CRCynthia Reugh

1. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Cynthia Reugh

   Pattison’s family skate operation expands into the Spokane Valley (opens the original)

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   Shaun Pattison was less than a year old when mom and dad laced up his first set of roller skates. “It’s kind of like a rite of passage … all of the babies in our family start skating before they start walking,” Pattison said. A champion speed skater who scored multiple awards for his finesse on four wheels, Pattison is now owner of two local skating rinks. It’s a position he holds with high honor. His parents met at the family’s north Spokane skating rink, and his adult kids still work there eac

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2. Article · Jul 27, 2026 · Cynthia Reugh

   Moving memories: Local libraries help Spokane families preserve vintage photos and videos (opens the original)

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   They say a picture paints a thousand words. First steps. Birthday parties. School events. Nowadays, these touching milestones are easily captured on a cellphone, but for some of us, that point -and -tap technology arrived much too late. Our basements now littered with tattered boxes of old prints and slides; those precious images recorded decades before Apple and Instagram became household words. The memories are heartfelt. The obsolete media formats, fragile at best. “To them, it’s their treasu

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