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In February, Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson is coming to the Spokane Convention Center to raise money to help addicts around the Pacific Northwest.
Money raised will go to the Pacific Northwest Adult and Teen Challenge, a faith-based recovery ministry in Washington, Idaho, Montana and Oregon.
Robertson will speak in Spokane on Feb. 3 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $100 and can be purchased online.
For more information call (406) 543-1912
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.
