In brief: Breakfast to honor law enforcement
The Spokane Sheriff’s Office Chaplains will offer its 10th annual Law Enforcement Appreciation Breakfast May 18 at Faith Bible Church, 600 W. Cora Ave.
Individuals and businesses are being asked to sponsor a table at the breakfast for $150. Proceeds will be used to provide breakfast and gifts for eight officers.
The agencies honored at the breakfast include Spokane County and Valley deputies, the Spokane Police, Washington State Patrol and Idaho State Police, corrections officers, Spokane Airport Police, the Secret Service, the FBI, Tribal Police and other surrounding law enforcement agencies.
The $150 fee is tax-deductible and must be received by the Chaplaincy by Tuesday.
For more information, call Chaplain John Thompson at 477-6625, or e-mail jdthompson@spokane sheriff.org.
– Lisa Leinberger
Spokane County
Girl Scouts collect cookies for troops
Area Girl Scouts recently collected donations of their cookies to be included in care packages for newly deployed soldiers.
The Troop to Troop Project raised 797 cases of Girl Scout cookies between Feb. 4 and April 15. That number is more than triple of those cookies raised in last year’s project.
The Girl Scouts Inland Empire Council said that 2,276 local Scouts collected the cookies, and included handwritten thank you letters to the soldiers.
The cookies were delivered to Fairchild Air Force Base on April 23 and will be distributed to the troops.
– Lisa Leinberger
Nevada-Lidgerwood
COPS Neva-Wood plan yard sale
COPS Neva-Wood, 4705 N. Addison St., will host a neighborhood yard sale Saturday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Not only can neighbors sell their own items and shop for more, but McGruff the Crime Dog will be at the event, and there will be bicycle registrations and family photo identifications will be taken.
The event also will offer information about the COPS Shop and graffiti control. The neighborhood resource officer will be available to answer questions.
For more information, call the COPS Shop at 625-3355.
– Lisa Leinberger
Hillyard
Sale to benefit Rogers seniors
The Rogers Grad Night Parent Group will hold a rummage sale Saturday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the east parking lot of the school on the corner of Wellesley and Pittsburg.
Proceeds will benefit the Roger’s Graduation All-Nighter.
– Lisa Leinberger