Spokane

From 1975: Idaho Gov. Cecil Andrus spoke during the three-day dedication of the “Northwest Passage” – the lower Snake River dams and seaway project – but his speech was not entirely full of praise.

Tunes from the past and the present sound amazing at Scott Griffith’s house.

From 1975: The Little Goose Dam on the Snake River was officially dedicated, marking the completion of the Ice Harbor, Lower Monumental, Little Goose and Granite string of dams.

Fire season has come early this year.

Torrents of rain did nothing to stop the Inland Northwest Juneteenth Coalition’s first celebration at Liberty Park in 2011.

From 1975: President Gerald Ford ordered the former U.S. Pavilion to be turned over to the city of Spokane free of charge – and city officials were “elated.”

From 1975: Terry Brauner, self-proclaimed waterfall daredevil of Kettle Falls, Washington, claimed that he successfully hurdled the Spokane Falls in his homemade inner-tube contraption.

Spokane’s Stone’s Food Stores in the 1930s were a brief moment in the work of the region’s ambitious grocery executives in the 20th century.

From 1975: A Spokesman-Review’s critic was not impressed with the ZZ Top concert at the Spokane Coliseum.

From 1975: The Spokesman-Review’s Sunday Magazine ran a feature about “Spokane’s streetwalking scene,” and what it was like for the working girls.

Thousands of people crowded Riverfront Park and marched through downtown Spokane, joining millions more across the country in the “No Kings” protest movement against President Donald Trump.

The right to protest is not an unlimited right, court decisions over the last 200 years have made clear.

Lorena Rodriguez is an angel.

From 1975: A Spokane police detective shot and killed Johnny D. Jones, 33, after police confronted him for robbing a downtown Safeway store. The detective and witnesses said they thought Jones fired the first shot.

From 1975: Two surprising details emerged from a meeting of Spokane’s Park Board.

Spokane’s Pride Parade and Festival will proceed Saturday along with several protests planned well in advance of an anti-ICE protest Wednesday that quickly escalated into a standoff with police and ended with a curfew order.

It’s been a slow week on South Perry, where Street Music Week, Spokane’s annual noontime busking celebration to support the 2nd Harvest Food Bank, expanded for the first time this year.

A gathering of green thumbs met Thursday in a beautifully landscaped backyard filled with lush gardens – an apt setting for the monthly meeting of the Little Spokane Garden Club.