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o you think that DONALD TRUMP is a racist, misogynist xenophobe, who lies with every breath, cuts every corner, exploits every bankruptcy law, whose mere existence makes you ashamed of the Republican Party and the bad reality TV show that American democracy has become?

Or perhaps you believe that HILLARY CLINTON has something to hide — her six-figure speeches to Wall Street, her private email, her hawkish support of the Iraq War — or maybe you just find her calculating and robotic after 30 years in public life?

In either case, you’re not alone; the two major parties have put forward the least liked presidential nominees in history, and the resulting chaos is finally coming to a head. Trump and Clinton are set to debate on Monday night, and we have full coverage for you, beginning on page 22. Don’t miss Daniel Walters’ story on Trump and the religious right (within his own family), or Mike Bookey’s official debate drinking game. Indeed, I fear, the hangover of this election cycle will be painful.

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WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE THING ABOUT EACH OF THE TWO MAJOR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES? LINDA STRAND I have no favorite thing about Donald Trump, except I hope he continues to make a fool out of himself so that Hillary will win. But, unfortunately, I think there’s enough people that believe what he has to say that it’s concerning.

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o Donald Trump has finally decreed that Barack Obama actually was born in the United States, not Kenya, and he isn’t a Muslim. Boy, am I relieved.

The Trump smear beat has gone on for five years now. Recall that when President Obama produced his birth certificate in 2011, Trump claimed that a “very reliable source has called my office and told me that his birth certificate was a fake.” And remember those “investigators” he sent to Hawaii, who when there discovered “unbelievable” stuff on Obama? Well, of course, it was all just so much demagoguery, his personal trademark. What else is new?

“Lack of transparency” seems to now have replaced birtherism as the right’s du jour fixation, with most of the concern over openness directed at Hillary Clinton. How does that make sense?

Consider that she has been under the national spotlight for three decades; she has a long, easy-to-trace public record. She has served in the United States Senate. She has served honorably as Secretary of State, having been confirmed by a whopping 94-2 vote of her Senate colleagues. Her entire life, including her private life, is an open book.

But Donald Trump? Aside from what the fact-checkers can produce, he has no public record; he has always worked in the dark with the exception of his bankruptcies, divorces and the times that the Justice Department has dragged him into court. Trump is, to quote former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, a “con man.”

So you want to talk about transparency? OK, Donald, when will we see your income taxes?

Hillary’s have been available since August. Then there’s your net-worth claims? You say $10 billion; not likely, but who knows? And all those bankruptcies — just how much did you get away with while laying off workers? Oh, and let’s not forget your claims to have given millions to charities — claims contrary to the in-depth study by the Washington Post that found only one donation for $10,000.

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apturing the essence of our self-described neo-Mussolini, here are two of my favorite literary comparables — one from Through the Looking-Glass, the other from George Orwell’s 1984.

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.”

“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”

“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master — that’s all.”

Then, from Orwell, we learned about “doublethink” — a Trump staple: “Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of

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them.” Examples: “War is peace.” “Freedom is slavery.” “Ignorance is strength.”

Trump to a T. Laced with doublespeak, words mean what he says they mean — neither more nor less.

The good news is that Trump remains behind in the polls, although apparently he is gaining. Poll watcher Nate Silver still gives Hillary Clinton a 60 percent chance of winning (down from 80 percent a little more than a month ago). But fair warning: As the polls were closing in Great Britain, a sizable percentage of the public and of all the media thought that the Brexit proposal would fail.

This election has no business being close.

Here you have a rogue candidate who has only begrudging support from his own party’s leadership. So you have to wonder whether closing the gap is all Trump’s doing, or is it partially the result of Hillary devoting all her time and effort to debunking Trump, and not enough time on her vision for the future?

To cut her some slack, debunking Trump is a nonstop job. Jonathan Freedland, in the most recent New York Review of Books, writes: “Trump’s defeated primary rivals can testify that it’s horrendously difficult to oppose a candidate unconstrained by truth or facts… claiming credit for things he never said and making accusations for which there is no evidence. The army of fact checkers rides into battle, but by the time they have pronounced, Trump has moved on, spinning a new fantasy or insulting some new victim.”

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ome would say that Hillary Clinton has never been a natural campaigner, and campaigning and governing are very different animals. And why go out of your way to give ammunition to political opponents who have spent 30 years smearing you? She might want to think about the old adage, “The more things change the more they stay the same,” and conduct herself accordingly. The e-mail flap is an example of ignoring the obvious traps that have been set for her.

Honestly, Hillary sometimes recalls my favorite old Far Side cartoon. We see a drawing of two deer sitting back on their haunches, chests exposed. The one deer’s chest is entirely white.

The other deer’s chest is also white, but with dark concentric circles which form the image of a target. The first deer says to the second deer, “Bummer of a birthmark, Hal.” Yes, and it’s especially a problem during hunting season. 

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Don’s Ultimate Con BIRTHER OF THE NATION

No figure has been as prominent in questioning President Barack Obama’s nationality as DONALD J. TRUMP. Trump was the loudest figure of the “Birther” movement, accusing Obama of having been born in Kenya instead of Hawaii, making him ineligible for the presidency.

In 2011, Obama released his long-form birth certificate, but even that wasn’t good enough for the skeptical Trump. He continued to push the conspiracy theory with tweets like this one from 2013: “How amazing, the State Health Director who verified copies of Obama’s ‘birth certificate’ died in plane crash today. All others lived.”

But as a press event on Friday approached, the speculation buzzed that Trump was going to put the whole birther issue behind him. Would he recant? Would he apologize? Would he detail the weight of the evidence that had caused him to change his mind?

Nope. First, he spent the bulk of his press conference advertising his new Washington, D.C., hotel and being praised by his military veteran supporters.

CNN’s Jake Tapper referred to it as a “political Rick-roll.” Only at the very end did Trump address the birther issue, and he immediately tried to shift the blame to HILLARY CLINTON. “President Barack Obama was born in the United States. Period,” Trump declared. “Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it.”

Media outlets were furious. Print outlets, including the New York Times, explicitly called out Trump’s blame-shifting to Clinton as a blatant lie. TV outlets, angry that their reporters were physically restrained from accompanying the TV cameras on a tour of the hotel, opted to delete the tour footage in protest. (DANIEL WALTERS)

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Last week, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced that no third-party candidate had met its requirement that they average at least 15 percent in national polls in order to be included in the first debate on Sept.

26. The day after the announcement, Johnson traveled to Seattle, where he told reporters that although he didn’t make the cut for the first debate, his campaign would push to qualify for the remaining three (including one vicepresidential debate) planned for October.

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Earlier this month, a poll conducted by the Washington Post and SurveyMonkey, an online survey company, found Johnson polling at 16 percent in Washington. (JAKE THOMAS)

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COMMENT | EQUALITY too familiar back home: a peeling paint job, a boarded-up garage. Few were to be found. Later that week, I stayed in a grand old mansion on the coast of Maine where the windows alone cost more than my house. Thinking of my friends who struggle to achieve basic security, my heart was heavy even as I was surrounded by luxury.

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America’s top 10 percent now average nearly nine times as much income as the bottom 90 percent.”

If we look at the perspectives of people in different income brackets and remember the impacts of the systems they are subject to, we can get past personal incredulity and reach out across class divides to build a society that creates more fair opportunities for all, especially for those who need them the most.

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Widespread class segregation compounds a lack of social understanding. With several exceptions, many Spokane neighborhoods are easily associated with a given class. Between zip codes 99204 and 99203, the “lower” and “upper” South Hill respectively, median household income more than doubles, from $29,483 to $67,367 a year, according to Census Bureau data. What a difference that one digit makes in whether or not a child can afford college, or how a family survives a medical crisis.

Community events that integrate neighbors across class lines, such as PorchFest in Spokane’s West Central neighborhood, create meaningful opportuniLETTERS ties to connect with Send comments to each other as people editor@inlander.com. first. No matter how wealthy a few of us may be, we can’t afford to waste time getting hung up on individual lifestyle differences. We need to save our energy and focus for the structural reforms that are our only hope for better economic balance. n Mariah McKay is a fourth-generation daughter of Spokane and a community organizer campaigning for racial, social and economic justice. She currently serves as a public health advocate.

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COMMENT | FROM READERS

Reactions to a blog post reporting the Spokane County prosecutor’s ruling that the deadly shooting of a man

by Spokane police earlier this year was justified:

STEVE DUNN: They always are.

JAMES R. SWEETSER: Wow. Why shoot him in the chest when knife is pointed at himself.

Total disregard for human life. I am as pissed as the bystander in the video.

JOHNNY HOLT: What a terrible situation and a no-win scenario. I know I wouldn’t have what it takes to do their job. I wouldn’t be able to eat or sleep for a month.

MAX SPRINGER: Every officer needs to carry bean bag rounds.

ISAAC JACK JR.: Train the force. 

ALYSSA HENDERSON: You’ve got to be kidding. Why is this guy still in office? And hey, Matt, where’s your voice on the North Dakota Standing Rock situation? They are fighting for liberty, too. Oh, wait. I guess that’s only for the liberty you want.

MATTHEW B. MCGEE: Seriously Spokane Valley? You’ve got some voting to do.

Reactions to a blog post reporting that Spokane Valley Rep. Matt Shea presented the “Patriot of the Year Award” to Oregon standoff figure Anthony Bosworth:

CRAIG BAKER: Remember when Anthony Bosworth was charged with assaulting his 17-year-old daughter by choking her then dragging her by the hair and striking another person who tried to intervene… yeah evidently Matt Shea doesn’t.

OSCAR STANISLAW POWER: The award plaque’s in Comic Sans people. I mean jeez, if it makes these boring, boring twerps feel better … to lug around weapons they patently don’t need and give each other awards written in terrible fonts, I almost feel like patting them on the back for it.

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Steep Learning Curve As the state looks to integrate behavioral services, local drug rehab centers have struggled with the transition

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t was an idea that seemingly everyone agreed with. Since people treated for drug addiction so often end up being the same people treated for mental health issues, it’s only logical, the thinking goes, that the dollars for those services come from the same place.

So state lawmakers came up with a plan: By 2020, the state will fully integrate funding and delivery of services for mental health, chemical dependency and physical health in the Medicaid program. In the meantime, the state would create nine separate Behavioral Health Organizations that are responsible for administering dollars for two of those services: mental health and drug treatment. Previously, the state directly contracted with drug treatment services.

The state Legislature easily passed a bill founded on this idea two years ago, and on April 1 of this year, the creation of Behavioral Health Organizations, or BHOs, went into effect.

“It doesn’t make sense to have a system that treats mental health or chemical dependency as separate from other health care needs,” Gov. Jay Inslee said in 2014. “Not only is it an inefficient way to provide health care services, it’s ineffective.”

But already, just five months in, several drug treatment providers in the area say the change has created some unintended consequences. For some providers, the length of stay for kids in drug rehabilitation has been significantly reduced under the new system. For others, referrals to the program have gone down to levels never seen before.

Christine Barada, director of Spokane County Community Services, says

the BHO is working to address these concerns.

“We support this behavioral health integration,” Barada says. “Any major change like this does affect entire systems of care.”

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ince April 1, the length of stay for kids seeking drug treatment at Daybreak Youth Services in Spokane has decreased by about 20 days, says Executive Director Annette Klinefelter.

For some kids, a shorter stay is adequate. But Klinefelter says Daybreak is having a harder time making the case to the BHO on behalf of kids who may not have stable housing to transition to, or who need more treatment. In cases where Klinefelter says it’s “morally reprehensible” to release a child, Daybreak will take more extreme measures.

“There are occasions where it is so absolutely vital that the child stays that our board will utilize philanthropy and scholarships for extra days,” Klinefelter says.

This, she says, is in contrast to Daybreak’s office in Vancouver. Clark County is one of two state counties (Skamania is the other) that, instead of joining a BHO, became an early adopter of the fully integrated care that’s going into effect across the state by 2020. Integrated care means the state purchases both physical and behavioral health services together, ideally leading to more coordinated health care for clients.

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Counselor Jayson Kappen at Daybreak Youth Services high-fives a client in April, shortly after a new funding system for drug treatment centers went into effect.

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People who may be on the Behavioral Health Organization advisory board include family members who may have had issues with mental health or addiction, retired clinicians, doctors, or experts in the field. And that board, says Barada, really is advisory to the Spokane County Board of Commissioners.

Daybreak isn’t the only drug treatment center experiencing issues with the BHO in Spokane.

Amber Teichroeb, who oversees the drug treatment residential program at Excelsior Youth Center, says that joining the BHO has led to more hoops to jump through when trying to authorize a longer stay for patients.

Before, Teichroeb says they didn’t have to justify why a kid stayed in treatment unless they had been there more than 120 days. Now, they’re frequently having to reauthorize kids every two weeks.

“We often take kids that have done more short-term-stay programs. We work with highly acute kids that have exhausted other resources,” Teichroeb says. “If the expectation is to have a shorter length of stay, it’s a little concerning.”

Art Jacobs, administrator for Isabella House, a residential substance abuse treatment center for women and children, describes the the length of stay under the BHO system as a “challenge.”

Typically, he says, they want women to stay for around six months. The BHO has been more strict than the state in getting authorization to go through, he says, but that has improved even within the first five months.

“It has been an uphill battle and an uphill climb, but we have gotten to the point where we

“The intent is not to reduce individuals’ care.

The intent is to support them in recovery.” understand the needs of the agencies and we’re moving in the right direction,” Jacobs says.

The BHO standards for length of stay come from the American Society of Addiction Medicine. Barada, whose department in Spokane County provides staff support for the BHO board, says that they’re requiring an update on client needs after 15 days before determining if there will be an extension of 15 or 30 days. She says that several providers have already approached the BHO concerned about the more stringent standards.

“Quite a few have a concern about the length of stay and the process of having to ask again for an extension,” she says.

She notes that a longer stay for someone seeking drug treatment doesn’t necessarily always mean better outcomes.

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Hill says Excelsior typically had a waitlist of 10-12 kids.

Now, they have just 11 kids total at Excelsior. That’s worrisome because, as he says, “youth didn’t stop needing services.” The difference is that now, instead of having a contract with one entity — the state — they now contract separately with each of the BHO regions.

“All of those historical relaLETTERS tional building blocks that had Send comments to the system working are totally editor@inlander.com. redesigned,” he says.

Still, Jeff Thomas, CEO of Frontier Behavioral Health, says the integration of substance abuse and mental health services is “absolutely a good thing.” He calls it a “logical and necessary step” in the direction to full integration, like the kind practiced in southwest Washington. While Frontier hasn’t experienced any significant changes with the switch to a BHO system, Thomas acknowledges that the change in how funding is administered to substance use disorder centers will come with hiccups and learning curves.

Even Hill, while concerned about the number of referrals to Excelsior, says that some of these issues will get better with time.

“They’re not doing it perfectly, and neither are we,” Hill says.

“We are gonna make it through this if we stick to the collaborative spirit we have in Spokane.” 

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CITY HALL In the weeks before the RECALL went before a judge, Mayor David Condon condemned the effort as a coordinated political attack against him. But after Yakima County Superior Court Judge Blaine Gibson dismissed the recall charges one by one, recall petitioner David Green (pictured) made a statement wildly divergent with that conclusion: “I think it would be good to stop taking potshots at the mayor with respect to the [former police chief Frank] Straub affair,” says Green, a certified public accountant and the chair of the 3rd Legislative District Democrats. Green’s comments were echoed by City Council President Ben Stuckart, who agreed with the desire to move on. Condon, no doubt, will welcome the chance. (DANIEL WALTERS)

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$1.5 Million Short East Valley neglects to collect transportation levy funds; plus, the Spokane City Council funds further research into police contacts and racial disparities COSTLY ERROR

Everyone makes mistakes. But when that mistake could cost an entire school district $1.5 million, it becomes a big problem.

East Valley School District says that it failed to collect $1.5 million of a $3 million transportation levy approved by taxpayers last year. This, according to the district, was due to a clerical error.

“The board and I recognize this mistake affects everyone in our district,” East Valley Superintendent Kelly Shea says in a video notifying residents of the error.

The two-year levy was supposed to allow the district to purchase 25 new school buses that were safer, more efficient and more reliable. But this May, the district discovered that Spokane County was not collecting the levy because the district never authorized the county assessor to collect the $1.5 million in 2016.

Shea, who became superintendent in July 2015, says he says he takes “full responsibility” for the error.

He says the district has since corrected the error; it leaves East Valley with a couple of options to fix the damage already done. The district is considering either collecting the other half of the levy in 2017 and buying 12 new buses, or collecting the full $3 million in 2017

and purchasing the 25 new buses as originally planned.

The latter option would cost owners of a home valued at $200,000 about $17 per month, or $204 per year.

The East Valley school board has scheduled two meetings this month — on Tuesday, Sept. 27 and Thursday, Sept. 29 — to hear public input. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

DEEP DATA DIVE

In a nod to the critical role that data — especially data broken down by race — plays in contacts between POLICE AND THE PUBLIC, the Spokane City Council Monday night approved $16,000 to fund the second phase of a long-anticipated research project.

“This has been sitting on the shelf for over a year now,” Council President Ben Stuckart says. “We thought it was important to get this moving forward.”

The first phase of the research conducted by Eastern Washington University professor Ed Byrnes, with the help of SPD Capt. Brad Arleth, showed disparities in contacts between Spokane police and certain racial groups. Spokane police were also more likely to search and arrest certain racial minorities, though there were no

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racial disparities in uses of force, the data showed. That report was released in March 2015. At the time, Byrnes and Arleth cautioned that they needed more data to paint a more complete picture.

A second, more detailed report was originally scheduled for release in the fall of 2015. But the city wasn’t able to gather enough funding until now. Byrnes produced the first report pro bono.

With the funding in place, Byrnes will use 2½ years of data to drill down into officer-initiated contacts, searches, arrests and uses of force broken down by neighborhood. He’ll also be able to use the data to predict the outcome of police contact based on demographics and crime characteristics of neighborhoods where the contacts occurred, along with race, age and gender of the citizen.

Byrnes adds that Arleth has been replaced by Maj. Justin Lundgren as department liaison at the direction of acting Chief Craig Meidl. Byrnes says he was not consulted about Meidl’s decision, but was notified in an email in late August.

“Normally, research partners are not removed unless there’s some problem such as an ethical or professional conflict,” Byrnes says. “I wasn’t consulted about it, and I don’t agree with the decision. I don’t have anything against Justin [Lundgren], and my commitment is to get the data before the community.”

Byrnes expects that his second report will come out in March 2017.

