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Jocelyn_PaluchJocelyn Paluch is the volunteer committee chairperson for the American Cancer Society’s “Bark for Life” event.

She’s also a founding member of Eastern Washington’s Compassionate Interfaith Society and is an active SpokAnimal volunteer.

Paluch has been married a really looooooooong time, she says. Together they have three furry children, two sons, two daughters-in-law, three grandsons, and five furry grand-doggies.

Tracy Simmons
Tracy Simmons
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 FāVS.News, 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.

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