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ife is glorious in August in North Idaho.

Coeur d’Alene, Hayden, Pend Oreille and Priest lakes, along with the many other small lakes that dot the landscape, are downright delicious to swim in, delightful to boat on and spellbinding to watch when the wild winds blow.

Bicycle enthusiasts can choose a different trail for every day of the week; hikers can do the same on foot and climb ever higher. Huckleberry picking is not just a sport for bears. And sleeping outside under the moon and stars is literally heavenly.

For the non-nature lovers, there’s plenty of food, drink, music and other entertainment to choose from.

So North Idaho in the summer seems like paradise. But don’t be fooled. It’s paradise if you bring your money with you. But if you live here and are working two or three jobs just to get by, it’s hardscrabble tough.

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hile leadership at the local level is outstanding, North Idaho and the rest of the state are hamstrung by state policies that cripple the state’s economy and dim the future of its residents, particularly school-age children.

The Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy, founded by longtime Idaho State Budget Director Mike Ferguson, recently released a list of significant factors contributing to Idaho’s faltering economic status. Entitled “Six Key Facts About Idaho’s Revenue Shortage and Our Declining Economic Performance,” the report (you can find it at idahocfp.org) details an alarming downhill slide for a state so rich in natural beauty and gifted human talents.

On the Center’s list of statewide problems: Idaho collects less in taxes than all but two other states. The math is pretty simple. As a result, there isn’t enough money to cover the costs of carrying out the state’s business.

Support for Idaho’s schools has declined by 16 percent since 2008 and is unequal across school districts. Worried voters are willing to increase their own property taxes to support public schools. Unfortunately, the legislature’s promise that the state will replace maintenance and operation funds to school districts has been broken.

Idaho’s support for higher education has dropped sharply. With tuition rates going up dramatically, college enrollments are down. So much for the drive to increase Idaho’s college participation rates.

Idaho has steadily cut revenues since the late 1990s. Politicians love to promise tax cuts, vote for them and then brag about it. But tax cuts to the bone bleed our chances for prosperity.

Idaho’s low- and moderate-income residents pay a larger share of their taxes than the highest earners do. No further comment is

necessary.

Idaho’s per capita income is lower than all but one state: Mississippi. Mississippi is winning the race to the bottom, but at its present rate, Idaho may pass right by Mississippi in this dreadful statistic.

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daho politicians’ addiction to the Tea Party’s nasty medicine has seriously undermined Idaho’s basic institutions.

The Legislature, presumably under the influence of Tea Party hypnotics, has dismantled the funding and distorted the equalization of the state’s system of public schools. Idaho’s colleges and universities have been forced to raise tuition rates beyond a level that’s affordable for many potential students. Tea Party demands to cut taxes have seriously damaged an already shaky tax structure.

Not all Idaho Republican politicians should be accused of drinking the Tea Party’s magic potion. But all of them have been terrorized by the threat of — horrors — losing their own legislative seats in a May primary. Reasonable Republicans like State Senator John Goedde and State Representative Ed Morse were dealt punishment by ultra-conservatives for daring to vote their own consciences.

Gov. Butch Otter has proven to be a likable but weak leader in the wake of the GOP’s shifting values. During his tenure, a coherent vision for a vibrant Idaho has slipped away.

It’s time to convert the Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy report into a manifesto for change and turn those downward-trending figures around.

It’s time for concerned Idahoans to band together and rebel.

A wise and worthy opponent has emerged in this year’s political fray. A.J. Balukoff is a moral giant now running for governor on the Idaho Democratic ticket. Balukoff is a highly successful Boise businessman who has served on the Boise School Board for almost 17 years and is currently its president. A large group of Boise business leaders convinced him that he should run for governor on the grounds that he, A.J. Balukoff, has the brains and determination to salvage Idaho’s listing ship of state.

“Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results” was Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity. The axiom applies to politics, too: Electing the same misguided politicians again and again and expecting a better state of affairs may not be insane, but it certainly isn’t smart.

A note to Idaho voters: Be smart, and vote new. n

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teve Gleason has become the face of ALS in America, and that face is smiling. Earlier this month, when a friend drenched him in ice water as part of the Ice Bucket Challenge, the few muscles the disease has not taken busted out into a huge grin. Gleason has shown grace and grit under the toughest circumstances — that Spokane spirit in him is inspiring people coast to coast.

He was a slam dunk for the key to the city, which Mayor David Condon presented to him over the weekend at Gleason Fest.

America is paying attention to ALS like never before. Kids in backyards all over Spokane have been taking the Challenge, along with entire companies of otherwise sane people. As a result, the Challenge has everyone talking about giving, and that leads perfectly to Give Guide — our 14th annual issue devoted to local philanthropy and nonprofit work. You’ll be uplifted by this year’s stories, but you’ll see something else on every single page: Need.

While the Ice Bucket Challenge puts ALS right in front of America where it deserves to be, and as the Pink Ribbon campaign will remind us of the ravages of breast cancer come October, a lot of other important organizations deserve your attention, too. We’ve collected a bunch of them right here.

One example is World Relief, a local organization that serves new immigrants — many of them refugees we have invited to America. With all the politics surrounding immigration, their funding was allowed to lapse, plunging hundreds into uncertainty in a strange new land. Fortunately, the feds were able to rearrange some priorities to keep the funding flowing for now. It’s not, however, a permanent solution.

That is the world so many charities toil in: They do crucial work but are always stuck right on the edge of solvency, dependent on the support of all of us to keep their mission alive. Along with information about more than 80 local charities and nonprofits, you can read all about World Relief in this issue. With World Relief running low on funds, Action Recycling, a generous Spokane business, stepped in and sponsored their ad so they could share their story. That’s teamwork.

The Ice Bucket Challenge has also reminded us that working together can be both fun and powerful. So far, more than $80 million has been raised for ALS support and research. In the Give Guide, you’ll find many, many causes to care about, along with opportunities to give. If it feels better, go ahead and dump some ice water on your head. These organizations will take your help however it comes. 

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COMMENT | JUSTICE

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Serve, Protect and Defeat?

Militarized police in Ferguson illuminate the need for accountability at home

BY TAYLOR WEECH

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magine your neighborhood under a heavily policed lockdown with an imposed curfew, dozens of arrests each day made by camouflagewearing, rifle-toting police, and snipers on the roofs of buildings pointing their weapons at you and your kids.

Before the events in Ferguson, Missouri, many Americans would have considered such a scenario unimaginable. But now the irony of the situation — police using brutal and disproportionate tactics to quell protests about police brutality — has been become clear.

As a result, it’s revived the decades-long debate over militarized police. Members of the radical movements of the 1960s were the

first targets of the government’s intelligence and enforcement apparatus. From the FBI down to local police departments, increasingly militarized strategies were rolled out at home. Programs like COINTELPRO had a well-documented and devastating impact on many organizations, and as the focus shifted to the tactics of mass incarceration during the War on Drugs, local police took on a larger role. The SWAT team took shape in the ’60s after Daryl Gates — a Los Angeles Police Department commander during the Watts riots — observed with admiration the way counterinsurgency strategies from foreign wars could be used to pacify a domestic urban population.

As various federal programs were created to provide surplus military equipment to local police forces, the cities receiving the equipment found more frequent justification

to use it. SWAT teams — portrayed in movies as saving hostages, busting human traffickers and engaging in shootouts with terrorists — are more often searching the homes of suspects facing nonviolent drug charges.

According to a 2014 ACLU study on SWAT deployment, only seven percent of SWAT raids were for “hostage, barricade, and active shooter scenarios.”

It isn’t just the weaponry and money spent that’s the problem with militarized police. It’s the attitude of officers who operate as though they’re engaged in a war with people they are traditionally expected to serve and protect. In 2007, when the Spokane Police Department began a large purchase of AR-15s (the civilian M-16) rifles for patrol officers, Sgt. John Roys told KREM that the purpose was to “defeat” an increasingly armed element in Spokane. So, serve, protect and ... defeat?

Spokane activists and citizens have long fought for basic accountability and oversight of their police department. For decades, this process has been thwarted by the Police Guild, often with help from the city administration as a whole. As work on these issues continues, those seeking reform should keep these issues of militarization — both in terms of equipment and psychology — at the forefront. As the Inlander and other sources reported recently, draft policy for police body cameras leaves recording mostly up to officer discretion. Until police departments like ours can turn around their records and rebuild community trust, we cannot allow those same departments to set the terms of their own oversight.

Does the SPD need an armored personnel carrier or a team of chemical weapons specialists? Do we need more surveillance for citizens and less for the police entrusted with law enforcement? Unquestioned obedience to authority, particularly to illegitimate and corrupt authority, can’t lead to anything promising. In times like these, the least we can do is ask questions about the policies and direction of local police. n Taylor Weech, who hosts the weekly public affairs program Praxis on KYRSFM, is a Spokane writer and activist.

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COMMENT | FROM READERS

Readers respond to the blog post “The real people using transit and the STA Plaza” (8/22/14):

RICK EICHSTAEDT: The people who ride the bus need it to get to where they live, work, shop, go to school and to transport their kids. Moving the Plaza hurts them and is an overreaction by a few wealthy business owners who are afraid of people who look different.

JESSE QUINTANA: People from all walks of life use the bus system.

DENISE GUILES: I’ve been a bus rider for over 37 years — my only way to get around. The Plaza is way better than standing in rain at Howard/Riverside in the olden days!

CASSIE BEACHAM DEVANEY: I ride the bus to and from work in Cheney and I strongly support leaving the Plaza in the downtown core.

KATHY HANPA RUSSELL: I ride the shuttle from the Arena to downtown. The Plaza is the most convenient place to buy my passes.

SCOTT NICKS: I have been riding the bus to work downtown for over three years now largely in part because my office has either paid for part or the entire cost of a monthly bus pass; $45 is less than monthly parking downtown. I only need my car when I have a meeting or appointment that I need to get to quickly.

Local riders TAYLOR WEECH PHIOTOS

TONI BLAKE: What a great article! I have my own vehicle, but there are times that riding the bus is more convenient or cost effective. I’ve never had a problem with anyone bothering me, never felt intimidated or unsafe on the bus or at the Plaza.

BARBARA HARMS: I don’t understand why the Downtown Business Association doesn’t work with the STA. Why don’t they demand the buses run later on Saturday so people can go to the bars and restaurants and drink and then take the bus home? Grr!!!!!!!

RICK HASTINGS: “The 1950’s aren’t coming back.” Love that quote.

Downtown isn’t a place to be curated and sanitized for folks that show up only on occasion. It’s a 24/7 neighborhood.

SCOTT MEREDITH: What about all those other people that the Plaza is known for? You know, those people asking to borrow your phone, asking for change, cat-calling ... that make the Plaza feel like you’re hanging out in county lockup. ... If everyone on the bus were like these people [in the blog post], the STA wouldn’t have the reputation it does. 

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After five years, the authority of Spokane’s police ombudsman has increased — but so has friction with SPD

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hen he took the job in 2009, Spokane Police Ombudsman Tim Burns thought he knew what he had signed up for. He had served as a police officer in California for more than 20 years.

After that, he worked in code enforcement.

He figured police oversight would be fairly routine.

Now he knows better.

“You never know what’s going to happen next,” Burns says. “Just when you thought you’ve seen it all … I can promise you, you haven’t.”

This week marks five years since Burns stepped in as the city’s first police ombudsman, carving out a vaguely defined position in a community deeply divided over police accountability. He has worked with two mayors, three police chiefs and a variety of investigators.

Even now, his office still struggles to live up to its founding ambitions as city officials move toward establishing an ombudsman commission with additional investigative authority.

As the office’s influence has expanded in recent months, Burns says he has encountered new friction with the police department — disagreements over case reviews, opposition to reforms, inconsistent access to investigations.

“I understand the police department taking a stand,” he says. “I just don’t agree with the stand they’re taking.”

Police officials have downplayed any conflict with the ombudsman, saying they value his input. Meanwhile, Councilman Jon Synder, who chairs the city’s Public Safety Committee, argues such disputes will hopefully strengthen the process. ...continued on next page

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“We didn’t hire an ombudsman to agree with the SPD over everything,” Snyder says. “That’s how things are supposed to work.”

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ne of the primary duties of the ombudsman involves reviewing Internal Affairs investigations and evaluating whether they were conducted in a “timely, thorough and objective” manner. Burns has reviewed hundreds of SPD cases over the past five years, declining to certify only a handful. But that has changed in the past year.

So far this year, he has refused to certify nine investigations, compared to seven cases in the previous four years combined.

Burns attributes the recent discrepancies to changes in how Internal Affairs interprets and adheres to the written review policies. He says he believes the department has adopted, in some cases, more lenient standards than he is comfortable with.

“It’s been suggested to me it may be semantics,” he says, “but I would argue it’s far more than that. … I believe they’re out of policy.”

Burns explains that several cases have involved investigators closing cases without passing their findings through to supervisors for a secondary review as mandated by policy. In some cases, his own participation was “overlooked” and cases were closed without his input. In other cases, Burns cited unnecessary delays.

Tim Schwering, who oversees IA as director of Strategic Initiatives, admits that one case involved a misunderstanding on IA’s part, but he says any other issues should be addressed in policy changes following an ongoing audit by the Department of Justice. Police officials say

Frank Straub calling for a clarification of the use of force policy, requiring officers to file reports any time a subject has a visible injury or is taken into custody by force.

Burns says failing to report minor injuries leads to an incomplete record.

It’s impossible to know how many similar incidents might have occurred, he says, or whether the documented 147 SPD incidents involving force last year are actually significantly underreported.

Straub argues that officers use various degrees of force every day to make suspects comply with police orders. In this case, he says the driver refused multiple commands to step out of the vehicle, forcing officers to remove him and cuff him on the ground. He suffered a small abrasion, “the equivalent of your child or my child falling on the playground.”

In his letter back to Burns, Straub strongly objected to any implication that the department had not thoroughly monitored use of force, saying no other department tracks how often an officer draws his or her weapon on someone. Straub wrote that he does not believe any changes need to be made.

“I … greatly appreciate your role in providing independent oversight,” he writes. “I would ask, however, that you refrain from broad statements and inferences which create an inappropriate impression of the Spokane Police Department and its officers.”

Burns told city councilmembers he and the chief had reached a rare “impasse,” leaving him few options but to forward along his concerns.

Police officials have also expressed opposition to a recommendation to have professionals with mental health training offer input on any SPD use of force involving a

the DOJ audit will include recommendations for policy improvements. The review process can then be updated.

“We’re not going to change while DOJ is here,” Schwering told city officials last week. “We might as well get that all done in one fell swoop.”

Schwering maintains IA has not changed how it reviews cases. Burns and councilmembers suggest the department adhere to the written review policies while awaiting DOJ feedback.

“They should comply with their own policies,” Burns says. “Until that happens, don’t look for my seal of approval. It’s not coming.”

Part of the disconnect over review practices may come from “constant” turnover in the IA unit, Burns argues. He notes he has worked with 15 different investigators in his five years, causing transition and training delays. SPD officials say IA assignments have been consistent and have not impacted the quality of investigations.

“Some people just got a cup of coffee as they were passing through the assignment,” Burns contends, adding, “We need continuity and, in all candor, it hasn’t existed in Internal Affairs in my five years.”

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urns says he has also encountered firm resistance on recent recommendations for use of force policies. Burns explains a citizen filed a complaint earlier this year over a traffic stop in which SPD officers forcibly pulled him from a vehicle and slammed him to the ground, scraping his face against the pavement. Burns was surprised to learn the department had not filed a use of force report on the incident.

In response, Burns wrote a letter to Police Chief

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subject with signs of mental illness, saying again that any changes should wait until after the DOJ audit. Burns contends the department should look to exceed the DOJ’s expectations.

“Why shouldn’t we lead in this field?” he asks. “Let us lead by example.”

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ick Eichstaedt, executive director of the legal nonprofit Center for Justice, says the ombudsman’s office has just recently acquired the authority to truly fulfill its mission.

It’s not surprising to see pushback as Burns leverages that new responsibility on the community’s behalf. “[The] tools that are now available have made Burns a much more effective and assertive ombudsman,” Eichstaedt writes, “which is what the people of Spokane asked for and what we need to Send comments to editor@inlander.com. restore trust in the SPD.” Eichstaedt predicts such “growing pains” will persist as the commission gets seated and the office expands. Schwering, with Internal Affairs, noted the importance of oversight, but acknowledged the community would likely continue “wrestling” with the issue for years to come.

Burns jokes he has aged in dog years since taking the position in 2009. He says he looks forward to helping shape the new commission and building a strong foundation for future oversight.

The commission has until the end of his contract on Feb. 20, 2015, to decide whether to keep him on as ombudsman.

Many challenges remain between now and then, but he’s come to learn it’s all part of the job.

“At the end of the day, what I want is what’s best for this community,” he says. “We’re breaking [new] ground. … We’re always going to be a work in progress.” n jacobj@inlander.com

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A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck Napa, California, on Sunday — the strongest to hit the Bay Area in 25 years. The quake may have caused up to $1 billion in damage.

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After the Washington State Supreme Court ruled that it’s illegal to board psychiatric patients in hospital emergency rooms, the court put its decision on hold, keeping the state from discharging thousands of mentally ill patients.

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Welcome Aboard Spokane’s newest councilwoman; plus, SPD’s first body cameras CLERK TURNED COUNCILWOMAN After talk about how far left the Spokane City Council could lean, the group added a new member Monday who’s worked for mayors on both sides of the aisle.

With a 5-1 vote, KAREN STRATTON became the newest councilwoman, replacing Steve Salvatori, who left this summer for work in Texas. Stratton will represent northwest Spokane and face re-election in the fall of 2015.

She currently works in the city clerk’s office and previously served as an aide to Mayors Jim West and Mary Verner. Raised by two parents who were active in politics, Stratton says she feels “meant to do this.” She starts as the council ramps up work on the 2015 budget and says she’ll focus on rallying public support for the park bond and street levy on this fall’s ballot.

The council selected and interviewed five finalists from 22 applicants for the seat. While Salvatori was generally known as a business-friendly conservative, the

council’s liberal majority favored applicants who shared their views on some major issues of the day. Conservative Councilman Mike Allen, who introduced the motion to appoint Stratton, said he believed she was the most prepared of the finalists to get to work with the short amount of time left in the term. Councilman Mike Fagan, the lone “no” vote, warned citizens that the council’s new five-member majority could overturn mayoral vetoes and raise taxes.

— HEIDI GROOVER

BODY CAM ROLLOUT

The Spokane Police Department plans to roll out a pilot program with 17 police officers wearing CHESTMOUNTED BODY CAMERAS on Monday, using a draft policy that accountability advocates consider improved, but still lacking key clarifications. Officials expect the testing period to run through the end of the year.

“The general goals are to address any technical or logistical issues,” SPD spokeswoman Monique Cotton says of the pilot program.

The legal nonprofit Center for Justice and ACLU of Washington both reviewed new drafts of the policy, saying it had included encouraging changes, but still needed revisions. Advocates suggested any final policy would need disciplinary measures for failing to record, as well as stronger protections for storing footage as evidence.

Police officials purchased 220 Taser Axon Body cameras earlier this year. Cotton says after the four-month pilot program, officials will draft a final policy. The department will host a public forum in October to gather community feedback on the issue.

— JACOB JONES

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The first charter school approved in the state of Washington, Spokane’s PRIDE Prep, is preparing to launch in the

fall of 2015. In the meantime, a challenge for Washington’s fledgling CHARTER SCHOOLS has arisen: This month, the state Supreme Court announced it would be deciding whether the charter school legislation violates the state Constitution. In December, a King County Superior Court judge ruled at least one part did.

“We always knew the case was going to end up in the Washington State Supreme Court,” says Lisa Macfarlane, a Washington State Charter Schools Association board member. She’s confident, however, that the court will uphold the legislation.

The central question is whether Washington law’s definition of Send comments to “common school” applies to charter editor@inlander.com. schools. If not, they would be barred from receiving certain state matching funds for new construction.

“They weren’t counting on those funds anyway,” Macfarlane says. As a result, implementation of charter schools hasn’t been slowed.

“We’re just marching forward,” says Jeannette Vaughn, director of innovative programs for Spokane Public Schools. “There’s been no discussion at all over, if the law’s repealed, what that means for schools that have already authorized.”

The district is ready for another round of charter approvals.

“We’ve got three applications before us,” Vaughn says. “It’s very possible we might authorize another school or two.”

Opposition to charter schools, from groups like teachers’ unions, continues.

“Charter schools drain resources away from our existing schools, and aren’t accountable to the taxpayers that fund them,” says Rich Wood, spokesman for the Washington Education Association.

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Ambulance Shopping New questions arise about the city’s process for finding private ambulance service

BY HEIDI GROOVER

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early a decade after Spokane’s private ambulance provider faced controversy for overbilling citizens and insurance companies, new questions are surrounding the city’s relationship with American Medical Response.

The company’s current contract in Spokane is up this fall, so the fire department recently issued a request for bids from ambulance companies across the country. After AMR was the only company to respond and a competitor told the city why it didn’t bid, some city councilmembers are calling for a do-over.

According to ambulance company Falck, one short phrase in the request language unfairly kept them out of the process: “within the United States.”

“By inserting this wording into the request for bid, you essentially excluded the single most qualified entity in the world,” Falck Northwest CEO Michael Collins says in a letter to the city.

Among the many requirements for any company applying to take over ambulance service in Spokane is that it has provided advanced life support service to an American city of at least 150,000. Falck, while a major international provider, doesn’t meet that requirement. The company provides basic life support to large American areas like Los Angeles County and advanced care to cities around the globe, but no advanced care to a large American city. Falck’s Collins says the company’s experience, and $3 billion value, should speak for itself.

“It’s about putting the most qualified …

personnel on the scene in the shortest amount of time in the best interest of the patient,” he says.

“Geography really doesn’t play into that.”

A city council committee meeting grew tense last week as the fire department defended its process, while some councilmembers said the language — a new addition from the last time this process took place in 2003 — seemed tailor-made to favor AMR. “One of the biggest criticisms we get as a government is handing out sole-source contracts or contracts that seem to be designed to go to a single source,” said Councilman Jon Snyder, chair of the council’s Public Safety Committee.

“It never looks good; the public is never happy with it.”

Fire Chief Bobby Williams and Assistant Fire Chief Brian Schaeffer say complex health regulations mean a company without sufficient American experience can’t provide the service Spokane needs. “[The new language] was not to eliminate,” Williams told the council. “It was to protect the community.”

And while it may not be ideal, it’s not uncommon to see only one bidder, they say. Mike Lopez, a former AMR employee recently hired to oversee emergency medical services for the department, says that on top of infrastructure costs to start operating in a new city, Spokane’s high number of Medicaid- and Medicare-eligible patients could drive away possible AMR competitors because of low reimbursement rates.

“Some of the bigger companies probably

looked at it and said, ‘I don’t know that we can make it in that environment,’” Lopez says.

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he council ultimately will decide on whether to approve a new contract with AMR, and some have said they won’t do so unless the administration restarts the request-forbids process.

The clash pits a fire department administration that’s worked with AMR for decades and now has hired a former AMR employee against both a labor union that’s interested in someday taking ambulance transport back from the private sector and city councilmembers who’ve seen significant backing from that union in recent elections.

“The only advantage we see in having a private company doing transport is that it’s competitive for citizens,” says Spokane Firefighters Union President Don Waller. “If you have only one person bidding, you’re not getting that.”

Add that on top of an already touchy discussion. Beginning in 2005, AMR faced criticism for overcharging citizens and insurance companies by more than $300,000. Two years later, as a class-action lawsuit about the overbilling was ongoing, then-Mayor Dennis Hession’s son got a job as a paramedic with AMR. Now, nationwide, ambulance companies face financial woes as some have abruptly shut down operations with little warning to local communities.

“This thing has a troubled history,” Snyder In the background of conflict over ambulance tells the Inlander. service, the Spokane Firefighters union “When there’s hiscontinues to call into question the hiring of tory on something Mike Lopez, who was appointed this spring like that, someto oversee city EMS operations. Lopez spent times appearance two decades at AMR before his most recent is important.” job at the state Department of Health.

According to Lopez was offered his $80,555-a-year fire department position — Assistant Director of Integrated officials, this bid Medical Services, a new addition to the process is nothing department when it was reorganized as newsworthy. In a division last year — just before a judge addition to the ruled in April that such a reorganization was unique demands unlawful. (The city has since appealed.) of a city, they The union brought the legal challenge argue, the requireto the reorganization and is now accusing ment for major the department of failing to get needed American expericity council approval before moving money ence is essential in around to fund Lopez’s position. Accordthe modern era. ing to city law, departments can transfer “Globalization money to fund new positions without council wasn’t discussed approval if the new job is a downgrade from in 2003,” Schaeffer an earlier civil service classification. The city says. “We didn’t administration says the new position Lopez have companies is filling is a step down from the position it from around the replaced. The union argues that since Lopez’s globe … doing new position is exempt, meaning it’s filled business in the entirely outside of civil service, it needed U.S., we didn’t council action. have the AffordThe union has filed complaints about able Care Act, the process to the state auditor and city we didn’t have all prosecutor. the regulations — HEIDI GROOVER and rules we have today.”

