Little Joey at the beach - June 1975 Time to Be a Kid Again The ’s 2004 Summer Guide — Special Pullout Section August 1973 — Sheri at Fish Lake How I want to spend my Summer Vacation… by Sheri Boggs

was through there the Hit the Open Road campground had limited very time we do this road trip thing in our summer access and the main road guide, some well-intentioned resort owner calls to was closed. Instead, turn Eyell at us for picking drives “that don’t go any- your attention toward where… just through a bunch of desert to see nothing.” Laird Park and the Boy Respectfully, we reply “Dude, you’re missing the point.” Scouts’ Camp Grizzly. While it’s nice (and in these days of $2.25 gas prices, You’ll follow a some- necessary) to use the car only for getting from point A to times paved, some- point B, sometimes the best journeys are those taken simply times dirt road past for the scenery and the chance to let one’s mind wander as Camp Grizzly (which freely as the itinerary. Some of my happiest childhood is one of the most memories involve thinking about lunch while our Blazer picturesque summer clung to precarious logging roads and my dad sang along to camps I’ve ever seen) an endless supply of Statler Brothers 8-Tracks. I don’t even and continue on for remember where we were headed, but I’ve spent more than a few more miles to a few hours as an adult trying to find the abandoned ski Laird Park. There, you can either lodge and the mysterious spring-fed concrete fountain I camp (tent or trailer; facilities are primitive, with pit remember from the remote mountain roads of my youth. toilets) or just find the dam on the little creek that runs Here are two of my favorite road trips, although destina- through there and set yourself up a picnic (easily comple- tions are optional: mented by the plentiful thimbleberries growing nearby). for the farm on the right-hand side of the road with the fence made entirely of old metal wagon wheels. No trip White Pine Scenic Byway to Laird Park Highway 195 to the top of Lewiston Hill through Uniontown is complete without a stop at the Sage This stretch of North Idaho highway is some truly stunning If you can somehow time this to encompass both the Sage Bakery, which was once a brewery and now houses some scenery — enormous white pine, tamarack, cedar and Bakery’s hours of operation and the onset of twilight, do so. damn delicious European-style baked goods. Seven miles Douglas fir crowd right up to the sides of the highway. The Your journey starts in Pullman (after already being on the south of Uniontown is the junction with Idaho’s State effect is not unlike driving through a tunnel, and in the late road for an hour and 15 minutes if you’re driving from Highway 95 and the end of your journey, the top of the afternoon, the sun filtering through the trees takes on a Spokane), and you’ll need to roll down your windows and Lewiston Hill. From this windy vantage point you can see nifty “cathedral” effect. If you’re feeling extra adventurous turn off the AC in order to fully appreciate the way the as far as the Blue Mountains and the view of Lewiston/ and have most of a day to kill, you can start right off I-90 Palouse smells in the summer. Once you’re done blissing out Clarkston at night is the stuff romantic make-out sessions near the mission at Cataldo on Highway 3. If you’d like the on the fragrance of sun-warmed grasses and acres of hard are made of. If you want to tempt not only fate but your abbreviated tour, you can start in St. Maries and take winter wheat, you’re going to need to start paying attention car’s steering and braking systems, eschew the new Highway 6 south. As the road drops down from the curvy to the road because before you know it, you’ll be in Colton. Lewiston highway for the old spiral highway, which is still mountain passages down to a lower elevation, you might Colton is one of those great little farming communities that open and still as full of vertigo-inducing thrills as ever. start seeing signs for the Giant White Pine. Blister rust has managed to survive in spite of a world that is consider- felled this 500-year-old giant in 1999, and although there ably changed from the time it was founded mostly by are still some beautiful old cedars in the area, the last time I German immigrants. Between Colton and Uniontown, look Sheri’s Summer vacation continues on page 33…

