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Don’t hit the trail without wine
May 28, 2012 on Page C1 Enjoying good wine in the great outdoors is fun, but toting glass bottles on the trail is no picnic. Enter the new crop of alternatively packaged wines in cartons, cans … 2
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Your week
May 28, 2012 on Page C1 Your food Thanks to a brave man or woman generations ago, we have the artichoke. The prickly, ugly vegetable is in season now – learn how and what to cook …
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The Slice: Much at steak in this debate
May 28, 2012 on Page C1 Let’s start with a true or false. No four people in modern times have ever agreed on the definition of “medium rare.”
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Annie’s Mailbox: History behind tune of ‘Taps’
May 28, 2012 on Page C2 Dear Annie: A few years ago, on Memorial Day, you printed the words to “Taps.” Very few people actually know the history of this melody. Until the Civil War, there …
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Miss Manners: Guests hijack party for own purposes
May 28, 2012 on Page C2 DEAR MISS MANNERS: My best friend and my older sister and I, whose birthdays are only days apart, decided to celebrate together, meaning that a number of the people invited …
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Horoscope
May 28, 2012 on Page C2 For 05-28-2012
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The Slice: Relatives of the Wright brothers?
May 27, 2012 on Page D1 You can tell that someone of a certain age has not been keeping up with the times when you hear that person refer to any and all airliners as a …
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Nearly 70 years later, he’d just like to say thank you
May 27, 2012 on Page D1 In fall 1944, Fred Carter, an enlistee in the Royal Air Force stationed at a base in Calgary, Alberta, spent his leave time in Spokane. Two women, housemates in their …
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Carolyn Hax: Behavior after death a concern
May 27, 2012 on Page D2 Dear Carolyn: Eight months ago, after a brief illness, my 57-year-old friend’s husband passed away. Their marriage had always been a bit rocky, and after his death we learned that …
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Horoscope
May 27, 2012 on Page D2 For 05-27-2012
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Gardening: Students, golf courses connect for day of learning
May 27, 2012 on Page D3 There’s nothing quite like a field trip to make classroom lessons come alive. Recently, about 50 students from local schools spent a day on the beautiful grounds of the Spokane …
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Old garden tools, metal toys, wine glasses can add flavor to garden
May 27, 2012 on Page D3 SEATTLE – I feel like Alice in Wonderland. Sprinting past an alligator drinking a soda pop and a T-rex playing guitar, I lean toward a family of colorful metal toadstools …
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Home Calendar
May 27, 2012 on Page D3 Arts/Crafts Historic Ritzville Days - Today and Monday. With Western art show and Cowboy Gathering. Visit www.ritzville westernart.com. Ritzville National Historic District, Pioneer Plaza, Ritzville. (509) 660-0654.
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Social Calendar
May 27, 2012 on Page D4 Wine Tasting - Presented by the Coeur d’Alene Association of Realtors. Featuring wine, beer imports, light hors d’oeuvres, prizes and a bottle of wine or beer to take home. Proceeds …
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TV Notes: ‘Hatfield & McCoys’ make History
May 27, 2012 on Page D4 Don’t miss “HATFIELDS & MCCOYS” – Over the years, most of us have heard of the famous 19th century clash of backwoods clans. But few of us actually know what …
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American Life in Poetry
May 27, 2012 on Page D5 The following poem by Kathryn Stripling Byer is the second in a series of related poems called “Southern Fictions.” Despite all the protective barriers we put up between us and …
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Best-sellers
May 27, 2012 on Page D5 Fiction 1. “Stolen Prey,” John Sandford (Putnam, $27.95)
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Book Notes: Mix of Johnsons set to appear at Auntie’s
May 27, 2012 on Page D5 It’s a June of Johnsons at Auntie’s Bookstore. Father and son Larry and Nathan Johnson will sign copies of their book, “Montana Waterfalls: A Guide for Sighters, Hikers and Waterfall …
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Literary Calendar
May 27, 2012 on Page D5 Light and Easy Ladies Group - Drop in to knit, crochet, eat snacks and discuss this month’s book, “The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at …
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Spotlight: Huey Lewis, Styx set to play Spokane fair
May 27, 2012 on Page D6 Huey Lewis and the News and Styx are among the rock acts heading to the Spokane County Interstate Fair this summer. Kicking off the fair’s Grandstand entertainment this year is …
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Musicfest Northwest results
May 27, 2012 on Page D7 Here are some of the results from the recent Musicfest Northwest festival. CM denotes a Certificate of Merit. May 16
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A museum with something for everyone in Victoria, B.C.
May 27, 2012 on Page D8 Royal BC Museum This don’t-miss museum, the city’s biggest, has a world-class First Nations gallery (with ceremonial masks, totem poles and more artifacts of British Columbia’s native groups); natural history …
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Golden Gate enjoys diamond anniversary with help of engineers
May 27, 2012 on Page D8 SAN FRANCISCO – The Golden Gate Bridge was heralded as an engineering marvel when it opened in 1937. It was the world’s longest suspension span and had been built across …
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Life’s intersections
May 26, 2012 on Page E1 SACRAMENTO — Rachael Mahoney is in the midst of a decade of loss. In the last few years, her father and her sister, her only sibling, died. Her marriage ended …
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The Slice: They’re easier to count if they march one by one
May 26, 2012 on Page E1 Different people have varying ideas about what constitutes a life well lived. But the definition for little kids ought to include extended sessions spent lying down outside watching ants up …
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Fiber powder may help incontinence
May 26, 2012 on Page E2 DEAR DOCTOR K: Sometimes my bowel movement leaks onto my undergarments. What can I do to control this? DEAR READER: Take heart – you are not alone. Depending on how …
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Boyfriend confessed to kissing other girl
May 26, 2012 on Page E2 Dear Annie: I’m in my early 20s and have been dating “Aidan” for a year. He attends college two hours away. He doesn’t socialize much and stresses a lot about …
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Horoscope
May 26, 2012 on Page E2 For 05-26-2012
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reunions
May 26, 2012 on Page E3 New Listings John Rogers High School Class of 1962 – Aug. 2, 5 p.m., at the Spokane Country Club, 2010 W. Waikiki Road. Cost is $40 per person. Call (509) …
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‘Near nature’ drawing tourists
May 25, 2012 on Page A12 This story was edited on Friday, May 25 to add the amount paid for the study.
A detailed study of Spokane’s tourism industry has found that the area’s “near nature, … 6