If Falck, the company that criticized the request language, had concerns, fire officials say, the company should have raised them before the process was over.

Those arguments aren’t convincing councilmembers. Council President Ben Stuckart says he’ll refuse to support a new AMR contract unless the bidding process is done over.

“It’s about fairness to taxpayers,” he says, “not locking taxpayers into one provider.”  heidig@inlander.com

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here some see trash, others see treasure.

Discarded bits of wood, items no longer in fashion, something for the donation box or the dumpster.

Whether you call it recycling, repurposing or upcycling, using unconventional surfaces and materials in art is a balance of pragmatics and whimsy for the four artists in the “Upcycled Art” show at Jacklin Arts and Cultural Center through Sept. 5.

For AbbyLynn Henning, the scraps of metal she’d see on the floor while working as business development manager at River City Fabrication inspired her to action.

“Birds’ nests are so dainty and fragile, and yet they’re wound together in such a [similar] way,” says Henning, who envisioned weaving the discarded ribbons of metal and mesh into a nest.

Henning attended Rhode Island School of Design for photography and has experimented in a variety of art forms, although she’d never welded. Encouraged by coworkers — she calls herself an “abricator” (versus fabricator) — Henning taught herself to tack-weld and patina the metal she uses in nests, small birds and other forms, which she also shows at Angel Gallery of Fine Arts & Antiques in Coeur d’Alene. ...continued on next page

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Like Henning, Megan Holden often works with scraps — chandelier crystals, bottle caps, a fork, watch casings — to create fantastical jewelry like “Wilde Love,” a tribute to playwright Oscar Wilde. Her style, ranging from retro to steampunk to theatrical, is always meticulously detailed.

Holden often exhibits at Manic Moon & More, Echo Boutique and Arbor Crest winery, and exhibits elaborate ink drawings under the name Poseidon’s Consort. Although none were included in the JACC show, they’re worth keeping an eye out for, and are testimony to her savvy as an illustrator.

An inveterate collector of unusual objects with a lifelong interest in art, 69-year-old Brian Conley fashioned the 14 pieces for the JACC in a month. From his home near the Coeur d’Alene Reservation, Conley works in a variety of media to express Western and Native American themes.

“As the Crow Flies,” for example, features a transformed trash can lid adorned with beads and leather.

His work reminds one of the ledger paintings of the late George Flett, whom Conley got to know from trading artwork and exhibiting at the Julyamsh Powwow.

Conley, who first began exhibiting his work at CdA’s former Journeys Off the Beaten Path (which closed in 2003), exhibits regularly at Angel Gallery and at Denise Oliver Gallery in Harrison, Idaho. He’s best known for his beautiful gourds, which combine acrylic paint

and intricately inscribed designs using a modified woodburner.

Like Conley, Jeff Manderville often uses paint to transform everyday objects. A flat head shovel, for example, becomes the backdrop for a Seahawk-inspired piece celebrating Manderville’s Seattle roots.

Manderville attended Seattle’s Burnley School of Professional Art in the ’70s, before it was absorbed by the Art Institutes. After earning his Associate degree at Spokane Falls Community College, Manderville later returned to the Art Institute to earn a degree in desktop publishing.

That sense of graphic design is evident in several works, including his three-part “Arrangement” series, which combines calligraphic-like marks and patterns on traditional canvases.

You might say that JACC is an ideal place to feature artwork about upcycling. Dating to the 1920s, the building is a repurposed church, created by combining two area churches from the 1890s. It was refurbished in 1998 to become a community-oriented event center featuring art exhibits, cooking classes, theater performances and concerts like the upcoming Brad Richter and Viktor Uzur duet on Friday, Oct. 3. Audiences also will be able to view JACC’s next exhibit, “Seasons in the NW,” a group invitational.  “Upcycled Art” • Through Sept. 5 • Jacklin Arts & Cultural Center • 405 N. William St., Post Falls, Idaho • thejacklincenter.org • (208) 457-8950

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here are things you want to tell your city, and perhaps you should write it a letter. It could be a love note, or maybe it includes some constructive criticism of how Spokane could do better.

Whatever you want to say, Spokane Arts wants to hear about it for their Spokane Throw project, which takes handwritten letters from residents and projects an artistic rendering of them on the side of downtown buildings during the month of October, which has been dedicated as Spokane Arts Month. Austin Stiegemeier, the program manager for Spokane Arts, says you should think of it as having your very own billboard, all for your own thoughts.

“The idea is for this to be about sharing public space and promoting accessible forms of communication,” says Stiegemeier.

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ne hundred years ago, the annual Spokane Tribal Labor Day Celebration was engendered as the Wellpinit Fair. It was called such because the idea of a fully fledged “powwow” seemed too loaded at a time when assimilation, not diversity, was the watchword.

There were some saddling and horse-driving events, some hasty exhibits and food from nearby gardens; but there weren’t the activities and rituals that one might expect. There was no dancing, that poetry of movement so closely linked with Native American tribute and expression. There was no stickgame, an ancient team-based competition of chanting and chance that once held stakes of land and livestock.

“It’s changed a lot,” says Spokane Tribal Councilwoman Carol Evans. “A long time ago, you didn’t have the contesting. It was more that we came together to share, to see people that we hadn’t seen. In fact, when the powwow first started back in 1914, we were still adjusting to being moved to the reservation, and at that time we weren’t allowed to continue to practice our culture, but the Indian Agency allowed us to have a fair. And then through the years we were eventually allowed to start bringing back our culture.”

A century on, the weekend-long event is still evolving. Along with site improvements to better accommodate the participants,

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the rowdier side of the powwow that alienated Arnold Spirit, Jr., the semi-autobiographical narrator of Sherman Alexie’s novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, has been openly addressed by the organizers.

“It’s real important for us to acknowledge that we are alcohol and drug free,” says Evans. “You’ll see a lot of powwows do this. It’s actually focused on family now.”

In early 2013, the event lost an important figure: internationally renowned artist George Flett, who was a sponsor of the unique Prairie Chicken Dance. The all-male dance, which incorporates gestures from the bird’s mating rituals, was a popular theme in Flett’s artwork.

“He’s no longer with us, but we are continuing to offer the Prairie Chicken as a category in one of our contests. It’s really cool; it’s really something to see. With certain dances, it’s to the level of being spiritual. You’re able to bring your spiritual self out,” says Evans.

Although the powwow has never managed an accurate head count, this year’s centennial is expected to draw an even bigger crowd than in years past.

“This year we have a lot of what they call ‘specials’ — individuals [who] haven’t danced in a long time and are coming back to join the dancing circle. We also have some name-giving and some memorial-type specials. We’ll have maybe 30 drums, and you might have five drummers on one drum; and then we can have anywhere from 400 to 800 dancers throughout the weekend,” she says.

Evans says that symbolizes the powwow’s spirit of sharing. Native and non-Native guests aren’t just welcome; they’re welcome to join in. That kind of experience conveys an “understanding of what we’re about — our culture and our traditions, that we have a value system where ... we honor our youth and we honor our elders, that we value life and everything about it. This is all part of that.”  Spokane Tribe of Indians 100th Annual Labor Day Celebration and Powwow • Aug. 28-Sept. 1 • Spokane Indian Reservation, Wellpinit, Wash. • spokanetribe.com

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hen Pig Out in the Park began in 1979, it wasn’t the sort of sprawling, downtown-Spokanedominating event that you’ll see on display this week in Riverfront Park. Bill Burke, who has been putting on the event since its inception, recalls a much more reserved, compact gathering.

“We were under two big tents with 20 or so vendors,” recalls Burke. “There was a lot of common smoke and common smells.”

Now in its 35th year as a Labor Day weekend staple, Burke says that Pig Out in the Park will welcome its estimated 3-millionth customer this year. The event is known to draw tens of thousands of visitors to the park each year for live music (see this week’s music section for some highlights of the schedule), kids’ activities and, of course,

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food. Lots of it.

This year’s nearly 40 vendors are set to serve approximately 225 different items, ranging from the sort of deep-fried goodies you reserve for a once-a-year gut bomb (including a burger made with doughnuts as buns), as well as ethnic dishes you might not easily find elsewhere. Burke says that over the years, Pig Out’s food offerings have curated themselves, and the eclectic nature of the cuisine has depended on what vendors want to participate. On occasion, though, he has looked around to see what might make for a nice Pig Out addition.

While Burke says he has stuck with what works over the years — a free-entry event with free music and a whole lot of inexpensive food in a family-friendly environment — there have been some changes.

The obvious additions over the past decade are the expanded size of the venue and additional music stages, but last year Pig Out took on a new look by adding $3 samples to the program. While these small dishes were only offered on certain days last year, Pig Out will now feature them throughout the event, and they’ll be available at every booth.

“Over the years one of the No. 1 requests people have made is, ‘Can we get a sample?’ I think we figured out a way to do it, and that’s added a lot to the week,” says Burke.

Pig Out in the Park isn’t an easy feat, Burke says. This year’s event required $297,000, much of which is paid for through sponsorships from local businesses, just to ...continued on page 63

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Volunteer Mary Anne Sullivan walks 10-year-old pit bull mix Dozer at the Spokane Humane Society. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

It’s About Time

We get it — we’re all busy. But there are more ways to find time to volunteer than you may think

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e could argue this both ways. It’s never been easier to find ways to give back to the community in this era of social media, crowdfunding and overall ease of access to the Web. At the same time, the sheer number of opportunities out there can overwhelm and even hinder our ability to find the time or causes we’re most passionate about.

A recently launched online hub for local nonprofits to share their volunteering needs seeks to change that perception. In conjunction with the City of Spokane’s Spokane Gives week campaign held in April of this year, Spokane County United Way teamed up with the city to launch VOLUNTEERSPOKANE.ORG. The site allows local agencies to create profiles and list their needs for volunteers, in-kind donations and other ways in which the public can help further their causes. Users can search for those requests by agency,

BY CHEY SCOTT cause or specific, often one-time, volunteer events.

United Way Vice President Janice Marich says the site is still growing. There are currently 165 agencies in the database, but she knows there are more out there not yet utilizing its free services.

Some of the current listings include requests for help weeding and harvesting the Spokane Valley Partners Community Garden, and groundskeeping at St. Anne’s Children & Family Center.

“I think the important thing is that the site lets you explore things you might have never thought about,” Marich says. “Users may find there are needs people have, and you might find you have the time or energy in a different way.

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Giving up time to volunteer on those precious days off doesn’t have to be a major time commitment. Not to toot my own horn, but I’ve personally had few issues balancing volunteer duties at a local nonprofit whose cause I’m passionate about — the SPOKANE HUMANE SOCIETY — while working both a full- and part-time job, and fitting in social and personal commitments. It’s not always easy, but it’s totally doable. After signing up for an initial 60-minute orientation, volunteers can access an online portal to sign up for one or more hour-long shifts, any day of the week. The options to cuddle and socialize animals range from dog walking, kitty cuddling, helping the front desk staff and many community outreach events throughout the year. The shelter requests that new volunteers commit to at least six hours a month during their first three months helping out. Find out more at spokanehumanesociety.org.

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While it may take a deeper search to find opportunities that are kid-friendly, such volunteer events do exist and can instill the value of giving back at an early age. One of the region’s largest social service nonprofits, CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SPOKANE, offers a few ways for kids to get involved, says volunteer services manager Brigid Krause. She adds that volunteers age 15 or younger must be accompanied by an adult 21 or older who also has gone through the application process. Krause says many area families with children help out together

Volunteer Jody Jones, left, hands food items to Genesis Marcial, who has been homeless for 8 months, at the food bank during Homeless Connect, held at the Salvation Army. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO once or twice a month doing light chores in the homes of some of the nonprofit’s disabled adult and senior clients.

Children are also welcome to volunteer with an adult at St. Margaret’s Shelter for mothers and children. Krause says there is no minimum age for children to be involved

with these activities, but in most cases she says kids should be old enough to understand and gain something from the experience. Find out more at catholiccharitiesspokane.org.

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Ask any nonprofit employee, like MOBIUS CHILDREN’S MUSEUM AND SCIENCE CENTER’s volunteer coordinator Alina Carleton, and they’ll likely agree that they would rather have someone give a little bit of time than none at all.

“The biggest hurdle of volunteering is time, and if someone has 20 minutes to give, I’m happy to have them,” Carleton says.

Volunteers at Mobius’ two downtown United Way’s annual Day of learning centers must Action for the community to be at least 14 years give their time and talent is old, and can assist with set for Thursday, Sept. 11, and exhibits, early-childhood work parties are scheduled education sessions and around town. Visit volunteerfundraising, among other spokane.org to see this year’s duties, she says. needs and sign up to help.

Similarly, the SALVATION ARMY of Spokane has numerous volunteer opportunities, like helping clients at its food bank find items they’re qualified to accept. The organization also oversees several large, annual fundraisers and drives, like Toys for Tots during the holidays, and its recent Backpacks for Kids program.

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Volunteer dentist Marty Hahn, left, and volunteer dental assistant Jessika Stermer, at the Union Gospel Mission Center for Women and Children in Coeur d’Alene. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

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or all those scraping by, living paycheck to paycheck, it’s understandable that you can’t hand out fat checks to every honorable charity around. But everyone has something they’re talented at — football, gardening, offering legal advice, making people laugh.

Embrace that skill and pay it forward by donating time and services. For most of the following nonprofits — and these are just a select few of the many opportunities — you can volunteer as much time as you have. The most important thing is to reach out to a place first. There are no longer any excuses.

PUBLIC HEALTH/LEGAL SERVICES

People in the health and legal fields may be more pressed for time than money, but there still are ways for them to offer their services to those in need. The UNION GOSPEL MISSION offers a clinic for dental, vision, medical, veterinary and legal aid assistance at its Spokane and/or Coeur d’Alene locations.

Spokane dentist Dr. Stephen Mills has been volunteering with UGM for 15 years, averaging about one day per month. He says he was drawn to UGM because of the people and the respect for the program.

“These people come in, they remind me how broken I am, too,” Mills says. “I have respect for them pulling themselves up, wanting to turn their lives around, and I can help with that.”

As Mills points out, the dentistry services and all of the others offer a real chance for people to find stability and jobs. To sign up with one of these UGM programs, call 535-8510.

HOUSE OF CHARITY, under the Catholic Charities Spokane umbrella, has offered a volunteer community clinic based at Sacred Heart Medical Center since 1976. Physicians and nurses can offer services any time

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BY LAURA JOHNSON the clinic is open, and there’s also a new women’s clinic.

You don’t have to work at Sacred Heart to participate, but registration goes through the hospital. Go to catholiccharitiesspokane.org/house-of-charity for more details.

SPORTS

It’s not actually about the sport. It’s that a kid is trying, using skills on the field or court, learning how to exist with others. At the BOYS & GIRLS CLUB (bgcspokanecounty.org), volunteer coaches have the opportunity to pass along their love of a sport.

“I’m always looking for people who have knowledge of the sport, so they can pass that on,” says Kyle Davidson, team sports director at the Northtown branch of the Boys & Girls Club. “Someone the kids can look up to as a mentor.”

Normally that means a parent of one of the players, or a family friend, but Davidson encourages current or former athletes to come out and coach the elementary school-aged kids as well. Options are flag football in the fall, volleyball and basketball in the winter and soccer in the spring. All are co-ed but volleyball, which is all girls.

Potential coaches will go through an application process and orientation.

MUSIC/ARTS

There’s nothing wrong with collecting payment from students to teach a musical instrument; musicians need to eat, too. At the YMCA (North and Central locations; ymcaspokane.org), piano, guitar and voice teachers are paid, but those who have a different talent — drums, viola, banjo — can teach on a volunteer basis.

“I’d love to see us have a drum circle group of some kind,” says Spencer Koonz, teen program director at the North Spokane YMCA.

Other opportunities for volunteers include the program’s open mic night; Koonz says help is needed setting up the PA system and coordinating each event.

Also, next year’s BOBfest (Teen Battle of the Bands) needs volunteers for its teen and adult planning board.

For anyone interested, the first meeting is Tuesday, Sept.

9, at the downtown Y. You don’t need to be a Y member to participate.

INK ART SPACE is another local charity offering artistic services to kids, setting up afterschool programs and summer arts and writing workshops at its downtown location. Go to inkspokane.org/volunteer to offer your artistic skills to the nonprofit.

COOKING

She’s always happy when they want to make cinnamon rolls. Pies, too. At the RONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SPOKANE, next to the Shriners Hospital for Children, Volunteer Coordinator Debbie Fucile is always looking for folks who want to come to the house kitchen and whip up a meal. Better yet, bake. You don’t have to have a culinary arts degree, just an ability to cook something delicious and nutritious for a group of 25 to 30 people.

“Our families take off out of here in the morning to go to the hospital, and when they come back, it’s a little piece of heaven when there’s a hot meal on the table for them,” Fucile says.

All meals must be cooked at the house, and volunteer cooks must provide all ingredients (except for staples like flour and spices) for the dishes. Fucile says this is a perfect opportunity for a small church group, or group of friends, to donate their cooking expertise. Call 624-0500 for more information. n

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elcome to our 14th annual Inlander Give Guide, which includes our annual Peirone Prize winners.

The Peirone name (pronounced “Purr-ohn”) is a big part of the Inlander story. Joe and Alice Peirone were not only the founders of Peirone Produce, which still delivers fresh fruits and veggies all over the region, they were our grandparents, too.

When Jer and I were ready to go into the newspaper business back in 1993, Grandma Alice was the first one to loan us money to get started. She and Joe, having known the tough times of the Great Depression, were always generous once they had extra to share. When you think of the Inlander, you can think of them and the example they set for us.

Today, their legacy lives on through their kids, our mom Jeanne and our Uncle Jim. But we’re also keeping their spirit close with the five-year-old Peirone Prize. This year’s winners — Kate Burke, Randy Ramos and Jeni Riplinger-Hegsted — rose to the top of our list of more than 30 nominees for all the reasons you will read about in the pages ahead.

We are especially recognizing them, but everyone who works in the Inland Northwest’s nonprofit and charity world

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KAT HALL, conservation programs director at the Lands Council JAMIE BORGAN, program director at New Leaf Bakery MARY CHARBONNEAU, director of fundraising and community outreach at Washington Basset Rescue

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BRENT AND AMY HENDRICKS, co-founders of Global Neighborhood KORRINE KREILKAMP, founder of Community Roots BART MIHAILOVICH, affiliate coordinator at the Waterkeeper Alliance

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TAYLOR WEECH, Inlander columnist and radio host at KYRS-FM. BEN STUCKART, Spokane City Council President EMILY PAULSON, Campus Kitchen coordinator at Gonzaga University

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Joe and Alice Peirone deserves a big “thank you.” Our community works hard to do the right thing, to help our neighbors, and that only comes from a dedicated bunch of people — the front-line workers who often aren’t thanked for all they do. A big part of the Give Guide is to take a minute, shine a light on that effort and say “thank you.”

So as you read through the Give Guide, we encourage you to keep up that Peirone spirit and to say thanks with your own contribution to a charity of your choice.

— TED S. McGREGOR JR., PUBLISHER Send your Peirone Prize 2015 nominees or thoughts on this Give Guide section to giveguide@inlander.com.

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ometimes, Randy Ramos recruits at powwows. Other times, he sets up at the House of Charity homeless shelter.

Or maybe the Community Court, where nonviolent offenders are given services instead of just jail time.

In each place, Ramos delivers the same message: Education will set you free.

“It’s an escape. I tell them, if you’ve had a life being the victim, this is the opportunity to stop being that,” Ramos says.

“I had my family taken away from me. I had my job, had my money taken away. But my education can never be taken away from me.”

It’s why he volunteers as a recruiter with Spokane Tribal College, an inexpensive two-year college aimed at native students. Haven’t heard of it? That’s exactly what Ramos is trying to change.

He doesn’t just recruit American Indians — the college is open to everyone. But when he does, he understands their story. Ramos is a member of the Colville Tribe. He wears his vivid family colors in a set of woven hoop earrings. He grew up in Spokane, lived in the impoverished Hillyard neighborhood and attended Rogers High School. For more than a decade, he worked at casinos. But after his gambling addiction went awry and he separated from his fiancée, Ramos ended up, humbled, on the impoverished Spokane Indian Reservation.

There, he saw poverty and despair. He, his dad, his grandfather and two of his kids crammed into a single camper. He remembers a man joining his work crew, trimming trees in the Wellpinit woods. The very next day, that coworker didn’t show up. He’d committed suicide.

“I said to myself, something’s got to change,” Ramos says.

“We need to educate our young. We need our own lawyers. We need our own doctors. We need our own professionals. We need people to run our own businesses.”

That’s what made him decide, in 2012, to go back to school to become an educator. His first attempt, at Spokane Falls Community College, failed years ago. But the Spokane Tribal College, with a campus on the reservation and in Spokane, was

a perfect fit.

“Many of our students do start at other institutions and in two weeks, they’re out,” says Shelly Wynecoop, director of the college. They feel alienated. But at the small-scale Spokane Tribal College — where American Indians aren’t outliers — there’s a strong sense of community.

After graduation, Ramos became a recruiter. He emphasizes the Tribal College’s closeness: In some colleges, it’s sink or swim. Here, they do everything they can to help you float.

“You’re going to graduate with me,” Ramos says. “If you need to go sit in line at [the Department of Social and Health Services], and you don’t have time, I’ll go do that. If you need a ride to school, and your car broke down, I’ll be going to go pick you up.”

Budgetary challenges meant that he was laid off this June.

But he’s still recruiting without pay. Wynecoop nominated Ramos for the Peirone Prize, not because of any one big moment, but because of his tireless work on countless little things. “It is just filling out 400 million pieces of paper. And it is just making 500 phone calls. And it is just grunt work,” says Wynecoop.

“But he keeps doing it. He keeps getting up every day and doing it.”

He almost single-handedly put together a dinner and art auction fundraiser so successful, it’s become an annual tradition. He’s been in conversations with Spokane Public School administrators about finding a new space for Medicine Wheel, a resource for native students in Spokane Public Schools. He’s part of a group seeking to create a Public Development Authority through the city of Spokane to build a cultural center for urban natives.

On top of all that, he’s working as a life-skills coach at the Healing Lodge of the Seven Nations, a drug treatment center for native and non-native youth in Spokane Valley.

He’s worthy of the award, Wynecoop says, “not because he’s been on top of the mountain or anything, but because he’s been under the rock. And he’s pushing it up the hill. And we need more people who can do that.” 

know that, if I can do that for one person, maybe they can reach out to another person.

If I can touch three or four people, maybe they can reach out and do the same thing. A little splash can turn into a big wave.

I LOOK UP TO: [Medicine

Wheel Academy teacher] Dave BrownEagle. Dave’s always been one who says, ‘Take care of each other, look out for one another.’ My dad: he’s got one of the biggest hearts I’ve ever seen in a person. I’ve literally seen him take his shirt off his back and give it to somebody else in the middle of a blizzard. I hope I can hold a candle to him in that way. My mom raised me as a single mom: She gave herself every single day to make sure I had a roof and clothes on our back.

I WISH: that everybody will come together and recognize that we’re all in this together.

That they’d love each other no matter what their background is, no matter what their story is. That’ll open up a lot of doors.

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Director of development and communications at the Lands Council; president of the Spokane Edible Tree Project; chairwoman of the Spokane Bicycle Advisory Board

Kate Burke picks cherries for the Spokane Edible Tree Project. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

Kate Burke

I GIVE BACK BECAUSE: I want

Spokane to be an even better city than it is.

At 25, she dreams of making a great city even greater

I LOOK UP TO: My

parents. [Without them] I couldn’t have done any of this. I also look up to our city council right now. They’re doing a really good job right now of working together and making things happen.

I WISH: that there was more investment in the younger generation in Spokane.

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omewhere between Missoula and Spokane, Kate Burke steps off her bicycle to return phone calls and tap out text messages, because even when on vacation she has work to do. As an avid volunteer, committee chair, activist and advocate, Burke has deeply embedded herself in a wide variety of efforts to reshape the Lilac City for the better.

“We don’t have the option to let someone else take care of the problems,” she says. “It’s cool to be a part of the first steps toward change.”

In a larger city like Portland or Seattle, opportunities to get involved or serve on advisory boards can be competitive or exclusive, she says. In Spokane, there’s always more work than bodies.

Burke, 25, seems to make up for at least three or four people — serving as director of development and communications at the Lands Council, cofounder of the Spokane Edible Tree Project, chair of the Spokane Bicycle Advisory Board and a board member of Project Hope.

With the election season here, Burke says she also has tried to volunteer for a number of local candidates and causes.

“I’m really busy,” she says. “I try to go to a lot of events.”

Kat Hall, who works alongside Burke at the Lands Council, says Burke brings an intense energy to her work and a passion for bringing people together for good. Her networking and outreach efforts have helped raise the council’s profile in the past two years and build new partnerships.

“She’s very active,” Hall says. “She doesn’t stop. She’s always moving. … She’s definitely a go-getter.”

