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News >  Spokane

Activist Polek, 78, dies

Jan Polek, of Spokane, a longtime activist for women’s rights, once said of society: “June Cleaver doesn’t live here anymore.” Polek, 78, died Tuesday, after living a life nearly opposite of Cleaver, the 1950s television mom. She was outspoken about every issue she championed, including the right to die with dignity.
News >  Features

Robideaux: To thrive in this economy, you have to evolve

In the new economy, professions won’t run in families as easily as they once did. Generations of doctors, lawyers and small-business owners might soon seem an old-economy relic. Andy Robideaux, 36, is the son of two well-known marketing executives, John and Toni Robideaux, who built the go-to agency of the 1990s, Robideaux & Associates, in downtown Spokane.
News >  Features

Public TV documentary details Northwest life during Prohibition

If the spirit moves you, pour yourself a stiff drink tonight and watch “Rumrunners’ Paradise” – a Spokane public television documentary about Prohibition in the Inland Northwest. Toast this fascinating chapter in Spokane-area history when alcohol was banned but people drank anyway. You’ll learn:
News >  Features

Chasing Dreams: Ann Teberg, 53

Back story: Teberg, an associate professor in Whitworth University's School of Education, is a breast cancer survivor. The experience taught her that "we never know how long we have. What you identify as important, don't put it off."
News >  Features

Gift of life

Jeannine Marx Fruci of Spokane almost died when she was born in 1955. She now knows why she didn’t. “I was supposed to live to save her,” she says, touching the arm of her mother, Vivian Marx.
News >  Features

Christmas takes holiday

Christmas falls on a Sunday this year, as it does every so often.    Christmas on Sunday comes with some advantages and disadvantages for congregations. Recently, several Inland Northwest church leaders pondered both. Advantages
News >  Spokane

Area serves up free Christmas meals

About 700 people live in Athol, Idaho, according to 2010 census figures. But the small community isn’t afraid of big parties. On Christmas Day, they’ll feed more than 150 people during their annual community Christmas dinner.
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Keeping memories

The Rev. Armand Nigro, a Jesuit priest for more than 50 years, is losing his memories. He’s open about it. Eloquent, in fact.
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In service to others

In June 2002, Andrew DeLateur, a recent high school graduate, announced that he had enlisted in the U.S. Marines. It shocked his parents. College – not war – was the game plan for the three DeLateur sons.
News >  Features

As hospitals struggle, gift shops provide spark by making money

A shopper recently marched into the gift shop at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and asked: “Where are the clip-on ornaments?” She was shown to the decorated Christmas tree, where she picked out several ornaments. She clips a $50 bill onto each ornament for everyone on her Christmas list.
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Sisters hope to share value of giving back with family

Captain Kyle Smith of Spokane’s Salvation Army has nicknamed Sheila Geraghty and her sister, Brigid Krause, the “Charity Geraghty Sisters.” Geraghty is the business administrator for the Salvation Army. Krause is the volunteer services manager for Catholic Charities Spokane.
News >  Features

Hadassah women’s group works to care for Jewish ‘peoplehood’

Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, raises money and awareness for programs in Israel, especially in the fields of health care and education. Barbara Goldstein, 70, is deputy executive director of Hadassah’s office in Israel, where she lives. The former New Jersey resident travels throughout the world on behalf of Hadassah.
News >  Features

Value shopping

At the Festival of Fair Trade on the day after Thanksgiving, no one lines up at 3 a.m. for a big-screen television. The festival, which will take over the Community Building in downtown Spokane, opens at a civilized 10 a.m.
News >  Spokane

Meal organizers have volunteer surplus, donation deficit

Thirteen years ago, when Vickie and Michael Hillicoss of Newman Lake pulled together a community Thanksgiving Day dinner in Coeur d’Alene, they weren’t worried about creating a lasting tradition.    They were just concerned that no dinners seemed to be held in North Idaho on Thanksgiving Day.    They wanted that to change. And change it did. Now folks in North Idaho have several dinners to choose from, before the holiday and on Thanksgiving Day itself.
News >  Features

Many faces, one church

Have you seen those “I’m a Mormon” billboards around Spokane? Or caught television ads that showcase nonstereotypical Mormons talking about their “I’m-a-Mormon” lives?
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Serving justice

Jan Martinez, 57, grew up in an upper-middle-class home in Denver, but even as a child, she exhibited what is known in theological circles as a “preferential option for the poor.” For the past two decades, her life’s work has centered on Christ Kitchen, a work program she created for women in poverty that goes far beyond the food they package and sell.
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Hard work continues long after credits roll

Mention “Erin Gruwell” in Spokane and you won’t get flashes of instant recognition. But mention that Hilary Swank played her in the 2007 film “Freedom Writers” and the “oh-yeahs” begin.
A&E >  Entertainment

Images from Spokane’s past can help capture fall traditions

On high school football nights, if you live near Albi Stadium and keep your windows cracked open, you hear cheering and the boom-boom of high school bands. If you have been worrying about things lately – the rotten economy, the arguing Congress, flu season, two wars and so on – then the cheering and the boom-boom can remind you that timeless traditions have endured for a century or more in the Inland Northwest.
News >  Features

Homeless women pay tribute to Women’s Hearth volunteer

Marie Pizelo was just a baby, crying as babies do to communicate hurts and desires, and one day, someone in a house filled with neglect and abuse placed a pillow over the face of crying baby Marie until she passed out. And in that gesture, baby Marie got the message. You don’t cry. You don’t express hurts and desires. You remain silent. You are alone.