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Football

Summer Camps 2020 All Northwest Football Passing Academy An offensive skill development for quarterbacks, wide receivers, tight ends and running backs.…




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Soccer

Summer Camps 2020 Challenger Sports International Soccer A soccer camp to accelerate the learning process of young players.…




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Volleyball

Summer Camps 2020 G-Prep Volleyball Camp A camp run by the Gonzaga Prep coaching staff and college-level guest coaches, offering athletes a solid fundamental base in all aspects of volleyball.…




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Other Sports

Summer Camps 2020 Dragon Racket Sports Camp Through fun games and contests, learn the fundamentals and develop skills and an understanding of racket sports.…




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A guide to the Inlander's list of 2020 summer camps

Summer Camps 2020 "Regional Summer Camps Hope the Pandemic Doesn't Put Activities on Pause, But Have Backup Plans Ready if it Does" …




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North Idaho Rep. Heather Scott reaps the glory — and the consequences — of being one of Matt Shea's biggest allies

At these gatherings in northeast Washington, the jackboot of tyranny is always said to be descending, the hand of the federal government always inches away from stealing your guns, your land, your freedom to speak or to pray.…



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The cannabis industry is putting people to work

Legal marijuana might be putting dealers out of work, but it's definitely not harming the job market in general.…



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They keep inventing new ways to consume cannabis

We've come a long way since the olden days before legalization, when basically the only product on the market was the flower you got from a dealer.…



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Key Missteps at the CDC Have Set Back Its Ability to Detect the Potential Spread of Coronavirus

The CDC designed a flawed test for COVID-19, then took weeks to figure out a fix so state and local labs could use it. New York still doesn’t trust the test’s accuracy By Caroline Chen, Marshall Allen, Lexi Churchill and Isaac Arnsdorf Propublica…



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Coronavirus update: UW busy with testing, new guidelines for visiting grandma and other COVID-19 headlines

Coronavirus Family Tree The University of Washington Virology lab, which is testing samples for coronavirus, tweeted last night.…



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With a new coronavirus sweeping the world, how much should you really worry?

Since late last year, a new coronavirus, now dubbed COVID-19, has been sweeping the globe, sickening more than 114,000 with flu- and cold-like symptoms and killing more than 4,000 so far.…



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Should I quarantine because of coronavirus? It depends on who you ask

Agencies, local authorities and national governments do not agree on who should be quarantined or what that should actually look like. Here’s what we do know. By Maya Miller, Caroline Chen and Joshua Kaplan ProPublica People who have been exposed to the coronavirus are being given incomplete or misleading information about whether they should quarantine themselves, exposing major gaps in the public health response to the pandemic and illuminating disagreement among officials about how useful the tactic even is at this point in the disease’s spread.…



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Dozens of Spokane, Coeur d'Alene events canceled due to public health concerns over COVID-19

After Governor Jay Inslee announced a prohibition on gatherings of 250 people or more in three Washington counties (Snohomish, King, Pierce) on Wednesday, and with public health concerns growing over the COVID-19 pandemic, many organizations in Spokane are following suit. The Inlander will be frequently updating its online calendar of events to reflect local cancelations as we hear of them.…



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How South Korea scaled coronavirus testing while the U.S. fell dangerously behind

By learning from a MERS outbreak in 2015, South Korea was prepared and acted swiftly to ramp up testing when the new coronavirus appeared there. Meanwhile, the U.S., plagued by delay and dysfunction, wasted its advantage. By Stephen Engelberg, Lisa Song and Lydia DePillis ProPublica…



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The Innovia Foundation's former president has finally won his three-year battle to stop the organization from donating to a racist website

There's one thing the Innovia Foundation can never say: That it hadn't been told.…



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Coronavirus: The latest news on COVID-19

We at the Inlander are committed to keeping people informed and connected throughout the coronavirus outbreak. We'll continue to update this page with the latest headlines.…



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The cruelest part of the coronavirus: It's cut us off from community and solace

There’s a cliche that always follows a big tragedy — something we say after natural disasters, economic collapses, school shootings, acts of terrorisms.…



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These are are our neighbors. These are readers. These are the people we're all trying to save.

