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Collaborating on reality

Brooke Kiener, assistant professor of theater at Whitworth University, has worked off and on for eight years to stage an original play titled “Wizdom: Making Dollars and Sense.” It will finally happen this weekend.
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Winning essays in the Eva Lassman memorial writing contest

Students throughout the Inland Northwest were issued this challenge: “Write a letter to your principal explaining why Holocaust education should be an important part of your school’s curriculum.” Dozens of students took up the challenge and wrote essays for the Eva Lassman Memorial Creative Writing Contest, which is named after a Spokane Holocaust survivor. Lassman died in 2011 at 91.
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Nothing really beats the term ‘baby boomers’

Sue Hallett of Colfax  was born in 1950. She doesn’t like society’s labels for people like her who are approaching 65, labels such as senior citizen or elder. “I’m financially secure, help out with my mother and my grandchildren, volunteer in the community, swim four times a week and ski.”
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Difficult lessons

When former East Valley Middle School students run into teacher Julie Scott, they always ask: “Are you still teaching the Holocaust?” When Brad Veile teaches his Lakeside High School students in Plummer, Idaho, about the Holocaust, they always wonder: “Why didn’t someone do something?”
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Fishing straight ahead

The lowland-lake fishing season, Washington state’s most popular trout-catching time, will open the last Saturday in April. A good close to an often troubled month.
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Late spouse’s clothing plays key part in grieving process

Q. How soon is too soon to get rid of my dead husband’s clothes? I wanted to do it the week after he died. My grown children were appalled. They said they wanted to go through his clothes and select a few to keep. But they never make time for this. Advice? A. Grief experts universally agree you should keep a loved one’s belongings for several months, because grieving people can feel numb for weeks and even months after a death. Not the best state of mind for good decisions.
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Spokane has become a hotspot for A-list talent

Glen Campbell sold out his Northern Quest Casino performance March 3. Queen Latifah was scheduled to speak in Spokane on Thursday until a family emergency kept her away. Ingrid Betancourt, the Colombian presidential candidate held captive for six years, will speak at Gonzaga University on Wednesday.
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Images from early 1900s look downright newsy

They posed with their newspapers, these Spokane folks from the early 1900s. The smiling man in the top hat. The woman in the watercolor portrait. And F.N. LaVell, businessman, relaxing on a hammock in the backyard. These photos come from The Spokesman-Review’s King Collection, an archive of photos and memorabilia from the King family that prospered in Spokane in the early 20th century. Like most family collections, the King photos do not include detailed notations.
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WSU instructor: Activist nurses crucial to health care reform

A month ago, Lynnette Vehrs, a registered nurse for more than three decades, visited with legislators during Nurse Legislative Day in Olympia. Student nurses accompanied her. She urged the students to become advocates for patient care, get politically involved and understand that legislators are “people like the rest of us.”
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‘Go’: Lessons abound when Children’s Theatre stages classic

Not much of importance seems to happen in the children’s book, “Go, Dog. Go!” Or in the play of the same name, which will be presented by the Spokane Children’s Theatre at Spokane Falls Community College’s Spartan Theatre, starting Saturday. For those unfamiliar with the 1961 children’s classic by P.D. Eastman, here’s a synopsis:
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Allow children to grieve their pets

Q: Our pet parakeet is dying. Our two daughters, ages 13 and 10, are very upset. One constantly cries. The other has withdrawn. How should I handle this pet grief? A: Grieving a pet is excellent grief “practice” for bigger losses your children will face as they get older, such as their first broken hearts, the death of their grandparents and other loved ones.
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Images from early 1900s look downright newsy

They posed with their newspapers, these Spokane folks from the early 1900s. The smiling man in the top hat. The woman in the watercolor portrait. And F.N. LaVell, businessman, relaxing on a hammock in the backyard. These photos come from The Spokesman-Review’s King Collection, an archive of photos and memorabilia from the King family that prospered in Spokane in the early 20th century. Like most family collections, the King photos do not include detailed notations.
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Starting Friday, SFCC opens its planetarium to the public

When John Whitmer was 11, his parents bought him a telescope. He lived in small towns as a child and fell in love with the mystery of the night sky. He’s 44 now, an astronomy instructor at Spokane Falls Community College and the director of the college’s Eos Planetarium in the science building that just opened last spring.
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Milestone pageant

The Miss Spokane Scholarship Pageant celebrates 100 years of existence this weekend. Here are 10 quick facts, one for each decade, about this Spokane tradition. 1 The pageant began in 1912, the creation of the Spokane Advertising Club. Marguerite Motie won over 137 others. She held onto the title, officially and unofficially, until 1939.
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Terminal cancer can’t shake Supreme Court Justice’s spirit

Mary Fairhurst, a Washington state Supreme Court Justice with deep Spokane roots, is living with terminal colon cancer. It could take her life in six months or a year – or in 10 years and beyond. She’s hoping for the 10-plus plan. Fairhurst hasn’t missed any courtroom work because of her cancer treatments (two rounds of chemo and radiation). Her cancer was first diagnosed in December 2008 and spread to her right lung in March 2010.
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Ben e ath ou r feet

Museum exhibits that feature planets and stars sell themselves. But soil? How do you get people excited about the stuff they walk on every day? Well, you can chat with Lynn Bahrych, project manager for “Dig It! The Secrets of Soil,” a Smithsonian exhibit that opens today at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture.
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Tribute to Holocaust survivor will feature Gurian’s poem

Eva Lassman, a Holocaust survivor who died last year at 91, felt survivor’s guilt when she was a young woman. Imprisoned herself, she was powerless to protect others from the horror. In “Eva’s Song,” Michael Gurian’s lyrical oratory poem written in Lassman’s “voice,” she expresses it this way:
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Japanese-American men tour very different downtown

Ken Kato, and Dave Heyamoto, both 62, grew up in downtown Spokane in the 1950s and early ’60s. Kato’s family lived in a now-torn down building directly across from the present-day INB Performing Arts Center. Heyamoto’s family lived in the Globe Building, then a hotel at the corner of Main Avenue and Division Street. The building is still there.
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Ballroom blitz

Four years ago, Ken and Debby Dahlke planned to attend a fundraising event in Post Falls that involved ballroom dancing. The couple had never danced before. So they took some lessons. That one small step for the Coeur d’Alene couple will mean thousands of big dance steps Sunday at the Snowflake Ball in Coeur d’Alene. Skate Plaza, a roller rink, will be transformed into a ballroom for the event.
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Snow days can be memorable break

Childhood winters that included snow days remain magical in adult memory. During last week’s snow days in several Inland Northwest school districts, Facebook was filled with photos of children enjoying the magic. Posing with their snowpeople, gliding down neighborhood hills on sleds, throwing snowballs at the parents you could not see behind the cameras.
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First-class relics

The cost to mail a first-class letter increases by a penny Sunday, from 44 cents to 45 cents. In the early 1900s, it cost 2 cents to mail a letter. Those days are gone forever, but some historic mailboxes are still in use.