Students at Spokane Community College were surround by flowers this morning putting together displays for the Spring Flower Show this weekend. But these aren't ordinary floral arrangements. These are giant koi fish crafted from hundreds of flowers. Ranging in colors and varieties the horticultural program is bringing their theme, Swimming in Flowers, to life.

Students began building the forms earlier this month out of ply wood and chicken wire. Yesterday they started adding the flowers, and by the time their done it will have taken upwards of six hours to complete most of the arrangements.

It happens to all of us. That one library book gets stuck on the bottom shelf of your night stand or buried under a stack of magazines and ultimately forgotten. Before you know it the fines are piling up and you can't check out a new book. Well folks, you're in luck! Next week the Spokane County Library District is celebrating National Library Week with Food for Fines. For each donation of a non-perishable food item, you can reduce your library fines by $1.00.

All 10 Spokane County Libraries are participating in Food for Fines and the donations benefit the Second Harvest Food Bank. Each month, Second Harvest needs 60,000 pounds of food to fill its network of food pantries. Food for Fines will also benefit Second Harvest networks in Cheney, Deer Park, Fairfield and Medical Lake.

On Hoopfest weekend thousands will be in Downtown Spokane to be a part of the largest 3 on 3 basketball tournament in the world. It takes a lot of planning and organization to run an event sporting over 7,000 teams, 250,000 players and 456 courts and have it go smoothly. But mostly it takes an army of volunteers and Hoopfest is already recruiting.

Last year over 2,500 volunteers helped make the event happen and this year organizers are half way to filling the volunteer ranks. Anyone can be involved, whether you have basketball experience or not. From court monitors to merchandise sales to general clean up there is a job for everyone.