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EDITOR’S NOTE

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t its most basic, our job is to go out into the world, look around, talk with people and then report back on what we encountered.

Sometimes this imperative takes us to exotic, faraway places; other times, it drives us back into our own communities to consider, with fresh eyes, what’s happening there. For this week’s issue, we marshalled 11 reporters to explore different NEIGHBORHOODS across the Inland Northwest. The resulting stories give a snapshot of the wider region, its history, its people, their cares and their hopes for the future.

In choosing areas to explore, we gravitated toward lesser known or overlooked destinations; as a result, your favorite ’hood might have been left out this time around. But take heart: Covering the community is our primary mission, and we’re always on the hunt for the next story. Please email us your ideas at tips@inlander.com.

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n Friday, July 1, a wondrous crowd filled the McEuen Park Pavilion in downtown Coeur d’Alene for a “Community Tribute” to two stubborn trailblazers — the late State Senator Art Manley and my recently deceased lawyer husband, Scott Reed.

Both men played a critical role in securing public status for the city’s treasured asset, Tubbs Hill — a precious plot laced with a network of trails for hikers and rocks for swimmers. The two men also can be credited with maneuvers to protect the land for the now-glorious 15 acres of McEuen Park that loops like a bib around the base of Tubbs Hill.

Speakers at the tribute were very generous in praise of Art and Scott. My family and I were overwhelmed by the outpouring of affection and goodwill.

But I think everyone understood the celebration was bigger than the actions of two men. It was a celebration of their legacy, and the legacy of countless others who cared enough to keep a rare chunk of wilderness free from buildings, cars, motorcycles and other manmade inventions, all situated right in the middle of our small but expanding city.

In his words at the microphone, our son Bruce Reed suggested that Art and Scott would have insisted that they weren’t the ones who saved McEuen Field and Tubbs Hill — no, the good people of Coeur d’Alene did that when they voted, 60 years ago this month, against allowing a shopping mall to take over the land that is now McEuen Park.

Bruce also said that both Art and Scott were too modest to have wanted all that attention, and that they would be grateful the event planners scheduled this celebration on a day they could not attend.

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ormer Coeur d’Alene Mayor Sandi Bloem also spoke of the importance of saving public space. Sandi has been in the middle of the joys and controversies surrounding Coeur d’Alene’s downtown for almost 40 years. As mayor, she led the charge for acquisition of the Education Corridor, as well as the development of McEuen Park. Sandi maintains that cities with successful, lively downtowns dedicate some of their most precious property to public use. New York’s Central Park is the obvious case in point.

Chicago’s more recently built Millennium Park is another. Example after example shows that outdoor recreation spaces are as important as business and commerce to the vitality of any city, large or small.

The phrase “sense of place” is shorthand for the special attachment to any unique physical setting that sparks emotions and seals memories.

Sandi Bloem believes that the Coeur d’Alene community gets it. Our young people go off to college as children and return eventually as adults

to walk on Tubbs Hill and drink in the views of the hill and the lake.

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t’s also worth remembering that years ago, the beach property around North Idaho College was under consideration as a site for condominiums. Tony Stewart, at that time a new political science instructor at NIC, sent a group of students and senior citizens around with petitions opposing such a takeover. The petitions were presented to the city council, the condo scheme was nipped in the bud, and with the help of grant money the college purchased the beach property, which is popular today with swimmers, kayakers and our resident geese.

Beginning in the early 1980s, the market for North Idaho’s lumber dried up and the mills that once dominated the outskirts of Coeur d’Alene began to close. Now in 2016, the transformation from timber town to a different economy is nearly complete. The Education Corridor has replaced one mill with University of Idaho, Lewis-Clark State College and NIC classrooms. These expanding campuses add significantly to the town’s public space and to the local economy.

More recently, Northwest Timber’s property has morphed into Riverstone, the development led by John Stone that is booming along beside its large pond and city park.

And we can’t overlook the good news that the Coeur d’Alene City Council has chosen not to sell the 1.3 acres with access to water on Blackwell Island, that chunk of land on the other side of the Spokane River on the way south to Moscow. Kayakers can launch their watercraft there and paddle out into Cougar Bay. Environmental advocate Julie Dalsaso, in a recent city council hearing, asserted that even a postage stamp of land, such as that sliver of land on Blackwell Island, is worth saving if it gives the public access to water.

The need to preserve public lands never ends, so it’s important to mark the effort to save what my husband Scott always called the city’s treasure —Tubbs Hill.

Sandi Bloem is right about public spaces. The mayor, city council and city staff, the members of the urban renewal board of Ignite CDA, and the members of the city art and planning commissions, along with thousands of other Coeur d’Alene residents, also understand the benefits to a city endowed with acres and acres of public space.

Coeur d’Alene is fortunate to be rimmed by public waters — Coeur d’Alene Lake and the Spokane River. It’s exciting to see parks and trails and access expanding, not contracting.

Our sense of place overfloweth. 

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If We Voted Today...

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If you’re a DONALD TRUMP supporter, the WikiLeaks release of tens of thousands of emails, and the subsequent resignation of Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz just before the Democratic National Convention, was perfectly timed.

Suspiciously so, some might say.

The leaks revealed how members of the DNC attempted to undermine Vermont Sen. BERNIE SANDERS’ campaign as HILLARY CLINTON came closer to winning the nomination, stoking anger among Sanders delegates at the convention.

Clinton’s campaign has said the leaks were the work of Russians hacking the DNC, intent on helping Trump win the election. Trump said last week that as president, he might not back NATO nations if they came under attack from Russia, and has made other positive comments about Russian President Vladimir Putin. While proving the exact source of the hack may take more time, investigators have found that the DNC was breached by two Russian intelligence agencies. Whether or not Putin had any involvement in directing these hacks, however, is unclear.

Clinton has criticized Trump for his favorable comments about Putin, suggesting that he would go soft on potentially confronting Russia, if necessary. Trump’s campaign manager has called accusations of ties between the Republican presidential nominee and Putin “absurd.” (WILSON CRISCIONE)

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If the general election were held, like, right now, DONALD TRUMP would become the next president of the United States, according to political analyst and statistician Nate Silver’s latest forecast. (Silver founded the data news site FiveThirtyEight, and accurately predicted the outcome of the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections.)

One of Silver’s metrics known as “now-cast,” which predicts what might happen if the election were held today, has Trump’s chance of winning at 54.2 percent to Hillary Clinton’s 45.8 percent.

It’s important to note that political analysts often caution against reading too much into polls surrounding party conventions, as candidates typically receive a “bounce” that can artificially skew the numbers. A New York Times analysis shows that polling numbers dating back to 1980 have been off by about 7.5 percentage points this far ahead of the election. Eventually, as the election nears, the numbers become more accurate. The Times analysis, which penalizes polls surrounding the convention, gives Clinton a 68 percent chance of winning in November. Still, it’s difficult to credit a convention bounce for Trump’s lead, as he was already gaining on Clinton heading into the conventions. (MITCH RYALS)

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COMMENT | COMMUNITY ID, her only possession a bit of string she kept wrapping around her finger.

A friend gave us a ride to my place so I could figure out what to do next. I was able to help her wash, get a change of clothes and eat dinner. During that time I learned that “friends” kicked her out of their camp because she was “crazy.” Her mother was a “crystal meth user” and her father was abusive. She recalled her sister fondly, but who and where she was exactly got mixed up with her multiple personalities.

“‘Call the ambulance,’ they told us, but the ambulance wouldn’t come.”

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I stopped to provide what little I had and then saw her. A girl, a bit younger than myself with no shoes or undergarments, clad in a man’s baggy shirt and jeans that were falling off of her body. Her hands were scratched and swollen as she reached for my water, her eyes red and puffy, tangled hair sticking out in every direction.

Over the next six hours, this young woman would rip open my world and alter my perspective on life on Spokane’s streets and our failing safety net forever.

“There is more in there,” I said, pointing to the winery up the street. As she hobbled along beside me, I believed she was in an altered state of mind due to drugs, mental illness or both. She recounted being shoved facedown and getting raped, but then abruptly changed the subject.

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The men at the emergency room couldn’t take her if she didn’t want to be admitted; never mind that she was in no state to make such a decision. “I don’t have insurance, I’m leaving!” she announced, darting out into traffic and beginning to walk erratically down the street. “Call the ambulance,” they told us, but the ambulance wouldn’t come. Another suggesLETTERS tion: “Call the police.”

The police hung up Send comments to on us twice. We didn’t editor@inlander.com. know what else to do, so we followed her helplessly in our car until she disappeared back into the night.

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MINIMUM WAGE HIKE HURTS US n his June 2 article “Raising All Boats,” Paul Dillon made the case for pass-

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ing I-1433 and raising the state minimum wage to $13.50 an hour. Dillon claimed arguments against raising the minimum wage are “political, not economic.” Washington’s own experience, however, proves the reverse is true.

After voters passed I-688 in 1998, Washington had the highest state minimum wage in the nation until this year. Recent Freedom Foundation research, which was informally reviewed by local economists prior to publication, examined the effect of Washington’s high, and automatically increasing, minimum wage.

Among other things, the report found: Adopting the county’s highest minimum wage produced no decline in the state poverty rate.

Food stamp use in Washington increased dramatically after passage of I-688. Before 1998, the percentage of Washington residents receiving food stamp benefits was consistently lower than the national average. After passing I-688, food stamp use increased in Washington faster than the rest of the LETTERS nation and has exceeded the national Send comments to average since the Great Recession. editor@inlander.com.

While the state’s overall jobs numbers are good, there are strong indications that the high minimum wage has curtailed job growth in lower-paying industries. While Washington’s share of the nation’s population increased by 5.7 percent since passage of I-688, and its share of total U.S. jobs increased by 6.3 percent, the state’s share of U.S. accommodation and food services jobs fell by 5.7 percent.

As entry-level job growth slowed, the teen unemployment rate skyrocketed. Before passing I-688, Washington’s teen unemployment generally followed national trends, but has significantly exceeded the national rate every year since.

Advocates of a still higher state minimum wage should do their homework and learn from Washington’s failed minimum wage experiment.

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A recent photo of Alexander Maier at his father’s home (left) and a family picture taken during the holidays when he was a child.

MENTAL HEALTH

Behind Locked Doors A suicide inside Eastern State Hospital raises questions about care and transparency

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arry Maier hasn’t opened these envelopes yet.

They’ve been sitting on his living room table since the funeral. One is from his mother, the others from family friends. His name is scrawled in elegant cursive across the fronts. He opens the first, and several locks of curly dark hair slide out. He gasps slightly.

“Those are Alexander’s,” he says — his son.

Alexander Maier died by suicide in early May of this year while confined in Eastern State Hospital in Medical Lake. Nothing has been written about his death, aside from a two-line funeral announcement in the SpokesmanReview. The state Department of Social and Health Services has been tight-lipped — declining even to confirm if anyone had committed suicide in one of its facilities when first contacted in May — citing health care privacy laws.

The Inlander first learned of Alexander’s death through an anonymous tip and later confirmed it through a police report. The Spokane County Medical Examiner has ruled Alexander’s death a suicide, but his father is still searching for answers.

For Alexander, 34, his final moments came in a familiar place. Harry Maier says his son cycled in and out of the state psychiatric hospital for the better part of a decade. He visited Alexander there about once a week.

For the state of Washington, Alexander’s death occurs under the watch of a woefully underfunded and, according to some attorneys, grossly mismanaged mental health system.

“They way they let people out of there, it’s impossible for them to be successful,” says Harry Maier. He believes his son’s condition was often exacerbated after a stay at Eastern State Hospital.

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he night before Alexander died, his dad paid him a visit. Harry Maier doesn’t remember many specifics about their conversation, but he does remember saying goodbye. As he was leaving the hospital, he recalls Alexander shouting after him.

“Goodbye, Dad. I love you!” his son yelled.

The next morning, Alexander was pronounced dead, according to police records.

Around 7:40 that morning, Kevin Houle, a nurse, told police he saw Alexander walking in the hallway wrapped in a blanket. His behavior seemed normal.

By 8 am, Houle realized that Alexander was missing and began searching for him. At room No. 148, which was being remodeled and was locked, Houle saw a knotted sheet sticking out from the top of the door. Alexander’s body fell to the floor when Houle opened it.

Hospital staff retrieved a plastic phone card from Alexander’s pocket, which Houle suspected he used to unlock the door. According to the police report, Houle was aware that a plastic card slid between the door jamb and the door could open the lock. He told police that patients were aware of this as well.

It’s unclear how long Alexander had spent in Eastern State Hospital leading up to his death, because civil commitment files are not publicly available. However, his most recent criminal case in Spokane County was resolved in 2014, according to court records. In that case, Alexander faced assault charges stemming from a scuffle with a nurse at Sacred Heart Medical Center. Those charges were dismissed after a judge ruled Alexander was incompetent to stand trial and was “unlikely to become competent … at any time in the foreseeable future,” according to court documents.

After a death in the state psychiatric hospitals, DSHS conducts a risk analysis to see if policy and practices need to be updated. The hospital completed an analysis after Alexander’s death, but the report is exempt from public disclosure, according to state law.

“Eastern State Hospital continuously evaluates processes related to the treatment of patients entrusted to our care,” DSHS spokeswoman Norah West says via email, though she couldn’t say whether any policies had been changed in light of Alexander’s death. “The safety and security of patients is our first priority. ... In the past year, multiple construction projects have been completed to maintain a safe environment for patients.”

Months after his son’s death, Harry Maier is still in pain.

“How’d he even get into that room?” he asks. “He should not have been able to get into that room.”

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Marsha Pechman gave DSHS, which runs both state hospitals, nine months to comply with the Washington state law that says inmates are to wait no longer than seven days for a psychiatric evaluation. In some cases, defendants waited in jails for months.

The nine-month deadline passed in January.

The state hospitals have made some progress — wait times for inpatient evaluations have dropped from an average of 91.8 days to 12.5 days at Eastern State Hospital, for example — but the problem persists. In July, Pechman found DSHS in contempt of her ruling and imposed a per person, per day fine: $500 for each person who’s waited more than seven, but less than 14 days, and $1,000 for each person who’s waited more than 14. Individual state judges have also held the state in contempt of orders for evaluation or treatment. Those fines totaled about $1.5 million by early July.

“DSHS has had the opportunity to fix this problem on its own for years,” Emily Cooper, an attorney with Disability Rights Washington, says in a statement after the ruling. “Instead of listening to the Court Monitor or its own experts, DSHS has continued to waste money and time on unproven solutions.” Cooper was one of the attorneys who brought the lawsuit leading to Pechman’s decision.

Wait times for those accused of crimes aren’t the only problems facing these DSHS-run facilities. A 2012 investigation by Seattle public radio station KUOW found that over the previous

decade, a dozen people committed suicide in Western State Hospital in Lakewood, the largest psychiatric facility in the state.

In 2014, the state also settled a wrongful death lawsuit for $500,000 brought on behalf of a man strangled to death by a woman in Eastern State Hospital.

And earlier this year, the state settled another wrongful death suit for $360,000 after a man died from an alleged assault at Eastern State Hospital. In that case, Misael Rodriguez, 43, was found bleeding and LETTERS unconscious Send comments to in a bathroom. editor@inlander.com.

DSHS denies that an assault took place, according to news reports, and Rodriguez’s death certificate says he died of “pneumonia secondary to another illness or serious injury.” However, hospital staff did not call the police for about four hours after Rodriguez was found. By that time he was taken to the hospital and the bathroom had been cleaned up.

Eastern State Hospital is still facing at least two lawsuits. One alleges that a nurse abused patients and retaliated against other employees when they reported her. The other claims patients’ civil rights are violated by restrictions on “restorative trips,” which can include going to McDonald’s for lunch or leaving the facility for a walk outside.

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Restrictions on patients leaving the facility indicate a punitive, rather than therapeutic approach, he adds.

“People are agitated and more aggressive. There are more assaults against staff and other patients,” he says of a 2010 law restricting patients from leaving the facility. “It’s a toxic mix.

Someone needs to get in there and release that pressure valve for staff and administration. They need help.”

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lexander was an artist. At the bottom of a half-oval china cabinet, Harry Maier retrieves two drawings — one of a knight on a horse, the other of Uncle Sam. The glass case also holds sculptures Alexander made as a kid.

As Harry Maier flips through a family photo album, memories rush back. There’s one of Alexander standing proudly in front of a piece of artwork hanging on the wall at school. And there’s one of him rocking out with a red guitar. The album also holds pictures of birthdays, Christmases and summer days spent in the pool. Alexander is always smiling.

Then Harry Maier flips to a more recent photo. Alexander, 27 at the time, is standing by his mother near the Greyhound station.

His hair is longer and he has a full beard and a comparatively sullen expression.

“See, that’s what I’m talking about,” Harry Maier says. “That mean-mugging, that’s not Alexander.”

He points back to a time when his son’s troubles first began.

Alexander dropped out of Shadle High School after his junior year. He and some buddies got into drugs. He lived on the streets for a while. At about age 20, Harry Maier says, his son was a completely different person — constantly anxious, withdrawn and at times angry.

Those conditions worsened at the hospital, Harry Maier says, based on his interactions with his son.

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W

hen City Council President Ben Stuckart spoke Monday in support of putting a proposition on the November ballot to charge railroad companies a $261 per-car fine for sending oil and coal trains through Spokane, he showcased slide after slide of the devastation that oil-train derailments have wrought. They showed scenes of fires, deaths and environmental contamination.

“Lynchburg, Virginia — see the river?” Stuckart said. “The fire chief of Mosier, [Oregon] said, ‘I would never support restricting any commodity, until this happened in my town.’ All the fire department could do is sit and wait for it go out for 10 hours.”

By contrast, Stuckart’s rhetoric about the impact of coal trains traveling through Spokane was less dramatic.

“The large chunks of coal… are coming off and falling into people’s lawns and into our

river,” he said.

That’s not to say coal trains aren’t an issue: coal dust, in high concentrations, can cause respiratory problems. But the question of just how much coal dust the trains send up into the air is still up in the air. A 2013 Multnomah County, Oregon, review of research found “significant gaps in the scientific literature” about the impact and dispersion of coal-train dust.

It didn’t predict significant increases in derailments or fires.

“They’re totally differBreean Beggs ent things,” Breean Beggs, the city councilman who wrote the ballot measure, acknowledges about concerns over oil and coal trains. “[Though] they’re both trains.”

But if you vote in November to fine oil trains, you’re also voting to fine coal trains. For now, those like former Councilman Mike Allen, who worry about oil trains but not coal trains, are out of luck. “Well, city council got this half right,” he wrote on Facebook.

The proposed ballot measure drew support from environmental groups and the local firefighters union, but opposition from conservatives, business groups and the railroad conductors union. Critics worry about the impact on jobs, and warned of lawsuits over the legal authority of the proposition. Beggs isn’t concerned.

