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f your backyard entertainment is starting to get stale — you’re bored of endless rounds of corn hole and bocce ball doesn’t hold the allure it once did — I think you’ll enjoy perusing our picks for some new sports to try. Perhaps in a bit of desperation, our family took up pickleball last spring during the pandemic. The teams were not even. One team (born in the last century) consistently lost, usually badly.

But it was actually a lot of fun for both teams and surprisingly invigorating, given that viewed from afar, pickleball looks like giant, rather slow ping pong.

Writer Will Maupin shares the details on pickleball and three other lesser-known sports (page 8) that have a low bar for entry and can provide, depending on who’s playing, either pretty vigorous exercise or a whole lot of laughs.

We also check in with homeowners who are stewarding some of Spokane’s historic homes into the future (page 16). With temperamental carpentry and decades-old masonry, these old buildings often require a gentle touch when it comes to making them livable for today’s families. As Carrie Scozzaro writes, for those willing to offer that care, there can be financial advantages.

For our Food section, we were lucky to catch up with chef Travis Dickinson just as his restaurant, Cochinito, co-owned with Justin Curtis, nabbed “Best Tacos” in this year’s Inlander readers poll. He shares a rich and satisfying recipe for elote, a Mexican street food (page 31) — perfect for savoring that end-of-summer corn on the cob.

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WILL MAUPIN is a regular contributor to the Inlander and writes about a few lesser-known sports like spike ball and disc golf (page 8) in this issue of Health & Home. “Growing up, my friends and I were constantly coming up with our own games and sports. Whether it was reimagining the use of a wall ball court on the playground or exploring how to suction a plunger on the kitchen floor, we were always looking for new ways to be active through play.”

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ALI BLACKWOOD (pictured here with her new kitten, Ori) is the Art Director of Health & Home and has been a part of the Inlander graphic design team since 2012. “I really enjoyed working on this issue! I loved learning about historic houses all around Spokane and their history (page 16), and how animal companions help mental health (page 14).” As a cat-aficionado, she makes sure a feline is represented in each issue.

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With that opening line, Eileen Garvin helps set the scene of her debut novel, THE MUSIC OF BEES. The massively mohawked Jacob is just one of the winning protagonists of Garvin’s book, and he meets one of the others, Alice Holtzman, after she nearly hits his speeding wheelchair as she returns to her small rural home outside town with a new batch of bees for her home hives. The near-accident spawns an unlikely friendship between the teenage Jake and the widowed Alice, one that also welcomes a friendly 24-year-old drifter named Harry who applies to work on Alice’s hives when he hits town.

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f you've ever been curious about Spokane — what's the story behind that old building, who built that house — the answers to your questions are probably at SPOKANE HISTORICAL. A project of the Eastern Washington University history department, the website and app feature a map with more pin drops than you can count, each linked to a story. For ease of use, there are also a number of curated walking tours (or grab a Lime scooter for a faster trip). You can read brief descriptions, tap a pin to read a more expansive story, or tap 'play' to listen to a recorded version, leaving you free to look around. spokanehistorical.org —ANNE McGREGOR

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ince most area restaurants were either closed or only seating at a fraction of normal capacity back in early spring when Inlander Restaurant Week usually happens, it was clear that 2021’s threecourse dining installment had to be canceled or moved to a later date.

We chose the latter, and the newly reimagined IRW takes full advantage of the region’s late summer bounty and warm, sunny weather. There are plenty of longtime local favorites showcasing their menus’ top hits, as well as a crop of newly opened restaurants to check out. Aug. 19-28.

Details at inlanderrestaurantweek.com Unity in the Community Celebrate, share and learn more about the diverse cultural groups from around the globe that call the Inland Northwest home during the 27th annual Unity in the Community multicultural festival in Riverfront Park. At the Cultural Village, local groups host booths to share their home country’s culture and traditions with attendees. There are also live performances and storytelling on a main stage throughout the day, career and education resources, a youth fair, and the distribution of school supplies to local students in need. Sat, Aug. 21 from 10 am-4 pm.

Free. Riverfront Park, 507 N. Howard St. nwunity.org The Farm Chicks Vintage & Handmade Fair Taking up most of the indoor space at the Spokane County Fairgrounds, this two-decades-and-running affair offers dozens of vendors from around the country selling all kinds of home decor pieces, from antique glassware to vintage botanical prints and from rustic patio furniture to repurposed textiles. Sat, Aug. 21 from 9 am-6 pm and Sun, Aug. 22 from 9 am-4 pm. $10/day. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana St. thefarmchicks.com Hoopfest Yet another perennial, quintessential Inland Northwest celebration that was moved further out on the calendar due to the pandemic is Hoopfest, probably the biggest three-on-three basketball tournament on the planet. Downtown Spokane’s streets will once again come alive with the sights and sounds of sweaty players, bouncing balls and cheering spectators at 450 courts spread across 45 downtown blocks and into Riverfront Park. Guaranteed team registration closed in July, but you can still plan to head down to Hoopfest as a spectator. Sat, Sept. 11 and Sun, Sept. 12. spokanehoopfest.net Spokatopia It’s no secret that one reason we all love living here — and why so many newcomers are arriving — is the incredible access to outdoor recreation. The annual Spokatopia Outdoor Adventure Festival seeks to introduce attendees to new activities from mountain biking to paddleboarding, disc golf and more. Test the waters before you decide something like kayaking or paddleboarding is your next hobby with on-site demos and more. Live music, a beer garden, a mountain bike show, hammock garden and kids’ activities are also on the schedule. Sat, Sept. 18 from 9 am-6 pm. $5-$15. Camp Sekani Park, 67070 E. Upriver Dr. spokatopia.com (509-822-0123)

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LOOKING FOR A NEW GAME? HERE ARE FOUR TO TRY.