Change should be tangible. Last year, Burke helped launch the Spokane Edible Tree Project, modeled after a similar program in Portland, that identifies unused fruit trees or orchards and collects the bounty for distribution through local food banks. Burke works alongside the small “gleaning mob” of volunteers, balancing on lad-

ders and filling boxes with cherries, plums or other fresh produce.

“It’s really rewarding,” she says. “There’s a very limited number of people who are doing things.”

Burke also contributes to the Project Hope program that conducts youth outreach and jobs training. Project Hope also focuses on building new connections with food by teaching farming and gardening techniques to children ages 11 to 18. The project helps develop résumé-building skills and connects participants to internship opportunities.

“Kate works tirelessly to create a community where fresh, healthy food is available to all residents,” writes Jamie Borgan with Project Hope, “and as a true leader within this community, she does this by modeling qualities of hard work, passion, and participation.”

Burke says her work with the Lands Council helps pull together many of her interests in environmental protection and community involvement.

“It’s really challenging,” she says. “I’ve never really done anything like this before. … I’ve been pretty much working my whole life to lead up to this.”

Born and raised in Spokane, Burke serves as a tireless booster.

She says she has enjoyed watching the city evolve and improve in recent years. She says more people choose to live here and invest in making it a vibrant community.

“It’s moving,” she says. “Things are being built.”

Burke says she keeps a sort of to-do list for her hometown — things like new programs, venues or events. She has already checked off several items over the past two years.

It’s re-energizing every time something gets crossed off the list.

It helps keep her motivated. Because then she can replace that item with a new, more ambitious goal.

“Spokane’s moving in a really awesome direction,” she says. “It can [still] be more amazing than it already is. I love Spokane.” 

BE A PART OF THE CHANGE WE ALL WANT TO SEE. Bring your passion for the community to life. Volunteer!

Visit unitedwayspokane.org to find an opportunity that’s right for you!

PHOTO CREDIT: UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE

SPOKANE COUNTY UNITED WAY · 509.838.6581

The health of our community goes beyond good medicine.

In 2013, Providence offered $30 million in free and discounted care so the uninsured and underinsured could access health care. This charity care is a part of Providence’s total community benefit of $133 million.

Providence Cares Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center Sacred Heart Children’s Hospital Providence Holy Family Hospital Providence Spokane Heart Institute Providence Mount Carmel Hospital Providence St. Joseph’s Hospital

Providence Medical Group Providence VNA Home Health Providence DominiCare Providence St. Joseph Care Center Providence Adult Day Health Providence Emilie Court Assisted Living

To learn more about how Providence serves the communities we call home, visit phc.org

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Director of St. Vincent de Paul’s Art on the Edge

I GIVE BACK BECAUSE: I believe

that’s why we’re all here. I give back because I feel like that’s part of my purpose on this planet. It’s my way to contribute to our community.

Arts on the Edge Program Director Jeni Riplinger-Hegsted, center, helps student Mayre Hitchcock.

Jeni Riplinger-Hegsted

I LOOK UP TO: Dian

Hanson. She was our board president [at Art on the Edge] when I was hired, and she was my son’s first-grade teacher.

I have never known a person to live a life so selflessly and give so much. I have never once heard her complain or seek any recognition for herself. She always is just doing things for the greater good.

I WISH: that the arts

would be embraced and supported, that Coeur d’Alene would have a thriving local arts scene so that artists would continue to stay here in our community.

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here’s a wild thing in Jeni Riplinger-Hegsted’s studio. A furry, She continued studying her craft under former Coeur d’Alene 4-foot-tall beast made of foam, wood and wire hovers in the corpotter Tim Musgrove. Later, she started teaching extracurricular potner, baring his pointed, paper-white teeth in a goofy grin. A blue tery classes at her kids’ elementary school. She also had a change of herring hangs from the center of the ceiling. A giant papier-mâché heart. When a job opened up at Art on the Edge, a friend encouraged box of french fries leans against one of three brightly colored walls. her to combine her passions for art and philanthropy, and apply.

Here, it’s easy to forget you’re inside a drafty garage at the end “I realized I wanted to stay here and work on making this comof a cul-de-sac, and that’s the point. For Riplinger-Hegsted, artistic exmunity all of the things it has the potential to be,” she says. “Coeur pression is a transformative experience — one that everyone deserves, d’Alene has a real need for creative outlets for the at-risk and underbut often only the privileged have access to. served population, so I wanted to be part of that.”

As the director of St. Vincent de Paul’s Art Art on the Edge offers after-school classes, on the Edge in Coeur d’Alene — a nonprofit a week-long summer camp for kids and a that offers art classes to kids and adults, parvariety of summer workshops in disciplines ticularly those experiencing homelessness and like painting, weaving, breakdancing, and On Sept. 12, Art on the Edge hosts poverty — she works to ensure that even the photography. The program survives on a “Emerge,” its first show for professional most vulnerable in her community can express meager budget of $28,000 — which includes artists, at the Wiggett Building on Fourth themselves behind a pottery wheel or with a Riplinger-Hegsted’s salary — donated materials and Lakeside from 5 to 11 pm. The show will paintbrush. and help from dozens of volunteers, including feature work from the dozens of local artists People who are homeless or living in professional artists. who’ve volunteered to teach at Art on the poverty “don’t have a lot of choice in their On Monday nights, Riplinger-Hegsted Edge over the years. Visit facebook.com/ life,” she says, “They don’t have a choice about teaches her own course, a women’s pottery emergecda for more information. where they’re living, what they’re eating or class. Her students come from a diverse range how their time is spent. But then they come of backgrounds. Some live in shelters or traninto the studio and it’s all about choice; it’s sitional housing. Some are domestic violence all about process. ...We’re focused on letting them have a time of survivors or former drug addicts. Others — those who are paying to relaxation, where they’re just able to play, just able to be free. It’s very take the course — have never experienced anything like that in their therapeutic and soothing for what they’re going through.” lives. The most rewarding part of her job, Riplinger-Hegsted says, is Growing up in Coeur d’Alene, Riplinger-Hegsted imagined leavwatching those women make friendships despite their differences. ing her small town and moving to a big city with a thriving arts scene, “Once they are sitting down and making art together at the same like Seattle or Portland. Even as a kid, when she grew frustrated with table, all of that washes away. They’re all just women taking a pottery her inability to paint or draw with any natural skill, she’d always class,” she says. “[That’s] my piece of the puzzle — offering this experifancied herself an artist. It wasn’t until she took her first pottery class ence of art here in the studio — and how that has a lasting effect on in high school that she discovered where her true artistic talent lies. them.” 

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ith all this talk of what you could be doing for local organizations that need your help, let’s take a moment to make sure you’re being smart about it. Despite frequent reports about scams and bad charities, there’s no reason to shy away from donating money to groups that ask for your help. Instead, use these tips — and your gut instincts — to find the truly good causes.

DO YOUR HOMEWORK: Research any organization you’re considering donating to, especially those you’ve never heard of or with particularly generic names. Visit the Washington State Secretary of State’s charity listings website (sos.wa.gov/charities), which you can search using the charity name or county. This will tell you whether a charity is registered with the state, a requirement for all groups that raise more than $50,000 a year or have paid employees. The office also has a charity hotline at 1-800-332-4483.

For fraud alerts, check the Washington attorney general’s site (atg.wa.gov/scamalerts.aspx). Idaho doesn’t have a state-run charity registry, but you can check for scam notices on the attorney general’s website (ag.idaho.gov). Try these nationwide sites for even more information on nonprofits: bbb.org/charity, charitynavigator.org and guidestar.org.

ASK QUESTIONS: Washington state law requires charitable telemarketers to state their name, organization and their organization’s location, as well as whether they work for a third-party fundraising group calling on behalf of the charity. If they don’t give you that information, beware. If they’re too pushy, beware.

Ask the caller to send you more information about the effort and handle it by mail. “Any legitimate charity will be more than willing to send out information on their cause to try to get a new donor,” says Teresa Glidden, who oversees Washington’s “Give Wisely” campaign.

BE EXTRA CAREFUL ONLINE: Social networking has given us more ways to share information about our favorite causes, but it also makes it easier for scams to spread. Glidden says there’s no real way to verify the grassroots, person-to-person efforts you’ll see, from Kickstarter and GoFundMe campaigns to local car washes and business donations. “That basically comes down to common sense,” she says. Look for specifics about where the money will go and what exactly it will pay for. If you’re uneasy, Glidden says, steer clear and find a local organization working on the ground that you can check out.

CONSIDER WHO YOU GIVE TO: With the backing of some of the area’s major nonprofits, the City of Spokane and the Downtown Spokane Partnership are encouraging you to think twice before giving to panhandlers. Instead, they want you to direct that money to local shelters, meal kitchens and other organizations helping the homeless, where they say more long-term, transformative change is possible.

“They’re going to get good nutrition here. … We have clothing and other outreach. There’s lots of staff that care about them,” says House of Charity Director Ed McCarron, who notes that more than half of his organization’s funding comes from private donations.

“We can use this as a conduit to get better things happening to them.” Visit realchangespokane.org for more information and a list of recommended charities.

— HEIDI GROOVER

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American Cancer Society - Coaches vs Cancer 920 N. Washington Suite 200 Spokane, WA 99201

What We Do:

509.242.8281 abbie.davis@cancer.org www.cancer.org

We empower coaches, their teams, and communities to join the fight against cancer by participating in awareness efforts, advocacy programs, and fundraising activities.

Coaches vs Cancer is a nationwide collaboration between the American Cancer Society and the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) that empowers basketball coaches, their teams, and local communities to make a difference in the fight against cancer.

How Can You Get Involved?

Support Coaches vs Cancer with tax-deductible donations, volunteer and fundraising opportunities, event sponsorship, or purchase tickets by contacting our local office.

American Red Cross 315 W. Nora Ave. Spokane, WA 99205

What We Do:

509.326.3330 www.redcross.org 1-800-RED-CROSS

The American Red Cross prevents and alleviates human suffering in the face of emergencies by mobilizing the power of volunteers and the generosity of donors.

The Red Cross has served our region for the past 100 years through programs including assistance to families impacted by disasters like house fires and storms; lifesaving skills training; preparedness outreach and education; and support of our service members, military families and Veterans.

How Can You Get Involved?

• Support our programs as a donor or volunteer • Sign-up for a lifesaving class like CPR/AED • Take steps to prepare your home and workplace for emergencies

Because There Is Hope “Faye’s House” 7594 Hwy 291 Ford, WA 99013

What We Do:

509.939.9672 www.becausethereishope.org btih@becausethereishope.org

Because There Is Hope exists to bring a message of Hope, Healing, and safe Haven to those touched by cancer.

Because There Is Hope understands traveling for treatment is both costly and exhausting for those individuals coming to Spokane for cancer treatment. Faye’s House is honored to welcome up to three patients and/or caregivers at a time. Faye’s House is their home away from home.

How Can You Get Involved?

Needed: Toilet paper, paper towels, cleaning supplies and laundry soap. Bed pillows, bath/hand towels with washcloths.

Event volunteers and gas cards.

Faye’s House, Spokane WA

Beyond Pink Designer Bra & Fashion Show 4119 S. Cuba St. Spokane, WA 99223

What We Do:

509.863.7776 www.beyondpink.net

spokanebeyondpink@hotmail.com

As a For Purpose 501c3, we educate and empower others in the early detection of breast disease through thermographic testing.

Beyond Pink Designer bra & fashion show is our largest fundraiser of the year. This event includes a fashion show, silent auction, food, beverages, live entertainment and the most fun you will have saving a life all while providing education and early detection of breast disease to those in need.

How Can You Get Involved?

Buy Tickets for the Beyond Pink event, taking place on 10.10.14.

Donate, become a sponsor, or contribute to the silent auction.

100% of the net proceeds are used to help women in Spokane.

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Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Inland NW 222 W. Mission Ave. Suite 40 Spokane, WA 99201

What We Do:

509.328.8310 www.nwbigs.org inquiry@nwbigs.orgg

Provide children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported one to one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever.

By partnering with parents, guardians, volunteers and others in the community, we are accountable for each child in our program achieving: higher aspirations, great confidence, and better relationships; avoidance of risky behaviors; educational success.

What Can Your Donations Do? $50 expense of monthly safety contact for 4 children $100 expense of a volunteer interview/home visit $300 cost of processing a volunteer to match with a child

Big Table

P.O. Box 141510 Spokane Valley, WA 99214

What We Do:

509.979.1005 www.big-table.com information@big-table.com

We’re committed to building relationships rather than simply offering a limited list of programs. Our relationships start with shared meals around a literal “big table.”

Big Table exists to see the lives of those working in the restaurant and hospitality industry transformed by building relationships around shared meals and caring for those who are in crisis, transition, or falling through the cracks.

How Can You Get Involved? $20 Surprise an industry worker with a needed meal $50 Provide a pre-paid phone card for a job search $100 Grocery card for a single parent

Birthright of Coeur d’Alene 923 E. Sherman Ave. Coeur d’Alene, ID 83814

What We Do:

208.664.1390 800.550.4900 www.birthright.org

The essence of Birthright is Love. Birthright is committed to offering free, non-judgmental help to girls or women facing unplanned pregnancies.

We offer love, hope and support to each woman, to help her make a realistic plan for her future and the future of her unborn child. Birthright is a 501c3 charitable organization, run completely by volunteers. We have been serving the community for over 31 years. Call Birthright, a friend is waiting to help you!

What Can Your Donations Do? Your donations will be used wisely as we help the girls and women who come to us in need. This would include pregnancy tests, rent, telephone, and other office expenses.

The Book Parlor

1425 W. Broadway Ave. Spokane, WA 99201

What We Do:

509.328.6527 lutheranbooks@msn.com

The Book Parlor is a non-profit, local bookstore offering everything from used classics to exciting new titles.

We nurture connections between neighbors while encouraging a love for reading and promoting literacy one child at a time within the West Central area of Spokane. The Book Parlor is a ministry of Salem Lutheran Church.

How Can You Get Involved?

We welcome volunteers who can work behind the counter, help us organize our shelves, or come read to children.

M-F 10am-5:30pm, Sat 10am-2pm.

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Boys & Girls Clubs of Spokane County 544 E. Providence Ave. Spokane, WA 99207

What We Do:

509.489.0741 www.bgcspokanecounty.org Three Clubhouse Locations

Our mission is to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring & responsible citizens.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Spokane County has provided thousands of young people, (ages 6-18), with a safe & positive place to “drop-in” after school & throughout the summer. Our 3 Clubhouses offer programs proven to help kids realize academic success, develop good character & citizenship and attain healthy lifestyles.

How Can You Get Involved? $10 Provides a year’s membership for 1 child $30 Allows 1 child to participate in a sports league for the entire season $500 Covers costs for 1 child to belong to the Club for a whole year

Cancer Care Northwest Foundation 5105 E. Third Ave. Spokane Valley, WA 99212

What We Do:

509.228.1019 www.cancercarenorthwest.com foundation@ccnw.net

CCNW is a non-profit that helps Inland Northwest cancer patients and their families through educational, emotional and financial support.

The CCNW Foundation offers limited financial support for basic necessities such as transportation, prescriptions, groceries and rent, counseling for children and families, and community resource referrals.

The CCNW Foundation also supports the advancement of cancer research.

What Can Your Donations Do? Your donation helps ensure that Inland Northwest cancer patients and their families have the support they need throughout their journeys with cancer.

Catholic Charities Spokane 12 E. Fifth Ave. Spokane, WA 99202

What We Do:

509.358.4250 www.CatholicCharitiesSpokane.org development@ccspokane.org

Catholic Charities Spokane assists the poor and vulnerable in Eastern Washington providing wrap-around services to stabilize lives.

Catholic Charities assists individuals & families in crisis, vulnerable children, lonely and fragile elderly, single parents, victims of abuse and homeless men, women and children.

What Can Your Donations Do? $25 Buys 100 size 1 diapers to assist families in need $50 Provides 30/2-hour Bus passes for our clients $100 Offers Emergency Assistance for individuals in crisis

Center for Justice

35 W. Main St. Suite 300 Spokane, WA 99201

What We Do:

509.835.5211 www.cforjustice.org information@cforjustice.org

The Center for Justice is Spokane’s legal advocacy firm that assists people who have nowhere else to turn to address an injustice.

We believe justice is an experience, not just an outcome. We help people with many issues, including driver relicensing, housing disputes, voting rights, open government, environment, land use, and police accountability. Our Spokane Riverkeeper program works to protect the health of the Spokane River.

What Can Your Donations Do? $75 adds a lawyer to our “Talk to a Lawyer for Free” night $150 gets someone’s license back $200 helps someone move forward from an old criminal conviction

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Children’s Home Society of WA 2323 N. Discovery Pl. Spokane Valley, WA 99216

What We Do:

509.747.4174 www.childrenshomesociety.org libbyh@chs-wa.org

We offer support programs and counseling services that encourage healthy child development, strong familial bonds and community engagement.

Established in 1896, Children’s Home Society of Washington stands as the premier service provider in helping improve the lives of children and families in Spokane and the surrounding communities.

How Can You Get Involved? $150 allows a child who has experienced trauma learn the skills to cope and thrive $250 ensures one family receives two months of our acclaimed Parents as Teachers home visiting service

Christ Clinic / Christ Kitchen Carlisle & Monroe • P.O. Box 28236 Spokane, WA 99228

What We Do:

509.325.0393 ext 331 www.ccckministry.org raelene@christclinic.org

Christ Clinic/Christ Kitchen brings HEALTH, HOPE, and HEALING to our neighbors in need of God’s unfailing love and care.

Your support provides medical care and counseling to people in need of help and brings hope to women in poverty through job-training and discipleship. Emphasizing dignity, not dependence, clinic patients and kitchen trainees are regaining hope, calming the chaos, and learning to stand on their own two feet.

What Can Your Donations Do? $39 Pays wages to a woman living in poverty $86 Provides care for a neighbor in need $125 Gives hope & healing to a kitchen trainee & a clinic patient

Community Cancer Fund 621 W. Mallon Suite 605 Spokane, WA 99201

What We Do:

509-499-4692 communitycancerfund.org communitycancerfund@gmail.com

Community Cancer Fund takes the fight against cancer to the local level.

Community Cancer Fund is dedicated to fighting cancer in the Inland Northwest by funding local cancer prevention and screening programs, supporting cancer patients at every stage of their illness and recovery and funding groundbreaking local research. All donations made to CCF will stay in the Inland Northwest, so cancer doesn’t.

How Can You Get Involved?

• Follow us on Facebook and Twitter • Attend or Volunteer at The Showcase • Support a cancer patient with a financial donation

Community Colleges of Spokane Foundation MS 1005 501 N. Riverpoint Blvd. • P.O. Box 6000 Spokane, WA 99217-6000

What We Do:

509.434.5123 www.ccs.spokane.edu/foundation

Supporting students is the heart of CCS Foundation. By increasing educational access, we provide a “hand up” for people to improve their lives through education.

Last year more than 1,100 students applied for just 200 scholarships, and this year the need is greater than ever. With your help, we can reach more students to change even more lives. We invite you to join us and make a difference by giving someone their start to an education and a career.

What Can Your Donations Do? $25 provides a bus pass for a student to get to class $75 buys one textbook $150 supports GED tests for a student to meet college entrance requirements

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CHAS - Community Health Association of Spokane Spokane, WA 99201

What We Do:

509.444.8888 www.chas.org communications@chas.org

CHAS improves the overall health of the communities we serve by expanding access to quality health and wellness services.

CHAS provides high-quality medical, dental, pharmacy and behavioral health care to individuals and families of all ages, regardless of insurance status. 100% of any amount you contribute to CHAS goes directly to patient care. Thank you for your support!

What Can Your Donations Do? $25 pays for prescription assistance for one patient $175 covers the cost for one uninsured patient visit $234 covers the cost for one uninsured dental encounter

The Cutter Theatre

302 Park St. Metaline Falls, WA 99153

What We Do:

509.446.4108 www.cuttertheatre.com cutter@potc.net

The Cutter Theatre is a revitalized historic structure used to nurture, promote and develop the performing and visual arts in our community.

The Cutter Theatre exists to enrich the lives of those in our community and beyond. Designed by Kirtland Cutter as the Metaline Falls School, it now serves as a location for community theatre, a gallery for regional artists, a branch of the Pend Oreille Library, an event center and so much more.

How Can You Get Involved?

Your support helps keep alive the performing and visual arts in a small, rural community as well as ArtScape programs for children.

The Cutter Theatre

Daybreak Youth Services Spokane, Spokane Valley and Vancouver, WA

What We Do:

509.624.3227 ext 26 www.daybreakinfo.org dlenier@daybreakinfo.org

Daybreak Youth Services Saves Kids’ Lives. We are a regional, non-profit providing treatment services to youth and families troubled by substance abuse and addiction.

Daybreak has been providing a secure environment for children to receive drug and alcohol treatment for over 32 years. The impact on our region yields an excellent net return for each dollar contributed. Every $1 spent on treatment saves taxpayers $7 in health and public safety costs. (U.S. DHHS)

How Can You Get Involved?

Help Daybreak Save Kids’ Lives Send a tax-deductible contribution, online at www.daybreakinfo.org or mail to 960 E. 3rd Ave. Spokane, WA 99202. Tax ID number: 91-1083936

Double J Dog Ranch Inc. P.O. Box 3583 Post Falls, ID 83877

What We Do:

208.457.8600 www.DoubleJDogRanch.org DoubleJDogRanch@aol.com

Rescue, re-home or offer sanctuary or hospice to double merle Aussie’s and other dogs with special needs in jeopardy of euthanasia at municipal shelters.

Our program focuses on the unique needs of each dog. We are committed to giving them the best of specialized vet care, nutrition, therapies, acupuncture, training, end of life care and nourishing their souls.

We educate the public about what wonderful pets animals with special needs are.

How Can You Get Involved? $25 1 set of vaccinations $50 2 bags of dog food $100 1 spay & 1 neuter

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Ds Connections Nw 3839 W. Prairie Ave. Hayden, ID 83835

What We Do:

877.733.3955 www.dsconnectionsnw.org

Ds Connections Nw, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, strives to be a network of support and resources to improve the quality of life of persons with Down syndrome.

We connect people throughout the Inland Northwest living with a Ds diagnosis, their families and the community at large through diverse social and informational opportunities.

How Can You Get Involved?

Join us for the Annual Step UP for Down Syndrome Walk – an easy 1 mile walk – September 20, 2014 in Spokane Valley in conjunction with Valleyfest. All event proceeds go to Ds Connections Nw. Register at www.firstgiving.com/DsCNw.

Elevations

325 S. University Rd. Suite #202 Spokane Valley, WA 99206

What We Do:

509.385.2116 www.elevationsspokane.org elevationsfoundation@outlook.com

Elevations offers grant opportunities to cover the costs of therapy or therapeutic equipment for children with special needs in the greater Spokane area.

Elevations was established in 2012 by committed medical professionals, families and community members who have seen too many children with physical and mental challenges that could be helped by therapy- but who have limited or no resources to meet the cost. The financial burden these families face is substantial.

Our mission is helping children with special needs reach their full potential by providing access to the resources and support they need to improve their overall quality of life.

Our organization works with therapy providers in the greater Spokane area to identify and qualify children and families for grants. Grants may cover all or part of the cost of a course of therapy and/or therapeutic devices. Unfortunately, these children’s needs are not being fully met through healthcare coverage and diminished state funding. Therefore, Elevations was created to fill that gap. Our organization is funded only by donations and grants. Children ages 0-18 who live in the greater Spokane area can qualify for financial resources.

In the past year, Elevations has been honored to help over 30 families receive therapeutic services and equipment that they otherwise could not afford. This year our goal is to raise $75,000 to help more deserving children.

Upcoming: Ghost Ball @ Riverside Event Center (Saturday, October 25th 2014 – 7pm-midnight) To learn more about this exciting fundraiser visit www.ghostball.org

What Can Your Donations Do? Your donation helps children in the greater Spokane area receive the care they deserve. $25 Can pay for one co-payment towards therapy services. $50 Covers the cost of one therapy session. $100 Can provide therapeutic equipment for a child. $500 Can help a child communicate through the use of an iPad.

Get Lit! Programs

668 N. Riverpoint Blvd, Suite 258 Spokane, WA 99202

What We Do:

www.getlitfestival.org getlit@ewu.edu

Engage the Inland Northwest community through celebrations of the written word and discussions of literature.

Since 1998, Get Lit! has inspired readers, writers, and storytellers of all ages. Best known for our annual spring book festival, featuring nationally renowned authors alongside local and regional talent, we also offer a variety of educational programs for K-12 students, inspiring the next generation of writers.

How Can You Get Involved?

Attend Get Lit! events, volunteer at the Get Lit! Festival, sponsor an author visit to your child’s school, sponsor a festival event, and more!

John B. Smih, CEO of Goodwill Industires.

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The Friends of Manito 4 W. 21st Ave. Spokane, WA 99203

What We Do:

509.456.8038 www.thefriendsofmanito.org tfm@thefriendsofmanito.org

Since 1990, TFM participates in the responsible preservation and improvement of Manito Park.