continue scraping “against the grain” with your How To Clean a Fish knife, rinsing with lots of cold tap water, or you can use a copper mesh pad and just scrub the here’s nothing quite so satisfying as peering scales away. into an ice chest full of freshly caught lake 2. Using a good sharp filleting knife, make an Ttrout and realizing that after four hours of incision from the “vent” — it’s what you think it is doing little more than sitting in the sun and — under the fish right up there near the tail. Cut in drinking beer, you now have dinner. Until, of a nice straight line up to the fish’s “chin.” course, you remember that someone is going to 3. Next, make a cut right behind the gills have to clean those suckers. straight through the backbone. Snap off the head In my family that task always went to the and, while holding the fish, pull the head and all least squeamish, and my dad would gamely set to the entrails down and away from the fish. The work, cigar wedged into the left side of his mouth, motion is not unlike peeling a banana. while my sister and I watched in horrified 4. Throw that nasty stuff away, then take a fascination. Cleaning fish is a revolting but spoon and scrape away the “kidney line,” which is necessary business; my dad’s method gets the job that dark vein running parallel to the backbone. done as quickly as possible. Rinse some more. 1. See if your fish needs to be scaled. You 5. Some people don’t like the dorsal fin left can tell by laying him down and gently scraping at on… fins are easily removed with pliers and his skin with the tip of your knife, moving from discarded. the tail towards the head. If the scales are large 6. Voila. Your fish should be ready for How -To art by Chad Krueger and flat you’ve got a scaler; you can either flourin’ and fryin’! — SB JUNE 10, 2004 INLANDER 31 Sheri’s Summer Checklist lot on Second between Division and were allowed to steer. I don’t remember Browne) is a great place to pick up fresh exactly what we did, but I do remember Relive 1977 bread, huckleberries, those awesome drinks flying, bad words shouted and Who could forget the Summer of ’77? “spud nuts” and more. On June 19, they being grounded in the cabin for 10 For me, it was the summer of my best go to being open on Wednesdays as well minutes for nearly drowning the crew. friend moving away and the summer of as Saturdays from 8 am-1 pm. The Wooden boats are some of the playing Barbies in the driveway until Spokane Marketplace has spacious new most beautiful things you’ll see on a the sun went down. It was the summer I permanent digs north of Riverfront Park lake in the Inland Northwest — and some first read a Lloyd Alexander book, the on Washington, and they’re one of the of the most rare. It took us 80 gallons summer I took the Mish-a-Nock to Camp best places to load up on handmade of gas to motor from Bayview to Hope, Neewahlu and the summer I learned to soap, candles and even handmade which means wooden boats — at least swim (if you could call it that) in the jewelry in addition to corn and the motorized ones — aren’t for the deep end. It was the summer of Laverne financially challenged. & Shirley, King Tut, This August 20-22, you can see all Star Wars and, the wooden boats you want when the most important, Coeur d’Alene Resort hosts its annual Fleetwood Mac. Wooden Boat Festival on the boardwalk. Fleetwood Mac Everything from vintage old cabin is coming to the cruisers to wooden sailboats will be tied Spokane Arena on to the boardwalk or available for Saturday, July 3, at chartered rides. Some rare boats — 8 pm. It’s too bad maybe even a