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Nesting
Let s be real. We re going to be spending a lot of time indoors, with just a few people, for quite a while. And it s OK to be OK with that. In fact, the Danish, who experience long, cold, dark winters just like ours, have a word for the feelings of winter s cozy, charming contentment: hygge. (English speakers approximate the difficult pronunciation as hoo-gah or hue-gah. ) If you re interested in hygge, the library has some great books to help you learn about it, says Spokane County Library public services manager Gwendolyn Haley. Though hygge isn t concisely translated into English, the elements include togetherness, relaxation, indulgence, presence and comfort. It starts by creating the right atmosphere.
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The Spokane Regional Health District has received about $8 million in CARES funding distributed by the county. A
s COVID-19 made its first wave across the country, and schools and businesses shut down, Congress passed the CARES Act this spring in an effort to dampen the economic fallout of the pandemic. Spokane County received about $91 million from the $2.2 trillion stimulus bill, signed by President Donald Trump on March 27. That meant that three Spokane County commissioners Republicans Al French, Josh Kerns and Mary Kuney got to decide how to dole out money to affected businesses, government agencies and nonprofits. The money has to be spent by the end of this year.
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he way Spokane County Commissioner Al French tells it, state Rep. Marcus Riccelli was explicit about his plans when he pitched him on a bill to remake the county board, expanding the number from three countywide commissioners to five district-elected commissioners. Before he floated the bill in 2017, he and I had breakfast down at Perkins, French asserts. He told me straight to my face: He wanted to run for county commissioner. He says it with the tone of reciting an obvious fact that,
of course, everybody already knows. That s totally false, says Riccelli, D-Spokane. I have never expressed to Al French that I am running for county commissioner, he chuckles. He s not telling the truth.