Submitted for your approval, today's chalk art sighting. I saw it this afternoon on a sidewalk directly across the street from Comstock Park. Just west of the park. The doubly colorful message was written in large letters, displayed for the reading pleasure of anyone just…
Chances are you already know about this chapter in Spokane's military history. But just in case... http://www.fairchild.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123353531
In a mostly forgotten 1980s TV series, this actor, who grew up in Spokane, played a 1960s Air Force officer who, in one episode, attends the "I Have a Dream" speech. Can you name him? The series?
I know a Spokane woman who named her daughters after cities in Australia. This was not some random whim. The woman in question has spent time living in the Land Down Under. It is an important place to her. In my opinion, she chose fine…
I like to reinforce the idea of little kids wearing helmets when riding their bikes. So when I encounter a child on a bicycle I often say something affirming about him or her wearing a helmet. But I've noticed something. When I'm addressing a little…
Nobody ever said Mariners fans had to be good spellers: Substitute teacher Norma Egger was used to kids asking if she is related to the Egger Meats family. (She is.) But she wasn't really ready for it when a little boy, excitedly bouncing in his…