vintage Kris Kraft — make the ticket prices an appearance every year. Call (877) ($60-$96) will 782-9232. probably keep me from seeing them because they were the formative band Find a Star Garnet of my youth. Rumors You don’t go to the Emerald Creek was the album that Garnet Area with hopes of finding a taught me that rock large, glittering crystal of the aubergine stars have personal persuasion, nor do you go there lives — messy, tangled, counting on leaving with anything you tumultuous personal could set into a ring or a pair of lives that can be earrings. Nope. The Emerald Creek written about and Garnet Area is all about getting dirty. sung with the guy you Basically, you’re dumping wet gravel cheated on standing into a screened box and shaking all the right there playing mud and tiny rocks out. While Idaho and bass guitar! Entire Fleetwood Mac India are the only two places in the slumber parties world where 12-sided star garnets are revolved around giggling at Mick tomatoes. They’re open Wednesday found, the quality of the Emerald Creek Fleetwood’s dangling “castanets” on the from 9 am-4 pm, and from 9 am-5:30 site has become depleted in recent album cover, while most of us burrowed pm on Fridays and Saturdays year years. These days, it’s more fun to just into our sleeping bags to dream of round. Other markets in the area go and muck around in the creek and floating around in black chiffon and include Liberty Lake (1421 N. maybe take away a few coffee cans of having Stevie Nicks’ long tousle of Meadowood Lane in Liberty Lake; hours garnet gravel. (It looks cool in goldfish honey-colored hair. For that matter, I’m are Saturdays, 9 am-1 pm), Moran Prairie bowls and on top of houseplant soil.) pretty sure my adult Colin Firth fixation (corner of Regal and Thurston; Sundays The state of Idaho is currently has much to do with Lindsey from 10:30 am-2:30 pm) and researching additional sites; in the Buckingham, who bears no small County (Hwy. 95 and Prairie Ave.; meantime, the Emerald Creek digging resemblance to Pride & Prejudice’s Mr. Saturdays from 8 am-1 pm and area is open through Labor Day. Hours Darcy. Wednesdays from 4:30-6:30 pm). are from 9 am-5 pm on Fridays through Christine McVie has opted out of Tuesdays (they’re closed Wednesdays this summer’s tour as well as their most and Thursdays). Permits are required recent album, but the rest of the core and can be purchased ($10; $5, kids 14 lineup will be there: John McVie, Mick Check Out and under) at the A-frame cabin onsite. Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey For more information, call the St. Joe Buckingham. the Woodies Ranger Station at (208) 245-2531. — SB Another thing that happened in the Summer Eat Fresh of ’77 was that I briefly Moscow rocks. Not only is their got to drive a gleaming downtown a pedestrian priority area mahogany twin-engine with three-hour free street parking, vintage Kris Kraft on they also have one of the best damn Lake Pend Oreille. The farmers’ markets in the entire grownups were all Northwest. Every Saturday from 8 to pooled in the stern, noon, they take over Friendship Square drinking screwdrivers and three entire parking lots to bring and trolling for you your fill of fresh flowers, bedding blueback, and the late plants, homegrown veggies, handmade afternoon sun pottery and even mouthwatering grilled glimmered on the roast. highly polished brass If you’re looking for something rails of the boat. closer to home, the Spokane Farmers’ Somehow another 10- Market (located in the church parking year-old girl and I Sheri’s Summer vacation continues on the next page… JUNE 10, 2004 INLANDER 33 Smutty Classics Trashy reading is ever so more delicious when bound, labeled and purveyed under the auspices of “literature.” The following eight novels were scorchers in their day, as much for the dangerously independent thoughts rustling through their pages as for the adulterous loves, inappropriate passions and boldly sexual scenarios described in them.

