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CONTENTS ( W H AT ’ S I N S I D E )

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EDITOR LETTER

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FIRST LOOK Beekeeping Buzz Worthy Lilacs & Lemons Maker Influence NW Spokane Rising

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health beat Stay Active, Local Trails Elder Care

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LOCAL CUISINE Rosaure’s Recipe Eats, Shoots, & Leaves Zona Blanca Dining Guide

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EDITOR LETTER/change

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by PAULETTE BURGESS

Change is afoot Something’s new. Another change. Where to start?

Walking is always a good start. Before planes, cars, bicycles, hot air balloons, flying trapezes, or even horses prior to 550 years ago in these parts, we walked. Our DNA is designed for walking.

We humans walked for a long time before we figured out a circle shape could be put to good use. And then we walked some more. People still walk. A friend of mine recently walked a chunk of the Pacific Crest Trail. That’s some serious walking.

After moving into this new office at Bozzi Media, I fired up the laptop and, as is my custom, went out for a walk. It’s important to get an up-close, visceral sense of the lay of the land before hammering in stakes. Every sight, smell, or sound can convey valuable information.

I walked past vacant storefronts, restaurants with placards signing off with, ‘Gone But Not For Good,’ and of course the unfortunate sight so ubiquitous these days in most urban centers: dazed and unwashed people without permanent shelter.

I also walked past elegant bistros emitting delicious aromas, an architecturally landscaped urban park filled with happy couples, and a vast construction site for a stadium that promises to become the home of a new professional soccer team.

The takeaway? This is a region in flux. The Lilac City, in particular, has changed these past 20 years since I first held the position of editor for Spokane Coeur d’Alene Living. A lot can happen in two decades. And did.

Downtown’s River Park Square is no longer a bone of contention, and high schoolers graduating this month couldn’t possibly fathom why for several years a parking garage lease consumed our local politics. These teenagers only know it’s nice to go see a movie with friends before hitting up Urban Outfitters or checking out the latest Apple gadgets. And the middle schoolers coming up behind them will never experience the sticky-seated fun of a rickety, carnival-style ride beneath the Pavilion. But walking backwards is dangerous; we best face forward.

Some changes to Spokane were only temporary. After a pandemic-forced, two-year hiatus, The Lilac Festival is back in full bloom. Jump to page 34 of this issue to make plans for festival week. In person art openings have also returned. On page 22, you’ll read about a different type of lilac royalty, the “Queen of Northwest Ceramics,” sculptor Patti Warashina, who makes her

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grand return home to Spokane for the opening of her new show at Marmot Art Space.

May is the month when change is undeniably apparent. A walker will notice the flowers budding, the river rising, and the days lengthening (especially this far north). Most of us gladly welcome this seasonal sort of change. If only we were so open-minded the other nine months out of the year, imagine what we might discover on a walk.

Imagine if we were receptive to the changes all around us and were ready, willing, and creative enough to find the solutions to the situations that stymie this region. Back in 2000, the homelessness issue in downtown Spokane revolved around ‘street kids,’ runaways (some real and others suburban wannabes) in oversized, black trench coats hanging out in groups along Riverside Drive, smoking cigarettes and generally looking uncouth. Local business owners’ response at the time was to place high-pitched sound systems along storefronts, the kind of noise emitters only rodents, dogs, and young ears could possibly hear. Weren’t those the good old days!

Now, the changes brought about by, arguably, forty years of trickle-down economics and the creation of a chronically underfunded ‘community caretaking’ approach to mental illness have left this region with some issues we dare not ignore, lest we find ourselves looking like San Francisco and Seattle, the very places so many new arrivals have sought to escape.

People tend to fear change, and the old guard rarely makes ready way for it. But as the Taoist saying warns, “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”

One thing hasn’t changed. Spokane Coeur d’Alene Living continues to strive to be the go-to cultural/lifestyle magazine for people who live, work, and play in the beautiful, ever evolving Inland Northwest. So, if you happen to stumble across anything interesting, infuriating, or transformational along your walks in these parts, share it with us at editor@spokanecda.com. We genuinely value your feedback and ideas. Snail mail works, too.

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by PAULETTE BURGESS ric & LeeElla Blauer of Browne Mountain, Spokane have learned a thing or two about bees this past winter.

At least, they’ve learned what can kill them, which is why they had to do their best to salvage what they could from this April’s harvest. It wasn’t easy. A bear got to one of their hives, and it couldn’t recover enough to survive the winter. Another hive had the colony move out for reasons known only to the bees.

And a third hive simply died.

“It was pretty frustrating to put in so much expense, attention and care, and have it end in so much disappointment. But

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here I go again! I’m also grateful for the honey and wax they left to help my new hives get a jump start and provide us with a harvest of pleasure and goodness,” explains Eric.

“I’m trying to learn from it all as best I can. Definitely a steep learning curve! The honey is delicious, though.”

Several neighbors have already hit up the Blauers for purchases, so it seems this hobby could become a new side hustle. Eric laughs off the offers. “Sorry, not with this harvest. Maybe in the fall!”

If you want to join the new backyard apiarist, check out the advice and wisdom of the well-seasoned enthusiasts by joining the Inland Empire Beekeepers Association on Facebook. It’s a gathering place for novices and experts alike.

Incidentally, when the pastor and his wife aren’t busy with minding their bees, he’s writing poems. His book Pleadings: Poems on Life, Faith and Love came out in March on Amazon.

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COFFEE CONNOISSEURSHIP

Make it personal with a handwritten letter, by robot

Sean Edwards of Revel 77 Coffee takes coffee craftsmanship beyond mere competence to master chef level, especially when creating his shop’s own syrups. This spring Revel 77 introduced its newest caffeine creation: Salted Pistachio Latte. Edwards promises that the pinch of salt to his house-made pistachio syrup adds a depth and complexity to the flavor. One regular described it as having an almost malty flavor. Great hot or iced. Located in the real world on Spokane’s South Hill, or visit revel77.com virtually.

Recall how the press went crazy with Prince Harry’s bride’s calligraphy skills? Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, knows how important it is to make a missive personal by writing it by one’s own hand. Texts, emails, and tweets just won’t do for some occasions. So, hire a robot to handwrite your correspondence because, frankly, who has time?

(Or knows how anymore!) The company Handwrytten brags, “Our handwriting is virtually indistinguishable from human writing. Typically, unless you ask the recipient if the note was written by a robot, they’ll never even think twice about it.” Shh, we won’t tell Miss Manners or Martha Stewart.

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Who’s bringing the ice cream? No one. It’s Gelato!

Tre Palline Gelato Napolitano knows its gelato.

After operating four gelato shops throughout Europe, they’re now located in downtown Spokane at the Steam Plant Building. But they could be coming directly to you—by bike. Parties, wedding celebrations, and business events are on the menu.

If you want to bring a uniquely Italian aesthetic to your next gathering, give them a call, 702-7930067, or find them on Facebook under Tre Palline Gelato Napolitano. Their creamy concoctions’ secret recipes are made from scratch, and they have dairy free and low sugar options available.

Move over ping-pong

Jazzminton Sport has created a competitive paddle ball game that offers the feel and excitement of tennis, badminton, pickle ball and even ping-pong all at once but with a “hole” new spin on it.

The difference? No boundary or court is needed, just a small space. It can be played anywhere indoors or outdoors: garages, basements, hallways, living rooms, or gyms, parks, yards, wherever.

In the months ahead Funsparks LLC will be organizing local, regional and national tournaments. Events calendars will be set up so people can connect with other players in their area. Visit funsparks.com for more information.

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EVERY DAY IS EARTH DAY

Bento boxes provide the ease of Tupperware with the elegance of Marie Kondo’s minimalism.

But how to keep from cluttering Mother Earth with more microplastics? BIO-plastic. BIO-plastic is made by using plant-based materials to replace an equivalent amount of fossil fuel, thereby reducing the carbon footprint by half. Additionally, BIOplastic is BPA-free, Phthalate-free, microwave safe, freezer safe, and dishwasher safe. It’s good for you, good for our planet! Visit omielife.com for their new Stack & Lock, Plant-Based Bento Boxes.

From food storage to flushing, humans negatively impact the planet. The newest product to address this unpleasant fact is the Bim Bam Boo bamboo flushable wipes.

They are made from bamboo and treated with aloe-vera and cucumber. These are 100 percent wood pulp-free. They’re also BPA-free, Chlorine-free, and pH-neutral. Keep your hiney tidy, guilt free, with bambooty wipes. Visit bimbamboopaper.com for more information.

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Adults need playtime as much as kids.

Looking for a novel way to get together with friends and have a silly and sort of sophisticated time? CluedUpp Games

takes the escape room concept outside by turning city streets into unmissable adventures with their immersive mystery-solving games.

Confront challenges, test your clue-cracking skills, and play against hundreds of other teams in a unique city-wide experience. Consider this the ultimate team-building experience. Many the world over already have.

“Crime Scene Investigator” is happening in Spokane on May 21 and in Coeur d’Alene on July 16. “Alice In Wonderland” comes to downtown Spokane in September.

Build up your team of sleuths with friends and family. Tickets are $80 for a team of six. Log onto cluedupp.com to find an event near you.

BACKYARD AGRARIANISM

While honey harvesting is the bees’ knees (see our article in this issue), urban hipsters may want to up their backyard agrarianism game with something a bit bigger than insects and chickens. While walking through the south side of the city, one resident reader came across sheep on a city lot just two miles from downtown. But why stop at barnyard animals? Try out sidewalk median rows of corn and front yard pumpkin patches in lieu of lawn grass. Let’s work with the earth instead of against it. But if you’re truly in love with your perfect patch of turf, get the neighbor’s sheep to come over and keep it trim.

Do you have any Buzz Worthy items or trends to share with our readers? Then tell us all about it via email to editor@spokanecda.com.

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LILACS to lilacs, of course! In the month of May, the Inland Empire is literally bursting with lilacs. We’ve got public gardens, torchlight parades, and princesses, all devoted to these ubiquitous grape-bunched bouquets of fragrant, purple flowers.

And by the time their sweet aroma fades, blessed summer is only weeks away. Vitamin D-deficient California transplants, get ready to party PNW style. Boats and inner tubes, friends’ lake cabins, and clean beaches are what warm weather is all about in these parts. From as far west as Moses Lake to Flathead Lake in western Montana, there’s no shortage of pristine bodies of water, about 60 of them if one includes British Columbia—and why not include BC? The borders are finally open (for the fully vaccinated).

So, LILACS to spring and warmer weather ahead.

heavy for little hands to push open as mom and dad try to decompress and forget they ever had kids. That glorious refrain, “Don’t make me climb up there and get you,” is back.

LILACS, similarly, to the newly remodeled City of Spokane public libraries’ play areas for young children to climb and explore. Six months of cold weather mean families who don’t ski will be spending the majority of time indoors. As many recently shared on social media, “The public library is one of the few remaining places where you’re allowed to exist without the expectation of spending money.”

LILACS to McDonald’s for finally opening its indoor PlayPlaces after two years of shuttering due to the pandemic. What’s better than free WiFi and endless Diet Coke refills? An alarm-equipped door too

On the subject of social media, LILACS to online giants Nextdoor and Facebook for providing a space for “Free Stuff.” After two years of an economy on hold, runaway inflation, and the end of the eviction moratorium, millions of Americans are in dire straits. The generosity of those giving away beds, shoes, and dining room sets is inspiring. One man’s clutter is another young family’s newly furnished apartment.

LEMONS to the sellers and sponsors who place bait ads in the “Free Stuff ” section of social media sites. People peruse those pages because they are in need. Don’t make someone click on a supposedly free hammock or pair of Doc Martens boots excitedly only to discover there’s a fee.

Go pay your $5 on Craigslist if you want to sell something.

LEMONS to Mother Nature for her windstorms.

Somehow in the last seven or so years, day-long, 70-mile per hour winds have become a biannual event in this region.

Concerns over safety and climate change aside, these windstorms raise another question: just how many times can the same house be rebuilt? At least twice.

