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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

Wheelchair games benefit planned

A “Friend Raiser” for the 29th annual National Veterans Wheelchair Games will be Friday at Northern Quest Casino, 100 N. Hayford Road in Airway Heights, from 5 to 9 p.m.

The event will include live music, hors d’oeuvres, raffles, and motorcycles on display. Raffle tickets are $1 each. Admission is $5.

Bikers can meet at Lone Wolf Harley-Davidson, 722 W. Appleway Ave. in Coeur d’Alene, at 4 p.m. From Lone Wolf, riders will head to the Road House, 1640 E. Schneidmiller Ave., in Post Falls at 4:30 p.m. Riders will leave the Road House and head to Empire Cycle, 7807 E. Sprague Ave., at 4:45 p.m., then head out to Northern Quest Casino.

All proceeds will benefit the Veterans Wheelchair Games, July 13 through 18.

For more information, call Carla Lippert at (509) 434-7508 or Mark Lidbeck at (509) 270-2272.

Spokane County

Chocolate festival tickets available

The fourth annual Chocolate Festival and Auction that benefits the Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Service is scheduled for April 17 at 6:30 p.m. at CenterPlace, 2426 N. Discovery Place. Tickets are $20 and are available in advance through SCRAPS or at the door.

Money raised at the event will benefits the animal medical fund, which provides emergency vet care for animals brought to the shelter, and the behavior program, which provides free dog training classes and animal behavior consultations.

SCRAPS covers unincorporated Spokane County and the cities of Spokane Valley, Liberty Lake, Millwood and Cheney as well as Fairchild Air Force Base. For more information, call (509) 477-2632.

East Central

Second Harvest seeks volunteers

Second Harvest Food Bank, 1234 E. Front Ave., needs 140 volunteers for the Letter Carriers Food Drive on May 9.

The volunteers will be working at 10 postal stations in the Spokane area, loading donated bags of groceries into totes on trucks. Morning and afternoon shifts are available. Also, driver/runner teams are needed to collect donated bags of groceries from neighborhood porches and deliver them back to the designated postal sites.

In addition, Second Harvest is seeking groups to assist with sorting and boxing food drive and salvage items in preparation for delivery to 20 emergency food outlets.

To volunteer, register at www.2-harvest.org and click on Volunteer Your Time. For more information, call Julie at (509) 252-6242 or e-mail jnesbitt@2-harvest.org.

Emerson/Garfield

Youth commission holding fundraiser

The Breakfast of Champions, a fundraising event to benefit the Chase Youth Commission, will be April 16, from 7 to 8:30 a.m. at the Lincoln Center, 1316 N. Lincoln St.

The breakfast will feature keynote speaker Marguerite Kondracke, the President and CEO of America’s Promise Alliance. The Shadle Park High School Orchestra will perform, along with the presentation of Wheaties Trophies and a celebration of community Champions of Youth. A Red Wagon Silent Auction also will be held.

Tickets are $35 per person. A table for eight can be reserved for $280.

Make reservations online at www.chaseyouth.org until April 13. Reservations will be accepted only by phone after April 13 at (509) 625-6440.

US Bank, Spokane area Kiwanis, and Sterling Savings Bank are sponsors of the Breakfast of Champions.