Maya Jewell Zeller
by Tina Wynecoop |
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Interesting people live in the Little Spokane River watershed. Always have. Over the years I have written articles for our newsletters about the river's indigenous residents, chiefs, early pioneers, water wheel builders, inventors, proprietors, dairy farmers, horse race course owners, fishermen, stewards of the land, pilots (who crashed), and so on.. It has been fun. Now, it is time to focus on the present, and if you haven't had the pleasure of reading her poetry and essays, or heard her interviewed on the radio, you must to meet neighbor Maya Jewell Zeller!
Allow me to introduce her: Two years ago she was invited to read her river-themed poetry at the annual dinner/fundraiser for Spokane Riverkeeper. The other invitees were: author/ naturalist Jack Nisbet, and Spokesman Review columnist Shawn Vestal. They made an eloquent threesome. I knew then that I would write about Maya for our newsletter. She's our 'neighbor' and we are hers. Last November I heard her speak on Montana Public Radio's program, The Write Question.* She and editor/ author Margot Kahn were interviewed about their new book, This Is The Place. It is a collection of thirty essays by women writing about home. After listening to the program I checked This Is The Place from our county library and turned straight to Maya's essay, "The Privilege Button." Meandering throughout her story are varied experiences of place that have defined "home" for her. She explores the manifestations of home influenced by the HOA covenants of her Fairwood II Home Owners' Association.
I contacted Maya hoping to interview her in person. As wife, parent of two young children, writer, gardener, editor, outdoorswoman, and Assistant Professor of English/Creative Writing at Central Washington University (she commutes) she has hardly time to squeeze in a meeting with me. We 'met' by phone and conversed through emails. She gave permission to choose one of her poems to share with friends in the Little Spokane River Valley:
FALLING
Though it's gone down a little, that water
at the bridge is still too brown for me to do
any more than wade in. I did today, after twisting
my ankle again. I could see just by the shore,
where creatures skip and scuttle against the sand
my toes sink into. Behind me the willow was
saying something again, the grass too tired yet
to be much more than green trying to overcome
yellow. And beyond, out there, where the current
ripped against itself like hair or the wet legs
of a galloping horse, the river was dark,
and reeked of the damp undersides of things.
Of course I thought of you, flat rock
poised to fling like a small girl might from a giant's
grip, drop from his cloud and plummet
the way a grown woman trips on a trail.
She goes down hard from those hands.
You'd call me clumsy but we both know my body
just wants to be closer to earth.
How evocative the poem's closing lines! Her writing can be described as having "intensity that draws us into participation...tells us what our blurred eyes, dulled ears miss. She doesn't tell us so much something we never knew but brings us into recognition what is latent, forgotten, overlooked..."
Her poetry dives beneath the surface and breathes of that glorious presence flowing through our lives and our landscape – the river.
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News |
2019-02-10 A "Walk" Through FLSRV's 2018 Activities
by Tina Wynecoop |
2019-02-09 Annual Meeting and Dinner/Auction
Friday, February 22, 2019, Wandermere Golf Club |
2019-02-09 Valley Cleanup 2019
by Michael Kennedy |
2019-02-09 Volunteers Wanted
by Kirk Neumann |
2019-02-09 It's All About The Plants
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2019-02-09 Maya Jewell Zeller
by Tina Wynecoop |
2019-02-09 Whitworth Water District 2019 Update
by Matt Wright, PE, District Superintendent |
2019-02-07 Membership
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2018-11-01 "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" Please, Won't You...
by Tina Wynecoop |
2018-11-01 Back to School
by Kirk Neumann |
2018-10-30 Spokane County Little Spokane Drive Sewer Extension Project
by Michael Kennedy |
2018-10-28 Fairwood Farmer’s Market
by Merry Maccini |
2018-10-27 Holiday Shopping at Amazon Smile
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2018-10-27 Mark Your Calendar -- 2019 Annual Meeting and Dinner/Auction
Friday, February 22, 2019 |
2018-10-27 Membership Update 2018
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2018-10-15 In Memoriam -- Merle Moberly, MD
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2018-05-21 Annual FLRSV Meeting
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2018-05-20 Membership
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2018-05-19 Water Quality
by Lindell Haggin |
2018-05-19 What’s Happening on the Middle of The Little Spokane River?
