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Hospital in Sandpoint buys longtime downtown car lot

Consultant hired to study priorities for expanding Bonner General services
Mike McLean
Bonner General Hospital, in Sandpoint, says it has bought a 2-acre lot in the heart of the North Idaho city's downtown and plans to expand there.The parcel formerly was owned and occupied by Taylor-Parker Motor Co., now Taylor & Sons Chevrolet.
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—Photo courtesy of Dr. Ben Jones

The lowest of low, the highest of high

Physiatrist travels solo from Death Valley to peak of Mount Whitney in trek for troubled teens' fund
Treva Lind
When Dr. Lisa Bliss, of Spokane, started a solo trek this summer from Death Valley to the top of Mount Whitney, all on foot, she knew failure could be the outcome.For one, she would be pulling or pushing a 200-plus-pound cart filled mostly with
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—Staff photo by Mike McLean

Cancer Care to build new Valley clinic

Larger, $8.5 million center will enable practice to add radiation treatments there
Mike McLean
Cancer Care Northwest PS, a prominent Spokane-area cancer-treatment provider, says it plans to expand its Spokane Valley presence with a new 20,000-square-foot center to be built near Valley Hospital & Medical Center.Warren Benincosa, Cancer the
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- Staff photo by Chey Scott

Mental health crisis cases

More psychiatric patients turn to ERs for help due to economy, fewer options
Chey Scott
Spokane-area mental health practitioners say they've seen a noticeable increase over the last several years in the number of crisis-level psychiatric patients who are seeking immediate care at hospital emergency rooms and other crisis-response this
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HUD awards $3.6 million to agency

Colville tribe housing entity will use federal funds for upgrades, other purposes
Mike McLean
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded $3.6 million to the Colville Indian Housing Authority, the low-income housing entity of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation.Elena Bassett, executive director of the
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—Rendering courtesy of Russell C. Page Architects PS

Big tire facility planned - Art only

Huntsville, N.C.-based American Tire Distributors Inc. is scheduled to open a 110,000-square-foot distribution center, illustrated here, by early 2012 in the Spokane Business & Industrial Park, in Spokane Valley. Vandervert Construction Inc., of is
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Icon wins $1.7 million job to replace roofs for STA

Spokane Valley contractor starting work this month on two buildings on Boone
Treva Lind
Icon Corp., a Spokane Valley-based commercial roofer, has won a $1.7 million contract to replace the roofing on two Spokane Transit Authority buildings located on West Boone Avenue.The company was scheduled to start the roofing project in early
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New real estate brokerage touts payment alternatives

Choice Realty has hourly, fee options to complement conventional commissions
Treva Lind
Two Spokane real estate agents have started a business called Choice Realty LLC, a full-service real estate brokerage that has developed alternative payment structures for marketing and selling real estate. Melissa Murphy, a Realtor formerly and
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Paper flower shop to exit RPS, reopen on Second

Competition, lease rate prompts owners to move inventory to one store
Chey Scott
aNeMonE Handmade Paper Flowers, a specialty shop here that sells varieties of paper flowers as well as other locally made gift items, soon will close its doors at River Park Square.Owners Nathan and Mary Eberle say that on Aug. 31, aNeMonE will
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Company here to distribute new waterproofing product

Petroleum Sciences inks deal with Indian concern to bring Zycosil to U.S.
Amanda Baker
Petroleum Sciences Inc., of Spokane, has begun making and distributing Zycosil, a waterproofing product for common surfaces, for Zydex Industries, the company in India that invented the compound.Petroleum Sciences spent a year researching the of
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