Also this week, Mayor David Condon proposed a 16.3 percent increase in city spending, including an extra $1.7 million pumped into the police department, $1.6 million of which will go toward investigations. Condon’s proposal includes a plan to shift spending from patrol to property crime investigations, calling them Spokane’s “number-one issue.” (MITCH RYALS)

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n a conference room at the Davenport Grand Hotel, Yoram Bauman, a stand-up comedian from Seattle, tells the crowd assembled there that he’s not going to be funny today. Instead, he has a serious question.

“Do you think climate change is a real issue and is caused by human activity?” asks Bauman, also an economist, requesting that those who agree raise their hands.

Most of the hands in the room shoot up, and Bauman argues that the solution to this vexing problem lies in the tax code.

Bauman was in Spokane last week to speak at a panel sponsored by Greater Spokane Incorporated, the area’s chamber of commerce. He made the case for Initiative 732, a November ballot measure that will overhaul the state’s tax code, making it more expensive to emit carbon, a pollutant caused by the burning of fossil fuels that’s believed to be behind climate change.

Since last year, Bauman and others with Carbon Washington, a statewide group sponsoring I-732, have been meeting with business associations and political organizations trying to drum up support. If it passes, I-732 will add new costs to doing business, which supporters argue will be offset with tax breaks.

“Our analysis is that most folks end up plus or minus a few dollars,” says Bauman. “And that’s evidence we have a good policy.”

If it passes, it would make Washington the first U.S. state to follow Australia and the Canadian province of British Columbia in taxing carbon. Although Carbon Washington acknowledges that Washington emits just a sliver of the world’s carbon, the group argues that the state has a moral imperative to take action on climate change, and that the measure is crafted in a way to draw support from conservatives and businesses. However, Carbon Washington has put off many environmental, labor and progressive groups that would be natural allies.

Both sides agree that I-732 will make utilities and gas more expensive, but will give residents and businesses a break elsewhere.

Opponents say that the initiative introduces too much uncertainty to industries that are already becoming more environmentally friendly.

And some of the biggest voices opposing I-732 are coming from Eastern Washington.

“It’s basically using Washington as a test site with pretty big costs to address a global issue,” says Todd Mielke, CEO of Greater Spokane Incorporated, whose endorsement committee recently voted to oppose I-732.

HOW IT WORKS

“Capitalism is a powerful tool, and if you can use it to reduce emissions, you have a powerful ally

on your side,” says Bauman.

The idea behind a carbon tax is that by making carbon emissions more expensive, businesses will release less carbon.

If passed, I-732 will place a tax on carbon that’ll rise to $25 per ton by 2018, then increase every year after that at a rate of 3.5 percent plus inflation.

According to Carbon Washington’s analysis, the measure will raise gas taxes by about 25 cents per gallon, and electricity generated by coal or natural gas will cost pennies more per kilowatt hour.

I-732 reduces the state sales tax (which critics say is regressive and disproportionately impacts the poor) by 1 percent and provides a rebate of up to $1,500 a year for low-income households.

Businesses get a reduction in the business and occupation tax.

However, opponents say that Carbon Washington understates the measure’s costs to businesses and workers.

EASTERN PERSPECTIVE

Of the top five contributors to the No On 732 campaign, two are based in Spokane County.

According to filings with the Washington State Public Disclosure Commission, Kaiser Aluminum has donated $50,000 to the campaign and Avista Corp. has donated $25,000.

Kyle England, a senior manager with Kaiser, says I-732 would be a “double whammy” for the company, saddling it with costs it couldn’t pass on. He says that Kaiser, which makes aluminum products for aerospace companies and other industries, would be taxed for carbon it produces during the production process and would also pay more for the natural gas used to melt aluminum. The tax reductions included in I-732, he says, wouldn’t offset the cost.

Earlier this month, Gov. Jay Inslee introduced a rule requiring carbonintensive businesses to reduce their emissions.

England says that the new

Proponents of I-732 say it will spur the development of turbines and other sources of carbon-free energy.

rule, coupled with I-732, could cause Kaiser to shut down its aluminum melting operation and potentially lose local family-wage jobs. In 2000, Kaiser had to close its Mead plant over energy costs, and England says he’s reminded of the economic hole it left every time he drives by it.

“When you do a wholesale change to a system, you’ll have to deal with consequences later,” says England. He says that Kaiser has reduced the carbon footprint of its aluminum by 15 percent since 2010. The company’s domestic and international competitors, he says, have higher carbon footprints, and I-732 could drive more business to them.

A study commissioned by the No on 732 campaign found that while I-732 would have a “negligible” effect on overall employment, it would still mean thousands of fewer jobs in manufacturing, mining, agriculture and utilities. The study found that these jobs would be offset by growth in construction and government, but these new jobs may not pay as well, and the state would have a trade deficit of nearly $18 billion by 2040. The study also found that Washingtonians (except the poorest) would have less purchasing power.

Although nearly half of Avista’s energy portfolio comes from carbon-neutral hydro power, natural gas and coal make up 35 percent and 9 percent, respectively. At a recent forum on I-732 sponsored by GSI, Bruce Howard, director of environmental affairs for Avista, argued that the utility was already one of the greenest in the country, and that I-732 would raise costs for residential customers by about $17 a month, which would continue to increase.

“Our concern is that this will create a real burden on customers,” he said.

Bauman argues that utility increases will be overshadowed by improvements to the economy the initiative will bring.

A study from Carbon Washington found that although carbon-heavy industries could be adversely impacted by I-732, other industries would benefit from tax reductions. The study found that I-732 would create 10,000 new jobs by 2020 and boost the state’s gross domestic product by $500 million. Another study, from Washington State University, found that agriculture in the state would see a slight overall benefit under I-732 (although agricultural groups, concerned about rising fuel prices, remain opposed).

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‘COMPLICATED, MESSY ISSUE’

I-732 is designed to be revenue-neutral, meaning that the state will neither gain nor lose tax dollars. Bauman says this feature is meant to appeal to Republicans concerned about climate change but averse to raising taxes. However, the initiative’s feature rankles progressive and environmental groups, who argue that the poor and minorities will be most affected by the initiative, and any carbon tax revenue should be used to transition to a clean energy economy that provides jobs for disadvantaged populations.

“It’s a very complicated, messy issue with the progressive base,” says Collin Jergens, communications director for Fuse Washington, a progressive political organization that opposes I-732 along with environmental, labor and other left-leaning groups.

But I-732 has been endorsed by Audubon Washington, as well as other smaller environmental organizations and nearly 20 Democratic elected officials. The campaign has also received support from five current or retired Republican state legislators, none of whom are from Eastern Washington. Spokane County Democrats rescinded their endorsement of the measure after a state analysis concluded it wouldn’t be revenue-neutral (Carbon Washington disputes the analysis).

Bauman says it’s notable that the business community has only raised $250,000 for the No campaign, and that the Western States Petroleum Association, a group with deep pockets and a clear interest, has taken a neutral stance on the initiative.

“I think the big challenge is the gulf between what we need to accomplish and what is politically feasible,” says Bauman. “What we need to accomplish politically is quite small.”  jaket@inlander.com

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Guns Down Statewide Initiative 1491 would give power to family and police to restrict access to firearms for those who pose a threat to themselves or others

BY MITCH RYALS

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he death of Sheena Henderson, a tireless mother and phlebotomist at Deaconess Hospital who patients requested by name, might have been avoided.

In the summer of 2014, Sheena Henderson’s estranged husband, Christopher, fatally shot her at the Rockwood Cancer Treatment Center before turning the gun on himself. By that point Christopher Henderson’s mental health had been deteriorating for months, according to news accounts of the tragic incident. In fact, in May of that year, Sheena Henderson called police to report that her husband was suicidal. Police found Christopher Henderson armed in a van, and persuaded him to give up his gun.

Later, on July 7, 2014, a co-worker also reported hearing Christopher Henderson talk of suicide and called police. Deputies determined he wasn’t a threat, and Christopher Henderson picked up his gun from the police later that day.

The next morning, he killed Sheena Henderson and himself.

Questions swirled over how such a tragic incident could have been avoided. Gov. Jay Inslee signed the Sheena Henderson Act less than a year after her death.

The law requires police to notify family members, at their request, when releasing guns seized in relation to domestic violence or suicide prevention cases.

However, Sheena Henderson’s father, Gary Kennison, is cautious about throwing his support behind a statewide initiative on the ballot this November. Initiative 1491 would create an “extreme risk protection order,” enabling family members, roommates and police to petition for a court order preventing a person alleged to be a danger to themselves or others from possessing or purchasing firearms.

“The first thing we gotta do is address the root cause of Sheena Henderson this problem,” Kennison says.

“If a person has threatened or attempted suicide, it should be automatic that their gun rights are suspended temporarily until they’ve had the proper medical treatment, and a doctor can say, ‘I don’t believe he or she is a threat.’”

Kennison says he’s supportive of the effort in theory, but cautions that the new law could give potentially vindictive family members too much authority to infringe on constitutional rights.

The National Rifle Association, one of the initiative’s biggest opponents, agrees.

“Initiative 1491 will be ineffective as it targets the

tools but not the problem,” reads a statement on the NRA Institute for Legislative Action website. “If a dangerous person is committed, he gets treatment. If he is arrested, he might be detained pretrial or at least monitored. ...

Nothing happens, however, to a person with an [Extreme Risk Protection Order] except the seizure of the person’s firearms.”

The law would allow judges to order mental health evaluations, but they are currently not required to do so.

In the case of a vindictive family member, the law also imposes a penalty for providing false information.

The Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility, the biggest supporter of the initiative, also worked to pass I-594, an initiative that expanded background checks to private gun purchases, in 2014. The organization argues that families and police need some degree of power because they are often the first to notice signs of suicide or the potential for violence.

Supporters say the initiative is as much about addressing suicide as it is about addressing firearm homicides.

Nearly 80 percent of gun deaths in Washington state are suicides, according to 2013 research by Washington State Health Services on behalf of the state’s Office of Financial Management.

The initiative provides a list of evidence that family or police would be required to present to the judge, which could include a recent threat of violence against themselves or others, mental health issues, a violation of a previous or existing protection order, domestic violence conviction or substance abuse, among others. The law would also allow judges to issue a temporary order before a formal hearing. The hearing must then be scheduled within 14 days. If granted, the order would go into effect for up to one year.  mitchr@inlander.com

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onald Trump. Or Hillary Clinton. You don’t have to like it.

In fact, you probably don’t.

Sure, Clinton has supporters who see a pragmatic leader wielding a rock-solid résumé and a clear-eyed, no-nonsense vision. And Trump has those who see a brash winner willing to bash through all the dainty niceties in order to, say it with me, Make America Great Again.

But the polls show they’re the two least popular candidates in history: Only 38 percent of voters have a favorable opinion of Trump, while only 41 percent have a favorable view of Clinton.

For that, you could blame partisanship, media bias or sexism — or the candidates themselves.

For a lot of voters, Clinton represents everything they hate about politicians. For 25 years, her reputation has soaked in the Clinton brine of scandal, and almost-scandal and smells-like scandal, from cattle futures to real estate to the Lincoln Bedroom to private email servers. She’s dogged by slimy sycophants, shady access-seekers, quarter-million-dollar Wall Street speeches and her support for the Iraq War. Trump, meanwhile, represents everything voters hate about hate. He rose to political prominence by falsely claiming the first black president was born in Kenya, launched his campaign by calling Mexican immigrants rapists and attracted a horde of bigots who bury Trump’s critics under a deluge of racist and anti-Semitic tweets.

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n the race for the presidency, Hillary Clinton has positioned herself as everything her Republican rival Donald Trump is not: prudent, tested, studious and diplomatic. Over the years, Clinton has been praised as a knowledgeable and hardworking politician who’s been a champion for women and children, helping craft the State Children’s Health Insurance Program that expanded medical coverage for kids. But she’s been criticized for being aloof, shifting her political views, her closeness to Wall Street and her hawkish foreign policy.

EARLY DAYS: Born in Chicago in 1947, Hillary Rodham was raised in the suburbs in a

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Republican household. She graduated from allwomen’s Wellesley College in 1969 and Yale Law School in 1973.

GOING SOUTH: While in law school, she met her future husband and future president Bill Clinton, who convinced her to move to his home state of Arkansas. Rodham wouldn’t take the last name Clinton until 1982; using her maiden name had become an issue in her husband’s first term as governor and unsuccessful 1980 re-election campaign.

In Arkansas, she founded a nonprofit advocating on behalf of children and families, became the first woman to make partner at a

prestigious law firm and served on Walmart’s corporate board.

HEAD TO WASHINGTON: In 1992, Bill Clinton was elected president. Hillary had an unusually large role in crafting policy for a First Lady and became a polarizing celebrity.

While in office, the Clintons became targets for conservatives, prompting Hillary to claim there was a “vast right-wing conspiracy” against them.

In 2000, Bill’s last full year in office, Hillary was elected U.S. senator from New York, becoming the first First Lady elected to public office.

‘I WILL BE THE NOMINEE’: In 2007,

the worst-kept secret in American politics came out when Clinton announced her bid for president, declaring in an interview that there was “no way” she wouldn’t be the Democratic nominee.

She lost the 2008 nomination to Barack Obama, an upstart senator from Illinois, who, as president, would make Clinton his Secretary of State.

SECOND TIME’S A CHARM: After warding off a challenge from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Clinton clinched the Democratic presidential nomination this summer, becoming the first female nominee of a major American political party.

— JAKE THOMAS

YOUR NOSE is infamous. But Trump’s lies, on Iraq and cheering Muslims and crime and immigration, are shameless: They come in gold-gilded capital letters.

No surprise, then, that a Quinnipiac poll last week found that half of Trump supporters consider him simply the “lesser of two evils” while 38 percent of Clinton supporters consider her the “lesser of two evils.”

With the election tightening, voters in swing states like North Carolina, Ohio and especially Florida will have to make a choice: “Want to stop a liberal Supreme Court?” conservatives ask. “Hold your nose and vote Trump.”

“Want to prevent, you know, a nuclear war?” liberals ask. “Hold your nose and vote Clinton.”

But here’s an upside: Washington and Idaho aren’t swing states. Polling forecasting site FiveThirtyEight has Clinton 12 points ahead in Washington, and Trump 21 points ahead in Idaho. Washington going red or Idaho going blue would mean such an apocalyptic landslide as to make either state irrelevant. The lack of electoral power is its own kind of freedom: You can vote how you want to vote.

That doesn’t mean your vote is useless. Far from it. A vote sends a message. Voting for Trump or Clinton tells future candidates they should be more like Trump or Clinton if they want your vote. Voting third party — or leaving president blank or writing in “Garbage-Eating Goat” — tells future candidates that you want something else.

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DONALD J. TRUMP

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e’s loud and abrasive. He’s easily offended but not afraid to offend. He believes political correctness is for the birds, and he loves winning. Nobody wins better than him. Nobody. Just ask him. He’s been called a “brilliant salesman,” a narcissist, an entrepreneur, a bigot, a misogynist, a hard worker, a “roguish charmer,” a bully and in a 1997 New Yorker profile, “an existence unmolested by the rumbling of a soul.” From real estate mogul to reality TV star, he’s the first non-politician to win a major party’s nomination in decades.

THE TRUMP DYNASTY: Trump’s grandfather immigrated from Germany in 1885.

Friedrich Trump arrived in Manhattan with a sin-

gle suitcase, changed his first name to the more Americanized version (Frederick) and enjoyed a career as a restaurateur, saloonkeeper, hotelier, gold rush prospector and real estate investor before his death in 1918. Granddad Trump passed on his business to his 12-year-old son, Fred, who taught his son the family business.

BILLION DOLLAR MAN: Trump is worth an estimated $4.5 billion, according to Forbes.

Although Trump claims he is worth $10 billion.

TILL DEATH DO THEY PART: Trump has been married three times, and if elected he will be the only U.S. president with multiple failed marriages. The Huffington Post compiled a

dandy collection of “absurd things Donald Trump has said about marriage,” including this: “For a man to be successful, he needs support at home, just like my father had from my mother, not someone who is always griping and bitching.”

HE EATS AT WENDY’S: During an interview on the The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Trump said he likes to eat fast food because “at least you know what you’re getting. I don’t want to go into a restaurant and say, ‘Mr. Trump would like a hamburger to go.’

Now, I don’t know what they’re going to do to that hamburger. If they like me, I’m happy. If they don’t like me… So I’m better off with fast food.”

A recent physical showed that the 70-year-old

Trump is “slightly overweight” at 236 pounds and takes cholesterol medication.

MASTER DELEGATOR: Indiana Gov. Mike Pence stands to possibly be the most powerful vice president in history. According to a New York Times Magazine article, Trump’s son, Donald Jr., was in charge of vetting possible running mates. The young Trump reportedly called and offered the position to Ohio Gov. John Kasich soon after he dropped out of the presidential race. Trump Jr. explained that his father intended to delegate all foreign and domestic policy to his VP. Trump’s job if elected? “Making America great again.”

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ENDORSEMENTS

Base of Support Polling local leaders and opinion-makers about presidential politics COMPILED BY WILSON CRISCIONE, MITCH RYALS, JAKE THOMAS and DANIEL WALTERS OZZIE KNEZOVICH Spokane County’s Republican sheriff “Can we get a reset? Can we do the primary over? You know, this is the worst presidential selection I’ve ever seen in my life. I will never ever vote for Hillary Clinton. I’ve heard personally one too many stories about Mrs. Clinton. She’s not a nice person. I don’t find her to be an honest person, in my opinion.

We all know, if anyone else would have done what she did with her servers and everything else, they would be in jail. That’s the sad part about that.”

Asked if he’s supporting Trump, Knezovich says: “Sometimes you’re just left with the worst case scenario. I’m still torn in my own mind about a lot of this. Talk to me at the end of October.”

CATHY McMORRIS RODGERS U.S. representative for Washington’s 5th Congressional district Writing on her Facebook page: “If Barack Obama’s onesize-fits-all approach made your life more difficult and heightened your anxiety about the future, could you imagine what Hillary Clinton will bring to the White House? She would only be another term of the status quo — shrinking our freedom and limiting our opportunity. She lacks the integrity to be President, and she could never earn my support. … Mr. Trump certainly disrupted this unique campaign. It is my hope that his disruption will be positive — not just to win in November, but to radically transform the way government works so it stops making the centralized federal bureaucracy more powerful, and starts serving and empowering people again. … Do I have concerns about the comments he made in the past and on the campaign trail this year about women; people with disabilities; and those from different backgrounds? Absolutely — I vehemently disagree with such statements.”

BUTCH OTTER Idaho’s Republican governor Otter initially backed Ohio Gov. John Kasich for president but promised to support whoever secured the GOP nomination.

