Going the distance

Alana Brunner’s voice does not catch as she talks about her terminal brain cancer on the phone with the Gazette.

Her voice does not crack as she talks about her father’s debilitating stroke last year and it does not crack when she mentions she does not know how soon she will die.

Instead, the 25-year-old Palouse woman brings up her faith, her focus on the good things in her life and in particular, her year-long quest to build a children’s home in Uganda.

In between monthly rounds of chemotherapy, Brunner is working with Palouse Federated Church and with a Christian group in Holland to develop...