In brief: Junior League hosts Touch a Truck for kids Oct. 6

Thu., Sept. 27, 2012

From Local Reports

CHIEF GARRY PARK – The Junior League of Spokane will host Touch a Truck on Oct. 6 at Spokane Community College, 1810 N. Greene St., from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Children will have hands-on access to firetrucks, dump trucks, ambulances and helicopters. Parents can visit safety and health information booths. Tow Mater from Disney’s “Cars” will be the special guest.

Admission is $5 per person, children 2 and younger are free. Visitors will receive $1 off admission with a donation of nonperishable food to the Salvation Army Food Bank.

For more information visit www.jlspokane.org.>

‘Whiteclay’ screening Tuesday at SFCC

WEST HILLS – Jeffrey Mohr, an associate professor of social work at Nebraska Wesleyan University, is hosting a free screening of “The Battle for Whiteclay” and a discussion of contemporary Native American issues at Spokane Falls Community College.

The documentary will be shown at 7 p.m. Tuesday at SFCC Building 24, sn-w’ey’-mn room 110, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Drive. SFCC’s Beta Gamma Kappa and Red Nations student groups are co-sponsoring the event.

The documentary is about the town of Whiteclay, Neb., population 22. The town has four state liquor stores, which are frequented by residents of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, just across the border in South Dakota. Experts believe about 80 percent of the reservation’s population suffers from alcoholism. The documentary looks at activists’ efforts to get the government to restrict alcohol sales.

For more information call SFCC history instructor Kurt Kinbacher at (509) 533-3461.