2011 Year in photos
Take a look back at photos taken in 2011 by The Spokesman-Review staff photographers, Christopher Anderson, Colin Mulvany, Dan Pelle, Kathy Plonka, J. Bart Rayniak and Jesse Tinsley.
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Gonzaga center Robert Sacre grabs head coach Mark Few and carries him to the rest of the team after the Zags beat Saint Marys for the WCC Tournament Championship, Monday, March 7, 2011 in Las Vegas.
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Not your average garage band. Adrienne Bousquet belts out torch songs at the corner of Gardner and Lindeke during 2011 Bloomsday on Sunday, May 1, 2011.
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Spokane Indians Rougned Odor (2), right, throws a haymaker at Shane Opitz of Vancouver that induced a bench clearing brawl at Avista Stadium in Spokane, Wash., Monday, July 11, 2011.
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As thunderstorms begin to roll through Spokane, Wash., Tuesday evening, July 12, 2011, a rainbow frames the County Courthouse at sunset.
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Hundreds of students, staff and friends gather in Friendship Square in downtown Moscow, Idaho to honor slain University of Idaho grad student Katy Benoit, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011.
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Utah quarterback Jon Hays grimaces as WSU defensive end Adam Coerper crashes into him for a first half sack during their game at Martin Stadium in Pullman, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011.
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Spokane police officer Karl Thompson waits to cross the street after leaving the William O. Douglas Federal Courthouse in Yakima, Wash., Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. Thompson was found guilty on two counts in the death of Otto Zehm.
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Members of the Pattison Inline Racing, right to left, Michaela Roske,17, Haley Glatt,14, Jameson Dumo, 12, and Reece Dunlap,15, practice at Pattison’s North Skating Center on Tuesday, March 15, 2011.
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Left to right, Matt Setliff, Adrianna “Nikki” and Daja Varnell are still in shock over the death of Jennifer Setliff who was shot and killed Saturday, Sept. 4, 2011 in an apparent murder-suicide.
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With hail falling, Mark Breckenridge strums his guitar as he heads north on Tekoa Street at 28th Avenue Saturday. Breckenridge said he’s been playing his cheap $100 guitar for three years. “I don’t need to us my hands to ride, so I play my guitar,” he said.
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Silhouetted utility poles stack up against the orange sky on the highway leading into Medical Lake, Wash.
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Spokane firefighters vent the roof of a rental house that was severely damaged by an interior blaze Thursday afternoon Oct. 27, 2011. The house at 1711 N. Adams, was fully involved as firefighters arrived on the scene. No one was home at the time of the fire, which is under investigation.
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In front of the main entrance to Chase Bank in downtown Spokane, Wash., Occupy Spokane protester Robert Horton chants, “We are the 99 percent,” to a bank security guard Friday Oct. 14, 2011. Hundreds of protesters marched through downtown protesting the inequity of wealth in the country.
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John Cafaro, an employee with Exhaust Hood & Duct Service, steam cleans the exhaust filters for the Steam Plant Grill kitchen in downtown Spokane Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. Cafaro says he has had the fire department show up while cleaning because people think the steam is smoke.
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Mist from the raging Spokane River forms ice on the Spokane Falls SkyRide parked under the Monroe Street Bridge, Jan. 31, 2011, in Spokane, Wash.
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Gonzaga head coach, Kelly Graves, and his star player, Courtney Vandersloot, leave the court arm in arm after defeating Louisville 76 -69, March 25, 2011, in the Spokane Arena.
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Nadia Nsir, center, sheds tears as her thoughts turn to family members, including her mother, two brothers and two sister still living in Tripoli, Liberia. Nsir is comforted by her daughter, Tasneem, left, and friend Patricia Maarhuis during a Washington State University Libyan student group relief fundraiser for the Libyan people, April 19, 2011, in Pullman, Wash.
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Sister Mary Eucharista, SMMC, gets a smooch from Daisy on the grounds of the Immaculate Heart Retreat Center, Sept. 9, 2011.
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Pride Mafira, 6, from Zimbabwe, pushes Stacey Cahill around the 2nd floor of Thompson Custom Orthotics and Prosthetics, June 15, 2011, in Spokane, Wash. The boy was born without a femur in his leg and had it amputated at six months of age. Jim Cahill, Stacey’s husband is fitting Pride for a new prosthetic leg.
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Mountain View Middle School students Norah Holmes, Cheyenne Baxter and Anabelle Lacroix embrace with tears as the last buses are loaded on the last day of school, June 17, 2011, in Newman Lake, Wash. The school is closing after 32 years. The East Valley School District is moving towards a kindergarten through eighth grade system and will close it’s other middle school, East Valley Middle School, in two years.
