In brief: COPS shop to open at Wilton

A new COPS Shop is opening in downtown Spokane Monday at the Wilton Apartments, 154 S. Browne St.

Spokane Housing Ventures will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony and an open house to celebrate at 11 a.m.

Interested people can stop by, meet the officers and find out what a COPS Shop can do for the neighborhood. For more information, call Maurece Vulcano, COPS program coordinator, at 835-4572.

– Lisa Leinberger

Qualchan

Traffic, erosion on agenda

Spokane City Council members Brad Stark and Mary Verner are hosting the Qualchan Summit meeting next Thursday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers of City Hall, 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd.

The meeting will discuss traffic in the neighborhoods, traffic merging onto Highway 195, drainage areas and soil erosion and other areas of interest.

For more information, call 625-6255 or 625-6730.– – Lisa Leinberger

Downtown

Book sale to benefit library

The Friends of the Spokane Public Library is holding its spring book sale now through Saturday. The sale, which began April 21, is open from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. at the downtown location, 906 W. Main Ave.

All paperbacks will be sold for 50 cents and hardback books for $1 each. Some items are priced as marked. On Saturday, shoppers can bring a brown paper grocery bag and fill it with your choice of books for $3.

For more information, call the library at 444-5300.

– Lisa Leinberger

Spokane

Bloomsday route getting repairs

Motorists may encounter delays along the Bloomsday route as city crews repair the streets and bridge. Look for crews on Riverside Avenue from Maple Street to where Riverside Avenue descends into Peaceful Valley and Broadway Avenue from Monroe to Lindeke streets.

Here are other potential traffic hot spots:

“Division Street will be closed from 34th to 36th avenues through Friday while city crews replace a water main.

“Post Street from Spokane Falls Boulevard to the Post Street Bridge will have no parking on the east side of the road through Friday. Bacon Concrete is paving the sidewalk where Avista conduit was laid last fall.

“The Central Business District will have lane closures as city crews paint the crosswalks.

“Crews are crack-sealing Washington and Stevens streets from Third Avenue to Spokane Falls Boulevard. One lane will be closed at a time, and parking will be restricted at times.

– From staff reports