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Post Falls Days begins Friday

Big Wheel races, a Beatles cover band, a fishing derby, carnival and a parade are planned for this weekend's Post Falls Days celebration. The town's annual three-day party begins Friday and continues through Sunday evening at Q'emiln Park.
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Property values

Kootenai County Michael Leach, Rathdrum, residence, valued at $267,202.
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Religion notebook

This week RLM Men's Breakfast – Today from 8-10 a.m. at Real Life Ministries, 1866 Cecil Road, Post Falls. Enjoy breakfast and fellowship while learning principals to live a Christ-centered life. Call Keith at 777-7325, ext. 216.
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Rogers graduate ‘loves cars’

Most little girls don't grow up dreaming to own their own luxury car lot. Carly Williams will graduate from Rogers High School Saturday and hopes to one day do just that.
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Senior meals

For the week of June 9-13 Monday – Barbecue riblet on a bun, vegetables, baked beans, pears, oatmeal-raisin cookie.
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Senior reaches out during painful time

When Anna Nelson talks about her brother, Carl, there's laughter in her voice. "We used to drive around the roundabout by Mt. Spokane, like, six times in a row," she said with a giggle. "We'd dress up in crazy costumes and go to the grocery store to get ice cream."
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Starting over and succeeding

When Joel Nitteberg walks across the Spokane Arena stage Saturday to accept his Central Valley High School diploma it will complete an arduous journey. Nitteberg had to learn in just four short years what his classmates accomplished in 18 years of life and a dozen years of schooling. All of it. How to talk. How to walk.
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Student offers comfort despite deep loss

When Anna Nelson talks about her brother, Carl, there's laughter in her voice. "We used to drive around the roundabout by Mt. Spokane, like, six times in row," she said with a giggle. "We'd dress up in crazy costumes and go to the grocery store to get ice cream."
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Supporting role

At University High School, Kayli Pilgrim made her mark in several ways. Her accomplishments in choir, theater and art all rank high. Yet her quieter role supporting her family – especially her brother – made others take notice in nominating her as a notable 2008 student. Pilgrim learned early about responsibility and helping others after her dad, Gary, was seriously injured in a helicopter crash in 1996.
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Switcheroo caters to area’s growing families

The mom-and-pop nature of Brian and Holly Joseph's new business came through in the little giggles and pint-sized shrieks radiating from the store's kids' corner on a Thursday afternoon. As the tot triad worked their way around the small slide in the makeshift playground inside Switcheroo, a children's resale store in the River City Center, a handful of mothers perused the store's organized aisles and traded in outgrown clothing by the bin. That family-friendly atmosphere, along with the trade-in service, array of name-brand items and a clean interior, are some of the features that make Switcheroo an appealing option for parents of ever-growing children, said Brian and Holly Joseph.
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Tax-increment fund use debated

POST FALLS – Several Post Falls Urban Renewal Agency projects are on hold as the organization and the city's attorney spar over appropriate use of the tax-increment funds. Until the debate is resolved the agency is delaying all payments, including funding for improvements to Fourth Street in front of the new Post Falls City Hall.
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Thanks to football coach, Shadle grad finds new life

Everyone has a defining moment – a point in time when life as they know it changes and will never be the same. For Travis Putnam that moment came when he was 14. "I was at Boy Scout camp," he recalled. "Part way through the week I noticed people were treating me differently." When camp was over, instead of taking him home, his Scoutmaster took him to his grandparents' house. Putnam didn't understand why, but he soon found out. "My grandparents told me my dad had died," he said. His father had fallen asleep at the wheel and been killed in a car accident. In that moment Putnam lost everything most dear and familiar to him and embarked on a frightening journey into the unknown.
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The road to the right track

Ayla Ragsdale was bounced around as a child, living with a grandmother part of the time and then with the family of a friend. Her chaotic childhood led to a round of depression, pill popping and pot smoking.
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Tom Everett stays on top

Tom Everett, 18, a senior at Ferris High School, sits comfortably at a table at Starbucks for a relaxed conversation about his accomplishments in school. He talks with humor and charm and seems so animated and comfortable in his own skin that it's quite easy not to notice the wheelchair he sits in. He quickly downplays his 3.94 high school grade-point average and the fact that he has taken advanced placement courses throughout school, and when talking about being part of Ferris High School's cross country team, he'll point out that he was by no means the star of the team.
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Triplet accomplishments

The halls of Riverside High School will be a bit dimmer next fall, as three of the school's brightest lights graduate this month. Triplets Michael, David and Jennifer Watts have been a source of inspiration to students and faculty, alike. And despite being triplets, track coach Bill Kemp said, "If you didn't know their last name, you wouldn't know they're related."
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Volunteer Opportunity

Spokane Valley Partners – Volunteers are needed for slots of two or more hours per week to sort clothes and run client tracking software for the Spokane Valley Partners clothing bank. Contact Connie at 927-1153, ext. 18. Spokane Neighborhood Action Programs – SNAP's Living Green program is looking for volunteers to assist with public events and classes. For more information, visit www.livinggreen.org.
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Volunteer paid in many ways

If you ever doubt the benefits of volunteer work, check with Peter Barber. A senior at The Oaks Academy in Spokane Valley, he's logged more than 700 hours of community service since his freshman year. And he believes his experience has helped him in myriad ways. "Volunteering," he wrote in a recent essay, "has become a word meaning 'work without pay,' which is quite an unfair definition." Instead, he likes to turn the definition upside down. In most cases, he said, people try a volunteer assignment for a while, and they realize the truth. They find themselves "doing work without money, but certainly not work without pay."
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Working hard for everything

Last summer, Anne VanAbbema had a disturbing experience while visiting her mother in Germany. "I had this weird déjÀ vu," she said. "I felt disconnected from my body." When she returned home she had several additional episodes. She shrugged it off and didn't tell anyone, but she was worried. "I was laying in bed one day, praying about it," she said. VanAbbema felt like God spoke to her. "He told me I had a brain tumor." The enormity of her situation overwhelmed her. An unhappy family circumstance resulted in VanAbbema living on her own at age 17. Her mother lived in Germany, her father in Missouri. "I felt like I'd already gone through so much," she said.
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BOOMERS & BEYOND: What does your car say about you?

The fallout from the explosion of gas prices is about to put a big crimp in all our excesses, yea even our necessities. But the one hit that's apt to cause the most bleeding among many of us Americans is the one we'll take in our major status symbols – our cars. With this in mind, I couldn't help but stare at the big, black, shiny Hummer parked five feet away from me, just outside the window of the fitness center where I was huffing and puffing on the stair-stepper. Wow! What a monster. Which one of my fellow exercisers could be the driver of that intimidating beast, I wondered? Who looks well-heeled enough to afford such an indulgence and still have enough money left over to keep that gas-guzzler, a'guzzling?
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