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Spokane Valley - based Central Valley School District has bought for $2.3 million the Broadway Square Apartments complex at 11910 E. Broadway, in Spokane Valley , and plans to demolish it to make room for the envisioned replacement of North Pines Middle School , says Ben Small, district superintendent . North Pines Middle School , which serves about 500 students, is located on 14.5 acres of adjacent land at 607 N. Pines Road. Small says the district bought the 2.4-acre, 50- unit apartment complex with funds from a $ 113 million bond measure , which voters approved in February 2015. The district anticipates including construction funding for the planned middle school relocation project in a future ballot measure that would go before voters in the spring of 2018, he says. Small says a district facilities assessment conducted in 2010 concluded North Pines Middle School should be replaced. “Its systems and structures...

Linda Nelson still can’t believe her new apartment is real. For six weeks, she lived with her husband, twin babies and 2-year-old son in a cramped room at the West Wynn Motel after losing housing with a roommate in late June. “Me and Linda almost killed each other a couple times,” her husband, David Parisia, joked. The family is one of 24 that have moved into Pope Francis Haven , Catholic Charities ’ latest housing project for formerly homeless families. They sat on the lawn eating pizza after a grand opening ceremony Thursday . Though their last bout of homelessness only lasted a few weeks, Nelson and Parisia have been without permanent housing for most of the eight years they’ve been together. Two years ago, they were able to get clean, stop using drugs and begin trying to find a place to live. “We found roommate after roommate,” Nelson said. The couple would stay somewhere for as long as they could, but never had a lease in their name or a place to call their own. In time, the c...