Favorite Photos of 2014: Dan Pelle
A cross section of life in pictures from 2014. From newsmakers to next-door neighbors, the people and places of the Inland Northwest make for fascinating subjects. View Favorite photos of 2014: Jesse Tinsley View Favorite photos of 2014: Colin Mulvany View Favorite photos of 2014: Kathy Plonka View Favorite photos of 2014: Tyler Tjomsland
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Donnice Suiter, 17, of Spokane Valley, Washington, celebrated her dog Angel’s (Angelo Recardo Symphiona Suiter) 9th birthday, June 24, 2014, in Riverfront Park. Suiter said she would bake the Siberian husky a peanut brown sugar cake.
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FEATURES
Dusten Nohrman, 18, of Spokane descends from a position under the Monroe Street Bridge where he was taking cell phone pictures of the Spokane River runoff at the lower falls, March 11, 2014, in downtown Spokane, Wash. Nohrman emailed the photographs to his girlfriend in Federal Way, Wash., telling her his viewing the river made him think of her. He said the river is beautiful, spectacular and one of God’s creations. He added, like the river, she could be calm or torrid.
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Rachael Mulungi, 7, and Brian Ocen, 8, along with 20 other performers from the Watoto Children’s Choir, dance and sing at the Prince of Peace Lutheran Church on Indian Trail Road, April 3, 2014, in Spokane, Wash. The group had toured the western United States for the past 7 months and was nearing the end after a trip to Seattle. The children, ages 7-14, from Uganda, have lost one or both parents due to AIDS and live in Watoto Children’s Villages.
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Todd Benson paints over grid lines as he and his brother, Cain, create a mural at the corner of Maple Street and Second Avenue, June 16, 2014, in downtown Spokane, Washington. The brothers are one of four teams selected by The Spokane Arts Fund to paint murals on underpasses along Wall, Howard, Cedar and Maple Streets. Cain said the images were selected to make you smile. “This is what we would like our city to be.”
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Kennel Club members give their divine support before the start of the Gonzaga-BYU game, Jan. 25, 2014 in McCarthey Athletic Center.
Geoffrey Mwangi, and his son Judah, 15 months, wave goodbye to The Wild Goose hot air balloon as the Spuds balloon inflates, at right, early Saturday morning, Sept. 20, 2014, during Valleyfest at the CenterPlace Regional Event Center.
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Micah Blake, playing the part of a disaster victim, sports a fake head wound during a National Guard training session, June 11, 2014, in Spokane, Washington.
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A black-capped chickadee visits a birdbath in Laren Sunde’s garden, March 26, 2014, near Spangle, Wash. Sunde has planted types of plants in the garden to attract birds and provide shelter/roosting areas for them.
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Thor Tenold, 5, right, looking through a Tyrannosaurus rex interactive exhibit, and his sister Ada, 3, a Triceratop’s head, get a view of from a dinosaur’s point of view as they visit “A T. rex Named Sue” exhibit, Sept. 30, 2014, at Mobius Science Center in downtown Spokane, Wash. The exhibition includes a cast of Sue, the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered. It is 42 feet long and weighs 3,500 pounds. The bones were found in the Black Hills of South Dakota in 1990 by fossil hunter Sue Hendrickson. The children were visiting Mobius for the first time with their grandmother Jan Tenold. The exhibit runs through Jan. 4, 2015.
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Spokane Police officer Teresa Fuller high-fives a young boy who was trying to keep pace with the Bloomsday 2104 elite runners, May 4, 2014, on Government Way.
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Ness Elementary School second grade student Jace Nassett, center, shows off his newly-found treasure of Morgan red maple leaves to classmate Adam Wollbeck, while Preston Bresnee, right, searches to grounds at the John A. Finch Arboretum, Oct. 14, 2014, in Spokane, Wash. Warren Hanson’s class spent the morning working on observational skills, noticing the color and shapes of leaves and tree trunks. Hanson said when the students return to class in Spokane Valley, Wash., they will be asked to write a poem about their arboretum visit.
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Leilani Weaver helps her dog Spencer, a one-year-old dachshund-yorkie mix, find a plastic egg at the 4th Annual Easter Egg Hunt for Dogs, April 19, 2014 at the SpokAnimal Dog Park at High Bridge Park in Spokane, Wash. “He’s a Dorkie” said Weaver. Ninety-nine dogs were registered for the hunt with all the proceeds benefiting the park’s clean-up and maintenance.
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Apartment fire victims cover their faces as a thick layer of smoke blankets the area of 6500 N. Atlantic, April 12, 2014 in Spokane, Wash. The top floor of an apartment complex was destroyed by the blaze.
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NEWS
A strong gust of wind topples a tent and antenna, May 4, near the Bloomsday 2014 starting line, moments before the start of the elite women’s race.
