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Senior meals

For the week of Sept. 12-16. Monday – Option 1: Swiss steak with tomatoes and potatoes, steamed vegetables, roll, fruit.
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Spokane teens volunteer at Greek refugee camps

After graduating in 2015, Spokane natives Cameron Conner and Grant Gallaher packed their tent and embarked on a volunteer mission that would take them to refugee camps near the Greek-Macedonian border.
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Gardening: Harsh summers may be damaging lilacs

In our climate, lilacs are one of the tougher shrubs in the garden. They are drought tolerant (to a point) and need little fertilizer and little pruning beyond removing old flower heads right after they bloom. In fact, they are so resilient that they still mark the sites of old homesteads all over the region decades after the farmhouses have fallen down.
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Landmarks: Bench pays tribute to parents’ courtship

Sometimes something very new can speak to a time gone by, to people or events from an earlier day. One such very new thing in Spokane remembers Bert and Georgia Shaber – a memorial bench in their beloved Corbin Park. When Bert Shaber died in March 2015, his four children wanted to establish a permanent remembrance of their father and mother, Gloria, who died in 1998. Their parents conducted most of their courtship in Corbin Park in the 1940s, so a bench there seemed like the perfect memorial, said Susan Polakiewicz, of San Diego, their oldest child.
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Somebody Needs You

The goal of Somebody Needs You is to match donors with the specific requests of needy Spokane residents.
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Spokane Valley residents can weigh in on comprehensive plan update

City staff presented Spokane Valley’s draft comprehensive plan and development regulations to the Spokane Valley City Council on Tuesday, and Thursday evening you can get a peek, too. That’s when parts of the draft comprehensive plan and development regulations will be on display at CenterPlace Regional Event Center from 6 to 8 p.m.
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Education notebook: Foundation awards 92 scholarships

The Inland Northwest Community Foundation has awarded 92 scholarships totaling $157,742 to students from Eastern Washington and North Idaho for the 2016-17 school year. Scholarship recipients include Jaimie Woodland (Central Valley High School), Karin Steever (Continuous Curriculum School), Paul Young (East Valley High School), Audry Burgess (East Valley), Elizabeth McLean (East Valley), Bryce Pointer (East Valley), Twistin Twin (East Valley), Drew Vanderpool (East Valley), Megan Paternoster (Freeman High School), Maisie Crane (Rogers High School), Conrad Weeks (Rogers), Maxey Cherel (Lewis and Clark High School), Alexander Choe (North Central High School), Z’Jataya Campbell (North Central), Clio Alexander (North Central), Catherine Forwood-Knorr (Shadle Park High School), Haven Davis-Martinez (University High School) and Jordan Wilson (University).
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Freeman coach optimistic

It was difficult to look to a sky filled with billowing smoke last week and think about anything but the safety of friends and neighbors living in the path of a raging wildfire. But Jim Wood, the long-time football coach at Freeman High, insists things looked much worse than they were.
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Feature Creature

Smokey is available for adoption at the Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Service. Shelter workers say he is active, playful and strong, and needs a person willing to train him. Refer to the pet’s ID number when contacting SCRAPS with questions about one of the adoptable pets. If you are interested in this dog or any animal at SCRAPS, call (509) 477-2532 or visit the shelter at 6815 E. Trent Ave. in Spokane Valley. Dog adoptions are $87.04 and include spay or neuter, first set of vaccinations, health check, microchip and first year’s license.
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Gardening: Conditions right for powdery mildew to strike

The evenings are cooling and because we are still watering gardens, the evening humidity is rising. It’s the perfect recipe for the formation of powdery mildew on vegetables like lettuce, cucumbers, squash and tomatoes, as well as grapes, ornamentals, fruits and berries, apples and a few dozen more.
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