Beer and charity! Talk about a great mix. The 3rd Annual Monroe Street Pub Crawl is just weeks away. The bender includes a 3.5 mile trek along Spokane's historic Monroe Street and includes visits to about 10 establishments, depending of course on your endurance.  It's all to raise money for health care for kids in Jamaica.

For all of the details, here's a look at the official Pub Crawl flyer.

Inland Northwest Honor Flight is making it's third trip of 2011 this Friday July 15 at 11:55. Vets will be gathering at the Spokane Airport about 10:30 am...they will return Sunday July 17 at 4:20 in the afternoon. INWHF will be making a special presentation on Friday July 15 to the family of Pvt. Herman Sturmer whose remains were recently returned to Spokane. Inland Northwest Honor Flight continues to honor our living World War II vets for their sacrifices and especially those who paid the ultimate price--giving their lives to protect our freedoms.

In response to STCU announcing the ground-breaking of their new Spokane Valley branch featuring the design inititave to make it LEED Gold certified, here are a list of LEED certified buildings in Spokane and Spokane Valley and what certification they are from the most minimal certification (certified) to the highest certification (platinum). The U.S.