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The cataclysmic eruption of Mount St. Helens released more than 1.5 million metric tons of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere when the volcano blew its top on May 18, 1980.
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ABOVE: School was out for summer at Hamblen Elementary in June 1962. This photo won first place in an Associated Press feature photograph contest the following year for photographer Jim Shelton. RIGHT: Kit King spent six months working on “My Brother’s Keeper”. He photographed his younger brother, Bob, in the best and worst stages of his mental illness, schizophrenia. Kit King’s efforts earned a 1988 National Headliner Award and was published in Life magazine in Nov. 1989.
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A firefighter watches as a blaze approaches on Friday, June 18, 2014, in Malette, Wash. In mid-July, four lightning strikes started four fires in the Methow Valley. Within three days, the fires merged and turned into the largest wildfire in state history, burning more than 256,000 acres and costing the state $60 million to fight. Around 300 homes were destroyed, including most of the town of Pateros. Damage to livestock and agricultural land was devastating. By Tyler Tjomsland
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ntering my 30s and coming up on my sixth year at The Spokesman-Review, it sounds a bit odd to describe myself as the baby of the photo department, but I can say with certainty that the staff here raised me as a photographer. As a student at Washington State University, I spent more time studying the work of Spokesman-Review photographers than I often would on my coursework – it probably helped that WSU provided free copies of the paper to students. A clueless young photographer at the student newspaper, I would try to keep up with Spokesman legend Chris Anderson as he moved up and down the sidelines of WSU football games, often out-shooting the guys from those glossy national sports magazines when they’d visit Martin Stadium. I remember one such photographer saying as much in the photo workroom while Anderson was out on the field. Early in my college career WSU was at the height of its basketball powers. It was the peak of the Tony Bennett era for the Cougs and a college buddy of mine, Brian Immel, was hired at The SR to assist photographer Colin Mulvany starting a new video department. Brian campaigned to Liz Kishimoto – then the assistant photo editor – to get me on the Spokesman’s freelance contract. Suddenly, at twenty years old, I felt like I was a part – even if just for a couple freelance gigs a month shooting WSU basketball – of one of the best photojournalism newspapers in the country. Shortly after The SR signed me, I met new staff photographer Rajah Bose, who was fresh out of a multiyear stint working for the Tri-City Herald. He too felt like he’d won the lottery working for The SR. We became fast friends and he started to teach me some basic daily news photographer tricks. The most mind-bending at the time was the whole concept of using a window to light someone for a portrait. Bose has since left the paper, but he remains one of my closest friends. During an internship at a faltering newspaper in the rust belt, I spent my nights going frame-by-frame through the photos of Brian and Kathy Plonka. Their work, particularly over the course of long-term projects, exemplified everything that I wanted to be as a photographer; it was outside-the-box creative, compassionate and made me genuinely care about the people and issues they documented. Suffice to say, when newly appointed Photo Editor Liz Kishimoto called me in 2012 to say the paper might have a staff opening, it was a no-brainer choice
Doug Grumback, 52, a fourth-generation Ferry County rancher, stands in a forest near the Canadian border where the northern portion of the Stickpin fire overtook 12 head of his cattle during a wildfire on Wednesday, Aug 26, 2015, near Frog Spring in the Colville National Forest near Danville, Wash. for me. It’s rare in our industry for young photographers to have the privilege of getting to work at a paper they idolized in their visual infancy and rarer still for them to get mentored by their heroes. Over the past six years, The Spokesman has trusted me with giving readers a window into parts of the community they might otherwise never see. I took over the WSU football beat when Chris Anderson retired, just in time for Mike Leach’s first year as coach and I’ve covered the team as he took them from the bottom of the PAC 12, to contending this year for a PAC 12 North title. I spent two summers chasing wildfires all over Eastern
Washington, living out of my truck and inhaling more scorched earth than I care to think about. I greeted a young Congolese refugee and her family when they first arrived at the Spokane Airport and followed them with my camera until they got their first home. I spent a week in the mountains near Sun Valley with a Peruvian shepherd who spoke even less English than I speak Spanish, and I averaged straight B-minuses in my high school courses. It’s been a wild ride and I’m thankful to be a part of the team and continue the strong visual tradition readers have come to expect from our photographers. It’s still a rush to see “SPOKESMAN-REVIEW” next to my name.
Emma Franco carries Jovonnie Lobato as she walks through the empty space of what used to be her home on Friday, July 18, 2014, in Pateros, Wash. “I have nothing left,” she said. “No papers, no clothes.”
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135 YEARS OF INLAND NORTHWEST PHOTOJOURNALISM Mandi Anderson takes in the sight of hundreds of origami cranes on Thursday, July 20, 2017, at the Cracker Building in Spokane. Her Lantern Taphouse co-workers, customers and friends folded the cranes in her honor after she was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer earlier last year. The group folded over a thousand cranes some pictured here and held a benefit concert in her honor.
Adrian Alvarado Baldeon's sheep bed down on a ridge Wednesday, September 12, 2012, in Sun Valley, Washington. Congolese refugee Dakie Tshilobo, 4, laughs as she rolls on the carpet in her parents' apartment on Friday, February 22, 2013, in Spokane. Dakie won't start school until next fall, so she will spend a large amount of time with her mother in the apartment. Patrick said she often asks him when she will be able to go to school. “I tell her ‘tomorrow,’ ” he said.
Congolese refugee Dakie Tshilobo stands, wide-eyed with her mother, Jolie Ngenda, 25, and father, Patrick Kazadi, 32, after they landed at Spokane International Airport, late Thursday night, February 7, 2013, in Spokane. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reported last month an 8 percent increase in the number of people seeking asylum worldwide from 2011 to 2012. Last year’s total was the highest since 2003.
