Friends of EARH to meet Mondays

The grassroots organization Friends of EARH will meet every Monday at 6 p.m. in the Ritzville Public Library’s basement to work on ways to gain voter support for a $9 million general obligation bond for the construction of a new hospital.

The hospital district’s commissioners have elected to make a second attempt at passing the bond during the November general election.

Friends of EARH will work to identify why voters defeated the measure in the August primary. They also intend to develop better methods of educating voters of the hospital district’s improving financial picture and the urgent n...