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Todd Watson visits his son Cody’s grave site, June 12, 2014 at Holy Cross Cemetery in Spokane, Washington. The family placed their son’s hockey jersey at the site until the gravestone was to be ready. The jersey was stolen from the grave site a few days later. Cody came back from his tour of duty in Afghanistan with PTSD and addiction problems. In March 2014, he left his inpatient treatment program for drug and alcohol addiction at the VA hospital and jumped to his death from the Monroe Street Bridge.
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Gail Gerlach shows the jury a picture of Brendon Kaluza-Graham in Judge Annette Plese’s courtroom, April 9, 2014, in Spokane, Wash. Gerlach was on trial for shooting and killing Kaluza-Graham in March 2013 as Kaluza-Graham left Gerlach’s driveway in Gerlach’s SUV.
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Ann Kaluza pauses to remember her grandson Brendon Kaluza-Graham in the hallway of the Spokane County Courthouse, April 10, 2014, after a jury acquitted Gail Gerlach of manslaughter in the shooting death of Kaluza-Graham in March 2013.
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Jenn Na walks back to Coffee Break stand, Jan. 22, 2014, in Spokane Valley, Wash., after a trip to the parking lot where a racial slur was spray-painted. It read “Go back to China.” Jenn and her co-worker sister, Diana Na, are Korean. An attempted arson attack on the building and the slur were found early Tuesday morning by Jenn Na. She was later arrested for second-degree arson for trying to set fire to the coffee stand.
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Gabriel Pinckney, 19 months, visits the Shell 77 Memorial moments before the dedication, May 3, 2014, at Fairchild Air Force Base. Gabriel’s mother, Capt. Victoria “Tory” Pinckney, along with Capt. Mark “Tyler” Voss and TSgt. Herman “Tre” Mackey III, were killed in a KC-135 Stratotanker crash, May, 3, 3013, while on a mission in Kyrgyzstan.
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Mike Boyer races through the crowd showing off the 4 grams of pot he bought as the first in line to legally purchase marijuana at Spokane Green Leaf on Country Homes Boulevard. Hundreds were lined up as sales in Washington began on Tuesday July 8, 2014.
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Nathan Higley, 18, of Spokane, escaped from a crash involving a school bus with a bruised arm, Feb. 19, 2014, at the corner of Washington Street and Mission Avenue, in Spokane, Wash. Higley, on his way to the Spokane Skills Center, was traveling east at the intersection while the 30,000 pound bus was headed north with the green light. The bus driver was transported to the hospital by ambulance.
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Pearl Harbor Survivor George “Bud” Garvin, 99, shakes the hand of a Fairchild Air Force Honor Guard member, Dec. 7, 2014, after a ceremony at the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena to commemorate the 73rd anniversary of the attack that began America’s involvement in WWII. Garvin was a 26-year-old Army lieutenant living adjacent to Wheeler Army Air Field when he went outside for the morning paper. “I saw a guy running down the street. He was yelling at the top of his lungs, ‘Take cover! Take cover! We’re under attack.’” Befuddled, Garvin stood there in his pajamas, clutching the newspaper. Then he saw the first wave of planes heading toward hangars across the street from his house. “Our airplanes were sitting wingtip to wingtip on Wheeler Field,” he said. The Japanese pilots “strafed them with machine guns, setting them all on fire.”
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Friends gather together for support as they listen to the words “Dear Gracie, won’t you come out to play” being sung at a memorial to Gracie Snider, May 7, 2014, at Manito Park. Gracie, a soccer player, was killed in an automobile accident east of Ritzville on Sunday, May 4.
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Russell Edwards narrowly escaped injury on Wednesday afternoon, July 24, 2014,when a tree crashed onto his 1998 Ford Mustang as he sat in the driver’s seat in his driveway on east Regina in north Spokane, Washington. The car was totaled and Edwards only carried liability coverage. High winds toppled trees causing extensive damage to homes and property throughout the region.
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Bruce Palmer displays his black eyes and facial cuts from a Monday evening, January 27, 2014 attack on him and his wife in downtown Spokane, Wash. He also sustained a broken nose after the confrontation with group of teens outside the Steam Plant Grill.
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PORTRAITS
Tim Lorentz is celebrating the 5th anniversary of Spokane’s famed Boat Car. In honor of the event, he has rebooted the “LaBoata” with a new car underneath, a ‘92 Labaron, and a new paint job. He posed for a picture July 18, 2014, in front of a beach mural in downtown Spokane.
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Karen and Gordy Frogner, of Nine Mile Falls, Wash., brought “Trouble,” their Boston terrier, decked out in formal attire, to the SCRAPS Yappy Howl-a-ween Pawrty, Oct. 11, 2014, in Spokane Valley, Wash.
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Dave “INSANE” Courchanine is a lightweight MMA fighter who works out in a gym on east Trent Avenue.
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“Libby,” the neighborhood cat, hears the arrival of busloads of children for school, Oct. 31, 2014, at the Libby Center, in Spokane, Wash. The feline lives across the street and welcomes students to school every morning.