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Kenneth Sims is congratulated by his father and coach Kenneth Sims Sr. and mother Tina after defeating Luis Sednado in the 2013 USA National Boxing Championships on Friday, April 5, 2013, at Northern Quest Resort and Casino in Airway Heights.
Triathletes briefly emerge from the water before re-entering for the second half of the swim portion of the 2012 Coeur d'Alene Ironman on Sunday, June 24, 2012, in Lake Coeur d'Alene. There’s nothing like the rush of covering college football games. Washington State Cougars running back James Williams (32) hurdles Nevada Wolf Pack defensive back Asauni Rufus (2) during the first half of a college football game on Saturday, September 23, 2017, at Martin Stadium in Pullman.
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Washington State Cougars quarterback Tyler Hilinski (3) is mobbed by teammates after WSU defeated Boise State in triple overtime on Saturday, September 9, 2017, at Martin Stadium in Pullman.
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135 YEARS OF INLAND NORTHWEST PHOTOJOURNALISM Supporters listen as Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks on Thursday, March 24, 2016, at Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena in Spokane.
Nancy Nelson, a member of the group Raging Grannies, is escorted to a police cruiser after she and two other protesters blocked railroad tracks near 2302 East Trent Avenue to protest the movement of oil and coal trains through Spokane on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, in east Spokane.
Major Clarence E. Grimes is escorted into an award ceremony where he was presented with the French Legion of Honor award on Thursday, October 24, 2013, at Fairchild Air Force Base.
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Greg Jensen stands and salutes as "Taps" is played during military honors offered at the chapel nearby Jan. 26, 2015 at the Washington State Veterans Cemetery in Medical Lake. Jensen, a Vietnam era veteran of the Air Force, goes to the cemetery almost every day with his lawn chair and a Bible to visit the grave of Estrella, his wife of 42 years. "It's been 16 months and I miss her every day," he said.
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Young friends of Slade Groene, a Lakes Middle School student, mourn outside Real Life Ministries on May 25, 2005 where the funeral for Slade and his mother, Brenda Kay Groene, was held. The two were victims of a triple murder in Wolf Lodge, east of Coeur d'Alene.
An aerial view of Duncan Garden in Manito Park on Sept. 13, 2017. From directly overhead, the grass and flowers appear as a quilt of colors.
Josh Easley and Dave Martin work while standing on a suspended platform over the new shaft hole on the 4900 level of the Lucky Friday mine Nov. 24, 2010 near Mullan, Idaho.
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Fireworks explode over Spokane‘s Riverfront Park on July 4, 2017.
Above the farm fields of the Rathdrum Prairie, a prolonged lightning storm puts on an ethereal light show for those awake for it in the wee hours of Aug. 8, 1999. This view is looking southeast from the Rathdrum area and Canfield Mountain, on Coeur d'Alene's eastern border, is visible as a bump on the lower left horizon. Power was knocked out in many parts of the panhandle, and heavy rains followed - especially in Coeur d'Alene, where roads flooded quickly from the rain mixed with hail.
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n June 5, 1885, the Kleigman and Smith freighting outfit used a mule train to haul freight from Spokane to Northport, Washington. The cupola of what was Gonzaga College at the time can be seen just above the horizon at right. Although the first transcontinental railroad connected through Spokane in 1882, north-south travel was still laborious and slow, by saddle or in wagons for long trips to places like Colville and Northport. Keen businessmen were eager to supply the hardy settlers in those places and many tons of freight inched along dusty trails. In addition to food staples, dry goods and hardware, liquor and beer was a profitable cargo. In 1886, James “Jimmie” Durkin arrived in Colville with $2,500 in his pocket. He looked at what bar owners in the rural areas were paying to have bottles of liquor hauled from Spokane by wagon train. After calculating shipping costs, he opened a liquor trading business and began hauling
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Spokane's sparkling world's fair in 1974 was a special nighttime attraction for six months. The fairgrounds are shown while the water ran high in the Spokane River bed.
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Advanced student flyer Wallace Air Service, on pilot training schools at Field, are pictured stan back of the "fast" new training plane with thei in 1940. Pictured left to Bob Hawley, Art Villar, Bennison, Stan Doepke Yake, Ken Gibbs and in Lloyd Hardesty.
This civil rights march took place in March 1965 at the Spokane County Courthouse. Two of the marchers, Sam and Verda Minnix, are pictured to the left. Paul Tursh, hiding behind the “Freedom Now” sign, skipped high school the day of the march to join in the demonstration.
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While most buildings are still covered with scaffolding, the Ziegler Building, seen at left with awnings at on the windows, was completed within months of the massive 1889 fire that destroyed most of downtown Spokane, including the original Ziegler hardware store. Owner Louis Ziegler was proud that it bore the date 1889, though it may have taken until 1890 to fully complete the entire structure on the northeast corner of Riverside and Howard. At five stories plus an elaborate cornice, it was the tallest building in town until the Review Tower was completed in 1891. The Ziegler Building was torn down in 1952 to make way for the Fidelity Savings building.
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Copy photo of Babe Ruth, left, standing in front of the Davenport Hotel in the 1930s.
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Spokane Falls on Feb. 13, 1957.
It didn't take youngsters long to get the hang of pulling out nice rainbow trout from this stream that flowed into Park Lake. Left to right are Jetty Jo Thomlinson, 7; Harmon Clark, 11; Allan Thomlinson (seated), 5, and Larry Thomlinson, 8, all of Union Gap and Lysbeth Fouts, 11, of Richland with George May, 13, Kennewick, trying their luck April 6, 1954. Harmon and Larry hold the fruits of the efforts. A second after this was taken, George tied into a 13-incher.