A spokesman for Otter confirms that he’s endorsed Donald Trump and that governor and his wife, Lori, co-chair the candidate’s Idaho campaign.

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LIZ MOORE Director of the Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane (speaking for herself and not her organization).

“Well, I know I’m going to end up voting for Hillary Clinton.

I’m critical of Hillary Clinton, but we have to position ourselves in the most strategic way to advance our objectives.”

JOE PAKOOTAS Democratic candidate challenging U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers When asked his thoughts on Hillary Clinton on KXLY: “I will endorse her. All along I talked about endorsing the nominee who comes out of the convention. There’s some issues with her as president, but we can work on those. I think overall she has the interest of the American people.”

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DAVID CONDON Spokane mayor Condon declined, through a spokesman, to answer the Inlander’s questions. “The mayor apologizes,” city spokesman Brian Coddington says by email. “But this is not going to work out.”

BEN STUCKART Spokane City Council President “I’ll be voting for Hillary Clinton. She’s one of the most experienced candidates in history of running for the presidency. She was a senator, she’s been in the White House, Secretary of State — she knows how Washington, D.C., works. … There’s zero percent chance I would support Donald Trump.

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DEB CONKLIN Chair of Spokane Ombudsman Commission “I am not voting for Donald Trump because he’s unfit to be president.

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JEFF WARD Former president of Idaho Reagan Republicans and Kootenai County Reagan Republicans “I’m not supporting anyone at this point. I’m a Never Trumper, and I actually left the Republican Party because of its nomination. I couldn’t in good conscience be a member of the party that would nominate Donald Trump for president. …

I think there are huge moral and ethical problems with him as a candidate, and I also think he’s not a Republican, and he’s definitely not a conservative. … He’s pretty much a charlatan. … I don’t know what I’m going to do on election day. The most likely would be the Libertarian candidate, but I have problems with [Gary] Johnson also. It’s kind of a no-win situation for me.”

STEVE WIDMYER Coeur d’Alene mayor He didn’t respond to repeated requests for comment.

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BILL BRYANT Republican candidate for Washington governor Bryant initially refused to answer questions about Donald Trump, his party’s nominee for president. But after Trump criticized the parents of an Army captain who died fighting in Iraq, Bryant changed his tune. “I am not going to vote for Mr. Trump or Secretary Clinton,” Bryant told SeattlePI.com last month.

MICHAEL BAUMGARTNER Republican state senator from Spokane “I am supporting Donald Trump. It certainly wasn’t my first choice, but I do think he’s quite a bit better than the Clinton legacy. … I think Hillary has trust issues and has been a disaster in foreign policy, which is supposed to be her strong suit. I think the Middle East is much worse today than when she became secretary of state. I just have concerns about America as a country if we continue to elevate dynasty politics.”

DON BARBIERI Chairman of Red Lion Hotels Corporation, Washington State University regent “I’m not touching this one.”

PATTY MURRAY Democratic U.S. senator for Washington Writing on her Facebook page after the Democratic National Convention: “I just watched Hillary Clinton become our party’s first female nominee, and I was so proud. Proud for my daughter, my granddaughters and for young women today, and I’m going to be even more proud when she’s elected on November 8th! Listening to Hillary tonight, I was reminded why I first ran for Senate. I ran because I wanted someone at the table who would be asking the right questions. Someone who would fight for the powerless and do what’s right. Hillary Clinton listens. She fights hard. And she has dedicated her career to being a voice for those who are too often unheard — for women, children, and families in Washington state and across the country.”

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SANDY WILLIAMS Publisher and editor of The Black Lens, a local newspaper focused on the African American community.

Williams referred the Inlander to a column she recently published in the Lens describing how she became disillusioned with the Democratic Party after serving as a Washington state delegate for presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, who lost the nomination to Hillary Clinton. “I will not be held hostage or vote out of fear,” she wrote. “My proudest moment in the convention was when we Bernie Sanders delegates joined together and had the courage to walk out. Because of the Democratic Convention, I now have the courage to stay out.”

JAY INSLEE Washington’s Democratic governor, who’s a superdelegate for Clinton “Her values are Washington state’s values — a commitment to opportunity for working families, equality for all, clean air for our children and reversing economic inequity.”

RAÚL LABRADOR Republican U.S. representative from Idaho Labrador opposed Trump through much of the presidential primary, initially backing Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and later Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. But Labrador fell in line behind Trump, with some reservations. “There are some things he doesn’t quite understand,” Labrador told the Huffington Post. “With Trump, I have at least some hope that he’s going to make the right choice.”

CHRIS VANCE Republican candidate challenging U.S. Sen. Patty Murray In a press conference in Seattle earlier this year, Vance called Trump’s stance on trade, economics and foreign policy “naive,” “wrongheaded” and “insane.” Vance denounced Trump, but stopped short of throwing his support behind Clinton. In November, according to a Seattle Times article, he says he’ll either vote for a third-party candidate “if a responsible conservative alternative emerges” or won’t vote at all.

KEVIN PARKER Republican state representative from Spokane He didn’t respond to repeated requests for comment.

MIKE LEACH Washington State University football coach Leach introduced Donald Trump when Trump came to Spokane in May: “The definition of insanity, to me, is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. And that’s what we’ve been doing for at least 10 years. And so if we like the last 10 years and do the same thing, we’re gonna get the same results. And I don’t think anybody here is interested in the same results. America needs different results. We need to make America great again. It’s time — it’s time for Mr. Trump to assist us together in our country and all the people in our country to achieve different results making America great again. I give Mr. Trump my full endorsement.” 

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‘APPEALS TO BIGOTRY’

Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke is a fan of Donald Trump.

The Messenger Local leaders weigh in on how Donald Trump’s campaign has impacted racism in America

BY WILSON CRISCIONE

E

ven before Donald Trump ran for president, he was the most prominent voice in the conspiracy theory that the nation’s first black president was not, in fact, born in America.

The birther movement, as it’s called, continued after President Barack Obama produced his birth certificate in 2011. Trump only last Friday announced that he now believes that Obama was born in the U.S. But polls show that more than half of Trump backers still think Obama is Muslim — an idea, for many, that’s driven by racism.

As Trump has risen as a presidential candidate, so has the idea that people are feeling more comfortable expressing racist or xenophobic views. Trump may be directly or indirectly responsible for this, or it may be that his message, through no fault of his own, has struck a chord with a portion of the population that his campaign says it can’t control, like former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.

Some Republicans take it a step further, arguing that it’s the fault of liberals and “political correctness” that has caused a backlash and more radical views on both sides.

“We have had to become so politically correct that people are starting to push back,” says Spokane County GOP Chair Dave Moore.

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ate groups have been on the rise ever since Obama was elected to office, Spokane NAACP President Phil Tyler points out. And Trump, Tyler says, gives these groups a platform to speak about the issues they feel are not being heard.

Tyler isn’t alone in this idea. A Quinnipiac poll found that 59 percent of Americans think Trump “appeals to bigotry.”

“I think his xenophobic rhetoric really has changed the way we have political discourse, and you see people really being able to speak out about their true feelings,” Tyler says.

Tyler says you won’t need to look far to find rhetoric that wouldn’t have been spoken before Trump. In March, for example, a Kennewick city

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councilman wrote on his Facebook page, “I went to Yakima today. Now I know why Trump wants to build a wall.” The councilman, Bob Parks, issued a partial apology and explanation for the comment. But Tyler says that kind of language impacts people of color, and that today’s politics has allowed people to voice those kinds of opinions.

Tony Stewart, of the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations, says the way Trump has talked about minority communities has been harmful to children and caused more bullying at young ages. That sentiment is echoed by a report from the Southern Poverty Law Center that found the campaign is producing more fear and anxiety among children of color and inflaming racial and ethnic tensions in the classroom.

“Words and language are extremely impactful,” Stewart says.

M

oore, the Spokane GOP chair, says that Trump’s campaign isn’t about racism, it’s about a broken political system that has people angry. Even so, he says the majority of people he knows do not have racist thoughts or feelings.

The problem, he says, isn’t Trump or the Republican Party, but “agitators coming in from the other side.” When Trump came to Spokane, Moore says he saw that in action. It was the protestors “trying to create problems on the street.”

But the language and violence at Trump rallies, as captured on video by national media outlets, can be extremely offensive in many cases.

In the past, Trump has encouraged these actions.

When a white man punched a black protester at a North Carolina rally in March, Trump backed his supporter, John McGraw, who was charged with assault.

He blamed the protester for instigating the violence, ignoring the evidence of multiple eyewitnesses, videos and reports contradicting that.

“He was swinging, he was hitting, and the audience hit back,” Trump said. “And that’s what we need more of.” n

ANALYSIS

DEREK HARRISON ILLUSTRATION

Trump vs. Jesus Why my conservative Christian parents can’t vote for the Republican for president this time

BY DANIEL WALTERS

T

his was the year Dad finally lost his faith. Not his faith in Jesus, mind you, but what faith he had left in the Republican Party.

Dad’s never voted for a Democrat for president in his life. Time after time, he’s shrugged off the parts of the Republican Party he hasn’t liked — the fearmongering, the anti-immigrant posturing, the obsession with absolute gun rights — because of other pieces of their platform.

But he can’t shrug off Trump. Neither can Mom. Neither can my grandparents. They’ve been reliable Republican voters, year after year, but can’t vote for Donald J. Trump as president.

And the reason they can’t is largely the same reason that had them voting Republican in the first place: their faith.

For conservative Christians, like my parents, Trump has become a moral dilemma: Do they support a man who gleefully embodies nearly every vice they’ve spent their life preaching against? Or do they support the woman who promises to champion nearly every policy

they’ve spent their life voting against?

I

’m sitting at the kitchen table in my parents’ house in North Spokane, site of two decades of prayer before dinner, political debates during dinner, and Bible studies after dinner. The politics were academic. But the religion — they took nothing more seriously.

Dad’s a science teacher who’s longed to be a pastor.

I’d walk out from my bedroom on early mornings and see Dad with his face down in our old gray couch, Bible at his side, praying with, well, religious fervor. He would get so emotional preaching guest sermons at church — especially when he talked about how much he loved his family — tears would stream down at the pulpit.

It’s this faith that’s animated their opposition to casinos, to premarital sex, to gay marriage, and — most of all — to abortion. Mom and Dad used to take us kids, carried in strollers and on shoulders, to march through the snowy Spokane streets, protesting the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

And that issue, more than taxes or property rights or defense spending, is why they’ve voted Republican.

So this is what it means when my parents won’t support Trump: They know that Hillary Clinton will appoint a Supreme Court justice — or two or three — who will make rulings that they’ll oppose. They know that Clinton has promised to always stand with Planned Parenthood, the organization that performs more than 300,000 abortions a year. They know Clinton is the first candidate in history who’s called to repeal the Hyde Amendment, which restricts federal funding for abortion.

On the other hand, Mom says at the kitchen table, Clinton “would not cause people to have a nuclear war.”

And Trump has praised Planned Parenthood in this election too.

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and racist. Dad’s voice lowers into an imitation of a cigar-chomping police chief: “He’s a loose cannon!”

Mom chimes in, calling Trump a “chameleon” and a “proud womanizer,” and a “toddler who just temper-tantrums.” As she finishes drying the dishes, she talks about how Trump’s drumbeat for deportation and a wall on the Mexican border seems un-Christian and unAmerican. “‘Bring me your huddled masses’ and whatever,” she says. “The whole thing about a ‘wall’ going up is abhorrent to me. ... I feel like it’s a part of the Christian faith: helping the poor or the foreigner. That’s my thought.”

It was their church, after all, that encouraged them to get deeply involved helping local refugee families. So when Trump paints visions of refugees as terrorists, they think of the Burundi refugee who lived in their house for a month while going through a crisis. They think of the refugee babies they’ve held in their arms during worship services.

Dad is slicing bananas into his ice cream sundae as he compares the dilemma of Christians today to the dilemma of Christians in 1930s Germany. They were so focused on defeating the Communists, he says, they aided the rise of Hitler “You’ve got to be careful to not lose all your judgment in the quest to defeat your enemy,” he says.

This insight comes from Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, the biography of the Lutheran pastor who tried to assassinate Hitler. He gave me the book for Christmas a few years ago.

He took me to see the author — Christian talk radio host Eric Metaxas — at an anti-abortion fundraiser at Life Center.

Metaxas has now joined the growing list of Christian stars who’ve endorsed Trump. Sure, Trump has his “foibles, peccadilloes and metaphorical warts,” Metaxas argued, but was the “last best hope of keeping America from sliding into oblivion, the tank, the abyss, the dustbin of history.”

“It still disturbs me greatly,” Dad says about Metaxas’ endorsement. “Where’s the discernment?”

But a lot of his fellow Christians feel that way. He used to go to church with Nancy McLaughlin, a former city councilwoman turned Republican county commissioner. And, yes, she’s voting for Trump.

If God could use King David, a murderer and adulterer, she argues, he could certainly use a flawed man like Trump. “By not voting [for the lesser evil] you are essentially voting for the more evil,” McLaughlin says.

Trouble is, Dad doesn’t necessarily see Trump as the lesser evil. He agrees with Southern Baptist leader Russell Moore, who argues that the pro-life movement can’t succeed by allying with a misogynist who pushes for “torture and murder of innocent non-combatants.”

“If you lose an election, you can live to fight another day and move on, but if you lose an election while giving up your very soul, then you

have really lost it all,” Moore says.

Trump responded to Moore on Twitter with his characteristic diplomacy: “Nasty guy with no heart!”

F

or months, Dad struggled with how to respond to the Trump crisis. Finally, around May, he decided to do what he’d never done: Pen a letter to U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers and beg her not to endorse Trump.

“My faith and conviction will not allow me to support Donald Trump, nor will I support anyone else who lacks either the integrity or the courage to stand up to him.”

The same day, he learned that his wife had already written McMorris Rodgers her own letter.

Maybe, he wrote to McMorris Rodgers, that was a sign.

“I took that as a confirmation that perhaps the Lord was speaking to us,” he wrote.

Dad’s letter was uncharacteristically fiery, filled with the sort of scathing language he’d never used to describe Bill Clinton or Barack Obama. He called Trump a “a narcissistic, unprincipled, rude and vile man.”

“My faith and conviction will not allow me to support Donald Trump, nor will I support anyone else who lacks either the integrity or the courage to stand up to him,” Dad wrote.

He called it a crucial moral test for all Republican leaders.

“Are they going to bow down in allegiance to the Republican Party and support a man who defiles all that decent people hold dear?” he wrote. “Or are they going to have the courage to call out the ‘wolf’ who masquerades in a torn and threadbare costume of wool?”

The letters didn’t persuade McMorris Rodgers, of course. A few weeks later, she wrote a long Facebook status update explaining why she was reluctantly supporting Trump.

Like Trump voters, Dad has the sense that something has been lost in today’s culture, though he says his reaction is more grief than anger. In his letter to McMorris Rodgers, he quoted Isaiah 59: “the truth has fallen in the streets.”

He’s long felt that America has become unmoored from Christian values, but he was still surprised to see how quickly Republicans had lined up for Trump.

“I couldn’t fathom how there could be so many people who would not see what I’m seeing,” he tells me.

As I head out the door to return home, Dad admits something huge: Given a choice between Clinton, Trump and a third term of the president he’d always voted against, he’d take Barack Obama in an instant.

“I’m shocked at even the thought I would do that,” he laughs.

Because, for all he disliked about his decisions, Dad has concluded that Obama is a good person.

No matter who wins, he’s going to miss that. n

WHO NEEDS A DRINK?

A Toast to America The official Clinton vs. Trump debate drinking game

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T

here is more hype about this first presidential debate than any other in recent memory, but it’s not because this is the political equivalent of Ali vs. Frazier. This is more like Rocky Balboa vs. Hulk Hogan (or “Thunderlips,” as he was known in that film) or maybe Evel Knievel vs. the Snake River.

But because one of the candidates has already talked about his penis in a debate during the primary season, and the other is a hardened and often robotic debate veteran who some have concluded will soon die of one of those diseases from the Oregon Trail video game, people are paying extra attention. Sure, we’ll hear some important talk on policy, but the chance of something truly bizarre taking place is high. And judging from the insanity of this race so far, who knows if there will even be a second debate?

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THEATER

Finding Solid Footing Local radio personality Molly Allen has written a new play about ending and mending relationships

BY E.J. IANNELLI

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n one San Francisco apartment, private anxieties and suspicions have pushed a couple to the verge of breaking up. In the place next door, a grandson is setting up a wireless music system for his grandfather, but the high-tech device is only causing the generation gap to widen.

Then an earthquake hits, forcing all four individuals to reevaluate their relationships. Does it leave them relieved and grateful for the opportunity to reconcile? Or does it give them the impetus to abandon things altogether?

About a year ago, this rough premise for a new play

started taking shape over a cup of coffee. On one side of the table sat Molly Allen, morning radio co-host for KZZU 92.9. On the other side was Billy Hultquist, a local actor who Allen had recently met through his wife at a fundraiser. They found they had an instant rapport and almost immediately started brainstorming ways they might work together.

“We were thinking we wanted to do a comedy,” Allen says. “We have a lot of inside jokes and things that we think are funny. We’re like two 10-year-olds together. So I started writing this script. And I said, ‘What do you think? I think it’s a couple trying to break up.’”

The parts for this fictional couple were written ex-

pressly for Allen and Hultquist as actors.

“He’s a little younger, she’s a little older, and she’s insecure because he’s young and cute. She’s a news broadcaster, and he’s a reporter, so he ends up going out on the road a lot. And she jumps to conclusions about things that may or may not happen in their relationship,” Allen says.

Allen started sending Hultquist “five pages at a time” until it “just sort of became this full show.” But then she struck upon the idea of combining this bespoke script with a similar one — only this time, not about romance but family ties. ...continued on next page

Molly Allen (left) wrote, and stars in, On Shaky Ground with Billy Hultquist (right). YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

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“I wanted to write something for my stepfather, Jack Bannon. So I thought, why don’t I just write it as if they’re in another apartment and they also get trapped by the earthquake?” Now cleverly merged into a single play by a common event, the show she’d initially written for herself and Hultquist became the second act in “a story about miscommunication and losing affinity for each other, then piecing it back together with humor and understanding.”

The resulting play was titled On Shaky Ground.

It’s not Allen’s first stab at writing a theatrical work — that would be The Day Spring Wouldn’t Come Out, a multimedia piece she wrote back in 2003 by drawing on the skills she picked up as a preschool teacher. Nor would it be her first time treading the boards. While living in Florida in the mid-’90s, she often appeared in community theater shows, and more recently she performed locally alongside her mother, Ellen Travolta, in the Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre production of Hello, Dolly!

