Cynthia Taggart

Terry Sundsted, who runs North Idaho's Young Community Builders program, helps Hanna English, 21, size a piece of drywall. Photo by Liz Kishimoto/The Spokesman-Review

Pat Stoddard couldn't ask the woman to leave, though it was long past Pat's bedtime. The woman wanted to hold the grandchild she wouldn't have a chance to spoil. Social workers had placed the newborn with Pat while the baby's mother weighed her options and chose adoption. A new family would take the baby the next day. The grandmother couldn't let go. "She was rocking and crying, rocking and crying," Pat says. "I didn't have the heart to tell her it was time to leave. Sometimes I really feel sorry for the grandparents."

Murad Khalliev has been able to attend North Idaho College, thanks to the help of Skip and Dick Kuck. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review

Dorothy Wiegele is a member of the 3Cs bowling team, a charitable organization. Photo by Liz Kishimoto/The Spokesman-Review

A January fire destroyed Charlotte Haubensack's century-old home in Rathdrum. File/The Spokesman-Review

FOR THE RECORD (February 17, 1998): Location wrong: Michael Koep's watercolor interpretations of his music on the album "Gravity" are on display now at Lindaman's South in Spokane. The wrong Lindaman's was listed in a story on Monday. 1. "Laughable" is one of Koep's pieces at Lindaman's Cafe North. 2. Michael Koep is fearless about pushing the boundaries of art and expression. Photo by Kristy MacDonald/The Spokesman-Review 3. Teachers and friends comment on Koep's thirst for knowledge and sense of integrity. Photo by Kristy MacDonald/The Spokesman-Review

Snowboard instructor Debbie Brodin prepares to teach the basics to 5-year-old Alex Stillinger of Coeur d'Alene on Friday at Silver Mountain. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review

Chris Everts' trial by fire started in Kootenai Medical Center's emergency room when she held a bucket for a new mother so sick over being raped that she couldn't stop vomiting. Chris, a volunteer for the Women's Center's rape crisis line, nearly upchucked herself after doctors told the 21-year-old woman there was a chance the rapist had impregnated her. Still recovering from giving birth, the woman hadn't restarted birth control. She took the "morning-after" pill doctors offered her.

Duane Little is proud of his family history. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review

Amanda Tomme on the Ganges River in Varanasi, India. Photo courtesy of Amanda Tomme

1. With assistance from a program that helps him train for jobs and other challenges of the world, Charles Ouldhouse has left a state hospital and now lives in a Post Falls apartment. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review 2. Charles Ouldhouse prepares dinner in his Post Falls apartment. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review

P.E. teacher JoAnn Harvey has been an after-school coach and surrogate mom for dozens of kids who love to run. With her are four officers of her cross-country club. From left are third-graders Conor Finity, Jessica Zabel, Nick Blank and Jeff Crump (front). Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review

Elaine Bradshaw: "I feel freer now than at any other time in my life." Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review

Carla Hofstee juggles hot potatoes and casseroles as she prepares dinner for her 12 children. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review

Cory Bliss has found a niche, singing Elivs tunes with backup singers Jenna Hutson, left, Sarah Bligh and Demi Palm. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review

It's the Deborah Whipples and the Patricia Gallaghers who haunt Cricket Green. She could have been either one of them - the woman whose abusive husband allegedly killed her or the woman who killed her abusive husband. Instead, Cricket became the person to whom battered women ran. For seven years, she was a constant at the Coeur d'Alene Women's Shelter and buoyed 2,500 women and children on the run.

Bob Bennett is trying to get on with his life after North Idaho College. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review

Louis Fromherz, a janitor from a junior high school, is an accomplished, self-taught pianist. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review

Kim Brown loves history so much that she put together a video for the Post Falls Historical Society. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review

Tina Friedman of Samuels, Idaho, plans a photo exhibition of her eight-month visit to Africa. Her photos will be displayed at the Bonner Mall in Sandpoint. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review

This file photo from 1994 shows the cross-country ski trail at Fourth of July Pass in Coeur d'Alene. Susy Renner of Spokane skis past the warming hut built by the Panhandle Nordic Club. File/The Spokesman-Review

Joan Harman says she's making it her social responsibility to write letters to newspapers. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review

Star Euthene

A computerized communicator has enabled Steve Allert to more easily state his thoughts and desires - whether it be conversing with friends or ordering a burger - despite cerebral palsy. Photo by Jesse Tinsley/The Spokesman-Review