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The first locomotive to be completely built in an American railroad shop came rolling out of the Hillyard yard. This picture, taken on June 19, 1929, shows the Great Northern Class R-1 Mallet. In all, 26 Mallets were produced in Hillyard between 1927 and 1930. At that time they were the largest, most powerful steam locomotives ever built.
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John Stockton, usually stoic, can hardly contain his emotion as thousands of Utah Jazz fans give him a standing ovation at the beginning of his going-away party June 7, 2003 at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. Stockton retired after 19 seasons with the Jazz.
Sgt. Joseph Rozewicz, foreground, and Spc. Tristan S. Nielsen kneel before the memorial displays for Sgt. Nathan R. Beyers and Spc. Nicholas W. Newby on July 16, 2011 at Lake City Community Church in Coeur d'Alene. A joint memorial service was held for the two young men who were killed July 7, 2011 in Iraq. Rozewicz and Nielsen served with Beyers and Newby, both of Coeur d'Alene, and shared their memories of the fallen servicemen.
As the sun begins to peek above the horizon, asparagus cutter Luis Gasca works by headlamp in the field of farmer Gary Larsen in the Columbia River Valley north of Pasco on May 5, 2017. By Jesse Tinsley THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW
ABOVE: Dick Gulman, who lives up Rapid Lightning Creek Road north of Sandpoint, has cultivated a relationship with several bears in his rural neighborhood to the point where this large bear, a 300-pound-plus black bear nicknamed Big Y by Gulman, will take a powdered doughnut from his mouth. Gulman has spent much of his life pursuing hunting trophies with a bow and arrow, and feels that he's not in danger from his forest neighbors.
LEFT: Nearly 200 feet above the town of Wardner, Idaho, rescue team member Bob Burden carefully rappels off the top of a Silver Mountain gondola car to reach the interior during rescue exercises Nov. 20, 2004 in Kellogg. In case of an evacuation, team members will ride down the cables on bicycle-like contraptions, drop inside, then lower riders to the ground on a pulley system.
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Joseph Chamberlain, center, holds Trevor Caldwell, 4, as he look up and shouts, "I love you, Daddy," while an honor guard folds the flag over the casket of Staff Sgt. Chad Caldwell, Trevor's father, May 10, 2008 at Caldwell's graveside at Spokane Memorial Gardens. Caldwell was killed April 20, 2008 in Mosul, Iraq. At right is Caldwell's younger son, Coen, 2. Chamberlain was a fellow soldier of Caldwell.
An aerial view shows where a farmer cut the words “Freeman” and “Sam” into a field not far from Freeman High School, where a Sept. 13, 2017 shooting took the life of student Sam Strahan. Freeman grad Brandon Cronk wrote the words the day after the shooting.
Brian T. Moyer sheds tears of relief and hugs his family March 10, 2000 at the Kootenai County Justice Building after being acquitted of having sex with a teenage girl at Children’s Village.
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his photo goes way back. It was the first news photograph I had published in The Spokesman-Review. It was around 1982 and I worked in the produce department for Rosauers Supermarkets at their store on 14th and Lincoln Avenue in Spokane. Still living in my parents’ basement, I would walk the four blocks to work each day. On this day, I made my way down the side steps to the front of the grocery store that also included a Lincoln Savings Bank branch. As I turned the corner at the bottom of the stairs I was met with: “Move! There is a bomb right next to you!” Sure enough there was a shoebox sitting outside the bank window. A man had placed the box and went to the pay phone a few feet away and made a call to the bank. “Throw a bag full of money out the front door and I won’t blow up the bank,” was the story I was told by an officer. I decided to run home and grab my new Nikon FE SLR camera and return to shoot the news event. Out of breath and sweating from running, I photographed these three Spokane police officers, who, using a string to pull the box away from the window, were now hovering over the shoebox trying to make a determination whether it really contained a bomb. My shift in the produce department could not end fast enough. I ran home and processed the film and made an 8 x 10 print in my home darkroom (hence why I still lived in my parents’ basement.) A friend of mine suggested I take it to the newspaper and see if they would buy a print of it. Off we went to the old Spokesman-Review building, where at the time, there was still an elevator lady who pushed the button of the floor you wanted. All I remember was walking into that smoke-filled newsroom with banging teletype machines and ringing phones and feeling the energy of the moment. I sheepishly walked up to the city editor and told him what I had shot. He was actually nice to me and said he needed something for the Region page. The next morning, my photo played large in the paper. The experience of chasing a news photo triggered something in me that would later give me the confidence to begin shaping my career as a photojournalist. It would take six more years of hard work proving myself, but I eventually got hired as a full-time staff photographer at The Spokesman-Review in 1988.
