Treat Mom To Tour Of Historic Homes Highlighting Rockwood Addition
Unpublished correction: The name of the Olmsted brothers was misspelled in this story.
Looking for a unique Mother’s Day gift?
Take her on Cheney Cowles Museum’s seventh annual Mother’s Day Historic Neighborhood Tour.
A self-guided tour booklet will highlight the 1909 Rockwood Addition on Spokane’s South Side, designed by Boston’s Olmstead brothers, with its curved streets and selected tree plantings.
Six historic homes will be open for first-floor tours along the 1.5-mile route extending from 26th and Garfield Road to 18th and Upper Terrace.
Rockwood Addition originally included an extension of Spokane’s streetcar line, and as a special feature this year, the Spokane Transit Authority’s streetcar will provide free continuous transportation around the tour route. Area parking will be limited.
Advance tickets ($10) can be purchased at Cheney Cowles Museum, 2316 W. First, or at Hutton Elementary, tour headquarters, on the tour day.
Fundraisers
Before (or after) the Historic Homes Tour, take Mom to eat at one of more than 30 restaurants participating in a benefit for Childbirth and Parenting Alone Program. The restaurants will contribute up to 5 percent of their Mother’s Day sales to the program.
Sponsored by Catholic Charities, CAPA helps young, single mothers to become self-sufficient and effective parents. Free services were provided to more than 650 single parents in 1995.
Participating restaurants for the Mother’s Day event are: Arby’s Roast Beef Restaurants, Arizona Steak House, Calgary Steak House, Cannon Street Grill, Chalet Restaurant, China Inn Restaurant, Dewey’s East, Hill’s Someplace Else, Europa Pizzaria and Bakery, Gatto’s Pizza, Great Harvest Bread Company (South Hill and downtown), Great Scott Pub and Grill, Hobart’s, Luigi’s Italian Restaurants (downtown and Dishman-Mica Road), Mustard Seed Restaurants, O’Doherty’s Irish Grille, Old Country Buffet (East Sprague), Perkins, Ripples on the River, Rock City Cucina Italiano, Sportsman Cafe, Swackhammers, Taco Time (Airway Heights, North Monroe, West Francis), Thai Kitchen, Windows of the Season, Zip’s Drive-In (1604 W. Francis, 1018 Northwest Blvd., 402 W. Second, Fairwood Shopping Center).
Other restaurants participating from May 13 to 17 are Anaconda Grille, Something Else Deli, Birkebeiner Brewing Company and Metro Cafe.
Dance to the big-band sounds of the Jim Baker Orchestra at 8 p.m. May 17 in the Davenport Hotel’s lobby for a fund-raising event for the Children’s Ark.
Children’s Ark is an innovative nonprofit foster parenting program that combines the protection and nurturing of a foster family home for young children with residential support and education programs for their mothers.
“We think a program like this, offering early intervention and intensive support, has the potential to truly ‘fix’ young families, helping them to become healthy, successful and independent,” said Paul Mann, who co-founded Children’s Ark with his wife, Janet, in 1995.
Hors d’oeurves will be served at the dance by the Cannon Street Grill.
Tickets, $15, may be obtained at the Cannon Street Grill, Town and Country Restaurant, at the door, or by mail: Children’s Ark, P.O. Box 11941, Spokane, WA 99211.
Spokane Potters’ Guild, 2619 N. Hamilton, will hold its first Lilac Festival and Ceramic Arts Sale on Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sale proceeds will help improve the set-up and operation of the newly formed nonprofit guild.
Used books are needed by the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program’s Bookfest to be held during Spokane’s Senior Health and Fitness Fair, May 22 and 23. Books may be dropped off at Morrison Moving and Storage, 304 W. Pacific, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., on Fridays, the YMCA in Riverfront Park, or at the four Tidyman stores.
Grants awarded
St. Ann’s Roman Catholic Church GRANT (Gifts Reward Awakening Neighborhood Turnabout) recently presented its first two $500 neighborhood improvement grants to First Steps Services Program and SNAP Building Bridges Program.
First Steps Services is a drug- and alcohol-free center where neighborhood Block Watch, 12-Step and neighborhood social programs and resource referrals are available.
The grant will be used for a neighborhood cleanup and beautification program.
SNAP Building Bridges Program is an employment program offering training and mentoring opportunities.
The grant will defray the cost of an East Central resident to participate in the SNAP program.
Grant funds were gained through sale of “Indulgences,” a chocolate candy which spoofs the early Catholic practice of providing forgiveness of sins based on a church donation.
GRANT provides support to help East Central neighborhood programs.
Assistants, Inc., a nonprofit organization committed to volunteer service and support in the Spokane community, dispersed a record-amount of money this year, more than $6,500, to Allegro, Cathedral and the Arts, Children’s Ark, Connoisseur Concerts, Habitat for Humanity, Holy Names Music Academy, Ogden Hall, Spokane Art School, Spokane Music Festival, Spokane Symphony, Uptown Opera and the YWCA.
Wellpinit School District received a major equipment grant from Hewlett Packard and The Math Learning Center in Portland.
The award consists of 43 HP38G graphing calculators, an infrared printer, connectivity kits to attach calculators to personal computers, an overhead projection panel and a special disc drive.
The equipment will help facilitate a student field project on the Spokane Indian Reservation.
Volunteer Opportunity
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Washington State is seeking volunteers for its new Spokane office to donate time, talent and imagination to help fulfill wishes for children with life-threatening illnesses.
A volunteer training session will be from 6 to 9 p.m., Tuesday, in the Paulsen building, 421 W. Riverside, Suite 319. Call Judy Rogers, 458-2618.
Health Notes
Planned Parenthood of Spokane and Whitman counties will celebrate Healthy Moms Week by offering $10 off a woman’s health care exam when daughters bring their mothers to the 123 E. Indiana clinic, May 12 to 18.
Healthy Moms Week was designed to develop an awareness that women’s health is essential to the health of the family, community and society and to recognize the importance of organizations and individuals who serve those health needs.
Many women do not have annual exams, which can result in deadly consequence.
“More than 46,000 women died from breast cancer in 1994, making it the leading cause of death,” said a spokeswoman. “And, 24,000 new cases of ovarian cancer were diagnosed that same year.”
In recognition of the World Health Organization’s International Midwives Day today, there will be a potluck from noon to 3 p.m. at the Manito Park pavilion.
Featured family activities include toddling, crawling and diapering races, face painting, music by Catharine Scherer, games and prizes.
Information about midwifery and home birth as a safe and legal birthing option will also be available.
The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 456-3723.
Reservations are being accepted for YWCA Day Camps, June 17 through Aug, 23, with a different theme each week.
Included events are swimming lessons, arts and crafts, games, cooking, field trips, hikes, basketball camp, canoeing, bicycling and sports.
Camp hours are 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday, with activity time from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Register by mail or in person at the YWCA’s front desk.
For more information, call 326-1190, ext. 132.