Voices

Coeur d’Alene High volleyball coach Carly Curtis knows most NCAA Division I colleges have concluded their recruiting for the 2009 senior class. The way it works today, colleges seek oral commitments from seniors in their junior years.

Elizabeth May’s photographs blur the lines that define objects. Viewers have to identify the subjects through their own perception. One might attempt to decipher the images reflected on bodies or puddles of water or let the imagination take over and see something completely different. May calls it “Silent Seeing,” and “a form of photographic exploration which seeks to synchronize the eye of the photographer with the contemplative mind, allowing for the expression of light as it reveals itself through the reflective world … It seeks to capture light in a fleeting moment as it flows through form into the eye of the observer. It is at that fractional point in time that silent seeing takes place for the photographer. It is hoped that the image evokes such a silent seeing in the viewer.”

A llama, geckos, chickens and ducks were the featured guests last week at Rockwood at Hawthorne’s fall fair. Residents also played country fair-inspired games at the event, one of many entertainments offered at the north Spokane senior living center.

CHENEY – In an effort to boost civic pride, several city buildings will soon fly Cheney’s new flag. Designed by city resident Graeme Webster and Cmdr. Rick Campbell of the Cheney Police Department, the idea for the flag sprang from a conversation the men had with Arlene Fisher, city administrator, over pancakes at the VFW pancake feed on Memorial Day.

On a sunny September morning approximately 30 women sat around tables and listened as Jan Bowes Martinez led a Bible study. With blond curls springing around her face, Martinez asked the women, “How would you live if you knew it was your last day on Earth?” “I’d spend all day with my son,” said one woman, and the others around her table nodded in agreement.