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Students in a Gonzaga University art seminar class will assist local artist Ellen Picken in painting a mural this weekend on the nonprofit restaurant “Fresh Soul,” which is being developed in the East Central neighborhood.

She cowered, screamed and cursed, as he threatened, harmed and hovered over her a bigger man in his mind than the the little man he actually was on the street. Tires screech, words and means exchange, man to man, now it’s even…until the gun is pulled. Now the abuser is dead, the woman is safe and the good samaritan goes to bed a savior and a killer. Fifth Avenue is bloodier.

There’s been a lot of bad press lately regarding scandal in Spokane and sometimes this can sour people’s perceptions of the city. But anyone living here knows that there are many good people, doing good work in Spokane.