🌱 UCUT Plans To Bring Salmon Back To Rivers + Ski Resort Closures

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First, today's weather:

Mostly sunny and mild. High: 66 Low: 42.

Here are the top three stories today in Spokane:

1. Just west of Spokane, Airway Heights police gave chase to a man who had reportedly shot a woman in the arm and then drove away with her baby in a red minivan. This happened Tuesday night at 8:00 p.m. after police were called to a scene near Pacific and Treeline for a double shooting. The man, who had gunshot wounds, drove on I-90 and stopped at the entrance of the Sacred Heart Emergency Room where a standoff resulted. (KHQ)
2. The Upper Columbia United Tribes (UCUT) plan on bringing salmon back to the Spokane and Columbia Rivers. UCUT procured over $3M to reintroduce anadromous fish to the areas upstream of Chief Joseph, Grand Coulee, and Spokane River dams. For over 110 years, salmon have been blocked from the upper Columbia as a result of the development of five hydropower dams without fish passage facilities. (KXLY Spokane)
3. Mt. Spokane, 49 Degrees North, Silver, Schweitzer, and Lookout Pass ski resorts are preparing to close for the season. The final days leading up to their closures will be filled with special events and discounted or free passes. All of the mountain resorts will be closed by Apr. 17. (KXLY Spokane)

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Today in Spokane:

• Storytime Shorts At North Spokane Library (10:00 AM)
• Free AARP Tax Aide At North Spokane Library (1:00 PM)
• Service Project: Fleece Tie Blankets At Spokane Valley At Studio (1:00 PM)
• Online Storytime – Live At North Spokane Library (6:30 PM)

From my notebook:

• MercyMe will perform at the Spokane Arena on Sunday, Apr. 10 at 7:00 p.m. The Grammy-nominated, multiple American Music Award-winning band is on its Inhale (Exhale) tour. (Spokane Arena)
• Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias, one of America's most successful stand-up comics, is back on tour and headed to Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena on Apr. 7 at 8:00 p.m. Iglesias has nearly one billion views on YouTube and over 25 million fans across social media.
• The Liberty Gallery in the Historic Liberty Building will host watercolor artist Leslie Lambert, from Apr. 1 - May 28. Known for her dramatic watercolors, Lambert's art focuses on the combination of spontaneity and detail that the medium offers.

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