Voices

Everyone knows there’s no such thing as a free lunch, but there is such a thing as free mini-cupcakes on Thursday at Sweet Frostings Blissful Bakeshop, 15 S. Washington St. The free cupcakes are part of the YWCA of Spokane’s

I seem to collect lost boys the way other folks collect license plates or trading cards. From a tiny autistic boy who’d escaped from his house to play on a busy street on a Sunday morning, to Ricky who got confused when he got off the school bus one afternoon, I seem to be a lost boy magnet. This time there were two of them looking at me with anxious eyes.

It looks like we dodged the windstorm last weekend. It changed course slightly and stayed further off the coast than predicted, thereby lessening the wind damage. While this one missed us, the next one might not. Here are a few tips for preparing your plants for winter storms.

When Kari Bromley talks about the brief, fraction of a second two years ago, you can see in her eyes that she’s reliving the moment in slow motion. She doesn’t have to close her eyes to go back in time. It’s a sub-freezing night at Gonzaga Prep in the first round of the state Class 2A girls soccer tournament. Kicking the soccer ball feels like driving your foot into a giant river rock. Players fight the cold with tights, gloves and anything thermal they can find.

Harley is available for adoption at Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Service. Shelter workers say he’s a mild manner and loves to cuddle. He would do best in a quiet home.

Jack Thompson made Samoans a hot commodity in Pullman. Tali Ena stood out as a Cougar tailback. Samoa Samoa, a transfer quarterback from Long Beach City College, and Dave Pritchard, a transfer running back from Army joined his cousin, Thompson, and became a center.

Spokane County Water District 3 is abandoning its well in Spokane Valley’s Browns Park and drilling a new well somewhere else.

The West Valley High School marching band and color guard are headed to New York City to perform before thousands next month.