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News >  Health

Awareness grows around sensory processing issues

Awareness is growing about sensory processing issues among children. More schools offer subdued lighting and varied seating to allow movement, from exercise balls to specialty cushions, for all students. And Kootenai Health is adding a new treatment room to help pediatric patients who have sensory processing issues.
News >  Home and garden

Haunted house Kings change theme each year

Each year, relatives transform Kevin King’s home north of Mead into a different haunted attraction. The current theme is the King Family Theater of Terror, inviting visitors to watch two short Halloween movies. But beware. It’s a haunted movie theater.
News >  Family

Talking about change with aging parents

How do you approach those tough conversations with aging parents about life changes that older seniors need to consider, from getting support services to giving up a driver’s license?
News >  Family

Spokane counselor behind fight against abuse and hunger

Healing from abuse is a lifelong process. Mable C. Dunbar knows about that personally. She grew up experiencing some physical and emotional abuse. However, Dunbar said she experienced God’s healing and that inspired her to help others.
News >  Spokane

Neighborhoods north of Spokane maintain rural feel

Neighborhoods to the north of Spokane — Mead, Colbert, Fairwood and Wandermere — have held on to their largely residential and rural feel through the decades. With agricultural roots, Mead got its start in 1887 when settler James Berridge homesteaded 160 acres.
News >  Health

Unexpected illness leaves Spokane man land-locked with a mechanical heart

During his college years and into the next decade, Jeremy White of Deer Park traveled the world. Now, he barely ventures farther than Spokane awaiting a phone call, one telling him to go in for a heart transplant. Until that day, he lives with a surgically-implanted left ventricle assist device (LVAD), necessary to pump the blood to his body.
News >  Family

WSU grant expands smart-home research at Spokane facility

An inter-professional team of scientist from Washington State University received a $1.77 million grant to research smart-home technology to monitor health and safety of seniors in the home. Project works includes expanding on a pilot at Touchmark on South Hill.
News >  Spokane

Spokane Valley couple volunteers with Irma evacuees in Florida

Spokane Valley couple Chuck and Janet Boehme headed toward Orlando Tuesday afternoon and saw more outages, store shortages and heavy traffic. They expect Wednesday to head to coastal areas to give meals to affected residents from the specially equipped American Red Cross feeding truck they drove from Spokane.
News >  Home and garden

Saltese one-room schoolhouse project turns heads

The old Saltese Schoolhouse, later Greenaces Grange, has new owners John and Alyson McLean, husband-and-wife team of Spokane’s Blue Room Architecture & Design. They’ve shared plans to restore historic aspects of the pioneer school they’re converting into a living-work space.
News >  Family

Pilot explores food security at three Spokane schools

In fall 2014, a $300,000 grant from Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation launched a three-year nutritional outreach through Second Harvest at three Spokane-area elementary schools: Lidgerwood, Bemiss and Trent. These sites all have high rates of free and reduced-price meals.
News >  Health

Ride to Care expands into Spokane Valley

A pilot program for medical transportation recently expanded to Spokane Valley. The Ride to Care program through SNAP was launched in January, then only within the city of Spokane, in conjunction with health care providers, insurance companies and philanthropic organizations.