That’s the crux of Friends of the Falls Director Steve Faust’s River Greenway District proposal. Right now most facets of the Spokane River and the recreation associated with it suffer from some degree of active or benign neglect. Are we will to pony up to make this area world-class? This piece appears in the current […]
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A production error led to a manuscript being mangled in the current issue. In the article “Colville in the Spring” on page 14 there are several errors. The Farmhouse in which Lovitt Restaurant resides was converted in 1981, not built. The summit of the Cross Mountain trail does not reach 12,200 feet (!) and is
Finch Elementary would be renovated if the Levy/Bond passes. A quick plug for the Spokane Schools Levy and Bond vote that is due on March 10: this is not a new tax! Please vote YES for both measures because: • All of the new buildings are adhering to Green Building standards, including recycling of materials
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Well, they could be if you take them to Twin Eagles Wilderness School in Sandpoint. Here’s the details: This year we are once again offering our very popular Spring Day Camp here in Sandpoint! This three day program will have a specific theme around Springtime teachings that are so often missed – signs of spring
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Expedition To The Edge: Stories Of Worldwide Adventure Lynn Martel Rock Mountain Books, 2008, 345 pages When i first met Lynn Martel at the Banff Mountain Book Festival in the late 1990’s she was chronicling her adventures with friends in the mountains as a reporter for Alberta’s Bow Valley newspapers. Little did I, or she
It’s official—a coupla Spokanites are playing the 8th annual SASQUATCH! MUSIC FESTIVAL at the Gorge this Memorial Day weekend! Local celeb JAMES PANTS will play Sasquatch’s newly minted “dance tent,” and amidst the other stars of the three-day fest—including Kings of Leon, Jane’s Addiction, Nine Inch Nails, TV on the Radio, Erykah Badu and Ben
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Talk about loving what you do and doing what you love: frustrated by having to drive to Spokane or mail order his kayak and climbing gear, John Crock started Hyperspud Sports, an outdoor gear store in Moscow, ID, originally selling equipment out of his own house. Twenty years and a signed lease later, Crock says,
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Picture yourself IN a boat on a river—a drift boat, on the Spokane River. As you round the bend, you realize the gate at your take-out spot is locked. A cyclist rolling down the trail stops to portage her bike around a fallen tree. You remember making the same portage a week ago. What’s happening
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Sweaty and completely spent, the North Central High School Cross Country team gathered together near the podium awaiting the official results of the Nike National Championship race. Every runner had raced with a chip, not unlike the ones at Bloomsday, and the real time results had been beamed into a giant reader board each time
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