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Sons of Norway Pancake Breakfast – Today and Dec. 19, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Sons of Norway Lodge, 6710 N. Country Homes Blvd. All the pancakes you can eat with scrambled eggs, sausage, juice and coffee. Tickets are $4/adults, and $2.50/children ages 12 and under. Call 326-9211 for more information.

Free home improvement workshops – Offered at Home Depot stores through December. Workshops include: “Power Tools 101: You Can Try It Before You Buy It,” Tuesdays at 7 p.m.; “You Can Install a Garage Door Opener,” Thursdays at 7 p.m.; “You Can Install Track Lighting,” Fridays at 7 p.m.; “You Can Refinish Furniture,” Saturdays at 10 a.m.; “You Can Enhance Your Home with Holiday Lighting,” Saturdays at 2 p.m.; and “You Can Have Fun With Color and Faux ,” Sundays at 2 p.m. Call (800) 430-3376 or visit www.homedepot.com for more information.

Upcoming

Engineers Forum of Spokane – Monday at the Airport Holiday Inn, 1616 Windsor Drive. Topic will be “Renewable Resources,” presented by Chris Drake, Avista Utilities. Lunch will be served at noon for $11, program begins at 12:30 p.m. Call 244-3467 for more information.

Couple Relationships from Courtship to Continuance: What We Need to Know, What We Need to Remember – Lecture presented by Diana Hornbogen, marriage and family therapist, Tuesday at the South Hill Library, 6:30-8 p.m. Reservations required by calling 951-0205.

Whitworth lecture – Wednesday, 7 p.m. in the Seeley Mudd Chapel on the Whitworth campus, 300 W. Hawthorne. Topic will be “Human Trafficking and What It Means to Be a Proactive Global Citizen,” given by Michele Clark, co-director of The Protection Project of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. For more information, call 777-4269.

Audubon Society meeting – Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., Riverside Retirement Center. Topic will be “Audubon Reardon Lake Wetland Reclaimant Project,” presented by Howard Ferguson, Washington State Fish and Wildlife Department. A social hour will be held at 7 p.m. Call 466-3098 for more information.

Talent Show Case Holiday Hope Drive – Presented by Spokane Community College’s Single Parents Program and Black Student Union, Friday, 7 p.m. in the Lair auditorium on the SCC campus, 1810 N. Greene. Includes live entertainment by the Ervin Music Group, Grant Elementary School drummers and dancers, Sounds of Jerusalem, and DJ Big Mike and Mayhem. Door prizes will be given away from Starbucks, Urban Fashions, and SCC’s bakery and cosmetology departments. Admission is by donation to SPP’s Emergency Child Care Fund or Hope Chest programs and include items such as canned formula, toiletries, diapers, baby food, bottles, etc. For more information, contact Gretchen Licata at 533-8062 or Terri Anderson at 533-8114.

Burn Clean/Burn Safe seminar – Learn clean burning techniques to save money, keep your home safe from fire hazards, and improve air quality at free informational seminars Saturday and Jan. 8, 9:30-10:30 a.m., at Spokane Fireplace & Patio, 27 W. Boone. Call the Spokane Air Pollution Control Authority at 477-4727, ext. 115, for more information.