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Dusty Dusty B.B. Club met last Wednesday in the home of hostess Helen Appel. Joyce Appel was co-hostess. Wanda Alderman of Steptoe presented a program on Pysanda eggs, a Ukranian art form of decorating Easter eggs in intricate patterns using beeswax and successive dyes of different colors. The next meeting will be Tuesday, April 10 for a tour of the wind turbines near Pomeroy and Dayton. Husbands and other guests are welcome. Members are asked to call Rita Ackerman by April 6 if bringing guests to tell her how many will attend. People with... Full story
Dusty The Karen Broeckel residence was Sausage Central this past weekend. Twenty-one people gathered to make about 400 pounds of sausage and later to celebrate March birthdays. Participants included Oscar Broeckel, Brian and Angela Broeckel and Graham, Dusty; Cliff and Jeanette Nolan, Greg, Gwen and Jason Nolan, Colfax; Patty Wieber, Andrew Nolan and Khendra Fenstermacher, Spokane; Tom and Doreen Riedner, Genesee; Tony and Denise Kendall, Tacoma; Ken and Pam Beasley, Waitsburg; Austin Beasley, W.S.U., and Zach Beasley, Bremerton. Karen...
Dusty Saturday, Doreen Riedner threw a surprise 50th birthday party for her husband Tom Riedner in the elegant Shoppe de Riedner, Genesee. Approximately 70 guests attended including Tom’s mother, Bert Riedner of Colton, his brothers, many other relatives, friends and neighbors. From this area, Oscar Broeckel and Brian and Angela Broeckel enjoyed the event. Tony and Denise Kendall came from Tacoma. Cliff and Jeanette Nolan and Karen Broeckel were a small group who attended together. Special guest was Ruger Riedner. Reuben and Judy Stueckle, P...
Dusty Valente Reynoso, eldest son of Heathermarie Heaton Reynoso and Jaimie Reynoso of Mexico City and grandson of Blake and Carmen Heaton, won the long jump competition Saturday in an invitational track meet in Mexico City. He was invited to the meet because he is the top athlete at the school he attends, Lancaster School. His younger brother Jeronimo, also participated in the meet as the second best athlete at their school. Jeronimo placed second in the javelin throw. Valente also got the lead role in a short movie to be filmed in March. He’l... Full story
Dusty Recently, Dellene Broeckel Burdsall, San Jose, Calif., spent a week in the area visiting her sister Janice Broeckel Pauls and family and her brother Ed Broeckel and family. Last Sunday, David and Phyllis Stueckle took Phyllis’s sister, Ann Emerson, to Olympia to visit Ann’s daughter, Heidi Jones. The Stueckles left Ann with Heidi and went on to Portland to visit their daughter, Karen and Larry Light. David returned to Olympia later in the week to attend the Farm Bureau Legislative Days. He returned to Portland to pick up Phyllis and the...
Dusty Oscar Broeckel, Karen Broeckel, John and Kay Krom and Greta Stueckle, locals and former locals, were among the many who attended a reception, hosted by Dr. Rob Smith and his staff, honoring Jeanette Nolan’s retirement in the Norma McGregor Room of the Whitman County Library last Friday. Nolan began her dental assistant career in January of 1955. She took some time off to raise her two children, Greg and Pam Nolan Beasley, but worked most of the intervening years until last summer. She worked for the late Wm. F. Tretner, Gordon Ripple a...
Dusty Kim and Cindy Pitts were in Boise during Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, weekend to help their grandson, Kellen Hammons, son of Ryan and Jen Hammons, celebrate his sixth birthday. Their daughter Carrie Pitts, Renton, flew to Boise to join them for the weekend. Dusty B.B. Club met at the LaCrosse Catholic Church parish hall in January where they made 42 baby blankets for the free maternity clinic at Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane. Helen Appel made 10 more later at her home. February’s meeting will be on Wednesday, Feb. 8. Suzy McNeilly wil...
Dusty Annual meeting of The Country Bible Church followed worship services Sunday. They have decided to help sponsor the Scott Edinger family which is serving a mission in Rwanda. Scott’s parents, Palmer and Betty Edinger, are members of the congregation. Mr. and Mrs. Scott Edinger have their three children with them. They arrived in Africa the first week in January and are getting settled into their apartment. Kurt and Jill Reddig and children Savannah and Graham, spent Christmas and New Year’s with Jill’s grandparents, Stan and Jan Sneed...
