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Post Falls and Lakeland School Districts lunch menus for the week of March 24-28. Post Falls School District

For the week of March 24-28 Monday – Spanish meatballs over rice, beets, vegetables, whole grain roll, spiced pears.

The DECA group from Deer Park High School recently took part in the DECA State Career Development Conference in Bellevue, Wash. Six of the students from Deer Park qualified to participate in the International Career Development Conference in Atlanta.

Officers arrested a 39-year-old Spokane Valley man early Tuesday after finding him asleep in a stolen car. Officer Tim Jones was checking the apartment complex at 3020 S. Clinton Road about 1:45 a.m. when he saw a stolen 1993 Honda Accord. The car's owner had left it running unattended the night before to charge the battery.

The goal of Somebody Needs You is to match donors with the specific requests of needy Spokane residents. The list of requests is coordinated by the Volunteers of America in cooperation with recognized social service agencies in Spokane. If you have an item to donate, please contact the social service agency directly. Donors who can deliver items are especially appreciated. If someone you know needs help, contact a local social service agency provider.

Today is the first full day of spring and it still feels like winter. As we approach the last week of March, there is still more than 10 feet of snow in parts of the higher mountains. A big warm-up with strong winds and heavy rains arriving from the Pacific by early- to mid April could lead to widespread lowland flooding, particularly near lakes and streams.

For 03-20-2008

The Liberty School District bond edged more firmly into the approval column after additional votes were counted this week. The bond, which requires 60 percent approval, increased its lead to 61.46 percent with 828 yes votes, up from 708 yes votes on election day Tuesday. "We're feeling like we have a victory, and we're excited about that," said Superintendent Bill Motsenbocker. "I wasn't as confident when we were just above 60 percent. The votes that trail in toward the end here probably won't make much difference."

This week is Holy Week, the final days before Easter when churches typically have special services and other events to mark Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. • Zion Lutheran Church will have a service with communion at 7 p.m. on Thursday. Holy Friday will be celebrated with a meditation of the cross at 12:10 p.m. and a service the cross at 7 p.m. The church is at 8304 E. Buckeye.

The East Valley School District will not consider any change in attendance boundaries in the near future. A Facility Use Task Force report presented to the board this week recommended largely keeping the status quo. The report did recommend a reduction on overload busing, said business manager Skip Berquam. "We bus lots of kids in this district, sometimes past one school to get to another," he said.

We have it good here in Spokane. It's rare to find negligent or downright bad service, especially when patronizing local companies. We have many fine local merchants who sometimes go to extraordinary lengths for their customers, making them feel valued. Richard and I recently had a comparative shopping experience highlighting what good customer service is and isn't.

Monday Valley Fire – 4 p .m. at Station 8, 2110 N. Wilbur.

Registration for the Spokane Valley Baseball League begins Monday and continues through April 17. The organization, which has fielded youth teams for more than 50 years, has four divisions for ages 4 through 12.

As a meteorologist looking at a weather map, whether it be a chart of atmospheric pressure, contours of temperature, or just a jumble of weather symbols, the overall picture is usually crystal-clear to me. Sometimes I take that knowledge for granted, however, and forget that not everyone makes immediate sense of that kind of information. What I consider the basics may look like a foreign language to some, so I thought I would cover some of these basics to help you understand what you might see on your local weather map on any given day. Two letters that are very common on weather maps, are the big blue H and the big red L. The H stands for high pressure and the L stands for low pressure. I joke with school kids that the pressure I'm describing is not the type of feeling they have before a big test they didn't prepare for. I'm talking about air pressure, which is the force of air molecules as they move around, colliding with each other and surrounding objects. On a map of sea level pressure, the H merely marks the center of highest pressure, relative to the levels around it.