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hen it’s time to get some exercise and have a bit of fun, we all have our old standbys. You can go for a jog, down the same streets as last time, or you can shoot hoops with a friend, again. They’re standbys because they work, but why not try something new? The Inland Northwest offers many opportunities to play oddball games or get off the beaten path, all while working up a sweat and hopefully cracking a smile. ...continued on next page

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DISC GOLF

It’s not quite a walk in the park, but playing a round of disc golf includes a walk in the park free of charge.

“It’s inexpensive. Once you buy a disc for ten dollars, you can play all you want for free,” says Steve Simmons, owner of Stimpi Ridge Disc Golf Course and Pro Shop in Spokane.

Unlike its more popular cousin, ball golf, disc golf courses can be nestled into just about any natural setting. There’s no need for constant watering and upkeep of greens and fairways, and as a result there are no costs passed on to those looking to play. Around our region there are a few private courses, like Stimpi Ridge, but the vast majority of the courses in the Spokane area are located in public parks. From deep in the woods courses at Farragut State Park and Camp Sekani to the simple and suburban short courses at Whispering Pines and Ben Burr Parks, disc golf in the Inland Northwest can be close to home, or way out in nature if you want to get away.

Disc golf is a great way to get some

Downriver Disc Golf Course was voted best disc golf course in the Inlander Best Of readers poll. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO mild exercise. Each of the three 18-hole courses operated by the City of Spokane are just over a mile in length — there are no golf carts, it’s all walking in disc golf. More than just walking, though, the throwing motion engages the entire body from the legs through the core to, of course, the throwing arm.

Beyond just discs, which are different than classic Frisbees and come in various styles like drivers and putters, Simmons recommends a few other pieces of equipment you’ll want to bring. Water, to stay hydrated, and a pair of hiking shoes if

PICKLEBALL

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A Pacific Northwest original, pickleball was first played by Joel Pritchard — who went on to serve in Congress and as Washington’s lieutenant governor — and his friends on Bainbridge Island in the mid-1960s.

In the decades since, it has slowly spread around the country. Now though, it’s starting to explode.

Thanks, in part, to another group of Northwesterners.

If you followed the Gonzaga Bulldogs this past March, basketball was the No. 1 topic at hand, but pickleball wasn’t far behind.

“I can’t speak much about the pickleball court,” Gonzaga star Corey Kispert said in a press conference during the NCAA Tournament. “That’s coach [Mark] Few’s realm; he’s the pickleball master.”

It seemed like a bit of a lighthearted escape from the high-pressure environment of elite college basketball. On one hand, you’re picturing the head coach of the top-ranked team in the country hitting a Wiffle ball with a wooden paddle. On the other, if someone at Few’s level in the world of sports is playing pickleball, maybe it’s not as goofy as it sounds.

you’re heading to one of the many courses set in a mostly wild, natural environment.

Like ball golf, the objective is to get your disc from a tee pad into a basket with the fewest possible throws. Long drives lead to strategic upshots and ultimately patient putts. Unlike ball golf, there’s no stuffy dress code or great commitment required.

“The length is about a third as long as ball golf. You can get it done in one-and-ahalf to two hours,” Simmons says. “And it’s not as frustrating as ball golf. The learning curve is a lot easier.”

“It’s great exercise,” says Ryan Barbieri, program director at The HUB Sports Center in Liberty Lake.

Pickleball is similar to tennis. Games can be either singles or doubles, and players take turns volleying a ball over a low net. Instead of a tennis ball, though, they use a perforated plastic ball; and instead of a traditional racket, players use what look like oversized ping pong paddles. Additionally, the court is considerably smaller than a tennis court. All of which makes for a game that looks like tennis from afar, but with less power and more back-and-forth action.

“It’s definitely grown a lot in our senior community. The population that plays here the most is in that senior age range,” says Barbieri. “It’s less running, and it’s a smaller court to play on, so that definitely helps the senior population, in terms of joint wear and things like that.”

Public courts have been popping up around the region in recent years, from Cherry Hill Park in Coeur d’Alene to Sky Prairie Park on the far north side of Spokane and Prairie View Park on the far south side. The HUB Sports Center in Liberty Lake offers clinics, lessons, leagues and drop-in play at their indoor facility.

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FUTSAL It might look like indoor soccer, but futsal is a game all its own.

Born in soccer-obsessed Uruguay nearly 100 years ago, futsal is something of a little brother to the biggest sport in the world. It’s smaller in just about every way. The court is smaller, much closer to a basketball court than a soccer field. The goal is smaller, the ball is smaller, and even the teams are smaller, with five players per team — four field players and one goalie.

“On the hardwood the ball rolls faster and it bounces differently,” Barbieri says.

“So a lot of the teams like to come play futsal to work on their foot skills. It’s a lot more foot-skills focused than normal indoor soccer.”

Unlike soccer, which sees players running up and down a massive field almost nonstop for the duration of a match, futsal is more of a close quarters situation.

