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SPOKANE, Wash. — Every neighborhood in Spokane has a neighborhood council, but not everybody knows about it or knows what the council can do for them.

Neighborhood councils can help accomplish many things, such as hosting community events, organizing clean-ups and being the communication between the people and the city. The communication can look like helping people put in place things like crosswalks and signs all over the neighborhood.

“We put in a couple of stop signs over on Up River Drive because that’s just been a really rough area for speeding,” said Tyler Tamoush, the community assembly representative for the Minnehaha Neighborhood Council.

All of that is possible because of the volunteers on the council.

“You feel like somebody is actually hearing you. I think a lot of people really want to be heard,” said community assembly representative for the Hillyard Neighborhood Council Laura Johnson.

One class is helping …