Sherry Adkins

As far as Korina Baker is concerned, playing basketball at North Idaho College is not much different from her days at tiny Freeman High. “Freeman is small and the NIC campus is little,” she said. “It’s like I really have not left (high school).”

Being “immortal” was not in the cards for Michael Jackson. Yet that didn’t deter Cirque du Soleil from bringing Jackson back to life, in the same way it revived Elvis in “Viva Elvis” and John Lennon and George Harrison in “Love.”

Walter Crumm led what would probably be considered an unremarkable life, living in a boarding home in Browne’s Addition and spending his days in downtown Spokane. But he had something a lot of people might envy – friends who really cared about him. He was about 58 when he died in July 1984 (his exact birthday is uncertain). He had a heart attack in the winter, but it was kidney failure that claimed him. Not a whole lot is known about this mentally disabled man’s background, other than the fact that he was abandoned at a young age at Lakeland Village in Medical Lake, later transferred to Eastern State Hospital and released from there in 1958. He lived in community homes the rest of his life.