The friends funded over 60 projects which include the lower playground equipment, the Duncan Garden gazebo, the Rose Garden pergolas, and the Mirror Pond Renovation Project. The majority of funds are raised through yearly plant sales.

How Can You Get Involved?

• Go to the next Plant sale at Manito Park: Saturday, Sept. 6th. 9am- 4pm.

• Attended a free educational event.

• Become a fan on Facebook: facebook.com/pages/The-Friends-of-Manito

Friends of the Centennial Trail P.O. Box 351 Spokane, WA 99210

What We Do:

509.624.7188 www.spokanecentennialtrail.org friends@spokanecentennialtrail.org

Friends of the Centennial Trail assist in the maintenance and development of the Spokane River Centennial Trail and its adjacent parklands.

Bike it, Run it, Live it, Love it…Support it! Friends of the Centennial Trail is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization; EIN #91-1514056. Thank you for your support!

How Can You Get Involved? $25 Coordinates a volunteer group clean-up at one of the 18 trailheads. $50 Helps Centennial Trail users navigate their way with two directional signs. $100 Provides mile marker paint and brushes for 10 Centennial Trail miles.

Goodwill Industries of the Inland NW 130 E. Third Ave. Spokane, WA 99202

What We Do:

509.838.4246 www.discovergoodwill.org discovergoodwill@giin.org

Goodwill Industries of the Inland Northwest helps people build independence within the communities we serve in eastern Washington and northern Idaho.

When you donate or shop at Goodwill, you support local Goodwill programs, including: skills training, job development, financial education, rapid re-housing for veterans who are homeless, small group mentoring for at-risk youth, case management, and more. Out of every $1, 85¢ funds our services locally.

How Can You Get Involved?

Donate used clothing, shoes, books, household items, etc., or make donations of cash, stocks, or properties. Host a donation drive.

Provide employment for our clients.

GraceSon Housing Foundation P.O. Box 825 Liberty Lake, WA 99019

What We Do:

509.939.5370 www.gracesonhousingfoundation.org

gracesonhousing@gmail.com

Housing for teen moms and their children that extends God’s love and reframes their vision of home.

We use a holistic approach to provide housing and hope to girls ages 13-18 and their children. We provide true healing and life transformation through healthy living, education and life skills development with the goal of empowering them to break free from multi-generational cycles of poverty.

How Can You Get Involved?

Monthly donations provide safe housing, enabling young moms and their babies to have a place to call home.

One-time gifts provide supplies for the girls.

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Greater Spokane County Meals on Wheels 12101 E. Sprague Ave. Spokane Valley, WA 99206

What We Do:

509.924.6976 www.gscmealsonwheels.org info@gscmealsonwheels.org

Prolong the ability of elderly and disabled persons in the Spokane area to remain living in their own homes by providing nutritious meals.

Our goal is for no senior in our community to go hungry. Greater Spokane County Meals On Wheels’ serves over 20,000 meals each month to 1,300 people throughout Spokane County. Volunteers Needed! All it takes is 1 hour a week to bring 10 seniors a hot nutritious meal . Won’t you help? The commitment is small but the rewards are immense!

What Can Your Donations Do? $25 Provides nutritious meals for a week for a senior recovering from surgery or an illness.

You can bring a smile to a senior!

Greater Spokane Substance Abuse Council (GSSAC) 8104 E. Sprague Ave. Spokane Valley, WA 99212

What We Do:

509.922.8383 www.gssac.org Lthompson@gssac.org

Greater Spokane Substance Abuse Council mobilizes our region to create safe, healthy communities by reducing substance abuse & violence in Spokane County.

Created by business and faith based leaders in 1982, Greater Spokane Substance Abuse Council (GSSAC) is steadfast in our support for positive community norms that help our youth stay or become drug free, reducing the stigma of treatment and recovery, and eliminating alcohol/drug impaired driving.

How Can You Get Involved?

Be a Washington Drug Free Youth (WDFY) supporter Sponsor prevention awareness training for parents Help keep marijuana out of the hands of our youth

Habitat for Humanity 732 N. Napa Spokane, WA 99202

What We Do:

John B. Smih, CEO of Goodwill Industires.

509.534.2552 www.habitat-spokane.org

Seeking to put God’s love into action, Habitat for Humanity - Spokane brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

Qualified families repay a 0% interest loan, work 500 sweat equity hours and pay $2,500 closing cost prior to receiving keys to their new home. Donations of new & used building materials and household items also support home building.

What Can Your Donations Do? $50 Buys a box of nails $100 Buys a kitchen sink $200 Buys a bathroom vanity & sink

Hospice Of Spokane P.O. Box 2215 Spokane, WA 99210

What We Do:

509.456.0438 509.209.0864 www.hospiceofspokane.org

Northeast Washington’s only nonprofit hospice, serving anyone of any age with any terminal condition through a holistic approach to end-of-life care.

Hospice of Spokane focuses on ensuring patient comfort and supporting quality of life. From delivering specialized care right in the home day or night, to around-the-clock phone support and grief counseling for family members, we are here for our patients and their family.

What Can Your Donations Do? Help deliver medical care, counseling and spiritual support patients need.

Ensure patients have the comfort, dignity and peace of mind they deserve.

Support people in our community grieving the death of someone they love.

John B. Smih, CEO of Goodwill Industires.

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Inland NW Blood Center

210 W. Cataldo Ave. Spokane, WA • 405 W. Neider Ave. Coeur d’Alene, ID

What We Do:

800.423.0151 www.inbcsaves.org www.bloodcenterfoundation.org

Saving lives by providing blood and services to support transfusion and transplantation medicine in the Inland NW. The only blood provider to 35 hospitals and medical centers.

As a partner in our community’s healthcare, INBC relies on community support for donations of blood and time. The Blood Center Foundation relies on financial contributions to advance technology and education through scholarships, innovation and research.

How Can You Get Involved?

Give Blood. Give Time. Give Funds. There is more than one way to save a life. Volunteer or give blood with INBC or financially contribute to the Blood Center Foundation.

Inland Northwest Land Trust 35 W. Main Ave. Ste. 210 Spokane, WA 99201

What We Do:

509.328.2939 www.inlandnwlandtrust.org info@inlandnwlandtrust.org

Inland Northwest Land Trust protects the region’s natural lands, waters, and working farms and forests for wildlife, our community, and future generations.

Inland Northwest Land Trust protects the land, cares for the land, and connects people with nature. INLT helps private landowners protect their own land – now and into the future. We focus on the special places that nourish wildlife and preserve the clean air, clean water, and scenic beauty of our region.

How Can You Get Involved?

Make a donation, become a member, attend our educational outings, support our fundraising events, volunteer in the office, tell your friends.

The Krista Foundation for Global Citizenship P.O. Box 28773 Spokane, WA 99228

What We Do:

John B. Smih, CEO of Goodwill Industires.

206.349.3582 www.kristafoundation.org lindahunt@kristafoundation.org

Supports and encourages young adults engaged in a year or more of voluntary service in America’s urban centers, in developing nations, and with environmental projects.

We provide an ecumenical mentoring community for nominated leaders in their twenties before, during, and especially after their service. Through conferences, Debriefing Retreats, Service Leadership Grants, service-ethics, and intercultural training, we help transform a one-year service experience into a lifelong ethic of service leadership.

What Can Your Donations Do? In a complex world, your financial gifts contribute to the development of emerging America leaders committed to lives of creative service.

The Lands Council

25 W. Main Ave. Ste 222, Spokane, WA 99201

What We Do:

Peace Corps Volunteer Sinead Voorhees with former commercial sex-workers in Ethiopia

509.838.4912 www.landscouncil.org tlc@landscouncil.org

Preserve and revitalize our Inland Northwest forests, water and wildlife through advocacy, education, effective action and community engagement.

We collaborate with a broad range of interested parties to seek smart and mutually respectful solutions to environmental issues. We’re enriched by the beauty of nature. We’re energized by the recreational opportunities it affords. and we’re inspired to preserve its legacy for future generations.

What Can Your Donations Do? $25 Buys 10 native plants for local storm gardens $50 Restores 5’ of degraded stream bank $100 Provides a science field trip for 1 public school class

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Lutheran Community Services Northwest 210 W. Sprague Ave. Spokane, WA 99201

What We Do:

509.747.8224 www.lcsnw.org/spokane

LCS Northwest partners with individuals, families and communities for health, justice and hope.

We provide advocacy & mental health services for victims of sexual assault, crime or other trauma, & specialized foster care for refugee youth. 24-hour Sexual Assault Crisis Line: 509.624.7273(RAPE).

24-hour Crime Victims’ Crisis Line: 866.751.7119.

How Can You Get Involved?

Cash donations translate into hope for victims. We also need volunteers! Bring the family to help with one of our amazing fundraising events.

Meals on Wheels Spokane / Mid-City Senior Center 1222 W. Second Ave. Spokane, WA 99201

What We Do:

John B. Smih, CEO of Goodwill Industires.

509.232.0864 www.mowspokane.org director@mowspokane.org

Promoting independent living of Spokane’s senior citizens, disabled adults, and the homebound, through outreach in: Nutrition, Advocacy, Education & Recreation.

Sadly, an increasing number of low-income seniors are forced to choose between food, rent, or medication.

With your help our frail and elderly neighbors will not face the final years of their lives hungry with nowhere to turn. Feeding Bodies, Nurturing Souls, Saving Lives. Visit Meals on Wheels Spokane on Facebook.

How Can You Get Involved? $32 Provides 8 meals $64 Provides 16 meals $120 Feeds a senior for a month

Mobius Children’s Museum 808 W. Main Ave. Lower Level Spokane, WA 99201

What We Do:

509.321.7121 www.mobiusspokane.org info@mobiusspokane.org

To be a Northwest institution that is a center for hands-on science, arts, and cultural education inspiring kids in every stage of life.

Mobius Children’s Museum encourages kids to jump head-first into fun, hands-on education, and exploration by sparking the curiosity of children 8 and younger through exploration, play, and the arts.

The museum has 7 unique exhibit areas, and offers camps, classes, group visits, and birthday parties.

How Can You Get Involved? $50 Provides supplies for all art and craft activities, for one week. $100 Provides a FREE field trip, for one classroom. $250 Provides 4 FREE memberships, to low-income families.

Mobius Science Center 811 W. Main Ave. Spokane, WA 99201

What We Do:

509.321.7133 www.mobiusspokane.org info@mobiusspokane.org

To stimulate minds, inspire careers, and instill wonder across the Inland NW with thought provoking, entertaining, and experiential science programs and exhibits.

Mobius Science Center has over 65 hands-on and educational exhibits. The science center hosts field trips, camps and classes, planetarium shows, and birthday parties. Additionally, the education team offers dynamic outreach programs in schools, libraries and community centers region-wide.

How Can You Get Involved? $25 supports the creation and flight of 1,000 paper airplanes $100 fills the gas tank for the Mobius Van to travel for outreach programs $250 provides 2 class field trips through the scholarship fund

Experimenting with Snap Circuits

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Morning Star Foundation P.O. Box 31330 Spokane, WA 99223

What We Do:

509.448.1412 www.morningstar-foundation.org crubertt@morningstar-foundation.org

Morning Star Foundation solicits, receives, administers and manages gifts, funds and other assets for Morning Star Boys’ Ranch.

Morning Star Foundation provides grant research, private donor relationship and stewardship, estate & planned giving services, along with special events and community awareness.

How Can You Get Involved? $50 Provides one family counseling session $100 Provides school supplies for 2 children $300 Provides food for one child for a month

National MS Society

25 W. Nora Ave. Ste. 100 Spokane, WA 99205

What We Do:

509.482.2022 www.MSnorthwest.org MSnorthwest@nmss.org

We mobilize people and resources to drive research for a cure and to address the challenges of everyone affected by multiple sclerosis.

Donations support nearly 15,000 people living with MS and more than 89,000 others whose lives are directly impacted by the disease in the Greater Northwest Chapter area, and also funds MS research to stop disease progression, restore lost function and end MS forever. It only costs the Chapter 18 cents to raise $1.

What Can Your Donations Do? • Provide programs & services to help those affected by MS. • Drive change through advocacy & facilitate professional education.

• Fund cutting-edge MS research into the cause, treatments & a cure.

New Hope Resource Center 4211 E. Colbert Rd. Colbert, WA 99005

What We Do:

509.467.2900 nhrecenter@yahoo.com www.newhoperesource.org

A faith-based ecumenical organization sharing the resources of the participating congregations and community to serve basic human needs.

Serving North Spokane County, including communities of Riverside, Elk, Chattaroy, Colbert and Mead.

We covenant to do this without prejudice or discrimination, following Christ’s example.

Food donations of any kind will keep a family from going hungry.

How Can You Get Involved? $60 will help someone get to work by providing gasoline for their car. $150 will keep power on for a family. $200 will keep a family from being evicted from their home.

North Idaho College Foundation, Inc. 1000 W. Garden Ave. Coeur d’Alene, ID 83814

What We Do:

208.769.5978 www.nic.edu/foundation

North Idaho College meets the diverse educational needs of students, employers, and the northern Idaho communities.

NIC serves through a commitment to student success, education excellence, community engagement, and lifelong learning. The Foundation invests and administers those funds to provide a growing source of financial support for current and future needs. NIC also has an active Alumni Association.

How Can You Get Involved?

Your investment will provide opportunities for students to pursue education and training that will help them build a brighter future.

Donations of all sizes are deeply appreciated.

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Northwest Autism Center 25 W. Fifth Ave. Spokane, WA 99204

What We Do:

509.328.1582 www.nwautism.org info@nwautism.org

NAC exists to support, facilitate and build accessible and comprehensive approaches to helping individuals with autism and their families.

NAC information and resource referral, provider, parent and community training and education, ABA intensive treatment clinic for 2-5 year olds, free screenings and political advocacy.

How Can You Get Involved? $25 Pays for individualized parent resource referral $50 Pays for one screening for autism $100 Pays for Special Education Books

OutSpokane

P.O. Box 883 Spokane, WA 99201-0883

What We Do:

509.720.7609 www.outspokane.org info@outspokane.org

We promote & empower visible diversity for Spokane’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, Intersex, Asexual & Allied citizens.

Through supportive education and the annual collaborative production of the area’s family-friendly Pride Parade and Rainbow Festival, we provide progressive cultural opportunities and experiences for the greater Inland Northwest community.

How Can You Get Involved?

• Volunteer, attend planning meetings • Support Annual Murder Mystery, Pride Cruise etc. fundraisers • “LIKE” us on Facebook

Planned Parenthood of Greater WA & North ID 123 E. Indiana Ave. Spokane, WA 99207

What We Do:

866.904.7721 www.ppgwni.org donations@ppgwni.org

We provide exceptional reproductive and complementary health care services, honest education and fearless advocacy for all.

We have been helping women, men, & families in the Inland NW make responsible decisions about their reproductive health for nearly 50 years. Dedicated to delivering the highest quality reproductive health care & education services, we trusts you to make the best medical decisions for yourself and your life.

How Can You Get Involved?

Donate to PPGWNI at donate.ppgwni.org Volunteer with Planned Parenthood.

Email volunteer@ppgwni.org or call (866) 904-7721 to get involved

Providence Health Care Foundation 101 W. Eighth Ave. Spokane, WA 99204

What We Do:

509.474.4917 www.phc.org/giving phcfoundationew@providence.org

We help ensure access to compassionate, world-class health care by supporting projects & programs at Providence Sacred Heart, Children’s & Holy Family hospitals.

Gifts to Providence Health Care Foundation help care for the most vulnerable in our community and support breakthrough technology that saves lives. Donations may be directed to the local Providence hospital or program of your choice, including the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit modernization and expansion project.

What Can Your Donations Do? Help ensure Spokane remain a center for cardiac excellence. Your gift to the CICU project will be matched dollar for dollar. Go online and double your impact today!

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The Salvation Army in Spokane 222 E. Indiana Spokane, WA 99207

What We Do:

509.325.6810 www.MakingSpokaneBetter.org

The Salvation Army has been transforming the lives of the most vulnerable families and children in Spokane county, since 1891, with social services programs.

Our commitment and vision is to help the whole person physically, emotionally and spiritually without discrimination and always with dignity and respect. Currently, 90 cents of every dollar raised by The Salvation Army in Spokane is used to sustain life-changing programs that bring hope to those in need.

How Can You Get Involved?

• $60 Provides three nutritious meals every day for one month, for a family of three • $200 Sends a low income or at risk child to Camp Gifford’s Summer Youth Camp for a week • $500 Provides a month of care for a child at Sally’s House

Salvation Army - Kroc Center 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. Coeur d’Alene, ID 83815

What We Do:

208.667.0592 www.kroccda.org helpothers@kroccda.org

The Kroc Center takes a holistic approach to wellness and aims to help local youth and families in need by providing physical, mental, and spiritual support.

The Kroc Community Center impacts 1 in 3 people in Kootenai County, supplying those in need with emergency assistance, nutrition and life skills classes, a free after school program, access to weights and cardio equipment, an aquatics center, and free community events.

How Can You Get Involved? $20 Teaches one child the life-saving skill of swimming. $50 Ensures a family has food and enough gas to get to work. $100 Provides a safe, caring place for a child after school.

Second Harvest

1234 E. Front Ave. Spokane, WA 99202

What We Do:

509.534.6678 www.2-harvest.org volunteer@2-harvest.org

Fighting hunger, feeding hope: Second Harvest brings community resources together to feed people in need through empowerment, education and partnerships.

Second Harvest has been feeding hungry people in Spokane and the Inland Northwest since 1971.

Today, Second Harvest’s network of 250 neighborhood food banks and meal centers helps 55,000 people each week. Targeted programs like the Mobile Food Bank, Brown Bag and healthy food for kids initiatives provide nutritious choices for some of the most vulnerable children, families and seniors in the region. Food from Second Harvest fills an immediate need for people so they can stretch their limited incomes to afford things like medication, rent and other payments that stabilize their lives.

Dedicated people donating their time in the Asuris Northwest Health Volunteer Center sort and pack a variety of fresh produce and other donated food to help Second Harvest keep pace with unprecedented need.

Thank you for supporting Second Harvest. Gifts of food, money and time change lives, helping people succeed and thrive. To learn more about how you can get involved or to donate securely online, visit 2-harvest.org.

What Can Your Donations Do? The generosity of food and financial donors and volunteers makes it possible for Second Harvest to transform every $1 donated into five meals for hungry people. $20 feeds a family of 4 for a week. $50 provides 250 meals for hungry people. $100 puts 600 pounds of donated food on a Mobile Food Bank. $250 is turned into healthy snacks for more than 1,700 kids. $500 transports half a load of donated produce.

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Spokane Arts: Amplifying the Arts PO Box 978 Spokane WA 99201

What We Do:

509.321.9614 www.spokanearts.org info@spokanearts.org

Working to amplify Spokane as the cultural hub for the Inland Northwest through arts leadership, advocacy, networking and support.

Projects include: Cultivate Spokane Salon Series; The Downtown Murals Project; Create Spokane: Arts Month in October 2014; The Chase Gallery; Mobile Murals Project; The Sculpture Walk; Artist Directory; Arts Events Calendar and more! Spokane Arts is a partnership between Spokane’s Arts Commission and Spokane Arts Fund.

How Can You Get Involved?

Get involved! Volunteer, donate, participate.

More information at www.spokanearts.org

Spokane Civic Theatre 1020 N. Howard St. Spokane, WA 99201

What We Do:

509.325.2507 www.spokanecivictheatre.com

Spokane Civic Theatre’s mission is to foster and operate a volunteer live community theatre of high artistic merit.

Spokane Civic Theatre, founded in 1947, is a nationally recognized non-profit theatre. Civic offers a Main Stage and Studio season of musicals and plays as well as classes, camps and workshops for all ages to learn a variety of theatre skills.

What Can Your Donations Do? $50 give 8 hours of electricity $100 makes 3-4 costumes $500 covers cost of props for a musical

Spokane County Library District 4322 N. Argonne Rd. Spokane, WA 99212

What We Do:

John B. Smih, CEO of Goodwill Industires.

509.893.8200 www.scld.org communications@scld.org

Spokane County Library District is the essential place to explore, learn, and create. We inspire learning, advance knowledge, and connect communities.

There are ten libraries in the District: Airway Heights, Argonne, Cheney, Deer Park, Fairfield, Medical Lake, Moran Prairie, North Spokane, Otis Orchards, and Spokane Valley. Visit our website for locations and hours or to get a library card, browse our catalog, and see our online resources.

How Can You Get Involved?

• Join the Friends of the Library • Volunteer your time • Donate funds for materials

Spokane Entertainer’s Guild P.O. Box 48782 Spokane, WA 99228

What We Do:

509.998.9596 www.theguild2010.org renfaire@theguild2010.org

Spokane Entertainer’s Guild is a non-profit who raises funds for other nonprofits as well as provides historical education in a fun atmosphere.

SEG’s main fundraising event is the Spokane Renaissance Faire held the first weekend of October at Greenbluff. By attending and donating you can help us continue to further our efforts as historical ambassadors and provide food to 2nd Harvest Food Bank.

How Can You Get Involved?

We have numerous volunteer opportunities whether it be our fundraiser or donating your time and expertise by joining our team of managers.

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Spokane Housing Ventures 715 E. Sprague Ave. Ste 102 Spokane WA 99202

What We Do:

509.232.0170 www.spokanehousingventures.org

SHV is a nonprofit organization devoted to providing safe, affordable housing to individuals and families with limited incomes and/or special housing needs.

Spokane Housing Ventures concentrates on creating and sustaining housing for individuals, families with household incomes at or below 60% of area median income; homeless, seniors, large families and families with disabled members.

How Can You Get Involved?

Volunteer: Board & committee positions available.

Donate: $45 sponsors a bus pass to give a resident in need opportunities for self-sufficiency. Learn more: Like us on Facebook

The Spokane Humane Society 6607 N. Havana St. Spokane, WA 99217 • P.O. Box 6247 Spokane, WA 99217-6247

What We Do:

509.467.5235 www.spokanehumanesociety.org

The Spokane Humane Society works to enrich the lives of companion animals through Support, Education, Advocacy and Love

Since 1897, The Spokane Humane Society has acted as a refuge for animals by providing care, shelter, and placement for lost, neglected, and unwanted animals. We stopped euthanizing animals due to lack of space in 2006 and have reached our goal of not euthanizing healthy, adoptable and treatable animals. We sustain a live release rate of more than 95% finding placement for over 2500 animals annually through our adoptions programs.

The Spokane Humane Society is a non-profit 501c3 public charity dedicated to the welfare of companion animals. We rely solely on our fees for services and donations from the community and corporate partnerships. Your donations provide life-saving options for animals and directly impact the number of animals we can care for in our shelter.

How Can You Get Involved?

Volunteer in our shelter or at any of our adoption outreach events.

Become a Foster Family to provide a temporary home and care for animals in need of extended care.

Donate pet food, supplies or cash and give with confidence knowing that 73 cents of every dollar directly supports animals in need.

Make Adopted Your Favorite Breed!

SNAP

3102 W. Fort George Wright Drive Spokane, WA 99224

What We Do:

509.456.7111 www.snapwa.org fundraising@snapwa.org

SNAP provides access and connections to resources that educate, empower and encourage our neighbors to build community and create opportunities.

For almost 50 years SNAP has served our community’s most vulnerable. Through education, financial assistance and ongoing support we serve more than 40,000 Spokane County residents each year. Our goal is to help people move from crisis to stability, while teaching them to help themselves.

How Can You Get Involved?

Learn more about how you can help SNAP make lasting change in your community. Attend our annual fundraising event on September 9 at the Davenport. Visit SNAPWA.ORG for details

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Spokane Symphony Society P.O. Box 365 Spokane, WA 99210-0365

What We Do:

509.326.3136 www.spokanesymphony.org

The Spokane Symphony employs 70+ professional musicians, presenting 60 concerts a year, performing to over 150,000 listeners each season.

Orchestra music nurtures the human spirit and is integral to the preservation and development of culture.

The Society provides professional orchestral performances and education to the Inland Northwest. We are committed to great music, excellence and innovation, and financial stewardship.

What Can Your Donations Do? Your gift supports The Spokane Symphony operating Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox. An Economic Driver • A Cultural Catalyst • An Educational Force

Spokane Valley Heritage Museum 12114 E. Sprague Ave. Spokane, WA 99202

What We Do:

509.922.4570 www.valleyheritagecenter.org spokanevalleymuseum@gmail.com

Our mission is to collect, preserve and exhibit the heritage and culture of the Spokane Valley and our country for the inspiration and education of our visitors.

We bring history to life through engaging interactive exhibits. Exhibits are always changing so there is always something new. Fun for the whole family!

How Can You Get Involved?

Become a member to support the Museum’s programs, volunteer, attend a museum heritage program, or just visit!

Group tours are always welcome!

Spokane Youth Symphony P.O. Box 9547 Spokane, WA 99209

What We Do:

509.448.4446 www.spokaneyouthsymphony.org info@spokaneyouthsymphony.org

To provide superior orchestral education and performance opportunities as a regional institution for the youth and citizens of the Inland Northwest.

