Treva Lind

This fall, the 54-year-old Kevin Connell has returned to help regularly at Gonzaga Prep, four years after he left as longtime principal and just over two years since suffering a major stroke in Portland.

A $1.3 million construction project is underway for an auction house and office building at 3520 N. Tschirley Road in Spokane Valley.

Senior driver safety courses cover new traffic laws, refreshers on old rules, defensive driving techniques, vehicle technologies, and hazards of impaired and distracted driving.

Schweitzer Mountain Resort plans to complete its $5 million summit lodge in December. Construction began July 2015 at the top of the Great Escape Quad lift.

The professional networking group, Spokane Elder Resource Team, aims to provide information for smoother transitions with elder planning, before serious illness or spouse’s death forces a stressful reality.

Grocery Outlet Bargain Market has opened a newly constructed store in Airway Heights.

Nora Francis, 60, couldn’t see the small font size for contact names. Separately, annoying icons kept popping up on her device’s screen. At a recent information fair, Francis quickly turned over her smartphone to tech-savvy Ethan Merchant, 20, an employee of Spokane’s Students 4 Seniors. The new company matches college students with older adults who need tutoring to better understand and use their devices.

A new outpatient clinic operated by St. Luke Rehabilitation Institute is scheduled to open Oct. 4 in north Spokane.

Depending on where you go for spreading ashes – on public, private, federal or state lands – some rules might apply.

Susanne Baab-Simpson completed an official swim of the English Channel, beginning at 7:10 a.m. Aug. 14. At age 56, the longtime Spokane competitive swimmer in 50-meter pools successfully negotiated the 21-mile crossing of the Strait of Dover in 11 hours and 47 minutes.

A $14 million project will update an original structure for St. Joseph Care Center, a skilled nursing facility on the campus of Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center.

Bob Conquergood and John Johnson are this year’s highest-mileage walkers for Striders INW, a regional walking and exercise group that has about 60 members.

Orgill Inc., a distributor of hardware and home-improvement products, said it will open a regional distribution center in the former Kimball Office facility in Post Falls.

Early onset Alzheimer’s, dementia companion caregivers

Some men, turning to stitching hobbies in retirement, are attracted to the technology involved, or the geometry, or the practicality.

BNSF Railway started construction this month on a $6 million Spokane automotive unloading facility near its Parkwater rail yard. Among other commodities, BNSF transports and delivers about 12,000 vehicles a year to Spokane, a majority that go to Inland Northwest car lots. The new expanded automotive unloading facility, on BNSF property near Wisconsin Avenue, is twice the size of an older automotive unloading site on Mission about a mile away, said BNSF spokesman Gus Melonas.

First “Salvationists” arrived in Spokane on Aug. 22, 1891. The corp will make the occasion with a dinner at the site of their former local offices.

Some stretching and other preventive steps can help reduce risks of those aches and injuries from mowing, digging, harvesting and weeding, say Spokane-area gardeners and health care providers.

The Quilting Bee, a Spokane Valley business that offers quilting supplies and lessons, is building a $1 million retail structure designed to look like a country barn.

People approaching retirement don’t always think about dental care costs adding to the bottom line of living expenses, and it’s a common misconception that basic Medicare covers regular trips to the dentist and certain oral procedures. It doesn’t.

Planet Fitness and a Goodwill thrift store will fill remodeled space in a former Albertsons in Spokane’s Emerson-Garfield neighborhood.

$37 million Bella Tess project starts

Caleb Johnson sees a positive in most any situation. His bright-side perspective even extends to having had limited vision since age 4.