LOLITA Bordeaux to intellectual discourse make demeanor and habit of shyly by Vladimir Nabokov this one as appealing as it is shocking. skittering all over the page. To be wary of this frisky, disturbing cummings could titillate with the masterpiece detailing the illicit love of a A SPY IN THE HOUSE OF LOVE best of ‘em. The first four lines of worldly older gentleman for a young by Anais Nin “May I Feel?” are proof enough. nymphet is to miss out on one of the If you’re looking for pure smut, you’re greatest reading pleasures of all time. going to be disappointed here. That’s THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD Nabokov was a master of puns, allusion not to say that Anais Nin isn’t porn of by Zora Neale Hurston and psychology; his aging would-be another sort. Her characters are given Hurston wrote this sensual and Romeo is at once stylish, deplorable, to wearing long velvet capes, lining provocative novel at the height of cruel and pathetic. their eyes with imported kohl and the Harlem Renaissance; at the time running dramatically out of rooms she was blasted for not only LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER before hooking up with their analysts or depicting a heroine with healthy by D.H. Lawrence the husbands’ discarded lovers. sexual appetites but for having her Unsatisfied young wife spurns her characters speak in dialect (which paralytic husband in favor of the THE KAMA SUTRA some felt perpetuated stereotypes earthier qualities of their game keeper. translated by Sir Richard Burton of African-Americans). Their Eyes Lawrence shocked 1928 audiences by If you like naughty pictures in your Were Watching God follows the giving the game keeper a script of lines naughty books, there are enough leggy, voluptuous Janie Crawford comprised almost entirely of the F- versions of the Kama Sutra to keep you through three marriages and one word. reading all summer. Although modern murder trial; Hurston’s prose is photographers have reinterpreted this warm, joyful and appreciative of all TROPIC OF CANCER Indian classic with lots of model- the world’s earthly delights, even in by Henry Miller gorgeous people and slick lighting, the degradation and suffering. “An American in Paris” could be the ones with the old illustrations somehow subtitle for Tropic of Cancer, which was seem pervier (everyone has enormous ULYSSES banned in this country for decades eyes and body parts are depicted by James Joyce following its publication. Miller writes somewhat head-scratchingly). If you can get all the way through about sex with a boisterous enthusiasm this nearly impenetrable novel, it’s that still causes readers to blush. Pretty SELECTED POEMS worth it if only for Molly Bloom’s raw stuff, misogynist even, but his lusty by e.e. cummings heated soliloquy: “…and yes I said appetites for everything from good Don’t be fooled by his lower-case yes I will Yes.” — SB

34 INLANDER JUNE 10, 2004 How I want to spend my Summer Vacation… by Ted McGregor at the Cutter Theater in Metaline Falls, Wash. Backers of the show plan to make it an regular summertime event in Pend Oreille County. For details, call 509-447-9277. Spokane writer Jack Nisbet has penned the classic David Thompson book, Sources of the River. If you’re going Teddy on his bike, to follow in the trappers’ footsteps this summer, it’s a fun read. Another good one is Journal of a Trapper by Osborne Summer of ’69 Russell, who was a real trapper back in the 1830s. he remnants of the fur trade are all around the Pacific Northwest. And in the summertime, this Thistory comes to life as the region’s many fur trapper brigades stage encampments at the various histori- cal sites. These men and women are a little bit like the Civil War reenactors, but instead of combat, they recreate what life was like for the fur trappers. Mark Weadick of Coeur rivers. And they set up trading posts along the way. Just d’Alene has been involved in the hobby for years, and he’s north of Spokane, we’ve got one of the most important currently preparing for an encampment at Spokane House sites, Spokane House, which, in 1810, became the first on June 19-20. white settlement in what would become Washington state. “The thing that appeals to me most about that era is Along with the many vestiges of trading posts, high- the individual freedom of the time. You were really on your ways are littered with point-of-interest markers, too. Some own hook to make your living,” says Weadick, who is a fur will make your jaw drop, like the one on the Banff-Jasper trapper and forester in real life. “Along with that, the Following in the Highway that encourages you to look up at the insane country was… I’ll call it ‘pristine’ in terms of wildlife and Athabasca Pass and imagine fur trapper David Thompson other resources.” crossing it. In the winter. With women, children and horses Weadick is also a member of a group called Friends of Fur Trappers’ Footsteps in tow. Spokane House, whose goal is a full reconstruction of the t’s a bit of a stretch, but you could say this place we call David Thompson is among the best remembered — trading post as it existed in 1823. “For a year now, we’ve home is here because 19th-century English dandies liked perhaps because he bothered to write it all down, but also been working on a scale model, using all of the available Ireally soft hats. Sure, it’s certain the Pacific Northwest because his exploits were amazing. It was one of his own documentation, from archaeological digs and journals kept would have been settled somehow, but as it happens, the maps, in fact, that was used by Lewis and Clark to get them at the time.” first white