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Mon., May 4, 1998

* Stop! Wait! Don’t throw away those book covers, notebooks, napkins and gum wrappers that you’ve doodled on all year. They could be worth money.

Enter the Our Generation doodle art contest. Simply send us your best piece of doodle (originals only, please) along with a 35-word statement about it. Include your full name, school, age, phone number and address.

Doodles can be in pencil, pen, black and white or color. One doodle per person please. Only students in grades 7 to 12 are eligible to enter. The top three doodlers get $15 each and we’ll publish as many as we can.

Send your doodles to Our Generation/Doodles, 999 W. Riverside, Spokane, WA 99201. Deadline to enter is May 25.

* Looking for a different way to preserve your high school memories? Consider a time capsule.

The Time Capsule Co. has designed the My Graduation Year Time Capsule for seniors to fill with memorabilia and seal it until a future reunion. The kit includes hundreds of ideas of things to seal away and the book “What Life Was Like My Senior Year,” which students fill out to record every aspect of their senior year including fashion, movies and more. The kit costs $21.95. For more information, call (888) OUR-TIME.

* SMILE, Students Mastering Important Lifeskills Education, is sponsoring David Benoit in concert with the Ferris High orchestra on May 13 at 7:30 p.m. Students are admitted free with a current ID card. Adult tickets are $7.50. Proceeds benefit SMILE, a national educational organization founded in Spokane to help young people who feel they have no options and no control learn the lifeskills they need.

For more information about SMILE call 448-8886. Tickets for the concert are available at Ferris and Rogers high schools.

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