These are the days of our Slice

Let’s start with a question.

The name of what Inland Northwest community or neighborhood sounds most like the title of a classic TV soap opera?

A) Airway Heights. B) Bonners Ferry. C) Dalton Gardens. D) Electric City. E) Kettle Falls. F) Lower South Hill. G) Athol. H) Dusty. I) Vinegar Flats. J) Bayview. K) Peaceful Valley. L) Trentwood. M) Ritzville. N) Other.

•We’ll know Spokane has gotten serious about parking the car and walking: When we start seeing little kids’ hot chocolate stands.

•Celebrating the International Year of the Potato: Ed Madsen has ideas.

1. Carving/sculpting contest. Artists would be given a sharp knife, a supply of potatoes and limited amount of time.

2. Challenge makers of beer and wine to produce tasty and potent potato-based hooch.

3. Potato throwing contest.

4. Who can grow the biggest spud?

Libbie Coleman thinks every restaurant in Idaho and Washington should feature a baked potato bar.

•Just wondering: How many STA riders have a route number that is also their age?

•Spokane style: “I found out the hard way that one does not wear a ball cap while standing before a judge in court,” wrote Steve Haynes.

•The weather on the day you were born: Lois Evanoff, whose parents lived out in the country, was born in a blizzard. “The road to the Davenport hospital had drifts higher than my father’s Model T Ford.”

Lois was the seventh child in her family, though, and her mother knew what to do right there at home.

The temperature was below zero when Teri Karnitz was born. But when her mother realized it was time to head for the hospital, the family car wouldn’t start. Fortunately, relatives were visiting from Minnesota. “Their car, obviously more acclimated to cold weather, did start,” wrote Karnitz.

Leonard Riley was born in Indiana in 1929 on a day that his mother always said was the hottest of the year.

•If your life had a narrator: Whose voice would you want to hear describing your thoughts and actions?

“And now, as Heather stared at the coffee stain on her new blouse, she realized she was living a lie.”

•Boxing memory: “Growing up in the 1930s in an old farmhouse with no electricity and few other amenities, we did have a radio,” wrote Phil Purcell. “It required two dry-cell batteries and an aerial of quite a length. My dad had to listen to any or all the boxing matches that were aired at that time, especially the big bouts.”

•Today’s Slice question: What are the key differences between your online social networks and your in-person social networks?