The Slice Forget All Of Those ‘Rotten Kid’ Stories

Teachers come to Gonzaga University from all over the country to attend Bob Carriker’s Lewis and Clark Expedition seminars.

And some of them bring their kids.

Fourteen of those children recently got together and sold lemonade in front of GU’s Administration Building. They didn’t say what they intended to do with the money they made, which turned out to be $60.

But when they were all through, they dropped the cash in the donation box for the poor at St. Aloysius Church.

Letter from camp: “Dear Mom, Dad, and Melinda: I forgot kleenexs. My nose is really stuffy and no one brought any. Our cabins are really nice but theres to much moths in them. Last night when we were walking to the cabins I saw a snake or a 50 pound worm, I can’t tell which. Good bye, Lissie Smith”

Enough already about huckleberries: Reardan’s Mina Mittelstaedt would like to see June berries, also known as service berries, get a little long-overdue respect.

Slice answer: Michael Connelly, 10, didn’t mince words. “The people who drive those music-playing ice cream trucks are already insane before they take the job,” he said.

K.L. Davis wonders: “What do you tell an inquisitive 6-year-old whom you have just noticed standing next to your bed as you and your spouse are in the act of making whoopie?”

Pain: Root canal. Valve job. Tax audit. Stallone film. Spokane politics.

Man hunt: Call (509) 327-8551 to find out about taking part in a bachelor auction to benefit Inland Northwest Area Special Olympics.

Warm-up question: Is there, in every extended family, someone whose idea of grappling with society’s toughest problems is to suggest, over and over, “They ought to line ‘em up against a wall and shoot ‘em”?

Today’s Slice question: The blood you have lost to mosquitoes in yout life would fill: a.) a shot glass. b.) a punch bowl. c.) a ‘67 Impala’s radiator. d.) an Olympic pool.

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