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and running skills required in soccer. The long passes and endless runs of soccer are replaced with intricate passing through tight windows and quick bursts of powerful movement.

While it’s been around for nearly a century, futsal has, like soccer, been slow to integrate into American sports culture.

“We started futsal probably nine or 10 years ago,” Barbieri says. “We do two futsal leagues in the fall and winter, and those are specifically for 8-year-olds through high school. We’ve tried adults before, but we just haven’t had the interest

for that.”

That doesn’t mean Spokane is a futsal wasteland for adults. A few years back Spokane’s parks department put a futsal court in under the Maple Street Bridge at Peaceful Valley Park.

FIFA, the organization behind the World Cup, also puts on a Futsal World Cup. The 2021 edition is set to kick off from Latvia on Sept. 12, with the United States’ first game scheduled for two days later. Tune in for some highlights and inspiration, before lacing up your shoes and hitting the court.

SPIKEBALL If you’ve been to a beach or park on a nice summer day over the past few years, you’ve no doubt seen a handful of people standing around a miniature trampoline contraption taking turns open-handed slapping a softball-sized ball.

That’s spikeball, or roundnet as it’s officially but less commonly known — Spikeball, like Frisbee or Kleenex, is a brand name that has become synonymous with the product, or in this case game, as a whole.

And it’s exploded in popularity over the past decade. The game’s origins are in the 1980s, but it wasn’t until the late-2000s when Spikeball Inc. began manufacturing and marketing products for the game. The company’s founder even appeared on the ABC reality series Shark Tank, where he made a deal with investor Daymond John.

As for the game itself, it’s something of an inverted form of volleyball. Teams of two take turns attempting to score on the

other, but instead of hitting the ball over a net they hit it into the net. Teams have three touches, just like volleyball, to return the ball onto the net, at which point it bounces off and is transferred to the other team, who then attempts to do the same.

Once the ball is in play, there are no sides, and players can move around the net as needed to keep the rally alive. Points are scored when a team fails to return the ball onto the net in three touches or when the ball hits the ground.

It’s a great cardio workout, as players are required to bounce and move almost constantly while the ball is in play. Limber legs and hand-eye coordination are critical.

A typical, branded Spikeball set costs about $50 at a sporting goods store. And while there are now national and regional tournaments, some of which have aired on ESPN, the game is largely unorganized in our region. Which means you’ll have to grab your own set and a trio of friends.

But once you’ve got those, all you’ll need is some flat grass to get your spike on.

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y life’s work as a veterinarian has been rewarded many times over with interesting stories of pets becoming members of the family. For me, these stories have forever altered the traditional meaning of siblings. Because of the human-animal bond, pets have a special ability to become our natural helpers.

Here’s an example. Bruce, a client of mine, once told me a story about his boyhood pet Bob Slack and his canine companion.

Cody, a Golden retriever. High school was a difficult time for Bruce because he was the shortest kid in class. If that weren’t enough, he was also overweight. This made him a prime target for a gang of boys that began to bully him repeatedly. He felt great shame. At the end of each school day, Bruce would walk home, and like clockwork Cody would come racing up the lane to greet him. Their reunion was a crazy ritual of Cody jumping up on his hind legs and turning in circles, all the while whining and licking Bruce’s face. He

called it their happy dance, symbolic of Cody’s unconditional acceptance of his short, chubby companion. While Bruce was telling this story, he startled me by saying, “You know, Dr. Bob, Cody kinda made me bully-proof, and I sometimes think if it weren’t for Cody, I might not be here today.”

Later in my career, I suffered the loss of a close friend to addiction. This kindled my interest in the addiction field, prompting me to return to academia to become certified as a chemical dependency counselor. During one particular group session, a member recently returning from a treatment center surprised the group by mentioning how great it was to be welcomed home by the wagging tail of his pet dog. Another member piped up saying when she came home from her treatment program only the family cat remained to greet her, helping her through that difficult time when broken relationships are healed and new sober ones are made.

Those two comments opened the floodgates for what must best be described as a pet-fest, as others in the group chimed in, sharing great stories of how their pets were there for them too, especially during those raw days of early recovery when they struggled to find new ways of living without the crutch of mind-altering substances.

Whether it’s helping in the recovery from addiction, loving us when we feel like outcasts or offering comfort as we endure the trials of this tiresome pandemic, our four-legged companions are natural helpers.

— BOB SLACK Bob Slack is a retired veterinarian living in Spokane. He currently works with people struggling with addiction.

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Megan Duvall’s 1925 home on Spokane’s South Hill features classic Craftsman style elements such as a wide, deep porch and square columns. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

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Preserving all types of homes — and even whole neighborhoods — helps ensure Spokane’s heritage is always in view

BY CARRIE SCOZZARO egan Duvall wasn’t necessarily looking for a historic home when she and her husband relocated to Spokane from western Washington seven years ago, but that’s what they got: a 1925 Craftsman with its characteristic lowslung roof, clean lines, and squared columns supporting a wide, deep-set porch.

“We looked at about 10 houses in one day and found that this one was a great blend of old and new and was also in the Wilson Elementary school area,” says Duvall, a mother of two who also has two rescue dogs. Although it looks like a Craftsman, says Duvall, prior owners expanded the home to around 4,000 square feet.

In addition to plenty of room for dogs, kids and their busy lives, her family’s favorite features in the 1920s-era home include its high ceilings and closets with built-in shelves. Duvall really likes the gumwood trim in the home’s living room and dining room — a hardwood found in many Spokane Craftsman homes.