The Spokane Youth Symphony provides classical music education for the youth of our region. This includes a concert series at the Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox. The 2014-15 “Season of Promise” concert dates are November 9, February 22, April 26, and May 17. Concert subscriptions available.

What Can Your Donations Do? $50 Purchase a music stand. $100 Pay for professional instrumental coaching of our students by a Spokane Symphony member. $500-$2500 Sponsor a concert.

St. Joseph Family Center 1016 N. Superior St. Spokane, WA 99202

What We Do:

509.483.6495 www.sjfconline.org

A non-profit agency sponsored by the Sisters of St. Francis provides counseling spirituality & healing arts in order to promote the inner growth of each person.

We provide counseling (mental health services for individual, family & couples; marriage counseling; anger management classes; parenting children of divorce classes), Spirituality (spiritual direction; meditation, programs & workshops), Retreats & Healing Arts Services (therapeutic massage & Qi-Gong).

How Can You Get Involved? $25 Scholarship to Cancer Survivor Retreat $50 Subsidize one counseling session $100 Subsidize two anger management classes

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St. Luke’s Rehabilitation 711 S. Cowley St. Spokane, WA 99202

What We Do:

Stroke Rehabilitation Center of Exellence Project

509.473.6370 www.st-lukes.org/strokerehab

As the region’s largest rehabilitation hospital & outpatient therapy provider, we care for thousands of people, including hundreds recovering from a stroke.

Every 40 seconds, someone has a stroke. That statistic becomes reality when that someone is a loved one or friend. The St. Luke’s Stroke Rehabilitation Center of Excellence project will further enhance the patient experience, improve patient results and create more opportunities for excellence in care.

Get Involved.

After viewing Scott’s stroke survival story on our website, please consider being a part of improving patients’ lives by supporting the St. Luke’s Stroke Rehabilitation Center of Excellence project.

Create Your Statement P.O. Box 18934 Spokane, WA 99228

What We Do:

“I would highly recommend St. Luke’s.” - Scott

509.993.7000 www.createyourstatement.com info@createyourstatement.com

Statement brings education and awareness to the prevention of dating abuse while promoting leadership and character development among today’s youth.

Dating abuse is an epidemic among today’s youth. Many young men and women feel like they don’t measure up in looks, school performance and relationships. Statement has two powerful life-changing programs designed to help young women and men rise above these statistics.

How Can You Get Involved? $35 per student to attend the program. A monthly donation will help cover the cost for students to attend the 7-week program and assist with further training and development to reach more youth.

Susan G. Komen Eastern Washington 400 S. Jefferson St. Suite 319 Spokane, WA 99204

What We Do:

509.315.5940 www.komeneasternwashington.org info@komeneasternwashington.org

We assist 14 counties in Eastern Washington to eliminate breast cancer as a life threatening disease. We inspire our community to fundraise.

We help to ensure the underserved in our communities have access to services. We recruit volunteers to help in our grass roots efforts to save lives. Our mission is to save lives and end breast cancer forever by empowering people, ensuring quality care for all, and energizing science to find a cure.

What Can Your Donations Do? 75% of the money raised serves LOCAL organizations for prevention and early detection of breast cancer.

25% goes to ground breaking research to find a cure.

Teen Closet

9212 E. Montgomery, Suite 302 Spokane, WA 99206

What We Do:

509.534.5111 www.teencloset.org info@teencloset.org

Helping boost the self-esteem of teenagers in foster care and others in need by providing fashionable clothing and accessories of their choice.

Teen Closet is a free boutique that provides clothing to youth who are in foster care, homeless or nearly homeless. Many of them are taken from the only life they have ever known with just the clothes they are wearing. The things we provide belong to them making the transition a little easier.

How Can You Get Involved?

Your donations allow us to purchase new clothing, shoes, undergarments and hygienic supplies for those in need.

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Transitions

3128 N. Hemlock St. Spokane, WA 99205

What We Do:

509.328.6702 www.help4women.org info@help4women.org

Transitions works to end poverty and homelessness for women and children in Spokane through five unique programs.

Transitions’ five programs house the homeless, train the jobless, and teach life skills for sustainable change. Join the fight against poverty and homelessness by donating your time and talents at the Women’s Hearth, Miryam’s House, Transitional Living Center, EduCare or the New Leaf Bakery Café.

What Can Your Donations Do? $25 purchases a section of the GED $50 feeds a hungry child $100 provides 1 month’s job training and bus pass

U-District Foundation 730 N. Hamilton Spokane, WA 99202

What We Do:

Transitions 509.458.7686 www.udistrictpt.com morgan@udistrictpt.com

It is the mission of the U-District Foundation to inspire kids to live healthy lives and to dream great dreams.

We are committed to helping our students grow by coaching them about good nutrition, staying active and setting goals. We believe in the power of encouragement, the value of teamwork, and strengthening the connection between health & happiness.

Fun and Fitness Camps: Our goal is to show kids how fun exercise can be through this free camp.

Family Challenge: This program is part educational and part fitness class with the goal of assisting families with nutritional and fitness goals.

Mentorship Program: Volunteer mentors are matched with school children between the ages of 8 – 12.

The commitment level is minimal at two outings a month and two hours each outing.

Sports Training Scholarship Program: Youth athletes may apply for this free individual program with our training staff based on financial needs.

Summer Series Fun Runs: 5k fun run three nights in July every year.

What Can Your Donations Do? Enable us to continue providing the following programs: • Free Fitness and Fun Camps for kids ages 6-15 • Free Physical Education Program Assistance to 13 local schools • Award Sports Training Scholarships to deserving teens in the area • Annual Summer Series Fun Runs • Mentorship opportunities for local youth

Union Gospel Mission 1224 E. Trent Ave. Spokane, WA 99202

What We Do:

509.535.8510 uniongospelmission.org info@ugmspokane.org

Union Gospel Mission provides for the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of men, women and children battered by abuse, addiction and homelessness.

What began as a simple soup kitchen has evolved into a 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week social service agency. UGM’s 4 shelters and auxiliary services provide all the resources necessary for an individual to break the cycle of homelessness and become a God-dependent, contributing member of society.

What Can Your Donations Do? $1.84 provides a meal. $12.94 provides a night’s shelter. $100 provides a week of food and shelter.

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Volunteers of America 525 W. Second Ave. Spokane, WA 99201

What We Do:

509.624.2378 www.voaspokane.org info@voaspokane.org

Volunteers of America is the charity that always steps forward to help our community’s most vulnerable.

For over 115 years we have taken on the Inland Northwest’s most difficult tasks to help the most underserved, including: street youth; chronically homeless women; foster youth; teen parents; medically fragile homeless adults; and homeless veterans.

How Can You Get Involved? $75 pays for GED testing for 1 homeless teen $100 provides utilities for 1 day at Hope House $250 buys a month of groceries at 2 homes for veterans

Washington Basset Rescue (WABR) P.O. Box 13665 Spokane Valley, WA 99212

What We Do:

509.928.8049 www.facebook.com/ WashingtonBassetRescueWABR

Compassionately working in our community to help homeless hounds through love, rescue, rehabilitation, public education, advocacy & human enrichment.

As a 501(c)(3) non-profit animal welfare organization we love, rescue, rehabilitate, and rehome hounds in our community. Washington Basset Rescue’s mission is to provide public education, advocacy, human enrichment, and place our hounds in loving homes. www.wabr.net

How Can You Get Involved?

Food, Treats, Toys and Bowls. Spay/Neuter, Transporting & Veterinary care.

Microchipping, ID Tags, Licenses, Collars and Beds. Cleaning Supplies, & Pet Partner Therapy. Volunteering Your Time = More “HAPPY TAILS!”

Wishing Star Foundation 139 S. Sherman St. Spokane, WA 99202

What We Do:

Washington Basset Rescue (WABR)

509.744.3411 www.wishingstar.org sarahc@wishingstar.org

To provide wish kids with hope through uplifting and rejuvenating experiences refocusing on the joy of life.

To provide lasting support and memories for wish families. To treat families and associates with dignity and protect their privacy. To inspire greater community participation in fulfilling Wishing Star’s Mission.

What Can Your Donations Do? $50 will provide a blankie, t-shirt & toy for a child ($4/month) $500 covers an airline ticket ($40/month) $5000 grants an ENTIRE wish! ($400/month)

Women Helping Women Fund 1325 W. First Ave. Ste 318 Spokane, WA 99201

What We Do:

509.328.8285 www.whwfspokane.org whwfund@qwestoffice.net

WHWF is a local non-profit organization dedicated to empowering women and children to create healthy families and vibrant communities.

WHWF provides funds to local agencies designed to meet the most urgent needs of women and children in Spokane so they can reach their highest potential and lead healthy and productive lives. Since 1992 over 390 local agency programs have received grants from WHWF totaling over $6 million.

How Can You Get Involved? $125 unites you with many generous supporters who attend our luncheon each May. Help transform the lives of Spokane women and children in need today.

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Pat Benstine, Founder 1988-2013

Women & Children’s Free Restaurant and Community Kitchen 1620 N. Monroe Spokane, WA 99205

What We Do:

509.324.1995 www.wcfrspokane.org volunteer@wcfrspokane.org

Serve as a vital safety net filling nutritional gaps for women and children in need while fostering dignity and respect, both in our restaurant and the community.

Your support of the Women & Children’s Free Restaurant and Community Kitchen could present a child with their first taste of broccoli, offer relief to a mother who wants heathly meals for her children, and create friendship and community for those who feel alone. Fill a tummy with food, and a heart with hope.

What Can Your Donations Do? $25 Feeds a woman and a child three times per week for a month $60 Provides fresh produce for a week $65 Provides dairy products for a week

World Relief

1522 N. Washington St. #204 Spokane, WA 99201

What We Do:

509.484.9829 www.worldreliefspokane.org afunnell@wr.org

Providing refugee resettlement assistance, employment services, micro-enterprise loans, immigration services & raises awareness about human trafficking.

Empowering the local church to serve over 1,000 refugees and vulnerable people groups annually. A refugee is someone who is forced to flee country of Nationality as a result of a well-founded fear of persecution because of their Race, Religion, Nationality, Social Group or Political Opinion.

How Can You Get Involved?

Pledge $36 a month to support refugees Serve by volunteering with a newly arriving refugee family Donate gently used furniture & household items

YFA Connections

P.O. Box 3344 Spokane, WA 99220-3344

What We Do:

Sponsored by Action Recycling

509.532.2000 www.yfaconnections.org info@yfaconnections.org

We provide crisis shelter for at-risk kids ages 12-17, street outreach to homeless youth and substance abuse/mental health services for adults.

The mission of YFA Connections is to provide education, prevention, intervention and treatment services to youth, families and adults in conflict or crisis.

How Can You Get Involved? $25 buys a hygiene kit for a homeless youth $10 buys 12 pairs of socks for kids in the shelter $15 buys a package of boxer shorts

YMCA of the Inland Northwest 1126 N. Monroe St. Spokane, WA 99201

What We Do:

509.777.YMCA www.ymcaspokane.org ymca@ymcaspokane.org

We give everyone a safe place to learn, grow & thrive by strengthening the foundations of community through healthy living, youth development & social responsibility.

As a cause-driven, non-profit organization we are committed to nurturing the potential of every child and teen, improving our community’s health and well-being, and giving back and supporting our neighbors so we can ensure that everyone has the essentials they need to find their place and succeed.

What Can Your Donations Do? $60 lets two children learn to swim $120 gives a child a safe place before and after school for 1 yr $180 gives a teen a membership to enjoy music, film, homework help, sports and more

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FOOD | FESTIVAL “TASTY HISTORY,” CONTINUED... get off the ground. And then there’s all the other challenges — like when 30,000 people choked the streets to see Shaggy perform at the height of his popularity. Then there’s the weather.

“We’ve had snow, we’ve had hail, we’ve had evacuations — everything you can think of,” says Burke. “But we’re hardy people and we’re going to go, rain or shine.”

Burke says he never tires of the event, even three-and-a-half decades in. The smells, the energy and the frenetic crowds of festivalgoers remind him of childhood trips to Atlantic City, where his aunt owned a portion of the boardwalk.

“Every once in a while, I get that same feeling,” says Burke.

“All of the sudden, I’m a little kid in Atlantic City.” 

2014 PIG OUT IN THE PARK VENDORS Azar’s Café Express

J B Grilled Gourmet Cheese

Bacon Wrapped Hot Dogs

Kang Mongolian

Baja Babes Tacos

Kochi Teriyaki Grill

Baja Bowl/Glazed and Confused

Leonardo’s Bistro

Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream

Longhorn BBQ

Bloem Flowers, Chocolates

Lylo’s Teriyaki

Paperie

Mary Lou’s Ice Cream

Charlie’s Cheesecakes

Philly Bros./Fry Guys

County Fair Foods

Pizza Rita

Crepe Tyme

Shishkaberry’s

Dim Sum Wok

Shortcake Heaven

Eggroll Express & Teriyaki

Southern Roasted Corn

Eldon’s Italian Sausage

Taste of India

Euro Gyro

Terry’s Breakfast

Fiesta Time Foods

Twister’s Funnel Cakes

Glazed Doughnut Burgers

3 Ninjas

Gourmet Soul

Trophy Spice

Gumbo Goddess

Westmoreland Concessions

Island Noodles

The Whitehouse

Island Slaw

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FOOD | OPENING

We’re More Than Vanilla

Chris and Jane Hammons at Embers by the Lake. CARRIE SCOZZARO PHOTO

From the Woodland

A landmark Hauser eatery returns to its roots with Embers by the Lake sandwiches &

espresso too!

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IN KENDALL YARDS 1238 W. Summit Parkway • 321-7569 Join us for the 2014

Friday, September 12th 6-10pm | $55 pp Enjoy a 5-course menu with wine pairings from

ell Jane Hammons that Embers by the Lake in Hauser, Idaho, reminds you of the Catskills resort from the movie Dirty Dancing and she’d be pleased, says her husband Chris. Assisted by family and friends, the two transformed the former upscale Chef In The Forest eatery into a popular, casual pizza place more in keeping with this landmark’s 1960s origins as the Woodland Beach Resort.

They’re also renovating the adjacent cabins, calling that business Mr. Hammons’ School’s Out Resort. It’s a nod to the couple’s longtime careers in education: he retired after 32 years while she spent 19 years teaching, another seven as Pita Pit’s director of training, and is returning to the classroom this coming year (at Woodland Middle School, where Chris used to be principal).

Their intent, says Chris, is to create a place where the Hauser community can come together.

Indeed, the overall feel at Embers is light, fun and friendly. They kept the original fireplace but reoriented and expanded the entryway. Warm gold-and-auburn walls are offset with ample wood trim and whimsical paintings of lake scenes

by Chris’ sister, Belinda Bell, who also custompainted the tables. Abundant windows take

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Live Music on Wednesday & Thursday evenings

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Embers by the Lake • 12008 N. Woodland Beach Dr., Hauser, Idaho • Open daily 4-10 pm • facebook.com/embersbythelake • 208262-8219

New American Casual Fine Dining Mon 4:30 to close Tue-Sat 11am to close

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advantage of the lake view, while French doors open onto the patio, bringing seating capacity to around 100.

Inside, the wood-fire pizza oven churns out 10 standard pizzas, plus a build-your-own option, all about 9 by 13 inches, with a crisp, garlicky, buttery crust (also available gluten-free). The Mediterranean ($12) features their red sauce, Kalamata olives, red onions, peppers, sun-dried tomatoes, feta, spinach and garlic. The white sauce in the Garlic Chicken Pesto ($13) is rich with Gorgonzola, while the Carmelita ($12) pairs Walla Walla onions and crimini mushrooms.

Appetizers include Garlic Knots — baked dough — while a variety of salads can be ordered in two sizes ($5/$9).

For dessert, try s’mores for one ($1) or the whole family ($5/serves 6), which you can cook yourself at the outdoor campfire. Don’t know how? Chances are the Hammonses will happily teach you. n

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FOOD | BEER

Love Cats?

Brew and a View End your summer on Schweitzer with 60-plus beers

BY MIKE BOOKEY

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aybe the never-ending switchbacks on the road up the hill make beer just taste better on Schweitzer. Whatever the reason, the beer component of Schweitzer Mountain Resort’s Fall Fest has blown up in popularity in recent years, turning it into a must-taste event for the region’s beer fans.

The festival — which also includes live music from Mama Doll, Hell’s Belles and the Alliance, among others, a variety of food and discounted lift tickets for hiking and biking — signals the end of summer operations on Schweitzer. Fittingly, you might already see some fall colors in the trees by this weekend.

“This is our final weekend of summer, and then we say goodbye for a bit and start doing our snow dance,” says Schweitzer marketing manager Sean Briggs.

The beer roster for the festival is looking promising, including many of the local up-and-comers as well as some regional

powerhouses. Not a beer fan? There’s wine, cider and a soda tent where kids can make their own flavor mixtures.

Briggs says he’s looking forward most to the Hazelnut Brown from Rogue Brewing, but here are a few others from the list of 60-plus brews on tap at the festival that caught our eye.

NIGHT OWL, ELYSIAN BREWING CO.

1910, WALLACE BREWING CO.

NOHO NORTH IDAHO PALE ALE, MICKDUFF’S

You’ll see a ton of IPAs and pales at the festival, but if you want to take it in a different direction, check out this black lager from Wallace Brewing. It’s smooth on the front end, but then you’ll pick up some chocolate and coffee flavors.

FORAY, DESCHUTES BREWERY

You know this Bend, Oregon, brewery for their Mirror Pond pale ale and others, but this new Belgian-style IPA is a smoothdrinking brew that leaves a nice citrus finish on your tongue.

If you really want to be done with summer, you can trick your palate into believing it’s autumn with this pumpkin ale from Seattle mainstay Elysian. You’ll pick up on the ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg that all go into the brewing process.

Made just down the hill from Schweitzer in Sandpoint, MickDuff’s NOHO is a little hoppier than a typical pale, but that boldness allows it to stand out.  Fall Fest • Sat-Mon, Aug. 30-Sept. 1 • Tasting packages range from $10-$35 • Live music schedule, tickets and chairlift times at Schweitzer.com/eventsactivities

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I Ain’t Afraid o’ No-Stalgia The re-release of Ghostbusters takes a critic back to a formative movie summer

BY SCOTT RENSHAW

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ou’re forgiven in advance if you roll your eyes at the blatant pandering to nostalgia that is to follow.

It is the very nature of nostalgia to feel rich and relevant to those who are cohorts — generationally or otherwise — while it looks merely self-indulgent and irrelevant to those who are not. I was there when my parents’ generation American Graffiti’d and Happy Days’d and Big Chill’d itself toward a conviction that its formative youth experience was the formative youth experience. You’d think I’d have learned a thing or two.

But age does things to our relationship with memory, and as Ghostbusters rolls into theaters this weekend for a one-week-only 30th anniversary re-release, it’s hard for me not to wax rhapsodic about the cinematic summer of 1984. In a practical sense, it’s the reason I’m writing about movies at all.

For you see, 1984 was the year I got my first real job, at a six-screen multiplex in Bakersfield, California, just before the end of my junior year of high school. I didn’t choose working in a theater because I was already intensely into movies, like several of my coworkers; it was just one of those jobs a 17-year-old who needed to work around a school schedule could get, and it was better than McDonald’s.

I knew when I was hired that free movies at the theater where I’d be working were one of the fringe benefits; I did not know that we had a reciprocal agreement with the other two main first-run theaters in town, which totaled eight additional screens between them.

That meant, in effect, I could see for free every movie that opened nationally between April 1984

and June 1985. So I did, and like the obsessive teenager I was, I started logging them on 3x5 index cards and eventually wrote reviews for my high-school newspaper.

Not only did I see virtually every movie that opened in that time span, but I almost always saw them on opening weekend, generally with a group of my coworkers.

And so it was that we slipped into a matinee of Ghostbusters on Sunday, June 10, at one of the theaters where I didn’t work — and watched it proceed to blow the roof off the place.

It’s hard to convey to those growing up in an era of nonstop prerelease movie coverage what it was like to watch a blockbuster come out of nowhere. Yes, Bill Murray was already something of an established comedy star after Caddyshack and Stripes, and yes, it was a movie with special effects. But summer 1984 was supposed to be

about Indiana Jones and Star Trek sequels.

I’d be lying if I said that Ghostbusters in particular was a defining moment of that movie year. Since it wasn’t showing in the theater where I worked, I only saw Ghostbusters a couple of times, as opposed to the dozens of times I made my way into the back of the theater during The Karate Kid to watch an audience erupt during the climactic “crane kick,” or caught certain key moments of Beverly Hills Cop that left the crowd breathless with laughter.

Even so, I might still find it hard to resist catching Ghostbusters in a theater during this limited run, because on some level I feel certain it’s going to take me back to 1984. That was when I discovered not just a love of movies, but a love of going to the movies — sharing in that uniquely transporting communal experience of laughter, fear, anticipation, surprise, awe. I’m not nostalgic for my youth so much as I’m nostalgic for what seems like a different way of watching movies — undistracted by phones, unswayed by a year or more of rumors and trailers.

Of course, that’s the “things were better when I was a kid” trap all nostalgia sells us. Maybe it’s enough to remember fondly, and to acknowledge that it’s foolish to expect a similar feeling in anyone for whom a certain song, a certain place or a certain movie wasn’t part of a defining experience. Whatever may irritate me about the state of moviegoing in 2014, on this weekend I can watch Ghostbusters like it’s 1984, when movies felt new. 

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The loveliness of Paris becomes the mask for an underground world of terror in this haunting thriller. Students of archaeology climb through tiny catacombs among bones and skulls where they come face to face with hidden secrets. Shaky camera style brings us right into the darkness of the caves and panic of innocent young adults.

(MS) Rated R

GHOSTBUSTERS

The 1984 blockbuster is celebrating its 30th anniversary, which is why it’s back in theaters. You should know what it’s about by now, but if you don’t, just go see it. You’ll thank us. (MB) Rated PG

FRANK

The title character (played by Michael Fassbender) in this dark, dark indie comedy wears a massive paper mache head at all times, but that hasn’t stopped him from becoming the front man of a marginally successful band.

When a new keyboardist joins that ranks and gets the band noticed on Twitter, they set out for the South by Southwest music festival, all the while hoping that Frank doesn’t melt down along the way. At Magic Lantern (MB) Rated R

NO NO: A DOCKUMENTARY

It’s one of baseball’s most unbelievable stories. In 1970, Dock Ellis of the Pittsburgh Pirates showed up to pitch against the San Diego Padres tripping his ass off on LSD. He didn’t think he was pitching that day, so the story goes, and he decided to get high. But then he did pitch, and threw a no-hitter. This documentary tells the story of that game, as well as Ellis’ career as a rock star baseball player and, later in life, a drug abuse counselor. At Magic Lantern (MB) Not Rated

THE NOVEMBER MAN

Pierce Brosnan stars as a fierce exCIA member who winds up back in the game and chasing after a killer he trained himself. He’s formerly known as November Man because “after he’s through, nothing lives.” Even in the age of retirement, the November Man is equally matched with the young man he now calls enemy, but may not be prepared for the involvement of high-profile CIA and Russian government members. (MS) Rated R

The documentary Alive Inside follows Dan Cohen, founder of the nonprofit organization Music & Memory, which uses the power of music to invigorate people who are sick and lonely. Just seeing people listening to music on screen, seeing that intense sense of joy and self, it just shows how important music is for this planet. The film understandably won this year’s Sundance Film Festival Audience Award.

At Magic Lantern (LJ) Not Rated

BELLE

Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu MbathaRaw) has always lived her life between two worlds. The illegitimate child of Admiral Sir John Lindsay (Matthew Goode), Belle is of a higher rank than the servants, but cannot eat with her own family because of her mixed-race status. Strangled by class systems and prejudice, Belle begins to find her voice only when she falls in love with a man who wants to change the world for the better, but does not have the rank her family requires. At Magic Lantern (ER) Rated PG

BOYHOOD

Richard Linklater’s newest film, shot over the course of 12 years, is a true masterwork and eschews the bigbang theory of dramatics in favor of the million-and-one little things that accumulate daily and help shape who we are, and who we will become. The story focuses on Mason, who we follow from age 7 to 19 as he struggles with divorced parents and the process of learning how to navigate the world.

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Also stars Chris O’Dowd and Kelly Reilly.

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DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES

It’s been a few years since James Franco’s ape Caesar took smart pills and then led every other ape in the greater Bay Area on a rampage of epic proportions. Those smart pills ended up causing a worldwide epidemic, killing off much of the human race. War took care of many others. Now, the surviving humans are bristling up against the apes, led by Caesar and the two species are on the brink of war. (MB) Rated PG-13

THE DOG

One day in 1972, John Wojtowicz tried to rob a Brooklyn bank in an attempt to pay for his husband to have a sexchange surgery. It didn’t work, no surprise, but Wojtowicz’s famous hold-up spectacle was the inspiration for the 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon in which he was played by Al Pacino. Now, Wojtowicz is getting his own day on camera in this new documentary about that stint, which compares the film’s fictional elements with the real life event’s facts. Not rated. At Magic Lantern. (CS)

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The girl has cancer, the boy is in remission from cancer; this story can only end badly. As far as teenage cancer love stories go, John Green’s recent young adult novel of the same name isn’t half bad — not nearly as sappy as A Walk to Remember. With Shailene Woodley (The Descendants, Divergent) as the lead for this film adaption, many lovesick teenage girls and their boyfriends will show up for this one. (LJ) Rated PG-13

THE GIVER

Based on the classic young adult novel of the same name, The Giver is set in a utopian society with almost no struggle or pain. When a young man (Brenton Thwaites) is selected to learn the history of his surroundings, the truth of how things came to be so perfect comes into view. Starring Jeff Bridges as the Giver and Meryl Streep as the Chief Elder.

