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Also this week: commentator Tara Dowd tackles gentrification (page 8), author William Stimson looks back at WSU in 1916 (page 62) and staff writer Dan Nailen explores the drive-in restaurants of Spokane Valley (page 36).

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Well, I’m not currently from this area.

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ERIN FRANCIS This. Just enjoying the nice day, hanging out at the park, and just getting as much sunshine as possible.

What’s your favorite thing about springtime here in the Northwest?

Well, I think during the wintertime, I tend to hibernate and not go anywhere, so getting outdoors and being active. I like to ride my bike.

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BY TED S. McGREGOR JR.

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’ll always remember first arriving in Seattle for college all those years ago. My new University of Washington classmates seemed enchanted that I was from a land so far away called “Spokane.” They’d look at me like I was a lost tribesman of Indonesia and just repeat it to me, “Really, Spokane. Huh!” Later, in grad school in Missouri or working in Boston, I finally gave up telling people I was from Spokane because they had no idea what I was talking about. I just started telling people I was from Seattle. “Oh, Seattle! I love Seattle,” they’d say, like I passed the cool test.

That was part of the reason I wanted to call our newspaper “The Pacific Northwest Inlander” to start out. The Pacific Northwest was hot, and I wanted us to bask in the glow of this corner of the continent. I’ve written many times about the spillover economy we might benefit from here, just inland from all the action — you know, Microsoft and Boeing maybe sending a factory or call center our way.

Here I am at it again, but this time’s different, since our big-brother cities are struggling with some profound livability crises. Just take a quick look, and you’ll see that the West Coast is suffering under the weight of its own success.

In San Francisco, only 11 percent of citizens can afford to buy a home; a wooden shack recently made headlines for its $350,000 price.

In Portland, housing prices are growing faster than any city in America, leading owners to find more lucrative uses for their property. A group called Portland Tenants United wants to outlaw no-fault evictions and to freeze rental increases.

In Seattle, 60,000 people moving to the Puget Sound each year and massive construction projects in South Lake Union are making their already horrendous traffic even worse.

I’ve experienced their traffic. Wow. Montlake Boulevard near UW, trying to get to 520. Or trying to cross the Steel Bridge in downtown Portland. Or the eight miles between Santa Monica and LAX. Parking lots, every one of them, making Spokane seem pretty sweet.

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ith sticker shock starting to define these beloved places, a recent story in the Los Angeles Times had me thinking we’re bound to start getting noticed over here.

The headline called us “Horn-of-Plenty Spokane.”

Wait, what? Nobody’s ever called us that before.

But out-of-towners can be the best judges, and travel writer Ken van Vechten seemed to fall in love with us. The Centennial Trail, the Davenport Tower Hotel, our winery tasting rooms, restaurants like the Wandering Table — from the sounds of it, he’s probably checking for-sale listings, too.

It’s hard to notice between sips at one of those tasting rooms, but we haven’t experienced

the economic explosion of an Amazon or a Google; we’re still talking about the World’s Fair of 1974.

But with way less traffic and much more affordable housing on the other side of the ledger, slow-and-steady Spokane may finally be coming into its own. So to my old smug Seattle friends: How do you like me now?

Are we ready to embrace this opportunity?

First we must recognize that it’s also a challenge.

Keep in mind that some of the problems Portland and Seattle are having stem from San Francisco refugees moving there. And you can’t fail to notice that some of our growth management decisions are lacking. We vote “no” on modest transit improvements, and we build huge apartment complexes along already overburdened roads like Regal and Indian Trail.

We need to up our game, as the migration has already started. I know professionals who live in Spokane but work out of Seattle; these days, remote workers can live just about anywhere with good Wi-Fi. And consider a couple of bright spots on the local economic landscape: the expansion of medical education and the growth of the aerospace sector. Overcrowding at the UW Med School on Montlake and at Boeing Field south of Seattle have a lot to do with each.

We can see the mistakes being made on the Coast, so our goal has to be preserving affordability and livability here — implementing new rules and growth strategies, all pulled together by leaders who understand this new regional economic dynamic.

Specific issues include transit (you need more than you think), infill (Kendall Yards is a model, but there are lots of ways to do it), the Spokane International Airport (this is our lifeline and must remain first-class) and our cultural life (people may come for the economic benefits, but they’ll stay for the arts, the outdoor recreation and the restaurants).

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pokane native and Seattle resident Timothy Egan recently wrote a column entitled, “Dude, Where’s My City?”

“Could Kramer still live in my city?” Egan wondered in the New York Times earlier this month. “Yeah, Kramer, the Seinfeld character who never held a real job, but had a fairly cool apartment. His source of income was suspect. …

Every town needs its Kramers.

“Kramer,” Egan concludes sadly, “would need a trust fund” to survive in modern Seattle.

Kramer should probably check out Spokane. 

COMMENT | TRAIL MIX

Tepidly for Trump A BAD ENDORSEMENT

“Are there better people? Probably.” That’s former presidential hopeful BEN CARSON referring to DONALD TRUMP, the man he has endorsed to be president. And while that may be the best example of Carson’s tepid support of Trump, it is certainly not the only one. Here’s a quick rundown: Carson has said he endorsed Trump because he had to “look at what is practical.” In another interview, when Whoopi Goldberg called Trump racist, Carson replied, “What’s the alternative?” Carson has reasoned that if Trump isn’t a good president, “We’re only looking at four years.” Last week on a radio show, the host said she couldn’t vote for a “bad man” like Trump. Carson responded, “Who isn’t? Who among us isn’t?”

This is where you could argue that maybe the one person who shouldn’t be a bad man or woman is the president, but it appears that Carson has given up on that idea. Carson has admitted he was promised a role in a Trump administration, at least in an “advisory capacity.” For that to happen, Trump obviously must win the election, and that’s something Carson doesn’t seem to be helping with so far. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

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New York’s Democratic presidential primary is shaping up, in some ways, to be a contest of which candidate can prove they have more authentic ties to the Empire State.

Sen. BERNIE SANDERS has touted how he was born and raised in Brooklyn. Former Secretary of State HILLARY CLINTON is hoping to capitalize on connections she made while serving as the state’s U.S. senator from 2001 to 2009. And both campaigns have awkwardly intersected with one activity that most voters in New York City can readily relate to: riding the subway.

In an interview with the editorial board of the New York Daily News, Sanders was asked about the last time he rode the subway. The senator responded, “I know how to ride the subways. I’ve been on them once or twice.” This prompted a member of the board to ask, “How do you ride the subway today?” Sanders incorrectly answered that it requires a token.

(They’ve been replaced with swipe cards.)

Clinton campaigned on the subway, bringing a crowd of press and Secret Service agents aboard a rush-hour train. It took her multiple swipes to get her MetroCard to grant her access. CNN reports that while some commuters snapped photos with Clinton, others seemed unfazed that one of the world’s most famous women was on the train. (JAKE THOMAS)

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COMMENT | DEVELOPMENT not so much.

Here is the thing about progress that city officials, budding entrepreneurs and hipster couples buying up cheap houses miss when they change a neighborhood like this: the people who were there before you were pushed out when “progress” arrived to the Perry District. Sure, the neighborhood looks “clean” and “inviting,” but only for certain people. I can assure you that most of them aren’t the people who lived there for decades.

Sure, it looks prettier and more “alive,” but the reality is that it’s a really colorful Band-Aid on the real issue.

BY TARA DOWD daylight hours 15 years ago. Not only have the buildings been given a facelift, but the people, walking on the perfect cement sidewalks with nary a crack in sight, are so rich and lily-white.

I miss my old ’hood. I miss the OGs who let the young girl bring the ball in from half court. I miss the 1-cent candies at the old pharmacy. I miss the feeling of belonging that I felt as I walked my dog to get a coffee at the brand new Shop. The neighborhood wasn’t perfect, but it was our neighborhood. And the people who lived there were sometimes troubled by poverty and all the social issues that come along with it, but in some ways, there was never a more honest place in Spokane. Now,

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alking through my old ’hood is like walking on a strange, foreign planet. It doesn’t really resemble anything that I remember when I was 14, trying to stay out of trouble. The only things the same these days are the Shop and Lorien Herbs; everything else has become foreign.

Every time I have lunch at South Perry Pizza, I feel like an alien in my own ’hood. Partly because the “new” Perry Street District is populated by people who would never have been caught dead on that street even in

Tara Dowd, an enrolled Inupiaq Eskimo, was born into poverty and now owns a diversity consulting business. She is an advocate for systemic equity and sees justice as a force that makes communities better.

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With the rising prices of homes because of the sudden interest in living near Perry Street, many families who have been there forever had to find new housing in other “poor” neighborhoods. The issue of poverty isn’t addressed, it’s just been displaced. Sure, it looks prettier and more “alive,” but the reality is that it’s a really colorful Band-Aid on the real issue.

Even though I occasionally visit my first coffee shop, and now the pizza parlor, I don’t have the same rights to that place anymore. It saddens me, because sure, that neighborhood needed help, but why couldn’t we invest in the people already there?

It worries me as the new Sprague District is “revitalized” in a similar fashion as the Perry District. I hope that city leadership makes sure to include the people who have been there for generations as they refurbish it. Please don’t leave out Sonnenberg’s or Vien Dong as investments are made. And don’t forget real people live, work and socialize in that neighborhood.

So let’s just keep it real — gentrification sucks. That’s really a simple concept. We don’t have to erase and start over. And we don’t need to push out those who are brown, or poor, or different. We need real solutions that lead to the old and new blending together to make neighborhoods better for everyone. It seems a no-brainer that a neighborhood is so much more interesting with a mosaic of old, new and culturally unique. And no one wants to miss out on Vien Dong’s chicken pho, either. n

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COMMENT | FROM READERS

WHAT HUNTER WOULD DO am a fan of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson, and have read and seen

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the movie of his biography. I failed to see more than a superficial similarity to his writing in Scott Leadingham’s attempt at gonzo journalism (“Year of Loathing,” 4/7/16). But I am writing because of the content. There is no risk-taking, devil-may-care aspect to his analysis, other than comparing Bill Clinton to Trump in a way that flatters them both.

Likewise, his adoration of Hillary and contemptuous dismissal of Bernie Sanders and his supporting base is pretty much mainstream. Dismissing Sanders’ supporters as “misanthropes” is so off-base. The desire to fix a corrupt system through nonviolence and “going through the system” does not earn one the epithet “misanthrope.”

I am certain that had Hunter S. LETTERS Thompson not committed suicide in Send comments to despair, long ago, that his take on editor@inlander.com. the situation would be like this: He would entrench himself in the Bernie camp to record the madcap adventures of hordes of mostly young idealists, themselves in despair over the current established corrupt Democratic Party.

Bernie is such an adorable “knight in shining armor” leader, single-handedly taking on the Frankenstein monster that is Hillary’s machine. And Hillary is so blatantly a venal, self-serving lying, immoral egomaniac, in her armour-like suits and her jabbing finger, and those well-practiced contemptuous glares that she uses to indicate to viewers that her opponent is out of line for even questioning her right to ascend the throne. Gimme a break, please.

A gonzo journalist would have drugged himself into comfortable numbness and gone after the Hill ‘n’ Bill Show like a hallucinating banshee.

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Reactions to a blog about the Los Angeles Times’ recent travel story praising the Spokane dining scene:

RICK RAUSCHKE: Our little secret.

Perhaps not so much anymore.

Heck, half of California relocated here through the late ’70s and ’80s; we’re more like Spokangeles.

AMANDA LOUCKS: I always get a laugh out being a born, raised and still here Spokanite who learns about our different “districts” from newspapers (or blogs) that aren’t Spokane-based. I mean, I knew about the wine and alcohol artisans here — but Cork District?

TANYA MURPHY: I love my city…

I’ve been to some of the restaurants here over the years (excluding Denny’s, Shari’s, Frankie Doodles, Dick’s and chain fast food places) and people complaining need to go try some real restaurants… they are there, ya just gotta go!

JAMEY CURALLI: Let’s be honest, Spokane does have some really good food, but there is nothing there you can’t get in literally hundreds of other towns across the nation. I’ll give Spokane credit where it’s due, but I’m not gonna act like it’s some “hidden gem” in the foodie world. Congrats on making the list...

NANCY O’DELL MERWIN: There are many wonderful restaurants... more each year. But I thought it was our secret. 

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The struggle to get city employees to participate in a major investigation has Council President Ben Stuckart wondering if he’s “just banging his head against the wall every day.”

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They’d Prefer Not To How an order to SPD employees to participate in an independent investigation was undone by City Hall

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fter all that’s happened, City Council President Ben Stuckart knows he made a mistake when he signed the memo.

He says he thought the Feb. 25 memo was simply meant to encourage city employees to participate in independent investigator Kris Cappel’s probe into how the city handled the allegations against former police Chief Frank Straub and his subsequent ouster.

Yet the memo, drafted by the four-member joint committee guiding the investigation, and signed by Stuckart and Mayor David Condon, contained the phrase “you

will not be retaliated against for participating or not participating.” Stuckart says he had no idea the phrase would backfire, and be used as proof that no one was required to submit to Cappel’s questioning.

But emails obtained by the Inlander last week show that several Spokane Police Department employees had initially been ordered to submit to questioning. Furthermore, the records show that days before the Feb. 25 memo was signed, the human resources department promised that none of the members of a major city union had to participate in the investigation, resulting in

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so much confusion that Cappel temporarily canceled a whole slate of interviews. Today, at least a half-dozen witnesses employed by the city, including a city attorney and several members of police leadership, have refused to be interviewed by Cappel.

“We believe that your investigation will not be deemed to be thorough unless specific individuals are interviewed,” the city council wrote back in December.

Under the shadow of multimillion-dollar lawsuits, it’s left Stuckart and others worried that, if witnesses still refuse to participate, the city will have spent up to $48,000 for an investigation with glaring holes.

“This is one of the most frustrating things that has happened since I’ve been here,” Stuckart says. “It makes me question if I’m just banging my head against the wall every day.”

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Nearly two months after Cappel was hired, then-interim Chief Rick Dobrow issued a clear command: Police department employees would submit to questioning. It was not optional.

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attached a list of 17 employees Cappel wanted to interview: “The investigation is administrative in nature and Chief Dobrow is requiring our participation to assist in the investigation to determine if city policies were followed.”

Such a command isn’t unusual. When Cappel investigated workplace discrimination in Yakima in 2007, every police department employee was read their Supreme Court-established “Garrity rights” — making it crystal clear they were required to testify, but that what they said couldn’t be used against them in criminal prosecutions.

Similarly, during the 378 internal affairs investigations conducted during Condon’s first term, all police department witnesses were compelled to participate under Garrity. And when Spokane’s Use of Force Commission laid out its recommendations for independent police ombudsman investigations, it said that without the power to force employees to answer questions, “the ability to conduct an independent investigation is severely undermined.”

But the Cappel investigation went in a different direction: Over the next week, while Dobrow was still on vacation, his mandate requiring participation in the interviews was undermined and overridden.

The erosion began when accountant Erika Wade contacted David Lewis, president of the Managerial and Professional Association. It represents 272 city employees, including about 20 personally appointed by Condon. Lewis says that Wade wasn’t the only one worried about the investigation. Multiple employees had told him “they did not feel safe providing that information, that they were worried about retaliation.”

For guidance, he reached out to Heather Lowe, the city’s human resources director. “HR has verified that you, or any other M&P member named, do not have to participate in the investigation,” Lewis wrote in an Feb. 22 email back to Wade.

What still isn’t clear is how Lowe determined that. The joint committee’s memo establishing that the investigation was voluntary wasn’t signed or distributed until Feb. 25, three days later. Complicating matters further, the HR department — and Lowe herself — is a target of Cappel’s investigation. The investigation is tasked with learning what Lowe knew, when she knew it, and whether the city followed its policies about handling harassment allegations.

Lowe did not return a request for comment from the Inlander.

Regardless, as news spread that participation was optional, other police department employees reacted in shock or confusion. (“What the what?”

Tim Schwering, director of strategic initiatives, wrote in an email. “Are we not to participate?”)

Several fired off emails to the city attorney’s office, citing Dobrow’s original order. Maj. Lundgren, alluding to issues raised by HR, told witnesses that all interviews were voluntary until the city administration provided more clarity. A few witnesses immediately pulled out.

“Please cancel all of the remaining interviews scheduled this week until further notice,” Cappel wrote shortly after.

Meanwhile, the joint committee overseeing the investigation was considering the issue

Mayor David Condon has come under pressure to make answering the investigator’s questions mandatory. But so far, he’s declined to do so. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO behind closed doors. City Councilmember Karen Stratton, a former member of the committee, supported the decision to make interviews voluntary.

She believed that the highly paid members of Condon’s staff could afford to hire attorneys to protect themselves. But she was worried about the low-level employees who couldn’t. She wanted to reassure them.

“If you get called [to be interviewed], please know you won’t get fired,” Stratton says she wanted the memo to communicate. “That’s a real fear for some people who have jobs they’re supporting their families with.”

But for some witnesses, it backfired. So far, five police department employees — more than a quarter of Cappel’s list of SPD employees — have declined to participate. Those included two of Straub’s most vocal critics, Capt. Brad Arleth and Lt. Joe Walker. Ironically, in December, Arleth and Walker had gone on record with the Inlander, describing crass, profane and sexually explicit language used by Straub.

A lot has happened since. Arleth was put on paid leave less than a month after his Inlander interview, the subject of an internal affairs investigation accusing him of defying orders by moving furniture to a new police precinct building. The week he was scheduled to be interviewed, he was still awaiting the IA ruling. Arleth says he’ll talk to Cappel once everything regarding the IA investigation has been put to rest.

Walker, meanwhile, objected to how the investigation had been switched midstream to being voluntary. At least a half-dozen of his colleagues had already been forced to participate.

But then, only hours before he had to interview, suddenly the remaining interviewees were told it was voluntary.

That didn’t smell right to him. “I’ve seen enough craziness and dysfunction in the last few months,” Walker says. And yes, he too is concerned about retaliation.

While Stuckart has a goal of protecting witnesses from retaliation, Walker isn’t convinced.

“Stuckart’s not sitting down at the police station making sure a guy isn’t working grave-

yard and weekends and sitting at a tiny office staring at the walls because they tried to do the right thing,” Walker says. “That’s not a path I want to go down again.”

However, he also says that for people like him who do want to be interviewed, being ordered to participate would make things a lot easier. The Spokane Police Lieutenants and Captains Association wants the investigation to be mandatory for everyone.

“Why won’t the mayor order people to participate in this?”

Walker asks. “It’s so easy. Why won’t he do that?”

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Last week, Cappel sent a response to media reports that the investigation had been “derailed.” She confirmed that former police chief Straub and witnesses from the city attorney’s office had refused to participate. She said she’d struggled to schedule an interview for Monique Cotton, the police spokeswoman who’d accused Straub of sexual harassment, with Cotton’s attorney, Bob Dunn.

She also defended her investigation, noting that she’d already conducted 29 interviews, and had scheduled interviews with other important witnesses — including Condon and Lowe. She “urged patience and restraint” and cautioned observers from drawing any conclusions about the impact on yet-unfinished investigation.

Still, Cappel faces clear challenges. Dunn says the lack of participation has made Cotton less likely to participate herself.

“If Straub is not going to testify, if a number of the key police personnel are not going to testify, what is the point of this investigation?” Dunn says. “This investigation process is like a clusterf---.”

Also, Walker’s notes show that in 2014, he had repeatedly warned Assistant City Attorney Erin Jacobson regarding his concerns about Straub, including an “I love you” text message from the police chief to Cotton, yet the city failed to investigate.

Confirming that is tricky: both Walker and Jacobson have refused so far to be interviewed by Cappel.

After the Inlander reported that Jacobson refused to testify, Stuckart shot off a letter to the mayor last month, asking him to read witnesses their Garrity rights, simultaneously forcing participation in the investigation and protecting them from criminal prosecution. Condon’s response to Stuckart — delivered by an outside attorney hired to help the city defend itself from Straub’s $4 million lawsuit — came during a privileged executive session, so Stuckart is legally barred from saying what the council was told.

City spokesman Brian Coddington, however, says the mayor hasn’t asked employees to participate because he doesn’t want to influence the investigation. “This is not the mayor’s investigation,” Coddington says. “There’s been no word from the investigator that she can’t complete her work.”