people came here to trap beavers, whose pelts started on their journey. Soon, they’ll pass their work on to Riverside State were used to make prized felts. The British Empire settled The MAC is mounting a major David Thompson Park, the caretaker of Spokane House, in hopes that grant the world, it seems, in order to bring home exotic new exhibit to open in October 2005. But even sooner than that money can be found to create a proper historical site. goods. The Caribbean was colonized for sugar plantations — this summer, in fact — Thompson-mania will be hitting But on June 19-20 (from 10 am-5 pm), visitors can so that tea — from China — would go down easier back in the Inland Northwest in the form of a musical. The world listen to Weadick and his fellow brigadiers — all dressed to London. Colorful new fabrics came from India, and opium premiere of DownRiver! will be staged at the Halstead the period — tell what life was like for fur trappers. They’ll from other points around the Far East. Middle School in Newport, Wash., on July 10-11. On July demonstrate weapons and even replica boats — if the river Using riverboats, canoes and their own two legs, fur 14, it will be staged at the Kalispel Reservation powwow isn’t running too fast. There’s also an informative interpre- trappers ranged over vast lands — all the way from grounds in Usk, Wash. On July 17, it will be at the MAC in tive center on the site that’s open through Labor Day. Hudson’s Bay to the mouths of the Columbia and Fraser Spokane, and then it will have a three-day run, July 23-25, Among the other sites worth considering, Fort

board. (OK, it’s not so good if he cries.) you with hours of fun. Of course you Strategy is simple: Never try to win a can line up the neighbor kids on the two-front war in Europe. front lawn for a real game of football. But even more fun is just throwing the Indoors 4. BALDERDASH ball back and forth, with points lost for 1. SCRABBLE If you haven’t played this, it’s the game dropped balls — or extra points for This one‘s a classic that where everyone writes a definition of a stylish catches. actually rewards you for being good at really random word. Then, all definitions Games something other than rapidly pushing are read aloud — including the real 7. KICK THE CAN Summer is great time to your thumb into a plastic controller. definition — and players guess which It’s hide-and-seek with a twist: One play games. It goes are fake. Kind of a twist on Scrabble, but person gets the near-impossible job of without saying that you 2. PINOCHLE you’ll be laughing for days at some of protecting the can, and everybody else shouldn’t strain People don’t play enough cards the crazy stuff people come up with. hides. For full rules, check out yourself too much, but anymore. Pinochle is highly addictive www.streetplay.com. it‘s definitely the and only requires a moderate level of season for outdoors skill — I know, because I play against Outdoors 8. HORSESHOES activities — especially these types all summer (they’re my 5. BOCCE This is proof that good games are often ones that allow you to family members). And you can play in Even with a name like McGregor, believe the product of boredom plus whatever hold a cold beverage in groups of three, four or six. it or not, I’m one-quarter Italian. items happen to be lying around. In the one hand. So I’ve split Perhaps that’s why I love Bocce ball — case of horseshoes, it was probably my list between indoor 3. RISK the national sport of Italy after soccer. blacksmiths who dreamed up throwing and outdoor games. In these days of real-life global Ideally, you do need a place to play heavy, odd-shaped pieces of metal to domination, a game like Monopoly where the grass is kept nice and short. pass the time. That’s a fun image to seems way too tame. No, Risk is the real contemplate as you alternate between deal. Nothing beats the feeling you’ll 6. NERF FOOTBALL swigs on your PBR and wildly flinging get when you wipe little Timmy off the A cheap little Nerf football will provide the irons. — TM 36 INLANDER JUNE 10, 2004 might be the best. Operated by the National Park Service in Vancouver, Wash., it’s a huge recreation of the Hudson’s Bay Co. headquarters. It was operated continuously for various purposes between 1825-1945. The fort features a series of events on the first Friday of each month, and their own trapper encampment is also on June 19-20. Just east of Vancouver, B.C., is Fort Langley, which was built on the in 1827. officially became a Canadian province at Fort Langley in 1858. Their Fur Brigade Days are July 31-Aug. 2. Rocky Mountain House sits within sight of the east slopes of the Canadian Rockies, between Calgary and Edmonton. First established on the North Saskatchewan River in 1799, it features an extensive collection of artifacts. On summer weekends, Rocky Mountain House offers a puppet show depicting David Thompson’s exploits, and Brigade Days are July 10-11. Fort Nisqually is a fully recreated trading post in Tacoma. When it was established in 1833, it became the first white settlement on Puget Sound. Later, it became a major agricultural operation, too. Fort Nisqually’s brigade encampment is Aug. 14-15. Finally, for something a little closer to home, Old Mission State Park hosts its annual Mountain Man Rendezvous on Aug. 20-22. Although the North Idaho site of the 1848 Cataldo Mission is a religious site with little fur trapping significance, it’s a great place for the event. Living history will also be on display at Cataldo for the Historic Skills Fair on July 11, when visitors can gain a deeper appreciation of the lives led by the region’s first settlers.

