Pia Hallenberg

“You go ahead and take all the limes, Hon, yes, just take them, you can have them.” The words are James Clancy’s, and they are repeated frequently every day at Clancy’s Produce Stand on West Maxwell Avenue.

Mobile home destroyed in early morning fire

COPS Greater Spokane is different from the other COPS shops in one major way: it covers a huge geographical area, including all of downtown, the western part of the South Hill all the way out across Hangman Valley to Eagle Ridge, and south to 57th Avenue. “It means that we have all different kinds of neighborhoods and buildings,” said Beaudreau Hull, who’s volunteered for COPS Greater Spokane for nine years. “We have really upscale rentals, and we have sex-offender housing and ordinary residential neighborhoods. And we have all the businesses downtown.”

It seems to be the year of the community garden. Earlier this year, volunteers began putting in a garden in Grant Park on the South Hill, and now another garden on Parks Department property is coming to life in Peaceful Valley. Located on the River Walk – a strip of park land just south of the river, off Water Avenue, west of the Peaceful Valley Community Center – the Peaceful Valley Community Garden will feature 27 raised beds when it’s completed, and it already has a waiting list.

As the construction and remodeling of Shadle Park High School is coming to completion, three huge mural art panels have been installed on the north-facing wall of the gymnasium. Made by Oregon-based artist Anne Storrs, the name of the piece is “Highland Fling.”

The Fourth of July Festival in Riverfront Park is like a big Spokane family reunion. It’s a little loud and sweaty, featuring people of all ages and ethnicities. It’s full of ice cream, hamburgers, kettle corn and hot dogs, squealing kids and panting canines. It’s busy and somewhat chaotic, yet when the first rocket pierces the night sky and people settle to watch the annual fireworks, most will agree that they’ve once again had a pretty good time.

The Independence Day Festival in Riverfront Park is like a big Spokane family reunion. It’s a little loud and sweaty featuring people of all ages and ethnicities. It’s full of ice cream, hamburgers, kettle corn and hot dogs, squealing kids and panting canines. It’s busy and somewhat chaotic, yet when the first rocket pierces the night sky and people settle to watch the annual fireworks, most will agree that they’ve once again had a pretty good time.

The Shop's movie schedule is out

Rummage sale at the Buddhist Temple

COPS West is where it all began. Actually, it all began with the disappearance of Rebecca West and Nicki Wood, 12 and 11, who walked to the store in 1991 but never made it home. Wood’s body was later found, but the fate of West remains unknown. Today, 20 years later, the portraits of the two girls hang in the lobby at COPS West on Boone Avenue and serve as a constant reminder of why COPS was started.

An electric car is probably not the first thing people expect to find at an antique car show, but this weekend’s International Antique Car Meet brings one to town. Starting today, a 1911 Baker Electric automobile will be on display in the lobby of the Red Lion Inn at the Park. It’s there as a calling card for the International Antique Car Meet that’s taking place at the hotel and in Riverfront Park through Sunday.

Lots of tomato plants - for free