Cindy Hval
Freelance Columnist, Front Porch at The Spokesman-Review
News Reporter at SpokaneFAVS
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1 week ago |
spokesman.com | Cindy Hval
A Christmas gift launched Isaac Sims’ impressive collection. Last week, the 13-year-old Mountainside Middle School student cradled a small police car in his hand. “It’s Barricade,” he said. “I got it for Christmas when I was 5 or 6.”Barricade is a Transformer – one of many in a toy craze that burst onto the scene in the mid-1980s and shows no signs of flagging. “I got more Transformers, and I wanted to display them,” Isaac said.
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1 week ago |
spokesman.com | Cindy Hval
Many couples delight in giving each other special tokens of affection, but the gift Bob Faltermeyer gave his wife is priceless. In January, he donated a kidney to Susan. “He saved my life,” she said. They first saw each other at a real estate open house in 1992. Susan, a single mom of a young daughter, had recently returned to Spokane after several years in Alaska. “The day after the open house, I told my girlfriends I’d seen this attractive man, and they told me to call the Realtor,” Susan said.
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2 weeks ago |
cindyhval.com | Cindy Hval
There’s something deliciously rewarding about reaching a stage in life where you can finally purchase something you’ve always wanted but previously denied yourself, believing it to be a frivolous expense. In times past, for me, that might have been buying a cute pair of strappy sandals or a blingy bracelet, but I seem to have achieved a new tier of adulthood. After a stressful few weeks, I decided to engage in some retail therapy.
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2 weeks ago |
spokesman.com | Cindy Hval
Ever since she can remember, Eva Silverstone has been a writer and a drawer. “As a child, I wanted to write and illustrate children’s books,” she said. She may not have achieved that childhood ambition, but through her work at Spokane Public Library, she’s cultivated space for over 50 individuals to draw, paint, sew, write and create. Silverstone is the drive behind the Hive, a nontraditional library centered on arts education and free, public event spaces.
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2 weeks ago |
spokesman.com | Cindy Hval
There’s something deliciously rewarding about reaching a stage in life where you can finally purchase something you’ve always wanted but previously denied yourself, believing it to be a frivolous expense. In times past, for me, that might have been buying a cute pair of strappy sandals or a blingy bracelet, but I seem to have achieved a new tier of adulthood. After a stressful few weeks, I decided to engage in some retail therapy.
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