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Comm. St. Benedict, Abt.
Comm. Bl. Thomas Cranmer, B.C.M.
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from Inlander
By Nate Sanford
On Thursday, the City Council voted unanimously to approve a $342,000 contract extension with Jewels Helping Hands, a nonprofit homeless service provider, to operate three local churches as homeless shelters serving about 20 people each through the end of August. The extension makes a temporary program started under a state of emergency slightly more permanent, and offers a hint at what the city's long-term approach to sheltering may look like going forward.
By Eliza Billingham
On a refrigerator door at My Fresh Basket, an eye-level green flier with an illustration of three fluffy, yellow chicks blocks the view of the egg cartons. "Senate Bill 1019," it reads. "Signed August 2019, this senate bill bans the use of cage confinement for egg-laying hens and the sale of egg products from out-of-state operations not meeting cage-free standards." It ended with an explanation — or warning — that the law would "significantly impact current egg pricing." In simpler language, Washington state passed a law in 2019 that all eggs sold in Washington, including those produced in other states like Oregon, must be cage-free. The law went into effect on Jan. 1 and, if you believe the flier, is the reason egg prices are rising in Spokane. It's not just grocers. Amber Gunn, an analyst with the Mountain State Policy Center, blamed the legislation for "skyrocketing egg prices." Seattle's KIRO 7 News ran a piece saying the law "takes toll on bakeries." And OregonLive reported that "more ethical eggs can mean higher prices." The new law may increase egg prices, especially at first. But the cage-free law isn't the only factor, and maybe not the most important. There's inflation and increased costs for feed, labor and materials. But the biggest impact on egg prices is a mysterious strain of the avian flu lurking in wild bird populations that's wreaking occasional havoc on commercial egg operations.
By Eliza Billingham
Gwendolyn Koren's grandmother's maiden name was Hershey. Yes, that Hershey. But today, the distant descendent of Milton Hershey himself is trying to upend the dairy-defined, over-refined chocolate industry that his empire practically rules. "We have a really milked-down idea of what chocolate is," Koren says. She wanted to offer something more pure, more local, and more delicious. In 2023, Koren launched Inspire Motion Chocolates, a line of dairy-free dark chocolate sweetened with raw honey from Spokane-area honey farms. The decadent, guilt-less morsels aim to change your life and change the world of cocoa. By ditching inflammatory ingredients, using only compostable packaging and taking advantage of unique local honey flavors, Koren offers customers sweet treats that are good for body, soul and planet.
By Eliza Billingham
Fifty years ago, women had just been allowed to compete in marathons, a feat that had previously been considered too physically demanding for a female body. Today, Senior Airman Kortney James is a Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) specialist and instructor for the Air Force, one of the most physically and mentally demanding jobs in the U.S. Armed Forces. James was one of about a dozen women honored by Fairchild Air Force Base during a special Women's History Month incentive flight. On March 9, an all-female maintenance crew readied a KC-135 Stratotanker to be flown by an all-female flight crew serving a group of all-female honorees.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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