All the same, Allen found herself in a typical beginner’s predicament. She had a script, and even willing actors, but no venue.

“Once my parents read it and loved it, I wanted to find a theater right away, because I’m really impatient,” she says. “Everybody else had filled up their season, but Ignite! hadn’t. They were still deciding on a few things. So I talked to them about their first show of the season, and they were interested in putting it on.”

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as co-producer, and Hultquist, Bannon, and Oskar Owens — a young local actor who “grew up watching Jack (Bannon) in the theater” — on board as performers, Allen went about assembling a “dream team” of directors and crew.

“Troy Nickerson is in charge of directing my act with Billy, and Dawn Taylor Reinhardt has taken on the one with Jack and Oskar,” she says.

“Ours obviously has Troy’s stamp on it. Billy and I have been reading this show for months, and yet Troy comes in and suggests things that we never even thought of. That’s why you need a good director. He just has this vision. And I know that Dawn’s going to do a fantastic job.”

Allen hopes that On Shaky Ground will find solid footing at Ignite! and then make the leap to regional or national playhouses. Despite being written with specific individuals in mind, she says it has a broad appeal in terms of its themes and humor.

“Anybody who’s ever been in a relationship of any kind — parents, grandparents, a spouse, whatever — can relate to how those relationships deteriorate, how easily it can happen, and how it can be mended if you’re willing to hear each other. And we talk about farts. Billy has a pretty good monologue about the highest ranking fart of all time. It’s very relatable.” n On Shaky Ground • Sept. 23-25 & 30, Oct. 1 & 2: Fri–Sat, 7:30 pm; Sun, 2 pm • $12-$14 • Ignite! Community Theatre • 10814 E. Broadway Ave., Spokane Valley • (208) 759-0004 • igniteonbroadway.org

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PODCAST Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich has never shied away from media attention. The three-term Republican sheriff is quick to call an afternoon press conference when issues of public importance pop up and never afraid to speak his mind on all things law enforcement. So it should come as no surprise that Knezovich hosts his own radio program in partnership with KTRW called “SHERIFF’S REPORT WITH OZZIE KNEZOVICH.” During the 30-minute show, the sheriff has touched on topics ranging from the Spokane County Jail and the investigation into Spokane Valley teen Ryan Holyk’s death to the County Commissioner races. You can listen at 1:30 pm every day on 96.5 FM and at 630 AM on Saturdays. You can also stream and/or download the program at spokanetalksonline.com.

Tig Nataro (left) is the creator and star of One Mississippi, which recently debuted on Amazon Prime.

ittle did I know when I signed up for Amazon Prime a few years back to save cash on shipping gifts to far-flung relatives that the online-shopping giant would become the producer of some of the most eclectic, emotionally riveting TV sitcoms anywhere.

The thing is, calling Amazon shows like Transparent, Catastrophe or the just-released Fleabag “sitcoms” seems almost a denigration of those shows — and I love a good old-fashioned 22-minute silly comedy as much as anyone, having grown up on the likes of Cheers, The Simpsons and The Cosby Show (may our fond memories rest in peace). Amazon, when it comes to its original comedy offerings, seems to specialize in shows that can make you squirm or wince uncomfortably as often as laugh out loud, making for a far more satisfying viewing experience than you can find on most comedies in 2016. In fact, the most traditional sitcom offered by Amazon, Alpha House by Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau, is easily the most disappointing.

The belle of the Amazon ball is clearly Transparent, the story of a senior transgender woman and her family; the third season premieres Sept. 23. Jeffrey Tambor won his second straight Emmy for “Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series” for playing lead character Maura, and he’s surrounded by an amazing cast. One could argue that Transparent is as much drama as comedy; either

way, the show is worth the cost of Amazon Prime on its own.

But there are other Amazon shows that now make Prime a must-have. Comedian Tig Notaro’s One Mississippi premiered earlier this month. The semi-autobiographical tale explores her return to her Southern hometown after her mother’s death and her own battle with breast cancer. There are plenty of laughs tucked between discussions of child molestation, physical abuse and bullying, so don’t let those topics scare you. Any Transparent fans will find a lot to love on One Mississippi.

Last week, Amazon premiered Fleabag, a six-part series originally aired on BBC in Europe, much like the winning Rob Delaney/Sharon Horgan series Catastrophe that made a similar stateside jump to Amazon.

Created by and starring playwright Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag appears at first to be the story of a single British gal prowling London for kicks and bringing viewers along through funny monologues and knowing winks. Soon enough, though, the show heads for darker territory on the line that separates comedy and tragedy.

That seems to be Amazon’s sweet spot. It’s definitely one worth visiting for anyone looking for a little more from their sitcoms than saccharine sweetness.

— DAN NAILEN

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Exploring Identity The city of Spokane Valley wants to create its first public arts master plan

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t 13 years old, the city of Spokane Valley is going through an identity crisis. And just like any teenager rapidly coming into their own, the city is turning to the arts in an effort to express what kind of city it really is.

Spokane Valley City Council has applied for the Our Town grant through the National Endowment for the Arts. If approved, it would help fund the Valley’s first public arts master plan. Winners of the grant will be announced in April 2017.

“It’s to enhance our parks and other infrastructure in a way that contributes to the city’s identity, and draws people in our city together around those things, and draws people from the outside,” says Councilman Ed Pace.

If the city is awarded the $50,000 grant, it would require a dollar-for-dollar match by the city for a total project cost of $100,000. Pace says the city already knows where that money is coming from and it won’t raise taxes at all.

The idea, according to Christina Janssen, a city planner, is to establish a vision for public art, establish guidelines for public art projects, and promote the city’s

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identity.

The only issue with that, says Councilman Sam Wood, is determining what identity there is to promote in the Valley. Wood was the only councilmember to vote against applying for the application.

“Public art is a vehicle for the community to express its identity,” Wood said at a recent council meeting. “So, my question is, do we have an identity?”

The city is already spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on various tourism and marketing studies to answer that very question. City Community Development Director John Hohman says the conclusion of those studies should coincide nicely with the possible creation of the arts master plan. The city wouldn’t begin work on any projects until Aug. 1, 2017, at the earliest.

The money will help fund arts engagement, cultural planning and design of public spaces in the city. City staff sold the idea as a way to improve the local economy by recruiting businesses and to make the city more attractive to residents. Pace agrees, saying he sees public art as a way to improve infrastructure and beautify parks.

“A sculpture in a park is like planting a tree in a park,” he says.

The Dance of Sun & Moon by Jerry McKellar, currently at Discovery Park playground.

This sculpture by Kevin Kirking honoring local Native American tribes could soon be on display at the Spokane Valley City Hall.

He says he is advocating for an art gallery in the basement of the new city hall, which is under construction and should be completed by September 2017. The city already has partnered with the Spokane Valley Arts Council to add bronze sculptures somewhere around the new city hall.

The arts council has presented other statues to the Valley before, such as the Dance of Sun & Moon by Jerry McKellar, currently at Discovery Park playground.

Jim Harken, art director for the Spokane Valley Art Council, says the city creating a plan for

public art is a “great idea.” He says this council seems to be more interested and more appreciative in helping plan art.

“I think it’s smart to be doing this,” Harken says of the planning process.

Pace says even if the application for the Our Town grant is not approved, he thinks the city will make an effort to create an arts master plan for public art.

“All I know,” Pace says, “is a few of us on the council now have recognized the importance of it.” n

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Bigger Beer

This year’s festival in the outfield of Avista Stadium features even more beer than the last time around.

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The Inland Northwest Craft Beer Festival is a sign of how far we’ve come

BY MIKE BOOKEY

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here are several metrics by which we can measure the brewing explosion that has taken place in the Spokane area over the past half-decade. We can talk about the number of new breweries, or the emergence of growler stations and beer bars. If we want to get really technical, we can tally the amount of barrels brewed and even track how many of those are traveling to other markets, serving as liquid evangelists for a craft beer scene that’s turning heads in the Northwest.

But perhaps an easier, more visible metric would be to visit the Inland Northwest Craft Beer Festival this weekend at Avista Stadium. It’s the third year the event has been held in the outfield of the Spokane Indians’ baseball park, but the festival’s seventh year as a whole.

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It previously took place in downtown Spokane and initially took on an Oktoberfest theme. Since its founding, a number of other large- and small-scale brewfests have popped up, something the Washington Beer Commission — a state commodity commission that promotes Washington’s multibillion-dollar brewing industry — is happy to see.

The early days of the Inland Northwest Craft Beer Festival were a challenge — including one year that took place during a daylong rainstorm at Riverfront Park — and attendance wasn’t where they wanted to see it, says the Commission’s Executive Director, Eric Radovich.

“Our first beer festival as a beer commission outside of Seattle was in Spokane. We figured that Spokane

would be next, and not just because it’s the next most populous area, but it’s a place where people appreciate good food and beer,” he says. “We stayed the course despite some tough going early on, and now it’s paying dividends.”

The festival has grown into its home at Avista, and this year features 41 breweries from the state of Washington (sorry, North Idaho, but this is Evergreen State only), including nearly every beermaker in the greater Spokane area, for a total of 172 different beers. There’s the godfather in No-Li Brewhouse, but also fledgling breweries like Millwood’s Badass Backyard Brewing and Whistle Punk Brewing from Newman Lake. The out-of-towners at the event are some of Washington’s most renowned

Forty-one Washington breweries are on tap this weekend. MARTY HIESTER PHOTO breweries, including Yakima’s Bale Breaker, Seattle’s Fremont and Georgetown breweries, as well as Bellingham’s Boundary Bay. For the first time this year, the festival’s Saturday session will be all-ages, allowing child-rearing beer lovers into the event so they can taste. Children can enjoy a special family area with kids’ activities.

“We know that Spokane is an area with a lot of families, and so hopefully this helps bring those families in,” says Radovich.

Somewhat unique to this festival, says Radovich, is the fact that a lot of breweries bring more than the typical three to four options. Spokane Valley’s Twelve String Brewing, for example, plans to roll through 10 different beers between Friday and Saturday, including adventurous creations like a passionfruit gose and a syrah wine-barrel-aged blackberry stout. These sorts of beers can set breweries apart at a big festival, says Radovich.

“They’re tricking out some special beers for these events to distinguish themselves at a festival,” he says. “People are looking to have creative beers along with their flagships.” 

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GET YOUR FRESH HOPS AT THE FESTIVAL You may have heard that the Yakima Valley alone produces about 75 percent of the nation’s hops. This means that beer starts here.

It also means that Washington breweries — be they in Seattle, Spokane or elsewhere — have the ability to make fresh hop beers.

Sometimes called “wet hop” brews, these creations are brewed with whole hop flowers that go from the vine into the wort in a matter of hours. The result is a floral aroma and a powerful hop taste. Most of these are done as IPAs, but that’s not always the case.

At the Inland Northwest Craft Beer Festival, you can introduce yourself to the fresh hop concept. Pullman’s Paradise Creek is bringing their Alpha Madness Fresh Hop IPA to Avista. It’s big at 6.8 percent ABV, but so smooth and aromatic that you won’t notice. Using fresh-cut hops from Carpenter Ranches in Granger, Wash., last year’s Alpha Madness was one to remember.

Perry Street Brewing came back from Yakima with 300 pounds of Simcoe hops that brewer Ben Lukes tossed in with an additional 50 pounds of Mosaic hop dust.

At least one local brewery, Top Frog in Newport, doesn’t even have to travel to the Yakima Valley to do a fresh hop. Brewer Casey Brooks grows a full acre of hops, some of them since the early ’90s. At the festival, he’s bringing a wheat beer he calls Squeezed Wheat. The lemony brew features fresh Mosaic hops that give the effervescent creation a kick.

“It’s an odd duck to do [fresh hop brewing] with,” says Brooks. “A lot of beers that people do fresh hops with are hops-dominated, but this came out more intense than I expected. It worked out better than I expected.”

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By the Numbers North Idaho Cider changes ownership focus, adds to cider line

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orth Idaho Cider may have fewer partners since the departure of two founding members, yet the numbers look good, say remaining owners Jeff Selle, Keith Allen and Matt Peterson. In the past year, they have nearly quadrupled their cider offerings from two to seven and doubled the places carrying their ciders.

Selle was working in government affairs when he met Allen in a spirited online discussion about Harley-Davidson pipes. Allen, who still works at Crossfit CdA, had received a beermaking kit as a past gift and asked Selle, who had been homebrewing for nearly a decade, for help making something gluten-free. As the friendship deepened, so did the potential for a business.

The pair heard about Greg and Mara Thorhaug, who were also trying to start a cidery, and teamed up to launch North Idaho Cider in 2014, soon after adding Peterson, a homebrewer who works as a certified public accountant.

“God knows Keith and I could use a little business discipline,” jokes Selle, “and Matt keeps us in line.”

After buying out the Thorhaugs, the re-

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vamped North Idaho Cider retooled the original Lake City Dry and Lake City Hopped into Fresh Apple and Citrus Sour, respectively.

They also added ciders, like Cranapple and Wild Cherry, all characteristically dry, using Yakima apples, but no artificial sweeteners or sulfides. Logger, for example, is aged in toasted American oak and finished in pine. The newest release, Wildfire, will feature habanero, jalapeño and smoked paprika, which Selle says pairs with Clamato juice for a unique Bloody Mary.

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shaking Robicheaux’s confidence. There’s still some charisma in individual performances, particularly Pratt’s devil-in-his-eye Faraday and Sarsgaard’s oily conviction as the villainous Bogue. In general, though, this Magnificent Seven doesn’t seem particularly interested in plumbing psychological depths, which is a bit of a problem when scenes where characters’ lives hang in the balance don’t seem to have earned our concern over who will live and who will die.

Yet there’s a throwback vibe to everything that goes on in The Magnificent Seven that somehow makes even superficiality feel like part of a plan. This is the kind of movie that introduces its cowboy protagonist riding in silhouette against the sun, and has him walk into the town saloon with a presence that hushes the rowdy patrons and silences the tinkling of the piano keys. A scene like that — complete with Pratt checking out the cards of his fellow poker players after they flee the premises — might have played as a ridiculous Western cliché, but Fuqua embraces this iconography. As a director of action, he’s a meat-and-potatoes guy, which helps a lot when nearly from a ruthless big shot — in this case, mining boss the entire final hour is dedicated to the climactic siege of Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard) — and his personal the town. But he also understands how effective it can be army of enforcers. There’s still a seemingly hopeless to have the final conflict come down to two men facing mission by the townspeople — represented by widowed off at opposite ends of a dusty street, with their hands on Emma Cullen (Haley Bennett) — to hire men willing to their guns. accept the likely suicidal job of protecting them. And This is a story not just about Good Guys vs. Bad once one man — bounty hunter Sam Chisolm (Denzel Guys, as it plays out, but about people willing to stand Washington) — agrees to assist, there’s a gathering of an up for what is right. It might be tempting to additional six: gambler Josh Faraday (Chris attach the now-familiar “revisionist Western” Pratt); sharpshooter Goodnight Robicheaux THE label to this film because of the ethnic diver(Ethan Hawke); knife expert Billy Rocks MAGNIFICENT SEVEN sity of the heroes, and there are satisfying (Byung-hun Lee); wanted criminal Vasquez Rated PG-13 tidbits in the script about how these men (Manuel García-Rulfo); Indian tracker Jack Directed by Antoine Fuqua who could easily be enemies instead choose Horne (Vincent D’Onofrio); and Comanche Starring Denzel Washington, mutual respect and a battle against a bigger warrior Red Harvest (Martin Sensmeier).

Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke threat. Maybe that’s the part of this tale that That’s something of a shift from the needs telling in this world. alpha-male casting of the 1960 version, which As Elmer Bernstein’s rousing, legendary Magnificent is closer in modern equivalence to The Expendables. The Seven theme plays over the closing credits, it doesn’t feel script — perhaps not coincidentally co-credited to The like a reminder of the movie you’re not seeing; it’s a reExpendables 2 screenwriter Richard Wenk, along with minder of the kind of stories, about proud people fighting True Detective’s Nic Pizzolatto — tosses out a few bits of for justice instead of personal gain, that we wish didn’t backstory for our reluctant heroes, including hints at seem so old-fashioned. n Chisolm’s own history with Bogue, and Civil War PTSD

The Magnificent Seven returns to a much-needed territory: Western heroism

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here’s a school of thought that remakes are a plague upon filmmaking, part of a desperate fear of risk-taking that encourages recycling proven concepts. And there is a smaller school of thought that tempers such justifiable criticism with the caveat that a remake might be acceptable if it does something radical and daring with the original premise. But allow me to make the case with The Magnificent Seven that there might be another defense: What if a remake simply served to give us back a kind of movie we’ve forgotten how to appreciate?

It’s fair enough to note, of course, that director Antoine Fuqua’s new version of The Magnificent Seven isn’t even remaking something that was original itself, since John Sturges’ 1960 film was itself an American retelling of Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 Seven Samurai. But the 1960 Magnificent Seven represents a brand of classic cinematic Western that has more modern resonance that we might realize. Whatever it might leave on the table in revisiting this story, maybe it tells us something we need to hear.

The basics of the story have changed very little. There’s still a town under siege

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THE MAGNIFICENT

In this remake, a town is under siege from a ruthless big shot — in this case, mining boss Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard) — and his personal army of enforcers. Widowed Emma Cullen (Haley Bennett) tries to hire men willing to accept the likely suicidal job of protecting the town, and one man, bounty hunter Sam Chisolm (Denzel Washington), agrees to assist.

Then, he has to find six more to make the title of this Western work. (SR) Rated PG-13

STORKS

This animated movie reimagines babydelivering storks that are now tasked with delivering retail packages. Top delivery stork Junior (Andy Samberg) is about to become the next leader

of the company when he accidentally activates the baby making machine and creates a baby girl. Junior and his human friend Tulip (Katie Crown) must find the baby a home before the boss finds out. Featuring the voices of Jennifer Aniston, Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele. (EG) Rated PG

THE HOLLARS

Director and actor John Krasinski (The Office) plays artist John Hollar, a man returning to his small hometown and dysfunctional family after his mother, Sally (Margo Martindale), is diagnosed with a brain tumor. Leaving behind his pregnant girlfriend Rebecca (Anna Kendrick) in New York City, John must navigate the waters of family problems, an ex-girlfriend and a high school rival while preparing for impending fatherhood. (EG) Rated PG-13

NOW PLAYING BAD MOMS

Perhaps due to the overwhelming success of Dirty Grandpa comes this raunchy flick headlined by a smattering of big-name female stars: among them, Mila Kunis, Christina Applegate and Kristen Bell. As the title suggests, it’s one of those “let loose,” party-likewe’re-young-again movies, this one chronicling the shenanigans of a group of moms who set out on a rampage of cathartic indulgence and inappropriate behavior that, at least in theory, makes for hilarious results. (IH) Rated R

BEN-HUR

Hollywood insists that this is not a remake of the classic 1959 film of the same name, but rather a re-imagining of the original 1880 novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. The story centers on a Roman prince named Judah Ben-Hur who’s betrayed by his brother and cast out of his homeland. Judah must chariot-race his way back to love and glory, and encounters Jesus himself along the way. (IH) Rated PG-13

BLAIR WITCH

Lisa (Callie Hernandez) heads into the

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Maryland woods with friends Peter (Brandon Scott) and Ashley (Corbin Reid) to make a documentary about their pal James (James Allen McCune) and his quest to find out what happened to his sister, Heather… the documentary director from the 1999 movie we know as the Blair Witch Project.