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Directed by Lasse Hallstrom, The Hundred-Foot Journey is the story of Hassan Kadam and his family. After relocating from their home country, India, the Kadam family decides to open an Indian restaurant, Maison Mumbai, in their new home in the south of France. After seeing Maison Mumbai, Madame Mallory, the harsh restaurant owner across the street, senses competition and treats her new competitors with vengeance.

(MAB) Rated PG Mia Hall (Chloë Grace Moretz) is a cello prodigy awaiting news of whether she’s been accepted to Juilliard. But then she’s on a family car trip with her parents (Mireille Enos and Joshua Leonard) and younger brother (Jakob Davies) that turns tragic. Mia awakens from the wreckage of an accident on an icy road to find that she hasn’t actually awakened: Her body is in critical condition, and her out-of-body experience allows her to see the life to which she’ll return if she chooses to fight for that life. (SR) Rated PG-13

K2: SIREN OF THE HIMALAYAS

Mt. Everest might get all the attention, but any high-altitude climber will tell you that K2 is the toughest mountain of them all. While a few hundred people summit Everest annually, less than 400 have ever reached the top of K2. This documentary follows a 2009 expedition of seasoned alpinists who make a summit attempt in 2009 during a time when very few climbers were finding success on the mountain. Although informative and full of breathtaking views, the film’s structure and editing might leave you underwhelmed. A lot of the footage feels cobbled together and lacking in pacing — but again, those views might make it worth it. At Magic Lantern (MB) Not Rated

LET’S BE COPS

Being a cop can be tough. That’s what best of friends Ryan (Jake Johnson from New Girl) and Justin (Damon Wayans Jr.) find out anyway in the film that could have been called “Let’s Be Stupid.” One night, the pair dresses up as cops for a costume party, only to realize they like the attention the uniform gains them. Things quickly escalate however, when they get involved with some real mobsters. Soon their pretend badges aren’t nearly as fun as they used to be.

Meanwhile, many ridiculous gags keep the audience laughing (many involving comedians Rob Riggle and KeeganMichael Key) until the plot has to kick in at the end. (LJ) Rated R

LUCY

Scarlett Johansson continues her scifi streak playing the titular character working as a drug mule in Taiwan when a drug accidentally leaks into her system, giving her access to 100 percent of her brain. Now in possession of otherworldly powers, Lucy goes on a rampage to take vengeance against those who’ve wronged her. (MB) Rated R

MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT

Stanley (Colin Firth) is a touring stage illusionist who also delights in acting as a debunker of fraudulent mediums and diviners of all kinds. So when he’s informed by an old friend that a young woman named Sophie (Emma Stone) is enjoying the patronage of a wealthy family in France while claiming to make

contact with the dead husband of the matriarch (Jacki Weaver), Stanley is more than happy to take on the job of exposing her. (SR) Rated PG-13

A MOST WANTED MAN

It’s tough to see these posthumously released Phillip Seymour Hoffman films and realize the talent that was lost, but here we go again with A Most Wanted Man. Hoffman plays a German intelligence officer who is trying to ferret out terrorists in Hamburg, the city where the Sept. 11 attacks were planned and where paranoia runs high. (MB) Rated R

SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR

A follow up to 2005’s Sin City, this installment, directed by Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez, consists of little more than vignettes on vengeance and cruel parades of sociopathic power performed as gleefully ultraviolent shadow plays. A movie where disjointed parts never connect into a cohesive whole and instead merely bounce around in a random, nasty game of pinball. Is it paradoxical to suggest that even nihilistic stories need a reason to be told?

(MJ) Rated R

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

Your favorite post-pubescent crimefighting amphibians are back on the big screen after a couple decades away and they have a bit of a different look, but still love to kick butt and eat pizza. This doesn’t stray far from the established TMNT storyline as the four ninjas go after a crime lord who is trying to destroy New York City. Megan Fox stars as television reporter April O’Neil. (MB) Rated PG-13

WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL

It remains one of the most incredible winning streaks of all time. Between 1992 and 2003, De La Salle High school in Concord, California, won 151 consecutive games. This film is based on a 2003 book about the team and details the sometimes turbulent experiences of the players and coaches who played for the school during and after the record streak. Stars Jim “dude who played Jesus” Caviezel as legendary head coach Bob Ladouceur. (MB) Rated PG 

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rank wears a massive mask at all times and the whole ordeal, unbeknownst to the rest of has somehow managed to get four other the band. When a video goes viral, Jon has to people to make intentionally crappy music convince the group to come out of hiding and with him. That’s funny stuff, right? This could head to the South by Southwest music festival in lend itself to an hour and half of laughs, right?

Texas, which they do, wondering if Frank — who Yes, there are a few giggles to be had in Frank, is at times somewhat of a cult leader, and at othbut they come as islands in a sea of darkness that ers a clueless child — can handle the pressure. runs through what turns out to be a psychoThe absurdity of this premise hangs heavy in logically challenging film. That goofy fake head the air, but it’s all quite honest, partially because turns out to be a hell of a lot less the script is co-written by journalist/ funny that you’d think. documentarian Jon Ronson, who FRANK Thankfully, though, Irish wrote the book The Men Who Stare Rated R director Lenny Abrahamson at Goats, which inspired the movie Directed by Lenny Abrahamson has the mind-blowing talents of of the same name. Ronson actually Starring Domhnall Gleeson, Michael played keyboards for Frank SideMichael Fassbender inside that Fassbender, Maggie Gyllenhaal big fake head, and that’s part of bottom — a character played by the the reason Frank is so gripping. late British musician and comedian We spend most of the film intrigued by Frank Chris Sievey — who wore a fake head almost and all his oddities, which might be because he’s identical to Frank’s. Bonus points for what is perjust Frank and not Michael Fassbender. haps the most realistic depiction of social media Oddly, Frank isn’t really the main character in a film to date. of the movie that bears his name. That role goes There’s a scene in which Frank describes his to Jon (Domhnall Gleeson), a wide-eyed kid facial expressions to Jon to make him more comstruggling to make it as a songwriter when he fortable. It’s worth a laugh, until you’re forced ends up landing a spot playing keyboards for to spend some time thinking about what would Frank’s band. Frank then takes the whole band cause a guy to walk around with that thing on his to a cabin in the woods for more than a year head all day. Sometimes intrigue is more worthto make an album, and Jon is tweeting about while than a laugh. 

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ock stars make it all look so easy. That’s because they have the right tools. Three local innovators, in varying stages of business success, make music sound just a little brighter.

GUMBO OVERDRIVE PEDALS

A Chinese company wanted to help sell his pedal design.

“Do you understand what I’m doing here?” Kit Ehrgood asked. “This isn’t mass-produced.”

It was back in 2011, and the company had watched a YouTube demo video breaking down just how many sound-enhancing options the Gumbo Overdrive Pedal offered. He turned “Bottom line: this isn’t about the money,” Ehrgood says. them down.

“Helping people — that’s where my riches are.”

After that video hit, Ehrgood says the Spokane Music InstiSee more at spokanemusicinstitute.com tute, which he owns, couldn’t keep up with demand for the guitar effects pedal. The device was modeled after the tones of Marshall and Dumble amps, the latter of which are quite rare. A used The machine spins pieces of porcelain into a humming delirium.

Dumble amp can cost as much as $50,000. The Gumbo Overdrive Inside, brass guitar slides are shined so thoroughly that you can Pedal is just $150. see your reflection in them.

“When Dumble shows up, people’s ears perk up. These amps “It’s basically pieces of toilet doing the work,” Danny Songhave a voodoo power,” says Ehrgood in his SMI office on Garland hurst, 34, explains in his North Spokane garage. “But the slides Avenue. “I’ve had the opportunity to play a couple, so I knew that come out great in the end.” was the sound I wanted.”

Back in 2011, Songhurst didn’t know anything about polishThe other interesting aspect is that students hand-craft each ing metal, but after taking over for his uncle (Mark Morse, who pedal. About five years ago, the whole idea started as an effort passed away in 2006, founded Mark’s Guitar Shop on Garland), to teach kids from all backgrounds about the technical side of the Rock Slide has taken off. The brass slide sells globally, and music.

Songhurst — who has added a glass version to the lineup — is “I’ve always had the idea for the pedal,” says Ehrgood, currently working out a deal with Guitar Center. whose first guitar teacher was Allen Collins of Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Guitar slides create that swampy sound in Americana muLocal technician Kalman Hevessy helped him make the design sic, and an ambient, one-note quality in indie music or sludge easier for all hands to grasp, solidifying a circuit board that could metal. Started by Morse in 1999 and later patented, the inside is uniformly be placed inside a casing by students, who are paid for tapered, and is flattened on the side, providing a place for fintheir efforts. gers to rest. When Songhurst took over the line, the slides were ...continued on next page

THE ROCK SLIDE

Kit Ehrgood shows off a prototype for a new guitar pedal he’s developing. KRISTEN BLACK PHOTO

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MUSIC | LOCAL SCENE “TOOLS OF ROCK,” CONTINUED... made in Taiwan. Now they’re cut at Another Screw Machine Products in Ponderay, Idaho.

Songhurst first saw success in the music business in 2008 with Songhurst Guitars, but the father of two says he knew adding the slides would change his whole enterprise. For almost two solid years, he would cold-call and email music businesses to see if they’d bite.

Eventually, they did. Some famous musicians (Myles Kennedy, Dave Keuning of the Killers) started using them. While guitar making used to be at the forefront, now he can focus on creating them when he wants to, not just to pay the mortgage.

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RKM DRUM PEDAL

When Rick Meyerson attacks his drum set, his entire diningroom-turned-practice-space vibrates and his pink cheeks glow a little brighter. Drums are his outlet, on which he can bang out his troubles. Playing for 48 years, mostly in his native Seattle, he knows what he wants from a drum set. For as long as he can remember, the bass drum pedals he used didn’t cut it. With skills acquired during a career at Boeing, Meyerson eventually made his own pedal.

“Everything on this pedal is engineered for drummers, by a drummer,” he says. “It is completely ergonomically correct.”

He calls his company RKM Innovations, LLC, named for him and his wife Kathy Meyerson.

Two of the 5-pound pedals sit on his kitchen table; their aircraft-quality aluminum is smooth to the touch. Almost everything on the pedal is adjustable. His invention is now patented, and there are countless possibilities involving its use, exactly how

a drummer wants it; there are no index marks for settings.

Local business Precision Cutting Technologies does the metalwork for most of the parts; Meyerson then assembles them in his home office. All parts are made in the USA, something he’s quite proud of.

Meyerson, who played in Scorpius for six years and is now in local cover band Untyed, hasn’t seen much success so far when it comes to his pedal. He’s had a couple of press releases in Modern Drummer and been to drumming conventions with his product.

Now it’s just a matter of waiting.

“If you put your foot right there, it feels so good,” he says, pointing to the pedal’s long footboard. “I think any drummer, they would like it.” n See more at rkmdrumpedal.com

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Thursday Aug 28th

SHE KEEPS BEES

YG’s newest record, My Krazy Life, describes growing up in Compton.

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G, the fast-rising rapper who’ll play the Knitting Factory on Friday, spends the first 20 seconds of his debut album My Krazy Life establishing where he’s from: — “BPT,” code for Bompton, California, known to most of the world as Compton but pronounced with a “b” by members of the Bloods gang, who refuse to pronounce the “c” because of their rivalry with the Crips.

— “TTP,” an acronym for Tree Top Pirus, YG’s gang affiliation of choice.

— “400 Spruce Street,” or YG’s specific block in Compton, and thus his clique within the gang.

In doing so, the 24-year-old pulls off a nifty trick, not only putting himself on the map (literally and figuratively) but also foreshadowing the attention to detail that helps make My Krazy Life one of 2014’s best rap albums and a landmark of post-’90s gangsta rap. Eighteen months after Kendrick Lamar’s “Good Kid, M.A.A.D City” set a new bar for lyrical hip-hop, YG (Young Gangsta, aka Keenon Jackson) is often shortchanged for his “Krazy” wordplay, which he arrives at in a variety of ways, he says in a recent email interview.

“Some shit just come and it stick. Some songs I gotta go back and rethink and rewrite,” he says.

“But it’s all good. That’s the process of making a classic.”

Much has been made recently about the music on My Krazy Life, and for good reason: YG’s longtime friend and right-hand man, DJ Mustard,

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He’s also the man behind Tyga’s 2011 mega-hit, “Rack City,” and an integral part of YG’s success.

Mustard is “somebody probably (every) rapper would wish for,” YG says. “My DJ. The bro.

And a super-producer. Shit be (crazy) thinking about our situation sometimes. How we took nothing and made it into something.”

But YG brings his own style to My Krazy Life, too, describing 24 hours of his life in Compton.

Across 14 songs, he hangs with homies, parties, juggles relationship with various females, breaks into a house, gets caught and goes to jail. Along the way, he offers a deeper look into the lifestyle, rapping about his feelings of shame, embarrassment and fear and creating a well-rounded character in a genre often lacking such a thing.

It’s that 3-D quality that makes My Krazy Life not just a certifiable banger, but also complex and relatable, quite a feat for a highly anticipated rap album. It didn’t happen by accident, YG says.

“I was under pressure. A lot of it. But we stayed in the studio going till the last day,” he says. “They always say what you put in is what you get out, so the work spoke for itself.” n YG • Fri, Aug. 29, at 7 pm • $29.50-$70 • All-ages • Knitting Factory • 919 W. Sprague • sp.knittingfactory.com • 866-468-7623

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art of the increasingly omnipresent Burger Records universe, together PANGEA have hit the pavement hard in 2014, touring in support of their awesomely named full-length, Badillac. The record finds them flying their ’90s flag proudly, with a huge guitar sound reminiscent of Smashing Pumpkins and Pinkerton-era Weezer.

This is a band not afraid of solos, but they’ve retained the knack for hooks that made their previous records stand out. Since forming in 2008, they’ve shared the stage with a veritable who’s who of garage luminaries, including Ty Segall, Wavves and Black Lips. This will be the first of two area shows for the band in the coming months — watch for them when the Burger Records Caravan rolls through in October.

— GAWAIN FADELEY together PANGEA with Meat Market and Normal Babies • Fri, Aug. 29, at 8 pm • $8/$10 day of • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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Thursday, 08/28

ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Performers on the Patio feat.

Budapest West BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn THE CELLAR, Ray Roberson COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, PJ Destiny J COEUR D’ALENE PARK, Browne’s Addition Summer Concerts feat.

Kari Marguerite & the 76 THE DAM BAR & GRILL (326-8000), Evan Denlinger THE FLAME (534-9121), DJ WesOne THE HANDLE BAR (474-0933), The Usual Suspects J THE HOP!, The Supersuckers, Laylah’s Drink JJ’S GRILL AND BREWHOUSE (4674267), The BRS Sound JOHN’S ALLEY, Insidious Flow J JONES RADIATOR, She Keeps Bees J KNITTING FACTORY, [SOLD OUT] G-Eazy with Iamsu J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Just Plain Darin LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Wyatt Wood J LUXE COFFEEHOUSE, Particlehead J MOOTSY’S, Muscle & Marrow, Full Moon Radio, Hooves, Von the Baptist O’SHAY’S, Open mic J RIVERFRONT PARK, Pig Out in the Park (See story above) feat. Laura Love & Big Bad Gina, Working Spliffs, Sweet RebelD, The Camaros, Big Hair Revoution and more J RIVERSTONE PARK, Summer Concerts at Riverstone feat. Nicole Lewis TEMPLIN’S RED LION (208-773-1611), Rockin’ on the River feat. Sammy Eubanks THE VIKING BAR AND GRILL, Dawn of Life WEBSTER’S RANCH HOUSE SALOON, Pacific Suns ZOLA, Karmas Circle

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FESTIVAL PIG OUT IN THE PARK

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nce again offering an assortment of (free!) musical riches to digest to, Pig Out is anchored this year by East L.A.’s favorite sons, Los Lobos, who have been putting out a nearly unending stream of excellent records for more than 30 years. Their iconoclastic mix of blues, soul, norteño and Tex-Mex will no doubt be the highlight of the weekend. If you’re in the mood for something a little heavier, don’t miss Seattle metal survivors Rail, who more than held their own when they toured with Blue Öyster Cult, Van Halen and Heart back in the day. Local standouts include Cathedral Pearls, the Camaros, Silver Treason, Too Slim (pictured), Mama Doll and Flying Spiders.

— GAWAIN FADELEY Pig out in the Park with Los Lobos, Rail and more • Wed, Aug. 27-Mon, Sept. 1, various times • Free • All-ages • Riverfront Park • 507 N. Howard • spokanepigout.com

Friday, 08/29

J THE BARTLETT, together PANGEA (See story above), Meat Market, Normal Babies BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn J THE BIG DIPPER, The Kenny James Miller Band BOWL’Z BITEZ AND SPIRITZ, Likes Girls BUCKHORN INN, Native Sax CARLIN BAY RESORT, YESTERDAYSCAKE THE CELLAR, Barry Aiken & Northpoint CHECKERBOARD BAR, Razors & Red Flags, Lust for Glory COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Bruiser CONKLING MARINA & RESORT, Nova CURLEY’S, Torino Drive THE DAM BAR & GRILL, Dan Conrad FEDORA PUB, Carli Osika FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Kicho THE FLAME, DJ Big Mike

GEM STATE CLUB (208-245-9916), JamShack J GORGE AMPHITHEATER, Dave Matthews Band feat. Brandi Carlile, Shovels & Rope, Ana Tijoux, Moon Taxi and more GRANDE RONDE CELLARS, Chris Lee and Colleen O’Brien HILL’S RESORT (208-443-2551), Hill’s Resort Summer Blowout feat.

Sammy Eubanks THE HOP!, The Derelicts, Moral Crux, Dead Ones USA, Dark White Light IDAHO POUR AUTHORITY (208-2902280), Charley Packard IRON GOAT BREWING CO. (4740722), Eliza Johnson IRON HORSE BAR, Kosh & the Hitmen J KNITTING FACTORY, YG (See story on page 73) J LAGUNA CAFÉ, Diane Copeland LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Carey Brazil and Jay Condiotti THE MEMBERS LOUNGE (703-7115),

Fabulous Fridays ft. DJ Wesone MOOSE LOUNGE (208-664-7901), The Usual Suspects NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, DJ Ramsin, DJ Freaky Fred NYNE, DJ the Devine Jewels PEND D’OREILLE WINERY, Tom Catmull RED ROOM LOUNGE, DJ D3VIN3 J RIVERFRONT PARK, Pig Out in the Park feat. Los Lobos, Cedar & Boyer, Mama Doll, Nicole Lewis, DBC Band ROCKER ROOM, Flying Mammals SOULFUL SOUPS AND SPIRITS, DJ Q SPIKE’S PHILLYS AND MORE (208664-7901), Tumble Down Badger, Banish the Echo, Ashland THE VIKING, Dimestore Prophets WEBSTER’S, Echo Elysium ZOLA, Dirty Rice

Saturday, 08/30

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Taxi and more HILL’S RESORT, Hill’s Resort Summer Blowout feat. Sammy Eubanks  THE HOP!, I Declare War, The Last Ten Seconds Of Life, Barrier, Invent Animate IRON GOAT BREWING CO., Roger Dines IRON HORSE BAR, Kosh & the Hitmen JOHN’S ALLEY, Sould Dream  KNITTING FACTORY, Porter Robinson, Giraffage, Lemaitre THE LARIAT (466-9918), Six-Strings n’ Pearls LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Truck Mills MOOSE LOUNGE, The Usual Suspects MOOTSY’S, Estafets, Pine League  MOSES LAKE MCCOSH PARK, Concert in the Park feat. Los Lobos NORTHERN QUEST CASINO, DJ Ramsin, DJ Freaky Fred, DJ Patrick NYNE, DJ C-Mad RED ROOM LOUNGE, DJ D3VIN3  RIVERFRONT PARK, Pig Out in the Park feat. Jonathan Jackson and Enation, Randy Hansen, Gatorloop, Laffin Bones and more ROCKER ROOM, Flying Mammals  ROCKET MARKET, Evan Denlinger THE VIKING BAR AND GRILL, Echo Elysium

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Sunday, 08/31

219 LOUNGE (208-263-9934), Truck Mills ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS, Concerts on the Cliff feat. Soul Proprietor BIG BARN BREWING CO. (238-2489), Dirk Swartz CARLIN BAY RESORT, YESTERDAYSCAKE THE CELLAR, Traveling Keys Dueling Piano Show THE CELLAR, Pat Coast COEUR D’ALENE CASINO, Bill Bozly, Echo Elysium  COEUR D’ALENE CITY PARK, Smash Hit Carnival CONKLING MARINA & RESORT, Nova CURLEY’S, Slow Burn DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS, Jam Night with VooDoo Church GEM STATE CLUB, JamShack  GORGE AMPHITHEATER, Dave Matthews Band feat. Brandi Carlile, Shovels & Rope, Ana Tijoux, Moon Taxi and more HILL’S RESORT, Hill’s Resort Summer Blowout feat. Sammy Eubanks THE HOP!, Gorilla Music Battle of the Bands  KELLY’S IRISH PUB (208-6671717), Songwriter Sundays with the Flying Mammals

 RIVERFRONT PARK, Pig Out in the Park feat. Civilized Animal, The Hollers, The Conkites, Silver Treason, Flying Spiders and more WEBSTER’S RANCH HOUSE SALOON, Chris Lucas ZOLA, Phil Lamb

Monday, 09/01

 CALYPSOS (208-665-0591), Open Mic EICHARDT’S, Monday Night Jam with Truck Mills  RICO’S, Open Mic  RIVERFRONT PARK, Pig Out in the Park feat. Hoodoo Udu, Spare Parts, Trailer Park Girls, Men in the Making and more SOULFUL SOUPS AND SPIRITS, DJ Q ZOLA, Nate Ostrander Trio

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Tuesday, 09/02

315 MARTINIS AND TAPAS, The Rub  THE BARTLETT, Open Mic BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn  CALYPSOS, Annalise Emerick CRAFTED TAP HOUSE + KITCHEN (208-292-4813), Kosh FEDORA PUB, Tuesday Night Jam with Truck Mills JONES RADIATOR, Open Mic of Open-ness TRINITY AT CITY BEACH (208-2557558), Tuesdays with Ray Allen ZOLA, The Bucket List

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tuesday sept 23 bing Crosby theater

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Wednesday, 09/03 219 LOUNGE, Truck Mills BEVERLY’S, Robert Vaughn BOWL’Z BITEZ AND SPIRITZ, Likes Girls  DOWNTOWN COEUR D’ALENE, Live After 5 feat. Big Honey EICHARDT’S, Charley Packard FIZZIE MULLIGANS, Kicho GENO’S (368-9087), Open Mic with T&T  THE HIVE EVENT CENTER (208290-3048), Reverend Horton Heat  THE HOP!, Electro Grave IRON HORSE BAR & GRILL, Open mic JJ’S GRILL AND BREWHOUSE, Nate Ostrander JOHN’S ALLEY, Annalise Emerick JONES RADIATOR, Sally Bop Jazz LA ROSA CLUB, Robert Beadling and Friends THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE (3159531), Open Turntables Night with DJ Lydell LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3  THE NEST AT KENDALL YARDS, Rock the Nest feat. the Cronkites RICK SINGER PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO (838-3333), Jeffrey Foucault & Caitlin Canty SOULFUL SOUPS AND SPIRITS, Open mic

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315 MARTINIS & TAPAS • 315 E. Wallace, CdA • 208-667-9660 ARBOR CREST WINE CELLARS • 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. • 927-9463 BABY BAR • 827 W. First Ave. • 847-1234 THE BARTLETT • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2174 BEVERLY’S • 115 S. 2nd St., CdA • 208-765-4000 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 THE BLIND BUCK • 204 N. Division • 290-6229 BOLO’S• 116 S. Best Rd. • 891-8995 BOOMERS • 18219 E. Appleway Ave. • 755-7486 BOOTS BAKERY & LOUNGE • 24 W. Main Ave. • 703-7223 BOWL’Z BITEZ & SPIRITZ• 401 W. Riverside Suite 101. • 321-7480 BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB • 201 S. Main, Moscow • 208-882-5216 BUCKHORN INN • 13311 Sunset Hwy.• 244-3991 CARLIN BAY RESORT • 14691 Idaho 97, Harrison, • 208-689-3295 THE CELLAR • 317 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-6649463 CHAPS • 4237 Cheney-Spokane Rd. • 624-4182 CHECKERBOARD BAR • 1716 E. Sprague • 535-4007 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 S. Nukwalqw Rd., Worley • 800-523-2464 COLDWATER CREEK WINE BAR • 20 W. Jerry Ln., Worley • 208-263-6971 CONKLING MARINA • 20 W. Jerry Ln, Worley • 208-686-1151 CURLEY’S • 26433 W. Hwy. 53 • 208-773-5816 DALEY’S CHEAP SHOTS • 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 FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200 GRANDE RONDE CELLARS • 906 W. 2nd • 455-8161 THE HOP! • 706 N. Monroe St. • 368-4077 IRON HORSE • 407 E. Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-667-7314 IRV’S BAR • 415 W. Sprague Ave. • 624-4450 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 • 4302 S. Regal St. • 448-0887 LA ROSA CLUB • 105 S. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208-255-2100 LATAH BISTRO • 4241 Cheney-Spokane Rd. • 838-8338 LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington • 315-8623 LIBRARY LOUNGE • 110 E. 4th Ave. •747-3371 LION’S LAIR • 205 W. Riverside Ave. • 456-5678 LUCKY’S IRISH PUB • 408 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2605 LUXE COFFEEHOUSE • 1017 W. First Ave. • 642-5514 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan Rd. • 924-9000 MEZZO PAZZO WINE BAR • 2718 E. 57th • 863-9313 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 MOSCOW FOOD CO-OP • 121 E. Fifth St. • 208882-8537 NORTHERN QUEST • 100 N. Hayford • 242-7000 NYNE • 232 W. Sprague Ave. • 474-1621 THE SHOP • 924 S. Perry St. • 534-1647 O’SHAY’S • 313 E. CdA Lake Dr. • 208-667-4666 PEND D’OREILLE WINERY • 301 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-265-8545 THE PHAT HOUSE • 417 S. Browne • 443-4103 PJ’S BAR & GRILL • 1717 N. Monroe St. • 328-2153 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 ROADHOUSE • 20 N. Raymond • 413-1894 THE ROCK BAR • 13921 E. Trent Ave. • 43-3796 ROCKER ROOM • 216 E. Coeur d’Alene Ave. • 208-676-2582 ROCKET MARKET • 726 E. 43rd Ave. • 343-2253 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 SPLASH • 115 S. 2nd St., CdA • 208-765-4000 THE SWAMP • 1904 W. Fifth Ave. • 458-2337 UNDERGROUND 15 • 15 S. Howard St. • 290-2122 THE VAULT • 120 N. Wall St. • 863-9597 THE VIKING • 1221 N. Stevens St. • 315-4547 WEBSTER’S RANCH HOUSE SALOON • 1914 N. Monroe St. • 474-9040 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416

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FESTIVAL PEACHES APLENTY

When I think about eating fruit in the summer, I think of the bites that result in juice dripping messily down my chin. It’s all part of the experience, and peaches are prime culprits.