Ted’s Summer vacation continues on the next page… Brighter, Whiter, Beautiful!

JUNE 10, 2004 INLANDER 37 How I want to spend my Summer Vacation… by Michael Bowen

lifejackets) and other accessories, getting into the canoeing game can easily set you back a couple of grand. No wonder there are canoe rentals. Coleman conducted my personal kayaking seminar. “You want the boat to be sleek in the water,” he says. “The Reading about an longer the boat, the faster it will go. For the kind of use you’re talking about, you’ll want about a 20-foot boat, apparently imminent flood about 20 inches wide.” He notes that getting into a kayak — preferably Fiberglas — along with paddles (up to $150 for carbon composites), a spray skirt, helmet, bilge pump, a — June 1969 whistle… it adds up. But Coleman was also pretty encouraging: “The learning curve is steeper than with a canoe, but after taking our afternoon class, you’ll feel pretty good. Most people find canoes pretty tippy.”

f you want to get started paddling, the Spokane Canoe and Kayak Club has upcoming clinics that will prove Ihelpful, including Intro to Paddling on June 12 from 9 I fantasized negotiating Class 5 rapids — that is, until I am-2 pm at the Medical Lake boat launch. Cost: $25. Learn heard Lynch’s and Coleman’s definitions of the various the basics of river kayaking — equipment, strokes, peel-outs, levels of difficulty: Class 1, “mild drops with ripples”; Class eddy turns, self-rescue and more — on June 12 at 8 am at Canoeing & Kayaking 2, “more dramatic drops, like at the Harvard Road section Corbin Park in Post Falls, Idaho, and on June 13 at 8 am at of the Spokane River”; Class 3, “Bowl and Pitcher — you Harvard Road in Spokane. Cost: $65 per boat. Or learn hree summers ago, rafting on Oregon’s Rogue pick a line and you go”; Class 4, “requires a course how to canoe in moving water during classroom sessions on River, I felt like Huck Finn on the Mississippi. I was correction while you’re in the rapid”; Class 5, “just before July 7-8 and on July 17-18 at Corbin Park and Harvard Tin the lead position, about to lead our group down a unrunnable.” Road. Experience sea kayaking on all day on June 19 and three-foot drop over an old embankment — that is, until I Then there’s Class 0: about what I could handle. on the evening of June 24. Cost: $95. June 26-27 brings an lost my foothold and my handhold and fell completely out “For Class 2 and 3, you want a boat with more rocker — overnight paddle. Visit www.sckc.ws or call 328-9750. of the boat. Our guide looked at me mournfully. He’d been higher at the ends, because that increases the stability — and Check out the Paddle Fair (an expo of various canoe doing this for 10 years, he said, and in all that time, I was a shorter boat, about 14 to 16 feet,” says Lynch. and kayak goodies) on Saturday, June 19, from 10 am-4 pm the first guy he’d ever had go overboard. He points out a red canoe, the Mad Rivers Royal X, at Liberty Lake, and then get your feet wet, so to speak, in Suddenly I wasn’t feeling like Huck Finn anymore. Yet made of composite plastic. Looks serviceable to me. Why the Canoe Classic on Sunday, June 20, at 11 am, when in the spirit of self-improvement, I really do still want to would I ever