hair with an affinity for working with the elderly. Even as a child in Norco, Calif., she liked helping her elderly neighbors, with a pony express service she and other children in the rural community

Retirement facility administrators here say the real estate market malaise and economic slump that have taken a heavy toll on most other market sectors also have crimped their sales of living units and in some cases have caused apartment rentals to

A $2.9 million repaving and beautification project is under way on Fourth Street in Coeur d'Alene from Lakeside Avenue downtown northward to Harrison Avenue. Safco Excavating & Construction Inc., of Hayden, Idaho, is the contractor on the project,