Over on Spokane’s South Hill, one unlucky couple had the back half of their house crushed into splinters by falling Ponderosa pines in November of 2015. After a long, drawn-out rebuilding process that took years for reasons unknown to this dog-walker, another Ponderosa uprooted by fast-moving air smashed onto the

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exact same house, again destroying its back half.

Fortunately, that particular parcel was spared during last month’s windstorm, but others were not so lucky. Folks flocked to social media to share tales of woe and costly damage from the high winds this past April.

LEMONS to the low life who hide inside speeding cars while discharging their weapons. When did Spokane and Coeur d’Alene become rife with drive-by shootings?

Is this simply the downside to the upside of population growth? A five-year snapshot shows the metro area of Spokane has grown by 5,000 people each year. And over the last decade, Spokane County added nearly 70,000 new residents and Kootenai County another 33,000. Big growth, big problems? Let’s hope not.

LEMONADE to the region’s real estate market. Prices are too dang high, but at least someone’s getting rich. Check out this month’s Realtor Section and meet the people who make property transactions happen.

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HOMECOMING FOR A

Queen

“Woman With Pear”, bronze, 24” x 17” x 36”

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Patti next to “Dreamer” while it was being created. You really appreciate its size when you see Patti next to it!

by MARSHALL PETERSON

BORN AND RAISED IN SPOKANE, artist Patti Warashina returns home for a brief visit on June 3rd to celebrate her new exhibition at Marmot Art Space in Kendall Yards.

Although Patti is known as the “Queen of Northwest Ceramics,” the sculptor is far too modest to take the title seriously.

Whenever we mention it to her, she laughs out loud and says, “I’m only getting so much attention because I’m so old!”

Well, she’s partly right; at 82 years of age, Warashina is certainly an elder statesperson in the artworld. However, from her earliest years as a creator, her work has been recognized for its genius,

beginning in the 1970’s and continuing to this day.

Most recently in 2020, the Smithsonian Institution honored Warashina with its Visionary Award. According to the Smithsonian, the award is presented annually to artists who are deemed by curators in the field to have risen to the pinnacle in the world of sculptural arts and design, who have works in major museums, and who have demonstrated distinction, creativity, artistry, and, of course, vision in his or her respective medium.

Warashina checked all the boxes.

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other Northwest artist to have been recognized with the Smithsonian’s Visionary Artist Award is Dale Chihuly—you know, the glass guy, the one who boasts his own museum in Tacoma. Dale and Patty, two Northwest titans, for sure, each recognized for their excellence by our country’s leading arts institution, well, it’s hard not to be impressed.

Born in 1940 to her dentist father and homemaker mother, Warashina’s story begins in Spokane. Unfortunately, the untimely death of her father devastated the family, and the following years were tremendously difficult. After the modest inheritance ran out, her mom found work creating displays for the JCPenny department store. For Warashina, this was a real-world example of how one could earn money being creative. So, after graduating from Spokane’s Lewis and Clark High School in 1958, she moved to Seattle to attend the University of Washington, where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1962 and her Master of Fine Arts two years later.

Following a few brief professorial stints at several smaller colleges back east, Patty returned to her Washington roots and began teaching at University of Washington in 1970, where she remained for the next twenty-five years. Under her leadership, the ceramics program gained national prominence; it consistently ranks among the top five programs in the entire United States.

Both during and after her retirement from academia (she’s now a professor emerita at the university), she’s had dozens of shows,

“Shadow Figure D”, bronze, (both figure and base), 9.5” x 11.25” x 11.25”

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publications, and public art installations. Her most recent piece, “Dreamer,” was commissioned by Vulcan Real Estate and installed in March of this year in Seattle. It’s available for all to visit and ponder.

And while Warashina’s sculptures may be out of reach for the average consumer looking to decorate their home or office, Patti at her home. art appreciators are fortunate to have access to her life’s work in hardbound copy.

Warashina’s first book, Patti Warashina: Wit and Wisdom, was produced by the American Museum of Ceramic Art. As the museum’s founder, David Armstrong, wrote in the book’s introduction, “Throughout human history, artistic expressions have documented the progress of mankind and have recorded the experiences of the artists who created those expressions. Each century brings new artists and new expressions.

However, only a few artists ever achieve the acclaim of being great masters in their field. Patti Warashina is one of those artists.”

Not just a “master,” but a “great master” no less? Just drop the mic now. This book accompanied the massive retrospective exhibited at the American Museum of Ceramic

“Catbox”, ‘21-A”, 13.5” x 8” x 12”, earthenware, underglaze, glaze

Patti’s second book “Patti Warashina”,

by John Natsoulas Gallery.

Art, as well as the Bellevue Art Museum. Patti Warashina: Wit and Wisdom contains more than 60 full-page photographs, and can be ordered through the American Museum of Ceramic Art website. We recommend it highly, as it’s an excellent primer on Warashina, perfect to peruse prior to meeting Warashina in person on opening night.

In the recently published second book to cover her artwork, Patti Warashina, by John Natsoulas Gallery, writer Rebecca Romani described Warashina’s work in near rapturous terms: [Her] wide-ranging series with their exquisite attention to detail and imaginative, and frequently subversive themes, [they] have made her one of the rare masters of American Ceramic Art. Over the decades, Warashina has taken the ceramic form from metaphor to a full-blown commitment to iconography that is both deeply personal and profoundly (and sometimes prophetically) observant of the world around her. And yet, not content to bask in the glow of well-deserved praise for her shows and installations, Warashina is constantly looking forward, constantly acquiring news skills. At 80, Warashina is still on to the next project, her work as vibrant, bold, and provocative as ever.

Patti Warashina is a fun, energetic person, a true joy to be around. We’re so glad to have her back in Spokane, if only for a short while. Long live the Queen!

Professor Emerita Patti Warashina will be in town to attend her First Friday opening at Marmot Art Space in Kendall Yards. Doors open officially at 5pm on June 3rd. Check out Marmot’s website for more information at marmotartspace.com.

“Birdbox ‘20-A”, 9” x 12.5” x 4”, earthenware, underglaze, glaze

Massive “Dreamer” sculpture during installation in Seattle - South Lake Union. Cast aluminum, 120” x 170” x 100”

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She began her budgeting journey years ago as a newly divorced “When you find your own financial confidence through clarity single mom facing down over $70 thousand in debt on an income with what you’re trying to accomplish with of $24 thousand per year. your money, or with debt payoff, you find Kumiko shares how she, “spent money on When I finally did get serious about the confidence to start living now while still things that I thought would make me feel tackling my finances, I was plagued tackling that mountain,” Kumiko says. “You better, and they did, but it wasn’t long before with self-doubt, botched budgets, know in your heart that you’re making the I was back in the mall shopping for my next right tradeoffs for you.” outfit.” and a battering sense of never She is now an author of the international Her Excel spreadsheet looked bleak, and being able to reach my goals. bestselling financial planning resource book, Kumiko knew she needed to change her After having my son and spending My Money My Way. A must-read for anyone spending. She points out how pivoting from wanting to make smart choices about their month after month trying to keep wanting to appear as the perfect person to money in an approachable way, the book the woman and mom she is today was not a up with the minimum payments on breaks down misconceptions about what ‘glamourous’ experience. my credit cards, I quickly realized managing your money effectively looks like.

“When I finally did get serious about that this is not the life I want to live!

And forget the notion that polite tackling my finances, I was plagued with selfpeople don’t talk about money. Kumiko’s doubt, botched budgets, and a battering sense enthusiasm and passion for balanced personal finance is positively of never being able to reach my goals. After having my son and electric, and it turns a once-taboo subject into a point of celebration spending month after month trying to keep up with the minimum for women, encouraging them to enjoy their wins, big and small. payments on my credit cards, I quickly realized that this is not the After all, making financially responsible choices is always a win, life I want to live!” regardless of how others may view someone’s frugality.

The experience of facing down the reality of her money problems Building a community was the secret to her brand’s growth. In ultimately led her to become an Accredited Financial Counselor® today’s society, people crave real interaction in the digital space, and and the creator of The Budget Mom blog. The Budget Mom has Kumiko certainly found this to be true. She calls people who follow become a wildly successful learning platform and social media

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along her “TBM Family,” and they share successes in real-time online—and Kumiko is the person who answers their messages, not an assistant. Being approachable is who she is, and it’s been a major key to her success; she likes engaging deeply with the people who have read her book.

Along her economic accountability journey, she discovered more than how to budget on a shoestring.

“I’m a big believer that I’ve found something that not a lot of people have found. That’s their true purpose in this life. When I get up in the morning, I don’t see what I do as work; I don’t dread it. In fact, I get up, and I’m so excited.”

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If you’re looking to make a budget for your real life right now, not an unrealistic ‘perfect’ or ‘glamourous’ version of how you want others to perceive you, grab a copy of Your Money Your Way, and follow her on social media, @thebudgetmom.

Erin Peterson is a Spokane-based podcaster, digital strategy educator, and self-styled local influencer. If you want to learn more about the people making an impact right here in our community every day, follow her on Instagram at @trendingspokane or Trending Spokane on Facebook.

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Anthony Gill is an economic development professional and writer at Spokane Rising, an urbanist blog focused on ways to make our city a better place to live. Find Spokane Rising online at Facebook (search “Spokane Rising”) or @spokanerising.

by ANTHONY GILL

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Shaping Spokane

would reform zoning laws to build more housing In July of last year, after many months of consideration and work, the Spokane City

Council adopted its first Housing Action Plan. Inspired by similar plans in other cities across the state, the document analyzes our housing crisis and how the city and its partners could work to mitigate it.

Even then, the situation was pretty dire. More than 40 percent of residents were costburdened (per 2018 data). Housing prices were outpacing income growth. Certain areas of the city, such as Hillyard and Logan, were identified as having a greater than average risk of resident displacement. And that was before housing prices skyrocketed in the past year. According to the Spokane Association of Realtors, in March 2022, the median home price in Spokane County reached $430,000––a staggering 26.3 percent year-over-year jump.

The Housing Action Plan identified dozens of actions the city could take to preserve and increase affordability, to allow more people to stay in their homes and live where they choose.

Now, the first of these changes are up for review through a process called “Shaping Spokane.”

These tweaks get pretty technical, but they could make a big difference, particularly in the longterm.

Here are a few of the proposals: Accessory dwelling units: The city would allow increased flexibility on size, design, and placement. It would reduce the amount of required parking and modify and/or remove owner occupancy requirements, which limit the ability of ADUs or their “parent” units to be rented.

Lot size transitions: Currently, newly-created lots are required to transition in size where there are unsubdivided parcels larger than two acres. This artificially limits the number of housing units that can be built on the new parcels.

Short plats: The city would make it easier to create a small subdivision, allowing more multifamily projects like townhouses and rowhomes.

Attached housing: Right now, it can be tough to build rowhomes or townhomes. This change would increase the number of housing units permitted and how they could be laid out on a property.

Duplexes: The city would permit duplexes to be built in many zones which currently only allow a single-family home.

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To date, most work on this project has been conducted by city staff and the Plan Commission, which advises the city on issues related to planning and zoning. But in the coming weeks and months, actions will move closer to Council consideration and ultimate adoption.

When this time comes, it is important for the community to come out and support.

None of these changes are particularly radical, and contrary to some fears, none of them would result in major changes to neighborhoods. In fact, in many cases these changes simply revert to the conventions which were in place when many of Spokane’s most popular neighborhoods—like South Perry, Garland, and West Central—were first constructed.

But over the long-term (think twenty or thirty years), they have the potential to finally put a dent in housing affordability, while making our city more livable and walkable at the same time.

There’s a lot more work to do to improve housing affordability—the Housing Action Plan has dozens more actions on the docket. But personally, I’ve been writing about the potential associated with these types of “weedsy” changes (both inside and outside of this magazine!) for many years, and I’m excited to see the city taking action on some of them.

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fter a two-year hiatus the region’s top festival returns the third week in May with a new theme, “Our Town.”