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was getting frustrated. I’d been cruising for a feature picture for more than five hours. A Little League tournament was taking place at Holmes Elementary and I decided to get out of my car and see if I could make an interesting snap. I found these kids trying to catch a fly ball from their coach during warmups. I banged off a couple of dozen frames and headed back to the paper to process and print. Little did I know then how much this photo would impact me - in a good way. About six months after this photo ran in The S-R, I received a call from a photo editor from Life magazine. He loved the photo and wanted to run in on the back page of the magazine in a section they call “Just One More.” There is something about being published in Life. It was a magazine I grew up with and whose pages were filled with images from photographers who inspired me to be a photojournalist. A few months after it ran in Life, I got a call from an art director who represented Coca-Cola. She wanted to buy the Little League photo for an ad with the tagline: “Always a great catch.” I told her that I didn’t own the photograph and that the newspaper would never sell an editorial photo for an advertisement. She didn’t skip a beat. “Would you come to Los Angeles and reshoot it?” Stunned, I told her I needed to check with my boss. The next thing I know, I’m in Hollywood preparing to shoot the ad for Coca-Cola. Then it got weird. At 10 a.m. on the morning of the shoot, I got call from my producer (the guy tasked with taking care of the arrangements) who told me to turn on the TV. On the screen was an aerial shot of Pasadena. He said, “Colin, that is your ballfield and it is on fire.” It was the day in 1993 when L.A. burned - 200-plus homes were lost to wildfires. He was flustered. We had hired a Little League team, rented an RV for the art director and had bought “Coke-approved products” as refreshments during the shoot. I had an assistant and about a half-dozen other people - I had no Idea what they did - on the hook. Now you have to understand what was going on. I had zero experience doing this kind of shoot. My producer basically said that we had to make the shoot happen, no matter what. As I was talking to him on the phone I looked out the window of my hotel and what do I see? Why the perfect ballfield right next to the hotel. To this day, I’m not sure how we got everyone to the park. The real test was recreating the photo. We had a great group of kids, and after a bit of trial and error we got the right moves to make it work. I shot a Polaroid of the kids trying to make the catch and handed the shot to the art director. She looked at it and said, “Colin, if you don’t shoot another photo today, this one would be perfect.” Twenty-one rolls later I got my shot and a great paycheck.
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135 YEARS OF INLAND NORTHWEST PHOTOJOURNALISM Sometimes I have to remind myself that it’s OK to take a non-work-related photograph. Sunsets happen every day. It was the graphic look of the silhouetted telephone poles stacked up against the orange sky that made me pull over in September 2011. Thankfully, I had my 20-year-old Nikon 300 mm f/4 lens in my trunk. The telephoto effect worked perfectly on this highway scene leading into Medical Lake, Washington. Sometimes a pretty picture is just that. Looking at this image makes me feel good.
As the temperature rises above freezing, an evergreen bush on Spokane’s South Hill sheds its icicles Jan. 23, 2011.
A zinnia bloom fades in a flower garden next to Canon Hill Park on Oct. 18, 2016. I sometimes like to add strobe lighting to everyday scenes. Using an off-camera strobe to light this fading bloom really brought out the colors and made the photo, at least to me, look like a painting.
A mist dissipates through Manito Park's Japanese Gardens as maintenance workers vent the sprinkler system in preparation for closing the garden for winter Oct. 18, 2012 in Spokane.
A raindrop strikes a puddle on E. Fifth Avenue in East Central on Oct. 23, 2014.
Forming a necklace between branches of a spruce tree, Ice hangs on a single tread of spider's silk, Dec. 26, 2014 on Spokane’s South Hill.
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After lunch is a time Ashley and Nick can spend a precious few moments with each other. Though showing signs of too much affection is against the rules, some students find outof-the-way places, like behind the gym, to steal a few kisses before heading back to class.
ne of my favorite picture stories I produced for the newspaper was, “Days of Discovery” - a year-long look at one girl’s journey through seventh grade. Some of the early ideas for this story was to embed a reporter and photographer at a Spokane middle school and tell the story of the school year. I thought that idea
was too broad. Instead, reporter Jeanette White and I pitched to editors that we should follow one student and tell their story. To find the right person, we went to the Salk Middle School seventh-grade orientation. As I walked into the cafeteria filled with fresh young faces, I was drawn to Ashley Muzatko, age 12, who was sitting with her dad. She had a smile full of braces
My wife Kim and I were out for a Sunday walk in March 1991 when we came across this scene. Susan Schnebele and Davin Henrikson, bride and groom, led the cheers as Don Henrikson, the groom's brother, with the use of a scuba mask, retrieved Davin's wedding ring from the pond at Manito Park’s Japanese Gardens. The groom said his bride was reaching to place the ring on his finger during their wedding ceremony when it fell, hit the railing and disappeared into the murky water - for about 30 minutes.
and her hair tied into two buns on the sides of her head like Princess Leia. After chatting with Ashley, I knew she would be the one. I just had to cut the deal. “Ashley, I need to be able to photograph your good days and bad days at school. Are you willing to give me access when you are crying over breaking up with your boyfriend?” “Yes, I will,” she declared.
Spokane Fire Department firefighter Capt. Mike Rose collapses from a seizure during a public memorial service for fellow firefighter John Knighten, who died June 30, 2013 from a work-related cancer. Rose was part of an honor guard tasked with removing Knighten’s casket from the back of a fire engine parked outside the Spokane Convention Center on July 8, 2013. Paramedics and emergency medical technicians who were attending the service quickly came to the aid of Rose, who had suffered two previous heart attacks in his career.
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As a small boy hurriedly ate a banana, another older emaciated boy, holding on to his underpants to keep them from falling off his bony hips, shoved his other hand wrist-deep into the smaller child’s mouth. He scooped the chewed banana out and ate it. I missed the shot. Mostly because it was so shocking that I did not believe what I just witnessed. I turned to Julie and our eyes met, then we realized the small child had taken another bite and the scene was starting to repeat itself. As I dropped to one knee, Julie started to move to stop it. I quickly said “No, Julie!” She froze and a split second later I made this horrific photo. We quickly grabbed the small child and moved him away from the larger boy. Sitting on a bench, we fed him as many bananas as he could eat.