Although she grew up in “a typical midcentury ranch style house” in east Spokane, says Duvall, she fondly remembers driving through the Manito, Cannon Hill and Comstock Park neighborhoods. She never dreamed she might one day live there, though her interest in Spokane’s rich architectural history goes beyond wishful thinking.

Duvall, who has both a fine arts and preservation background, works for Spokane’s Historic Preservation Office and with the Historic Landmarks Commission. Together, the organizations share a mission of “responsibility for the stewardship of historic and architecturally significant properties within the City of Spokane and unincorporated areas of Spokane County.”

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One of homeowner Megan Duvall’s favorite spaces at her 1925 Craftsman home is the welcoming front porch.

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A large part of Duvall’s job involves something called the Spokane Register of Historic Properties, a continuously updated list, now including more than 400 properties. Although most listings are residences, some commercial buildings and even entire historic neighborhoods are also included.

Unlike the National Historic Register, which does not have any regulatory influence, the Spokane Historic Register can, if necessary, get involved in contracts and enforcement for listed properties.

That might happen if someone wanted to tear down a registered home and put up a four-unit condo, for example.

There are also a number of registers. A home can be on the National Register, a local register like Spokane’s, Washington state’s register, or a combination. And it can also be part of a Historic District, although that requires consensus among affected owners (Peaceful Valley, Browne’s Addition and the cadre of warehouses on Desmet Avenue are all historic districts, for example).

Although SHPO has regulatory power, they really want to be more of a support system for owners of historic properties, says Duvall.

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1320 N. SUMMIT The style of the CAMPBELL-JONES HOUSE, built in 1904, is called "Free Classic Queen Anne." The house is on the Spokane Historic Registry as an "excellent example" of Spokane building techniques and design for its era. But it also is significant for being the home of Johnston B. Campell, a prominent Spokane attorney who served on the Interstate Commerce Commision in 1920s, and later, Keith and Kathryn Jones, owners of the Donut Parade. The home is now owned by their granddaughter, Chelsea Jones.

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“I think the big picture, which is the important part to know, is this is the one chance to capture as much information about the property as possible,” says Duvall. Many owners opt to work with consultants to complete the necessary paperwork, all of which can be found on the SHPO’s website and becomes public record.

Typically, to qualify for the Register, properties must be at least 50 years old and fit one of five criteria. For example, one

criteria is an association with a significant person.

The Dodd House in East Central is on the listing because it is also known as Father’s Day House, named for former resident Sonora Smart Dodd who’s credited with creating dad’s special day.

Another criteria concerns the home’s architectural style or construction method, such as the Joel E. Ferris home, which embodies midcentury modernism.

The newest criteria deals with “intangible heritage,” such as the German American Society building, which dates to 1892, highlighting the region’s Deutsche traditions.

The SHPO recently applied for a grant relating to the East Central neighborhood, from Liberty Park to Freya, and the freeway to the bluff, says Duvall. Preservation can have a connotation of being about fancy houses and rich people, yet ...continued on page 22

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Monica Flaherty, Erik and Jacob Contzius are the Nuzum House’s newest residents. ERICK DOXEY PHOTOS

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Built in 1912, the NUZUM HOUSE was designed by Kirtland Cutter and Karl Malmgren in the American Tudor Revival style, a nod to English architecture of the 1600s. In addition to the home’s classic half-timbering with stucco infill, elements of the style include the variegated red bricks, eaves with exposed rafters and groups of vertical pane windows. The original homeowner Richard Nuzum was a celebrated criminal defense attorney in Spokane.

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East Central has both architectural and cultural significance, so this is a new direction in the world of historic preservation, says Duvall.

“We’re thinking about houses and buildings as boxes of stories,” says Duvall. f you ask Chelsea Jones about the stories from the historic Queen Anne style home she lives in with her fiancé (who is coincidentally Duvall’s cousin), most of them are from her childhood. But Jones didn’t inherit the house; instead, she purchased it when a chance encounter with the home’s new owners rekindled a childhood desire.

Known as the Campbell-Jones house,

the West Central residence used to belong to Jones’ grandparents, who founded Donut Parade. But in 2013, when Jones was a young nursing student, her grandparents sold the place, which was in severe disrepair at the time.

“This house was the hub of our family for just about 40 years,” says Jones, who spent many hours exploring parts of the home as a child, imagining how it originally looked and how she might restore it.

Dan and Annette Owens not only had the wherewithal to restore it, they spent six years doing so before putting it back on the market and taking on another historic home just down the street.

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The exterior of the Nuzum house remains mostly unchanged from when it was built in Spokane’s newly-emerging Cliff Park neighborhood, touted in a newspaper ad at the time as “where the choicest and most artistic homes” were under construction. ERICK DOXEY PHOTO

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When Jones found out her grandparents’ former, and now restored, home was for sale, she and her fiancé bought the Summit Boulevard residence, which the Owens had already gotten onto Spokane’s Historic Register.

“It just felt really full circle,” says Jones, whose young son now sleeps in

her own father’s former bedroom and whose father is delighted with his daughter’s “new” older home.

For Jones, preserving the legacy is a key motivator for being on the Register.

Another key motivator, says Duvall, is financial.