The Spokane Lilac Festival is a chance for the community to honor our military and showcase the area and its youth with events throughout the Pacific and Inland Northwest. Meet the Lilac Court, see cool cars, enjoy the Torchlight parade, and so much more this year. It’s good to be back.

you to an afternoon of fun and fashion at the annual Queen’s Luncheon in the Grand Ballroom at the DoubleTree by Hilton, featuring a full course menu.

MAY 16: 2022 Lilac Legacy Art Show & Competition 5:30pm; Nectar Catering & Events, located at 120 N. Stevens St., Spokane

MAY 21: Cruzin’ The Falls Car Show Downtown Spokane

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MAY 20: President’s Gala 6:30pm; DoubleTree Hotel Enjoy an evening of elegance, fine dining, and dancing to support the Spokane Lilac Festival in the Grand Ballroom at the DoubleTree by Hilton, featuring a full course menu.

MAY 21: Rose Garden Planting 10:30am; Manito Park in Spokane MAY 21: Brewfest 1pm-5pm; Wall St. between Spokane Falls Blvd. & Main St., Spokane “We are excited to host our First Annual Spokane Lilac Festival Brewfest in the streets of Downtown Spokane,” says Sam Snow, 2022 SLFA Parade Vice President. All

tickets include a commemorative glass and 10 tokens for 5-oz pours at the participating breweries. $35 (General Admission) / $45 (VIP) Available for purchase at www. spokanelilacfestival.org.

MAY 21: 84th Armed Forces Torchlight Parade 7:45pm; Downtown Spokane MAY 22: Lilac Century Family Fun Bike Ride Sponsored by Spokane Aurora Northwest Rotary, this ride along the Children of the Sun Trail (an asphalt bike/pedestrian trail) is a beautiful out and back 12-mile jaunt that parallels the North Spokane Corridor.

This ride is excellent for families with young children and Burley trailers, and families are encouraged to experience the trail at their leisure; a map will be available at the start/ finish area for those interested. Food and water will be available at the turn-around at the Hillyard trailhead.

For further details and ticketing information, contact the Spokane Lilac Festival at 509-5354554 or visit www.spokanelilacfestival.org.

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HISTORIC FLIGHT FOUNDATION: Located in Felts Field and is ideal for large weddings and events. The glamour of the planes adds a level of excitement and distinction to your event, but can also be taken out. When the hangar door is fully open in the summer, it unveils a beautiful view of the runway and nearby mountains.

For smaller groups the Terrace, with a view of the entire facility, is available for a significant discount. Plenty of free parking and room for up to 400+!

Delectable Catering + Events is a preferred caterer.

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ART MAY: Northwest artist Robert Grimes The Art Spirit Gallery opens its next show collaboration with Chalice Brewing Co., featuring Spokane based artist Robert Grimes. In a building characterized by its historic charm, there is no better artist suited to this location than Robert Grimes, a multi-media artist out of Spokane, whose work is characterized by its bright colors, abstract imagery, and three-dimensionality.

Using wood, oil paints, and wire, Grimes creates works that are equal part painting and sculpture, lifelike in a way that few can coax from the same materials. He is truly a master in his field. In recent years, Robert Grimes has begun to suffer from dementia, so now is a time to celebrate his amazing work and legacy. This show will be Robert’s final bow.

Contact theartspiritgallery.com for details.

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EVENTS MAY 11: SuperHero Circus Embark on a journey as you are amazed by the superpower performances.

Suspense will rise and jaws will drop as you watch soaring acrobats, lightningfast jugglers, and laugh along with our hilarious performing clowns, and so much more. Call 580-743-0446 for ticket information.

4:30-7:30pm, Kootenai County Fairgrounds, 4056 N Government Way, CdA MAY 14: Garden Expo 2022 This year’s theme is “On the Road Again!” Tons of Vendors, lots of fun, and it’s all free. Over 250 gardenrelated vendors, so bring your wagon or garden cart. Free Admission/Parking.

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gardening guru Ciscoe Morris will be at the Garden Expo doing a fun talk and promoting his new book, Oh, La La! Homegrown Stories, Helpful Tips, and Garden Wisdom. 9am-5pm, Spokane Community College Lair, 1810 N Greene St, Spokane

MAY 18: Maureen “Mo” Beck, paraclimber and speaker for National Geographic Live Her talk at The Fox is called “Improbable Ascent.” Mo was born without a left hand and didn’t let that hinder her love of rock climbing—a sport she discovered as a child at camp.

As National Geographic Live writes about her, “One of her early adaptive climbing innovations was taping a ladle to her arm! She has since led a crew of passionate adaptive climbers around the world, forging a path for a new generation in the sport. With her trademark humor and wit, this world champion paraclimber and 2019 National Geographic Adventurer of the Year will amaze audiences with her tales of adventure as a one-handed athlete.”

Talk begins at 7:30pm.

1001 W Sprague Ave, Spokane MAY 18: Bacon, Bloodys & Brews Festival Hayden, Idaho Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring its Annual Bacon, Bloodys & brews Festival, an evening event, including a beer garden, where over 45 plus area businesses and organizations prepare their favorite Bacon Dish or favorite Bloody Mary concoction and the public gets to come taste and pick their favorites! 5:30-8pm; tickets $25 in advance, $30 at the door, $10 for 12 and under.

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MAY 21-22: High Timber Classic, I & II USHJA Outreach Horse Shows! Added to the Outreach and Derby lineup will be special Jumper classes and hold your beverage challenges. Warm Up day is May 20. Come out and horse around.

Text Pam at 206-604-9342 or email giddyupseattle@gmail.com for more information. This is an all-day event.

Meadow View Farm, 8410 S Cedar Rd., Spokane MAY 30: Memorial Day Across the region, people will gather to remember those who died in active military service.

In Liberty Lake, WA, the Liberty Lake Centennial Rotary Club will host a luminary display event without a specific time to attend. Each luminary represents a service member who has given the ultimate sacrifice. The light of the candle symbolizes the light that lives on in each of us, especially our Gold Star Families, as they continue to adapt to life without their loved one here on earth. May our memories of the fallen continue to light the way for us. 727 N Molter Rd, Liberty Lake In Spokane, from 8:30-10am, Heroes’ Pancake Feed at Heritage Funeral & Cremation. $3 per person, veterans free. 508 North Government Way. This is followed by a Flag Cruise beginning at 10am, which winds through town and ends at Fairmount Memorial Park 5200 W Wellesley, Spokane

MUSIC MAY 13-14: Nighthawk Ultra Lounge Live Music Enjoy live entertainment in a chic, modern setting with a state-of-the-art sound system and a full bar. Live music is set for Friday and Saturday from 8:30pm12:30am, Coeur d’Alene Casino.

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MAY 19: Brubeck Brothers Quartet at The Panida Theater Chris and Dan Brubeck have been making music together practically all their lives. Drummer Dan and bassist, trombonist, and composer Chris cut their first record together in 1966—nearly a half century ago. They’ve subsequently played a variety of styles in a number of different groups, as well as with their father, jazz giant Dave Brubeck, and with their own Brubeck Brothers Quartet.

With Dan and Chris as the foundation, guitarist Mike DeMicco and pianist Chuck Lamb complete this dynamic quartet. They perform at concert series, colleges, and jazz festivals across North America and Europe including the Newport, Detroit, Montreal, Playboy/ Hollywood Bowl, and Monterey Jazz Festivals. The Quartet’s last cd, LifeTimes was a hit on the Jazz Week radio chart where it made the Top Ten list as one of the most played jazz recordings of the year. Admission $27. Call 208-263-9191 for more information.

The Panida Theater, 300 North 1st Ave, Sandpoint

MAY 21: Northwest Bachfest The festival begins a new season on a festive note with guest artists Chee-Yun Kim on violin, and Natasha Paremski on piano, joining GrammyWinning Artistic Director Zuill Bailey on cello, for two performances of duo, solo, and trio selections, including music of Beethoven, Chopin, Kodaly, Rachmaninoff, and more. Chee-Yun Kim is celebrated around the world for her flawless technique, dazzling tone, and compelling artistry. Natasha Paremski, a frequent soloist with symphony orchestras around the world, is known for her interpretive abilities and powerful mastery of the keyboard. Performances begin at 7pm.

Barrister Winery, 1213 W Railroad Ave, Spokane MAY 22: Spokane Youth Symphony: Rejoice in Inspiration 4-6:00pm, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W Sprague Ave, Spokane JUNE 3: The Zonky Jazz Band performs with New York jazz clarinetist Ken Peplowski Join The Zonky Jazz Band for a special tribute to Mildred Bailey at the Montvale Event Center, with special guest singer, Julia Rinker. Ken Peplowski is “arguably the world’s greatest living jazz clarinetist,” according to Russell Davies of BBC2. He has toured extensively throughout his four-decade career, including with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (under Buddy Morrow), and with the Benny Goodman Orchestra.

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Give us your opinion about the Inland Northwest businesses and the services they provide. Ballots must be mailed or faxed (509-5353542) to our office by May 30, 2022. Only one entry per person will be accepted. Your name, phone number and e-mail must be included, and at least 50 percent of the ballot must be completed for us to count it and for you to qualify for the prize. Attempts at ballot stuffing will be eliminated from the results. All categories may not be reported in the accompanying article.

1. Best Employment Agency

12. Best Public Relations Agency

23. Best Law Firm for Business

34. Best Office Design Company

2. Best Local Business Man

13. Best IT Company

24. Best Credit Card Processing

35. Best Office Building

3. Best Local Business Woman

14. Best Web Design Business

25. Best Business Banking

36. Best Office Park

4. Best Sign Company

15. Best Computer Repair Business

26. Best Credit Union

37. Best Restaurant for a Business Lunch

5. Best Business Startup (one year or less)

16. Best Printing Company

27. Best Business Security System Providers

38. Best Social Media Promotions Firm

6. Best High-Tech Firm

17. Best Networking Events

28. Best Commercial Realtor

39. Best Catering Business

7. Best Engineering Firm

18. Best Wholesale Coffee Service

29. Best Business Insurance Firm

40. Best Business Event Facility

8. Best Commercial Architectural Firm

19. Best Florist

30. Best Office Supply Business

41. Best Place to Host a Company Party

9. Best Commercial Photographer

20. Best Gift Basket/Gift Service Business

31. Best Office Furniture

42. Best Comany for Office Machines/Printers

10. Best Commercial Construction Company

21. Best Accounting Firm

32. Best Trade Show Displays

43. Best Manufactoring Company

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22. Best Collection Agency

33. Best Promotional Products Provider

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ACTIVE MAY 22: Nature Walk and Bird Watching Explore the birds of our region on this spring bird walk led by birding expert Rich Del Carlo. This guided walk along the shores of the peaceful Pack River takes place on land protected by a KLT conservation agreement with a private property owner. 6 to 9am. Contact the Kaniksu Land Trust for directions at 208263-9471 or by email at info@kaniksu.org.

leader. Julia Rinker is Mildred Bailey's niece, whose three-decade career in studio work included sessions with Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, and more, on some of the most important recordings of the twentieth century. The Zonky Jazz Band has been recording an album celebrating the music of Mildred Bailey, who grew up in and around Spokane and became an icon of the Swing Era. This special, one-night-only event takes place on the second floor of the Montvale Event Center, formerly known as the CenterStage Theater. Dancing is highly encouraged at this all-ages event.

No-host bar with ID. Tickets available for purchase at the door, or in advance online at www.zonkyjazzband.com/ken-peplowski. Doors at 7pm. Dance lesson start at 7:30pm, concert at 8pm.

Montvale Event Center, 1019 W 1st Ave, Spokane

THEATRE MAY 26-29: Nick Swardson at Spokane Comedy Club Comedian, actor and writer/producer Nick Swardson makes a special run at the Spokane Comedy Club this month. The road to success has been a steady climb for Swardson, who started his career in St. Paul/ Minneapolis, then on to New York and Los Angeles, where he first struck feature success in writing Malibu’s Most Wanted, then writing Grandma’s Boy, Benchwarmers, and co-producing I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry with Adam Sandler and Kevin James. More recently Nick has performed in movies such as That’s My Boy, Blades of Glory, 30 Minutes or Less, and Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star, which he wrote, acted, and produced. Performances are 18+ with valid ID, tickets are $40-$55. Call 509-318-9998 for details.

Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W Sprague, Spokane

MAY 27-JUN 19: Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express is a plot-twist masterpiece that has thrilled mystery lovers from television, radio, film, and now theatre.

Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. Isolated and with a killer in their midst, the passengers rely on detective Hercule Poirot to identify the murderer – in case he or she decides to strike again. Performances Thursday through Saturdays at 7:30pm, Sundays at 2 pm; Ticket Prices vary. Call 509-325-2507 for more information.

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May is Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, so it’s only appropriate to highlight a couple of books by Asian American authors I’ve read and loved in the past few years. One, Trust Exercise, is a longstanding favorite; it’s the book I used to foist on customers when I worked at Auntie’s Bookstore, but only when they asked me what book I truly loved.

The other, Intimacies, was released last July, and since reading it I can’t stop turning over its strange, subtle themes in my head.

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Rebecca Gonshak is a Spokane-based fiction writer, essayist, and playwright. She has an MFA in creative nonfiction from Eastern Washington University. Her work has been published in Prairie Schooner, The Account: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Thought, The Swamp, and Alien Magazine. Her one-minute play, "First Trip," was performed during Stage Left’s Fast and Furious Festival 2020. Her flash fiction piece “Hypnosis” was selected for the Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions 2021.

Intimacies by Katie Kitamura

The unnamed narrator of Intimacies works as an interpreter at the International Court in The Hague, a city in the Netherlands. The purpose of this court is to try former political leaders accused of war crimes, and the narrator’s job is to interpret for the defendants.

Every day at work she recounts terrible crimes, but the job of translation distances her from the meaning of what she’s saying. Kitamura writes, “[I]nterpretation can be profoundly disorienting, you can be so caught up in the minutia of the act…that you do not necessarily apprehend the sense of the sentences themselves: you literally do not know what you are saying.” Suddenly, after interpreting for a while without comprehending, the narrator looks down at the notes she has written: “cross border raid, mass grave, armed youth.”

The theme of seeing violence through a scrim, where it isn’t quite real until suddenly it is, echoes throughout the book. There is a mugging outside the apartment of the narrator’s

someone whose job is to convey information accurately, without bias.

Her foil is the defendant for whom she interprets—a former president accused of war crimes. He takes a liking to her and requests her by name to interpret for him, but she wonders if that is only because he sees her as a nonentity, a person of no consequence. The president is a talented manipulator with a keen understanding of human behavior. In a climactic scene he tells the narrator, “There is nothing that separates you from me,” to which she says nothing. When someone asks why she did not stand up for herself, she says, “Because he did not say anything that was untrue.”

The word “intimacies,” is defined by the Oxford Learner’s Dictionary as “things that a person says or does to someone they know very well.” The narrator takes the president’s words as an intimacy, something he can say to her because he truly knows her, better than she would like to be known. Intimacies makes the reader think about both their vulnerability to and their complicity in violence. It’s an uncomfortable read but a fascinating one.

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friend, Jana. Talking about the mugging, Jana says, “The repercussions are terrible, one day you are living your ordinary life with its ordinary ups and downs, and then that life is ripped apart and you can never feel entirely secure again.”

The narrator’s emotions and desires are unclear; even she doesn’t seem to know what they are. She is a woman who observes more than she acts. Even her mode of narrating is formal and detached, fitting for

After talking to a few friends about this novel, I think it might be a “love it or hate it” kind of book. I am in the “love it” camp, and so are a few of my friends, but I also know a couple of people who hate it. I think whether you love or hate this book might come down to how you feel about theater kids. If you’re a former theater kid (like me) or at least have a degree of tolerance for high school theater culture, you’re likely to love this book. On the other hand, if your main association with high school theater is the memory of wanting to rip your ears off when Kayla from the drama club sings “Cabaret” in the cafeteria for the third time that lunch period, you might not.

It’s not just that Trust Exercise is about a high school theater arts school, but that the emotional tenor of the novel is dramatic. The characters feel big feelings. The novel takes teenagers falling in love seriously.

And then, there’s a twist. I won’t give it away, but it’s a brilliant twist.

It’s a twist that changes everything. I’d have been satisfied if Trust Exercise were simply a conventional novel about two teenagers falling in love and getting their hearts broken (I’m a sentimental theater kid, after all), but halfway through, the novel turns into a clever metacommentary on an author’s power over her story. Oh, and it won the National Book Award in 2019. The voting committee must have been full of former theater kids.

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KYRS Radio Gets Bookish Back in 2003, KYRS was a humble 100-watt operation broadcasting from Medical Lake,

Washington. The station is now readying to launch its full 6,800-watt powered signal from the downtown Spokane Central Library.

This marriage of radio and books is the sort of intersection between a traditional library and community center that was envisioned back in November of 2018, when voters approved a $77 million Spokane Public Library bond measure to remodel four existing libraries and build an additional three new facilities.

While it may have grown in size these last two decades, its mission remains the same.

The commercial-free, non-profit broadcaster seeks to fill the needs that other media do not, providing programming to diverse communities and unserved or underserved groups by providing a forum for neglected perspectives and discussions on important local, national and global issues, reflecting values of social, economic and environmental justice, peace, human rights, democracy, multiculturalism, freedom of expression and social change.

Now this go-to station for alternative news and cultural programing is on track to be in its new home by summertime. KYRS’s broadcast antenna is on site and being prepared to mount on the mast that will hold it in place. This process will also include aligning the new antenna’s signal with its tower on Stensgar Mountain, 40 miles away. Once that piece is complete, it will begin building out the new broadcast studio on the top floor of the remodeled Spokane Central Library.

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Along with the stacks of books, KYRS will share its new third-floor home with the library’s Inland Northwest Special Collection, a large event space and stage overlooking the river falls, a new recording studio/music lesson space, and video studio open to the public.

Want to become part of the partnership between library and radio? Thin Air Community Radio is looking for a talented, forward-thinking host or hosts to produce a weekly current affairs program. This opening follows the unfortunate passing in March of its Queer Sounds host, Paul Watts.

KRYS can be heard 24/7 streaming online at www.kyrs.org and found online at https://kyrs.org/. Traditional radio listeners, KYRS operates in Spokane at 88.1 FM and has a translator, K222BG, at 92.3 FM. The non-profit radio station’s board president, Lara Estaris and board vice chair, Kate Burke took a tour recently

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ow hot? According to the firm Porch, over half of all homes sold in Spokane closed above the asking price last year. In fact, out of all midsize metro areas, Spokane had the fifth highest sale-to-list ratio. And Coeur d’Alene? Currently, the average time on market for a single-family home in the lake city is four days.

By now, we’re all familiar with the reasons why the housing market is on fire—a growing work-fromhome economy coupled with historically low interest rates have boosted demand for homes while the national housing stock has dwindled.

To figure out why there aren’t enough homes look no further than new construction. New home building didn’t regain its pre-pandemic pace until this past fall, and ongoing supply chain challenges have continued to impact housing completions. Add into the mix the demand for single family homes created by millennials looking to become first-time homeowners in order to escape rising rental rates, and it becomes obvious why demand currently outpaces supply.

Unfortunately for those younger homebuyers, Baby Boomers aren’t downsizing to condos and retirement communities; to the contrary, they’re upsizing, and they have the capital to pay top dollar for choice real estate. In Spokane as elsewhere, buyers aged 65 years or older accounted for nearly 10 percent of home purchase loans in 2020. How can the average working- or middle-class young family get into a home of its own?

Of all the times to utilize the services of a Realtor, it’s now. Going it alone without an ally in your corner who can negotiate and problem solve on your behalf would be foolhardy.

From a buyer’s perspective, the advantages may seem obvious.

The home-seeker needs someone who can get in there and make the right offer at that right time on his or her behalf. But it’s more than just offering to buy the desired piece of property.

While the typical buyer sees a future home, “most buyer’s Realtors will view a property from a long-term and short-term perspective,” explains Tom Clark, a licensed Realtor with Kestell Company.

“An experienced Realtor will notice red flags or areas of concern, whether it’s energy inefficiency, deferred maintenance or poor

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workmanship, and whether the equipment is aged or any other features of a house that might be concerning,” he notes.

Realtors live and breathe real estate. Would you purchase a half-million-dollar sports car without having the assistance of a seasoned auto mechanic?

It can be a harder sell, no pun intended, in convincing a homeseller as to why putting up a photo on Zillow and going it alone isn’t sufficient, no matter how hot the market it is.

“As a seller, you need an experienced Realtor to assist you with the best pricing strategy; someone who truly knows the value of the area, one who is knowledgeable with the details of your neighborhood, and most importantly a professional to walk you through the multiple-offer situation so many sellers are working with,” says Realtor Connie Smith of Kelly Right Real Estate. “It’s also very important to know how to prepare your home for sale.”

First impressions are key to a successful sale, she adds. “It’s important to have the home staged, professionally cleaned, professionally photographed, decluttered. I always tell my sellers, less is more.”

Smith and all of the Realtors interviewed shared the same sentiment, that their job is to have the client’s best interest at heart.

Take it from one of the region’s most experienced real estate professionals. Nancy Wynia has been helping buyers and sellers since 1979.

“Homes are the largest purchases and sales that most people make. We are there to represent them and explain each step as it comes along. I tell clients that we sell a home three times: sale price, home inspection and appraisal.”

It’s a lot of work, real work, but Wynia emphasizes what matters most for those in her field, “It’s a pleasure and a privilege to work both buyers and sellers.”

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Suzette Alfonso Windermere Real Estate suzyrealtor.com suzettealfonsorealtor@gmail.com (509) 710-4900

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Denise Fox Century 21 Beutler & Associates Denisefox.com dfox@21goldchoice.com (509) 321-1123

Pam Fredrick John L. Scott Pamfredrick.com pamfredrick@johnlscott.com (509) 370-5944

Mary Frances Gence Windermere Real Estate maryfrancesgence.com mfgence@windermere.com (509) 990-1993

Pam Hansen Professional Realty Services professionalrealtyservices.com pamhansenhomes@gmail.com (509) 435-1560

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MARIANNE BORNHOFT

MARIANNE BORNHOFT is a REALTOR® at Windermere Manito and has over 27 years of experience

in both residential and commercial real estate. She was the Chair of Member Communications for the National Association of REALTORS® and the 2013 President of The Spokane Association of REALTORS®. Marianne was also a past Director for the Washington Association of REALTORS® and a past Director for the National Association of REALTORS®.

Marianne’s career highlights include many accomplishments. In 2014, She won REALTOR® of the Year. In 2012, Marianne won the Spokane Association’s REALTOR® Achievement Award. She also won the Spokane Association’s 2009 Excellence in Professionalism award. In 2008, she was voted as #2 REALTOR® in Spokane by the Inlander’s reader Best of Issue. In 2007, she received The Catalyst’s yearly award for top 20 under 40 rising stars in business. Marianne won Rookie of the year in 1995.

Marianne believes in giving back. She received the 2018 REALTOR® Community Service Award for the Spokane Association of REALTORS®. In 2011, Marianne won the National Applebee’s Community Partner Award for volunteerism. She has been on numerous boards and involved with over 2 dozen charities and nonprofits in the Inland Northwest.

Marianne and her husband Chris recently opened Bornhoft Real Estate. They provide a full range of services in all phases of commercial real estate, including leasing, business development, brokerage, property management, and consulting.

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CRYSTAL DELANEY Crystal Delaney is a Realtor® on a mission.

“I absolutely love helping my clients and crafting deals that help them win the home they have their hearts set on,” says Delaney, who before joining 4 Degrees Real Estate worked in corporate sales for a major insurance company. That experience gave her the confidence and strategic thinking and negotiating skills needed to succeed in the Inland Northwest’s high-pressure housing market.

First-time homebuyers have found the ultimate advocate in Delaney. “I guide them, listen to their needs and, most importantly, I am honest with them,” she says.

“I want them to see the possibilities in every opportunity.”

