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Local Stars Serve Dinner to Benefit Homeless

Local Stars Serve Dinner to Benefit Homeless

Sports stars and local T.V. personalities will be serving dinner at the HuHot Mongolian Grill tonight to support Blessings Under the Bridge.

 

Jessica Kovac and her husband Mike started serving brown bag meals to the area's homeless in 2007. Since then it has grown into a weekly meal service and non-profit. Their brown bags include sandwiches and home made baked goods, as well fruit and toiletries. Each recipient is offered a bottle of water and coffee or cocoa.

 

“Blessings Under the Bridge has just boomed so much,” says Kovac, adding that she and her husband never expected their weekly ministry to become a non-profit. BUTB estimates that it takes only $12.00 to provide brown bags for ten homeless.

 

Restaurant Week: Participating West Plains eateries

Restaurant Week: Participating West Plains eateries

 

Spokane Restaurant Week starts this Friday throughout the Inland Northwest.

“Restaurant Week is your opportunity to try as many restaurants as your schedule will allow for affordable, fixed prices,” the week-long event's website says.

Most restaurants are offering a few options for each course for a fixed price of either $18 or $28 a person.

Eat oats to feed folks

Eat oats to feed folks

 

Looking for breakfast and a way to help the community? Reach for some Good Oats.

Method Organic Juice Cafe is selling containers of Good Oats, which for just $3 ensures that a child will get food for a day. For every Good Oats package sold, one is donated to 2nd Harvest Food Bank for their School Pantry program, “which provides monthly food boxes to nearly 900 students in high-need Spokane neighborhoods to help fill the nutritional gap for kids facing regular food shortages at home.”

According to goodoats.org, Method Juice Cafe owners Nick Murto and Tyler Lafferty had been trying to get this project going for a “year and a half.”

“Second Harvest is honored by the generosity of Method Juice Cafe, and we look forward to including the healthy oatmeal in our School Pantry boxes,” Jason L. Clark, president and CEO of 2nd Harvest said on the site. “With one out of every four kids in Spokane struggling with hunger, every donation to our School Pantry program means so much.”

New bakery offers pastries, coffee and deals

New bakery offers pastries, coffee and deals

 

A new European-style bakery at North Wall Street and West Nebraska Avenue is open and ready to feed the neighborhood.

Morning Sun Bakery (5602 N. Wall St.) offers a variety of pastries, coffee and espresso products. The eatery has a lot of sitting area inside, and when the warm sun returns, will have a full patio-area.

Owner and baker Lisa Taylor says her specialty is cinnamon buns, which can be made with cream cheese, caramel pecan or glaze.

Taylor said she chose the location because she and her husband lives six blocks away and loves the area.

“There aren't a lot of this kind of stuff up here in the north,” she said. “They have bakeries like this on the South Hill and I thought it was time to bring this to our neighborhood.”

Taylor estimated that she gets a few dozen customers a day, and is hoping that as the business becomes more successful she can expand to offering “lunch stuff” with sandwiches and salads.

What to do in downtown Spokane for New Year's Eve

 

Late to the game planning on what to do for New Year's Eve? No worries! Below is an incomplete list of downtown destinations that are offering something special for ringing in 2013.

The Flying Spiders will be playing at the Blue Spark (15 S. Howard). There will be a $5 door charge, but Annette assured me on the phone that “we're just going to have a good party,” and that there will be drink and beer specials all night.

Fast Eddie's All Purpose Pub (1 West Spokane Falls Blvd.) won't charge cover all night, and will be having New Year's Eve giveaways – I'm told a bike and a shot-ski are up for grabs. Pitchers of Shock Top will be $10 (normally $14), and apple raspberry Svedka shots are only $4.

The Wave Island Sports Grill & Sushi Bar (525 W. 1st) will have a DJ for those inclined to bring in the new year dancing, a karaoke contest – with a cash prize - for the singers, and no cover until 10 p.m. The bar will serve a midnight sake and cherry bomb drop.

A girls clubhouse with wine opens on South Hill

A girls clubhouse with wine opens on South Hill

Most women will tell you its hard being a mom, daughter, employee, housekeeper, grocery shopper and babysitter all at the same time. But there is one place on the South Hill just for women to relax, be themselves and best of all...drink wine!

It's called "The Calm" and its located on 1303 S. Grand, right next to Starbucks. Its a wine bar that offers massages, concierge services, special events and even meeting spaces for businesses.

When you walk in, you are greeted by a large wrap around bar that sits among plush chairs, sofas and seating areas that are just great for a place to sit down and talk to your girlfriends. Their staff is always there to serve you from their selection of wine and beer.

If you become a member, you also have access to their concierge service, receive one free complimentary beverage per visit and every quarter you can get a complimentary massage.

The Calm's owner Jennifer Miley said it's the perfect place for a woman to just relax and let someone cater to you.

Rowdy "neighbors" force new downtown restaurant to close

Rowdy "neighbors" force new downtown restaurant to close

Today's Spokesman-Review reports Beignets is closing after just three months in business.  The reason?  Owner Judie Sowards says a group of young homeless people have been harassing diners at the downtown restaurant.

“They have been right across the street from me and literally for the last month they have been chanting, making horrible gestures and noises and just hurting the business horribly,” Sowards said. “We’ve had so many customers say that if this continues they weren’t going to be back and they meant it. Our business has gone down 75 percent.”

Sowards says she understands the kids need someplace to go, but their behavior is costing 34 people their jobs.  To read the full story, click here.