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A different twist on Exercise

When medical problems more than a decade ago forced Spokane's Peggy Kuwada to give up racquetball and weight lifting, she started looking for gentler forms of exercise. "I was 40, but I felt 80," said Kuwada, now 52. "I just couldn't work out the way I used to."
News >  Features

Caution can keep kids smiling ear-to-ear

Along with the sunscreen, pool toys and beach chairs, be sure to tuck a small plastic bottle of denatured alcohol or over-the-counter swimmer's ear drops into your family's summer travel bag. The additions are the simplest defenses against swimmer's ear, a bacterial ear infection often contracted by kids. "If kids are going to the pool every day, it's going to be real important to keep the ears dry when they get out," said Dr. Misty Shores, an audiologist at Spokane's Holy Family Hospital Hearing and Speech Center and Sacred Heart Children's Hospital.
News >  Features

Event to showcase tribe’s culture

Children and families can immerse themselves in the music and culture of the Spokane Tribe at a special program Sunday at CenterStage and the Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox. The event opens at 1 p.m. with free, kid-centric activities focusing on the tribe. It culminates with a Spokane Symphony concert at 4 spotlighting hundreds of Indian children from the tribe's Wellpinit School on the reservation.
News >  Spokane

Attire, attitudes provide a running commentary

From Superwoman to Uncle Sam, from green Mohawks to the Blues Brothers, Bloomsday has a way of bringing out the whimsical side of participants. Among this year's entrants were The Blues Brothers. Channeling the soul singers Jake and Elwood were Spokane's Paul and Tabea Wiersma, a father and daughter team.
News >  Spokane

Spring blooms big time

Maybe spring was just waiting for Bloomsday. Under cloudless skies, more than 43,300 people completed Spokane's annual road race and civic party, about 3,000 more than last year, said Jerry O'Neal, a race official and spokesman. Given the occasionally snowy spring, Sunday's sunshine left everyone elated.
A&E >  Entertainment

Creatures with character

Every year, millions of people can see Bill Sanders' realistic, life-size animal sculptures in Spokane. The most prominent are a nearly 12-foot-tall bull moose – with 6-foot-wide antlers – and a trio of timber wolves prowling the basalt water feature at Spokane International Airport's entrance. Then there's a grizzly bear guarding a Browne's Addition condo building, named for its mascot. A stately Percheron horse fills the front yard of a home on East 17th Street.
News >  Spokane

97-year-old takes it in strides

The Bloomsday bug bit Victor Rogers in 2001. He was 90. This week the 97-year-old Kennewick resident and oldest 2008 registrant hopes to walk the 7.46-mile course for the seventh time – regardless of the weather. He's finished all but one Bloomsday race since his first appearance.
News >  Features

Jim Hightower types upstream

Texan Jim Hightower – down-home philosopher, columnist, commentator and author – will talk this evening in Sandpoint and Monday evening in Spokane about the rousing Americans featured in his new book. Known for his aw-shucks delivery and white cowboy hat, Hightower is co-author of "Swim Against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go with the Flow."
A&E >  Entertainment

Young sneaker brigade ready for morning run at Albi

An 8:30 a.m. starting gun will spark the first of 10 waves of young runners who'll pack Joe Albi Stadium today for the 23rd America's Kids Run in Spokane. Spokane resident Mike Erwert, event director and founder, said about 2,800 youngsters, ages 5 through 12, are pre-registered for the race. Early morning sign up will also be offered, he said. Same day registrants should arrive an hour before race time.
News >  Spokane

State chops in-home help for family’s four adopted kids

In 2005, Washington changed the way it determines the levels of Medicaid-funded support for home and community residential care services. The switch slashed the amount of time in-home care providers can spend assisting a Spokane family's four adopted children, who suffer the lifelong effects of fetal alcohol syndrome.
News >  Spokane

Man shot in northeast Spokane

Police were looking Sunday for a man suspected of shooting another man in northeast Spokane. The incident was likely a "drug deal gone bad," said Spokane police Officer William Hager. The victim, an unidentified 40-year-old man, was shot in the chest near Regal Street and Everett Avenue, where he had been called to give three men a ride early Sunday morning. Police answering the 7 a.m. call at the Tesoro Gas Station, 1001 E. Wellesley Ave., found the victim, who with help from a female passenger had driven to the service station to phone for help.
News >  Spokane

