Voices

Don’t get me wrong folks. Normally I am a person who looks for the positive in everything. Being negative takes too much energy and really isn’t much fun in the long run. So what I need to say this week is said from a realist’s point of view. We better begin finding ways to use up green tomatoes.

The historic 1899 House Bed and Breakfast has ghosts, period decor and a smoking patio that is open to marijuana users.

“Corn sweat” made big news in late July as the Midwest baked and wilted in heat and humidity. Television reporters standing waist-deep among cornstalks explained how millions of crop acres across the nation’s Corn Belt were contributing to a stretch of miserable weather.

Ever since that young chicken with black feathers and bright yellow feet wandered into my driveway one cold December day in 2009, I have come to learn a lot about chickens, and about life in general.

The Huntington Park Ballroom was awash in men in uniform in 1946, but Dorothy Wunderlich, 17, had eyes for only one.

Perhaps the most powerful image to come out of the first week of the 2016 Olympic Games did not come from Rio de Janeiro.

Once a month Brian and Beverly Anderson, a Spokane couple in their early fifties, host what could be called dinner and a book.

The Spokane Valley City Council is considering whether to ask the state for $4.5 million in funding to expand Balfour Park, but the idea met some resistance Tuesday.

Chance is available for adoption at the Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Service. Shelter workers say he’s a little older but a lot wiser. Please refer to the pet’s ID number when contacting SCRAPS with questions about one of the adoptable pets. If you are interested in this cat or any animal at SCRAPS, call (509) 477-2532 or come by the shelter 6815 E. Trent Ave. in Spokane Valley. Adoptions of cats 6 months or older are $40 and include spay or neuter, first set of vaccinations, health check, microchip and first year’s license.

In June, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opened the Mount Spokane Stake with five congregations. The new stake is the church’s sixth in the Spokane area.

Apparently, I blinked and missed July. How can a month with 31 days just vanish? I feel like I’m in an alternate version of a John Lennon song; “So this is August and what have you done? Another month over and a new one just begun.”

Randy Palmer won the July Garden of the Month from The Inland Empire Gardeners.