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Breakfast Fundraiser with Kelly Graves

Breakfast Fundraiser with Kelly Graves

The Spokane Youth Sports Association (SYSA) is pleased to announce their upcoming "Breakfast with a Side of Sportsmanship" fundraising event on Thursday, June 7 at 7:30 am.  The breakfast will be held at the SYSA Bingo Hall on 2230 E. Sprague.

A minimum contribution of $100 is requested, but all gifts are welcome.  This year’s breakfast host is 700 ESPN's Rick Lukens and the featured speaker is Gonzaga Women's Basketball Coach, Kelly Graves.

Graves has turned the GU women’s basketball team into one of the elite programs in the nation in his 11 years at the helm.  He led GU to their unprecedented seventh-straight West Coast Conference Championship and fourth WCC Tournament Title in the last five yeaers.  He has also taken the Lady Zags to the Sweet Sixteen for the past three years and to the Elite Eight once.

SYSA has over 8000 youths participating in sports and camps throughout the year.  Over 600 youths were able to participate because of the generous support from the community totaling more than $40,000 to the SYSA Scholarship fund in 2011!

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Coeur d'Alene neighborhoods join to stop crime

Coeur d'Alene neighborhoods join to stop crime

Community leaders in Coeur d'Alene are hoping the city's various neighborhoods can join forces to stop crime. 

The Neighborhood Watch Committee for The Landings at Waterford Homeowners Association is holding a meeting called “Appropriate Response to Prowlers and Home Invasions” on Thursday, May 17 at the Prairie Avenue Christian Center at 7:15 p.m. Ed Santos, Owner of Center Target Sports in Post Falls, is giving the presentation.

They'll cover issues such as home security, recommended procedures and response to home invasion and home invasion statistics for the area. The homeowner's association says harmony in any community depends up to its residents.

Wallace Zipline Opening Soon

(Updated 4:08 p.m.) - Looking for a new way to get your adrenaline rush this summer? David DeRoos wants to strap you into a harness and send you soaring through the air, hundreds of feet above the ground.

DeRoos and his wife Bonnie are gearing up to open Silver Streak Zipline Tours in Wallace. Silver Streak offers a total of ten different runs, 3 miles of cable in all, spread out over 250 acres.

DeRoos got the idea for for the park on a trip to Central America, where he had the opportunity to try ziplining. He came back home wanting more, and found himself looking around his own property.

"When I'm up here working and I look from one point to the other, I think, 'That would be a great place to put a zip line.'" DeRoos says.

He started doing research, came up with a business plan, and Silver Streak was born.

Local woman racing in Ironman for all the people who cannot

Local woman racing in Ironman for all the people who cannot

Some do the Coeur d'Alene Ironman for fun. Others do it for exercise. But one local woman is doing it because she can and she wants to make a difference.

Cathy Stephens was 19 years old the first time her lung collapsed due to an asthma attack. She said it's hard to imagine how an asthma attack feels.

"Imagine being at the bottom of a lake and swimming toward the top for air, but the distance is longer than you thought," wrote Stephens on her website. "Finally you surface and gasp for a breath, only to be shoved back under over and over again, and you don’t know when it’s going to stop."

During one of the many times she was in the hospital for an asthma attack, she said she thought she was going to die. She remembers thinking of all the things she would do if she could. A triathlon was at the top of the list. 

18 years later, she did it. She completed her first long-distance triathlon. She experienced a complete change in her lungs, allowing her to do what she thought she never could.

Every so often, the asthma will get the best of her...but she doesn't let it win.

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Local cleaning company wants to help more cancer patients

Local cleaning company wants to help more cancer patients

A local cleaning company is doing more than just cleaning homes, they're helping to rebuild local women's lives.

Spokane's Cleaning Authority, which has several locations in our region, is partnering with a new non-profit called Cleaning For A Reason.

They're cleaning cancer patient's and survivor's homes - for free.

Cleaning For A Reason was started by a woman in Texas who was a cancer survivor herself, and also owned a large cleaning company.  Her idea was to offer women in cancer treatment a series of free home cleanings. She wanted cancer patients to focus on recovery, rather than the status of their home.

In Spokane, Mark Silver and the rest of the workers at Cleaning Authority provided about 50 free cleans this last year. But they want to do more. They're trying to get the word out about their free cleaning service to cancer patients in our area. They have the capacity and the willingness to help many more people.

Seattle Man Starts Bike Trip Around the World

Seattle Man Starts Bike Trip Around the World

With a strong tail wind, 62-year old Darby Roach and his best friend Mike Mann, cruise into Airway Heights on two wheels.  If you've driven Highway 2 in the past three days you may know who I'm talking about.  They're the two guys on loaded down bicycles, with the sneaky smiles and gusto of young men on an adventure of a lifetime.

Roach and Mann are on a mission to first bike across the United States and then the world.  The pair left Wenatchee Sunday morning and arrived in Spokane Wednesday night. In all, they've logged about 140 miles so far. Their goal is to get to Boston by the end of the Summer.  From there, Roach will fly solo to Europe where he plans to spend the next 3 years seeing the world. From the narrow streets of Paris to the snow covered peaks of Chile, Roach plans to pedal every mile of the way. 

What? Is he crazy? Who would do such a thing? All questions that ran through my mind when Roach told me about his ambitious goal. To understand this wild dream, you have to understand the wild man on the bike.  I don't think he'll mind my choice adjective, he raised me after all.

Hello, Dolly and Ring of Fire coming to Coeur d'Alene

The summer line up for Coeur d’Alene Summer Theatre is out for all to see. If you’re a fan of musical theatre, you’ll love the season because it’s a mix of classics and even newer productions.

Ellen Travolta will be playing the part of Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly! Travolta’s real life husband will be featured in the production as well as Horace Vandergelder who is the nemesis/love interest for Dolly. Could be cute. That opens in June.

The above video is from the 1969 film of Hello, Dolly! We couldn’t resist the song “Put On Your Sunday Clothes”.

For July, it’s a little hotter so of course Ring of Fire fits in nicely there. It’s similar to the movie that came out about Johnny Cash, but it’s in musical form.

They’re calling it a jukebox style musical, which was an unknown term to us but we looked it up. Apparently it’s when the performance repertoire is made up of previously released songs. That’s what you’ll expect from that show.

Next on the list, they’re doing Spamalot and there was much rejoicing. Yay.