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For the week of Aug. 20-24. Monday – Option 1: Sweet and sour pork and steamed rice, coleslaw, dinner roll, cookie. Option 2: Tuna pasta salad, coleslaw, dinner roll, cookie.

Finance Director Jan Hutton unveiled the Central Valley School District’s 2012-’13 budget during the school board’s meeting Monday. For the first time in several years, there was good news.

Students at Gonzaga Prep will have a new science lab at the end of September thanks to a $220,240 grant from the E.L. Wiegand Foundation, which supports science, technology, engineering and mathematics education at the school. The grant was awarded in July, and the funds made it possible to build the E.L. Wiegand Science Lab and purchase the instructional equipment for STEM courses to complement the college-prep science curriculum currently in place. The lab will replace the five existing science laboratory classrooms and give Prep the facilities to expand its science courses in STEM fields such as anatomy and physiology, a class that will be offered in the upcoming school year.

Today Spokane Valley Anime Club - For teens in sixth grade and older. Watch anime, hang out with friends, eat snacks and more. 4 p.m. Spokane Valley Library, 12004 E. Main Ave., Spokane Valley. Free. (509) 893-8400.

The Spokane Youth Symphony will perform the Sensational Summer Festival at 6 p.m. tonight in the Lilac Bowl in Riverfront Park. The performance will start the 2012-’13 season. The concert will be conducted by Julian Gomez-Giraldo.

The Liberty Lake Police Department recently made an arrest in a burglary that was reported in the 1800 block of North Willamette Road on July 24. A GPS unit was one of the items stolen, said Police Chief Brian Asmus. “Luckily the homeowner had the serial number,” he said. Police noticed that a 39-year-old Spokane man had pawned the GPS the same day it was stolen. When they tracked the man down, he had a story to tell, Asmus said. He told police that he bought the unit for $20 from a man in the Fred Meyer parking lot on Freya and then pawned it so he could get enough money to fix a bicycle tire. But the story raised red flags with police because he only earned $20 by pawning it, Asmus said. He has since been charged with possession of stolen property and trafficking in stolen property.

SPOKANE VALLEY – The Western Dance Association will host its 56th annual Salmon Barbecue from noon to 4 p.m. on Aug. 26 at the Western Dance Center in Sullivan Park, 1901 N. Sullivan Road. Cost is $10 for adults, $9 for seniors, age 65 and older and $6 for children younger than 12.

SPOKANE VALLEY – Local residents are invited to join Spokane COPS for Yoke’s $1 Family Feast Night with the Spokane Indians at Avista Stadium, 602 N. Havana St., Aug. 24 at 6:30 p.m. The Indians will play the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes.

Stick with SCRAPS and avoid all kinds of problems Hurray for Liberty Lake veterinarian Mark Fosberg for telling it like it is, in support of SCRAPS and keeping the animal control contract in Spokane Valley. Like Fosberg, we experienced numerous problems and a severe lack of response or cooperation when SpokAnimal had the contract with Liberty Lake. What a huge improvement it has been since SCRAPS took over the contract.

Lottery winners in Spokane County the week of Aug. 6-10. $20,000

It sprang up from a summer of road construction. Businesses along Argonne Road in Millwood were taking a hit from the lack of traffic along the street that runs through the heart of the city.