Julie Sullivan

1. Facing reality. Spokane sculptor Vincent DeFelice weathered controversy over his "Joe Fan" sculpture by turning it into Joe Albi, a lifelong booster of local sporting events. Photo by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review 2. Joe Albi.

He's been a Spokane County commissioner and treasurer, budget director for Idaho and a growth management board member for Washington. Now Skip Chilberg is about to take on one of the world's most confounding bureaucracies: A Romanian orphanage. Chilberg plans to travel to Braila near the Black Sea in May to negotiate the takeover of an orphanage serving 70 children, ages newborn to 4. He'll also help set up an agricultural business to support the orphanage.

A new medical clinic in Romania will be a mini-Rockwood Clinic with a touch of Pathology Associates and Christ Clinic thrown in. Borrowing heavily from the practices, policies - and in some cases the storerooms - of Spokane clinics, laboratories and hospitals, volunteers plan to open a diagnostic clinic in Braila on May 16.

Jazzy combo Mona Clark and Hal Poffenroth perform at Hobart's Jazz Lounge. Photo by Colin Mulvany/The Spokesman-Review

1. Twyla Lubben, 85, mother of 13 and foster mother of more than 100 children. Photo by Liz Kishimoto/The Spokesman-Review 2. Twyla Lubben and her late husband, Henry, in 1944.

Sisters Jennifer, 11, and Jillian Wilson, 9, right, play a math game Friday instead of watching television. They are among 203 Chester Elementary students who gave up TV for reading last fall. Photo by Liz Kishimoto/The Spokesman-Review

Is the world getting meaner? It might seem so - depending on how much television you watch. "Mean world syndrome" occurs when people see the real world as the same one viewed on TV. A place where three people are murdered nightly and a woman can't walk to a car alone. Such images can make viewers anxious, distrustful and easily controlled by fears, according to George Gerbner, the pioneer researcher who documented the syndrome.

Bingo players coming to the Spokane Guilds' School Bingo Center today will find coffee, doughnuts - and a "for lease" sign in the parking lot. After two years of losing money, the Guilds' School called its last bingo game Thursday. The hall at 1126 N. Monroe will be open today to inform customers.

1. Top: Anderson captures Ruth and Gordon Coe at an emotional moment the night Ruth was arrested for hiring a hit man to kill the prosecutor and judge in her son's rape trial. Their son, Kevin Coe, was convicted and Ruth incarcerated. Photo by Christopher Anderson/The Spokesman-Review 2. Middle: The brilliant color and detail of Ferris' Silly Sacks are brought to life with typical Anderson flair. Photo by Christopher Anderson/The Spokesman-Review 3. Left: It's not just another Kodak moment when Anderson catches a Lilac Princess putting the squeeze on an unsuspecting grade-schooler. Photo by Christopher Anderson/The Spokesman-Review

Toni Savalli will retire this week. Photo by Shawn Jacobson/The Spokesman-Review

When it came to gathering shoes for Rwanda, these peopole were no loafers. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review

In the Oscar-nominated film "Secrets and Lies," a middle-aged white woman discovers the adult black daughter she gave up for adoption. From her theater seat in Minnesota, author Mary Martin Mason could tell by their reactions who in the audience was a birth mother and who was adopted.

Mona Vee Bass was honored this month as employee of the year at Goodwill Industries of the Inland Northwest. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review

The Angus Scott Pipe Band rattles the walls of the Westview Elementary School gym during practice this week. Photo by Colin Mulvany/The Spokesman-Review

Father Robert Araujo Gonzaga Jesuit helping the U.N. define what constitutes war crimes and crimes against humanity at the request of the Vatican. Photo by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review

A brother in need. Rhonda King, background, is hoping to find a Big Brother for her son, Andrew, but the cash-strapped program has a long wait list. Photo by Christopher Anderson/The Spokesman-Review <

1. Monica Walters heads a new leadership team at the YWCA. Photo by Shawn Jacobson/The Spokesman-Review 2. Angela Sheffield, YWCA associate executive director 3. Lydia Ziamerle, 14, and Brittany Ginger, 6, cozy up to "The Teddy Bear Who Couldn't Do Anything" during reading time at the Y's Transition School for homeless children. Photo by Dan Pelle/The Spokesman-Review 4. David Walters, left, of Prevocational Training Center assists Joe St. Peters during a warm-water exercise class at the Y. Photo by Dan Pelle/The Spokesman-Review

Sharon Tetly explores the dark side of childhood in her exhibit at Chase Gallery. Photo by Dan McComb/The Spokesman-Review

Dee-Dee Updike helps her granddaughter, Micaela Hovater, with a stuffed toy Monday during a presentation on car safety seats. Photo by Shawn Jacobson/The Spokesman-Review

Ike Isaacson began his military career working on missiles aimed at Bucharest. Thirty-two years later, he finally delivered a payload. The Spokane master sergeant and boom operator unloaded 8 tons of clothing and medicine from a Washington Air National Guard KC135E into the arms of waiting Romanians.

Pallbearers from the Cheney VFW form an honor guard Thursday as the casket of Allen Mattausch is carried from Our Lady of Lourdes Cathedral in Spokane. Photo by Christopher Anderson/The Spokesman-Review

While most of the Inland Northwest exchanged Christmas greetings, Jessie Salicis called distant relatives on a borrowed cellular telephone. Thirty-eight days after an ice storm brought down trees and power lines in Spokane, the Garden Springs resident was among 70 US West customers either without telephone service or with trouble on the line.

Lolly and Rocky Rothrock inspect the donated shoes that are headed to Rwanda. Photo by Dan Pelle/The Spokesman-Review

Mary Gaston waits to rent ice skates at Riverfront Park with her three children. From left are 7-year-old Nicole, 6-year-old Blake and 5-year-old "Blue." Photo by Shawn Jacobson/The Spokesman-Review