Local business owners attend Spokane protest against quarantine

SPOKANE – An April 22 protest against Gov. Jay Inslee’s quarantine orders was led by several Cheney-Medical Lake area residents and business owners.

More than 300 people turned out for the protest on West Spokane Falls Boulevard, where motorists drove by honking support for the call to lift the coronavirus-related rules that shuttered businesses, hospitals and other aspects of life in Eastern Washington.

Clear Lake resident Patti Usselman, who owns Patti Usselman Hair Co. in Spokane, organized the protest.

“It’s important,” she said of the message she and others were sending to Gov. Jay Inslee...