The popular Dirty Dash opened registration today for the 2013 “race” to be held at Riverside State Park on July 13.

Loyalty registration, which runs until Jan. 30, costs only $35. After that the price to sign up steadily rises the closer we get to the event.

“Resolve to make 2013 your dirtiest yet and we guarantee to make that happen for you in one unforgettable morning of feasting on filth, groveling through grime, delighting in dirt, and wallowing in mud rather than self-pity,” a news release from Dirty Dash said.

Sign up at thedirtydash.com.

Here’s this week’s selection of Spokane photos taken by the Instagram community. To start it off, chalk art that still confirms that it is summer in Spokane in case you can’t tell. Some people in the area retreat to the river, some to their cell phones to take pictures of glorious sunsets. Sometimes it's the same sunset taken by different people in different parts of Spokane.

How was your week in the Inland Northwest? A lot of traffic and construction stories are building up in the community. Some schools are getting sidewalks and some neighborhoods really want their traffic calming projects.

Speaking of those projects, we uploaded a document showing all the submitted applications from neighborhoods this year for traffic calming projects. You can see what was submitted for your neighborhood.

Want to participate in next week’s photo gallery? Here’s how: Once a week we go through and select ten photos that we think show off the region in all its glory. To select them, we search the #Spokane tag on Instagram through Storify. Your photo could appear in this weekly slide show.

Just like bringing home a newborn baby, your little chicks will need a place of their own.

“We recommend having it all set up before bringing the chicks home. Turn on the heat lamp before you get your chicks, so that it’s nice a warm by the time you get home,” Assistant Manager at Big R on Trent Avenue, Cody Tylock said.

We kept our girls in a feeding trough. We used a screened window frame to cover the top. They graduated to larger cardboard boxes every other week until they were ready to be outside.

Ron Welker manages the Aslin-Finch in the Spokane Valley. He recommends heating up only one area of your chick space, whether you’re housing them in a bathtub, a feeding trough or a cardboard box.