(MJ) Rated R

BRIDGET JONES’S BABY

Bridget (Renée Zellweger) is still a singleton in London as the story opens, but at the age of 40-something, an unexpected complication enters her life. Bridget is pregnant and since nothing about her personal life could possibly involve simple solutions, the father could either be Jack (Patrick Dempsey), a millionaire online-dating mogul or Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), the on-again/off-again flame who re-entered her life after he separated from his wife. (SR) Rated R

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with her husband. You know where this is going, don’t you? Well, things don’t get better when he discovers a secret room in the basement that isn’t on the home’s floor plans. (MB) Rated R

DON’T BREATHE

The film centers on a trio of naive young adults who believe they’ve found easy thieving prey in the form of a creaky old house inhabited by an elderly blind man. They soon discover that the resident is more capable than they’d originally assumed, and find themselves trapped and systematically hunted by a predator who is content relying on his four remaining senses. (IH) Rated R

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This documentary will likely make you cry. Here, we have a film that follows Spokane native turned NFL star and hero of New Orleans, Steve Gleason, as he battles ALS. The linearly constructed film shows the disease ripping away Gleason’s physical abilities one by one, while also demonstrating the strain on his marriage and family. But there’s plenty of inspiration to be found, too.

You’ll walk away wanting to be a better person. (MB) Rated R

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(IH) Rated PG

JASON BOURNE

Matt Damon is back in the role of Jason Bourne after nine years away from the franchise. This installment touches on the privacy concerns that total surveillance raise via tech wunderkind Aaron Kalloor (Riz Ahmed), and it’s up to Bourne, yet again, to save the world.

(MJ) Rated PG-13

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Park ranger Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard) discovers Pete (Oakes Fegley) living in the woods where he’s been alone for six years, after an outing with his parents ended in a car wreck that killed them. But then he reveals that he’s had the companionships of a big green dragon named Elliot. (MJ) Rated PG

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Saturday’s Warrior is a cinematic adaptation of the LDS-themed musical of the same name, which originated in 1973 as a college project and has, over time, gained considerable popularity within the faith. The story explores multiple facets of Mormon doctrine through a 1970s-set drama following the disparate lives of twins Jimmy and Pam Flinders, who must navigate the turbulence of young-adulthood against a backdrop of heavy existential questioning. (IH) Rated PG

SAUSAGE PARTY

Sausage Party stars an anthropomorphic hotdog and a bun — and it’s the brainchild of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, who graced the world with This Is The End and The Night Before.

From that description alone, most filmgoers should have no trouble deciding whether or not this crude animated laugh-fest chronicling the escapades of a bunch of talking food in a supermarket is up their alley. Don’t take the kids to this one. (IH) Rated R

SULLY

Clint Eastwood’s Sully tells the story of Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger (Tom Hanks) piloting a commercial airliner to a water landing on the Hudson River with zero casualties (dubbed “The Miracle on the Hudson”) in January 2009, and the ensuing investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board to determine if Sullenberger was at fault. Rated PG-13 (SS)

NINE LIVES

Let’s start by saying that everything about this film — in which a workaholic dad played by Kevin Spacey gets trapped in the body of his daughter’s cat — is oozing with cheese and slapstick comedy (from a CGI cat, nonetheless). Spacey’s character Tom Brand is too busy building his business empire to pay attention to his wife and daughter, so quirky pet store owner (Christopher Walken) casts a spell on him with the requirement that he reconnect with his family, or be trapped in the cat’s body for the rest of his life. Antics ensue. (CS) Rated PG

THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS

Created by the team behind the Despicable Me films, The Secret Life of Pets tells the story of a dog named Max

(voiced by Louis C.K.) suddenly forced to welcome another pet to his apartment in the shaggy, sloppy Duke (Eric Stonestreet). Mayhem naturally ensues, and the two pups get lost in the city and have to find their way home with the help of a pack of Max’s friends. (DN) Rated PG

SNOWDEN

Oliver Stone’s new biopic thriller about the infamous intelligence workerturned-government hacker wants to remind us that what Snowden did still matters. The star-studded film — starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the title role — doesn’t necessarily break any new ground, but is nevertheless a thrill ride. Rated R. (CS)

STAR TREK BEYOND

The Starship Enterprise and crew are unexpectedly attacked by a flurry of enemies, sent by the malicious Krall (Idris Elba). The Enterprise crash lands on an unknown planet, leaving its surviving crew members, including Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) and Spock (Zachary Quinto), with little to defend themselves against Krall’s forces. (CS) Rated PG-13

SUICIDE SQUAD

The premise of Suicide Squad is kind of a nifty spin on the concept of antiheroes, building a team of incarcerated “meta-humans” who have to be threatened, blackmailed and cajoled by a shadowy government operative (Viola Davis) into forming a team of disposable villain/heroes for particularly dangerous missions. They include Deadshot (Will Smith), Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), the Joker (Jared Leto), Killer Croc (Adewale AkinnuoyeAgbaje) and El Diablo (Jay Hernandez).

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THE WILD LIFE

This animated retelling of the Robinson Crusoe story isn’t as much about Crusoe as it is that of the animals on the small island upon which he is shipwrecked, including parrot Mak (the voice of David Howard), whom the human will later dub Tuesday (there is no manservant called Friday); pig Kiki (the voice of Lindsay Torrance) and others.

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Enemy No. 1 Oliver Stone’s Snowden doesn’t break new ground but is still a thrill ride

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liver Stone, our national cinematic conspiracy theorist and all-around anti-establishment auteur, digs deep into the latest and most illuminating political scandal of our times with this taut and entertainingly paranoia-inducing biopic-cum-technophobic history lesson about the NSA’s Public Enemy and Global Fugitive No. 1. At first, Joseph Gordon-Levitt seemed an odd choice to play Edward Snowden, the introverted, nerdy government contractor who pulled the curtain away from the U.S. government’s all-seeing, all-surveilling extralegal wizardry back in 2013.

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Washington Post (and soon after by Der Spiegel and The New York Times). Gordon-Levitt, however, nails the part completely, physically hunching down into himself and getting Snowden’s halting, thoughtful speech patterns just right, while Stone, working with screenwriter Kieran Fitzgerald, creates a whirlwind ride nearly but not quite worthy of The Parallax View-era conspiracy thrillers.

But of course, this is real life, not just ranty, Alex Jones-esque Sturm und Drang.

Because Snowden’s revelations and his subsequent flight from the clutches of American military justice in a secretive FISA court to Russia, of all places, has already been documented exhaustively. Stone structures his film via revealing flashbacks.

It begins with a furtive, clandestine meeting between Snowden, filmmaker-activist Laura

Poitras (who directed 2014’s Oscar-winning Snowden documentary Citizenfour; here she’s played by the excellent Melissa Leo), journalist Glenn Greenwald (Zachary Quinto), and Guardian editor Ewen MacAskill (Tom Wilkinson). The film then jumps back and forth through Snowden’s life, focusing on his initial induction into the CIA via mentor Corbin O’Brian (an ominously pitch-perfect Rhys Ifans) and his budding disquiet as he discovers the SNOWDEN sheer magnitude Rated R of his employer’s Directed by Oliver Stone overreach over Starring Joseph Gordonits own citizens.

Levitt, Shailene Woodley, That, in turn, imMelissa Leo pacts his romance with his photographer girlfriend Lindsay (Shailene Woodley), which leads to his moral and ethical decision to surreptitiously — in a wonderfully choreographed, edge-of-your-seat sequence — take the downloads and run.

If you’ve been following the Snowden story since it broke, then chances are you already know much of the narrative that Stone spins. It’s in the way he and his rock-solid cast spin it, thrillingly, that makes Snowden the top-notch nail-biter that it is.

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Play On Years after they were crafted, vintage and antique instruments still have their place in Spokane

BY LAURA JOHNSON

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hen it comes to musical instruments, new is often not best. New is often more manageable, but there’s something about antique things — the way we can learn from them, or the way we can pretend to be surprised by their worth (Antiques Roadshow for the win). This week, we checked out some of the older, relatively speaking, instruments in town.

THE ORGAN

It sits here in the balcony with its thousands of parts among the angels and Jesus and Mary. It may not be the grandest, but the pipe organ in the stained-glass-filled Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes certainly is one of the oldest in Spokane. Built in 1914 and ordered from Chicago’s W.W. Kimball and Company (an organ is delivered in parts and takes a couple of months to assemble), the instrument is still in working use, albeit with some repairs needed (the last electronic updates came in 1994).

“Organs deteriorate. Most don’t age well, as they’re made of wood and leather and metal,” says parish music director Robert Carr, one of the two people who play organ at the church. “We’re looking to address the deficiencies. It’s like a bunch of flutes up there, and currently we don’t use it as much as we’d like to.”

Back when the painted pipe organ was first installed, Catholic services didn’t include hymns as a modern Mass would today, and it served more as an accompaniment, meaning a huge sound wasn’t necessary. Today, the church mostly uses its newer pipe organ up front, installed in the 1970s. A new pipe organ would cost about a million dollars, Carr says, which is why many churches update what they already have, as you can see in the great European cathedrals.

“The organ is a glorious instrument,” Carr says.

“It lifts people’s minds to God. Despite its size, it most closely resembles a human voice. All that wind that goes through it, it’s just like a choir. It’s not dying out yet.”

THE BRASS SECTION

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Bach Festival artistic director Zuill Bailey makes sweet music on a 1693 Matteo Goffriller cello, an instrument so delicate it has its own seat on plane rides. While stringed instruments, when well cared for and played often, can last for centuries, woodwinds don’t. They’re liable to rot thanks to all that lip service. Brass instruments, on the other hand, live somewhere in the middle.

Spokane Symphony’s principal tuba player Leonard Byrne has quite the collection of brass instruments, many dating to the late 1800s. But as the tuba was only invented in the 1830s, there isn’t a possibility of anything older. Of the three tubas he plays for orchestra concerts, his oldest is from the 1970s.

“There are some well-regarded brass instruments from the 1920s, but whether you can use them in a modern symphony is the problem,” Byrne explains. “There’s been a progression as orchestras were playing in bigger halls for larger audiences; it became an arms race, so now

you have more powerful and larger instruments.”

Byrne, who collects antique brass instruments as a way to connect with the tuba’s history, has a euphonium, a sousaphone and even a serpent (a squiggly wind instrument). Sometimes, certain symphony works will call for them, but he more often attends special festivals, with “other weird people who like to play strange instruments.”

Spokane’s Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture also keeps a few instruments in its permanent collection, currently on display.

About 20 years ago, African American trumpet player and photographer Wally Hagin from Spokane donated his silver-colored trumpet, which he played in various big bands beginning in the 1940s.

Marsha Rooney, senior curator of history at the MAC, says the point is to bring in items that will emphasize the regional story.

“It’s about looking for a symbolic artifact,” Rooney says.

“We’re not looking for music instruments specifically. But we’re all trying to make the world a better place, and music can show that in many ways.”

Music director Robert Carr inside the cathedral organ.

THE GUITAR

Guitar collectors are usually quite protective of their instruments; collectors like Bill Burke, who’s put on Pig Out in the Park for nearly 40 years and has played guitar for longer than that, keeps his instruments all over town in various storage spots and safe deposit boxes.

“As a guitar player, you’re always looking for the perfect guitar to play,” Burke says. “It’s part of the challenge as you learn different things about them. Today’s guitars can’t be like yesterday’s.

You can’t get the paints anymore, the mahogany — you can’t even cut those trees down.”

Eben Cole of Cole Music, in the Garland District, keeps his personal collection close to the chest. His store is chock-full of vintage guitars, both acoustic and electric. The luthier even has his own line of ColeCraft guitars, emulating some of the greatest guitars from the past century — electric guitars weren’t invented until the 1930s, but those built in the 1960s and ’70s are often considered the best.

Cole says that people like to have something to hang up on their wall, so collectors, not players, drive the guitar market.

When it comes to collecting as an investment, which can be even more lucrative than the stock market, Cole says the place to start is with something you’re interested in, or what you may even play.

“Some people want that shiny new guitar,” Cole says. “But these instruments have the scars to show for it. They sound good and feel good. That’s what I’m interested in.” n

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Guerilla Toss frontwoman Kassie Carlson has hitchhiked through much of America, but she’s never explored the Pacific Northwest before.

The Wild Bunch Brooklyn’s Guerilla Toss comes to the West Coast for the first time

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hey’ve lived in New York for one year and it suits them well. Traveling from various boroughs, the five members of Guerilla Toss are now able to practice up to eight hours a day, multiple times a week in their Brooklyn rehearsal space. They work odd jobs.

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artists. This month, though, they’re touring the country for the first time — six men (including a sound and light producer) and one woman in a somewhat smelly van.

“You can’t stay in the same place forever,” says frontwoman Kassie Carlson, speaking from California last weekend. “We’d lived in Boston for seven years and we

wanted to try something different. And I’m so glad, I feel like my mind is so open. It’s inspiring.”

The skull-pop act, together since 2012, made its name by playing head-rattling electronic punk shows. On stage, the normally bubbly Carlson yells with abandon, like her soul is on fire. Often she’ll throw her sweaty body into the audience and ride out the storm.

“When I first get out there, I have to close my eyes and forget I’m on stage. It’s a spiritual thing in a way,” Carlson says. “The music takes a lot of focus and concentration, but people will dance if I let go. Feeling everyone dance and smile, it’s the happiest thing ever.”

Carlson grew up on Cape Cod watching her older brother play in various punk bands. The first time she screamed into a microphone, she realized it was a way to release the feelings of a rough adolescence, experiences her lyrics often explore (not that you can exactly under-

stand them).

Already this year, Guerilla Toss has released the full-length Eraser Stargazer, a live album and a remix tape, which Carlson says they want to do a whole lot more of. Recently, they’ve been influenced by the Grateful Dead.

“I know that band isn’t a lot of people’s thing,” Carlson says. “But if you look at the band’s music with no judgment, no hippie, crappy thing, it’s really interesting.

They were one of the first noise bands. Every set was different for them.”

Inspired, Guerilla Toss now tries to make each show a completely new entity.

They’re jamming more and letting songs melt into one another.

Once the tour is over, they’ll go back to the city and figure out a way to make money, Carlson says.

But they’re not thinking about that now. Instead, they’re learning about the rest of the country.

“I’ve seen a lot of Trump signs and it makes me sad,” says Carlson. “On the East Coast we’re in this bubble, but this is actually a big place; no one thinks they’re voting for the bad guy.

We’ve seen a lot of interesting weather, too. In those middle flat states, you can see a storm coming from really far away.”  Guerilla Toss with Itchy Kitty and Outercourse • Sat, Sept. 24, at 9 pm • $5 • 21+ • The Observatory • 15 S. Howard • observatoryspokane.com • 598-8933

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here’s something thrilling about a three-piece rock band. Seeing a guitar-bass-drums lineup deliver the goods live, sans any “extra” guitars or keyboards, offers what can be argued as one of most authentic rock ’n’ roll experiences possible. It was true with Hendrix and Cream, true with Minutemen and Nirvana, and remains so with the Joy Formidable, a Welsh trio stopping by Spokane on tour with pop-rockers Kongos. Led by mesmerizing frontwoman Ritzy Bryan, the band broke through as a killer club attraction and festival favorite five years ago with the aptly named album The Big Roar. They’ve since delivered two more raging sets of contagious guitar rock, including this year’s Hitch, a sonic leap forward into some lusher arrangements that’s no less powerful than their older work.

— DAN NAILEN The Joy Formidable with Kongos • Tue, Sept. 27, at 8:30 pm • $22 • All-ages • Knitting Factory • 919 W. Sprague • sp.knittingfactory.com • 244-3279

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t helps to have friends in powerful places, even in the folk scene. Foy Vance was toiling away a decade ago in Northern Ireland, finding some success with his uplifting, pop-friendly folk. But his career really took off when he released Joy of Nothing in 2013, featuring contributions from Ed Sheeran and Bonnie Raitt, winning the inaugural Northern Ireland Music Prize and touring with Raitt.

Sheeran must have liked working with Vance — he signed him to his own label in 2015 and Vance’s first album of the deal, this year’s The Wild Swan, is making a splash. He’s already toured with Elton John and Josh Groban this summer before heading out on his own headlining jaunt.