Asked Monday if Condon would mandate participation if Cappel or the joint committee asked him to, the mayor wouldn’t commit either way. “We’ll address those issues as they come forward,” Condon says.

Stuckart, meanwhile, says the city council is looking at all of the tools available to make sure the investigation counts. That includes seeking additional outside legal counsel in a process already swarming with lawyers. And then there’s the nuclear option: In December, the city council wrote that they would consider the possibility of issuing subpoenas “to ensure that each person who has relevant information will be involved in the investigation.”

Stuckart says it’s not ideal. The council using its subpoena power is unprecedented, and it wouldn’t stop witnesses from pleading the Fifth to avoid incriminating themselves. But even Stratton is willing to consider using subpoenas if all else fails.

Condon, by contrast, doesn’t express frustration over city employees who haven’t agreed to be interviewed. He saves his criticism for the leaks, commentary, speculation and press coverage that have dogged the Cappel inquiry.

“I find it very unfortunate that this level of intrusion into the investigative process has caused this much consternation for Kris Cappel,” Condon says.  danielw@inlander.com

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WHAT’S ON TAP? The public health crisis in Flint, Michigan, which has seen its water supply become undrinkable due to LEAD CONTAMINATION, has drawn attention to sources of exposure to the toxic element. So how is Spokane doing? The EPA’s most recent testing of Spokane’s water quality, conducted in 2012, found that 90 percent of at-risk homes, which had either lead or lead-soldered pipes, had lead levels below those that would require the city to take action. But the Washington State Department of Health still designates much of Spokane as being at an elevated risk of lead exposure compared to the rest of the state, mostly because of older housing with lead-based paint. (JAKE THOMAS)

CHALLENGED AGAIN On April 1, Gov. Jay Inslee, by taking no action, allowed a bill that made CHARTER SCHOOLS legal again to pass. A week later, state teachers unions announced they would challenge the constitutionality of that bill. The Washington Education Association, the state’s largest teachers union, argues that the bill has two constitutional flaws: It allows unelected charter school operators to spend public money without adequate public oversight or accountability, and it funds charter schools with lottery money diverted from the state general fund, which is the main source of funding for the state’s public schools.

The lawsuit may take two months to prepare and file in court. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

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Tax and Spend The Spokane City Council takes up transit; plus, local enforcement lands a MacArthur grant ‘GO IT ALONE’?

A year ago, voters in Spokane County oh-so-narrowly rejected a Spokane Transit Authority proposal to raise sales taxes to fund more BUS SERVICE. That plan included funding for the proposed Central City Line, a high-frequency electric bus route between Browne’s Addition and Spokane County Community College. (It would not have been, as originally envisioned, a trolley-style bus route with overhead wires.)

While it failed in the county, the measure passed overwhelmingly within city limits. With the STA board cautious about asking voters a second time for a tax increase, the Spokane City Council has been looking for ways to fund the project themselves.

At Monday’s meeting, the council voted 6-1 to take the first step to make that possible.

City Councilmember Amber Waldref’s proposal allows portions of the funds raised by the car-tab-funded Transportation Benefit District to be used for transit projects. Those funds can already be used for street improvements and improvements for pedestrians.

“It doesn’t actually finance any improvements. It just changes the language to allow that to happen,” Waldref said.

“Funding transit likely wouldn’t be done with car-tab fees. It would likely be done with a vote of the people, using sales tax.”

In other words, it gives the council the ability to, say, ask city voters to fund a tax increase to “go it alone” and fund the Central City Line themselves.

City Councilman Mike Fagan was the sole vote against the proposal, concerned that there are no guardrails written into the legislation stopping car-tab fees from being used by the council in the future to pay for transit projects.

Waldref’s proposal also attracted criticism from the public, who argued that any money coming into the TBD should be strictly reserved for

road improvements. Tim Benn, a former city council candidate, brought photographs during his testimony against the measure, showing streets with potholes and bare, exposed cobblestones.

“Spokane is so cool, our patches have patches,” Benn joked. (DANIEL WALTERS)

MAKING IT RAIN

Spokane County will see an influx of nearly $3 MILLION over the next three years to improve its criminal justice system.

This week, the MacArthur Foundation is set to announce that Spokane is one of 11 cities to receive grant money from its Safety and Justice Challenge — an effort to reduce overpopulated jails and rethink incarceration in America. Spokane’s share of the grant comes to $1.75 million over two years.

Spokane County and the city of Spokane will kick in an additional $1.2 million over the next three years, though exactly how much each entity will contribute has yet to be decided, according to Spokane County Chief Operating Officer John Dickson.

The money will go toward programs and technology aimed at reducing the jail population by 17 percent in the first two years, and 21 percent by the third year.

Currently, the number of people locked up in Spokane fluctuates from about 800 to 950 people, according to Spokane County Detention Lt. Mike Sparber.

In part, the money will fund additional pretrial services officers and tools, such as electronic home monitoring. to implement a more robust pretrial supervision program.

The money also will go toward hiring three more mental health professionals in the jail, and developing and implementing a racial equity toolkit, which will guide local policymakers’ decisions by identifying bias that results in inequalities, according to a news release from the MacArthur Foundation. (MITCH RYALS)

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A President’s Role New WSU President Kirk Schulz will try to carry on the vision of the late Elson S. Floyd as the responsibilities of the job itself continue to evolve

BY WILSON CRISCIONE

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hen Kirk Schulz was working on his Ph.D. at Virginia Tech, his advisor asked him what he wanted to do after college. Schulz said, “I’d like to be a university president someday.”

Nearly 20 years later, that dream became a reality.

Schulz took over as president of Kansas State University in 2009. After serving there for seven years, he has been chosen to become Washington State University’s president.

The role of a university president has changed since Schulz was first inspired to be one decades ago. The average number of years a president spends at one university has decreased, while the pressure to raise money for their schools continues to mount. For Schulz, another challenge will be succeeding Elson S. Floyd, a man lauded for the progress he made at WSU before he died last June following a battle with cancer.

The Inlander asked Schulz about these challenges, how the job of university president has evolved and what can be done to create a safe environment on campus.

Responses have been edited for length.

INLANDER: What do you see as a university president’s role? Are there misconceptions about what presidents do?

SCHULZ: [Laughs] I think there’s a lot of misconceptions about what presidents do. Largely, sometimes people think that you sort of have this super, all-powerful position, and that I can change course grades and grant

Kirk Schulz will officially start as WSU’s 11th president on June 13. He will earn a base salary of $625,000 a year. His wife, Noel, will also join as a faculty member in WSU’s engineering department.

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Why were you looking for other jobs, and what attracted you to WSU? There’s three major items that attracted me here.

The first was the medical school — the chance to build and work together and build the second publicly funded medical school in Washington. The second thing was the clear commitment by the state of Washington to decrease tuition and make the university more affordable and accessible. The third thing is just the academic excellence of WSU. At Kansas State, we’re nearing completion of a billion-dollar fundraising campaign. We built $500 million worth of new campus construction. We just had a lot of success. I felt it was a reasonable time, where people didn’t go, “Boy, if he stayed with us two or three more years, think of what he could have accomplished.”

During your tour of the Pullman campus, you were asked about your role in diversity in education, and diplomas and do all this stuff. you said it’s important to create a safe environment, What presidents really do is spend a lot of time buildstarting at the top. What does a safe environment ing relationships. You spend of lot of time in resource look like? acquisition, fundraising privately, working with elected govIt’s an environment where students, faculty and staff ernment officials, building corporate partnerships, things — from any walk of life, any ethnic group, sexual orientalike that. It’s a very external vision and resource-oriented tion or background, whether it’s a wealthy family or role compared to what people think. I think through social family that doesn’t have significant financial assets — that media — Twitter, Facebook — the WSU community will get those folks can come and feel supported and achieve the to know the types of things I do. goals that they would like to.

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aila Barnhart is kinda stingy when it comes to leaving the lights on. Even in her cozy threeroom cottage on the South Hill, she diligently monitors how much she runs the window air conditioner in the summer and her space heater in the winter.

“I’m an old lady,” she says. “I don’t have a lot of money.”

Usually, Barnhart’s electric bill from Avista hovers between $35 and $45, but after the infamous windstorm raced through the Inland Northwest last year, her bill spiked to $227.22, indicating she’d used almost 275 per-

How has the job as a university president evolved over the years?

I think most public universities are much more reliant on private philanthropy and private dollars than they were even five, six years ago. And I think the presidents of a lot of public universities will need to behave almost a little bit more like presidents at private schools.

You look 30 years ago, there were a lot of places that people served as president for 15-20 years. The average time people, I think, serve as president now is five years.

That has changed dramatically, the pressures of the job have changed dramatically and I think that’s just the future we’re going to see.

cent more energy from mid-November through Dec. 21.

She suspected the storm played a role in the unusually high charges, and called Avista to make her case: She was without power for one of the four weeks in that billing cycle. She uses a brand-new space heater, rather than baseboard heaters, and turns it down at night. And her home is less than 500 square feet.

“There’s just no way I used that much electricity to heat this little house,” she says. “I’m not trying to heat the White House.”

A technician inspected her meter and determined

it was indeed overcalculating her usage, which could explain the abnormally high charges.

Avista replaced the faulty meter in early February, but has only credited her account $1.43 and has declined to wipe what she believes to be hundreds of dollars in excess charges from her bill. Barnhart has filed a complaint with the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission, but has not heard anything yet. Both Avista and the UTC declined Inlander requests for comment on Barnhart’s complaint, because it’s still under review.

Meanwhile, since Avista replaced her meter, Barnhart’s energy usage has returned to normal levels as she’s stuck chipping away at the $475 balance on her account.

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arnhart is not alone. In the months following the windstorm, thousands of Avista customers flooded social media sites, called into news outlets and filed complaints with the UTC. Although Avista could not specifically comment on Barnhart’s bills, Debbie Simock, a spokeswoman, offered some possible explanations. In January 2016, natural gas rates increased at the same time that a 1.6 percent rebate on Avista bills disappeared.

On average, gas bills were expected to go up by about 8 percent per month and electric bills should increase by .02 percent, Avista predicted.

Another possible reason for bill spikes involves the

The second part is we have to have an environment where people can express divergent viewpoints, and do that in a way where there’s an interactive discourse. Across higher education as a whole, that is really what’s the crux of the matter. At schools,

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students, faculty and staff feel disenfranchised. They don’t feel like the administration is paying any attention to their concerns.

They don’t feel it’s a place where they can fulfill the dreams they have.

If I don’t work to create that environment with our campuses, it’s never going to permeate throughout the rest of the organization.

What kind of improvements could be made at colleges generally when it comes to cutting down on things like sexual assault or drug abuse?

We have to continue to work to educate our incoming students about sexual assault and relationships.

If there are incidents, we’ve got to respond quickly and fairly. And then we’ve got to have a report structure for students, faculty or staff that if incidents occur, if they see a student or faculty member or staff member that obviously had some sort of incident, who do you talk to? How do we make sure we get those people support and counseling they need?

Every place is different, and I’m sure there are things that we’re probably going to have a greater emphasis on in Pullman.

And there may be a different need in Vancouver or any of the other campuses. I’ll probably have a much better answer for this in January, when I really know what’s going on.  wilsonc@inlander.com

windstorm. While crews were working to restore power, several meters throughout the city were inaccessible, says Simock. Those meters were given estimated readings based on usage history and the average temperature. If the estimate was off, the adjustment appeared in the following month’s bill.

But for people like Barnhart whose estimated usage was lower, that’s problematic because of Avista’s tiered billing system.

The reading for the month after the estimated usage was so LETTERS high that Barnhart was bumped Send comments to into Avista’s third tier usage, editor@inlander.com. which charges a higher rate.

In other words, for about a twomonth period, Avista had no way to know how much energy was used in the first 30-ish days or the last 30-ish days, so it lumped everything into one bill, with Barnhart having to pay a higher rate.

A third rationalization Barnhart was given for her abnormal bill was her home’s usage history during the winter months. She says that Avista customer service reps told her other tenants had similar usage patterns, but would not send her proof.

“I’m just trying to get them to see my point of view,” she says.

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T STARTS OUT WITH PLAINS FRAMED AGAINST MOUNTAINS.

Next, a bright-green locomotive glides across red rollercoaster railroad tracks until it plunges out of view. And then, breaking the boundaries of the mural, a phoenix rises into the sky.

Three years ago, 40 community members and students from the nearby On Track Academy painted this mural on a wall in the center of Hillyard, the iconic northeast Spokane neighborhood roughly bounded by Francis and Garnet avenues and Crestline and Havana streets. In a single image, the artwork

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sums up Hillyard’s past, present and future.

Start with the rise of Hillyard’s industrial upbringing, caked in sweat and factory grease, seared in locomotive steam. Then comes the loss — the void left when the railroad stopped running and the factory jobs withered away. For decades, Hillyard has looked poverty and unemployment in the eye. Residents have heard all the jokes about busted cars, barking dogs and weed-choked lawns. But Hillyard stares down the punch lines and condescension. People proudly wear would-be slurs dismissing residents as “Hillyardites” from “Dogtown.” This is who we

are, Hillyard declares. Deal with it.

Finally, there’s hope that the phoenix will rise. Yes, hopes for revitalization have been dashed before. (“Hillyard is poised for a comeback,” a Spokesman-Review article began in 1985.)

Now, with the completion of the North Spokane Corridor on the horizon, and investment in development and education drawn on the maps, Hillyard’s future feels less like a hope and more like a plan.

Appropriately, the route to Hillyard’s future leads straight through its past. Transportation and manufacturing made Hillyard a century ago, and transportation and manufacturing are set to remake it again.

— DANIEL WALTERS

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City Councilman Mike Fagan sees a future for Hillyard beyond antique stores and closed businesses. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

Roads and Rails A railroad made Hillyard — the North Spokane Corridor could remake it

BY DANIEL WALTERS

TO MARKET, TO MARKET

Jobs. Streets. Crime. Those are the three things City Councilman Mike Fagan hears about when he knocks on the doors of his Hillyard constituents.

“Here we have a community that was basically comprised of nothing but antique shops and closed businesses, and we need to see about finding the spark,” Fagan says. “Here we’re rising up from the ashes, trying to come back alive.”

We’re walking down Market Street, Hillyard’s most iconic arterial, on a sunny Saturday. Market is the first station on the journey to Hillyard’s resurrection. The multimillion-dollar revitalization of the street and sidewalk was finished in 2009, complete with bright new streetlights equipped with plug-ins. Market Street is ready for the electric car.

But for every nod to the future on Market Street,

there’s a nod to history. Locomotives and railroad symbols are stamped on the sidewalks and grates.

Brightly colored murals shine down from the brick walls, celebrating the old trains that ran through here and the old cars that were sold here. In Hillyard, the past always remains present.

THE LAST TRAIN OUT OF HILLYARD

From his portrait, railroad tycoon James Hill gives a frown — an imperious frown, worthy of the man they called the Empire Builder — under his long Rutherford B. Hayes beard. The railroad built Hillyard. There was a time when Hillyard’s shops churned out 530-ton Great Northern Mallet steam locomotives; when Hillyard’s mayoral elections swung because of the power of the railroad union; when “‘War to Death’ in Rail Strike” topped the

Spokane Daily Chronicle, as 1,600 Great Northern locomotive machinists refused to report for work.

Yet Spokane’s rebirth — the World’s Fair transformation of a polluted railroad yard into the city’s iconic park — also symbolized the beginning of the end for the Hillyard railroad industry. A three-way railroad merger turned the Hillyard route from a main line to a mere local branch. It was like cutting off the flow of blood to a limb. In 1982, the limb itself fell off. Ninety years after Hillyard was founded, Burlington Northern shuttered Hillyard’s railroad shop.

“The railroad,” Spokesman-Review declared that year, “has all but shut the door on Hillyard.”

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LAUNDRY, LIBRARY, LIQUOR

The Hillyard Laundry Building is not a laundry. Once it was a laundry — a century ago, when Kisaburo Shiosaki and his kids hand-rolled soapy clothes across washboards. Then it was a bookstore. Today it sells vintage odds and ends. By June, it will have transformed into an ice cream parlor.

The Hillyard Library is not a library. Once it was a library. Then it was a church, and then another church. And now, like a lad mag tucked inside a schoolbook, it’s become a Hooters-style bar with scantily clad waitresses. And it’s a barbershop. And a virtual golf simulator.

As a nod to the building’s old use, an illustration of a bosomy redhead peers over reading glasses on a sign labeled “NACHO LIBRARIAN.” Her knowledge of the Dewey Decimal System, frankly, seems limited.

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Richard Burris holds his hands up in the air, above the railroad tracks, the tumbleweeds and the dusty expanse behind Market Street. Around here, in a vague sense, is the future site of the long-anticipated North Spokane Corridor. But the fate of Hillyard hinges on what happens in the next decade, when the vague gets specific.

Burris, of the Greater Hillyard Business Association, speaks slowly, laconically, peering over his glasses. If the freeway is built correctly, he says, “it could be the best thing for Spokane since the railroad… The potential is absolutely enormous.”

And so is the danger. If it’s done incorrectly, he says, it would be a complete economic disaster.

The crisis lurks 170 feet underground, where petroleum from an old railroad refueling project stretches across 7 acres. Cleanup could take two decades, and it’s right in the proposed path of the highway. The Washington State Department of Transportation has floated a solution: curve the highway a bit to the west and elevate it up above the railroad tracks near Market Street.

If that happens, Burris warns, Market Street would be trapped under the literal shadow of the freeway, rattled by noise. The freeway would be an eternal impediment dividing Hillyard. It “would basically destroy this business district.”

Community members and local politicians rose up against the proposed design. Burris pushes a different plan: Stack the freeway up on pillars, rising above the contaminated area, and allow the cleanup to continue underneath.

Otherwise, he suggests, all the hard work of improving the Hillyard business district goes to waste.

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“In one paragraph they could change it, and everything is for naught,” Burris says. “[And then] that entire area is a blight, and it always will be.”

HILLYARD’S BACKYARD

Take to the skies — or Google Earth — and look down upon the land east of Hillyard’s railroad tracks.

You’ll see a lot of brown.

Zoom closer, and you’ll find empty lots, and lots of ’em.

A few miles away at City Hall, director of planning Lisa Key can show you the map of the area, where vast quantities of land are vacant or underused.

Now overlay the lens of potential. Picture how the 78 acres of old railroad land near downtown Spokane turned into Kendall Yards, a thriving commercialresidential development.

Picture multiplying that tenfold. Now picture, instead of townhouses and boutique restaurants, factories and warehouses. Picture jobs. Picture the triumphant return of industry to the community built on it.

“This has a great potential to be a manufacturing incubator for the city,” Key says.

The Yard — that’s the name of the 800-acre economic zone in eastern Hillyard — aims to tap into that potential. A spot where railway and freeway converge? Now that’s a manufacturer’s dream.

Or at least it could be.

Right now, the gravel and dirt roads don’t do much to attract development.

That’s one thing the Yard aims to fix. The city will focus on a few of the areas in the Yard with the most explosive potential, improving its infrastructure to attract development. The city of Spokane already has two grants to assist developers with the first stages of environmental studies.

“We want to bring it full circle, to recognize the vibrancy it once was,” Key says. “Recognizing that in the heyday of Hillyard, that was a quality community.

That’s what we’re trying to achieve.” 

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HILLYARD | EDUCATION

Andre Wicks, a former Shaw Middle School assistant principal, hopes to improve graduation rates in Hillyard by addressing multigenerational poverty. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

Teachers and Trauma Hillyard kids living in poverty often experience trauma at home that can lead to trouble at school, but community leaders have a plan to address these conditions

BY WILSON CRISCIONE

KIDS THESE DAYS

A 9-year-old boy at Harmon Field runs to catch up with the rest of the crowd as they head back to Northeast Youth Center. There’s no school today; it’s spring break.

So today, the center takes all the kids, roughly 30 of them, to the park.

The boy usually gets help with his homework at the youth center. From Regal Elementary, he goes there nearly every day after school. One time, the boy says, he got in trouble for kicking another kid. He says he gets in trouble all the time for doing “bad stuff” at the youth

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center, but that’s no different than school, or home.

