Libby Kamrowski

Switching schools halfway through high school isn’t easy, much less moving to a country that speaks a different language. Add in a distance so large that Google Maps can’t even compute the precise mileage between schools, plus a pandemic, and you’ve got a recipe for a challenge.

John “Long John” Loomer Sr. manned the sizzling grill on Sunday as grease spat from the hearty hamburger patties he pressed. Through the steam clouds rising on the other side, Breanna Keller was dressing up buns with all of the fixings.

Chauncy Welliver, the “Hillyard Hammer,” is used to packing a punch. With an impressive heavyweight boxing career, he also owns and operates BoxFit in Spokane. But for once, he’s not the one packing the punch: It’s his 5-year-old daughter, Lemyn, who conceived the knockout idea for Lem’s Pops when she was just 4 years old.