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If you’re ready for a night out and want to help others at the same time, mark Aug. 17 on your calendar. Unfortunately, since it’s impossible to be two places at the same time, you’ll have to choose between two events.
At “Twilight Tidbit Tasting,” you can sample a wide assortment of food from area restaurants and caterers while enjoying the panoramic view from the newly refurbished Holiday Inn-West on the Sunset Highway.
Live music, performed on the courtyard lawn, and two silent auctions will be included in the evening. The lounge will be open for the purchase of beverages.
“Twilight Tidbit Tasting,” a benefit for Morning Star Boys Ranch and the Inland Northwest Special Olympics, is from 7 to 9 p.m. Tickets are $15 each and may be purchased by contacting Morning Star at 448-1412.
Opening night of “Show Boat,” a musical produced by the Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre on Aug. 17, will benefit the Inland Empire Council of Camp Fire Boys and Girls. The musical spans three generations of the lives and loves of Mississippi riverboat show folk.
The evening will include a reception with complimentary hors d’oeuvres and a silent auction starting at 7. The show begins at 8. Profits will help with the operation of Camp Fire programs in the Inland Empire, including the traditional club program, self-reliance courses, Teens in Action and the Saturday Club and camping programs.
Tickets, $25, may be purchased at the Spokane Camp Fire Office, 154 S. Stevens, or by calling 747-6191 or 800 386-2324.
If you can’t attend either benefit but still want to help, send a donation directly to the agencies.
From two come 163 descendents
One hundred and three years ago, Jacob Rupp and Elise Wenger, young Swiss immigrants, married and established their home on a quarter-section homestead near Cheney. This summer, 67 of their descendants gathered at the Liberty Lake home of Jack and Lois Hatch for a family reunion.
Jacob was already farming in the Spokane area when Elise arrived. She found work as a cook for the Dessert family, owners of the Pacific Hotel.
After their wedding, Jacob and Elise moved into a log cabin on the farm. As their family grew and their farm developed, the Rupps built a three-story farmhouse. In later years they lived on a smaller farm on Paradise Prairie, south of Spokane.
Jacob died in 1936 at the age of 72, and Elise, in 1971 at the age of 100.
Of the couple’s 10 children, two still survive and were honored at the reunion: Nellie (Rupp) Bell, 86, Coeur d’Alene, and Alice M. Rupp, 85, Spokane.
The Rupps have a lineage of 10 children, 16 grandchildren, 48 great-grandchildren, 84 great-great-grandchildren and five great-great-great grandchildren.
The reunion was hosted by grandchildren Lois Hatch and Betty (Rupp) Labish.
They’ll be wearing thinking caps
More than 1,000 physics teachers from across the country will gather at Gonzaga University this week for the American Association of Physics Teachers’ 1995 summer meeting.
Among the sessions will be “Lab-in-a-Box: A Make-and-Take Workshop” and “Laser Fundamentals for Elementary Science Teachers.” An apparatus competition begins at 5 p.m. Tuesday in Room 244 of the Herak Center. An open demonstration will be at 7 p.m. Friday in the Martin Center.
For more information, call Steven Hoffmaster at GU, 328-4220, ext. 3355.
Domestic Violence recovery group
The YWCA’s Alternative to Domestic Violence Program is offering a Recovery Group for Survivors of Domestic Violence. The closed, 12-week group will focus on self-esteem, anger, emotions, grieving, communication and empowerment.
Participants must be away from the abusive relationship and out of crisis. There is a sliding fee scale. Child care will be available.
For more information, call Debi Roberts at 326-1190, ext. 39, or 327-9534.
Cultural exchanges
Two instructors and a member of an advisory committee from Spokane Falls Community College will travel to Osaka, Japan, this week to give workshops on orthotics and prosthetics, disabilities and social services for the elderly.
The Osaka College of High Technology and the Osaka School of Medicine invited the SFCC instructors to participate in a four-day social service workshop. Those attending are Linda Clark, social services instructor and department chair; Clay Wright, orthotics/ prosthetics instructor; and Marie Raschki, executive director of adult day health at Holy Family Hospital and curriculum adviser to SFCC’s gerontology program.
All conference expenses are being paid by the Osaka groups.
In September, 168 Osaka college students will attend four programs at SFCC and Spokane Community College.
The following fields overflowed: CREDIT = Betsy Carosella The Spokesman-Review