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Cindy Hval

Cindy Hval

Current Position: freelancer

Cindy Hval is a freelance columnist and correspondent. Her "Front Porch" column appears on alternate Thursdays in the Voices section. Her articles appear in the Features section and throughout the newspaper. Visit her at www.cindyhval.com

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Opinion >  Column

Front Porch: It’s a date

Glancing at the clock, I fastened my earrings and scanned the room for my gold sandals. My date was on the way to pick me up and I didn’t want to keep him waiting.
News >  Spokane

Rogers Unified Soccer team places third at state

On May 26, the Rogers Unified Soccer team captured third place in the state tournament in Puyallup. “The Pirates played three games to secure third place,” said coach Heather Davis. “With a roster of 10 students, the team traveled to Puyallup for the double-elimination tournament for the first time in Rogers Unified Soccer history.”
Opinion >  Column

Front Porch: He once was fragile: A ritual helped

We eagerly scanned the swarms of blue-robed students filing into the McCarthey Athletic Center on Friday evening. The strains of “Pomp and Circumstance” swelled, and then we spotted our baby boy – not much of a baby anymore.
News >  Spokane

Mead senior Azizullah Moltafet is going places, counselor says

When Azizullah Moltafet arrived in the United States in 2012 via Afghanistan, Russia and several countries in between, he didn’t speak a word of English. Neither did his mother and three younger brothers. ‘It was really scary,” he recalled. “We had no family – no friends. We didn’t know if we would have a home or food on the table.”
News >  Spokane

Mt. Spokane High senior Troy Ruffin ‘leads from the heart’

Never underestimate the power of a poster. When Troy Ruffin was in middle school he saw a classroom poster featuring the presidents of the United States. Next to President Obama’s photo was a question mark. “I stopped in front of that for a long time,” Ruffin recalled. “And then I thought
News >  Family

CEOs of local Boy Scout and Girl Scout groups show leadership is gender neutral

Eighteen months ago when Karen Meier took the helm of Boy Scouts of America Inland Northwest Council, she became one of just six female Scout executives in the organization, and locally the first ever female Scout executive. Earlier this month when Brian Newberry became CEO of Girl Scouts of Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho, he became the only male chief executive in the Girl Scout organization.