Summer is coming to an end… all to soon for me!  This summer seemed to go by faster than ever and I desperately want to hold on to the warmer weather and sunshine for as long as possible!  Children are back in school now, so it’s a new season of competitive sports in the evenings and weekends which keep parents and grandparents busy and engaged in the lives of those we love. 

As the primaries are now behind us and we’re just over 60 days until the elections in November, I want to encourage every member to be actively involved in talking about what’s at stake in this election.  We’re all aware that there’s a huge fork in the road with the Democratic party and the DSA that has every intention of swallowing up any sense of values that our country was founded on.  Their intention is to “burn it all down” and create their “utopia.”  If you ask me, I think what the freedom loving people in the United States have created a unique society in these last 250 years that the world longs for and aspires to.  No wonder people want to come here and experience what our forefathers have created and fought for.  Freedom is not free ~ there’s sacrifice and continual battle for the globalists and communist socialist agenda.  This upcoming election is not about Washington DC… it’s about survival of our country as we know it.  We must fight or we are in peril of losing it all.  Support for candidates who mirror our values, love of country and our Spokane community is where is begins.  Voting and encouraging everyone we know to do so is essential if we’re going to defeat the evil that’s definitely coming our way if we fail to take action.  We have amazing local candidates who want change in Spokane and it’s up to us to help them achieve victory!  Please step up and volunteer in some capacity this election season.  Everyone can contribute their time, talent or treasure and that’s what it’s going to take to educate our neighbors and friends on the importance of voting in November! 

The Spokane Complex fires have been devastating to our community.  So many families have lost everything.  Finding housing for 600+ homes is challenging as we don’t have that many homes for sale or rent in the interim.  My prayer is that regulations that create additional frustration or delays or roadblocks in processes for people to rebuild need to disappear.  Spokane doesn’t need to become another Maui or Pacific Palisades catastrophe.  Spokane home owners should be allowed to rebuild as soon as possible without bureaucratic control or influence in their neighborhoods.  I’m grateful for the generosity of people in Spokane, our state and our nation who have sent money to aid those in need, for the first responders locally and in other states who were sent to help contain and extinguish these fires.  The person(s) who intentionally and deliberately started these fires need to be held accountable for their actions and I hope our judicial system will act swiftly to make certain there’s no delay.