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YMCA Diabetes Prevention Program to expand

 

The YMCA has a unique program for the prevention of diabetes that is expanding to the East Central Community Center.

 

The Diabetes Prevention Program will expand this October. The YMCA of the Inland Northwest received a $4,500 grant from the Greenstone Foundation.

 

This money will help the Diabetes Prevention Program to reach out to people and offer a year-long program at a considerably reduced price. The program helps those at risk for developing type two diabetes adopt and maintain healthy lifestyles.

Detectives need help identifying these suspects

Detectives need help identifying these suspects

Spokane Valley Detectives need the public's help identifying these two men, suspected of stealing from ATM and vending machines. 

These surveillance photos are from Valley Hospital Security after these suspects allegedly broke into and stole money from a vending machine.

Detectives are currently investigating multiple vending machine thefts and believe these two suspects are linked to the ATM thefts that took place this September at the Spokane County Interstate Fair. 

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Check at 509-456-2233.

Flu vaccines are here

The flu vaccine is available from many health care providers in our state. 

Everyone six months of age and older is urged to get a flu shot. The shot is especially important for young children, people 65 and older, pregnant women, parents of newborns and people with various medical conditions. 

There is a variety of types of flu vaccines available. There is a high-dose vaccine available for people 65 and older. Ages 2-49 can get a nasal spray vaccine. There is also a vaccine that has a much smaller needle than regular flu shots. 

This season's flu shot covers three different strains of the flu virus. 

Taking simple precautions such as washing your hands, covering your cough and staying home when you're sick can help keep not only th flu away, but whooping cough as well. 

The Department of Health has bought more than 721,000 doses of flu vaccine for children. The flu vaccine, as well as the whooping cough vaccine, are free for children in Washington up through the age of 18. 

The Department of Health also bought the Tdap vaccine for uninsured and underinsured adults. 

'Spare A Square' project helping those in our community

'Spare A Square' project helping those in our community

KXLY is teaming up with Project Beauty Share and Northwest Harvest to put on the "Spare A Square TP Drive" this month.

This year's goal is to raise 25,000 toilet paper rolls. Dozens of local charities struggle to provide this basic personal hygiene item every year.

One of those charities is St. Margaret's, a homeless shelter for women and children on Spokane's lower south hill.

Linda is one woman who will benefit from the drive, she is a single mother of 9 children. She was homeless for 2 years before moving into the shelter 9 months ago.

She says she doesn't know where she'd be today without the help of Project Beauty Share and St. Margaret's.

"You have a caseworkers to help, you have friends and, ya know, a bed to sleep on. And you have a bathroom, you can take a shower. We didn't have that last year. We didn't have nothing. No income. Ya know, we were on the street. We had to go to the UGM (Union Gospel Mission). It was hard," Linda said.

Linda is working to get her driver's license and a job so she can move out of the shelter.

Group pushing for new military museum at Felts Field

Group pushing for new military museum at Felts Field

An effort to a bring a first class museum honoring military veterans is now closer to becoming reality.

The group pushing for the museum was formerly named Armed Forces and Aerospace Museum Society. They have unanimously voted to change their name to Honor Point Military and Aerospace Museum.

The group hopes to get the muesum built at Felts Field Airport in east Spokane. The museum hopes to provide a meaningful and quality historical military and aerospace experience.

Honor Point has also formed a new partnership with Felts Field and the Spokane Airport Board. For the first time, the museum has control over property it hopes to build on, which is important to supporters and potential funders.

The museum will hopefully become the anchor tenant in the proposed Felts Field capital improvement plan. The plans are designed to redevelop and revitalize Felts Field and the entire east Spokane neighborhood surrounding the airfield.  

Honor Point expects to launch a formal capital campaign early next year.

Young Spokane designer headed to Fashion Week

You may have heard the saying the one man's trash is another man's treasure. One Spokane designer is using that phrase to make clothes out of reuseable materials. 

Rachel Mace is only 22 but she's getting ready to show her designs in one of the biggest fashion events in the United States, New York's Fashion Week. 

"Fashion Week is the biggest event in fashion in our continent," said Mace. 

Fashion Week is known by designers and fashion enthusiasts everywhere as one of the "must attend" events. In fact big names such as Donna Karan and Chanel show their pieces at this event while stars like Kim Kardashian, Kanye West and Heidi Klum attend their shows. 

Although Rachel didn't have any formal training as a designer like others that will be at the event, she said she got her start when someone recognized her talent. 

"I went to the store and bought some garbage bags, but when I home and realized I already had some. So I made a skirt out of the new ones," said Mace. 

It was that decision to use reusable materials that helped her get her start. 

Introducing guest blogger Bart Mihailovich, the Spokane Riverkeeper

I am very excited and honored to have been given the opportunity to become a guest blogger on KXLY's network of neighborhood sites, so I thought I'd start off by introducing myself.

My name is Bart Mihailovich and I am YOUR Spokane Riverkeeper.  Being that my job title and description is all about the Spokane River, you can expect that I'll almost entirely be posting about the Spokane River and the greater Spokane River Watershed.

So what is the Spokane Riverkeeper you might be asking.  Great question.  Hopefully between myself and Redband Trout in the attached video you can learn a little bit more about what I do.