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The Inland Northwest was sheathed in crystal in the winter of 1996. The combination of wet snow and freezing rain that hit Nov. 19 became known as ice storm ‘96. It knocked out power to roughly 100,000 homes, some for as long as 13 days. Four people died. Travel proved nearly impossible. Residents huddled around fireplaces, read by lantern light and cooked over camp stoves. The damage was estimated at more than $22 million. Kids pick their way along Centennial Trail, Nov. 20, 1996, in downtown Spokane amidst damage from the ice storm.
Dan Mccomb Sr
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“It just screamed chaos...The flames and this guy upside down. Everything was off kilter and that’s sort of how the fire was. It was just out of control and that’s what that picture says.” -Kit King Transcript from “Journalism Today”, EWU’s 1991television news program Gordon Maxwell dives over a fence as flames from Firestorm '91 rush towards him near Ponderosa in this award-winning photo.
Kit King Sr
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Kara Claypool was born in Spokane and was the first publicly known child with AIDS to attend a Spokane school. Staff photographer Steve Thompson followed her family for 2-1/2 years to produce a series of poignant images. Kara has a smile for her mother, Joyce, outside the MRI room at Deaconess Medical Center, where she was treated for several weeks for complications related to the AIDS virus.
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In 1999 staff photographer Torsten Kjellstrand and staff reporter Hannelore Sudermann worked on “Far Afield, How Northwest Wheat Feeds the World.” This story took them to Pakistan, Egypt and China. Houit Mahady flings another bread on the pile in the open-ceilinged kitchen of her family's home in Tanaan Village south of Cairo. Like most Egyptian families, Houit's gets most of their calories from wheat bread much of it made from soft white wheat like that grown in Washington.
Torsten Kjellstrand The Spokesman-Review Buy this photo
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Glenn Weeks and Barry Alleman's in a Sheriff's Department vehicle try to snare a loose dog that ran along I-90 from Post Falls to Fourth St. in Coeur d'Alene in 1997.
Craig Buck Sr
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On June 20, 1994, former Airman Dean Mellberg opened fire at the Fairchild Air Force Base hospital, killing four people and wounding 23 before being shot dead by Air Force security officer Andy Brown. Residents flee a Fairchild Air Force Base housing compound as police evacuate the area after Monday afternoon's shootings.
Dan Pelle The Spokesman-Review Buy this photo
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The lead horse from David Govedare's wild horse monument sculpture forms a silhouette against the evening sky over the Columbia river above Vantage, Washington in 1995.
Shawn Jacobson The Spokesman-Review Buy this photo
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Emily Rose Powell, 5, of Newman Lake put so much paint on her creation that she wore a hole through it during the 11th annual Artfest at the Cheney Cowles Museum, May 31, 1996.
Sandra Bancroft-Billings Sr
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Spokane Indians pitcher Brandon Baird cracks up when 7-year-old Scotty Dorman dons Juan Robles’ catchers mask and mitt. Dorman, who suffers from a life-threatening kidney disorder, threw out the first pitch of the game, July 8, 1996.
Kirsty Macdonald Sr
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A sooty Jeremy Flinders, 15, is pulled from his chimney at S3404 Manito Blvd. by Spokane firefighters after he climbed down feet first to retrieve two soccer balls in 1993.
Anne C. Williams Sr