Additionally, coming from a military family, and certified as a Military Relocation Professional (MRP), Delaney sees it as her call of duty to help current and former service members find housing solutions that take full advantage of military benefits and resources. “One of the misconceptions about VA loans is that they’re harder to get accepted by sellers. I can usually get my VA clients under contract on the first or second try; many times even when the sellers weren’t originally considering a VA loan as an option,” Delaney says.

“I take pride in being able to deliver on what I say I’m going to do,” she adds. “If you’re willing to trust me, I WILL get you into a home.”

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Kathy Amistoso Main REMAX of Spokane kathymainrealtor.com kmain@remax.net (509) 998-7544

Patricia O’Callaghan Century 21 Beutler & Associates SpokaneREAL.com SpokaneCityLofts@gmail.com (509) 701-0856

Tracy Penna Windermere Real Estate tracypenna.com tracypenna@icloud.com (509) 953-6561

Connie Smith Kelly Right Real Estate ConnieSellsSpokane.com Connie@conniesellsspokane.com (509) 953-3839

Gayle Terry Windermere Real Estate gayleterry.com gayle@gayleterry.com (509) 389-2069

Todd Spencer Windermere Real Estate spencersellsspokane.net spen001@comcast.net (509) 869-5885

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PAM FREDRICK Pam Fredrick is a real estate broker and residential marketing specialist

at John L. Scott in Spokane. She leads Spokane and the surrounding area in exclusive marketing and sales of luxury homes and is currently rated as one of Spokane’s top ten producers. Pam has successfully earned the “Realtor Excellence Award” for the past twenty years. She has also earned the Prestigious Top 1 Percent Designation, and the “Presidential Elite” Award consecutively for the past nineteen years. The Spokane Association of Realtors has awarded her with the exclusive membership in the Residential Top 10 for the years 1998-2021. Currently, Pam is ranked as the number one listing and selling agent in Liberty Lake and Spokane Valley and ranked top five in Spokane County in residential sales.

Pam’s success and reputation within the industry and among her loyal clients demonstrates her commitment to upholding high standards and professional ethics. These genuine qualities and her personal dedication are the traits that foster the return of her clients time and time again.

John L. Scott, Spokane Valley | (509) 370-5944 Pamfredrick@johnlscott.com | Pamfredrick.com

PamElle HANSEN

PAMELLE HANSEN is a client-centered agent who believes firmly in providing the highest

quality of service at all times to buyers and sellers with whom she works.

Hansen has well-rounded experience in many aspects of the Real Estate industry including seven years in Real Estate Sales and seven years in mortgage lending; along with expertise in Interior Design, Staging, Real Estate Investing and Vacation Rentals. This depth of knowledge enables her to fully understand the wide range of situations that are typically encountered in a real estate transaction, and to guide her clients through every step of the process.

“Real Estate is my area of expertise,” Hansen says, “But it is also my life’s love, and my passion for it has driven me forward since my first home purchase at 22.”

While Hansen has worked in multiple aspects of the industry, her true calling has been her career as a Realtor. She loves making connections with her clients and keeping in touch for the long haul. She views her past clients as close friends and tries to go above and beyond to provide help and information to them long after the sale has closed.

“Providing the utmost value to my clients is of paramount importance to me,” Hansen says.

“There are so many details involved in the sale or purchase of property, and it’s my job to ensure that my buyers and sellers fully understand each step and are comfortable as we move through their sale or purchase.”

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by SARAH HAUGE | photography by JEFF NITSCHKE

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he striking black and white home has already become something of a local landmark in the South Hill neighborhood around 57th Avenue and Regal Street.

Designed and built by Solid Ground Home Builders, which took its inspiration from the popular Modern Farmhouse designs coming out of Toronto, Canada, it was featured in the Fall Festival of Homes. The primary difference between this particular dwelling and the others is its size, explains Solid Ground’s chief marketing officer Charles Nitschke.

“Everybody thinks they need a 5,000-square-foot house, but we can pull off that same feeling in a 2000- or 3,000-square-foot house,” says Nitschke.

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This elegant show home provides three bedrooms, two baths as well as several bonus spaces within its 3,323 square feet. It’s designed to be the perfect residence for retirees or younger families.

Solid Ground decided to design this home in contrasting black and white, with vaulted ceilings and wide hallways, contributing to a sense of spaciousness and grandeur while still fitting into a regularly sized lot. While some builders might consider wide hallways as “wasted space,” Nitschke says, “for us, it’s what’s called ‘feel-good’ space,” the kinds of choices that make a home livable.

The main living space and contained primary suite are located on the main floor, as are an office and guest bedroom.

Upstairs houses additional bedrooms, an oversized second living space with room for a beverage center, and an upstairs bathroom. There’s also a “flex room” that can be used as the homeowners see fit—home gym, music room, perhaps a home library, or even a spot to place a Murphy bed for out-oftown guests.

Off the main floor, double patio doors open onto an expansive covered patio, enabling an easy indooroutdoor flow. The yard, like the home’s interior spaces, is right-sized, only the necessary amount of yard to enjoy without overwhelming the occupants with lawn maintenance.

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In addition to monitoring design trends and trying to push themselves to take on new challenges, Nitschke says the builders placed a high priority on creating homes that easily adapt to fit homeowners’ needs. In this home, for instance, all of the primary functions take place on the main floor, which is about 2,000 square feet. But when extended family comes to town, the homeowners will be able to “expand up” and take advantage of the second story.

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They focused on right-sized spaces, going for volume where it makes an impact—like those high ceilings and roomy hallways—and minimizing their footprint in single-use spaces.

The main level guest bedroom “is fairly small, but that’s its purpose,” says Nitschke. People don’t live in their bedrooms; they are meant to be cozy places to get rest. “The office is just big enough to be an office.”

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home in response to so many of us having to work from home over the past couple of years. With a wall of glass that looks out onto the entryway and its contrasting black and wood accents, it’s an inviting and visually appealing space for whatever business needs attending.

When it comes to future livability, “We want a home that can evolve with your life,” says Nitschke. Solid Ground takes into account preparation for potential future needs, like putting in bracing for grab bars in the shower. Though grab bars aren’t currently needed by the homeowners, if they ever MAY 2022 / BOZZIMEDIA.com

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become necessary the proper initial steps have already been made. “We’re trying to think of how somebody’s life will change over time and have a house they can make those changes in.”

This home is “kind of the pinnacle of how far we think we can push design,” Nitschke says. Their company’s focus is on high performance luxury. In fact, this is the last wood home they’ll build; moving forward they’ll be constructed out of insulated concrete form (ICL), an energy efficient material.

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The neighborhood, which is entirely populated by Solid Ground projects, is the first 100 percent solar-powerequipped neighborhood in the region, says Nitschke.

Every house built is given a solar array that can be expanded as homeowners desire.”

“As the price of that tech goes down, your house is ready to expand that solar,” he says. “This house from day one was designed with that solar component in mind and to be as energy efficient and airtight as possible.”

As our region continues to experience wind storms, smoky summers, and all sorts of increasingly disruptive weather events, homes like this one, with a tight envelope, are likely to feel more comfortable and secure than their counterparts. “We want a house that’s ready for this new environment that we’re going to increasingly be living in,” Nitschke explains.

The focus on smart construction didn’t take anything away from the aesthetics. Continuing the high contrast black and white from the exterior, indoors the home features high-end materials that pair visual impact with function, like the glass wine display off the entry and the twostory Roman clay fireplace.

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Materials and accessories include an ample use of vertical-grain white oak and black tile.

For the home, the team used their Modern Farmhouse design as a jumping off point, but gave it “a more modern edge, with a very pronounced verticality”—like the 15-foot cathedral ceilings— "and a very strong black and white color palette,” says Nitschke.

This home represents the design elements homeowners

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are often seeking—spacious islands, indoor-outdoor living, a continuous color and materials palette—while also thinking to the future in terms of what kinds of functionality and efficiency will be most impactful and long-lasting.

The loose theme inside “was kind of ‘dogs and wine,’” Nitschke says. The stunning glass-walled wine display sets that stage, with function that also serves as visual art. On the “dog” front, a favorite feature

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is the dog wash area. The nook under the stairs is also perfectly proportioned for pups, furnished with a dog bed.

The outdoor space has an accommodating covered patio, as well as shading from surrounding trees. One obstacle that has been transformed into an attractive and functional area is the edge of the lot, where a drainage swale runs. They set chair-height basalt boulders along its length, which

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runs 75 feet across the yard.

The boulders contribute both additional seating and visual appeal.

“Our team is all about pushing the envelope,” says Nitschke.

As a newer company, “we are not bound by years of presupposition about what can be done, what should be done, or any such prejudice. We just design the types of homes that we would want to live in.”

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Stylishly dressed windows complete a room by tying together the overall design, making them a key component to home decorating. And whether acting as a dramatic focal point or as a subtle enhancement to other decorating features, ultimately window treatments must include function as well as form. They should control light, maintain privacy, and insulate against

seasonal temperature changes.

Classic curtains and drapes, especially those made from heavy fabrics, are ideal for blocking light, but they tend to be all or nothing. Roman shades provide a solution to this binary conundrum. Similar to drapes, these shades are crafted from fabric, but the fabric is pleated or folded horizontally rather than vertically, creating a window covering that can be either raised or lowered, rather than merely moving side to side. Roman shades’ top-down/ bottom-up versatility allows for maximum light control.

Additionally, manufacturers offer Roman shades in a variety of materials including grass cloth, woven wood, cotton blend, silk and easy to clean polyester. Choose crushed velvet for a sense of luxury or simple grass for an open, airy feeling, and anything in between. Adding a touch of elegance to their distinct style, Roman shades have no exposed cords, a fact which creates a safer space for children and pets.

Cellular shades are a close cousin to the Roman style. Made of pleated materials that are designed to fold up accordion-style, they can be raised and lowered as needed, and are available in light filtering, room darkening, and blackout designs. Cellular refers to the air pockets in the honeycomb cross-sections that act as insulators; in fact, the Department of Energy rates cellular shades among the top energy saving window treatments one can install.

In the fall and winter, tightly installed cellular shades can reduce heat loss through windows by over 40 percent. In the spring and summer seasons, these honeycombed shades can prevent unwanted solar heat seeping through windows by up to 60 percent, reducing the total gain to 20 percent when installed with a proper fit.

The energy savings over time are more than worth the upfront cost of these window treatments.

For houses with windows facing busy streets, letting in the morning light while savoring a morning cup of coffee in relative privacy can be tricky. Selena Strain, interior designer with Wallflowers Design Center of Spokane, has the solution. She recommends a two-in-one blind that is both light filtering and sheer.

One option is an insulating ‘duette,’ such as the Hunter Douglas Duette shades incorporating Duolite technology, which provides maximum light control with two separate fabric panels to achieve that perpetual day and night look. With a sheer duette attached, this works like a top-down/ bottom-up style treatment, but when the top is down one still enjoys privacy.

Silhouette blinds provide a second option. They combine the light control of mini blinds with the privacy control of honeycomb shades. The slats of these horizontal blinds can be rotated 180 degrees to provide the perfect angle. Angle the slats up to let in bright morning sun without the glare, angle them downward for afternoon light with privacy.

Regardless of one’s decorating choices, modern window treatments have something to accommodate any style and need.

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by ANN FOREYT he weather is warming up and you want to get outside, but walking around your neighborhood is old hat at this point. So why not head out a little further than the curb to try out nearby walking, running, and hiking trails?

This isn’t a comprehensive list of all the amazing places in the Inland Northwest to explore on foot, only a few of my favorites. If you have other favorite walking or hiking haunts, I want to hear about them. I’m always looking for new places to explore!

First, some general notes.

If you’re attempting a trail that you’ve never explored before, or it’s been a while since you’ve been out on a particular jaunt, always make sure to check the map or use a trails app (AllTrails is great) to make sure you know where you’re going. While some of the trails on this list are very well-marked and hard to deviate from, others may be a little confusing and difficult to follow at times.

If you’re going out hiking alone, tell someone where you’re going and about how long you intend to be out. While Spokane is a very safe place overall, even something as simple as a twisted ankle or sudden nosebleed can create a rescue situation. If you don’t return as planned, you’ll want people

to know where to find you.

