A long time tradition of county and interstate fairs has been the food competitions. One section includes baked goods of all sorts including pies.

Spokane Valley resident, Janice Suttner had been attending the fair for years and has been making pies for just as long, but never had she submitted a pie to the fair's competition. This year, was the year.

"I've always enjoyed them when I go the fair. I thought, I'll do it this year," Suttner said.

And then her blueberry pie won a blue ribbon.

I never liked eating breakfast, but I ate it. Probably because I had a good mother. Everyday she'd deliver the line every good mother delivers to her young 'It's the most important meal of the day' and then she'd make me 'eat something' so I'd be ready to learn.

I know now how lucky I was. Not only because I had a good mom who made me eat, but because I came from a home where there was healthy, nutritious food. Such is not always the case.

And now, Spokane Public Schools is picking up where the mother or home can't.

The Miracle Worker, the story of Helen Keller and her teacher, Annie Sullivan, has returned to Spokane for a short time.  This is your opportunity to see the inspiring story come to life as Annie Sullivan comes into Helen Keller's world of darkness and silence, having been left blind and deaf from a childhood illness.  With Annie’s persistance the doors to Helen’s world are unlocked and Helen learns to communicate with the world outside her own.