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McLaughlin casts herself as the pragmatic and more experienced conservative choice. Kerns, in his first time running for office, brims with ideas and touts his experience in Olympia as a legislative aide. Mumm thinks her combination of work locally and regionally gives her the experience needed to serve the county and add a fresh perspective to the commission.

Voters in District 1, northern Spokane County, will send two of these candidates past the Aug. 2 primary and on to the general election in November.

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County Commissioner Nancy McLaughlin (left) is defending her seat against challengers Candace Mumm and Josh Kerns.

Battle from Both Sides The newest Spokane County commissioner faces a challenge from the left and — perhaps unexpectedly — from the right

BY WILSON CRISCIONE

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n February, Nancy McLaughlin walked up in front of Spokane GOP precinct officers holding a Bible, a copy of the U.S. Constitution and dolls of a baby and horse. On this day, her conservative values would not be questioned.

She said the Bible was her “foundation” that informs her belief in “God’s design for marriage” between a man and woman. She called the U.S. Constitution “the best political document ever.” The baby represented her prolife stance on abortion. The horse was a symbol of her fight for “liberties we hold near and dear,” in what she considers a war being waged against the country and the constitution.

“I’m asking you to put me No. 1 on your list and send me back to battle,” said McLaughlin, a former Spokane city councilwoman. “Send me back to fight for low taxes and limited government.”

It worked. The Spokane County Republican Party chose McLaughlin to fill the seat vacated by Todd Mielke

on the Spokane County Board of Commissioners. Commissioners Al French and Shelly O’Quinn confirmed that choice.

But Josh Kerns, who is trying to unseat McLaughlin, says he’s not convinced she has always displayed conservative values in her eight years on the Spokane City Council and five months on the county commission. Kerns is trying to position himself to the right of McLaughlin, arguing that he, not McLaughlin, is the conservative candidate who will never raise taxes, who will limit government and who will attract business to Spokane County.

Another challenger, Candace Mumm, a Democrat and current Spokane city councilwoman, is running for McLaughlin’s seat in part because she says people are tired of the county and city fighting. Mumm describes herself as financially conservative and says she could facilitate cooperation between the city and county, two entities that have been at odds on issues concerning land

In her first few months on the job, McLaughlin says one thing has become clear: The county needs to grow its tax base.

“In spite of the recovery of the economy, we still have a structural gap where our expenses are outpacing our revenues by a good couple of percentage points,” she says.

The solution, she says, besides finding cost-saving measures internally, is attracting businesses and encouraging young entrepreneurs to stay, thereby increasing tax revenue — not to increase tax rates, she says.

That, in practice, means getting new businesses through permit processes as quickly as possible and helping them get up and running.

Kerns has similar ideas. He stresses the importance of keeping graduates from local universities, saying a “huge portion” of people graduating from college in the area leave because they can’t find employment here.

Mumm, twice elected president of the city’s Plan Commission, says she is a business-friendly candidate as well. Supporting small businesses in Spokane, she says, is “the best thing we can do” because they are more likely to stay in Spokane and invest in the community.

“I have a lot of experience with projects that bring both government and private business together,” Mumm says.

But Kerns says the ordinance that the city council passed this year to mandate paid sick leave — voted for

by Mumm — is not fiscally responsible.

“We need to be focused on creating an environment that is conducive to more people finding jobs, more people being employed,” Kerns says.

Kerns has also criticized McLaughlin for supporting some tax increases in her time on the city council. He points out that she proposed the creation of the Salary Review Commission, which then raised councilmember salaries from $18,000 to $30,000. She also supported an initiative increasing taxes to keep libraries open. That initiative easily passed.

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McLaughlin stands by those decisions. Raising the councilmember salaries attracts better candidates and is something “common-sense, smart conservatives understand,” she says. She called Kerns’ statements “naive” and “disingenuous.”

“The things I have supported that people say raised taxes are the things that we all together as citizens agreed that we wanted to spend our money on,” she says.

Kerns also criticizes McLaughlin for her silence on a proposed Spokane Transit Authority sales-tax increase of up to 0.2 percent for projects that include the Central City Line, a bus route from downtown to Spokane Community College. Kerns is against the Central City Line. Although he gets the desire for an “iconic route,” he doesn’t see the need for an “iconic vehicle” like an electric bus to run on it.

Mumm, who sits on the STA board, says she will vote for the sales tax increase. McLaughlin, however, says she has weighed the pros and cons and hasn’t made up her mind.

WHERE TO GROW FROM HERE

In 2013, Spokane County commissioners expanded the size of the county’s Urban Growth Area. The UGA determines where services such as sewer, water and transportation must be provided by municipalities in anticipation of denser development.

The UGA is at the center of a debate on how the region should grow. Should it spread out and invite economic growth on the edges of the county? Or should it build up from the inside, preventing a sprawling suburbia and potentially strengthening the city’s core?

Earlier this year, Spokane County commissioners signed an agreement, in response to lawsuits with neighborhood associations, locking in the current urban growth boundary until 2025 and agreeing to accept lower population growth forecasts that could limit further expansion.

Mumm is on the county’s Growth Management Steering Committee of Elected Officials, and she’s firmly of the belief that the county should be building inside the UGA and not expanding it “beyond our means.” The city’s stance on restricting growth on the outskirts in recent years has caused conflict with the county.

Mumm, however, says she’s not against growth, but for smart, affordable growth.

Kerns thinks the county made the wrong move in agreeing not to expand the UGA. He worries that it will cause housing prices to increase because the county can’t open up more land for development.

McLaughlin says “in any mediation settlement, probably, nobody is perfectly happy with an outcome.” She says the agreement stops the bleeding in litigation costs, and says it allows for some predictability for the future. McLaughlin would like to see the county re-evaluate how it determines what land is developable.

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he places we live define us as much as we, the residents, define them. Some of us deliberately choose these spots we call home, while others, for myriad reasons, have little choice. Some of us seek out urban locales for convenient access to our jobs, others to find a calm oasis in the midst of a bustling city.

Some are there for affordability, some for the opposite — exclusivity — while others want to be surrounded by the like-minded views of others already there. Yet no matter what brings us into our respective neighborhoods, the distinctive geography, history, economics and demographics of our urban boundaries impact us in ways far beyond our address or zip code.

For this project, a team of 11 writers set out to profile a diverse, representative swath of the region’s urban neighborhoods, spanning the city of Spokane and two of our North Idaho neighbors, Coeur d’Alene and Moscow.

Readers may notice their own neighborhoods missing from this section, and to that end, we emphasize that it was no easy task to choose which to include, and which to omit. Hillyard, for example, is notably absent here; however, we published an in-depth section on that area a few months ago, which you can find at INLANDER. COM/HILLYARD. We also previously covered a good portion of Spokane Valley in our mile-by-mile look at Sprague Avenue; find those stories at INLANDER.COM/SPRAGUE. With the goal to show a broad range of the local history, demographics and geography of the neighborhoods that define our home — places we all recognize, even if we don’t live within their bounds — we believe the following pages collectively identify the many reasons we all love living here, the greater regional neighborhood of the Inland Northwest.

— CHEY SCOTT, PROJECT EDITOR

Garlandium creator David Jacobs wants all to be informed of the neighborhood’s goings on.

NORTH HILL An influx of creativity and businesses has this Northside neighborhood looking good

BY DAN NAILEN

W

hen it comes to neighborhood tour guides, you can’t beat David Jacobs. The 57-year-old artist moved to North Hill three years ago, attracted by the close-knit community vibe, and particularly the artistic bent of Garland Avenue.

“There’s a certain magical thing about this neighborhood,” Jacobs says. “Everyone knows everyone.”

As if to prove his point, an afternoon with Jacobs is an afternoon meeting local artists, residents and business folks who all seem to know each other — even the relatively new transplants to North Hill.

There’s Kay West, who opened Little Dog Art Gallery a couple of months back after moving to the North Hill home her sister’s lived in 35 years. She appreciates the “strong sense of community” she found after years in Southern California. “Everybody has a dog,” West says.

“People are friendly.”

Next stop, Swede’s Fly Shop, where owner Allen Peterson moved in June after 12 years on Ash Street. He echoes West, and jokes good-naturedly about the artsy side of the neighborhood. “It reminds me a little of the Fremont District in Seattle,” Peterson says. “It’s very eclectic. I call it the Haight-Ashbury of Spokane.”

As you walk with Jacobs, you just keep meeting people. Here’s Erin Johnson, owner of Book Traders, which Jacobs considers the best neighborhood gossip spot. Out back, say hello to muralist Todd Benson, training a team who will help him with a new mural on Maple. Down the block, greet another new transplant, Josh Scott, who moved his Time Bomb Collectibles from Monroe Street to the North Hill because “there are a lot more people walking around looking for stuff to do.”

While Jacobs spends much of his time working on his art, he was inspired to start a neighborhood newsletter, Garlandium, by watching Julie Shepard-Hall, president of the Garland Business District and a one-woman gang who works tirelessly to promote the commercial district bisecting the North Hill neighborhood.

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ESTABLISHED: In the early 1900s the earliest homes were built on southern end of North Hill, while the north end consists mostly of homes built from the 1940s through the ’70s.

BOUNDARIES: (north) Francis Avenue; (west) Ash Street; (east) Division Street; (south) Euclid from Division to Atlantic, Cora from Atlantic to Monroe, and Courtland from Monroe to Ash

side area businesses.

“I want to affect, and hopefully infect, people in a positive way,” O’Neill says, noting that he wants to create visual centerpieces that will draw people from other parts of town. “I want to bring something Spokane doesn’t have yet. And I want people to acknowledge we’re here.”

“Here” is the North Hill, home to about 5,000 homes built primarily between the early and mid-1900s. Bordered by major commercial streets on three sides — Division to the east, Francis to the north, Ash to the west — and the bluff that gives the neighborhood its name to the south, the neighborhood within its borders is dominated by single-family homes and apartments filled by young families as well as lifers.

O’Neill is a proud North Hill resident who’s lived in the area all his life — “I’m a Northside guy” — and his ideas for the neighborhood don’t stop with his own art.

He envisions a community where people come to watch movies on an outdoor screen, peruse local artists’ booths in a mini-market, grow things in community gardens and enjoy music on the streets while dropping in on longtime businesses like Ferguson’s Café, Bon Bon or the Brown Derby.

While O’Neill is working to spark these ideas to reality, he’s starting the process at home, converting his front yard into a rock garden he hopes becomes like Seattle’s famed “gum wall,” where locals drop rocks to create a colorful community landmark that will last well past the neighborhood’s current incarnation.

“I want to inspire others to see the neighborhood differently,” he says.

He already does.

POPULATION: Approximately 13,200 LANDMARKS: Garland Milk Bottle (now Mary Lou’s Milk Bottle restaurant), Franklin Park, Ferguson’s Café, Garland Theater.

“Once I saw what Julie was doing, getting everyone organized, I wanted to be involved,” he says of the publication he designs, writes, takes pictures for and publishes each month. He sees Garlandium — which has grown from four pages its first issue in May to a planned 16 or 20 for August in time for the Garland Street Fair on Aug. 13 — as a way “just to try and unify the neighborhood.”

NEW OPPORTUNITIES

Nate O’Neill can’t help but get a little misty-eyed when people take in his mural — still a work in progress, but colorful and engaging — on the Clock House on Garland Avenue. He lives nearby, and often gets to see people view his ornate creation.

For O’Neill, the mural represents “a chance.”

It’s a chance for him, personally, to grow as a painter, moving off canvases into large-scale public works, and to continue moving past trials that Nate O’Neill sees North Hill as an arts haven. include a stint in prison for bank robbery. And it’s a chance for his North Hill neighborhood to embrace its role as an arts haven, something that seems obvious when one considers the presence of several music stores, the Spokane Art School, new Little Dog Art Gallery, and murals inside and out-

The Wall Street Diner is a central hub of the neighborhood.

NEIGHBORHOOD CLASSIC

The black-and-white photos started as simply a design idea to recall the classic eateries of yesteryear for owner Janice Maas when she bought the space on the corner of Wall Street and Princeton Avenue. Make it feel a little more “old-timey” even though she completely revamped the property inside and out 16 years ago, turning a longtime drive-in into the Wall Street Diner.

Those photos were just one aspect of the retro-fueled decorating job, along with a soda fountain-style bar, Tiffany-style lamps on the booth tables and a soundtrack of oldies from the ’50s and ’60s.

But a funny thing happened. As North Hill families became regulars, or rekindled relationships with the place they visited decades ago— it’s been open nearly nonstop since 1947 — they started bringing in old shots of their own family members, adding them to the collection.

What started as a decorating job meant to evoke a retro vibe has become a real part of the neighborhood’s history.

“I’ve met a lot of people through the years who went to the original place, and they’ve come back,” Maas says.

“It seems like a real family place. We have lots and lots of regulars.”

Located at almost the perfect center of the North Hill neighborhood, it’s a community crossroads that should easily survive to see its 100th birthday. n

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NEIGHBORHOOD GUIDE A CREEK BY TWO NAMES

They don’t call it Hangman Creek anymore. At least the city and state don’t, even if federal maps maintain that name. It’s Latah Creek now, because naming a gorgeous body of water after the hanging of as many as 18 Palouse Indians in 1854 by General George Wright’s ruthless troops doesn’t do anybody any good.

But you can still walk the links at Hangman Valley Golf Course. After teeing off down the center of a sunbaked fairway, Larry Weir shares the story of the creek, which empties into the Spokane River about two miles north of Vinegar Flats.

Up at the first tee box, Danny Patterson and his threesome are stretching out, ready for a day as part of the course’s men’s league, which plays the 18-hole, par-72 course on Thursdays. They like the challenge of the hilly course and its abundance of water hazards. Its location doesn’t hurt, either.

“It’s like being outside of the city without having to leave the city,” says Patterson.

New suburban developments overlooking the valley contrast with its history as a farming area.

LATAH / HANGMAN VALLEY Two names and a community bridging new and old

BY MIKE BOOKEY

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eople have been living on the floor of the Latah Valley since long before it was part of Spokane, yet this part of the city, boxed in by steep hills on each side, is often overlooked unless you’re watching it fly by out your car window while heading down Highway 195 toward Pullman. As the crow flies, it’s less than a mile from dense South Hill neighborhoods. But down in the valley, it feels like a city unto itself.

As many as 800 members of the Middle Spokane Tribe lived along the creek, living off the fish swimming through its waters — a vibrant community, even after settlers came to the area.

When a brickyard came to the valley, about 40 men found work there and things changed. The Spokanes were moved to a reservation. Farmers set up crops. A semi-urban grid of houses was established, and the place took on the name Vinegar Flats after Spokane Vinegar Works was established there.

Subtle changes arrived over the years, but little growth came to this overlooked part of the city for the better part of a century. Today, the hills overlooking the Flats are becoming increasingly populated. There’s a shopping center and a couple of Spokane’s more respected restaurants. The expansive “neighborhood” is bigger than a lot of towns in our region, and it’s here, perhaps more than anywhere else in the Lilac City, where new and old meet.

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ESTABLISHED: Farming began on the floor of the Latah Valley in the late 1880s.

BOUNDARIES: (north) High Bridge Park; (west) Cheney-Spokane Road; (east) South Hill; (south) Spokane city limits POPULATION: Approximately 3,000 LANDMARKS: Qualchan Creek, The Creek at Qualchan Golf Course, Hangman Valley Golf Course, High Bridge Park

The history of the neighborhood’s namesake creek name is conflicted.

FARMING IN THE CITY

There’s always been good soil in the Latah Valley, and there’s been farming there since anyone can remember.

In the early 1900s, it was one of the only sites in the state where Japanese farmers had their own land.

You’ll see rows of crops and greenhouses in Vinegar Flats, along with plant nurseries and other agricultural businesses. Tucked off of Inland Empire Way, Vinegar Flats’ main drag, you’ll find Vinegar Flats Community Garden, a project of St. Margaret’s Women’s Shelter in cooperation with Catholic Charities that has been in operation for about a decade on donated land. Only a couple of miles from downtown Spokane, these farms allow for a unique opportunity, says Brian Estes, the garden’s manager.

“The proximity to central Spokane is important, because we’re interested in giving folks good opportunities to get out and get in a garden and learn about how food grows. That’s a big priority of ours,” says Estes.

Food from the garden is sold at area farmers markets and also shows up in Catholic Charities’ Food for All program that aims to both feed and educate those in need. Estes says that other farms, including the popular Urban Eden Farm, are in a state of growth, a good sign for proponents of urban farming.

After a few years working at the garden, Estes fully immersed himself in Vinegar Flats life six years ago, moving to the neighborhood. He was drawn by the unique amalgam of artists, farmers and vibrant personalities found there.

“There’s a great mix of people by age and size. I just find that it’s a small enough neighborhood that you get to know folks one way or another. I feel like my neighbors are keeping an eye out for my place. It’s the kind of place you’d want to live,” he says.

NEW BEGINNINGS

The climb up to Eagle Ridge is surprising the first time you drive it, and by the time you reach the top of the hill at the far western border of Spokane’s city limits, there’s a sensation that you’ve arrived far from the city where you began.

Since 1996, this neighborhood has been placing houses overlooking the valley and downtown Spokane.

At first it was slow, but as of late, homes are popping up at an impressive clip. The final subdivision will go up for sale some time in 2017, says Lori Henriksen, the vice president of operations for the development, which was designed by Newland Communities using four different regional homebuilding companies.

It’s not like the grid of the South Hill, but rather winding streets connected with a paved trail system.

Pocket parks dot the swatch of 1,100 homes. Bigger parks, some of which are still under construction, give the area a resort feel.

“When we began [in 1996], the plan was for 2,300 homes, but we figured we’d cut the density. We live in a forested area, so we decided, ‘Let’s leave that forest intact,’” says Henriksen, who has lived in the development since 2000.

As opposed to patchwork-design mix of Vinegar Flats below, Eagle Ridge is much more intentional. To visit both sections of the area in one day is to time-travel through the progression of urban planning over the course of more than 100 years. Still, there’s the same sense of neighborhood pride in Eagle Ridge that Estes has come to enjoy in Vinegar Flats.

“We have movie nights and parks and other events.

There’s a major emphasis on connectivity here. We want this to be a real community, not just houses,” says Henriksen. n

LINCOLN HEIGHTS

Beyond the Village lies quirky local businesses, beautiful vistas and one spooky story

BY ISAAC HANDELMAN

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or many, the image of Lincoln Heights is irrevocably tied to the shopping center that shares its namesake. When Trader Joe’s opened its doors there in 2011, its adjoining businesses were given facelifts. Since then, almost every storefront in the village has been renovated to match the center’s new, 21st century aesthetic.

