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News >  Spokane

SpokAnimal creates rural opportunities for cats

Tiger the cat survived the streets, and then survived the threat of euthanasia, finally to find another chance at Janey Anderson’s farm. Tiger is one of four stray cats taken in six weeks ago by Anderson and her husband on their 11-acre farm in the Dishman Hills area.
News >  Spokane

Market offerings change as summer wanes

Susan and Paul Puhek stood proudly Saturday beside their cipollini onions, purple carrots and yellow pear tomatoes, which will be replaced shortly by “crops that like the cooler weather.” These crops include apples, pears, peaches and usually corn. Even though fall is on the horizon after the Labor Day holiday, area farmers markets will continue, some into late October. For end-of-season crops, the Puheks will welcome more onions, potatoes, and after the first frost, pie pumpkins, until the last day of the Liberty Lake Farmers Market on Oct. 16.
News >  Spokane

Market days continue

Susan and Paul Puhek stood proudly beside their cipollini onions, purple carrots and yellow pear tomatoes Saturday, which will be replaced shortly by “crops that like the cooler weather.”
News >  Spokane

47 dogs rescued from kennel near Deer Park

It may take Lightning, a Labradoodle with yellow fur matted by filth, weeks or even months to not shy away from people at the door of his kennel. Lightning is one of 47 dogs seized Wednesday from an illegal commercial kennel near Deer Park. Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Services, or SCRAPS, took custody of the dogs, but had to transfer them to the Spokane Humane Society. SCRAPS’ shelter is full, due in part to the rescue of 39 dogs in early August.
News >  Spokane

Humane Society begins work with rescued Labradoodles

It may take Lightning, a Labradoodle with yellow fur matted by filth, weeks or even months to not shy away from people at the door of his kennel. Lightning is one of 47 dogs seized from an illegal commercial kennel near Deer Park on Wednesday. Spokane County Regional Animal Protection Services, or SCRAPS, took custody of the dogs, but had to transfer them to the Spokane Humane Society. SCRAPS’ shelter is full, due in part to the rescue of 39 dogs in early August.
News >  Spokane

Music a cultural bridge at Hispanic Heritage Festival

“Alegria” is a sense of deep-felt joy. It’s a feeling that Luis Vigil hopes his band, Los Vigiles, is able to create in a crowd. As Vigil awaited the beginning of Los Vigiles’ set at Saturday’s Hispanic Heritage Festival, he said he also hoped to alleviate fears of “differences.”
News >  Spokane

Hillyard festival celebrates Hispanic heritage

“Alegria” is a sense of deep-felt joy. It’s a feeling that Luis Vigil hopes his band, Los Vigiles, is able to create in a crowd. As Vigil awaited the beginning of Los Vigiles’ set at Saturday’s Hispanic Heritage Festival, he said he also hoped to alleviate fears of “differences.”
News >  Spokane

Tribes gather at Riverfront Park for powwow

The feet of the competitive dancers jigged right, then left, in sync with a drumbeat, giving rise to the swing of fringe and jingling of bells on traditional outfits. Pauline Flett prayed for a blessing of the feet of the dancers, first in the Spokane Salish language, and then in English, at the 21st annual Spokane Falls Northwest Indian Encampment and Pow Wow.
News >  Spokane

Fires blaze across Inland Northwest

Bone-dry conditions throughout the Inland Northwest, combined with “erratic, gusty winds,” fueled fires across the region Thursday, charring thousands of acres and destroying at least two homes. By 9:30 p.m., officials with the Washington Department of Natural Resources said they had no reports of serious injury and relatively few structures were harmed, despite a couple of thousand burning acres.
News >  Spokane

Man sought in West Side killings arrested in Spokane

A man wanted for killing three people and wounding another in Salkum, Wash., on Saturday was captured Wednesday in Spokane. Members of the Eastern Washington Fugitive Task Force arrested John Allen Booth Jr., 31, at 5:30 p.m. at a home at 1911 W. Gordon St. in Spokane. He was booked into the Spokane County Jail, police said.
News >  Spokane