Empire Health Foundation’s Sarah Lyman says that Hillyard has high rates of “adverse childhood experiences,” the single greatest predictor of academic failure. She has been leading an effort to train Rogers High School teachers in how to talk to kids, many of whom are living in constant states of trauma or fear at home and act out in class as a result.

“There’s been a lot of investment in trying to shift the school culture to something that’s going to be more

supportive for kids to succeed,” she said.

By helping teachers build relationships with students, she says, suspensions can be cut down and more students can stay in school and complete courses.

“Of course, the issues that Hillyard is facing are so complex,” Lyman says. “No one system will fix it all.”

Some older kids are across the field at Hillyard Skatepark, where Cameron Wilder straddles his bike seat. His friends show off skateboard tricks, while girls circle on rollerblades.

Wilder, a junior at Rogers High School who lives in Hillyard, sees kids get pulled out of class all the time for acting out. Wilder thinks it’s sometimes the teacher’s fault — they don’t understand why the kids are behaving 89 this way because Percent of students they don’t live in at Hillyard’s Regal Hillyard. “They Elementary who qualify live in, like, Five for free or reduced lunch Mile,” Wilder says.

When kids get sent out of class, Wilder becomes a sort of translator between student and teacher.

“Usually I’ll go out in the hallway and talk to some of my friends and ask them what’s going on,” Wilder says. “They’ll tell me. I’ll tell the teacher, and they’ll understand.”

Rogers Principal Lori Wyborney: “When there’s no food on the table... school really becomes a secondary thing.” YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

STRAIGHT OUT OF HILLYARD

A decade ago, Rogers’ principal tried to stop kids from chanting “Hillyard” at sporting events.

Whether Rogers was winning or losing, she thought the chant came from a negative place: Hillyard was poor, so students from Hillyard were expected to lose.

That didn’t go over well. Hundreds of students gathered in protest of what they saw as a ban of the word, and they sent a clear message: We are Hillyard. And we are proud.

Yet after four years of school, many of those same students would end up without a high school degree. In 2008, two years after that protest, the graduation rate at Rogers was under 50 percent.

That rate has since gone up. By 2012, the graduation rate was more than 80 percent, where it has hovered ever since. It has plateaued because more than a third of the students who feed into Rogers — an area that includes Hillyard but also other parts of northeast Spokane — live at or around the poverty line, says Lori Wyborney, who took over as Rogers principal in 2010.

Other students have experienced different kinds of trauma at home, which can make school less of a priority for them.

“When there’s no food on the table and you don’t know where you’re going to be living,” Wyborney says, “school really becomes a secondary thing. We really need to eliminate those things so school can go to the forefront.”

Still, she says the kids from Hillyard should be proud of their resilience.

“My students come to school in spite of so many obstacles,” she says. “Obstacles that kids from a lot of parts of Spokane wouldn’t have any idea about.”

IN THE ZONE

Andre Wicks pulls over his car at Shaw Middle School, where he was assistant principal a couple of years ago.

“Right here, within 3 to 4 city blocks of each other, you have a nucleus of assets and resources for people to access,” Wicks says.

Around the corner is NEWTECH Skills Center, which provides technical training to high school students, and On Track Academy, which provides a more personalized educational option for kids. Regal Elementary is across the street, and a block in the other direction is Northeast Community Center.

Wicks left Shaw in the hopes of impacting kids in a different way — a decades-long effort to increase educational outcomes through all facets of the community. That means all of these community resources, along with dozens more in northeast Spokane, need to be united under a common banner. If getting more kids to graduate came down to hiring better teachers or training them, it would already be happening, he says.

“The reality is, students who are coming from trauma, students who are coming from homes — maybe they’re homeless, maybe they don’t have both parents, maybe neither or only one of their parents is working,” Wicks says. “All of those things get in the way of students being successful in school.”

The Zone Project, a collaboration between Spokane Public Schools and the city of Spokane, aims to create better housing, educational and employment opportunities in northeast Spokane.

Wicks, as the project’s director, has partnered with the dozens of community organizations leading various initiatives that contribute to this overall goal. Wicks has also applied for northeast Spokane to become a Promise Zone through the federal Housing and Urban Development program, which would make the area eligible for more resources and potential grants. He’s expecting to hear if the project qualifies for that designation in June.

Wicks says he’s made a commitment to devote the better part of a generation to this project. That’s because the issues facing northeast Spokane are multigenerational. It’s something he’s been exposed to the more he talks with kids in the Hillyard area.

“It’s kind of like this push and pull of hopeful and hopeless,” Wicks says. “The poverty that exists in the northeast area, it’s multigenerational.

So you have two to three generations of people that have really struggled, and the third-generation kid that’s living in poverty doesn’t know anything different.”

Improving the Hillyard neighborhood, he says, is not about changing it. It’s about highlighting its strengths and working with its people, not against them.

“There’s a lot of pride in being gritty,” Wicks says. “There’s a lot of pride in being resilient, and I see that a lot. That, in terms of assets, is a really, really great asset about the community, is its grittiness.” 

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HILLYARD | NEIGHBORS

Paul Hamilton has worked for decades to breathe life into his neighborhood, but he’s not done yet. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

Crime and Community There’s more to this neighborhood than theft, drugs and break-ins: There are people determined to stamp them out

BY MITCH RYALS

HILLYARD’S (UNOFFICIAL) SHERIFF After dark, he leaves the office with a rifle slung over his shoulder and a cowboy hat pulled low on his brow. The crooks and drunks know not to mess with this sheriff of Hillyard.

He’s on his way to check in on one of the oldest buildings in the neighborhood, which he owns — a ramshackle cottage that served as a boarding house when the railroad was here long ago. A Ferris wheel and two big guard dogs sit in the yard. The house is empty now.

Paul Hamilton is not technically a sheriff. He sells insurance for a living. But his name has been synonymous with the Hillyard neighborhood for decades. The born-and-raised Hillyard-ite has served for 24 years on the Northeast Community Center board and almost a decade on the Hillyard neighborhood council. He feels a certain affection for the neighborhood and takes it upon

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himself to maintain peace.

For example, Hamilton fixes up stolen bicycles recovered by police and hands them out to the local troublemakers in exchange for work done around the community.

“We got about six people, who if they had a bus ride out of town, this neighborhood would be calm,” Hamilton says.

He motions over to a piece of cardboard covering a window in his office. One of the usual suspects busted it with a rock a couple of weeks ago, he says. That’s somewhat typical of the type of crime in Hillyard: car prowling, burglaries, theft.

Since 2013, theft has been the most common crime in the Hillyard area, followed by vehicle prowling and burglaries, according to police crime stats. Residents say

drugs are a problem as well. In 2010, Hillyard business and property owners sent a letter to City Hall asking for more “undercover drug patrols,” drawing a meeting with police and city leaders.

Since then, the Spokane Police Department has opened a precinct in Hillyard.

“I think Hillyard gets a bad rap,” says Spokane police Capt. Tom Hendren, who is in charge of the northside precinct. “There’s a lot of long-time residents who really care about this place. And particularly when you look at overall crime numbers, there are other areas [throughout the city] that are more active than Hillyard.”

Indeed, out of the four northside districts in 2015, the area that includes Hillyard saw the biggest drop in property crime.

“We’ve come a long ways, we got a long ways to go,

Hillyard Neighborhood, Spokane

BY THOM CARAWAY

It exists on the edge of town like a grade-school diorama labeled “Old Spokane.” The half-collapsed warehouses, lighting drifting through late sunlight, trains clanking through, day and night.

Hillyard is the whole of our city, industrial past and strip-malled present, the glorious dirty rundown house where we’ve all lived our whole lives, fathers rising early to work at the plant, mothers chasing kids out onto the streets, alleys, into parks or anywhere, those long summers playing hide and seek ’til late and the boundaries were three whole blocks.

Summers when I was young, I traveled my father’s sales route with him. Batteries, then industrial solvents.

Every body shop and junkyard in a three-state radius was my Hillyard. Men talking baseball and fishing and cars, cigarettes dangling from cracked lips. I’d roam the shop yards of Potlatch or Philipsburg, and still love the smell of old diesel, feel the grains of crumbling yellow foam from the seat of the big dozer in Kellogg, working the balky levers.

When Market got a facelift and the storefronts turned antique, Hillyard seemed off, a gruff old junk-seller in a tuxedo.

But underneath, the skin is still weathered, the blood still smells faintly of oil and smoke. Climb inside the labyrinthine trailers at Hillyard Tire, search for a matching set of whitewall 185 75R13s.

The tread is good enough and the smell is one you’ll recall, like the voices of women calling their children home as the sun fades. n

but we’re so much better than we were 10 years ago,” Hamilton says.

THE NEIGHBORHOOD

There’s a mingling of well manicured lawns next to those occupied by El Caminos. A businessman in a starched white shirt passes by a woman riding a bicycle, a cigarette in hand, and a bulging grocery bag dangling off the handle bars. Youthful chatter in the neighborhood’s many parks are drowned out by the constant roar of giant semi trucks passing through on North Market Street.

Walk around Hillyard if you’re not from here, and you’ll get looks. Not because you don’t belong, but because the neighbors don’t recognize you. People know each other. If something doesn’t look right, they’ll call you on it.

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MITSUBISHI MOTOR IN AN ’82 OLDS

Thom Eder is having a helluva time fixing his damn carburetor. He’s missing some tools because the gal who used to live next door kept breaking into his house. But she’s gone now.

And his ex-wife keeps calling and interrupting.

And then there’s the issue of the Mitsubishi engine in the Oldsmobile he’s working on. The self-described “Jack of all trades” knows how to fix it, but those newfangled engines are tricky.

He’s resorted to using the tip of a pocket knife to fiddle with the car’s innards.

Eder, 52, lived in Hillyard back in his 20s.

He’s bopped around a few places since then before moving back to the neighborhood a few months ago.

“Years ago we used to pride ourselves on being known as ‘Hillyard-ites,’” he says. “It wasn’t necessarily a good thing at the time, but definitely a point of pride.”

Hillyard-ites delight in “being from Hillyard”

and unite in their staunch defense of their community.

“There’s always somebody up, watching what’s going on,” he says. “And if we see something that’s not kosher? It’s ‘You need to go.’

Plain and simple. We’re all poor people here, so get the hell out of here.”

OVER THE FENCE

Justin Taylor is taking a break from building an awning on the back of his house. His next door neighbor popped his head over the fence to chat.

The two men tell of their work gutting some of the abandoned houses in the area and keeping an eye out for people who break into them — a constant chore.

Taylor’s now worried the new bar that just opened down the street will undo those efforts to clean up the neighborhood.

“I think it would be nice if people could move into these abandoned houses, or they should tear them down and plant city gardens,” Taylor says.

“If I had enough money, I’d buy all these junk places, tear ’em down and put in gardens. That’s how you help people, give them fresh, good stuff to eat.”

Taylor, a 37-year-old emergency technician, has turned almost every inch of his property into a garden, save the teeter-totter and hen house out back. Shielded behind giant sunflowers in front of his house are tomatoes, cilantro, herbs, cucumbers and blackberry bushes.

He recently bought a lot where a burned down house used to sit. The space is perfect for pear trees, he says.

Even with the noise from the new bar and the “druggies” who squat in vacant houses, Taylor doesn’t plan to move anytime soon.

“I just like it here. It’s comfortable, and it’s my home,” he says. When he finishes the awning, he’ll start on redoing the deck. “A place for the family.” n

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HILLYARD | social services

Kai Nevala stands outside of the health clinic at the Northeast Community Center, which he oversees. JAKE THOMAS PHOTO

Faith and Hope Hillyard has long struggled with poverty; here are some organizations meeting it head-on

BY JAKE THOMAS

AN EXTENDED HAND

A room in a building off of Market Street, not far from where she grew up, is where Bonnie Robinson started to remember who she is.

“I came here because I had been a caregiver for my husband 24-7,” says Robinson. Sitting in a circle with several other women, Robinson, 70, recalls how after being hospitalized for anxiety, she was referred to Frontier Behavioral Health’s Elder Services program that provides support for people doing the emotionally taxing labor of caring for an ailing family member. “I was emotionally

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worn out, and I didn’t hardly know who I was, and why I was here in this world.”

“I haven’t seen you smile this much in months,” chimes in Joyce Tucker, a therapist running the session, noting Robinson’s toothy grin.

The building was built in the 1950s, and Elder Services set up shop in 1977 to anchor more services in the struggling neighborhood, says Jeff Thomas, Frontier’s CEO. It’s here that Frontier provides counseling and case management for older residents of Spokane County, as well as support groups for caregivers, people experienc-

ing grief and even just knitting circles meant to break social isolation. From here, volunteers (which Frontier can always use more of) drive “care cars,” their own personal vehicles, to help elderly people without other means of transportation get to medical appointments.

But this population isn’t known for asking for help, and reaching them requires an extended hand.

“We’re not sitting here waiting for an elderly person to walk in because you won’t find that with an older population,” says clinical supervisor Linda McGrath.

“They won’t say, ‘Take me. I have a mental health issue.’”

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A statue of Mother Teresa is kept at Hillyard’s Missionaries of Charity, a religious order she founded in 1950.

With demand for its services increasing, Frontier plans to remodel and expand the building and turn a neighboring dirt lot into a community garden. Thomas says that while Hillyard is “a neighborhood that has great need by almost every indicator,” he says the Zone Project puts Hillyard in a position to overcome its challenges.

(See “In The Zone” on page 25.)

“There’s a steady sense of pride among residents here,” he says. “People identify with it as a place not doing well, but that pride can capitalize on it.”

DOCTOR’S ORDERS

Blocks away, the health clinic operated out of the Northeast Community Center treats the mothersto-be, recently arrived refugees who only speak Dinka or Farsi, people who’ve lived their entire lives in Hillyard and the retirees who’ve abruptly discovered that the doctor they’ve had their entire working life won’t take Medicare.

The staff at the clinic, operated by Unify Community Health, are a small part of their patients’ stories: the refugees coming back in for a checkup a year later who now speak English and have jobs, new moms cradling babies, families about to see their first child graduate from high school.

“I don’t know if ‘disparity’ is the right word,” says Kai Nevala, the clinic’s director. He pauses, searching for LETTERS how to deSend comments to scribe why his editor@inlander.com. organization is here. “But there’s a little bit of gap in services, and this is why the clinic is here.”

Jean Farmer, executive director of the Northeast Community Center Association, says the clinic opened up in 2011 to serve as a safety net after Community Health Association of Spokane, another community health group, moved away.

“When we built that building, it was done to expand medical access,” she says. “The 99207 zip code had 19,000 medically uninsured people.”

Now, she says, more people have insurance as a result of the Affordable Care Act. But that hasn’t solved all the problems.

“The biggest challenge, from my perspective, is we struggle to meet the need,” says Nevala. “I wouldn’t say it’s just in this clinic… but particularly in these neighborhoods, it’s pretty substantial.”

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‘PROUD AND INDEPENDENT’

In 1968, Gerald Madren, a former Spokane County Republican chairman bristling at Hillyard’s designation as a “ghetto,” “slum” and “poverty area,” called for city leaders to put a proposed housing authority to a public vote.

“We admit to being economically poorer than the average of people in some other areas of the city,” he said in the Spokane Daily Chronicle, pointing out that many residents were skilled industrial workers and actively involved in their neighborhood’s civic life. “But we, nevertheless, are proud and independent. We would lay claim to superior handling of the resources we possess.

We also lay claim to as large a portion of the economic and social life of the city as any area.”

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FROM INDIA TO SPOKANE

For the four nuns who live in a house on Lacey Street, where a statue of the Virgin Mary overlooks a flower bed, the day begins at 4:15 am.

Morning prayers are held at 5. Then there are chores, including hand-washing the saris that were made by leprosy patients in India. After mass and breakfast, the nuns, wearing the white habits and blue-bordered saris that have become hallmarks of their famous order, begin their work seeking to alleviate not just the material but the “spiritual poverty” in Hillyard.

Ten years ago, the Catholic Church decided to set up in Hillyard a branch of the Missionaries of Charity, an order founded by Mother Teresa, who became an icon for her work with India’s poorest.

Although the order draws its members from all over the world, the nuns at Spokane’s branch are, at the moment, all from India. In a room, near the door is a statue of Mother Teresa, which the nuns affectionately refer to as “mother.” In the statue’s arms are pictures of sick children, which have been placed there in hopes of speeding their recovery.

The nuns provide shelter for five homeless women and also hold Bible camps for kids. Most days, the nuns knock on doors. Some people who answer the doors have left the church and aren’t happy to see the nuns. Some listen and come back to the church. The nuns also regularly visit shut-ins and help with cleaning and provide some much-needed company.

“Sometimes they are depressed and live alone and no longer see the light,” says Sister Rosalie, who oversees the branch. “We are not there to convert. Only God can convert them.” n

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Red Hots IDENTITY

On being a redhead in Spokane

BY CLAIRE STANDAERT

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hen a young man I’ll call Daniel first walked into the Northwest Cryobank in downtown Spokane, he didn’t realize he’d be in high demand. He’d thought long and hard about donating sperm. He asked his mom for her thoughts. He wondered if he should even contribute to the world’s population, but Daniel needed the money to stave off college debt. He also wanted to preserve perhaps his most distinctive genetic trait: his red hair.

Now, the clinic has told Daniel that they wouldn’t mind if he gave more samples. His genes are in high demand, as they should be — he is smart, his family health is stellar, he loves the outdoors, and he’s a redhead.

His friend initially warned that redheads would soon be roaming the Earth and babies would be popping out of the womb with red ponytails. In reality, though, an army of red-haired children is not likely to result. At only 2 percent of the world population, those with red hair are genetic rarities — because it is a recessive trait, a child requires one red hair gene from each parent. Even then, red hair is not guaranteed.

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Daniel, who in his mid 20s. “But I can step back and say, ‘Wait, that’s almost statistically impossible.’ There’s also the other half of the genes they are getting.”

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As a young kid, teachers would tell me my hair was beautiful and that I was lucky. Fastforward to middle school, and I wasn’t as lucky — it seemed I was placed in the lower registers of the pecking order. In high school, friends reminded me that my kind was known to steal souls. In college, a fellow student once simply referred to me as Red. Peppered throughout these experiences are moments in which sweet cashier ladies and hairdressers say they are jealous of my thick, red hair. Dealing with stereotypes has become only a minor annoyance, and entering adulthood has brought with it curiosity about other redheads’ experiences.

The divisive social history of red hair is a long one. Queen Elizabeth I, one of many redhaired queens and kings of England, proudly flaunted her red locks as a symbol of royalty. In fact, during these times, fair skin indicated wealth and prestige, indicating that one did not have to work in the fields.

But instances such as Michelangelo portraying immoral Eve with red hair in the Sistine Chapel and red-haired women being labeled as witches in the 17th century didn’t help our cause. More recently, a 2005 South Park episode highlighted the term “ginger” to describe those with red hair, freckles and pale skin — the result of “Gingervitis” disease, which inspired a “Kick a Ginger Day” at one school and other widespread bullying.

From these things spring forth manufactured stereotypes that most, if not all, redheads have heard or been subjected to. Erin Hayes, a Gonzaga student with red hair, grew up in the age of South Park’s 2005 ginger episode.

“I hear the stereotype about ‘not having a soul’ all the time. I’ve also heard the one, where if I’m in a bad mood, it’s because of my red hair — like, ‘Your hair is on fire,’” she says.

Labels aside, most red-haired people have an indisputable genetic rarity known for its aesthetic distinctness. In a sea of faces, it’s a vessel of disproportionate visibility.

When traveling and living overseas, I have presented various cultures with my novel genetics. In preschool, my family lived in Panama.

When we went into banks, office staff would want to hold me and touch my hair and would coo que lindo (“how pretty”). Once, while traveling in Europe, a group of Asian tourists asked to take a photo with me, proud to have come upon such a strange specimen. In Kenya, a group of village children ran up to me and rubbed my hair and freckled skin.

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“My red hair does set me apart, but it is also just there,” Hayes says. “I don’t wake up and say to myself, ‘I have red hair, what’s this day going to be like?’ It’s just kind of there.”

Sometimes Daniel, the sought-after sperm donor, needs the mirror’s reminding that he has red hair and red facial hair.

