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Dusty Over Easter weekend, Walt Smith and Parker visited Harmon and Jan Smith. One of the nights, Parker stayed with Ty Harder, Hooper. Walt and Parker returned to Park City, Utah, Sunday. Harmon and Jan enjoyed Easter dinner at Hill-Ray with Jan’s mom, Irma Stueckle, and aunt, Shirley Richardson. Later in the afternoon, they visited with Jan’s aunt and uncle, Leona and Harvey Herman in Colfax. Larry and Di Brink hosted Easter lunch at their home for John and Brandy Brink, Pullman; Mike Stine, LaCrosse; and Joan and Lucky Myrick and Rob Myrick,...
Dusty A week ago Tuesday, David and Phyllis Stueckle were in Kennewick to visit an old Navy buddy of David’s. It has been 60 years since the men last saw each other. The Stueckles also attended some of the state basketball tournament games in Spokane. Harmon and Jan Smith met Gina and Jason Morgan and Micah in Spokane and spent Thursday through Sunday enjoying the State B Tournament. Jan’s sister, Dianne, and niece, Karen, joined them for some games Friday. Friday evening dinner guest of Karen Broeckel was her great nephew, Austin Beasley. Now...
Dusty Tony and Denise Kendall, Tacoma, spent the last part of her winter break from teaching in the University Place District at the home of her father, Oscar Broeckel, and her twin sister’s home, Doreen and Tom Riedner, in Genesee. The Kendalls arrived at her father’s Thursday evening and spent Friday night at the Riedners. Saturday, the women celebrated their joint birthday. Oscar Broeckel, the Kendalls and Karen Broeckel had dinner in Pullman to celebrate the birthday. The Kendalls returned to their home Sunday. Saturday, Larry and Di Bri...
Dusty Steve and Becky Camp attended the Harvesting Clean Energy Conference for the western states this month. Their organization, C Farms Energy, received an award as the Innovator of the Year for the state of Washington for their biodiesel project. They also both picked up the flu while they were in Oregon. News has been received of the death last week of Tony Balsa of San Jose, Calif. He was the husband of Dusty native Helen Scheideman Balsa. They had four children, one of whom preceded him in death. Services will be held at a later date....
Dusty David and Phyllis Stueckle spent last Monday through Thursday in Puyallup and Olympia. They stayed with Reuben and Judy Stueckle, and visited with Norm and Barbara Aune in Puyallup. David attended the Farm Bureau Legislative Days in Olympia. Linda Hennigar spent Thursday through Saturday at the home of her daughter Tami and Jay Banks in Kennewick. Linda was the piano accompanist for her grandson Wesley Bank’s trumpet solo at a music competition in Pasco. She went a few days early so they could practice together. Wesley was also a m...
Dusty Art and Colene Sager flew to Moses Lake for a pilot safety seminar on Saturday. This is an annual event sponsored by Washington Flying Farmers, Big Bend College and the FAA. This seminar provides the pilot with the FAA requirements for the written biennial review. To complete the biennial review, the instructor must fly with the pilot and sign the logbook. While the seminar was being held at the Grant County Airport, a Delta Airline plane with 108 people aboard had to make an emergency landing. The airliner was traveling from JFK New...
Dusty Wes and Jen Claassen spent four days in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, celebrating their 40th birthdays and 17th wedding anniversary in mid-January. It was their first vacation in three years by themselves; no kidlets. After the Mexico trip, Jen went to Branson, Mo., from Jan. 17 through the 23 to spend time with her parents. Her father is having radiation treatments for reoccuring cancer. Her sister from Indiana and brother from Kansas City arrived in Branson to help their mother celebrate her birthday on the 20th. Steve and Dianne Appel went...
Dusty Country Bible Church will hold its annual meeting next Sunday, Jan. 27, after morning worship services which start at 11 a.m. There will be an update on the search for a new pastor. Everyone is welcome. Blake and Carmen Heaton’s grandson Jeronimo shows a yearling bull in Mexico. Last Saturday, Larry and Di Brink went to Kennewick to the home of their son’s family, Kevin and Amber Brink and Ashley, Kloey, Ellie and Nick, to help Nick celebrate his first birthday. Sunday, they were dinner guests of Carol and Don Keeney in LaCrosse. The Keen...