How the coronavirus outbreak has upended people's lives across the Inland Northwest The numbers don't lie.…



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Make the most of your quarantine while stoned with these visual escapes

You shouldn't find yourself rewatching some sitcom for the thousandth time or sitting through a vacuous Hollywood blockbuster just because you're stoned and stuck inside during the age of social distancing.…



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The Douchemans

A pandemic-inspired short story There was an old couple who lived in a ramshackle house above Hangman Valley at the end of our street, maybe sixty, seventy years old.…



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Rationing Protective Gear Means Checking on Coronavirus Patients Less Often. This Can Be Deadly

Low on essential supplies and fearing they’ll get sick, doctors and nurses told ProPublica in-person care for coronavirus patients has been scaled back. In some cases, it’s causing serious harm. By Joshua Kaplan, Lizzie Presser and Maya Miller, ProPublica Every morning, between 7 and 8, at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, several coronavirus patients are pronounced dead.…



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The 2020 Cannabis Issue

The transformation of marijuana — aka pot, weed, reefer, ganja, dope, herb, bud, grass, Mary Jane — has been nothing short of dramatic.…



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Privacy is disappearing faster than we realize, and the coronavirus isn't helping

The apps and devices you use are conducting surveillance with your every move Sure, you lock your home, and you probably don't share your deepest secrets with random strangers.…



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UPDATED: Spokane Veterans Home isolated residents back in February due to respiratory illness — with no way to test

UPDATE: The Department of Veterans Affairs announced after this article was first published that Spokane Veterans Home residents with COVID-19 would be moved to the Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center.…



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A father sees his son for the final time through a pane of glass at a Lewiston nursing home

Monty Spears didn't know it at the time, but the last time he'd see his father would be through the window at the Life Care Center of Lewiston.…



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Sturdy and old-fashioned, Ford v Ferrari is a leisurely paced character study about cool guys and fast cars

There are no legal skirmishes in Ford v Ferrari.…



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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is a gentle, deeply moving ode to the power of kindness

[IMAGE-1] I started sobbing from the opening moments of A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, and I didn't stop crying for two hours. And then after I left the cinema and ran into a fellow film critic who had also just seen it, I literally could not manage a word of discussion without bursting into tears again.…



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Someone's dead and everyone's a suspect in the slight but engaging all-star whodunit Knives Out

[IMAGE-1] Watching Rian Johnson's Knives Out, I was reminded of my middle school English teacher Mrs. Soderbergh, who loved Agatha Christie books almost as much as she loved diagramming sentences. There was a week when she brought in a box stacked high with her own Christie paperbacks, set it down in front of the classroom and had each of us pick a book based solely on the plot summary on the back.…



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You'll be wishing for Lego while enduring the plastic horrors of Playmobil: The Movie

We could blame the enormous — and justifiable — success of the Lego flicks for the existence of Playmobil: The Movie, but that would be unfair to all the shameless knockoffs and cinematic coattail riders.…



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Noah Baumbach's great Marriage Story finds comedy and empathy in the details of a painful divorce

[IMAGE-1] Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story begins as its central marriage is coming to an end. Our two protagonists are fiercely independent, articulate, opinionated creative types: Charlie (Adam Driver) is the director of an avant-garde theater troupe in New York City; Nicole (Scarlett Johansson) is an actress and one of his primary collaborators.…



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Clint Eastwood's true-life drama Richard Jewell takes aims at big targets, and misses

Once upon a time, Clint Eastwood, a notoriously outspoken conservative in supposedly liberal Hollywood, had no problem at all with cops who employed their own unconventional extra-legal brand of law enforcement (see: Dirty Harry). Today, in Richard Jewell, he really doesn't like the FBI.…



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Jumanji: The Next Level continues a one-joke franchise that wasn't all that funny to begin with

[IMAGE-1]Welcome back to the jungle. And welcome to an unfortunate new Christmas movie tradition: the Jumanji movie.…



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As The Rise of Skywalker readies to put a bow on a chapter in Star Wars lore, the franchise's omnipresence has shifted its fandom

With all due respect to Greta Thunberg and Billie Eilish, nobody had a better 2019 than Baby Yoda. The real star of the Disney+ flagship Star Wars series The Mandalorian, the little green puppeteering/CGI marvel (aka "the Child") might be the most adorable creature ever created.…



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You might feel anxious watching Uncut Gems, or you might simply be annoyed by one man's bad decisions

Uncut Gems is one of those "his own worst enemy" capers. You know, the kind of movie where you sit there for two hours watching some doofus constantly trip over his own laces — usually figuratively, sometimes literally — on the way to a personal epiphany about how all his bad choices and lack of useful self-awareness have led him to whatever unpleasant place they lead him to.…



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Based on a powerful true story, Just Mercy examines racial injustice within the American legal system

[IMAGE-1] I honestly don't know how people like Bryan Stevenson keep up the fight. Just Mercy is the true origin story of a literal social justice warrior, a Harvard-educated lawyer who, in the late 1980s, launched the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, to take on the neediest, most desperate cases.…



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1917 is designed to look like a single take. Here are some other films that use similar tricks to great effect

Sam Mendes' 1917, which took Best Picture and Best Director awards at the Golden Globes earlier this week, looks like a standard period piece.…