“It hasn’t changed the opportunities in my life or how I’ve lived, and without being egotistical, it’s a special thing.”

Despite the many negative stereotypes, red hair is apparently desirable to many, especially here in the Northwest. Take, for example, Daniel’s NW Cryobank profile, which reads, “You have selected one of our most popular donors.”

Compare that to Denmark, where in 2011 Cryos International, the world’s largest sperm bank, closed itself off to red-haired sperm donors, explaining it was due to lack of demand. Here in the Northwest, however, it appears the opposite is true. Richard Zimmer, the laboratory and operations manager at NW Cryobank, wishes that more red-haired individuals would donate.

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hether we like it or not, we are not merely people with red hair, we are redheads — situated in a divisive social narrative. To the person with red hair, however, this can be absurd.

er Chere Perrigo, the owner of Alexander York Salon in downtown Spokane, says almost no one asks for that. When coloring clients’ hair, often red shades pop up as a result from previous dying (not red), and clients are clear that they don’t want any hints of red in the finished product.

“Red hair is lovely. Not everybody can rock red hair. There are not many people around who are actually redheads — naturally,” says Perrigo.

The minimal requests for red hair she does get are not for natural shades of red hair. They are for eccentric shades, and the artificiality is made obvious. These shades include fire-engine red or, as Perrigo calls it, “bam!-in-your-face red.”

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aniel won’t single-handedly make a noticeable increase in the world’s redheaded population, even if the demand for his sperm seems to indicate otherwise.

In this sense, Daniel’s story is part of a pattern in the redhead narrative — the hair can be unique, but it brings some baggage along.

I know how it goes. When the sun is out, my skin is lathered in sunscreen. I don’t tan, I freckle. I’ve survived “Kick A Ginger Day” unscathed.

Meanwhile, I practically get celebrity treatment in Asia, Africa and Latin America. I stand out in a crowd; sometimes that’s nice, sometimes not so much.

In the future, Daniel might meet a clan of 25 redheads bearing his DNA. That’s NW Cryobank’s limit for the number of family units one donor can donate to, but he could sire more than 25 if some families want siblings.

“There is a part of me that considers hypothetically meeting the kids in 18 years and them having red hair,” Daniel says. 

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COMMUNITY CLEANING FROM THE CORRIDOR

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n the ongoing effort to revitalize the East Sprague neighborhood (between Perry and Stone streets), the city of Spokane is looking for the community to pitch in. With Cleaning from the Corridor — previously known as Cleaning from the Core when the event was held downtown — volunteers, artists and local businesses are set to team up to clean, update and all-around beautify a struggling area of Spokane.

“We wanted to change the focus to this area this year and get the community involved in changing an area and cleaning it,” says Jackie Caro, a community programs manager with the city of Spokane who has been working on the project along with fellow programs manager Alicia Powell.

The April 23 event will feature a widespread cleaning and landscaping effort in the neighborhood, as well as improvements to the façade of the historic buildings along Sprague from 8 am to noon — that’s where the volunteers are needed. Businesses will also receive new signage designed by Spokane Falls Community College students.

The event is set to include the creation of murals by local artists, including Ellen Picken and Michael Ruby. One of those murals, on the side of the Boyd-Walker Sewing Machine Com-

pany building, which has been operating since the 1930s, will depict the history of sewing machines. Caro says Cleaning from the Corridor will also cover up derelict fencing with other murals as part of an ongoing effort to use public art as a motivator for civic improvement.

“We’ve seen that art is a beautifier, and it can also create a sense of identity and gives people more sense of pride,” says Caro, adding that Sprague will also see the installation of artistic wraps on traffic signal boxes from local artists.

Part of the event is also meant to preview the permanent changes that are either already coming to the neighborhood or could soon be in the works, including efforts to make the streets more walkable and a pop-up park which on this day will feature vendors and games.

From noon to 5 pm, the goal is for the community to celebrate their efforts. Bennidito’s Brewpub will have a live band and ping-pong tables will be available, as well as supersized board games from Spokane Sidewalk Games.

— MIKE BOOKEY To volunteer for Cleaning from the Corridor (Sat, April 23, from 8 am to 5 pm), visit volunteerspokane.org/aem

BASKETBALL SABONIS GOES PRO In what should have come as no surprise to anyone who watched Domantas Sabonis play this season, especially in the NCAA Tournament, the Gonzaga big man has declared for the NBA Draft and has hired an agent, officially ending his college career. Sabonis was an immediate scoring threat coming off the bench as a freshman, but an injury to Przemek Karnowski last November turned Sabonis into a starter and an immediate star. Currently, Sabonis, whose father Arvydas played for the Portland Trail Blazers after a legendary European career, is expected to be picked in the middle of the draft’s first round. “Zag Nation welcomed me with open arms and made me feel at home in Spokane and, for that, I could not be more grateful,” Sabonis said in a statement announcing his departure.

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BOOK Jeff Passan’s new exposé THE ARM: INSIDE THE BILLIONDOLLAR MYSTERY OF THE MOST VALUABLE COMMODITY IN SPORTS, is as inside baseball as it gets.

While the NFL has recently gotten a bad rap thanks to concussions, Passan, a Yahoo! Sports baseball columnist, argues that America’s favorite pastime is undergoing its own epidemic, specifically with pitchers’ elbow/arm injuries and the dreaded Tommy John surgery. Here, Passan refers to the pitching arm as the most valuable commodity in sports, with MLB spending $1.5 billion on pitcher salaries this season, yet the safety of the players is being ignored. His writing is expansive yet personable. There are no easy answers here, but through this book, the issue has come to light.

TV THE RANCH is most assuredly a show that would never have made network TV or even most cable outlets; it’s too strangely executed.

The Netflix original series features a standard sitcom laugh track, serious family issues, F-words, some brief Ashton Kutcher butt nudity, Republican politics and even a calf birth — but even with all of the genre flip-flopping, it succeeds because of the casting. Kutcher plays Colt Bennett, a washed-up semi-pro football player who comes home to help work his grumpy old father’s (Sam Elliott) Colorado ranch. Bringing in That ’70s Show’s Danny Masterson as his brother and Debra Winger as his bar-owning mother, the show’s acting dynamics are dynamite.

ALBUM In case you missed the Seattle indie pop-punk act’s Spokane and Pullman shows over the past few months, Tacocat’s third effort LOST TIME is here to keep you in the loop. This is a band with strong opinions (the four-piece recently played a Bernie Sanders rally at Safeco Field).

There’s the new song “I Hate the Weekend” but also the track “I Love Seattle.” The sarcastic and biting “Men Explain Things to Me” shows off their straightforward easy melodies while giving you a deeper sense of the things that women go through. Under its shiny pop exterior, the punk snark especially roars through on this album. You’ll want to rock out to this in your car all summer long. n

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Cedar Wright climbs, bikes and soars for all of us who can’t

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New Heights edar Wright is an adventurer. That’s his job title, actually, and not one many people can claim. But maybe we need people like Wright who, for example, climb sheer rock cliffs and make a movie to prove it happened.

“Humans are very curious. We’ve always wanted to explore and push our boundaries of what might be possible. There’s value in that, and bringing back those stories and lessons of those adventures that might inspire someone else to do something,” says Wright, an esteemed rock climber and filmmaker who is set to deliver a talk and multi-media presentation in Spokane as part of the National Geographic Live series.

At this talk, Wright will explain why in 2013 he and world-renowned rock climber Alex Honnold summited all of California’s 14,000-footor-higher peaks, which included plenty of free climbing, then rode bicycles between mountains.

He’ll also explain why he and Honnold then did a similar — and equally strenuous — climbing and biking trek the following year, which resulted in

the award-winning action documentary Sufferfest 2, a follow up to the movie about their first time out. The second Sufferfest has Honnold and Wright climbing the iconic rock towers of California and again biking in between.

The climbing sequences are near-pornography for rock climbers and provide a fix to those of us who like to get our LETTERS adrenaline Send comments to via documeneditor@inlander.com. tary. But what Wright’s film brings to light is a more introspective, at times hilarious, look at why two grown men would do something like this.

“Neither of us are planners. We like to let things unfold. That’s why Sufferfest is so entertaining — because we don’t know what we’re doing,” says Wright with a laugh from his home in Boulder, Colorado.

The two films are inspiring on a number of

Cedar Wright gets some laughs in during his climbing adventures. SAMUEL CROSSLEY PHOTO levels, even in Wright and Honnold’s companionship and the collaborative nature of the two strong-willed adventurers. A number of people have told Wright that they’ve created their own mini Sufferfest to test their limits.

“If you can connect deeply with your audience, that’s pretty awesome. And hopefully we can pull that off with filmmaking,” he says.

Wright’s story probably sounds similar to that of a lot of other dedicated climbers. After college in Northern California, Wright headed to Yosemite to climb, where he lived out of his truck and worked on a search-and-rescue team. Since then, he’s become sponsored by The North Face and had other benefactors, including National Geographic, of course, fund his adventures.

He knows that people look at his life and find it crazy, but he says it’s not too out there upon inspection.

“There’s more than one way to explore your world. I like to explore it through adventure and share those adventures to people through film. I’m a lucky son of bitch,” says the 40-yearold.

While climbing remains his main love, Wright has recently taken up paragliding. With only about seven months of experience, he headed off for Mexico, taking off from soaring peaks.

The adventure is the subject of his new film The Fledglings, which he’ll preview at the event in Spokane. Soon, he hopes to make a first ascent of a climbing route and come down via paraglider. His reasoning is as practical as it is adventurous.

“It looked like an incredible way of getting off a mountain,” he says. n National Geographic Live, Sufferfest: 700 Miles of Pain and Glory • Tue, April 19, at 7 pm • $30-$42 • INB Performing Arts Center • 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. • inbpac.com

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Fast Cars and Fast Food Warm-weather bites at Spokane Valley’s drive-ins

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he history of drive-in restaurants goes back nearly as far as the history of cars, with some crediting a Texas chain called the Pig Stand with popularizing the idea of parking and eating all the way back in 1921.

Many of our images of drive-ins come from pop culture, like the old TV show Happy Days or flicks like American Graffiti, where waitresses roller-skating burgers and shakes to hungry families and teenagers — some eager to show off their wheels — made it seem like every town in America had a drive-in as its culinary focal point. In some small and rural towns, that’s still true, but in more urban areas, the only “drive-ins” are chains like Sonic or Zip’s.

In Spokane Valley, a few classic drive-in experiences remain, where hot rods gather and families are found sitting in their cars or at picnic tables. We visited four of them as the weather turned warm enough to do the drive-in right.

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MIKE’S BURGER ROYAL

6115 E. Trent, Spokane Valley; Mon-Fri, 10:30 am-5:30 pm; Sat, 11 am-4 pm THE FOOD: Cheeseburger: $2.99, Small fries: $1.99, Milkshake: $3.59 large The burger is basically a cheeseburger sub, and there ain’t nothing wrong with that. Three patties come on a French bread bun, along with tomatoes, lettuce, three slices of cheese, mayo and mustard. The fries are thicker than McDonald’s-style, hot and perfectly salted. And the shakes come in all the traditional flavors, as well as root beer, pineapple, black raspberry and more.

IF YOU’RE FEELING ADVENTUROUS: While the Stromboli sandwich’s mix of cappicola ham, provolone and chili sauce is a favorite for regulars, it’s not every day you see Breaded Chicken Gizzards on a menu.

VIBE: An old-school drive-in the way they’re meant to be, where all seating options are outside or in your car. The food options are vast, ranging from burgers to specialty sandwiches, fried fish and hot dogs. There are daily specials from all corners of the menu, so if you find a favorite, you might become a regular.

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11923 E. Trent, Spokane Valley; Tue-Thu, 11 am-7 pm; Fri, 8 am-7 pm; Sat, 8 am-3 pm THE FOOD: Cheeseburger: $5.25, Small fries: $2, Milkshake: $4.75 large The big, juicy patty easily exceeds the bun’s edges, and is joined by cheese, mayo, mustard, lettuce and big hunks of fresh onion. Big appetites will be satisfied. Crinkle-cut fries with some light seasoning are the rule here — not my favorite form of fried spud, but tasty. And shakes come in the traditional flavors, plus specialties like marshmallow and peanut butter.

IF YOU’RE FEELING ADVENTUROUS: The menu stays pretty tried-and-true, but you don’t see oysters at many drive-ins, so the Oysters Combo ($8.99) might be in order if you’re looking beyond burgers.

VIBE: The interior walls are covered in cars — models, posters, prints — along with pictures of James Dean. When the weather’s warm, though, sit outside at one of the picnic tables, shaded by a few trees and watching the trains roll by. Regular “cruise nights” mean a steady flow of classic hot rods, so pack a camera if you’re a car nut.

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12024 E. Sprague, Spokane Valley; Mon-Thu, 10:30 am-9 pm; Fri, 10:30 am-9:30 pm; Sat, 11 am-9:30 pm; Sun, 11 am-8 pm THE FOOD: Cheeseburger: $2.49, Small fries: $1.99, Milkshake: $3.59 large The diminutive burger is completely hidden by the bun. It comes with cheese, ketchup, mustard and pickle, but if you’re hungry, you probably want to amp up to a bigger Super Bacon or Scotsman Burger. Big, fat steak fries are hot and just crispy enough, good enough to warrant a visit on their own. The shakes cover all the traditional flavors.

IF YOU’RE FEELING ADVENTUROUS: I don’t know why you don’t see a chicken-fried steak sandwich on more menus; it seems both obvious and delicious.

VIBE: The interior is basic; about 15 tables and walls covered with pictures of hot rods and ’50s icons like Marilyn Monroe. Outside is where it’s at, with picnic tables and a surprising amount of parking for in-car dining.

RON’S DRIVE-INN

12502 E. Sprague, Spokane Valley; Sun-Wed, 10:30 am-8 pm; Thu-Sat, 10:30-9 pm THE FOOD: Cheeseburger: $2.29, Small fries: $1.99, Milkshake: $2.99 Another little burger, the patty is topped with ketchup, mustard, pickles and mustard. If you’re really hungry, step up to a Big R or the Classic ¼ Pounder. Skinny fries, à la McDonald’s, came out fresh and hot, but lacking salt. The milkshake flavors aren’t super-creative, but they’re a great deal —$2.99 gets you 24 ounces of frosty goodness.

IF YOU’RE FEELING ADVENTUROUS: The Broasted Chicken looked worth the 15-minute wait, but I have to look at the Pail of Fish, mostly because I’ve never ordered a pail of anything for dinner.

VIBE: Ron’s is not a drive-in the traditional sense. Yes, there’s plenty of parking if you want to hang outside with your meal, and Drive-Inn is part of the name, so we’re including Ron’s.

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andpoint’s Curry in a Hurry isn’t your typical sit-down restaurant, and neither is its owner, Peter Hicks, who learned to cook while touring with Aradhna, a north Indian musical group.

“When I was touring in India, my bandmates and myself were left to cook for ourselves, and none of us could cook well. We asked our married friends if we could get cooking lessons from their wives, and ended up getting about five different lessons,” says Hicks.

Hicks continues to expand on his cooking knowledge, occasionally assisted at Curry in a Hurry by a guest chef. Most recently, Elsie Lyth, who lived in India, Nepal and Bangladesh for 20 years, cooked dishes such as Punjabi Rajma curry (red kidney beans) and butter chicken.

The menu changes weekly, always with one vegetarian option, such as saag aloo with spinach and potato, and two meat options, like coconut chicken curry and chicken tikka masala (yogurtmarinated chicken in a spicy sauce). Entrées include rice and a traditional accompaniment, such as dal (lentils) or chana masala (chickpea curry), as

well as naan flatbread ($12-$15).

“We are an order-based takeout restaurant, because I don’t want to waste food,” says Hicks, who was born in India and relocated to Idaho from Georgia three years ago with wife Fiona, a photographer, and their young family.

Typically, Hicks posts the menu on Facebook on Sunday. Customers order, receive a confirmation message with the price and order number, and pick up their order Monday — they’re currently using a Pine Street alley location behind Pend Oreille Midwifery and Solar Roadways.

Using Facebook, says Hicks, also allows him to get to know his customers ahead of time. He serves complimentary masala chai, or spiced tea, to customers while they’re waiting.

So far, says Hicks, the feedback has been positive. And while it’s possible they’ll expand to a second day, this father of four doesn’t want to open a traditional restaurant.

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s a woman approaches the newest bright-orange addition to NorthTown Mall’s food court, she begins sharing stories about frequenting a popcorn stand with her friends when she went to college in California.

That’s exactly what Cornexa Popcorn owner Roman Toshev is excited to offer Spokane with the opening of his new popcorn shop: flavors and colors of popcorn beyond classic, yellow buttered popcorn.

Toshev has always dreamed of opening his own business.

Though he hadn’t previously worked in the service industry, he wanted to combine America’s love of popcorn with Spokane’s need for more specialty popcorn options.

At Cornexa, customers can choose from one of the 10 flavors, which of the three bag sizes they prefer, and whether they want the popcorn in an open bag ($3.75-$5.75) to walk around and snack on or a twist-tied bag ($4$5.50) to bring home.

R E S TA U R A N T “People love to give gifts FINDER and everybody loves popcorn, Search the region’s most so I also wanted to have some comprehensive bar special popcorn gift options,� says and restaurant guide at Toshev.

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Cornexa offers 1-gallon ($20) tins of one flavor, or 2-gallon tins ($35) filled with up to three flavors. Gift boxes hold two twist-tied bags of the same or different flavors ($15).

Some of Cornexa’s flavors, such as garlic parmesan and jalapeùo cheddar, are flavored by mixing powder with the popcorn after it’s popped. Flavors like Evergreen State caramel and crispy green apple require a different machine that melts the flavoring before it can be mixed with the popped popcorn.

Currently, Toshev is Cornexa’s only employee, but once he feels confident enough with the equipment and process of popping and flavoring the popcorn, he is excited to hire and teach new employees, along with hopefully opening other Cornexa locations around Spokane. “I don’t think people should have to go to a movie theater or a grocery store shelf to grab a bag of popcorn,â€? says Toshev. “They can come here and sample a variety of spicy, savory or sweet flavors.â€? n Cornexa Popcorn • 4750 N. Division • Open Mon-Sat, 10 am-9 pm; Sun, 11 am-6 pm • facebook.com/cornexa • 474-0477

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After struggling to keep a consistent lineup of food trucks parked outside its front door, brewer Ben Lukes, who owns PSB with his wife Christy, tapped into the talent of Cordon Bleu-trained employee Alisha Van Guilder to expand the brewery’s in-house food menu.

Adding to its list of savory small plates — a charcuterie board, hummus and veggies and pub pretzels with beer cheese — the new menu features six housemade sandwiches, including a turkey banh mi (grilled turkey, cranberry chutney and pickled veggies, like its Vietnamese namesake) and a pork belly BLT. All sauces and other toppings on the sandwiches are made in house, in Perry Street’s “shoebox-sized kitchen,” Lukes says.

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The Brand Necessities The Jungle Book can’t resist making an action-adventure tale kid-friendly

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he opening moments of The Jungle Book promise something … well, “different” might be too hopeful a choice of words. It’s a high-energy sequence, involving the “man-cub” Mowgli (Neel Sethi) darting through the jungle with his wolf siblings, scampering up trees and across branches in a pursuit game that’s also a form of survival training. As the frame bursts with energetically staged 3-D imagery, there’s a glimmer of optimism: What if Disney has taken the radical step of turning one of its animated classics into a flat-out action movie?

These are the things one must hope for, since it’s a long-ago-surrendered reality that Disney will keep making live-action versions of its animated catalog until money stops pouring into their pockets for doing so. From Alice in Wonderland and Cinderella to currentlyin-development retellings of Beauty and the Beast and Dumbo, the release schedule will be full of recognizable titles stripped of their original cartoon context. But maybe, occasionally, the new version could have a reason to exist that’s not exclusively fiscal.

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BY SCOTT RENSHAW Disney could use it as a launching point for a fresh point of view.

