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Brandy Tarala and the Founding of United We Rescue

By Huckleberry Press / January 4, 2023 /
Brandy Tarala

Adrenaline and risk. These are the two ingredients that have driven Brandy Tarala’s life decisions, culminating in the founding of United We Rescue (UWR). United We Rescue is a non-profit organization committed to helping meet the mental health needs of first responders. While this venture was yet another one of Brandy’s risks, it’s a risk that matters, with the potential of helping countless helpers.

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Holiday Movie Review: Falling for Christmas

By Huckleberry Press / December 8, 2022 /
Falling for Christmas

Truthfully, it’s taken me a long time to warm up to Christmas movies. Every year Hallmark, Lifetime, and most recently, Netflix released a number of cheesy and generic movies following a similar format of a big-city girl finding love and the meaning of Christmas, usually in the form of a quaint small-town guy.

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Dynamo in Difference-Making: Mariah McKay

By Huckleberry Press / November 9, 2022 /
SIMBA Networking Group

The dictionary definition of dynamite is a person having a spectacular effect. Dynamic means characterized by constant change, activity, or progress. A second definition is a person with a positive attitude full of energy and new ideas.

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Farm Fresh = Difference you can taste at Billie’s Diner

By Huckleberry Press / October 29, 2022 /
billies diner

by Patricia Elwing Have you ever come out of a diner after having breakfast or lunch and felt the heaviness of the greasy processed food and sub-par meat you just…

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Local cattlemen group helps feed veterans

By Huckleberry Press / September 3, 2022 /
Spokane County Cattlemen

photo and article by Matthew O. Stephens Residents of the Spokane Veterans Home can trust they will have some extra meat in their meals thanks to a donation of nearly…

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The Washington Channeled Scablands: Wildlife, Hiking, Hunting & Fishing

By Huckleberry Press / April 2, 2022 /
dry falls dam

The Washington Channeled Scablands, known as one of the 7 Wonders of Washington, covers the landscape from around Spokane west to the Columbia River near Vantage and then SW to the Snake River near Pasco, traveling more than 550 miles.

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PATTIE DISCOVERS THE PNW … RV CAMPING IN IDAHO & MONTANA (Part 2)

By Huckleberry Press / September 14, 2021 /

A friend told me once when I was commenting on not being a beautiful long-legged blond, that “diversity is beauty.”

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Sustaining a Future for Farming in Washington

By Huckleberry Press / January 8, 2021 /

I am from a small town tucked into the northwest corner of Ohio. A town, much like many others we all know, where farmland sits at the outer edges of a humble but growing and thriving community.

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Lymphedema Awareness

By Huckleberry Press / November 29, 2020 /

Like 11 million Americans I have Lymphedema, a condition that most people have never heard of. More Americans have lymphedema and lymphatic diseases than AIDS, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy and Alzheimer’s disease combined.

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Washington needs manufacturing to lead the economic recovery

By Huckleberry Press / November 12, 2020 /

Kaitlyn Pype wasn’t sure what she wanted to do with her life, but she knew she enjoyed working on cars.

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