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Senior games

Badminton – Wednesdays, beginning Sept. 16, 1-3 p.m., at the Spokane Valley HUB, 19619 E. Cataldo Ave. $1. Liberty Lake. Call (509) 570-2875 for more information. Billiards – Monday- Fridays, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Spokane Valley Senior Center, 2426 N. Discovery Place. Call (509) 926-1937.
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Senior meals

For the week of Nov. 9-13 Monday – Option 1: Salmon loaf with dill sauce, mashed potatoes, orange glazed carrots, biscuit, fruit. Option 2: Beef stew, orange glazed carrots, biscuit, fruit.
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Shoeless half-mile a promising beginning

I’ve been a runner, on and off, since I was 12 years old – my favorite distance is 5K and I don’t run anything farther than Bloomsday. I’m at best a recreational runner, and I haven’t run a mile in a year. I figured if I was writing about barefoot running, I had to try it, so on Friday I met up with Hank Greer, a dedicated barefoot runner.
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Sign recalls ice age wonder

Usually when you come across a geologic or historic marker along a highway, there’s something actually to see there – a field where a battle took place, a mountain peak in the distance, a structure of historic note. But where Trent Avenue becomes Washington Highway 290 and moves 100 yards or so over the border, becoming Idaho Highway 53, there is a marker erected by the Idaho Transportation Department, right behind which is a little gully paralleling some railroad tracks. Logic would indicate the sign had something to do with trains or railroading.
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Sixth Avenue widening approved

The Airway Heights City Council unanimously approved a resolution Monday night to make street, water main and sewer improvements to various parts of the city with three different projects. The Community Development Block Grant projects will include the widening of the road and the building of curbs and sidewalks on Sixth Avenue from King to Beeman streets. The project is tentatively set to cost $100,000, with the city to match $20,000.
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Somebody needs you

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.
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Temperature, precipitation records make year remarkable

Our long-term cycle of wide weather extremes continues across the globe. According to information from the National Climatic Data Center, 93,224 temperature and precipitation records have been tied or broken across the U.S. since Jan. 1. Based on this figure, I would estimate at least a half-million weather records have been broken worldwide this year. Of the 93,224 extremes so far in the U.S. in 2009, 43 percent were precipitation records, 28.7 percent were warm records and 28.4 percent were cold records.
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Trip to Netherlands honors well-known local war hero

A group of Inland Northwest residents, including family members of a local war hero, gathered in Best, Netherlands, earlier this fall to mark the 65th anniversary of the Allied liberation of the Low Countries in World War II. Pfc. Joe E. Mann, who was born in Reardan, was awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously for his valor along a Dutch canal during the operation in September 1944.
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‘A little bit of everything’

What began as a need for space became a unique treasure trove of more than 100 years of American history and culture known as the Lost Dutchman Museum. Located on the Gortsema family farm, the museum is in a modest building just east of State Route 27 in Fairfield.
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Artist’s work incorporates plenty of play

Barbara Clark’s northwest Spokane home is a tribute to her creative and playful spirit. You cannot turn within its walls or on its grounds without being faced with evidence that an artist lives there. “I have a lot of creative energy,” she said. “I always have to be doing something with my hands, and there are so many things to do.”
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Campaign pressure telling

If there is one good thing to come out of the Spokane Valley City Council races, let it be an affirmation on the part of citizens for an end to the politics of personal destruction and an arrogant, unresponsive city government.
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Center caters to kids with health needs

A child care center that specializes in accommodating children with special health care needs has opened in Otis Orchards, helping fill a critical need. Smiling Faces Daycare was founded earlier this year by Dorrine Kelly, who has spent much of her life caring for family members and others with special health needs and knows how tough it can be to find help or even occasional respite care.
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City crafting new shoreline plan

A plan to develop new shoreline regulations in Spokane Valley generated little enthusiasm Tuesday among City Council members. Several members resented having to spend $150,000 of city money for a new Shoreline Master Program the state wants.
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Colder weather serves as a reminder to winterize roses

It’s quiet right now on Rose Hill in Manito Park. The recent cold finished off any remaining rose blooms and darkened some of the leaves. The plants are resting and pulling nutrients into their roots, waiting for the garden staff to finish the winterization process. Our climate makes hardening off and then protecting tender roses a must. The process started back in August when the plants got their last fertilization. The garden staff has kept the plants well watered since then so they don’t go into winter dry, especially since the long-range forecast is for a drier winter.
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East Valley ‘Jurors’ to wrestle with doubt

Students at East Valley High School will present their fall play, “Twelve Angry Jurors,” beginning Thursday. The three-act play by Sherman L. Sergel is adapted from the television show by Reginald Rose. The classic tale involves jurors in a murder trial who must deliver a unanimous verdict, but one among them brings doubt into the picture. The foreman of the jury is played by Shawndra Frazier and the guard is acted by Ashley Mann. The other jurors are portrayed by Haley Romney, Samantha Forness, Tonya Strong, Stephanie Albertson, Jordan Cochran, Cody Groth, Josh Jolstead, Hayley Roszina, Cory Greger, Ashley Gren and Leland Hale.
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