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Newcomers: Olazabals find a good pace in Spokane

Fri., March 7, 2008

Yesenia Olazabal missed her husband. As the owner of a produce business in Upland, Calif., Ozzie worked all the time – evenings, weekends, holidays. "I worked every single day," Ozzie says.

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An incredible journey home

Fri., Feb. 1, 2008

The lights of New York City may dazzle, but the comforts of home offer more warmth. Three years ago, Eugene, Ore., residents Linda and Kevin Pirch moved to the East Coast when Kevin took a teaching job at Lehman College in the Bronx.

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The Young family

Tue., Jan. 22, 2008

Baby Ella was the tipping point. For years, Shane and Allison Young flirted with the idea of moving from Portland to Coeur d'Alene. When the couple learned they were expecting a fourth child, they decided it was time to commit.

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The Kinder-Pyle family

Tue., Jan. 15, 2008

Sheryl and Scott Kinder-Pyle like adventures, especially those they're called to. As Sheryl sips tea and Scott drinks coffee, they share a pastry and talk about God and church and a move last year that took them all the way across the country.

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The Finnegan family

Tue., Jan. 1, 2008

A new baby changes things. For Charlotte and Justin Finnegan, the birth of their son meant a change to a Spokane address.

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Gary and Cheri Reed

Tue., Dec. 4, 2007

Leaving Spokane was just too tough, so Cheri and Gary Reed decided to stay. "The girls had been after us for years hoping we'd move over here," says Cheri, adding that returning to the couple's home in Toledo, Wash., grew harder each time they visited their two grown daughters and their families. "I'd cry all the way to the freeway."

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Brad and Jackie Erovick

Tue., Nov. 13, 2007

The taste of a fresh cherry changed Jackie Erovick's life. In July 2006, while touring the Inland Northwest after a family reunion in Montana, Erovick and her family happened upon Green Bluff. They stopped at an orchard, sampled the ripe cherries, struck up a conversation with the orchardist and spent two hours walking the 10-acre property.

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Paul Hajek

Tue., Nov. 6, 2007

After first arriving in the United States from communist Czechoslovakia, Paul Hajek earned $3.15 an hour washing dishes at a Fred Meyer bakery in Lansing, Mich. "Actually, I'm glad I did that," Paul says now, reflecting on the job that helped him learn English – and simultaneously encouraged him to go to Michigan State University and earn a degree in physics.

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Jon Louis and Katharine Surette

Tue., Oct. 30, 2007

The Spokane that Jon Louis left 20 years ago is not the same city he came back to earlier this year. When he left in the mid-1980s, people asked him if he experienced culture shock moving from Spokane to the East Coast, he says.

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