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Mon., Dec. 21, 1998

Win a pair of day passes to Mt. Spokane, 49 Degrees North or Schweitzer Mountain!

To enter, send us your full name, age, address and home phone number. One entry per person. This contest is open to youth ages 13 to 19 only.

There are three ways to get your entry to us:

* Fax it to (509) 459-5098, attention Our Generation/Day Passes.

* E-mail ourgeneration@ spokesman.com with “day passes” written in the subject line.

* Hand-deliver an 8 x 11 inch piece of paper with the information to our downtown Spokane office, 999 W. Riverside. Be sure to mark it attention: Our Generation/Day Passes.

Entries must be RECEIVED no later than 10 a.m. Dec. 24.

The drawing will be held at noon Dec. 24 and winners will be notified by phone.

Winter sports. Don’t miss next Monday’s Our Generation section for our special guide to winter sports, including snowboarding, skiing (downhill and cross-country), snowmobiling, sledding and ice skating.

Witch chat. Melissa Joan Hart, star of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, will host a live chat Dec. 23 from 5 to 6:30 p.m. (Pacific time) at www.vagisil.com. To sign up for the chat, go to www.vagisil.com/ teencenter.html

Get creative. The 1998-99 Our Generation Get Creative writing/illustrating contest is officially open.

Send us your poetry, short stories, whimsical thoughts, doodles or illustrations (hand-drawn or computer-generated) and a 100-word or fewer description of your work telling us what it is and what inspired you to produce it.

Also include your full name, age, school, home phone and address. The contest is open to teenagers in grades 9-12.

If we really like your work we’ll publish it in Our Generation in 1999 and pay you for it. We’ll also publish on our soon-to-be up and running Our Gen Web site as many of the entries as we can.

Send your entry to Our Generation/Get Creative, P.O. Box 2160, Spokane, WA 99210. Entries must be received by Jan. 22. For more information, call (509) 459-5456 or e-mail ourgeneration@spokesman.com.

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