In brief: Annual landlord fair this weekend

The Landlord Association of the Inland Northwest will hold its annual fair Saturday.

The Landlord Association of the Inland Northwest is a non-profit group with close to 700 local landlord members. All landlords, property managers, and their families are welcome. The event is free, including brunch and a full buffet lunch. Guests are welcome.

The fair is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at West Central Community Center, 1603 N. Belt St. . There will be door prizes, speakers and presenters with information of interest to landlords and property managers, including landlord-tenant law, investment and financial counseling, fraud and identity theft protection, drugs and gangs presentation, fair housing information and giveaways by vendors.

For more information contact Joy Peck at 535-1018 or e-mail at office@landlordassoc.org

– Staff reports

SPOKANE COUNTY

Spots available on youth commission

The Chase Youth Commission Teen Advisory Council is reorganizing for the new school year, and it has 100 positions available for students countywide.

The council works on several youth-oriented projects, including the annual Chase Youth Awards, BOBfest and the Youth Issues Voice Forum. There are other opportunities to communicate views through council programs. The council’s first meeting was Sept. 12.For more information or to receive an applications, contact Michael LeaderCharge, of the Spokane Regional Youth Department at mleader charge@spokanecity.org or by phone at 625-6054.

– Mike Prager

Pageant applications available

The Miss Spokane’s Outstanding Teen committee is now accepting applications for the 2008 pageant.

Teen girls 13 to 17 years old may apply. The applicants must also be single, never married and no more than a junior in a Spokane County high school.

Winners of the pageant will receive scholarship money and make public appearances.

Application deadline is Nov. 1 and the entry fee is $150.

For more information, call Cheri Moore at 466-8593 or e-mail Moore at_moore@hotmail.com.

– Lisa Leinberger

LOGAN

Moon Festival Saturday at GU

Spokane Chinese Association will hold its fifth annual Moon Festival at 7 p.m. Saturday in Cataldo Globe Room at Gonzaga University.

The festival is a traditional Chinese holiday celebrating autumn harvest and family reunion.

It is a time that families and friends get together to celebrate their relationship, toast each other and share an exquisite pastry made in the symbol of the moon, called “moon cake”. The holiday is close to what Thanksgiving is here in America. The program includes tasting of “moon cake,” talent show, riddles, games, songs and a short movie on the Chinese legend of Moon Lady Chang E, who immortalized herself by flying to the moon (Chinese children are all taught to look for her on the night of the festival. It is believed if you look hard enough, you will see her holding her white rabbit.)

Admission is $3 per person, but free if you do not intend to have moon cake tasting. Please call Jane Gong at 443-7061 if you have any questions.

– Juan Juan Moses

SPOKANE

Gardens open for tours

Gardeners from seven local community gardens will be opening their gardens for free self-guided tours on Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon. The tour is sponsored by the Spokane Community Gardens, the Spokane Regional Health District and WSU Spokane Country Extension and is intended in part to help residents and neighborhood leaders plan their own community gardens. The following gardens will be open:

“Northeast Community Garden, corner of Liberty and Lacey Streets, Hillyard

“Hifumi En Community Garden, behind building at 926 E. Eighth Ave.

“Emmanuel Lutheran Church Garden, 314 S. Spruce St., Brown’s Addition

“Twin Owls Community Garden, 6912 E. Random Point Lane, Brown’s Mountain

“St. Margaret’s Shelter Garden, 2702 S. Oak St., Vinegar Flats

“Fairview and Hemlock Community Garden, corner of Fairview and Hemlock, Northeast Spokane

“Riverview Farms, Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, 1932 W. Dean, West Central Spokane

– Donna Tam

SPA seeking grant applications

The Spokane Preservation Advocates organization is seeking applications from potential recipients of its annual grant program.

The group has capital improvement grants of up to $5,000 that may be awarded as a match for an equivalent amount of money. Also, SPA offers a mini-grant of up to $1,000 that requires no match for projects or educational programs.

The SPA Heritage Fund has awarded more than $60,000 in grants in the past six years from money obtained through fund-raising activities and donations.

For more information, go to the SPA Web site at www.spokanepreservation.org, or contact Susan Winchell at swinchell@comcast.net.

– Mike Prager

Sacred Heart ‘follies’ Saturday

The Sacred Heart Medical Center Foundation will present “Viva Heart Follies,” a musical revue Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m. at the INB Performing Arts Center.

The production will feature staff, family and friends of the health care community.

Tickets are $10 and $15 and are available through TicketsWest at 325-SEAT.

– Lisa Leinberger