Voices

Spokane County Water District 3 has a wellhead and a pump house located in the park, so infrastructure isn’t the issue. The problem is that the original lease of the park land where Water District 3 has its facilities expired in 2013, and the district and city haven’t agreed to a new one.

This time of year, dust devils put on a good show in the flatter, drier parts of the Pacific Northwest. You’ve probably seen these plumes of swirling dust zipping across farmland, open fields, roadsides and even parking lots.

Artist Jack Rogers, 93, has always said he won’t retire. And despite suffering a series of strokes in October, he’s kept his word, though these days his desk is in a North Side care and rehabilitation facility.

No matter what kind of map I’d have, locating a particular grave stone was usually a challenge, and I’d often flag down a groundskeeper to help me in the task. I’ve brushed back limbs and decades of pine needles in nonendowed areas, dodged sprinklers and trudged through rural graveyards with no map at all and just the hope that the place was small enough that I could find what I was looking for.

You can call it “company,” “having people over,” or even the loftier “entertaining,” but I just call it fun.

With the cool start of summer, we’ve lost a lot of growing time and the next four weeks will be critical to getting a crop. Our summer weather begins to cool after the middle of August, especially at night. So it’s time to practice a little intervention to help the plants set fruit.

The nonprofit organization Kira’s Kloset, a children’s clothes and book bank located in rooms donated by the Mead School District at 12509 N. Market St., is looking for a new, free home.

Big and small road construction projects dot Spokane Valley

For volunteer Marisa Van Wormer, Operation Christmas Child is a year-round ministry. This year in May, that ministry took her to Zambia, where she helped distribute shoeboxes filled with gifts to children.