Pia Hallenberg

The city of Spokane is getting ready to renovate 14th Avenue from Monroe Street to Grand Boulevard. The renovation is one of the street projects paid for by the 10-year street bond voters passed in 2004. Fourteenth Avenue is a major east-west route on the South Hill, intersecting with Monroe Street just before it becomes Lincoln Street, and also with Bernard Street and Grand.

The Browne’s Addition Neighborhood Council has scheduled a revote on whether to spend $37,000 in community development funds to help move the Peaceful Valley Community Center youth program to All Saints Lutheran Church. The first vote on this issue was held at the end of a chaotic Feb. 6 meeting where the council decided against supporting the move.

At Eastern Washington University, HOME stands for “helping ourselves means education.” The program helps student parents by, among other things, awarding child care scholarships. On March 7, HOME is hosting a fundraising tea at Monroe Hall on EWU’s Cheney campus to help raise money for this year’s scholarships.

The Garland Business District held a meeting Feb. 20 about bringing a COPS shop to the Garland area. Close to 100 people and many city officials were at the meeting, said Julie Shepard-Hall, a business owner who has spearheaded the campaign to bring a COPS shop there.

The Browne’s Addition Neighborhood Council special meeting on Feb. 13 at the Museum of Arts and Culture was much more calm and organized than the group’s meeting on Feb. 6. When the previous meeting’s vote against allocating $37,000 in community development funds to help the Peaceful Valley Community Center Youth Program move to All Saints Lutheran Church was called into question, chairwoman Katherine Fritchie said the special meeting was solely about allocating and preserving the neighborhood’s community development funds.

Soon, it will be April and with April comes the annual Our Kids, Our Business campaign focused on child abuse prevention. Next week, the campaign is holding open houses on Tuesday and next Thursday.

The Logan neighborhood and the city of Spokane are working on a new model for planning and zoning. At an open house earlier this month, the neighborhood stakeholder group and the city’s Planning Department presented its form-based zoning code ideas to the neighborhood, including the North Foothills employment center and the Hamilton Street corridor.

The Browne's Addition Neighborhood Council met last night to reallocate HUD funds and move forward on Peaceful Valley Youth Program discussion

Eight students from Spokane Public Schools have received full-tuition, full-need scholarships to Northwest colleges and universities through the Act Six Leadership and Scholarship Initiative. More than 700 students applied and 65 were selected by Tacoma-based Northwest Leadership Foundation, which launched the Act Six program in 2002. Spokane students who got scholarships to Whitworth University are: Kionte Brown and Camina Hirota, both of Shadle Park High School; Lynnsee Calf Robe, the Community School; Araya Eckley, North Central High School; and Husam Ghanim, Ferris High School.

The Browne’s Addition Neighborhood Council meeting on Feb. 6 grew increasingly chaotic as it progressed. There were so many people at the meeting, which was in the downstairs meeting room at the Museum of Arts and Culture, that many ended up standing along the walls and spilling into the lobby.

The Spokane barbershop quartets are getting ready to deliver singing surprises to local sweethearts on Valentine’s Day. The quartets are all part of Pages of Harmony Men’s Chorus which is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. Every year, they take their show on the road for Valentine’s Day.

The Spokane barbershop quartets are getting ready to deliver singing surprises to local sweethearts on Valentine’s Day. The quartets are all part of Pages of Harmony Men’s Chorus which is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. Every year, they take their show on the road for Valentine’s Day.

The 27 Spokane neighborhood councils each send a representative to the monthly meeting of the Community Assembly on the first Friday of every month at City Hall. The tightly structured meeting moves through a large agenda between 4 and 6 p.m.