Homicide suspect passed through area

A man suspected in a triple homicide in Lewis County passed through Spokane about 2:30 p.m. Saturday and possibly stopped at the Chevron gas station at Third Avenue and Monroe Street. Spokane police believe John Allen Booth Jr., 31, of Onalaska, Wash., is no longer in the area. He is wanted for a shooting that left three dead and one person in critical condition around 2 a.m. Saturday in Salkum, Wash., according to an alert from the Lewis County sheriff.
News >  Spokane

Unity in the Community marks its 16th year

The dance troupe milled around a stage entrance behind 23-year-old Saw Gary in their traditional colors of red, white and blue. The troupe was not an American-style dance group. Its members are Karen, an ethnic minority from the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar, formerly called Burma. Gary and the dancers are refugees. On Saturday it was his role to introduce the troupe for a traditional New Year’s Eve dance at Unity in the Community, the largest multicultural event in the Inland Northwest.
News >  Spokane

Increasingly diverse community gathers for Unity

The dance troupe milled around a stage entrance behind 23-year-old Saw Gary, in their traditional colors of red, white and blue. The troupe was not an American-style dance group. It’s members are Karen, an ethnic minority from the Southeast Asian county of Myanmar, a formerly called Burma. Gary and the dancers are refugees. On Saturday it was his role to introduce the troupe for a traditional New Year’s Eve dance at Unity in the Community, the largest multicultural event in the Inland Northwest.
News >  Spokane

Help sought with spate of BB gun vandalism

Spokane police are asking the public’s help in solving a rash of broken windows this week and damage to the windshield of a bus. Police suspect the damage was caused by a BB or pellet gun.
News >  Idaho

Twin Tower beams on view

People teared up and laid hands on two rusted, twisted beams draped with an American flag Friday in Coeur d’Alene. The two 5,000-pound beams, taken from the wreckage of the Twin Towers, are traveling across the country for use in a 9/11 memorial park in Silverdale, just north of Bremerton. The park will honor the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and serve an educational role for future generations, organizers say.
News >  Idaho

Twin Tower beams make journey through Inland Northwest

People teared up and laid hands on two rusted, twisted beams draped with an American flag Friday in Coeur d’ Alene. The two 5,000-pound beams, taken from the wreckage of the Twin Towers, are traveling across the country for use in a 9-11 memorial park in Silverdale, just north of Bremerton. The park will honor the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and serve an educational role for future generations, organizers say. “
News >  Spokane

Shooting suspect arrested; companion, weapon sought

Spokane County Sheriff’s Office deputies have arrested a suspect in a July 30 shooting that left a man with a gunshot wound to the head. Christopher T. Jackson, 24, was booked into the Spokane County Jail on Tuesday on a single charge of first-degree assault, according to a news release.
News >  Spokane

Garland fair celebrates new specialty stores, historic hangouts

Kendra Cunningham’s Yorkshire terrier sported a cupcake-print dress with a matching bow, while nearby, the eclectic Garland Street Fair buzzed. The dog stood not in the newly opened cupcake shop down the street but in Cunningham’s store, Diva Dog Boutique. The boutique carries upscale canine apparel, accessories and grain-free dog food.
News >  Spokane

Tests will temporarily dry up river channel

Beginning tonight at sunset, water flows in the north channel of the Spokane River downtown will be stopped as Avista tests an “aesthetic flows program” and works to remove rock and sediment from the riverbed.
News >  Spokane

Garland puts best foot forward for Street Fair

Kendra Cunningham’s Yorkshire terrier sported a cupcake print dress with a matching bow while nearby the eclectic Garland Street Fair buzzed. The dog stood not in the newly opened cupcake shop down the street, but in Cunningham’s store, Diva Dog Boutique. The boutique carries upscale canine apparel, accessories and grain-free dog food. Why pooch couture, and why Garland?
News >  Spokane

Tight rein on jail mail

Spokane County jails will join a growing number of lockups that restrict inmate mail to postcards. Starting Sept. 1, inmates cannot send or receive letters in envelopes. Instead, they and anyone they correspond with must use postcards measuring 8 ½ by 5 ½ inches.