In brief: Women honored by sorority
Two members Alpha Chi Omega were honored recently for 75 years of service and membership in the sorority.
Alice “Belle” Vawter and Velvo Lucas Miller each received 75-year pins at a luncheon and ceremony at the Manito Golf and Country Club.
Vawter attended Washington State University, where she met her future husband, and they married in 1935 and had three sons, one of whom followed his father in employment at URM.
The Vawters traveled extensively. She was a volunteer at Deaconess for about 30 years and currently resides at Fairwood Village, according to Hazel Jackson, her caregiver.
Miller pledged Alphi Chi at the University of Oregon and later graduated from Oregon State. She was set up on a blind date by her Alpha Chi sisters and some Sigman Epsilon fraternity brogthers with Richard Felix Miller, according to her daughter, Marcia Miller Magnuson. They were married for 62 years.
They spent most of their life in Cheney, where Richard Miller was a professor in Eastern Washington University’s Language and Literature Department. He died in 1998. They have three children, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
– From staff reports
Upriver Dam
Open house at city dam
The city of Spokane is hosting an open house for the public through Friday at its Upriver Water and Hydro Electric Facility, 2701 N. Waterworks St., in honor of National Drinking Water Week.
Members of the public can see the facility and its historic brick well with crystal clear water from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
“This is a great opportunity for citizens to come and see what vital role water plays in our daily lives,” says Frank Triplett, the city’s Water Department director.
– From staff reports
Manito
Preschool holds plant sale
Manito Cooperative Preschool will be holding its annual Plant Sale on Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., in the east parking lot at Manito United Methodist Church, 3220 S. Grand Blvd.
Herbs, shrubs, vegetables, annuals, perennials, hanging baskets and gardening tools will be for sale to benefit the school.
Call Brenda or Carrie at 838-7442 for more information.
– Rainey Coffin