Serving Whitman County since 1877
Serving Whitman County since 1877
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Gina is the owner of the Rae Gina's Salon on Main Street in Colfax, Wash. This salon is unique for Colfax. It features a tanning bed available all hours, massages by Lynnea Vantrease, eye brow and lip waxing and haircuts for the entire family. Gina works all hours and weekends by appointment. She has been doing hair for many years. She is a genius of her trade when it comes to highlights. Gina was born and raised in Selah. Her fiancé, Dan Yancey, was born in Memphis Tenn., and he moved to Selah...
Sherry (Sher) McKeen was born in Pomeroy. She attended school in Garfield until her high school years, then she attended and graduated from Deer Park. While there, Sher competed in rodeos, horse shows and gymkanas. She was a rodeo princess in Deer Park, made money in high school by training and selling horses. A few years after graduation, Sher moved to Seattle for 10 years where she owned and operated a house cleaning business and worked at Long Acres race track as a foreman for a 30-horse...
C.J. and Danielle have been married for almost four years now. C.J. grew up in Pullman, while Danielle lived in and graduated from Rosalia. They met through mutual friends four years ago and were married soon after meeting. C.J. works at Wilbur Ellis and Danielle works at Whitman Health and Rehab Center. C.J. has worked at Wilbur Ellis for 23 years. Starting out in Colton as an operations manager, he then transferred to the Colfax branch in 2012, where he is now a salesman. Danielle has worked...
Melissa Harrison Leinweber is a real estate agent at the new RE/MAX office in Colfax. Even though she has only been an agent for about a year now, she said "I'm more eager than ever before and have been working very hard to make a name for myself." Melissa moved here from Arizona with her family when she was two-years-old. They lived in St. John and Endicott until her sophomore year in high school when she attended Colfax High School. She then attended Spokane Falls Community College where she...
Both Kyle and Whitney Bond grew up in Roseburg, Ore. Meeting in 2008, they have been best friends ever since. "I can't imagine living my life without him," Whitney said. Having established families and two children together, it was a terrifying decision to pack up and leave everything they knew to move here to Whitman County three years ago. When Whitney was speaking with a friend, she heard about a job opening at Soncarty Farms and upon hearing this Kyle decided to apply. When he got the job,...
Mike and Monica, as of January 2019, are the new on-site operators and have made a significant investment in the business portion of the Boyer Park Marina and Campground on the Snake River. Moving to Washington from Tucson, Ariz., where the couple of 31 years owned and operated a successful remodeling business for the past 30 years, they both decided it was time to make a change. "We had done a little traveling in the past few years and thought the campground atmosphere was a good fit for us,"...
Anyone who has traveled into Endicott from Colfax has seen Freedom Hills Farm, a beautiful, big farm house set back from the road surrounded by pastures and barns. It's hard to miss the Morgan horses grazing. Jessica grew up in Arlington, surrounded by trees and creeks. She graduated in 2006 and never looked back, as Arlington changed from a small town to an overrun city. At age 19, she bought an old farm house and 100 acres right outside of Endicott which eventually became Freedom Hill Farm....
As the new writer of the "My Favorite Recipes" column, I wanted to introduce myself. Most people know me as an agent at Farmers Insurance in Colfax, but not many know me outside of work. After growing up in Phoenix, Ariz., I sustained quite a culture shock after moving to St. John when I was in high school. One day the parents decided they were tired of big city living and moved the family up to Washington. They had decided on St. John after meeting a friend who lived there and thought it was a...
