Pia Hallenberg

There was quite a house full of people recently when the Sonora Smart Dodd House was added to the National Historic Register. And that was no doubt just the way Dodd – the founder of Father’s Day – would have liked it. “Thank you all so much for coming this morning, and for being part of helping us with this process,” said Jerry Numbers, who owns the house together with his wife, Beverly.

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There was quite a house full of people Friday morning when the Sonora Smart Dodd House was added to the National Historic Register. And that was no doubt just the way Dodd – the founder of Father’s Day – would have liked it. “Thank you all so much for coming this morning, and for being part of helping us with this process,” said Jerry Numbers, who owns the house together with his wife, Beverly.

Sean Morden wasn’t thinking much of it. The old tree behind his North Side house south of Corbin Park needed a good pruning, and he figured he’d be able to handle that just fine. When a tree limb came crashing down and hit a nearby power line, he knew he had to call Avista and he knew he’d be without power for a while – but he couldn’t imagine the chain of events set off by that downed power line, or that his new puppy Max would be the hero of the day.

A new neighborhood blog was launched last week, and this one is all about Hillyard. The first Voices blog, focusing on the South Perry neighborhood, was started back in April. The Hillyard Blog will feature news and information specific to Hillyard and surrounding neighborhoods. Here are a few highlights from the first week:

The pipe organ at St. Aloysius Church sits high above the church floor, some of its pipes stretching all the way toward the ceiling of the big, old church surrounded by Gonzaga University’s campus. The floor vibrates, and the sound reverberates under the cathedral ceilings when Tyler Pattison sits down and plays the giant instrument with his hands and feet. The organ rumbles and whispers, sings thrills and crescendos, as air is pushed through its more than 2,000 pipes by a complicated system of vents and stops and bellows.

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