want to buy a canoe made out of Fiberglas or paddlers will take off from Corbin Park in Post Falls and learn more about paddling around. That’s how I found Kevlar? “Because you can bang the crap out of them,” he race along the Spokane River either to the Harvard Road myself asking questions of Mountain Gear’s Tomas Lynch says. bridge (6 miles) or to Plantes Ferry (13 miles). Cost: $15 per and Patrick Coleman and hoping not to appear like too Turns out that Fiberglas is actually easier to repair than person. much of a newbie. composite boats. “Besides, they’re faster and more hydrody- And don’t forget the Extreme Sport Canoe Race near “In a canoe,” says Lynch, “ you’re in an open cockpit, namic,” says Lynch, smiling at his own geek-speak. Soap Lake, Wash., on July 11-12. This is a “run and row” you sit higher, and you’re less stable” than in a kayak. “You can turn a boat like this on a dime,” he says. Of event, paddling across five lakes and portaging in between “Then you’ve got to consider, do you want recreational, course, with the canoe itself along with paddles, the for a total distance of 17 miles. Visit www.soaplakecoc.org overnight trips or active runs, rivers vs. lakes?” flotation bags, PFDs (personal flotation devices — aka or call (509) 246-1821.

customer, after her initial sip, stopped some chipped Pokemon thing. We have she has all these seashells, and, like — smiling: Amber had either forgotten to not kept our profit margin high. But do you think we could sell ’em? How To Run a Lemonade Stand add sugar or else substituted sunblock apparently we did have fun: “Tiffany, Tomorrow, Dad? Pleaaase?” — MB evelop a seed capital financing 3. Discover there are no means of in its place. We have decided to “ program; test focus groups; erecting signs. Where are the wooden reexamine the issue of quality control. Destablish quality control stakes? Much tossing-about of debris in 9. Back in the kitchen now. procedures and a staffing schedule.” garage during torrent of language not Squeeze lemons, pick out seeds, pour These are just four of the 38 suitable for tender ones’ ears. Wooden water, measure sugar, add ice. hyperlinked “Helpful Tips” specifically stakes found. Rubber mallets secured, 10. Squeeze lemons, pick out on running a lemonade stand offered to utilized, on-target with exposed seeds, pour water, measure sugar, add 8-year-old entrepreneurs at thumbs. More unseemly language. ice. TeachingKidsBusiness.com. 4. Signs posted. Exploratory stroll 11. Squeeze lemons… catch Restart with a reality check. to middle of avenue. Lettering not glimpse of daughter’s hand as she 1. Cover your ears, gentlemen, for visible from more than 9 feet away and grasps the next pitcher. Shout (but in a the summertime squealing of little girls then only if you squint. supportive way), “Don’t drop it!” is about to begin. “Can we do a 5. Repeat entire sign-creation and 12. Sounds of glass shattering. lemonade stand, Daddy? Can we?” -posting process. Melted ice has created Dogs yelping. Long silence. Whirring (Question to be repeated 53 times, watery product. Replenish pitcher. sound as forearms flash and fingers shrilly.) Lemonade sure to sell now. extend: “She did it.” A pool of yellowish 2. Produce signs. Be sure that 6. Watch cars go past doing 43 in liquid forms on the front porch. Dogs lettering noticeably slants downward to a 25 mph zone. lap it up. the right. Letters must be scrunched 7. Three hours later. Amber has 13. 