Today, Lincoln Heights Village bustles with busy shoppers, some eager to munch on classic burgers at Hogan’s, others looking for canine supplies at mainstay Petco. But there’s more to Lincoln Heights than just its signature, titular shopping village. The neighborhood has other sights to see, places to go, and stranger stories to tell.

A REGULAR STOP

Across from Lincoln Heights Village on 29th Avenue is Miller’s Hardware, a South Hill staple that’s been around for more than 50 years. Its unassuming exterior gives way to an entryway bearing 25-cent candy machines as well as a tightly organized, no-frills interior, where cigarette smoke from yesteryear has stained some of the walls a pale, permanent yellow.

“I’d say probably 80 percent of our customers are regular,” says Damon Pollock, who’s been the store’s supervisor for six years. “Every now and then we get a new one, somebody that moved up here that just found the location, and they end up being repeat customers. [I’m on a first name basis with] a lot of them.”

Pollock believes that stellar customer service has allowed the locally owned joint to compete with larger chain stores. “I grew up with it. I used to come with my dad,” Pollock reminisces. “This store’s been around and endured a lot, and I don’t think we’re going anywhere.”

There’s much more to this South Hill neighborhood than its familiar shopping center.

ESTABLISHED: Partially annexed by the city in 1891; fully annexed in 1907.

BOUNDARIES: (north) 14th Avenue, Napa Street, 11th Avenue; (east) Havana Street; (south) 37th Avenue; (west) Southeast Boulevard, Perry Street POPULATION: Approximately 13,200 LANDMARKS: Lincoln Heights Village, Lincoln Park, Thornton Murphy Park, Lincoln Heights Elementary School, Franklin Elementary School Owens, the owner, thinks the gallery has become a neighborhood fixture since moving to this location five years ago.

“You get a lot of people coming in there because it used to be the grocery store that they shopped in. When they were growing up, that was where they bought all their candy,” he says. “You see a lot of the same people.

Friends bring friends in because they had such a good time last time. People wanna know, ‘Gosh, where’d you get that?’ ‘Oh, I got that at Owens Auction.’”

STRANGE FINDS

Turning off of 29th and driving down Ray Street, it’s difficult to miss the signs with bright yellow text proclaiming the existence of Owens Auction Gallery on 17th Avenue.

Owner Jeff Owens hosts a single two-day show every month, with around a thousand people packing in each time. Some are there to bid on items in the gallery’s vast inventory, and some just come to watch, privy to this underappreciated form of free weekend entertainment. Most are locals, but Owens also pulls in bids from participants who hail from Idaho, Oregon, Montana, even Canada.

Employee Josh Erickson shows me around the gallery. Its current inventory looks fairly stocked with antique furniture and quirky items like a recently sold pinball machine. But Erickson tells me it’s actually nearly empty, with more items coming in soon.

As for what those items are — well, just because the gallery has been around for a while doesn’t mean its owner is resting on his laurels. “We had to measure the doors this morning because Jeff’s in talks about consigning a Kubota tractor,” Erickson says. “He wants to see if he can fit it in the building.”

The sprawling Wilbur-Hahn estate boasts a colorful and spooky past.

HAHN-TED HOUSE

Just across the street from Franklin Elementary School on 17th Avenue lies a sprawling, grassy property crawling up a small hill toward the storied Wilbur-Hahn House. From 1924 until 1945, the 1916 Craftsman was owned by Rudolph Hahn, a documented eccentric and experimental physician who performed electrotherapy procedures and under-the-table abortions in the basement and the surrounding passageways he commissioned in his residence.

In 1940, an intoxicated Hahn called the police to notify them that his wife, Sylvia, lay dead in her bedroom of a gunshot wound to the head. Police ruled the death a suicide, unable to prove any action on the part of Hahn,

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despite a history of violence between the couple and a smattering of bullet holes on the walls of the room where Sylvia died, according to news reports.

Today, the mansion is quiet. A mossy fountain decorates the circular driveway on the house’s posterior side, and a staunch bulldog stands near the garage, gazing warily out at potential trespassers. Onlookers are likely a too-common occurrence; the house is beset with accusations of hauntedness dating to when the house sat empty during the 1960s and ’70s, with reported ghastly screams from the basement and a ghostly woman’s figure on the stairway. From the outside, though, the place remains tucked away and unassuming, despite its bizarre history — elegant, mysterious, and passed each school day by scores of unknowing, carefree students on their ways home.

A NEIGHBORHOOD STROLL

Slinking north of the Wilbur-Hahn House past Franklin Elementary school and down Mt. Vernon Street takes one into a residential section of Lincoln Heights. Just behind the school, a huge, volcanic boulder juts out of the suburban landscape. The rock serves as a quiet reminder of the neighborhood’s once-rugged terrain.

Continuing down the street, lean pine trees shoot skyward, dwarfing the residences and cloaking them in inescapable shadow. Mt. Vernon gives way to South Altamont Street, and the modest houses still dotting the block’s east side now face several old-style, nearly mansion-sized homes on the west side of the street.

Vast properties lead up to some of these houses, whose painted wood exteriors stare out from their placements deep in the yards. Among them is the Lindsley-Larsen Estate, a 1914 construction now on Spokane’s historic registry. With its grand simplicity, it looks straight out of the colonial era.

Further on, where Jacques Street converges with Ninth Avenue just above the Ben Burr trail — the very outskirts of Lincoln Heights — an oddly shaped corner home gazes out on a far-reaching view of Spokane.

“We’re sort of off the beaten track,” says Connie Ramsey, the resident of the corner house for the past 25 years.

Her next-door neighbors have been there even longer.

Ramsey appreciates her close proximity to amenities, but loves the simultaneously secluded nature of the neighborhood. “Just one street has such a view,” she remarks.

Below, cars shoot by on I-90 in colored blurs, barely visible through the treeline. The city’s gaunt, concrete industrial towers are plainly visible rising up northeast of downtown. They fail to top the majesty of the rolling, pine-wooded hills flanking the urban sprawl. n

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CLIFFCANNON

One historic lower South Hill area works to protect its scene and neighborhood feel

BY LAURA JOHNSON

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ne must pay attention when walking these sidewalks. The old deciduous tree roots want to break free, and the concrete is often uneven.

Cracks and potholes show on the streets, many of them brick-paved and more than 100 years old. On this afternoon, you can smell the sweetness of the flowers and the plums. Strolling through this leafy lower South Hill neighborhood, you wonder if founder Anthony McCue Cannon, a man who died penniless and alone, imagined his Cannon’s Addition to the town then known as Spokane Falls would survive more than an entire century.

This part of Spokane is now paired with the equally historic Cliff Park District, which touts some of the most gorgeous homes in town. With their powers combined, the Cliff-Cannon neighborhood forms a socioeconomic hodgepodge, full of people from all over the world. Quite different from the days when most of these stately manors housed Spokane’s elite, and often their servants.

While a handful of apartments have gone up and many of the historic homes were gutted and converted into multi-unit residential buildings, no major new housing construction has occurred since 1920. It’s a place that shows its age, and its residents don’t want that to change.

ROCKET AROUND THE CORNER

It’s nearly pumpkin season here, or so Eastern Washington University student and barista Audry White laments to one of her customers this morning. Summer is quickly fading, and with it, a penchant for pumpkin spice lattes is growing. This particular Rocket Bakery, on the corner of 14th and Adams, provides coffee cake and caffeine to the neighborhood beginning at 6 am, which means White, who also lives nearby, arrives at 5:30. Here she knows her neighbors and her regular customers.

Asked about her day, she tells one customer that she hates Mondays.

“It’s Thursday, though,” he says.

“Every day is Monday, until Friday,” she counters.

“I like that, I’m going to use that,” he says, walking out into the morning air.

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The view from Cliff Drive proves to be a revelation for many residents and visitors alike.

ESTABLISHED: 1883 BOUNDARIES: (north) Interstate 90; (west) The bluff; (east) Division Street, Cowley Street, Grand Boulevard; (south) 17th Avenue to Cedar Street; intersection of Cedar and Maple POPULATION: Approximately 8,425 LANDMARKS: Deaconess Hospital, Shriners Hospitals for Children, Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center, St. John’s Cathedral, Cliff Park, Huckleberry’s, Lewis and Clark High School, Polly Judd Park, Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens

CHECK OUT THIS VIEW

You can’t park here, move along. Boulders were placed along Cliff Drive last year to prevent too many people from causing noise and littering. But if you do park your car here anyway, or walk or ride your bike, you can still stand on the glorious edge of Spokane. From here on a pockmarked basalt rock in Edwidge Woldson Park, Spokane’s downtown core looks mighty. You feel powerful, like you’re looking down at your kingdom.

It wasn’t until the early 1930s that Cliff Drive and its views were opened up to the public with a through road.

As Spokane resident Dan Close wrote in to the SpokesmanReview in 1931, “To thousands of citizens to whom this wonderful view has not previously been accessible, the completion of the improvement will prove a revelation — part of their heritage as Spokane citizens that has been denied them these many years.”

A WOMAN’S WORLD

She isn’t afraid to people-watch. The front porch of her Colonial Revival home, the one you could sit on before the arrival of I-90 and hear the purr of the Spokane Falls, provides an excellent view.

“We have big plants in our front yard, and I have people stopping by and describing them to their children in all different languages that I don’t understand,” says Rosemary Small, who lives around the corner from the Spokane Woman’s Club (Ninth and Walnut) where she serves as president.

She likes the diversity in the neighborhood, that it is full of college students and halfway-house residents and families and recent refugees settled by World Relief Spokane. This dynamic was one of the reasons that she and her husband decided to move here 12 years ago, after leaving Yakima. She says that here people wave, and that women are comfortable walking alone.

“With a mixed-income neighborhood, you get everybody living here, and it’s just wonderful,” Small says.

The other draw was the Woman’s Club, which in recent years has seen a major membership resurgence. Last year, the club, built in 1910, was approved for a $300,000

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federal grant to work through necessary upgrades. They hope to be done with construction by October.

The Cliff-Cannon Neighborhood Council also meets at the Woman’s Club. Patricia Hansen says she and the group of six other volunteer councilmembers work hard to keep the integrity of the area intact.

“It comes down to protecting the scene and the neighborhood feel,” says Hansen, who’s been on the council for five years. “Cliff-Cannon has more historic districts in it than any other neighborhood in the city, and so to be aware of that, and to have this push from the downtown core to attempt to change the theme of residential property, is a big concern for us.”

A SNIP, SNIP HERE

Children accompanying their parents often point out to Kendra McKay that she doesn’t look like a barber. But since taking over Sandy’s Barber Shop two years ago, when she was just 20, she says she’s enjoyed excelling in a male-dominated profession. She’s here, in this small shop, five days a week cutting hair and trimming beards for customers ranging in age from 20 to 80.

Today, while cutting Peter Joss’ hair, she inquires about his eyebrows.

“If you don’t trim them, the Barber Kendra McKay cuts Peter Joss’ hair. wife will,” the 78-year-old tells McKay from the swivel chair.

Joss is one of those customers who’s been getting his hair cut at Sandy’s for 10 to 15 years (retired years tend to blend together, he says). He grew up in this neighborhood and attended Lewis and Clark High School, as did McKay decades later.

“You get used to someone and you go with it,” says Joss of sticking with the spot.

He says he recently attended the funeral of his favorite high school teacher, and was surprised to see so many fellow LC classmates. His old geometry teacher, in his 90s now, even attended and immediately recognized Joss.

“It shows you how connected we were then,” he says.

“Spokane is such a small town. People who take care of you, like a teacher or a barber, you value it when you find a good one.” n

BROWNE’S ADDITION

Spokane’s oldest neighborhood has everything — old and new homes, wild and wise people, diverse businesses and a park in the middle tying it all together

BY MITCH RYALS

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ary Moltke was standing on the back porch of her Queen Anne-style Browne’s Addition home — Roberts Mansion — when a plate torpedoed out the third-floor window of the house directly behind her. It shattered on the ground below.

That’s when she knew she had to buy the place. This was in the early ’80s. She’s since purchased six other homes in Browne’s Addition and turned them into apartments and rentals. One is a restaurant.

“It was so bad, when I raised my kids here, I would have to mark an area out with a fence, and then I would make sure there weren’t any syringes in that area of the yard,” she says now.

It took Moltke more than 20 years to restore the 127-year-old mansion made from brick and granite.

Before she rented it out for events, it’s where she raised her kids. Parents were hesitant to let their kids come over to play.

“I remember one birthday party where the parents were pretty snooty about the whole thing, so they came with the kids to make sure it was a safe environment,” Moltke says. “Then they actually came down here and saw the house and what it was like. Whereas before it was like ‘Uh, you live in Browne’s Addition? I’m not goin’ down there.’”

In the early days, Browne’s Addition was home to Spokane’s elite before its decrescendo into a crime- and drug-infested specter of those bygone days of horsedrawn coaches. Today, the neighborhood has been rebuilt on the hard work and persistence of passionate residents.

In 2009, Browne’s was named one of the 10 greatest neighborhoods in America by the American Planning Association. Some like the old-timey houses, the park and overlook bluffs on the far western border. For others, it’s the proximity to downtown and the neighborhood’s “walkability.” For many, Browne’s Addition is simply home.

Mary Moltke tidies up the garden of her historic Browne’s Addition mansion that she now rents out for events.

ESTABLISHED: 1879, when John J. Browne’s home was first constructed.

BOUNDARIES: (north) Riverside Avenue; (west) Roughly Maple Street; (east) Walnut Street (near the fire department); (south) The railroad tracks south of West Sunset Boulevard POPULATION: Approximately 1,700 LANDMARKS: Coeur d’Alene Park, the Elk Public House, Patsy Clark Mansion, Campbell House, Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture and asked architect Kirtland Cutter to spare no expense — stands a home you could miss, or perhaps avoid. At 2124 W. Second Ave., a dark green house shrouded by a thicket of trees and vines stands out among its neighbors. A faded red door, tin table and chair, stone panther statue, a birdbath and rusty lawnmower fill in the rest of the front yard. A sign reading “Gallery 1889” with a phone number intrigues passersby.

“Yard art,” says David Red. He lives there by himself after his mother, Rhedi Red, died last year. David, 40, has lived there his entire life.

Gallery 1889 was a home-turned-museum. Rhedi and her husband James gave walk-through tours showing off art, clothes, handbags and hats. So many hats. They’re all still hanging on the walls, and so are the paintings. Some

by Rhedi herself, David says. He points to one painting of his mother done by the famed R.A. Fox that hangs above his bed. Soon, David plans to have an estate sale.

The house is still chock-full of historic artifacts.

“This is my home. It’s where I feel most safe,” he says. He points to the park directly across the street. “I love the fact that I can walk 20 feet and be in the park.”

PASSING THROUGH

David Red has maintained the many eccentricities of his family’s historic home.

ART HOUSE

In the shadow of the Patsy Clark Mansion — built for the coal mining magnate who handed over a blank check

Sitting outside Coeur d’Alene Park is a faded blue jeep that resembles a mini mail truck. The windows are covered with cardboard, but it still runs. It used to sit in front of the Rosauers at the edge of Browne’s. Four men are asleep in the sunny grass in the park just beyond the rig.

One of them arises to retrieve a bottle of Squirt soda, and stops to answer some questions.

He says his name is Richard Allen Brown. He’s lived on the streets for four years.

“Not all people are homeless because they got no place to go,” he says. Some of them stay on the streets because they want to.

Certainly, it’s not illegal for Brown and his buddies to

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sleep in the park, but the fact that he and so many others do bothers some in the neighborhood. Christine White has lived in Browne’s Addition for 11 years and heads up the Browne’s Addition Garden Guerilla Gang, as they call themselves. The group of about 20 volunteers, who with the help of grant dollars, maintain plants and flowers in the park — the oldest in the city, marking its 125th anniversary this year — and in the traffic circle. Someone recently dumped motor oil in one of her planters. She can’t say who for sure.

A STATELY START

He came from Portland with his wife and young son in 1878. The lawyer John J. Browne saw opportunity in the village known as Spokane Falls. The river roaring through the center of town, he thought, meant potential for growth and prosperity. Good call, J.J. For $2,500, the 35-year-old purchased a quarter-stake in the town of about 50 people, including a large stake in the water rights and 160 acres just west of the city center.

The neighborhood boomed in the early 1890s as a haven for the city’s elite. By the 1920s, the elegant homes were divided into single-unit dwellings and luxury apartment buildings went up. Post-World War II brought soldiers looking for single-unit apartments. In 1958, the neighborhood was rezoned to allow for a high population density.

By 1972, nine prestigious mansions at the end of Second Avenue — one of which belonged to William H. Cowles, Sr., who founded the Spokesman-Review in 1894 — were demolished. Browne’s original home lasted until 1975.

Since its beginnings, Browne’s Addition has had the opportunity to sample nearly every shade of human existence — as though it couldn’t decide on an identity. Now, it seems, it’s settled on them all.

A gated apartment complex overlooks the bluffs, and some of the huge, old single-family homes now house six, seven, eight people. At one end of the neighborhood there’s a barber shop across from a lawn where little old ladies sit on their walkers in the afternoon sun. At least two mansions are now occupied, in part, by mothers as young as 16.

Some people have been here their entire lives. Many left and came back. A few are there by accident.

“You’ve got everything from college students and artists to lawyers and doctors living in the neighborhood and being part of the neighborhood,” says Dale Ringquist, who’s worked at The Elk Public House for the past 15 years. “You have people just starting out, with nothing, and they’re going to befriend people who are super successful, and they all blend together.” n

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NEIGHBORHOOD GUIDE on its borders. Homes with front porches to match the rest of the neighborhood, which became a nationally recognized historic district in the mid-1980s, are also desirable.

“It’s a great neighborhood, and I think there is a perception in the [rest of the] city that it’s kind of a low-income, disorderly neighborhood, but I think that’s not at all the case,” council chair Forman explains. “The people get to know each other pretty well. Even if there are some homeless people and the occasional property crime issues, I still think it’s a wonderful neighborhood, and I’m happy to be living here.”

MIDDAY MINGLE

Peaceful Valley boasts an eclectic mix of historic homes, some under shadow of the Maple Street Bridge.

PEACEFUL VALLEY

This historic strip along the river is loved by residents for its eclectic and rustic charm

BY CHEY SCOTT

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long the rutted and narrow Wilson Avenue, whose historic residences press up against the lushly treed hillside below Riverside Avenue, the cars rolling over the Maple Street Bridge roar from above, amplified by the slope. Du-dum, du-dum, du-dum, the tires of thousands of vehicles drum in rhythm over the bridge’s expansion joints.

Though known for its eclectic and welcoming atmosphere, parts of the Peaceful Valley neighborhood are under constant shadow of a perpetual thunderstorm.

