Recent stories by Amy

• Intersection, pedestrians risky mix

  November 6, 2008 in Voices on Page N1 The intersection of Mission Avenue and Hamilton Street frustrates drivers to no end, especially those trying to turn left, but advocates for those with disabilities are calling for changes to …

• Ladies, start your shopping

  November 6, 2008 in Voices on Page N1 Local businesses are rolling out the pink carpet Saturday for area women during the fourth annual Girls Day Out event. Antique stores, specialty shops, book stores, coffee shops and other …

• Plans heat up as road work ends

  October 30, 2008 in Voices on Page S1 Spokane drivers are enjoying that blissful – and too short – period between the completion of the season’s street construction projects and the appearance of snow. Major construction bogged down …

• Dogs bring warm, fuzzy feeling to seniors

  October 30, 2008 in Voices on Page S1 Muppy surveyed the room, shook his fur and marched inside to graciously accept hugs, squeezes and strokes from the seniors eager to visit with him last week at East Central …

• Neighborhoods’ inside man

  October 23, 2008 in Voices on Page N1 Spokane’s neighborhood organizers are now calling on a new city liaison for help with traffic-safety projects, neighborhood cleanups, crime prevention and other activities. The Spokane City Council last week confirmed …

• Scout targets Minnehaha

  October 23, 2008 in Voices on Page N1 A Lakeside High School freshman will lead a Saturday cleanup of the Minnehaha Rocks as his Eagle Scout project, organizing volunteers to pick up trash and clean graffiti at the …

• Continuing Spokane’s legacy of trees

  October 23, 2008 in Voices on Page S1 A group of neighbors, environmentally minded children and a woman memorializing her daughter will join together Saturday morning to plant trees and shrubs, beautifying a South Hill median and building …

• Parks seek splash pad public input

  October 23, 2008 in Voices on Page N8 Five new Spokane park splash pads have already wetted area children, and now the city’s Parks Department is seeking input on the five locations remaining to be built. Parks officials …

• Pictures of history

  October 16, 2008 in Voices on Page S1 Don Beaty instantly recognized the house as one his mother worked at as a young cook in the early 1920s. The Nuzum House, on the South Hill’s storied Sumner Avenue, …

• Fall into composting

  October 16, 2008 in Voices on Page N8 Fall leaves. Beautiful, but what do you do with all of them? Compost them, silly.

• Message on a mission

  October 16, 2008 in Voices on Page S1 Steve Osmonson is winning his own private war, and to mark the victory he’s dedicating himself to world peace. Or at least to maintaining a homemade Hatch Road sign dedicated …

• Marching bands bring on the drama

  October 12, 2008 in City on Page B1 Roman nymphs danced among columns Saturday as a gladiator and two goddesses served as drum majors, directing the music and movement of the A.C. Davis High School band from Yakima. …

• Mead runners give back

  October 9, 2008 in Voices on Page N1 The high-energy teams of Mead High School cross country runners spend a lot of training time on the trails near Waikiki Springs, running repeatedly up its hillsides and cruising its …

• City looking at sign code

  October 9, 2008 in Voices on Page N3 Those small toss-away signs advertising weight-loss plans, at-home business opportunities and loan offers are irritants to Karen Byrd. Byrd, a neighborhood organizer and member of the Spokane Plan Commission, would …

• Cooperation helps save Lincoln Street trees

  October 9, 2008 in Voices on Page S1 Two years after the Manito-Cannon Hill neighborhood and Spokane City Hall battled it out over Bernard Street trees, the two groups are working together to develop an innovative way to …

• STA shuttles filling up

  October 9, 2008 in Voices on Page N6 In a tight economy, Spokane Transit Authority shuttle buses are a bargain that more and more Spokane residents are taking advantage of to get around their neighborhoods, filling up buses …

• Nettleton to dedicate monument

  October 9, 2008 in Voices on Page S5 The reclaimed steel sculpture looks such a part of the West Central Neighborhood that one onlooker told artist Steffan Wachholtz she couldn’t believe she’d never noticed it before. Wachholtz was …

• Neighorhood institution

  October 4, 2008 in Voices on Page V8 Reading, writing and arithmetic still form the basis of education at Jefferson Elementary, but students attending the school a century ago would be hard-pressed to figure out what to do …

• At home on Hawthorne

  October 2, 2008 in Voices on Page N1 A llama, geckos, chickens and ducks were the featured guests last week at Rockwood at Hawthorne’s fall fair. Residents also played country fair-inspired games at the event, one of many …

• State grant to help combat graffiti

  October 2, 2008 in Voices on Page S4 Neighborhood law enforcement officials are stepping up efforts to combat graffiti thanks to a state grant to hire a coordinator for both Spokane COPS and Spokane County SCOPE graffiti abatement …

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Recent videos by Amy

• Lucky Charms are good bait

  March 15, 2007 in Features First and second grade students at St. Charles Elementary School built leprechaun traps for St. Patrick’s Day. The children used candy and gold as bait, with trap doors, watery moats …

• A visit from the science van

  March 6, 2007 in Features Images and sound from a visit with the Pacific Science Center’s Rock And Roll van on Tuesday at Brentwood Elementary in Spokane.