Duarte has a boy

Kara J. Durate of Keller is proud to announce the birth of her son Abel Thomas Durate born Wednesday, March 4 2015, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee. He weighed 8 lbs., 5 oz., and was 21 inches in length at birth.

Siblings include Atom, age 4, Alastar, age 2-1/2, and Rocksand, 1-1/2.

Maternal grandparents are Richard and Laura Thomas of Nespelem. Paternal grandmother is Anabel Parra of Fresno, Calif. Great-grandparents are Richard Thomas Sr. and Esther Thomas of Nespelem and Meachum and Celia Tulee of White Swan, Wash.