Learning how to live a healthier, more sustainable lifestyle has never been more easy.  This weekend, more than three dozen vendors will be on hand at the Natural Living Show to help you make better choices for your body, environment and our community.

The show will feature local cheese-makers and handmade soaps. And, if you ever wanted to have your own eggs fresh from your backyard there will be a workshop on urban chickens too.

Here are all the details:

 Saturday, October 13th

10 am-6 pm

Spokane Community College Lair

Admission is $7, although if you swing by Sun People Dry Goods located at 32 West 2nd Avenue, Suite 200 you can pick up FREE passes!

With a strong tail wind, 62-year old Darby Roach and his best friend Mike Mann, cruise into Airway Heights on two wheels.  If you've driven Highway 2 in the past three days you may know who I'm talking about.  They're the two guys on loaded down bicycles, with the sneaky smiles and gusto of young men on an adventure of a lifetime.

Roach and Mann are on a mission to first bike across the United States and then the world.  The pair left Wenatchee Sunday morning and arrived in Spokane Wednesday night. In all, they've logged about 140 miles so far. Their goal is to get to Boston by the end of the Summer.  From there, Roach will fly solo to Europe where he plans to spend the next 3 years seeing the world. From the narrow streets of Paris to the snow covered peaks of Chile, Roach plans to pedal every mile of the way. 

What? Is he crazy? Who would do such a thing? All questions that ran through my mind when Roach told me about his ambitious goal. To understand this wild dream, you have to understand the wild man on the bike.  I don't think he'll mind my choice adjective, he raised me after all.

More students are using marijuana according to new data from Idaho’s Department of Education. The Youth Risk Behavior Survey sampled more than 1,700 students last year in 48 randomly selected Idaho public high schools.

18.8% of those students say they’ve used marijuana one or more times during the past 30 days. That number has increased from their 2009 data when 13.7% of students said they’ve used marijuana.

For lifetime use, 35% of students say they’ve used marijuana at least once during their lifetime. Other drugs saw little change in the new data for lifetime use. Methamphetamine usage stayed unchanged at 3% while ecstasy use increased slightly from 6% in 2009 to 9% in 2011.

Online: You can read the full survey results at the state’s website including statistics regarding violent behaviour, alcohol, sex and diet.