Neighbors 4 Neighborhoods met Wednesday morning to unanimously pass their first initiative to request that a second open forum be added to the beginning of City Council meetings. They spent that evening visiting various neighborhood council meetings in the City of Spokane to gain their endorsement.

Nothing says summer more than flip flops.  The squishy sandals help you beat the heat and they can help build a new playground too.  The Old Navy stores in Spokane Valley and Moscow, Idaho are collecting used flip flops.  Collection boxes sit near the front door. .

"When a customer comes in they just need to bring their old flip flops and pop them in the box.  It's Simple, " said Spokane Valley store manager Bridget Brooks. 

The old sandals are mailed to TerraCycle http://www.terracycle.net 

There were numerous exclamation marks following the sentence, " I just drove up here with RFK Jr," as cried out by the Spokane Riverkeeper, Bart Mihailovich in a recent instant message. Let me translate. He just drove up to Sandpoint with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to the Panida Theater presentation of "Lake Pend Oreille Waterkeeper presents Robert K. Kennedy Jr."