🌱 Firefighters Battled Dangerous Silo Fire + New Portable Toilet

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First, today's weather:

Brief morning showers; cloudy. High: 51 Low: 40.

Here are the top three stories in Spokane today:

1. Spokane Valley firefighters battled a dangerous fire inside a multi-story seed storage silo on East Alki Avenue just after midnight on Friday. The firefighters were called to the site after receiving reports of a smoldering fire inside the unit. The dust inside the half-full storage container was extremely flammable and had the potential to explode. (KREM.com)
2. Spokane entrepreneur Erik Nelson invented the Tidy Hut, a reinvention of the portable toilet that doesn't smell and is clean after each use. "I would say it's more like an adult version of a diaper genie," Nelson said. Contents are flushed into a medical-grade bag after each use. (KREM.com)
3. A long-time Spokane tradition continued with the dressing of the Bloomsday runner statues with shirts from years past. Lala Gerber and her best friend, Gabriel Santiago Desilva, started the tradition 26 years ago and continue it to this day. Gerber said that many people walk through the Riverfront Park, see the shirts on the mannequin, and remember them from long ago. (FOX 28 Spokane)

Today in Spokane:

• National Medication Take Back Day At Northeast Community Center (10:00 AM)
• Wacoal Fit for the Cure Event on April 30th At the Nordstrom in Spokane (10:00 AM)
• The Weeknd At Spokane Arena (7:00 PM)

From my notebook:

• Meet the Spokane area's newest pets for adoption. Click on the link to find out how to foster or adopt. (Spokane Patch)
• The Gonzaga University Spring Choral Masterworks Concert will take place on Sunday, May 1 at 3 p.m. at the Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center. The choir will present J. S. Bach's Magnificat and composer-in-residence Jocelyn Hagen's multimedia masterwork "The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci." (KHQ Right Now)
• The Wishing Star Foundation will present its 17th annual "Send a Friend a Goat" week beginning this Monday, May 2. For a $75 donation, a baby goat will be sent to your friend. (KXLY Spokane)

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That's it for today! I'll see you around.

— Carla Varner