"You might want to sit down for this," warns Paul Turner/The Slice ... "Next year, on Feb. 9, it will have been 50 years since The Beatles first live appearance on 'The Ed Sullivan Show.'"

• Gonzaga: Day after San Diego/Jim Meehan, SportsLink
• Firefighter balancing act/Nina Culver, Spokane Valley Blog
• Community of chemotherapy, Part 3/Rebecca Nappi, End Notes
• A stamp for a ballot is NOT a poll tax/Jim Camden, Spin Control
• Grip on Sports: Super Bowl to remember/Vince Grippi, SportsLink
• Truth be told this Woman is a Wonder/Dan Webster, Dually Noted
• Week's top outdoors stories in Spokesman-Review/Rich Landers, Outdoors
• 'You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling': No. 1 song on this date in 1965/Paul Turner, The Slice

DFO: And next year the question that the Beatles ask re: a galpal still in love "when they're old an losing their hair & 64" will apply to me. Gracious! Time is flying.

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