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News >  Family

Families use strategies to land scholarships

Spokane-area school leaders encourage that students start early and think ahead, because scholarship dollars are out there – sometimes unclaimed – from local, state and national sources.
News >  Family

Capture all-in-the-family vacations

It’s an expanding travel sector: A growing number of families who invite extended relatives to go to a tourist destination. Such experiences often includes grandparents, parents, kids and cousins enjoying travel together – sometimes on cruises, in tour groups, or at resorts.
News >  Business

The Dirt: Mixed use planned for Music City Building

The Music City Building, at 1011 W. First Ave., is scheduled to have 3,300 square feet of space remodeled for business use. It will have common areas, and just over 20,000 square feet of space will be converted into about 14 apartments based on building permit information.
News >  Family

Teaching teens about dating abuse

Jenny Moeller, founder of the Spokane group Create Your Statement, has built curriculum around teaching teenagers to recognize danger signs and empower them to avoid unhealthy relationships.
News >  Business

Umpqua plans $1M remodel in downtown building

Umpqua Bank has lined up a $1 million interior remodel for the second floor of its downtown Spokane office building. The company owns the 95,000-square-foot structure at 111 N. Wall St. that was formerly Sterling Bank headquarters. Bouten Construction Co., of Spokane, is the contractor for the upgrades covering a 15,200-square-foot area.
News >  Family

Taking a pass on parents’ possessions

Estate sales line up yesteryear’s valuables: china, silver, collectibles, oak furniture, 1980s geese decor. Increasingly, adult children of aging parents don’t want – or can’t fit – all that stuff.
News >  Spokane

Senior living community expanding

Evergreen Fountains, a Spokane Valley senior living community, is expanding its facility by adding a three-story residential building and 12 cottage homes.
News >  Family

Splish-splash with water safety in mind

For those diving into wave-filled activities, regional recreation and safety leaders also remind residents to think about water safety. Drowning can occur within 30 seconds.
News >  Family

Hanging onto the family lake place takes work

Multiple generations have hung onto ownership of the family lake cabins, but it’s often not easy. Ask those families today, and they’ll share decades of memories – fishing, boating and bonding near water’s edge – but hanging on can be a struggle. With high and rising property taxes, and dynamics among a growing number of family members, keeping the “lake place” has its unusual challenges.
News >  Spokane

The Dirt: Design-build duo selected for Airway Heights rec center

Airway Heights City Council members plan to start the building of a community recreation center by fall, after recently selecting a design-build team of Lydig Construction with ALSC Architects. The 35,000-square-foot Airway Heights Recreation Center at 11405 W. Deno Road will include indoor pools, a gymnasium and fitness areas.
News >  Travel

Rope in ranch life in Republic

Doing light ranch work – moving cattle, tagging calves, feeding horses – are options at K-Diamond-K Guest Ranch near Republic. There are plenty of ways just to relax, too, in the ranch’s spacious lodge, reached in just over a two-and-a-half hour drive from Spokane. Head north on U.S. Highway 395, then take scenic State Route 20 toward Republic until a turn onto S.R. 21.
News >  Family

Spokane clinicians circle up parental advice in new book

Circle of Security International founders Kent Hoffman, Glen Cooper and Bert Powell have a newly released book, “Raising a Secure Child,” that for the first time offers up parenting strategies in a self-help, nonacademic format geared to parents and other child caregivers.
News >  Business

The Dirt: Green’s Fresh Market to open in Hillyard

A new fresh market is set to open in Hillyard this June. Owners Jack and Mary Green recently purchased a building at 4915 N. Market St. to launch Green’s Fresh Market. Jack Green previously operated Piccolo’s Market on East Mission Avenue in Spokane for 25 years before selling that business about eight years ago.