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News >  Spokane

Health experts say conversations on suicide need to be brought to light

A Spokane teenager committed suicide this school year two days after he’d finished watching the popular Netflix show, “13 Reasons Why.” His grieving parents believe the show, which dramatizes a teen’s suicide, was “a factor” in their son’s death, said David Crump, Spokane Public Schools director of mental health services. The family of the boy asked Crump to tell other families to watch the show with their children and talk openly about suicide.
News >  Education

Spokane teachers elect new leadership, oust incumbent President Jenny Rose

Spokane teachers voted overwhelmingly to elect new union leadership last week in an election plagued with glitches and ineligible ballots. Katy Henry, a special education and behavioral intervention specialist, received 935 votes, or 74 percent of the total, beating incumbent President Jenny Rose. The election results were finalized by the union’s executive board Wednesday.
News >  Agriculture

The apples and the bees

Every year thousands of hives dot Washington’s apple orchards. The bees inside pollinate the state’s apple trees. Apple farmers, for the most part, rent the their bees, said Dave Robison an apple farmer near Chelan.
News >  Agriculture

The farmers’ workaround: Tree grafting

Planting a modern apple orchard is expensive work costing between $40,000 and $50,000 per acre. What’s more, the kinds of apples people want to eat can change. That means an orchard planted this year might not be that valuable by the time it has reached full maturity five years later. One way apple farmers in Washington can adapt to changing tastes? Grafting. It’s an ancient process that melds two different types of apple trees together. Simply put, the stem of one variety’s leaf buds are inserted into the stalk of the tree.
News >  Agriculture

A brief history of the apple

The apple was first domesticated in southern Kazakhstan about 4,000 years ago. The fruit has played heavily into art and literature in various cultures. However, apples do not appear in the Old Testament’s Book of Genesis. In the original Adam and Eve story, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil is an unspecified fruit tree.