by Daniel Collins |
2018-05-19 2018 Fairwood District Farmers Market
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2018-05-19 Valley Cleanup 2018
by Michael Kennedy |
2018-01-28 What We Accomplished Together in 2017
We are honored that you support the Friends of the Little Spokane River Valley. Your donations, membership, sweat equity and enthusiasm have brought us a long way over the last two decades. |
2018-01-27 Membership
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2018-01-27 School Bond Vote
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2018-01-27 In Memoriam - Harold Balazs
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2018-01-27 New Board Position
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2018-01-27 Valley Cleanup 2018
by Michael Kennedy |
2018-01-27 School Time
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2018-01-27 Walking to School is a Smart Choice
Spokesman-Review article. September 1, 2017 Reprinted by permission. |
2018-01-27 Seeing Red Over Dog Poop? Oregon Town Paints it Orange
Spokesman-Review article. October 13, 2015 Reprinted by permission. Originally published July 28, 2011 The Bellingham Herald |
2018-01-27 Local, Family-Owned Landmarks: Pounder’s and Pattison’s
by Tina Wynecoop |
2017-10-25 2018 Annual Meeting
Friday, February 23, 2018 |
2017-10-24 Mark Case
New Board Member |
2017-10-24 A River Captured: The Columbia River Treaty and Catastrophic Change by Eileen Pearkes
Reviewed by Jack Nisbet |
2017-10-24 Living Water: Salmon's Presence
by Tina Wynecoop |
2017-10-24 Earth Day Clean-Up of Our Valley 2017
by Michael Kennedy |
2017-10-24 Thanks Be to the Decorator!
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2017-10-24 October Board Meeting
by Harla Jean Biever |
2017-10-23 Sign Up for Amazon Smile
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2017-10-23 Colbert Road Trail
by Mark Case |
2017-10-23 In Memoriam - Daniel Eugene Forsyth
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2017-04-15 Annual Meeting 2017
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2017-04-15 Valley Cleanup 2017
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2017-04-15 Land Along the Little Spokane River
Report from Fairwood Community Leaders |
2017-04-15 Membership
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2017-04-15 Threads of Red
Tina Wynecoop |
2017-04-15 New Bench
Kirk Neuman |
2017-04-15 FRIENDS OF THE LITTLE SPOKANE RIVER VALLEY IS CELEBRATING OVER 20 YEARS WITH A LOOK BACK AT OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
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2017-04-15 Registration for Tour and Field Trip
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2017-01-30 2017 ANNUAL MEETING AND DINNER/AUCTION
Friday, February 24, 2017 -- Wandermere Golf Club |
2017-01-29 FRIENDS OF THE LITTLE SPOKANE RIVER VALLEY IS CELEBRATING OVER 20 YEARS WITH A LOOK BACK AT OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS
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2017-01-29 ANNUAL SPRING CLEAN-UP: A CELEBRATION OF EARTH DAY
Saturday, April 22, 2017 |
2016-10-24 Valley Cleanup Report - 2016
by Michael Kennedy |
2016-10-24 Membership
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2016-10-24 Conservation Future Nomination
Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife |
2016-10-16 Annual Meeting - 2016
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2016-04-11 Valley Cleanup 2016
by Michael Kennedy |
2015-10-24 List of resources re: Salmon/Upper Columbia River Basin:
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2015-07-08 Warning to Pet Owners
By Erin Kennedy, DVM |
2015-07-08 2015 Fairwood District Farmers Market
Hosted by Allen Family Properties |
2015-07-08 Valley Cleanup
By Michael Kennedy |
2015-07-07 2015 Annual Meeting
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2015-07-07 Proposed New Housing Development
By Jennifer Mudge |
2015-07-00 Pine River Park Neighborhood Entrance Will Be Getting a New Look
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2014-11-30 Rehab Cleanup Signs -- Volunteers Needed
By Michael Kennedy |
2014-11-30 Jack Nisbet Saltese Uplands Field Trip Coming May 2, 2015
Mark Your Calendar! |
2014-11-30 Wildlife Highway
By Jack and Ro Bury |
2014-11-30 Pioneer of Our Valley
By Dana Davis Kelly |
2014-11-30 Where a Wind Blew . . .
