Voices

Here is a beautiful, easy going and very nice girl. She is perky and loves to be around you. Anyone interested in adopting in this cat can visit SCRAPS at 2521 N Flora Road, or call 477-2532. Or, visit www.spokanecounty.org/ animal. Most available pets can also be seen posted on petfinder.com. Cats are $62.69 to adopt, which includes license, neuter, vaccination, microchip and a trip to the vet. Please take advantage of our free private pet behavioral counseling sessions.

Upon entering Katherine Brower’s South Side home, a creative energy envelops a visitor. On the wall, visible from the front door, large paintings call to be studied, as do ones displayed above on the walls of the open-railed walkway leading to the rooms upstairs. They are portraits and then some.

Dozens of decorated – wolves, beavers, a White Witch and a lion among them – grouped together near an unlit stage with a black backdrop and a single wooden wardrobe. Beyond that, a magical kingdom that’s home to talking animals, a frosty headwind and an ominous evil – at least as envisioned by the more than 50 children taking part in the Christian Youth Theater of North Idaho’s production of “Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” at Christ the King Church. The musical, based on author C.S. Lewis’ children’s tale, is in its second week at the church, with show times this weekend.

After 10 years and an act of Congress, Lutherhaven Ministries hopes to close the deal this month on a 33 acre slice of heaven in the Idaho Panhandle National Forests. The nonprofit corporation known for making faith-based outdoor recreation available to thousands of children over the years at Camp Lutherhaven on Lake Coeur d’Alene is expanding its mission with the purchase of the Shoshone Base Camp.

Spokane Valley police have started writing tickets to motorists who violate a new left-turn ban on Argonne Road at Indiana Avenue. The City Council imposed the 7 a.m.-to-6 p.m., Monday-through-Friday ban in mid-October as an alternative to the concrete island city staff members recommended.

Coeur d’Alene High girls basketball coach Dale Poffenroth finds himself in a dilemma of sorts. He returns four starters off his 5A state championship team (22-3 overall, 11-1 Inland Empire League), and his top seven returners are starter quality and will see starter-like minutes.

It was one of those cold, gray, rainy days that make you yearn for the sun and fall colors again. But no such luck. Last week’s first Pineapple Express put an end to that. That is until I stepped into the greenhouses at the Spokane Community College’s Greenery and was greeted with their blazingly bright collection of holiday poinsettias. The gray outside actually made the colors even brighter.