group of 13 Spokane-based volunteers were going to Romania to repair an orphanage, and we were invited to come along. Two weeks later, in the summer of 1996, writer Julie Sullivan and I stood at the outside doors of the Suta Dragodana orphanage. “I must warn you, it smells pretty bad in here.” said our guide. From Julie Sullivan’s story: The Romanian orphanage looks abandoned. Half the roof is gone, glass chips sprinkle the walkway, concrete walls peel paint like old skin. Inside is a hallway 60 yards long and the 13 Americans who enter are forever changed when they come out. Make that 15. This assignment would change both Sullivan and I in ways that we were yet to realize. My job was to document the Spokane volunteers repairing windows, plumbing and interacting with the children. After a few days at the orphanage, I soon understood that this was not the only storyline I needed to cover. What we found at Suta Dargodana was a crime against humanity. I put everything I had into telling that story. Julie Sullivan tells it best from her story: The floor is slick, sticky and slick, a wetness sliding under shoes from days-old urine, fresh feces and decades of neglect. In the greenish light are children, ages 3 to 8.They are naked. Their heads are shaved. Skin gathers at their bony elbows and hangs there. A boy scratches sores that lace his body from his buttocks to his heels, so does the girl next to him. They jump at the visitors, screaming with excitement so loud one girl covers her ears. The Americans offer handfuls of bubble gum and suddenly the children are everywhere, patting pockets, pulling straps, tripping camera shutters, reaching, shrieking, yammering, clamoring for something, for anything. Only later do you realize someone was saying “Mama.” One day, the Americans tired of seeing mistreated and hungry orphans, bought some boxes of bananas from a local market and started to hand them out to the children. I was shooting pictures as Julie took notes next to me.
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n 1984-85 I took an epic six-month journey on the back of a overland truck from London to Johannesburg, South Africa. Still new to photography, I thought an overland trip through the back roads of Africa would help build out my photo portfolio and give me some life experience I so desperately craved at the young age of 24. One of the stops on the Itinerary was a trek into the jungle to see the last few remaining mountain
gorillas in Zaire. We were led into the jungle by Pygmy guides who wielded large machetes to cut a path through the thick vegetation. After about an hour of hiking, the guides started to slow down as they scanned the vegetation ahead of the group. The lead guide slowly raised his hand for us to stop. I froze, but realized I had just stopped in the middle of a moving column of thousands of biting ants! I jumped back, slapping dozens of the insects off
my pants. The guide looked and me with concern then pointed ahead and said “gorilla.” I stopped slapping my pants and to my amazement, there sat a 500-pound silverback gorilla just 12 feet away. Everyone froze unsure of what to do. The massive gorilla suddenly sat up and started to grunt and make jumping moves towards us. That was it - we all started to flee! The pygmy guild in a hushed panicked tone said, “Don’t run! Take a picture!”
We gave the gorilla some space and he settled down and resumed stripping leaves from branches with his teeth. After making some pictures of him I realized there were other gorillas around us. Looking up, I spotted a young gorilla above me. He looked at me and beat his chest like Tarzan and I snapped the above photo. A couple of days later, I was in a market in the town of Goma when a young man approached me holding something wrapped in banana leaves. He let it unfold and said: "souvenir ashtray?" I could barely process what I was looking at - a severed gorilla hand. Repulsed, I pushed him away from me. It wasn't until I came home to the states and printed the picture of the young gorilla in the tree that I realized the arm he was beating his chest with was missing a hand. I often wonder, with all the war in that region of Africa, how many of the mountain gorillas of Zaire have survived.
A mute swan with it wings raised, cruises through the icy waters of Manito Park’s Mirror pond in 2004. At that time, four mute swans shared the pond with hundreds of mallard ducks, which forced them to become more territorial as mating season approached. By 2006, the swans were gone after meeting violent deaths. They were never replaced.
During the Big Bend Rodeo Company and the Flying Five’s spring roundup, two horses, raised as bucking stock, play in a pasture near Dusty, Washington, in 2002. The Eastern Washington rodeo company was well-known for its championshipwinning bucking stock of horses and bulls used in rodeos throughout the western U.S. and Canada.
Several dozen great blue herons perch on pilings March 2, 2010 in the Pend Oreille River in Usk, Washington. Area birding enthusiasts said that is the time of year large groups of the giant birds can be seen migrating and resting in certain areas, such as the Pack River Delta along Lake Pend Oreille. Soon they will disperse in smaller groups to nesting rookeries in cottonwoods or other woodlands near water.
After using elephant power to raise the big top, Carson & Barnes Circus elephant handler Jason King joins his pachyderms for a cool drink of water in July 1995. The five-ring circus featured 17 elephants, a rhino and tigers. Set up at Broadway Avenue and Sullivan Street, the Carson & Barnes Circus ranks among the world’s largest tent circuses.
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A snake charmer/magician's daughter works the tourist crowd on the Bombay streets in 1983. Some of the Heal the Children staff encountered this girl on their way back to the hotel.
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Heavy-metal fans crush up against the stage at Joe Albi Stadium to get closer to performers in the Monsters of Rock concert in 1988.
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The Abraham Lincoln statue in downtown Spokane stands ready with a mask in May 1980.
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Diane Maines in the Lucky Friday Mine in 1983.
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WSU’s Shawn Landrum makes the play of the game in the 1988 Apple Cup in Pullman, blocking a punt by Washington’s Eric Canton. WSU went on to score and won 32-31.
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It was through internationally acclaimed Spokane photographer Don Hamilton that staff photographer Christopher Anderson applied to travel to China for a two-week tour of the sights. He spent time in the Forbidden City in the middle of Beijing and traveled to the outer provinces to see artifacts being prepared for the “Son of Heaven” exhibit, a massive 3 1/2-year undertaking and one of the first efforts by China to reach out to the rest of the world to show its art and culture.
The night Ruth Coe was arrested for hiring a hit man to kill the prosecutor and judge in the rape trial of her son, Kevin Coe, she talks with her husband, Gordon Coe, through a window March 24, 1997 at the jail. Gordon had seen his son convicted and now his wife was headed to trial and incarceration.
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Chuck Nole is framed in a helicopter windshield with the plume of Mount St. Helens during a search and rescue mission.
