The group gathered in the East Valley Community Garden and watched a demonstration of how wheat was harvest 3,000 years ago. Dan Conley used a sickle to cut part of the crop to show students how the ancient Egyptians gathered food. The students also received a lesson is modern farming when Blaine and Tyler Fricke used a combine to harvest the rest of the acre plot. The wheat will go to the ADM plant in Cheney where it will be cleaned and then students will grind the wheat for use in school kitchens and their cooking projects.

The East Valley Community garden is part of a East Valley Farms and Schools Partnership.

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.

Depending on your evening, ride-alongs can be the thrill of your week, responding to dispatched calls of domestic violence, suspicious activity, welfare checks and more. Or you'll chase after a bunch of alleged cows reported standing in the middle of the road out in the middle of nowhere. It all depends! Spokane County Sheriff's Office is offering the opportunity for everyday citizens to get a taste of that action through their Citizen's Academy for this fall.