At least initially, that’s what seems to be going on in director Jon Favreau’s The Jungle Book. All the familiar characters from the Rudyard Kipling stories — at least as they’re known by way of the 1967 Disney incarnation — are in place as the story unfolds of the orphaned boy raised by a pack of wolves. Bagheera the panther (Ben Kingsley) is here as Mowgli’s main guardian, as is the genial Baloo the bear (Bill Murray); the principal antagoTHE JUNGLE BOOK nist remains the tiger Rated PG Shere Khan (Idris Directed by Jon Favreau Elba), who considers Starring Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Ben any human a threat.

Kingsley, Idris Elba Yet that opening sequence suggests a tone that’s much more about adventure than a kidfriendly romp. Favreau builds big set pieces around Mowgli’s attempt to escape Shere Khan in a stampeding herd of wildebeest, and Mowgli’s kidnapping by the apes who bring him to the orangutan King Louie (Christopher Walken). The photorealism of the sets is immersive, and the animals are dynamic creations; when Shere Khan launches an attack here, it’s physical and — considering it could look like he’s leaping out of the screen — fairly terrifying for young children. Imagine a movie under the Disney banner, based on a Disney animated property, that’s not at all meant for kids.

Well, you can kill that imagination, because that’s too much to ask. Since the songs from the 1967 movie are among the most recognizable things about it, you can be sure that we’ll get snippets of “The Bare Necessities” and “I Wanna Be Like You,” even though they feel completely out of place in this interpretation of the source material. The action stops more or less dead in its tracks so a few additional cute critters can emerge while Mowgli tries to procure honeycomb for Baloo, as almost all the comic relief — including Murray’s vocal performance — falls flat. There’s a “studio notes” vibe radiating from large chunks of this thing, as though some executive looked at a draft of the script built on the pure excitement of the story, and fumed, “Where the hell is the kid stuff?”

The sad reality is that there’s a lot to like about individual pieces of The Jungle Book, even beyond its visual impact. Young Neel Sethi gives an endearingly charismatic performance, which is particularly impressive considering he isn’t working with a single other human actor. There’s even an intriguing contemporary political allegory built into the tale of Mowgli as an immigrant in this world — especially given that the main villain is an orange-haired bully who threatens everyone, and thinks the immigrant is a danger who needs to be eliminated.

But The Jungle Book isn’t simply a movie; it’s a Disney brand, and there’s too much at stake to build a movie on scary thrills without also including comfortably nostalgic callbacks and cuddly talking animals.

Parents bringing their youngsters will find a movie that’s really not for them — and would have been even better if Disney hadn’t tried to convince them otherwise. 

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This French import (presented in Spokane dubbed with English, rather than subtitled) imagines an alternate reality in which electricity was never discovered and the world continued to rely on coal, and then charcoal, to provide steam-based energy. A young girl named April whose scientist parents (who may have a carbon-free energy solution) are kidnapped, leading her on an adventure to save them. At Magic Lantern (MB) Rated PG

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In an effort to combat the rough economy, Calvin (Ice Cube) and Angie (Regina Hall) combine their respective barbershop and beauty salon businesses into one. Meanwhile, crime and gangs are on the rise in Chicago and Calvin worries this might affect his son’s future. The unified barbershop family decides to take matters into its own hands and regain the family and friend-oriented neighborhood that once existed. (CS) Rated PG-13

BORN TO BE BLUE

Ethan Hawke stars as Chet Baker in this biopic of the jazz trumpeter’s legendary music career and often out-of-control personal life. Baker was a pioneer

in his early days, but was overshadowed by other players like Miles Davis as Baker’s heroin addiction spiraled out of control. The good and the bad is all here in Robert Budreau’s latest film.

At Magic Lantern (MB) Rated R

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As government officials become more desperate to find the whereabouts of a hacker who can fire missiles at will, they rely on a neurosurgeon to meld the minds of dead CIA agent Bill Pope (Ryan Reynolds) and vicious deathrow inmate Jerico Stewart (Kevin Costner). By gaining Pope’s memories and skills, Stewart will race against the clock to finish a job Pope started, and halt an international conspiracy. (MM) Rated R

JUNGLE BOOK

Jon Favreau takes a break from making the Iron Man franchise to craft this live-action adaptation of the Disney classic. There’s some genuine action to be found as Mogwai tries to escape danger, as well as a few laughs with the Bill Murray-voiced Baloo the bear, but overall it’s Disney forcing a kidfriendly feel on a genuinely engaging film. (MB) Rated PG ...continued on next page

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A young woman (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) wakes up after a serious accident to find herself being taken care of by a doomsday survivalist type (John Goodman) who tells her the world outside his bunker is an uninhabitable wasteland. This isn’t exactly a sequel to 2008 hit Cloverfield, but expect some of the same mix of humor and horror. (DN) Rated PG-13

BATMAN V SUPERMAN: THE DAWN OF JUSTICE

After Superman’s last brawl with his nemesis General Zod, the city of Metropolis is in for another heart-stopping fight between characters — but this time, it’s between two heroes. As Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) begins to conclude that Superman is a threat to humanity, he plots an attack to end the Man of Steel’s time on Earth. Lex Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg) also joins in the fight to get his own piece of Superman’s downfall.

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THE BOSS

Rich and queen-like Michelle Darnell (Melissa McCarthy) is used to asserting her power until she goes to federal prison for insider trading. After she serves her time, things are different: She is broke, homeless and alone. Her old assistant Claire (Kristen Bell) is the only person willing to re-engage and offers her a place to stay. Soon the ex-mogul creates a business model for a Brownie empire that will return her to former glory, though along the way, former adversaries stand as obstacles. (CS) Rated R

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In the latest installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, we find the redclad assassin Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) seeking out a man named Francis (Ed Skrein) for his role he played in ruining his life. But we also see his former life as Wade Wilson, a wisecracking mercenary. (SR) Rated R

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Davis Mitchell (Jake Gyllenhaal) — a New York investment banker whose wife has just died in a car accident — responds to his bag of M&Ms getting stuck in a hospital vending machine by writing several letters of complaint to the vending machine company, and including in those letters the story of his marriage. Then he begins hanging out with a customer service person from the company and befriending her son as he tries to put his life back together. (MB) Rated R

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Our hero, Tris (Shailene Woodley) returns to find herself up against the Factionless leader Evelyn (Naomi Watts), who’s effectively in control of the city

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and inciting mob hatred against the defeated Erudite Faction, which has pushed Chicago to the brink of total civil war. Now, Tris and company wonder if reaching out to the outsiders they learned of in the previously installment of the series could help them. (MJ) Rated PG-13

EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT

This Colombian drama that travels into the heart of the Amazon is a highly original take on the oft-told story of how indigenous cultures are wiped out (often inadvertently) by Western explorers.

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EYE IN THE SKY

As British Intelligence forces gain eyes on a group of terrorists in Nairobi, Kenya, Lieutenant General Frank Benson (Alan Rickman) and Colonel Katherine Powell (Helen Mirren) face complications as they command a United States operated drone to launch a missile to assassinate the terrorist group. The allied forces are faced with a decision to strike the group, which would include killing a civilian girl, or face the consequences of continued international terror. (MM) Rated R

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Facing charges and the loss of her teaching job, a middle school teacher finds herself in the midst of a heated court case after she answers a question about Jesus in her classroom. (MM) Rated PG

HARDCORE HENRY

In this sci-fi action film, Henry is brought back from the dead as a half-human, half-robotic hybrid. Shortly after waking up in a hotel room, a group of armed men barge in and kidnap a woman who says she’s his wife. With his new abilities, he rages through the city in this action romp, which is filmed in first person through Henry’s eyes. (CS) Rated R

HELLO, MY NAME IS DORIS

Doris Miller (Sally Field) is a nevermarried 60-something woman whose life for years has consisted of nothing more than taking care of her elderly mother in their Staten Island home and doing data entry in the same Manhattan office. Then Doris’ mother dies, leaving her alone and adrift. At around the same

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THE LADY IN THE VAN

Based on the true story of eccentric Miss Shepherd (played by beloved British actress Maggie Smith) in Alan Bennett’s story, a temporary visit turns into 15 years when she first parks her van in Bennett’s London driveway. At first he hesitantly allows this as a favor, but soon a relationship is cultivated that permeates and changes both of their lives. At Magic Lantern (CS) Rated PG-13

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A young boy Alton has been secretly whisked away by his father. Soon, we find that the boy — who wears swimming goggles at all times — is possessed with other-worldly powers and is being sought by both federal agents believing him to be a dangerous weapon and a cult, which thinks he’s a prophet.

Director Jeff Nichols (Mud, Take Shelter) experiments with the sci-fi realm while continuing to explore family dynamics.

(MB) Rated PG-13

MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING 2

Fourteen years after the romantic comedy My Big Fat Greek Wedding became a household name, its sequel has now arrived. In this new installment, married couple Toula (Nia Vardalos) and Ian Portokalos (John Corbett) struggle to inspire their marriage with passion and deal with a teenage daughter who is at odds with Greek traditions. And when a family secret is revealed, the Portokalos clan band together in preparation for the biggest wedding yet. (CS) Rated PG-13

ZOOTOPIA

Judy Hopps, the first female rabbit on the big city police force, must work with a con artist fox to solve a disappearance case that no one else will take. The film is Disney’s 55th full-length feature, and it delicately explores the issues of race and discrimination in a way that’s entertaining (for kids and adults alike) and never preachy. Actors lending their voice talents include Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Jenny Slate, Kristen Bell, Shakira and even Tommy Chong.

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Imagine: Paris to Berlin in only Along with her talking 83 hours! cat, Darwin, April ends APRIL AND THE Of course, France and the up headquartered in the EXTRAORDINARY WORLD U.S. are at war over Canada’s hollow steel head of the Rated PG huge swaths of still-forested gigantic statue of Napoleon Directed by Christian Desmares, Franck Ekinci land, while the rest of the that looms over Paris, Starring the voices of Susan Sarandon, J.K. world — Paris, mostly, where flanked by not one, but Simmons, Paul Giamatti, Tony Hale the film is set — is covered in two Eiffel Towers. AdvenAt Magic Lantern soot and suffering from a colture awaits, of course, but lective case of black lung. (See? there’s also plenty of room I told you steampunk wasn’t a good idea.) in this wonderfully written and extremely intelThanks to a rip-roaringly excellent story and ligent animated film to comment on love, loss, the film’s utterly beautiful traditional (non-CGI, rampant militarism, and, zut alors!, giant talking that is) animation, both tree-huggers and climate lizards. Francophobes be warned: You miss out change deniers should, for once, unite in being on this and you miss out on something entirely, swept up into this fantastical, utterly mesmerizing amazingly original and jaw-droppingly entertaintale. ing. C’est magnifique! 

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Ramblin’ and Rollin’ Charley Berryhill just started a record business, and soon he’s taking it on the road

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ther Cheney third graders didn’t listen to Elvis — not in the early ’90s, anyway.

So when Charley Berryhill’s Mississippi aunt sent him a tape of the King, he told his parents “no thanks.” Later, lured into the living room by the tantalizing sounds of “Jailhouse Rock” playing on his dad’s stereo, he realized his error.

“It was great, it was infectious,” recalls Berryhill, now 34.

The vinyl enthusiast hasn’t let his peers dictate his musical tastes since. He listens to what he likes (a lot of old-school hip-hop, R&B and funk) and says others should too. While he’s

consigned records at various local shops for a few years, two months ago Berryhill started his own business, Ramblin’ Records & Vintage.

This weekend he’ll offer his first pop-up shop at the Bartlett, coinciding with Record Store Day (although he’s not an official participant and won’t offer the RSD merchandise). With about 1,000 records in his personal collection, Berryhill says he’ll have nearly 5,000 records for sale at the event, including everything from the obscure to the obvious, like the albums of artists from his childhood — the Eagles, Styx, and of course, Elvis. ...continued on next page

MORE RECORD STORE DAY EVENTS Prepare for Saturday by checking out recordstoreday.com for the full list of RSD 2016 exclusives. Currently, not all local record stores know which limited-edition albums they’ll receive. Call for more info.

4,000 Holes, 1610 N. Monroe, 325-1914: Opening at 8 am, free RSD swag available and an exclusive special edition poster. Live music by Danny and the Sugarmakers and James Fry, along with comedy from Ken McComb, starts at 3 pm.

Garageland, 230 W. Riverside, 315-8324: Opening early at 7 am, with an in-store record signing by the Thermals (later playing the Bartlett) in the afternoon. Live DJ spins ’80s music at 8 pm.

Groove Merchants, 905 W. Garland, 328-2327: Although not officially part of RSD, expect a large vintage record sale with live music throughout the day. The store opens at 9 am.

The Long Ear, 1620 N. Government Way, Coeur d’Alene, 208-765-3472: Opening at 10 am, the recently moved spot plans to release a bunch of used vinyl gems they’ve saved specifically for the day, along with the RSD selections.

Manito Tap House, 3011 S. Grand, 279-2671: From 11 am to 3 pm, bring in your records to be played in-house. Sip Dogfish Head beer and enter to win a record player (winner announced at 3 pm). No records are for sale.

Recorded Memories, 1902 N. Hamilton, 483-4753: Opening by 11 am; as long as weather holds, there’ll be an outdoor sale. Official RSD posters are available.

— LAURA JOHNSON

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A brick-and-mortar space seems confining, he says. There’s too much overhead, and you’re expected to be there daily.

Instead, he buys whole vinyl collections from folks on Craigslist and hits up estate and garage sales.

“The best part of this is the digging, the thrill of the hunt, the getting dirty for a little bit to find the best records,” he says.

Soon, the South Hill resident will take to the road to mine the vinyl collections of other Americans. Once the weather turns cold later this year — he’s outside as much as possible during the summer — Berryhill plans to travel the U.S. in a van he hasn’t yet purchased. He’ll wind down the West Coast and snake through the lower part of the country until he hits the Atlantic Ocean, along the way buying and selling records. He wants to find albums you can’t find on Spotify or iTunes or anywhere else, and bring them back to Spokane. His job at a group home for at-risk youth allows him the flexibility.

Berryhill is quick to say that records are cool right now. Like many other Americans his age, he started collecting about 10 years ago, around the same time that vinyl sales began to grow steadily.

According to Nielsen’s 2015 U.S. Music Year-End Report, record sales have risen another whopping 30 percent over the past year, with nearly 12 million units moved. What’s even more thrilling is that vinyl is keeping independent record stores in business, with 45 percent of all sales occurring at small shops, not online. For nine years, Record Store Day has helped guide this trend, bringing big lines.

“There’s a novelty here; this was my generation’s first format,” says Berryhill, who also DJs around town. “Album covers and band names are interesting, and that’s what it is. It’s the tangible aspect of it. MP3s you can’t touch and feel. You don’t just hand people your phone to look through your collection; instead, it’s a conversation piece that people can identify you with.”

Once back from his travels — an annual expedition, he hopes — Berryhill plans to continue expanding his pop-up shop business.

He says he doesn’t want to be an everyday competitor to the record stores already established.

“But I want to be a minor annoyance from time to time,” he says. n

“The best part of this is the digging, the thrill of the hunt, the getting dirty for a little bit to find the best records.”

Record Store Day (unofficial) with Ramblin’ Records pop-up shop and Matt Mitchell performing • Sat, April 16, at 10 am • Free • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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Hometown Check-in Nashville North co-owner Jeremy McComb is back in Stateline touting a new record

BY AZARIA PODPLESKY

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hough he grew up playing in one, Post Falls native and country singer Jeremy McComb never thought he’d own a country club.

So when McComb, who had moved to Nashville years earlier, got a call from Kelly Hughes, the former owner of Kelly’s (aka Big Al’s), in 2014, asking if he wanted to buy the venue, he declined.

“I said, ‘Dude, I live 2,000 miles away. I don’t know what I would do with it,’” he recalls.

But after hanging up, McComb began to think about how much that space meant to him.

He quit school at 16 to play in the Kelly Hughes Band, which led to a job at a radio station, where he met Southern-fried comedian Larry the Cable Guy. McComb managed the comedian for four years, and wrote music for his Blue Collar Comedy Tour films, which led to a record deal in Nashville.

Jeremy McComb comes through Nashville North multiple times a year, including this weekend. “[Kelly’s] was really the place that grew me into a professional musician,” McComb says.

McComb then called his best friend, Bob Kreaman, with an offer of his own: They would co-own Nashville North, with Kreaman handling the day-to-day duties and McComb overseeing the entertainment.

“Everything out there starts with Bob, and he does such a good job that I get to take a little bit of the credit,” McComb says.

McComb is currently crisscrossing the country in support of FM, his recent third album and the second to be funded by fans. This weekend, he’s back performing at his own club.

McComb recorded FM with producer Jamie Tate (Brooks & Dunn, Sheryl Crow, Taylor Swift) at Tate’s Rukkus Room in Nashville, though he says the album recalls experiences he had growing up in the Pacific

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Northwest.

FM is light on twang (blame McComb’s Idaho upbringing) but heavy on the authentic country emotion, though pop and rock melodies give the album crossover hit potential. This album has reinvigorated McComb’s career, after his sophomore release, 2011’s Leap and the Net Will Appear, failed to gain much traction.

McComb says it was just a matter of time.

“I’m in the prime of a very, very creative place right now,” he says. “The longer you do it, you get better at it, and I think that all of the other pieces that you need to fall into place have finally come into place.”  Jeremy McComb with Luke Jaxon • Fri, April 15, at 9 pm • Free/ladies; $5/men after 8 pm • 21+ • Nashville North • 6361 W. Seltice Way, Stateline • thenashvillenorth.com • 208-777-8312

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ot on the heels of playing at a massive Bernie Sanders rally in their Portland hometown and the release of their excellent new slab of scalding hot rawk, the Thermals visit for opening night of their tour.

Consider yourself #Blessed, because the Thermals are a live force with an uncanny knack for making songs full of downtrodden lyrics come through as joyful, buoyant sing-alongs. That new album, We Disappear, is full of deeply personal songs dissecting relationships and how destructive they can be when things go wrong, yet they’re delivered with killer hooks and the intense, seasoned interplay of guitarist/singer Hutch Harris, bassist Kathy Foster and drummer Westin Glass. Don’t be late for this one; openers Summer Cannibals boast a huge buzz for their upcoming Full Of It album.

— DAN NAILEN The Thermals with Summer Cannibals • Sat, April 16, at 8 pm • $12/$15 day of • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

J = THE INLANDER RECOMMENDS THIS SHOW J = ALL AGES SHOW

Thursday, 04/14

BARLOWS AT LIBERTY LAKE (9241446), Sunny Nights Duo BOLO’S, Inland Empire Blues Society Monthly Blues Boogie BOOMERS CLASSIC ROCK BAR & GRILL, Randy Campbell acoustic show J BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE, The Song Project J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Open Jazz Jam with Erik Bowen BUCKHORN INN, The Spokane River Band J CHAPS, Spare Parts COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, PJ Destiny CRAVE, DJ Freaky Fred FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Kicho JOHN’S ALLEY, Brother Gow J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Just Plain Darin LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Matt Mitchell NODLAND CELLARS TASTING ROOM, Abe Kenny J NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, [Sold-Out] Salt-N-Pepa with DJ Spinderella and En Vogue O’SHAYS IRISH PUB & EATERY, Open mic with Adrian and Leo RED ROOM LOUNGE, Latin Tursdays feat. DJ Wax808 TIMBER GASTRO PUB (208-2629593), Talmadge ZOLA, Flying Mammals

Friday, 04/15

1210 TAVERN (208-765-1210), Harvey & Stanley Band 315 MARTINIS & TAPAS, Bill Bozly J BABY BAR, Divers, the Smokes, Guilt Gift J THE BARTLETT, All Day Trey, Purpose BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J THE BIG DIPPER, The Nathaniel Johnstone Band BLACK DIAMOND, DJ Major One

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or a Seattle band, Tangerine certainly is sunny. The three-piece’s music is citrussweet rock that never delves into a cloud of tiresome dream pop. Marika Justad offers a soulful brightness on vocals, keys and guitars, while her sister Miro keeps the fun together on drums and Toby Kuhn adds bold, juicy flavor on guitar.

Sugar Teeth, the group’s new EP, gives listeners four delightful 1980s-pop-infused tunes. The band’s been performing at big festivals all around the country, and will play a Sasquatch! set this year. Catch them this weekend at the Observatory for a more intimate experience.

