The winning artwork for this year’s Arbor Day button comes from Marina Thaxton, a junior at Coeur d’Alene High School. Her design will be printed on buttons to be given out at local Arbor Day events.

The local Arbor Day Committee received over 100 pieces of art submitted from middle and high school students in Coeur d’Alene, Post Falls and Lakeland school districts.

Thaxton will also receive a check for $75, a t-shirt with her artwork printed on it and a supply of buttons to give her friends and family.

Arbor Day is scheduled for April 27th this year in Idaho. Tree seedlings will be given to 1,800 4th graders in Kootenai County next week. The buttons and seedling are paid for by donations from local forest product companies, nurseries and tree services.

This press announcement caught our eye in the station's mailbox. How could we resist a music festival called the "Treefot Music Fest"? Curious minds want to know if actual tree forts are involved, but a quick browsing of their website does not confirm our curiousity.

It's the first year for this festival that takes place in Boise from March 22nd to the 25th. It benefits the city's non-profit community radio station, KRBX, 89.9 FM.

The artist lineup is looking promising for those that are into modern sounds like Of Montreal, Blitzen Trapper, Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside, Talkdemonic, The Cave Singers and more. Formally based out of Spokane, The Globes will be performing at the festival as well. A full list of artists is available online.

Might be worth the drive down from the Panhandle to visit your central Idaho breathren. Let us know if you go.

You may recognize her artwork around Spokane even if you don’t know who she is. Tiffany Patterson has a strange style that takes you underwater to swim with impossible creatures. Her work is on the walls of local businesses and parks, but now it’s on a fair-trade coffee bag.

Doma Coffee, based out of Post Falls, releases a series of Valentine’s Day coffee every year. This is the fourth year and now Patterson’s art will be printed on the bag with soy-based ink. This year, the coffee is called: “Sea of Love”.

“The ocean plays a big role in my work and the creatures and happiness and humor are the main themes of my work,” Patterson said.

You can find her murals featured on the walls of Neato Burrito, a downtown burrito shop along 1st. If you go into the bathroom there, you can see more of her art on the dozens of event posters pasted on the wall.