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South Perry Blog archive for June 21, 2010

MONDAY, JUNE 21, 2010

World Refugee Day celebration in Grant Park

World Relief Spokane is inviting neighbors and businesses on South Perry to a celebration of World Refugee Day on Saturday June 26 in Grant Park. Events begin at noon with a potluck of traditional food from Bhutan, Burma, Iraq, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea…

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What in the world?" said Jiny Denison, 84, as she woke up on a rainy day to find 25 bright spots on her front lawn near the corner of Sherwood and Webb Place in Spokane, Wa.  A friend had the pink flamingos sent as part of a NW Spokane Young Life fund raiser that sends students to summer camps.  A note congratulated Denison "you been Flocked" and suggests sending the birds onto another victim.  Denison has two family in mind, one a doctor and the other a lawyer. (Dan Pelle / The Spokesman-Review)

First day of summer washed away 

It's officially the first day of summer, yes, you may stop laughing now. It's been one of the most rainy springs on record and it just doesn't seem to let up. Actually, it's raining so much today that the city's brand new pools are once…

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Pia Hallenberg covers everything going on in the South Perry neighborhood, where she lives.