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One of the Ladies of the Lobby, a 500-pound heifer, makes her entrance at the Davenport Hotel. She was part of the Spokane National Stockshow, which features a livestock sale. Bill Cox of Pomeroy, Washington, escorts the lady. Taking the doorman’s role is Will Wolf of Otis Orchards.
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Portrait of an 84-year-old nursing home resident cuddling a baby chick in 1983.
“There have been numerous real estate transfers about town, this week, at good figures.” Spokane Falls Review Volume One, Number One May 19, 1883.
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This is a 1981 photo of Julie Twyford, who was one of Fred Coe's defense attorneys during his first rape trial. Twyford was arrested after driving her car into the Spokane River after Coe was found guilty.
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135 YEARS OF INLAND NORTHWEST PHOTOJOURNALISM As a representation of the pride and family culture at Gonzaga, no words were need to spoken, just a heartfelt gesture from GU coach Mark Few as he walks arm-in-arm down the long hallway to a post-game press conference with players Elias Harris and Kelly Olynyk (13), with Mike Hart (30) trailing, after GU, ranked Number 1, lost to Wichita State in their third round NCAA Division 1 Men's Basketball Championship game, March 23, 2013, at the EnergySolutions Arena in Salt Lake City, Utah. My past experience with the Zags’ NCAA games, had me on alert to the possibility of emotion from the team after they leave the court. This time it paid off as no one else was there to capture the moment.
An incredible scene to witness as bedlam erupted at the final buzzer at the coming-out party for Gonzaga University and players Jeremy Eaton, #30 Axel Dench, Richie Frahm , Mike Leasure, and Casey Calvary, as they celebrate their 73-72 win over Florida to advance for the first time to the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Elite Eight in March of 1999. GU became the Cinderella of the big dance where nearly 18,000 fans in the sold-out American West Arena cheered for the underdog Zags.
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He ain’t heavy, he’s my all-star teammate. It was an amazing sight to watch a pair of future Hall-of-Famers (well at least one has made to the Hall) clown around like a couple of kids. Seattle Mariner outfielder Ken Griffey Jr. gives a piggy-back ride to teammate Alex Rodriguez during morning warmup drills at spring training in Peoria, Arizona in March of 1998. Griffey, Rodriguez and the rest of the Mariners were Western Division Champions that year.
The Spokesman-Review followed the John Rogers High School football team during the 2013 season, from the first day of fall training to the locker room after the final game. Rogers did not have a winning season since 1994. The Pirates struggles continued this year and frustrations boiled over as Jacob Meusy, a senior lineman, need consoling by cheerleader Kasandra Carter after the homecoming game against North Central, Sept. 20, 2013. For a while he refused to get on teh bus. "We go to practice. We work our butts off. We just want to win" said Meusy. Rogers lost 28-21 and fell to 0-3 and finished the year without a win. This picture was shot in very low light outside Albi Stadium and was heartbreaking to watch this young man sobbing as his teammates passed by. Kasandra was the only person to break through his grief.
After an afternoon of shooting Hoopfest 2012, The Spokesman-Review needed just one more action picture to fill out our visual report of the event. Back in our office, I looked out a window from our 4th floor and saw the traffic marking on the ground near a court on Riverside Avenue Waited about five minutes for the team Playing for Guess with Bill Manees, 13, of Coeur d'Alene, right, to battle the First Timers' Guyle Wood, 12, top left, and Erik Torres, 11, of Coulee Dam, Wa., for a long rebound during a youth Hoopfest game, June 30. The colors, action and expressions made this a winner.
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135 YEARS OF INLAND NORTHWEST PHOTOJOURNALISM Sometimes the best pictures just appear out of nowhere. Looking for first-edition pictures from the Lilac Parade, I visited the motorized floats staging area under I-90 and saw Rachel Crofoot, age 8 of Medical Lake, chasing soap bubbles spewing from the Spokane Lilac Festival Association Float under the freeway at 4th and Jefferson. The floats were on display to the public before the start of the Spokane Lilac Festival Armed Forces Torchlight Parade. The extraordinary scene was created from the light sneaking in from the sides of the freeway to light the bubbles creating a wonderland for the girl.
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A call from a reader to the office alerted us to the possibility of a feature photograph on the Spokane River. On my way get pictures of a Shadle Park High School athlete, I made my first of 2 stops on the north river bank. With a cold arctic blast descending on Spokane, the Riverfront Park SkyRide, parked just below the raging Spokane Falls, was encased in frozen mist and icicles Monday, Jan. 31, 2011. The lower afternoon light on my second stop after the Shadle shoot made for a much more dramatic scene. The picture ran in many newspapers and websites around the country.
From the first guitar cord of "A Hard Day's Night" kicking off movie clips of the Beatles in the ’60s on 3 giant screens, the Seattle Kingdome crowd was energized, March 29, 1990. Looking back into the faces behind me from my position near the stage, it felt like everyone in the stadium was instantly transformed back into the '60s. When McCartney was performing "Jet" in this picture, the second song of the night, his posture and attitude reminds me of him in his early Beatle days.
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For their last perforce together, members of the 560th Air Force Band/Air National Guard of the Northwest, including, from left, Senior Master Sgt. Michael Baker, Tech Sgt. David Volland, Major James Phillips, Master Sgt. Jaye Nordling salute the flag during the National Anthem, May 27, 2013 during the 3rd annual Memorial Day Ceremony at the Washington State Veterans Cemetery in Medical Lake, Wash. I was trying to get around to show their faces, but realized the angle from behind with the clouds and silhouettes was more powerful.