More snow in forecast for week

An additional 1 to 2 inches or more of snow could begin falling across the area today, with more forecast throughout the week. Another storm expected Tuesday will bring the potential for heavy accumulations throughout Eastern Washington and North Idaho, said Ron Miller a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
News >  Spokane

Balloons will enliven parade

Three giant creations by balloon ace Ryan Oelrich will thrill thousands of spectators at today's First Night Spokane events. A playful, 30-foot-long Chinese luck dragon, a swirling, 12-foot ballerina and a French horn the size of a car – all created from 1,800 bright balloons – will enliven the Mardi Gras-style Masquerade Parade that begins the evening's activities.
News >  Spokane

N.Y. man faces stalking charge

A 20-year-old man from upstate New York was jailed in Spokane over the weekend for allegedly stalking a 15-year-old girl he claims to have met through an interactive video game. Joshua R. Stetar said he met the Spokane girl while playing Halo, an Internet portal that enables players to communicate and participate in virtual combat activities in real time.
News >  Voices

City means a lot to new leader

If artist Norman Rockwell was with us today, he'd find Liberty Lake the sort place he'd want to paint, believes Liberty Lake Mayor-elect Wendy Van Orman. She'll be inaugurated Wednesday. Her mission, she said, will be to fortify the city's enviable status and quality of life.
News >  Spokane

107-year-old Livingston was always thinking of others

At the age of about 102, Louis Smith Livingston joked that his life expectancy was only six more months. "And I went to five more birthday parties for him," laughed Bruce Eldredge, CEO of the Inland Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture.
News >  Spokane

Icy, dicey roads ahead

Whether you're zipping out today for last-minute gifts, dinner fixings or the holiday trip to grandma's, road conditions remain dicey. Throughout the region, many streets and highways are likely to be slick and snow-covered over the Christmas holiday and on through Saturday.
News >  Spokane

Horse-drawn rides enchant

"Oh, here they come," Brianna Ulbright, 12, shouted excitedly as a horse-drawn carriage clip-clopped up a cobblestone street Saturday in downtown Spokane. Bonnie Ulbright, of Colbert, gathered her granddaughters Brianna and 9-year-old Morgan to soak up some Inland Northwest tradition.
News >  Voices

Community center proposal moves ahead

LIBERTY LAKE – A proposal for a new community center and library inched forward again Tuesday when the Liberty Lake City Council unanimously agreed to request Bernardo-Wills architects draw more detailed plans for the 36,000-square-foot facility. Council members said they'd like to see a "turn-key" project whose cost does not exceed $9.8 million.
News >  Voices

Outlet owner optimistic

POST FALLS – An owner of the Post Falls Outlets, formerly Post Falls Factory Outlets, said he hopes the sprawling retail center will enjoy a bump in business from the up to 2 million shoppers annually expected at the neighboring Cabela's store, opening tomorrow. Located on the opposite side of Interstate 90 from Cabela's, the outlet stores are mostly vacant. Of the total 180,000-square feet of retail mall space, only 50,000 square feet is being leased by about 12 tenants.
News >  Idaho

Campaign gifts reported

Almost half of Coeur d'Alene City Council candidate Dan Gookin's campaign donations are from outside the city limits, including eight contributions from California addresses. Gookin, a technical writer of "Dummies" computer books, said the wide range of contributions lends credibility to his claim of being able to work with people. He said the money is mostly from family and co-workers in the publishing business and doesn't fit the stigma of "out-of-state" influence.
News >  Voices

Rathdrum mayoral contest heats up

RATHDRUM – Dueling campaign signs and slanted letters to the editor are just a few of the signals the race for mayor of Rathdrum is a heated one. Vying for the top job are current City Councilmen Ken Hayes, 81, who has two years left on a four-year term, and Vic Holmes, 52, whose four-year term ends in December.
News >  Voices

Ready, set, 8 days to go

If outdoor lifestyles were religions, Cabela's would be their cathedral. Known as the World's Foremost Outfitter, Cabela's will open its new 125,000-square-foot Post Falls store on Nov. 9. A timber frame building, the retail outlet is nestled between Idaho's hills and calls to mind giant National Parks lodges built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s and '40s.
News >  Voices

Voters hold fate of PF Old City Hall

POST FALLS – Perhaps the most controversial issue Post Falls voters will decide Nov. 6 is whether to preserve the current 1979-era City Hall building at 408 N. Spokane St. If the measure receives majority support, it will nullify last year's uncontested, unanimous City Council decision to demolish the white, concrete-block building after construction of a new City Hall is completed in spring.