Westerners - Spokane Corral

05/11/2026

05/01/2026

04/24/2026

MAY 21, 2026

Westerners Spokane Corral
Corbin Senior Activity Center
Thursday, May 21,2026
5 pm

Our next Westerners speaker will be Local historian and Westerner Dave Reynolds. He will present "Lessons on Persistence and Humor From The Autobiography of Sim Wiedrich". Dave's great-great uncle Simon "Sim" Wiedrich typed his own memoir in 1964-66, giving details of his life, beginning at age 3 in 1878 when his family traveled on a wagon train from Melvern, Kansas to settle at Almota, Washington. Sim dealt over and over again with tragedies, disasters, and loss in ways most of us cannot imagine. Yet, he considered himself lucky. And each time, Sim managed to dust himself off and move forward with optimism and humor.

Doors open at 5 pm. Dinner is $20 or coffee and Dessert only is $5. Reservations for dinner should be sent to [email protected] by Sunday, May 17.

03/08/2026

MARCH 19, 2026
Come hear Kristal Jabara, Director of Community Engagement for Hutton Settlement.

Dinner is $20 and served at 5:30pm by the Corbin Senior Center. Reserve your dinner by March 15 to Helen Hansen at [email protected]

02/19/2026

1936...
Grandmother of twenty-two children, from a farm in Oklahoma; eighty years old. Now living in camp on the outskirts of Bakersfield, California. "If you lose your pluck you lose the most there is in you - all you've got to live with"...

Source
Farm Security Administration Dorothea Lange photographer

02/18/2026

But only the bag???

02/17/2026

A cemetery tour is always a walk in history….

02/11/2026

Westerners’ Member Stan Wills Presents
William Owen Bush

William Owen Bush was the son of George Bush, an early Oregon pioneer who established Bush Prairie, near the present-day city of Tumwater, Washington. William was an American farmer and politician who was elected to the Washington House of
Representatives as part of the inaugural Washington State Legislature in 1889. He was the first African American to serve in the Washington legislature. He introduced legislation that established Washington State University and tirelessly promoted Washington agriculture.
In its obituary, the Morning Olympian newspaper described William as "one of the oldest and most famous pioneers of the state of Washington" and declared that "probably no residents of the state or territory throughout its history has done more to advertise the
state than W. O. Bush."

***The meeting doors open Thursday, February 19, 5 PM at the Corbin Senior Activities Center at 827 West Cleveland, Avenue. Dinner is $20 and served at 5:30 by the Corbin Senior Center. Program begins s at 6:15 pm. $5 to come to program only. Reservations to hear him speak should be made by Sunday, February 15, to Helen Hansen at [email protected].

12/09/2025

https://www.spokanepublicradio.org/show/poetry-moment

Spokane Public Radio is excited to present Poetry Moment, a program that showcases myriad poems as read by poets and poetry lovers from across the Inland Northwest — and occasionally beyond!Poetry Moment airs one poem on SPR Classical each weekday at 9am; a single reader curates the entire week’...

12/09/2025

https://www.spokanepublicradio.org/show/poetry-moment/2025-12-09/end-of-day-by-jeff-simms-and-hosses-by-ann-fackenthall

Jeff Simms and Ann Fackenthall read their original poems