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RIVERSIDE – Spokane’s Youth ’N Action will host Youth Day on Friday at Riverfront Park in the Gondola Meadows, from noon to 6 p.m. The event will include a variety of activities, programs and youth programs available to local kids. The featured “Where’s Baldo?” scavenger hunt will begin at 4 p.m. Participants can search the park for clues, compete in a variety of unique competitions, and the winning individuals and teams will receive over $5,000 in prizes.

Spokane’s Youth ’N Action will host Youth Day on Friday at Riverfront Park in the Gondola Meadows, from noon to 6 p.m.

SPOKANE VALLEY – Appleway Florist and Greenhouse, 11006 E. Sprague Ave., will give away a dozen flowers to visitors of the flower shop on Wednesday, in honor of Good Neighbor Day. Beginning at 10 a.m., the event is an opportunity for residents of Spokane Valley to meet each other and help those in need. Monty Lewis, the owner of Appleway Florist, has asked that participants of Good Neighbor Day bring a nonperishable food item to benefit the Spokane Valley Partners Food Bank.

MINNEHAHA – The Minnehaha Neighborhood Council will hold its second annual Minnehaha Neighborhood Park Celebration on Saturday at Minnehaha Park, Frederick Avenue on Euclid Road. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., attendees can enjoy live music, featuring Sammy Eubanks, a car show and face painting. The celebration also will include food and booths from area nonprofit organizations.

GREEN BLUFF – The Green Bluff Grange, on the corner of Day-Mt. Spokane and Green Bluff roads, will present its second annual all-you-can-eat Peaches and Pancake Breakfast on Sunday from 8 to 11 a.m. Cost is $5 for adults and $3.50 for children ages 6 to 14. Children ages 5 and younger are free.

The 21st annual Spokane Falls Northwest Indian Encampment and Pow Wow will be held at Riverfront Park Friday and Saturday.

For several months, Spokane Public Schools has been involved in updating student immunization data to ensure compliance with state requirements. Thank you to all who were impacted by this project, including: • The Spokane community for supporting the 2003 technology bond that provided the funding to replace the school district’s outdated data system.

Spokane area lottery winners from Aug. 14-20: $10,000

Moran United Methodist Church, 3601 E. 65th Ave., will present a community concert in the park Saturday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Scheduled to perform at the concert is Jenks, a band that performs children’s music, Senior Serenaders from Project Joy, who perform old-time favorites and show music, and the Turner Sisters, who are fiddlers and singers.

For 08-26-2010

For the second year in a row Community Minded Enterprises is putting together a series of events as Sustainable September. The kickoff luncheon is on Wednesday at the Masonic Center and features Kevin Danaher, executive director of Global Exchange and the founder of Green Expos. “Last year we were hitting the ‘why’ and this year it’s the ‘how’ to stay sustainable,” said Shallan Dawson, project coordinator.

What I did on my summer vacation – actually, I’m still doing it – I went back home to see family and friends. If hurricanes remained offshore, I am now in Florida visiting a lot of the people I care most about in the world and, with any luck, am enjoying sea bass, hush puppies, black-eyed peas with pot likker and real Key lime pie. The tastes of home! It couldn’t be hotter, more humid or more vulnerable to hurricanes than it is right now in Florida. Dumb time to go, I know, but it works out right for me, though it’s not exactly a restful vacation. I’ll be driving all over the state to spend a day or two with everyone. Mostly we’ll just sit (or float in a pool) and talk, share some meals, look at the past year’s photos of children’s marriages, new grandchildren and those landmarks that are important in our lives.

In an effort to help one property owner, the Spokane Valley City Council made a change to nonconforming use rules Tuesday that will affect the entire city.

Odyssey Youth Center – Volunteers are needed to cook meals for local youth who may not get a hot, wholesome meal at home or anywhere else. Meal preparation would be for 10-20 people in a house-sized kitchen, Wednesdays through Fridays, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. For more information, call Joel Williamson, volunteer coordinator at (509) 325-3637 or visit www.odysseyyouth.org. American Cancer Society Discovery Shop – Volunteers are needed for the Discovery Shop, located at 905 W. Garland Ave., for help with a number of duties. For more information, call Judy at (509) 328-9373.

For 08-21-2010