The Slice Take A Moment Today To Celebrate Cosmic Peace

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So we’ll tell you. The Global Peace Foundation of Mill Valley, Calif., is sponsoring a Cosmic Peace, Universal Harmony, and Planetary Healing Celebration at noon today.

So, at the stroke of 12, you are invited to pray, meditate or whatever.

Scoffing is another option.

Couples/conflict continued: “Without question, the most intense, never-ending husband and wife argument during winter in the Inland Northwest occurs when the battle line is drawn between the driver’s seat and the front passenger seat over possession of the heater knob on the dash,” wrote Marcelle Richman.

Back when a dollar bought something: A friend gave Virginia Anderson a souvenir menu from the old Spokane Hotel’s Silver Grill. It was from Christmas, 1961. And it showed that an elegant dinner, starting with crab cocktail and concluding with dessert, cost $3.50.

Johnny was a moron, but we’ll all miss him: The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission says that, since 1978, at least 37 people have died from rocking vending machines until the machines fell on them.

Well, some people are impressed: A grade-school boy from Pend Oreille County, whose class had just gotten off a bus, stood outside the Swell Paper before a tour and took in his surroundings. “We’re not in Kansas anymore,” he said to a friend.

Disturbing Sights Department: A note signed “Citizens for the Protection of Locker Room Etiquette” arrived with the request that we remind health club users that shared blow-dryers are not intended to, um, dry off, uh, the entire body.

Note to Gail Somers of Coeur d’Alene: Thanks for sending the snapshot of your pet chinchilla, Andrew. He’s a fine-looking rodent. Unfortunately the photo is just a bit too blurry for reproduction. Sorry.

Warm-up questions: Should public schools be allowed to require that students wear uniforms? Does the Spokane area have a good piano bar?

Today’s Slice question: Will there be a lot of soul-searching and gnashing of teeth if Boise someday passes Spokane in population?

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