— DAN NAILEN Foy Vance with Trevor Sensor • Thu, Sept. 29, at 8 pm • $15/$18 day of • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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 CALYPSOS COFFEE & CREAMERY, Open Mic EICHARDT’S, Monday Night Jam with Truck Mills RED ROOM LOUNGE, Open Mic with MJ The In-Human Beatbox  THE PIN!, Such Gold, Snakes/ Sermons, Scatterbox, Boat Race Weekend ZOLA, Fus Bol

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 THE BARTLETT, Northwest of Nashville feat. Marshall McLean Band, Honeysuckle, Greg & Caridwen Spatz  THE BOILER ROOM (863-9213), Nick Grow THE JACKSON ST., DJ Dave KELLY’S IRISH PUB, Arvid Lundin and Deep Roots  KNITTING FACTORY, Kongos, the Joy Formidable (See story on facing page) LEFTBANK WINE BAR, Turntable Tuesday

EICHARDT’S, Charley Packard JOHN’S ALLEY, General Mojo’s THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE, DJ Lydell LUCKY’S IRISH PUB, DJ D3VIN3  POOLE’S PUBLIC HOUSE, Nick Grow RED ROOM LOUNGE, Writer’s Cup THE RESERVE, EDM Wednesdays THE RIDLER PIANO BAR, Piano Bar with Christan Raxter SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS, Open mic  THE PIN!, Elektro Grave THE ROADHOUSE, Golden State Lone Star Blues Revue ZOLA, The Bossame

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 THE BARTLETT, Foy Vance (See story on facing page), Trevor Sensor, Sept. 29 THE BIG DIPPER, David Liebe Hart music/puppets/video, Sept. 30 SPOKANE ARENA, I Love The 90’s Tour feat. Coolio, Color Me Badd, Salt-N-Pepa w/Spinderella, Tone Loc, Vanilla Ice, Young MC, Oct. 2

MUSIC | VENUES 315 MARTINIS & TAPAS • 315 E. Wallace, CdA • 208-667-9660 ARBOR CREST • 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. • 927-9463 BABY BAR • 827 W. First Ave. • 847-1234 BARLOWS • 1428 N Liberty Lake Rd, Liberty Lake • 924-1446 THE BARTLETT • 228 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2174 THE BIG DIPPER • 171 S. Washington St. • 863-8098 BIGFOOT PUB • 9115 N. Division St. • 467-9638 BING CROSBY THEATER • 901 W. Sprague Ave. • 227-7638 BLACK DIAMOND • 9614 E. Sprague • 891-8357 BOLO’S• 116 S. Best Rd. • 891-8995 BOOMERS • 18219 E. Appleway Ave. • 755-7486 BOOTS • 24 W. Main Ave. • 703-7223 BUCER’S COFFEEHOUSE PUB • 201 S. Main, Moscow • 208-882-5216 BUCKHORN INN • 13311 Sunset Hwy.• 244-3991 CALYPSOS • 116 E Lakeside Ave., CdA • 208665-0591 THE CELLAR • 317 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-6649463 CHAPS • 4237 Cheney-Spokane Rd. • 624-4182 CHATEAU RIVE • 621 W. Mallon Ave. • 795-2030 CHECKERBOARD BAR • 1716 E. Sprague • 535-4007 COEUR D’ALENE CASINO • 37914 S. Nukwalqw Rd., Worley • 800-523-2464 COEUR D’ALENE CELLARS • 3890 N. Schreiber Way, CdA • 208-664-2336 CONKLING MARINA & RESORT • 20 W. Jerry Ln., Worley• 208-686-1151 CRAFTED TAP HOUSE • 523 Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-292-4813 CRAVE• 401 W. Riverside Suite 101. • 321-7480 CRUISERS • 6105 W Seltice Way, Post Falls • (208) 773-4706 CURLEY’S • 26433 W. Hwy. 53 • 208-773-5816 DALEY’S • 6412 E. Trent • 535-9309 EICHARDT’S • 212 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208263-4005 FEDORA PUB • 1726 W. Kathleen, CdA • 208765-8888 FIZZIE MULLIGANS • 331 W. Hastings Rd. • 466-5354 FOX THEATER • 1001 W. Sprague • 624-1200 HOGFISH • 1920 E. Sherman, CdA • 208-667-1896 IRON HORSE • 407 E. Sherman Ave., CdA • 208-667-7314 THE JACKSON ST. • 2436 N. Astor • 315-8497 JOHN’S ALLEY • 114 E. 6th, Moscow • 208-8837662 KNITTING FACTORY • 911 W. Sprague Ave. • 244-3279 LAGUNA CAFÉ • 2013 E. 29th • 448-0887 THE LANTERN TAP HOUSE • 1004 S. Perry St. • 315-9531 THE LARIAT • 11820 N Market St, Mead • 4669918 LA ROSA CLUB • 105 S. First Ave., Sandpoint • 208-255-2100 LEFTBANK WINE BAR • 108 N. Washington • 315-8623 LOON LAKE SALOON • 3996 Hwy. 292 • 233-2738 LUCKY’S IRISH PUB • 408 W. Sprague Ave. • 747-2605 MAX AT MIRABEAU • 1100 N. Sullivan Rd. • 924-9000 MONARCH MOUNTAIN COFFEE • 208 N 4th Ave, Sandpoint • (208) 265-9382 MOOSE LOUNGE • 401 E. Sherman • 208-6647901 MOOTSY’S • 406 W. Sprague • 838-1570 MULLIGAN’S • 506 Appleway Ave., CdA • (208) 765-3200 x310 NASHVILLE NORTH • 6361 W. Seltice Way, Post Falls • 208-457-9128 NECTAR• 120 N. Stevens St. • 869-1572 NORTHERN QUEST • 100 N. Hayford • 242-7000 NYNE • 232 W. Sprague Ave. • 474-1621 THE OBSERVATORY• 15 S Howard • 598-8933 O’SHAY’S • 313 E. CdA Lake Dr. • 208-667-4666 THE PALOMINO • 6425 N Lidgerwood St • 242-8907 PEND D’OREILLE WINERY • 301 Cedar St., Sandpoint • 208-265-8545 THE PIN! • 412 W. Sprague • 368-4077 RED LION RIVER INN • 700 N. Division St. • 326-5577 RED ROOM LOUNGE • 521 W. Sprague Ave. • 838-7613 REPUBLIC BREWING • 26 Clark Ave. • 775-2700 THE RESERVE • 120 N. Wall • 598-8783 THE RIDLER PIANO BAR • 718 W. Riverside . • 822-7938 RIVELLE’S• 2360 N Old Mill Loop, CdA • (208) 930-0381 THE ROADHOUSE • 20 N. Raymond • 413-1894 SEASONS OF COEUR D’ALENE • 209 E. Lakeside Ave. • 208-664-8008 THE SHOP • 924 S. Perry St. • 534-1647 SOULFUL SOUPS & SPIRITS • 117 N. Howard St. • 459-1190 SPOKANE ARENA • 720 W. Mallon • 279-7000 SWAXX • 23 E. Lincoln Rd. • 703-7474 TIMBER GASTRO PUB •1610 E Schneidmiller, Post Falls • 208-262-9593 ZOLA • 22 W. Main Ave. • 624-2416

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FESTIVAL TASTE OF GERMANY

Whether you are an accordion aficionado or look lavish in lederhosen, the second annual Oktoberfest at the River offers 30 hours of authentic German flavor to returning festivalgoers and novices alike. Spend your time with a stein, sipping historic Paulaner beer and snacking on sizzling schnitzel from local German eatery Das Stein Haus. Listen to event host Manuela Horn, the “Queen of Oktoberfest,” yodel to rock songs, or frolic to German folk music with the Alpen Band.

Bocce ball, folk dancers, a cornhole toss and weiner dog races provide fun for attendees of all ages.

— EMILY GOODELL Oktoberfest at the River • Fri-Sun, Sept. 23-25 • $10; $15/ weekend ($5/Sunday) • Spokane Convention Center • 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. • oktoberfestattheriver.com

FESTIVAL SUMMER’S SEND-OFF

Before we head indoors for the cooler months, Valleyfest invites the community out for a proper summer send-off. With activities and attractions to interest all, Valleyfest’s packed three-day schedule includes family bike rides, fun runs, a parade, vendor fair, a car show, live music and entertainment and lots else to see and do.

Keep your fingers crossed that weather permits the colorful hot air balloons to take flight at sunrise on Saturday and Sunday morning for Balloons Over Valleyfest. Details and a complete event schedule for this year’s festival can be found online.

— CHEY SCOTT Valleyfest 2016 • Fri, Sept. 23 to Sun, Sept. 25 • Most events are free to attend • At Mirabeau Point Park and CenterPlace Regional Event Center • valleyfest.org • 922-3299

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COMMUNITY FALL FIESTA

To cap off September’s celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, this Saturday’s Fiesta Spokane party welcomes all to come experience a little taste of our region’s Latino heritage, with food, music, a vendor fair and more. Hosted by the Latino Hope Foundation, the third annual celebration also hosts the Fiesta Spokane Run (with 5K, 10K and half-marathon route options), proceeds from which support foundation scholarships awarded to Latino students attending the area’s colleges and universities. Go for the local taco trucks and the lively music and dancing; stay to immerse yourself in one of our region’s rich cultural heritages.

— CHEY SCOTT Fiesta Spokane Hispanic Heritage Festival • Sat, Sept. 24, from 9 am-8 pm • Free • Post Street, between City Hall and Riverfront Park • latinohopefoundation.org

VISUAL ARTS VERY OLD SCHOOL

The Roman Myth and Mythmaking show is more than just the main attraction at Gonzaga’s Jundt Art Museum this fall, thanks to its collection of 115 artifacts of everyday Roman life borrowed from several of the country’s leading institutions of ancient Roman expertise. It also serves as the jumping-off point for a free weekly lecture series in the museum auditorium from a wide range of experts each Thursday for the next several months, starting on Sept.

22 with UW professor Alain Gowing speaking on “Myth and Memory in the Roman Historical Imagination,” and continuing Sept. 29 with Reed College prof Ellen Millender speaking on “Livy’s Legendary Ladies.” Also this Thursday (9/22), a group of Roman re-enactors from Oregon visit the campus’s Herak Quad, offering demos from 10 am-4 pm.

— DAN NAILEN Roman Myth and Mythmaking • Mon-Sat, 10 am-4 pm through Dec. 17 • Free and open to the public • Jundt Art Museum • 200 E. Desmet • gonzaga.edu/jundt • 313-6843

COMEDY LAUGHS FROM A LIFER

Growing up in a large Irish Catholic family in the Midwest, one of seven children, Kathleen Madigan might be expected to mine that domestic tableau for laughs. Occasionally that’s true, but the woman Lewis Black calls “the funniest comic in America, bar none” aims her jokes at Bill Cosby, the Catholic Church and politics — which should be a particularly fertile subject this election season. With 25 years of doing 300 shows annually, she’s a comedy pro — watch her spot on Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee — and was nominated as “Best Concert Comic” in 2014 by the American Comedy Awards.

— DAN NAILEN Kathleen Madigan • Fri, Sept. 23, at 8 pm • $35 • Bing Crosby Theater • 901 W. Sprague • bingcrosbytheater.com • 227-7638

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BENEFIT

JAZZ AT THE FOX The 1920s-themed evening includes food, raffles, jazz and dancing to support the Spokane chapter of Executive Women International.

Sep. 22, 6-9 pm. $75. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. ewispokane.org KYRS 90S DANCE PARTY The 90stheme dance party and benefit for KYRS includes prizes, a raffle prizes and more. Sep. 22, 7:30-11 pm. $5. Big Dipper, 171 S. Washington. (747-3012) APPETITE FOR CONSERVATION Inland Northwest Land Conservancy’s third annual fundraiser is making a move from the farm to the vineyard of Arbor Crest Wine Cellars. Sep. 23, 6-9 pm. $75-$95/person. Arbor Crest, 4705 N. Fruit Hill Rd. inlandnwland.org

SCBA CHAMPIONS OF JUSTICE BREAKFAST The Volunteer Lawyers Program’s annual breakfast features guest speaker the Honorable Debra L. Stephens, of Washington State Supreme Court. Sep. 23, 7 am. $50 suggested donation. Gonzaga Hemmingson Center, 502 E. Boone Ave. gonzaga.edu SPOKANE END AIDS WALK All are invited to partake in this annual community awareness and fundraiser. Sep. 24, 11 am-2 pm. $25. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard St. sanwalk.org (455-8993) TAKE STEPS FOR CROHN’S & COLITIS The fundraising walk celebrates the dedication of the IBD community, offering games, food and activities for the whole family. Sep. 24, 4-7 pm. By donation. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard St. (715-7610)

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I SAW YOU IN THE INLANDER STORY ON YOUTH HOMELESSNESS It was your story of family rejection because of your sexual orientation that broke our hearts. We just want you to know that we are here for you if you ever want to reach out. We may not have a lot to offer but we can give you unconditional love and acceptance. If you want to reach out to us, Wilson has our contact information.

OOPS I SAW YOU Early Wed. Morning early like 3-4 in the morning. I was wearing a wig. Not normal anyway if you read The Indlander and see this, you will know ALL I CAN SAY IS “LETS WRITE A BOOK MAN!” Could be fun to compare notes...

OTTERLY PERFECT First time I saw you I could barely speak. You started coming into my work on a regular basis, you asked me for my number a few times until I finally caved. Best decision of my life. You saved me. “Hold my hand through the night and we will never drift apart” ROCK HARD AT THE PARK 2016 DIESEL MECHANIC The last part of rock hard I met you and when it ended you went with your friends to the valley, all I remember is you were a diesel mechanic and my brother had drove all the way from Clayton to pick my friends and I up and we didn’t exchange info. Wish I had. Jdmspyder02@gmail.com

that anything will ever change. You are in charge of your own destiny... or maybe not.

CHEERS THE EXAMPLE In the middle of a political season oversaturated with hate and ignorance was Mary Lou Reed’s article about why she likes Hillary. It was amazingly about what she liked as opposed to pointing out the horribleness of Trump.

I wouldn’t say that I am a huge Hillary fan, that isn’t really the point. Cheers to Mary Lou Reed and her thoughtful comments.

HAPPY BI-VISIBILITY DAY! (SEPTEMBER 23RD) I wish each and every one of you bisexuals an awesome Bi-Visibility Day! I believe in you and your existence. Don’t let anyone ever tell you it’s just a phase and you have to make a choice. You’ve already made your choice-you are bi. In me, you have an ally and avid supporter. Enjoy YOUR day! Stand tall and BI-Proud!

LITTLE RED-HAIRED GIRL Augh! I can’t believe how thoroughly I feel the feeling of having known you all along. You have me walking tall and loving life with you. Slow, fast, every which way... Your Charlie Brown CAT CLINIC, NORTHWEST BLVD. Friday, Sept. 16th, we brought our kitty, our beloved “child” of 12 years to you. He was dying in our arms, we knew it and we needed someone to desperately help him. At first you told us that you had no openings and began to figure out where we could take him, someone to help us... as we stood in your lobby crying and holding on to him. Your staff took us in, gave us genuine empathy, and helped our kitty leave this world with comfort. We didn’t know what to do, we were scared, heartbroken, and desperate. You have no idea what you did for us today... we needed someone like yourselves. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you... Raymond ILMLK LK I can’t put into words how much you mean to me. You have made my life so full of love and joy. I cherish every moment we have shared and look forward to our future. I love you, Gorgeous Woman. EB. HELLO BATMAN! 371 days since last sighting. Nothing has changed at the batcave. Assuming nothing will change at all for you as witnessed over these 3 years.

Will always leave the light on. Call when you can. Loving you forever and losing hope

JEERS FAIR WARNING TO A THIEF To whomever ransacked my FJ cruiser last Thursday night,

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her butt was wet?? And instead of offering to help clean it up by going and getting some towels, you sat there, mumbling an insincere apology, and offering to do nothing. How rude and ill-mannered can you get? Apparently your mamma never taught you any manners or how to take responsibility for your actions. The only open seats were two at the very back

and come back when you are done lunking.

There are dozens of machines outside the circuit area at your disposal.

SPOKANIMAL DOG PARK POOP PATROL What the hell is up with people just standing around watching their dogs take a dump and not picking up after them??

The park is a place for dogs and owners

Dear Planet Fitness beef cake, you know who you are... I have been tempted so many times to sound the ‘Lunk Alarm’ on you.

I still have the half empty pack of American Spirits you spilled onto our lawn. I’ll make you a deal. Bring back my Sounders Xbox jersey and Ray Bans and I will swap out your cigs no questions asked. If not, PLEASE do not make the mistake of letting me find you wearing both.

JEERS TO ME To the gentleman walking a golden retriever off leash in Comstock Park about 10 days ago: I am sorry that I yelled at you (and worse) because your dog was off leash. You were right: it was not the end of the world Unfortunately, my golden retriever (who is on his leash) gets upset and difficult to control when he sees loose dogs. Many people do not respect the leash laws in this park, which makes it difficult for those who do. You were kind enough to put your dog on the leash when you saw mine was leashed. Again, I am sorry that I was verbally abusive.

THANKS FOR RUINING OUR EVENING Jeers to the inconsiderate jerk sitting behind us during the Red Green show at the Bing last Monday evening. As we stood for the “Possum Lodge oath”, you spilled your wine all over our armrest and my wife’s seat. Instead of saying anything, you kept silent, letting my wife sit in the soaked seat, staining her light tan skirt with red wine. Like she wasn’t going to notice that

SOUND OFF 1. Visit Inlander.com/isawyou by 3 pm Monday. 2. Pick a category (I Saw You, You Saw Me, Cheers or Jeers). 3.

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

to the theater, so instead of seats only three rows from the stage, we now had to watch the show from the back of the theater. As sitting on the damp skirt was very uncomfortable, we ended up leaving at intermission. So thanks for ruining the show and my wife’s dress skirt, now stained with red wine. Perhaps you should stick to drinking out of a baby bottle, as it would compliment your immaturity as shown by your lack of table manners and subsequent inaction. Kudos to the management of the Bing. When my wife called on Tuesday about the incident, instead of passing the buck to the actions of a rude jerk, they took responsibility and did provide a partial refund.

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to wander and explore and play...but you can’t walk 10 feet without stepping in sh*t.

It looks and smells disgusting. Don’t be lazy, people. For the love of all things holy, people, pick up after your dogs!!

INLANDER FAIL In the recent Annual Manual, you had a glaring oversight in not including Azar’s on North Monroe for their unique and delicious Middle Eastern cuisine, especially their lunch buffet. You also failed to include La Presa in Airway Heights, the most authentic Mexican canteena experience I have had in Spokane County and the food is as excellent as the ambience. It is hard to understand these oversights. 

GYM ETIQUETTE Dear Planet Fitness beef cake, you know who you are, there every day from about 5-7, biggest muscles in the place. I have been tempted so many times to sound the “Lunk Alarm” on you. Must you make so much noise when you lift? That aside, as I know it’s common or else there wouldn’t be a “Lunk Alarm,” can you please stay out of the circuit area? It’s a CIRCUIT. The rest of us would like to get our work out done and get on with our lives. It’s very inconsiderate of you to come into the circuit and interrupt everyone’s flow by hogging a single machine for your numerous reps and expect everyone to skip that machine

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Annual Harvest Open House & Sale SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1st and SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2ND Celebrate our 35th harvest with savings of up to 30% off wine and up to 50% off gifts.

Open Daily 9am-5pm Winery & Gift Shop

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EVENTS | CALENDAR THE DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN’S RIDE The international motorcycling charity event showcases vintage and classic bikes, fashion and ideals of a bygone era, in support of men’s health.