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Yes, children, that's a real white beard. Santa Claus (Ed Gowin) from Suncrest, Wash., gets tested by Naomi Getchell, Maria Grube (center back) and Tomia Gardner (right) from the Little Red School House, December 5, 2008 in Spokane's Riverfront Park. Santa and I were wandering the downtown streets while taking a break from holiday pictures at Dream Catcher Photography in the Crescent Court when the children happened upon him on their way to a playground activity.
Her hands were of great interest to me when I met May Vidmer, 91, after a birthday celebration at the Hillside Inn, July 31, 2013 in Spokane, Wash., where "Aunt May" sang a rendition of Happy Birthday and yodeled for 100 year-old Harvey Schluter. The years of her life experiences and the colorful character seemed to be held in her rings and fingers.
What started out as a mug shot of the new director of the Ronald McDonald House in Spokane, ended up being a feature story on a boy with a "sporadic birth defect from Helena, Mont. Keeping up with his mother and sister is no problem for Kevin Connolly. Faster on his hands than his legs, his upper body strength allows him to cross the Monroe Street without his artificial legs. Kevin was born without legs and received treatments from Shriners Hospital in Spokane in the spring of 1994. He quit using his prosthetic legs at age 12, and went on to win a silver medal at the X Games extreme sports in the skiing competition and also starred in a reality series entitled "Armed & Ready."
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I alway thought this photograph had the look of a 1930’s vintage picture. Buddy White waited outside Judge Linda Tompkins’ courtroom at the Spokane County Courthouse with 2 month-old Eliam, Nov. 16, 2012. White, his wife Tammie and other family members adopted the child in Tompkins' courtroom on National Adoption Day.
Finding beauty in a sea of confusion is a challenge we face as photographers. Focusing my attention just a single dancer and using a slow shutter speed to exaggerate her movements, yielded an enticing photograph. Leona Dick, 9, of Spokane, Wash., performed a Fancy Shawl Dance as part of the Spokane Tribe's 5th Annual Heritage Day Celebration, Nov. 6, 2013, at the Spokane Fair & Expo Center. The girl is a member of the Strong Heart Dance Group.
As news photographers, was try and keep an ear to the scanners for police and fire calls. Often when we arrive on scene the action if over, but patience paid off as I stayed around long enough to see Spokane Ladder 2 firefighters Jared Contabile, left, and Jon Stevens emerge covered in insulation after tearing out a ceiling of a burning house at the corner of 46th Avenue and Stone Street, Nov. 28, 2012 in Spokane. The fire started garage area and quickly spread to the attic. A neighboring home was threatened, but firefighters were able to stop the blaze from causing much damage to the second home. A dog and a snake were inside the burning home, but were rescued.
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A year-long project shooting pictures at Mount St. Michael lead to thousands of pictures of their daily life. But it was this scene of students erasing the chalk board after completing an assignment, on Sept. 17, 1986, captured the feel and simplicity of the lives of the people who follow the Pre-Vatican II practices of the Catholic Church.
Doesn't everyone take their camel for a walk in the park? Spokane resident, local businessman and exotic farm owner John Schreiner, 60, strolls through Manito Park with his dog, Gunther, 10 months, and his four-year-old Bactrian camel, Calypso. Schreiner brought Calypso to the park, Wednesday, May 9, 2012, to give a professional acquaintance a ride on the 1,600 pound camel. Making the unusual look normal tickles my funny bone.
Not a dog-bites-man story, but rather a raccoon-squeezesman tale. Getting in touch with John McLachlan, head zoo keeper at Walk in the Wild, was Rowdy, a 6-month-old raccoon that has been at the Spokane zoo since the animal was 3 weeks old. "I'm like a mother, father, playmate...the whole family to Rowdy," McLachlan said on Feb. 6, 1986.
As the old saying goes, everyone deserves a place in the paper, or something like that. Bailey Tansy, 18, of Spokane, Wa., awaits her turn in the arena to show her miniature horse, Voltron, during the mare and foal showing, September 11, 2009, on the first day of the Spokane County Interstate Fair. Voltron and his mother, Zanadoo won grand champion. They were the only entries.
The next great picture is just around the corner. I had just shot photos of kids building a snowman and thought it was a pretty good shot until I drove just around the block and saw this scene. Miles McQuesten, 5, gazed upon his work of art, Jack the Evil Snowman, Jan. 23, 2015, at his home on west 16th Avenue in Spokane. The boy and his father, Rick, built the snowman that Friday morning with the legs constructed from branches and newspapers. The idea the evil snowman came from the internet. A newspaper co-worker said the picture reminded his of Calvin and Hobbs carton.
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Houit Mahady flings another bread on the pile in the open-ceiling kitchen of her family's home in Tanaan Village, south of Cairo. Like most Egyptian families, they get most of their calories from wheat bread much of it made from soft white wheat like that grown in Washington.
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Kids pick their way along Centennial Trail on Nov. 20, 1996, in downtown Spokane amid damage from the ice storm
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Glenn Weeks and Barry Alleman in a Sheriff's Department vehicle try to snare a loose dog that ran along I-90 from Post Falls to Fourth St. in Coeur d'Alene in 1997.
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The lead horse from David Govedare's wild horse monument sculpture forms a silhouette against the evening sky over the Columbia River on March 21, 1995 above Vantage, Washington.
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Kara has a smile for her mother outside the MRI room Oct. 1, 1995 at Deaconess Medical Center, where she was treated for several weeks for complications related to the AIDS virus.
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Gordon Maxwell dives over a fence as flames from Firestorm ’91 rush towards him near Ponderosa in this award-winning photo. Maxwell was a cook at a local restaurant.
A sooty Jeremy Flinders, 15, is pulled from his chimney on South Hill by Spokane firefighters after he climbed down feet first to retrieve two soccer balls in 1993.
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n Baird cracks up when 7-year-old Scotty her’s mask and mitt. Dorman, who suffers order, threw out the first pitch July 8, 1996.