Qualifying homes are eligible to

earn a federal tax credit or special, 10-year assessment to help balance the cost of necessary improvements. And because that involves the legal description of the home, the application process is quite involved, including a design review and City Council approval.

To get on the Register, a property owner pays a modest application fee and submits detailed documentation, including interior and exterior photos. Sometimes that leads to a misunderstanding about what homeowners can and can’t do with a historic home.

“I think that people have always been hesitant [about applying to the Register] because they don’t want to be told what to do with their property,” says Duvall.

While she can recommend historically accurate paint colors — inside or outside — and point owners toward businesses (like Spokane’s Revival Lighting) that specialize in restoration, homeowners have quite a bit of latitude, especially inside the home.

That’s because SHPO, says Duvall, is most interested in preserving the exterior.

Owning a historic home, much less taking on a remodel, isn’t an ideal fit for every homeowner, however.

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or example, the Nuzum home has stood tall on Spokane’s South Hill for more than a hundred years and landed on the Register in 2012, but recently languished on the market for several years. It’s an exemplary American Tudor Revival home, designed by famed architect Kirtland Cutter with a classic Tudor façade of brickwork and dark timbered trim over light-colored stucco, steep roof and narrow, multipaned windows. It also boasts the first garage in the state — prior to that, homes might have had a detached carriage house.

For Monica Flaherty and Eric Contzius, the 1912 home offered a perfect opportunity to apply their restoration expertise.

A Boston, Massachusetts, brownstone was the first project completed by Flaherty, who graduated from Gonzaga Prep and then attended Harvard. Since then, she and her husband Contzius have renovated a number of historic properties back East, and immediately saw the potential of the Nuzum house when they began looking for a house to move back to Spokane to be close to family and friends.

“We feel like we are more custodians than owners of this home,” says Contzius, who acknowledges that restoring the house is a big project. Modernizing the home’s systems is a first step; there’s wallpaper to be dealt with, and plans to update the kitchen. Contzius says they are ready.

“We’re going into this with eyes wide open,” he says. “We don’t buy and sell. We buy and hold.”

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Bold Future Debbie McCulley makes more room for art in newly remodeled studio STORY AND PHOTOS BY CARRIE SCOZZARO

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ebbie McCulley has spent a lifetime working with shapes and colors, but only the last 20 years or so of it in visual art. Since the 1980s, she has made a living as a popular Spokane-area hairstylist, helping others feel and look their best. Increasingly, however, she has dedicated more energy to her artwork, including a newly remodeled studio.

“It’s not an ego thing, it’s not a celebration of me,“ says McCulley of her need to create. “It’s just what I do.”

In her studio, for example, McCulley couldn’t help but paint the backside of a black leather office chair she salvaged. The friendly-looking tropical fish she painted on it includes a particular shade of fuschia McCulley calls dragonfruit.

It’s one of many bold colors repeating itself throughout McCulley’s life: in her artwork, but also her Spokane Valley home, like the ceramic flower pots lining the raised patio and the walls of her studio above the garage.

“Previously my walls were turquoise, lime green and butterscotch, and I never got tired of it,” says McCulley, who started taking art classes locally in the ’90s, yet held back on pursuing her art interests.

“I always knew I had the capability,” says McCulley, who was surrounded

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by stylists who dabbled in various art media. “I kept saying, ‘Someday I’m going to do that.’”

That someday occurred in 2011, when McCulley took artist Kay O’Rourke’s pastel class. She didn’t know O’Rourke (whose paintings and sculpture also tend toward electric jewel tones) and thought pastel referred to the color

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palette, like pink, peach and baby blue.

She laughs at the memory, noting how the experience galvanized her regardless. She took more classes, experimenting with watercolor under Stan Miller, for example, and finally settling on acrylic as her preferred medium.

And she gave herself a generous 10 years to learn and make art.

Then she got busy doing just that, at an increasing pace over the past decade. McCulley has continually shown at Coeur d’Alene’s annual Art on the Green and her work has been selected for the poster two times. She’s also participated in the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture’s ArtFest, and Arbor Crest’s annual Art and Glass Festival.

Utility boxes in Washington and Idaho, regional wine bottles and even Rosauer’s grocery bags bear her folksy, exuberantly-colored paintings.

Often she finds herself working on multiple series at a time, from her earliest images of frogs in martini glasses to a safari-inspired motif to garden critters and more recent illustrations of Spokane’s iconic cityscapes.

Lately, in one series she’s been experimenting with abstraction, while in another, she’s playing with technique, repeating shapes of pure color on the canvas, then adding another layer of paint to

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Inspired by trips to Mexico, chef Travis Dickinson incorporates “fine dining sourcing and techniques” while keeping the menu affordable at Cochinito Taqueria. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

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Winning Formula Cochinito Taqueria blends the best of fast casual and fine dining

BY CARRIE SCOZZARO

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ometimes things don’t work out as planned, which is perfectly OK with Cochinito Taqueria chef and co-founder, Travis Dickinson.

“Forever, I thought I wanted to open this little 30-seat fine dining place,” says Dickinson, who got his start in the restaurant industry washing dishes at The Coeur d’Alene Resort and as part of the kitchen staff who opened the former Hot Rod Café.

After graduating from Post Falls High School with Cochinito co-founder and business partner, Justin Curtis, Dickinson moved to Portland, Oregon, for 15 years. He attended the Western Culinary Institute and worked for several restaurants.

