Pia Hallenberg

Magazine subscription scam on South Hill

Another restaurant will be added to the South Perry neighborhood when Casper Fry opens in late May or early June at 928 S. Perry St. next door to Title Nine. It’s the folks behind Madeleine’s – Deb Green, her son Ben Poffenroth and daughter Megan VanStone – who are opening the eatery. Poffenroth will manage Casper Fry.

Casper Fry opens in late May

The incoming president of the Associated Students of Washington State University is 2008 Rogers High School graduate Kyle Erdman. After an intense 40-day campaign featuring three different tickets – and some nerve-racking waiting time – the results were announced March 7. “I don’t take office until after commencement,” said Erdman, 22, who grew up just two blocks from Rogers. “The campaign was pretty intense; it’s like real politics. It was nice to feel the strong support from our friends.”

Another restaurant will be added to the South Perry neighborhood when Casper Fry opens in late May or early June at 928 S. Perry St. next door to Title Nine. It’s the folks behind Madeleine’s – Deb Green, her son Ben Poffenroth and daughter Megan VanStone – who are opening the eatery. Poffenroth will manage Casper Fry.

If the early afternoon commuters blasting by on Five Mile Road could hear the music being played inside Naomi Wilson’s little Victorian house, they’d surely stop to listen. Wilson is a piano teacher, and Friday three of her students are performing a recital to benefit Second Harvest of the Inland Northwest at Steinway Piano Gallery in Spokane Valley.

The Shop reopens Thursday morning

The Shop is getting a facelift

When Joey Bird, 16, picked up his learner’s permit a couple of months ago he was already a much more experienced driver than the average Spokane chauffeur. He had six consecutive go-kart championships and the 2011 MMRA Junior Pro Division Championship and Rookie of the Year award under his seat belt. “All I think about is racing,” said the sophomore from West Valley High School. “I was 8 the first time I raced a go-kart and I got second.”

She’s a small woman who has met many big challenges in her life. In the late 1980s, she ended an unhealthy marriage and went back to college. She adopted four young children when she was in her 50s. She works two jobs, and she’s an ordained Episcopal minister. Christine Soule is this year’s recipient of the Soroptimist Ruby Award, an award given to women who help women, recognizing and honoring Ruby Lee Minar, the first federation president of the Soroptimist International of the Americas.

She’s a small woman who has met many big challenges in her life. In the late 1980s, she ended an unhealthy marriage and went back to college. She adopted four young children when she was in her 50s. She works two jobs, and she’s an ordained Episcopal minister. Christine Soule is this year’s recipient of the Soroptimist Ruby Award, an award given to women who help women, recognizing and honoring Ruby Lee Minar, the first federation president of the Soroptimist International of the Americas.

Two people were shot in an incident near Liberty Park in East Central Spokane Sunday night. Both victims were in a local hospital in stable condition late Sunday, police said. Their names and ages were not released.

The National Weather Service has the current temperature at 51 degrees at Spokane International Airport, but it also has a Pacific storm system in its forecast for Monday.

This Old House magazine has named Spokane’s Logan neighborhood one of the best old-house neighborhoods in the West. Located around Gonzaga University, with the Spokane River to the south, Ruby Street to the west, Hamilton Street to the east and Euclid Avenue to the north, Logan was one of Spokane’s earliest suburbs.