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News >  Voices

GU trio serves up dining hall app

Chow Chow is a crowdsourced dining hall app created by three Gonzaga sophomores – Ethan Mahintorabi, 19; Kyle McCrohan, 19; and Evan Conrad, 20 – who also are dorm roommates studying in computer-related subjects. In their spare time, they worked for several months to develop the smartphone app, not for classwork but because they saw a need.
News >  Spokane

Christmas Fund meets goal for 11th year in a row

As Dec. 25 celebrations fade into memories and turn toward New Year’s cheer, the Christmas Bureau has made its fundraising goal for the 11th year in a row. In fact, 31 contributors just after Christmas Eve pushed the fund above the $525,000 target by a comfortable $1,172. Overall, more than 1,200 contributors gave to the bureau, which each Christmastime provides gifts, books and food vouchers for less-fortunate families.
News >  Spokane

The Dirt: Cheney hotel will expand

A $5 million project is underway at the Holiday Inn Express in Cheney for expansion and other hotel upgrades. The 25,000-square-foot addition will add 46 guest rooms and include 2,000 square feet of banquet space for the hotel’s conference center. The hotel, at 111 W. Betz Road, has 76 rooms.
News >  Spokane

Donations big and small help bureau approach goal

This year’s Christmas Bureau donations ranged from $4 sent by a 9-year-old girl to $35,000 offered by Travis Pattern & Foundry, but it all has added up to a near-goal total. In time for Christmas, this season’s generous contributors have brought the Christmas Fund on the cusp of its $525,000 goal, just $10,447 shy.
News >  Spokane

Mother, daughter make tradition of volunteering

Traditions run deep for a mother-daughter duo who volunteer as a team at the Christmas Bureau. For four years, they’ve freed time around family schedules so they could work at the event together. Joye Gill, 62, and her daughter, Gwendolyn Warnica, 40, always sign up for the same job and shift, and this year they worked in the toy room.
News >  Spokane

Family from Afghanistan visits Christmas Bureau

One Spokane family originally from Afghanistan will spend time this Christmas with their new American friends on the South Hill. Ghulam Ghaznawi, 30, also is excited that he, his wife Fatema, and three children are now settled into their own home here. On Dec. 12, they visited the Christmas Bureau for the first time to find gifts for their three children, ages 3, 1 and a baby born at Sacred Heart in November.
News >  Spokane

Christmas Bureau helps young mother cultivate a love of reading in her kids

As a daily bedtime ritual for her two young children, Crystal Morlan sits on the floor between their beds and reads to them. Cultivating a love of books for her daughter and son is a priority for Morlan, 24, so with the Otis Orchards resident’s recent trip to the Christmas Bureau, she snatched up the books “Time To Count” and “Baby Einstein-Let’s Go.”
News >  Spokane

Grocery voucher ‘means a lot’ to Christmas Bureau recipients

Retired carpenter Curt Johnson drove a neighbor to the Christmas Bureau Thursday, but the trip from Davenport also is a big help for his household. Johnson, 73, said he and his wife are relying solely on Social Security income that doesn’t spread far. He took home a $20 food voucher, and a few extras the bureau offered this year for people who don’t have children at home.
News >  Spokane

Family of the “blue baby” who was a recipient of the Christmas Fund’s generosity in 1946 moved to donate

Reardan resident K. Baumgartner grew up hearing family stories about a life-saving heart surgery nearly 70 years ago for his aunt, Carol Lee Davis. What he didn’t know until this Christmas season is the connection between that story and The Spokesman-Review Christmas Fund. In 1946, the second year of the fund, regional donors raised nearly $6,000 to pay for the operation for little 8-year-old Carol Lee, called a “blue baby” because of her heart condition.
News >  Spokane

Being displaced by windstorm can’t keep couple from the Christmas Bureau

Steve and Theresa Lamp’s plans for a Christmas at home got crushed, literally, when a 90-foot-tall pine destroyed their North Spokane house during the Nov. 17 windstorm. The tree that broke through the roof also landed 8 feet from where Steve Lamp rested with the family dog. His wife, who was away at work, said she’s just thankful her husband escaped unharmed. She also dismissed any hardship.
News >  Spokane

Christmas Bureau visitors can learn about job, food assistance

Conversations start near the Christmas Bureau’s exit door. That’s the area where a table is set up to offer information on state and federal programs for food and employment assistance. One federal pilot program drawing interest this year is called RISE, Resources to Initiate Successful Employment.