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Swim in Flowers at SCC

Submitted by Camille Troxel on Thursday, April 11th, 11:04 am
Swim in Flowers at SCC

Students at Spokane Community College were surround by flowers this morning putting together displays for the Spring Flower Show this weekend. But these aren't ordinary floral arrangements. These are giant koi fish crafted from hundreds of flowers. Ranging in colors and varieties the horticultural program is bringing their theme, Swimming in Flowers, to life.

 

Students began building the forms earlier this month out of ply wood and chicken wire. Yesterday they started adding the flowers, and by the time their done it will have taken upwards of six hours to complete most of the arrangements.

 

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Property Taxes Notice

Submitted by PRESS RELEASE on Monday, April 1st, 5:07 pm
Property Taxes Notice

Rob Chase, Spokane County Treasurer, would like to remind Spokane County taxpayers that first half property taxes are due by April 30 per Washington State law. If payments are mailed to the Treasurer's Office through the U.S. POstal Service, they muct be postmarked on or before the due date (RCW 1.12.070)

Mr. Chase also alerts the publlic to be careful that payments are dropped in a U.S. Postal Service box or station early enough so they are postmarked before the tax deadline. State law dictates that County Treasurers recognize only the cancellation date applied by the U.S. Postal Service to determine timeliness of payments.

Payment options include ACH, debit and credit cards via the Internet, in office, or through our phone system by calling (509) 477-4713 and pressing options #2. Please visit our website at www.spokanecounty.org/treasurer

Attention: Our normal business hours are from 8:30am-4pm, Monday through Thursday and 8:3-am-1:00pm Friday.

Payments can be mailed to the Treasurer's Office at the following address:

Spokane County Treasurer

P.O Box 199

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Group of pheasants spotted

Submitted by Jacob Palmer on Tuesday, January 1st, 7:07 pm
Group of pheasants spotted

A large group of pheasants were spotted north of Spokane.

Do you have pictures of wildlife coming near your home? Want to share your unique Inland Northwest experience with the KXLY Communities readership? Email your pictures and neighborhood story tips to jacobp@kxly.com today.

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Time to get rid of those Christmas trees, here's where you can do just that

Submitted by Jacob Palmer on Friday, December 28th, 5:21 pm
Time to get rid of those Christmas trees, here's where you can do just that

 

While the weather outside remains frightful, the fire delightful, the tree in your living room might be seeming more and more ridiculous the further away Dec. 25 becomes. But, good news, Spokane-area residents have plenty of options in getting rid of that festive fir.

If you live in a single-family home in the city of Spokane, you have a number of options, but the most convenient would be to drop it off on your regularly-scheduled pickup day with the rest of your trash – if the tree is taller than 6 feet, the city requires you to cut it in half. Waste Management will stop offering this service Jan. 18.

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Why picking up leaves is more important than you probably thought

Submitted by Bart Mihailovich, Spokane Riverkeeper
Tuesday, October 16th, 2012, 6:47pm
Why picking up leaves is more important than you probably thought

Rain and wind. NOW it feels like Fall.  

So with that in mind, it's a good time to think about an annoying chore that many of you will be doing in the coming days.  That chore of course is picking up leaves.  A necessary evil of home ownership, but also a major factor in water pollution prevention.  And after you read this, you'll realize that you actually live on "riverfront property"

Leaves are harmless, right?  Totally natural.  So how do they contribute to water pollution you ask?  

Wind blown leaves that make their way to the streets combine with leaves that naturally fall in to the street, creating excessive amounts of leaves that end up being washed down storm drains and in to the Spokane River where they begin to decay, and release nutrients contributing to the excess algae in lakes like Lake Spokane.

Even if the leaves themselves don’t move, rain seeping through leaf piles and leaves crushed by car tires makes a rich “nutrient tea” that flows along the curb into the storm drain system.

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Natural Living Show

Submitted by Annie Bishop on Wednesday, October 10th, 8:23 pm

Learning how to live a healthier, more sustainable lifestyle has never been more easy.  This weekend, more than three dozen vendors will be on hand at the Natural Living Show to help you make better choices for your body, environment and our community.

The show will feature local cheese-makers and handmade soaps. And, if you ever wanted to have your own eggs fresh from your backyard there will be a workshop on urban chickens too.

Here are all the details:

 Saturday, October 13th

10 am-6 pm

Spokane Community College Lair

Admission is $7, although if you swing by Sun People Dry Goods located at 32 West 2nd Avenue, Suite 200 you can pick up FREE passes!

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River stewardship at home

Submitted by Bart Mihailovich, Spokane Riverkeeper
Wednesday, September 5th, 2012, 6:23pm
River stewardship at home

People ask me all the time what the worst kind of pollution is in the Spokane River or where the most pollution comes from.  Every time I get the question, I put a serious look on my face and point a finger back to the question asker.

It's true.  "We have met the enemy and he is us."

In contrast to the obvious “point-source” pollutants of last century – the classic industrial pipe spewing brown filth into pristine waterways such as the [Spokane River]  - the greatest source of water pollution today is the more diffuse “non point-source” pollution known as stormwater runoff. 

This term describes pollutants of many kinds, from many sources – motor oil, paint, sewage, fertilizers, insecticides, pharmaceuticals, and other contaminants – that are washed off the land by rain, snow or mist and into water supplies.  Being that stormwater or polluted urban runoff as it's known is the number one source of pollution in the Spokane River, it's the things we put on our yards, down our drains and in to our environment other ways that ultimately turn out to harm our River the most.

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