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Journalism students employ new media, take home awards

Like it or not, news media are changing. There used to be a clear division between print, radio and television. A self-respecting print reporter would never dream of making a video or – oh, the horror – actually appearing on TV, just like a broadcaster wouldn’t be caught dead with a byline in the paper.
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Scout restores cabin at Liberty Lake park

Jared Dineen knows what he’s talking about when he says he tends to bite off more than he can chew. The 17-year-old senior at Lewis and Clark High School is a Boy Scout in Troop 304, and when he sat out searching for an Eagle Scout project he picked one located six miles up a mountainside.
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St. Mark’s larger parking lot OK’d

The city of Spokane hearing examiner issued a decision last week approving the parking lot St. Mark’s Lutheran Church has planned to build behind the church on Grand Boulevard. The church submitted a new site plan on Sept. 29 which shows landscaping and arborvitae used to conceal the parking area from the surrounding single-family homes, and also shows the site being configured in such a way that cut-through traffic is discouraged.
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Girls Day Out encourages shopping in neighborhood stores

On Saturday four Spokane neighborhoods are getting together to celebrate local businesses. This year’s Girls Day Out – a neighborhood shopping event supported by the city of Spokane – has a pink theme, and its goal is to introduce local shoppers to their neighborhood businesses. Instead of driving through the shopping areas on East Sprague Avenue or North Hillyard, Girls Day Out wants to get you out of your car and into the neighborhood shops.
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Group of Rogers High graduates continue to socialize, reminisce

Babysitting paid 25 cents an hour, and the 25 cents could get you into a movie. Nice girls didn’t wear pants. Ice cream was a nickel a scoop. The summer’s must-have item was a Catalina swimsuit, and the winter’s a Jantzen sweater. And saddle shoes, but that really goes without saying. Shirley Williams graduated from Rogers High School in January 1953. Yes, that’s right, January.
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Hillyard panel seeks more police presence

North Market Street has been restored beautifully all the way through the main Hillyard business district. Planters sit neatly under the new lampposts, crosswalks are painted and parking has become easier in the new stalls along the street. At the Historic Hillyard Merchants Committee meetings Wednesday mornings, usually about 20 business owners and neighbors gather and talk about what’s going on in the neighborhood.
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Rogers High students in national cyberwar contest

Worms and viruses, backdoor programs and spyware, passwords and security codes – computer owners lose sleep over how best to keep their computers safe from outside intruders with malignant intentions. And the truth is that for every new firewall and virus protection program that’s being launched, there is an army of computer hackers ready to destroy and disable it.