Long since resigned to the bridge’s looming presence, this is the neighborhood’s euphemism. Especially on a warm summer day, this artificial thunder contrasts starkly with the bubble of rushing water just blocks away. There, the Spokane River brings nature to the back doors of Peaceful Valley’s 600 or so residents.

In the back pocket of Spokane’s core, Peaceful Valley is one of its oldest neighborhoods — first housing the blue-collar folks who built the city as it was settled and developed in the late 1800s and 19-aughts — and one of its most unique. Its many pioneer-style homes with friendly front porches and overgrown gardens ooze with charm, some painted in bright, unapologetic color schemes. There are no commercial businesses here, and haven’t been for decades. For most non-residents, the neighborhood is not a destination, except for visitors accessing the Spokane River bank to swim, fish and raft, and the occasional jogger. No one really passes through Peaceful Valley to get to another destination — most of us simply pass over it from above — yet its residents seem perfectly happy to leave it that way.

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ESTABLISHED: The first residents settled there during Spokane’s formative years, in the 1890s, with most homes constructed from then on through the early 1900s.

BOUNDARIES: (north) Spokane River; (west) Riverside at Clark Avenue; (east) Glover Field, Monroe and Cedar Street; (south) Hillside below Riverside Ave. and Browne’s Addition POPULATION: Approximately 600, according to the neighborhood council LANDMARKS: Glover Field, Maple Street Bridge, Spokane River, Cowley School building, homes featured in the films Benny & Joon and Vision Quest

NEAR NATURE, NEAR URBANIZATION

Already the unwilling recipient of major urbanization when the 1,750-foot-long Maple Street Bridge bisected its heart back in 1958, Peaceful Valley’s residents are again staunchly against the next big, nearby development. The proposed 1400 Riverside Tower — a 14-story, 50-unit luxury condo atop the hill overlooking the neighborhood — would permanently alter the character of their home, they argue, in an entirely non-cohesive way.

At July’s neighborhood council meeting, some of a dozen or so residents express their continued frustration.

They may not be able to stop the condo tower, but they’d really like to see the attached, three-story parking garage moved from a planned spot at the corner of Cedar Street and Wilson, the base of the hill, up to Riverside.

“It’s turning its back on the neighborhood,” says Peaceful Valley council chair Bill Forman, who moved to the neighborhood three years ago to retire. “The front door is on Riverside, and we’re just faced with this blank wall and an industrial door. How are they your neighbors?”

During the meeting, treasurer/secretary Jan Loux reads back the council’s previously drafted responses to an infill questionnaire from the city of Spokane. They use the opportunity to further express their displeasure over this particular infill project — 1400 Riverside Tower is not of an appropriate design, and “will cause undue shadow, increased traffic and won’t match the style or history of the neighborhood,” she reads.

The next paragraph, though, outlines projects that Peaceful Valley’s residents would welcome: tiny homes, cottages, and even a small coffee shop or a grocery store

In the morning, Glover Field is speckled with the furry little marmots, noses nuzzled to the grass on their quest for a buggy breakfast. By midday, the field is filled with other visitors, a group of avid ultimate Frisbee fans who meet there for a lunch-hour game if they can get enough players.

Beginning back in 2005 with a group of super-active Next IT employees — before the tech-innovation company relocated to Spokane Valley — the Frisbee players Glover Field hosts lunch-time frisbee. would meet in Riverfront Park during lunch for some exercise. Three years ago, they moved to Peaceful Valley’s Glover Field, and the open-to-all, drop-in games now host all sorts of 9-to-5ers who drive or bike down to the park from across town.

More than 100 names populate the Google group’s email list (spokane-frisbee+subscribe@googlegroups.com), and games happen on any weekday when more than six players sign up, says player Erika Prins Simonds. “[The neighborhood council] loves that we play down here,” she says. “Having things going on deters people from using it for less desirable purposes.”

THERE AND BACK

Charlie Greenwood’s earliest memory of Peaceful Valley is the flood.

In 1957, he was 7. His family lived in a house on the 1700 block of West Clarke Avenue, just below Browne’s Addition.

“There was this huge cloudburst, and all this water ran down the hill. After school I had followed a friend home to play in Browne’s Addition, and coming home, the water was, like, up to the curb level,” Greenwood recalls from a Glover Field picnic table. The river rolls by below, marmots chirping sporadically from its banks.

“We were in the kitchen, and suddenly this mud burst through the kitchen window and started rolling onto the floor. My mother grabs me and my brother, and [we] waded through a foot of water going down to safety,” continues Greenwood, 67.

Their home destroyed, the Greenwoods moved up to West Central to a house on Boone Avenue. Even so, Greenwood didn’t break ties with his Peaceful Valley friends, and recalls building a bike when he was 12 to make trips up and down the valley’s hills easier.

In 1970, after returning home to Spokane following his service aboard a Navy submarine in the Atlantic during the Vietnam War, Greenwood just wanted to move back to Peaceful Valley. He still lives in the house he bought then, on the west end of the neighborhood on Bennett Avenue. Back then, the 1910 house cost a cool $800, he says.

“I always felt like it was home.” n

ESTABLISHED: 1887, originally as Nettleton’s Addition; became known as West Central around the turn of the century.

BOUNDARIES: (north) Indiana Avenue; (west) Spokane River; (east) North Monroe Street; (south) Spokane River POPULATION: 8,765, according to most recent Neighborhood Action Plan LANDMARKS: The original Nettleton’s Addition, Doyle’s Ice Cream Parlor, Dutch Jake’s Park

C.O.P.S. volunteer Kelly Cruz listens to residents’ problems.

WEST CENTRAL

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The old and new come together in a neighborhood on the rise

BY JAKE THOMAS

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est Central began its life as a neighborhood in 1887, when it was platted for Nettleton’s Addition. Since then, its growth has mirrored much of the country. It was a “streetcar suburb,” swiftly growing along with the increasingly prosperous nation. It saw decline — and now renewal.

Jerry Gill, the 56-year-old owner of Doyle’s Ice Cream Parlor, has lived in the same house in West Central his entire life. He describes growing up as “normal,” playing with best friends, having sleepovers and eating Hawaiian Delight ice cream at the store he would later own. “Nobody was afraid to leave doors unlocked,” he says. But he and others say things changed in the 1970s.

Judith Gilmore moved to the neighborhood in 1974, the same year the World’s Fair was held in Spokane.

She says that visitors saw how cheap the property was, and bought rental houses in West Central that fell into disrepair.

“When I was a kid, it was really nice to be in West Central,” says Stephanie Swan, a longtime resident who was born in the neighborhood in 1944. “I don’t know what happened.” She says people became more economically stressed and struggled with crime and drugs. Now,

when she meets a young family moving in, she thanks them.

Today, 88 percent of students at Holmes Elementary are on free or reduced-price lunches, and the neighborhood has no shortage of boarded-up houses with peeling paint and yards teeming with tall weeds, junked cars, rotting furniture and debris. But there’s still pride.

“When people call it ‘Felony Flats’ I get offended,” says Gill. “It’s usually people who don’t live in the neighborhood. I’m not afraid to walk at night.”

Now, the neighborhood is changing. Kendall Yards, a tony “new urban” development, is growing in the neighborhood’s south end. South of West Bridge Avenue, rows of tidy new houses have sprung up. Drawn by cheap housing prices, younger families are moving in, and nonprofits such as Project Hope are working with youth who walk through its streets wearing the organization’s navy blue T-shirts.

Neighborhood activist Keith Kelley says that West Central’s turn-of-the-century houses, with large stoops close to the street, have cultivated a unique “front porch culture.”

“People are saying we’re going to make something of this neighborhood,” says City Councilwoman Karen Stratton. “And it feels really good.”

ences with police, C.O.P.S. is the only way they’d report problems to the city.

“They would never go to an officer or precinct building if they needed help,” he says. Instead, they come see volunteers like Cruz, which Striker says they need more of.

NEWCOMER

Six years ago, Mika Maloney and her wife were thinking about buying a house in West Central.

“A few people, before we moved… ” she says, pausing before completing her sentence, “cautioned us about the neighborhood.”

While contemplating the move, she went for a jog through West Central. She saw people on their front porches; people, she says, were more likely to say “hello” than in “nice neighborhoods.” With friendly residents, affordable property, construction at Kendall Yards underway and the Centennial Trail nearby, they were won over.

Two years ago, Maloney, 33, opened a storefront for her business, Batch Bakeshop, in a formerly boardedup building on Dean Avenue. Here, she bakes wedding cakes, muffins and other pastries from scratch with seasonal ingredients. She says the building was originally constructed as butcher shop in 1905 and later housed a market before being boarded up.

Now, Maloney says that locals and people who moved away wander in, curious to see what’s become of the building.

LAW AND DISORDER

Six years ago, Kelly Cruz, a neighborhood activist, received a notice in the mail about a U.S. Postal Service letter carrier being punched in the face while on the job in West Central.

“When they start assaulting U.S. Postal employees, it’s not much longer until they get to me,” he recalls thinking.

So Cruz started volunteering at the West Central C.O.P.S. Shop, the oldest one in Spokane. Once a week, Cruz puts on a green polo shirt emblazoned with “COPS WEST” before heading to an office on Boone Street.

Here, he fields about two dozen inquires a day from residents wanting to fill out a police report, complain about a nuisance property, register their bike or seek other services.

“I actually got a call from a guy who found some bones in his yard and thought they were human bones,” says Cruz. The bones, he says, were from an animal.

On the wall are the portraits of 11-year-old Nicki Wood and 12-year-old Rebecca West, two girls who were abducted from West Central in 1991. Their disappearance and subsequent deaths sparked outrage and prompted the creation of the C.O.P.S., a nonprofit funded by the city.

On the front desk are a basket of Dum-Dums and a thick binder of the shop’s history, including newspaper clippings documenting its past, including separate incidents during the 1990s when it was shot up and subject to arson. Cruz says that two summers ago, someone stole the shop’s air conditioner; its replacement is now caged.

Patrick Striker, the program’s executive director, says that for some people who’ve had negative experi-

Doyle’s owner Jerry Gill has called West Central home all his life.

‘ALWAYS BEEN AN ICE CREAM SHOP’

Jerry Gill remembers the business on Boone Avenue and Nettleton Street always being an ice cream shop, except when it closed up in the late 1970s, remaining vacant.

“I heard that someone from California was going to buy it and turn it into a coffee shop,” says Gill. He scrambled to find financing to buy the property, but someone beat him to it. It turned out that the new owner just wanted the house adjacent to the retail space, which he sold to Gill.

“I didn’t know one thing about making ice cream,” he says. “A lot of it was trial and error, but I had original recipes and figured it out.”

Twenty-five years later, he makes batches of Razzle Dazzle, Chocolate Thunder, Black Liquorice and other ice cream flavors. When he was a kid, he says the shop had bare walls. Now, it’s a time capsule. The wall behind the counter is covered in old Coca-Cola signs, packaging from Bing Crosby’s brand of ice cream and other relics.

He placed the original fortune-telling machine from the closed Natatorium Park near the register, and the back wall is lined with shelves full of his antique toys. If they weren’t in the shop, he says, “They’d just sit in a box somewhere.” n

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NEIGHBORHOOD GUIDE South Perry transformed.

“Things happened really slowly at the beginning, but then built up momentum,” he says. “And then you got something.”

HIGHWAY BLUES

Michael Brown, CEO of the Spokane Eastside Reunion Association, hopes to build a better future for neighborhood kids.

EAST CENTRAL

Decades after being torn in half, East Central is poised for change

BY WILSON CRISCIONE

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s Michael Brown passes by Larry’s Barber Shop on Fifth Avenue, a man approaches from behind.

He holds a plastic grocery bag in one hand and a bottle of soda in the other. He’s talking to himself, or to whoever’s listening.

“I’m God and the Devil, man. God and the Devil.” he says.

Brown turns around.

“I don’t know about the Devil,” Brown says. “But you got God.” Brown, CEO of the nonprofit Spokane Eastside Reunion Association, then enters the tutoring and recreational center next door that he’s opened for kids in East Central. On the outside it’s painted in vibrant blue, on the inside it looks like a home — one with plenty of activities for teenagers.

In East Central, more than one-third of all people have an income below the poverty line, and 40 percent of families have household incomes less than $35,000.

Giving kids a place to hang out is just one way Brown is trying to give back to the community and revitalize East Central. On the other side of the barber shop, in a building painted with the same blue, he’ll soon open a soul food restaurant, where he’ll hire teens and help them build a future. He runs a basketball camp at nearby Underhill Park, where for just $200, kids are provided shoes, socks and daily meals for a nine-week camp that runs four days a week.

Brown has called the East Central neighborhood home for 56 years. He wants to make sure kids don’t get involved in gangs, and that they get an education and jobs when they’re older.

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WILSON CRISCIONE PHOTOS

ESTABLISHED: Late 1880s BOUNDARIES: (north) Trent Avenue; (south) 14th Avenue; (east) Havana Street; (west) Division Street POPULATION: 19,814, according to Spokane Regional Health District LANDMARKS: Sonnenberg’s Market & Deli, Sperry Flour Mill, Liberty Park, Underhill Park, The Shop

“I just wanna give back. I’m on a mandate from Christ,” he says. “I’m trying to keep them from going through things I went through as a kid.”

Matt West, youth program director at East Central Community Center, says there are multiple programs, including Brown’s, in the neighborhood to keep kids off the streets. In fact, he says that’s why the community center was founded in the first place.

“When you ask the children what they want to be when they grow up, you get these answers like police officer, lawyer, judge, parole officer,” he says. “The professions they know are from the legal system.”

Today, the goal is more than getting things back to normal for kids in East Central.

“It’s not only getting them to go to school, but to inspire them, to get them to motivate themselves and go forward,” West says.

CLEANING UP SHOP

In 1978, when Chris Venne moved to East Central — by the Ben Burr Trail on what’s considered the neighborhood’s southern edge — he was mainly thinking that it was a place to get an inexpensive house in reasonably nice neighborhood.

These days, he thinks aspiring homeowners might have the same thought.

Venne, with the East Central Community Organization, frequents local businesses in the South Perry neighborhood. On this summer day, he drinks an iced tea at the Shop, a coffee shop that he says spurred the development of this revived part of East Central.

It used to be an automotive shop, but it went out of business about a decade ago. Someone turned it into a coffee shop around the same time the city renovated the streetscape. Investors came in, businesses opened, and

For better and for worse, East Central has always been at the mercy of a new highway.

In 1913, when East Sprague was made part of Sunset Highway, businesses took off and the neighborhood thrived. But in the 1950s, construction of Interstate 90 began. The freeway ripped the East Central neighborhood in half, displacing residents, and businesses along Sprague had to shut down due to the lack of traffic.

Now, with the North Spokane Corridor under construction, residents are trying to make sure something similar doesn’t happen. Valena Arguello, chair of the East Central Neighborhood Council, says the neighborhood is making sure its voice will be heard this time on the notoriously slow-moving project.

“I remember as a kid, my friend’s houses being bought up on the freeway,” Arguello says. “Now there are these big, horrible fields that do nothing and make everyone sad. I remember thinking, ‘What are we doing?

Why are we doing nothing?’”

The battle now is for exits that will come off the freeway and into the East Central neighborhood. This time, East Central residents want to make certain they are not forgotten, especially at a time when they feel on the verge of revitalization.

“I think we see this neighborhood as being right on the cusp of coming into greatness,” Arguello says.

IT GETS BETTER

Jim Hanley hasn’t seen this much hope in East Central in six decades. He was a kid when the freeway tore through the neighborhood and knows how it affected businesses.

“I was just a little guy then, but I can remember how when the freeway came it really impacted traffic here,” he says. “That really changed the neighborhood.”

Though some businesses shut down, others remain. The Checkerboard Bar on Sprague has been there since the 1930s.

Sonnenberg’s Meat Tin Roof owner Jim Hanley. Market, just down the street, has been around since 1891.

Hanley’s own family opened up ACME TV in 1945.

Today, Hanley owns the Tin Roof furniture store, now an attraction in its own right on Sprague. Like many others, he’s sick of the reputation the neighborhood has — the high crime, the prostitution. He points out that the crime rates are higher in other parts of Spokane. As for the prostitution, he says that’s no longer much of an issue either.

Though Hanley would be proud to live in East Central either way, he’s looking ahead to the future. In part, that’s because the city is in the process of a “Targeted Investment” into East Sprague, which will kick $50 million into public infrastructure and housing rehabilitation.

“This is an exciting time for the neighborhood,” he says. “You’re gonna see a lot of changes in the next 10 years as the city develops.” n

Cassano’s 1940s-style storefront is a recognizable locale of Chief Garry Park.

CHIEF GARRY PARK In the heart of the city, with a blooming present and a bountiful future

BY BLYTHE THIMSEN

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assano’s Grocery & Mission Bistro has been in business for almost 100 years, but relocated to Chief Garry in 2009, taking the spot of another beloved Italian grocery, Piccolo’s Market.

The 1940s storefront is the quintessential image that springs to mind when thinking of Chief Garry, and it’s perhaps the best known business in the area. It’s literally a corner store, with imported Italian groceries alongside mainstream staples. The bistro in the back serves homemade lasagna, baklava and more, while catering from the back kitchen means that all this good stuff can be served up in your own home.

“We’ve really gotten to know everyone quite well,” says Carl Naccarato, co-owner of Cassano’s with his wife, Molly Tom. “Everyone brings their kids in here and we get to really know them, being in a neighborhood. We’re also right in the middle of an industrial area with companies that will come in for lunch, like clockwork, every day, and we know pretty much when someone comes in what they’ll have for lunch.”

Consider it the Cheers of Chief Garry.

NEIGHBOR IN CHIEF

Colleen Gardner should add “Chief Gardner” to numerous titles. Ten years ago, Gardner became the Chief Garry Park Neighborhood representative for the city of Spokane’s Community Assembly, then, five years ago, its neighborhood council co-chair.

“I remember thinking, I don’t want to bite off more than I can chew,” she says, recalling when she first began to get involved in neighborhood advocacy. “So, how did that work for me? Not too well!”

Gardner is now well known in the neighborhood, meeting with businesses, helping organize events, keeping the lines of communication open and simply knowing what’s happening. Just as a gardener tills the ground, pulls out the weeds, plants seeds and tends to them, Gardner tends to the Chief Garry Park neighborhood,

BLYTHE THIMSEN PHOTOS

ESTABLISHED: The oldest home was built in 1866, making it one of Spokane’s oldest neighborhoods.

BOUNDARIES: (north) Spokane River; (east) West Fancher Street; (south) North Trent Avenue; (west) Spokane River POPULATION: Approximately 6,200 LANDMARKS: Cassano’s Grocery, Chief Garry Park Community Garden, Felts Field, Spokane Community College excited to see the harvest that awaits.