6:30 pm, still 93 degrees. Seven together at right margin. Color forgotten her sunblock. We have sold hours of delightful parent-child elaborately. Add doodads. four glasses of lemonade. One bonding. Total collection: 78 cents and Bo’s Summer vacation continues on page 44… 42 INLANDER JUNE 10, 2004 Sherman Alexie

10 Old-Fashioned Dinner Show, July 8 - 14 Western Pleasure, Sandpoint 10 Ritzville Blues Festival Performance 11 String Jam, Edgewater Resort, Sandpoint, Idaho 10 Outdoor movie: African 8-10 You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown, 11 Cosmic Dust with Stephanie Brush, CdA City Park Queen, Pavillion Park, Panida Theater, Sandpoint, Idaho 11 Jeff Liberty, Arbor Crest Wine Cellars Liberty Lake 8-10 We, the People!, Lake City Playhouse 14 Jonathan Nicholson, Auntie’s 10-11 NW Renaissance Festival, 8-11 You Can’t Take It With You, Idaho Rep 17 Buck and Edna’s Concert Benefit, the Panida Nine Mile Falls 8-11 42nd Street, CdA Sum. Theater, NIC 10-11 Lavender Festival, 9-10 Sound of Music, Leavenworth Summer Theater Cusick, Wash. 10-11 DownRiver!, Sadie Halstead Middle 10-11 Cherry Festival, School, Newport, Wash. Sports/Outdoors Green Bluff 11-13 My Way, A Tribute to Frank Sinatra, 9-11 River City Rod Run, Coeur d’Alene 10-14 Lake Chelan Bach Idaho Repertory Theatre, Moscow Greyhound Park, Post Falls Festival 14 DownRiver!, Powwow Grounds, Usk, Wash. 10 Climb A Mountain Run and Relay, 12-14 High Mountain ATV Riverfront Park to Mt. Spokane Jamboree, Wallace, Idaho 10-11 Riverhawks vs. Bellingham, SFCC 12-14 Free kids movie: Ella 10-11 My First/My Next Triathlon, Lake Chelan, Wash. Enchanted, the Garland Music 11-12 Sport Canoe Race, Soap Lake, Wash. 8 John Vecchiarelli with Chris Moore, The Shop 12-13 Riverhawks vs. , SFCC 9 Locust Street Taxi, The Spike 13-14 Riverhawks vs. Eugene, SFCC 9-10 Mark Norton Trio and 14 Skyhoundz Frisbee Catching 9 Outdoor movie: Romancing the Stone, Etc.... Carruthers, Conkling Marina, CdA Competition for Dogs, Shadle Park Pavillion Park, Liberty Lake 8 Belly dancing workshop, Simply Dance Studio 10 Peter Noone and Herman’s Hermits, 9-10 Sausage Fest, Leavenworth, Wash. 8 Chuck Palahniuk reading, Auntie’s Northern Quest Casino 9-10 Midnight movie: Mallrats, the Garland 8-9 Wallace Crazy Days, Wallace, ID 10 Ritzville Blues Festival, Ritzvile Festivals/Shows 9-11 Spokane Swap Meet, Spokane 9 Sherman Alexie reading, Auntie’s Bookstore 10 Vans Warped Tour, The Gorge 8-9 Free movie: Good Boy, the Garland County Fair & Expo Center 11 Artwalk 2004, Moscow, Idaho 10 Anything Goes, Park Place, Sandpoint 8-10 Chelan XC Classic, Lake Chelan 9-11 Chautauqua, City Park, Chewelah, Wash. 11 History Tour of Rose Hill, Manito Park 10 Jonathan Nicholson, Auntie’s 8-11 Colville Confederated Tribes 9-11 Pioneer Weekend, Newport, Wash. 11 Historic Skills Fair, Cataldo, Idaho 10 Meridian, The Spike Powwow, Nespelem, Wash. 9-11 Antique and Classic Boat Festival, Sandpoint 12 John Dalmas reading, Auntie’s

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