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Craig Randleman, 50, suffered dog bites requiring 40 stitches on his wrist, ear and bicep area, along with a swollen hand, after beating off a pit bull that was mauling a young girl on April 3, 2014, in northeast Spokane, Wash. Randleman heard the screams and rushed down his alley to render assistance.
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Mt. Spokane High School student Lucas Morgan, wearing the school’s Wildcat mascot costume, realizes he was just announced as Homecoming King during an assembly, Sept. 19, 2014, in the school’s gym. Lucas, who has leukemia and Down syndrome, was elected by his fellow students.
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Pearl Harbor Survivor Charlie Boyer salutes the fallen during a ceremony at the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena to commemorate the 73rd anniversary of the attack. “The planes were coming over us, shooting at us and dropping bombs.” Boyer, a 21-year-old sailor stationed at Naval Air Station Kaneohe, was on transportation duty. He’d just dropped some people off at church and was on his way back when he saw planes approaching fast and low. “I said, ‘Boy, that’s quite a show the Army’s putting on!’ Then I saw the big ol’ red meatballs on the wings, and I said, ‘Army, hell!’” Boyer pulled off to the side of the road and took cover under the truck. At the end of the day, he got word of the extent of their losses. “They did a hell of job,” he said. “They got every warplane on Kaneohe.”
Lily Frey is ready to beat the heat by taking a dip in her front yard pool, July 15, 2014, near the corner of Indiana and Oak in Spokane, Washington. Temps are nearing the 100 degreee mark.
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Among his record collection of 50,000 45s, Gerry Giles, of Spokane, Wash, has the first 5 Elvis Presley singles on Sun Records. 4/5/2014
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Doug Sutherlin delivers his art work to the UCF Buddist Studies and Meditation House a few blocks from his home, Oct. 19, 2014, near Spokane’s Corbin Park.
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Roshaun Brown, 3, of Spokane, has his face painted like Spiderman, Sept. 20, 2014, at Valleyfest in Mirabeau Park.
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The Saturday evening sky was ablaze in orange over the Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes spires, Sept. 27, 2014, in downtown Spokane, Wash.
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PICTORIAL
Whitworth University students leaving the all-men’s dorm McMillan Hall head toward a burst of fall color on the west side of campus, Oct. 21, 2014, in Spokane, Wash. McMillan residents have repainted the smiley face every year since it first appeared on the hall’s sweatshirts in 1986.
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Youngsters make a beeline for the fountain mid-day at Duncan Gardens, Aug. 21, 2014, in Manito Park in Spokane, Wash.
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Towering cumulonimbus clouds show along the Spokane skyline over Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, Aug. 21, 2014, in Spokane, Wash. While these clouds were benign, cumulonimbus clouds are a product of atmospheric instability and can lead to thunderstorms.
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Colton’s Jake Straughan leaps into the arms of his coach Seth Paine as time runs down against Pomeroy in their 1B Boys Hardwood Classic championship game, March 8, 2014, in the Spokane Arena. Colton won 59-46.
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SPORTS
Central Valley goal keeper Kendall Findley (1) punches the ball away from Ferris’ Terry Cox (18) late in their match, May 6, 2014, at Spokane Falls Community College. CV won the district championship game 1-0.
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Gonzaga’s Gary Bell Jr. roars with delight after he forced a steal, ran the floor, shot the ball and was fouled to put the Zags up by 11 points in the second half, Jan 25, 2014, against BYU.
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Bloomsday 2014 elite racer Allen Kiprono nears the finish line with 34.08 on his wrist watch, May 4, 2014. He won in a time of 34.11. Kiprono broke away on Doomsday Hill to win the race.
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Spokane Indians’ Zach Cone takes one for the team as he is hit by a pitch in the first inning by Boise’s Trevor Graham, June 23, 2014, at Avista Stadium.
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Spokane Shock DL Diyral Briggs tries for the extra point block on Portland’s Alex Famrough in the first quarter, May 30, 2014, in the Spokane Arena.
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Cheney soccer head coach Mark Kiver gets doused with the water bucket by forward Ian Schimandle, left, and student athletic trainer Noah Ziemann after the Blackhawks defeated Pullman 2-0 to win the District 7 championship, May 15, 2014, at Cheney High School.
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EWU’s Frederik Jörg, all 7-foot-1-inch of him, fights for a rebound against UPS at Reese Court, Nov. 9, 2014, in Cheney, Wash.
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Spokane Shock QB Erik Meyer lost his helmet but not his head against Portland in the second quarter, April 12, 2014, at the Spokane Arena. The Shock scored 35 unanswered points in the second half to win 55-27.
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Joel Thomas, left, has developed an app that lets fans of Mixed martial arts support and fund a desired move or set of moves to be done by a live-action fighter. If the fighter does the move successfully, whatever cash the app users have pledged goes to the fighter. Nick “The Issue” Masonholder, right, unsuccessfully tried the “Showtime” move during competition. A video of the move went viral. Here he tries the same move, Dec. 3, 2014, with modifications: punching instead of kicking the opponent by pushing off the wall.
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