He credits several chefs with teaching him “not just about food, but how to run a restaurant as a business, how to take care of your people and how to take care of yourself in this industry,” says Dickinson.

Armed with that knowledge, Dickinson returned to the Spokane area, taking an executive chef position at Clover Restaurant in 2014.

During that time he started a family and continued to pursue the idea of opening his own place: the 30-seat fine dining spot of his dreams.

But the plan changed as he and Curtis were drawn to a new idea.

Though Cochinito incorporates fea-

tures found in fine dining such as inventive food combinations, locally sourced and seasonal products, expert plating, and as many scratch-made items as possible, their idea was to simplify things by having customers order at the counter and grab their own drinks.

“Cochinito was always the project I wanted to do, taking a cuisine I love, applying fine dining sourcing and technique, but doing it in an approachable and affordable way,” says Dickinson.

The result has earned them raves from all angles: including Best Tacos in the 2021 Inlander readers Best of the Inland Northwest poll.

The menu is inspired by Dickinson’s reverence for the culinary traditions of Mexico.

“My trips to Mexico to both travel and visit family have been huge for what I am doing now,” says Dickinson, whose elote or grilled street corn (see recipe page 31) is typical of the kind of food served by Mexican street vendors he encounters in his travels.

“I tend to eat to a point of ‘uncomfortable’ every night we are there — trying to find the perfect version of every taco in the city,” he says.

And then, of course, he brings that knowledge back home and applies it to the menu at Cochinito, sharing the best tacos he’s ever eaten with his hometown. Sounds like a win-win.

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Smoked Paprika and Cumin Crema

Elote Elote is a spicy, richly coated corn on the cob sold as a street food in Mexico. (Its sister dish, esquites, which is served at Cochinito, features corn accompanied with similar flavors but the corn is cut from the cob and served in a bowl.)

Cochinito Chef Travis Dickinson recommends removing the husk to promote caramelization on the corn kernels for his version of elote.

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• 1 pint sour cream • 3/4 cup heavy cream • 1 teaspoon chile powder • 2 teaspoon ground cumin • 1 tablespoon smoked paprika (aka pimenton) • 2 limes, zested and juiced • 3 teaspoons kosher salt

1. In a large, nonreactive bowl combine ingredients with a whisk until uniform.

2. Your crema, which helps the cheese and cilantro stick to the corn, should be a bit thinner than sour cream, yet thick enough to coat the corn once it’s cooked.

3. This can be made ahead and refrigerated, but you’ll want to let it come to room temperature before applying to the just-cooked corn.

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• 1 cup grated Cotija cheese (salty, crumbly cheese made from cow’s milk you can find in the refrigerated deli section of most grocery stores) • 1 cup finely chopped cilantro • 2 limes, quartered

• 8 ears corn • 2 tablespoons chile powder • 2 tablespoons ground cumin • 2 tablespoons kosher salt • 2 tablespoons olive oil

1. Preheat grill or BBQ to 400 degrees.

2. Combine the chile powder, cumin and salt.

3. Boil corn, unshucked, for 4 minutes in salted water (to loosen and more easily remove the silk, shuck, and let cool a bit). Another option is to just shuck, rinse and pat dry the corn.

4. Brush corn with oil and sprinkle with spice mixture. Grill corn on one side, undisturbed until some kernels begin to brown. Rotate 90 degrees and continue doing this until corn is roasted on all sides.

5. Remove to a plate and let cool just slightly.

6. Use a pastry brush to coat each ear of corn liberally with the crema (or you can roll the corn in the crema).

7. Sprinkle cotija and cilantro over each grilled cob.

8. Serve warm with lime wedges for juicing.

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space with watercolor paintings that are also reproduced on the wine labels. Her recipes are featured on the winery’s website and in wine club events.

Behind the winery is a small backyard vineyard that produces Dolcetto grapes, a varietal commonly grown in northwest Italy. “It’s really more ornamental than anything, but it is pretty and we do harvest a small amount of grapes from it each year,” Kimber Gates says. However, the majority of their grapes are grown not far away.

“We get all of our fruit from the Columbia Valley, as far south as the Horse Heaven AVA, and as far north as the Chelan area,” she says.

As a boutique winery, Coeur d’Alene Cellars focuses on small bottlings, though its wines include a whole spectrum of reds and whites. “We look for wines that produce intensity, complexity and balance,” the younger Gates says. “We also try to make wines that are fully reflective of the varietal.” She says customer favorites include the Mourvèdre, also known as “The Mo,” and the No. 6 red and white wines.

“The Mo is a favorite for its rich, spicy flavor, and the No. 6

BY LEANN BJERKEN wines are blends we’ve made to be particularly soft, approachable and drinkable,” she says. s one of only a handful of wineries in north Idaho, Coeur Coeur d’Alene Cellars is currently open seven d’Alene Cellars is kind of an oasis for days a week, following a period of closures this past wine and art lovers.

Owner and founder Kimber Gates year due to COVID-19. “It was definitely a strange MORE ONLINE attended Whitman College in Walla Walla year, with a lot of changes, but I feel like we’re still and spent her junior year living in Burgundy, here and we have more support than ever,” Kimber Sarah Gates shared her recipe for a where like many who’ve gone before her, she Gates says. “In April we were able to hold our annual RATATOUILLE BREAD PUDDING fell in love. “They really appreciate food and golf tournament, followed by our June wine release, that pairs perfectly with the wine as a lifestyle, and I felt the need to bring and both events had excellent turnouts.” winery’s Mourvèdre or No. 6 red. that back home with me,” she says.

