Pia Hallenberg

South Perry neighborhood meeting tonight

It's yard sale season

Grant Garden go-ahead

When Chad Christman was 4 months old, he went for a drive with his parents. The year was 1980, and Christman was sitting in his mom’s lap in the front seat of the car. His brothers were in the back. At an intersection just off East Sprague Avenue, the vehicle was hit so forcefully by another vehicle that Christman went airborne, flying out of the car. Police said the accident was so violent and the cars so mangled, it looked like it had happened on the freeway. “At the time there were no seat belt laws or car seat laws, so it wasn’t unusual that I sat in my mom’s lap,” said Christman. The rest of the family escaped with bumps and bruises – but Christman was badly injured.

There’s an abundance of trivia shows on TV these days, yet for some, a rotation among “Jeopardy!” “Cash Cab” and “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” simply isn’t enough – they must have more trivia questions. These would be the students on Lewis and Clark High School’s Knowledge Bowl team. Not only did they place fourth in the state competition but as soon as that was over they immediately signed up for an international round called Knowledge Master Open, competing against teams from the United States, Costa Rica, Korea, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates.

The Spokane Law Enforcement Museum is turning a year old this week, and to celebrate it’s open for visitors daily through Saturday. Susan Walker, secretary and treasurer of the museum, said it remains one of the best-kept secrets in Spokane.

Karen Holmes is losing sleep these days. She’s the director of the North East Youth Center in Hillyard, so there’s plenty to worry about in terms of taking care of 70 children before and after school, but lately there’s one specific issue that keeps her up at night. “Just in the last three months we have lost about 20 percent of our children, compared to this time last year, because of cuts in state child care subsidies,” said Holmes. “The notifications arrive from the state every day that such-and-such family will no longer receive a child care subsidy.”

Watch out, cybervillains, Team TEC Pirates are out to get you. A CyberPatriot team from Rogers High School went to Washington, D.C., for the national finals of the Air Force Association’s CyberPatriot III national high school cyberdefense competition. And they came back with a fourth place showing among the 12 teams in the open division.