Treva Lind

A trip with mom to the E.J. Roberts mansion this Sunday will raise more than tea cups for Mother's Day at the historic home in Browne's Addition. With events around two tea-and-tour ticketed sessions, proceeds will help owner Mary Moltke begin restorations – estimated at $250,000. Separately, free outdoor activities are also planned. It's a joint venture with Moltke and Girls Gone Styled, a preservation and design business running the kickoff fundraiser, with plans for once-a-month events toward that goal.

New Spokane leaders of a show all about motherhood refused to end the stories about those connections, when founders of the local production announced their retirement after 2022. Three women are carrying on the tradition of the "Listen to Your Mother" show, with speakers doing live storytelling at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Bing Crosby Theater.

A panel discussion 4 p.m. Tuesday plans to shed light on what's needed for Spokane County children in foster care, with a focus on a shortage of licensed foster care homes. Treehouse, a nonprofit that provides foster youth with academic support, is partnering with Lutheran Community Services Northwest for the event at Shadle Park Library.

Sharen Robertson credits Bloomsday for her good health at 83, and she plans to lace up her shoes again for her No. 45 finish Sunday. She first entered Spokane's 12-kilometer course in 1980, after encouraging a coworker at Central Premix to join her in a Bloomsday training clinic. Robertson hadn't exercised before her first Bloomsday. She hasn't stopped running, or walking, since.

Frank Fogarty knew nothing about nuclear physics on ships when he got pulled from his Korean War submarine duty to interview for a fledgling U.S. Navy program, for the world’s first atomic-powered submarines. Fogarty, who just turned 100 in Spokane, recalls initially supporting the USS Seawolf before soon getting transferred to the USS Nautilus, the first one launched in 1955, while later being Nautilus Commanding Officer in 1963-67.

Garrison Keillor brings his storytelling, along with humor and music, to Spokane 7:30 p.m. Saturday April 27 at the Fox Theater for "An Evening with Keillor & Company," with vocalist Prudence Johnson and pianist Dan Chouinard. His radio show, "A Prairie Home Companion," ran more than 40 years and featured stories about Lake Wobegon, a fictitious town based in part on his hometown of Anoka, Minnesota.

Four North Central High School students qualified in March to compete in the National ProStart Invitational in Baltimore. Similar to TV cooking-show pressure, they and about 400 competitors from high schools across the country will make a three-course meal in 60 minutes using only two butane burners and no running water or electricity. 

Big league talent spread across the 1946 Spokane Indians baseball team, until lives and dreams were shattered by a bus crash nearly 80 years ago. The bus heading to Bremerton began descending Snoqualmie Pass, tumbled off the highway and plummeted into a ravine before bursting into flames. Nine players died. Others who survived were badly injured. Three members who weren't on the bus escaped it all, but the memories never faded. Those individual players' stories, along with influences of post-World War II times, captivated Eric Vickrey, author of the new "Season of Shattered Dreams: Postwar Baseball, The Spokane Indians and a Tragic Bus Crash That Changed Everything."