The neighborhood is named after Chief Spokane Garry, a famed leader of the Spokane Tribe. It had its official centennial celebration in 2012, even though some of its houses have been in the vicinity much longer.

One, built in 1889, is the Bayley House, recognized as a historic property by the Spokane Historic Preservation Office. “An almost textbook example of the Queen Anne style,” according to their website, it’s located at 3111 E. Marshall Ave., south of the Spokane River and east of Spokane Community College.

A BRIGHT FUTURE

Despite the neighborhood encompassing arterials like Mission, Trent and Greene, all prime business spots, “one of the issues we have is that very few developers will look at Chief Garry Park neighborhood, because it hasn’t done a good job of selling itself,” says Gardner. “We are right in the heart of the city. You can get to almost any other part of the city within 20 minutes from this neighborhood. We have transportation access, we have university access, and if the Central City Line passes, it is going to go right down Mission.”

Spokane Transit Authority’s proposed Central City Line would offer six miles of circular transit, traveling from Browne’s Addition through downtown to the University District, past Gonzaga University and up to Mission Avenue, where it would travel into the heart of Chief Garry, ending at Spokane Community College for its turnaround.

“The big challenge is getting the word out that this could be a very viable, very thriving, very pedestrianfriendly neighborhood, if the right businesses were here,” says Gardner.

GROWING NEW ROOTS

One local church has firmly planted itself in the neighborhood, intentionally living out its mission of “blooming where you’re planted.”

“When they moved into the neighborhood, they jumped on being a partner with us, right away,” says Gardner of Christ the King Anglican Church, which

The new community garden has already become a main gathering place. moved into the old Mission Community Presbyterian Church three years ago, offering a portion of its property for a community garden.

“We wouldn’t have a community garden without the church,” she says. “We’d talked about a community garden for years, but we could never find a piece of property, nor could we ever raise the funds. Without the church, and the Fagans, that thing wouldn’t be here.”

She’s talking about Spokane City Councilman Mike Fagan. He lives in the adjacent Bemiss neighborhood, which had a community garden that was relocated to Chief Garry once it was discovered that the plot was built over the region’s aquifer. Fagan helped orchestrate the garden’s move to its current spot. Since then, it has brought residents together, with neighborhood gardeners descending on their plots in the cool of the evening, gathering their crops and working together side by side, comparing bounties.

Officially opening on April 9 of this year, all 24 beds in the garden are currently rented. Every gardener is a local resident, with the church maintaining a couple of beds for people who aren’t able to or don’t want to garden, to come in and pick free vegetables.

“The garden and signage add a focal point to the neighborhood and identify that you are in the Chief Garry Park neighborhood,” says Gardner. “It was just a weed patch before; now people recognize where Chief Garry Park neighborhood is.”

FLY BY

How many neighborhoods come with an airport within their boundaries? Not many! Felts Field is located on the far east end of Chief Garry. Famed pilot Charles Lindbergh once landed the Spirit of St. Louis there in the 1920s when it was called Parkwater Aviation Field.

“When I look at the Perry District, or any of these neighborhoods that are walkable, it took 15 years to make it happen; it didn’t happen overnight,” says Gardner. “I’m 70, I may not have another 20 years, but at least I can get the ball rolling, and when I’m gone, someone else can do it.”

Considering Chief Garry’s past, as well as its present businesses and sense of community, Gardner envisions a bountiful harvest ahead. n

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NEIGHBORHOOD GUIDE NORTH IDAHO a 96-year-old veteran whose driveway he happily shovels in the winter. In Midtown, he says, “You get that smalltown atmosphere.”

Jessica Lenz agrees. She recently opened her own hair salon, Salon 208, at Reid and Fourth after working downtown for years. “I love the little community feel to it,” says Lenz, who lives east of downtown. The shops and restaurant owners seem especially nice and inviting in Midtown, she says.

THE BOOSTER CLUB

Midtown is home to a proliferation of local vintage and thrift shops.

MIDTOWN, COEUR D’ALENE

More than just a pass-through on the way to the Lake, Midtown offers a place to live, work and play

BY CARRIE SCOZZARO

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ome neighborhoods are easier to define than others. Coeur d’Alene’s Sanders Beach, for example, is the sweet-cream center of the doughnut formed

by Lake Coeur d’Alene, Tubbs Hill and the Resort Golf Course. In the Garden District — Sherman north to Montana, where Coeur d’Alene’s hoi polloi lived in the early 1900s — residents get a plaque to display in their well-appointed yards.

The boundaries are more fluid in Midtown.

“The city does not have formalized descriptions of neighborhoods,” according to Community Planning Director Hilary Anderson, yet the Midtown Overlay District map defines the neighborhood as Garden north to Harrison, and Third Street east between Fourth and Fifth.

“As a kid I always assumed Midtown stopped at Harrison,” says Jeff Runge, whose grandfather started Runge Furniture in 1946 at Second and Indiana (generally considered downtown).

Runge Furniture outgrew first one, then another downtown location, relocating in 1980 to Fourth, after a Rosauers grocery moved north of the freeway. “Everything was on its way, moving up,” says Runge.

Its bright yellow signs and huge parking lot make Runge Furniture extremely visible; it occupies the block between Walnut and Spokane, from Third to Fourth.

Runge allows nonprofits to put on car washes and garage sales and rents space to some vendors, like Dale Young of the Fish Folks, who sells seafood most Thursdays year-round.

For longtime area realtor Kim Cooper, however, Midtown “is generally understood to include that area between Coeur d’Alene and Harrison Avenues from Government Way to Seventh Street.”

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CARRIE SCOZZARO PHOTOS

ESTABLISHED: The term Midtown was most likely coined in 2008 during the Fourth Street revitalization project.

BOUNDARIES: (north) Interstate 90; (west) Government Way; (east) Eighth Street; (south) Montana Street POPULATION: Approximately 2,400 LANDMARKS: Junk vintage shop and others, Capone’s, Runge Furniture, Phippeny Park

HISTORY ON FOUR WHEELS

Downtown Coeur d’Alene may be where Car d’Alene annually revs its engine, but Midtown’s car culture endures all year.

Like Runge Furniture, Knudtsen Chevrolet started downtown and relocated to Midtown. In 2002, they left for Post Falls. Other dealerships, like Robideaux Motors, would move north up Highway 95.

The vestiges of Midtown’s automotive-sales business are still visible, however. Jason Mortenson turns out show-stopping hot rods and other classic cars at Mortensen Custom Touch in the Classic Garage building, formerly Knudtsen’s, and Scott Anderson opened MidTown MotorWorks in a former Chevron station.

Anderson is one of many who not only works in Midtown, but lives there too.

TWO WHEELS TOO

Midtown is an eminently walkable, even bikeable neighborhood. Sidewalks run the length of Fourth and nearly all of Third, while bike lanes encourage riding. Speed bumps along the pedestrian-heavy Fourth Street corridor, where numerous thrift stores cluster, help slow the steady stream on this major arterial.

The city’s 2009 Fourth Street remodel included several artist-designed bike racks, such as Alan Dodge’s Well Connected outside Junk thrift store and Tyree Riggs’ (nee Kearns) Giant Bicycle Chain.

“The bike rack public art, the painted sidewalks, street lamps and new trees define Midtown,” says Victoria Dickinson, who like Anderson lives and works in Midtown; her husband is Fish Folks’ Young.

Dickinson remembers former mayor Sandi Bloem at the Fourth Street dedication ceremony, talking about turning a “space” into a sense of “place.”

Midtown is a great place to raise kids, says MidTown MotorWorks owner Anderson, who has lived in the area for 20 years. He knows most of his neighbors, including

Capone’s restaurant, which sells “I heart Midtown” T-shirts at its flagship Fourth Street location, has been a vocal and visible Midtown booster, instrumental in coining the Midtown moniker.

“This area was initially called Hilltop,” says Tom Capone, who says you can see Lake Coeur d’Alene from the roof of the restaurant, which sits at the crest of a long, gentle slope toward downtown.

The term Midtown, notably absent from The area’s name was coined at Capone’s. the city’s 2007 Comprehensive Plan, likely came about in 2008 or so when Blue Sky Broadcasting’s Troy Murphy — he says that at the time, he was having a beer at Capone’s — developed a group merchant ad campaign. Radio spots for “Fourth Street Corridor — from Front (Street) to Best (Avenue)” still run on Sandpoint-based KPND, even as Pint Nights and Ski and Board Parties helped cement the concept of Midtown Coeur d’Alene in the minds of area listeners.

GROWTH RINGS

In Midtown, trees help soften industrial edges, whereas at Phippeny Park, they helped earn Coeur d’Alene its designation as a Tree City. Several dozen species — Camperdown Elm, Turkish filbert, flowering plum — thrive in the park, home to the junior/senior high school until 1976. Many trees were donated in memoriam from the American Legion to past classes of Coeur d’Alene High School.

Elsewhere in Midtown are the tree streets — Walnut, Birch, Elm, Spruce — meandering east-west, from I-90 to Lincoln Way. Many of them dead-end unexpectedly or skip north-south cross streets, evidence of the city’s continual evolution.

BEYOND BORDERS

As Coeur d’Alene continues to evolve, so will Midtown, an unplanned community shaped by commerce and time, with diverse residential and commercial interests that combine to represent the city’s past, present and future.

Maybe in the end, exact borders don’t matter; what matters is what people bring to the place, and what they get from it.

For Ben Hofland, that’s being able to walk and bike where he needs to go, and being centrally located to places like Pilgrim’s Market — he likes their beer selection — and his job on Appleway (he says he refuses to refer to that area as “uptown”).

“I don’t know,” he says when asked where Midtown’s borders start and end. “It’s all pretty arbitrary.” n

“It helps kids connect to the real world,” she says. “It helps pull them away from the screens.”

Standing in the children’s section of the Mission-style Carnegie library, Otto says she loves introducing children to new books. Her most recent favorite is The Blobfish Book, about a hideous fish who explores the ocean and learns to be OK with his appearance. She loves running into children from the library around the neighborhood.

“I’m a very, very minor celebrity among the younger crowd,” she says.

A painted portrait of renowned author Carol Ryrie Brink hangs above the children’s nonfiction section.

Brink grew up three blocks away in what is now a bubblegum-pink dollhouse (Reese would call it Queen Anne-style) on Polk Street. Brink wrote 27 books about pioneer life in Idaho, including Caddie Woodlawn and Buffalo Coat.

Longtime resident Nels Reese gives detailed tours of the stately district.

FORT RUSSELL DISTRICT, MOSCOW

The most cohesive and lovely residential district in Idaho abounds with history

BY JACOB JONES

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tepping through the formal parlor of the 130-yearold mansion, retired architecture professor Nels Reese admires the high ceilings, delicate woodwork and slender stairway. McConnell Mansion, an elegant estate in the Fort Russell Historical District of northeast Moscow, endures as a mausoleum to the city’s bygone ambition.

“Beautiful details,” he says of the carved panels and towering windows. “Nobody wants to spend money on this type of thing anymore.”

William McConnell, the state’s first two-term governor, lived in the home just eight years before the financial panic of 1893 bankrupted him. Many other early pioneers, businessmen and officials staked their fortunes on Moscow, erecting dozens of stately homes throughout the district. Silver tycoons and bankers and mill owners filled each block.

Reese, 79, pushes through a screen door and claims a shady seat on the mansion’s front porch. His wirerimmed glasses rest above a Colonel Sanders mustache while a second pair hangs from a cord around his neck.

He explains that those wealthy settlers crowded the neighborhood with elaborate manors in the traditional styles of Colonial, Gothic, Eastlake, Queen Anne or Neoclassical.

“We don’t have any idea what we’re doing anymore,” he says. “We’re just doing stuff, ugly or not.”

After 20 years of teaching urban development at the nearby University of Idaho, his eyes still light up when he talks about the district. He leads numerous tours of

JACOB JONES PHOTOS

ESTABLISHED: 1877 BOUNDARIES: (north) D Street; (west) Washington Street; (east) Hayes Street; (south) Third Street POPULATION: Approximately 240 homes and historic structures, with an estimated 700 residents, according to the city of Moscow.

LANDMARKS: St. Mary’s Catholic Church, McConnell Mansion, Moscow Public Library, author Carol Ryrie Brink’s “pink house,” the 1912 Center

the neighborhood each year, highlighting the “most pretentious, most well-designed, most memorable” homes.

“Without being too arrogant about it,” Reese says, “I think I’m the best tour guide in Moscow at this point.”

He takes a thick set of wraparound sunglasses from his pocket and sits them on top of his first pair of wire glasses.

“Some people will ask, ‘Where’s the fort?’”

LOST TO THE PAST

No photo, drawing, map or rendering of the Fort Russell stockade exists. Only a crude boulder with an almost mocking plaque marks the general location of the shortlived 1877 refuge. “Around 40 area homesteaders, frightened by rumors during the Nez Perce war, built a log structure here,” the marker states. “After thirty days in the fort, they realized the local Indians were not hostile and returned to their farms.” On a recent afternoon, a visitor struggles to find the rock along what is now B Street. An old Subaru hatchback, parked in the way, blocks it from view.

A PLACE TO LEARN

Two small children lean in around a table for a new story at the 110-year-old Moscow Public Library. Another young boy with a bowl haircut whisks down the hallway wearing a black velvet cape. A man sits at a nearby computer terminal playing solitaire while two teenagers recline quietly, thumbing away at their smartphones.

Julie Otto, the library’s youth services manager, says the library helps young people learn about themselves and engage with their community. The library hosts story time for toddlers, reading competitions for gradeschoolers and science nights for older kids.

Moscow’s historic library is a gathering place for all ages.

After losing both her parents by age 8, Brink lived in Moscow with her grandmother, listening to stories about the shocking murder of her grandfather William Watkins, a prominent physician shot to death on a Moscow street in 1901, and the hardships of homesteading the West. She later attended UI, where the English department’s building now bears her name.

“I think sometimes that if I had been born into a big, lively, jolly family I might never have become a writer,” she told a UI interviewer in 1975. “If you have a feeling of being different … it’s likely to make either a criminal or a genius out of you. I’ve fallen sort of between the two.”

ON POLK STREET

Walking through the Fort Russell neighborhood, Reese hustles from house to house, reciting the architectural history and local standing of the original residents. As soon as you take a moment to appreciate the sweeping deck of the Jerome Day mansion, he has already headed down the street to see Colonial columns on the Charles Butterfield home.

“This is a shazam corner we’re walking up to,” he says, shuffling quickly. “You can feel it.”

Poverty, or at least modesty, may have saved the district, Reese argues. By the time modern architecture transformed America into a squat sprawl of cookiecutter ranchers and McMansions, the old barons had abandoned Moscow. New residents could not afford to demolish the historic homes, so they had little choice but to restore them.

“This is probably the most cohesive and lovely residential district in Idaho,” he says. “I’ve traveled all over this state and I can say … there’s just something about Fort Russell.”

Toys and bike helmets may litter the sidewalks now, but Reese points overhead where the green, grand branches of trees planted by those old barons arch over the roads like a “gothic cathedral up every street.” The leaves drape the neighborhood in a timeless quiet. Reese strides down the middle of the street, forcing cars to slowly ease around him.

“Everything was built right here,” he says. “This was really clearly the place.” n

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Alexandra Iosub From Romania to Sandpoint, an artist focuses on living in the moment

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Alexandra Iosub with one of pieces in her studio outside of Sandpoint.

ANNIE KUSTER PHOTO

here’s no telling the places artist Alexandra Iosub could go.

“I am without roots,” says Iosub (pronounced YO-seb), who currently resides in a tiny mobile house she is building from the wheels up, parked, at least temporarily, in Sandpoint.

“I have no place to go. I have no reason to go anywhere. I have no reason to stay,” she says.

Iosub says this matter-of-factly.

She experienced trauma at an early age: her parents’ divorce, a climate of abuse and a kind of homelessness that transcended physical space.

“The hole I left behind — if there was a hole — has been filled in long ago,” says the Romanian-born Iosub.

At age 10, Iosub attended a government-run art school in Romania, finding salvation of sorts in art and eventually supporting herself as a graphic designer. Iosub married at 18, left Romania for Canada, then the United States. She lived in Tennessee, then New York, where she earned a bachelor of studio arts from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She read a lot, traveled a bit, and eventually got divorced, all the while making artwork.

Art school in Europe, says Iosub, is focused on technique. She recognizes that although she had a lot of ideas, she lacked ways to structure them.

“During school [in the U.S.], I realized that that’s important, and it will drive art for a very long time if you have something to go with… not so much something to say, but somewhere to say from,” she says.

Her earliest works were large, mixed-media drawings of the figure in unusual perspectives — from overhead,

the back, underneath — or parts of the figure, especially hands, which are rich, multilayered symbols open to numerous interpretations.

“I was making these surrogate bodies that my mind could feel comfortable with,” says Iosub, who acknowledges the relationship between her figurative drawings and the trauma she’d experienced growing up.

Most recently, a figurative piece from her 2013 “Consciousness” series was included in the Pend Oreille Arts Council’s juried summer exhibition, “All Things Undressed.” Originally the series was an exploration of capturing the inner process of dreaming as manifest in the body’s movements or expressions, yet as Iosub dug deeper, the work evolved into nuanced considerations of what consciousness represented, or could represent.

“Awareness is the first step towards control,” writes Iosub in her statement about the “Consciousness” series, “whether it be pointed inward, towards self-discipline, or outward, towards social activism. It is the state of mind necessary for improvement in any area, including the mind itself.

The process of being aware of one’s awareness is the pinnacle of reflection, the mind processing its own processes.”

She is particularly inspired by artists and architects whose work is based in social activism, including Andrea Zittel, Antoni Gaudi, William Kentridge and Swoon. The latter is often described as a street artist, whose large-scale installations and sustainable building projects include her postearthquake structures for Haiti.

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“ALEXANDRA IOSUB,” CONTINUED... from her masters of fine arts in printmaking from Penn State University synthesized two overarching themes that continue to permeate her work: the body and the notion of home.

In Shelter — it can be read as a noun or verb, a thing or a call to action — drawing paper comprised the walls and roof of a life-size, single-story house. Figure drawings populated the exterior, while inside was a seemingly domestic scene: a wooden table and chair that Iosub fashioned from past printmaking plates, a ceramic bowl filled with salt, a cup of water, and some eggs, the latter three elements relating to Romanian wed-

ding traditions.

Whereas Shelter was a temporary structure, Iosub’s current house project is somewhat more permanent. It contains her studio, where she’s making art, including for a fall exhibition at Coeur d’Alene’s Emerge gallery. Beyond that, though, and perhaps finishing the plumbing in her tiny house, Iosub doesn’t have any concrete plans.

