Texas sex offender arrested
A sex offender on the run from Texas authorities was arrested Friday after he tried to crawl in a boy’s bedroom window, officials said.
Paul Winfield Borden, 52, was arrested for residential burglary and possession of a controlled substance, said Sgt. Dave Reagan, spokesman for Spokane County Sheriff’s Office and Spokane Valley police. He also had a fugitive warrant out of Texas.
About 11:15 p.m. Friday, deputies responded to 12500 block of South Austin Road.
A woman told police a neighbor, who she knew only as Cody, had been over for dinner and a movie. He’d lived nearby for about two years.
Around 10:30 p.m., she watched him drive away, Reagan said. The woman has two sons, 11 and 15. Sometime later her eldest son started hearing noises outside his window. The 15-year-old “turned on a light and saw Cody’s arm extending into the room through the open window. The screen had been removed, and the suspect was standing on a stool outside,” Reagan said. “The suspect began whispering for the boy to be quiet. When the teen tried to close the window, the suspect tried to get in again.”
The teen alerted his mom who then discovered the front porch light unscrewed and the stool abandoned on the ground below the boys’ window, Reagan said.
Deputies were able to find Borden and arrest him, Reagan said. Drugs were found in Borden’s pockets when he was booked into the jail, police said.
Cheney
EWU professor named fellow
Eastern Washington University recently announced Dr. Kosuke Imamura, assistant professor in Eastern’s College of Science, Health and Engineering, as the 2008 Fosseen-Kusaka Distinguished Professorship Fellow by Mukogawa Women’s University in Nishinomiya, Japan.
The annual event is an association between Mukogawa Fort Wright Institute, a branch campus of Mukogawa Women’s University, as part of the ongoing partnership between EWU and its Japanese counterparts. Eastern has worked with MFWI to foster international exchange and strengthen professional ties between our institutions since 1994.
For more information call Olga Baron, international projects manager, at 359-4948 or e-mail obaron@ewu.edu.
Spokane Valley
Center offers parenting class
The Veterans Outreach Center, 100 N. Mullan Road, Suite 102, will offer a seven-week parenting class starting Tuesday from 6 to 8 p.m.
Veterans or members of their families are invited to attend this class that meets Tuesdays for free. Books, supplies and refreshments will be provided.
The class, based on the book, “Growing Up Again,” by J. Clarke and C. Dawson, will discuss the ages and stages of development, ways to nurture children and the parents themselves as well as blended families and adopted children.
A pre-interview is required for participants, and there is no child care available during the class.
For more information, call Brenda Thurman or Mary DeLateur at 444-8387.
South Hill
Ferris High starts Project Hope
Ferris High School drama department students will stage their production of Project Hope to raise awareness and funds for SMILE, an educational charity founded by Christie Toribara, a mother of a Ferris student who committed suicide in 1995.
The students wrote, directed and will perform a series of one-act plays about the causes, symptoms and some of their own stories about depression.
They also researched the subject by talking to counselors, those who have experienced depression and an author of a book about depression.
Tickets are $6 at the door or $4 in advance. The show will be performed in Paul G. Brueggemeier Hall on the Ferris campus, 3020 E. 37th Ave.
For more information, call Mary Cooper at 354-6076.