Wind turbines peek out from the rolling fog, Nov. 18, 2011, on the Invenergy site near Vantage, Wash.
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Holy Family Catholic School first-grader, Max Anderson, runs through the heavy snowfall in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho on Wednesday, Jan.12, 2011, as he tries to beat the late bell.
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“It is a true freshwater cod,” said Corie Laude, a senior fisheries technician for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game on the Kootenai River near Bonners Ferry on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011. She is involved in the effort to save the burbot, a freshwater cod. The burbot was overfished in the 1900’s and was negatively affected by the Libby Dam.
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Tom Aylward, 62, grimaces at mile 90 during the Ironman Coeur d’Alene competition on Sunday, June 26, 2011. He finished the 2.4-mile swim and the 112-mile bike portion of the triathlon but was in too much pain to finish the 26-mile marathon. ” I knew when I got off the bike that it was over.” he said.
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“She loves cows,” said Staci Bowden, left, about her friend Lea Hoiland, right as the two painted Hoiland’s new business, Pink Spot Espresso on Government way in Coeur d’Alene on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011.
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A westbound train cuts through the sunrise over the prairie at the Pleasant View crossing near Hauser on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011.
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Ice formed during the early morning watering at the U.S. Forest Service Nursery in Coeur d’Alene on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011.
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“This is a good place,” said Larry Motari, 53, on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011, about the new warming shelter located in an unused warehouse at Ground Force Manufacturing in Post Falls.
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US Army Persian Gulf veteran CJ Jones waves her flag during the playing of “The Caissons Go Rolling Along, ” at the Memorial Day Ceremony at Fairmount Memorial Park, Moday., May 30, 2011. She served in the last MASH (Mobile Army Support Hospital) unit, and the first CASH (Combat Support Hospital) during the first Iraqi war.
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Mercedes Becerra of the Lil Vike Ballers slaps for a loose ball as Olivia Moore from Rock Star Ballers (Spokane), Karina Garzon of Mapton Ballers, and Kristin Simpson of Rock Star Ballers (Spokane), free-for-all for possession in a third grade consolation game in Bracket 40.
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SVFD Captain’s Pat Schaffer, right, and Captain Tag Baugh hoist a 1,200 pound steel beam that was recovered from the World Center into the new SVFD new administration building, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011. The beam was given to the SVFD by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and will serve as a memorial to the sacrifices made by so many on 9/11/2001.
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Dan Foster, who flew in WW II, Korea, the Cuban Missile Crisis and Vietnam, is greeted with cheers at Spokane International Airport with 26 Northwest Honor Flight veterans as they returned from Washington, D.C. from the final trip of the year, Sunday, Nov. 6, 2011.
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Stephanie Sammons poses with her tribute to her father, Ken Sammons, “Britches to Big,” in her Liberty Lake attic/studio. She creates her “Fine Art Scrapbooking” by first drawing beautiful portraits of her subject, and then, uses found objects that represents their life to create her art. “I never will be able to fill his britches,” she said of her dad, who years ago started as a janitor at Gonzaga University, and is now the Director of University Services.
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Renard Williams, center, laughs with his teammates while watching other teammates being interviewed on stage during a rally at River Park Square Saturday, Jan. 22, 2011, for the Eastern Washington University Eagles to celebrate their January 7 FCS football championship in Frisco, Texas.
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Vicky Dalton, county auditor for Spokane County, looks in one of hundreds, if not thousands, of record books recording deeds and other documents in the stacks at the Spokane County Courthouse Thursday, March 17, 2011. Dalton and her staff are almost finished with the digitizing of these old records, which was done mostly by a contractor who brought special machines to transfer paper copies into digital images.
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Spokane Shock’s coach Rob Keefe flies high for an onfield celebration after a key fourth down defensive stop in the first half, Saturday, July 16, 2011, at the Spokane Arena.
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At the Outdoor Learning Center in Spokane Valley, Gage Savage, 5, looks a Mexican king snake in the eyes alongside his sister Lily Savage, 7, Friday, July 22, 2011, during an open house at the center.
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After her teacher asks students to “put a bubble in your mouth” to quiet the chatter, Keyria Gardner, a kindergartener, concentrates on holding a cheekful of air while standing in line for recess Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2011 at Whitman Elementary. The kindergarten population of Spokane schools is experiencing a small boom and administrators are scrambling to get class sizes under control.
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