“I feel that making plans is a way that people trap themselves and limit their opportunities,” she says. n arts@inlander.com

CULTURE | DIGEST

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BY MIKE BOOKEY

TV When Danny McBride donned a mullet to become Kenny Powers for HBO’s Eastbound & Down, he forever changed television comedy. So you can’t blame HBO for returning to see if there’s any more gold to be mined from McBride and his collaborator Jody Hill’s comedic vein. Thus, we now have VICE PRINCIPALS, which casts McBride as a sad-sack vice principal who dreams of someday becoming an actual principal of a school. When his boss (Bill Murray!) retires, McBride’s Neal Gamby takes aim on the top job, and teams with cool guy Lee Russell (Walton Goggins) to oust the woman who’s installed in the top job. It’s not as well executed as Eastbound, at least not in its first two episodes, but I’m willing to stick around.

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eleased just weeks ago, Netflix’s newest original series Stranger Things is overflowing with classic ’80s nostalgia and major nods to two of sci-fi’s biggest names in film and fiction, Stephen King and Steven Spielberg. If you haven’t binge-watched the eight-episode series yet, better make plans to do so soon.

After the first episode’s minimalist opening credits, Stranger Things’ first big throwback to the supernatural horror films of the decade it pays homage to, we meet four of its pivotal characters, a quartet of nerdy friends who are, yes, just like the gang from The Goonies. We’re introduced to this science-loving group — Michael, Lucas, Will and Dustin — in the midst of an epic Dungeons & Dragons quest in small-town Anywhere, USA (the fictional Hawkins, Indiana) in 1983. Some creepy, weird shit is happening that the government doesn’t want anyone — let alone some smart, meddling kids — to know about. That night on the way home from Michael’s house, Will goes missing. To everyone else, he seems to vanish into thin air… and maybe he did. When the rest of the gang goes out looking for him later, they find a peculiar, almost mute girl with a shaved head who tells them her name is Eleven. She inexplicably seems to know something about Will and where he’s gone, and agrees to help his three friends if she can.

Without revealing too many spoilers, the rest of the series explores how Will’s family and friends — including Eleven, who

also turns out to have some otherworldly powers — refuse to give up the search for him. They believe he’s alive and nearby, yet just out of their reach. As stranger things literally keep happening around Hawkins, the mystery starts to unravel and the involved players realize that Will’s disappearance is tied to a conspiracy that’s much bigger than they ever imagined.

While so many elements of the series, created by brothers Matt and Ross Duffer and produced by Shawn Levy, pay tribute to the 1980s supernatural genre, Stranger Things manages to feel fresh and nostalgic at the same time. The show boasts some standout casting, including all the kid characters, along with Will’s manic, panicked mom Joyce, played by Winona Ryder. Matthew Modine is a sinister government agent, and David Harbour plays the troubled yet savvy police chief Hopper.

Once you dive into the series, everything begins to seem familiar in a weirdly déjà-vu-esque way. That’s because the showrunners never let up on the references and throwbacks to all the ’80s films that inspired Stranger Things; films like E.T., Alien, Stand

by Me, Poltergeist, The Thing, The Goonies and many others.

Luckily for those of us who’ve already breezed through Season One, a second season has been confirmed and is so far planned to be a sequel to the first, investigating some of the elements that weren’t explained in depth, and also introducing some new characters to the already familiar lineup.

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BY TARYN PHANEUF

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ith two new breweries in Moscow, the Palouse just doubled its local beer options.

The long-awaited Hunga Dunga Brewing Company opened this week, following Rants & Raves, which started serving its own brews in April. They came just in time: The Moscow Brewing Company — a nanobrewery that built a loyal following over the past few years — closed after months of attempting to sell the business.

As the area’s brewery scene changes, new brewers are looking for the chance to build on what’s already here and contribute something new to a booming industry that missed the region.

“I think what has yet to come to the Moscow beer scene is going to be pretty awesome,” says Graham Lilly, who owns Hunga Dunga with Nate Suhr. “I would like to see a lot of great variety of local beer. It’s not something that’s really been around in Moscow much. It would be nice to see that change.”

Lilly started homebrewing while he studied microbiology at the University of Idaho, thinking it was an interest on the side. But he saw the parallels between his coursework and brewing.

“I realized the only thing I wanted to be doing was making beer. I didn’t really want to be doing anything else,” he says.

He’s worked toward opening a brewery since he graduated in 2012, deciding to call it Hunga Dunga — a reference from the Marx Brothers movie Animal Crackers — to help him remember to keep things fun. He worked as a bartender and chef while he nailed down branding,

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perfected his recipes and applied for the necessary federal permits required to open a brewery. The brewery will serve a few food items, but beer will be the main attraction. Production should be big enough to allow Hunga Dunga to sell kegs to other restaurants locally.

“I’m excited to be able to produce really good beer for the community I grew up in,” he says.

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Kinkeade says he’s been looking forward to Hunga Dunga’s debut because it helps create a destination for beer enthusiasts. He calls it Moscow’s beer district.

Community support for local beer is evident, he says. Rants & Raves opened ahead of getting its brewing license, so it only served guest beers until April.

Now it serves three original beers, which he says outsell the 12 guest taps. Most of what’s brewed is considered production beers — larger batches of stable, consistently available brews. But a special small-batch promotion on Wednesdays gives brewers a chance to test new recipes.

“The only limitation is their creativity,” Kinkeade says.

It’s not hard to find craft beer on the Palouse — a host of bars cycle through styles and seasonals. But the region has lagged in the local brewing business, with just

Moscow Brewing Company on that side of the border.

Paradise Creek Brewery is 10 miles away in Pullman, and a third, Zythum Brewing Company, is an hour north in Fairfield.

It’s not for lack of interest, brewers say. They credit Lucas Rate, who opened Moscow Brewing Company in 2013, for leading the way. Rate opened Moscow Brewing just five years after he moved to town. From the beginning, he intended to become part of the community fabric. A business of the same name existed in the late 1800s, and he saw an opportunity to build on that heritage.

“Moscow felt really good to me on a DNA level,” he says.

Rate made the hard decision to close after spending months looking for a new owner because his family is moving out of the area. He hoped to find someone who shared his passion for connecting to the community.

He entertained a few interested brewers but never got a serious offer, he says. He had mixed feelings about his new neighbors. While he’s thrilled to see people adding to the foundation he built, he’s disappointed that it’s coming after his time is up.

“I am thinking that we will be shutting the doors and allowing the new kids on the block to do their thing,” he says.

Hunga Dunga and Rants & Raves share his disappointment. They say the brewing industry is uniquely supportive of its competition, because each brewer’s take is different. And even in Moscow, there’s plenty of demand to go around.

“There’s always room for more than one if your product is good,” Kinkeade says. “People like to go to multiple breweries.” n Hunga Dunga Brewing Company • 333 N. Jackson St., Moscow • Open daily, 4-11 pm • Facebook: Hunga Dunga Brewing Company • 208-596-4855 Rants & Raves Brewery • 308 N. Jackson St., Moscow • Open Mon-Thu, 4-10 pm; Fri and Sat, 11 am-11 pm; Sun, 11 am-9 pm • rantsravesbrewery.com • 208-5964061

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Crafted Coffee Coffee Roboto is anything but factory-issue

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hen drinking coffee from Coeur d’Alene-based Coffee Roboto, it’s OK to hum Styx’s “Mr. Roboto.” After all, the song helped inspire the name of the company, run by husband-and-wife team Young and Michal Bennett.

Coffee Roboto is also a little tongue-in-cheek, say the Bennetts. On one hand, it’s a nod to the precision necessary for crafting coffee, and the machinery used to do so. They say that we aren’t robots, and that relationships are important. Buying local is making purchasing choices based on those relationships, especially when you have an understanding of where things come from, they say.

Their brand is also about “creating a foundation of relationship with coffee” and focusing on the subtleties of flavor, says Michal. “I think the important thing is to let coffee speak for itself,” adds Young.

They’ve spent the past year doing just that, with pop-up events once a month at area locations including Rep Cafe, Coeur d’Alene Bike Company, and DOMA Coffee, where Young worked for four years; these are the beans that Coffee Roboto uses in all of their products. Their menu is simple: coffee ($1 drip/$2 espresso), coffee + milk ($3), coffee + milk + flavor ($3.50). Everything else, notes their menu, is negotiable.

They do signature drinks, for example, varied throughout the season, such as rosemary caramel lattes or mochas with coffeesyrup-filled local cherries. In addition to their own chai, they make “shrub” sodas — plum lavender, vanilla orange and spiced ginger tea with pear — with vinegar-based syrups and carbonated water.

Not content with waiting for customers to arrive, Coffee Roboto is working on a coffee tricycle — the Youngs are avid cyclists and do not own a car — like you’d see in more urban areas. A fundraising campaign on Indiegogo for the new trike is winding down, culminating with a specialty brunch July 30, featuring a three-course meal by LucidRoots.

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Tired Legacy Jason Bourne works as an action film, but also shows that the franchise hasn’t kept up with the times

BY MARYANN JOHANSON

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t’s been nine years since we last saw Matt Damon racing around the world and beating people up as brainwashed assassin Jason Bourne... and the weight of those interim years rests heavily upon this fourth installment.

Oh, it’s not that Damon, now 45 years old, isn’t up to the physical demands of the role. In fact, his Bourne is significantly beefier here: bigger, more intimidating, just plain more dangerous in an all-muscle kind of way. (Since we last saw him, Bourne appears to have been scraping out a meager living as a bareknuckle boxer in underground fights, which perhaps necessitated getting pumped up.) Damon stalks around as if he is just barely restraining Bourne’s power, and when he unleashes it, he owns the screen, simultaneously indulging Bourne’s menace and suggesting that he hasn’t yet let it fully uncoil.

Nor has returning director Paul Greengrass lost his mojo. (Greengrass did not direct the first film, 2002’s The Bourne Identity, but helmed the second and third, 2004’s The Bourne Supremacy and 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum.) He remains an absolute master of breathless nonstop action that, even as it embraces chaos, is never less than tightly controlled and supremely comprehensible. Whether it’s an exhausting motorcycle getaway from assassins through streets overrun by rioters in Athens or a relentless demolition derby through ordinary traffic in Las Vegas, we are right in the middle of the mayhem, bombarded by thrills and terror while never losing track of what is actually happening. No one does this better than Greengrass.

No, it’s that the world has moved on from the enough. initial confusion and upheaval — geopolitical, cultural, And I just can’t figure out why Bourne is back. technological — of the years just after 9/11, and Jason His story was pretty much wrapped up after UltimaBourne can’t keep up with how much darker and grimtum: he had regained his memory and was out of the mer the world is now. It tries, but those early 2000s professional-killer game. Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles), Bourne flicks had an urgency to them even when they grown from the clumsy CIA functionary of Identity into weren’t directly addressing the global mess, someone genuinely dangerous, and when they were — as in Ultimatum, the best shows up here to convince him JASON BOURNE there’s more to learn — though of a terrific trio — it made for crackerjack pop Rated PG-13 filmmaking. her intriguing line “RememberDirected by Paul Greengrass Jason Bourne makes a few feints toward ening everything doesn’t mean you Starring Matt Damon, Tommy Lee gaging with the spiraling disaster that is today’s know everything,” so memorable Jones, Alicia Vikanderz zeitgeist, but it doesn’t do anything with them. from the trailer, doesn’t actually It brings in Christian Dassault (Vinzenz Kiefer), appear in the movie — but what a Julian Assange-esque internet whistleblower, then althat turns out to be isn’t particularly thrilling, and it most instantly dismisses him. It touches on the privacy feels tacked-on when it finally comes out in the end. concerns that total surveillance raise via tech wunderThe promise of Nicky’s character isn’t explored much, kind Aaron Kalloor (Riz Ahmed), but the movie can’t either, and she exits quickly, leaving Bourne without a even decide what his “Deep Dream” humanizing companion, as he had in the first movie in project is about: First it’s a “new Franka Potente’s Marie... or even as Jeremy Renner’s platform,” then it’s something super soldier had in Rachel Weisz in the 2012 spin-off to do with “social networkThe Bourne Legacy. ing.” Greengrass, who wrote Everything looks great on paper here: Damon’s the script with Christopher brawny presence; the smartly staged action; the globeRouse, seems to think hopping from Rome to Reykjavik, Berlin to London, it’s enough that the and beyond; the always cool Tommy Lee Jones as CIA wants a back door the director of the CIA; Alicia Vikander as a smooth, to peek in on Deep slippery CIA analyst; Vincent Cassel as yet another Dream’s users, but it’s professional killer. And it’s not unfun. But it feels less all little more than a black ops than old hat, like we’ve been here before. vague wave of the hand We have. And this visit ultimately disappears in a wisp at a hot topic. That’s not of inconsequence. 

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OPENING FILMS Perhaps due to the overwhelming success of Dirty Grandpa comes this raunchy flick headlined by a smattering of big-name female stars: among them, Mila Kunis, Christina Applegate and Kristen Bell. As the title suggests, it’s one of those “let loose,” party-likewe’re-young-again movies, this one chronicling the shenanigans of a group of moms who set out on a rampage of cathartic indulgence and inappropriate behavior that, at least in theory, makes for hilarious results. (IH) Rated R

CAFÉ SOCIETY

In typical fashion, director Woody Allen has gathered an impressive cast for his latest romantic comedy, this one set in 1930s Hollywood. Jesse Eisenberg is Bobby, a Bronx kid sent to Los Angeles to meet his uncle (Steve Carell) and naturally swept up in the glamour of the age — and his uncle’s beautiful assistant (Kristen Stewart).

Hijinks ensue when Bobby’s roughand-tumble past and swanky new life collide. (DN) Rated PG-13

CAPTAIN FANTASTIC

Viggo Mortensen stars as the father of six raising his children in the solitude of a Northwest mountain range. But when his wife becomes ill and then dies, he takes the clan on the road to mourn their mother, exposing them to the real world and challenges he finds himself unprepared for. Filmed partially in Western Washington. (MB) Rated R

THE INNOCENTS

A joint French-Polish-Belgian production, Sundance festival standout The Innocents is a drama taking place in the aftermath of World War II. Its main character, a French Red Cross doctor

named Mathilde, aids a convent ravaged by sexual assault, and must help the nuns come to terms with their pregnancies and the religious implications of their bleak reality. Heavy but praised for its considerable intelligence and thematic depth, The Innocents is considered an awards contender this year. At Magic Lantern (IH) Rated PG13

JASON BOURNE

This documentary chronicles a group of blue-collar Welsh friends who resolve to take on the giants of the horse-racing industry by breeding their own racehorse, named Dream Alliance. The horse goes on to become an unlikely contender at a myriad of competitive events, forming the basis of this inspirational film. At Magic Lantern (IH) Rated PG

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If you think a documentary about a group led by a cellist named Yo-Yo Ma sounds dry and academic, forget it. The dramatic changes of scene and gorgeous cinematography is gripping throughout, and the passion coming through as the players discuss their lives and love of music is undeniable.

(DN) Rated PG-13

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Venus (Emma Robertson) and Ian (Dave Franco) take the risk to play an online video game of truth or dare, minus the truth. Once a dare is completed, the player is rewarded money.

When the dare is not followed, the players find themselves faced with frightening consequences. Venus and Ian become prisoners of the game and realize the only way out is to win the lethal game. (KH) Rated PG-13

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Set one year after the events of Finding Nemo, Dory is still settled in with Marlin and Nemo, but a flash of memory includes a clue to her parents’ possible whereabouts. Setting out across the ocean with Marlin and Nemo (Hayden Rolence), Dory eventually reaches a California aquarium for an adventure that may reunite her with her family.

(SR) Rated PG

FREE STATE OF JONES

Here, we see the story of poor Mississippi farmer Newton Knight (a controversial historical figure played

by Matthew McConaughey) who led a group of rebels made up of farmers and slaves against the Confederate army — which led to his home of Jones County seceding from the Confederacy and becoming the Free State of Jones.

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Created by the team behind the Despicable Me films, The Secret Life of Pets tells the story of a dog named Max (voiced by Louis C.K.) suddenly forced to welcome another pet to his apartment in the shaggy, sloppy Duke (Eric Stonestreet). Mayhem naturally ensues, and the two pups get lost in the city and have to find their way home with the help of a pack of Max’s friends. (DN) Rated PG

Hollywood’s latest Jane Austen novel adaptation sees acclaimed director Whit Stillman tackle the story of savvy, widowed British aristocrat Lady Susan (Kate Beckinsale). Staying with her inlaws while she waits for rumors of her promiscuity to blow over, Susan sets about trying to secure comfortable futures for herself and her daughter. The film also stars Chloë Sevigny, Stephen Fry, and Xavier Samuel. At Magic Lantern (IH) Rated PG

The Starship Enterprise has yet again set out to explore the furthest reaches of the universe, and all is well until the ship and crew are unexpectedly attacked by a flurry of enemies, sent by the malicious Krall (Idris Elba). The Enterprise crash lands on an unknown planet, leaving its surviving crew members, including Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) and Spock (Zachary Quinto), with little to defend themselves against Krall’s forces. (CS) Rated PG-13 

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LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP

It’s been two decades since Independence Day was released, and with the Fourth of July approaching, it’s coming back. Director Roland Emmerich is bringing the aliens back to invade planet Earth and take out the human race in the long-awaited sequel that somehow doesn’t feature Will Smith. This time the human race unites to fight off the invasion with enhanced technologies they

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When Rebecca (Teresa Palmer) moves out of her childhood home, she thinks she’s left the horrors of her past and her mentally unstable mother (Maria Bello) for good. But when her little brother starts seeing a woman in the night as well, Rebecca comes home for answers.

Clocking in at just a quick 81 minutes, you’ll still want to keep the lights on after this film is over. (LJ) Rated PG-13

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The newest big-screen incarnation of the legendary jungle-dwelling, apebefriending hero is a new spin on the character. In the film, Tarzan (Alexander Skarsgård) returns to his home in Africa after years of living in London with his wife, Jane (Margot Robbie). (IH) Rated PG-13

A huge meteor is on its way towards Earth, thanks to the hapless Scrat somehow finding a buried spaceship and… never mind. Armageddon looms, and while you’d think that a bunch of prehistoric animals like Manny the mammoth (Ray Romano), Sid the sloth (John Leguizamo) and Diego the saber-toothed tiger (Denis Leary) wouldn’t have much of a shot at averting the catastrophe, by golly, they’re going to try. (SR) Rated PG

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If you think a documentary about a group As one of his friends notes in the film, Ma led by a cellist sounds dry and academic, forget wants to be much more than simply a great celit. The dramatic changes of scene and gorgeous list, and he wants the members of the Silk Road cinematography is gripping throughout, and the Ensemble to be more than among the best in the passion coming through as the players discuss world at their instruments, too: “He’s someone their lives and love of music is undeniable. This who wants to change the world, and collaborate film makes a fine argument for the restorative with scientists and historians and educators.” and spiritual powers of music to overcome much The Music of Strangers and the group’s music of what life throws at all of us — musicians or not. might not change the world, but they just might If Music of Strangers were simply a chronologichange the way you think about music and culcal document of the group’s formation and eventure. That’s particularly evident through the powtual success, it would be more fit for PBS than erful performances Neville captures throughout as a feature film. And while it certainly contains the movie, sessions that show just how harmoniaspects of traditional music documentaries, the ously instruments and people from opposite sides stories of these performers are such that one is of the globe can sound when working together. 

