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Doug Clark: Here’s to a happy ending for Colville’s Auto-Vue

Like the happy ending in a corny movie, fans of the Auto-Vue have helped rescue Eastern Washington’s last drive-in theater from extinction. OK. I’m sticking with that optimistic storyline knowing full well that plenty of unforeseen bad luck can still occur between now and the end of June.
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Doug Clark: Security director a ‘gem’ at downtown’s crown jewel

When I called Chris Powell to set up an interview, the Davenport Hotel’s director of security was up to his eyebrows in just the sort of thing I wanted to talk to him about. Powell was trying to locate a guest, a young man who had been seen wandering about the posh hotel lobby in a T-shirt emblazoned with an alliterative phrase that cannot be published in many venues, let alone a fine family newspaper like The Spokesman-Review.
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Doug Clark: Expo ’74 merchandise a lasting gift for White Elephant

With all the Expo ’74 nostalgia going around, I’d like to reminisce about the biggest failure to come out of our just-turned-40-years-old world’s fair. And by failure I mean all those Expo souvenirs that were supposed to one day become highly valuable and make trinket hoarders like me filthy rich.
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Doug Clark: While we’re officializing, how about …

You know, I sometimes think that I deserve one of those do-gooder Mayor Condon Coins, what with all the heavy lifting I have to do around here. Take last week. The City Council, perhaps as a sign of spring, awoke from their hibernation and decided to name the ponderosa pine as Spokane’s official city tree.