Especially during the summer, this area has quite a large number of ticks. When out in nature, always wear bug spray. When you return home, remember to check your body, particularly around tighter areas of clothing such as the waistbands, bra bands and socks, to make sure you haven’t carried any critters home with you.

And as the song says, always wear sunscreen.

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SLAVIN CONSERVATION AREA This approximately 4-mile loop in a wildlife conservation area south of Spokane is a great choice for a walk that rewards nature lovers; in fact, it’s a popular destination for birders and wildlife photographers. While it can get pretty muddy during the colder, wetter months, this is a firm, easy trail that’s suitable for kids and leashed dogs during the summer. Bring your camera!

PAVED TRAILS

If you’re looking for a wheelchair or stroller-friendly option, paved paths are likely the preferred option. Spokane has several ADA-compliant trails, and those with mobility concerns would also benefit from their flat surfaces. Paved trails are excellent for easy rambles and any kind of out-and-back adventure for the very young and old alike.

CENTENNIAL TRAIL If you’ve spent more than a day or two in Spokane, you’ve likely heard about the Centennial Trail. This is truly the OG of area trails, running from Nine Mile Falls Recreation Area to the state line, through Post Falls, into Coeur d’Alene, and another 18 miles after that. It’s fully paved, well-maintained, and has multiple trailheads, and it crosses a variety of commercial and residential areas, allowing endlessly flexible hop-on-hop-off access. The Centennial Trail is truly a heartline for all of Spokane and eastward.

FISH LAKE TRAIL This lovely, almost-entirely flat, 9-mile paved trail takes you south from west Spokane to Queen Lucas Lake. It’s a favorite of bicyclists, and it’s my personal go-to when I want a relaxing out-and-back run. I’m on this trail most Sunday mornings during the summer, so wave if you see me! The trail is relatively secluded after the first mile, which runs along US 195, and the distance markers every half mile make this a very friendly trail for those who are experimenting with pushing their distances or who need that extra reassurance that they’re still on the right track (well, trail).

KID-FRIENDLY UNPAVED TRAILS

If pavement seems too harsh, and you’re looking for a little bit more of a “hiking” feel that’s still accessible to little ones and inexperienced hikers, this is the list for you.

The trails listed here are mostly flat or easy to navigate while still letting you get out into nature and challenge yourself a bit.

TUBBS HILL A perennial Coeur d’Alene family favorite, Tubbs Hill offers a mostly-level, if sometimes a little rocky 2-mile walking loop, many great opportunities for swimming, and some truly beautiful views of Lake Coeur d’Alene. There are also some alternate paths that allow you to summit the hill for additional exercise and incredible views. During the summer, this trail can get rather busy, so plan accordingly, especially if you’re planning on trying to find a swimming hole.

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BOWL AND PITCHER AT RIVERSIDE STATE PARK Another “must-do” if you’re new to the Spokane trail scene, Bowl and Pitcher is an accessible, beautiful way to get out into nature. Starting at a majestic wooden suspension bridge, it’s an easy 2-mile trail that loops through the old-growth forest of Riverside State Park and gives you some great views of the Spokane River. Additionally, this trail connects into the larger network of Riverside Park trails, some of which are significantly more challenging.

This is definitely an Instagram favorite!

NOTE: Because this is a state park, in order to park at the trailhead, you will need a Discover Pass or purchase a day pass.

PALISADES PARK Located high on a bluff overlooking west Spokane and Spokane Falls Community College, Palisades Park is a hidden gem of Spokane, and one of my personal favorites. There are a few different trail length options available, but all are pretty flat and easy to navigate; these trails had previously been service roads that were converted to gravel paths. This trail offers some truly incredible views of the whole of Spokane. You’ll spend the first mile walking along the edge of the bluff with all of Spokane stretched out before you.

If you’re looking for a not-too-crowded, kid- and dog-friendly place to walk, either as a loop or as an out-and-back, I cannot recommend Palisades enough.

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If you’re looking for more of a true hike, or want to start adding some elevation to your meanderings, our region has plenty of challenging options. The trails on this list are less kid-friendly but still navigable during the summer without hiking poles or specialized equipment.

ROCKS OF SHARON Truly one of the most impressive hikes in the area, Rocks of Sharon rewards a bit of steep climbing with some of the most stunning views in the area. When you reach the summit, you get a truly stunning tableau of the Palouse, including Steptoe Butte in the distance. There are multiple options for trails leading up and down, but all require you to climb a pretty significant height. The trails themselves are well-maintained, but this is not a casual chat-and-walk hike. The beauty when you get to the top, however, is worth it!

ILLER CREEK CONSERVATION AREA TRAIL This Spokane Valley trail is part of the Dishman Hills Natural Area, which contains multiple great trails and opportunities for adventure. It’s a challenging 5-mile loop that rewards hikers with great views and fantastic nature-watching.

I’ve seen everything from bald eagles to moose while out here.

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for the most accessible experience, but you won’t be disappointed either way you go.

LIBERTY LAKE TRAIL Another classic beloved by both casual walkers and more experienced hikers, the Liberty Lake trail is a 9-mile loop trail that has it all, including a waterfall. For less of a challenge and to get to the waterfall earlier, take the trail counter-clockwise. Either direction you go, this trail rewards both the more experienced or long-distance hikers who choose to do the full loop as well as those who are more recreationally inclined and prefer to do an out-and-back route to the waterfall.

I hope you are able to get outside and take some time in nature this month. Our area has so many great options; let me know which are your favorites!

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Retirement communities help seniors exercise their rights to fitness

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by DARIN BURT

FROM WATER AEROBICS TO TAI CHI, retirement communities are focusing on the needs of

their residents, especially when it comes to physical fitness and mental wellness.

According to AARP research, of the 75 million people who are eligible for age-qualified communities — typically age 55 or older — more than 32 million would consider moving to a retirement village. High on their list of requirements are resources to help them keep physically fit and healthy.

“My gosh, it’s huge, and one of the first questions that seniors have when they inquire about our community,” says Heidi Ulland, Director of Sales and Marketing at Riverview Retirement Community.

“Moving into a retirement community used to be a kind of scary thought, especially for people who have been active all their lives. It’s not like that anymore. Choosing to be a resident of a retirement community is about being able to enjoy life and not have to worry about those silly chores like clearing snow and mowing your yard,” Ulland, adds. “Everybody’s goal is to stay independent as long as possible, and we’re here to help them do that.”

Research from Retirement in Action (REACT) finds that just one group exercise session per week helps prevent declining mobility and associated medical issues for those ages 65 and older. Riverview takes that goal to heart, offering a state-of-the-art aquatic and fitness center complete with therapy and lap pools, a fitness studio featuring specialized cardio and strength equipment, an indoor walking track, and even a “lazy river” where swimmers can walk against the current to burn calories and improve leg strength and balance.

Ulland says that participating in workout groups is a great way to stay motivated and have more fun while exercising.

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“Having that neighbor who joins you walking on that track or exercising in the pool is really encouraging,” Ulland says.

“This is a funny story, but I was working out at our fitness center and got off the treadmill, and my 92-year-old friend looks at me and asks, ‘Is that all you’re gonna do?’”

But seniors don’t have to work up a sweat to stay fit. Activities are planned for all levels of health and mobility and are led by trained physical therapists and certified instructors to ensure residents reach their goals without overdoing it.

Orchard Crest Retirement Community, for example, offers low impact exercise classes, including Sit and Be Fit and tai chi, both of which simultaneously strengthen muscles, enhance flexibility, and reduce inflammation in age-worn joints while promoting balance and coordination.

“My favorite saying is ‘motion is lotion,’” says Jacki Schmick, Orchard Crest’s Director of Marketing.

Additional research has found tai chi, a martial arts exercise often called “meditation in motion,” in addition to reducing everyday aches and pains, can deliver a calming effect that helps practitioners lay down their worries and have more restful sleep, which is important because sleep is when a body repairs itself, allowing for better immune and respiratory function.

“The therapeutic benefits are often instant,” Schmick says. “In a very short time, people’s balance is Orchard Crest improved; they’re Sit and Be Fit class not stumbling, they’re more conscious of their gate, and their posture is remarkably better.”

Beyond searching for options to stay physically fit, residents are also interested staying mentally fit. Communities regularly plan group activities such as dancing, choir, shopping trips, and casino visits.

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Particularly on the heels of the pandemic, people are anxious to head outdoors, and retirees who may have been in quarantine for extended periods of time are ready for some fresh air and sunshine.

Gardening, nature walks, fishing trips, and even group outings to local attractions and festivals help seniors to thrive.

In fact, research published in the Journal of Aging Health demonstrates conclusively that spending time outside on a regular basis helps older adults stay healthy and age more gracefully. Participants who spent time outdoors every day at age 70 had fewer issues of aching bones or sleep apnea than those who were cooped up inside all day.

In addition, outdoor activities involving social interaction have shown to help dementia and stroke sufferers improve their social skills while increasing their functional levels.

The emphasis on fitness reflects a generational shift. Baby Boomers realize the advantages of opting for a retirement community lifestyle, and gone are the days when most residents were “placed” in such communities by their adult children. In fact, some residents aren’t even retired and still work in their career fields. And while many don’t require assisted living or skilled nursing, communities like Riverview and Orchard Crest do offer multiple levels of care should needs change.

Schmick sees having healthy, active residents as a win-win situation.

“The more people are involved,” Schmick says, “the happier they seem to be.

And if they’re happier, then they’re more vibrant. And if they’re more vibrant, then they tend to be healthier. And if they’re healthier, they live longer.”

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by KACEY ROSAUER Follow Kacey Rosauer of Rosauer's Kitchen on Instagram for more recipes and food inspiration. @rosauerskitchen

Celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month with

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uli Huli chicken is a rotisserie-style chicken cooked over hot coals. Huli means “turn” in Hawaiian, and its name came from bystanders yelling “Huli!” every time the chicken would turn over on the spit. The chicken is basted with a sweet sauce that is similar to teriyaki but made primarily with pineapple juice.

Huli Huli Chicken

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When you order Huli Huli chicken from a restaurant, you usually receive half of a chicken with all the fixings. But if you’re like me, the trek to Rainbow Drive-in involves a five-plus-hour plane ride, so it’s a good thing that this dish is fairly easy to make at home.

It all starts with a sweet, gingery marinade made primarily from pineapple juice, with just a hint of spice. And since pineapple juice contains the enzyme bromelain, which digests protein and tenderizes meat quickly, it makes for a fast marinade. Be careful not to keep it marinated too long, or your chicken will turn to mush!

Sadly, like most people, I don’t have a charcoal spit in my backyard (yet), though any barbecue will work. Be mindful that the lack of a spit and the high sugar content in this marinade means the chicken has a greater chance of burning before being fully cooked. The best solution is to opt for boneless, skinless chicken thighs.

They’ll cook fast enough to reach proper temperature without getting so much char to the point where that becomes the only flavor.

YIELD: 4 SERVINGS Huli Huli Chicken Ingredients 2 pounds Chicken Thighs, boneless skinless 6 ounces Pineapple Juice 1/2 cup Soy Sauce 1/3 cup Brown Sugar 2 cloves Garlic, minced 1 inch Ginger, peeled minced 1 teaspoon Worcestershire Sauce 3 Green Onions, whites finely minced and separated from the greens 1/2 teaspoon Chili Flakes 1 tablespoon Corn Starch 1/4 cup Water, cold Sesame Seeds for garnish Grilled Pineapple Rings, optional 100

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INSTRUCTIONS

To make the marinade, mix together pineapple juice, soy sauce, brown sugar, Worcestershire sauce, chili flakes, garlic, ginger, and the whites of the green onions.

Lay the chicken in a casserole dish in a single layer, pour the marinade over the chicken, setting aside 1/2 cup for a sauce later.

Turn the chicken a few times to make sure it is well coated.

Refrigerate for at least 1 hour (but no longer than 5 hours).

Prep your barbecue by preheating to a medium-high heat. I prefer charcoal, but propane works just as well for this.