Dusty Ronda, Brian and year-old Chloe Clark spent Christmas with Ronda’s parents, Norm and Gloria Erickson, and aunt and uncle Goldie and Al Foss. They stayed for a week before returning to their home in Surprise, Ariz. Also spending Christmas with them were their son, Drew, and his friend Courtney of Seattle. They spent two days with them and visited daughter Dana and Aaron Repp and sons Derek and Darin, also of Dusty. Linda Hennigar spent Christmas Day through Thursday with her daughter’s family, Tami, Jay and Wesley Banks, Kennewick. They al... Full story
Dusty Di and Larry Brink hosted an early Christmas with family in their home on Friday. Son Tom Phillips of Las Vegas arrived Thursday and stayed until Tuesday. Others who joined them Friday included Kevin, Amber, Ashley, Kloey and Ellie Brink of Kennewick, Lucky, Joan and Rob Myrick of Dusty, and Don and Carol Keeney and Mike Stine of LaCrosse. Don and Gaylene Manning and Sarah, Luke and Hannah, Valleyford, spent Thursday and Friday with her parents, Art and Colene Sager. Friday, they joined Kyle and Ann Sager, Spokane, in celebrating an...
Dusty Larry and Di Brink drove to Pasco Sunday to watch their grandchildren Ashley, Kloey and Ellie Brink perform in the Tower of Pentecost Church’s Christmas program. David and Phyllis Stueckle were in Portland from Thursday to Saturday last week. Their granddaughter Emmaly Light, daughter of Karen and Larry Light, was a participant in the Cleveland High School’s Christmas concert Thursday evening....
Dusty LaCrosse Methodist Church will present a Christmas concert at 6 p.m. tonight, Dec. 15, performed by a men’s gospel quartet from Clarkston. Everyone is welcome. David and Phyllis Stueckle spent four or five days relaxing at Lake Chelan with his brother, Reuben and Judy Stueckle of Puyallup, the first part of December. They took a side trip to Leavenworth and toured some of the back roads in the area. Fran Maki, Vicki Broeckel and Lelia Zaring attended the LaCrosse Farm Women’s Club Christmas luncheon last week. It was hosted by Kathy Sch...
Dusty Fran Jones and her son Bryan, both of Dusty, returned recently from a trip to Chatillon, Italy, where they visited her daughter Gena and family. Warren Jones, Post Falls, Idaho, spent a weekend with Fran and Bryan to belatedly celebrate his birthday. B.B. Club members will decorate the St. Patrick’s Catholic Church Parish Hall in Colfax today, Dec. 8, at 9:30 a.m. Rita Ackerman and Jane Aune are co-hostesses. Bring stocking stuffer items for senior citizens for roll call. The Christmas party will be Friday, Dec. 9, at 6 p.m. in the P...
Dusty Larry and Di Brink hosted Thanksgiving dinner in their home for Lucky, Joan and Rob Myrick, Mike Stine of LaCrosse and Kevin, Amber, Ashley, Kloey and Ellie Brink of Kennewick. Loren Scaggs and his mother, Lorraine Scaggs of Colfax, enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner together at the University Inn in Moscow. Kim and Cindy Pitts and Norm Bafus were Thanksgiving guests of Bob and Leanne Bafus and children Jeff and Samantha of LaCrosse. Sunday, Amanda, Erik, Rafe and Tate Carlson, Spokane, spent the day with the Pitts. Greg, Gwen and Jason Nolan...
Dusty Kathy Atwood of West Los Angeles, her son Kevin and daughter Lucy hosted a celebration of the life of their mother/grandmother, Kathleen Scholz, at the Country Bible Church Saturday afternoon. Approximately 40 people attended the event. Kathleen, who died July 30, asked that she be remembered with a party rather than a memorial service. She would have been 102 Saturday. Steve, Carol and Kurt Moore attended the state volleyball tournament at the SunDome in Yakima. Their daughter Lauren is a member of the Colfax High School team which...
Dusty Guests visit from Twin Falls Steve and Fran Maki hosted Mike and Val Quesnell of Twin Falls, Idaho, friends since their college days, from Thursday to Saturday last week. Friday, they toured the Pataha Flour Mill in Pomeroy. Last Tuesday, David and Phyllis Stueckle and Ann Emerson, LaCrosse, went to Coulee Dam to visit the women’s aunt, Audrey Manning, who had been in ill health. Manning died Friday morning. Funeral services are pending. David and Phyllis Stueckle attended the birthday celebration honoring Harold Sauer at Hill Ray P...