She’s already planning for the next wine cruise, Check it out at After a stint at Waterbrook Winery in as well. “In the past we’ve done cruises to Italy and Inlander.com/health&home Walla Walla and after earning a business Croatia, and the west coast of Europe,” she says. and accounting degree, Gates opened Coeur “Now post-COVID, I’m looking to schedule a June d’Alene Cellars in 2002. By 2004, the winery 2023 trip to Australia and New Zealand.” had outgrown its small shop in Dalton Gardens and moved to its Gates says a big part of what makes Coeur d’Alene Cellars current location, a larger facility that houses both a production area special is it’s uplifting and warm atmosphere. “It’s easy to make and a tasting room with outdoor patio space. While Gates tends to great wine, but the secret for us is the sense of community we’ve the business side of things and supervises two on-staff winemakers, developed here,” she says. “The people who join us here really do her mother Sarah Gates, a painter and gourmet cook, enlivens the become family.”

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JONATHAN HILL ILLUSTRATION

Somebody to Lean On Combating childhood trauma one relationship at a time

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little over two decades ago, a landmark study conducted by The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Kaiser Permanente health care organization helped to mainstream the concept of adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs for short.

ACEs are the traumatic events during a child’s formative years that may put them at higher risk of a variety of negative outcomes later in life. Domestic violence, homelessness and emotional neglect are all examples of ACEs. The effects can be pervasive. In the short term, a child’s academic performance may suffer, while later there’s an increased risk of mental health issues and physical challenges such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

Ongoing research has also shown that the effects of ACEs are cumulative. So, the higher the number of ACEs in an individual’s life, the greater the chances they will encounter those negative outcomes. It’s like each withering adverse experience leaves them less equipped to weather the next one.

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hat can be done? Of course, preventing adverse events altogether is optimal but discouragingly

difficult. And childhoods go by in the blink of an eye, so time to intervene is short.

Researchers wondered if adding positive experiences might help. Would something like “PCEs” act as a counterweight to ACEs? A 2019 report published in JAMA Pediatrics by a group of researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggests that there might be something in this more hopeful line of thought.

By studying data from the 2015 Wisconsin Behavioral Risk Factor Survey, researchers found that respondents who reported more positive childhood experiences were far less likely — 72 percent, in fact — to experience depression or poor mental health as an adult. Just as ACEs can chip away at our innate ability to cope with trauma, it appears that positive experiences can help bolster this ability, often called resilience.

Vinny Alfonso, a professor at Gonzaga University’s School of Education explains it this way: “For hundreds of years in medicine and psychology, we’ve focused on indicators of health. But an indicator of health is the absence of disease or the absence of a psychological disorder,” he says.

“Well, that’s OK, but what about the

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• Physical, sexual and emotional abuse • Neglect • Losing a parent such as through divorce • Being exposed to domestic violence • Having a parent with a mental illness • Having a member of the household who abuses drugs or alcohol • Having a parent who has been in jail — The American Society for the Positive Care of Children presence of health and healthy behaviors?

I don’t smoke, but is that enough for me to be healthy? No! I need to exercise. I need to watch my diet and eat the right foods. So the measure of health is not just the absence of something negative. It has to be the presence of something positive.”

To foster the presence of positive behaviors and resources, Alfonso proposes switching to a prevention mindset. That doesn’t necessarily mean preventing ACEs from taking place — at least not at first.

Rather, it’s about bolstering resilience in ...continued on next page

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Be the One! “SOMEBODY TO LEAN ON,” CONTINUED... children to better enable them to deal with ACEs. In time, that collective resilience is what will curtail the generational cycle of ACEs. “I am not anti-ACEs or anything. I believe they exist and that they are dangerous, especially when they’re accumulated. I take them seriously,” he says.

“However, I’m coming from a strengthbased position. We read it all the time: The earlier we detect cancer, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, all these terrible diseases, and the earlier we intervene, the better. Basically, my read on all of this is that the more we can prevent from happening, the healthier we are as a society — physically, psychologically, economically, socially.”

As an example of this preventative approach in action, he points to the proven efficacy of early childhood education. Programs like Head Start have been successful in “either preventing academic and social difficulties from happening or changing [an individual’s] trajectory” from one that is derailed by ACEs to one that cultivates resiliency.

But Alfonso is quick to note that Head Start or even early childhood education alone isn’t enough. True to the African proverb that it takes a village to raise a child, resilience is more often a product of a compassionate community and a network of resources. Similar to how ACEs may arise out of conditions like poverty and social alienation, conditions like civic involvement and ample support structures tend to create fertile ground for positive experiences.

Additionally, there may be an even more potent factor in countering and ultimately preventing ACEs. “Resilience develops through multiple pathways. It’s at the community level, the system level, the family level and the individual level,” says Natalie Turner-Depue, interim director of the Child and Family Research Unit at Washington State University.

“And one of the biggest protective factors is the presence of a safe, stable, nurturing relationship. That’s why there’s now a lot of focus on the power of positive relationships with and among children in their development as a mitigating factor

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At the same time, she says a growing body of research suggests that even a single nurturing relationship can combat the toxic effects of multiple ACEs. “We don’t want to oversimplify things and distill it down to the idea that relationship is the key; but really, relationship is the key. And the more often that we can really promote and support building those positive connections for kids at a young age and providing them with opportunities to connect socially, emotionally, relationally with people that are going to be positive influencers in their lives, then that’s going to build their protective factors and ultimately build their resilience,” she says.