Prizes offered for top donations raised, most dapper, and more from local sponsors. Sep. 25. Free. Downtown Coeur d’Alene, Sherman Ave. gentlemansride.com WIENER DOG RACES Join the fun at Oktoberfest and bring your wiener dogs to an event benefiting Dachshund Rescue NW. Races for dogs ages 10+ and nine and under; purebreds only. Sep. 25, 3 pm. $5. facebook.com/ DachshundRescueNW HOPE IS GOLDEN LUNCHEON The American Childhood Cancer Organization Inland Northwest’s fourth annual benefit, which includes a free lunch, speakers, a silent auction, and an ask for contributions. All proceeds benefit ACCOIN’s missions to education, serve, support, and advocate for local families affected by childhood cancer. Sep. 28, 11 am-noon. Free. Lincoln Center, 1316 N. Lincoln. acco.org/inlandnw/ COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS SPOKANE COUNTY BENEFIT BREAKFAST The annual event supports the programs and services of the local nonprofit that addresses the causes of academic failure. Registration required.

Sep. 28, 7-9 am. Free admission; donations accepted. Red Lion Hotel at the Park, 201 W. North River Dr. (326-8000) FRIENDS OF FIRST NIGHT: WHITE HATTER EVENT An evening of live music, raffles and wine to benefit First Night Spokane; this year’s event theme is also revealed along with a sneakpeak for what’s to come. Sep. 29, 6-9 pm. Barrister Winery, 1213 W. Railroad Ave. bit.ly/2cA6scs (465-3591) PEACEFUL VALLEY NEIGHBORHOOD SALE Proceeds from the yard sale and the sale of original art sale to support the Peaceful Valley Neighborhood Council’s efforts to protect the historic neighborhood. Sept. 30, 9 am-noon, and Oct. 1, 9 am-2 pm. Also includes live music, 12-2 pm and live poetry. Glover Field, 216 N. Cedar St. (995-6747) BOOKTOBERFEST Shop through 20,000+ new and used books, DVDs, CDs, videos, LPs, games and puzzles.

Most are priced for $1 or less and all proceeds benefits the animals of the Spokane Humane Society. Oct. 1-2, from 8 am-5 pm. Free. Spokane Humane Society, 6607 N. Havana St. spokanehumanesociety.org (467-5235) HOEDOWN FOR HOPE Spokane HOPE (Hearing Oral Program of Excellence) invites the community to help local children with hearing loss (ages birth to 5), learn to listen and speak by attending the fifth annual benefit event. Enjoy dinner, raffles, auction, live music and dancing. Oct. 1, 5-10 pm. $60. Spokane Convention Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. spokanehopeschool.org INTO AFRICA Partnering for Progress’ annual fundraising dinner and auction includes featured speaker, the Kenyan project administrator, talking about P4P’s programs in Kenya. Enjoy an African-themed dinner and auction items.

All proceeds go toward P4P’s projects that provide access to health care, education, economic development and clean water in southwest Kenya. Oct. 1. $65. Mirabeau Park Hotel, 1100 N. Sullivan. intoafricaauction.org (720-8408)

COMEDY

GUFFAW YOURSELF! Open mic comedy night; Thursdays at 10 pm. Free.

Neato Burrito, 827 W. First. (847-1234) IAN BAGG Starting his comedy career in his native Canada, Bagg has appeared on a slate of late night comedy shows, and many specials. Sept. 22-24, 8 pm; Sept. 23-24, 10:30 pm. $10-$22.

Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com KATHLEEN MADIGAN The regular panelist on Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, Kathleet was nominated for a 2014 American Comedy Award for “Best Concert Comic.”

Sep. 23, 8 pm. $35. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague. bingcrosbytheater.com THE MUSICAL An all-improvised musical based on audience suggestions.

Appropriate for general audiences. Fridays, 8 pm, in September. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) STAND-UP COMEDY Live comedy featuring established and up-and-coming local comedians. Fridays at 8 pm. No cover. Red Dragon Chinese, 1406 W. Third Ave. reddragondelivery.com DUOS: LATE NIGHT COMEDY TWOBY-TWO A comedy show pairing two Blue Door players for 15 minutes of improv. For mature audiences, shows on the last Saturday of the month (Sept.

24, Oct. 29 and Nov. 26), at 10 pm. $7.

Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com (747-7045) MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS The Off-Broadway hit comedy is a one-man fusion of theatre and stand-up, and is a light-hearted theatrical comedy based on the New York Times #1 best-selling book of the last decade by John Gray. Sep. 24, 8 pm. $40. Bing Crosby Theater, 901 W. Sprague Ave. friendsofthebing.org SAFARI Fast-paced, short-form improv games based on audience suggestions.

(Recommended for 16+) Saturdays at 8 pm, through Dec. 17. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045) THE DOPE SHOW A comedy showcase where comedians joke, then toke, the joke some more. Presented by Tyler Smith, featuring nationally touring comedians. Sep. 25, 8 pm. $10-$16.

Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com MONDAY NIGHT COMEDY A weekly comedy open mic on Mondays, hosted

by Nick Cavasier. Sign-up at 7:30, show at 8 pm. Free. The Reserve, 120 N. Wall St. facebook.com/spokomedy SPOKANE COMEDY’S STANDUP SHOWDOWN Comedians get a topic and have four minutes to perform; the crowd then votes for a winner. Tuesdays, from 8-10 pm. Free. The Observatory, 15 S. Howard. (598-8933) TRIVIA + OPEN MIC COMEDY Trivia starts at 8 pm; stick around for open mic comedy afterward. Tuesdays, from 8-10 pm. Free. Checkerboard Bar, 1716 E. Sprague Ave. checkerboardbar.com OPEN MIC A free open mic night every Wednesday, starting at 8 pm. Doors open at 7 pm. Free. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. (509-318-9998) COMEDY@FIRST The newly reopened Ella’s Theater hosts Friends of the Bing’s new Thursday night comedy series, featuring Tom Meisfjord and Josh Teaford. Sep. 29, 8 pm. $10-$12.50.

Ella’s Theater, 1017 W. First.

JENNY ZIGRINO Zigrino made her late night debut on Conan O’Brien and was a finalist in Comedy Central’s “Up Next” Comics to Watch of 2013. Sept. 29-Oct. 1, 8 pm, Sept. 30-Oct. 1 at 10:30 pm. $10-$22. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com DAVID LIEBE HART Best known from Adult Swim’s Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!), Liebe Hart presents a multimedia spectacular with music, puppets and videos, and backing musician Jonah “Th’ Mole” Mociun. Support acts: The Smokes, The Midnight Goats, Ditch Kids. Sep. 30, 7:30-11 pm. $10/$13.

The Big Dipper, 171 S. Washington St. bit.ly/2bha17a (530-470-3299)

COMMUNITY

COLVILLE CORN MAZE & PUMPKIN PATCH The seventh year of the local, 12-acre corn maze, with a pumpkin and squash patch. Open through Oct. 31; Sat-Sun from 11 am-7:30 pm and MonFri, from 4-7:30 pm. $5-$7. 73 Oakshott Rd. colvillecornmaze.com (684-6751) COMMUNITY OPEN DANCE An all-ages dance, offering all types of music and styles od dance. Thursdays, at 7 pm. $5.

Western Dance Center, 1901 N. Sullivan Rd. squaredancespokane.org THE COMMUNITY SPEAKS: A DIALOGUE ON RACE, ETHNICITY AND IMPLICIT BIAS The Washington State Human Rights hosts a forum to discuss issues surrounding race, and implicit bias and its often overlooked impact on communities of color. Featuring a panel of community organization leaders, the forum serves as an opportunity for individuals and groups to share with state human rights commissioners and local leaders, their experiences while living and working in the Spokane area. Sep. 22, 6 pm. Free and open to the public.

Gonzaga University School of Law, 721 N. Cincinnati St. (360-753-2558) FIRST ROBOTICS Be part of the First Robotic Competition (FRC) and build a robot that can do things like kick a soccer ball or shoot hoops. It’s as true to real-life, hands-on engineering as you can get. Meets Thursdays, from 3-6 pm, through Dec. $50. Gizmo-cda, 806 N. Fourth. gizmo-cda.org (208-651-6200) WASHINGTON STATE CHINESE LANTERN FESTIVAL The festival returns for a second year, filling the park with handmade Chinese lantern sculptures.

All new displays featured this year, along with the artisan vendor village, a dinosaur fossil dig, cultural and acrobatic performances, food and more.

Through Oct. 30; Sun-Thu, from 5-10 pm; Fri-Sat, from 5-11 pm. Performances Sun-Thu at 6:30 and 8:30 pm; Fri-Sat at 7 and 9 pm. $10-$15/entry; $40/family pass (2 adults, 2 youth) and $60/ all-access pass. Kids three and under free. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard St. spokanelanternfestival.com WOMEN’S BUSINESS CENTER CONFERENCE Small business owners are invited to attend this event to learn about cyber security and how to protect your small business. Sep. 22, 9 am-3 pm.

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I’m a 35-year-old woman, and my boyfriend of a year is 43. Sadly, my friends and family don’t like him. They think he’s “not good enough” for me. Their argument: He doesn’t have a full-time job with benefits (like me), plus he smokes pot to relax; therefore, he is lazy and will live off me and my retirement money. (Sorry, but enjoying retirement alone isn’t my idea of a “secure future.”) He has a part-time job he likes, makes enough AMY ALKON to pay his bills in a (small) house he owns, and saves for things he wants. He is loving, has my back to an unreasonable degree, and says he’s pretty sure he used up all his luck getting me. Unfortunately, all minds are made up; there’s no explaining what a deeply good man he is. I feel awkward bringing him to gatherings or even mentioning him. The worst, though, is my nagging question: Could they be right? —Torn There are people who chase their dreams, and there are those — like your boyfriend — who just chillax on the couch, smoking a doob, waiting for their dreams to be in the neighborhood and maybe knock on the door.

He does sound like a good man — which doesn’t necessarily mean he’s a good man to make a life with (which is why everybody’s campaigning for you to ditch him). Maybe you’re thinking, “Okay, so he’s kind of a laid-back dude. It’s 2016; can’t the woman be the breadwinner?” Well, yes…but his lack of drive is likely to be a problem — at least eventually.

Evolutionary developmental psychologist Bruce J. Ellis explains that there’s this notion by some social scientists — called the “structural powerlessness hypothesis” — that women only go for powerful men because they themselves lack power. This, Ellis writes, is “directly contradicted” by research — on feminist leaders, for example — that finds that “high-power women (want) super-powerful men.” They aren’t all, “Well, I make plenty of money; I think I’ll marry Hot Julio, the pool boy.”

As for why this is, Ellis explains (as I often do) that ancestral women who went for mover-and-shaker men were more likely to have children who survived and passed on their genes. “Over evolutionary time,” he writes, “evaluative mechanisms” were built into female psychology to push women “to detect and prefer males” with a “willingness and ability” to provide for them and their children.

A guy doesn’t necessarily have to be rich for you to get your “man with mate value!” box checked. What seems to matter is potential — that he is ambitious and has a reasonable shot at achieving what he’s going after.

Now, maybe you went for your sweet underachiever as a reaction to jerks in your recent past — or because it’s supposedly “shallow” to want a partner to be, say, at least a certain height or making some kind of mark in business. But, using the height example, if you really aren’t attracted to shorter guys, getting involved with one is basically benevolent cruelty. Sooner or later, your libido’s going to be all, “Okay, so you got drunk and went home with the garden gnome. But enough is enough.”

It is possible that you and Laid-Back Larry could live happily ever after. But ask yourself some questions: Where do you see yourself in five years? Could you count on him to put down the bong and go make money if you got sick? Will your friends and family come to accept him, or will you end up unhappily isolated?

And finally, do you want kids? If so, consider that you can downscale your lifestyle but you can’t downscale your kid from needing dental care or hand him makeshift forceps to take the toy truck out of his nose.

Sure, this guy would probably be the ideal stay-at-home dad. But consider — in line with what Ellis explains — that a number of studies find that women married to a Mr. Mom often end up resenting and losing respect for him, and those marriages are more likely to end in divorce.

You probably need some time to figure all of this out. Because people read the words in letters (instead of yelling over them), maybe write one to your family to ask them to be kind to him at family functions — for your sake. And finally, try not to be so dramatic about your options. You’re 35. The fertility train might be leaving the station pretty soon, but it’s not like this guy is your last chance before “Marriage is between a woman and her cat!” and “P.S. Snowball and I are registered at Bloomingdale’s and Petco.” n ©2016, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)

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EVENTS | CALENDAR JUST BETWEEN FRIENDS SPOKANE An event offering gently-used infant to juniors clothing, shoes, boots, maternity, costumes, holiday outfits, books, games, layette, strollers, bikes, baby gear, toys and more. Sunday is halfprice day with free admission. Sept.

23-25. $5 admission/Fri, Sat. Spokane County Fair & Expo Center, 404 N. Havana. spokane.jbfsale.com (536-2840) VALLEYFEST The annual community celebration features dozens of events and attractions, including a 5/10K fun run, parade, family bike ride, vendor fair, Totfest, the Lion’s Club Bed Races, Responsible Dog Ownership Day, Balloons Over Valleyfest, outdoor movies, a car show and more. Sept. 23-25.

See website for details and complete schedule. Most events free to attend.

Mirabeau Park/CenterPlace Event Center. valleyfest.org WE GOT YOUR BACK 5K The University of Idaho Counseling and Testing Center hosts a suicide awareness 5K run and walk, at the Student Recreation Center.

The event is part of the University’s “I Got Your Back” Safety Week, Sept. 1823. Sep. 23, 6 pm. $5-$10. University of Idaho, 709 S Deakin St. uidaho.edu/5k ART ON THE AVE The sixth annual event features more than 40 local artists, musicians, interactive art, a kid’s zone, sidewalk games and more. 12-6 pm, main event; 6-9 pm, after party. On East Sprague between Napa and Madelia. Sep. 24, 12-9 pm. Free. Spokane International District, 1802 E. Sprague Ave. facebook.com/ArtontheAve/ CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE Meet a therapy dog and learn about the program that brings animals and people with disabilities together.

Sep. 24, 1 pm. Free. Sandpoint Library, 1407 Cedar, Sandpoint. ebonnerlibrary. org (208-263-6930) FREE DAY: MUSEUM OF NORTH IDAH0 Visit the museum free of charge as part of Smithsonian Magazine’s Museum Day Live. Visitors are encouraged to download the free ticket at smithsonian.com/museumdaylive. Sept. 24, 11 am-5 pm. Free. Museum of North Idaho, 115 Northwest Blvd. (208-664-3448) KOOTENAI COUNTY FARMERS MARKET FALL FESTIVAL In addition to market shopping and free coffee, soup, pastries, face and pumpkin painting, and scarecrow making, the KCFM offers a chance to win some prizes in a silent auction benefiting the market’s Double Up Bucks program. Sep. 24. Free. Highway 95 and Prairie Ave, Hayden.

LOST EGYPT: ANCIENT SECRETS, MODERN SCIENCE Explore ancient Egypt with hands-on activities, human and animal mummies and real Egyptian artifacts. Sept. 24-Jan. 6; open Tue-Sat, 10 am-5 pm (until 8 pm on Wed; halfprice admission on Tue). $5-$10/admission. The MAC, 2316 W. First. (456-3931) NATIONAL BALLROOM DANCE WEEK CELEBRATION Learn how to dance the foxtrot, rumba and swing with a professional instructor, followed by general dancing and refreshments. Open to all ages and levels. Sep. 24, 7-10 pm. $5$9. Sandpoint Community Hall, 204 S. First Ave. (208-699-0421) ROLLIN’ WITH RAPTORS Bicycles, tricycles, long boards, roller blades, or strollers... you choose how you want to roll on this 1-mile loop in an enclosed area to benefit the Raptors at the West Valley Outdoor Learning Center. Registration at 9 am; ride at 10 am. Registra-

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Volunteer opportunities available. Sep. 24, 9 am-2 pm. $5. West Valley Outdoor Learning Center, 8706 E. Upriver Drive. bit.ly/2d1aU8S (340-1028) THE SCIENCE OF STAR TREK In honor of the 50th anniversary of the first airing of Star Trek in 1966, explore and celebrate with Trek fan and astronomy educator Daniel Bakken. Sept. 24, 2 pm. Free. Indian Trail Library, 4909 W. Barnes Rd. (444-5331) SCULPTING MAMMOTH ANIMALS Meet sculptor Peter Thomas, and help him create sculptures of Ice Age giants for a Pleistocene display to be installed in the MAC’s group entry, to accompany the “Titans of the Ice Age: Mammoths & Mastodons” exhibit in February. Sept.

24-25, and Oct. 2, from 11 am-3 pm.

Free with museum admission. The MAC, 2316 W. First. northwestmuseum.org SPOKANE HAMFEST An amateur radio ARRL state convention, featuring seminars, displays, swap tables, opencry auction, prizes and food. Sept. 24, 9 am-4 pm. $5; ages 18 and under free.

University High School, 12320 E. 32nd Ave. kbara.org (448-5821) SPOKANE VALLEY NIGHT MARKET The test event offers live music, kids activities, local food and artisan vendors, live entertainment and more. Sept. 24, 4-8 pm. Spokane Valley Mall, 14700 E. (509-926-3700) SHRINER’S HOSPITAL DUCK WADDLE 5K The family-oriented walk through Riverfront Park supports the programs of the El Katif Shriners. Entry includes a T-shirt and goody bag. Then, watch the El Katif Rubber Duck Race down the river at 2 pm. Sep. 25, 11 am-2:30 pm. $20. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard St. tinyurl.com/duckwaddle2016 CLUB TECHNO: GAME DESIGN Create a story using Twine, the adventure creation software. Then bring your story to life using the tools of Gizmo. Meets Sept. 26-Oct. 31, Mondays, from 3:30-6 pm. For middle and high school students. $75. Gizmo-cda, 806 N. Fourth St. gizmo-cda.org (208-651-6200) INLANDER DEBATE PARTY Join the Inlander team for drinks and lively conversation at the first presidential candidate debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Pre-debate fun starts at 5 pm, with the debate watch party starting at 6 pm. Sep. 26. Free. nYne, 232 W. Sprague. bit.ly/2bZA8TL NATIONAL VOTER REGISTRATION DAY In partnership with the League of Women Voters, stop by the Downtown Library to register to vote. Sept. 27, 10 am-6 pm. Free. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main. spokanelibrary.org GSI ANNUAL MEETING Howard Behar, former president of Starbucks Coffee Co. North America and Starbucks Coffee International, keynotes this year’s event. His motivational message prompts all to be servant leaders and to lead with their values first. Sept. 28, 11:30 am-1:30 pm. $50-$75. Spokane Convention Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. greaterspokane.org MINI COMMUNITY RESOURCES FAIR A resource fair for low-income clients and neighbors in Northwest Spokane.

Avista, SNAP, Molina, Veterans’ Handyman Services and other agencies are on site. Free hot dogs and ice cream cones for attendees. Sept. 28, 10 am-2 pm.

