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The United Way of Moscow/Latah County awarded a $3,000 grant to Palouse Habitat for Humanity to support its Home Repair Program in 2019. Since the founding of its Home Repair program in 2013, Palouse HFH has completed 52 home repair projects and it has developed a ...
One in four Idahoans is a caregiver. These parents, sons and daughters, spouses, friends and neighbors, provide more than 201 million hours in uncompensated care annually. Acknowledging their service, Gov. Butch Otter recognized November 2018 as National Family Caregiver ...
Local businesses offer high schoolers, college students opportunity The Disability Action Center (DAC) Northwest in Moscow is offering high school and college students with disabilities in the Moscow and Pullman area the chance to explore career opportunities and potentially ...
Central Lions Club president says there is room for everyone in the service organization Dulce Kersting-Lark, president of the Moscow Central Lions Club, said one of the biggest misconceptions she seeks to dispel about the decades-old service organization is that members ...
By Alysen Boston, Daily News staff writer, Jun 30, 2018 As housing costs continue to rise, families on the Palouse are feeling the crunch as they try to secure their own slice of the American Dream. Jennifer Wallace, executive director of Palouse Habitat for Humanity, said ...
With reference to the Gerald E. Weitz letter titled “About 20 percent of population is dyslexic” (May 7), I applaud Weitz’s call for more and better postsecondary training avenues outside traditional professional educational tracks. Many people – ...
Back in 1988, I was a very angry teenager. I just turned 17 and had a nasty car accident that left me paralyzed from the waist down. I was considered a ‘complete’ spinal cord injury, meaning that there was not even a slight chance that I would walk again. I was ...
April 20, 2018 College students are a large population on the Palouse, but this doesn’t mean the community leaves senior citizens or members with disabilities without any help or support system. The WSU Human Development 415 class has worked with Disability Action Center in ...
Students in HD 415learn about leadership skills and theories, and apply them real-world efforts, while helping the community along the way. Partnering with different organizations through the Center for Civic Engagementat Washington State University, CTLL Clinical Assistant ...
When it comes to change, I am an old soul, or as my husband likes to say “set in my ways.” Well the joke’s on him for I have known this since I was 3, just ask my siblings. I’m a total Type A personality. I hate change and it takes me a while to […]