— LAURA JOHNSON Tangerine with Summer in Siberia and Caprice • Sat, April 16, at 8 pm • $5 • 21+ • The Observatory • 15 S. Howard • obeservatorypokane.com • 598-8933

BOLO’S, Phoenix J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, Heather & the Soulmotions J CHATEAU RIVE, Herrick CHECKERBOARD BAR, The Backups, Lakoda, Joshua Belliardo COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Dan Conrad CRAVE, Stoney Hawk FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Donnie Emerson & Nancy Sophia FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Chris Reiser & the Nerve THE HIVE, Hells Belles, The Miah Kohal Band IRON HORSE BAR, JamShack THE JACKSON ST., The Kenny James Miller Band JOHN’S ALLEY, Lounge On Fire JONES RADIATOR, San Juan, Marco Polo Collective J KNITTING FACTORY, Parachute, Jon McLaughlin, Brynn Elliot LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil

MOOSE LOUNGE, Slow Burn MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Dave Hannon J NASHVILLE NORTH, Jeremy McComb west coast tour kickoff (See story on page 49) NODLAND CELLARS TASTING ROOM (927-7770), The Eclectic Electric Fusion Rock Show NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, DJ Ramsin THE PALOMINO, Blistered Earth, Second Sting PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, The Flying Mammals J PEND OREILLE PLAYHOUSE (4479900), Broken Whistle THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler THE ROADHOUSE, Smash Hit Carnival THE ROCK BAR & LOUNGE, Cary Fly Band

SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE, Hanna Rebecca J SWAXX, UZ J THE PIN!, Baby Eazy-E, Courage, JL, Manwitnoname, Benny-Bee, D’Jango, Arete, ATG, White Lion, Jake Ryan, Demon Assassin THE VIKING BAR & GRILL, Blumeadows ZOLA, Uppercut

Saturday, 04/16

315 MARTINIS & TAPAS, Echo Elysim J 4000 HOLES, Record Store Day with Danny and the Sugarmakers, James Fry AUNTIE’S BOOKSTORE, Spokane Unplugged: Acoustic Open Mic BARLOWS AT LIBERTY LAKE, Jan Harrison, Doug Folkins, Danny McCollim J THE BARTLETT, Record Store Day feat. Matt Mitchell (See story on

page 47) J THE BARTLETT, The Thermals (See story above), Summer Cannibals BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J THE BIG DIPPER, Odyssey CD Release Party feat. Flannel Math Animal, Isthmusia BLACK DIAMOND, DJ Major One BOLO’S, Phoenix J BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB, The Winter Days COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Dan Conrad COEUR D’ALENE CELLARS, Steve Smirky CRAVE, Stoney Hawk DI LUNA’S CAFE, The Snack Brothers with Flatpick Earl FEDORA PUB & GRILLE, Just Plain Darin FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Chris Reiser & the Nerve J GARAGELAND, Record Store Day ‘80s DJ show

IRON HORSE BAR, JamShack THE JACKSON ST., DJ Dave JOHN’S ALLEY, Ayo Dot & the Uppercuts JONES RADIATOR, Buffalo Jones, Danny Newcomb & the Sugarmakers, Liz Rognes J KNITTING FACTORY, Too Broke to Rock Series feat. Adelita’s Way, Lacey Sturm, Stitched Up Heart, Nixon Rodeo, Alive in Barcelona, LA ROSA CLUB, Open Jam

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THE LARIAT INN, Bobby Bremer Band LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Karrie O’Neill LITZ’S BAR & GRILL, Litz’s 8th Anniversary party feat. Six-Strings n’ Pearls Rock Band MAX AT MIRABEAU, Spokane Dan & The Blues Blazers MOOSE LOUNGE, Slow Burn MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Carli Osika NASHVILLE NORTH, Luke Jaxon, DJ Tom NODLAND CELLARS TASTING ROOM, TIm Nodland and Riley Gray NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, DJ Ramsin J THE OBSERVATORY, Tangerine (See story on facing page),

Summer in Siberia, Caprice PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Mike Wagoner & Utah John THE RESERVE, Working Spliffs THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Dueling Pianos feat. Christan Raxter & Steve Ridler THE ROADHOUSE, Limosine J THE PIN!, Hip Hop Showcase VI feat. Kosh, Brotha Nature, Treveezy, Vybe, Jake Ryon, Saint Thomas, Dak Sugden and Mythodical, Ricky Scott, Wrang THE VIKING BAR & GRILL, Flying Mammals with Tommy G ZOLA, Uppercut

Sunday, 04/17

J THE BARTLETT, Pert Near Sandstone, Head For the Hills COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Kosh DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Jam Night with VooDoo Church THE JACKSON ST., Zach Flanary with Wyatt Wayne, Luke Lautaret and Steve Livingston all acoustic jam LINGER LONGER LOUNGE, Open jam MULLIGAN’S BAR & GRILLE, Carli Osika NASHVILLE NORTH, Aaron Watson NEWMAN LAKE GRANGE, Country Jammers THE PIN!, OTEP, Through the Fire, September Mourning, Doll Skin ZOLA, Caprise

Monday, 04/18

J THE BIG DIPPER, The Bob Curnow Big Band

J CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY, Open Mic EICHARDT’S, Monday Night Jam with Truck Mills LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Monday Night Spotlight feat. Carey Brazil RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic with MJ The In-Human Beatbox ZOLA, Fus Bol

Tuesday, 04/19

J THE BARTLETT, Open Mic J THE BIG DIPPER, SNAP Benefit Show feat. Run Boy Run, Wyatt Wood THE BOILER ROOM (863-9213), Nick Grow THE JACKSON ST., DJ Dave JOHN’S ALLEY, Zach Deputy JONES RADIATOR, Open Mic of Open-ness J KNITTING FACTORY, The Story So Far LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Turntable Tuesday MIK’S, DJ Brentano J MOSCOW FOOD CO-OP, Noa and Nicole SWAXX, T.A.S.T.Y with DJs Freaky Fred, Beauflexx ZOLA, The Bucket List

Wednesday, 04/20 THE BIG DIPPER, 4-20 Celebration feat. Real Life Rockaz, Flying Spiders, 1 Tribe, Jus Wrigh, The River City Roots Band, Real Life Sound System EICHARDT’S, Charley Packard

GENO’S TRADITIONAL FOOD & ALES, Open Mic with T & T THE JACKSON ST., DJ Dave J KNITTING FACTORY, Flatbush Zombies, A$AP Twelvyy, Remy Banks THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE, DJ Lydell LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3 NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, ABBA The Concert - A Tribute Show RED ROOM LOUNGE, Hip Hop Is A Culture THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Soul Proprietor, Jam with Steve Ridler SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Open mic J THE PIN!, Still Burnin’ 420 feat.

Kaminanda, Drumspyder, Spoken Bird, 2CBEATZ, DJ Freaky Fred THE ROADHOUSE, Open mic with Vern Vogel and the Volcanoes ZOLA, The Bossame

Coming Up ...

THE PIN!, Beth & Tommy G’s Welcome Home Show, April 21 THE BARTLETT, Unifest 2016 Launch Party feat. Water Monster, Von the Baptist, Lavoy, DJ Jellyfyst, April 23 THE BIG DIPPER, Devils of Loudun, Age of Nefilim, Benign, Serpentspire, April 24 SARANAC PUBLIC HOUSE, KYRS rooftop show feat. Boyfriends, Phlegm Fatale, Local Pavlov, April 26 BABY BAR, Pony Time, Holy Cows, Peru Resh, April 28 CHATEAU RIVE, Peter Rivera, April 29

MUSIC | VENUES 315 MARTINIS & TAPAS • 315 E. Wallace, CdA • 208-667-9660 ARBOR CREST • 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. • 927-9463 BABY BAR • 827 W. First Ave. • 847-1234 THE BARTLETT • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2174 BIG BARN BREWING • 16004 N. Applewood Ln, Mead • 238-2489 THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington St. • 863-8098 BIGFOOT PUB • 9115 N. Division St. • 467-9638 BING CROSBY THEATER • 901 W. Sprague Ave. • 227-7638 BLACK DIAMOND • 9614 E. Sprague • 891-8357 BOLO’S• 116 S. Best Rd. • 891-8995 BOOMERS • 18219 E. Appleway Ave. • 755-7486 BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE • 24 W. Main Ave. • 703-7223 BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB • 201 S. Main, Moscow • 208-882-5216 BUCKHORN INN • 13311 Sunset Hwy.• 244-3991 CALYPSOS • 116 E Lakeside Ave., CdA • 208665-0591 THE CELLAR • 317 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-6649463 CHAPS • 4237 Cheney-Spokane Rd. • 624-4182 CHATEAU RIVE • 621 W. Mallon Ave. • 795-2030 CHECKERBOARD BAR • 1716 E. Sprague • 535-4007 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 S. Nukwalqw Rd., Worley • 800-523-2464 COEUR D’ALENE CELLARS • 3890 N. Schreiber Way, CdA • 208-664-2336 CRAFTED TAP HOUSE • 523 Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-292-4813 CRAVE• 401 W. Riverside Suite 101. • 321-7480 CRUISERS • 6105 W Seltice Way, Post Falls • (208) 773-4706 CURLEY’S • 26433 W. Hwy. 53 • 208-773-5816 DALEY’S • 6412 E. Trent • 535-9309 EICHARDT’S • 212 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208263-4005 FEDORA PUB • 1726 W. Kathleen, CdA • 208765-8888 FIZZIE MULLIGANS • 331 W. Hastings Rd. • 466-5354 THE FLAME • 2401 E. Sprague Ave. • 534-9121 FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200 GRANDE RONDE CELLARS • 906 W. 2nd • 455-8161 HANDLEBARS • 12005 E. Trent, Spokane Valley • 309-3715 HOGFISH • 1920 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-667-1896 IRON HORSE • 407 E. Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-667-7314 THE JACKSON ST. • 2436 N. Astor • 315-8497 JOHN’S ALLEY • 114 E. 6th, Moscow • 208-8837662 JONES RADIATOR • 120 E. Sprague • 747-6005 KNITTING FACTORY • 911 W. Sprague Ave. • 244-3279 LAGUNA CAFÉ • 2013 E. 29th • 448-0887 THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE • 1004 S. Perry St. • 315-9531 THE LARIAT • 11820 N Market St, Mead • 4669918 LA ROSA CLUB • 105 S. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208-255-2100 LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington • 315-8623 LUCKY’S IRISH PUB • 408 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2605 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan Rd. • 924-9000 MIK’S • 406 N 4th, CdA • 208-666-0450 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 MULLIGAN’S • 506 Appleway Ave., CdA • (208) 765-3200 x310 NASHVILLE NORTH • 6361 W. Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208-457-9128 NECTAR• 120 N. Stevens St. • 869-1572 NORTHERN QUEST • 100 N. Hayford • 242-7000 NYNE • 232 W. Sprague Ave. • 474-1621 THE OBSERVATORY• 15 S Howard • 598-8933 O’SHAY’S • 313 E. CdA Lake Dr. • 208-667-4666 THE PALOMINO • 6425 N Lidgerwood St • 242-8907 PEND D’OREILLE WINERY • 301 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-265-8545 THE PIN! • 412 W. Sprague • 368-4077 RED LION RIVER INN • 700 N. Division St. • 326-5577 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague Ave. • 838-7613 REPUBLIC BREWING • 26 Clark Ave. • 775-2700 THE RESERVE • 120 N. Wall • 598-8783 THE RIDLER PIANO BAR • 718 W. Riverside . • 822-7938 THE ROADHOUSE • 20 N. Raymond • 413-1894 SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE • 209 E. Lakeside Ave. • 208-664-8008 THE SHOP • 924 S. Perry St. • 534-1647 SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS • 117 N. Howard St. • 459-1190 SPOKANE ARENA • 720 W. Mallon • 279-7000 SWAXX • 23 E. Lincoln Rd. • 703-7474 TAMARACK • 912 W Sprague • 315-4846 TIMBER GASTRO PUB •1610 E Schneidmiller, Post Falls • 208-262-9593 THE VIKING • 1221 N. Stevens St. • 315-4547 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416

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Cornelius Eady appears at this year’s Get Lit! Festival.

FESTIVAL LOCAL LIT

Though last week’s cover story featured a big preview of the 2016 Get Lit! Festival, events are still happening through this weekend, with most of the big headliner events set for Saturday. Thursday, however, features the always popular Pie & Whiskey social and reading at the Woman’s Club of Spokane. Prior to that, Pulitzer-winning author Paul Harding reads alongside Northwest author Nance Van Winckel. Friday night’s main highlight is “An Evening of Poetry and Music feat.

Cornelius Eady and Rough Magic.” Saturday is packed with readings, panels and book launches, capped by the Garth Stein headliner event at the Fox Theater. Then, don’t miss the highly-anticipated erotic fan fiction reading and panel on Saturday at 8 pm. To find last week’s Get Lit! coverage, visit Inlander.com.

— CHEY SCOTT Get Lit! Festival • Events continue daily through Sun, April 17 • Prices vary; some events free • Visit getlitfestival.org for complete schedule and ticketing info

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WORDS WOMEN & THE INTERNET

FESTIVAL HIP FOR HEMP

Women’s Bodies, the Internet and N*pples: Why Censorship Matters • Thu, April 14, at 7 pm • Free and open to the public • Jundt Art Museum • 200 E. Desmet • 313-6843

Moscow Hemp Fest • Sat, April 16, from 10 am-8 pm • Free • All-ages • East City Park • 900 E. Third St., Moscow • tyedye@ moscow.com • 208-301-2289

Despite the rapid onset of the “Free the N*pple” campaign and the push to legalize toplessness for women in 37 states, Gonzaga’s Women’s and Gender Studies department is tackling the opposite side of the argument for censorship-based equality. Hosted at the Jundt Art Museum, Gonzaga undergraduate students Stephanie Allen and Luke Johnson present the third installment of the department’s Pop Culture Series, discussing why censorship of the female body on the internet can be a good thing, and the negative impact that loose censoring has on women.

— MEG MACLEAN

The 20th annual Moscow Hemp Fest takes over East City Park this Saturday, serving as a place where community members can catch live music, hear from marijuana industry advocates and shop from hemp-friendly vendors. But just because the event is right across the Washington state border, don’t think it’s OK to be lighting up on-site — Idaho is still way behind the Evergreen state’s stance on recreational weed. Still, attendees can meet like-minded folks with the Idaho cannabis movement, fighting to get the Gem State up to speed in its view of marijuana use.

— CHEY SCOTT

MUSIC SAMPLE OF INDIA

You’ve probably heard the sitar and tabla instruments of classical Indian music in movies, but this Saturday, it gets even better — hear them played in person by world-renowned musicians Anupama Bhagwat and Ravi Albright.

Both perform for a concert hosted by the South Asia Cultural Association of Spokane. Anupama, a sitar musician who has performed globally since 1995, fuses her more modern style with tradition of the instrument. And though Albright was born in Seattle, he is no stranger to global performances. In 2006, he became a part of the Farukhabad Gharana, a well-known traditional school of tabla playing in India. After both performances, this cultural immersion doesn’t end: Spokane’s Taste of India will be selling Indian food and tea.

— CLAIRE STANDAERT

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6TH ANNUAL

Indian Classical Music feat. Anupama Bhagwat and Ravi Albright • Sat, April 16, at 2 pm • $15-$20; free/ages 10 and under • Unity Spiritual Center • 2900 S. Bernard • sacaspokane@gmail.com • 467-5558

REGISTER FOR A CHANCE TO WIN A $1,000 VISA GIFT CARD MEMORIAL GOODBYE, PATTY

On March 29, Oscar and Emmy winner Anna “Patty” Duke Pearce died from sepsis in Coeur d’Alene. Her passing brought a wave of grief and remembrance throughout North Idaho, which the child star turned screen legend had called home for nearly 30 years. Although she continued working in film and television while living in the area, the actress was not above working with local theaters and inspired the region’s young actors along the way. This public memorial provides a chance for those affected by her presence in the community, or even just her acting performances, to pay tribute.

— MIKE BOOKEY

one entry per person, per open house (21+); prize is one $1,000 VISA gift card; winner will be drawn and announced on May 4th.

To find participating open houses, visit:

Patty Duke Memorial • Sat, April 16, at 11 am • Lake City Community Church • 6000 N. Ramsey Rd., Coeur d’Alene

EVENTS | CALENDAR

BENEFIT

8TH ANNUAL VALLEYFEST AUCTION “Mardi Gras Madness” is an auction to support Valleyfest in the fall. Includes a catered dinner; also bid on items during an auction. April 15, 5-9 pm. $45.

CenterPlace Regional Event Center, 2426 N. Discovery Place. valleyfest.org UNCORKED! 2016 Join NAWBO for an evening tasting local wines, beer, and specialty cocktails from the best view in Spokane in the exclusive Paulsen Penthouse. Pat Simmons sings live, also includes silent and live auction items. Only 100 tickets sold. April 15, 6-9 pm. $100/person. Paulsen Center, 421 W. Riverside. on.fb.me/1PNyeOJ ABUSE RECOVERY MINISTRY SERVICES SUPPORT BANQUET All proceeds go towards providing healing

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and transformation for those impacted by domestic violence and controlling relationships. April 16, 6:30-9 pm. CenterPlace Regional Event Center, 2426 N. Discovery Place Dr. (484-0600) APRIL SHOWERS The Lands Council’s 21st annual auction and dinner supports the restoration and revitalization of Inland Northwest forests, water and wildlife. April 16, 5-9 pm. $75/person; $500/table. Davenport Grand, 333 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. landscouncil.org CHOCOLATE & CHAMPAGNE GALA Lutheran Community Services Northwest’s annual gala features tastings of champagne, chocolate and a gourmet dinner, with silent and live auctions.

Proceeds benefit the Sexual Assault and Family Trauma Response Center.

April 16, 6 pm. Davenport Hotel, 10 S. Post St. lcsnw.org/spokane (343-5078)

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I SAW YOU TO MY BEST FRIEND I'm so glad I had a momentary burst of courage and told you to kiss me two years ago. You are such a driven, strong, kind, handsome man. You have humbled me, inspired me, comforted me, and excited me for two years now, and I am forever grateful that you can't imagine the years to come without me, and you will never have to.

You love me so much more than I deserve some times and you do it without asking for anything in return. I'd say I owe you my heart, C, but you already have it.

Happy two years. Thank you, I love you.

OH SEE WHAT YOU HAVE DONE I see a leprechaun that does not need a pot of gold, because it is in his eyes.

CALLING YOUR BLUFF you got on the phone and needed to wipe your way to handsome bearded face, you were also wearing a blue cap I wished I could of said something but I did not think it wise at the time you working and all. I also notice you would not make eye contact as I got close. So sorry I could not make the appointment I would have like very much to of been able to be there, but this should help you to see I was not bluffing.

PERFECT KISS I know it sounds corny and you laughed the time I told you, but to me it's what I've waited for my whole life everyone waits for the perfect kiss we were hanging out behind freddies last summer and oh as shy as I am I cracked that she'll right off with those gorgeous

eyes and your smile and me so complete out of my league I'm no ten but you weren't shy and we kissed and I didn't mess it up you didn't every kiss before and ever kiss I've had cents will never match your kiss the perfect kiss you know I love you but I believe your soulmate comes once in a lifetime time and dollface your mine I know the soul wants what my heart feels and that's your lips meant for mine your my perfect kiss no can kiss me the way you do with love always L&B that's me and you above all be good be safe cause I saw you now my life will never be the same

CHEERS YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL ON THE INSIDE & OUT KM: Who knew that a couple months down the road we would be where we are? I went from seeing a beautiful person on the outside and realizing you're just as beautiful on the inside. When I see you and hear your voice I get weak. Let's take it one day at a time and hopefully in the end all those days we had to take slow was worth the wait. Keep smiling and just being you cutie. Can't wait for our next sushi lunch date. Thanks for putting a smile on my face. It was lost until I met you. CN 4/10 VALLEY NOODLE EXPRESS Big shout out to the cashier for going above and beyond her job description to help me find something I could eat (food intolerances beyond suck when trying to eat out). Your simple gesture made me a repeat customer!

HELLO BATMAN Warm weather is here.

Time for beach basking and picnic lunches. Always in my thoughts. As for other comments here, their Facebook trolling must be slow lately. No problem.

