Learn About Money While You Spend It

You can combine shopping with financial education during a trip to three of the Inland Northwest’s major malls on Saturday.

The Consumer Credit Counseling Service of the Inland Northwest is sponsoring an information fair, dubbed “Healthy, Wealthy and Wise,” from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. at NorthTown, the Spokane Valley Mall and Silver Lake Mall in Coeur d’Alene.

CCCS President Mark Harnishfeger calls the event “the first of its kind in the area.”

The organization will have booths at all three malls, and several other businesses and nonprofit organizations also will be represented. Information will be available on topics ranging from home equity loans to investments.

Additionally, CCCS will provide information on raising money-smart kids, saving money at the grocery store, using your ATM card wisely and other issues.

For more information, call 327-3777, ext. 122, or (800) 8920-6854, ext. 122.

In other events this week:

Monday

WSU Cooperative Extension kicks off a series of sessions on land revegetation at 6 p.m. at the Crossroads Community Church, part way between Chewelah and Loon Lake at the Valley Waitts Lake turnoff. For information about other locations and times, call 509-684-2588.

* U.S. Commerce Department reports on business inventories for April.

Tuesday

Salomon Smith Barney presents a free public seminar on “Great American Companies for the Next Millennium” at 7 p.m. at the Spokane Club Ballroom, 1002 W. Riverside. For reservations, call 455-6099 by today.

Wednesday

The Spokane office of the Washington Department of Revenue presents a free New Business Outreach workshop from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. and again from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. on the eighth floor of the Northtown Office Building, 4407 N. Division. To register or for more information, call 482-3805.

* U.S. Labor Department reports on consumer prices, Commerce Department reports on housing starts and Federal Reserve reports on industrial production, all for May.

Thursday

WSU Department of Crop and Soil Sciences presents its 83rd Annual Lind Field Day at 8:30 a.m. at the Lind Dryland Research Station, 781 E. Experiment Station Road in Lind. For information, call Bill Schillinger at (509) 659-0355 or Cindy Warriner at (509) 659-3214.

* Commerce Department reports on international trade for April.

Saturday

WSU-Spokane celebrates its 10th anniversary with an open house from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Riverpoint campus, 668 N. Riverpoint Blvd. Call 358-7500 or visit the Web site at http://www.spokane.wsu.edu.

ON THE SHELF IN SEARCH OF VALUE Business Week, June 14: Value investing, which has been out of favor for much of the ‘90s, may be poised for a comeback as the single-minded focus on growth wanes, the magazine says in its cover story. Forbes, June 14: Patience and caution are among the traits that enable women to make more money than men in the stock market, Forbes says in its 1999 investment guide.