Community leaders in Coeur d'Alene are hoping the city's various neighborhoods can join forces to stop crime. 

The Neighborhood Watch Committee for The Landings at Waterford Homeowners Association is holding a meeting called “Appropriate Response to Prowlers and Home Invasions” on Thursday, May 17 at the Prairie Avenue Christian Center at 7:15 p.m. Ed Santos, Owner of Center Target Sports in Post Falls, is giving the presentation.

They'll cover issues such as home security, recommended procedures and response to home invasion and home invasion statistics for the area. The homeowner's association says harmony in any community depends up to its residents.

Some do the Coeur d'Alene Ironman for fun. Others do it for exercise. But one local woman is doing it because she can and she wants to make a difference.

Cathy Stephens was 19 years old the first time her lung collapsed due to an asthma attack. She said it's hard to imagine how an asthma attack feels.

"Imagine being at the bottom of a lake and swimming toward the top for air, but the distance is longer than you thought," wrote Stephens on her website. "Finally you surface and gasp for a breath, only to be shoved back under over and over again, and you don’t know when it’s going to stop."

During one of the many times she was in the hospital for an asthma attack, she said she thought she was going to die. She remembers thinking of all the things she would do if she could. A triathlon was at the top of the list. 

18 years later, she did it. She completed her first long-distance triathlon. She experienced a complete change in her lungs, allowing her to do what she thought she never could.

Every so often, the asthma will get the best of her...but she doesn't let it win.

With a strong tail wind, 62-year old Darby Roach and his best friend Mike Mann, cruise into Airway Heights on two wheels.  If you've driven Highway 2 in the past three days you may know who I'm talking about.  They're the two guys on loaded down bicycles, with the sneaky smiles and gusto of young men on an adventure of a lifetime.

Roach and Mann are on a mission to first bike across the United States and then the world.  The pair left Wenatchee Sunday morning and arrived in Spokane Wednesday night. In all, they've logged about 140 miles so far. Their goal is to get to Boston by the end of the Summer.  From there, Roach will fly solo to Europe where he plans to spend the next 3 years seeing the world. From the narrow streets of Paris to the snow covered peaks of Chile, Roach plans to pedal every mile of the way. 

What? Is he crazy? Who would do such a thing? All questions that ran through my mind when Roach told me about his ambitious goal. To understand this wild dream, you have to understand the wild man on the bike.  I don't think he'll mind my choice adjective, he raised me after all.