By Harla Jean Biever New Hope Resource Center Board Member |
2014-11-30 Membership Renewal
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2014-06-19 Drama on the Little Spokane
By Lindell Haggin |
2014-06-19 Remembering
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2014-06-19 Board Member Michael Kennedy
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2014-06-19 What Was In Grandpa’s Trunk
By Harla Jean Heiser Biever |
2014-06-19 Annual Meeting
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2014-06-19 Valley Cleanup 2014
By Michael Kennedy |
2013-12-31 2014 Annual Meeting and Dinner/Auction
Saturday, February 22, 2014 |
2013-12-30 Serving Our Communities
by Harla Jean Biever, President Board New Hope Resource Center |
2013-12-30 Augy Augustine
In Memoriam |
2013-12-30 Our New bridge
by Martha Schaefer |
2013-12-30 Is Your Last Rose Of Summer Going To The Deer?
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2013-12-30 Looking Back
by Tina Wynecoop |
2013-12-30 Trails To The Library(s)
by Tina Wynecoop |
2013-12-30 Valley Cleanup 2013
by Michael Kennedy |
2013-12-30 Apex Industries make Herons for New Bridge
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2013-12-30 Mark Your Calendar - Jack Nisbet Walking Tour
Saturday, May 10, 2014 |
2013-12-30 Membership
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2013-04-27 Annual Spring Cleanup
Saturday, April 27th -- 9:30 am |
2013-04-25 In Memoriam
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2013-04-25 Annual Meeting
by Martha Schaefer, Vice President |
2013-04-25 Thank You 2013 Donors For Auction Items!
We Did Great! |
2013-04-25 PET Project Spreads Mobility
by Cindy Hval Article Courtesy of Spokesman-Review |
2013-04-25 Mac Presents -- David Douglas Historic Tours -- With Jack Nisbet
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2013-04-25 Come See The Butterflies!
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2013-04-25 Memorial Bricks
by Harla J. Biever |
2013-04-25 Work Day At Camp Dart-Lo
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2013-04-25 Postmarks
by Tina Wynecoop |
2012-11-16 A Look Back at FLSRV History
by Martha Schafer, Board Vice-President |
2012-11-16 Mark Your Calendar For Our 2013 Annual Meeting
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2012-11-16 We're Adopting!
by Tina Wynecoop |
2012-11-16 Bravo for the Little Spokane River Artist Studio Tour
by Tina Wynecoop |
2012-11-16 FLSRV Board-Authorized Letter Regarding The New Bridge
by Lance Pounder, President |
2012-11-16 Little Spokane River Bridge No. 3602 Replacement Project Update for Fall of 2012
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2012-11-16 Cottonwood Trees in North Spokane County
by W.G. Magnuson |
2012-11-16 Delay Pruning To Help Wildlife Now
by Michael Kennedy |
2012-11-16 Spokane Fish Hatchery
by Kirk Newmann |
2012-07-27 Second Annual Hike With Jack Nisbet
by Tina Wynecoop |
2012-07-26 Little Spokane River Artist Studio Tour
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2012-07-26 Pine River Park Update
by Lance Pounder |
2012-07-26 Oldest Barn in Spokane County?
by W.G. Magnuson, Jr. |
2012-07-26 Spring is for the Birds (and Birders)!
by Lindell Haggin |
2012-07-25 Roundabouts
by Jack Bury |
2012-06-26 Valley Cleanup
by Michael Kennedy |
2012-06-26 2012 Annual Meeting
by Tina Wynecoop, Auction Chairman |
2012-06-26 Thank You! FLSRV 2012 Auction Donors
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2012-06-26 A Little History
by Harla Jean Biever |
2012-06-26 Water Quality
by Tina Wynecoop |
2012-05-25 Walking Tour May 12, 2012
Roberta Ellis, FLSRV Member |
2012-04-03 State Needs Volunteers to Score Recreation, Conservation Grant Applications
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2012-04-03 THANK YOU! DONORS TO 2012 FLSRV SILENT AUCTION
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2012-03-05 WTA Work Parties 2012
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2011-12-28 2012 Annual Meeting and Dinner/Auction
by Tina Wynecoop |
2011-12-27 Little Spokane Bridge is Being Replaced
by Marla Schaeffer |
2011-12-27 Walking Tour Review
by Tina Wynecoop |
2011-12-26 Keeping Pine River Park Open
by Lance Pounder |
2011-12-26 86,400 Seconds
by Tina Wynecoop |
2011-12-26 Valley Cleanup
by Michael Kennedy |
2011-12-26 Better Dead Than Alive?