Dusty Wednesday, Jan 9, nine members of the Dusty B.B. Club, and two guests, Alice and Margaret Mackleit, met in the parish hall at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in LaCrosse to make baby blankets for the free maternity clinic at Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane. Seventy blankets were produced that day plus Dianne Appel had seven she had made earlier. The next meeting will be February 13th. The program will be “Our Wedding Photo Books.” Ed and Joan Broeckel were in Seattle this weekend to visit their daughter and son-in-law, Jennifer and Antho...
Dusty Pastor Dennis and Marion Bay of Seattle were in the area this past weekend. Pastor Bay helped officiate at the funeral services of Lena Cox on Saturday. Guests at the home of Dick and Helen Appel for Christmas were Joe and Sue Lynch and Caroline and Rob Kunkel, Zack, Kade, Elly and Lucien, Pullman; Lisa and Travis Frei, Miriam, Rachel and Emma, Palouse; Neil Appel and Josh, Noemi, and Isaac, LaCrosse; Eric and Shannon Appel, Connor, Christopher, Sarah, Kyle and Sidney, Colfax; Phil Appel, Spokane; Sabrina Appel, Salem; Steve and Dianne...
Dusty Country Bible Church will hold a short meeting following morning worship services Sunday, Jan. 6, to hear a sharing of ideas from the Pastor Seeking Committee. The committee is searching for a replacement after Pastor Floyd Overstreet retired from the church’s pulpit. Jeannette Solimine, Colfax, will be guest speaker that morning. Dinner guests at the home of Art and Colene Sager this past Sunday, were Ray and Twyla Fried, Liberty Lake. They had been guest speakers at the Country Bible Church’s worship services that morning. Linda Hen...
Dusty Country Bible Church will have Ray and Twyla Fried as guest speakers at their 11 a.m. service on Sunday, Dec. 30. Ray is retired from Hewlitt-Packard in Liberty Lake. They now volunteer their time and professional computer expertise working with Christian work. In the last 15 years, they have spent time in China, Nepal, Albania and recently returned from Turkey. They maintain their residence in Liberty Lake and are now home while Ray works on a project for Missionary Aviation Fellowship based out of Nampa, Idaho. They will be give a...
Dusty Art and Colene Sager drove to Soap Lake where they joined friends for a Flying Farmer Christmas party. They had dinner at Don’s Restaurant and then went to John and Audrey Ledgerwood’s home for dessert, visiting and a gift exchange. David and Phyllis Stueckle were in Portland last Thursday and Friday to attend the holiday concert at Cleveland High School where their granddaughter Emmaly Light, daughter of Karen and Larry Light, is a member of the choir. The wind storm Sunday night and Monday damaged the home of Lucky and Joan Myrick. A p...
Dusty Sunday, Irma Stueckle hosted her daughters and families for their annual Christmas gathering at Hill-Ray. Coming from the Spokane area were Dianne and Dan Morris, Karen Morris, Kris and Bruce Berglund, Brooke and Avery. Also attending were Gina and Jason Morgan and Micah, Yakima, and Harm and Jan Smith, Dusty. They enjoyed a gift exchange, dinner and the children telling the Christmas story. Vicki Broeckel joined a group of LaCrosse women Tuesday in viewing the decorated Christmas trees at the Davenport Hotel’s annual Christmas Elegance T...
Dusty The Dusty B.B. Club will meet next week Thursday, Dec 13, at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church Parish Hall in Colfax at 9 a.m. to decorate for the B.B. Club Christmas party. Roll call will be favorite family Christmas food. Rita Ackerman is hostess. Friday, Dec. 14, the Christmas party will be open for arrivals at 6 p.m. Dinner will begin at 6:30. Members are asked to bring a hot dish and a choice of a salad or dessert. Santa will be there so bring a gift for each child and also a gift for the women’s exchange. Linda Hennigar attended the...
Dusty Larry and Di Brink hosted Thanksgiving dinner for their family. Son Tom Phillips arrived from his home in Las Vegas on the Monday prior to the holiday and stayed until Saturday. Kevin, Amber, Ashley, Kloey, Ellie and Nick Brink, Kennewick, stayed Thursday and Friday. Joan and Lucky Myrick, Dusty, and Mike Stine, LaCrosse, attended the dinner Thursday. Dawson Messer was a Thanksgiving day visitor. Son and daughter-in-law John and Brandy Brink, Pullman, visited Friday. Linda Hennigar was among about 30 guests of Gary and Diane Monson on...