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The moon rises over Spokane’s South Hill on June 18, 2008.
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Sister Amanda de Jesus, left, is hit with a snowball thrown by Sister Rosa Elena after school Jan. 22, 2003 at Mount St. Michael in Spokane. The two nuns, visiting from Mexico, said this was the first time they had seen snow.
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Solo, the trumpeter swan that's been returning to Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge for at least three and possibly four decades, takes off from Winslow Pond after returning to the refuge on Jan. 25, 2010, as soon as enough open water was free of ice for him to come back. This time he returned with the mate he found in 2009 and three of the four cygnets they produced that spring. Refuge biologists don’t know where the swans spend the icy portion of the winter.
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Robert and Matt Shipp take in the late afternoon scenery before their welcome home party at the family restaurant Sept. 22, 2006 in Hauser Lake, Idaho. The servicemens wore their uniforms to the party. In a few days, the Marines would return to Camp Pendleton to begin their advanced training for the challenges ahead in defending our country.
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Spokane Valley Fire Department Deputy Chief Larry Rider (far right in white) and SVFD Captain Tag Baugh (left on beam) snug a 1,200 pound beam recovered from the World Trade Center into its final resting spot in a ceremony at the new SVFD administration building Sept. 11, 2011. The beam was given to the SVFD by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and serves as a memorial to the sacrifices made by so many on 9/11.
Staff Sgt. Jason Hopper holds his 3-year-old daughter McKenna after they were reunited at Fairchild Air Force Base on May 16, 2006. Hopper and 88 other military personnel, mostly from the 92nd Air Refueling Wing, returned from deployment in the Middle East.
"It was scary," said Brandon Hill, 8, of Boone Street in Spokane's North Side about watching the events of 9/11 unfold on television. By the next day, Sept. 12, 2001, the manager of the apartment building where Hill lived installed a new flag on the porch as a symbol of the patriotism that was growing in the area.
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f my 19 years as a photojournalist working for The Spokesman-Review, 18 of those years were spent primarily in North Idaho. I have had the great privilege of being able to document the lives of amazing people. The strength and quiet reserve of Corie Laude, a senior fisheries technician for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, during a trip on the Kootenai River near Bonners Ferry was inspiring. The determination revealed by Paul Dunham to fight the neuro-muscular disorder that reduced his body to 83 lbs was nothing less than amazing. I was awestruck to meet legendary human rights activist James Meredith. Documenting the methamphetamine epidemic was both dangerous and heartbreaking. I hope I never photograph a man like Joseph Duncan again. Above all it’s the love of telling your stories through photojournalism truly that drives me. Thanks for letting me in.
Stay the course “I walk 5 miles a day,” said Rob MacKinnon as he braved the windy weather during his daily walk through his Post Falls neighborhood on November 19, 2013.
Sacred ways Ike BlackWolf of Pendelton, Oregon, participates in the horse parade at Julyamsh Powwow in Post Falls.
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Determined "Whatever you're dealt in life, you just deal with it," said 83-year-old Paul Dunham as he finishes his morning routine at his home in Hayden on Friday, Aug. 27, 2010. Dunham suffers from a neuro-muscular disorder that has reduced his body to 83 lbs. He and his wife Nancy, who is also disabled, are determined to hold on to their independence and live their lives together in their own home.
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Corie Laude was involved in the effort to save burbot, a freshwater cod, which was overfished in the 1900s and was negatively affected by the Libby Dam.
Legendary human rights activist James Meredith - whose attempt at enrolling at Mississippi in 1962 set off deadly riots - spoke to North Idaho college students.
Cody Harris, 6, pretends to be Superman after using the new slide on his dock on the Spokane River in Post Falls in 2006.
Pride Twin Lakes logger Darrell Shove can fell a tree in a matter of seconds. Shove is a third-generation logger.
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Kokanee salmon make their way to spawning ground in Hayden Creek on Friday, September 12, 2014. The early runs of landlocked sockeye turn vibrant red during mating season.
Ida & Rufus
Border collies Ida and Rufus watch for their owner, Aaron Keyser of Idaho County, while parked near Centennial Trail in Coeur d'Alene on Monday, Sept.12, 2011. Aaron makes furniture from naturally shedded antlers.
A closer look
Tax protest
“Don’t tread on me," said 19-year-old Chantal McKinney of Plummer, Idaho, as she held the American flag that has been in her family for generations. She attended the tax protest rally in Coeur d'Alene on April 15, 2009.
Lonney Longwolf "That's called spook the horse," said Lonney Longwolf as he watched teenagers screech tires in a parking lot at Priest River. Lonney came to Priest River because he was promised a job as ranch hand. Disagreements ensued and he lost his job. He and his horse Commanche became homeless.
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Disturbed Joseph Duncan, left, pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of first-degree kidnapping stemming from a brutal triple-murder in Wolf Lodge Bay in May 2005.
Cross of steel
A cross made of steel breaks loose as crews continued to battle an arson blaze on April 21, 2016, at St. Ann's Catholic Church in Bonners Ferry.
Heartbreak & reality Lost Amber Phipps smokes methamphetamine in the morning hours at a friend's house in Coeur d'Alene. The high will last up to 12 hours. The drug can be made with common drug and hardware store ingredients. Phipps said, "People do drugs, drugs don't do people. If you can't control the drug, you shouldn't be doing it."
Hurt Alexus cries at the screen door for her mother. "My mommy. My mommy. My mommy." Amber stopped by her mother's house for about half an hour after social workers said she could have her daughters every other weekend. Amber left again to hang out with her friends in Osburn. "This will do something to her the rest of her life," said Alexus' grandmother, Cindy Roberts.
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