Rich Wandschneider

Years ago, Albert Red Star Andrews of the Joseph Band of Nez Perce on the Colville Reservation in north central Washington, told me about a unique Fourth of July event on his reservation.

One of the privileges of living past 80 is that we can remember a time when housing was not seen as a problem, and “homelessness” was not a word.

I know you have plenty of community groups that look after people and places on the wet side of the mountains, but thought I would chronicle a few of ours, if nothing else to encourage you to join in and/or thank your own doers of good community deeds.

Beirut was once the Paris of the Middle East.. Now Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and Iran have all dissolved into chaos.

The rooms above Homan’s, with a shaving sink in each one and the bathroom down the hall, have been converted into luxury hotel rentals.