CHEERS TO LOCAL MUSICIANS, DANCERS AND STORYTELLERS! We celebrate our many local performers and invite you to apply now to the 2016 Fall Folk Festival, Nov. 12-13. See details at www.spokanefolkfestival.com.

Dancers, musicians, storytellers, related workshops all welcome. Ethnic diversity always welcomed.

YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE, AND I LOVE THAT ABOUT YOU. Cheers to wrapping rainbows with a sigh, the kind of breath that makes you feel thankful to

be alive. Now will you please let me have my breath back?

THE CLINKERDAGGER'S COUPLE On February 20, my boyfriend and I (seniors in high school) enjoyed a late Valentine's dinner. We ordered the cheapest menus on the item and laughed at how silly we must look. When the waitress told us

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our bill had been covered, we were too shocked to say anything. As we walked out, we made a promise to do the same one day. Thank you for dinner. Thank you for believing in young love.

YOU'RE THE BREAST...I MEAN BEST! Thank you to the amazing Gonzaga students that held the American Cancer Society's Relay For Life rally on campus April 9. What a grand group of young, energetic and dedicated heroes you all are. I would like to especially thank Meaghan, Anna and Taylor who were so gracious to us survivors and to all the young men proudly wearing your "Save Second Base" T-shirts. Too funny! (Even though I had to have it explained to me!

You know you're getting old when....)

These "kids" are a group that Gonzaga U., their parents,the ACS and our community can and should be very proud of.

Thank you all very, very much. j

JEERS TRUCK SMOKE ASSHOLE To the asshole driving the black lifted truck on Friday, April 8. Is this the way to get girls in the "country"? 2 good-looking girls driving a red car just passed the Monroe St. bridge with their windows down and you decide to shoot every bit of black smoke you can out of your tailpipe and directly into their car? Cool bro. Hope you felt good about that, and to know you probably aren't gonna get their numbers that way.

rally on campus April 9. Sorry you missed it. I realize there was a major emergency on the Northside that day, but I'll bet if one of those "kids" had acted up, you would have found a camera crew. Oh and FYI, the event lasted more than 12 hours.

Young people doing the right is newsworthy, and we should be very proud of them. I am and thank them from the bottom of my heart. You are rocking, Zags! j I HOPE YOU STEP ON A LEGO To the white SUV driver who nearly t-boned me by the Falls on Monday: With decisionmaking skills like those, I am impressed you've made it this far in life. If there is a city bus picking up passengers, and you can't see oncoming traffic around the bus, do not pull out in front of said bus!

Your license should be revoked. You are a danger to everyone on the road. I hope you step on a Lego in bare feet.

HAIRSTYLIST/TERRIBLE PET OWNER ON GRAND You owned a beautiful cat and let him out even though you knew he was deaf and you are on a busy street.

When he was hit, you heartlessly told the Good Samaritan who called you when they found him to take him to Scraps and dump him. Then you immediately picked up another cat as though this one mattered not at all. How could you?

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So, it was one thing when we were dating and I tried so hard to fix you, and take care of you and did what I could to make it work. I don't know how many times.

You are the most selfish, uncaring, secretive person I've ever met. If you think you are going to get away with stealing from not only me, but my mom too you have another thing coming. Dragging your smarmy, sleazy, white trash, recycled, dub-t girlfriend into it is only going to make the situation much more harder. I am glad to finally be rid of you and this was the final straw for me. You use whoever you can and then resort to stealing.

I plan to do whatever I can to make sure you are caught. Have fun going to back to your favorite home away from home.

That is where you will end up anyways with the way you are going. I just wish I would have ended it sooner. Now I can have a normal life without you in it. 

THIS WEEK'S ANSWERS

LOW LIFE THIEF This is a jeers to the low life worthless piece of shit who busted my car window and stole my knife kit that also had recipes in it. I highly doubt your even competent enough to figure

NOTE: I Saw You/Cheers & Jeers is for adults 18 or older. The Inlander reserves the right to edit or reject any posting at any time at its sole discretion and assumes no responsibility for the content.

SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2016 STARTING AT SPOKANE FALLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE • First century ride of the season • 15, 25, 50, 66, 100 miles • All levels of riders are welcome • Course is monitored • Rest stops along the course • End of ride baked potato feed with all the fixin’s for all riders to enjoy There is also a tri-athlete secured bike corral for anyone interested in participating in a 5K run.

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out what to do with anything of mine you stole. It probably doesn't even matter considering your most likely going to sell it for drugs, because your better off a dead piece of shit than an alive one. I actually work hard for a living while you take from the rest of us. I will find you.

With decision-making skills like those, I am impressed you’ve made it this far in life.

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Provide basic info: your name and email (so we know you’re real). 4. To connect via I Saw You, provide a non-identifying email to be included with your submission — like “petals327@yahoo.com,” not “j.smith@comcast.net.”

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EVENTS | CALENDAR HEARTH HOMES RED CARPET GALA A black-tie event to raise funds for the programs of Hearth Homes, offering dinner, dancing, live/silent auctions and more.

April 16, 7 pm. $50/person or $85/pair.

Mirabeau Park Hotel, 1100 N. Sullivan Rd. hearth-homes.org/events (924-9000) SWEET SHOPPE HOP A Candyland-inspired “family prom” semi-formal dance event hosted by Palouse Skatepark. Proceeds benefit the first phase of construction of the skatepark. April 16, 6-8 pm. $10-$12. Palouse Grange Hall, 210 E. Bluff St. palouseskatepark.com RACE FOR THE CURE Susan G. Komen of Eastern Washington hosts the 8th annual regional walk/run to raise awareness and funds to support research, prevention and treatment of breast cancer. Includes a 1-mile survivors walk and 3K walk/run through Spokane. April 17. $15-$35/person. komeneasternwashington.org FERRANTE’S ADOPT-A-ROOM PROGRAM The 6th annual fundraiser donates all profits from Ferrante’s for two days to support Ronald McDonald House Charities of Spokane’s Adopt-A-Room program. April 19-20, from 11 am-9 pm. Ferrante’s Marketplace Cafe, 4516 S. Regal St. rmhcspokane.org (443-6304) OUTSPOKANE ANNUAL DINNER OutSpokane’s biggest fundraiser for Spokane Pride, the annual celebration of our Inland Northwest LGBTQ community.

Includes a plated dinner, auctions and a murder mystery show, “Ho Ho Homicide: Murder at the North Pole!” April 21, 6-10 pm. $35-$50. The Palomino, 6425 N. Lidgerwood. outspokane.org (720-7609) RENEW 2016 FEAT. SELAH This annual benefit concert features Selah, who ranks as one of the premiere inspirational Christian music artists. All proceeds go directly towards funding the mission of Christ Clinic/Christ Kitchen. April 21, 7-9 pm. $15. Life Center Church, 1202 N. Gov’t Way. ccckministry.org (325-0393)

COMEDY

BT Live comedy show by the comedian who’s performed in 43+ states, three countries and is seen in numerous television shows from the Sci-Fi Channels’ “Black Scorpion” to the critically acclaimed HBO movie “Suckers.” April 14-16 at 8 pm, also Sat. at 10:30 pm. $10-$22.

Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com (318-9998) STAND-UP COMEDY Live comedy featuring established and up-and-coming local comedians. Fridays at 8 pm. No cover. Red Dragon Chinese, 1406 W. Third. reddragondelivery.com (838-6688) SAFARI Fast-paced short-form improv games based on audience suggestions.

(Not rated.) Saturdays at 8 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) STAND-UP OPEN MIC Mondays; sign-up at 9:30 pm, show at 10 pm. Ages 21+. No cover. The Foxhole, 829 E. Boone. facebook.com/thefoxholespokane COMEDY CONFESSIONS: NEVER DRINKING AGAIN Featuring a new line up and topic; this time, local comedians confess their funniest drinking stories.

Hosted by Nick Cavasier. April 19, 8 pm. $5. Tamarack Public House, 912 W. Sprague. bit.ly/23e0kuC (509-315-4846) TRIVIA + OPEN MIC COMEDY Trivia starts at 8 pm; stick around for open mic comedy afterward. Tuesdays, from 8-10 pm. Free. Checkerboard Bar, 1716 E. Sprague Ave. checkerboardbar.com OPEN MIC A free open mic night every

Wednesday, starting at 8 pm. Doors open at 7 pm. Free. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com

COMMUNITY

LISTEN TO ME The community is invited to hear stories of survival and healing as part of UI’s recognition of National Sexual Assault Awareness Month. The keynote event features a talk by Moscow native Natalie Greenfield, a mother, life partner, business owner, musician and passionate advocate for sexual abuse victims. April 14, 7 pm. Free and open to the public.

University of Idaho Commons, 709 Deakin Ave. sub.uidaho.edu SENIOR RESOURCE & INFO FAIR Local professionals are on site to provide help and assistance connecting with resources and services in the community that cater to the senior population. April 14, 10 am-2 pm. Free. CenterPlace Event Center, 2426 N. Discovery Place Dr. (688-0300) TREASURE! A touring exhibit exploring the history of treasure and treasure hunting, the technology used to look for it, and the people obsessed with finding it.

Through May 29. Museum open Tue-Sun, from 10 am-5 pm. (Half-price admission on Tuesdays.) $5-$10/admission. The MAC, 2316 W. First. northwestmuseum.org MODEL TRAIN OPEN HOUSE The Inland Northwest Free-mo-N model railroad group displays its train layout, the largest operating of its kind in North Idaho. April 1516, 10 am-6 pm. Free. Coeur d’Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front. (208-769-2315) THIRD FRIDAY SWING DANCE A monthly dance for all swing dance styles: Lindy Hop, Charleston, East Coast, West Coast, Balboa, and Country Swing. Open to all ages. Includes a lesson from 7-8 pm, and dancing until 11. April 15, 7-11 pm. $5. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. Ninth. strictlyswingspokane.com MOSCOW HEMP FEST A full day of entertainment and education on the Cannabis Movement in Idaho, featuring local and regional bands including The Endangered Species, Voodoo Horseshoes, Ayo Dot and more. Also host to arts and craft and food vendors and speakers throughout the day.

April 16, 10 am-8 pm. Free. East City Park, 900 E. Third. (208-301-2289) STEPS FOR AUTISM 5K WALK/RUN Celebrate Autism Awareness month by participating in the second annual community walk/run, with proceeds benefit Northwest Autism Center, The Isaac Foundation and Autism Society of Washington, Spokane Chapter. April 16, 8 am-12:30 pm. $20+. Mirabeau Park Meadows, 13500 Mirabeau Pkwy. stepsforautism.org SULLIVAN BRIDGE ART UNVEILING An event to recognize the Spokane Valley students and teachers who created the 23 art panels that will brighten and bring color to the Sullivan Road Bridge replacement project area. April 16, 10 am. Free.

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VIETNAMESE HERITAGE DAY 2016 Celebration includes cultural performances, a slideshow presentation, food, live music, and traditional ancestor worship.

April 16, 1-4 pm. Free. Service Station, 9315 N. Nevada St. (466-1696) WALK & ROLL DISABILITY ACCEPTANCE EVENT A walk along a half-mile paved trail at the City of Pullman Playfield (820 SE South St.). Afterward, munch on snacks, listen to music, watch the cheerleaders and visit vender booths.

Funds benefit six designated local nonprofit agencies that support individuals

with disabilities. April 16, 3-5 pm. $12. on.fb.me/21njTOj (208-874-7891) 34TH ANNUAL SPRING DASH A 5-mile run to kick off the running season; walkers and wheelchairs welcome. Proceeds benefit United Way of Kootenai County. April 17, 9-11:30 am. $7-$30. McEuen Park, 420 E. Front, CdA. kootenaiunitedway.org YOUR ROLE IN SUICIDE PREVENTION A training to teach youth their role in suicide prevention and how to talk with and support friends or peers at risk. April 19, 6:30-7:30 pm. Free. Spark Center, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. sparkwestcentral.org ALCOHOL, MARIJUANA & MENTAL HEALTH A community forum hosted by Jason Kilmer and Shannon Bailie, both of the University of Washington’s Health and Wellness services. They’ll discuss how marijuana and alcohol impact memory and attention, sleep, suicide risk and more. Hosted by the SRHD. April 20, 7 pm. Free. Shadle Park High School, 4327 N. Ash St. (324-1504) UNDERSTANDING ISLAM Dr. Shannon Dunn from the Religious Studies Dept. at Gonzaga gives a historical background on Islam. She presents the continuities and similarities between Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and discusses the need for conversations to address the misunderstanding, fear, and anger that is directed at the Islamic faith and Muslims. April 13 and 20, from 7-8:30 pm. Free. St. Joseph’s Church, 1503 W. Dean Ave. (926-7133) MEET THE NEIGHBORS: THE BAHA’IS OF SPOKANE An event as part of Spokane Interfaith Council’s six-month tour of the region’s religious landscape, showcasing a local house of worship each month. April 21, 6 pm. Free, donations accepted. Davenport Hotel, 10 S. Post. bit.ly/238D6cV

FILM

SFCC PLANETARIUM SHOWS See “The Secret Lives of Stars” April 14-17 (times vary) and “Black Holes” June 9-12 (times vary). Tickets may be purchased by phone or at the SFCC Cashier’s Office (MF, 8 am-4 pm). $6/Adults; $3/students, ages 3-18. SFCC, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. bit.ly/25PHbBB HELLO, MY NAME IS DORIS With help from her best friend’s granddaughter, a smitten woman concocts schemes to get the attention of a younger co-worker (Max Greenfield) in her office. Rated R. April 15-17, show times vary. $5-$7. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org CCS INTERNATIONAL FILM FEST: LIKE FATHER LIKE SON In this family melodrama, two families, one representing the old Japanese values and the other reflecting change in Japan, discover that their now 6-year-old children had been accidentally swapped at the hospital.

April 19, 7:15 pm. $5/public; free/CCS students with ID. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland. garlandtheater.com INTERNATIONAL FILM SERIES: ABOUT ELLY The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.

Director: Asghar Farhadi, country of origin: Iran. Not rated. April 19, 7-9 pm. $5.

Kenworthy, 508 S. Main. kenworthy.org MOSCOW FOOD CO+OP PRESENTS: PLASTIC PARADISE In this independent documentary, journalist/filmmaker Angela Sun travels on a personal journey of discovery to uncover this mysterious phenomenon of the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch.” April 20, 7-9 pm. Free and

open to the public. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main St. (208-882-4127) CARL MAXEY: A FIGHTING LIFE A special viewing of the locally-made documentary about Carl Maxey, the first black attorney to pass the bar exam in eastern Washington and who’s credited by the NYT as “single-handedly desegregating much of the inland Northwest.” A subsequent panel features Jim Zimmer and Mary DeCesare, KSPS director and producer. April 21, 7-9 pm. Free. Spark Center, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. (279-0299) TRAPPED Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho shows the Sundance Film Festival-winning documentary which follows several abortion clinics and their staff who are on the front lines of the battle to protect women’s reproductive freedoms in an increasingly hostile political and legal climate. April 21, 6-8 pm. Free and open to the public.

Magic Lantern, 25 W. Main. bit.ly/1RLNbHk

FOOD & DRINK

GROWING FOREST MUSHROOMS This session introduces participants to techniques for growing a variety of edible forest mushrooms, including oyster and shitake mushrooms. April 14, 6-9 pm. $15. Ponderay Events Center, 401 Bonner Mall Way. uidaho.edu/extension/forestry SCOTCH & CIGARS Select a flight of whiskey, scotch or bourbon paired with a recommended cigar during an event on the headed, outdoor patio. Thursdays, from 6-10 pm. $15-$25. Prohibition Gastropub, 1914 N. Monroe. (474-9040) VINO WINE TASTING Fri, April 15 highlights wines of France’s Rhone Valley, from 3-6:30 pm. Sat, April 16 is a tasting of Penfolds of Australia, from 2-4:30 pm. Tastings include cheese and crackers. Vino!, 222 S. Washington. vinowine.com CDA WINE EXTRAVAGANZA Sample wines from 20 wineries, offering a combined total of 65 varietals, throughout downtown CdA during the fifth annual event. $15 ticket includes six tastings and a complimentary glass. April 16, 3-7 pm.

Downtown CdAe. cdawinefest.com INVEG POTLUCK Join the local group for a community potluck on the third Sunday of each month, offering delicious food and time to connect with others. Please bring a plant-based dish to share (no honey, eggs, meat or dairy). Free. Woman’s Club of Spokane, 1428 W. 9th. inveg.org COOK & EAT CLEAN Participants prepare and sample leafy greens, whole grains, plant based protein and brightly colored vegetables. April 18, 2:30-4:30 PM. Register online. $25/class. Second Harvest Food Bank, 1234 E. Front. (534-6678) COOKING CLASS: COUSCOUS ROYALE Chef Jean-Pierre teaches how to prepare a dish that is as popular in Paris as it is in it’s homeland. Fluffy couscous, fresh vegetables, savory meats, and spices; this dish can be customized to fit your tastes and seasonal ingredients. April 19, 6-9 pm. $40. Gourmet Way, 8222 N. Gov’t Way. gourmetwayhayden.com CENTENNIAL TRAIL PINT NIGHT One dollar from each pint sold supports the programs and mission of Friends of the Centennial Trail Spokane. April 20, 5 pm.

Perry Street Brewing, 1025 S. Perry St. bit.ly/1Si7Lt0 (279-2820) COMMUNITY COOKING NIGHTS Follow along with Second Harvest’s head chefs as scratch cooking skills are applied to tasty and healthful meals. Participants are able to take home food prepared in

class. Wednesdays in April, 5:30-7:30 pm. Free. Second Harvest Food Bank, 1234 E. Front. secondharvestkitchen.org

MUSIC

PALOUSE CHORAL SOCIETY The Palouse Choral Society’s last concert of the season, performing Orff’s Carmina Burana, conducted by beloved artistic director Dr. Michael Murphy. April 15, 7:30 pm and April 17, 4 pm. $8-$15. First Presbyterian Church, 405 S. Van Buren, Moscow. palousechoralsociety.org SPOKANE SYMPHONY WITH A SPLASH Featuring a pre-concert performance during happy hour in the lobby by local group Windoe, followed by a program of works by Mexican composers, conducted

by Jorge Luis Uzcategui. April 15, 5 pm. $25. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. foxtheaterspokane.com ANUPAMA BHAGWAT SITAR CONCERT The South Asia Cultural Association of Spokane presents an afternoon of Indian classical music, also featuring Ravi Albright on Tabla. Anupama Bhagwat has performed to critical acclaim in India and abroad since 1995. April 16, 2 pm. $10-$20. Unity Spiritual Center, 2900 S. Bernard St. unityspokane.org MUSICAL PATHWAYS OF LOVE A solo piano concert featuring pianist Peggy Reich. April 16, 7 pm. Free. Steinway Piano Gallery, 13418 E. Nora. (327-4266) SPOKANE UNPLUGGED: ACOUSTIC OPEN MIC A monthly gathering of aspiring musicians. April 16, 6-8 pm. Free.

Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. auntiesbooks.com BASSOONARAMA CONCERT Hear 40 bassoons together as they perform well known film music during this annual concert event. In the EWU Music Building recital hall. April 17, 4 pm. Free. EWU, 526 Fifth St. ewu.edu (359-2241) GONZAGA WIND SYMPHONY An afternoon concert featuring Petite Symphonie by Gounod, Molly on the Shore

by Grainger and Gabriel’s Oboe by Ennio Morricone, among others. Student conductors also participate. April 17, 3-4 pm. $7-$10. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. (624-1200) NW SACRED MUSIC CHORALE The program opens with David Schwoebel’s “All Good Gifts” followed by excerpts from Joseph Haydn’s oratorio masterpiece “The Creation.” Also includes three selections by the NWSMC Ensemble. April 17, 4:306:30 pm. $16-$22. Central Lutheran, 512 S. Bernard St. nwsmc.org 2CELLOS The instrumental duo of string musicians, Luka Sulic and Stuepan Hauser, perform live. April 18, 7:30 pm. $30-$60.