Tree-ripened to perfection, the juicy peaches at Green Bluff orchards are primed for picking and available in surplus from numerous growers. The Peach Festival takes over Green Bluff from now until Labor Day. Visitors can pick and choose right off the trees from different varieties of peach, such as Red Haven, Daroga Red and more. If you want the flavor without the sticky chin result of a fresh bite, there’s always assortments of peach cobblers, ice creams and pies to celebrate this fruit’s season.

— JENNA MULLIGAN Green Bluff Peach Festival • Runs daily through Sept. 1 • Particpating Green Bluff Growers • Mead, Wash. • greenbluffgrowers.com

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COMMUNITY UNDEAD RUN

MUSIC SUMMER TRADITION

Zombie Run • Sat, Aug. 30, at 6 pm • $5 • Comstock Park • 29th and Howard • facebook.com/pages/Apocalypse-Corps

Labor Day Weekend at the Parks • Sat, Aug. 30, at 6 pm; Pavillion Park, Liberty Lake • Mon, Sept. 1, at 6 pm; Comstock Park • Free • spokanesymphony.org • 624-1200

See how well you could endure an invasion of the undead this weekend by running through a creepy obstacle course at Comstock Park. Organized by the Apocalypse Corps, a new local group whose goal is to support various charities through zombie-themed events, half of the event’s proceeds benefit The Source, a local ministry dedicated to helping at-risk youth. With a video-gamelike approach, attendees are invited to bring a Nerf gun to defend themselves from hordes of zombies around the park. Admission gets you two player lives. Participate in one of three hour-long runs, each geared toward varying age groups.

— MOLLY SMITH

For almost three decades, the Spokane Symphony orchestra has celebrated the bittersweet end of summer by letting its harmonious sound fill the cool evening air of Comstock Park. The popular tradition has since expanded to include a second concert for residents of Liberty Lake. For this year’s evening musical fête, don’t forget a blanket and a picnic basket to enjoy while the Symphony entertains with favorites like Stars and Stripes Forever and the score from Star Wars. Before the South Hill concert, families can even test out their favorite instrument at an “instrument petting zoo.”

— CHEY SCOTT

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MUSIC MORE THAN A FEELING

Boston has always been an arena rock band. Even when they were just a fledgling group in Boston, the band’s music needed to be performed live on a grand scale. Nearly 40 years later and out on this summer’s Heaven on Earth Tour, Boston comes through the Spokane Arena next week prepared to play as loud and as big as they always did. Founding member Tom Scholz is still there, along with two members who have been part of the group for 20-plus years. People who lived through the 1970s and ’80s will absolutely revel in this show, which features all of the big hits like “More Than a Feeling” and “Amanda” and songs off of the 2013 release Life, Love & Hope.

— LAURA JOHNSON

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VOLUNTEER

Hopefully you got yourself out to the ballpark at least once this summer, but if you didn’t, there are still some chances to check out the Spokane Indians.

The team’s last regular season homestand concludes on Friday before they head out of town to finish their schedule on the road. The minor league squad’s performance in the first half of the season ensured them a spot in the playoffs, so you’re not totally out of luck, but we suggest closing out summer in style at Avista Stadium. To sweeten the deal, there’s a fireworks show after Friday night’s game.

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EVENTS | CALENDAR

BENEFIT

FRIENDS OF MANITO PLANT SALE The nonprofit’s annual fall plant sale features 300+ species, with proceeds supporting the group’s work in the park. Sep. 6, 9 am-4 pm. Free admission. Manito Park, 1800 S. Grand Blvd. thefriendsofmanito.org (456-8038) COBRA POLO CLASSIC 10th annual benefit for Ronald McDonald House Charities of Spokane, featuring a polo match, gourmet food and beverages, silent auction, whiskey and cigar tent, hat competition, champagne divot stomp and more. Sep. 7, 12-4 pm. $225/person; $450/couple. Spokane Polo Club, 7500 W Hwy. 2. rmhcspokane.org/events/21 DIRTY MARTINIS FOR CLEAN WATER Annual fundraiser for the Spokane

River Keeper, featuring heavy appetizers, drinks from Dry Fly and River City Brewing, live music by the Milonga Trio and a silent auction. Sep. 12, 6-11 pm. $45/advance, $50/door. Riverside Place, 1108 W. Riverside. recspokane. com (835-5211)

GEAR

Train Rides

“An Affair on Main Street”

COMEDY

STAND-UP COMEDY OPEN MIC Local comedians; see weekly schedule online. Thursdays at 8 pm. Free. Uncle D’s Comedy Underground, 2721 N. Market St. bluznews.com (483-7300) AFTER DARK An adult-rated version of the Blue Door’s monthly, Friday night show. On the last Friday of the month at 10 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre. com (747-7045)

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RELATIONSHIPS

Advice Goddess MP3’S A CROWD

AMY ALKON

I’ve been dating a girl for two months, and I go back and forth from thinking the relationship has legs to wanting to end it. I just had a birthday, and she got me a new iPod Touch with my name engraved on the back.

I told her it was too extravagant, but she insisted I keep it. For some reason, I now want to break up with her even more, but I feel guilty about ending it after she got me this pricey gift.

—iClod

Desperation is always so sexy — like Abraham Lincoln in a lime-green mankini.

There is a natural order to things. The tennis ball does not chase the dog.

(Imagine how freaked your dog would be if it did.) It also tends to go over poorly when women overtly pursue men. Males evolved to be the chasers of our species (and most other species) — to do the wooing and gift giving. Females evolved to be the choosier sex, to give men the squint-eye and wait for them to prove they are “providers.” When a woman turns the tables and does the wooing, like by giving a man an expensive present right out of the gate, the man tends to suspect there’s something wrong with her. If he wasn’t already ambivalent, he’ll likely get ambivalent. (Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Give a man you just started dating an iPod and you’ll be fishing for a new boyfriend.)

What you need to figure out is whether your “lemme outta here” feelings are about her or the fact that she got you what may seem like an iShackle. (“Hey, honey…here’s the present you’d get if we had a serious relationship — so now give me the serious relationship.”) Give this a week or two and consider whether her gift was desperation-driven or whether she maybe just got into shopping mode and, oops, went a little wild at the mall.

If you decide that your initial reaction — wanting out — is where you really stand, don’t be delayed by the price of the gift. The right time to break up is as soon as you know it’s over. If you stay with her, you might gently confide that what works best for you in a relationship is taking things slowly. We long for what’s slightly out of reach, not what’s hanging all over us raining small appliances: “I know you like music, so I’m giving you an iPod.” Your impulse: “And I know you like shoes, so I’m giving you the boot.”

A VICIOUS RECYCLE

I’m a 30-year-old single guy. Two friends from college got divorced six months ago after being married to each other for less than a year (no kids or anything).

The truth is, I had a crush on the woman before they even met, and I’m fairly sure the feeling was mutual. I’d like to ask her out, but I’m certain this will bring condemnation from all our mutual “bros,” though I was never close with her husband. Does that trump the rule that you shouldn’t date a guy friend’s ex? Or is she off-limits forever?

—Wary It’s natural to want to express your sympathy to a guy whose marriage just broke up: “Hey, man, so sorry to hear you two didn’t make it. By the way, did she happen to mention me?”

Asking out a buddy’s ex can seem like the dating version of poking your head over the booth divider at the diner and asking, “You gonna eat that?” It’s especially unseemly to forage in the remains of a guy’s relationship if he isn’t exactly skipping away from it. But assuming the Jaws of Life aren’t required to pry the guy out of the fetal position, a divorce is a breakup, not a “bent but still usable,” meaning post-divorce, it’s time for the ex-husband to release his ex-wife back into the wild.

People typically advise choosing the friend over the girl (sometimes because they think they’ll sound like bad people for advising otherwise), but you should consider what matters more to you — possibly having a crack at her or maintaining your social cred. If you do go out with her, do it discreetly at first: Go places where people won’t know you, and avoid the temptation to Facebook or live-blog your entire evening. If, after a few dates, you’re hitting it off, it’s a good idea to give the guy a heads-up via email. He might still be mad. But at least you’d just be a jerk, not a sneaky jerk. If it turns out you and she have something lasting, in time, people should begin to think of your relationship as something “meant to be” — while perhaps hiding the silver and the women when you come around. n ©2014, 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 EXPEDITION A fast-paced improvised comedy show, rated for all ages. Last show of the summer, Aug. 29, at 8 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) OPEN MIC COMEDY Live stand-up comedy, open to newcomers and experienced comedians. Fridays at 8 pm.

Ages 21+. Free. Red Dragon, 1406 W. Third. (475-6209) SAFARI Fast-paced short-form improv games based on audience suggestions. (Not rated.) Saturdays at 9 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland.

(747-7045) LIVE COMEDY Live stand-up comedy shows. Sundays at 9 pm. Goodtymes, 9214 E. Mission Ave. (928-1070) OPEN MIC COMEDY Wednesdays at 8 pm. Ages 21+. Free. Brooklyn Deli & Lounge, 122 S. Monroe St. (835-4177)

COMMUNITY

LIONS CLUB EXCURSION TRAIN RIDES The North Pend Oreille Valley Lions Club hosts its annual scenic train rides along the Pend Orielle River from Ione to Metaline Falls, Wash. Aug. 3031. $15/adults, $10 seniors and children ages 2-12. Ione, Wash. lionstrainrides. com (887-525-5226) SPOKANIMAL’S RACHAEL RAY 100K WRAP-UP PARTY SpokAnimal celebrates its participation in the national challenge to win 100K for the shelter with games, cake, and bows and ribbons to “wrap-up” your new pet to take home. Aug. 30, 12-4 pm. SpokAnimal, 710 N. Napa. spokanimal.org (534-8133) ZOMBIE RUN Event benefits the local nonprofit The Source, which works with at-risk youth. Participnts should bring their own Nerf gun. Aug. 30. $5. Comstock Park, 29th Ave. and Howard St. facebook.com/pages/Apocalypse-Corps (850-5587) GSI: MEET THE PREZ Greater Spokane Incorporated’s annual meeting, introducing new president Steve Stevens and incoming board members. Sep. 3, 11:30 am. $45-$75. Spokane Convention Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. events.greaterspokane.org (279-7000) ALL ORIGINAL CAR SHOW Hosted by the Historical Automotive Society of Spokane and the Inland Empire (HASSIE), featuring cars from 1900-1984 that have not been modified. Event includes live music, food, raffles and more. Cars must register by Aug. 25. Sep. 6. Free to attend. Mirabeau Park Meadows, 13500 Mirabeau Parkway. (922-3431) BRIAN WILLIAMS MEMORIAL RIDE The annual poker ride, hosted by North Idaho College in memory of a former student, is appropriate for riders of all ages. Pre- and post-ride events include live music, a barbecue, silent auction, door prizes and more. Sep. 6, 12:30-7 pm. $25. O’Shay’s, 313 E. Coeur d’Alene Lake Dr. (208-676-7169) FESTIVAL LATINO AMERICANO Latin American culture celebration featuring performances, dancing, live music and more. Sep. 6, 6-10 pm. Free. Rogers High School, 1622 E. Wellesley Ave. (324-1995) SPOKEFEST 2014 The 7th annual community cycling festival includes a 1- to 2-mile family ride, a 9-mile Spokane Falls loop, a 21-mile river loop, or the 50-mile Four Mounds Half Century loop. Sep. 7, 8 am. $8-$20. Downtown Spokane. spokefest.org

FESTIVAL

GREEN BLUFF PEACH FESTIVAL Juicy peaches are ripe and ready for harvest, and many orchards and farms also sell peach cobbler, ice cream, cakes and pies. Festival runs daily through Sept. 1.

Green Bluff Growers, Mead. greenbluffgrowers.com PIG OUT IN THE PARK The 35th annual, six-day food and music festival features 45 food vendors and more than 100 concerts and performances on three stages. Aug. 27-Sept. 1. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard St. spokanepigout.com (879-0826) RIVERSTONE STREET FAIR Coeur d’Alene’s Riverstone Village hosts a weekly outdoor market and street fair, hosting 200+ vendors of arts and crafts, food, live music, a farmers market and more. Last event of the summer: Aug. 28 from 4-9 pm. Free. riverstonestreetfair.com (509-703-9345) SPOKANE TRIBE’S LABOR DAY CELEBRATION & POWWOW The Spokane Tribe of Indians hosts its 100th annual Labor Day weekend powwow and celebration. Events include traditional dancing and drumming performances, ceremonies, and more. Events are open to the public. Aug. 28-Sept. 1 Wellpinit, Wash. spokanetribe.com WHEAT LANDS COMMUNITIES’ FAIR Community fair organized 30+ years ago to continue the tradition of a fair in Eastern Adams County. Aug. 29-Sept. 1 Ritzville, Wash. visitritzville.com SCHWEITZER FALL FEST Schweitzer’s annual music and microbrewery festival during Labor Day Weekend. Aug. 30Sept. 1 Schweitzer Mountain Resort, Sandpoint. schweitzer.com (877-487-4643) PALOUSE EMPIRE FAIR Community fair featuring ag displays/exhibits, live music and entertainment, a beer/wine garden, rodeo, and the first ever Miss Palouse Empire Fair. Sept. 4-7. $3-$6.

Colfax, Wash. palouseempirefair.org (509-397-6263) SPOKANE COUNTY INTERSTATE FAIR The fair is open daily, Sept. 5-13 from 10 am-10 pm, and Sept. 14, from 10 am-8 pm. Events include the PRCA Rodeo (Sept. 5-6), live music, the demolition derby (Sept. 13-14), agricultural displays, livestock, carnival rides and games and food vendors. $7/kids, seniors; $10/adults. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana St. spokanecounty.org/fair (477-1766) HILLYARD HIPPIE HAPPENING The fifth annual community event features live, local music, a “Peace Wall,” prize wheel, costume contests, local vendors and more. Sep. 6, 10 am-6 pm. Free. At Market and Queen intersection in the Hillyard neighborhood.

HOPPED UP ON ART, MUSIC & BEER The second annual arts and culture fest features local artisans, performers, musicians and other creators, along with locally-made beer and food from Azars. Family-friendly. Sep. 6, 2-10 pm.

Free. Hopped Up Brewing Co., 10421 E. Sprague Ave. tinyurl.com/mqgu6jj (509-413-2488)

FILM

THE DOG An intimate portrait ofJohn Wojtowicz, the inspiration behind Al Pacino’s character in Sidney Lumet’s Oscar-nominated “Dog Day Afternoon.” Aug. 28, 7:30 pm. $8. Magic Lantern Theatre, 25 W. Main. (209-2383)

ROCKET MARKET MOVIES: STAR TREK (REBOOT) An outdoor movie screening projected on the side of the market, starts at dusk. Aug. 28. Free.

Rocket Market, 726 E. 43rd Ave. (3432253) BRAVE Outdoor film screening in the park at dusk. Aug. 29. Free. Pavillion Park, 727 N. Molter Rd, Liberty Lake. pavillionpark.org MOONLIGHT MOVIE SERIES: FREE WILLY Screenings start at dusk in the outfield of Martella Ball Field at Sunset Park. Aug. 29. Free. Sunset Park, S. King St, Airway Heights. cawh.org THE FAULT IN OUR STARS Hazel and Gus are two teenagers who share an acerbic wit, a disdain for the conventional, and a love that sweeps them on a journey after meeting in a cancer support group. Showing Sept. 4-6. $5$7. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org (208-263-9191) NO NO: A DOCKUMENTARY A special one-night screening of the Dock Ellis documentary film. Sep. 4, 7:30 pm. $8.

Magic Lantern Theatre, 25 W. Main Ave. (209-2383) ROCKET MARKET MOVIES: THE PRINCESS BRIDE An outdoor movie screening projected on the side of the market, starts at dusk. Sep. 4. Free. Rocket Market, 726 E. 43rd Ave. rocketmarket.com (509-343-2253) NOURISHING OUR CHILDREN A film on one man’s quest in the 1930s to discover the diets of 12 indigenous groups world wide. Sep. 6, 11 am-1 pm. Free.

South Hill Library, 3324 S. Perry St. (230-0804) ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW A midnight screening of the cult classic, featuring a performance by the Absolute Pleasure shadow cast and prop bags. Tickets available in advance at the box office. Sep. 6, 11:59 pm. $5. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland. (327-1050) SUDS & CINEMA: DIE HARD The next installment of the Inlander’s beer and film series is a showing of the classic ’80s action movie, with beer from Twelve String Brewing Co. ($4/pint).

Doors open at 6:30 pm. Sep. 10, 7:30 pm. $4. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. inlander.com/sudsandcinema

FOOD & DRINK

NO-LI BREWHOUSE TOURS See what goes on behind the scenes and how NoLi’s beer is made. Fridays at 4:30 pm.

Free. No-Li Brewhouse, 1003 E. Trent Ave. nolibrewhouse.com (242-2739) UNDER $10 VALUE WINES A variety of wines with quality that defies the price.

Aug. 29, 7 pm. $20, reservations required. Rocket Market, 726 E. 43rd Ave. rocketmarket.com (343-2253) COOKING WITH CHEF COLOMBA Learn to cook healthy, South Americanstyle food. Sep. 3, 5:30-8:30 pm. $50.

Jacklin Arts & Cultural Center, 405 N. William St., Post Falls. thejacklincenter. org (208-457-8950) VINO WINE TASTING Fri, Sept. 5 highlights Vino’s “Wine of the Month Club” selections, from 3-7:30 pm. Also that evening is a First Friday reception for photographers Bill & Kathy Kostelec. $10. Vino!, 222 S. Washington St. vinowine.com (838-1229) SPO HOP 2014 Iron Goat host a fresh hop-picking party, with the hops immediately brewed into fresh-hop beers, followed by live music (3 pm) and food

trucks at the brewery. All are invited to help harvest and those who do receive $2-off Spo Hop pints. Sep. 6, 11 am-2 pm.

Iron Goat Brewing Co., 2204 E. Mallon Ave. irongoatbrewing.com (701-8244) SPRINGS OF HOPE CREAMERY TOUR A tour of the raw creamery and farm in Moyie Springs, Idaho. Participants must RSVP. Meet at Pilgrim’s Market to carpool to the farm at 9 pm. Sep. 6, 11 am-3 pm.

Pilgrim’s Natural Market, 1316 N. Fourth St. pilgrimsmarket.com (208-676-9730) SOURS ‘N SEPTEMBER The inaugural beer festival is set to feature 20+ sour beers from regional breweries over three days, along with food specials incorporating sour beers; live music, beer sampling, an all-ages tent and more. Sept.

11-13. Free admission. The Lantern Tap House, 1004 S. Perry St. thelanterntavern.com (509-315-9531) FARM-TO-TABLE DINNER A community dinner to benefit The Big Red Barn Farmers Market of Davenport. Dinner exclusively features products raised and grown by area farmers. Sep. 13, 5-7 pm. $50/person. Davenport, Wash. tinyurl. com/pxuaf4m (509-280-9896)

MUSIC

TUMBLEWEED MUSIC FESTIVAL Annual music fest offering free music, dance workshops and more. Aug. 29-31.

At Howard Amon Park. Free. Richland, Wash. tumbleweedfest.com SPOKANE SYMPHONY: LABOR DAY WEEKEND AT THE PARK The Symphony performs its annual, free outdoor concert, a popular family event, including a program of classics, show tunes and patriotic marches. Aug. 30, 6-8 pm. Free.

Pavillion Park, 727 N. Molter Rd, Liberty Lake. spokanesymphony.org (624-1200) COEUR D’ALENE SYMPHONY The symphony performs its annual Labor Day weekend concert, featuring patriotic music, Broadway tunes, light classical and other audience favorites. Sep. 1, at 1 pm.

Free. Coeur d’Alene City Park, 415 W. Mullan Rd. cdasymphony.org SPOKANE SYMPHONY: LABOR DAY WEEKEND AT THE PARK For 28 years, the Spokane Symphony has marked the end of summer with its popular, free classical music concerts in the parks. Sep. 1, 6 pm. Free. Comstock Park, 29th Ave. and Howard. spokanesymphony.org NEWPORT MUSIC FESTIVAL The weekend festival features 12 regional bands, camping, workshops, a talent contest, jamming, open mic sessions and food and craft vendors. Sept. 5-7. $10-$15/day, $35-$40/person for overnight camping.

Newport City Park, First St. and Calispel Ave. pvbluegrass.com (509-434-4200) STEPHANIE MEYERS The UTEP violin and viola professor performs musical masterpieces by Johann Sebastian Bach and other Baroque era composers. Sept.

6, 8-9:30 pm. Free. Gonzaga, 502 E. Boone. gonzaga.edu/music (313-6733) COWBOY SUPPER SHOW Commemorative cowboy supper performances with an indoor cowboy chuck wagon-style dinner in celebration of the ranch’s 20th anniversary. Sept 12-14 and Oct. 11-12; FriSat shows at 6:15 pm; Sun show at 3:15 pm. $16.50/kids; $45.95/adults. Rockin’ B Ranch, 3912 N. Idaho Rd. rockinbranch. com (891-9016) MARCHFOURTH MARCHING BAND Aside from their marching-band themed costumes, and multi-member drum and brass corp, M4 is far from a traditional marching band. Shows are inspired by

gypsy camps, American funk, rock, and jazz and include stilt-acrobatics, dancers and more. Sep. 13, 8 pm. $25. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. (227-7404)

PERFORMANCE

THE CUTTER AFFAIR VARIETY SHOW Annual variety show event. Aug. 29-30 at 7 pm, Aug. 31 at 2 pm. $12. Cutter Theatre, 302 Park St, Metaline Falls. cuttertheatre. com (509-446-4108) CIRQUE ZUMA ZUMA The “America’s Got Talent” semi-finalists perform what’s described as African-style “Cirque du Soliel,” fusing culture, acrobatics and artistic performers. Sept. 5 at 8 pm, Sept. 6 at 1 pm. $20/adults, $10/kid 12 and under.

Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. bingcrosbytheater.com (227-7638) ARABESQUE An evening of culture featuring classical bellydance and tribal fusion performances by dancers from Northwest Bellydance. Sep. 6, 7-9 pm. $8-$20. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. tinyurl.com/njqxxqc (481-1533) BURLESKIVAL A 4-hour variety show and competition between 16 local go-go/ burlesque dancers, with a fashion show, live music by Dionvox and Madeline McNeill, audience voting and more. Sep. 12, 7 pm. $22/advance, $30/door; $45/VIP. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. tinyurl.com/n92c9c7 (509-227-7404)

SPORTS & OUTDOORS

BIKE MAINTENANCE: ROAD & TRAILSIDE REPAIR A class focusing on what to do when the unexpected happens, with tips and tricks to triage a situation in the field and save you from a serious “hikea-bike” situation. Aug. 28, 6:30 pm. $45/ members; $65/non-members. REI, 1125 N. Monroe. rei.com/spokane (328-9900) SPOKANE INDIANS VS. SALEM-KEIZER VOLCANOES Last home game series of the season; games held daily through Aug. 29 at 6:30 pm. $5-$11/single game.

Avista Stadium, 602 N. Havana. (5352922) THURSDAY NIGHT PADDLES The CdA Canoe & Kayak club hosts weekly paddles, open to the public, Thursdays from 5:30-7:30 pm. Location and put in times vary. See website for details. Free. cdacanoekayakclub.com CDA SKATEPARK CLASSIC Classic skateboarding contest, offering prizes and more. Proceeds benefit the construction of a new skate park. Aug. 30, 12-4 pm. $10. Warm-up/registration at 10:30 am, contest starts at noon. CdA Skate Park, 480 W. Garden Ave. cdask8prk.com SPOKANNIBALS ROLLER DERBY Spokane’s home team takes on Jet City Rollergirls’ Hula Honeys in a night of fastpaced, roller derby. Doors open at 6:30, first whistle at 7 pm. After-party at Boots Bakery & Lounge, 24 W. Main. Aug. 30. $10/adults; $8/students, seniors. Roller Valley Skate Center, 9415 E. Fourth Ave. spokannibals.com (805-205-3215) SNOW LAKE HIKE Hikers can see the impact of an avalanche that filled about 20% of the lake with timber and debris in the spring of 2012. The route runs wide over an old road bed for about four miles before narrowing to a single track for the last mile.

Also offers opportunity to pick huckleberries. Aug. 31, 8 am-5 pm. Free. Sandpoint. idahoconservation.org (208-265-9565) SPOKANE BADMINTON CLUB Meets Sun from 4:30-7 pm and Wed from 7-10

pm. $6/visit. West Central Community Center, 1603 N. Belt St. wccc.myspokane. net/ (448-5694) SPOKANE TABLE TENNIS CLUB Pingpong club meets Wed from 6:30-9 pm and Sun from 1:30-4 pm. $2/visit. Southside Senior & Community Center, 3151 E. 27th Ave. sssac.org (456-3581) SPOKANE TABLE TENNIS Ping-pong club meets Mon and Wed, from 6-9 pm. $3/visit. HUB Sports Center, 19619 E. Cataldo Ave., Liberty Lake. spokanetabletennis.com (768-1780) WOMEN’S WEEKEND 2014 A 3-day retreat offering relaxation, adventure and fun with catered meals and activities, an annual Girl Scout fundraising event. Sept.

5-7. $225/person. Camp Four Echoes, 22270 S. 4 Echoes Rd. gsewni.org (7478091 x. 204) HARMONY YOGA OPEN HOUSE Sample yoga classes at no cost. See schedule online. Sep. 6, 9 am-6:30 pm. Free. Harmony Yoga, 1717 W. Sixth. (747-4430) NEWPORT BIAYAKATHON The 3rd annual cycling and kayak race benefits the local substance abuse awareness program the Pend Oreille Youth Task Force, and features a six-mile bike ride and twomile paddle. Sep. 6, 9 am. $20. Newport City Park, First St. and Calispel Ave. biayakathon.weebly.com SPOKANE ANARCHY WRESTLING FALL STAR BRAWL S.A.W hosts its first ever “Fall Star Brawl;” more info coming soon. Sep. 6, 4-7 pm. Free. Peaceful Valley Community Center, 214 N. Cedar.

(624-8634) MAYHEM: MAYWEATHER VS. MAIDANA 2 A live broadcast of the second bout between Floyd Mayweather and Marcos Maidana. At Regal Cinemas Riverstone and Northtown. Sep. 13, 5 pm. $25. fathomevents.com

THEATER

BROADWAY BOUND Neil Simon penned this heart-warming follow up to “Brighton Beach Memoirs,” which was a longrunning Broadway comedy, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Sept. 5-20; WedSun; show times vary. $12-$28. Interplayers Theatre, 174 S. Howard St. interplayerstheatre.org (455-7529) MURDER AT THE HOWARD JOHNSONS Performance of a suspense comedy written and directed by local playwright Ron Ford. Sept. 4-14, Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $15-$20. Jacklin Arts & Cultural Center, 405 N. William St, Post Falls. thejacklincenter.org (208-457-8950) A WALK IN THE WOODS Set in the midst of the Cold War, Lee Blessing’s powerful and startling play dramatizes a stand-off between U.S. and Soviet arms negotiators as they battle for supremacy. Sept.

6-21, Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10.

Stage Left Theater, 108 W. Third. spokanestageleft.org (838-9727) ON THE SUBWAY The 2014 production is written and directed by Spokane-local Justin M. Schlabach. All proceeds benefit the Green Bluff Grange Scholarship Fund. Sept. 12-28; Fri-Sat at 7 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $10. Green Bluff Grange, 9809 Green Bluff Rd. oldorchardtheatre.com (793-5176)

VISUAL ARTS

ANN CHRISTENSON The Museum of Art/WSU hosts a retrospective journey through a Fine Arts Faculty Focus Exhibition by artist/ceramicist Ann Christenson. Show runs through Sept. 13, with an

opening reception and artist talk Aug. 28 at 6 pm. Museum open Mon-Sat from 10 am-4 pm. Free admission. Washington State University, Pullman campus. museum.wsu.edu (509-335-1910) MEDITATION: ZHANG GUANGHUI An exhibition of large-scale woodblock prints by the Chinese printmaker, exploring themes of continuity and change, intimacy and publicity. Through Sept.

20; public walk-through Sept. 12, at 10:30 am. Jundt Art Museum, 502 E. Boone Ave. gonzaga.edu/jundt (313-6843) MOSCOW LIGHT HOUSES A new exhibit of sculptures by local artist Lucy Holtsnider exploring textures and light found in the historic Fort Russell neighborhood of Moscow, Idaho. Reception Aug. 26 from 5-7 pm, exhibit runs through Sept. 15. Third Street Gallery, City Hall, 206 E. Third St. ci.moscow.id.us/art (208-883-7036) CREATE TRASH ART EXHIBIT Artist showcase. Aug. 29-Sept. 27. Open during office hours (Mon-Tues, Thur-Fri from 9 am-noon and 1-4 pm) and during events.

Cutter Theatre, 302 Park St., Metaline Falls. cuttertheatre.com (509-446-4108) TOM WAKELEY The Priest Lake artist demos his oil painting techniques for the public. Aug. 29, 10 am-2 pm. Free. Entree Gallery, 1755 Reeder Bay Rd., Priest Lake. entreegallery.com (208-443-2001) TERRY LEE The local oil painter demonstrates his impressionistic painting technique for the public. Also includes live music by Mike Wagoner from 1-3 pm.

Aug. 31, 10 am-3 pm. Free. Entree Gallery, 1755 Reeder Bay Rd., Priest Lake. entreegallery.com (208-443-2001) MIDWEEK MONET A class designed to let participants relax over a glass of wine while an experienced local artist gives a step by step introduction to acrylic painting. Sept. 3 at 5:30 pm. $40/class. Jacklin Arts & Cultural Center, 405 N. William St. thejacklincenter.org (208-457-8950) BLACK LIGHT PAINTING Paint a canvas under the glow of a black light during a special edition painting class. Sep. 3, 8-10 pm. $35.

Pinot’s Palette, 32 W. Second. pinotspalette. com/SpokaneSoDo (290-5098) BARTFEST POSTER SHOW Poster show featuring new designs from 25+ Spokane artists, illustrators and designers. A local designer was paired with each band performing at Bartfest, and extra prints are for sale. Proceeds support the Songs for Kids Foundation Spokane. Sep. 4, 5-9 pm. Free. The Bartlett, 228 W. Sprague Ave. tinyurl.com/ommgsfb ART ON THE PRAIRIE A showcase of local artists’ work, including handcrafted jewelry, glassware, photography, paintings, prints, art dolls and more. Food by the Bistro Box and Laguna Cafe for purchase on site. Sept. 5 from 4-8 pm, Sept. 6 from 10 am-4 pm. $3 (good for both days); 12 & under Free. Moran Prairie Grange, 6006 S. Palouse Hwy. artontheprairiespokane.com (951-0523)

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RALPH STEELE The author reads from and talks about his memoir, chronicling hardships including addiction and the murder of his father. Aug. 28, 7 pm. Free.

Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. (838-0206) DARYL BROWN Daryl Brown, author of “Inside the Godfather,” and son of the great James Brown, talks about his father and the book he wrote about his life. Aug. 29, 7 pm. Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main Ave. (838-0206)

T.A. BRATCHER The author signs copies of “The Road Chosen.” Aug. 30, noon.

Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. (838-0206) MOOSE ON THE MOVE Learn about the history, biology and ecology of moose in North America and find out about moose in our neck of the woods. Sep. 2, 6:30 pm.

Free. Shadle Library, 2111 W. Wellesley St. (444-5390) BROKEN MIC Spokane Poetry Slam’s weekly open mic reading series, open to all readers and all-ages. Wednesdays at 6:30 pm. Free. Neato Burrito, 827 W. First. spokanepoetryslam.org CHILDREN’S AUTHOR CLAUDIA HAGEN The Fairfield native and former hot air balloon pilot reads from and signs copies of her new children’s book “Our Grandma Flies a Hot Air Balloon.” Sep. 4, 4 pm.

Free. Fairfield Library, 305 E. Main St. scld.org (893-8320) 3 MINUTE MIC Auntie’s monthly poetry open mic, held every first Friday. Bring up to 3 minutes’ worth of your own poetry, someone else’s, or come enjoy the local live poetry scene. This month’s “Remember the Word” featured reader is Inlander contributor Leah Sottile. Sep. 5, 7-8:45 pm.

Free. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. (838-0206) IDAHO STATE HISTORIAN KEITH C. PETERSEN Petersen presents and signs copies of his new book on the historic road builder John Mullan, whose 625mile highway through the Northwest eventually became a critical link to I-90.

Sep. 6, 2 pm. Free. Hastings, 101 E. Best Ave., CdA. (208-664-0464) THE CRISIS IN GAZA: A FIRSTHAND REPORT Gerri Haynes, a local nurse and her husband Dr. Robert Haynes discuss their experiences providing medical care in Gaza during six trips since 2009. Sep. 6, 7-9 pm. Free. Community Building, 35 W. Main Ave. (232-1950)

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The company’s founder Daniel Yazbeck, a medical marijuana user, hatched the idea after he was having a problem finding the same chemical makeup to alleviate his ailments.

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Sandpoint Dumpstaphunk Blond, Green-eye; Girl-Next-Door. We saw each other! - you stood within 5 feet of me all night at the Hive concert. You were alone but with a “Wing”couple. Not looking for a guy, but to party with your friends!

I mistook you for a girl, Lisa, I meet several months ago and was going to walk our rescue dogs together.

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first time at that place where old and young go to learn the same things. You saw me in that room where paper doesn’t stop printing.

Although this was 3 years before, I thought it nice you be reminded: How beautiful you looked when walking through that door, if only time could be rewinded. Both curious and shy, we only caught each other staring. Until you wrote about this guy, In these same very pages. Blue eyes, long hair, a little accent, you thought I was the perfect guy. And many days I spent who sent and was it me it meant?, while you where right nearby. At the summers end, just like the Inlander, life brought us together.

3 years, a million moments passed quickly and forgotten. As well as 150 Inlander editions, 3 Anniversaries, 6 birthdays and a break up.

But that smile on your face, your dimples and your freckles, I’ll always remember!

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Hot Wings My brown eyed girl, I never thought meeting you 16 years ago would end up like this.

You have been a fantastic friend through thick and thin. You always inspire me to be better. You’re smart, super beautiful, funny, and sweet. I wouldn’t trade my time with you for the world. We have had lots of great adventures and hopefully the future holds even more. You are the most beautiful girl I ever kissed and I want you to be the last. You’re the girl in my dreams.

Sexy Sandpoint Siren I saw you at the Festival At Sandpoint getting elbowed cruelly and your beer spill. I wanted to buy you another but lost you in the crowd. Your beautiful eyes and brunette hair made me immediately yours. Meet me at Starbucks and a FBC Bike Tour? Then let me massage your pain away!

Singing on the River Sunday, August 17 on the Spokane River between People’s Park and the frisbee golf course. We were on tubes, you were on an inflatable boat. There were two of you singing pirate shanties while you rowed. Teach us the songs, and we will sing along. This Sunday?

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Put a non-identifying email address in your message, like “petals327@yahoo.com” — not “j.smith@comcast.net.” sometime?? Let me know! Hit me up at zoolover1995@gmail.com Downtown How Bout Them Apples - gorgeous blond in business suit in front of the US Bank bldg. downtown (Monday, August18th).

You were eating an apple and feeling hot, so took off your suit jacket. You knew I was watching as I stopped at the entrance and you turned around and gave me a great look. I like hot weather and apples too!

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Dot My wonderful man, there are so many things that I admire about you; your strength, gentleness, kindness, sense of humor and so much more. I know there are times that having an insta-family is a burden, a heavy weight on your strong shoulders, I know that at times I may depend on you for too much but you always make us feel like a blessing and for that I am in awe of you my dear. I thought I had missed my chance at happiness, I feared that I would be alone for the rest of my life, you changed that, you changed my out look on life for the better in so many different ways. I cherish every kiss, every touch, and every sweet word you send my way.

Thank you for changing our lives and showing us a new life, you are our world and the best Dad a boy could ask for. You are my best friend, my lover, my dot and I hope I get to spend the rest of my life with you by your side. forever yours, Moo

Thank You For That Smile As we crossed paths at lunch, you gave me a wave and a smile and has made my day. I didn’t want to stare among your coworkers but you looked beautiful in your pink colored dress. I always look forward to seeing you, always cute, courteous, and professional.

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I wish I can see you and that smile everyday at work, quite a welcomed change of what I work with.

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Bicyclist Kudos to the guy on the bike I passed on Alberta this afternoon. Not only did he STOP at the stop sign on the cross street, but he actually held out his arm to signal his intention to turn left! Well done, sir. Would that all of your fellows follow your example!

bad mood afterwards. When you assume she’s mad and tell women to smile, you may actually piss those women off. Just because a woman didn’t smile doesn’t mean she’s not in a bad mood or being unfriendly. Would you tell another man to smile?

harsh to say I’d turn my back on a lazy slob like that then so be it.

I worked long and hard for what little I have and I’ll share it with whom I see fit.”

Beautiful Man To the most beautiful/sexy man I have ever encountered. You were checking ID’s at GleasonFest on Saturday night. You, in your red Mariners hat and a perfect beard. I was third wheeling that night and having a terrible time. You made me step aside and let everyone pass, even though I had a wristband to the beer garden. I thought to myself, just another A-Hole doorman right? Then you removed my band and gave me a new one, you said it looked that one ran outta fun. Then you smile, with a light that stopped my heart. I smiled back and almost cried, you made my night and I cannot stop thinking about you.

Catch a Mariners game sometime, my treat?

Cell Phone Etiquette I am not to sure who is teaching people about cell phone etiquette, because I’m so sick of people calling a business and saying “yeah, I just miss a call from here.” I’m thinking they are so pathetic, and lazy they won’t listen to their message before calling anywhere. You think you are making less work for yourself per say and let someone else completely in the dark find out who the hell called them. NO!

Jeers RE: Suicide Sucks As soon as I wrote that, I knew I was wrong to have mentioned him. I meant to bring to light that suicide is painful to the many it effects. Rest assured, Karma hit me many, many times this past week which I’m sure makes many happy for my “sweet ass”. However, depression and mental illness are NOT terminal illnesses like cancer can be. I have lived through both. Not all do. I hope those who suffer do not “terminate” their lives because they now think they have a terminal illness. And no, I did not expect to receive satisfaction from that post nor did I. I knew I hurt people and for that.... I won’t bother to apologize as most would not believe me. Honestly, I don’t like to judge, but I guess we all do. The important point: Mental illness IS treatable. And it is certainly not terminal. That, is bs. You can bet my “sweet ass” on that. And thanks for the compliments and degradation. You are both as grand as I am. Oh, got to go, Karma’s at my door again.

Don’t Assume Jeers to the guy who was asserting that I was having a bad day at work and telling all of the other employees at how much I was “taking my bad day out on everyone”. I was being nice and friendly to you and then you pulled that crap. You actually put me in a

Do You Love Me? I am lost these days wondering why you ask me to be with you and then you are telling others that you love them and that you want to be with them.

Why do you feel this constant need to mess with my heart? I have done nothing but love you and attempt to provide everything you want or need for you. I have put my wants and needs to the side to try and keep you happy. What is it that is so wrong with me? Why aren’t you happy with me? I know I’m older, but you asked me to be with you and I said yes. I told you, you needed to be honest and yet you are going behind my back, on my computer and phone and messaging. Why? I am right here, wanting to be close to you. Stop messing with my heart. Make up your mind. Either you want to be with me or not. And if you don’t want to be with me then leave. And stop using me. If you love me and want to be with me then stay, stop looking and be with ME. Get A Job “I don’t hate poor people. I don’t like lazy poor people or addicted poor people. Those people could do for themselves if they got off the sauce or pot pipe and did something. There are many poor people who legitimately need help. I have no problem with my tax dollars helping them or even myself helping them. But these able bodied pan handlers and young able bodied young people out carousing during work hours or pushing baby carriages I have no sympathy for. I will say the school system could be helpful by identifying underachievers or those from families with issues so there can be intervention before they become adults. Maybe they can be linked to people who really will help them where there lazy, addicted, or jail bird parents have failed.

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Food Prices Has anyone noticed the ridiculous amount food has gone up recently? It used to be that one could pick from chicken, beef, or pork and one week one would be cheaper and the next another.

No more!! Now some weeks they are all expensive. Forget fish.

Unless you catch it yourself it is astronomical.

Driving Etiquette I swear they will give a driver’s license to just about anyone in this state! Don’t they do an actual driving test around here anymore? I just want to rant about some things that really annoy me and I know I can’t be the only one here that is bothered by what I see on a daily basis. Why do people around think it’s cool to drive into someone’s blind spot and then remain there? Or if the attempt here is to pass, why in God’s name do you take forever to pass? Look people it’s simple, pass or don’t pass. Let’s keep traffic flowing.

OK? If you are going to be in a big ass hurry to pull out in front of me...fine. But don’t proceed to drive at 10 miles an hour after you do this. Other people have places to be. OK? Why do people in Spokane drive slow in the fast lane?

Do they feel it is their civic duty to regulate the speed of everyone behind them? If you don’t work for the WA DOT, then move the eff over so others can pass. Why do people in the fast lane (the farthest lane on the left) act like they are going to pass the car next to them and then suddenly proceed to go the same speed as the car next to them and then cause traffic to back up behind them? Once again people it’s simple: if you are going to pass...

THEN PASS! Nobody should have to merge in the right hand lanes to pass you clowns!

BIGGEST PET PEAVE: When a lane is coming to an end and you drivers know this... why do you wait until the very last second to merge and cut everyone else off? And is not just BMW drivers doing this. It is many folks here. Remember people it is not just about you and your cell phone when driving. Be courteous to other drivers and think before doing something stupid like the examples I have described.

Stolen Bike My son works, but doesn’t make that much money. The black, full suspension specialized Hard Rock 28 speed mountain bike with red-white lettering was given to him by his boss where he works.

The coded lock for the bike was also stolen. The lock can only be unlocked by a four letter coded word, so this means the lock was broken off, or cut off. The bike was stolen between 9 pm to 7 am on August 19th to 20th. This is his only transportation he has to get to work or where else he has to go. Please be honest and caring and please as a mother that loves her son, give it back - it just wasn’t yours to take in the first place. if you don’t Karma will come around sooner, if not later to you.

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Muddy Waters

The Methow Valley and Okanogan County just can’t catch a break this summer

BY SCOTT A. LEADINGHAM

F

rank Rogers looks through his aviator sunglasses, drags off a cigarette and points.

“On this one here, people really should have died,” he says. “We just got lucky.”

The Okanogan County Sheriff isn’t being inflammatory or hyperbolic — just realistic and thankful.

The mound of rocks, mud and debris he’s pointing at is what’s left of a 2-mile section of Chiliwist Road outside Malott, Washington, about 12 miles southwest of Omak.

The people who “should” have died aren’t some theoretical homeowners or drivers. Rather, it’s him.

Two days earlier, on Thursday, Aug. 21, Rogers and a deputy were driving down the road toward Malott. It’s part of their patrol area since the massive Carlton Complex Fire destroyed numerous homes up the Chiliwist Valley in July. Strong thunderstorms moving through the county dumped torrential rain on the burn area.

With fire suppression efforts still ongoing, higher humidity and rain would normally be welcome relief. But in a burn area — particularly one as widespread as the 256,000 acres of the Carlton Complex Fire — so much rain can cause secondary disasters, namely mudslides and flash floods.

As Rogers was driving in the storm that night, an estimated 10 houses were destroyed or damaged along Highway 153 near Carlton — the namesake of the nowlargest wildfire in state history.

That includes the home of Bob Elk Belgard and Janie Lewis. They were at home Thursday night as torrents of mud raced down Leecher Creek, tearing across Highway 153. The only thing standing between the mudslide and the Methow River: their home and shop. Miraculously, they were unharmed, but their property is a complete loss. Their house had survived the Carlton Complex Fire that destroyed an estimated 300 other homes in the county. But then the rain came.

WHAT’S NEXT?

It’s become a joke of sorts in the area that God or karma or whatever force is causing all of this isn’t done. After all, doesn’t bad news come in threes?

Ask residents and they all have their humorous responses. Plague of locusts is a particularly popular biblical reference, although raining frogs and even zombies make the list.

“I think it’ll be gaggle of crocodiles,” says Jeff Lyman, without a real hint of sarcasm or even a smirk. It’s as if people in the Methow Valley and east to the Okanogan region have had to deal with so much this summer, they consider nothing impossible at this point.

Lyman, who owns the Carlton General Store and

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FROM BOTTOM LEFT: The garage of Bob Elk Belgard and Janie Lewis; the Methow River, brown with mud; a sign near Twisp. gas station, remains good-humored. With the fires and now the mudslides closing Highway 153, his customer base of tourists has been noticeably absent this summer.

Typically, he estimates, 60 percent of yearly sales come in July and August.

“It’s been suck-ass business. It’s been pretty bad. I don’t want to sugarcoat it,” he says, though firefighters coming through for drinks and snacks have helped sales.

Every community has its season of hardship and harsh weather that gets remembered decades later.

Spokane and Inland Northwest residents remember Firestorm ’91 and Ice Storm ’96.

For the Methow Valley, it used to be the floods of 1948, still talked about more than 60 years later.

“Now it’s the summer of 2014,” says Mary Lou McCollum, a local artist.

OPEN FOR BUSINESS

Up and down the valley, businesses from hotels to art galleries to organic produce stands at farmers markets reflect the same sentiment.

On Saturday, two days after the mudslides, the farmers market in Twisp is in full swing. It’s almost hard to tell the previous six weeks have been anything but a normal summer. No smoke is detectable; there’s a bright, blue sky, and the smell of kettle corn and fresh-made elephant ears hangs in the air. It’s a full market, with the regular eclectic mix of locals, tourists, cyclists and backpackers coming off the trail from a few days removed from the cares of the world.

But mixed among the crowd and vendor tents is a reminder of what makes this summer stand out: a large 4-by-5-foot billboard is plastered with fire information.

Inside the Methow Valley Community Center, the senior

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center thrift shop gives away free household items for fire victims — and now mudslide victims.

Amy Wu is a regular farmers market vendor, selling produce from her roadside fruit stand, Rest Awhile Country Market, down Highway 153 in Pateros. Her business and sales have taken a hit. She wants more people to realize the area is open for business. News reports, she says, have probably kept people away with so many road closures this summer.

“Tell people to come through,” she says, turning to cut and hand out fresh peach slices to walkers-by.

THE COMING SPRING

Nearby at the Cinnamon Twisp Bakery, the Saturday lunch crowd is pouring in, a crowd that just a month earlier was nonexistent. When fires knocked out power to the area for more than a week, businesses without generators had to close. The bakery was on the brink of laying off some of its 12 full-time summer employees when power came back and tourists — ever so slowly — began to return.

“This is definitely a summer that will be etched in everyone’s memory,” says Dara Farmer, a bakery employee.

She’s looking forward to a vacation in November, when the bakery will close for two weeks ahead of the typically busy ski season in the valley.

Sheriff Frank Rogers is looking forward to some time off, too, something he and his deputies haven’t had most of the summer. He’ll be fishing and hunting — he hopes — come fall. But he knows the county isn’t out of the proverbial woods yet. All the bare ground left after the fires burned so much vegetation is an invitation for more flash floods and mudslides.

“I’m afraid of what spring might bring,” he says. n

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