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Another Green Monday

“We all have a lot to look forward to” – The Spovangelist. As announced in the Downtown Spokane Partnership’s “Street Talk” newsletter, much anticipated Main Market Coop has begun its membership drive and has proudly announced a permanant retail location for its operations - the current Goodyear Tire building, at 44 W. Main Street. The Main Market Coop writes on their website, “The 9,500 square foot store will visually attract business from a west & south accessible corner and offer multiple free parking spaces, full southern exposure to support a rooftop garden and outside seating.” Sign us up! Photobucket The Lands Council Organizes Lead Poisoning Prevention Week Activities in Spokane. The Lands Council, Spokane Neighborhood Action Programs (SNAP), and the City’s Lead Safe Spokane program are working together Oct. 19th - Oct. 25th to build awareness of childhood lead poisoning and testing kids and homes for lead. In celebration of National Lead Poisoning Prevention Wee, SNAP and Lead Safe Spokane are offering free home lead testing for qualifying families. The Lands Council will be holding free blood lead testing events for kids. Click HERE for a full schedule of events. More support for the Lands Council, this one is too easy. GoodSearch is a search engine like Google and Yahoo that gives to your favorite cause each time you perform a web search. So pay it a visit and enter “The Lands Council” as your charity of choice. Every time you search for something online, a few cents will be donated back to The Lands Council – how easy is that? Do you shop online at places like Amazon or eBay? A portion of your online purchase can also be donated back to The Lands Council. Visit HERE for details.

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