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AMR to host free CPR class at Spokane Arena

AMR to host free CPR class at Spokane Arena

AMR Spokane wants you to learn CPR, and on May 22nd they'll train you for free. 

AMR Spokane is joining American Medical Response teams across the nation to train as many people as possible in compression-only CPR. In partnership with Spokane Fire Department, Providence Health Care and Spokane Heart Rescue, AMR instructors will be teaching this life saving skill all day on May 22nd at the Spokane Arena. 

"While first responders often arrive on the scene of an emergency within minutes, we want to remind everyone that during a cardiac arrest, seconds can be critical," said Cathy St. Amand, Training Coordinator of AMR Spokane. 

Compression-only CPR only takes a few minutes to learn and can help keep a cardiac arrest victim alive until first responders can arrive. AMR hopes that this event will help make the community a safer place to live.

You can learn compression-only CPR at the Spokane Arena on May 22nd from 6am-7pm.

The best sales are Just Between Friends

The best sales are Just Between Friends

Every mom knows that the price tag for kids clothes and toys can quickly add up. So why pay full price for brand new items? The Just Between Friends consignment sale is this weekend and you snag great deals on everything from clothes to cribs. 

Tyona Albrecht purchased the Spokane and North Idaho franchisees of Just Between Friends in 2007 and it has since grown so much that she has sold the North Idaho portion to focus on her biannual Spokane sales. Mothers from around the area can consign their gently used items and after the weekend sales they receive 65 percent of the profits. 

The sale features infant and toddler clothes, maternity wear, cribs, bouncers, tike sized furniture, strollers, pack-n-plays and high chairs. This sale even has a section of teen clothing. Volunteers helping out with this weekend's event were able to shop early yesterday and had first pick of the goods. Sunday everything will be half price.

Try something new at Free Comic Book Day

Try something new at Free Comic Book Day

The annual Free Comic Book Day is tomorrow and local comic book shops are ready to hand out thousands of comic books in celebration of this unique American art form.

 

The first Free Comic Book Day was held in 2002 and since then shops around the world have joined the fun. Comic book publishers sponsor the event and provide certain books at cost for local shops to give away for free. The number of comics you can get varies at each location, but the objective is the same. To get people reading and enjoying comic books.

 

Sequester slashes into Meals on Wheels funding

Sequester slashes into Meals on Wheels funding

Meals on Wheels is the latest victim of budget cuts stemming from the federal sequester.They're being forced to scale back on many of their services.

Volunteers deliver to 1000 seniors in Spokane County everyday, and like many non-profits they've had to deal with budget cut after budget cut. The most recent one may be the toughest to swallow as they had a 30-percent growth in clients in the past year.

Seniors only receive one meal a day because of those cuts, and now, the sequester means $6,000 was slashed from the Meals on Wheels home delivery fund. It also decreases funding for group meals by $5,000.

It won't equal fewer dinners, but instead will come from the ingredients.

"What we've been doing is really looking at our menu, seeing what we can eliminate, and still keep a nutritious meal," Executive Director Pam Almeida said.

One reason why the cut isn't deeper is because Aging and Long Term Care dipped into reserve funding. Almeida says that saved the program more than $40,000.

Gonzaga students create Hope for Zambezi

Gonzaga students create Hope for Zambezi

Zambia is one of the most peaceful countries in Africa, but it is also one of the poorest and has one of the world's most devastating HIV and AIDS epidemics. In the village of Zambezi, many of the people lack food to take with their medication, but students at Gonzaga University are working to change that.

 

Zambezi has a population of about 7,000, similar to Quincy, WA. Now, imagine if 83 percent of Quincy lived in extreme poverty, many of them were positive for HIV/AIDS, and the life expectancy was only 49. That is the reality for the people of Zambezi.

 

Across the country of Zambia antiretroviral medication is readily available, but the people of Zambezi are too poor to maintain the proper nutrition for the treatments to be effective. The impact goes beyond individual health.

 

Become a Bloomsday VIP with SNAP

Become a Bloomsday VIP with SNAP

Right before you cross the T.J. Meenach bridge you'll hit mile four of the Bloomsday course. Doomsday Hill looms around the bend and you just might start to feel some pain in your feet and fatigue in your legs. Why not stop to reboot at the SNAP VIP booth?

SNAP will have a VIP photo booth set up just before the bridge so you and your friends and family can snap silly photos before huffing and puffing up the hill. You can also sip on coconut water to rehydrate you for the last half of the run. Pictures will print classic photo booth style and be ready to take home. SNAP will also provide a web link for you to check out and share your Bloomsday photos online. 

However, the booth is VIP for a reason. SNAP only has 500 of the reflective VIP bracelets available for purchase. So, not everyone will get to taste the high life on race day. The VIP bracelets will be available for purchase at the Trade Show at SNAP's booth (#304) and are only $5. First come, first serve, and you won't be able to buy them on race day. 

Spokane teen gets full ride to Eastern with College Bound Scholarship

A remarkable young woman is receiving a full ride to Eastern Washington University thanks to Washington State's college bound scholarship which isn't all that well known.

Rachel Graham was home schooled most of her life and her first experience at public school wasn't what she had hoped for, but at the Community School she found the right environment to finish up her senior year with flying colors.

Graham, a Spokane native, left home school for North Central High School in 10th grade.

"That didn't work out that great and then I came here and it was really great," she said.

"Really good fit for her because she was really self motivated, really wanted to learn, had some really great ideas about what she wanted to learn," Robert Chadduck with Spokane school district said.

Her senior project was a feasibility study on upgrading the Community School to use partial solar panels, something the facilities board may actually consider.

"I found that the most feasible would be a ten kilowatt system to start with and then maybe grow from there," she explained.