Week in review

TUESDAY

About 70 Steelworkers demonstrated outside of Potlatch Corp.’s annual meeting in Spokane, seeking more generous wages and benefits for workers at the company’s Lewiston pulp and paper mill. Union representatives said workers cooperated when employment ranks were cut following losses in 2002, but the large raises received recently by Potlatch executives have eroded that trust. The demonstrations preceded four days of contract negotiations.

WEDNESDAY

A subsidiary of The Staubach Co. pulled back from its financial commitment to share ownership of a planned mixed-use development north of downtown Spokane. However, the withdrawal of Cypress Equities won’t affect the final product at Kendall Yards, said developer Marshall Chesrown.

“ The parent company of Spokane Airways filed suit against Spokane International Airport, claiming the airport broke its contractual obligation to replace the buildings the company had occupied. An attorney for the airport said the lawsuit is without basis.

THURSDAY

In North Idaho, the Hayden Chamber of Commerce president resigned after two weeks of internal disputes over $130,000 still owed to creditors from a 2004 air show.

“ Sam McCracken, who works with Nike’s Native American Business Program to foster ties between the athletic apparel company and Native American communities, delivered the keynote address at the Idaho Governor’s Conference on Recreation and Tourism in Worley.

FRIDAY

The oldest-standing KFC restaurant in Spokane is being rebuilt as part of a franchise-wide plan to update all Spokane stores by 2008. A representative of the family-owned company that purchased the restaurants in November said the Northwest Boulevard restaurant will follow a new company prototype with a more comfortable dine-in atmosphere.

■ A 25-unit senior housing project is being built across from the East Central Community Center in Spokane. It will include rent-subsidized apartments for people earning at or below 50 percent of the area’s median wage.