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Farmers market moves indoors for the winter

It was a bittersweet day at the Perry Street Farmers Market last week, as vendors set up their tables and tents outside The Shop for one last outdoor market day. This market season has been successful, with sales up by 400 percent, said Brian Estes of the Farmers Market. And there is more good news: beginning today the market can be found indoors at the Emmanuel Family Life Center, 631 S. Richard Allen Court, and many of the vendors will make the move there, too.
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Hillyard scares up Halloween fun

Kids and adults were having a howling good time all Halloween weekend in Hillyard. The Historic Hillyard Merchants Association put on the Hillyard Howl featuring apple bobbing, costume contests and vendors at an empty storefront on North Market Street. Some local vendors were there, too, and there was a great bake sale. The Hillyard Howl is just one of a number of community events and festivals that take place in this north Spokane neighborhood.
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Rogers High class of ’53 stays in touch

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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Community rallies to build home for family

For the first couple of days of 2010, all Megan Stewart could do was sit at her husband’s hospital bed and repeat a simple prayer: please breathe, please breathe. From the hospital windows she could see the towers of her church – First Presbyterian downtown – and she often wondered what God’s plan for her could possibly be. Her husband, Mark Stewart, a strong and healthy 36-year-old, had a stroke on Dec. 30 and was lying motionless in bed. A prognosis was sketchy.
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Diaper class teaches cloth, not disposables

When it comes to child-rearing there are lots of hot button issues. Should the baby always sleep alone or is the family bed a better choice? When is it OK to feed what kind of solid foods? Which toys are the most educational? Is it ever OK to bottle feed; the list goes on and on. And there’s now one more decision to make: disposable diapers or cloth diapers? Cloth diaper services that pick up soiled diapers and drop off clean ones on a subscription plan have been around for decades, but now some parents are tackling the whole deal themselves, including washing the dirty diapers.