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Mill Pond sprouts new leak

SPIRIT LAKE – It's not a crisis, but water from the approximately 45-acre Spirit Lake Mill Pond appears again to be seeping into some of the land around it. A coalition of citizens on July 10 will walk much of the property thought to be affected. Russ Springs, president of the Spirit Lake Chamber of Commerce, is organizing the excursion.
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America’s his home

POST FALLS – Turkish-born Raci Erdem, owner/chef at The White House Grill, likes to tell people he was so excited when he got to New York City's harbor that he jumped overboard and swam below the Statue of Liberty. It's not true, he laughs.
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PF native anticipating next Ironman

Two days after finishing his first Ironman competition Sunday, Cameron Chesnut's stomach was still in knots. "Food looks good. Food sounds good. But I just haven't been able to eat," Chesnut said Tuesday.
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Teens admit to car burglaries

POST FALLS – Two 14-year-old boys have confessed to a string of more than 40 car burglaries in Post Falls – including about 20 that the Post Falls Police Department said haven't even been reported. The case is one of the largest vehicle burglary cases in Post Falls in recent years, said Lt. Greg Mclean.
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Boys and Girls Club offer summer fun

There's still time for kids entering sixth grade and up this fall to join in the summer fun with the Boys and Girls Club of Kootenai County. The club is sponsoring its first afternoon summer session for boys and girls at Lakes Middle School, 930 N. 15th Ave., Coeur d'Alene. Activities run from noon to 4 p.m. weekdays. Registration for the entire nine-week program is $10 and includes lunches and all activities.
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CdA race moves north to relief of Post Falls

Post Falls officials say they're relieved the city won't be bearing the costs of co-hosting the Ironman competition this year. "It costs about $20,000 just to handle Ironman," explained Eric Keck, city administrator. "It's a pretty pricey deal."
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Company for Cabela’s

POST FALLS – The Post Falls Chamber of Commerce hopes to secure space for a new visitors' center and administrative offices near the Cabela's giant sporting goods store going up on the west edge of town. The idea will be presented to the chamber's 21-member board of directors at an upcoming, but still undetermined date, said Pam Houser, the Post Falls Chamber president and CEO.
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Ironman a race of the spirit

Life threw cruel curves at 24-year-old Ironman triathlon hopeful Cameron Chesnut this past year. In November, the Post Falls native buried his 15-year-old running partner, Jordan Johnson, who died of heart failure in his sleep. "He was like my little brother," Chesnut said.
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PF council OKs developments

The city of Post Falls is poised to add about 85 acres for commercial and retail development along Highway 41 and will also become home to a 131-acre commercial-industrial park near Cabela's. City Council members OK'd both projects at their regular meeting Tuesday.
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Council to discuss 2008 budget

Post Falls City Council members will consider 2008 city budget requests at its July 17 meeting. One of the things they are most likely to approve is the start of a seven-year street repair program, said Eric Keck, city administrator.
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Group likes the view from the top

RATHDRUM – After last week's first-ever public tour to parts of Rathdrum Mountain, Kris Storey said she was mesmerized by its splendor. "This was fantastic," said Storey, secretary of Rathdrum's Chamber of Commerce.
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Rathdrum: City Council OKs Prairie Sky subdivision

A proposed 157-lot subdivision got the green light Tuesday from the Rathdrum City Council. Prairie Sky will include about 55 duplexes, to be built in phase one, and 102 single family homes to come after. Coeur d'Alene investors Bower, Herrmann and Smock, are developing the residential site. It's encompasses 45 acres on the west edge of Rathdrum – northwest corner of Lancaster and Meyer roads – and just south of Skyline Meadows.
News >  Idaho

Street repair on Post Falls wish list

Chances are good Post Falls residents will find travel in town a bit smoother beginning next year, said city Administrator Eric Keck. Keck said street repairs are long overdue. And as one of the more affordable items among the city's 2008 budget requests, he'll recommend funding for the start of what will be a seven-year street maintenance program.
News >  Business