Dusty Ghosties, ghoulies, things that go bump in the night and a couple of unsavory characters invaded Dusty Monday evening. Local opinion is that this was an unusual phenomenon and citizens do not expect a repeat occurrence any time soon. David and Phyllis Stueckle were in Portland from Thursday to Saturday last week at the home of their daughter’s family, Karen and Larry Light. They attended granddaughter Emmaly’s concert at Cleveland High School. Dick and Helen Appel attended the Washington State Sheep Producers Convention in Olympia las... Full story
Dusty Art and Colene Sager flew to Yakima Saturday to join approximately 25 other Flying Farmers for a tour of the Cub Crafters Airplane Factory. The man who started the company gave them a two hour tour of the facility. They employ 110 people at the plant and make all of their own parts. Luncheon speakers were Mike and Tami Bryne who told about their retirement activity of ferrying the Cub Crafters airplanes to Alaska. Bryne grew up in Garfield. After lunch, the group toured the McCalister’s Air Museum. David and Phyllis Stueckle took a w...
Dusty Saturday, the Tapestry Choral group had a farewell dinner at the Gladish Center in Pullman. The group is disbanding due to the loss of their current director and accompanist. Twenty-five present and former members were in attendance. Of the original nine members who started with the group and still belonged, six were able to attend. One former member flew in from Alaska and former director Dale Forey and his wife Lynn, Sammamish, also were able to come to the dinner. Diane Monson and Linda Hennigar, who both started with the group in...
Dusty Art and Colene Sager flew to Odessa Saturday for a Flying Farmers Meeting. Hosts were Stanley and Debby Dammels who showed pictures of a trip they had taken with nine other pilots in their planes to Alaska. They shared a potluck dinner. David Stueckle was treated to a celebration of his 80th birthday Saturday at the Hilltop Restaurant in Pullman. Family members attending the event included the honored guest and his wife, Phyllis, son Doug Stueckle and his daughter Ashleigh, Coeur d’Alene and daughter and son-in-law Karen and Larry L...
Dusty Gazette correspondent Sunday evening, Larry and Di Brink were dinner guests of Don and Carol Keeney in LaCrosse. Don’s sister and brother-in-law, Elaine and Dick Perry of Tombstone, Ariz., have been visiting. Other dinner guests were Mike Stine and Bill Emerson. Norm and Gloria Erickson and grandsons Derek and Darin Repp, sons of Dana and Aaron Repp, attended Onecho Bible Church’s annual Family Camp at Silver Lake this past weekend. Don and Gaylene Manning and children, Valleyford, were guests Saturday and Sunday of her parents, Art and...
Dusty Braaten Nilsen, five and a half month old son of Ryan and Kjirsti Erickson Nilsen, of Torrington, Conn., and grandson of Norm and Gloria Erickson died last Saturday. He was born with one underdeveloped kidney and the heart of a fighter. Services are scheduled for this Saturday. He is also survived by a brother Owan, and sisters Clara, Elsie and Annie. Blake and Carmen Heaton spent Blake’s birthday Monday in Spokane shopping for their grandson. Later they had a celebratory dinner with Justin, Katy, Heather Marie, Jamie, Valente, J...
Linda Hennigar attended the Benton/Franklin County Fair last Tuesday through Thursday. Her grandson Wesley Banks, who showed his lamb at the fair, earned a blue ribbon. Gracia Stueckle, Seattle, spent the weekend with her sisters and brothers-in-law, Gloria and Norm Erickson and Goldie and Al Foss. After enduring many months of health problems, Blake Heaton continues to show improvement. He has gained back some of the weight he had lost. Hopefully, in two weeks, he will no longer need the services of home health care. Sunday, the musical group...
Dick and Helen Appel, with Caroline, Zack, Kade, Elly and Lucien Kunkel, Pullman, accompanied Phil Appel, Spokane, and Sabrina Appel, Salem, on an excursion to Emerald Creek in Idaho to dig garnets. Sabrina spent several days with her grandparents. While here, she helped her grandparents and was instructed in sewing a blouse and jacket by Grandma Helen. Neil, Josh, Emmie and Isaac Appel, Dusty, and Lisa, Travis, Miriam, Rachel and Emma Frei spent Sunday with Dick and Helen Appel swimming. Retired long-time Dusty area farmer Dick Stueckle, died...
Dusty This past weekend was the annual Penawawa reunion at Warm Springs Ranch on the Snake River with Shirley Eggers as hostess. Shirley arrived at the orchard with her daughter and son-in-law, Mike and Patsy Kromm of George, Thursday. Some of the attendees stayed for Saturday’s potluck and others stayed for several days. Attending were Terry and Janet Eggers, Sandpoint, and friend Terry Anderson, Kentucky; Madge Griner, Dean and Sandee Griner, David and Leslie and daughters Heather and Emily, Spokane; Willy and Anne Lowe, Endicott; Jon and L... Full story
