This is the last week to catch CVHS theater department’s production of the Broadway musical “Singin’ in the Rain.”

This massive show consists of 75 students in cast and crew, a 24-piece live orchestra and real rain on the stage.

Final performances are Thursday, March 15th through Saturday, March 17th at 7:30 PM in the theater at CVHS.

Tickets are $10 when purchased at the CVHS business office or $12 at the door. The show has assigned seating and tickets sell out fast.

The WVHS band, color guard, cheer leaders and dance team put on a show for Shock fans, opening night.

Band director Jim Loucks said before pregame, “We’re doing the Monday night football theme song. Then we’re going to do a gorgeous arrangement of Star Spangled Banner. We’ve got a thirty by twenty American Flag we’re bringing on the field. It’ll be pretty high emotion for everybody.

Half time we’re going to do a couple of our pep band tunes; we’re going to end with LMFAO Party Rock Anthem. The band is going get out and do their dance moves, the dance team, cheer leaders, color guard, it’s just going to be a party atmosphere.”

The words nervous and excited were used more than once among the students while they prepped for pregame.

“We’ve done this twice before, but it has never been to this magnitude; opening night, pregame, we’re doing half time, everything. So it’s pretty cool,” Loucks said.

You know your party is out of control when outdoor lighting is provided by a law enforcement helicopter.  

That's what happened late Saturday night in the 16100 block of East Broadway in the Spokane Valley.  Air 1, the Spokane Sheriff's Department chopper, was hovering over the party scene, helping officers on the ground who were responding to a disturbance call triggered by a house party.

According to a Spokane Valley Police Department news release, when officers arrived at the scene, they were quickly outnumbered by a large number of intoxicated party-goers who were milling around the house and weren't particularly receptive to the officers' orders to go back inside.  The officers called for back-up, and eventually, units from all local law enforcement agencies were at the scene. 

Most folks eventually cooperated, but two gentlemen, 24 year old Rion Holmes and 22 year old Nicholas Loverro, chose to wander in the middle of Broadway, disrupting traffic, according to Deputy Craig Chamberlin.  Both were arrest for Rioting, Disorderly Conduct and Resisting Arrest.