Prium seeks equity partners

Prium Companies, a Tacoma-based real estate firm whose statewide commercial real estate holdings include Spokane's Wells Fargo tower and Rock Pointe office complex, is casting about for joint equity partners, company officials confirmed Wednesday. Tom Price, Prium's co-owner, said the company is seeking investors interested in participating in joint ventures involving its nearly 3 million square feet of office and retail space throughout Washington. But the company's extensive residential properties would not be part of any deals, he said.
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Welcome sign is back out again

After a six-day cross-country trek in a cramped Ford Mustang, perhaps few were more gleeful than Louisiana natives Dottie and Joshua Hartman to find the state-line visitor center reopening Thursday. Tucked between Interstate 90 and the Spokane River, the Gateway Visitor Information Center served cake and cookies to celebrate the start of peak travel season.
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Spokane restaurants’ ‘family feeling’ praised

The number of Spokane restaurants has roughly doubled in the last 20 years. And the spectrum of establishments seems to be a good mix of full-service, creative mom-and-pop restaurants and fast-food, said Anthony Anton, president and CEO of the Washington Restaurant Association, which represents 5,000 member restaurants statewide. Anton said what distinguishes Spokane's 1,200 dining spots from the state's remainder is a keen level of cooperation among restaurateurs.
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Success, right on cue

Whether you watch national or cable TV, see movies or play video games, chances are you've heard music made by the artists at Spokane's Cue 11. The sound-recording studio a few miles north of downtown recently expanded its offerings to include video by Marlin Video Productions Ltd., a one-man shop Dave Marlin opened in Spokane about 20 years ago.
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BIG SPLASH

With regional water parks pouring millions of dollars into expansions, it's clear the Inland Northwest is riding a national wave to offer sophisticated forms of water play. Driving the trend is America's thirst for ever-more elaborate aquatic recreation, say water park professionals.
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Wingate hotel to open near airport

The Spokane International Airport board gave the green light Wednesday for construction of a new three-story, 83-room hotel to be constructed within walking distance of the airport terminal. The Wingate by Wyndham will cost between $6 million and $7 million to build and will cater to business and leisure travelers, said Richard Cane, one of three general partners in Flight Deck EP, LP, which is developing and will own the hotel.
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Airport broke contracts, suit says

The parent company of Spokane Airways, RMA, Inc., has filed suit against the Spokane International Airport and its seven-member board of directors. The lawsuit, filed in Spokane County Superior Court, accuses the airport of breaking contracts to replace six buildings the privately owned company had occupied for more than 20 years. Those structures must be demolished to clear sight lines for a new air traffic control tower set to open in August.
News >  Spokane

Friends keep injured teen in race

One of the largest contingencies of Bloomsday runners belonged to Tom's Team, a grass-roots group formed in recent weeks to help sustain 17-year-old Tom Everett's spirits. And Tom has no idea.
News >  Spokane

Sounding the pavement

Officially, 28 groups of performers – including belly dancers and bluegrass groups – received formal invitations this year from the Lilac Bloomsday Run committee to rally the 40,000-plus racers expected to ply the 12-kilometer course. But the total number of acts came to 29 if you counted the renegade band Gorilla, Rabbit and Chicken.
News >  Business

These cookies are really taking off

About a month ago, thousands of cream-cheese sugar cookies began flying from the ovens of Just American Desserts in Spokane Valley. The cookies are airplane-shaped. And they're being served to passengers about to board ExpressJet Airlines' inaugural flights from 17 U.S. cities, with seven more locations to be added soon.
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Hogan award winners to share $42,500

Nine teams of students from four area universities have been selected to share $42,500 in cash awards in an annual business competition overseen by Gonzaga University's Hogan Entrepreneurial Leadership Program. Altogether, 18 contestants on the teams made the finals for creating business plans in one of three categories. Winners were announced at a ceremony April 27.
News >  Spokane

Convention Center reborn

About this time last year, interior designer Robin Dalton snapped photos of Spokane's downtown riverfront in its spring wardrobe. Back in her Seattle studio at LMN Architects, she created a color palette of the landscape's subtle greens, blues and browns. Those hues now grace the walls, floors and other features of the newly remodeled Spokane Convention Center.