Kim Barker

After a week of fires that killed six Spokane residents and injured three others, something finally went right Sunday. Harold Heskett and his family may be shopping for a new home, but his family escaped a potentially dangerous fire early Sunday unharmed.

Mary Terao adds finishing touches to a dish being served at the Spokane Buddist Church spring food bazar. Photo by Shawn Jacobson/The Spokesman-Review

City workers Shane Warner and Craig Dowdy remove transient camp. Photo by Colin Mulvany/The Spokesman-Review

Sandra and Joe Utt, with their son Jonathan, and Alex Biggs, with her daughter Alison, in the West Plains area where landfills are encroaching. Photo by Christopher Anderson/The Spokesman-Review

Unpublished correction: The name of the boy who died is Brandon Keller-Farnworth. His father's name is Troy Farnworth. District 9 Lt. Doug Bleeker searches for clues to the cause of a mobile home fire that killed a 3-year-old on Monday morning. Photo by Colin Mulvany/The Spokesman-Review

A 29-year-old Spokane woman who was riding her bike Sunday evening suffered head injuries when she collided with a Spokane Transit Authority bus on the South Hill. Tamara Thurlow was listed in satisfactory condition at Sacred Heart Medical Center Sunday night.

Four African American students at Gonzaga University's law school received copies Saturday of a threatening letter that contained racial slurs. The letter, dated March 31, was addressed to Aryan Nations' leader Richard Butler and signed by the Law Students for a Pure America. The letter writer named the four students and said they walked to and from school.

In the past year, Dean Zuck suffered three heart attacks and underwent open-heart surgery. The 70-year-old Bellingham resident still plans to run Bloomsday this year, as he has for the past two years.

FOR THE RECORD: (March 29, 1995): The company that hauled the new skywalks for the Spokane Transit Authority bus station Sunday was BLT Transport and Crane Service of Spokane. The company was misidentified in a Monday article. Into the breach. A crane lifts a skywalk into place between Crescent Court and the STA transit center Sunday morning. Photo by Colin Mulvany/The Spokesman-Review

The Peone Cemetery Association is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of vandals who toppled about 100 headstones over the weekend. In addition to knocking over headstones - some of which weigh hundreds of pounds - vandals pulled up flowers, scrawled graffiti and destroyed mementos such as children's teddy bears. "We have had many offers from the community to help," said Neil Ziegler, secretary of the cemetery association's board.

Young people who want to get involved in manufacturing will be able to start the wheels turning before graduating from high school in a program being developed by a state advisory group. Representatives from Spokane area manufacturing companies met with representatives from the Manufacturing Technology Advisory Group at the Spokane Club on Monday.

After his wife of 52 years died in September, Frank Lehman buried her in Peone Cemetery and marked her grave with a temporary homemade cross and a bouquet of pink silk flowers. Lehman went to visit his wife's gravesite Sunday, as he often does.

Ray Paulson displays the true meaning of Easter as he converts a bunny-shaped balloon into a cross. Photo by Sandra Bancroft-Billings/The Spokesman-Review

It's a run within Bloomsday, and hundreds of people are already racing just to get into it. Corporate Cup, which opened its registration last week, is filling up with companies fielding teams. As of Thursday, 208 teams had signed up. The cup accepts the first 250 teams that register. "People are pretty much following directions, thank goodness," said Mark Starr, Corporate Cup committee chairman. "A couple of people jumped the gun and sent stuff in without the proper registration forms. They didn't send the right amount of money, they sent it to the wrong P.O. box."

Bud Kerr, with Spokane Masonry & Restoration, scours the walls of the Cathedral of St. John after the church was vandalized last week. Photo by Craig Buck/The Spokesman-Review

Just after finding out that Gonzaga will be playing Maryland in the first round of the NCAA tournament, GU basketball team member Jon Kinloch signs Alicia Riley's shirt at the celebration party held Sunday at Cavanaugh's Inn at the Park. Photo by Colin Mulvany/The Spokesman-Review

When their battle started, S. Cynthia Olson and her husband stockpiled sump pumps and dug two ditches beneath their south Spokane home. The water started as a trickle in their basement. It has become a steady flow in the more than 20 years Olson has lived in her house on the northwest corner of the Palouse Highway and Freya.

Mike and Angela Baker picked their destinations carefully when they planned their trip around the world this spring. The Bakers, who live in Papua New Guinea, decided to fly to Hawaii, London, Paris, Singapore - and Spokane. Why Spokane? Mike Baker's brother lives here. There was an added attraction: Bloomsday.

After years of striving for fame, Ralph Zzyyztzburger is looking forward to going out on the bottom. He's earned the last slot in the Spokane phone book, and he's not even a real person. "He's kind of fictitious," said the man who invented Zzyyztzburger, (pronounced ZEETZburger). "He just pays the phone bill."

FOR THE RECORD: (March 7, 1995): This year's Bloomsday poster was designed by artists Ken Spiering and John Mraz. A photo cutline in the paper Friday incompletely listed the artists. The official Bloomsday poster for 1995 was designed by artist Ken Spiering of Spokane. Photo by The Spokesman-Review

Eleanor Hill, left, Harry Konshuk and Kathy Winters meet near their homes to discuss plans for a heavy equipment school that would be built in their area near Spangle. Photo by Shawn Jacobson/The Spokesman-Review

Captain Richard F. Jewell pins the Navy Achievement Medal on Petty Officer Donald Beach during a ceremony at the Navy and Marine Corps Reserve Readiness Center on Sunday. His wife, Fawn, right, also received a spcial letter of appreciation. Photo by Colin Mulvany/The Spokesman-Review

Several Steelworkers held their picket signs Sunday and said a potential settlement of their weeklong strike against Kaiser Aluminum Corp. is humorous - in a way. About 2,000 Spokane members of the United Steelworkers of America struck Kaiser last Monday. On Tuesday, they are to vote on a new contract proposal.

Travis Newby retires this year, but the 12-yearold plans to finish on his feet. The Canfield Middle School sixth-grader has run every Junior Bloomsday since the race started in 1986. This year's April 15 race will be Travis' last, because next year he will be too old. He wants to win. "I like to run," Travis said at the race's news conference Wednesday. "I have lots of extra energy. I get in trouble sometimes."