Virginia Thomas

Reporter Virginia Thomas has worked at the Journal since 2017 and covers the health care industry. As a reporter, she loves learning about Spokane's many growing industries. She enjoys traveling with her husband, snuggling with her cats, and cross stitching.

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Sara Lee to buy Cyrus O'Leary's Pies

Airway Heights company will keep name, workers
February 27, 2020
Virginia Thomas
Oakbrook, Illinois-based Sara Lee Frozen Bakery has agreed to acquire Fresh Foods Corporation of America, the Airway Heights-based company that does business as Cyrus O'Leary's Pies.
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Virginia Thomas

St. Luke's Debuts robotic fall-prevention therapy

Patients learn to walk again with ZeroG system
February 27, 2020
Virginia Thomas
Physical therapist Jaime Hopoi goes into a trust fall. She's on a trajectory to hit the ground face-first, but the robotic system to which her harness is attached stops her and supports her weight while she regains her balance.
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Virginia Thomas

All Systems Go at Hotel Indigo

Boutique inn to open after long dormancy
February 27, 2020
Virginia Thomas
After a decade of standing vacant and more than two years of remodeling and renovating, the former Otis Hotel building will once again host hotel guests next month, this time under the name Hotel Indigo Spokane.
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Longtime employee buys R&R Custom photo lab

New owner intends to expand products
February 13, 2020
Virginia Thomas
R&R Custom Lab 2 Inc., which does business as R&R Custom Color Lab, has changed hands. Former owner Steve Riffle retired and sold the business to new owners Erin and Brent Cramer at the beginning of the year.
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STARS shows integrated behavioral health facility

New location to offer 64 beds for crisis treatment, withdrawal management
February 13, 2020
Virginia Thomas
Spokane Treatment & Recovery Services plans to build a 64-bed, 42,000-square-foot integrated behavioral health treatment facility and medical clinic on East Nora Avenue, in Spokane Valley, and will hire up to 100 new employees to staff the facility.
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Angel alliance launches fourth fund

Spokane-area investment group raises $2.75 million
February 13, 2020
Virginia Thomas
A group of investors has pooled their resources to help launch regional startups through Kick-Start IV, the fourth such angel investment fund composed of Spokane investors.
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SECURE Act takes down the stretch

Provision removal makes it harder to sock away generational wealth
February 13, 2020
Virginia Thomas
The new federal SECURE Act makes it harder to sock away generational wealth on a tax-deferred basis, which creates the need to plan more carefully when giving or receiving an inheritance.
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