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On the morning of Aug. 11, 45 churches from across the Spokane area will participate in Serve Our City.
That morning volunteers from the participating churches will beautify the grounds of a nearby school by picking up trash, pulling weeds and other basic maintenance activities.
Calvary Spokane will be serving Brentwood and Farwell elementary schools. To sign up email admin@calvaryspokane.com.
Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of SpokaneFāVS.com, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Assistant Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.
