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Hillyard Blog archive for Oct. 19, 2010

TUESDAY, OCT. 19, 2010

Blaine Burrell hung this poster in Hillyard earlier this summer. Burrell is raising money for a monument to be dedicated to Cromwell Dixon who crashed his plane - at the age of 19 - during a show in 1911. (Pia Hallenberg)

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I came across Blaine Burrell's fundraising poster in Hillyard the other day. Here's a link to Mike Prager's story about the monument Burrell would like to erect commemorating 19-year-old Cromwell Dixon, who crashed his plane at a fair on Oct. 2, 1911. Reportedly 12,000 people…

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Open house about swim fees tonight

Share your thoughts about next year's proposed fees at city aquatic centers, the Dwight Merkel Sports Complex and the Franklin Park Sports Complex tonight.The Spokane Parks and Recreation Department is hosting an open forum at 6 p.m. at the Woodland Center (3404 W. Woodland Boulevard,…

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Pia Hallenberg covers everything going on in the Hillyard neighborhood.