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The Lodge is a lame psychological horror film that will have you checking out immediately

[IMAGE-1] First of all: No. Why would a suddenly single dad to traumatized young children leave said shocked and distressed kids with his new fiancée, who is also the sole survivor of her own massive childhood trauma?…



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Harrison Ford goes full curmudgeon in this surprisingly sweet, old-fashioned version of The Call of the Wild

[IMAGE-1] Harrison Ford has gone full Grizzly Adams and Buck the canine hero is fully CGI, 100-percent digital, not a scrap of real fur or dog farts about him. There is so much about this new umpteenth film version of Jack London's classic novel The Call of the Wild that is ready-made for meme-iriffic snarking.…



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Spokane musician Eliza Johnson brought her quirky style — and tinned fish — to American Idol Sunday night. Watch the clip

Back in November, we wrote about local singer-songwriter Eliza Johnson's musical project Eliza Catastrophe and her new album You, which she released on pre-loaded MP3 players. One thing we weren't able to mention in our interview — for contractual reasons — is that she had only a couple months prior auditioned for American Idol, and her performance finally aired on the ABC reality competition show Sunday night.…



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In reimagining a beloved novel, Emma understands what made Jane Austen so special in the first place

[IMAGE-1] Before smartphones and Instagram, there were influencers, and they could be as shallow, overconfident and pejorative as they are today. This new adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma — the feature debuts of photographer and music-video director Autumn de Wilde and Man Booker Prize-winning novelist turned screenwriter Eleanor Catton — brings that sort of modern frisson to its retelling of the tale of a very rich young woman who amuses herself by interfering in the romantic lives of those around her.…



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It's no Pixar classic, but Onward continues the studio's penchant for intelligent, original animated entertainment

What am I supposed to say here?…



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Honky-tonk hero Dwight Yoakam books Spokane show in September

Dwight Yoakam has always been the personification of country-cool, and he's bringing his killer band, hiccuping vocals, rootsy style and predilection for unexpected covers to Spokane in September. Perhaps best known for his devotion to the "Bakersfield sound" and his past collaborations with Buck Owens, Yoakam has always straddled the line between country and rock.…



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Everyone sees dead people in the droll Irish horror-comedy Extra Ordinary

Ever since Ghostbusters, the go-to tactic for supernatural comedy is to show characters experiencing remarkable, seemingly impossible things and yet reacting with the kind of mild bemusement you get watching someone successfully parallel park.…



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How Spokane Bishop Thomas Daly wrestled with the moral dilemma of canceling Mass for coronavirus

This is hardly the first time the Catholic Church has to deal with a plague. Spokane Bishop Thomas Daly knows that well.…



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Where I Can Find an Inlander?

We at the Inlander remain committed to keeping people informed and connected during the coronavirus outbreak, supporting our readers and local businesses in the ways we always have. We have experienced some disruption in where we distribute papers, but we're stocking and restocking thousands of copies at local Rosauers, Super 1, URM Cash & Carry, Yoke's, Albertson's and Safeway stores, plus Papa Murphy's locations, My Fresh Basket and more.…



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Doom's new and improved storyline, Pearl Jams new album and more you need to know

PROPHET OF DOOM…



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Health Officials Recommended Canceling Events with 10-50 People. Then 33,000 Fans Attended a Major League Soccer Game.

As COVID-19 fears grew, public officials and sports execs contemplated health risks — and debated a PR message — but let 33,000 fans into a Seattle Sounders soccer match, emails show. By Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, and David Gutman and Lewis Kamb, The Seattle Times On March 6, at 2:43 p.m., the health officer for Public Health — Seattle & King County, the hardest-hit region in the first state to be slammed by COVID-19, sent an email to a half-dozen colleagues, saying, “I want to cancel large group gatherings now.”…



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A cherished resource in this moment: our region's writers, poets and journalists

Our staff of reporters and photographers at the Inlander has been working tirelessly to cover the coronavirus pandemic and all of its implications for the Inland Northwest — on jobs, schools, employment, the restaurant industry, arts organizations, hospitals and much, much more. However, we’ve also tapped into a boundless resource that is our region’s community of writers, and in recent days they’ve shared with Inlander readers an awe-inspiring series of essays and stories that has left us inspired, hopeful, heartbroken and more than a little grateful.…



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Creative cooking at home with chef Ricky Webster

Spokane chef Ricky Webster is bringing tips, recipes and good cheer from his kitchen to yours through a series of lighthearted cooking videos.…



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White House projects COVID-19 death toll of 3,000 people per day, Washington casinos weigh reopening, and other headlines

ON INLANDER.COM WORLD: Roughly two weeks after Canada's deadliest mass shooting, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduced an immediate ban on what he called “military-style assault weapons.”…