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife |
2011-02-16 The Way It Was: History Along Our Organization’s Namesake
by Tina Wynecoop |
2011-02-16 The Smell of Home
by Carole Mack From: Diggings.org |
2011-02-07 2011 Annual Meeting and Dinner/Auction
Saturday, March 5, 2011 |
2011-02-07 What is Conservation Futures
by Martha Schaefer |
2011-02-07 FLSRV Nominates Scholz Property for Conservation Futures Purchase
Letter sent to Spokane Conservation Futures from Lance Pounder, on behalf of FLSRV |
2011-02-07 A River Flows Through It
by Bart Haggin |
2011-02-07 Pine River Park Help Keep it Open
by Lance Pounder |
2011-02-07 County Bridge Upgrades
by Harla Jean Biever |
2011-02-07 Spring Cleanup Date Announced
Saturday, April 16 Starting at 9:00am. |
2011-02-07 Little Spokane Artists Plan Studio Tour
by Hulda Bridgeman |
2011-01-11 Team from 3 Counties Presents Gardening Workshop
Saturday, January 29th, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. |
2010-09-22 3rd Annual Little Spokane River Artist Studio Tour
by Hulda Bridgeman |
2010-06-22 Keeping Pine River Park Open
by Lance Pounder |
2010-06-22 New Board Members Elected
by Kirk Neumann |
2010-06-22 Annual Meeting Held
by Tina Wynecoop |
2010-06-22 Pine River County Park
by Doug Chase |
2010-06-22 General Service Modifications for 2010 Park Season
by Doug Chase |
2010-06-22 Mt. Spokane, The Little Spokane River, Rock Cairn Vision Quest Sites and a Poem
by Tina Wynecoop |
2010-06-22 Membership
by Harla Jean Biever |
2009-09-21 Cleanup Day Report
by Lance Pounder |
2009-09-21 An Amazing CBC (Christmas Bird Count) Adventure Story
by Jeanne Dammarell |
2009-09-21 2nd Annual Little Spokane River Artist Studio Tour
by Hulda Bridgeman |
2009-09-21 2009 Annual Meeting and Dinner/Auction
by Tina Wynecoop |
2009-02-13 US Highway 2 to the Wandermere Vicinity North Spokane Corridor: Wall Architectural Treatment
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Trails |
2019-02-09 NEW TRAIL SECTION: MIDWAY RD. TO COLBERT RD.
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2018-11-03 Changes May Be Coming to WDFW Waikiki Springs Property
by Landon Eaton Crecelius |
2018-10-28 How to Be a Hero Along The Middle of The Little Spokane
by Rob Allen, Fairwood Farmers Market Director |
2018-05-19 Proposed Little Spokane Drive Trail from Midway to Colbert Rd
by Mark Case, Trails Chairman |
2018-01-27 Trail System Section Completions
by Mark Case |
2018-01-27 Middle of Little Spokane River
by Daniel Collins |
2018-01-27 Yearly Walking Tour With Jack Nisbet
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2017-01-29 ANNUAL SPRING HIKE WITH JACK NISBET
Saturday, May 6, 2017 |
2016-10-28 Antoine Peak Hike 2016
by Tina Wynecoop |
2015-07-08 Be Coyote-Wise
Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife |
2015-07-08 Unique Trail Users
By Tina Wynecoop |
2015-07-08 Wolverine Walkabout = Wolverine Wanderlust
By Tina Wynecoop |
2015-07-08 Saltese Upland Hike
By Tina Wynecoop |
2015-07-01 New Benches for the Haynes Estate Trails Area
By Kirk Neumann |
2014-11-30 Pineriver Park Neighborhood Entrance Will Be Getting a New Look
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2014-11-30 Trail Signs
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2014-11-30 Trail Update
By Lance Pounder |
2014-06-19 Beavers on the Little Spokane River
By Ro Bury |
2014-04-04 SPRING FIELD TRIP with Jack Nisbet, Author/Historian
Five Mile Prairie and the Little Spokane River MAY 10, 2014 |
2013-12-30 We’re ‘Friends’ with WSDOT and The Children of the Sun pedestrian pathway.
