In brief: Kids can check out trucks, ambulances, more Oct. 6

Thu., Sept. 27, 2012

From Local Reports

CHIEF GARRY PARK – The Junior League of Spokane will host Touch a Truck on Oct. 6 at Spokane Community College, 1810 N. Greene St., from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Children will have hands-on access to firetrucks, dump trucks, ambulances and helicopters. Parents can visit safety and health information booths. Tow Mater from Disney’s “Cars” will be the special guest.

Admission is $5. Children 2 and younger will be admitted free. Visitors can receive $1 off admission with a donation of nonperishable food to the Salvation Army Food Bank.

For more information visit www.jlspokane.org.>

See ‘Whiteclay’ at SFCC

WEST HILLS – Jeffrey Mohr, an associate professor of social work at Nebraska Wesleyan University, is hosting a free screening of “The Battle for Whiteclay” and a discussion of contemporary Native American issues at Spokane Falls Community College.

The documentary will be shown at 7 p.m. Tuesday at SFCC Building 24, sn-w’ey’-mn Room 110, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Drive. SFCC’s Beta Gamma Kappa and Red Nations student groups are co-sponsoring the event.

The documentary is about the town of Whiteclay, Neb., population 22. The town has four state liquor stores, which are frequented by residents of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, just across the border in South Dakota. Experts believe about 80 percent of the reservation’s population suffers from alcoholism. The documentary looks at activists’ efforts to get the government to restrict alcohol sales.

For more information call SFCC history instructor Kurt Kinbacher at (509) 533-3461.

Petting farm opens Oct. 6

GREENACRES – The Petting Farm at Mountain Valley View Inc., 4301 S. Chapman Road, will open Oct. 6.

The farm includes sheep, goats and chickens and is also a dairy and organic egg farm. The petting farm is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.

Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for ages 11 to 18, $6 for ages 2 to 10, free for children younger than 2, veterans, active military, police and firefighters.

For more information, call (509) 928-1800.

More than $28,000 raised

MEAD – The 12th annual Mead and Mt. Spokane Cat Scramble Golf Tournament raised more than $28,000 for school athletic programs.

On Sept. 15 at Wandermere Golf Course, 144 golfers joined the fun.

The Cat Scramble has raised more than $200,000 for Mead School District athletic programs since it started, according to the Mead website.

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