In brief: Greenacres Elementary hosts art event

Thu., May 29, 2008

The Spokesman-Review

Greenacres Elementary, 17915 E. Fourth Ave., will hold its annual Art on the Green Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m.

This annual celebration of the arts includes student art on display as well as musical and circus performances. The event also includes a silent auction. Hot dogs, chips and beverages will be available for purchase.

For more information, call 228-4200.

Spokane Valley

TAC holding auditions for ‘Sindee Lou Ella’

Theater Arts for Children, 10814 E. Broadway Ave., will be holding auditions for “Sindee Lou Ella (A Cinderella Story)”, Sunday and Monday at 6:30 p.m.

TAC has staged more than 50 shows with over 1,000 adults and children auditioning and an additional 200 children attending theater camps.

For more information, call 892-5413 or visit www.theaterartsforchildren.org.

Logan

GU gets OK to move historic mansion

Spokane’s hearing examiner last week approved a conditional use permit to allow Gonzaga University to move the historic Huetter Mansion at 429 E. Sharp Ave. to make room for expansion and improvements of the Bishop White Seminary.

Among conditions required by the hearing examiner in a May 21 decision is improvement of heaved or damaged sidewalks adjacent to the buildings.

The university’s plan calls for moving the Huetter House, on the east side of the seminary complex, to a lot across Addison Street at 503 E. Sharp Ave. An existing building at 503 E. Sharp Ave., which houses a modern language program, would first be moved east to 511 E. Sharp. The house at 511 E. Sharp Ave. would be demolished.

At the same time, the Seminary of the Catholic Diocese of Spokane is seeking to develop a new 21,000-square-foot seminary with dining area, dormitory rooms, chapel and administration area.

Huetter House is named for pioneering contractor John T. Huetter, who built the Gonzaga Administration Building and other prominent buildings in the area. Huetter, Idaho, between Post Falls and Coeur d’Alene, takes its name from Huetter’s quarry, brickyard and lumber mill that he established there in the 1890s.

– From staff reports

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