Easley Golf Classic Includes James Worthy, Ken Griffey Sr.

Fri., June 9, 1995

Anne Windishar

This weekend offers a great opportunity for star gazing - the celebrity, not the celestial kind.

The Third Annual Ken Easley Celebrity Golf Classic is at The Creek at Qualchan Golf Course today and Saturday, featuring golfers the likes of James Worthy, Ken Griffey, Sr., and John Ashton (best-known as Sergeant Taggart in “Beverley Hills Cop.”).

There are others, of course; nearly two dozen celebrities from the sports and show business worlds.

A seven-hole shoot-out begins at 9:30 this morning, followed by a shotgun start at 1:30 p.m.

On Saturday, the final round begins at 8 a.m. followed by a luncheon and awards presentation.

Celebrities will be available for autographs from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

The shoot-out and tournament are free to spectators. Souvenir programs will cost you $3, but autographs are free.

Proceeds from the Classic go to the Wishing Star Foundation and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Youth and Family Outreach Center. More than $45,000 has been raised in the first two years of the classic.

Great grapes

The Spokane Advertising Federation is holding its Fourth Annual Grape and Grain fundraiser tonight from 7:30 to 10:30.

Six local wineries will bring their wares, along with the goods from seven breweries. Non-alcohol selections will also be available.

While sampling, guests can participate in a silent auction to benefit the federation, a non-profit trade organization that provides professional development for people in communications. Ad Club also supports area college student scholastic programs.

Tickets are $17.50 each. Call 448-5255 for more information and tickets.

Community festivals

There’s nothing like a small-town festival to warm you up all over. There are two this weekend.

Ephrata hosts its Sage-n-Sun festival, complete with two parades (one tonight at 7, one Saturday at 11 a.m.), a fun run, music, dancing, great food and more. Members of the Society for Creative Anachronism will show off their medieval gear and enact sword battles.

Lots of the activities are free. For more information and directions to Ephrata, call (800) 345-4656.

Republic, in Ferry County, is holding its Prospectors’ Days this weekend, as well. Ferry County’s rich history includes ranchers, miners, loggers and merchants, many of whose descendants still ply that way of life of their forebears.

The fun starts today with the Artists in the Park at 3 p.m., an art show featuring the work of three area Western artists. There’s food, a parade and a rodeo that costs $6, $4 for kids. A family of four can get in for $16.

There’s a street dance at 7 tonight featuring Force of Habit.

Saturday boasts a pancake feed and fun run, another parade and more rodeo. For more information and directions, call (509) 775-2012.

Don’t worry, be harpy

Apparently, Greg Buchanan redefines the stereotype of harp music.

Buchanan, a world-class harpist, has an aggressive style of playing the harp. You can hear it for yourself Saturday at 7 p.m. in the Moscow Church of the Nazarene, 1400 E. Seventh St., in Moscow.

Tickets are available at the Christian Gift Center in Moscow or Lewiston, and at the door on Saturday. Cost is $4 per person, or $3 each for five or more. Call the church at (208) 882-4332 for more information.

Two ‘cakes and that Barca-lounger

The Corbin Community Center is holding a Pancake Feed and Yard Sale Saturday beginning at 8 a.m. That pretty much says it all.

Tickets for pancakes are $3 for adults in advance or $3.50 at the door; $2.50 for children under 12 years. Families get in for $10. The yard sale’s free.

Up for a drive?

The Washington Commission for the Humanities is sponsoring “Slahal: The Hand, Bone, or Stick Game,” a lecture by James Everett Cunningham that describes the popular gambling game played by the indigenous people of Western Washington.

Cunningham will delve into Slahal’s ties to the past from its mythological and supernatural beginnings to its historical antecedents.

The lecture - at 1 p.m. today - is part of the 1995 Treaty Days at the Cultural Heritage Center of the Yakama Reservation, near Toppenish. Call (509) 865-2800, ext. 751 for complete information.

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MEMO: This sidebar appeared with the story: Getting out The last blooms of the wild yellow iris still flank the Little Spokane River so it’s an especially scenic time of year to float this forthe-most-part gentle stream. No whitewater here. Those with a watercraft at their disposal - rubber raft, kayak or canoe - can put in at the launch just downstream from the Spokane Fish Hatchery (at the entrance to the fish hatchery, turn left on the road to St. George’s school and about a halfmile down that road, take the driveway marked clearly as a canoe launch. St. George’s is not open to the public.) Downriver, floaters can takeout (or put in) at the Indian Rock Paintings parking lot on Rutter Parkway, and at the county takeout just before the confluence with the Spokane River (it’s on your left as you go downstream). The river’s high, but that makes for smooth floating over sand bars and snags.

This sidebar appeared with the story: Getting out The last blooms of the wild yellow iris still flank the Little Spokane River so it’s an especially scenic time of year to float this forthe-most-part gentle stream. No whitewater here. Those with a watercraft at their disposal - rubber raft, kayak or canoe - can put in at the launch just downstream from the Spokane Fish Hatchery (at the entrance to the fish hatchery, turn left on the road to St. George’s school and about a halfmile down that road, take the driveway marked clearly as a canoe launch. St. George’s is not open to the public.) Downriver, floaters can takeout (or put in) at the Indian Rock Paintings parking lot on Rutter Parkway, and at the county takeout just before the confluence with the Spokane River (it’s on your left as you go downstream). The river’s high, but that makes for smooth floating over sand bars and snags.