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  • Heroes Walked Among Us

    Nik Nikkila|Nov 7, 2024

    With America at war on two fronts, Europe and the Pacific, many young men and women patriots answered the call to military service. One of the many was James Robeson from Chewelah, Washington. Leaving high school, he traveled to Spokane where he enlisted in the Marines on December 9, 1943, his seventeenth birthday. Enlisting at the same time was a seventeen-year-old Native American from Wellpinit, Washington named Louis Adrian. The two struck up a friendship during their training at Camp...

  • Finnish Visitors Tour Deep River Pioneer Church

    Nik Nikkila|Sep 19, 2024

    On September 9, two distinguished gentlemen from Finland toured the Finnish Pioneer Church in Deep River. Mr. Hannu Penttilä, the retired Deputy Mayor of both Helsinki and Vantaa (the fourth biggest city in Finland) and Mr. Matti Lahdenranta, the retired Managing Director of Helsinki Mass Transit were in the Northwest to visit city planning and mass transit officials in Seattle and in Portland. In an introductory letter to Eva Malerich, Mr. Lahdenranta wrote, "I am kindly asking you if it...

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