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Pastoral Past

Whitney has only been together one year and already they’re making a huge splash in the industry.

Chicago’s Whitney waxes nostalgic on the golden days of young love and heartbreak

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igning fans’ skin with permanent marker was once a rock ’n’ roll rite of passage, the more illicit the location the better. It was proof that your band had “arrived.” But times have changed. The Chicago-based septet Whitney, darlings of this summer’s festival circuit (including pit stops at Bonnaroo, Governors Ball, and Pitchfork Music Festival), say fans are instead beginning to clamor for John Hancocks on quite a different bodily appendage — their cellphone.

“I’ve never had anyone ask me to do that [before Pitchfork],” says Julian Ehrlich, the band’s singer, drummer and co-writer.

In millennial parlance, Whitney has “blown up,” and the hype surrounding the group’s debut Light Upon the Lake, which dropped in June, is warranted. It’s music that sways and romps through melancholia, change and loss without pretense or hackneyed posturing. And the songs

reveal a compositional maturity that is striking for a guy gang of 20-somethings.

At barely a half-hour long, it’s also a taut testament to the earthy tones of the guitar, Memphis horns and barroom piano — all through the prism of young love and heartbreak.

“You have to live with your imperfections … and leave them out in the open instead of hiding behind something,” says guitarist Max Kakacek, the other half of Whitney’s core songwriting duo.

He’s referring to the dry and ramshackle analog sound of the record, but it also refers to the events that prophesied the band’s formation, and ultimately, their inspiration.

Whitney rose from the ashes of myriad implosions, both personal and professional; for the group’s co-founders Ehrlich and Kakacek, out of breakups and the end of

their previous band, the Smith Westerns. Light Upon the Lake confronts the wreckage head-on (see “No Woman,” “Golden Days” and “On My Own”).

“Will life get ahead of me?” asks Ehrlich, his falsetto hanging above gently plucked strings on the wistful title track. Answers are in short supply, but it’s hard not to hear these songs as they really are: bittersweet, footloose and bewildered anthems to days gone by.

The seriousness of their art, however, betrays their eccentric personalities on and off stage. “We’re not like a straight-edge band or anything,” says Ehrlich over the hum of their repurposed church van barreling down I-55 toward St. Louis.

“It smells terrible,” says Kakacek, who’s made an effort to seat himself by an open window.

But they wouldn’t have it any other way. For Ehrlich, life sans Whitney would probably be devoted to his passion for soccer. Meanwhile, Kakacek is stumped.

“We’re obsessed with this movie called Heavyweights,” Ehrlich admits with a chuckle. “We’d probably create our own version of Camp Hope for, like, overweight pre-teens.”

Kakacek then chimes in, “We might do that, but with a rock element.”  Whitney with Michael Rault • Sat, July 30, at 8 pm • $8/$10 day of • All-ages • The Bartlett • 228 W. Sprague • thebartlettspokane.com • 747-2174

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hat classic line in The Blues Brothers, referring to the type of music a place plays, never ceases to make me laugh: “Oh, we got both kinds, we got country and western.” With Sunday’s show at the Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox, you’ll also get both kinds of music with the cow-punk Floridians the Mavericks and Americana legends Asleep at the Wheel bringing classic American twang to the stage. The latter group, led

by Ray Benson for more than four decades, came through town last summer on a solo tour; this time around their lineup will also include Spokanite and fiddle champion Dennis Ludiker on fiddle and mandolin.

— LAURA JOHNSON The Mavericks with Asleep at the Wheel • Sun, July 31, at 7:30 pm • $41/$61/$81 • All-ages • Martin Woldson Theater at the Fox • 1001 W. Sprague • foxtheaterspokane.com • 624-1200

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J The BArTleTT, The Round No. 20 feat. Joel Ansett, Thom Caraway and more Beverly’S, Robert Vaughn J The BiG Dipper, Wrinkles (See story above), Sea Giant, the Smokes

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he five-piece comes to us the night after their CD release party in Missoula, where they now all reside. Although the electronicpop/synth-rock act started back in 2012 in Helena, they often didn’t live near one another thanks to college and jobs. Their new album, aptly titled Separation Anxiety, tells of these woes, as well as exploring the disconnect between real and perceived experiences. But even if the songs seem like they’re going to be too sad or contemplative for a fun, danceable show, the guys still head out on stage wearing matching Hawaiian shirts and manage to keep a positive, upbeat vibe throughout their sets (songs like “Dinosaurs” are sure to be a highlight).

— LAURA JOHNSON Wrinkles with Sea Giant and the Smokes • Fri, July 29, at 7:30 pm • $8 • All-ages • The Big Dipper • 171 S. Washington • bigdipperevents.com • 863-8098

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After a few years of uncertainty as to how this longstanding summer tradition would be able to continue, the Royal Fireworks Concert in Riverfront Park carries on, now in its 37th year. The evening spectacle of music, dance and light begins with Baroque-style ballet performances by local dancers in the park’s Lilac Bowl, at 7 and 8 pm, followed by the musical highlight of the evening. The 60-piece Royal Fireworks Band takes to the floating stage to perform classical compositions from the Baroque era, culminating with a choreographed fireworks display (around 10 pm) to Handel’s “Music for the Royal Fireworks.” The piece was originally written and performed in 1749, with more than 12,000 people in London turning out and even causing a traffic jam of carriages on their way to the show.

— CHEY SCOTT 37th Annual Royal Fireworks Concert • Sun, July 31, at 9 pm • Free; donations accepted • Riverfront Park • Seating in the Lilac Bowl and around the floating stage • facebook.com/ royalfireworksconcert

THEATER ONE LAST FIGHT

The dual-location Modern Theater has been going strong ever since the 2014 merger between Spokane’s Interplayers and Coeur d’Alene’s Lake City Playhouse united the two organizations under a single banner, saving the former from bankruptcy. The company’s lengthy 2015-16 season is soon coming to a close, but not before its summer encore show in the form of the acclaimed musical Dogfight. The play takes place in 1963 and follows Marine Eddie Birdlace and his buddies, out for one last night of fun before their deployment. Eddie picks a waitress named Rose to satisfy the requirements of a cruel game with his friends, but the woman is more than he bargained for. Singing, dancing, and drama ensue.

— ISAAC HANDELMAN Dogfight • July 29-Aug 14: Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm • $24-$27 • The Modern Theater Coeur d’Alene • 1320 E. Garden Ave. • themoderntheater.org • 208-676-7529

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If you’d rather be whacking a ball around in the air on the grass rather than bouncing one up and down on the hot asphalt, the annual Spike & Dig volleyball tourney may be your annual Spokane sporting event of choice. Co-founded by Jerry Schmidt, one of the guys behind Hoopfest, Spike & Dig marks its 25th anniversary this year, having become one of the world’s largest outdoor, six-on-six coed volleyball tourneys. More than 300 teams are expected to turn out on the grassy expanse of the Dwight Merkel Sports Complex in north Spokane this weekend to test their skills in the glow of the summer sun. Register a team now, or come to watch and cheer on your friends.

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You’ve probably never been on the roof of any downtown Spokane buildings, and that’s a shame. Perhaps you should change that by ascending the Steam Plant building and joining in on the monthly Rooftop Happy Hour on Thursday afternoon. There’s live music from Folkinception’s Matt Mitchell, Steam Plant beers, food deals, and of course a view of downtown Spokane from atop the century-old building.

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EVENTS | CALENDAR

COMEDY

COMEDY 2.0PEN MIC A competitive comedy open mic; with the winner getting $20. Thursdays, from 8-10 pm, through Aug. 4. Free. The District Bar, 916 W. First. (244-3279) DAN CUMMINS The Spokane native, has performed on late night TV, produced comedy albums and has co-written and produced several reality series. July 28-29 at 7:30 pm, July 29-30 at 10:30 pm. $10-$23. Spokane Comedy Club, 315 W. Sprague. spokanecomedyclub.com AFTER DARK An adult-rated version of the Blue Door’s monthly, Friday show; on the first and last Friday of the month, at 10 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. (747-7045)

EXPEDITION The BDT’s Friday night improv show for July and August, starting at 8 pm. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland Ave. bluedoortheatre. com DUOS: LATE NIGHT COMEDY TWOBY-TWO A comedy show pairing two Blue Door players for 15 minutes of improv. For mature audiences, shows are on the last Saturday of the month (July 30, Aug. 27, Oct. 29 and Nov. 26), at 10 pm. $7. Blue Door Theatre, 815 W. Garland. bluedoortheatre.com IMPROV AGAINST HUMANITY A special one-night event hosted by Liberty Lake Community Theatre’s improv troupe; based around the card game “Cards Against Humanity.” Ages 21+ only. July 30, 8 pm. Free. Liberty Lake Community Theatre, 22910 E. Appleway Ave. bit.ly/2a2yePO (342-2055)

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A female friend overheard me on the phone with my boyfriend and became concerned. He and I tease each other relentlessly, calling each other mean silly names, but it’s all in fun. Though we have a very loving relationship, she thinks the teasing is a sign of submerged anger. Is she right? And are we doing something damaging? —Banterer Yesterday, on the phone with my boyfriend, I had to ask him to repeat something he’d just said because I’d become briefly mesmerized by a big fern shimmying in the breeze. No, sadly, I wasn’t all “Sorry, I missed that bit because my couch caught fire.” The man was competing for my attention with a plant.

It isn’t that he’s boring. I have ADHD — attention-defici…sorry, what was I saying? And in our relationship, as in yours, teasing plays a big role. So when my boyfriend has something important to tell me, he’ll sometimes prepare me (with a line that always makes me laugh): “Do I have your divided attention?”

Teasing like this is what social psychologist Dacher Keltner calls an “indirect, playful way to negotiate conflict.” This is especially important in a relationship, where there are many conflicts and annoyances you’ll never resolve. In mine, for example, in addition to my midsentence day trips to the Baltics, there’s how my boyfriend seems to have attended the Jackson Pollock school of culinary arts. Or, as I put it — while cupping an ear theatrically and looking upward: “What’s that? … Um…honey, the ceiling says it ordered its sauce on the side.”

Teasing is like bullying, Keltner explains — in that it’s something you say or do that’s intended to provoke another person. However, teasing includes clues that what you’re saying isn’t to be taken literally — and that your intent is playful, not hurtful.

These playfulness signals are called “off-record markers” and include laughter, obvious exaggeration, a jokey tone, mimicry, and contorted facial expressions.

As for the concern that your teasing is endangering your relationship, on the contrary, Keltner and his colleagues found that “couples who playfully teased, as opposed to resorting to direct, cogent, but ultimately hackle-raising criticism, felt more connected after (a) conflict and trusted their partners more.”

And the reality is that only two people who truly love each other can get away with trash-talking each other in extravagantly awful ways. This is an example of what behavioral ecologists call a “costly signal” — one that, through its expense or riskiness, tells you it’s more likely to be for real. Conspicuous consumption is an example — signaling that you’ve got money to burn by shelling out $8K for a Rolex when a $50 Swatch tells the time just fine. So, sure, there are many ways to express romantic appreciation, but it’s nice to opt for something unique, like “What a wonderful love note — made all the sweeter by handwriting that looks like that of an 8-year-old locked up after multiple disappearances of neighborhood pets.”

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My boyfriend recently got laid off and lost a bunch of money in stocks. Yesterday, feeling blue, he said, “Can’t anything good happen for me?” (Gee, thanks. Guess I’m nothing good.) I know he’s talking about financial and career stuff, but we have something pretty special together. Why is he focusing on the bad stuff and not appreciating the good? Money isn’t everything.

—Undervalued A guy likes to have a way to buy his woman dinner that doesn’t involve a ski mask and a sawed-off shotgun.

No, money isn’t everything, but that can be difficult to remember while panicking that you’ll soon be raiding the market share of the wino on the corner begging for change. Also, because women evolved to go for men with status (a cue for the ability to provide) and men coevolved to recognize this, it can be especially hard on a man when his career trajectory goes from riches to rags.

However, emotions are — at root — behavior management tools, and the feelbad that comes with a loss in status pushes a man to go out and get a new job and make new investments. Without that motivation, that couch in Grandma’s basement can start looking like an extremely attractive place to be from 9 to 5. And 5 to 9: “Yo, Gram, can you throw down another bag of Doritos?”

What you can do is be fierce in telling your boyfriend why you believe in him and about all the things you respect and admire in him (especially those that employers will also respect and admire). This is the sort of “appreciating the good” that he needs -- especially if he gets to the point where he’s driving a brand-new Tesla but only until he gets a $2 tip for bringing it back to the guy who owns it.  ©2016, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. • Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405 or email AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)

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EVENTS | CALENDAR SPOKANE COMEDY’S STANDUP SHOWDOWN Two comedians are called up and given a topic, and each gets four minutes to perform whatever they like. No elimination, so performers go until the show is over. Aug. 2, 8-10 pm. Free. The Observatory, 15 S. Howard. observatoryspokane.com FIRST THURSDAY COMEDY Live standup comedy in Impulse Nightclub. Aug. 4, 8 pm (doors open at 6 pm). Each edition of the show features funny local folks from around the region. Ages 21+ only. $10. Northern Quest Casino, 100 N. Hayford Rd. northernquest.com

COMMUNITY

CDA 2030 CELEBRATION This community event is held in conjunction with the Coeur d’Alene Arts and Culture Alliance ICCU Summer Concert Series at Riverstone, and includes a Photoboxx Hashtag Printer, Traveling T on-site screen printing, youth and professional on-the-spot grant and scholarship awards, updates and demonstrations, as well as free ice cream from Sweet Peaks.

July 28, 5:30-8 pm. Free. Riverstone Park, 1800 Tilford Ln. CDA2030.org TAKE A BREAK SERIES The park hosts a free summer series to help residents restore, invigorate and recharge during their lunch break. Held on weekdays, from noon-2 pm, through Sept. 2.

Events include yoga, backyard games, tai-chi, music and more. Free. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard St. facebook. com/SpokaneRiverfrontPark ADA CELEBRATION PICNIC Disability Action Center NW hosts an event to cel-

ebrate the Americans with Disabilities Act, signed into law in 1990. Featuring live music, prizes and awards, wheelchair basketball, disability resource booths, face painting, and a free barbecue. July 29, 10 am-2 pm. Free and open to the public. Sandpoint City Beach. dacnw.org (208-664-9896) THE GOLDEN SPIKE Spark Center and INK Art Space have merged into one, and host a community celebration to commemorate and announce a new name. July 29, 10 am-6 pm. Free to attend. Spark Center, 1214 W. Summit Pkwy. sparkwestcentral.org PICNIC AT MISSION PARK The Academy and Corbin team up to host an afternoon of entertainment and food, featuring a performance by JJ Dion.

Advanced registration required. July 29, 11:30 am-1 pm. $5. Corbin Senior Center, 827 W. Cleveland. (327-1584) BALLROOM DANCE SOCIAL An event to celebrate National Dance Day, and an opportunity for dancers of all abilities to get together for a fun-filled evening.

July 30, 5-8 pm. $5/person, ages 15+.

Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. (208-667-1865) GLASS ON THE GRASS The Spokane Corvette Club hosts its 24th annual car show, with a portion of registration fees benefiting the nonprofit Blessings Under the Bridge. July 30, 12-4 pm. Free and open to the public. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard. (625-6601) KURONEKOCON The first and only Anime and Japanese Culture convention in Spokane shares and celebrates Japanese culture, with an emphasis

on anime, manga, and gaming subcultures. The family-friendly event is safe and fun for all ages. $15-$30. July 3031. Spokane Convention Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. kuronekocon.com LION’S CLUB TRAIN RIDES Hosted for 35 years by the NPOV Lions Club, the 2016 season will be the club’s last offering the scenic train excursions between Ione and Metaline Falls, Wash. Train ride weekends are July 30-31, Sept. 3-4, and the first four weekends of October (SatSun). $10-$15. lionstrainrides.com SPOKANE VALLEY CYCLE CELEBRATION Spend the day exploring the scenic beauty in and around Spokane Valley on your choice of a 10-, 25-, or 50-mile bike ride, or join us for our first ever Bike Rodeo in the park (ages 10 and under). July 31, 8 am-1 pm. $8/kids; $10/adults. Mirabeau Park Meadows, 13500 Mirabeau Parkway. (922-3299) GUIDED GARDEN TOURS Hear the history of the hillside garden, landscaped and cultivated for two early, influential families of Spokane. Tours offered Aug. 3, 2 pm and Aug. 21, 11 am. Free, donations accepted. Moore-Turner Heritage Gardens, 507 W. Seventh Ave. heritagegardens.org (448-9335)

FILM

SOUTH PERRY SUMMER THEATER: LABYRINTH Movie starts at dusk, in the parking lot of The Shop. Each showing benefits a local charity. July 30. Free.

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TRANSYLVANIA 2 Showing as part of the Garland’s annual, free summer movie series for kids. Aug. 1-5, at 9:30 am. Free. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland. garlandtheater.com (327-1050) THE FIFTH ELEMENT Screening as part of the Garland’s “Summer Camp 2016” series, this year featuring staff favorites. Aug. 2, at 7 pm and Aug. 4, at 5 pm. $2.50. Garland Theater, 924 W. Garland Ave. garlandtheater.com SPOKANE OUTDOOR MOVIES: DIARY OF A WIMPY KID Offering outdoor, open-air seating and drive-in style in your car. $3-$5/person; $20/carload (four or more). Cash only entry at the gate. Aug. 2, 7 pm. Joe Albi Stadium, Wellesley and Assembly. bit.ly/1RXkvoj SPOKANE OUTDOOR MOVIES: THE SANDLOT Offering outdoor, open-air seating and drive-in style in your car. $3-$5/person; $20/carload (four or more). Cash only entry at the gate.

