Marble looked mellow as she strode next to Bev Gostovich outside their Spokane home Wednesday – unruffled by her performance at the recent Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. The 7-year-old English springer spaniel is Gostovich's first dog to get an invitation to the Westminster Masters Obedience Championship, and Marble did her best work in an open obedience contest.
It all started in Accra, Ghana, and now one woman’s advocacy for children has traversed decades and continents to become a part of Spokane’s 50th anniversary celebration of Expo ’74. In an effort to illustrate the universality of play throughout culture and time, the Friends of Mmofra have brought “Playtime: Then and Now” to life in Riverfront Park.
My mother’s dieffenbachia was always in the background of my life, quietly beautifying a room with its green, white-speckled leaves. In my childhood home in Texas, it sat in a pot on adobe-red tile that was cool to the touch of bare feet, even when it was 105 degrees outside.
A panel discussion 4 p.m. Tuesday plans to shed light on what's needed for Spokane County children in foster care, with a focus on a shortage of licensed foster care homes. Treehouse, a nonprofit that provides foster youth with academic support, is partnering with Lutheran Community Services Northwest for the event at Shadle Park Library.
When David “Robbie” Robinson pinned jump wings to the uniform of his grandson, Daniel Robinson, on March 29 at Fort Moore (formerly Fort Benning) Georgia, it was a full-circle moment.
On a nice spring day at the end of May 2020, 11-year-old Ruby Reynolds and her dad, Justin, were fossil-hunting on Blue Anchor Beach in Somerset, England, when they discovered a fragment of a titanic sea beast.
As they took the dance floor at their wedding in late March, Elaine Hall and Roland Passaro asked the band to announce that their first dance would be a romantic number.
When some kids were outside at recess without coats or gloves on chilly days, Jefferson Elementary fifth-grader Bennet Robertson took notice. She recruited her friend Frida Sanchez to help her create a Coat Cart to provide warm clothing that students could borrow to go outside and play.