INB Performing Arts Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. inbpac.com SPOKANE SYMPHONY: CARMINA BURANA The Symphony performs Carl Orff’s monumental work for orchestra, chorus and soloists, excerpts of which have been widely used in movies and television commercials throughout the world. April 21, 7:30 pm. $26-$46. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. foxtheaterspokane.com

SPORTS

CABELA’S FISHING CLASSIC Includes demos, casting lessons, an Idaho Fish & Game presentation and more. April 16, 9 am-4 pm, April 17, 9 am-3 pm. Free. Cabela’s, 101 N. Cabela Way. (208-777-6326)

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ALTERNATIVE MMD CO-OP: $9 a gram CANNABIS AND GLASS: $20 grams of oil, $20 all eighths, $125 pounders, $42 10-gram pre-rolls.

CINDER (SPOKANE): Five days of sales, including sales on products from top-shelf vendors, starting April 16. Check Cinder Spokane’s social media for more information.

CINDER (SPOKANE VALLEY): Five days of sales, also starting April 16, featuring deals on pre-rolls, edibles, concentrates, topicals, tinctures, transdermal products and top-shelf bud.

CURED COOPERATIVE: Starting April 18, in-house strains of flower are $125 an ounce, while their vendors’ strains are $160 an ounce. There will also be discounts on concentrates and giveaways.

GREEN LIGHT: $3 full gram joints, $20 eighths, all from indoorgrown weed, other sales throughout the store.

THE GREEN NUGGET: A different special every day from April 1822, including $5 joints and $110 ounces.

LUCKY LEAF: The new Spokane shop is celebrating its grand opening on Apri 20.

THE PEACEFUL CHOICE: 4.2-gram eighths for $30, $50 quarters, $10 THC-infused sodas, free raffles for veterans and multiple sclerosis patients, and a free joint with any purchase.

ROYAL’S CANNABIS: $4.20 grams, edibles and joints, plus giveaways and a DJ from 4:20-7:10 pm.

SATIVA SISTERS: Special deals, including $20 eighths.

SATORI: Deals from favorite growers, plus $20 eighths and $5 joints.

SMOKANE: A blowout sale on concentrates, as well as three edibles for $10, $3 gourmet edibles and sales on top-shelf items.

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Victoria Robinson, owner of the Peaceful Choice, and Kathy DePriest, owner of Evergreen Premier Medical, are frustrated by what they see as Seattle business owners trying to force them out of their zoning.

“We are what the law was intended for, to roll existing medical stores over,” Robinson says. “Instead, there’s a loophole in the law so rich people were able to come over here, get storage units and get them licensed and acquire our businesses.”

But Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board spokesman Mikhail Carpenter says it’s not a loophole so much as a matter of whose application was processed first.

“There’s nothing in the law that states geographic location,” he says. “It strictly says license priority one, two and three. When an area fills up, priority ones have an opportunity to move somewhere else.

“If Seattle filled up, and somebody moved their application to Spokane and got a license in Spokane, and yet these other places are already priority one, saying that this place got licensed ahead of them... it seems to me like maybe they weren’t moving as quickly as other people.”

Both Robinson and DePriest say they were given priority one status after applying for a retail license.

After being told that all of Spokane’s licenses had been given out, DePriest was told she could apply for one of five licenses available for Spokane County, so she began that application process and took out a lease on a location in Green Bluff.

She has yet to hear back from the cannabis board about that application, though. “It feels like we’re being set up,” DePriest says. “They do not want us to transition.”

Robinson and DePriest are meeting with city officials, have gathered patient testimonials and are prepared to visit Olympia in attempt to meet with the cannabis board.

In the meantime, they’re worried about what will happen to their combined 3,500 patients after July 1, when patients will have to get their medical marijuana from a recreational shop, stressing the importance of the counseling and medicinal regimens they provide.

“It’s going to be a huge paradigm shift July 1,” Robinson says. “The medical patient’s going to lose.” n

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Advice Goddess THE MUMMY’S CURSOR

I’m a woman in my 20s, and female friends and I find that, generally speaking, once a guy gets into a relationship, his texting dwindles into brief news bites, like “fell asleep!” or “phone died.” Why do men seem to lose interest in chatting by text like I do with my girlfriends? Are men just less feeling than women?

—Annoyed

AMY ALKON

Who says men aren’t emotional? “I don’t wanna talk

about it!” is an emotion.

But actually, the male brain is not the emotional dead zone many women suspect it to be, with a few tumbleweeds and a Doritos bag blowing through in place of feelings. In fact, neuroscientist Tor Wager reviewed 65 brain imaging studies and found that men’s brains aren’t any less responsive to emotional stimuli than women’s.

However, women do tend to be more emotionally expressive. This difference makes sense, as women evolved to be the caregivers of the species — tending to the needs of babies (who typically require a more nurturing response than “Bring it, bro!”). Men, on the other hand, evolved to be the warriors of the species — competing for the alpha dog spot by clubbing a rhino or the most hombres from another tribe.

This has had an effect on how men express themselves. As sex differences researcher Joyce Benenson explains, when you’re a warrior, revealing your feelings — like having a good cry on the battlefield — puts you at a disadvantage. (Kind of like going out in a T-shirt with a big arrow and “Your spear here!”)

Conversationally, where men and woman differ is in why they talk and what they talk about. Linguist Deborah Tannen describes male versus female styles of communication as “report” versus “rapport.” In short, while women use conversation (including texting) as a form of bonding, for men, it’s a tool. And just like other tools, men use it as needed. As my boyfriend put it, “you bring out the wrench when you have a loose nut; you don’t go around looking for nuts to fasten. Also, afterward, you put the wrench away; there’s no ‘Let’s us boys get together and explore how we feel about wrenches.’”

This explains why many guys text more in the chase phase, when they need to “talk chick,” to a degree, to reel you in. Once they have you, they fall back to what’s more natural for them — texting merely to say stuff like “late!” or “w/get wine” (the SMS form of grunting). But this should simply be seen as a different style of communicating, not a deficient one. You judge whether a man cares about you by the sum of his actions, not by his pointer finger action. And besides, if you demand that he text you like a woman, he’s within his rights to expect you to act like a man — by carrying his luggage like a pack mule while he totters behind you in heels or by chasing a mugger while he stands on the corner crying softly and hoping you’ll come out of it alive.

HusH To JudGmenT

My boyfriend introduces me as his girlfriend to his parents, friends, co-workers, etc. However, he doesn’t like to Facebook the intimate details of his life, including our relationship. My friends think it’s a red flag that he doesn’t post about us on Facebook. Do you think they’re right?

—Hidden Your boyfriend doesn’t post what he had for lunch — and probably not because he’s embarrassed to be seen with his sandwich or he’s looking to cheat on it with a plate of spaghetti.

Even criminals have the right to remain silent. But that isn’t what your boyfriend’s trying to do. In fact, he’s public about your relationship; he just draws the line at publicizing it on social media — as in, having a bunch of people he doesn’t know know a bunch of things about him. (In economics, this is called “information asymmetry.”)

In other words, your friends seem to be confusing privacy with secrecy. Secrecy is about having something to hide — often something shady you’ve done — while privacy is about choosing who gets the scoop on your life. There’s this notion that if you aren’t doing anything wrong, you’ve got nothing to hide. Well, you aren’t doing anything wrong on the toilet, but you probably don’t want to replace your bathroom walls with glass and set up bleachers in the backyard. Apparently, your boyfriend just expects people to put in effort to invade his privacy — rather than his being all “Welcome to our relationship! The usher will lead you to your seats — 13A and B, right by the headboard. We look forward to your comments. Even if you’re an Internet troll.

Even if you’re a bot!” n ©2016, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)

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EVENTS | CALENDAR RUN FOR THE GRANGE The first annual 5K event, with all proceeds benefiting the Moran Prairie Grange. Make sure to bring some cash for shopping and food after the run/walk. April 16, 9 am-noon. $20. Moran Prairie Grange, 6006 S. Palouse Hwy. (360-701-1371) SPOKANE RIVER RUN The annual trail run offers five route lengths, from 5-10K, and benefits the Garfield APPLE program. Open to individuals and relay teams. April 17. $10-$200. Riverside State Park. spokaneriverrun.com

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COLE PORTER’S ANYTHING GOES The local theater performs the award-winning Broadway musical. Through April 17, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sat-Sun at 1:30 pm. Regional Theatre of the Palouse, 122 N Grand Ave. (334-0750) FLAPPER A performance of the musical comedy set in the 1920s, by the Mountain Harmony Show Choir and Northwoods Performing Arts. April 14-16 and 22-22 at 7:30 pm, April 23 at 2 pm. $5$25. Circle Moon Theater, Hwy 211 off Hwy 2. northwoodsperformingarts.com THE FOX ON THE FAIRWAY A fast-paced comedy that recalls the Marx Brothers’ classics, filled with mistaken identities, slamming doors and over-the-top romantic shenanigans. Through April 30, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $18-$25.

Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard. spokanecivictheatre.com NEXT TO NORMAL The Modern Theater with CdA Summer Theatre perform the three-time Tony Award and Pulitzer prize winning musical, examining a suburban family struggling with the effects of mental illness. Through April 17, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $23-$27. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. bingcrosbytheater.com PRIVATE EYES A comedy of suspicion in which nothing is ever quite what it seems. April 14-16 and 21-23 at 7:30 pm.

Free and open to the public. Schuler Performing Arts Center at NIC 1000 W. Garden Ave. nic.edu (208-769-3220) AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS Jules Vern’s classic adventure tale is told on stage in this whirlwind race to the finish. Through April 24, Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10-$15. Ignite! Theatre, 10814 E. Broadway. (795-0004) CHARLOTTE’S WEB A stage production based on the beloved book by E.B. White. April 15-May 1, Fri at 7 pm, Sat-Sun at 2 pm. $12/adult , $8/ages 12 and under. Spokane Children’s Theatre, 2727 N. Madelia. (328-4886) NIXON’S NIXON A look at one of the most speculated moments in American politics: the final meeting between President Richard M. Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on the eve of Nixon’s resignation speech. April 8-24; Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10. Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third Ave. spokanestageleft.org THE ODD COUPLE (FEMALE VERSION) Unger and Madison are at it again! Florence Unger and Olive Madison, that is, in a female-roled version of Neil Simon’s contemporary comic classic. April 15-16 at 7:30 pm, also April 17 at 2 pm. $10-$12. Pullman Civic Theatre, 1220 NW Nye St. (332-8406) SHAKESPEARE’S COMEDY OF ERRORS IN SPACE Director Gordon Mellott takes this classic tale into a b-class sci fi setting along with a cast of local

actors featuring many actors from Moscow High School. April 15-16 at 7:30 pm.

The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main. moscowcommunitytheatre.org MR. DARWIN’S TREE THEATRE PERFORMANCE A one-man show by award-winning playwright Murray Watts, depicting Charles Darwin’s extraordinary life. A discussion will follow.

April 19, 7-8:30 pm. Whitworth, 300 W. Hawthorne. (777-4424)

VISUAL ARTS

ECO-MOON An artist showcase themed around animals, humans and their environment, featuring work by Clancie Pleasants, Virginia Carter and Chelsea Francis. April 15-May 17, artist reception April 15, 5-8 pm. Gallery open Tue-Sat, 11 am-5 pm. New Moon Art Gallery, 1326 E. Sprague. newmoonartgallery.com GONZAGA SENIOR ART EXHIBITION This annual presentation highlights the work of six of Gonzaga’s graduating seniors, marking the culmination of the art department’s bachelor of arts degree program. April 15-May 7. Opening reception April 15, 5-7 pm and a public walk-through April 16, 10:30 am. Gallery hours Mon-Sat, 10 am-4 pm. Free and open to the public. Jundt Art Museum, 200 E. Desmet Ave. (313-6843) ARTIST TRUST OFFICE HOURS Spokane Program Coordinator Anne-Claire Mitchell hosts a session to talk about grants and work on applications for the 2016 Grants for Artist Projects. April 16, 12-3 pm. Free. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main Ave. (444-5336)

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GET LIT!: PAUL HARDING AND NANCE VAN WINCKEL A reading and conversation with a book signing to follow.

Harding is the author of “Tinkers,” which won the 2010 Pulitzer for Fiction.

Nance is the author of five books of fiction and a professor at EWU’s Inland Northwest Center for Writers. April 14, 7-8 pm. $15/free for students. Lincoln Center, 1316 N. Lincoln. getlitfestival.org READING: ALISON WEIR Visiting writer Alison Weir reads from her book “Against Our Better Judgement: The Hidden History of How the U.S. was Used to Create Israel. April 14, 7-8 pm.

Free. Auntie’s Bookstore, 402 W. Main Ave. auntiesbooks.com (838-0206) READING: CORNELIUS EADY This award-winning American writer’s poetry often centers on jazz, family life, violence, and questions of race and class. Eady reads from his work and gives a short talk, followed by a moderated discussion. April 14, 7-8:30 pm. Free. Whitworth, 300 W. Hawthorne Rd. whitworth.edu READING: ERIN BYRNE The author writes travel essays, poetry, fiction and screenplays; her work has won numerous. April 15, 7-8 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main Ave. auntiesbooks.com GET LIT! PRESENTS: GARTH STEIN A presentation by the Seattle author as part of the annual literary festival.

Stein is the author of the bestselling book, “The Art of Racing in the Rain,” and other novels. April 16, 7 pm. $15 (students free with ID). Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. getlitfestival.org (624-1200) SALVAGING SPANISH SUNKEN TREASURE Treasure hunter Margaret Weller has been salvaging Spanish galleons off the Florida coast since the 1970s.

Along with her now deceased husband, legendary treasure seeker Bob “Frogfoot” Weller, they’ve recovered enough gold, silver, jewelry and artifacts to fill a museum. Margaret shares her amazing experience working as a treasure seeker. April 16, 2-4 pm. $10 suggested donation. The MAC, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org SIGNING: DARCY MCMURTERY The librarian and writer who spent her formative years in Spokane releases her first chapbook “Feast of Needs.” April 16, 1:30-3 pm. Free. Auntie’s Bookstore, 402 W. Main Ave. auntiesbooks.com AUTHOR KRISTA GILBERT The author discusses concepts from her book, “Reclaiming Home: A Family’s Guide to Life, Love & Legacy.” April 17, 1 pm. Free.

Covenant United Methodist Church, 15515 N. Gleneden Dr. (468-1623) SPOKANE POETRY SLAM FINALS The top eight point-earning poets from the 2015-16 season compete to determine which four will represent Spokane at the National Poetry Slam in Decatur, GA in August. April 18, 8-11 pm. $10. The Bartlett, 228 W. Sprague. (747-2174) EWU PRESIDENT’S FORUM: MARLENE ZUK The researcher discusses ideas from her most recent book “Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us About Sex, Diet and How We Live.”

Zuk is an American evolutionary biologist and behavioral ecologist whose research deals with the evolution of sexual behavior. April 19, 7 pm. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. (227-7404) GONZAGA WRITES! FEAT. MEGAN CIESLA A presentation featurinh Ciesla and the winners of the Michael and Gail Gurian Award for Gonzaga student writers. April 19, 7:30 pm. Free and open to the public. Gonzaga, 502 E. Boone Ave. (328-4220) AUTHORS TIM & BECKY HATTENBURG The local authors discuss their nonfiction book “Death Ride: A Little Boy’s Night of Terror.” The Hattenburgs spent nearly two years researching the true story of Larry Kuntz, who in 1937 at the age of five, witnessed the murder of his parents before being beaten and left for dead in the family’s car. April 19, 7-8 pm. Free. Fairfield Library, 305 E. Main St. (893-8320) HOPE DIAMOND: THE LEGENDARY HISTORY OF A CURSED GEM Dr. Richard Kurin from the Smithsonian Institution spent more than a decade on the trail of this legendary gem. He’ll discuss the impact this diamond has had across different cultures and societies throughout history by going beyond speculation to reveal the truth behind this legendary stone. April 21, 6:30 pm. $15 suggested donation. The MAC, 2316 W. First Ave. northwestmuseum.org READING: PAULA COOMER The Clarkston author launches her new Pulitzer-nominated fiction, “Jagged Edge of the Sky.” April 21, 7-8 pm. Free.

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President Ernest Holland (center, in the fedora) celebrates with the Washington State College graduating class of 1922.

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A century ago at Washington State College, citizenship was the curriculum that mattered most

BY WILLIAM STIMSON

R

ight about now, Dr. Kirk Schulz, who was just appointed the next president of Washington State University, may be looking around for ideas.

If so, my advice would be to look way back — a century, in fact — and check out the approach of one of his distinguished predecessors, Dr. Ernest O. Holland, who became president of Washington State College exactly 100 years ago, in 1916.

Holland’s idea of education was not about job training. Given their own ambitions and a competent faculty, students would learn that. Holland’s aim as president was to ensure that the next generation was equipped to take over the controls of society.

At Columbia University, Holland had been a student of famous teacher and philosopher John Dewey, who taught that minding one’s own business was not sufficient to living a good life for the simple reason that others of-

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ten will not mind their own business. Dewey pointed out that, like it or not, we are all inextricably bound together.

Dr. Holland prepared students for that world by operating a virtual academy of democracy down on the Palouse. Freshmen might arrive full of themselves and free of their parents, but then they met the sophomore class. The job of sophomores was to bring freshmen to heel. Of course, freshmen rebelled, but in doing so they welded together into a cohort of lifelong friendships. It was one of the ways students learned.

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he WSC campus had a political structure, designed and organized completely by students, which pitted a Fraternity Party against the Residence Hall Party. Every spring, the college erupted into a lively struggle of huge rallies and hilarious speeches. Both sides pushed their constituents hard to do their civic duty.

In fact, students became better than the larger society at turning out the vote. In the student election of 1941, 82 percent of students cast ballots. The Fraternity Party candidate president won by just six votes.

Holland himself exemplified the quality he most valued in students, which was civility. He attended their meetings and listened. He invited small groups to the presidential mansion, not to tell them something, but to hear what they were thinking.

One student, Lylia Appel Miller, class of 1929, recalled meeting Dr. Holland for the first time. They almost collided at the library door. Dr. Holland said, “Pardon me, Lylia!” He knew her name! She was so impressed, she started listening closely to his regular talks to the assembled student body. A half-century later, she wrote an article for a newspaper saying that Holland, though he didn’t lead a class, was her most influential teacher.

President Holland gave his last formal speech in May of 1942. (He retired in 1944.) In the speech, Holland quoted a letter sent by a German youth to an American friend. The German boy declared, “Germany is the most powerful state in the world, with the best army, the best leader, the best government, the best idea. No country in the world will be able to defeat us.”

That kind of blind faith, Holland said, was achieved by “contemptible, tyrannous means” of propaganda and terror. Yet, he said, “Something of the spirit itself, rightly fostered and rightly directed, is essential to the life of a great nation.”

By “spirit” he meant civic spirit that leads citizens to lend a hand in a larger cause. He said he just hoped that American youth had that quality.

Holland needn’t have worried. He could hear for himself that one of his graduates, Edward R. Murrow, broadcasting from London, had already become a leading voice in defiance of the Axis powers.

Holland learned soon after the speech that yet another WSC student, Ross Greening, was one of the pilots who volunteered to fly deep into Japanese-controlled territory to bomb Tokyo in March of that year in the famous “Doolittle Raid.” Later, Greening volunteered for the European theater and had led 27 missions over Italy when he was shot down and eventually captured.

When he arrived at a prisoner-of-war camp, Greening was astonished to look up and see Loren G. “Mac” McCollom of Ritzville. They were fraternity roommates at Washington State. While Greening was attacking the Germans from bases in Africa, McCollom was leading a fighter squadron attack from England. Two Theta Chi roommates, it turned out, had Germany surrounded.

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n the 1990s, a Harvard political scientist named Robert Putnam made an elaborate study of the changes in civic behavior over generations. He found that young people who came to maturity just before World War II were more likely to vote, to donate, to volunteer and to serve. Putnam dubbed this group “The Long Civic Generation.” Differences in education were the big predictor of civic behavior, he found; by far the most active civically were college graduates.

“The Greatest Generation” was no accident. They were trained by Dr. Ernest Holland and other early 20th century college presidents. n William Stimson is a professor of journalism at Eastern Washington University and author of Instilling Spirit: Students and Citizenship at Washington State, 1892-1942 (WSU Books, 2015). He’ll be talking about his new book at Auntie’s on Friday, May 27, at 7 pm.

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