Aug. 3, 7 pm. Spokane County Raceway, 750 N. Hayford Rd. bit.ly/1ti2Nb5

FOOD / DRINK

ROOFTOP HAPPY HOUR PARTY Featuring happy hour specials, live music and more, all on the rooftop of the Steam Plant. Upcoming events on July 28, Aug. 20, 25 and Sept. 29. Free admission. Steam Plant Square, 159 S. Lincoln. steamplantsummerseries.com DINNER UNDER THE STARS A fivecourse dinner prepared by Chef John Leonetti and guest Chef Steven Yong Woerdehoff, paired with beer from Elysian and Bellwether Brewery. July 30, 6-10 pm. $65. Prohibition Gastropub, 1914 N. Monroe. (474-9040) PANCAKE BREAKFAST All-you-can

eat pancakes, eggs, sausage, OJ and more. July 31, 8-11 am. $3.50-$5. Green Bluff Grange, 9809 Green Bluff Rd. greenbluffgrowers.com (979-2607) HILL’S TRADITIONAL THURSDAY BUFFET Served outside to celebrate the resort’s 70th Anniversary this season. Call for reservations. Aug. 4. Hill’s Resort, 4777 W. Lakeshore Rd. hillsresort.com (208-443-2551) SENSATIONAL SALMON Chef Erin Streicher shares new ways to prepare the Northwest’s most famous fish. Aug. 4, 6-8 pm. $59. Inland Northwest Culinary Academy (INCA), 1810 N. Greene St. (533-8141) SPARKLING WINE AND SMALL BITES Sample a variety of bubbly wines alongside small plates including proscuitto-wrapped canteloupe, rillette crusty bites and olive-almond bruschetta. Aug. 4, 4-7 pm. $15-$25. Petunia’s Marketplace, 2010 N. Madison St. petuniasmarket.com (328-4257)

MUSIC

COWBOY SUPPER SHOW The 23rd season at the ranch offering cowboy supper shows, barbecue dinner and live cowboy country music. Upcoming shows on July 29-30, Aug. 26-27, Sept.

23-24 and Oct. 14-15, from 5:30-9 pm. $45.95/adults; $16.50/ages 10 and under. Rockin’ B Ranch, 3912 N. Idaho Rd. rockinbranch.com PALOUSE MUSIC FESTIVAL The Palouse Arts Council presents the annual live showcase in Hayton-Greene Park.

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EVENTS | CALENDAR 37TH ANNUAL ROYAL FIREWORKS CONCERT The annual event begins with ballet performances in the park (7 and 8 pm), followed by the concert and fireworks show set to the music of Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks.

July 31, 9 pm. Free. Riverfront Park, 705 N. Howard St. bit.ly/2abK8ZQ

SPORTS

SPOKANE INDIANS VS. EVERETT Home game series promotional nights include fireworks and a motorcycle rally. July 29-30, 6:30 pm and July 31, 3:30 pm. $5-$20. Avista Stadium, 602 N. Havana St. (535-2922) SPIKE & DIG Spokane is host to one of the largest, co-ed, 6-on-6 outdoor volleyball tournaments, with more than 300 teams and 2,000 players.

Divisions for all ages and skill levels. $190-$220/team of seven players.

Dwight Merkel Sports Complex, 5701 N. Assembly St. spikeanddig.com SPOKANE SHADOW VS. SOUTH SOUND Evergreen Premier League Washington soccer game, featuring the men’s and women’s teams. July 30, 4 pm. SFCC, 3410 W. Fort George Wright Dr. nwplsoccer.wordpress.com WAR AT THE WOLF A mixed martial arts night, featuring Spokane UFC stars Julianna Pena and Michael Chiesa signing autographs and meeting fans. Also includes food trucks, a beer garden, vendors and more. Aug. 2, 5:30-8:45 pm. Free. Lone Wolf Harley-Davidson, 19011 E. Cataldo. (927-7433) BAREFOOT 3V3 SOCCER TOURNAMENT A community soccer tournament — played barefoot in the grass — open to all ages and skill levels.

Pavillion Park, 727 N. Molter Rd. barefoot3v3.com (509-755-6726) “SUP 2 THE PEOPLE” DEMO TOUR Jobe Sports paddleboard company offers the chance to try out rigid and inflatable paddle boards at the Liberty Lake Boat Launch. Aug. 5, 4-7 pm.

Free. Liberty Lake Park, 3707 S. Zephyr Rd. jobesports.com/sup2thepeople

THEATER

CDA MURDER MYSTERY THEATER Help the police discover the killer, and feel free to dress up in your 1950s duds. July 28-29 and Aug. 5, from 6-9 pm. $35. Coeur d’Alene Cellars, 3890 N. Schreiber Way. cdacellars.com DISNEY’S HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL Summer production by students ages 13-18 in the Civic’s Academy program.

Through July 31, Thu-Sat, 7:30 pm; Sun at 2 pm. Spokane Civic Theatre, 1020 N. Howard . spokanecivictheatre.com MAN OF LA MANCHA Nominated for 10 Tony Awards and the winner of five, is this show a play within a play, or one man’s delusion as the cell walls collapse around him? Through July 30, Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $23$27. The Modern Theater Spokane, 174 S. Howard. themoderntheater.org CDA SUMMER THEATRE: THE MUSIC MAN Meredith Wilson’s six-time, Tony Award-winning musical comedy has been entertaining audiences since 1957. Through July 31; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm; Sun at 2 pm. $27-$49. Kroc Center, 1765 W. Golf Course Rd. cdasummertheatre.com SPOKANE VALLEY SUMMER THEATRE: OLIVER! A presentation of the family musical based on Charles

Dickens’ beloved novel. July 28-Aug. 7, Wed-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $20$34. Central Valley High School, 821 S. Sullivan. svsummertheatre.com SALLY COTTER & THE CENSORED STONE When Sally falls asleep while reading books about a certain juvenile wizard, she dreams that she is a student at Frogbull Academy of Sorcery.

July 28-29 at 7 pm, July 30 at 2 pm. $12. Liberty Lake Community Theatre, 22910 E. Appleway Ave. (342-2055) DOGFIGHT A musical set on the eve of a group of young Marines’ deployment. July 29-Aug. 14; Thu-Sat at 7:30 pm, Sun at 2 pm. $24-$27. The Modern Theater CdA, 1320 E. Garden Ave. themoderntheater.org (208-667-1323)

VISUAL ARTS

PUSHPULL Multi-media artist Jenny Hyde exhibits a new video installation using moving images, time and sound to create an immersive experience.

July 29, 6-9 pm. Free. Object Space, 1818 1/2 E. Sprague. bit.ly/2a5I1Xv ART ON THE STREET Spokane Art School sets up an easel on the sidewalk and a well-known, local artist hosts a community drawing event. Saturdays through Aug. 27, from 1-4 pm. Free.

Spokane Art School, 809 W. Garland Ave. spokaneartschool.net (325-3001) EVERYTHING FROM HERE TO INFINITY Laboratory artist-in-residence Alex Lee exhibits his new virtual reality work. Using the most up-to-date map of the universe, the Sloane Digital Sky Survey, his work immerses the viewer in a constellation of abstract brush strokes. Viewers can also put on a VR headset and explore a simulacra of their own universe. July 30, 5-7 pm. Free. Spaceman Coffee, 228A W. Sprague. bit.ly/29T7Y8v (230-5718) MORNING URBAN SKETCHING A course for adults and mature teenagers of all skills levels to learn how to capture the essence of sketching outdoors, using the historic Browne’s Addition Neighborhood as a backdrop.

July 30, 10:30 am-1 pm. $30/session.

The MAC, 2316 W. First. (456-3931) THE WOODS AND THE WATER Tom Hanson’s original acrylics on canvas reflect his love of the woods, waterfalls, and the outdoors. Gallery reception on Aug. 7, from 1-3 pm; show runs through Aug. 31; gallery open daily, 10 am-5 pm. Free to view. Entree Gallery, 1755 Reeder Bay Rd. entreegallery.com

WORDS

READING: TRAVIS NAUGHT The Spokane-based author reads from his debut novel “Joyride.” July 28, 7 pm. Free.

Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. (838-0206) “HARRY POTTER & THE CURSED CHILD” MIDNIGHT RELEASE PARTY Customers must pre-order a copy to attend the event, which includes family-friendly activities throughout the Liberty Building, including trivia, beer, games, shopping and more. July 30, 9-11:59 pm. Free with pre-order. Auntie’s, 402 W. Main. (838-0206) READING: SCOTT BROWN The author reads from his soon-to-be released book, “Active Peace: A Mindful Path to a Nonviolent World.” Aug. 3, 7 pm.

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Are you the one who was so interested in my hypothetical position at the rodeo? The one who showed me my first lunar eclipse?

My memories of you are distant now but that one stands out. Tell me what we drank that night.

I SAW YOU OLD FRIENDS I saw your posts and for now, you both have my # and know how to get in touch with me. Would enjoy the chance to visit, if you contact me I will be happy to give you info that will let you know it is me, but for now the fact that you have my # says enough I hope.

CHEERS MAROON JEEP ON 29TH Cheers to the maroon Jeep speeding down 29th. I didn't see you and pulled out in front of you.

Cheers to you paying attention and not on your cellphone texting or playing Pokemon.

Great reaction time I owe you for sure!

TO OUR SHADOW PRINCE for always being there. When we knew you were ours, you gave us the moon. You showed your father a king and me a queen to signify that we were your parents. Then you showed us your ring to remind us that you were our son and always would be. Then you gave both of us roses to show your everlasting love for us. Thank you, our Shadow Prince.

We love you.

WITH A HEAVY HEART When I was 14 my mother threw me out of the house for going to a Megadeth concert. My childhood had not prepared me to understand the basic facts of life much less the harshness of being homeless at 14. There was one man who kept me from slipping through the cracks. One man who pushed me to stay in school. One man who kept me from becoming another statistic. That man was Ken Jernberg. What you looked like and where you came from did not matter. All that mattered was what he saw in you and what he knew you could be. For over 30 years Ken watched over the "Street Kids" in Spokane. To many of us he was the father we never had, the teacher we needed, and the friend that never gives up on you. Yesterday Ken passed away, taking an unseen yet integral piece of our city's youth with him.

LOVELY LADIES OF THE DOLLA TREE To the two badass women who are always working the checkout lanes at the South Hill dollar store, you are both always so friendly and have the best energy. Quite an impression to make within a two minute exchange! On top of that, you even organize my charade of nonsensical loot by category when you bag it all up- which is exceptionally sweet & mindful of you. If you two are not in managerial positions already, you should be! Even if I stop needing googley eyes and kitten stickers (unlikely), I will keep coming back just to see ya! :) CHEERS TO THE INLANDER Thanks so much for the scaled-back writings from Spokane's "Town Crier of Hate" this summer, Robert Herold. I don't know if this was a result of an altruistic realization that "all" readers of this publication are not die-hard liberals, but some of us may be members of the distained "conservative" persuasion. Regardless of the motivation, I again thank you for your contribution to lowering my blood pressure as I peruse your magazine. Peace.

HEK YES LET'S GET COFFEE! Hey yous! dios mio i would love to get coffee with you! I love coffee from Ecuador and Arabic coffee!

I also love dopios and cappucionos <3 SEXY SAXOPHONIST Thank you, Sexy Saxophone Player, for playing your sweet sweet tunes out by the river near Camp Sekani Tuesday evening at sunset. Your melodious riffs set the mood for a smooth and sexy mountain bike ride with my girlfriend. Spokane digs your style.

ANGEL AT THE ELK JULY 21 Casey — you saved me at least a DUI on the night of

“

To many of us, Ken Jernberg was the father we never had, the teacher we needed, and the friend that never gives up on you.

July 21st at The Elk by calling and paying for an ÜBER cab for me. As I attempted to open my truck's door, you took the keys from my hand. At the same time the police pulled up, red and blue lights flashing. You explained to them that you had called a cab for me. The policeman thanked him and waved to me as he drove off. A DUI would've been the easy part if I'd have gotten behind the wheel and attempted to drive home. I could've easily killed myself or someone else. There are truly angels that walk amongst us. Thank you Casey.

I am forever grateful. I will pass on the same gift and blessing that you gave to me on that night. Words cannot express the gratitude I feel.

WELCOME BACK As trite and corny as it may seem, I've genuinely missed this city.

I lived here for three months last year, and now I've moved back here with my wife (my girlfriend back then) I've come to remember why I loved my time here so much. Thanks to everyone.

SHOES I hate shoes. I hate wearing shoes, so often I'll be spotted walking barefoot all around. Well, on a walk I get stopped by this young man who asks me if I needed shoes. I said no and that I was too lazy to put any on. But the question meant more to me than what I said; to me, someone cared enough about another being to ask if they needed something. I came back with some mashed potatoes because it's really all I have in the way of food and wanted to thank the person who made such a kind gesture to someone they didn't even know.

There is good in the world, good people.

We just tend to forget or oversee them, people never cease to amaze me with their generous nature. If I ever see you again, I want to tell you how much that meant to me. Like I said, we need more people like you in the world.

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RE: SEXY SPURS AND POKEMON MAN Hopefully that THOT isn’t a family member or you’ve already ruined your chances .

If not, you’re still an insult to yourself by trying to hit on someone’s boyfriend or husband while calling her a THOT. Perhaps if you had some respect and dignity for yourself and other people, you would also have a man instead of trying to steal someone else’s.

NO COMPASSION Jeers to that bank that is closing a branch in the city of Sprague. You are leaving a community high and dry. No place for churches to deposit, schools with lunch money, city utilities, grocery stores that need change on a busy week, but most of all the senior and disabled citizens who now must travel 25 miles to another bank.

You could have at least put the branch up for sale first. But I see your point of getting your customers elsewhere first so a decent competitor doesn't have a customer base.

You offer 1 free year service a another corporate branch —FAT CHANCE MAMMA BEAR... Thanks to you I now have a unicorn painted on my big toe. The under color you helped me pick out is tacky and clashes with my eyes. The next time you want to have a pity party at a nail salon, invite someone else!! .... also, I love you, your heart will mend and if you ever need anything, know I have your back. Come to LIB fest, do something for YOU. Something other than an awkward stranger foot tickle.

Alright, it wasn't all that bad; the calf massage was nice. Okay, bye.

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you money for a taxi and leave. Doing these things listed above is a date breaker and a deal breaker. I asked you out to get to know you; not so I could sit in silence and watch your rude behavior. People keep asking me why someone like me isn't attached. There are the reasons above. I simply won't put up with that kind of behavior. I would LOVE to be attached but the way this world is, I just haven't found someone who expresses interest in ME instead of their ridiculous technology. So are there any males or females (I'm a 25-year-old bisexual male) out there who aren't like that and would like to go out on a date? Warning: the first moment you pick up your phone is the moment I give you money for a taxi and I say goodbye forever. 

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Rally Songs

Scott Ingersoll (left) and Miles Martin bring music to the Sacred Heart Children’s Hospital every week.

Local musicians bring the healing power of music to where kids need it most

BY DAN NAILEN

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s concert venues go, Rachel and Gracie’s Playhouse is a lot brighter than the typical nightclub.

The walls are splashed with original watercolors; the floors are a downright garish combination of light green and ocean blue.

The electrified hues fit right in with the playhouse’s surroundings inside the Inpatient Unit of Sacred Heart Children’s Hospital. Every wall, window and sign seems an effort to sunny up the place where kids can spend days on end dealing with serious illnesses.

Today there’s an added attraction in the playroom, as Spokane musicians Scott Ingersoll and Miles Martin set up equipment for a 90-minute concert heavy on Disney tunes and pop hits. They’ll follow up by going door-todoor to rooms where the kids might be too ill or too shy to leave, but still appreciate a rousing acoustic take of “Itsy Bitsy Spider” or Pharrell Williams’ “Happy.”

In the playhouse, patients are free to come and go, along with their parents and hospital personnel, so the crowd can be upward of a dozen, or just a few.

Right now, it’s just a little girl from Post Falls named Lane Sanwald.

“Are you a Taylor Swift girl?” Ingersoll asks.

Lane shakes her head no.

“Hmmmm… do you like Frozen?”

A nodded affirmation and a smile.

And with that, Ingersoll and Martin launch into what will be three different runs through “Let It Go” over the

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next three hours, encouraging Lane to shake a maraca or tambourine. Nurses working at the station outside the room are quietly singing along.

T

he musicians work for the Songs for Kids Foundation, a national nonprofit formed in 2007 in Atlanta by musician Josh Rifkind to bring music into the lives of kids suffering from serious illness. Since its formation, it’s grown to include chapters in Los Angeles and Orange County, California, as well as Charlotte, North Carolina.

Ingersoll launched the Spokane chapter when he moved to Washington after working for Songs for Kids in L.A. After several months getting to know his new town, he recruited some fellow musicians and got a weekly program started at Sacred Heart.

Ingersoll grew up in a musical family and has spent a lot of time arranging music for churches and working with kids before he met Rifkind through a mutual friend.

“We talked for a couple of hours and he explained what the foundation was, and I was just so on board with the mission of what they were trying to do,” says Ingersoll.

Practically speaking, Ingersoll and his fellow musicians have to develop the ability to play and sing songs they might not be familiar with on a moment’s notice; no one wants to disappoint a child with a Katy Perry request. There’s a big Songs for Kids book full of classics

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— “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,” “The Wheels on the Bus” — that is always growing.

“We try to keep up as best we can,” says Ingersoll, who performs as Scott Ryan and in local bands including Water Monster; Martin plays in Friends of Mine. “If we get a request and it’s something I can look up and get lyrics, we can pick our way through part of it. We try to stay up with as much of the Top 40 stuff as we can. That goes a long way, especially when you’re playing bedsides and trying to cheer someone up. To be able to play some of their favorite artist, if not their favorite song, you can get them to smile a little bit.”

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n this day, there are a lot of smiles as Ingersoll and Martin deliver everything from “La Bamba” to “Old McDonald,” Taylor Swift to the Beatles.

A “Beat It”/”Uptown Funk” mashup played at the nurse’s station had people up and down the hall leaving their room to join the party. “That’s a first,” Martin says.

“It’s a meaningful gig,” Ingersoll says. “Being able to play music and doing something that’s meaningful — that’s kind of rare.”

Bethany Sanwald, Lane’s mom, saw Songs for Kids for the first time when Lane had her first round of chemo two years ago. Realizing there were people coming to the hospital to lift the patients’ spirits was something that “until you’re in it, you don’t know it exists. It’s amazing.”

And she thinks it means even more to her daughter.

“For her, it’s a break in the reality of what she’s doing here,” Sanwald says. “And it’s more than that. It’s focused on her having a good time. She loves it. And being happy actually makes her feel better.”  The Songs for Kids Spokane chapter recently lost several thousands of dollars’ worth of equipment in a theft. To help replace equipment for their hospital visits, go to GoFundMe.com’s “Songs for Kids Spokane Sound Gear” page to donate: gofundme. com/2duz5bw

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