Lay the chicken on a hot grill and cook for 2 minutes, then rotate 45 degrees to create the perfect grill marks. Brush with some of the remaining marinades and cook for 2 more minutes. Turn (Huli) and repeat on the other side. Cook until the internal temp of the chicken reaches 160 degrees, then remove from grill and let rest. The

carryover cooking will continue to cook the chicken to the perfect 165 degrees.

Optional Step - If you’re grilling the pineapple, place it on the grill at the same you first turn (Huli) the chicken, and grill only a minute on each side or until soft and you achieve grill marks.

While the chicken is resting, in a small pot bring the remaining 1/2 cup of marinade that you saved to a boil. In a small bowl, mix together cornstarch and cold water until smooth. Slowly pour the cornstarch slurry into the boiling marinade, whisking vigorously to prevent clumps. The sauce should be thick enough to coat the back of a spoon. Pour over chicken or use for dipping.

Garnish the chicken with sesame seeds and the green part of the green onions (sliced thin), serve hot and preferably with 2 scoops rice, and 1 scoop of mac salad. (This is a Hawaiian dish, after all!)

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Chaps Diner and Bakery Chaps location on Cheney-Spokane Road off Hwy 195 may seem out of the way, but Mother’s Day has historically been their most popular selling day. Chaps’ lead baker, Traci Aiello, creates some special pastries such as miniature key lime pie, which are available only on Mother’s Day weekend. Of course, you can also order from their daily assortment of baked goods, including “the Downtowner,” a rolled croissant-dough with butter and cinnamon sugar, and their famous apple fritters. 4237 S Cheney-Spokane Road, Spokane 102

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Tea Party Treats for Mom MAY IS MY FAVORITE MONTH OF THE YEAR.

The weather is generally mild, the flowers are blooming, and I get to celebrate twice since my birthday is in early May, followed closely by Mother’s Day. The nice weather and lush greenery so abundant this month make it perfect to celebrate the moms in your life with an outdoor picnic—or if you want to be even fancier, a Mother’s Day tea party.

Lindsay and I scouted Spokane County bake shops for some delectable pastries and treats to help you create a memorable tea party tablescape.

Alpine Deli This little deli located on Third Ave between Interstate 90 and the downtown hospital district has been in continuous operation since the late 1980s.

Darin and Andrea Weiler took ownership three years ago and have committed to keeping the German deli alive for years to come. Every day, Andrea makes a rotating menu of German baked goods, but the star item is always their scones. Flavors vary each day, but these soft, airy scones make the perfect addition to any tea party tray. 417 E 3rd Ave, Spokane

Bake My Day Bake My Day is a little drive-thru bake shop on the north side, near Riverside High School, off of Newport Hwy. Their oversized, fluffy scones are worth the drive because they are absolutely some of the best scones you will find in town. Owner Ashley Whitham-Dinwiddie makes them fresh every day, with flavors ranging from raspberry, peach, huckleberry, to maple pecan and more. There are even gluten-free options, as well as other goodies like cinnamon rolls, muffins, and brownies. Keep an eye out for their new location in Greenacres, which is opening soon. 34911 N Newport Highway, Chattaroy

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Rind And Wheat Ricky Webster’s Rind And Wheat in Browne’s addition and its new sister shop, Morsel, located at the old Fery’s Catering building on Crowley and 4th Street, are great places to find pastries, cheeses, and sandwiches for a tea party. You can either purchase a pre-assembled charcuterie box or order their special Mother’s Day “tea party in a box” kit, which includes mini croissants, cucumber sandwiches, tea cookies, quiche and scones— everything you need to treat Mom on her special day. 1516 W Riverside Ave, Spokane

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Madeleine’s Cafe & Patisserie Madeleine’s, which opened nearly 15 years ago by Deb Green and her daughter Megan Van Stone, offers the perfect decor and ambiance for a Mother’s Day brunch. But if you’re hoping to get some pastries for your own party, make sure to order their delicious choux (cream filled pastry puffs), as well as their sweet and savory croissants; the ham and cheese croissants are a savory way to take a break from all the sweets. 415 W Main Ave, Spokane I hope you treat Mom with something special on her day. Whether it’s a tea party or simply a special backyard picnic or luncheon with friends, she surely will enjoy any of the treats we discovered for you here.

MiFLAVOUR MiFLAVOUR’s flagship location in the Sprague shopping district is a perfect place to take Mom for coffee or tea and ice cream. Their display cases filled with an assortment of cakes, French pastries, sweet and savory croissants, and macarons will make anyone’s mouth water. For Mother’s Day, head baker Courtney Carlsen decorates their famous Mac Cakes with flowers and sweet phrases for gifting. 3403 E Sprague Ave, Spokane MAY 2022 / BOZZIMEDIA.com

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LOCAL CUISINE/branded content The outdoor patio at Zona Blanca is the ultimate place to hang out with friends and enjoy a Mexican inspired cocktail and some tortilla chips and house-made guacamole.

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Chef Chad White shares his passion for Mexican seafood at Zona Blanca

by TANYA MADDEN

MEXICAN FOOD boasts a historical fusion of cultures, mixing its pre-Hispanic roots with Spanish,

European, Middle Eastern and Asian influences. It is this rich tradition that chef Chad White wants to share with customers at Zona Blanca, his award-winning ceviche bar in downtown Spokane.

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“It’s exciting to be able to introduce something different and educate our guests on unfamiliar flavors and where they came from.

Most Mexican restaurants here in Spokane offer much of the same dishes and cater to those specifically looking for enchiladas, tacos, burritos, and tamales, which is very centralized Mexican cuisine. Few restaurants all across the United States focus on specialty food specific to the coastal regions of Mexico,” White says.

Ceviche (pronounced “seh-VEE-chay”) is a Latin American recipe preparation for shellfish and raw fish cured in citrus juice. Chef White, a two-time James Beard Award semi-finalist and contestant on the Bravo TV series Top Chef, puts his own spin on the delicately

prepared dish while staying true to the three traditional main ingredients in Mexican ceviche: lime, fish, and salt.

It wasn’t a straight line to White’s current culinary endeavors. He trained in classic French and Mediterranean cuisine at California’s historic Hotel Del Coronado before opening his own restaurant, Sea Rocket Bistro. It was there that he earned the name, “The Seafood Maverick of San Diego.”

White’s culinary journey then took him throughout Mexico, specifically Baja California, where he was inspired by the culture and wide variety of flavors incorporated by local chefs. Under their mentorship, he expanded his repertoire,

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It’s exciting to be able to introduce something different and educate our guests on unfamiliar flavors and where they came from...

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eventually opening and helming La Justina, a Mexican gastro bar in Tijuana, Baja.

Thankfully for Northwest Inlanders, White returned to his hometown of Spokane in 2015.

“I love eating and preparing this type of food and wanted to bring something a little bit different to Spokane,” White says.

“Sweet, salty, spicy, sour—they hit all the notes,” White adds. “Mexican cuisine has evolved through history, but in many regions, primitive ways of cooking are still used, taught, and celebrated.”

Zona Blanca’s menu features three different types of ceviche, each with a unique flavor profile. Proteins are as varied as shrimp, octopus, and yellow fin tuna, mixed with brightly flavored sauces such as aguachile and super fresh vegetables like cucumber, cilantro and chiles. Oysters are served either raw on the half shell or as shooters with quail eggs and baja ponzu, otherwise referred to by White as ‘liquid Viagra.’ For those who prefer their seafood cooked, Zona Blanca offers roasted oysters, tacos and tostadas.

The adventurous will want to grab a handful of toasted crickets (from Spokane’s Chomper Cricket Farm), a classic cantina snack when drinking Mezcal.

One misconception that chef White has had to overcome is the belief that fresh seafood can’t be found on this side of the mountains. Zona Blanca’s commitment to quality starts with bringing in multiple weekly seafood deliveries from Hawaii, Spain, and off the coasts of Washington, Oregon and California.

“If Las Vegas Michelin-rated restaurants can get fresh seafood, so can we,” White says.

In addition to Zona Blanca’s regular menu, Chef White and his team collaborate on a rotating “fresh sheet” that pays tribute to unique flavors from the different states of Mexico. The month of May, for example, takes diners to Veracruz, a southern coastal state along the Gulf of Mexico. Among the offerings are Toritos de Camerones (shrimp and smoked tuna stuffed chilies finished with garlic crema and shrimp salt), Pato y Mole (roasted duck, mole xiqueno, salsa macha, plantain, pickled raisins, hoja santa, and duck skins), chicharrones, and a Campechana seafood cocktail (shrimp, clams, octopus, tomato, cucumber, onion, cilantro, serrano chilies, and avocado).

For dessert, house-made banana ice cream is the highlight of Platano y Piña with tepache jam, cookies alfajores, lavender and sea salt. The drink list includes Herioca (mezcal, gin, pineapple, lime, cinnamon syrup, and mint), and Toro Bravo (tequila anejo, Kahlua, chocolate bitters, and orange expression).

Located in downtown Spokane’s Holley Mason Building (157 S. Howard St.), Zona Blanca is open Tuesday through Saturday for lunch and dinner. The daily happy hour (2-4pm) features fish tacos, chips and spicy guacamole, and a selection of Mexican beers, a $5 margarita, and tequila and beer shots. Along with beer, wine, and cocktails, Zona Blanca stocks 13 varieties of mezcal and 18 types of tequila. For a refreshing treat, try a glass of tepache, a fermented drink made from pineapple rinds, cane sugar and spices, and served with tequila, mezcal, or rum.

Inside Zona Blanca, customers are greeted with a vibrant atmosphere and an open kitchen. With the weather warming, guests can enjoy Zona Blanca’s outdoor patio, complete with fully-stocked bar, wood burning fireplace, and a sea goddess mural created by local artists Shelby Allison and Susan Webber.

For Spokanites whose trips “south of the border” have been limited to Spangle and Colfax, Zona Blanca is a tasteful staycation. Chef White welcomes friends and family to experience food and community that reach far beyond taco Tuesday.

“I’m by no means a historian and am always learning,” White says. “But, I’m passionate about the Mexican cuisine, culture, history, and flavors, and I love telling a story through food.”

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1898 Public House. With a nod of respect to the year Kalispel Golf and Country Club was established, 1898 Public House combines a storied history with modern flair. The culinary team takes pride in preparing classic foods with a fresh twist, while using the finest ingredients. From hand-pressed gourmet burgers and house-cured bacon, to housemade rolls and charcuterie, dining at 1898 will be an exciting culinary tour for your palate. 2010 W. Waikiki Rd., (509) 466-2121, Monday-Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m., Friday 11 a.m.-10 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m.-10 p.m., Sunday 9 a.m.-9 p.m. 1898publichouse.com.

Chinook crafted by Chef Adam Hegsted. Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort Hotel’s signature “upper casual” restaurant had its grand reopening on November 11, with a reimagining of its menu and cocktail offerings thanks to Chef Adam Hegsted. The restaurant still features items diners have grown to love—such as a delicious steak dinner—but has added new items at a lower price point. There is something for everyone to love at Chinook. 37914 S. Nukwalqw St., Worley, ID. (800) 523-2464, MondaySunday 7 a.m.-3 a.m. cdacasino.com.

EPIC Sports Bar. From the nachos and buffalo wings to prime rib dip and epic burgers, EPIC is serving up a full menu of upscale pub fare, craft beers, and cocktails inside Northern Quest. With its thirtyfoot LED HDTV, you can enjoy sports for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. 100 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights, (509) 481-2122, Sunday-Thursday 7 a.m.-12 a.m., Friday-Saturday 7 a.m.-2 a.m., northernquest.com.

Gander and Ryegrass. An Italian-inspired

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restaurant in downtown Spokane with a menu featuring coursed meals based around whole animal butchery and homemade pasta. Their robust beverage program includes a full bar and wine cellar delivering a variety of pairings for each course. They would love to welcome you for your birthday and other celebrations, as well as offer you the best service for a great night out on the town. À la carte options available, too. 404 W. Main Ave., (509) 315-4613, daily 12 p.m.–9 p.m., ganderandryegrass.com.

