The story: Randy and Jeneanne Koch operate a stock car race driving school for amateurs at Stateline Speedway in Idaho.

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Produced by Dan Pelle

Competitive Edge Racing School fulfills the need for speed. Students can learn the basic principals of car racing in the morning and be strapped into a car flying around the track in the afternoon.

The story: Sprint boat racing in St. John last weekend.

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Produced by Nick Eaton

Who knew speedboats could race at 70 mph through the middle of a grass field.
The sprint boat racing circuit stopped through St. John, Wash., last weekend to race at Webb’s Slough, a course dug out of the ground and filled with water. It was the second race ever at the track.
Three-thousand people watched 25 boats race the clock. Some of the boats powered through the canals without a hitch. Others blasted out of the water and skidded into the field.

The story: Landt Farms Sporting Clays hosts the Wash. State Sporting Clays Championships June 19-20 2008.

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Brian Scott with Landt Farms calls the game of Sporting Clays, "golfing with shotguns."

The story: Slowed by Lou Gehrig's Disease, Jenny Hoff is thankful for the help she receives from children in her neighborhood.

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Produced by Dan Pelle

Jenny Hoff is losing the use of her limbs. She has been diagnosed with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) or better known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. But she is gaining the friendship of young people from her Spokane Valley neighborhood. The children give their time and efforts to attend to chores around Hoff’s home. Hoff, in return gives the kids lessons in life.

The story: Blind Spokane comedian Jimmy Green performs at local comedy clubs in Spokane.

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Produced by Kathy Plonka

The best part about being a photographer is being able to spend time with people like Jimmy Green. He made me laugh so much that it was hard to keep the cameras still. Spokesman-Review photographer Dan Pelle was patient enough to help me put this piece together. I’m still afraid to take the training wheels off.

See the story of comedian Jimmy Green coming in Sunday's Spokesman-Review

The story: Fifty years after its construction, Avista Stadium got its biggest renovation of its life during the baseball off-season.

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To go along with John Blanchette's column Sunday about the 50th anniversary of Avista Stadium, here is a video I produced on the field. During the past two off-seasons, with $4 million from the state Legislature, the stadium had its biggest makeover of its life.

The story: Local musicians kick off a week of collecting donations for the food bank.

Produced by Thuy-Dzuong Nguyen

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The story: Three students try out to be the next Swoop, Eastern Washington University's eagle mascot.

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Produced by Nick Eaton

The story: Spokane couple find 400-500 papier mache molds called flongs, used in newspaper printing, plastered to their house.

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The story: Spokesman-Review reporter Jessica Brown gives a midseason update of the Spokane Shock.

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Produced by Nick Eaton

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The story: The 7th Annual Developmental Olympics in the Mead School District
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The Developmental Learning Center is where moderately to severely disabled students receive their education in the Mead School District. Most are in self-contained classrooms. But the annual Developmental Olympics is a day to get out in the sun, mingle with kids your own age and have a little fun. On Wednesday, May 28, 2008 almost 100 kids spread out over the infield at the Mead High School track to try their hand at games and sports, such as volleyball, bowling, t-ball and soccer. Mead High School students helped out and it was a morning full of activities for which the kids earned ribbons.

The story: More than 3,000 Chiefs fans flooded Spokane Arena on Monday to welcome home the Memorial Cup champions.

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Video produced by Nick Eaton

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The story: Follow water's journey from mountaintop snow in Idaho to the Spokane Falls.
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Produced by Brian Plonka

From nearly 3,000 feet in the foothills of the Selkirk Mountains, to the end of the Spokane Falls, this assignment could not have been more enjoyable. The toughest part of this project was trying to make different photographs of simple scenes combining an artistic flair.

If you visit the falls in the next few days, look for the unobvious. Set your camera on manual and try slow shutter speeds. The water is living and moving and should be represented as such.

--Brian Plonka

The story: Huge runoff from the Idaho mountains has caused the Spokane River to flood. As a result, onlookers are treated to a spectacular water show as a flow of more than 40,000 cubic feet per second comes crashing down the falls below City Hall.

Produced by Thomas Clouse

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The story:
For nearly 20 years, RiteCare Spokane has offered free speech
therapy services for Inland Northwest children between the ages of two and seven.

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Here's a link to the Voices story by Cindy Hval, published Jan 10, 2008.

The month of May is national "Better Speech and hearing Month."

As many as 1 in 10 kids have speech problems and without therapy it could mean a lifetime of insecurity with no way to connect with others, no way to express their feelings, and no way to understand others thoughts. For nearly 20 years, RiteCare Spokane has offered free speech therapy services for Inland Northwest children between the ages of two and seven.