Free. Caritas Outreach Ministries, 1612 W. Dalke. (326-2249)

SUPREME COURT CANDIDATE FORUM Three, six-year term positions are contested this year; meet and listen to the candidates at a forum co-sponsored

by The League of Women Voters of Washingon/Spokane, Center for Justice, NAACP/Spokane, and the YWCA/ Spokane. Televised and rebroadcast by TVW, KPBX and KYRS recording. Sept.

28, 5-6:30 pm. Free. Gonzaga School of Law, 721 N. Cincinnati St. (747-3304) NATIONAL DAY OF REMEMBRANCE FOR MURDER VICTIMS The Victim/ Witness Unit from the Spokane County Prosecutors Office hosts a vigil to honor memories of murder victims and recognize the impact of homicide on surviving family/friends. Sept. 29, 6-7:30 pm.

Spokane County Public Works Building, 1100 W. Mallon. (477-3640) PAJAMA STORY TIME WITH LOCAL AUTHORS Scablands Lit gathers local writers Chris Cook, Jeff Dodd, Kate Peterson and Liz Rognes who read picture books aloud to preschool kids (ages 2-5) who come in their favorite pajamas. Sept. 29, 6:30-7:30 pm. Free.

Spark Central, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. sparkwestcentral.org (279-0299)

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WSU HUMANITAS FESTIVAL Events for the fourth annual, week-long cultural celebration include presentations and performances by local and regional arts groups, including music, dance, theater and more. Through Sept. 24.

See website for details. WSU Pullman. performingarts.wsu.edu/humanitas SOUTHEAST SPOKANE COUNTY FAIR The small community offers exhibits, entertainment, a parade, livestock, horse trials, a carnival, kids activities, food, vendors, basketball and more.

Sept. 23-24, 10 am-9 pm, Sept. 25, 10:30 am-6 pm. Free. Rockford, Wash. sespokanecountyfair.com (291-3908) FIESTA SPOKANE: HISPANIC HERITAGE FESTIVAL The third annual festival offers music, dancing, a health and educational fair, kids activities, local vendors, a beer garden and food trucks.

Along Post Street near City Hall. Sept.

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CONFUCIUS INSTITUE DAY As part of the activities around Idaho celebrating the 12th anniversary of the Confucius Institute program, UI hosts a documentary fest on Chinese food traditions.

Sept. 23-15, at 4 pm. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main. kenworthy.org BENNY & JOON A free screening of this film that was made in Spokane. Sept.

24, 2 pm. Free. Downtown Spokane Library, 906 W. Main. spokanelibrary.org BOLLYWOOD ON THE PALOUSE Numerous WSU departments sponsor the first ever festival featuring recent Hindi cinema on Tuesdays, at 7 pm, Sept.

6-27. Free. The Kenworthy, 508 S. Main. kenworthy.org MICHAEL BUBLE - TOUR STOP 148 The screening offers behind-the-scenes footage of Grammy Award-winning singer songwriter and his team on the road while featuring a compilation of his greatest hits. Sept. 27, 7 pm. $16.

Regal Cinemas, 4750 N. Division. fathomevents.com BEYOND MEASURE Screening and panel discussion of the documentary

following public schools across the country as they take matters into their own hands. Free; registration required (at link). Sept. 28, 7-10 pm. Whitworth University, 300 W. Hawthorne Rd. beyondmeasurefilm. com/whitworth-university NIC DISABILITY AWARENESS FILM FESTIVAL The festival hosts screenings of a different film(s) each month, from September through April. See website for film titles and descriptions. Sept. 28, Oct. 26, Nov. 9, Dec. 7, Jan. 18, Feb. 15, March 15 and April 19, all showings at noon.

Free. North Idaho College, 1000 W. Garden Ave. bit.ly/1SiBHKi

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81ST GREEK DINNER FESTIVAL The annual Greek food and culture festival features traditional lunch and dinner for dine-in or carry-out, a vendor fair, deli, boutique, book store, church tours and Greek dancing. Sept. 22-24. $8-$18. Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, 1703 N. Washington. (328-9310) INLAND NORTHWEST CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL The Washington Beer Commission’s annual event highlights 38 local and regional breweries, offering samples of more than 100 beers. Also includes live music, food and more; Sept. 23, 4-9 pm and Sept. 24, 12-8 pm (familyfriendly day). $20/person. Avista Stadium, 602 N. Havana St. washingtonbeer.com (535-2922) OKTOBERFEST AT THE RIVER A celebration of German cheer, dancing, singing, food and beer. Sept.

23-24, noon-midnight, Sept. 25, 10 am-5 pm. $10/day; $15/weekend.

Spokane Convention Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. oktoberfestattheriver.com GARLIC 101 Learn how to select, plant, encourage and harvest your own (mild, spicy, hot) garlic. Sept.

24, 2-4 pm. $14. Corbin Senior Center, 827 W. Cleveland. (279-6027) GREEN BLUFF APPLE FESTIVAL Orchards at Green Bluff celebrate the harvest of Washington’s state fruit, with fresh-harvest apples for sale, plus cider and other produce during the harvest season. Events around the farms include live music, corn and straw mazes and more.

Weekends from through Oct. 30. greenbluffgrowers.com NORTH IDAHO CIDER OKTOBERFEST The second annual event features 20 local vendors on site, hard cider, brats, burgers, pretzels, and live music. Sep. 24, 11 am-7 pm. Free.

North Idaho Cider, 11100 N. Airport Rd. northidahocider.com BACKYARD HARVEST DINNER The first of Backyard Harvest’s three gourmet farm-to-table fundraisers which support programs and services that increase access to fresh food on the Palouse and in the Lewis-Clark Valley. Sept. 25, 5 pm. $100/person. Black Cypress, 215 E. Main St. (288-1711) FOOD SAFETY DURING POWER OUTAGES Food preservation/safety specialist Anna Kestell shows how to create a plan to protect your food and learn what is safe to eat without having to heat up a meal. Sept. 28, 6:30-7:30 pm. Free. Medical Lake Library, 3212 Herb. (893-8330)

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SHERMAN ANDRUS & LONNY BINGLE Ticket proceeds from the two-night gospel concert and recording event benefit the Youth and Police Initiative in Spokane. Sept. 22-23 $10-$50. Service Station, 9315 N. Nevada. (466-1696) COWBOY SUPPER SHOW The 23rd season at the ranch offering cowboy supper shows, barbecue dinner and live cowboy country music. Sept. 23-24 and Oct. 14-15, from 5:30-9 pm. $45.95/ adults; $16.50/ages 10 and under. Rockin’ B Ranch, 3912 N. Idaho Rd. rockinbranch.com (891-9016) GEORGE WINSTON IN CONCERT Winston’s concerts feature a variety of styles including melodic folk piano, New Orleans R&B piano, and stride piano. Sept. 23, 8-9:30 pm. $25. Panida Theater, 300 N. First Ave. panida.org HORSE CRAZY COWGIRL BAND Also featuring Cowboy Poet Dave McClure.

Festival seating (bring folding chairs), overnight camping available; proceeds benefit maintenance of trails by the Inland Empire Back Country Horseman.

Sept. 24, 7 pm. $20. At Four Mound Prairie Bison Ranch Area, 15420 W. Four Mound Rd. iebch.org (868-1641) VILLALOBOS BROTHERS The group blends indigenous rhythms and melodies of their native Veracruz, Mexico, with jazz harmonies and classical music. Presented as part of the fourth annual Humanitas Festival. Sept. 24, 7:309:30 pm. $12-$15; free/students, youth.

Jones Theatre at Daggy Hall, WSU Pullman. performingarts.wsu.edu WASHINGTON IDAHO SYMPHONY Concert one of the 2016-17 season is a pops program, featuring music from Star Wars, Final Fantasy and Beethoven.

Sep. 24, 7:30 pm. $10-$25. Pullman High School, 510 NW Greyhound Way. washingtonidahosymphony.org SPOKANE STRING QUARTET: MAGNIFICENT WILDERNESS A program celebrating 100 years of the National Parks system, featuring works by Haydn, Mendelssohn and Lei Liang.

Sep. 25, 3 pm. $12-$20. Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague. spokanestringquartet.org (624-1200) SPOKANE SYMPHONY CHAMBER SOIREE: AUTUMN Ensembles of musicians perform baroque, classical and contemporary chamber music while guests enjoy wine and small bites in the Marie Antoinette Ballroom. Sept. 27-28 at 7:30 pm. $20-$48. Davenport Hotel, 10 S. Post. spokanesymphony.org

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CABELA’S LADIES DAY OUT Events include fly casting lessons, a dutch oven breakfast, archery games, fly tying, handgun safety and more. Sept. 24-25, 9 am-3 pm. Free. Cabela’s, 101 N. Cabela Way. cabelas.com/postfalls HAPPY GIRLS RUN SPOKANE The popular women’s race series comes to Spokane for the third year, offering a course of varied terrain, pre- and postrace yoga, music and race swag bags.

Includes 5K, 10K and half-marathon routes. Sept. 24. $30-$85. Riverside State Park. happygirlsrunspokane.com MARY’S MYSTERY HIKE This is the Scotchman Peaks’ third “Mystery Hike;” the exact location of the six-mile hike

is part of the mystery, but it will be somewhere up in the Lightning Creek area on one of the many trails. Sept. 24, 10 am-4 pm. Free. scotchmanpeaks.org ROLLER DERBY DOUBLE-HEADER The Inland Northwest Roller Derby Pixies vs. Portland Junior Roller Derby, followed by the Spokannibals vs. Joint Base Lewis-McChord Bettie Brigade. $8-$10/adult; $6-$8/student, senior; $5/military; kids 5 and under free. Sept.

24, 5:30-9 pm. Roller Valley Skate Center, 9415 E. Fourth Ave. bit.ly/2d2Hm6s WILD MOOSE CHASE TRAIL RUN EWU’s Class of 2018 Doctor of Physical Therapy host the sixth annual event, with three courses starting from Selkirk lodge, at distances of 5, 10 and 25K. Sept. 24, 8 am-1 pm. $25-$45. Mt. Spokane State Park. (907-301-9356) DOVER BAY 5K-9 A 5k run/walk for the whole family, including your furry best friend. Proceeds benefit the Panhandle Animal Shelter and all of the animals it serves. Sept. 25, 9-11 am. $25/adults; $10/kids. Dover Bay Resort, 651 Lakeshore Ave. (208-946-0226) ICE FLOOD TOUR: ETCHING OUR LANDSCAPE An exploration of the Ice Age Floods from Bayview to Hayden, which helped form the unique landscapes of Lake Pend Oreille and Hayden Lake. Family-friendly tour hosted by Jack Nisbet and the Inland Northwest Land Conservancy. Meets at Yoke’s Market, 9329 E. Montgomery. Sept. 25, 9 am-5 pm. $45-$75. (328-2939)

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THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE Six awkward spelling champions learn that winning (and losing) isn’t everything. Through Oct. 10, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $24$27. Modern Theater Coeur d’Alene, 1320 E. Garden. themoderntheater.org DISNEY’S BEAUTY & THE BEAST The Civic’s season opener on the main stage, a musical performance based on Disney’s classic adaptation. Through Oct. 9; Thu-Sat, 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $22-$30. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard. spokanecivictheatre.com RTOP AFTERDARK: RABBIT HOLE See the powerful drama and 2007 Pulitzer winner, a story of loss that bravely explores the difficult road to healing and dealing with the unimaginable. Sept.

22-24, Sept. 30-Oct. 1, at 8 pm. $12.

Regional Theatre of the Palouse, 122 N. Grand Ave. rtoptheatre.org ROMAN ARMS & ARTS: RE-ENACTING LIFE IN ROME’S IMPERIAL LEGIONS: As part of the Jundt’s fall exhibit, “Roman Myth and Mythmaking,” a troupe of Roman re-enactors from Salem, Ore. perform in the Herak Quad on Gonzaga’s campus, demonstrating what military and domestic life was like in the ancient Mediterranean. Sep. 22, 10 am-4 pm. Free. Gonzaga University, 502 E. Boone. gonzaga.edu (313-6843) CHICAGO A production of the longestrunning musical in Broadway history, a universal tale of fame, fortune, and all that jazz. Sept. 23-Oct. 23, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $24-$28. The Modern Theater Spokane, 174 S. Howard. themoderntheater.org (455-7529) MOONSHINE & TOMBSTONES DINNER THEATER An interactive murder mystery dinner theatre experience from CDA Murder Mystery Theatre, catered

by Mangia. Sept. 23, 6-8:30 pm. $65/ person. Jacklin Arts & Cultural Center,

405 N. William. (208-457-8950) ON SHAKY GROUND Ignite! Community Theatre and Ellen Travolta present a new play written by radio personality Molly Allen, of Dave, Ken and Molly in the Morning, 92.9 ZZU. Sept. 16-Oct. 2, Fri-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $12$15. Ignite! Community Theatre, 10814 E. Broadway. igniteonbroadway.org

VISUAL ARTS

INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT MARKET PLACE & ARTISAN TINKER TOWNE Local artists, craft and food vendors and a farmers market set up in Oasis Park at Sprague and Perry, next to the gallery. Sept. 23-24 and Oct. 14-15; Fri from 10 am-5 pm, Sat from 11 am-6 pm.

New Moon Art Gallery, 1326 E. Sprague. newmoonartgallery.com (217-5543) ARTISTRY IN WOOD The 25th annual Spokane Woodcarvers Juried Show.

Also includes wood turnings, carving demos, supplies, tools, and raffles. Sep. 24, 9 am-5 pm. $5/adults; free/ages 12 and under. The Salvation Army Spokane, 222 E. Indiana Ave. (954-5922) LITTLE SPOKANE RIVER ARTISTS STUDIO TOUR View works of professional artists while visiting four artists’ studios located within the Little Spokane River Valley. Sept. 24, 10 am-5 pm.

Free. littlespokanestudios.com RECEPTION: ARTIST IN RESIDENCE LESLIE BARLOW Opening reception and lecture with the artist, whose work uses figure and narrative elements to address issues related to multiculturalism, “otherness” and identity. Sept. 25, 5-7 pm. Whitworth University, 300 W. Hawthorne. whitworth.edu (777-4471) DECONSTRUCTED SELF An exhibition of new work by Jeff Huston. Opening reception Sept. 28, at noon. Runs through Oct. 27, open Mon-Fri, 9 am-5 pm. Free. EWU Gallery of Art, 140 Art Bldg. ewu.edu/ cale/programs/art/gallery PALOUSE PLEIN AIR EXHIBITION An exhibition of works created during the multi-day painting competition (Sept.

19-26). Artist reception Sept. 30, 5-8 pm; art on display through Oct. 8; gallery open Tue-Sat, 10 am-8 pm and Sun, 10 am-6 pm. Prichard Art Gallery, 414 S. Main St. uidaho.edu/caa/galleries/prichardartgallery (208-883-7036)

WORDS

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Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. (838-0206) 100,000 POETS FOR CHANGE The 4th annual poetry and music open mic for local writers/musicians/artists/students to express their ideas for positive change in our community, in ourselves, in our country, and in the world. Sept.

24, 1-4 pm. Free . Evans Brothers Coffee, 524 Church St. losthorsepress.org HISTORICAL ROMANCE RETREAT BOOK FAIR Features 40 bestselling authors to sign purchased books and meet readers of the genre. Sept. 24, 1-4:30 pm. Free. Davenport Hotel, 10 S. Post. historicalromanceretreat.com n

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Ride Ben Burr

Cyclist Martha Jones glides over the freshly paved section of the Ben Burr Trail near South Altamont Street.

A railroad line turned bike trail is finally nearing completion

BY MITCH RYALS

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hey’ve been talking about it for about 20 years, and now the Ben Burr Trail project is finally complete. Mostly.

The approximately 2½-mile trail project that connects cyclists and pedestrians to downtown and eventually hooks up with the Centennial Trail has been on the city’s to-do list since before Dan Buller, the principal engineer for design in the city’s engineering department, started working there. It just kept getting pushed further and further down.

Buller talks excitedly about the fact that the trail is near completion — another addition to Spokane’s already impressive network of biking and walking trails.

The Ben Burr Trail is part of the national Rails to Trails Conservancy program that turns old railroad lines into bike and pedestrian trails. Other examples of rail lines turned bike trails in the area include the Fish Lake Trail, Columbia Plateau Rail and Route of the Hiawatha.

The Ben Burr project is not yet completely finished, meaning the entire thing isn’t paved, but they’re working

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on it. Pressed gravel marks the sections that soon will be.

Buller anticipates that the majority — about 95 percent — will be finished by the end of this month. The final section, near Martin Luther King Jr. Way, on the south bank of the Spokane River, will be done in the summer and fall of 2017, Buller says.

Ride the Ben Burr starting on the South Hill at 11th Avenue and you’ll roll, walk or otherwise make your way down a gentle grade until you get to Liberty Park, near Second Avenue.

The easy downhill ride carves its way past canyonlike walls of black rock, towering trees and occasionally a family of four who live in the neighborhood nearby. At 12 feet wide (with 2-foot shoulders), there’s more than enough room for the family to stop on the side of the trail while the young boy — dressed in Spider-Man pajamas — examines a cool rock he just spotted, as a cyclist rides by.

There was some opposition to paving the Ben Burr Trail from those who live in the East Central neighbor-

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hood surrounding the former commuter railroad line.

They believed that pouring asphalt would destroy the trail’s natural and rugged feel and would attract more people to what had largely been a well-kept secret.

Earlier this year, the city officially decided to move forward with the project when the city council approved a $1.1 million contract to widen, extend and pave the trail. Buller says he’s very proud of the fact that they were able to pull it off while removing a minimal amount of trees, complying with federal requirements that the path be a certain width.

Because Spokane received federal grant money for this project, the city had to comply with various federal guidelines. All totaled, Spokane received $1.65 million for the project, says Brandon Blankenagel, a senior engineer with the city who helped secure the funding for this project. The city chipped in $76,000, Blankenagel says.

At the bottom of the gentle grade, once you reach Liberty Park, the trail splits. One leg dumps out to Third Avenue and Arthur Street, and boom, you’re downtown.

The other leg winds under I-90 past Second Avenue, under the Sprague Avenue and BNSF Railway tracks, and eventually ends up at the back side of the Union Gospel Mission before looping around the south bank of the river (this is the part that’s not finished yet) and hooking up with the Centennial Trail. Take the Centennial west as it winds down toward Lake Spokane at Nine Mile Falls, or east to the Idaho border where it hooks up with the North Idaho Centennial Trail. The choice is yours. n mitchr@inlander.com

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