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For the week of June 9-13. Monday – Option 1: Beef stroganoff with pasta, beets, roll, fruit. Option 2: Fishwich, beets, fruit.

Greater Spokane County/Valley Meals on Wheels - Volunteers are needed to deliver hot meals to elderly and disabled people. Volunteers will also need to check on the well-being of each person on their route. Volunteers may choose to drive a route any day, Monday through Friday, or drive as a substitute on flexible days. Meals will be picked up at 11 a.m. and delivered to approximately 15 people; delivery time is approximately 90 minutes. Volunteers are also needed to help prepare meals for elderly and disabled people. All skill levels are needed. Volunteers must use their own vehicles to deliver meals and must pass a background check. For more information, call Pam Almeida, executive director, at (509) 924-6976 or visit www.valleymow.org. Habitat for Humanity - General construction volunteers, age 16 and older, are needed to build homes. No experience is necessary and on-site training will be provided for people who are interested. For more information call (509) 534-2552.

A volcano erupted last Friday in Indonesia that grounded planes in that region and Australia. The ash cloud was sent about six to 10 miles into the atmosphere which is the cruising altitude for commercial aircrafts. The volcano is called Mount Sangeang Api, located on the northeast coast of Indonesia. Additional eruptions since Friday have created separate ash plumes.

Two suspicious fires were reported in Spokane Valley during the weeks of May 15 to 28 and are under investigation. Firefighters were called to the Broadway Inn Suites the afternoon of May 24 when the property manager reported two fires. Both exterior fires were small; one involved an ornamental shrub, said Spokane Valley Fire Department Assistant Fire Marshal Bill Clifford.

For 05-31-2014

A portion of Appleway Boulevard in Spokane Valley will be repaved by an asphalt contractor that is having to rework rough sections of a repaving project it handled earlier on a nearby stretch of Sprague Avenue. Spokane Rock Products was the lowest of four bidders at $294,624 for the street preservation project along Appleway between Thierman and Park roads.

Now that we are past Memorial Day, the gardening season has begun in earnest. Once all the vegetable seeds and transplants are set in the garden, it’s time to think about when and how to fertilize them so you get good production. Vegetables are generally broken into three nutrient requirement categories. Heavy feeders like corn, tomatoes, squash, cucumbers and eggplant need a lot more nutrients than light feeders like carrots, potatoes, onions, garlic and peppers. Crops like beans and peas and cover crops like field peas are in the legume family and fix nitrogen in the soil by the action of bacteria in their roots. This nitrogen is then available to the light and heavy feeders through crop rotation.

New listings North Central High School Class of 1959 - Sept. 20. Social and no host bar at 5 p.m. Dinner at 7. Lincoln Center, 1316 N. Lincoln St. For information email nc59reunion@comcast.net or call Torge (Moore) Lorentzen at (509) 326-6811 or (509) 435-6685; Jeanne (Howard) Lenoch at (509) 892-6893; or Darlene (Schmidt) Reilly at (509) 926-7175.

For the week of June 2-6. Monday – Option 1: Swiss steak with tomatoes, potatoes. Option 2: Chicken sandwich, tomato basil soup.

Spokane Valley is looking for a new Planning Commission member. Chris Sneider has resigned his seat on the volunteer panel because he’s accepted employment outside of the area, according to the city, and a replacement is needed to fill the remainder of his term, which runs through the end of 2016.

Someone broke into RVs at a business in the 19000 block of East Cataldo twice last week, each time ripping flat-screen televisions out of the walls. “It seems like it happens every year,” said Liberty Lake police Chief Brian Asmus. “It could be the same folks doing the same thing.”