High Tide Lobster Bar. Chef Chad White

events, food menus featuring small plates and charcuterie, and an expansive selection of awardwinning wines. 9774 Highway 14, Goldendale, (509) 773-1976, Sunday-Friday 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m.-8 p.m., 1303 W. Summit Pkwy., Ste. 100, (509) 443-3832, Monday-Thursday 12 p.m.-8 p.m., Friday 12 p.m.-9 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m.-9 p.m., S​ unday 11 a.m.-7 p.m., 801 Waterfront Way, Ste. 105, Vancouver​, (360) 450-6211, Monday-Thursday 12 p.m.-9 p.m., FridaySaturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m.-8 p.m., 14810 NE 145th St. #A, Woodinville, (425) 481-7925, Monday-Thursday 12 p.m.-8 p.m., Friday-Saturday 12 p.m.-9 p.m., Sunday 12 p.m.-7 p.m., maryhillwinery. com.

Masselow’s Steakhouse. With nine primegrade steaks and the best seafood oceans and rivers have to offer, Masselow’s Steakhouse continually provides the “wow” factor. With an outstanding array of mouth-watering cuisine, an extensive wine selection, and true Kalispel hospitality, Chef Tanya Broesder and her team create a special experience you won’t soon forget. 100 N. Hayford Rd., Airway Heights, (509) 481-6020, Wednesday-Sunday 5 p.m.-10 p.m., masselows.com.

Park Lodge. A fine dining restaurant featuring a relaxing atmosphere and locally inspired comfort meals from its award-winning chef, uniquely prepared on a wood-fired grill.

411 N. Nettleton St., (509) 340-9347, TuesdaySaturday 5 p.m.-9 p.m., parklodgerestaurant.com.

Three Peaks Kitchen + Bar. Named after the three prominent peaks outlining the Spokane Tribe’s homeland, Three Peaks is the Spokane Tribe Casino’s premier dining destination. This upscale casual eatery features weekend brunch, as well as lunch and dinner specials all week long. Discover your new favorite Happy Hour from 3-7 p.m. every day with amazing patio seating, local and regional wines, as well as $2 drafts with 20 taps to choose from.

Visit spokanetribecasino.com for menus, details and to make a reservation. 14300 W. SR-2 Hwy., Airway Heights, (509) 818-1547, Monday-Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m., Friday 11 a.m.-10 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m.-10 p.m., Sunday 9 a.m.-9 p.m., spokanetribecasino.com/dining.

is all about bringing the flavor, but this time he’s bringing some of that East coast flavor to the West Coast with New England Style Lobster Rolls. Also try clam chowder by the pint or quart. 835 N. Post St., (509) 381-5954, Wednesday-Sunday 11 a.m.-8 p.m., hightidelobsterbar.com.

TT’s Brewery & Barbecue. TT’s Brewery & Barbecue is proud to offer the highest quality barbecue and beers brewed onsite. From their family to yours, they put lots of love and careful attention in each item.

4110 S. Bowdish Rd., Spokane Valley, (509) 919-4798, Tuesday-Saturday 12 p.m.-8 p.m., ttsbrewerybbq.com.

Maryhill Winery. The winery draws more

Zona Blanca. Zona Blanca brings the flavors of

than 75,000 guests annually, while the region offers warm summer days, year-round appeal and excellent winemaking and continues to gain recognition as an emerging wine destination. Each location offers beautiful scenery, frequent live music and special

coastal Mexico to Spokane. Flavor comes first, and ceviche, entrees, tacos, tostadas, and more await you.

157 S. Howard St., (509) 241-3385, Tuesday-Thursday 4 p.m.-9 p.m., Friday-Saturday 4 p.m.-10 p.m., limefishsalt.com.

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Moose Photo by Roger Phillips, courtesy of Idaho Fish and Game The Shermans on Mt. Schweitzer

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by TONYA SHERMAN othing in North Idaho is as simple as it seems. I’d like to encourage you to visit Sandpoint, but setting expectations will make your stay more enjoyable.

As I write this in April, looking toward May, let’s start with packing and planning for your Sandpoint outdoor adventure. May is not the “beautiful” time up North, so save flower farms, City Beach swimming excursions, and high-altitude hiking for when the weather is guaranteed. Those cute purple Crocus popping up around here are deceiving. In April and half of May at least, you should forecast snow, sun, rain, sleet, and wind. The upside to all this unsettled weather is melting streetside snowpacks reveal the lost and buried. Children are thrilled to find favorite missing toys, parents happy with finally matching glove sets and ‘lost’ hats, and the dog is near ecstatic sniffing those extra piles of poo. (Careful where you step in springtime!)

It’s that in-between season, and the weather is struggling with itself. The ski area has closed and the lake slowly coming to full pool; in the meantime, we’ve put away our snowshoes, skis, and fat tire bikes, and pulled out the gravel bikes, are tuning the mountain bikes, and hiking the lower trails. For any outdoor activities you need to be prepared. That RocketBox on the top of your vehicle will come in handy for something other than finding your lost car in the parking lot.

Extra clothing and gear are essential. Even pajamas are not an easy choice. Do you pack flannels or cotton shorts? The answer is, yes. Do you pack flip flops, hiking boots, snow boots and/or running shoes? Yes. Long underwear, yes. Extra everything, yes. You get the idea. Mountain Bikes? Definitely.

Interested in Biking? Sandpoint has a fantastic biking club, POP, the Pend Oreille Pedalers.

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Another extraordinary community gem is The Kaniksu Land Trust, which through its mission to care for the lands and people of the Kaniksu Region, today, tomorrow, and forever, are stewards to properties which provide public access to multi-use, non-motorized trails. The impact of these properties is profound.

For information on activities and to support the momentum, visit online the Pend Oreille

Pedalers at pendoreillepedalers.org and the Kaniksu Land Trust at kaniksu.org.

Just a reminder that we locals expect courtesy to our beautiful trails, gorgeous natural environment, and especially to those who join you there. For a great read about basic hiking etiquette, I highly recommend nps.gov/articles/hikingetiquette.htm (and for something especially funny, redbull.com/ gb-en/mtb-trail-etiquette-dos-and-donts).

Tonya Sherman and her husband, Scott, have been chasing their dream of living ski-town-lifestyles. In 2006 they built a house on acreage outside Priest River before moving in 2019 to downtown Sandpoint. They have a love of “Place” and the wild outdoors. You can find Scott on Strava at strava.com/athletes/90224223 and Tonya wherever the possibility takes her.

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by PAUL LINDHOLT

Paul Lindholdt’s most recent books are Making Landfall and The Spokane River and are available for purchase on Amazon. He can be found online at https://inside.ewu.edu/plindholdt/.

Great Mullein

All This Futile Beauty Some people always need new frontiers. They explore them whenever and wherever they can – on new continents, on high seas, in outer space. My forebears emigrated from Denmark by way of Chicago and hit the Pacific, after which I bounced back inland to mesh with the intermountain West. Now I embrace these sparsely populated outdoor spaces as my own.

The I-5 freeway – the transportation artery of the coastal West – brooded over my bent world when I was coming of age in Seattle. That interstate corridor, even when it lay out of earshot, hatched drizzly days and roaring nights. It can become an asphalt underworld for those who love the “Big Outside,” as Dave Foreman dubbed it – the aire libre I explore in this column.

From my adoptive home in Spokane today, I bicycle a converted railway named the Fish Lake Trail. Wild beings throng along it. Sometimes I slow to ogle them. Magpies, hawks, ravens, and otters. Also, smaller species that hide better – beetles, praying mantises, walking sticks. On certain days I blur by, I opt for speed, music churning in my earbuds. I leave the wild beings be.

A freeing sport, this bicycling. It opens riders to aromas both pleasant and rank.

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Milkweed

Even at speed I can detect leaf mold, pungent forbs, alkali water, a carrion heap. The path I pedal is a petroleum product.

So are my handgrips, my cable casings, and the slender serpents of my tires.

Speeding stealthy as the breeze, I power past milkweed and basalt jumbles, past animals ambling on the path. Flocks of turkeys prompt me to ponder which of us would suffer most if we smashed up. Bald eagles above Queen Lucas Lake eye me at eye level sometimes, like imperious gods ruling from the branches where they fish. I can see the heat waves radiate from the black hardscape – the heat that lizards, gopher snakes, and the occasional rattler come to absorb.

A coyote hunting along the Cheney end of the bike path got a big surprise. Close upon it I pedaled and whistled between my lips and teeth a shrill, handsfree alarm. I was only aiming to keep it alert and alive. It flashed a glance, it leapt a stream, it bolted up the twelve-foot berm. History lies closer to the surface in this arid landscape than it does on the coastal third of the state. The soils here are shallower, scrubbed bare by Ice Age floods. Potholes formed where I now stalk ducks.

Pleistocene-era eddies, or vortexes, plucked and scoured around big stones.

Bodies may not be buried deep due to all the stone uncovered by those floods. Names of places resonate their blunt reminders of our ancestors’ legacy of conquest. The relationships between settler-colonists and Indigenous people made for an often-violent trade.

Col. George Wright hanged members of the Yakama and Spokane tribes. He slaughtered hundreds of their horses to weaken their ability to survive and fight. As a perverse prize, his name came to memorialize a fort, a cemetery, and (until recently) an arterial drive. One of his victims, Qualchan, lent his name to a real-estate development, a footrace, and a golf course.

Onomastics, the study of proper names, has stirred my imagination since I settled here. The name Spokane looks as if it ought to be enunciated like cane at the end. But that Indigenous name takes a midrange vowel, which we enunciate like can. The creek where Qualchan died appears on state maps as Latah (Salish for fish) but as Hangman in the national records. The U.S. Board on Geographic names will not let Washington forget its treacherous bit of regional history.

A tool I found along the Columbia River also lay plainly on the surface. With my spouse and other friends, I paddled the Hanford Reach of the Columbia. Before we slid our paddle crafts in, I learned that “Radioactive ants, flies and gnats have been found at the Hanford nuclear complex, bringing to mind those Cold-War-era ‘B’ horror movies in which giant mutant insects are the awful price paid for mankind’s entry into the Atomic Age.” Plutonium at Hanford helped scientists to MAY 2022 / BOZZIMEDIA.com

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manufacture the Fat Man bomb the U.S. dropped on Nagasaki in 1945.

If paddling past a nuclear reactor seems counterintuitive, we did not worry about it at the time. We reasoned the river would protect us from the mothballed reactor. On an island right alongside the reactors whose stacks we could see, my wife Karen and I beached our kayak to take a break.

We had come to experience that last free-flowing stretch of the Columbia River. By the grace of its fifty-one miles of fast-moving water, Chinook salmon still spawn there. Every other capable part of that river has been dammed. On our unnamed island, formed by sediment dams entrap everywhere else, a stone tool from the First People lay, as if crying out to be found.

In my cultural naïveté, I pocketed that stone tool. Carried it to my office and put it on a shelf, little knowing that the protocol for such artifacts is to let them lie, leave them behind, make a big museum of the Big Outside.

Crafted from basalt, a fine-grained igneous rock, the tool was used for knapping, my friend the archeologist Stan Gough said.

To knap is to shape stone by striking it with another stone to make a tool. The beauty of this tool lives in its simplicity, in the heft of its antiquity, and for the way it manages to prod the imagination. Its value also lies in its absence of utilitarian reckoning today. After Stan identified it, I donated it to Archaeological and Historical Services at Eastern Washington University.

The man or woman who made the skinning tool focused his or her attention with a keen devotion. A devotion that was more Earth-centered than the forms of reverence that flourish for most of my kind today. Less otherworldly and more this-worldly.

All this futile beauty lies right atop the surface of these landscapes for humankind. In our jaded gaze, natural outdoor splendor can seem to drain away like topsoil during an Ice Age flood. Museums draw millions of visitors, paintings fetch billions of dollars every year, but the arid landscapes of the West abide in silence, missing the federal funds to rectify decades of neglect.

Such landscapes might be acquired tastes. Only certain sensibilities, like mine, might find so much satisfaction in the stark and spartan geographies of this adoptive home.

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