Feature Picture Story - Second Place - Brian Plonka / The Spokesman-Review

"Curlew-Rough and Ready

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Steven Spurgeon, 9, is blessed by Morbeck as his older siblings receive communion during a Sunday Mass at St. Patrick's Mission in Curlew. Steven, along with 13 family members, account for nearly two-thirds of the church's congregation. "We have been coming here for 5 years. This church is our family." Debbie Spurgeon, mother of 12 children.