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Articles by Kevin Blocker

Work on North Idaho veterans home to resume in spring

Final construction value still to be determined
January 14, 2021
Kevin Blocker
The Idaho Division of Veterans Services says it will resume construction in the spring on a 64-room veterans home in Post Falls on a 7-plus-acre parcel of donated land. Veterans Services broke ground and began site work in the final quarter of 2020
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Family works to carry on Taqueria Fiesta Brava

Restaurants & Retail
January 14, 2021
Kevin Blocker
Despite the death of 60-year-old Roberto Alvarado Ochoa on Nov. 18, family, friends, and longtime customers of the restaurant he founded, Taqueria Fiesta Brava, say they're determined to keep both his food and memory alive.
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Panda Express to rise at White Elephant's North Division site

North Division location to have drive-thru access
January 14, 2021
Kevin Blocker
A Panda Express restaurant is planned at the site of the former White Elephant retail store on North Division Street, according to a building permit application submitted to the city by a Midwest-based architecture company.
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Kevin Blocker

Dragseth hits road with mobile frame design shop

Restaurants & Retail
January 14, 2021
Kevin Blocker
Custom art designer and framer Treasure Dragseth says her mobile business, Treasure It? Frame It!, is quickly gaining traction. For several years, Dragseth has run her own art and frame shop out of her home on Long Lake in the Suncrest neighborhood
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TREK Architecture

Copper Creek Landscaping to expand in Hillyard

Project to take year to complete
January 14, 2021
Kevin Blocker
The owner of a Spokane-based landscaping company located in the Hillyard neighborhood has his sights set on expanding his current office and constructing a new 18,000-square-foot light-industrial incubator starting the middle of the year.
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Alcohol use rises among women during pandemic

Health therapists urge 'take care of yourself' in current environment
January 14, 2021
Kevin Blocker
A recent report revealing a sharp increase in women's consumption of alcohol during the COVID-19 pandemic comes as no surprise to Colonial Clinic co-owner Huston Stolz.
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Kevin Blocker

Low home inventory doesn't dissuade new Realtors

Sales increase despite historic dip in number of available houses
January 14, 2021
Kevin Blocker
Spokane real estate agent Mary Stanton worked part-time in real estate for decades before deciding late last year to make it her full-time profession. Despite the arrival of COVID-19, the 51-year-old Stanton says she's busier in real estate now
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US-China deal spells growth for wheat growers

Demand for apples also on the upswing
December 17, 2020
Kevin Blocker
While COVID-19 may continue to wreak havoc on certain sectors of the economy next year, observers involved in two of the state's five largest agricultural commodities predict they won't be among them. Officials with the Washington Grain Commission an
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Economic models show bump in retail activity next year

Restaurant industry still highly vulnerable
December 17, 2020
Kevin Blocker
While many of 2020's economic challenges due to COVID-19 will carry into next year, the most recent forecast for the state's retail industry shows more promise than first expected. At press time, the Washington state Department of Revenue's most
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Northwest Mobile Physical Therapy starts

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December 17, 2020
Kevin Blocker
In response to COVID-19-and the need to secure his own employment-Spokane physical therapist Trey Nichols has started Northwest Mobile Physical Therapy Specialists PLLC. A South Carolina native who moved to Spokane in 2007, 38-year-old Nichols says
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