Kim Barker

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."

With a strike looming, management employees at Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. may be in for a long week. Managers at Kaiser's Mead smelter were told Sunday to bring sleeping bags and three days' worth of clothes when they report to work today at 2 p.m., according to a management employee who asked to remain anonymous.

A plan to move some radio towers from the South Hill is making waves in a rural community 10 miles south of Spokane. Citadel Broadcasting Co. wants to broadcast its signals from the agricultural area, but residents have formed a non-profit organization to stop the move.

Tom Anderson doesn't mind singing his own praises. After all, the Freeman High School choir director started from scratch three years ago. The school hadn't had a choir in 15 years, but word of mouth brought 42 willing students into the class.

Brian Perry Brian Perry sat on a park bench Sunday afternoon and sketched daffodils in a paper tablet. He wanted to draw orchids, but two other people were chatting on the park bench facing those flowers.

Spokane police arrested a man Sunday afternoon after a car chase that ended in a three-vehicle accident in busy North Division traffic. William A. Leverette, 34, of Spokane was in jail Sunday night after his stomach was pumped at Sacred Heart Medical Center earlier that day, police said. He had ingested heroin, police said.

Bob Mortimer sits in his wheelchair on the gym floor at Central Valley High School. Mortimer was injured by a downed powerline while on drugs. Photo by Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review

Emery

It's called the Personal Responsibility Act, and it could mean that parents will be responsible for paying more money for school meals. The act, part of the Republican Contract with America being debated in Congress, would reform welfare and roll all federal food programs into a single grant administered by states. In addition, federal school lunch subsidies would be eliminated for students who can afford to pay and money for child nutrition programs would be cut 17 percent.

Central Valley School District students served up a smorgasbord of award-winning artwork, music, literature and photography last weekend. Winners of the 1995 Parent Teacher Association Reflections were honored at an awards ceremony Saturday at Horizon Junior High. The winning artwork also was on display. "The children need the recognition in the arts," said Marilyn Greer, chairwoman of the PTA's Reflections program for the Central Valley School District PTA Council. "It's one of the things that isn't recognized that much in school, compared to sports programs."

Students at Progress Elementary School are having a ball using in-line skates in gym class. Photo by Steve Thompson/The Spokesman-Review

U-Hi student Sarah Scales

The Central Valley School Board gave final approval to its long-debated guidance policy this week. The policy will require counselors to consult parents in most cases before recommending outside help for students. A community and staff committee spent three months developing the policy and established safeguards for parents, counselors and students. The board spent another four hours Monday night pounding out small details before approving the policy.

The East Valley School District will not try to pass a bond issue this year if the school board follows a recommendation made at its meeting Tuesday. The district has failed its past three bond issue attempts and plans to continue gathering community input before trying a fourth time, Superintendent Chuck Stocker said. A grass-roots campaign at each school will help the district develop a possible bond timeline in time for the board's next meeting, Stocker said.

1. 22 years of controversy Supporters of the Roe vs. Wade decision hold a "Light the Way to choice" rally at St. Paul's United Methodist Church, N 1620 Monroe. Photo by Christopher Anderson/The Spokesman-Review 2. Abortion foes march from Deaconess to a rally outside the U.S. Court House. Photo by Christopher Anderson/The Spokesman-Review

Dr. Tom Gilpatrick planned to finish moving 34 boxes of about 4,000 patients' charts from his old office at Deaconess Medical Center today. The 70-year-old doctor closed his practice after providing abortions in Spokane since 1970, when Washington voters approved a referendum making the procedure legal with spousal or parental consent.