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Michelle Janning created an all-season outdoor living space at her Walla Walla home. Originally from Minnesota, she spent part of her childhood living in Germany, and also lived in Denmark as an adult.

Studying Our Stuff What do our homes say about us? Plenty. And Whitman College sociology professor Michelle Janning is taking notes.

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ike millions of viewers of HGTV, Michelle Janning is fascinated by homes. How they look, what’s in them, and how they’re organized. Unlike most of us, Janning has made a career of peeling back the layers to reveal what our homes say about us and the culture we live in.

“I grew up in a rural area and remember distinctly as a teenager asking my parents if I could get a subscription, not to Seventeen magazine or something like that, but instead to Elle Decor because I was so fascinated by the aesthetic transformations of anything,” Janning recalls.

A college sociology and anthropology class helped her recognize that her curiosity could inform broader studies.

Similar to how researchers might analyze objects found in an archaeological dig and speculate on how they were used in long-vanished societies, Janning, now a sociology professor at Whitman College and the author of The Stuff of Family Life: How

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Our Homes Reflect Our Lives, unearths the meaning behind how we create a home, as well as all those objects that fill it up.

“The reason for redoing your house beyond your everyday life is because you have this audience of people who could look at you as a certain kind of person.

And whether they’re doing it or not, you then start to think about, ‘How do I see these people seeing me?’ and does that make me feel OK about myself?”

It’s a concept in sociology called “the looking-glass self” — we see ourselves as we think others see us. “So if I have redecorated a room in my house… and somebody says, ‘Oh, it looks so good! You must be so happy here!” I’m like, “Hooray for me! I did a good job!”

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ow we see ourselves plays out in a myriad of ways in our homes, says Janning. For example, there are strong, and frequently gender-based indicators of what constitutes a “good

home.”

“It’s important to note that we get ideas for what we think counts as a ‘good home’ from lots of places,” Janning says.

“And a ‘good home’ doesn’t just mean the building. It means the things that are going on inside of it… There’s a display that we participate in of how well our family life is going. It’s kind of a performance, and there could be pressure in our life to make it look good.”

Or consider the “minimalist” movement. Those gloriously uncluttered rooms in magazines and on social media reveal socioeconomic underpinnings. “You have to have resources to be minimalist,” Janning notes. Saving stuff because you might need it again someday can reveal less economic security.

And saving stuff also has generational implications. One thing Janning inevitably hears from audiences at her guest lectures is that “there’s a lot of stress between generations about whether kids want your

stuff or not. And whether certain kids want certain things and then they fight with siblings about that. These are really emotionally difficult subjects for families. And to me they tell the story of what are the values that we are attaching to these objects.”

So to parents offended or saddened that their child doesn’t want an heirloom item, she says, “It’s not actually about you. It’s probably about a different way of thinking about lifestyle.” For example, adult children may value convenience — they may not have much use for a set of formal dishes that can’t even go in the dishwasher. Or they may not feel up to the responsibility of hauling around a large, heavy piece of heirloom furniture for the next 40 years.

Janning gets that.

elements of a collection. “You can attach a lot of emotional space to one tiny object.

You don’t need 20 of them,” she says.

Other methods include digitizing heirloom items — taking a photo of the item and then sitting down with a relative and recording the story about it.

Years ago, Janning says her own mother was burdened upon inheriting a farm full of stuff when Janning’s grandparents passed away. Now at 81 years old, “She wants to do the thing where, ‘My gift to you kids is I don’t want you to have a bunch of junk to go through,’” says Janning. So they’re spending time together looking at items collected over the years and capturing the stories behind them. “And when we do that, it’s really fun, and she’s part of it.”

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ome of Janning’s latest research considers the effects of the pandemic on home life. She’s gathering survey data on the college students of 2020 and looking into whether “attending” college from their

Michelle Janning is also the author of The Stuff of Family Life: How Our Homes Reflect Our Lives; Love Letters: Saving Romance in the Digital Age, and Contemporary Parenting and Parenthood: From News Headlines to New Research.

But children need to know that it isn’t about them either, says Janning, who offers them this suggestion: “Think about historical references that might matter to somebody in your parent’s position that would say to you, ‘It’s important that you think this is valuable.​’​” Looking at the issue from the other person’s perspective can help, Janning says.

For the older generation, “they want their family story to be preserved, to be important.”

One solution is to just keep a few

childhood bedrooms will delay their transition to adulthood. And she’s pondered the effects of the massive early-pandemic purge that led to thrift stores inundated with donations. “I wonder if, as things start to reopen, there may be a little bit of remorse, a little bit of grieving over the loss of some of those things.”

She’s also at work on a new handbook for architects and designers that will offer ways they can incorporate social science research techniques to gather input from their clients to inform their designs.

At her own Walla Walla home, the pandemic inspired her to rethink the outdoor space as an extension of the indoor space.

Already a fan of cold weather (“I’m a Minnesota kid”), Janning spruced up the patio and added heaters at the home she shares with her husband, son and dog, allowing them to entertain outdoors. She was also able to have outdoor office hours with her students all winter. “It was safe,” she says, “and felt like we were people.”

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