The Lake City is well on its way to becoming a holiday wonderland!

Crews have been working since October to make sure people are dazzled by the lights and decorations.

Workers have been busy putting up lights on trees along Sherman Avenue and in and around the resort.

Between the downtown Coeur d'Alene area and the North Pole across the lake, over a million lights will spread some holiday cheer.

Coeur d’Alene’s street superintendent, Tim Martin, is preparing the city for winter. He’s planning on snow fall, predicting it in early November.

Martin shares with the city’s blog saying he’s already started planning the names for the upcoming storms with the help of students from Bryan Elementary.

This year’s storm names – alphabetically themed after names of berries – were created by Erika Skindlov, first place winner from Ms. Sue Degraw’s fourth grade class at Bryan Elementary. Why do we name storms? In order to track, record, and critique our performance, we give each storm a name. It also helps us communicate a storm’s status to the media and on the city’s webpage. Plus it’s fun and it gives kids something to think about.

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The boat launch located upstream from Avista's hydroelectric dam is set to close for the season Monday, November 14th.

The Q'emiln Park boat launch on the Spokane River closes when the water level drops due to winter weather conditions.

That means Avista's will draw down Lake Coeur d'Alene like they do each year. 

River levels will be about three feet below summer levels.  Avista says the lake could drop another five feet by January.

Avista has a 24-hour information line that provides info about changing water levels in Lake Spokane, Lake Coeur d'Alene and the Spokane River.  In Washington you can call 509-495-8043 and in Idaho 208-769-1357.