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The story: Ocularist Kim Erickson creates custom artificial eyes for people who have lost an eye to disease or injury.
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Kim Erickson is an artist. Anyone who sees his work would not doubt that for an instant. But his pieces don't hang in museums. In fact, his masterpieces go unnoticed by all but their owners. Erickson, like his father before him, handcrafts plastic prosthetic eyes from his office in downtown Spokane. "My best work is invisible," he says.

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The story: Thousands attended Friday's memorial service for Moscow Police Officer Lee Newbill who was killed in the line of duty last week.
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Lee Newbill, a 48-year-old father of three became the first Moscow police officer to be killed in the line of duty, one of three people fatally shot by 30-year-old janitor Jason Hamilton before the gunman took his own life May 19, 2007. On Friday the town held a memorial for Newbill. Thousands attended the somber event held in the University of Idaho’s Kibbie Dome.

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The story: The Olmsted Brothers, a landscape architect firm from Brookline, Mass., helped shape the lasting legacy of Spokane's city park system.
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Drive around Spokane in 2007 and everywhere you look, you’ll detect a common theme:
• Cannon Hill Park — the Olmsteds designed it.
• Finch Arboretum — the Olmsteds conceived it.
• Downriver Park — the Olmsteds suggested it.
• Manito Park — the Olmsteds improved it.
• Rockwood Boulevard — the Olmsteds plotted it.
• Gorge Park — the Olmsteds dreamed of it, 100 years early.
Who were these legendary Olmsteds? And how did they come to shape so much of Spokane a century later?

Read more about the Olmsteds and where the enviable park system built under them stands today in Sunday's Spokane editions of The Spokesman-Review and at SpokesmanReview.com.

The story: Nat Williams, a retired acoustics consultant, spends his time tinkering with clocks in the basement of his home in Spokane, Washington.

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He says he doesn't know everything about clocks, but certainly, Nat Williams has enough knowledge to write a book. From repairs to the history of time keeping, Williams can spit out the facts with a rhythm that rivals his most accurate time pieces.

The story: Derek Turner didn't let his disability keep him from showing his lamb at the Junior Livestock Show Thursday.

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Derek Turner of Medical Lake, Washington makes his debut performance at the 72nd Spokane Junior Livestock Show. He is the first wheelchair participant to display a lamb in the arena and rolled away with a blue ribbon.

The story: After picking up their race packets at the annual Bloomsday Check-in and Trade Show, runners faced a gauntlet of vendors at the Spokane Convention Center Friday.

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Thousands of Bloomsday runners converged on the new Spokane Convention Center’s Exhibition Hall Friday to pickup packets containing their race numbers and timing chips. In past years as a still photographer, I would roam the floor for hours looking for a decent photograph that told a story. In reality, picking up packets and checking out the trade show vendors, didn't add up the great photojournalism. This year as a video journalist, I tried a different track. I talked to as many runners and vendors as I could. What I found were some pretty funny people (and a few serious ones) who seemed to be enjoying the lead up to one the largest timed road race events in the country.

The structure of this video is more of an experiment for me. I left my voice in the narrative. I had a fun time with my subjects, which get funnier as the video progresses.

Good luck to all the 50,000 runners, walkers and strollers on Sunday. I am taking a break from shooting the race with my video cmaera and instead will dust off my rusty old Nikons.

Colin

For those planning to pick up their race packets Saturday, you can do so from 9.00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

The story: Local college students marched from Riverfront Park to the Federal Courthouse Tueday in support of immigrant rights

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