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Cash-management crash course

Schools step up workshops, financial tools so students learn to manage money
November 3, 2011
Treva Lind
One crash course for many college students isn't listed on a class schedule. As they enter higher education, they're often for the first time managing thousands of dollars from financial aid, or even a family-supplied stash for the administrators a
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Dollar cost averaging might smooth out volatility

Investment strategy can remove emotion during peaks, valleys in market
November 3, 2011
Andrew Leckey
Wouldn't it be nice if you could smooth out all the rough spots in your personal investments?Many investors have wondered just that during this frenetic market year that is constantly being buffeted by world events. Too often, they boldly invest
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In the News

November 3, 2011
Nov. 1 / Key Tronic's net dips, revenues jumpKey Tronic Corp., the Spokane Valley-based contract manufacturer, reported net income of $1.2 million, or 12 cents a diluted share, for its fiscal 2012 first quarter ended Oct. 1, down from $1.7 or 17
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Calendar

November 3, 2011
Meetings & EventsGreater Spokane Incorporated will hold an accounting and auditing update luncheon today, Nov. 3, from noon to 2 p.m. at Red Lion River Inn, 700 N. Division. Paul Bridge, of BDO Seidman LLP, will speak. The cost is $40. To or for
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Salk Middle School to get new $7 million gymnasium

District expects to select design firm by year-end, break ground in mid-'13
November 3, 2011
Chey Scott
Spokane Public Schools is in the process of selecting a firm to provide architectural and engineering services for a planned $7 million gymnasium replacement at Salk Middle School, at 6411 N. Alberta on Spokane's North Side. Greg Brown, the of a
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—Rendering courtesy of Graham Construction & Management Inc.

Graham awarded contract to build West Side hospital

$11.8 million project will replace 61-year-old facility in Grays Harbor County
November 3, 2011
Treva Lind
Graham Construction & Management Inc., of Spokane, has worked with the company's Seattle office to win an $11.8 million contract to build a critical access hospital in Elma, Wash., which is about 30 miles west of Olympia.The project that began a
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Small Business Watch

November 3, 2011
Marquee bar owners buy Fast Eddie's pubBird is the Word LLC, a company formed by business partners Jeremy Tangen and Matthew Goodwin, has bought the assets of Fast Eddie's All Purpose Pub, located at 1 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. downtown, from Dale
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Enterprise rental outlet is being built

Vandervert set to complete chain's stand-alone facility along Sprague in December
November 3, 2011
Mike McLean
A Spokane development group says it has launched work on a commercial building that will house Enterprise Rent-A-Car Co.'s Spokane Valley outlet.The project at 7202 E. Sprague includes constructing a 2,100-square-foot, single-story structure, a
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Medical marijuana backers to open educational facility

Pair to counsel patients on issues surrounding state's cannabis rules
November 3, 2011
Mike McLean
Two Spokane medical marijuana advocates, doing business as University of Spokamsterdam LLP, say they've leased space near downtown where they plan to base educational programs about using the drug in compliance with the state's Medical Use of of of
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New frozen-yogurt concern opens shop, plans two more

Go Froyo to follow debut in Valley with North Side, Lincoln Heights outlets
November 3, 2011
Mike McLean
Go Froyo LLC, a new frozen-yogurt concern here, has opened its first outlet in Spokane Valley and plans to open two more in Spokane this fall and winter.Nancy Chen, who co-owns the company with business partner Tong Li, says the first Go Froyo a
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