Kudos (10/23 meeting Part 2)

At our Oct 12 morning meeting, photo director Larry Reisnouer said one of his reporters was asked to leave the garbage dump because of liability issues. If the photographer was not there to dump trash, he or she could not stick around. After putting a request through City Hall, things worked out and that was the story behind this photo.

Peter Walter sweeps the back of his pickup truck after unloading trash onto the tipping floor at the Valley Transfer Station in Spokane Valley, Wash., Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 16, 2007. Spokane County commissioners want an audit of how the City of Spokane manages the solid waste system. (Holly Pickett photo)

Ahhh…

• Whether local ski resorts can really call our area the Northwest Rockies (It’s a sense of place story - No wait, “it’s a sense of not knowing the place,” said business editor Alison Boggs)
• Widow finds out her husband is alive
• Empire Health Services
• John Blanchette: obituary for football coach Dwight Pool
• The HOME section
Doug Clark column , a follow-up on his train ride from hell.