Harmon and Jan Smith have returned from a stay in Yakima where they celebrated grandson Micah’s fifth birthday with family and friends. Cake and homemade ice cream were served to the guests at a bowling party. Jan enjoyed visiting with LaCrosse grad Debbie Camp McCown. Debbie’s granddaughters are friends of Micah. Brian and Angela Broeckel provided transportation service for her parents, Guenter and Brigitte Scherwinski of Mountain Home, Idaho, last week. Wednesday, she picked them up at the Spokane Airport and drove them back to the Bro...
Dusty Larry and Di Brink chauffeured Mike Stine and Norma Gibson of LaCrosse to Spokane Sunday to participate in a bowling tournament at Lilac Lanes. Both participants earned gold medals. Later, they met with the Brinks’ son and daughter-in-law, John and Brandy Brink, and celebrated with dinner at a restaurant. Ken Brink of Bellingham, Dusty native, died Sunday. He was the last surviving child of Otto and Gussie Brink, pioneer settlers in the Dusty area. Joan Myrick and Larry Brink, local residents, are his niece and nephew. Linda Hennigar w...
Dusty Justin Ross, a student at Moody Bible Institute in the aviation division, had lunch with Art and Colene Sager last Wednesday. Justin is a distant cousin of Art Sager. He flew down in a rented Cessna 150 to build hours flying to meet the requirements for eventually being a missionary bush pilot. Don Manning, Valleyford, was guest speaker at Country Bible Church during last Sunday’s worship services. Afterward, he and wife Gaylene were guests of her parents, Art and Colene Sager, for Sunday dinner. Brian and Angela Broeckel and Sami and G...
Dusty Country Bible Church will have a potluck after worship services Sunday, Nov. 11, to honor the retirement of Pastor Floyd Overstreet. Larry and Di Brink visited their children and grandchildren, Kevin, Amber, Ashley, Kloey, Ellie and Nick Brink, in Kennewick Saturday. Linda Hennigar spent Friday and Saturday at the home of her daughter’s family, Tami and Jay Banks, in the Tri-cities. She watched grandson Wesley play in a football game. Recently, Wesley went hunting with friends and bagged his first deer. Recent drop-in visitors of Linda H...
Dusty The annual Selbu Lutheran Church Christmas Bazaar will be Sunday, Oct., 27, after services and a potluck at the church. There will be some handmade items, decorative items, food, plus lots of goodies for sale to raise money for their missions. All are welcome. Two weeks ago, Steve and Carol Moore and hospital administrator Debbie Glass attended the annual meeting of the Washington State Hospital Association in Seattle Oct. 9-11. Saturday, October 13, Kim and Cindy Pitts were in Spokane to watch grandson Rafe Carlson play in a soccer...
Dusty Art and Colene Sager flew to McCall, Idaho, Sunday morning to spend the day with his sister and brother-in-law, Jan and Ken Williams of Huntington Beach, Calif. The Williams had spent a week at a condo in McCall. David and Phyllis Stueckle treated Pastor John Cross of Selbu Lutheran Church and his friend, Pastor Mark Crispell from Maryland, to lunch in Colfax Sunday....
Dusty After morning worship services at Selbu Lutheran Church Sunday, there was a short burial service for the remains of Dr. and Mrs. Ole and Bertha Slind in the Selbu Cemetery. The service was attended by the congregation, the couple’s two children, Bob and Johanna, and other family members. Don and Gaylene Manning, Luke and Hannah, Valleyford, and Kyle and Ann Sager, Spokane, spent the weekend with Art and Colene Sager. Marcy Sager and Kenneth joined them Saturday. This was a working visit for a big crop carrot harvest which included d...
Dusty Art and Colene Sager hosted the Washington State Flying Farmers in their home Saturday. Eighteen additional members attended the annual business meeting and potluck. Word has been received of the death of Gunelia Stueckle Fowler, Boise, daughter of the late Edwin and Anna Stueckle. Gunelia was born in 1946 and lived in the Dusty area until 1955 when the family moved to Colfax. She is survived by her husband, Jerry Fowler, two children, three grandchildren and two brothers. Services will be Saturday, Sept. 29, at Whitney Baptist Church in...
Dusty The Rev. Floyd and Judy Overstreet have officially retired from serving the Country Bible Church. They have served the congregation for 14 years. Interim pastors will fill in for the time being. Remember the Dusty Gals Yard Sale on the grounds of the Dusty Country Store Saturday, Sept. 22. The fun begins at 9 a.m. Those who want to participate are asked to bring their own table. Kim and Cindy Pitts spent an extended weekend at the home of their daughter’s family, Jen, Ryan, Kellen, Becket and Willa Hammons, in Boise. They helped Becket c...