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2013-12-30 Links to Printable 2013 Trails Maps
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2012-11-16 Devil's Gap Walking Tour with Jack Nisbet
Saturday, May 11, 2013 |
2012-06-26 Trails Update
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2011-12-27 County's Wandermere Road Project
by Tina Wynecoop |
2011-01-01 Trails Overview
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2010-06-22 Trails Update
by Lance Pounder |
2009-09-22 Vandervert Trail
by Tina Wynecoop |
2009-09-21 North Spokane Corridor
by Michael Kennedy |
2009-09-21 Trees and Trails
by Jim Ellis |
2009-09-21 Finishing Touches on the Bridge
by Lindell Haggin |
2009-09-21 Trails
by Martha Schaefer |
2009-08-17 Art Work Drawings for Retaining Walls at Wandermere and Garden Avenue
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2009-02-13 Haynes Estate Conservation Area Planting
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2009-02-13 New Pedestrian-Bike Trail Needs Your Help To Find A Name
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2009-02-13 08 Trails Update
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2009-02-11 Trails FAQs
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Geology / History |
2019-02-09 Ice Skating in the Little Spokane River Valley
by Ty Brown |
2018-11-05 Murder at Greenleaf Farm: The Tragic Downfall of Theodore Cushing and His Ties to Francis H. Cook and Wandermere Golf Course
by Ty Brown |
2018-10-28 Wandermere Golf Course: Legacy on the Little Spokane River
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2018-05-19 Jack Nisbet's and FLSRV's Sixth Annual Walking Tour: Lower Hangman/Latah Creek April 29, 2018
by Tina Wynecoop |
2016-10-27 "Don't tell my wife about this!"
by Tina Wynecoop |
2015-07-10 Wandermere
By Dan Webster ... Courtesy of Spokesman Review |
2009-02-13 Inland Northwest Geology
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Birds |
2014-12-30 Bird Watching
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2011-12-26 Birds Falling From The Sky
by Tina and Judge Wynecoop |
2009-02-15 Nesting Ospreys
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2009-02-13 Dabblers, Divers, Murderers and Travelers: Birds of the INW
Through March 15, 2009 Museum of Arts and Culture |
Favorite Views |
2009-02-13 Some Beautiful Views Contributed By Members
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Goals |
2012-04-05 Friends of Little Spokane River Valley Goals
As Agreed to by the Board of Directors September 8, 1998 |
Favorite Books |
2018-10-28 The Dreamer and the Doctor
by author Jack Nisbet |
2009-04-14 Readings about our Little Spokane River Valley
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Newsletters |
2019-01-23 January 2019 Newsletter
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2018-10-28 October 2018 Newsletter
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2018-05-19 May 2018 Newsletter Download as PDF
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2018-01-27 January 2018 Newsletter
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2017-10-24 October 2017 Newsletter
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2017-04-15 Spring 2017 Newsletter
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2016-10-28 October 2016 Newsletter
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2016-02-06 January 2016 Newsletter
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2015-07-07 Spring 2015 Newsletter
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2014-11-30 November 2014 Newsletter as PDF
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2014-06-19 June 2014 Newsletter PDF
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2013-12-30 December 2013 Newsletter
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2013-04-25 April 2013 Newsletter
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2012-11-16 November 2012 Newsletter
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2012-07-26 June 2012 Newsletter
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2011-12-27 November 2011 Newsletter
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2011-02-07 January 2011 Newsletter
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2010-06-21 June 2010 Newsletter
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2009-09-15 September 2009 - Fall Newsletter
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2009-02-13 January 2009 - Winter Newsletter
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